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yxstxrdrxxm · 3 months

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He's still the biggest red flag of the current event, but I wanna know if you'd go "yeah, but he's hot so I'd try anyway" lol.

I mean for me, if you did make the boss dateable in some Alternate Universe (even if it's only for a short time), for funsies, I'd give it a shot.

I'd flame out and burn out hard, but I still think I'd give it a try. I'd be a falling fireball, and I'd hit the ground hard. But at the very least, it'd be entertaining.

Also for me, as aesthetically pleasing to the eye the boss is, I'm more intrigued by his story and what skeletons he has in the closet.

I mean, Navia-mun, you hint at his red flags and his treatment of Cupid and Eros, which means there's a story there. Whether or not he's sympathetic is another issue entirely, but I'd like to hear his story.

Also, given his very bright red flags (attire not withstanding), I also think he'd be super interesting to write as a yandere, if he isn't already one in your mind.

To what extent will he go to, if someone's caught his eye? What sort of things would cause him to be obsessed with someone? Which aspects of his personality would end up coming out more if he does end up being matched with someone?

I think these are all interesting questions the Boss character raises, and I would like to see what sort of character he is or would be, if he was datable.

This was a super long winded ask, but the short answer is yes. Yes, if you made him dateable, I'd shoot my shot and see if I end up his match. And then if not, at least my attempt will be an entertaining fail.

Hm... You know, this actually gave me an idea. Unrelated to the event, but as a what if scenario.

(utc for an imagines. tw for yan behavior and tendencies, obsession and possession, isolation, implied murder but not in a way you'd think, manipulation, heavy lean to unrequited love, toxic relationships... And other tws that can spoil him because its a yandere blog. I think that speaks for itself.)

Boss is a yandere that is a mix of possessive and obsessive. In his worklife, personal life, and even to his friends and family, people can just tell that he's distant. Distant and a bit of a cruel man to those who he sees to have some sort of vendetta against him.

He had people that wanted him. He actually had some that were so, so convinced that they were fated to be together. However, it only took one day spent with him to leave, yelling and crying about how he is so 'abusive' and how 'his workers shouldn't tolerate the bs they all go through because of him'.

How amusing, he thinks. Do they honestly think that they had a chance? A sliver of hope that, in some way, he'd love them like how they do? To him, he saw them as obsessive freaks. He was just dishing out who he is.

Now, him falling for someone is almost laughable. He'd probably be the one who'd question why he'd find some form of interest in a romantic relationship. After all, he sees it more as an inconvenience. He doesn't exactly... Get the appeal as others do.

If he were to, God forbid, fall for someone... That someone better be prepared for a man who is more than ready to simply find any means to get to talking with you. He won't plan on showing his hand that he's managing MixMatch and is associated with Celestia Inc. to some degree, since he hates mixing work life with personal life. He'll just... omit it.

Boss is twisted in his perception of who he enjoys being around with. Quite often, you saw how he simply treats his employees like they were just people who can't understand him. It's laughable, actually.

What isn't laughable is his power.

He's not vocal with what he enjoys, opting to simply let you be the judge. You hold the 'gavel', per say; and although he may be the defendant in your eyes, he aspires to be the prosecution.

He wants you to view him more favorably, so it would be convenient for him when things go awry.

He'll treat you better in dates if he had to. God forbid you tell him that he didn't, for he'd rectify it and say that work made him so, so busy to focus on his personal life. He'd be meticulous to what you like and don't like, what you don't tolerate and do...

... And while you're busy focusing on how nicer he became, he'll slowly taint your views, working and worming his way to someone that you can't push away anymore.

He'd slowly push you till you were unable to get your support system back. He'd make extra sure that you yourself will tell them that you can't be near them anymore. He wants you to do the work for him, since if you loved him so much... Wouldn't you do this for your relationship together?

He'd make sure that you understand your place, even if you aren't his worker at the company. He'd deny any sort of reward until he thinks you've 'straightened up'. He wants to see you squirm and struggle on doing just that, because he himself wants to see if you can be strong to withstand the eye of the storm itself.

He'd shower you with love on the first few years, making sure you're well fed-- no, spoiled without a single bat of an eye, and then he has you in the palms of his hands. He's quite well off, so it wouldn't be long to satisfy your greedy mind with things you wished you could afford.

Then... He'll stop.

If you ask him why he stopped, well... You clearly forgot who you're dealing with.

Bit by bit, your relationship will sour. You'll have to work your way into getting the basic necessities because you've been far, far spoiled for his liking. He'll make you writhe as you try to get his affections.

Then, the cycle repeats. Over, and over, and over, and over. He'll make you so spoiled, then he'll deprive you of it.

He doesn't care what violations he's breaking. He doesn't care if you sobbed and kept saying you can't. He does not care if you tell him you're going to die because of how hard he's been on you.

You wanted this life of luxury. You wanted him.

It's not his fault that you can't read the fine print, is it? That you're so busy obsessing over a man's appearance, riches, and even his manners that you forgot the basic decorum. You forgot to act like a proper individual cause you went 'gaga' over him.

And he hates it. He hates that behavior you have.

Really, he doesn't love you like how you love him. He doesn't give any fucks. All he wants is someone who's so dumb to like him just so he'd have a little toy.

What, you're getting mad because of it? Shocker! He doesn't care.

He's not afraid of getting his hands dirty if he was threatened. Unlike you, he had to work for everything he got. In his eyes, no one deserves the fame unless he permits it.

You're fun as a little toy he had, but he grew bored of you. He doesn't want you anymore.

Maybe he can tip those men off to deal with the mess he's faced with.

#💌 ;; message delivery #💌 ;; to: ???#💌 ;; from: ???#💌 ;; fine print: ''boss''#💌 ;; promising letter: one last call #;; lowkey went a little insane writing this because the thoughts #;; they are so funny with how unhinged hes become in my eyes #;; hes not my blorbo like y'all do but godDAMN #;; hes so evil #;; and i love portraying yans like these #;; tbh your questions got me in a writing drive so ty anon #;; you fed me a lot of ideas for this to happen.#;; hope you enjoy the food lol #;; also the navia mention got me 'bestie...'#;; pls i need a name change. goddamn.

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musicalchaos07 · 1 year

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turning off anon asks for a bit bc I simply do not want to deal with a troll

#I should've just deleted their intial ask that's on me #But then they came into MY askbox and called Jonathan a c*ntbag #can y'all BELIEVE that???#MY BELOVED BLORBO????#like he has his flaws but goddamn you would think he's vecna #because I had the audacity to say that Nancy is unhappy and people are reducing it to a love triange #I've also deleted the related asks because this is my blog and I get to do what I want #I've also privated the og post so if you want to see that too lmk bc it was a good interpretation but I'm not dealing with trolls #anyways if you want to ask me something and not be a dick my ask box is open for you

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wellofdean · 1 year

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So, it's come to my attention that calling The Winchesters 'fanfic' is something that a cursed segment of the SPN fandom is doing to denigrate TW.

I have gleefully called it fanfic, and that's because it is clearly a transformative work based on the original show. Jensen Ackles literally said: I hate this ending for the blorbo inside my heart (and body), I can't let him go, and I'm gon' write him a new ending. Then he threw his money at it, and suited up. Good boy.

For the record, I think that is fucking awesome. Let me be very clear: fanfic is something I love very much, something that is of genuine intellectual interest, and a thing you will pry from my cold, dead hands. Calling something fanfic is not, to me, a denigration of any kind. Believe me, when I tell y'all that I never expected to take Jensen Ross Ackles into my heart like I have thanks to this amazing turn of events, but THIS HAS DONE IT. I love that dude. He looks so fucking cute when he is fixing that dog's dinner of an ending to a show and a character that I got 15-year slow-burned into being over-invested in. He has never looked cuter.

That said, my calling it a fundamentally transformative work doesn't mean I'm saying it's not canon. What happened in TW is canon in the SPN universe, and the haters can die mad about it. Dean is canonically actively searching for his "family", or like, the one member of his family he doesn't know exactly where to find... I'll give you a hint:

...and dealing with his trauma while driving his magic car through portals in the multiverse to hang out with his baby parents and their awesome friends.

Jensen's privileged position as both the owner of the intellectual property and the producer of a transformative work based on previous canon means that TW hits an interesting sweet spot in the shared space on the fic vs canon Venn diagram of my dreams. I love it, and I hope someone is writing a dead-serious dissertation somewhere, although probably not, because it's not like it's a new situation that something is simultaneously transformative and an original work.

So tl;dr -- TW is clearly a transformative work, and it is also canon. Jensen Ackles is a goddamn delight, and I love him for this. I hope he is very proud of himself. Jensen, you're doing great, honey! Finally, calling something fanfic is not a denigration, because fanfic is legit and awesome. The end.

#spn #spnwin #the winchesters #jensen ackles #fandom drama #fic v canon #transformative works

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basedkikuenjoyer · 6 months

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Remember Remember the Fifth of November

Remember, remember the fifth of November. We're soon to cover a lot. I see no reason, why Sorbet's malfeasance should ever be forgot.

Seriously...we get our biggest RA origins chapter on Guy Fawkes Day? Rad even if purely coincidental. We also have this quiet peculiarity. Something that's been brought up here before. The cover page is just part of the main story? Yes, request apparently but it's a natural fit. That's new. Even Pudding was cluing us in on a past happening pertinent to an event. Watch stuff like this, the "rules" of the narrative breaking down. It's also really, really cute. Where are those fish ending up? Okay, let's get to the real meat of this. You can probably guess from the chapter title...

I'm the Mickey to your Minnie, you're the Tigger to my Winnie...Ginny! I'm...dating myself with memes aren't I? Ginny has become a fast, fast favorite. This was already a thing too, but seeing adult Ginny I get what people mean. There's a certain sensibility to being Bonney's mom...but she does look like another skrunkly glutton on Egghead more than anything. York is a clone, this has dark implications. Please don't be too cruel to new blorbo Oda. I'm gonna add her to the figure collection I promise.

Seriously though...how many of y'all get that Ginny is exactly what I've been on about? Forget Kuma's whole taking on burdens thing and being a goddamn blaring echo of the Crane Wife story. I can make this easy now. Ginny is what it would look like if you plugged Nami's character into the "quartermaster" role I've used Kiku as a guidepost for.

We're already past the point of teasing about lack of subtlety so I don't know what to say anymore. This flashback is making a big to-do about someone who fits the bill for the exact archetype straddling the present story around two foils. Doing it in a way that could lead back to a darker scene from Vegapunk's past. If that wasn't apparent enough,

Really driving the point home with Sorbet. Just like Goa & Gray Terminal. Just like Bakura & Okobore. These two were the tentpoles of the lawless waste being kicked around. Marco, Toki, Yasu, Kiku & Tsuru...pay attention when a core theme of the previous arc comes up like that. Especially that beat about marriage and Ginny's suitors. If that wasn't all enough, there's one element here I can't shake:

Look at Kuma's chest, the faint blackening...does it kind of make you think of Luffy's scar? You see it in the eyes too, we're not used to seeing adult Kuma with normal features for him. His expressions...it's a concept we've talked about a lot. This late in the game you notice when a character gets visual traits usually reserved for the protagonist. Kuma does this a fair amount, and the whole story sorta does have the same tone as like...if Luffy & Uta grew up together. Or if he stayed in Okobore with Kiku for a few years even. As much as I love the Revolutionary lore, this has me going absolutely crazy right now.

#one piece #chapter 1097 #post-wano musings #kuma #ginny

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svartalfhild · 1 year

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Svar Watches BBC Robin Hood for the First Time - Season 1

So I recently decided to finally get around to seeing a show I've been meaning to watch for like nearly 10 years. I am so far past missing the boat on this one, but since I've been doing a bit of a "catching up on shows from the 2000's I didn't really get to see at the time" run lately, I thought I'd record my thoughts for y'all's amusement.

So here we go, Season 1 thoughts:

Every single one of these Merry Men, including Robin, suffers from Just Some Guy disease, fucking RIP

Except Djaq. Djaq is cool.

We can all agree that Much is clearly a little gay for Robin, right?

Guy of Gisborne is such an asshole, but unfortunately Richard Armitage is too good at his job, so Guy is also hot.

The Sheriff is cartoonishly evil and I hate him, but I'm kind of loving how just like a lot his personality is. Like this bitch belongs in a cracktastic Crusader Kings playthrough, holy shit.

Damn, Marian really is the only fully competent motherfucker in the whole place, huh?

Make that two competent motherfuckers, adding Djaq.

Man, this writing is super shabby in places, but when they hit, they fucking hit.

This show really bills itself as a fun adventure show but boy does it have shit to say at times, shit that was kinda ballsy of them to be saying in 2006. Like positively portraying Muslim characters and condemning pointless wars in the Middle East (the messaging on this gets muddled in a few places, but the fact that it's in there at all is impressive). Like you expect to see class struggle and sexism talked about in Robin Hood, but I wasn't expecting them to do so much with the "oh yeah, we just got back from Palestine and we have PTSD and maybe the Crusade is really bad actually". Bravo.

Ah, but this is a BBC show, so we can't have anti-monarchism. King Richard is totally awesome and is definitely going to make everything better when he gets back. Like I know that's baked into the Robin Hood tales, but they could lean into it less in places, I feel.

I think part of what makes Guy so captivating is that he's complicated and clearly suffers from a lot of inner conflict. I love knowing why villains are Like That, and we get so much about him from seeing his initial reactions to things vs. his behaviour after the Sheriff talks to him. Even just watching Richard Armitage's facial expressions is so rewarding. He gives us so much information about Guy just with his body language. Fucking brilliant.

Holy shit the more of this I watch, the more I'm like oh yeah Guy is an abuse victim and the Sheriff is his abuser. Like obviously that's not an excuse for any of the multitudes of evil things he does, but damn that boy is caught in a cycle. It has all the classic abuse features. Having his impressionable nature/eagerness to please taken advantage of. Being constantly inflicted with physical and emotional violence. Being manipulated into making choices against his judgement and editing himself to better fit what his abuser wants him to be. Being isolated from positive influences and being told to reject other sources of validation and support. Having his toxic masculinity heavily reinforced. Being consistently ignored and undervalued. The list goes on.

Anyway, I think I have a new blorbo now. I don't have many evil blorbos these days, but he's earned his place. I hope he gets good character development. Or at least gets to stab the Sheriff.

Much annoyed me a bit in the beginning, but he's starting to grow on me after he stood up to Robin and went through that business of the noble title.

God, I just want to shake Guy by the shoulders like you have everything you need to be more interesting to Marian than Robin, but you're fucking blowing it so hard, my dude. Ah, but alas, it must be this way.

I want to shake Robin by the shoulders like you would have this in the bag dude if you would just actually listen to Marian and support her instead of telling her what you think she should do all the time. Goddamn he and Guy ultimately have the same fucking problem.

#TeamFuckAllYallLetMarianRunEverythingActually

BRUH IF I HAD A DOLLAR FOR EVERY TIME GUY WANTED TO MAKE A GOOD DECISION FOR ONCE IN HIS LIFE AND THEN FUCKING SWERVED AT THE LAST SECOND BECAUSE OF SOME SHIT THE SHERIFF SAID I'D BE RICH BY NOW SWEET JESUS.

I can't believe they ended this season on the most Good Job, Lads moment oh my god it's so cheesy but so on brand.

To see my Season 2 thoughts, go here.

#Robin Hood #BBC Robin Hood #Svar shitposts

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wingedcatgirl · 2 years

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fuck it, new more easily-manageable pinned post

(tumblr's circling the drain: no it's probably not gonna die soon but catch us on dreamwidth or cohost while you still can) (i'll be surprised if it doesn't at least outlast fanfiction dot net)

(anyway.)

hOI we're Tempest (plural) and this is our blog full of whatever the fuck we feel like

(we also do occasional roleplay over at our sideblog @elakha-house-cube; if you're a roleplay blog wondering why we followed you, that's probably why. or possibly we just think you're neat)

this body and most of the people in it are adults (age "we stopped putting our exact age in bios in our 30s")

this isn't intended as a "minor safe" space or an "adult safe" space, it's a space for us and all y'all can hang out here regardless of your age as long as you don't piss us off (we are not easily pissed off so don't worry too much about it)

most of this blog is done by 🐱 Mintleaf/Sylvi (it/they/she) but posts/comments from others will be marked in some manner or another. probably an emoji. keep a particular eye out for 🏹 (Robin. he/him), 👼 (Ana, they/them), and 😈 (as-yet-unnamed smol one, she/they)

a selection of projects i'm writing:

In the light of the stars: (original) OP catgirl with a hammer rescues a pair of twin catkids with powers from an unethical science lab.

Isekai'd as a regular ordinary kitty cat‽‽: (original) take a wild goddamn guess what happens in this story

Leaf story: (Tales of Symphonia) (tag) A girl wakes up with amnesia near where the canon plot begins and immediately makes it her business. Look, judging by her gear, "immediately make the canon plot her business" had already been her plan anyway.

Hope's Sky (working title): (Danganronpa, kinda) 16 of the OCs we've made for various other projects get Ultimate-ified and thrown into a killing game.

The Nutdealer Expanded Universe: (Undertale/Deltarune, ostensibly): Anagram-themed shitposts. A collab with @kiraheartilly36 and @facultativeactivity.

I'll put more stuff in here later

tags of note:

#words from me a kity: original posts and comments on posts

#ask meme: means what it sounds like. there's no expiration date on these if you include the entire question(s) in your ask, and/or a link to the meme post. if you want to interact with us and you just need something to say, this tag is a great place to look

#my writing: i write a lot of shit for funsies

#art: people make so many cool drawings on the internet did you know that

#art by me: sometimes, rarely, i'm people

#osha noncompliant: a bit past the sfw line (nothing we'd be appalled about minors seeing - we'd just not put that here - but you might prefer to block this tag, whatever your age)

current mind viruses:

cookie ocs: we don't play cookie game anymore but we do still love seeing people's crispy homemade blorbos

tales series: well, currently just Symphonia, but we've seen the other games, we'll get into them eventually

kingdom hearts

miraculous

terraria

uh fuck i can't remember shit i'll add more later

#words from me a kity #pinned post

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hopefulcanary · 2 years

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Character opinion bingo bones

I screenshotted this from my phone I got so excited SORRY

(credit to @paintpanic for the OG meme)

Anyway this is pretty self-explanatory, a couple didn't get highlighted (Wasted Potential in AOS? yes, a thousand times yes, god, I'm still pressed about it and if AOS4 doesn't have him I... will not see it). Everyone But Me Is Wrong About Them is kinda, mehhhhh a lot of y'all have excellent takes I agree with, aside from a few.

"They Got Done DIRTY By Fans" which, again I mean JJ is SOME kind of "fan", and the way that AOS, until Beyond, stripped away a lot of Bones's empathy and deep compassion for others. Like, I can't read certain early fan works because the casual misogyny and mean-spiritedness certain fans foisted onto Bones (and also Jim) is just...whew. Which ties into a whole separate discussion I have regarding mlm content & how I produce it w/what particulars in mind but that's another rant for another day! Also:

TOS fans get bizarrely weird about infantilizing Spock in the triumvirate & regurgitating anti-Bones content but tbh they're easy to ignore lol.

This man has never done anything wrong in his whole life ♥️ (don't inbox me to answer for his sins lmfao)

He needed more screen time. Self-explanatory.

First off "blorbo" is just fuckin weird. I'm sorry. I'm a crotchety old hag. Secondly, yes, he is a blorbo.

Of course he's deeper than he seems, goddamn.

If he was real I'd settle for just living in the Star Trek universe vs marrying him, I'd still win

All Bones are cool looking

Actually versus a handbag I'd be cool to just be schlepped along by AOS!Bones like a sack of flour. I'm tall, he's tall, let's do this sir

#asks 4 june #star trek #bones mccoy

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qcomicsy · 4 months

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I demand to hear more on your thoughts about harley quinn. For science. No other reason.

First of all you can't demand things here without sending money on my account but since I'm feeling extremely nice today and since is for science...

Buckle up.

Harley funny enough might be one of my first full fledged blorbos from DC universe, in fact I like her so much I just forget to talk about her much here because

Well, because she's always been there.

She's my best friend, she’s my pal. she’s my home-girl, my rotten soldier. she’s my sweet cheese, my good-time girl-yeh.

But you're giving me an open right now anon, you're giving an open and I'll be absolutely havoc about it!

And for full context for people reading this, I got this ask after tagging a post asking “who's the character that makes you act the most pretentious about it” and I cannot express enough I will, in fact get the most utterly unsufferably pretentious as I write this.

So viewers advised.

And without further ado

My thoughts about Harley Quinnzel!

Or might others say...

Shit that people get wrong about Harley Quinn

First of all,

She's not stupid!

And this is not a “she has a PhD motherfucker” post we have a lot of posts already talking about how good of a psychiatrist Harley is and how she's actually smart.

But >this one< isn't one of them, I can make one if y'all want it but not today.

In part because I think is well talk enough people been known, it got to the movie! And in part because… Well honestly? I'm sure every time someone doesn't know how to write Harley or doesn't want to explain her past or her as a full fledged person they just slap a “She has a PhD motherfucker” and doesn't do more than that and this in fact pisses me off.

Harley is much more then “the good psychiatrist Joker turned bad” and I honestly find so fucking exasperating how much DC doesn't use her other habilities. I mean sure she is a good psychiatrist, she's so good that contrary to popular belief Harley was just “the only psychiatrist around that could deal with the joker and got manipulated by him” she was THE psychiatrist leading a full project on reabilitating Gotham Inmates funded by THE Bruce Wayne himself.

She was so good that back in the nighties she wasn't only able to kidnap Lois Lane (Check Batman Superman: World Finest 1997) when Joker was working with Lex Luthor but also literally able to kidnap Batman himself just to please joker. I'm saying that because most of the time people talk about when Harley was under joker command (because that was it a command she was liking or not his henchmen henchwomen and the best he could ever had in his sorry forsaken life) as “poor she, she didn't knew what she was doing” or “see this show how stupid she actually is” and this both statement couldn't be more wrong. I mean sure she was being manipulated, it was a toxic and abusive relationship, but that doesn't undermine any hability or fait she had in this whole time.

Harley is and was one of the best hand to hand combat villains Gotham has, and the fact that she didn't had any actual martial art from a goddamn master or teacher or anything makes this even more insane (pun intended) she's been shown countless of times in Batman stories and solo series as someone that's not only good on a combat but also an extremely good strategist that works on her best under pressure. Which is so hard is absolutely amazing. Not only that in her solo series on the New 52 (one of the few things the New 52 did right) was shown she was a great leader being able to make her own gang in a span of months.

She's not “like batman's little sister” and is absolutely comfortable in her own bisexuality.

I don't know where that came from, but I've seen time to time again people pushing “Harley treats Bruce as an older brother” and “Harley is mean with men” narrative over the internet and honestly? They couldn't be more wrong.

Harley despite her relationship with Bruce being entirely platonic (and for my point of view it should, Bats does deserve to have one female "friendship" that's entirely platonic) that's on Bruce's part. Harley has shown time to time again not only to have been attracted to Bruce but also to actually have (had by now) a pretty enormous crush on him.

I personally dislike this argument not only because it puts Harley as one step down Bruce league (as a person not romantically) but also absolutely erases her bisexuality. The love of Harley's life is a woman, she and Ivy are soulmates I'm not denying that, but the constant internet disdain for her previous relationships and attraction to men does more wrong to her character then right.

Harley isn't the bisexual girl stereotype that when dating a man goes around telling the entire world “wow damn I am dating a man UNFORTUNATELY if I COULD I'd be dating women instead, I AM SO GAY GUYS” or the character who will go on a whole tangent on how men suck (even though a good part of them does). She's the character that is absolutely comfortable in her own sexuality. She likes men, She likes women, she had a couple of healthy relationships with them and it's actually pretty sweet seeing her actually being treated right and recovering from her past abusive relationship and making her own choices and her own history in a much more healthy and growing way.

What Harley dislikes is abusive, controlling and disgusting men, she'll beat the shit out of them if they're lucky and put a bullet in their brain if she's in a bad mood.

If you're writing her as a boy crazy that'll flirt with the first random guy she sees or the girl who’ll say absolutely out of pocket things to humiliate or bully the first men she sees (Harley animated series) I'm sorry but you're writing her wrong.

Back on the “Harley is Batman's little sister thing” as I said before is bullshit, because people love to write Harley as this side-kick crazy 🤪 girl who'll let Bruce exasperated, and that's how they started back on the 1996 animated series but since then their allyship evolved. What people need to understand is that despite not having as much training as pretty much almost every character in Batman's world is, she holds her bullet as any other, she is as capable as any other and she's treated by Bruce Wayne himself as a competent ally or a threat.

They're "friends", they're platonic, Bruce cares for her but they're both adults, and they're both on (almost) the same level of respect. Harley's silly and playing dumb attitude around Bruce is the dynamic she plays to antagonize him, not how actually her character behaves in serious matters or at all and they both know that.

If you don't write her as a competent ally but an outgrown child that Batman is babysitting you're not writing her right either.

Her relationship with Ivy is much deeper than Harley being smitten for her.

I've seen a special after the animated show Harley being written as this kind of girl version of the “wife guy” and it's extremely sweet and endearing and absolutely in a brand of sapphic relationships but unfortunately makes people forget that before Ivy was the love of her life… Ivy was her best friend.

She is her best friend. They ride and die for eachother, Harley is absolutely in love with her and this is not up for argument, but I see so many people focusing on her romantic love for Ivy that they absolutely forget that Ivy and Harley just get each other on a much deeper and committed level. Ivy and Harley compliment each other and they understand each other. It's so exasperating reading people slamming the “miscommunication” trope over and over again when the time that they really shine is when they sit in front of each other and… talk. That's how their relationship got into their romance and that's what makes them so compelling.

Harley and Ivy went through a lot under the manipulation of horrible people, and that makes them being over and over extremely honest and kind with each other over the years and it's not something that should be forgotten just for the sake of drama or obstacles in their way.

She's way more friends with Catwoman than people think.

Cat and Harley might be one of the closest relationships Harley has over the years, they are the friend you call in the middle of the night and the other comes running. Harley is also one of few people (by my knowledge) that accepts and respects Cat as she is and never considered betraying her (contrary to poison ivycofcofcofc we love messy friendships!)

She's not mean without a reason

This is a thing that I rarely see people talking about Harley (as a skill not just a thing they like about her character) and that I didn't notice how I missed as a core aspect of her character until I watched the animated series. And the thing is that...

She's so goddamn likeable

The animated series kind of has this take on Harley of being the skeptical mean character that always has a roast to say just for the sake of comedy. Which isn't horrible we love mean women.

But it's just not her. This is what I call the Deadpoolfication of Harley Quinn, where it's very fucking clear DC want to make a million dollar selling character to compete with Deadpool popularity and since their own knock off knock off (never forget Wade is a satire of Slade, never, never let him live away from it and neither Slade because it's so fucking damned funny) didn't worked they just picked Harley because it's fucking easy. But then they just pick mean jokes Wade would do and Harley would just not?

And I can hear you saying oh Q why the fuck you care so much? Because Harley being likeable is just a fucking core aspect of her character that not only works writing wise but in her fucking skill set!

She's the personality hire of any shit she's in! She makes allies as she goes and it's what puts her way far ahead compared with any DC villain or anti-hero, you can put Harley on a supermarket line and she'll get out there with seven different murder allies and a fucking gang to beat your ass. She's the "I know a guy" friend that'd take you out of a pickle and forget this or write her out of it take several points of her bullshit ways of slaying.

And you know why? Because out of her murderous and careless way she also has the capacity to be irrevocably and undeniably.

Kind.

She's not just quirky.

For the love of god free my girl of the deadpoolfication of Harley Quinn. Harley unfortunately suffers from the same bugs bunnization that Wade has been suffering for years, unfortunately people have goddamn difficulty in writing funny and compelling characters without making them a joke.

They keep writing her as this manic pixie girl, as this character that will make out of pocket things just because she can or because she's crazy and again a slam the same argument I've been making for Wade all over this time. She 's so. Much. More than that.

But to be honest, to write my argument for this post would be much longer than it already is, so it would have to be an entirely different post to compile it.

So I'll end it here. Thank you so much for asking for a chance to talk about her, if I could I would talk about Harley for days, weeks, months.

She's just… she's so special to me.

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