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Kyoya had never wanted to be an artist, he certainly had never wanted to draw doujinshi of him and his friends and he definitely did not want to write a romance about himself and Tamaki. But then Kyoya didn't always get what he wanted.
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in the spring
poorly drawn kyokao origins
kyoya x manga
some of my fav scenes of Kyoya from the manga
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Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.
fandom etiquette as a whole died when people who didn’t grow up on fandoms became stans during lockdown, yes, but why am i seeing people openly mocking fics on twitter. why am i seeing screenshots of fics with captions like “bro what is this 😭.” why am i seeing people mock fic writers for not knowing how sports or theater or college or any other organization operates in the real world.
“college is absolutely nothing like this” “why are we writing four people on the team scoring a hat trick in one game” “so tech work is nothing like this, hope that helps!”
if you don’t like a fic, and if you can’t suspend your belief enough to enjoy a fic that exaggerates or ignores real-world orgs, you don’t have to read it. you don’t have to screenshot it and put it on blast for twitter. you don’t have to post a link to it in the replies. the back button is literally there on your phone. it’s not giving baby’s first fandom anymore, it’s giving entitled asshole and it isn’t as cute as you think it is.
New Meme Alignment Chart came to me in a fit of Mania this morning. Have fun kids!
This post is less than 24 hours old and I am having a GREAT time rifling through the notes and seeing everyone's OC's and series I've never heard of. None context with left tag screaming.
Happy slightly belated one-year anniversary to this meme! Please keep sharing the blorbos.
This reappeared in my activity page and at 1.75 years old, I am thrilled to announce that of the almost 7,000 reblogs, nearly all of which have a filled out meme, the total number of fandoms I recognized without having to look the names has officially gotten to TWELVE.
Highlights from the notes:
At least a dozen Full Metal Alchemist ones, all of which agree that Ling doesn't know what the fuck is happening and that's everyone else's problem.
Multiple entries with figures from the bible that I have never heard of before
Dead Roman Senator Discourse
I am in love with everyone who hand-drew their OCs into the boxes. You're all beautiful.
People putting things like species of animals and pieces of furniture in here. I don't get it, but I get it.
The ones that are just first names without context. I want you to know I am mentally filling in the boxes with people I know with those names.
Tamaki: kyoya is like my wife, the mother to our children, bc he’s sort of the perfect woman in the way that’s he attentive and reliable and ever present and kind but composed and when I marry one day it’s going to be to a woman like that
Kyoya: 🙂
The host club:
People who consistently comment on each chapter of ao3 fics, we will love you forever.
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i don't usually go for crack fic, but there's something really beautiful about fic that takes a cracky premise and plays it utterly straight, to the point of genuine human pathos that's only enhanced by the sheer ridiculousness of what's actually happening
Sometimes people get their start in fandom with something like, idk, the MCU or light action shows like Supernatural or children's fantasy like Warriors (this last example said with love), where the writing is an inconsistent mess, characterization can change on a dime, there's no themes stronger than like "family" or "stop the bad guy from changing our way of life". And their fandom experience is taking the hints of interesting ideas presented and dropped and spinning them into something interesting, or just fluffy and fun, and then discarding the rest.
And then these people come to a piece of art that like. Actually has themes and good writing and a coherent vision, but they're still trained on The Giant Trash Heap That Must Be Sorted Through, so they start their routine of excising fun yaoi moments and throwing the rest in the trash, except now the rest is like. A professionally made passion project by a group of skilled writers with a hundred years writing experience between them, and this fan is writing the same coffee shop AUs as ever. And it makes something that feels same-y and fandom out of something unique and well-made and, well, interesting.
And like. That's their prerogative, more power to them, but it makes me wanna pull my hair out to talk to these people about a piece of media I actually care about beyond that Trash Heap level.
And if you're someone whose only fandom experience has been Trash Sorting and you're running into people arguing with you abt their favorite piece of media, give them a second thought I guess?
love and peace, @kingofgoblets. this is a good addition
[ screencapture is of tags that say: #and honestly i still like that stuff. i too was born in the trash. raised by it. #but you gotta know when you're just scrapbooking bits and pieces #versus when you're reading a full rich text thoroughly #there is room in your brain for both i promise #but even on days when you only have scrapbook energy #don't. do NOT. Pick fights with the people doing the intense reading. #if that isn't what you're into today? you're allowed to scroll on #or open a new file and make that coffee shop au. ]
tags from @annabelle--cane are good
a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.
Thanks for answering my ask. I really love reading them...! 🤩😆
If you don't mind me ask (again), who are your top 10 favorite characters ever (from any media)? Why do you love them? Sorry if I ask too much....
This is somewhat tricky to ask why I like them and also to rank them as I don't tend to rank characters. I cycle them around in my head usually trying to dive into their complexities and internal conflict, and if there's a lot that's there, I'll come back to them. Otherwise, they're fun and then I set them aside.
So my favourite, continue to twirl around in my head characters are:
Kyoya Ootori
General Ouyang (from the radiant emperor series)
Victor Vale (from Vicious by VE Schwab)
Mizu (from Blue Eye Samurai)
Jayce (in the way where I think about the Arcane and League of Legends versions)
Petra Solano (from Jane the Virgin)
Special shout-outs to:
if Jiang Cheng were a woman (I think the fact that her father would have no official male heir plus even more similarity to her mother plus being a woman would make her more interesting)
Wendell Brambleby (from Emily Wilde's encyclopedia of faeries, wish you actually cared about academia you data fabricating son of a bitch faerie king)
Elanor Shellstrop (from the Good Place)
Basically, if characters are closed off emotionally? You got me. If character's don't seem closed off emotionally because they use being popular and/or nice to mask their feelings? You got me. If they're in impossible circumstances where they are striving towards impossible goals but refuse to admit defeat, stubborn until the day they die? You got me. Like the 6 characters on the official list are very similar in core internal conflict vibe, even though they're circumstances are very different.
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I love how Tamaki and Kyoya play with each other. I love how they're able to meet each other in the middle. I love how Tamaki knows it's just a game, but if it's just a game, then Kyoya is willing to be silly for a little bit. I love how they argue with each other like children. I love how they act like they're parenting together. I love how they go on little trips for no reason. Ugh I love them.
Hello! Just want to say, thanks so much for sharing your fics (especially the TamaKyo ones, I really love them)....
If you don't mind me asking, what are your top 10 favorite media (can be books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series) and your top 7 favorite ships (can be canon or non-canon) ever from any media? Why do you love them all? Thanks if you want to answer....
I'm glad people are still enjoying them! It occurs to be sometimes how different fandom culture is now (but also how not different) whenever I go back and re-read my own stuff
Ranking my favourite media is too challenging (how can I compare my favourite book to my favourite anime?)
so my top 10 in no particular order are:
Vicious by VE Schwab
Thithe by Holly Black
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Park-Chan (the Radiant Emperor series. Re-telling of the founding of the Ming Dynasty except Zhu Chongba is a woman. Very gay. You should read it.)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Hold Me Closer Necromancer by Lishe McBride
House MD
Superstore
The Good Place
Escape from the Bloodkeep from Dropout's Dimension 20 (Actual play dnd)
Ouran Highschool Host club
I could spend forever on why I like them but in general: I think they all hit a really good balance of good characters that I care about, humour, good execution and interesting emotional journeys
Favourite ships
(it amuses (and confuses) me that people feel like they have to specify whether a ship is canon or not. Back in my day *shakes fist at world* that was entirely irrelevant)
1) General Ouyang/Wang Baoxiang from The Radiant Emperor series
I have to put this first only because it has eaten up too much of my brain even though I have posted so little about it. Firstly: they would be so toxic. General Ouyang is an emotionally repressed eunuch trying to make his way up in the world/army so he can kill its leader (who is his best friend. Who he is in love with) so he can overthrow the government and avenge his family. Wang Baoxiang is an accounting nerd in a culture that doesn't value him being 100% correct and his brother is the General of Henan and Wang Baoxing is sexually attracted to women (despite everyone thinking he is gay because, cannonly, he is limp wristed, loves fashion, talking with a "lilt" and is a nerd) and greatly desires pleasing them but he does seduce and sleep with a guy (who he gets killed. On purpose, with the intention to kill him so he can take over the government) that he eventually cares for. They are each leading two separate rebellions/factions to overthrow the country. They have semi-cannonly fucked. Wang Baoxing did an impression of his brother's voice (who Ouyang is in love with. who Ouyang killed, who Wang Baoxiang helped Ouyang kill) while that happened. Wang Baoxiang did it purely so Ouyang would know that he was attracted to men(Ouyang is homophobic), so that Ouyang would know he could experience sexual pleasure (he thought, as a eunuch that he couldn't) so that from now on, Ouyang would be upset about it. He will know what he's missing. He will know what he wants and that he hates what he wants. Wang Baoxiang thinks this is a normal not gay reason to fuck a man. They have almost a sibling rivalry competing for Esen (Baoxiang's brother, Ouyang's best friend's) love. The sublimation of feelings, the emotional repression--the fact that Baoxiang is so jealous of Ouyan despite Ouyang having been a slave and having his entire family killed. "I could be a eunuch better," thinks Baoxiang, "I would know how to allow myself to be happy." And yet he also sides with Ouyang to help get his brother killed and then is haunted by visions of him. He makes a huge deal about being a #YuanDynastyFeminist #WomanCanHaveThoughts but then only really cares about the woman who he gets pregnant who could give him a child. Convinced everyone hates him because he's effeminate but then doesn't seek solidarity with anyone else who is. Except that's also Ouyang. Except Ouyang, who is a massive hater in all regards, a giant misogynist, has genuine sympathy for Baoxiang's inability to be a man (even though it infuriates Baoxiang because that's not the point!). They know each other too well. They don't know each other at all. Each of them is playing 5d chess but not with the other one except they they are. They hate being vulnerable. They are bad at being invulnerable. I just think their dynamic is fascinating and they should fuck about it. And, as an ace person, I rarely think a relationship would be improved by fucking about it (at least, improved in a way that dating or communication wouldn't). But they guys just have so much to unpack and what I like about Ouyang/Wang Baoxiang that Wang Baoxiang/Ayushiridara (the guy he actually fucks) doesn't have is that Ouyang and Baoxiang have history. They know each other. At some point it is hard to know someone so well and not love them even if you hate them, even if they stole your brother from you/even if are the brother of the man you love/need to kill.
2) Tamaki Suoh/Kyoya Ootori from Ouran High School Host Club
Classic repressed best friends to lovers for me. I am a sucker for emotional intimacy and especially emotional intimacy that you don't acknowledge because you are Repressing Your Feelings. I like that Tamaki is clever and able to see through Kyoya's bullshit which perfectly fulfills the "being understood without the vulnerability of asking" struggle. I've wrote enough fics on this that I hope people can tell what I like about this.
3) Eleanor Shellstrop/Tahani Al-Jamil from The Good Place
I like the banter. I like the "I've been flirting with you the whole time but I'm going to play it off as nothing" aspect of Eleanor (afraid of vulnerability, almost a theme 😉). I also like that of the main cast they are the two that are most likely to be assholes on purpose. Tahani knows that she can be passive aggressive and holier than thou, and I simply love when 2 assholes find love. And also when they're women. Finding an F/F ship I enjoy can be very challenging when you tend to like emotionally repressed assholes, but this one has two! Plus there is double potential for emotional obliviousness not just with regular repression but with comphet from Tahani where appearances mean so much to her, another internal barrier to her doing something that will make her happy!
4) Marius Pontmercy/Courfeyrac from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
This is an odd one to rank so high, and is really carried by the fics I've read of this. You'd think I'd put it lower, right? I only got 80% of the way through the Brick, but it's enough to get to know Marius and there's something about "clueless well meaning guy and popular friend" that I enjoy.
5) Petra/Jane Villanueva from Jane the Virgin
Firstly: I love when messy love triangles end in the opposite ways. You both have the same baby daddy? That alone is almost enough for me to ship. PLUS cannon bi Petra on a journey of self discovery? And of course the classic: Petra is an emotionally repressed asshole who struggles to be vulnerable but is able to open up to Jane. And Jane could benefit from being a little firmer.
6) Jayce/Viktor from Arcane (but also I enjoy them from League of Legends-verse)
They were lab partners! This one I like because they connect as intellectual equals are are insane about each other. As a scientist, dating someone who gets it is such a dream like some people clock into work and you're like "no, okay, but what if I discovered this thing that no one did before but what if someone DID discover it and I need to read 12000449003 papers to be sure?" In League verse I like their bitter divorced "can't stand him" energy and is the only couple to which I immediately think of a song (get him back by Olivia Rodrigo) because it's fun to see two wacky guys who are also smart and unable to be normal about each other. In Arcane verse, I like them when they can't be normal about each other. The touching fluff is okay or whatever but I am a firm believer that Jayce is Weird (just better at hiding it) and prefer that kind of dramatic irony/convoluted plots with them.
7) Liu Qingge/Shen Yuan from Scum villain's self saving system
Liu Qingge? He's emotionally repressed. Shen Yuan? In gay denial. But also? They are best friends. (So hitting a lot of Classic Themes for me). But also Shen Yuan has transmigrated into the world of PIDW and the only character he gets to know as a person (never learned/saw them as character, doesn't have an idea of what they're like) is Liu Qingge. Whose life he saves. Also did I forget to mention that for Liu Qingge he thinks that Shen Yuan and he used to be enemies (back before Shen Yuan transmigrated and the original character was there) and so he's in an elaborate enemies to friends to lovers plot? Also, when Shen Yuan has his love fortune read the Madam describes his future husband (the male love interest who isn't Liu Qingge) but Liu Qingge obviously and clearly thinks this about him? The pinning. The denial! chef's kiss
