#i'm just saying that from my point of view personally their relationship wasn't close enough to warrant them the father/daughter status

[tackykachowch]

Idk if I'm gonna get jumped for this but....Iiii don't know if it's really appropriate to call Vander Jinx's dad. He definitely was her guardian, with huge uncle energy for sure, but dad? Like, dad is something really personal and requires a high level of closeness, and they didn't seem to share that bond. Out of all the kids Powder seemed to be the most removed from him and share very little traits/interests with him, and after growing up we don't see Jinx care about him at all. So, idk, to call him her dad seems more like a fanservice to me rather than what can be confirmed by the show.

He's defo her dad in the au, tho, because there he would spend a lot more time with her and because of Vi's death pay more attention to her, therefore tightening their bond.

UPD: I mean, Vander isn't even a part of her hallucinations. Now, you could argue that it's too traumatic for her even to remember him as is seen in season 1 ep9, but I think it's the opposite, actually. Knowing Silco he probably yapped about Vander all the time (and he literally does this in ep5), so Jinx definitely remembers him and thinks of him to some extent. But why then his hallucination appeared only once? Well, I think it only happened because Jinx was under extreme pressure already, plus she recently had a shimmer operation, which could've worsened her mental state, hence Vander appearing as a hallucination. Again, this is just how I see it, I may be wrong, but I do think this view of their relationship is rational enough.

[thewertsearch]

We're got a couple of assorted asks about quadrant dynamics here. Since they're all related, I'll answer them as a single post.

@galaxa-13 asked: I personally never saw Feferi being annoyed by Eridan talking about feelings with Karkat because he was only supposed to talk about them with her, but rather because he ONLY talked about them with Karkat. She had to do all the heavy lifting in their relationship by making sure he didn't commit genocide, and then didn't get to unwind with some romantic gossip. If my platonic boyfriend never talked to me, but did with others, I'd question him too. @lilietsblog asked: I never read Feferi as being jealous of Karkat in a violating relationship exclusivity / cheating on her way. I read it as a playful "why aren't you talking about stuff with me? is it because you've already talked it all out?" where Eridan was very much supposed to read between the lines and undersatnd that she just wanted him to tell her about his red crushes (awkward, that…) While I'm sure there are specific rituals trolls /only/ do with their moirails, my overall impression is that trolls normally just… don't form relationships close and trusting enough for emotional support like that. The quadrants help by making it semi-mandatory to find SOMEONE. (Also I'm actually sure that a healthy moirallegiance would be reciprocal with both partners pacifying each other, it's just the hemospectrum version of gender roles)

You may have a point. Eridan was clearly a poor moirail from the start - probably because he never actually wanted to be Feferi's moirail. To him, the quadrant was clearly just a stepping stone to matespritship, so he wasn't invested in its dynamics. Feferi's not really angry about Karkat, here - she's just a little frustrated about how one-sided their moirallegence has turned out to be.

That said, I do still believe that quadrants would work better if they were polyamorous - even if this particular scenario doesn't illustrate my point as well as I thought it did.

@morganwick asked: I mean, some would argue that placing undue emphasis on monogamy beyond what's actually healthy or natural is true of human romance as well. But part of what might be going on here is that on Alternia, it's not a good idea to let knowledge of your fears, doubts, and weaknesses spread too far, lest it mark you for culling. Best to vent to a single person who won't tell another soul. (See also how Vriska is saying things to John she wouldn't tell any other troll.) @bladekindeyewear asked: "At the end of the day, I do think moirallegiance is a good idea. I just don’t think it really works if moirails can’t be poly." What if they CAN be? People with naturally polyamorous inclinations are few and marginalized on present-day Earth, and Alternian society seems set up to STOMP OUT the marginalized. Quadrants certainly exist, but how much of their rigidity and the pervasive troll view that you only have "one true fated partner(s)" for each quadrant might just be cultural?

I think a monogamous system of moirallegence is probably all that Alternia could handle. Sustaining a polyamorous quadrant system would require a level of emotional maturity that the average troll simply isn't going to have - and, like you said, it might be dangerous to widen your circle more than is actually necessary.

I still think the trolls would benefit from such a system, though. On Alternia, it simply wasn't to be - but the Alternian Players now have the chance to build an entirely new culture. Who knows what new dynamics they might discover?

@lilietsblog asked: I don't think Hussie "jumped the gun". I think Hussie was messing around with the very idea of "what romance should be like". Trolls don't care about what gender their partners are, and have a different system of confusing rigid rules that no two people understand quite the same and that don't work out in practice that way anyway, instead. The quadrant system was never intended to be a serious worldbuilding project any more than Troll Will Smith

See, I get what you're saying - but the difference, in my opinion, is that that Troll Will Smith was a one-panel joke, whereas the quadrant system has informed our understanding of troll relationships for the entirety of Act 5. Unlike Will, quadrants have stayed relevant, and they've been critical to understanding many of the Alternians' key character moments.

That's not to say that quadrants aren't partially a joke. Frankly, I don't think any of Homestuck is entirely serious - but I do think quadrants are 'real' in the context of the story, and should be analyzed as a legitimate part of its world.

@bladekindeyewear asked: One last bout moirails-- Andrew in his asks has said that the idea behind each of the Quadrants IS supposed to match up with real human relationship and friend dynamics we already understand, making them relatable but w/ a romantic drive that isn't quite human-analogous. Trolls biologically compelled to enter them before understanding them, a challenge "particularly tortuous for young trolls" (p2393), plus the 600 hour session makes sense of Eq/Nep's relationship's drastic evolution to me.

I've always been a little skeptical about this whole 'biological drive' angle for the quadrants - mostly because there are plenty of human biological drives that are either overstated, misinterpreted, or outright fabricated.

That's not to say that the trolls don't have some sort of compulsion to seek out quadrants. If it does exist, though, I hope it slowly fades, now that the trolls have left their planet and its expectations behind.

[gayofthefae]

Thinking about pacing and how it's why I became a Byler.

If Mike and El were endgame, the pacing of season 4 would be....weird.

Normally conflict and confrontation is climactic, ESPECIALLY simultaneous conflict that "all crashes down on you". That's built up separately as A and B plots that intersect, this point of intersection being Mike.

Which is why I was so surprised when Will and Mike fought and had to pause it and go, "wait, what's happening?" Before that point I was worried that the season conflict was veering towards pitting Will and El against each other over Mike based on the tension at the rink - I naturally assumed that it was setting up the season arc with the current events that would continue until a 3rd act payoff, but it wasn't.

Will calls Mike out immediately and El calls him out the next day. Leaving the rest of the season empty. It's why Mike's final speech doesn't work. The plot was not maintained. It was a setup and payoff much like the painting, which I forgot about by the time he pulled it out might I add. We do not follow either Mike nor El's point of views on this plot, with only one even ACKNOWLEDGING it.

It doesn't. Make. Sense. At least not for my original prediction. Which is why I paused it, and thought:

If Will is calling Mike out now that means he won't ignore him for the rest of the season. Then what will the central conflict be? Will has said what he needs to say. Mike clearly has not, though, so this is more of a setup for him, but a setup for what? Will has nowhere to go from here because he has already reached the peak of this arc, demonstrating the vulnerability self-assuredness required for this honestly AND there is nothing for him as a person to follow this up with. The ball is in Mike's court to apologize. So the ball is in Mike's court for this plotline, this scene is an inciting incident for Mike, but for what? In this scene, he contrasts Will's honesty by being closed off and defensive, so his arc is to truth, but what truth? What secret would be threatened by Will's accusations of- OHHHHHHHHHHH

Will got too close, Mike got defensive, and his season arc is gaining the courage and vulnerability to explain himself. Got it. (We're not done)

2 episodes later: he apologizes and explains with vulnerability - WHAT? Okay, but he still hasn't told him how he feels so they're just pacing it differently, we mentally adjust. He is building up to telling him no longer with the stakes of his relationship to Will but rather the urgency of owing El an explanation/decision by the time he sees her again, one which he would likely tell Will first. The stakes are the commitment and pain he causes the longer he stalls. He needs to confess by the time he sees her again. Yes. He seems to be slowly working it out, coming back to the "why" repeatedly, and Will is giving him coded words - not enough to be a confession from Will and he has already demonstrated his honesty (the van scene is really just an inciting incident for the Jonathan coming out scene as far as Will's plot goes) - that he's reacting to and are perfect to be the tipping point for his motivation. And he's looking between El and Will with a strange expression. And he's......(I kinda just sat confused for a while until I got to the end and realized it was supposed to be a cliffhanger for the first time and also that there was a season 5, at which point I sat further before understanding that this was a multi-season arc because season 4 had themes of subverted happy endings into tragedy)

I had to adjust it with little tweaks throughout but only ever in pacing, never in event. But if I got it 2 hours into a 13 hour season, I'm sure they'll catch up in the next 8.

[itneverendshere]

i really agree with you about the rafe and sofia relationship in s3 she just appeared of nowhere and it's like a hookup for rafe and i also think in s3 she kinda said to him what he wanted to hear like being approved by someone idk if you get my point in that, and then s4 to me is a bit messy with them because she lives with him and goes even to kook parties and events with him (something that the early two seasons rafe wouldn't do) and when he's asked what if she's his girlfriend he says no because he has standards and after that they forget that kinda only sofia and hollis stuff but it doesn't seem to affect that deeply the relationship from her side and in s4 pt2 it's weird how out of nowhere he proposed to her. I really think that relationship wasn't really exolored good enough to make the point of why rafe was a phsyco but decided to settle with her and changed his whole personality out of the screen and i really think their relationship was based on how she paid attention to him in a way his family didn't and she gave him the approval he needed so that's why i think that when he breaks with her after knowing she helped to scam him it's more because she hurted more his ego than feelings and kinda why he says to her 'after everything I've done for you' or something like that i don't remember, i see it more from a pov of he got himself a pogue gf that treated him good and he gave her like economic stability, but that's really my point of view and opinion on their relationship.

I'm sorry if something is misspelled English is my second language and I'm still learning

i get your point here! in S3, she kind of just… shows up, and it feels like she was just there for rafe to hook up with, she was just someone saying everything he wanted to hear. i feel like they never fully developed this relationship enough to explain why rafe, who was so fucking messed up, would suddenly be this new person with her.

it’s like her approval was this thing he was addicted to (instead of the coke) because he’s never had that with his family. so when she scams him, it's less about him having actual feelings (i think he does tho) & more about his ego/trust being crushed AGAIN by someone so close to him—especially with his “after everything i’ve done for you” line. i see it the same way: rafe got himself a pogue girlfriend who made him feel seen, and he provided for her in return, but it was never about love. maybe that came along eventually (or not), but it was more about him being "a man".

[tiny-feisty-gay]

I see your a fellow Chaggie shipper. As am I. ANd I've asked other Chaggie shippers on tumblr and I must ask you: What are your FULL thoughts on Charlie learning of Vaggie's secret? From finding out in Heaven to her whole anger/hurt/confusion at Vaggie.

i wasn't ignoring this but i needed a few days to gather my thoughts because i have lots of them

between heaven and the two of them meeting back up with an army/weapons in tow, there's roughly a month's worth of time as far as i've been told/can tell, so i'm going based on that rough timeline

charlie's first reaction, imo, was shock; the way she collapsed and let vaggie shepherd her and guard her isn't the reaction of someone who's immediately jumped to anger/mistrust, it's the reaction of someone whose entire life view has just been altered.

i don't think they ever actually fought about it. gut feeling maybe, but considering what we saw (charlie curled in bed crying, vaggie saying "in our room... alone") and my personal hc that she takes after her dad in times of emotional turmoil by self-isolating and sinking into the depression... i have a feeling they didn't even talk about it for a while.

vaggie might have tried to; we got a glimpse of it right around alastor's deal with charlie. i firmly believe that after it was in the open, she probably did try to explain herself, and charlie was still half-shocked and feeling a bit betrayed and didn't have the brain space to deal with it between the upcoming extermination and knowledge that her loved ones were going to be targeted first. she probably did a ton of soul-searching on her own; remember, charlie is +/- a good few centuries, if not older, so while she's very upbeat and happy, it's not unreasonable to think she's had a good while to practice some emotional maturity. she isn't perfect, obviously, but based on how much she adores vaggie, i think she'd want to know firmly where she stands before they talk things out.

i also think vaggie was terrified the entire time that she'd just fucked up the only genuine, good relationship (romantic or otherwise) that she's ever had. we don't get much backstory on what things were like for her in heaven, but she doesn't seem to have been particularly close to anyone there, and "whatever it takes" sort of reinforces that with her "and it felt so good to be understood / but there's so much i wish that i could say." i think she wanted to tell charlie but she kept putting it off, and the longer she put it off the worst she thought it'd be, until she hit a point where she felt like she couldn't tell charlie because what would charlie think of her after lying to her for three years?

charlie did likely wonder how much of it had been a lie and whether vaggie had ulterior motives, because who wouldn't, but i think she dismissed that pretty fast. especially because there's no way angel and the rest of the crew didn't notice vaggie moping around like a kicked puppy; i'm sure they were equally unhappy with vaggie's lying, but the group sentiment didn't seem anything more than mildly annoyed by it.

she was the most hurt by the fact that vaggie didn't trust her enough to tell her; supported by her conversation with rosie. and that seems pretty fair, imo: vaggie knows how much charlie can forgive, can see the potential for redemption in people, and she's had an up-close view of that in vaggie for the last three years. and charlie trusts (trusted) vaggie wholeheartedly, so the idea of that not being reciprocal hurt her deeply.

i think they tried to talk things out ~a couple weeks in, and vaggie shut down in the middle of the conversation from a mix of trauma and fear that she'd lose charlie; i love vaggie dearly, but she's placed a ton of her self-worth on how useful she is to charlie. she very much believes she's nothing without charlie, because charlie saved her and is a large part of who she's become. there's a little bit of a power imbalance/codependency on vaggie's side, and while i don't think that's insurmountable for them nor do i think the relationship as a whole is unhealthy, that piece of it must have made it absolute torture to be pushed away.

i think she and angel may have had a few late-night conversations actually; they seem like they're on better/friendlier terms just before alastor and charlie make their deal; the whole "you ever think she's sensitive about her lack of wings? ... just like her lack of tits :D" bit struck me a lot more like friendly ribbing/trying to lighten the mood rather than actual malice. angel definitely doesn't have much experience with healthy relationships, but he does have experience with damage control, and i imagine he gave vaggie advice that basically boiled down to don't push, let her come to you, she's really hurt and needs to process. he cares a ton about charlie even if he doesn't show it, but i think he has sort of a begrudging respect/love-hate thing with vaggie lol. especially after the battle-bonding.

their first actual conversation about it was probably after the cannibal town army/weapons stockup before the battle. talking to rosie clearly really helped charlie process things, and i do think it's interesting that as far as we know, she hasn't talked to her father about it; not particularly surprising since their relationship is a bit tenuous, but still interesting, since he would likely have been a good perspective for her to have as a fellow fallen angel (ex-angel? idk if vaggie really counts as fallen). but regardless, rosie helped her a lot and most of her initial betrayal and hurt seems to have fizzled out with just the "why didn't she trust me?" piece left.

that was probably the main thing they talked about. vaggie tells her about what really happened to get her stuck here, and charlie is furious, and that alone probably helps her understand; i'd have trust issues, too, if someone i'd known presumably my whole life ripped off my limbs and cut my eye out. vaggie and charlie had an instant connection, clearly, but she didn't trust charlie enough to tell her initially and then things spiraled out of control. by the time she realized charlie might be okay with her past, she'd already been hiding it so long that it felt like too big a secret to share. and i think some part of her still believed this would be something charlie couldn't forgive.

and my favorite hc: charlie can't forgive it. we don't know how many souls vaggie has fully eradicated, but it has to be in the thousands, at least. lute's kill count from one purge was 275, and adam references vaggie being "one of his top girls." there's also a detail i saw pointed out elsewhere; most of the exorcists have plain black halos, except for lute, whose halo has a white glow as well... and vaggie, whose halo shares the same glow. there's a good chance she was high up in the ranks, possibly third in command -- and possibly quickly closing in on having a higher kill count than lute, which would explain her vitriol and eagerness to get rid of vaggie at the first sign of weakness. but obviously, that's just a headcanon. as is much of the above xD

but back to charlie, i don't think she'd be able to forgive that. the good news is, she doesn't have to. charlie is upbeat and optimistic, but she was raised in hell. she's not naive; she knows the people she wants to save have committed heinous atrocities. the difference is that she believes in change. the vaggie she knows, the one standing in front of her, isn't an exorcist. she's her partner, who while yes, eager to anger and easy to jump to violence, only does so when she or charlie are provoked/threatened. charlie is capable of still being disappointed/devastated by vaggie's past and acknowledging that it's not her present - or future.

one of the things i also think is so important is the battle scene. that was a huge test of charlie's acceptance; seeing her girlfriend step back into that role, that violence, was a big thing, one that nobody would've blamed her for recoiling from. she doesn't. she fights alongside vaggie (albeit... creatively, we'll say) and yes, the exorcists are enemies and she has a long history of reasons to hate them, but even during the battle she doesn't. she's still apologetic and doesn't really want to hurt anyone, just deter them. it takes vaggie telling her to be harsher for her to do it, and she follows vaggie's instruction. this is vaggie's area of expertise, and while she may have learned those skills by butchering Charlie's people, she's repurposed those skills. She's armor, not a weapon; she's violent only to defend, not out of bloodlust.

i think it's really easy to misunderstand charlie's acceptance of vaggie's past as naive or their reconciliation as too soon/too easy, but there's three years of history behind them and charlie actively chooses not to let this new information shatter the foundation they've built together. they're a prime example of the idea that relationships work because you continue to choose that person, to choose to work at it, and while that only works if both sides are willing, for vaggie and charlie, they are.

i do really hope we see vaggie find some self-worth outside of charlie in s2, though. she has so much potential to explore the complexity of her character and i really want to see that. i don't think they're bad for each other, but to some extent... vaggie went from serving one entity (adam) to serving another (charlie) and that level of devotion can be dangerous. charlie is infinitely better than adam, don't get me wrong, but vaggie definitely needs to find purpose beyond being charlie's right hand.

i'm personally hoping for sort of an... exorcist/angel ambassador role for her? something that ties into the hotel but is independent of charlie and something she wants to do. or maybe teaching self-defense/offense to the rest of the group (which she likely did for the battle/army, since she knows better than anyone how the exorcists fight).

honestly i probably have more thoughts than this but i hope you enjoyed my stream of consciousness ramble about Them <3

[natsubeatsrock]

Lisanna Makes Me Hate My Fandom More

Is Lisanna overrated by her fans?

No.

I can't believe that I even have to argue this.

And yet here we are.

I even debated the necessity of this post. Do we need another post saying fandom doesn't value Lisanna? Do we really need ANOTHER one?

Well, I need to get back into this writing on this blog somehow.

I reblogged a post about how fans worship characters you dislike some time ago. Someone reblogged my post all but saying they don't like how Lisanna's elevated over others because of filler moments by her fans. I know the person is a Nalu shipper, but I want to keep this about Lisanna. I have to imagine they think fans of Lisanna elevate her over Lucy. I'm not really interested in talking about that. All I care about is that argument about Lisanna's importance.

Part of me agrees with this. Much of the noise made about Lisanna comes from overestimating her relevance before coming back. This post wouldn't exist if I didn't like her, at the very least. However, as I've mentioned, she wasn't built up like multiple other characters or elements in the series.

Do I think we're on the same wavelength about this idea? Almost certainly not. If you think otherwise, remember that they ship Nalu.

But why make a post about this?

Honestly, this post has been on the back burner for years. I've posted it now as a prelude to another post I've been working on. Despite talking about Lisanna almost too much, I don't think I've emphasized something enough.

I've been talking about how fans handle Lisanna, given canon. I happen to be more generous than others are. Though, I have the opposite view of the situation. I don't think fandom does enough with Lisanna. Especially considering everything we've gotten from her.

I've done this a few times, but entertain me. Put Natsu & the Dragon Egg and everything the anime added to the side for a moment. (I need to talk about that special one of these days.) What has Fairy Tail actually told us about Lisanna?

Lisanna is the younger sister of two fan-favorite characters, Mirajane and Elfman. She'd had a close relationship with the series protagonist before the series started. (Yes, I'm considering Natsu as the protagonist for now.) About two years before Lucy met Natsu, she was presumed dead after a mission didn't go well. However, she was actually transported to another dimension. She spent two years working with an alternate version of Fairy Tail, pretending to be their version of Lisanna.

I know that's only a paragraph's worth of information. Admittedly, canon doesn't show a lot of this information. You're not getting the same focus on Lisanna as you would any member of the Strongest Team. Heck, you're not getting the same focus on her as people like Juvia or Cana at nearly any point of Fairy Tail. We've seen more of Mira and Elfman individually after Lisanna returned than just Lisanna over the entire series.

But let's break down each sentence of that paragraph.

Are fans doing a whole lot with Lisanna's relationship with her siblings? Are people writing about the Strauss kids as siblings? What do they think of each other? How has their relationship been affected by their experiences before and since joining Fairy Tail?

Are fans doing a whole lot with Lisanna's relationship with Natsu? I know most people dismiss their past relationships as currently irrelevant. However, it doesn't seem as though Mashima's forgotten about it. What about their past relationship affects their current relationship? What would a partnership between them look like at this point in the series? (I say this knowing this isn't very likely with the sequel's current events.) Is it possible that they could become closer than they are now in canon?

Are fans doing a lot with the mission that supposedly killed Lisanna? How does this affect those close to Lisanna? How do they treat her once she's back? How does the rest of the guild think of the situation?

Are fans doing a lot with Lisanna's time with Edolas? She spent two years with alternate versions of nearly every character in Fairy Tail. How does this affect her views of characters she didn't know before going to Edolas? How does she feel about Edolas and Edolas Fairy Tail? Does she resent being away from Earthland for so long or miss being in Edolas?

As far as I can tell, most people don't address these questions. People don't seem really interested in trying to read into Lisanna's relationships with her siblings or Natsu beyond potential shipping drama. People aren't interested in how Lisanna being in Edolas impacts anyone or anything in the series.

Now, people care about answering these questions. I've talked about these things quite a bit since Fairy Tail ended. My stories involving Lisanna in-series treat her time in Edolas as formative. And I've read several stories that provide answers to these questions from a number of perspectives.

However, most fans don't write about Lisanna thinking about these things. Has fandom moved past the kind of Lisanna that maliciously sabotages Lucy's place in the guild? Can't say. However, they're not doing a whole lot positive with her now.

"Why does it matter? Mashima obviously decided not to do a lot with Lisanna. Why would fans care about a character the series didn't do much with?"

The funny thing is that it's actually the opposite. Fans do (and should) care about Lisanna because there weren't canon answers to the questions surrounding her. Fans are interested in how these questions could be answered.

And frankly, this wouldn't be the first time. Mashima has done hilariously little with Meredy. But fans love her and create stuff for her all the time. She's one of my favorite minor characters to ship.

Heck, we got more of Levy because fans wanted to see more of her after Phantom Lord. The anime got Changeling to introduce Levy before Phantom Lord. However, there wasn't much else to her relevance to the series before and during that arc. It wasn't until the Fantasia arc that Levy became more plot-relevant and active. Mashima's gone on record to say fans are the reason why.

Fans have argued that Lisanna should have stayed dead for years. I've argued against this numerous times before. I've never understood why this matters to people. Of all the death fakeouts, why is Lisanna's such a big deal for fans? Mashima's written sloppier comebacks for characters. He's brought back characters with less importance. Why is Lisanna where fandom draws the line?

"What else do you expect from the Nalu vermin?"

Calm down, Chris. Of course, shipping has something to do with this. Nalu was always going to be popular with fans. Nalu is synonymous with the fandom. I've seen bias against Nali at work, even where it doesn't make sense.

However, you're not seeing the anti-Gruvia crowd write stories about Juvia being tortured and/or staying dead en masse. The issue with most isn't even with Juvia herself. Isolate her from Gruvia, and the problem is solved. The anti-Gruvia crowd falls into two camps: put Juvia with someone else or keep her away from Gray. Unless we're willing to argue that either is equivalent to killing Juvia, we don't have a discussion. (What day is today, again?)

The closest thing fandom's come up with for Lisanna is Bixanna. Unlike many ships, it feels like the fandom exists to give Lisanna someone to love. In fact, there's a small gap between AO3 stories with Bixanna and Nali. However, much of Bixanna's stories have the ship as a side attraction. Nali stories usually focus on Nali. That's telling on its own.

One last thing before the end. It feels irresponsible to end this post without making a suggestion to write Lisanna. Is there a good way to write Lisanna?

Incidentally, the anime gave us a solid approach. Lisanna has a tendency to tease others. We see it with Natsu at different ages in Natsu and the Dragon Egg. We see it with Elfman on Tenrou Island. If you're wondering, that crack about marrying Natsu aligns with that. That was also in the original chapter, so it's not without precedent from Mashima.

If you're writing Lisanna, you don't have to fall into many pitfalls other writers do. She doesn't have to be evil. She doesn't need to be possessive of Natsu. She doesn't have to be Mirajane's little shipping gremlin. (The fact that this is the best of these worries me.) She doesn't have to be the sacrificial lamb. At least make her a fun character to read.

In Conclusion:

Drink your respect Lisanna juice. This is not a request. This is a command.

[stalkersdiary]

~NEVER Abandoned, and Never Alone~

A long post with odd topics. You've been warned ahead of time but this talks about some very... personal things. This turned into a vent post very quickly. (I'm not mad at you Seth/JustAThrowAwayHeeHee. I'm just using you as my reason to post as this made me realize I needed to say something.) I saw a response to me and I felt very sad because I never considered this point of view before.

I would NEVER abandon my diary. Mostly because... It's my Diary. It's my place to go to when I need to talk. However, I haven't been doing that and I regret it. Tonight, I want to talk to you. My diary. To be honest, I've spent a lot of this month in... a deep sense of melancholy. My last relationship hurt like hell and no better time to think of it... than Valentine's day. Valentine's MONTH for those who are happy and in love with someone/something. I spent a long time getting close to someone, just for them to hurt me, make me fear my own bed, and then wish that I could kill them. That feeling HURTS when you loved someone and then feel so repulsed by their actions and words, that you wish them death. It's been about 3 years since then, and life has moved on. I however, haven't. When everyone is telling you about how happy they are because they are so in love and you're just sitting there thinking of the last person you dated, knowing you may never date someone again, it feels miserable. I spent most of this month making time for myself. I started to really think about why I hated myself, why I didn't want to live, why life felt so lonely, etc. I learned more about me and FELT more about me. This sent me down a very unhappy but very clear path. I'm less afraid than I used to be. I was afraid for hundreds of reasons, but what really hit me, was that I feared my own mind and how I was being perceived. After days, and weeks of overthinking, I learned that I don't care anymore. I'm not afraid and I know that I'm claiming something unhealthy. Something disturbing to most. Something that got me in trouble before. The difference is this time, I don't care and I don't fear myself. I know me, and I wouldn't want THIS for the rest of my life. I am not afraid anymore. I'd rather be authentic and hated including by myself, than to live a lie for the rest of my life. I am not broken, because I wasn't a masterpiece to begin with. I'm a block of stone with a pretty face and no body because the sculptor got scared he'd ruin his art and left it in the dark for years. I refuse to wait any longer. I refuse to let life control me. I REFUSE, TO SIT BACK AND FEEL LIKE SHIT JUST BECAUSE I HAVE ENOUGH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS TO SCARE MY ENDOCRINOLOGIST. I haven't been on normal medication in over a month and it's made me more aware of how fucked I really am. However, I don't mind who I really am. This looks unrelated but trust me, I have a point. I left because I was afraid to post. I was scared I would say something too "crazy," too unexpected, or post something no one wanted to see. HOWEVER- I didn't make this for ANYONE BUT ME. My posts can be manic, short, repetitive, etc. It's MY DIARY. This is MINE AND NO ONE CAN TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME. I will be posting more often. I will be posting possibly for days in a row filled with chaotic babble. However, it's me and it's real. I am the one in control of my actions and until I die, I will do whatever the fuck I want. It's my life, my blog, my diary. I'm allowed to be selfish and possessive when it's about something I own.

[rayssion]

TSATS, Finally!!

This's a very long post guys...

Idk if I have a natural ability to ignore responsibilities or I'm just genuinely not good at keeping promises. But yes, finally the long awaited review of tsats is here.

So, the general rating for me is 3.5, which is... Really good, considering the book,,

Now you know, points to talk about:

Firstly guys I want to tell you that, unfortunately the sun and the star had me run into a deep reading slumber, which is something I never expected it to happen. Idk if you noticed this but my favourite character in whole Riordanverse is Nico! And Will comes closely after him, so I thought tsats would only be a fast run to me, it's basically a solangelo fanfic just written by the original author. But as I ran the first 100 pages I found myself drained, I was bored, I was tired and we really weren't going anywhere. It was a displayer of Nico and Will's love for each other, and I'm sorry to be that person but!! I dislike it when the ship is just out there living and laughing like I'm sorry but I need them to suffer first then some smiles and laughs at the end would do (insert some offended face).

Yeah, let's talk real. I know we had to go through that introduction to know where exactly the two of them stand in their relationship to be able to observe the change and development later on, but it was very repetitive.

Nico is made from darkness, Nico had so much darkness, Nico lives in the shadows, Nico doesn't think he deserves love, Nico doubts Will's love, Nico feels he's not enough for Will. It all goes in circles and I didn't like it. Nico I know you're emo and such but I just think the narration focused too much in it on expense of getting good Will expressing.

And this coming from a big Nico di Angelo lover, I feel like we don't quite exactly know Will even after this whole book, there's yet so much to unfold about him, his mother, his life at camp, his feelings after all toa happened like his father was a teenager just like him and was the biggest loser ever (lol, I just love Lester), how come we didn't discuss that? Nico is a character we all know, we lived with him, we experienced every feeling he went through, he wasn't new to us which is not the case with Will. What's the difference between us and the troglodytes? All we know that he's a son of Apollo, a healer and Nico's glow-in-the-dark boyfriend.

I just felt the need to summarise because I felt that what I wrote could be compromised in better wording: the narration was too repetitive and too focused on Nico and his dark past™ which is not necessarily a bad thing but I just feel it'd be better if cut it a bit shorter and clear the stage for Will, because -surprise surprise- Will also has some dark parts (although not much like Nico, and yes I know the book touches the topic later on but it'd have been way better if we were introduced to it from the start thus it'd grow on us and would be very convenient later on. Tbh the book just goes "oh, Will also got a dark side, he must share it with Nico..." But what I'm saying is, we never were exposed to it, what's the darkness within Will? Those pigeons? His mother performing and him staying backstage? I feel like we could explore it much better) anyways, it'd also be really great if we got to experience Nico's dark past yet from Will's point of view more often, that way the whole communication arc would be better, because we will know that Will already had a solid image of Nico in his head (yes his lovely little emo boy with miserable history but we'll get to know what he knows about the Nico and also the flaws he had picked up in him) and as the time goes we'll get to experience that image altering.

I know someone will think "but it's a Nico di Angelo adventure!" Yes I know, but don't you think getting to know Nico, our adored character, from his boyfriend perspective would be much interesting? Come on guys, see the potential.

Let's rewind a little bit, so 100 pages, I'm bored I stopped reading for three days then picked the book yet again and..... Stopped after 50 pages ;-;

I'M SORRY BUT I REALLY WASN'T FEELING THE VIBES OKAY I KNOW IT'S TOTALLY MY FAULT AND I'M SORRY GUYS.

And picked the book for the last time today and finished it.

Oh yes, another thing that felt off for me is how Chiron and Dionysus are portrayed here, idk they felt so out of character and the whole "dO wE hUg nOw?" I'm sorry, that was cringe, dw it's on me guys.

And there were points where the writing was so inconsistent, I never read anything of Oshiro's work before, but it's so painfully obvious when his and Rick's writing styles clashes (ugly clashes) that it makes the book really obviously written by more than one author, and other points where idk if Rick is trying water down his style or Oshiro is trying to level the work up to the satire and sarcasm Riordan's books are known for. Anyways, it could use some editing (and it's definitely edited but not enough to mask every hole, because if a dumb person like me speed reading the book was able to pick all that then it's obviously not enough).

Also Nyx was stupid. Yes, that's my statement. Iget it you refuse to change but I hate how dumb her plan was. First of all, why leave Bob without guard? I mean you obviously have better chances in luring Nico and maybe killing Will if they don't have a Titan with them?? But yeah this's not about her.

I also hated we lost originality here, I already told you guys it read like a fanfic, but it really was a fanfic, every fanservice they could include they did include. For example the Hades allowing Bianca and Maria to talk to Nico once again, look I'm not complaining (as you'll read later) but really WHAT THE FUCK??! Weren't they reincarnated or whatever? How the fuck is that possible?

Also isn't Tartarus like, beyond the powers of the gods?? Then how is Hades going to retrieve whoever-was-his-name-centaure-satyr out of it? And just because Nico asked nicely?

Another thing, I know that you can issue a quest (just like what Percy and Annabeth did to rescue Grover in SOM, and like what Ares did in SON) but how the fuck do you send a prophecy?? Isn't this also too much of a godly power? Like Apollo (the god of prophecy himself) stated that they're way above him then how can Hades send one???

So we mentioned the narration, we've done the character portrial that I didn't like, now we're off to good stuff!

A big point! A huge point! For solangelo's relationship, I loved how they often had fights, disagreed with each other, hid things from one another, had miscommunication yet still managed to figure it out as mature humans whom are much better than half of adults nation. I loved how quickly one apologise once they realise they were wrong, I loved how they stayed by each other's side and how they supported each other, like bro it seems like they can't stay angry at each other more than five seconds and I love for it!

This's actually Rick's trademark (along with having Percy in everything he writes) that he always sets a good example for kids, younger audience who read his books have a good exposure to an excellent functional relationship not like some other booktok authors whom I'm not naming (totally not about you Colleen Hoover, you do you honey🙂).

Hiss-magisty and oh boy how much I love them! They were so cute I really liked how they looked up to Will, especially that the boy needed such encouragement because of the whole child of Apollo, underworld, tartarus things going on. And yet another point to tsats for representation (never forgetting Epiales).

Nico, Hades, Maria, Bianca!! You just have to love them!! They're literally my favourite family in the whole Riordanverse, yes I'm so madly in love with Sally and yes I love Percy but the Hades/di Angelo family?? That's where my discussion ends.

And speaking about family, can we have a moment of appreciation for Persephone like I truly loved her back from mythology (which I know nothing about, like she's Hades wife, that's it, yet I still loved her because she seemed nice, and she's nice!) This whole journey won't be if not for her, girl single handedly opened Will's eyes and her love for Nico??? Told you that's my family right there.

Lol I just remembered when Demeter was lecturing Persephone for not marrying a doctor and now I just know she loves solangelo, so yeah even grandma is an icon, I stan by it, that's my family.

Okay I also wanted to talk about the concept of grief and ptsd and how it was represented. This actually deserves a major applause because that's really how you write a good deep psychological analysis of losing someone and having to cop with it, especially that part when Nico tells how he just shunned all his memories away, how in his mind Jason just went to a quest and someday he'll return to camp half-blood as if nothing happened, because surprisingly it's the same method my brain took when my mother died, it's like all these years had been deleted and I was just brought to world after her passing, a lot of times I try to remember some particular incident from the time but I just can't wrap my mind about it, sometimes I became alert because for a minute there I couldn't recall her name, it was like all the pain associated with her just disappeared, it is locked far away in my brain and I still can't get access to it. So yeah, away from this pity party, I love how it was represented here, with Nico really suffering the trauma and how he eventually learned to let it go. (I cried at that mention and also when he was reunited with his family for that little amount of time).

Can we name the cocoa puffs?? Because I just adore them so much and I feel like Nico and Will will name them such cute adorable names and I can't stop thinking about that. Lol, percabeth are yet to get engaged then married and solangelo already has kids.

Ps actually but the pet names??? OMG NOTHING SWAYS MY HEART LIKE PET NAMES. I was pretty much hooked when I read "Noble McSacrifice" SSKFHIDJ

Another ps. I liked the whole Gorgyra thing as a way to show us their memories like a breeze amidst the flames every couple of chapters. At first I was like "wtf is this, did it happen or is it gonna happen or is this an alternate universe??" Don't blame me I was sleepy.

Yet another ps. I hated the "DREAM SEQUENCE" that just comes in the middle, like bro the boy just went to sleep of course I'd know this's a dream no need to point it out every time it was so annoying.

I think I covered all of the points I wanted to talk about, I was going to say "yay, first review with me having actual time to write it and think it through!" Yet auntie barged in in the middle and everything seems all over the place now.

It's like a characteristic in me now, heh. But yeah, sorry for the long wait, sorry for this shitty review, but bear with me please.

I totally adored this book once I figured out how to keep up with it ").

I'm yet to read a bunch of books all by Rick, hopefully I'll start with the chalice of the gods and come for a quick chat later.

Until then, eat, sleep and take care of yourselves♡!!

[northadawn]

2024 was...something.

Hi everyone, I'm still Northa. By now, it's already 2025 for all of us, so I would like to greet all of you reading this a Happy New Year! I hope that we can all make 2025 a better year than 2024. Before I close the curtain on 2024, I wanted to give a rundown on what happened during 2024 in regards to my art, and my personal wellbeing.

1. (Almost) no art, but still a decent year

It's been a slow year from my end when it comes to new art, but I'll dive into why this is the case later. If you believe DeviantArt's statistics feature, over the course of the year, I have gained 484.94K views across all my work (although to be honest, most of those is from my short writing piece Party, which won a Daily Deviation), gained 124 new watchers on my profile, and received 1.19K new favourites on my work. Despite me only uploading two new pieces, the previously mentioned Party and Crown Jewel, I've still been given a lot of support from you, the DeviantArt community, and I want to say thank you to everyone who came across my work in 2024. I hope that I can continue to gain your support in 2025.

I've also polished up some of my beloved older pieces to give them a new breath of life, such as Queen of the Ocean (2021), The Grandest Trio, and Down With The Sun. I've also uploaded an alternate version of OBSIDIAN, titled EXHIBITION, with the help of DeviantArt's new multiple images feature, so if you haven't already, I highly suggest checking out those pieces again to see the changes!

Lastly, two pieces of mine, Queen of the Ocean (2021) and The Grandest Trio have hit the 300-favourite mark. Hitting 300 isn't something I've imagined would happen when I first starting making these silly Titanic humanizations, so this milestone means a lot to me. Thank you so much to everyone who has went and checked out my work, and I hope that I can provide more for you soon in this year.

2. I'm making a game!

If you missed the announcement post, don't worry, I got you covered; I'm making a game! It's been something that I've always wanted to do ever since I made my first Titanic gijinka, but now that I'm enrolled in a game art and design course in university, I've decided to put what I'm being taught to some use by finally bringing my idea into life. I have a talented team behind the project, and we'll be working to try to give you guys something great. Soon enough, we'll be making social medias dedicated to the project. Until then, please read the announcement post and the FAQ for more information!

3. Life in general

To be honest, a big reason as to why I haven't really uploaded consistently in ages is because for a while, I wasn't too happy with my work as more and more people found my Olympic-class designs, and it got to the point where I kept putting new design ideas in the trash because I kept overthinking them and ended up not happy with it because I just thought people wouldn't like them as much as they did with the ones I made for Olympic and Titanic. What didn't help was the fact that throughout 2024, university commitments got in the way of my stuff here, and my mental health was almost destroyed by the time I got into my term breaks.

2024 hasn't been a great time overall when it comes to the interpersonal relationships around me, as some of you would know well if you've been around in the first half of 2024. It's one of the aspects I've set out to try and improve in 2025, along with my own personal well-being. At the very least, I avoided going to the hospital as of late, so that's a decent start. I'll do my best to get better throughout this year, and I hope you guys will too.

Thank you for your continued support, and I hope to see all of you throughout 2025!

- Northa

THERE IS STILL A VOYAGE TO EMBARK ON

[dragonmasterhiccup]

Pointing directly at his shoulders, she unknowingly did the same action as well, although it wasn't intentional that time. "You just did it! See! I was right!" She lowered her face, hiding her grin and the giggles that bubbled out from the brink she'd set in herself that wouldn't normally let her laugh so freely. It felt... nice.

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The Sand Wraith grumbled in agreement, using every ounce of his strength not to aggressively shake off the splinter from his wing - if he was even capable of doing that due to how sore it was.

Nodding lightly at his response, Freya took a deep breath in before she exhaled, trying to release all of her worries through the small action. "Yeah, it's okay... I won't forget that I have my own stuff to work on too.. I just--" She scrupled over speaking her original route of that sentence; the lines, 'I care about you..a lot' not seeming fit for her to say. It was true, she did, but there was also the reminder that said not to give away what she truly felt towards him, caging in her emotions into something portrayed as only being friendly or considered 'normal.' "..I don't want you to feel alone in this, cause you're not."

As Hiccup provided the details to what he and her father talked about, her brows started to crease, the frustration targeted at Ragnar steadily increasing. "No, no, Hiccup. You did help keep me safe. Don't you remember, I don't know...grabbing me before I could.." She stopped there, not desiring to recite the event that she'd much rather throw out of her memory.

"Yeah, but, Hiccup... I'm pretty sure dads don't throw draggers at someone who's...supposed to be their child's partner.." Freya specified the word 'supposed', reminding herself that their so-called 'relationship' wasn't real. Not one bit. That's what they agreed on, wasn't it? Act and behave in a similar manner to a genuine couple and then...call it quits once they figured themselves out enough. That's the plan.

And yet, there was a quiet and taciturn side of her that hesitantly communicated that's no longer what she wanted, that it wasn't just something she could brush off so easily anymore. What if she did want it to be real? To imagine the Chief's son returning what she felt towards him was like a distant dream she could only hope to see one day. All she could do was imagine. Because, surely, he doesn't hold the same affection to a person who plainly and openly despised him and treated him how he was called in the past: Useless.

The word left a bitter taste in her mouth. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock wasn't Useless or pathetic; she earnestly wished she could've seen that sooner.

Faintly smiling by hearing that she managed to help him, Freya took another subtle step closer, remembering to always keep some form of distance to prevent herself from doing anything she'd later regret. "Then..that makes two of us. You have no idea how much of a relief it was to have you there with me...for everything today, actually.."

Lost in the warmth of being in his embrace, she softly hummed out her answer, encouraging him to continue with what he wanted to say. She, however, did not expect for him to speak the next words her heart hastily took in. Her closed eyes opened, widening as her ears became red. The flutters were back and for a moment, she wondered if Hiccup viewed her in the same way... "..You are too, y'know.."

No, he couldn't do that to her. There was the border between them that explicitly said 'do not cross' in terms of having real feelings involved in their masquerade of a relationship. She wasn't allowed to cross over that, obviously. He was right, they hadn't even talked so kindly to one another in years. She assumed she never did, truthfully. So, remaining reticent, that's what drove her away from his arms so abruptly, stuttering to coherently respond.

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Thankfully, the next day wasn't off to such a gloomy start, due to it being the first day when Berk would begin setting up for her favorite holiday:

Snoggletog.

Freya nearly became like Ayla when the holiday was in season, jumping in place mostly all the time when she saw the snow on the ground and her most enjoyable part of it all: the lights. Whether that'd be hanging them up, or watching others do it, she absolutely loved that specific decoration. That fact stood as she practically skipped over to the forge, a bundle of string lights in her hands while Blaze carefully trotted behind her.

With intentions of going to put the lights up around that particular place, she hadn't expected to see the future Chief already in there, working. The sight immediately made her pause in her steps, staring at him puzzled. She was behind him, so it wasn't a big surprise he didn't hear her right away when she arrived. "Uhm...Hiccup? How long have you been out here? I mean...in the forge, to be exact?"

Quickly greeting Toothless, she went to stand a reasonable distance closer to his rider. Slightly tilting her head, which caused the smaller additional braid by the side of her ear to briefly follow her movements, she pointedly spoke: "You do remember everyone's starting to decorate for Snoggletog today..right? I was even gonna set some lights up around here where the space is available.." She said, as they were tangled around her now folded arms, although she didn't realize it. "I didn't think you'd be...working so early.."

He laughed with her, feigning frustration but unable to keep the smile off his face, especially when she laughed as well.

He really loved her laugh, and wanted to hear it more and more.

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His eyes found hers, a little taken back by her words, but found them comforting all the same.

"You're right. I have Toothless," he glanced at the dragon, before a grin tugged at the corner of his lips. Facing Freya again, he added, "...and I have you. Knowing that...I think it's really going to help."

He nodded, but interjected, "I--I should have seen it coming, gotten you out of the way..."

"Well, my dad's choice would be an axe, but...you have a point there..." The way she enunciated the word 'supposed' didn't go past him, and the reminder that their relationship was fake felt somewhat jarring.

They had grown closer, that was true, and today they really had to rely on each other, but even after all of that, their relationship was still fake.

He wished that wasn't the case.

It was clear in her tone, she meant that, and Hiccup felt his cheeks redden as he shyly looked away. He didn't see himself as incredible, but Freya saying that sure meant a lot.

The way she pulled herself away made him think twice, wondering if he'd crossed a line in what he said. But...he didn't think that was the case...

Maybe it was just too much, from a too intense day. "S-sorry..."

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"Huh?" Looking up, he glanced around, confused, until he realized the voice came from behind him. Turning, he set the hammer down, a smudge of ash on his cheek. His eyes lit up a bit, seeing it was Freya.

Pulling out a cloth, he wiped his hands. "Uh...I'm not sure. I... couldn't sleep, and there's a lot of orders to fill. Thought I'd come in, get a head start."

Toothless warbled a hello, smiling and leaning into Freya's touch. He followed her, tilting his head at Hiccup.

His brows furrowed. "Oh. That's today?" He thought they had a few more days before the decorations were underway. "Uh, well, you can put up the lights. I just have to get some more work in."

Let's see, this axe was almost done, just needed to be sharpened. He had some shields to build next, the wood already sanded and ready for wrapping and adding the metal details.

Seeing her staring at him, arms folded, he asked, "What? Is there...is there something wrong?"

[rockore]

Has anyone put this here yet???? Ok ahem ahem sit back and buckle up as you hear me ramble about Mac and bloo's friendship because wowzers I have a lot so say

ALRIGHT ALRIGHT. Maybe I could be remembering some points wrongly, so do tell me if that ever happens so lol

noticing a pattern where a lotta people have claimed that Mac and bloo's friendship is considered "toxic", because of how big of a jerk Bloo acts towards Mac.

Well it is true, keep in mind that according to google atleast, the most accurate definition for that term is : a friendship where one of the party gets emotionally or physically hurt/used where it becomes a burden.

Think about it, if their relationship was really a burden Mac wouldn't really be willing to even give in the effort to visit him which shows how strong their bond is!! Sure it could maybe just be excused as a strong friendship, which it is (and basically clears the entire point of their friendship being toxic too btw)

I'm gonna try to keep it as short as I can, but here's something i wanna also clear up about Bloo being the selfish one

a lotta people would also say that bloo's personality drastically changed later on, but *in my opinion* it could honestly be viewed as the other way round where Mac is the one who actually grew up and matured instead.

Try to think outside the big picture - bloo's annoying and dumb behaviour could honestly be something him and Mac would uses to do/behave as before he grew up and matured if You. Get it (hopefully this makes senseLOL)

it could be described more as bittersweet, rather than toxic since imaginary friends could not age whilst their owners? Mmhm

Also how Bloo was intentionally supposed to be Mac's playdate where they you know goof around but as Mac grows older, he simply can't relate to Bloo as much anymore.

to close this off they definitely still care about each other very dearly in the end! You can also see how Bloo would truly show more affectionate back if it wasn't for his selfishness and ego in the way everytime!

OH WAIT In the middle of writing this here are some other good points my friend bought up:

Basically the entire point of Foster's is leaving your imaginary friends there as the owners grow older and stuff but in Mac's situation he doesn't just leave Bloo like that!!! He is actually WILLING to still hang out w Bloo no matter how "different" they could be from eachother

This point is similar as the one I've mentioned above, js wanted to throw this into here aswell since it makes my point more justified :)

Ok that's enough for now YEAYYYY

[liskantope]

To be honest, while I find the intentions behind this post beautiful, I have some mixed feelings about what it's driving at.

First of all, I can't help feeling a bit annoyed that it's entirely aimed at the category of aro-ace people and ignores the existence of people who aren't aro-ace but are perpetually single, who will be even more prone to feeling like they're missing out whenever they see someone close to them getting into a relationship (mid-30's non-aro-ace here and have only been in any kind of romantic/sexual relationship for 1 year out of the past 14 while watching the majority of my friends settle down).

Secondly, the OP contains one of those messages which is very, very valid from the point of view of considering what is fair to the person it's looking out for, and what they deserve in principle, but which I'm not sure is quite fair in assessing what individual others are obligated to provide for them (especially in the phrasing of the last line "shitty that so many people do that"... okay, I would say shitty for the person left out, not necessarily shitty on the part of the new couple).

People get wrapped up in new romantic relationships at the expense of their friendships (particularly long-distance friendships) for a reason. New romantic relationships tend to come with very intense feelings that, I suspect (and maybe I'm wrong about this) will often get muddled if not acted upon quickly. Moreover, new romantic relationships tend to be between people open to something serious, like marriage or some equivalent, for which it's important to spend tons of time exclusively together to assess whether it's going in that direction; slightly older couples will often want to be in more of a hurry to assess this. Maybe I'm not using enough imagination or thinking in a sufficiently progressive fashion, but it seems to me that this is essentially the natural way of things, in much the same way that people disappearing off the social map when they have children is the natural way of things.

(Qualification: it is possible for new friendships to be like this too, and even to be very intense and quick despite being platonic. Aro-ace people can have this kind of experience too! But I think it's less commonly the way new friendships start.)

(Qualification: if on the other hand we're instead just talking about people getting into a casual sexual relationship, every word of what the OP says is quite right as far as I'm concerned.)

This has generally been the behavior I've seen when friends of mine get into relationships. It does help a lot when everyone lives in the same geographic area and already shares social circles. For instance, during grad school when my at-the-time best friend, whom I had never seen date anyone, abruptly got into a relationship, I was extremely grateful (and told him so, many times) that our friendship and frequency of hanging out wasn't affected even in the slightest. But a lot of the reason why not was that we all lived within the same few blocks, and in fact the two of them were immediately living together (well, spending every night together) upon the start of the relationship so that they had plenty of one-on-one time; it also helped also that they were both fairly extroverted, social people, that the new girlfriend and I were fast friends, etc. I recognize this as the exception rather than the norm and just don't feel particularly entitled to anything more, especially if the two friends in a relationship were to live near each other but an hour away from me.

All that said, really close friendships certainly deserve high priority and not to be shunted to the side because someone gets into a relationship, and I think it's a really wonderful thing that the writer of the OP prioritized their friendship in that way and I have to encourage everyone to find close friendships like that, to value them highly, and to treat them as highly valuable, whenever they can.

One of my closest friends I aroace, and he's talked to me about the experience of being made to feel like he's missing out on something or getting left behind in a way when his loved ones enter romantic relationships. But it really hit home for me how much he deals with and expects this recently when I started dating someone new after being single for a few months and I wanted to share.

During the months I was single, we got a lot closer and we both relied on each other more to have our needs for love fulfilled. For example, we both have physical touch as a primary love language, so we did a lot of platonic physical affection and cuddling. We became main supports in each other's lives even more than before. But the day I told my friend about my new partner and my friend met him, he seemed to kind of instantly back off a bit. He and my partner get along really, really well too. He mentioned that he didnt expect my partner and I to make the hour drive to visit him as often because "it's not like the nature of y'alls relationship". I'm having difficulty explaining, but it was apparent that my friend expected to be taking a back seat to this new relationship in my life despite the fact that I know my friend way better and that broke my heart a bit. I immediately thought, how many times has he had to deal with that? How many beloved friends has he lost to this situation? That must be so horrible to go through! I still very much consider him one of my closest supports and while I know it would never be a necessary choice I would absolutely choose him over a partner I haven't had nearly as much time with. I really want to find a way to tell him that he isn't any less of a priority to me just because I'm not single anymore and I think it's important for us alloromantics to remind our aro and aroace friends of things like that. It's even more important to stick to that statement and show them we mean it.

My aroace friends, you deserve people in your life that prioritize you and engage in the kinds of intimacy you need. You deserve just as much closeness and love as anyone else and you will find it if thats what you want. You don't deserve being put on the back burner when your loved ones get into new romantic relationships and it's really shitty that so many people do that.

[ioannemos]

oc relationships ask: Michelle/David, 3, 4 | Q/Sinclair, 4, 10, 25 | 8. Muninn/Eli , 8, 9, 21 | Sam/Christine, 20 | Christine/Muninn, 26

Michelle/David

What were their first impressions of each other? How does that compare to their impressions of each other now?

michelle of david, first meeting: he was helping a friend of hers with an art installation, so that was already a point in his favor, but then he had an extremely dry sense of humor. even in a short conversation he had markedly different views of things she had always taken for granted and while he wasn't exactly fighting with her about it he didn't seem put off or annoyed by her strong opinions. also he wasn't bad looking and didn't make jokes about her somewhat wild appearance that day (she'd been painting so she was covered in paint (no really, there was paint everywhere), her hair was falling out of its messy bun, her long-sleeved shirt was too short in the sleeves, and her leggings had been slashed from the knee down at the outer seam bc they were too constricting; she was also barefoot and not wearing any makeup or jewelry). he just... intrigued her. so she asked for his number

michelle of david, now: he is her rock, her favorite person, even funnier than she thought and he doesn't care about her appearance bc he's more interested in her mind. she can be quiet around him, which is extremely rare, and so restful... he makes her feel safe

david of michelle, first meeting: oh no another weird artist. OH DAMN SHE'S HOT. wait she's talking to me. OH DAMN SHE'S OPINIONATED. i didn't know people could have opinions about that. but i don't mind???? huh. that's weird. ...she's asking for my number??? ...okay. this'll end badly but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

david of michelle, now: she's weird and flighty bc she's kinda still waiting for people to be put off. but he's been there, he's been deliberately off-putting so people will leave him alone, and while it can be a little frustrating he just… he loves her. he loves her random conversation starters and her convictions on driving etiquette and her stark colors. he loves that she's letting him into the things that have hurt her deeply in the past and that she's letting him care for her in those times, even if it's slowly. he loves her noise and he loves her silence, he loves her high emotional states and he loves knowing how to cheer her up when she drops, he loves that she cares so much and that she doesn't care at all. she's kinda like a puzzle and he really loves that she's letting him close enough to figure her out

How would they describe each other if asked? Physically? In personality?

michelle: david is so hot, and funny, and kind… [note: anyone who has met david without being his friend would react to all three of these descriptors with confusion at best. david is pretty mid in looks, has a sense of humor as dry as the atacama, and very much minds his own business to the extent that very few people would, say, ask him to sign a petition or even a birthday card for someone in the office]

david: she's great [note: yeah, that's it]

*:･ﾟ✧

Q-Sinclair

How would they describe each other if asked? Physically? In personality?

q: g o d he's annoying. he's SO annoying. obnoxious! self-absorbed. crazy, at times. a lunatic, even [someone says something accurate but mean-spirited about sinclair] …how fast can you run bc i'm about to commit cold-blooded murder bc only i am allowed to be critical of him

sinclair: q is awesome! he can be a little bit of a drag every now and then but he's great :^) 10/10 would get stuck on a yacht with him again

What is one major difference between them?

despite how it may look at times, q does in fact think ahead

If a stranger saw them together, how would they describe their relationship?

depends on where that stranger met them, tbh...

at a Function (such as a party, a silent auction benefiting a charity, really any black-tie event) where both have to be on their best behavior? nice, impeccably dressed, well-behaved young men. probably related? maybe cousins? it's a shame the Function had to end early bc the bathroom caught fire (??) bc that stranger would've loved to have another chat with either of them… (that they were subtly insulted by one of them kicks in some time on the road home) (and if any of these people compared notes with each other later they would be mightily confused which was which bc the two of them lie periodically about who's quincy and who's sinclair (or, indeed, which of them was quincy and which of them was sacheverall. wait, i heard one of them was sinclair and another sacheverall??)) (the two have absolutely no qualms about trying to gaslight people about this)

not at a Function? they appear to be related in some way. their clothes don't match but their hair, eyes, facial structure… the only thing scarier than them speaking normally is when they speak in some kind of personal code that's english-adjacent, at least what you can hear bc they do a lot of whispering/murmuring in each other's ears. there is also definitely Something Wrong With Them. they are Plotting. a wise stranger would probably run

*:･ﾟ✧

Muninn-Eli

How do they communicate with each other? Are there any recurring phrases or gestures unique to their relationship?

their most common method of communication is emails at this point. it used to be texts but eli texted waaay too often and was distracting muninn at work so he finally was like "listen man, you can keep texting me but i'm gonna have to mute you. can you idk like email me instead" and then it was spates of emails every other day until suddenly they were like. once a month. and then every three months. and then two lines every six months. and then a h u g e email once a year, full of rambling and repeated ideas and strangely formatted. muninn suspects eli just wrote down every thought in a draft and then sent it. he has no idea what to do with it

as for phrases or gestures, they definitely did when they were kids. as adults, not so much

What is one quality they have in common?

bad at people and so, so lonely (muninn less than eli now, but for most of his life)

What is their worst memory together?

muninn's high school graduation. eli attended. eli's parents tried to be supportive but eli tested out of school at eleven. they had no reference for normal teenagers. muninn's mom attended but didn't exactly come down to earth for it. eli's parents asked what he wanted to do for a job. he still planned to become a cop, which set off his dad who hadn't wanted to come anyway and had let it be known even before that. muninn's dad started a screaming match in the middle of the gymnasium. muninn, being eighteen, participated with gusto. it didn't get to blows but it sure looked like it was going to. eli was fifteen and vanished to the buffet. it wasn't like muninn actually blamed him for not being there or expected him to stand up to muninn's dad, but at the same time it still bothered him

(years later eli referred to it obliquely and in an extremely 'ah the futility of pleasing one's parents amirite' kind of way, which rang very hollow bc as far as muninn knew eli's parents had always been proud of eli. that didn't end well either. muninn didn't talk to eli through text, email, or phone call (bc yes eli did call that time) for at least two months)

*:･ﾟ✧

Sam/Christine

What is their best memory together?

they went on a little vacation just before their wedding bc christine was getting incredibly stressed about the preparations. sam didn't tell her until they were already on the road. christine just about exploded from stress, cried a little, and once she was calm sam was like "and now you see why, right" and she agreed through more tears. sam explained that he'd already arranged for a friend of his to handle everything that christine didn't actually care about and to simplify the things she did care about so that when they got back it would all be easier for her to arrange. they had a blissful two days in a tiny cabin near a tiny lake surrounded by trees with christine's phone left in the car's glove box. sam only checked his phone once in the mornings while christine was still asleep to make sure he wasn't missing anything actually catastrophic

later they joked that they had the honeymoon before the wedding bc they didn't have time after

*:･ﾟ✧

Christine+Muninn

How would these characters react to being stuck in a small room with each other?

they would do okay i think? they would take turns freaking out and calming the other down (though muninn would deny freaking out) (and i mean, it would be mostly a silent freak out easy to deny) (the times it wasn't silent would be harder), they both have lots of stories to pass the time, and the same sense of humor so what amused one would amuse the other (shittalking idiots, basically). both also have at least some idea of how to react in emergencies (muninn from his police training, christine from sam). they'd get on each others nerves, of course, bc i think in that circumstance it would be almost impossible not to, but christine is good at soothing ruffled feathers and muninn would feel Immeasurable Guilt at the idea of making christine cry so he would pull up short of actually, y'know, hurting her even emotionally

once freed, both would def be like "thank heavens i've been SAVED can you IMAGINE what it was like stuck with THEM this whole time!" christine would be like "he MOPED and SULKED it was TERRIBLE" and muninn would be like "she was so HAPPY and CALM it was UNBEARABLE" but then they'd also drop little insider jokes that no one else got and would be like "you wouldn't understand, we have a Deep Bond now that you will never comprehend" in like. the most incomprehensible circumstances, e.g.

someone: why is muninn crocheting octopi and how do we make him stop christine: oh he'll never stop, it's part of the Pact we made someone: ?? what pact?? christine: oh, i forgot, you weren't There someone: ? christine: you wouldn't Understand

[bearpillowmonster]

Wuthering Waves

I caught up.

Coming from the guy who doesn't like Tears of the Kingdom (sees an army behind me) oh, hey. I was afraid to try anything considered like it, you know, the grindy, open-world walking, parachute and climbing simulators. That included Genshin. But if there's one thing that can change my mind about a game, it's a cute anime girl and with genshin, I can't say there were many that I was interested in, meh. So this one released and it was pizazz because I saw some good looking characters that I could want to collect, that's the mechanic after all and if I saw those then there must be plenty more.

You start out picking boy or girl, no choice on features or personality. They're just static on a background so I just picked the boy and figured I'd get romance options and partner points and junk, yeah, no, that's not what this game is. The female protag was actually the one I saw, come to find out, just couldn't tell from the way she was framed. But ok, you don't build your relationship with any one girl but there's gacha mechanics so there's bound to be one to like.

Once you pick your protag, that's it, you don't get to go back but it's generous enough to let you pick who you play as in the battlefield as well as in the overworld as long as you have them.

Right away, the gameplay is actually pretty impressive, I was blown away by how fast-paced it was and felt myself shaking my head at Breath of the Wild. Sure, you don't have anything to experiment with but it does have mechanics like levitation on certain objects, a grapple, a sensor, a camera, it's neat enough to fit very nice. Having the three in your party at a time is really beneficial and seamless, you can get combos off of each other like mad, really satisfying. Aside from playstyle, they have different weapons too. Some have guns, some have swords, some have little companions that do all the work for them but they're a good buffer because they heal.

Exp is gained more through the menu though as you get canisters to apply to your characters. Some can argue that it lets you play as your powerful ones and feed your little ones so you can play as them more often so that's neat but sometimes it feels wasted because of it, not sure how you want to feel because you do get normal exp too but it's not much. I normally gave a lot to my main, because he was in my party all the time anyway, might as well have a pillar but then I realized that going down the list depleted what level I was used to playing as and couldn't pull off as good of combos as I should've so you want to try and keep your main 3 as close as possible in stats. Make sure they each have max resonators and level those up too. There're just too many things to level up.

The graphics aren't all bad, you can set the options in the settings but there was a lot of pop-in so there was no real "view from far away" mechanic or binocucom. I wasn't really bothered. The Open-World has a good variety of fast-travel points so it never really felt like a hefty run like TOTK did, nor as empty, I always felt like there was enough variety and enemies and places to interact with and fight, it's a good world.

The stamina meter is actually pretty reasonable, you can even run up and along walls. You can climb the lip most of the time so I don't feel stuck. My only real complaint with the world is something that Zelda does better and that's side-quests. I'm always doing quests, going here or there and they usually aren't far from the next checkpoint but for one, they kind of suck. If it's not the main mission, it wasn't really worth paying attention for me, save a few, I skipped a lot of cutscenes. The way these are treated is also a bit weird because something the protag wants to talk, sometimes they're silent. I assume it's because you can choose gender but at the same time, why not commit one way or the other? There will also be little title card transitions that summarize the gaps in between like "This person went to jail." next custscene. Really weird. They've started adding characters already and so far some of those have some good stories though so I can't complain too much if they update with better quests.

But all these side-quests have to originate somewhere and it's not out in the world, it's usually at the hub or starting town which is really odd. I may pass all these places but they have no meaning to me unless I do a quest. Sometimes that quest will just be later in the story and I haven't unlocked it, which I'll get to. Other towns do exist but they're few and far between and they don't give me any quests. I think this is the part to say that it's not an MMO. It acts like an MMO, but it's not, I'm not sure that it'd run the same that way so it can be forgiven but I think that would boost the experience a tad and breathe more life into the areas that exist. Is it grindy? Well, let's talk about that.

I hate when enemies feel spongy and because attacks are constantly bringing down health rather than cold and calculated chips, I didn't feel like I was being cheated, I just felt like if I had trouble with it, it was just the level I was at.

There's actually a few different types of exp but they use different bases to level up. So we have character exp, which is fueled by those capsules I was talking about, gained from pretty much everything. Then we have weapon exp which, I'm a Kingdom Hearts nerd so of course I'm going to draw a comparison, Union Cross. You take medals and you feed them to other medals to increase the level. That's a good comparison for the gacha too, you have a few different events to choose from and it asks you who you're going after but it doesn't affect probability or really much of anything but you have a chance to win a character, not just girls either, I have this Raiden/Sephi crossover here to prove it but you're going to get a lot of items instead.

Union X often had something guaranteed in 10 or so pulls, getting 10 each time with a guaranteed rare for events. Being that this just came out, you might run out but I had enough to do it over time. I believe it holds your place and it's a chinese gacha game, let me remind you, that's what they want, but it's perfectly manageable without it.

Right now, there are 18 characters you can get, but you get 4 from the get-go and I got so far that I got a free ticket to choose one of whomever so 5 if you get that. Can I get the female protag? That remains to be seen but I'm looking into it. I honestly think to wait for more characters to appear so you can get the one you really want and be happy with but right now, I'm more or less just getting a head-start. Anyways! The last sort of exp is Union Exp, why it's called that, I don't know, there are no guilds or unions, maybe just as an 'overall' or union of everything combined, but it's basically the level of your profile and how far you are into the story. This is gained by most things, little by little. I found that I got the most doing lengthy quests, claiming rewards and getting those fast travel icons. The thing is, this is the one that it actually requires you to get in the story. I didn't even need to worry about it until I was to meet with Chixia again and enter the Grand Library for the first time.

I was Union 11. I needed 14. So, for some reason, I got really behind, really quickly. So I grinded and did some quests but some of them I was underleveled for the first time as a character so I went out and did the little stuff that I said because, like I said, all those side-quests originate in the main town and once you complete those then you're kind of lost on what to do and just have to leg until you reach that goal. I suppose it's meant to inflate playtime but I finally got to the quest and found that I was facing enemies in the 40s, which only my protag was prepared for so I had to go and grind again to upgrade everything. A very sudden spike.

I'm a bit of an item hoarder so I don't spend what I don't need to so I had the resources to level up my characters (the capsules, which don't affect Union Level) but I just saved them for when I decided what to use them on so that I was never out. If I want to do things in a timely manner, I have to use them. After I beat that boss, the next main quest has another big jump over to level 21. Now I'm familiar with MMOs staggering their main quests so that you can stay busy with side ones but when the side ones are also staggered, it gets kind of annoying.

It's also annoying to log in everytime you open the game but alt F4 to close and you can just get back in. But back to the Union Leveling. You get to 20 and it says that in order to progress you need to get this ascension thing in the form of a training quest but the enemies are over level 40, which your character is maxed out at and you need to beat this quest to level up higher. So, if you can't beat it, the only way to get stronger is to max everything else out until hopefully you get there. I was at 40, 39, and 38, weapons maxed, all resonators filled and still couldn't beat it. It's timed. And really, I was doing just about everything else without a problem aside from some of the tower, the main missions are harder than any boss you will face in the overworld because they specifically put you in that position. So how did I improve when I was literally barred from exp points?

Well, I pulled. That's right, gacha was apparently more than optional, you need it in order to get better weapons/the same ones to feed to the ones you already have. Through this, I learned the crafting and synthesis system though I don't care much for it unless it saves me the trip of fighting the same stuff over and over. The next limit wasn't nearly as tough because it more or less acts as your final main quest for the chapter so it grants you level 50 characters to play as.

I know I said this is a single player game and technically, I'm half correct. The core is indeed single player, but there's a co-op experience where you can go and grind or fight monsters or bosses, good for leveling up but you can't get any help doing quests, it's one sided. This will probably change later on but that's the base

[perplexedflower]

Debito Fluff Alphabet - [Q]uirk

Fandom: La storia della Arcana Famiglia.

Category: F/M.

Relationship: Debito x Female Reader.

Type: Fluff Alphabet.

Q) Quirk: Something he has that is beneficial to the relationship.

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While certain individuals possess a handful of specific traits and quirks that may come in handy in a romantic relationship with someone else, this isn't entirely the case for Debito: due to his rather unique and eccentric nature, it's his entire personality as a whole that helps to contribute to his relationship with you. He's known to be quite unpredictable at times and is considered by many, including yourself as a wild card, especially within the friend group you form with the other division heads in the Family. You know that this side of him is sometimes frowned upon by some, mainly because it can get him in trouble, but also because these people simply don't appreciate much being around a loose cannon such as him, never knowing what he might be about to say or do. But when it comes to you, unlike these people, you've never found this trait of his as annoying or bothersome in any way: if anything, you actually like it. Maybe this is only a point of view that can be applied to you, given you're in a relationship with him, but you think of Debito's unpredictability as beneficial. Thanks to it, your couple never falls into a boring, repetitive routine that would bore you over time, and it's instead spiced up with various, unprompted changes from time to time, which pleases both you and Debito. Obviously, he doesn't overdo it, not wanting to drown you under too much irregularity and inconsistency. But he brings into the relationship just enough of them to keep the two of you busy, to keep you entertained; a part of you suspects that this may be the manifestation of one of his insecurities, that he makes sure you won't leave him any time soon by ensuring that you remain satisfied in the relationship and that you won't ever go look elsewhere for more adventure. And even if this instinct of yours is right, he would never admit it. But he's got nothing to fear: you're not going anywhere.

Mini Scene

Standing in front of Felicità's office, I knocked on the door.

"Come in!"

I opened the door halfway and peeked my head into the room.

"Good afternoon, Felicità." I greeted her with a smile. "You wouldn't happen to have come across Debito at any point this morning, would you?"

"Oh, no, I haven't. Have you tried his bedroom?"

"Well, we took a nap in his room earlier this morning, but when I woke up he wasn't next to me anymore. I wonder where he's gone off to, and I don't even know for how long he left before I opened my eyes..."

"Oh, I see." Felicità said with a nod. "I'm sorry I can't be of any help..."

"Don't worry, it's okay. Thank you anyway."

I closed the door, letting Felicità to her paperwork, and exhaled a deep breath.

"This is gonna take a while..." I whispered to myself before I walked off.

It was no surprise I had lost Debito, this was something that happened every now and then; he would disappear, without leaving a trace, and most of the time, without informing anyone of where he was going.

And so, I repeated my exchange with Felicità with the others as I searched the manor, running into Libertà, Nova, and Dante. But none had seen him.

Defeated, I headed to the kitchen in hopes of asking Luca. But when I opened the door to the dining room, I was met with an unexpected sight: the table had been arranged for two people, two sets of silverware placed in front of each other. And as I stepped deeper into the room, the door closed on its own behind me, startling me into a jump. Before I could turn around, I felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist, an invisible pair of arms that appeared out of thin air.

"Debito?"

"Surprise, amore." He softly spoke against my cheek before kissing it. "I thought I'd invite you to lunch here in the manor since we always eat out. I had Luca help me out with the food, of course."

I gazed at the neatly set table with a smile as he held me tighter in his embrace and leaned even closer to me.

"So, Bambina, hungry?"

[away-ward]

hey, i found out your tumblr because i saw your damon & emory's relationship dynamic's ask and answered tag by you & anon > "asked and answered 54" and omg it was such a great meta! I see that you've changed your opinions about dn characters here and there quite a bit, and i'd just like to know if you still agree with your "asked and answered 54"? Or has it changed?

I also think your question about whether or not damon and emory reflects each other is pretty interesting, because while i agree that they are so similar yet so different from one another, i do know that a lot of readers still hate emory for things that damon had done way way way worse, just because she wasn't being accommodating to will. The readers' treatment of her and damon are very jarring, to say the least.

I'm personally not a fan of damon, and I dont think much about damon even after his cameos every where in the series, but since that ask and answered had involved emory, it does make me think about their history, unique dynamics and sincere friendship. Something about what you said in your closing paragraph just intrigues me, because it's true, and i never really thought of it in this angle before anon and you discuss it: Emory expected more from them, and that included Damon. But no one expected anything good from Damon, and he played into that. Sort of like “you think I’m bad, but I can be so much worse” almost? And here Emory comes, not accepting it, not playing into it. It leaves him with nothing to hide behind, and forces him to reveal a little of himself.

Hey. Thanks so much for referencing the post! That makes it so much easier to know which one you’re talking about.

For those curious: asked and answered 54

My opinions do change occasionally, but usually it’s a slight shift more than a major jump. I like to keep my mind open to other people’s interpretations, and not insist that mine is the only correct view. That can mean sometimes adjusting my view to accommodate another. However, I have wondered if I read through all of my ask replies, how much I would agree with now. I know I could probably word things better, at least.

One thing I should probably note is that I don’t like most of the characters, unless we’re talking about that character and Emory, that is. I’ve mentioned in other places that Damon’s story alone doesn’t do much for me. But pair his story up with Emory’s, and look at their possible friendship dynamics, and it’s a different ballgame.

I think for the most part, I still agree with what I said in 54, except for maybe the reflection bit. I believe there was another A&A that spoke about that, and I might have adjusted then, but I can’t remember. What I know is that for now, I’ve the idea that they were meant to be each other’s reflection on the back burner. I'm not sure that I have the skills to fully analyze what that would mean, or if there's even enough there to look at. But if someone wants to offer some thoughts on that, I’m open.

 i do know that a lot of readers still hate emory for things that damon had done way way way worse, just because she wasn't being accommodating to will. The readers' treatment of her and damon are very jarring, to say the least.

I know! Isn’t it so weird? But this goes back to readers loving unkind male leads and hating unkind female leads. Others have made the point that if Emory were a man, readers would have been all over her.

Knowing what I know now about how PD imagines their future, I’d say Damon and Emory probably don’t have the same friendship that I imagine them having. Still, I prefer to think of them this way.

I’ve found that a lot of people in the fandom have a variety of interesting thoughts and interpretations of the character’s actions. Even if I don’t agree with everything that’s said, I can usually find a point to appreciate. And I’ve enjoyed hearing their thoughts and hope that my replies haven’t annoyed too, too much.

Just for fun, here’s the ask and answered that deals with how I imagine Emory’s relationship with all the characters

Asked and Answered 46

Thanks stopping by and leaving this message. I hope if you stick around, you find something else you enjoy. But regardless, I appreciate your time. Sending warm hugs your way.

-KO