#i'm normal about them. just like they're normal about themselves

[kiarst]

little late night thought:

yandere! batfam x neglected!reader but soul eater. hc that its another universe accessible via magic.

had this idea floating around but what if neglected reader nearly died in an accident or is on the brink of death after being attacked by a criminal on their way home and when they wake up, they're in the world of soul eater. They get found, fixed up and are basically adopted. I dont know by who but I'm thinking stein or marie (pre-medusa). if reader is found by stein then reader knows he's got a few screws loose but sees he surprisingly cares about them more than the batfam did.

I don't know if they'd be a weapon or a meister but I like the idea that they're a meister with yandere weapon who they don't mind is a yandere. Dunno how they'd meet tho or what weapon or what kind of meister their partner is if reader is the weapon.

mc goes to the dwma, no knows they are stein's assistant/kid (aside from the main group who find out when they go to fight stein) or that they're from another world and think they're just the normal student who's only oddball thing is their obsessive partner and their calm behavior towards them. maybe they're also friends with the main group or smth.

Now batfam is devastated once they hear the news that mc is most likely dead and definitely missing (cuz there was no body but there was blood left at the crime scene). theyre blaming themselves and bruce is tryna find a way to bring them back. he enlists the help of everyone, including magic users. Maybe he asks constantine or zatara for help. Either way, batfam finds mc and is surprised and protective when they see them fight a kishin the day they meet again. theyre like what are you doing? you could get hurt. youre coming home with us right now and mc and her partner are like nope and dip. They know the world better than batfam so they manage to evade them for a bit before being found cuz batfam is persistent but mc has a crazy obsessive guard dog for a weapon and a (maybe and definitely) much crazier father figure. shenanigans ensue.

thoughts? feel free to take this idea and make something w it.

[sixth-light]

A few more musings on The Thing, the nature of fandom, and the future of the show

I'm not here to tell anybody what they're feeling or why they're feeling it, but for me, one of the reasons I feel very sad about Siuan is that, yeah, her book arc post-the Coup is...pretty grim taken in whole, and part of a pattern in the later series of powerful women being humiliated and forced into heteronormative boxes. But it is also an arc that had immense never-quite-realised potential - the potential for someone to be thrown from most powerful person in the world to rock bottom and come back from it in an empowering way. Even the Gareth Bryne romance had that potential buried in there, two middle-aged people who'd lost everything they'd spent their lives doing finding a joint cause and also each other. Extreme emphasis on potential, because that's not how it played out.

The show killing Siuan this way, setting aside what R2J2 has said about a plan for Siuan appearing again later in some way, is the end of any chance for the show to realise that potential - and I'm probably as sad about that as I am about Siuan's death in itself. The grief of lost possibilities is a very real thing.

The thing is also...as we get into the real meat and eventually endgame of this story, this is going to keep happening. At the start the show had a thousand places it could go with this story, once it demonstrated (in 1x04) that it was prepared to make some very radical changes in order to tell a coherent story overall. As we go on that list of possibilities is going to get whittled down faster and faster.

As fans, it's normal for us to get really attached to those possibilities - for example I was really hoping for Tuon to appear in Tanchico taking Egeanin's story, I would have loved that - and yet, lots of them will not happen. The show is one particular set of choices on how to tell the story of the Wheel of Time and it's not our choices.

I guess, in the end, what I'm saying is that over a couple of decades in fandom I've seen people really burn themselves out on fandoms because they talked themselves into believing the path they'd plotted was the only right or good way to tell the story. This is not in any way to suggest the show or this particular decision is exempt from criticism! It's more like, if you want to keep enjoying it, the only way that's going to happen is if you hold some futures lightly (unless you either have predictive powers or an incredible ability to figure out the show's plans and all the possible Doylistic roadblocks that might constrain them).

Is that compatible with fandom? Holding the future of the show lightly? Maybe not, maybe that's just the price of entry. But for me I think it's the only way the show stays fun long-term.

[pritong-baboy]

imagine a situation where Shockwave realizes that the best situation for himself and Bee is to abandon the Deception cause and becomes an Autobot JUST to have his son. He outs himself and says he'll only provide information and help if he's given a bootcamp washout as a son and the higher ups see no problem with this. It's a repair bot for a better chance at winning the war. It's near infinite information on the Decepticons for a young mech named Bumblebee. Sentinel sees no problem with this, sure they knew each other at bootcamp but the yellow bot was loud and annoying. He couldn't care less about what the Decepticon would do to him. Ultra Magnus is even more willing. The only ones who have a problem with this are the repair crew themselves and maybe some mechs that know Bee and what used to be Longarm

i'm gonna be fr, this idea is like one of my favorite spin-offs for this au lol. i'd like to think that the elite guard willingly hands bee over to shockwave, but they publically say that bee is someone that personally has to look over shockwave, hiding the fact that they're giving shockwave a "son."

also urghh, thinking about the distress that bee would face when he's inevitably told this news. but hey, at least it won't be AS bad as it would be like how i normally write them.

[starssoblue]

i need more episodes about adrien just trying new things and gradually figuring out what he wants to spend his time doing, what classes and hobbies he genuinely enjoys, and then eventually, what he'd like to pursue professionally. i never really thought about running before sublimation and while i still don't think that's actually his passion, i love that he connected the act of running to the freedom and joy he gets when he's being chat noir, running around paris saving people. one of my favorite things about adrien that a lot of people in fandom especially in fics miss is that just because he's decent or even great at several things doesn't mean he has a personal connection to that thing. in early ml he was acting in his friends' student films, playing sports to different results, fencing with his friends, participating in band, even modeling for fun. in climatiqueen, he discovered he was decent at drawing, a mess with labwork, quick with languages (no surprise there), and v new to baking—all things he could improve upon but nothing that made him feel passion. but he specified the reason he had fun trying those things wasn't the things themselves but because he was doing them with marinette, same as before when he took skills he was forced to acquire by his father and re-utilized them to hang out with his friends despite not feeling a personal connection to any of those hobbies or talents. i don't know if the show plans on him discovering this soon (they're sooooo young, i hate that he is even stressing about this just because his friends are not normal and because the french school system has most people declare their course of study in lycée) but i'm just excited to see him branch out and try new things and get the life experience he was denied when he was younger. 

and running away from the agreste manor (where he was confined and forced to be a perfect mold) as his first step toward self discovery? brilliant imagery.

[myeyebagsaredesigner]

Just a funny little thought that all the explosions and all the loudness of guns going off has made Jason a little bit a lot a bit hard of hearing. But he doesn't really realize this, because he can hear "fine", right? But the bats definitely realize.

At first, they had no clue, because Jason never hung out with them outside of patrol/work stuff when they all had comms. It's hard not to hear someone when they're right in your ear and yelling from adrenaline.

But then he starts visiting the manor and they can't seem to get his attention by speaking at a normal volume and end up having to repeat themselves/raise their voices multiple times before he hears them. So they just are basically speaking in a soft yell whenever they talk to Jason.

But sometimes it's too loud and Jason's like: "What'd I do? Why're you mad at me this time? What are you yelling at me for?" And the bats try to explain but he gets all upset and leaves because he's "always doing something wrong".

OR reverse it a little

Jason cannot hear himself when he speaks, therefor is either speaking too low or too loud without realizing. Everyone either thinks he's mad or upset- there's no in between.

When he speaks too low, the bats think something happened and for some reason Jason is sad, and they do their best to coddle him and Jason is just like: "?? I'm just here drinking my tea?"

And then when he's not "upset", they think he's angry all the time. Y'know, "the angry Robin". So he's constantly yelling at them while he thinks he's speaking fine, but then all the bats start tensing up and preparing themselves because they think he's about to start a fight or do SOMETHING-

He eventually realizes and gets hearing aids lol

[tawked]

I kinda wish more versions of Batman embraced his mental illness in a more, I don't know, neutral or literal way.

If you accept Batman as mentally ill throughout the 1980s - 2000s as many writers working on him (Miller, O'Neil, Dixon, Moore, Morrison, others I don't care about) would often imply then there's kind of an element of... How to put this.

His mental illness is kind of supercrip adjacent in that his ability to be obsessive is framed as core to his detective methods and is a part of his whole "Batman's superpower is determination" metafictional conceit. It's giving Aspie Supremacy. But his mental illness is also written as informing pretty much every single social conflict he has, this idea that, like an autistic stereotype, he is absolutely emotionally unavailable in the sense of being unable to comprehend other's emotional needs or realities, or being so focused on his own perspective and trauma that he (contradicting the very reasons he adopted Dick Grayson and Jason Todd!) cannot understand when Dick is upset about shit.

It's kinda like Monk.

Except instead of touching every doorknob six times or whatever, he's just a real asshole to everybody all the time lol.

There's potentially something extremely relatable about Robin as an Emotional Support Child that people with disabled, especially mentally ill, parents might be able to extract something meaningful from. There's an inherent complex inversion of many parent-child roles in that. That Dick Grayson chooses to leave and live his own life in his platonic polycule with his hot alien ladywife is honestly extremely relatable and potentially a real statement about the raw emotional weight of needing to support an adult who, by normalized social roles, has all this power over you, while you attempt to keep them from falling apart on a nightly basis.

I'm not really interested in Tim Drake because I thought his earliest stories were racist garbage written by a man who, caaaan yoooou believe it, went on to work with an actual real neo nazi on an explicitly branded-as-alt-right superhero line. Wow! What a shock! lol I also just haven't read his modern stuff. idk, Neutral with Tim Nation, do not want to fight, but I say this to say he is not for me in canon --

But Tim Drake especially had the potential to really be interesting in this role if this theme were appropriately explored. You have his support of Batman as a mentally ill adult man and his support of his father as a physically disabled adult man, in relationships intentionally designed to parallel. He knows Barbara while she's dealing with the trauma of acquired disability during an arc where she learns to be comfortable in her own body and re-enters society, paralleling a hypothetical better version of Harold as a disabled man born with his condition and who thus has no concept of self as able-bodied who has totally and absolutely retreated from society.

You have Tim paralleling Dick Grayson, the boy who walked away, Jason, the boy was about to but didn't have the chance, and himself, the boy who just walked in, all in complex child-as-carer roles.

There so much potential here it's like watching people fumble a ball that's practically glued to their hands bro.

But the people who write this shit often don't really have any inroads into communities and, being Americans, likely experience mental illness themselves in that very American atomized "it's not a disability, it's something different" way. Y'know, they're isolated from any form of disability cultural concepts. It's a cool concept that the writers of the time simply did not have the tools or understanding to build anything from. Y'know, Barbara's arc is amazing and one of the best in superhero comics, but at times it does feel like the writers are saying "okay, yes, no leggies is sad, but like just be happy instead you big floppy bitch" lol. Harold in general, oh my god, Harold. I love Harold and they shouldn't have done that. They shouldn't have done my boy like that.

[epaulando]

Consider the hairpin turn.

[nhura]

QUICK NO ONE'S LOOKING

(See readmore for thoughts, cope, bonus, etc.)

Anyone else up thinking about Ratio's big, strong, secure arms and how warm and all-consuming they could be in a hug or embrace. :/ Anyway

I just wanted to draw them being cute and seizing a sliver of a moment where they could have some PDA silly time without actually having any eyes on them. They're public figures and working adults with very clear boundaries between public persona and private life (to varying degrees of "in a sad way"), so while it may be in Aventurine's nature to constantly blur lines for various agendas and self-preservation (read: play "the flirt" without an aligned goal), I believe that in an actual relationship they'd be fairly private.

It's kind of fun to break your own rules, though! Ratio would be more upset about the consequences, though. He's a little bit of a hypocrite, which is devastating for someone of such discipline, but nobody's perfect.

I'm of the mentality of, "If you're tired of working on it, then just post it!", so here are some fun peripherals that I didn't feel like adding:

Some staff in the background sweeping up to evoke a blended sense of fragile privacy and liminal time.

A laptop on the aquarium/bar/counter because there's something fascinating about seeing people on their work laptops in public.

The rest of their clothes (casual friday)

[moe-broey]

LAST MINUTE CYL Sharena propaganda, that... ended up being too last minute. Whoops! Well. I'm happy to have them, for any occasion. 😌💕

This is a redraw of one of my fave anniversary arts! The 4th anniversary one! With some slight changes, and focused on Sharena and Alfonse, themselves (I did debate drawing my Summoner in the corner, like in that artwork, but.... no..... I just..... need to focus on Them....)

That said, I have a few other doodles too!

Oooughhfjhhhhghhhhhhhgghhhfff........, the. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 Yeagh 👍

I also wanted to include the 4th anniversary art for comparison! Under a cut! But also chances are you can just. Go to my blog and See It LMFAOO 🧍

It maybe would have been nice to include the cute background too........ but you can't make me. NUMBER #1 HATER OF BACKGROUNDS 🚫🚫🚫😤😤😤😤😤💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[alongtidesoflight]

i swear my stepdad is so illogical AND stubborn it hurts

[blujayonthewing]

9, 10 and 17 for Aubree!!

9. How do they fare in cold or hot climates, and which do they prefer?

She's from a moderately warm climate, so she definitely prefers that to being cold! That said, she's thick and hardy, so actually the worst thing about a cold climate would be having to wear BOOTS

10. Share a sentence of dialogue from your OC that you think represents them well.

‘Here’s my advice: when someone thinks the worst of you, you prove them wrong.��� <- unbeknownst to me until way after the fact, this whole conversation changed the trajectory of an entire arc by setting an NPC who had abandoned hope and was set to betray his friends on a path of redemption instead, and I have So Many Feelings about it

17. What are three moments in their life that impacted your OC the most?

1) big fight with that fucking prick Roscoe at the Cricket, and the even bigger fallout with her family afterwards; 2) offering to investigate the strange noises in the manor just outside the town of Storm Ridge, a choice which ultimately led directly to her death, and to the strange resurrection(s) that followed-- the ramifications of which we're still untangling; 3) encountering Herself, brought to life by the lich that killed her, and finally understanding the full weight of what that means

ask about my OCs! :D

[616nightcrawler]

its really fucking hard to explain to cis women why "fems only" kind of events and spaces are only safe spaces for them. yes even the ones that pretend to be trans-inclusive. like its just incredibly obvious when i bring up my gripes with them on account of being a trans person who cares about the strife of my fellow trans people that they only care about their own momentary comfort and it's really exhausting and sad

[torchickentacos]

The pokemon anime subreddit fascinates and frustrates me on equally deep levels

[selfship-confession-box]

to be quite honest. shipping with CANON (not headcanoned) exclusively gay/lesbian characters as someone of the gender they are explicitly not attracted to is a form of erasure and lowkey homophobic. 'just make them bi' is a bad take. bi people are amazing and valid but not everyone is bisexual??? 'theyre not real' is a bad take bc representation matters and i feel like that doesnt really need to be said. obviously the character isnt real and isnt offended but gay/lesbian selfshippers can see how much you dont gaf abt their identities. gay people exist in real life too!!! homophobia is still so acceptable in fandom spaces and its kinda wild.

Actually this one gets to skip the queue because we just had another anon push their luck about this. I WAS originally going to leave this in queue but now feels like a better time to nip this in the bud.

This is the LAST thing I'm saying about this topic because frankly it's the majority of what we've been getting recently and it's exhausting. All future asks about this topic WILL be deleted. AS STATED ABOVE. DO WHAT YOU WANT FOREVER. YOUR EXPERIENCE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE.

TAKING POTSHOTS AT EACH OTHER IS NOT A CONFESSION.

THAT'S CALLED BEING AN ASSHOLE.

k thanks bye

[mayomkun]

Finally done with teen wolf rewatch. Phew

[cathymee]

we're all wasting our time the earth should just explode soon <3