#why couldn't this have been canon

[raiiny-bay]

the boys, 80s-ified

#another day. another AU #finding decent 80s cc was significantly harder than i thought it would be btw #let it be known that dhes' hair is supposed to be much bigger than it is #i just couldn't find a hair that matched what i was envisioning #i might still change their outfits here & there but they're ok for now #i do have 5 other kids to dress so. #this AU was not my idea for the record. it is a collab AU #hi wren lol #definitely one of my favorite AUs that the boys have been in so far #love to put the boys in Situations #rainyrambles #dhestyn #kelly #idk why i used the boys' full names for their tags #literally every other one of my ocs' tags are their nicknames. why did i do that #ngl dhes' outfit just looks like something canon dhes would wear lol

[i-guess-its-amafico-now]

This one is "Hook, line... "

and this is "Sinker".

Inspired by @queenamayasimp 's post on instagram. Amaya canonically has a freckle on her neck (or "neckle" as someone far more clever than me commented on ig). When she let's down her hair, there's a deeeefinite magnetism that attracts Magnifico to give kisses on her freckles. They remind him of constellations, and he'd also draw little zig zag figures on them with his fingers as they lie cuddling in bed together. Wholesome and in love <333

#disney wish #amafico #magama #wish queen amaya #wish king magnifico #amaya x magnifico #my art #I don't really care about designing clothes can you tell? the dress pattern changes 'cause I could not give a damn xD #goddamn why couldn't Magnifico given his wife's neck a kiss in the movie #her dress is just calling for it AND !! fricking canonically there's even an aiming point for it #like literally “place kiss here” #would have been so cute in addition to the hand kiss after the book scene

[greenerteacups]

Are there any other wizarding families that are underexplored in canon and pique your interest in a similar way to the Blacks?

This is a unique function of what food my brain worms like to eat, but no one's doing it like the Blacks. The drama? The intrigue? The Gothic horror? The prodigal sons and lost daughters and killers and sinners and martyrs and saints? The wizard Catholicism of it all? The story of the House of Black is the best book never written.

#i do think the potters could benefit from fleshing out #like harry's got no cousins or grandparents on his dad's side and that's weird to me #because his parents were... 22? so... how early did james's parents die? and how? because they're not old enough for natural causes #though to be honest. if i could add one backstory to canon it wouldn't be the potters OR the blacks #it would be peter pettigrew and the story of his betrayal #most important decision in the whole fucking series. lynchpin of the novels' decade-spanning plot #and it's like. whoops. motivation machine broke! #WHY did he do it? we have no mcfucking clue #the potters and blacks are cool to think about but ultimately just extra dressing for the plot #understanding peter pettigrew is crucial to understanding why the novels happen and we simply don't! #EDIT: just remembered the pottermore canon that the Potters have james when they're much older and that's why they're not around #that's not satisfying to me for 2 reasons 1: wizards canonically have longer-than-normal lifespans #and 2: doesn't explain how/why the Evanses disappear after Lily's death #like I'm not saying they COULDN'T die — obviously could! my grandparents were all dead before my 20s #but that was like. cancer. and in one case aggressively accelerated liver failure #just like a throwaway line or something to clear it up would've been cool #since it's not so much a plot hole as a plot pothole #we can get over it but shit's smoother without

[alphacrone]

thinking about george becoming an agent much later than others, because his family didn't need money that desperately. thinking about him joining fittes against his parents' wishes, because he's been hyperfixated on the Problem as long as anyone can remember. thinking about how relieved his family must have been when he came home, fired. thinking about how hard it must have been to let him leave again, for a uncertain future in an uncertain place.

#why couldn't he have been an engineer like his siblings? #engineers are safe; engineers aren't child soldiers in an invisible war #lockwood & co. #lockwood and co #ok to rb #this is more of a headcanon than based in actual canon

[qveenpoppy]

hsmtmts canonizing gay ryan is the only good thing this show has ever done

#federle just couldn't wait to get his gay little hands on ryan huh #why is his boyfriend scott hoying though 😭 #i'll forgive them for not going the chad route #but idk it would have been funnier if they pulled chris colfer out of retirement #canonize that glee crossover #hsmtmts

[synonymroll648]

the ultimate off-page kotlc love triangle was between brant and jolie and vertina. discuss. 

#i'll start off first #brant and vertina did not have feelings for each other. idk if they tolerated each other or hated each other from the start #but they definitely hated each other at the end #people have been saying bi jolie rights for ages so it's like. ok. what female character was she canonically close with #and that goes to vertina the spectral mirror. which is. interesting. since vertina is only coded. not actually sentient #so it's either: jolie fell for someone that doesn't have romantic attraction coded into them (same here vertina) #or: elvin tech is so advanced that she can develop romantic attraction and that's an extra layer as to why she was so upset about jolie's #passing #OR: they both fell for each other but either wouldn't admit it or couldn't make it work #and brant x jolie is obvious. we don't need to explain there #listen ik jolie x vertina #has crackship vibes but there's POTENTIAL. think about how much we hear that jolie and vertina were close. think about how sophie needs #a bicon to look up to. someone to look at for reference as to where to put her footsteps because we all know sophie foster is bi as fuck #WE HAD THE BEE MOVIE WE CAN HAVE THIS #LET ME HAVE MY ELF X TECHY MIRROR SHIP. I WILL EVENTUALLY WRITE A FIC IF I HAVE TO. IT'S BEEN ON MY MIND FOR WAY TOO LONG OK #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #jolie ruewen #kotlc brant #kotlc vertina #IT'S ABOUT THE CHILDHOOD FRIENDS TO LOVERS AND THE ANGST OK

[iridescentoracle]

i totally get why LfW isn’t covering the novels (aside from that early bit of Study in Scarlet) but it does kill me a little that we didn’t do Hound at some point because like. man.

'Well, I am glad from my heart that you are here, for indeed the responsibility and the mystery were both becoming too much for my nerves. But how in the name of wonder did you come here, and what have you been doing? I thought that you were in Baker Street working out that case of blackmailing.'

'That was what I wished you to think.'

'Then you use me, and yet do not trust me!' I cried, with some bitterness. 'I think that I have deserved better at your hands, Holmes.'

'My dear fellow, you have been invaluable to me in this as in many other cases, and I beg that you will forgive me if I have seemed to play a trick upon you. In truth, it was partly for your own sake that I did it, and it was my appreciation of the danger which you ran which led me to come down and examine the matter for myself. […] As it is, I have been able to get about as I could not possibly have done had I been living at the Hall, and I remain an unknown factor in the business, ready to throw in all my weight at a critical moment.'

'But why keep me in the dark?'

'For you to know could not have helped us, and might possibly have led to my discovery. You would have wished to tell me something, or in your kindness you would have brought me out some comfort or other, and so an unnecessary risk would be run. […]

I was still rather raw over the deception which had been practised upon me, but the warmth of Holmes's praise drove my anger from my mind. I felt also in my heart that he was right in what he said, and that it was really best for our purpose that I should not have known that he was upon the moor.

'That's better,' said he, seeing the shadow rise from my face.

like. man. passages to have been published within a year or two of “Empty House,” huh

#sherlock holmes #HOUN #EMPT #it didn't really strike me the first god-knows-how-many times i read EMPT (or HOUN for that matter) #but at some point i was rereading the whole canon but misplaced Hound and so skipped right to the Return #and the reveal seemed so weirdly understated and quickly glossed over to the point it felt like half the conversation was missing? #and then my copy of Hound turned up again and i got to the reveal *there* and just had a moment of oh. #oh‚ *there* it is #that's why we don't get more about the deception or anything about watson feeling hurt or angry let alone holmes' explanation #or the two of them talking things out and all of it being okay again #because we don't need it in the Empty House because we already got that conversation #more or less #in Hound #also [slams fist on table] HOLMES SPENDS THIS ENTIRE CONVERSATION PRAISING AND THANKING WATSON #AND CALLING HIM INVALUABLE AND SAYING HE COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT WATSON'S HELP DAMMIT #he refuses to stop emphasizing how important watson has been to the case until watson smiles!!! #and even then he brings it up again later in the conversation more than once!!! #YES i am still holding a grudge against The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) dir. Sidney Lanfield NO i will not let this go

[hot-cocoa-addict]

okay genuine question was i supposed to find out that joker’s shirt ISN’T actually sleeveless because i randomly stumbled across some old official replica of his outfit that was made in 2017 (seriously why only now am i finding this thing???) or do people just not know it exists?

joker canonically has sleeves, or at least he does if the replica is to be believed (and its making was supervised by shigenori soejima, who is the character designer of most modern persona games for anyone who doesn’t recognize the name). i don’t know how to cope. i genuinely thought he didn’t have sleeves outside of the overcoat. i don’t think i’ve ever seen a piece of art where joker doesn’t have his big coat on that features him with sleeves. i can’t cope guys i’m gonna fall apart this is breaking me. all i wanted to do was find a reference for something and then i stumbled across the fact that joker has sleeves.

#persona 5 #joker p5 #HE HAS SLEEVES #why does this man have sleeves??? #no wonder the pyramid palace was a nightmare #joker must have been dying of heatstroke whenever they were outside #the team just watches on in concern #and obviously the palace was bad for other reasons but dying of heat exhaustion would mean you couldn't help the palace ruler #i just can't get over it #this was the only thing i found that wasn't fan art that actually showed his full shirt #except i vastly prefer the short/no sleeves so that's canon in my stuff #i refuse to give him long sleeves the short will always be what i go with

[serialreblogger]

Spelling was not standardized in Shakespeare's England

yes this is my point. william "sex jokes" "historical RPF" shakespeare is broadly upheld as the pinnacle of english literature, and zero percent of his works conform to any standardized spelling/grammar system

"shakespeare couldn't spell his own name" is shorthand for "the snobbery of ~english literature & canon~ is both self-contradictory and arbitrary in the extreme." & to me this means that anyone can create whatever they want and be just as good as any shakespearean sonnet. bc the only real qualifier for "good writing" is that somebody cared about the story they were telling, and the only real qualifier for "good reading material" is that someone, somewhere, wants to read it

no gods no kings no earl of oxford only a bunch of plays written in a drama club's groupchat and the people who keep investing them with meaning. there is no magic formula or golden standard. the only thing that gives any art any value is the people who choose to value it

#ask linden #this is about the title of my blog #shakespeare couldn't spell his own name and NOBODY CARES! #this is my point! #nobody *should* care! it doesn't matter!! #also that last line abt earls of oxford is in reference to the ''oxfordian theory of shakespeare authorship'' as the wiki page calls it #u can check that on wikipedia if ur interested but what it boils down to is that a bunch of academics have been up in arms since ~the 1920s #over the idea that The Venerable Shakespeare could have been some rube born to commoners #obviously plays so Erudite (& so uniquely appealing to the ''commoner'' demographic) could not have been authored by some paltry lowborn! #why that boy billy probably couldn't even write! #- which like. cmon man. u have about as much evidence as chemtrails here. and also like - #yeah there's a solid chance shakespeare wasn't super up on his penmanship! but that doesn't mean he wasn't capable of eloquence?? #like in all probability a lot of shakespeare's work might not have been penned by him #& in fact it's not unlikely that at least some of it was quasi-crowdsourced as actors & collaborating playwrights weighed in #Richard Burbage probably had a lot to do with Hamlet's character work & writing!! we know this!! #we do not create in a vacuum!!! art written in a groupchat is not less valuable or artistic for having peer review built into it!! #shakespeare was just some guy. & he's also a symbol #arbitrary as that designation may be. but the old white men who chose their canon chose him as a patron saint #so i will go on insisting that if we're to know shakespeare we had better know him properly. foul mouth gallows humour bisexuality & all #shakespeare #literature #linden's originals #linden in the tags

[pocketramblr]

God Hisashi!Giran must be so stressed, first his son gets diagnosed as quirkless, which sucks (but he can work with that and teach him te be a villain), then his son spontaneously develops a quirk powerful enough to break his bones (which means either Izuku or AFO went behind his back to make a deal), and then when he confronts his son about it apparently he got his quirk from All might? Which is apparently a thing? Oh and now his entire family is a target for AFO, thats fun.

Giran is angrily muttering the whole time he's packing about how for fifteen years his son was so sweet and no trouble at all, only for all that parenting stress to strike as one very dangerous blow right now and in a way where Giran literally cannot cut his losses and run. he'd almost be proud of izuku for it if it weren't terrifying. Inko, who has been stressing about their son and his troubles for the last fifteen years, tells him it's karma.

He definitely leaves something for the heroes to find blaming the family's disappearance on AfO though, since it'd be better for him if All Might and AfO just killed each other and left no one to know to keep looking for them.

#Giran: why couldn't it have been crime. any kind of crime. why couldn't he have just snapped and murdered that bakugo kid #Giran: i could have covered THAT. any kind of teen rebellion at all. i could have handled teen pregnancy or trigger or- why this one thing #Giran: and why does all might even HAVE a transferable quirk #izuku (who hasn't been told about the first holder yet): *shurgs* idunno #Giran: you didnt ASK??? you're smarter than this!! i taught you to be smarter than this!! #inko (mad a la @ ua dorms in canon): yeah well you should have taught him to be wary of tall men offering quirks. #anon #pocket talks to people

[junonreactor]

hm

#one of the other things that annoys me about soulmate stories and not-canon-rooted aus in general is the way so many of them discount the #idea that two people can be perfect for each other at one point in their lives but an extremely bad match at another point. #sometimes you grow into people who would be good for each other and sometimes you grow apart #and i think it's an important part of understanding a character to understand how they got from point A to point B and what makes up a #'core' of their character and how they've changed as a result. i refuse to believe that you all Want to believe that people are static #'souls' from birth to the grave. #''if these two characters had just met earlier they would have been the perfect team and half the plot would never have happened'' #if those two characters had met as teens/younger adults they would have torn each other to pieces because they lacked the perspective given #to them by the life experiences they had as individuals. #''if only this person had confessed their feelings at this point in the plot everything would be fixed'' #the reason they did not do that is because of who they are as a character and this experience and regret is what pushes them to #pursue a relationship more earnestly later in the plot #''these two would have been best friends as kids!'' #again if you read the portions where they were respectively children you can imagine that actually they would have publicly #uninvited the other one from their 'bff only' birthday parties #'these two characters were perfect for each other in [flashback arc] why weren't they endgame' #because they grew into people who couldn't coexist without hurting each other and weren't willing to change those parts of themselves so #they split ways (violently) #all of this is in some ways subjective character interpretation and in others very obvious #but i came across another post today about how someone is frustrated that a couple 'didn't just meet sooner' #and with these two characters it's like. they genuinely would have killed each other. like they would have driven each other to kill themse #to delete #ein babbles #and another thing about people who get smug/mad at characters for being 'stupid' for what ultimately is 'not knowing that they are in a #[genre] story' is th [dragged away from the laptop and wrapped in several layers of blanket burrito where i suffocate to death]

[terrainofheartfelt]

why is s3 dair so good??? honestly, what is it about them (both as individual characters and relationship-wise) that makes it so... good, for lack of a better word?

it's the Narrative Foils, babe!

no, but really, this plot had EVERYTHING: there's first the setup that they're both at nyu even though they didn't want to be - it's where the ended up after their respective Yale dreams fell through.

then, there's the role reversal of Blair, who's always used to being on top, sure she was caught up in power struggles at Constance but there people still cared who she was, and now, nobody does. she's just another freshman. and Dan, who was used to a certain invisible kind of existence, is noticed on his very first day for being a Writer - and a good one! and he makes friends who actually like him as a person! it's him with the social capital now, and the first thing he spends it on is to help out Blair. (insane. they are insane. they should kiss.)

🪑 aside, this is also the first time in the show ever that Dan is unattached narratively to Serena. I mean, they're friends and on the verge of being family, but they'd been given real romantic closure in s2, so they start off the college arc truly as just friends, which means for the first time in the show, Dan's romantic arc prospects are openended, which in my unexpert opinion, pours a little extra sauce on his loaded interactions with Blair.

also he and Blair's roommate fuck and Blair sees him shirtless in his post woodchuck todd glow up and idk how a girl doesn't have strong feelings about that ya feel me?

AND (I think Nads has touched on this before?) Constance/St. Jude's was pretty...partitioned, I guess you could say, so with the exception of The Essay Contest, I don't think Blair and Dan were put in the position for any competition, but at a fully coed school? And with their similar interests they were bound to end up in classes together, and I swear it is such a CRIME that we didn't get any classroom hijinks with these ding-dongs. competing for top grades and rankings, fighting over a TA position, checking out all the material in the library on a topic to sabotage the other's research, it could have fed us Damien Darko vibes a season and a half earlier and I am BITTER.

I think ultimately it's how the beginning of college presented a twist on their previously perceived social standings (and understandings of each other), and that the sheer potential of starting over in a new place opened up windows of story that didn't/couldn't exist in the high school ecosystem. was it ultimately underexplored and underutilized? absolutely, but at least we have that s3 dair FWB fic on ao3...

#I know every time morgan's queue spits out a new post pre canon dair we say #'they should have fucked' #but like. really. they should have hooked up at nyu #gg meta #asks #insistonyourcupofstars #ty for sending <333 #and s3 had #dan in his himbo era #a distinctive moment in time for which we are all grateful #and idk like...if they had kept that through line #of blair trying to fit in at nyu and using dan and vanessa as her means to get there #and they were all made to really be in each other's company and lives #then 🪑 couldn't have lasted #and danessa probably couldn't have either #like. imagine blair and vanessa drinking on the floor of one of their dorms #vanessa calls chip a shitty boyfriend and a terrible lay #and blair gets offended and shoots back 'you're one to talk. why are you even bothering with humphrey when you don't love him?' #and they just...snark each other into good life advice #okay so I've been rewatching hart of dixie #and lemon and zoe's antagonistic frenemyship is PRECISELY the vibe I had wished for blair and vanessa #plus there's that whole #zoe's best friend falls in love with lemon and they are both so irritated by the other #blair making a list of demands to negotiate her time with dan and assuming vanessa will do the same...yeah... #these tags have really gotten away with me I should just stop now.

[starryc]

(maten)rouran jinja

#hypnosis mic #hypmic #sound horizon #my art #debated on putting this here the past month #but in honor of ema app launching today i've decided why not #so pss pss pss laurant hypsters -- #like i mentioned on twt this isn't necessarily who i'd cast as the ema negai characters #like hifumi would definitely be miyabi and i thought dice would be a good inuhiko #but it was too on the nose with otome being nami lol #but i just couldn't pass up the pun #and also the wolf imagery??? ye #also if anyone into sanhora is curious as to why hifumi is purple (which is usually associated with death in sh) #the tl;dr is that the colors associated with life/death have been deconstructed a lot recently and even the meaning of life/death too #also izanami is the god of hades and cyan is doppo's color so lol #i just left their positions as is usually depicted in hypmic's canon #anyways posts for me and like three other people thank u

[aestherians]

idk if i'll actually manage to finish this so i'm just posting it now, but this is the closest i've gotten to getting my/ben's face right!

imagine when i'm in a shift and look like this in my mind and somehow still identify as mostly female. gender = fucked lol

also sorry he's shirtless, drawing clothes is boring :T

#ben rambles #fictionkind #mullet man take me by the hand~ #it's been so hard to learn how to draw humans why couldn't i have kinfirmed another ungulate? #i have 20+ years practice drawing ungulates. i only really started drawing humans like 7 years ago #anyways yeah ben in my canon has babyface so he starts growing out his beard in his 20s to combat that

[juicedbeetle]

this may have been obvious but I just realized beej probably sniffs Barbara and Adam's hair because he couldn't for years while they were alive

#way #day #beetlejuice #beetlejuice musical #woobification tag #either he always wanted to and finally did it OR he never realized they'd HAVE smells and when he noticed he couldn't help it #either way it's a neat detail to me because it's like. he's known them for years (they haven't) and it's the first time he's - #close to them with ALL five senses #maybe that is also why he is so touchy touchy with them also #he said it himself in fright if their lives he cannot interact with the world of the living whatsoever #so not only he couldn't smell the maits or talk to them or touch them... well yeah all if that. maybe he had forgotten the other senses #or maybe he missed them and wondered. for years wondered. what's it like to touch them? #and so he goes straight to kissing them and sitting on them 😭🥹🤧 because man. listen it's been rough #im sad that he wasn't frightened in the 22 one i saw but :(( also aaaaa i dont. like the make up sorry sorry #also he said instead of but thats ok i forgive him he can do no wrong i love him hes correct #talking about TWBDT pt2 #headcanon #though it's pretty much canon anyway

[tachiisms]

@nieithryn (responding to this post [x]) Only other point I might add is that Anakin says mentor not Master, so dependjng how you interpret it, it could also be that Siri was a major mentor involved with a padawan whose master was unavailable for the ceremony. Different authors vary on how firmly they dub a padawans master, but that could also be an option. If Siri were an instructor who was available and trusted by a padawan, and their master was unavailable, she might be asked to attend in that capacity.

this is also a really good point, thanks Liz! I will say that from what I know of Olana’s backstory that was written out (I haven’t read it: it was written for starwars.com as a ‘what’s the story?’ for background characters at the time of her appearance as a background character in ROTS, I’ve only seen her wookiepedia page) her Master was killed during the first few months of the Clone Wars (not at Geonosis, but not long after) and per that version, Olana was considered close enough to completing her training that she was Knighted instead of given another Master. but since Brotherhood puts her Knighting at the same time as Anakin’s immediately following Geonosis, that’s sort of why I figured that it could just push her Master’s death to shortly before the Clone Wars instead of shortly into the Clone Wars. so that factored into how I factored it in. I do really like this point and it does make me feel better about the whole thing, tbh.

#me @ mike chen hey why couldn't you just have said that siri was there to support anakin's knighting 'cause she's known him for years #or that she was there to support obi-wan being put on the council because they've been friends their whole lives #I will pay real cash money to any star wars author who namedrops ferus now that i'm positive disney doesn't want him canonized. #ooc