#stereotype switches

[natewynoou]

"the bayview 4 switch roles/stereotypes" what secrets do do think they'd be keeping in oouil?

Okay so! I feel like the secrets would be similar-ish for the stereotypes, but the characters would have their own twist.

Like Nate, being the nerd, would’ve cheated on a test, but his reason was to keep his scholarship, and not got Yale.

Bronwyn’s secret as an athlete would be that she did take a performance enhancing drug, and that would be the truth. It would’ve been in freshman year, and it was the only time, but it did happen.

Cooper’s secret as the Prince would probably be about him cheating on Keely, but I don’t think they would out him.

Addy’s would probably be dealing drugs, but I feel like I’m her world it would be because of her mom forcing her to get more money, because we all know how bad her mum was in the books. I feel like in this world she would’ve fallen hard once the divorce hit, and Addy had to defend for herself.

Thanks for the ask! Please keep them coming! I’m currently trying to figure out which Maisie Peters songs fit OOU characters, and it so much harder than I thought!

[ragnarokhound]

For the au ask game!

OKAY I wanted specifically to get to the pokemon au from the ask you sent, it's been cooking a bit so it's time to see what comes out of the oven, so... @azol-otl ty for the ask!

Crossover au's are all about the fused worldbuilding for me and speculating on how characters from universe A would fit into universe B heehee hoohoo - and for Batfam especially it's fun to think about the equivalent of their roles as vigilantes! What kind of people have the same level of celebrity, the same sideways seeking of justice?

Naturally this leads you to the gym leaders because a) it's the most fun and b) they are like. Quasi-law enforcement/educators/professional athletes depending on how you try to translate the innate child's perspective on the pokemon universe into something that makes sense as an adult lol ilu pokemon. [insert 'compels me though' gif here]

SO with this in mind, here's 5 fun facts (that are mostly backstory lmao) from a jaytim pokemon au I would write

I'm deeply ill about pokemon so this one goes under the cut lol:

Jason Todd used to be the Champion. He won the role after Dick Grayson quit a year or two before (Dick had been getting older and chafing under the League rules - meaning he'd been chafing under how Bruce ran the League) and was a fierce competitor who didn't believe in going easy on anyone. His Houndoom was a force to be reckoned with, and despite running a mostly Dark-type team, his Honchkrow cleaned up anyone thinking their Fighting-types could sweep. He looked after the League and Gotham with a cocky, self-assured attitude and the win record to back it up. .

Jason disappeared suddenly at the age of 15. Many assumed him dead, after a Rocket (Or whatever Gotham themed gang name we want to go with lol could be Team Joker) bombing in the area he'd last been seen, but he's officially declared missing. Bruce Wayne took back the duties of interim Champion as he once did for Dick Grayson, but he's not quite the mentor he once was. It's obvious he's grieving, and that he doesn't want to mentor any more twelve year olds. Dick signed up to be a Gym Leader shortly after this, returning from his trip about a year early to help out in the chaos following Jason's disappearance. .

Enter Tim Drake. Tim's gym challenge wasn't all that interesting in the circuit at first; he had a rocky start and had to retake a few gym challenges. He wasn't exactly sweeping on his first try every time like Jason had done. He didn't have the meteoric rise that caught the Champion's attention early, didn't get one-on-one mentorship or face-to-face meetings, cautionary advice and congratulations all rolled into one from Bruce Wayne himself - but Tim had patience and grit, and he paid attention. He was gunning for the Championship, and it wasn't just so he could prove himself. Team Rocket/Joker was still out there, and Bruce needed all the help he could get. He was always better for Gotham when he had a Robin. .

Dick had been nicknamed Robin for his all-Flying-type team and especially his Natu-then-Xatu; Jason followed up with his Murkrow-then-Honchkrow; Tim's Rookidee was one among many (Robin-esque pokemon were popularized by Dick and the trend remains through Tim's day) so he wasn't considered a possible Robin successor until it was a Corvisquire and he was about to face Dick Grayson himself, a badge away from Victory Road. By then, Tim and his team were a well-oiled machine (he runs mostly Steel-types lol but also Normal-types for the unexpected adaptability and the 'underestimate my rattata i dare you it's in the top peRCENTAGE--' of it all. FEAR.), and his loss-record had all but frozen while his win-record ticked higher and higher. .

Shit finally goes down about three years after Tim has become Champion and all but bullied Bruce into mentoring him (he basically said 'if you don't watch me, i'll go find Team Rocket/Joker on my own' and triggers all of Bruce's child endangerment traumas simultaneously) and the mysterious Rocket/Joker leader Red Hood shows up, bringing the gang out of the shadows in pursuit of a hidden agenda. Identity shenanigans and "wait is that a Houndoom? But he's only been using Ghost-types, it CAN'T be..." and heel-face turns abound. .

(BONUS FACT: Something something, Jason went into deep cover with Looker or whoever he is, that Interpol guy from X & Y (WAIT. LOOKER MIGHT ACTUALLY BE TALIA AL GHUL IN THIS AU HOHOHO), infiltrating the Rocket/Joker gang and going public as Red Hood is the first step in the last phase of the sting. Cue a million tense Jaytim interactions in which Tim is legitimately trying to take Red Hood down and Jason desperately tries to shake him so that he doesn't do anything that forces Jason to blow his cover. There is at least one 'tugged into a tight space to hide them both from the actual bad guys, "wait, did you just HELP me...?" "Think whatever you want, babybird"' interaction because I am a slut for the first sprinkles of a redemption arc that is rife with UST fufufu)

[chaos-in-one]

Shout out to gnc genderfluid people

To genderfluid people who present very masculine when they're a girl

To genderfluid people who present very feminine when they're a guy

To genderfluid people who don't present androgynous when their gender isn't aligned

To genderfluid people whose gender is partially static too, so they present as what is gnc for that gender

To genderfluid people whose gender is heavily fluid so what's gnc for their gender changes regularly

Just. Shout out to gnc genderfluid people of all kinds

[lord-squiggletits]

Answering that ask is a good reminder for me to remind everyone else that Pharma actually did nothing wrong in the way that he handled Tarn/the DJD and the t-cog blackmail, and the only reason he's villainized and seen as irredeemable scum is because the narrative wanted to have Pharma as a villain.

Literally every other time the DJD are shown attacking people on the page (or the aftermath of their attacks) it's constantly hammered in how brutal and unstoppable they are and how traumatizing it is to suffer even as a survivor who merely witnessed their methods so like LITERALLY THE ONLY REASON Pharma got singled out as selfish and cowardly is because JRO wanted him to be a villain.

And it sucks too because it's not like making the DJD terrifying was some retcon that happened 30 issues down the line. The DJD made their first on-page appearance in MTMTE #7, during which there's a whole page dedicated to the Scavengers describing every reason why it's impossible to stop the DJD-- including one person outright describing fighting the DJD as "suicide with delusions of survival."

There's no way JRO didn't know what he was going to write for #7 while he was writing the Delphi arc (#4-5, so only two issues beforehand more or less) so like. I'm sorry but there's no actual in-universe reason why Pharma should be considered evil for how he handled the DJD when every other person got to be seen as a victim/underdog hero defending themselves from horrible death. JRO just wanted there to be a mad doctor evil Autobot villain and that was that lmao

[apollos-boyfriend]

if i had a nickel for every time a piece of media’s dubious DID rep was a character who switched to a brash and murderous alter every time she sneezed, i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but how the fuck has it happened twice

[soup-mother]

at a lesbian wedding and asking the guests if they're an ex of the bride or the other bride

[petshopbutch]

thinking many "what if i DID wanna dom sometimes...." thoughts

[tennessoui]

Love the werewolf au ! Is Anakin with padme in it ? How will Obi-wan react after gaining his control back ? Will he avoid it or will he accept that Anakin is his mate ? And does Obi-wan werewolf’s dick will save the republic ?

Too many questions…

lol if anakin is with Padmé in the werewolf gffa au he’s not gonna be with her for very long LMAO like anakin is getting all the approval and attention and possessive desire he could possibly need or want from his master who has always been so careful and distant with him. And who wants him to be covered in his scent and in his kisses. And also wants to be covered in Anakin’s scent and Anakin’s kisses. Anakin has no time for anything else.

I think it would be interesting to have the bond of marriage weighed against the stewjoni instinctive mating bond, and have the latter win out! But I also can see a casual Anakin/Padmé relationship that ends very abruptly and without regret from Anakin <3

As for Obi-Wan’s reaction to discovering what he’s done and how he’s acted I feel like he’s torn between smug animalistic satisfaction and horror which leads to a lot of internal conflict and guilt anakin does not share - anakin wants to provoke him, wants to get that overwhelming sense of protection and love back. It’s now anakin’s lifeblood.

Anything else would be intolerable.

[shisens]

thinking about the accents of everybody in pelican town,,the older adults who have spent a long time there having thicker ‘countryside’ accents (whatever they would be), while the younger adults like seb, sam and abigail have less obvious ones from growing up using the internet a lot (i am projecting). sebastian has the most ‘neutral’ of them all. penny has more of a twinge, picking it up from pam. lewis, marnie, willy, george and evelyn probably have the most noticeable accents. if alex sounds too ‘city’ george makes fun of him. george does that to all the younger adults. harvey came from the city, has picked up a thing or two but still sounds distinctly like he’s from zuzu. i think it’d be funny if vincent had a thicker accent. he gives ipad kid vibes but i think jodi would restrict his screen time a lot. haley would 100% try to hide her accent, emily less so. it slips out when haley gets mad/drunk. the wizard has his own accent. nobody knows where it’s from. elliott, demetrius, shane and maru don’t have the countryside accent too because they’re also from out of town. maybe if shane did grow up in the valley and then moved away, he’s like haley, starts turning country when he’s drunk. or maybe when he’s relaxed, like around his chickens!

[meljwrites]

listen i wasnt going to say anything bcz i didnt want to intrude in their intimacy or assume things but your last reblog makes it seem like you corroborate my scientific theory that Lucas was prob the bottom

look they've had sex in canon anything goes now

I think he was probably receiving at least for their first time because he was the virgin, Dillon has had sex with girls, is bigger than him physically, and seemed like he was in charge of everything on tuesday. like what is the point of that god awful shot of dillon and the condom if not to emphasis him being the one to use it.

[sim-berry]

I felt like Han-seol'd elder makeover didn't fit his emo style, so he got a little change of clothes.

Shirt and jeans by @sim-songs, one of the best MM creators for TS3 <3

[bananonbinary]

thinking about archie comics and specifically ethel muggs, and how this character was originally designed to be incredibly ugly and unlikeable by making her tall and strong and sexually forward and giving her a gap in her teeth and short frizzy hair and a flat chest...

until eventually decades later the writers were like "actually this kicks ass" and now she's just a sweet and fun and canonically desirable girl with all those traits.

[switch]

that two-faced calf currently still alive in louisiana is a sweet little thing but i’m just not sure how i feel about them opting to not euthanize, especially since she apparently still can’t even stand. even otherwise healthy calves that just don’t begin standing normally when they’re supposed to can be extremely difficult cases, letalone one with a complication like that. they say she doesn’t… seem to be in pain, but quality of life prognosis for the handful of cases of adult two-faced cows that do survive to adulthood is nearly undocumented since their presentation is so all over the place.

in general whenever debatable quality of life cases like this become a ‘story’ my first worry is always going to be that they’ll feel incentivized to drag out the animal’s life way past if it stops being humane to do so because of the incentive of it being a ‘story’ alone.

[lady-shadow-and-darkness]

Bottom Chuuya die. Bottom Chuuya die. Bottom Chuuya DIE-

[wlwitchofwhitestone]

Also now that they've finally kissed at least the rest of fandom will catch up that they've been together the whole time. We told y'all from day one, that's a qpr. They weren't oblivious. Imogen knew Laudna had other priorities - when it came to romance, not to her - and knew exactly what Laudna was okay with. And she waited until she couldn't know, until things had changed and she had to take Laudna at her word instead, and that's what made it matter and I'm just saying. We've been here the whole time having to watch people beg every week for something to become canon that was there from the start. Watched beauj*s start to play out all over again as people swore up and down these two "lesbians" (that's a whole other post) were madly in love and hadn't realized it. Turns out they knew exactly what they were, like we said. You could've saved a lot of time if you'd realized that a kiss isn't what makes a ship canon. I've had a great 65 episodes of a canon ship away from the mainstream fascination with saying things like "whatever they've got going on," but welcome aboard.

[djungleskogs]

im kinda jealous of how involved american colleges are. like your professors actually take a personal interest in you? my tutors all barely remember peoples names and most of them don’t even try. you have mandatory classes? i went to 1 class out of 13 for one of my units this semester because i couldn’t make myself go. you are failing or need extra credits? the professor can choose to give you some. maybe it’s just my uni but they do NOT give extra credit no matter what. we don’t even get supplementary assessments so if you do badly you’re just fucked. extensions go through the uni itself and not the teaching staff. you have multiple classes per subject a week? ok maybe not all colleges but i feel like if i had more than one to go to i would show up more and would also get to actually know the people in my degree. i am four years into this and i have like. 2 friends who study law and we aren’t even in the same stage of the degree. one of my old unit coordinators was american and she had such a culture shock coming to my uni because of how detached it is. she tried to structure the unit in a way that encouraged students to actually show up to class and get to know people in the classes and she had to change it because it went against uni policy.