It would be fun for you to write a long lists of what you love vs what you hate when it comes to Jerome Valeska fanfictions and why you feel that way 🤪
is this ask from last summer? yes. am i only answering it now? also yes. hopefully the asker still follows me.
please remember that these are all just my opinions and it’s totally fine to disagree. a lot of it comes down to the characterisation of Jerome, which I feel a lot of writers oversimplify
let’s start with what I don’t like (cause that’s easier):
one of my biggest frustrations are fics where it’s like “reader is a high school student/nurse at arkham/police officer who is actually super insane except shows no sign of that at all ever”. can they be done well? sure. but I rarely see it. one fic that I read years ago had the reader as one of the cheerleaders on the bus in s2ep2 and she hands Jerome a lighter because… why? never really clear. in general, the ordinary person who is actually the perfect type of insane for Jerome to be interested in as opposed to just killing is rarely done right for me
I hate when Jerome in a fic is poorly characterised. by that, I mean just behaving sporadically in a “the writer doesn’t know what they’re doing way” as opposed to “he’s insane”. it’s a difficult line to walk
now, don’t get me wrong. i like a lil smut. well written smut. but it’s difficult to write Jerome smut well. a very core element of his character, established very early, is the fact that his mother’s sexual activity defos traumatised him and was key in pushing him over the edge. a Jerome who’s just banging left right and centre isn’t a Jerome that’s in character for me
now onto the likes (a lot of which are just the inverses of the dislikes):
the best thing a writer can do (for me) is have a clear idea of who Jerome is in their mind and in their fic. like I said above, there are lots of different ways to portray Jerome, and it’s not my place to tell people what’s right or wrong. I’d much rather read a consistent Jerome that isn’t how I imagine him than a wibbly wobbly noncommittal Jerome
in a similar vein, fics where Jerome is actually a bad person who does bad things. commit crime! relish in people’s suffering! but do them in interesting ways.
I love a fic where we get of vulnerable Jerome. not every fic needs this, but depending on the context i really enjoy getting to see writers interpretations of what that looks like, especially given that we don’t get any of it in the show really
again, these are all just my own thoughts. there’s a lot of nuance and a lot of fics out there. stuff I used to love I hate now, and stuff I once hated… I usually still hate tbh. read the fics you love and write the fics that make you happy
Porque insoporto no poder hacer una edición decente de padre e hija (porque el material es escaso y me dan ganas de agarrarle otro rostro a Viktor pero como es Ryan Gosling y NO TIENE DE EPOCA, me queda llorar). Así que decidí dibujarlo. Well, lo iba a dejar sin color, pero como le quise pintar solo los ojitos a la Valeska, me terminé obsesionando con terminarle de dar color aunque me ha dado toda la paja mental hacerlo perfecto. Seguramente el día de mañana no me guste (porque le veré muchas fallas), pero lo importante es la intención :D También no quise dejarlo con un fondito sobrio, así que pretendí dibujar un background que sé que está todo cutre. Ignórelo o aprécienlo en su máxima cutrez.
oye una pregunta así al aire, ¿no tendrá Ecthelion alguna vacante para ser su nieta? porque mADRE MÍA, quiero llorar con el post tan bonito que le ha escrito a Valeska NO MERECEMOS TANTA TERNURA EN ESTE FORO OSCURO Y TERRORÍFICO
Did a quick drawn of my charters in lackadaisy bc I thought it was funny. All my charters dress in a somwhat punk fashion so I looked at valeska gert alot😭
(Yes I drew this bc I couldn’t get the idea of Vic being a sphynx cat out of my head)
My Gotham OC is named Mavis Zane Cooper. He moved to Gotham from the Midwest and started working as Oswald's personal bodyguard. Boy is constantly subjected to gay panic, usually from Oswald, Victor, and Edward. He kinda adopts Jerome???? He meets him and is like "You are my little brother now" and Jerome just rolls with it.
He gets poisoned by Jeremiah while trying to avenge Jerome. Oswald goes on the fucking WARPATH trying to get Hugo Strange to revive him. Literally keeps Mavis's body Snow White style in the Iceberg Lounge
I wanna post something but I haven't had time to draw anything. Homework is killing me. Anyways I'll be posting my silly videos until I draw something.
Tengo que enmarcar esto para la posteridad. Yo bien tranquila mirando últimos temas. Veo que Valeska se dignó a responderle a Viktor tras tener su tema ahí desde el 15 de enero. Quien me conoce, sabe que no meto presión, si comienzo a preguntar es más que nada por mis películas y mis delulus. Pero entonces digo: BUAH, ¿YA CONTESTÓ? BUAAAAAH. Yo, bien ilusa entrando al tema desde el móvil. Noto que la extensión es demasiado breve sin leer y digo: ¿QUÉ PASÓ? Bueno, a lo mejor esta en hide porque estoy en otra cuenta o se equivocó al enviar, yo que sé.
Pues bien 🤡 quedo al leer lo que dice el contenido.
Y ES QUE ENCIMA LE DAN ME GUSTA. QUE HDP SON JAJAJAJAJAJAJA BASTA, ME RAJO VIVA. AMO.