#<- going in the tag because this is barty meta

[sixlane]

It’s gross barty likes seeing girls kissing ew this is reminding me of irl for some reason

barty is literally a pervert i don’t know what to tell you

[birlwrites]

Does anyone die in ttdl? like, anyone us readers might care about? Obviously you can't say who, if anyone does, but it is a war story… And the war is going to really start being the main, front and center focus as Regulus and Co. become of age and then after they graduate…

people will naturally die and i have in fact introduced one character with the specific intent of killing them later - i will say regulus, barty, and evan are For Sure Safe. i can definitively say i will not kill them, they will survive the series, they will generally be okay

as for, like, BIG character deaths, i make no promises, mostly because i have plans for one but i'm still weighing whether it is actually the best way for the story to go. (those of you who have been around for a long time may remember the MCD tag that used to be on ttdl afjlskghjskf - yep, still thinking about that one!)

i won't be killing people off just for shock/angst value - it is a war story, yes, but i personally never like feeling like a character's been killed just to make me sad with no other point to it afjsllhgkjdsf

so, like, for every [significant] person who dies, there's going to be a narrative point to it. with minor deaths it'll be a bit more nebulous, but in general, characters will die for a reason (whether that reason is in-text or meta) and it won't really be a bloodbath

[birdiebirdjay]

warning this is written by me on very little sleep and i'm probably going to sound very aggressive. this isn't very well thought out and i didn't proofread.

confession i kind of hate the tumblr tagging culture?? like the whole 'dont post anti character posts in the main tag' thing just kind of seems like people creating an echo chamber for themselves ngl.

like there are characters who are OBJECTIVELY BAD. for example, that guy who kept a whole fucking man inside a trunk for almost a year!!! BARTY CROUCH JR!!! but you can't post about his canon behavior or canon actions in the main tag because there are people who have taken his name and slapped it onto an out of character, fanon oc who is nothing like the real character.

you also just can't post character meta in the main tag anymore?? like characters have good and bad sides but unless you're exclusively praising them you get a million people telling you to 'tag your posts properly'. and no, i'm not just talking marauders fandom here; just the other day, i saw people going after a fairly new tumblr user over a 'take' on snape and why he was a bad and irredeemable person. i'll admit that it was a poorly thought out, childish, and immature post based off fanon, but the problem most people had was that they'd tagged it 'severus snape' and not 'anti severus snape'. there was like one or two people talking about how they were objectively wrong, but there were a ton of snape lovers on anon who felt the need to attack the person who posted just because of the whole tag thing. as a snape lover, i found the behavior of those anons even more annoying and childish than i found the original post.

can people just admit that they're wrong sometimes? it's fine to see a post that's anti your favorite character and actually read it and try to comprehend it. it's okay. no one is going to explode. if they're wrong, you can be mature and point that out without insulting them as a person and sending them death threats! crazy!

i had more thoughts on this but i lowkey cannot remember so yeah

some people live in a bubble/echo chamber and kind of need to step out if they want to develop their critical thinking skills

[secondgenerationnerd]

What was the batfam/flashfam’s reaction to meeting bby Asha??

So! I have a few fics in the Speeddemon tag addressing that

Wally and Linda adore their grandbaby. They are proud of Irey for stepping up and working her butt off to be a good position given everything going on.

Jason, Tim, and Dick make a joke about Damian completing the circle of bird daughters, but they all love Asha. Dick feels strange being her uncle, especially when Mar’i and Jon adopt Charlie who’s a month older than Asha. Tim and Jason bring Grace and Dahlia over all the time.

Stephanie, Cass, and Barbara will steal that baby whenever Damian and Irey are around. (Because Asha is cuddle baby)

Selina calls her kitten (and is only slightly offended Asha is allergic to cats)

Helena likes playing with her and tries to remember using nice hands.

Barry and Iris offer to babysit when they can.

Mel thinks Asha is adorable and it gives her some baby fever

Dawn and Donny had a moment of “Our baby cousin has a baby” panic, but Asha’s sweet face made it all better.

Bart is Uncle Barty and won’t respond to anything else

Given the events just before Asha’s born, and his general attitude towards metas/speedsters, it’s a while before Bruce meets asha. Not as sweet as the others.

[amorremanet]

I got tagged by @a-mi-zivi

Rules: 1. Tell us your Top 10 characters from different fandoms. (…I limited myself to five, each. Except HP, because it was too hard. Dude, that was hard enough. All arranged alphabetically, not in order of preference or anything.)

2. Tag 10 people.

tagging: @bizeke @donttouchandrewminyard @derekslaura @gentlepromises @girlronanlynch @pansexualpoedamneron @gaylukeskywalkers @scarlettwitchery @saralanceing @bpdrussell & literally anyone else who wants to do it can just do it and blame me (and contrariwise, if I tagged you and you don’t want to do it, no pressure <3)

Community: Abed Nadir, Dean Pelton, Jeff Winger, Shirley Bennett, (my number five changes on a daily basis, usually between Troy, Annie, and Britta, but I can’t pick right now, so fuck it, I pick Annie Kim and Quendra with a QU)

DC: Cassandra Cain/Black Bat, Harley Quinn, Jason Todd/Red Hood, Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow, Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy

But honorable mention nods go to Dick Grayson/Nightwing, Koriand’r/Starfire, Raven/Rachel Roth, Renee Montoya/Question, Roy Harper/Speedy/Red Arrow, Stephanie Brown/Spoiler, Tim Drake/Red Robin, and Wonder Woman, and this list was hard for, “there are SO MANY CHARACTERS, THE FUCK” reasons.

And Sandman technically is a DC title, but whatever: Death, Delirium/Delight, Desire, Despair, and Dream/Morpheus of the Endless, tyvm

Good Omens: Adam “the Antichrist” Young, Anathema Device, Aziraphale, Crowley, Pepper (Pippin Galadriel Moonchild)

Harry Potter: Andromeda Black Tonks, Barty Crouch Jr., Cedric Diggory, Cho Chang, Hermione Granger, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Lavender Brown, Luna Lovegood, Pansy Parkinson, Percy Weasley, Remus Lupin, Zacharias Smith

Sirius Black and Severus Snape get to share honorable mention status because, even though they are actually in my top ten, I know that being on the same point would annoy the ever-living shit out of both of them. Which amuses me because I am easily entertained.

AlSev Potter and Scorpius Malfoy get to share a point because the ones I love are essentially headcanon, since my take on Cursed Child is, “*nods* Uh huh… that’s nice… I’m going to ignore like 99% of it, but okay, it’s nice”

Legit Honorable Mentions:

[this is where i’d list the Dumbledore family and Gellert but it’s Complicated and i can’t legit list them without needing to Discuss it, so let’s just not even bother today]

Bill Weasley

Charlie Weasley

Dean Thomas

Dolores Umbridge

(in a way where I absolutely despise her as a person, but I appreciate her presence in the story because she is, along with Barty Jr., the only fucking COMPETENT villain in the books.

Also, she’s the actual, “repulsive to the core but makes no excuses for it just like white male villains, does her own thing and fuck anyone who tries to stop her, self-determined and she has decided to be awful, feminist on a meta level where she’s terrible just to be terrible without any excuses being made for it” villain that so many people have tried to make out of Bellatrix, when…… lol no, Bellatrix is a total fucking joke, sorry ‘bout it.

Like, man, Umbridge sucks, but she enriches the story and presents an actual, credible threat that has any kind of internal consistency and isn’t just, “I read an entry on fascism in a children’s encyclopedia and made it an OTT cartoon caricature of itself and added some cult leader BS because of reasons or w/e, and named it Voldemort, lol” — I appreciate that, as a reader, even if JKR did it more by accident than anything)

Fleur Delacour

Gilderoy Lockhart

(I blame myself entirely for making up Kingsley/Lockhart headcanons and getting Defensive of him in the face of JKR’s ableism; I should’ve known better, because shit like literally always happens to me, but I did it anyway because I never fucking learn)

Harry Potter

Justin Finch-Fletchley

(……I have post-war headcanons. A lot of them. You probably don’t want to know them, though, bc they’re depressing as fuck)

Nymphadora Tonks

Parvati Patil

Regulus Black

Ron Weasley

Ted Tonks

Viktor Krum

and a whole bunch of characters who are basically headcanon because they are literally just names who do like one or two things and that's it

Hunger Games: Annie Cresta, Finnick Odair, Johanna Mason, Katniss Everdeen, Madge Undersee

Marvel: shit, I did this one last and I have to go to therapy, so this is basically, “the order in which they came to mind and I stopped at eight bc holy fucking SHIT, there are a lot of characters”  — Erik/Magneto, Kurt “Nightcrawler” Wagner (my small blue Catholic mutant son <3), Sam, Steve, Bucky, Natasha, Ororo, and I feel like I should list someone else, but anyone who knows my usual type knows that Loki is exactly my type and I was all but doomed to be Loki trash. Which I am. Whoops. Sorry for my choices.

Sailor Moon: Fiore (……from the “Promise of the Rose” movie. ……I love my gay glam rock alien son), Tenoh Haruka/Sailor Uranus, Tomoe Hotaru/Sailor Saturn/Mistress Nine, Tsukino “Chibi” Usagi/Sailor Chibi Moon/Wicked Lady/Princess Usagi Small Lady Serenity/etc., Tsukino Usagi/Sailor Moon/Princess + Neo Queen Serenity/etc.

Star Trek (DS9): Captain Benjamin Lafayette “the rest of Starfleet are a bunch of slackers, has YOUR captain become space Jesus and saved the entire Alpha Quadrant lately” Sisko, Elim Garak, Julian Bashir, Kira Nerys, Tora Ziyal

Kasidy, Worf, Jadzia, General Martok, and Ezri get honorable mentions because this list was really hard to even whittle down to FIVE, but.

Star Wars and, “Star Trek (Everything But DS9)” were vetoed as categories because picking was hard and I didn’t feel like it.

Steven Universe: Amethyst, Connie Maheswaran, Garnet, Lapis Lazuli, Peridot

Yuri On Ice: Christophe Giacometti, Katsuki Yuuri, Lee Seung-Gil, Phichit Chulanont, Victor Nikiforov

Bonus — My Own Novel(s) bc Reasons: (also done before running to therapy) Sebastian, Pete, Josie, Margot, Lucy.