— Ada Limon, from “Stillwater Cove,” The Hurting Kind: Poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022)

Idk, but this ship dynamic just give me all the buzz.

I think it's the ALMOST canon ships that get the best, most intricately woven, beautifully told fanfiction.

those nearly-kind-of-almost-maybe-could-be canon couples

the ones that make it almost painful to live with the knowledge that if just one or two things had happened differently, just one or two things: if one of them had said something differently here, done something differently there, or if certain events had shifted a little, just a fraction, they'd have been together - undoubtedly.

you can see it. everyone can see it. but it's not enough - they're still an almost-but-not-quite, maybe-but-it-was-never-confirmed, kind-of-but-annoyingly-ambiguous

fanfiction writers take their potential and they hold it close and they lovingly craft something amazing and beautiful with it - finally giving them the chance to be together like everyone knows they would be in-canon if the story wasn't against them

they spring out entire novels from canon-divergence in the places where just a little step in another direction could have led to them being together

they build whole intricate Alternate Universes where the characters are able to meet in an entirely different way and still fall for each other

what I'm saying is that the insanity of a ship where it was almost-canon drives writers to a specific kind of creative madness that produces the best fanfiction....

so if you check out my graph here you can see the line for the more almost it gets vs the more unhinged and motivated it makes the writers both rising in a wonderfully clear diagonal line and today I will be discussing the

*sobs*

Rebelcaptain Pride and Prejudice AU 

....WELP

I just want them to travel the galaxy together 🥺

Rogue One Brawling Tournament

Well, hello there! Welcome to the Rogue One Brawling Tournament (inspired by @andorshitdaily hosting a similar poll for Andor characters, go check them out as well) where we're going to try to determine the Number One Undefeated Brawling Champion of Rogue One in the spirit of trying to keep the love for this movie alive and well. The only rule? No weapons allowed.

If this goes well and there's interest, I'm open to doing other Rogue One tournaments as well.

So without further ado, here are the match ups (completely randomized so don't throw rocks at me).

Voting to start on Thursday so keep your eyes peeled and reblog to spread the word!

Well it was working fine for him!

No one asked but I think the secret to making the enemies-to-lovers trip work is respect. They can loath each other, but they have to loath each other as equals. Like “sorry but no one else is allowed to murder this man but me” + “it’s an honor and privilege to despise you.”

Me reading enemies to lovers fics in 2012

Me reading enemies to lovers fics in 2021

all fanfiction is funnier and sexier and vastly better-written when you read it at three in the morning, in the dark, lying on your side, tucked into bed, with screen rotate turned off. that’s just how it works. that’s just facts.