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｡⋆ʚ♡ like father, like son

›› chapter 3 ›› nsfw 18+ ongoing multi-chapter fic!

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›› toji fushiguro x reader ›› megumi fushiguro x reader ›› toji x reader x megumi (mfm) ›› 18+ f!reader ›› started: 12/6/23 : updated: 1/29/24 : status: ongoing

‹𝟹 summary: You and Megumi are best friends. You've known eachother for almost your whole life. His home has become your second home. As time passes and life happens, Megumi slowly develops feelings for you, even though he's unaware of it. To complicate things further, you're now living with him and his father, who has also taken a liking to you.

‹𝟹 fandom: jjk, jujutsu kaisen

‹𝟹 genres / warnings: au - no powers, college au, power imbalance, pseudo-incest (they both want y/n, nothing w/ eachother), dubious consent

‹𝟹 tags: good cop bad cop, fluff, smut, angst, toji has a big dick, dilf toji, toji is his own warning, toji tries to be a good parent, toji is an asshole, toji is trying okay?, daddy dom toji, daddy kink, porn with feelings, porn with plot, friends to lovers, spit / spitting, spit kink, spit as lube, breeding, vaginal sex, vaginal fingering, double vaginal pen, double pen, anal, making out, making love, love triangles, praise kink, degradation, light masochism, light sadism, emotional sex, cuckolding, jealousy, jealousy kink, smoking, smoking kink, emotional manipulation, manipulation, polyamory?, father and son share you, protective megumi fushiguro, megumi needs a hug, megumi has a big dick, AGED UP CHARACTERS, dead dove: do not eat, finger sucking, large cock, cum swallowing, blow jobs, first time blow jobs, under desk blow jobs, fingerfucking, face sitting, face riding, 69, mutual masturbation, threesome mfm, lots of smut, loss of virginity

‹𝟹 notes: ch 5 is in the works, it's just taking me awhile bc i have a naoya fic i'm fixated on rn x-x enjoy!

!! - again, PLEASE READ TAGS BEFORE CONTINUING - !!

! - ALL CHARACTERS ARE 18+ - !

Chapter 3: Innocence

Toji leaned against the balcony railing, smoking a cigarette. He clicked his tongue in annoyance. “What the fuck were these idiots up to?” He questions himself, thinking back on what he just witnessed.

You and Megumi, in your bed, asleep. This is normally of no concern to him, you both grew up together, often having sleepovers in each other’s rooms. But this time… it was different. Why were there clothes strewn about the floor? Why was he wrapping his arm against you, pressed against your naked form?

All these thoughts were plaguing his already troubled mind. But the most problematic thought came to him overbearingly: Why am I hard?

His large cock was straining against his sweatpants, making it unbearably hard to think clearly and rationally. He felt guilty. Guilty for thinking of you that way, for tarnishing his relationship with you, and for letting his mind wander about what you and his son did. As much as it stung his heart, his body was heating up. His cock begged to be released from its clothed prison.

He took another long drag of his cigarette. He didn’t know what he was supposed to do. Y/N is undeniably attractive, kind, and intelligent. Any man that didn’t fall for her would be a fool. He felt a twinge of jealousy as he thought about Megumi getting to you first.

But jealousy was not the only emotion that consumed him. He put out the cigarette and went back inside his room, sliding the balcony door shut.

He walks towards his shower in the adjacent bathroom, stripping as he’s walking towards the bathroom entrance. His large cock is fully exposed, and he’s about to go fuck his fists at the thought of you and his son.

He knows it’s wrong to already think of you in this way, but he doesn’t care. He’s a man who is a slave to his desires, no rationality could bring him back in the heat of the moment. He didn’t feel too guilty though, it’s not like he was doing anything with you. He was just thinking about you. That’s fine, right? I’d never touch her. What’s wrong with a little fantasy though?

The water is almost scalding hot. He turns it down slightly and steps inside. Toji wishes it was you here instead of his hand, but he’s unsure if he would cross that line.

His back is facing the water, his forearm is against the wall of the shower. He’s leaning on it for support as he fucks his hand, thinking about how beautiful you look, how your body is such a fucking tease, how Megumi gets to be close to you but not him.

He grunts, picking up speed. He doesn’t mind sharing you, but he wants to be your first. He’s jerking his cock praying to God that Megumi hadn’t taken that part of you yet. He wants it to be his.

He licks his lips, he’s going down the rabbit hole and losing his morality. If my son can have you, why can’t I? I can please her better, and I honestly deserve it.

He pumps his cock more, thinking about how you owe it to him after all. He took you in, fed you, clothed you, basically raised you… he’s thinking of collecting his debt now. While Toji tries his best to be a generally amiable guy, he can’t fully suppress his innate urge to be an asshole. He loves you, but maybe not in the way he should.

He moans, nearing the edge of his pleasure. “My sweet Y/N, fuck..ahh” He can’t even finish a sentence, cumming at the thought of taking what’s rightfully his, and maybe letting Megumi watch just for the thrill of it.

He turns around and lets the water wash away his sinful thoughts and actions, and finishes cleaning up.

It’s Friday night, but a little too late to go out and do anything. Tomorrow, he wants to take you out.

Megumi wakes up earlier than you. He’s usually an early riser, but this time he was grateful he could look at the soft features on your face while you’re asleep. He would be way too embarrassed to watch you as intently if you were awake, he’s blushing even while you’re asleep. He doesn’t mean it in a creepy way at all, he just admires how beautiful and peaceful you seem while asleep.

You yawn and shift in the bed, and Megumi uses this as his cue that he should probably leave. He kisses you on your forehead, gets up and dresses himself, and silently lets himself out of your room.

He walks towards the living room, passing by his father’s room on the way. Toji isn’t in there, and Megumi finds him sifting through items in cupboards and in the fridge in the kitchen.

Toji is cursing himself silently, upset that he doesn’t have all the required ingredients to surprise Y/N with breakfast. Toji isn’t categorically an asshole, he wants to do nice things to spoil you but doesn’t know how. He figures this is a good idea since you usually take care of meals. He’s upset because now he has to waste time getting the ingredients, but he knows you like to sleep in on the weekends anyways.

Toji turns around and sees Megumi approaching the kitchen. “Oh hey, Megumi. Do you think Y/N would like omelettes or waffles more for breakfast? I’m trying to help her out a bit.” He smirks a bit.

“Probably waffles. I think she’s more of a sweet person.” Megumi replies, unsure why Toji even cares enough in the first place. I mean, Toji used to live off of takeout and instant food. Why is he suddenly interested in cooking? Megumi brushes it off. He doesn’t care that much anyways.

Megumi yawns as he walks towards the counter where the coffee pot is located. He starts brewing coffee as Toji moves towards the front door, grabbing his keys on the way out.

Toji returns, bags of food in hand as Megumi sips on his black coffee. He works his way to the kitchen, setting down the bags and begins to unpack them. He has to rush if he wants to make the food look presentable enough for you.

Megumi silently watches his father hastily beating eggs and flour together to make a batter. He notices so much effort on Toji’s part, it’s unsettling.

You wake to find the other side of your bed is empty, a little bit sad at the thought that Megumi got up before you. You yawn, slip out of bed, and pick out something to get dressed in. You still need to shower, since you passed out after... that.

Your face flushes immediately as the thoughts of last evening come flooding back to you. Heat pools between your legs, remembering the feel of his touch against your body.

You ignore your uninvited thoughts as you make your way to the bathroom to clean up a bit. You’ll shower after breakfast though. Fuck, I hope they’re not waiting for me to make something for them. I definitely slept in a little late. You rush to finish getting ready and exit the bathroom.

Your cinnamoroll slippers flop as you make your way to the kitchen, stifling a tiny yawn. You smell something cooking, but Megumi is sitting on the couch watching something. So that means, Toji is cooking?

He notices the soft patter of your footsteps and turns around as he finished putting the last of the batter in the waffle maker. He grins, “Good morning, Y/N. I figured I’d help you out this morning so you could sleep in. You must have been tired.”

He knows exactly why you’re tired, he’s teasing you at this point. You blush at his comments, “Good morning, Toji.” You sit down at the table beside you. “It smells delicious. Thank you Toji, I really appreciate it,” You add as you’re looking up at him with your half-lidded sleepy eyes, softly smiling.

Toji’s heart skips a beat seeing your precious smile when you’re still tired. He walks over and sets down the food, calling Megumi over.

You set a waffle on your plate, adding syrup and strawberries on top. It smells delicious, and you can’t wait to try it. You take a bite, and, it’s not that good. The toppings add flavor, but he could’ve added vanilla extract or more sweetness to the batter itself. Nonetheless, you eat it with a smile on your face. “It’s really good, Toji. Thank you!”

Megumi takes a bite. If you say it’s delicious, then it must be right. As soon as he tastes the overwhelming intensity of mediocrity and flavorlessness. “Tch.” He clicks his tongue. It’s not that good, and she’s definitely lying to him. Why?

Toji smirks at your compliments. He’s glad he made you happy. He gets up to start cleaning the table and kitchen, and you follow suit. Megumi is uninterested and returns to the living room, putting on some random, boring show.

“Thank you Toji, it was good. I was worried since I slept in late that I left you all hanging,” you chuckle out.

Toji is washing dishes beside you, as you’re picking them up and drying them. “You’re welcome, Y/N. Anything for you.” He looks over at your flustered face and smiles.

You get caught up looking at his adorable grin and reach over to grab the next plate to be dried. Instead, you make contact with his soapy hand instead. You linger for a little too long, hyperaware of the small touch you just made. You’re embarrassed and pull away. “S-sorry…” You manage to stumble out, blushing and looking away.

“Don’t be, doll .” He eyes you up and down, smirking. She’s so fucking hot, and innocent too. It’s almost too easy.

Megumi overhears chatter and catches you a blushing mess in front of his father. He can see the way Toji observes you, like a predator waiting to pounce on its prey. Why am I uncomfortable? Am I jealous? Of my own father? I mean, we just had an amazing night together, why should I be jealous? His heart was pounding, feeling suddenly possessive over someone that wasn’t even his. The loudest thought roaring through his mind, however, was the most disturbing. Why am I hard? He clenched his fists and grit his teeth. This should not be happening.

You finish cleaning up with Toji, when he gently grabs your wrist and looks at you. “Let’s go out together. We need more stuff for the house.”

You already knew this and were planning your usual errands for later today. You look up at Toji and nod, “Sounds good. I’m going to shower and get ready first.”

He releases the soft grip on your wrist, and you walk away towards the bathroom. He licks his lips as he watches your womanly figure recede from vision. He can’t stop looking at the way your shorts hug your hips and ass as you walk away. He grins mischievously and thinks to himself: I can’t wait to get all of that later.

‹𝟹 notes: ch 4 is on my ao3, i'll be posting it to tumblr shortly! lmk what y'all think!!!!

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greenmeanqueen · 2 years

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Ever since I first heard the rumors, I was worried that they would really fake Laenor's death - ngl, that was cringe af 😭 I get that they wanted to avoid the Bury Your Gays trope and maybe whitewash the Blacks (they still killed an innocent!), but the execution was so awful and poorly written. That whole thing? Did such a disservice to Laenor as a character. He really just ditched his family like this shortly after his parents lost their daughter and clearly gives not shit about Rhaenyra's kids. Also: what about Seasmoke??? He left his poor dragon behind? Wouldn't Seasmoke's behavior indicate that he's alive? And since Laenor is alive, how will Addam claim Seasmoke? Unless Laenor dies randomly in Essos at some point... Or they bring back Laenor for the war and cut out Addam? That would suck, I was looking most forward to Daeron and Addam for the dance (from characters that are still to be introduced).

Sorry for the rant! The twist was just so stupid, I can't take it seriously, lol.

thank you for your asks, both of you!!

“bury your gays” is an extremely problematic trope, full stop. in westeros, gays are buried quite often, and it sucks. that’s the world written, where it’s not okay to stray from heteronormativity. so was it nice, as a modern audience, that we didn’t watch laenor be murdered one episode after his sister’s immolation? yeah. but from a writing standpoint, it was clumsy AF and contradictory to laenor’s character.

he spent all of 1x7 lamenting how he wasn’t there for his sister, wasn’t there for his wife and her kids, and now he’s running away, leaving behind his nieces and his parents and making them believe their last child is dead right after they lost their other? being there for the people you love was set up as a theme of laenor’s story, and you expect me to believe he would’ve left them just like that? especially his nieces, the last remnants of his beloved sister, who are the spitting image of their mother when she clutched his hand at the tourney when they were preteens. especially his parents; rhaenys’ scream of anguish was haunting. we haven’t been shown anything to suggest that he didn’t love his mother, and she him; corlys, with his denial of laenor’s sexuality, is suggestive of another story, a strained relationship. but rhaenys, who didn’t want her son involved in the game of thrones, who accepted him for who he was and defended him to her husband?

if they wanted to make it work, we’d need to spend more time with this decision from laenor’s perspective, but that might’ve not been as good of a look for the blacks bc it might hammer in that it wasn’t exactly an option for him to stay. was it “nice” of rhaenyra to accept laenor for who he was and not literally have him murdered so she could carry on as she pleased? it was the bare freaking minimum, and a man was still murdered to carry out the ruse. RIP serving man, you deserved better. also lest we forget daemon “i murdered rhea royce to be rid of our marriage” targaryen. i am truly baffled at their decision-making, because they’re really just digging their own graves deeper if, by chance, laenor returns or is found out. i sure wish we’d explore these complications and consequences, but that doesn’t seem to be where we’re headed. nevertheless, dae/myra and fandom can ignore them all they’d like, but that doesn’t mean they’re just going to go away. RIP to the bastards five, they were kids who didn’t deserve these situations.

#actions have consequences that’s storytelling baby #and the writers are creating a bit of a mess for themselves for incorporating the characters to come like addam #who knows they might retcon something or kill laenor off unceremoniously from across the sea #messy messy messy #laenor velaryon #rhaenys velaryon #corlys velaryon #laena velaryon #anti rhaenyra targaryen #anti daemon targaryen #anti daemyra #hotd critical #house of the dragon spoilers #fire and blood #asoiaf #ask a gal

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i-d-e-g-a-f · 2 months

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“demonized her by putting her in a relationship” and “being harassed for existing” yall are one to talk every kataang post i see on EVERY platform y’all are lurking saying “kataang sucks” and telling ppl to kll themselves over the ship. also demonizing her is ironic bc if she ended up with zuko it would’ve just ruined everything she went through and worked for so stay mad fucking freak 💀💀

1. Get the quote right, I said “disservices her by putting her in that relationship.” which is very different from whatever you said.

2. I can’t argue against anecdotal evidence or your experience but I can say in my experience, I’ve always seen people shit on zutara unprovoked and try to justify it with their performative activism or try to act as if it’s okay to make assumptions about someone’s character because of an unproblematic fictional ship. Also I don’t cross tag so if anything is ironic, it’s that you’re lurking in our tags when you just criticized zutara shippers for doing so.

3. Once again I said disservice not demonize, massively different. But for arguments sake tell me what did she gain from being in a relationship with Aang? Did that relationship not ruin everything she worked for? Because the Katara in ATLA was passionate and never stood on the sidelines when she saw injustice. But the Katara we see in the comics and LoK is passive and constantly sidelined to being the Avatar’s wife or mother of the Avatar’s children. Not her own person. She doesn’t even have a statue when everyone else in the gaang does. In season 1 Katara literally protests for the right to learn how to fight and in LoK we see none of the passion. What is exactly so fulfilling about her relationship with Aang? Was it him being an attentive father to their children? Oh, no that wasn’t it. So tell me, would being with Zuko really ruin everything she’s worked for, because it seems like being with Aang already ruins that quite successfully. Katara basically becomes an accessory to Aang which, yes, I would say disservices her! Especially when we’re shown that she is capable of having relationships with people based on mutual respect, compassion, and mutual emotional support. Relationships where they are equals and one is not an accessory to the other. Relationships where they respect each other boundaries and don’t act entitled to another’s affection.

But you know what’s even crazier is that at the end of the day none of that even matters because that is just what I prefer and you don’t have to agree! My problem lies within the fact that I constantly see anti zk’s assert that zutara is an inherently problematic ship or that people who enjoy the ship are problematic or are just hysterical women. Those assumptions are problematic and unfounded and if anything perpetuate misogynistic stereotypes about women being not knowing which man is actually good for them. It also requires an incredible amount of cognitive dissonance to arrive at those conclusions because the people who argue that Zutara shippers only like Zutara because they want a bad boy will talk about how Zuko has a great redemption arc in the same breath. We truly cannot have watched the same show, watched Zuko say “Hello, Zuko here” if they think the appeal of Zutara is that Zuko is a “bad boy.” However, even if it was, that still wouldn’t justify the constant negative assumptions made about the people who enjoy the ship, or the way those generalizations about zutara shippers are used as a way to delegitimize zutara (ad hominem fallacy). I fucking hate kataang and I am open and honest about that, but I don’t go around saying the actual people who ship kataang are problematic or are all secretly incels because that is a ridiculous and unfounded generalization. I hate kataang so I will critique kataang, not try to discredit its shippers in an attempt to make the ship seem less legitimate. I cannot say I’ve seen anti zks and the general fan base behave similarly.

I can’t speak for the anti kataangers in kataang tags because fun fact i have it blocked because i don’t like it! But I will say, although i do not condone going into other ships tags to instigate, there a massive difference between shitting on a ship versus shitting on the people who enjoy a ship. And mind you, I noticed the pattern of people shitting on zutara fans long before i even became a zutara fan. This is a trend amongst this general fan base that flares up anytime new atla content is released and I was venting about it on my page as someone who is tired of it. It is my god given right to vent about a fictional couple I don’t like on my page and to vent about the fandom discourse trends I notice. If you notice different ones and want to vent about make your own goddamn post, don’t act like a coward and send anon hate just because you disagree with me. I have my opinion and you’re entitled to yours. You have your own experiences with this fan base and I have mine. If your upset, vent about it on your own goddamn page instead of accosting me with your dumbassery.

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viviennevermillion · 2 years

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Trivia Headcanons

notes: reposting bc I’m deleting my archived sideblogs. just some trivia headcanons about vil.

warnings: none

Okay first off he’s blind as shit. His eyesight is worse than both Azuls and Treys and he wears high quality contacts. Wouldn’t go out with glasses. If he ever runs out of contact lenses he has Rook guide him through the school while he pretends he can see perfectly fine. He totally thinks glasses can look beautiful on other people but he himself doesn’t like his appearance with glasses. He looks super cute with glasses though, especially if it’s small round ones.

His favorite piece of clothing are scarves! He loves to wear them all throughout autumn and winter. They’re fashionable and comfortable and they make him feel safe and warm. He always wears designer scarves and makes sure he never wears one that is itchy.

Vil loves to relax with music. After a stressful day once he is out of those heels he will lay down in bed, turn the lights off and start listening to relaxing piano tunes or slow and emotional movie soundtracks.

Dust allergy. The only reason he was awake when the curse thing happened in Chapter 5 was because he was constantly sneezing in his room at Ramshackle dorm. Forgot his allergy pills at Pomefiore. Worst night of his life.

As someone in the entertainment industry as well as an intellectual, Vil knows all about the effects media can have on society. He vehemently refuses to star in any content that is potentially problematic or make ads for shady companies. Vil holds true to his values and doesn’t want to associate himself with anything he deems intolerable.

He can also very easily tell the difference between advertisement and propaganda. Is the intention to make the viewer buy the product or to change the viewer’s stance on something? Vil knows and he’s ready to go on an angry rant everytime he notices someone using problematic content or propaganda in movies, ads and other media.

This is a man who is experiencing The Public™ on a daily basis. He has a really good intuition for how society is going to react to things by now. If you see Vil watching the news and sighing, holding his hand in front of his face and shaking his head there’s a 95% chance it’s going to turn into a shitshow

Vil rants. A lot. Not about personal stuff and nothing with bad intention but just society, the media, if the people who hire him for photoshoots suck, the education system, when students slack off…when you hang out with him by the end of the day there’s a big chance he’s going to complain about something that doesn’t sit right with him and go on about this for at least 30 minutes

Is someone to bond over opinions with you. He accepts other opinions, appreciates when people stand up for what they believe in and listens to other perspectives but when he’s going on a rant about gender roles for example and you agree with him he’s going to feel validated. A lot more than if you just call him beautiful because he hears that every day from hundreds of people

This is somewhat canon from his school uniform personal story but while he loves his appearance and being perceived as beautiful he absolutely despises being reduced to his looks and superficial appearance being placed above skill and hard work. That is because Vil’s whole understanding of his own beautiful appearance is closely tied to skill and hard work. So when someone like Cater comes along and wants to take a pic with him out of selfish interest and basically to cheat his way to clout and fame and using Vil’s appearance as a means to reach an end well….we saw how he reacted. And while Vil may be both a model and an actor he tries to keep those two seperated. He’s more tolerant about being perceived as “just a pretty face” when it comes to photoshoots but when he’s acting he really wants to bring his skills across and make the character he’s playing shine with his hard work. Also a reason why he doesn’t like to be type-casted for his appearance. So when his looks are being used in movies to gain more views and money instead of just letting him act without focusing too much on his appearance only he’s going to be mad. One time they wanted him to shoot a scene shirtless for the audience reactions and Vil went off on a tangent about how he can make the scene captivating with his acting alone and how he doesn’t want his looks to overshadow his performance right then and there on the set and they had to convince him not to quit the job.

Tbh most of the people who work with him know not to piss him off. He’s very professional and mature on the job but if you don’t treat him with the respect and decency he wants or dismiss his values, skills and hard work he can get nasty. He knows never to overstep a line and he’s been taught to remain quiet a lot of times when he has something to say and he’s often submitting to social standards and expectations because he has to but if you really piss him off and getting angry won’t harm his image he’s not afraid to voice his anger.

Honestly? Has a bit of a rebellious side that he hardly ever shows and keeps under lock and key. Closest you can come to seeing it is in debates and when he explains his views to you. Or when he gets emotional. He never publically acts on it but oh boy if he did he’d be wreaking havoc and he’d look absolutely fabulous doing so.

Writes poetry sometimes. The only person he shows it to is Rook, who also writes poetry himself. They do in fact talk about this quite frequently

Is a classic literature and poetry nerd. Has read so many works from famous authors of all kinds of countries and kingdoms and he often projects onto them

Has so many playlists and moodboards it’s unreal

That’s how he processes his emotions. Vil has such a strong aesthetic sense he can just feel vibes and symbolism and meaning from aesthetic things sometimes. So making a playlist or looking at images that express his feelings helps him a lot in dealing with the emotions he normally doesn’t show to other people.

I can definitely see him having an anonymous blog or private Magicam page where he just posts creative stuff like poetry, aesthetics, playlists, moodboards, writing etc. He has 5 Million followers but he literally gets so proud over every follower and comment he gets on his private little creative account because he knows that that’s 100% because people love his work if they see it. He doesn’t post that often as on his main account because he’s busy but it makes him happy.

Vil is one of the most empathetic people in the entire cast. He isn’t always sympathetic but he can easily feel other people’s emotions when he wants to, read between the lines and just have his mind flooded with feelings and vibes. His empathy is also very closely tied to his aesthetic sense which is what makes him such an excellent actor and so good at bringing out people’s qualities and inner worlds through aesthetic means like their looks or singing f.e.

Owns and uses one of those stress balls. Quite frequently.

Loves looking at landscapes and nature but has a phobia of bugs and dirt

Always wears gloves and a face mask while cleaning and honestly that’s valid

He always has plenty of medical and emergency items stocked. Bandaids, disinfectant, painkillers, ice packs….you ever need something like this? Vil has it. He never runs out of them and never forgets to restock them.

Doesn’t drink. It took him so much time and hard work to get where he is today so he won’t even risk getting close to being tipsy or drunk and potentially doing something that could negatively impact his career. Plus he believes it’s better for his health like this.

He does absolutely adore those alcohol-free cocktails though. Loves when they mix a whole bunch of fruits together and make it look gorgeous and also taste excellent

Vil has good audio and video editing skills for his club. He also made the background track for the song he wrote for the VDC all by himself.

Has a journal where he keeps track of his growth. Things that go in there include life lessons he learned throughout the day, career milestones, quotes that relate to his most recent accomplishments, struggles he’s overcome, goals he sets for self-improvement, self-care things he does, his workout plan and just small things that make his day better or make him proud of himself. Has Trey’s encouraging quotes from his Lab Coat story in there. Not even Rook has seen that one. Whenever he feels bad he will just reread it and see how far he’s come.

His favorite season is autumn

Seeing his own ads is so weird to him. It doesn’t matter how long he’s been in the entertainment industry and how much he’s used to seeing his face everywhere, when he wants to watch a video or something and he sees his own advertisement clips coming up, he never gets used to this

Has respect for a solid majority of fashion styles. A lot of them may not be his personal thing but he can see style patterns and how to make a person look good in a specific style and as long as you do take care of your appearance he respects your style choices. Want to be goth? Dark academia? Or have a leather / biker gang / rock band kind of style? Fine by him.

Writes emotional songs that never see the light of day

Is a sucker for fancy lamps and lights. The chandeliers at Mostro Lounge or pretty lanterns make him go 👀

Loves lava lamps. He finds them relaxing. He owns a purple one.

Also has an appreciation for fancy stones and basic knowledge about gems. Sometimes Jade shows him crystals or rocks he found in the mountains and Vil knows what kind they are or if they’re valuable. He refuses to help them with scamming people though so he never tells Jade if they’re valuable.

The type to get anxious when he can’t sleep. He has his schedule for his beauty sleep with a set minimum of hours he needs to sleep and if he needs to get up early in the morning and he’s already like, 10 minutes over the time when he should have slept he starts panicking and that makes him even less likely to sleep. He cares greatly about getting his necessary amount of sleep but even he has sleepless nights once in a while.

Always has his arms wrapped around a pillow or part of his blanket when he sleeps and tends to wear hoodies to bed and fall asleep with the hood on because it makes him feel comfortable.

#vil schoenheit #twisted wonderland #vil schoenheit headcanons

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yesimwriting · 3 years

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hiii, this might seem weird but do u have any head cannons for when the reader is pregnant and how the Darkling would react?

a/n love this concept,, it's not weird at all!! i feel like there's so much here!! also i leave for college this month and im lowkey starting to freak out so ive been watching star wars movies for comfort 😭and now i have half a mind to write for them, especially the prequels (cough, cough,, anakin) 😭 😭 that should tell you where i am mentally

anyways lets get into the headcanons:))

- okay so like most of my headcanons, this is probably going to be all over the place bc i feel like so many different things could change how he would react. Like if the darkling x reader have been trying to get pregnant, or an unplanned pregnancy with someone he really likes, i also think whether or not the reader is a grisha affects his reaction too

- in general though, i think he'd lowkey have a breeding kink he'd def find something about the thought of you having his child really attractive bc for one thing, he wouldn't have to worry about being left alone and now he has an excuse to be a real 'protector'.

- also if youve read my other headcanons i am 100000% convinced that he has this thing where if he really likes someone he needs them to need him (let's all remember the whole 'i will strip you of everything you know and love speech until I'm your only shelter' speech he gave to Alina)

- also i kinda want to write a fic or blurb series or something that's just the darkling being super toxic in super thoughtful ways LMAO if that makes sense, like he's being super sweet but it's to make sure the reader is dependent on him

- and he def wants to be the protector to give himself some sense of assurance bc he's so desperate to not be alone anymore and bc the reader is the only person he has/loves, he wants to feel in control and like he's the less attached one

- okay,, let's get back to the pregnancy thing, anyways, your pregnancy is most definitely activating all of those senses and this was meant to be a sub plot but it kind of became it's own thing lol

- so lets get to the actual pregnancy reaction

if you two have been trying to get pregnant:

- when you tell him, he kind of like, pauses bc it's not every day that he gets surprised so it takes him a moment to register that he's experiencing shock lol, so he tenses and goes islent

- and then after he realizes that he's surprised and that it's bc of a good thing, he manages to relax

- meanwhile you're kind of freaking out bc he got so quiet?? you start to wonder if he's regretting ever wanting a child with you? and you're like two seconds away from a downspiral and then he...

- he touches your cheek and looks at you in a way you've never seen him look at anyone,, not even you

- the look is so warm and strong and full of fierce admiration that you feel foolish for ever thinking he didn't want this. And then he says something about how you're carrying his child and how he didn't realize he could adore you more and then he kisses you and it's all :)) warm:)

- he doesn't want anyone to know that he's expecting a child as long as possible bc of how many enemies he has and how he has to worry about you enough when people just know that you're his 'lover' (a title you never really liked, but one he tells you is necessary to make sure no one realizes the extent of his attachment)

- if you really want to tell your mother or someone of that relation, he won't be mad about it, but he just needs to know

- Genya is the only exception bc the darkling basically instructs her to look out for you,, but when you tell her she's like oh?? you guys just found out?

- miss girl most definitely noticed like a day and a half ago after you cried bc she couldn't find you ice cream the other night 😭and she just assumed you knew but weren't ready to tell anyone

- okay so this what i think is his most problematic expecting father trait would be. So i just ranted about how important secrecy would be to him but he's also the most overprotective person in the entire world,, like he was bad before but once he knows your with child?? yeah, if a man asks you about the weather, he's done for

- he's next to you in a second, ordering either you or the man to do some asinine task

- if you get mad about this (rightfully so) or even just point out how nothing is wrong and you having a casual conversation with a man who isn't even looking at you sexually won't hurt you or the baby, he'll lose rationality

- it depends on how much you push, but it'd be super easy to make him super possessive bc like i said, being bonded by a child has made him so much more intense (and he was pretty intense before)

- and if you push too much he'll lowkey forget about how cautious he's trying to be with you and pin you against the nearest wall and say something along the lines of 'are you already forgetting you're mine? that i own you, body and soul--is my child growing in you not enough of a reminder? because i'll give you another one if you need it.' (AH--i want to write a whole fic based on this line)

- also if the reader is grisha, especially if she's a sun summoner/special grisha like him, he def talks about the power that they've created and how proud he already is and how he can't wait to train together and be the most powerful family in the world

- not everything is perfectly happy though, bc now he feels more pressure to complete his plan and establish the world he wants his child to be born into

- so sometimes when he's working extra hard or is extra aggressive for no reason, you have to work at calming him down and reminding him that the best thing he can do for his child is be there for them (and the child's mother,, lol)

- sometimes he'll respond by actually listening to you and trying to make up for his absence or his aggression by being extra soft until you finally forgive him

- you never last that long, it's hard to be mad at him when he's coddling you and whispering such sweet things about he's so happy to have you and your future child

- overall, his first reaction is to swell with emotion, which he isn't used to, and so he becomes super protective but also extra lovey and you know that his overreactions are just him trying to show that he cares about you and your future child more than anything

If the pregnancy was unplanned:

- the initial reaction is pretty similar, only his state of shock lasts longer

- like i said at the beginning, he's not used to being surprised and an accidental pregnancy is so much more surprising than a planned pregnancy

- this really sucks for you bc he's not exactly known for his patience so you just kinda sit there and genuinely wonder if you're going to be a single mom or if you're going to want to deletus the fetus or something

- but then he takes a step towards you and you see how he's looking at you and you just know that that fierceness has to mean something good

- and at this point you're scared and nervous and feel so alone so tears are pricking at your eyes,, so he wipes his thumb across your cheek to wipe away tears you won't let spill

- he then whispers something really sweet about how you two are now together forever, as you should be

- it's really relieving bc you felt so alone and uncertain and he's such a smooth speaker that by the end of the night, you feel like this is a good thing

- if youre still hesitant/weighing your options, he's not above trying to (gently) manipulate you into thinking that what he wants may be the only way

- by that,, i don't mean outright tricking you bc he means everything he says, but he def is pushing the keeping the baby agenda,, especially if you're a grisha,, and even more so if you're a grisha with similar power levels to him

- he won't get angry at first bc he's not so out of touch that he's unaware of how shocking a pregnancy is to a woman who wasn't planning one,, but his patience is limited and if you fight it too much he will get mad and yell

- but unless you really don't want to have a child, it won't get to that bc he makes the idea of having a baby with him sound so perfect?? like you genuinely don't understand how he did that

- he chases away all of your worries and assures you that youre not alone and that even though it isn't planned he wouldn't rather anyone else carry his child

- the initial conversation would probably end in you two sleeping together again bc he finds the fact that you're carrying his child so attractive and bc being aware of the pregnancy makes him more possessive

- it's also a good way to fight any of your doubts

- speaking of being possessive though,, i feel like he could be a little more possessive/protective of a reader who didn't plan on getting pregnant bc your relationship has been less established

- no one sees you as anything to him and he doesn't want to start rumors now bc it's important to him that his enemies don't find out about you or his future child so he doesn't want that to change

- but he almost forgets about all of those reasons each time he sees a man get a little too close,, especially if that guy is flirty

- it takes all of his will power to not just go 'she's mine and if i wasn't worried about the stress that witnessing something violent would cause our unborn child, you'd be dead already, but if you're not gone by the time i turn around, i'll forget about caution'

- lots of close calls ngl!! at one point youre like 'if it bothers you so much, maybe you should tell someone??' and he's like 'no,, maybe,, shut up' and then you raise one eyebrow and he just closes his mouth and is like 'i mean,, i'll kiss you to shut you up, haha--dont be mad'

- youre the one that's pregnant but sometimes you think he might be the one experiencing the mood swings i swear 😭

- so your little theory gets tested,, he's not the type to gossip with his besties and be like 'guess who's officially my girlfriend, i knocked her up but it's not like it sounds--'

- so he's like ig you can tell genya

- once again genya is like ?? yall thought you were keeping that secret? couldn't be me

- but having it a little out in the open helps ease him just enough that youre actually capable of consoling him when he becomes jealous

- still though,, he's quick to go into possessive/pregnancy kink sex

- youre most def not mad about it,, unless pregnancy has you particularly sore

- he's normally pretty understanding about that and def doesn't mind pulling his weight in the bedroom when he needs

- honestly he'd be really good at being a source of calmness at the beginning, but as time goes on he becomes more and more worried about finishing his plans bc he didn't expect to have a child right now

- so he'd be more adamant about working/becoming more tense and would be more difficult to console if it was an accidental pregnancy

- when you call him out on it--or on anything while your pregnant--it's frustrating for you both bc the number one thing everyone knows is stress is bad for baby, so he's trying to keep you calm without backing down

- these argument always end with one of you clinging to the other,, and then the more angrier of the two just like shuts up, rolls their eyes, and lets go of the argument...at least for now

- the main difference between an accidental and intentional pregnancy would probably be how you perceive him,, bc an intentional pregnancy means youve talked about things but since you havent talked about anything your shocked about how soft he becomes ??

#headcanons #headcanon #darkling x reader #the darkling x reader #the darking x you #aleksander morozova x reader #general kirigan x you #general kirigan imagine #grishaverse imagine #grishaverse #shadow and bone #shadow and bone x reader #aleksander morovoza x reader #aleksander morozova imagine

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dannyphantom-rewrite · 3 years

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Timekeeper's assistants AU

Alright y'all! This is gonna be my info dump post for the Timekeepers assistant Au- buckle up cause it's gonna be a long one!

Inspired by @queendibz post here

The entire purpose of the assistant squad is to keep all the time lines running smoothly- this can range from stopping a world ending event to making sure things misplaced by natural ghost portals get put back into the right time and place.

So First up on the crew list,

Dan:

-Dan definitely isn't a homicidal maniac anymore but he's not 100 percent "redeemed" either.

-I mean he's probably still a bit of sadist but he tries not to be?

-The best description I can give is that he's in recovery, basically.

-So, Clockwork knew that Dan would eventually bust out of the thermos just because it wasn't built to hold a ghost of his power level for a prolonged period of time. But beyond that?? He has no idea about anything in regards to Dan. Since Dan's creation was averted, his timeline doesn't exist anymore. He's a paradox that exists outside of time, and unfortunately, that means he's the one entity in the multiverse that exists in Clockwork's blindspot. There's no way for him to know what Dan's going to do next.

-Anyway, Dan eventually breaks out of the thermos fully intending to Fuck Shit Up, And Clockwork makes a point of informing him that if he leaves the clock tower he will cease to exist. (Like Dan, the tower exists outside of time, so he's safe there.)

-Dan is the first member of the assistant squad. Granted, it took a while for him to come around to the idea of helping Clockwork but he got there eventually.

-Dan is an entity that was born out of the rage and grief of two very broken people and he has so much shit he's working through as a result

-One of the first things he had to do was recognize and accept that he's an entity that's completely separate from Vlad and Danny. He might have all their memories and the weight of their mistakes on his shoulders, and on top of that, the atrocities he himself committed because of them. The first step is realizing that he doesn't have to be defined by the people that made him.

-It's a really fucking difficult thing to do tho and he's got a lot of weird emotions in regards to Vlad, Danny and the Fentons as a result. A near constant identity crisis, self loathing, daddy issues, something that could arguably be called an Oedipus complex, (FUCKING THANKS, VLAD)

-Cannot stand the smell of fast food, it makes him nauseous and the sight of Nasty Burger sauce alone is enough to make him vomit Ectoplasm.

-He's just a hot mess all around y'all

-He tries to keep his interactions with the Danny's as minimal as possible at first bc of this. The first time he meets them in person he shape shifts into Danny like he did in TUE and just pretends to be one of them. Some of them have had interactions with their respective Dan's already and would be super wary of him and probably pretty freaked out otherwise.

-Dan is eventually allowed to leave the clocktower for supervised "Field missions" with the aid of a time medallion to keep him from poofing out of existence, but it takes a while for clockwork to build up that level of trust.

-Dan's shapeshifting ability Actually comes into play a bit on a lot of those missions, since he can Mimic Danny it also makes sense that he'd be able to impersonate Vlad in the same way. Granted he's not incredibly comfortable taking on either of their appearances but it does help him hone his shapeshifting ability to the point where he's able to pick and choose features from both Vlad and Danny and sorta make his own human disguise.

-Most of the time he acts as the eye in the sky from the tower, monitoring for timeline anomalies and then notifying the appropriate member of the assistant squad.

-He has a room under the clock tower that he operates from. I kinda like the idea of there being like, catacombs down there? Anyway he's got all kinds of monitors and view screens and he very rarely leaves. It also doubles as his "living space." He doesn't need to sleep but he's got a big mess of a pillow fort that he crashes in regardless bc sometimes you just NEED to be unconscious for a while. The catacombs are also absolutely full of those little blob ghosts that wander around the zone bc They're attracted to the ecto energy the tower gives off. He's really annoyed by them at first but they grow on him after a while and now he just dotes on them.

-There's a specific throw pillow sized one that likes to hang out in Dan's room a lot and he ended up getting a little over attached to the stupid thing. His name is Dorian. Bc he's a gift.

-SIR THATS MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT BLOB

-Dan's appearance has changed slightly. He wears his hair loose now and it's kinda just this big fiery mane when it's not contained. His cape is more of a cloak now, it has a hood and he wears it sorta pinned together at the shoulder so the DP logo is covered.

-Dan's relationship with the rest of the Danny's is kinda weird, and a little strained. He has a hard time being around them for very long because, well, he used to sort of be them? Except not really? He does care about them tho, and the last thing he'd want is for one of them to end up like him.

-His relationship with clockwork definitely starts out pretty familial, after he becomes his assistant, anyway. There's room for that to develop into meddling minutes but I'm not entirely sure if I'm gonna go that route yet.

-The Danny's only ever hear his voice for a while before he finally let's them meet him for real, so they end up calling him Charlie for a while as a joke. Cause Ya know. Charlie's angels. Even after Charlie still ends up being his designated name on missions.

Mer! Danny:

-Was recruited bc a lot of the shit that gets sucked through natural portals ends up in a body of water somewhere and when that happens he's on call to retrieve it.

-Is Actually not at all ghostly! Mer Danny's situation is basically the plot of H2O (just add water), or if you haven't seen that, Aquamarine. And by that I mean he's only a merfolk in water.

-He's an electric eel

-His Jack and Maddie are marine biologists, with a particular interest in marine cryptids

-We're taking sea monsters baby!!!

-Not entirely sure how this Danny ended up half mer yet but I'll figure it out, lmao.

-14 years old

-His nickname/ designation is "Moray"

Crown Prince! Danny:

-Nickname/designation is Prince / Princey

-16 years old

-Not allowed to go anywhere in the zone without the Fright knight bc of some ancient ghost law bullshit, so he has a constant babysitter.

-He's next in line bc he sealed away Pariah, but can't take the throne until he is both, A) at least 18 years and B) Completely deceased

-Vlad is his Regent bc he did have a part in the whole sealing the previous king thing, but he's also not completely dead so his power is super limited there.

-As Prince Danny has the crown of fire in his ghost form, although now the name is kinda ironic seeing as it's completely frozen over. It's blue now and it smokes like dry ice.

-As Regent, Vlad has the ring of rage for "safe keeping"

-Vlad and Danny are pretty much constantly at each other's throats, fright knights probably had to shut down more than a few of Vlad's attempts to usurp the crown from Danny through combat.

-Princey deals with the timeline issues that involve the ghost zones' internal / political affairs, and he's gotten very well versed with dealing with the Observants.

Winged! Danny :

-15 years old

-Mallard duck wings

-His Vlad is a swan

-Comes from a family of waterfowl, Jack is a goose, and Maddie is a white swan. Both he and jazz are ducks bc of their grandparents.

-As Fenton his wings are white, like jazz, and as phantom they turn black with a green iridescent sheen.

-He's trans

-Nickname/ designation is inviso Bill. Bc ducks have bills haha get it-

-Ghostly wail?? Nah son he's gotta killer QUACK

-Absolute besties with Mer!Danny/ Moray, sometimes they go swimming together after a mission.

Clone! Danny:

-Physically he's a 12-year-old, but he's only been alive for a few months.

-Alt universe where Vlad manages to stabilize the perfect clone with his own DNA.

-Dani still exists, and the original danny from his time line also rescued the other problematic clones.

-Doesnt like the fact that he's a clone, and very much wants them all DEAD. Bc them running around is a reminder that he's not the real danny.

-Human half looks the same aside from the widows peak and the mallen streak. His ghost half takes after plasmius. Blue skin, and the Hazmat kept it's original white colors.

-Probably has fangs and a forked tounge.

-Not so much a member of the squad as he is someone that they need to be keeping an eye on.

-Does NOT get along with them.

-Dan enjoys making him uncomfortable.

-Designation is Masters / the brat (not to his face tho)

Family Breakfast AU! Danny:

-A BABY

-The boy is a fucking overpowered todler okay. He's an 8 year old.

-The biological son of his Vlad, was born a Halfa. Jack, Vlad and Maddie got their shit together and are in a healthy poly relationship.

-Got separated from Vlad one time in the zone and inadvertently adopted by the assistant squad and clockwork.

-His Vlad is aware of the squad and just. Dad's the crap out of the Danny's as a result. It makes for some..... interesting interactions.

-I can't think of a nickname so I'm just gonna be lazy and say he gets to be the one Tru Danny bc cute little kind privileges lmao.

Full ghost! Danny:

-15 years old, will always look 14.

-Nickname/designation is Toast

-Died in the portal accident and got fucking FRIED.

-He always smells like somethings burning.

-He's really bright and sorta sparks a bit, you can see his bones glowing through the hazmat.

-He still leave the zone to protect his version of amity, but lives with clockwork full time.

Canon Danny (NOT PHANTOM PLANET COMPLIANT) :

-Basically show Danny, except phantom planet never happened fuck you

-Joined the crew after the events of de stabilized

-Also he's trans fuck butch

-Franken! Danny

-Yall remember that Headless Danny Au? This is my take.

-Is Actually 20 years old, but physically stuck at age 14. Bc he's a walking corpse :)

-Came from a timeline that was directly parallel to Full ghost! Danny. He dies in the portal accident, but jack and Maddie are in the lab when it happens and manage to sort of bring him back using a combination of science and freaky ghost junk.

-So he's basically possessing/ stuck inside of his own dead body. Which, is thankfully not rotting or going into rigor mortis bc Ectoplasm is rather similar to formaldehyde, but he's not the most durable thing and bits and pieces fall off from time to time.

-Like his head. For example.

-He's pretty desensitized to it at this point and if he loses a leg after a ghost fight he doesn't see anything wrong with sitting down on the curb of a main street to stich it back on. His being dead isn't exactly a secret.

-Don't ever ask him to "give you a hand" bc he can and will not hesitate to pop one off and Chuck it at you.

-Said hand and any other body part will continue to function just fine even if it isn't attached to anything, btw.

-Nickname/ designation is Adam. Bc. Ya know. that's the name Frankenstein's monster gave itself.

Post Phantom Planet! Danny:

-A very jaded 22 year old who is driven only by spite and enough caffeine to kill a horse

-Very, very tired of the hero thing.

-Being a global celebrity isn't all it's cracked up to be.

-Decided to follow Vlads lead and fuck off to space for a while. Partially to get away from everyone and also partially bc he kinda feels responsible for the fact that the only other person like him and probably floating DEAD in the void somewhere? And yeah Vlad fucked up all on his own but what if he'd tried harder to get through to him things could have been different-

-Joins the crew after a natural portal opens up in space and decides to help out and use clockworks resources to try and track down his Vlad.

-Nickname/ Designation is Polaris, aka the north star.

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star-anise · 4 years

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An ask I got, from someone who wants to remain anonymous:

“Hello! I have a friend who's currently getting really worked up about liking "problematic" content bc their online friend groups are telling them about things like people who like villains in media are bad people and all that other purity fandom stuff, how can I tell them that what you like doesn't equal what you are?”

I can do that!

My first concern for your friend, honestly, is that they’re at a high risk of being in abusive friendships. Fandom purity police are not known for their tendency to go, “Well, I see the issue this way, and have chosen to take these steps, but I understand that other people can have different perspectives and still be acting from a valid and moral place.” Instead, they’re very likely to trample mental and emotional boundaries to insist everyone agree with them, and to use verbally abusive tactics to make that happen.

So I think it helps to back up and look at the issue from a broader perspective: From “my friend has some opinions I don’t think will help them” to “I’m afraid my friend may be in a potentially abusive friend group who are subjecting them to a lot of pressure to act and think a certain way (which I don’t think will help them).”

In my experience, people who get sucked into purity policing social groups have a hard time getting back out of them because those groups exert isolation and control.

Isolation: People are heavily pressured to cut contact with anyone who doesn’t agree with the group. This means losing contact with outside friends who think differently--and it also means that they know that if they step out of line, they’ll lose all their purity-policing friends (who are also now their only friends). It is way, way easier to leave an abusive situation if you know you have somewhere safe to land--so denying people that lifeline is part of how these groups retain membership.

Control: People are pressured to think, behave, and see the world in really specific ways. Especially, they are pressured to think that how the group sees social justice issues like abuse, racism, or homophobia are the only possible correct ways to see it. They create an “us vs them” mentality where anyone who is not “us” is a “them”. For example, anyone who doesn’t agree with purity policers about hating villains must condone abuse. The world is now scarily filled with tons of people who think abuse is super fun and totally fine. The only way to fight this is to be part of the group and do what they say! There’s absolutely no freedom to think that you could oppose abuse, and yet find some antagonists sympathetic or likeable.

So in some ways, my advice for you is to follow standard advice for someone whose friend is in a potentially abusive relationship:

State your concerns, in private, gently but clearly. (eg. ”I’m worried that your friends have a really narrow worldview that in reality isn’t the only way to see things, that they engage in really unhealthy behaviour, and that if you ever find yourself disagreeing with them, they’ll turn on you and it’ll be really bad for you”)

Make the issue about your friend and their decisions instead of attempting to control them. (”I think it’s important that you really think these things through and come to your own conclusions. It’s up to you whether you agree with them or not.”)

Try to help them understand their alternatives and to keep their options open—encourage them to maintain healthy relationships apart from this group, to find different sources of information about social justice and media consimption, and to remember that you can be a moral person without doing or believing everything this group says.

Take care of yourself and set your own boundaries. Watching someone fall down this rabbit hole can be worrying, frightening, and exhausting--and that’s not even counting if your friend absorbs the group’s abusive tactics and starts using them on you! Remember that it’s not your job to save them, and you can’t save someone who doesn’t want to be saved. You can be a friend who’s a counterweight to their new friends, but it’s not your job to pull them out all by yourself.

So, that said, on to the actual debate about how moral people can consume problematic fiction or enjoy problematic things, and still be moral. Honestly, so much has been written on this, I couldn’t possibly cover it all. I’ll throw up some links to introductory primers:

Your Favourite Media is Problematic - Here’s How to Deal (And What Not to Do)

How to Be a Fan of Problematic Things

It’s Okay to Like Problematic Things

You might notice, the common thread through all of these is developing individual critical awareness. That is, not assuming that you will be mindlessly controlled by the media you consume, but actively taking control of what you think about it and owning your responsibility not to let it affect you in super negative ways. This is another aspect of encouraging your friend not to cede all their decision-making to the group and let them decide which opinions are good and which are bad.

Sometimes knowing about social justice and caring about a better world does mean having a negative opinion of a work of media, or not being able to enjoy it. That’s not actually bad. Fandom purity police wouldn’t get so far if they didn’t have a grain of truth in there. Where they go awry is deciding only one interpretation and set of actions are moral or valid. The best antidote is, therefore, encouraging people to break out of the lockstep and begin to think for themselves.

#staranise original #fandom purity culture #bullying tw #abuse tw

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torque-witch · 3 years

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Okay. DoorDash. For nobody wondering. It is my middle of the night posts about weird things I’m doing or have bought on sale once again. Cryptic advice time.

1. Worth it, but only if you live in a very busy area (city/suburbs) and have a car that isn’t falling apart. It can literally be nonstop, which is how they advertise up to $21 an hour.

2. Your goal is $20 an hour, which is generally 2 deliveries per hour. ONLY if you are going during $3+ peak pay times which is usually between 9pm to midnight and beyond, but can be 5pm-9pm on weekends. $2+ is good too - but you want to rely more on DoorDash paying you than tips bc they are unpredictable. Try to only accept rides that are guaranteed $9+.

3. Last week I made $278 in 15 hours of drive time which is a little over $18 an hour. I made the mistake of going just whenever the first day, and I averaged $12 an hour so it messed up my average.

4. It should be obvious that you have to pay your own taxes. Track your mileage each trip. It helps with deductions later. Any car maintenance counts as deductions as well so save all your receipts.

5. You may end up in the middle of nowhere by the end of your shift. Wherever you deliver to you are still “on the clock” and may end up choosing deliveries in other areas just by default of how the system works. Wherever you are closest to.

6. Most people ordering DoorDash are rich so you end up going to a lot of developments. I mean, heck, I was going to order IHOP the other day and it would have been $25 for just one breakfast.

7. Buy a phone stand for the car. Got mine at 5below and it sucks but it will do. Prepare to charge your phone the entire time especially if you use Bluetooth. You can also deduct this as a work purchase. Receipts.

Idk what else. Just be realistic if you are thinking about it. It will ruin your car if it already doesn’t run well or is unpredictable. You need to be checking out your fluids regularly. And keeping up with maintenance. You can’t drive like a tornado. Don’t bother doing it full time. I mean that in the really annoying “work smarter, not harder” way. Only work when it’s worth it to. More money, less miles.

9. The unfortunate thing is they do a background check on your criminal record and driving record. While this is a safety and liability issue that I understand, it does discriminate against people who may only have minor non-violent offenses. You need proof of insurance. Literally you are liable essentially for everything, so I wouldn’t recommend doing it for “fun.”

10. The app does let you report bad restaurant experiences and wait times to help improve your runs, as well as warns you if certain places have been problematic in the past. Treat it like any delivery system or any take-out situation. Double check before you leave.

Lastly for gods sake don’t do rides literally downtown in a city unless it’s worth it/you live there. Traffic is just awful and impacts your time management. Don’t be afraid of “bad neighborhoods” either. You’ll be fine. And if you don’t want to go there, you don’t have to. Simple as that.

Eh??? There you go

#torquetalks #doordash #cryptic tips

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likeshipsonthesea · 3 years

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dex, team bicycle

the following bullet fic has been in my drafts for over a year now and tonight i remembered it existed, read it, and decided to post it. why? who knows. don’t ask questions. just ~enjoy~

so i got an ask about how anon trusts me implicitly when it comes to writing bc they believe that dex is the team bicycle and eventually ends up with nursey and thinks i’m down with that too and tbh they ain’t wrong so like

here’s a bullet fic instead of me doing any of the work i SHOULD REALLY FUCKING BE DOING okie

first things first here’s the dealio this is crack-ish but also not so crackish that my dumbass couldn’t see it happening so let’s just suspend some disbelief and have a good time

first time dex hooks up with a teammate it’s not at a kegster

maybe a little later he’s a little too tipsy at a kegster not really knowing his own tolerance for tub juice yet and he’s dancing, a little more white boy than maybe one would like but he’s having fun with it and that’s half the game, and he’s sweaty and maybe some glitter from other dancers has rubbed off on him and he’s glittery and shining and he catches someone’s eye across the room (holster, i’m thinking holster) and holster sees him and thinks fuck and dex is maybe really into how big holster is and just like follows him up to the attic when holster grabs his wrist and pulls because why not--

but this is not about that (at least not yet) this is about how dex, new to samwell and ncaa hockey and everything, wants to be the best he can be in everything so naturally he goes to the best person to help him with every thing (for school he gets tutors and goes to tutorials and goes to all the profs’ office hours, for social stuff maybe he trails ransom around idk (that’s for later)) but for hockey he obviously goes to the person you go to when you need help with hockey

jack

LOOK OKAY I GET IT ZIMBITS FOR LIFE BUT HEAR ME OUT

jack likes hockey. jack likes people who like hockey. jack likes when people are really into hockey

so when the little angery frog that seemed real appreciative of his butt on hazeapalooza comes to him with this frowny face determination asking how he can be the best player he can be, a part of jack’s brain that’s very quiet and seldom acknowledged goes “huh.”

and maybe they start meeting up for their own practices, practicing drills and plays so dex can get his speed up and reaction time down and just get better and jack’s benefiting from it too in a way, like trying to help a defensive player makes him have to switch up his thinking about things a bit and it’s helping his defensive play on the ice

and so this goes on for a bit and maybe they build up some inside jokes in between all the intensity and maybe there’s some playful moments in the locker room when they bump arms or throw a few chirps around and it’s cute okay and not too serious, jack isn’t in love with the kid (he’s a kid, lord, okay a lil problematic but if y’all know anything about my oc luke dex has Problems with Authority figures so whatever)

but the truth is jack doesn’t really have many people he’d be comfortable “relieving some stress” with, like there’s shitty but he’s ridiculously straight, and Camila went and got herself a girlfriend so that’s no longer a thing, and dex is there and eager and fun and

and long story short they end up fucking in the locker room oops

it doesn’t happen too many times after that, maybe once on a roadie, a few times at the haus. it’s fun, not in a laughing way or whatever, but it’s casual and it’s nice to get off and it doesn’t make jack any more anxious and dex is probably working through some issues he has with tall dark haired captains and they both get something good out of it, which is the point, anyway

and it ends maybe before winter break, either jack decides to focus on the nhl and his thesis and dex totally understands or dex realizes that maybe his thing with dark haired captains isn’t completely healthy and ends things but either way it’s nbd and no one on the team ever really knows, though it’s not like they lie about it either but who’s gonna ask, right?

and so dex and jack were fuckbuddies. for a time. noice.

now let’s return to that kegster scene, hmm?

so the way i picture it is dex hooks up with holster at a kegster, realizes it probably wasn’t the smartest idea he’s ever had but doesn’t completely freak out because holster’s a relaxed kind of guy, dex is sure it won’t get nuts

meanwhile holster wakes up freaking out because he just fucked ransom’s frog and that is so not cool so then he panics and avoids ransom and dex for like a week and then decides okay okay it’s not a big deal he just won’t tell anyone, it won;t happen again, it’s fine

and then he walks in on dex hooking up with ransom and he’s like Wow Okay So the Fine Thing Didn’t Work Out Huh

turns out while holster was freaking out ransom was really mopey about it and dex, not really knowing how to fix it, tried to comfort him and ended up... in bed

look this version of dex is a little thotty and knows like two ways of comforting people and he didn’t think getting drunk in the middle of the day was a good idea

and so long story short after some brief HUHs going around dex ends up hooking up with both ransom and holster for a bit (sometimes both at once!) and eventually the both-at-once-stuff makes ransom and holster actually acknowledge the feelings they’ve mostly been ignoring since their frog year and they explain this to dex who’s like okie bc he’s really only there bc they’re both hot and so ransom and holster get together and dex sometimes helps them out on date nights and that’s about it

lbr tho they never tell anyone how they actually got together bc they would never live it down so they say nothing and dex doesn’t either bc it’s not his relationship and the world goes on never knowing

so now we’re getting into the middle of spring term dex’s frog year and he’s kind of maybe sort of acknowledged that he has some kind of emotions about nursey that aren’t helpful so he’s attempting to repress real hard, but he’s also learning to repress less about other things, specifically his enjoyment of baking.

yup. you guessed it.

Bitty.

so he starts helping bitty in the kitchen A Lot, and sometimes they talk and sometimes they don’t and sometimes they talk about important things but most of the time they don’t, but at this stage in bitty’s life he is crushing very hard on a certain dark haired captain and that’s kind of really apparent in, like, everything he does so it takes dex maybe two weeks to realize what’s going on

and okay so it’s a little awkward bc 1-the fuckbuddies thing but also bc 2-dex knows how it feels to have feelings for a friend and it kind of sucks like a lot and he wants to make bitty feel better and yeah maybe this is another case of dex being bad at comforting people with his clothes on

but maybe also one day they’re talking about relationships/being gay idk something and bitty maybe casually (southern euphemistically) mentions that he’s never, erm, never quite, uh, never done the dirty with a boy and maybe he sounds a lil embarassed about it idk and dex’s I Can Fix That brain switches on and he says, “I can help.”

and bitty’s like. what.

dex blushes and clears his throat and says it again. “i can help. i’ve, uh, done it before, and i can, like. show you.” then he pauses and, very uncasually, says, “casually.”

bitty, also pink at his point because he’s a sweet southern boy who doesn’t speak of such things, asks, “you’d be willing to do that?”

dex nods. he does not say that he’s done something like that before. he very pointedly does not say that.

and bitty, well, he’s pining and he’s been at college for a year and a half and the most action he’s ever gotten was with that boy who puked on his shoes and, you know, he came to samwell so that he could be who he is and maybe this is a way he can prove to himself that he is being true to himself.

it also doesn’t hurt that dex is v pretty, okay, bitty loves a boy with big shoulders and freckles.

and so dex and bitty start hooking up.

it’s somewhat like my The Arrangement fic where dex is sort of “showing bitty the ropes” but bitty, lbr, he’s a quick learner and he did his research so it very quickly just becomes hooking up for the sake of it

and it’s good. like. really good and both of them are benefiting from having someone to escape from their ~feelings~ in and bitty’s more comfortable in sexuality (like, his sexuality not his gayness ya feel me?) and everyone’s having a great time

then they lose the playoffs and emotions run high and bitty realizes how decimated he’s going to be by jack leaving and they don’t really have a conversation about it (let’s be real, neither of these boys talk about their feelings, at least not at this point) but dex goes home that summer with the understanding that he and bitty are no longer doing the thing, and that’s okay with him, really, because maybe now his feelings for nursey are becoming More of A Thing Than He Was Hoping They Would

of course bitty gets with jack at this time, so he’s kind of through the roof, and if, maybe, they have a conversation about their ex’s/past lovers and find they have.. more things in common than expected, well, at the least it’s a bit of a laugh and at the most well. let’s just say sometimes a ginger is mentioned in their bed WHATEVER OKAY MOVING ON

dex comes back in the fall ready to suppress the fuck out of his emotions and play some damn good hockey and who appears but this super eager tadpole

this now plays out as the first two chapters of my The Arrangement fic, though i guess now for canonical reasons whiskey ends up with lax bro and not tango, but that’s alright, we’re good at working on our feet here

for those who haven’t read the fic, dex shows whiskey how to gay sex while simultaneously gaining his trust and encouraging him to bond with the team and for personal reasons whiskey is a little shit but not as much of an asshole as he was in canon (look i love the guy but he’s a dick) and anyway go read my fic it’s good i promise #selfspon moving on

the latter half of dex’s sophomore year is spent mostly Not Pining for nursey and getting closer to him, friend wise, until the whole dib-flip, living together situation occurs, dex has a Freak Out, and ruins things a little

..this is getting off track, but long story short, his captains kiss each other on live tv and dex’s family starts to suspect that all those rumors that drifted around him in high school may have more truth to them than they’d been hoping and dex has a less than great summer break, coming back to school in the opposite of a good mindset

nursey also has a not great break (his parents are fighting, then he comes to school and breaks his wrist and can’t play hockey) and well we all know where this ends up

this leaves dex in a very mopey gross state and who to help someone feel better in their time of need than the sweetest little waffle you’ve ever seen in your life?

yes, it’s time for Hops.

now, this is a rather short lived affair, but over thanksgiving break, the entirety of the haus goes home to their families except for dex (who says he can’t deal with bus fare, and begs off any offers of help) and hops, who technically isn’t in the Haus, but stays there for the break while his parents are on a work trip during the holiday

dex ends up finding out just exactly how College Hockey Boy hops is when he almost burns the kitchen down trying to make a grilled cheese and dex decides then that he has to help this boy learn how to human, so they spend the first two days together with dex teaching hops all the basic skills dex thinks someone should know

this is included but not limited to: how to cook without making fire, how to change the oil in your car, how to hotwire a car, how to fix various different appliances, how to take the optimal notes, how to basic code, and how to sort and do your laundry

hops is enjoying the crash course (kid is just grateful to finally know where the detergent goes in a washer) but also, like, lbr. watching someone be competent in a thing--esp a thing you are yourself not good at--is a giant turn on, and so after two days of watching dex be really good at adulting, they settle onto the couch after doing the dishes and hops just gets on his knees and--

we aren’t smutting here on good christian tumblr but boy. hops is an eager kid.

anyway they spend a week fucking and then stop because hops falls in love with a girl in his intro class and then spends the next two months asking dex for advice on how to woo her, even though obviously chowder would be a better bet.

then comes the playoffs and everything is heating up and they’re on roadies nearly every weekend, still keeping up with their coursework, and it’s A Lot, and dex is really feeling it this year, especially with all the shit bitty’s been getting, and one night, on a roadie, he and bully get back to their room and dex collapses with a groan on the bed and bully, chill as anything, is like. “you seem pretty stressed. wanna fuck?”

and, you know what? dex is still his thotty (though more mature) self and he’s like, life sucks a little right now, why not get off

and so he does.

he and bully hook up through the playoffs and into the post-season (that post-final game sex is A Lot my dudes lemme tell you) but then dex gets elected captain and something twisty in his chest tells him that he should not be fucking someone on the team, especially not an underclassman, when he’s got that authority over him, and so he breaks it off with bully

who is pretty chill about it, since he’s bully, though he does miss the sex. the sex was p good.

and, to be quite honest, that’s it. dex wouldn’t fuck any of the baby frogs for the same reason he broke it off with bully (also ngl the senior-freshman thing doesn’t do it for him anymore) and so dex goes through his senior year of college without having any fuckbuddies--his first year of college so far, actually, where he doesn;t

the end

lol jk he and nursey start hooking up and it’s a Whole Bundle of emotions

in keeping with the rest of the fuck buddies, dex thinks that this is just like all the other times and nursey has no reason to think dex wants anything more and like. the sex is good, like very good, and neither of them are complaining per se but they’re also in love and haven’t said anything, and i imagine there are some ill-timed confessions prior to the final game of the playoffs and then they win another ncaa championship title and have sex in a janitor’s closet (but like,, emotional sex) and they live happily (thottily) ever after

i also like to imagine that there’s a point somewhere down the line when they all meet up for a reunion and something happens-- probably ransom and holster get a lil tipsy and finally tell the truth of how they got together-- and everyone basically does the spider-man meme but with “wait-you had sex with dex? i had sex with dex” and nursey--who knows bc dex told him when they finally got together-- is just sitting there all smug with his arm around a steadily reddening dex bc he’s fucking proud of the fact that everyone knows exactly how good his boyfriend is in bed

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Heathers, chansaw and Veronica ✨

hiiii sorry i was visiting family yesterday so imma do this now!

001: HEATHERS (i’m also mostly gonna stick to the musical bc They Are Different)

favorite character : veronica sawyer my bbyyyyyy

least favorite character : kurt kelly and ram sweeney are tied but they’d probably be into that

5 favorite ships : in order: chansaw, poly heathers with veronica, macaronnie, macduke, chanmac

character i find most attractive : heather chandler those hips do things to me

character i would marry : probably mac??? she seems like she mostly has her shit together enough

character i would be best friends with : also probably mac but maybe veronica

a random thought : look at veronica’s face in the bathroom scene and during candy store and tell me she isn’t having a statistically significant bisexual panic

an unpopular opinion : mac is more problematic than people give her credit for

my canon otp : ram and kurt’s dads

my non canon otp : poly heathers + veronica

most badass character : listen to the dead girl walking reprise and tell me it’s not veronica

most epic villain : also veronica. jd is a villain but he sucks

pairing i am not a fan of : anyone with jd ever except pairing him with a fucking psychiatrist good lord

character i feel the writers screwed up : dukeeeeee give her moreeeeee and make her less shitttt

favorite friendship : canonically? ha. but in fanon i really like the potential for chandler and jd, mac and martha, and veronica and martha

character i most identify with : veronica veronica veronicaaaaaaaaaa

character i wish i could be : also veronica i want a monocle and cool skirts

002: CHANSAW

when i started shipping them : probablyyyyyyy like about two years ago??? i never got too deep in the fandom but chansaw and macaronnie are kinda the only monogamous ships that made sense to me so pretty soon after i started getting into it

my thoughts : hnngn

what makes me happy about them : red and bloo gays we love. also their personalities mesh and clash in really interesting ways and i think they have a lot of potential if chandler has a redemption arc

what makes me sad about them : chandlers death bc a. they can’t be together obviously and b. if you listen to the seventeen reprise you can hear in veronica’s voice how exhausted she is and how much she regrets everything that’s happened

things done in fanfic that annoys me : when they make veronica always the top 👀👀 i also am really not into demon chandler au’s

things i look for in a fanfic : health. in canon the levels of toxicity in this ship would rival chernobyl but in fanon i can pretend they’d be okay

my wishlist : cuddles with chandler as little spoon and veronica healing and also kisses and sweetness and a dash of rocking smut. just a smidge if i’m in a mood

who i’d be comfortable with them ending up with if not each other : if chandler has a redemption arc, either of the other heathers and if not nobody. if veronica goes through a significant amount of counseling and or canon doesn’t happen, either of the other heathers. if not, also nobody

my happily ever after for them : they get married in a courthouse wedding in white blazers with all their friends and live happily ever after in a cottage in the forest with a dog and two cats and veronica writes books and chandler is like idk a lawyer or something she can get her bitch out doing

003: VERONICA SAWYER

how i feel about this character : babey someone get her some therapy and some sleep

any/all the people i ship romantically with this character : all the heathers

my favorite non romantic relationship for this character : marthaaaaaaaaaaaaa and jd if he’s a bit more sane

my unpopular opinion about this character : she’s less of a damsel in distress than people make her out to be

one thing i wish would happen/ had happened with this character in canon : some fucking counseling

favorite friendship for this character : still martha and jd

my crossover ship : uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i think she and karen from mean girls could have somethin interesting romantically ?? or regina. and platonically i think she’d be best buddies with kevin g and i think she and janis and lydia from beetlejuice are all cousins :)

#thanks nonnie!!!#this was so fun omg i wasn’t expecting to enjoy that so much #entropy with ezzy #caps tw #swear tw #emoji tw #ezzy gets an ask

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1/2 I'm a little conflicted on a ship fanfic I want to write rn. In canon the relationship is that they were childhood friends, but after a misunderstanding, one of them starts bullying the other for years, and at the end of the story said bully feels bad and apologizes for what they did. However even though bully apologizes, canon doesn't imply whether or not the other is comfortable with them again. I don't want it to seem like I'm romanticizing bullying bc it's NOT cute, at all, so idk if

I should even write it bc of how sensitive their relationship is in canon, even if it's implied the bully is genuinely sorry for what they did and sets up the other forgiving them (but we don't get to see it so it's unsure). Is there a way I can write this properly or should I just scrap this fanfic?

Romanticization vs Forgiveness

I want to be very clear about something... it’s okay to forgive someone who did something wrong if you feel they: genuinely understand why the thing they did was wrong, are genuinely sorry that they did the thing, commit to doing better in the future, and show signs that they are truly doing better.

Forgiving someone isn’t romanticizing the thing they did wrong. Forgiveness acknowledges that humans are imperfect and we make mistakes. Sometimes we make bad mistakes. Forgiveness also acknowledges that humans can grow, change, and do better. It acknowledges that we can be redeemed by that change and by proving that we can do better.

Romanticization is when you illustrate someone doing a bad thing and make it look good by failing to illustrate the reasons why it’s bad.

Let’s use smoking as an example. Let’s say your MC has an old eccentric grandmother who is an important character in the story, and let’s say one of this character’s hallmarks is that she is and always has been a prolific smoker. Now, we know that smoking is very bad for your health and the health of those around you. If all you do is show this woman smoking up a storm and looking elegant while doing it, and you never show her having a smoker’s cough, show other people coughing as a result of the smoke, never have any character express concern about how much she smokes or the dangers of smoke and second hand smoke, that would be romanticizing smoking because you’re portraying it in a positive way without showing any of the ill effects. Even if you want her to be someone who has inexplicably escaped any negative health impact from decades of prolific smoking, you still need to have someone pointing out why it’s bad if you want to avoid romanticizing it.

Forgiveness and Childhood Bullying

Bullying is something that has gotten a lot of attention and that’s a good thing because it sucks. But childhood bullying is unique in that it’s something a person does as a child or teenager, before they’ve matured to adulthood. In other words, a kid can be a complete asshole when they’re 12 and a really wonderful, loving, giving person when they’re 36. What matters is that they have grown, changed, accepted responsibility, and apologized where possible. Redemption comes when you see that they’ve raised kids (or work with kids) who are friendly, supportive of their peers, and would never stoop to bullying.

So, for your fanfic...

If canon was implicit that the previously bullied person wasn’t comfortable with the former bully, even after they’d apologized and shown growth, it would be problematic to portray them as a ship. Yes, technically you could go AU and explore what would have happened if they had been comfortable with them and romance was possible, but I think that would still be problematic for many people.

If canon was not explicit but implied the previously bullied person wasn’t comfortable with the former bully, even after they’d apologized and shown growth, I think you could do something with that. But I also think you’d want to really do the legwork of showing the former bully working their ass off to gain the person’s forgiveness and trust and to earn the respect of the reader. You’d have to really prove that this former bully was deeply sorry for how they behaved, show how they’ve changed, what they’ve done to make amends, and really show the other person coming around to that and genuinely forgiving them. You’d have to convince the reader that they are indeed genuinely comfortable with this person.That can’t be in question at all in your portrayal.

But, as the case seems to be, if canon doesn’t make it clear one way or another, I think you’re okay to do this without a risk of it being problematic. I think you still want to show how the person has grown, apologized, etc., and show that the other person is genuinely comfortable with them, but you’re not going against anything that’s established in canon, so you just have to build on what’s there and make your own interpretation clear.

I hope that makes sense!

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Okay so This is just a way to let out some frustration so I can put it out there and stop mulling on it bc I'm bad at this sort of stuff - Feel free to ignore it

I'm putting this under Read More; if your fav past-time is to call anyone who likes Ironwood's character or was disappointed by his V8 turn to villainy a stupid bootlicker who "should have seen the signs he was always a tyrant !!" please don't interact with this post. You're ultimately free to think what you want but honestly I see enough of that in the main tag when left alone, I don't need it on my blog it doesn't make me feel good.

Anyone else... well you can read if you're interested but you don't have to either. Feel free to respectfully disagree though, I'm not that bullheaded that I can't partake in a friendly argument =) I'll just be listing some things about Ironwood's reading by the FNDM who get old or draining as someone who doesn't like the V8-characterization they went with

Can people please stop just... copy/pasting real world issues on a world/characters that have nothing to do with them or a completely different context ?

Like,, I genuinely try to educate myself on real-world issues. I know I'm rather privileged so I try to listen and hear out people who speak out about the issues they live through day by day. I know why the "ACAB" moniker exists. I understand the problem that lies within the american police system (and likely other countries as well). I see why the army, on our blue planet, is criticized & its many failings. Etc, the list can go on...

But I'm sorry to say, Remnant isn't OUR Earth. Their Army's primary job is to fight actual evil soulless monsters, not people. The Ace Opps or Huntsmen are not an organization directly inherited from slave-hunting groups. James Ironwood isn't the US army general bombing Middle East. Clover Ebi isn't the racist cop you want in prison. So WHY are they treated as such by so many people ? Stories are not a 1-1 where you can take everything you know and just apply it to a completely different world.

Has Atlas been presented as a country that suffers from racism & classism ? Certainly. Has it be shown this way ? That's already more debatable since the only racist arguments we got were in Mantle (which is the city we're supposed to be rooting for so that's a weird choice but eh it's whatever). Are the characters, as persons, shown to evoke these issues in a way that deserve our scorn ? Not really.

Is Ironwood depicted as particularly racist for example ? I wouldn't say so seeing as one (or more considering Tortuga) of his Ace-Opps are Faunus & it seems perfectly accepted; and he hates Jacques Schnee's guts. So why does he get to shoulder all of our real-world issues as if he was responsible for them, in a context where (pre V8) his army had most likely never killed anything else than Grimm and was shown to elicit very positive reactions from most of the population (V3) ? (In direct contrast to the polarization that the US army might evoke for example.)

You can totally hate Ironwood because of the feelings he evoke, the trope he stems from or the parallels to be made. That doesn't mean however, that he IS truly guilty of every one of OUR world issues (pre-V8)

Just because classism is prevalent in Atlas society does not make Ironwood the figurehead & leader of this issue.

Is classism an issue in Atlas ? Yes. That's been made clear because of Mantle's state as well as Jacques Schnee entire existence & even Cinder's backstory. Does that mean every single one of Ironwood's decisions reeks of classism ? NO

Trust me, as someone who found Ironwood's V8 characterization not... well-executed & too much; there's nothing more annoying than being assaulted by posts about his fall going "it was so obvious !! look at -" only for them to then list reasons in a really biased way or even headcannons based on (again) irl problems. An exemple...

Reasons his turn was good that I see thrown around : "Ironwood left Mantle behind because he only wanted to save the rich. He's a selfish coward & an asshole !"

What we were actually given : "Ironwood suffers from PTSD, and faced with Salem's imminent arrival, he tried to save what he was CERTAIN to be able to protect aka the flying city and all the people on it including Mantle evacuees. There is absolutely no text backing the idea that he wanted to leave with Atlas because it's rich. We could even suppose that he would have left with the 'poor' Mantle if it was the flying city and rich people were hanging safely on the ground. There is indeed an issue with Atlas & Mantle disparity, but Ironwood isn't directly responsible for it."

Does that make his decision to leave Mantle behind a morally right one ? That's of course NOT what I'm saying. The situation is still very ambiguous. But the classism theme has NO place here.

"Ironwood leads Atlas & Mantle. As such, he inherently holds responsability for the issues plaguing it." THIS is an acceptable reading according to me. I would probably argue that even if Ironwood's the only Atlas leader we're shown; he actually only oversees the military & academy (where we haven't ever seen classism issues), so putting Atlas' classism issues on him still doesn't sound fair to me. However the idea & argument is sound.

Acknowledging only how his actions look/the tyrannical surface reading and not the reasonnable justifications or glimpses we were given (pre-V7) of Ironwood being more than his trope

I'll probably stop after this one, but the last thing that is both tiring & annoying after too much of it; is seeing people boil down all of Ironwood's character to the most basic summary, inherently written to paint him in a bad line. And then saying that everything led up to his downfall by using these watered-down versions of the show's events to justify it. Or worse (imo), saying that people who are not satisfied with his V8 characterization that THEY don't understand how good a character he is and don't really appreciate him.... All the while only ever highlighting his characters flaws. Please stop this.

"Ironwood brought an army to the peace Olympics why are you surprised he turned out this way ?" ==> Ironwood brought an army to a country where the civilians visibly have no issue with said-army, to protect a peaceful event that he KNOWS to be targeted by foes. It's definitely overzealous & his conviction that threats should be dealt with by blunt force IS one of his flaws; but pretending that he did it for fun or because he's a tyran is just as misplaced.

"Ironwood said he'd shoot Qrow if he were one of his men why are you surprised he shot Oscar ?" ==> Do I really need to flip through every joke in this show and consider it as absolute truth & proof that the character would enact these words if given the occasion; even when we're shown with certainty that they actually don't mean it ? (IW hugging Qrow to welcome him, refusing to attack Qrow when he's certain Qrow IS attacking him...)

"Ironwood has his military all over Mantle, there's a curfew, all of this is tyrannical why are you surprised he's also down for genocide" ==> Damn, it sure is criminal to have Mantle defended from the litteral monsters roaming inside & out, and to make sure with a curfew that the people are not at risk during the night. I wonder if any recent events could make us reconsider our stance on how evil a enforced curfew is. Mhmmm maybe a pandemic ? Nah I must be imagining things. For real though, at what point did Tyrian's framing/lies (IW has his soldiers all over Mantle because of politics/he's a tyran who refuses opposition) became the truth of the situation for the FDNM too ? Again Mantle's situations SUCK, and that's a problem in itself. Making up problematic reasoning for the situation is dishonest though.

To end this, I'll just make clear. I do not condone any of Ironwood's actions post-V7. I don't think he had to be the big hero of the Atlas arc. Nor that he was without faults. I merely think that he'd have been a better antagonist than villain. And that it'd have been nice to keep the ambiguity/morally greyness that surrounds him; the knowledge that he's TRYING hard to do what's best for everyone; that he has good intentions. That he cares about individuals too to a lesser degree, and that he had people who cared about him as a person.

For short... Ironwood as an antagonist with understandable issues, flaws & failures; making questionable choices but with good intentions ? Hell yeah. Ironwood as a villain, more irredeemable than Hazel, willing to kill people for NO reason or even wipe out a city ? I'm not convinced.

#rwby #rwde #rwby thoughts #rant #fndm discourse #james ironwood #pro ironwood #canoncrit ironwood

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Bakudeku (I don't like the ship just to be clear. I'm just curious about your opinion)

I’m so upset I had a whole answer to this typed out but tumblr ate it??

Okay let’s try this again. Bakudeku is interesting bc it’s a very popular ship so theres a lot of different takes on it. Tbh I do check out most popular ship tags and fics at least once to just see what’s going on bc I’m nosy like that.

There’s like three parts to my thoughts about bkdk

1) I get the appeal. Main character + angry broken man? That’s the plot of beauty and the beast. I get it. I also have “he’s broken and only I can fix him” disease

2) theyre kids?? And in canon it doesn’t make sense for them to be kissing. I’m gonna assume the best and pretend that the majority of bkdk shippers are kids themselves so let’s just leave that part alone. But in canon these are young teens just trying to stop murders and terrorism??idk it’s unclear to me. So when do they have time to kiss? The answer is never. Especially not these career motivated boys

3) I am at heart a bakugo apologist bc I too am broken and lash out at others and have both an inferiority and superiority complex. So I get it I really do. And also he was like hey deku you suck go jump off a roof. So that’s not a great foundation to kiss on. Like they can be friends sure whatever. But no thanks not for me

I get the appeal and also those are babies with issues so no thank you.

ALSO! This happens a lot with large ships in large fandoms but there’s just so much content out there where people decide deku is the submissive bottom who can’t do anything and needs to be protected?? And regardless of if it’s problematic (which it is) (but also problematic media and fandom often shake hands so that’s fine idc) it’s just out of character and not interesting story wise.

#omegaversehellscape asks #omegaversehellscape #god I hope this goes through this time #pls #tumblr don’t eat this post

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jasongracedefenseattorney · 2 years

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okay i want to talk about glee. because i’ve seen a lot of posts calling it problematic (on twitter mostly bc that’s what they do but other places too) and while yes it had aspects that weren’t great even then (like the weird almost sexual relationship between will schuester and his students and the “you’re all minorities” line) but for what tv was like in the late 2000s-early 2010s, it was pretty progressive.

*disclaimer: i haven’t watched the show in about four years so i might misremember some details.

yes the show was cringy, and i see people rip on a lot of the tropes it relies on, but it was also really really diverse. the original cast of the glee club had

a gay man from a single parent home

a plus size black woman

a jewish woman with gay parents

a disabled man

an asian woman

then with the addition of the unholy trinity and the football players you have

a teen mom

a hispanic lesbian (or bi? i don’t remember if her or brittany’s sexuality is explicitly stated)

a lesbian woman who is perceived as stupid but is actually insanely intelligent.

an asian man

a black man (although he doesn’t get many of any lines)

in later seasons (and outside the glee club), we see

a man from an extremely poor household who does sex work to help his parents make ends meet

a plus size woman

an immigrant (from ireland but still)

a man with a learning disability that we see struggle with it

a black trans woman

another gay man

a plus size man

a plus sized trans man who undergoes a full transition during the show.

an indian man

a woman with down’s syndrome who is not infantalized

2 masculine gay men

another black woman

a woman with OCD who visibly struggles with it

now very rarely if ever are most of these characters’ races, genders, or sexualities made the butt of the joke. there are bullies, but they are always portrayed as wrong. the closest we get to the writing excusing bullying is santana, who honestly dishes it out without discrimination and i believe she insults mostly appearances/behaviors in a generic sense (bad fashion sense, ugly, snobby, etc) the show also dealt with heavier topics including divorce (will and terri), parenting a disabled child (sue’s baby with down’s syndrome), death (finn), coming out to family (kurt and santana), school shooting, and in general the poor funding of the arts. also, these characters were allowed to suck! rachel was a bitch! blaine cheated on his boyfriend! lauren was a total jerk! santana was almost always borderline rude!

idk like yeah the show was really cringy and yeah there were some red flags (especially with will schuester) that got kind of overlooked, but the show in it’s entirety, while campy, was still doing a lot that some shows even now won’t do because they just collect minorities and marginalized communities like infinity stones and force them to uphold some sort of moral purity. it’s not the best show by any means, but it’s not the worst

#glee #ryan murphy #i can’t believe my life is at a point where i’m defending glee

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onbeinganangel · 3 years

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okay so @eat-yearn-cry and @tackytigerfic asked for a wee liveblog of me reading capri so i am here to embarrass myself

here are my notes from a five-ish hour reading sesh yesterday (thanks @the-starryknight for witnessing this live and sending me your fav capri art for visual references —read: thirst — as i read along)

if you think there is going to be any clever analysis here, please go somewhere else now, this is pure, unhinged screaming (i’m serious, none of this makes sense, it’s a whole mess and i redacted like 50 ‘oh my god???????’s, 30 ‘jesus/mary/joseph/christ’s and 20 ‘oh fuck’s already)

here we go

- a character list!!!! it’s like they know i have a wasteland for a brain and i’m gonna need to come back to that a million times

- okay so far we are feeling very sorry for damen but he’s fiery (big fan)

- he’s a hardheaded bastard, gimme like half an hour and i’ll probably be willing to die for him lmao

- me reading the character list and wondering why it just says ‘pet’, me three lines into the first chapter like OH PET LIKE PET PET OKAY GOT IT omfg mari

- “an astonishingly lovely face” “arrogant and unpleasant” “self-absorbed and self-serving spoilt” (it’s either a description of me or i’m in love)

- “what’s your name, sweetheart” okay FINE

- “i speak your language better than you speak mine, sweetheart” I SAID FINE (here for the polyglot representation we deserve lol)

- all of this is problematic and i shouldn’t find it hot but hey ho

- “something obscene about someone with a face like that speaking those words” indeed

- oh laurent is only twenty yikes

- boot kissing, thank you gods, mari is v pleased (also just glossing over the /bad/ because double yikes)

- unsure how to feel about Damen going off in his own language which only Laurent (?) understands and then Laurent twisting his words? is Laurent protecting himself? agreeing with Damen? which is it?

- oh

- unlacing

- oh

- flogging but of the bad kind

- okay

- if these two don’t stop calling each other sweetheart i’m calling the police

- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 🚨 omfg

- “I was on the field at Marlas” ”It’s your countryman who taught me that. You can thank him for the lesson.” ”Thank who?” ”Damianos, the dead Prince of Akielos” hahahahaha okay

- the regent is back an hes brought back the other two guys, yea? and they’re all conspiring against laurent? but laurent doesn’t like kastor???? THEREFORE, jumping to conclusions like a circus cat through hoops, DAMEN LIKES LAURENT bc if you hate the same people you’re immediately pals that’s how it works

- so we’ve got a hotheaded brunette who’s a bit of a brute with a cause and a clever snarky blonde ready to subtly fuck shit up??? idk why anyone would have thought i’d be into this

- “the aloof, untouched Laurent was at this moment delivering a precise treatise on cocksucking” STUFF JUST ESCALATES OUT OF NOWHERE IN THIS BOOK DUNNIT

- Damen asking Erasmus about how he’s treated and after the other slaves???? ”Tell me everything that has happened to you since you left Akielos” 🥺 this is it, it took me hours, but we are hERE, i am willing to die for Damen

- oh no

- oh nooooo

- i am gonna go off

- NOT ERASMUS

- protect his tiny head and beautiful curls pls i will do anything

- also fuck, not Damen promising obedience in exchange for a guarantee that the other slaves will be treated well 😭😭😭

- Laurent is a scheming little bitch and i love him

- also should have mentioned earlier but Nicaise can get fucked (considering the themes of this book i should probably consider how i express my dislike for characters but you get the point, he’s a dickhead)

- THE FORK

- torveld/erasmus, okay 🥺

- Nicaise is the regent’s pet???? ofc he is jfc the little shit

- damen is talking to torveld, the baby back in akielos is totally his, i’m calling it now

- also torveld told him he looks a bit like kastor !!!! and boy oh boy is damen shitting himself rn

- oooh hunting

- wait LAURENT IS NICE!? tbd

- also damen just admiring how fucking stunning laurent is and he’s just his type but it’s such a shame the good looks are wasted on such an unpleasant person lmao

- when you think about it, without the rape and the slavery and the violence, they just sit about on silk pillows and scheme and eat, it’s a pretty good deal

- DAMEN HAS BEEN SUMMONED TO LAURENT’S BED????? or so they say, i’m unconvinced,

- OH SHIT

- oh shit

- the boys have finally reached third base: committing murder together (first base is when you get sucked off by someone else via your lover’s strict instructions, second base is when you eat off your lover’s fingers, don’t @ me i don’t make the rules)

- so the idiot really decided it was a great idea to try to escape post murder attempt???? even though Laurent told him what would happen AND IT HAPPENED

- he’s saved!!!!!!!!!

- ”You must be the fuck of a lifetime” sir they have barely touched

- i am Nervous

- this is a fucking trip

- oh no the regent is bad and trying to fuck it all up who could have seen that coming 🙄

- okay alright so — fuck — first damen tries to escape but laurent gets him back and then they still want to arrest/kill damen but laurent defends him and then laurent wants damen to be stuck in his room for months while he’s away but then he sends for him and they’re off to war together?????? my brain isn’t here anymore sorry

- “He was dressed in Laurent’s colours, and bearing his insignia” hhhhhh i’m stupidly into this

- also Nicaise and the earring and whatvs? i’m sure there’s something there, more than Nicaise simply being an arsewipe but i can’t figure it out rn, thoughts later but he’s a shit stirring cunt i can tell you that

- SO THAT’S JUST IT!?

and this is where i messaged Starry and asked her to stop me from starting the second book at 10 to midnight, thank you Starry lmao

off to ignore my responsibilities and start the second book now

#mari reads capri #capri #cw rape #cw violence #cw slavery #(they're just mentioned i ain't going into details here but just in case you don't know what capri's main themes are...)#m babbles

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