Besto Ship

So it turns out it's not a new trauma but actually a ramification of my main trauma of ✨learned helplessness✨

Awesome.

Wow.

Me, strutting on my way to see my therapist bc I hadn't been able to book an appointment in two months: ♪Scooby Dooby Do, where are you? We've got new trauma to solve now!♪

So I just saw the Miraculous Movie and-

I'm a hardcore lukanette shipper

But Jeremy Zag got me hooked on the love square?! Their dynamic felt so natural, ladynoir and adrinette were handled at a nice pace, and their filler moments did not felt like filler.

Also the animation is top-notch, the characters look gorgeous, most of the songs were amazing (especially the tikki-marinette duo), it made Paris feel alive unlike the series

SPOILERS AHEAD

And did I mention how they managed Gabriel and Chloe??

The mean girl joke stays the mean girl joke without baiting us with a redemption arc and then deconstruct it. Granted, the movie couldn't have accommodate it in two hours, but still, it's greatly appreciated.

And sure, tragic backstory doesn't justify terrorism, but unlike the series has done twice, Gabriel actually shows emotions? And cares about his son???!

Hopefully they make a sequel.

PROPAGANDA PARA URUGUAY:

En ingles casi dice "u r gay", que mas podrian querer?

LATINOAMERICA HAS GONE WOKE?????

U R GAY? ARGENSHE/HER??? CHILEY DE MATRIMONIO IGUALITARIO??? PARADYKE??? GAYTEMALA? COLOMBISEXUAL?

ao3 just dropped it's Christmas gift. I've been constantly searching a kghn fic that I completely loved but read once, never downloaded and got lost. After two years of filtering and despair without knowing if it had been deleted, I finally found it again. I'm ecstatic.

Guess I should pay it back with finally updating my own fic. Time to defeat writer's block.

According to my daily scrolling, unless it's a y/n or reader insert, there isn't soulmates related content on the Encanto fanbase yet. Unaceptable!

*sighs*

Guess I'll have to do it myself

Introducing to y'all:

Matchmaker! AU

In this alternate reality, Mirabel's gift is not only seeing the Thread Of Fate™, but cut and sew it as she sees fit

As a personal HC, there are three variations of the thread

-White, if the person's not old enough to think about romance/isn't interested on it

-Red, the typical

-Black, if one of the soulmates dies

She quickly starts competing with Isabela for the Abuela's Favourite Grandchild title

Same goes for townspeople, as she officiates marriages and relationships

Of course, it's not always happy rainbows, as some couples are simply not meant to be

"Mirabel, please tell me that milady and I are made for each other! My princess-"

"Adrián, I already told you 528628627 times that Marina's not interested, grow the fuck up"

"But you could change our destiny for love, you selfish bi-

*Luisa's knuckles crack in the distance*

For the nature of her gift, she's compared to that person we don't talk about

According to señora Pezmuerto, she's somehow singlehandedly guilty of all affairs, divorces and breakups

Nevertheless, it's a good life as Encanto's Matchmaker

Then, everything changed when the fire nation attacked both families deemed fit to marry Mariano with Isabela

What a beautiful couple!

Too bad his string is the same as Dolores and Isabela's is white

And the candle flickered during Antonio's ceremony. Like the Thread, she's the only one who can actually see the cracks in Casita

Yeah...yikes

(A possible sequel could be that, out of respect, she has never looked at Abuela's pinky. But once the Madrigals have rebuilt Casita she sees it on accident...and it's red)

(I'm a sucker for the Pedro Lives AU okay?!)

Feel free to add more ideas!

I wish!!!

My brain at 3 am: Would Zeus fuck a Karen?

Me: Idfk man

Can someone answer my brain?

I-

i made a new uquiz to figure out what kind of guy you are

When I was a child, I didn't see the importance of talking or having connection with people, and I spent all my time reading books. Everyone treated everyone as a friend, so there wasn't a problem. When I became a teenager, I suddenly found myself alone, and no matter how much I tried, I couldn't maintain a relationship that wasn't texting with some foreign stranger on the internet.

The situation hit me hard both academically and mentally; my family noticed but I never told them the reason. One of my aunts warned me "Don't be so sad all the time, or you'll regret it when you're grown up, asking to yourself 'why didn't I enjoy my best years while I still could'" What she said stuck with me through my adolescence, even at the lowest points when I wanted to dissapear. And now that I'm an adult, and I can tell you she was both right and wrong.

My phone's getting older. I'll have to buy a new one soon, so I've been selecting which pictures I should keep when I came across old screenshots. I've had this Tumblr account for a while now, I think I had it even before the NSFW ban (which is quite ironic as I have to block and report pornbots daily) and seeing people talking about their problems made me feel seen. I didn't posted at all, simply taking screenshots of the posts that gave this feeling of "I'm not the only one". I was thankful I wasn't crazy. And today, reviewing those posts, I laugh. Not because I think they're stupid, but because I don't need them anymore.

The hurt I felt keeps whispering at me. I'm still highly anxious, and I've yet to kiss someone. But I have friends now. My relationship with my parents has become better, and I'm more independent than before. I've learned that life is a mix of ups and downs, and you can't stay forever in downs. My aunt was right when she said I regret what could've been, but she was wrong when she said I'd wonder to myself why I didn't enjoy it. I don't care to examine the reasons of my sadness. All I can say about is that I'm glad that sad old me could survive long enough to be here writing this post. The past can and will hit me with nostalgia and what-ifs, but for now, all I want is to fulfill the hope that 13 year old me screenshoted for the future:

I...I have no words. This is horrible.

I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.