Modern Au Connoisseur

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno

love seeing pictures of young David Bowie and knowing that's who Robin was picturing when she wrote Lord Golden like I can't stress enough how much it makes me grin ferally

well if wintrow was real & i knew him i would IMMEDIATELY set him up on an ipad preloaded with every rhythm game i could think of. let’s see if stained glass skill-trances can translate into all perfects

tending to someone's injuries is literally a first date. you've got the wine (for disinfecting open wounds) the candles (for cauterizing open wounds) and the physical intimacy of touching another person's bare flesh. what more could you ask for.

writing was invented for administrative purposes so really any other use of it is a perversion of the form

the delicious fitzlovedism that is beloved’s selective obsession with respecting boundaries fitz has NOT set, making him someone who often (but not always) better cares about these things in a series called ‘Fitz’s boundaries are repeatedly violated’ and ALSO similarly assumes fitz’s feelings in a way which sabotages them forever and ever

we're over halfway through 2026. what are everyone's most beloved books of the year so far?

one thing abt me is that I can't recognize veneers and I can't tell when someone's hair is a wig and I can't clock fake accents even when they're done pretty badly and I'm also bad with faces. all that to say I would be insanely vulnerable to hijinks/capers

it is p funny that texts that place a particular emphasis on deconstructing black and white thinking and moral absolutism tend to have the most agonizingly moralizing fanbases oat that r very fixated on engaging with these fictional characters exclusively through the lens of morality powerscaling

we live in a powerscaler world

Balon criticizing Theon for wearing a gold chain will never not be funny when Victarion is out here in Iron Islands SS299 wearing a golden cape sewn in the shape of a kraken with a matching helmet.

a pack of fujoshi can strip an uke to the bone in under a minute

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this