#but they're leaving at the end of the year so unless im Better by then im basically screwed

[semiotomatics]

i wish i could enjoy literally anything rn

[qoldenskies]

Yello

I just found your fic series yesterday and I have been seriously enjoying it. I mean, not the psychological trauma part, but just how well written it is. I love how your mind works.

But no spoilers! I read Miner's eulogy, but I've only gotten to chapter 7 of Clipped Wings.

Anyway, I came here to say that since this is definitely before the movie and will definitely affect how the timeline of the show coincides with everything, I've come to see just how much of the movie actually does intertwine with the story, and how it affects how I view some of the scenes now.

Of course, I have no idea when he's gonna get better enough to where he's gonna be fighting alongside them on missions again. And the ark with Shredder and the Krang is definitely coming soon in the timeline of their lives right now. Buuuut, I do expect for us to maybe have some "just cause" because there is no way that they're gonna be leaving the lair anytime soon unless for just for getting stuff for Donnie. I mean, do we really think they're worried about the FOOT CLAN right now? We can act like all that is many months or many years from now because Donnie is definitely not gonna be okay by then.

So, anyway, whenever any of that ends up happening in this world, I like to think about the Krang bus and Technodrome scenes from the movie. In both instances, Donnie loses his battle shell. He protects Mikey with it and has to lose it to be able to control the ship with his bare back. Which, like, ow? Seeing the movie through the eyes of this story, there are definitely a lot of places that just would not exist because of the condition of Donnie. But god.

The extra worry that Mikey has about Donnie's shell? The protectiveness? The question of "are you sure?" before he takes it off?

The part where him and Mikey are trapped in the Turtle Tank? The utter terror on Donnie's face, in the fetal position, the fear of being crushed and suffocated, just like in the closet...

When Raph comes out of that cocoon swinging at Leo? The same way he did at Donnie? Donnie having to his big brother in that state again, with pure rage in his eyes? Rage at his family? Raph not being in control of himself? DOING EXACTLY WHAT HE DID TO DONNIE TO LEO???

MY GOD

There's probably many other parallels and little things that I haven't thought of yet, but that's what first comes to me. I don't know if you already realized the things and even wrote some things based off of the information we have from the movie. Anyway, I just wanted to vent that out. This au has me in a chokehold. Kudos ❤️

THE MOVIEEEEEE YEAHHHH there's been a bunch of talk about how the movie would go in CC since i have no plans to cover it, but hrhghhh i could really see some of those scenes recontextualized by what donnie goes through here. although personally i think raph being kraangified would hit him a lot harder than it would donnie, who wouldn't have the same kind of proximity to it. because raph has a lot of trauma from what he ended up doing to donnie, and doing it to ANOTHER one of his little brothers would SERIOUSLY mess him up. some people have asked if the choking in particular was an intentional parallel and my answer is actually nope, it was just an extension of the whole uhhh canary/breath metaphor, that and all the damage to his chest (even when raph let go he couldn't breathe!!!). but it would hit a lot harder with the movie's events in mind, its the second time raph would do that to one of his brothers!! oh my god he would be so fucking guilty!!!!!!! man...

someone hassss written their interpretation of a part of it, with the idea that donnie's the one to jump into the prison dimension because it works better than leo arc-wise >:3 (hi seasidefantasies im plugging your fic again. still insane about it) you dont have to be caught up to CW in order to read it, it doesnt contain any major spoilers!!! oooh you wanna read it so bad oooooh (hypnotizing you)

honestly since CW is planned to end on new years 2022 i kind of see everything in BN:NY and forward just being pushed back quite a while, not for any huge canon reasons it just makes more sense logically. since everything around the S2 finale/with the shredder just kinda HAPPENS to them, i could see BN:NY happening at pretty much any point they're all out of the lair together lmao, and once some stuff works out i dont think donnie will want to stay cooped up forever, he's gonna be kind of desperate to be "normal" for the sake of making his family feel better even to his own detriment i feel. i cant say anything too big about the changes because there's some stuff with ninpo that hasnt been revealed in the story, but ultimately i dont think it'd be all that different!! the destruction of the lair would be more cathartic than anything else at least lmao

[toaarcan]

I think Fiona's betrayal makes way more sense and fits into the narrative better if you simply bump it to after the destruction of Knothole.

Like, in the actual comic it kinda comes out of nowhere, and it's heavily tied into the romance plot tumours and Issue 150. Fiona's actual character is barely important, she just disappears for five issues and comes back with a new personality, her old trauma in high gear again (but girl, if you're mad at Sonic for abandoning you, why the feck are you running off with Second Sonic Who Is Worse?), and an ideology that makes zero sense with her history ("You can't count on anybody" says character who has literally never been independent and will never become independent).

And the fallout is incredibly understated and after literally two issues nobody cares any more except Tails. And he's done caring after 179 closes.

Betrayal is supposed to be impactful.

But if you shuffle the order of the stories around, don't even change the actual content, then the whole thing becomes a buttery-smooth consistent arc and Fiona's character development, while not a good thing in the long run (Scourge literally would've killed her in 196 if his plan had succeeded, she traded the stunningly mediocre partner that was Sonic for a literal monster), actually makes sense and is front and centre in her story, instead of what we got, which is "Fiona ascends from background character to weird love interest to an accessory for Scourge who is defined entirely by Scourge."

Fiona being driven by her trauma to hate Sonic for leaving her behind is a reasonable angle, it's where she started in the Knuckles comic, but it's been so long since that was relevant to her character that dredging it up years after the fact in a different book would only ever be jarring. Unless, say, history repeated itself and all those wounds got opened up again.

Eggman drops out of the sky, razes her home to the ground, and shoves her in a prison to be used as fodder for one of his sick creations, just like Robotnik did all those years ago. Only this time, the prison is so small that she can barely even move, and the machine she's going to be fed into is much worse. It'll kill her, twice over, draining her life-force to power Eggman's machinery and wiping her mind for no reason other than "Eggman's a sadistic asshole."

She gets to see the effects up-close too, via Charmy's brain damage.

And while it's unnecessary, as I think the actual plot of the issues needs no alterations to make sense, you could nonetheless add a small scene during the rescue where Sonic saves Fiona from the Egg Grapes and says he won't make that mistake again. A small hope spot before it all comes crashing down.

Because it does! The arc ends with the Freedom Fighters standing triumphant over a wrecked Egg Beater. They could easily grab Eggman and drag him into the brand-new prison that Nicole put Mogul, Naugus, and the Hooligans in. They have turned their darkest hour into an opportunity to win the war... and they don't take it.

Eggman flies off, clinging to an Egg Flapper and doing the "I'll get you next time, Gadget! Next tiiiiiime!" bit, and the heroes just... stand there.

And that's where the (hypothetical) hope spot gets dashed. Fiona, already uncertain of her place in the team after 160-1, loses faith in them completely. She just lived through the worst experience of her life again and the heroes of this world are doing nothing to prevent another repeat.

It even makes her "You can't count on anybody" line actually have some weight. She genuinely feels like she's been failed by them, that she put her trust in these people and they still turned on her at a moment's notice, and they're not doing enough to actually save the world. It's like Scourge says in 172- she "wishes [Sonic] had a backbone."

And then, after all that, there's the big Fiona Betrayal Issue except now it's actually about Fiona and not just about giving Scourge a girlfriend, and that's followed immediately by the Sonic vs. Tails issues. There's no time to process what just happened, everyone's emotions are still extremely raw, and it boils over into a fight between brothers that's more about venting all those nasty emotions they've been holding in for a while now. Sonic has been through a lot lately, he just lost his home and repeated one of his few failures, and he's not long lost Tommy too. Tails is dealing with emotions that he's not mature enough to process properly and healthily, he grew up too fast, but not evenly. And at the end of the day, they're both still just kids.

I still think 179's ending is an overall horrible way to to resolve that plot thread, and further reduces Fiona to an object to be fought over, but I'm not heavily changing the content of the issues, only the context.

I've never been a fan of villain!Fiona, I've made that clear in the past. I like it as a step on a journey that results in her healing, but I found its start confusing and messy and the rest of the arc lacklustre and far too focused on Scourge, rather than Fiona herself. But I think putting it in this order makes it flow a lot better for me.

If I write Sonic stuff again, I'll probably do it with this as a headcanon of what went down in the 170s.

[p-wrryyy-mordial-soup]

Hiiii :3 heres my pack of losers (my x-rank team) because i needed ghost to actually have a team :]. heres a link to all my splatoons on toyhouse

seperate refrences, little blurbs about them and color alts where they all share eachothers colors below the thang v enjoy my word vomit idk how to write character stuff out teehee

sorry his ref is a year old and rushed for artfight </3 also the age is wrong i think i changed it to 23

he's from around where the deepsea metro is/was. had to leave because of unstable surroundings from an unknown to him cause. he's best friends with Rust and her kids, im gonna be honest i haven't actually thought through how they met and ive just realized this oops. since he spent most of his life underground and now lives in the splatlands he gets sunburnt way too frequently to not be covered up constantly, though he wears thing like tank tops and shorts during splatfest since those mostly occur during the night.

He met wisteria and ember first and then 72. they didnt apoint him as leader nor do they really care to have one but he's the tallest so everyone assumes its him. he's the most softspoken out of the 4 of them but thats a really low bar, he has a hard time making decisions but once he does he will die on that hill

(since its not on his ref like the other three)

72 escaped the metro before agent 8 went through it, he had found a memcake that was dropped after a test giving him just a clear enough mind to think for himself some. he ended up finding his way out after a while of accumulating a couple more memcakes, barely any where his though so hes walking around with memories that aren't his. It also took him a while to get used to the fact he isnt a soldier nor a test subject anymore. If he saw another sanitized mollusk he'd probably hide or run away </3.

72 met Ghost while after wandering around the area for a while, and ended up crashing in his car the whole time on ghosts way back to the splatlands (he thought 72 was like, drunk or something since he was tumbling around and seemed to be not the most coherent). he doesnt blink or breath unless hes actively thinking about it :[.

he had a hard time discerning things for a while but hes gotten better, at first he thought ember was just a weird octoling because she wears the old octoling goggles. we beat the evil soap with friendship in this house!!!

personality wise hes pretty hyper and cheerful which isnt usually your first thought upon seeing a zombie, forgot his age but hes an adult, he was encouraged to pick his own birthday :]

I have the least down for him at the moment, there will be more on her prommy </3 she's 21

She's a callie superfan with a vulgar sense of humor, usually the one who purposefully makes other players angry. born and raised in the splatlands she knows all the places to hide and get you lost in.

he's been friends with ember the longest, they where online friends until ember moved to splatsville. was introduced to ghost and 72 later by ember, he likes to antagonize 72 (think sibling antagonizing, theyre both in on it). down to fist fight you in the back of a waffle house

Originally from the inkopolis outskirts, they're 31

Ember's both a video game and turf/anarchy streamer, she has camera in their goggles for the latter. bad habit of talking in twitch/internet lingo outside of streaming. Once she has eyes on something its nearly impossible to get her to do something else. Very friendly outside fighting, will give you nice words and a pat on the back after a game whether they won or not.

met ghost while playing turf war in a random que, he was, in her words, "a bit to intense to be playing in turf" and told him after the game that he should try out anarchy, he was scared of it since he was new to the area. they ended up teaming up and playing a couple games together, later inviting wisteria and eventually 72.

theres def more to these guys but it will take me a long time to get the words in my head to cooperate 🙏im better at answering specific questions about things then coming up with what to write myself

have some color alts :3

[dragonairice]

LOWKEY BEEN INSPIRED BY @not-sure-what-im-feeling s AWESOME OCS AND LORE (Go check them out)

And it inspired me to talk about MY ocs :D

I mention in passing that I am in fact writing a novel, but I try to avoid saying too much to prevent spoilers buuuuut I think I can keep it vague enough while still rambling <3

The novel (technically a novella) is called 'The Shadow Walker' and here's a draft of a blurb:

With no friends, an absent mom, an abusive dad, and a shadow that inexplicably went missing; Nicholas Walker is convinced his life couldn’t possibly get any worse. But everything changes when he meets something (or someone) who may or may not want him dead.

(Not the best but again it;s a draft)

ANYWAY THIS IS MY BOY NICHOLAS

He's 12 years old and a selective mute and my scrungliest little blorbo who experiences the horrors™. He doesn't have any friends, is neglected by his parents, and all in all has a bad time before the book starts :(

The only source of healthy food in the house (he borrows money from his dad and goes to the store alone) but is severely malnourished from eating nothing more than reheated takeout his dad left in the fridge. Nick doesn't talk verbally unless it's to his dad (out of necessity) and otherwise converses in ASL (which I'm learning for this book <3). Loves pretty buildings and stargazing, has a dream of visiting things like Notre Dame and the colloseum some day and is fascinated by architecture. I just realised that this kid would adore Minecraft but anyway after things get better for him he's given Lego models of like the eiffel tower and he loves them :)

Gonna stop before I spend the entire post talking about my boy and move onto

HIS MOMM

You know that thing that's like, "Not a bad person, just a bad parent"? Yeah. That's her. She ran away from her abusive boyfriend and left Nick behind out of fear, since she didn't know if she could survive by herself, much less with a child in tow. She ends up leaving with her best friend and they travel around the world a lot for their job. They're a musician who plays back up for bands in different places and Rachel ends up learning to play some stuff too after watching them for so long. The two end up dating at some point and they've been together ever since. Rachel still sends Nicholas a postcard every time she travels to a new place, but she doesn't have the courage to actually see him in person yet. Also fun fact. She's descended from a woman who was killed for being a 'witch' during the salem trials. This is relevant to the story :3

Do I have to talk about his dad??? Ughhhhh fine

This is Gregory Walker. I hate him. bye.

Not but fr, he's a terrible father. Works at a convenience store and his co-workers fear him. Lives off of take-out and instant ramen, never checks on his son. Spends all his money gambling and buying alchohol. Literally would not notice if he missed an entire month of his life (*cough* foreshadowing *cough*)

ANYWAY ONTO TWO OF MY FAVOURITES

LEXI AND CHELSEAAA

Lexi is a single mom who grew up kinda spoiled and is still figuring out how to raise a kid. Her parents are kinda helpful about it but also she doesn't want to raise Chelsea how she was raised so hgjhrj. Chelsea was orignally planned to be autistic since this entire book is a transparent cover for neurodivergent rep but the version of her in my head is so very ADHD instead. They only show up near the end of the book so I'm still experimenting with them a bit but Lexi is a huge book worm and Chelsea loves unicorns, like, I mean in the 'mythology is cool way' not the 'stereotypical girl behaviour' way. She does love pink things and sparkles though

THERE IS ANOTHER CHARACTER BUT THEY'RE A SPOILERRRR BUT I WILL JUST SAY THEY ARE NOT HUMAN AND ALSO WHAT THE TITLE OF THE BOOK IS TALKING ABOUT

(It's a sentient shadow, that's- do you get the pun in the name- there's three references in it-)

[blackbatcass]

im so happy u turned ur anons back on they rlly thought they were baiting you, huh?

anyways! im sooo excited for the cass rebirth fic skdfewkd but in the meantime i DO wanna get into some arrowfam. ollie, roy, mia and connor just interest me so muchh but i havent read muc except for fics and even though i was supposed to follow my super specific reading order i wanna take a break from nw and the batfam and read something else.

like you said ga can be very healing!

anyways do you have a read list for me that includes all of them? thankss!

p.s nightwing vs green arrow was a question dc posted on their insta and the answers really surprised me! any insight on this?

LOVE YAAA

hey! <3333 tyyy i hope it lives up to expectation. LITERALLY reading ollie is so healing its good for the soul.

so this is like a comprehensive list of ollie comics, and this is a guide to everyone in the arrowfam. they’re super helpful if you want a broad overview

for my own personal recs, i think it's nice to start with green arrow: year one or green arrow stranded, to get a feel for his origin & time on the island. the hard traveling heroes (green lantern/green arrow) stories are also essential reading in that they basically established the modern version of ollie's personality and they're soo much fun, just beware of snowbirds lol.

from there green arrow vol 2 (1988) is the big one! pretty much Thee green arrow run, especially if you want to get to know ollie better. it's a lot of solid street-level ga stories in seattle, dinah's there, eddie fyers is there, and connor's introduced towards the end! if you're specifically interested in connor #102-137 was his original green arrow run. though word of caution that anything written after mike grell is a bit questionable.

if you're more interested in the 'arrowfamily' as a whole then you're looking for green arrow vol 3 (2001). it's 75 issues and a lot of fun. this is where ollie comes back to life, mia is introduced, ollie legalizes gay marriage, etc. it's pretty much just ollie hanging out with connor and mia and having some more street-level star city shenanigans, and i am very fond of it. that being said when judd winick takes over there is some questionable shit (you might want to just skip the arc with joanna pierce) but overall it's a fun time. roy shows up occasionally, dinah comes and goes. it's probably the best run to read if you want to get to know the arrowfam as a whole.

do not read green arrow/black canary unless you're desperate. it's bad. it's hilariously bad. do not trust anyone who tells you it's good. it is pretty harmless so if you just want to skim through for mia funny moments go ahead but...yeah it's trash.

post-new 52 there is not a lot unfortunately. a lot of it's garbage. the jeff lemire run is probably the most salvageable? and the rebirth one (volume 6) isn't as nauseating so that's also an option. but obviously you can read & enjoy whatever you want, maybe new52 ollie is your favorite ollie. i would say to read through some of this if you're interested in emiko but i can't really recommend it per se.

and that brings us to the current ga ongoing! you've probably heard us bitch about it a lot on here, but tbh it's been less bad & more mediocre. mediocre comics are just really frustrating to read through in real time. i might give it a try though, it has some nice moments even though it's not great, and williamson is leaving the title next month! chris condon is set to take over and has said the first arc is about street-level crime in star city, influenced by grell and o'neill. so i am VERY excited, it has the possibility to be peak. i think condon's run (issue 18) could be a great place to hop on!

so those are my green arrow recs! if you're more interested in roy, he usually features more in titans titles than ga titles so i have a separate list in my comic recs tag for him.

i couldn't find the ig post you were talking about? i have no clue how a fight between dick and ollie would go if that's the question. power scaling is not my forte by any means. i'm not sure how ollie's archery and dick's hand to hand fighting would match up. so i don't have a lot of insight on that sorry!

[shineonyoucrazyyandere]

(Rewriting this bc the first version was ASS, my bad. I went back and read some chapters and did a bit of math to get the characters' ages right with a friend of mine. lol, I hope this version is better. This was inspired by the anon who was talking about Platonic Yandere Higashikatas)

With all the crazy stuff that happens in Jojo, i can see something like that happening. Maybe the reader´s family was already friends with the Higashikatas, or maybe they became a friend of Jobin at the local scouting movement, which i do think would be a bit harder but still possible, lol Slowly, they get more and more inserted into the family to the point it almost feels like they spend most of their time in the Higashikata household, only leaving to either sleep or to grab something from their house before they're back as quick as they left. I feel like this would happen even quicker if the Reader ended up having a complicated relationship with their parents and ended up venting their emotions to the Higashikatas (Next thing you know Norisuke is gonna end up adopting yet another person lol)

I wonder what what would've happened if they were around at the time Kaato was sent to jail, im pretty sure no parents would like to have their kid be friends with a criminal or anyone related to a criminal, so im sure they would either try to make Reader cut ties with the Higashikatas or maybe try to slowly separate them from them from the Higashikatas kids. And if that didn't work? They'd probably just leave Morioh, I mean - Yeah, the place is great! But do you REALLY want your kid to be around when so much weird stuff is going around? I don't think so! So their parents just end up leaving with them one day, with no warning nor a chance to say goodbye to their friends, Reader is now in a new city very far away from Morioh. Reader is quick to learn to repress all their memories of the Higashikatas, unless they'd like to be grounded for what felt like the 5th time that week for just mentioning they missed looking around for beetles with Jobin or being used as a mannequin for Hato. There is an empty hole in their chest, but after a few years in their new school and neighborhood, they manage to feel a lot better. They always had an easy time making friends anyway.

As time passes, you end up forgetting a lot about the Higashikatas, your memory is only limited to a few moments of childlike bliss with a family you can't even remember the name of, but your mind quickly leaves these thoughts away as they go back to the same repetitive and boring work you do every day. As much as you wish for change in your life, it's quite hard to do so when everything is just so damn pricey! So when a better job opportunity in another city shows up, you immediately book it, leaving almost the same day you get the confirmation that you got the job.

(1/2)

No prob, it’s all chill right here! I think the JJL brainrot 🫧 anon might’ve started something here and I’m not complaining one bit.

[mammonistheman]

Greetings, I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly, but... Could I please have a (Casino Cups AU) Cuphead x GN? Reader x Mugman, obviously a V-poly, where the reader is a human with magical abilities?

Because the AU primarily revolves around the Cupbros attempting to get their powers, I imagine the reader would help them with studying and researching the Calix Animi, or teach them some of the magic that they can do, you know? If this violates your guidelines, simply ignore this! <3 •_•’

(Headcanons, a scenario, or even a oneshot can be used as the format for the request. I am not picky; you can do whatever you want! :D)

AAA thank you so much for requesting my first Casino Cups request!! I love this concept and thank you for being such a sweet♡ I did this in a headcanons format, but I don't mind if you want to request a different format at all!!

Also i am so sorry this took forever im literally mortified about my lack of motivation D:AND IT'S TERRIBLE DJDJDJND also I just based it on the reader teaching them magic idk if thats right djfjd ALSO AGAIN I RUSHED IT CAUSE I GOTTA PUT OTHER THINGS OUT IM SO SORRY ITS NOT EVEN GOOD it feels really weird idk I'm so sorry djdjfjfn

Head cannons for being in a V-poly relationship with;;

Cuphead and Mugman with a reader who is teaching them magic;

It would be quite a shock to you at first at them working under and for the casino; after all the battles they've worked through with fellow employees, just an ordinary(but not ordinary) bar tender/waiter/waitress such as yourself would have better judgement than to work here. Although that, you're glad they did.

It didn't catch your attention at much firstly, but got rather intrigued by the fact they wanted their powers. Mostly as of you grew up with them, and took granted for them over the years.

What first caught your eye of the two, apart from their cup heads, was their total hot and cold behavior. They were total opposites! It was entertaining; to say the least. As you grow closer and eventually end up in an V-poly relationship, they're familiar with your magical powers at this point.

It's around the time of laughing off their bickering or something one of them said to another; that you mention to the two how their magic techniques would be really different as for how they work and communicate as well.

But you took it more seriously as of their purpose and their desire to know of the Calix Animi; which you had grown familiar with as of your ancient weilding family. They hold deep secrets; of what you're aware of, so you offer to help the two.

This first set off you being their mentor for whatever spell they had wanted to learn. You started off with basics before developing into harder motions; so that they could learn and get used with such magic and their castings.

Cuphead; on one hand; will rock with any kind of magic if it will help him laugh up a joke or use it to his own advantage. This may not be the best things to teach him, but being bored most of the time; it is fun watching him run around creating trouble until you're brought into it.

It will be hard to teach him, too many steps can make it a bore for him so he ends up slacking unless he has to use it as material. One of the very first magic spells will probably be something out money or a prank, you may not be pleased with whatever the outcome; but hey... he's learning.

Mugman will be transfixed on your abilities and will ask questions like he'd run out of time if he didn't. Most spells will actually be useful and practical to help him throughout the day; or maybe even some spells to use as punishment against Cuphead if things get out of hand.

Mainly; you'd be sitting with Mugman off shift; just helping him research and walking him through spells. It's an accomplishment watching his eyes light up in victory at his new found ability; but in the long run would leave him with a bigger burn of desire to learn more and leaving you the one in a boredom mindset.

Luckily for that, somewhere not far off has Cuphead causing trouble for you to be set free from his question overloads. You really love the guy, honest! But it's like your brain is an engine coming to a bust with working all day and then that.

Mugman will be easy to develop and give harder challenges to, as of the attention he gives and his interest in the matter. Cuphead will be running behind, but you're for sure not just letting him. You'd probably pull a few magic rooted pranks on him as some sort of motivation to get back at you.

Cuphead would have more a chilled and relaxed technique and approach to his magic usage or ability; while Mugman will have a stronger fuel to use it for its purpose and most likely will grow strong in parts like protection, defense and castings.

As for the Calix Animi; when you think they've (just about for Cuphead) have reached a level of understanding, it would be most likely that you have known of it through family members and their knowledge. You'd have strong magic roots, only producing with other magic knowing people; that had helped you grow strong and knowable today.

So they may earn more information by snooping and sniffing out answers of such people you know.

But with that information, you may also use traditional magic that might not be flying around so much. These textbooks that have taught you the very same would be handed out to the two, which also give them the ability to truly learn about earthy, grounded materials that would've been used in older years.

Any textbook of such power may give away any information of sorts; which does motivate you to also help read through any suspecting pieces and textbooks.

Overall; you help them grow spiritually as well as people. You may piss a few people off with the fact Cuphead is pulling more pranks easier than ever; but you truly ground them to a certain point and help them with finding any myseries of Calix Animi as well.

[leonawriter]

i know im late but

Kogoro Mouri?

First impression

That was a long, long time ago, but probably "deadbeat who can't be bothered to deduce his way out of a paper bag hat." A lot of frustration, or just dismissing him outright at times, probably.

Impression now

I still feel the frustration, but I feel like a lot of it is more on Gosho shoehorning him into the role of "needs to be a dumbass" rather than Kogoro actually being a dumbass. He's had so many times when he's shown how smart he is that there are some times when he acts stupid that just... don't make sense.

Favorite moment

I think it's the Fourteenth Target movie, where he shoots Eri with perfect aim in order to get the guy holding her to let go?

More recently, I can still remember the moment from the Stradivarius case where he does exactly what Conan says without even asking or complaining and only then does he ask himself why he just... followed the orders of a seven year old.

Basically, any moment that lets him be a badass.

Idea for a story

Anything where he puts things together.

Kogoro having a one to one with "Conan" and getting a few ground rules down, talking things over, so they end up collaborators and the whole "Sleeping Kogoro" thing is a joint effort.

Shinichi at one point saying "Sure, sure. But if you start derailing an investigation, I WILL knock you out and take over."

"Deal."

Unpopular opinion

What are the unpopular Kogoro opinions? I mean, part of me sometimes wonders if it'd be better if he and Eri split up properly and just let themselves be friends, at times. Gosho wants to show that they're still in love, but unless Kogoro's womanising is a bluff, that's... hm. She could do better.

Favorite relationship

Funnily enough, I love seeing how he is with Conan/Shinichi! Kogoro is basically like Shinichi's second dad (fitting, considering how Yuusaku is absent so much), and it shows. They'll mirror each other and not even realise it. Kogoro will also, in spite of how he complains about "the brat," protect him just as much as he protects Ran.

Favorite headcanon

That he's put things together, no matter what Gosho says.

Just now I was even thinking that he could easily have come up with a "deduction" that is scarily accurate, but he convinces himself that it "can't" be true because it's just the sort of thing that those around him usually laugh at him for coming up with. It doesn't leave his head, but it's just like a conspiracy theory that refuses to not make sense.

There've been times he should have been looking straight at Conan when he shot his dart, or should have woken up before the deduction is over. It fits.

[golbrocklovely]

the way stas is so obsessed with colby and the fact that people still dont see it,is so crazy to me. she likes his tweets/ig posts so fast. up until recently had a pic with him pinned to her ig but still has the tiltok with him pinned on tiktok. she still likes edits of him,dedicated a whole highlights to mostly pics of him on snap (so many reposted them and i finally saw where they came from). and not to mention, she had so many photos of him not looking in her reel. this is giving less supportive friend/girl in love and more stage five clinger. he barely acknowledges her except for the occasional ig pic like. but wow i have seen so much of her ways since the so called editing retreat, im surprised people dont notice.

this might be a long answer so sorry in advance lol

i've said this a lot before, but we need to stop giving her and shea attention.

i get it, it is so easy to fall into their trap of looking at what they do with a fine tooth comb and seeing if what they posted is about colby in some way. or maybe paying attention to their likes and seeing how many edits they've liked or reposted that are shipping the two of them together. i understand it's entertaining to some degree, but mostly infuriating. and i need us all to stop playing into their hand.

they both clearly want attention, we have all established that. but what's funny is that they get the upper hand bc so many fans, regardless of what stas/shea do, assume that the things they post are about colby no matter what. stas posts a tiktok - oh she's wearing merch it's about colby. stas liked a tweet about the core four - clearly that was about her and colby. shea makes some vague tweet - it's about colby, no doubt. shea comments hearts on a pic of the two of them - she obviously wants fans to know they're back on. it's never ending !

and i get it, it's extremely easy to assume that everything they do online is about him. i don't think that's reality. and even if it is, that doesn't mean we have to pay it any mind.

and the fans that love them will never see them for who they are. maybe they will eventually. maybe they'll get older, stop paying attention to snc, and look back and be like "huh, it was a bit strange i was in a gc with a 20 something year old and she constantly talked about her friend colby and casually told us that she had a crush on him unprompted." or "oh wow, that was weird that i was in a gc with an almost 30 year old shit talking other girls that colby was close to just bc that almost 30 year old really wanted me to believe that she was dating him." i truly hope that happens. but unless a drove of fans comes out and shames them, it ain't gonna change what currently is taking place. so until then, it's best that we, the ppl that understand their shtick, move on and forget about them.

and i want to direct this to shea and stas, bc i know their fans sometimes come on here and most likely send them this shit. and if not, if stas or shea see this i want them to know: i understand that you like colby. i understand that you have a deep connection with him that no one else has. i understand he makes you feel special and wanted, and that's great. but you are absolutely lying to yourself if you think you have a chance with him. he. will. not. date. you. the years of you being friends with him has proven that. and i get that unrequited love hurts, it eats you from the inside out. it's the worse, and i get how painful it is. but why do you think acting like a fan account is gonna make him like you? why do you think liking edits or comments shipping the two of you together is gonna make him want to put a ring on it??? if you really want to live out that fantasy, just send me a request for a fic and maybe i'll fill it out for you - that way you don't make an absolute fool of yourself by constantly stooping down to fan level and acting like the young ones that freak out when colby's near a girl and leave comments like "she better back off he's mine" bc that's what you look like. you actually look worse than that, if i'm honest, bc you use fans to get the validation colby doesn't give you.

why do you even want to date him at this point? this man wears the same clothes for weeks on end. he sleeps with an old ass pillow from kansas. he had food sitting in his mini fridge that expired. i know for a fact he doesn't clean his bedding all that often, if at all. he has a better committed relationship with a teeth whitening brand than with any women he's ever known. he's more likely to marry sam than yall. stas, he took a girl that he was hooking up with on the side to a get together with the core four. you were there while he was on date. and then he continued to hang out with her on multiple occasions. that wasn't enough? shea, he was literally dicking down another girl when you were trying to tell fans yall were getting back together (or dating again, not sure which since your fans or you can't keep a story straight) when you did the last adventure buddies video. he still likes her pics occasionally and she comments on his stuff often. that wasn't enough?

he doesn't want you. at what point do you accept that and move on? i have equally as much of a chance of dating him as yall do, that's how realistic your fantasy is.

[boydykedevo]

"2. Any sleep habits either had to get used to?","3. Jealousy issues?","7. Do they want (have) kids?","9. If they got engaged… who proposed?" taagnus!!!! :3c

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2. Any sleep habits either had to get used to?

As previously mentioned, Magnus's commitment to his early morning workouts lol, but also Taako's a total blanket hog. (Taako doesn't exactly SLEEP, cuz elf, and he only needs like 4 hours of meditation (iirc im not double checking the lore lol), but he likes getting to relax and cuddle with Magnus, so it's usually more than that. He goes to bed at like 2 am, so Magnus falls asleep alone and wakes up freezing cold cuz Taako climbed in and stole all his blankets and contorted himself into a weird position where he's like upside down how did that even happen Taako...)

3. Jealousy issues?

ABSOLUTELY while they're pining, less so when they're properly together. Before getting their memories back, Taako used to get super jealous about Julia and then feel horrible for it, especially cuz they weren't even in a commited relationship, who the fuck is he to get jealous over his coworker slash fuckbuddy's dead wife?? And Magnus used to get super upset when other people would flirt with Taako, both in the IPRE era “haha we’re bffs and not in love… unless….” phase and at the Bureau. (Taako sometimes intentionally flirted with other people cuz he liked seeing Magnus get possessive over him... he liked seeing how committed he is)

7. Do they want (have) kids?

I have a fankid, so they have at least one. I cant see them ending up with more than 2 or 3 max. I think Taako was super unsure if he'd be a good parent. He wanted a chance to give a kid a better childhood than he and Lup got, but it was always more of an idle fantasy than an actual plan. Magnus wanted kids from the time he was a kid, he used to be so upset he didn't have any younger siblings (he had some younger cousins he got to hang out with, but not too often). They used to talk about "when we're parents" while they were on the Starblaster, but again, it was always more of a fantasy than anything concrete; they weren't sure if they'd ever leave this cycle, so their future plans were always an abstract fantasy they never expected to come true.

9. If they got engaged… who proposed?

Magnus did the Official Big Proposal, but Taako was the one who suggested marriage first. In a very casual schrodinger's joke way ofc. He's never been big on commitment, mostly cuz he has a huge fear of abandonment, but it was like... he knew Magnus wasn't going to leave him, not after a hundred years, but it was still nice to have a piece of paper meaning it would at least be harder. Plus the fact Magnus had gotten married and it wasn't to Taako still made him kinda jealous. He doesn't need to be more important than Julia, he just needs to feel like they're on the same level. BUT he wanted Magnus to do the Proper Proposal, and Magnus was very excited to make it big and romantic (and public, which Taako was like. a little embarrassed about. But ultimately fine with. As long as it wasn't interrupting-a-sporting-event level public)

[remrse]

wanted to flesh out some connections before i delved into the ongoing event! came up with some plot ideas (might add more when i get a better idea of his connections) which i'll leave below the cut — feel free to hit me up if you'd like to take on any, or if you just want to plot if we haven't already!

things are pretty hectic for him this month, a lot of past connections returning to haunt him, rumours surrounding these reconnections and all so, i plan to have him show up for this event without a date but

we can have an ex he recently broke up with who will be attending the event (lots of room for awkward run-ins)

someone new he meets at the event that he ends up flirting with? nothing serious but they just really hit it off and end up going for a dinner or stroll together (something about the cherry blossoms make for a good romantic set-up)

DAY 01

jaerim would be very interested in this year's charity, since it's childcare related (he volunteers at children's charity organisations) so he would want to show up for the lunch

we could do a carpool situation? maybe your muse needed transport to the event (to avoid traveling with their family or for whatever reason) and his fancy car ain't a bad option. could have them meet with some situation on the way there and show up fashionably late halfway through the welcome lunch, walk in with everyone staring at them? maybe even have them wonder if your muse is his date for the event?

i think he'd really dig the sunset watching and dinner cruise so maybe a date for that? or an unintentional date of sorts? like they got lost or left behind because they were bickering over something and everyone else had left by the time they were done so they were on their own and the view was too good to pass off (could work for platonic connections too!) (shiah)

DAY 02

feel like it'd be fun for him to get stuck on a cable car ride with an ex or enemy of sorts e.g. "we need to talk", "but people will see us", next moment one of them drags the other into the cable car

not really a railbike kinda guy (unless you convince him?) but he would be lounging at the beach so anyone spending their time there could bump into him. beachside cocktails and provocatively applying sunscreen? hit him the hell up

i see him being forced to mingle with people during the dinner and fireworks show so bring on any drama with past connections

or someone that gets way too drunk and ends up being his burden to care for that night (won)

DAY 03 (FULL)

a date for the cherry blossoms viewing (seryung)

i'd imagine that would cause some drama with some of his past romantic connections which is a good set-up for that night's partying (people go feral when they're drunk and i'm here for it) (seulki)

this is likely to be a stressful event for him so he will be ending it off with lots of alcohol (raon)

maybe even hook up with someone at the end of the night (in true gossipgate fashion, day 3 always ends with chaos) (raon)

if none of these work, i'm down to brainstorm and come up with something fun for our muses! click here for my intro if you need more information about jaerim. anything else, feel free to drop me a message on ims or discord!

[stormyoceans]

all your posts have made me want to rewatch vice versa dammit. Lowkey been avoiding bc I love the series but omg I need to skip the ending.... I hate friend groups splitting up, and they get zero explanation, don't even know their friends were swapped like.

I'm really hoping Our Sky does something to fix bc Talay and Puen legit ditched them and it's my biggest frustration with the show

ACTUAL DEPICTION OF ME RN MY EVIL PLAN IS WORKING!!!!!!

but i do understand how you feel about friend groups splitting up, especially in vice versa where you come to love up, aou, fuse and kita so much. i honestly can't rewatch the scene where puen and talay say goodbye to them without tearing up because it's just TOO PAINFUL. this is the tragedy of universal travelling though: you get to build all these relationships and share all these moments with people, but in the end they don't really belong to you. you're borrowing someone else's body, someone else's life, and there really isn't any satisfying ending to it. that's the lesson puen had to learn too: he could have chosen to stay in the alternate universe as tun, where he had a loving family and devoted friends, but it wouldn't have been right, not only towards tun himself, but also towards those same family and friends he came to care about. even if you run away from it, your life is still your life, and you're gonna have to face it sooner or later

and don't get me wrong, of course i do wish up and aou could remember puen and talay as who they are and not as tess and tun, but at the same time i wonder if it would make things any better. right now, puen and talay are the ones carrying all the pain of leaving: people in the alternate universe will never know they're missing someone, because they don't know the switch happened in the first place. if they did, they would have to carry that burden too, because unless the two universes collided they will always be separated, and on top of that they would also have to deal with the fact that someone they cared about went missing for years and that they never realized it

this is why i don't think we're ever gonna get a proper closure on this matter, because even the best possible ending is still heartbreaking. and i definitely can see how this may be upsetting, but i also think there's some beauty in it, in having met someone that, whether you know it or now, changed your life for the better

im not sure this helped in any way ;;;;; but i do hope that one day you'll be able to rewatch the show!!!! (and maybe let me know about it if you do!!!)

[millionsofbooks]

i do not have the time or energy to write this but. on the off-chance someone will pick this up. asoiaf/mdzs crossover pls pls pls it would be so good and there are 0 on ao3 rn!!!

just. ok so ik crossovers have kind of gone out of style recently but they're so much fun! they're also just. a really fun way of exploring differences/similarities in how different medias explore certain themes (eg both asoiaf and mdzs have a lot to say on the feudal system, privilege, morality, honour, fucked up family dynamics, redemption, etc but they also focus on different aspects of these themes) and exploring characters via parallels.

putting a bunch of fun character meet-ups below the cut ❤️

like. ok so one thing i think mdzs does that asoiaf doesn't so much is looking at how a character's concept of honour is shaped by privilege. by which i mean - i want to lock jgy and/or xue yang in a room with ned and/or stannis and see what happens.

or speaking of honour - both properties explore the fact that things aren't just black-and-white. God. thirteen-year-time-skip era lwj talking to ned 🥺🥺🥺. or post-canon lwj talking to stannis if u want something less heartbreaking - altho you would have to put in plot reasons for lwj to not just leave.

or if we want to think more parallels - hi wwx and dany!!!! oh my god!!!!! and also when it comes to parallels it doesn't actually need to be those particular characters interacting - eg dany would immediately remind lwj and jc of wwx.

like. concept - for plot reasons, post-canon lwj and jc end up in planetos and have to grudgingly cooperate to get home. they turn up in slavers' bay (either where the portal dumped them or on their way to asshai to find a way home) either in the middle of dany's conquest or soon after she's decided to stay in meereen. then - oh god massive fight over whether to stay or not that very quickly turns into a fight over the resentment they have for each other over the whole wwx-wens debacle. i mean the parallels are obvious - dany = wwx, slaves = wens, dragons = yin tiger seal, etc.

lwj: we should stay to help. this girl is doing the right thing and we should help her.

jc: um, no??? we need to get home and not just abandon the people we love for some strangers. going against orthodoxy never works, she can't win this fight permanently. everyone will turn against her, she'll lose everything, and so will the people who care about her.

lwj: if the people who care about her stand with her then maybe she will win this fight. and even if she doesn't, if they really care about her then they'd prefer to die with her rather than profit from abandoning her.

jc: well maybe they have other people they care about as well and standing with her would put those other people in danger and if she really cared about them then she would stop this madness and come home

dany: im getting the feeling this isnt about me.

anyway they end up staying - there are slaves from all over the world here, maybe someone has useful info; these are very old cities, maybe there's useful info to be found here; waiting for the dragons to grow and then flying to asshai is def safer and might even be quicker; idk the important part is that they stay and want to help. and then maybe it all goes a bit better bc jc actually has experience in ruling and like. rebuilt lotus pier from basically nothing. + lwj to help with doubts and uncertainty. just. i want good things for dany 🥺🥺🥺. also they're used to wwx so their opinions on crucifying the masters would probably be along the lines of like. wow so restrained.

anyway i havent even gotten into like. jgy + jon snow or tyrion which. well i think jgy's main response to jon would be 'oh you think you had it bad???' but he might be more sympathetic to tyrion. or actually it might be more like 'youre just like me (derogatory)'. ugh what an idiot so pathetic he thinks he can get his father to love him ://. unless they meet post-tywin's death. someone: wow can't believe you killed your own father. jgy: well maybe his father was a dick.

also would love a meet-up between jaime and jgy or wwx. the whole - wow ok im evil for doing these things but its fine for you to profit from them?? un fucking believable. why are you mad at me for killing this guy everyone wanted to kill him. wwx could fix jaime, jgy could make him worse.

anyway this got very long but pls other people add on to this 🥺🥺

[softness-and-shattering]

Yknow what this reminds me of. Warning for racism.

And Ill just say. This was before the. How do I explain? This was before it was considered normal, in my circles, to be always on high alert about justice and inclusion the way it is online now. It was something I absolutely cared about, but I didnt have a million arguments scripted and ready to go at any moment, I wasnt used to calling out people, Im not sure I knew how to. Im not even sure this is necessary context, maybe Im being overly defensive online, ok.

So Im a teenager, and this author who's books Ive picked up, liked enough to read them twice over a bunch of years and have been kinda considering picking up again, is running a one-off writing class at a local library. I go with a friend of mine, both of us as-white-as-Jews-can-be; the class is a handful I-think-white teens and this one ten year old Asian boy who to me seems like a Gifted TM kid whos been allowed in despite being significantly younger.

So this woman is talking about a bunch of writing basics. At one point she starts talking about pacing, and then romance and the pacing of sex scenes, you have one about halfway through apparently. References some fantasy romance?erotica involving "doing it up in the air". At one point she talks about her own books and spoils the ending of the first one. My ambitions to reread the series are pretty deflated at this point. It becomes obvious to me in the hindisght of a couple days that she's doing these classes, 'touring', I think, because book sales arent doing well and she needs the money. I dont remember if we paid her or the library did, probably the library.

I think Ive adequately set the scene for the vibe of this class. This woman was white btw if that wasnt exceptionally obvious.

So we're sitting there taking notes, rather baffled, in my case still hoping to learn something useful. (I think perhaps writing advice was as much a SpIn as writing itself.) And she starts talking about character and characterisation. How important it is to describe your characters. What they look like, what they wear, eye colour hair colour do they wear glasses. The real basics.

And then she says, in all seriousness. And I quote to the best of my memory "Unless they're from Asia, they all look the same up there", as an aside, and just keeps talking.

We all freeze. I meet my friends eyes and see the same shock reflected there. I glance at the other teens. I glance at this ten year old kid who's just been told he looks completely indistinguishable from how many million people, by someone he obviously respects and came to this class specifically for even though it was targeted quite a bit older. By this time its been a few seconds, she's moved on, I have absolutely no idea what to do so I just sit there and process that this writer, talking about how important it is to describe and distinguish characters, also believes that any story involving Asian people - all of Asia! Asia as a monolith! - may as well be about, idk, robots or paper cutouts, or clones. And start counting down the time till I can leave.

I wanted to say something to the kid, after, but I had absolutely no idea where to even begin. I hope he's doing well now, wherever and whoever he is. And I hope the writer has learned better. Thats my bizarre writing teacher story. Im honestly still baffled at the sheer cognitive dissonance.

What is harder to write: novels, poems, or short stories?

[dlstmxkakwldrlarchive]

the og nuanced ot4 takes anon here, you know... there are so many sides to this its such a mess

because on one side, i do think that ot4s deserve the right to exist in this fandom peacefully and there is nothing wrong with being an ot4 if you're not being malicious about it (and like the 2017 scandal aside there are so many reasons why you could be one, i went through a period of just dropping kibum for a year bc man has consistently pissed me off with his actions for an extended time myself), because yeah - at the end of the day they're just a bunch of men and they're meant to be bringing some light into your boring life, not upset you. so blocking/hating on accounts solely based on the fact that they don't post about a member is kinda wild to me, some of them are just existing peacefully and dealing with liking the group despite not really being on board with everything it offers, and thats okay. it was a difficult year for us all. and i wanted to say i agree with the take on how the iwol and kwols perceptions are much different on this, as someone who exists on both sides of the fandom i see both angles of the conversation and its definitely a much wider gap than many of us realises

but obviously there is also the dark side of this which is just targeted harassment some of them engage in, and i genuinely don't understand how you can be an ot4 at all if one of the members makes you feel this hateful - like they totally ignore that their bias literally associates himself with the person they despise, how do you live like this??? i genuinely cant get it. like picking at random here but imagine biasing minho and despising jinki, how can you stay in this fandom if the man you love so much enables this horrible person? but at the same time i cant even be mad at them i think they need therapy huh

then there's also, i think twitter enables a culture of harassment and it is not possible to escape it unless you leave the platform, and id advise anyone who is disturbed by the constant drama there to just deactivate. you can get your updates from insta, or anywhere else really. it makes your life so much better, i promise.

also on another note jinki rly should not be opening his own fanmail, i was watching that video and thinking of how high the possibility of really dangerous things being sent to him is with how deranged these girls get, but also i think the hate might end online for a lot of them. idk i just feel like weve never properly processed 2017 as a fandom and it makes me sad

and i keep thinking how certain i am that jinki would get funeral wreaths sent to sm if it were a thing in 2017, and how fucking disgusting itd all feel a few months later.

ill stop the yap train, apologies for the essay /L

idk if this will feel like im watering down your point, but 😭 i feel like this is the same argument we do when we discuss solo stans like im fine with them and i think it's natural that every member has them since they're also soloists but i feel like not everyone deciding on solo stan is really fine with x member still being associated with shinee and shawols and yk all of the implications that come with it just like i feel like ot4 don't. and we're discussing those! and yk in the context of twt too. like, i agree i also think that platform has a unique type of hatred that got maximized recently because of the ceo change, too, and kpop stans are yk pests so it's only natural that we got at this point but its something you only find there tbh.

while i know there are silent ot4, i don't feel like talking about them even if I'm not against ppl distancing from x member bcs bringing them up feels like a shut down the ppl who are like trying to address the harassment and etc that comes from the (other) ot4s. honestly, i feel like ppl blocking eo in shawoltwt is good actually 😭 and i dont see it as something that is shocking or idk