#god bless all of the authors

[sacredjake]

my boyfriend may finally be home from being gone for over a month for training, but you can bet your ass that won't stop me from thirsting over gvf or reading my favorite series on this app

#valence #too pretty for war #the battle at gardens gate #call the hunters #perfidy #hearts aflame #i am so obsessed with all of these fics #god bless all of the authors #y'all are so talented

[leeloolumiwhisp]

Holy shit.

#the fanfic authors were right #endo sensei is 100% a fanfic reader #he totally reads those damianya dancing fic #FANART/FANFIC CREATORS #YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO #sxf #sxf manga #spy x family #spy x family manga #anya forger #damian desmond #anya #damian #anya sxf #damian sxf #god bless endo #and god bless the fanfiction/fanart creators #i love you all

[sevendutchies]

People in this fandom will really look at The Fool, Patience, Lacey, Carson, Sedric, Hest, Davvie, Lecter, Kennit, Ash/Spark, and yes, even Fitz himself, and still have the gall to call it queer bait.

These characters are explicitly queer, their actions impact the narrative, they are well written, and their identities are treated with respect. That is the best possible queer representation you could ask for in any story.

I've seen people on tumblr basing the likelihood of if they read this series on whether or not it's "actually gay" and I'm here to tell you that it is. There are queer characters. There are queer protagonists. And no matter what you see people in the fandom say, Robin Hobb wrote some amazing queer representation in a genre that rarely sees it at all.

EDIT: and I think it's pertinent to note that, no, characters who are questioning or struggling with their feelings about sexuality instead of knowing 100% does not make something queer bait or "less gay"

TLDR;

Queer bait = disrespectful marketing ploy that exploits queer audiences

Queer bait ≠ "my two favorite characters never have sex"

#Fitzchivalry ''i wondered if I lied so that I need not be ashamed of myself'' farseer thank you everyone #quite frankly the disrespect to Robin Hobb in this fandom is in EXTREMELY poor taste #the interview from 2008 before half the series was written where she explains why Fitz would not suddenly be head over heels for a person h #perceives as a man because all of his life he has only had heterosexual experiences apparently means that no queer characters exist #whatsoever in the whole series and Robin Hobb is an irredeemable backwards old lady who can't get with the times. right. #Fitzchivalry ''what were we? Beloved'' farseer #this is actually not supposed to be a debate over whether Fitz is canonically queer or not. he is. ope. #also...I do read Kennit as queer. just cause he is traumatized and his queerness comes out in predatory ways doesn't mean he's not queer. #that's called writing a compelling villain baybee #Hest!?!? thank you Robin Hobb for the evil gays god bless <3 #modern reader: the author didn't describe these characters dicks touching in detail therefore she is homophobic #rote #realm of the elderlings #fitzchivalry farseer #the fool #I really had to get this out of my system guys. thanks <3 #as if Robin Hobb didn't give us the FOOL. nonbinary/gender fluid character OF ALL TIME.

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

5 fics i've enjoyed this month

stealing this idea from @alexturne because i absolutely love the idea of promoting all the amazing talented authors in this fandom more! 💜

missed your bones on me by @glorious-blackout summary: In the aftermath of their blissful reunion at Emirates Stadium, Miles wakes alone in Alex's bed to the sound of a gentle piano melody. Set following Miles' reunion with Arctic Monkeys on 18th June 2023. notes: this fic is absolutely beautiful. full of sadness for the past and hope for the future and just suffused throughout with the kind of bone-deep love that feels so utterly in character for milex. it tugged on my heartstrings in all the best ways, and has my favourite ever portrayal of alex lost in his creative headspace.

some velvet morning by @musette22/@subtle-as-an-earthquake summary: It happens at the OIympia in Paris, just after the show. Their hundredth show. A memorable one for more than just that reason, as it turns out. (Or, the fic in which Alex's body starts talking before his mind does, forcing him to finally realise a thing or two about his relationship with his best friend Miles). notes: oh my lord, this fic 😍 it's like someone (and by someone i mean @subtle-as-an-earthquake) took all my favourite tropes and poured them into a gorgeously written, tension-laden 14k fic that is so stupidly good i've already read it at least three times already 😅 it captures the dynamic between alex and miles SO well - the sense of contrasting complete ease/simmering tension with each other is one of the best portrayals i've ever read of them, and alex's thought process throughout unfolds in a way that feels so utterly (and infuriatingly) in character. the slow build is absolutely delicious, and the culmination of it delivers above and beyond! ✨

sometime in the future by @blacktrickle summary: In a world quite similar to this one, Miles Kane is an international supermodel and Alex Turner is the rockstar who has broken his heart one too many times. Now, two years after their most vicious break up, Alex is asking for one more shot, but this time, Miles won’t make it easy. notes: oh my goddddd THIS FIC 😭😭 i put off reading it for ages because i had this sneaking little suspicion it was going to destroy me - and i was right. destroy me it has, in the BEST possible way. i literally cannot recommend it enough. the writing and depth of character portrayal is just stunning, and i am completely and utterly hooked. i'm actually only halfway through rn, but already i know that this fic is one that's going to stay with me in my heart for the longest time - and can't wait to see where it's heading.

you've got control of everyone's eyes (including mine) by @alexturne summary: It's 2005 and the Arctic Monkeys are about to set out on their first proper tour. Alex is quite happy with that, until a certain someone gets in the way and spoils it all. A story about facing hardships, insecurities and stage fright, about friendships, dreams, music and smoking too many fucking cigarettes in dark back alleys. About keeping your friends close, and perhaps your enemies even closer. notes: i'm only three chapters in, but already this fic has hooked me in completely. it's beautifully readable, and just feels like such a vivid slice of early era am life. alex and miles are absolutely INSUFFERABLE in the best possible way - clearly obsessed with each other, but hiding behind the idea that they hate each other. the constantly simmering ust is wonderfully written, and the way they relate with each other feels so authentic (even if it also makes me want to knock their heads together). i can't wait to see where this fic goes 😍

ain't got anything to lick without you baby by @elorianna summary: At some point during their usual stage antics, Alex and Miles start playing an innocent game of one-upmanship – but with neither one of them willing to back down, things eventually get a little bit out of hand… notes: listen, i've read this one before. and i'll read it a bunch of times again too because it's just a CLASSIC. one of the first ever milex fics i read and i find myself returning to it over and over because it's just such a fun little read, and of course so well written too because it's elorianna. it captures all the ridiculousness and ust of eycte era milex messing around with each other, and the smut is well - *fans self*

okay, that's all for this month, but i think i'm going to try and do this every month and make it a regular thing! if anyone has any fic recs for me then please feel free to drop them in the comments/my asks/dms - i'm always on the lookout for more milex fics 💗

#these are just the five fics i've enjoyed most recently #it is by no means an exhaustive list of my all time favourites #also i have so many on my to-read list that i'm stupidly excited for too #i notice there's a new @yellowloid one i haven't read yet which ahhhhhhh. YES PLEASE 😍 #honestly god bless this fandom for having so many wonderful talented authors who share their work with us #i'm truly so grateful for you 💞 #milex #milex fic #milex fic recs #lulu posts

[sandinthepipes]

So... In the midst of my uni exams it sort of happened that I found myself with a printed hardcover version of one of my favourite fanfic.

Specifically this is the one and only And like the cycle of the year we begin again by @katherynefromphilly .

THIS IS A BEAST.

Like when I tell you that me n my friends have a running joke of me not knowing how to read because I struggle to finish a 100 pages book, and this is my go-to length of ff, that I finish in like 3-5 days.

And while I was editing the pdf for the pages I was like "yeah, I'm probably gonna do something like a bundle book, encompassing all of the we begin again series, I mean the first work is only 200000 words, I want a chonky book".

This shit has 705 pages.

AND IT'S JUST THE FIRST WORK.

////also please don't judge the cover, it's ugly af, I got bored, stopped midway through, we don't talk about that, thanks.

#the respect and admiration i hold for ff authors #it never stops #you are beacons of light for the entirety of the world #you are blessings from the gods #like when my mentaal health is doing particularly bad the only thing i can do to not cry or have panic attacks is just reading ff #i hope you all know how much you are appreciated by all of us #idk how the conversation went there this was supposed to be a dumb post #it's true tho #fanfiction #fanfiction reccomendations #fanfic #ao3 #ao3fic #read on ao3 #merthur #bbc merlin #merlin #and like the cycle of the year we begin again #we begin again #ff #merlin x arthur #fix it fic #inthepipes

[k1rishiki]

the thing about the queer media tournament that really gets me is that last i checked there wasn't a single mxtx work on it. like not even the untamed made it in and don't get me wrong the og mo dao zu shi books are huge but cql is def more popular among tumblr circles. idk it just really rubs me the wrong way how every single piece of western media that ppl have ever gotten a lil bit aggressive abt shipping with is there and then for east asian media there's utena and madoka magica and the handmaiden and last i checked that was pretty much it. and then for the rest of the world there's next to/nothing but idk enough to really make judgements there.

#like. really? no mo dao zu shi? no scum villain's self saving system? no heaven's official blessing? no nana? #i can think of at least 10-20 pieces of media more deserving of being in there than some of the western works that got in off the top of my #head. yuri is my job (self explanatory). fate/stay night (most of the cast is bi but esp rin bc she says it out loud + saber trans coded). #fate/extra (red saber canon bi + nameless archer. stay night lancer. kirei and issei are all there). black butler (grelle trans. also #eric and alan from one of the musicals + alois from s2 of the accursed anime + nina and possibly mey rin are all gay) #toilet bound hanako kun (kou and mitsuba went canon). the evillious chronicles (michaela. clarith and bruno are gay. bohemo possibly trans. #gallerian possibly gay). requiem of the rose king (self explanatory). project sekai (mizuki trans. minori and rui possibly gay). #cocoon entwined (literally a yuri). fucking honkai impact 3rd (lesbians but i don't play it so idk who). any uc gundam series w char and #amuro but especially char's counterattack (char and amuro explicitly confirmed to be gay 4 each other by author + movie focuses on their #relationship). also mobile suit zeta gundam (char and amuro together + kamille is a boy's name!). turn a gundam (gay character). #iron blooded orphans (gay character). the witch from mercury (about a lesbian relationship). melty blood (ries and sion lesbians). #guilty gear (bridget (self explatory)). sailor moon (mainly uranus and neptune lesbians but also apparently there are a lot of gay #characters i didn't know abt in sailor moon). the illustrated guide to monster girls (yuri moment). dramatical murder (yaoige). slow damage #(yaoige). sweet pool (yaoige). ouran high school host club (haruhi gender stuff and also her dad's whole deal). cowboy bebop (ed gender #stuff). fullmetal alchemist (envy nonbinary). neon genesis evangelion (kaworu and shinji). like half the villainess isekai out there. #haruhi suzumiya series (the girl herself is openly bisexual). omniscient reader's viewpoint (danmei). fucking re:zero has a trans girl in i #for god's sake. we're well past 20 so i'm allowing myself more fate. fate/extra ccc (red saber again but also gil and caster and bb and-). #fate/hollow ataraxia (follows same cast as f/sn). today's menu for the emiya family (follows same cast as f/sn again. also the switch game #metatextually canonizes shirou's crush on lancer if the interesting descriptions from f/sn and the various bits from f/ha didn't convince #you). fate/apocrypha (rider of black + saber of red transfemme nonbinary and trans guy respectively. the former is also bi). fate/samurai #remnant (f/sr saber nonbinary. also gil is there and rogue archer is def implied to be bi in f/go). fate/zero (waver gay rider bi. saber gi #and kirei are all there and at their most bisexual). the case files/adventures of lord el melloi ii (waver spinoff (self explanatory)). #fate/strange fake (gil and waver are there. also false lancer nonbinary and jester trans). fate/grand order (has p much every character fro #the franchise and more. notably added trans anime girl leonardo da vinci). ok no more fate. since the tournament has a p liberal definition #of media i'm including vocasongs. magnet by minato ft miku and luka (lesbian song abt lesbians). erase or zero by hzedge ft len and kaito #(magnet for boys). himitsu ~kuro no chikai~ by hitoshizuku and yama ft len rin and miku (angel rin falls in love w miku. disguises herself #as a human man to be with her). i think i've made my point clear but add my initial list of the big famous ones (-nana) from the 1st tag. #romeo.txt

[incorrectcfvg]

#this post is really just for me. it's my blog i can make posts that are specifically for me #like you could read it as 'haha these two characters who overcame hardships now experience the warmth and affection of kittie cat' but #as the author im explicitly confirming it's about my longcon of shipping onisato since 2016 #culminating in them getting a vanguard zero focus event together in 2023 #that's what it's about. isn't that what it's all about really #love ardently and shamelessly and one day bushiroad might give your ship a focus event together in a doomed mobile game #and god willing? they'll get cats too. for some reason #that's all. that's all i wanted to say. have a blessed morning #ruesweep #satoru enishi #kazumi onimaru #cfvg #vanguard g #cardfight!! vanguard g

[velvetbunniie-archive]

the reason evangeline survived jacks’s kiss is because she’s a lesbian w an insane comphet crush atm, thus making her immune bc she’ll “never truly love him” (‘cause she’s, you know, 0% attracted to men), and in a month, she’s going to come out of the closet and they’re going to have an immensely awkward breakup. aaaaand send post.

#when i said i know what you are I DIDNT THINK STEPH WOULD WRITE A PLOT HOLE SO BIG THAT THE ONLY EXPLANATION FOR IT IS EVA BEING A LESBIAN #like that wasn’t the power of love that saved the day… the only acceptable explanation is aurora/evangeline purple/pink lesbians. i’m…. #aurora would ACTUALLY be a good match for eva because she’s a) actually eva’s age and b) guys why are we acting like she’s irredeemably evi #jacks has done worse TO EVANGELINE in the books and he’s STILL a worse person #than aurora who never directly harmed eva 😭 literally all her villainy was actively traded for #she’s not a monster she’s jst a 17 y/o girl who doesn’t know how to talk to her crush #she’s the type of girl that sends eva a letter telling her to get out of her school because she doesn’t know how to deal w loving her 💀💀💀 #memorie.txt #.bookthoughts #author: stephanie garber #book: a curse for true love #GOD it sucked ass. completely ineffective as a ‘stunning conclusion’ and even as a book in general #OH ALSO insane that steph hates women so much… she hates them so badly she accidentally came around to writing them as lesbians #everyone in that fandom is also fucking TERRIFIED of gay ppl. god bless ur pink haired girl is sapphicsapphicgaygaygaylesbian 😘

[rubenovichoff]

ahhhhh over the years of reading fuck all but e-rated fanfic at 4am i have completely forgotten how the right book can make u feel so light and spent and boneless. skimmed ahead the last 20 or so pages before finishing it proper haha as you can extrapolate i never really had the patience 4 edging. would u believe me if i said this is one of the most heart-sinking bits of writing ive ever read

thought of some people of tumblr reading this:

#kurt vonnegut #god bless you mr rosewater #im so glad i started reading him via dad way back #obviously a dash of chicken-egg conundrum due the well-moldable developmental stage i was at at the time of the introduction #but i feel its precious to be able to find an author who writes in the voice so familiar and accommodating #who still manages to bring clarity to ideas you would've gotten all tangled up in yourself #there is exactly one fanfic from the last five years or so that genuinely impacted me but thats almost entirely a me issue

[zoonotic]

i bought the ballad of songbirds and snakes before it even came out and still haven’t finished it 😭 i swear to god i am going to finish it this time bc i’ve decided i want to see the movie for my birthday. just like old times.

#i saw all of the movies on my bday except the first bc it was released in march iirc #anywayz um god bless suzanne collins for the prequel and not being a freak like so many popular YA authors #.txt

[sleepdeprivationitself]

Me putting the most unhinged ship I’ve ever in my life witnessed onto my ao3 mark for later, as a treat

#author is sleep deprived #ao3 #ao3 fic #fanfiction #ao3 fanfic #god bless america this is gonna be hella fun to read when i see it #who and WHOMST #oh yea baby #and its a fucking college au oneshot #which says it all

[briarlily]

Saw the post with a troll making a fake page of an upcoming romance from Twitter has also gained traction on tumblr and we are so fucked, both with this upcoming election and in general, bc apparently no one knows how to recognize fake news anymore

#also a relationship between a patient and a doctor is absolutely forbidden #you all are so fucking stupid #god bless #I feel so bad for that author #just trying to promo her book and now people are convinced she's created new slurs #no one can read

[morerawerbreath]

authors should not read their own audiobooks. authors should not read their own audiobooks!!!!!

AUTHORS SHOULD NOT READ THEIR OWN AUDIOBOOKS!!!!!!!!

#audiobooks #it’s like everyone thinks they have ~unique insight~ into their work because they wrote it #but audiobook narration is a P E R F O R M I N G A R T #god bless you authors for sitting alone for years typing into your computer #this does NOT equate to skill in clearly and evocatively narrating #or differentiating characters #or vocally lifting key elements of a sentence and not swallowing your words #audiobooks =/= reading aloud and I’m so tired of people thinking that’s all it takes

[mxwhore]

i officially jumped the shark

#and added writing into the zip #I KNOW I KNOW dont worry they are just like 40-300 drabbles #i havent gotten them beta'ed yet but i will dump him on my bffs lap asap #he is doing all the organizing and compressing because my pc DIED btw #god bless my mom for this xmas gift (tablet) at least i can artstudy #and also my best friend who is a very talented published author #tessas txt #oh shit update hehehe

[engagemachine]

Sleeping before work? ❌️

Reading fanfiction in bed literally all day? ✔️‼️

#to all the fanfiction authors out there... God bless you and thank you for your service #love u guys so much #🫡🫡🫡 #it's an honor

[codexxgigas]

I love the internet. I love having friends on here and i love reading and watching things for free???? This is amazing

#all you creators out there gods bless you i fucking love you guys fanfic writers gifmakers video makers any content muah have a kiss #ive been so depressed all week but now im happy just cause i found a fanfic author i like lmao thats all it takes for one good night #also just remembered the new ghost files episode is out???? 😭😭 #🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😭🙏😭🙏😭🙏🙏😭