#I still think she's badass

[indydrawsstuff]

cleaned up one of those Tenna sketches a little. @tvlandofficial because.

[demaparbat-hp]

Toph as a Goalball player 💪💚

[hallowshumour]

Doodle of my edgy ass rainbow dash kinsona, Storm Chase. 🌈🌩💥🎠

[starrysharks]

reassassination swap AU... fuckin.... unassassination idfk

[anghraine]

Fun fact: Imrahil of Dol Amroth is only ever described in LOTR as Denethor and Faramir's "kinsman", with no distinction ever made between how he's related to Denethor vs to Faramir. It's only later, when Faramir briefly thinks of his long-dead mother, that she is called "Finduilas of Amroth" and we can deduce that the family connection was likely between Denethor's wife and Imrahil, making him an in-law of Denethor but blood relative of Faramir. We're still not told exactly how Imrahil and Finduilas were related, though.

I always had the impression of a certain degree of tension between Imrahil and Denethor, and also of Imrahil being particularly concerned for Faramir, but his exact relationships with them are quite vague in the narrative. A lot of the names, dates, and family connections among the members of the house of Dol Amroth that we now accept as a matter of course are mainly from a separate document published in Peoples of Middle-earth that explains the most probable origin story for the house of Dol Amroth and has an attached family tree. IIRC the entire existence of Faramir and Éowyn's son Elboron is based on his inclusion in the Dol Amroth family tree in POME and he's never referenced in LOTR (and possibly not in anything else, actually?).

Tolkien definitely did imagine Imrahil and Finduilas as siblings regardless (e.g. I think he mentions it when observing that Denethor's natural beardlessness as an Elrosian Dúnadan would be reinforced in Boromir and Faramir by their additional Elvish heritage through Imrahil's sister), but he didn't actually say it in LOTR.

I do think it's important, though, because it's with this later information that Imrahil taking charge of Faramir's fallen body is conclusively revealed to not be simply a prince rescuing a vague "kinsman" of political/military importance, but specifically a man carrying his dead sister's last surviving child from a battlefield.

(No wonder he and Éomer bonded so much, honestly!)

[laniidae-passerine]

I’m one of those people who will double down on an m/f pairing when I realise that the female character is being ignored or degraded by the fandom because she’s ‘in the way’ for a gay ship involving a white boy (especially when she’s black or brown) and I think I’d just like that on the record

[dejwrld]

✿༉ reader core in upcoming shunsui kyoraku fic, back at your door

[lucienarcheron]

The idea that some people still think Nesta’s main traits are supposed to be bitchy, mean, and a hater…idk what to tell you but the whole point of her healing journey is to not be those things because all it did was hurt everyone around her and herself.

[streco3y]

"Hey doc... Need a lil help"

[sammygender]

trans headcanons of the winchesters are always extremely fun to play around with and i can see most of them. but one that always rings slightly false to me, despite a love for it due to self-identification and the fact it’s definitely interesting, is transmasculine dean. simply because if you’re going according to canon this would require him to have transitioned at some point prior to johns death, probably much prior, probably as a youngish kid. and i genuinely do not think that ever could’ve happened. he values johns approval too much and is too scared of demanding too much of him.

like even aside from whether john is Actually transphobic (i doubt he’s like Cartoonishly transphobic he probably would be annoyed by it slash not care much, interpret ‘not caring’ however you want) just the whole Thing of coming out where you’re like. “Hey dad im actually a human person who has an internal sense of self and such that doesn’t happen to be You 2.0 and am not the gender you thought i was and i feel emotions to such an extent that i actually like need to transition”…….

no fucking way dean would ever be able to do that to john while he’s still alive. please. teenage transmasculine dean would be like Well yeah sure i want to be a guy but that’s not an option for me whatsofuckingever. and crucially he’d be like that even if he knew entirely about trans people. now this is why transfemme dean works so well. because you just know it would take her at least thirty years to even consider it for a singular second.

on the other hand transmasc sam works so well because you can picture teenage transmasculine sam realising he’s a boy and promptly making it part of the whole entirely justified and very cool and fun teen angst rebellion FUCK YOU DAD thing. he could let spite carry him to the point of coming out. dean? he is burying that shit deep.

[petroplant]

beach episode :)

[mawrjexel]

There are a lot of fanfics seen where they say that Damian looks a lot like his dad but Damian is a copy of his mother??? (physically)

I mean, queen talia is right there, he has Talia's eyebrows, skin color, eyes and cheekbones, I don't really see Bruce there.

EVEN THE SHAPE OF THE FACE SAFASFADSTDFS

I love when Damian is drawn looking like Talia, I LOVE THAT THEY MAKE DAMIAN WITH BROWN SKIN AND HE JUST LOOKS A LOT LIKE TALIA U KNOWFD EFUPWE

most of ("most of" stands also for duke, I haven't forgel abt my king) the batkids look like bruce because they are white with blue eyes and black hair, cass doesn't have blue eyes but she still looks like bruce and stephanie is blonde but she still white with blue eyes sooo Damian kind of creates a contrast with all of them since he doesn't look like Bruce and he is the only biological son

Also I think that it represents the duality of the character since he does not want to be a murderer like his mother and grandfather but he looks a lot like them (physically).

I feel like he sometimes avoids looking himself in the mirror because he looks a lot like his mother (he doesn't hate her but there is a certain disdain towards her for all those years of abuse when she was young and it's understandable, he's never going to forgive her completely and he is afraid of becoming like her or her grandfather)

[rbbess110]

guys do you remember any ideas from when you were a kid/were only beginning the writer journey that would be technically considered "cringe" or "stupid" but brings a smile to your face still?? like damn it does not make sense now but i had so much fun with it. be it an oc, world you've created, plot idea you loved. tell me about it

[carnelianwings]

Something I find really funny is how for all the rumors that Seed’s staff/writers don’t like Cagalli, Orb under her leadership just keeps ending up in a better (political) position with each addition - Seed Destiny ends with Logos wiped out, Blue Cosmos severely hampered, and the entire Seiran family wiped out, including Yuna. This leaves Cagalli with almost no political opposition in Orb (since the second Battle of Orb would’ve flushed out a majority of the Blue Cosmos/Logos sympathizers within the government/military), along with giving her a boost in popular and military support thanks to her actions and field leadership during the battle.

(Cutting for me just rambling on a bit about the in-universe politics after Seed Freedom)

You can tell with how much she’s managed to get done in the years between Seed Destiny and Seed Freedom - in that short year and a half to two years, she was able to propose and found COMPASS, secret away and upgrade the Impulse, Destiny, Strike Freedom, and Infinite Justice, arrange for ties between Orb and Terminal to investigate/exchange intel (Athrun and Meyrin), and put into place all the evacuation/defensive protocols in case of another attack on Orb (as seen vs Foundation and Requiem, even if she needed Kira to pull an “I lived, bitch” to Aura 😅).

And it doesn’t end there - thanks to Foundation, Cagalli arguably has an easier time internationally now, because the Eurasian Federation leadership also got hit and the Eurasian Federation, while not necessarily Blue Cosmos sympathizers like the Atlantic Federation, was very staunchly anti-PLANT, which I think would’ve caused some problems for Cagalli, especially post Seed Destiny with Lacus joining her for that broadcast.

I actually think Orb probably has fairly decent diplomatic relations with PLANT (I think Chairman Lament mostly cut off that call after everything went south in Eldore because of the whole nuke situation), especially since Lacus is COMPASS’s inaugural president, plus the time both Dearka and Waltfeld (I’m not sure if he’s in Orb or PLANT as of Seed Freedom since his silent cameo has him helping to stop the coup in PLANT in Seed Freedom) spent there. And we have a very prominent all-Coordinator team with the Yamato Team - truth be told I actually wonder how much the Earth Alliance invested into COMPASS because everything we see on screen is either contributed by Orb (Archangel, Murrue and crew, Kira, Mu, and the Murasame Kais), PLANT/ZAFT (Millenium, Konoe and crew, Heinlein, Shinn, Lunamaria, Agnes, Gelgoog, and Gyan), or arguably both (namely, Rising Freedom and Immortal Justice). Unless I missed a minor crew member along the way. Which is possible.

Also pure speculation on my part on this - but the fact Seed Freedom has Athrun going into intelligence with Terminal (which we first see as having a presence in the PLANTS) from the Orb side and Yzak and Dearka going into intelligence from the PLANT side can’t be a coincidence. I want to think the three of them decided on it together because being in intelligence/covert ops gives them the chance to work together without having to force anyone to change their current loyalties - I don’t think Athrun can be truly loyal to anyone except Cagalli after Seed Destiny, and Yzak was always loyal to PLANT, and if Dearka hadn’t been captured and made to realize how extreme PLANT had become under Patrick Zala he wouldn’t have switched sides to Orb/Three Ships Alliance during Seed either. Which also indirectly feeds into Orb and PLANT having better political relations than Orb and Earth Alliance.

Which brings me to my final point - I would be very surprised if Orb isn’t the primary target for the antagonists in a Seed Freedom sequel. At this point Orb’s capable of doing too much with the limited resources it has as a small nation with too much military strength at its command. And there is room for a sequel (setting-wise) because while Earth Alliance took another major hit with during the Foundation Conflict, the ideologies that led to the First and Second Earth Alliance-PLANT wars still exist - even if Blue Cosmos lost another leader, even if the believers of Coordinator Supremacy lost another leader (in Jagannath) those ideologies still fundamentally exist. All the Foundation Conflict did was serve to take down the military leadership of those ideologies - even if the public on both sides see those views negatively it doesn’t make them go away.

[novella-november]

Is this fanfic friendly? I feel like an outlier.

I guess this is my sign it's time to throw together a FAQ post to link to lol.

Yes, every event for this blog is fanfic friendly :D

Though as I mentioned on my Ominous October post, for events that include multiple short stories, I encourage everyone to flex their creativity and take one of their planned short story fanfics, and at least *attempt* to turn one of them into something entirely original; rebuilding a character and story from the ground up to stand on its own two legs is no easy feat, and that is what makes it so fun!

It really gets your creative gears turning, to make an "au of an existing material" to be something entirely original, and you can be pleasantly surprised about the things you come up with!

As a few people say, its not just a matter of "filing the serial numbers off" -- you have to add in just as much *or more* as what you take out when you are turning a fanfiction into something that is original and completely divorced from its original source material / inspiration, and that is a hard, but very rewarding challenge!

Obviously, this is not a requirement (there's no hard requirements for any of the challenges, other than no cheating, including no using AI),

but if you would like an extra challenge for the short story events and you're planning on doing entirely fan-fiction, I highly recommend trying it out at least once, and seeing where it leads you--

you may find yourself pleasantly surprised by what you find down that rabbit hole!

[doctorbrown]

DOCTOBER '24 ⸺ 「 12 / 31 * PERMIT 」

June 18, 1987

“Oh, Emmett, I’m not sure.” Clara crosses her arms across her chest, throwing a wary look at the family car looming in the driveway. There were only so many clever ways she could postpone what felt like the inevitable and she was already certain that Emmett had figured that out by the third time and yet still allowed her to keep pushing it off. 

A firm no would have shut down his attempts for good, for he’d never force her to do something she didn’t want to do, yet she had always chosen to skirt around this particular issue rather than tackle it head-on.

Why that was, she wasn’t entirely sure herself.

“It’s not as difficult as you think. Once you wrap your head around the concept, it’s quite simple. You’ve driven the Train before and operating that is far more complicated than anything they could put into one of these cars. Even Twenty-First Century cars.” Emmett smirks, his expression saying it all. 

We’ve seen the cars of the future and you know I’m right.

“Those were extenuating circumstances and you were still there to guide me through it.”

“And I’ll be here to teach you how to drive, too.” Clara presses her lips together and gives the car another long, thoughtful look. “It’s a useful skill to have, even if you don’t use it again until an emergency.” 

Before Clara can even raise her brows and question just what calamity Emmett may foresee on the horizon, he continues, scattering the half-formed question to the wind. “Most importantly, you’ll have your ID and that's really what I'm the most concerned about.

“And if you decide you absolutely hate it, we’ll leave it at that and I won’t ask again.”

She’d learned to ride horses when she was much younger than the age the kids are learning to drive these days, and though she wouldn’t deny maintaining a vehicle had its own set of challenges–heaven only knows she’s seen Emmett struggle here and there with repairs, bringing out a rather nasty side of her usually well-mannered husband–drivers of this day and age didn’t have to worry about their their vehicle’s temperament or various idiosyncrasies. 

The car wouldn’t fight you for twenty minutes in the morning because it didn’t want to be saddled up and leave the barn.

She had grown accustomed–enough–to the things over the last two years, had absolutely no reservations about getting in one with Emmett or Jennifer or Marty, employed public transportation whenever it was necessary, so what was it that held her back?

Emmett was right. She’d piloted the Train successfully when it mattered–if ungracefully, but nobody was injured and she hadn’t damaged the Machine at all–even with the flying circuits engaged. She was inexperienced, but not incompetent. Driving a car should be no more complicated.

—But in the sky, there were no other unpredictable variables at play, and suddenly everything clicked into place, flipping the proverbial switch.

How many reports of devastating crashes had she witnessed on television or read in the paper? Drivers gravely wounded, some killed, cars overturned, crumpled—

Even just going into town with Emmett had shown her that the drivers of this day and age were hardly the conscientious sort, prone to distraction or just a general lack of consideration and in the case of the younger kids, wild and reckless behaviour. 

And if, God forbid, she’d been behind the wheel at the time with her family and something should happen—

Fear. It was fear for all the possibilities well beyond her control.

Now that she knew that, could she really keep denying herself the chance to learn because of what other people might do?

“Okay, Emmett,” Clara finally says after a long pause and some deeper introspection. “But I don’t want to get anywhere near Hill Valley while we practise.”