#anyways friends to enemies to besties arc

[dazedeye]

stick it to the big corps join an ecoterrorist organization today!!

[cashmere-caveman]

it is about the Dread of knowing what's to come and every single time something happens you're asking yourself if this is it, if this is finally the point of no return as u watch them slowly slowly get forced by circumstances to make progressively more and more awful choices to pick the lesser of two evils and cling to their belief that maybe, maybe there is still something left to save if i do this knowing fully well that the last time there was something left worth saving is long gone by now and they continue digging their own grave with shallower and shallower excuses

or maybe there is no one forcing their hand but themself. maybe instead of having to compromise time and time again they refuse to bend. they will stay true to their principles and if that means their paths diverge then so be it.

or maybe one takes the first path and the other the second and they each have to witness a person they love slowly change into someone else wearing the face of the one who once knew them best in all of the world and when they meet again for that stand off both know they will never again be these young and carefree friends, they can never get back to that love because it is gone now but is it all gone? is it truly all gone? or is it still there, in the way it hurts to see that face that once was as familiar as, if not more (!!) than your own?

yes, these are enemies. there is no love here anymore. but there used to be so much that you could fill rooms with it. let me take you by the hand and open one of them. let me show you how this story began.

one thing i will never get tired of is when a story opens with a stand off between what seems like bitter enemies willing to fight to the death and then there is a flashback and actually!!! they used to be best friends !!!! :)

[disventure-rewrite-takes]

I just wanna live in a world where Tom is canonically autistic and his entire arc in All Stars would have been to learn that yes, you can unmask and some people will still like you for who you are. Maybe he did work on himself after season 1, maybe he got a diagnosis as an adult after feeling weird and out of place his entire life. It would have been fun to see him unmask, both literally and metaphorically. I don't know if I would have made him a cop tho, but that's on me. I think he would do much more good as a park ranger or something. He always loved nature, but befriending Gabby is what made him realize his true potential. Tree huggers besties for the win

I think it would have been lovely to see an autistic adult connecting with others despise his inner struggles and showing his strenghts (making plans, great memory, a natural leader, literal body strenght) as much as flaws (scared to show his real emotions, overstimulation, clumsiness and not fully understanding social clues).

Of course Tom wouldn't have ghosted Jake for two years, but maybe he's been acting distant on text/video-calls for some time now. Oh boy if I hc him as scared af of Jake discovering his real self. He's so convinced that Jake fell in love with his "normal" version and now whatever he actually is now- is not worthy of his love. Or maybe he thinks that Jake would treat him differently if he discovered his diagnosis. I could see Tom trying to mask too much around him, to the point that even Jake can tell he's hiding something from him. Maybe I would have kept the silly Jake/Tom/Aiden drama for two episodes, because Jake would have still jumped to the worst conclusion first. But James isn't booted first for this reason, dear god. Jake would grow suspicious of Aiden after some time, because Tom doesn't bound with Aiden THAT fast to the point of being an enemy in Jake's eyes in a single day. Let some episodes pass, let this drama being a background issue in the big schemes of things, until Jake sees Aiden and Tom holding hands and cuddling or something from afar. It does look very suspicious when your maybe-boyfriend-maybe-not acts weird around you and gets intimate with someone else. Now that's when Jake acts like he did in the original series, let's say around the musical episode. Tom and Aiden do NOT kiss on stage, anyway. But he gets reminded of what he saw in the woods earlier and that memory haunts him. But you know what? Jake decides to do better than his past self and tries to confront Aiden, first. He can't stand traitors, but since Tom keeps avoiding him, what else is there to do? Aiden, of course, acts like a mature person and doesn't out Tom to Jake directly. But he does says that what Jake saw earlier was Tom feeling so overwealmed that he couldn't even breath properly and he needed someone to calm him down. He tells Jake that Tom is scared of being treated like a big baby and doesn't want to show that to anyone else- besides himself. Why is that? Aiden says that he "gets it". He could be neurodivergent himself, or maybe James is or maybe he's got a close relative or friend who is. He just gets it, but Jake doesn't get what "it" is.

AIDEN: "Why don't you ask him for yourself?"

JAKE: "TSK! As if, he keeps avoiding me and acts like a weirdo whenever I want to talk"

AIDEN: "Then don't. Be there for him without talking. You'd be surprised how much that helps him"

Aand that's how this silly drama ends and Tom and Jake finally sort things out and you get to see their relationship blossom again. If Aiden-Tom-Jake make it to the merge, they'd be a cool alliance until something happens and one of them gets eventually voted out.

THIS IS SO GOOD???? HELLO this ask single-handedly make me like tomjake like. 2% like it. that is CRAZY the power that you hold

i think this would be even better if aiden himself (or james as you said) was also autistic, and yk what, pairing this with some other anons that have said this, make jake also have BPD and that makes tomjake bond even more. they're a gay4gay nd4nd couple and i feel like that would be such a better exploration of their relationship and characters than the utter bullshit we got

this is genuinely one of my favorite asks i have ever gotten on this page. thank you so much for this

[lineli225]

Tomura's Shigaraki peculiar interest towards Izuku Midoriya: A compilation of every sus moment from him! PART 1

First, we have to understand the reason of his obsession: 1- The moment Tomura realized Izuku was as fast as All Might And not only that, but put himself at risk to save a pro-hero, being only a student, what goes against Tomura's "everyone does the bystander effect" ideology

2- The second time we see Tomura, he's watching the UA Sports Festival, and most precisely, watching Deku's fight against Todoroki. Watching Midoriya give up on winning to instead help someone in pain, it's the second time Tomura is forced to see Izuku's innate heroism.

It may not make sense now, but Shigaraki being shown watching it is very important to understand his fascination for Izuku. Now that his brain starts to cook, the first 2 points where what started it, we see Tomura with pictures of Izuku for the first time in chapter 47

3- During Izuku's fight against Stain, Tomura was watching all along through his binoculars. Just like point 1 and 2, Tomura is AGAIN having to see Izuku risk his life to save people, and specially ,watch Stain save Izuku and claim him as a true hero.

Now it starts to get to him. We see AGAIN, now on chapter 67, Tomura holding printed photos of Izuku (why did he print it?), and for some reason staring at them for long periods of time.

This clip is hilarious to me ajksdas how long was he staring??

The good old Mall Encounter, now, besides the whole chapter being an obvious interaction between the two, I want to give special attention to the moment he sees Izuku, why did his eyes sparkle? specially when his eyes are dull most of the time?

Why is Tomura so ok with such intimate proximity? Why is he opening up about something related to his deepest traumas, why is he venting all that to a random kid? Being so HONEST to his ENEMY? If he didn't see something special on that student it wouldn't make sense..

By the way "let's get some tea and chat" is a romantic pick up line in Japanese culture

Izuku also got some brainworms, as he did absorbed Tomura's rant, but more about it later

Now on chapter 77, we see Tomura AGAIN with pictures, yes he decayed his pictures, yes he did print them out AGAIN, this time we see one of Bakugou, but there is no way to tell if he doesn't have a new one of Izuku too

Then we have the entire Kamino arc where Tomura basically tried to get Bakugou to be his bestie, because he really thought Katsuki was "oppressed"

Anyways I thought this was super adorable of Tomura, like aww he has no idea how to make friends lmao

From there on, after AFO is jailed, Tomura starts to change a lot, due to obviously, having to survive being homeless and running from the police, he still briefly thinks of Izuku though

This whole time Tomura been getting rid of overhaul, surviving, fighting against machia, on a tube etc, very busy, THEN, On Paranormal Liberation Army arc! We finally see the two again!

We have Tomura being quite happy about finding Izuku, saying it's fate that he is the one with the quirk AFO wants (just like he said it was destiny that they met at the mall), we have Tomura planing to just get Izuku and flee (why not just steal OFA and be done with it huh?)

Brushing foreheads, once again no regard for personal space lmao, and, oh? Tomura thinks Izuku will go to heaven? Don't people normally want their enemy going to hell?

Then, we have the iconic "Heroes and Villains" speech, where our "definitely doesn't want to be saved" boy laments once again how no one ever did anything to save him Good for him, Izuku is listening, and it'll be key in the future

Tumblr image limit OOP Part 2: https://www.tumblr.com/lineli225/741546075963441152/tomuras-shigaraki-peculiar-interest-towards-izuku?source=share

[raisunomii]

Hi,.....if you don't mind me asking, can I ask your top 5 favorite characters from Haikyuu? And why you loved them? And your top 5 favorite moments from the series? Sorry if you've answered this question before....Thanks....

I haven't! You're actually my first ask so this is super fun!! My top five would prob be 1. Oikawa Tooru 2. Atsumu Miya 3. Akaashi Keiji 4. Iwaizumi Hajime 5. Kageyama Tobio (but honorable mention Suga because he's a darlin' but I can't say he clears top 5)

I really really love cocky characters? casually arrogant characters really do it for me but also I find that all of the HQ boys have something they deserve to take pride in! pride is also such a big concept in HQ because 1. Japanese culture 2. athlete culture and I love to see characters that fully embrace it. Also I'm a sucker for pretty boys. Iwa's there because I had a massive crush on him in my sophomore year of HS.

TOP FIVE MOMENTS UNDER THE CUT!

My five moments are definitely more mundane than any insane on-court action. I love to see characters interact more than ANYTHING.

"this is going to be one extravagant family quarrel." Oikawa acknowledging that even though the monster generation has grown up and grown apart, they are still childhood friends and the best teammates/enemies on the court that the others have... you can tear found family out of my cold dead hands! ESPECIALLY when it's oikawa tooru.

"we messed around too much, tsumu." "you're right, samu." i love the miya twins and i have an adoration for their attitude towards volleyball, which is "ill drop it if it isn't fun" because I feel like we get a lot of characters in the series who are battling to remind themselves that volleyball IS fun and that they DO love volleyball (showcased in brazil arc). But the miya twins purely do it because of the novelty. this moment also is them acknowledging that they let down their senpais by not winning them nationals for their last year. despite being the favorites to win, Inarizaki lost to a small, underfunded school... social commentary.

"thank you for hitting exactly how i expected you would every time." okay THIS moment really showed how good tsukishima is at blocking, despite him being one of the more passive blockers in the series. tsukishima's attitude towards blocking develops a lot throughout the series especially when we see him challenge date tech and shiratorizawa. i love that he's almost completely disregarded kill-blocking near the end of the series (SWEETENED by the knowledge that he goes pro, my darling boy) in favor of his own playing style. this scene definitely shows his development, especially when going against a blocker like sunarin. :)

"if you ever get boring, i'll drop you." Firstly, it's nice to see that kenma keeps his near-psychopathic attitude even after he's grown up (my redditor king) but also- I LOVE kenhina whether it's platonic or slash. Kenhina is one of the pairings which I FIND has the most chemistry, so to see them carry on being not only besties but also have a sponsor/beneficiary relationship is awesome. (I also secretly relate it to a prince/his champion relationship in my mind but shhh).

"power curry is a service ace!" This is so domestic. seeing the characters make fun of each other for their cringey moments as celebrities... it's so good. they really are each other's family and i will cherish every moment which we're reminded of it.

Anyways thank you so so much for your ask!! i had so much fun answering it :>

[coycorry]

Sinedd’s redesign tw: HUGE OOC (canon sucks)

we all should agree that Sinned’s character is a huge waste of potential and, oh lord, I have so much to say that I don’t even know where to begin…

first of all why his writing is so poor? almost random I must say. he’s a person who just happens to be in all places at all times, making a conflicts happen for no particular reason EVEN WHEN THEY DOES NOT MAKE SENSE FOR HIS CHARACTER. for example in season 2 he runs “the sphere” himself (he obviously shouldn’t have a basic knowledge of how to do that) and writers just saying that his interest in it is money?.. like wtf why should HE care? why should he wants a dirty money like that, if he’s a freaking football SUPERSTAR. he have a reputation to destroy, you know. apart from that, he never appeared to care that much about his finances, even in 1st season when he steals m-ice’s football tickets they never let us know why he does that. if he wanted some easy cash, why wouldn’t steal some cash? so this thing must’ve been something personal, isn’t it? instead he steals those tickets, that are obviously shit and everybody knows that. sinedd could never manage to sold them, because even m-ice (mr. social butterfly who managed to bring tons of people to try Aarches football simulator) couldn’t do that. my point is that sinedd could never risk that much doing something obviously illegal like running a freaking fight club without strong motivation. and if he needed money THAT bad, then why they didn’t show us WHY.

all his 3rd season arc is a complete nonsense: why they ended up with mei? how did they started to date? for what reason? hating d’jok? is that even a reason? I wish I could forget this poorly written “family reunion arc” who just happened to not know that their son is a freaking football SUPERSTAR. and then he all suddenly changes for the “good guys” and becomes besties with d’jok who was bullying him for years (they were bullying each other). unbelievable. also, can you please remind me why they became enemies in the first place? ah, you can’t! because they never showed us WHY. how can I give a single fck about their cute little make up, if I don’t know how and why it went wrong?

I would absolutely love if he just makes a bit more sense in the show, and stop being stupid (not)evil dude for no reason. In season 1 I LOVED how he had a break down because his parents died in a war, and it’s very painful for him, even after so many years. that’s a very important message that writers could put in this character: some things just can’t be undone, but you need to let it go, so you can move on your life…

but sinned can’t, and this is his real conflict. not some stupid money.

he can’t live with his past, but can’t accept it, and as a result he can’t accept himself and how great he’s doing. he’s an orphan that become a football freaking SUPERSTAR. he’s a talented player, a genius in some way, that have mastered 2 fluxes in record time. he made it to final and semi-final of GF. but no matter what he achieves - that’s not enough because he still hates himsel. he’s worst than d’jock. he have no family or friends. he can’t get this freakin cup. and he can’t even destroy it, because he’s a coward… and then pirates strikes Shadows planet and he loses his flux and gets trauma in the sphere, so he can’t even play anymore. imagine HOW MUCH of a damage he got at this moment. like man he should’ve been mentally destroyed.

and I wish we could’ve seen that.

2nd season was the perfect time to show us sinned at the lowest point in his life. he was damaged by his loss in the end of 1st season so got depression. maybe he met a bad company, and he started to run “the sphere” with someone who claims to be his friend. they obviously using him, but he’s following them anyway, because he can’t stay alone with his thoughts anymore. he trying to fill this emptiness in a different ways, and that’s doesn’t help. obviously. until he meets rokket. not like they never met before, but in a new context, where they started spending lots of time together, both depressed and having good/bad time together. they get to know each other and open from a new side. they gain some sort of connection because they are compatible, they understand each others trauma and for the first time in his life, sinedd faces true understanding. then rokket quits, and it feels like betrayal, but the true betrayal only comes when he realises the truth about his “new friend” and “the sphere”

then he loses cup again and guys this is the real drama here, he should’ve been perished by that…

but.

instead he understands that he NEEDS to change. he NEEDS to get some help, because he can’t live like this anymore, and really, he doesn’t want to. that’s why he’s coming back to rokket after final, to congratulate him with his victory and apologise. for the first time in his entire life. if he can change it, it means that sinedd can too! (and rokket is literally the best person to help him with that, because how much empathy and patience he has). and then all the 3rd season sinedd, step by step, trying to change from what he was, but not everyone believes in that, because how much bad he did. but he will do it, by working hard on himself and his mental health. yes he won’t get his family back all sudden, but who knows, maybe after he change he will find a new one?

I changed his hair colour not only because it looks more cyber-y2k-ish, but to the show how unnatural he is in the beginning, and how he’s doing all this way to who he really is, accepting himself. no friendship with d’jok tho, NOW ROKKET IS OUR BEST FRIEND. I don’t want him to make up with d’jok, I want him to let go this childish rivalry and understand that he’s not worse or better, he’s just another. that’s it.

updated uniform for “the shadows”

[risingshards]

I've been hovering around a subscriber number and it's been going up and down a bit and cuz it went down a chunk today I'm a lil anxious, I worry about everything constantly so this probably isn't a big deal, but instead of dwelling on it I'm gonna try and self promote and maybe overcome this subscriber hurdle! So Self Promo Saturday in addition to Storyteller Saturday? Is that a thing already?

Anyways, if you've followed me for a while you've probably seen me talk about my main series, Rising Shards!

Rising Shards is my passion project, a super long web novel that updates Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. It's always tough for me to explain it, but in short it's part fantasy series, part slice of life, part comedy, part adventure, part romance. It's got a huge cast of characters that a vast majority of are queer!

What's life like in a world where monster folks called Cani are as normal as rainy days? What's it like to juggle learning how to use your powers on fantasy adventures with taking tests and giving speeches in class? How about balancing having crushes and getting over breakups with growing tails or having full on werewolf moments? That's what Zeta Faleur, a trans girl getting over a bad breakup, has to do when her fangs come in and she has to go to a Cani school.

Other main characters have to deal with similar issues as well. Zeta's best friend Oka, a kindhearted girl with a troubled upbringing struggles to fit in at school, gets her first crush around the same time she gets her first role in a school play. Kalei, a snarky gamer jock, begins to find her own identity and all the angst and joy that comes with it. Lillia, a by the books honor student, goes through as many crushes as she gets good grades, but what happens when someone finally likes her back? Longtime friends Aira and Laenie face off with the prospect of drifting apart, while similarly close besties Iris and Maia deal with getting closer. Marmalade, a trans girl who is a late transfer to Rising Shards, strains with self doubt and acceptance. Roux goes on a gender focused journey and finds confidence in themselves. Zeta's older sister Stella starts crushing on Zeta's teacher, Dr. Evy Diast, but are there sparks between them? (given that these two also have an 18+ side series which can be read here, the answer is probably yes).

And that's just a chunk of the characters, yes there are somehow more, including wizards, pop stars, goofy principals, princesses, wannabe hall monitors, filming experts, coffee lovers, gambling obsessed gremlins, mean girls, exes, and enemies! I love stories with a huge cast of characters and actually spent time in college getting my writing degree writing essays about series that juggle tons and tons of characters. For the others, you'll have to read the series to meet them! :)

If the length of the series is intimidating (understandable!), I like to think of it like a TV show or a long manga or light novel series. It may be a ton of chapters and words and such, but they're split up into episodes and seasons, so each chunk of episodes is a complete little arc like a TV episode, and each season completes a big story. With such a huge cast and the way I pace the story, I try to use the space I have to the fullest to spend lots and lots of time with the characters.

If you wanna check the series out, it'd mean the world to me. And big bonus if you subscribe as well. :) If Tapas isn't your jam, Rising Shards is also available on Scribble Hub!

Art for Rising Shards is done by the wonderful Flopicas!

[snarky-magpie]

You are one of the few people who ship prongsfoot and Jegulus. How do you keep that up in the fandom and what is so appealing for you about both Jegulus and Prongsfoot? Elaborate

Hi nonnie, thanks for such an interesting ask (and also thanks for confirming my vague impression that most people choose one or the other ship but rarely both), and I apologize for the incoming wall of text.

How do I keep that up in the fandom—well, tbh, mostly by staying in my corner and not interacting with the fandom all that much. Connecting with people doesn't come naturally to me in general (hello undiagnosed autism), so this is my usual mode of operation anyway. However, Jegulus shippers have been mostly lovely, even though they don't seem to engage much, which I'm guessing is partly because they have so much material to choose from, so it can get kinda overwhelming and impossible to interact with everything and everyone. I did meet a few great people through Jegulus, though, and I treasure those friendships highly. When I tried to interact with the prongsfoot people, I was quickly taught that Jegulus shippers are not welcome. (I mean come on, this is ridiculous, it's just making imaginary people fall in love, it shouldn't be this divisive). It almost soured me on the ship altogether, but I love James and Sirius too much, so I just decided to stick to my lane, quietly write about them, and not get involved in this part of the community. It makes me a little sad, but that's the way things are.

Anyway. Now onto the more fun part, what I find appealing about both of these ships. To me, they're two different sides of the same coin, sort of. I believe I already mentioned this once, but Jegulus has a lot of inherently popular tropes going for it:

Enemies to lovers

Dating/pining in secret

Best friend's brother

Grumpy x sunshine

Sport rivals (quidditch or any other sport in modern AUs)

Second chances (in case Regulus joins the DE and then changes his mind)

Starcrossed lovers (pun intended)

Redemption arc

Tragic endings (if that's your thing)

So despite the characters never interacting in canon, there's a lot to build on and that's what makes the ship so attractive to a lot of readers and writers, myself included. Also, precisely because these two characters never really interacted in canon, we have so much room for interpretation, and almost nothing of it can be called wrong (I mean, it's fic, so it inherently can't be wrong, but still.). If you squint, you can even imagine Jegulus IS canon. Do we know who James dated before Lily? Nope. Him so obnoxiously crushing on a popular girl could very well be overcompensating. So yes, there's a lot to play with.

Prongsfoot, on the other hand, has a lot of basis in canon (I know this doesn't have to matter, but my OCD brain kinda likes it when things align with canon. That doesn't mean I agree or support JKR. She can rot for all I care.) James and Sirius are canonically besties. And not only besties, they're completely unhinged about each other. We only see them interact rather briefly, but it's clear they're devoted to each other. (I particularly love the moment when a girl eyes Sirius hopefully and he completely misses it because he's too busy ogling James.) Sirius is the only one who can make James behave. James is the one Sirius runs to when he needs sanctuary. They created freaking two-way mirrors to communicate when the other was in detention because they're so co-dependent an hour or two without speaking to the other is just too long. I know people argue with "yes, because they're brothers" - excuse me, do you actually have siblings? This is not sibling behavior :D (Also, they're not. Sirius lived with the Potters for about a year when he was 16 before moving out, and that's that.) Tbh, I don't understand why this ship isn't top-tier popular because, in any other fandom, it would be, but here, Wolfstar stole their spotlight, and the rest is history. Probably partly because we don't actually see James and Sirius both alive at the same time. (That's just my guess, though.) Speaking in story tropes, they're the epitome of friends-to-lovers, (possibly bi/gay awakening), soulmates, oblivious idiots. I'm generally a big fan of the friends-to-lovers dynamic, so that's probably what attracts me most to this ship.

So for me, as a writer, it's fun to explore these different facets of the characters—because the James from prongsfoot is not the same James who loves Regulus (although sometimes it's confusing to keep all these headcanons separated in my brain, and they start to influence each other, lol). It's also fun to write the different dynamics, so I don't get bored.

TL;DR: Both ships are great for different reasons, I wish people were more tolerant of other ships (and characters), and I've got a long prongsfoot and jegulus story coming in case you're interested. Cheers, and once again, thanks for the ask.

(PS. this is what happens when someone tells me to elaborate.)

[thereisnolumos]

If I could rewrite harry potter series: Neville so should have been the third member of the golden trio and Draco the unofficial fourth member that goes through a redemption arc and becomes the fourth one by the end of book 6th and all of 7th. Harry should have gotten with Luna, I'm fine with Dramione canonically because it makes more sense writing wise than dumb ron( I would love drarry, but that would be a up hill battle) Ron should be the school bully that gets worse and worse. Or just not exist period. All houses should have been part of the D.A. Slytherin house over all redemption arc because they're kids/tweens/teenagers! Plus over all that's just a better strategy war wise. Ginny gets a girlfriend/boyfriend and gets over crush over Harry over all.

I like your version❤️

If I was writing the rewrite style fanfic, first and foremost I’d start with Sirius raising Harry. Will never get over how many plot holes are in his entire character arc, especially getting wrongfully imprisoned WHEN THEY HAVE MIND READING AND TRUTH POTION

Anyway, Sirius is raising Harry, and, because their parents were in the Order together and the trauma is so similar for Sirius and Augusta in their losses, Harry and Neville grow up together, besties forever, soul brothers, the whole thing. They even celebrate birthdays together, having them one right after the other (it’s my dear headcanon that they were born a minute apart, but it so happened that the day was new when Harry was born)

They meet Hermione on the train, when she volunteers to help find Trevor (Trevor is the beloved Disney-style comic relief sidekick, I’m telling you). Without needing to hold onto Ron, Harry doesn’t brush her off immediately as annoying, Neville is incapable of being such an asshole on principal, but they don’t become instant friends, because Harry and Neville do have the mentality of “we don’t need anyone knew”, being slightly (a lot😂) codependent from having each other constantly near their entire lives. I’d leave them becoming friends after the troll attack, because she was their all alone because of Ron’s assholish remarks after she genuinely tried to help him. So I’d leave this canon moment, but have Harry and Neville be completely disgusted with Ron over what he said about her, especially Harry because Remus was a big part of his life (I’m not really a Wolfstar shipper, though I don’t have anything against them, but in my fic they wouldn’t be together, and there would be an exploration of their mutual hurt over the other one believing each were a traitor. But he’d still be an uncle Moony, as it was supposed to be), so someone shaming the person for having knowledge and HELPING??? Harry would be enraged

They also both would already know Draco, having grown up in the same world, and most likely in similar circles. To me, Sirius was against pureblood mania, not against the social circles and connections and all that. And because all three Harry, Neville and Draco belong to the same circles, they’d know each other and I imagine them mostly like frenemies, growing from enemies to friends more and more with years.

Slytherins would absolutely be a more flashed out characters, not just cardboard “bad guys”, and some of them would be in DA (so it wouldn’t be called DA, because Sirius that didn’t go to Azkaban would see right through Dumbledore and how he tried to orchestrate Harry’s life despite having no right to do so, and he’ll be damned if he’d let Harry be at all enamored by this manipulative old fuck). I would also add muggleborns bringing in muggle weapons into the discussion because “I see your bombarda and I raise you my bazooka😈”. I’d want to explore how both worlds can benefit from inventions of the other one (not just in weaponry)

Also, I don’t remember right now the name of the person who first brought up this au here on Tumblr, but I would absolutely include Cassius Warrington being chosen as Hogwarts champion in Triwizard Tournament. Because I can’t stop thinking about THE POTENTIAL and all the possibilities of this for years, ever since I first saw it

It would absolutely be Dramione and Hansy. Dramione is just incomparable and beyond everything else, Hansy is my most beloved Harry ship, I absolutely adore them. But I would explore all the shades of Harry-disastrous bisexual-Potter too😏

I haven’t decided who’d I pair Neville with though. I don’t like his ship with Luna (in my mind Luna and Blaise belong to each other, I have no idea how it started, but once it did -it never stopped), so she’s not an option.

Maybe I should write this😅 Scenes from this fic have been living in my head rent-free for half a year by now, if not longer…

[dragynkeep]

Idk who it was, but I remember seeing a post about how the songs are weirdly implemented into the show and how “Guide My Way” doesn’t fit with Ruby’s arc by breaking down the lyrics. I can’t find the OP yet but I think you’d find it interesting to discuss here. I compared the scene where Ruby’s revived in V9 and Honkai Impact’s animated short called “Everlasting Flames” because both scenes have the protagonist suffering from depression regaining hope and overcoming their enemies with a cool song.

The difference I think is that with the latter, we get to see Kiana actually struggle throughout the course of the game’s story. She also almost commits suicide twice but, unlike Ruby, is stopped by two of her friends and gradually learns not to so self sacrificial at the cost of her own life while processing her guilt and grief for her mentor Himeko, who sacrificed herself for her sake and told her to live as the final lesson she taught her. Kiana telling the antagonist, “there are people who’ve taught me to never give up and showing me all the beautiful things in the world. I love them and I love what they love” never fails to make me shed a few tears.

When we hit the climax and the ost reaches its peak with the words “Wave goodbye to the past when hope and faith have grown so strong and sound,” it’s so fucking cathartic. My words can’t do the video justice so I recommend you check it out along with the song “Moon Halo” that plays during it. The song has several callbacks to other songs in the series which has their own animated cutscenes you can find on YouTube. It kinda sucks in a way because Ruby’s resuscitation is so bland and hollow. Where the catharsis? Where’s the bit where she realizes her team cares for her and decide to keep living for them??? “Guide My Way” is cool and all but there’s barely anything in it that connects with what we’re shown in the story. Where in V9 do we see Ruby struggle with being more than Summer? It’s like Casey wrote this for a completely different show and that frustrates me. We could’ve had such a beautiful scene but CWBY doesn’t know how to write.

Anyway, sorry for the ramble. I just really love it when characters songs are written well and weaved seamlessly into emotional scenes. There’s a lot of context missing from the “Everlasting Flames” cus it’d take forever to explain but I hope you can still get what I’m trying to say.

Guide My Way struggles with the same issues as Red Like Roses II. The song is telling us something different to what the show is showing us.

I do know the post you're talking about, anon, I've seen it, but I can't for the life of me find it so follower besties, you know what to do.

[dimdiamond]

Since you're answering some questions I wanted to ask what do you think about chang? befor I got to shipping stuff I didn't even know there were many people shipping tintin with him lol and I was kinda surprised,you know since he appeared first in one of the most iconic and most famous tintin stories ever I mean the blue lotus he had got himself pretty much many fans and the fact that he was the first ever person tintin made friends with either,I think they're really cute together lmao do you like him or not?And thanks

OMG A CHANG QUESTION

Ok, honestly speaking, when I first got into fandom I was surprised by the amount of fans this specific character had because, as you said, he appeared only one and a half times. And then I fell into his trap too and now I'm a fan of him.

I love Chang a lot and I think he has so much potential for many arcs and stories and things to explore with him! Like first of all he was an orphan already and then found his new instant bestie and then a new family but had to say goodbye to said bestie?! His first question when he's saved from drowning was "Cool but why bother?" and then proceeded to make fun of white people's prejudices?! He laughed and made Thompsons, two cops, a fool of themselves saying that "They deserved it anyway"?! He helped Tintin and jumped on the danger because he felt like it?! Someone thought it was a good idea to give this kid a gun and he made a perfect shot at Didi's sword?! And then the next time we hear of him is because he's considered dead but haha kidding, he's the only survivor and has telepathic powers but only to Tintin and got a new pet/bestie/dad at the fucking Yeti?! LIKE WHO ELSE DOES IT LIKE HIM?! WHO ELSE HAS THIS POTENTIAL FOR ABSURDITY AND ANGST AND LOVE AND ALL THE FEELINGS?!

I need more content of him and his life before and after meeting Tintin, his new family, his everyday life, his worries and his dreams, his feelings, his crushes, his interests! How does he feel for Tintin and how did he deal with his goodbye to him? How is his relationship with his family? How is he dealing with his trauma from both Blue Lotus and Tibet stories? What is he doing in London and what about his life from now on? All these things you can do with him and imagine him in different scenarios! Of course he has so many fans! He is the blorbo ever!

Yeah, I agree that his ship with Tintin is cute and I have no issue with that of course, I am just not a big fan. For me Tintin and Chang have such an interesting dynamic as they're the same but they're not, they're close but they're not. They're each other's best friend, but are they and what does friendship mean to them? No one knows Tintin better than Chang and vice versa, but do they really? They would kill and die for each other but would they live together? As I see them they have such a strong but complex bond and I totally can see the romantic potential here but for me the platonic potential is more interesting. They love each other and their bond is so unique that no one understands it better than themselves. And of course you don't want them as your enemies.

If I ever see the romantic interest between them I do it as one sided unrequited love because I love the angst and seeing them in the end working things out between them.

[ninthprime]

it's gurbalence gmonday so of course i'm thinking about the gur and broun dynamic. from gur's perspective valence is this somewhat overly emotional new friend of theirs who has admitted they'd even weep for the deaths of their colonialist enemies because they don't get the chance to progress anymore. very sweet naive wolf. and then gur gets to icebreaker and valence's bestie they brought is? a weapons manufacturer? war criminal? who is taking pieces of asepsis the awful divine to just use? this is who valence is friends with? okay.

and meanwhile broun's opinion of gur is, canonically

DRE [as Valence]: (sighs) What the fuck indeed. Um…I don’t even think—I don’t even feel on the same page with Gur anymore. ALI [as Broun]: Who the fuck even WAS Gur. DRE [as Valence]: That’s a really good question. ALI [as Broun]: Like—I thought we were just like, working…and like just chilling…and making money…and it was going well…and then like, this whole time you were on the phone with this preacher? And now we’re here? DRE [as Valence]: Not the whole time. Really I was just once on the phone with him. ALI as Broun: Well sure.

there's this spider priest on this ship and valence is always feeling big emotions about them instead of getting a spaceship for me. now he cares about this strand semaphore thing i'm working on and is acting all civil. and valence was talking to them the whole time and did not tell me their friend i mean coworker??

they only have a few minor interactions during the MB arc but i imagine they both have a lot of assumptions about each other. both incorrect and correct. this is one of my more controversial opinions that i suppose i can elaborate on if asked but i think both assumed valence probably was closer to the other. it really is something else that broun getting valence and gur's tapes means broun has a lot of gur's legacy and the proof that what the puppet gur is saying isn't what he really believed...but of course broun is compiling all that information for valence's sake, not gur's. kind of an awkward situation. anyway i will say what i have said for years: they are probably not going to interact but if somehow ghost gur got to communicate with broun i think the two of them should immediately make each other worse

[merrymorningofmay]

K & Y for the ask game:)

thank you!!

K: What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?

i'm gonna be a cheater again! and pick fakir princess tutu even though princess tutu is all character arcs and the major ones are all really gracefully paced and conveyed..... i'm just super partial to him bc *gestures vaguely* navigating the balance between love and control..... recognising that it's not love that fuels your desire for control but fear and you must face the fear so love can take hold......... the control you learn to let go of (over your loved ones) and the control you learn to reclaim (over the narrative which is your enemy. but watch out! you can't bend the narrative entirely to your will AND you cannot disavow all responsibility and let it flow as it may! a conundrum, that!)........ also a writer character that isn't about how cool and romantic writing is, always love that. writing sucks!!! no you're not allowed to stop!!! sure you can make it suck less for yourself by draining your heart of all love and just creating whatever, but would you really do that? no? that's what i thought!!! anyways. princess tutu

Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

hadesgame (i don't play video games but i care about hadesgame characters Immensely and my bestie graciously tells me all about them so i Know) and uh. the first triumvirate which. i don't really have the energy to properly go there. but i View Images. and i Perceive Information.

[dxppercxdxver]

Bestie please tell me about Bisexual Noir Time

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HELLO MY GOOD BESTIE this is a story that Barely Exists because i thought up the premise a day or two ago <3

bisexual noir was born because of that silly npr host name generator because it gave the name "mazie villeneuve" and i went Wow that's a good femme fatale name and i've always wanted to write noir. so let's get to going

but also!! there are so many noir stories already written and i wanted to make it more personal!!!

so bisexual noir is about a young rich kid who runs away from his family to live out his dream of moving to the big city and solving mysteries. he's hopelessly out of his depth but he's having a great time!! also, he's trans!! and he adopts this new identity that is unconnected to his background and picks a name based on his favorite mystery icons. he's reveling in not quite knowing what he's doing, just because of the newness of it all.

until One Day!! a wealthy woman approaches him with his first high profile case. a theft, perhaps a murder, hiding a scandal. a nice matryoshka doll of mystery. it would be great, if not for the fact that the victims involved are his own estranged family. he can't not take the case, he's running out of money and needs the press coverage such a Big Name Case will bring, but also he has to confront the factors that forced him to run in the first place.

mazie is both a femme fatale And just. his friend?? there's a colleagues to friends to (misunderstanding-based) enemies to friends to lovers arc with them where our erstwhile hero has to say "hello i'm in love with you but there's something about me you should know" and mazie's like "one. don't care, you're hot. two. doesn't matter anyway i swing both ways."

thinking themes of identity and legacy and being transgender and what it means to have a family and all that. i think our hero will get to blackmail his shitty relatives. which is very satisfying

ty for asking!!!

[hauntingofhouses]

@lillyblogsmizu yeah that's fair, and i have no doubt mizu and akemi are gonna be friends (at the very LEAST, because there's a high chance there will be romantic exploration between them even if they dont become endgame) but it will very likely be a slowburn the same way taimizu is.

the main difference is that taigen and mizu operate on kinda this strange understanding of each other; taigen doesn't really get mizu's whole deal as there's so much he doesn't know about her and he knows this, but taigen WANTS to know more about mizu, is the thing. akemi on the other hand doesn't really get the chance to get to know mizu, or even the chance to decide she wants to get to know her, outside of that maybe one line where she asked mizu about her childhood with taigen, and even then she and mizu are both cut off. it's very much that the narrative itself isn't allowing them to be friends (not yet) but i imagine it's because it's like that meme that goes "god made us enemies because he knew the world couldn't handle us as besties/lovers/what-have-you"

anyway yeah UNLESS the writers go on the villain!akemi route and give her a corruption arc (which is definitely a possibility but it's yet to be seen how likely it is), i am very certain that she and mizu ARE going to be very close. as friends or more. and will give each other plenty of joy i'm sure. it'll just take a while.

the irony of me thinking of mizu and akemi as two halves of a whole who complete each other, as the sun to the other's moon, as twin flames whose lives are intrinsically entwined; akemi is a part of mizu's soul and saving akemi in episode 8 is also symbolic of mizu saving herself—

me genuinely believing all that, all of which is inherently romantic. yet somehow i simply do not ship them at all and do not want them to end up together.

[haleigh-sloth]

Tenko/Tomura shares his regeneration quirk with Bakugo? Bakugo breaks down the door in vestige world so Deku can get in? Any new or changed ideas with Bakugo and Shiggy becoming friends? And any theory on what Deku is doing? Currently I wonder if he stopped to have lunch at a fancy restaurant.

Gonna say it's unlikely on the regeneration thing. Giving and taking quirks probably (hopefully) won't be a solution for anybody outside of Deku and Shigaraki because of the whole "eating away at your life force" shit. Plus it's not really a good or interesting or creative way to progress the plot. Plus it'd be way out of place here anyway. ShigAFO has no reason to give him a regeneration quirk.

I saw some post pointing out how Nitroglycerin is used to help hearts or something. Given Hori's recent inclusion of using elements (phosphorous lmao) I may expect him to use that somehow. But if not that, Bakugo will be fine some way or another. Just because your heart stops doesn't mean you're dead. Peoples' hearts stop and are resuscitated often. But we don't even need to get medical with it, because Shigaraki came back after his little near death experience in the dream scape also.

On Bakugo breaking down the vestige door and Izuku entering: POSSIBLY. Maybe. Definitely a possibility.

We need more information. But for theorizing--either Bakugo will literally be in the vestige and open that vault door while Izuku enters and then gets to Tenko, or he metaphorically opens that vault door. And by that I mean, on the outside he creates an opening or an opportunity for Izuku to GET to Shigaraki on the outside, so that he and Shigaraki can both enter the vestige together and settle their stuff there, while Bakugo remains on the outside still. I feel like if it went the metaphorical route (which I'd prefer tbh), it would be incredibly obvious visually that he's still following in the 2nd user's steps. Somehow Hori would pull it off if he did that. And I think it's possible.

Regardless---Bakugo is that bridge between Shigaraki and Izuku. Bakugo has been in Shigaraki's position in a few ways (hijacked body, sought out by Shigaraki, rejection and understanding play a part in his arc). All while simultaneously walking the same heroic journey as Izuku. Again, he doesn't have a villain counterpart. So imo, his position would best be used to bring the two sides together. In his case, it would be the villain and hero he IS associated with in the saving challenge. So those two.

On what Izuku is doing: Probably fighting seagulls.

On the endgame with those three: My prediction hasn't changed. I think the three of them will team up together to defeat AFO, the common enemy. And after that experience I still think in the end they'll be friends and all three like each other. And be in each other's lives from that point forward, like implied somehow (photos at the end showing them older or something idk).

My long term predictions haven't changed since like, 2020: Shigaraki and Midoriya--->friends; possibly annoying sibling dynamic since AFO/OFA is a brother feud. Shigaraki and Bakugo and Midoriya--->disasters when together, but they have fun. Touya--->with family, annoying dead beat oldest sibling. Toga and Ochacko---> Toga at UA with them, they're besties, Tsuyu too.