uncle-knobheads:

Fic authors deserve more credit.

Story time: I started a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). But it felt like it flew by, so after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.

The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And Fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.

So anyway, thank your favorite fic author today because they deserve it. Because they’re amazing. They’re the MVPs.

I don’t even

Someone just left a hundreds-of-words long screed against MCU canon and characterisation and fanon and shipping in (multiple) comments on a fic I wrote a few years ago and then was incredibly shocked that I a) saw it and b) replied, telling them to kindly either a) read something else or b) keep their thoughts to themself/their blog/their twitter.

I mean, it’s a comment box. To leave comments. For the author. Did they think they could do the equivalent of taking a dump in my mailbox without me seeing it? It’s not a fucking Tumblr reblog. It’s a direct comment. To me. About my story.

Also, the whole thing was completely without a) full stops and b) coherent trains of thought.

It’s too early in the day for this shit.

Please, from the bottom of my heart, keep this kind of shit out of your comments on people’s fanworks. It’s not helpful. It’s downright depressing, and all authors take away from it is that you hate everything that they wrote about and carefully tagged for, but you chose to read it and get angry about it anyway. Why would you even read something you know you will hate? Why would you then rant to the author about hating it? Why? Do you know you can read things you like? Do you know there’s a thing called outside? Do you know chocolate exists? And ice cream? Those are pretty good. Please consume those instead. Thanks.

delphina2k:

The Crocodile Hunter style of writing involves chasing after cool-looking ideas that wander by and tackling them into submission.

I don’t recommend it for the long-term because it’s exhausting, but if there isn’t at least a LITTLE bit of Crocodile Hunter in your writing, I’m probably not going to read it.

a-kinkajou:

“They were warned numerous times – don’t veer off the path in the Gardens of Asgard.Of course, Steve Rogers heeds the advice of no one. Ever.“

collab for @capreversebb
read & look at more arts on AO3: Gardens of Asgard by the most amazing @anthonystan​ who turned my straight up sexpollen prompt into so much more! *anaconda-hugs her until she makes desperate EEK noises* THANK YOU for making this challenge so much fun!

So here’s a thought:

perspi-looks:

captainwondyful:

perspi-looks:

Steve Rogers gets himself an Instagram and follows Dwayne Johnson, as one does. 

The Rock posts one of his giant breakfast pictures, as he is wont to do.

Steve, lil shit that he is, responds with HIS enormous breakfast, insinuating that perhaps Dwayne Johnson’s breakfast isn’t actually all that much food and if he ate THAT he’d be hungry in, like, an hour.

It goes on like that, for WEEKS, good-natured teasing about how much food they eat spilling over into Twitter and callouts during interviews.

Until they agree to have breakfast together, and the last post about it is just a picture of the two of them, lying flat on the Rock’s living room floor with his dog sniffing at Steve’s head, both of them with big hands splayed over their bellies like they can’t possibly fit any more.

Neither will say who actually can eat more – every time they’re asked, they start in on how awesome the other is and how much respect they have for each other and how glad they are that they got to become friends.

This is everything I have ever wanted.

The first video on the Rock’s instagram gets posted at 4:15 AM – this is not uncommon, nor is the fact that he’s walking around his brightly-lit Iron Paradise. It’s more the bouncing that’s unusual.

“You know what the BEST THING about being buddies with CAPTAIN AMERICA is? Yesterday I got to meet the motherfucking Falcon. That’s right, SAM WILSON was here, was right here! I asked him what it was like to fly, and he grinned at me and then we did like, an hour and a half of planks and v-sits and he had me hanging from the TRX to hold planks and I swear I was shaking halfway through and he just laughed and said, ‘now imagine you have a couple rockets strapped to your ass, now you flyin.’ and I’m tellin’ you, THAT MAN is a fucking ROCK, it was amazing.”

The camera swings around to the barbell setups before coming back to Dwayne’s face. “He also told me that Steve Rogers knows almost nothing about weightlifting and Steve agreed he’s got no idea where his PR might be, so today is gonna be LEG DAY. My entire torso is fuckin’ killing me, but this is gonna be AWESOME. Stay tuned, y’all.”

The second video of the day comes in the afternoon; Dwayne looks exhausted but Steve Rogers looks plenty fresh and also a combination of sheepish and smug.

Dwayne opens with a deadpan, “Leg day.”

“I learned so much!” Steve is enthusiastic, almost bouncy. “This guy is a great teacher.”

“He also,” and the video pans around to the barbell setups seen earlier in the day, “broke my motherfucking gym.”

The thick barbell in the middle of the floor is wickedly bent, standing on its own in an inverted V. All of the big metal plates are scattered around the floor instead of on the racks, and several dumbbells are also twisted into odd shapes. One of the biggest weight plates is buried high in the far wall, only about half of it sticking out, like a giant ninja had thrown a shuriken.

“Don’t worry, Dwayne, we’ll figure out my deadlift PR eventually,” Steve’s voice comes from behind the camera.

“Man, fuck you,” Dwayne can be heard before the video cuts out.

The weight plate stays up in the brick wall; Dwayne doesn’t actually tell anyone that he’d asked if Steve could do that so he’d have a souvenir.

copperbadge:

philosophykitten:

copperbadge:

yoats:

doodle.

Hey iamshadow21, it’s your fic! 😀

Fun note: Wal-Mart now carries Marvel knee high socks, and in addition to the shield, Cap’s has little wings.

Even MORE fun fact, I bought a pair and snipped the wings off to use them on a hat.

OH MY GOD THAT’S AMAZING.

TONY, STOP. NO MEANS NO.

(Tony would totally want to do all kinds of tests on Steve’s headwings. He would also get very very angry at the lack of logical physics surrounding their ability to make Steve fly.)

Mr. Badge, I have a question. What are your thoughts on Phil/Steve as a ship? Because I found myself thinking about that ship, and it somehow makes me happy? I don’t appreciate when unexpected ships make me happy, but I’m still happy.

copperbadge:

LOL, if it makes you happy, I say ship it. The whole point of fandom is we do it because we enjoy it. 

I think Phil/Steve has to be approached somewhat carefully because there’s a weird power imbalance there – I’m not sure who’s actually higher in the chain of command, but Coulson also has an idealized version of Steve Rogers in his head that probably doesn’t correspond super-closely with reality. So either you have to deal with that in direct terms, or you have to discuss them getting to know one another better so that we know Coulson’s not in a relationship with the comic book character in his head, and Steve’s not taking advantage of the adulation of a fan. Unless you’re into writing that kind of darkness, in which case knock yourself out, I don’t judge. 

But sure, I think it’s a perfectly valid ship with some interesting aspects to it, especially now that Coulson is heading SHIELD. (Or is he? IDK, I haven’t seen the last like, half dozen episodes, I need to catch up.) 

If anon wants a rec of a great treatment of this ship, I can highly recommend Ask Galatea by thingswithwings. Sweet, gentle service submission and fantasy fulfillment that just leaves you wanting more.