#i see canon reality and reject it for my own

[dankmaths]

EVEN MORE

#persona 3 #persona 4 #yu narukami #souji seta #yosuke hanamura #makoto yuki #minato arisato #souyo #ryomina #mitsumina #i made SO MANY stupid doodles in 2019-2020 bro. i hate ms paint but i cant stop using it lol #minato is a short king. i reject canon and replace it with my own. SHORT KING #he lied about his height on the wiki. he's 5'2 and not 5'7. he's 5'2" and everytime you try to correct me he gets shorter. #there should be NO reality where makoto is taller than mitsuru i cant accept i. i can accept it. the canon SEES height chart is so fucked up

[mysterycitrus]

can i get a dickie...

now ur speaking MY language

Headcanon A:  realistic

dick loves kids. he loves lian, and cerdian, and irey and jai and wade, and chris and damian. he loves the younger titans and young justice. he tries to never show it, but when they turn to him first, instead of clark or bruce or diana or j'onn, it makes him feel giddy, like he's about to soar up into the stratosphere.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

dick loves lying, we know this. however he favourite activity is lying about his early days of robin, when bruce was struggling to acclimate to parenting and the world was just a little more absurd. tim tries to one up him by talking about that time santa got nuked by a sentient meteor. that's cute, dick replies, but you weren't around when bruce had to synthesise a literal cure for ugly.

is he lying? is he telling the truth? they'll never know - he's already paid off alfred, and bruce just grunts.

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

once he told roy that he couldn't make love with someone he didn't love, and that's true. but after - after, he sleeps around for the first time in his life. he knows what he looks like, he knows his own body, so it's easy. he always asks, and they always say yes. it's his choice. he's choosing this. it makes him want to rake his skin off, scream, lie down and never move again, but this is him taking back control. and if he leaves before they wake, if he cant meet his own eyes in the mirror, no one else is any wiser.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

it makes him feel terrible, selfish, and wicked - but deep down, it feels good that bruce has been trying to replace him as robin since he was fired. it feels even worse after jason dies, when that heavy weight settles on his shoulders and never quite leaves. you see! he wants to shout at bruce, you tried to get rid of me, and you've spent the rest of your life trying to get me back!

#dick grayson #nightwing #batfam #dc comics #bruce wayne #the ask and the answer #ask game

[easays]

To Ragh; or, On Fatness

Hi! Below is an actual play mini-essay. These are written as part of a personal writing practice of thinking critically about actual play. I hope you find this reading engaging and know that all I write reflects my own interpretations rather than as an official representation/canonization of these shows. Keep reading for my interpretation of Ragh Barkrock's fatness as part of queer representation in Dimension20.

Ragh Barkrock may be one of the most beloved NPCs in Dimension20. It would be easy for Ragh, a bloodrush player good enough to potentially play professionally, to be presented as hypermasculine. In fact, the freshmen year art for Ragh, when he was antagonist rather than beloved ally, showed him in a muscular, inverted Dorito shaped body typical of a jock.

He's, obviously, built, and his cut jaw and cheekbones only bolster that image. As Ragh comes to terms with being gay at the end of Fantasy High, his countenance changes. When we see him again, the new art reflects a chubbier, happier Ragh.

The show aligning weight gain with acceptance and happiness already works against prevailing stereotypes that use weight loss as a quick metaphor for improving yourself and being the "real you." Moreover, connecting Ragh's acceptance of his sexuality with what seems like a larger comfort in his own body is a strong indictment of hypermasculine gay culture. As Gabriel Arana writes, gay men "must reconcile their sense of masculinity with their failure to conform to its heterosexuality." Not doing so has negative mental health outcomes, as Arana points out, and contributes to a culture that devalues fat queer people (see the popular "no fats, no femmes, no Asians" that often is touted in masculine gay subculture).

All of this, I think, is why Ragh's art for Junior Year was particularly impactful for me as a fat queer person. If being a gay man (or half-Orc, in Ragh's case) means having to situate your life in relationship to failing compulsory masculinity, then it seems there is an inherent queer aspect to embracing, celebrating, and showcasing a beloved NPC in an explicitly fat and happy body.

FHJY Ragh art by @caitmayart

Ragh is still strong and he is still fat. His body radiates a commitment to the power of fat bodies to exist in spaces they are often violently unwelcome in, such as gyms. Existing in gyms and sports spaces as fat people means dealing the "impossible standard that rejects nearly all of us" and upholds a diet culture rooted in impossible, Eurocentric and colonial body standards. In TTRPGS or actual plays, there is a unique opportunity to think about how bodies might exist in worlds different from ours, to imagine bodyminds as otherwise. However, as queer critics like Paul Preciado have noted, sci-fi and fantasy representations of cyborgs and other transformative bodies often lean into "fixing" disabled people or moving gender nonconforming bodies more easily towards technologies upholding a normative standard rather than questioning the standard all together.

Spyre is a world that deals with similar issues to ours, even without direct one-to-one correlations, so it, too, is a place where the narrative and artistic choices should be examined in how it helps us interpolate the world the audience resides in. From the Applebees cultish adherence to a deity-based nationalism to the various representations of parental neglect and abuse and every side story in-between, Dimension20's flagship show does not shy away from difficult realities even when recasting them through fantasy. Ragh, as a half-orc gay son of a disabled single mother, then, I see the arc his fat body goes through as meaningful and intertwined with his self-acceptance and queerness. He moves away from the toxic masculinity engineered into his blood rush team to instead pursue coalition comraderie with his friends to the point that he and his mother end up joining a communal living situation with those friends and their parents. Ragh's body expands as his family does, as his ties to community do, and to me, the gift of his fatness is the invitation to expansion that it holds out to us as viewers.

#dimension 20 #actual play #fantasy high: junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #ragh barkrock #lydia barkrock #brennan lee mulligan #emily axford #lou wilson #zac oyama #siobhan thompson #ally beardsley #brian murphy #riz gukgak #kristen applebees #fabian seacaster #adaine abernant #gorgug thistlespring #figeroth faeth

[mothmanssweetsucculentass]

Ok here’s my two cents that no one asked for on the current (sort of?) debate going on in the Creepypasta fandom on here rn.

For starters, I grew up with Creepypasta. I also grew up mentally ill. I am also autistic. So I know my way around good and bad mental health rep at this point. And to be honest? A lot of the original stories DID suck balls at representation or just horror writing in general.

However, nowadays I see other people on here, often mentally ill or any other social outcast, taking these characters and reshaping them as their own to fit their own feelings and experiences, and I don’t think anyone has the authority to criticize things like that. Cringe culture is supposed to be dead anyways, nevermind the fact it’s inherently ableist at its core.

We also need to take into account kids still exist in the fandom. Pre teens who got tired of shit like scooby doo and wanted something more “mature” or “edgy” to get into without fully going off the deep end into full blown horror movies. At least that’s how it was for me. Not everyone, especially someone who’s younger, is gonna be comfortable with the grit and gore a lot of Creepypasta “purists” are pushing for these days, and that’s okay! When a fandom gets popular it’s always inevitable and unavoidable to have the popular characters get two dimensionalized.

There’s also the whole mascot horror thing that I don’t wanna get into, but I’m 90% sure that also plays a part in the old favorites like Jeff and slenderman being brought up again. They were and still are recognizable characters. Recognizable characters aren’t a bad thing. Making horror more approachable for younger audiences isn’t a bad thing. People having their own interpretations based out of their own experiences isn’t a bad thing.

Some of us grew up and wanted the more edgy and reality based content, and that’s also not a bad thing! But neither side should be dictating or policing how the other enjoys content in this fandom. If you personally don’t like the way something is written, characterized, depicted, or drawn, no one’s forcing you to look at it. No one’s claiming it as canon. No one’s asking for you to accept it as the end all be all.

At the end of the day this fandom was built on OCs and personal depictions of stuff. I can’t name a single character or story in this community that was created by some outside party like a movie or TV studio FIRST (because I know some got so popular they breached the fandom and got their own shows/movies/comics/etc). Everything here was created by someone who wanted an outlet for their creativity, or their pain, or their coping, or whatever else.

Realism and dark headcanons aren’t bad, and neither are any of the headcanons out there who just wanna make a goofy found family of social rejects as a form of escapism.

A 13 year old drawing a fictional layout of a fictional mansion where these fictional characters live isn’t going to suddenly invalidate the horror, I promise, it’s not that deep and it never was.

A 22 year old making a dark comic on the realistic origins of Jeff who is a fictional character in a fictional world isn’t going to suddenly invalidate the more softhearted side of the fandom.

Sure, there can still be a split if people are so adamant about that, but as someone who personally enjoys both the brutal horror side and the “haha Jeff is 15 and gay” sides equally, y’all need to at least learn to be civil to anyone who has a different headcanon than you. And if that seems like too much still, the block button exists for a reason.

TL:DR this fandom is based entirely off OCs and headcanons and people can do whatever the fuck they want because none of it is real and horror comes in many shapes and sizes and intensities and no one should be bashing anyone on their headcanons or views or rewrites or whatever else.

EDIT:

Actually wait I think I have more to say-

Horror, like any genre, has NO AGE LIMIT. And by that I mean, if someone younger wants to delve into scary stuff, they should be allowed to do so without criticism. I personally grew up on “child friendly” horror media like Scooby-Doo, and the older I got the more horror I wanted to experience.

There’s no right or wrong way to “understand” horror, and I frankly think it’s ignorant and stupid to say if you don’t fully “understand” something, then you shouldn’t be involved in it at all. Horror isn’t always about gore and unspeakable violence and the eldritch entity that wants everyone’s skin inside out. That’s why horror has sub genres for fucks sake. Gut wrenching brutality against innocent people isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and that’s okay!

However, bashing anyone’s tamer headcanons, or calling anything anyone interprets differently than you “stupid”, that’s not okay. God, I feel like an exhausted parent giving this lecture to fellow adults, but this really needs to be said and stressed.

I am an adult. I like when stuff in the fandom takes a dark turn. But for nostalgia’s sake, I also love the fanon so much, because that’s what I was exposed to.

And for fucks sake if it comes down to picking sides, I would rather stick with the part of this fandom that gives zero shits how you see a character as long as you’re having fun.

You can have your serial killer 30 year old Jeff and your canon-accurate-to-that-one-image eyeless Jack, but don’t shit on other people if they don’t want the same thing. Your interpretation isn’t canon, and neither is anyone else’s for that matter.

Realistic, dark, gritty Creepypasta isn’t a new concept, and neither is “adult” Creepypasta. And by the way, Creepypasta was never stated to be for adults. That’s like saying kids and only kids can eat trix cereal. It sounds that stupid on paper.

Let people interpret things the way they wanna interpret. No one is infringing on YOUR character ideas. Creepypasta has no age limit, nor a set way the horror has to be presented. Those who do continue to claim that just sound like pretentious assholes.

Very small side note, I personally think it’s inappropriate and rude to keep using Toby as a “bad example” of mental health rep when the creator has stated multiple times the character is old, not researched, and not even in the fandom anymore. Leave the poor guy alone.

#creepypasta #creepypasta fandom #jeff the killer #rant #I’m not a professional in anything don’t @ me #I’ve just been here for years #so I at the very least partially know what I’m talking about #I personally think this purist mindset and behavior is bs if you go and attack other creators #just be nice to people Ohmygod #update #eyeless Jack #slenderman

[mamawasatesttube]

core four for the hc ask game! (or if that’s too many, just cassie please) 💜

i will simply do core four as a collective!! ♥

Headcanon A:  realistic

kon is the dog they put in with the cheetahs to keep them from going fucking insane. tim cassie and bart are the cheetahs.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

they all imprinted on nightwing like ducklings and tim cant decide whether to be smug or mad about it. on the one hand, hell yeah nightwing is the coolest!!! do you wanna join his nightwing fanclub he's president and everyone can have matching t-shirts. on the other hand. guys stop it he's not actually cool i've seen him eat cold pizza off the floor. guys this is cringe. guys that's MY big brother stop stealing him. dick those are MY besties stop stealing them. GUYS...

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

tim and cassie have to work through their shiny brand-new extreme anxiety complexes around kon and bart being on the field again after their resurrections. bart actually gets a little upset with them both for being overprotective, at one point. (this is canon to an extent in that it is a factor in the koncassie breakup, but i think we can do more with it!)

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

they are all in their 20s at this point. the first year she actually got a job, cassie realized she had no idea what she was doing and freaked out and phoned up tim like "HOW DO I FILE TAXES????" and he got so excited to do them for her that it broke through her mild panic because hey. tim? what's wrong with you. he says its just satisfying to see the numbers all line up.

#answers #tellthemhowihope #core four #tim #kon #cassie #bart

[saintsenara]

Opinions on Tonks/Snape?

thank you very much for the ask, anon!

here's where i confess that i've got quite a soft spot for stonks as a ship - and not just because of that ship name - because it's a great vehicle for one of my favourite post-war questions: how the hell do you put a life together in peacetime if you never expected to have survived the final battle?

that this would apply to snape is obvious - it's pretty clear in canon that [much like harry] his experience of the entire period 1981-1998 is that he's following a script written for him by dumbledore which he believes [and, i suspect, hopes] will end in his own annihilation. while i don't think he imagines dying in the exact way he does [and while a hill i will die on is that dumbledore tried as best as he could to arrange things so that snape would survive], i think the only post-war survival scenario he envisions for himself is a lifetime rotting in azkaban, continuing to punish himself and consider himself unworthy of absolution for his role in lily's death.

but - perhaps more controversially - i also think that this can be said to apply to tonks. while i would absolutely reject the suggestion that she would have imagined herself dying because she was a bad mother, i think that several things she says in deathly hallows - above all her recognition that she's locked into a battle to the death with bellatrix - would lead to her sharing the view lupin's shade expresses to harry when he summons him with the resurrection stone: that the greatest act of love she can show her son is to die for a world in which he can live freely.

[and i also think - indeed i am convinced of it - that she also thinks it's her duty to die trying to off bellatrix because her decision to join the order means that andromeda and ted's safety in the first war - something voldemort can be plausibly said to grant at bellatrix's request on the proviso that they keep their heads down and their mouths shut - is forfeit in the second.]

the post-war tonks - a widow at twenty-five, navigating life as a single mother to a tiny baby, dealing with her own cavernous grief over the loss of her father and her mother's grief over the loss of her husband - can be written about really interestingly as someone who's unmoored within her new life and looking for something - anything - to anchor herself.

and a snape who survives nagini is a really interesting tool in all sorts of post-war ships [snarry and snack chief among them] in how he serves as a connection to a lost generation. and, in this case, he is the only person tonks will know who - no matter how negative his assessment of him - actually knew lupin well.

and it's so clear that tonks' relationship with lupin in canon was shaped by her searching for answers about him which he kept hidden behind the mask of his own self-loathing. i can absolutely see her being devastated at the knowledge that his death means that she finds herself with no chance of ever actually uncovering the reality of him, and i can see this leading her to snape's hospital bedside out of a desire to grasp at someone - anyone - who might help her fill in those gaps.

but tonks is also clearly very bolshy and very brave - two traits you need to help you survive grieving the loss of one love and still have room to chase after another.

she's also clearly very curious and very kind. and so i think she's the order member - other than harry - who would be most able to accept the fact that snape was on their side all along and to believe that he should be pardoned. i think snape would find that show of trust in him terrifying - obviously - and i think he'd go out of his way to push her away as a result. but she's got plenty of prior experience at dealing with emotionally constipated men...

and i think you can make a very credible case for the idea that snape must genuinely quite like tonks. i think it's often overlooked just how clever she must be to be admitted as an auror, and how one of the areas in which she would have been required to be clever was potions. she's also clearly one of the youngest people in the role, and her position as a junior auror who ends up doing far more for the war effort than many of her seniors mirrors snape's experience as the youngest teacher at hogwarts. i also think her shock at just how horrible to her snape is in half-blood prince when he mocks her new patronus can be read as evidence that, during the order of the phoenix timeline, she and snape had a cordial relationship. and cordial for snape is transcendentally fond for anyone else...

[plus, his disappointment in her being interested in lupin is clearly because she's someone he respects - if he didn't think she was far too good for lupin, he wouldn't have bothered saying anything.]

i genuinely think you can do something lovely with the two of them initially coming together because they view the other as a life raft in a world they don't think really belongs to them, but then something which looks a lot like dry - and stable - land coming into view as they realise they have more than that in common.

snape's terrified, obviously, but tonks is a woman who understands how to go with the flow. she'll follow love where it takes her - no matter the obstacles she finds in the way - and he's going to have no choice but to come along for the ride.

#asks answered #asenora's opinions on ships #stonks #severus snape #nymphadora tonks

[scintillyyy]

I'm having trouble choosing between Dick and Tim for the ask game, so instead, I choose Janet!

janetttt <3

Headcanon A: realistic

janet spoke to divorce lawyers three times in her marriage. once was a few months after the circus when her and jack's marriage first started to break down because jack checked out emotionally from the marriage after witnessing the death of the graysons. the second was when tim was 9, they got in a bad fight over jack's tendency to make deals and promises for the company at the gentleman's club without consulting her. the last was the last time they were home before their final trip. they'd long since moved into separate rooms. if they weren't fighting, they weren't talking. what kind of marriage was that? but she hesitated when it came time to actually file. the finality of it scared her, a bit. janet loved her family, after all. should she really upheave her entire life, or could they work it out one last time? if she gets divorced, she has to start everything all over again. she decided trying to save things was worth one last shot.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

janet was big into babywearing when tim was an infant! it's how she could be the woman who could do it all--work & mothering. she had a ring sling with fabric made of vicuña and cashmere. it worked for a few months up until tim learned how to crawl & then there was no keeping him in any sort of carrier without very loud protest & all her meticulous plans to supervise her digs with tim on her back came crashing down to the ground where the fabric of her fancy ring sling also lay, trampled on by her toddler's feet.

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

bruce never told tim, but it was very easy to transfer him from boarding school to public school during the time he fostered tim while jack was in a coma. when bruce called the boarding school to get tim's school records transferred over to gotham heights high and cancel the enrollment in boarding school for next semester, the office informed him that there was no need to--his mother had already done exaxtly that about a month before her death.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

janet had started writing a book before she died about the history of gotham city. she was about 80% done with her manuscript. tim found it among his dad's belongings. tim gets the great idea he's going to finish it. it doesn't go well & he fails miserably. helena finds it, along with all of tim's scribbled notes, one day while she's at the nest to talk to him about a case, and can clearly tell he's struggling with it. she remembers that a coworker of hers has been trying to get published with a book of his own, but hasn't been able to get his foot in the door with any publishing companies. she surreptitiously leaves tim his name & contact info by the manuscript.

a few days later, the wayne foundation reaches out to her coworker--they're looking for someone to finish and clean up janet drake's book for publishing. they're offering a chance to get his foot in the door & some pretty sweet publishing connections if he takes them up on their offer. he gladly does, and janet drake's posthumous book tops the nonfiction bestseller list for weeks & helena's coworker scores a 3 book deal of his own. helena's just glad to see her coworker finally get the chance he deserves & to see tim happy. tim builds her a very sweet huntress car for her help. it's perfect. except for the fact that he gave it the license plate "P0P3MBL"

#scintilly ask tag #omnivorouspastry

[tothepointofinsanity]

what schizoid traits do you see in sayaka?

Ah, I think that Sayaka is canonically closer to a BPD interpretation, so the schizoid traits I see in her are more comorbid with the latter itself. Personally, however, it is more so of my own comfort to headcanon Sayaka as "schizoid" because of the themes of her alienation. Sayaka struggles with reconnecting with others and forming relationships that she desires, all the while isolating herself further and further away from her childhood best friend, Madoka. There are also codes of apathy and indifference regarding how she perceives her own body (a corpse) as an inhuman mobile, and how she eventually succumbs to her loneliness, a sentiment that carries over even to her witch form. As Oktavia, she drowns out reality by confining herself in a world she created - being in the centre of attention on a stage, something that she would not have achieved in the "human" reality. I think how Sayaka perceives reality and how she fails to be in tune with other magical girls is the biggest buzzer here. A person so out of place among even those with magic (as she is inexperienced, unstable and regarded as ineffective compared to the rest of the Holy Quintet), yet rejected as a human with the idea that she is inherently undesirable and unlovable, which perpetuates her mechanisms of "I can't be loved because I am not human and therefore I will not maintain any meaningful relationships".

As opposed to explicit traits, I feel that there are "codes" with her character/arc which resonate with my experiences more.

#sayaka casually leaning to the bpd and schizotypal compass ig #schizoid sayaka is more of a me interpretation because i think people can agree that her bpd codes are much stronger #but im comorbid for both so this is definitely very fun for me and her #ASKS 💌 #genuinely sorry if this is incoherent i just Believe more than i Think #also the whole sequence with elsa maria really feels like a schizomoment she is Literally Me/lh

[phoebe-delia]

cw: discussion of canon-typical prejudice/blood purity/racism

I have a developing headcanon about Draco.

So I think Lucius is a piece of shit father, right? Very cold and mean and distant, and controlling. He showers Draco with gifts, but not affection, you get the gist.

But Lucius’s father, Draco’s paternal grandfather, is very different. He’s warm with Draco. He's kind. Doesn’t get angry when Draco draws on the walls, or has an episode of accidental magic, or doesn’t get the highest grade. Maybe Lucius was impacted by his mother to be the way he was, or became that way for some other reason. Or maybe his father is just better at being a grandfather than he was a father.

Regardless, Draco grows up not idolizing his mean, harsh, demanding father, but his doting, loving, patient grandfather.

His grandfather is also a raging, horrible racist/pureblood supremacist.

His grandfather sits Draco on his knee and tells him how wonderful he is, how special and "pure." He shows his prejudice in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Draco hears him rant about blood purity shit at the dinner table. When they're in public, he notices his grandfather steer him away from anyone who he might know or assume to be a non-pureblood. The grandfather dies before the war, let's say like 4th year, but he has a BIG impact on Draco.

So Draco doesn’t (only) get his blood supremacy/racism from his father (and mother). He also gets it from his grandfather.

I think I like this headcanon because—while it's not at all easy to unlearn prejudices one sees modeled from basically birth—it's probably made a bit easier when the person you learned it from is also someone you don't like when you get older. I don't see Draco liking Lucius all that much; sure he has love for him, but even in the small scenes where we see how Lucius treats Draco, it's clear that, at the very least, he's not very nice to his son. And, in my own head, Draco doesn't have a good relationship with him, pretty much ever. So maybe, in a universe that only presents Draco's relationship with his parents, Draco could have an easier time in adulthood recognizing that he'd been indoctrinated into the blood supremacist ideology; it could be compatible with an overall rejection of his parents.

But in this headcanon, where Draco learned and saw a lot of that prejudice modeled for him in someone who showed him seemingly unconditional love and kindness and affection, how hard is that for him to grapple with? That's a reality for a lot of people; coming to terms with the fact that someone you love—someone who's nice to you—isn't "nice" to people who aren't like you. And that everything they taught you about that was wrong.

Which brings me to Drarry. Because in a Drarry universe—which is endgame in just about every universe I wanna explore—Draco would fall in love with someone who his grandfather would've hated.

Give me a Draco who has to realize that someone with whom he didn't have a complicated, toxic relationship, was also a shitty person, and that he would've HATED the person he loves.

#cw: discussion of canon-typical prejudice/blood purity/racism #draco malfoy #harry potter #drarry #headcanon

[dross-the-fish]

its just sad that both Victor and Henry (victor) didn't gave a name to the creature for different reasons... While Henry wasn't given the time to teach and to actually name it, I don't think canon Victor would want to name Adam after his "failure". But aside from Adam, the movie creature didn't have yet the intelligence to actually name himself :( he was in forever the states of the beginning of book Adam.

This ask is pretty old but I've been giving it some thought. I have my own headcanons for why Victor refused to name Adam. Aside from the most obvious interpretation, that Victor had rejected his work and did not want to assign personhood to his creature by naming him or that he was dodging his responsibility I think he also didn't want to give Adam any kind of name because when you name something you make it "real"

For Victor to be the one to give the creature a name is to acknowledge that he is, in fact, Victor's own creature and I feel like that's just not something Victor is ever able to fully face. When he first sees the creature he falls ill but after he gets better he doesn't check up on his creation, he tries to put it from his mind and move on with his life. The creature is not "real" to Victor he is something to be quietly abandoned and never thought of or spoken of again.

Something about acknowledging his creation hurts him and he has an extreme aversion to connecting with him. It's almost like he doesn't want to believe he made the creature at all. Despite Creech being ugly he's still a miracle of science and in many ways he's everything Victor was trying achieve, but Victor can't see past his own depression and his own shortcomings as a creator and I believe if he let himself name the creature he'd grow to feel guilty. The fantasy of creation and the bloody, disgusting, reality are such drastically different experiences that Victor can't cope.

I tend to think of Victor as a parent who can't handle the reality that his child is deformed. Who was too young to be a parent in the first place and didn't know what to do when he gave birth to a child he couldn't find it in him to love.

My interpretation is that Victor never gives the creature a name because he doesn't want to think of him at all. Because what Victor wishes is that the creature had never been born at all and once he names him he irreversibly creates a tie that will connect him to his creation forever.

It's unfortunate for both of them that the creature refuses to be ignored. He is an inescapable reality that isolates Victor from his friends and family until Victor has no choice but to revolve around the creature. Through Victor's lens there's something that feels parasitic about the way Adam refuses to let go of Victor and continually makes demands. Victor cannot escape what he created no matter how much it hurts him or how much it costs him. It's almost how a teenage mother might view an unwanted and unexpected child, a needful thing that demands constantly, isolates them from friends and family and can give little in return to a parent that didn't really want children but didn't realize it until it was too late.

"You are my creator but I am your master, obey!" you can't ignore a screaming infant, it will just get louder until you feed it, you are subject to its every whim and if you neglect your child you will be condemned for it. Victor doesn't name the creature, he doesn't tell anyone about the creature except Walton at the very end of his life. Victor is terrified of how others will judge him when they find out about the creature. Through out the book it's obvious that the horror Victor is experiencing is the horror of a parent who wasn't ready to bring any child into the world, much less a deformed child that can never fulfill the hopes and dreams its parent had for it.

#Rambling about Frankenstein #I just have a lot of thoughts about Frankenstein ok #Frankenstein

[novafire-is-thinking]

(If you're still doing the headcanons) Chromedome?

Headcanon A: realistic

Sometimes, Chromedome’s old conjunxes show up in his dreams. They repeatedly show up in small roles, but he fails to recognize them even though they feel oddly familiar.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Back in the day, Chromedome used to carry around a dart gun with him; he would shoot Prowl every time he was annoyed or just wanted to be annoying.

Prowl would sometimes walk around with stray suction darts in hard-to-see places, and wouldn’t realize it until someone pointed it out or laughed and pointed at him.

Soon, Chromedome was getting the same treatment by Prowl’s personal dart gun. lol

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

After Rewind’s death, Chromedome gradually isolates himself from everyone. Eventually, he disappears, and no one can find him.

One day, Prowl receives a message. It’s Chromedome, who explains that his health is declining. All those years of mnemosurgery are catching up to him, and his mind is failing.

CD doesn’t say it outright, but he wants Prowl to be there for him until the end. Does he still hate him? Of course. But that’s the point: he doesn’t want anyone important to him to witness him slowly losing his mind. He’s counting on Prowl to feel just sentimental enough to come to his aid, yet detached enough that he won’t fall apart when the inevitable happens.

Remarkably, Prowl shows up—ready to be there for Chromedome.

Old hurts inevitably rise to the surface. They fight. They laugh. They fight again. Chromedome kicks Prowl out a few times.

But Prowl keeps coming back.

Eventually, Chromedome’s condition declines to the point where he’s nearly catatonic, and can’t tell the difference between reality, his personal memories, and acquired memories. Prowl can no longer leave CD alone.

Prowl does his best to keep Chromedome comfortable. He ends up confessing the majority of his crimes to Chromedome, since CD can’t tell the difference between reality and memory anymore.

One night, during a final moment of lucidity, Chromedome types up a note to Prowl while he’s asleep.

The next morning, Prowl wakes up and finds the note on a datapad under Chromedome’s lifeless hand:

“Nice stories, asshole.

You were my favorite person to hate all these years.

Good luck.”

Prowl saves the note. He personally oversees the removal of CD’s body and registers the death. Chromedome is buried next to Rewind. There’s no funeral; just Prowl saying his goodbyes.

The only way anyone else from CD’s past finds out about his passing is by doing a search on Cybertron’s death record database or by visiting Rewind’s grave. After the shock wears off, they wonder what happened and how he spent his last days.

Prowl tells no one. He takes the secret to his grave.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

Chromedome Tumbler once looked up to Pharma.

In fact, judging from the fact that Tumbler wasn’t bothered by Prowl’s arrogance, bluntness, and know-it-all attitude, I’m going to say that, at the time, he got along with Pharma better than anyone else (besides Ratchet). After all, JRo made it a point to show Pharma addressing him by name at least once.

Happy to have someone who did more than tolerate his presence out of politeness, Pharma would take the time to listen to Tumbler. Amongst other things, Tumbler would talk about the latest developments in mnemosurgery. Trepan certainly wasn’t going to share any of that.

Tumbler discovered that if someone gained Pharma’s respect or fondness, the doc was weirdly good at giving advice, or at least saying things that could be translated to helpful advice. In fact, Pharma was the one to give Tumbler the final push needed to leave the New Institute.

While recovering from his run-in with Overlord, in a moment of vulnerability, Tumbler confessed to Pharma that his spark was no longer in his work at the New Institute, and that he was considering quitting and starting over.

Always one to follow his own passion to the point of obsession, Pharma didn’t hesitate to tell Tumbler he should go through with it (1) if he had a practical plan to transition to something else, and (2) if it was what he really wanted.

After all, the war was only beginning, and they’d all need to find things to give them reasons to hold on…

#wasn’t planning on going this far for Chromedome since I don’t think about him a lot #but once I got started I couldn’t stop #had to dig into my own memories of dying people for this one #thanks anon for making me think about a character I don’t think of often /genuine #headcanons with nova

[mysterycitrus]

kory for the character ask if you're still doing it/she hasn't been asked already!!

Headcanon A:  realistic

the same as clark, flowers turn to face her as she walks by. standing in her gaze is like being basked by the sun. as she cradles seeds in her palm they sprout to life, unfurling into lush green buds. her hair shimmers, like aspalt on a hot summer's day. when it rains, the water catches on her skin and casts tiny fractals of coloured light in the air. the world is in awe of her. when you stand too close, you feel you hair stand on end. when you kiss her, it is like drinking liquid gold.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

if she wants to, she looms. she's six foot four on a bad day, and even taller with heels. her hair adds another half foot. she is honest and has nothing to hide and it's easy to mistake that for naïveté, but she takes great pleasure in standing over people and peering down at them from her great height. to bruce wayne, especially. he recoils from her light, glaring at her beneath his cowl. she steps on his toes, hits him with the shoulder of her armour, throws her hair back in his face.

"sorry," she says so sweetly, and smiles with all her teeth. "i didn't see you there."

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

when she looks up at the sky, she can still see tamaran burning. its light will not disappear for the next ten thousand years. everything that ever was now must live through her. the weight of it threatens to swallow her whole. she loves earth and its people, she loves the titans and her new family and the people who care for her here, but she is still so afraid - what do they truly think of her? do they look at her and see someone subhuman, someone undeserving of respect, someone whose passion and rage is less-than, and unworthy of honour? is she a creature so hurt from her time in the citadel, so consumed by everything she has lost, that they fear what she is unafraid to do? the action she will take to protect those she cares about?

they do not, of course. they see her as someone so full of love.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

on tamaran, braids were a sign of status. hours were spent weaving gemstones and beads and crystals through the strands. stories of victory were told through the woven patterns. it is so important that this history is not lost. donna is the first to learn, then dick, then rachel and karen and lilith. she'll sit on the floor in the tower as they patiently brush out her curls and begin to weave. one hot afternoon, she walks into a quiet salon and leaves with twists piled high on her head. as she pays, the stylist kisses both her cheeks and holds their hands together. it is not forgotten, is said unspoken, here, it lives on in you.

she makes sure to leave a tip.

#she's my babygirl #starfire #koriand'r #teen titans #dc comics #the ask and the answer #ask game #sorry i forgot about vic 😭

[gretahayes]

kon el?

Headcanon A: realistic

kon has doesn’t dress particularly alt or punk. superboy does, but kon el goes for bland, unremarkable, and respectable. he just...doesn’t see the need to use clothes to express himself. he’s content for the eye to skip over him

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

lois gets him a trans flag patch for his jacket & he’s like "what country is this?" and lois is like "australia" and he’s like "oh okay" and it takes him several weeks to figure it out because lois wouldn’t lie to him :) (she does so often). then when he was like "you lied to me :(" she’s like "sorry. it’s new zealand" and he was like "oh! okay"

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

kon is heart-crushing enough, but umm i like to think that kon never fully stops being easily trusting and thus easy to manipulate. he believes people are good. the fire burns him and he still thinks the next time it won’t. it always does.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

i don’t think kon ever grows to be as big as clark, both height and bulk wise. he caps at maybe 6 foot, and that’s a stretch even.

(ask game)

#asks #ask game

[ferretwhomst]

rick. bc i know nothing about him 😇

HEHAHAHAHA HI AUGUST

Headcanon A: realistic i'm not sure what defines "realistic" here but i'll just say he SUCKS ASS at emotional regulation. my guy is running around for half the show with 50 undiagnosed disorders (which as per my hcs includeee autism (technically canon, but still worth a mention), depression, bpd and probably ptsd) and is not coping with them well at all also another thing i hc is that he picks his skin a LOT (especially scabs/scars and otherwise like. rough bits of skin) and has since he was a kid. he did it back then because he needed some kind of outlet for extra bursts of energy, and then it just kinda became a really bad habit. and now because he can probably just get rid of scars via Funny Science that allows him to do it even more because "oh i can just fix it anyway what does it matter" if that makes sense. get this man some fucking fidget toys

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious a couple weeks ago my wief joked that he doesn't actually have alcohol in that flask of his anymore, it's just his fucking drool recycled over and over again. and if that isn't the most disgusting thing i've ever heard in my LIFE LMAO (i say as if it didnt make me laugh unnecessarily hard for like 5 minutes. also hi wife if youre seeing this)

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends i don't think i can tell you any of these this early in the show </3 you will have to wait a little while before i can supply you with Angst Thoughts </3............ (also like i said to you on discord it'd take so much background explaining before i get to the actual headcanons.) soon though. soon >:)

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own. i've never talked about how i imagine stan and rick met on here have i. i like to think his portal gun broke/ran out of juice somehow and he happened to get stuck somewhere stan happened to be staying at the time. which is a pretty common interpretation so far, i think! but the kicker is that rick's first impression of stan is getting pickpocketed by him, so the first things they say about each other ever are "MOTHERFUCKER- GIVE ME MY WALLET BACK!!" and "HAHAAA CATCH YA LATER CHUMP". this is canon to me <3<3<3 (also it feels fitting to have a deeply volatile and fucked up relationship such as theirs start off with a Fucking Robbery)

#can you tell i think a lot about the stanchez “meet cute” #it's so stupid (affectionate) #asks #ask game #friend tag <3 #ferret rambles #rick and morty #rick sanchez #stan pines #stanchez

[bat-besties]

cass!!!!

Headcanon A:  realistic 

Picky eater. She’s able to eat a lot of different foods, after being homeless for many years, but I think now she has a choice, she has a fairly specific diet. She likes things which are salty and spicy, and of course chocolate as a treat. She especially enjoys instant ramen (thanks to Babs) or fast food which tastes exactly the same every time.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Knows from the moment they met that Steph has a crush on her. Sometimes does the things she knows will increase Steph’s heart rate, like pinning her down when they spar. Has no clue this indicates she has a crush back, she thinks she’s just messing with Steph. 

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

I do think she has specific triggers around the murder she committed as a child, but she doesn’t have the self-awareness to necessarily understand them. Cass knows that the sight of fussy little party dresses makes her feel hot and adrenaline-filled and like she wants to punch something, but she doesn’t dwell on it beyond thinking they just make her angry because they’re stupid. If Barbara happened to make the connection, maybe if the two went to The Nutcracker together for Christmas and Cass got so antsy she had to leave, she’d shrug Babs off as reading too much into things, as usual. 

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

While she was alone, I do think Cass made connections in her “lost years” across China, Vietnam and the US. She couldn’t communicate with them much, but I can see her teaching another homeless kid to throw a punch, or always being given a free hot dog by a street vendor, or being intrigued by a tai chi class of elderly people in a park. She doesn’t know what happened to any of these people - she doesn’t even know their names, and even if she did so many of them had already slipped off any official records. She doesn’t know how the vendor sometimes thinks about her just appearing behind him without warning, or how a grandchild doesn’t believe the story of the little girl dressed in black who moved like she had perfect control of every part of her body.

#thanks for the ask!!! #cass cain #emotionally unaware queen #the thing is cass has a very strong moral compass and has genuinely reflected on that #and is very certain about what she wants to *be* as with her perfect for a year thing #so those big things can hide that on small levels she does not like being introspective or other people commenting on her emotions

[mamawasatesttube]

You know I'm gonna ask for your Kon headcanons. Or if that's too basic, I'd love to hear some headcanons for Kara Zor-El

how about... BOTH of them together? the cousins ever!!!

Headcanon A:  realistic

they start hanging out after kon's resurrection and the destruction of new krypton. kara's feeling so lost for so long, and kon's trying to figure out who he is, and they're both family. he teaches her about earth and she teaches him about krypton. they talk through their grief about it and how out of place they both feel in different ways. they go to the arcade together and just vibe. it's good for them both!

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

kara has a hot temper and a protective streak. she's already pissed enough about the way cat grant wrote about her; one day she and kon are just like, at panera bread or whatever as conner kent and linda lang, and she overhears someone talking shit about superboy. conner has to throw linda over his shoulder and haul ass out of there before she starts throwing furniture. please linda i appreciate it you are SO sweet but i don't wanna get banned from panera bread

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

when i first read new krypton arc and zor-el snapped kara's glasses saying she didnt need to be linda lang anymore, i honestly thought those were kon's glasses and was devastated. like, in canon she says hey i just bought those! but i think it's so much worse if they were the pair of kon's glasses that tim gave her.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

kara hangs out in smallville sometimes just to see kon and ma and krypto! she meets kon's smallville friends too (and maybe kisses lori luthor behind the old silo. i mean what)

#answers #the-dracologist #kon #kara