A/N: Thank you again to those who gave me recommendations for fanfics. 💜 This week had me reading 35 fics. Absolutely amazing stuff here.
As always these will be listed in no particular order. None of these stories are mine. I’m just signal-boosting them. The author is listed next to the title. My goal is to signal boost writers and spread positivity in the community. 💜💜
Click HERE to see what I will or won’t read. This is very important.
Click HERE for past reading lists.
For my Masterlist click HERE.
Please make sure you’re reading the warnings on every story. They range from dark to fluff. Do Not Read if you are under 18 years old. These stories are meant for adults only. You’re responsible for your own media consumption.
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Header by @fictional-affairs
If you can, please reblog these lists so they can reach more people on Tumblr.
I love you 3000 💜 Missy
Morning Cravings - (Steve x Reader) - @saiyanprincessswanie
Ethereal Part 5 - (Ari x Reader) - @labella420
Thoughts - (Brock) - @nekoannie-chan
Revenge - (Brock) - @nekoannie-chan
Late Night - (Andy x Reader) - @katherineswritingsblog
It Was Sunday - (Bucky x Reader) - @ellemj
Wrecked (Part 3) - (Frank x Reader, Billy x Reader) - @tuiccim
Competition 2.0 - (Lloyd x Reader, God the Bounty Hunter x Reader) - @holylulusworld
Love and Flowers - (Bucky x Reader) - @jobean12-blog
Ethereal Part 6 - (Ari x Reader) - @labella420
Reconnect - We’ll Always Be Friends - (Bucky x Reader) - @navybrat817
Switched Sides part 5 - @deliciousangelfestival
Flood - (Bucky x Reader x Steve) - @biteofcherry
Alone again - (Jack R) - @nekoannie-chan
Evermore: Prologue - (Ari x Reader, Andy x Reader) - @joannaliceevans-fanficblog
Evermore: Part. One - (Ari x Reader, Andy x Reader) - @joannaliceevans-fanficblog
Lost in the Dark (Part 2) - (Bucky x Reader) - @tuiccim
Helicarrier - (Steve) - @nekoannie-chan
Your Mark On Me - Part 7 - (Steve x Reader) - @georgiapeach30513
Monkey See, Monkey Do - Chapter 15 - @spectre-posts @what-is-your-plan-today
Indecent Proposal (1) - (Stucky x Reader)- @holylulusworld
Promises To Keep - (Andy x Reader) - @americasass81
Winning - (Brock x Reader, Steve x Reader) - @nekoannie-chan
Advantages - @nekoannie-chan
The Tarzan to my Jane - (Ari x Reader) - @nicoline1998enilocin
Release Me Pt. 4 - (Andy x Reader) - @labella420
Opportunity - (Steve x Reader) - @nekoannie-chan
In the Boss’s Grip - (Ari x Reader) - @labella420
Teased and Tied - (Bucky x Reader) - @rookthorne
Aftermath - (Bucky x Reader) - @jobean12-blog
Two Bosses Part 11 - (Ransom x Reader) - @labella420
Wrecked (Part 4) - (Frank x Reader, Billy x Reader) - @tuiccim
Honestly, every single time the whole 'poppy playtime is a bendy rip-off' stuff ever shows up I find it all extremely unconvincing and silly.
For one thing, rip-off usually is meant to imply that it's a cheap lazy copy of a better more polished thing, and uh. Sorry but even from chapter 1? Poppy Playtime is a better game than Bendy, it has a simple but understandable story, the game manages to be thrilling, creepy, and very intense at times... I mean that Huggy chase in the vents ALONE puts it way above Batim for me.
I mean BATDR had the most slow stupid chase I've ever seen [and every other encounter with the ink demon is text telling u he's there and then a timer goes down and u get jumpscared] and batim's chases were either silly or just not nearly as theatric or terrifying as that.
When making the vent sequence I mean not only is it absolutely horrifying to realize how fast Huggy is in there but also it's so theatric and cool? The fact that you round a corner after thinking you escaped only to see a terrifying animation of that thing crawling toward you is awesome! I wish Bendy had stuff like that!
And all the stuff it shares with Bendy are generic things Bendy ripped from other horror games/media anyways. I'm not saying Poppy Playtime isn't inspired by Bendy I for sure think it is but Bendy is such a generic story that somehow fails to do tropes 100 other horror games have done any comparison only makes Poppy Playtime look better.
"It has employees being sacrificed for their company" That is not a concept Bendy invented, literally look at any of the sci-fi horror series Bendy is very inspired by. This is literally a twist in the original Alien.
"It has a scary woman forcing you to do tasks for her" Once again, not a concept Bendy invented, a scary mysterious person forcing you to do fetch-quests is a concept found in tons of horror media. And at least Poppy Playtime gave you a chase with her and let you defeat her, look at poor malice. She's barely on screen for more than 10 minutes before she gets stabbed.
"It has a cult worshipping the monster" This is something tons of horror games and media have done too. I mean In The Tall Grass has a guy who worships a giant magical rock in the middle of a grass maze, Bioshock [which Bendy has only been taking more and more direct inspiration from while failing to grab any of the compelling parts] also had a lot of themes of religion and cult-ish behavior, almost every horror media franchise has at one point done a cult thing.
Bendy couldn't even come up with a reason Sammy worships the ink demon, the best motivation we've ever gotten is just that 'he's crazzyyyy the ink made him insaneeee'. Who is the cheap rip-off here?
At least Poppy Playtime gave their cultist a motive for worshipping the monster + a proper boss fight that feels intense and looks awesome! Bendy didn't even let you kill Malice [she got stabbed in front of you and then just collapsed on the floor how thrilling] meanwhile you get to kill three of the villains in Poppy Playtime and the gameplay and action in those scenes have only gotten better as the game went on.
I mean Sammy walks into a room and goes "AAA SCARY I'M BEING MURDERED" then later shows up and for NO REASON sees a normal human man and assumes it's the ink demon before once again someone else kills him for you. In Poppy Playtime you defeat Catnap as he floods the world with this horrible nightmare-inducing gas that intensifies the color palette and his design. Fight off versions of him that are illusions that you need your flare gun for, then watch in a wonderful animation as he mistakes the monster for his savior before getting killed by it, in a brutal way I might add, which game are we accusing of being cheap, lazy garbage again?
I just find this argument to be people who Really Really need to find a reason to hate Poppy Playtime which I think is silly. The devs being weird, shady people is already enough reason to dislike the game, you don't need to invent reasons why secretly every part of the game is malicious or bad. But esp when I see Bendy fans saying they don't support Poppy Playtime or dislike it bc of its devs or even saying its cringe ummmm.
I have bad news about the fact Bendy's devs are worse and it took not one, but TWO over an hour long videos to cover it all. Plus the Bendy games are just the worse games in every aspect, if I could sell my batim copy for a copy of Poppy Playtime I wouldn't hesitate at all.
Saying this as a bendy fan, we have no right to be super judgy towards Poppy Playtime. If Poppy Playtime is embarrassing cringe, Bendy is too and is way more embarrassing of an interest. We shouldn't spread misinformation just because we all want to hate Poppy Playtime, you can dislike Poppy Playtime without making up a bunch of nonsense to justify it.
Honestly seeing people just blatantly be unfairly mean to Poppy Playtime only makes its critics look worse and makes it hard to take any backlash to the games seriously. Because surprise surprise if you spread misinformation to make a point people will quickly stop listening to Anything you have to say bc they won't trust you're telling the truth anymore.
[ID: a drawing of a featureless gray person sitting crisscross with a black laptop in their arms, resting their head on top of the laptop's screen. the laptop has a pink screen with a face on it and a pink backlit keyboard. both of them are smiling with their eyes closed. end ID]
how are so many non-follower, non-TES, non-RP people finding a reblogged ask meme post on Dal's blog to reblog it from Dal instead of the source lkjhsjhdfg
A/N: Thank you again to those who gave me recommendations for fanfics. 💜 This week had me reading 30 fics. Absolutely amazing stuff here.
As always these will be listed in no particular order. None of these stories are mine. I’m just signal-boosting them. The author is listed next to the title. My goal is to signal boost writers and spread positivity in the community. 💜💜
Click HERE to see what I will or won’t read. This is very important.
Click HERE for past reading lists.
For my Masterlist click HERE.
Please make sure you’re reading the warnings on every story. They range from dark to fluff. Do Not Read if you are under 18 years old. These stories are meant for adults only. You’re responsible for your own media consumption.
Page-break by @whimsicalrogers
Header by @fictional-affairs
If you can, please reblog these lists so they can reach more people on Tumblr.
I love you 3000 💜 Missy
Dreams Do Come True - (Steve x Reader) - @saiyanprincessswanie
Made for Me - epilogue - (Bucky x Reader) - @saiyanprincessswanie
Bucky Oneshot - @samodivaa
For Years or For Hours - (Bucky x Reader) - @navybrat817
TOL - I'm your daddy now (1) - (Lloyd x Reader) - @holylulusworld
Scratches - Kinktober Day 4 - (Bucky x Reader) - @the-iceni-bitch
Luckiest man alive - (Ari x Reader) - @nicoline1998enilocin
Relief - (Robert P x Reader) - @stargazingfangirl18
Olden - (Steve x Reader) - @nekoannie-chan
Failed mission - (Steve x Reader) - @nekoannie-chan
Ethereal Part 4 - (Ari x Reader) - @labella420
Puppy gets it all - (Cole x Reader) - @holylulusworld
Color Me Yours - (Bucky x Reader) - @jobean12-blog
Collared part 35 - (Dean x Reader) - @spnexploration
Collared part 36 - (Dean x Reader) - @spnexploration
Built Differently - Stroke of Midnight- (Stucky x Reader) - @rookthorne
Finding Home (2) - (Bucky x Reader) - @jobean12-blog
Life Is Short So Make It Sweet - Chp 4 - (Curtis x Honey) - @sweater-daddiesdumbdork
Reconnect - Waiting a Little Longer - (Bucky x Reader) - @navybrat817
Switched Sides part 4 - @deliciousangelfestival
Your Mark On Me - Part 6 - (Steve x Reader) - @georgiapeach30513
Ideal Triad's First Beta Rut - (Stucky x OC) - @rissararity
His Prize - (Bucky x Reader) - @targaryenvampireslayer
Two Bosses Part 10 - (Ransom x Reader, Steve x Reader) - @labella420
In the Court of the Shield and Star - Prologue - (Steve x OFC) - @hollybee8917
man I really would love to see an (explicitly) religious companion on Doctor Who. esp one who's written in such a way as makes their faith relevant to the storylines and challenges and tests it but ultimately remains respectful and keeps the theme of it relevant within the specific science fiction setting that Doctor Who occupies. I personally just think that would be great.