The “interspecies relationship” tag on AO3 is wild because it could mean, like, Kirk/Spock, or it could mean Voldemort/Pikachu, and there’s absolutely no way of knowing which.
My fiancee was the one who wrote the latter and I am so proud.
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In the Same Manner – seashadows – Moby Dick – Herman Melville [Archive of Our Own]
Or, the Queeshmael/Moana crossover fic that I definitely wanted.
Summary:
Maui was flooded with relief when he saw the man paddling, or rather trying and failing to paddle.
(A thousand-year-old friendship brings a demigod out to save a harpooneer, and one less canonical death results.)
Or, Queequeg is a descendant of Moana a thousand years down the line, and Maui keeps his promises.
In the Same Manner – seashadows – Moby Dick – Herman Melville [Archive of Our Own]
“Shh, it’s alright,” the villain said. “You’re doing beautifully and I’m so proud of you. But that’s enough now. It was cruel of them to make you fight me – you could never have won. It’s not your fault.”
The ancient and powerful villain may have had a calm and gentle face as he spoke, but he was furious, not at the hero, but the gods for continually sending kids and teenagers to fight their battles.
fandom as a whole is migrating away from a mutual appreciation of a story and towards an endless cycle of nitpicking and discourse and frankly that’s just Exhausting
writing tip #284:
if there’s romance in your novel, it’s perfectly acceptable to stall an action scene for your narrator to admire their love interest’s appearance
ISHMAEL
#there’s a boat-based emergen-WAIT LOOK AT THOSE SHOULDERS #calm it Ishmael we know you’re only a sailor for the hot guys (via shinobi93)
Death By Catchphrase 