#btw these are all sooo canon i know this because they told me so themselves

[jarchivussy]

ok so like. to me. vash and wolfwood and meryl and milly are all dykes who r dating each other in complicated ways. they're all different flavours of dyke gender also

[kairos-polaris]

I am Very curious about your thoughts on married pre canon jonelias btw. I am looking directly at it.

thank you so much for asking! I Can Not stop thinking about them

took a couple of tries because I just couldn't focus on one thing. my favourite thing is how everything changes while simultaneously nothing does. so here is all the changes by seasons:

some pre canon details: Jon invited Georgie to their wedding, they start talking again after that. Georgie jokes about Elias being jealous but he just smiles and says that Jon is his anyway. for some reason Georgie feels weird about it

Melanie is Georgie's plus one to the wedding

they don't keep their relationship secret, but they aren't obvious, not exactly into pda. Jon does say he wants to keep it secret so he isn't accused of nepotism. there are rumours but no one actually believes them

s1: nothing much changes, except Elias and Jon sound just slightly more fond when talking about each other. they only really look at each other (no one can convince me they don't do it in canon but Jon is more obvious now since he doesn't worry about Elias noticing). they have lunch dates and it's the only way to get Jon to take a break (Elias tells himself it's so his Archivist doesn't collapse too early but he just wants Jon to be healthy). Elias is extra touchy when in front of Martin because he knows about his crush and he gets jealous sooo easily. Elias thinks it's funny and Jon is oblivious

Sasha knows they are married and thinks that's why Jon got the promotion. she probably got hands on their marriage certificate somehow. Sasha talks to Jon about it, says she isn't upset with him. Jon is incredibly flustered and tries to deny it until Sasha says she saw their marriage certificate and then Jon gives up. Sasha promises to not mention it to Tim or Martin, "let them figure it out themselves, you two are obvious enough" and Jon is even more flustered now, he is denying being obvious but Sasha laughs him off

if I wrote this, I would also focus on Elias taking care of Jon and his scars, touching them softly, almost caressing. it makes Jon feel a bit better about it

s2: Jon is just as paranoid as he was canonically but now he feels guilty that he suspects Elias. he tries to tell himself his husband wouldn't do it, he knows him. sexy conversation about Jon still being with Elias despite his doubts and paranoia. Jon raises his chin saying "It's because I know you that I am suspicious. It's not above you to kill Gertrude, is it?" and Elias asks him if Jon isn't worried he will meet the same fate then. Jon falters but says that for some reason he Knows Elias won't kill him and not because he is his husband (Elias is very into Jon Knowing things so he kisses him and the conversation gets derailed)

when Leitner tells him about Elias and Gertrude all Jon can think is that he was right, betrayal comes later, when he returns to his office to Leitner's corpse and he Knows it was Elias. Jon is angry because Leitner could have told him so much more

s3: Georgie takes him in, Jon saying he had a big argument with Elias. she tries to get Jon to talk but he says he doesn't want to think about it and she reluctantly agrees to drop the topic

Daisy contacts Elias first thing as Jon's husband. Daisy is also the one to reveal that Jon and Elias are married, when Tim and Martin (the only ones who didn't know) turn to him in shock and betrayal, all Jon can say is that he thought they knew, that Sasha would tell them. and there are all the rumours. Tim runs off in anger Melanie exchanging glances with Basira, wondering if she should have told them, but she also thought they knew

Jon is a lot more upset when he and Elias are alone. Elias cleans his wounds, kissing his scars (including all the visible worm scars) and Jon softens just slightly, letting himself be pulled into Elias' lap (sitting on someone's lap is Jon's natural habitat, ok?)

Jon moves back in with Elias which makes his relationship with Tim worse. Martin refuses to look him in the eyes, Basira doesn't care and Melanie doesn't like him anyway. Jon tells himself he is living with Elias to be able to catch him unaware and compel him but he just missed his husband and sleeping in the same bed (because he is down bad)

a couple of people suggest divorce (Georgie, Basira, Melanie, Martin) but Jon scoffs and says he doesn't want to waste time on filing documents when he could be working on stopping the Unknowing. he does not file for divorce even after they have figured out everything and all that was left was waiting

they still work to get Elias arrested despite Jon's doubts but Elias betrayed him, can't he do it too? and he wants to prove his trustworthiness

this is getting long, I think I am going to make a part two for seasons 4 and 5

[selanpike]

A drawing of my OC Clovis, from Evil FTW, and an aside about his asexuality and my own journey to understand and express my own sexuality, as told through how I write this jerk:

When I was a teenager, I was asexual. But Selan, you might say, aren’t you bi/pan? Yeah dude. When people say your sexuality can change over time, they’re not lying. The whole reason why I didn’t come out of the closet until my mid-twenties is because I was ace before that.

And Clovis here is ace. But I haven’t established that in canon, which I’m annoyed about, but I didn’t fully understand him at first. I wasn’t really sure you could, you know, have an ace character without some weird explanation for it. I knew the word “asexual” from like, high school, but my friends--the LGBT “experts” of my school--kept telling me no, asexual is just something you describe sponges with, or stuff like that. 

And they were saying that about me, btw. Not about the character. Cue all the tired jokes about “do you reproduce with budding??” So I got convinced asexuality wasn’t a real thing, because if the kids who made it their business to know everything about sexuality didn’t think it was real, that was that, then.

(and let’s not even go into all the toxic shit they fed me about gender identity, HOO BOY, that’s a rant for another day)

So I didn’t see my identity as real. And I struggled with that. I hid behind my religion, saying no, I’m just avoiding sex for moral reasons, and sometimes I believed it. If you go through my old writing (don’t) you’d see all the weird, toxic ways I tried to understand sexuality, without fully understanding that that’s what I was trying to do.

With Clovis, in his original story before EFTW, I had this dumbass backstory where he was abducted by aliens and castrated and now he can’t have/doesn’t want sex and it was SOOO TRAGIC. I had thoughts about that a lot. For all I’d insist that you could have a fulfilling relationship without sex, I felt there was something deeply tragic about me, and whenever I saw relationships like in media or whatever where one person was like, idk a ghost or whatever, I felt like they were doomed.

The same way Clovis was doomed, the same way I was.

By the time I got to EFTW, I realized that backstory was bullshit, so I threw it out. He still has a traumatic thing in his past, but it’s unrelated to his sexuality. I still didn’t clearly establish him as ace though. I had pairings I kinda liked for him, so I wanted to keep that open but……. No man none of that ever worked. Listen, I got ships like nobody’s business for my own characters, but they decide for themselves what actually works. Clovis never clicked with anyone.

I like to think he probably struggled with that for a while, feeling like sort of a failure as a person for a while (hi my own feelings), but it was likely wrapped up in all the rest of his issues, so I’m not sure he ever recognized it as a sexuality thing rather than just, you know, an extension of his overall post-traumatic shit.

And I, now, understand that there was never really anything wrong with me, and my being ace was okay. My being bi now is okay too. Sexuality is weird, but something not being permanent doesn’t mean it didn’t matter.

By this point in the story Clovis definitely knows he’s ace and is okay with it. But I… still haven’t said it in canon. Because he’s such a private person and come on dude could you please talk about yourself more

aNYWAY THE POINT OF THIS RAMBLING IS THAT ACE REPRESENTATION IS IMPORTANT and I wish I’d had access to the sort of info that’s more common today, back when I was a baby ace. The fact that I only understood my asexuality after I stopped being ace is frustrating, and I spent so many of my formative years feeling broken, and gdi I will find a place to say in canon that this boy is ace so people know and so I’m contributing to the dire need for ace characters.