#too many characters to tag I'm lazy

[chemzee]

Random funzies

[troutfur]

Anon-sending-the-long-tanistry-asks back again! Maybe to keep the rivalry between Thistleclaw and Bluefur for the deputy position Thistleclaw is a close relative of Sunstar? In canon his only relative, that we know of, is his brother Featherwhisker who is a medicine cat. (in this AU would Featherwhisker have been kept from taking that path without another option for deputy?) But with a slight tweak it could be rivalry between different ideologies as well as blood vs adoption. That might even add to Tigerclaw's belief he deserves to be leader if his father/mentor impressed upon him that Bluestar stole leadership from their family. Also, will Hawkfrost and Mothwing be in RiverClan still/in this AU at all? I've always been interested in the fact that Hawkfrost was able to successfully fake a sign from StarClan, and in an AU with this kind of inheritance it'd be cool to see if that's something that's been abused in the past/something he can use in the present. Also, since Graystripe would just be a stopgap deputy (in the clan's eyes) would there be tension if Firestar didn't promote Cloudtail as soon as Brightheart had Whitekit? (Or would he make Cloudtail his deputy without reluctance?) In canon he didn't want to choose a new deputy even while everyone was sure Graystripe was gone, so I imagine a similar thing could happen here even without the pressure of Graystripe being gone. (and then if Graystripe still gets taken it could be considered a sign it's time for Firestar to choose a new heir.) At the same time I think it would be interesting to see how a rivalry between Squirrelpaw and Brambleclaw would play out. I remember in one of your original posts you speculated that Squirrelpaw would be under pressure to become a good candidate once she reached adulthood. If Firestar was refusing to replace Graystripe it might be misconstrued as him waiting for Squirrelpaw (or maybe Brambleclaw) to meet the requirements and that could add extra pressure to one or both of them. But all of this is assuming Firestar wouldn't go with the flow of Clan customs and replace Graystripe, or that he isn't actually waiting for Squirrelpaw to grow up so she can be his deputy, he very well might be waiting for that. Since this last little bit has been about Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw, that also makes me wonder if a leader's mate is an acceptable choice for deputy. Or if they're waiting for their kits to grow up if the mate is a stand in for them. I swear I don't keep plan on making these long, but every time I start typing I just seem to think or more and more things I want to ask about! I'm excited for this and I love the titles you came up with! Even though the sword is kind of just a left over, I do like that it's light and shadow being contrasted in names. (and enemies being unable to escape in battle reminds me of how Brokentail was able to take all of Raggedstar's lives in a single blow like Scourge with Tigerstar. It also adds to the way the other clans talk about ShadowClan in the first series, as ruthless fighters that have had their hearts hardened by cold North winds.) I'm excited to see what else you come up with!

Thanks so much for writing in once again! <3 It's this enthusiasm that motivates me to write and to talk publicly about my projects with y'all. I'm glad y'all are enjoying it so far and that we're getting to talk through ideas together. It's my favorite part of having this little fandom sideblog.

I very much like that idea! Thistleclaw representing an idea of blood absolutism while Bluefur representing an idea that connections through mentorship are just as valid. It's with Sunstar afterall that the mentor-apprentice deputy chain in ThunderClan starts. I can even see how in his search for returning the leadership to his family, spurred on by Thistleclaw, Tigerclaw could very well spare Whitestorm. Afterall, if either ends up as deputy it's goal accomplished, although Tigerclaw would very much prefer it was him. There's much to consider here, but that's good, thank you for the suggestion.

Oh man, Hawkfrost! Hell yeah, I like him in RiverClan. The fact he's one of the Tigerspawn really puts a different spin on his deputyship rivalry with Mistyfoot. Obviously she's the preferred candidate being related to Stonestar by blood and with stuff shifted around so Leopardfur was never an elligible candidate for deputyship he's probably Stonestar's apprentice. Afterall, giving Mothpaw to Mistyfoot and Hawkpaw to Leopardstar was an attempt to show them acceptance so if we shift the leader around Hawk had to have still been the leader's apprentice. That's also an interesting contrast to Bluefur and Thistleclaw's whole deal. Hmmmmm, this is an alluring prospect to write...

Regarding the situation with Graystripe... I feel like Firestar would be reluctant to appoint Cloudtail at all and it's definitely going to be misconstrued as him waiting on Squirrelpaw. Cloudtail had a rather... eventful youth let's say, and I can see Firestar worrying he might not be leader material, a sentiment the Clan probably agrees with to some extent. So until he shows change, or Brambleclaw meets the requirements, I don't think Firestar would cave in on replacing Graystripe. Squirrelpaw is an afterthought in deputy considerations I feel. Fire doesn't want to pile on too much pressure on her, but of course that's not the message the rest of the Clan is getting. So he pressures her kind of on accident? And I don't think she'd confront her dad about it so it's pressure she's got to bear on her own.

ACTUALLY THAT'S SUCH A BRILLIANT IDEA! I think it fits with this insecurity that's so characteristic of Bramble has if he starts thinking of Squirrelpaw, a teenage girl, as his rival from early on. All the while Squirrelpaw is triyng so hard to fit into the mold everyone assumes her father wants to put her in and it's kind of exhausting for her. She probably much rather Bramble actually get the stupid deputyship so she can have space to breathe.

Of course, as these things go she can't really express it outwardly so the two are locked into this conflict until then. I don't see them getting together within the same timeframe as in canon. Perhaps later after he has locked in the deputyship and she needs someone to help her out with the kits Leafpool asked her to take. I'm imagining something akin to solacefruit's but I couldn't care for the history as the start of their relationship and as they act the part of mates and parents they eventually fall in love?

GOSH, this is so cute. I'm not often one for wholesome Bramblesquirrel, even when I'm in full Brambledad revisionist fanfictions mode I tend to split them up or else have their relationship still be strained at best. But I just cannot pass up the cuteness of this concept. Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight can have a wholesome relationship, as a treat.

I would say in Bramble's case having Squirrel as deputy probably would have more to do with her being Firestar's daughter than with her being his mate. So yeah, typically mate of the leader not an acceptable choice, the mate in question would have to have other relationship to power in order to really be elligible.

RIGHT! That's another connection between ShadowClan and the Sword of Light. They are a clan of ruthless fighters, not letting their enemies retreat until they're done with them. It very much fits them, I love that angle to it. Thank you again anon. You and everyone else writing in are just the best.

[boydswan]

七人の侍 (1954) | 監督 · 黑沢明

[redthemarten]

This was fun!

(also don't get me wrong, electro characters are super OK. It's just that somehow I don't feel like there's one that quite does it for me yet, you know;;; it felt wrong to put just anyone along my other #1s)

Template from here <3

[thatdyingacewhoneedstheirspace]

fic I'm working on

alright so there's this fic i'm working on, it's Jegulus. Ok i dont really know where i'm going with this post other than letting y'all know that for the next while i'm gonna be giving some background on my fic and introducing major OCs in it. Something important to remember is that my timeline has Marauders era in the 80s as opposed to the 70s mostly so that my OCs from the future can be from present day. also last thing i can draw for shit so i'm gonna be using one of those OC creator sites to show my characters appearances

[furashuban]

I'm only 2 episodes shy of finishing Season 3 but I REALLY need to get this out my chest before I continue...

The Forgotten Lake is by far my favourite episode of the season—I'm really positive that this may be (or already is) THE BEST episode of the season (and heck there's still an hour long finale for me to get to but EVEN THEN)

A LOT to unpack in that episode but a Johanna-centric story is categorically one of the best thing to happen to this series and I didn't think they could make us love Johanna more than we already did but my god she is just PERFECT HHHHHH <333 Nothing could've prepared me for getting to see all the sides we've seen of her in this ep from best mum as she always was, to talented artist to survival-horror protagonist I'm losing my mind over how much I adore this woman 🥺

[fish-with-more-eyes]

mr. refreshing (ft. tiny yaku)

[mayarsh]

Guys, sorry for disappearing from this hellsite for a few days :"D

I was trying to fix my relationship with my schoolmates, everything's good now, don't worry 👌

Oh yeah, i forced them to watch madoka magica nyahahaahaha (and then they forced me to watch Jujutsu Kaisen, karma is real)

[cheshirette]

current roster.. i gotta make more but work calls for me lol

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[strebcrarchives]

I put waaay too much thought into this

[boyfridged]

Do you agree that Jason, as written by Winnick in UTRH and Lost Days, acts out of character post-resurrection if we take into account his post-crisis robin days? If yes, how would you have him act/react to stuff after he comes back from the dead?

tldr: i definitely agree. moreover, classism plays a huge role in it, and i don’t think that at this point the storyline could lose these implications, which makes trying to conceive what an “in character” (for robin jay) version of these events would be quite difficult. 

let’s just start from saying that i don't think it's a secret that i don't really like winick in general. despite his work being mad interesting on a conceptual level (and style-wise, genuinely well written!), he has no love for the characters he writes about. 

imo utrh shouldn't even ever make it into the mainstream batman timeline. i am aware that this is a radical opinion, but my take is that it would do best as an elseworld story (and in this version too it would need some tweaks here and there), because it made damage both to the mythos of batman and jason's legacy that can never be undone. the very premise of the story is so deeply disconnected from jay's original place in the narrative, and so classist at its roots, that there's not much room to truly fix it. 

(i want to say, preemptively, that i am aware that there are people who read utrh as a story of a revolutionary and a victim – and they have the right to do so, but ngl, my view has always been that it was never written as that. utrh reinforces so many stereotypes that it overshadows the revenge tragedy spirit of it all.) 

another disclaimer is that, to be honest, jay doesn't have a very consistent characterization even in his 80s run, and it also has some classist implications that ideally should be either erased or addressed in the text (that winick instead exaggerated and put at the very front of his storytelling.) starlin's writing is, at the end of the day and very much ironically, more sympathetic and gentler in evaluating jay (simply because at the time he would not get away with changes too blatant) but details such as jay saying that "all life is game" and his random nonchalant behaviour that has its origin in the very beginning of starlin’s run are already signs of it. some readers will trace jason's arrogance prevalent in his red hood era to these issues and say that his actions post-res are therefore a logical extension of his robin days, but i don't buy it. even if you want to lean into starlin-esque characterisation, if you consider the core problem of the garzonas plotline – which is power, jay shouldn’t look into the solution of anything in climbing to the top. and if he did, it would have to be written as a “becoming what you feared/hated most” kind of story, which i can see a certain appeal in (and which would at least acknowledge that it was not his initial personality), but which would go back to its classist assumption of cycles of violence and doomed fates.

so – how to make his post-res era more accurate to his post-crisis robin days (and least classist in the process)?

if we were to follow my fav iterations of his characterisation (barr’s detective comics and the ntt appearances) tbh I don’t think a lot would happen, because his personality is quite mild, and just so hopeful there that i wouldn’t expect any extreme actions from him – but then again, the circumstances that he finds himself in post-res, the trauma, and his sensitivity do warrant grief that should become a driving force in his life from now on. the question is, what to do with this grief as a plot device?

i know that plenty of jason fans hate this take but I actually think the concept of jason trying to be detached and cruel but being bad at it might be one of the least offensive to his 80s characterisation. it’s def not accurate to pre-52 canon (apart from countdown perhaps) but imo for jay to be authentic and nuanced he should be conflicted about his own actions. his overconfident behaviour should be a pose – just as his frantic acts in his origin story as robin were. (again, something that many readers don't take notice of – but reading the rest of collins' writing wherein jay quickly settles into being easy-going and even a bit shy is proof of it.)

these two points lead to the “no good deed” narrative that I often talk about - the reading that jason saw his intuitive and self-sacrificial kind tendencies as something that brought him pain and that never was quite efficient, and that post-res he intentionally tried training himself out of. there are some flashes of it here and there throughout the years of the red hood publishing history, but it never got a true spotlight. and if i were to write lost days, jason flinching at his own violence would be a focal point of the story. 

moving on to utrh; i have spoken about it at length before but I think if he were written 1. with more political sensitivity 2. to have retained the same maturity re: the social order 3. to have the same idea of morality, he should have followed more of actual revolutionary tracks and the whole “drug lord” authoritarian figure schtick along with the idiotic idea of “controlling crime” would have to be thrown out of the window. 

and, later on, forgiveness should play a big role in his story. he's so quick to forgive and justify everyone in his robin run – this is also why i reckon his team up with harvey in tfz was a wasted opportunity.

so, in conclusion – perhaps not that much would have to change re: his actions but definitely a lot should change regarding his emotional journey and his position. i would def throw out a lot of mindless violence and power posturing out of it though. and perhaps make him a bit more polite just for the sake of more consistency (this is not me taking a moral stance btw nor tone policing a fictional character. i just think it would be more faithful to his 80s writing unless you want to make him explicitly scared. and it would be funnier tbh.)

[eunchancorner]

Share ideas? :o

OK SO I ALSO HAVE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS LINED UP FOR THIS

But not the ones you and Sunny talked about. or at least not the roles.

As you know I like to make my favorites the stars, as anyone does, so this was my thought process (in no real particular order)

Kevin- Hamilton Ethan- Burr Streber- Laurens Leon- Mulligan Radford- Lafayette Jack- Washington Lila- Eliza Aria- Angelica Liv- Peggy Skiddad- King George Ignacio- Seabury Diego- Lee (just bc it'd be funny)

I mostly just use these for animatics in my head. I wish I could project my thoughts to you bc it looks so cool in my head

[londonhalcyon]

I’m not sure if you’ve talked about this before but how tall are the characters? Specifically, what’s the height difference between Lily and Merula? :)

Lily and Merula are a missed opportunity for a height difference. There's only about an inch difference between them since I've kind of locked myself in to saying Lily is around 5' 5" while Merula rounds up to 5' 4". (Merula leaning more towards the shorter side than Lily feels right to me, but for some reason when I write them together, I keep picturing Merula as taller and I have to keep mentally correcting myself.) Merula's more leggy than Lily though, so while Lily is technically taller, Merula has longer legs.

Penny I haven't been able to pin down. She's either similar to Lily and Merula or taller than them. Maybe around 5' 6"?

Tonks is canonically 5' 6". Tulip is shorter than her, and short in general. Maybe around 5' 1" or 5' 2".

Kathy is around 5' 2". Sam is around 5' 8" or 5' 9".

Mason hasn't passed Sam in height yet, but he will eventually, probably stopping around 5' 10" or so. Robin is currently the shortest of the trio, still around Lily's height, but he'll eventually be the tallest around 6'.

Conall's probably 5' 11" or something. Mrs. Byrne is solidly at 5'. Rosmerta, for some reason, I picture as being tallish, even though her actress is only like 5' 2". Maybe 5' 8" or taller?

I haven't really thought about anyone else. This has mainly just been based on how I vaguely picture them in my head as I'm writing.

[kaluawoo]

What is it about Servamp in particular that keeps giving me new rarepairs?? Like I have some in other fandoms but Servamp is unique in just how many.

[lunarlaaad]

judging you based on what hxh character you simp for

(only includes characters that aren’t children)

Kurapika: You picked the safe/common option. Either you’re gay for him or started crushing after you found out he was a guy.

Leorio: You are the sweetest person on this planet earth my goodness- but really, what is it? The glasses? The weird hair? What-

Hisoka: You are a freak. /derogatory

Chrollo: I kinda get it. Guy who never loses his cool, (his aesthetic is okay I guess), but the hairline...? You’re probably a former gifted kid.

Illumi: He’s perfect. You get a free pass. /j (You have issues.)

Feitan: You have great taste. You’re probably really sweet and are generally into tsunderes.

Machi: You have the most refined taste ever. When you simp, you simp HARD.

The small percentage of Ging simps: what the actual fuck

[theelispace]

I feel like Aubrey would do both illegal drugs and arson

AND ALSO MARI IS SO INNOCENT SHE WOULDN'T DO THAT--

/lh