Blow Up the Outside World

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Fic by @adelmortescryche !

tagged by the delightful @beaconfeels

Last Song: Ozzy's 1986 live performance of "Shot In the Dark"

Currently Watching: I don't watch a lot of TV, save when I'm cat sitting, so I mostly rewatch things. Right now, that's MST3K: The Return. I am also peripherally enjoying moots and irl friends' current TV obsessions.

Current Obsession: I'm back in the Trek 2009 Spirk trenches, y'all.

Currently Reading: a lot of long fic, mostly bc I'm incredibly indecisive about which of my shortlist of books to read.

Currently Working On: Saving money for a fun fall vacation, and waiting out The Weather.

Personal: ...I overshare anyway, so this is a pass, bc I don't want to pull back that curtain too much more.

Last Goog Search: I've been using DDG for a few years now, buuuut. If I had to guess? Prolly gay porn gifs. Bc I use them as vis ref for smut, when I don't want to trust my brain about, like, reach and angle.

no pressure tags, feel free to ignore me @exlibrisfangirl @adelmortescryche @laternenfischchen

1. Last song: Red, Buried Beneath

2. Currently Watching: uh, lemme think.... The last show I finished was East Palace? Haven't started a new one yet, tho I need to finish Heated Rivalry S1 and Teach You A Lesson. I'm also in the middle of watching Enola Holmes 1.

3. Current Obsession: uh, this one keeps shifting. For games, chef rpg and E33. For fic.......... Uh. I've been obsessed with alt fashion and band aus recently. Emo rocker Adel keeps coming back every once in a while demanding black nail paint and a cig damnit.

4. Currently reading: oh that's a tough one. Come All Ye Mighty by tciddaemina since there's a new chapter out (loveloveLOVElove that fic), and in books.... The Last Legend and Fugitive Telemetry.

5. Currently working on: summaries for my lit review (phd thesis shit)

6. Personal: uh, hm. Been grieving the loss of a family member, it's f***ed up my writing big time. Any more than that is TMI.

7. Last Goog search: HUH. Les see. "game8 odette". Ty genshin for keeping my search history safe. 😂

Whom to tag....

@onceabluemoonwrites @re--wire @ravensilversea @morcai

The KHRrarepair Week Mods are excited to announce this years prompts for KHR Rarepair Week 2026!

Day 1 - Storm Day: Forced Proximity | Dark Fantasy AU Day 2 - Sky Day: Be Careful What You Wish For | Forbidden Love AU Day 3 - Sun Day: Karmic Debt | Bounty Hunter AU Day 4 - Lightning Day: Time Skip | Impending Apocalypse AU Day 5 - Rain Day: Rescue Mission | Marriage of Convenience AU Day 6 - Cloud Day: Unreliable Narrator | Soulmate AU Day 7 - Mist Day: Second Chance | Magical Girl/Boy AU Day 8 - Earth/Flameless Day: Imprisonment | Amnesia AU

The event will run from July 20th to the 28th. As always, this event will focus on rare pairs for Katekyo Hitman Reborn - these could be platonic, romantic, so forth. As a reminder, crossover pairings or Canon Character/ OC pairings are welcome.

An additional reminder that the definition of rarepair for this event is any relationship that is not in the top 10 tagged relationships in AO3, which can change.

In other words, Tsuna/Xanxus is now a rarepair! Rejoice X27 shippers!

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Doing a final project in my stats class, we have to pick a subject and collect data on it. We need at least 100 data points, and I figured this blog is big enough that a poll on here could get to that pretty easily!

Doing my project on if it’s more likely to be born in certain months :]

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.

Like, this is Loki

And this is Tom. They have different colored hair.

This is Castiel

And this is Misha. They wear different clothes.

This is Tony Stark

And this is Robert Downey Jr. They have different names.

This is Tony Stark

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)

Here’s a link to Night’s Master, the first book in the Flat Earth series.