Off topic but anyone who uses tumblr - do you have a sense of the current etiquette around crediting someone who made a gif you want to use in a post? Is just doing 'username' on the post cool?

(comment brought to you by a shockingly unpleasant interaction I had with someone on my literal first post in years - they were definitely an asshole but I want to check if they were correct and an asshole or just an asshole)


What I've Read

When the Dead Tree Flowers by Blackkat – https://archiveofourown.org/works/47341819
This is a Star Wars Clone Wars AU focused on minor EU character Granta Omega, who has the complicated power of being invisible in the Force. For this incredibly useful power, he’s kidnapped and held on Kamino and a batch of clones are made using his DNA. This fic takes place just as he escapes, realizes it’s the Domino squad, and goes to find them. Blackkat does great work on establishing just how damaged Granta was by his childhood as a tool of his father’s revenge, and builds a fascinating set of relationships between Granta and his clone children – family for a group of clones who never expected to have a parent who cared, found family for Granta adopting the clones who helped him in captivity, and there’s a hint of a romance with one clone…. The story is 170K and stops at a good place but clearly doesn’t actually finish the plot Blackkat has in mind.

You Wired Me Awake by thefourthvine 
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63881242
Star Trek alternate original series movies AU – Jim Kirk is a werewolf at the end of his leash. (lol) He’s sentenced to The Academy, which puts supernatural creatures like him to good use, but only if they bow and scrape and never aim for anything ambitious in life. Spock is a vampire. This fic has them conspiring to handle things that human society would prefer they not touch, and it’s so so much fun. Imagine if Kirk and Spock had to conspire against evil Star Trek for the good of the world! TheFourthVine shifts all the tech to magic, but keeps it hard and complex and interesting. Part 1 of a series, this fic is complete but the series is not.

Fingers Crossed That I’m Something You’ll Keep by thefourthvine 
https://archiveofourown.org/works/55775611
It (movies Muschietti) Alternate Universe – Everybody lives
I do not go to this fandom! I have neither read the book nor seen the movie, and yet, here I am, enjoying this strange traumatized man become a school admin and fall in love with a dickish traumatized parent. This might be canon compliant or not but it’s mostly extremely cute.


What I’m Reading 
City of Lies by Sam Hawke – 38% - I am technically re-reading this but have no actual knowledge of the book’s plot. Did I finish this?
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan – 40% ish
Male Order – Unwrapping Masculinity -edited b y Rowena Chapman


What I’ll Read Next
The Route of Ice and Salt (gay and dracula and boats)
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Empire of Gold
Madness of Angels Kate Griffin
City of Lies
The Memory Librarian