#in fanon/fic

[unsiredtribrid]

this intro clip is so crazy to me for two reasons

the first reason is like…? what Lizzie said is not even true here 😭 Hope literally jumped into malivore and erased herself from existence thinking she would die just because she wanted to save her friends (ALL of them, including Lizzie, as she said on the phone)

a huge part of her brute forcing her way through the monsters and eventually killing her own boyfriend to save the day is because she wants to feel ‘worthy’ enough of her family’s fucked up expectations that she would redeem the mikaelsons. Hope literally killed her boyfriend for Lizzie while Lizzie was off sleeping with someone (Josie too! they both fucked up and let Hope down, but at least Josie felt bad about it) after they both promised she wouldn’t have to face malivore without them���

i get this line was before that occurred but my point still stands because it’s true lol. hope had rare moments of selfishness and people acted like it was insane but it wasn’t because of COURSE Hope was going to crack and do something selfish at least a couple times when most of her screentime is doing shit for everyone else or bending over backwards to forgive them for things or overlook them, Landon and Lizzie included. like it’s endlessly ironic to me that people hate that Hope forgave Josie burning her room on accident but then they don’t care that Hope forgave Lizzie for bullying her long before the fire/the lie. the double standard skskskdj

the second reason this clip is crazy to me is because Hope is blaming Lizzie for Josie going dark which is petty and fucked up and kind of just hilarious 😭 like I’m sorry but Hope is the most delusional pro Josie stan there is and she outdoes the hosie fandom. because this comment wasn’t even really completely TRUE. Josie went dark because she was groomed and then did dark magic to save Lizzie from the oni, then put it into the mora miserium, then broke the more miserium to save both herself and her family from the PW. Like it is technically true that a lot of the dark magic in the sandclock is from saving Lizzie’s life, but that’s not even a bad thing because she should WANT to save her sister’s life. So Hope using it as a blow is basically her saying Lizzie’s life is dispensable and she might’ve preferred Josie to just let Lizzie die to keep herself from going dark. That’s sooooo fucking low, omg. It’s like actually fucked up and yet this isn’t the part Lizzie fans talk about 😭 It’s things like the first part where people say Hope was self centered at times it's actually kind of unfair to say that

[sideeve]

arkham knight!jason who watched you for months before the cloudburst. you catch his attention as he tried to get familiar with Gotham after he left the asylum. maybe it was the way your hips swayed flawlessly as you walked or the way your breasts jiggled. whatever it was made him enamored.

arkham knight!jason who takes you in secretly. he feared that if scarecrow knew about you, you would become his test subject to his fear toxin. he keeps you in his bunker, bringing you the necessities.

you got comfortable with arkham knight!jason after a while. he even showed you the person under the mask when he was sure you weren’t a threat. on calm night, he’d strip down into nothing but his boxers, cuddling you as he stroked your hair whispering apologies for taking you.

arkham knight!jason was quick to fuck you through his mattress. your face was pushed into the pillow as his large hands held your hips up, helping him hit your spot at a better angle.

arkham knight!jason who fucked you so good you didn’t even think about leaving him. his cock hit your sensitive walls too beautifully for you to threaten him of escaping. his tongue was too skilled for you to even utter the words for leaving him. he made sure of it.

taglist ;; @worldsgreatestsinner

[radioactive-earthshine]

Lots of fanon concepts haunt me but none do it more like "no metas in Gotham" bc this is not only 1.) false 2.) it was a concept for an elseworld's comic 3.) Bruce didn't say it 4.) do you really really think Batman has the authority to outright BAN an entire people from a city? and 5.) Duke.

[toobytoobs]

I need a fic where all the magic users know that the Champion of Magic is a child so they just start unintentionally co-parenting Billy.

Like, John Constantine will take him on outings to hell. Billy will run off and come back with a piece of Constantine’s soul that had been gambled away and Billy will refuse to explain how he got it.

Dr. Fate (against his better judgment) sets up a playdate between Billy and Klarion the Witch Boy where they are just running around causing chaos (nothing harmful thanks to Billy)

Zatanna lets Billy come to her shows where he’s putting every other audience member to shame with how loud he claps and cheers whenever Zatanna does a trick.

Give me a scenario where magic users are regularly teleporting into the watchtower just to give Captain Marvel a packed lunch, and telling him off —in front of the JL— for forgetting it.

[charlie-artlie]

Bonnie in the real world 💖

[mebumy]

I'M REALLY MAKING IT OMG!! That's the first scene I have for the animatic. It's being so funny to make it! I really enjoy drawing the scenes, but my favorite part of all this so far is the editing, I'm not going to lie.

Just wanted to see what would work better with the editing program. I really really like it so far. XD

[fkapommel]

I love seeing tlt fanart where gideon and Harrow have piercings bc its begs the q - how did they get them? We know harrow has some in her ears that she jams bones into (aka bone gauges). I dont think she would let ANYONE touch her intimately enough to give her piercings as a kid, except maybe her father or mother, esp if it was ritual. Baby nunlet couldve sat in front of a cloudy mirror and done it herself. Gideon, on the other hand?? That bitch is soo touch starved. I can see them as little kids where Gideon asks Harrow to pierce her ears like her parents did hers, one because itd look cool and two bc she'd have Harrows full attention. Getting Harrow excited and disgusted at the same time - being so close to Gideon, touching her, being the source of her pain, exacting pain on a subordinate that she herself suffered. The only real question is: how did their piercings not infect?? Those bitches DO NOT care about germ theory

[meta-squash]

I think of all the popular Torchwood fanon characterisation tropes, one of the ones that frustrates me the most is the general characterisation that Owen's bedside manner is terrible.

Because from what we see in canon, Owen's bedside manner is actually fantastic. He's rude and a prick and spiky in all other aspects of his job at Torchwood. But all the times we see him in "doctor mode" in canon, he's completely concentrated on his responsibility and tasks as a doctor. He gauges his patients' stress level and personality and adjusts to make them most comfortable. For example, when he's extracting the bullets from Gwen's side in Countrycide, he banters/flirts with her, because he knows that's how to keep her mind off the pain. When he's running the mind probe in Sleeper or examining Tommy in TTLM, he's more clinical, but still 100% focused on the patient. He and Henry have (in the full uncut scene) a long very human philosophical conversation where Owen is so attentive to both the monitoring machines and what the old man is saying, and then he's completely devastated when he can't save Henry with CPR because of his undead state and having no breath. In Meat, he's so sensitive to the pain the creature is in; in Dead Man Walking, he's casual with Jamie because Jamie is casual first, but it's obvious that he really does care.

I think that's part of why Owen is so interesting. He's an asshole so much of the time, but he's also someone who really really cares about the wellbeing of others. Before Katie's death, he was a respected doctor, and good at his job, and I don't think that part of him changed, really. I think when he's just himself, Owen Harper, he's angry and anxious and vulnerable and grief-stricken and it makes him an asshole as he tries to shield himself. But when he's Doctor Owen Harper, he's focused and caring and very very good at his job.

Emotionally and psychologically, he's a goddamn mess, but I think when he's in the role of healer, of helper, of caregiver, he's in it 100%.

[httpsawesome]

Is it canon or fanon that Harry's apartment is trashed completely and it needs a deep cleaning basically as soon as he gets back to Jamrock?

[awaywithjay]

Other than it being bad, the ending of superantural has also fucked up my relationship to destiel fic because the only thing I wanna read now is widower era dean with cas coming back from the empty years after he died

There's just something so captivating about the idea of dean only figuring out cas was the love of his life and already functionally his partner after he dies and taking up a widower role in a new community with people who never knew any different.

and cas coming back only to realize that dean's whole perception of reality has shifted in the time he's been gone

I could chew on this premise forever

[erinwantstowrite]

people underestimate how close tim and dick are and it is driving me NUTS

you get me oh my god,,, alighterwood and i talk about this ALL the time

like, i do love the dynamics between jason and damian and the rest of the bats!! do not get me wrong, i think they have lots of potential and the writers did us dirty in some cases. it's fun to explore them. however, tim and dick's brother relationship is so impactful to the entire story between them that it's insane no one talks about it more? or practically no one??

tim learned their identities through dick grayson, robin, not batman. he looks up to both of them but robin was his hero. when jason died and tim knew something needed to be done, he went to dick first above all else (technically, he went back to the circus). he trusted that nightwing (his robin) would be able to do something about it. he wasn't aware of just how deep dick and bruce's fight went but he knew who to go to about it. dick brought him back to the manor and tim became robin because of it. he was involved in tim's time as robin, he was the person that tim could go to about his insecurities, he was the one that tim went to about his relationship/family/friendship/life problems. he learned how to be the hero he is because of dick (and bruce, but this is about him and dick).

they were brothers before jason came back, before damian, before tim even met steph, etc. when tim was, in fact, going a little crazy (even if he was RIGHT, that doesn't mean he wasn't losing his mind at least a little bit, Tim Stans) about bruce being alive, dick was WORRIED about him!! because that's his brother!! he didn't threaten to send tim to arkham, he wasn't even the one who planned to give damian robin!! dick picked up the batman mantle because he felt there was no other choice (do not get me started on how gotham does not actually need BATMAN, but his spirit) and with that came the responsibility of looking after BOTH of his brothers. brothers. not children. dick can do a lot of things but he is not infallible. it was a shitty situation and it does not soley reside on his shoulders. tim had a right to feel hurt that no one was listening to him, but... y'all. he dropped out of school, he was kind of going off the deep end with how many other people died in his life around that time (his BEST FRIENDS) so of course dick was like "hey dude..."

tim is the closest to dick in the family, he looks up to dick as if he IS infallible in a lot of ways. that's his BIG BROTHER and also his personal hero. his favorite person. and dick cares about him just as much

can you tell alighterwood and i have such strong feelings about this?

[goldenroseeon]

I enjoy skizzpulse, but I personally enjoy seeing them platonic mainly.

And this is of course just me spit balling, but there's something so... Reductive? Of just calling them romantically involved and moving on.

I mean, an angel and a demon, so very much different, complete opposites, together since the beginning of time.

From an angel's threat of falling, of being called a traitor from the demons, they look past it and find each other, choosing each other.

They were not made for each other, not even made to be touched, but they rewrite the world in order to be together.

And when you see them now, arms slung over each other, it seems like an immutable fact that they were meant to be together.

A time where they weren't seems almost unfathomable.

It sounds so romantic, so undeniably made for romance.

And yet, for them to follow the thoughts of others, for them to betray everything they've known just to follow one step seems out of place.

It feels like a final betrayal of everyone's expectations, to do all of this and feel all this love for each other and remain friends.

Not brothers, not partners, but friends.

Companions.

Buddies.

[cairoscene]

Brian David Gilbert on Sad Boyz

feels fandom relevant.

[ID: A series of screen captures of Brian David Gilbert speaking on a podcast: "The thing that you invest your time in can feel so important to your identity that occasionally you feel, like, you need to close it off from other people in order to keep it safe. And I think that's where a lot of nerd culture, all that gatekeeping stuff, all of the toxicity stems from that thing where it's like, "In high school I didn't have a lot of friends or connect with a lot of people, but I did have this comic book, and now this comic book is super popular, but these people don't like me. That must be because they're not real fans."" End ID]

[siriuslynettey]

Sirius asks Lily to come to the boys’ dormitory to give him advice about a dream he had…

Lily: So why exactly are you so worried?

Sirius: I don’t know, I had a dream where I cheated on Remus, and it’s freaking me out.

Lily: They’re just dreams Sirius, maybe it’s your subconscious telling you that you need to spend more time together.

James: Or, maybe we need to take these dreams literally…have you found yourself sleep walking recently? Waking up in places you didn’t fall asleep in?

Lily: *cackles* Are you suggesting Sirius has been sleep-cheating?

James: …I don’t know…just asking the questions no one else seems to be asking…*slowly walks a circle around Sirius*

Sirius: *scoffs* "I don’t sleepwalk, and I’ve never cheated—nor would I."

James: Well dream-Sirius seems to be a cheater…

Lily: Okay, no more input from James. Again Sirius, they’re probably just reflections of real life stress. Have you and Remus been fighting at all?

Sirius: No, our relationship is better than ever!

James: So then WHY did you CHEAT on him!?!?!

Sirius: I DON’T KNOW!!

Lily: NOBODY CHEATED ON ANYBODY!!!

[miaiminnis]

give me something pretty to wear beneath my bloodstained clothes

darling, the devil knows my name 🥀🗝️🦩🗡️💃

[beescake]

PLEASE PLEASE MEGADUMP THE ARASOL!!! PLEAAASEE MR BEESCAKE I AM ON MY KNEES BEGGING YOU

HFHGHD GLADLY aaa i’ve been adding notes to it here and there for months but just hesitant to post it bcs im 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂

also this is just my own takeaway of the events, it doesn’t necessarily comply to the Ultimate Truth of Canon-Alignment or represent the actual facts of what hussie intended! v sentimental smh but hopefully its still interesting to read

i love when characters inform each other by proximity, it's one of my fave things to see in media :') it feels even more significant when two characters deliberately choose to stick together, so that when one operates, you can tell the other is similarly aligned in associative solidarity.

sollux is a keystone of this trope — whoever he aligns with is a wordless statement, a nod of approval. this stood out to me bcs the main four humans were alr friends by default, but once you reach hivebent you realize the trolls can actively choose who they want to hang out with.

and as we all know, after assessing every troll's biases/loyalties, sollux is the only one who maintains his selective preference for innately Good 👍 people.

aradia is such a beautiful character honestly, she evokes such incredible feelings in me. she might not have been consistently written with care but the best parts of her character are truly stunning. i think it's easy to remember sollux as the self-sacrificing one bc he's so open about it (and his friends frequently react to his Moments) but when you compare him to aradia, it's always struck me

how much more. raw it is

to be so alone as an agent of time, having to orchestrate immeasurably harrowing events nobody understands or gives a fuck about

with your role painted in the story as one who must tend to the needs of the narrative, responsible to match every next note

because when you're given the capabilities, it becomes your duty to carry it out.

it becomes expected of you to keep experimenting and arranging the machinations to work for everyone, dusting off hundreds of necessary failures to keep going

and having to be so unwavering in your drive knowing miserably that there's no one who can help you but yourself.

or alternatively: to make things fun! so other people won't think twice about letting you go off on your own.

sure she's had some very good buds, notably thanks to Team Charge v Team Scourge antics.

and yet, at the end of the day, the one friend that kept choosing her time and time again was the friend with the highest standards.

i can see why people like to define arasol as moirails/matesprits but surprisingly i find the nondescript, unlabeled aspect of their relationship more straightforward to understand.

there's no shortage of people who would accommodate sollux. most of the surviving trolls are his oldest friends bcs he’d chosen them well. his transparency with his feelings had built him strong friendships that won’t falter or break, regardless of how much of a dick he can be. they’ve already seen and accepted him at his worst, and they still like him for who he is.

contrast that with aradia, who'd been so approachable, friendly and reliable in her exchanges it was super fun to talk to her. but the moment she became depressed, all her connections broke down.

her friends became hesitant to interact with her (until she became god tier, “happy” and amicable again) because her gloom and resignation didn’t serve them. she dealt with it alone.

there’s def something of note here abt the disparity between the way male & female characters are written+perceived in homestuck (esp parallel arasol with davejade) but i won’t go into that lmaoo

with this in mind i like to think of sollux as a gift to her, a loyal companion given to complement and commend her resolve. she's capable of doing so much alone but hussie took the time to build her and sollux's relationship as one of a unit; a set.

the ambiguity of their status does complicate things, but i do believe it makes sense with their characters. aradia's relationship with romance is a rocky one, the dubious stringalong equius had with her is a pointed reminder that her feelings of attraction are ultimately controlled by the author writing her.

unlike the other trolls who can openly address and own up to their crushes, aradia had romantic emotions forced upon her (especially when hussie implies 'she kissed equius back on her own volition'). and it seems like her character is so intrinsically neutral abt attraction that even when forced by the almighty powers above, she's unable to retain it wholly.

however, looking back to pre-game when she could actually "choose" her own feelings, she did have a crush on sollux.

their soft spots for each other were so obvious to the point where other people could see it.

taunting aside, when vriska comments on their unit as bf/gf it actually informs the audience that arasol's relationship is romantic in nature despite not aligning with the quadrant system.

even while dead, aradia could still describe her care for sollux, expressing that she would like to see him happy. if they had more time to explore their relationship on alternia, it's possible they could've settled in a quadrant once they grew older.

but going back to the lack of labels, their dynamic was affected once more when aradia became god tier.

to me, her ascension was both the perfect culmination and possible closure of her character. it's the light at the end of her journey toiling through countless of timelines where she had to actively assess and participate. that's why it's cool to see her being silly and having fun giving guidance, passively exploring and watching other people do their parts.

and yet the joy of her freedom makes it hard to explore further introspection. if we take her by her word, she'd already come to terms with the hurt she's been through and forgiven those involved.

i can't help feeling attuned to how impersonal and detached it can be, to devote and meld your identity so completely with your designated position as Maid of Time until you've become hard for your old friends (and even some readers!) to personally connect to.

idk post-canon but i assume there’s some degree of similarity to be bridged here with aradia's god tier and how the hs2 humans' Ultimate forms was described as a consolidation of all their possibilities. since aradia's classpect is inherently of service to Time, going god-tier may have elevated her beyond personhood with the "game construct" possessing her entirely. sollux doesn't realize the extent of it bcs he's still mortal, but a part of him may have subconsciously understood this.

i think there is a core aspect to aradia that was lost to the dehumanizing glory of god tier — a core aspect that may have contained an element of why sollux enjoyed talking to her in the first place.

to him, aradia hadn't just been a nice girl, she was a cool girl. despite not having much in common, he's still willing to chill next to her so she's not alone while she does what needs to get done.

back on alternia, they held a mutual and equal-level regard for each other that could've definitely settled into something permanent. but now, he's placed himself in a position where he can be kept around or left behind at will. the parameters of the relationship are largely in aradia's court, so any label she suggests to identify their relationship with he's likely to accept.

but that's why it's so difficult to label it. because god tier aradia may not necessarily Want quadrants or relationship labels. rather than the initial romantic attachment, their commitment to each other had evolved into one fundamentally of companionship.

no label? ok fine. no matter what, he still thinks she's a good soul worth latching on to. the best, actually. aradia > everyone else.

even if it gets stilted at times. there's an unexpected struggle to connect when sollux's go-to default for talking points is his feelings about things, and aradia may not want to talk about emotions all the time.

not to mention god tier aradia became an observer, especially of chaos. but sollux's avoidance of involvement comes partially from his innate pressure to get involved if something goes wrong. and he can't always tell when something goes wrong, because aradia doesn't mind if things go wrong anymore.

it's a non-negotiable preference that causes them to take the occasional time apart, a new boundary that wouldn't have existed before the game and aradia's god tier.

but just like how his friends tolerated his moods, sollux accepts aradia as she is. with no quadrants, their connection doesn't break down because there's no implicit romantic expectations to be disappointed by or resentful over.

sometimes when i see hs content that deliberately distances sollux from aradia, i assume this is the dissonance people might have felt. people might find it "easier" to be cynical about them bcs of this strange tension.

but idc lmao. grab that shit by the neck

lack of easy resolutions and cleanly tied ribbons is pretty standard of homestuck and imo it doesn't make arasol's dynamic any less incredible. with the right affection and consideration, there's still so much potential to develop the nuance of their relationship outside of the popular quadrant-based depictions.

hs has a lot of really great character compatibilities but the way aradia and sollux are in their own special orbit is why i can write this much about them in the first place. it's that frail innocence between first loves that makes it so sweet to me, two kids who grew up too fast playing guesswork without being clear where they're going.

ultimately i do think you're meant to feel a little tragedy for just how much they care for each other, even if they can't quite establish it in simple terms.

maybe they keep taking breaks to progress their own paths. maybe they remain as anchor partners while seeing other people. but even if you decide to separate them, they're still (awkwardly) texting each other updates all the while. and when they reunite it feels like coming home.

and well. more than anything, i like to believe that they do want to be exclusive.

they're just afraid. after all, they're still learning how to love, beyond the projections of the foursquare quadrant system they had inadvertently distanced themselves from since young.

they might not have everything figured out, but they'll get there eventually if you just hold them together and write them there.

optional post-canon segment:

one of the limitations of main hs is that (monogamous) relationships are often written as the go-to solution to wrap up character growth; it's an easy "patch" to imagine characters getting their happy ending because they have a partner, and those who don't end up with someone don't get that closure (most notably jade).

hs2 reaffirms this by suggesting that aradia's character cannot progress without letting sollux go, because happily settling in a relationship automatically locks your potential.

that pathetic panel of sollux staring emptily into the sky is still my fave hs2 spoiler ngl i find the impact of their parting so emotionally provoking precisely bcs they were written in original hs to be each other's forever, coming back together again and again

but now, they're subject to the decisions of the post-canon authors who might choose to deviate from that.

it's not new for them to part, but now there's an underlying worry that her dropping him off this time might be the last time. while i think the prospect of shattering their stability to make them grow separately sounds fun on paper, no amount of me desperately hoping for a good execution is gonna guarantee it

idk. i guess prediction-wise im expecting sollux in classic dramatic-hs2 fashion to tell dave to back off aradia LMAO. otherwise it's just gon be sollux and karkat pathetically watching aradia and dave from a distance swimming in their unresolved feelings for narratively-powerful time players smh obvs it sounds corny as hell but who knows its still plausible

srsly tho i hope they take the opportunity to develop arasol's relationship in a fresh direction that doesn't hurt me too badly...... and i hope they force sollux out of his comfort zone. i like watching him struggle :-)