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But I miss you most of all my darling, when autumn leaves start to fall.

APH | { Autumn. } Portugal.

…well, that escalated quickly. I posted it way back at the end of 2014, it got reblogged by several BNFs in quick succession yesterday, and then it proceeded to rack up like 2,000 notes in one day, so apparently it still needs to be said:

Yes, you are allowed.

You are allowed to write the fic you want, rather than the fic you feel obligated to write. You’re allowed to write crack, crazy realism-defying stunts, self-indulgent trope fic, fucked-up fic about problematic people doing unhealthy things. Fic that doesn’t go through the pre-flight safety check for every swordfight and every BDSM scene, fic that glosses over the ugly real-life fallout of psychological trauma and/or jumping out of a quinjet without a parachute. Or, hey, if that’s your thing, fic that dwells on psychological trauma in loving, messy detail and has at least three punchlines about characters not being able to defy the laws of physics. Any of those things! All those things! We contain multitudes!

Any fic you write is probably going to be a net positive for fandom. The people who were looking for something in your niche get it, the people who didn’t know they wanted something in your niche discover a new thing they like, the people who don’t like it click the back button, the people who really really hate that entire genre of fic get to stroke their hateboners and get high off their own self-righteousness.

If it upsets people? The back button is a failsafe and instantaneous safeword. If it’s not as ~quality~ as other people’s fic? Don’t make me break out that “holy shit! TWO cakes!” comic. If someone takes away a disturbing, unhealthy, or otherwise less-than-wholesome message from your fic? You are not responsible for their failures of critical thinking or reading comprehension, to say nothing of those reading with outright malice looking for something to pounce on after interpreting it as uncharitably as humanly possible. Jesus fucking christ, it’s fanfiction, if people legit want sex ed they should be on Scarleteen. It’s not your job to educate them, certainly not with your fic. It’s not. It’s not. Fic serves so many other purposes. You are allowed to write what you want.

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

We were destined for this golden love.

APH | Portugal & Nyotalia England

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen miniature-sized, vintage paperback classics by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, Somerset Maugham, Emily Bronte, and others. Won’t this little collection lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on July 15, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten vintage paperback classics by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, Walt Whitman, George Orwell, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on April 22, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

since there is a lot of nostalgia for the avengers/mcu fandom circa 2012, here are some of the most commonly used tropes in fanfics and fanworks that we all just, for some reason, accepted (feel free to add more!):

they all live in the Avengers Tower and have their own custom rooms/floors designed by tony

clint in the vents

thor loves poptarts and coffee and all the food in general 

movie nights!

taco/pizza/sushi/etc dinners where one of them is assigned to wash the dishes afterwards

bruce does yoga and can cook all kinds of cuisines

natasha cleaning and sharpening her knives

steve struggling with the Internet

tony rarely sleeps, he’s always in his lab creating new suits and equipment for the team. coffee is his main source of sustenance until steve or bruce convince him to sleep and eat something pls

steve, in his downtime, draws draws draws. bonus points if he does it in the workshop while tony is working

tony and bruce Sciencing Out

steve is the momma hen, tony the dad (or vice-versa tbh)

nick fury/coulson/maria hill act as the Avengers’ publicists

clint/coulson (ok y’all i read some of those fics AND THEY WERE CUTE OK DONT @ ME) 

loki pops up every now and again pretty much as a glorified magical prankster

bruce loves tea and is always brewing that matcha 

clintasha

team teaches steve and thor about modern life and pop culture

natasha is the sage and constant source of wisdom 

thor always speaks IN! A! BOOMING! VOICE!

“what really happened in budapest” 

rhodey and pepper also make appearances. and in the latter part of that era, sam and bucky

sleepovers in the living room! where they sleep all huddled together!! :(((

Who, me? Why, I’m Batman, of course!

Happy International Women’s Day!

“The women we honor today teach us three very important lessons. One, that as women, we must stand up for ourselves. The second, as women, we must stand up for each other. And finally, as women, we must stand up for justice for all.” ― Michelle Obama

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND