#this fic isn't serious

[theminecraftbee]

hermit horror week day 4: season 7 or taken over

Xisuma slowly blinks at the console logs for the server again. He's very tired; he's been collecting blackstone again, and it's very tiring, collecting blackstone. He's been building a lot of pretty houses, and stocking a lot of shops, and he hasn't had time to look at the console much recently. He probably shouldn't be now, because he's tired, and tired people make mistakes.

He makes a lot of mistakes; he's silly like that. A big derp. It's why he has to be careful, since he's been tired so much lately. He definitely shouldn't have the console open.

It's just, earlier Impulse had a question, since his moss farm kept lagging, and Xisuma thought it would be easy enough to try to find the root cause of. And he did find the root cause of it--Impulse's farm is too fast and his storage simply doesn't keep up with the amount of moss--but there's... some other things...

He blinks again at the dates on the server files. The last edited dates. Slowly, he clicks again on his own player data, and tries to make sense of what he's reading. Files like this, they aren't really meant to be that human-readable. It's--well, it is mostly json, so it's mostly human-readable, actually, but a lot of it is still encrypted, for player safety, which would. Maybe explain what he's looking at? He thinks? He's--well, he does have root access, is the thing, because he's the admin, but he still shouldn't be able to look at any player willy-nilly.

He's a little too much of a derp to be trusted with that. He probably shouldn't even be looking at his data! It's just. That last edited date. Xisuma doesn't edit his own player data. That way lies madness. He's, uh, pretty sure he knows some people who went a little mad doing that. So the fact of the matter is--well, it's not the only file that's been edited recently, he tells himself. Just because it's a lot of memory files that seem to have been edited, as well as access permissions--that's... normal enough for a new season, right?

He's...

He doesn't notice his other self walk up behind him.

"Oh, hey Xisuma. You finished gathering materials for our next build, then?" Evil Xisuma says. All of Xisuma's hairs stand on end.

"I mean, I've gathered enough to get started," Xisuma says.

"Pity. I was really hoping you'd manage to get everything. I thought maybe we'd finish today, but I guess we can't now."

"I--you're right. I'm really sorry."

"No, no, don't worry, don't worry, my friend," Evil Xisuma says. "We probably couldn't have finished today anyway, even if you said you'd try for it."

Xisuma's heart is in his throat. "Sorry, my head's just been. You know how I am. Silly me, forgetting things."

Evil Xisuma shakes his head. "It's awfully lucky I came back this season. Think of all the important things you'd be forgetting without reminders!"

Xisuma looks down and away.

"Gosh, and now you're... playing around in the admin console?"

"Oh!" Xisuma says. "It's, er, nothing really big..."

"Can I see it?"

He barely resists the urge to close out of his player data and hide that's what he'd been looking at. He doesn't know why he wants to hide it. It's not like--well, if Evil Xisuma got mad about it, it would be... right, wouldn't it? Because, well, Xisuma knows full well he shouldn't be looking at or editing his own player data. Editing your own data is the way to madness, and Xisuma, well, he's been so tired lately. He could easily accidentally hit a button. He could easily accidentally hit delete. He has root access, after all.

His heart is in his throat again. He shuffles his feet. "Sure," he says, finally. "I, er, I promise, I wasn't doing anything. I just noticed the last edited date on, uh, files that aren't automatically created by the system? And I thought, gosh, that's weird. I'd only been in there to check on Impulse, really, after he'd had some lag issues. I was just finishing up. It's nothing--the date's weird, though, right? That's all I was noticing."

He watches Evil Xisuma's fingers scroll through all of Xisuma's data. It's not quite fast enough that Xisuma isn't sure he's reading it, and suddenly, Xisuma feels very small.

Finally, Evil Xisuma hands Xisuma's tablet with the admin console open back to him. Xisuma looks down, and Evil Xisuma has closed out of the player data again.

"You just forgot the last maintenance date," Evil Xisuma says.

"Really?" Xisuma says.

"Oh, yeah, for sure. You're so tired lately. You silly derp. You've just been forgetting things easily. You should really get more rest!"

"Oh, but then we won't finish our projects," Xisuma says.

"I guess we wouldn't," Evil Xisuma says back.

"It's just--it's. Most of the time, access permission for player memories isn't edited during maintenance, and I just--I don't remember putting your name down?"

"Why wouldn't you?"

Xisuma tries to think.

"I don't know," he says finally, small, unable to meaningfully articulate anything about what's wrong with it. "I guess it only makes sense, if I'm forgetting things so easily."

"Exactly! Gosh, we make a good team," Evil Xisuma says, and he smiles at Xisuma. Xisuma crookedly smiles back.

"Yeah, we do," Xisuma agrees.

"Don't pull that out again unless I say so, okay?"

"Okay," Xisuma agrees automatically, and then he knows he will not. It makes sense. If he was upsetting himself over nothing like this, why, imagine what he'd do if he could open it whenever? He'd just constantly be upsetting himself!

"Now, my friend, let's return to building the Evil Empire."

"Let's!" agrees Xisuma, and just like that, the entire encounter slips from his mind.

#hermithorrorweek2023 #a bee fic #hermitcraft #xisuma #evil xisuma #emotional abuse #mind manipulation #(like genuine warning for emotional abuse here albeit like. somewhat subtle manipulation type.) #if this fic is late in my time zone. no it isn't. #anyway. i will never stop thinking about. whatever was going on between xisuma and evil xisuma in season 8. #anyway. ANYWAY. god one day i'll write the Very Dead Serious Take on that plotline. maybe this is one piece of it. #anyway the horror here is only barely the implied possession it's more the implied. emotional abuse. #GOD i will not stop thinking about the implications of that storyline whether intended or not #like. i'm forever like. did he INTEND to imply the abuse that so many of those cutscenes imply #or was he just trying to write evil xisuma acting like a villain? #anyway this isn't how i'd write evil x for any season that isn't season eight specifically btw you can blame it on jeff if needed

[bri-does-art]

An assortment of CotA related doodles from my sketchbook (and one digital), that can also be found in the end notes of chapter 6.

(Source for the last one: Capochiino’s “I’m so f***ing done” expression meme)

#five nights at freddy's #fnaf #daycare attendant #fnaf sun #helpy #fnaf sundrop #call of the abyss #so much goofy stuff for a fic that isn't :'DD #or at least - not THAT goofy #''this is a serious semi-horror fic with serious themes'' *draws a bunch of memes* #i'm always a little self-conscious when posting stuff straight from my sketchbook #i can't correct proportions or anatomy stuff as easily as with digital art OTL

[just2bubbly]

does writing comments on every chapter of a fanfiction, so as to get the author motivated for them to post the updates faster act as a bribe or is it just me ?

#like comments get me moving as a writer #and if a fic isn't necessarily abandoned but not updated for a long time #I just got and comment on every funny line serious line end of the chapter everything #it's like giving under table cash to the author #psst here's some credit can you give me the dose of dopamine again please #authors of tumblr #writers #writeblr #fanfiction #fanfic #fanfics #fanfic authors #fic writing #fanfic writers #a03 fanfic #a03 writer

[thatonefandomjumper]

You ever just read a fanfic that rots your brain so much that you had no choice but to make a comic out of it? Yeah.

Anyway, here's the first 1000 words of A Mirror in the Dark by Fastern on Ao3 illustrated.

(Click for better quality)

I know I could have picked some sort of big scene to illustrate, but idk man, I felt like going from the beginning even if it doesn't seem like much is happening. Trust me when I say this is the best Traitor Kaminari fic I have ever read. My initial plan was to do the whole first chapter but then I realized I didn´t have infinite time so have these 8 pages instead!

Anyway, go read the fic right now. You will not be disappointed.

#I could go on for hours on how much I love this fic I am very serious #Still think about it all the time despite it being months since I read it. #I really don't post much mha stuff and that's cuz I haven't been caught up in ages at some point in the future I'll properly revisit it #Kaminari is still my boy though my love for him has never left me #Drew this bad boy on paper and then colored it digitally #Which is why it may look a bit wonky here and there #Also my apologize for the messy handwriting. If you at some point don't understand know that all dialogue was taken straight from the fic #So you can check it out if something isn't clear to you (Wink wink) #mha #mha fanfiction #mha fanart #mirror in the dark #my hero academia #bnha #bnha fanfiction #bnha denki #bnha momo #bnha mineta #traitor kaminari #denki kaminari #minoru mineta #momo yaoyorozu #bnha fanart #boku no hero academia

[beesinspades]

plea for people who have ace headcanons and write those characters as ace "by default" to tag their fics with 'asexual character' even if it's not explicitly or implicitly mentioned so that I can find them without having to go through a hundred fics that hit me in the face with varying degrees of said-characters thirsting over their partner first

for explicit and implicit mentions of your ace headcanons you can use "asexual [character name]" as well. thank you.

signed: me, a tired asexual whose second main reason for not reading many fics is exactly this

#fanfiction #asexual #ao3 #i'm dead serious #like if a character is ace in your head and you just write them Like That without thinking please tag it as asexual character it 100% count #a fic being rated G or T isn't safe enough it doesn't mean character A won't start thinking about how lickable character B's neck is #i have been faced with sudden s*xual attraction way too many times please make my life easier i'm begging #even if the fic is rated M or E but the character is ace in your head and thus there's no s*xual attraction I potentially want to see it!!! #sorry have to censor that word because it prevents posts from appearing in the tags

[aceghosts]

15 Lines of Dialogue

I was tagged by @voidika and @nightbloodbix to do this challenge! Thank you!

Tagging (Opt In/Out): @bbrocklesnar, @marivenah, @alexxmason, @sergeiravenov, @carlosoliveiraa, @strangefable, @socially-awkward-skeleton, @amalkavian, @confidentandgood, @clicheantagonist, @theelderhazelnut, @cassietrn, @direwombat, @captastra, @cloudofbutterflies92, @katsigian, @inafieldofdaisies, @simplegenius042, and anyone else who wants to do this!

Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture the character/personality/vibe of the OC. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you're free to include those as well!

Rooney Shepard (Cyberpunk 2077)

“Even at the cost of my own life,” Rooney picks up their whiskey glass again, “If you’re going to ask me if I regret it, I don’t. I would do the same again if given the choice.”

“You are a client,” Their tone is firm as they continue to dig their grave, ever obstinate, “You are hiring me to find someone. Unless you would prefer someone else to take this case.”

“Hmm…,” They start, tilting their head for a second as they pretend to think before answering with a smirk, “No.”

“People depend on me, Yorinobu. I cannot let them down. If I stop, I fail them. And if I fail them, then what use am I to anyone?”

“Fine,” They say, pulling out their monowire, “Remember, I gave you a chance to turn back.”

“I can do all of these things, but I know when others need me first,”

“No, I made a promise that I intend to keep. I’ll find a way out for us both.”

“It’s more than that. He’s my teammate; I’m responsible for him.”

“I can blame myself,” They look at him, meeting his eyes, “It was my job to protect Jack. He was my younger brother. He needed me, and I failed him. Danny, too.”

“No.” Rooney’s tone is deadly quiet, a grim look on their face.

“Work. You know how I am.”

“Not for a lack of trying,” They joke back, wiping at their eyes.

“I do. I let everyone down who didn’t make it off Space Force One. I refuse to let anyone else get hurt. Not as long as I breathe.”

“I know what is at stake. I’ve made a decision and decided that I’m okay with that risk.”

‘Glad to see you too, Silverhand’, Rooney thinks. A moment later and perhaps a touch more fondly, they add, ‘I mean it. I really thought I might have lost you, and it terrified me’.

#kate writes #I won't let fear compromise who I am #commander rooney shepard #the rooney fic tag #some of these are from stuff on AO3 #and some are from unpublished stuff #but I think these lines all represent Rooney #also sorry Rooney isn't a very fun character #they are very serious

[sp1cy-t0ss]

probably non-canon scene #1

“[Danny] cursed all of Father’s Batsuits. Every time Father wears one, it transforms. So far we have recorded him dressed as Hatsune Miku, a head of lettuce, a bedsheet ghost, Lego Superman, the hockey mascot ‘Gritty’, and a rainbow trout.”  --Damian

#well it is canon #but idk if it'll be in a fic #dead serious #dp x dc #spice posts #spice writes #Bruce said something insensitive and this is the consequence #he tries to get constantine to break the spells and John proceeds to laugh until he chokes #he buys danny a batburger #Bruce is realizing with horror that danny isn't a threat to the family #worse. far worse: he and damian feed off each other. They're perfect for each other and now it's society's problem

[have-kake]

Reading other people's LU fics is so weird sometimes. Like I operate w/ a very concrete idea of what all their ages are, so seeing the dude I headcanon as 22 be 16 in a fic is jarring haha

It's not a bad thing, but it's kinda funny.

That's kinda what I like abt LU tho. The only Link's age we know is Wind. Everyone one else is an unknown. We know Twi was 18 during TP, but we don't know how long it's been so he's also an unknown. It lets us imagine what we believe to be appropriate. I hope we never get their current ages

Edit: turns out I deadass forgot abt Wild who says he's 117. but he got memory issues so is he really lol

#idk maybe it's cuz I'm 4'9 and almost 30 that I see four and think “yeah he's 22” #the fic isn't even about four. it was just a throwaway line ;A; #but on a similar note. seeing Hyrule written as being 19-20 always feels weird cuz he has such strong 16y/o energy imo #old enough that people expect him to be an adult (hence the occasional shyness) #but still young enough that he sometimes gets treated like a child #linked universe #in my defense. I'm not the biggest wild fan. and I also posit. bro has serious memory issues #he could've just been like *well flora turned 17 when the calamity happened. I'm prob around the same age*

[alexa-crowe]

i need to stop looking at other people's bridgerton posts all the negativity is stressing me out. i'm drawing a line for myself. no more negativity for me until i actually see the season and have collected my thoughts enough to have critiques.

#“colin's not being treated like a lead in promo” “this is pen's season not polin's” “there's too much debling” everyone CALM DOWN #it's simply not serious enough to be getting this worked up over it. #“polin's relationship isn't built on a lie idk what shonda's talking about” RELATIONship. please i beg... let us all take some deep breaths #go outside and watch some cutesie polin edits. read some fun polin fics. it will be okay i promise. #rambling #also this is the the promo for part 1... there will be other aspects promoted for part 2 right...

[everybodyshusband]

it's healthy to go back and reread all the nice comments people have left on your writing i think :3

#this isn't a shitpost by the way i'm serious #i'm phrasing it like a shitpost because haha feelings cringe or whatever but genuinely it's giving me such an incredible boost #both in my general mood but in my belief in my writing skills too #you're all so kind and i appreciate every single comment you guys leave on my fics whether that's on ao3 or in the tags on tumblr #but yeah seriously going back and rereading compliments people have left on your writing is good for your mental health so go do that #and readers please write comments if you can !!! on any and all fics you enjoy !! #even a “💙” or a “loved this !!” is enough to make my day and boost my confidence and i know it's exactly the same for most writers #i'm feeling sappy and very appreciative of you all and i'm making it everyone's problem can you tell sdfjhbsdkf #anyway i'm going to continue reading and replying to comments then do some work and then come back and do some writing #because yay !! the motivation is sparked through nice comments and lovely people ehehe >:) #husband rambles #these tags are LONG i'm sorry O_O

[animoogus]

I desperately need some Davekat fic recs that aren't Dave-focused, please share if you have any!

#it's hard to put into words how difficult it is to find dk stuff that isn't all about dave. much less karkat-centric #davekat #karkat vantas #homestuck fanfic #davekat fic rec #homestuck #please I'm starving #I'm serious contact me any way you like if you don't wanna do it on this post

[iceunhie]

feeling cute might nuke some of my fics and leave them to die and rot forever in the deepest recesses of my mind forever forgotten due to the feeling of incompetency in my work and a touch of something lacking in my writing haha what a silly thought amirite

#mhie rambles #this is a personal thing rn so i think i might make a new tag for this #please reblog fics with tags. like genuinely this is the BARE MINIMUM if you enjoy my work #Just spam the tags from the og post n ur done. It's. That. Simple. #Likes r good likes r great!! But this isn't Insta where likes r predominantly the reason why a post prospers #SO PLEASE IF YOU LIKE MY WORK #N want to continue seeing me post more then please #reblog #leave a nice comment if you feel like it #I CANT BELIEVE I HAVE TO SAY THIS BUT THE SERIOUS LACK OF INTERACTION IN TUMBLR WJEN THERE R AMAZING FICS BEING BURIED IN THE DUST IS #devastating. #i shuld rlly get a new tag for this #Will delete ltr

[novelconcepts]

i don't make resolutions, but if i did

it would be to finish this fic

(and to be kind to myself for however long it takes to actually do so)

#i'm finishing it if it kills me #i know i've been writing this makeout scene for 3 weeks but baby that can't last forever #if we want to get deep and dark and serious for a second i do think a lot of my struggles to write lately have to do with engagement #and how incredibly low engagement has been on the last few things i've written #which like. is what it is. i'm not entitled to anybody's time or comments or kudos. #but when you write stuff you're proud of and it feels like it's barely getting read it's hard to keep momentum. #this isn't intended as a woe is me or whatever it's just kind of like. there. hovering. #happens enough times you start to wonder if it's you. am i just writing for the wrong fandom/ship? #(too bad if so. they're in my bones i'm writing for them and no one can stop me.) #but yeah. if you ever wonder if authors do care or notice about hits. comments. kudos. buddy i am here to tell you #not only do we care and FLOURISH we also notice when those things drop off and readers vanish #and it is a giant bummer. and sometimes makes us wildly paranoid about why that might have happened. #so if you liked a fic today--not even one of mine. just. anybody's. share it. comment on it. #kudos at the VERY least (cuz frankly kudos is there to be an 'i got to the end and this was nice' feature. #so when you get 500 hits and only like 30 kudos? it feels like 470 of those people hated your work) #anyway. that got out of hand. lil' too raw lil' too honest. happens when you let yourself ramble at 11:30 instead of sleeping #to sum: let your local fic writer know if they've made you happy #and as we go into 2024 i am swearing to myself that this fic (and probably several others) are getting finished #come hell. high water. or dishearteningly low engagement numbers. #(and then maybe we...actually work on something original. cuz why not. new year same old me but i'll do my best.)

[bbygirl-aemond]

I applaud you, not many people can write like you do, you even wrote perfect middle child, there's everone saying their goodbye to their siblings and where's Joffrey, his just not there nobody bothered to wake him, someone may ask where is he but no one does because his not important, his just a third son, the forgotten, one of Rhaenyra bastards but not the important ones, the one with zero inheritance, the son who no asked for a marriage with because he just wasn't good enough and never would be, the son that if he dies today no one would mourn tomorrow.

aww thank you!

i actually wrote an even MORE perfect middle child: luke, who's the middle child out of the strong boys. who also wasn't there, but who you didn't seem to notice, huh? poor thing, forgotten even by people who speak for the forgotten.

luke wasn't there bc he is still trying to give rhaena space since she's still mad at him. he said his goodbyes to baela beforehand. he recruited joffrey to make it seem less like he was tryna avoid rhaena in particular. joffrey was just happy to an excuse to be without adult supervision bc luke doesn't even try to control him he just lets him run wild. he's probably eating bugs rn.

joffrey already has a fiance: the youngest daughter of lord desmond manderly. they've been betrothed, as per canon, since the beginning of the dance. that's still a strategically important match; white harbor is the north's primary trade port, and the manderlys have already been denied one targaryen match (rip viserra), so it would be problematic to snub them a second time. so joffrey hasn't received any proposals for the same reason luke and rhaena haven't received any: they're already committed to necessary political alliances.

also, i know there are a lot of readers who get very tried up in who has the "best" or "grandest" inheritance in stormbreak or whatnot. but it's not my goal for a character's worth to be tied to that. there are so many characters who have zero inheritance: daemon, aegon the elder, helaena, aemond, daeron, luke, joffrey, rhaena, viserys, even rhaenyra and aemond's future children. not having an inheritance, or only having a title through your marriage, may not be fine for some of the more ambitious characters like baela or jace, but it is fine for a lot of them, and that's okay!

#joffrey isn't even a character tag on my fic please be serious #ofc he's not going to get much screen time that doesn't mean everyone hates him #ask #asks #answered #fire and blood #fic: stormbreak #fic #stormbreak #stormbreak chapter 32 #joffrey velaryon #joffrey strong #joffrey

[lenievi]

sometimes it’s sad that the default fanon for McCoy is grumpy, annoyed, no fun allowed, old, and done with the world

when this guy also enjoys the life so much and to the fullest - he loves food, drinks, he loves good times (he’d go bar hopping with you if you asked), he likes sex, he loves research, he’s curious, he likes jokes, he likes to tease and “prank” others

#mccoy doesn't consider himself old - the only time he used 'old country doctor' that the fandom likes to quote so much was when he was #literally 100 years old in deadly years (probably not 100 but you know what i mean) #i know i said this while watching twok but the gif reminded me again lol #also people will be like aos and tos mccoys are the same and then they'll proceed to write aos mccoy annoyed at jim's bar visits #when tos mccoy would be the first one to go with jim #i'm not criticizing i'm just musing lol #i know where the aos outgoing jim versus grumpy mccoy comes from #but it's not true for tos #in tos at some times it's more like no fun allowed jim versus i wanna have fun mccoy tbh #but i also understand why people tweak kirk in order to be 'better suited' to work with spock #but kirk isn't the energetic one vs spock's stoic one #i think that was nicely seen in snw actually #and a reason I guess why i saw people being like why is kirk so serious lol #since they probably didn't watch early tos in a long time #don't pay me any mind #tos nonsense #also yes i'm also leaning more toward serious-ish mccoy in my fics but i'm trying to change that

[straykidsholicleigh]

Bitch.......I think I will orgasm at the thought of hyunkix being real.....

-💅🏻

bitch, if they fr start dating, im never shutting tf up-

#leigh answers... ♡. #💅🏻 anon... ♡. #no seriously im serious if they start dating the amount of fics and imagines i will make will be ridiculous- #stray kids #hyunlix #i pray this comes true- #but then lgbtq isn't very acceptable in the kpop industry? #so idk exactly how its gonna work but if it does i aint complaining #🤷🏻‍♀️