#so he doesnt get challeneged on his

[creativebrainrot]

Since RP is becoming less and less scary ive been considering Maelgwyn AUs that dont include major story characters and one that also doesnt include being an Elonian Sylvari.

I'll start with the second one because, I've thought about it less, since the game encourages non-pale tree sylvari through Malyck's existence.

I'll keep the abnormally large part of his design because it contributes to his own expierence with himself. (?) His stature, coloration, and generally creature-like traits contribute to his selfhate and how much he despises being seen as a monster. Which is his primary motivation for why he Does That One Thing that starts his journey. Being seen as a monster is why he becomes a bounty hunter. So if he's not in elona, what if bandit syndicate leader? Except, these ones are grey morals and tend to help out those in need by picking targets who have excess and will for sure be fine after the attack. People who can EASILY replace lost shipments. Thats an easy enough replacement for the desert beast thing.

undercooked tho because im pretty sure no one would be tooo mad about a Single Elonian sylvari. My main answer for Maelgwyn's desert tree not being involved is usually, the tree never recovers. He's the only one that's awakened, and rather than healing slowly and stabilizing, the tree dies a few weeks after he wakes.

The first AU is much more interesting to me because Maelgwyn starts pretty grey morals BUT. If he never meets Trahearne,,,,,,,, he gets worse. Because Trahearne is also a grey morals guy but after being pact marshal for so long his morals have shifted to be a lighter shade, which rubs off on Maelgwyn. But if he never meets and stays with Trahearne then his friends would likely be fellow bounty hunters and contacts in the trade syndicates that get along with The Desert Beast and i think thatd make him much more willing to do shit like say. Raid a syndicate hideout with his buddies for nicer drinks and such. The syndicate doesnt LIKE him ANYWAY, and they ARE too close to his turf SO is it rEEEAAALLY THAAT BAAAD. cmon man. its JUST for some better alcohol and theyre only gonna do it once. or twice. when they feel like it. its not like the bandits need the stuff anyway????????

and shit like that. If he never meets Trahearne he also doesnt heal. Not as much anyway. Because falling for your fucking client/charge was a FLUKE and NOT THE PLAN. Maelgwyn was still very much not ready to actually love someone again but thats what he THOUGHT he was. He stumbled across the right person, and fell in love with someone safe and understanding enough, who loved him BACK enough, to see through his difficult tendencies. So his self hate, self doubt, fear, and just. ALL of his mental health issues around falling in love and being vulnerable with other people sticks around. Because he never got a chance to organically unlearn any of it. Because he IS NOT gonna be the one who goes looking for love.

Absolutely not, you tell this man you love him four months into a casual romantic relationship, he is having a secret panic attack and ghosting.

If he falls in love with YOU and realizes it. Bye. Ghosting.

He's so not okay xd

He's okay with friends, for the most part, but chances are, you're still not getting through to his honest self. Everyone gets The Desert Beast. If you get to see Maelgwyn you are a LUCKY bastard, this man masks and hides his real self SO MUCH.

#oc: maelgwyn (he/him) #ocposting #gw2 #also if he never meets the pact at all #he doesnt get a chance to see people who have personalities like him #fighting to change the world #having close friends and loved ones IN the pact with them #and he doesnt get that little bit of New Concept perspective change #so he doesnt get challeneged on his #'I am The Only One who will be left behind and unloved and I Specifically Deserve It' #self hate idea #hes a dumbass and i love him and im going to put him in his very own decorated blorbo pringles can #and shake him for 28438485783829273 hours #at speeds no blorbo should ever be subjected to #and also chew on him and bite him

[zai-doodles]

So idk if you still do fairy tail stuff but I was scrolling your stuff and your thing about the Edolas arc and Lisanna just being sidelined after reminded me of the Alvirez arc and how the the whole “Natsu is Zeref’s little brother but also END and also technically dead” thing was hundred at since the Tenro island arc and then it came up for like 5 or less issues in the Alvirez arc and was never talked about again until the last issue of the manga. Like, we’re not going to address the fact that Natsu is a magic corpse?? We’re not going to get a proper flashback to before Natsu died?? END is just….Gone?? NATSU ISNT GONNA TELL THE GUILD THIS?? WHY DID EVERYONE EHO KNOWS FIND OUT BY ACCIDENT??

UR SO RIGHT

plz of course i still do ft i have a gray redesign rotting in my files but anyway-

natsu being END felt so half hearted it hurt, like it just felt like he needed a way to emotionally tie him to zeref but they literally never use it in an intresting way to challenge the themes of the show

like bestie thats what an antagonist is FOR to challenege the main themes and thats exaclty what zeref does with his curse bc of the themes of love and family but bro making natsu his dead little brother felt so unnessesary since natsu literally doesnt remember anything and his humanity is never really questioned by the narrative by anyone other than gray for 2 seconds

like yea i think zeref makes comments but natsu being a dragon slayer kinda makes him come off as more inhuman than being an actual demon made to kill zeref

i feel like everyone found out by accident bc there was no satisfying way to just have natsu TELL THEM bc he literally had no reason to give a shit and idk maybe im misremembering but the eway theres so little hints to the natsu END reveal before it happens makes it feel so shock value-y just UGH thats my rant hope it made sense

#zai talks #fairy tail #dont kill me plz its been years since ive seen this show so if im just wrong im sorry

[tillman]

i think instead of sgatgk being taught in high school tristan als monch should be the med lit shown to kids instead. my reasoning:

its not stupidly boring and done to death. u can litearlly not say anything original about sgatgk its all been said. academics shut up about sgatgk challenege.

its actually really funny and interesting. i think more people would get into med lit if they started w a tale where a Very Serious Knight (tristan) fakes his death and dresses up as a monk cus he has a bad dream that his gf doesnt like him anymore

theres a cool horse in it so u dont lose anything by gringolet not being there (its a ROMANCE horse. its a ROMANCE HORSE.)

sir gawain is cool and epic but not sgatgk gawain hes just lame. TRISTAN on the other hand is epic always there is not a lame version of him. if high schoolers were given sir tristan they would like him and i think it would unlock something in many peoples brains

theres lots of cool fun sex instead of sgatgks misogyny . there is gay rights (gawain is there) its all so cool. tristan and isolde fuck in a field under marks open window while tristan is still dressed as a monk. literally what in sgatgk compares.

i think tristan and isolde/tristania should be more prevalent than arthuriana is that so wrong

thats it actually. thank you for reading my ted talk. if its a matter of introducing kids to middle english well fuck off thats what sir tristrem is for (i swear that tales not just a parody i swear it has merit i swear its actually a really fun retelling :-() 

#txt #i genuinely think if high schoolers were given actually interesting and fun med lit they wouldnt grow up to think its all sgatgk serious shi #sorry i just love als monch i thikn about it constantly. who let that tale be that funny #arthurian legends

[currentfandomkick]

Bio! Dad Strange part 4

Shorter but a paris update for her life and a little on gotham with Jason as Robin while Tim is a hero Stalker.

Marinette is 7 when she changes schools, ordered into the Dupont school chain by her teachers since she was getting ‘difficult’ and contradicting their ciriculum. When they challeneged her on this, she went to the school board with Rolland beside her of all people.

The board agreed on one thing, Marinette’s contradictions were not only factually correct, but were done to prevent the outdated ciriculum from hurting her classmates. Instead of punishing her, she got to skip a gade and was given to Dupont as a ‘highly reccomended gifted student’.

Her first day she met Max, who also skipped a grade. The pair bond in five seconds over a new programming focused on learning emotional intelligence. Uncle Riddler was showing her it, and Max got his hands on a various ai bases. This led to then teaming up and designing the one and only Markov together, if only in schematics.

A week in and the two notice that some kids are being followed around by a guy with a bat. They report it. Again and again, but no one can find him.

One day he catches the pair on their way to Max’s—they wanted to work on their ai together, ok? The guy tries to hit Max, saying something about them being lucky metas that needed to suffer.

Marinette’s gotham training kicked in. She caught the bat, ripped it away from him and hit him in the chest with it, while yelling at max to run.

At the end of the incident, videotaped by a bystander, the Dupont Stalker was arrested.

Marinette was given another name by the police, ‘fille de batte’ or bat girl. Her having family in gotham only made the nickname more popular.

This put her on Kim and Alix’s radar. Kim wanted a challenge for fighting and competitions, and this tiny kid did that—to an adult! New friend and rival!

Alix was went from shock to joy as Marientte does art. She does art. Art friend to rant to found!

Nino ran into Marinette not long after Kim and Alix attached themselves to her and Max. Nino became their judge for Kim challenges. Including Mari pinning Kim to the mat, or deciding who did a circus move better (Mari won acrobatics).

Chloe doesnt go to dupont until next year, and sabrina is in another class, mildly concerned for Marinette.

In this au, again, Dupont is considered a ‘i would not be shocked if there were metas there’ school for gifted kids in any way.

Marinette is sent there for her insane science obsession at the time, but is also put in their arts program with Alix to develop as an artist with her medium, fabrics and fashion.

And if marinette redesigns hero outfits as “monsiuer ross, scribbles have more style, let alone fashion sense” alot, well. Kids get obsessed a lot and the Justice League is a common one, as are known villians. Her everyday outfits having different hero schemes—oddly enough some forensic scientist she’s obsessed with from some american city ended up in her mix—well. She’s a kid and showing signs a few types of anxiety.

Possible social and OCD and a developing case of perfectionism common to the arts program. The school has her see a therapist and know she isnt telling them everything beyong mild concern for her gotham family, and confusion over people just ‘not getting things’ as she is terribly smart and good at finding patterns and how do people not see it?

By the end of the year Marinette is in a strong friend group who’s parents and hers have decided to have joint custody during the school year.

She was now (forced) to learn vietnamese from Kim’s Grandparents, italian from Rolland (her nonno that has a Thing for tradition and somehow married Gina and raised Tom mostly on his own while running the bakery to boot), english from Father/Strange, Mandarin from her Maman and she started Arabic to talk with Nino’s aunt who kept saying marinette was her future in-law and point out that nino and her are friends, not dating ma’am.

However, Nino endured most of this with her-not the italian or Mandarin, but the others. Kim couldnt get Arabic but mandarin was a breeze for him. Alix cannot get vietnamese or arabic but Mandarin is her jam after french. Max just speaks french and english, he understands the others he just cant get the sounds right, ok?

When Marinette goes back to Gotham that summer, she ends up dealing with Hero Stalker Tim (jason is robin now) while looking for Red Hoodie who No oNE is telling her what happened and she’s worried, ok?

Tim feeds her obbsession with fixing problems. He sometimes sends her building layouts of places Catwoman stole from. And then the jewlry reappears thanks to a nervous Marinette coached by Rose and Ghoul while Frost handles her post-fix it freak out. Tim also may or may not get helped by her alot during Batman Stalking Time as she teaches his butt how to sneak and complains he’s worse than penguin.

Tim hates that, works on it, and still has nonidea who she is. He does admit to figuring out who batman may be, but needs more evidence so...

Marinette hits him becuase “thats dangerous!” And tries to lecture him in identites.

Batman’s radiowave was used for said lecture.

“And it puts their families in danger you, uh, hero stalker! And stuff so no more identity investigations!”

“They have the same builds, and did signsture moves from—“ the signal cutout.

He and Jason are more careful... ish. They change channels and monitor the old one.

Sometimes Batman catches Marinette and Tim talking about coldcases and she has asked three times if he heard anything about Jason’s street kid identity. Jason is feeling guilty about this as she’s his Pixie Pop. This lets Bruce know that the probably-clark’s-kid would keep Jason away from GCPD and CPS.

When a convo leads to Batman finding out Tim and Marinette have considered asking the police for help with a case of medicine that needed to be recalled as it was beign used to mule drugs contaminated the batches and hurt patients, but turned it down after she saw some taking bribes from Fish, Batman lets Gordon know and an investigation is launched.

While Bats is away, Jason visits marinette as Robin and tries to get her to bats for more information and a lecture on heroing without adult supervision. Maybe.

Only she’s currently stealing from a sleeping selina at another HQ. A Selina who has stopped trying to stop marinette and let riddler turn her house into one of his ‘traps’ to stop Marinette’s ‘return theiving’.

Jason gets stuck in a trap. Marinette is gone by then, scared Robin will tell Superman about her and he’ll hurt her family or something.

Catwoman is annoyed at Marinette’s sucess. She goes to stop the girl after leaving him tied up for Batman with a message: leave her new kitten-to-be alone.

Follow up talk post-Caught Marinette reverse theiving.

“Blame the Council’s decrees. She’s their little princess, and my new neice,” Catwoman watched Batman carefully.

Confused Batman in interrogator mode. “You mean the Court of Owls, arent they disbanded?”

“Bats, the council is gotham’s underground. Apparently Two-Face made the contracts as penance for scaring the Princess during a breakout. Unless you want an organized attack by the council, steer clear of her.”

Batman conencts the dots and curses himself. The girl he was looking for last summer is the Princess of Gotham’s underground. It will be hell finding her. And Superman/Clark will lose it when he’s told.

He lets the JL know about it, saying ‘possibly kyptonian clone, female child. Gotham’s underground is calling her their Princess. Connor and Kidflash tailed her last summer during the arkham breakout while Robin was with the Titans. Be alert for a small asian girl.’

That was how Marinette ended up on the JL watch list and how Superman had another existential crisis.

Dick freaks out with the Titans over this. Becuase kyltonian raised by villians is terrifying. Jason forwarded the message and adds on “she’s a good kid and wants to help. Somehow keeps zsasz and joker from killing people, so its not good to take her away or issolate her from the villians if you find her. From what i remember, she is terrified of her family beign put in danger. The others wont listen to me. If you can, pass this along to the other sidekicks and your allies—none of them trust me enough to listen. I cant talk to her as a civilian like i used to either for obvious reasons. And she’s terrified of me-Robin. Maybe you can get through to her, or someone else can. Just talk to her first, she’s more reasonsble than she looks”

Dick doesnt read the add on until much later and regrets it.

He met marinette once. She was a very excited kid babbling about aerodynamics in acrobatics and asking about that. Not hero things, not power things, or justice league but That.

He tried to be nice but he was having a horrible mission, saw the girl floating as she rambled and tried to grab her.

She freaked out and bolted, sort of. He got slammed into a building, or would have had she not caught him, rambled in french while trying to apologize (he was a but stunned from the throw, and rebooting as villian-kyptonian was... nice?) and put him on the roof, hit his communicator and said one thing.

“I think i broke your robin? All are robins like bird bones or something?”

He regained a functioning brain as that. That was something he could respond to.

“I am human thank you!”

That seemed to be enough for her as he moved to get up. She waved bye and bolted, something about Rose being mad at her for being late...

“Titans. I think we might have been wrong about the kid...”

Later with Young Justice the info was passed on.

Jason asked if anyone read his attachment and was met with silence. He groaned and told them “so another team she’s going to avoid... great.”

Marinette added the titans to her list of ‘people to aviod—tetch and Jerimah were the worst. Luthor and Cadmus were under them. Then the entire Justice League (they would tell batman or superman. Snitches.), followed by GCPD, CPS, the Bat Family and now Titans. She wonders if she needs to add anyone else, and hates that she cant talk to heroes. They could help with controlling her powers instead of suppressing them but she cant trust them not to give her to superman like batman did with Rose to Poison Ivy and she’s pretty sure Superboy too.

Next time, times marinette accidently put together identities and curses Hero Stalker Tim for her now knowing.

#bio!dad au #bio!dad strange #my au #marinette strange dupain cheng #my ideas #marinette strange dupain cheng part 4 #maribat #ml au

[kabutoraiger]

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Hey if we’re talking podcasts id love to send you a few recs

I dont listen to a lot of Horror so my recs are mostly not that

They are also all audio fiction; i dont think you were looking for nonfiction? But if you are looking for those ive also got a handfull if you want em

Misadventure By Death - a man receives a job to be the caretaker of a historical house and finds it a lot more haunted than he likes (full disclosure: friends of mine created and act in this podcast)

Love and Luck - two men begin to date each other and gain strange subtle powers that they use for the purposes of making the world a better place. This podcast was made with the explicit purpose of being good happily ending queer rep (not that it is finished yet) and its so sweet and good and the eps are short so you can get invested really fast.

Within The Wires - the world has changed as we know it. All countries’ governments were destroyed and replaced with a unified gllbal governing body. Discover this world through (season 1) a series of relaxation tapes in which a woman attempts to break someone she loves out of a mental institute, (season 2) guided museum tours by a woman who had an incredibly complicated relationship with the artist whose work she is describing and (season 3) a beaurocrat’s recorded notes to his secretary. This podcast has a less straightforward format than most of the others on here, but thats what i really adored about it when i first started listening to it. Created by one of the creators of welcome to night vale

The Amelia Project - have you ever wanted to fake your death because of your problems? Well, if you have enough money, the amelia project will give you a spectacular false send off. This podcast documents the cases that the amelia project works on and is very funny

Midnight Radio - every night at midnight the radio plays a show that seems to be lifted straight from the past. Listen to the host talk about how much she adores her small town and the long history she’s had with it. Better than how im describing it i swear

Girl in Space - our protagonist lives alone in a space station. It wasnt always that way. And now, after she presses a strange button that she finds, she’ll have to deal with the people who come to find her.

The Once and Future Nerd - a fantasy series about three teens who find themselves transported to a fantasy universe. Well written and acted, this series subverts common tropes about the fantasy genre and challeneges them. Also: elves with southern accents

Solutions to Problems - set in the distant future, stp is a radio advice show, where people can write about their problems involving work, relationships, time travel, ai, alien customs and so much more. The hosts may or may not ever solve a single problem.

Greater Boston - you know boston? This podcast ia about boston. Like the boston where a section of the subway voted to become its own city, where a magazine about fortune telling is huge, where a man goes on a roller coaster, immediately decides its not for him and nopes out of the situation by dying. Not what happened in real boston? Eh this place is kinda better.

Kalila Stormfire’s Economical Magick Services - a witch is kicked out of her coven and decides to sell her own services. Each episode is the compilation of the notes she made for every case she has taken on and also a bit of an investigation into the person sabotaging Kalila’s efforts.

Alba Salix - Alba Salix is the head healing witch of the kingdom and must deal with unsufferable related royalty as well as two new employees that shes unwillingly taken on. A fantasy comedy thing.

Red Rhino - A timeline keeper attempts to coach a young man through becoming a superhero with his newly acquired powers that he hates. Everything is more ridiculous and suspicious than it seems.

The Beacon - a young woman makes a podcast about the superpowers she has just gained, the horrible monster in the forest and her quest to stop that monster before it hurts more people.

Mt olympus university - pandora has managed to get a full free ride to university and with no other options, she took it. Only she finds herself in a place where everyone else has powers and she doesnt. Join her as she meets the various greek gods in a world that doesnt have the same history with them that ours does. Short sweet and weekly. I also really adore the theme song.

Otherverse - aliens have invaded the world but humans arent giving up with a fight. (full disclosure: friends of mine created and act in this podcast)

Jim Robbie and The Wanderers - a group of travellers make their way across a post apocalyptic america where giant bees roam the lands and chicago is mostly underwater and ghost trains run through the deserts and cults worship the sun. A lot more cheerful than it sounds. (Full disclosure: i work on this one. Its kinda on hiatus, but theres a pretty big backlog if this is up your alley)

Most of these podcasts should be pretty easy to find but if you need help with links or want more recs, feel free to ask! Podcasts are a big part of my life.

this is an incredibly helpful list thank youu! 💕 some of these sound exactly like my kind of thing

#ref #to listen later #submission

[thegirlwhocamehome]

I've noticed I always have to start poems that are not about pain with the preface: I am not used to writing about boys who didn't break me, I am not good at writing about boys who didn't break me; but here it goes. I am not used to writing about boys didnt break me, I am not good at writing about boys who didn't break me; but I will, because I have so many reasons to.  Well, one reason actually, but within him exists many reasons for celebtrating all the love and joy I have seen, in spite of all of the boys who did break me.   I have always known the kindness and compassion I have deserved, but finding it has a been a plethora of different stories. I always wondered whether it would be hard for me to be vulnerable and feel love deep within my bones after they've been broken and bruised so many times - it was. It still is sometimes, but that doesnt scare me as much as it used to.  I used to expect him to leave every other day, I used to wait for a reason why he couldn't stay anymore, sometimes, I offered him up excuses he could repeat back to me, so I could finally convince myself all the awful things I told myself were true. But he never gave in, and looking back now, I am so grateful. I do believe the love you have for yourself has to come from within, but I never realized that a little help along the way never hurt. Everytime he tells me I am beautiful, or I am smart, or kind, or all the other things he calls me, I believe him. I believe myself.  Everytime I made a mistake, everytime I hurt him, or myself, or anyone in between, he told me it was okay, that I still had a goodness in my heart. He cried every time I felt like I couldn't do it anymore, every time I didn't want to do it anymore and told me that I was too wonderful to be going through this, and slowly, he helped me pick up the pieces of myself. He would remind of everything that was worth fighting for, and would remind me that he wants to marry me, and spend the rest of his life with me, but he can't do that if I'm not here. He reminds me of all the people who will miss me, and tells me that I am more than the grades I get, that I am more than the bad things I think about myself and the mistakes I have made, that I am more than anxiety, depression, an eating disorder, and every other bad thing that has happened to me. But the best part of all, he knows when he doesn't need to say anything at all.  He knows sometimes I just need to cry and his arms are my favourite place to retreat into when everything becomes a little too much. He knows sometimes I need to be called out on my bullshit and even though I don't like it, I know I can count on him to do it for the rest of our lives - infact, I look forward to it. He has always challeneged me to be a better person, I truly feel love resonating in my bones every time he looks at me.  I am not very good at writing love poems, I never have been. It's always been too easy to go the other way. Analogies about fractured body parts come easier than admiting I truly feel as though I have found the person I want to spend the rest of my life with. But I don't want to look back on our relatinship and regret not writing about how I see the ocean in his eyes, galaxies in his soul, and magic in his fingertips. I want to look back and feel confident that I told him everyday how much he means to me and how much I love him. Because I really, really do. He takes care of me in the exact way I need it: he never does things for me without making sure I can do them myself, he lets me be stubborn until I realize I need help, and is always helpful when needed, he gets excited about the things I get excited about, and pretends - to the best of his abilities - when he can't, he let's me exist within my own space in our relationship without ever asking me to give up who I am, he has learned and grown so much since I first met him and taught me the same, but most importantly, he has never once given up on me no matter what it was, even when I told him to.  Thank you, my love, for helping me become the person I always wanted to be, and for growing with me, and always challenging me. I love you so very much from deep within my soul and I promise that I always will, I used to have reservations about making promises like that, but not with you, I promise I will always love you.

The Love of My Life

#mine #AF