#so it might not be canonical but eh thats the joy of fiction

[bluerosefox]

Cuckoo Clocks

Red Robin (Kinda) AU where everything during that timeline happens and Tim finally has his proof Bruce is still alive and he's ready to tell the JL and stop Ra's (whose on his way to Gotham to destroy all of things/people Bruce loves to get back at Tim for the whole blowing up his bases thing) all at once...

Only he suddenly finds a glowing green sticky note on his forehead. He is no doubt confused and jumpy from everything so far so he's tempted to forget about it and just move on but Tim has always been curious so he reads it.

"Finding the Lost in the stream will not be easy to fish out even with help gained. Find me first and I might lend you the correct lure.

Finish your battle with the False Immortal and find Phantom, he shall lead you to me and should you be right on time, I might be inclined to help.

-CW"

And Tim... well, he's done a hell of a lot of questionable things so far at this point, why not take a chance on this too.

[ayyponine]

litlerally no one asked but anyway. personal fan fiction tropes tier list

with full explanation bc if my friends and i had a power point party rn this would be my topic id subject them all to but bc of covid protecting them from my Opinions this is the only way to vent so

top tier: it’s about!! the mutual pine baby. its all about the oh i mustnt over step anything and make them uncomfortable :// stupid idiots over thinking and being sO considerate of each other that no ones willing to ruin the amicable bond by admitting they actually want to be held and possibly railed. its abt the hurt/comfort and yearning but not feeling like theyre ALLOWED anything too close to genuine affection until theres the baffled incredulous joy of clear mutual confirmation (with or without tearing up over unnecessary drama the entire confusion had caused) and then its gO time baby. things like amnesia and fake dating are specific examples of that bc it’s like oh theres more going on there than the other person is aware of in this dynamic but i cant i.. i mustnt, not until they verbally confirm they also want smth more which ofc is never going to happen so i shall be resigned to my fate of burning fiercely yet quietly for them.. sex pollen/fuck or die is a fun one to throw in there to make it spicy bc then you get repressed idiots suddenly HAVING to confront the mutual lusting like ohh nooo you only want me because of the drugs or pollen or whatever i mUSTNT take advantage of you in this fragile compromised state and the other one is like.... hghghgh im horny for you SPECIFICALLY and have been for MONTHS

2nd: yeah theyre alright. solid, reliable, approved. cant say i have much experience w arranged marriage (thats a trope? thats an entire genre in the fan community?) but ive read some thatre like what how can YOU be my soulmate? or fake relationship stuff where it slow burns into a deeper appreciation fr the other and getting to know/love them in full as they both learn to grow comfortable w opening up to letting that be discovered so eh ill take it. last three tropes in that row are more of those concrete situations that’ll like force a mutual pine/underlying thoughts to surface or to least have some personal realisations percolating in the build up to an eventual confession but i havent read a lot of those in a while and lbr drunken confessions are a lil sad and worrying, not quite as hot and straightforward as dude you either fuck.... or you DIE

mid tier: these are all so vague and could mean a million different things depending on the concrete material & pairing as well as how the writer gets it all down yknow. 100% depends on the fic summary in question. might fuck around and find out. if the historical genre in question is a regency au it might get bumped up a tier... we love bitches misunderstanding an advance at the ball or a chance meeting during an afternoon walk, hair tousled and face flush with the exercise. insert gif of 2020 emma mr knightley flinging his coat off and lying on the fuckng floor overcome

4th: idk i think if you fuck w it too much it gets too removed frm canon and becomes its own entirely new thing so i lose interest. w crossovers i think it’s either i don’t know the other thing referenced, i don’t care enough to see the things merged as an au, or i feel like ive already seen enough of that one specific trope people will copy and paste frm the other medium and it’s just like.. meh.. i’ll fuck with fluff or smth dark on a rare occasion but both of em can make me uncomfortable so it rlly depends on my mood of the day tbh

bottom tier: watch me put crack and humor in the “fuck no” category because im not here to have fun i didnt come here to make friends. college and school is also out because i am an entire 28 yr old so either it’s about characters all more than 10 yrs my junior being minors with high school crushes and fighting w their parents or there’s some typa fucky power dynamics going on which, having BEEN sort of a teacher at some point in life, just has me like, lol ew no... even if theyre both college teachers im just like listen i dont care abt academia. imma look fr my faves having cooler au jobs like tattoo artist, gardener, body guard, phone sex operator, marine biologist the wORLD is my oyster man... anyway miss me with the truly heart breaking shit like str8 up death like thats the single quickest way to get me out. unrequited/love triangles is allowed only when it ends in some type of poly revelations but if people end up sad and alone i’ll pass. cute domestic fluff involving raising a child MIGHT make the reading list but i’ll take single parent with kid SUPER enthusiastically rooting fr them to get with the sweet and genuine kindergarten teacher/local barista/new neighbour any day of the week over an entire pregnancy and giving birth thing thanks. also established relationship? very bottom of the barrel fr me personally. we love bitches getting together. we love introspection, working up to a confession and  the joy and relief of getting to that first kiss babey thats what its abOUT

[aristarshower]

Questions tag

@dragonscanbeplantstoo tagged me in two versions of the 10/11 question tag so I’m gonna answer the 21 questions at once and put them under a cut so I don’t clutter everyone’s tl!

Thank you so much for tagging me!!!!!

1. What’s one genre you really love the idea of, but are disappointed when you go to read/watch it?

Fantasy. I’m just so tired of the misogyny, racism and homophobia. So fuckinh tired.

2. Feelings about fire in general? (where my fellow pyros?)

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm no.

3. Which of your OCs is the kinkiest?

oh boi. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don’t know????????? My stories don’t have a lot of romance or smut in them?(Not against either in other’s stories I’m just not good at storylines involving romance?)

4. What is the one thing you most want a fan to say someday?

idk I’m pleased by the smallest things. Just an I love your stories is more than enough for me. But what I truly want is the insanely detailed meta that fandoms produce like wow never planned that but thats neat kind of meta you know?

5. Which OC do you think readers will like the most?

Kai i think? ik everyone will hate aux cause she is a confident female character. But I’ve seen people fall in love with kai so easily lmao.

6. Were your OCs born naturally, with pharmaceutical assistance, or via c section?

I’m not sure if you are asking in canon or if this is some kind of metaphor?

But in canon, kai was natural. 

Fun side note tho: I have a whole world (it’s in the ideas folder for now. I haven’t written anything for it I think.) in which the difference between c-sections and natural births are really important and kind of form the basics of world building and the magic an individual can have.

7. What is the single emotion that is the absolute hardest for you to write? (loneliness, loss, hopelessness, joy, etc)

uhhh hopelessness is the hardest cause it hits me hard. But actually writing it is easy cause I feel it so much?

8. If your OC were a cookie, what sort of cookie would they be?

Kai would be oatmeal chocolate chip cookie

9. How important do you think it is to describe a character’s appearance?

I tend to go  under than over with physical descriptions. But that changes with the POV. Kai files away important info especially strength and societal position and hidden weapons because of his past. But Sacrus on the other hand is attracted to the shiniest part of a person(as in the most attractive like a brilliant smile or pretty hair or twinkling eyes) because his artist brain is already figuring out how to put it on paper.

10. And, spitballing off that, which OC do you think is the prettiest?

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm they are all pretty in their own ways but the thing is none of them are conventionally(read euro centric) beautiful. 

I’m putting the other 11 questions under the cut!

What cable news channel does your favorite OC turn to for information when something dramatic happens?

no cable in fantasy land. we have vampire telepathy tho.

One of your OCs is on an impromptu road trip and stops at a gas station in the middle of the night to pee and grab something to eat. They pick a drink, a salty snack, and a sweet snack. What are they?

kai would go for blood obviously, he wouldn’t really pick something salty unless he is in pain because salt is a vampire painkiller in my verse, he would totally go for cakes tho(sweet tooth idiot) preferably something blood flavored.

Your absolute most evil OC is startled by a toaster popping. What happens next?

the evilest of my ocs is an otherwordly eldritch horror that sucks life magic and color out of the world so uhh it would probably destroy the toaster?

Your sweetest OC goes up to the McDonald’s counter to get their order only to discover that after twenty minutes of waiting, the order is wrong, and this is the third time this has happened today. What happens next?

I don’t really have sweet ocs tbh but the closest is sel who would just accept his fate and drink the wrong drink. He would probably tip them too. But if it happens to someone he loves the barista would probs get a strong talking to and the drink returned(he would compensate with a bigger tip tho).

One of your OCs is in a Disney animated movie. What’s the “big” song of that movie? (Pocahontas’ was “colors of the wind,” Aladdin was “a whole new world,” Hercules was “zero to hero” etc.

None of them are straight enough to be in disney movies but kai would probs be let it go(sorry but it kind of fits him?)

Do you think having to write while stuck out in the wilderness by yourself (in a heated cabin, food and water but no wifi, tv, or phone service) would help or hurt?

help probably? unless i get terrified. For someone who loves isolation I sure am a wuss.

But not having wifi might hurt cause sometimes i get fixated on one little detail and it would help to just get it out of my system(like naming a character or some fact) by just looking it up.

You have written or thought about writing dirty fanfiction. What is it?

I used to be a fic writer lmao. I deleted everything so eh. I’m not gonna go into details tho.

Someone offers you thirty million dollars to ghostwrite a book about how Hell is real and all dogs go there, good or bad. Do you do it?

uhhhhhh yes? what kind of question is this? Do you know how many dogs I can have with 30 million dollars?????

You will automatically get a million dollar contract for anything you write, but it has to be at least five thousand words long AND you can only use as many letters of the alphabet as complete pullups you can do. How does that work out?

I’ve never done one(1) pull up in my entire life. How dare you?

Your dog turns into a person and writes a book about your lives together, and it gets turned into a movie. During the premiere of the movie, your dog turns to you and tells you that Hell is a place of our own making. What kind of popcorn do you order?

classic salted. maybe butter and salted if im feeling wild.(we dont really get a lot of options for popcorn in movies here? its usually just salted and maybe caramel? i dont like sweets oops)

What’s a genre of fiction you don’t think you’d ever get the hang of writing?

romance or horror? romance is a really hard genre to write tbh. (for me). I have mad respect for romance writers. Horror is a no cause im a wuss.