She/her, East coast American, born in 1997; this is a fandom blog. I like Sherlock, Detective Conan, Miraculous Ladybug, Girl Genius, HTTYD, ATLA, and The Mandalorian (among others)
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how to trick writers into giving you more fanfic to read
Hyrule NPCs bein' demanding of Link, and then there's Sidon :3
Zelda: No matter how hard I try, no matter how hard I pray, the spirits and the goddess Hylia do not speak to me even though it is supposedly my birthright. I have been trying so hard. The world hangs in the balance and yet somehow I just can’t do it.
Link: Yo Hylia what’s up?
Hylia: Oh hey Link you’re awake what do you need my dude?
Link: More stamina plz.
TOTK: Failure
On the Origins of the Paraglider
(Or: Revali gave Link the paraglider, change my mind)
About five seconds into BotW, I got inordinately attached to the paraglider (and wrote fic about it). Link’s paraglider appears to be the only one in existence and I am seeing surprisingly little speculation about its origin. So allow me to posit a theory: Link received the paraglider from Revali.
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Click on it twice. These are your two super powers.
I gotta ask, how do people, like, do stuff???
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.
Most Mandalorians don't have the most comprehensive understanding of the force, but after Luke becomes Prince Consort, the Mand'alor's advisors quickly figure out its uses.
Advisor: Your Highness, the leaders of the trade and merchant guilds that border Hutt space will be coming to treat with you.
Paz: Fuck those guys, are we planning on fucking their slaving asses over?
Advisor: Yes sirs.
Din: Excellent, what's next?
Advisor: Sir, we would like to request The Bad Vibes Detector for the meeting, to weed out lies and omissions.
Din: No.
Bo-Katan: Do you want to fuck those little shits over or not?
Din: *deep sigh*
Din: *leaning into his comm* Sweetie, can you come here please? We need a wizard to scare some assholes.
Really cute. Turn your sound on for best experience
You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?
Have just spent several hours hunting this down, am now reblogging to make it easier to find
Tech hacks into priority chat because the Bad Batch want to know if there are any regs that are not “normal”. They stare in confusion and interest when they begin to see that maybe no one is “normal” or sane.
Or you know. Technically as unit commander Hunter is entitled access… hehehe OneNoted
I’m just thinking that a time-travel AU that requires the team to reorient as Mandalorians where, at the first incident of someone asking questions, Obi-Wan declares “I know their names as my children” about Anakin and Ahsoka, making both of them cry later on in private, would be very nice, actually.
This wasn’t planned! He just SAID it!
“These are my kids,” says Obi-Wan Kenobi, on the spot, thinking it’s just a convenient and largely accurate way to describe his relationship with these young people in his care, completely missing the fact that he’s secured Anakin’s obsessive will-kill-for-you loyalty in the span of two seconds.
“That was just a cover, right?” “It might as well be true, Anakin, I did raise you for half your life and trained you as a warrior, that counts by Mando standards, and explaining Jedi-style apprenticeships would–” “I think Skyguy’s just asking if you really think of him as family.” “Well, obviously.”
Maybe he waffles a bit about age and how he’s not really OLD ENOUGH to be Anakin’s father but from a cultural perspective–
Just like… Obi-wan using a lot of hedging words because he’s allergic to telling Anakin he cares, but also, Anakin is basically his son-brother.
(Ahsoka knows but would def appreciate hearing, but Anakin… that kind of verbal confirmation would mean a lot.)
THE MANDALORIAN | Chapter 16: The Rescue
In the vein of those Din and Luke meet on Tatooine before they live the Star Wars?
I propose that Din is the ~sweetheart from back home story Luke tells people if they ask about that kind of thing, you know?
Nineteen year-old Luke who gets tossed into the deep end whe he joins the Rebellion, right?
Farm boy from Tatooine in a starfighter squadron filled with people like Wedge and Janson.
And all the hurry up and wait that happens, and a card game that springs up between missions. Some late night somewhere - Hoth, maybe - and it was just a little too much to toss and turn all night in the bunks, maybe tale a stroll through base. Stop by the hangar because someone’s always there - weather lie this you can bet someone’s fixing something or adapting it to make it work in these conditons, and anyway, anyway.
Hell of a lot better than being stuck with your own thoughts you know backwards and front.
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I’m not allowed to write more handmaiden!Anakin yet because I REALLY NEED to finish alpha!Darcy, so here’s a repost of the story so far because I am about to work on editing it up a bit for the future:
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usually in redeemed!vader fanfic obi-wan crops up at some point, but i'm honestly glad he doesn't in your double agent vader series, mostly because it allows more room for vader/leia interaction, but secondarily because i don't think even obi-wan can come up with a reply to vader's (inevitable) scathing, "i'd risk life and limb for you, but i don't have any," and i'm not ready for obi-wan to be that thoroughly roasted
Oh my God.
I started reading this thinking I was gonna give you a long and thoughtful reply, but then I got to the end and I just.
That’s the sickest burn I’ve ever seen. Like damn. I am in awe of you, anon. I never would have thought of that one myself.
AU where like 2 years after order 66, Rex comes back to the 501st and gets together all the clone troopers left in the battalion and they all just kidnap Vader and take off into deep space. Vader doesn’t kill them because some part of him is still very much emotionally attached to his men, since they’re pretty much the only personal relationship he has left from Before (no matter how much they might resent him, both for his antics during the war and for all the, you know, genocide now).
Rex and the guys spend a few moths beating some sense into Anakin’s thick skull. Once Rex manages to make him comprehend the sunk cost fallacy (look, just because you’ve done horrible things and become a monster and invested all your time and energy into destroying everything you ever loved doesn’t mean you can’t stop doing that at any time) and get him some goddamn medical treatment so he’s not in constant pain, the 501st returns to Coruscant. And for the second time, Anakin leads the 501st Legion in a march on the Jedi Temple, which is now the Imperial Palace. Anakin confronts Palpatine. While Anakin is busy monologuing dramatically and ol’ Skeevy Sheevy is rubbing his hands together and cackling and going “good, good, use your anger” Rex sneaks up behind him and shoots him in the back of the head.
At this point, Rex isn’t sure what to do next, because he honestly didn’t think he’d get this far. Anakin gets out Sheev’s datapad, makes some edits to the personnel database, and then promptly fucks off to the outer rim to do some soul searching (later, Rex will hear stories of some weirdo mouth-breather in black armor carving a merry swath of death through slaver trade routes).
And that is the story of how Rex, at the ripe old age of fifteen, finds himself officially installed as the military dictator of the Galactic Empire. And it is somehow HIS job to restore democracy. Rex DOES NOT want this, but he can’t just leave, because then the best case scenario is the Galaxy reverting to the incredibly corrupt, oppressive, fake democracy it had been before, and he can’t let that happen. At the same time, if one more Senator bows and addresses him as “your Imperial Majesty” he might just jump out a fucking window
the only upsides:
-he now has the authority and power to arrange for a peaceful retirement for his brothers, with financial support
-the Kaminoans also have to address him as “your imperial majesty” and that will never get old
-he now officially outranks Cody
Star Wars Time Travel Au #27
Suicidal misunderstanding AU: Obi-Wan only a year or two into his desert exile is thrown back in time to the height of the clone wars. Due to circumstances, he assumes this is a hallucination and after enjoying hanging out with his friends for a while, decides he really needs to wake up before he dies of dehydration. When intense meditation fails, he tries to break the illusion by kriffing killing himself. Panic from all parties ensues.
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Ben-the-realitively-new-Hermit has made the informed decision to try out this whole spice thing, takes an absolutely massive spice dose, like 4 whole spices. Taps into the force and starts having a wild out of body experience, he can see the i n s i d e o f t i m e
General Kenobi is on Courasacasant for some extremely rare R&R, gets pulled to go drinking with Cody and some of the 212th. He blacks out for a minute and wakes up really confused. Like, he was drinking but this seems like he might’ve taken something extra, let’s get him back to the temple to sleep it off.
On the hovercar ride back Obi-Wan is babbling, saying how happy he is to see everyone again, and how he doesn’t blame them for trying to kill him. And uh
“Truly Cody, I know you would never fire at me if you were you, I think Palpatine must have been controlling your minds somehow. I swear, I’ll- I’ll try and find you - I - I’m so sorry,” he said leaning into Cody’s space, starting out earnestly and becoming increasingly unsettlingly intense.
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how to block a work from your search results on AO3
Every work that gets posted on the Archive has a unique identifying number. That number appears in the url for the work. I’m going to use one of my own works as an example. This is the url for my multi-chaptered fic describing tags and tagging:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/25584613/chapters/62091004
The number that I’ve bolded in the middle, the one that comes right after works/ is the ID number for that work. We’re going to use that number to create (or edit) a site skin that will block that work ID from appearing in search results.
Step 1: open the work that you want to avoid and grab that number.
Step 2: either go to https://archiveofourown.org/skins and tap on the Create Site Skin. Give your new skin a name and description so that you’ll know what it is later.
Step 3: this is the CSS code that you’ll want to use:
.blurb#work_25584613 { display: none;}
Note that the number I’m using there is the number from my example work. You’ll want to enter the number of whatever work it is that you’re trying to block.
Repeat step three for as many works as you want to block.
Step 4: save the skin and then hit the Use button to use it on the site.
If you’re already using a skin, you can add this code to the end. So for example, if you’re using Reversi in order to have dark mode, you can copy the Reversi CSS code into your new skin and add this line of code to the end of it, and you’ll have dark mode with the work blocked at the same time.
Step 5: enjoy your AO3 experience that much more! Because this is a site skin, you can set it once and never think of it again (unless you change skins or log out)
To everyone who asked me what my vision for the SUTA armor was, this is mostly what I had in mind. Solid plates secured flush to actual underarmor so that on the whole the trooper looks a lot less... clunky. My art skills on paper and in this style aren’t good enough to properly convey the fact that this is, functionally speaking, one-quarter ton heavy power armor, but hey! Beggars can’t be choosers.
They’re having a very serious conversation about Cody’s behaviour (being mean to uncle Ben)
I couldn’t fall asleep one night at 3 am, so here’s a fan animatic of How To Reinvent The Stormtrooper Armor To Make Your Surrogate Father Proud And Shut The Naysayers Up For Fun And Profit by @jackdaw-kraai.
Warning, I’ve never made an animatic before and it doesn’t have any audio, so ??? Make of that what you will.
Okay okay, there’s a story behind this. I really like the idea that sometimes Chat has a little too much cat in him from the suit. Sometimes he can’t help but do silly cat things.
So my cat has access to an enclosed area outside on the deck, but the top is open, so leaves fall in. During the night she brings leaves inside into the bedroom like she’s bringing in presents? And she’s like “wow these are great I have to share these with the human.”
And the two ideas kind of mingled and I thought it would be really cute if Chat runs up to Marinette or Ladybug and is like “look what I found for you isn’t it great?” And she’s super confused but still kind of touched. And later Adrien is just like “What was I thinking.”
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I’ve seen discussions sometimes about how fanfiction-based fandom culture is heavily influenced and dominated by people who are not cis men.
One thing I haven’t seen discussed as much though is how much of fandom in general is shaped by neurodivergent people.
I mean, you have autistic and ADHD people with special interests or hyperfixations collecting information and writing detailed meta, connecting very strongly with characters and fandoms. I would not be surprised if the percentage of autistics in fandom communities was significantly higher than in the general public.
And that’s not even getting into other types of neurodivergencies and how they influence fandom culture.
I sometimes see people try to divorce fandom culture from the idea of being a “geek”, and I understand that this is sometimes because of the association with the sexist geek stereotype, but I also know that there is a connection between the two concepts, and it’s probably us neurodivergent people.
shoutout to the earth kingdom girl zuko went on one date with. i truly believe she made the choice not to snitch on his firebending
if u are feeling sad pls look at this cute duck
Soapbox time!
Vegan leather kills more animals than actual leather. If your actual goal with vegan leather products is to save animals, then please understand that it doesn’t work that way.
Non-plastic vegan leather isn’t viable for manufacturing yet. Studies are being done on cork oak or pineapple options, but the stuff you’re buying isn’t on that list. You can either buy plastic leather or buy real leather, and as unfortunate as it is, the latter is killing less animals.
(It’s also cheaper, so obviously err on the side of what isn’t going to break the bank, but if you can afford a good pair of genuine leather shoes, then that will last you years or decades longer than the vegan leather, and in doing so it’s going to save you money in the long run. Unfortunately, most people aren’t being paid living wages right now, so first step is ALWAYS ‘what can I afford?’)