#a03 is the Wild West of fanfic

[bubblewater]

Pre-game, I can definitely see the intrigue in shipping Curly/Jimmy because the homoerotic addition magnifies the tragedy of the in-game events. The ship is interesting, for sure, but it lacks hope.

The chemistry is there— it’s just incompatible and detrimental. So it makes it not good chemistry to me b/c it’s so goddamn sad.

The overall thing for me is that I don’t see this ship as a hurt/comfort or angst with a happy ending. I like my angsty ships to have hope and a chance of redemption.

I just don’t see anything redeeming about a character who refuses to acknowledge his culpability for the multiple crimes he committed against his crew members and took himself out to escape consequence.

My personal gripe with the Curly/Jimmy ship is when:

1. Jimmy’s manipulative personality is diluted or underplayed to make him more palatable and you’d wanna root for him

2. completely disregard the in-game events that Jimmy was the cause of (everything) and write him as if it never happened.

[This could work if you keep his skeevy personality and create the progression of his corrupt nature eroding him from the inside.]

3. Jimmy’s abusive nature is fetishized because it’s hot??? He’s a rapist, guys.

[Make him suffer Crime and Punishment style. Have him go insane with the guilt that he refuses to face as it consumes him. With a dash of homophobia and self-hatred to sprinkle into the Curly/Jimmy ship]

HOWEVER— a character analysis of his obsession with Curly, Curly enabling him, and the underlying connection and tension between them would be a good story. I just don’t see it being written well with the type of nuance it deserves.

One thing about the jimmy curly toxic yaoi situation that I've found extremely funny is how ive seen more people get pissed and complain about it of it but havent really seen it

In fact I've maybe seen...eh give or take 3 pieces of fanart on here and I'm stretching it thin rn

[iron-shrike]

Horizontober Day 4: Preserve

This was a tough one, but words can mean many things. Enjoy!

[roodles03]

Hunter's Room (Fan Design)

It is about time I finally did this, now I can make so many drawing ideas come true with a room for Hunter designed. Also, for those who read my "Timeskip Watching and Dreaming AU" series of fanfics on A03, this is what Hunter's room looks like. This room is a room in Darius' house, so yippie Dadrius.

Alright, I know the doors can be confusing to let me break this down.

The door on the south wall with the small cuckoo clock like doors is the door to exit the room. I put cuckoo doors on the door because it's for Waffles.

The door that's on the wall that's jetting out is the door to the walk-in closet

And the the door on the west wall is the door to Hunter's private bathroom.

I originally wanted to do the entire Deamonne household at once, but, no way that would take forever. Maybe I'll do parts of it in the future but for right now, NO. If I did, I'd probably do Darius' room next and the living room after that.

This took such a long time to design, and it was my first time ever designing a background completely on my own. I needed to take off the training wheels and design my own background for once, and for my first attempt, I think I did a decent job.

The only thing that I couldn't add is a ceiling fan, but that was only because of the angles I had. I'm sure I could've if I had a different angle. Im going to have to design that separately.

This took since October 20th to finish, I probably could've got it done faster, but uni kept me busy and such. Either way, now that I've finished this, I can't wait to make drawings with this room. Yay!

Alright so: Tumblr exclusive content from here on out since insta has a stupid character limit, and their cropping system sucks

I'm gonna go on an infodump to why I decided to put almost everything here in Hunter's room.

North Wall:

Bed: I decided to make the headboard and footboard a cherry colored wood because Hunter would definitely like cherry wood because it's reddish. Referencing Willow's headboard that has a flower, I changed that into a bird for Hunter. I gave him a blue blanket in reference to Waffles. I headcannon that Hunter LOVES plushies, so I gave him some plushies I'd think he'd like. He'd definitely like squishmallows, so I gave him a blue-jay, cardinal, and wolf squishmellow. I also gave him a small wolf plush, as well as a small parrot plush and a peacock plush. The Sprig plushie is special, as it's not the same one as he had in the castle. It's a life-sized one Willow won him at a carnvial. (Reference to one of my fics).

Nightable: Nothing much to say here outside of the fact that I felt like Hunter would need one. I gave him a crystal ball because I felt like he'd like one.

Desk: This is where Hunter does work, from designing clothes to sew to studying for school. He has a log of regluar wood to practice carving on. (This room is set when Hunter is still a kid early during the WAD timeskip) He also has a punch a pencils, a desk lamp, and some books on there.

Corkboard: Hunter keeps notes for his school studies, and personal projects here. Sometimes he doodles things and puts them up there, such as the wolf and birds doodles.

Wall: Hunter would 100% be that person to have a trillion posters. I gave him a Flyer Derby poster, and a hummingbird poster. The Ruler's Reach poster is actually signed by King himself. Here's also a wolf calender, since I'd figured he'd like that, and a cuckoo clock that I headcannon Hunter and Dell carved together.

Bookshelf: On the bottom shelf, Hunter keeps a bunch of random books he likes.

On the second shelf, he has a photo of Flapjack, textbooks for his abominations and potions classes, and a photo of Willow

On the third shelf, he has textbooks for his illusions, construction, wild magic, plants, beastkeeping, and runes classes.

On the forth shelf, he has a photo of Darius, textbooks for his bard, oracle, and healing classes, and a photo of Waffles.

On the top shelf, he has his two favorite books of all time, Cosmic Frontier and Ruler's Reach, specially displayed with them propped up.

Jesus, that was by far the longest description we'll have.

East Wall:

Window: Hunter has a basic window with blue curtains. I originally wanted to make the curtains space themed for Cosmic Frontier, but then realized that would be a pain to draw over and over again, so I kept it blue. Maybe I can make Hunter's shower curtain space themed instead.

Other then that, there is nothing new on this wall that I'd like to cover. (I'd rather cover things that appear on other walls in their sections)

South Wall:

Wall: Hunter has two more posters on this wall. A Cosmic Frontier Poster. This is a reference in itself, where in Star Trek, the equivalent of O'Bailey has an asian wife that is a Bontonist, and that is sorta a parrel to Huntlow. So I decided to make a headcannon design for both O'Bailey, and the Bontonist I decided to rename to Aiko. So boom. Huntlow reference. The other poster is simply a wolf poster.

Box: This is pretty self explanatory. Its a box with sewing supplies.

Mannequin: Since Hunter sews, I'd imagine he'd like to have a mannequin to help make the clothing design process easier.

Table: This is the same sewing Machine from Thanks to Them, as Camila gave it to Hunter as a gift.

West Wall:

Outside of the door of the bathroom, there is nothing new on the west wall that I haven't already covered.

Bonus:

Here is the original blueprint for the entire Deamonne household. I could go from here and design every last aspect of the house, but that would take ages. I'd definitely like to, but its just so much work. Like I said, the next two rooms I'd design are Darius' room and the living room. Plus, Hunter's room was by definition going to he the hardest, since he has the most stuff and therefore detail in his room.

For when I wanted to focus solely on Hunter's room, I referenced the upstairs blueprint snd made a more detailed blueprint just for his room. As you can see, A LOT ended up changing from this to the final version.

[trans-gay-arospec-mike-wheeler]

oh trust me, both the percy jackson and the harry potter fandom ABSOLUTELY have their spicy side. There are specific subcommunities for this on Twitter, and have you seen some of the edits on TikTok? Also, go on a03. There’s a lot of nsfw Percabeth fanfics. And the HP fandom was a cesspool of this stuff. You haven’t encounter Drarry and Dramione smut and it shows. It was actually a wild wild west back then, but fandoms have gotten better at keeping the mainstream fandom pure and wholesome.

😐

The question was specifically referring to polls and accounts dedicated to sexual stuff

I am probably biased bc I wasn’t on tumblr but rather wiki forums and they actually banned any sexualizing of minors due to the nature of the website

[iron-shrike]

Horizon: Ad Victoriam Machina - Chapter 2

Ikrie has found her life in the Sundom grown stale. The pull of adventure, and the push of her past, drive her onwards, to the Forbidden West.