#i think I'm allergic to making straight characters-

[elliethecat]

Okay y'all, after over a year of me having a Tumblr I'm finally going to make an intro post lmao

Anyway hi! I'm Ellie! (She/Her) (Demiromantic lesbian) (i would rather not share my age, sorry)

I'm an artist (as you can tell lmao), musician (Ellie Diekatze on all places you get your music), and writer! I'm autistic, a Clarinetist, and overall very strange!

I posted a lot of SidLink art in the past, but now my art has shifted to my three main OCs: Sulane (she/her), Luvan (they/them), and Neri (he/him)! Zoras and SidLink are my current special interests, so you'll see them a lot! I mainly listen to Aphex Twin (mainly Avril 14th, #3, #21, #19, and Nanou2) while i draw!

My commissions are currently open!

I run the blog @ellies-chaos-corner (my main sideblog), the now abandoned @whereissidlink, @ask-sidlink, and my where-is blog @where-is-skipper!

I'm a part of the Where Is SMP (WISP) with a few of my friends (namely @pseudocyance, @shlimelive, and @emmaestrella), and i plan to post content from there!

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Happy drawing!

Current most recent drawing: THE FISH GETTING MARRIED >:D

Last drawing: How Sulane got that big ass scar on her chest

Say the Wrong Thing, A SidLink fic navigation post (Last updated: January 31st, 2025)

[reesespeanutbutterfuck]

when vinny misses you, he...

unseen where vinny longs for you during a training away from home.

pairing: vinny hong x jo!reader

cw: very short, other than that none.

—

When Vinny misses you...

He struggles to function well.

Dom stretched his back after stepping out of his shared room with June and the juniors to find the other crew members sitting on the table and eating steamed sweet potatoes.

“Morning, guys–” he greeted on the way to the bathroom but then he stopped when he spotted Vinny sitting on the edge of the table staring at nothing while the others were having their breakfast. “You going through something, Vinny? Are you not feeling well?”

Minu, Jay, and the others grimaced, as they too, noticed how gloom Vinny's mood is this early morning, yet chose to shut their ups because they know Vinny would hide his feelings more if pointed out. Which, a certain someone just did.

Vinny doesn't answer. His eyes shot up to glare at Dom for a second before it shifted to the sweet potatoes in front of him. He's the only one not eating.

“Why don't you eat?” Yuna asks him, also noticing how Vinny isn't eating like everyone else is.

“I'm allergic to sweet potatoes.” Vinny shuts his eyes and gets up with a sour face. “I want seaweed soup. The one [Y/N] makes.”

He slides the sliding door and steps outside. Dom and the others only looked at each other when Vinny closed the sliding door completely.

Dom gaped his mouth, as he got the hint on why his friend was acting that way. His eyes immediately flew to your brother, Jay.

“That’s… a vaguely creative way to indirectly say he misses [Y/N]. Why can’t he just say it straight?” Dom controlled the volume of his voice, careful not to be heard by Vinny who's zoning out outside.

“Duh. the brother’s here, obviously.” Minu's puckered lips pointed to Jay with a nod of his head.

“Weird. But hey, it's Vinny actually expressing his feelings in front of us for once after all,” June smiled to himself too. “Who the hell even is allergic to sweet potatoes? I saw him sneak one inside his pocket before he stood up. What a liar. He really just misses [Y/N].”

“Well, he's not going to think straight without her by his side. Jay, think you can do something to bring [Y/N] here?” Dom sits across Jay in front of the table.

Jay snickered, so out of character for him, that he attracted everyone's attention. “Don't worry. I don't have to do anything.”

He raised his phone and showed your messages saying you're on your way after basically a lot of death threats holding him at gunpoint to tell you where exactly they are.

“The dragon won't be lonely for long, his beloved princess is on her way to see him.”

***

© reesespeanutbutterfuck 2024, don't forget to support your creators by reblogging

[thankskenpenders]

It's a bit late, but I figure I have to touch on the big news from today, which is that for an (early) April Fools celebration Sega went and released a free visual novel about Sonic getting murdered

Here's a thing you should know about me: I am deathly allergic to ironic visual novels, and the related trend of announcing dating sims (which are synonymous with the medium of visual novels as a whole to many people) on April Fools

Aside from an incredibly small selection of titles that have seen wider success, it feels like much of the game industry is only willing to acknowledge visual novels as a punchline. And said jokes about dating sim stereotypes have been done a million fucking times by now. They're parodies of parodies of parodies. Even when these prank dating sims actually go and get made rather than just being a few fake screenshots, it feels like it's just because VNs are seen as cheap, disposable entertainment compared to "real" games. Companies can afford to commission some bullshit like the KFC dating sim and write it off as a marketing stunt. And it works. These games will get widely reported on for being so ~wacky~, while devs pouring their hearts into doing sincere, interesting work with the medium of visual novels are usually out of fucking luck. It's so, so tiring. The fact that this happens like clockwork every year has made me come to dread April Fools Day

So imagine my surprise when The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog drops out of nowhere and it's actually one of my favorite Sonic games in years

Aside from the intentionally tongue-in-cheek, attention-grabbing title (and Sonic doing the Family Guy Death Pose), there isn't an ounce of irony here. It's just a straight up whodunnit VN set on a train, albeit a lighthearted and pretty easy one. It's still a Sonic game, after all, and Sonic games are for kids. But it's so clearly made out of a place of love, both for the characters and for murder mysteries, rather than being a parody that's constantly winking at the camera and going "haha, isn't this absurd that this even exists at all?" Forget that. This wants to tell a genuinely good little Sonic story. Not to mention how gorgeous all of the artwork is throughout, with character illustrations from IDW cover artist Min Ho Kim (AKA deegeemin)

Like, for real. I've wanted the Sonic games to explore the supporting cast more for years, and I can't believe the game to finally do it is a murder mystery visual novel released for April Fools. This might be one of the best showcases of the cast... ever, in the games? The script from Ian Mutchler is so, so great, with fun and cute moments for everyone involved. And, smartly, you see the cast through the eyes of a new character (I named them "Blorbo") who isn't necessarily familiar with things like Blaze being a princess from another dimension, making this a surprisingly valid way to introduce people to the supporting cast. I'd say more, but it's a short game, so I think everyone should just go out and play it if you haven't already

There is still part of me that wishes a Sonic visual novel like this could've been greenlit for release any other day of the year, rather than being yet another April Fools visual novel. But regardless of the excuse they used to make it, I'm extremely happy that this exists

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

Disclaimer in advance: I haven't watched season 4 or 5 in their entirety, nor do I intend to, so maybe I'm missing info. Most of my knowledge comes from lurking in the fandom.

Why do you think the show was seemingly allergic to allowing their main characters to make any sort of meaningful progress? At the end of season 1, Ladybug comes into possession of the Miraculous grimoire, a major clue that "Hey, Hawkmoth is probably Gabriel Agreste" and then the Collector immediately ends with her and Adrien placing him completely above suspicion (I actually don't mind this, it makes sense for Gabe to throw the two off the trail, but to the best of my knowledge, this is the only time the protagonists make any headway toward Hawk Moth's identity. I wish they had done more active investigation.)

The power up potions show up during Syren, except... they don't do much in the way of a "power up." They're used exceedingly sparingly, and really only let LB and CN compensate for environmental challenge. Nothing else, no actual evolution. This could've been a way to show LB getting more in sync with her powers, being able to create specific solutions to her problems. You could've had similar moments for Chat Noir, upgrade like the ranged cataclysm Chat Blanc could use, or something to do with bad luck. Instead, it was a cheap gimmick.

The temp heroes start getting called in beginning with Sapotis, except that most of them are called in because... you're here and I need this incredibly specific power, which you just so happen to be perfectly suited for. Shut up and do nothing follow orders. (The episode Party Crasher and King Monkey being the most egregious example, imo. Then again, i havent watched Penalteam, and I'm told that episode is far worse). The temp heroes don't really add anything to the plot (Save Rena suddenly being Ladybug's confidant, but that's a rant for another day.), except to cause conflict with CN, and they're all gone as of the Season 4 finale anyway.

Speaking of season 4, the charms. Finally, concrete progress, a way to limit hawkmoth, to cut him off from potential vic— wait what the hell is a megakuma? Why do this? What was the point? This is what I was talking about with Syren, Ladybug coming further into her powers, finally being able to start pushing Gabriel into a corner, and it's undone that same season. Apparently transmission is more powerful than creation, despite repeated assurances the Ladybug (and Marinette) are special.

And then there's the alliance rings. Why can Tomoe and Gabriel make these? No idea. What it means, though, is that LB and CN have no chance of reclaiming the lost miraculous, and just have to passively react to whatever the hell Monarch is up to... again.

I'm told that for the big finale, Marinette wasn't even the one to discover Gabriel's identity, Felix straight up told her, and then Gabriel won. He made his wish. The hero of the story failed to save the day, after doing practically nothing.

Whats extra annoying is that on the Villain side, Gabriel is absolutely allowed to push the status quo. First we get Scarlet Moth and mass akumatization, then the peacock comes out, then it gets fixed, and then Gabriel straight up steals all the Miraculous (save LB and CN's of course, and then they steal the rabbit back because the writers realized "time travelling villain" was a horrendous idea. And Felix is allowed to keep the Peacock, because ??? Gabriel has to my knowledge not given up any other power, before or since). And he's always held the power, he's never been at risk of losing his own miraculous because he doesn't need to go out in person, so why does he keep getting stronger and raising the stakes while the heroes can't do anything.

Sorry for being so long-winded, just... needed to get my thoughts out.

Put on your tinfoil hats, folks! We're gonna make some educated guesses as to what is going behind the scenes with Miraculous, but remember that these are, ultimately, guesses. I don't know the full story and I probably never well.

I've mentioned before that writing for TV can suck because you're not allowed pure creative freedom. There are a lot of hands in the pot limiting what you can do because TV shows cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make. Some even cost millions. That means that final product needs to be considered commercially viable unless you're independently wealthy and have money to burn. This doesn't mean that passion projects can't be commercially viable, it just means that they're generally not approached with the idea that commercial viability is the most important thing.

Writing for children's shows can especially suck because you're heavily limited by the intended audience and by what large corporations deem acceptable for that intended audience. If you're not totally on board with keeping things Disney's version of kid-friendly, then you're not going to have a fun time.

This brings us to Miraculous.

I have often assumed that there were some wacky hi-jinks going on behind the scenes that would explain why the show is such a mess because I don't think that Miraculous is anyone's ideal version of the core concept. The wonderful @nixthelapin recently confirmed it for me by sending me a link to a translation of a lecture given by Miraculous' writing director.

In that interview, we get hard confirmation that the core members of the writing staff originally wanted to tell a darker story for adults or teens, which may explain all the random dark stuff that the show will include but totally fail to explore. We also got this:

Sebastien sold the Miraculous series to broadcasters as a formula show. A person gets angry, is akumatized, then marinette transforms into Ladybug then frees the person from the akumatization and… The End. It's also for this reason that Marinette tries to confess her love for Adrien in every episode, but is unable to do so. But he tried to go against what he had planned with TF1, by slipping little extra stories into certain episodes. Audiences were receptive to these slightly hidden stories. The TV channel even asked Sébastien if there really were hidden things in the series, but he denied everything.

So there you go. There's the hard confirmation of my theory. Miraculous was sold as a formula show so it's mostly written like a formula show, but the writers want to do more than a formula show, so they're adding in all these hints of something more, leading to massive fan frustration when those things don't lead to satisfying plots because, if they did, then it wouldn't be a formula show!

I get the temptation to do what they did, I really do, but I don't think that it was a good move. They would have been better off trying to make an awesome formula show or by being a lot more selective in what greater story elements they wanted to include. There are things that you can develop in formula shows while still keeping them formula shows. One thing that comes to mind is subtle character development. For example, they could have set up all of the temp heroes by giving them strong roles in one-off episodes. Roles that established their heroic potential. What you can't do well in formula shows is complex character development like the mess that was everything with Chloe and Lila.

This may also explain why we get baffling statements like this one from that interview that the writers gave at the end of season five:

Mélanie says that he "could become Chat Blanc" and the others add that even though he does not remember and has never lived it, Chat Blanc still has an influence on his actions.

Are they trying to let Chat Blanc effect the plot without breaking the formula element? If so, then dear gods, this is not how you add subtle continuity to your formula show!!! But that may be what they were trying to do here and in many other places. After all, we also get gems like this:

They note that Marinette's nightmare at the beginning is reminiscent of the episode Weredad from season 3. At this point, we can see that Marinette starts to understand who the villain is although she's not fully conscious of it yet. Thomas says that you can read it in two different ways: if you don't take the previous episode into account, she's starting to intuitively link things together but if you did see Representation, you know that she knows who Monarch really is.

I'm seeing a common thread. What about you?

While the writing director interview doesn't say this, I'm assuming stuff like the charms, the powerups, and the additional heroes come from a similar type of issue. My best guess is that these weren't elements that the writers wanted to add. They were things that marketing made them add to sell toys and so the writers shoehorned these items in because they couldn't find a way to organically fit these elements. I'm not blaming either side for that issue, btw. There isn't really a clear right side in the fight of creative freedom vs a show needing to make money to keep being made.

Since we're talking about that interview, I'll point out that we also got confirmation of another wacky writing rule to add to the list of poor writing choices:

The driving force behind the series is that there must always be a secret between Marinette and Adrien. The lovesquare can never be broken, otherwise there's no series.

"Our main couple can never be fully honest with each other or else there's no story" is a pretty awful rule, but it's what they're going with and that's a big part of why the love square is a mess. It's also a rule that I've often assumed was there based on the writing, but it's nice to get official confirmation of it.

None of this is to absolve the writers of blame nor is it to say that everything is their fault. The point here is that Miraculous' problems are a complex mess of everyone trying to make a good final product without being on the same page with what that final product should look like, resulting in a show that will never live up to the full potential of what anyone wanted for it.

[whenstarslie]

Made a tier list about cat!chief in your fic

Been playing ptn for a while and I don't know much of these characters so I based them on vibes and appearance feel free to change it

If your wondering why wolverine is on top its because I hc during the incident cat!chief has some beef with Pippy as for tetra and princilla probably because they are the Fox and Rabbit idk just te vibes

Anyway have a Good day :DD

Ooh, this is good! I imagine this is how cat!Chief will separate Sinners by their likeability after Nightingale calms her down and can't return to human because the neutralizer is unavailable. Bet the Sinners will try to get cat!Chief to like them, but she's just too fickle and unpredictable to figure out and please.

I made an extensive tier list based on yours and explained why I categorize a specific Sinner in a tier. This only covers globally released Sinners up to Bianca. You can see it below.

Will straight out murder you in your sleep / Will sacrifice you to the gods

Peggy - noisy as fuck #1

Joan - noisy as fuck #2

Dr. Iron - smells like a hospital; doctors/veterinarians and cats often don't mix well.

Chameleon - tried to hypnotize cat!Chief once and ended immediately on the hit list.

Dudu - noisy as fuck #3

Echo - noisy as fuck #4

Shawn - I don't think any explanation is needed on this one.

Raven - terrible poetry and can be classified as 'Wants you out of her territory' because of her ink ravens.

Wants you out of her territory

Wolverine - Pippy

Chelsea - Sitri is seen as an intruder, and gemstones don't make good cat toys. Boxes make better beds than expensive plush ones, sorry.

Serpent - snakes

Doesn't want you near 24/7

Lisa - it's actually the other way around; Lisa doesn't want to be involved.

Kelvin - I'm sorry, Kelvin, but your powers do not agree with cat!Chief.

Gekkabijin

Demolia - the smell from scavenging does not sit well with cat!Chief's sensitive nose, is only tolerable if she approaches after a bath.

Flora - smells like smoke.

Victoria

Cassia - cat!Chief isn't a fan of her perfumes

Stargazer

Enfer

Oak Casket

Cabernet - close to joining the 'Will straight out murder you in your sleep / Will sacrifice you to the gods' squad.

Etti - her idea of 'playtime' isn't feline-friendly

Shalom - poor Shalom, even Rahu is more liked than you; does not stop her from trying and taking pictures of cat!Chief

Lady Pearl

Bianca - considered a nuisance by cat!Chief, she's this close to joining the 'Will straight out murder you in your sleep / Will sacrifice you to the gods'.

Aggressively bites

Tetra

Pricilla

Mess - only if she annoys cat!Chief, which is often.

McQueen - gets chomped on the moment cat!Chief hears her voice

Corso - For the last time, Corso, you don't challenge a cat to a fight!

Uni

Zoya - thinks it's amusing; gets climbed on a lot because of her height; her head scratches are giving her way to 'Will tolerate you (within limits)'.

Langley - no one bosses a cat; they make the not-so-evil boss and her cat duo work, close to joining 'Will tolerate you (within limits)'.

Bullies you for fun / Messes with your stuff

EMP

Levy - needs to rethink bringing in expensive stuff inside the bureau; cat claws are pretty sharp

Nino - her streams always get interrupted by cat!Chief taking over her keyboard or chewing on the computer cables

Eureka - cats and potentially dangerous inventions don't mix well

Summer - the frustrating combination of Nino and Eureka

Bai Yi

Coquelic - her flower beds were ruined, her clothes shredded to pieces, etc.; might as well be allergic to cats at this point

Donald - see that luscious blond hair, now it's a mess; surprisingly good with cats, close to earning his way to 'Likes you'.

Vanilla - same as Eureka

Eugene - gets bullied on day one, and continues to get bullied afterward

Will tolerate you (within limits)

Pepper

Macchiato - good with cats, might join the 'Likes you' squad soon.

Wendy - murder buddy #1, they surprisingly vibe together

Roulecca - don't let them team up during a gamble/bet

Mr. Fox

Luvia Ray

Ariel - would have joined the 'Likes you' team if she hadn't accidentally stepped on cat!Chief's tail many times.

Anne - only if she's not in the medical ward with cat!Chief

Kawa-Kawa

Letta - nap buddy #1

Christina - if she's not investigating who stole someone's food (cat!Chief is the culprit, btw)

Golan

Eirene - chess games go wrong

Demon

Deren

Du Ruo - only if the incense doesn't smell strong

Likes you

K.K. - cat butler #1

Che - nap buddy #2

Sumire - gives excellent head scratches #1

Cinnabar - cat butler #2

Lynn - the only one who cat!Chief approached first

Garofano

Matilda - one of the few that do not bother cat!Chief, gives excellent head scratches #2

NOX - cat butler #3

Hamel

Dreya - they vibe together when stargazing

Rahu - surprisingly more liked than Shalom

Eleven - nap buddy #3, her voice is soothing for cat!Chief

Angell

Wynn

Likes you because you're a heater / you always have food

Labyrinth - cat butler #4, heater #1

Pacassi - heater #2

Ninety-Nine - heater #3, food buddy #1

Ignis - heater #4, food buddy #2

Thistle - tries to be subtle when giving food

Adela

Yao - first falls under the 'Food' tier and later becomes heater #5

Faye - bribes with food, gets an increase of visitors in the Supply Office and revenues in exchange; catnip dealer

Sees you as one of her kittens / kids

Hella - gets scolded often #1

Oliver

Horo - gets scolded often #2, play buddy #1

Hecate

Dolly - play buddy #2

Crache - murder buddy #2

OwO - gets scolded often #3, play buddy #3

Eve - best lap pillow

Yanyan - play buddy #4

Bites, scratches, and cuddles affectionately / Loves you / Will listen to you

Nightingale - the only person who can make cat!Chief listen...but that does not mean she will obey

Food

Lamia

Mantis

Ducks - nearly got eaten on day one, now terrified of cat!Chief

Scared shitless of you

No fear. Cat!Chief's a hellspawn.

[doki-doki-imagines]

We all need Reo and Nagi in the form of animals-

Seishiro Nagi - Blue chow chow -You didn't expect to be woken up at 7 a.m. by a loud knocking at your door, so still grumpy you walk towards the sound to understand who dared to wake you up so early on your free day. -It is Reo, mask and gloves on and with a ball of blue fluff in his hands with his equally blue tongue sticking out. "Long story, this is Nagi, I'd take care of him but I'm allergic to dogs. Tomorrow everything should be fine-" the purple hair boy pushes the dog in your arms "take good care of him, we have a match soon" The door slammed at your face, stuck at your place with a ball of fluff in your hands. -Luckily Seishiro habits didn't change in his dog form, he slept, eat, sat on your lap, half of the morning was spent like that; rinse and repeat. -"Ohh look there is a new event! Can't wait to get the new characters." You smile at your phone. -What you didn't see was Seishiro raising his head from your lap, ears alert. -"Ehi ouch! Don't bite me- not even my hoodie, Seishiro!" He starts to pull on your clothes, your hoodie or your pants to make him follow towards…his phone in your bedroom? Did Seishiro forget it when he visited you yesterday? -"I have enough of my events I don't wanna-" He closes the door. You look down at him. "For once I'm way taller than you, you can't scare-" He barks. He dares to bark at you. He is more fur than voice and still dared to look dangerous to you. Your falls on your knees, a pain where your heart is placed; he is too cute for this world. -You end up doing his games till you pass out on the couch, being able to move just for snack and bathroom breaks was exhausting. -"(Y/n) is morning wake up, c'mon I can't reach my phone" It wasn't Seishiro's voice to wake you up, but his weight on your body, but you were too tired to pull him off even if your lungs screamed for a break. "Take your damn phone and let me sleep Seishiro" He doesn't reply, phone in his hand already checking his online ranking. "You made me lose an event" Your eyes open wide "What? I didn't even pee for your damn game-" You can't finish the phrase, his index finger pressed on your lips. "No excuses, time to be punished for your misdeeds." Your eyes would have come out in a typical cartoonish style. This egoist, always getting what he wanted, was a real villain even with fluffy blue ears on top of his cloud-white hair.

Mikage Reo - Red fox -It's Ba-ya that wakes you up, your phone loudly ringing, sun just rising. "(Y/n)-san, sorry to bother you early in the morning, but we have a problem." "A problem? Is Reo fine?" "More or less, but it's easier to explain if we came to your house, is it fine?" "No problem, see you here." -That's how you find yourself sitting on your couch with a red fox with some purple stripe resting on your lap -"Mikage corporation developed a new system so you'll understand what he is saying to you. I wouldn't have bothered, but the young master asked for your company." "Strange since yesterday he shouted at me something along the 'you are insufferable fuck off' lines" Ba-ya looks down, thinking the exact words to tell you next to sugar the pill. You scoff interrupting her train of thoughts "Don't worry, I'll take care of him". -He isn't as extrovert as usual, still knowing what happened the previous day was exaggerated, but after petting his thick fur for a while you got tired. "Wanna monetize this situation Reo?" His ears twitch, looking at you straight in the eyes. "What's your idea?" The voice is robotic and way too high, but you suppose that even Mikage corporation couldn't make a perfectly working translator. -The amount of photos you posted was disgusting but he was too cute to let this occasion go, keeping some of them for the months to come. -Reo obviously loved the idea, posing like a model, searching for the best angles that would make people scream "Cute~" all over the world. "Reo you are the cutest." "Like always, isn't it?" He says, pulling his head up, nose up in the air, you could imagine Reo would have even brushed off his hair in typical film style if he still had his hands.

-"Reo you are already a star, 16k likes in 3 hours better than when you are human." "Are you saying I'm cuter a fox?" "…" "Hey!" -Your mood improve drastically, who would have thought that your boyfriend turning into a fox was going to be this good? -You fall asleep next to each other on the sofa, his big tails tickling your chin. -"Hey, sleepy head I'm back to normal~" Your boyfriend, finally back to normal is laying on your chest, purple eyes sparkling, fox ears and tail still present, thick tail swinging back and forth. "Don't I look the best? Let's shoot some photos 'till I'm like this." He says phone already in his hand. "But later it is your turn to model for me, wanna grasp all your cuteness darling~"

[columboscreens]

Opinion on the episodes where the killer gets away?

in forgotten lady, it's a trivial issue that grace wheeler "gets away", because not really--the entire point is that columbo knows she's terminally ill, not in her right mind, and her days are severely numbered. she's not fit to stand a trial she won't even live to see. that she is effectively sentenced to death by her own brain is punishment enough, and columbo knows it. i think it's a particularly good and poignant choice. even columbo himself has to keep the waterworks in check by the end.

i'm not cryin...yer cryin...

the second time this happens, in it's all in the game, killer lauren staton's daughter "gets away" because columbo releases her, but she is only an accomplice. these two are portrayed as probably two of the most sympathetic killers of the entire series (they off a violent cheating rapist who threatened to kill them--can you think of a saintlier reason to kill lol). plus, letting lauren's daughter go is shown as the "only way" columbo can definitively obtain a confession from the person who actually carried out the crime. and of course he's been smooching her for a while and has grown somewhat fond of her. this was an episode written by peter falk (duh) who was straight up allergic to making women evil, and falk makes the motive so hard to condemn that it's not a huge sin in itself. i don't love it, but i don't find it as contrary to columbo's character as most do.

[delawaredetroit]

“#some of y'all are just so insistent on making the most silver spoon character in the series into a victim somehow for some reason #i don't get it there are actual angry disruptive victims in this series to project on”

I think one of the things that powers abuse-victim-Bakugou is the narrative… favoritism(?) he experiences. I don’t just mean the way he’s constantly presented as the Sasuke to Izuku’s naruto, and The Foil and The Rival — he’s also the closest thing to an angry disruptive victim that you can be rewarded for projecting on?

Like, the entire LoV and associated armies think of themselves as all angry disruptive victims, but they’re also textually misguided and/or literally terrorists, so…

And Shouto is an angry disruptive victim who lashes out at Izuku over his dad angst — until Izuku knocks some sense into him and he goes back to being Supremely Neutral Affect at everybody and basically living and letting live with his super influential and successful dad.

Iida? So straight laced, sure, but it was pretty disruptive and angry of him to go after the man who ruined his brother’s life aaaaaasnd the anger explicitly blinds him and he has to get bailed out by all-loving Izuku so he can realize that Anger And Disobedience Are Bad

And Izuku? I don’t remember if you reblogged it directly or it’s just linked from one of your reblogs, but Izuku is super famously emotionally repressed 90% of the time and even when he star ta not voice his anger it’s immediately shut down by the very narrative

Reading Bakugou as an angry abuse victim being disruptive is wildly off base but it at least presents the idea of disruptive anger as, like, an Okay Thing To Feel. Bakugou’s okay at the end of the day, according to the narrative, so if he’s an angry disruptive victim, then feeling angry and being disruptive when you’re a victim can be okay.

Bakugou is not a victim of abuse or a victim of society other than being made a child soldier - which applies to every character from the UA hero course. It would be a misreading of the text to conclude otherwise.

What I'm getting from this ask is that the Bakugou stans are the weakest link, and they need the narrative to hold their hand and tell them everything is going to be okay while tucking them into bed at 8 p.m. sharp.

Which makes sense. Quite a few of them seem to portray similar levels of insecurity to Aldera Bakugou so if the shoe fits

Don't get me wrong. There is a kernel of truth in your ask about how allergic Horikoshi seems to be to peer or intra-faction conflict. And Bakugou is given more leeway to stir up problems. But let's be real, it's mostly because none of the characters take his comments seriously and nine times out of ten it changes nothing about the status quo because it's intended to be comedic relief

[dearinglovebot]

Hii I’ve been following your page for a while and I wanted to ask, what’s your opinion on the book Evolution of Claire by Tess sharpe?

im HONORED <3 and I have many, many opinions EoC.

tldr; I like the concepts. execution leaves things to be desired

the good:

her internal monologue is so, like, unambiguously autistic at all times. she’s outright socially awkward, extremely neurotic about minor things, and very, very lame. as she should be! not explicitly stated but ugh it’s so canon to those who #know

I love tanya and her plotline. I think claire having a reason to be so distrustful and on-edge about People during the park is one of the most important things to establish for her backstory. because the version of claire we meet is extremely people adverse and allergic to vulnerability in a way that doesn’t exist for no reason. having the only close friend she’s really ever made betray her is very tasty angst.

the concept of claire having dinosaur related trauma while managing the park is really, really compelling. it’s another layer to her not “connecting” with the animals. she has very explicit PTSD in the last few chapters surrounding the attack. it’s only natural that her brain would try to distance itself from the emotional aspects.

and having the dinosaur be a RAPTOR! it’s another layer to why the claire/owen dynamic is so volatile at first. like, yeah. of course she’d have trouble being vulnerable around a guy who’s job revolves around raptors. of course she’d be trying to control as much as she could. of course she’d be looking for easy exits to say “well we tried. guess it’ll never work”.

it canonizes many of the things I feel are implicit in JW claire such as her coming from a poor, working class background and having fundamental personality differences to karen that put them at odds with each other. and also being a friendless loser throughout grade school because she’s busy trying to rule the world

the neutral:

i personally don't care for YA books as a genre and i do wish it had a more adult sci-fi tone. it feels much more camp cretaceous than jurassic world.

i'm not particularly convinced that anyone in the book is a teenager from 2004. I say this with love but it's very culturally 2018 tumblr-esq.

the bad:

I don’t care about justin as more than just A Concept. the romance isn’t particularly interesting to me and felt like meeting a quota more than having narrative relevance. I don’t think much, if any, of her reaction to his death would’ve changed if he was her close friend rather than crush. I get that it’s YA so obligatory straight romance plot line but it just didn’t do anything for me

it feels much more like someone making a justification for her FK storyline than truly exploring claire. I don’t think it’s necessary for claire to be a former aspiring animal activist for her becoming one to make sense. in fact, I think it feels truer to her character if she comes to the island for a buisness internship, starts to like the animals, and then is abruptly traumatized by them. it’s just doing too much

this is going to sound horrible but I think she’s characterized as too… nice. I love my wife dearly but she’s kind of off-putting and rude at the best of times when she isn’t actively Trying To Get Something (first interactions with eli, talking to the investors, etc)

basically, it feels kind of afraid to give her the “flaws” we all love about her. it’s more like a puff piece than a very raw, real biography of a complex woman

[r0-boat]

omg ur last volo headcanons were amazing 🤩 would u be willing to write some more nsfw volo? pls and thank you !! (but absolutely no pressure if u don’t want to !!!)

I'm always up for writing Volo!

I'm going to do modern Au Volo for reasons you'll see later!

Nsfw volo headcannons modern Au Edition

Cw: dubcon, breeding, [mentions of: noncon, and free use], biting and claiming and general possessiveness,

Volo is allergic to texting first before coming over he just shows up. Either with a knock on your door or climbing through your window to give you an unwanted Surprise by wrapping his arms around you. One day you will call the police on this man either on accident or on purpose.

Volo watches like hardcore, rough porn. And his dirty mind plays thoughts the wrapping his hands around your throat and fucking you till you can't walk tomorrow. Those darker thoughts he could never enact, not with you. No matter how fast or how hard his cock swells, that's thought of passing you into the mattress with all of his strength and filling you up with every drop cum. Turning you into a Mindless fuck doll wear, your only worry is the next time he's going to stick his cock in you. Make your stay at home for your only job is to warm his bed and dick. Well that's what safe words are for~.

Don't tell this man that you simp for a favorite character. He would either be very jealous or dress up as them to torment you. If that man has a mask or is a slasher, you are in danger. Volo would not only wear the damn thing but act as though he is the character. He'll sneak it behind you and put a hand to your throat and fuck you, all the while wearing the costume of the slasher.

When Volo is jealous, which is probably 80% of the time when he has you naked and underneath him, he will growl in your ear about how so much better he is, how this cock is so much better now he's making you scream, and that person could never make you scream as loud as he does.

Volo constantly switches from degrading you to praising and being sweet. How fast he can beat you can give you whiplash. Sometimes he'll even fuse the two, but only when he is close to cumming and he can't think straight. "my gorgeous disgusting whore take my cum, take my cum, you worthless hole; you're so precious, so good at this...so soft...I love you."

Volo is also very sweet. When making love to you, those eyes are soft, gazing into yours before his lips trail across every inch of your body, giving you gentle and sweet kisses. He holds you as close as he can while going slow and deep. All he wants to do is be close to you, cuddle, and caress every part of your body, whispering about how much he loves you and the little things he loves about you. All the while, you feel his cock brushing against the deepest part of you, your walls squeezing and milking his throbbing cock as he slowly goes in and out.

I talk about Volo fucking you with his dick. But really, he likes using his hands. He likes touching you, making you come undone with his fingers and hands alone. He wants the way his hand looks around your neck. He enjoys putting his fingers in your mouth. Oh, the rush he gets when he grabs you by the wrists to hold you down. He loves it when you come on his fingers so he can lick it off, and he loves to watch your hands wrap around his enormous cock. Your hands are so much smaller than his; it makes his heart go wild. There's something about leather gloves on you that Volo can't stop thinking about. Volo is very normal about hands.

If you want that man to fall apart tie him down and ride him. He will break down so fast. Volo uses his hands for everything, and not being able to use them to touch you, grop you or feel you would be torture, Volo would try to hold back and be a brat the entire time but deny his orgasm a few times he'll break.

[itwasntimethatdidit40]

Hey there!

I wanted to post that for a while so, here we are.

Wondering who’s behind this blog?

Here’s something about me under the cut:

• I identify as a woman, my pronouns are she/her

• Born and raised in Italy, I still live there.

• I’m 141 LOL but according to people I still look like I’m in my 30s so let me indulge in that, thank you very much.

• I don't think there's anyone who makes me more feral than Joel Miller. I just can’t help it. My (un)holy Pedro characters triad is Joel, Oberyn and Peña 💕 (immediately followed by Frankie)

• I have a little elephant pendant that I always wear, no one knows what it's about *wink*

• I’m Leo Sun, Libra Rising and Aries Moon. You scared? I promise I don’t bite, unless explicitly requested 😏

• I’m Bi/Pan as fuck, always been obviously but I realized only last year. LOL, better late than never i guess. I only have problems with cisgender straight white males because I mean… they’re the worst, okay, I don’t make the rules.

• Single, unmarried, not interested in having kids even a little bit, I prefer to be the cool auntie.

• I love cooking and I'm quite good at it, I had good genes from my Italian grandmas 😌

• I can’t function without coffee, especially in the morning. I take my coffee bitter with just a little bit of milk.

• I can’t stand lies, the phrase “oh I didn't tell you so as not to make you suffer” (UGH, no you didn’t tell me ‘cause you’re a fucking coward and that’s it, my friend), misogyny, racism, fascism, homophobia, bi-erasure, any other form of verbal or physical violence towards LGBTQIA+ people, injustice in general, if you are any of the above you are not welcome here or in my life.

• I love dogs. I have a poodle named Brienne after the GOT character, she’s 5 years old so that means she got me through pandemic and she’s my love and joy. Isn’t she adorable? Yes, she is.

• I’m unfortunately allergic to cats (yep, like Pedro) and can’t pet them unless I wish for an asthma attack. That sucks, I know.

• I have deep brown curly hair, brown eyes and I’m short (158 cm).

• I have a lot of freckles, you could go on a treasure hunt following them.

• I’ve been to more than 100 concerts in my life including some festivals abroad.

• I currently listen to Hozier and Chappell Roan on a daily basis. I also love Billie Eilish, used to be a big Muse fan (listen, their first albums were great, okay) plus I’m a sucker for ‘90/‘00 music ‘cause that’s the music I grew up with.

• I love beer more than wine.

• I love reading, I used to read all the time, I have less time to do it now and it bothers me so much. I’m still reading fanfiction though. 🤭

• I’m a sucker for True Crime Podcasts, I only listen to Italian ones for now so unless you’re Italian you don’t know my faves and it’s a pity ‘cause they’re really good.

• Cults scare the shit out of me but at the same time they’re one of the things that makes me more curious ‘cause my mind can’t really comprehend what happens in people’s mind when they get sucked into them.

• Some tv series I love in no particular order: The Last of Us, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Lost, The Handmaid’s Tale, Bojack Horseman, GOT (until seasons 7 & 8 happened 💀), Sense 8, Jane the Virgin, Grace and Frankie, Narcos, Only Murders in the building, The Bear, Succession, The Morning Show, Friends, Stranger Things (mostly because Jim Hopper is there, certainly not for those z*onists, you know), Mad Men, Derry Girls, Gilmore Girls (Luke Danes *cough*), Mindhunter, Peaky Blinders (huge Tommy Shelby’s slut, don’t look at me like that, okay), My Brilliant Friend, The Affair, Black Mirror (until last seasons happened but it used to be one of the greatest things ever), The Walking Dead (got bored halfway through season 9, I recently started a rewatch and I hope to get to the very end of it lol), Fleabag, Normal People, When They See Us, Hill House, Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, Chernobyl.

• Films I love in no particular order: Parasite, Aftersun, Past Lives, All of Us Strangers, Brokeback Mountain, Almost Famous, The Goonies, Stand By Me, The Breakfast Club, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, The Lobster, The Neon Demon, Midsommar, One Day, When Harry Met Sally, There’s still tomorrow, Strange Way of Life, Prospect, The Banshess of Inisherin, Coco, The Emperor’s New Groove (so underrated), Mommy, The Virgin Suicides, Girls Interrupted, Saltburn, Promising Young Woman, Little Women (1994), Gone Girl, Shoplifters, Bin-Jip 3 Iron, Love Me If You Dare, The Piano, Fried Green Tomatoes, Notorious, Some like it Hot, Rear Window and you can ask for my Letterboxd account for more.

• Bad weather makes me sad and melancholy.

• I obviously love Italian cuisine with all my heart but I also love to try new dishes especially when I’m abroad. I love chocolate and I have a sweet tooth in general but there’s nothing I crave more than good carbs (I can be happy with a slice of good bread or focaccia). I love spicy food but I can't handle it when it’s very very spicy.

• I love bags, I have so many bags and I still want more lol

• When I was a kid I wanted to be a writer or a journalist. What do I do now? I’m a secretary LOL (I also have a second job not related to writing as well)

• As a friend, I’m loyal to the bone, I could do anything for you if I love you. If you betray me real bad though don’t expect a second chance, I mean I could try but I know i can’t ‘cause you’re changed forever in my eyes.

• I have so many kinks, you can ask if you want to know, okay. Also, so many authors here are responsible for giving me new ones. I love you deeply.

If you want to know more my asks and dm are open!

Here’s a little bit of me, byeeeee.

[sillysootyboi]

We probably will not be getting that vampire episode, but i like to think it's like What We Do In the Shadows. A mockumentary of the most dysfunctional vampires.

Wilbur as an eccentric hyper fixated vampire who likes collecting bugs, and has like a terrarium and bug plushies and he opens a door to a "secret malicious dungeon" and inside there's just a single moth who he's said has lived for centuries and is clearly out to get him. It's played as a joke the whole time until the very end where the moth turns out to be an old rival shape shifting as a moth

Charlie as a familiar. He plays the 'straight guy' but it's clear he's more crazy than any vampire. He's just like "yeah, catching people for them to drink used to be against my values, but now I run a DND club, and whenever someone has a really terrible character or they die in the campaign I just feed them to vamps."

Tommy and Phil as the like the documentary crew. But instead of being in the know about vampires, they were supposed to be like filming a documentary on like some other eccentric billionaire but Tommy read the map upside down.

Phil keeps bringing up every vampire movie completely seriously and dead pan and asking Wilbur if it's like that. Wilbur gets increasingly frustrated trying to explain vampire society, but explains it horribly every time and uses analogies no one understands.

"it's like cows in a farm, Phil, there's the lead cow, the secondary cow, the disliked cow, the bull, the farmer—"

Tommy meanwhile is like "So...can I become a vampire?" Charlie explains familiars wait a long time in service to a vampire but they have to wait until they get accepted.

Ranboo enters halfway and is just a random pizza delivery man. Charlie was like "oh yeah, I ordered that. Also for him." (To feed the delivery man to Wilbur). But it has garlic. Charlie makes a big deal, because it turns out Charlie is deathly allergic to garlic. Dramatic arguing.

Hard cut.

Tommy, Phil and Ranboo just eating the pizza and Wilbur like emerges covered in blood. "I'm in the market for a new familiar."

Tommy's like "I'm down. I think I'm fired from the documentary department." And Phil just nods and Ranboo is like..."So...vampires aside does anyone have my payment or...?"

If this all seems so insane/crack for a plot, you do not get my whimsy and clearly have never watched What We Do In the Shadows.

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

The sad thing about stolas fans is that I'm like 99% positive they wouldn't like him if he was straight.

For example, when they accuse Stella of r*ping him, they always bring up that he's a gay man. You know, as if it somehow that's what makes it SA. Or to net him more sympathy. Somehow, I doubt they'd change their tune if it turned out stella was a lesbien (cuz these fans are allergic to giving stella any sympathy or admitting she was also a victim).

They also refuse to admit the deal between him and blitz was at least in a gray area (something the character himself admits). But I'm positive if this was a straight ship, they would admit it was at least somewhat toxic or had issues.

I know alot of these fans are lgbt+ but it really feels like they're infantlizing stolas as this poor uwu gay guy, whose super sad and weak cuz he's a bottom (cuz blitz is not uwu by fans as much and it think its cuz hes supposed to be the strong, gruff top) :/

It's kind of pathetic and stereotyping that they can't imagine a gay man like him being privelged or abusing his power especially when he's supposed to be a damn demon. You can make him vulnerable but at least give him a backbone so you don't artificially try to make him look like the victim who needs protecting. The refusal to see him as even gray has hurt his character.

[glitterrosesnzz]

i'm not gonna get the time to actually write until this weekend so here's a few just. W/anderer scenarios/hcs directly from my notes to make up for it

he absolutely REFUSES to sneeze in public. maybe around one or two people he knows he'll stifle it but like, actual public space?? no way. this becomes a problem for him if he ever needs to sneeze while he's in the middle of a class at the Akademiya.

yknow the hc that he sympathy sneezes?? yeah so like... what if he was sensitive enough to that to use it to induce. like. if he thinks about it long enough/too much, he'll sneeze. but also if his nose itches but nothing is Happening, he can fake hitching/sneezing and it will trigger a real sneeze

N/ahida fills the sanctuary with a bunch of plants at some point to liven up the place as she should but the problem is W/anderer is allergic to one of them but he doesn't want to like... upset her. so he tries to be quiet about it. this does not last long.

this is one i plan to write but the T/raveler gets requested by E/milie (perfumer in F/ontaine, upcoming character) to help her test some perfumes, and they rope W/anderer into it... i think y'all can see where this one is going but the Big Thought here is that T/raveler at some point spritzes a bit of perfume directly onto W/anderer's nose to set him off

W/anderer's eyes glow when he hitches + sneezes, people just don't notice cause his eyes are, yknow, closed. you can still see the glow fading from his eyes afterwards though. sometimes the lines on his body will glow as well.

there was definitely a point where W/anderer told the T/raveler that he straight up wasn't capable of sneezing and the T/raveler took that as a challenge

[unsiredtribrid]

All of this is so wild to me 💀 I'm very new to the legacies fandom so I wasn't there when it was airing but I'm surprised to hear that this fandom is still so toxic years after the show had ended. Like these are fictional characters, it is just a tv show so why are people attacking real people over it-

We've been screwed over throughout the entire tvdu multiple times. The double standard for straight relationships vs lgbt ones isn't very hard to see. So as you said can't we all just come together to give a big f you to Julie and Brett

A fandom/fanfics is supposed to be a way that we can content for our favourite characters and a fandom can't exist if everyone enjoys only one thing/ship/trope, that's (meant to be) a part of the beauty of it. We're here to have discussions about a show we're passionate about and that can't happen when people are just using that opportunity to hate on each other. Since when did it become a space to personally attack real people and not somewhere we can share our love for the same show. It makes people like me really hesitant to post things and probably makes the people who went into hiding not want to come back out. I applaud those who did though, kudos to yall (as long as you're not toxic)

I'm ngl, I definitely had manic episodes and started bashing their ship because I got so overwhelmed they wouldn't leave me alone. 😭 The first twitter account I made for Hope and hosie, I had no idea the ecosystem of the fandom and I was totally chill with h*zzie, but then they started getting pissed off at me just for posting hosie on my own account and doing nothing to them

Like here’s one thing that turned into drama. I shared this manip and said something joking/lighthearted about how hosie has chemistry even when the scene isn’t real. Literally just appreciating an edit and enjoying my ship’s fanon content

And then this h*zzie and her friends got really upset and started reposting my harmless hosie tweets to bash them. She implied I was problematic for sharing an edit of a scene that was ‘for h*zzie’ (as I understand it all that fucking happened was Lizzie helped them defeat the gods? 😭 mind you, the person who made this edit to begin with ships h*zzie as well as hosie) and then she tried to insinuate that because I said hosie had chemistry here I was ‘disturbing’ or however she worded it because Hope is injured in this scene.

As if hurt/comfort and one half of a ship defending or protecting the other isn’t completely normal and also probably something this person themselves specifically enjoyed about h*zzie in this part 😭 And mind you this person had a whole separate account reposting my shit and being fucking weird and this was before I spoke a single word about h*zzie

I tried to resolve it behind the scenes and even tried to befriend some of them, but then one of them literally went on their podcast and shaded me by calling people stupid and braindead if they didn’t agree that the h*zzie sirebond was written as romantic in canon. This was literally the day after I tried to have a civil convo with this person about it, iirc? Mind you, me not seeing it that way has less to do with ship wars and more to do with me knowing that Brett wasn’t delivering anything sapphic with Hope + I have an entire analysis post planned talking about how I think the h*zzie sire bond worked and I have actual reasons for thinking what I think. It was never a personal attack, but they kept making it one.

And then to make matters worse, they would bash anyone (again, even casual viewers) who didn't see the bond as romantic because it very clearly wasn't because the showrunner was fucking allergic to giving Hope love interests that are girls. So at a point it was like? Well, no, people ARE allowed to have an opinion and you don't get to bash people for criticizing that man or thinking the bond in canon was not romantic when it literally was not...? and attacking people who didn't even have ill will to begin with? it's not their fault these people are insecure. It's like they take out Brett's incompetence and obsession with h*ndon on other fans and viewers and it's so fucking. annoying. 😭

I started blocking them to avoid confrontation and then one of them had a fucking meltdown she got blocked and called me toxic so I unblocked her and tried to explain calmly that I was protecting my peace and then she flipped out so I lost my shit, had a manic episode and told them they were brain rotted.

like.

I tried so many ways to mend bridges but they kept being petty and I’m just fucking tired

[amphibianauthor]

⭐ for the writer's cut ask game because i have no idea what fics you have written as of right now

Hello! I'll talk a bit about my Grian choose your own adventure story (CYOA) that to me marks the beginning of my true consistent writing in fandom. I started the fic a full two months before I published it, but the very first thing I did for that fic was make the decision tree out on paper before even opening the google doc. The first night I planned out a very rough idea of ~30 endings, and I was quite proud that I followed through and made over 30 endings. The reason I chose Grian to follow for this is two-fold: Grian was my first hermit I began watching and the one I'd watched the longest, but also Grian works the best as a character when you combine him with other people. The first part of the story I wrote was actually the starting page, followed by the 'go-to-sleep' ending and then the fishing route, (ending 2 was the next one I wrote, which is still one of my favorites that I wrote)

One of the hardest parts of writing it was actually figuring out How to incorporate the viewer properly in the fic. A good chunk of CYOA stories have 1st or 2nd POV's which I am allergic to writing with fanfic, so it was a fun balance figuring out how to frame the decisions but not have the reader 'be' Grian in the story. By using the idea of a Chat talking to Grian, I was able to kinda subvert choices occasionally, having Grian straight up fight with chat at different points throughout the story, but again it was all about balancing that which was difficult. I think for future CYOAs I write I would probably drop the chat thing and just write present tense 3rd POV instead, but I'm glad I made the chat thing work for this particular story. I can not picture a CYOA using the inside of Grian's head (like having multiple different pathways at once) specifically, cause he gives me "I have this idea and I think it's good, lets go with it and modify it as needed" vibes.

Coding the fic was a 5 hour experience. I had almost NO coding experience prior to this: (I had done some unrelated stuff of like google code, and was comfortable googling how to do things.) I felt so successful when I finished that I wanted to encourage other people to try using HTML in their fics. [I eventually put together my Ao3 HTML coding masterpost as my way of doing that].

Titling this fic was also VERY hard. I actually talked with both my parents and my sibling for title ideas and eventually ended up with Prognosis: Chat's Chew Toy. For a long time the working title was "POV: you observe a mischief-maker: A Choose your own Adventure" but other notable suggestions include: "POV Grian Unleashed" "Grian's begrudging vlog day" and "Grian's totally normal afternoon."

I had so much fun making a CYOA book that I am considering making another one (it's one of my bingo board fic goals for 2025 and I have an idea for it).

One more bonus fact: I very nearly put the entirety of the lyrics of Hermit Gang in the White Void section, but I hadn't learned how to make invisible text at that point and it didn't really make the most sense. I have since learned how to code appearing text.