#i will beta every chapter and give concrit and stuff PLEASE you can use me as a soundboard i just so badly need to read this as a fic

[slightlycomicobsessed]

Actually ok ok idea.

We talked about Dani going to DC, but hear me out.

Barbara gets transported to 616 and decides to start a team while she's there. She probably meets and befriends Wolverine or something, and starts her Birds of Prey but Marvel to help her get home.

Team comp idea I had:

Wolverine (she never said it was a woman's only team. Just that she only took the best options. Plus I think they'd bond fast.)

Dani (obviously, met through wolverine. Probably part of the reason the polycule forms with Barbara.)

Silhouette (imagine the Sil and Babs bonding over disability stuff and headstrong boys and oh my god they're so similar.)

Dazzler (Barbara keeps trying to treat her like she's Dinah...)

Yelena (Barbara likes her blondes plus I think she'd fit the team vibe from what I know)

Fuck it, Logan drags Laura along too.

The book goes something along the lines of intense interpersonal conflict, especially with Barbara being abrasive. There's probably an arc where she dates Tony Stark, another where she robs him for funding towards her birds. Logan's watching in horror/amusement as it's slowly turning into a lesbian polycule that he's staying out of for Laura's sake. Sil and Barbara are the DinahBabs of the run, with them both seeing guys and getting jealous at the other. Barbara blackmails SHIELD...

You're seeing the vision?

i'm seeing the visionnnn. tbh i think we should throw illyana and rahne in too, a second blonde for babs and so everyone else can groan over how blatantly dani is making heart-eyes at rahne I'm ngl i have no idea how she would befriend Logan... maybe she makes friends with Jubilee or Kitty and then makes friends through that? But to be fair he is the Girldad of all time (he keeps adopting daughters lmfao) Honestly I think Babs would meet Dani on accident and they just would bond. I feel like they're the kind of people who would get along really well because they're The Sane Ones(TM) of the group. OBVIOUSLY we're including Sil. I don't know how they'd meet but maybe Dani could've met her while she was healing from her injuries after the Demon Bear? Or they could all just literally run into each other on a mission or something. Sil & Dani are really alike they'd get alone well. (They WOULD fuck. cmon. at least once). Haha oh my god poor Alison Babs just misses her gf best friend a lot. Yelena would get along with this group like a house on fire. LITERALLY the kate spencer/huntress of them because everyone would be like "okay how do we solve this" and she's like "let's just fucking kill him" Yessss. At first I geniunely thought you were talking about Laura and not Logan bc you mention BOP haha. Laura and Yelena I think would be fast friends as the abrasive 'done with all of this' characters. I'm seeing the vision and i am INVESTED. please im begging on my knees i need to read this i adore this so much

[staringatthetwinsuns]

So, I'm new to Tumblr. And I've been away from fandom for a long time. And it's come to my attention that I might have not gotten off on the best foot for either. So this is an attempt at a bit of explanation and apology.

Dear Tumblr, I am socially awkward. I don't have a nice diagnosis to go with that, although there probably is one in there somewhere if I only pay for ENOUGH counseling? But I have never had an easy time making friends. So if you've interacted with me in the past week or so since I set up this account? THANK YOU.  I really do LIKE making friends and talking about mutual hobbies. But it sometimes takes me awhile to really get off on the right foot with people.

If you're one of the many people whose posts I've liked or maybe responded to... I'm sorry. I don't know how to say to you that I think you're cool and that it would be really nice to interact with you.  It would be.  Some of you know me, from LJ or from FFN years ago.  I don't know how to say "Hey, you're that person who beta read a chapter for me or got my prompt in a fic exchange and I still remember that and am grateful." But I do remember, and I am grateful, and I think *everyone's* a bigger deal than me so it's really, really hard to do much more than click the little heart. I'm sorry I disappeared from the fandom.

I'm sorry that I don't really KNOW how to fandom? I'm older than some of you and younger than some of you, but my first "fandoms" were back when there was no such thing (at least if you lived in the middle of nowhere and AOL wasn't even popular yet), and it was just me and my sister and my friends being silly. So my fanon isn't always FANDOM'S fanon. And I'm not that great at dealing with it sometimes.

For what it's worth, I actually love having fandom friends who don't agree with me and like different things about the fandom, as long as they're willing to discuss it maturely. One of my best friends back in the day was an Anidala shipper.... I don't get them as a couple at all and mostly wrote OT stuff, but I LOVED discussing the fandom from different perspectives. We had some really interesting conversations, so... while I personally might like Porgs and think Rian Johnson's script writing abilities mostly suck, if you feel the opposite... that's cool. Let's talk about it. You might be able to open my eyes to something I didn't see before.

Moving on, I don't fully understand tags... here or on AO3. I don't know what kind of things other people search for.  I think it's a balance... like, I should maybe tag for major themes and characters? But if I tag "X-Wing" for example, and there's an X-wing barely mentioned in one chapter of a 20-chapter fic... that's misleading, right? I think it is, but I'm really not sure. So if I undertag or overtag, that's USUALLY because I just really, really don't understand. If you read my fic and think "Hey, this is okay, but why did you not tag that X-wing?" (or whatever), I'd actually really appreciate concrit in things like that because I'm really, really bad at picking up on social clues and unspoken rules.

I take my writing seriously. I created this blog so I could enjoy writing in a space WITHOUT the emotional baggage of my original fiction. But I am interested in developing my writing as a professional skill.  That includes things like building up suspense, where the reader doesn't know if a character will life or die, or if a couple will end up together.  I MARK THIS. In my fics that are "No Archive Warnings Apply".... NO ARCHIVE WARNINGS APPLY.  In the others, maybe they do and maybe they don't. I didn't want the reader to know one way or the other. AND I SAY THAT UPFRONT, so you can decide if you want to read it without a guarantee or not. That's your choice, and I respect you either way.

That is NOT because I want to hurt you or trigger you.  That is because I remember being a preteen and being blown away by the ending of The Empire Strikes Back, or of the incredibly bittersweet end of Lord of the Rings.  I loved Bridge to Terebithia. Even though eye trauma literally gives me nightmares, I'm glad no one told me NOT to read Dragonquest because of it because OMG I love and hate that scene so much, and FOR ME that emotional high is what I read for, and what I write for.

I write for teenage me.  Because I want to make some other kid under the covers FEEL. If you WANT to read my fics and would like to send me a message and ASK if they have your personal trigger or squick in them, by all means do so. If you tell me up front that you want to be spoiled because you can't deal with XXX right now, I will tell you whatever you need to know.

My goal is not to hurt anyone. My goal is to help MYSELF through my writing... because just as readers read for comfort, writers write for comfort, and also to give other readers the things that *I* got from my favorite stories once upon a time. I'm trying to pay it forward. I might have failed.

I think every single one of us who is in a fandom, or who is creating, be it fanworks, original works, or both... we're here to get some comfort out of it. We're here to form connections.

So I would like to apologize to anyone I've interacted inappropriately with... I try to interact with others the way I'd like people to interact with me, but I realize that I may have been wrong to assume that other people enjoyed the same kinds of interactions as I do, and I apologize.

I'm not at all sure whether I'm going to stick around here, or keep my fics up, etc... but I'm sorry, if I liked your posts too many times or replied or reblogged when I shouldn't have.  I'm not sorry for writing my stories in my way, but if I've ever gone against the rules of whatever archive they're on, please let me know and I will correct that immediately. Thank you.