#and if you see that all of them are tagged as johnshi no you didn't

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EHY I'VE BEEN READING A LOT OF FANFICTIONS LATELY

I know, who would have guess?? Anyway I wanted to send some appreciation all around to some of the fanfics I've read, because writers need some more appreciation in general.

so, in no particular order:

✨Here's a list of fanfics I've read/I'm reading that I think they're pretty good✨

Solid Stone Turns To Clay by @randyzorra - MK fic

A solid Johnshi fic set in a pirate au, I'm absolutely obsessed with it. It's a beautiful slow burn, where Johnny is a disgraced bounty hunter who's trying to regain his fame by stealing The Shadow, legendary cursed ship. Ship that so happens to have a certain someone as her captain. Honestly not only I love the romance, but also the friendship between Johnny and Kung Lao and Johnny and Baraka.

Beware that this fic is tagged as explicit, so check the tags carefully

Back There by houndhead - MK fic

Ehy, have you ever thought that Raiden wasn't there when the others went to Outworld to find Shang Tsung? Yeah what if they never told him what happened back there because of good ol' classic trauma? I'm in love with this concept and houndhead explores it in a very interesting way, showing us how each character would act after experiencing what happened at the lab. I also really love how the characters interact with each other, in the last chapter Tanya and Tomas are just perfect.

Raise The Blade (Make The Change) by cherrycola94 - MK fic

A very fun Johnshi fic that's written a little bit like a script, it has some added scene set before the game, some exploration of the canon through a Johnshi lense, ad finally it continues as a post canon, with a very fun story. While I was reading it I could see in my head the scene perfectly, like it was actually a movie. The second chapter has an AMAZING SCENE, like I was so in love that I have a wip of that scene. I should come back and finish it honestly. The new chapter had exactly the kind of scene I was craving for recently, I'm so happy they wrote it!

But I lowered my sword when you held me and swore (you'd stay, stay, stay) by @necromanticzz - MK fic

It's a johnshi fic with a Kenshi pov, where Kenshi has so many walls up doesn't want any help but Johnny just seems to be able to go through them without any problems. Honestly I also advice the other fic necromanticzz wrote about them, the way Kenshi gets chracterized in both of them is just *chef's kiss* perfect, beautiful, amazing. The two fics are just my favourite in the way Kenshi is written, applause all around, love it.

Koffee Shop Kombat by @loujitsushotsoup - MK fic

Because a classic coffee shop au is always needed. We have multiple ships, different writing styles between chaptes, changing with which character's pov we are following, and I love the creativity that was put in it. You maybe saw this post where I drew one of the scenes in this fic, so YOU KNOW that I mean it when i say that I love this fic. And I'm a big sucker for coffee shops as a setting, really love them in real life as well.

Cole's Chilli Recipe by @before-time-had-a-name - Ninjago fic

Another fic where I drew one of the scenes and it's because it deserves it. It's a lostshipping fic, very sweet, very cozy, honestly Cole and Geo make me incredibly emotional everytime and this fic also straight up picked me up and squashed me. I saw in some of the reblogs on my post that people went to check out the fic and I'm so happy about it because they deserve his work to be checked out. And honestly if I can give her more spotlight I will take the chance. Go check out this fic, it's very cool.

Here Comes Casey Jones by Invader_Sam - TMNT MM fic

Very sweet rasey fic that takes place post movie, with the turtles going to highschool and Raph meeting for the first time Casey Jones. What can I say? I just really love Rasey, and I love they're both clearly crushing on each other but they're not really saying it. And the fact that there's no unecessary teenage angst, they just really like each other, and I love that for them ❤

Think Of It As War Paint by less_depresso_more_espresso - TMNT 2012 fic

Another Rasey one, short and sweet, where both of them honestly are giving so much gender in my humble opinion. It's hard to explaning it without just saying all the fic, so we could say it's about them just chilling on a roof.

A Garden Across Our Collarbone by PittedPeaches - LMK fic

I think everyone and their mom already know this fic, and if you don't it would be my honor to talk to you about it. This for me is THE spicynoodle fic, it was one year of my life and honestly at the end of it I cried. This is a soulmate au, where demons sometimes have soulmates, and when that happen it's like they share skin, so they can write stuff on their body and it will appeared on the skin of their soulmate. It mostly starts like a rewriting of seson 1-2-3 by Red son's pov with this new dynamic, and then it becomes a new original timeline. The way this fic is everything to me, every chapter was an incredible experience, I fell in love with this fic at every chapter. So many beautiful scenes, written so beautifully, as I said this fic was 1 YEAR of my life. It was also a very difficult year, and I'm honestly so happy that this fic was there for that time of my life.

Desde el Principio by ShippingMyWorld - Nicktoons United fic

Okay idk If you saw me reblogging a bunch of Nicktoons fanart like two days ago, but just so you know I'm totally going into the rabbit hole of this fandom and I will be lost for a while. Now, this is a Danny Fenton/Manny Rivera fic, the tag has only two fics and both of them are from this writer.

I wish I had this commitment in my life, to just being THE ONLY one creating a specific content for something and still having the motivation of doing it

I read this fic last night, I finished it at 5 a.m. and I do not regret it at all, this was amazing

I actually recommend reading both fics because they are very good, I'm giving a shout out to this one because I think it's the one that made the biggest impact to me personally. ShippingMyWorld you did it, you converted me, I ship this now.

And that's the list, thank you so much to every fanfic writers that give us such amazing art everyday, you're the backbone of fandom!

[running-with-the-feels]

I guarantee you that if Scorpion wasn't Boon's power fantasy character (which is fair, we all have those, I'm not judging) then he Would Not Have Cared

Like, Sub-Zero and Scorpion are the flagship characters, they're the faces of the franchise, if they were marginally less important, we probs could have gotten at least a Mention of them being together in game

They did it with Mileena and Tanya in mkx, after all, like, Mileena is another of the Big Name characters, though she does rank at least a tier or two below Sub-Zero and Scorpion in terms of popularity and importance, and we got to see her in a queer relationship with another woman (And the implication of polyamory with Rain being involved). It's never super important to the plot, the references to it are pretty thin, but they are there

So we genuinely could have seen something similar with Subscorp, it's not as though NRS is afraid of including queerness, if only in a very watered down sort of way.

But bc Boon voices Scorpion's catchphrase in every game and is pretty open about Scorpion being his favorite character, to make Scorpion queer wasn't an option, the dudebro fans would hate it and attack Scorpion's masculinity, which would subsequently be an attack on Boon's and so it was a non starter

Which is just so frustrating, especially when you consider that the only canon queer characters we do get are:

Tanya: Traitorous Bisexual

Mileena: Dead Bisexual

Both of them are also very openly and extravagantly sexual, both to others and themselves, which is complicated when you look at the history of of Mortal Kombat hypersexualizes women, and the fact that they are both Bi, there's stereotypes at play

and Kung Jin: Immediately forgotten gay man who, despite having a genuinely Very Well Done coming out scene, is also micro-aggressed by his uncle's best friend in the mkx intros

Like, Nrs had the opportunity to do something genuinely new and interesting in including Subscorp as a canon couple in the new timeline, even if it was just a multiverse version of them. That would have been Huge considering that prior to mk1's version of Johnshi, Subscorp was the biggest ship in the fandom. To make the flagship characters queer would have been a Massive statement by nrs that they did not fear losing a bigoted customer base.

It wouldn't have saved the world or anything, but Mortal Kombat does have a very large queer fanbase, and they would have been the only ones of the big three fighting games (Tekken and Street Fighter being the other two) to feature a Big Name character that was openly queer (all three have about the same number of canon/heavily implied queer characters as near as I can tell)

But they didn't, and now mk1 is herding everyone towards Johnshi as the New Gay Ship which, dgmw, is a Wonderful ship, but it feels like a bit of a slap in the face, yknow?

Like, yeah sure, we can have a queer couple in the main cast, just not That queer couple (Although I'm pretty sure they're queerbaiting with Johnshi and have no intention of doing anything with it)

And like op said, making Hanzo a child, plus making Kuai Liang Scorpion while Bi-Han is Sub-Zero, new fans are going to see the word Subscorp and immediately assume the worst (understandably) and it's like NRS deliberately tried to make Hanzo x Kuai Liang unshippable. There was a decent amount of hate in the Subscorp tag for a while (along with other things which I shall not mention) too.

Idk, it just....it feels like a combination of cowardice, intentional malice, and complete ignorance and apathy and while I love the franchise, I can't really get into the new timeline bc of it.

love when people are like “y’all snowflakes are mad that the new timeline is new.” no babes, people are mad that they are ruining relationships that were fucking years in making. especially with subscorp. what were they afraid of? actual gay relationship in the game that has canonically gay character that they just forgot existed probably??

they’re fucking pussies and mk1 is quite easily the worst thing they could’ve done.