I Honestly Think That We Deserve A Series With A Good Established Gay Couple.

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"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

the devil has and always will be a gentleman. // ice devil slayer!gray fullbuster aesthetic

requested by  @altair-ibn-la-a-hottie

Fictional characters might not be real, but our relationships with them are. 

Studies show it’s difficult for our brains to distinguish between our familiarity with characters on TV and our personal relationships with real people. The effect is so strong that just thinking about watching your favorite TV show can make you feel less lonely. 

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

PSA for Star Wars fans:

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ON THIS!!!!

Yay to all fic writers!

Yay to those who write book-length stories that keep me company when I can’t sleep or the ones who keeps me awake until dawn.

Yay to those who write short stories that I can read quickly for my dose of daily happiness.

Yay to those who give me angst/fluff when I need it.

Yay to those who put tears in my eyes, joy or sadness, I love them all.

Yay to those who taught me how to keep a straight face when reading smut but can’t make me not blush when reading fluff.

Yay to those who put feelings into words.

Yay to those who fixed it. To those who broke it.

Yay to those who give us more time with our favorite characters.

Yay to those who support the common ship.

Yay to those who navigate on a raft.

Yay to those who put hours Into research to make it more real.

Yay to those who didn’t because it’s fiction and it should feel like it.

Yay to those who do justice to characters.

Yay to those who give good and diverse representations.

Yay to those who are the foundation of fandoms.

Yay to those who write by passion, for free, to us.

Yay to fic writers.

Merry Christmas!🎄🎉🎁

Hear me out, it’s not accurate but fuck off, Thanos snaps and Bucky is gone. But ya’ boy Winter isn’t. Winter who doesn’t give a fuuuuuck about the people he’s with; afterall, these are the people that Bucky connected with, not him. He does dig the new arm though.

Everyone, that survived anyway, is treating him with kiddy gloves. Until Tony-Fucking-Stark crash lands a spaceship into Wakanda territory and is the only one who reacts to the Soldier. (“What the fuck is this? Barnes minus the actual Bucky? Great.”). And Winter likes it. He likes the standoffish attitude, and obviously can’t take a hint, so he sticks to Tony like a shadow while they’re trying to figure out how to do this whole “un-snap” thing.

When Tony finally snaps and demands to know why the fuck Winter is following him 24/7 the answer is simple. “You treat me like me, not some broken toy missing a piece.”

star wars prequels daemon au thoughts?

This is actually super hard because I have no idea what animals exist in Star Wars, there is just SO MUCH Star Wars. So long story short, VAGUENESS FOR THE WIN. 

Obi-Wan’s daemon definitely settled like, RIGHT after Qui-Gon took him as a padawan, just immediately after, basically INSTANTLY after. Finding out they’re going to be/NOT going to be a Jedi has been the moment of settling for a whole lot of Temple-raised kids, so this is totally unremarkable. She is not a remotely unremarkable daemon, though. 

Padmé‘s daemon is unsettled when she first shows up, as are all the daemons of her handmaidens. It doesn’t actually matter because they’re all perfectly comfortable touching each other’s daemons, but it’s still how it is, even though most of them are a bit old for it. He settles during the endgame of The Phantom Menace, and he settles into something big and flashy and super impressive. People who pay attention to him are a lot less likely to underestimate Padmé. 

Anakin’s daemon ALSO settles during the endgame of The Phantom Menace, which is pretty dang early for a daemon to settle. Obi-Wan didn’t even realize she WAS settled for a good long while, he just assumed she didn’t like to change very much. Why would a NINE year-old’s daemon be settled, after all? She’s small and fierce and absolutely fearless, and they’re separated because slavers are bastards. Someday Darth Vader is going to look terrifying storming around without a daemon. 

Ahsoka’s daemon is already settled when they meet Anakin and his, but sometimes they wonder if maybe he should’ve waited. 

The clones all have daemons, down to a man, and DIFFERENT daemons at that. The galaxy at large is not entirely sure how to take this. 

this is EXACTLY what Hannibal deserves