Orpheus Looking Back At Eurydice Because He Loves Her Something Something Kaz Can't Help But Look At

Levi & Hange 💚💜

I love them in their vest when they visit Kiyomi's house!

best thing i ever accepted about people is that most people are just kind of gross like, physically

This was beautiful. I laid in bed, just staring at the ceiling after reading each chapter in the series. To reflect and also to compose my mind before clicking onto the next chapter.

to all things, a season

The thing about children is, sooner or later, they grow up. Kaz reckons with an end, and a beginning.

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AoT characters! I love them all <3

Reblog if you're a writer who re-reads their own work for funsies.

Can’t believe we’ve already reached the last chapter! So here it is, one last time:

Chapter 7: The end of a long and exciting journey!

I just wanted to quickly thank everyone who’s been reading along and leaving kudos and comments! ✨ I’m rambling more about it in the chapter notes, but the whole writing process and the setting of this fic have been one of my absolute favourites. I’ve genuinely enjoyed every part of working on this story, which is why it means so much if you’ve decided to read it. Thank you! 💛

Hiiiii

Welcome back! Just came from finishing if only for tonight!!!! I'm in love with how you give them the domestic vibes.

Levi always been the first to fall for her is canon in every universe cuz that man has a soft spot to the sunshine gal.

I loved every moment of it.

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

Helloooooooo lady-kalila! You're on Tumblr tooooo

Thank you for dropping me a welcome message / ask (?) hehe

I'm really happy to know that you enjoyed that silly brainrot of mine. Domestic vibes Levihan is always my jam. And also the trope of "he falls first, but she falls harder"

she falls harder? who am I kidding, they're both insufferable, intense idiots about each other

Thank you for reading and letting me know what you thought of it. It means a lot ❤️

The crows are here 🪶

Shoutout to the five Six of Crows fan this fanart possibly reaches; Good books... Good books...

Please, enjoy my humble fanart offer... AND TALK TO ME ABOUT THEM!

I don’t like wading into Ao3 debates, but I want to give my professional opinion on Ao3 with regard to archives vs. libraries.

I am a professional librarian (MSLS) and I have worked in both archives and public libraries and a lot of the confusion and concern I see surrounding Ao3 is a fundamental misunderstanding of How Archives Work.

An archive is a collection related to a subject. That subject often a person but sometimes a field or concept or project. And the purpose of an archive is to keep everything. And I mean everything. I was going to say “short of biohazards” but since I know there’s a sealed R. Crumb Devil Gal chocolate bar in the UNC Chapel Hill archives, we really do mean everything.

When a collection of materials–which are usually unique and original and can be photos, manuscripts, letters, recordings (audio and/or visual), notes and notebooks, objects, published books, whatever–on and/or from the subject arrive at the archive, they are examined, preserved for longevity, accessioned and cataloged (added to the archive’s records), and added to the archive. You measure collections in linear feet. As in, once it’s all preserved and boxed and secure, you note how many feet of shelf space it takes up. And some of y'all on Ao3 have a lot of linear feet to your name (and I’m proud of you).

This is an archive: it is designed to preserve the original materials related to a subject. That is its purpose. Archives are how we have the original scroll manuscript of On the Road, for example, or the Lomax recordings of American folksongs, or Tijuana Bibles, or James Joyce’s loveletters to Nora.

Now you, a member of the public, can access some archives. Some are easier to access than others. The one I worked in was open to the public; good luck getting into the British Archives without a good reason.

So now apply this to Ao3–which is an archive both in name and in purpose. It is intended to preserve fan-created content long term. And this means everything, whether you personally like the materials or not. It is a repository for as much as possible.

And the “whether you personally like the materials or not” is important, hence why I mentioned Jim’s loveletters and Tijuana Bibles in particular. (RIP Jim, you would have loved pegging.)

If it’s made by fans and it exists, we should keep it to document the history and progression of fandom. That is the point. We have lost enough materials related to the subject of fans of media and we don’t need to lose any more.

The fact of the matter is that Ao3 is only one facet of the OTW, which preserves other fan-related materials (convention booklets and zines, for example). Somehow Ao3, an archive on the subject of fanfiction, has been divorced from the rest of the project, mostly by way of “purity culture” and panic over “dangerous” fiction.

The fact that you can go through an archive and find interesting information is the other side of archives. No, they shouldn’t be like the banker’s box of old letters stuffed in my closet. Yes, they should be organized and as accessible as is appropriate for the state of the materials.

It’s really, really cool to find stuff in an archive, I’m not even going to lie. I have done it before and I will do it again. And yet there are other items in an archive that I might not want or need or be interested in at all–but they’re still there. That’s the cataloging and accessioning: to keep up with what’s there, to stay “on topic” with collecting, and to be able to find things in that archive. Bless the tag wranglers who are doing the cataloging at Ao3.

The pearl clutching seems to come from 1. the creation of “dangerous” fanworks and 2. public access to those “dangerous” fanworks. These are issues of “purity culture” and opinions on censorship and should not involve Ao3.

Ao3, under the umbrella of the OTW, is a documentation and preservation project first and foremost.