#Like yeah I know that timeline was deleted so it never really happened but still. STILL

[eisenartworks]

That's...

SO FUCKING SWEET?? THEY DIDNT HAVE TO DO THAT BUT WHEN THEY THINK HE'S HAVING SELF ESTEEM TROUBLES THEY ALL PITCHED IN

Tbf I don't blame Saitama he's like an overstimulated owner w three huskies so it sounds like he needed a break but GEEZ appreciate the people around you more! EVEN SONIC GAVE YOU A COMPLIMENT

And the fact he has King to depend on when he needs help... Like I know it's gonna take a lot of character development but when is he gonna notice that his relationships w other people improves his life

On the other hand...

... I wonder what's the narrative choice behind making Flash's and Saitama's spar much, much shorter than in the webcomic. They're all the same moves, but manga Saitama didn't allow it to draw out any further after the Flashy Fist unlike wc Saitama. Am I reaching it or does Saitama have lingering feelings on how he shouldn't draw out a fight as much as possible?

Oh yeah Blast is here huh wonder how things gonna go

[bunnyboy-juice]

spent the first hour and change at work deleting some old files and am having a grand ol time laughing at myself for not realizing i was a lesbian sooner

[mimiyewaffles]

A FEW INTERESTING THINGS

I guess I need help

So if y'all dont know, I'm trying to revise my boyfriend's d3ath.

It's been two months since I have been affirming and a few days since I got into the concept of void. Now, I'm trying to get into the void.

I've noticed a few crazy things, that I would love to share.

I've always affirmed that “everyone will forget about my boyfriend's demise because it was just my nightmare and no such thing ever happened. He's all alive and healthy” So I guess my affirmations are kinda playing out.

1.

When I got to know about his demise, I sent him like 100 texts that day, I was so emotional and poured down everything to him. He not only is my boyfriend, but also is my best friend. The bestest friend ever and it was the worst day of my life. I was never ready to lose him.

I sent those 100 texts to him on Snapchat and obviously, my texts were just delivered. Nobody read them because that "nobody" Was long gone. I'm talking about feb, 2024. So I checked his snapchat after a few days of emotional ranting, and those texts didn't show up. I thought it might be a glitch and now after like 3 months, I went back to check on him because I missed him and guess what? ALL OF THOSE TEXTS ARE GONE!

Now idk if I'm tweaking but wtf? Snapchat has this feature where messages get deleted after 24 hours of being seen. But nobody saw my messages to begin with, where are those texts????

Like... All the snaps, that were sent before those texts and even after those texts are still in delivered, not seen.

Can anyone tell me if this is a glitch? This couldn't be, right? It's been 3 months to that incident, if it were glitch, it would have been fixed by now but idk-

2.

My bf would post about his travelling and stuffs in Instagram reels and I often visit his account to look at him all alive once again and one day, I noticed one of his reels cover has changed 💀 and I even showed it to my sister and friend and they were shocked too. I thought it might be a glitch too. But it stayed like that for 3 days and then switched back to what it was before.

This might be a glitch idk honestly but my friend said it might be a "timeline/dimensions overlapping"

3.

Two of my close friends are really logical minded and I never told them about my manifestation/shifting to a reality where my bf never got into an accident, because they wouldn't believe me. They don't even believe in multiple realities... So, not worth it.

A week ago, I texted one of these friends, saying that I feel like my bf is alive (emotional ranting) and all she told me was to hold up and move on, I'm thinking way too much 😮‍💨

And that's that. We didn't talk much about it.

After a few days of that, she texted me herself telling me that she feels the same. She feels as if my bf is alive too and maybe faking a death. We didn't get into the conclusion but yeah, we are still in doubt.

Also I would daydream about meeting my bf once again and i would make infinite possibilities to proof my reasoning mind that he's alive. So one of my imagination was my friend texting my bf's brother (they have nothing in common, they don't even know each other yet I imagined them talking) and his brother would say that my boyfriend is actually alive. And that scene exactly happened, except for the alive part. my friend talked to his brother to get his "last" Pics and guess what? They don't have that. Which is super weird because that accident just happened this year and those photos are gone. I texted one of his other brother who always replies to my texts and always give me updates about how their family is grieving but when I asked about pics, he left me on seen— again very weird.

Moreover, all of them (his family members) have moved on completely. They are enjoying and travelling. Idk how but like in a month of my bf's demise, they started partying a stuff which is super weird to me.

.....

I guess my affirmations are kinda becoming true. My 3D is maybe conforming slowly (?) Idk 😭

Lemme know what y'all think. Any tips on revising such thing would be appreciated. Thanks for reading 🎐

I'm sorry if I don't make any sense, I'm probably being delusional. Sorry for the rant 🥲🤌

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

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Yesterday i got the craziest message out of the blue .. My ex bf from 2011-2013's other ex gf who he was with before me hit me up to say that he got arrested?? And that her and like 5 other people are pressing charges against him for assault spanning across all different periods of time.. it's really wild idk how to feel. She said if i feel comfortable i can give my own testimony for when they go to court , even tho i dont live in england anymore.. Im like yeah honestly i will because like this dude is so unrelentingly violent and scary he legit almost killed me it was so extreme, i've known a lot of corrupt ppl but he is the only one i've always thought needs to be locked away from society like it's a murder scene waiting to happen not to mention he is just a straightup rapist

it's crazy too cus like 4 or 5 nights ago i had a dream that me and him and the girl who messaged me were all watching videos of ourselves in that time period like i even posted about it on here. i thought it was just a typical trauma processing dream not an actual premonition of something i would have to revisit irl

She said something about how she'd been looking back in her old fb messages with him to help paint a picture of the timeline so out of morbid curiosity today i checked to see if i still had ours. Sure enough i do, i've never looked at them retroactively before, but holy shit like... He is so much more of a monster than i even remembered, i dont get triggered easily anymore but it genuinely hurt my heart to see how horrible he was. Every conversation is just him snapping at me because i didnt respond to him fast enough or something so minor, and the whole time im just trying to apologize and de-escalate but it makes him more and more furious. the day before i was about to fly to london to move back in with him he was threatening to kill himself because i was going to my friends house to say bye to them. He was like "You're going to a party i just know it you're lying to me you'd never tell me you're really going to a party because you know i'm suicidal you've ruined my night you're a piece of shit" Like this was the NIGHT before i was about to leave everything behind just for him

i'm like rly shocked at everything i saw in that convo today im not even scratching the surface with this post. Anyways i guess it's cool that there is some justice happening right now and the people who survived him have been able to band together to try and ensure he can't hurt anyone else in the future. i rly wish none of us ever had to go thru any of that tho ugh i was so young i just really had no idea and it fucked me up for many many years afterwards. ive come a long way tho .

ill probly delete later cus idk who lurks this blog. i prefer not to show weakness :K But yeah.. just wanted to express this crazy unexpected life event and get it off my chest while its fresh

Peace and love !!!

[yallemagne]

I’m thinking about fuckin’ timeline nonsense. OKAY SO. 

I have seen a few people say that Wade time travelling to save Vanessa in Deadpool 2 means that none of the events of Deadpool 2 ever occurred, and I refuse because then WHAT ABOUT MY BOY?! RUSSELLLLL! It would throw a wrench in my schemes if that were the case. 

Anyhow… technically if that’s how time travel worked in this case, Cable going back in time and changing things would delete this version of him from existence because he changed the timeline to the point that he never would have had to go back in time… but then if he never went back in time, the events would have occurred as they did to necessitate the time travel. See that it doesn’t really make sense? Time is weird. Anyhow, the only physical sign that his present has changed is the teddy bear changing.

I’d say the way to cheat stuff so that the events of Deadpool 2 still happened is to talk completely out of my ass. Let’s say we have multiple options here:

Number one: Wade going back in time and saving Vanessa only changes the timeline in that she is alive in the present. It does not erase what happened when she was dead. Perhaps, she got pulled from the Alive Timeline into the timeline where she died. And fuck that alternate timeline okay we ain’t dealing with it. 

Number two: Okay so yeah Wade saving Vanessa does technically negate all his actions following her death, but perhaps an altered series of events akin to what happened in the film still occurred. Wade still joins the X-Men and still meets Russell and Cable and all that. Hence how he also goes back to save Peter, whereas if Vanessa’s death was the only catalyst for Wade later forming X-Force, that scene would have been null and void. 

Number three, really fucky option: Wade fucking with the timeline did create a new one, but instead of splitting off from the old one, they fused, so everyone involved in that nonsense has memories of what occurred originally and what occurred in the altered timeline… simultaneously? Kind of like how Logan can remember everything from before Days of Future Past and gets caught up on what’s happened in the new timeline, but just extend that to everyone. Some major deja vu there. I like the idea of Vanessa having memories of being dead and Wade trying to die to reach her/punish himself, and that is in part why she ends the relationship: knowing how he destroys himself over her, how his dangerous job endangers her and if she dies again he will spiral again. And like she quips about the new guy she’s seeing not getting her shot. Either she remembers being shot or Wade just caught her up on what happened. I think Vanessa being aware of everything that happened lends to her character's depth, makes her feel less like a bystander in her own life.

[phenomenal1500]

~Done Joking Around?~

Masterlist

A/N: This was requested by SlytherclawGarnet on AO3. Thank you for this request and I really liked writing this!

Summary: Erik was saved and now helps Shuri through her journey in being the black panther.

Timeline: Wakanda Forever so spoilers ahead.

Pairing: None. This is strictly platonic. Warning: Mentions of major deaths.

"Nah, don't even think about it, cuz." He grinned playfully at his little cousin, seeing the mischievous and troublesome glare in her eyes as she put her right feet forward to strike.

Ever since he survived thanks to Shuri and her magnificent lab, Erik tried to build a life with meaning, with love and happiness even though it was hard, and that involved being surrounded by his family to heal from his past scars.

He had to admit it was tough bonding with anyone for him, but to his surprise Shuri and him actually had a lot in common.

She let him work in her lab the first few months, trusting him enough to do so because of his MIT history and even eventually gave him his own floor to experiment and create on.

He loved that shit, designing and inventing from nothing but scrap. It helped get his mind off of things and slowly but surely he grew closer to his little cousin.

Especially after what happened to T'Challa..

It was extremely tough to see her so broken and devastated over the death of her older brother and he and Queen Mother instantly took action. He never left the girl alone, always helping her in her lab or making and styling her new outfits. He didn't want her to end up like him and so he made sure she could lean on him and cry on his shoulder whenever she wanted or needed to.

"Or what? What are you gonna do?" Shuri teased, ready to hit him hard with one of her new harmless gadgets. They loved pranking each other to keep the work fun.

"Remind yourself you're not the only panther in this lab real quick, girl." He replied as he checked if some of the computer systems were still running.

The Queen Mother had insisted on keeping Erik the panther for a while too so he could tutor and keep Shuri safe until she was strong enough. However, of course it was kept a secret not to cause too many problems among the traditional people.

"I swear, Shuri." He warned again, not immediately noticing Shuri had already thrown the small bomb his way, but he still caught it in time before she could make it explode and threw it back at her. He laughed as she was absolutely covered in flour because of the explosion now. "What did I say? I warned you."

"Yeah, yeah, I know." She crossed her arms before chuckling a little too.

"And guess what?" He smirked as he walked to a hidden camera he had set up beforehand.

"What?" Shuri mumbled, trying to dust off her clothes as she was slightly annoyed at herself for not making it explode sooner.

"It's all on film." He grabbed the camera and waved it around in front of her face.

"No!! Delete that!" She giggled and tried to pull it out of his hands.

"Too late, little princess is going viral on the internet." He joked and unnoticed deleted it for her anyway.

"Are you two done joking around?" The Queen Mother had watched them from afar, a small smile on her face as she saw how close of a bond the two had build together.

"Yes mother." Shuri nodded and took a step back from Erik, a little embarrassed by how childish they had been in a time where they were on the edge of war.

"Hey auntie." Erik smiled, not caring that much as he bowed with his head. They were on schedule with their defense plans and he wanted to lighten up the mood. His whole life was surrounded with hate and revenge and he knew how awful that was to live in so he wanted to change that for his family. In his opinion some fun was allowed in crucial times like these.

"Good to see you too, Erik." She smiled a little at him even though she tried to keep a stern posture. "So, is Shuri's suit done yet?"

"Hell yeah. It's all ready."

[phdmama]

Good evening! Could I have numbers 3, 5, 22 and 25 (because I’m greedy) for the weird writers ask? Feel free to swap any or all that don’t strike your fancy! Thank you 💞💞💞

Aww my friend thank you!!!

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

I’m not sure I have a Full Ritual but what I do is start a fuckton of stuff and then stare at it for a long time until I cry and close the doc!! Because a lot of my life is a lil hectic, I need to snatch writing time when I can, which I am terrible at. Maybe I need to create a ritual?

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

Bizarrely, given my profound anxiety in life, I’m actually really not that superstitious - other than the tossing the salt over the left shoulder thing, that’s nonnegotiable. I think my one superstition is that when I drop a fic on AO3, I immediately close out of pretty much everything and run away because if I don’t, no one will ever read my words again.

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

I long to be an organized soul but I kinda suspect that if it were going to happen, it would have already. Which is a disappointment. So I’m very much a “start writing and see what happens” kind of person. I usually have an end goal in mind, but I don’t know how I’m going to get there (which is wildly out of character for me as an anxious person haha). With short stuff (like <5K maybe), I don’t really do much other than write. For long things, I start, and I have a sense of the storyline and definitely an understanding of the destination. Once I get into it, I also usually create a google sheet with timelines, notes to myself, beats I’m trying to hit in the narrative, stuff like that. It’s really important to me that the things I write hold together narratively and temporally, if that makes sense.

I also write in google docs exclusively these days, because I like being able to transition between my laptop and my iPad (which is so much more portable). On my google drive, I have a fiction folder and then fandom subfolders as well as just a ton of random stuff, and then those subfolders have subfolders as well. A longer thing gets its own folder for example. My Drarry microfics and vignettes have their own folder, like that. I *try* to move finished things to a finished folder because I Have SO MANY THINGS that I’ve started. I even did a big “purge” (not actually deleting anything) of all the things that I’m realistically never going to finish but still. I just love to start stuff!!

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

My first instinct was, what weird hyper-specific detail DON’T I know?!

But here’s one:

So one of my favorite things I’ve written was a Drarry fic where I wrote the entire thing twice: once from Harry’s perspective and once from Draco’s. It’s called Come Rain or Come Shine (I'm With You Always) and it’s set in San Francisco and is literally my version of “Shut up” - “MAKE ME” but also trauma haha. It was a really fun writing exercise to learn that what one character was seeing in the other was not actually what was happening in them. They’re exchange students at a wizarding university.

Malfoy glances over at him, and without a word, reaches down and grabs a beer out of the six-pack at his feet and hands it to Harry. It’s a warm day and the cold beer feels wonderful in his hand as he twists off the cap and takes a long drink.

“Tough day?” Malfoy’s voice is warm and Harry wonders if he looks as rough as he feels.

He rests the beer on his knee and runs a hand through his hair. “Yeah, I guess. My Victimology class, this week we’re doing consequences of victimization and it’s just.” He sighs. “I feel so much older than so many of these people here.”

Other than a brief convo with the professor at the end of the term, that’s it. That’s the entire mention in the fic. I went and read SO MANY Victimology syllabi, and looked at reading lists, I did a Google scholar search and read most of someone’s Doctoral dissertation. For that one mention.

Weird Writer’s Asks

[vapemaster42069]

🤡 ⛔ 🦅

:D hello!!

🤡: i have a little unposted thing imma stick under a readmore below because i was hysterically giggling the entire thing i wrote it and idk if i'll ever post it lols. here: !!

⛔: oh my gosh, so many. i'm notorious for starting fics and never completing them because of one reason or another; usually i lose inspiration or get a new idea to hop on. most recently, i was planning a 20+ chapter fic that i had about a half planned and a third written that follows a scarian life series+hermitcraft timeline. mainly, i wanted to write the angst bc that's waht i enjoy lols. (ok so. respongin to this actually inspired me to finish a scene so i might end up posting at least one part somewhere lmao, can always rely on you for inspo :] ). uhh, another one was just a party during the hc/empires crossover, one was a jrwi riptide hamlet au, there was a thanatos backstory thing that was Very similiar to Kaladin from TWoK if you're into that, there was a southlands coffeeshop/pottery class thing, much ado twelfth night au because i thought the convolution was funny, and a lot of chatfic-style crack stuff that i live for but will Never see the light of day

🦅: depends on the fic! i have a doc where i scribble down ideas, quotes, or good sentences, so sometimes i'll go off that and ball with whatever strikes inspiration, but i do have a tendency to do specific au's where i know where it's going! (rip jrwi twelfth night au draft you will be missed. ao3 draft deletion hates me fr). kinda off-topic but i feel like i frequently have a starting point and an ending point, especially for longer works, and i have a really hard time filling in the in-between scenes! probably, i should outline more than i do lmao.

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"Joel, have you gotten shorter?"

"I- What? No!"

"No, I swear you look shorter." Grian paused and backed up, looking him up and down quizzically. He rubbed his chin to hide the quirk of a smug smile. "Scar, come look at Joel. Does he look any shorter to you?"

Scar, who had been slowly picking the leaves off of a plant, wheeled around. "Hey, yeah, he does, now that you mention it!"

"Scar!"

"Weren't you like 11 foot last time I saw you? You only look like 10'8 now," He leaned back in his chair, lifting a hand as well to scratch at his beard.

"Must have taken out the lifts in his shoes," Grian nodded sagely.

"Grian!"

"Little Timmy's rubbing off on you now, Joel--"

"I do not have lifts in my shoes!"

"--Every time you visit him, you get smaller."

"I do not-- I am not-- wait! I'm 11 foot, still!" 

"It's okay, Joel," Grian couldn't hide the amused lilt in his voice, "Us short kings have to stick together."

"Us-- HUH? I am not a short king!"

"What's this about short kings?" Sausage, ever with good timing, strolled around the corner and casually leaned on a fencepost next to Grian, propping an elbow on his shoulder. He leaned over and promptly toppled over with a yelp when the unsupported pole moved, before Grian hopped out of the way, grabbing him before he could smack his head on the ground. "I love sho-- waAAAH-- thank you, Grian--I love short kings. I am a short king! What do you have against short kings, Thunder Cheeks?"

"Hold on--"

"Nothing, Sausage! I'm just not one!"

"--Thunder Cheeks?" Grian squeaked.

"Oh, yeah, Joel's Thunder Cheeks, or Thunder Daddy! When his cheeks clap, thunder happens!"

"... I don't know how to respond to that,"

"Which cheeks?"

"Scar!"

"Whichever ones you want to,"

"Joel."

"That an offer?"

"Scar."

"Only if you want it to be,"

"Joel, I swear to god,"

Sausage giggled, his eyes alight. He had, evidently, already had his third cup of coffee today, based on his buzzy hands as he spoke. "You know what we gotta do, the four of us, is go to my tavern sometime! It could be like a double date, I'll show you a dance!"

"Like a-- no, Sausage, we aren't-- I mean, I haven't--" Grian could feel his face burning, "Scar, back me up here,"

"I'd love to go on a double date with you, Sausage! Would Joel and Grian be together, then?"

"Uhh. I mean, sure! Totally..." Sausage sideyed Grian, who looked away, desperately fanning his face to try to ease his blushing. It wasn't working very well, "So, you and I, and Grian and Joel! it's a date!"

"A double date! Oh my gosh, Grian, I'm so excited, we gotta get you out of that red sweater and into something snazzy?"

"I-- Scar, I look so snazzy in this sweater!"

"I mean," Scar wiggled his fingers at Grian, his eyes lighting up, "You're adorable with it on--" Grian squeaked. "--but not formal, like for a date! Come on, let's get dressed up all fancy!"

Sausage clapped his hands, bouncing on the balls of his feet. "Ooh, Scar, I might have this beautiful vest that might fit you, if you need one? The color would really pop on you."

"Oh, maybe! I could show you the shirt I had in mind, if you'd like!"

"I'd love to! Oh my goodness I'm so excited, maybe we could match shirts..." Sausage trailed off as he dragged Scar away by the hand, grinning, going a nerve-wracking speed down one of the hills surrounding Sanctuary, towards the nether portal.

"In about 5 seconds we're going to hear a crash, aren't we,"

"Most likely." Joel turned to Grian, a smug look on his face. "Anyways, Grian."

"Don't you dare."

Joel grinned, crouching down to his height. Grian scowled. It was a bit funny, as Joel was approximately 6 feet taller than Grian was, so he was fully doubled over in a squat to meet his eyes. "Got your eyes on someone, pretty bird?"

Grian covered his face, pressing the heels of his palms into his eyes. "Joel, I swear to god--"

"I won't tell him!” Grian looked up at him.

“Promise?”

“Promise. But I can’t guarantee I won't never blackmail you for it,”

Grian sighed. “I guess that’s all I can hope for,”

“Are you– is it that uncomfortable to go on a double-date with him there? Because, I mean, I could invite some other Empires members too if you think it’d help. Make it more like a server party than a date?”

“That–” Grian paused, looking extremely relieved, “I don’t want to ruin it for you and Sausage, but that would be a lifesaver, I think.”

“Then it’s done! We can probably drag Timmy in, and if he comes, Tango and Scott will come, which will get Oli, and Sausage can get Keralis, which means Jev will come, and I can probably get Lizzy, who will get Doc and Impulse, and– Well, we can figure out the specifics later, I’ll text Sausage.”

Grian sighed. "Well, what are you wearing?"

"Uhh. This?"

"You're wearing that to our date? Wow, Joel. I see how it is," Grian mock-pouted.

"What's wrong with what I'm wearing?" Joel startled, playfully indignant.

"It's not bad, you just wear it every day!" Grian winked, "Let's get snazzy."

[nanaarchy]

20 Q's for Fic Writers

I got tagged by @assorted-candy! Thank you sm !! :D

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 

Currently have 4! (Technically 5, but the last one is a meme fic so we don't talk about it...)

2. What's your total Ao3 word count?

41,928

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Mainly Danny Phantom !! Though I do have some crossovers planned/posted, especially with DC Comics. The crossover potential of this silly little fandom is Crazy!!

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? 

4. Either Way, It Ends - 54 Kudos - A rewrite of Danny Fenton's accident, from the perspective of one Ancient Embodiment of Death.

3. Frosted Flakes - 127 Kudos - This winter, something bizarre happened to Danny Fenton. Nobody (except Dash Baxter) noticed.

2. Phantom Phuckery - 635 Kudos - Danny Fenton is tired of keeping so many secrets. The Casper High School Class of 2008 Group Chat suffers the consequences.

1. Invisible Case - 721 Kudos - The Bat Siblings are tasked with an investigation on Vladimir Masters, famous billionaire businessman and mayor of Amity Park. Why is everything so suspiciously covered up?

5. Do you respond to comments?

All the time :D Send a comment and I'll do my best to reply!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Oops... Only two of them are actually finished... but probably Either Way It Ends. But that's just canon angst. My WIPs, however...

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

From my current posted fics, Phantom Phuckery probably will have the best ending happiness-wise. That's the whole idea of an "ideal timeline," right?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Very rarely !! Though, I have gotten occasional "you should have done This or That for a better ending!!" or "why have you posted This fic when you should be posting That fic?" It's very rare, and I usually delete them, but whatever. I'll post what I want. Every one billion years. At 3am. On a Tuesday. Don't tell me what to do >:)

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Have written it waaay in the past? But never posted it. It was for a different fandom I'm not really part of anymore. Considering all the relationships in my current fandoms... it might never happen again lol

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

So... remember that one fic I mentioned? The 5th fic I wasn't gonna talk about? Yeah... My friends and I were playing a game called Frantic Fanfic. You basically make a random list of characters and you have 10 minutes to write a story, beginning-middle-end, with two of them. I posted the one I wrote, True Italian Pizza, between Super Mario and Five Nights at Freddy's. You can imagine how insane that fic is.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Never, thank goodness !! (Though if you do wanna use any of my concepts/aus/headcanons, feel free to! but Please let me know, I'd love to hear your takes!)

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Technically no, but I did make art for My Roommate's Haunted??? for Invisobang! I also have two WIP fics inspired by art for Ecto-Implosion. I'm not sure if it counts, but still! :D

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

I have several, tbh? in many fandoms. For DP, probably Everlasting Trio. But really, I'm a sucker for Eldritch!Danny - and thus, he has many hands. Many many hands for many many little guys. Crossover ships are my jam tho, like Anger Management (Jazz x Jason) and Brain Dead (Tim x Danny). Also Bad Blood (Dan x Jason) is criminally underrated.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Okay. WIPs. I'm currently working on a Lancer-centered fic, and I really want to finish it. I'm worried I'll never finish my Danny Phantom x The Magnus Archives fic - I started it but it's still really early in the process. I wanna continue working on it after Ecto-Implosion and after the Lancer fic, but I'm not sure I'll ever finish it. Tho after that, there's my Jekyll!Masters and Hyde!Plasmius fic. I haven't started that one, but I know that once I do I'll definitely finish it at the speed of lightning.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I love silly little descriptions of random tiny details that don't really seem important until you realize it was actually foreshadowing for something way larger later in the fic. I love myself some motifs and symbolism.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Fucking dialogue. Don't get me wrong, the problem isn't characterization or tone or anything. But if I do start writing dialogue, it's really hard to build a scene around the words I want to say. It gets too wordy and too long back-and-forth, and I really struggle with dialogue pacing. I wanna get better at it ngl - it's always either 100% scripted dialogue or no dialogue at all.

Also how does one write sad scenes without being funny. I keep throwing jokes and puns around to make it less uncomfy to write. but it just ends up being funny. how can I not be funny

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

LOVE when characters themselves speak in another language. I like to include it in italics (and the translation in brackets if necessary!) Unless it's something like, the entire conversation is in a foreign language, then I might throw in a "oh and btw this is all in Japanese but protag's brain auto-translates it to english ooooh anime logic"

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Surprisingy? My first ever published works were entirely original (though I was 8 years old, and thus they were obviously Shit™️)

I think my first actual fandom fanfic was for Percy Jackson, when I was like,, 9??? 10??? It was very obviously a self-insert 2nd-gen fic, but it was silly goofy and surprisingly not terrible.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

I like them all in their own way !! tho ngl?? Either Way, It Ends lowkey slaps so hard - it's a short one-shot and deserved better tbh. Writing it was really fun !! I love dif depictions of Death in media, so go read it if u can :>

here you go my beloved authors, anyone who wants can join the bandwagon :D

@funghifungi @underforeversgrace @dashing-through-ecto @hannahmanderr @probably-dead @scarletsaphire

20 Q's for Fic Writers

I got tagged by @dp-marvel94! Thank you!

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 

I've just posted my 22nd work a few days ago!

2. What's your total Ao3 word count?

37,763

3. What fandoms do you write for?

So far, all my published fics are for Danny Phantom. It's a fandom that's near and dear to my heart and my favorite to write for. I've written fanfiction for myself in a lot of different fandoms over the years. Miraculous Ladybug, Mega Man (Star Force, Battle Network) and Fire Emblem are a few. (Will these ever see the light of day? Probs not, lol)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?  5. Frayed Ends - 37 kudos - Jazz and Maddie are fighting more often. Jack wants to reach out and help his family. 4. The Same Blood - 45 kudos - Maddie and Jack try to help a sick girl that collapsed in front of their house. They don't know what to make of her condition. Danny wants to help.

3. Returned Home - 49 kudos - Maddie finds Danny at home after he disappeared ten months ago.

2. The Broken Pieces Left Behind - 66 kudos (tie) - Maddie knew what the portal did to Danny. If she could create something that essentially turned him into a ghost, she could figure out a way to fix all of it. Even if she hasn't made any progress in the past two months, she'll keep trying. She didn't account for what Danny wanted. 1 . What's Out of Out Control - 66 kudos (tie) - Danny thought he had it under control. He thought he could finally hang out like they used to always do. Tucker could feel the rift between them widening. It wasn't getting smaller anytime soon.

5. Do you respond to comments?

I try to! There were a few comments from my two earlier fics that I never responded to and it's already been so long and I feel like I ended up putting it off too long to say anything now 😓But I'm so so thankful for all the comments I receive! I never thought anyone would read my work, let alone comment on it. I'm always between two modes of 'author commentary' and 'screaming thank you and running away'.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Lol, I love my angsty stuff and there are so many different flavors of angst, so it's hard to pick just one. I'd say the piece I aimed to write for Angst Fest, The Broken Pieces Left Behind, might be it. It ends on a rather hopeless note for the Fenton family that even I don't know how to make everything better for them

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably Home for a Cat. It was for a Ectoberhaunt prompt that I was absolutely stumped on. So I decided someone was going to adopt a cat by the end of the fic.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Ahh, so I actually posted a fic on FFN wayyy back when I was in high school. I remember it being received pretty well but I got a really rude comment on a simple spelling mistake. Back then, I was just told I had dyslexia a few years prior and I had some really bad self-esteem issues tied in with that. So, yeah, that comment basically made me terrified to ever show my work to anyone ever.

It's been over ten years since then and I wanted to actually get over that fear. I impulsively decided to do Angst Fest with the mindset that no one would even look at what I posted. Not only did people look, everyone has been so kind!!!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

lkdajldkf, nope. I get flustered trying to write basic romance and having two characters hold hands, lmao. Major props to those that can, it's definitely a skill that takes time to master just like any other genre.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I haven't.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Also haven't had this either.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nope, but it seems like a lot of fun.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Back when the show was airing, Amethyst Ocean (Danny/Sam) was my go to. I'm a sucker for friends to lovers tropes and it's really nostalgic for me. But, I don't really read a lot of shippy things for Danny Phantom, so ships don't make or break a fic for me.

If I'm looking to read romance, the whole Love Square (MariChat my beloved) with Miraculous Ladybug will always be great. Even if I jumped ship on the show around season 2 or 3 and I have no clue what they're doing now, lol.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I honestly have so many WIPs that are unfinished on my computer from over the years. Maybe a super old one that I titled 'Phantoms in the Daylight'. Angst once more with Character Death as the main pain point. I like the beginning but oh boy, does it get sloppy and confusing real quick. I'd need serious outlining energy put into it if I'd ever want to salvage it and I just don't have it in me.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue! Give me two blorbos and I'll make them talk forever.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Scenery and description. I love the dialogue portion so much that I end up running into the floating heads in an empty room problem in the first drafts of my fics. My first round of edits are dedicated to making sure I have a scene and grounding characters into it. And then I have to go back later to make it not feel so robotic sounding.

(Also a weakness but more as in fic than writing. Summaries and Titles. I stare at my drafts on AO3's editor for at least half an hour trying to pull something together, lol)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I can probably talk about this for hours, lol. I absolutely love foreign languages, especially when it comes to linguistics. So, I'll try to be brief, lmao. Short answer: depends on the fic but normally no. I already spend so much time fussing over the word choice/slang/formality/dialect characters use in my native language. I don't have a good enough grasp on another language for it to sound natural to the reader. ("They would not fucking say that" is my internal monologue during dialogue edits, lol)

19. First fandom you wrote for?

It's a toss up between Pokemon and Danny Phantom. I first learned about fanfiction from a friend who showed me FFN for the Pokemon fics. I looked around the site and found all of the Danny Phantom fics soon after and got hooked on those. I started writing around then and it would have been for one of those two.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

Hard to chose one! Writing technicality wise, I'm proud of how What Remains on the Table turned out. I consider description my weak point, so the original draft was 0 dialogue with very stiff descriptions. I was able to edit it to really practice my environmental storytelling. (Although, please mind the tags if you click the link as it does deal with the dissection topic)

I'm not sure who's been tagged and I'm not sure who writes fanfic, so @lavendarlily, @fangirlwriting-stories, @grub-xd, @nanaarchy and anyone else that wants to join!

[vsa-pieldepapel]

(Charisk anon again lol) Oh hell yeah existential horror is my default for Chara and Frisk. Because, yeah, you’re right, so much of them is determined by the fourth wall break the player provides. But when you take away the player, in my interpretation, you’re left with a kid (or two kids in a trench coat) who can basically break the universe. And they’re so incredibly determined, they’re willing to break the universe multiple times to get it right. So they keep trying. And trying. And trying. But it can never be perfect. They can never resolve themselves of their past sins.

In my personal little version with multiple resets being within one “universe” (for lack of a better word), it’s all about the road to hell being paved with good intentions. Because Frisk and Chara are kids with big hearts, even if Chara doesn’t know how to show it all the time.

So they try to do everything right and everything nice. They still don’t get it right. So they keep redoing it, until they’ve learned every outcome and pattern of everyone they know. But even when they finally get to the surface and bring their new family with them, it doesn’t always go perfectly. And Asriel is still down there as a flower. And sometimes diplomacy with the humans goes south.

So they try different patterns. Crueler ones. Maybe if they increase their LV, they can become powerful enough to change the timeline further, rewrite the world like Flowey did. All those souls in Asriel restored him for a short time, maybe…

No luck. Just unspeakable trauma and guilt.

I guess what I’m saying is, my interpretation of Chara and Frisk really plays on the “determination” aspect and the power the player has on the fate of the world, but remove the player from the equation. You’re left with two kids who have taken on a responsibility they never should have taken on. But they’re determined!! They can do it! They can make it all better, right?

And then the aftermath. Spicy. How do you begin to explain this to anyone? The world is good now, but you were bad. And sure, maybe it never happened anymore now that the world has been reset, but you know what you did.

(Cue “Love Love Love” by the Mountain Goats: “Some things you do for money, some you do for fun, but the things you do for love are gonna come back to you one by one.”)

But then again, I’m also a sucker for time travel in general.

Thank u for listening to my autistic ramblings

anon I genuinely have nothing to add to this(positive inflection), im giving you a little charisky and posting it as-is. Have you thought of making it a fanfic or something? its super cool and I feel like others would enjoy seeing it lol. I’ve written and deleted an answer for this like thrice, but I dont wanna derail this idea cause I really like it. Its wonderfully weird and morbid

[sergeantsporks]

Aroace Hunter Week Day 7: Coming Out

AN: Set in “Camila is Hunter’s Mom Now.” It runs more parallel to the main series, doesn’t really happen at a set point in the timeline.

xxx

Aroace: Experiences neither romantic nor sexual attraction.

Wait, what?

Hunter blinked at the website, scrolling through variations and grey-spectrum definitions. He’d gone down a rabbit hole on the LGBTQ wiki looking for a present for Luz (which he still hadn’t decided on), and this one was…

He’d assumed he’d just never had the time, he’d assumed he’d just made work his life until he didn’t really care, he’d assumed that he was so unlovable that it didn’t matter.

But then, here in the human realm, with Camila and Vee and Luz, it wasn’t the same, was it? He wasn’t so busy, he didn’t make some job his life. And Camila had made it VERY clear that he was lovable.

And yet.

And yet.

“Hey, Luz?”

“Mhm?”

Hunter rolled off of his bed, showing her the phone screen. “What do you know about this?”

“What, you think I know every label to exist?” she teased, but peered at the phone, mouthing words quietly to herself. “Uhhhhh yeah, pretty much what it says on the can, lack of romantic or sexual attraction. Obviously it’s a little different for everyone, but… yeah. Why?”

Click.

Pieces were starting to fall into place.

“Just wondering.”

There’s a word.

It’s a thing.

There are other people out there.

Hunter scrolled further down, clicking a link. It took him to a forum where other people were discussing their own experiences.

I never go to a bar to get picked up, I make it very clear I’m just there to drink myself silly, but STILL these idiots think I’m there for a hook up.

Hunter’s ears burned, and he hit the back button. Nope, nope, nope, no thank you.

A different one, maybe.

Hate it when kids try to claim they’re aro or ace, just to end up dating a year later. You’re just a late bloomer, not a real aro/ace, god.

How old did you have to be before you could be considered Aroace? Was there actually a limit? Hunter wanted to ask Luz again, but… he shook himself.

It doesn’t matter. I like this. I think… I don’t know, it just feels right.

One more link. This time, to an information webpage.

Feel free to drop us a message in the chat if you’re questioning, or if you just want to know more!

Hunter tapped on the chat.

How do you know if you’re aroace?

His fingers hovered over the send button, then he deleted the letters.

I just found this and I was wondering—

Delete.

Hunter tapped the phone against his leg.

I think I might be aroace.

Before he could stop himself, he hit send, then turned the phone off, tossing it to the bed and tugging his hood over his head, watching the phone like it was a wild animal that might bite him.

“Uh-oh, I know that look,” Luz said with a grin, giving his hood a tug, “What’s going on in that head of yours?”

Hunter swatted at her hand, sticking out his tongue at her. “Lots of stuff. Most of which I bet you wouldn’t even be able to understand.”

Luz sat cross-legged on his bed. “Try me.”

Hunter rolled a hand. “How did you know that you… liked Amity?”

Luz shrugged. “I don’t know. I just started realizing that I wanted to impress her, and that I thought she was really cool, and my face started getting all red whenever I was near her, and I thought ‘oh, hey, wait, I think I’m in love!’.”

“And… if you’d never felt that way?”

“Then I guess I wouldn’t be dating her.”

“But you’ve… felt that way before? Even though you didn’t ever date before her?”

“Uh-huh, yeah.”

“Okay, so what if you’d never felt that way?”

Luz squinted at him. “Is this about that aroace thing?”

“Maybe,” he admitted, “Ever since I decided to stay here, ever since we ran from Belos, it’s just felt so… right. I love it here, I love being here, with Camila and Vee and even you—”

“Gee, thanks.”

“You know what I mean. Things here are just… so much more different. I have friends—well—a friend—and a family, and… I really, really like it. Even though it’s confusing, and I’m not always sure what I’m doing, I feel like pieces of who I am are clicking into places where before they were just a big jumble on a table and sometimes Belos would put two edge pieces together.”

“Nice metaphor.”

Hunter wrapped the string of his hoodie around his finger. “And this just… feels like another chunk of everything just got put where it was supposed to go. I like it—it feels right.”

“Okay,” Luz said simply, “That’s great—do you want to tell Mom?”

“Do you think she’d get it?”

“I mean, I think we’d probably have to explain it to her, but if you’re asking if I think she’d be upset or weirded out, the answer is no. She already had me, I don’t think it’ll be hard for her to accept. Unless you’re not ready.”

“No. Sure. This is cool, I guess. Yeah. Why not?”

“Great!” Luz grabbed his hand, tugging him downstairs. “Hey, Mom?!”

“Yeah, mija?”

“You know how you like guys?”

“Uh-huh.”

“And you know how Amity likes girls?”

“Yeah, sweetheart.”

“And then I like both.”

“Yes…?”

“Hunter likes… NONE OF IT!” She grinned, making jazz hands and wiggling her fingers. “Ta-da!”

Well, that’s a simple, easy way to put it.

“Yeah? Okay, awesome!” Camila leaned over and kissed the top of Hunter’s head. “Thanks for telling me, mijo, I know it can be hard to do that. I’m proud of you.”

Hunter felt a warm glow in his chest, and he shifted back and forth on his feet. “Thanks. So… uh… what now?”

“How about ice cream after dinner, and you can tell Vee and I everything about it?”

“Okay. Okay, yeah, that sounds great.”

Hunter drifted back up the stairs, dazed and giddy.

Click.

He picked his phone back up, taking a deep breath and unlocking it. New speech bubbles had appeared under his.

Amazing! Welcome to the community! Whether you stay for just a little bit, or you’re with us your whole life, we’re happy to have you.

Is there anything you’d like to know?

[nebulein]

The cat already changed his insta header to the senators 😭😭

"Shit." It just occurred to him.

"What," Dylan asks, stretched out on the couch next to him, not looking up from his doomscrolling on Twitter. At least some things never change.

Alex bites his lip. "I'm gonna have to do an Insta post, won't I?"

"Oh, yeah." Dylan looks irritatingly unbothered by the revelation. Alex kicks his ankle. At least that gets Dylan to look at him, even if he's making an outraged 'what was that for' face.

"I don't even know what to say!"

Sure, there'd been rumors for months, but it's the NHL. When weren't there rumors. Alex had somehow, stupidly, foolishly, always thought he'd be a part of whatever rebuild would be happening. Well. Looks like Kyle had had other plans. Maybe Alex should've put more stock in the increasingly pinched looks Jonny had been wearing after every meeting with the FO, but it's a moot point now.

"Oh, pssh, that's easy. I basically had a draft sitting ready in my notes since forever," Dylan waves him off, face already buried in his Twitter timeline again. "I wanna thank the team and the fans for an amazing time in Chicago," he drones on, voice entirely flat like he's reading this out, except Alex can see that all Dylan's got open right now is a video of Noodle. Apparently it's a super bones day. "And then you go on, like, super excited to come play in," Dylan frowns, faltering.

"Ottawa," Alex supplies.

"Ottawa," Dylan repeats, like it's the first time he's heard it, like Alex hasn't been freaking out about this trade for the last hour and a half.

"How's your own talks going?" Alex asks more to keep Dylan talking than anything. He still doesn't know how to feel about this damn trade. "And send me that draft, will ya?"

"Yeah, sure." Dylan nods absently, chewing on the drawstring of his hoodie, tapping away on his phone before throwing it to the side with a huff, finally looking at Alex. "You know how talks are going, man, there are no talks."

It used to make Alex' heart sink. Now, though, it's maybe not so bad. Alex won't be in Chicago anymore anyways, there's really no reason for Dylan to stay here any longer, either. Not when the Hawks never could see what they had in Dylan.

Alex's phone buzzes with a text. He pulls up the notes app, copies over what Dylan has sent him and starts editing to make it sound like himself. It's a good starting point. Alex very carefully doesn't think about what it means that Dylan has had this draft on his phone since who knows how long, ready to whip it out whenever. All it's missing is the new team name. He deletes the XXXs, fills it in with 'Senators' instead.

Dylan's an RFA, but with the Hawks not even offer sheeting him he's basically free to sign wherever.

"What does Morris say?"

Dylan sighs. "That we'll talk next week. But he asked if I had any, like, destinations in mind."

Dylan makes a face. Alex hums in agreement. He doesn't want to move, either. The mere idea of having to pack up this whole house, with Archie and Burt and Ralph, and move it all to a whole different country... it's a lot.

Still. Ottawa isn't the worst place in the world. And then Alex has an idea. It doesn't take him long to find it, there's always someone quick to do those jersey swaps and Alex only feels a little bad swiping the picture without asking. This is more important though.

By the time he's done he's got a post on Instagram thanking the Hawks for five wonderful years, likes count already going up as Alex watches, and a shiny new Insta bio and profile pic. At least this way Dylan will hopefully remember who Alex plays for now.

"How do you feel about moving to Canada?"

[lazzerot]

I still don't really understand what's acceptable to put under a post when you reblog it but your writing style tells me you might be a reddit refugee too (in case you are; have you considered joining lemmy? It has some really nice Star Trek communities, not the main ones on the startrek.website instance though, the mods there are powerhungry assholes who delete posts and ban people without giving any reason, but there's https://lemmy.world/c/tenforward for memes and https://lemmy.world/c/startrek@lemmy.world for more serious discussion.), but if you're not: sorry for making that assumption and please excuse me if I wasn't supposed to add to this. Now onto the actual Star Trek content:

I watched season 1 as it released and didn't like it. I'm still not sure if I ever even attempted season 2 with the release, but then I got really into SNW last year (yeah I know I'm late to everything) and watched Galaxy Quest when I was out of SNW , which ironically catapulted me into a Star Trek obsession so of course I had to rewatch Discovery after finishing SNW. And I don't know if I could endure the first two seasons of DSC now because I'm just so obsessed with Star Trek, if it just wasn't the right moment in my life in 2017 to watch Discovery and it's now because I need the optimism of Star Trek now because of the state that this planet is in now.

Either way your post has opened my eyes: I think I both disliked the wannabe-edgyness and the constant self-referencing in the first two seasons: why does Michael have to be related to Spock? Yeah it makes sense that Sarek would be the only Vulcan willing to raise a human child, but still; why not let her be her own character? And it pretty much never brought up again unless it's convenient because Ni'Var needs to rejoin the federation. Vulcan mannerisms or customs? Not for Micheal, no thank you.

Anyway that's not actually the point I wanted to make; I very much believe you hit the nail on its head with

I think Discovery season 1 and most of season 2 were a little ashamed of having to be an old sci-fi show, so they kept trying to be a show about violent, impulsive, very special unique people that happened to go to space every once in a while.

It feels like Discovery is simultaneously ashamed to be Star Trek, while also desperately trying to prove to its haters that it's cemented in canon: look, here's a Spock reference, see this TNG character/name reference here? (I never watched TNG, I grew up with TOS because of my dad so I didn't even get the references in Red Directive.) I don't agree with people who argue that Discovery should be another timeline, we don't need more Kelvin shenanigans, we need a Star Trek which is not ashamed to attempt something new despite it not fully lining up with canon. Strange New Worlds does that pretty effectively, though I admit it also has the benefits of working with established characters who are already beloved by the community and is basically just providing origin stories for them.

Star Trek Is A Failing Theme Park

Much like many others I used to be a bonafide Star Trek Discovery hater, and even though I thoroughly enjoy it now, I honestly don't regret that time in my life.

I think Discovery season 1 and most of season 2 were a little ashamed of having to be an old sci-fi show, so they kept trying to be a show about violent, impulsive, very special unique people that happened to go to space every once in a while. Which Star Trek has been, on occasion, but never in a way I personally find better than what it usually is -- philosophizing and talking about real world or allegorical drama for 40-50 minutes until a solution arises that doesn't really make anyone super happy and not everyone comes out unscathed, but the compromise means there's hope for a better solution tomorrow, and the day after that, until it works.

The personal dramas usually related to their reactions to storylines, but were ultimately secondary to the bigger pictures, and acted as bows you tie the narrative with at the end. If Kirk did not make it through the episode unscathed, that's cool, but the episode was rarely only about his demons. It could heavily relate to his demons but that wasn't the whole source of the spectacle. The Naked Time works as a way to examine characters in crisis, not necessarily as a Kirk episode where it's all about him.

Because of that, I was basically the audience for seasons 3 and 4. While Season 3's ultimate plot wasn't the most interesting thing in the world, the idea that they were now dealing with their "own version" of the galaxy, writing their own plots that didn't have to come before everything else and figuring out their own threats that didn't have to eventually connect back to Star Trek canon was a massive improvement.

The decision to interweave character drama into storylines as opposed to making the storylines about the character drama also greatly expanded upon people's roles in the ship, and you finally got to see people like Detmer or Owosekun doing shit and being useful, instead of just being on the bridge nearly unnamed. I genuinely think Season 4 of Discovery is one of the best seasons in modern Star Trek; even if it trips and falls sometimes, I think it's well worth the creative risk and I was left very satisfied after watching it.

So when Discovery season 5 turns around and tells me it's about an episode of TNG I watched once, and then they start going to a planet from an episode of TNG I watched once, and then here comes another episode where they go to an episode of DS9 I watched once, and there's more 24th century-specific stuff that's gonna happen, it's...

It's very hard to feel like we're not regressing? I realize at this point the show is very, very cancelled -- they weren't even told it was happening until they were filming the finale, but at the same time, is this really what the plan was? To not boldly go into something original, instead picking up threads from episodic shows released decades ago? What are we, Star Trek: Picard?

Now for the sake of transparency, I feel like this is might be more of a personality problem than a media consumption problem for me, because I am genuinely allergic to nostalgia. I have no respect or attachment for media whose only mission is to remind me of things that existed, and franchises that have made that their entire MO have basically died for me. Like, I can't watch Star Wars anymore. It stopped mattering how good or bad it is for me because all I see in stuff like Mandalorian season 2 is pilots for shows I'm not gonna watch, and cameos from characters I don't want to see right now. The stories are no longer the point, the point is the brand and how easily recognizable it is.

So when Discovery tells me that their last hurrah is going through the Star Trek theme park, pointing at rides I've already gone to and saying "Isn't it cool we get to say these words again? That we get to see this thing again?" I'm left cold. I don't want to see the Progenitors again. I don't want to see the Promellians again. I like seeing the Trills again, it's one of my favorite species in the franchise, but we have seen so much of the Trills between DS9 and DIS, I really feel like this is... not the way forward. This theme park is not the reason why I think about Star Trek.

It reminds me of why I stopped caring about Star Trek Online. The practical reason was me not liking the minibuys and the combat, and the game's only mode of operation being to attack -- it's a fine ship combat game and a mediocre but working third person shooter, I just don't care enough to play it forever. But the secondary reason, and the reason I think about the most, is because every single storyline is less a story and more a Star Trek reference.

It's always someone coming back, or an alt universe version of a character being introduced, or picking up on a random episode that I already watched, making the action figures fight instead of anything else. Instead of using fanservice to broaden the appeal, the only appeal is the fanservice; there is very little to Star Trek Online that isn't just the equivalent of going to Star Trek Land and looking at the Harry Kim bust again.

I keep looking at Burnham, a character I have come to like in spite of her place in the franchise, in spite of the fact that her entire conception was made to connect her to Spock, and to Sarek, and to Pike, and to all these characters I already know, in spite of the shortcomings of her original character arc -- I look at her and I see a character who has built her own path after being allowed to exist separate from the others, after being given the same chance everyone else was to be more than a Star Trek reference, and then she just knows to go to the planet of the Booby Trap aliens because that's Star Trek, we're going on the ride.

I'm so sick of going on the same rides. Specifically, I'm sick of going on rides after they just proved that they can do something different, that doesn't need Star Trek references to exist. Please I am begging you stop showing me Picard's face, I get it, I like TNG too. But I tuned in to watch Discovery. I am not into this brand because I am into the brand, I am into this brand because it's fucking good, stop acting like I'm here for nostalgia's sake.

"Hey, what about Lower Decks? You love that show!" eh Lower Decks can do it, don't worry about it.

[paigemathews]

@plutoconjunctascendant replied to your post “I still standby that a lot of people’s responses...”:

wait elaborate please ik the charmed sons theory which is just like. 😷 but like i really haven't dug at all into the old fandom

​Okay, so like. General disclaimer in that basically all of this is my own perspective from Fanfiction Net, and that most of this was me 2013-2016 and basically reading all the next gen or Chris fic on the site so I have no actual authority, just my own conviction. Also, like usual, there will be no coherency to this.

But yeah, like. Focusing on Mel and the next gen specifically, obviously, everything was very Wyatt and Chris-centered. I’m going to assume that the charmed sons theory is the one that Wyatt and Chris are Piper’s only kids and that the little girl in the flashforward was “a cousin or a neighbor’s kid” which. Over a decade and a half afterwards, I’m still sitting here like “they didn’t explicitly name her as Piper’s kid bc they made the mistake of assuming that y’all could pick up context clearly” like c’mon. (Also it was kind of weird with how people responded to Henry Jr, with one author being like weirdly insistent that Chris and Wyatt were the only biological sons to the extent that she said that Henry Jr being adopted was an answer to that dilemma. (She did in fact use dilemma, but misspelled it.))

More specifically though, people got annoyed when Melinda would be in fics! For context, I was thinking about this because I was going through my old FFN profile to delete/update/move some stuff around and read some old reviews on older fics. 

One of them was posted in February 2015 and someone outright said that they stopped reading when they saw that Mel was in the story. She wasn’t even really in the story, tbh, I just mentioned her in my author’s note when I was mentioning my names for the other next gen kids bc I don’t use the comic names and giving a rough timeline for ages bc it jumped through the timeline a lot. This was a 7k story and they literally scrolled to the bottom just to be upset Mel was mentioned.

Another was actually a oneshot collection posted in January 2016, focusing on weird conversations and shit that happened in Chris and Wyatt’s apartment at night. (It was super niche, I don’t know my thought process behind it or how I pulled eight chapters out of that.) On the first chapter, someone made sure to tell me that they were happy that it was just Wyatt and Chris, without a sister. (We had an entire mini-argument on whether Mel canonically existed bc 2016!me was. an Interesting Time.)

Even in fics where Mel does exist, it was almost always written so that she wasn’t a major player, usually by having her be dramatically younger than the boys.  (If she was around, she did not get to have a role in the narrative about her brothers, forget her own story. There were very few people who apparently saw the story potential in this girl.) Frankly, a lot of people did it with the other next gen girls, too. They were rarely a big presence in the story or in Wyatt and Chris’s lives. In fics about stuff like the unchanged future, they died relatively soon and weren’t really addressed. In changed future fics or outright spin-offs, they were largely skipped over as “being too young” with the idea that Chris and Wyatt were in college and the cousins were in high school. 

Of course, this pretty much entirely ignores that a) you can be an adult and still have relationships with your younger siblings/cousins b) that Mel didn’t have an extremely noticeable age gap from her brothers in the flashforward and c) Phoebe’s premonition had her daughter be in the same age range as Chris and Wyatt. Just everything possible to minimize the next gen girls. (Of course, these fics also never had Chris or Wyatt have platonic female friends either, just love interests that were always women.)

This is already very long, and I don’t know if you wanted elaboration on Bianca as well so like. I would gleefully leap at the chance to talk about how absolutely misogynistic Bianca’s treatment is, but I managed to basically spend nearly 700 words to say “Mel gets ignored” so. 

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Chapter 4: Back to you.

Description: So... I know many Daminette fans don't like Damian being younger than Marinette so 🚨SPoiler AleRT 🚨 Damian is gonna be younger for a while but an event happens that gets their ages exchanged. (Sort of)

Warning; swearing, angst, fluff.

Summary: Where the world reunites with their loved ones..

Previously

"They're back!, They're back!, They're back!" Maps yelled excitedly, almost jumping at him

"Who's back?!"

"The people who disappeared 5 years ago!"

Damian blinked at the short girl in front of him before narrowing his eyes at her "this is no time to play games Mizoguchi."

"I'm not!" Mia huffed "ask anyone else."

Damian looked at her and he knew she wasn't lying, he gave her a small nod before heading back towards the washrooms.

"Wait!" Mia yelled, holding his wrist "Can you drop me to Olive house?"

"No." Damian deadpanned

"Can I at least have your grapple gun?"

"No" Damian sighed "Sorry Maps, I've gotta go"

Mia nodded "fine. you owe me a waffle bar!"

Damian rolled his eyes at her before running back, wasting no time. "Plagg! Claws out!"

"Aw come on!" Plagg hissed, before disappearing into the ring.

***

Damian ran across roof tops, he felt sick. Where they really there? how did they disappear? What if he went home and found out nobody was actually there? what was he going to to say? So many Questions jumped around his head, but he kept moving either way. He jumped over the large compound of his house calling out "Plagg claws in!" His black and green suit dissolved and was replaced with his uniform. He landed on the soft grass smoothly Before running around large fountain in front of his destination.

Damian panted, looking around. Jason's new bike was spread on the ground carelessly, and the car was literally half-hazardously parked.

He ran towards the large doors shoving it open...

to meet his family laughing and crying in Joy.

They were here. They were all here. Dick, Cass, Steph, Alfred, Selina, Kate, Chloe and Marinette.

Damian could only stare, They looked like they never aged a day, except Alfred who seemed to look younger.

"Damian?" Dick asked, a shocked look on his face which quickly dissolved into a bright smile "Oh my god you look so big!" He yelled, tackling him to the ground "Did you miss me?"

"TT, of course not."

"Liar" Tim laughed with tear stained cheeks "he cried everyday for two years."

"I didn't!" Damian hissed, still in the embrace of his older brother. "Uh-huh, sure." Bruce smiled his arms around Selina

"Father!"

"Wait, wait, wait." Chloe interrupted "what do you mean two years? We've just been gone for like, five minutes"

"Yeah! What's with that?" Steph asked in confusion

"You guys have been Gone for 5 years" Tikki said slowly while the others were nodding in agreement

"That's impossible, I was definitely there for 15 hours"

"It felt like five minutes for me" Chloe said as Cass nodded

"You guys sure you didn't hit your heads on your way back?" Jason joked

"Do you remember where you guys were?" Bruce asked

"Yes" Marinette nodded "It was-It was beautiful, it felt like you were in the middle of the universe without any care and so many different colors were there. Just like stars and galaxies"

"The quantum realm!" Fluff exclaimed "of course! Why didn't I think of that?!"

"What's a quantum realm?"

"The Quantum Zone, the realm where all the energy of the universe come from, and the Microverse, which consists of many different sub-atomic dimensions all accessible through the same means as they are in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." Fluff thought out loud

Jason blinked in confusion "I didn't understand a single shit."

"Language" Alfred warned.

"The Quantum Realm is a dimension that can be entered from Earth by compressing a human's mass to a certain point. Entering the Quantum Realm could potentially cause the person who enters it to shrink forever. Due to the nature of the realm, time passes differently and is more fluid. As a result, with the right equipment, the Quantum Realm can be used for time travel though its impossible to change one's own timeline when traveling into the past in such a manner." Fluff continued

"Still don't get it" Jason shrugged

"You would if you were smarter." Damian snorted

"In a simpler way...A person needs to be really tiny to enter the quantum realm and time passes differently for each person" Tim explained

"Ohhhhh, I get it now!"

"So you're telling we've been stuck in time?" Kate asked

Fluff nodded "except for Alfred, who seemed to travel back in time." which made chaos rise.

"You're telling me we've been missing for five years?!"

"Wait so technically I'm the oldest" Jason laughed evilly

"No you're not! I'm still a year older than you!" Dick smirked

Damian almost gave out a smile, until he noticed Marinette sitting silently on the ground staring at her hands. He crawled towards her, out of Dicks grip and sat next to the girl muttering a small "hey"

"Hi" Marinette mumbled back, glancing at him.

"What's wrong?"

"I-it just seems so unreal, five years? That's like my teenage life. Tim's all grown up! How old is he? 22? and-"

"Hey! hey! Calm down, it's fine. if it helps you feel better, You can always taunt them on how young you are."

"-And you've grown up all tall and muscular and pretty-"

"Pretty?" Damian asked, his face turning red.

"The world has obviously changed! I don't know how you lived without Alfred or Me and Selina because you guys don't know a shit about cooking, and why didn't our miraculouses fade away with us? I could've done something to come back earlier"

"Stop it!" He said grabbing her shoulders "you've done the best you could And what really matters is that you're home"

"Oh and you've gotten soft." She gave him a teary smile before Pouncing on him, giving him a bear hug.

He wrapped his arms around her small body, rocking her back and forth questioning "Do you really think I'm Muscular and pretty"

"No!" Marinette squeaked quickly as she pulled away from their hug "I'm just really tired, and floating in space is really exhausting"

"Mm-hmm, sure" he smiled pecking her cheek, which made Marinette melt on the insides "you hungry?"

"Do you even know how to cook?" Marinette asked

"Hey, we learnt a thing or two when you guys disappeared." Damian chuckled, pulling Marinette to her feet while looking at his brothers questioningly, who were busy wrestling on the couch "You idiots need anything from the kitchen?"

"Yesss" Dick grinned "I want cereal."

"Noodles please!"

"Same here!"

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So how was the it ?....

Okkkk, I know it was pretty lame and all, The only reason I posted this was because I've had this draft for some time and I didn't have the heart to delete it because that would mean I only wasted my time. Soooooo I posted it. Kill me. My dignity is dead, I've got nothin to lose.

But if you guys want another chap... just ask 😉... and please comment and vote!

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This was taken from my Wattpad account

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Galaxy team wants to live in peace at all costs, for reasons that I am certain are spoilers.

The two clans have been at war for awhile, but are attempting some sort of peace. This is in part of the galactic team attempting to keep a war from starting that would affect them. I also presume its because of the two leaders, who have their own sort of issues/fears, which I believe the games at least hinted at. (Stuff like Irida becoming leader at a very young age, )

The galactic team also theoretically has more power then ether the diamond or pearl clans together, as they actively make pokeballs and are attempting to Research and Use pokemon. (people theorize that the games take place in the era that is in the mid 1800s. The first train in America was in the 1820s. Therefore its at least a reasonable assumption that the Galactic Team has a Technological Edge.)

For my evidence of the war, the pearl clan owns the runes are in the crimson mirelands, which is where the diamond clan lives. I would presume those runes would be the diamond clans', except perhaps the rights to those runes were won by a previous war.

(also the war machine thing is in part taken from someone else's au/musings of the game. The Pearl clan has a massive weakness to certain type elements, except for Ingo's Team.)

I agree though. pokemon does things like introduce neat concepts and NEVER FINISH THEM. So i had 0 hope in anything ever being done with any of the characters, ever. I'd have to write my own stories for that. (If it helps, there WAS a free update that you presumably updated the game to get! At the very end of the game/in the postgame so to speak, it added in some additional story beats and a few more interactions with the different characters. Its not much, but it at least sorta tried to do something. This however was a free update that wasn't available at the launch of the game.)

Do not worry about spoilers, I'm aware in general of what happens in the full game, and I haven't been avoiding them. I just am also reserving some opinions on things until I play them myself! Because as a fandom old, I know how different fan community opinion can be from reality, even if it's in a good way, or even if it seems everyone has the same opinion. (Fun fact I love this honestly, because it's really neat how fandom comes together. Before he was more than an optional side quest in ff7 OG, before the movie or other games, fandom came together around Zack Fair and gave him a fairly consistent and wonderful personality. I will always love that :)

I did understand the clans are in a fairly new truce, but not the reason why other than they wanted to. Valid of course! Just, unsure if the catalyst was stated in canon or not. I'm not very good at remembering things like that anymore. I wish you could replay pokemon games without having to delete your save.... Looking it up on youtube is not the same.

Like, I get that the Galaxy team are the newcomers to the area, and may have had something to do with the truce (or the reason why). And they definitely have an advantage since they are actively growing and pursuing new technology. That subtext is all there in the game at least.

Also I don't bother trying to label pokemon timelines as equivalent to real timelines. 1800s? Yeah, but modern pokemon doesn't reflect our world all that much, so why should their past reflect it? *hand wave* I'm not sure I can articulate it, but a society that grew into what moden pokemon world is wouldn't follow the same tracks as our world. Trains were invented in 1820? Or maybe they were invented more recently, since they are still so popular and prevalent in the world. Cars are a minority, technology is all over the place, and the world changes to accommodate sentient animals. Its method of development was very different to ours.

This is mildly disjointed because I'm cooking lol, and I'm very hungry.