#( bc i do write the dynamic of team 7 to be problematic and i love exploring the consequences of that !! )

[fightaers]

❛⠀... an appointment ? ❜ she questions, her voice comes out more wary than she intends it to be.

behind the closed door of her office, sakura can hear the bustling of the hospital at work. they aren't too terribly busy these days, with shinobis having sent out mainly as diplomatic messengers or relief effort than a deployment for active combat since the last of the war fizzles out, and sasuke's trial, though long and tedious, takes precedent. sakura had taken the moment of what she considers to be downtime to catch up on any paperwork and research material she'd missed when the knock on the door came, and sasuke slipped inside.

sasuke-kun, she thinks around the large lump in her throat, still quite in disbelief that he's here. in person. alive, and roaming the konoha streets like he hadn't abandoned it for years. like he wasn't wanted, only a month ago, and were securely on his path to be everyone's mortal enemy. sakura feels trepidation crawls up her spine, her wariness growing sharp in his presence, but that's ridiculous, she chides herself. after all, this is ... this is sasuke-kun, and naruto's brought him back, and everything was going to be okay again. soon. one day. she's sure of it.

❛⠀right. to check your arm, right ? ❜ she finally snaps herself from the trance, swallowing cautiously before she stands, memories of her threatening sasuke and naruto a few weeks ago to come to her for the two-week check-up on the new arm returning to her like flood after a dam's been broken. growing a new limb, while miraculously, is still not often in the medical world. of course it's vital that she checks its strength and function, and whether it works perfectly at all. sakura gestures to the cot clinically. ❛⠀i'm surprised you didn't bring naruto along. remind him to visit me when you see the idiot, won't you ? ❜

normal, like they've been a normal genin team their whole lives. like he hadn't once tried to kill her, as she had tried to kill him.

@hatredcurse ♡ starter call !

[broodybatboy]

Gwynriel Headcanons: Illyria

"And I want prove that the most ordinary thing is not violence or greed but love and care.”

Let's talk about the Illyrian problem. Azriel HATES everything that has to do with this place. This boy is really struggling. Let's unpack that. The society is problematic. It's heavily sexist. BUT that doesn't mean he should write it off. Azriel needs to contend with his hatred and his very identity.

Enter brave & badass Gwyn. She is on a beautiful healing arc. A journey of empowerment & strives to support others (in particular other women)

So....

Let's plop the grumpy Spymaster & sunshine priestess in the mountains of Illyria to train some warriors. They’re also keeping the peace/soul searching/falling in love.

The warlord of the camp is a jerk & essentially gives our dynamic duo a babysitting job.

Challenge: Accepted

Illyrian War Camp Counselor Gwynie B. reporting for duty

Gwyn carrying a clipboard with comprehensive training schedules, charts, & safety information

Gwyn wrangling 7 yr old Illyrian kiddos through Valkyrie meditations, obstacle courses & flying lessons.

Gwyn giving high-5's and cute little prizes like yoyo's and marbles bc she believes in her kids and in a reward system, unlike a certain arrogant shadowboi

scowls in flashback: “What do we get if we finish the course?” Az’s shadows danced around him. “Since there’s no chance in hell any of you will finish the course, we didn’t bother to get a prize.”

The Master of Torture and Childhood Trauma™️ finds that training kids is HARD. They don't communicate, they don't work together, the girls hate the boys & the boys are always fighting

But he’s surprisingly GREAT with kids. Az understands angst, he’s supportive yet firm, and his patience knows no bounds. Cass & Rhys are basically overgrown children. He’s been dealing with them for 500 years.

He’s the freaking Shadowsinger. The kids think he’s kinda scary but in a WOW! you’re so COOL way.

Az really connects with them. Slowly, he realizes that some of them have shit dads & brothers just like him.

And Az has a breakthrough. He GETS IT. He can empathize. He will not be another bad male role model for them

Brave & beautiful Gwyn is amazing with kids. Gwyn who cheers on the underdogs, who doesn't tolerate bullies, who sneaks sweets when Az isn't looking (the shadows would NEVER snitch)

Gwyn who brings out the best in all the Illyrians. Gwyn who's brought out the best in him.

He becomes more compassionate. Together they train these kiddos & let them reach their full potentials.

Our competitive ass Carynthians divide the kids into teams against each other to do a triathlon. Gwyn's team would be named something cute like Team Perseverance and Az's kids would be like Team Mega Lethal Assassins

They train relentlessly and also make a point to train together bc teamwork is important.

Miss Emerie helps them with snack breaks

Cass helps train Team MLA. Nesta helps Gwyn train Team P.

Can u guess who has the bigger ego?

The competition day finally comes and it’s in-tents INTENSE.

Team Perseverance has white ribbons wrapped around their heads. Team Mega Lethal Assasins is dressed in all black

It's SUPER close but Az's kids win by like an inch. The whole crowd goes wild.

Azriel, who hates this place, who watched his mom suffer, who was tortured as a kid by Illyrians, is now watching these kids with admiration. He's excited, he's smiling, he's being tackled by 15 winged children all shouting AZRIEL! AZRIEL! AZRIEL!

Gwyn is a little annoyed (bc she lost to Az) but mostly she's happy. She's happy her kids kicked butt and everyone is congratulating each other, giving high-5's, and she's watching the Shadowsinger be trampled.

Gwyn brings out the prize: a massive trophy filled with candy. They have a giant party at Emerie's shop.

Gwyn: "Mother above, did you see how fast Matthos was flying!"

Azriel: "That little Lysa is scary with a sword."

Gwyn: "Shadowsinger, you did an amazing job with those kids. They just wanted to make you proud."

Azriel, smiling: "They did."

Azriel for the first time in his life feels proud to be Illyrian. It feels exciting. It feels good. It feels like hope. He knows that he couldn't have done it alone *stares at Gwyn with intense admiration*

All the Illyrian women adore Gwyn. She integrates herself into a nice routine ft. training, crafts, cooking, and healing. Emerie & Gwyn & Nesta host tea times and book clubs.

One day, Gwyn catches some guys making nasty comments. She is livid. She gets so frustrated and fed up. No matter how hard she works or how hard she trains, nothing is changing.

She remembers that her own healing took time. This is still a work in progress. She sees the little boys flying with the little girls, the cute married couple who owns the bakery, Emerie running a thriving business, and Nesta memorizing a hex to scare the warlord. There's hope.

Az catches her holding an Illyrian baby one day. A dark-haired boy with a feisty attitude.

"He's a fighter," says Gwyn. She's smiling as he tugs at her hair.

Azriel is beside himself. His heart feels warm and his feelings feel weird.

This baby is adorable and Gwyn is just so good with kids. He thinks about his future. Could I be a father? Would I be a good dad one day? Now…there’s hope.

Gwyn is completely oblivious to the group of Illyrian men in town practically drooling over her. They are adoring her & giving her gifts, teasing, flirting 👀

Azriel is in rage. But he’s an idiot and doesn’t realize it's because he likes her. A LOT. He's big-time broody. He’s super jealous.

She’s a hottie and a Carynthian what did you expect, shadow boi?

He’s trying to do his toxic white knight complex thing and nope, nuh-uh, no way sir. NOT with Gwyn.

It gets explosive. They fight-fight. Azriel realizes that Gwyn is actually super scary. It gets ugly. Gwyn is mad. And oh Mother above how can someone be so stubborn?

She calls him out. He's forced to sit with his feelings. Then he just breaks. He reflects on his problematic behavior, his serious prejudices, his childhood traumas. HE WANTS 👏 TO BE 👏  BETTER 👏  (seriously where are all the therapists? Dr. Suriel plz come back)

Finally, he apologizes to Gwyn at sunset on top of a mountain (bc symbolism)

HE BREAKS DOWN.

Gwyn's inner thoughts: Oh my Gods the Shadowsinger is crying!? Okay Gwyn you can do this. Yes, a hug. Good. Soothingly stroke his hair. it's so soft. wow, he really likes that. squeeze tighter. Poor thing. He's so cute. I hate seeing him sad. Oh, my heart feels funny. OH.

It's a beautiful moment.

He has a surprise for her. He gives her a little medal 🏅 with her initials and an engraving of Ramiel with the three stars

Azriel: "A long overdue prize and much better than that stupid necklace."

Gwyn and Az hug it out and walk back chattering and happy. The next day at training, they can't keep their eyes off each other. A little punk makes kissing noises to tease Az. A little girl ask Gwyn if they're mates......

They both secretly wonder.

Azriel and Gwyn realize that sometimes change happens slowly. Healing happens slowly. Love happens slowly. Even when something is long overdue, it is still beautiful.

[mixelation]

The only cinnamon roll in Naruto for the headcanon. Naruto.

"The only cinnamon roll in Naruto" BOLD words when Rock Lee is right there

Send me the name of a character and I will tell you my ______:

1: sexuality headcanon - ngl i don't like naruto that much and most of my thoughts about him in the context of shipping is about how i do not get how he & hinata work* unless hinata grew an entire spine off-screen. like naruto is a dude who wants to help & support people but also he has very strong convictions about what's right & what other people need WITHOUT necessarily listening to those people, and so I feel like he'd be very apt to accidentally trample all over his partner's feelings unless they were very direct communicators. but unlike most of the other asks i've answered for this prompt: naruto IS canonically interested in dating and regular fucking romance, even though i think he probably doesn't have a very good idea of what that actually looks like. uuuh also i've stated i hc most characters as bi unless stated otherwise by canon, and by that i mean i'm not going to hc a canonically gay character as bi, but i do not give a shit if a character is "implied straight" bc they marry someone of a different gender or w/e. i think naruto is meant to be straight in canon bc of his crush on sakura and then hinata but also like. CLEARLY he's in love with sasuke. naruto is canon bi actually

2: otp - if i read a fic with a naruto ship usually it's a team 7 ot3. also as i've said before, i'm not interested in reading or writing narusasu except as a background ship, but i feel it Just Makes Sense

3: brotp - team 7

4: notp - not a notp but: i know i just put narusasu in the otp section but ACTUALLY i usually filter it out when i'm searching on ao3. i don't have anything against the ship itself but i like rarer ships and for SOME FUCKING REASON people like to make my preferred ships background to epic-length narusasu fics and it CLOGS MY SEARCH RESULTS

5: first headcanon that pops into my head - sometimes naruto cheats on ichiraku and buys ramen from other restaurants (usually because he's closer or he has a craving for an ingredient ichiraku doesn't serve or every one in a blue moon he just wants-- GASP-- a slightly different flavor profile) and he always feels guilty and like. pulls up his collar way high.

6: one way in which I relate to this character - one of my favorite lines of dialogue is from the dub and it's kankuro saying something like "i like you, kid" and naruto screams back "WELL I DON'T LIKE YOU" and i just felt it in my bones

7: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character - i don't think the sage mode or the kyuubi chakra cloak look very good, actually. bring back the weird fox skeleton transformation

8: cinnamon roll or problematic fave? - i will let naruto be a cinnamon roll but i don't think he's a very good one. too much weird feral energy. he's made from an expired roll of dough and lacks icing.

*disclaimer here that i mean i don't get how they work IN CANON. much like sasusaku, i have full confidence in fic writers' abilities to develop the dynamic and make it work

[mnkiss]

A quick list of animes I watched and don’t want to forget:

Mushishi - pure, haunting beauty, 10/10 recommend especially when you want some clarity and calmness in your life. You’ll cry tho

K - the amount of tears I shed TwT I literally miss the characters. Weird af world and story, but somehow I got attached. There should be K: seven stories somewhere but I can’t find it... Also: this whole we’re a bunch of problematic people who become a family is a trope I’ll never get tired of

Tokyo Ghoul - S1 and S2 feel like one huge story and it’s just the beginning so buckle up... There are 2 OVAs (Jack and Pinto) that help with understanding Re: (S3) and then there is S4 which is apparently only the most important parts of the manga... I understand why so many people think that s4 is ridiculous, but the first 3 seasons are great. The manga is a must for the anime tho, bc the last season is a joke, so if you can, read the manga first. With that said, the censorship is terrible so if you can, watch it without the weird black and white patches that take up half the screen, because the animation, the fights, the colours are all extremely vibrant and alive, just like the characters. What being human means, why the police feel like they are doing god’s work when they kill innocents along with the psychos, what a family is, can we be selfish for others, and many more questions are discussed here, all while somebody gets gutted. S2 was much more like a filler than a normal season, but still, I cried, and the whole anime is awesome so watch it if you can. (If you get upset when humans are able to endure more than supernatural beings then it’s not your show, bc even though humans are supposed to be, you know, humans, they are still able to kill tens of ghouls with a fucking hole inside of them.)

Attack on Titan - got tired of waiting after s2... No mystery is worth more than a year of waiting lol

Black butler - I need to get around and watch the book of atlantis. Great story, Sebastian is everything and more, and the aesthetic is something I’ll never forget. The music fits perfectly, and the foods make me drool. It has the “big picture”, as well as small journeys where you can get to know your favourite characters which I appreciate. S2 was not something I enjoyed, but the book of circus was worth it as well as most ova’s.

Darker than black - THEY MUST CONTINUE IT BRING HEI BACK PLEASE PLEASE I CAN’T I JUST CAN’T - also s2′s opening makes me cry. Dolls and Contractors work together as a team, then alone, then again as a team... it was a wild ride. Awesome character development, great plot and world building. Sadly they cut their story and future at s2 for some reason... If I ever watch it again I watch Gaiden before Gemini tho - a lot less confusion and disappointment this way.

Bungou Stray Dogs - loving it with my whole heart can’t wait to watch it again because there is literally NO character I don’t love. It has pretty boys, crime, mystery, magical abilities and comedy alongside the surprisingly deep issues. The art style is otherworldly, everything is so PRETTY and CAPTURING ugh *-*. It also made me read lots of books again (especially Japanese literature which was new for me) ^^ (Who doesn’t ship Dazai and Chuuya... And Poe is a baby too)

Noragami - cute, very cute, I love it when the main character is powerful af yet has a silly, loving side. Also: you can learn a bit about gods and religion

Assassination Classroom - tears. all of them. tears. It’s not what I expected but still, the little assassins and the teacher’s relationship was perfect.

Another - i watched it for the dolls and the umbrella meme. Liked it? yes. Do I remember anything else tho? Not really

Parasyte - one of the first animes I’ve ever watched. Loved it. ^^ Migi was great, all the issues it brings up were thought provoking, and it has gore.

Hellsing - idk it had too many monologues and ideologies, didn’t finish it

Psycho-Pass - In short: cyberpunk future, systematic oppression, immigrants, killing with permission and other moral or societal issues, plus charismatic characters and gore. The watching order: S1, S2, Sinners of the system, S3, First inspector. Wonderful buildup, dynamic storytelling, great mystery elements, and of course the found family/teamwork will always be a favourite of mine. The writing is extra detailed, every character is 3D, their responses, beliefs and cultures are tied together perfectly, the chemistry between characters is relatable and although everybody seems to live by one goal only, it’s not as dull as one would think. It also has some great book recommendations, literature and philosophers play a big role, which is always a bonus. 10/10. I really hope we will get extra contents and S4 in the future.

Steins Gate - I can’t bring myself to watch the last 2 episodes of S1 lol. It starts slowly but it’s much better paced than I remembered. The anime heavily relies on the characters which are sadly very 2D: the haughty but loving, the cute but tragic, the clever weeb, the loving tsundere... and for some fucking reason every single girl loves the mad scientist who... doesn’t really show love or sometimes not even respect towards the others until the last half of the show, so I don’t particularly care about their fate, but I watch it bc I don’t want to leave it unfinished. Because people are so into it I thought maybe the story will be... flabbergasting, shocking or just a masterwork, but the whole time travelling thingy, all the rules, all the paralel worlds work very conveniently. There were some great twists that I loved, some that I saw coming and some that I didn’t, but the story itself isn’t the best and even the plottwists won’t help that.

Full metal alchemist - i watched many, many episodes. I liked it. But it lost me. Anyways, I looked up the story and it sounds interesting, lots of plot twists, great conspiracy theories etc. The main character was a bit... annoying. My main problem is that they were children cuz I can only get immersed in the adult characters’ stories...

Durarara!! - s1 was great I love gang and mystery stuff, BUT I stopped watching it bc I was only immersed in the adult characters’ stories...

The Ancient Magus' Bride - it’s a gory fairy tale, with two toxic but loveable characters who learn a lot, evolve a lot and become real companions. There is lots of touching, head pats and affection. <3 Seasond 2 is very much needed, I want to see more episodic journey elements like the cat kingdom episodes were, and perhaps cry just a little less. Pro tip: when you watched the first 12 eps you should watch the 3 episode ova and then the next 12 eps ;) Oh, and expect tears mostly from happiness

Devilman Crybaby - I was the crybaby. The ending is beautiful, the art style was great, it literally pulsed through my eyes sometimes. Awesome characters, weird storyline, sad ending.

Death Parade - another anime that made me cry :) Beautiful art style, immersive story, interesting take on the afterlife, moral issues. It had everything I needed,

Juni Taisen - It wasn’t the craziest or most cunning anime of all times, but I cared about the characters and I really wanted to know how it ends, so it was good i guess

Kekkai Sensen - i watched s1 and I didn’t care anymore...

BEASTARS - it was one hell of a ride. Interesting world, great conflict, highschoolers and gore... also I think there was a sudden rise in the numbers of furries while it aired. It’s art style however was too cgi-y, too smooth for me :/

Re: Zero - the main character is a little bitch i hated him but i stayed for the plot. I don’t really like love interests when one party is only loved because they look perfect... i really wish we got more seasons and explanations  s2 is on the horizon, but I doubt I’ll ever watch it

Updated it see in reblog

Also in conclusion, what do i need in an anime? 1) adults 2) superpowers 3) found family 4) a brooding, powerful af main character 5) action and mystery (plus gore) 6) chemistry between characters 7) side characters that matter 8) tissues

Any recs?

[mashkaroom]

This isn’t related to anything, but frozen 2 was actually...pretty good of a movie, and you can literally see the disney profit model holding it back. firstly, the music was really good -- i was really impressed with the writing team and with the vocal performances, especially by idina menzel. the songs that didn’t make it in because the plot was rearranged were also excellent. wrt to the visuals, i’m not the biggest fan of this specific animation style, but it’s clear it’s very well done -- i’ve no choice but to be impressed. the plot was whatever (also they fully put a couple of trolls in charge of the kindom for a bit -- is there no fucking line of succession in this goddamn kingdom?? maybe the plot of the movie should have been establishing a functional bureaucracy) and they really yada-yada-ed the magic system, which was basically of the central conceit of the movie so...why did they not put more effort into it? the explanation, such as it was, of the magic system was both confusing and ultimately pretty meaningless -- it added next to nothing of value to the lore or theme or worldbuilding. the themes were clearly meant for a more mature audience (which is i guess what you get for waiting 7 years to make a sequel [which btw just wrenched out a memory out of me that frozen 1 came up literally constantly in my 7th grade latin class -- i cannot emphasize enough how bizarre of an experience learning a dead language throughout the entirety of your teenage years along with 400 more of your cohort is]) -- but anyway, they establish all these themes and then don’t commit to them. Like, the central plot conflict of the movie is literally colonialism lmao. it’s such a strange place to discuss it. My suspicion is that they decided right away to go with a “connecting with mother” storyline, since the “women in the same family connecting with each other” bit worked so well in the first movie; then they were like “is this too basic?” and decided that they should wrap that into a “reckoning with ancestry” thread to cash into that “young leftist with white guilt” market. Then they had somebody on the writing staff who was like “what if we made this about colonialism?” So re: those elements, first of all the mother plotline is boring as shit. Like it doesn’t ring true even to losing a loved one early, but it especially rings soooo hollow wrt the actual relationship that is portrayed in the first movie between elsa and her parents. like we see the parents be so misguided it borders on abusive. and that’s a really interesting dynamic, story-wise, bc the parents are dead and can’t redeem themselves but the baggage they left behind is still there, so the burden of processing that falls exclusively on the daughters. i dare say this is something probably relatable to many of us, bc it’s my sense that most people grow up with pretty misguided parents! (lowkey i feel like the best parenting i’ve seen in my circle are parents who basically went off of vibes rather than idk a philosophy or whatever) i actually would have loved to see a children’s movie address dealing with parents in a nuanced way that isn’t just “one of us is right and the other is wrong” but rather addresses what responsibilities parents and children have to each other, how to navigate intent versus effect, what the value (or lack thereof) of forgiveness is, how to uncover your identity when your entire life was shaped by societal and parental expectations, etc. And the Frozen premise is ideally suited for this! Moreover, a lot of these beats actually DO happen in the movie! Into the unknown is basically elsa trying and failing to convince herself that she wants the life she has and any thoughts to the contrary should be dismissed (and it’s gay as hell, but we’ll get to that later). The climax of show yourself literally says that it was the truth about herself rather than her mother that will bring her peace. But all of these beats are facilitated supernaturally rather than by the very fitting preexisting character background, which makes it lack the satisfaction you’d expect in such a resolution. it never features any reckoning with what made her feel the way she did in the first place -- a projection of the mother’s face singing the climactic realization literally undercuts the entire plotline. like here you can see how basically being propaganda for the american lifestyle (in this case the nuclear family e.g.) undercuts their message. this predictably only gets more egregious when they attempt to tackle colonialism. so quick summary of this plotline: anna and elsa’s grandfather basically genocided an indigenous people -- the northuldra -- after tricking them into building a dam that stifles the power of the forest or something. also their mother was actually northuldra. also magic comes from the northuldra forest? it would probably be pretty problematic re: the magical native stereotype if it was clearer what was going on lmao. at the end, anna breaks the dam even though it’ll flood Arendelle; however, elsa (who was literally frozen because of the sins of the past) swoops in at the last moment and freezes the wave so it causes no damage. However, in an earlier version of the story, the wave actually DOES destroy Arendelle and then they rebuild it with a mix of Arendellian and Northuldran architectural styles. this version actually proposed a genuine vision for how to deal with the impacts of colonialism instead of the final movie where sisterly love absolves everyone of consequences. 

ok, so about the gay: i know people read a coming out into let it go, and maybe this is just cause i watched frozen 1 when i was still straight, but i didn’t really see it. but the lyrics in frozen 2 elsa’s songs match up so well with the coming out experience, i have difficulty imagining the song-writers weren’t aware of it, especially since people were already calling for elsa to be gay. Like let’s take a look at these songs -- into the unknown first. She sings

“Everyone I've ever loved is here within these walls I'm sorry, secret siren, but I'm blocking out your calls I've had my adventure, I don't need something new I'm afraid of what I'm risking if I follow you”

This idea of having being afraid of ruining relationships even (and especially) with the people you love most by coming out is something that a lot of queer people can relate to. Then she sings:

“Are you here to distract me so I make a big mistake? Or are you someone out there who's a little bit like me? Who knows deep down I'm not where I'm meant to be? Every day's a little harder as I feel your power grow Don't you know there's part of me that longs to go”

How much do i need to explain this? (like all my 7 followers are some form of queer anyway lol) But again this battle of trying to hide but knowing deep down that you can’t, longing for “someone a little bit like me” --  it’s classic queer. Then she sings a bridge-type thing:

“Are you out there? Do you know me? Can you feel me? Can you show me?”

I mean, again, what is this but longing for community. Then in the climactic song “show yourself”, she sings this:

“Something is familiar Like a dream, I can reach but not quite hold I can sense you there Like a friend I've always known”

this is literally just about reading stone butch blues.

The climactic lyric is  “You are the one you've been waiting for all your life” (sung to her rather than by her) and i mean again, this is about finally giving yourself permission to live as your true self. And not gonna lie, i dug that shit. it felt quite authentic. obviously they didn’t actually make her gay, bc of course, but she is gay in my heart!

Ok, so what would have made the movie live up to its full potential?

1) fixing that stuff i already said about the parents; it felt like such bs that anna and elsa were dealing with ancestral sins but also their parents were saints whose love fixed everything? how much more interesting would it have been if reckoning with their parents’ impacts on them led them to reckoning with the impacts of their entire ancestry and in turn their society? if reckoning with their personal responsibilities to each other led them to consider their society’s responsibility to fix the past wrongs that allowed it to flourish? this wouldn’t even be counter to disney’s individualism, but it allows for a slight reconceptualization of it that i think would feel fresh.

2) having actual consequences for the colonialism and genocide

3) either cutting all the new magic system stuff or developing it in a way that in turn helps develop the themes. frankly, the “sometimes people are born with magic” that was implied in movie one was enough.

4) making elsa gay, and i say this not just because i want gay characters but because that genuinely makes sense within the story

5) basically, the central theme should have been “i have all this baggage and i can’t resolve it by looking for answers only within my society; in order to be fully at peace with myself, i must work to right the wrongs of my society that obscured the different ways of knowledge that could help people like me; sometimes you must go into the unknown in order to understand the known” which is a message i think very well suited for the united states!

[takaraphoenix]

You've said that female characters mostly reduced to the love interests, or that all they're thinking are their bf or love interests. But imo, this case access to the male characters as well. Percy doesn't think about Grover for example, I've always expected it to be there in his mind because of he's his bff. Instead, Grover just is... not that much of important anymore I guess? He doesn't think or concern that much about the demigods in CHB, whether they're okay or not. 1/9

They meet with the f-ing Hercules and Percy never once gets upset or brings the Zoe’s name in the ship. Instead, we see Percy’s making the dam joke in the MoA and saying it’s an inside joke. Which shows that Zoe is still in his mind. But dude, RR, please. If you’re gonna make Percy to come across with Hercules, and never once make him salty or angry with trying to acting on it while the other characters in the ship saying ‘’Percy dont1!!’ Then I’m sorry but what’s the meaning of those cases? 2/9            

7 team dynamic and friendship are basically dead. Riordan puts 7 supposedly all different characters in a ship and all dynamic that exists is mostly the love triangles. I don’t know if you talked about this issue but I’d like to see you point on this. Bc it was an important part in the series and Rick’s not playing with the potential actually is disappointing. He just mostly focuses on fricking romance instead and it’s annoying. 3/9            

Similar cases also existed in first series too. For example worst offender was whole Calypso case. I first thought that it wasn’t Percy’s fault that Gods didn’t keep their promises. But it was actually his fault, and also Annabeth and the others were at fault as well because of they legit thought Gods would keep their promises. I mean, dude. They even broke their biggest oaths and you all know it, and now you tell me that you never once checked out the gods’s jobs? 4/9            

In order to see if they kept their promises or not? Honestly it’s so… dumb? There must be a character development on this, basing on this situation, it does suck too. Percy should’ve learned that gods don’t keep their promises. And he should’ve checked it out himself after the war ends. Let’s say Percy was dumb, but Annabeth? She is a child of the Athena, who supposedly is smart, but never comes up with the idea of checking things out instead of just trusting gods to do their jobs. 5/9            

Or any other character, no one points the issue out. I’m not sure if this case was intentional or not, or RR himself just forgot about this but man, it comes across as such a bad writing. Also another biggest offender was May goddamn Castellan. So RR, you’re saying to me that no one, no Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, didn’t go to her house in order to see if she’s okay or not after war and events?In order to help her case, even if she’s still crazy or is cured? Or, was underw-kiss more important? 6/9            

After learning about her case, none of them didn’t ever wonder? What the actuality? Bob is another big offender. Not because of Percy left him; he didn’t. Bc you see, Bob was never his friends unlike Calypso. He was just a Titan, there was no actual friendship or anything. And it’s kinda dumb that Rick tries to portray Percy as a terrible friend in this case rather than pointing out other issues in his writing. 7/9            

But then in the Tartarus, they built a relationship, this time it’s actual. But when they go to the Doors, Percy never once actually try to save Bob or Damasen and it’s just…. I’d expected Percy to pull a thing in the end and sending them to the doors with risking his own life bc it’s Percy’s supposed characteristic element; he would do anything for his friends. But it just… doesn’t exist? Why it was never a big characteristic issue right there when you had to chance to write it? 8/9            

Also, at the end of the boO, Percy just generally is okay with sending his friends to fight with Gaia. They have a talk with Frank 1 minute, and after that, it’s all okay. No big issue. I guess it was so much challenging to pull that, RR. I believe that there are so much other problematic events but those came to mind at this time. Sorry if this was so much long and salty rant. *looks at the rant and cries in salt* 9/9            

Uhm, so, I love getting asks, I really do. But at a certain length, I think you should consider maybe… writing your own post and just tagging me in it if you want me to see it, because daaamn this is very… very… long. xD”

But yeah no, the boys are just as bad as the girls, that was never up for discussion. The question was just very explicitely about female characters, so I’m definitely not gonna drag guys into that. *chuckles*

Everything in Heroes of Olympus is about the romance. I mean seriously absolutely everything because even the villains shipped it - Gaia wanting specifically the blood of Annabeth and Percy because they totally are her OTP, Arachne having a tapestry of the underwater kiss how the ever-loving did she even know that happened how is that not the creepiest, most inappropriate and weird thing to happen in that entire gods damned series. They shoulda named that ship Ark II not Argo II, because it’s all about pairing up. It’s just that, in that ask, we were specifically talking about the bad writing of the female characters! ;)

Honestly. The Grover thing. I think that’s more on Riordan not thinking about Grover than on Percy. Like. I feel as though Riordan temporarily forgot Grover exists because he was so busy shipping. Because Coach Hedge should not have been on that ship. The satyr to go with them should have been Grover. Grover and Percy should have gotten a proper reunion. Instead, one throw-away dream-spy sequence where we got to see him and Rachel. So cheap.

The lack of friendship dynamics was most disappointing, yeah. Everything was about love. Even the one damn quest where all the girls could have bonded - lol nope it’s not a quest it’s actually a tea party with Aphrodite to talk about your love life!!! Because girls!!! Doing girl stuff!!! Seriously, old straight man writing teenage girls? Cringe.

Okay no I find it really asking too much that Percy shoulda pushed the gods about Calypso. Bear in mind the time. The war ended on August 18th. Percy gets abducted on December 15th. That’s four months. Four months of PTSD, of rebuilding the camp, of having a lot of other shit on his mind. If like… an actual big amount of time had passed and Percy had never checked? Okay. Yeah. That’s on him. But within four months? And… it’s not just Percy who had a lot of shit on his mind, let’s be honest, so did the gods. Tartarus was broken into, Olympus was demolished, very shortly thereafter they started having that identity crisis and souls started escaping from Hades. Four months pass in no time at all, especially when you do have a lot on your to-do list.

Same goes for May. Seriously. It’s only been a total of four months. I… genuinely would not have half a mind to care about a total stranger like May Castellan in the middle of my whole entire world kinda coming apart in a war and me having to deal with my own personal aftermath of that?? I mean, those are literal children who just saw their friends and family murdered in a war and who fought in that war themselves. I really, really do think that they had enough on their mind without caring to check in and see if this total stranger had been taken care of… And Percy, Thalia and Annabeth, were like the only ones with any kind of investment or even knowledge there, I mean it’s not like May was public knowledge and everybody cared. And who knows, maybe Thalia did go there off screen, check on her with the Hunt.

I’m generally not okay with Riordan’s attempt at portraying Percy as a bad friend in HoO. It’s wildly OoC. He established Percy’s fatal flaw to be that he would let the world burn for his friends, but suddenly he can’t be bothered with said friends? Both, Calypso and Bob, as used by Riordan, then the lack of Grover, the lack of… of any big reunion aside from Annabeth. He took this character that he specifically created as a very loving and devoted friend and suddenly made him not really care and also not really making friends. Yeah, Frank and Hazel. But… Percy Jackson? The Percy Jackson from the first series? He’d have been friends with everyone on the ship in five hours flat.

I STILL DON’T GET THE BOB AND DAMASEN PART. FUCK YEAH. Seriously, it’s been years and this still bugs me. That Percy and Annabeth were just like “Well. The doors closed. They dead now. Such a shame”. What the actual fuck was that. Try to save them! You could have still saved them!!! That was, too, so very OoC. Like Percy Jackson would just turn his back and let two of his comrades die.

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For the character questions: Laura Kinney, Kitty Pryde, and Scott Summers

thank you sm!!!

Laura:

1: sexuality headcanon: hmm. lesbian? ace lesbian? not sure tbh2: otp: well @eggosandxmen has pulled me into the cess/laura and the laura/sooraya pit so there’s that3: brotp: let laura hug her brother (daken) and her sisters (zelda, bellona, gabby, paris)!!! i’d also love to see her team up with/mentor the champions a little bit? but that’s self indulgent sdkf;jds;4: notp:….never really liked that thing with angel. felt. Weird.5: first headcanon that pops into my head: she likes scifi and fantasy so remy lends her books and discusses them with her.6: favorite line from this character: (in response to logan, “You know there was a dress in the car.”): “Yeah. You would have looked great in it. And the matching heels would have really accentuated your calves.”7: one way in which I relate to this character: interaction with people is weird! touching people is weird! 8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: nothing really? most of my problems come from the art (:/) and sometimes, the all-too-rough Japanese translation from Innocence Lost (according to my mother, anatawa means dear/darling/other term of endearment, not “you” as many language apps would have you believe)9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave? she’s an angel and i’d die for her, actually

Kitty:

1: sexuality headcanon: she’s a lesbian2: otp: kitty/illyana/rachel is what i end up writing a lot tbh3: brotp: kitty and kurt bc their dynamic in evolution was always fun to watch, and also kitty and ororo are So Good.4: notp: kitty/bobby. they’re both gay5: first headcanon that pops into my head: kitty has been around for Quite a While and so she makes it her business to embarrass the younger heroes, as is a superhero older sister’s job (it’s like a more realistic version of Pietro’s line “I knew you when you were in short shorts!” from A:NS)6: favorite line from this character: (in response to Emma: “Shall I make you an offer you can’t refuse?”) “Only if you want a real rude suggestion about what you can do with it.” 7: one way in which I relate to this character: people insist on trying to put me with men i am not interested in. also an affinity for dragons and cats. also also, same name! 8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: sometimes people write bad lines for her. also she was kind of a jerk to the new mutants back in the day.9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave? kitty pryde is amazing and i love her

Scott:

1: sexuality headcanon: bi or pan!2: otp: jean/scott, definitely. 3: brotp: scott and his kids, adopted and otherwise. let them be a family! also? scott and the other o5. 4: notp: hmm. emma/scott is valid if handled well but it was never handled well so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯5: first headcanon that pops into my head: he never forgets a birthday.6: favorite line from this character: I CAN’T THINK OF ONE RIGHT NOW HHHHHHHH SORRY

7: one way in which I relate to this character: dad friend. emotionally distant a lot. unsure of how to act a lot but apparently a “born leader” according to everyone else.

8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character: nothing that comes to mind!9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave? he was right. that is all

thank you!!!!

[airshipcity]

everything but 7 for animorphs

came back to bite me in the ass, as i knew it would 

name ur politically correct ship that no one ever questionsuh. oh boy. cake?? not a strong advocate but their moments of butterflies and happiness brings me joy 

now name ur trash shipratmance. this should come as a surprise to exactly no one 

and ur really trashy im-going-to-hell shipdavid/taylor, honestly, because they could fucking wreck shop if they collaborated against the animorphs (or anything) and actually MANAGED to work together, but i absolutely LOVE the idea of their dynamic being “quickly figure out exactly how to rile each other up and push all the right and wrong buttons, to the point that their alliance becomes a weakness in and of itself for the animorphs to exploit” 

who is your cinnamon roll fave who everyone lovescassie, because i like to pretend no one ever posts cassie hate and never have and never will. i live in a world where cassie is appreciated and loved and critizised for her actual mistakes and misjudgments but not vilified for being wrong sometimes or having a moral compass 

who is your sinnamon roll fave who everyone loves to hate/hates to loverachel, possibly?? maybe marco?? they’re both good but definitely more sinnamon than cinnamon, possibly even burnt and bitter cinnamon rolls who have been through far too much 

who is your trash fave who is so problematic they probably have hate tumblrs dedicated to them if i saw a dedicated david hate blog i would clap like a hungry seal and promptly follow them and then i would immediately link it to you so we could be deeply amused together 

what is the fic you want to write/read but can’t because it is too full of Sinremember back in the day, years ago, when i wanted to make an entire zombiemorphs au??? centered on ratmance????? That One

what is the most sinful fic you have ever read/writteni’m not saying it’s the one where jake and cassie do the do and morph a lot in the process, but it’s probably that one (read, that is. i absolutely did not write that one, i only write unprompted silliness and far-too-serious au junk in this fandom) 

what is the worst thing you want to become canon (character death, trash-ship etc)david returning properly, which INDUBITABLY counts as a worst thing but i want this so bad that i’m literally writing it myself just to scratch my own self-indulgent itch 

what is your most sinful headcanonmarco and david made out on exactly one occasion, and they’ve both sworn each other to holy silence on the matter. it was horrible and they both know it. both blame each other for the taste of unclean teeth and eggy breakfast. 

what is your cutest headcanontobias made off with a bag of his old clothes in his talons to bring to rachel’s place, for emergency purposes (and so rachel doesn’t start every human-tobias-requiring mission with shopping new brand clothes for him). rachel sometimes puts one of tobias’ messy old t-shirts on a mannequin she’s got. then she pretend-dances with it and has random conversations with it when she’s cleaning her room etc. tobias caught her once while she was hugging it and burying her head in the mannequin’s shoulder and decided to give her an hour of space before finally flying over to her window and asking her out on a nice burger date where they could maybe hold hands and lean on each other 

what is your heart-breakingist head canonthe same t-shirt was curled into a nice, soft pile by where rachel slept the last few nights before the big showdown. clearly used as a kind of makeshift teddybear to hold onto. cassie cries when she finds it, and tobias just flies off because he can’t stand to think about how he should’ve found the time to give her a proper last hug 

what is ur crackiest crack shipi mean, this is probably still david/taylor. or erek/marco. i’m going for erek/marco actually 

what is ur marginally less cracky crack shipdavid/marco, re: the marco impersonation thing that resulted from david committing Mysterious Shenanigans that left marco tied up in a closet iirc?? i rest my goddamn case 

what is ur favourite ridiculous audragon age inquisition au, where they’re ALL inquisitors w marks due to being at the wrong place at the wrong time, but they’re a complete band of apostate misfits who accidentally keep finding these rifts and have to fight demons and demon possession so they can close them. except they have to be covert about it so visser three corypheus doesn’t hunt them down to end them. (david is a rogue, but the shitty kind who knows how to make traps but is shit at setting them up bc he never warns his team so they all walk into them and david just laughs and calls them idiots. he’s easily goaded by visser three corypheus into traps as well though. also he keeps offering to help pick locks but he’s shit at that too, he just likes to show off that he’s Different and Better even though he absolutely, evidently, isn’t.) also taylor in the role of calpernia. cassie’s a spirit healer and mostly does buffing and only fights offensively when she must but marco is somehow almost always the first to fall in battle. cassie spends so many revive spells on marco every week. rachel bonds DEEPLY with leliana over clothes and fashion and comes along to orlais all the time, and insists on having morrigan teach her how to become a bear. rachel bereskarn is a terrifying sight to behold