Vibrating With Excitement To Get To This Point

Can we bring back The Game?

For people who don’t know, there is no way to win The Game. You can only lose. And you lose by thinking about it. When you lose, you announce “I lost the game” and therefore everyone else around you loses as well.

I just feel like this is a fun little part of how I grew up that we should pass into kids today. Let’s bring back people shouting “I lost the game!” In class.

Also, btw, I lost the game.

Jason keeps wanting to sit them down for a talk, but Clive keeps avoiding it. He even starts telling Belinda to lead Jason in what to do in the lab- he starts respecting the hierarchy where the PhDs and postdocs are supposed to be guiding him.

I feel like Jason sets up a trap (poorly conceived plan) where he sets up a giant dinner. Gets candles and makes all of Clive’s favorite foods. He prints out his old text conversations with Farrah about liking him.

Farrah is adamant against this plan, but Jason gets Belinda to send Clive home early one day.

A modern day AU where Clive is a lonely researcher and Jason works part time at a dumpling soup shop and at an office supply store.

Clive only goes out for three things - food, office supplies, and basic necessities. Somehow he runs into Jason doing all three of these. And somehow, the chef/server who will let Clive rant about his research, coworkers, the university (all while looking very interested), remembers his name and says hi to him every time they see each other.

A modern day AU where Clive is a lonely researcher and Jason works part time at a dumpling soup shop and at an office supply store.

Clive only goes out for three things - food, office supplies, and basic necessities. Somehow he runs into Jason doing all three of these. And somehow, the chef/server who will let Clive rant about his research, coworkers, the university (all while looking very interested), remembers his name and says hi to him every time they see each other.

Xue Yang - Lessons About Revenge

The title is “Talk Astral Magic to Me.”

Maybe it’s pre magical disaster earth where it’s still mostly under wraps but Jason somehow finds out. Clive is one of those people intent on figuring out how to level up without monster cores (he hates the icky feeling of monster core auras).

My other ideas were vaguely:

Following the plot of the books from a pining Clive perspective (but that would be LONG)

Outworlders are much more rare and Jason gets kidnapped by the Magic society for research soon after getting his essences. Clive, being their lead Astral Magic researcher, gets put onto studying him but has (obvious) ethical concerns and breaks him out.

I thought of a fantastic fic name. Now what about the plot…

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

CrimeReads

Dismissing Fan Fiction As Base Just Makes You Look Basic

Being trans means that you compare a lot of things to being trans. Getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, for example— that feeling, “nobody

"[I]t’s so weird that we pick up on fanfic, of all things, as the archetype of base fiction. We might as well choose novels about mathematicians, or books that have gimmicky chapter titles. Fanfic is just fiction that has an element of criticism to it, fiction that openly responds to other fiction. That’s all. Oh, there’s a little more to it than that; it’s generally also fiction you can’t sell, which is important, and there are common tropes to it, as I’ve said, but at heart, it’s just fiction that centers the idea of interpretation. Some of it’s great and some of it’s bad. The fact that a book is part of a genre is not a predictor of its quality."

So the one good thing about traveling is that you have a lot of time to draw if you bring your stuff.

Do you know that Dustin Kettering has like zero description in the books, the closest you get is his ice powers ect, and his cousin being huge like him.

Trust me, I looked through all 11 books I had available to me… so I have decided to make up a design for him.

I know he is a sheilder, but he creates his own armor, so I did not feel like kitting him to much out.

Updated Thadwick’s outfit a bit and Neil’s, nothing to crazy.

Either way, hope you like it.

Character interactions are based off the fanfiction I’m working on, they definitely are not cannon, hahaha.

“Clive gave a frustrated groan and ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble.”

Stubble? STUBBLE?!

And then Clive invites him away for a little tea date only to get cockblocked by a diamond ranker 😭

(Also now I want Jason to shave Clive. Take care of him when he’s gone too far down the research hole. Help him bathe and dress into his pajamas. Make sure he eats.)

Fandom Etiquette

I’ve been around for a really long time in various fandoms, and no one ever writes this stuff down. I’ll start. Please add to the list. We can’t expect people to follow “rules” they don’t know exist. 

written with the help of @unbreakablejemmasimmons

Fanart

if you like something, reblog it. Help the artist get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you. 

if you want more of it, support it. This can be via commissions, reblogs, recommending the artist to other people, shouting in the tags, or sending the artist asks/messages. 

if you hate it, keep scrolling. Keep the hate in a message window with a friend, not in the artist’s notes. 

if you want to use it, ask permission. Artwork is beautiful and you want to show it off. But please ask the artist before you throw it into your header or your icon. 

if you use it, give credit. And not just a post where you say “Do you like my new icon? X made it!”. Put it in your blog description, that way when someone rolls around your blog three months from now, they also know where your icon/header came from. 

if you appreciate it, don’t repost it. Reblog the artist’s post instead of making one of your own. Let them see all of the excited tags in the reblogs and replies or commentary that people add on. If you come across something on a google image search, try to trace it back to the owner. If someone tells you who the artist is, credit them - but also try to find and reblog their original post.

Fanfic

if you like something, reblog it. Help the author get their work out there in front of more people. Share the joy that it brought you.

if you want more of it, support it. Kudos are great, but if you want more of the thing you like, you should comment. Subscribe to the story or the author. Send them a message about how much you like what they wrote. 

if you read it, kudos it. Or give it a thumbs up. If you want the author to write more things like that, let them know - even if you can’t comment! 

don’t demand content. Be patient. Stories take time. You can encourage without being demanding. Show your love for what’s there without telling them to post more often. 

be gentle with criticism. Some people want it and some people run away from it. If you don’t know what type of person the author is, it’s best not to go there. “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.”

Fandom

ship and let ship. You love your ship and other people love theirs. No one needs to “win” when we’re all going to end up in tears anyway. 

if you hate it, stay out of the tag. This has two meanings: 1) don’t deliberately put hateful commentary in a tag and 2) if you  hate a tag, don’t go and read through that tag just to make yourself angry

if someone makes you something, appreciate it. Read and comment the fic. Like and reblog the artwork. Pimp it out and tell them how much you loved it. It’s a gift, treat it like one. 

if it’s a gift, put some effort into it. You signed up for that exchange three months ago and now it’s a week before you have to send the gift and you don’t have the time or the inclination to do the thing. Well too bad. Someone out there has been working hard in your gift, so you should do the same for them. 

none of us are “better” than anyone else. We’re all trash for our particular show/film/book/ship/artist/what-have-you. My fave is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine. 

actors are not their characters. They are people. Treat them like people.