#… is this an au if it’s just a personal interpretation of canon?

[jadebrightwind]

Canon divergence is interesting because I'm so used to canon addition or extrapolation first over divergence. I like filling in the gaps of what is and isn't written or spoken based on what I can glean from the canon. This sort of exercise is obviously up to interpretation and can involve some canon divergence to create a smoother narrative. I think there is a time and a place for OOC character shenanigans (such as AU thought experiments or just shooting the breeze with fellow fans), but my preference is with OPs, in that even if you are diverging from canon, the character should look somewhat recognizable and believable as that person. Otherwise, why are you using that character specifically? Is it only because you like their appearance and the personality of the character is irrelevant? We ought to be honest with ourselves that this is why we are using the character: because we like their physicality above their personality. I'm not here to shame that, since these are fictional characters and it isn't that serious, but it is worth acknowledging. I personally think we should have tags for this, like "Porn Above Plot" or "Eye Candy" to signal this, but it can be obvious enough if you have an understanding of the character as it is. Then, of course, there's canon divergence that snowballs in a fandom to the degree that the entirely of the fandom has shaken hands over a new canon version of the character that doesn't match the original much at all, which is a fascinating phenomenon, but we should acknowledge that just because the fandom likes this interpretation doesn't mean it is correct, it is just what the fandom finds the most fun to explore. Again, not shaming this, but I think it's important to be aware that "yeah, X would never be caught dead wearing this, but I like the way he'd look in it, so I'll draw it anyways for eye candy" is something we should state aloud and be OK with acknowledging to ourselves - that we may not like THE character, we like THE IDEA of the character, transformed into our desires.

there's a p common attitude in fandom spaces (fandom in general, not a specific one) that's like "why care about canon, or the characters being ooc? we're here to play with the dolls any way we like" and as much as i obviously am a person who thinks about canon a lot in theory i'm into that. in practice though when popular fanon takes things in a wildly different direction from canon so often it's in the service of taking something that was originally canonically weird and interesting and making it blander. it's flattening a complex character into a broad archetype i've seen a million times before, it's taking two characters with a complicated canonical relationship and writing them in a way where you could find-and-replace the names with any other popular migratory slash fandom pairing and the fic would make as much if not more sense. if you're going to break away from canon at least do something interesting? don't make it less weird? i feel like i'm watching someone take a really beautiful expensive cut of wagyu steak and grind it into hamburger to cook it well done and cover it in ketchup

[starpains]

@OBIKIN WRITERS

I had this interesting conversation with friends about the Obikin dynamics, which made me realise that in my fics Anakin’s always the first to say ‘I love you’. It’s a pattern I didn’t even realize I had until I stopped to think about it.

In my head, Anakin’s always the one who wears his heart on his sleeve—brash and unafraid, he just powers through until he says what needs to be said. And Obi-Wan is somehow always reactive to that. But then @asteroidmiyoko said, that in most of their fics it’s the other way round, and I was like, huh? You can do that? XD

So yeah, I am making it a challenge for my future self to try and write Obi-Wan being the brave one for once, instead of falling into the same comfy slot every time.

But in the meantime, I wonder. What is it like for you?

I would also love to know what’s the reason behind this choice for you. Let’s talk about their personalities and dynamics, and how we view and interpret them.

I think for me it’s mostly because in canon Obi-Wan says it too late. And all the fics I write are fix-its for my own heartbreak, no matter if it’s GFFA or modern AU. So what else to do, but have Anakin say it first, so that Obi-Wan is forced to act, and not wait until it’s too late?

That isn’t to say that I don’t see the merit in having Obi-Wan make that journey without the external push, I do see it, more than that—I love it, which just makes it fascinating to me that I never wrote it like that. Ah well, all in due time.

[kyraxmercury]

KINDLY REQUESTING HELP

so me and @5tupiditylvl9999 have been working on this Ninjago AU (yes we included ocs 😔) for four years

we’ve been rewriting lore and all that shit

and we were wondering if anyone would be interested in helping illustrate this passion project, there would be no pay involved just love for the show

we would like to turn our au into a comic if anyone is interested

we have very specific interpretations of the characters and their personalities, so if anyone is curious about lore or characters feel free to ask :)

also please be comfortable drawing romance scenes cause that is part of the story

other than that, just be alive and breathing (preferably, but can be negotiated)

UPDATE - here’s a ship list for the story to clarify (because I’m stupid and forgot it before 😞)

Jaya

Kailor

Pixane

oc x canon

oc x oc

Garmadon x Koko

[welcomehome-confessions]

SOME (keyword SOME) of yall when the fandom first arose mischaracterized Wally so bad I was legit so shocked when I actually looked at WH. Yall had me thinking he was some suave evil manipulative killer. He is literally just A Guy. What the freak. He doesnt have a six pack and wont force you to marry him he literally doesnt understand that apples are inside apple pies. Like it legit turned me away from the fandom for a while bc it annoyed me so much that they liked the concept of a character instead of the actual character

-I do personally find it Blegh how far everyone went with the whole ‘tumblr sexy man wally’ idea. It’s so OOC, and while I think anything goes in fanon, it still felt to me like people just didn’t understand his character. If that’s how you see him, good for you, but for me personally it’s forever kind of stained. I knew someone who would only ever talk about wally, and would only ever see him as this seductive dommy daddy. They would never really listen to any ideas I had or my own thoughts on that interpretation of the character. At times some AUs started to feel like people’s OCs with Wally’s face slapped on them. To each their own, I believe in the freedom of fiction and fanon and that it doesn’t necessarily have to adhere to canon. But I still have my thoughts.

[skelethereals]

So what I'm hearing from @verecunda is: "I have personally interacted with people who have THIS specific interpretation of the canon material and it pisses me off that they cannot participate in a nuanced debate when faced with a different criterion". There are hundreds of TROP-oriented accounts on Tumblr. Some of them are very supportive of haladriel, others are more or less neutral, and there's always a segment of "antis" who are pretty vocal about their distaste. When we, the haladriels, post our headcanons -which are always, 100% defined as such-, we highly encourage people from the first group to express their thoughts and contribute to our theories in a friendly manner. When those harmless interactions happen, it's completely normal for us to banter or fool around, imagine certain AUs where things work out for our ship, share cool art or stories that fully deviate from what Tolkien initially conceived, etc. That's how fandom WORKS. Now, I just want you to ask yourself: "Are people from that group invading MY headcanons, that I posted in MY blog, attacking MY metas, coming to my DMs and treating me disrespectfully for disagreeing with their ideas OR, am I uncomfortable because the algorithm keeps showing me the spaces they have created to interact with each other as a sub-community within the fandom?". Again, it's really hard to hold toxic fans accountable for their unethical behavior if you keep saying "some people that I have seen" without being upfront about their account names. I'm not saying you are being dishonest, but it's becoming harder and harder to reach a point of understanding when all antis can come up with when presented with our side of the problem is: "There's people, ok?". Who? Who exactly is people? Who are the evil haladriels that are incredibly damaging to the fandom environment? Again, we cannot take these accusations seriously if they keep sounding like you're pointing at shadow figures on a wall.

"Why are y'all crying about Half-Maia Celebrían? This doesn’t even exist outside of fanfiction, nor anyone actually believes the show would ever go there. Let people have their own headcanons."

[ohgreat-moretapes]

-Tim

[robygoonn2]

am i the only one in this fandom who rlly thinks that Stanley is a almost useless vessel whos only point is to be a vessel for the player to play/RP in

[childrenofthemachine]

Punished for the actions of someone else.

Searching for a humanity that was never yours.

Wandering halls filled with music you cannot replicate.

Your life has been nothing but a cruel joke.

Day 12: Copy.

I love you dearly, ink clone Sammy, and I’ll never shut up about you.

[justaz]

pan merlin and gay arthur no one understands you like i do

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

My favorite funny thing on occasion is to imagine sugar baby/daddy dynamics with Tails ships

Something so comical about the fact that Sonic the hedgehog (hedgehog without a home) would be sugar baby to Tails (fox who has so many labs. Like who needs to worry about money when your little buddy pays for stuff heroing doesn't and keeps his bases fully stocked with ingredients for your favorite food

Or like, Tails, who basically ended up being Sonic's sugar daddy, accidentally gaining more sugar babies by virtue of making sure certain characters don't inconvenience people (basically playing damage control)

While I think it's Rouge mainly who would probably suppliment the money for Omega and Shadow (if need be) and play this sort of role for them, it's still funny to imagine Tails insisting on setting them up in hotel rooms because Shadow was just about to sleep outside and saw no problem with that (and because Tails can't very well just let Shadow do that)

A friend of mine also moved that, under this framework, after the idw issues where the Chaotix took a job helping Knuckles get an artifact back, Tails would just silently patch them rent money as an apology for the whole thing.

Rich inventor Tails accidentally gaining bfs out of the main cast as his sugar babies because he's assumed responsibility for their antics and cares about them too much to just let them live life the way they have been. Do you see my vision?

[wincestico]

people in this fandom just say anything like why have i seen several wincesties asserting that canon dean is a rapist and has canonically raped sam... genuinely what are you guys talking about!!! back in my day rape in this context meant sexual assault and canon meant it was actually right there in the source material but what the hell . words can mean whatever you want them to i guess

[coffinsister]

it's more like: Ashley WANTS her mom to hate her. i need to make a whole separate post about this and how this ties into his mentality but Ashley has basically adopted some of his core beliefs: that EVERYONE is bad and rotten and horrible and shitty deep down. that's just how being a person is. he adopted that mentality being the sole child of Mrs. Graves. so Ashley herself is trying to desperately convince herself that her own mother ALSO has to be a bad person deep down (AND SO IS ANDREW FTR THATS A BIG THING FOR HIM) and wants her to hate her. saying she's a fat old cow? saying her self-harm scars are fucking hideous and she should finish the job?

if Julia hates Ashley it just proves everything right: everyone is awful and terrible and bad deep down and that includes her and Julia. that's just how the world works!!!!

Andrew Graves out here teaching his daughter that she's a bad person just from birth and giving her the strangest fucked up core beliefs what a man

Her desperately trying to make sense of the world and to ally what she believes to be true with what she's seeing in front of her knowing she's not hated and trying to make herself be hated with all she's got because nothing else makes sense !!!! That's so good !!

Now I'm wondering if Ms Graves has like any involvement whatsoever with Andrew's and Ashley's lives

[scover-va]

Hey does anyone know any like. Good security breach rewrites w/ Vanessa being the protagonist while keeping her and Vanny as the ‘same person’ (<- wants to see of anyone else has picked up on the missed potential that is the psychological horror of it all) (if not i can and will start going into depth on my rewrite sooner. Because i am deranged)

[sing-me-under]

Take the idea that “Bruce Wayne is friends with most of his Rogue Gallery”

and shift it into “Batman doesn’t kill because he believes in second chances”

and then you get something along the lines of “Even when everyone believes they are irredeemable, Bruce personally knows his Rogue Gallery and genuinely cares about them and their well-being, so he’s willing to give the benefit of the doubt and second chances to even the worst of the worst because he can’t be biased and believe the best only of the people he is friends with. Everyone has the potential to do better and do good and be kind even when it’s not obvious because Bruce personally knows the Rogues that have that potential.”

And also “Bruce’s goal later in his career isn’t to pursue revenge but to prevent crime and save as many people as possible, including his rogues. He can’t reverse the damage and the lives taken, but he can try to make things as livable as possible. Batman is a symbol of fear, a deterrent of crime, and a front-line first responder, but Bruce Wayne is the one actively helping Gotham.”

But I also raise you “Gotham is legitimately cursed” and “Joker is the only Rogue who Batman doesn’t know the real identity of. Batman is partly convinced that Joker isn’t even a real person but the physical manifestation of a curse that will forever plague Gotham”

[starlytenight]

How do you feel about Galactadad? Galacta Knight being a dad to Meta Knight?

For me personally, in my brain I already mentally distinguish between the various canons of Kirby and my own and anyone else's variations.

Since there's no stated canon relationship between Meta and Gala of any solid degree at this time, it's kinda free game and I've never been off-put by different interpretations. If anything, I embrace it.

I think it's cute, I just enjoy a more romantic angle between the two of these dorky knights, especially with how I characterize them.

I also have friends who do either Galactadad or something similar (brothers, close friends, ect) and we're all good with joke interactions between our characters.

Fun side note actually! I do actually have an off-shoot AU where I explore Galacta NOT getting sealed away. More below the cut.

SO obviously romance with Meta and Gala would not operate in this world due to a massive difference in life experience/physical age and Galacta basically knowing Meta as an egg/knowing his parents (and kinda saving their lives and taking a more reluctant teacher role for Meta when he gets a bit older.)

I call this alt "Happy AU" because basically Galacta's wish goes without a hitch and he kinda becomes the universe's ultimate guardian. He bears the weight of it well and basically prevents Nightmare's uprise and anything else with relative ease. Everyone's just enjoying life while Galacta occasionally has to go kill a bitch. Even when Meta grows up, he basically just vibes with Jecra and Garlude in what they always wanted, even with Kirby.

Though Meta DOES kind of want to be Galacta's replacement if something were to ever happen... Like say a certain butterfly swinging by buuuut these guys have NO CLUE about that.

I feel like ASM:Я!Galacta would find the Happy!Variant interesting since he's basically living the dream with all it's rewards and consequences. Watching his friends grow old while he stays young and continues fighting, embracing the satisfaction of giving everyone comfort and safety... While lonely in its own way, he succeeded and is satisfied, albeit a bit melancholy and slightly detached/aloof from things from time to time.

One of his only close friends would be Artemis in this world since she is basically immortal as well, and like a sister to him.

Won't stop him from enjoying life in a different way though. He doesn't mind showing a very stubborn baby Meta how to fight, even if he doesn't have to.

And for anyone who does have a more strict Galactadad thing, uh I present my more terrible jokes for our respective worlds/stories/headcanons. Take it away, Vlad:

This is what my friends put up with.

Please remember this is just a joke ahhh

[braisedhoney]

So you said a while ago underfell was your favorite au before. Is that still true or?

Also who’s your favorite character from whatever au you like?

damn, you were around for that? :'D

yeah, underfell used to be my favorite! i think it was smth about being really edgy as a kid, or maybe it was because red was my favorite color. idk man, even now i gotta admit those designs slap really hard.

i'm not really sure if i have a favorite au now though. i do have some ideas for underfell that i like, but i think i see the appeal of most aus bc i just like making new scenarios.

i like the big three a lot (classic, fell, swap). sans is my favorite in classic (predictable i know) if you're not counting gaster, since he isn't technically a canon character. i like both fell paps and fell sans equally, and swap paps is cool. i'd be buddies with that guy.

(i also really like asgore in undertale. the tragedy of the grief-stricken ruler who kills even though it's against his nature for the freedom of his people but also because he's long past convinced he's in too deep is really compelling to me, and by proxy i'm interested in the theoretical stories of all the fallen humans including frisk. also the whole thing with their broken family and chara and—

—whoops the ask is about aus not canon lmao, sorry!)