#Maybe it's because I'm normally into niche things without this much content but STILL

[revenantghost]

No fandom has ever hit me with so many, "Huh. Never thought of that before. Huh," ships that pop up across my feeds as Trigun, and it's a beautiful thing, really

[sunflwryu]

hello my readers, it's yumi here!

i'm not sure if anyone will read this (feel free to move on from this post if you'd like without spreading negativity), but i wanted to be honest to anyone who stumbles on my blog, and for my moots who might be wondering where i am.

whatever response i get to this, so be it, i'm just saying my piece, my thoughts and what i've been feeling for a while now rather than keeping it inside like i normally do. i'm tired of always contemplating on whether i should post how i feel on my blog, tired of feeling like an annoying whiny bother if i post anything at all besides my writings, tired of being afraid of what people might think of me or what they might say to me after, because i've seen how other authors are treated when they say their piece.

i hope you can understand if you do decide to read it.

i think unknowingly, i started measuring my writings' worth based on the interactions they get, as in comments and reblogs with tags or text. it's not anyone's fault, no one owes me interaction just like i don't owe anyone fics, but maybe because it felt so good to get so much interaction at the beginning of my blog that nowadays, i just compare what interaction i get now to what i did then.

i mean, that first sunoo fic i wrote got so much, and it still remains my most popular work, amazingly enough. it's not that i'm ungrateful, because i'm grateful to get reads, reblogs, likes, and it's not that i'm begging for interaction, because that's not what i'm doing either. i'd rather have people naturally interact if they want to, because i don't want someone to force themselves to give me feedback.

it's just that, i got my expectations set so high from my initial success of this blog, on certain works, that now that i don't get as much feedback or comments about how people feel on my more recent fics in comparison to what i got back then, especially seeing that many people still read and like my works and follow me, i feel naturally disheartened. and then whenever i try to write something new, another draft, it's like nothing i ever write will be better than that sunoo fic, will give a better shock value in its plot twist than the one in that hyunjin fic...and when i see other authors get loads of interaction, especially smut ones, i just feel disappointed in myself even though it's not my fault and it's not theirs either.

maybe it's because i write in a niche genre, maybe because i refuse to write extreme violent yanderes, maybe because i don't write explicit content, maybe because i can't commit to writing a longer, multi-chaptered fic, maybe because i'm not so involved into k-pop as i used to when i was younger so i'm out of touch with most things, maybe because i don't know how to interact with my readers other than responding to them, maybe because i come off unapproachable, or all those things combined? it's just, i don't want to source my works' worth, even my worth based on tumblr anymore, because that's killed all my fun, all the enjoyment i got out of writing, because i only criticize myself more when i look at those numbers and my own and compare myself to others. i just keep thinking there's something wrong with what i'm doing, with my writing, with myself and my choices on my boundaries, when there's nothing wrong and i shouldn't criticize on myself because of my personal, reasonable boundaries.

maybe it's just because of how almost everything has been pretty shit for me for the past few years and getting progressively, exceptionally worse, because of how i started to hyperfocus on this blog, on writing, since it was one of the only good things in my life. i guess eventually i started getting this taste of bitterness for this blog, for writing, which definitely was largely influenced by the shit i'm going through now and also for what i've said earlier, with how i killed my enjoyment for writing by myself because of comparison, because of how i let the circumstances outside tumblr ruin everything, but yeah...i just put a lot of unrealistic expectations on it and they were bound to fall through at some point anyways.

that's just how change is...i don't have much time anymore to think of ideas, to write like i used to, and i know i have to focus on doing what's best for me, which isn't this blog right now, as much as i want to continue writing, to rediscover that love i had for it in the beginning.

perhaps sharing my writing on a public blog like this isn't for me...

...so it's safe to say that regardless of what interactions i get after this post, i won't be writing or posting anything new anymore, at least not on tumblr publicly, at least not until i feel like it again, which could be many months, a few days, or even never. it might've been obvious because of my inactivity since september, but i guess i just wanted to say it more officially for those who have been expecting, waiting, if any at all, and to actually say it officially for myself as well, so i don't have to keep getting mad at myself for not posting anything, for not writing anything, for not working on the requests in my inbox.

thank you for reading and supporting me as always. :))

(i hope this post doesn't make it seem that i don't appreciate you all, because i do. i just wanted to share my feelings, and i was tired of not saying anything about my feelings to almost no one all this time. i'll still be around on tumblr to answer asks, to talk to my moots, to interact with interactions on my works, to read, though. i'm always grateful because this blog has given me ways to express myself that i couldn't IRL, and you readers support that.)

[usaghinanami99]

Ok, so in some way or another, this has morphed into a Naoko Takeuchi callout post. I have tagged it accordingly, but I'll still put the rest under a Read more to be extra sure that whoever doesn't want to read this will not do so accidentally. I think this should also go without saying, but the post does NOT in any way, shape or form contain pictures or even detailed descriptions of the type of content mentioned therein. What it does feature is a (maybe too long and link-heavy) overview of all the damning pieces of evidence that lead to the hard to swallow conclusion that Takeuchi either is or used to be a fan of borderline paedophilic manga and art.

The most evident hint lies in this particular short story, which is very easily available, but the fandom seems to have an unspoken rule of never mentioning it, because well... https://missdream.org/sailor-moon-scanlations/sailor-moon-manga-scanlations/chibiusas-picture-diary-4/ If the main body of the story weren't more than enough to prove that Takeuchi is ok with sexualising children, then the bonus final page would qualm any doubt in regard. Incidentally but not very related to the topic, the Chibiusa's picture diary series of short stories also features the most explicit proof - along with Chapter 9 of Sailor V - that SM is nowhere near as feminist as some fans want to believe, since in the second story (the Tanabata one) the concept of female separatism is ridiculed in the extreme. Btw if you prefer checking them out in print form, these extra chapters are featured in Volume 1 (out of two) of Pretty guardian Sailor Moon short stories.

That was it as far as the paedophilic content she's personally created goes (but any number above 0 is obviously too much); however, looking behind the scenes paints a far more coherent picture - starting with this interview (https://www.tuxedounmasked.com/lunar-logs-naoko-discusses-love-and-life-before-sailor-moon/), which I personally deem to be a fantastic read, both informative and hilarious... if only it weren't for the can of worms that it opened. Since I am naturally curious, a worshipper of Takeuchi's work as a mangaka and always eager to expand my knowledge of the manga world, the obvious thing for me to do was researching every title and artist mentioned in the interview (except those I already knew, of course). While the majority of the manga that Takeuchi states she's a fan of are very normal and harmless, the same cannot be said about her professed passion for プチ・アップル・パ��� / Petit Apple Pie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_Apple_Pie), a magazine hosting manga that while not outright pornographic, were still undeniably suggestive in their sexualisation of female children - to put it in the most inequivocable and simple manner, yes, that's lolicon content; not the most explicit form, but still lolicon, and any doubts that I may have got were dispelled by making a search through Google Images with the SafeSearch option turned on to avoid seeing the worst. In the same interview, Takeuchi doubles down by declaring her love for the mangaka かがみ・あきら / Akira Kagami (I couldn't find any English-only profiles this time around, so this is all I can offer to get a general idea: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%8B%E3%81%8C%E3%81%BF%E3%81%82%E3%81%8D%E3%82%89 and https://japan.fandom.com/ja/wiki/%E3%81%8B%E3%81%8C%E3%81%BF%E3%81%82%E3%81%8D%E3%82%89), who dabbled in various genres and demographics, including unobjectionable ones (as was the norm for perverted mangaka during the bishōjo boom of the 80's), but seems to be best remembered for his work in the "relatively tame lolicon" niche. I'm noticing a pattern here... As a side note, when looking at the publication dates of the magazine and the period of activity of the mangaka, it might be possible to be slightly lenient towards Takeuchi who, considering she was born in 1967, couldn't be much older than the characters portrayed in this type of manga when she started seeking it out; but the fact remains that she's recounting all of this in an interview given in 1994, when she doesn't seem to either regret or contextualise these reading choices in the slightest.

The other big piece of evidence, unlike the aforementioned interview, is really under everyone's eyes: we all know that Chapter 3 of Codename Sailor V deals with Pandora's ambition and the subsequent Chapter 4 with her sister Petite Pandora's ambition. Going into another barely related tangent (because I can't bring myself to function without them), these two were actually the very first chapters of any Sailor-related manga to see the light of day in magazine form, with what we now know as Chapters 1 & 2 being added in retroactively to give a proper origin to what had been born as a mere one-shot but had then evolved into an ongoing serial; the original publication order of Sailor V chapters in RunRun is 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, then followed by 7 to 16 in regular order, so it's no wonder that the full title of Chapter 3 is Sailor V's first appearance! Channel 44 - Pandora's ambition, even when it's very much not her first appearance in all collected volume editions. Sorry again for this tangent, but I find it pretty telling that Takeuchi decided to insert an homage to the lolicon genre in what was at the time only the second chapter of Sailor V, thus the first one in the series that was conceived as part of a bigger picture than itself right from the starting point. The point I've spent so much time before reaching is that the titular enemy of Chapter 4, Petite Pandora, is fittingly named because she's the little sister of the previous (and all-around "first") enemy, and because she's a pretty young girl whose popularity as an idol explicitly stems from her beauty and youth, granting her a large fandom of predominantly male otaku not unlike those who salivate after real-life young singers. Well, the fact is that プチ・パンドラ / Petite Pandora is also the name of yet another lolicon manga magazine that used to be published during the 80's; I guess this one wasn't so popular as Petit Apple Pie since I couldn't find any profiles dedicated solely to it, but this page does clarify its nature: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%80%E6%B0%B4%E7%A4%BE Additionally, a footnote to a different general article (https://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB?dictCode=WKPJA#cite_note-128, I'm linking to the note directly instead of the main body of the text because the article's page opens with a suggestive image of the type that you can imagine) openly states that Naoko Takeuchi was a famous/high-profile reader of the magazine Petite Pandora, citing this book as a source for the statement: https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%87%BA%E5%AE%B6%E6%97%A5%E8%A8%98%E2%80%95%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B%E3%80%8C%E3%81%8A%E3%81%9F%E3%81%8F%E3%80%8D%E3%81%AE%E7%94%9F%E6%B6%AF-%E8%9B%AD%E5%85%90%E7%A5%9E-%E5%BB%BA-%E5%85%83/dp/4048839322 I can't and shan't check this book in person for obvious reasons, I'm just putting this here in case someone is really, really keen on verifying primary sources - which I, too, am usually keen on, but not when it involves purchasing a mémoir by a proud lolicon editor written in a language I'm no expert in.

Btw, if you're starting to believe that featuring the word "Petit(e)" in the title means that a manga magazine deals with that type of nasty content, I think I should point out that the same word seems to be also popular with normal josē magazines featuring none of this shit, as is proven by Akita Shōten's recent monthly プチ・プリンセス / Petite Princesse, as well as the historic プチ・コミック / Petit Comic and プチ・フラワー / Petit Flower, both "normal" josē monthly magazines published by Shōgakukan; in this case, the naming choice seems to reference not the perverted attraction towards prepubescent youth, but the catering to young women as the targetted demographic. I promise this is the last useless side note, but I find it funny (by which I mean absolutely unfunny) that Petite Pandora from Sailor V is nowhere near the most important animanga girl named after a lolicon magazine - that honour goes to Elpeo Ple from Gundam ZZ (discussed here in great detail: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/116432131?fbclid=IwAR1ouu9ILRUtLlyrw4TdyVffa3wRsVFTyQIWbp3HDl4By8Tv9sts9NtMekY), whose name is a reference to Lemon People, a manga magazine that, unlike the other two mentioned above, did not delve in softcore material but in explicit child pornography. It's weird how two different but both highly important and respected authors as Tomino and Takeuchi are thought it was such a brilliant idea to employ the same type of sick in-joke. Aanyway, in case anyone still held any doubts, here's indisputable proof that Petite Pandora's name was no coincidence, straight from the author's mouth:

I'm not capable of offering a proper translation because my Japanese is, to put it bluntly, very basic and lacking (I was able to study it for a few months only 😥) so I frankly cannot understand most of the text, but what little I can make out suggests to me that both Naoko Takeuchi and her editor Fumio Osano are or were fans of the infamous Petite Pandora magazine, with Takeuchi openly explaining the homage behind the character's naming choice, and then... seemingly equating her love for this nasty magazine with the love she held for the innocent shōjo magazine Ribbon? Needless to say I'd really, really appreciate it if someone who knows Japanese for real were to translate this page. 😅

In any case, the page in question comes from Volume 1 of the first Codename Sailor V compiled edition, where it appears as a message from the author to the readers right after Chapter 4 has wrapped up. This message had since long been of pretty easy access, but I never noticed it until when I decided to give a thorough, page-by-page look at the three main versions of the SM manga (magazine, tankōbon and shinsōban) to get a proper idea of the many changes made, an amazing pastime which wouldn't have been possible without the raw scans provided by the wonderful Miss Dream webmasters. Unfortunately you won't find this type of pages in subsequent editions, either shinsōban or kanzenban (I'm not even counting the bunkōbon because its existence is useless, lol), but make no mistake, this doesn't seem to be an effort on Takeuchi's part to "erase" this piece of shameful history from her manga: it's just that pretty much all the free talk corners and liner notes were expunged from all book re-editions from shinsōban onwards and replaced by old sketches and doodles, so you can only find this sort of authorial comments in the original tankōbon, independently of whether they involve mentions of paedophilia or not.

The last material I'm going to show is not a proof but just a hint - something which, if taken alone, would've never made me deem Takeuchi a potential paedo supporter, but which still adds something small to the general picture that's been painted. What I want to bring to your attention is this page from Chapter 5 of Codename Sailor V, titled Dark Agency's plot, and in particular Amano's speech bubbles in the top-left panel.

Since I know that not everyone trusts scanlators implicitly, and since the official edition I own does word things in a different way (but the incriminated part retains the same meaning), I think that including the raw page should qualm any doubts about the possibilities of there being a mistranslation. I've taken the liberty of putting my unparalleled Paint skills to good use by highlighting the two major keywords, dōjinshi and lolicon. This is where I point out that, far later down the line, Takeuchi herself would try her hand in the dōjinshi field along with her husband, and luckily their efforts do not belong to the loli genre.

Both scans were provided by - who else? - the legendary folks at Miss Dream. As I've said, Amano being a creep and Dark Agency doing light paedo pandering may not necessarily be signs of something sinister going on with the author on their own... if only there weren't all the pieces of evidence I've listed above.

Welp, that was it; while it may not seem much, all of this combined paints a very clear picture that would be dishonest to claim is mere coincidence. Finding out all of this was obviously a shock for me too, and I am sorry if this causes Takeuchi's pedestal to be broken for any other fan, and especially for derailing the original conversation towards such a nasty topic. All things considered, I think what surprises me the most is that the English-speaking SM fandom is full of people who actually know Japanese, but I've never seen anyone trying to spread this information in the dozen of years I've been involved so far, so I wonder whether I'm really the only one seeing this, or it's they who purposefully keep these facts under tight wraps to avoid confronting the reality of Naoko Takeuchi and her oeuvre being far from morally pure. Then I wonder whether this being common knowledge would break the fandom in desperation and cause many tentatives of "cancelling" the author, or if they'd just dismiss it as no big deal, similarly to how both the fans and the publishing animanga industry have got no qualms or second guesses about keeping on supporting Watsuki even after what he's been proven guilty of. 😒 Long story short, Takeuchi is, like anyone else, a daughter of her time, and her youth as an avid manga reader leaves clear traces in her adult years as a professional mangaka. I happen to think that half of this influence is an amazing component of her work, by which I mean that she was one of the very few remaining mangaka who didn't conform to the bland graphic trends of 90's manga, instead repurposing her own interpretation of the superb artistic conventions typical in the great shōjo classics of the 70's that she read as a child. But she was also a teenage manga fan during the 80's, which meant that she was fully immersed in the pre-89 otaku culture, where loli bait was ubiquitous and normalised even in mainstream media. It's no wonder that the comics she read with passion ended up influencing her professional activity, but obviously nothing could ever be an excuse for seeking out this type of magazine on purpose and then going on to celebrate it as an adult, particularly one writing for an all-ages public.

I know, right?!? Every day it seems like the SM fandom is filled with more and more gendies who claim stuff like how Haruka isn't actually a woman or worse... And what's more, this is far from being the most deranged take I've seen recently, especially now that June has started. But then they'll turn around and claim that SM is actually the pinnacle of feminism in manga, when it's so clearly liberal-leaning and pro-beauty standards that it's anything but. What can I say, the sane people have to stick together! While to be honest I have to say that I don't share your shipping opinions in the slightest, I'd always admire a "rival" like you more than a shipmate who's also a hardcore TQ+ cultist. Sorry if my English isn't exactly the best, I hope I can convey what I want to all the same. ^^

I was absolutely devastated that in Crystal they seriously added the line 'Haruka isn't a man or a woman.' Like... sorry, no. If that was the case then why the hell did Michiru and Haruka get that awful "they're cousins" treatment for the western localization in the OG anime 🙄

I swear ....claiming that SM is a "feminist" work has to do with the fact that people don't want to admit that they enjoy things that aren't politically "pure". Because in their minds it would reflect on who they are as a person, and if something they enjoy isn't perfect, then they aren't either. Tbh I think there's a lot of unchecked narcissistic behavior in fandom communities as a whole 🤦🏻‍♀️

Oh GOSH. My shipping is a mess !! LMAOOO. I should be ashamed of it but I'm so shameless🤣 Tbh i recently started shipping Usagi with practically everyone 😭🤦🏻‍♀️ I'm ©onflicted, that's for sure

but hell yeah, shipping wars be damned, female solidarity til death >:] 😂😂

and omg no, don't even worry! I had no idea English wasn't your first language from your ask!! your message got across Crystal (🤭) clear ♥️

[anti-ao3]

my experience with ao3

i joined it around 2015 mainly because of an otgw author i followed on tumblr, and since they were very active on ao3 i thought to myself, "why not?". otherwise it took me a whole year to actually post something there. since then i got quite a following for my undertale fics, and later other fandoms such as steven universe.

my fics are, in general, pretty well liked, sometimes even gaining hundreds of kudos. one even got 1k the other day. most nice comments i get are from ao3 users. even then, i never actually interact with them. i rarely reply to comments, nor do i comment myself; i mainly just bookmark the fics i like. i gradually got more wary of the users since the more i tried to consume fics there, the more messed up shit i would find. for instance, a lot of the ppl who read my ut fics were into fontcest and child/adult content, and it was the same thing for the other fandoms i wrote for.

maybe because of my general avoidance, i never had a traumatizing experience on ao3, like many have unfortunately gone through. i have gotten rude comments every now and then, but i was never caught up in grooming or something as such. even still, looking for fics used to be much worse because i wasn't aware of any filtering extensions, nor did ao3 have the "exclude" feature back then, so the great majority of fics i would find was basically pedo/incest/abuse/racist porn. when they did add the "exclude" feature a couple years ago, it became a little less disheartening - while it was still a pain having to exclude 10-20 tags just to get something normal -, but in general i never quite used ao3 to read many fics, only very niche concepts i'm personally fond of. i also always check if the author reads and/or writes any insidious content, so i'm very selective of what i read and who i follow.

the thing that made me create this account, though, was when i wrote a fma 03 fic last year and i included a tag that said "elricests and royeds have no rights and should rot". someone reported me to ao3 and they accused me of harassment, and hid my work until i got rid of the tag. i refused and posted a very heated rant against ao3, which finally got me suspended for months. in the meantime, ao3 began actively deleting works that included any tags that included "x shippers do not interact" or similar. basically, their excuse was "you have to let ppl ship whatever they want. yes, even if it's incest and pedophilia".

at first, when i was angry, i thought of deleting all my works, but after a while, i realized i didn't want to. the reason my account is still up is mainly sentimental. i've been on ao3 for 7 years now, and i did find some good fics and good ppl in there. my fics are very personal to me, so all the positive (and earned) feedback i got means very much to me. i have many fics there, some still ongoing, so i haven't had the courage to delete my account. i guess it's mainly because i never went through something traumatic there, so it's probably easy for me to have these feelings.

i've always been on a little corner on ao3, really. it means a lot to me when ppl find it and decide to stick in. but of course, ao3 has deeply disappointed me in a lot of ways. i'm only still using the site with a grain of salt. sometimes i wish i could let go, but it's really hard for me to do it. maybe one day i will, but for now, i just really wish i could have a safe space where people can enjoy platonic/familial content without any concern.

ao3 is a huge platform nowadays, and a lot of writers i follow and respect use it. i know taking it down is not easy, so i really wish there was a way for us to pressure ao3 to have better moderation - and actually ADD a blocking/muting feature.

i will always stand on the side of minorities, and i hope one day we get justice for all the harmful things ao3 and its users have done to us.

[legionofpotatoes]

messy shitty twitter rant no one has to read. venting for the void

I've made my stance on social media abundantly clear over the years but it still sucks to see the largest whale start bleeding in plain sight. The intersection and scale of art communities, ADs, recruiters, IP social managers, and legitimate brand opportunities is hard to find anywhere other than twitter, and it's been a quiet respite in not having to deal with fifteen separate portfolio websites instead. I just can't be fucked to deviantart and artstation my life anymore, I just don't have the energy. I like hosting a simple portfolio website and using networking to funnel clients in there. Having that second step pooled in one spot is messy, sure, and oftentimes revolting due to its flattened information highway noise, but also like so so much easier in terms of content dissemination, and getting the word out, and reaching out with/responding to pitches, and maintaining an image, whatever. And I know this is damning for me.

Because yeah, as an artist, I should hone a discipline and focus it up into actionable social niches. But twitter made me so lazy. My style and work ethic was literally the entire sell; offers come in the craziest disciplinary varieties. There aren't a lot of them, and private commissions are still be my lifeblood, but in-between I may get to work on illustrated posters, TTRPG covers, novel covers, con prints, actor portraits, official merchandise, podcast branding, website visual identities, videogame marketing, all these disparate and fun projects that come from so many different people and companies all living on twitter and looking for a best fit to their brief. It isn't effortless or easy by any means, but it feels fun. I know this is also achievable through better online self-image and a curated set of hiring/portfolio website presence, but for me twitter is all of it in one pot. Made me lazy. I'm admitting that, and it sucks in all the normal ways, along with some very selfish ones, to see melon husk bleed it of all relevance.

I just have trouble with all of this. I didn't grow up on the internet, but I did grow up alongside it, and I'm not a social person. I wasted half of my life rotting my soul for stable pay in an office job that drove me to the brink of things I don't even want to mention. Art saved my life, and I owe social media all of that credit, but if I could work as an artist in a similar vein and variety of projects without pulling them in from twitter, my god, I would disappear from the face of the (online) earth. I'd occasionally dick around on here and that would really be it. I want to spend so much more time on my personal life than I manage to because of work, of which 75% is essentially admin, and within that, maybe half is online image curation. It's exhausting. And losing twitter will mean building those callouses up somewhere else with an even steeper learning curve. And I don't wanna. Throwing baby tantrums over it. I'm tired of the internet song and dance. I want to be a person.

I'll stick with it for as long as I can without feeling like shit. I don't delude myself into thinking that participating in online algorithmic meritocracies is in any way ethical regardless of who runs them, but I'm sure melonhead can and will find ways to get me to throw up in my mouth hard enough to bail someday. Waiting with baited breath. Fuck billionaires so much!

[mochuelovelli]

Some Alt. Jobs for the Kids in the Future:

Mainly doing this as just a thought experiment. Usually people are of one mind on what the kids will *probably* be when they are older(myself included) so I wanted to give some alts that could fit their personalities.

Louie-Manger/Agent:Making this list mainly for him because I recalled Princess Carolyn from BoJack and how her job could fit Louie pretty well. Ik a lot of people headcanon Lawyer! Louie, I do too, but I think this would be a fun idea.

A manager's job is basically finding ways to get their client's hired or trying to tailor a client's project in order for it to be marketable. We already seen Louie do this in his ep this season but I think it be cool if became a legit job for him. He's still a McDuck ward so nothing with his business would be "normal" and he would have to do similar "schemes" to get his clients jobs, especially if they are inter-dimensional goat demons.

Louie would probably say the reason he became a manager would be "because I've been trying to convince people I am good enough my entire life, might as well make a career out of it". Edgy ik, but this is Louie we are talking about of course he say some dumbshit.

Dewey-YouTube Personality: this is probably just a less popular hc rather than one that's not talked about at all like the Louie (or the next couple examples). For me, I can't see Dewey being anything but some kind of globe trotting adventurer who would also record it for views. But in the case that DIDN'T happen, I think he'd become a youtube personality and make shows with his friends and family. I think it be really cute, that even as they grown older and become more independent, Dewey can still find ways to bring them all to his house to be apart of his youtube show(s) where he and a guest try to guess obscure history facts Webby comes up with (Watchers know what I'm talking about) or where he and some friends try to solve unsolved mysteries or try and bake without a recipe (im really showing what content i watch).

His Youtube channel would be sporadic like, "series" but he doesn't make actual playlists (Huey or Violet do) and uploads whatever he wanted to do that week. Good thing is, he never misses an upload date. Almost.

Huey-Military Engineer/Tech Guy (IE better Beaks): I had the hardest time with figuring out Huey since like Webby, he can pretty much be in any field to me (as long as its stem related). This suggestion to me is the least chill out of all of them but I picked it because 1. Huey likes structure and chain of command and 2. Science and defense systems.

Out of his brothers, Huey isn't the most WORRIED about safety but he definitely is the one who would do something about it to fix it. I can see him making some intergalactic defense systems and various prevention junk. Maybe he works under Gosalyn's administration[see gos] or he makes "unnatural-natural phenomenon" protection stuff. Kinda like the seawalls in Venice but like, stuff to make sure the Earth doesn't get destroyed because of all the crazy shit the duckverse has. Like ghost forcefields or the reversal of timephoons. I don't think he would be a Tony Stark character tho so I am not 100% with this one.

He could also just be a tech guy, but yknow, better than Mark Beaks. He accidentally has more followers than him would crush him in twitter fights (an example would be something along the Logan Paul vs Chris D'Elia). I find this just really funny, Huey would actually be what all those "good guy billionaires" claim to be (also he wouldn't be one just as a matter of principle). Owlson would probably be his mentor or maybe just business partner.

Webby-Comic Artist/Cartoonist: Webby, to me, can pretty much go into any field and I would be like "yeah makes sense". However I know in my heart she'd be some kind of spy or detective. Thinking about her being anything else was honestly kinda hard but then I realized she DOES have another hobby which could be turn into a career - her drawings and stories. Webby is definitely a creative person, maybe the most creative so far in front of or slightly behind Dewey, so I think she would like to make comics and cartoons.

If you want to be angsty, maybe she chooses this mundane route because she was somewhat conditioned by her granny (or her creators if theories are to he proven right) to be a super spy; choosing to be a cartoonist is something she was never trained to become and yet she still did because it's something SHE wanted to do for herself.

Lena-Poet/Song Writer: okay another one that might not be uncommon but I like to just see it thrown out there. Lena is cool in large part because of her magic but in a possible similar motivation to Webby, she wanted to be a poet not only because she was good at it but because she wanted to be. This doesn't have to be her main hussle, usually I don't see it as such, but I also think it be cute if she became a new Robert Frost (this is the only poet ik sorry).

Violet-Cosmologist: Most people see Violet as either some kind of chemist, professor, or occasionally a witch. I think another good alt tho would be cosmology since Violet herself wants to understand the world around her, which is a bit different from Huey who wants to obtain knowledge for knowledge sake in the case it might come in handy though not extremely. Cosmology as field in the dt universe must be WILD too since im pretty sure most scientists know of all the magic and junk, in fact I wouldn't be surprised if there was a legit subject on it or multiple. Trying to make sense of YOUR universe while knowing others exist along with time travel, possibly multiple after lifes? Its a lot. Perfect job for Vi.

Boyd-Therapist/architect: I feel like this isn't such a niche hc, but I do see more folks make him into his own superhero and/or an accountant. I might be playing into the Baymax stereotype of robots being good mental health assistants but idc, I think it's warranted since he has gone through and understands trauma. Maybe he focuses on those who need rehabilitation or are unable to get paid treatment. Maybe he just helps those who have committed crimes. Another alt is that he becomes an architect, building well planned buildings and public spaces in a flash by utilizing his vast abilities. He might even be commissioned to make space colony housing.

Gosalyn-Politican: Alright so, Gosalyn being a superhero like her dad is like, canon but again in an alt universe where it WASN'T (or maybe later in her life) I can see her becoming political. Frank even laid out some of what inspired this iteration of Gosalyn which included notable political activists, so as of rn its not that far of a stretch to say she might be interested in that. I have a feeling its happens because she gets riled up for something in particular rather than she always wanted to be a career politician or whatever. She would definitely be a less polished politician and that be her appeal, she'd kinda be like an AOC in that regard(im sorry I tried really hard not to name drop political figures but-). An example of her "abnormal" diplomacy tactics is where she stopped Ragnarok semi permanently by absolutely wrecking their shit. (She be dramatic about it like her dad, coming in her normal President wear and then throw it off to reveal some crazy wrestling shit. Louie would also make a lot of money that day.)