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Are you still going to continue the Golden Twins fic? I really enjoyed it.

yes, I'm planning on continuing it, now that I'm not too busy with school I'll be able to work on it again ^^

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I don’t know what the word is for the kind of environment ASOUE (A Series of Unfortunate Events) and TMBS (The Mysterious Benedict Society) have, but it needs a name (quirky fantasy? Neurodivergent fiction? Idk…) but I’ve noticed enough people say they are similar, and I want to make this genre a thing. Here are some similarities I noticed that I believe describe the genre well:

• the adults are almost all neurodivergent and/or traumatized and no, they’re not handling it well. Especially the villains. • Most (if not all) of the children are either child genius or bully archetypes. Most will be neurodivergent as well. Bonus points if their neurodivergence and story arcs parallel the adults.

•People dress like they are either going to a funeral during the Great Depression, a church service on Easter Sunday, boarding school, a fancy cocktail party, or like the concept of neon/highlighter threw up on them

•everyone has a tragic backstory. Everyone. Even the quirky side kick who only has a few lines. At least one of those few lines will suggest something awful happened to them.

• Orphans

• Villain has to have that one person he/she cares about to show that maybe they do have a heart after all (awe). Examples might include an ex-girlfriend or adopted kid

•the heroes and villains have tons of cool tech and inventions that we can only dream of (e.g., mind control), but despite all these smart characters with a knack for inventing, no one can make a smart/cellular/mobile phone. It’s their one weakness. Everyone has to use landlines. Everyone. This weakness (which affects all characters in this genre, villains and heroes) is super useful, especially when a character needs to make a call, but the writers don’t want them too, one can simply have them frantically search for a phone to no avail, or have a villain cut the phone lines and there’s nothing anyone can do about it

• some characters require such bland underacting that the character’s voice and expression remain almost completely neutral throughout the whole show no matter what happens. Other characters will require the hammiest most overacted performance of a lifetime such that any minor inconvenience that befalls their character (e.g., having to wait 5 minutes) might as well be the end of the world (personal side note: the second one is a dream role for me)

•whimsical travel. Like in a trolley, blimp, hot air balloon, old timey steam train, submarine, or some contraption someone made out of spare parts

• the villain has some personal connection to the heroes, whether it’s a close connection (e.g., being their adopted uncle) or a distant one (e.g., being their mother’s ex’s sister’s former love interest)

•secret societies and organizations that are cool with employing children (or at least allowing it). It’s considered ok/necessary when the good guys do it, very bad when the bad guys do it. The kids in the bad guy organization can either be groomed victims out to grab their redemption arcs (SQ, our boy), or one dimensional bullies (looking at you Carmelita and Book Martina).

• a genius toddler/baby with a special power that can range from super strong teeth to being psychic

• Twins or triplets are not only characters in the show, but the fact that they are part of a set of multiples will be important for the plot somehow (e.g., the Benedict brothers, the quagmire triplets, the denouement triplets, whatever Jillson/Jackson are)

• There are dramatic flashbacks to character’s tragic pasts to show the audience where it all when wrong.

• Few, if any adults, are truly both mentally stable and living in reality. I know I covered this on my “neurodivergent that’s not well adjusted” bullet point, but it seems important enough to repeat

• The villains are theater kids. Whether they used to overact performances at the orphanage and now do magic tricks for their captives, or use their old theater group as henchmen(and women), they live for the dramatic arts

• the villains were at one point told (either by critics or unimpressed parents looking to adopt) that they weren’t that good at theater, which increased their motivation to either join an evil organization, or pursue a STEM or business degree to begin their own evil organization. This has increased their mental instability as they still try to incorporate the dramatic arts into their villainy and waste a lot of time that could be spent plotting things figuring out how to make their villainy more theatrical

• when the heroes try to tell people the villain is evil, no one believes them

• despite fighting literal children, the villains are not juvenile and present serious threats (murder/world domination)

• despite the previous 2 points, the villains are repeatedly defeated by orphan children with an assist from the villain’s own hubris/stupidity

• musical numbers are involved, even if they are flashback staged performances those count

•villain’s side kicks still roll with him/her despite the abuse to the point where the audience genuinely wants better for them and want more information about them and their tragic past (but their stories usually won’t really be focused on, heck they might even be written out completely. With a few exceptions of course)

• we’ve already discussed that the kids are “genius or bully” types but more broadly the characters are also “books or theater” good guys love books and libraries, bad guys love drama and the theater. We’ve covered the bad guy = theater connection, so focus on the books/reading = good guy connection. The good guys will constantly hang out around libraries, have libraries in their house, be librarians, be friends with librarians, etc. someone (either a bully or villain) is obligated to make fun of one of the good guys for reading at least once. This also implies that a theatrical character who loves reading would be perfect for an antihero or morally grey character.

• the time the story takes place is very vague, but has elements of fashion, cars, and style that suggest the 1950’s-2000’s or more generally sometime in the 20th/21st century

Feel free to add to this list

#this is literally the best genre #i feel like this could apply to the magic misfits and the secret series as well #the magic misfits #the secret series

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holy crap you go offline for a while and suddenly a hoard of porn bots start following you

they're everywhere

#also my bad for disappearing for a month #i swear i haven't abandoned my fic #i'm just in the middle of moving #i'll be get back to writing soon

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actually so happy to see someone share the carter learning piano headcanon! i have a personal WIP about him learning it with mr. vernon teaching him about it

omg that sounds so cute i love that

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sorry for no fic updates for a while, im in the process of moving so writing has been a bit slow, but for now have some magic misfits headcanons ^^ (also my bad if any of these are already touched on or contradict the books, it's been a bit since ive read them)

- Theo, while great at music, can't draw a stick figure to save his life

- the twins didn't have any real permanent friends before the misfits, everyone else they talked to were always just visiting Mineral Wells and always ended up leaving

- Carter has always had an interest in learning piano, after someone he met while he was with Kilroy said he had the hands for it

- Ridley first found Top Hat when a group of kids were throwing rocks at him. She didn't intend on keeping him, but he followed her home and wouldn't go back to the woods no matter how much she tried to make him leave

- Leila is great at math, but struggles in reading classes because she hates analyzing text

- Dante met James soon after the Emerald Ring broke up and latched on to him immediately since he didn't really have any other friends apart from his old group

#the magic misfits

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yknow before i joined tumblr i thought everyone was exaggerating abt the porn bots but now i get it

they're everywhere

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Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

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Leila:  Merry Christmas!

Olly:  IS CHRISTMAAAS!

Izzy:  CHRISTMAAAAAAAAAAS!

Theo:  Merry crisis everybody!

Carter:  Time for reverse stealing! (This is his first Christmas celebration and he’s completely lost but he’s trying his best)  

Ridley:  Guys stop, you’re getting me in a festive mood.

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Olly:  Hey Mr. V!  Nice weather right?  What is an easy topic for conversation that we could spend the next fifteen minutes on?

Dante:  Hello, have you seen Carter?  He was supposed to help me with a new magic trick today, but he seems to have vanished on me.

Olly:  Haha good pun, but he’s actually busy.

Dante:  What about Leila then?

Olly:  Uh…she’s busy stopping Ridley from doing something.

Dante:  …What is Ridley doing?

Olly:  She’s stopping Theo from stopping Carter from doing something.

Dante:  What is Carter doing?

Olly:  That’s not really important.

Dante:  …Where is your sister?

Olly:  Oh, Izzy’s stopping Leila from trying to stop Ridley who wants to stop Theo who was about to stop Carter from doing something.

Dante:  This seems very convoluted.  Why are you here?

Olly:  I am here to stop you from stopping Izzy from sto-

Dante:  No please, I don’t want to hear it again.  Where are they.

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I need her official colour paletteeee

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magic misfits fans, what are some books you’d recommend that are similar to the series? 

#magic misfits #i have giftcards and i want more books

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fanfic writers will consume a whole ass franchise and be like "that was fun, now i will proceed to do it better"

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hate it when i put my writing through a grammar checker and it tells me i use too many commas, like, no, they’re there for a reason! they make it look nice! stop killing my commas, grammarly

#i do end up getting rid of them #but im not happy about it

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Me and the five (5) other magic misfits fans on this site.

#the gang's all here

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school + work + band have been crazy so probably no fic update this week, but have some au ideas instead

Emerald Ring happy ending:

basically the other members of the ER discover the whole Kalagan situation and get their parents arrested, and the twins start living with Dante's family. Kilroy stops being creepy towards Sandra, Bobby doesn't turn to crime, and Lyle never dies.

modern hs marching band au:

Carter plays flute, Leila plays trombone, Theo (whose in both band and orchestra) plays horn, Ridley plays clarinet during concert season and marimba during marching season, Izzy plays tuba, and Olly plays trumpet (the twins are also both in choir). Many hijinks follow, including (lightheartedly) tormenting the band director (who I can't decide whether they should be Mr. Vernon or Mick Meridain), destroying other bands at competitions, and clowning on their horrible football team

Kalagan twins 2.0:

This one isn't super wel, thought out, but basically Izzy and Olly’s parents die when they were babies, and Kincaid/Dean takes them in and raises them to be little con artists.

#the magic misfits #anyway ill try to get the next chapter out soon #but enjoy my ramblings until then

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omw to write a story consisting solely of my favorite tropes and characters i think are cool

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I made this callout meme for me and me specifically