#i don't deserve this fandom sometimes... T.T

[the-feral-gremlin]

15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25 from the fixed ask game for john diggle (arrow)

i know its a lot im sorry T.T

Hii anon! Sorry it took so long for me to answer. And it’s totally okay I love answering asks!!

15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)

Dyla (dig and Lyla.) they couldn’t love each other outside the battlefield so they separated, they

16. What's your least favorite ship for this character?

I don’t really have one?? I’m a multishipper so it’s kind of hard to choose which one is my least favorite. Though I think that they shouldn’t have rushed to get Diggle together with Lyla so soon. Not like “give Diggle more love interests/pairings” (though I wouldn’t have been mad if we got that) but just let him be single WITHOUT a crush or anything if that makes sense.

17. What's a ship for this character you don't hate but it's not your favorite that you're fine with?

Read above ^^

18. How about a relationship they have in canon with another character that you admire?

Oliver and Diggle. I could talk about their friendship and stuff for HOURS. How they really do make each other better. I think a lot of people see they’re friendship as “Diggle helped better Oliver and kickstarted him down the green arrow path” or like, Diggle as a stepping stone for Oliver when in actuality they were stepping stones for each other and so much more. Like, When John killed Andy and was about to let himself rot in prison: Oliver pulled him out and gave him somewhere to

19. How about a relationship they have in canon that you don't like?

Ehh I don’t really have one??? BUT i don’t like how the writers made him brush off his grudge against floyd lawton after working with him and Amanda Waller for a day. He should’ve stayed at list a little mad.

23. Favorite picture of this character?

This!!

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

I don’t have one really. John is such a special character and I love him so much I guess my brain just doesn’t try to pick out similarities between him and other characters (if that makes sense.)

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

Longsuffering accomplice to Oliver’s vigilantism. Now I think he’s someone with strict moral code and priorities who’s not afraid to bend (and sometimes break) for his family and friends. Also someone who’s been through so fucking much??? Like this guy has so much trauma that just goes untalked about?? His father died when he was young. His mom married the guy that was at fault for his father’s death. That guy (his stepdad) was a dick. He joined the army. His brother was presumed dead and he blamed himself for not being able to save him. Then he’s hired as a bodyguard for a guy who just got back from an island and is thrown into his crusade to save his city. This guys now his best friend and he has a wife and daughter, except NOW his best friend kidnapped his wife and left their infant daughter ALONE in an apartment. Then his best friends ran off together and left him to lead the team and protect the city. THEN they come back THEN he finds out that his brother is alive and that he’s been working for an evil organization that their villain of the week is partnered with/runs (can’t remember exactly HOW Damien Darhk was connected to hive) THEN his best friend (who he recently made up with) keeps pushing for him to help his brother but he obviously doesn’t trust either of them THEN he finally agrees to help his brother/try to save him and locks him in a cell/metal box in the bunker and goes to see him everyday THEN WHEN HE FINALLY THINKS THAT HIS BROTHER IS ON HIS SIDE AGAIN HE TURNS ON HIM AND HIS FRIEND DIES BECAUSE OF IT. THEN HE ACCIDENTALLY OFFS HIS BROTHER THEN HE LEAVES HIS TEAM AND FRIENDS BECAUSE HES SO GUILTY AND GOES BACK TO THE ARMY. THEN GETS IN TROUBLE AND ALMOST LETS HIMSELF ROT IN JAIL BECAUSE HES THINKS HE DESERVES IT FOR LAUREL DYING AND KILLING ANDY. I could go on and on about how much TRAUMA he has and then his green lantern arc was just SHOVED UNDER THE RUG??? Like, we could’ve gotten Diggle as a main MAIN character again but nooooo. He’s such a layered character and it was all thrown under the rug after arrow ended.

Sorry, I have a lot feelings about his character and some of them are intelligible. So uh yeah.

[From this ask game]

[justalilpearlie]

Hi! this is the same anon as before, i think you might be a bit confused on the definition- "pro-shipping" meaning being pro all shipping in general, as in not being against shipping mcyt characters (not creators),the just the general opinion of it being okay shipping cs not ccs. It's short for literally "pro shipping", not "problematic shipping!"/infor

I wasn't referring to Grian/Pearl, but the chart itself being proshipping on account of it being, well, a shipping chart, and so inherently pro the concept of 'shipping'. By Majormoon being pro-shipping I wasn't referring to it being dark/problematic or anything at all of the sort! It's a really wholesome ship and I like it! I just meant it being pro-shipping on account of being a ship and therefore pro the idea of shipping.

Here's the official definition of proshipping!

Proship Noun

If it’s fictional, I’ll mind my own business: An anti-harrasment stance regarding fiction and “shipping”, believing that everyone has the right to ship whatever they want as long as it's fiction and doesn't hurt anyone in real life, and that nobody deserves to be harassed over their taste in literature. (MCYT-fandom specific definition): being okay with shipping MCYTS, as long as it is strictly shipping the characters and not the content creators.

People in the proship community don’t claim the term ‘problematic shipping’- it’s a common misconception made by antis about the term to try to get us hate, so please don’t use that term for our community :( and it’s 100% fair if you’re uncomfortable interacting with certain darkships or it’s triggering for you! Lots of them delve into triggering topics and that’s valid! I, too, am a person with a lot of trauma linked to certain darkship topics, but please don’t call us ‘disgusting’ because of our coping mechanisms with trauma :( For some people their trauma triggers them and they steer to avoid things depicting similar abuse- which is valid!- but for some trauma survivors they cope by depicting similar topics in fiction-which is also valid! Like how some survivors become sex-repulsed and some become hypersexual, it's a spectrum, and one type of coping isn't 'better' and another type isn't 'disgusting' for existing, please don't dehumanize us like that. A person who darkships isn't inherently a bad person, just a trauma survivor who copes differently than you, so please, please don't base our morality on how we cope with our trauma...

Could I just request you refer to pro-shipping by it's proper definiton, just to not sow more confusion on our community? If you'd like people who ship problematically to DNI, I believe "darkshippers" is the proper term for people who ship pairings with darker topics, so please use that instead T.T thank you....

yknow what i had other shit to say when reading this but im literally so fucking tired of talking and thinking of shit surrounding the man who literally groomed me and forced me to engage on fucked up shit and roleplay and sexualized any and all intrusive thought i told him about

I too am hypersexual i too cope with dark fiction sometimes but what proshippers do is be like yay this is okay and cute and romaticize it and sexualize it. Fucking hell ive fucking been there and its a form of self harm so fucking deep i had to recover from. Because of what? Oh yeah my ex who was loud and proud about being a proshipper

If you thought i seemed chill then thank you! You ruined my fucking evening bud. Ill change your stupid fucking terms or whatever. Doesnt change what ive experienced with people from your community.

Im okay with shipping, i love shipping, i dont like the romantisation of fucked up shit though. That might be copying but god is it awful copying.

Get the fuck out if you're gonna keep defending this shit to my face after i literally told you why i dont fuck with this shit in detail.

[depressedhatakekakashi]

hi hi hi i'm the KakaGai Hurt/Comfort anon and honestly i forgot that i sent that XD i hope i didn't cause you stress- i didn't mean it to sound like i was asking for you to write one 😨 i just wanted to gush about how underrated Hurt!Gai comfort fics are XD i really hope i didn't make you think that- BUT I'LL GLADLY AND HAPPILY TAKE THE FIC REC'S!! THANK YOU SO MUCH <3<3<3

XD Don't worry you did not cause me any stress. I had just really wanted to write a fic for it because i've been in a fic writing mood, but at the same time i haven't written shit while my MIL was here XD I only just got back into a space where i can write fic again (and gosh did i miss it T.T) so i just wanted to give you some fic recs and gush because YES

Kakashi supporting and being there for Gai is top tier stuff. I live for it and it really isn't written enough. I get the appeal of Gai being there for Kakashi, but i think this fandom sometimes forget Kakashi does return the favour and is equally there for Gai.

Gai doesn't just support Kakashi. they support each other and push each other forward, and that's something i love so much for their relationship and which deserves to be explored more

[mlmdarkfiction]

Oof, best of luck getting a full night's sleep then! If I don't pass out soon I'll have stayed up for two days lol break just scrambles me really. And very interesting answers! Sorry about the rain though, that sucks. How about a few more questions? Are you a plant person? City or country? What instruments do you play? Do you like any other musicals? Stars or moon? Have any favorite books or authors? Do you have a favorite pair of shoes? And finally, importantly, do you like popping bubble wrap?

I’m only vaguely aware of what I did for th epast two hours but now its 3am T.T I’m wide awake. I was trying to get my roomate to play Mario Party with me just now and he was basically like “im going to sleep fuck you” SO IM BACK TO WRITE SOME MORE

but honestly I hope you get some sleep hun you really deserve it. when worse comes to worse I try benadril and nightquil and sometimes that works.

1. I am a plant person! I have the opposite of a green thumb though, and tend to kill anything I touch sadly. But I do enjoy plants quite a bit and would love to actually have one that could like...survive. 

2. I honestly don’t know. I guess country? Ive had experiences with both and it’s hard to say, but I like the quiet in the country more I guess.

3. I play Trumpet, French Horn, and a little bit of piano but I wouldn’t really consider my piano playing lmao. I used to sing a really long time ago too, but I never really stuck with it, although I wish I would have. I feel its definitely too late for me to get into singing now which sucks because I really appreciate it now. I also feel like my singing voice has gotten better since I started T but that might have just been voice dysphoria from before talking tbh.

4. I do! I’m actually a big fan of musicals although I’ve never really seen one live (minus the beauty and the beast when I was a child but I don’t actually remember seeing it) I’m a BIG BIG fan of Falsettos, I like some of the songs from Hamilton but I’ve not listened to the whole thing, I like Heathers, Newsies is okay, I like both the movie and the actual theatre production of Sweeney Todd, the Jeckyl and Hyde musical is also really good. OH I ALSO LOVE RENT ITS A CLASSIC

There’s also musicals I haven’t seen at all but really want to like the Greenday musical,  Book of Mormon, DEH (I’ve heard some songs from it though), Be More Chill, ect. It’s pretty easy to get my attention with musicals. Just be good. 

It used to be my dream back when I still thought it was viable, to one day play in the band bellow the stage during a musical. 

5.That’s a hard one. I guess I’d go with Stars? the night sky is very aesthetically pleasing to me

6. I dunno if I’d say I have any favorite authors. I’ve mentioned the Vampire Chronicles a bunch and added it to the fandoms I write for so I guess Anne Rice because I do like all of those books but I feel like that’s not really an interesting answer.

One of my All Time favorite books I read, I read when I was in middle school, it’s called Ghost Boy by Iain Lawrence and it’s about a boy with albinism who runs away and joins the circus. And it sounds pretty boring just describing it that way, and it sounds? dumb and whimsical and like you can probably guess what happens but you really cant. I actually own a copy to this day, and I’ve probably read it about as many times as my copy of IWTV so like...a lot.

It’s probably my favorite young adult/coming of age type story.

7. I don’t actually have a favorite pair of shoes! I think I’ve mentioned before that I’m disabled and because of that it makes wearing shoes pretty hard, so for mobility and ease sakes I usually wear flipflops. Although my friend got me a pair with the logo of the college I’m going to be attending this fall and I do like those quite a bit. 

8.I do! I love popping bubble wrap or even those like big containers of air that they sometimes send with packages.