Papercastl - Love At First Gunshot

mutual pining simply never misses. the yearning. the stupidity. the desperation while also thinking themselves alone with it. the rattling relief at the revelation. the way it works in so many scenarios— friends to lovers? a banger every time. casual hook-ups/friends with benefits while they both want more? show-stopping, spectacular, incredible. enemies who are so deep in denial it just makes them madder at each other? utterly unmatched every single time. slow burn, fast burn, burning while already fucking. mutual pining really just is that girl like truly who does it like her

You know what, Frank? I'm not buyin' it. I don't believe you don't care.

do you ever just think about frank and karen in dds2, tps1&2, and now ddba, and think, damn—

this has me in tears btw

“aww! my comfort character is so soft!”

the comfort character in question:

Fanfic is a free hobby.

It's one of the last few things we can have as a society that's free. You can engage, for free. People give you things (art, stories, etc), for free.

Don't buy into the consummerism just because it's everywhere else.

You don't have to consume everything you interact with. You don't have to use things, just because they exist.

You're allowed (still, for now), to have things that are enjoyable for free.

Do you realise how insane the world is? We don't have many places where we can just be, for free anymore, but ao3 is. Did you notice we don't have ads in ao3? We don't have pop ups? Where ELSE do we not have that?

Where else can you just go and not have to wait for a commercial to be over or for ads to be on the sidelines?

I don't think the younger people understand, but the whole of internet used to be like this. YouTubers would do Youtube for free, just because. You couldn't monetise your internet presence before.

Ao3 is like a little preserved corner of the internet where the old internet used to be, and it's being attacked by people who do not understand that free things are allowed to exist without judgment.

Please don't ruin this for us.

Some of us need it.

i never noticed that Karen SMILES when frank rests his head against hers in the elevator (despite the blood and horrors that just occured)

i'm going to kermit!!!!!!!!!!!!

To note:

FR: concentrer /EN: focus

FR: écureuil /EN: squirrel

FR: pingouin /EN: penguin

FR: câlin /EN: hug

what i love about kastle is that it’s always frank waking up in a bed like some battle-worn damsel in distress, and honestly? i hope they keep that tradition alive in the punisher special

in fanfiction we must sometimes ask ourselves not if he would do that but under what conditions would he would do that