#for a certain one of my blorbos without people assuming i want them to Stop Writing That

[roguetelepaths]

It's not often I dip my toes into shipcourse, as an adult who does not like minor/adult ships or harassment and would rather curate my environment in a way that allows me to pretend the former doesn't exist than go out of my way to engage with it for cheap internet outrage points, but one place where the proship ideology loses me is in this idea of having to go along to get along. You can dislike things, sure, but you'd better not talk about the fact that you dislike things or why, because that's Yucking Someone's Yum, and don't you know YKINMKATO? If you complain, you're being a killjoy at best, and at worst, you're actively contributing to harassment.

I want to be able to talk about common ships and tropes in my fandom that I dislike, things that make me uncomfortable or that I think are deserving of criticism, without making it seem like I'm trying to control the things other people write. I'm not. I'm trying to express myself, same as everyone else.

Anti ideology often goes after people for nothing (a height difference between two adults, an interabled relationship between an Autistic and allistic person of the same age, and the childhood friends to lovers trope are all things I've seen branded as "pedophilia", please stop, you do not know what that word means) but proship ideology at this point feels like toxic positivity. Fiction is meant to elicit emotions, and criticism, discomfort, and dislike are all valid emotions that a work of fiction can elicit. Fandom spaces are not truly free unless they provide room to experience and process all emotions that a person can experience as a result of engaging with fandom, not just the happy ones.

[prince-liest]

more self-indulgent jgy abo headcanons

I read a fic so long ago that I no longer remember the fandom nor characters involved, but the thing about it that really stuck in my mind was that it was an abo-verse fic that used the concept that omegas have an ingrained biological need for physical (including platonic) affection, to the point where “touch-starvation” was a medical diagnosis

this is obviously extremely up my alley for ALL my blorbos, but consider jin guangyao in particular:

unlike the usual ‘omega pretending to be a beta’ trope, I think that once he is established at jinlintai, he would not really try to let people assume that he’s a beta. being an omega leads people not only into underestimating him, but also into offering him a certain degree of safety in providing a veil of stereotype-associated demureness, placidity, etc. it is more to his benefit for people to see him as a polite young man, perhaps even one who, yes, is a war hero - but people can’t quite imagine what kinds of things he must have done for that. surely nothing too bad.

but at the same time, this is the character who couldn't even serve tea to people as nie mingjue’s deputy without people making a show of wiping off their fingers after touching the cups. people know he is an omega, people judge him for being an omega on top of all the other things he is already judged for, but I suspect that most of the relevant and appropriate people in jinlintai avoid touching him unless absolutely necessary. in a world where casual contact is thoroughly commonplace just due to the socialities set up by their biology, jin guangyao has a personal space bubble of like 2-3 feet because he's the dirty son of a prostitute.

he walks through the halls, ostensibly the second young master of the tower, and feels like he is drowning in the physical manifestation of loneliness.

who does he have left? family? jin zixuan is not close to him, and frankly is likely an alpha raised by alphas to whom it would not even occur to that such needs need to be minded. jin guangshan certainly is aware, but is using it as leverage, allowing and denying contact as he see fits to manipulate jin guangyao the same way he does with his fatherly affection. there are his sworn brothers, but his relationship with nie mingjue is fraught: certainly da-ge wouldn’t withhold contact as punishment or leverage, but that doesn’t mean he wants to touch jin guangyao anymore, nor does he really understand how the necessity of it feels when he grew up with nie huaisang, an omega who has never been shy about taking whatever affection he wants. and er-ge... he just isn’t around enough.

lan xichen is still the best option, and by the time they have the opportunities to see each other, jin guangyao is pressing nails into his palms to stop from just plastering himself up against lan xichen’s side, which surely would be humiliating for both of them. but still, he’s so aware of it any time they’re in the same room, meting out as many small touches as he can get away with without embarrassing himself. lan xichen slips his fingers over jin guangyao’s wrists as he pulls him up from a bow, intending warm affection. jin guangyao doesn’t want to let him know that it feels like being allowed to gasp for a single breath of air before his head is shoved back underwater.

(with nie mingjue, it is worse. da-ge is just as aware as jin guangyao is when they touch, but for all the worst reasons.)

it is the strangest blessing whenever jin guangyao sees nie huaisang. it’s embarrassing, a little - the knowledge that nie huaisang understands, unlike most people in jin guangyao’s life. but nie huaisang takes that embarrassment onto his own self willingly, never hesitating before making a fool of himself in the way that only a terminally younger brother can, and simply flinging himself into his san-ge’s arms. it’s nostalgic, too: nie mingjue isn’t quite so aware of how important touch is with how proactive nie huaisang can be, and so during his days as deputy, it was often nie huaisang who gave meng yao what he could not ask for.

the cultivators at jinlintai look down on him just as the ones in the unclean realm did, but now there is no willing young master to soothe away the tangible, physical ache of it. more often than not, jin guangyao tucks his hands into his sleeves to hide the way his fingertips shake.

anyway this is my petition for jiang yanli to take two looks at this situation and promptly wrinkle her brows just the slightest amount, expressing quiet concern to jin zixuan that it’s strange how she doesn’t see anybody touch his half-brother very much, does she? and jin zixuan is a little confused, a little embarrassed, a little off-balance - he doesn’t feel close enough to jin guangyao to be that casual, but he’s an alpha, he doesn’t get it until jiang yanli explains to him, with a beta’s patience, the value of family bonds to an omega as well as jin zixuan’s responsibility as a brother (older brother? younger? his father claims older, but there’s no way to truly know - ), and isn’t it wonderful, having a little brother?

and then someone pats jin guangyao over the head until he’s feeling a little less strung-thin and out of options, he realizes he has to keep jin zixuan and jiang yanli alive lest he actually lose his mind (sympathy for da-ge? oh no...), and etc etc things end happily ever after, the end, QED.

[tornrose24]

Heyo! For the recent ask meme, can you do the Spiderman Film Series please? Or more specifically, No Way Home.

For this meme

blorbo- Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus. I already loved him to begin with in Spiderman 2 and he was especially amazing in No Way Home. I was worried the film would ruin him or make him a joke, but thank God that wasn’t the case (well, he did suffer a little humiliation, but it was well balanced). I love how they struck a balance between his villainous side (the casual cruelty and quick thinking that Doc Ock is best known for) and his true personality (the sweet, well meaning scientist that ends up helping Peter, and oh my god that scene where he regains control of himself for good and thanks Peter is one of the most heartwarming scenes in MCU history for me). Trust me I could go on and on about how much I love him here and how he finally got a proper happy ending without having to die. Also the fact that he’s pretty much the team dad to all three live action Peters in the fandom’s eyes is as awesome as it is adorable.

(Also, out of all the MCU super villains to go out on a date with, I'd pick Otto because he's both attractive AND we know from both SM2 and NWH that he's actually just a huge sweetheart when he's not under the AI's influence).

scrunkly-Peter Parker/Peter 1/SpiderMan. MCU Peter was always a sweet, intelligent boy and I loved him even more after this film. I know he makes some reckless choices in this film, but I love that this boy was always thinking of others before himself and then decides that he wants to help the villains so that they don’t have to die, which you don’t see that often in MCU films. Also he doesn’t need to hide his identity from these villains and he uses his talents as PETER (and not SpiderMan) to try to make the devices and formulas needed to help them. He’s truly destined to surpass the original Avengers as well as his mentor. But the poor boy goes through so much traumatizing shit in this film and I just want to give him a hug and more. I hope the next time he appears in the MCU that circumstances will be far more favorable for him. (Also he won a lot of points for some of his best actions in this film).

-Scrimblo bimblo-The M.I.T. Representative. She actually recognizes Peter as the hero he really is, but before that she doesn’t just brush him off for being what many assumed to be Mysterio’s murderer. She also agrees to reconsider M.J. and Ned’s applications, but it was sweet that she did the same for Peter. Then she gets even better by snapping at Doc Ock for all the destruction he caused/nearly killing her (as a bit of unintentional revenge for the bystanders in Spiderman 2) without trying to get in a fight with him, and it also shows how tough some citizens of the MCU have gotten after years of numerous incidents. I would love to see her again in a future MCU production.

-glup shitto–I do remember that one man in FEAST who pointed to where Aunt May was to Peter in one scene, as if he sensed why the boy was freaking out. Alternatively I’d like to know more about the two apprentices that were at the Sanctum.

-Poor Little Meow Meow–I don’t know about this one. Maybe Sandman/Flint? He and Curt don’t get as much love as the main three villains, but the guy just wanted to go home to his daughter. Too bad he started to lose his patience and didn’t side with the Peters.

-horse plinko–Remember how when they set up a call line to report voter fraud in the 2020 election? And people prank called that number? I would do that and more at the MCU version of J. Jonah Jameson. He’s so annoying in this film and I would gladly prank call him since he can’t stop snooping around Peter’s life for more than a day. (And the fact that he feels too much like certain annoying news reporters adds to my desire to torment him).

-Eeby deeby–Green Goblin. I don’t need to say why if you’ve seen the movie. Also that annoying lady who claimed that Spiderman hit her at the very beginning.