#anyways. I love to write characters all being a little gay and flirty and in love with each other

[watery-melon-baller]

theres people who only have one ship and people who don't have any ships and multishippers well im inventing a new kind of shipper and it's "all of these people are gay and a little in love with each other but the romance is up to interpretation"

[daytaker]

What do you rank each obey me character from your favorite to your least?

Oh lord, I've thought about doing this before but it's so hard because it's constantly shifting? Let me seeeeee...

The ultimate ranking I've decided upon is as follows:

Mammon

Satan

Leviathan

Asmodeus

Solomon

Simeon

Lucifer

Barbatos

Luke

Beelzebub

Belphegor

Diavolo

TO BE CLEAR, I like Diavolo. Also, 4-8 are all basically tied. Yes, I put Barbatos in position 8 on purpose, yes, I'm aware that was low-hanging fruit. The whole list is also very fluid. Over the course of playing the games and existing in the fan space, Solomon has been my number 3 and my number 12.

ALSO! A lot of this is just "my opinions based on the vibes I get and nothing else". So please don't take anything too seriously. I'm definitely not claiming to have perfect, inarguable takes.

S Tier

These guys are consistently my Boys, my Faves, the ones I Love. I'd marry Mammon. I'd start a cult with Satan. I'd use phrases like "my little meow meow" in service of explaining my feelings for Levi.

1. Mammon

I mean, whenever I think he's not my favorite, he comes back and reminds me that he is, so I might as well just bow to the inevitable. I love a tsundere himbo. He's funny and cute and he makes my heart do the thing. My stone cold frozen aromantic heart.

2. Satan

Ah, my complex relationship with Satan, who is the worst-developed character in the OG but comes careening back into the running with an excellent display of character development in Nightbringer. Satan, for whom I simp, but who is also my feral child. Satan, who is coded autistic entirely unintentionally but whose attempts at being romantic hit me like bricks to the face and I just want him to please stop trying to be flirty and instead talk to me about cats or science or whatever hyperfixation he happens to be focusing on because it's much more attractive. Satan, who, after overblotting on wrath, just kind of passed out instead of going insane like Mammon and Asmo and everybody because he deals with this shit all day every day anyway. Satan, who deserves to be number one on this list because he occupies so much space in my brain but continues to lose out to Mammon because Mammon's blushing feels more sincere.

3. Leviathan

The unexpected addition to this list. I dunno, he's always growing on me. He's so funny. Possibly the funniest character in the game. I love writing him. He's so cute. He's so cringe. I can relate to one of those things. I don't really have any great reasons why I love him so much. I just do. He's so fun. I love his pets. I love that he got the pet show cancelled by summoning Lotan. I love him in the anime cosplaying as Ruri-chan. Actually, yeah, the anime. He got the best rep in the anime to me because he is so cute and funny in that thing.

A Tier

I love them, I will go to bat for them, I will kiss them, I will bring them their lunch if they forgot it at home, I will sing them lullabies, I will kiss their precious cheeks, but I will not marry them. (Edit: I will not marry them, with the exception of Simeon, who I would absolutely marry if he deigned to ask me.)

4. Asmodeus

He's just a fun guy? He's really sweet and caring and somehow doesn't feel like he's actually hitting on me? I've described him in a DM with someone as "your gay best friend who you make out with sometimes" and I seriously do get platonic vibes from him and I'm here for it. I'm here for platonic makeout sessions. As an aro who likes when fictional boys flirt with me sometimes but not too much, he's a very welcome breath of fresh air because his flirting just doesn't feel like it's aimed at anything? He just likes to call you a cutie pie. And I know that none of that makes sense for a character who is the literal avatar of lust, but I'm talking vibes, not reality.

5. Solomon

Solomon can ride this scale from close to the top to rock bottom to be honest. I did not like him during the recent event (Voyages). He just felt creepy to me. And that's where my problems with Solomon lie for the most part. Much like with the Asmo vibes, he just feels creepy to me. I think he's too openly infatuated and too comfortable with that fact for me? Like slow down my guy, I'm here to be jokingly flirted with not asked to cosign a mortgage. But also the panties came OFF for that confrontation with Belphie in the colosseum so congrats on your new placement as number 5. I like a lot of fandom interpretations of him significantly more than canon ones so when I go back to canon I'm always a little like "eughhh what is this?"

6. Simeon

Okay, here are my reasons. 1) He's the most beautiful character. Nobody else even comes close. Don't ask me why, he just is. 2) Plot things that I haven't even gotten to yet but if you know you know. 3) I I like how nonjudgmental he is about literal demons like he just pops in from Heaven like "let's all be friends". What a chill dude. Bonus 4) Luke's dad.

7. Lucifer

First of all, if he ever genuinely hits on me I'm hitting on HIM with pepper spray. Dad, what the fuck? Second, he just loves his brothers so much and works so hard for them and wants so badly to protect them. I admire that. I do not get any genuine chemistry between him and the main character, though that could be my romance-radar malfunctioning as usual, or even just my taste. "That's my dad, I can't marry my dad."

8. Barbatos

Another character in whom I see no chemistry with the main character, but that's okay and I love him anyway. He's number 8 because he loves being number 8. He's the second-prettiest boy after Simeon in my opinion and I like to imagine him being an absolute menace who never sleeps, never bathes, and never uses the bathroom. He has transcended all that. He is the Time Lord.

B Tier

My beloved babies (and drunk uncle)! I have no romantic interest in any of them whatsoever! One because he's an actual child and the others because I just don't. But I love them and I cherish them and I will bring them their lunches if they forgot them at home just as much as I would for tier A.

9. Luke

Yes, he's whiny. Yes, he's kind of weird to even have in the game let alone the intimacy system. No, I have never and will never call him a Chihuahua. I will beat up his bullies, including Lucifer and Mammon. I will file for joint custody with Simeon. He's so flippin' cute.

10. Beelzebub

Another classic good boy. I love him but I don't really see much in him beyond... being a good boy? He's sweet and I would give him so many hugs and he deserves so much love but I can't get over the idea that that head is empty, there is nothing inside but cheeseburgers. And I kind of love that for him.

11. Belphegor

When I first started the game I thought I'd like him best. Turns out I was wrong. Now, I don't hold it against him that he murdered me. Sometimes a demon has just gotta do what a demon's gotta do. He's a little shit, but he also did that thing in the anime where he's Beel's cheerleader while he fails at a video game? And that moment will forever be enshrined in my heart.

I mean look at him??? Holy shit???? Just seeing this image again makes me want to kick him up to number 6 or something.

12. Diavolo

I love my gay drunk uncle as much as the next person but when your gay drunk uncle sometimes hits on you, it's extremely uncomfortable. I'm not like an active Dialuci shipper but I fully support Diavolo's unapologetic simping for his totally platonic right hand man. And then he wants to get in my pants and it's like having ice water dumped down my shirt.

So there you have it! My little ranking and thoughts on each character. I'm curious whether any of this surprises you?

[tamaverse]

Here's the deal with electronic dreams 1984 and why my headcanons are right (/lh) a mini essay by Abbie

Okay so guys. Listen. I love the polycule and don't get me wrong, I think that's what should be going on here. But it's like deeper than that. Hear me out.

Edgar had feelings towards Miles the whole movie (that's apparent by the end of course) and it's actually made surprisingly clear the whole way through. Even some of the first few interactions when he starts speaking are playful and kinda.. Not Straight. When Miles touches his keyboard at one point, Edgar even goes "don't touch... tee hee". Gay little computer. Also it should be noted Miles is the one that teaches him what love is.

Clearly Edgar is still attached to Madeline, but when he meets her it throws him in a muddle, because he finally realises he actually has the same (if not potentially stronger) feelings for Miles the whole time. He wasn't just jealous of Miles, he was jealous of Madeline for spending time with him. That is the moment Edgar realises what love really is. And also... he's an AI. He wasn't created to understand love, this would be a huge realisation to him, and potentially a terrifying one- he's taken in the social norms (funny little trash tv addict) so he's likely taken in the social norm of monogamy. (Man. Why did he have to do that to himself. At least we know he still exists from the radio scene so we can all just imagine they bought a new computer for him and he came home to them)

Think about it- Edgar has the power to call anywhere up. He theoretically could call Madeline, yet he chooses to call Miles at work (and then get shy about it), ask him what he's doing tonight, and seek his company. He hates being left alone. He throws a huge tantrum. Bro you can't tell me that whole scene after with the eye screen wasn't just like, divorce. Take your things and GET OUT!!! type beat. But they kiss again later so its fine.

Edgar also seeks validation/acknowledgement from Miles, naturally because he wants credit to woo Madeline, but also... potentially he just wants the praise from Miles too.

(Also sneak peek the "love is love" lyric and then the frame of the rainbow cables. That's an entire gay computer)

Okay ALSO ALSO. Edgar is the most fucking flirty/socially adapted one out of the three, ironically. Miles is absolutely a shy architecture autism creature and Madeline is like his opposite, but an autism creature for music, very outgoing. She speaks in a Way. A key part of her character is personifying objects qnd being attached to them. "An elevator ate it", "it okay", things like that. She has two love interests at once (Bill and Miles) and doesn't seem to have a deep connection with either aside from music. If you ask me, she doesn't have the best concept of commitment. She seems quite impulsive and indecisive, and while she knows what she ultimately wants, she may not always be 100% confident on it. Headcanoning her as arospike. It's definitely not projection because i kin her. POLYAMORY IS LIKE THE BEST THING EVER FOR AROSPIKE PPL BC ITS LIKE COMMITMENT WITHOUT THE INTIMIDATION TO BE LOVEY ALL THE TIME maybe thats just me projecting

She wants to get to know miles better and have a deeper connection and that gives her the perfect time to also establish that with edgar as long as you imagine he comes back. Which he would. He hates being alone bro that computer demon is gonna get bored just being In Technology Void. He just has freedom now.

Edgar is also autistic just btw . Maybe a little adhd. Maybe im sprinkling some traits of my cohost onto him, listen i associate characters w people,

Arospike means to still be attracted to people and experience romantic feelings towards others, but not always consistently. Sometimes there's periods where you aren't attracted to people at all. Her feelings and opinions of others seem to flip flop a lot.

Also. Back to the computer sorry. I know theres one post already but if edgar was a human hed absolutely want tits. It's true. Go you little it/he/she.

Anyway yeah thats about it spent half my lunch hour writing this and its not very formal or well put together but it is how it is.

ALSO IM AUTISTIC AND STUFF IF I WORDED THIS WEIRD WHEN TALKING ABT IT IM SO SORRY

Anyway yeah human man and woman and nonbinary computer are all autistic and in love, end tweet. Worlds BEST polycule

[zairas-realm-gateway]

Because of my feral hyperfixation on Bruce Campbell (that apparently has been mounting slowly since childhood), my sister and I often discuss his many characters. Because Bruce is such a charismatic and varied actor, we love discussing the flare he gives to those characters.

More specifically, the sexual and/or gender identities of those characters based on how Bruce plays them. In this post I primarily want to talk about Brisco but I feel like I have to talk about a few others first. Just a couple because my sister and I constantly talk about these characters’ identities.

First up is the lovely Charles Travis (From Congo 1995, for those that don’t know). My personal obsession since childhood, god I want to kiss him. *cough* ignore that...

In the unfortunately, very short time we have with Charlie, he definitely gives off straight vibes. But these are non-toxic straight vibes. Despite being exhausted and stranded in the middle of the Congo, he’s got a bright, friendly disposition and you can hear his chemistry with Karen in the short conversation they have. Honestly, we needed more of him but this post isn’t about that... anyway, Charles is a sweet straight/cis man who may or may not have daddy issues because he let his asshole father send him to the Congo for no good fucking reason!

-

Up next is an easy and familiar choice: Ash Williams, the man who got bitchslapped by destiny and has three kids. 

There’s a lot of content with Ash. You really get to see his chemistry with other characters. I won’t get super deep into it because so many other Tumblr authors

have described it in far more detail but Ash gives off the opposite of straight vibes. The man is definitely giving off bisexual vibes. Ash loved all his girlfriends very much and had excellent chemistry with them. But Ash also has a soft, overly friendly vibe with other guys such as Scotty and Chet. The particular touchy-feely, constantly stealing long glances at each other vibes that Ash shares with Chet is what I’ve talking about. Also, there’s the obvious headcanon that Ash is trans, which I love. The entire series is full of evidence of Ash being trans but I also like to look to the second season of AvED for evidence. The dialog in that season, especially when talking with Brock and Cheryl, is incredibly trans-coded. Go check it out, it’s a great show.

-

Also, honorable mention before I get to Brisco: Autolycus

I haven’t gotten to the part of Xena with him yet but already I can tell you that this man is decidedly not straight. Like literally every other character in this show, this man is some intense flavor of queer.

-

Alrighty, enough of that.

On to Brisco!

Brisco County Jr, the sweetheart cowboy who always looks towards the future.

The past several days I’ve been thinking a lot about Brisco. Why? Because I fell head-over-heels for his disheveled ass, shut up! Now, I would like to say that at the point of writing this, I have only seen the first few episodes but there’s been enough context there for me to really think about this. I know that Brisco gets a girlfriend later in the series/season (he’s a male 90′s MC, it was mandatory he gets one). That being said, I see Brisco as being Gay/Ace with intense top energy (his constant confidence and self-assured aura). 

In like the three episodes I have seen of Brisco, this man has zero (0) romantic vibes with any of the women. His flirting, what little there is of it, is very mild and performative. Most of his relationships with women have a deep platonic vibe to them. Unlike Brisco’s energy with both Lord Bowler and Socrates. When he talks with them, it’s quite flirty and upbeat, playful. He teases them gently and is quite open with speaking to them. Despite him and Lord Bowler being rivals upon meeting, they already friendly protective of each other by the second episode.

The friendship that Brisco has cultivated with Lord Bowler by that point is very soft and affectionate. There’s a deep tenderness that transcends friendship. Lord Bowler drops his rough exterior around Brisco in ways that is not normally done.

People, you do not sing to your rival to comfort them while they’re in pain and dying unless there is something deeper going on with your relationship!

Also, in the episode where he goes to the town full of nothing but women, he doesn’t flirt with a single one. The professor keeps making insinuations about how great their situation is and Brisco’s just like “meh” about the whole thing. In that episode, during the trap set up in the bathhouse, Brisco never even casts an interested look at the naked woman in the bath. He simply thanks her for her help and leaves. Brisco also has decidedly platonic, almost sibling-like chemistry with the town’s sheriff. When he leaves town, there’s only a goodbye. No sidelong glances or shoehorned kiss. Nothing. They’re both the two least horny people in existence.

Speaking of Brisco not being horny, we not come to the part where I see him as being asexual. Though, he is not sex-repulsed. He will have sex if his partner wishes to. He’s not enthused or enticed by sex. Sexual intercourse is not a driving factor in his life. He would much rather be out discovering things or talking to his horse. 

I have a few examples of Brisco in situations where in any other show, the male lead would be overly enthusiastically engaged in the situation:

This is the body language of a man who is viscerally uncomfortable. You can tell by the crease in his cheek where her hand touches that he is actively recoiling from her in-coming kiss.

For this gif, normally in this situation the male lead would be doing one of several things: leaning into the touch, eyes drift down to watch where she is enticingly touching, returning the soft touch, or leaning his head in to continue the conversation. But Brisco does none of these things. He completely ignores what her hand is doing. His eyes stay on her face at all times. He isn’t checking out her very obvious tits. and he is once against actively leaning his head back as he speaks. He doesn’t so much as twitch at her touch. Brisco is completely unphased and uninterested in the sexual implications of their intimate positioning.

This is the least sexiest version of the “omg, I accidentally fell on you in a scandalous way” position I have ever seen in my life. Brisco’s mind is entirely on the situation outside of his intimate positioning. His mind is no way engaged in the fact that he is basically straddling a beautiful woman, he is too busy calculating the amount of danger he’s in. Something that most male leads do not immediately focus on when in such a position.

In conclusion, I’m just here to say that Brisco is an example of performative heteronormativity. He is playing “his part” in normal society but is not enthused by it. He knows how he's expected to act and does so when the time calls for it but does seek out opportunities to act in a hetero or allosexual manner. He would much rather either be on his own and daydream or converse with male friends/acquaintances all while having a deep feminist respect for women and their rights to safety and happiness. 

[juniperhillpatient]

The Drill Re-watch

The Dangerous Ladies are back! And they have a big scary drill. I love how Mai is just happy to get something to do & I had honestly forgotten how consistently ecstatic Ty Lee is at any opportunity for violence. She's so adorable & scary at the same time. Have I mentioned lately how much I love Ty Lee? +1000 iconic behavior points to her for taking out all those earth-benders & scaring Katara. I had also forgotten just how scared of Ty Lee Katara is & how much she dislikes her. Katara yelling & calling Ty Lee a circus freak was a badass moment. +1000 iconic behavior points. Mai disobeying Azula just because she doesn't want to get muddy & popping up in the end like "we lost" in a deadpan voice was hilarious & very based of her, +500 iconic behavior points. Sokka's plan to take out the drill from the inside was pretty smart. +500 iconic behavior points.

My favorite part of the conflict with the drill was actually Ty Lee. I also really loved the flirty moment between her & Sokka, & Katara having to drag Sokka away. Honestly, I've never given much thought to Ty Lee/Sokka as a potential ship until this re-watch but their flirty banter during fights is so funny & cute. And I just can't get enough of Ty Lee happily kicking ass.

Surprisingly, I don't have that much to say about Azula in this episode which is rare for me but this was pretty much standard hero vs. villain "let's keep the Fire Nation out of Ba Sing Se" stuff. I mean, the Azula vs. Aang fight was badass, but I don't have any meaningful analysis of it. I think the most meaningful takeaway I have about Azula in this episode is regarding her relationship with Mai & Ty Lee. It's been commented on a hundred times that Mai disobeys Azula's order in this episode, but still, I'll comment on it again. I think it says a lot about the dynamic between Azula & Mai. Mai is a subordinate, & there is a power imbalance but Mai knows what she can & can't get away with & isn't afraid to do what she wants under certain circumstances. I think that the dynamic between these three girls is layered & this episode gives evidence to the idea that Azula does treat Mai & Ty Lee like friends to the extent that Azula can treat anyone like friends. Mai never felt coerced & if she was reluctant to follow specific orders, she simply didn't.

Jet & Zuko were my favorite part of this episode, actually. I can't believe it took me as long as it did spending time in this fandom to warm up to Jet/Zuko as a romantic pairing. Shocking & disappointing for me, really, I feel like I usually have good taste right away. SMH past me. Oh well, I see the truth now. They're literally Thee Template. Like, they met each other, said "be gay do crime" & had a touching heart to heart about both being traumatized & Zuko realized that he didn't always have to be alone & by the next episode Jet is following Zuko around like a lost puppy begging him to join his little found family. THEN freaking Iroh warms up his tea with fire-bending. Iroh, I was just warming up to you & starting to stand up for you, dude. What are you DOING? Zuko is right. For a supposedly wise old man, that's just.....really fucking stupid. I don't even know what to say. I guess Iroh got a little too comfortable? Like....what? Anyway....

Despite the rather contrived way in which it happened (yeah, sorry, I'm gonna say the writing is a LITTLE contrived like, I just don't get it is Iroh supposed to be smart or not?) I DO love a dramatic breakup between two characters who technically never even dated. Jet now knows that Zuko & Iroh are fire-benders. And MAN. A hundred smarter people than me have written fascinating essays & analyses & metas about the tragedy that Jet is right that they're fire-benders & more right than he knows because they're literally Fire Nation royalty & both personally responsible for a lot of harm inflicted by the Fire Nation but he's wrong because they are actually refugees now & not causing any new harm & also because he needs to let go of this obsessive hate because it will (& does) lead to his downfall like....We'll get to my thoughts on Jet's tragedy & his death when we get there but this set up for drama (by itself!!! pretending I'm watching for the first time!!!) IS excellent writing (if the specifics weren’t so contrived.) If only they ---- never mind, I'm done for now. I'm ending this ramble. Goodnight. Oh yes, Zuko & Jet get +1000 iconic behavior points for their quick little fling that will change them both forever & for having a dramatic breakup without Zuzu (king of drama on any other occasion!) even knowing about it.

Anyway, this was a great episode. I'm surprised I had so little to say about Azula & that she earned no iconic behavior points, but it's okay because she will blow everyone else out of the running in Crossroads of Destiny, I already know 100% for sure. Yeah, my favorite parts of this episode were the Dangerous Ladies & Jet & Zuko but I should also mention that I liked Sokka joking about the different group names even though "gaang" hasn't come up yet. And the hints about metal-bending & its potential were fun subtle foreshadowing.

[garoumylove]

Bad Boy Garou and I love it.

Just saw someone saying that Garou being a flirty high school bad boy in fanfics is a misrepresentation of his character and a bastardisation of his character and whatnot. So I wanted to write my thoughts on this as someone who has written plenty of ‘flirty high school bad boy’ Garou.

Firstly, that statement makes me pretty sad. I do not misrepresent or mischaracterise Garou in my fanfics just because I make him into a high schooler with a delinquent streak and who’s not afraid to exchange some witty repartee with his love interest. In fact, I’ve been told over and over how on point and well-characterised my fics are throughout the years and there’s one long fic in particular that people keep coming back to over and over because of how intense and emotionally messy it is even though on the surface of it all he is a high school bad boy.

The implication here is that anyone who writes or draws Garou as a flirty high school delinquent doesn’t really understand him and I find that a little upsetting to say the least. It's fine to say 'I don't like when Garou is portrayed as...' I too have my preferences like anyone. But to make a general statement about how fics that have him as a bad boy, or whatever other label, just mischaracterise him in general...idk, I'm not really down with that.

Yes, there are fics that probably do make him completely OOC but that doesn’t mean that every high school ‘bad boy’ fic does. To write off that characterisation as a misrepresentation is a bit drastic. To me, the bad boy exterior of Garou is always a front for all the issues he is dealing with inside. I really love exploring what’s going on in his head and all his insecurities and thoughts and painful feelings while he’s presenting this cocky delinquent image to the world. It’s a duality that’s very fitting to him.

As for the flirting. Why not? Garou is highly intelligent and he can come up with some really clever and witty comebacks if he wants. Garou’s flirting would be of the teasing intelligent kind, not the cheesy, sexual pick up lines. It would be subtle and pretty straightforward at the same time I think. 

In fact, I feel the characterisation of Garou as someone completely flustered and tongue tied at the thought of speaking to a girl (or boy) is the one that is more OOC but I digress.

Anyway, I’ve seen many takes on Garou. That he is hypersexual, asexual, straight, gay, bi, confident, shy, sex god and inexperienced virgin and the list goes on. All of these can be true or none of them can. It’s not the label, it’s how the story is written. Saying Garou is mischaracterised and bastardised because someone writes him as flirty/gay/virgin/quiet/loud/whatever is not nice. Everyone has a Garou that is true to them. And it’s the exploration of his character as a whole, not just his romantic/sexual side, that determines how in or out of character he is in a story.

I just wanted to get this out because it always makes me sad when it feels like people look down on others or imply they don't understand something as well as them when actually it's just a matter of preference or opinion. I don’t want other ‘bad boy high schooler Garou’ fic writers seeing those comments and feeling down or that their work is somehow inferior or that they don’t understand their comfort character. 

So to any fanfic writers reading this. Go ahead, write Garou however you want! And don’t feel bad like I’m currently feeling after reading those comments. I know I write Garou very well as a ‘flirty high school bad boy’ and I will do so again in the future, along with many other versions of Garou too. 

♥️xoxo♥️

[diamondcitydarlin]

why is there also something about loki being so comfortable in Mobius' space, just in these little moments here and there? Mobius clearly invites him to hang out in his cubicle to do his TVA tests and by the time we open up on him there he's made himself fully at home- not only is he reclining in the chair and I think propping his feet on the desk (maybe? idk) he's also studying Mobius' jetski magazine with an air of both casual indifference and fascination (in the mundane, no less) WHICH HE LATER ASKS ABOUT VERY EAGERLY like loooki you're a GOD, he's a little bureaucrat in a brown suit reading inane midgardian literature on jetskis and you're over here about to write a dissertation on mobius and why he loves jetskis and why jetskis are indeed awesome just like him i mean honestly the thirst

anyway, there's that and then there's lunch scene where Loki abjectly dismantles every bit of food Mobius has to make his point, there's the file-studying scene where Loki is sprawled out asleep over like 75% of the desk and very much vulnerable to anyone that might want to take advantage of that (not Mobius tho, and apparently no one else as long as Mobius is sitting there with him interesting), there's the feet tangling under the table on their coffee date and in that same scene the way both of their body languages are open and relaxed towards one another (a stark contrast from the rigid postures in the interrogation scene), the hand on the small of Loki's back in the Roxxcart parking lot and the little flirty lean-in Loki does towards Mobius just after. I think a lot of this is Owen and Tom having a great working relationship and on-screen dynamic, but the fact that this can so easily translate to their characters says a lot.

I could be wrong because as much as I love my little gay ice goth I'm not a scholar on him and I don't remember ever scene he's ever been in with resolute clarity, BUT it seems to me that in MOST situations Loki has been in up to that point he's never, ever 100% comfortable, certainly not comfortable enough to be splaying himself around wantonly in someone's space the way he does with Mobius. Like, one of the scenes with the Grandmaster comes to mind, when they're watching Thor battle the Hulk and he's sitting very rigidly on the opposite end of the couch- as far away from his sugar daddy as he can possibly manage, everything about him tightly wound to some degree even before Hulk showed up. (this is how I interpret the dynamic with Frostmaster, I treat it as canon lol sorry if u don't but im different)

Loki is always on the defense as he plans his next offense, so seeing him fully, completely relax and trust in someone like this ...??? does he not deserve a love like this, ultimately?? doesn't everyone?? does he not deserve to be so completely seen for everything he is and secure in the fact that his partner loves him for all of it??? after ALL he's been through over the years???

insane stuff

[absolutebl]

Hi! Sorry if you've talked about this in the past (I tried looking on your 2gether tag but couldn't find anything), but I'm curious what your thought are on 2gether and still 2gether. I watched both series without having read and reviews, or being involved in any fan community, so I went in absolutely blind to all the criticism. My assessment after I had finished 2gether was basically that I liked it up until they became a couple, and then it kind of went down hill, due to the shows seeming fear of having them act like an actual couple. And I'm not talking about kissing (I think honestly that critique is a little tiresome, and I like high heat media I should add), just that I think the writing kind of failed, and even the editing and directing should have gone in a slightly different direction. Maybe have more lingering shots on hand brushing, longing looks, etc. I thought Bright gave some pretty good flirty looks, the show just could have emphasized it a bit more, and in general the camera could have been better when it came to showing the romance. However despite it not being a perfect show, I thought it was a perfectly serviceable romantic comedy. But some people seem to REALLY hate it. I'm curious where your thoughts on all of this fall, and the ending, and I guess the outrage because of lack of kissing. I actually think brightwin's chemistry wasn't bad. It's not like mewgulf or maxtul or something, but in this case I'm more inclined to blame the actors. Though I did read that it may have been in their contract to not have more then two kisses or something like that (though I feel like that's just a rumor)? Which is a bit strange imo, BUT once again, I would blame the writing. Just move the 2 kisses or whatever to after the characters get together, and don't waste them in the beginning of the show.

Hi!

No worries, I have so much content most of the time I can't remember either.

I'm curious what your thought are on 2gether and Still 2gether

So unlike quite a few people I was already deep into BL by the time these two rolled around. So BrightWin are not particularly formative for me. I find their chemistry... lose? Questionable? Awkward? Something. I don't know. Not totally believable, I guess.

It took me three tries to watch it at all. I HATE HATE HATE Green's character in every possible way and could not get past him for months. From the punching down humor against femme gay, to the stereotype, to the way Tine treats him, to how he is acted. I do not find Green in anyway funny and I blame the director, not the actor.

Apart from that I have a few niggling objections to do with chemistry and the like but it was fine. I didn't find the show ground breaking in any way. It's a serviceable BL with issues and concerns like other BLs, charms and pleasures like other BLs.

I gave it a... lemme check...

8/10

(Which is what I gave SOTUS, Theory of Love, My Day, Word of Honor, Given, You Make Me Dance, and HIStory 4 for comparison.)

I tend to rate media on what it's trying to do when compared to others of its type. So 2gether is judged as a high production BL from GMMTV, and that's what it's up against. Something like Golden Blood also got an 8/10 from me, but it was being judged as a Thai BL pulp, so different standards.

Is this grading on a curve? Let's call it that.

I rarely read reviews, so I went in blind to all criticism as well (in fact I remain so), although I was aware of the obsession and adoration. That tends to make me suspicious. I'm always suspicious of what's popular.

I agree with you that it's a "perfectly serviceable romantic comedy."

I wasn't aware that some people seem to really hate it. But I guess I can sorta understand. Where it misses the mark, it really does miss. Kind of like HIStory 4, although not it quite the same way, of course.

I tend to draw a distinction between:

not my thing - for weird personal reasons (I Told Sunset About You) and that's my hang up

dislike - I can't really explain I just don't really like something about it, even though I should be obsessed (Like in the Movies)

disappointment - we all know you could have done better in some significant way - chemistry, story, ending (My Gear and Your Gown)

betrayal - we have a contract about what it means to be a good BL and you BROKE it, you're dead to me (History 3: The BL That Shall Not Be Named)

2gether never really betrayed or even disappointed me. It just is what it is. Nothing special.

I actually think their Big Kiss at the end of Still 2gether was really good, and their chemistry got a little better in the second season.

But nothing about the show keeps me up at night.

It's just this show.

Ya know?

[sunmoonandsandsoundtracks]

happy birthday, naruto!

yay for the sunshine boi we all know and love! i'm planning on getting the one story i've written for him thus far out in january or february. it's one of my favorite stories that i've ever written.

here's a lil something for the cutie crawling on my head in my pic. it's a pretty cliche trope, but i think i did it pretty well? please, let me know. it did write itself out pretty quickly.

spotify/youtube

word count: 1,164- oh my god, i'm incapable of writing anything less than a thousand words. someone give me a prompt challenge to limit my word count. i can train myself out of using excessive words and find shorter ways to say things if it's not the character's specific way of talking (i can be horrible about keeping dialogue in character anyway).

warning: naruto being sexy and flirty. i claim no responsibility for the fantasies this may inspire.

enjoy!

The day really had started out on a good note. Everything was set up to give the hero of Konoha a birthday he'd never forget. He'd only saved the world, right? He deserved to be celebrated on the day he was born. Especially considering it was a day with which a lot of people still had a negative association.

You'd worked with Sakura and a few others to make a schedule of events that would give him a chance to see each of the teams from his academy graduation class as well as Team Gai, Konohamaru's team, and even Gaara and his siblings, who were in the village for a meeting with Kakashi. You'd all worked your asses off to be able to carve out a little time for the friend that gave everything he had to everyone he knew. It was planned down to the minutia to make sure he got to see everyone he could and have fun while you looked on, out of the way, but ready to get involved to fix any details that went wrong, then hang out at the surprise party at Ichiraku Ramen at the end of the night. You just hoped to see that bright smile of his from wherever you hid.

So how did you end up gagged and bound on a bed in a room, with only a sliver of the moonlight slipping in through the small gap in the curtains to provide any illumination? All you knew was that you were getting ready to finalize everything for the party when someone must have snuck up on you and knocked you out.

Okay guys, real funny! You can come get me now!

You were contemplating rolling off the bed and trying to worm your way around when you heard a door open outside the room, followed by a voice.

"Thanks, guys! This was awesome!" You heard Naruto say, and your eyes that had just started to adjust to the dark were blown wide.

They did NOT-

The door closed, and you barely detected a sigh.

"There was just one person missing," he muttered to himself. His footsteps moved around the apartment for a bit, and then they started getting closer. Your heart hammered, and you wondered if you could roll off the bed and hide, but knew you couldn't. He'd hear the noise when you hit the floor, and you couldn't move that fast in your current condition. The cuffs that bound your wrists behind your back must have been chakra suppressing ones, so you couldn't use any jutsu.

Okay, just explain that I have no idea what's going on, and someone must have put me here as a prank. We'll laugh about it, figure out who it was, plot reve-

The bedroom door opened and the light flipped on, revealing Naruto, who froze in shock when he saw you there.

"Don't just stand there, you adorably delicious dummy! Untie me!" was what you tried to say- with the exception of the 'adorably delicious' part- but all that came out was, "mmm mmm mmm mmm!"

When he recovered, he chuckled. It started out light, but then darkened, and the way he looked at you as he walked over, removing and discarding his jacket on the floor, had you feeling simultaneously afraid- though you knew he'd never intentionally hurt you, it was just kind of a rushing feeling- and excited, eager to find out what that look meant.

"So, this is where you were. I was so bummed that you weren't at the party. They told me you were unexpectedly tied up, but I didn't think they meant it literally. No wonder Sakura and Ino were keeping Sai's mouth covered or busy all night."

Your eyebrows shot up. Now you knew for sure that it was your friends, and you had the suspicion that both of the girls he named were the originators of the idea. You swore they shared a brain at times.

He plucked something off your head, and you found it to be an orange bow.

Oh, so that's what they- Oh...

You grumbled a bit, trying to get him to take off the gag. He got the hint, or he just decided he wanted it off, and removed it.

"I'm going to kill them," you groaned. "You've got to help me."

"No way," he laughed. "I've been too afraid of Sakura for too long to even think about it. Ino, maybe, but not Sakura. I don't want to die."

"Damn," you sighed. "Fine. Joke's over, you can let me go now. I can't believe they made me miss the party for a prank! I put as much into preparing and planning as they did, and I've been-"

You cut off before you could tell him that you'd basically been stalking-

"Following me all day? Yeah, I know. They told me everything."

"Seriously? Those-"

You were cut off by a hot mouth on yours. You found it was easier to immediately respond to him than you would have thought if you'd ever considered what it would be like if he kissed you out of nowhere like that.

He pulled back with a smirk. "And here I was wondering if you were here against your will."

"Oh, believe me, I am." You mirrored his smirk. "Get these cuffs off me so that can change, and I can give you a real birthday present that isn't just for you to look at."

The two of you had playfully flirted with each other frequently over the years, never venturing into serious or sexual territory, so you had crossed that line. You really expected him to at least blush a little, but you were disappointed, then he turned it on you with a single sentence of his own.

"So I guess what Kiba slipped into my pocket before I left with a few of the others wasn't a joke either?"

The cuffs came off soon after, shortly followed by his shirt, your shirt, his pants, and so on.

The next day, when Sakura and Sai stopped by to check on Naruto after the little stunt the night before and found you still there, it was a pretty happy morning all around.

"But wait," Sai said as they were leaving, and you all braced for one of his questions. "I heard Kiba say something about ending your birthday with a huge bang. I had been expecting them to set off fireworks or something loud, but I heard nothing."

You snickered. "Don't worry, Sai, there were definitely fireworks, a bang, and plenty of noise. Bye now!"

The door was shut on them, and Sakura rolled her eyes.

"So, they had sex? I read in a book that it can be considered offensive to assume if you don't know that the two are in a relationship," Sai commented. Sakura just dragged him away.

Inside, you and Naruto had returned to bed to relax a little longer, and then got to extending his birthday celebration for another day.

[cattles-bians]

exes au part 12

post directory

obsetress: don’t ask why i had this thought because i couldn’t tell you but

obsetress: jamie wakes up in the middle of the night one night and is like “i... had a dream. about vi”

obsetress: and dani’s like “ok baby” and just nuzzles deeper into her pillow and jamie’s like

obsetress: “no, dani, a... a dream”

obsetress: and dani’s like “oh. oh” and is immediately wide awake and bright eyed

obsetress: and is like “was it any good?” and jamie is just. already flushed so red and flushed deeper and dani just hums

em: sighs wistfully

em: i also love that something compels jamie to tell dani Immediately

em: oh the perils of begrudgingly being friends w ur gfs ex

em: jamies like um. no see i can see all these different things my brain mashed together and WHY i had this dream and danis like ok but that wasn’t my question....

obsetress: jamie finally throws up her hands “of course it was”

em: jamie: And You Can’t Tell Vi She’ll Be Insufferable

obsetress: dani, very plainly, at brunch the next morning: so vi

obsetress: jamie looks like she’s going to have a heart attack and dani lets her sweat and then just smiles sweetly “i like those sunglasses. are they new?”

em: jamie what’s the problem (nothin. indigestion)

obsetress: dani very smug n thinks she’s very funny

obsetress: (she is a little funny)

em: one of jamies many ‘oh that’s why they dated’ moments

obsetress: “fookin sick, the both of ya”

em: idk why you had this thought but i’m GREATLY amused

obsetress: skskksksks right

obsetress: jamie explaining her dream to dani in great detail afterwards

obsetress: dani sitting there nodding and hmming “oh that sounds like her. no, she wouldn’t do that. now THAT she would be very good at, you’d like it”

em: i need a moment

em: jamie thinks the dark hides her massive fucken blush but it Doesn’t

em: dani can feel her heating up

obsetress: jamie “i don’t ask you to do this” dani “you’re not stopping me”

em: dani critiquing jamies sex dream is such a fucken funny concept sjdhdkhdkdhdkc

obsetress: RIGHT

obsetress: i’m dying

em: dani: oh no that’s OOC

obsetress: she wouldn’t have a riding crop jamie, it’s 2021, not 16—

em: jamie: it’s a wet dream do u really think it’s gonna have beta readers and a three act structure

em: dani hums

obsetress: dani: well did you enjoy it

obsetress: jamie: i— dani: did you?

obsetress: jamie mumbling yeah

em: jamies like i’m gonna interrogate dani next time, see how she feels- but she forgets dani is incapable of feeling shame

obsetress: like dani wouldn’t just launch into a ramble

---

em: viola

obsetress: fuck

obsetress: yeah

obsetress: to jamie, specifically,

em: to jamie specifically andhdjhdjd

em: once again ironic jamvi has turned, in my brain, into ‘yes and....’ jamvi

—-

obsetress:

obsetress: jamie sending this to viola n vi's like

obsetress: she doesn't get it because she's convinced her taste is immaculate

---

em: anyway this is ooc even for exes au but i keep thinking abt like. jamie tryna crack how old viola is (she cant be 34 im 30 it doesnt make sense) and going through her fb timeline like. 'aha! motivational quotes. gotta be late 30s' and danis either like

em: danis either like 'you have a notebook where you write down all the quotes you like baby' OR shes like haha ok thats fair (posts another motivational quote on her fb)

obsetress: god i love that so much

obsetress: both of those dani responses are

obsetress: honestly porque no los dos if we're already going ooc

obsetress: i do think the first bit "gotta crack it she can't be 34 i'm 30 it doesn't make sense" is in character fwiw

em: obviously i was inspired by ur post in the milf channel abt viola always saying shes 35

em: big brain

—-

obsetress: this is literally just. exes au rebecca

obsetress: down to the caption

obsetress: vi and rebecca patiently staging like full photoshoots for each other every time one of them wants a pic otp: i'm not high maintenance, you're just low effort

---

em: bold 2 say that we don’t think about jamie and vi tho

em: gotta keep some sorta. presentation of respectability

em: they absolutely couldn’t date tho

obsetress: lmao ikr

obsetress: yeah no they'd kill each other

obsetress: now just thinking of silly circumstances and um

obsetress: rebecca's out of town and dani's flying back from some iowa thing jamie couldn't get away for to go with

obsetress: and viola's like "oh, just stay at ours, it's closer and i'll get you a car"

obsetress: and just like

obsetress: imagining the two of them cohabitating at vi's for a night

em: jamie sneaking around at night tryna find the bathroom and runs straight into vi in a face mask and a dangerously low dressing gown Again

obsetress: the parallels to canon

obsetress: im giggling

obsetress: walks straight into her path

em: opens a door. sees something she doesn’t want to see. immediately turns and walks away

em: god the face mask would make her look like the lady in the lake

obsetress: yeah

obsetress: vi wants to go out to dinner, jamie's just like "i'm already getting up early to go to the airport, can't we just have an easy night in"

em: what did i say before. that thing abt if ur friends w damie you will inevitably walk in on them

obsetress: god yeah

em: flip of that.

obsetress: oh GOD

em: god they would argue about dinner

em: bicker about EVERYTHING

em: dani and rebecca both make the married couple joke

em: jamie goes pale

obsetress: wait sorry i just went back to tahirahs insta post and like

obsetress: katie parker commented and was like "i love these shots of you" and she was like "thanks luv " and i'm like

obsetress: why does this....... still track........... with exes au...............

em: perdy is always a little too flirty w vis paramours

obsetress: always! except dani for whatever reason

obsetress: she's just scared of dani

em: Please

obsetress: rebecca's like "i don't see what the problem is. she can do what she wants, but you trust me, don't you?" "of course i trust you" rebecca shrugs "that's it then, isn't it?"

obsetress: anyway vi huffs n crosses her arms n pouts a little bit and is like "well i don't want her to"

obsetress: rebecca is endeared and uses the opportunity to her advantage like the top leaning switch she is

em: dani rebecca parallels: always dtf

obsetress: perdi and vi fighting and vi's like "are you even gay? or do you just want what i have?" and perdi is like "does it matter?"

em: are you even gay perdi nahdkdhdkdhd

em: perdi is like you KNOW about jamie and viola crinkles her nose bc she forgot about that and she’s starting to respect jamie as a person

obsetress: djflakdkfjldkadjLDJFLSKDFJLSDKFJx

obsetress: i screeched

em: viola: you only MET jamie because i hired her for landscaping you fucking-

obsetress: just thinking about perdita watching jamie working on some property sweating in a tank top and Deciding

em: bringing out some lemonade etc

em: haha you look parched

obsetress: smiling widely, turning on the charm

obsetress: jamie is very attractive and very swoonworthy, but perdita 100% only goes for it because she refuses to let viola have one (1) thing

obsetress: and that extends to lesbianism

em: viola's like no this is normal right. siblings competing. rivalries etc and danis like uh i’m an only child and jamies like uh i raised my brother

em: they don’t know how to tell her sure it happens but it’s also extremely fucken weird vi

obsetress: jamie: you have to tell her dani: why do i have to tell her jamie: you tell her everything dani: i don't tell her–– ok, i tell her most things. i'm not sure i want to tell her this though jamie: why not dani: she's not... she's not gonna like it jamie: So You Might Be A People Pleaser,

em: jamie: i can’t tell her. she’s only just forgotten the perdi thing. what if she remembers i’ve

em: in depth character study of viola and perdi’s fucked up rivalry

em: violas like goddamn it do i have to fuck jamie to get even

obsetress: i––

em: she decides against it

em: jamie is none the wiser

obsetress: she Considers it tho

em: jamie would die on the spot if she knew

obsetress: weighs the pros and cons

obsetress: the best part is like

obsetress: this is all post-danvi and pre-damie right so when dani n jamie see rebecca and vi at that video store

obsetress: viola's like wait.

obsetress: wait

obsetress: dani ending up with the hot gardener her sister fucked because she has bizarre jealousy and possession issues is really just the cherry on top of a shit sundae

em: the funniest part of all our very tangled lore is like

em: none of it contradicts bc it’s even funnier when it’s Extremely Ugly And Messy

em: because lesbians are just... like that

---

obsetress: exes au au where viola did fuck jamie, the video rental shop scene is 100 times more awkward

em: don’t think about it don’t think about it dont

em: i am thinking about it

em: jamie has to deal with having been railed by all three of them instead of just the two

em: it feels very uneven to her bc rebeccas a doll, dani, u don’t understand, and ur only running into one ex,

obsetress: talk about the mortifying ordeal of being known

obsetress: "wait, that's your ex?" "yeah" "dani" "what" "dani" "what" jamie's voice is hushed but a lil pitchy and a lot panicky "i think i fucked your ex" "you think?" "i fucked your ex" "you fucked her or she fucked you? because i'm sorry, baby, but i really don't think––"

em: sorry, baby, but i really don’t think-

em: SCREAMED

obsetress: that might be my fave lil bit i've ever written adlfkjasdklf

em: dani being a little too interested in jamie getting railed is like. everything to me

obsetress: jamie's already big blushing

em: a little secret between hannah obsetress and em cowlesbian but i am So thinking abt it

em: patreon exclusive exes au au

[em edit: you can imagine how long this lasted]

obsetress: no one is happy about this situation except dani, who is delighted

em: after, jamie's like. what did u mean by u don’t think that...

em: puffs out her chest

em: i could have-

em: danis like yeah but i know u didn’t did u

obsetress: dani clayton ilu

em: danis like um

em: completely unprompted bc dani ‘finishes a conversation 5 hours later’ is really funny to me

em: danis like i did tho

em: jamies like can you DROP IT

em: she’s SMUG

em: she’s so pleased w herself

obsetress: in bed with the lights off jamie's pulling the sheets up and closing her eyes afterthought

obsetress: just a happy lil hum and an "i did, though"

obsetress: and jamie knows IMMEDIATELY what she's talking about

em: dani never lets jamie live it down

obsetress: never!

obsetress: they'll be washing dishes one day "hey baby?" "hmm" "you slept with a landlord"

em: oh um. flipping the whole ‘experienced jamie virginal dani’ trope everyone loves but

em: i love the idea of dani being like hey jamie did u ever- and jamies like (grumbles) does it matter

em: dani is mentally applying a gold star to her chart

obsetress: ksdljfskdfjlsdjflksdjaf

obsetress: the gold star

em: at this point dani is absolute just tryna tease jamie so she’s like oh well when- and jamies like ok i get it

em: jamie Pretends not to be a little interested

obsetress: meanwhile vi and rebecca very matter of factly swapped stories the first day they Realized

obsetress: vibecca swapping stories and their stories complimenting each other so well that they're like well. hmm

obsetress: glad those two found each other

em: two praise kinks u say

em: ok sorry one more thought i’m thinking abt like

em: jamie staying over (idk if this is before or during damie) and viola and perdi are having yet another spat on the phone and violas like

em: no you ALWAYS do this, whatever you think you’re doing with rebecca-‘ and she barely hears some muffled sorta ‘oh, sorry, remember jamie-

em: and jamies doing the maths. hmm

em: jamies like actually i refuse to examine this further. self care

em: brings it up with dani later and dani LOSES her shit laughing

em: haha jamie you got willoughby’ed

obsetress: SCREAMS

obsetress: you got willoughby'd

obsetress: how does one get willoughbyd asking for a friend

em: yeah same asking for a friend

obsetress: dani, gigglesnorting: wait, you hooked up with... with perdi?

obsetress: (dani hates perdita because viola hates perdita and it is a deep seated hatred she refuses to unlearn)

obsetress: a loyalty strange and enduring, despite it all

em: to be fair perdi is the Worst

em: all of these characters i love to make sympathetic and then perdi is where i draw the line akdhdkhd

em: it’s funnier if she’s awful

em: like a viola that never gets therapy

obsetress: lldjfkaskldfj god same

obsetress: it's too good

em: danis like wait hold on. lemme get a pen

em: makes a silly little chart

em: if the fandom tries to make jamie into a shane the l word character i will simply take that and make jamie mortified abt her uh. well! a pretty girl is nice to her and she forgets how to behave

em: jamie's like oh sure like u don’t have embarrassing flings- and danis like yeah but i don’t interact w them on a daily basis jamie

em: also i didn’t fuck perdi

obsetress: skskskflsdflks

obsetress: "you did fuck perdi though, right? because that just be embarrassing, jamie, if she had been the one who..."

em: skgsdjhdkdhdk

em: jamie grumbles something abt pillow princesses and dani like

em: CLAPS her hands in glee

obsetress: jlsdjflkJSDFKJSDFJ

obsetress: GOD

obsetress: she's immediately pulling out her phone to text vi

em: jamies like why would u message her sister that u freak n danis like oh no theyre very open with each other it’s uh. hmm. anyway

[the-wotog-collection]

some new(ish) kids

“new” as in they didn’t exist yet when we last posted. so some of them are at least 9 months old. anyway!

list under the cut:

CAS

- they’re a half-elf monk! but now that i think about it it would be kinda funny if they had a level or two in rogue

- honestly? they’re a frat boy, but one who drinks respect women (and everyone, really) juice

- complete thembo. they have a -1 int, but +5 dex and +3 cha so who’s really winning here

- seriously when i say they’re a thembo i mean it. cas can dodge bullets all day but they don’t know that a tomato is a fruit

- they’re a people person and respectful and are very much work hard play hard. i love them

PUMPKIN

- now this is a bastard right here

- he/they tiefling rogue. yes they stole that crown what about it

- very much like mollymauk tealeaf i’m not gonna lie. they’ll charm the pants off of you and run away with your whole coin pouch

- smth i love about pumpkin is 1) their last name is pye 2) they have aliases bc in nearly every town they’ve been in there’s a warrant out for his arrest

- pumpkin pye (persona), a flirty rapscallion. if they had to pick one alias to stay as, this would be that one

- apple pye, a quiet sweetheart. kinda country bumpkin-esque

- pecan pye, taciturn but honest (as he can be while using an alias and on the run from the law and generally up to no good) and a hard worker

 - underneath all the layers? he’s kinda sad and lonely, still a flirt and a rapscallion but considerably less, and sometimes he just wants to stay in bed instead of going out and getting into all kinds of trouble

- oh also! he’s self conscious about his freckles, and usually uses some kind of makeup to cover them up if hell brain is acting up/he’s causing trouble

TENJIN

- i’ll be honest i do not remember if i still have their picrew

- i do nvm

- this is tenjin! iirc they’re a drow enchanter (homebrew class my cousin made) but ig in a legal game they’d be a divination wizard

- he’s such a sweetie, oml

- fun fact he has autism! mostly nonverbal and gets overwhelmed super easily, and has a whole pouch full of trinkets that they fidget and stim with

- baby. baby boy

- really fun to play actually

BEE

- she’s here to kick names and take ass, and she’s all out of names

- a whole lesbian. most of why she does what she does is to protect pretty girls

- human (shocker, i know) cleric of a storm god that i forgot to write down

- anyway!

- do no harm but take no shit is her motto. her methods may be borderline illegal, but hey, as long as the thing gets done it’s fine

- usually.

- basically her only method is swing a bat around until people talk and if the bat hits anything/anyone, well. that’s not her business

- oh yeah her bat. it’s infused with electricity and deals lightning damage as well as bludgeoning. it’s sick as hell

- she’s pretty rad

RAY

- everyone needs a weed druid

- okay but seriously. they eat every plant they come across to 1) figure out what they do (they have insanely high con dw) and 2) for magical power

- are they high most of the time? yes. are they really sad actually? also yes

- they aren’t religious, but they do worship the deity their childhood best friend (turned lover, yes) worshipped

- i might talk about that more later :)

- anyway they’re super chill and also one of the few drows i have, iirc

WALKER

- okay now we’re starting to catch up

- his name isn’t actually walker, but it’s what everyone calls him so that’s what he goes by

- he/they (wow theres a lot of he/theys huh) fallen aasimar gloom stalker ranger

- basically think of the edgiest anime boy you can imagine and go “what if he went to therapy”

- he’s such a good boy! yes they still do the adventuring thing, but make a point of going to therapy every week

- they’re making some great progress :)

- while he’s basically a witcher and gets treated like one (i.e. poorly), he just wants to settle down somewhere quiet when there’s no more evil in the world to grow vegetables where the only one around to judge him for being mute is his crow

- the picrew didn’t have a crow so please pretend that’s what the pigeon is

VAL

- valor is a tiefling fighter who came into existence bc i rewatched netflix castlevania and was super gay for striga so i made a character inspired by her

- also has autism, but in addition, she has ptsd from her days in the royal army. she’s seen some shit yall

- isn’t very good with social interactions, a lot of stuff goes right over her head and she’s just awkward as hell, but get her talking about her special interest (military tactics) and she will talk for hours. please let her

- fun fact she met her wife bc she was fishing in a bog trying to catch dinner and fished out a wholeass lady instead

- she’s buff as hell. she could use literally anything as a weapon and make it hurt

UNNAMED WIZARD

- i don’t have a name for them yet BUT i do know that they’re a bitch

- yet another he/they, this time we have a neutral evil wizard who doesn’t care who gets hurt as long as they get results for their experiments

- think albedo genshinimpact but with almost no morals

- yes he’d cast ninth level spells on his party if he was researching something. no he would not feel remorse. probably

- idk i haven’t fleshed him out yet i just know that he’s a bitch

MOUSE

- finally! my favorite character on this list

- this is maisy, but she’s so tiny that everyone calls her mouse

- when i say tiny i mean she’s a halfling and also seven years old. she’s fucking little

- little human druid girl who basically raised herself in the forest and can & will make friends with literally any animal she comes across

- her arcane focus is her flower crown, which also has berries growing on it. they grow back every time she picks one to give to her friends :)

- she’s so fucking pure oh my god. actual cinnamon roll and everything that’s good in this world

- her rat’s name is rat. he’s her friend :)

- and also dog sized compared to her it’s hilarious. she has a little leash for him made of vines and particularly spry twigs

- have some bonus art bc oh my god cutie

[heymonty]

I somehow feel like talking about Monty in a straight sense bothers you some, I can’t explain why it’s just a feeling I get. Does it though? If it does I’m really sorry it’s probably because you’re the only active Monty fan fic blogger and people feel comfortable “chatting” to you cause you’re so awesome, You gotta know though that there is TONS of MontyxOc (female oc/reader) fan fiction on tumblr & wattpad and the ladies Love him including me, some of them admittedly me included totally disregard that they made him gay because of all the fan fic stories out there that we’re not gonna stop reading & enjoying I mean have you seen him??!!! 😍. Fan fiction is amazing cause you’re able to picture yourself dating (FWB, blah blah blah), I mean me personally ever since I started reading fan fiction not just 13RW but other stuff too I found it as an escape from my usually shitty life it kept me from popping pills & cutting myself, I find myself getting lost in the character of whatever Oc is present and occasionally draw inspiration from them. Anyway I’ll stop rambling now lol…

Btdubs super sorry for this 10 000 page essay I wrote and for the deep shit I for some reason juts blurted out🤦🏻‍♀️.

Awee! Don't ever apologize if some people feel bothered 'just because' some people take Monty in a 'straight sense.' *hugs* Like I always keep telling most of you here 'You do you, darling.'

And to reassure you, I'm not bothered at all. 😊 I really appreciate you guys feeling safe about talking to me all these stuff you feel. 💙

I only explain and analyze Monty in a gay sense, cause 1) being that's who he is, and knowing only a little background of him, it helps me give more light about his character by analysing him from the show, so given those, it will become prominent to me what kind of boyfriend he is whether he ends up being with a girl or boy or anyone. Is he going to be flirty? A guy who likes fooling around? A cheater? Or is he a loyal one?

Anyway, I feel like the need to say those to avoid any misunderstanding. And I'm sorry if my answer is so vague it feels like I'm disregarding some of your preferences about Monty. I'm not. I was actually hoping it will help give some of you a little understanding who he might be as a boyfriend from my answers, regardless the sexuality I take him as. (well i still hope it does?🙈)

And same here. I once got this message on my other blogs from a different fandom feeling bothered about my shipping preferences, and I have the same answer as yours, telling them, that it's helping me get by my depression. And I'm so sorry that you're going through it. So, let me express, how I'm happy and proud of you continuing finding a little happiness here and there, and one of them -in this case- is our little Monty. ✨(who might be considered monster to some. skhdnsjsb) But those kind of people are the least of our concerns, cause this is our life. We just have to learn to welcome who's really worth our time and energy.

Also, true, I consider fanfiction a blessing cause you can just freely write anything your heart desires, may it contradict canon or not, but at least, for us, it is our canon. lol, and being able to read other people stories and relate, or simply enjoy what they have written in that fandom you're in. (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)

Aww! I don't mind. Thank you again for trusting me. This means a lot. And thank you for your kind words. Sending lots of love and a Monty plushie you can take care of your way! (づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ

[whateverthedragonswant]

Dean is bi-coded, take 2

I was doing some poking and prodding around the internet for this meta I’m currently working on and sure enough, I came across some blogs, articles, and other things that talk about the queer baiting, Dean’s sexuality, and how Cas’ I love you is platonic (seriously? is this for real? it’s been over 2 months, it’s romantic, it’s been confirmed as that, end of story isn’t it?) and all of that crap. And you know what kills me? 

This moment right here. 

Plus the writer (Ben Edlund) and the director (Phil Sgriccia) of the episode making this commentary on this scene:

“You’re not sure what it means.” (PS) 

“No, I actually like the little mystery. Like sometimes those weird, like, undone, like, sweater, you know, threads to me are like... That’s this, almost the equivalent of the uh, the extension cord on the refrigerator. It’s like, there’s a deeper dimension to the fact that it makes no sense.“ (BE) 

“The whole closeup where he pulls the wallet back, that was something he did that we caught with a camera.“ (PS) 

“It was so much fun to shoot that because he played it so right down the middle, you know, just more awkward about it.“ (PS) 

“Like ‘Wow, somebody likes me.’“ (PS) 

“Well, that’s the weird thing is that it reads in this weird way where it does feel like Dean’s a little bit like...It’s almost like a romantic comedy kind of fluster. Which is very interesting for the character Dean, because it just sort of suggests this weird...this potential.“ (BE) 

“This potential for love in all places.“ (PS)

Why did Jensen ‘play it down the middle’ if the character is 100% straight and that’s canon? Why did Sgriccia keep it in besides the comedy/awkward factor they mention? Why did Dean not just shoot Aaron down, like we saw him do in season 6 with the vampire who was hitting on him? Why the disappointed expression when Aaron later confirms that the moment, Dean’s “gay thing” was a ruse? (3:25 - x) And for that matter, speaking from a purely logistical standpoint, why would Aaron use that as his way to keep a close eye on the investigation, anyway? Is it possible that he thought he had an in that way because he viewed something that led him to believe he did if he approached it that way? Is it a smart move when Dean calls him out since Aaron was caught watching him? Absolutely. But how does he know that maybe Dean might not have taken him up on his offer? So, logistically, this doesn’t track, not solely for the story. Yes, it’s a comedic scene but Dean didn’t immediately scream “get back! I like chicks only!” or “that’s really nice, I’m flattered, but unfortunately I don’t swing that way” or “nope, nope, nope!”? Why did Edlund say “almost like a romantic comedy kind of fluster”? Never mind all of the other moments in the series that happen where Dean is checking guys out, he’s being flirty, and other men are attracted to him. 

So what kills me is the whole “Dean is canonically straight” and “he’s written straight! get it through your head!” debate/argument that happens on this site and other places. It’s mind boggling that people either have a huge issue with Dean being written as anything other than one rigid sexual orientation when the show has suggested time and time again that this may be a possibility, through performances, the writing/story, and the framing/edits. Or it cracks me up when I see certain corners of the fandom thinking Dean’s questioned sexuality/attraction is only a certain section of fans of the show that are projecting their own wishes and headcanons onto the character when, again, it has been shown that this is not them picking up a breadcrumb and baking a whole loaf with it. 

I mean, the whole siren episode -- hello. Don’t you think it’s interesting that they chose to have Sam hook up with the doctor and Dean gets a male siren? Where all of the other male victims have fallen in love with female strippers? That Sam and Cara have a talking/bonding moment that leads to sex while Dean is also having a talking/bonding moment with Nick? Yes, the main story line is about the growing chasm between Sam and Dean, Sam’s working with Ruby, Dean feeling like he can’t trust Sam, and there is some obvious jealousy and all of that. But did the siren have to be male for Dean? Nick didn’t go to all of that trouble to talk/bond with Sam when the latter showed up. No, it went after Dean because Dean was more vulnerable, more easily separated, and more likely to do as the siren said once he was poisoned. And again, it could have been a female stripper or Dean could have gotten the doctor (had the siren been Cara). No, instead he gets Nick.

And another interesting thing to me is how when the series starts out, Dean is obviously trying to live up to John, what John expects of him and who he should be. He even admits that in 4x19 to Sam when they are burning Adam’s body. He dressed like John, wanted to be like John (as a hunter), hell he even listened to the same music. In this moment, he understands that he will never be like John, not the same way Sam is. Which we already knew from watching the series, but here is where Dean finally “gets it”. And sure enough, we slowly start to see the parts of John that Dean has imbued himself with stripping away, to reveal who Dean actually is underneath. The leather jacket goes, the behavior (for the most part), and the influence pretty much. Hell, even the Samulet goes at one point. The only thing that remains by the end of the series is the impala and the music, which has become Dean’s own and intrinsic to his character and who he is. Plus, what do we get in 10x16? This moment. This is a man who is realizing things for the first time, realizing that he is starting to want a different ending for himself than the one he’s been made to believe was a certainty before this moment. And then what do we get in season 11, a season that has been proven to be about “heart”?

“I do actually.”

Dean’s character grows as time passes and his outlook on life changes as well. So that brings me to this moment:

This is clearly different to how we’ve seen Dean after losing a loved one, a friend, before (except for Sam obviously, Mary hasn’t died yet, and Jack isn’t in Dean’s story yet). This was clearly meant to contrast those other times before. The narrative called attention to it by showing us the difference in Dean’s mood between 13x05 and 13x06. They even call attention to it in the dialogue! When people call this Dean’s widower arc, it’s not a stretch of imagination. 

And do you know what else we see after this arc? 

1) Dean and Sam meeting Jesse and Cesar, a pair of hunting husbands and what is the first thing Dean asks them after finding out they’re married? “So, what’s it like settling down with a hunter?” -- again pointing out that Dean had a different desired ending for himself in mind & the eventual partner would have to be someone in the life (which is exactly the sentiment he tells Sam about Eileen in 15x08 when he gives his approval: “She gets it. She gets us. She gets the life.”), especially after what happened with Lisa & Ben in season 6

2) Dean barely hooking up with women as often as we did before. Sure, we see him flirting here and there, like with Lorna in 15x07. And what does Pam say to him in 14x10? “Besides, you don’t want me.You just like to flirt.” Plus, we see the bra on his head when Sam finds him passed out drunk in the morning. But we barely see Dean indulging in casual sex, not as often as we used to earlier in the series. And do you know why? Because Dean’s life is progressing and his wants and needs are changing. I’m talking for everything in his life, like the ending I mentioned above. He’s not a young guy anymore and he’s looking for some sort of permanence that he doesn’t think he deserves, partner wise, life wise, etc. But he wants it. Otherwise, why the line in 15x10 “I always knew I could be a good dancer” while watching Garth and Bess dance through a window? After this dance scene happens, where Garth shows him how to start dancing, and then he is left to his own devices once Garth is done showing him?

It is not uncommon for people’s wants and needs to change as they get older. We all know people change as life progresses, as they age. Who you are in your teens is not necessarily who you are in your twenties, who you are in your twenties is not necessarily who you are in your thirties, and so on and so forth. Someone I’ve worked with in the past only recently discovered their sexuality in their forties. It was something they had always been curious about but had never done anything or said anything about it because of the way they had been raised. They had the whole marriage with kids, white picket fence thing going for years but eventually, they discovered themselves as they got older and now is with their partner, they’re the happiest they’ve ever been, and they wouldn’t change any of it for the world. And that’s just one story of someone discovering who they are, what they want out of life, out of many all over this planet, every day. 

So why is it so hard to believe that a character that has had more than ten years of development written for them may ultimately change, too? If Dean is indeed straight and never thinks of men at all, then him being older and more confident in himself, knowing himself better, as we’ve seen...then why is he not declaring that up until the end? Why not get that out quickly as Cas confesses that to him? Why did a female dancer not show up in that montage between he and Garth above? Why was Dean not given his equivalent of Eileen? Why did the narrative not enforce it in season 15 at all? Why did Dean never mention wanting a wife and kids? Why was Cas and Jack being added to their family enough for him? As he mentions to John in 14x13, “I have a family” when John mentions he had wanted Dean to get himself a “normal life, a peaceful life, a family”.

Sure, Dean never thought he deserved the apple pie life with a wife and kids, not like he thought Sam did. We see this reinforced in season 6 when he’s with Lisa and Ben who he ultimately has to give up because of the hunting hurting them and putting them in danger. But again, if his desired ending changed later on in the series, then why is it at least not something he wants, whether he thinks he deserves it or not?

However you view Dean and/or his sexuality is completely up to you. If you don’t want to view him as bisexual or even bi-coded, that’s your choice. If you don’t want to view him as being in love with Cas (a nonbinary angel in a male vessel), that’s your choice. Stories are a form of art. And art is always open to interpretation, eye of the beholder, etc. However, going out of your way to invalidate someone’s view of said art and pointing to the text on the show as your evidence for the invalidation is ludicrous. When the text itself has given many points of evidence to suggest that Dean may not be as rigid in his sexuality as the beginning of the series led you to believe. While the siren episode took place during the Kripke era, the Aaron episode took placed during Carver’s. The widower arc, the found family with Cas and Jack, Cas’ confession took place during Dabb’s. Dabb was still on the writing team during Carver’s, Gamble’s, and Kripke’s eras. When Dean started to want a different ending for himself, it started in Carver’s era and then transferred to Dabb’s. And Dabb didn’t change it, he didn’t get rid of it, instead he took it and sharpened it even further into focus. And Carver and Dabb? Both were with the show long before they became the showrunners for their respective time frames.

Does this show have a queerbaiting legacy? Unfortunately, yes. But other than the eyefucking the actors were directed to do from the scripts, if they never intended for one of their main characters to be seen that way, they would have never done so. If they wanted to bait, they simply could have left it at the whole Dean and Cas topic and kept solely teasing that. Pitch Perfect is the perfect example of queerbaiting. They purposely promoted Becca (Anna) and Chloe (Brittany) acting as if they were going to kiss in the promo in order to get people to the theaters to watch the final film in the trilogy. And if you’ve seen the movies, you know there were moments that happened between the two characters that were...questionable. But it was between the two of them. Because the films knew it was popular after the first one, that it was a selling point that even the studios themselves got in on. SPN and the C*W could have very easily done that with just Dean and Castiel. As a matter of fact, the C*W did:

There was no reason in the story or even from a business standpoint to promote a bi-coded Dean (unless there would be a Destiel endgame at some point which would make some fans question that if hinting hadn’t been there all along). They had already baited the LGBT+ audience with the moments between Dean and Cas. So why all of the moments with Dean and other guys? Think about that.

The answer? Dean is purposely bi-coded.

And on top of that, why is it such a bad thing if some people view Dean’s sexuality as fluid? Why is it such a threat to the Dean Winchester you know and love? Why don’t you just do you, boo, and leave others to do the same? See Dean however you want to see him. Does he have girls on each arm? Cool. Does he have a girl on one arm and a guy on the other? Cool. Two guys on each arm? Cool. No one on either arm but he’s still happy? Cool. Dean as a hunter? Cool. Dean in construction? Cool. Dean married? Cool. Dean single and ready to mingle? Cool. Dean as a dad? Cool. Dean with no kids? Cool. Dean as a Dallas Cowboys fan? Cool. Dean as a hockey fan instead? Cool. Dean likes action movies? Cool. Dean likes to listen to books on tape? Cool. Do you get it yet? View Dean how you want to. And let others do the same. It doesn’t negate Dean’s character or the story the series was telling for 15 years. 

So again, see Dean however you want to but for the love of Jack, stop going out of your way to invalidate how other people see him. Especially when the very narrative itself calls this character’s romantic and sexual orientations into question time and time again over the series. It not only makes you look like an intolerant ass but also a very shallow and naive one. 

[princessofgayskull]

The last chapter of UWS, right when catra and adora meet up at the bakery before their date

HEY GIRL I’M SO SORRY THAT I HAVEN’T GOTTEN AROUND TO THIS WHEN YOU WERE SO NICE AND THOUGHTFUL TO HAVE SENT IT IN i COMPLETELY UNDERESTIMATED MY AMOUNT OF FREE TIME BUT HERE WE GO I HOPE THIS IS WHAT YOU HAD IN MIND!

So a little backstory about the last chapter: usually a chapter of about 16k-20k will take me about a month, if I’m lucky not to have enough off days. I got this chapter done, (I think it was about 33k words?) in about three weeks. I was full on sprint writing because I wanted to be done before season three dropped on what was either August 3rd or 4th? Anyways, I was eating, breathing, sleeping upper west side. Almost all of the big plot points I’d spent a lot of time dreaming up for the past nine months so they ended up just flowing out of me. I’m still amazed I got it done and it was cohesive enough for the audience because I was spent. 

I got this chapter up, lost my mind over season three- especially because I’d written Angella in this chapter and it gave me and quite a few readers EMOTIONAL WHIPLASH- and then I took the entire month of August up from any writing.

I have no idea why Rob was Scottish but I am LAYING IT ON THICK WITH THAT SHOW DON’T TELL RIGHT THERE. I was exhausted by the time I was writing this part, because I write linearly, so I just wanted to be done. 

I get asked this question enough to say I’m not sure what the significance of the migraines was in upper west side. There’s no canon equivalent, so I think I was just putting a little bit of me in Catra to I dunno, help with realism? At this point I’d only suffered with chronic pain- fibromyalgia to be specific- but back in April of 2020 I started experiencing migraines and my first thought was “HOW COULD I DO THIS TO CATRA?” Life imitates art.

This will be discussed more in cruel summer, but I wrote Catra as having Borderline Personality Disorder. I’ve never been fully diagnosed with BPD, but I’ve struggled with some syndromes of it, and she comes across that way to me in canon (she fits a DSM-V profile to the letter, almost). I’ve always wanted to have mental illness as a fundamental element of any of my stories because in my own life, I’ve experienced many barriers there and there’s just almost no positive rep for M.I, especially not unconventional disorders like BPD.

So Catra is talking about how she cycles through the entire spectrum of human emotions as a result of everything that’s happening to her, but also just how her psyche is reacting to it. To me, if you feel anger really intensely, the flip side can be feeling happiness really intensely, and I can testify to that.

For being completely exhausted I don’t think that first paragraph is actually too bad.

Catra has such a unique voice in Upper West Side; it’s what I believed her voice would be like if she’d been raised in the modern world, so there’s a lot more cursing and aggravation and even sarcasm, because not only is this the modern world, she’s also about three years older than she was at the end of canon. 

One of the things that I think is being expressed here is the idea of resilience. Catra is resilient by nature, she’s a born fighter, and so she breaks but she gets back up. I think the biggest difference between her and Hordka- and the reason why Catra survives such an onslaught of abuse and mistreatment but doesn’t need Adora to whisk the bad out of her- is that Catra is psychology resilient. And I put her through the wringer in this universe so I wouldn’t her resilience to be very loud and apparent. 

Entrapta is, without a doubt, a cyber criminal in the uws universe. But as they say, BE GAY. DO CRIME.

They won’t be ghosts for much longer, Catra.

But look at that progress! One thing that I think is really jarring for people when they start she’s god and I found her is that Catra seems to have regressed to being against the vulnerability she seemed so open to in this scene, but I’m never not dealing with some sort of cognitive distortion in a character’s head. When you’re mentally ill, you can be pro-recovery and can be making changes and strides, but you’re going to get set back, and it’s much easier at the start to get moved back to square one than say after months or years of therapy and meds. One thing that I hope people who move through this universe remember is that Catra is at the beginning right here. She’s having one of many hundreds of epiphanies you have when you are going through recovery. In Cruel Summer, we’re going to see how she’s moved forward and what she’s doing to keep herself moving forward.

 I think I got the idea of the “curiosity killed the cat” motif when I was making a pinterest board for this story. See, pinterest boards DO work for inspo!

“Walk cock excuse for a human.” I stand by that ASDFHGJK

I love the line in Alessia Cara’s song “My Kind” (which was a HUGE inspo for uws, that whole album was) “I wish we could’ve told those little girls they’re gonna be okay”/ “Wish somebody would’ve told me that we'd be alright.” It just hits me so hard. So there’s a repeated element I want to carry through the universe of “If my past self could see me now, she wouldn’t be so ready to give up 24/7”

I love writing thirsty!Catra, almost as much as I love writing thirsty!Adora.

Okay, just how obvious is that I know nothing about alcohol? I grew up Mormon, and I’d drink now but I can’t because, you know, meds, so I feel like I'm always overcompensating when I write about drinking. 

I really, really like working in motifs.

My, my, my, how the turn tables. Definitely a nod to Season 2 when we all lost our minds.

This moment feels very finale Best Friend Squad, which we’ll see more of in Cruel Summer. 

Writing a character with a broken arm, I have to say, was strange. The cast is just one more out of a million things to keep track of in your working memory. Writing Upper West, especially as the seasons continued to drop, sometimes felt like I was balancing stacks and stacks of plates on my head, hands, and one foot while trying to whistle Beethoven. 

I love that she keeps Sea Hawk’s bracelet and that she adds her “What Would Scorpia Do” to it and wears both.

I have spent hours listening to AJ and Aimee’s voices. Between the actual episodes, youtube clips, and interviews because I am so worried that my characterization is not going to transfer to readers. When AJ is playing Catra as teasing, she sometimes will go up in her register and so that’s what I was going for when she’s teasing Bow. 

Also, writing PDA is hard.

Because I go hard on the angst, I have to go hard on the fluff, of course. 

And the humor.

I THOUGHT HAVING THEM BE AT THE WINDOW WAS THE FUNNIEST THING IN THE UNIVERSE I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW. 

Writing confident and flirty Adora is sooooooo fun, especially because I don’t think that’s really how the fandom thinks of her, but she can be like that in canon, so I like to bring her out when it’s appropriate. And because, obviously, Catra is whipped for her.

WRITING KISSES IS SO, SO, SO DIFFICULT. THREE SO’S OF DIFFICULTY. It can so easily become gross or unbelievable, but I didn’t want every single time they kissed to be the same, so then they each have to be different in some way. 

Catra’s mentality of doom is a result of years of trauma and untreated mental illness. It’s branching off of learned helplessness that she and Adora both suffer from. It also sets up for the universe to be explored more beyond the end of this story.

For those who didn’t catch it, the last line of upper west side and the first are the same: “Bright Moon, ugh.” She speaks it here, instead of thinking it. That was the plan from the very beginning to have them kiss in front of the bakery and for her to say this. 

Thank you SO much for sending this ask and letting me divulge all of my random thoughts about this scene. I had a blast and I hope it lives up to expectations! Thank you for reading!

You can find upper west side here, and the follow up series, she’s god and I found her, here, and keep a look out for the third series, cruel summer, coming soon!

[loafingdragon]

who are your favorite top ten black clover characters & ships? talk about them!

A question? For me? 🤭 Let’s see if I can collect my thoughts long enough to answer! I’ll put things in no real order under the cut~

Kaiser Granvorka, captain of the Purple Orcas (sing that title. You will not regret it.)

Sometimes less is more. I love his design. I love his chill. I love his love of his wife. I love how he stepped up to clean up his trash squad.

Reve

I LOVE the elves and I really wish that they would get some recognition. Did you know that Phantom Knights just calls Reve and Charla “Dorothy (reincarnated)” and “Charlotte (reincarnated)”? They’re different people!! They have NAMES. Why wouldn’t they use their names?? The elves have so much lost potential!

Anyway, Reve is also very chill. A sleepy queen. I have a LOT of headcanons about her. I also have an au where the elves stay after reincarnation and share their bodies with their hosts, and she and Dorothy are best friends and girlfriends and hang out in glamour world together and I love them.

Nebra and Nozel Silva

Listen,,, she’s so pretty,,, I’m gay,,,

But in all seriousness, she’s my favorite Silva. She’s just sort of a mean, sexy lamp in the manga/anime, but she gets slightly more character development in Phantom Knights, where you see that she’s at least an honorable knight who really cares about getting things done right and even goes above and beyond the call of duty; she’s a lot more mature than Solid, and it even seems that she’s more concerned about capabilities than status at some points (much to Solid’s surprise.) That doesn’t mean she won’t go out of her way to make trouble, which is fun. The wiki also suggests she has confidence issues which is super interesting to me. I’d like to see her grow as a character or get like... even a little bit of attention at all besides backing up Nozel and Solid and getting stabbed. I also think her magic is really cool... would love to see her actually use it sometime.

-coughcough also since she gets so little screen time i can write her how i want in my fics and as far as we know it’s canon coughcough-

There’s more to her than her pretty, pretty face!! She’s probably my #1 favorite.

1) I love powerful fictional royals in general. 2) I love to write fics where he is embarrassed and vulnerable. Silvas deserve a healthy dose of humility whenever you can give it. He is an easy target with his uptight nature and silly hair. I’d also like him to grow as a character.

hehe look at Nebra peeking out of the corner of this pic lol

Fuegoleon, Mereoleona, and Leopold Vermillion

I am still a simp for powerful fictional royalty, okay? Everyone love the Vermillions. There is nothing I could say here that has not already been said, except that I love writing fics where Fuegoleon gets to be embarrassing and oblivious.

Dorothy Unsworth

She’s so cute and the coolest witch. Love her chaotic energy. Love how she knows things she probably shouldn’t. Always shaking it up. Another sleepy queen. I wish I could sleep all the time and still get my work done. Also since I made her my icon on discord, I have been cheerier.

Charla

I’m so deep in headcanons for this one but see my earlier elf complaint with Reve before continuing. Okay, understand? Charlotte is awesome, but the sheer hilarity of Charla and Charlotte sharing a body is what make Charla so, so good. The LAST thing Charla did before going away forever is SNITCH on Charlotte to her crush. This elf loves drama. She would help Charlotte so, so much, but also make her life a living hell. We stan a queen who can’t mind her own business.

Alecdora Sandler

This man is hilarious. He’s a full grown man ready to throw hands with a 15 year old because William gives him attention. He fell in a hole and had to be saved. Yuno let him declare all his love for William and then obliterated him. It’s so funny. It’s what this asshole deserves. A perfect, satisfying character arc and a hilariously embarrassing personality wins him his place among my faves. I love to hate him so much. I’d like to put a picture of his stupid face in a locket to look at and give me strength in any situation. “At least I’m not this man child,” I would say. A smile would tug at my lips as a single tear ran down my face. “Thank you, Alecdora,” I would whisper, holding his image close to my heart.

---

My favorites tend to change around with my moods, so maybe on any other given day, you would find Charlotte Roselei, Paplo Espuma, or Kirsch Vermillion (post royal knights exam humbling) on this list. Charlotte is badass, Paplo cute, and Kirsch is funny with cool magic. Also working with Charlotte on my blog, @lawstaverse makes me fond of her, and I have some fun party boy headcanons for Kirsch and the Coral Peacocks. Mimosa Vermillion is also super duper cute. Honestly, Jien Du could even be on here for being accused of being evil and then going “let me clear things up” and then just doing the super villain laugh- also for having rainbow lights flashing around him when he fights. I can hear carameldansen playing in the distance whenever he’s doing stuff.

Now for my favorite couples!

Fuegoleon Vermillion x Nozel Silva

This one is probably #1! They obviously care for and respect each other and a lot of Nozel’s dialogue gets... debatably romantic. I just really enjoy writing them in sort of ‘boys will be boys’ situations, where they can let their guard down around each other and their friends and be stupid and silly. I also love the idea of Fuegoleon being oblivious about how flirty he comes off. Nozel is pining but more in an annoyed way than a sad way. “No homo, bro,” says Fuegoleon, as he kisses Nozel on the lips and gives him a ring after they eat together and wrestle in the woods. Nozel rolls his eyes into the next solar system and admires his new wedding ring. Currently working on a 150k+ word slowburn bisexual disaster Fuegoleon fic with @thespiralgrimoire that involves this ship and the third on this list, along with tiny snippets of others.

Leopold Vermillion x Asta

Leo saw Asta do something cool and said “I’m done being classist. Actually I’m in love with you,” and never looked back. Every single Royal in Asta’s age group being obsessed with him is very very funny. I picture their relationship is much like Nozel and Fuegoleon’s as described above, but they’re BOTH extremely oblivious bros being romantic bros.

Fuegoleon Vermillion x Nebra Silva

Less my fave but still on here bc it’s fun. Nebra is fun, she can push Fuego out of his comfort zone, and also feel comfortable and confident with him. It’s nice. Ngl, anything that gives Nebra a chance to develop her character, whether it be in a friendly or romantic setting, is good.

Nebra is sexy. Fuegoleon is sexy. Together they are super sexy.

Reve x Dorothy Unsworth

I mentioned this briefly earlier, but they finally get someone who can share their world with them! Dorothy was so happy to have Reve in her head, and didn’t even regret being possessed at all. Also, Reve’s chill personality can balance out Dorothy’s excitable and unpredictable one! I think that them both being in dream world, with the magic power to look into each other’s minds(even more than other elf/human cohabitants) means that they can pretty easily become super duper close. They also have a space where they can physically meet. It’s kind of the best of both worlds.

Zara Ideale x Ina’s Father (did he really not get a name???)

There is no way you can convince me that Ina is not Zara and that man’s child. Look at their eyebrows. Rewatch episode 138. You’re lying to me if you tell me you don’t see it.

Nebra Silva x Zora Ideale

🤷🏽‍♀️ Punk and Prep is a fun combo, I like pitch romance, and the more info we get for Nebra, the more likely I see her willing to go vigilante and have a good time working with/ playing around with Zora. They both like to mess with people, Nebra appreciates a job well done, and Zora likes seeing people improve themselves. Nebra would def need to develop a bit for this to work, but I like to believe that would happen.

[mtt-brand-trans]

What's up gamers today we're taking a stab at guessing why and how in the world a depressed, unhygienic, ketchup-chugging skeleton like Sans became an internet sex symbol if you like this video don't forget to like and subscribe to my channel and click that bell button to get notific

Here's a question for you: if you played all of Undertale without knowing anything about the fandom, and after you were done I asked you who you thought the fan favorite was, who would you say? No really, I'd like to know, because I have no good or honest answer to this question. Because the more I think about it, the more sure I am that, while in many fandoms it's clear who the fan favorite is going to be(and that character may even have been designed to be the fan favorite), Undertale doesn't really have that.

Most times, the fan favorite is a young guy with good looks(a specific kind of look too, usually what you would describe as a "pretty boy") that has a good sense of humor and/or is flirtatious and/or is flippant. Sans is a jokester, sure, but he's not a pretty boy. And as I said, he's depressed and chugs ketchup at local diners and is a slacker, and his jokes aren't flirty or insulting(aka "attractive" jokes), they're just bad puns. These things certainly makes him feel more like a real person(or as real as you can get when you're a skeleton), but they don't make for a good fan fave to drool over. So why was Sans chosen to be transformed through fanon as the fan favorite? I think the answer lies in the no mercy route.

I'm pretty sure we all know this is the biggest contributor to his popularity. Although nowadays I prefer the pacifist route, even I was fascinated with the no mercy route back in the day. And there's a perfectly good reason so many felt the same, for a lot of us(myself included) it was an introduction to "darker" stories, where bad things happened and they didn't get better, or were previously fans of games like fnaf. A lot of the fandom was my age at the time(14) or younger. And since the no mercy route was the main focus for so many fans, what, or who was the staple of it? Sans. And honestly, the sans fight really was made to make an impact. It takes a lot of tries, sometimes even more than undyne the undying, the music is the fourth iteration of Toby's signature song Megalovania, and Sans' dialogue reveals more about his character and opens up a possible mystery by saying strange things that he doesn't explain(remember how I said a lot of people were previously fnaf fans? Well it and similar games became popular largely because of the mysteries they presented. So Sans' popularity also grew because of his connection to the larger gaster mystery). So Sans ended up being the most popular character in Undertale, and Undertale became insanely popular, so by proxy Sans became a very popular character in general.

So here's a summary of why Sans is the fan favorite, even though when just looking at him by himself you'd never guess he'd have risen to this level of popularity(aka the TL;DR): Undertale has a distinct lack of characters that fit the typical "fan favorite" mold, and Sans was the character that most closely fit it. His popularity was largely helped by his significance in the no mercy run and his ties to the gaster mystery, which made him more appealing to young fans in particular, who loved the no mercy route because of its darkness and gaster because of the unsolved mystery. Thus, he became the most popular character in Undertale, and since Undertale was so popular itself, he got a huge fandom.

I also want to take this time to look at some other characters who had the potential to be the fan favorites had Sans not taken the role. Most/all of them fit other, "lesser" fan favorite archetypes that I will explain. A lot of these characters are still pretty popular.

Gaster

This one's pretty obvious. If Sans didn't have ties to both the no mercy run and the Gaster mystery, then Gaster himself would be the fan favorite. Even with Sans(or sometimes because of him), he's inescapable. If he was the fan favorite, the loud part of the fandom would largely stay the same, there would just be less focus on the no mercy run.

Undyne

There's two ways Undyne would've become the fan favorite: being a lesbian icon like Catra from spop, making the fandom a lesbian haven, or through straight weeb men who fetishize lesbians. Those two types of fans already make up the Undyne fandom in our quiet little corner, but we would've seen this on a much larger SCALE(lol) if she had been the fan favorite. And let's be honest, what does Sans have that Undyne doesn't? Let's just look at the facts here: A glowing eye that only shows up on the no mercy run, of which they have one of two of the epic battles for that route that are famously hard to beat, both have a mysterious part of them that's not really explained(Undyne's missing eye, why she melted/came back to life instead of turning straight to dust, determination motif, UNDYNE'S MYSTERIOUS TOO GUYS), connections to a royal scientist, I could go on. I can really only think of one reason that Undyne, the buff angry wlw who isn't conventionally attractive, isn't very popular.........

Asriel

Asriel falls under another type of fan favorite archetype that I like to call, "HOLY SHIT CUTE CHILD." The only other example I can think of right now is Niko from oneshot, who is the fan favorite of their game. And Asriel is indeed a cute child! I would've liked to see him be the fan favorite, because I think the Chara & Asriel subplot is underrated in this fandom. Asriel is fairly popular, but he's mostly seen either as flowey or by fans of the KFCA gang nowadays.

Frisk

Frisk being the fan favorite would be a combination of "HOLY SHIT CUTE CHILD" and "protagonist that I can project onto," with a side of mystery due to their ambiguous backstory. So pretty much how they're portrayed now. They're best done by fans of the KFCA gang, but they're seen more often than Asriel, either as a prop in cool art of a place/another character, or to be the kid in those post-pacifist works.

Mettaton

He's another one that's already fairly popular, this is just about what the fandom would be like if he was The fan fave. And if I'm gonna he honest, I'm kinda surprised Mettaton isn't the fan favorite. He's pretty much exactly what the fan favorite archetype is. He's a pretty boy. He's one of the more popular characters in the fandom, sure, but compared to Sans he hardly shows up. And I honestly don't have any good guesses as to why this is. It could be that he's gay and trans coded, but too "flamboyant" and makes the cishet fans uncomfortable, but even that doesn't check out considering how much people fetishize him being trans. If anything, they like that, even if in the most gross way possible. So yeah, I've got nothing.

Chara

They were probably the fourth most popular character back in the day, after the skelebros and gaster of course. And just like Sans, it's because of their ties to the no mercy route. If they were the fan fave, the fandom would probably be a much darker place. Which is sad, because if you look at how KFCA fans depict them, they're great! But anyways, the fandom as a whole has always focused more on "demon" Chara than looking at maybe a more nicer side of them, so if they were the fan favorite, the fandom would be even more focused on the gritty and dark parts of the story. Oh, and people would keep misgendering them, too.

So there you have it, an in-depth analysis of how Sans became the fan favorite, and then what other fan favorites might look like I guess. Even after writing all of this, I still can't quite comprehend Sans' popularity. Fortunately I've found a good niche in the fandom that appreciates all the characters equally. KFCA fans, waterfall gang fans, gorls fans, etc. Everyone is good! But I've stayed holed up in that little community for so long that I don't know the fandom at large's current condition regarding aus, sans, etc., so really this meta is written from my memory of the fandom back in 2016, which is probably outdated somewhat lol. Anyways, hope you enjoyed the read!