i'd give up forever to touch you

what iron lung fans see

Do you know what the actual etiquette is? The one that's been around since Tumblr began? The one that's been followed dutifully up until the last few years?

Once an AU becomes so prevalent it starts becoming bothersome, YOU DON'T MAINTAG THE CANON FANDOM. Yes, this is a gray area when it comes to what constitutes as bothersome. Yes, bloodymary is WAY beyond that line.

Instead of bailing on the canon tag, SPREAD THIS MESSAGE. If someone refuses to follow this etiquette, BLOCK THEM.

You owe it to yourself, to your community, and to new fans who won't know the fandom exists in some obscure tag. Stand your ground and be vocal about this etiquette.

PS-- to the AU fans who insist they won't be found without the canon tag: yes you will. People subscribe to a tag when they know that's the fandom they want. People use the REGULAR SEARCH function to discover it. If your post has canon character or franchise names in it, or even non-canon tags, a regular search will display those.

happy in his blankeyy

Many don't realize the Nohrsibs love their father and just want him back even knowing his horrible elements and how he wanted to kill them for fucking up even a little, and it's disturbingly realistic if you know people who went through similar abuse. And when people do that and don't leave an abuser they just go "that's not realistic" even when it is, because people just don't leave abusive families like that. Corrin in Conquest stayed because they didn't want to turn their sword against the world even if it damned him doing so, and people act like he's made a bad choice when many aren't even self-aware enough to realize in Corrin's shoes they'd do the same thing.

Yeah, you get it!

Love can be destructive, it can be selfish, it can be nostalgic and blinding.

Hell, love being tragic and doomed is a plot point present in the very first game in the series. The reason why Medeus' dominance of the Archanean continent got so far is partly because of Camus and Nyna being involved with each other, the former not following his heart resulting in him help conquer so many places and kill so many people. And unrequited love is what kickstarted FE3's plot, with Hardin succumbing to the darksphere because of his jealousy.

Love, along with fear, is what causes the Nohr siblings to be servile and deferential to Garon. It's not a simple matter of morals, it's a messy web of psychology. For Xander, Camilla and Leo, love is itself intertwined with violence because they the things their mothers and lost siblings were doing in the name of gaining favor from their father. They saw that as trying to gain love. They aren't able to compute what love for their sibling, Corrin, really is in contrast to their love for their father.

get some writing done