#s15 rewrite au

[joltning]

WATERWORKS | remake

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[ninjagocfr]

Crystal Fragments 4/21/23 Update:

As a creative team, we are actively engaged in the dynamic and collaborative process of brainstorming for the project. Our director, Jalen, has temporarily taken a hiatus, and we have taken this opportunity to harness our collective creativity and explore new horizons for this unique and captivating story.

During this period, our team has been actively engaged in ideation sessions to generate fresh and innovative ideas. We have been immersing ourselves in the rich lore of the Ninjago universe, carefully analyzing the established canon, while also pushing the boundaries of creativity to explore uncharted territories for the alternate universe storyline.

Our brainstorming process has been characterized by a spirit of collaboration, where each team member's unique perspectives, insights, and expertise have been valued and integrated into the collective creative vision. We have engaged in spirited discussions, challenging each other's ideas, and fostering an environment of open-mindedness and receptivity to new concepts.

As we embark on this creative journey, we have been meticulous in our approach, carefully evaluating the narrative arcs, character motivations, and world-building elements to ensure that they align seamlessly with the established Ninjago lore, while also offering a fresh and engaging perspective for our audience. The process of brainstorming has been iterative and dynamic, with constant refinements and iterations based on feedback and critical evaluation. We have been committed to pushing the envelope of creativity, exploring new possibilities, and challenging conventional storytelling tropes to deliver a truly memorable and captivating experience for our audience.

Community Discord: https://discord.gg/XpqD8GQ2H5

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ninjagoreimagined/home

[prismaticflare]

Hello everyone! Throughout my time here in the Ninjago fandom, I’ve talked a lot about a major AU of mine I began thinking about all the way back when I was only about halfway through my first watch-through. I’m officially ready to begin talking about it, which I have named Equilibrium, although I may refer to it occasionally as Ninjago : Equilibrium to avoid confusion since it is just a normal word lol.

Unfortunately, this is not a project I plan on officially starting for quite a while. I already have too many projects on my plate and not remotely enough time to complete them, much less a whole Ninjago rewrite. That doesn’t mean I can’t begin planning it, though!

The first step to that is a Ninjago rewatch, and I decided to blog my process. I will be discussing quite a few different topics (which I will lay out under the cut) and post it here. Feel free to read only the parts/seasons you care the most about. Whether you want to hear about my thoughts and my AU, want to use my thoughts for your own projects, or simply want to hear my autistic ramblings about a silly Lego kids show, I implore you to join me on this journey!

Below the cut I will lay out the plans of the rewatch and will have links to each part when they come out! I will use #prismaticninjagorewatch for all of the posts, so you can sort by it or block them out if you are not interested. Also, if you have any questions about the rewatch or my au, feel free to ask. My inbox is always open!

Enough said, see you soon for our first part!

Okay, onto what will be being discussed!

1. Summery - Will give a short plot summery of what happens. This is just rough, and will likely leave out information I plan on using/expanding on in the final rewrite. This is just to fill the audience in and make sure I know what roughly happens.

2. The Point - Why does this season matter? This means a few things. Why does this season matter in-universe? How does it affect the plot, the characters, and the world around them. Also, why does this matter to us? Why does it affect both our view of the plot and why should we want to watch this season? Obviously, it is to entertain, but what is being done to fulfil that goal?

3. The Characters - Who are the main playing characters and how do they affect the plot. If it is a new character, what are they like, and if it is an old one, how do they grow and do they fit modern interpretations? Why or why not? I plan on discussing what role, arc, and subplots involve each character. If there isn’t enough of one, what can be done to fix that?

4. The World - Ninjago has quite a rich history, geography, etcetera. What is brought up? This can be landmarks, cities/towns, history, climate, ecology, and more.

5. Pros and Cons - What things did this season do well that I want to keep? What things did it do poorly that I should either attempt to fix or completely scrap? Are there any ideas that are mentioned that I want to expand upon?

6. Continuity - Ninjago has evolved a lot over time, and so have many plots and concepts. Now, I suck at seeing bad continuity, so if even I can notice something, it is a problem. So, are there any continuity issues. How do I want to fix them?

7. Tropes - This may seem odd, but let me explain. Ninjago is filled to the BRIM with tropes. Episode tropes, season tropes, character tropes, it’s all there! ESPECIALLY in S2, although most of Pre-DR is just based on tropes. So, to fully understand each season, I need to go over the tropes used. This will end up being VERY useful to understanding the season and how to write it.

8. Conclusion - Summery of what discussed to wrap things up and any additional thoughts I think are worth mentioning.

--- Quick Travel ---

Pilot, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, DOTD, S7, S8, S9, S10, FireChap, IceChap, S12, S13, Island, S14, S15

[serpentfever]

Serpentine Headcanons: Giant Snake Edition!

In honor of Day of the World Ending Serpents, here are some giant snake origin hcs. And when you’re done reading I’d love to hear your own thoughts on what exactly they are and their origin. :)

The Great Devourer

I actually have a couple of ideas for her origin story. Some of them are borrowed from other creators, some are ones I created. Each version of the Devourer also acts slightly different. Most of these stories involve the Devourer being corrupted by the Overlord in some way.

The Devourer was originally a regular snake who somehow became imbued with pure darkness and became a monster.

The Devourer is some kind of lovecraftian being who merely exists to try to consume the world and has no actual connection to the serpentine besides them both looking like snakes.

The Devourer is the firstborn daughter of the First Spinjitzu Master. In some versions of this headcanon, the Devourer was the one who created the serpentine, not the FSM.

The Devourer was originally from Chima. She met the FSM during his travels to find a home after running away from the First Realm, and she joined him in coming to Ninjago. This was created prior to S15.

The Devourer was originally a member of her own tribe of serpentine, unrelated to the FSM. These serpentine were likely descendants of the Merlopians. She was a Serpent type: As I’ve described before, I (and much of the fandom) have a headcanon that serpentine are born looking like regular snakes. As they grow, they develop legs and arms. Serpent type serpentine, however, are unique in that they never grow limbs. They instead develop into very large snakes, often possessing a much more powerful version of their tribe’s ability, while nonetheless still posessing the intelligence of a regular serpentine. However, she often would use magic to make herself appear serpentine-like, since not having hands can be pretty inconvenient at times.

The Anacondrai Serpent

I’m actually pretty torn about the Anacondrai Serpent. On one hand, having her be intelligent fits with my idea that serpent-type serpentine exist. But on the other hand, if the Anacondrai Serpent is intelligent, it makes her relationship with Clouse extremely creepy and uncomfortable, since he treats her like a pet with no agency.

In my interpretations where the AS Is intelligent, there may be a couple reasons for how she wound up in Clouse’s care: Either he used magic to place some kind of spell on her, or he kidnapped her egg and raised her from birth. The raised from birth option is especially unsettling because it may imply Clouse essentially manipulated her into devaluing her own self worth and acting like an animal.

Some versions of the “Anacondrai serpent is intelligent” origin simply rewrite Clouse and the AS’s relationship to be more like a father and a daughter, or a teacher and a student, instead of a master and his pet. Clouse actually does communicate with and teach her. Though I’m sure he does still brainwash her a fair bit, there’s no doubt that he DOES love her, plus it has the added bonus of being a lot less creepy. This idea of the AS and her origin is, I’d say, a bit more like au territory.

Another version of her origin story paints the Anacondrai serpent as having about the same intelligence as a regular snake. So she actually IS a pet. There are two different versions of this origin: 

She was a regular snake that Clouse enchanted with magic to grow into a beast.

The anacondrai simply have massive, non-sentient snakes they keep as pets/cavalry/mounts, and Clouse managed to get his hands on one. 

Fire Fang

I have two main ideas for Fire Fang’s origin, one of which I’ve been leaning more towards recently. There’s also a third that’s like, sort of an idea? But not one I adhere to very closely.

First, that Fire Fang is merely just a magical construct, like a familiar, conjured by Aspheera, and nothing more.

The Fire Fang we see in the show is merely a magical construct, but he’s based on a fire deity of the Pyro Vipers of the same name. The real Fire Fang that the construct was based on was a highly valued deity in pyro viper society, being a god of the sun, fire, and life. He was also likely the head god of their pantheon at the time.

Now, whether or not Fire Fang was a real god, as in actually existed in the same vein as the FSM and Preeminent did, is actually not something I’ve decided on. If he did actually exist, in this version of his story.

My final idea is that Fire Fang was a real snake that had died, that, like the rest of the pyro vipers, Aspheera resurrected. Now, whether Fire Fang was a Serpent type (A serpentine that looks like a giant snake but is nonetheless intelligent) or merely a serpent mount (pets of the serpentine that are not intelligent) is yet to be determined.

Wojira

I really only have one major origin story for Wojira, so I’ll talk about it here. Wojira is an incredibly old, and unlike all the other snakes on this list, is not actually a snake. She’s a water dragon. But not just any water dragon, she’s a progenitor water dragon. Progenitor type dragons are basically the oldest, and most powerful dragons, the earliest children of the Firstborn. They are called Progenitors because they were the first to wield and use their elements to shape the natural world as we know it. Wojira was responsible for the creation of oceans, rivers, streams, and lakes back in the First Realm when she first came to be.

Now, sometime after that, Wojira ends up rejecting her role in the First Realm, and flees, ripping a hole through the realm itself. Using her immense creation power she fastened herself a realm of her own, which she could be as free and careless as she wanted, with all the freedom she could ever need, and subjects (Merlopians and Keepers) who would worship her without question. Though in some versions of the story she made the merlopians and keepers by accident since she was using so much of her creation power to craft the realm.

I basically have this idea that each creator of a realm is the Heart of the realm, their personification in a way. Wojira is (was) the heart of Ninjago, while the Preeminent was the heart of the Cursed Realm. And in turn, each Heart actually either is or was an oni or a dragon. Wojira is pretty obviously a dragon, while the Preeminent WAS a dragon, at least before she became taken over by darkness and corrupted beyond recognition (think princess mononoke style corruption). Slight side note, but I have a hc that darkness (that stuff the Overlord controls and what corrupted the Devourer and Garmadon) is what dark magic draws its power from, as well as curses, which is why people who are cursed go to the cursed realm, do to their soul being tainted by that darkness.

Ice Serpent

I actually don’t have much lore for Ice Serpent. He’s a mysterious character, on account of him just being a generic boss battle for the games. 

One idea I had is that he is a deity in a similar vein to Fire Fang, and that the version we meet in Shadow of Ronin is some kind of avatar of his.

He’s a serpent-type remnant of some long lost tribe, and he’s the last of his kind.

He is related to the Devourer, somehow. This idea is mostly due to the fact the Ice Serpent shares a lego model with the Devourer.

He’s just some snake, with no actual relation to any of the tribes.

[autisticandroids]

Spn ask game #7 go!

I have Thoughts but i'm intrigued

7)      What season should Supernatural have ended at? Or was s15 the right place to end? Again, dissertation required :)

i actually liked the place where supernatural ended. obviously i hated the finale, but i enjoyed everything up through 15x18. like, i’m a dabbnatural stan, sue me. obviously, there’s a huge amount of the show that i’d rewrite, given the chance. you guys all know about my s6 au, but i would also love to obliterate huge swathes of carvernatural such that it was a completely different show. like, maybe basic sketches of the plot arc remain the same, but complete overhaul on the execution. plus if this is in the same universe as my good s6 au maybe the angel politics can make a little more sense. but all of this would be in service of being in baaasically the same place, storywise, at the beginning of s12. with some changes, like kevin being back, but basically similar. now, there are things i would change about dabbnatural: i would make it succeed in its mission of deconstruction, i would make it deconstruct monsters, i would make it so lebanon was a five episode arc about the harrowing slow creep of abuse and dean-in-specific’s pathological loyalty to/identification with john that ends with them all banding together to kick john out of the bunker, obviously i would change the finale, but i LOVE dabbnatural. spn SHOULD be a dumb kidfic sitcom. i’ve seen it. i enjoy it.

[spneveryseason]

My Stuff Part 2

Fics

Short fics

I cursed the gloom that set upon us, but I know that I love you so…: the things that were sacrificed.

Favorite: it isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

Family Business: it doesn’t come naturally to him

Walk of Shame: it doesn’t always go well

Banquet: happiness comes from the smallest places

Hellscape: so, this is what it looks like

Fragile: what’s it like to feel strong?

Dress-Up: it’s scary season!

Carry On: what now?

Leader: becoming a leader, in two steps

Grip: A quiet moment in the summer of 2008

The Interview: Lilith is looking for the perfect demon to enact their vessel plan, but it’s proving more difficult than she anticipated.

Ten Whole Years: Bela isn’t taking this lying down

The Trap (poem)

A Conversation with God: exactly what you think it is

Medium fics

Tender Me a Fool: the fight for a name. Girl!Sam

In: Sam's done the hard part. He's come out. What happens next?

Like a Punch: “Can you show me?” Jack asks. Sam pauses, hand hovering over the pencil on the table. “What?” “The pencil,” Jack says, pointing towards it. “You said you were like me, right? So can you show me how you would move it?”

Let Nothing You Dismay: Jack wants to do Christmas. Sam, Dean, and Cas try their best to give him one

He Has His Father’s Eyes: Sam's losing time. He doesn't know why.

Forty Two: Dean turns forty two. He never thought he’d make it this far.

The Prophet: Sam and Dean meet Chuck, a failed writer.

The Translator: Kevin’s words have never been his own.

Heroes: Another day, another town, another hunt.

I Could Persuade No One: Sam can tell the future. Nobody believes him.

Return: Sam’s powers come back.

Thirty Eight: Sam turns thirty eight alone. That is, until Jody calls asking for his help...

Long fics

Doom Days: Fifteen years later, the hunting trips across small-town America have turned into an epic battle against the forces of Heaven and Hell, and now, against God Himself. Long-held assumptions are challenged, friendships are tested, and the tale of the Winchester brothers is concluded. We’re in the endgame, now. S15 AU

The Specialest Children: They might have all made it out alive, but it isn't over yet. And now, the Apocalypse is coming.

Meta

Speculation

Sam and Death’s Book

On a Possible s15 Ending (I was spot on btw)

Potential Endings

Character Analysis

Sam, Dean, and Being Wrong

Sam and Gadreel as Parallels

Sam Vs Dean: season 15

Sam’s Name Meaning

Sam and Mercy

Lucifer, Michael, and Chuck

Dean Parentification

Sam Broke the Cycle

Why Does Sam Have Just One Kid?

Sam and Anger

That Line in S7

Sam at Stanford

Why Law?

S2 and John

Cas, Dean, and Love

Sam is Mary

Sastiel Eras

Dean and Autonomy

Soulless Sam and the Car

Why did Cas Pull Sam Out of Hell?

S1 vs s15 Dean and Sam

Meg as a Villain

Sam in the Great Escapist

Sam in 8x23

Sam Vs Sam: a When The Levee Breaks Close Reading

On Sam’s Mindscapes

Jack in the Box

Worldbuilding Analysis

What if Mary Never Died

Why did Chuck Lose?

Spn and Horror

Things That Still Haunt Me

Humanity and Fate in Supernatural

The Mark of Cain

Medieval AU

Mob AU

College AU

Jess Lives AU

Megstiel Hospital AU

Arab/Muslim American AU

S13 and Onwards Rewrite

TFW and becoming God

Sam’s Powers: a Primer

Season 9 from Sam’s POV

Shouldn’t Dean have had Powers too?

Five Eps I would Replace

What If Dean Didn’t Go With Sam in S6?

Their Names in Arabic

S2 and Monsterhood

Edits

Images

Sam & Compassion

Dean and Jack = John and Sam

2x21 vs 11x17

Web Weaving

I Breathe Freedom

Sam & God

If I Should Die: Emily Dickinson

“Vienna” + the Finale

The Iliad

Salome

Circe

St. Faustina

Joan of Arc

Anyone Else - Shortly

Bop to the Top

Hail Mary - Skating Polly

Narutonatural

Metamorphosis - Sylvia Plath

The Return of the Prodigal Son

Roaring Twenties

Quizzes

What Dropped Supernatural Plotline Are You?

[mittensmorgul]

I was completely distracted by Dean's wacky vampire face during the 15x09 crappy ending to take it seriously at all

i think that was the point, yeah…

we were supposed to observe Chuck’s Predictions just going wackier and wackier until they completely broke suspension of disbelief. He is a BAD STORYTELLER. He’s been lampshaded as a bad storyteller all along

since s4

Chuck: I am so sorry. I mean, horror is one thing, but to be forced to live bad writing… if I would have known it was real, I would have done another pass.(Chuck, 4.18)

dabb is just shining neon lights on the fact in s15 and smacking everyone on the head with the fact

Chuck… is a terrible author, with bad ideas. In text, Chuck has admired the GoT ending… which pretty much every writer for SPN has been highly critical of… He’s also discussed “his process” which has been roundly criticized IN TEXT by both Becky and Lilith– Lilith literally being a self-aware OC-insert character specifically COMPLAINING about this, while simultaneously complaining about how she was INCAPABLE of “failing her mission” because she WAS a plot device inserted into the narrative to achieve that objective. And Becky? Telling Chuck that nobody cared about the monsters while Chuck repeatedly attempted to deny that? And now his endgame is basically Monsterpocalypse? Literally the same plot AU!Michael attempted to inflict on the world in s14 while literally complaining about Chuck-The-Author and his terrible plots and abandoned narratives? Yeahhhhhh >.>

What I’m saying is that this isn’t complicated math here.

Also I have used the word “literally” way too much here, but it’s warranted, dammit…

So… that’s the Bad Ending Chuck devised… And gosh he looked so gleefully squirrelly the whole time he was “showing Sam the unavoidable future.” It doesn’t even make SENSE. It destroys the characters completely! THAT IS THE POINT! it’s bad! he’s being mocked by dabb for it. including everything he did to Eileen… taking a female character and LITERALLY resurrecting her to be a tragic romantic interest/plot device with zero agency in the end, intending to murder her AGAIN, ONLY to drive Sam’s personal suffering over the edge. While meanwhile Rowena has been shunted off to Hell to what I suppose Chuck thinks is a “fitting end” for her character… 

Honestly, here’s another Rowena rant, but if the spn writers leave her in hell and still manage to give us everything else we want, I will be irate with them… >.>

her story is about so much more than some budding potential romance with Sam. it’s literally about rewriting her own story, changing her fate, redeeming herself for everything she’d done and STILL getting tossed into Hell after self-sacrificing to save the world… and if that isn’t what s15 is all about– about freeing themselves from Chuck’s never-ending story of tragedy and hopelessness, then I have no idea what they’ve been writing all these years. If the ONLY character who doesn’t win free of the tragic narrative is Rowena? I WILL BE PISSED.

(technically Eileen already HAS freed herself… she chose to walk away and not be used by Chuck’s awful storytelling… good for her… but meanwhile Rowena lost everything, including her life, to bring it all about, and seriously… I am SICK of women being relegated to Hell to progress the narrative of men… that was literally the inciting incident of Chuck’s story, burning Mary Winchester on the ceiling to give the male main characters a tragic backstory, and we’re supposed to be overthrowing his narrative control now, not doubling down on it at the end… let’s hope the writers recognize that…)

Okay, that’s all. >.>

[ao3feed-destiel]

Watch Where You're Going

Read it on AO3 here!https://ift.tt/2SPzprM

by ifyouloveme_letmebinge

Castiel didn't expect his move to a new school to be all rainbows and sparkles but really, having the baddest boy of the school pick on him was just the cherry on top.

>>In which Bad Boy Motorcycle Riding!Dean Winchester may or may not have a thing for Innocent Baby Who Doesn't Have Time For This!Castiel and feels ensue.

*** I came up with this at 6:30 in the morning during breakfast, don't yell at me. It's a Destiel High School AU and I made the gays acceptable in this school bc I love them too much to make them suffer.

---- ALSOOO: if any of the beginning just seems too toxic, please let me know your thoughts on it. The absolute last thing I would want to do is make light of bullying or physical violence in a school setting because it's a serious thing. I do not condone or encourage what Dean does here in any way; neither do I agree with Cas's silence regarding it. I personally thought about it as picking on someone when you have a crush on them (like in fucking elementary school) to get their attention, but if it doesn't come across as that, please let me know.

Otherwise, please enjoy our boys smack in the middle of a High School Trope!

Words: 4466, Chapters: 4/4, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Castiel Novak, Dean Winchester, Chuck Shurley, Anna Milton, Bobby Singer

Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Additional Tags: Established Castiel/Dean Winchester, High School, High School AU, High School Destiel AU, Bad Boy Dean Winchester, Dean is a senior, Cas is a Sophomore, Dean rides a motorcycle, Dean Winchester Has a Crush on Castiel, Castiel Has Feelings for Dean Winchester, Dean Winchester is Bad at Feelings, Dean Winchester Needs a Hug, Dean Is Kind Of A Bully, Minor Violence, More Like Boys Being Boys, Dean Doesn't Know How To Deal With Feelings So He Gets Aggressive, But it's okay, I Fixed It Halfway Through Because I Didn't Want To Rewrite What I Already Had, Castiel Doesn't Like Dean At First, Castiel/Dean Winchester First Kiss, Castiel/Dean Winchester Mutual Pining, Dean is a racer, Watch Me Make Stuff Up About Riding A Motorcycle, Cas Sets Him Right, Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Comfortably Bisexual Dean Winchester, It's Hard Not To Have A Crush On Dean In This One, Can't Blame Cas, I Was Mad At S15 Chuck And It Came Through Here, No Smut, Please They're Only In High School, Castiel and Dean Winchester Falling in Love, Castiel and Dean Winchester Use Their Words, Castiel and Dean Winchester Have a Profound Bond, Castiel and Dean Winchester in Love, They Belong Together Your Honor

Link: https://ift.tt/2SPzprM

[trisscar368]

*sets out tea and biscuits*

Let yourself be hurt and angry.  I am still absolutely livid and furious and go off into rants on a regular basis in discord - I try not to bring it over here cause that’s never been what I want to blog about.

I have, though, written out lots and lots of analysis rants into scrivener.  Journaling helps, getting the words out to say “I’m hurt and this is why” or “I’m angry and this is why” or “I don’t know why I don’t I just can’t stop feeling like this.”

Naming the experience is important.  Then it’s the road to finding some form of catharsis - do you need to see the characters happy, or will seeing them as hurt as you feel help, do you need to look at the show and validate how you feel about the ending or do you need to pretend the last episode doesn’t exist?  Do you need to get back into creation *away* from the fandom for a bit? (Drawing flowers or landscapes, writing about a dragon who goes on a quest to find a missing teacup to complete a set, whatever it is)

Anger and analysis been my gateway back into engaging with the show.  Step one for me was actually diving back into a breakdown of s15, which has mainly been about validating whether I should feel the way I do - which was important for me, given how the fandom has been approaching coping.  At the end of the day we’re not wrong to feel hurt.

I’ve gotten involved in several rewrites as an editor, helping people with canon and bouncing ideas back and forth.  The communication there, the engagement with people who are going through the same process of “rewatch and rage and grieve” helps.  Going back to my rewatch in s9 has also helped - it’s not the beginning of the show, it’s not the end where everything fell apart, and it’s a piece of “normal” from before things went sideways.

It does hurt to watch these characters and know the ending we were handed, but I get to talk over why it hurts with my friends, and it helps validate in my head “the ending doesn’t make sense in view of x, in view of y, in view of a b c from these seasons”.

Start reading fic again (things you had saved to your bookmarks, favorite tropes, stories that made you happy *outside* of canon or things that made you cry - things that made you *feel*).  Pull up favorite art from the archives of your blog.  Look at the things that you loved from the *fandom* - whether or not you can engage with canon again doesn’t necessarily have to dictate whether or not you can engage with the fandom and with fanworks.

You may not be able to pick up some of the projects that you were working on before the finale.  They may be the wrong theme, the wrong type - I don’t really want to work on some of the paintings I had started, my ability to handle certain ships has shifted, and I haven’t been able to touch my darkfic canonverse stories (which is 85% of what I write).  But I can handle AUs, and cracky things, and I can draw characters that I’ve already grieved (Rowena, Jo, og Charlie, etc).

Also spite is a great motivator for creativity if you can channel it.

On the burnout side, it may be time to do a bit of a dash prune.  Fandom is so angry right now (not even counting today’s drama), and people are jumping from one topic to the next, and it is exhausting.  There’s a difference between anger shared with your friends who are in the same place you are, and anger from people you don’t quite know.  One is people who validate how you feel, and the other is like standing in a room full of people shouting - even if they aren’t shouting at you it’s still loud (and I end up having to remind myself that people are angry but they’re not angry with me).

I’m super sad about SPN…now? still? I’m not sure I ever stopped feeling upset, to be honest.

I thought it’d get better with time, but it…hasn’t. I WANT to create, but every time I start to write or draw I’m reminded of all the shitty stuff I’ve been trying to ignore for a month and a half (canon, fanon, and fandom hijinks alike), and I crack open all over again.

I want to find joy in my ship again. I want to keep the promise I made before the finale aired, which was that nothing could scare me away because one episode  isn’t worth losing 15 seasons of content and an entire community of family and friends over. But…I guess I’m just overwhelmed? Burnt out? Tired of each day bringing a new uproar? I honestly don’t know.

For those of you who felt really betrayed by the finale, but have since managed to put it behind you to continue creating….how did you do it…?

[joltning]

*skitters into your asks box like a rat*

Pritty please can I have sumore Biff and Grif stuff 🥺

*skitters away*

my bad for the late reply im swamped with homework >_>

[joltning]

rvb aus

when I said I had a lot brewing I meant a LOT brewing…! god I need motivation

I’ll be splitting these into 3 sections: one offs/fic ideas, less expanded on ideas, and then my main aus/ones I have more ideas on

one offs/jokey aus/fic ideas:

feel free to take these ideas as your own, im not too attached to them

• grimmons fic where kai lives on iris and simmons is super nervous around her. grif thinks it’s because he has a crush on her but actually it’s because she keeps teasing him about his crush on grif

• teen beach rvb au. think about it man.

• au where lopez and felix betray locus before he can betray felix. and they kiss or something I don’t know

• freelancer donut au…!!! one of my firsts. not very good. has no substance. but it exists. tex donut beef goes CRAZY

• trivia murder party rvb au. i have no clue what this would entail

• slipspace (the grifball miniseries guys) team up with fh57 from s14. this was before I learned that fh57 was just funhouse. womp womp

• shis tril writer mentions that locus now “owns a food truck on Fiji” or something. someone write that Please im begging

• fast food au focusing on the lieutenants. + Frank from s15. i know him and bitters gonna be oomfs or whatever

• au where church stays in the s3 time loop and experiences generation loss, feeding bits of himself into the other soldiers in order to save them

• au where the s5 ending where they all die is canon and they all go to hell

less expanded ideas

• so basic but I’m putting it in this tier anyway. A song fic battle of the bands au, but MY WAY…!!!! I have a vision. Don’t know what it is yet but I have it

• campy horror movie rvb au, where they all claim to see different things in the woods, but it turns out literally every single person is the horror. they all embody horror tropes and are, of course, alone in the woods in a summer camp.

• started as an everything everywhere all at once au but turned into something more Evil. Anyway regular domestic au but then the ai from the “alpha universe” jump into people in the main universe when they’re “compatible.” GRIMMONS JUMPSCARE….!!!!! Simmons is gonna be the one to end the world and the ai are either helping or hindering that process. he becomes a literal monster. originally this au was made so I could experiment with purple prose + text art etc but I guess not anymore what the hell

• rvbz au…! Viper and shatter squad are two organizations, viper being a splinter group from the AOD. When they start fighting on chorus, the reds and blues take sides, splitting off into two groups, some staying neutral. both are somewhat regarded as terrorist groups, viper being victims of starlight labs and shatter being a sort of vigilante group that. isn’t very good at it.

• “split ends” au…!! I really hope to bring this one up to the top tier at some point! geotah focus because im ill but it’s mostly balanced as i wanna get all dynamics in. project freelancer, instead of having ai, has units run using a partner. Only one can use it at a time, and the other has to focus on running it, leaving them vulnerable on the battlefield. This goes for enhancements, but it also goes for other things, such as calculations, enemy tracking, etc. they can switch whenever they want. each pair has one unit. god i wish I could write the unseen freelancers because all those silly powers would be chaos. Oh, also, you can steal the armor enhancements like you would ai. Hmm.

more expanded ideas

these are in order from least important to me to most

• trailer au! one of my first aus, and the ONLY au I’ve written a full outline for. (it’s not very good now that I look back on it.) it asks the question: what if the s15 trailer was EXACTLY what it was eluding to? featuring…Frank staying on the film team and making a trio with jax and dylan, insane murder party reds and blues, spencer plot relevance (somewhat) omalley coming back, the reds and blues failing to beat Hargrove, tucker shooting wash, and one armor enhanced, cobalt colored Tucker.

• s15 rewrite au. after disliking the trailer au I made this one! the blues and reds, instead of being mirrors or even reflections of the main cast, is reflections of what they could have become if they hadn’t changed their old ways, if things had gotten worse. this is basically my snider cut i reorder a shit ton of things etc. also very important carolina was not there when biff died it was just Tex and she didn’t kill biff, she just refused to help him (that kill goes to our friend loco!) anyway it’s more centric of the idea of comparisons between people who have distinguishing differences. Also kuane exists

• interstate au! honestly I have so little in terms of plot but idea wise I have Everyhting. I cannot stop thinking about it sooo..that’s why it’s so high up. Okay I’ll be real this is honestly like a glorified swap au but it’s MY swap au. Basically everything after s5 (also the miniseries) is noncanon and it diverges from there. ft…wash getting sigmapilled by eta, red team maine, red and blue road trip, the quest to find kai (she’s kissing women) and the run from DEAD CAROLINA..!! DEAD..!! oh and church and tex are literally just ghosts. Instead of the director trying to bring back allison and fragmenting one full ai into attributes, he is trying to pair FULL AI with freelancers in an attempt to boil them down to one trait, to harvest them and combine them into a Super Dead Daughter Carolina. wash and eta, or Data (see what I did there) are the collectors which is why they’re the main antags or whatever

• TRIPLETS TRILOGY. OHHHH MY GOOODDDD. I can’t say much because I intend to actually show this one to the world, but WOW. love this one. Basically, the triplets and sherry’s squad are alive. After an alien crash lands on their planet years later, they’re left to explore and find out what they’ve missed while they were gone. It’s split into 3 ‘seasons,’ (with one scrapped mini series), takes place during the recollections, and is looking to be way shorter than I intended it to be, but oh well. It’s where my obsession with the green guy and the white fuck and sherryvera insanity comes from. why did I have to fixate on these random ass mfers what the hell. It’s canon plausible….!! It would never happen!!! But it could!!

now the rant’s done, here’s some older images. oh god ray’s hair is So wrong

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I CANT DRAW IT RIGHT NOW. BUT IM GOING CRAZY ABT THIS IDEA

s15 rewrite. Temple water theme. Temple is trying to flood the base with everyone in it and trap them inside

Temple and Tucker are stuck in one room. All the lights are out, but there’s slight moonlight coming from the surface up above. Tucker turns on his sword, underwater, illuminating the two of them and they have an underwater battle all while the water slowly boils (idk what happens after that. maybe they pass out or smth.)

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(rvb rewrite au)

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i forgot I never posted this here so.

how I see desert gulch is as people they COULD have realistically ended up as. like in a kind of “bad ending” where nothing caused them to grow and they just kind of simmer in their hatred. they already kind of mention how like, if Church didn’t die Tucker would grow more powerful and eventually die due to his own hubris. more of that pls. more small differences butterfly effecting. THATS LITERALLY THE THEME OF S15.

more under cut

i Lied. this is not a comprehensive post this is me slightly rewriting my rambles

adding the theme of the past coming back (instead of consequences) I’d LOVE Love Love to see some of the older speeches come back but be spun on their heads. Sarge’s rally speech being changed to one of hate by surge pointing out the negatives in the reds and blues instead? kimball’s speech being said by temple “fight because you deserve to win”?? PLEASE. HEAR ME.

temple: Please give him a water theme. I’ve mentioned this before but having desert gulch be a cold desert like sidewinder initially and then slowly melting into an ocean signifying the bitter, burning hatred for everything around him, also leaning into Carolina’s rivals being fire themed? PLEASE. it would also foil church with him growing farther from all the rest of the members adding onto his “nice on outside bad on inside” reverse of him. ALSO. MAKE TUCKER REALIZE ITS A BACKSTAB WAAAY BETTER. he’s been through this shit before. he knows what’s up.

buckey: there is so much for me to say but I don’t have the right words to say it. Tucker is such a strongly built character that with any of the wrong moves could have crumbled into the worst person possible. Most prominently, he’s very honest and while he does have an ego, puts his friends first. Buckey is already a SLIMEY bitch but he needs to be a liar, egotistical, and a show off at any opportunity. But not a good fighter. Noo.

surge: thanks for putting it into words youtube comment section. Make him like early seasons where he didn’t really give a shit about his soldiers at all. I really need that parallel theme to shine through with him berating his soldiers while Sarge uplifts them and clearly cares.

Gene: make him clearly disloyal from the start. he’s already pretty good but I’d love to see him backstab surge to climb the ranks. Simmons is bitchy and always critical, but I need gene to be a HATER. literally just straight up ready to claw at anyone to get his way. he is his ONLY priority.

cronut: instead of having an echo chamber of sex jokes how about you actually make him the most “alpha male” kind of person ever with the densest “i would never make a joke like that” shit ever make his masculinity so frail it would not only be funny but would be great contrast and make sense with how donut could have ended up. Sorry Cronut fans

the main difference here is that each of these characters would end up here due to their strained relationship, and clearly only tolerate each other due to necessity. the reds and blues don’t even have to do that much. they just have to sow the seeds of doubt that already exist, and wait for them to all crumble apart in a butterfly effect of hate that had always been there. And watch on, as every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

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again it’s kind of mid so I haven’t expanded on it a lot since finishing the outline

this is the trailer au where the s15 trailer is not a bait with the blues and reds and actually the reds and blues are the ones committing these crimes or whatever.

they fail, first and foremost, Hargrove getting away and church’s sacrifice being for nothing

instead of the ai signal being a fake sent by the b&rs, it’s omega who jumped out the meta last second, trying to find his ways back to the r&bs or smth. he finds his way back and ends up with Tucker, who now unknowingly has the ai power to use his armor enhancements without worry, most importantly the color changing one which he uses to change his armor to cobalt, using his power over caboose to keep the rest of the group docile with freckles

he like, gets overly aggressive with omalley’s influence and self defense turns to overt violence as the r&bs storm more and more unsc buildings trying to find where Hargrove is hiding

i don’t really like how it went because although the idea is interesting i did a really bad job balancing Tucker as morally grey. Tucker shooting wash will stay with me forever though that was the best idea ever of all time

A lot of these ideas carried over to my s15 rewrite au which i do like. thats it bye

i know this au is so mid but idc