so apparently some people feel like it’s annoying when someone engages with a lot of stuff from the same person, like going through their ship tag and liking all the content there.
hearing about this, i was immediately paranoid about reblogging literally anything from anyone i don’t talk to on a regular basis.
so to save others from the same paranoia, i’m gonna say that if you like every single post on my goddamn blog it is okay. i might be kind of concerned about your level of time management, going through 23,000 posts, but it wouldn’t bother me.
I need to make myself perfectly clear: I Do Not pay attention to the activity notifications on my dashboard unless someone replies to or reblogs and adds to a post I’ve made. If you go on a liking/reblogging spree through my blog, there is an 80% chance I won’t even notice. The other 20% is me noticing, going “huh, cool, you go little dude” and then forgetting two minutes later.
I wonder where the break happened that such wide swaths of younger fans don’t grasp fandom things that used to be unspoken understandings. That fic readers are expected to know fiction from reality, that views expressed in fic are not necessarily those of the author, that the labels, tags and warnings on various kinkfics are also the indication that they were created for titillation and not much more, please use responsibly as per all pornography. The ‘problem’ isn’t that so-called ‘problematic’ fic exists but that some of the audience is being stupid, irresponsible, at worst criminal, at best not old enough to be in the audience to begin with. And that’s on the consumer, not the author who told you via labels, tags, ratings, warnings and venues what their fic was about and what it was for.
“Newton, I am not wrong. There is only one way to make sure… and that is to do this together. I’ll go with you. That’s what the jaeger pilots do. Share the neural load.”
“You’re serious? You… you would do that for me? Or would do that with me?”
“Well with worldwide destruction a certain alternative, do I really have a choice?”
Thank you @avelera for helping me realize that Newt and Hermann end up compromising around Hermann’s PDA issues by doing the vulcan two-finger tap kiss. Because imagining Newt silently holding up two fingers and Hermann just all aflutter as he taps them is the cutest, geekiest fucking shit and Im dying over how real it is for them
The Only Way Out is Down (53400 words) by Avelera Chapters: 11/16 – Malebolge – Newt Fandom: Pacific Rim (Movies), La Divina Commedia | The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb Characters: Newton Geiszler, Hermann Gottlieb, Jake Pentecost Additional Tags: Post-Movie: Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Literary References & Allusions, Coma, Rescue, Newton Geiszler is a Dork, POV Newton Geiszler, Newton Geiszler Recovery Arc, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Dreamscapes, Past Relationship(s), Other Additional Tags to Be Added, The Drift (Pacific Rim), Drift Side Effects, Hell, Inferno AU, Stream of Consciousness, Worried Hermann Gottlieb, Explicit Language, Past Mind Control, POV Hermann Gottlieb, Precursors are super dead, Memory Loss, Memory Alteration, Bickering, BAMF Hermann Gottlieb, Kissing, Canon-Typical Violence, Injury, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Explicit Sexual Content, Consensual Sex, Hurt/Comfort, Seduction Summary:
The invasion of the Anteverse was successful, and the Precursors have been destroyed, but Newt still hasn’t awoken from his coma and doesn’t respond initially to Drift attempts from Hermann to wake him.
But when one day a connection is established, Hermann and Newt find themselves in a mingled mindscape that seems informed by Dante’s “Inferno”. Together, they pass through the Nine Circles, nine memories of Newt’s years under Precursor control in the hopes it will help free Newt from his own head.
Yet questions linger: how much did the Precursors take from Newt, to what lengths will Hermann go to free him, and is the other even truly there, or merely a rabbit of the other’s making, a wish fulfillment fantasy that they’re chasing into the abyss?
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Sorry for the delay, guys! Thank you for your patience, I hope you enjoy this somewhat calmer, fluffier chapter :3
i went estab relationship for it (and newmann of course)! nsfw/18+ under cut. pls enjoy about 1000 words of a trope i somehow haven’t written yet (plus a bit of marathon sex combo lab sex lmfao)
Avelera 