You Can Survive Almost Anything Through The Right Combination Of:

~ chaosmakers ~ and avelin

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

Okay i k ow I’ve been asking you a lot of obidala asks but it’s because i like your perspective…aside from 2 bottoms scenario if obidala did fuck what would it be like.

Anakin dies and it’s weird grief proxy sex that’s incredibly milquetoast and if they weren’t so upset about their husband/brotherboyfbestfriend dying they’d both be disappointed.

obi-wan strikes me as the kind of guy who might want to do it more than once in the throes of grief just to prolong the ~connection to anakin~ or whatever but i think Padmé has too much self respect to do it again LFMAO. So tells him no and then they both never talk about it again and things are forever weird between them

The term 'ship' is too vague. I don't think they should date i think they should be fucking regularly. I don't think they should date i think they should yearn for eachother endlessly but never have it be requited. I don't think they should date i think they should kiss one night and never talk about it again. I don't think they should date i think they should hate eachother so much that it turns into bottled up lust. I don't think they should date i think one of them should have a one-sided crush on the other. I don't think they should date i think they should have a situationship that ruins their lives. I don't think they should date i think they should stab eachother

okay i'm clearly on a journey through fandom memory lane but it really is wild to me that a random norwegian teen drama cracked the code on how to perfectly market and promote a show in the age of social media and NO ONE ELSE (besides the countries trying to create their own version of the same show ig) has emulated it?????????? like?????????? legitimate social media profiles for your characters????????? with posts and instagram stories from them that fit within the plot as well as offering a fun little extra insight into the characters/friendships/relationships?????? groundbreaking. i had instagram notifications turned on for FICITONAL CHARACTERS. one of your characters wants to be a director??? here's his real youtube channel with a video he made for his boyfriend's birthday full of never before seen clips that don't exist on the show?!?!?!?!?! unbelievable. you want your show to be immersive??? you want the audience to feel like they're living within the pov of your main character?? drop a clip/sneak peek in real time as it's supposed to happen in the episode so your audience is thinking about it 24/7. genius!!!!!! like can you imagine if circa 2018 everything didn't move to full season dumps and instead shows that aired on a weekly basis and incorporated even one of these things became the norm??????? we were robbed of what could've been

Attention Everybody,

Christian Lindner ist in der Offenen Feldschlacht gefallen!

"came back wrong" what about Came Back Afraid. You used to be brave. Too brave maybe, defying the odds at every turn, a fighter, cocky, playing with fire, first to throw yourself at the enemy. Until one day it all caught up to you. You came back, somehow, but now you know all too intimately how it feels to lose, to die, to be destroyed. Now you flinch and freeze and cower at the slightest provocation. Who even are you now if you can't be brave? The grave may have let you go, but the mortal fear still grips you tighter than ever.

i started writing a varric/solas modern au (still unsure if it's going into a shippy direction or more platonic, but they are definitely something) but as I am about 4k words in, I realized that I am just doing DA2 fanfic now.

Featuring bangers such as

“Didn’t think you’d take it up the ass,” Fenris says. “No judgment, but I didn’t think you would.” “Charming,” Varric murmurs and snatches the man’s tankard from him to take a long sip. He’s earned that after that comment. “Who’s to say he takes it up the ass,” Isabella says. “I do,” Fenris says. “Do I get a say in this?” Varric asks. “No,” Isabella tells him. “So, details. Was he hot?”

which milena quoted five times on our train ride, I think i'm onto something

(in even better news, their next chapter of the punching blackwall fic is also going amazingly, I got solas being a cutie (read: people pleaser) for the next chapter, life is good)