#my interpretation of this blorbo

[ant1quar1an]

Can you make some fluff Headcanons(romantic) for my depressed little epic boy? There's barely anything for him and it saddens me.

oh absolutely- he's a super silly guy and i adore him

massive flirt. massive goofball. unlike his vanilla counterpart, Epic doesn't stray away from getting his emotions across.

As a partner, he doesn't hide things from you- assuming you give him enough time for him to explain whatever you're talking about

Very, very devoted to you. He can joke around and goof off with just about anyone but very, very few people he allows himself to fully chill out around

you are one of those people

days when neither of you have to go to work are filled with snuggles and gentle smooches. more often than not he's holding your hand or just half flopping on you

Likes to wrestle with you, if you're willing to do that. It's always playful and he's careful not to hurt you but he likes the feeling of being able to play with his partner in that way- just like how he adores playing the classic "childish games" with you

like, y'know, tag. hide 'n seek. spotlight (he always seems to find you)

Days where he's not always feeling up to it are filled with him making a big ol' nest in front of the TV he forcefully drags you into (simply for cuddles and companionship)

99% chance he likes to prank you a lot. there's probably a lot of prank wars going on all the time- but he never does anything that would cause you a lot of irritation (like glitter bombs. those are reserved for the people he doesn't like)

[whoviandoodler]

something I haven't really seen people mention or consider in relation to riz and jawbone and the whole 'what's up with you, come in and talk with me' thing is that riz legitimately cannot do that. he cannot get better because getting better means losing all the things he gains by pushing himself to a wildly unhealthy degree- the points from his extracurriculars and grades in general, the usefulness he still feels he owes to his friends, the ability to push through grief and loss time and again. it's so incredibly sad because like- he was the one who first offered jawbone the job that got his life turned around! he tries so hard at all that he does and has a huge heart and he deserves to live a life that doesn't run him into the ground, but that life would be one where he wouldn't get the education he wants, or at the very best a life where he loses the control that he is gripping onto white-knuckled and has to contend with a lot of things he could never bear to consider at present. getting better would mean stopping, stopping would mean falling, and if he falls, riz is not getting up for a long, long time, and he just cannot afford that

[morphean42]

I’ve finally figured out why I really dislike Twink Whizzer!

So, in ‘This Had Better Come To A Stop’ Marvin sings the line “that’s what pretty boys should do”, and I’ve always interpreted this as another example of Marvin thrusting Whizzer into an unrealistic role. We all know Marvin treats Whizzer like the woman of the relationship, expecting him to cook, clean, serve him, and be generally feminine. However, Marvin also puts Whizzer in the category of ‘pretty boy’ in addition to ‘woman’.

Whizzer is, in many ways, more traditionally masculine than Marvin. He knows more about and is good at sports, he’s tall, he’s what one might call a ‘player’. Especially how Stephen Bogardus plays Whizzer in the OBC, he is not a stereotypically gay man. This, obviously, is not okay in Marvin’s eyes. He sees his own failings of masculinity through Whizzer’s performance of it, and this makes him incredibly insecure, so he forces Whizzer to be ‘the feminine one’. The gay one. The pretty boy. The twink.

So, when Marvin calls Whizzer a pretty boy, that is a slight against him, that’s Marvin trying to force this idea of a ‘small, feminine, non-athletic lover’ onto him because it makes him ‘the man’ in the relationship. Nearly everything Marvin does that hurts those around him is not done because he hates them, but because he hates himself (that’s a whole other point but anyway). So, Marvin calls Whizzer a pretty boy because it’s everything Whizzer isn’t and Marvin can never accept being the less masculine of the pair.

This analysis is running on a correlation between the terms ‘pretty boy’ and ‘twink’ but I think my point stands even without that.

Whizzer isn’t a twink because just like Marvin is trying to force him into being ‘the woman’ he’s making him take on an effeminate, not traditionally masculine role.

Oh and one more point! Unrelated to all this! The term twink refers to a gay man traditionally between the ages of 18-25, or at least appearing young like that! Whizzer is balding! Whizzer is not twenty years old! If I see one more person make Whizzer like twenty-four and Marvin like thirty-seven I will lose my goshdamned mind!

[autisticrosewilson]

You're all fucking wrong about Catholic Jason he wouldn't feel guilt about Jack shit, ESPECIALLY not killing. He would get the All-Blades and be convinced that this is God's go ahead and divine confirmation that he's right about everything and all of his opinions are valid and everyone who opposes his worldview is a moron blinded by idealism and naivete.

[pigeonstab]

Waiting at the bus stop

[mrnnki]

Starscream-sympathetic fic recs

wanted to come up with a better title but unfortunately my brain is soup.

these are in the order I read/bookmarked them. Some stuff I have more memory of than others.

mostly hurt/comfort, angst, and heavy angst because my tastes skew dark. sticking to more canon-adjacent and plotty stuff for this one, but if anyone wants the rest of the stuff, I can make another list. I had 15 pages of Ao3 bookmarks to sort through. :P

Completed Fic

Ternion - continuity soup. Starscream leaves. Thundercracker and Skywarp eventually follow.

Healing touch - TFP. Seeker fanon lore. Knock Out realizes Starscream is touch-starved.

Not weak - G1. Sickfic. Starscream attempts (and fails) to hide that he's sick during a meeting.

Don't fix it - G1. Starscream, his trine, and his voice.

You remember her differently - IDW/G1/continuity soup. Warning: SA/sexual abuse. Starscream and Cryak focused. Really fucked up, painful, and well-written.

An exercise in self discipline - TFP. Warning: EDs/self-harm. Starscream attempts to punish himself after Optimus doesn't.

Bist du lebensmüde? - Armada. Warning: self-harm. Demolishor attempts to help Starscream.

Inspeak - TFP. Starscream has a nightmare. Optimus comforts him.

More worth saving - TFP. Starscream accidentally calls Optimus 'master.'

Skyborne memories - Earthspark. Starscream and Hashtag.

This ouroboros will not bite today - Earthspark. A rewrite of What Dwells Within.

The careful undressing of love - Cyberverse. Skystar. A badly injured Starscream is found by Skyfire.

Snared - IDW. Megatron visits, and though Starscream doesn't see him, he still reacts.

He scares me - TFP. Starscream flees the Nemesis with Orion Pax.

A calm rarely savored - continuity soup. Starop. Starscream is expected to interface with Optimus to plant a virus in him, but they both find that they experience attraction in nontraditional ways. Amazing ace rep. Has my soul.

Within the dragon's cage - TFP. Predaking doesn't kill Starscream.

Fire in the spark - TFP. Starscream faces Megatron after switching sides.

Prey turned precious - TFP. Predaking changes his mind about killing Starscream after he sees how tired the other mech is.

I wonder what lives inside you now - G1. Starbee. This fic will tear you apart.

Incomplete Fic

The good, the bad, the Starscream - TFP. Starscream redemption fic.

Too far - continuity soup, as far as I remember. Megatron, as the title says, goes too far and Starscream's trine interferes. Heavy whump.

I can't trust the fall - TFP. Starscream redemption fic.

Requiem for a seeker - Earthspark. This one is fucked up and creepy and captures helplessness so well. I love it.

Trust Me - Earthspark.

Another place, another prison - Earthspark. Starscream redemption.

Malicious compliance - G1. 5+1 fic focused on Starscream protecting his trine.

A silent scream - continuity soup. Starbee. Megatron takes away Starscream's voice--literally.

The little star - TFP. Starscream age-regresses. Words cannot express how much I love this fic.

Shine - TFP. Starscream is immortal, with Breakdown and Knock Out as witnesses.

The fallen angel - continuity soup. Starscream is cast out of the Decepticons and ends up with the Autobots.

Beyond our horizons - continuity soup (but mostly G1).

Oneshot Series

The 'Trine leader' series - continuity soup. Series is marked as incomplete. Fanon Seeker stuff (specifically fanon trine dynamics, which are the basis of the first oneshot). Thundercracker kills Megatron.

The 'the life of his that breaths' series - IDW. another one marked as incomplete that can be read in part or in whole.

The 'call an optimist' series - G1/continuity soup. Warning: Non-con. Starscream shows Skyfire what love means to him. It isn't right.

Chasing planes - TFP. Breakdown talks to Starscream after recalling that he was the only Decepticon who tried to save him.

[shyjusticewarrior]

I see the vision with english teacher Jason. However I don't see Jason, as he exists in mainline, having a real job.

[majimasleftasscheek]

I’m gonna throw up

[rookamell]

If anyone is going to save the Crows/Antiva/Lucanis/Illario/Viago post game it's going to be the queen herself Andarateia Cantori and I wish the game aknowledged this a little bit more.

[liauditore]

cw// implied character death, double life nonsense

because you are love itself.

[savage-rhi]

This bi coded walking stick bug of a silly man is responsible for the 3 editions of Don Quixote I own, and Capcom, I see what you did. I understand the vision, but what happened in game felt personal, and after this, I'll never forgive (but thank you for the fic material, you bastards).

[xray-vex]

hey remember when the OFMD s2 teaser video dropped and there were people who were somehow CONVINCED that Stede was referring to Izzy when he said "I don't care what any of you say, he's actually a good guy" and not, y'know, Ed, whom they were literally just talking about in this scene?

like what the hell was that about

[lgbtlunaverse]

"Nie Mingjue would still have died young even if Jin Guangyao hadn't killed him" Not as in "So it's fine to kill him because people who won't live for much longer have obviously already forfeit their lives" (what) But as in "If you don't get that Nie Mingjue has had an inevitable young and violent death hanging over him since he was a young teenager and has embraced it you can't fully understand his character"

[fallowtail]

controversial take here but i really hope hetty is on her absolute worst nastygirl/comedic clown behavior in s4 to push back against the poor little meow meow woobification curse shes been experiencing since holes because i am tired

[themyscirah]

Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.

Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now

Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.

Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!

Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.

[maripr]

I think John Ward deserves to break down a little at the end of FAITH bc he just destroyed the cult that groomed him since childhood and abused him and his childhood friend, he's managed to protect everyone he loves, he's realized God's been with him the entire time, he has fred all the souls that were taken hostages in the rite of the second death, and he has been forgiven by the very person he wronged. He deserves to break down a bit, after things have calmed down, as Lisa and Garcia both hold him as his falls on his knees and his shoulder shake and he holds his crucifix close like he's hugging it and he wails like a child and as the tears fall on the cross once bronze, they leave golden streak, cleansing his vision of it, cleansing his heart.