#but it's also hilarious so it's fine I guess

[wemlygust]

Unfortunately, I think my first one may have been Harry Potter? It kinda depends on how you're counting fandom; I neither wrote nor read fanfic for that at the time, but I think I was imagining fandom-type scenarios in my head.

Otherwise, I guess it might be the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe/movies), because that might be the first one I really dove into on ao3.

But tbh it's hard to just name one, because I have always been a fandom nomad. I got into fandom for fandom's sake, kinda, and I would read fanfic from almost anything, including random shows I hadn't (and haven't) ever seen. I still do that.

My current main fandom though is definitely Danny Phantom x DC Comics crossovers specifically.

So, for my AU assignment, I get either:

Danny Phantom x DC Comics x Harry Potter

Which is… very weird, but totally workable, honestly. Just make Harry Potter the Master of Death, then either make Danny the Ghost King, and have the two mutually concern/alarm each other while they both concern/alarm the bats, or do whatever with Danny while having Master of Death Harry be part of Justice League Dark, probably trying to collaborate with John Constantine (they either get along just fine, or are actually friends, or they mutually despise each other, I think).

Danny Phantom is already a fandom that is smooshed together with everything else, and especially DC Comics---so much so that people who read a lot of DC Comics fanfic sometimes just assume Danny is a DC character, or so I hear at least. And even the Danny Phantom only fics are usually so chock full of elaborate fanon content (Wes Wesley, ghost cores, obsessions, fanon-typical vivisection, the ghost king, even haunts I think? and Red Huntress's entire hero name, and etc). So adding 1 more fandom to that stew pot is no biggie, in my opinion.

My only objection is terf-shaped. :/

Unrelated, it has just occurred to me that Master of Death abbreviates to "MoD". Like a forum mod. Heh. Something-something make a joke about that involving Tucker and Technus. Have the Master of Death actually be the Mod of Death; he's just an administrative official of some kind (it's not even clear to him, perhaps), and the Master of Death stories in HP canon were just exceedingly exaggerated/mostly wrong.

P.S. just because, let's also have Vlad, or literally whoever, clone Harry several times. So we can have like 6 Harry's running around in the DCU, plus also Danny Phantom. Perfect. :)

As for Marvel, there are loads of Danny Phantom x DC Comics x Marvel fics already. That's basically just normal fic, not a candidate for the "terrible, terrible au" category.

So maybe just chuck Marvel in with Harry Potter and have DP x DC x MCU x HP all-in-one. Just, like. Have Dr. Strange drop in on whatever Justice League Dark, John Constantine, and Harry Potter are doing (probably relating to Danny Phantom and/or the Ghost Zone/Infinite Realms in some fashion).

If more over-the-topness is needed, in order to be truly a "terrible, terrible au," then:

add Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians, and even add a fusion version of the Rise of the Guardians Santa combined with the DC one that died that one time apparently. Maybe DC Santa who died that one time is a halfa. Maybe Frostbite is Santa. Maybe both. So many options!

Also I think Rudolph should be a Green Lantern or something. Complete with ridiculous Green Lantern outfit. His Lantern Ring can be a sleight collar, or just, like, a ridiculously festive little wreath on one of his antlers.

add Midoriya Izuku (of My Hero Academia) because he's everywhere except, seemingly, DCxDP fic. So, into this pot he goes too, I guess. Yolo.

Add the Elric Brothers from Fullmetal Alchemist, because I want to. Then like halfway through the story, toss in a disgruntled Mustang who is looking for them; he enters stage left juuuuust in time to walk into the most whack scene possible.

Add the Magic School Bus and the associated kindly elementary school teacher, because I still think it's hilarious to mix that with DPxDC. She can have a little sideplot romance with Mr. Lancer in the background.

Add Hiccup and Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon because Danny Phantom x How to Train Your Dragon seems to have gotten more popular lately, but usually Danny is added to HTTYD rather than the other way around.

The "problem" is it's just way too easy to plug anything and everything into Danny Phantom. xD

combine your first real fandom with your current one to create a terrible, terrible au

[cryptocism]

"just as I did, in 1983."

you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable

[vynnyal]

I've been having a delightful time stumbling over my emojis being used in random servers, so here's more

[justanotherjaydrawing]

I am so normal about these guys

[starbuck]

you don’t even understand. there is ONE (1) fic in existence about the guys i’m being weird about right now that i vaguely trust to be good and i REFUSE to read it because i’m afraid it will be Bad and i’d rather live in the world where i can at least BELIEVE it might be good. i already agree with it on principle. that is enough.

[p4nishers]

can we actually take a moment and remember swan upon leda? can we actually shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down and think about our lord and savior swan upon leda because i'm tired of doing it alone every single day guys

[eastofedean]

man, I'm so tired of my brain!

[bmpmp3]

Getting into stuff that has a lot of pre-announced release dates is really good for me like vocal synthesizer products and new love live etc franchise music releases....I'll be lying in bed at like 2 AM with ur usual 20-something's fear and existentialism over time and the future and then I'll remember a piece of singing software or a new song related to cartoon characters I like is gonna come out like next month and I'm like 😌

[todayisafridaynight]

which yakuza dude do you think has the most deranged fangirls

yall gotta stop askin questions we know the answer to

[doctorhomo]

i bought the new strawberry monster off the internet a couple days ago and it arrived this morning, i waited for my gf to get home from work so we could try it together, we FINALLY got to drinking and our evil little puppy knocked it over .. it was NEARLY £6

[tiredassmage]

[orcelito]

Tfw it's slow enough ur doing some idle reading. And then the health inspector comes in 😭😭😭😭

[giantkillerjack]

The Supernatural fandom is infinitely better to be a part of now that no one in the fandom actually thinks Supernatural is good XD

whenever i see another tiktok girlie talking about how she wishes to have been a fangirl in 2010s i feel like a seasoned veteran overhearing a foolish youngin boasting about wanting to go to war for glory and adventure. you naive little idiot. you know nothing. you understand nothing. you weren't there in the trenches. i have seen things, terrible things. i cannot plug in my phone charger at night without being plagued by the visions of Him

[cobra-salt]

There's a point about having flawed characters or grey areas, and a show not always having to spoonfeed the viewers and tell them "Bad Character's view is BAD". And that writers' views do not necessarily = character views.

But with Cobra Kai and their love of "BOTH SIDES BAD??? UMMM" and the absolute mental gymnastics there can be with painting both characters in a situation as equally wrong so there's no easy answer for the masses, and those situations where such actions happen? It does make you wonder after a while how much is just in the writing and how much is the "Johnny is a cool alpha male who doesn't need actual deep self-reflection to grow, others have to adapt to him" part of the showrunners' philosophy.

[nine-fingered-entity]

there had to be a better way to resolve the samantha abduction plot thread than whatever that resolution was. like even ignoring the fact that they stomped all over their own lore, those two episodes were just. not good or satisfying watches at all. a low even for xfiles "plot" episodes (which have a nasty habit of being. dubious)

[runwayrunway]

condor's new planes are so funny. I have a bunch of folders for every airline I cover and I was going back through my condor one to find pictures for that ask and I'm losing my mind. Every front on photo of a condor plane looks sort of almost annoyed. Just sitting there on the tarmac mad as hell that her airline dressed her in these cringe stripes.

Maybe it's just the way the nose is placed on the 753 but even from an angle like this she looks sort of angry. Oh? You're making me take off again? Every morning I wake up and take off and then fly somewhere else and land and then do it again and the whole time I have these stripes on and I look ridiculous. Also the first officer from the last leg left potato chip crumbs on his seat.

You think it's so funny, huh. You think it's so hilarious that they made me look like this. Well wouldn't it be funny if I landed directly on top of you? Stop laughing. Why are you still laughing. Stop laughing at me.

Ugh. Fine. I GUESS I'll land. But I am going to take the entire runway to stop so that I can delay having to sit on the apron where the other planes can make fun of me. This is just cruel. I hate you.