WonderWolf

But I dont even know where to begin…

•Dealing with bad/drunk passengers (they always have each other’s back)

•Bonding over that one crew member everyone hates (their flight leader, Jackson, is such a dick)

•Whispering secrets in the back galley (“I cried on my first international flight because jetlag is a bitch”)/laughing over the dumbest things on red-eye flights

•handling medical emergencies in-flight

Maybe dragons aren’t super common (esp not on flights, bc they can fly. But maybe Stiles is feeling a little under the weather and isn’t up to making the journey himself so he bought a last minute plane ticket (“do you know how much effort it takes to fly cross country? A LOT.”)

And what if, bc Stiles is a dragon and has a mild cold, whenever he sneezes or coughs, little bits of fire comes out? So he runs to the lav to seclude himself during his coughing fit.

I imagine Derek banging on the lav door and dragging Stiles out by his hoodie, threatening to have him arrested upon landing. Meanwhile, Stiles sputters about how it’s all a misunderstanding and (when derek refuses to listen) acuses him of dragon discrimination.

Tumblr turned fandom content into mindless consumption instead of community. I’m no expert on human behaviour, but I’d put money on this.

Stiles is pretty sure his eyes are bugging out of his head. He flails at Lahey’s writhing form, still groaning on the ground. “You think I’m gonna let you lift me seven feet in the air after seeing THAT?!”

Derek smirks, crossing his stupid ridiculous arms showcased by his ridiculous tank top and impractical-for-dancing jeans. He’s ridiculous.

Stiles wants to fucking eat him.

Like, I’m REALLY glad that collections exist, and I’ve put my work into some collections when I made those things specifically for those collectuons. Collections are a useful tool for things like bangs, where the stories need to be hidden until the reveal….. but that also means that the person in charge has the ability to hide your works from the public. Like, without you agreeing, because you already “agreed” to that by submitting to the collection. Which means works you previously had available suddenly disappear from where people can find them.

What I’m saying is please stop random requests to random people to be in your random collections. I know you probably don’t have ill intentions, but there’s no way to tell. And if you’re getting requests to be part of random collections, please be aware that if you approve them, you won’t be the only one in control of some elements of your posted stories, including whether or not they “exist” to the average reader. If they mark the collection as “unrevealed,” you story stops being accessible to the public. And they have the option to mark the collection “anonymous” which I’m pretty sure turns the author from being You to being Anonymous.

And I say all of this because I have seen this happen to people. I have had friends whose stories “disappeared” because they approved a random collection invite and the collection owner turned everything “unrevealed” (likely without even knowing or understanding that it would hide it for EVERYONE not just hide the collection so no one would see they had it, it’s not like a private bookmark). And while I haven’t seen anyone do this maliciously (at least none I can prove) I can see where it could be USED maliciously. So please, just be careful out there.

Copy and past the following link, and where it says “yourusernamehere” type in your AO3 pseud.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/yourusernamehere/collection_items?approved=true

This should take you to a page where your works that have been approved for collections resides. You can remove your works from collections by selecting “rejected” instead from the drop down menus.

want to add a fic you love to that super-specific collection you made for Fics With Werewolves Set In London? bookmark it and add the bookmark to your collection! 

So please, as readers, this is a MUCH BETTER option!!

And in the notes I have found several other things:

Some people have wondered why this is a thing, or if it’s a bug. This is a FEATURE not a bug. The collections feature is often used for things like big/mini/reverse bangs, fic exchanges, challenges etc where authors and/or artists and/or other fannish content creators submit their work early to the collection and the collection is left unrevealed until the set public reveal date of the event.

This is a GREAT feature. We LIKE this feature A LOT. It’s just that if you aren’t aware of this feature and what it can do, it can negatively affect you outside of those purposeful situations.

Someone confirmed that the “mark collection anonymous” feature does turn the story from being written by you to being written by anonymous

You can also remove your work from a collection if you go to the “edit” page of the story (not edit chapter, but the main edit), scrolling to where it says “post to collections/challenges” and clicking the (x) by the collection you want to remove the work from. If you only have one or two stories in collections this is fine; if you have a lot, the manage collections page will let you do them all at once.

You can check if your story has been affected by logging out and going to your works page. If your work in the collection is not visible (and you have not marked it as “must be logged in to see”) then it may be that the collection is unrevealed.

Someone suggested that the bookmark collection feature would be a great way to make a private collection, since you can make bookmarks private.

If your works are in collections currently with no problems, there’s no reason to panic. You don’t have to remove your works unless you want to. Most people really are just grouping up works with no ill intent. I just wanted folks to be aware of what it means for you to be in a collection, and give anyone that needs it the tools to fix it if it does become a problem. And also to make folks who DO make collections aware that they should not be marking those collections unrevealed or anon because it screws with the writers.

OTP derek/hugs

“You attacked me,” Derek says, stooping to help Stiles up again but Stiles waves him off, mostly because he’s not sure if his spine is working yet after Derek flipped him over his shoulder.

“I attacked… what?” Stiles splutters, rolling over onto his belly and then pushing up slowly. He just knows he’s going to be one hell of a creaky old man after all the werewolf abuse.

“You went for a-”

“Hug, Derek. I went for a hug.”

“What?”

“I. Went. For. A. Hug,” Stiles says, overly slowly, making short chops with his arms in the air to punctuate his words.

“I don’t get it.”

“What’s to get? You’ve been hugged before, right? By your family?” Stiles wants to smack himself in the face with his own shoe for mentioning Derek’s family and affection, but Derek still looks confused. “Wait, not even a creepy clench from Uncle Undead?”

“My cousin Rafe would sometimes drop on me from the rafters of the house. That was more an ambush thing.”

“That’s the saddest thing I’ve ever heard.”

“We were a werewolf family with human members. We had to be careful. You could hurt someone so easily. We kissed. There was a lot of patting.”

“That sounds really dirty.”

“Stiles.”

“Okay, big guy. We’re trying this again.

“Oh god no.”

“It’s an entry requirement to Scott’s pack of wonder and excitement that you learn to hug the squishies because we like to hug. We Stilinskis especially are cuddlers by nature.”

“How about a hearty handshake?”

“C’mon. This is happening,” Stiles says, this time opening his arms and not advancing on Derek, letting him do the approach because last time Stiles nearly got all his bones broken taking Derek by surprise. When Derek hesitates, Stiles spirit-fingers at him in impatience.

Stiles is just about to drop his arms, tell Derek not to break something because Derek looks like he’s about to strain himself fighting the urge to run far away, when Derek takes two quick steps and is in the circle of Stiles’ arms. For a second, Stiles is so surprised that he doesn’t close the circle. Derek tenses again for flight and that’s what prompts Stiles to bring his arms around properly and squeeze.

“You can hug back. It might be nice to not feel like I’m cuddling a stone pillar.”

“I don’t want to hurt you.”

“You won’t. I know you won’t.”

Derek’s arms settle so lightly around Stiles then that Stiles isn’t even sure he’s feeling them until they tighten a little further and then Derek’s nose is buried against Stiles’ pulse point.

“Get a room,” Isaac huffs from the couch next to the windows where he’s getting his ass kicked at Mario Kart by Scott.

“This whole loft is my room,” Derek says, tightening his grip a little further, like he’s worried Stiles will end the embrace but he’s not going to. He learned something very important from his dad. Always let the other person break the hug if they’re the one that needed it.

Chris: Derek, back off. Derek: ‘Back off’? That’s really all you’ve got?

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