#Sweetheart villains

[xxx-caliber]

thinking about this old post of mine (tldr: I think kurogiri was programmed to not be allowed to show tomura affection) and it led to this mini comic

[rockybloo]

GLITTER AND GUILT FINALLY HAS A WEBCOMIC COVER

Now I can post it alongside Beanstalked when the time for plugging comics comes.

New people (or those just unaware) can read it over on Comicfury. Heads up that it's 18+ due to having stronger adult themes in it compared to Beanstalked so heed the Lovely disclaimer page in the beginning.

[jesteringbug]

Wow! Your Ignihyde redesigns are so fucking ugly! So hideous and uninspired, and their ugliness is only amplified by your very poor drawing skills and even uglier art style! And it's laughable how you really believe that you did better than the official designs, never do that again, you can't design or draw for shit.

too late i'm already planning a heartslabyul redesign lmao

[columboscreens]

[nerves-nebula]

donnie & mikey are answering this cuz Raph has a stomach ache & it's their own alt versions so it's probably the safest for them to interact. probably. maybe. @tmntaucompetition

also i love your villain au so much auhahgusahdg hiiii!!!

[see-arcane]

A thing about this "Jonathan is too nice and boring to write Mina explore her more gothic romance side with" claim is that to me, personally, a bright eyed 9-5 guy who collects factoids to share, wins hearts with "his gentleness and his sweetness" and won't even raise his voice, let alone his hand, and gradually goes from that point to the extreme opposite point of declaring "If beyond it I could send his soul for ever and ever to burning hell, I would do it!" because of Love, is way more compelling to explore romance with than all those guys who have always been violent or dabbling with the dark side anyways (e.g Vlad didn't get corrupted by love, he as was already violent and impaling people, Hyde was always violently killing people, him killing for her is nothing, etc). Jonathan is who actually radically changed because he's in love; when Renfield dies, Jonathan becomes the old madman. If you want a character for her to explore something wilder with, Mina has already bagged him.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Jonathan Harker is the embodiment of, "The power of Love does not automatically mean something good or even sane."

Love has this man blaspheming in a universe where God and Hell are proven facts. He's standing in the queue to talk terms with Mephistopheles. He's actively planning anywhere between 1 - 5 whole murders and a prospective eternity of feeding on humanity with his vampire wife if things don't work out with the Best Case 'Slay the Monster' Scenario.

Out of love~ 💕

This man's (very nearly realized!) corruption arc is caused explicitly by how much he loves Mina Murray Harker more than literally every other soul on Earth, more than The Right Thing to Do (c), more than allies or innocents or Heaven or Earth.

Mina bagged the guy whose only real holy trinity is her, Eros, and Eris.

God and the Devil are already dead to him for what they did to her, so the latter two had to step in.

[gornackeaterofworlds]

One of four bay vampires

@avery73 @luckycharms1701

Runs and hides-

[stellar-collective]

y’all i made another ieytd oc. please give a warm welcome to…

Zor is always looking for fresh talent, and Aurora Rose has plenty to offer. the Agency knows that she’s been contacted, but as she hasn’t made an official deal yet, they have a unique opportunity to get an agent close to her and learn about her strengths and weaknesses before she has the might of Zoraxis to protect her. maybe they could even convince her not to go through with it…

of course, such an important task is going to fall to the great Agent Phoenix. let’s hope that their cover story is up to snuff. she doesn’t take kindly to misinformation.

i made her for a self indulgent Ollix fake dating au that i am actively writing and i think she turned out rlly cute :]

[seriousbrat]

let sirius (and james) be mean

Obviously in SWM both James and Sirius are atrocious towards Snape but I think it's pretty revealing how mean they also are to their best friends, especially Peter:

And while I think James possibly grew out of his mean girl phase to some extent Sirius didn't, at least not fully. To be fair he's usually not outright rude unless he dislikes someone-- mostly, he's dismissive or impatient especially when someone says something he perceives as stupid, as well as being overall insensitive to the feelings of others.

In the prequel they're both fairly insensitive and rude to two terrified Muggles lol, I mean who cares and it's funny but there are examples of Sirius being something of a mean girl later on as an adult. obviously, the famous one:

and yeah you can defend this by saying he was stuck in grimmauld place and frustrated, bla bla bla, I do get it and I still love him and don't think it makes him a terrible person or godfather but objectively this is an incredibly mean thing to say to Harry.

Other somewhat minor instances that nevertheless paint a wide picture:

OotP (I'm leaving out his interactions with Kreacher bc those are self evident)

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he's also kind of dismissive towards Harry's feelings at certain points. A good example of this is the stiff "one-armed hug" and gruff goodbye he gives him when they leave for Hogwarts after christmas, or this earlier conversation:

Also, how he talks about Regulus. obviously it's somewhat justified since Sirius believes him to have just been a Death Eater, but he specifically calls Regulus stupid rather than just saying he was a bad person. This is interesting because it can be inferred that Regulus was not stupid at all, given that he figured out the secret of the Horcruxes. imo Sirius was too dismissive of his brother to actually know who he really was.

(and bonus him being snippy with Harry)

GoF

like this is probably true but it's still rude lol, as is this from OotP which has definite mean girl vibes:

next:

so this on its own doesn't seem especially mean but it does come after Sirius has basically dismissed every single thing that Ron has said lol, even raising his hand at one point to shut him up. It's not the worst but imo does indicate his impatience with "stupidity" which we also see in SWM:

and James has this too:

imo this shared feeling of superiority and mutual delight in their own intelligence were big factors in his closeness with james.

ALL THIS TO SAY, Sirius was mean lol ESPECIALLY as a teen. my rude scorpio child. So I think when writing teen Sirius it's an important part of his characterisation (and James's) for him not only to be rude/disdainful to people he hates but also just generally. It's also why it's extra ridiculous that he's portrayed as dumb in fanon seeing as he's very often dismissive and judgmental to those he perceives as being of lesser intelligence.

And this isn't a criticism of Sirius at all, I love him and tbh his mean streak is one of the things that make him so fun to write for me. He's a beloved character and I understand the desire to paint him in a positive light, but he wasn't perfect. As others have said the friendship between the Marauders wasn't something idyllic and aspirational, it's a warning story to Harry. Furthermore, kindness towards Kreacher being something that helps them find the Horcrux is also a lesson for Harry.

Sirius's insensitivity to the feelings of others was what got him killed, his insensitivity and disdain for peter led in part to James and Lily's deaths too. it doesn't make him a terrible person, just a flawed one.

[thebluestbluewords]

scheming. plotting, even.

"Maleficent. Charmed, I'm sure."

Red shakes the outstretched hand as quickly as possible. No biggie, just shaking hands with the most evil villain of all time, the person who's eventually going to be responsible for getting not just Red and her mom, but literally every interesting villain and henchman and sidekick exiled from Auradon. Forever.

"Yeah, you could say that. So, what are you doing here?"

Young Maleficent arches one perfect eyebrow up towards her horns. "Attending class. And you?" 

Right. 

"I mean, same. Obviously," Red scoffs "I'm just here, in class...attending class." 

The corner of Maleficent's mouth twitches. "On a cosmic level, I'm here because I was compelled by the stars to attend class today." 

This is getting her nowhere.

“Yeah, okay," Red agrees, even though she's pretty sure she understands even less about Maleficent's motivations since they started this conversation. "I don't really do astrology, so if you wanna tell me what that actually means..." 

"It means I'm here because the fates aligned to bring me here today. And you're here because of magic."

"No, I’m totally not.”

Shit.

They're gonna be found out for sure if Maleficent is on to them. So long, Wonderland. Bye-bye, Auradon. Red's going to a special layer of hell. the one reserved for idiots who reveal their whole plan to the biggest, baddest villains ever to walk the earth. 

Maleficent laughs, and reaches out to grab Red's hand again. "Child, I can smell it on your skin. You're here for exactly the same reason as myself and my companions." 

"I'm pretty sure I'm not..." 

"Don't play stupid. It's the time discrepancies. There's a...what do you humans call it?" 

Okay. 

So Maleficent isn't human. 

Cool. Cool cool cool. 

"Um?" Red squeaks "I don't? Know?" 

"A time distortion. A bubble." 

Oh, no. 

"Nope, I don't know anything about any time travel," Red says, quick as can be. "I'm here because my--our father, he, um, he fell on some hard times, and he-- that is, he didn't send in our transfer paperwork, so if I smell like I shouldn't be here, that's gotta be it, nothing like time travel, who said I know anything about time travel?" 

"You did. Just now." 

Haha. 

Ahahahaha. 

"I meant to say that I've never even heard of time travel," Red lies through the biggest smile she can plaster on her face and still speak through. "But if you know anything, then I want to learn it too. You can tell me." 

Maleficent's eyes narrow. "Funny. You're a funny one, Red. Ulyana doesn't like her lackeys being too smart, but funny... I can work with that." 

"What." 

"Please. Don't play the fool. We're here because of the time manipulation going on in this iteration of the Merlin Academy timeline, as are yourself and your sweet little blue companion. I don't know what you want out of the changes, but I know that you're here because of them. Hades and myself are here to... well." 

"What?" 

"I don't know if I can trust you with that information yet," Maleficent says, flickering a forked tongue out to lick her lips. "Not unless I know I can trust you." 

"I'm trustworthy." 

Maleficent grins, and Red gives herself a singular moment to wish that she hadn't looked at the pointed teeth in that awfully wet mouth. Ugh. Dragons are worse than jabberwocky when it comes to oral hygiene, apparently.  "Mm, no you’re not. At least, not yet."

[sometimesthatsbetter]

FL spotlight: Dame Rosalyn Aster of house Red Wagon Wheel

[fcb-mv33]

He’s just the cutest😭

[sillygoofyqueer]

What makes Wei Qingwei cry? Is there a list? Is there a trauma scale? And how exactly would the man cry when he cries? Ugly sobbing mess? Or the prettiest tears known to mankind??

Asking for a friend (it's you you're the friend I need to know for Reasons ™) <3

Well well well.......if it isn't one of my beloved wives, PEACH!!! What a strange question to ask, I'm totally confused and concerned by this hehehe...😏😏😏 AS for the question(s), I will now answer them promptly!!!! First things first - there are many things that could make Wei Qingwei cry, but it depends on what kind of crying we're talking about. If we're talking about happy crying, he's such a softie!! You could easily make him cry with a kind gift or a sign of trust, of just a general appreciation or affection that wasn't previously shown. He's bawling the first time one of his disciples makes anything, every single one of them have seen him cry for that exact reason. If you want him to cry in a sad way, well. He goes out of his way to be strong for his disciples, still emotionally vulnerable and there for them, but always there to comfort them - so, it's not unusual to see him crying if one of his disciples is injured or extremely sad, because if he can cry it means that anyone can cry, and that's okay!! He doesn't cry if he gets injured or anything (he's got a high pain tolerance, and if he's crying then it can only mean that holy shit he's in a lot of pain). He can, however, cry if he gets extremely overwhelmed by something. He's usually calm in high stress situations, but he was a very anxious child and if he's forced into situations that push him into the same mindset he had as a child - "run, hide, find the smallest places you can, stay quiet, as quiet as possible" - he will probably have a panic attack and start sobbing. He's still anxious as an adult, he just hides and processes it a lot better than before!

[rockybloo]

Bitterbat truly has no limits to his flirtations while on the job

[melit0n]

I would like to have a chat with whoever decided to make AM sound like that. He's going on his absolutely horrific monologues, me sat infront of my laptop like 😟, and he's out here being so husky and smooth like what is up with that. You are torturing someone you can't be doing this dude

[themeraldee]

Ok but like… Homelander falling for a farmer girl who owns a milk farm

You're making me think of all the romcoms where a city girl visits a farm or some countryside, stumbling upon a sexy hunk of a man that obvi she falls in love with. So like, can we do that in reverse? 😂

Part of me even thinks it would be funny if this was genuinely a movie Vought was producing, thought I doubt they'd dabble into anything that isn't a superhero action flick. But how better to make his female fanbase get even more obsessed than by giving them all the mushy romcom content their hearts desire?

But beyond the romcom movie scenario this is making me think of incognito Homie who's sneaking away to steal some time from his favourite farmer girl who always greets him with a fresh glass of milk.

I can imagine they were recording a commercial (like this). For you know, this. So obviously they want to present Homelander as this boots on the ground, hard-working, red-blooded American. So they have him shoot this commercial at an actual farm. And sure, she gets paid for the inconvenience to have them use her farm in the commercial but it's kind of grating how the rest of the farm hands are swooning and awing at him. Like come on guys, we still have work to do 😂

What Vought presented to be a quick shoot and some B-roll footage ends up taking a lot longer, making her job harder. She's being mouthy to them, telling them to wrap it up faster and it's not what was agreed. And now it's Homelander swooning over a strong-willed woman who's her own boss, unafraid to say her piece and get shit done!

So of course, she has 0 interest in him when he goes to talk to her after the shoot wraps up. She just politely says that it was nice to meet him and urges him to be on his merry way back. So obviously, he needs her to like him—just like everyone else does!

What starts of as Homelander being a nuisance, a pest that bothers her on daily basis for his own amusement as he watches her work turns into something to look forward to. Little chats with the world's most renowned superhero who has very little idea of how the real world actually operates and how people who don't work for him have meaningful full lives without being famous or super-abled.

She talks to him about how she doesn't really understand all this superhero stuff and how she really just cares about connecting with nature and the animals surrounding her. He doesn't care about the sentiment that much because how could not be in awe of what a marvel of nature he is! But at the same time, it's nice to talk to someone who isn't mindlessly begging for his attention or asking him for favours or jobs.

She asks him to come dressed normally because she can't have anyone catching wind of Homelander visiting her farm in case it causes a surge of fans making the trip to her farm for the chance they might catch a sight of him which would most certainly just disturb her animals.

And look at that, I made up my own romcom after all 😂