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Rewatching Lockwood and Co (because me? Letting go? Never bro what the hell) and I just love when Lucy went "Come on George~" when Lockwood refused to let her try to talk to Annabelle.

Like yeah, the trio has a duo because two of them have an insane crush on each other but tbh it was three duos that worked really well together, I'll never not enjoy a George and Lucy scene

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Have you ever thought of something in your own worldbuilding that you didn't intentionally plan, but just connect the dots afterwards like "wait, that actually checks out"?

Like in the story of the Book I Am Not Working On, there's the fisher folk. They don't fish, actually, they live in diaspora and nobody really knows why they're called that, anymore. They're more known for their numerous, strict and often seemingly random and nonsensical ritual purity rules, and stereotypically having absurdly large numbers of children. The twist is, they don't actually have more children than any other peoples of the Empire, their purity rules just ensure that they maintain higher levels of physical hygiene in everything to do with childbirth and handling infants - and therefore have a lower infant mortality than other peoples.

The "why do these people have huge families" thing also had another side: Fetishisation. The fisher folk's purity rules also involve no sex outside of marriage, and there's a myth on top of the stereotype that the reason why they seem to have a massive amount of kids is because their husbands are so good in bed that their wives cannot turn them down even if they're 100% done having kids. And since fisher folk do not have sexual relations outside of marriage, no outsider has had enough fisher dick to verify this.

But while they are loyal to partners, they are also polygamous, both ways around. A perfectly normal fisher marriage arrangement may feature a man and his two wives, and his second wife's first husband. One household may cover seven married partners, and all their mutual children. It's considered taboo to pry into which kids are "really" whose, paternity is unknowable and unless you were close enough to the family to know which one of the wives gave birth, the biological mother is none of your business either. Every partner in the marriage is equally a parent to each child born within it.

And this is where my own "wait hold on" comes in. Besides the lower mortality, the illusion of fishers having insane amounts of kids may also partially come from the way their families are structured. If you've just met a group of five people you don't know anything about, and they all claim that they have nine children each, it wouldn't cross your mind that they might all be claiming the same nine children.

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i like the idea of Lucy being the "author" of the Lockwood&Co books. after her talent fades she decides to be a writer. cue the team reading through her manuscripts like "wow Lucy you really hated us back then, huh?"

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I know vampirism is often used as a metaphor for the drain of the aristocracy but I think it would be fun to have more vampire characters who were just some guy before they got turned. You seek out the most ancient vampire in existence and find out he was a 40 year old wheat farmer in ancient Mesopotamia when he was turned 7,000 years ago and he hasn’t been doing much since then.

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Imagine meeting the most handsome goofiest genderweird butch you've ever seen and she has a dedicated probably monogamous boyfriend who to be fair is actually a pretty cool dude and you're devastated that you can't shoot your shot. Then you find out that up until last year boyfriend was certain he was gay and then he met this handsome goofy genderweird butch and was like oh I like women. Or at least women who are also men sometimes. So I'm bisexual. Also to make things more confusing they're both veterans who are actually pretty staunchly anti-military and hate every admiral they've ever encountered and the butch only went into the military because she desperately needed healthcare coverage for her father and the boyfriend was like. A legacy military brat who realized this is all pretty fucked actually. Congratulations you have encountered modern day Mulan and Li Shang

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i love how we were scared theyd go full hetero for wicked but the movie turned out to be gayer than the play, and then the deleted scenes come out and it turns out it couldve been gayer somehow.

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The Munchkin asked “is it true she was your friend?” but Glinda heard “tell us about your lesbian situationship and it’s consequences” and just went with it

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ik every time glinda has to do some politics shit in oz she's crying inside like "this should be elphaba's job. i shouldve just been her trophy wife"

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this is a real scene in the movie. i-i think.

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The Doctor 'no-gun' policy is so funny to me cause it's basically "no one is allowed to use any kind of gun. Except for my wife. She can use any gun she wants" and I think that's very sexy of them

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need 911 to give me a superstore moment where they’re all in the middle of some discussion that leads buck to offhandedly say “well yeah I had a crush on eddie when he first joined” and eddie just blue screens and everyone just keeps talking cause this is not news to anyone but eddie who is having a gay panic crisis about it and he keeps saying “wait. what. whEN. BUCK??!!!! WHEN??!!!!”

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truly fifteen is the first doctor where i understand why everyone can't help but fall in love with them. like. their strange and earnest rizz is off the charts.

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Does Rose remember that she saw Ten on New Years? I like to think that she does, because it adds another layer to their dynamic.

Imagine: the Doctor just regenerated, he looks totally different and Rose had no idea what’s going on. He looks completely different, and yet she can’t help thinking that there’s something familiar about it. At some point she’ll remember: New Years Day, a stranger standing alone in the snow, asking her what year it is, then telling her she’s going to have a great year. It’s him. It has to be. He looks identical, even has the same coat. And who else would need to ask what year it is? She’ll never know why, but it’ll always be a thought, in the back of her mind, that no matter what he’ll end up there someday. Alone. Standing in the snow. Going back in time to tell her that she’s going to have a great year.

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Hey so! Everyone! luigi mangione is NOT proven to be the same guy as the UHC CEO shooter! You all moved on from how sketchy the evidence was and how he's probably being framed way too fast! You are all cyberstalking some random dude who's having probably the worst time of his life! Innocent until proven guilty, everyone! I can't believe I'm having to say this to literal adults! It's pathetic, everyone! ^^

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sometimes i remember my first ever experience with a time loop story when i was like 8: Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day of Summer Camp by Todd Strasser.

The title says it all; kid goes to camp, makes friends with "cool kids" and gets peer pressured into being a shithead and a bully, wakes up the next day with things reset to arriving at camp.

But the thing is, this book is part of a series. Most of the books are this same kid getting caught up in body swap shenanigans, but he had gotten caught in a time loop once in a previous book. So he knew the score. He just needed to not be a jerk today. Cue him being overly nice to the point of blatant insincerity, making everyone wildly uncomfortable. No growth, just trying to appease the forces that be. Loop continues looping.

Yadda yadda, finally figures out how to be a genuinely nice kid who stands up to bullies and makes friends with the nerdy kid, etc etc, got everything perfectly right.

When that loop doesn't work he immediately throws himself off the bus to camp to kill himself. Loop again.

Finally, having resigned himself to never escaping the loop but at least he can dedicate it to being a good kid with nice friends, a thought occurs to him. There's one thing he hasn't done a single time in all the loops.

He brushes his teeth before bed. And wakes up the next day.

and frankly, i think more time loops should be hinged on morality-neutral mundane tasks. escape the time loop by taking your meds. free yourself by taking a shower. my man todd was a visionary

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I'll fully respect anyone who wants to take canon material and run off into their own little fanon corner where they flesh out paltry characters and relationships into something they want to play with. I will NOT respect the person who does this and absolutely insists the author meant it that way from the start and everyone else just doesn't get it.