Belonnabells

idk if im just dumb but i do not understand what the fuck is happening in this space battle rn

hello red rising fandom i am 70% through morning star and I am. Not Well.

Darrow and Cassius' Moment after that main battle. Hello. Hello Can Anyone Hear Me

@bellonabells

#i dont think id be as consumed by it if i had known about it so props to the reviewers for just. ignoring it. even though its pretty obvious #it was the scene where cassius desperately held onto his hand when the obsidians were dragging him away the truly did me in #like you were literally trying to kill him an hour ago dude STAND UP

@punkminewt

#sjdifjfififi crying #came for the cool plot stayed for the utter chaos of the doomed yaoi #prev tags god. they were literally In Battle you boyfriend's girlfriend shot a fuckign Arrow in you. reaching out for him like that #come on man #i feel so alive dassius has saved me

@vesperpharsalius your mind...im going absolutely fucking feral

All im saying is that the golden son beginning quartet squad of Darrow, Victra, Tactus and Roque would be enough to send anyone into a coma. I hate Nero but him employing THAT specific amalgamation of people was lunatic behavior like the chaotic chemistry between those four has GOT to be studied. Can u imagine being on a ship with them at the academy? Id rip my fucking ears out dear god (i love all four they are peak).

I HATE YOU LYSANDER I HATE YOU LYSANDER I HATE YOU LYSANDER I HATE YOU LYSANDER I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I

hello red rising fandom i am 70% through morning star and I am. Not Well.

Darrow and Cassius' Moment after that main battle. Hello. Hello Can Anyone Hear Me

Antonia Au Severus-Juli Fanart

Everyone always talks about "You Cannot Have My Pain," and with good reason, but I think this is my favourite Dalinar moment

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

AO3 was specifically made for the stuff likely to be purged from other sites.

It was built around "we need to own the servers" so we wouldn't have to deal with anyone else's judgment calls about what was acceptable in fanfic: Not corporate sponsors, not evangelical religious groups, not "save the children" activists... and not other fans who think that The Gross Stuff should be banned from public view, only shared via private email after you've sent in a request heavily laden with special keywords.

Some of the founders remembered when slash fanfic was kept under the table at the dealer's room, distributed with brown paper wrappers only to people who knew to ask for it specifically.

And they said: Fuck that. Our art is not a crime and we're not going to be ashamed of it. If you are ashamed to have your art next to it - there's a whole wide internet that's ready to host your G-rated genfic.

AO3 was built for the stuff that was unwelcome elsewhere.

Don't make me tap the sign but this is the sign:

Kaladin continues to be the most conspicuous mfer can’t believe he was about to tell Dalinar he killed a chasmfiend like how were you gonna explain that one 😭

He’s very smart (mostly trained doctor, knowledge of martial weapons & tactics) and also very much not (just about everything else)

He’s so funny he’s routinely performing miracles and looking like he’s talking to himself and sneaking around at night but then is like “can’t let anyone know about my powers!!”

Meanwhile all the scouts are like did you see the FUCKKING FLYING GLOWING MAN

it's great because after oathbringer, we know Dalinar is also a conspicuously unkillable asshole who would hear all this impossible shit and go hm. probably would have done the same if I was thirty years younger.

he did lots of stuff that should have killed him! sure he never healed from Shardblade damage or survived a fall into a chasm before but he suspects maybe he could have. he never checked.

hearing the description of bridgeruns like 'ha yeah same when I was in my 20s I used to get shot all the time. absolutely covered in arrows. How i got the name blackthorn actually, funny story. It's all about powering through. i definitely shouldn't say that to the bridgecrews.'

the man beats a chasmfiend in an armwrestling match in way of kings and everyone's just like 'oho! what do you know! The old man's still got it!'

Dalinar's baseline for humanely possible makes him literally the worst person alive to notice a radiant. Some of us are built different, I don't know what to say. Adolin tries to talk to his father about the extremely well supported rumors of Stormblessed being a freak and Dalinar goes "I'm sure you could survive a highstorm too if you applied yourself."