#damn this was a hard question

[gumpistol]

11. describe your ideal outcome/endgame for the muse you are currently writing. (Questions for Muns meme!)

questions for muns.

oh man, i think there's a lot that could happen, so i'll try to not ramble too much:

the obvious one: luffy finds the one piece and becomes king of the pirates, but after this is achieved, he gets to live out his life, constantly looking for the next adventure, into a relatively old age, though I know he won't be living as long as some of his comrades. his body has taken a toll.

the various characters we all speculate joining the straw hat crew, ALL get to join the crew in my main verse. i know that it's speculated that only one more crew mate will be added, but i have a hard time believing luffy, who goes around asking a pair of legs and a zombie tree to join his crew, will end up with only one more member. i see it being bigger, at least that's my ideal in the end. i would love to plot it out more with people who write the characters, but my straw hat wishlist includes but is not limited to: bon clay, katakuri, yamato, bartolomeo, marco (luffy is dragging his ass out of retirement), corazon (he's alive gdi), vivi (but not as a permanent member, more like she comes and goes for adventures when she can), maybe his bros, but they don't want to listen to their kid brother, and possibly Kid, because I have thoughts on why I think it would work. there are definitely others but just too many to list all out here.

that through it all and to the end, zoro stays by luffy's side. please do not separate them. they are soulmates. they are idiots with their secret third thing and i will die on this hill.

give me that reunion between shanks and luffy and their final showdown !!! fight fight fight!! i want luffy to be able to beat shanks in the end, but after a big struggle, to show that he has become a strong pirate just like he said he would. and then i need them, all injured and battered and beat up at the end, to laugh it off and eat good food and have a drink together afterward. and i need shanks to tell luffy that he's proud....and shanks will you join his crew??

these ideas all feel pretty basic and honestly my thoughts are all over the place and i wish i had something a bit more? it's something to think on and definitely add to as i come up with more ideas. i haven't really focused a lot on developing luffy's main verse or end goal here on this blog yet, but this question has me thinking of it more and i'm ready to do some in depth story building!!

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[bruciemilf]

The most embarrassing moment of Jason’s life is calling Bruce to bail him out for underage drinking

[iizuumi]

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Maedhros ‘whose spirit burned brighter than his father’s’ Feanorion dying in a fiery chasm is a suspiciously convenient way to avoid the ‘did he spontaneously combust’ question.

[rustedhills]

Disney, releasing Wish: "so it's all about legacy--the new generation surpassing the old, overcoming the evils perpetuated by them, relinquishing singular power... and there's an old man in a tower, uh... animal sidekick, i guess..., ah... magic...?

Miyazaki, just out of frame, sledgehammer raised:

[jasperyourmutt]

zonked out on the dog bed snoring up a storm. you come over and rub the soft spot on the top of my nose. i let out the most contented sigh

[puppppppppy]

OWWWWWW

[grimalkinmessor]

Hi welcome to my very tired rant

[necrotic-nephilim]

I started in DC by reading fanfics, but as I began to read actual comics, I started to be unable to read the actual fanfic that got me into it in the first place because it's so out of character.

But there are still some stories that I love to read because I love the found family trope so much, even if it isn't really accurate to the source material.

As a comics purist (sometimes), are there tropes that you like enough that you'll still enjoy a fic even if it's not accurate to canon?

oh my god this is SUCH a fun question. bc while i started with the comics, there were certain characters and/or character dynamics where i was exposed to the fanon before the canon (just bc it's hard to read everything when you start out just to read some fanfic) and so i've definitely experienced the fanon to canon transition. (*especially* with Jason Todd. i had only read 80s/90s stuff where he was already dead or the New-52 bc that was on-going when i got into comics and man. the fanon misunderstandings i had about him before i got frustrated and sat down to read all his pre-Flashpoint stuff were absolutely bonkers.) and aside from that, whilst i tend to prefer canon over fanon, i'm not past giving fanon its flowers for occasionally having really interesting insights. occasionally. so some of my fanon "guilty pleasure" tropes would probably be

Morally Grey Tim Drake - this is one where if you try to back it up with canon, i *will* get salty about it. of everyone in the Batfam aside from maybe Bruce and Cass, Tim has the *most* black and white morals. often his internal conflicts are routed in such an inability to compromise his moral views and it can cause him to clash with other characters. he's *very* stiff and rigid in his beliefs and is *rare* to compromise in even the smallest ways. i mean, DC has repeatedly used Tim Drake of Tomorrow/Savior/Gun Batman!Tim for a reason. it's to demonstrate that of everyone, Tim *cannot* have his morals compromised. there's no grey area for him. he's zero or a hundred, so if he tips over the edge of "too far" he tips *all the way*, and doing so is one of his worst fears, how he could go "too far" if he let himself. a couple panels out of context from Red Robin (2009) (which was a grief spiral for Tim to begin with) don't change that. now that said. if it's done *right*, i sort of love Tim being morally grey in fanfic. it takes a specific flavor for me, and it's incredibly important to include that mental spiral along with it, of him struggling to justify it. i don't have any interest in "Tim Drake is loosy goosy with Bruce's morals and has the highest kill count and no one knows teehee" bc it doesn't play with the interesting parts of making Tim morally grey, which are fracturing his psyche. but all in all, i think it's fun to put Tim in a morally grey area and i will read it in fanfic and i enjoy writing it a lot

Joker Junior!Tim Drake - i've not written it on this account (yet) but on my main ao3 account one of my biggest fics surrounds this concept. this is one of those "well *technically* it's canon but only in a specific very divorced from the comics universe and would not work at all in the main timeline" so, i categorize it as fanon in that 95% of fics exploring the concept are not doing so within the Batman Beyond universe, but the main timeline. i just love it. I'll take any excuse to whump Tim, but this concept is so fun. psychologically breaking Tim will always be my favorite pastime. there are so many ways to explore the long-term effects this could have on him, how it could affect the Batfam. i'm not a fan of it being used as a "gotcha" to Jason or Babs' trauma with the Joker to paint Tim as the Ultimate Victim, but it is fun to see how their relationships would be affected by being mutual victims of him. (i have a vague JayTim idea where TIm fully retires from being Robin after being Joker Junior and killing the Joker, making Steph Robin for most of his typical Robin era and Jason still tracks him down out of curiosity bc he wants to know what happened and all. very underbaked but i've got thoughts.)

Renegade/Apprentice of Slade!Dick Grayson - this is another one where yes, this happened *sort of* in canon, but i highly doubt most people writing Renegate!Dick have read or are actually pulling from Nightwing: Renegade. it's just an exploration fo the concept fo Dick being Slade's apprentice and i will always eat it up in any capacity. whether Dick grows up with Slade from a young age, or chooses Slade for whatever reason later in life. it's not anything that works in canon bc it compromises Dick morally (similar to the above with Tim) and therefore will always come across incredibly fanon in most fics. but i can't say i don't enjoy it. it's fun to make Dick a little morally fucked up and see what you can make him under Slade's tutelage.

Jason & Damian Meeting in the League -there's no world where i believe this could work in the canon comics. (maybe in the Young Justice cartoon i suppose, but even then i think it's iffy) i would go as far to say it's wildly unrealistic. i don't see a world where Ra's would let Jason anywhere *near* Damian, bc Jason was Talia's pet project that he didn't approve of. that all said, there's something very interesting about how they *could've* met and them potentially bonding during that timeframe. them being somewhat brotherly during this time because Jason sees Bruce in Damian and sort of latches onto the kid and Damian is full of wonder hearing real stories about Batman and Robin, then that getting violently ripped away by Jason leaving the League is fun to me. it's fun how that could affect them within the Batfam and all. it's super fanon to me, but i do not care. i will eat it up

Bad Dad Clark Kent/Good Dad Lex Luthor - i will admit as a late, i've been less and less kind to this particular fanon bc of everything i've argued with people about, *this* one seems the most pervasive as misunderstood fanon. i don't mind when fanon exists, my gripe is when ppl try to claim it's canon. and the *arguments* i've had over this with people who can never seem to cite an actual comic are... frustrating. but that said, i think there is something fun to this strictly in fanon. the duality of who you expect to accept Kon and who you expect to hurt him being flipped is just sort of fun for the occasional guilty pleasure fic. it can make Kon's internal conflict a bit more interesting. the same goes for the Jon favoritism from Clark, it's not a canon thing (and i rlly wish ppl understood how complicated the timeline of Kon and Jon is and any distance from Clark toward Kon isn't malice, it's that Kon is from a timeline that Clark does not remember in the current canon so Clark just straight up doesn't know the poor kid.) but it's sort of fun to give Kon that complex of being overlooked and forgotten sometimes. making Kon just a *bit* more Luthor than Kent will *always* appeal to me in fanfic, especially if he *knows* it's wrong but craves approval from anyone who will give it.

Good Dad Bruce Wayne - i'll die on the hill Bruce is canonically a shitty father. maybe not to the extreme some people write him as, but he's not great at it. that said, i enjoy it in fanfiction. sometimes, i just want silly fluff or hurt/comfort where Bruce finally gets it right and manages to comfort whatever Batkid is in the fic. one of my favorite fics of all time is hinged on Bruce being a good dad, so i think it's just fun to explore how good the relationships *could* be, if Bruce was slightly less of an asshole. i usually prefer him as an asshole, but there are times i want low stakes nonsense.

Gotham Rogues Having Soft Spots for Robin(s) - just about every Rogue in Gotham has done something absolutely irredeemable, and most of them don't like or care about anyone in the Batfamily. but if there's a fic where one of the Robins inexplicably is sort of close with a Rogue and they have a cute silly relationship out of it? I'll eat it up i fear. Steph and the Riddler are besties? I'll believe it. Tim and Scarecrow get along pretty well? give me ten of these. Rogues protecting Robins just hits a spot. the unexpected nature of the relationship, as well as the fact they see each other regularly, can make a lot of good fodder.

[tarhaorvokki]

Yes, he is very pretty, indeed 💛🌻

[cozyfoxy]

Hi so do you think DnP will hard launch ever? It really seems like they might.

Hi! I gotta say if you asked me this like a couple of months ago I would've said no, BUT it seems very plausible now. First of all, they've gotten comfortable with us and with people in general. The way that they act now is nothing like we've ever seen from them now. Lowkey I feel like they're going to "hard launch" either before or during the tour. Most likely before so that they can be themselves freely while they travel without feeling like they need to hide.

Also, I think that Phil's big health scare changed something in them. This is obviously just a thought, but it seems like that lit a fire under their butts. I think they always planned on dropping the walls down and not caring anymore how they were perceived, but as they said they're not taking anything for granted anymore.

I also don't think that they need to hard launch, we all know and we all love and support them. But if they do hard launch like so many of us think, they'll be doing it for them. At least I hope that they do it for them. They deserve to be a couple whenever they choose and entertainers whenever they choose. But I do think a hard launch is coming and it's coming fast.

[gayofthefae]

"How has their relationship evolved?" "Ooh- spoiler"

That is all I need to know. Thank you.

[triple-pupil]

So I heard that recently, the creator of The Backyardigans, Janice Burgess, passed away.

I loved that show and it's characters ever since I was little, still do to this day, it was creative and fun, I still love watching my favorite episodes and listening to my favorite songs.

I made a couple of doodles of the characters at least last year, so I'll try to find them (I don't remember where they are ): )

I hope she knew how her show impacted so many of us, even beyond the USA, and I hope she's resting easy.

[peargreen-jellybean]

making a cute little fic, still in the pining, soft morons category tho. also! i will be posting some writing snippets that i cut from several fics bc they didn’t fucking fit but i like them still

T-Rating bc it’s just gonna be fluffy pining with Logan being a shit and swearing