Just Found Maiden Holmes On YouTube. Oh No, Im Obsessed. Also, The A/B/O Canon Adjacent Fic Can Stop

Just found Maiden Holmes on YouTube. Oh no, I’m obsessed. Also, the A/B/O canon adjacent fic can stop building up in my brain any time now.

Wait, wait! Bodies replace cells all the time. If Tsuna of the Bullshit Sky Flame is left alone with his Mists, can he use a Sun Flame to encourage Chrome’s body to replace her organs itself? Tsuna trembling as he apologizes and apologizes and apologizes that his future self was so weak. Him refusing to go to Japan, on the off-chance that something can be done. Eventually meeting up with the other Guardians and baffling everyone by clinging to Chrome and Mukuro.

My last thingamajig from discord, I don’t think I posted this over here yet?? Hopefully not. It’s just another dead-end idea I had for a future arc AU.  Ends right in the middle of the start of a conversation too lol, I think I got derailed talking about some other headcanon. It was probably hec’s fault. Anyway, might continue it one day, might not, who knows, definitely not me.

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What if the whole future plot was never a thing? What if Lambo’s bazooka was just malfunctioning again, dropped on Tsuna, and took him to the future where he wakes up in his future self’s coffin? And doesn’t return him after five minutes?

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YO. *claps hands*. IMPORTANT THING.

For those of you who might not want to bother clicking on the link without knowing what’s up, Ao3 has a legal team and there are three new potential issues out there looking to become Problems for those of us in USA fandom spaces. I won’t cover all the details because I am very bad at understanding legalese but basically-

1. there’s a Bill that just got past the House of Representatives that is called SHOP SAFE and it basically means that ya’ll can kiss your fan merch goodbye on places like ebay, etsy, patreon, etc. For obvious reasons that’s really bad, not just for those of us who want to buy cool fan merch made by fellow fans but for those of us who can’t find/hold a regular job for various reasons and need to pay rent by selling this sort of thing.

2. there’s a proposed bill called the EARN IT act that is supposed to help crack down on photography/posting of child porn, which obviously would be a good thing, but it’s worded *so loosely* that it means anti-lgbt+ lobbiests/other people could use it to crack down on lgbt+ artwork/photography and force searches of internet users’ private materials. Which obviously is a big no-no on the privacy front.

3. there is a new proposal that would force websites, including Ao3 and other fan posting sites, to try to filter out “copyright infringing material”. Ie your fanfic/art/etc. These measures wouldn’t take into account fair use material and like-

You’re on tumblr. You lived through the nsfw-filtering ai fiasco like the rest of us. Do you really want things like that and like Youtube’s brain dead copyright strike system to become the norm for other websites and fan spaces?

Seriously read the blog post for all the details including how to help slap sense into the people trying to push this stuff through if you live in the USA. Also go yell at your local senator/representative.

Also also please reblog this so that other people can also yell at the idiots who won’t leave our fan spaces alone.

@hamelin-born thought you might wanna know about this/reblog this too.

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Frodo and Sam in Mordor wouldn’t have been nearly so heart wrenching if we hadn’t seen them in the Shire. Cinderella’s cheerful nature makes her breakdown when her stepsisters ruin her gown and chance to attend the ball so much worse. Sora’s never-give-up attitude makes his total collapse in the Keyblade Graveyard poorly foreshadowed even more worrisome.

Contrast is everything. In every form of art, from the visual to the auditory to the written word. It’s why we have images like a campfire on a snowy day, curled up with a good book and a beverage in front of a rainy window.

It’s also probably why so much of mainstream fiction is so messed up. They keep piling on calamity upon atrocity to keep the horror going, when they could keep things manageable just by having some light.

“The closer you get to the light, the darker the shadow.”

It’s why authors of tumblr toss around posts about the ways to make a death more impactful, by having it come out of nowhere in the midst of joy.

Making your angst hurt: the power of lighthearted scenes. 

I’m incredibly disappointed with the trend in stories (especially ‘edgy’ YA novels) to bombard the reader with traumatic situations, angry characters, and relationship drama without ever first giving them a reason to root for a better future. As a reader…

I might care that the main siblings are fighting if they had first been shown to have at least one happy, healthy conversation. 

I might cry and rage with the protagonist if I knew they actually had the capacity to laugh and smile and be happy.

I might be hit by heavy and dark situations if there was some notion that it was possible for this world to have light and hope and joy to begin with.

Writers seem to forget that their reader’s eyes adjust to the dark. If you want to give your reader a truly bleak situation in a continually dim setting, you have to put them in pitch blackness. But if you just shine a light first, the sudden change makes the contrast appear substantial.

Show your readers what light means to your character before taking it away. Let the reader bond with the characters in their happy moments before (and in between) tearing them apart. Give readers a future to root for by putting sparks of that future into the past and the present. Make your character’s tears and anger mean something.

Not only will this give your dark and emotional scenes more impact, but it says something that we as humans desperately, desperately need to hear. 

Books with light amidst the darkness tell us that while things are hard and hurt, that we’re still allowed to breathe and hope and live and even laugh within the darkness.

We as humans need to hear this more often, because acting it out is the only way we stop from suffocating long enough to make a difference.

So write angst, and darkness, and gritty, painful stories, full of treacherous morally grey characters if you want to. But don’t forget to turn the light on occasionally.

Support Bryn’s ability to provide writing advice by reading their debut novel, an upbeat fantasy about a bloodthirsty siren fighting to return home while avoiding the lure of a suspiciously friendly and eccentric pirate captain!

Nope. Also the sorting algorithm for the next post sucks. So far I went from 230 to 645, of what may be a completely different novel, and I’ve been skipping chapters because they changed formatting to audio. I can pretty much catch up without those.

This has all the signs of unhealthy relationships, poor life choices, and a fine disregard for the culture that it’s supposedly set in. I regret my first fan thought. That couple would never do this, and that dom would never, ever treat his sub this way. Yes, I’m talking about MDZS as the positive example.

Still reading the dogsblood drama. The male protagonist is so flipping toxic, I’m begging this to end in the promised divorce. Can i go back to MDZS and their healthy romantic relationship please?