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hi guys. i’m still keeping this blog for archiving purposes and occasionally responding to fandom/fanfic-related stuff but i pretty much only ever go on my fashion tumblr anymore, so please go there if you want to talk to me.
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Title: symbiosis Author: murakamism ( @shotgunbreeding) Rating: Teen & Up Pairings: Kagehina Words / Chapters: 2792 / Oneshot Summary: Kageyama doesn’t need anyone. He is entirely self-sufficient. And Hinata is an idiot. Kageyama can’t stand him. He can’t stand seeing all that wasted potential, so he uses it for himself. But then sometimes Hinata smiles at him, or says something stupidly inspiring like promising to defeat him after ten or twenty years, and Kageyama thinks that maybe he doesn’t hate the idiot at all. Han’s Opinion: I read this fic because it came up on my dash when I was up at 5am this morning because I couldn’t sleep and I’m really glad I did because it was really cute and just !!! I love how in depth it goes and the development is so great aaaaa AO3 Link
Title: Violet Author: enchantobio ( @lunakaashi ) Rating: Teen & Up Pairings: Bokuaka with a side of Kuroken, Iwaoi, and Tsukkiyama Words / Chapters: 41479 / 8 Summary: Akaashi couldn’t see colors, save for one - violet. He sometimes felt a warm feeling in his chest when he thought about how someone out there could only see the world the same way he did. That is, until he feels the burning of the colors on his cheeks, and the coolness past his fingertips, and he realizes how much of the world was blurred into itself until he saw him. Han’s Opinion: This is one of those fics that reads so beautifully that I can’t really resist it. The beginning got me so hooked, it’s unreal (maybe I’m just a sucker for prose and expertly crafted descriptions) and this is actually a really nice fic and I just love soulmate aus so !!! AO3 Link
Title: of the moonless nights Author: LydiaOfNarnia ( @oikawa-chans) Rating: Teen & Up Pairings: Tsukkiyama, Daisuga, Kagehina, Iwaoi Words / Chapters: 51835 / 9 Summary: Tsukishima Kei ought to have known better than to wander into the woods alone at nightfall; legends of monsters that lurked in the night had long haunted his little village, originating centuries before he was even born. He’d always written these tales off as things of fiction; that is, until the night he comes face to face with a boy with too many freckles and fangs straight out of a monster legend. Han’s Opinion: I speak from personal experience when I say that Tsukki here is a pretty hard character to write. (If you thought it was easy, well then joke’s on you!) And I think this fic pretty much nails it. It’s hard creating the right balance of witty sarcasm and… ya know actual character things, and this is a great example of when it’s done right. (I’ve seen it done wrong. I’ve seen it done wrong in my own work). Also this is just a really cool AU overall. AO3 Link
ahh!! thank you very much for the rec!! i’m glad you enjoyed it :--)
tumblr meme culture is really just a form of neo dadaism
I’d like to clarify:
dada was a largely european art movement that took place after wwi. this time and place is not a coincidence. let me explain.
dada art made no sense. the artists who made dada lived in a world in which nothing made sense - in which conventional logic led to the senselessness of a world war. so, making art that made no sense, making - well, you can’t really call it art, so making ANTI-art that rejected the conventions that brought about that atrocity in the first place - it made total sense. (if that makes any sense.)
so the artists did weird things. new things! putting things that were already made together and calling it sculpture, cutting up bits of pictures and putting them together and calling that something to frame - this site has some nice examples.
but from my perspective - there’s serious intellectual continuity between the absurdity of attaching a bunch of tacks to the bottom of an iron, rendering it useless, and say…. bath bomb posts. Put a fucking macbook in a bath. it’s useless now. Nobody fucking cares anymore. you want something funny? you want a punchline? gun. that’s your punchline. Take it. I am laughing
in a way it could be a method of venting some of the frustration and hopelessness and dissatisfaction that tumblr’s userbase (largely, disenfranchised millennials) feels in the modern day. I can’t really speak for anyone else, but… at least from a US perspective, there’s plenty to be disillusioned about. growing up in a constant state of questionably justified war, income inequality, an economic recession caused by the actions of a handful of wealthy fucks who didn’t even get properly punished, growing awareness of police brutality, being called lazy and self-absorbed by the generations that gave us these problems in the first place… I can’t help but think that these factors (and more) could produce a similar mindset to the one that precipitated the first dada movement.
so of COURSE we make nonsense jokes. it’s a coping mechanism for a world which doesn’t make any sense.
related: this isn’t by tumblr but I have to plug UCLA’s atrocity of a virtual gallery once more. it really needs to be experienced, but… it’s definitely also millennial neo dada. from the presentation (like an unplayable video game) to the content (THE DOGS HAVE ARRIVED), it is exactly what I am talking about. it is a fucking shitpost. and it’s high art, too! I love this
tl;dr: my generation is fed up with this bullshit, and the best way that we can express that is by shitposting. alternatively, dada was an early precursor to modern shitposting and we should all thank duchamp for signing a fucking urinal
a dear friend has given a perfect update to some of my phrasing, courtesy of their word replace extension:
you see this? this is exactly what I’m fucking talking about. the thing that I’m talking about is:
winter 2015 in Reykjavík we’ve got as much snow as we had not since the 1930s….
read this on AO3 at http://ift.tt/1Vg1XD4
Kageyama is selfish.
This is what he thinks when he lets Hinata sit so close to him that their sides press together. Hinata’s babbling, lunchbox empty on his lap. Kageyama chews carefully for once. He tries to concentrate on the food instead of the warmth at his side, practically cocooned into his ribcage.
Words: 4587, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
read it on AO3 at http://ift.tt/1Vg1XD4
Guayama, Puerto Rico, November, 1995
my mind says college but my heart says isolated sheep herder in Iceland
Черная икра. 1980-е годы.
Black caviar, 1980s.
Garni Temple, Armenia. First century Hellenic temple, the only pagan temple in Armenia that survived the Christianization of the country in the early 4th century. It is also the only “Greco-Roman colonnaded building” in Armenia and the entire former Soviet Union.
bad habits - rock & roll, rebellion & desire
Caitlyn Siehl, “Start Here” (via alonesomes)
same
waiting for snow. ;/
In light of some recent discussions within the Ereri fandom, I decided to compile a list of fluffy, sweet, and funny Ereri fics. This is by no means a complete list, since I haven’t read everything out there.
So, if you have any suggestions for Ereri fics I should read, feel free to send me a message or an ask.
And without furthur ado, here’s the list.
Title: The Wolf and the Mountain
Author: bfketh
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: Levi didn’t really care what people thought he was - demon, spirit, or god - as long as they left him alone.
That is until one winter’s day, when a snow storm deposits an injured wolf-spirit practically on his doorstep.
Title: The Misanthrope
Author: kazuma85
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: The story is set in an AU world where Eren was only a child when the humanity won against Titans. When he’s fifteen, he meets Levi, humanity’s introverted hero, who is not exactly the kind of person people believe he is. Rated M for future chapters.
Title: Cherry Blossom Palette
Author: WishingSebastianStanwasmyman
Rating: E
Status: WIP
Summary: Eren’s obsessed with pastel colors and cute things. Levi wears dark clothes, listens to heavy metal, has numerous tattoos and piercings but has a secret weakness for cute and soft things too- except his is mainly Eren.
Sometimes Eren identifies as a girl, a guy, both or neither. Levi doesn’t mind of course. He loves Eren unconditionally.
They’re basically two dorks in love.
Author: fracturedmoonlight
Rating: T
Status: WIP
Summary: Levi and Eren move in together after the walls come down.
Title: The Trials and Tribulations of Dating Your Daughter’s First Grade Teacher: The Levi Ackerman Story
Author: seaofteeth
Rating: T
Status: WIP
Summary: Levi tries really, really hard not to fall for his daughter’s teacher. He fails.
Author: cinnamon_skull
Rating: M
Status: Complete
Summary: Eren paints the midnight sky on Levi’s chest, and calls him beautiful.
Title: Love Like Lightning
Author: the_ugly_fic_ling
Rating: G
Status: Complete
Summary: In which Levi is the last one to figure things out.
Anything by elliewritesthings (crying-abt-fictional-people on tumblr).
Title: If You Close One Eye
Author: Emiza
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: Eren and Levi are both born with heterochromia, both have one green eye and one grey. Whenever they close one eye, they can see what the other one sees. However, they don’t figure out the connection until they’re teenagers. Problem is, they don’t know each other, both strangers living their own lives. By figuring out details from the other’s life, they try to get in contact in all ways they can.
Title: Holding Hands In The Rain
Author: twisting_vine_x
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: A/N: Basically the one with thousands of words of Eren and Levi crushing like crazy on each other, and being absolutely freaking ridiculous together, and slowly falling in love against the backdrop of modern-day Vancouver.
Title: Blackbird
Author: the_ugly_fic_ling
Rating: Not Rated
Status: Complete
Summary: The war is over. Humanity is free…
…except for Levi, whose medical complications lead to an amputation that leaves him feeling trapped, broken, and alone.
And he might have stayed there too, if it hadn’t been for a certain green-eyed soldier who was too stubborn for his own good.
Title: Click on my Heart
Author: CocoaChoux
Rating: T
Status: WIP
Summary: Levi is a well-known, full-time let’s player on YouTube who just so happens to take care of his deceased relative’s child. Content with his punk/gamer life, he did not expect to one day click on a video of fellow YouTuber, QueenPastelEren. He especially did not expect to be so smitten within the first few seconds of watching the pastel goddess with green and gold eyes.
Title: “Baby, I’m howling for you.”
Author: WishingSebastianStanwasmyman
Rating: M
Status: WIP
Summary: Levi Ackerman is a Werewolf and an Omega who lives a rather quiet life in his cottage in the woods. Sure, his Witch neighbor Hange can get irritating and Erwin, the worst Ghost in existence as he is completely incapable of scaring anyone, can grate on his nerves. Especially when the Ghost is insistent on haunting his home.
This was nothing compared to how overwhelmed Levi feels when he finally meets his soulmate- an Alpha and Vampire named Eren Yeager.
(Alternatively titled “the cinnamon roll!AU”)
Title: the art of wooing
Author: murakamism
Rating: T
Status: Complete
Summary: So now maybe Levi’s got a rock collection, but it’s perfectly reasonable, you know.
For one, they’re all from Eren. Eren in his titan form, because for some reason the boy has yet to give him one in his human form. Still, Levi doesn’t mind. Maybe there’s something instinctual in titans—giving away pretty rocks as a form of affection. Whatever. Hanji would go wild over that theory.
Title: Warm Water
Author: KeroseneShowers
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: Levi’s shower breaks. Desperate measures ensue.
Title: Fighting a Losing Battle
Author: Trick_Fantasy
Rating: M
Status: Complete
Summary: Levi’s hasn’t met his next door neighbour yet, but he already wants to punch them in the face. But it turns out, his neighbour is fighting his own war, in his own personal hell.
(Please don’t take this seriously, there’s just a huge-ass cockroach in Eren’s apartment)
Author: bfketh
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: Single father Levi is left scrambling to find an after school daycare for his daughter, Mikasa, when his regular babysitter announces that her husband’s job is being relocated. The only problem - they’re all far more expensive than he can afford.
The solution to his dilemma comes in the form of a college student, Eren, who will do it for a fraction of the cost - as long as Levi will save him from a steady diet of ramen and pop-tarts by feeding him dinner every night before he leaves.
Title: Keep Your Distance
Author: OneWhoSitsWithTurtles
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: Levi didn’t enjoy beating Eren up in the courtroom, but he did what was necessary to help the Survey Corps bring Eren back to HQ to train his titan abilities. To Levi’s aggravation, neither he nor Eren seem capable of sleeping through a night without the other’s presence. However, what begins as forced proximity soon develops into something much deeper through shared warmth and whispered conversations late into the night.
Title: HumaniTEA’s Strongest
Author: mybrainproblems
Rating: G
Status: Complete
Summary: Eren accidentally stumbles upon Levi’s tea shop and has the audacity to order a coffee. Levi decides that he needs to educate this heathen about the beauty that is a steaming cup of white tea and Eren is more than happy to learn.
Title: Fireside
Author: twisting_vine_x
Rating: E
Status: Complete
Summary: A/N: Essentially, the one in which Levi ditches his car and ends up half-frozen on Eren’s doorstep, and then proceeds to fall harder for Eren in four days than he’s ever fallen for anyone in his entire life.
Basically, this story shall contain roaring fires, hot chocolate, a ton of farm stuff, a whole roster of adorable animals (’cause Eren’s totally spending his reading week watching over Hanji’s farm in the middle of frozen Alberta, whereas Levi is an author who lives in Vancouver), a rather nasty power outage, cuddling for warmth, a bunch of cuteness with Eren and Levi bonding over nerdy shit; and, essentially, Levi and Eren being trapped together for days, with both of them realizing very quickly just how compatible they are, and with both of them horribly aware of the fact that they’re from different worlds and live entire provinces apart.
Title: Show You
Author: zhedang
Rating: T
Status: Complete
Summary: Five times Eren showed Levi something in the outside world and one time Levi returned the favor.
woahoahahahh. thank you very much for reccing! :D
