#alas work starts again tomorrow so i'll probably be radio silent until friday

[benjaycaptain]

don't worry! you didn't scare me away, and i get what you meant with being picky. i know how hard it is to find good fics in the descendants fandom where characters are portrayed in the right light (particularly with uma and audrey).

i love heartsfate! so many good evie ships (especially audrey/evie my beloved!). ooh did you write a fic for heartsfate?

i read a lot of short fics in the descendants fandom, but i am always hesitant with long fics bc i'm worried about running into bad portrayals of uma and audrey and people don't always tag for the things i tend to avoid. but yeah, i have some friends that will send me links and assure me a fic is safe to read.

definitely agree with the parts about audrey (and uma in the reply)! she's allowed to have flaws. and from her point of view, everything she did was justified. it was smart of her to be wary of the vks, and she only really started to be mean to them when she saw mal and ben's connection. that insecurity kicked in and who wouldn't be upset to have their boyfriend stolen in front of the whole school?

yeah, i really didn't like that they played off audrey's humiliation as a joke, like we're supposed to see mal as some hero for getting rid of her. and they kind of imply that audrey and chad deserve each other. like no. audrey deserves so much better! anyway, i could rant about how audrey and uma were treated poorly in canon, but i'll stop there. this ask is already getting really long and the post you linked pretty much sums it up!

audrey definitely deserved more apologies from ben and mal. and it just makes me sad that she retreated to fairy cottage to recover and it feels like no one was checking in on her. jane definitely would have kept in touch with her (we know she did, even if canon won't tell us). probably lonnie as well. audrey deserves to have a support system too.

love those headcanons on audrey! i definitely see auradon as more of a high king (ben) with the small kingdoms having a good amount of control over their own kingdoms. i love the idea that audrey is actually really tough. i feel like she would have to be to survive that strict grandmother of hers.

that's valid! the characters and costume design were so good! the characters are definitely the most important aspect to me too. that's how i form a connection with shows and movies enough to write fic about them lmao

so, i'll do a holiday question next! do you celebrate any november/december holidays or just enjoy the winter feeling? what are your favorite things to do this time of the year?

- gifter anon

yeaaaaaah i wrote https://archiveofourown.org/works/9411833 for them for the descendants exchange the first year it ran. [another disclaimer for my ao3 account lol]

oh maaan i can only imagine how some writers treat uma or audrey. i can only tell you how some readers react to them. i have a long ass trash fic i'm writing [another disclaimer to not go looking for it], and it's like these people don't have great reading comprehension. they seem to think that whatever a POV character thinks is The Truth without understanding that POV characters do not have all the information, and when it comes to the core four, have pretty strong biases. and so there's comments like "audrey is such a bitch i hope they do something Bad to her" and i'm just like. wow. someone needs to log off for a bit and do better in school lmao

audrey has depth but not many want to see it and it makes me sad orz

i only celebrate christmas, and this year will be my first christmas where it will actually snow!! i'm both excited and nervous cause i've lived in louisiana all my life, and now i'm in new york so. big change lmao but usually we didn't much for the holidays. there's several movies that are tradition, go to the park for holiday train rides for my niblings. get pics with santa claus. our family did kk's, or secret santas, so we picked names outta a hat and whatnot. i wasn't one for decorating, but the rest of my family did that, both the house and the tree.

i am looking forward to making a real snowman tho xD

what about you, nonnie? you live in a place where it snows regularly? if so, got any tips? lmao