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liking john basically feels like this

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It's finally up! Sorry it took so long! I've been kinda down and found it hard to make myself work on anything. Hope you all enjoy! John has yet again, a very bad time.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65622229

Edit- I appear to be having some trouble sharing a link on tumblr at the moment. The fic is called "Hold Back the Night".

I've been in a kind of writing slump for a few months and remembered that about a year ago I made a poll like this to get myself motivated and it worked, so I thought I'd try it again. All of these are at least partially written. 3 & 4 are chapter fics but are almost done. The rest are all one shots I've finished but not revised. Please help kick my ass into gear!

Any questions and I'll answer them! I just need some motivation and to figure out where to start lol.

Whatever wins will end up being posted by the middle of or end of next month (April 2025).

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Helloooo I just wanted to say that I really love your Hellblazer fics!! A friend recced me some of your fics cos they're pretty obsessed too so thats how I found you! I really love the atmosphere you set up and any of your works reads straight out of the early Hellblazer comics!! I also really enjoy the way you write Cheryl... because it seems like a good bit of people often forget about her and John's siblinghood and don't really explore it.. or when they do they just bash her :sobs: ANYWAY YEAH I LOVE THE WAY YOU WRITE AND YOUR BRAIN

Gaaah that is so kind of you to say! I'm so glad you and your friend enjoy them! I always hope to come close to something on par with what Jamie Delano wrote! That's kinda my goal because he's my fav Hellbalzer writer lol and I like writing Cheryl because there's so much nuance and complexity in their relationship! Thank you so much!

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Unfortunately, sometimes misunderstandings can lead to complications developing later down the line.

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buffy summers more like buffy snork mimimi <3333

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Everything's interconnected, stupid.

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"the face of PERFECT BEAUTY"

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Buffy Summers cards—art by Heather Vaughan—from Unmatched: Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Mondo Games and Restoration Games.

(clockwise from top left):

Training

Feint

Slayer's Strength

Regroup

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Looks like we have a winner! The vampire one will be up before the end of the month! Thanks to everyone who voted! The results were really interesting to see.

I've been in a kind of writing slump for a few months and remembered that about a year ago I made a poll like this to get myself motivated and it worked, so I thought I'd try it again. All of these are at least partially written. 3 & 4 are chapter fics but are almost done. The rest are all one shots I've finished but not revised. Please help kick my ass into gear!

Any questions and I'll answer them! I just need some motivation and to figure out where to start lol.

Whatever wins will end up being posted by the middle of or end of next month (April 2025).

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I've been in a kind of writing slump for a few months and remembered that about a year ago I made a poll like this to get myself motivated and it worked, so I thought I'd try it again. All of these are at least partially written. 3 & 4 are chapter fics but are almost done. The rest are all one shots I've finished but not revised. Please help kick my ass into gear!

Any questions and I'll answer them! I just need some motivation and to figure out where to start lol.

Whatever wins will end up being posted by the middle of or end of next month (April 2025).

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I've always felt that in terms of looks, John Constantine should stay looking like Sting but as Sting is famously into health and taking care of himself he shouldn't look as good as him. I don't mean make him ugly, there are plenty of issues where it's clear John can take care of himself and cleans up nicely but he's probably not going to get as expensive of a hair cut as Sting or have a personal chef/nutrition. He smokes constantly so his teeth are gonna be a bit worse for wear too.

I got frustrated with some of the later Hellblazer comics because in the beginning, John has clear ups and downs. Sometimes he looks great, his suit is neat, his hair is combed and he's going around confidently but then when shit hits the fan or his mental health suffers he can be seen looking unkempt and haggard. Later writers seemed to have him rolling off a perpetual bender which kind of took away from the realism of how John's mental health had been portrayed in the early stuff. Before, you knew he generally liked to be clean and to take care of his appearance. It makes it more painful, more human when you see him fall into depression and stop shaving or washing up. You know he's not supposed to be this way, you know it's not how he likes to be. You see the effects of his mental health suffering clearly. Later, when he's scruffy and scuffed up all of the time it's comes across as gimmicky and doesn't mean anything any more. The ups and downs of the character were one of the humanizing factors that really drew me to him in the first place and I know I'm not the first person to give my opinion on this but I was disappointed by this shift in interpretation and depiction. I didn't like him constantly being some slob who was just happy to roll around in filth and shit, when he get's like that it's because he's going through the bad times again. Otherwise it's just a meaningless gimmick.

So yeah, I maybe biased as a Sting- enjoyer but I like it when he looks like Sting. I just don't think he should be as generally fit and polished as Sting. I think of it as kind of like those pictures of identical twins where one twin smoked for 20 yrs and the other didn't. Also if one twin had vastly more money and didn't experience untold horrors every other week.

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He’s just kinda chilling

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Just praying for the leather coat on Buffy in the upcoming reboot 🗡️

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X-Men fan art I made around a decade ago. If I'd known they were going to create X-Men '97 back then I'd have probably lost my friggin' mind! I know I drew Storm too but I couldn't find the drawing unfortunately.

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still love spike dawn friendship….. 

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RIP Michelle Tratchtenberg

Nobody could have portrayed the strength of Dawn Summers quite like you did