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@bethagain / bethagain.tumblr.com

Fic resides at the same username on AO3. This tumblr began as a place to flail around about Mad Max: Fury Road, expanded into a place to flail around about other things too. I tend to reblog Star Wars, Star Trek, Inception, Good Omens, Our Flag Means Death, and who knows what else. Occasional ruminations on life and reblogs of non-fandom things that made me smile.
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Looking for stories?

Apparently the thing for writers to do these days is have a pinned post at the top of your blog, so people can find your work. Here's mine!

Somehow I have written several dozen stories in the worlds of Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars OT, Star Wars ST, The Mandalorian, Good Omens, Our Flag Means Death, and (wow, years ago now) Sherlock.

Everything's here on AO3. It's almost entirely SFW and you'll find lots of genfic, a little romance, and even a couple character/reader fics because why not. Some are silly, some heartfelt, some serious or sad. Many are gentle. A few are not.

I hope you'll find something you like there. Thanks for reading, if you do!

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Community Label: Mature

Hey guys, in case you haven't caught wind of the fuss lately, Patreon has recently updated their policies regarding what is and isn't allowed on Patreon regarding Adult content. This is mainly in response (as it usually is) to pressure from payment processors like Mastercard or Paypal, that does not want to be involved in NSFW content that could be potentially illegal so they'd rather just not want to deal with adult content in general. Because of this, Patreon is becoming more and more strict about what content they allow here. One of the ridiculous changes for example is somehow the people/characters in your work need to be explicitly stating their consent. 

I would hope.... that my characters look like they are heartily giving their consent in all of my work??? Even if they're not like, saying it in obvious speech bubbles or something.

I will be honest, as of right now I'm not sure if any of my content is in violation of it's new policies but many adult content creators such as myself are already worried. I will continue to upload as usual for as long as I am here, and I would hope that all of my patrons who subscribe to my page know exactly what they signed up for and what they want to see. But in just in case, I want to let you guys know that I have made a Subscribestar.Adult page!

It is a subscription based platform for creators much like patreon, but this one is built with adult creators in mind from the start and has been operating for years with a good track record for trust. I am slowly uploading all of my exclusive content over there, but it's been like four years, I have a lot of things to upload! But my hope is that it is backup platform in case I am kicked off of Patreon for some reason. Pricing and tiers will be the same, though as of right now I am not offering merch reward tiers on Subscribestar. This might change in the future once once I get my bearings on there a little better.

AGAIN I will still be uploading content both to patreon and subscribestar.adult/youkaiyume! However, if you would like to support me over on subscribestar or would like to switch, do check out the link! I hope to continue to give you the smut you deserve!

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Also, one of their exceptions towards things like incest is if it is part of narrative plot like Game of Thrones. They made this example explicitly. So if your smut has incest but it's for the plot, it's okay lmao. Like the fact that they specified this means that Patreon KNOWS on some level that this is a stupid rule because the characters are not real and it is fiction. But they only use GOT as an exception because that franchise is now part of the mainstream and is now somehow more sociably acceptable to consume. But if GOT was just some obscure book by some no name writer then it is absolutely not acceptable you guys.

And listen, it's not as if I myself create the kinks they really hate. But I also think, creative freedom is where you should be allowed to explore these kinks in a safe space, chiefly because it is fiction and not real and nobody within the works is actually getting hurt. Which is exactly what George R.R. Martin is doing, but somehow he gets a free pass because he is a millionaire and has tv shows and they make pop figures of his characters.

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Con O'Neill on HBO cancelling the Our Flag Means Death and it not being picked up by any other tv or service :( ❤:

Con O'Neill: Hello, it's Con. I just wanted to do a quick video to express my thanks to all of you for trying so hard to find the new home for Our Flag Means Death. And it's a great thing that we got the opportunity to make such a beautifully diverse, complex, funny, kind, provocative, dark, loving, queer story. We got to make it. We put it out there, and you lot found it. And in bottom line terms, you were all the home we ever needed. And that can be enough. We've made this thing, it's ours, forever. And thank you for being part of it. So, to you and to all your gorgeousness and your strength and your diversity and your kindness and your incredible, beautiful, complex depth of character, I am eternally grateful. And I'll see you out there. Bye bye.

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... you were all the home we ever needed.
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I truly am obsessed with how Knives Out was like. Hello Daniel Craig, man who has spent the past two decades of his career being alternately beaten up and objectified playing an action hero with no personality. Would you like to please put on a shirt and an incomprehensible vaguely Texan accent and flex your character acting dark comedy muscles as well as your pecs for a while. And he's like BOY WOULD I and they made a work of art. Also love that they put Chris Evans in sweaters. Get your beefcakes then dress them nice make them soft and give them some bonkers character work to do it's what cinema needs more of

I love that several people have responded to this with "op I forgive you cause you're Scottish but that's not a Texan accent" which is fair thank you I appreciate it but no two people have agreed on what accent it is which is also Absolutely fair and hilarious as a reaction to this film

Cannot stress enough that I do not know what the fuck a foghorn leghorn is but literally a hundred people have said it to me so far so I'm assuming it's important to, like, Americans

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The idea that Foghorn Leghorn,

The Rhode Island rooster from Looney Toons, is one of the Elder Gods of America, is honestly fascinating from a theological and folkloric viewpoint

Pardon me, but he is a LEGHORN, not a RIR. It’s in his NAME. Leghorns are an Italian breed. And yes, he is an elder god.

According to Foghorn's Tvtropes page:

Presumably, it's less that Foghorn Leghorn is a Rhode Island Rooster and more that he's a Rooster who lives in Rhode Island, possibly a Central Virginian Leghorn Rooster living in Rhode Island, though that implies a complicated and interesting life story that took him from Central Virginia all the way to Rhode Island

I would not rely on TV Tropes as an unbiased source. Wikipedia simple says his species is officially “rooster” and mentions a Leghorn being a breed of chicken. TV Tropes probably thinks the Cornflakes chicken is a RIR too.

I am potentially willing to concede he is a “barnyard mix” (cross between breeds) and his father, Harold Leghorn, was a leghorn and his unnamed mother was a RIR or other dark variety.

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I love this site.

Sometimes it’s 1:30 am and you own chickens and you’re drinking whiskey in the bath tub and accuracy about iconic fictional chickens is the hill to die on, ok, and that’s why I love Tumblr. 

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Chocolate guy has learned how to make corrugated cardboard. he is a powerful eldritch being who cannot be contained. The only reason we seem to be alive is because his interests are exclusively in the making of delicious lifelike desserts.

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PACKING TAPE?? fucking PACKING TAPE??

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lemonsharks

Does this mean know he has a cult on Tumblr dot hell

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I can't fucking believe it

WHAT HE WILL DO NEXT 😱

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IT'S OVER

I did it, y'all!!! 10 chapters of all sorts of Cal angst! Huzzah!

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The Force shimmers and flows around him.  It is the caves of Ilum; frozen and glittering: the lush flowering gardens of the Jedi temple of Coruscant; the rich, fractal mesas of Bogano.  Cal wades through it in the spiral’s outer circle, moving dreamlike through the living air, a soundless music suffusing his consciousness.  Green-golden leaves blanket the path below, and his feet slide over them in gentle silence. The world beyond him falls far and away, here in the first circle of the stone spiral.  His pulse is an ocean in his ears, his breath a tide, his heartbeat a symphony unto itself.  Tears slip, unbidden, from his eyes, dampening his cheeks.  He licks them from the corners of his mouth, wondering at the sharpness of the salt.  When is the last time he’s felt the Force like this, so pure, so powerful? He steps further into the spiral, gliding over the golden leaves like a ghost.  His thoughts are soft ripples in the stream, droplets here and gone, here and gone, his focus singular within the Force.    How has he been surviving all this time without this?  How has he been breathing?

Please head to AO3 for the full story!

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OFMD resources post

(Yes, you can reblog this post - no need to ask!)

I have both seasons here.

@chuplayswithfire puts the episodes here

@msilverstar puts the episodes here

@merryfinches puts the episodes here

@smol-ish-rose puts the episodes here

@solar-powered-potato puts the episodes here

@hubblegleeflower puts the episodes here

@bookshelfdreams has the first season with English subtitles here and recommends opensubtitles.org as a source!

@dickfuckk has a wealth of links to episode hosts and more here

For those who may have encountered messages saying you can't watch or can't download the files because the limits have been exceeded, there's a neat workaround that will allow you to watch in your browser or download to your device, so long as you have a gmail account. (And you can make one of those for free, if you don't have one.)

How to help your fellow fans by circulating the tapes

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I'd been feeling embarrassed about my little OFMD fics recently, because I don't usually write stuff focused on romantic relationships but I got a little possessed there for a bit...

Anyway with today's news I'm suddenly feeling like I should share them again here, because darn it I wrote Stede and Ed more chances to be together and now fic is the only way we're going to get that.

So for anyone else who's feeling sad and needs an Ed/Stede fix:

These are mostly gentle, all under 1,000 words, and except for some 4-letter words and a few blushworthy moments, generally SFW.

That'll Leave a Bruise. Stede's reaction to the headbutt. Written before S2E4 dropped.

One Pot of Tea. Early mornings in Stede's cabin. Non-canon timeline, written before S2E6

How Many Years. A tiny, tender moment between S2E6 and E7.

The Bathtub's Full of Rum. Stede and Ed go for a swim. Between S2E6 and E7.

A Passing Squall. A fixing-up-the-inn fic.

Let's Turn the Days Upside-down. The sea is beautiful at night. It’s worth staying awake to see it. Post S2E8.

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Yeah a show that touched a deep place in our hearts that reawoke a passion for life in many of us is over, but you fuckers forgot one very important thing

It’s Calypso’s motherfucking birthday

I’m gonna need everyone to reblog this and raise a glass (metaphorically or not) to something you love about this show or this weird little corner of the internet.

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Writing a fic ‘late’ in a fandom is OK.

What is ‘late in a fandom’? It’s after the first heady flush of media excitement. Six months after the standalone movie or book comes out, a year or more after the series ends.

We get inspired by late canon: the behind-the-scenes book, the deleted scenes, a revealing creator interview. We get inspired by fanon and meta. We get talking to that one - one! - person who likes our ideas.

Sometimes a fic even needs to be written late in the fandom. After thinking and creative ferment, worldbuilding and character development. ‘Late to the fandom’ is a good time to take risks. To do the dark AU, focus on the minor character from stage left. It’s also a good time to offer up tropetastic fun.

Whatever you do, you will get readers who appreciate that you are writing. Because for every writer considering writing ‘late’ there’s a hundred fandom members wanting some fresh content.

Writing a fic ‘late’ in a fandom is OK.

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