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t1meslayer · 4 months
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I wound up getting scheduled later at work today, which means unfortunately there is no time to pull my next Pokemon Scarlet and Violet fic together as I'd originally planned.
So, have a little teaser of the Kitakami siblings in the meantime!
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The older sister tenses. She pivots on her heels to face Kieran directly, nostrils flaring. With two strides, she’s on top of him, fists shaking in a boxer’s stance.
“Don’t blow this for me, Kiki.” Her words hiss through clenched teeth.
Kieran instinctively flinches at her broiling quiver. Then, he just as quickly returns to a neutral stance, and meets his sister’s eyes with a deadened gaze.
“… It would probably be easier if you just, like, talked to her.” He pushes in his hip with a bent arm. “You do know that's an option, right?”
Carmine’s fury is extinguished. She stares dumbfounded.
A quick glance to Nemona shows the Paldean girl staring off in the middle distance again, holding a visor hand over her eyes.
“I am NOT taking relationship advice from my younger brother right now,” Carmine grumbles. “Especially after the month you’ve had.”
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extremereader · 5 months
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I see your "characters watch the show" fanfics and raise you this:
Characters read the fanfiction.
Not the smutty stuff, but, like, the roleswaps. The in-depth character dives. The "what ifs?" Stuff like that.
Imagine Marinette and Adrien reading Scarlet Lady. Imagine Luz reading all the fanfiction where Belos is her dad. IMAGINE ELSA AND ANNA READING THE ICE SKATER AUS.
(not even going near the shipping because holy shit they'd be traumatized)
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iammyownsaviour · 1 year
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Marvel Femslash Week 2023
"I'm sorry, I should be taking care of you but these days it seems more like you're taking care of me." - Wanda Maximoff | Scarlet Witch/Jane Foster | Almighty Thor
wc: 416 | ao3 | marvel femslash week (@marvelfemslashweek): day 2, hurt | marvel rare pair bingo (@marvelrarepairbingo): cuddling | fandom: mcu - doctor strange in the multiverse of madness, thor: love and thunder | rating: teen and up | tags: femslash, established relationship, angst, hurt/comfort, mentions of cancer, post-doctor strange in the multiverse of madness, canon divergence-thor: love and thunder,
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gameguy20100 · 11 months
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The problem with the creator of Scarlet Lady is the same problem with every other salter: it's not what they believe, it's what they DON'T believe. In the case of Scarlet Lady's creator, her problem is that she has no beliefs, opinions, or worldviews that might theoretically be "inconvenient" for her, that might get in the way of something she wants, cause her to occasionally lose a confrontation, etc. It's like she wants a sports game to be fair, but "fair" means Her Team Never Has to Lose.
I'm withholding judgement about her because I don't know her as a person.
I do think she should stop obsessing over something she hates though.
It's even starting to affect the quality of the comic according to some posts I've read.
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artzychic27 · 1 year
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For a fun twist, how would SB and IB react if they were in Scarlet Lady?
Scarlet Lady: *Ugly-ass sneer* Excuse you?! Who do you think you are stealing MY Miraculous and MY name?!
Scarlet Beetle: God, is she always like this.
Chat Noir/Marigold: You have no fucking clue.
Scarlet Lady: And what's with the sidekick? He's got glasses like poindexter and everything. *Reaches for Ikati Black's glasses, only for her hand to get slapped away*
Ikati Black: Don't. Fucking. Touch me.
Scarlet Lady: ...
Marigold: Whoa. Check out the balls on the cat.
Chat Noir: *Looks down* Where?
Scarlet Lady: How DARE you speak to me like that?! Do you have any idea who I am?!
Ikati Black: One of the world's greatest mistakes, final answer.
Scarlet Beetle: Ikati!
Ikati Black: What? You know I'm right. Besides, she just sits on her aerobicized ass during every battle and only does shit when someone insults her and she calls her Lucky Charm, or just to do the Miracle Cure in front of any cameras.
Chat Noir/Marigold: *Uncontrollably laughing*
Scarlet Lady: So what? I'm a celebrity! The people should be lucky that I'm around to clean up the messes caused by those overly-sensitive villains and my two lame sidekicks.
Scarlet Beetle: STOP CALLING THEM SIDEKICKS! It is YOU who is lucky to have them! They're the ones putting their asses on the line so after every battle, you can sit nice and comfortable knowing that no Akumas are around to take you out! And another thing, superheroes are not celebrities! We are fucking public servants! We serve and protect the public from Akumas, and it is a team effort! So act like you are on a team and put in some fucking work!
Scarlet Lady: ...
Chat Noir: ...
Ikati Black: *Blushing* ...
Hawkmoth: *Watching through the eyes of an Akuma* ... Wow.
Marigold: ... Heh... *Starts laughing*
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alenawashere · 2 years
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guys I've already read buggachats bakery au and scarlet lady I need some new ones 😭
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rioavr · 9 months
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Damn marigold aint gonna be mess with now... sexy
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chucktanaka · 2 years
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Do you ever see a post or blog or whatever filled with so much hate towards a fictional character that you don't feel compelled to tell them to go outside and touch grass (dont wanna pull the pin on that grenade), you yourself just go outside and touch grass because that's enough internet for one day?
Like seriously, it's a fictional character. There's a real person who wrote it and you can go hate on them but to focus solely on the fictional character seems a little weird to me. Especially if you are praising and being a stan for another character written by the same real person in the same show. A shitty writer is gonna make terribly written characters. Same character in the hands of a good writer can be amazing.
I don't hate Adrien, I just wish he was better written. I wish he could stop harassing the same girl for a date for 4 seasons. I wish he could win a fight. I wish he was actually involved in the plot with any guardian stuff and got to pick some of the other wielders before the entire box got assigned by ladybug. I wish he had any friendships with other characters. I wish he had more teenage rebellion against his clearly abusive/neglectful father.
I don't hate Marinette, I just wish she was better written. I wish she could stop stalking and obsessing over the same boy for 4 seasons. I wish she didn't have to be involved in literally every single plot line and could just take a break like just have some episodes where we focus on adrien or other side characters messing up, causing chaos, and learning a lesson while marniette is just straught up chilling. I wish she wasn't the only necessary hero and powers so other characters could win fights. I wish they did more with her fashion design stuff.
Someone is still gonna think I'm taking a side here and attacking Adrien or Marinette but I'm not. I mean technically I'm calling out both of them cause the thing is they are both being written terribly in an awful show. I don't want to "stan" either of them. If I have to be labeled as something by this fandom, let it be "Thomas Astruc hater" cause so many people could write this better. AND THEY FUCKING HAVE!!!
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squidthecuttlefish666 · 10 months
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Chapter Two of Scarlet Love is scheduled to publish. On July 21, 2023, at 7:30 PM EDT!
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bakugosatoru · 5 months
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Just gotta say that the comfort headcanons you did were SO SWEET OMG!!! I'd love to request a romantic fluff scenario with Eijiro Kirishima if you're up to it! Maybe he and y/n are having a picnic date at a park or, going off the scenario you did for Bakugo, he & y/n are going to adopt a puppy 👀
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thank you as well for being my first request, I love the idea of Kirishima and y/n adopting a puppy! I really hope you enjoy it! (Also worked to keep the reader gender neutral so everyone can enjoy!)
Warnings: None Genre: Romantic Fluff Fic Type: Short Fanfic (1k Words) Fandom: My Hero Academia
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"Crimson?" Kirishima mumbled as you both strolled up to the entrance of the shelter.
"What was that babe?" You ask.
"Oh I was just thinking what we could name the pup." He smiled at you, that gorgeous beaming smile you adored so much, as he opened the door to the shelter for you.
"After you my dear" He bowed dramatically as you giggled, grabbing his hand and dragging him through the door after you.
You were quickly greeted by a lovely older woman who introduced herself as one of the owners of the shelter. She began to lead you both down a row of cages, holding various dogs and cats. Eijiro gripped your hand tightly as he beamed, watching you listen to the lady intently, as she explained all the info about the various dogs. Age, breed, temperament, things like that.
But Eijiro wasn't really listening, all he could do was focus on you, and just how beautiful you looked when you were excited.
You dropped your boyfriends hand momentarily (much to his disappointment) to reach out through the door of one of the enclosures and gently allow one of the dogs to sniff your hand, and petting it gently on the head before moving on to the next one.
As you continued to walk, you reached back to grab Eijiros hand once again but couldn't find it. Turning around you see your boyfriend reading one of the signs next to an enclosure intently.
"That's our oldest resident" The owner of the shelter smiles as she notices which pen Kirishima stopped in front of.
"Been in here for 3 years now" She added as you both walked back to join your boyfriend next to the enclosure. At first you thought the enclosure was empty, until you saw him, sitting, curled up on the tiny dog bed in the corner.
A frail and scared chihuahua.
You started to read the blurb on the side of the enclosure that your boyfriend was so engrossed in. It told the story of this little creature, who had been hit by a car a few years ago and surrendered to the shelter when the owners didn't care to pay the vet bills. You could feel your heart shatter in your chest as you looked at the tiny creature in front of you.
"Can we go say hi to it?" Eijiro asked the shelter employee, his voice softer than usual, as if he didn't want to stress out the poor pup anymore than it already was.
"Of course" She smiled, walking forward to open the door to the enclosure. "Not many folks are interested in our little Scarlet, most people dont come to shelters for older dogs so the poor thing gets overlooked" She spoke sadly as she allowed you both to enter the enclosure. "I'll give you a bit of time to get to know her, just come get me if you need anything" She smiled before walking back down the hall to the office.
Eijiro stepped foward slowly, before crouching down to sit himself on the floor next to the tiny pup.
"Hi Scarlet" Kirishima whispered gently as he reached his hand out, allowing the skittish dog to sniff, before ever so gently beginning to pat the dog on its small head.
"I thought you told me in the car you wanted a 'big, manly dog" You teased as you crouched down next to your boyfriend and the tiny dog, joining them both on the floor.
Kirishima gently scooped Scarlet up and held her tiny body ever so gently in his arms against his muscular frame.
"I don't know, I think surviving a car accident and being all alone for 3 years, and still allowing a stranger to pet you is pretty damn manly if you ask me" He smiled down at the tiny dog, his eyes full of nothing by love and admiration.
God you love this man, no other man could be so strong, so kind and yet so gentle all at the same time, towards every living creature.
"Plus, with a name like Scarlet, I suppose its just meant to be" You smiled, snuggling up next to your boyfriend and reaching out to slowly stroke the small dog in his arms. The dog seemed visibly more calm than when you had first seen him and you felt yourself fall in love with the poor creature every second you spent with it.
"I think this is the one honey" He murmured to you, not taking his eyes off the pup.
"Yea, me too" You smile.
So just like that, you signed the paperwork and walked out of the shelter. You had expected to be leaving with a large Terrier or Retriever or maybe even German Sheppard in tow, but instead you cradled a sleeping Chihuahua in your arms as you headed home, your family having grown by one tiny creature.
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Bonus
You knocked on your boyfriends office door softly.
"Come on in love" You heard his chair wheel away from his desk as he called out to you happily.
"I'm not interrupting am I?" You asked as you walked into the office, stacked high with Crimson Riot memorabilia and workout equipment. In your arms you cradled Scarlet, you knew how much Kiri loved to see her when he was working.
"Interrupting? My favorite person in the world, bringing me my favorite animal in the world could never be interrupting" He smiled as he planted a kiss on Scarlets fluffy forehead, before pulling you into his lap and kissing you softly.
"Now what could I help you with baby?" He asked, resting his chin on your shoulder as he held tightly to your waist.
"Just wanted to show you something" You giggled as you pulled up an article you had just seen on a hero gossip magazine.
"Look at this" You clicked on an article, a large photo of Kirishima out walking Scarlet that must have been taken by paparazzi recently splashed across the screen with the headline:
'Red Riot bring home Tiny New Sidekick'
Authors note: This is my first time ever writing for a request but I had so much fun writing it and I really hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it anon!
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About Scarlet Lady. It's really not that uncommon for some stories to questionably go both "This kid has been failed by the adults in her life" and "But screw that, let's laugh at her anyway." The bratty kids in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (especially Veruca) count as such. But the bratty kids in Willy Wonka are not the main characters.
SO HERE'S THE THING
You absolutely can do this sort of thing, but it needs to be balanced in a way!
Like the Veruca example! Yes, there's the discussion on how Veruca is like this because her father made her like this and that sucks, while also having us comedically roll our eyes when she acts like a spoiled brat.
The difference between that and something like ML is that Veruca hasn't been shown having moments where she's crying for non-entitled reasons, where she cares about her friends, where she wants to do good things and tries her best to be a good person...... only for us to swing back to 'haha isn't it funny that she acts like this??'
I think if SL was its own thing and not a fanfic it may have pulled this off a touch better as they never go into the depth that Chloé had in Seasons 1-3, just her being comically evil and then a last second 'oh btw her mom kinda sucks but whatever she chose to be an asshole let's laugh'. But having a source material that, for the first 3 seasons, did take this more seriously and give her depth, it doesn't work as well.
One is a comedy with a touch of tragedy so we can go 'hey that sucks' but still laugh. The other is a tragedy we're supposed to laugh at.
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redrydersrequiem · 4 months
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The Raven and the vampire
Chapter 1
This is a twilight and marvel mashup, the daughter of loki finds her soulmate in jasper Cullen and the twists and turns it will take them both
Note this is my first fanfic ever please be nice. I’m trying I constantly reread and change/fix these. As of 1/25/24 i've redone this story it is no longer a reader insert. I want to thank everyone who liked the original and hope you like the updated version more, this was my first ever fic and i've slowly grown as a writer so everyone enjoy
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It begins like every other day on Asgard, sunny and golden, gilded with light, as the sounds of a baby’s wails break the silence of the healing wing. Loki paces back and forth, waiting to be with his wife and newborn. The doors swing open and an attendant comes forward.
“You may enter your highness, your wife and child are all cleaned up and waiting for you”. Brushing past the attendant, Loki heads straight for the figure sitting up against the backboard of the green silk bed.
“My darling, how are you? How do you feel? Do you need anything? Are you hung/…’..
“/Loki, calm down. I'm perfectly fine. A little tired but it was all worth it to finally meet our daughter.”
“it’s a girl”
“Yes ,my son , she is a beautiful baby princess and here she is ready to meet her parents .”
Walking to the new parents with a bundle of green and gold cloth in her hands, Frigga handed the new princess to her mother. The baby was a light blue theraise markings prominent on her body, tuffs of deep black hair crowned her head Asher scarlet eyes opened to take in her parents. Lady Sigyn didn't even pause at the baby’s coloring, long since having broken Loki of thinking himself a monster due to his heritage
“She is half Jotun like we expected but her body should adjust to the environment soon just as her father did” queen Frigga states noticing her son had yet to say anything. Loki just stared at his daughter's small form resting in his beloved's arms, slowly offering his finger to the babygirl. Skin turning blue as the bay gripped it in her small hands
“She’s beautiful”,
“Yes, she is! oh Loki look,”
The new parents watched as scarlet eyes gave way to white with beautiful amethyst irises, skin turning a beautiful pale like her fathers with a dashing of freckles like her mother
“She looks just like you, my prince, beautiful dark hair and all.”
“She looks. Like the both of us, a perfect blend. My little Raven, Elara frigga Lokidottir Princess of Asgard.”
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800 years have passed and the young princess has grown into a young woman of grace and beauty. A mage like her father and grandmother before her, and warrior in her own right. I mean, how could she not? With private training form an actual Valkyrie, and the literal goddess of war and god of thunder (god of sparkles lol) as her aunt and uncle. In all her time though, she has grown up around love,seeing it in her parents' faces as they look at one another. In her baby brother's eyes as they babble up at her, Her grandparents and uncle and so many others, that she was ready to find it herself.
“Mother, father, I've done it.” Elara omimites as she bursts into her parents sitting room. Sigyn was sitting on the floor with the twins as they had tummy time while Loki was next to her legs crossed at the ankle reading a book to the two of them.
`What is that my little raven?”
“ Father, I've completed the spell to find my soulmate.”
“Soulmate? Spell? Darling what are you talking about, you're still so young you shouldn’t have to be so worried about that.”
“Mother you and father were only 200 years older than me when you both finally married and much younger than that the first time you met and started cavorting with each other. Besides, I'm ready. I want to have what all of you have, especially before I'm used as a pawn to help diplomatic affairs, I want to find my other half.”
“My little raven, we would never allow the allfather or anyone else to use you as a pawn. Besides i second your thoughts”.
“Loki why am i not surprised you are some howenvloved with our daughter trying to leave
“Dear, it will all be fine trust me I would do nothing that would harm our little raven” he kisses his wife soothing her while gesturing to elara to carry on with her proclamation ,
“go ahead love tell us what you’ve discovered”
“ Mother?” Sigyn pinches her mouth looking between her mischievous husband and equally energetic eldest
“Fine, I will go along with you and your fathers plans but i wish to be there when the spell is cast and part of the travel discussions”
“Absolutely mother, I can do the spell now, i just need the maps of the realms”
Loki summons all the maps he's collected over the years including a globe of earth and sets them up for his daughter, when a thought finally occurs to him.
“Odin forbid this adventure, send you to Midgard.”
“Loki we will be supportive of whoever it ends up being and wherever it ends up taking her. Besides, if you didn’t want her to go away, you shouldn’t have helped her make the spell to begin with.”
“Your words cut deep my love. I simply hoped for her future match to be here in Asgard.”
“Of course you did, dear. Now sweetie, let's proceed with this event.”
The maps of the realms litter the giant green carpet. In front of you, setting the small golden bowl of which to concoct the spell in the middle of th wide green rugs.”
“So I modified a spell to find a lost item and a spell to show your hearts desire, combining the two with a very complicated magic circle I should be able to find my soulmate”,
“Very impressive little raven”
“Thank you father ok lets start. The purple magic flows from your fingers towards the bowl containing the two simple spells ingredients while your power spreads out forming the magic circle. As soon as it's complete a bright pulsing light shoots up. Dancing around Elara several times before shooting over to the maps.
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“It's working!” Sigyn happily. Awes watching her daughter work.
Pulsing around the realms maps the light simply hoovers before shooting for the Midgardian globe encasing it insistently
“Oh joy of course my daughters soulmate is a Midgardian”
“Honestly, I think it serves you right Loki”, Sigyn states picking at her husband and his distaste for midgardians “but you don’t even know who or what this midgarden is. Who knows, they could be gifted like our dear Wanda”
“Yes my darling” Loki says as he collapses on the nearest couch.
“Well go on my little raven, let's see where in Midgard you will be visiting”
Walking over to the globe, Elara peers over to what small words have now been illuminated.
“It’s a place called….. Forks, Washington.”
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dc-marvel-life · 1 year
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Masterlist
This is the place where you can find all of my current writings. I write DC comics and Marvel fanfics/ships. I do write for LGBTQ+, I am pansexual myself. Just ask if you have a request and we can work something out.
Smut = @ Angst = () Fluff = $ Headcannon = % Drabbles = #
Request Are Open
DC
Dick Grayson/Nightwing 
Jason Todd/Red Hood
Damian Wayne/Robin
Tim Drake/Red Robin
Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle
Bat-Family
Bruce Wayne/Batman
Marvel
Warren Worthington III/Angel
% - Warren Asking You Out Would Be Like…
Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
% - Dating Wanda Maximoff Would Be Like…
#$ - Should We?
#- Can We Keep You?
Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
% - What Dating Natasha Romanoff Would Be Like…
% - Dating Natasha Romanoff and Pietro Matimoff Would Be Like…
Valkyrie
() - My Queen
Pietro Maximoff/Quick Silver
% - Dating Natasha Romanoff and Pietro Matimoff Would Be Like…
% - Dating Jason Todd and Pietro Maximoff Would Be Like…
Steve Rodgers/Caption America
% - Dating Modern-Day Pre-Serum Steve Rogers
% - Dating Pre-Serum Steve Rogers In College
$ - Flesh Wound
# - Taxi Service 
Yelena Belova
$ - Do You Even Love Me
Crossover
$ - When did This Happen (Jason Todd X Stark! Reader)
$ - Works Every Time (Diana Prince x Carol Danvers x reader)
Poly
% - Dating Jason Todd and Pietro Maximoff Would Be Like…
$ - My Strong Girl (Supergirl x Wonder Woman)
$ - Love/Hate the Heat (Supergirl x Wonder Woman x reader)
$ - Perfect Fit (Wanda x Natasha x reader) - Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9
$ - These are my Ladies
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1donoow · 11 months
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STRANGER THINGS FANFICS REC PT.3
[Fanfics i've read]
edited
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♡ - smut
Mostly fluff
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steve harrington
eddie munson
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steve harrington
@maximoff-pan - steve with a golden retriever! reader
@luveline - calling steve lovebug
- ___
- shopping with steve
@hellfireclubmember - pretty girl
@quin-ns - crushes,chaos and confessions
@lady-ashfade - lunch worry
@crazycookiecrumbles - awkward car trips
- hawkin's Halloween surprise
- idiots, total idiots
@sattlersquarry - elegia
@thewriterg - in the moment
@scarlet-star-witch - the story of us
@peterparkersnose - steve harrington favorite things
@witchwyfe - teddy bear
@leossmoonn - steve getting caught being the little spoon when cuddling
@homeofthepeculiar - anchor
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eddie munson
@darling-i-read-it - secrets
@iliveiloveiwrite - here when you wake
@erosso - spending some time alone ♡
- ___
@undersilverlake - shy!eddie
@crimsonsabbath - double life
@marvelsswansong - total mystery
- decorating eddie's bandages
@hawkins-losers - would i make a great cheerleader?
@evans-heaven - pretzels
@etherealperrie - stuck with you pt.1
@ygrworld - everything for my lady
@two-red-lungs - rapunzel, rapunzel
@frenziedslashers - taking care of the freak ♡
@peterparkersnose - sleep hc
- eddie's favorite things
@thisisntmyrightera - always the freak girlfriend
@luveline - eddie's hair getting tangle
- reader sleeps w/ her teddy when she has anxiety
- helping eddie study
- ___
- golden retriever girlfriend
@l44serbeam - now i wanna,be your dog (metalhead!reader)
@coveredinsweetpea - ___
@hunterwritings - unexpected pt.1 (quiet shy!reader)
@catherinnn - cutting eddie's bangs
@macabre-mangled - eddie with a tomboy girlfriend
@dameronology - eddie with a reader who doesn't enjoy dnd
- ___
@kaylawritesfics - eddie dating a total sweetheart
- pride and plushies
@puckwritesfic - reader brushing and braiding eddies hair
@k4g3hika - who the hell
- welcome home
@sinnerlillith - the devil wears eyeliner
@heartofwritiing - come on come on darling
@quinnsmunson - head over heels
@4rlbym - jealous hc
@bowieandqueen11 - looking after a sick eddie would include
@kriffingstars - tutor
@ahninaknowsalot - eddie with a shy gf
@writing-fanics - i didn’t run this time
@dearestdaffodils - switched rings
@spirits-lament - sunday blooms
@mcplestreet - desperate ♡
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artzychic27 · 1 year
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How would Ladybug and Chat Noir react to Scarlet Beetle Lady WiFi?
Ladybug/Chat Noir: *Screaming*
Chat Noir: SCARY ROBOT SAMARA!
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I see you hate Sylvie so much and the Loki TV show too. why?
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Okay, lemme break it down into a final, once-and-for-all peace speaking on the issue of the series and Sylvie. I'll try to make this as painless as possible.
1- Looking at it beyond the surface, she's not really interesting. The term 'Mary Sue' gets thrown around a lot with Sylvie, and I kind of have to agree. She seems to be little more than a trope checklist. -Sad background that motivates her actions? Check. -Deep down she just wants to be loved? Check. -Inexplicable instant "chemistry" with the male lead? Check. -She's just so super special and important? Check.
But even so, there have been others with similar Sue-ish backgrounds that the MCU has managed to make into pretty decent characters, like Scarlet Witch in WandaVision. Arguably, both characters share some traits, but the writers of Wanda (at least before Multiverse of Mehhness) clearly knew how to bring those ideas into a twisted story of learning how to confront the past and to mourn with a character who still had something to learn.
In contrast, Sylvie really doesn't have any flaws to turn into a deep character study, does she? I think that's her second-biggest detriment (see below for the biggest). A good character is never perfect. A good character had flaws, wants, drives, and other things that make them imperfect but relatable. Sylvie is incredibly unrelatable.
Truly I believe she was written for the stans as a self-insert. She isn't even a decent one. I read fanfics on here with amazing examples of a good insert character, so it clearly can be done. Again, Sylvie ain't it.
2- Sylvie's existence both mocks the comics as well as Norse mythology as a whole. Most of us anti-sylkis know this already, but in Norse mythology AND the Marvel canon that goes beyond the MCU, Loki has had several lovers and wives. Loki married and had three children with Angreboda, and then went on to have twins with wife Sigyn. In the comics, he also had a lover named Amora the Enchantress (which we ALMOST got in the MCU before her cameo was cut). Any one of these three would've made a fantastic romantic plot for Loki if the MCU *really* had the compulsion to go that route.
Alas, instead, the MCU kind of bastardized Amora, Sigyn, as well as another character from the comics named Sylvie, and combined them into TV!Sylvie. This not only means we will likely never see Amora or Sigyn in the MCU, it means they were replaced by an inferior on the same level as Randy from That 70s Show, who was also a sucky character created for the fans as an amalgamation of pre-existing characters.
3- She's just another in a long line of Loki-abusers. Like, does she ever comfort him after all he does for her? Does she even really listen to him? Because from what I saw there was just a lot of this happening between them:
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Jesus, lady. What has he done to make you such a jerk to him? I get you're supposed to be a #GuuurlBoss but that doesn't mean "be a total cunt to a man whenever you feel like it."
After all this time, if we really had to have a Loki character study series, why doesn't he get some respite from the fact that basically everyone he knows has either been cryptic and mysterious to him at best, and hostile/violent/malicious to him at worst?
THIS is probably the single biggest reason I loathe Sylvie. We're suppose to believe she's just being Miss Independent when she's really just bringing the poor god down even more than most. I feel like if she met Thor, he'd get upset at seeing how she treats him, and he'd be confused by how easily Loki just accepts it all.
4- I'm becoming more convinced Tom's only doing the show out of obligation, and that his creativity is being tossed aside for the sake of the series. I normally don't like to speculate like some others do, but with more people (like Zoe Saldana) coming out and saying they felt repeatedly stifled by the MCU's yuckity-yucks in terms of character development, I definitely believe they're telling Tom to shut up and read the script. I mean, the guy probably knows as much Norse/Loki mythology as any scholar by this time, and he seems to be a really creative person by nature. They're tossing out a whole trove of potential.
I get he's got a family now and he needs to bring in some bacon, but 1- he and his fiancee are both prolific actors who could probably get any roles they wanted. Hell, Zawe's about to enter the MCU herself when The Marvels come out later this year. If she has a larger role in the next few phases, I hope to god they treat her better than they've treated Tom and Zoe and other actors. But I doubt it. 2- he's probably already richer than God
He's almost certainly trapped by contractual obligations at this point, and that fucking sucks, and yes, I blame the tv show for this.
So, in conclusion: this really is a train wreck of a show hidden behind a lot of smoke and mirrors. I'm not sorry to say it. Sylvie lacks any kind of genuine depth, and the writers seem both lost on where to take Loki's character arcs, and not interested.
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