#i have the opposite problem

[lemonsweet]

If you have a love for women you never have that "too many male characters " problem ever again I promise

[franstastic-ideas]

You know how some people take a canon character, say Drew from the Pokémon anime, and go “hm, actually. I don’t know about that being a name. Maybe it’s short for Andrew?” I’m stuck like that. There’s a name a fic writer came up with as the character’s “full name” I really like, so I sent them a DM about being allowed to adopt it (with credit of course) but they haven’t been active for years. I’d hate to go back on my word and just use it anyways, and idk maybe when it gets down to it, it’s probably unlikely that I will. I’ll just have to write around it (as I read the fic when I was 11 and incorporated it into my world view) But I’ll probably cry in my friend’s DMs about it. As I’m arguing with myself over this, what IS the stance on this with fic writers anyways? It’s only lengthening the name of a canon character rather than anything from the fic itself. Would it be okay to use it?

I'm certainly not the leading authority on all fanfiction related matters, but I'll offer my insight.

Personally, were I in the author's place, I wouldn't be upset by someone wanting to implement such a small aspect of my work into their own story, especially if credited beforehand. However, I think this may be a case-by-case sort of scenario.

When several people in a fanbase use the same idea, it becomes fanon (for better or worse). But all fanon must originate from somewhere. How is it decided what can become fanon?

As I stated, I'm absolutely not The Expert On All Things Fanfiction. Most fic authors probably wouldn't mind, but perhaps waiting a while for a response would be best.

Fellow fic authors, do you have any input, perhaps?

[the-kickster]

[kissoflifereprise]

[thebibliosphere]

I always get a good, bleak laugh whenever I catch a glimpse of something I shouldn't and see that someone has tried to suggest my health issues are caused by my mother via Munchausen by proxy. Not because that isn't a serious thing but because my mother actively refused to believe I was ill as a child.

Like, the point of absolute delusion where she got talked into believing a bunch of new age faith healing bullshit about me being an indigo starseed child sent to earth to absorb the pain of others and that's why I was in pain -- which, to be clear was hugely damaging and was absolutely the symptom of some sort of untreated mental health disorder, just not Munchausen by proxy.

[lgbtlunaverse]

I feel like too often people frame Nie Mingjue's issues as ignorance borne from safety. Like, they think that because of his privilege as a sect leader he doesn't know what it's like to be in danger and forced to make hard choices to survive. And I disagree. Strongly.

First of all, Nie Mingjue is very familiar with death not only from war but from. You know. Actively dying since the age of fourteen. Let us not forget Nie Mingjue is dead! Super dead! And maybe he didn't die the exact way he expected to but he did, absolutely, know he was going to die. To act like Nie Mingjue is unfamiliar with the scenario of "do something you find morally reprehensible or die" is to ignore that he has been living that exact scenario and chose death.

Nie Mingjue knows death is a risk for someone like Jin guangyao, in fact he explicitly acknowledges it even in his worst moments like the stairs in chapter 49. Had his issue been ignorance, then he would've responded to Jin Guangyao saying that he's in danger and has to sacrifice others for his own safety with "No you aren't you'll be fine." But he doesn't. He accepts the fact that jgy is in danger with no qualms and says: then you should die.

That's not him betraying his values, those are his values. He is, essentially, pro-suicide. Jgy is like hey I have a moral dilemma what should I do and nmj straight up goes "Kill yourself" and earlier that same chapter when he was faced with a moral dilemma he went "I'm gonna kill myself." He believes the solution to moral dilemmas is suicide! He is extremely consistent about this! When it's pointed out to him that it would have been dangerous for Wen Qing to oppose Wen Ruohan it doesn't phase him because he thinks putting yourself at risk to do the right thing is the only moral choice. The idea that he can only hold this belief because he is himself somehow not in danger, again, requires you to ignore that he is dying the whole time. And it doesn't deter him. He is the idea of self-sacrifice as a moral good taken to its absolute logical extreme. Someone who is ready to die and demands the same from everyone else.

It makes him a very fun case study for fandom, because a lot of fandom spaces also tend to revere self-sacrifice as the ultimate good, and yet we get very uncomfortable when someone starts demanding it of characters we love. Like woah, hold on, that's a bit too far isn't it? Only we the audience get to do that!

[cringefailvox]

charlie's low empathy/high sympathy desperation to help people without ever really understanding WHY they feel the way they do + vaggie's complex about needing to be useful to the people she loves or else she's worthless = charlie completely mistaking vaggie's self-sacrifical behavior for an expression of love and not the trauma response that it is, because all she's grasping are the literal words out of vaggie's mouth and not the alarming nuances of terrified self-hatred lurking underneath

[soleillunne]

I'm giving all of my words to you

i want to write but the words have not been wording for weeks now 🥺

[lilacfangs]

My ranma AU where akane is a pop idol and ranma is a boxer!!! I imagine they’re in their 20s’. But they are secretly dating because their management doesn’t allow it! I have To practice on my IPAD more !!! Apologies for inconsistency. ^w^

[fumifooms]

Rin, smiling, and nagging

Rinsha Fana’s character is summarized in a couple facts thrown here and there. Because she worries for him, she follows Kabru to help his cause and protect him, and to nag him. She’s a grumpy angry tsundere, but it seems not only rooted in her attitude but on a deep rooted physical level, to the point where any intense emotion she feels will make her frown and scowl even if it’s genuine joy. Her childhood was half spent ostracized in the tallman community her family lived in and half with the elves, where she’s said to have been treated like an animal.

We don’t know how she was raised exactly or who it even was, but knowing she was "treated like an animal" by the elves taking care of her…

Elves are shown to have a highly hierarchical society, not only with their concern with status such as nobility and the purity of bloodlines but also reflected by its social culture imo. They have high society and etiquette, upmost devotion to the queen, very role-oriented, like cogs in a machine, and as such, it’s a bit skewed since most of what we see of the elves is in a military context with military people but they seem to value having emotions under lock and key to be efficient and not bring dishonor, Flamela is an interesting character on this. Don’t be a bother and do your job until you’re called on, fulfill your role, everything else is extra at best inconvenient at worst.

Personally I do think the canaries kept Rin, it’d make sense that whichever canaries got stuck with the job at the headquarters would be barebones with her and treat her like an ‘impounded article’, they couldn’t find another place for her and this way they can get her report on the events whenever she can speak again in however many years, and this way it makes sense that she could keep in touch with Kabru too. They’re used to prisoners, not kids. Being raised in a military context rather than at some orphanage would shape her further.

All of this to say…

She’d already seen the world’s harshness to those who don’t conform in her hometown, but with the elves? Her disdain for those who had formal education at a magic school?

Wouldn’t she become very concerned with proving she is not an animal, proving that she’s smart and skilled in her own right on her own merit, even without schooling. And to do this she nitpicks and nitpicks, because even being pristine isn’t enough to be respected, but at least it’s not giving others reasons to disrespect and dehumanize her. Learning to school her emotions, to scowl as a defense mechanism because anything else makes her vulnerable, because they don’t care about her as a person with feelings, because showing other expressions was dangerous or punished in some way: because it was fit in or don’t fit in and that’s the difference between having your house burnt down and being tolerated, between getting her food or having her questions answered and being yelled at to shut up… Because all her life she’s been surviving in hostile social environments and at the mercy of others, but unlike Kabru she doesn’t become a people pleaser but becomes very self-reliant and wary of socializing.

So she nitpicks and nitpicks and nags, because she’s worried. Because flaws are dangerous. So she has a hard time smiling and laughing, because it’s dangerous to allow yourself to feel safe in being authentic.

It would be nice…

Is my red, red enough? I'm waiting for your teeth at my throat. It’s only good manners. -Stephanie Valente 

[deadlysoupy]

i've been thinking about tfe!bumblebee and tfone!bumblebee and how people perceive them and now i'm like... they actually aren't that different???? like at all??? they just deal with abandonment differently

visual aid bc. i dunno

see bc they both were abandoned at some point, even though tfe bee still had a mission, he was largely in hiding and couldn't make contact with most of the autobots. he had to not get involved in anything, had to stay away from the people he loved, and in the process he became somewhat jaded, repressing most of his hiding since he doesn't think it's a big deal, he had a job to do and he did it as best as he could. he's fine don't ask. he tries to maintain his "nice guy" persona, but with the isolation he had to go through it's very obvious he can't stay that way, so he desperately clings to his positivity like his life depends on it, while at the same time displaying cynicism that's within him now

meanwhile over here in the tfone bee corner, our guy was sent to do community service no one needed to do, with no one to talk to, for god knows what (in canon he says he "did his job too well" so he fucked up way too many times, poor guy). he made himself people to talk to, and it's not like he was purposefully trying to hide himself, but we KNOW that he knows how to get out, so, potentially, he could have just fled and become a fugitive. instead, he stayed at his job because there was some hope still left in him that someone would come and release him from his "duties". anyway as soon as he finds actual people he can communicate with it all goes off the rails. unlike tfe bee, though, he doesn't hide his desperation for company, and while he is extremely traumatized, he's still expressing himself, and people know what he's going through, and they help him eventually

if anything tfone bee would be more healthy than tfe bee (and totally not just bcs i have a personal bias for tfe hahaha what are you talking about don't look at my blog.) (also one went through war already and the other didn't (yet)), he would even make him talk out some of the problems he's having... but like at the same time tfe bee would recognise tfone's own denial and would reassure him that, yes, you are loved, you are enough, even when no one listens to you. do you see the vision

[aureoboros]

you say you’re too busy saving everybody else to save yourself

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

The Evenstar is finally finished! This project has been a really fun time but I'm also SO glad it's over.

The knitted on edging took. Literally half a year. Not because it was difficult but simply because it was SO BORING. It looks so good and was so easy to block but I'm not sure I'll ever have the Willpower to knit this edging ever again.

My shawl also turned out significantly smaller than the pattern says. It's supposed to be 60 inches and mine is closer to 48 inches. This is probably because of the yarn I used? (Cobweb instead of lace weight) I also chose to knit under gauge because I didn't like the way the fabric looked at gauge. Thankfully it doesn't bother me.

[myoonmii]

I keep thinking about Merlin’s love for Arthur and how it’s so clearly portrayed in the show to the point that it practically drives the plot of the show. However when it comes to Arthur’s love for Merlin it’s more subtle and sometimes difficult to even grasp, and I started thinking why that was, aside from the obvious fact that Arthur has a lot of trouble expressing his emotions affection or otherwise. I think it also lies in the fact that Merlin knows Arthur intrinsically throughout the show; he is one of the closest people to Arthur, and sees him for who he really is. Arthur admits as much.

Sure, Arthur knows Merlin but the main part of the plot is that he really doesn't know Merlin. Merlin wants him to desperately understand him and “see me for who I am” but he can't yet. And I think this subconsciously creates a barrier in the way in which Arthur can care for Merlin, and how Merlin can let himself be seen by Arthur.

Which is why I think he was also so hurt when the magic reveal happens because more than the betrayal of Merlin having magic, it was the betrayal of Merlin not letting Arthur see him for who he really is and for hiding a main part of himself. Arthur says it himself “why did you never tell me” that’s what hurt him the most.

I think the most damning piece of evidence for this is the fact that while we see snippets of Arthur’s feelings for Merlin thought the show, the biggest signs are in the last episode after the magic reveal; in which he finally gets to understand Merlin, and this time REALLY know Merlin, and as the barriers of what held them back from understanding each other truly fall away, Arthur evidently “falls in love with Merlin all over again”. We see him actually express himself to Merlin.

This is another reason why I think if anyone was ever to create another season of Merlin after Arthur’s return, it’s physically impossible not to make it about Merlin and Arthur acknowledging their feelings for each other. Because there is no way forward without them acknowledging how deeply they care for each other, obviously anyone is free to argue what kind of love that is, but its impossible not to see the deep love there either way.

They always knew they loved each other, just maybe never realising how much and what that means, because its almost second nature to everything that they do.

[waudna]

bells hells they could never make me hate you. i love you chetney i love you dorian i love you laudna i love you fcg. i love you fearne i love you imogen i love you orym i love you ashton. i love you crownkeepers i love you deanna i love you FRIDA i love you deni$e i love you prism and yes i even love you braius

[archbudzar]

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