Kevin the Kitten (Vanessa Stockard) animated by Jenni Pasanen  https://www.instagram.com/p/CATfqhqgO1Q/?igshid=13vl67k4n0fue

this is the best thing ive ever seen and my eyes are 23 years old

Hawks reaction to Dabi saying his real name though… like he’s been keeping it a secret, like he’s ashamed of his family name, like how fucking ironic it would be if Hawks admired Endeavor all this time because he took down his abusive, shithead dad - the thief called Takami...

How tragic to see these two clash - the son of the villain turned hero, and the son of a hero turned villain - one saved, one destroyed by the same person, both let down by hero society in their own ways, turned into ruthless weapons unable to save the person they both think is worth saving.

The Dabi-reveal is the true slow-burn of BNHA and I think it will be even more complex and tragic than we ever imagined….

alignment chart: bookmark edition. tag yourself i’m scrap paper

The Skywalker Darkside AU

Fic rec | The Best of the Decade 2010-2019 [multifandom]

Dun dun dun! It’s time to start putting aaaaaall my favorite fics of this decade (2010-2019) together! A big THANK YOU to all these authors!

First, I want to share with you The Fic of my decade, the number one. It’s a Miyusawa (from the manga/anime Ace of Diamond) named The Trajectory of Laughter, by PKSamurai. I read it the first time in 2014: since then, cicadas always make me feel downright melancholy. So, thank you @apodays​ you ruined my summers but I love you so much.

A big shout out to @wasterella​, apparently my favorite author of the decade with 6 fics in this list, lol.

Last but not least, a GIANT thank you to @what-ever-happened​ author of the Iwaoi’s Waiting in the Stars, the only ongoing story that I’ve read during this decade (and with no regrets). It was a long journey but I really loved it, from the beginning to the end.

The courtship ritual of the hercules beetle | kittebasu (chanyeol) 

Waiting in the Stars | whateverhappened

new phone who dis | meruemsthighs

The Trajectory of Laughter | PKSamurai

Crossfire | kittebasu (chanyeol)  

A Beginner’s Guide to Being in Love with Miyuki Kazuya | n_nami

Have Love, Will Travel | squeemonster

Sleepless in Lawrence, Kansas | PrinceMalice

Twist and Shout | gabriel, standbyme

“Be My Sex Coach, Victor!” | lucycamui

Rivals | Reiya

November’s Secret | LanaBerry

Hey Lover | wasterella

Good Enough to Eat | wasterella

What He Found on the Bookshelf | wasterella

Thanks for Thumper, But I Prefer Cheeseburgers | isthatbloodonhisshirt (wasterella)

Waiting | isthatbloodonhisshirt (wasterella)

Dirty Little Secret | isthatbloodonhisshirt (wasterella)

Dalton (incomplete) | CPCoulter

Little Numbers | iknowitainteasy 

The Sidhe | Chazzam

I Don’t Wanna Know About Your New Man | boywholivednotdied

Finding That Love Song | LydiaStJames

Light With A Sharpened Edge | poetic_leopard

And We’ll Be Running | allyasavedtheday

Lessons in Cartography | crazy_like_a

Hey @apodays I’m your secret santa! Did a little watercolor winter piece for you of everyone’s fave boy and his cat. I hope you like it!

@natsume-ss

Why I feel that YoI betrayed its own narrative - part 2

DISCLAIMER: I love Yuri on Ice. No, listen, you don’t understand, I! LOVE! YURI! ON! ICE! Deeply! It’s very special, extremely important to me. It has touched my heart in ways that few stories have, it’s one of my favourite things across any media. There’s not a single character I dislike. I’ve recommended it to everyone I know. I have cosplay plans. My phone’s ringtone is History Maker. Every night before bed I read fanfiction. I ordered the official soundtrack. Currently on my desk sits my mini christmas tree sporting an acrylic charm of the main trio and Makkachin. I’m wearing Yuuri on my shirt as I write this. Ok? We’ve established this. I love, adore Yuri on Ice, and I wish I could be feeling for the finale the same levels of pure joy the episodes have been giving me every week since it aired. But I’m not.

HUGE THANKS to @soobaki for doing the beta on this monster and for the constant emotional support as I wrote it! 

Warning: this is a long post.

Yuri Plisetsky - on learning humility, bonds and being himself

In great contrast to how Yuuri starts the story at the lowest of the low, Yurio is standing at the top. He is introduced to us as the Junior Grand Prix Final gold medalist. Later in the same episode he is referred to as a rising star and already assumed to be a future champion in his upcoming senior debut, alongside Victor. His confidence is peaking, he is a skating prodigy, he is younger, more talented than Yuuri, everything is going fantastic for Yurio.

So how do we, the audience, meet Yurio? He follows Yuuri into a bathroom, stands outside the stall listening to his crying, kicks the door, then proceeds to yell in his face that he should quit because two Yu(u)ris are unnecessary in the senior bracket and Yuuri is obviously the inferior one.

It’s quite the character introduction. Certainly leaves an impact.

Next time we see Yurio, he is firmly rejecting the attempted advice Victor gives him on his skating, dismissing it as not mattering because he won anyway. He then proceeds to tell Victor to stop nagging him and right after that purposely ignores Yakov lecturing him.

The last time we see Yurio in episode 1 is with this scene.

This is how the narrative decides to establish Yurio for us: an overconfident rude brat who has no respect for his seniors, his coach or his fellow competitors, who slacks off his training, and who believes he’s good enough that anyone trying to even help him is doing nothing but annoy him and waste his time. Just in case we weren’t sure of just how high Yurio’s levels of confidence reach, episode 2 spells is out for us.

Yurio is 100% confident that he will win the Grand Prix Final at his senior debut, all he’s missing is the right tools for the job: AKA Victor’s choreography. At his side, Yuuri is even a bit shaken by just how sure Yurio is that he will win. He doesn’t talk about attempting, he doesn’t talk about wanting to win, Yurio takes it for granted that he will win. And he’s a 15 year old willing to fly to another country, by himself, on a blind chase for the man he thinks will help him get there.

And that’s Yurio’s personal goal, to make a brilliant senior debut by winning gold at the Grand Prix Final, and do it specifically with Victor choreographing his programs. I can already hear some of you saying that, if Yurio shares a similar story goal to Yuuri’s, then isn’t him achieving it just as justified as Yuuri achieving it?

It’s not, because while Yuuri’s story goal is linked to his character goal, as in his wants are connected to his needs, what Yurio needs for his character is the opposite of what he wants.

When you have a character that starts off like Yurio, at the top of the world, extremely arrogant, believing himself to be above everything and acting dismissive of everyone, you don’t build him up further. That does nothing for character development. So what’s Yurio’s story about then, if it’s not about him winning the Grand Prix?

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…A team led by a guy of that caliber.

it feels like dabi was specifically designed to fit my aesthetic

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Somewhere along the way fanart become worth more than fanfic to fandom.

Artists have Patreon accounts where people pay real money to view their art early or to access special pictures like scraps or tutorials.

Whereas writers are expected to produce more and more, faster, for nothing in return. No one wants to see our “scraps” and writers who do provide Tips and Tricks often get crap for “policing” how people write.

And it falls into the prevailing notion that somehow writing is something easy, something anyone can do.

This isn’t an attack on fanartists. You deserve to receive some sort of compensation and accolades for your work. And so do fanauthors.

Writing fic is hard work. Yes, anyone can type out a story, same as anyone can pick up a pencil to draw, but what makes the difference, what makes a good piece is the experience and talent of an author. It’s all the stories no one saw, it’s all the writing books we’ve read, it’s the classes we have attended, all rolled into a package that works weeks, months, years to bring the fandom their fic. Yes we write for ourselves but we also write to contribute to fandom - just like artists do.

We’re just the same - artists and authors - and we deserve the same respect for our work.

It’s because everyone thinks they can write.

Publish a book.  One of the first and most continuous comments you’ll hear whenever you tell anyone is: ‘Oh! I’ve been meaning to write a book!’.  People use words to talk.  Writing is just putting words down on paper.  Logically, therefore, anyone that can talk, can write.  Ta da!  See?  Writing is something even small children can do.  Obviously it doesn’t take Real Skill.

Except all those people that will tell you they’ve been meaning to write a book? They never will.  Because, fun fact - writing is hard.  Writing is very hard.  Its hard to sit down and focus your mind and string words together on paper in sentence after sentence after sentence.  For hours.  Days.  Months.  Until you finish your short story or poem or book.  Its hard to take what’s in your mind and paint pictures of it but without using actual pictures.  Its hard to come up with interesting ways to say things, with characters that matter to people.  Plotting is hard.  Multiple plots are harder.  Multiple plots with multiple characters all using only words - not voice tone, not hand gestures, not pictures to help people understand what you’re saying - is hardest.   Writing is not talking.  Writing is, in a lot of ways, the stripped down version of talking because you have to do it all on paper without any noise or facial expressions to carry the words.  Telling a story is time consuming and requires you to concentrate even when you’d rather not.  It makes you pull out pieces of your soul and give them to other people, who are probably going to misunderstand them because they’re going to see them through their own soul’s view.  But you still have to find a way to connect so that they’ll still care about what you’re telling them.  And at the end of it - you’ll be exhausted and burned out and exhilarated and excited and scared and happy and sad and

someone is going to look at you and say:

‘oh!  I’ve been meaning to write a book!’.

People know they’re not artists because they can pick up a pencil and quickly see that they don’t have the practice to draw.  Everyone is a writer because writing is word art and everyone knows

they can use words.

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