#this is maddys fault

[wulfums]

thinking so heavily abt a skyrim smiling friends au

i can see the smiling friends company itself being a mix of the companions and the dark brotherhood with frowning friends being the thieves guild equivilant (but absolutely tries to muscle in on smiling friends companions and dark brotherhood contracts)

nothing goes like it does in game but the settings are similar bcuz its a fun world. so like daedric princes are the same, lore of that is the same.

but i put smiling friends in there

grim and gnarly actually kind of suck at being in the thieves guild. to the point to where mr boss just buys it so he just owns all three guilds but also lets them compete because why not. meanwhile grim is seething because he was so gonna buy the guild from the former leader when he saved up enough...meanwhile gnarly is like. no you werent.

gristle's lore gets changed a bit. hes a demi-god daedra Thang who has had flings with like. most of the princes. and talks abt this shit so casually. but he pissed the wrong one off and now hes mortal and so bitter abt it. he makes some good drinks though so he gets to be the tavern keeper of the thieves guild. and is dating grim and gnarly still. 3G forever.

i think some of the Other members of the thieves guild are other side characters. i think itd be fun if thats where zoey and marge are.

the thieves guild is literally just the "you didnt make the cut for the main cast" guild. esp after mr boss buys it, they get side jobs not important enough for the main smiling guys.

mr boss is the dragonborn and the alduin crisis never happens because he makes alduin uncomfortable so alduin chooses to not show up. mr boss and parthunaxx are besties.

instead of the dark brotherhood sanctuary, the smiling friends are located in whiterun, the companions hall. the werewolf thing isnt a thing, though whatwulf is a werewolf and offers any new recruits. mostly as a joke. but because they let whatwulf join, knowing hes a werewolf, the silver hand IS still an issue bcuz they want that shart DEAD! so whatwulf ends up working the skyforge and not doing anything fighting wise. he WANTS to but allan is like oh absolutely not. and you find it its bcuz whatwulf straight up almost died once protecting allan bcuz they got in a fight w the silver hand (allanwulf are married)

i think maybe allan is also a werewolf but he doesnt like talking about it. and has full control over changing so he only does it if he needs to protect his husband. so the silver hand dont even Know hes a werewolf. allan also did this bcuz he wants to know in the afterlife he'll still b w his husband, and honestly hunting w hircine for eternity w his husband? doesnt sound that bad.

pim and charlie are often sheild brothers and are the ones to go thru most of the main storylines Of Course! they also get a lot of the most bullshit jobs.

a lot of ep storylines are the same concepts but skyrimified. like they get called to an underground cave to deal with a weird fucking guy- but its professor psychotic and hes like WAIT HEAR ME OUT- so a longass questline involving going to talk to doug and then the homonculus hatching, etc happens

sorry im having fun thinking abt this hehe

[nessa-harp]

So I find myself binge reading a lot of Sonic 3 fanfiction on AO3 and I noticed that many of these fanfics involve Shadow being adopted by the Wachowski’s or Agent Stone.

Content warning: child abuse, corporal punishment.

While most of them are rather innocent, I unfortunately came across a fanfic series that had age regression themes involving Tom and Maddie spanking their children, including Shadow even though he’s a super-powered teenager. As someone with a troubled childhood, it was unsurprising that I did not like what I just read. (which was my fault because I forgot to read the tags.) Usually, I would simply ignore these stories because, at the end of the day, it’s just a super OOC Sonic fanfic (water is wet) that was made as an obvious outlet for the author, but it’s got me thinking…

For one, hitting Shadow as punishment for bad behavior would cause more harm than good. While yes, Gerald spanking Ivo was meant to be a funny throwaway scene to show how childish Ivo was being, it may imply that Gerald used corporal punishment against those under his care. Like, the guy is old fashioned. (and by old fashioned, I mean sexist as hell.)

It wouldn’t surprise me that Gerald or others harmed Shadow in such a way whenever he misbehaved. If Maddie, Tom, or Stone used the same method against Shadow, it would most likely exacerbate his trauma because it would remind him of a time when he was simply an experiment to be used and controlled, a time when he was never allowed to disobey a human or make a mistake or else he’d be harmed.

I’m actually surprised fanfic writers who enjoy Shadow the Hedgehog angst haven’t explored this possibility. Just imagine Agent Stone hating Gerald even more because he eventually discovers that Gerald used to hit Shadow because the poor hedgehog would flinch whenever someone lifted their hand with an open palm.

(Yes, I like the idea of Stone adopting Shadow more than the Wachowskis. Sonic’s family is already overwhelmed with having three mobian children in their house. I doubt they’d open up their home to someone who almost killed one of their family members. I’m sure Tom and Maddie are very forgiving people but not to that extent.)

[lover-of-mine]

[dollfat]

"i waited for her to come back and force me into the ground" is so bittersweet. fearing change and hoping someone will make the decision for you.

[ranbling]

I'm sorry, but did Made take a picture of Buck during his "I'm not in love with Eddie, he's straight!" rant and sent it to Eddie??

[coff33andb00ks]

🌈 + max + green :D

Maaaaxxxxx 🥰🥰

Join me at the 1k bonfire!

Max is an ocean kinda guy. He's blue. Everyone knows this. On breaks and off season he's always on a yacht or at a beach. He enjoys the tumultuous nature of the sea, and sometimes you reflect that he sees himself in the churning waves and unexplored depths. If asked he'll tell you that he just likes it is all, schatje, don't go psychoanalysing him please.

But this summer break is different. Where do you want to go, he asked. What do you want to do?

You wanted to just be with him. You're not an ocean kinda person but you were willing to face your fears of sharks and whatever else was lurking in there to spend down time with Max. He insisted, though, that you choose somewhere, and so you chose somewhere guaranteed to give him peace and quiet. No yachts, no waves, nothing that will feed his need for adrenaline rushes constantly.

And it's here, in the cozy cabin tucked on a mountainside, that you see Max at true calm. Dappled sunlight through the trees dances across his face as you share a hammock with him. His fingers sweep through the bed of clover, finding four-leaved ones with ease. His smiling face against the backdrop of lush trees, his laughter melding with the splashing stream on a morning hike.

Max is an ocean kinda guy. He's blue.

But you're learning that he's also a summertime mountains kinda guy, too. He's verdant.

[tightjeansjavi]

Joel Miller’s hands…mmm yeah..hands..they’re so—yeah. Hands

Woof

[kaylatoonz]

I started getting into Danny phantom/dp crossover fanfic again…

…. am I the only one who doesn’t care for the “Fentons are bad parents” trope or doesn’t actually think the fentons are neglective or abusive toward their kids.

I know it’s been a while since I watched the series but remember them actually trying to spend time with them and are even willing to give up ghost hunting for their kids(they don’t cuz status quo). Heck they accepted Danny being half ghost in three different timelines (one of them being a time line where they never had Danny).

But I also remember the bad parent humor that the series had which could be the blame ( like rise TMNT or lab rats). I think a lot of shows back then (and sometimes now) want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the parent to be loving and caring to the MC but they also want that bad parents humor.

I don’t know.. I think it just bug me that instead acknowledging their flaws and development them as characters that grow past them, most fans just double down and replace Danny’s family (and sometimes friends too) for the found family plot(or angst).

I know it’s just AU sometimes but it still bugs me and It really takes me out the story sometimes. Almost every dp fic or dp x crossover is like this.

It’s even weirder when some fans push that vlad and/or the ghost that Danny fights would be better guardians then the Fentons (and I’m not talking about his allies or redeemed ghost).



[momowoah]

Okay but I really think that the worst part is that this is season seven. Unless they're planning to turn 9-1-1 into the new Grey's Anatomy the chances of us being already in the final half of the show are huge. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be any drama, but the characters should've started to go forward, and yet nearly all of them feel stuck in the same place they have been for several seasons. Or should I say 2-3 seasons?

tldr: all/most S7 storylines were either useless in the long run or recycles. The only characters who had storylines on the good side of the scale (as in, they helped the characters develop and move to a new place in their lives) were Maddie and Chimney (and maybe Buck but he's on thin ice). All the characters are back to the same place they were in s4/s5. It's probably TM's fault. This shouldn't be happening in a 7th season.

(really long post under the cut but worth it imo)

Bobby and Athena had a whole seven episodes for their storylines and yet it didn't significantly change anything about them or their relationship. The doubts of how they are when they're at peace that were brought up in ep1 ended up not being addressed at all. We started the season with what was supposed to be this huge thing in their relationship and it was just never brought up again! Instead they put bathena through distress again just for the sake of being dramatic. And while I'm extremely glad we got Amir and think there were several high points in his storyline, what difference did it make in the long run? Yes, it brought up interesting things to Bobby's storyline, such as more insight into his childhood and the chance for him to explore another side of the fire he caused, but is it going to change anything? No! Bobby will be reinstated in S8 bc that's just how these things go, and I doubt they'll put any effort to continue the survivors storyline. I'd bet it'll just be ignored in the next seasons.

Hen and Karen have been trying for YEARS AND YEARS to adopt a child and they just can't let them! As a wlw, do you know how awful that is to watch? Seeing them fail time and time again and have their family broken up once again just because??? It was one thing with Nia, she got a happy ending, but that wasn't the case with Mara. The best thing for everyone involved would be for her to stay with Hen and Karen, but they blew it up. I know she's with Madney, but it's not the fucking same. Why do they have to go through this again? Why can't they finally get the family they've spent years fighting for? Why can't the drama be about anything else, why does it have to be about failed adoptions? I've seen this enough times before. Why not let them be able to adopt???? Why? I'm genuinely upset abt this btw, probably more than about anything else that went down.

Buck got to finally come out and it was great but instead of taking it as an opportunity to let him grow into himself they just threw him right back into the hamster wheel of dating people who are either not fully into him or who he's not fully into. (if you like bt probably skip the rest of this paragraph but I'd also be upset about how they're handling them if I liked the ship bc I liked the previous bt and they did something similar to them lol) Tommy's behavior could be explained away at first, but I feel like time and time again the show goes the extra mile to make him uninterested in Buck or just straight up an asshole to him? Instead of taking the small opportunities of portraying them as a healthy happy couple they just consistently screw up their relationship? They're not the couple I support but even then I wanted them to be good together bc I want Buck to be happy, and yet all we get is this?

I don't even have words about Eddie, especially considering what rg has said about him destroying his life and possibly reverting back to military no emotions mode next season. WHY CAN'T HE BE HAPPY? We already saw him break down, WE'VE ALREADY HAD A STORYLINE ABOUT HIM REBUILDING HIS LIFE, but happiness is boring so now he has to ruin his relationship with his son too right? It just pisses me off how they go about his character sometimes. I liked that they were bringing back the Shannon storyline because he was supposed to be able to finally move on, but this wasn't about that. No, it was about retraumatizing Eddie and Chris and splitting them up at a time when they should be leaning on each other and healing, because Chris has also been suffering with the Shannon stuff. We saw it in fucking ep 1. Don't even get me started on the Marisol stuff because idek why she was there at all. Literally don't get it. We had an off-screen breakup anyways. She wasn't relevant at all to anything that happened. Why was she even there? I'm genuinely asking. The only Eddie arc that has some positive potential for next season is him dealing with his relationship with religion (especially if they tie it to the military and the way he lives his life for others' expectations), but tbh I don't trust them not to fuck it up.

Finally, I don't have complaints about madney, except for why tf was Maddie so absent this season? The wedding episode was all about Chimney (who was also maybe kinda missing tbh), and although I love him and his backstory and the opportunity to see Kevin again, I really wanted it to be about their relationship, since it was their wedding, yk. Dispatch was also severely under utilized. We did get the 7x07 Maddie plotline and it might've been bc it was a shortened season but yeah, I'm still not that satisfied.

So, we have all the characters stuck in places they've been before. More specifically, in the place they were in season 4/5. Bathena relationship problems followed by a life threatening situation? Check. Henren struggling with adoption? Check. Buck getting into what was supposed to be a good relationship only for it to end up going really bad? Check. Eddie struggling with relationships and his mental health going to hell? Check. Madney in a good place with a new child and about to have an awful fucking time? Hopefully just check for the first part. And you know which question this makes me ask? It's whether Tim Minear is just reverting everyone to their s4 state out of spite for the seasons he was away. And even if it is a genuine attempt at getting the show back on the track he wanted out of good intentions, it still sucks, because it doesn't change the fact that it is just a repeat of old storylines. I actually complained at this before the show even aired, but (iirc) I ended up deleting my post because I thought that I was just overreacting. Guess what? I fucking wasn't, bc that's EXACTLY what they did.

Now, going back to the start of this post, the reason why all these storylines suck so much is not that they are bad. It's not even that they aren't original. No, it's the fact that we're doing storylines that belong in the fourth or fifth season of a show in its seventh season. Even the Gerrard plotline, which is new to 9-1-1, feels like it came too late, because the split up crew/villain captain storyline tends to happen much sooner in procedurals, and for a reason. Besides the fact that this was never really a big bad type of show and I don't get why they are making it one all of a sudden, and ignoring the fact that Gerrard being brought back as captain, especially to the 118 of all places, makes no fucking sense, that kind of plotline is one that it's obviously always temporary. No one believes he'll still be the captain by the end of 8A, much less by the end of the season. He'll hardly survive the first 3-5 episodes. That's ultimately a filler storyline. It helps the show go on for longer, it might even help in the development of a couple characters, but at the end of the day it doesn't change anything, which appears to be a recurring theme when it comes to 9-1-1 storylines.

The reason I have a problem with this is that we don't need a filler storyline, because no one knows whether the show has the luxury of taking its sweet time. Yeah, it has a huge audience and it is doing good numbers, but it is still a fucking money pit that was already cancelled once and it's unsustainable on the long run. It might not end that soon, but is it honestly going to reach season 14? Does anyone truly think that we've only seen half of it (or less) so far? Because I don't. Not many shows make it that far, and there's a reason for that. We have three huge names who are extremely important to the show. What happens if they get tired? What happens if someone gets a better offer? What happens if we're still revisiting old storylines when that happens? Do we get an incomplete story or a rushed one?

The show should be moving forward, even if there are no plans for it to end soon. We have the drama of the huge disasters 9-1-1 loves. We have the drama of the cases. We have a myriad of new possible dramatic storylines for the characters that show development without being too final. Athena could have so many different job related storylines (from moving up in her career to abandoning it), and her and Bobby's storyline from the beginning of the season about being boring together can be played in a good and dramatic line. Henren and Madney have a whole world of parenting issues that they could go through. Buck and Eddie both still need either an endgame love interest (whether it's each other or not) or to get to the point where they are fine not having one, and we have all of the relationship trouble that comes with that. This show can give us new things, storylines that are good for the characters, without losing the dramatic factor (which, if I'm being honest, would not be a deal breaker for me). Yet, it refuses to, and probably not for a good reason, because it comes down to either Tim wanting to rewrite history or just trying to drag this show for as long as possible (which apparently he only knows how to do by refusing to make the characters happy). And you know what? I'm fucking mad about it, and I think you should be too.

Btw, this is not to say the whole season sucked. We got Madney and Henren together multiple times which was great. We finally got Bi Buck. There were several amazing acting moments for both the main and recurring actors. As a standalone season, it was good. It just doesn't work when you look at the bigger picture.

[thebuckandeddiething]

That, kids, is why bachelor parties should be at least a week before the actual wedding... Every possible problem solved: you can replace ruined or burned (jesus christ, Buck...) clothes, nobody's hungover and most importantly NO ONE (ALMOST) MISSES THE FUCKING WEDDING

[thetorturedlovergirl]

I- pls stop letting Maddy use their phone pls make her sleep

Im still giggling ngl this is so bizarre

[ashleyishere24]

Maddie is innocent

[sloasis]

Okay but .. what did Maddie write in that letter ☹️

[timelinemh24]

First:

A FUCKING POSTER OF EVER AFTER HIGH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA!!

Second:

All my life I thought these two were mute. I feel cheated 🙃

Third:

AAH THE LAGOONA FAMILY!!

I love how big it is.

There's something about the design of his marine family that I don't like. I feel like they didn't take much risk with them. I'm very sure it's the standard design for marine beings in the middle. But I guess it makes sense seeing Lagoona's appearance. (although I would have liked something more striking)

[dangerpronebuddie]

Buck gives Eddie a ring camera - they have separate shifts, Chims trying to teach Eddie how to use it - connects to Bucks house where they hear and see him talking to his friends about a plan to get over Eddie an it starts that night (maybe bucks gonna fuck someone else or maybe he’s just got a date idk) que Eddie freaking out

Im never gonna write it so you’ll have to deal with this idea stuck in your head just like mine

Nonnie, how dare you (affectionate) 😁

I saw this at 8am. By 10am, I had the thing written. I don't know what possessed me. Hope this is something like what you had in mind! 🥰😘

Ta da! 🎉

Lost Control And Rang Your Bell 3k

"I can't lose him, Maddie." "Who says you will?" she asks. "I know him. I know what he'd do," Buck says. "He'd let me down easy, because he's just that good. He'd say we can still be friends, but it'll be awkward and weird, and I can't do that to him." "You don't even know how he feels," Maddie says. "You're taking his chance to tell you away from him." Jealousy curls around Eddie's chest like a climbing vine. Buck hasn't mentioned any new crushes. For a brief moment, Eddie thinks maybe he means Tommy, but they aren't friends, not really. Haven't stayed in touch since the ship. Unless Eddie just didn't know. "I have to," Buck says, his voice breaking. "Maybe we shouldn't be listening to this," Chim whispers, like they could actually hear him. Maddie speaks before Eddie has the chance to say anything. Chim, just as nosy, doesn't leave the app. (Or, Buck buys Eddie a Ring doorbell and Eddie overhears something he really shouldn't have).

Read on ao3

[fionaswhvre]

And if I say Buck is thinking of Maddie here:

I loved her and she left me anyway.