The good news: you get to pick your new soulmate! (You can define "soulmate" however you want: platonic/romantic/partners in crime/etc. But they will be in your life, constantly.)

The bad news: you don't get to pick where they come from.

Spin this wheel until you get a fandom with characters that you recognize. As soon as you do, stop. One of those people* is going to be a constant presence in your life, whether you like it or not. So choose wisely.

*broadly defined

Who gave commander wake Facebook access???? (Unblurred + OG under cut)

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3-ingredient peanut butter cookies

hey, don't cry. combine one cup peanut (or almond or whatever) butter, one cup sugar, one egg, all right? roll into 1-inch balls, place on cookie sheet, press with a fork to make criss-cross pattern, and bake at 350F for 8-10 minutes, okay?

today would have been my Uncle John's 62nd birthday, so I'm reblogging this cookie recipe (which he taught me) in his honor. 💛

So I'm halfway through Gideon the Ninth and how come nobody has told me about Dulcinea?? She's so good, you'd think people would go bonkers over her

Ah.

Ngl ive had Gideon the ninth in my to read pile on my kindle app for months and this post is what inspired me to finally open it now

Ah, I see.

......well now I'm curious.

My friend send me this and i couldn't help but think of this post

we sharing the pain we've put people through?

People loooove complex characters until they’re women

Harrowhark but she's Blood of Eden and her name is Spooky Scary Skeletons Send Shivers Down Your Spine. Is this anything.

The people have SPOKEN and they are CORRECT

Full name: It Harrows Me With Fear And Wonder Hark The Harald Angels Sing Spooky Scary Skeletons Send Shivers Down Your Spine

Since BoE names are never just a singular reference.

really obsessed with the beginning of htn where john is like “harrow i will not make you come with me. it is very important to me that you have a choice in this matter. you can either serve as my hand or return to the ninth house. you have complete free will. it is entirely up to you.” and then ten minutes later he’s like “nvm that was a lie LMAOO you will always be hunted and can never go home! oops sorry 😣”

John loves creating optimal conditions for making informed choices:

I intended for the new Lyctors to become Lyctors after thinking and contemplating and genuinely understanding their sacrifice—an act of bravery, not an act of fear and desperation. Nobody was meant to lose their lives unwillingly at Canaan House.

You know, like sending everyone a literal letter from god saying this was the most worthy and holy thing they could do, and then sending them to an island where they weren't allowed to contact the outside world and had no way to leave...

He really did become a cult leader.

Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.

I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.

me everytime one of my seemingly non-specific homoerotic text posts breaks containment

I enjoy the Two Cakes Philosophy and I believe it deserves its place enshrined in fandom culture.

Forgive me for the extended metaphor but I also want to simultaneously celebrate what I’m calling Bakery Display Case Philosophy. You know when you walk into a bakery and the display case is full of beautiful treats? And there’s a variety of different colors, textures, and flavors to discover? And that’s so deeply exciting?

You might say to yourself, “No one is going to want to read this pairing. No one is going to want to want a character study of that character. No one wants genfic in this fandom, only shipfic.”

And you might use that to discourage yourself from writing a certain fic.

Fandoms, like bakeries, need cakes and cookies and éclairs and cream puffs and shortbread and brownies and pies and tarts and petit fours and turnovers and cinnamon rolls and madeleines and meringues—and so many other things—to survive.

Write your dark chocolate pistachio croissant fic. Your fandom needs it actually.