#I have a shit tons of people here that is open to shipping

[uselessmoonlight]

Imagine: you disguised yourself as a man on Odysseus' ship.

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Content specs:

Hermes x reader, Circe x reader, entrapment?, kidnapping?, Hermes being a little shit, she/her pronouns, female reader, the word darling is abused, Eurylochus is an asshole.

I definitely wasn't inspired by Mulan...

Check the reblogs for a short continuation.

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You wanted to fight, you were strong, trained, strategic, and your father? He was well past his glory days. You could not, in your right mind, allow him to fight in this war, and you hadn't. For more than 10 years you'd kept your gender hidden as you fought bravely against the Trojans.

You kept a low profile, not wanting to catch any unwanted attention, you followed orders, you were ruthless on the battle field. In short you were the perfect soldier.

Then came the journey home. 10 years of war had wore you down, but you prevailed. Even when faced with the God of tides you were able to keep your identity hidden, but then came different circumstances.

You'd not gone with Eurylochus to scout out the island, having a few things to do on deck. Polites' death had left you with more tasks to complete, he used to be the one to keep track of the supplies. You missed him. You'd lost a friend and gained a shit ton of work on top of your own, one of which weighed heavier than the other.

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Having completed your work, you left the ship. The crew had docked at a beautiful island, it felt surprisingly serene. Your captain was only a few paces away, but clearly needed some space. The loss of the fleet weighed heavy on you, you couldn't imagine what he felt as their captain and king.

A flushed Eurylochus caught your attention. Odysseus questioned him and the answer of his state filled you with a strange sense of hope.

A woman.

You'd been at war, at sea, woth men who were not very respectful. You'd seen the atrocities done to the people who shared your gender, and had nit been able to do anything about it. But most of those men had been lost to the tides, the soldiers on Odysseus' ship were more respectful. Mainly because the captain's love for the queen allowed no room for misogyny, not on his ship.

"Not to insert myself, or speak ill of your plan, but perhaps I could speak to the witch." You interrupted their discussion.

"And what could you do to the witch, that the captain could not?" Eurylochus replied, accusingly. But the captain held up his hand, stopping the second in command from speaking any more.

"I believe she'd be more willing to hear out another woman."

"And what do you suggest we do? Dress up? Wait for one to magically fall out of the sky?"

"Shush, Eurylochus, let him speak." The captain intervened again.

"I am a woman. I'm surprised it took this long for my secret to be discovered." You state.

Odysseus smiled. "Polites was aware. He came to me about it. Concerned for your wellbeing if one of the crew members were to find out."

Your heart swelled and broke at the same time. Your greatest friend had kept the secret you weren't even aware he knew of. And so had your captain.

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Your captain insisted on escorting you to the palace, ready to step in if you needed him to. But an unexpected presence stopped the both of you in your tracks.

Hermes. A God you'd prayed to for safe travels, a God who'd heeded your prayers, a God who was here, in the flesh, offering a deal.

He'd help you, but dealing with Gods always came with a price. One you'd only find out if you won. How selfless.

"In the root of this flower, lies the power to take her on. Once you digest it, you'll be able to manifest a being of your creation, if you're creative enough. It'll only exist until the fight is over." The God explained. "Open up, darling, no time to waste." He said, putting his hand under her chin.

He placed the flower in her mouth and pressed it closed, swiping his thumb over her lower lip. "Chop chop, you haven't got all day." He said, giving her a lopsided smirk.

"Lady of the palace, sorry that I ask this..."

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The fight had gone in her favour, as had the negotiation. That was until Circe asked her: "Why would you risk your life to save these men?"

"I risk my life, not for these men, but for my captain who would not leave without them, and who has a wife and son waiting for him to return. There's nothing in this world that he wants more than the company of his beloved. I risk my life for my fallen comrades, one in particular, who's lives I do not want to end in vain. If they cannot return, they must do so for them. I risk my life, as I've nothing left to return to and I would welcome death with open arms. So I beg you, Circe, let these men free."

"I will let those men free, and I offer one thing more. Stay. You've nothing to return to, so why suffer trying to get to a home that's no longer yours. Why suffer the wrath of Poseidon for a wrongdoing not of your own? Stay with me and my nymphs, we will treat you well. You'll no longer have to fear a man's selfishness."

"No can do little witch, she's made a deal with me. Isn't that right, darling." A familiar, but unexpected voice interrupted.

"Hermes, so you're the one who aided her? I should've known." Circe mused. "Very well, but if you are ever free of this deal, know you are welcome here, love." The witch almost purred.

"May I say goodbye to my captain?" You asked the messenger God.

"I'm feeling generous today, let's go say bye to my great grandson." He replied, picking her up, and flying her outside.

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"This is entirely unnecessary, my feet work perfectly fine, please put me down, and oh my Gods that's high up." You hid your face in the crook of his neck, feeling the vibrations from his laughter.

"You can look, were almost on solid ground, darling."

"Before I say goodbye, what exactly does this deal entail?"

He smirked at her. "Their freedom cost you yours, but don't worry darling, I'll treat you nicely, and I won't turn you into a pig."

And as she looked at the beautiful man, she did not think this deal was a bad one.

[stevenrogered]

I’m sorry it’s just so crazy to me that tim would let the funeral leak and then have the audacity to give an interview saying he didn’t think there would be any interest in them filming?? My brother in Christ you literally let a dude livestream the entire thing

okay walk with me in the delusion that bobby is alive for a second here lol

that white flash after chimney got injected with the cure SCREAMS coma dream. not to mention that the show ended with him saying the last words of the episode, not athena or even buck

you know how in shows they always like to show the person's face as they zip up the body bag? guess who's face WE DID NOT SEE? sure we saw the body bag, but not who was in it

eddie not being there. regardless of how this turns out, doing this entire arc without eddie was fucked up. theres no nice way to say it. maybe im giving them too much credit here but purposely leaving him out of this storyline and completely off camera for the entire thing does not sit right with me

and idgaf what tim minear says, i do not think they would have been stupid enough to film his funeral out in the open, with MULTIPLE people taking pics and video, that weird dude livestreaming and the cast signing autographs and such. the show is on abc, they have a huge budget, you're telling me that a main character's death/funeral wasn't given ANY kind of secrecy or privacy? ESPECIALLY after they were legitimately mad/upset that the buddie goodbye hug got leaked when eddie moved to texas? thats not adding up

the fact that this isnt a season finale and theres 3 entire episodes left and we know theres another season coming too? if they were going to permanently kill off a main character, they would have done it in the finale.

this creates a ton of buzz for the show, and not in a good way. but if they reverse it, everyone will watch. even though peter's giving exit interviews and stuff, they can still have bobby retire and peter leave the show (even if i dont like that either) but to go from a show where no one dies (which, lets be real, is a big reason why people love the show. there's always risk and you can put them through a bunch of shit but we know they'll be okay in the end) to this just for shock value is dumb af and WILL make you lose a good chunk of your audience.

the main general audience doesnt give af about buddie or bucktommy or ship wars or whatever. they watch for angela and peter

[magenta-embers]

My Jikook Journey

Part 2 of my intro.

From "multi-shipper" to "...wait a goddamn minute."

This will be a messy and detail-lacking overview because I could easily do an individual post on each thing I mention here and delve deeper (AMA!).

When I became an ARMY in 2018, I was excited about the treasure trove of fanfics now available to me. The ship didn't really matter, but my bias was/is Jimin (bias wrecker Tae then) so the very first fic I read was a vmin camping one (there was only one sleeping bag, gasp!). For me, shipping meant I'd read fanfics or save fanart of certain pairs together because in a fictional sense/in another universe, they make a good couple. I think this is a healthy approach, keeping that boundary between reality and fiction.

When I mentioned to my k-pop fan step-sister that I was reading vmin, she gave me a weird look. She said taekook is THE ship of BTS, which confused me because vmin seemed to be closer and have better chemistry than Tae and JK. Turns out, she was right. Searching by most kudos on ao3, you get a shit ton of taekook. I accepted it readily and just thought I must be missing something since I was a baby ARMY, so I read those super popular fics and started to enjoy taekook too. I started to focus more on them because... it felt like that was what I was supposed to do.

It's a common problem, isn't it? Baby ARMY who are open to shipping are quickly found and "guided" to taekook before they have a chance to glance in another direction. If they try, taekookers, who are the majority in the shipping sphere, will convince them that taekook is THE ship. Even if they aren't ARMY (my step-sister), they know that much. As a new fan, you just want to fit in, so you'll go along with what's most popular. Some people eventually find their own way, but many don't. Asking questions is vital, but if you do it aloud, you risk getting attacked by a small but extremely aggressive portion of the most infamous fanbase.

Even back then while just innocently reading any well-written fic I could get my hands on, I noticed that Jungkook was usually portrayed as a lot edgier and darker than he really was (manifested the 2023 JK aesthetic) and Taehyung was constantly portrayed as... Jimin. Especially in fan art. For some reason, a lot of the time, the appearance/vibe/personality of Taehyung was truer to Jimin than to himself, and that confused me. "Why not just make it Jungkook x Jimin?" I kept seeing them trying to force Taehyung into the dynamic that Jimin has with Jungkook when their own dynamic was perfectly fine.

Slipping down the pipeline, I started to watch taekook moments/analysis videos because I thought gotta be missing something, right? That's how I found out people are convinced they're dating, and it wasn't just a fun fic/art thing. The videos themselves were... something. There were just way too many red circles, too much slow-mo, and too much mind-reading going on for me to take any of it seriously. Plus, the moments that weren't exaggerated were just close friend skinship. Hell, Taejin were doing more sus shit together than taekook.

And yet people insist on taekook even when taekook do nothing to insist on themselves.

At this point, it was deep into 2019. Jikook were wilding in 2019. Even I was noticing all the... little things that made me raise an eyebrow. The touches that lingered just too long in rather intimate areas, the fond/awed looks at each other, the shameless flirting, the complete lack of physical boundaries, and the normalness of it all between them. That's telling. Even though I was mainly a taekooker with a shit ton of fanart and fics saved to my phone, if you looked at my liked YouTube videos around that time, I had jikook moments videos saved, not taekook, because their moments were just more fun/juicier to watch overall. They just interacted differently than they did with other members.

A quick example would be a video compilation of taekook holding hands. Sure, they're holding hands, maybe even interlocking fingers, but they're usually standing side by side and looking in different directions or just having a neutral expression. But if you watch a jikook one, not only is it much longer, but it's just different. I feel like I'm interrupting sometimes. Even in such a simple action like holding hands, there's a softness, an intimacy there that doesn't exist in taekook. Jikook wouldn't just be holding hands (usually for absolutely no reason), they'd be looking into each other's eyes, smiling sweetly, fully turned toward each other, attention completely captured by the other. How can I explain the look in their eyes? It just doesn't exist with vmin, yoonmin, jihope, etc.

Sidebar: All of those pairs have flirty/sus moments as most really close friendship dynamics do, but they're lighthearted to me and never invoked a true sense of.... whoa whoa whoa, hang on. If Jungkook and Jimin were my close friends IRL and I saw the way they are together, my alarms would go off. As either, "Oh my god, they're fucking," or "Oh my god, they wanna fuck each other." People always say, "Oh, Jimin's like that with everyone." No. No, he's not. Pay attention. Really pay attention to the differences in the dynamics between members. None of them have the "same" relationship. Especially pay attention to how the rest of the members react to Jikook.

Anyway,

So here I was noticing this... deeper intimacy in simple interactions with those two (because I'm a human being with eyes and life experience), and yet my Twitter timeline would just dismiss them entirely. "I love their friendship," "Wow their brotherhood is so beautiful," and "They're all so close," and normally these statements wouldn't bother me because technically they're true, but I started noticing that taekook or yoonmin would brush shoulders and everyone would be like, "Omg taekook/yoonmin married/boyfriends/real," over nothing. Their moments are cute/sweet/funny, but never more than that. The blatant hypocrisy did frustrate me a little, but ultimately I didn't overthink it; I didn't want to be delulu or look too deeply into anything because I still thought I must be missing something. Taekook is the most popular for a reason, right? Right?

But Taekook died for me when Tae told Taekookers to get out of their imagination. I respected that from him and took it at face value. It was the most aggressive shutdown of shipping we've ever had. I couldn't brush him off. It's disrespectful. He's uncomfortable.

Meanwhile, over the next couple of years, Jungkook and Jimin only got more suspicious in the minor interactions and in the big staple moments. Rosebowl. Hickeygate. Etc. Everyone was bending over backward trying to explain away the things these two did with each other, and it's always the same excuses. I was also trying extremely hard to think of any reason other than the simplest one because I didn't want to be delulu.

Because there was no way two members of a boyband were actually in a long-term relationship together. Especially in a conservative country.

Ridiculous. Unrealistic. Delulu.

I was basically telling myself in a mirror that they were just extra super duper close friends with muddy boundaries that meant sucking ears and giving neck hickeys was okay. I did allow there to be the thought that, maybe they're friends with benefits and that unavoidable intimacy now bleeds through into their regular interactions.

That opinion carried until 2023.

Isn't that funny?

2023.

The year so many jikookers gave up and bemoaned that those two weren't close anymore or had broken up is the year that finally convinced me.

What tipped me over?

Jungkook's vlives.

The way he kept watching videos of Jimin when he could just phone him. It reminded me of me watching Jimin, but I'm just a fan; I watch those videos because it's the only way I can appease my yearning to be close to and connected to Jimin, and absorb everything that he does or says or is.

Jungkook doesn't have that limitation, so why's he sitting there like a lovesick puppy with the fondest/most loving eyes when he could have Jimin over with just a call? Why's he sitting there looking like he's also yearning for something he can't have like us, the fans, when he can have it? He has Jimin's number. You don't need to watch yourself tease Jimin. You can just go do it. Just text him, bro.

It felt like he just wanted to bask in Jimin without interruption, without distraction, without having to force his attention elsewhere. Beyond being incredibly sweet, it also felt like Jungkook was making a statement, a point, because he kept doing it. Why? Is he somehow obsessed with his friend and bandmate whom he's seen almost every day for over a decade? If it was to promote him, he really didn't have to do all that? He didn't do it for the others, not to that extent.

Watching Jimin, talking about Jimin, singing Jimin's songs, fkn playing Letter on guitar. (The naked vlive flirting session? Lord, what.)

The man kept having vlives with a significant Jimin focus. He insisted on it enough times that it felt like he was trying to slap some sense into me. His insistence bothered me enough for me to finally do a deep dive into jikook.

Down the rabbit hole, I went. The more I learned, the more my jaw dropped. Where the fuck was all this info on my timeline when these motherfuckers were celebrating the most basic kpop boy interactions as if they were wedding vows? I even ended up seeing pictures/info we as fans were never meant to see at the bottom of that hole. If you know, you know.

Eventually, I ended up on this video (bless this fucking channel).

I want everyone to understand that I had zero knowledge of established relationship timeline theories. I went into this video blind, just trying to find the point in time when JK started to warm up to Jimin. That's not what I found. I found something so much better.

Especially 2013-2015 had me in awe. I think I cried. Jimin and Jungkook had a fattest, cutest mutual crush on each other. Absolutely. And because they were young, not that famous, and still rookies with media and camera training, we get a lot of insight into those two that we wouldn't get in later years when they learned how to mask and behave more "idol"-like. Jimin was especially loud, almost sadly loud. If you haven't watched the timeline of at least those early years, I implore you to. It actually blew my mind and broke/healed my heart. It's really bittersweet to see two teenage boys with little to no experience in anything romantic trying to come to terms with themselves while also coming to terms with each other. It's like watching a coming-of-age romance movie.

I saw clear shifts from when the relationship hit turning points in certain years. I proposed a timeline in my head based on that. Imagine my fucking surprise when I found out other people have also come up with timelines, and more surprising yet, they were all unbelievably similar to mine, down to what changed in what half of the year. I, who had no previous knowledge that this was even a thing. I just noticed it all on my own. We were all seeing the same thing. The same changes. No red circles, no slow-mo, no mind reading. It's all in the body language.

I panicked a little because overall it seemed too good to be true, so I reached out to a taekooker friend to send me her best evidence videos and receipts because I just had to make sure I wasn't going totally delulu here. I needed to see that the other biggest ship had interactions and moments on the same level with that same consistency, maybe even their very own relationship timeline to bring me back down to Earth. But... there's nothing. Really, there's nothing between taekook. Not one moment where I was like, oh? You'll find hours-long jikook content videos that are absolutely jam-packed with content, significant content, but that sort of depth just doesn't exist for taekook. Instead, you get conspiracy theories.

I watched most of the videos on that best of jikook channel and several other staple channels. It wasn't as if I bought into everything presented. I still rolled my eyes at many things that were blown out of proportion by some creators, and jikook isn't free from red circles and slow-mo and bullshit. And yet, I was still overwhelmed by the mountain of crisp receipts dumped on my head.

Jikook have much, much more solid evidence supporting the theory that they are together than evidence against it. I took the facts as they are, took my social experiences for what they are, took my psychology background for what it is, and concluded that they are most likely together, probability-wise. At the very least, they are the ONLY pair in BTS that have ANY legitimate possibility of being romantically involved. If jikook isn't real, then none of the other ships have any hope whatsoever, let's not kid ourselves. It's them or none of them.

They also have much, much more evidence that they are together than with any random man or woman you wanna throw at them. There needs to be valuable evidence or a total shutdown for me to tip the scale. I'm going to need Jimin or Jungkook to state, "I am not dating anyone at all," or "Get out of your imagination," or a bighit relationship announcement, or a clear video of lip-on-lip action or very intimate interaction with someone else.

Frankly, I don't give a single fuck about a grainy pic/video when it's 2023 and there's no excuse for that. I don't give a fuck who owns the same vase or cooking pots. I don't give a fuck if either of them hugged a woman. These are not evidence. These aren't even as good as the worst Jikook evidence.

At this point in time, Jikook is still the only viable option with the information we currently have available to us. This is my opinion and I stand by it.

At the end of the day, the thing I want most is for Jimin to be happy. Currently, it seems that Jungkook makes Jimin the happiest (as Jungkook says). As long as that holds true, I'll be here. If that changes at some point in time, I'd accept it.

But until that day comes, what the fuck else am I supposed to think?

E.

[chainera-deactivated]

My Thoughts on Vercury + Doodles

To be honest, my relationship with this pairing is literally a love-hate one.

When I first heard about it, I’m not going to lie, I was super turned off. This was during SolarBall’s early episodes, where Mercury was shown constantly being bullied by Venus and I could not imagine being paired with my bully if I was in a similar situation. There was no chemistry between them, and even if there was, it wouldn’t be healthy. Especially during the whole Venus’ name arc, where Mercury constantly mocked him and got an asteroid to the face. Personally, the ship made no sense to me and sounded downright toxic. But of course, the more recent episodes came out. The atmosphere (even though there’s no atmosphere in space lol) between Mercury and Venus seemed… more neutral than hostile or tense. This is mostly because Mercury started to stand up for himself. Two scenes of note is the moment where Mercury laughed at Venus’ comment during the Rocky Planets episode and when Mercury snapped at Venus during the ‘Solar System by Size’ arc. What’s interesting is that after Mercury yells at him, Venus looked regretful, which was definitely new. Mercury didn’t shout at him about the consequences of him siding with the Sun or anything like that either, he simply said that he was fine with Venus hating him ‘for the sake of everyone else’. After that, Venus didn’t immediately change his mind but did try to explain his side of things, which was also new. As of right now I still don’t see anything happening between them, but I definitely do see the appeal in the ship and the potential for it to eventually happen.

From a settings standpoint- the potential is obvious. We don’t know what happened to cause Venus to pick on Mercury so much, we don’t know what their past was like, and with the answers to those questions revealed, Mercury and Venus might reconcile. Venus clearly has a lot of problems with his conditions as being called ‘a literal hell’ by the Earthlings, and Mercury also has his own insecurities and issues with the Sun. Mercury is already learning how to deal with these things, but Venus hasn’t quite figured it out yet. I’m quite interested on how Venus will be developed and how Mercury will play a role in this. I don’t think Venus downright despises Mercury, and vice versa, but they do have a ton of shit to sort out which may lead to a hopefully happy ending. Now, from a character standpoint there’s also a ton of potential. Venus and Mercury are kind of opposites, and yknow the saying… opposites attract. It would be really sweet if Mercury could calm Venus down when he was getting too ticked off, and Venus could treat Mercury nicely in his own way. Their personalities contrast really well. I didn’t like Vercury before because I felt if it actually happened Mercury would just allow Venus to treat him like crap, but now I feel like Mercury would know how to set proper boundaries and they would be equals. In a healthy relationship, there shouldn’t be a power imbalance, so with Mercury’s character development and Venus’ potential to change and be kinder (though not necessarily gentler) power imbalance shouldn’t be a problem. Another aspect is the fact that Venus and Mercury are both quite lonely. Earth and Mars are extremely close friends (or more haha), and while Mercury does have the Sun, he’s kind of forced to walk on eggshells in that relationship. They’re also neighbor planets, so there’s that. In all, I definitely agree with the concept of Vercury, but if it should happen, it should be after Venus and Mercury at least began to try and sort everything out. Here’s some (a bit spicy) doodles as a reward for listening to my rant again :D

As always, I’m open to other people’s opinions- especially on a topic as complex as this one. I just ask that you be respectful. Thank you.

[eyepatchdate]

People You'd Like to Get to Know Better

Tagged by @abysskeeper yayyyyyyyyy

⟡ FAVE SHIPS ⟡

Also Trick x Tavon

Beatrice x Battler

Flynn x Nanashi

Satoko x Rika

Bruce Wayne x Weiss Schnee (yes i am serious)

Myn Donas x Kirney Slane

many others...impossible to list my fav ships

⟡ LAST SONG ⟡

Anyone's Ghost - The National

⟡ LAST FILM ⟡

Aquaman 2! I haven't seen the first one but I thought it was really fun. It felt like. It was made for women? Which is a weird thought to have during a film but I noticed the lack of male gaze and was sort of transfixed by that lack. The themes of the movie were fun and it was very eventful with tons of shit happening, which was a blast.

⟡ CURRENTLY READING ⟡

'The Adventures of Superman' the 1942 novel (1995 reprint version). I'm still just in the beginning parts but I really enjoyed its depiction of Krypton. It's wild to be reading the first superhero novel.

I also pulled out the FE Chess zine i have, but I haven't actually cracked it open yet. Both are in my 'active reading pile' on my nightstand :)

⟡ CURRENTLY CRAVING ⟡

a couch for my room so i can watch tv again

the ability to finish the third chapter of the dc fic i really want to post

the energy to fix the damage in the wall of my room and my bathroom (not major i just. dont. feel like it)

a nightwing poster.

more ops catalysts in swtor...

i would put a food here but i am just not a food motivated person so thats hard for me.

OK. Tagging just for funsies (do this if u want to): @roseofcards90 @shadeslayer @enterlameprofilename @yoursupremeruler @yarrayora @salamancialilypad @halsaph, and anyone else that wants to do this!

[legobiwan]

Another story idea:

One of the - and I hesitate to call them "issues" as I think the series is pretty complete on its own - but one of the loose threads from the end of Gravity Falls Season 2 I'd like to tug at is the ease with which Ford finds redemption after his return to his dimension.

On the surface, it seems like the only person he needs to work to reconcile with is his brother, with whom he can barely share a civilized conversation with until after the zodiac is broken and the elder Pines twins are left seemingly helpless in Bill's improvised prison.

And yes, Ford gets the kick in the ass he needs after his brother's memory is erased (at his own hand), as he realizes at that juncture just how much his hubris has cost him (even if he hadn't consciously valued the relationship with his brother before, there have been steady hints throughout the series and books that Ford values Stan in some way, even if he's shit at showing it).

But it's all...rather easy.

McGucket asserts that he's done forgetting and ready to forgive, even though he was probably the biggest victim to Ford's actions and ego throughout the entire series. (There was another post I saw around here about "hurt people hurt people." Bill may have been awful to Ford, but Ford was almost equally as awful to Fiddleford).

Give me a story where McGucket starts to gain back those memories - of his anxiety and panic and near-slavish devotion to a man who barely gave him the time of day. Give me a Fiddleford who won't take Ford back after this all comes back to light, who finally grows a spine and cuts ties with someone who mistreated him for years.

Give me a story where Mabel is outwardly enthusiastic towards Ford, but also afraid. Afraid that she's not enough for him, that she can't be her brother, that Ford will look down on her. Give me Mabel acting out in her most-Mabelest ways to try to both win over Ford and smooth out the relationship between him and Stan (and knowing she's a child coming from an unsettled home life, this hits all the worse).

Give me a story where Dipper realizes the truth of the old quote, "never meet your heroes." Where he finally come to terms with the fact that Ford is just a person - and a very flawed person, at that. A person who nearly sold the world for his ego and worse yet, held his grunkle and sister with little regard, held Dipper's own future with little regard except how it would benefit Ford.

And yes, finally, give me a story where Stan and Ford have the seriously hash things out. Where they ned to come to terms with their trauma from their youth (and the one thing I can't blame Ford for is what happened with the science fair project. Stan shouldn't have been there and he knew better. Stan also knew he was less than second banana to his brother his entire life, and his father made no bones about showing it. Say what you will, but an almost-18-year-old Ford was never going to react well to that situation, nor would he totally understand the consequences of Filbrick kicking Stan out at that age. Stan was also horrifically co-dependent on his brother, something his parents should have helped to sort out way earlier). Stan needs to sort his issues with both his (now-assumedly-dead) parents, as does Ford. Ford needs to come clean as to the who, what, where and why of Oregon. And Stan needs a reason to live for himself, and not for others - especially not his brother, from whom he has an almost desperate need for affection. (And you have to wonder, after 30 years...now that he's gotten Ford back, is there some kind of pit that's opened up in Stan, some raison d'être that's vanished leaving him uncertain as to everything in life, even with Ford vowing change and ships and adventures from his end. That's got to be one hell of a whiplash).

Anyway, what I'm saying is I love Ford but there's a ton he has to reckon with, and worst off, he has to reckon with other people if he truly wants to change. (And oh no, can I think of another two-dimensional being who may be going through the same thing in a time-warped psychiatric institution, hmmm, I wonder...)

[moonspirit]

I love aruani sm but lately I feel like it’s getting less fun bc of all the hate they get… usually it doesn’t get to me but it has lately and idk… I still love my blondes but it’s so hard to hehe without having someone come in and talk about how their ship is better etc whatever.. idk if you ever feel like that /:

Hello anon!

I can understand where you're coming from. I've been in this fandom since 2013, and believe me, I've seen a ton of hate xD Where there are fans there are also antis, this is mostly an unavoidable phenomenon and the best we can do is accept it.

But anon, they key is to not give antis any leeway to come and camp out in your space. If you have something you love, be it a ship, a fandom, a hobby or anything, it's yours to love and enjoy. You don't have to let the antis come in and talk shit about it. You see them from the window, they're outside, but don't open the door.

Instead, invite in the people who feel the same way as you.

Tumblr is the only place I'm on, for fandom and community and pretty much everything else, but believe me, I see so many rancid posts here that I actually go: "what the actual fuck". Some of these posts spill into the 'Aruani' tag for no reason at all other than to incite a ship-war. It's really unnecessary and also annoying, but unfortunately some people feed off the drama.

Obviously, I can't block the tag, but if it's really getting to me, I block the user.

Done. I refresh my dash, see the Aruani community posting memes and art and headcanons and mini-fics and everything is still wonderful and fun and good.

These are the people in my house, the antis stay outside.

[hologramcowboy]

Since the end of the election many SPN fans have been online (X) saying they’re cutting anyone who voted for Trump/Vance out of their lives.

They also have been biting at Misha after he posted on X about not engaging in hate towards others. Never ceases to amuse me when his beloved fans lose their minds on him if he doesn’t think and act the exact way they do.

https://x.com/mishacollins/status/1854554551493296194?s=46&t=wx4CnlP_QMqkNn_0DvA9HQ

My question is how likely do you think it is that Jensen faces backlash from fans? He appeared in that Lynda Carter hosted event to support Harris/Walz, it looked like a shit show and he seemed somewhat uninterested in being there, and he hasn’t posted anything since the election. He was also at Steve Carlson’s gig in LA last night and Steve is supposedly a Trumper.

I personally think cutting people from your life because of their political leanings is the wrong way to go. Civil, open dialogue is better but that’s just me.

I just wonder if you think Jensen will get any hate, especially from Hellers, about his lacklustre reaction and his friendship with a conservative. Then there’s Danneel who retweeted one of Misha’s pre-election tweets… that was the extent of her online “activism”. Does she qualify for hate from the ultra engaged, politically active and aware set?

#jensencritical #antidanneel

I agree. Cutting people out of your life due to political leanings is unnecessary, however, I do get that at the moment it's coming from a place of helplessness and horror over the future. People are lashing out due to feeling powerless. Jensen is Jensen, he is a beyond privileged man who gets away with a ton of things simply because women fall at his feet. Due to this, he always does the bare minimum, just to check boxes. I seem to recall a comment he made "Just give them a picture with my face one it" (there is video of this, he was in an Impala at a CW event where Lucy Hale and others were present). In other words, I don't mean to be mean, but I don't expect much from him. He runs from anything that has to do with responsibility and only does things for clout ONLY if they are easy for him. Lazy and self centered, again, I don't mean to be mean but that's how he comes off. I hope I'm 150% wrong. I doubt he will get a lot of hate because he can do no wrong. Infatuation beats reality when it comes to Jensen.

Danneel, as always, follows whatever is trendy for clout, on her own she has no personality and no opinions, she can barely form sentences. What can we expect from a woman whose entire career rested solely on her fake bosom? Now that being said, no matter which side you belong to, I hope we all find ways to reach harmony and balance our perceptions. There are severe repercussions coming our way due to the result of the election and those who voted for Trump didn't do any research into any of that. They will learn from experience. We need to be united not divided, education is power. It's lack of education that has landed America in the position of voting for someone like Trump. I could go on and on but this blog is not the place for my critical thinking on this subject. To answer your question, I believe a certain part of fandom is set on hatred and will look for any reason to justify tearing into others. I'm not referring exclusively to hellers but to a general trend within fandom. People will do horrible things and hide behind their fandom loves. Let's just come out and admit it's not your ship that's driving you but your own instincts and desires. Don't use your love of X or Z as an excuse to tear into other people and be cruel. Civil discussion is more than possible, in fact, it can be enriching for both sides. Fanaticism is dangerous and we're about to learn just how dangerous it is thanks to our new President.

I'll stop here because this blog is not meant to be political in any way, it's merely a fandom blog. Thank you for the beautiful question.

[m4m4-kk]

a shit ton of incorrect quotes

tw: Suggestive, ships

Second: I’m not so sure you’re stakeout material. 

Purple: I’m a chronic insomniac, I was born for this.

Blue: Yellow! I can't do this stupid math! 

Yellow: What’s the math problem? 

Blue: Well, we have to add the bed, subtract the clothes divide the legs, and hope we don’t multiply. 

Second, covering Red's ears, while Yellow smacks Blue upside the head: Not going to lie that was hella smooth.

Blue: Cronch. 

Blue: You hear that? That's the sound of me eating sticks. 

Yellow: No, don’t— 

Blue: Too late.

Green: Who hurt you? 

Purple: *snorting* What, do you want a list? 

Green: ...Yes, actually.

Green: Are you a cuddler? 

Purple: I'm a machine of death and destruction. 

Green: 

Purple: ...Yeah, I'm a cuddler.

Green: When do you usually go to sleep? 

Purple: Whenever I collapse is entirely up to the gods.

Red: Of course I have a lot of pent-up rage, you fool! I've been the same height since I was twelve!

Green: Look, Purple, it's the third time this week you had a mental breakdown and it’s Monday.

Red: What’s sexting? 

Victim: I'm not having this conversation with you.

Purple: What are you in the mood for? 

Green: World domination. 

Purple: That's a bit ambitious. 

Green: You are my world. 

Purple: Aww... 

Green: 

Purple: 

Green: 

Purple: OH.

Yellow: Damn, the power went out. 

Blue: Don’t worry, I got this. 

Blue: *shakes rapidly and starts to light up* 

Yellow: What-? 

Blue: I swallowed a glow stick! 

Yellow, on the verge of tears: WHY WOULD YOU-

Second, at Purple: Of course you have blood all over you, and pronouns.

Purple: I’m afraid of clowns. There, I said it. 

Blue: Purple, if you don't like clowns, why are you hanging with Green?

Red: I  wish I was a cat, but not in a furry kinda way, more like a “I can sleep all day and hit people with no consequences” kinda way.

Dark: Vegetable oil is made from vegetables, coconut oil is made from coconuts, so BABY OIL- 

Victim: CAN'T WE JUST HAVE A NICE FAMILY DINNER FOR ONCE?!

Purple: So my burn from yesterday was actually hurting really bad so I put a bandaid on it. 

Purple: Does it make any sense to put a bandaid on a wound that wasn’t even open? No, but I would rather feel good than make sense.

Yellow: *seductively takes off glasses* Wow, you're... blurry.

Second: look Green, I'm not slut shaming you but... 

Second: Actually yeah, I'm TOTALLY slut shaming you.

Second: Kill him. 

Dark: This is the kind of quality advice I look for.

Purple: *sucking on a popsicle* 

Blue: Pfft, you practicing for when Green gets here? 

Purple: *takes a huge ass bite out of the popsicle* 

Blue: *Concern*

Purple, looking through their clothes: Has anyone seen my top? 

Blue: Green's in the kitchen.

Green : That’s the longest worm I’ve ever seen.

Red: That’s a snake.

Green: Heh, Purple sneezes like a girl. 

Purple: How about I pound you like boy? 

Purple: That didn’t come out right.

Green: *banging a pen on the table out of frustration* 

Purple: Stop that. How would YOU feel if I banged you on the table? 

Green: I— 

Green: I don’t know the correct answer to that question.

Green: I sleep with a gun under my pillow. 

Blue: I sleep with a knife. 

Red: Both of you are pathetic. 

Green: Oh yeah? What do you sleep with? 

Red: Second.

Red, opening a Capri Sun: Guess I'll drink my sorrows away.

Red: I put the pun in punishment. 

Green: I put the top in unstoppable. 

Purple: I put the cute in execute. 

Blue: I put the sexy in dyslexia. 

Yellow: I put the ass in class. 

Second: I put the D in Red.

Purple: We can't lose. Because we have this. *points to their chest* 

Red: We have heart? 

Purple: Heart? No, me. I'm pointing at myself. I'm going to win this for us.

Yellow: I truly believe that water can solve all your problems. 

Second: Weight loss? Drink water. 

Blue: Clear skin? Drink water. 

Dark: Want to get rid of someone? Drown them.

Yellow: Do you even have a plan? 

Red: This is the plan! I break you out, chaos, destruction, something something something, we win! 

Yellow: Oh, of course, the old “something something something we win”. That’s a terrible plan!

Green: If I'm extra sarcastic with you it probably means I'm flirting with you or you really annoy me and I can't handle your crap... have fun figuring out which one.

Blue: I know every song to ever exist it doesn't matter if it's from the past, present or the future. 

Green: Oh yeah? Then continue this. 

Green: I don't cook I don't clean- 

Blue: So let me tell you how I got this ring. 

Blue & Green: ..... 

Blue & Green: GOBBLE ME, SWALLOW ME-

Green: honk. 

Second: WHAT. 

Green: HONK. 

Second: WHAT DOES HONK MEAN THIS TIME YOU WHIMSICAL PIECE OF SHIT?????

Red: You know what I asked Santa for Christmas this year? 

Second: If you say me, I swear I’ll— 

Red: You? What? No, I asked him for that cool Ninjago Lego set we saw in Target!

Green: Red is a little bitch. 

Chosen: Why? 

Green: Number one, he’s little. Number two, he’s a bitch.

Red: Can I get a waffle? 

Purple and Blue: *fighting and yelling at each other* 

Red: Can I p l e a s e get a waffle? 

Dark: Are you busy? 

Chosen: Yes. 

Dark: Cool, listen to this...

Purple, after having a nosebleed: Welp. Time to wash the blood off my hands.

Red: Any questions? 

Purple: Uh, yeah, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? 

Red: Uh, a plan, duh... 

Second: Purple, chill, I know it’s weird, but Red has a point. 

Purple: 

Purple: THAT WAS LITERALLY A PONY DOODLE WITH A HAT!!

Dark: I’m the sexiest bitch in this therapy waiting room.

Purple: Ok so, apparently the "bad vibes" I've been feeling are actually severe psychological distress.

Red: Can you pass the salt? 

Dark: Can you pass away? 

Red: Too much salt.

Purple: Hey, thanks for checking in, I’m ✨still a piece of garbage✨

Chosen: Prepare to feel really bad about yourself.  Dark: I’ve been prepared for that my entire life. 

Chosen: 

Dark: Or something mean about you.

Purple: This food is too hot... I cant eat it. 

Green: You’re very hot, and I still eat you. 

Everyone at the table: *silence* 

Second: YOU GUYS ARE DISGUSTING! 

Chosen: One dinner... I just want ONE DINNER!

Second: I like your new pants! 

Red: Thanks, they were 50% off! 

Second: I’d like them better if they were 100% off. *winks* 

Red: The store can’t just give away clothes for free. 

Second: Thats’s… not what I meant. 

Red: That’s a terrible way to run a business, Second.

Dark, writing in a letter: "I'm going to kick.. your... ass." 

Dark: THERE. Now send it. 

Chosen: Dude, your handwriting's terrible, are you sure you want to- 

Dark: JUST DO IT! 

later 

Second: So what does it say? 

Green, reading the letter: They say they're going to "lick my...." 

Second: 

Green: 

Second: Gross-

Purple: I can’t believe my birth certificate says F... 

Purple: ...How did I fail being born?

Second, singing: He's making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's on thin fucking ice 

Green, also singing: Santa Claus is calling you out!

Red: Second is too tall for me to kiss them on the lips. What should I do? 

Purple: Punch him in the stomach. Then, when he doubles over in pain, kiss him. 

Blue: Tackle him! 

Dark: Dump him. 

Green: Kick him in the shin! 

Second: No to all of those! Just ask me to lean down!!

Second: I dare you to kiss the next person who walks into this room. 

Green: Screw that, I’m not kissing any of you. 

*Purple walks in* 

Green: Fine, I’ll do it. Rules are rules you know.

Green: Goodnight to the love of my life, Purple, and fuck the rest of y'all.

Green: I'm going the fight the next person who insults Purple. 

Purple: I hate myself. 

Green: Alright, square up.

Purple: Yellow, you’re such a genius! 

Yellow: Yes, I know.

Purple: *sighs* I have no friends... 

Green: 

Green: *coughs* Bitch, what am I? A roach?!

Second: *makes Red a cup of tea but puts salt in it* 

Red: *sips tea* 

Second: 

Red: *finishes tea* 

Second: Didn't it taste bad? 

Red: Yeah, but I didn't want to hurt your feelings so I drank it all. 

Second, tearing up: Oh, okay.

Purple: Sorry I can’t be emotionally vulnerable with you it’d ruin the mystery.

Green: I love murder mysteries! 

Purple, trying to impress them: I've been a suspect in four murder cases.

Victim, not even looking up from their drawing: Dark, you can’t use Boba as a means to bribe Cho into assisting in your plans for world domination. Or to help you in pranks against everyone else.

Dark: aw, man

Random girl: so, do you like tall girls or short girls?

Green, staring unblinkingly at Purple from across the bar (Purple was ordering): non-binary.

Red: So, what's it like living with Purple? 

Green: They once referred to sand as "heterosexual glitter." 

Red: ... 

Green I love them so much.

Dark: Am I a boy? Am I a girl? Doesn’t matter, I’m going to burn your house down. 

Green: Subs are so fun to play with. All you have to do is hint at what you might do, back them into a corner with a look, or grab their wrist in a certain way and they're a wide-eyed mess. 

Red: What the fuck kind of Subway are you going to? 

Blue, joking: Substitute teachers deal with so much shit. 

Purple: Guys.

Red: Happy Scorpio season. If you have to burn a bridge, do it safely! 

Dark: With NAPALM.

Yellow: You have your weirdly sincere humility. 

Purple: I prefer the term "self-loathing", actually.

Purple: What do rainbows mean to you? 

Red: Gay rights. 

Green: There's money. 

Blue: The sign of God's promise to never destroy the whole Earth with a flood. 

Yellow: It is an optical phenomenon that separates sunlight into its continuous spectrum when the sun shines on raindrops.

Purple: I’m a multitasker! 

Purple: I can disappoint fifteen people at once.

Red: Forgive me Father, for I have sinny-sin-sinned.

Yellow: I am the left brain, I am the left brain. "I work really hard until my inevitable death" brain. You've got a job to do, you better do it right and the right way is with the left brain's might. 

Blue: I LIKE OREOS AND PUSSY-

Blue: I KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO

Yellow: What

Blue: WE CAN HIDE IN THE WARDROBES AT IKEA AND POP OUT WHEN RANDOM PEOPLE WALK BY AND SAY "I JUST CAME FROM NARNIA"

Yellow: THIS IS WHY WE'RE BEST FRIENDS

Green: Do you want to play 20 Questions? 

Purple: Sure! 

Purple: Whats your favorite color? 

Green, laser fucking focused: Triangle. Do you like men?

Blue: I have been tricked, I have been backstabbed, and I have quite possibly been bamboozled.

Purple: Good. Thanks, dad. 

Green: You just called Mango “dad”. You just said “thanks, dad.” 

Purple: What? No, I didn’t. I said “thanks, man”. 

Mango: Do you see me as a father figure, Purple? 

Purple: No. If anything I see you as a bother figure ‘cause you’re always bothering me. 

Red: Hey! Show your father some respect!

Primal: Small creatures are much more vicious because they have a smaller body to bottle up all their emotions. 

Victim: Ridiculous. Give me some examples. 

Agent: Wasps? 

Hazard: Terriers? 

Primal: Ballista.

*at a zoo* 

Red: What are they in for? 

Second: Red, this isn't prison. 

Red: So they can leave? 

Second: No, but- 

Red, pointing at a meerkat: I bet that one murdered someone.

*The Squad is at Blue’s house* 

Red: Ohhhh we each get our own oven? 

Blue: …N-No… 

Blue, laughing: How many ovens do you think I have??? 

Red, motioning to the kitchen: Three, I thought! 

Yellow: I see a- 

Blue, motioning to one device: This is a microwave. 

Red: Oh, well I- 

Blue: Hey, wait wait, actually- hang on- *fiddles with the buttons on the microwave* 

Blue, amazed: Its got a bake setting! 

Green: Ohoho, you learn something new every day! 

Second: Do we- Do we roshambo for who gets to pick first? 

Blue: Now I’ve discovered more ovens than I thought, we don’t have to roshambo nothin’! 

Blue: I am someone who owns four ovens… 

Blue, louder and way too happy: I am someone… who owns FOUR OVENS… 

Purple, pointing to another appliance: Also, the toaster oven! 

Blue: 

Red: Ohhh, toasty boy! Four- Five ovens! 

Blue: 

Blue, ecstatic: I AM SOMEONE WHO OWNS FIVE OVENS.

Blue: I just got the best idea I've ever had in my entire life! 

*Later* 

Yellow, to Blue: That was the worst idea you’ve ever had in your entire life.

Green, staring at Purple in a cage: ...Why are they in a cage? 

Red: Because they growled at me.

Dark: Hey Yellow, check out this funny .GIF I found! 

Yellow: It’s pronounced “jif”. 

Dark: Huh? 

Yellow: “Dot jif”, like the peanut butter. The creator said so. 

Dark: That’s dumb, it’s Graphics Interchange Format. 

Yellow: The P in .JPEG stands for “photographic”, but I bet you don’t say “J-pheg”. 

Dark: “P” on its own isn’t pronounced like “F”, that’s totally different! 

Yellow: It’s exactly the same! 

Dark: Name one word that starts with “G” pronounced like “J”. 

Yellow: Gentrification. 

Dark: Shoot, should have thought of that. I was just in San Francisco. 

Yellow: For your logic to be consistent, you’d have to say “skuh-bah” (scuba) or “lah-seer” (laser)! 

Dark: Yeah? Well, you’d have to say “J-pej”! 

Dark: …Wait, “laser” is an acronym? 

Yellow: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. 

Dark: Huh. Didn’t know that. 

Dark: You’re still wrong, though. 

Yellow: You just hate me because I’m right. 

Dark: I just hate you in general. 

Yellow: You mean in “geh-neral”? 

Dark: Ugh, I’m “joing” to kill you! AGAIN! 

Yellow: Don’t you mean “Ajain”?

Dark: I’ve been described as a ‘heartless villain’ and a 'little shit’, but I prefer… 'has alternative ways of having fun’.

Dark: If karma doesn’t hit you then I will. 

Yellow: Hey, about that love letter you sent me- 

Blue: *blushes* What are your thoughts? 

Yellow: The fourth sentence- 

Blue: Yeah, that’s where I got really emotional and I- 

Yellow: It’s “you’re” not “your”.

Dark: "What are you into?" is such a broad question, like do I reply with a TV series or choking?

*talking on the phone*  Primal: Remember how I said that Ballista and I were gonna have a calm night out for once?  Victim: Yeah…  Primal: Well, we’re in jail.  Victim: *hangs up*

Blue: We’re playing Scrabble. It’s a nightmare. 

Chosen: Scrabble? Scrabble’s great. 

Blue: Not when you’re playing with Yellow, it’s not. She puts words like “ephemeral” and I put “dog.”

Random Girl: Will you date me? Breathe if yes, recite the Bible in Japanese if no. 

Yellow: 初めに、神は天と地を創造されました。 

Random Girl: What the…? 

Yellow: 地球は形もなく虚無であり、暗闇が深海の面を覆いました… 

Random Girl: Is that actually the Bible?! 

Yellow: …そして神の霊が水面の上に浮かんでいました。  

Random Girl: And you stopped breathing, too?! 

Yellow: そして神は「光あれ」と言われました。 

Random Girl: Christ, it would have been preferable for you to just have beaten me up and called me gay!

Red: Christmas lights? 

Chosen: Check. 

Blue: Thermos of hot cocoa? 

Chosen: Check. 

Green: Santa suits? 

Chosen: Check. 

Second: Shovel? 

Chosen: Check. 

Dark: Alibi and bail money? 

Chosen: Check- wait, WHAT?! 

[kalkori]

LONG POST IM SO FUCKING SORRY BUT IF I DONT EXPLAIN AT LENGTH I WILL BE MISINTERPRETED TO HELL AND BACK

opening thoughts:

ok heres the deal. many casual fandomers like i are very often lost and confused when it comes to proship and antiship because lets be real nobody knows beliefs outside of extremes. especially in the middle. now if you're not in fandoms were these terms aren't life or death it doesnt matter. but it is a problem in fandoms were it kinda is, especially when you do not have!! the extreme beliefs of one side or the other!!!

i propose a solution, a term for the "ma'am i just work here" ideology: neutralship

(i know some have used this term already but not much, and seems in line with what im about to talk about anyway)

the core concept: fandom is quite literally just a space for fun and though things are allowed, i can still call you a dick for xyz. anti-censorship, pro-dont-be-weird-with-that-right-though

if you feel you only somewhat agree with the following, then use whatever language you wish to establish that. i literally am just doing this because i have no fucking clue what people mean whenever they say proship and antiship and im a bit tired of having to avoid both terms so like

for the next section there are two different lists: red flag behavior and jackass behavior. red flag behavior is stuff that falls under This Is A Really Bad Thing To Do, while jackass behavior is moreso like when someone takes the last seat on the bus. im seperating these categories because if i didnt then the whole point of clarity would be out the window because some of yall's reading comprehension. woof.

also note: nsfw here will quite literally refer to not safe for work. if you cant have your average boss look over the shoulder and be ok with whatever it is, it is nsfw here.

note 2: I AM NOT TOUCHING THE AO3 STUFF WITH A 10 FOOT POLE HERE. there are some things that can be criticized but also its like. the Only really by fans for fans website that darker topics can be discussed in so its really difficult to balance both things at once

just a whole shit ton of a list below. feel free to copy and paste it in the unlikely scenario i leave this website for good and deactivate

Red Flag Behavior:

If creating for media whose target audience is kids, putting nsfw it where kids can find it without actively searching for it. (Example: Twitter before muskrat got his hands on it. i can personally vouch for the fact that many babies were on twitter and the moderation system was Bad) (exception being if the nsfw content is in the show ofc, excluding media where maybe the age rating was off)

posting sexual nsfw of something a child (who is still currently a child) made, especially as a full grown adult.

while making sexual media that most generally consider morally wrong (as in, glorifying the content in question) to heal from your own trauma is whatever i guess, specifically posting it so people can enjoy the questionable content in question, is generally Kinda Nasty

weirdly specific but very important for me to put here: if a person cannot consent due to a disability, unless you are 100% confident you can portray it right [including being in the same boat yourself]: generally just do not depict said character in sex scenarios!! sometimes its more complicated but most disabled characters who cannot consent are written very obviously as such. (this is about the ableism specifically, fyi)

(as a perisex person,) headcanoning a character as intersex just for how they have sex, or depicting intersex characters as "i have dick and pussay!" OR depicting intersex characters as naturally sexual/violent/rapists due to being intersex....... kinda nasty!

if a creator has said "dont depict character a in b scenarios", knowing this and continuing doing that is generally considered a Really Bad & Disrespectful Thing [there are exceptions, but thats for like "dont draw my character gay!!! im homophobic btw"]

attacking people for a ship you dont like [im talking about making a call out post on twitter dot com with false severe accusations]

thinking sex fics existing at all is Bad

if it isnt a truly sensitive topic that demands intense care to write in a story, it aint your job to police what people write.

you are not required to tag, but if you're gonna put something potentially very triggering, not warning for that is extremely disrespectful at best

That being said, demonizing children in a fandom for being proship or antiship or ruining your fun or whatever is basically one of the worst things you can do short of a crime

[anything that involves getting a real life child into sexual things is where i draw the line between fandom drama to an actual real life problem, so these scenarios will NOT be listed. death threats are also kind of a real crime so]

Jackass Behavior

putting dead dove do not eat and then not including whats in the fic. ok im sorry i know this isnt nessecarily related to this stuff but i swear to god if you dont want to tag just say that dead dove do not eat had a VERY SPECIFIC purpose of saying "it is what it says on the tin". back to your regularly scheduled jackass behavior

catfights over ship/fanworks.

not blocking and moving on, and instead catfighting.

acting as if one side is oppressing the other, or as if proship/antiship is as big of a problem as things like racism.

whether or not fiction effects reality nonsense. it does, but not in the way you think, and almost nobody in fandom is ready for that conversation on a wide-scale level. especially with me because im super annoying. [nowadays it is used almost as a buzzword, nobody talks about it genuinely anymore]

yucking other people's yum

not respecting a creator's word, and actively disrespecting the creator's wants if they do not align with your belief in how you should be able to treat their media

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closing thoughts (jumbled i am so sorry):

despite what it seems, this is not an exhaustive list. i swear to god nobody is normal on this website.

if you think anything here is genuinely moreso a proship/antiship idea, say so Respectfully, but theres a good chance i will still disagree. as i said, basically nobody actually knows what these labels are truly believing, so you might be thinking of your side as the "reasonable one". i am basing this off of my experience of what fandom and really normal ass people think concerning these topics‚ so i guess the term neutralship might be a little misleading but oh well.

if something is not included that you think should be, let me know, but theres some things i excluded because i think they're more than just proship/antiship. infact in a perfect world i would not have to include the points about disabled and intersex people but if i dont then we will never talk about how fandom treats those problems [and they fall somewhat under the proship/antiship stuff] SO!!

also im literally just doing this because im SO TIRED of this game of telephone so like. dont attack me. im just trying to clear things up. i have more concerning things like the fact my state is legally allowing schools to worsen the quality of life and potentially killing disabled people through a loophole so giant its appears intentional so

if i block you after you interact with this post, do not assume its over the above stuff [though it might be], most likely you're an 18+ blog or something.

I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH, IF SOMEONE TELLS YOU THEY'RE NEUTRALSHIP, EVEN IF YOU'RE UNSURE THAT THEY SPECIFICALLY MEAN THIS TYPE‚ BACK OFF!!!! WE DONT WANT TO ARGUE ABOUT THIS STUFF, WE CAME TO FANDOM FOR FANDOM.

this, infact, will be the last time i will ever speak on this topic unprompted goodnight to all my friends

[thedvilsinthedetails]

Heyyyy…

hey im still figuring out what i wanna be called but for now u can call me Jamie if u want I’m genderfluid as fuck [they/she/he or whatever idegafatp]

some typa aroace spectrum probs grayace & demiromantic also omniromantic - in general I have nothing figured out

so a simp w like a slight preference for men ig but kinda ace most of the time but sometimes very not

neurospicy bitch

writing request status: OPEN FOR MICROFICS RN

I’m a rosekiller loverrr but also a multi shipper so u never know what ur gonna see ig [but probably Rosekiller, Wolfstar, Dorlene, Starchaser maybe some sunkiller if I’m in the mood etc] for the record just bc I don’t ship smth doesn’t mean I support hating it even as a joke [translation: prongsfoot is chill leave them be]

if u don’t like smth, just ignore it, if u send me hate I’ll reply w shitty jokes probs

my dream job is to be an actor [screen actor specifically]

Media I like:

Fav TV stuff: Challengers, Gravity Falls, Cruella, 10 things I hate about you, into the spiderverse

Fav author is @neil-gaiman also that man is my idol so I’ll probs reblog him a shit ton [do u think he’ll like…mind that I tagged him? Sorry if this bothered u Neil!!!] Music [uhhh changes all the time tbh but for rn]: The Neighbourhood, Olivia Rodrigo, Conan Gray [Kid Krow phase rn], Chappell Roan, Renée Rapp, Green day, Ricky Montgomery, NOAHFINNCE, MARINA and Hozier

Spider-Man. Fucking love Spider-Man.

One thing to note about me tho: obvi I love recommendations but I find starting literally any new forms of media really fucking daunting for no reason [this is everything: songs, movies, books etc]

e.g. I fucking love spider verse but I still haven’t watched movie 2, same w latest season of young royals, same with even like ONE song alone I find it rlly hard and really scary

so if u give me recommendations and I don’t get back to u about them for ages it’s not bc I forgot or i was ignoring u but bc I find it scary so pls be patient :)

also same w please don’t like assume I’m knowledgeable about like any of the music artists I named earlier bc tbh I don’t rlly listen to artists I listen to songs [im still a fan of a lot of music artists ofc but the artists I listen to ≠ the artists I’m a fan of]

HI! welcome to my crazy blog, I love making friends im not at all scary I promise :D

Btw my inbox is ALWAYS open for spam, ship ramblings [even if it’s not smth I ship], info dropping about ur hyperfixations, venting, questions etc. [the only thing is no illegal ships bc it will be ignored] also sorry pre warning im shit with the inbox chains [‘send this to ten people who…’] so often I won’t answer those sorry, anything else I will make sure to answer but the chains I sometimes just forget about sorryyy

Barty Crouch Jr & James Potter kinnie

got a FAT crush on Evan Rosier [he’s the loml he just doesn’t know it yet] and also a crush on Dorcas Meadowes

I write sometimes:

I fell for you like glitter on stage - rosekiller band au, this was a microfic series on tumblr that I posted on ao3 for convenience [words: 4548] [this is my fav thing I’ve ever written lol]

we are all just prisoners here of our own device - Jegulus, a oneshot on ao3 based on the song ‘hotel California’ by the eagles. [Words: 6162]

Oh where do we begin? The rubble or our sins? - ON HIATUS. Roman Empire Jegulus au with side Rosekiller, Wolfstar and Pandalily on ao3 [words: 6141] [currently I don’t want to write Jegulus - the hyperfixation hath faded]

also I’m in a marauders RP as Barty and u shld follow it bc we’re all super cool and funny and amazing and awesome and yeah @bartythebabygorljr

tags you’ll see on my page:

me and my old black biro > writing tag

Im in love with that Rosier boy > [this is a new one] me having a massive crush on Evan Rosier

the most boring soap opera > my life tag

I have an online diary called @miseryoforpheus if ur fascinated by my charming and irresistible personality

[The song at the bottom of my intro post changes all the time depending on how I’m feeling]

THIS BLOG SUPPORTS PALESTINE

THIS BLOG STANDS WITH UKRAINE

THIS BLOG THINKS JK ROWLING HAS A NEGATIVE QUANTITY OF BRAINCELLS

[some-rotten-nest]

Random DC/DP headcannons bc I can't sleep

Expect many typos

Danny hates storms, especially thunderstorms bc of the lighting cracking in the sky

Danny wears a power cuff like a bracelet that dampens his more violent powers bc he's scared of them (wail, large-scale ice like with undergrowth etc)

In one of his magazines, instead of bullets Jason keeps solid ectoplasm just in case, and so it's not conspicous

In his Phantom form Danny has a streak of black hair where his white usually is

Jason is fright knight (unless it's a Jason-Danny biologically related fic. Ghost Zone law says no one you share blood with (clones included) can become fright knight (but they can join the court and have other ranks))

Danny made a contingency plan against himself and with the help of a sibling (Cass most likely, though she did seem a bit sad) got it on the bat-computer. Password protected so Danny can't get into it. Bruce doesn't know and won't know until/if Danny goes bad. Bruce made a separate one for him.

Tim gets low and non-harmfil doses of ectoplasm in his coffee bc it is like a shit ton of caffeine for a living person. (Yes, some Amity Park drinks have ectoplasm in them too)

Danny asks Bruce, Tim and Lucius for help with Ghost King Shit TM

Duke has to squint when looking directly at ectoplasm (Danny's trying to find some solution but there isn't one)

Jason has a shadow core

Damian got extinct animals from Danny as a birthday gift multiple times (a dodo bird named Delilah, a messenger pigeon names Luke and a splendid posion frog named Ares)

To piss Bruce off, Jason got a pterodactyl he's named Flynn that he takes on patrol. Safe to safe, people get a hella more scared of Red Hood. Bruce hates it but Jason does actually love Flynn and Bruce can't bring himself to take Flynn awya

Danny made a patrol playlist for every member of the bat family and beyond bc he has one for when he goes out as Phantom (they all listen to their playlists and love them)

Before Danny was fully pulled into the family, he'd flinch at Dick's escrima sticks and still catches himself staring the weapon, his heart pounding

Danny found out Captain Marvel was a kid bc while on a mission with him, Captain Marvel pointed out that there was a pirate ship hovering above them and that Danny should probably deal with that. He'd, and any other Amity Parker that overhead, never laughed so badly in his entire life. Billy was never so scared & confused.

Bart and Danny are friends bc Dan had leveled most of the future before the Beatles took over what was left (I'm actually not that sure about Bart's backstory so feel free to correct me if something's wrong here)

Cass and Danny have staring contests alot. Sometimes the others think they've fallen asleep with their eyes open. They didn't.

Danny had a Twitter account for Phantom without Bruce knowing, but when Steph was trying to convince Bruce to let her have one she mentioned it and Danny had to delete it (he has an alt he now posts every embarrassing thing Batman does and has ever done)

Puns. So many puns between Dick & Danny.

Danny mumbles in his sleep

Crows flock to Danny like hungry tigers. Damian's envious but he gets to pet & feed them so it's mostly okay.

GW likes Jason and let's him borrow books whenever he wants to (also any destroyed book ends up with GW but that's a pretty common hc) but Jason has to swear not to give them to Danny. Not that Danny wants them.

Duke is helping Tucker out with studies and Tucker Duke with tech. Technus sometimes shows up too to help.

Johnny and Jason are dEAD bffs

Sam and Babs get on like a house on fire

Talia met Danny and they're actually friendly to each other. Sure, she's trying to trick Danny into giving her his throne, but Danny knew that and wasn't about to let that happen

Danny will randomly punch his siblings, smirk, then bow and say "my leige" and run away. The sibling now has the crown and is chasing to punch Danny back because honestly fuck that

Constantine is slightly terrified of Danny and Bruce uses it like a threat-- "John, if you don't answer, Danny will contact you." It works like a charm

When too excited, Danny and Jason will start talking in Ghost speech. It freaks everyone else but Damian and Cass out bc the same sounds came from the pits

Take, edit, have fun with whatever you want here. It's just bs that crawls around my brain for funsies and won't let me sleep.

[hollow-lime-green]

Different anon than other top/bottom anon! I know that t/b dynamics in fandom are Serious Business, but I'm pretty new to the shipping side of things and don't really understand why people are so incredibly intense about it. Like I get that it's a characterization thing sometimes, but I don't understand why if you like the characterization up until a sex scene, that it would make you not like the fic I guess? Zero judgement here, just curiosity!

yeah, so i think the easy (and correct) answer here is just immaturity. when your life is smaller and less rich, you care more about the few things you have in it. in general i think that's pretty common when you're young, and everything feels like the end of the world, but you're not even like, paying rent lmao.

but i will speculate a little here on maybe some other things (fandom meta, devil's advocate) under the cut, 'cause why not?

on ships -

from what i have seen, which is from the lens of someone whose fandom experience is almost entirely ship fandom and not gen, i think that ship fandom in general tends to be more toxic. this is especially so with big ships where there is a lot of content. in rarepair spaces, i think people generally tend to be nicer and more appreciative of any content for their ship. even if they don't like it, you don't shit where you eat. in big ships like stsg, well, there's a lot more room to shit.

in FE3H fandom, i was mostly into rarepairs, even ultra rarepairs at times. most everyone i interacted with was lovely and open-minded, and encouraged all kinds of content for their little ship. but from everything i heard about the Big Ship (Sylvix), those motherfuckers were fighting for their LIVES. although i don't think there was a ton of t/b discourse, mostly just clique-y shit and interpersonal wank. but when you have interpersonal wank, it's pretty common for people to find some extremely contrived fake moral reason to justify simply disliking someone and wanting to attack them. so who knows.

also, last note on ships - i would strongly suspect that multishippers are more normal about things in general. single-ship culture very very often leads to us vs. them conflicts because there is a 'loss' when content is made that is not on your 'side'. if you multiship and win either way, you can be a lot happier in fandom lol. i'm not making an ethical judgement on multiship vs single-ship btw, but in terms of like, economic value, if you can multiship, you'll objectively you'll get more bang for your buck.

why do people get so invested?

this could be because a lot of us in ship fandom are writing and reading ship fic to explore our own feelings, or experience them vicariously through characters (consciously or subconsciously). my best friend and i have extreeeeemely different taste in books. i go for very characterized, intimate pov books, and she tends to prefer a more distant narrator and writing style. unsurprisingly, the vast majority of her fandom experience is in gen fandom, whereas for me it's almost all ship.

if you personalize your media to yourself in this way, maybe it's a little easier to get invested? i'm not sure though, because there's probably nothing that could get me to leave a hate comment on a fic/send hatemail to an author. i can't even get the energy to leave comments on fics i love sometimes (this is a bad i am bad i am trying to be better). i can't relate to people who don't automatically follow don't like, don't read.

ALSO i want to note again that so, so many people want so badly to get fucked by anime man gojo satoru. i think they see him taking dick as a blow to the masculinity they are attracted to and therefore may twist it into an attack on their attraction. this is just speculation but, idk, it's something i think about. obligatory 'toxic masculinity hurts us all' and 'fellas you need to kiss the homies goodnight'

one more thing -

you said something interesting here that i want to touch on, anon:

"but I don't understand why if you like the characterization up until a sex scene, that it would make you not like the fic I guess?"

without making a value judgement on this behavior (hating a fic once you get to the sex scene), i want to play a little devil's advocate here and talk about characterization in fics in and out of sex scenes. so here's my thesis statement:

sex is really really really fucking hard to write well

smut quality is incredibly subjective to begin with, because everyone has different tastes. this is true of real porn too, of course! in smut, there's so many things that can be a turnoff - specific terms (cunt vs pussy (afab terms are a whole other can of worms) or dick/cock vs his embiggened turgid needlessly hard rod (which is my preference, of course)). bad choreo can be a deal breaker - unrealistic or inconsistent twister-style maneuvering. and then, of course, there's dialogue. we all know the porn moans. well, fanfic can fall prey to the porn moaning of it all.

so it is indeed true that you can like the characterization of a fic up until your boy starts porn moaning, and suddenly your complex tsundere is saying 'omg put it iiiiiiiiiiiin'. so, yes, i understand how seeing bad sex can make you sour on a fic. now, is that fair? maybe? there's a lot of bad fanfic and bad smut out there, because most of us have to write bad shit before we can write good shit. however the inevitability of that does not mean that people have to like bad smut. (still literally never worth sending hate over, obviously)

this doesn't cover all scenarios of someone changing their mind on a fic when they get to the t/b, but i think it is probably a hidden factor in a good amount of it. seeing a character start acting/talking differently and attributing it to t/b rather than clunky smut dialogue could be part of this whole general "ew I don't like this dynamic" thing.

maybe i would compare it to omegaverse, where characters in heat/rut just... become different characters in some fics. it's sort of a whiplash. but unlike omegaverse where you go in expecting that, on regular fics, people don't tend to tag "i don't know how to write smut dialogue". it can certainly be immersion breaking. for a longfic, if i like it, i might just skim through bad sex. but if sex is front and center in the fic, then i'd probably just click off (and again, oh my god i would never send hate about dick in ass)

i will be answering your other ask, anon. i have lots of thoughts, and they do verge back into meta discourse lol. because of the nature of the topic, i'll have to screen them to make sure i'm happy with how i am communicating those thoughts. :)

[hello-universe-lovers]

hiii for the stp ask game 3, 5, 14 & 15?

((Hoooh boi I am going to be here for a while.

Answers under the cut.

3. Favorite Vessel?

Shit I had to think about that now

For wholesome, I go with Thorn. How we got to her hits me personally, as someone who had a couple of years where I wasn't the best person (I didn't backstab anyone tho, obviously), and reconciliation was tough, but it was something I needed to want and do.

For the sweet sweet angst, the Wraith, MOC and Wild take the cake. You have to royally screw em over to get them and I feel for what they have become, as a result of Larry's (LQ) actions. It hurts my soul to see the voices hurt but we had it coming.

5. Favorite Voice?

Strictly canon speaking, as much as I wanna say "all of em", bc I do, I have to go with Hero. I like him so much I turned him into a woman/hj. I am a sucker for characters whose main trait is undying loyalty, and Hero is that but more. His presence in all the routes made me attached to him, and how those routes shaped him made me laugh, cry and wanna hug him. I think to me, because he is in every route, he has the most development to attach to.

In my headcanon, that would belong to the Opportunist. I know he's an asshole and I love him in spite of that, I also like to think about the potential of him learning to curb his backstabbing nature and start to form genuine connection with people, but is fighting against his own instincts, and the impression he has already left on the voices and vessels. Guilt eats him alive, every day and the angst potential there lol. I am sucker for redemption story.

14. Favorite ship(s)

ANYTHING WITH THE VOICES!! MY GOD, I WANT THEM TO BE A POLYCULE SO BAD--

Seriously, I fell in love with so many voice ships that I just made em a polycule and that opened up to a TON of ideas about internal dynamic (That I may or may not be willing to share).

Top 3 voice ships that I talked a lot about: ColdHero, CheatedBroken, Stubtunist (yes really)

(But fr no dynamic is safe from me. I ship all of em simultaneously).

Princesses....uhhh...I don't touch em alone, ngl. At least in terms of shipping. Some are cute but I don't actively think about em. But I do have some Princess and voice ships.

- Thorn and Opportunist: I know I know him and the Witch fit more, but this follows my idea for Oppy i said above. So him getting together with the woman he backstabbed, got stabbed in returned and then chose to free gives me free serotonin. They are so domestic, it sickens me (affectionate)

- Stubborn and Adversary/Eye of the Needle: very basic but I love it. I am all for violence as an expression of love (not irl, obviously). And there is sooo much you can do with em. Go all violence or make em knit sweaters for each other!! Idc I wanna see it!

- Paranoid and Spectre: are you seeing a theme of me shipping different princesses and voices? Yes, and I am not sorry. This is part of an AU I am making and that made me think of different dynamics. The Nightmare is cool, but I don't want Para to constantly be chanting, so the Spectre is a good compromise between spooky and "I can see it working out".

- Smitten and Tower: this a guilty pleasure. I am a sucker for big woman who thinks she is hot shit meets a man who hypes her TF up. I lean towards platonic with this one (Tower seeing Smitten as a devoted follower, while Smitten is completely lovestruck) but one can make the argument that it can be romantic. Hell, the fandom did it with Broken and Tower. Speaking of...

15. Least favorite ship(s)

- Tower and Broken: This is less explicit hate and more biased discomfort. The Tower reminds me of...someone I met who acted the way she was kinda and now I just hate those types of people from the get-go. Add that with Broken, a voice that advocates submitting to her, and you are not seeing me putting this ship in a good light. No hate to anyone who can and do make em more wholesome tho, that I can take.

- Razor and Cheated: same reason as the one on top, my past relationship with people made me dislike this ship (and the Razor in general honestly). Also I get REALLY attached to characters who take Ls a lot, so I just want Cheated to have nice things. And really? Who wouldn't?

That's pretty much it. You have to screw up BAD for me to not see the potential in a ship. And these 2 up top, i don't mind if others ship em, or if I see fanart, my own experiences just make em icky for me.

[macabremayhem]

Hot take & kinda bitter pill: The main reason for the death of fandom is censorship within fandom. "This pairing is good and it's okay, but this pairing is bad and we will attack you if you ship the Wrong Pairing™ instead of the Right Pairing™".

And I have seen this many times with my own eyes. This is what people do. But what if fandom is just a fandom and pixels are just pixels? And someone is just here to HAVE FUN instead of the Morality™ Lessons? And maybe someone is even... mature enough to decide what they're like?

It's so funny to see when my posts are faved by people with "anti-proship" in their profile, because... wow, isn't my favourite OTP someone like you has claiming as proship, lol?

But not funny when you, say, look for some favourite content by relevant hashtag and see tons... of content you dislike and NOT RELEVANT, just because authors added all the hashtags for force-feeding. Thank you. But no. When I search for my favourite content on the special hashtag, I want to see my favourite content on the special hashtag. Is that a complicated concept?

Also not funny when you find the artist who draws such good stuff with your OTP and... discover that this artist has left the fandom because someone decided to be a "ship police" and attacked this artist. Thank you for that shit.

But please, can someone answer my question: why do you think your OTP is better than mine? And why do you think you can impose your opinion on me or anyone else? Are you the shining paladin in the white robe? Who do you think you are to judge us?

What can I say? Oh, I have so much to say, really. Maybe as a person who doesn't like the evil characters in the sugar syrup. Maybe as a person who makes a very clear distinction between reality and fantasy. Or, for that matter, as a person who has an opinion about common tropes in fandom and disagrees with them, based on my experience (has anyone here heard of the concept of interesting literature and why it is usually interesting? The smallest hint: it's interesting because it has realistic, well-drawn characters, even in fantasy). And for some reasons I know: even my relevant experience does not forbid to someone to have their own fantasies. And that is not even what I want to achieve.

Again. I'm not here to forbid anything, I'm here to say: leave us alone. Don't bother the creators, don't force-feed your creations to someone who doesn't share your vision.

Spoilers: NO ONE HAS TO BE LIKE YOU. People are... different? They love different things, and who are YOU to shame them? As long as it doesn't hurt anyone (really hurt!). But before you contradict me, I'll repeat: I have some personal opinions and some real background to contradict YOU. And I really don't want to start a holy war.

But why, a few months ago, I was talking to a person about the Valdemar headcanons, and they, in between, careful expressed their opinion about intersexual human!Valdemar (not AMAB, not AFAB!), to avoid conflict with others — who had never been in our conversation. WHY?! You call yourselves "an open and friendly community" and someone even friendly attacked creators like: "you can't ship Valdemar with %charactername%, they're aroace! How dare you erase the aroaces!!?" (sorry, I have problems with socialising, is that what friendly people do? *sarcasm*) and... what do I say? People with a slightly different opinion are trying to be careful! I see the artists who did NOTHING wrong, but were forced to leave the fandom. I see the artists who have been forced to publicly apologise for their art, or even delete their art. How dare you and who you are?

Don't tell anyone what to do with their fanart. Because I have seen it so many times and it is disgusting. Where someone tries to justify their headcanons like "it's ok, aroaces can be in relationships! (but only with my MC of course)", someone was forced to leave the fandom just because another someone saw themselves as the morality police.

And there were many REALLY GOOD ARTISTS. With beautiful art styles, interesting art, unusual headcanons. But all I see now... is what I see.

And I really need to say a lot more than I have. Many of these things come from my own experience (and, my fellow children, you couldn't even handle a person with a personality disorder, I guarantee it), you judge the practices you know nothing about (like BDSM), or you tell aroace creators what aroaces have to do. And if anyone should say that, it should be me. Why does the person with no empathy have more empathy than you? Why my only goal is not to forbid someone to create their M.C., even if I don't like the whole concept, but... idk. Maybe make someone think about it. Don't even defend another creators, because it's too late.

Fandom is dead because people are acting as moral police. But let's guess, what happens when I try to tell you something? What if I said: "Yes, aroaces can have a relationship with someone, but they will most likely behave differently than you imagine"? Who will be the first to accuse me of "YOU'RE FORBIDDING US TO DO WHAT WE WANT! IT'S JUST A FANTASY!"? Even if I tell you only from my own experience. Even if I repeat ten thousand times: "I can't forbid anything, my opinion is my opinion", someone will be mad about it. But it's me, the person who doesn't have the content of amazing artists because they LEAVE the fandom. Me, but not you. Because people take it too seriously or something. And why do you think it's a funny joke to leave comments like "oh, how dare you, Valdemar is mine!" or "Julian is mine, bitch, stay out!!1"? Should I bombard you with the same comments like "what a bitch with Valdemar, I don't like it, stay out!1!1"? Should it be funny? Will you laugh at it? And why don't I want to do it, even if something happens to me? Should I give a person a dose of their own medicine? Or will someone cry and not find such joke funny when it turn around? Oh, why?

Because it was your sweet self-inserted MC and any outside attacks on your perfect version of yourself will hurt your pathetic heart, so this will be a wrong act on my part? :} Oh, poor child. The rest doesn't really matter, does it? You have to stand up for the purity of the pixels. You're so right. And your character is so perfect. Like any flat character in any flat plot.

So many questions and no answers. And for several years now I see it in the fandom. I'm tired. And I know why many people have left the fandom, and most of the time I see no content I like. But what do I see? People who don't like the content of Dorian. People who want something different and who have fucking standards that don't include attacking people who don't share their vision! People who have standards of writing quality, who want to improve their art, just to make favourite content for themselves! I see people who just want something interesting. But I see NOTHING but the original NixHydra routes, especially the first three. Or something rare, some pieces that miraculously survived. And I am not even talking about the attacks on the NH members. There's nothing special for their burnout. So, enjoy the Dorian.

Because if the fandom is sterile — this fandom is dead. Dixi.

[p0pcorn-hearts]

It's Kawaii~Chan time

I am gonna ramble about my rewrite so yknow, enter the theater with caution

I just wanna start off by saying I renamed her to Hanami, which is the Japanese word for flowers viewing, more specifically viewing cherry blossoms. I figured this fit her more "cutesy" design as well as her usually pink and white color pallette. Also excuse me if they look bad, these were made a bit ago and I, for some reason, decided it'd be best to use the mirror tool the entire time

So, for her Phoenix Drop High uniform I just redesigned the uniform and gave her the same every girl will have. I changed it to have a blazer and a longer skirt like actual school uniforms in America although I kept the socks, loafers, and bow because those all fit, I'm just also giving everyone the same pair of socks.

Her season 1 outfit has been drastically changed. I decided I wanted her to have a more lolita-esque style instead of just vaguely cute, and let's all be real here, her season 1 outfit sucked. So, I gave her a longer, puffier skirt, a shit ton of ruffles, and some cute gloves. I think now is also the time to have a little fun fact section about meif'was. Their nails and hair grow faster than humans, with their nails growing than both humans and werewolves. That's why Hanami has long nails and freakishly long hair

Next up is her adorable Love~Love Paradise outfit. I'm actually super happy with how it turned out and I'm in love with her little buns. Her bathing suit with all its ruffles was made up by me :D

Her Lover's Lane outfit is the one that went the most unchanged because it's honestly my favorite outfit of her's. It just looks the most visually appealing with the addition of dark pink being a primary color. I just changed the dress up a bit with the neckline and added ruffles

Starlight is honestly my favorite. There's just something about color block clothes that itches a scratch in my brain. The giant bow and see-through ruffles also added a lot. You cannot thank me though, I took this design from someone else's swimsuit. Her nails changing for the first time since season 1 and now having blue with the pink is also a nice nod to how she opens up to Zane about not really being herself

When Angels Fall. Oh God, When Angels Fall. I fucking *hate* their "disguises" in When Angels Fall. Buy I'll get into that later, right now, it's just Hanami. I didn't like her outfit much because she had literally never worn pants in the series before and to just suddenly toss her in a pair of jeans and t-shirt? Like it's supposed to show how drap everything is but why would she just have a t-shirt and jeans packed?? Starlight is an island resort and theme park, so most people will be wearing bathing suits, much more breathable fabrics than *jeans* and Starlight merch. That's why I gave her a different bathing suit bottom and a Starlight shirt. It's the least you can do when you're the most visually distinct character. She also is covered in bandages because cats, when stressed, will over groom and can injure themselves. So Hanami picks and scratches at her skin often due to stress so she has very chipped nail polish and is covered in bandages. Also she cut her hair (sad violin noises)

Her final outfit is for my "season 7". Jess hasn't made it but I want to eventually tie up my rewrite, so I'm making one. Me and my girlfriend refer to it as the "epilogue" although it's not really an epilogue, she just called it that once and I can't think of a better name. I gave her essentially a mix of her season 1 and Lover's Lane outfits because why not

Now that her designs are done I get to infodump about her personality (hehe)

She's basically the same as Kawaii~Chan, but I make her a better person. She doesn't manipulate Aphmau into joined her bakesale! She also tones down a lot, so while she still struggles with boundaries, especially when it comes to shipping, she doesn't have a fucking shipping shrine in her basement. She's also autistic in my rewrite, so her not getting boundaries, baking being her special interest, and her masking her behavior to fit what she thinks people want/expect of her all comes from that. Will I maybe end up projecting on her? With the shipping stuff yeah, but only because Aphmau and Kawaii~Chan made me think shipping people together until they stopped being friends with you was normal

So thats it, the exit to the theater is on the right, make sure to throw your trash away on the way out. Have a good day