#writer bants

[feelinkeeli]

* Rex and Cody are the same age according to info released on the characters. In TBB, Omega even notes Rex is first gen. So everything depicting Rex looking significantly younger than Cody is fanon.

** Jon Antilles, Feemor, various clones, etc. that showed up once. Quite a few of them are basically OCs with preset looks and names.

Important Note: I'm only allowed 10 options, I couldn't include all fanon. (Like I couldn't get into all the Mandalorian culture fanon, Montross being a traitor all along, Jedi Healer Bant, etc.)

Also I am not trying to make a positive or negative remark on fanon. Like, Rex being Cody's little brother probably the most universally popular and beloved fanon. Yan Dooku and Cody = Kote are fun. Various writers and readers enjoy all the angst, H/C, and whump that come from woobie-wan or Coruscant Guard whump. I just want to know what's fanon you enjoy most.

#star wars #star wars polls #star wars fanon #i think this poll counts as #i woke up and chose violence

[saintsenara]

8, 9, and 15!

thank you very much for the ask, anon! and thank you to another mysterious stranger for picking a near-identical selection from the love your fandom ask game:

5. what is something you see in fics a lot and love?

answered here.

8. you hope more people will come to appreciate ___

the power of multishipping and the power of writing any and all characters, in romantic pairings or otherwise.

i completely understand why people get very defensive over their faves and prefer not to imagine them in anything other than their preferred partnerships - particularly because i know that lots of people do genuinely get a lot of shit on account of their shipping preferences, especially [and my god wouldn't it be nice to get a grip on this] when that preference is for a canon m/f couple which has a major fanon slash rival - and i also understand that it can be tough to step outside of your comfort zone to face writing a character you don't immediately feel you have an instinctive grasp of.

but, lads, it's so fun! and - sure - it's good for you as a writer and as a human being to grapple with multiple perspectives and all that - but that's the crux of it. choose chuckles and write a crack fic today.

9. what is a ship that isn't your otp but that you enjoy?

snarry.

i obviously prefer both snape and harry with voldemort, but there's no doubt that the snarry girlies [gender neutral] are producers of the most extraordinarily magnificent stuff. if i am asked to name a fic which makes me cry and stare blankly into the middle distance, it's going to be @perverse-idyll's the white road. if i'm asked for filth i might recommend you eldritcher's a church without a steeple. if i'm asked for brilliant character studies of harry [and snape] after the war, i'm going to mention @danpuff-ao3's contempt or @titconao3's clay.

the snarry fandom has always seemed to me to consist of people who think really creatively and profoundly about life and love and all the questions therein. they're a great bunch of lads, and i do fear i'm getting closer and closer to taking the writing plunge all the time...

15. which character always makes you smile?

i've answered this here, saying ron, but when it comes to comic relief i'd like to - to my great regret - out myself as having recently become a great enjoyer of cormac mclaggen. if you had the misfortune - as i did - to attend a certain sort of english university, you will be familiar with his type [giant, obsessed with "the bants", and refreshingly stupid] and you will be familiar with making bad choices for men of that type. i can picture the jack wills polo he was wearing when they wheeled him into the hospital wing after he ate all those doxy eggs and - sigh - i love it.

[other answers from this ask game]

#asks answered #love your fandom asks

[gffa]

Speaking of Quinlan Vos and confirmed canon/fanon/other, does it specify somewhere that he is a Jedi Shadow or is this another fanfiction invention like Dooku's first name? I've been looking for something else on Wookipedia and noted that neither Vos nor Tholme are mentioned as Shadows; just as leading an information network during the war

As far as I can tell, it's a fanon thing and isn't a part of Legends (and Jedi Shadows don't exist in Disney canon or Lucas canon, as far as I'm aware), but take it with a grain of salt, I haven't read everything of Legends. My feeling is that it comes from that Quinlan is sent undercover in both Disney canon and Legends canon (and Lucas canon, if you count his background cameo in The Phantom Menace), which tends to be what Jedi Shadows do, so it feels like a natural fit.  That combined with having information networks and Quinlan’s abilities as a tracker, it feels like it would be a good role for him. It's like with Bant Eerin being a healer, it's something you see frequently in fic, but as far as I'm aware nothing in Legends suggests that she went into healing, but nothing really contradicts it, either, and it feels natural to a lot of writers. (While I love knowing what actually is/isn’t canon and think that’s really useful to keep in mind, I don’t have anything against fanon like this, especially when we actually have surprisingly little Jedi worldbuilding in the source material!)

#quinlan vos #meta

[formulinos]

Hyperfixation Corner: The Three Brides of Alain Prost

before he was the chauffeur for the ceo of brazilian fascism, nelson piquet was a regular formula 1 quote-giver. to be fair, and don't let the guy know i said it, some of them were undeniable facts - "golf is a sport for old people," in particular, is probably written somewhere in the bible - while many others show us we shouldn't have been exactly surprised at his lack of moral fiber. there is, however, one quote that stands out against many as it could easily be true as it could just be another wattpad fanfic from the same author of "i was better than senna" - the claim that alain prost ruined three marriages.

today, in this special of hyperfixation corner, i try to give you all the evidence i have gathered over the years on whether alain fucked so hard he would ruin the holy instition of matrimony for bants or not.

the claim the first bride: bernadette cottin the second bride: catherine bleynie the third bride: madame x

The Claim

Over the years, Nelson has claimed repeatedly that Alain's modus operandi was to become close friends with someone so that he could sleep with their wife, since this was the only way he could pull chicks since he's, quote unquote, "ugly". I swear to God, I've listened to and heard this sentence so much I could tell it to a doctor after hitting my head BUT until relatively recently, it stopped at "he did this to three people in the paddock" and BITCH. TO WHOM? 

Enter Lemyr Martins, a Brazilian writer and photographer who has covered our participation in F1 from Fittipaldi to Barrichello, writing a good chunk of books while he was at it. One of those was "Os Arquivos da Fórmula 1" (The Formula 1 Files, in English), published in 1999 and basically filled with stories from his time of coverage. It contained some small interviews with drivers as Lemyr went through the eras, and at some point Piquet, who had already featured quite a bit in the book, decided to talk a bit about his resentment of Brazilian media's lack of standing up for its drivers. You'll find, though, that the point gets lost so surprisingly quickly you'd think Nelson invented DRS here, 12 years before the real deal.

Look at the difference between French newspapers and ours. How they preserved, for instance, Alain Prost. He is a latte* kind of guy, super political, who has never driven a bad car. But he has always had the backing of his press, something we've never had in Brazil. This Prost wasn't ethical at all in his private life. He ruined the marriage of Didier Pironi (Ferrari driver), Gérard Larrousse's marriage (former driver and Larousse-Lola's team owner) and Jacques Laffite's (French driver), but the French newspapers didn't write a single comma about it. He had the nerve, he would start going to his friends' houses, wouldn't come out and then he'd fuck the wife. That's what he did to Pironi, to Larrousse and to Laffite. But I even think he had to act this way to get something because he is really ugly. I took the piss out of Prost the day he changed the shards of teeth he had for veneers and went out smiling to the world. He would circle around the track not to run into me. He spent half a season running to avoid smiling at me. 

* in this context, latte (café-com-leite in Portuguese) means he is a small, weak, bland kind of guy. 

I know all of you want to unpack the last few sentences here, and so do I, but we need to stay focused. We got names: Jacques Laffite, Didier Pironi and Gérard Larrousse. From these, one we can tell for sure it was true, one for sure it is fake and one… is inconclusive. Let's start with the juicier of them all.

The First Bride: Bernadette Cottin

Jacques Laffite was Alain Prost before there was an Alain Prost. Now, I'm not saying he was as talented, because the difference between six Grand Prix wins and four WDCs is considerable, but he was a Driver Superstar in France anyway - and still is, considering only Alain and René Arnoux won more GPs than him. Six years Alain's senior, Jacques drove from 1974 to 1986 in F1, basically alternating long stints between Williams and Ligier, a French team. He decided to retire from F1 after suffering a very grisly accident during the 1986 British Grand Prix, where he broke both of his legs.

Piquet had a point in saying the French press wouldn't write a single word on this all because I simply can't find much on the whole thing, so forgive me for my lack of sources. The earliest mention I could find of Jacques' love life was in this Motorsport Magazine article from October 1981. In it, you can find a reference to a girlfriend, named Bernadette, to whom he was linked from 1967. This Bernadette is, in fact, Bernadette Cottin, who would later become Laffite-Cottin after getting married in November 1977. 

I'm sick and I can't be arsed with photo edits this time, so here is a Getty pic of Jacques and Bernadette (left) with her sister, Geneviève and her husband, Jean-Pierre Jabouille

Bernadette and Jacques were the real deal, as soon after their wedding they had two kids, Camille (1978) and Margot (1980). While I can't pinpoint for sure if there were rocky times between them during their time together, Bernadette was around the paddock somewhat often, as you can see from pics of the couple double dating on a few occasions. When Jacques had his career ending accident, Bernadette was there to nurse him back to health.

Double date with The Rosbergs, 1983

Bernadette and Jacques together after his accident, 1986

Now this is the part where it becomes a bit of oral history - and I bet it was oral alright for Alain and Bernadette. Again, it hasn't been written in detail, so none of this can be attested for sure, so don't sue me. Alain and Jacques were homies, like apparently on the level of business partners and, even more serious in the world of F1, golf buddies. While I can't for the life of me find out what they were business partners in, exactly, there are enough pics of them interacting to be able to assert they were mates alright.

I had so many other pictures I could choose and yet....

Well. After Jacques recovered from the broken legs, he decided to give a go to competing again, mainly focusing on DTM and the 24 hours of Le Mans. However, he also liked to dibby dabby on the Paris-Dakar Rally, and word on the street is that when he got home earlier one year after flopping, he caught Bernadette and Alain together. Genuinely struggled to pinpoint the year here as people accuse it of happening either in 1989 or 1990, BUT there are two points to consider:

In that period, the Dakar rally usually happened in March (1988, 1989) and in 1990 it literally started on Christmas day. If you consider Alain had a limit to being a slag and he spent Christmas at home, that leaves 1988 and 1989 available only. From those two years, the F1 season started April 3rd in 1988, while in 1989 the first race happened on March 26th. While it looks like Alain would have more free time for Bernadette in 1988, he went to check their activities out in that year as you can see here:

Another point is that Sacha Prost was born on 30 May 1990, which means that Alain and his first wife, Anne-Marie must have been together at least until September 1989 for her to get pregnant. I'm not saying that it is completely impossible for him to have been caught, then forgiven by the lady wife, then they had a band-aid baby before deciding to separate for good but it is less likely than Alain and Bernadette being caught having an affair later than 1990 and the following separations ensuing. Therefore, I have to call bullshit on the Paris-Dakar story for now.

Either way, the fact is that Bernadette and Jacques officially divorced in 1992, also known as the year that Alain Prost spent out of F1. While Alain and Anne-Marie remained officially married until 2017, Alain and Bernadette started living together and had a child, Victoria, in 1996. 

According to Prostfan, they still live together in Switzerland, so at least there's that. And hey, time heals all wounds, as Alain and Jacques have occasionally mingled over the years after the whole deed was done.

Playing cards together on a train in 1998... Like girl Victoria was just two back then, I don't know how no one threw punches there.

A bit more "recent", 2013 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. That I can understand, it's been over 15 years at that point and they're both balding and grey by then. 

Was Nelson right? Yeah, probably. While no one can tell for certain, it's the one story that's passed around with more detail, so….

The Second Bride: Catherine Bleynie

So. This is a funny one. I mean, sort of, if you have a weird sense of humour.

It was April of 1982. Didier Pironi was, at the time, doing REALLY well. Professionally, he was at the top of the world, driving for Scuderia Ferrari, which is even better than winning as we all know. On a personal level, he was about to get married to his girlfriend, Catherine Bleynie. In fact, they were in a bit of a hurry, since Didier was about to race in a fortnight. Didier and Catherine didn't know it yet, but this was the end. Why? Because the race was in fact, the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix.

Catherine and Didier on their wedding day, 14 April 1982. I lack the explanation for the chef guard of honour. 

Just two weeks later, Pironi fought on track with Gilles Villeneuve and won the GP. He also fought with him off track, and Gilles swore never to talk to him again. He kept that promise alright, as he died in an accident during the qualifying for the next race, in Zolder. Needless to say, this was a bit of a headfuck to Didier who was forcibly linked to this disastrous turn of events for the rest of his life, even though he wasn't to blame for it (and neither Gilles, we've already been through this). Just a few months later, in August, it was Didier's turn to retire from the sport after an accident that almost had him need both legs amputated. Naturally, he was emotionally sensitive after going from championship frontrunner to retiree in less than a year, so he really relied on the support of his partner…. Véronique Jannot.

I? What?

Now, if you were paying attention, then you know that Didier had just got married in April, to Catherine. Yet, it's August and he's with a whole other woman doing covershoots about his accident. What happened?

Well, we have no clue. Streets say he cheated, streets say she cheated, but again, the French media sweeped it under the rug and all we know for sure is that by July of 1982, Didier and Catherine were on separate paths. In fact, Catherine was about to live lavish on the jetset, also featuring on many high society events and magazines with her boyfriend, French legend Alain…………………..

……… wait for it…………………

Delon.

ENOUGH!!!!!

I shit you not. Catherine's rebound guy was fucking Alain Delon, whom she dated for 3 years from 1985. Catherine and Alain weren't strangers, in fact they met 14 years prior when Catherine was a wee intern for a couturier who designed clothes for him. However, they only became friends after meeting again on a flight to Rio de Janeiro in 1982. Catherine was off to see Didier race while Alain was off for a festival with his then wife, Mireille Darc. Considering the three year gap and the fact Alain had another girlfriend before making it official with Catherine, it doesn't sound like he was responsible for the doom of the Pironis. However, it does make it hilarious imo as it means that Nelson Piquet mistook Alain Prost with Alain Delon. Like.

The two Alains together at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix. In case you are confused, Alain Prost is on the left

Imagine being so Frenchphobic you think these guys are the same person somehow? Amazing. A clear L for Nelson Piquet on this one.

The Third Bride: Madame X

Two wives down, one to go. The reason I saved this one for last is that I just don't fucking know what happened here, ok? I don't even know the woman's name, let alone if they really banged or not! You see, Nelson Piquet claimed it was Gérard Larrousse's wife, but in some versions of the story it's a random untitled senior Renault executive who got cucked. 

Alain and the guy he supposedly cucked, Gérard Larrousse, during their Renault tenure

Here's what we know: Alain had already managed to get close to the WDC with Renault twice, getting to 4th place in 82 by only a 10 point difference to Keke Rosberg, the champion. Renault were the pioneers of turbo engines, but hadn't managed to master its reliability, which makes it even more astonishing that Alain still managed to contend for the championship when he had 16 DNFs in two seasons. When you consider that each season had 15/16 races back then, my guy literally had one full championship of retirements with Renault at that point.

Obviously, it was getting embarrassing and all parties vowed they wouldn't act like fools in 1983 and to be fair, they solved the reliability issue, for Alain at least. In fact, Prost was doing well in the lead, followed by Piquet and the two Ferraris (<3). This meant nothing to the team though, as inside the boxes the turmoil was so great that it led to Alain's Mercedes being burned at his home by Renault workers after he criticised the team. He ended up moving to Switzerland and got turned off the whole thing. Four races to the end, my guy crashed into Piquet while trying to overtake him in the Netherlands and the lead went down the drain with two turbo failures in two of the other races remaining, losing the championship to Nelson "Prost Whistleblower" Piquet himself.

As a good Frenchman would, Alain took the defeat with the grace of a giraffe walking on a slippery ice rank, and proceeded to talk shit to the press: 

The team was torn apart in every way. Instead of leaving it to competent men, the decisions were taken by the upper management [...] Renault did everything not to win the championship, because they were scared of winning anything at all. 

Damn. Who hurt you Alain ? 

To be fair to him, Renault had factually ran out of money to keep developing the car in 1983, according to Bernard Dudot, an engineer for the team at the time. Back then, Renault was fully in the ownership of the French government, the inventors of bureaucracy. So, while there was no budget cap and Renault was a constructor with an endless amount of cash in comparison to other teams, there was just no way to expand the budget in the middle of the season. Prost was sacked mere two days after his defeat in Kyalami and the sore comments were attributed as the official reason… but were they?

Dudot says that "The truth remains that he made some mistakes that contributed to our loss." The Holland accident is the key moment, but this doesn't take away from the fact the other two DNFs were mechanical failures and that he had only been out of points in three other races, spending most of the time on the podium. Like sure, he wasn't invested in Renault after getting his car burned but he was still very much down to win a championship and his form showed it. So the reason couldn't be individual mistakes because they were seldom there, especially knowing he lost the championship lead literally in the last race.

This brings us to the conspiracy theory that I mentioned at the start of this section. The lore is that Alain got caught banging the wife of then team principal Gérard Larrousse, who only didn't sack him then and there because it was the middle of the season. The story is still embellished, depending on the source, with the fact that this all supposedly went down during the 1983 Dutch Grand Prix and this is why Alain crashed into Piquet. He was such a pile of nerves he made an uncharacteristic mistake. Still, the story changes a lot and I've even seen claims that Alain screwed the wife of the Renault CEO at the time, so it genuinely sounds like an urban legend. Still, it is worth noticing that the people working in F1 are, first of all, major gossipers, so if Nelson was openly talking about it, it means at the very least that it's a Known Story in the paddock (or at least it was back then). So, while I can't say for sure it's true, I guess only the people involved can say for sure if it's false.

To conclude, did Alain Prost wreck three marriages as Nelson Piquet claimed? No, just one. Two, tops, but we lack enough information on this. As much as Alain fucks, he doesn't fuck that hard, he is just French. That's what they do. Either way, I needed to get this out of my chest so that I could forget about it for a bit. I'll keep looking for info on Gérard Larrousse's wife because this is the one we know the least about, if any of you have any info on the subject feel free to share with the class! In the meantime, screw you guys, I'm going home.

PS: Here's the video of Alain trying to bag a fourth wife, in the shape of Jean Alesi's then girlfriend in 1991:

I have to stan a man who isn't scared of his reputation!

#hyperfixation corner #alain prost #nelson piquet #<- this one is for the black list #fuck them racists! #I went insane but it was worth it because I got some old René Arnoux tea on the way so #this might be a peak shitpost truly

[georgieluz]

Juleeees, how are you? I'll go with 4, 10, 11, 21 and 28 for the "not from the US" ask set

jess! hello!! i'm not too bad, thanks! just got back from braving the rain to buy christmas jumpers (it's christmas jumper weekend at work on friday so had to go searching), how about you?

4. favourite dish specific for your country?

probably glamorgan sausage, which isn't made of actual sausage. it's made of cheese, but it's a vegetarian alternative to normal sausage. but yeah, usually made with cheese and leek.

i do also love a slice of bara brith, but specifically the one served in the restaurant at my workplace!

if we wanna be really basic then welshcakes are always a good shout and i have one every friday with a cup of tea in work!

crempogs are soo very good also!!

10. most enjoyable swear word in your native language?

ooh okay so i don't know if it would necessarily be the most enjoyable but it's the one my friends and i used most whilst growing up and that's "cachau bant" which is a way of saying "fuck off" but if you translate it literally it's "shit away".. and then i can't not include "cont" which i imagine you can guess the translation of (we use it affectionately here though, so it's more like "alright, cont?" or "shwmae cont" when you greet your friend)

11. favourite native writer/poet?

okay, it's probably very predictable to choose dylan thomas but i do love his poems and his poetry is loved for good reason! he didn't write in cymraeg, only saesneg, but he's welsh and wrote about wales and life here, and i think the fact that he wrote in english and not welsh speaks a lot about the journey our language unfortunately went on

also r.s thomas' poems about wales are always interesting to study, in particular welsh history, which has the ending lines:

when we have finished quarrelling for crumbs under the table, or gnawing the bones of a dead culture, we will arise and greet each other in a new dawn

his other poems a welsh testament, welsh landscape, the village and sorry are all really interesting as well!

niall griffiths is a great welsh author too. his books set in aberystwyth are really really good!

oh and richard king!! both his books about music and his oral histories of wales book are 11/10!!

menna gallie's work is awesome as well, i loved 'the small mine' which explores how a fictional welsh village comes together after a mining tragedy. it focuses a lot on how women in the community deal with the loss. her other books are great too and she has a really witty writing style that i enjoy a lot

a few others: owen sheers, gillian clarke and sarah waters!

not quite relevant, but still worth a mention, is the story of the soldier-poet known as hedd wyn and the eisteddfodd of 1917!

21. if you could send two things from your country into space, what would they be?

ohhhh this is really hard.. does it have to be an object or can it be like just a welsh tradition or?? oH WAIT I KNOW i'd send mari lwyd up there!!! to maybe freak out all the aliens. it's one of my favourite welsh customs and traditions for christmas! this is what it looks like:

28. does your country have a lot of lakes, mountains, rivers? do you have favourites?

oh boy! it does indeed... if you wanna know how many mountains wales has, it's better to just look at this topography map

there aren't any genuinely flat areas of wales. my high school was near the top of a mountain, and my house growing up was halfway up the same one. we hated having to walk up it every morning, and yet, we still went down to the village on our lunch hour. maybe that's why we were all fucking tiny bc we trekked up a mountain twice a day.

here's one of our rivers, which we similarly have a fuck ton of

so yeah. a shit ton of rivers and a shit ton of mountains. my favourite mountains are the brecon beacons bc we used to go there so much when i was growing up. it's like a tradition for welsh people to climb there and hike there as soon as the weather gets milder!

oh wow, sorry this was SOOOO long but it was fun to talk about these things so thank you for asking!!

for this ask game!

#julian's inbox #julian's ask games #cymraeg ask game!!

[fanfic-obsessed]

Do you dream?

This is an offshoot of  Perchance to dream. While I highly recommend reading it, because I think it is neat (as the writer), I will summarize it here. The gist is that what we know as canon, starting roughly when council goes to confront Darth Sidious (though the timeline does not match exactly to reality) is a shared hallucination of the Jedi council, caused by a chemical weapon created by the separatists (which has been calibrated, using the Jedi councils’ DNA, to only affect the Jedi council).  In this Palpatine is not a Sith, rather he is exactly what he portrays himself in canon. 

In this variation the creators of the weapon make mistakes in how it was formulated. The first mistake is that it does not drag the victim quite as deep into the hallucination, in that they can interact with the real world, however they will disbelieve or not perceive anything that contradicts the world in the hallucination. The more important and far reaching mistake is that they did not restrict who was affected quite like they thought. The Jedi council was affected, to be sure, but so was roughly 80% of the galaxy and not all groups were affected equally.  There did not seem to be any rhyme nor reason to who was affected or not.  

90% of the senate was affected by the weapon, it should be noted that both Sheev Palpatine and Padme Amidala were not.  The GAR was affected at 75% of the clones not stationed on Coruscant, though only 3% of the Coruscant Guard were affected (Most of this is more horror than funny but I just want you to picture this: Random Separatist Leader: You created a chemical weapon that only affects people based on their genetic code. Scientist: …Yes. Random Separatist Leader: And it is affecting roughly 70-75% of a group of genetically identical clones. Scientist, slumping: Yes. Random Separatist Leader:How? Scientist, wailing: we don’t know!!!), every battalion has clones affected. Of the Jedi, something like 97% is affected (Because the original intent was specifically for Jedi ), including all of the council (Anakin is not affected, though Ahsoka is). The highest ranked Jedi, by experience and title, unaffected were Jocasta Nu, Depa Billaba, Bant Eerin, Aayla Secura, and Anakin Skywalker. Most of the rest of the unaffected were padawans, initiates, and younglings. 

It will only be looking back that anyone will be able to pinpoint the first indication that something is wrong. It is a simple thing, the Rodian senator mentions the ‘New Emperor’ to several of his fellows. Most of the room nods or responds, knowing what he was talking about. A few look at each other, confused but ignored. 

Before we fully look at the horror, consider this. Here Sheev Palpatine does not want to be an Emperor.  He was actually looking forward to retiring, to becoming a consultant where he could have all the influence and none of the responsibilities. Now 90% of the senate is sure he is an emperor (a human centric, misogynistic, bigot at that) and ignoring anything and anyone who tries to protest otherwise. He is being forced, largely against his will, to be an all powerful emperor who can’t actually do anything that is not based in pure evil because the afflicted will ignore it. 

There is much confusion.  We will get back to the effects of that confusion in just a moment. 

Within the hallucination Order 66 goes out. Though there are signs that something was wrong earlier they are not nearly as wide spread. This, then becomes the most defining moment of the new era. 75% of the clones, not stationed on Coruscant, fall under the control of a chip that does not actually exist. To the utter horror of the unaffected clones, the afflicted clones open fire on any Jedi present (no matter who they might have been firing at in canon). Countless Jedi survived because they fell comatose at the same time, killed within the hallucination. Handfuls of clones that otherwise would have survived died at the hands of their brothers, who were trying to protect the vulnerable Jedi. 

The 501st never marched on the temple, their battalion fell below the average with only 47% affected and without Vader to lead them, they are able to subdue the affected before it happens. However, the comatose Jedi cover every surface of the temple and for a bit it is believed that some sort of sleeping sickness afflicted the Jedi while most of  the rest of the galaxy went insane. 

The separatists are not excluded. They match the 80% affliction rate of the rest of the galaxy. Most of the leadership that is afflicted also fall comatose (read die in the hallucination). Even amongst the scientists who created the weapon (roughly 100-200 beings depending on when in development we are talking about) about 20% fell to the effects.  The remaining scientists try for 6 months on their own to reverse the effects without success.

All the while the galaxy has largely turned itself into an oppressive empire, built a rebellion (that is being secretly supported by the Emperor himself), and is both tearing itself apart and gluing itself together at the same time.  Various non affected beings, who would have died in the first few months of the empire, watch as the people they love mourn them.  More than one unaffected Senators, up to and including Palpatine, see the way a number of so called respectable beings in power act when they are given free reign (case in point, Tarkin) and are horrified.  And for those first six months no one can figure out what was going on. It is called an illness, a madness.  

Roughly 80% of the galaxy believe themselves to be part of an empire and are unable to perceive anything that would break the illusion (Anakin becomes largely reclusive, as they react as if he is Vader and he can’t take the pulse of fear when anyone afflicted sees him).  A new government has to be built, staffed by the non afflicted and weaved around the hallucination. They are building blind as within the hallucination the human rights violations start to appear and grow exponentially.   

14 months in, Jocasta Nu finds a way to access the hallucination, an old mind based force technique.  It works in that she is able to convey what had happened, what was happening within the hallucination. It failed in that she, having been dead in the hallucination, fell comatose. No one was willing to risk anyone else. In particular Anakin, as the non afflicted were afraid that Anakin would fall to Vader. They could not risk it. 

Cody, who had been afflicted, woke from the hallucination after 2 years. It was only a coincidence that he was in the temple at the time. Anakin had requested to speak with him (hoping that they could find out more about what the ‘chipped’ clones thought was going on). He would be one of 400 throughout the galaxy. It was discovered that non force sensitives with particularly strong minds could break through the hallucinations, eventually being able to see the contradictions. Anakin without a suit was one of those contradictions. Cody, upon waking, had what could conservatively be called a panic attack, and what could rightly be called a series of panic attacks so severe that it drew the attention of empaths from 6 levels away. His attack on his general, his Obi Wan (they had built a relationship during the war and had plans to marry after it was done), had been entirely real. Obi Wan and Yoda could not be accounted for, no one knew if they had survived or not. 

Between the Separatists, who rejoined the Republic 8 months after the weapon was deployed, Scientists and the Republic they were able to study enough of the reawakened, like Cody (Volunteer only), that they could start building a device to reverse the effects. 

The device is activated 10 years to the day of the original weapon.  It stimulates the brain waves matching the frequency of the awakened in anyone who was afflicted. The non afflicted gather together across the galaxy in little clumps, clutching at each other. The previous decade has changed the face of the galaxy in a way that cannot be properly articulated. The non afflicted have watch the reactions to a genocide, have seen the people they love embrace the very worst evils (or watched them rise above to fight back).  Even those who would have supported the Empire are horrified by the depths that the hallucination dipped into (Over those 10 years they have been able to get other, scant looks into the hallucination).  And this was a decade long tragedy in which everyone who was unafflicted experienced, to some extent. Tragedy is a great equalizer. 

First the comatose began to wake, family and friends or very variety sitting with them. Even those who had no one unafflicted had someone celebrating their waking in the packed rooms. Then the afflicted started focusing fully on the people around them, fully for the first time in a decade.  Spouses who had ‘buried’ their loved ones blinked to see them hale and hearty. Children that had effectively been orphaned, both as afflicted and non, found that there was suddenly a decade missing. 

On Tatooine a Jedi Master turned butcher froze. He, like all the other afflicted, had gone to work that day, never noticing as the non afflicted among them were more anxious. The oppressive darkness vanished so abruptly he could feel it, even through the shielding.  Not far away he could see a Togruta woman clutching one of his coworkers to her, who was bewildered.

An announcement went out to a broadcast system that had been built specifically for this (and Obi Wan realized he had never seen that broadcast tower before) an hour after the afflicted woke up.  It took two days to reach the Outer Rim (but to be fair, so did the ripple that woke the afflicted). It gave a brief explanation about what happened and a location that any of the former afflicted could go to register themselves, in case they had changed planets under the affliction and wanted to find their loved ones again. It was recommended that the former afflicted remain where they were, as long as they were not in danger, to keep from clogging up the hyperlanes. 

Obi Wan collected his lightsaber from the desert, and found that there was only one when he thought he had buried two. Driven by the force, he reported to the registration locations. Once his information was in the system it lit up from here to the Core. Cody was the one sent to collect him, as Anakin was helping to settle Ahsoka (who did not react well to being a decade older and having been killed by Vader). 

Cody and Obi Wan maintained skin contact for the entire trip back from Tatooine, after a decade of thinking the other lost they could not bear to be parted.

Palpatine was finally able to step down, playing the emperor had been a horrific experience for him.  He retired entirely, unable to bear the thought of power. Even if he had been interested, people still flinched when they looked at him.  

Everything that happened next was to a galaxy irrevocably changed.

#commander cody #codywan #star wars #star wars the clone wars #sheev palpatine #anakin skywalker #jocasta nu #hallucinations

[postal-ech]

Eyy this will probably be the first post I ever make on this site, but I've been reminded of something as of recent

Call it late night nostalgia, but Chet Falisek, a former writer of many of my childhood games posted a couple of videos on TF2 talking about how Meet your Match really changed TF2 for the worst, and I'll post it at the end of this thread here of course.

TF2 has always been my childhood game, probably my first game I ever played on an old shittly Lenovo Laptop my dad let me borrow as a kid, before I was ever able to access stuff like minecraft and gmod and all those other old games from back then but it's been with me for decades, moreso than even Undertale which I've only ever recently gotten back into thanks to Deltarune. I've met my best friend on there, as well as other friends that have come and gone, I've seen a lot of cool and wacky maps and servers - from my old home server that constantly hosted an honestly impressive recreation of Majora's Mask's Clock town and Termina Field, to Mario_Kart and the weird community servers like Slender Fortress, Saxton Hale and its sister game mode Freak Fortress (who the hell still remembers those TF2 OCs eh?) And the likes

But after Gun Mettle and Meet your Match, something definitely changed in TF2, and it was especially the case with Meet your Match

Nowadays community servers aren't so much the forefront of tf2, more so its valve's official casual servers, I don't even think competitive mode is even alive, and if it is I'm betting it gets the same number of players as current day Mann vs Machine, but I feel like a good chunk of that community was lost after Meet your Match that not a lot of people talk about (well, barring other important matters of course like the never ending bot crisis)

There was a magic to logging onto TF2 back in 2013, 2014 when you can just go to your favorite community server, log on and see the people you've been banting and shitposting with since the day you first got on that server, bunnyhop from one end of the map to the other while shooting at each other while micspamming YouTube poops and rolling the dice for weird and wacky effects.

That server is long gone now, less because of Meet your Match and more because people have moved on

But I suppose in this long winded ramble of a post here on Tumblr the message is:

There is value in a community, no matter what it is. It could be Undertale, TF2, could be that small GMod server you ran with a while back, could be that one romhacking group doing stuff with your favorite Nintendo game, but there is value to it.

Granted TF2 is uh, still edgy as all shit as it was before, it's just now got a wide mixture of people from far and wide, but even as the boomer I make myself out to be, there's still people making Source Filmmaker animations with these characters, there's still people playing the game the way they want to, and these people and more are still making memories on this nearly 2 decade old game.

Dont let anyone say otherwise to ya. There's a value in having a community for that game, for all the fan projects they've made, it will always have its ups and downs, definitely some downs you may never forget, but chances are you've met some of your best friends and gotten to see some cool shit along the way, and hopefully that sticks with you long enough to take inspiration from it in the long run.

Guess that's it for my first post here, bar reblogs, wonder where this will go next.

Here's that link, by the by. Go and give Chet a sub too, he brings in some very good insights on a lot of things if you ask me, at least when it comes to his time at Valve and his creative work with the games that were there

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #gmod #valve games #Nostalgia rambling #Keep those communities you love or loved close to your heart #Not all of them will be perfect but what ever is? #Youtube

[phanfictioncatalogue]

Christmas (9) Masterlist

part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven, part eight

A million little suns (ao3) - jestbee

Summary: Dan is just trying to get as far away from his home town as possible at Christmas when he gets stuck in a snow storm. He’s rescued by an enigmatic stranger who take him back to his cabin in the mountains. What Dan doesn’t know is that his rescuer is prolific, best-selling writer of erotica, Ricky Blitz. Will Dan end up with a porn-worthy situation all of his own? (hint: yes)

Porn with feels and some Christmas magic.

A Prince’s Choice - chocolatesaucelester

Summary: Prince Phillip reconnects with an old friend at the royal family’s annual Christmas party.

amidst the chaos (ao3) - orphan_account

Summary: “Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen” -Bobby, age 7

Air Hockey (ao3) - philsmeatylegss

Summary: Christmas fic where neko!dan, who has a horrific past, faces his greatest challenge yet: meeting his fiancé’s family…

all this bloody happiness (ao3) - graydar

Summary: It’s true that this Christmas won’t feel like any Christmas they’ve ever had.

bundle up, baby (ao3) - watergator

Summary: prompt: dnp taking their little kid for the first time to the iom for christmas

there’s nothing more exciting than a child’s first christmas

Christmas Coming Out (ao3) - FandomFeels17

Summary: He didn't intend to come out to his mum in his future mother in law's kitchen at Christmas... But here he was, doing exactly that.

Christmas Traditions (ao3) - outphan

Summary: It’s 1st of December and Dan reminds Phil that they have a tradition.

christmas traditions (ao3) - possumdnp

Summary: Phil hasn't really been feeling in the holiday spirit while Dan's been gone.

(A fic about holiday traditions and reuniting with the person you love the most.)

Christmas With The Lester's - dxnhowell

Summary: Dan’s family has never been exactly supportive of Dan’s relationship with Phil, but things do not go over well when Dan’s mum tries to keep Phil from spending Christmas with their family.

Christmasy Cuddling (ao3) - sunkatistrash

Summary: Basically D&P on Christmas morning, Dan being lazy and Phil cant resist his cuteness

close to me, you are all of me (ao3) - sunflowerwitches

Summary: a little insight to dan and phil's christmas day

Dan and Phil vs the Pantomime (ao3) - cafephan

Summary: Phil surprises Dan with tickets to a Christmas pantomime.

December Twenty-Second - placingglaciers

Summary: It’s the beginning of winter, Dan is alone during this Christmastime, and so is the guy he bumped into on the street.

festive (ao3) - irrationalqueer

Summary: “You’re like…sexy Mrs. Claus,” she says, reaching out to touch, mouth hanging open.

Festive Fun and Christmas Kisses (ao3) - husbants

Summary: Dan and Phil get ready for Christmas. There are plenty of laughs, plenty of bants, and plenty of kisses involved.

home for christmas (ao3) - danhoweiis

Summary: kath and dan have a chat on christmas day

home for the holidays (ao3) - possumdnp

Summary: Dan and Phil take a moment to themselves while hosting Dan’s family for Christmas.

i've got you on my nice list (ao3) - deletable_bird

Summary: “Phil Lester, actually,” he added, “and I’m a huge fan of people who hospitably provide tasty holiday drinks to harangued Christmas maintenance men.”

just one thing i need (ao3) - dizzy

Summary: Dan and Phil negotiate Christmas gifts.

kilt (ao3) - possumdnp

Summary: Their Christmas tree delivery guy shows up, and to Phil's delight, he is finally wearing a kilt

Now We’re On the Naughty List (ao3) - cafephan

Summary: Phil meets Dan after a Christmas Eve party, and invites him to stay after his taxi is stuck in the snow.

Patching the Holes (ao3) - philsmeatylegss

Summary: Dan is really close with his grandma. He spontaneously decides to come out to his very homophobic family on Christmas. Obviously doesn’t go well. Then stuff happens

Sober (ao3) - elena_stidham

Summary: It’s almost Christmas and all it takes is a cup of mulled wine for Dan to realise he has been in love with Phil all along.

Something About Christmastime (ao3) - TheWholesomePerv

Summary: Dan's sports anime obsession leads everyone's favourite platonic, not so platonic YouTuber couple to spend a day at the ice rink.

Spreading The Christmas Cheer - phanetixs

Summary: Dan and Phil, gift-giving and sexy baubles.

The Christmas Sweater (ao3) - Nefertiti1052 (Succubusphan)

Summary: Dan is on his way to Phil's to spend Christmas with the Lesters for the first time.

This Christmas - adorablehowell

Summary: Dan has always found something to dislike about Christmas, but this year, as he spends it with his 5 year old daughter and Phil, he might find that Christmas isn’t all that bad.

we'll all sing along to the song (ao3) - dizzy

Summary: Kath contemplates the way Christmas has changed.

When The Time Is Right I’ll Make It Happen - sleeplessnightwithphan

Summary: Phil should have known that him attempting any sort of physical activity wouldn’t end well. He watched in horror as the lump of snow completely missed his son’s head and landed a bit further to the left… on the head of someone walking there.

When the Weather Breaks (ao3) - sierraadeux

Summary: Sitting across from Phil on that worn out velvet Starbucks sofa, sharing sickeningly sweet coffees and what they would like to think were hushed giggles, was the first time Dan felt a glimpse at what real love could feel like. or Perception checks, pining, and peppermint mochas.

#phanfictioncatalogue #phanfiction #phanfic #phan #masterlists #christmas #christmas masterlist

[youabandonedthem]

i was scrolling through your blog and saw you read redpen's "unhinged" on ao3, which i read before and thought was super good. ive been looking for more jnoir fics. do you have any recommendations?

Yessir unfortunately i hate most fanfiction i read about him and i have read most of the jack/slick stories that are available on the archive (i scoured through both tags extensively) but even though few else could be as excellent as "unhinged" there are many with more good qualities than others. i will try to categorise the ones i dont hate for you with my views. This ranges from proper bants to 'On a good day this wouldnt make me feel that suicidal if this were the only piece of literature available to read against all the dogshit on the archive while waiting 7 hours at the ER'

(A Joker's Not Even A Real Playing Card Anyway) <- this is a masterpiece. I dont even know anything about batman or anything but it doesnt matter if you do or not because the comedic value in this story is insane and it was clearly written by a genius. It deals with the midnight crew carrying their cartoon physics/lifestyles to the batman world where everyone takes them and their actions seriously. This is possibly even up there with unhinged or even higher . It is absolute scenes, bloody brill, and puar radgee. If you have to pick one thing to read read this one and ignore everything else

The Ruby Tie-tack -> this is good this is about Droog dying and haunting snowman. They are right about the way droog would die. it would be without the dignity he wants

The Old Ball and Chain -> this is kinda cute i guess it passes the time. it is about problem sleuth getting stuck with slick

lucky_spike -> This person is good at what she does in general. if you enjoy “stabdads” plus problem sleuth there is that for you. And i think in most of the stories they are humanised but honestly i just imagine that theyre carapacians just do wahtever you want. I tihnk she was part of a 2011 era humanised-stabdads-centric cabal of artists/writers so if youre into these stories you can easily find her affliates. They have more...interesting spins on the crew

Hello, My Lovely this is honestly ok and it is well written. It has spades slick locked in a trunk but its not about him. it is about pickle inspector and boxcars. Actually i was drunk when i read it

This really isn't funny. <- i like this this is about bec noir resurrecting as a dog who slick picks up in an alley and makes his pet. Bloody Brill.

there may be more that i don't remember and also i read a lot of fanfictions a long time ago and my judgment could have been impaired by the stupidity of youth. i went through the archive a little tonight and tried to find any good ones at all but i taste blood in my mouth now. No more

the disease had sharpened my senses...

[captain-aralias]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love 💖

hello! i haven't been ignoring this ask, i just wanted to be in the zone... now it's 11pm, but whatever! now's the time.

i also got one of these from anon. so anon - thank you, also. 🙏

because i've clearly been using a lot of my life to write fic.... i thought i'd limit this just to the last ten years. that's just blake and carry on. (and yet, that gallifrey fic i love feels like i wrote it yesterday! not 2012)

An Apple Cleft in Two - B7, politics, bants, ensemble fun times, avon trying hard and getting mocked, sex, easily one of my favourite things i've written

The Enigmatic Blake - B7, romance novel focus on just the leads, which was semi-unusual for me in B7 but isn't in CO, in fact this feels retrospectively very like RE in a way. plotty, fun, sex without commitment

The Mage's Heir - CO, post canon before wayward son was written. biting, politics, stories for penny, loads of good ideas - basically i didnt know if i would write any other fics so this has all my ideas about canon at that point.

Classroom Politics - CO, i mean there's a theme, isn't there? this one doesn't have sex, but it does have 2 sequels. that's a good sign i liked something. really enjoyed writing this one, and it feels better shaped/executed than almost anything else i've written, idk

Restoration Ecology - CO, almost didn't include this one, which might seem weird (possibly). it definitely fits the theme (long, plotty, sexy), and i loved that people liked it so much, but it felt messier than classroom politics for example, and maybe too unrestrained... it's just stuff i like and that makes me like it less (what? i mean, it makes sense in my head). but it has loads of good stuff too, i reckon. vampire club fake relationship, simon and baz needing to save each other from their own failure to move on from watford, “Work partner,” I say, a bit hysterically. “We’re partners at work.” (ha ha ha).

honourable mentions (i.e. i felt sad as i didn't include them) - Computer Chess , Persuasion, Human Nature, A Mile Away With Their Shoes , Cutting Strings , Keep Calm,  Hang the Moon - and i wish Greener Grass was on here as it took me so long, but it's not my fav, in part because it took me so long to write it. i urge people to read it anyway. all the silly sexy fics i’ve written for CO are good fun, but could never be my favourite, as they’re just ... too short. 

#my content

[theseventhoffrostfall]

Games Workshop turns to you and says they fucked up doing all the banning and removing of content and now fans are leaving. They want to turn it around. And to do that, you have been given a free pass to make up to five novels on anything you want so long as they are W40k setting. What, if any, ideas do you go with?

Honestly, there's like a bunch of stuff I'd do before just churning out novels if I was tasked with getting things on track. Like, gather up the writers and come to some kind of consensus on what the actual universe is like. We can't even get accurate assessments on if imperial spaceships are typical sci-fi size of 700-800 meters on average or regularly a few miles long, let alone any idea on if life in the imperium trends towards a comfortable simulacrum of modern life, a Judge Dredd crack nightmare, or a strange, morbid near-nihilistic fascination with martyrdom and death that renders them more alien than some of the aliens in the setting. We don't even have to settle on the things I think are coolest and most appropriate, just some kind of fucking consensus so there can be any kind of consistency, because people's patience for giving 40k a pass on a standard every other franchise is held to is wearing thin

That said, if you held a gun to my head and said "give me novel ideas to entice the fan base with something crowd-pleasing but fresh", I'd spitball:

1.) An Arbiter working his beat (an industrial-hive world with the hives arising from a vast and stormy ocean. Intense electrical storms can last months, severely hampering communication and periodically isolating individual hives. Focus on him investigating weird mutants, rogue psykers, rebels, maybe the occasional cult (chaos or not) or genestealers. Bonus points, since Arbiters are not conventional law enforcement and have little interest in common criminals, you get to give him a complex relationship of periodically cooperating with colorful local gangs

2.) A unit of Tempestus Scions on various missions. Travelling the universe, doing operator shit, getting to apply cunning solutions against worthy, high-value foes. Prevents absurd scale creep, since our boys are using hellguns and armored trucks; they aren't ringing up a tank battalion or dropping a titan on someone. Consider it a fun writing challenge to have squad bants and humor despite stormtroopers being brainwashed fanatics

3.) The adventures of an Eldar Corsair crew wedged between a Tau sphere of expansion and a Rogue Trader's nascent empire. Explore both factions through an outsider's perspective, and you get a bit more levity and dark humor, despite examining the Eldar's weird psychology, because Corsairs are among the tiny minority who are just in it for the fun and money rather than fervently serving some holy purpose or another.

4.) The escaped remnants of a genestealer cult find themselves with genuine freedom after the Hive Fleet they were summoning was crushed by the Imperial Navy. Now they've gotta survive, continue to improve their "superhuman" genome, and hopefully save their cousins from the maws of the "False Gods"

5.) A mastermind Inquisitor heads a cabal of his fellows, fighting a shadow-war for control of a whole subsector against the schemes and raids of a cunning Alpha Legion warband. Despite being a dyed-in-the-wool fanatic as any good inquisitor is, he can't help but raise a glass and toast the cleverness of the magnificent bastards out there spinning their webs

[lostmykeysie]

omg im sorry i didnt realize that mightve come off a bit rude 😭 i was just asking for my own sake, personally i do outlines but i find it takes me forever to finish them to actually start writing, but then again im also worried if i post chapter by chapter ill end up regretting things or wanting to go back and add something in. am really struggling over here smh </3

na it was bants you're groovy baby <3

fellow writer folk come and impart some knowledge and guidance pls!! this is a staff announcement can anyone that outlines please come to aisle 5

some rambled thoughts from an Absolute Winger:

for me, my outlines grow naturally as i write. i'll add something randomly in chapter three and BAM that's the main plot point for chapter seven that i'd never planned for, and i adjust as i go. and for all the winging it i do with the plot, i don't think i've ever written a chapter and regretted writing or not writing something in a precluding chapter. as in, when i stray from the original plot/outline as i write, those changes always tend to be forward thinking rather than retrospective, UNLESS it's something that would require some event in the past, and in that case i'll just say it happened off screen. i think that's something to consider - are there alternating POVs? time skips, even if they're just days/weeks? that helps when you're trying to fit something in the plot that wasn't there originally, gives you a bit of flexibility to play with. you can't do that forever, but if you catch it early enough you can start adding hints and shit and then it just looks like you planned it all along! we love deception in this house

i think if the plot is really intricate and you're trying to weave subtlety and hints and foreshadowing in through the chapters then i can understand the fear of missing something and the need for really detailed outlines, but if not, and really detailed outlines is not how you want to approach writing the fic, then screw it, go crazy! post the chapter babes!

that's what it comes down to i reckon. if that's how you write then that's how you write, and will your plot be thick and sexy and consistent with absolutely no holes??? hell yeah!!!! good for you, as you were!!!!!!! but if it's draining your life force and you don't wanna????? BOO. post the chapter darling. you can reread your last chapters every time you write if need be, and i think potentially, once you've finished a chapter and it's posted and away from your grabby little hands you might stop thinking and worrying about it? it might help you focus on the next chapters even. it might be super efficient. never know until you try, and worst case scenario, you can edit posted chapters! no one will call the police on you and if they do, i will take a dump on their pillow!

#someone asked me a q #outline anon #tough because i know what works with my crazy brain but idk how to advise nor do i have the accolades to do so #but we do anyway because that's what friends are for #roll up roll up share your thoughts

[librarylexicon]

Welcome to my Tumblr!

Hi! Call me Lily. I’m a librarian by training, a writer by nature and a Christian by the grace of God. I’m here to share my writing, discover new interests and generally waste time, so even if we’ve never interacted before, don’t be shy! Say hello!

Quick Links

#bants and fanfic – tag for my fics

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#fic: family crisis – my current WIP

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Find Me Elsewhere

Archive of Our Own – 10+ years of fics for various fandoms

FanFiction.Net – all fics here are crossposted to AO3

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Notes

On this blog, everything is tagged, even if it’s just because it came from my queue, and although I try to tag for characters or at least for fandom (for my own sanity), some things may slip through the cracks. Generally, though, there won’t be anything terribly NSFW, graphic or gory.

I don’t discuss politics online as a rule, but potentially contentious issues are tagged #discourse, and posts with a religious bent are tagged #christianity.

This blog’s header is a panel from Detective Comics #679 (Batman: Prodigal), and features Dick and Tim. The blog title is part of a line from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.

I’ve been in a handful of fandoms, but my first was Anne of Green Gables. My latest fandom is Batman and the Batfamily, especially Dick Grayson. Although I read the comics extensively, I’m a little sorry to admit that I’ve almost never been able to get into any of DC’s comics that aren’t related to the Batfamily. This goes as far as having read hardly any team ups like Young Justice or Teen Titans or the Birds of Prey. When I began reading comics, I was following a reading list that included Batman and the Outsiders, and I almost died of boredom before I finally realised I didn’t have to read it.

I can appreciate a good ship, but I’m not crazy about shipping. I tend to like what’s canon or almost canon, anyway. Examples include Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny, James/Lily, Anne/Gilbert, Jo/Fritz, Bruce/Selina, Dick/Babs and Tim/Steph.

I’m forever salty about Dan’s fate in Jo’s Boys, Remus Lupin’s fate in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Donna Noble’s fate in Doctor Who and That Person’s fate in Crooked Kingdom.

I write fanfiction sometimes. I don’t write crack, slash, femslash, smut or non-canon pairings. Sometimes I only write one or two fics for a fandom and then move on. It was just an itch that needed to be scratched. And I rarely write pairings at all; if there’s a pairing, it’s probably because it’s a basic part of canon. The vast majority of my fics are either canon compliant or diverge from canon at a specific point. Although I rely heavily on canon, I welcome all readers, regardless of level of familiarity with canon.

My favourite genre of music is wizard rock (music based on Harry Potter). Don’t knock it until you’ve listened to ‘Open at the Close’ by Oliver Boyd and the Remembralls.

Stay safe out there.

—librarylexicon (formerly Lily F. Lux, Delusional Musings, realismandromance)

#mine #fanfiction #bants and fanfic

[5sos-fic-fest]

Meet Bella!

Name:

Bella

Tumblr URL:

@clumsyclifford​​​

Archive of Our Own Username:

bellawritess

Favorite 5sos song?

How can you possibly ask me this. If You Don't Know/English Love Affair/EFYTS/Best Friends. Also Lie To Me. Also WWYLM. Also Long Way Home. Hope this helps.

Three songs you’ve been listening to?

!!! New Perspective by Noah Kahan (as well as his whole new album), Box In A Heart by The Maine/renforshort, the entirety of 5SOS5.

What do you enjoy most about writing fic?

What DON'T I enjoy about writing fic! Wait no that's a bad question. What do I enjoy most about writing fic? Well, I love that you can just write whatever you want, and there will almost definitely be an audience. I love the creative liberty you have. I love how low-stakes it is, so there's very little pressure to be "good" and moreso just to write something you like, and/or that your friends will like. I love the way different writers have different styles and preferences for genre and pairing and everything and that creates such natural diversity within the fic ecosystem (I sound like a fanfiction scientist rn) so that no matter what your fic tastes are, there's a pretty good chance someone is out there writing something you want to read and will want to read what you're writing. I don't know! I love a lot about it! Most importantly I like writing characters having some cheeky bants. Just being absolute little shits on purpose. Nothing better than a character who is a fucking asshole (affectionate).

Describe the vibe of your songfic in three words:

the vibe of the fic is: emo long-distance boys. (Long-distance is hyphenated so it's one word.)   

Special Promo:

masterlist

#song fic fest 2022 #writer spotlight

[gundark]

[uses a Jedi mind trick on the SW novel writers] you want to re-canonize Tahl and Bant

[misseffect]

✨fic author recommendations✨

When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love.

Tagged by @possumteeths and @diaphanouso! Thank you 💕

I, too, thought this was about recommending fic by other authors 😅 but here we go

Dress Blues

this one is tagged stress relief with a side of war crimes and honestly I think that's enough to earn it the top spot

Flux

pt.1 of my noir au series :') this fic specifically is absolutely wild to me because I don't really remember taking ages over it or redrafting it? like at all? it literally just TOOK ME every evening for a week or two solid and then I had a fic. like this is going to sound insane and maybe pretentious but it was like it already knew exactly what it wanted and just used me as a vessel lmao. i've never had writing happened to me like that before or since. genuinely wild.

Can You Feel This

home of the best argument i've ever written, daddy issues, and (eventual) quality garrus/joker bants

1st

not technically fic yet really BUT I just love the tension build through the piece, and I think even reading it as a standalone it comes across very plainly that these are people who have loved each other through a lot of shit for a really long time. and that's neat.

Different

honourable mention for the piece that got me into fic and back into writing after an epic post-uni burnout. i find short fic a lot easier generally and this is a great example of why that is: it's succinct, the metaphor is tidy, and the voices are in-character. it's nothing earth-shattering but i think it still holds up against things i've written more recently which is nice

Tagging @otemporanerys @drumsandwaves @shepgarrus and @angry-jager

#gas yerselves up lads #if you dont have 5 published fics then gas yer ideas up instead c: #ask #my fic