#and there’s a couple fanfics I’ve read

[infiniteaugends]

Okay! I need to get this out of my head. I’ve seen some posts that are upset that people are upset about the BuckTommy break up. The core gripe of these posts is that the show still has HenKaren and so we shouldn’t be upset about the handling of the other main queer couple. Which makes no sense because BuckTommy and HenKaren fulfill different niches. One is a bisexual man exploring a new relationship and the other is two gay women who are settled with multiple kids.

However, this post is to talk about HenKaren. Yes I love them! They were the main thing that drew me to the show long before bi Buck became a thing. They are two black women in a relationship. Neither is ‘conventionally’ attractive. Hen is pretty visually queer. I love them. I want more of them in the show. However I don’t relate to them. Almost all of their storylines revolve around motherhood. There is very limited exploration of them as queer women outside of motherhood. Karen is a literal rocket scientist and that has never even been used as any sort of plot point. Like the amount of physics she knows and understands could be used to great effect. Micheal got to help break into a bank vault with Bobby, but Karen has never been used in a similar way. Like the amount of STEM knowledge stored in her brain 100% could have solved at least a few rescues. Can we explore these amazing woman as queer women instead of mothers just sometimes pls.

I read a fanfic that explored how Don’t ask, Don’t tell could have affected Karen. That she couldn’t become an astronaut because of it. I would love more of that energy in the show.

So yes you are right I am bemoaning the way Buck and Tommy’s break up was handled. I am bemoaning the lack of care given to exploring Buck’s bisexuality within monogamy. I am allowed to be upset. I am allowed to not relate to the storylines given to Hen and Karen. What happened to Hen being kinda witchy and blaming the moon cycle for her cheating? What happened to Hen and Karen and Athena’s wine mom nights? Where is our exploration of Karen as partner to a woman in a dangerous field of work? Where is our exploration of their relationship outside of kids?

You want me to appreciate the crumbs of queer representation being tossed my way? Well won’t you’re right we should be angry that Hen and Karen are treated as second class citizens in the narrative. We should be upset that their importance has been reduced to only motherhood. We should be upset that this show is mishandling all of its queer characters and letting Eddie Diaz have freedom and joy while our queer representation suffers.

BuckTommy was the straw that broke the camels trust in 911 ability to craft realistic queer lives and continue to care about them more than a diversity check mark. I will continue to watch HenKaren clips on YouTube and read fan-fiction. I will continue to engage with Bi Buck fan-fiction that heals the parts of me that Glee and this show have bruised. I will not thank them for the stale crumbs they brush from the table. Do I love Hen and Karen? Yes! Is it enough? Not anymore!

Anyway, I got a little heated and upset, but all this discourse is really just rubbing me the wrong way. Let people be upset and hurt. Their feelings are valid whether you agree.

[awsugar]

speaking of questions that exercise very mcr specific muscles in your brain. i was perusing mychem tumblr the other day and came across a masterpost about the SS/mayo blog frerard lore (i’m aware frerard is not PC these days thanks obama). i’ve been a dedicated fan for over a decade now and my brain is an mcr lore bank but i had literally never heard of this. do you know about it and if you do what are your thoughts

omg yea. ss/mayo is crazy. and unfortunately a lot of it has been lost to time and its not even saved on wayback. theres some stuff thats convincing, theres some stuff thats not.

so like lets preface this by saying that the ft willz myspace? confirmed to be frank. and obviously the stuff posted on skeleton crew, those screenshots of ft willz works that look like theyre on burnt paper? yea so those are confirmed and those are real fully frank no questions.

i personally am a skeptic of other accounts that claim to be ft willz. like the tumblr? i do not think thats frank. and i think that came at a time when people had already really speculated or figured out that ft willz WAS frank. so like i think the tumblr is honestly just someone who was pretending to be frank and managed to sort of emulate his style but yea i don't think it's him. i think the reason some of the stuff hits so hard in a frerard sense is because that was intentional by the person writing it. you know.

anyway ss and mayo. there were two blogs on blogspot started in 2007 i believe that fans thought were frank and gerard. well it started with mayo (its-mayonaise.blogspot.com). that blog is still up and so are a lot of the posts but i think a lot of them have been deleted as well, and not saved anywhere on wayback. im sure theyre on someones hard drive out there but i haven't seen them. then a blog appeared called iamthemodernprometheus.blogspot.com. some of those posts are still up but most are gone. that was ss/sss/shitsubou shita/frank (allegedly). ss started interacting in the comments on mayo's blog. and i think i may have read some mayo blog posts back in the day but i haven't been able to find them to answer this one. i just remember when i joined the fandom most people thought it was gerard.

now here's a couple things of evidence. THIS is a blogspot comment thread where people who have saved some of ss' blog posts put them in the comments. and yes obviously it could be an elaborate hoax by two fans who were invested in frerard. but like these things were being posted as it HAPPENED. you know? idk i wasnt there in 2007. but 2007 was when the fanfic took off and we really informed a lot of our perception of what happened with frerard on things like ft willz/stuff that happened on stage/and a lot of these posts really fit into the timeline. i would recommend reading that because its kind of hard to believe its like. a teenager pretending to be frank. it really just SOUNDS like frank. and he's really writing blog posts. basically to gerard lol. it gives the impression that they were on tour together (projekt rev) and doing the Thing but like there was def tension going on behind the scenes and we already know that thats true. frank didn't like eliza and thought gerard was moving too fast, the imnotokay.net post came from someone in mcr's camp that ppl thought was frank (or maybe brian) and then tbh its happening again?? just months later? it makes complete sense that if frank thought gerard was moving too fast with eliza that he DEFINITELY thought he was moving too fast with lynz getting MARRIED to her backstage just a couple months? after breaking off his engagement with eliza. anyway just read the comments. its very easy to believe its frank.

and then the other peice of evidece i found in this reddit thread: x comment in particular by u/ReallyKapu. they say that they have always gone by Kapunua online and that they met frank at a lm show, gave him a hat with the inscription 'sss' inside and later on he thanked them for it on the blog.

sure enough:

from what i've read it seems like the blog was actually a community. there were people who followed it and made friends in the comment section. and it does seem implausible but it looks to me like frank saved all of his gifts from tour and then made this post specifically thanking people for them. the person who claims this is them also says that they don't think mayo is actually gerard but that frank thought it was.

and i've seen stuff saying that if it wasn't gerard it was probably someone close to the band because they had like information that was posted on the blog that wouldn't come readily available (or make sense) until the show the next day.

anyway, i wasn't there for this. i was on the forums and twitter and tumblr for a LOT of mcr history but this was a little before my time and i think if i had been there OR if the blogs had actually been preserved in some way that i might be able to form a better opinion. i think theres a lot of evidence for frank, not sure about gerard. but i won't claim that it's true either bc we really don't know and this one i don't think we ever will!

[lewis-just-lewis]

Shout out to @grumpyoutlaw for creating this absolutely jaw dropping, breathtakingly- GORGEOUS design of Tattoo Artist Viktor! I had to make something for him I couldn’t resist-and I also couldn’t be content with it just being a picture so here’s a little blinky thing of the man!!

I hope you like it Grumpy! :D

[teleport-warning]

Day 2: Rebirth

[parsimonius]

Does anybody like fairy tail anymore I swear to gods please I need nalu fics plsplsplspkspksspls

All I want is a nalu fic that isn’t a school AU please you can do so good with the magic system😞🙏🏻🙏🏻

All I want is badass Lucy and Natsu and happy following her like lost puppies because let’s be real that’s all of what fairytail is I swear, please I just want badass woman POV I’m willing to let Natsu be the pov but he’s a man please please please let me have Lucy being amazing and so cool and it’s a cute romance with her himbo dragon please

anyways, I did, in fact, write a small one shot on them but it’s an AU but that’s irrelevant, if anyone is writing currently and wants help on their fic, beta reader, or even just moral support hit me up this was my first fandom I was ever in I deserve to have fics that are not from 2016 pls I read those already okay 😞sorry for the ramble that has nothing to do with DC please hit me up guys please

Edit; I would also love to see gray/Erza being brother/sister to Lucy LET ME SEE THEM AS FAMILY PLS GUYS

[captainhysunstuff]

A reactionary comic about rereading a fic that I recently recommended that was way darker than I remembered, lol. I still love it for how they pretty much drive each other crazy, but that word choice and the consent issues... *cringes* At least there are valid warnings beforehand, and the first fic was pretty PG. Sorry. *laughs sheepishly*

[edwinisms]

so damn close to finishing writing my first fic for this show but my head feels like it’s gonna explode from writing an entire 3.3K theoretical analysis paper for like five hours straight and if I look at my computer screen much longer I might just fucking die so. here we are. suffering.

[reenbowspimkle]

i love how the entire fandom was like oh yea izzy loses his toe and has some balance issues for a while

only for izzy to actually lose everything below his knee

[devilsrecreation]

I gotta wonder where Pua was during Season 2. I like to think he’s still alive so he was either woken up in addition to Makuu’s float or he was sleeping soundly in his own little spot away from any noise

Oh my god, I’d love to see his reaction to what the hell he missed when he wakes up if it’s the latter lmao

Like Pua comes out, sees the Pridelands in poor state and he’s like “Good morning, my frie-what the hell happened here?”. Then he goes to either Basi or Makuu and they catch him up. But even then he’s just like “….Excuse me, what?”

Oof he’s in for a surprise when he learns his own son tried to kill Simba (that’s when he and Tamka’s relationship becomes strained)

[wallpaper-inside-my-heart]

💛Smoshblr December Asks Day 19💙

Top 3 cast constellations/line-ups

Tommy, Spencer, Courtney, Shayne and Damien

Triple A (Arasha, Angela, Amanda) + Courtney + Chanse

I don’t think this has happened a lot with the current cast yet, but I’d love more line-ups where duos compete with each other! (similar to 1,2,switch, but with diff games/concepts!) so like Ian & Anthony + Shayne & Damien + Angela & Amanda/Chanse + ofc Spencer & Tommy and so on! (also someone needs to bring back more Court & Olivia! I miss seeing these two on screen together!)

Top 3 ships

Spommy -> this has def become a very obvious fact about me by now lmao; and I entirely blame @jovenshires 🩷 and @soupy-girl 💛 and their fanfics, for getting me into this ship in the first place! (+ all the other fanfic authors who fueled my love for these two idiots even more <3)

Ianthony -> they are what got me truly involved with this fandom in the first place! (I love “Angst with a happy ending” fanfics so much and their story is literally that!)

Shaymien -> The “and they were roomates” of it all...

-> All of them made the list mainly bc I enjoy their on screen friendship dynamic so much! And then there are lil bits of bg info they drop now and again that fuels new ff headanons/concepts and make me go 👀!!! 😹🙈

some honorable mentions in the tags:

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

I ran this morning AND wrote some AND made art and I’m so proud of me

[dragonbe-writing]

I already have something in the works I just don’t know if I should post it :) it would have a romance plot (maybe a couple) (i would also make an Ao3 specifically for this purpose)

[shrinkthisviolet]

For 'Never Have I Ever' - No Powers AU?

Ooh I haven’t, and honestly I don’t know if I ever would? Like…I watch superhero media largely for the powers. Even in fanfics, I usually read fics where they still have their powers, because that’s what makes them interesting imo

And same for ATLA—the bending, its lore…that’s the core appeal along with the found family stuff! ATLA wouldn’t be the show it is without its rich bending worldbuilding.

(also, ships are generally a secondary consideration for me, so that alone is not usually enough to get me to read a no-powers AU. I only say that because usually that’s why people write no-powers AUs, though ofc there are exceptions 😅)

If I really had to, it would probably be a fic that still has the characters in similar roles. Ex: if it’s a Westallen fic, then Barry would still be saving people, and Iris would still be a journalist. From that angle, exploring how their relationship evolves could still be interesting—keep the core of who they are as people, just take the powers away. But honestly, the closest I’ll ever get to messing with powers in fics is probably a power-swap of some kind 😂

never have i ever fic ask game!

[mobbothetrue]

the epic highs and lows of high school football fic searching <- spent like 2 hours looking for a fic with negative success only to find it in my ao3 bookmarks

[thesamestarlight]

bad news y’all i’m officially addicted to leaving comments on ao3. and it is becoming a Problem for my sleep schedule

[doctorweebmd]

I think I finished chapter 8 of nothing else fills today?

I love it but I also absolutely fucking hate it. Writing is a curse lmao