#but the amount of incels in the fandom is so concerning

[jiangwanyinscatmom]

discussing novel facts with JC revisionists is SO similar to discussing historical facts with americans parroting CIA propaganda and idk what to make of it lmao, like i know the novel's a bit long but not long enough to pretend the facts that paint him as a POS are not there and not long enough to try to change the novel's universe into something that justifies his actions. like is a fictional canonical incel really the hill you choose to die on?? sad.

This is rather concerning behavior in general, especially the ones who condemn the material and author while parroting very western mentality as being so much more progressive, or praising censored adaptions due to being "more chaste".

I would not care at all about enjoying the character himself (I do as he makes for a great antagonist for the themes present), but what is concerning is the amount of vitriol to name a very homophobic character as Ace or LGBT+. It isn't progressive to headcanon the homophobe as any of this and is actually a bit insulting to still do in this day and age while being equally homophobic about the main gay couple of the work and parroting very homophobic language.

And it is sad that people will fight tooth and nail for this type of character to represent them in fandom when there are far better, not homophobic, characters in the work. I encourage my agenda of Ace Song Lan and spread it because I think it's just neat.

[just-another-hhazbin]

What do you think about Charlie's EX, Saviathan?

1) Seviathan

2) Green 

but I assume you mean the whole ask prompt thing, so here we go...

sexuality headcanon

bi

OTP

I don’t care about his romance life I just want someone to hold him down and make him chug respect women juice. then he can have romance.

brotp

he and Travis can hang out in the trash/vaguely incel aisle

notp

Seviathan x Charlie. The ship has sailed and sunk. Let it be. People, do not get back together with your jackass exes.

The first headcanon that pops into my head

jackass

Honestly, he just reminds me of the onceler a concerning amount. Just. The outfit. The color scheme.

favorite line from this character

let him stay silent

one way in which I relate to this character

his name is a reference to a demonic eldritch monster of the deep and honestly, I vibe with that

having a sibling who you are on neutral terms with

the thing that gives me second-hand embarrassment about this character

the fandom used to call him “Harold”

his nickname in the fandom is apparently “big jerk chad”

man’s a dumb

cinnamon roll or problematic fave?

betting on problematic

[mkyujji]

2020 in Review

My personal 2020.  

Not gonna lie, it was a tough year.

I started out feeling vaguely hopeful that we’d managed to limp through most of the clusterfuck that was an orange shitstain for a president.  Probably should have realized that meant that his last year was going to be catastrophic.

My father died.  

I reconnected with one of my brothers over it and completely disconnected with the other one.  My son and I both lost our jobs, though he lost his sooner and more thoroughly.  I gained my job back when our casino re-opened (thank all the dieties that ever even thought about existing for me finally putting my foot down in F&B and switching to security when I did or this would not likely have happened), my son remained unemployed until late October/early November when he managed to get a job at Wal-Mart.  He absolutely hates it and finally understands how I felt about the Deli all those years.  My ex-husband kicked his current wife’s daughter out of their house, they all got COVID-19, the wife ended up in ICU for a few weeks, my daughter got promoted to manager of her newest job at Dunken Donuts and had two car accidents, further cementing my son’s decision to never drive a car ever.

My son also started displaying concerning InCel MRA like beliefs after 9 months of having nothing to do but sink into the darker corners of the internet that I still haven’t figured out to handle.

I learned to garden, knit, and sew.  I learned to make bread and kimchi, beef stroganoff and bibimbap.  I’m still working on figuring out the card weaving and the crystal resin.

I made it to level 4 on Duolingo’s Chinese course and then proceeded to forget all of it once I was back at work and had no time to practice.

My two podcast ventures have finally started moving forward even if we haven’t reached a point of actually posting anything yet.  (One is hockey, one is mythology and linguistics)

I’ve made 3 cooking videos and 3 knitting videos for my kids, since one of the things we discovered after dad died - well, two things - was that all of his recipes are lost with him and I have exactly one video of my father and it’s his lasik eye surgery video from a few years ago.

In fandom news, I picked up two new fandoms - The Witcher and The Old Guard.

I posted 4 new fics. The Witcher - One Less Bridge to Burn and Destiny (Oh a Daunting Melody) Star Trek - Field Medicine 101 and a Steve/Tony MCU fic for a holiday exchange that I’ll add once creators have been revealed.  Technically I’ve written a second part/sequel to it, but the nature of anonymous fic exchanges means that I can’t really post that until after creators have been revealed.

I wrote 1616 words of Old Guard fic, 14,532 words of The Witcher fic, 203 words of Merlin fic, 1464 words of Star Trek fic, 4551 words of MCU fic, 2500 words of Torchwood fic, 1344 words of X-Men fic for a total of 26,210 words of fic.  Which doesn’t sound like a lot if you’re used to churning out Big Bangs and the like, but after nearly a decade of being strangled with writer’s block, it felt really nice to manage to actually get words out.  It’s slow going, but for once I have actual hope that these words are going to lead to more posted and completed fic in 2021, so huzzah!

I also started a novel which has a framework and a lot of random bits and pieces littered through that framework.  

There were a lot of highs and lows (mostly lows) in 2020 and I am beyond glad to see the backside of it.

For 2021, my goals are to finally publish episodes for at least one of my podcasts, finish at least 4 more fics, and make more progress on my novel.  I’d also like to get back into Tai Chi, but I can’t see that happening until things either open back up or I get more space in my living room.  I want to try to lessen the amount of procrastination that I am prone to.  2020 proved that putting things off til tomorrow means the odds of the person you meant to do them for won't be there gets higher.  I refuse to let my relationship with my non-toxic brother wither again.

I hope that 2021 is kinder than 2020 was in every respect.