little update!
hello!! I hope everyone has been well c: in my time away from this tumblr account, I've graduated from college, gone on vacation, and found a job! but I've also gotten back into writing a bit, and I've really missed interacting with my friends' fics and creations on here.
sooooo... I'll be coming back to tumblr! I'm taking some time to rebrand and set up a little return/birthday event, but if everything goes according to plan, I'll be back officially on the 17th of August!
I hope to see you then! ^u^
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rdj the (whitewashed) electric boogaloo
This is a reminder to everyone who's excited about RDJ's casting as Doctor Doom that this casting is whitewashing. Victor Von Doom is a Romani character and has been a Romani character since his introduction in the 1960s. (Fantastic Four Annual #2 [1964]) Not only that, but his Roma identity and the persecution he and his family faced due to it is integral to his character, it is what forms his identity. (Books of Doom by Ed Brubaker) Even if on the off chance this casting is meant to not be Victor but instead be some variant of Tony or whomever else becoming Doctor Doom, it is damaging to the character to rob him of that important cultural background. Doctor Doom does not exist without that history. Fans have been pushing hard to cast Doom as a Romani actor for years, especially since the MCU has whitewashed other Romani characters. (Wanda, Pietro, etc) This casting is not a celebration moment, it's fucking heartbreaking that the MCU repeatedly ignores the important and nuanced cultural backstories of characters.
I know I can't change anybody's mind on whether or not you want to be excited about RDJ's return to the MCU. But I do think at the very least you should be mad that the MCU is baiting us all and destroying nuanced and interesting characters for the sake of self-referential easter eggs and nostalgia bait. Because that's what it is. Feel how you'd like to feel about RDJ's return, but personally, this is soul-sucking. I had such a deep love for the MCU as a teenager, it was obviously something incredibly formative to me, especially Tony Stark. This isn't recreating what I fell in love with the MCU for. This is turning a well-planned and artistic storyline of adaptations into cheap cash grabs and fan service. Because, I think we're past the point of being able to call the MCU an adaptation of anything. They can use existing characters' names and powers, but to say they're being properly adapted is laughable.
This is not an adaptation of Doctor Doom. This is RDJ the Electric Boogaloo because Marvel's fear of losing the interest of dedicated MCU fans overrides their willingness to tell stories that are genuine to the characters. I don't know what there is to be excited about that. The MCU has lost its authenticity and aside from a few projects, feels heartless. Every movie is a copy of a copy. This announcement isn't something celebratory, it feels like a death knell of a cinematic universe that's so desperate to cling to relevancy it's resorting to nostalgia for a character/actor who hasn't even been dead for a decade. We're not getting anything new, we're just rinsing and repeating the same song and dance.
I get it. I love Tony Stark, his death destroyed me and I to this day, rue the ending he got in Endgame. It misunderstood his arc and it robbed him of a satisfying conclusion. But the solution to that isn't dragging the corpse out of the grave five years later to whitewash an existing character with rich and interesting nuance, just to forcibly tie his existence in the MCU to Tony. Whether he is a variant or not. Why would you want someone else's fave's legacy to be destroyed simply so your fave's legacy can go on? Hell, if we were really all so hellbent on the return of RDJ and/or Tony to the MCU, we have the multiverse for a reason. There were other ways to do it that didn't whitewash and ruin someone else. This just. Isn't something to be happy about.
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i've been thinking about this a lot. but i need to shorten my muse list drastically. with the work outside of rp that keeps piling up, i don't have the energy to tend to all of my characters equally. which is unfair towards those waiting for their replies/messages/etc. over many months. not to mention that i don't even get to write down all the headcanons, which are spiralling in my head.
so these are the ones i will keep:
anouar, aventurine, eris, evren, foenix, heimdall, slavoj, songbird and vincent
for easier execution, i will move to a new blog ─ and turn this one into an archive (temporarily), eventually deleting it. i'm aware of the starters i won't be able to reply to because of this decision and i hate to do this when you guys have spent time and effort on them. if you do choose to follow me on my new blog, i can offer you a new starter with a new muse!
apart from this, consider the blog on a mini hiatus. until i have set up everything and can post another update.
again, i am truly sorry for the inconvenience this may cause. in case you want to get a private update/receive the link in the dms for whatever reason, feel free to let me know. of course, you have every right to break mutuals from this point on and there will be no hard feelings, i promise.
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Do you have any romantic first headcanons or scenarios? He doesn’t get enough love and I adored who you wrote him in the ‘first isnt okay’ fic
Of course Anon! Romantic First headcanons coming right up!
Masterlist
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Has walls like China
Meaning they’re large and imposing but easily maneuvered around if you figure out where to go
Also unfinished
He wants to think he’s good at keeping people out and not letting them in
But he’s Link- it’s like... his whole thing
That’s why he’s the hero as it is
He acts stand off-ish at first and tries to be mean and cold so that people don’t get to close
The farther away they stay, then he won’t fall for their smiling faces again and he won’t be betrayed again
So he requires a bit of persistence to befriend
Once befriended however, he’s a lot calmer, if still just as quiet
This is his danger zone
He falls hard and fast
And he knows it
But the more time you spend together the more he can see how you react
To people
To animals
To children
To elderly
Your morals and values and stances are all important to him
When you get hurt in the one in a million chance, First borderline looses his mind
You know that line “When people yell at me, I just hear people caring about me very loudly”?
Well I hope you have that attitude
Because this instance is what also slams First’s feelings right into his face
Then.. when he calms down and apologizes for his behavior
He explains why he acted that way
Gasp!~ Back story :D
Well no
But it’s enough to count
And long story short, it adds up to basically “I was terrified in the moment where I had to consider living in a world without you. That and I had failed to preserve something dear to me. In my frustration, fear and disappointment, I took it out on you. The very thing I wish to protect. My apologies. I failed you on multiple accounts.”
Take that as you will
He’s a lot less distant that way and he opens up a lot more
But it’s up to you if you want your relationship to grow more than what it is
He’s a very scared man to be honest
There’s a lot he knows that he has to live up to and he doesn’t know if he’s capable of doing so
That being said, he’s a huge tease when he gets to that point
Like- an actual jerk but lovingly
Does that make sense?
The kind where he wants to hold you, but you’re flustered so he opens his arms for you to leave if you really don’t want to be there, knowing that you’re going to stay right where you are
Because he sucks -.-
Why must he be so charming?
It’s so dumb
I love this man, help
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If you've ever struggled with suicidal ideation, this has likely been a particularly difficult week. It certainly has been for me. I've lost a lot of trust in a lot of people. I hope this post doesn't make anyone lose trust in me.
You need to live. That means you, the person reading this post. I don't know your name or your situation but I know, with the same certainty that I know that the Earth is turning, that you need to live.
I know that it can be hard, crushingly hard. I know what it's like to feel so empty that getting out of bed seems impossible, or so overwhelmed that drastic action seems like the only way out.
It isn't. Death is not the answer. It sure as fuck isn't praxis. Please, please do not let anyone convince you otherwise. If you think that your death will have a net positive effect on the world, I promise you, as someone who has been there before, it won't.
And while I encourage you to do what you can to try and make the world a better place - donate to charity, pick up litter, volunteer your time, write your representatives, et cetera - I want to make it clear that those aren't requirements you need to meet to justify being alive. Your life has value, inherently.
Today things may be terrible. They may stay terrible for a while. But one day, a song will get stuck in your head that makes you feel something again. You'll meet a dog that loves you unconditionally. You'll eat a meal that tastes like it was cooked by an angel. You'll pick up a new hobby, perhaps without even realizing it, and it will bring you some sense of satisfaction. You'll watch a beautiful movie. You'll walk past a beautiful mural. Someone will compliment your outfit, someone will laugh at your joke, someone will tell you they're happy to spend time with you. One day you will wake up early enough to see the sun rise.
It's a cliche to say "it will get better". That's because it's true. It probably won't be a linear upward trend, rarely do things stay better forever, but there will come a time when you'll be glad you stayed alive. I promise.
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hi. honestly it does get kinda annoying when they do have harley quinn lecture batman. especially on morals. ESPECIALLY when it's in a continuity where she's done some of the most fucked up things imaginable. like, literally irredeemable, drop her in the middle of the ocean, fucked up things. like it'd be understandable if she was lecturing batman and it's clear that she's either being manipulative, or delusional. but when you can just feel the writers are agreeing with her and going "yeah, harley is telling him OFF!!" then it's just so stupid.
DC needs to realize if they want harley to be a somewhat redeemable person or convince us she's an antihero, they shouldn't have her killing kids only for her to turn around and start lecturing batman as if she has a stool to stand on.
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