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mercy for the diaz brothers! - a c!crimeboys web weave
call them brothers, regina spektor / steven berkoff, the fall of the house of usher / rabbi joseph telushkin, jewish literacy / antigone, jean anouilh / how i survived bobby mackey’s personal hell, lincoln / icarus, the crane wives / the lament of eustace scrubb, the oh hellos / always gold, radical face / a brother named gethsemane, natalie diaz
#web weaving#or something like that#i don’t know i’ve never done this before#just wanted to compile some of my favorite quotes/lyrics that remind me of ccrime#this is Vaguely in canonical order#web weave#c!crimeboys#c!tommy#c!wilbur#dsmp#dream smp#dsmp web weaving
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What's gabriel in this au?
Some loser, probably.
#Gabriel Ultrakill#Rain World Ancients#Ultrakill#Rain World#I CAN POST THIS NOW THAT THE FULL ATTACK IS DONE. NICE pose referenced from Act 1's ending cutscene if that wasn't blatant already#He's as of yet unnamed but I'm working on it. And also somehow not dead. Debatably. It's a crossover AU it's not adhering to RW canon#Anyway very cool style rain world has for its murals! Tried to match it to the best of my ability but my own style definitely bleeds throug#-in places. It happens#ANYWAY the reason why he's an Ancient is just because there seem to be a lot of parallels between Angels in UTKL and Ancients in RW#Both are societies obsessed with remaining free from earthly desire and keeping order; one wishes to ascend and one has already ascended-#-and has to keep it that way lest they feel the wrath of a long-absent god#Looking at the karma murals that represented the deadly sins (ish) kind of solidified that#Plus it means I don't have to take off his helmet which is always a bonus; I don't like unmasking helmeted characters#As a bonus ancients sort of seem birdlike to me? They're meant to look vague but at least two had bird feet so hell yeah. Bird time.#Enough tag talking. Here's the actual sorting tags:#Re: Inbox#Re: Anon#RW UTKL#Hrokkall Art
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just remembered that back in 2018 a few months before idw sonic had actually started they revealed tangles design a bit early and people were already saying she was gay just from looking at her and were getting the typical backlash of "omg not everything has to be gay stop saying every character is gay shes probably straight" . anyway i think thats really funny to look back at considering . everything
#wanna go back in time and show these people the whispangle lesbian flag panel and watch their heads explode#okay well they might not immediately recognize the gayness there since the current lesbian flag wasnt used yet back then. but still#somewhat related i just remembered ive seen people say that people are exaggerating and it just vaguely resembles a pride flag#bro it was the exact colors of the lesbian flag in the exact order they go in.#on a panel of two characters that are commonly headcanoned as lesbians .#who the writers/artists have admitted to trying to ship tease and said that they would make them canon if they could .#smiling and holding hands. in an issue released during pride month#i dont think its a coincidence#if it WAS a coincidence it would be the funniest coincidence ever though ill give you that#also even before whisper came into the picture tangle was still obviously gay like look at the way she interacts with blaze#ill admit that her liking blaze probably wasnt the writers intention though . but that shit was gay To Me#and to like every other lgbt sonic fan who was reading idw at the time . we all knew what she was
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so very small Worm (Wildbow), Bug Fables Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Skitter | Weaver | Taylor Hebert, Post-GM, Transmigration, Spiders, Bugs & Insects, Canon-Typical Violence
Taylor Hebert wakes up in the middle of a grassy field with an aching head, a massive blank in her memory, and approximately four more limbs than she remembers having. Approximately, of course, because one of her original four limbs appeared to be gone, and she wasn't sure how to qualify an entire abdomen suddenly spawning off of her backside. Something ingrained deeply into her skull told her she should be blaming someone, but she couldn't quite remember who.
Author's Note: Bugtober, Day 19 - Mimic. We think that Taylor would be a mimic spider if we swapped her over to BF. We have no major justification for this, but we are open to suggestions if anyone has a better idea, seeing as it's been nearly three years (we think) since we've read Worm and there are likely people on this website who are not operating on three years of character drift.
#our art#bug fables#worm#parahumans#taylor hebert#watercolor#bugtober#finished#what canon is the violence typical for? good question.#losing access to swarm tactics doesnt defang taylor but it Does mean she would have to put in more effort for gore#this is not a real fic and will not be a real fic at any point in the forseeable future btw#in order for us to write a fic we have to have read the source media within at least six months of writing#and we have been procrastinating on rereading worm#this is just a vague idea that came about from discussing what bugs the undersiders would be#generally we agreed she would be a social insect of some description but this is more Fun for the setting#she is a perfectly normal ant. who is normal. and standard.#we have previously drawn taylor approximately Never and we have not figured out mimic spider anatomy with their weirdass two segments#ehh. her disguise is perfectly passable. ants will not bat an eye at her because she smells right and ant eyesight sucks ass#for those wondering on other placements rachel is a weevil lisa is an orchid mantis brian is a ladybug and alec is a parasitoid wasp#we also decided that squealer would be a bombadier beetle. we feel no desire to clarify this decision. take it as you will#we will now fail to post anything even vaguely worm related for approximately five trillion more years
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In Other Words: Hold My Hand - Chapter 1
Weee look at me, starting another story when I have so many others left to finish 🙃 To be fair, I started this one a while ago and fully intended to get it off the ground sooner. But, you know, life. So after a sudden burst of creativity and motivation (while caught in throes of my Hux BS), here we are, chapter one ready to be released into the world. Just don't ask me when chapter two will come...
Part One: Hold My Hand
Chapter One
Hux x fem!reader | 2.4k words
Content warnings: Mention of torture/interrogation, mention of childhood abuse
It was a mystery how you'd ended up in this exact spot you currently found yourself in. The sequence of events themselves were fairly straightforward. There'd been an unexpected skirmish between some First Order troopers and your band of Resistance fighters; you and your best friend Nat had jumped foolishly into the fray despite only just having started your combat training; the Order had unsurprisingly cornered the two of you... and then, in what she probably thought to be a brilliant move, your friend had convinced the troopers you wanted to defect and join the Order. Then there was a week of nasty interrogation to ensure your stories matched up and held true. Somehow you'd both been cleared, and now here you were, standing outside the office of who would be your supervisor aboard The Finalizer, waiting to be summoned in.
What had happened was clear enough. The mystery was understanding why it had all happened. How could there possibly be good in the galaxy when it had devised such a series of unfortunate events to set you down right here, in the thick of all you despised? How could you possibly hope to improve that galaxy from here, or at the least simply benefit your own life? There was a reason espionage and spies weren't used against the First Order - a reason you'd tried repeatedly to explain to your stubborn friend to no avail.
Damn her, you grumbled to yourself, though you knew you didn't fully mean it. Sure, she'd had the idea, but you'd gone along with it. You couldn't make her shoulder all of the blame.
A swooshing sound accompanied the sudden opening of the door in front of you. You stood at attention, coming face to face with a young officer in a smart-looking hat. He clutched a datapad in the crook of his arm as if he were keeping it there on a time-out.
He didn't seem to notice your presence until he had already stepped out of the room and made to follow the hallway to the right. He paused in a second of surprise, and then made a little scoffing noise.
"He's in quite a mood," he said and gave you a knowing look, though you weren't sure what you were supposed to know by it. "Good luck."
He swiftly stalked off, leaving the doorway in front of you open to the office beyond. Fluorescent lights glowed from the ceilings inside, giving you a chance to scope out what you were walking into. Most of the room was bare up here by the door; too bare, like there was supposed to be more furniture but it had disappeared somehow. The back half of the room was more naturally filled. A large bookcase stood tall and proud along the back wall, boasting of thick tomes and unique trinkets. To the side was a low counter with a few liquor bottles and mixers. There was also a small box of some kind in the corner, with a carpeted top and a hole in the side. You weren't sure what it was for.
And placed before all of it, directly in the center, just before the threshold you now found yourself crossing, as if dividing the room between emptiness and warmth, was a large desk made of dark wood and brass furnishings. A lone chair sat in front of it for guests, while the office's owner sat in his own chair on the other side.
Hunched in his chair, was more like it. The position almost could have obscured his identity from you as you tried to get your nerves under control. But alas, the ginger hair still gave him away.
You choked.
"What," he drawled with annoyance, not bothering to look up from the work that occupied him on his desk.
Hux. The General Hux. The face of the First Order and all its terrifying advancements. He was to be your supervisor? What a cruel joke the universe was playing on you.
You stood in shocked silence, which seemed to annoy him further as he huffed and finally looked up. Whatever reproach he was prepared to give vanished as he took in your appearance.
"Who are you?"
You swallowed hard under his gaze. Never in your life did you think you'd come face to face with this man, and now here you were, mere feet away, donning the uniform of his people and completely under his authority.
Oh you were going to kill your friend for this.
"I..." Your throat felt like it was constricting. Panic would soon overtake you if you didn't shake free of its grasp now. As you'd learned in your interrogation, it would not do to show any sign of weakness in this place, not even a bit of hesitancy. And you would need that strategy even more with General Hux watching you.
You cleared your throat quickly and straightened up further. "I believe I am to be your new assistant, sir. They sent me here to report for duty."
Hux regarded you for a moment and then leaned back in his chair with a quirked eyebrow. He didn't seem annoyed anymore, but there was a sort of sneering curiosity that took its place, and you weren't sure which you'd rather be dealing with in this moment.
"Ah, yes. Deserters from the Resistance. I was so surprised by the news, I had to see one of you for myself."
He paused to gauge your reaction, though you didn't have one. You were too preoccupied with keeping yourself standing upright in his presence.
"We don't get many rebels willing to join our ranks. Though when it does happen, it's always right at the moment they have a blaster to their heads. Curious, isn't it?"
You cleared your throat. "I suppose it is, sir."
"You will call me General," he said cooly.
"Yes, General," you obeyed promptly.
He studied you for a moment, no expression on his face to indicate anything he could be thinking. Surely he was suspicious of you; he'd be foolish not to be. And you suspected that's why you were to be his assistant. In case you were a spy of some sort. You'd be in proximity to a tempting amount of good intel, but wouldn't be able to do anything with it under the General's watchful gaze. He was clever one, you'd give him that.
Though what he was considering about you now was beyond you. Maybe he was changing his mind, saw the nerves you were so desperately trying to hide, deciding playing such a game with you wouldn't be worth the trouble.
"I expect an itinerary of the next day's events on my desk each evening by 8," he finally said. He quickly moved through his words as if he'd had to recite them numerous times, and you briefly wondered how many assistants this man had gone through before you finally realized you should probably be paying closer attention. "You will also maintain reports on the health of each department I oversee, filter any feedback or escalated concerns from the department heads, and share only the most important for my attention. You will accompany me to all non-confidential meetings and take down notes...."
He trailed off and sported a small smirk.
"Do you wish to take some down now?"
You quickly nodded, hating how he was already finding ways to subtly undercut your competency.
He opened a drawer and fished out a data pad, handing it over to you and gesturing to the opposite chair, all the while maintaining that smirk. You fiddled with the device and tried to quickly note down what he'd said so far. You could feel him watching you. Your fingers shook from the anxiety of it all.
When you finally looked up at him, his face was back into something more neutral.
"Ready?" he asked softly. You realized he was being patient, an incredible relief to your nerves, so you tried for a smile with your response.
"Yes, General."
He nodded and continued, speaking almost a mile an hour as if through a well-rehearsed speech, and you did your best to keep pace. Your notes were a jumbled mess of various times and tasks, preferences and expectations. You hoped you'd be able to make sense of them later. One missed detail, and you suspected you'd be booted off the ship faster than you could say dank farrick.
"And finally," he said at last, and you couldn't help but let out the breath you'd been holding the past ten minutes, "this may go without saying but I shall state it anyway so we are perfectly clear. You will not be allowed access to outside communications."
He leveled a hard look at you, one that spoke volumes louder than his words.
"I have also waived your right to any leaves of absence. Until you have gained my full and complete trust."
You nodded, suspecting as much.
"And in all transparency, there is not a single soul in this galaxy who has managed to earn my full and complete trust. Do I make myself clear?"
You nodded again, unable to keep his gaze. A part of you was sinking at the thought. You were trapped aboard this ship. No sky, no sea, no trees. Just sterile walls and shiny floors and an endless expanse of empty space behind a viewport. You could very well die here and never feel sand beneath your toes again.
General Hux stood, and you quickly rose to match.
"That said, it will be to our mutual benefit for you to take this position seriously. I run a very tight ship so I expect nothing less than professional excellence from you."
"Yes, sir. General. Sorry. Yes, General."
He gave an almost imperceptible sigh through your flustering. You certainly weren't inspiring any confidence in your ability to do this job, not when you kept remembering how dangerously thin a line you walked here. And though you didn't exactly want to be here, you'd be damned if you were ever thought of as less than good enough.
"You are dismissed." He waved a hand as he sat back down again, his attention already returned to the stack of papers he'd been pouring over before your arrival. You were more than grateful to finally be allowed out of this situation. The emotions you'd been bottling in needed to be let out. You wasted no time in turning on your heel and scurrying away.
"Oh, one more thing," he said just before you could open the door to your freedom. "You'll be given the rank of Second Lieutenant. It means nothing other than to ensure you have proper security clearance to accompany me when needed. You can pick up your badge and insignia at the security office."
This information, as well as all you'd noted down, weighed on you as you finally made it out the door. You walked down the hall in a daze, not knowing where you were going, entirely too fixated on this bizarre situation you found yourself in. You were a Second Lieutenant aboard a First Order ship, serving directly under General Hux, and banned from even so much as glimpsing a life outside of this one. You'd never be able to see your friends or family again. In fact, you'd be helping fight against them now. Whatever service you performed for the General would be in service to the war he waged against your people.
You paused in your wandering to lean against the nearest wall, grateful that whatever part of the ship you were in didn't have much foot traffic. The side of your head rested against the cool steel walls and your eyes closed in a fight against the tears that threatened to burst forth. You focused on your breathing. In and out. In and out. No thinking, no feeling. Just breathe.
You stayed like this an undeterminable amount of time before slowly reopening your eyes and coming back to the present moment. How long the calming effects of your meditation would last, who knew, but at least you were now numb enough to get back to the tasks at hand. You'd need to find the security office. And your room, or bunks, or wherever they intended to have you sleep around here. And perhaps most importantly, you'd need to find your friend.
If not to ensure she was alright, than at least to give her a piece of your mind.
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Hux watched as discreetly as he could the disappearing form of the woman who was to be his new assistant. Even after the door slid shut behind her, his gaze still lingered on the spot she had last been.
He'd come to expect timidness from all who found themselves in his presence these days. His reputation had grown quickly and held fast, much to his relief. He still felt like he'd came into this position, this war even, much too quickly to have any real sense of confidence about it. Not that he'd let anyone see, of course, which was why he was grateful he at least had the skill of being able to put on a good show, to mask the insecurities he privately fought. Years of abuse and neglect were to thank for that.
But this woman, this rebel-turned-deserter, was throwing him off. She had been timid, yes, but had also shown all the other telltale signs of someone wanting his approval. Compliance, politeness, even a bit of pride. As if she had been raised in an old Imperial household and came here to work her way up the ladder of power with the rest of them, but still viewing him with a sort of fearful reverence.
It perplexed him. To what end was she here? An honest wish to change sides seemed unlikely, which only left the option of her being a spy. But that didn't fit the facts well, either. As a spy, she'd either be a good actor and show no signs of fear, or she'd be terrible at keeping on a game face and have no tact at all. She displayed both. He didn't know what to make of her.
He sighed, realizing he'd been endlessly ruminating again, and as a result could feel that familiar tension of an oncoming headache in his forehead. He shook himself, as if that would dispel the strain, and tried to focus back on his work.
He'd made her his assistant for a reason, to keep an eye on her, and to an extent her friend. He'd figure out their intentions soon enough, he'd just need to interact with her more.
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#star wars#hux x reader#general hux#armitage hux#first order#assistant!reader#fem!reader#friend!oc#eventual fluff#probably a slow burn#but not too slow because i'm impatient#the only one bed trope will make an appearance#and plenty of emotional constipation#pride and prejudice vibes perhaps#hand flex anyone??#canon noncompliant#ooc hux (probably)#i need him to work through his trauma okay#with the help of sweet caring reader#what else can be shoved into this vague outline i have#open to ideas#i want to please the hux girlies out there#we deserve some good hux content
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I enter the fandom crossover tag. One is a mid-2000s kids cartoon that has slowly been replaced with fanon due to cool ideas but less than great writing, the other is a Comics/Cartoon/TV show/game/movies with over 70 years of history with various writers, and ever-changing canon, making it impossible to know every single little thing.
There is an interesting writing prompt for the crossover with a good amount of notes, indicating that other people liked this prompt and have written for it and/or recommended fics with similar ideas.
I enter the notes.
WHOOPS the first one I see is someone complaining about the prompt because either
1.) they don't like the core idea of the prompt
2.) The core idea for the prompt doesn't exist in canon
3.) One persons addition later in a large reblog chain doesn't align with canon
About half of the notes are some guy on a soapbox yelling about how this prompt is stupid and bad and people replying to tell them off for soapboxing on a writing prompt
Conclusion: I am begging people to learn Tumblr etiquette and scroll pass shit they don't like PLEASE
#cryptid screaming#YES this IS about the dpxdc tag and YES this is a vague callout#question for dc fandom purists: WHY the FUCK are you in the tags for crossover content?#especially the crossover tag for the ''fuck canon this is my sandbox'' fandom?#the posts in particular are‚ in order:#a danny getting de-aged and adopted prompt#a time travel prompt featuring special codes to indicate time travel#and a prompt about danny hiding his power level from the justice league#and YES this is a great example of why i don't write fics. at ALL.#dc fandom i want to get into dc but all y'all have going for you is pandared bc y'all seem MEAN.#and it's always yall starting the fight#and i will usually judge a piece of media by its fandom bc fandom is really fun for me#whole reason i don't watch an entire genre is because the fandom was nothing but drama and hate when i looked into it
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Admittedly I don’t know much about Rae Sloane, but shouldn’t she be like smack dab in the middle of literally all the live action stuff that’s airing now?
#like. isn’t she in the shadow council or whatever? doesn’t she start the first order??#why’s everyone and their mom worried about Thrawn? like bbg you’ve got other fish to fry 🤨#I’m so woefully uneducated about canon after the battle of Endor lfjsjajfjr like I do not like the sequels#i know vaguely about the hux’s. and kix and that’s just cause he’s my fave of all time#I’m already worried about the ahsoka live series but now my biggest fear is them giving thrawn the character that rae sloane should be?#like. he’s all ‘heir to the empire’ but legends books are out and new canon is in. that should be rae sloane right?#it’d be classic Star Wars. ignoring a woman and miszharacterizing someone else to do so#the mandalorian#Ahsoka#thrawn#rae sloane#sw#Star Wars#z speaks
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technically anyone can do what they want, but sometimes changing canon sexualities really does involve utterly scraping out what makes a character tick to the point that one wonders why even fixate on that character with those particular themes in the first place
#im not vagueposting about anyone here#im vague vagueposting away from a sideblog#but also this is often about.... aromantic and asexual characters who have such a different attitude to relationships#that in order to make them *fit* with a (usually) same-gender ship you effectively make them More normative#in ways that are utterly incompatible with canon#it's also about that person thinking brokeback mountain could do with a more heterosexual read#(but also soooome people who got upset or up in arms about that should think about not perpetuating the same ideas#at aromantic and asexual characters + themes)
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love it when ppl rb my posts and try to call me out for being inaccurate abt comic lore but they don’t realize the most modern comic i have read is from 1981 lol i’m just living my truth friend
#mk.post#as if it isn’t my number one personality trait#that i’m reading all the comics in order#completely brand new to them. started in 1939#not a clue what happens in the rest of canon after 1981#other than some vague concepts and events#anyway. judge not lest ye be judged or whatever
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#GRAVITY FALLS#((ALL interactions welcome- i put the onus on ME to block as needed))#((keep ooc to dms- will seldom break character on blog))#((generally canon-compliant but will be vague on some topics until book of bill is released in order to STAY canon-compliant))#((no ship content or human bill content to avoid favoritism and discourse drama))#((A-ok with spam liking/popular blogs interacting- notif bombs dont bother me because i get serotonin from Big Number notifs))
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So I watched the new ML episodes. Did they seriously drop 3 at once or was I just not paying attention for several weeks? Also extremely funny that they’re all Kagami-centric. Like, fuck the plot, fuck continuity, someone at Gloob is a Kagami stan. 😂
#apple talks#ml spoilers#very very light spoilers like surprise. kagami is there a lot (for once)#also the fact that they were uploaded out of order on miraculous.to is just so *chefs kiss* so very ML 😂😂#absolutely hilarious to go from—wasn’t the last episode before this the marichat episode?#hilarious to go from that to what we’re immediately thrown into with these new ones#like ofc I want to see what happened in those skipped over episodes but I’m also not surprised#p sure it was like confirmed by astruc or someone on Twitter the other year the they’d so#solidify the romance in s5 so like… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#more vague and more spoilery but that fucking bombshell in (protection I think?) like someone made a shitpost about it in s3 or even s2#and it’s fucking canon holy shit
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there are SIXTEEN pll books???? for what. why
#thats so many#cant emphasize enough how much ali will be purely vibes when i write her idk canon#shes mean and being blackmailed and went missing and had her body found but it wasnt her and she was fine or whatever#idk i havent watched pll in ages and i dont think the timeline even works really#i Have watched the mikes mic videos tho so i have vague knowledge#anyway tryna work out the book order then mayhaps its time
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@ironmadin asked:
“ Due to personal reasons I will be named an enemy of the state. ”
"Madin, I regret t'inform you that after the shit we've been pullin' lately regardin' the whole..." She makes a vague, twisting hand gesture to her side to the bloodstained snow, the uniformed remnants of both Hikari's quarry and Madin's meal, "that we'll be enemies of multiple states. Not that that's a bad thing, mind, 'cause it turns out makin' an enemy of these guys is really, really fun."
There's a bit of mania in that smile as she reels her bat back up in a slugger's pose, including a small circulation of the cactus's barrel. If all they had to do was hold them back so Joseph could get that damnable pendant from them, then fine by her. It just gave her more target practice.
"Remind me t'make you a tenant in m'apartment back in the States if the conses actually end up quencin', if y'know what I mean."
#ic | an apparition that's beckoning me#bt | every day that she trains is a slap in the face to the gods#ironmadin#deliberately keeping the other party vague to fit with both aj's canon and my own where the n*zis get brutally#torn apart every time they try to be relevant to the story in any capacity#i bet madin is very excited for his doordash order!
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Why has Tumblr decided I need to know who Maverick is?
Maverick, finding his favorite ugly ass cowboy boots in the very back of the front hall closet where Ice had thought he'd successfully hidden them this time.
#maybe without ao3 I need to go through these memes and vague posts to learn about media#as I refuse to even look for the canon material#canon is a suggestion#and I take no orders from them#top gun maverick#pete maverick mitchell#who is important somehow??
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The hardest battle of my live was definitely trying to not ask you about Na/ruto (just in case if you don’t want to be seen in tags) Love your one piece content though
XD it’s fine! i’m not actually all that opposed to answering questions about nart, i just haven’t Gone There in many years so my opinions and knowledge aren’t super up to date. as i have no interest in changing that, i do appreciate you splitting the name up in your question.
gonna go ahead and assume you wanted to know more about the things i vagued about in a previous post; see below the cut for that (mostly shipping wank) talk, and if i assumed wrong feel free to send another ask with your question!
so, the reasons i brought nart up in that post were in reference to a couple phenomenon i first noticed when i was in nart fandom—but keep in mind that nart was my first animanga fandom, i’m not claiming that it’s the root of all evil here, just representative of the time (mid-00s), platforms (ff.net and lj), and the age of a lot of the fans (young).
phenomenon 1: god forbid you ship any uggos. the over the top disgusted reactions i used to see back in the day to the mere concept of shipping anyone with guy, or lee, or chouji… thankfully most of the vitriol died down by the time the series ended, though chouji still never got much love as a character or romantic interest. but oof, if you were a fan of any of those weird or unattractive guys, the fandom at large was not a safe space for you. people were asked to warn for such ships. granted, back then people were also asked to warn for any presence of slash in some parts of the internet. it was a weird, judgy time in fandom in general.
phenomenon 2: fans tend to stick with the first ship that catches their eye. sometimes a new character comes along so compelling to shippers that the major ship for a character shifts, but that’s pretty rare in my experience. even if the characters in that first ship literally interact once, you’ll probably see more fic for the first ship than any other.
…if you know your nart slash, you probably know what ship i’m referring to. >>;;
anyway, afaik that ship never had a second interaction in canon to work off, which makes its popularity feel especially egregious to me when contrasted with the three characters introduced later with deeply shippable dynamics with [character a]. and yet, it literally has more fics on ao3 than the next two [character a] slash ships combined—and nart fandom predates ao3 by a long while, so those numbers almost certainly understate the older ship’s prominence.
anyway, all that was to say that ships that are “popular” do not necessarily have “better reasons” for being shipped. sometimes they were just there first, and/or involved prettier people.
#i’m still vagueing a bit in this post because i’m a coward lmao#all due respect to ppl who ship That Ship but that could not be me#i need canon interactions in order to gaf#tos answers#hrm… urge to always tag the fandom vs urge to not encourage this fandom to see this post…#afraid the tag completionist wins this time#nart#fandom wank#—ship wank
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started another origins playthrough before i left my pc for a week and i thought about it so much that i want to restart the playthrough now that im back <3333 yayyy yippee
#been ruminating heavily on my planned origins and da2 replays.....#might make another one of those very long posts under a readmore where i weigh my options..#im trying to sort out my canon worldstate. a futile endeavor historically but . well. its fun to try :)#im still happy with my bland inquisitor steve tho <3 constantly reworking my warden and hawke but every other inquisitor ive tried to play-#-just doesnt work for me like steve does. maybe its bc i only Really like one of the inquisitor vas.#but also like. as relatively bland as he is at least he is consistent for me. i can tie together a coherent arc. there are key-.#-character defining moments.#i am Trying to find that for my warden and hawke. warden especially#my issue with my hawke is there are so many compelling directions i could take her. and i want to find the most interesting ones#whereas with my warden i Have one basically picked but figuring out the order and what events should cause what is hard.#sigh. i basically made the readmore post but without the readmore and its in the tags and very vague for some reason#i should just make the readmore post.#daposting
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