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The only thing that stands between you and your big break as an actress is a chemistry read. Which wouldn't be that bad if it wasn't a chemistry read for a romantic drama with A-list stuntman and big time action star, Levi Ackerman, who has the emotional range of a snail.
But the problem isn't his lack of experience in romance films. And it's not your lack of experience in general. It's not the director's attitude, it's not the constantly changing script, and it's not your conspiring managers.
No, the problem is your chemistry.
Or, the fact you two have a bit too much of it...
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05 Jun 2025
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The ramblings of a person who should log off
Dropped at Ch. 21
This caught my interest because of its AU premise: actors/acting, with canon characters placed in roles that actually fit their canon vibes.
The problem is that the characters quickly lost all nuance. The OFC is bordering on a flawless goody-two-shoes, too pure for the world, with no real flaws, growth, or development. She does not evolve whatsoever. She just stays perfect, and the story keeps validating that perfection through everyone around her, especially Levi.Her roommate/best friend was especially grating: an annoying, forced-funny, unrealistic male wish-fulfilment character who feels very obviously written as a projection of how one wishes men would act. He is the hype man, reads the OFC’s mind, is always there, has no inconvenient feelings or weird lewd fantasies, and exists purely to prop her up.
Levi Ackerman is reduced to a one-dimensional fanfiction love interest. His canon brooding, nonchalant attitude gets flattened into his entire personality, and from there he becomes lovesick and personality-void. His whole role in the story ends up revolving around loving the OFC, creating a forced misunderstanding, and then chasing after her to win back her affection and trust, as if his entire reason for existing is her. Instead of feeling like Levi, he feels like a vehicle for romantic validation.
Which is also why the romance did not work for me. It felt tedious, underdeveloped, clichéd, boring, and stilted. The story fixates primarily on the romance: them falling in love while filming a movie, the movie ending, and then what feels like 90% of the rest becoming the forced misunderstanding trying to resolve itself back into where the story started. The same emotional beats keep getting repeated without adding anything new. What makes this more frustrating is that the acting/actor premise, which was the story’s biggest strength at the beginning, gets neglected later on. Once the movie is finished, the setting turns into stale set dressing. The premise has already fulfilled its purpose, and after that the story has nothing substantial left to grab onto.I dropped the fic at chapter 21 even though it is planned to end at 25, since it was still harping on the same misunderstanding: how it affected the OFC, why Levi did it, how they still want to be together, all of which the story had already gone through repeatedly, at times in almost the same words. Then it is followed by an over-the-top, validating love confession from Levi that boils down to “I only exist to love you, I made the mistake, you are so perfect, I was too stupid to recognize your perfection,” followed by even more repentance and grand gestures to prove how sorry he is.
On top of that, a lot of the story’s logistics stopped making sense. Why can two lead stars keep sneaking away from obligations, management, and agents without anyone noticing, or at least suspecting something? How can Levi, supposedly more of a stunt/action actor, suddenly emote and act simply because the OFC inspires him? How can he help at a public restaurant for her sake and continue these dramatic repentance gestures without the press, paparazzi, or fans interfering? Why does no one have a bodyguard?
Overall, the fic had a premise I genuinely liked, but it got buried under repetitive romance, forced drama, shallow characterization, and a constant need to idealise the OFC through everyone else.
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The Legend of Us by Viktor_my_love
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors
22 Jun 2026
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“And yet… I fell in love with you again. I will in every life, in every universe—I love you.”
He doesn’t remember saying it.
He doesn’t remember her.
When Link awakens in the Shrine of Resurrection, the world greets him as a hero—but he is nothing more than a hollow echo of one. The name, the blade, the destiny… they all belong to someone he cannot recall. Even his own reflection feels like a stranger staring back at him.
But there is something else.
A feeling.
A presence that lingers just beyond his reach—warm, aching, and impossibly familiar. It follows him through quiet forests and ruined fields, curls in his chest when the wind shifts just right, and haunts his dreams with fragments of a voice he cannot place.
He knows, without understanding how, that there was someone.
Someone he loved.
Someone he lost.
(Sequel to The Legend of You, but can be read separately)
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- Part 2 of Our Legend (Link x Reader)
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18 May 2026
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The ramblings of a person who should log off
I’m really enjoying this fic so far, but some recent developments have left me iffy. Not in a “this is bad” way, but in a “this is veering away from what I loved about the earlier chapters” way.
The setup was fantastic. The slow (maybe a tad too slow in places) exploration of Link waking up, piecing himself back together, and figuring out his purpose carried so much weight and maturity. And the buildup to Reader’s awakening was excellent. Watching Link uncover those fragments of his past and feeling that growing desperation for him to finally reach her had me genuinely hyped.
Now that she’s awake, though, the story has slipped into this repetitive loop of melodrama. Reader’s constantly wrestling with “I still love him, but he doesn’t remember me, and I can’t risk overwhelming him, so I’ll withhold everything for his own good.” Meanwhile, Link is stuck thinking, “I keep getting these flashes of something deeper between us, but her signals are so mixed that I’m confused, jealous, and spiralling in my own head.” On top of that, the unnecessary Sidon love-triangle drama just feels forced. Link keeps getting worked up over their dynamic, while Reader downplays his very obvious jealousy and never once sits him down to clear the air.
It especially shows in Chapters 15 and 16. Every serious or high stakes moment gets immediately derailed by over-the-top romantic tension: Link simping hard, dramatic reactions whenever Reader gets hurt, all the physical closeness tropes (falling on each other, pulling one another close, lingering stares, zeroing in on her mouth). It started to feel like the fic forgot the actual stakes - the kingdom is in grave danger with a ticking clock overhead, Zelda is in the villain’s clutches, and Reader and Link are supposed to be gathering allies and tools to save the day. Instead, it all turns into CW-style teen drama: hallways and feelings with swords.
The most frustrating part is that Reader could have fixed a lot of this early on. The second she noticed his feelings and jealousy starting to interfere with their mission, she could’ve pulled him aside, clarified what she could without dumping his fractured memories on him, and set some boundaries. But she doesn’t, so we’re left stuck in this exhausting cycle of miscommunication and manufactured tension.
I’m still enjoying the fic overall, there’s a lot to love here. But the shift from a mature, character-driven story to this will-they-won’t-they soap opera feels really jarring. I’m really hoping the plot circles back to the actual stakes soon, because right now the romance is sabotaging them.
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Dante starts noticing something off about you, and it's driving him crazy.
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- Part 6 of Dante/Reader
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Drink With Me - Silco's POV by InkAndDagger
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
26 Jun 2023
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The Lanes never yield.
Silco's sunken empire may remain beneath Piltover's heavy shadow —for now— but no one can claim that the Undercity is weak.
There is always strength to be rallied, if you know where to look.
It's something Silco prides himself on - the ability to build something from nothing. To materialise opportunity where others do not see it. To innovate. To flip the gambits on any game to his favour, no matter how dire the match may seem.
And so, he never expected to find himself so distracted by something as trivial as a new, whip-tongued bartender.
Neither did he expect that his intrigue might be reciprocated.
And he certainly never expected to form a bond so deep that it calls into question the fears of his past.
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Snippets of Drink With Me as told from Silco's point of view
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- Part 4 of Drink With Me
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When an ascended Astarion offers to make you his dark consort, his right hand, his most beloved vampire spawn, you reject the offer. However it appears he was not as willing to give you up as you were first led to believe.
Your heart always belonged to the road, yet each twist and turn always brings you right back to Baldur’s gate. To him.