#it is just… not really accurate to canon

[syrospit]

The imperium’s most normal couple ever

this was just a fun painting exercise before i go back to commissions

(other versions under the cut :3)

[grimsonandclover]

I can’t ever pass up the chance to spread mrta!artrick. I think it’d be interesting to see how the other acts when one of them gets a girlfriend or even just another best friend

Jealousy, Jealousy [patrick zweig] [art donaldson]

Art gets a new friend. Patrick gets a new "girlfriend". There are no good, clean shirts.

[sfw] [864 words]

⚠︎ Something simple and short to get me out of my writing slump. Not terribly proofread, not terribly great. MRTA Atrick, Art is jealous of Patrick, Patrick is jealous of Art, tension and underlying feelings, stuffed animals, canonically pushed together beds, dirty shirt piles, teenage boys

"Dude, where the fuck..."

Art throws another shirt out of his drawer to the floor with frustration, sighing and pushing back the wet curls on his forehead. "Where the fuck are all my nice shirts?" He turns, eyeing Patrick at his desk accusingly. Patrick, completely absorbed with his texts, only offers a mumbled response.

"Check The Pile."

"Check the—? Patrick, what the hell, man!" Art turns to the corner of their room now called The Pile, or more accurately, their version of a laundry basket minus the basket. It's the last thing Art wants to dig through right now. "You wore them? All of them?"

"Yeah, all two of them." Patrick spares Art a single mocking glance from his phone before another little ring comes from it, and he goes straight back to texting. "Remember I had that thing with Juliette last week," that 'thing' being her brother's Bar Mitzvah, "and then she wanted to go to Olive Garden yesterday."

Juliette this, Julie that. Art stands shirtless in the middle of the room, anger bubbling in his veins. Patrick, that little shit. He has clothes of his own. "You have clothes of your-" Art grabs one of the stuffed animals on his nightstand, launching it at Patrick's head, "-own!"

Patrick can't even let out a full grunt before getting distracted again by a text. It's Juliette; they've been going back and forth about plans for tonight. He smiles to himself, looking up at Art. "I think Julie is gonna finally, you know."

The blonde groans, flopping backwards on the bed. Patrick kicks his feet up on the desk they share, leaning the desk chair dangerously far backwards. "You've been saying that for weeks now, fucking creep."

"I'm really sure this time. What do you need a nice shirt for anyway? You're not getting any."

Thanks for the reminder, Art wants to say. Instead, he throws another stuffed animal at Patrick, this one on his bed, who had kept the first one on his lap before the second knocked it off. He plays idly with the ears of a bunny Art got at a fair as a kid, now sitting alone with him as the first bear stares up at him from the floor. "Connor just got his fake, and he wants to sneak out and go to a bar downtown tonight. Maybe I could get some if I didn't have to go wearing a fucking," Art gestures to one of the shirts hanging off the dresser, " 'I Love Tig Bitties' shirt or—"

"—That's a prized possession, and you know it. Wait, Connor—?"

"—or the shirt I stole from my dad that screams I'm a balding fifty-year-old with a marriage on the rocks. And yeah, Connor."

Patrick almost pouts but bites his bottom lip instead, turning to look out the window the desk faces. He pulls the ear until he feels a bit of the old thread tear open, and then stops immediately. Muttering a curse under his breath, he hugs the plush close so Art can't tell. "Connor's a dick."

"Connor's a dick, yeah, but so are you."

"But he's, like," Patrick was going to say he's a bigger dick, but then he looks down at the bunny. His phone beeps with another text, but he doesn't check this time. "Why don't I come with then? You shit yourself every time you face a bouncer."

Art, who's started picking at a hangnail on his big toe, turns his head to Patrick again. "I thought you were gonna 'you know' with Julie." The name comes out painfully and mockingly, and he makes a face with it. Art doesn't even get it; she's nothing like the girls Patrick normally goes for. She's— god forbid he admit this to anyone but himself— nice. Patrick responds with a casual shrug, like he hasn't been building this up for himself since he met Julie two months ago.

"What time are you guys going out? Maybe I can make it."

"Eight. Connor wanted to get something to eat before we try the bar, and I wanted time to go somewhere else if the place sucks."

Patrick chews on his lip some more. "Oh. Alright." Art continues picking at the nail. Patrick looks to the fallen bear for a moment. It's quiet for a bit. Another beep.

His fingers fiddle with a loose thread at the seam where the ear was attached to the bunny's head. It was cheaply made, it's old, it's Art's. Most nights, though, this bunny in particular gets pushed to Patrick's bed in the middle of the night. Or maybe he grabs it. If you asked him, it's always the former. The bear always sits alone on the nightstand, untouched.

Patrick picks up his phone again to check the text and Art sighs, rolling backwards off the bed and grabbing a random t-shirt from his clean ones. "I'm gonna see if Connor has something I can borrow." Art doesn't even consider borrowing from Patrick. The door closes behind him, and Patrick stares at the letters on the screen. For some reason, they don't feel as exciting as they would have fifteen minutes ago.

"excited for 2nite <3"

[lostintheljghts]

sincaraz fic recs pls!!! xx

ohhhh i was waiting for this one!!

a couple of disclaimers:

i've read a lot of sincaraz fanfictions and i couldn't possibly include them all. I'll try my best, but if you see this post and think of a ff that wasn't included, please do share it!!

there are a lot of authors that have written multiple sincaraz ffs (the first that come to mind are @deliriouslyshipping and @n1mmue), I encourage you to read everything they've posted!! but as they are a lot I'll only include a couple here.

please be aware of the tags before reading the fics, I switch a lot between canon compliant and aus.

last but not least, you might notice an abundance of vers/bottom jannik here. this is a matter of personal preference, all I have to say is that the recent bbl he got converted me skjfddj but again, a lot of the authors included write both dynamics!!

This Is How You Love the Sun by nimmue -a post rg final angsty one shot. what can I say, I love angst. Over You, Only Me by nimmue -this might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it def is mine. listen, I might be projecting, but I love the concept of mean top carlos (especially bc it's so starkingly different from how he is outside of the bedroom). abo is also really controversial but honestly idgaf ksjdfhskjh we're here to have fun.

let down and hanging around by shayvrides -another post rg final fic. what can I say, it left us traumatized. this time it's more spicy than angsty tho. the winner takes it all by bangonoscah -aaaaaaand another one!! loved the dialogues here.

the more i try to get a grip on it, i slip into you by pinkcaraz (litenvitkanin) -this is the filth I love eheh. did I mention I love angst? yeah, that also includes loving when a character thinks their feelings aren't reciprocated. add all this in a spicty context where one of them is so horny he can't help but say the other's name when they think they're alone...yeah, loved it

Way Too Deep (But I'm Into It) by deliriouslyshipping -it's way too difficult to choose only a couple of their works but how can I not choose the uni!au, AND WHAT I JUST SAW THERE'S PART THREE POSTED NOW SKJDFSKJHFSD CAN'T WAIT TO READ. part one might not be everyone's cup of tea with the fact that there's a girl involved too, but I loved it.

yeah it's impossible i can't choose. they have wayy to many great fics. do yourself a favour and read them all here deliriouslyshipping.

If you wanted honesty that's all you had to say by Cassie (BADFalcon) -small hilarious one shot, loved darren here

umiltà by niccolos -please please please read this. one of my fav sincaraz fanfics ever, I think. carlos subtly flexing might be one of the hottest things ever. I wish I knew you (back when we were both small) by serve_cunt  -i loooove f1!aus. like, I love them. Please writers feed me I need more sincaraz as drivers fighting for wc.

you pull my strings (and I like it) by liefde -this was a really interesting au. and honestly now that jannik singer became a reality with the bocelli feat, this is only more hilarious in how accurate it could be.

Can't you see that I'm melting by lostintheljghts -yeah im being shameless here...this one's mine. to be honest I haven't read it in a good month and writing it now i'd change a lot of things, but oh well...if you give it a shot lemme know what you think!

Flying In a Dream, Stars By The Pocketful by JujubeeJones -really light and fluffy one shot from when things were good and sincaraz fans were thriving :') I feel like im missing a lot of great fics, but my mind is blanking right now. I hope this will keep you sated for some time <3 Please people do add fics to this list if you want to!!

[betty-fran]

While I was talking with N about this whole weird Spock/Saavik thing (it's a wonderfully disgusting actually, for a lot of very good moral reasons, but I'll leave that for another post) I, of course, mentioned 765874 – Unification (something that could've been great if it hadn't been playing with this rather questionable idea). I happily watched this short before I started watching TOS (I'm the type of person who reads books from the last page), and honestly, I didn't have a clue who these people were in the frame except for K/S. I obviously found it terribly romantic and didn't go back to this short until I read about this story how thanks to Nimoy (our holy man) this whole wild concept of "Saavik pregnant with Spock's child" was scrapped and thrown in the trash, but OTOY for some reason decided to bring this dead dog back to life... and I honestly have a lot of questions for him, but again, that's not what today's post is about.

So while we were having our evening coffee with my sister, I decided to show her this short in the context of our recent conversation. And at the part where K/S are holding hands and looking at the sunset, she remembered that something similar happened in Metamorphosis /that's what the Companion wanted, so that they could just hold hands and meet the sunset together, the author of this video must have loved this episode like you/. It always amazes me how my sister becomes a completely sincere K/S shipper at the most unexpected moments, and then pretends that it didn't happen. Her memory of these events in Metamorphosis wasn't entirely accurate, but it does have its own interesting parallels:

NANCY: Oh, let me walk, Zefram. Let me feel the earth against my feet. Let me feel the warmth of the sun on my face. You beside me. Let me feel these things. KIRK: Go ahead, Cochrane We have a few things to do. (Cochrane and Nancy walk off hand in hand.)

In Metamorphosis Companion actually wanted to feel alive (through physical touch) [the Companion's situation is actually much more complicated than that, but that's not what today is about, so I've simplified this point], be next to Cochrane, and in the end of this scene they do go into (not-sunset) together holding hands:

In Unification, the most important thing is its ending, where Kirk and Spock are finally together, holding each other's hands and facing the sunset:

The relationship between K/S, and especially TOS Kirk and his attitude towards love generally/his feelings for Spock, has a very strong connection to what Metamorphosis is all about, and that's why I find this episode so important. For me, it's a very TOS thing, this transcendent matter that's harder to combine with the more physical, constrained side of post-TOS films, but at some point it still works in the context of K/S. I don't really see this whole post-TOS development as canon to the original series (and especially this twisted in-the-worst-traditions-of-the-genre genesis story), but if we take this "growing old together" theme that permeates the films separately, there was actually another interesting moment in Metamorphosis that works well with this whole path to Unification:

SPOCK: But you will age, both of you. There will be no immortality. You'll both grow old here and finally die. COCHRANE: That's been happening to men and women for a long time. I've got the feeling it's one of the pleasanter things about being human, as long as you grow old together.

Growing old together, it was supposed to be like this, wasn't it? I don't think OTOY really intended to rehash Metamorphosis, but it's a very interesting parallel that slightly changes my perception of the entire course of events in the post-TOS films, not making them more canonical to TOS, but adding some integrity to them in their own space.

[qoldenskies]

Can you elaborate why you dont like headcanons that make Leo really smart?

i have dyscalculia and adhd (and quite possibly autism) and i am generally very slow to learn and pick up on new concepts. i am a tactile learner who struggles to read and process information i am not personally interested in, which makes it really difficult for me to pick up on new things. i usually have to be told the same instructions several times in order to process them, especially because of my bad memory and how unsure i am with myself. i wouldnt even consider myself unintelligent otherwise, i think thats disproved by the way i speak and socialize and introspect.

i dont like the fandom's tendency to inflate traits that leo doesnt have to give him a "purpose", a place on the team, because sometimes it feels like it almost validates the self-esteem issues that he has within the show. while he doesnt have a complex about being dumb (from what's shown, at least, he's very confident in his own street smarts), its clear that he doesn't like reading (enough that it gets openly joked about in flushed but not forgotten), he's very inattentive and uninterested in "nerdier" subjects, and he also canonically has like. horrible handwriting. all of these things kind of point to and validate the way that i headcanon him to have dyslexia. he is singled out to particularly not like these things (raph is obviously also uninterested in them as well, but its joked about differently-- and while mikey's a little all over the place and inattentive, it's clear he does actually pay a lot of attention to donnie's work! enough to operate his tools!).

i understand that this is partially a projection thing on my end. im not going to deny that. but i dont like the idea that he has to be as smart or even better than donnie at what he does, because i think it undermines the fact that the contrast between their strengths and interests is what gives them so much potential in their dynamic. donnie is really book-smart, and while being more extroverted than leo he sucks at socializing. leo is really street smart, and despite being a more suspicious introvert he's very cunning and charismatic, enough to accurately profile and get one over on big mama at like the second or third time he's ever met her. he is good at things, even though he seems to be aware of how dependent he is on his family's presence and validation.

also i just like. dont like the idea that leo HIDES any secret unknown intelligence, what???? he's not like. sans, bro. i think if he ever undermines it it's a joke to make fun of donnie, and even then it'd mostly just be a joke about how donnie overthinks everything and leo is by contrast very nonchalant. leo is actually BEGGING throughout the show to be seen as capable and competent, because he is, but because of his recklessness and tendency to brush things off it makes him look uncaring. in many unhappy returns he was trying to lighten the mood but the WHOLE TIME he was asking to be trusted, because he knows what he's doing and he has a plan. leo wasn't hiding anything, raph and splinter just didnt believe him. i think there is more to be done with that than the idea of him playing dumb, because he really never does?

[therealmaquaroonie]

finally drew them in my style! meet my versions of Sonic and Tails! I do have plans on how I would rewrite them meeting for my weird AU thing i am making, but the jist of it is a 8 yr old Sonic finds Tails in the woods, alone, and brings him back to his parents' place and is like 'hey can he live with us?' and his parents, who've had Sonic as their only child up until this point was like 'yeah sure why not'

their genders/pronouns are largely headcanons of mine, i imagine Sonic would probably just use the pronouns of whatever would be the funniest (to Sonic) in that situation. (Proceed to a bit where Robotnik constantly gets Sonic's pronouns 'wrong' and Robotnik throws a fit because he wants to insult Sonic ACCURATELY). In reality, Sonic really doesn't care what pronouns you call her, she's chill with all of them. Tails however I think would have been an egg for a really long time up until Sonic started using whatever pronouns in high school and went 'wait you can do that?'

i'm also thinking on trying to make the stories in my AU thingy more complex than canon STH simply because i like storytelling and complicated stories and stuff like that, it gives my brain something to chew on... maybe Tails had parents who were neglectful and Sonic's parents adopted him as their own because of that? I always kind of found it weird that Tails in canon had literally no known family whatsoever, and in the Archie Comics Original Continuity, his parents' history is literally a footnote claiming "oh they were inexplicably abducted by aliens". Like. What? I mean, Sonic's parent's are also getting more of a rehaul from me too, definitely, but at least his situation has a bit more meat on bones than Tails'. And in other continuities, the only other family I know of for Sonic in those, is the Owl! From the movie that just came out a few years ago! And even then it's not that extensive! 0 family lore for games- well i mean. There's Sonic Underground but that's an entire rehaul AU of Sonic the Hedgehog to me, not a lot from STH proper is in there. Knuckles appeared in like, 2 episodes, i think. Shadow was nonexistent. Queen Alena is cool and all but I like the idea of Sonic being more Joe Average who just finds out he can Run Good, not part of prophecies or whatever. I will give his family a bit more stuff to them don't get me wrong, i just don't think he'd be royalty, even bloodline-wise. Nobility maybe from his father's side but nothing major.

it seems like every time i post about sonic it results in me blabbing for multiple paragraphs LMAO, i just really like sonic

[quietplace26]

I had a thought....

Childe!mc

And MC was transported into childe!MC the moment he fell into the abyss, also a bit of backround or before lore childe!mc was from Russia and was from a small town and he had the same ish size family with similar names and when he was transported into childe!MC he was on a walk alone in winter and fell down a cliff accidentally at that moment it was childe who fell into the abyss so childe!MC has a bit a memory haze and probably doesn't know he is in genshin

Also I think with the amount of MC we are making you might need to make a master list of the MCs as a whole

Childe!MC! Or maybe more accurate, Ajax!MC! ... Or would it Tartaglia!MC-

Of course this MC would be one of many names, lol!

Hm, since we're going with the idea of this happening when Childe first fell into the abyss as, well, a child, I actually get the feeling Shirk would notice something was off, as she wasn't from Teyvat.

Maybe she even knows the soul within the boy she found wasn't from Teyvat...

But either way, it goes mostly the same, only Childe!MC's memory is more fuzzy about things... and maybe he's calmer, and not more feral, maybe?

It would be sad if he did remember his family in his past life but they died in a accident or something, so becoming a child again, and seeing people who had his dead family's faces and names... He might just cry.

So he would be super protective over them. So protective he would join the Fatui cause he has power-

Maybe over the years he gets more memories back, and by the time he gets to Liyue and meets Zhongli-

He decides to be a gremlin. This old lizard screwed around with his game counterpart, so he's gonna screw with Zhongli this time. Like he knows who you are, you block-head-

...Also why did he have to be unfairly handsome?

Cause of this, he doesn't cause as much trouble, like awaken Osial, because he knew if it did it would backfire on the Fatui station in Liyue, and actually focus on heading to the Chasm to fetch the Fatui station there.

He really didn't want canon to repeat itself and Liyue leaves then for dead-

This would be hilarious if he doesn't tell anyone but the Fatui at the bank and Zhongli is expecting that Rascal to unleashed Osial as plan... only for Signora to do it since apparently Childe!MC was 'busy'.

Cut them later and Childe!MC is giving him and Signora a unimpressed look, and before anyone could say anything he just looks at Zhongli, saying-

"Oh, I knew who you were from the start, you scaly old timer-"

Zhongli chokes, but Childe!MC isn't finished as he tears into Signora from with holding information and shit, and endangering the other Fatui station in Liyue, especially the chasm.

"If I hadn't figured out your 'plan', do you understand what could've happen to our agents there?! Liyue would've left them to die-"

Yeah, he's writing a letter of complaint to the Tsaritsa-

Tagging: @platinumrosetail, @arn9tails, @bloodytea, @esthelily

[meta-squash]

There's an old fic that I come back to again and again called Passing Currents (although I also come back to it because everyone else is fantastically characterised and the plot is good) that I feel has some accurate criticisms within the exaggerated Gwen-bashing. Namely that in original canon I think Gwen makes a lot of stupid mistakes and/or assumptions and rarely experiences consequences for them the way that the others do. I think this is because she's meant to be the audience stand-in and therefore likeable/less punished or whatever, but I've always thought that just makes things more frustrating. The Passing Currents fic has her making assumptions/mistakes that cost lives or make more work and everyone actually reacting like "Hey this is your fault and you need to step up." I think in canon everyone else has a moment where they are called out for something that is their fault and made to really face that (Ianto with Cyberwoman, Owen with the Rift, Tosh with Mary). Whereas it often seems like Gwen does things but doesn't have Jack or any of the others straight up saying "This is your fault, now fix it."

I have been reading A Lot of old Torchwood fics in my quest to make a rec list consisting only of fics that never got transferred to AO3.

And in general I'm pretty picky about the fics that I read but I have learned that I have a very specific pet peeve and I wonder if other people feel the same way about this or if the pairing/shipping factor is more important to other people than to me.

I find fics where Ianto says fuck this and leaves Torchwood of his own accord and with his memories intact really interesting and I really like them, because I think of all the members he has the most reason to decide it's too much and that he's done. And I really like stories where he runs away and hides from Jack or walks away with Jack's acknowledgement but without retcon.

But my pet peeve is always stories where this happens, and then Jack comes to ask Ianto to come back, and then Ianto does. Because inevitably these fics have Ianto laying out really in-depth and meaningful and layered arguments about why he doesn't want to and should not return to Torchwood, while Jack's argument essentially always boils down to "I just want you around" and much of the time not even necessarily "I love you/I will make changes for you". And then Ianto just...relents.

Which I hate because Ianto is canonically very determined and very strong-willed and very much willing to go against Jack (Cyberwoman and Adrift being the most obvious but also most different examples). If he had made up his mind about how much damage Torchwood and/or Jack was causing him, a simple "I just want you back because I care about you" isn't going to cut it, I think. In fics like this Ianto's argument is always so strong. If fic writers gave Jack an argument with equal strength or depth to it, then I think I would be more satisfied with Ianto eventually relenting. But I've read so many fics where Jack's argument is just a one-dimensional "I just want you back with me", not even promises (kept or not) of changing things in accordance to Ianto's argument and sometimes not even claims towards monogamy or a relationship or whatever.

I just think Ianto would not back down that easily, especially if he went to lengths to hide from Jack to avoid retcon, or whatever. I think fics where he leaves and doesn't come back despite Jack's asking are much more interesting and believable. I'd rather read something like that than a fic where Jack wheedles his way into having Ianto back just by talking about how good the sex was and how hot he thinks Ianto is and how dirty the hub is without him or whatever.

Anyway, that's my two cents for no reason other than that I just finished reading a fic where exactly this happened, and it's not the first one I've read one this list-making journey.

[fefairys]

i think that vriska homestuck and vriska pesterquest are two distinct versions of vriska and i think that a lot of people are thinking more about PQ vriska than HS vriska when they discourse about her because they remember PQ more clearly than HS and so they don’t remember like… the true, canon vriska from the comic, they mostly just remember a version of vriska that was one person’s exercise in projecting onto a character to write about her experiences, but was actually not all that in character when you compare it to HS vriska. so the discourse goes nowhere because we are now talking about two completely different characters.

[starlingfawn]

as i watched you return from the rising water's edge

[clownowo]

* Your brother cannot carry you to school any more, you know.

[scarapanna]

Many Virtuous advice PV thoughts + some rough redesign ideas since I'm not 100% satisfied with his design and want to make improvements

Mkay so now for a yapping session some more context on all these doodles:

Something something the Knowledge duo has the ability to look into anyone's "past" since baking to work more efficiently.

As the representative of Truth PV uses this and looks into Freedom/DE to understand what caused her to "shatter" (Aka. Return as someone entirely different from who she used to be). He finds out about the banquet, being as loyal to his witches as he was the guy's in shock, and goes into isolation for decates to figure out what to do and protect cookies from the reality he has withnessed.

He ends up spiraling during this long, long time avoiding everything and everyone, developing this insane apocalyptic hypothesis on the witches and their true motives. Peepaw starts thinking that, to protect cookie kind from the imminent threat posed by it's own creators, he must become stronger or just as strong as them.

Soon, he reaches the conclusion that by cracking open his souljam, he might essentially "unlock" his full potential.

It doesn't work, instead de-stabilizing his power, and said unstable power corrupting him into the Avatar Of Destiny

Due to both the damage done to his souljam and "corruption", he goes into a dormant state for centuries. Eventually he'll wake up, though he's not a very destructive entity as the Avatar, instead being quite shy and reclusive.

Aaand this is all I got so far! Thanks for coming to my TED-talk/j

Also here's the Avatar scaled to an everyday cookie as a bonus, it didn't fit in frame first so we had to ask it to crouch down a tad bit.

[basket-of-loquats]

fake screenshot from that ep 38. really hated the part where frost fell to his death, i can't believe he never came back and derek had to make a completely new character

[dovewingkinnie]

tom needs her

[starry-bi-sky]

more clone^2 memes because i think they're funny

[ar3s-r4t-qu33n]

Not to be a cunt (I'm being a cunt), but I saw a post about Red Barrels being homophobic because Coyle hasn't had new updates and there's no Pride event, and of course the comments are restricted SO-

Dorris and Henrietta are right there. Tragic Yuri-ing. Lesbians. Gay. Woman loving woman-ing.

I'm not sure why we're pretending fuckin Leland Coyle is the gayest bisexual gay man to ever bisexually gay and that he's the epitome of representation in the fucking OUTLAST TRIALS, but like. There is a set of lesbians right there, in canon, on screen, with a very in depth relationship and storyline. To pretend they don't exist because you want new Coyle voicelines and trials is actually insane to me, and to claim the dev team are homophobic because of it is just asinine.