#we INVENTED canon

[notfeelingthyaster]

coming back to this post almost two years later to say that we (almost) doubled it!!! just in time for the newest season and more fifteen minutes of content!

we did that with 15min of screentime and vaguely homoerotic energy, i'm proud

[pokeberry5]

i finished resolve and i love it sm ;-; i'm planning to go through and redraw some of my favorite moments, so i'll probably be posting these in batches. stay tuned

edit: next batch ; also adventures

i can't believe we got crossdressing in an ace attorney game. i love that the entire court keeps talking about how handsome ryuutaro is

what would we do without susato.

[duncanor]

How can Jayvik not be romantic when they were directly put in parallel to Ekko/Jinx in the good timeline.

[knight-says-rollout]

“how would it work if Cybertronians had disabilities” “What if there were disabled Cybertronians”

THERE ARE

THERE ARE

loosing my mind at how some things that are So good can be So niche why can’t we just be a hivemind

Just one example, my favorite example, is:

Shattered Glass Soundwave!!!

He’s gone through Multiple reformats varying between with his consent and,,, not. The latest of which took place when they didn’t have many materials

So they used half earth metals half Cybertronian ones

As it turns out? Those two things don’t mix very well. His joints are Horrible. They lock up randomly, the worst of which being the door to his tape deck.

He physically isn’t able to dock his cassettes reliably because they might get stuck in there.

What does he do to fix this? So glad you asked!! He has his own assistive aids, in this case: a portable external carrying case

It was made and personalized to work specifically for him and his situation

I love him

[benevolenterrancy]

...I got a little lost in the weeds thinking about the time between Ming Yi's ascension and his death, and decided that this is my favourite possible scenario (think Lord Vetinari and Leonard de Quirm).

Is Ming Yi a prisoner? technically yes. Does he have any interest in leaving? not in the slightest, he is fed, gets given any of the tools or materials he wants, and gets work on his own projects without any interruptions except for the occasional conversation with He Xuan! it's like the ideal possible retirement after living a VERY busy mortal life!

[squeakyleftsneaker]

Who the fuck is Curtis, dawg?

Not to be rude or anything but like who??????? WHO??????

[ckret2]

So the trick to get you in the groove to work on on oc stuff is that first you put them in a fic for something your alredy working on and rhen let them bloom

You say that like you think I haven't tried it.

The problem is, for the way I write fanfic—I go hardcore on the canon compatibility—a really good fanfic OC has to be woven so deeply into the context of the original canon universe and canon story that you can't rip the canon out of them without undermining the whole foundation of their identity as a character. One you remove the canon, all you're left with is superficial surface details that no longer make sense without the canon you've stripped away.

For me developing the kind of OC that could stand wholly independent from the source material means a failure to write the kind of OC that I feel is appropriate for the fanfic I created the OC for. If the OC is whole and complete and fully developed and needs nothing if you remove the original canon context, then what the hell are they doing in that canon anyway? If the canon has no major impact on who they are?

[alistairlowee]

I just know that Matthew and James call each other pet names like darling and love all the time

[revvethasmythh]

it's been weeks and i'm still so compelled by the background storyline of hawke going to weisshaupt after here lies the abyss. like. it makes no damn sense. maybe if hawke has a living sibling who is a grey warden, you can twist the logic of it, but i did not have that and also hawke said she wanted to make sure corypheus died and neither staying in the fade NOR going to weisshaupt really accomplishes this goal. like there is NO reason for hawke to be up at weisshaupt, this is not in her lane, this is not her business, her skin is NOT clear, her crops are NOT watered. the wardens are not the responsibility of your Just Some Guy from Kirkwall who has potentially zero connections to the wardens at all except for that one time they super causally tried to use her as a blood sacrifice (maybe she and the first warden can laugh about it some day, but somehow i doubt it!).

BUT. but. the mental imagine of hawke going there and then her sibling (if alive) and her love interest ALSO going there, just to meet up with her, makes it so bonkers funny i don't even care if it doesn't make sense. wtf do you mean hawke family reunion relationship drama in the austere home of the wardens where they all show up and then the entire leadership of the wardens suddenly implodes as civil war breaks out and then their asses get STUCK there. wtf do you mean hawke inadvertently sticks her ass in the middle of yet another civil war while simultaneously having to patch things up with her LI and deal with a sibling dynamic at the same time. hawke can't catch a fucking break istg. it's just her, her sibling, and her LI as their own little three person party while some truly WILD shit goes down and the epilogues are all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about what happens other than like two lines that put the most insane images into my head. there's a sped-up video of this going down in my mind with the benny hill theme playing in the background. why does varric talk like hawke is still at weisshaupt during trespasser, which takes place two entire years after hawke was meant to go there to give a basic report and then dip. how is this THE most hawke thing to ever happen and we're just. told nothing more about it except that varric got One™️ message from her via an entire smuggling syndicate that essentially says "damn, shits crazy here" and that he assumes hawke will walk away from the building while it's exploding sometime in the near future because apparently the conflict there is not yet resolved. again, this is TWO YEARS LATER. like trespasser is fun and all but truly can we revisit wtf this was all about because WHAT

[helenofblackthorns]

I'm sorry is *checks notes* Kit Herondale on Belial's wiki page listed as a notable descendant??? as his "adoptive grandson"?????? he's in love with Belial's actual descendant who wrote this

[zmediaoutlet]

happy wincest wednesday! pick an unlikely episode for first time wincest and describe how you think it could happen!

hello hello, ty for thinking of me! happy wincest wednesday, let's see if i can scrape together an actual creative thought --

I think last time we talked about the Tiger Mommy ep and that would indeed be a horrible time for it, but this time let's try... 4.04, Metamorphosis.

One of my favorite eps! And one of my favorite times for established relationship (tho, lbr, every time is my favorite time for established relationship, I like it so much better than first time haha) -- and CERTAINLY there are ways I can see a first time here, but let's talk first about why it would suck.

A few things happening here: Dean sees that Sam is working with Ruby on his icky powers, which is a) explicitly what Dean wished Sam wouldn't do, but also and kind of more importantly b) it's Sam cheating, which in this context means -- lying to Dean, working with this demon bitch that Dean knows is fucking with Sam and Sam won't listen, sneaking around behind Dean's back when Dean is very very fresh from Hell and knows for a fucking FACT that working with demons is very bad indeed. Like if anyone knows demons at this point, it's Dean, and here he sees Sam using the powers they gave him? Five alarm fire. Then of course there's the angel element -- Dean's an obedient boy in a panic, he doesn't want to have winged spectators to any of this shit. God told them not to do it! THEN of course there's the guy who knew their dad giving them the job in the first place, which reorients them into a surveiled world -- more even than the angels, this is a harsh yanking-back into the dynamic-that-was, with them being John's Sons who are supposed to act in Certain Ways (Dean the rough-and-tumble jock, Sam forced to playact about being a mathlete), and that puts up walls between the them they were and the them they could be. Plus they just don't like each other much this ep and frankly that should be enough of a barrier, most of the time.

Nevertheless! Let's say they fuck about it. Or, really, let's say they do the more interesting thing, which is not to fuck but to realize that the fucking is a wild and real possibility, at which point they have broken the incest barrier already -- no amount of 'oh but we shouldn't' can put that prank snake back into the peanut brittle can, boys. What I would find particularly compelling would be the Sam who's furiously trying to break out of that closet when Jack's got Dean on the table, when Sam thinks Dean's going to be lost to him again, this soon after getting him back, realizing -- fuck, it's not just that Dean's his brother. Putting Jack down and pulling Dean up weak from the most recent concussion and Dean flinching at the fresh bruises and thinking that he wants to kiss him -- or not even kiss him, that's too freshman year and simple -- that he wants in this all-encompassing way that goes beyond brother and ally and parent and best (only) friend. That what Lilith took from him was worse than he even realized. That he wants to get skin to skin and breath to breath and wants to show Dean everything and have him accept it and accept Sam and also that he wants -- this blurring strange shift of how he fucks Ruby because it's stress relief and intimacy and how he could fuck -- how it could be -- different, with Dean. How it could make things better. If they could.

None of which he can say out loud because there's a burning corpse in this house and Dean's concussed and Dean doesn't trust him. But the first time is then, regardless of whether they bump uglies. They can do that later, and will. But it's a good barrier-shattering moment, either way.

[namisweatheria]

In a beautiful polyamorous world LuffyNamiVivi would be just as popular as NamiVivi and Zolu. The THREE of them have such an incredible and intense dynamic together and it's so rarely featured in fanwork. I love how all three of them are bossy natural leaders who somehow get along and how their love for each other is expressed through silly bickering and tussling as much as it is insane acts of devotion. I mean the whole bit where Luffy and Vivi are working together to save Nami.... and then of course Luffy and Nami working together to save Vivi.... The way they have the exact same reactions when they find out about Vivi being missing.... and when they left Alabasta... THEY LOVE HER YOUR HONOR!!!!!!!

And It's so beautiful tragic how Nami and Luffy will never ever stop sailing and Vivi will never ever abandon Alabasta. So they can only all be together once in awhile but THEY WILL!!!!!! They will sail around the world to see her again... Pick her up for another adventure....

I don't know I just love how Luffy has such nonbinary weird i don't know what gender is can i eat it energy and is such an acearopoly icon and just always treats the female characters in a way that unfortunately really stands out in the shounen genre. They are just people to him!!!! Not Girls™️. Just People!!! And he brings out such a goofy side in Vivi. They're childish together in a way that I think is good for her as someone who had to grow up too fast. Nami too! I could write essays on Nami and Luffy's relationship.

I don't know I think we're held back by the instinctive repulsion from Making It Straight. They have such great dynamics that deserve to be explored. Of course their relationships with the main character are interesting and important!! He's the main character!!! Yet the fanwork doesn't reflect that... Since it's Gay Romance Or Nothing. Which, you know, I respect, but as a genderqueer trans acearospec poly person who loves women in fiction IM BOREDDDD IM BORED AND TIRED. LETS DO SOMETHING NEW!!!!!

Straight people don't own them.. We don't have to change their dynamics to fit Straight Romance Ideals in order to ship them... I think people don't imagine Weird Bisexual MF enough. Or Weird Entangled Undefined Relationships enough. Like Luffy is not the one who would have the upper hand in that relationship. He doesn't NOW. And it's fun!!! They're so weird and perfect the way they are it deserves to be explored!!!! Send post!!!!!

[boatboys]

actually on the topic of old drawings; the first-ever drawings I did of Rich, Liam, and Sol turned up on my deep-dive of old discord messages and I was compelled to redraw/compare!

Rich very much predates the worldbuilding of the Michigan Fleet universe, as one of Key/rollerskatinglizard's oldest OCs, and was originally just a normal amount of un-tweaked big and buff dude, although I also sucked at drawing people with body mass back when I drew these lol. It does make me laugh that the huge crooked nose and sad, downturned eyes have been a constant from sketch one!

Liam predates the Michigan Fleet as well and was originally mine! He..... hasn't changed much actually haha. Although his size/prettiness/temper being a genetic modification is new, from the first lengthy discussion of mods where fourhands and hastings both got established (although not by those names). It looks like I coined the mod name "Babydoll", which I do NOT remember doing.

Sol was the most Group Effort of these three, looking back at the messages: Key invented a salty little gorgeous asshole with modded hearing for a snatch of interaction in a wildly different context than his new introduction; roach was the one who suggested the elf ears and iridescent hair to go along with it, I was the one who suggested he was from New York and threw several large pinches of "a big tsundere about Rich" into the mix, and a lot of the much later patrician worldbuilding was roach.

[midnightstargazer]

There's a tendency in the Marauders fandom that I don't think I've ever seen to this extent before, of making no distinction between headcanon/fanon and canon. Granted, I only started getting back into fandom stuff within the past year, but I was involved with a lot of different ones in my teens and early twenties, including an earlier version of the HP fandom. There was always a distinction.

With Marauders fandom, it's not just "I totally forgot Remus isn't obsessed with chocolate in canon" or "it never actually says Mary and Lily were close friends, but I think it makes sense if they were." A lot of the time, there's no distinction at all between what was in canon, what was in a really popular popular fanfic, and what somebody just made up five minutes ago. It's more like:

"I think people forget that [headcanon]"

"It's so sad that [headcanon]"

"When [headcanon happened], [character] totally [did/felt/thought] [whatever]"

And it's so often totally out-of-left-field stuff that has nothing to do with canon - ships that are never even hinted at, details about characters that are literally mentioned once, etc. Or even things that directly contradict canon, not as AU/canon divergence ideas, but as facts.

Is this because we all hate JKR? Because a lot of newer fans haven't read the books/seen the movies? IDK, but I feel like there's an issue with just stating things as fact when they're very much not. Like, I'd rather read about why someone thinks [insert headcanon here] - whether that involves analyzing and critiquing the canon text or something as simple as "I think it would be cool." Headcanons are great! But I think something gets lost when we forget they're headcanons.

[hidey-writes]

six sentence sunday

The apartment is so quiet without his mom there. He’s pretty sure his dad has work, but Gu Yiran thinks he might be home anyway. He can’t tell. When his dad was home before, Gu Yiran always knew, because his mom would talk more, would laugh more, even in his room doing homework or reading he could hear the musical lilt of her asking a question, and more faintly the occasional low rumble of his reply. She used to sing in the afternoons, when it was just her and Gu Yiran at home, waiting for his dad to come back, We’ll drink a cup of kindness yet, for the sake of auld lang syne, her favorite song, his voice wobbling up to meet hers in the melody. But without her, Gu Yiran can’t tell; he can’t hear him.

since every episode of this show has a cute little snippet of thing before the title credits, i've decided i want to pay homage to that in the structure of this fic. behold: me deciding gu yiran is a mama's boy, and also that there's Personal Significance to him singing auld lang syne on his birthday, because it hurts my feelings the most hehe

[pinacoladamatata]

if they Tamlen solas' ass, that might just be IT for me