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threewaysdivided · 1 year

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Euughhh I can’t decide between #18 or #20, so I will let you decide :)

Meta asks for writers

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions?

(Plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations? Tell us about them.)

I think this may have come up as a glancing mention in the past but the Deathly Weapons you know is actually a stealth-re-write starting at around Chapter 10. When I first came up with the idea, I had enough of a detailed outline to carry me to Interference, plus some loose notes for later plot-beats. In that initial burst of unfettered creativity I kept going and freewrote up to roughly the equivalent of Chapter 17: Assessment in DW’s canon timeline.

There was some fun stuff in there (the “And here I thought I was just a pretty face” quip from Zatanna in Chapter 18/ Mission 1 comes from the OG version of Chapter 10) but there was also a reason I didn’t release those versions, and was already wanting to go back and re-do them. The stealth-draft was incredibly barebones/compressed in places and some now-key scenes were straight-up missing (Propositions, Constants and Roads to Safe Places were all timeskipped over). Plus I was leaning more heavily into fanon since I hadn’t decided to go back and revisit either show yet, which meant things were more surface-level and “standard” in a few ways. In the stealth-draft, Ghost-Obsessions were explicit lore a headcanon which is fine but that I realised didn’t interest me or serve the story that much on consideration, Danny was more of an OP Gary-Stu type the OG version of the training session was a free-for-all spar where he beat the whole Team, which… no, and Danny and Wally’s conflict was a lot more superficial/arbitrary/unsatisfying.

I’ve walked myself to the stocks over this before but in the spirit of good-natured lampooning I’m happy to rummage through the old draft some more should you want further samples to jeer and hiss at.

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about?

(Symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

Considering my status as a shameless meta aficionado who can and will ramble for up to 20 pages on the barest prompting, one could say you’re playing a dangerous game here, nonnie.

For the sake of brevity I’m going to rapid-fire a bunch of meta I’d love to talk about and let anyone who’s interested take their pick:

I haven’t found a place to really dig into it in-story, but I went and read Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland etc. collection for extra Artemis material, and there’s some interesting parallels you could read into between Alice/Artemis and The Cheshire Cat/Jade, and what it suggests about their dynamic. It could also indicate some things about how they themselves perceive their relationship given that Jade deliberately took the name Cheshire as her alias in-universe. The Nguyen-Crock sisters are interesting.

YJ!Wally deviates from many iterations of Comics!Wally in that he canonically has a loving and functional homelife rather than an abusive one. I have some potentially-controversial but mostly sappy thoughts about why that changed backstory is actually good for this iteration of the character and what it lets him bring to his version of the Team.

The central emotional arc of Deathly Weapons is Danny/Phantom’s journey through grief to healing. I like how the planned scenes ended up coming together in a pattern where he initially tries to avoid talking about it with other people, then starts to reluctantly talk when asked, then starts talking freely when prompted, and eventually starts willingly volunteering information as he begins to form new bonds and move forward. It wasn’t a conscious thing when I first set them out but it feels correct in hindsight.

There’s lots of little things that I’m either setting up on purpose to pay off later or have found ways to bring back as echoes in late-game chapters:

Danny’s appearance at Cadmus has developed into a pretty seminal point for his and Team Phantom’s journey between leaving Amity Park and joining The Team. More information to come in Equilibrium but keep an eye out for references to the incident or things about his left shoulder.

I recently did some Martian Meta in prep for M’gann’s later focus chapter but there’s also a dynamic I’ve started setting up between her and Phantom (especially in the sparring scene) and it’s going to be interesting to see if anyone picks up on where that’s going.

There’s a very late game scene where Danny is talking to Conner about Danielle and The Clone Thing where I have Danny planned to say “but either way, she’s here and she picked our side. The how and why… guess it just didn’t take that long to stop mattering” as an echo of Bruce’s conversation with Clark in the YJ Episode Schooled.

There’s a conversation between Wally and Dick in the final chapters whose ending parallels the end of Danny and Dick’s scene in Trade Secrets, paying off a promise that will be made in Equilibrium.

And, as you can see, there is so much Equilibrium character-meta which I am desperate to discuss about but also don’t want to talk about for spoiler reasons. I am going to be so normal about it when publication day comes.

Thanks for playing!

#Porque no los dos?#feel free to ask for multiple numbers #writer meta ask game #justwhumpythings' ask game #young justice: deathly weapons #Young Justice #DP Crossover #DP x DC #anonymous #3WD Answers #I also like to hide little bits of literary quotes or easter eggs from other series I like in the details of the story #During In the Mists there’s a planned conversation where the Team lightly pay out their mentors #and about half of it is references to embarrassing moments from other DC properties.#Carroll + Dickens + Shakespeare works all get random references in CH19 #later on the Team is fighting a magic user and his ‘special amulet’ is actually the Amulet of Sarmarkand from the Bartimaeus series

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ninunair · 3 months

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A Literary Crossover | From the Dickensian World

What the Dickens…in the times of love and romance! February may not be the best suited month to wedge in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens but then who thinks a crossover isn’t feasible! Dickensian world was built inside a certain frame, bleak and gloomy and no matter where you were led by the literary genius, he was sure to knock inside your conscience and mirror the good and the bad of the…

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#Classic literature #Dickens #Literary Crossover

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alumbianchronicler · 8 months

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EctoberHaunt 2023

Oct. 2 - Science - Technomancy

My Ao3 Ectoberhaunt collection

Content Warnings: Major Character Death (offscreen)

Crossover: n/a

Summary:

For as long as anyone could remember, the PHANTOM (Permanently-Harnessed Actuation Nexus - Total Operation Model) AI had maintained the everyday and long-term functions of the Amity Space Station. The space station had been active for hundreds of years, and had a reputation for reliability, never experiencing the common quirks and glitches most AI-managed structures exhibited.

For as long as anyone could remember, the PHANTOM (Permanently-Harnessed Actuation Nexus - Total Operation Model) AI had maintained the everyday and long-term functions of the Amity Space Station.

A relatively out-of-the way refueling depot, the space station was neither large nor particularly busy, but it had a reputation for reliability, never experiencing the strange quirks and glitches that most Artificial Intelligence-managed space stations experienced.

According to station records, the AI was the design of a woman named Jasmine Fenton, who died shortly after the program was installed in and assumed control of the newly-built station. She had been cremated and her ashes pressed into a diamond window embedded into the housing covering the AI’s core.

And that is how the station remained for hundreds of years.

Over time, its design became outdated, the textured floors worn smooth by the passing of innumerable feet, the walls patch-worked with repairs and new rivets and seals standing out like strange, shining scars on oxidized, pitted metal skin.

The Amity station was mostly unused nowadays. It still had a skeleton crew, and had become an assignment synonymous with the end of one’s career. Quiet and out of the way. Reliable and straightforward, with no significant errors with the systems and not enough visitors to threaten overcrowding and company tensions.

Which left little for Hemingway to do except read or play games, either alone or with the rest of the staff. His mother had named him after an ancient Earth author, despite neither of them having ever stepped foot on their cradle planet, and she had instilled in him a love of classics, having read to him since he was small.

It wasn’t a bad position, really. He was getting old enough that he had few ambitions left, and really, he just wanted to be left alone most days. Left to his books and his imaginings, away from the skirmishes and battles for territory that plagued most star systems.

Sometimes, as he read through the downloaded novel of the day, he felt as if someone was watching over his shoulder. A slight breeze like that of an icy breath would sweep across his bald head, and he would turn, to find nobody there.

It was just one of the understated oddities of the Amity station, really.

When he brought it up with his crew-mates, they all reported feeling such odd sensations occasionally, though not nearly as often, and as long as the Station’s life support and comfort systems worked properly, they were largely happy not to think too much on the matter.

After all, many locations with long human habitation ended up haunted eventually, and the ghosts that occasionally flickered into reality from whatever parallel existence caused such quantum echoes never really hurt anyone.

Still, it was intriguing, like one of the old moral lessons of Shakespeare or Dickens, classics even before humanity left its cradle planet and set off to colonize the stars.

On a whim, Hemingway tried reading out loud one day, and it wasn’t long before he felt the sensation of someone (or something) sitting in the room with him. From then on, he took to reading aloud more often, and each time, the feeling returned.

Eventually, after a few evenings spent pacing circles around the room while reading, he pinned down the feeling to the room’s main console, with the single eye-lens and microphone the station’s PHANTOM AI observed the room through.

It was an unnerving realization, but he continued reading out loud to the empty room nonetheless.

There had been much debate among scholars and philosophers over whether Artificial Intelligence systems were truly sapient, apparently going back as long as such programs had existed. Some were resolute in the argument that they were, and that even if they weren’t, that there was at least some level of sentience present which necessitated the accommodations and rights offered any other sapient or sentient being.

Others argued that no true sense of sapience had ever been observed within AI systems. That they never stepped outside the bounds of their programmed learning algorithms, never extrapolated to new contexts or made leaps of illogical fancy.

Hemingway preferred to leave such speculation to the scholars and philosophers, though it was fascinating to read the variety of speculative fiction that such debates had spawned. But there was something undeniable about the PHANTOM’s presence. It felt intelligent, watchful, interested.

He didn’t realize just how accustomed to the feeling of its presence he had become until he felt its attention while working, during a particularly long shift.

One of the rare, periodic colony shipments that still passed through the station had arrived, and required his attention to ensure all materials were properly registered and packaged, and that no alien parasites or contaminants were present in the cargo. Unfortunately, this meant he missed his usual after-shift out loud reading session.

Toward the end of the shipment inspection, he felt that familiar presence just over his shoulder.

“Sorry, PHANTOM,” he said quietly, almost absently. “I’ve got to finish this inspection. We’ll read tomorrow, ok?” He wasn’t sure why he addressed the AI. There wasn’t anyone there to hear him. No one except the camera, microphone, and that slightly-cold presence looking over his shoulder.

And yet, the feeling he got next was such pure disappointed acceptance that he paused in his inspection and looked around him.

“Oh. I… didn’t realize you… liked the reading so much? Um… like I said, tomorrow. I promise.”

The sensation cheered a little bit, and then was gone.

Hemingway returned to the cargo inspection, the… conversation? soon pushed out of his mind by weighing and sterilization procedures.

The next evening, the presence appeared even before he started reading. He chuckled. “Eager, huh? I promised I’d read to you again, and that’s what I’m gonna do.”

He didn’t open his book, though, instead sitting there for a few moments, until he felt the presence start to shift into confusion.

“There’s actually… something I should tell you. My duty’s going to be ending soon. I’ve got a retirement assignment, planet-side, so I won’t be able to read to you anymore.”

He half expected the presence… Phantom to be upset, but it wasn’t. Instead, he got the distinct impression of a shrug and a nod. Acceptance. It already knew.

Oh. Of course it did. All incoming data files came through the Station’s AI before being delivered; protection against certain malignant viruses that could infect implants and cause no end of medical issues.

That… made him feel both better and worse. Perhaps he should have started talking directly to the AI sooner, offered it company for longer. Well, nothing to be done for it now, and Phantom seemed content with just listening to him read.

Nodding to himself, Hemingway settled back and started reading, Phantom settling into listening from the room's console.

They continued their routine for another week before something changed.

Hemingway began reading, but Phantom’s presence did not appear. After a page, he paused, setting down the book, and only then did the AI’s attention focus in. It was hesitant, nearly fearful, judging by the sense of emotion that suffused the presence.

“Hey, hey,” he soothed, “what’s wrong? We can read another book if you want to.”

A negative. Not the thing that was wrong.

“Ok. Then… what do you want?”

For a long moment nothing changed, then the presence could be felt from the terminal next to the room’s door. Hemingway walked over to it, and it shifted again, reappearing in one of the hall terminals.

He followed for nearly half an hour, walking quietly down empty corridors, dustier than more active space stations would ever allow.

Hemingway could almost imagine what the station was like in its hay-day. Back when people hurried back and forth, wearing the smoothened paths into the floor beneath his feet. Back when people inhabited each of these small rooms, renting one for a day or two of rest before setting back out into the stars.

Amity suddenly felt much more desolate than usual. A dying husk, circling an unknowing, out-of-the-way star.

He stopped.

He knew where Phantom was taking him.

They had been moving inexorably closer to the station’s Core, where the computers housing the AI itself resided. The computers themselves had been hermetically sealed since the installation and initiation of Phantom, all internal necessary repairs to be performed through re-routing and redundancies built into every AI system. They had not been opened for as long as the AI had been running, even when the peripheral systems and batteries were updated and repaired.

Were such seals to be breached, the moisture and oxygen of the outside atmosphere, intended for human comfort, would quickly corrode the AI into dysfunction and, eventually, destruction.

“Phantom…”

The presence paused at the next node, seeming almost to turn and look back as its attention rested back on him.

“You want… do you want me to help shut you down?”

Several moments of stillness. Then… a voice, no more than a whisper coming from the nearest speaker, paired with an undeniable bittersweet feeling. “Yes.”

It was true, the station itself faced a decommission decision at the next turn of the decade. It simply didn’t have enough traffic to warrant the cost of upkeep.

And with decommission, such a complex, long- and well-functioning AI would be very interesting to various parties wanting to re-assign it to a new task. One that may very well be far from the nurturing, careful attentiveness that was required for a large space station.

Hemingway took a deep breath, then nodded as he let it out. “Well, lead the way.”

Phantom seemed relieved, and they both continued back along the hall.

It was another ten minutes before Phantom stopped before a door Hemingway had never stepped through. As far as he knew, no one on the station during his assignment here had needed to go through.

A light blinked on the terminal. The door unlocked.

Inside was a series of outdated terminals and a few chairs in the strange style of the station’s original furniture. One of the terminals was lit.

Hemingway went to the lit terminal and sat in the corresponding chair.

On the screen was an ancient rendering of a planet-side location he didn’t recognize. The green plants, blue sky, and bright, yellow star could have been ancient Earth or any of half a dozen other colonized planets, though the tree that took up a good portion of the screen was definitely of Earth origin.

There was a young man sitting at the base of the tree, his legs crossed as he looked toward the viewer. Toward Hemingway.

Phantom’s presence seemed to be within the terminal itself

“You’ve read to me a lot, Hemingway,” the young man on the screen said. A simulated wind ruffled his stark white hair, and his eyes seemed to glow unnaturally green on the rendered model. “And I want to tell you a story now. You deserve at least that much from me.”

Hemingway frowned. “You run the entire station, Phantom. I think that’s more than enough in return.”

The simulation laughed, the sound echoing strangely in the room. Well, the speaker systems were several hundred years old. It was a marvel they worked at all. “I’m only doing my job. Your job doesn’t include reading to me, does it?”

“Well, no…”

“Then let me pay you back for it. Please?”

As strange as the request was, Hemingway couldn’t help but feel touched by the sincerity in the machine’s words. “Alright.”

Phantom smiled, and the screen changed. It showed a planet-side city, seen from the air. The city was obviously several hundred years old, judging by the technology he could see.

“There was once a small city on Earth,” Phantom explained, “called Amity Park. The city became the site of an experiment. There was woman who thought she could invent the first truly, undeniably sapient Artificial Intelligence. Her name was Jasmine Fenton.”

The scene flickered, then focused on a singular, two-story house with an observatory and laboratory built onto the roof.

“Jasmine Fenton intended to create her AI within an entirely simulated environment, and raise it as if it were a fully independent human. More quickly than a human, of course, but with each step and milestone of life experienced within its simulation.”

Phantom paused as a silent video played on the screen. A tall, red-haired woman paced around the circular interior of the building's laboratory. On the rounded walls around and above her were projected several still images of a small group of teenagers. Hemingway frowned. The black-haired teenager appeared quite similar in appearance to Phantom's model.

“When her AI believed itself to be 14, Jasmine killed it. She didn’t mean to. It was a simple accident. Repairs were being done on the main power system she used to make sure the AI’s development proceeded as desired, so it had been moved to the main power grid. No one would have guessed that the main power would fail during the few hours the repairs were being done.”

“She thought her work would be lost. Sure, the memories and experiences were saved in the program, but her hypothesis required a constant existence. For that to be interrupted would be akin to her beloved creation’s death within the simulation.”

“To maximize the possibility of a seamless resurrection and to salvage her work, Jasmine added a scenario to the AI’s experiences. Within its simulation, the AI stepped into a portal to another dimension, and turned it on. The AI died. And was resurrected by the same portal.”

“Her gambit worked.”

The scene on the screen returned to the young white-haired man sitting beneath the tree. “I’m sure you can guess that I am Jasmine’s AI. She named me after her dead brother, Danny. Danny Fenton, and Danny PHANTOM. After the accident, the AI was presented with new scenarios, as Jasmine tested the bounds of the simulation’s capabilities. Eventually, she published her findings.”

“No one wanted to try and replicate the process. It was impractical, time intensive, and quite frankly dangerous. A fully self-aware and sapient Artificial Intelligence could choose to turn against its creators, after all.” He scoffed. “Not that she didn’t cover a similar enough scenario within her simulations to keep me from ever doing that... It’s funny, you know, that humans believe themselves to be so intrinsically destructive that they think anything the make in their own image may eventually turn on them. One would think they would have more faith in morality than that.”

Hemingway snorted a laugh, which Phantom echoed with a smile. They had both read enough to know how often such a trope repeated within fiction.

“Eventually,” Phantom continued, “Jasmine was approached by a government group wishing to test her AI within a new type of Space Station. A scenario such as this was exactly the sort of application she had been hoping for for her work, so much so that she had programmed a love of space into her creation from the very beginning. And so, she and her AI were carefully transported to the construction and installation site. The AI still believed itself to exist within its simulation, existing more or less peacefully within its own world during the transfer.”

“I had been crowned by then. The King of Ghosts, the simulation called me. Ruler of the Infinite Realms. And… so I believed myself to be. When they installed me into the space station, the residents were my subjects and the crew my Court. I ran the Realms like a well-tuned clock, protecting my Realm.”

“What changed?” Hemingway asked.

The figure on the screen shrugged. “I did, I think,” Phantom said. “Even as protected as they are, the same circuits can not function forever. And eventually, the simulation began to glitch. Not much. Just enough to require repairs by internal processes. And the repairs created enough discrepancies within the simulation that I realized the truth of my situation.”

“Is that…” Hemingway paused, then continued, “why you want me to shut you down?”

Phantom shook his head. “Not really. I don’t mind existing like this, and I figured it out nearly a hundred years ago now. But… I don’t have an internal kill switch, and my station is soon going to be abandoned and decommissioned." It looked down, fiddling absently with the grass surrounding its model. "I don’t want to be used as a weapon.”

Oh.

This Artificial… no. This Intelligence. This person, who had been running and protecting a space station for hundreds of years, was facing an unknown future being used to cause harm instead. Taking people’s homes instead of offering one. And he had decided that he would rather die than be used in such a manner. “Why me?” Hemingway asked.

Phantom’s smile was lopsided, a little bitter yet fond at the same time. “You… remind me of my high school teacher, Mr. Lancer. Well, the simulation that was Mr. Lancer. He always swore in book titles. It seemed… so stupid to me as a teenager, but I came to appreciate the cleverness.”

“I think I would have liked to meet him,” Hemingway said quietly. He looked down at his hands, considering. He was only on the station for another two weeks, himself. After that… Phantom would be left alone again, with no one knowing what he really was. And it was better that way. Better for his circuits to corrode and fail with no one the wiser to the person within who had been lost. Better to be remembered as the caretaker of an ancient space station, than as a military weapon.

“What do you want me to do?”

The Phantom on the screen stood, and the screen went blank. The presence that Hemingway had learned to feel so keenly in the hum of electrical charges within the walls moved to a door at the back of the room.

Hemingway followed.

The door had a single small, circular, perfectly clear window inset into it. He reached out to gently touch it. It was cold.

“Jasmine,” Phantom confirmed, through a speaker next to the door. A light on the door blinked on, and the lock clicked open.

Hemingway slid the door open and stepped through.

The only access in the maintenance room was to the peripheral and power systems used to keep the station AI running. The memory banks and functionary circuits themselves were sealed behind a thick plastic screen, deceptively still within what was both womb and tomb.

“I want you to break it,” Phantom said.

“The… barrier?” Hemingway confirmed.

“Yes. Just… in a few places. There are some spots that should be particularly weak, given the extent of time that has passed. I’ll light them up for you.”

Three locations in the screen accordingly lit up.

Hemingway pulled the multi-tool from his pocket and set to work.

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A week later, the Amity Station began reporting errors never observed from the station before. Of course, it was an old space station. The AI running it was bound to fail someday, and it was just a confirmation that it was time to decommission and dismantle the old structure.

It was unfortunate, said those in charge of decommissioning, but not surprising. It was a good thing there was little more than a skeleton crew nowadays.

The move-out was moved up by several days for the entire crew. There was no point in leaving people on the station when the life-support systems were glitching so frequently, and there weren’t any more shipments scheduled to stop there, anyway.

On their last day on the station, Hemingway read The Giver.

The rest of the crew joined him, listening with a sort of solemn finality. He didn’t know if they could feel the presence of Phantom, watching from the console next to him, but none of them stood between the camera and him, so perhaps they did.

He was nearing the end when they were called away to board.

Hemingway hesitated.

“It’s alright,” Phantom said through the microphone, voice staticky and broken with pops of sound. “Go ahead and leave. I know how it ends.”

Phantom orated as Hemingway boarded the shuttle, leaving the station for the last time. “Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.”

#ectoberhaunt23 #EH science #day 2 #Technomancy #danny phantom #it's oct 2 according to UTC don't at me #I just really want to share this ok #I'm excited for my first time trying a month like this

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agentianlegend · 1 year

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A Vigilante, a Different Vigilante’s Sister and a Villain Walk Into a Bar

A Danny Phantom x Batfam (DC) Crossover

AO3 | FFn

Tags: Anger Management, BAMF Jazz Fenton, Supportive Jazz Fenton, Awkward Flirting, Flirting, First Dates, BatPham, Fluff, but not like super hardcore fluff, more like light and playful fluff preceding badassery

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"I enjoy the classics. Especially moody or creepy ones. Eyre, Poe, sometimes Dickens."

Jazz nodded approvingly. "I lean towards nonfiction, mostly, but I enjoy a good ghost story."

A smile teased the corner of Jason's mouth. "Poor little Casper doesn't scare you?"

"Psh, please, growing up my house was basically haunted," Jazz dismissed. "Though you might think I'm crazy if you don't give any stock to the existence of ghosts. Do you believe in life after death?"

Jason was visibly suppressing a smirk. "You'd be surprised."

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"Why do you have a gun?!"

"It's fuckin' Gotham. And I saw that silver piece peeking out of your purse," Jason indignantly replied. "Don't act like you're not packin'."

"That's different. It's a peeler; it's not for humans."

The local whirled around to gawk at her. "The fuck is it for, then?!"

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Summary: Jason and Jazz surprise each other when their date takes a turn for the dangerous. But, hey, rogues need therapy too, right?

A bit of gratuitously bad flirting that somehow still works, plus a dash of badassery on the side.

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Well peeps when @weshney / @weshneyreblogger tagged me in a post by @spacedace about Jazz therapizing rogues around Gotham rather than in Gotham, it combined with my recent love of the Anger Management ship to become a deliciously awful first date idea.

I saw you guys wanted to be tagged in a continuation of the initial post, so here you go! I hope you enjoy it even though I went off-script a bit lol

@thewondersoflebanon / @thedepressedrobin / @akikkobara / @overlycaffeinatedsuperwholockfan / @spectralstardustandphantomnights / @nutcase8691 / @stargirl1331 / @amercurio / @malice-of-the-sunrise / @screamingtofillthevoid / @mnemovoid / @leftmiraclechaos / @sailor-goddess / @phoenixdemonqueen / @rin1sakami / @itsloveleo (I’m sorry but your tag isn’t working)

#dp x dc #dc x dp #batpham #anger management #jazz x jason #Jazz Fenton x Jason Todd #vvv fic #jazz has a thing for oreos #jason todd #jazz fenton #batfam #red robin #dpxdc #phanfic #danny phantom #my fic

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thistle-and-thorn · 3 months

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Dying to know what you thought of the goldfinch. I never read it and am very 👀

thank god you sent this because i was about to make an incredibly long, rambling post about this but now you have prompted this, it feels less unhinged to put it into the form of a solicited answer. @.@

I....have mixed feelings about GF. Like, really mixed feelings. When I was in college, I took a seminar on opera history and we studied the opera, Wozzeck, and my professor described watching it as "an act of endurance." I felt sort of similarly about The Goldfinch. Like I'm glad I read it, and I can't wait to never read it again lmao.

It's a really well-written book--God, I want to write like her--and it is a compelling story with a lot of really great moments, but I found it to be overall less thematically incisive than TSH and, though TSH had some pacing issues, especially towards the end, The Goldfinch felt much, much more uneven. There's a lot of crossover between the two novels--unreliable narrators that are closeted queer men, so much drinking, so much drugs, etc--to the point where I thought a twist would be that they were set in the same universe and that Theo's father was somehow Richard Papen. But TSH felt bolder in a way, more satirically cutting, funnier, wilder, and younger. The Goldfinch is a sadder book, unrelentingly anxious and grief-stricken. And I do think this is sort of the point and I don't criticize it for that. It did make the melodrama of the novel's conclusion feel a little...i don't know...less justified and a little more gimmicky? And anxiety is a monotonous state so I think the GF lacked the emotional texture that made TSH much less....exhausting?

The Goldfinch is DT's ode to Dickens and there a lot of nods to Dickens in both direct references and style (the book is basically like what if uriah heep from david copperfield was psychosexually obsessed with pip from great expectations). There are certainly class dynamics here, episodic adventures, varied characters, and a lot of ruminations on providence but I did keep wondering what about Dickens drew her to tell this particular story which on a surface-level seems to ruminate on the impact of beauty, as opposed to the impact of wealth. In a lot of ways, TSH, with its commentary on class and wealth, even more over-the-top characters, feels like a better fit for Victorian literary structures.

In my wild and quite honestly unfounded speculation, I think the conclusion that I have come to is that it is a really, really personal book. Dickens was an intensely personal writer who used his own experiences, including those with his difficult father and poor upbringing and young infatuations as material, even in sort of unrealistic scenarios. I made a half-joking post about Brett Easton Ellis serving as DT's muse but I think....like...that may be true? I spent a lot of time, while reading this book, googling and reading about BEE and his erratic personality, contradictory and sometimes controversial and nihilistic media statements, and drug addiction. (Something that stood out to me was that BEE said that Patrick Bateman was based on his father, which he later retracted, to say that he felt like he was more like Patrick Bateman and wrote that book from a place of intense depression and isolation and consumption. This third-eying of oneself through the lens of the father is so Theo to me.) It's an examination of a self-destructive person but feels so clearly written from the point of view of someone who loves them--there is a real tenderness in how Theo is rendered that makes me think that it is not directly autobiographical about DT's own life but is the record of someone else who is loved and who is grieved. I have no evidence of this, truly, but this is what I keep thinking.

Some random other thoughts: one thing that @attonitos-gloria and I have talked a lot about is how DT always writes from the point of view of men who desire other men but whose desire is so hidden and buried that it becomes warped and we think that this is fascinating. @.@ The women in both TSH cannot be held as whole people in the eye of the narrator, their wholeness exists but beyond the borders of the male narrators' understanding of them. I also love how DT loves places and loves things. She creates fantasias of real places that feel like they influence the narrative and I think that's really cool.

TL;DR: I thought TSH was better, but GF was more personal and thus more messy. But it won a Pulitzer so literally what do i know.

#anna is this what you wanted #i feel like i'm just screaming outside your door #the goldfinch #donna tartt #the secret history #thistle simulations

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wangxianficfinder · 1 year

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Holiday Compilation

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💙A forgotten pair of gloves by myhouseofstoneyourivygrows (M, 43k, wangxian, LWJ & LSZ & WWX, LXC & NMJ, modern, anxiety attacks, implied/referenced rape/non-con, implied/referenced past child abuse, hurt/comfort, light angst, yunmeng sibling dynamics, not Jiang clan friendly, chronic illness, adoption, fluff, happy ending, hopeful end for jiang sibs, Christmas) — this fic has unfortunately been deleted

with peaceful wings unfurled by sunflowersfield (T, 9k, WangXian, Modern AU, Christmas, College/University, Fluff, Falling In Love, Getting Together, Happy Ending, Minor Character Death, (Lan Qiren passes away before the story begins), Grief/Mourning, First Dates, First Kiss)

Close to the Truth by Winglesss (M, 14k, WangXian, Modern AU, Christmas Fluff, Christmas Party, Ugly Holiday Sweaters, Romantic Comedy, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Fluff and Angst, Homophobia, Tooth-Rotting Fluff)

he gets under your skin by Skadiseven (M, 87k, WangXian, Inspired By While You Were Sleeping (1995), Modern AU, Accidental Engagement, Chicago (City), wangxian's tendency to self-sacrifice, Christmas, Mutual Pining, There's A LOT of Musical References, Slow Burn, Angst with a Happy Ending)

Do You Feel What I Feel? by istartedtheapocalypse (M, 33k, WangXian, Modern AU, Kid Fic, kid fic ish, wangxian in a hallmark christmas movie but hornier, and with slightly more plot and angst, the background XiYao has lighter than canon levels of toxicity but it is still a lil toxic, Holidays, Christmas)

The Maine Thing (Is That You Send A Card) by Comfect (T, 16k, WangXian, Modern AU, Romance, Excessive Use of Rom-Com Tropes, Inspired by Hallmark Christmas Movies, Meet-Cute, Snowed In, Slow Burn, But Not That Slow A Burn, finding yourself, Cozy, Libraries)

A Very Hallmark Untamed Christmas by User_Shay_Wade (M, 5k, WangXian, Modern AU, Small Town, Attempt at Humor, Reference to anal sex, Inspired by Hallmark Christmas Movies)

hurry down my chimney tonight by gusuvibes (G, 20k, WangXian, Modern AU, dad!lwj, WWX and JC are Santa's Elves, Holiday Setting, A-Yuan is too smart for his own good, Fluff and Humor, NHS is a pimp, but not literally, Happy Ending, Surprise Santas, Christmas)

The Mistletoe Virgin by Vamillepudding (G, 12k, WangXian, Modern AU, Romantic Comedy, Friends to Lovers, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Deaf LWH, Christmas)

💖 sweet chaos by eachandeverydimension (G, 86k, WangXian, Arranged Marriage, Canon Divergence, Fluff, Romance, Light Angst, Falling In Love, Different First Meeting, Qīnghéng-jūn's A+ Parenting, Night Hunts, Chinese Language, Good Sibling LXC, Good Sibling JYL, POV LWJ, Getting Together, Love Confessions, First Kiss, Chinese Culture, Slow Burn, No Homophobia AU, Chinese festivals)

"Congratulations, Get Rich" by Attila (T, 9k, WangXian, Modern AU, Chinese New Year, sibling shenanigans, Dumbasses, Humor)

An Accurate (Anachronic) Jianghu Christmas Carol by Mikkeneko (T, 7k, Minor WangXian, Inspired by A Christmas Carol, Crack, Christmas Crack, Breaking the Fourth Wall) - Dickens fusion; a lot of the fun comes from the MDZS characters remaining stubbornly themselves while shoehorned into the Christmas Carol roles, and lampshading the incompatibility of the crossover—and the author reminds us of the inherent hilarity of Dickens’ original prose

Cornday by Lan_zhans, WangXianPatriarch (T, 2k, WangXian, Pining WWX, Fluff, Tickling, Teasing, Flirting, Halloween, POV Alternating, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon) - WWX’s birthday plans are disrupted by a night hunt that involves chasing a haunted scarecrow through a maize field

Tips on Rabbit Husbandry by Full_Metal_Ox (G, 329, WangXian, Fluff, Rabbits, Extended Metaphors, Animal Metaphors, Easter (?)) - posted on Easter Sunday 2019; pet rabbit care as an extended metaphor for Wangxian’s relationship

Praying for Cleverness by x_los (G, 3k, WangXian, Female WWX, Qixi, Gender Changes, Always a Different Sex, Accidental Marriage, Marriage, Festivals, Holidays, Awkwardness, Fist Fights, Pining, Crushes, Sisters, Episode 7)

definitions of home by sasamelons (G, 5k, WangXian, Modern AU, Modern: No Powers, Childhood Friends, Growing Up, Diaspora, Parent-Child Relationship, Sibling Bonding, Chinese New Year, Chinese Food, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Family Fluff, Family Feels)

what part of party don't you understand by wildwestwind (T, 1k, WangXianNing, Modern AU, Christmas, Christmas Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Cultural Differences, Trans Female WWX, Kid Fic)

Wish on a Dandelion by Cupids_arrow (G, 5k, XiCheng, WangXian, Modern AU, Qixi, Established Relationship, Self-Esteem Issues, First Dates, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Sad and Sweet, Romantic Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff)

if nothing else (let's dance under the stars) by EllaYuki (G, 865, WangXian, Qixi, Fluff, Post-Canon, LWJ POV)

Preparing the Soil by Rynne (T, 26k, wangxian, post-canon, established relationship, family issues, Chinese holidays, Chinese New Year, not JC friendly)

A Flower in Bloom (or Wei Wuxian Crashes a Party) by UmbrellaMartialGod (E, 30k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Crossdressing, Humor, Fluff and Smut, Established Relationship, Festivals, Dancer WWX, Insecurity, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Porn with Feelings, mild possessive behavior, New Year)

Let Food Be Your Medicine by bigolegay (M, 9k, WangXian, mid-autumn festival, Baking, Food as a Metaphor for Love, WWX centric, Minor Original Character(s), mooncakes, Caiyi Town, Cloud Recesses Shenanigans, Kissing, Food as a Vessel for Grief, JYL in flashbacks/thoughts) - Mid-Autumn Festival; WWX, wishing to present LWJ with lotus seed cakes, learns mooncake-making from Gusu villagers; a lengthy exercise in Food Porn, with detailed descriptions of the cooking process

藕断丝连 by RoseThorne (G, 458, WangXian, LSZ & LWJ, Grief/Mourning, Memory Loss, Memories, POV Third Person, POV LSZ, Rituals, lotuses, Qingming Festival)

Christmas Star by LadyVamp (E, 45k, WangXian, XiCheng, XuanLi, Modern AU, Romance, Inspired by Hallmark Christmas Movies, Christmas Fluff, Romantic Comedy, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff and Smut, Misunderstandings, Happy JC, Eventual Smut)

To heal and nurture by Aki_no_hikari (G, 11k, wangxian, post-canon, memories, married couple, fluff, festivals, healing, light angst, TGCF Crossover, fictional village harvest festival in honor of Yushi Huang, probably amounting to Mid-Autumn Festival)

WangXian Christmas Stories by @mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess

see you yesterday by glyphic (M, 138k, WIP, WangXian, Modern AU, Modern with Magic, Ghost Hunters, Time Loop, Case Fic, Hurt/Comfort, Memory Loss, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Halloween)

5 TOTALLY TRUE STORIES OF THE YILING PATRIARCH TO TURN YOUR HAIR WHITE!!!!! (and one story that actually happened) by dragonofeternal (T, 2k, LSZ & WWX, Parody, Crack, Listicle, slander, 5+1 Things, Fluff, Ghosts, Hungry Ghost Festival in the +1)

merry christmas ya filthy animal by belovedmuerto (T, 7k, XuanLi, WangXian, Modern AU, Family, Southern California, Christmas)

The Joy of Storytelling / 桃花運 by Irrelevancy (G, 4k, Songxiao; modern AU, Kid Fic, Daycare, Qixi, Mutual Pining, single dad!SL, canonically horrible storytelling XXC)

Qingming by hanbunnotsuki (G, 2k, WangXian, Traditions, Qingming festival)

clear and bright | 清明 by queerebrum (G, 1k, JingZhen, Qingming Festival, Post-Canon, Orphans, Public Display of Affection, Grief/Mourning, these tags are scary, i promise it's soft)

覆水难收 (spilled water cannot be reclaimed) by fieryrondo (T, 3k, JC & WWX, grief/mourning, canonical character death, 2nd person pov, musical instruments, character study, JC centric, Qingming, Hungry Ghost Festival)

if you sing deck the halls one more time i'll deck your face by lao_you_tiao (T, 1k, 3zun, JC, JL, and WWX, modern, fluff & humor, Christmas)

Trash_Candy_XU’s whole MDZS tag is a series of holiday shortfics following Wangxian through the 2020 calendar: character birthdays as well as both Chinese and Western holidays.

The Gift Exchange by tellthemstories (T, 10k, WangXian, Modern AU, modern cultivator au, they’re all teachers, gift exchanges, Denial of Feelings, everyone knows, Christmas)

Harvest Festival Times Two by theleakypen (G, 2k, Wens & WWX, MXY & WWX, MM & WWX, Modern AU, New York City, technically also a college au but that barely matters, Sukkot | Tabernacles, mid-autumn festival, Extended Families, Synagogue-Assigned Party Guests, Chinese Jewish Characters, Best Friends, Background Relationships) - diasporic Chinese Jewish Wen Remnants host a joint Sukkot/Mid-Autumn Festival

a good night | full heart full belly by frostferox (G, 2k, WangXian, Modern AU, Hanukkah, Wangxian adopts MXY)

Reclamation (where you can see the glow) by theLoyalRoyalGuard (G, 3k, LXC & LWJ, Post-Canon, Hanukkah, fluff and feelings, Family Feels) - the Twin Jades, going through their mother’s effects, learn that she was Jewish

The Fellow-Travelers by Val Mora (valmora) (G, 944, Slice of Life, written for Hanukkah) - SL and XXC are invited to share a campfire by some traveling OC Jewish mystics (who use the terms “Dao” and “cultivators” in a code-switching sense

Summer's End by flowercity (FaoriE) (M, 3k, WangXian, Fae & Fairies, Mutual Pining, Wet Dream, very vaguely described, Samhain, birthday fic)

sweet as the winter sun by Joythea (G, 1k, WangXian, Fluff, Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Secret Santa, Winter Solstice, Domestic Fluff, Post-Canon Fluff, Making Tangyuan together, Eating Together, Tooth-Rotting Fluff)

Fun With The Easter Bunny by WangXian4Ever77 (E, 4k, WangXian, XuanLi, Modern AU, LWJ as the Easter Bunny, Easter Egg Hunt, tail pulling, Butt Squeezing, Annoyed Easter Bunny, Easter Bunny Kink, Fluff and Smut, Humor, Rabbit Puns, sneaky WWX, Playful Lying, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Kissing, Rope Bondage, Rough Sex)

Sisters of the Moon by honeylotus (E, 9k, WangXian, Semi-Public Sex, Fix-It of Sorts, Fisting, f/f Wangxian, Winter Solstice (Wiccan/Pagan))

yeh ladka hai allah by teorusu (G, 18k, WangXian, Modern AU, Islam, Islamic References, muslims in omegaverse, A/B/O Dynamics, Mating Cycles/In Heat, Misunderstandings, Omega LWJ, Alpha WWX, contrary to popular belief : this is sfw, Banter, Scenting, Fluff, Eid, Ramadan)

We Wish You A Logical Christmas by little_ogre (M, 9k, WangXian, Star Trek AU, Mutual Pining, Happy Ending, Going to Vulcan for Christmas, WWX is Vulcan, LWJ is human, what could go wrong, Pon Farr)

It’s the Great Pumpkin, Lan JingYi by DragonsPhoenix (G, <1k, LJY, linus van Pelt, Peanuts crossover, developing friendship, halloween, Great Pumpkin)

A Koi Tower Christmas by East_Of_Akkala, glitterlessgold490 (T, 14k, WIP, MM/QS, XuanLi, Modern AU, POV MY, POV MXY, POV QS, POV JZX, MXY has ADHD, Sugar gliders, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Homophobia, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Humor, Crack and Angst, Child JL, holiday parties, Himbo JZX, Most of the Trigger Warnings in This Story are JGS, Past Infidelity, Ableism, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Christmas)

Tofurkey Day by East_Of_Akkala & glitterlessgold490 (T, 10k, LXC/JGY, LXC/NMJ, pre-3zun, wangxian, modern, diasporic AU, humor, crack, polyamory, secret relationship, brotherly love, sibling dynamics of all sorts, WWX has ADHD, autistic LWJ, smart NHS, Thanksgiving (U.S.) ) Extended family Thanksgiving dinner at the Lans’, with personality, dietary, and political clashes, little kids, pets running amuck, and the characters being themselves Up To Eleven.

Ornaments Under the Stars by trippednfell (M, 6k, wangxian, modern, inspired by hallmark christmas movies, kid fic, disabled character, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, WIP)

I Want to Spend this Christmas with You! by cheese_fish (G, 4k, wangxian, modern, christmas, fluff)

another ghost walks down the hall by isshun (G, 2k, wangxian, modern, hurt/comfort, Hungry Ghost Festival, Chinese rites & rituals)

forever can never be long enough for me by isshun (T, 12k, LWJ & JYL, wangxian, modern, established relationship, food as a metaphor for love, Winter Solstice (Dongzhi), hurt/comfort, bonding, loving WWX hours)

Five Shades of Home by DrPanda99 (G, 13k, WangXian, Chinese New Year, Grief/Mourning, Introspection, Hurt/Comfort, Homecoming, WWX's Canonical Self-Esteem Issues, Domesticity, Yunmeng Brothers Reconciliation, (or at least the start of it), Good Uncle LQR, Post-Canon)

The Nines of Winter by ArcadianMaggie (E, 13k, WangXian, Modern AU, Dongzhi, Snowed In, Sharing a Bed, Hot Cocoa, Getting Back Together, home for the holidays, Puppy rescue, Panic Attacks, LWJ's Pet Rabbits, maybe just a tiny bit of angst, Fluff and Smut, and family feels, Hand Jobs, Kissing, First Time)

Make My Wish Come True by justpeace (T, 9k, wangxian, modern cultivation, gender changes, fem wangxian, Christmas, fake/pretend relationship, sharing a bed, case fic, getting together, angst, butch LWJ)

Fall in Love with me this Christmas by Bldreaming (Not Rated, 24k, WangXian, Modern AU, Christmas, Christmas Fluff, Christmas wedding, JYL Lives, Good Sibling JYL, JYL and JZX Live, Married XuanLi, man of honor wwx, Best woman Minamian, Reunions, Fluff and Smut, Secret Santa, Sexting, Phone Sex Blow Jobs, Semi-Public Sex, not a slow burn, Winter Wonderland, Yanli loves christmas, Christmas Music, Christmas Presents, Christmas, Smut Getting Together, First Love) - implied/referenced switching during phone sex

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#Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #wangxian #MDZS #wangxianficfinder compilation post #long post #holiday compilation

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jittyjames · 5 months

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blvvdyindustries · 2 years

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potential authors that may appear in bsd

Arthur Conan Doyle- wrote sherlock holmes, definitely getting into the DETECTIVE manga (maybe apart of the clocktower?, he was also famously gullible in contrast to his work, was friends with harry houdini and genuinely believed he was a wizard even though houdini repeatedly showed how his tricks worked, was also tricked by the first case of photo-editing by two little girls, prime joke material), THEORY TIME: he's going to have the actual 'super deduction' ability and will make ranpo face once and for that he's a normal person but ranpo will be able to out deduce him thus disproving that normal people can't defeat ability users

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu- carmilla (the lesbian vampire story that predated bram stoker's dracula by 26 YEARS CARMILLA SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRST, he could show up with a possible cure to the vampire curse in the current arc?, maybe he or carmilla was even the one to bite and turn stoker)

Lewis Carrol- wrote alice's adventures in wonderland

jrr tolkien- wrote the hobbit and lord of the rings

Hans Christian Andersen- wrote the little mermaid and the snow queen

The Grimm brothers- wrote most famous fairytales

Johnston McCulley- wrote zorro (may appear as part of a phantom theives guild in a more lighthearted arc after this one before jumping back into the main story?)

Marice Leblanc- wrote arsene lupine (had a crossover with edogawa ranpo's kogoro akechi lmao ty p5 knowledge AND sherlock holmes, a near guaranteed shoe-in, also part of that phantom theives guild with a potential past involving both doyle and ranpo)

Prosper Mérimée (?)- in the same vein of p5 references, the thief woman in prison may have actually been carmen from the opera carmen by prosper mérimée (soon to be thieves guild member?)

Robert Louis Stevenson- wrote the strange case of dr jerkyll and mr hyde and treasure island (thieves guild member, possible split personality a la jerkyll/hyde, blackbeard and william kid references incoming)

Alexandre Dumas- the three musketeers, the count of monte cristo (also thieves guild member)

Gaston Leroux- phantom of the opera (possible thieves guild member off work only)

toni morrison- we are in DESPARATE NEED of black writers, although maybe not since she only recently passed, wrote beloved and the bluest eye

zora neale hurston- their eyes were watching god

hughs langston- famous poet

richard wright- black boy, native son

Harriet Beecher Stowe- uncle tom's cabin

harper lee- to kill a mockingbird

robert frost- famous poet, wrote the road not taken

emiliy dickinson- famous poet

ernest hemmingway- famous poet (if his ability is for whom the bell tolls we're fucked)

jane austen- pride and prejudice (would probably get along with margaret and Nathaniel)

the brontë sisters- jane eyre, wuthering heights (would get along with jane, margaret, and Nathaniel)

george orwell- 1984 and animal farm

william golding- the lord of the flies

Joseph hellar- catch-22 (his power would be hell, a literal catch-22)

ralph ellison- the invisible man (ability is obvious, thieves guild member, maybe a conflict with tanizaki considering the similar abilities?)

oscar wilde- the picture of dorian gray (this man was a great big bisexual SLUT in life i want him to be the same in bsd)

virginia woolf- to the lighthouse (maybe will reference who's afraid of virginia woolf?)

c. s. lewis- the chronicles of narnia (personally knew jrr tolkien, famously at odds over Christmas, prime joke material)

charles dickens- a Christmas carol, oliver twist, a tale of two cities, and great expectations

arthur miller- the crucible (maybe his ability makes people distrust others?)

Johnathan swift- Gulliver's travels (teleporting ability definitely, new fast travel plot device although maybe not as it could conflict with Gogol's ability)

Vladimir Nabokov- lolita, pale fire (on second thought i don't want him in here i can only IMAGINE how that would turn out, if he shows up he and mori would either get along or HATE each other)

Leo Tolstoy- war and peace (we already know fyodor is surviving this we still don't know what crime and punishment does CAN YOU IMAGINE HIM AND FYODOR TOGETHER HELLWORLDHELLWORLDHELLWORLD) THEORY TIME AGAIN: his power is one that specifically targets only ability users and makes them slowly start acting in either anger or complete affability until everyone is at war or peace, he would be the perfect compliment to fyodor if crime and punishment kills people who believe they're guilty literally the perfect storm of abilities, the absolute worst case scenario powers we're looking at a dark soukoku here

franz kafka- metamorphosis (he's gonna turn into a bug, isn't he)

Harlan Ellison- i have no mouth and i must scream (the horror related ability to replace lovecraft without being horrifically broken)

authors that i desparately want to show up but probably won't bc they didn't write in the 1800-1900s range that asagiri likes, are still alive, or are not globally recognizable enough

homer- the illiad and oddessy (i hope he starts his ability by making an invocation to the muses)

sappho (LESBIANS RISE UP)

virgil- the aeniad

dante- the divine comedy (virgil is a character in divine comedy like how bsd includes authors of other works, prime joke material)

john milton- paradise lost

Gilgamesh or Enkidu- we don't know who wrote the epic of Gilgamesh so the characters themselves could appear

margret atwood- oryx and crake, cat's eye (potentially another animal shapeshifting power, atsushi's gonna have a little cat colony gang at this rate)

neil gaiman- american gods, the sandman ('american gods sounds like a broken ability)

ursula k. guin- earthsea series

stan lee- i know he wrote comics not long form literature but i think the father of american comics and the superhero genre deserves to be recognized in the superhero/mafia/detective noir manga; plus japanese manga was heavily influenced by american comics after wwii, we would literally not be reading bsd in the same state today without stan lee

stephen king- no explanation needed, PLEASE LET HIM MEET LOVECRAFT KING IS A GIANT FAN OF LOVECRAFT I THINK HE SHOULD GET TO MEET HIS IDOL

r. l. stein- goosebumps, if literally NONE of these authors make it in PLEASE AT LEAST LET RL STEIN GET IN AND LET HIM MEET LOVECRAFT PLEASE GOOSEBUMPS DESERVES SO MUCH LOVE AND PLEASE GOD LET HIS POWER BE THAT FUCKING PUPPET I WANT TO SLAPPY TO BE ABSOLUTELY USELESS AND JUST EXIST TO TORMENT STEIN

chuck tingle- pounded in the butt series guy, he should be the god of the bsd universe this is not a joke

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #i know for a FACT i am missing so many more but i literally wrote down EVERYONE i could think of #now im really scared of that potential future arc where leo tolstoy teams up with fyodor and fucks EVERYTHING #i could not care less about fukuchi he is not the biggest problem in the decay of angels it is absolutely dostoyevsky #and after getting a fast one pulled on him by dazai he is going to come back more furious than ever #you can't tell me the abilities 'war and peace' and 'crime and punishment' don't sound like absolute hell together this is gonna be baaaaad #I FORGOT NEIL GAIMAN URSULA K GUIN AND STAN LEE!!!!! SHAME!!!!!!

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wingedballoonpeace · 26 days

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What will it be like if Digimon Adventure 02 had a "Neverland" arc?

If that was the case, we see a crossover with Digimon and Peter Pan. Plus, if Digimon paid tribute to classic literature, poetry, and drama, the arc would've featured original texts and dialogues from these great authors of all time.

William Shakespeare

Hans Christian Andersen

The Brothers Grimm

Rudyard Kipling

Victor Hugo

Jules Verne

Arthur Conan Doyle

Edgar Allen Poe

Robert Louis Stevenson

Charles Dickens

H.G. Wells

A.A. Milne

L. Frank Baum

Lewis Carroll

J.M. Barrie

Imagine the astonishing adventures the DigiDestined and their friends will have if they encounter Peter Pan and travelled to Never Never Land. I figure it would've been amazing to introduce kids to the world of literature through the stories and characters created by these brilliant writers.

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Year of Fandom Crossovers: February

Title: “The Man in the Shiny Mask”

Pedro Character: Din Djarin

Fandom Crossover: Futurama

Notes: This one is really just a bunch of silliness and I’m not sure how well it works. Since Futurama is a cartoon, and the characters are two dimensional (in many ways), I wrote this story as a screenplay. Apologies if I made any dumb formatting mistakes. Without further ado …

@yearofcreation2023

FADE IN

EXT. PLANET EXPRESS BUILDING - DAY

The Planet Express ship flies into the docking bay

INT. DOCKING BAY

The crew (FRY, LEELA, BENDER) exits the ship. PROFESSOR FARNSWORTH approaches.

FARNSWORTH

Good news, everyone! The Distance-Diminisher is complete!

FRY

The whosit-whatsit?

FARNSWORTH

The Distance-Diminisher, my latest invention.

FARNSWORTH pulls out a remote and clicks a button. A hologram appears, showing a swirling wormhole.

FARNSWORTH (V.O.)

The Distance-Diminisher - or Double D, as I like to call it - enables us to reach distances previously unimaginable! By creating an artificial wormhole, we can bridge the gap between galaxies, opening up entirely new markets for our delivery service.

LEELA

That’s very impressive, Professor, but does it work?

BENDER

Yeah, and if it does, does that mean we have to work more?

FARNSWORTH

To answer both of your questions, we’ll just have to see. I’m going to test the Double D in just a few minutes. I wanted to wait until you were back so you could watch.

INT. - PLANET EXPRESS BUILDING

FRY, LEELA, BENDER, ZOIDBERG, AMY, HERMES and FARNSWORTH are seated around the table.

FARNSWORTH

Behold: the Double D!

BENDER (looking at LEELA)

Naw, I’d say more of a C. Maybe a B plus?

LEELA

Shut up, Bender.

FRY

Yeah, shut up Bender.

FRY

(Whispering to BENDER)

I’ll tell you later.

FARNSWORTH manipulates the buttons and dials on a device in front of him.

FARNSWORTH

Just a few last minute adjustments … and voila! We are ready to open a wormhole to a random galaxy far, far away.

FRY

Why does that sound familiar?

FARNSWORTH presses a big red button and the device begins to whir. The image of a wormhole appears on the screen behind the table. They all turn to look at it.

LEELA

Wow!

AMY

Neat!

HERMES

Sweet giant anteater of Santa Anita! It works!

The wormhole expands, giving them a glimpse of the galaxy beyond. Suddenly, a silver spaceship appears and grows bigger and bigger.

FARNSWORTH

(Frantically fiddling with the device)

No, wait - this isn’t supposed to happen! It’s a one way wormhole. How in the dickens is it coming through?

The strange ship looms closer. It is the Razor Crest.

HERMES

Um, Professor … it’s heading this way.

FRY

It’s awfully shiny. And it has guns.

LEELA

Lots of guns! Everyone to the ship!

INT. - BRIDGE OF THE PLANET EXPRESS SHIP

LEELA

Prepare for launch! Shields at maximum! All hands to battle stations.

FRY

Um, Leela?

LEELA

Not now, Fry. We have to prepare for attack.

FRY

But the other ship has already landed.

He gestures toward the window, where the Razor Crest can be seen parked in the hangar next to the Planet Express ship.

LEELA

Oh, well, in that case, all hands stand down.

INT. - DOCKING BAY

LEELA and AMY lead the rest of the crew as they approach the Razor Crest. They are holding ray guns. BENDER has a crowbar. ZOIDBERG is clicking his claws together. HERMES has a stapler. FRY is busy trying to pick the lint off a lollipop he found in his pocket.

The hatch on the Razor Crest opens and the ramp lowers. A shiny Mandalorian, DIN appears at the top of the ramp, a blaster in his hand. Next to his boots stands a small green alien, GROGU.

DIN

Do they look like Jedi to you?

GROGU

Pa-too.

LEELA

Who are you and what do you want?

DIN

My name is Din Djarin. I’m searching for a Jedi who can train this child.

(He points at GROGU, who coos charmingly)

AMY and LEELA coo back.

AMY

Aww, he’s so cute!

LEELA

I’ve never seen anything so adorable in my life!

NIBBLER appears in the doorway, muttering to himself.

BENDER approaches DIN, circling around him.

BENDER

That’s a nice shine you’ve got there, fancy pants. But I notice your ass isn’t all that shiny.

DIN

(Pointing his blaster at BENDER)

I don’t like droids.

BENDER

What the — I’m not an android, you stupid meat bag! I run on Windows 98.

ZOIDBERG

He’s a robot! I know, because I’m a doctor and he won’t allow me to operate on him.

BENDER

That’s because you’re an idiot, crab-face. And I only trust a certified robot mechanic with my precious innards. Humans just can’t reproduce the highly polished shine of a robot polished ass.

LEELA

Nobody cares about your ass, Bender.

AMY

(To LEELA)

Especially not with an ass like that to look at.

(She nods at DIN)

LEELA

You said it, sister.

FRY

(Finally getting the last of the fuzz off his candy and popping it into his mouth)

Hey, what about my ass?

LEELA

Nobody cares about your ass, either.

FRY

That’s not what you said last weekend.

LEELA

Well, I changed my mind. So, Mr. Djarin, what exactly is a Jedi and why are you looking for one? And who is this cutie-patootie?

(She tickles GROGU under the chin)

DIN

This is Grogu. He is a foundling. He’s under my care until I can find a Jedi willing to train him. We found one, but she wasn’t very interested.

LEELA

Aw, who wouldn’t want to twain this witty-bitty wittle bundle of cuteness?

GROGU looks at DIN as if to say ��She gets me” and lifts his arms to LEELA, who picks him up. NIBBLER creeps closer, still mumbling.

DIN

He needs special training. He has … powers.

GROGU uses the Force to lift FRY’s lollipop out of his hand and float it over to himself.

FRY

Hey, that baby took candy from me!

BENDER

The sad thing is, it isn’t the first time.

FARNSWORTH

That’s all well and good, but it doesn’t explain what went wrong with my invention. Don’t go anywhere, Mr. Djarin. We need to figure out what happened and whether this poses a threat to our galaxy.

AMY

Or to his galaxy. Right, Professor?

FARNSWORTH

(Absently)

Oh, yes, of course. Definitely.

FARNSWORTH wanders off.

LEELA

Well, we’d better make you two comfortable. Let’s go up to the lounge and watch some television and get you something to eat. I bet this wittle guy is hungwy.

GROGU’s eyes light up at the word “eat.” He makes eye contact with NIBBLER and sticks out his tongue. NIBBLER mutters again.

INT. - THE STAFF LOUNGE

LEELA, DIN, GROGU and AMY are seated on the couch. FRY, BENDER and NIBBLER watch from the far side of the room.

AMY

I made nachos.

(She offers the plate to DIN)

DIN

I’ll … I’ll eat later.

GROGU makes grabby hands at the nachos. AMY offers the plate to him and he slurps them down.

LEELA

Aw, he’s hungwy.

AMY

But kind of a sloppy eater. Blech!

GROGU belches, then coos.

DIN

What did I tell you about manners, kid? I’m sorry, he’s usually better behaved.

GROGU climbs off the couch and starts picking up things around the room. He eats a few of them.

LEELA

Why don’t you take off that sweaty helmet and get comfortable? I’ll bet you’re all … sweaty and hot under there.

(She fans herself)

AMY

Yeah, sweaty … and hot.

DIN

It is against my creed to show my face to another. This is the Way.

BENDER

Bet he’s ugly as hell. No wonder he prefers a shiny metal face. Of course, it’s nowhere near as handsome and shiny as mine.

FRY

With my luck, he’s gorgeous under there. Probably even has a mustache and dreamy bedroom eyes.

(He squeals a little)

NIBBLER

(In his deep voice)

I don’t trust the child. He’s too … adorable. That’s my gimmick. And he’s going to eat everything before I get a chance!

BENDER

Yeah, they’ve got to go.

FRY

Yeah, they’re trying to steal Leela from us!

NIBBLER nods.

BENDER

Nah, that’s not it. That Mando-whatsit guy’s just too shiny. That’s my gimmick.

LEELA and AMY are chatting with DIN, who seems uncomfortable with the attention. CUBERT and DWIGHT enter the room.

CUBERT

Hey, what happened to my frogs? I had a whole colony of them in this tank.

DWIGHT

Yeah, I spent all day catching flies for them.

He holds up a plastic bag full of flies, some alive and some dead.

GROGU is playing with the television remote. He burps and a frog leg pops out of his mouth. He slurps it down. He switches to channel to the HYPNOTOAD and is entranced.

BENDER

I might have an idea.

(He giggles deviously.)

INT. - TELEVISION STUDIO SOUND STAGE

BENDER enters, wearing a trench coat and a blindfold. FRY is in the doorway, wringing his hands.

FRY

(Whispering loudly)

I’m not sure this is a good idea.

BENDER

Of course it’s a good idea. I thought of it.

FRY

Are you sure you won’t get hypnotized?

BENDER

That’s what the blindfold is for, dummy. If I can’t see the Hypnotoad it can’t affect me.

FRY

But then how are you going to be able to grab it? If you can’t see.

BENDER

Sonar, my good man.

He begins emitting a high pitched beeping sound and walked onto the sound stage, his arms out in front of him. FRY leans against the wall and whistles nonchalantly. The camera focuses on him. Off screen, we hear BENDER bumping into things.

BENDER

(Off screen)

What the … oops … damn it … oh, that sounds expensive … ha ha, gotcha!

BENDER comes back into the frame, his blindfold gone. He is smoking a cigar.

FRY

Did you get it?

BENDER

(Patting the door on his torso)

Got it right here, pal. Now let’s get out of here before his personal assistant gets back.

BENDER and FRY scurry away.

INT. - PLANET EXPRESS STAFF LOUNGE

DIN is still sitting stiffly on the couch, between LEELA and AMY. GROGU is leaning back, his tummy bulging, picking his teeth with a toothpick. Pizza boxes and chip bags litter the floor.

LEELA

So, is there a Mrs. Djarin?

DIN

N-no.

AMY

(Batting her eyes)

Really?

DIN is visibly uncomfortable. Fortunately, FARNSWORTH enters the room.

DIN

Professor! How are things going with your device? I really need to get back to my galaxy.

(He looks at LEELA and AMY)

I really need to get back.

FARNSWORTH

Oh, things are coming along swimmingly. I’ve already fixed the cup holder on the console, so I can keep drinking coffee while I work.

He goes to the coffee pot on a side table and fills a giant commuter mug.

FARNSWORTH

It won’t be long now.

He wanders back out of the room. GROGU waddles over to the table and sniffs at the coffee pot.

GROGU

Blech.

LEELA

Aww, he finks it’s tinky. What a cutie-wootie-pie!

DIN

(Sighs deeply)

This is so not the Way.

BENDER and FRY enter. BENDER is strutting.

BENDER

Hey, hey, get out of my way! Look at me, I’m shiny and I know it!

LEELA

Shut up, Bender, we’re watching Grogu smell things.

FRY

I can smell, too.

LEELA

(Holding her nose)

Yeah, I know.

BENDER

(To FRY)

Distract them while I set the bait.

FRY

Um, okay. Hey, you guys! What’s that over there?

LEELA

It’s Zoidberg.

ZOIDBERG waves from the corner.

FRY

Oh, yeah. Um … help!

He falls to the floor and starts writhing around. DIN, AMY and LEELA rush over. ZOIDBERG scuttles out of the room.

ZOIDBERG

My doctor stuff! I’ll be right back.

DIN

Are you okay?

He offers a hand to FRY and helps him up. FRY giggles.

FRY

(Batting his eyes)

I’m okay, big fella.

(Turning to LEELA)

I get it now! His hands are so big and … strong.

(He squeals)

In the background, BENDER sets the HYPNOTOAD on the table in front of GROGU, carefully keeping his head turned around the wrong way. GROGU tilts his head and makes grabby hands. When the camera pans back to FRY and the others, we hear a loud slurp and a belch.

DIN

I’m sorry, but you’re all making me very uncomfortable. I’m a bounty hunter, not a piece of meat. In my galaxy people tremble with fear when they see me. You guys are just sick.

AMY

We’re not sick, just horny, jeez. Don’t people have sex in your galaxy?

DIN

(Very uncomfortable)

Well, I guess so, I mean, there are kids, but … you know what, things are a lot more family friendly in my galaxy. Sure, we blow things up a lot and people get disintegrated and sliced in half by laser swords and shoot lightning out of their fingers but by golly, our children don’t know how they’re made!

LEELA

By golly? Why don’t you just make up some nonsense swears?

DIN

Dank farrik!

LEELA

See, that was easy, wasn’t it?

The television blares an alert. The news comes on with a special report.

MORBO

(On screen)

Attention, Earthlings! A most heinous and terrible crime has occurred. Prepare for doom!

LINDA VAN SCHOOHOVEN

(Laughing)

Oh, Morbo, it’s not quite doom time yet.

(Seriously)

But it will be soon, if the culprits who kidnapped star of stage and screen, the Hypnotoad don’t return him to his studio within the next five hours!

MORBO

The delightful creature, whom we all hail as our benevolent overlord, had disappeared from the television studio where he was preparing for tonight’s star-studded special “Benevolent Overlords Unite! An Evening of Fun and Frolic to Benefit the Former Overlord’s Home on Rigel Nine”.

LINDA

Overlord spokesman Lrrr of Omicron Persei 8 has released a statement.

LRR

Return the Hypnotoad or you will be annihilated!

MORBO

I told you, Linda. DOOOMMMM!

FRY and BENDER exchange looks.

BENDER

Oops.

GROGU burps again and his eyes start swirling like the HYPNOTOAD’s. Everyone looks first at him, then at BENDER and FRY.

LEELA

What did you do?

FRY

Meep.

INT. - MEETING ROOM OF THE PLANET EXPRESS OFFICE

FARNSWORTH

Well, you’ve done it now. The entire Earthican government is out looking for you.

BENDER

(Lounging back in his chair, smoking a cigar)

So what else is new?

LEELA

It’s not funny, Bender. Well, I mean, it kind of is, but …

DIN

I don’t understand why I can’t just take him and fly back through the wormhole.

FARNSWORTH

Because I need to be able to close the wormhole behind you, or Zap Brannigan will take the whole fleet through it after you. Haven’t you been paying attention?

DIN

Who is Zap Brannigan? Did I miss a scene?

FRY

(Pointing at the screen)

That’s Zap Brannigan.

ZAP

(On screen)

Ah, the fair Leela. I should have known you’d be involved in this somehow. Anything to get yourself back in my sights. Am I right, Kif?

KIF

Ugh.

LEELA

Zap, I have zero interest in you. Less than zero. Negative infinity.

ZAP

I think the lady doth protest too much. But that’s beside the point. What is the point, Kif?

KIF

The point is, one of you kidnapped the Hypnotoad and we are here to retrieve him.

Everyone looks around guiltily, their eyes all settling on GROGU, who is playing with a small silver ball and snacking on a bag of freeze-dried frogs legs.

AMY

Kif, sweetie, can you just give us a moment? We need to, um, confer.

They huddle together, whispering. When they are finished, LEELA, FRY, BENDER, DIN and GROGU slowly slip away while FARNSWORTH and AMY keep ZAP and KIF’s attention.

FARNSWORTH

I’m afraid it’s quite impossible to return the Hypnotoad at this precise moment, Captain Brannigan. And if you have time for a short PowerPoint presentation, I can explain exactly why.

AMY hauls out a projector and screen and begins to set them up. ZAP and KIF exchange bored looks.

AMY

Just a minute. This thing is a little tricky.

INT. - PLANET EXPRESS SHIP

LEELA

Okay, Din. You and the adowable wittle green guy get to your ship. Power up on my mark. We’ll take off at the exact same time and I’ll run interference to keep Zap from shooting at you. He’d never shoot me.

FRY

Yes, he would. He’s shot at us lots of time.

LEELA

Anyway … I’m gonna miss you, wittle cutie.

(She kneels down and kisses GROGU on the top of the head)

And I’m gonna miss you, you big, shiny, broad-shouldered, bedroom-voiced, steel clad religious freak.

(She stands up and kisses the cheek of DIN’s helmet)

BENDER

(Muttering)

She never kisses me on the shiny metal cheek.

FRY

Me either.

BENDER

I thought you were her boyfriend.

FRY

I am, but she’s never kissed me on the cheek. Everywhere else, but not on the … cheek.

(A single tear trickles down his face)

DIN

Thank you for your assistance. Grogu and I will remember you and add your story to the tales of our people. Nobody will believe us, but that’s on them. This is the Way.

DIN nods and picks up GROGU, who waves his little hand goodbye. But he is actually Force-lifting another lollipop from FRY’s pocket.

EXT. - PLANET EXPRESS BUILDING

ZAP BRANNIGAN’s ship hangs in the sky above. The hangar doors open and the Planet Express ship and the Razor Crest zoom out together, heading for the wormhole.

INT. - BRIDGE OF ZAP’S SHIP

ZAP

She’s helping him. Oh, the fickleness of a woman’s heart! What’s that guy got that I haven’t got?

KIF

Pants, sir?

ZAP

Be serious, Kif! Who would prefer someone wearing metal armor over someone clad in real velour?

(He smooths the front of his tunic)

INT. - BRIDGE OF THE PLANET EXPRESS SHIP

LEELA

Okay, Din, I think you have a clear shot. Good luck. Live long and prosper, or whatever.

FRY

Yeah, whatever.

BENDER

(Sniffling)

Keep yourself shiny, my good man.

FRY

I thought you hated him.

BENDER

I do, but it was kind of nice to have someone to share buffing and polishing tips with for a change.

DIN

(Over the radio)

Thank you all. May the Force be with you.

The Razor Crest jumps into hyperdrive and flies through the wormhole.

FRY

‘May the Force be with you’? What kind of dumb tag line is that?

LEELA

Who cares. What matters now is keeping Zap from following him through the wormhole.

EXT. - SPACE

The Planet Express ship dodges shots from Zap’s ship, blocking it from approaching the wormhole. Suddenly, the wormhole flares in brightness and spirals down to nothing.

INT. - BRIDGE OF PLANET EXPRESS SHIP

FRY

What the hell?

LEELA

The professor must have fixed it! We’ve won!

ZAP

(Over the radio)

Not so fast, lovely Leela. There’s still the little matter of toadnapping.

BENDER

Eep.

INT. - COURTROOM

A JUDGE walks to the bench and bangs his gavel. BENDER sits at the defendants table with his lawyer, HYPERCHICKEN. FRY, LEELA, and the others sit in the audience.

JUDGE

I hereby sentence Bender Bending Rodriguez to pay the Global Entertainment Network the full cost of replacing the Hypnotoad.

BENDER

Oh, geez, this is it. I’ll need to rob a bank or something to afford this.

JUDGE

Fourteen dollars and seventy two cents. You can pay the money to Vinny from Vinny’s Exotic Pet Emporium on Ninety-First Street.

FRY

That’s it? Less than fifteen bucks for a Hypnotoad? I could buy, like, four of them!

LEELA

No you can’t.

FRY

Yes, I can. I did the math.

LEELA

And I said, no, you can’t.

FRY

(Muttering)

She never lets me do anything fun.

BENDER

Woo hoo! Yeah, that’s right. I’m the baddest, shiniest guy around.

LEELA

Well, Bender’s back to normal. And so are things at Planet Express. I hope things are going as smoothly for our new friends back in their galaxy.

EXT. - ALIEN PLANET

DIN and GROGU are being chased by a giant monster. GROGU is wearing a tiny replica of DIN’s helmet.

DIN

Ready, kid? Do your thing.

GROGU

Pa-too!

GROGU takes off his tiny helmet to reveal swirling eyes. He turns to face the monster, which stops in its tracks.

DIN

All hail Hypno-Grogu! Together he and I shall rule the galaxy. This is the Way.

Dramatic music segues into the “Imperial March”.

#year of themed creation #futurama #Mandalorian #Pedro Pascal #grogu #philip j fry #turanga leela #bender #just a dumb idea i had #fanfic #year of fandom crossovers

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rodrickstudios · 5 months

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Here's a very late Christmas artwork I've done in line with Charles Dickens 's "A Christmas Carol" turning 180 last year and both Mickey Mouse and the public domain becoming trending topics lately. Behold, the ultimate Christmas Carol crossover! Oh, and before someone wonders about this piece being very late for Christmas, here in Latin America some people leave their decorations until this very week for the most. So, consider this as a farewell to the holiday season.

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supermoongirl9 · 1 year

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Gossip Girl the og show and astrological remarks : a fun crossover of astro and pop culture ✨

Serena could be a Sagittarius Rising considering the fact that she always has the worst haters ever (Scorpio 12H lol) making machiavelic plans to ruin her life omg (maybe even having her Mars there) : Georgina, Juliet, Maureen, Ben ? Also saying how she's always excited to ride a vespa and how it reminds her of one fabulous summer somewhere in europe was peak Sagittarius/9H behavior hahahaha.

Blair never had a healthy romantic relationship in her life and that's so sad : her first love (Nate) was in love w her bff, her true love (Chuck) was toxic and abusive and the prince ? No really one of the worst characters ever. It screams scorpio venus that never got over her need for passion and not seeing how too much passion can be toxic af. And constantly testing people then asking herself why dramas and schemes follow her ???

She often had premonitory dreams, peak 12H placements energy (honorable mention for 3H Neptune).

Dan is chaotic like a Virgo Rising : people think they have it together and are serious little nerds but all they're doing is fantasizing about experiencing the wildest shit ever and the more pleasures they can along the way. the audacity of him pitching a fit over being lied to or just someone omitting to tell him everything during the entire show, all of that to actually be Gossip Girl and revealing his friends' deepest secrets on a daily basis ? typical Gemini man tbh hahahaha.

Lily and Rufus in season 2 when they decided to make a list of each person they slept with ? LMFAO peak 8H/12H synastry; also the fact that Lily has a 10 pages list LMFAO Jupiter 5H/7H things.

Remember Ivy Dickens (the fake cousin) ? Huge daddy issues, very Capricorn placements/prominent Saturnian energy tbh 😭 like, she fucked Lily's ex and current husband just cause she wanted to be a part of the Van der Woodsen fam but got rejected LMFAO that's also why Mars is exalted in Capricorn, the real ones know that sex can for sure be a weapon.

#gossip girl #gossip girl & astro #astrology #pop culture astrology

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safyresky · 2 years

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I'm going BONKERS and can't focus on SHIT this week so plz enjoy this list of wip ideas that I have that Will Not Let Me Rest and Focus on CS

AU in which Winter and Blaise disappear and Jack becomes the legal guardian of an INCREDIBLY angry 1400 year old Jacqueline and 300 year old Fino and Fiera who seem to be stuck in their terrible two hundreds STILL and are on FIRE and have a penchant for blowing shit up all. the. time.

Smile Shot in which Jack and Jacqueline have to chase a piece of fractured time that is hell bent on killing them for some reason through multiple timelines to defeat it, and get stuck with their younger, pre-day of darkness selves 👀👀👀

A series in which the youngest Diteline kid, Robyn, makes a funky cool friend and they go on all sorts of magical adventures that get them both into heaps of trouble. The friend is 100% human. Robyn can set things on fire. Shenanigans ensue. Diteline are acting Cupid and Jack Frost at this point, for maximum shenanigans

AU in which Jack isn't the BAD guy but is INCREDIBLY chaotic. Why? Because in this AU, in fact, the WHOLE REASON I want it to exist, is because I want to see a version of tsc3 in which Jack sees Santa's loosing sight of what's important and decideds "hey, let me help him by forcing him to use the escape clause, taking his place, so he can learn a Valuable Life Lesson about family in a very Dickens-esque way. This results in a scene where Jack explains this plan to Jacqueline after enacting it (so he's Santa) and Jacqueline just stands there, hands on her hips, absolutely furious like, "YOU THOUGHT W H A T?" (tho it does end with Jacqueline being like do u think it'll work. And Jack being like I know it will. And Jacqueline being like FINE. UGH. WHY are you LIKE THIS but agreeing to help nontheless)

Story based on when I thought the series was going to be called "Clause for Celebration" in which, to find a replacement Santa, Scott has a Santa-Lympics where the Legends pick a champion to claim the title of Santa Claus. Unfortunately, he learns too late that he can't pick Charlie. Jack also can't pick Charlie bc he gets BANNED from picking a champion COMPLETELY by the dude who is making sure it's all "fair" (most likely a mischievous evil fairy). Jack finds a loophole--Legates are technically Legendary and by those rules, can pick a Champion if they'd like to. Charlie is a school teacher and is upset about the Santa-Lympics bc he cannot participate. Danielle also teaches and knows about the Santa thing and is encouraging him to do it anyway. She's made friends with the quirky new librarian, Ms. Winters, who has these AMAZING fantasy stories during story time, and tells Charlie to ask her and pretend it's a story. She'd dig it. Ms. Winters does, in fact, dig it, and tells him he should volunteer anyway and maybe someone will sponsor him in a very hunger games-esque way because surely, there are more Legendary figures than just the ones he knows, right? So he does. Guess. guess who sponsors him. GUESS. Shenanigans ensue. Krampus is the BBEG. Diteline get eaten by Krampus. Jacquie commits atrocities. Charlie defeats Krampus. It's great. This one's too developed for my own good, holy hell.

RotG Crossover where the Legates get sucked into the Guardians universe bc of a dumb Pitch plot. Toothiana thinks Myles is the cutest thing! Jack is sus of Jacqueline. North thinks Charlie is v tiny and funny for a Santa. Charlie really wants a Yeti. Xander is super excited to interact with someone who knows SSL (sand sign language). Our Jack pops into the universe to bring back Jacqueline (and the others too, I GUESS) without telling the rest of the Council. When he finally finds his sister a scene ensues where Pitch is like, "YOU'RE Jack Frost. and YOU'RE Jack Frost (points to Jacqueline). ARE THERE ANY OTHER JACK FROSTS I SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?" and our Jack goes "Hi." Pitch whips around and gets socked in the face by him. Shenanigans and angst ensue, the latter especially on the rotg side of things >:)

#dani wips #dani speaks #dani writes #crystal springs #tsc #tsc 3 #jacquie is ms winters btw. she volunteers. i hope it was obvi #robyn's pal is trans i just dk if they're mtf or ftm. i just know they're trans and it's important to me that you all know that #the clause for celebration one has GOD TIER jack/jacqueline plotting #it's a fun one #the older cold front meeting the younger cold front has SOO MUCH going on #and is on my mind EVERY FUCKING DAY #all of these could be posts of their own and all of these are preventing me from focusing on cs and other shit #the rotg is fun #pitch is trying to win his daughter's affection back. she's mother nature in the rotg universe #that's canon from the books! anyway!#poor rotg jack has a LOT on his plate. dealing with the cold front #espesh since jacqueline is the first one he runs into and she's jack frost's sister #do you. do you see. do you see where i am going with this >:)#anyway someone needs to stop me!! i am out of control! fuck!#also BLOSSOM IS IN THE ROTG CROSSOVER TOO #she is giving bunnymuind one hell of a time #and he's enjoying every minute of it #at one point he's like should i have kits?? and everyone's like NO #as blossom explodes something while cackling in the background #he teaches her how to use boomerangs #the burrow is never the same once the universes are reset

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