#yes but I literally only know it from a different tumblr post discussing it

[lxvxadrusxlla]

Why are all Slytherins "evil"?

I was re-reading Harry Potter in the last period. Awesome experience, as always. I mean, HP is literally my favourite book series: it helped me to grow up and find my own identity, it made me feel less alone, it taught me how to dream and it introduced me to the world of fandoms in the internet.

Despite many problems of the series (narrative and ideological), I love Harry Potter with all my heart and I will never stop to recommend it to young readers.

But, you know, there's always something that really, really bothers me with Harry Potter. Well, yes, we could discuss about the problematic aparth- uhm, separation between Wizards and Muggles, or about the fact that Elves slavery is pratically... justified (?), and there's no solution for the Elves question in the final book.

But these topics are too much complicated for a random tumblr post, and we are on the internet, I don't want to start a war about politics, etc. :)

No, I want to complain about a certain thing that I really can't understand and it bothers me everytime that I read the books or watch the movies.

WHY ARE ALL SLYTHERINS EVIL? JOANNE, I NEED AN ANSWER, BECAUSE I DON'T UNDERSTAND.

Why they have to be so mean everytime? Being ambitious and shrewd doesn't mean "bad person".

Also, why are they all racist? And why it seems that all of them are sons or daughters of Death Eaters, or in any case their parents share Voldemort's ideology?

Are you saying that ALL SLYTHERINS are pureblood and racist? ALL OF THEM came from a family of Death Eaters? So there are not cunning, ambitious and shrewd people between halfbloods, Muggle-Borns and healthy pureblood families. That's weird.

Oh, yes, and in the first book Slytherins are described as all ugly. Literally.

So, yes, Slytherins are evil and ALSO ugly. Again... why?

Yes, there are some exceptions.

The first one is Severus Snape: now, I love Snape, he's such an interesting character and I feel sorry for his past; the scene in which he gets bullied is so hurting to me (I was bullied myself so I can understand the anger and that feeling of weakness), but... he was not a good person. He has been dominated by hate for his entire life and he never overcomed his past. He was a Death Eater for a period. He bullied Harry, Hermione and Neville for no reason. And sometimes he was so cruel that I think his behaviour is a part of the "All Slytherins are evil" mentality.

Like, Snape has deceived the Dark Lord for years, he is a genius in Potions, DADA and Occlumancy, he's supposed to be one of the smartest characters in the series. So... why has he never understand that Harry is not like James?

"Because he was blinded by hate", you can say.

Ok, but when he saw Harry's memories in the fifth book, why didn't he change his mind?

"He had to act cold because he was pretending to be still loyal to Voldemort."

OK, but there's a difference between being cold to someone and being openly cruel. Snape's behaviours are often illogical and contradictory with the idea of his character, and I can only think that the author depicted him in that way not only to write a "grey character", but also to be loyal to the tradition of "Slytherins are evil".

Next? Oh, Regulus Arcturus Black, one of my favourites. Yes, he was a Slytherin, he was a hero who betrayed the Dark Lord for the sake of Wizarding World. However, his character still has many negative traits: he was a Death Eater, and he shared the racist ideology of his family for years. Again, not bad, but not a good example.

Narcissa Black. She saved Harry, but she is still a racist woman who is married to a Death Eater, and she failed complitely to educate her son.

Her sister, Andromeda Black. Yes, she is the only example of "good Slyhterins" who is not racist or who has not connections with Death Eaters. So, yes, she is good, but there's another problem in this case: she appears once in the whole series, she is barely a character!

Horace Slughorn, my love, he is good, yes. BUT the main trait of his character is negative: he loves to collect the best students like they were trophies.

Draco Malfoy. He is a useless bully for five books, then he changes but even when his character became deeper and more interesting he remains a coward.

Sorry Draco's fans: I like Draco too, but it's true.

I often see people talk about "Draco's redemption", but honestly I don't see this redeption. Simply he became a decent person, but he is not go through an actual process of change. He is mean, but he never wanted to kill, he never wanted war, so he tries to not get in the way of Harry and his allies, that's it. This is not a redeption, this is an awareness.

There are also Albus Severus, Scorpius and Leta, but they are not characters from the original series, and they were created AFTER all the criticism about the fact that all Slytherins are depicted as bad, so I won't consider them.

It's a shame, you know? Because one of the most important themes in HP is supposed to be INCLUSION. So, why, WHY, nobody, even the "good characters", try to understand or socialize with Slytherins?

Why, in the SIXTH BOOK, I have to read about Harry and Neville who don't greet their Slytherin schoolmates beacuse "Gryffindors and Slytherins don't talk, that's it." Yes, Harry says that.

This is the reason why I love those fanfiction in which we can see Harry and other characters interact with Slytherins. Because this is what I want to see at Hogwarts: inclusion, no prejudice, brotherhood between the four Houses.

I don't know why, but nowdays I still see some "fans" of HP criticize or have prejudice about Slytherin house and I'm like: "After all this time?"

Don't answer "Always" this time, Slytherism (?) has to finish, once and for all.

So... Yes, peace and love between the Houses, thay are all great in their own way!

[I also hope that my English was comprehensible, I'm not that good, but I'm trying my best.]

#harry potter #harry potter criticism #slytherin #severus snape #draco malfoy #narcissa malfoy #andromeda tonks #horace slughorn #regulus black #hogwarts #I'm a proud Ravenclaw btw

[ineffable-hyperfixation]

Ahem *puts on best "ok people listen up" tone*

Good Omens (and everyone else) fandom! It seems we have regressed a bit....somehow? On the definition of Asexual! Let's clear this up!

Yes the actual literal meaning of the term: A=no sexual =....sex....well but actually no, which is the point of the post

Dictionary definition is why we are here!

Asexual: a person who experiences no sexual feelings or desires, or who is not sexually attracted to anyone.

Note the last line please!

Asexuality is a spectrum.

On one side you have: I cannot become sexually aroused by anything, and in some cases I do not want to

And on the other you (might) have: Literally any other stimulation other than A Face will do just fine!

Asexuals can be turned on by: the written word, a comic, a scene in a movie/show/porn/irl/etc, physical contact, etc!

There is a difference between attraction and desire! Allosexuals usually have that lumped into one thing, to them there (usually) isn't one without the other! If you're attracted to someone it means your body is uh...also good to go. For a lot of asexual people you can be attracted to someone, but your body's just off reading a book or something

Asexual people have crushes, fall in love, comment on how aesthetically pleasing someone is! But they probably don't want to jump their bones like right now (or possibly ever! Depends where you fall on the spectrum!)

You might say: no but! You're talking about demisexual people!

Maybe! Probably not! Demi is just a place way to one side of the spectrum. Where, after getting to know someone really well, you may actually look at them one day and go...."oh shit! Hi down there when'd you wake up??" Your attraction and desire have fused for this person/s...congrats!

An asexual person may never ever want to have sex with their partner. This is fine! But it needs to be discussed between everyone near the start of a relationship. And people need to acknowledge that "once you've found The One everything will click!" is pretty deeply internalized. Be sure you truly understand that that's not (necessarily) the case before commiting to a relationship

An asexual person may absolutely want to (awesome!), but have a hard time getting things moving (put down the damn book there are things to do!!) In which case it's good for all parties to see if they can figure out what sorts of things do turn you on, (as long as you're both willing and able), and how to approach letting your partner/s know they'd like to initiate fun times. (Without it coming across as awkward or pushy!) This makes for a healthy relationship!

"I'm doing this only to please my partner" is not healthy! It's also a really condescending thing to say about all asexual people! Please stop!!

And yeah an asexual person may indeed realize they're demi after starting a relationship! Neat!

Sexuality is like gender. It's all made up because we like labels! Your bits know what they want, when they want it! (Your brain ofc has the final say, I'm very well aware that bits go way off the rails sometimes, that's an entire other post lol)

Other people do not get to dictate how you feel, and like gender it can take a while to realize what your orientation may be. And that label can change so many times over the course of your life!!

Love who you love, have sex with who you (and they) want to have sex with, or don't!! But stop telling other people what they are and are not, simply because your definition or experience is different from theirs

(Please let me know if I've left out something crucial or gotten something horridly wrong! My research is personal/others experience + tumblr explanations + a google search here and there. Please do not come in my replies/comments/inbox telling me the whole post is wrong.....that's petty)

#asexual #demisexual #good omens #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #yes I'm putting it in this tag #that's kinda the whole point #LEAVE THE FANFIC/ART PEOPLE ALONE #if you don't like it #you don't have to consume it #simple as that

[qqueenofhades]

you can tell you work in academia with how much patience you have for some of these asks...."I don't know what is and isn't true anymore" is such an indefensible cop out of a way to exist in the modern world. morally clean "Leftists" could at least have the decency to learn the history of the people and places they pretend to care about for internet points, but hey, it's way easier to take the Opressor Approved route and give into despair and recycle repurposed right wing propaganda like the TERF version of geopolitics. a lot of people need to ask themselves, if there were no internet asspats involved, would you actually still care?? anyway thank you for your patience and willingness to engage, you're a better person than me :')

So far as the other anon goes, they have apologized and taken responsibility that it was a dumb thing to do, I have accepted that apology, and I think that matter is now closed. And yes, I do actually appreciate (as discussed in many other posts and asks) that it is difficult to always and automatically find reliable information, that it has been made deliberately even more difficult to do so by various bad actors, and that this results in a big ol' Bad Take Sea even by people who are genuinely otherwise well-meaning or want to make a positive contribution. So I really do have sympathy for that. Perhaps the previous anon did not put that sentiment across in the best of ways, but as I said, we should all have a bit more grace in remembering that we are real people behind the computer/phone screen and are dealing with different stressful things, and therefore sometimes make mistakes and do or say things we don't mean. (You know, for those of us who aren't pornbots. Oh tumblr.)

Where you and I absolutely agree, however, is that just because it is sometimes difficult to acquire that information, or that systemic and deliberate barriers/misinformation has been put in place to increase the difficulty, it does not excuse people from the responsibility of doing so, especially if they want to put themselves in the position of being the Perfectly Correct Social Media Oracle who will judge and criticize everyone else's responses and act as if that has some real-world impact or is a real marker of someone's "personal morality." And there are for sure plenty of people who are doing that with literally no self-awareness or other critical tools, because as you say, they want the Internet Asspats for being seen as a "Good Person" according to a very narrow and limited definition. But they can't think about what that entails, how to challenge it or correct it, or otherwise apply it carefully, so, yeah.

As I said, I am generally willing to answer asks that are made in good faith and show a real willingness to learn, because (as noted and which is doubtless visible again here) I am an academic and I enjoy having these kinds of discussions. But this topic in particular, and modern social media in general, is really not made for it, and it's easy to get sucked down the Discourse Black Hole that doesn't do anything for anyone, and I try to avoid that. So I answer only when I think I can contribute something useful to the discussion, which results in those kinds of long and careful responses where I do always worry that I haven't said enough or said it the right way, especially with the bad-faith reading police eager to leap on any small misstatement or sentence taken out of context. That is of course a hazard of being a person on the Internet in 2024, and since I am still here and still answering questions generally, I have clearly decided to accept it. But I also don't have an obligation to respond to *everything,* and I don't. It is a fine line to walk and again, I am a middle-aged tired academic and ordinary person doing my best. I appreciate your support. :)

#anonymous #ask

[vincord]

Because of college and exams, I completely forgot that I was tagged in this, so yeah.

It's so hard to say something intelligible about this year. Milgram definitely made it a little more alive, but I don't know if this is a good thing or not. This is an interesting project that has definitely become a part of my life, but conflicts with people in the fandom have worsened my condition. This post not about that, of course. I feel good on Tumblr milgram fandom side. reading analyses and theories here helps a little to distract from other bad thoughts in your head. not always, but it helps.

I'm not the most social and active person and I have almost no contact with anyone here, so again, I was very surprised that I was tagged. It's kind of like when you just exist and stay away from everyone. I don't know. Again, it's hard to write something.

I don't even know who to tag, really. now I'm tagging not so much to pass the baton, but just to let people know that yes, I remembered them from the whole bunch of people on this site.

@tsuwmya You're definitely the one who makes staying in the milgram fandom so much better. and of all the russian fandom, you're probably the only one I trust and don't treat with suspicion or caution. Я очень рада так сказать что мы контачим я готова писать это каждый раз ты очень умная и с умными мыслями и цумиграм я твой съела в целом хочется чтоб у тебя всё хорошо было((

@roseofcards90 @plan-3-tmars Rlly like u!! I am very happy when I see you by the milgram tag. And from time to time it is quite pleasant to contact you in comments or tags, I would say. Literally remember you as "main kotoko fan" | "main kazui fan". And it's interesting to read your posts about these characters, and from time to time discuss them with you!

@salviadivin0rum too. I couldn't help but take the chance to write again how much I love your art. It's always so airy and soft. + the colors that you select for the art. always so warm. There's something about it all that I've never seen from anyone else.

And since @archivalofsins had tagged me (which I'm very surprised and grateful for at the same time!! Really, thanks) I will say that without you and your texts, being in this fandom would be completely different. Completely different. I don't know how to say it exactly. Clever texts with thoughts that I didn't even think about, which is why a more detailed thinking begins and "oh, this really makes sense" or "oh, this is really interesting. I'll think about it." Your firm and confident position is inspiring. That's all I can write at one o'clock in the morning, huh.

And that's it, I guess. My friends outside of tumblr know that I love them, so I won't tag them here. If I wanted to write something, but I didn't write it, then I forgot. I just hope that the winter holidays will go well to you. That's all.

#vncrd's shitpost

[cookinguptales]

...well, to start with, because this is tumblr and I'm mostly here for tarot, memes, and silly vampire porn. The things I discuss IRL, the things I donate to, and the things I support are not always reflected in the social media where I come to unwind.

The second reason is because I was literally in another country for over a month. I have multiple chronic illnesses and I've barely been keeping my head above water and the last thing I wanted to do was post about international politics. The fact that you think it's appropriate to just go up to random people that you may or may not even know and demand that they weigh in on important issues in the manner, environment, and time period of your choosing is uhhh bizarre!

In fact, I debated replying to this at all just because it is such an out-of-line demand to make on fucking Tumblr of all places. But I do actually have thoughts on the subject, and I guess it's as good a time as any.

The third and honestly most important reason I haven't said much publicly is this: there has been a lot of misinformation spreading about this issue. It's quickly become apparent to me that this is a fight that's being fought through propaganda, and it's not always been easy for me to figure out which news articles are accurate. I see an article go up, then an article criticizing it, then a retraction, then a retraction of a retraction. I see horrifying videos being posted, then it coming out that they're from a completely different conflict. Hell, I've seen people I used to respect quoting straight-up conspiracy theory weirdos because they agree with what they're saying on this particular subject.

(Yes, I did notice the person who put fucking RFK Jr. on my Tumblr dash like he was a hero.)

As a general rule, I am against the slaughter of innocents, which is why I have been historically against many of Israel's actions in Palestine. It's why I am against the actions they are taking now, which, no matter how you slice it, seem to be using a terrible tragedy as an excuse to enact one that is several hundred times worse.

But I have to admit that I've also been looking at several of my acquaintances very differently as they talk about how the slaughter of other innocents is ideal, and I've gotten really uncomfortable with the implications of some of their posts.

(And to be very clear, when I talk about posts celebrating the deaths of civilians, I'm not talking about things that are pro-decolonization or anything, I'm talking about people I know who, when the news first broke and very little was known, explicitly said that being against the murder of non-combatants means that you are not acceptably dedicated to revolution. And like... no, I do not believe that's an acceptable (or even effective) way to achieve peace.)

Plus, I do not believe that all criticism of Israel is antisemitic, but several posts I've seen lately have been very undeniably antisemitic. (And yes, others have been islamophobic as well.) I've seen people attributing the actions of Israel's government and military to all Jewish people worldwide. I've seen people who are boosting the voices of literal Neo-Nazis. I've seen conspiracy theories that are honestly just straight-up rehashes of blood libel. And I've seen a lot of posts, far too many posts, that seem happy to indulge in old tropes about Jews controlling the media instead of looking at the political effects of mainstream Evangelical eschatology.

Like... I've seen a lot of well-meaning people post things that are inaccurate, misleading, or straight-up hateful propaganda. Against either side, really. Against both.

And frankly, I am afraid that, through ignorance, I might do the same. I've seen posts that seem normal to me, only to be shown how they contain dogwhistles or inaccuracies that feed into longstanding stereotypes. I've seen news articles (supporting both sides) that seem accurate only to turn out to be sloppily reported inaccuracies, if not straight-up lies.

While I've been supporting human rights organizations IRL, I do not feel as if I am so qualified to speak on this subject that I won't accidentally do harm. While I am usually content simply boosting others' voices, in this situation I am afraid that I might spread misinformation that might hurt Palestinians or Jewish people that have nothing to do with the conflict. Hell, there are a lot of other groups that are getting caught in the crossfire, too. Even people who live in Israel who aren't politicians/combatants aren't people that I want harmed.

(Like... I wouldn't want to be judged based on what my country's politicians, military, and most outspoken racists have done, either, y'know? I do not believe that there is any country where every person in it is bad.)

Honestly speaking, there are a lot of subjects that I think are important that I don't talk about publicly. I talk about things like queer issues and disability issues because I feel like I have firsthand knowledge of those things and am unlikely to accidentally post like... fucking alt-right propaganda or something. But with... really probably most issues, I tend to keep quiet and do my best to listen to people who know better than I do.

Which is not always a fucking bad thing!

So... you might have noticed that I screencapped this ask rather than answering it. This is because I wanted to be able to block you from my inbox after answering your concerns. Like damn, learn some fucking social skills.

#cw: #palestine #israel #war #politics #it's always the anons isn't it? #like damn if you have a problem just send me a message and ask me about it like an adult #coward

[transmalewife]

does anyone have any leftist reading on the subject of tourism to recommend? Specifically about how travel for fun, education, sport, friendship or whatever might work in a communist or anarchist or socialist society. Because like yeah, open borders or no borders whatever, cool. But that usually only gets discussed in the context of permanent immigration

Idk I guess I just find it hard to imagine how it could be organized since where I live the most obvious ways capitalism has made things worse over my lifetime have all happened because of and through the lens of tourism. Rents literally doubling over the last five years, while the standard of living falls because apartments are bought, split into tiny pieces and renovated to accomodate a couple days of living at most. The specific kind of gentrification that is NOT being pushed out by richer people moving in permanently, who might cause more expensive shops and services to replace the affordable ones, but do still need the basic necessities everyone does to live. Instead, all hairdressers, repair shops, clothing stores (especially thrift shops), pharmacies, post offices etc etc close and are replaced by luxury boutiques, clubs and stores whre you can only buy snacks, alcohol and microwave meals. Restaurants and bars hiking up prices because most of their clients come from places with stronger currencies etc etc.

At the same time though I believe travel is a crucial part of a fulfilling life for most if not all people. I believe people have the right to see and appreciate the culture and history of other places and also like... maybe go somewhere warmer and lay on the beach sometimes, even if they prefer to live and work somewhere colder. Or go skiing even if they chose to live somewhere warm and without mountains. Or even just like... vacation in a big city if they live in the countryside and vice versa. Or pop over to another continent to visit an online friend maybe. Although obviously intercontinental travel would have to be hugely limited until and unless we find ways to do it that don't destroy our planet.

At the same time some precautions do have to be taken to protect historical and especially sacred sites. Like, I don't think endless crowds should be allowed to trample through historical buildings and also open borders obviously doesn't mean white tourists get to go camping on Uluru. But on some level I do believe everyone who wants to should get to see Venice at least once in their life. But that's probably not feasible so like... who gets to decide? On what merit? Are historians, artists, journalists privileged? Or should it be a lottery?

Also I think there's a significant amount of tourism that would simply die out if going to that place wasn't a status symbol. Like you cannot convince me that if you spend 2 weeks by the pool in an enclosed luxury resort it makes a difference that it's on Hawaii rather than like... in florida. And then theres places like the Hamptons. What the fuck is the point of the Hamptons, other than bragging rights?

Obviously I know none of this is even remotely the main pressing issue to solve about a potential communist society, but then again, that's why I'm asking for reading materials, because it so rarely gets discussed. I mean I bet Marx wrote about it, which, great, point me to the relevant fragments please and I'll have a look but also this is an issue where a modern perspective would be really important. I don't think Marx, for all his wisdom, really has a solution to "what are the ethics of taking an 8 hour flight to visit a tumblr mutual".

Or maybe this whole thing is me being cynical and this is another place where things would sort of just regulate themselves. Anyway. Send me reading recs and let's very unscientifically try to check if it could work. Do try to be honest, like I've been several times as a kid and I would still go again in a heartbeat.

btw the goal of the poll is to get some kind of percentage that can be compared with the world population and how many tourists venice can support per year, though I obviously know tumblr skews mainly american and european

#mine. #leftist #tourism #venice

[kimchicollardgreens]

even if there’s a solution to a “problem”, someone can still talk abt how they don’t like said problem… you know that right? it’s always “then ignore them” or write them yourself”… who says that ppl don’t do that already. it was one opinion. no one was demanding black writers to not write wtv they want, the person only shared their view and everyone went crazy… you legit wrote a think piece over this. There shouldn’t be fighting yeah, but maybe ppl should stop feeling butthurt over opinions. users make the most trivial things a bigger issue on tumblr, legit arguing with a minor lmao

i ask you to read all of this before sending another ask, its another “think piece” but its literally the answer to why what these woman are askin is lowkey problematic and i dont blame folks for not noticing dogwhistles. im also not say all “soft girls” are spouting this stuff. (hell im one of them). im also not calling these women evil, cuz they may not truly know what they saying is problematic as we live in a capitalist yt supremacist system. im more than happy to answer more. im not somebody that gon dismiss you if you wanna have discourse💖

but yes, you can talk about a problem when its in good faith as it actually cultivates productive insight. but bad faith arguments distract us from the real problems that both groups actually want to see fixed. however we need to acknowledge that most ADULTS who come with this “soft life fic” opinion be in bad faith.

bad faith is trying to get us to come back to things both parties already agree on. we all agree that soft fic aint seen much. what we are saying is why you keep coming in the dark/urban fic inbox stating it for people who have no problem with you? we’ve assessed the “problem” and we all agree it needs fixing. its like we running in circles, instead of different directions to fix other problems. the question is how are you going to contribute to fixing it in a healthy way and how do you want us to help.

im sure cherry and her friends would love to recommend a homegirls work so long as shes respectful. HELL I’LL EVEN DO IT!!!

tho i don’t recommend coming into blogs who are strictly dark and askin’ them for anything other than that. just like how soft writers don’t want to primarily write dark.

its not butthurt when you come on someone’s page calling them “ghetto” “baby mamas” then try and position it against “soft life” “divine feminine” “old money” aesthetics.

im not saying thats what this little girl did, but ive seen grown adult women do that. and thats nasty as hell to be positioning that.

the reason she probably caught flack is because she unfortunately used a simple question thats been hijacked and used by bad faith arguers when they come to urban fic accounts.

thats usually the question to get a leg in the door to start spouting off lowkey antiblack and classist shit.

and i dont know where soft being only afforded to the croquette looking girls came from. some of the softest girls i know are high fem baddies. so thats very weird, especially when you consider that black women make up majority of that aesthetic.

essentially its respectability politics and thats why its not trivial. to most, this looks like a minor creative liberties dispute, but the underlying theme is actually steeped in so much politics that affect black women for real.

i mean just look at the whole bonnet and pajama pants debate. or the straight hair or braids for your birthday/formal event debate. or the wigs vs natural hair debate. baby mama vs wifey debate (if you believe how a woman carries herself in a way thats nondestructive to others, is a reason as to why she doesn’t deserve respect; you not a feminist.)

its grown folks bratz vs barbie all over again.

not even gon hold you, i didn’t know that was a minor. just reblogged @chrollohearttags post on my dash. anybody doing anything other than telling that little girl to get off they page is a weirdo. but cherry made a general post thats been a topic of discussion AMONGST BLACK WOMEN since we’ve been writing stories. so ofc thats what my “think piece” is about. she may have commented one question but some iteration of that same question has been around for years. i’m responding to that.

since i now know this is a minor, they could have very well been wanting to know why there is a saturation of these fics on here. and i would have told her about the culture of urban fic being ONE of the first pioneers in Black Smut Fiction. it literally helped shape the black writing culture whether bad or good. then i wouldve told her that when she’s older she could contribute to said culture. but right now she should not be consuming any sexual media.

and to ask a question like that, its clear she has some gripes about the way general media treats black women; which those are well-founded. i understand hating the “ride or die”, or the “settling for less” when it comes to media for black women. but how can you read about a specific aesthetic or lifestyle and immediately know thats was going on?

these women used to have valid points and some still do but like this little girl, they cant tell the difference and if they can, they want any kind of reputation for “ghetto” girls out the window. there’s nothing wrong with being “ghetto” and nothing wrong with being a “the soft divine feminine” but we do need to talk about why the latter feels comfortable coming on someone like cherry’s page too disparage girls who aesthetics and social values don’t align with them.

writers like cherry aren’t advocating abuse, their characters are living they best lives. doing “ghetto” shit and truly loving the partners they’re with.

there are legit women out there who are “ghetto” that love they life. and are in healthy relationships. its vile to say that the way someone simply chooses to exist is a direct result of how black women face abuse, especially as something as silly as wigs, body con dresses and long nails. or even activities like twerking, having babies, doing drugs and partying.

its kinda like this whole Sukiana situation vs the Home Depot girl. Both were sexually harrassed but people tried to victim blame Suki more cuz of the way she dress and act. thats nasty. (plus there was no versus to begin with cuz neither one deserved it)

like there IS something to be said about how women who tend to write urban fic -at least in its early days- really do live the lives they are writing about. granted, looking back, some of these women were so unhealed that they ended up romanticizing abuse. but most girls now understand that you can live a hood lifestyle and not put up with bullshit.

somewhere along the way, the “city girl/ghetto/high fem” aesthetic got associated with abuse, crime, and poverty. which is crazy cuz girls who look like JT be havin’ money, a good life and still have plug/rapper boyfriends who not killing or getting them killed.

so if these women would be honest, its not about the way the “urban” girls look or behave. the real problem is the abuse that these women face.

which i see how thats a problem but abuse doesn’t correlate to aesthetics and its not a causation of abuse either.

soft girls can experience abuse. they experience financial, domestic abuse, sexual abuse. these women who hate urban fic, keep forgetting that the soft girl is modeled after the tradition yt housewife who faced abuse too. just cuz you get out the hood and get a financial stable man that isnt a plug or gangbanger dont mean he not gon beat yo ass or expect loyalty when he do some dubious shit.

yall ever seen the Stepford Wives?

now you can have the vintage look without the vintage values, but thats not what most of these women who come onto cherry page be talking like.

they disagree with any depiction of your so called city girl —whether good or bad.

it’s counterproductive to feminism. it quite literally antichoice feminism which is a huge problem with feminism today because it relies too much on this yt viewpoint of responsibility politics. i suggest people really read “Hood Feminism” by Mikki Kendall.

anyway thats whats been making people like cherry become upset and rather than having patience, they ain’t got no more to give cuz they keep having to defend themselves and explain why talking like this is a microaggression. they exhausted.

anyway im free to talk more, if i didnt explain good.

#asks #come back tomorrow #im done for today over here #thanks for the convo #💖 #the menu

[out-of-the-forest-i-come]

A Power Unbound Review

This is undoubtedly a five-star review and a new personal favorite! I've been waiting for APU for a whole year and I was so impatient I kept checking Freya Marske's tumblr to see if she had posted any news about the book for the entire year. I had high expectations and she met every single one of them and then proceeded to go far beyond that. So, if you loved A Marvellous Light and A Restless Truth, don't hesitate to read A Power Unbound because it was incredible!

If you want a longer and much more detailed review, you can find it under the cut or on Goodreads

spoilers for A Marvellous Light and A Restless Truth, not for A Power Unbound. tw for the book at the end of the review

As someone who has lists of favorite books because I cannot bring myself to choosing only one, I think I very well may have found my favorite series of all times, and A Power Unbound is the perfect conclusion for it.

It picks up three months after the end of A Restless Truth, in which Maud, Violet, Hawthorn, and Ross managed to retrieve the second piece of the contract. Unfortunately, their enemies know they have it, and also know they likely have the third and final piece of the contract. And they will stop at nothing to get their hands on it. With the impromptu help of one Alan Ross, it is up to the protagonists to find the knife, protect it, and prevent their enemies from ever forming the Last Contract. A task which is easier said than done.

If I had to list everything I loved about this book, it would take me days because I would have to read the entire book aloud and stop to explain why I loved every single moment of it. Seriously. It’s one of these books where nothing was wrong. Were there things that surprised me? Yes. Were there things I would have written otherwise if I had been the author? Also yes. But everything made sense, and fit both the plots and the characters, which is how you know it’s a good book.

Beyond that, what is really important is how much it made me feel. Because what use if a book with a perfect plot if it doesn’t make you feel a thing? Thankfully, A Power Unbound can only make you feel as you read it. I went from happiness, to literal giddiness, to anxiousness, anger, excitement, and more, all of that in the span of a day. Someone watching me read probably would have thought me mad because of all the incoherent shouts I let out. It was a brilliant read and I loved every second of it.

The characters are truly the strong point of this book. It’s for them that I read this, and it’s precisely because of them that I was so impatient for this book to finally come out. When I saw that Hawthorn and Ross were going to be the two protagonists for this third and final book, I knew it was going to be delightful. And I was right. Their interactions were already amusing in A Restless Truth, now they were absolutely delicious. A mix of witty banter and exquisite vulnerability, their developing relationship made me squeal so many times! I especially loved how natural it felt. I knew, of course, how it was going to go, but it didn’t feel forced one bit. It developed at its own pace and I really appreciated how, just like in the two previous books, Freya Marske made sure to develop attraction before developing anything else. But when she got to the point of the ‘more’, she gave us everything we could have asked for. She especially promised big gestures, and I can’t say I was disappointed because some of those quotes were astounding. My poor little heart did not survive.

(As with the last two books, there were explicit sex scenes. Those were a little different though, in that they involved role-play surrounding power dynamics. While it makes sense with the characters and personally did not bother me, and while everything is safe, discussed beforehand, and consensual, if that is something you don’t like, you should probably be aware of that.)

But A Power Unbound did not revolve just around Hawthorn and Ross, and it’s another thing I appreciated. We finally got to see all the characters together, and I loved how the interactions between them developed! It was especially nice to witness Robin and Edwin’s and Maud and Violet’s relationships through the lense of other characters, and some time in the future. All the old characters were true to themselves: Edwin, just as adorable and intellectual; Robin, still impulsive and caring; Maud, kind and determined; Violet, smart and witty; not to mention Adelaide, who was a full-time character and a true badass! Despite this, I could see they had grown since the last time we saw them, and that was peak character arc on Marske’s part.

Finally, the plot was amazing. It’s true that I came here for the characters, but the plot did not disappoint either. The stakes were incredibly high from the beginning since this is the last in the trilogy, but they only get higher the more we advance in the book. The pace is well-mastered, alternating between faster moments and episodes of reprieve, and the plot points and plot twists had me gasping with emotions all throughout. I won’t say anything about the ending except that it is well brought about and makes sense, and that it did not disappoint me.

As you’ve understood from this whole review, this book is perfect from beginning to end. I have nothing bad to say about it and it was a fantastic conclusion to a fantastic series. Those who have loved the previous two books should not fear; the third one will not let you down.

tw: explicit sex scenes, sexual role play, mentions of violence, blood and violence, major character injury, fear of death, near-death, mentions of suicide, killings and death, mentions of murder

#a power unbound #freya marske #books #bookblr #book review #fantasy books #queer books #a marvellous light #a restless truth #out of the forest out of the brain

[priwenshallprevail]

GETTING TO KNOW YOU.

respond to the following prompts out of character. then, tag others that you'd like to get to know a little bit better!

( Picture optional )

ROLEPLAYER NAME: Mjodvitnir , or Wraith to some.

ROLEPLAYER PRONOUNS: He/Him/They/Monster

MUSE NAME: Geoffrey Aodhán McCullum

PREFERRED COMMUNICATION: Tumblr messages, or even Discord if you'd prefer. If you want my discord, just ask. Whatever is easier for my partners.

EXPERIENCE: At the very least 20 years of experience in role playing. Back in the chatrooms of american online, or myspace. Am I showing my age yet ? I know, it's such cringe. I want to say my first three characters I ever role played was Rufus Shinra from Final Fantasy VII and two oc characters, one VtM relative , the other Werewolf. I'm wanting to say my character had been Tremere clan. Can't remember my generation I had him under, though. My werewolf was from the tribe Silver Fangs. An Ahroun if I can remember correctly.

PREFERRED ROLEPLAY TYPE: Well... absolutely everything! Dark, torturous gritty, gore-infested, action, combat, drama, comedy, angst, fast paced, slow paced, smut, fluff, one shots. I enjoy them all ! Hit me with all the above !

PET PEEVES & DEALBREAKERS: I don't have many, but the few I do hold -- are more toward general respect for your partners. Don't be a dick.

God moding/meta-ing the RP. Don't use any info your character wouldn't have the slightest clue on. Unless it was discussed on how they may have acquired it prior , or planned through other threads. What remains in a thought collective, stays in the mind. Unless your muse holds telepathy in some aspect. Then it's a different story.

Judgement of writing style. My writing is far from perfect, and I often have one hell of a time judging myself. I don't need others on top of that, adding to my horrendous insecurities. I like detailing things, from the environment, to facial expressions, or even course of actions. I sometimes hyper focus on one thing and become brief with another. I don't understand it myself, nor always catch myself doing it. I hold horrible habit of having issue with repeating a certain word when writing my own posts, and I do sometimes get carried away over different synonyms to these said words. To the point that not every definition becomes so literal. How, or when I developed this habit, I do not know. It's a tick that only happens on my own writing, never on any of my partners. I judge myself too harshly in everything, not just writing. However, if I flood you with a lot of paragraphs -- that usually just means you struck my muse in a massive way and I wish to shower you with love. That I want to engage with you at what my brain considers my best. No body ever has to match whatever length I spew out. Please remember that. Also note, that even if my muse is struck so highly for your muse. My brain can still muck it up. It's a fickle beast. But that is adhd in a nutshell.

Judgement over ships/shipping. ... This one, the more I think on it, is a big one. I have been judged on ships in the past. On several accounts, actually.. some more recent. That it has gotten me reluctant to approach anyone to ask " hey lets try to smoosh these two together ! ?" Judging someone's ship is a disgusting form of shaming someone because they didn't conform to your ideals of said characters. Judgement with narcissistic attempts to push stuff a certain way -- yeah, no. Don't do it. Also, don't try to force ships . I support McReid, but if a Reid does not ? You back the fuck off the suggestion. It's really that simple. Respect. Your. Partners. Not everything revolves around romance anyways. Plenty of other relationships they can aim for. Friendships are a beautiful thing too. I mean -- platonic is also a thing as well, you know. It can bloom just as heavenly.

Constructive feedback though is more than welcome.

PLOTS OR MEMES: Yes ! I enjoy everything you're willing to throw at me, and will happily plan entire story lines to multiple connectives we can later link if that's what you'd like.

LONG REPLIES OR SHORT REPLIES: The in-betweeners. I love doing long replies when muse hits like a freight train, but if my muse isn't as strong -- or if my brain struggles to focus. Which it does, trust me. It'll be between that short and long range, or sometimes drop short all together. I don't ever expect you to match length if you don't wish to. That is not a requirement with me. As long as you can provide me with a paragraph to work with , I'm more than game.

BEST TIME TO WRITE: This is .. .. a tricky one for me. Cause my adhd makes it hard for me to write when everyone else is up in this household. So it would be somewhere between late night and early morn, for me. Eastern time.

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSES: I'm honestly not sure if it's the we have similarities, or if my constant processing of what can be done to improve role play, suddenly bleeds into my own characteristics on a daily basis. Taking a bit of my characters with me every time. I'm a little withdrawn, keep a lot of my emotions on the inside, sometimes quick to become surly with forced authority types, described grumpy often , can be witty with the usual sarcastic bites -- if that accounts to anything.

Tagged by : I stolez it, but I don't remember from who. o.o;

Tagging : @fangsforhire , @coivi , @arcanescholxr , @anedendarkly , @undeadunalive , @astridnorddottir , @luposcainus

#† 𝓜emes ● dash games 」 #† 𝓜emes ● Mʋƞɗɑʮ 」 #『 out of character 』 #Mun-Mental health awareness ;

[i-did-not-mean-to]

On the subject of morally "bad"

It's been 1 year on Tumblr...

1 year ago, the things on my list of morally reprehensible were many and informed by rampant bigotry. You! Yes, you! You were advertised as an enemy to me.

I was told you were vicious, hostile, corrupting, dangerous!

Everyone was on that list, everyone who was not white (and I am a woman of colour myself), Roman Catholic, college-educated, and affluent (not to mention cishet). If possible, European as well.

1 year on Tumblr has changed me.

Do you know what changed in that year?

I've read, oh, I've read until my eyes bled. Fics on Ao3. Fics on Tumblr. Messages. Posts. Statements. Articles.

I've been infused by the love and the dignity of people I'd literally lay down my life for. I've learned about people and - slowly - I managed to feel a little more comfortable with stories that are different from mine and yet the same in all the ways that mattered.

I've read and seen some truly outrageous stuff and guess what? I liked it.

Fics matter! Their authors matter!

Art matters! The artists matter!

At a moment when we call for censorship and such things, allow me to add my two cents to the discussion...I needed these fics!

EVERYTHING was taboo for me. Every single thing. So, I am begging you, consider the healing and the beauty even the truly outrageous creations may hold - not only for their creator - but also for an audience of bigots who want to be bigots no more.

And thank you - again - for every word of questionable porn, for every explicit drawing, for every crude joke. They might well have saved my soul.

#personal #1 year on tumblr #I will be more than I was allowed to be #I will embrace and study #Oh to be more than a bigot

[lonestatus]

hi! i'm doing a presentation on the impact and community of tumblr for my media studies final and i wanted to reach out to my mutuals and fav blogs with some questions that relate to my topic. i would so totally love and appreciate if you could answer some of these for me.

it would be so totally rock and roll and awesome and amazing and i'll literally love you forever and ever and ever! :)

thank you thank you thank you!!!!

the questions:

1. how is tumblr different from other social media platforms?

2. how has the tumblr community affected you as a person/online presence?

3. do you feel more inclined to post more personal or private aspects of your life and or opinions on tumblr rather than other apps? as in do you feel you are less likely to be judged on tumblr than other platforms?

4. what are your favorite aspects of tumblr?

5. what would you do if tumblr got shut down?

6. what are some things that only tumblr bloggers would know/understand?

or

7. are there certain traditions on tumblr that you think other media sites wouldn't understand?(an example being our site wide celebration of the ides of march)

8. what are some of the largest fandoms/inner communities on tumblr? are you apart of these fandoms/communities? if yes, what is that like for you?

9. do you find tumblr to be educational in terms of academics? among other things such as politics and general life experiences?

10. all in all, how has this app changed your perspective on social media, the world, your life, and so on.

please add anything else you find to be important!!

aww im honored!

To be truthful, I don't spend much time on any other social media, so I don't have much experience! But in comparison with insta and pinterest, there's far less reason to use the for you tab. Obviously staff has pushed it in recent updates, but it still holds true, at least for me. I think a big draw for me is the built-in customization in general, with tools for making personal blog themes and post tools.

Since I don't use anything but Tumblr, It can be a little hard to connect with my peers who use Twitter or Snapchat, as we don't really have many other ways to connect outside of e-mail or text, which I think have fallen off in popularity with the rise of social media.

I think Tumblr satisfies my parasocial needs pretty well! I think because of the customization you can accumulate a following that's pretty chill. And if there are weirdos, you can block them very easily.

I've prattled on and on about about how cool customizing most aspects of your experience here is, but to reassert my love for it: When customization goes; I go.

While I have some experience with HTML, I might not make my own website on Neocities or a similar platform. I would probably make a Pintrest again. But if they make it so you can register an e-mail to a Neocities domain I'd be down.

I think Tumblr users like to self-aggrandize so I think most of our traditions and mechanics could be understood by other platform's users... Though maybe a lack of algorithms? I hear a lot of people talking about for you pages on other social media. But again, Tumblr's pushed the for you tab instead of the dash, so I'm not sure that's going to be a distinction for much longer...

8. I don't participate in fandom so I wouldn't know! That's not to say that I don't ever see anything from fandom, but really I'm not sure if I'm missing out on anything. I'm content with the content I do see. I guess you could say I'm part of the "My friends" fandom ^-^.

9. While there's plenty of academic discussion on Tumblr, I don't think there's a replacement to more genuine methods of education. However, there have been things I've been informed of through Tumblr, such as posts summarizing and linking news articles, scientific journals, etc. and methods of accessing them (such as 12ft). In that regard, I suppose that Tumblr has been a fine source of education and keeping up-to-date, though it's far from perfect.

10. I think being able to curate my experience has helped make me less tolerant of ads, weird posts, and other distractions. But I think the greatest impact it's had on me has been all the friends I've made.

#hope this helps ^-^ ^-^ ^-^

[mlwritingprompts]

The original separate prompts can be found here:

tumblr won't actually let me update this post properly, so this only contains Universal Chaos, Theater, and Oblivion. There's a new version of this post that is properly updated.

You can click the links below to go to the individual parts, or click here to see the newest updated compliation.

Universal Chaos, Scars, Theater, Oblivion, submitted by Anonymous.

Here's an archived version of this post just in case. (because I'm still not over the fact that tumblr suspended my account for literally no reason and then gave it back but didn't explain why they suspended it in the first place lol)

This is intended to be a writing prompt for Miraculous Ladybug, but it can also be used as inspiration for an original story!

Akumatized and Amokitized Marinette.

Neopronouns used:

Cosmic Actress: nix/nixself. Nix is an Akuma, who spends most of nix time with nix friend, Natasi. Nix is hardly ever alone by nixself.

Natasi: clo/loc/(locs)/clockself, used in the same way as she/her/(hers)/herself. Clo is an Amok who spends most of loc time with loc friend, Cosmic Actress. Clo is hardly ever alone by clockself. 

Trigger warnings:

-Discussion of sexual harassment,

-Character death: Gabriel, Nathalie, André Bougeois

-Unreality / fourth wall breaking

-Cosmic / elderitch horror

-? (Please let me know if you feel any other warnings need to be listed, no matter how specific / "unusual"!)

Total word count: 9k+

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Part one:

Universal Chaos

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“I’m… Tired of… All of this!”

Alya watched in horror as Marinette’s expression looked murderous as she spit the words with venom.

The reason was not just because Chloe was the one that started the whole situation by calling her father.

It wasn’t just because André basically tried to blacklist Tom and Sabine from ever opening their bakery again and kick them from the city because he felt like it, and because Chloe became more bold since her betrayal.

It also wasn’t just because Marinette literally punched André multiple times in a fit of pure rage and knocked him out, as everyone looked with horror as he fell on the ground, a nasty bruise on his face and several broken teeth, Marinette’s.

No, what made her terrified was the purple outline on Marinette’s face, making it clear that Hawkmoth was corrupting her friend in front of her.

“Yes…” Marinette says, responding to whatever Hawkmoth is saying to her, “Giving people chances is all but useless! If being the good person is such a torment, let’s see how things are from the other side!” Marinette states with fury, throwing away her earrings away in anger, no doubt, Hawkmoth’s magic twisting her thinking process for his goals.

And Alya hates that she could do nothing to stop it.

The same purple bubbles appear, covering Marinette for a moment, before dispersing.

What stood in her place was a figure with a similar face and a different set of clothes. The eyes of the Akuma cold and uncaring.

Another figure appear alongside the Akuma, looking similar to nix, with a large circle behind loc. The circle had the numbers from one to twelve written in Roman.

“I am Cosmic Actress, and the one… who will teach you what it means to suffer.” the Akuma stated with cold rage.

Alya knew at that moment, that her friend is no longer there.

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Rage.

Hatred.

Desire to destroy.

These were the things that Cosmic Actress felt when nix was… born.

Born from Marinette’s rage and hatred towards how her life was being destroyed, feeling like she was always going towards self-destruction no matter what she chose. As if her purpose for being born was to suffer.

Cosmic Actress understood that these feelings were Amplified and twisted. Twisted by the misused Butterfly Miraculous.

But nix didn’t care about that.

These feelings gave birth to nix. Nix couldn’t just abandon these feelings so easily. Not when they burn so painfully in nix heart.

Nix wants to hurt the idiots that harmed Marinette. Nix wanted them to see how it feels when they were the ones who have the choice stripped from them.

Nix felt as Time-Clock came to existence. The amok born of Marinette’s lament at the many choices she was forced to make, the many things she had to sacrifice in the name of a responsibility that was never hers to do in the first place. A being capable of resetting and travelling through time and manipulating space as clo wishes.

A being under Cosmic Actress’s full control, from what Mayura stated just one second ago.

Nix couldn’t hide the repulsed expression showing on nix face.

Nix doesn’t want to control another being! It was disgusting!

Even more, that was part of why Marinette had to suffer, because someone will always try to (and often succeed in) decide her choices for her!

Cosmic Actress immediately pointed a hand towards Time-Clock’s Amokized object, the red hair ribbon that was now black.

“Shattered Chains.” Nix intoned.

Like shattered glass, the black color shattered as the ribbon became red once more.

And nix could no longer feel the connection between nix and loc.

Neither could Mayura, the villain losing the connection to Time-Clock as well.

Clo is truly free from loc binding now.

“Hey! What did you-!” Mayura started to protest, but Cosmic Actress was already pointing nix hand at nixself before Hawkmoth and Mayura started screaming in nix head at what nix did next.

“Shattered Chains.”

The voices of the villains were cut short along with their connection to nix.

The butterfly miraculous was no longer shackling Cosmic Actress. Nix power and freedom now truly belong to nix. Hawkmoth won’t be able to hurt nix and rob away nix power like he did to the many previous akumas that disobeyed him.

Now that the little nuisance was dealt with for now, Cosmic Actress took a moment to look at the terrified looks of the escaping citizens, before looking towards where André Bourgeois’ unconscious body was being lifted by his most-definitely very underpaid employees.

Now that won’t do.

“Please leave. You are not my target.” Cosmic Actress said to them, then looked at the Amok as loc looked neutrally at nix. “But if you want to stay, just don’t get in my way.” Nix added.

Clo gave a smile at that, and said, “It’s fine. In fact, I would like to help you. Marinette’s emotions gave me life. I want to avenge her as well. It’s the least I can do for her. Even if I no longer have to obey someone else’s orders.” Clo answer was sincere, and loc voice was somehow neither high nor low, but somewhere exactly in the middle, perfectly gender-neutral.

Cosmic Actress nodded and accepted this answer, and focused nix attention towards the mayor once more. The underpaid employees had moved him, but that didn’t matter, nix could still sense him.

He was not far away, only a few houses separating them.

Cosmic Actress and the Amok moved at the same time, easily jumping high enough to fly and avoid the buildings. And getting a good look at the still-unconscious mayor that was right below them, the underpaid employees having set him down, exhausted from carrying him. They were standing far enough away that they wouldn’t be hit, luckily for them.

Nix raised a palm, energy condensing in front of it. “Oblivion Orb.”

The orb rapidly hit the mayor and him alone, erasing his body in an instant.

And with that nuisance dealt with, Cosmic Actress pondered on who to select next.

From Marinette’s memories, Chloe was a big source of suffering, but Hawkmoth and Mayura are worse because nix can deal with a weak civilian. Supervillains will be much more threatening.

And of course, another major nuisance is that bratty cat guy, Chat Noir. Nix will make sure to eradicate that bastard for his constant sexual harassment of Marinette. Marinette was forced to allow him keep his ring because of things out of her control and because she was guilt-tripped into doing so. But not Cosmic Actress. Nix will destroy him for what he did, and for being a horrible human in general.

There were also lesser sources of rage, like the populations’ inability to understand that Ladybug’s “NO” means “NO”, not “maybe”.

“…”

Supervillains and Chat Noir it is then.

Decision made, nix moved to search for the villains.

Clock-Time decided to help by using loc control over space and time to feel search for them.

The miraculouses have a slight effect on space and time around them thanks to them being powered by a concept (as far as nix and clo know for now) and that effect is what clo is searching for.

“… Not there… Close… No that’s probably Tikki’s Miraculous… Ah, in that direction!”

Nix followed as clo jumped towards the source.

And ending up in front of one large mansion belonging to one Gabriel Agreste.

Nix frowned.

“Agreste? you’re sure? I don’t doubt you but didn’t Marinette investigate him?”

Clo thought for a moment, “But that was before Mayura appeared so…”

The point was clear. Gabriel had Mayura akumatise him to cover his tracks as Hawkmoth.

“After all, he can’t be so stupid to akumatise himself without Mayura, right? I mean, that would be monumentally stupid.”

Yes, that would be very stupid and nonsensical.

“By the way, before we start, I want to ask you- uhh, do you like the name Clock-Time, or… do you want to change it?”

For the first time in nix short life, nix felt awkward and unsure.

The name Cosmic Actress was in a way fitting for nix, and nix had chosen it nixself, but nix wasn’t sure if the same applied to the Amok and wanted to make sure.

Clo blinked for a moment before smiling.

“Oh! Thanks for the concern! And… yeah. I don’t like the name very much. So I will call myself… Natasi!”

“Natasi.” nix repeated the name.

“Yes! Pronouns are clo/loc/locs/clockself! Used the same way as she/her/hers/herself.”

Nix smiled at loc enthusiasm.

“Natasi, nice to be friends with you. I think I will keep naming myself Cosmic Actress, pronouns are nix/nix/nix/nixself.”

Both smiled for a moment before focusing on the goal.

Natasi once more used loc power to get the exact position of the villains, then opened a portal directing to them.

Both were met with the sight of the two supervillains inside their lair, shocked out of their minds.

“You!” Hawkmoth yelled furiously as he raised his cane.

No doubt that he was so angry and frustrated at how easily the two broke from his and Mayura’s control.

On the other hand, Mayura felt more… subdued. She looked just as angry, but it felt like she was only trying to.

‘No doubt because of using a broken and damaging miraculous.’ Cosmic Actress pondered.

Not that their anger meant anything. They both were no match for Natasi and Cosmic Actress.

Natasi simply pointed a finger at Mayura, and a portal opened in front of her so she could not escape, and was sucked into the portal.

“What did you-!” Hawkmoth’s yell was cut short as nix punched his head with a force that would have exploded a normal human. Only his defensive suit protected him from the worst of the damage and he ended up being dazed for a moment as his body easily shattered right through the walls and he fell to the ground outside the mansion far below, making a crater in the pavement.

“Well, he is not dead yet. His suit is too strong to die from something insignificant like this. By the was, where is Mayura?” Cosmic Actress said as both jumped down on the ground to finish him off.

“Somewhere in the universe, probably dead already. Don’t worry, I can get her miraculous back just fine. These things will not be scratched even by a black hole.” Natasi told nix.

Reaching the ground as Gabriel was trying to stand, clutching his head from pain, nix raised a palm, ignoring the fleeing and screaming bystanders.

“Oblivion Orb.”

The orb hit Gabriel head-on, and he screamed as he was forcefully detransformed, his suit unable to withstand that amount of damage. It did one thing right, though, it let Gabriel survive it.

With a flick of Natasi’s hand, the butterfly miraculous was teleported into loc hand.

“Y- you…! How dare-!” Gabriel started to shout, but both ignored his furious screams, and Cosmic Actress just killed him.

“Good riddance.” Nix stated as Natasi opened a small portal and extended loc hand, and bringing from it the Peacock miraculous. Nathalie’s body was long destroyed by the forces of the cosmos, apparently.

With this, they only need to make a show and wait for the heroes to appear to get their miraculouses.

So both quickly went to the highest point of the Eiffel tower and nix spammed large Oblivion Orbs and with the help of Natasi, guided them towards a few more people.

There was Audrey, that rich abusive woman, Andre the icecream guy because he was a creep who can’t take a “NO” from his customers and doesn’t let them pick what they want, and most likely a queerphobe as well.

There was also that racist dude who basically went out of his way to cause trouble to Marinette’s mother, and so is that cop, Rogers.

In fact, nix decided to just murder all the cops. They literally did nothing but obey a fascist mayor and solidify his rule. Plus, they were racists anyways. They deserved death.

After a minute or so of mass-killing unrepentant racists and jerks with large orbs of energy, the heroes finally appeared.

Well, the only ones Natasi and Cosmic Actress qualified as heroes were Carapace and Viperion along with Pegasus and Ryuko. Cosmic Actress wasn’t so sure about the Ladybug-themed hero, but nix can vaguely recall that she is the former Rena Rouge since she was Marinette’s confidant. Scarabella was her Ladybug-themed name, right?

Chat Noir is still not here. Not like it’s surprising at this point. Nix recalls from Marinette’s memories that th riche brat was starting to shirk his duties even more and being only a show for the sake of harassing her and enjoying her tormented look.

Oh wait, he is actually appearing. He jumps alongside the other heroes looking angry.

Did Cosmic Actress trouble him somehow for him to be this annoyed? Or maybe nix killed someone he actually cared about?

Oh no, nothing to worry about. He just started being passive-agressive to Scarabella because his “bugaboo” isn’t here. The other heroes were at least paying attention to Cosmic Actress and nix friend even while telling him not to worry about Ladybug for now, because the villains are the real concern, but Chat Noir is not even looking. His is focusing his attention at Scarabella.

“As much as I can enjoy your excellent 'bonding experience’,” Cosmic Actress started to call, the sarcasm heavy in nix voice. “I have other things to do right now. So give me your miraculouses and I will leave you alone. Except Chat Noir. We hate you personally.” Nix stated in a matter-of-fact tone with the heroes getting even more tense at nix words.

Chat Noir apparently thought it was a great time to joke about the situation as he put his hand on his chest looking like a kicked puppy. “Meowch! This hurt me, Marinette! Am I really this unbearable to a girl like you?”

It took a great deal from both nix and Natasi not to just immediately and violently throw him into the sun.

Nix looked at him coldly.

“First, I am not Marinette. I am Cosmic Actress. I am also not a 'she’. I don’t have a gender. I use the pronouns nix/nix/nix/nixself, remember them. I expect you to have at least some memory capacity in your head for things other than Ladybug. As for being unbearable, it’s more like hating you for being a sexual predator incel.”

It was very satisfying to see how his jaws dropping along with the rest of the group.

“What!?” He screamed angrily with his eyes narrowing.

Natasi just blinked as clo spoke with a smile, but what was coming from loc mouth was anything but gentle or sweet: “But what else can you call a guy who constantly asks for kisses and dates when a girl explicitly tells him to stop and refuses to stop, when he keeps attempting, and even succeeding in violating her boundaries?” Clo asked, “Remember when Gigantitan attacked and Ladybug was busy holding back the akuma, only for you, Mr. Totally-A-Gentleman, to decide to go for a kiss?” Clo pretended to think about it, then added, “Oh wait, that was also when thanks to your great help, Ladybug lost focus and the akuma destroyed Marinette’s room and you only laughed at how funny the whole thing was! Who knew that watching someone you called a friend almost dying is so hilarious?

"Or maybe, you want us to talk about the times you were a very understanding partner by refusing to help Ladybug fighting an akuma because she didn’t want to date you? You know? Like what happened when Frozer and Glaciator attacked? Oh wait, didn’t you also try to guilt-trip Marinette into shipping you and Ladybug in the middle of the night when Glaciator came?

"Yeah, how romantic you are. Especially when Mayura almost stole your ring by using a fake Ladybug who only said that 'she’ loves you and was about to kiss you. Such a shame that you were unable to see the trickery. Truly, Sentibug was a master at fake-acting and totally acted like Ladybug and not like your sick and twisted version of her that you want her to be~! So, is there any recent romantic actions Ladybug did for you? I mean, the last thing I can recall is her throwing you in the trash, which I guess was technically very romantic from your perspective, since she didn’t just rip away the ring from your hands when she was the literal Guardian and had every right to find your identity or retire you completely.”

Natasi and Cosmic Actress were both smiling at the shocked expression of the heroes, all of them horrified.

Because none of them knew of how Chat Noir acted when they weren’t there. They never knew what he did when Ladybug, his victim, was the only witness.

Viperion and Scarabella looked horrified the most, and Cosmic Actress didn’t know why, and wouldn’t care right now.

But Chat Noir? He was also pale, and his body was shaking as he clutched his staff tightly. And nix could feel it.

Rage.

Rage at being called out and insulting his so-called love for Ladybug.

“TAKE THAT BACK!” He rushes with vengeance as his staff extends.

“Chat Noir, don’t!” Viperion yells in warning, he tries to move and stop him. He can feel the danger. but it’s useless.

Natasi raised loc hand-

And both Chat Noir and Cosmic Actress vanish from the tower.

Natasi looked down at the heroes neutrally.

“You don’t need to worry about your… teammate. I am sure he will find himself in good company with Cosmic Actress.”

Viperion doesn’t hesitate on what to do. He will fix this mess! He’d already set the timer before he got here!

He slid the snake bracelet.

“Second Chance!”

…

Nothing happened.

He couldn’t feel himself go back in time.

The rest looked at him in surprise.

“What? Why!?”

He looked in shock at his bracelet.

Natasi just sighed.

“Sorry, Viperion. I like you since you were supportive of Marinette but… I am not letting you interfere with this. So I just stopped time from being rewound by your miraculous. Sorry.” Clo shrugged.

“And if you are wondering about where they were sent off, well…”

A sound of a large explosion reached their ears, from the direction where the Agreste mansion is located.

“There they are.” Natasi finished.

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“How dare you!?” Chat Noir snarled as Cosmic Actress ducked under another swipe from his staff, which easily destroyed another wall of the Agreste mansion.

Nix opponent looking vengeful.

“I dare, because I have basic decency. And basic decency says that you are a harasser!” Nix stated, anger clear in nix tone before blocking the staff with one arm, taking no damage.

“I love Ladybug! She’s my love!” He roars angrily, “Cataclysm!”

Cosmic Actress felt nix blood boiling as Chat Noir kept saying he loves Ladybug, and he is even trying to kill nix most likely.

“Chat Noir. Do you really think yelling that phrase over and over will make me believe it!?” Nix shouted back, avoiding the Cataclysm and giving the so-called hero a kick that threw him to the wall. “If you really loved her, you would have accepted her feelings and stopped asking for kisses and dates! You would have stopped calling her names she didn’t like! You would have respected her boundaries that she had made clear a hundred times by now!”

Chat Noir was already standing back up, but Cosmic Actress was already above him.

“It seems that for you, the word 'love’…!” nix yelled as nix fists hit Chat Noir, throwing him away so hard out of the mansion, the same way his father had been thrown earlier.

“Ugh!” He quickly stood up again only to find Cosmic Actress in front of him once more.

“It seems like 'love’ is just a valid reason for sexual harassment as far as you are concerned! Right?!”

Nix threw an Oblivion Orb that hit his Cataclysm, and wasted his power as the two spells collided and the Oblivion Orb overpowered and wiped out the Cataclysm.

“Even when Ladybug lost her voice…! Even when Mayura made a fake Ladybug…! It seems that it doesn’t matter how much time you spend with your 'beloved’, since you only care about your twisted version of her that can only exist to be tormented and mocked by you! But this nonsense ends now!”

The last sentence was accompanied by Cosmic Actress’ arms holding Chat Noir as nix looked at him with venom that made his eyes show shock and fear.

Nix hand easily ripped away the Ring, detransforming him.

Cosmic Actress eyes widened in shock as nix recognized the person who was hiding behind the mask.

“Adrien Agreste…” Nix said numbly.

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It felt ridiculous. So ridiculous.

The guy that Marinette fell in love with, because he was nice to her.

The guy that she suffered a lot for his sake. Where she had to allow her own birthday gift for him to be stolen and never tell him the truth because she wanted him to be happy. Where she felt ashamed of celebrating the leaving of her long-time bully because this insensitive brat loved Chloe his childhood friend so much more than he cared for any of her victims, including Marinette, the one who loved him because he was nice to her once…

And he is her harasser.

And Chat Noir… is what he is in the dark. When no one is looking.

Chat Noir is how he really wants to act. When there is no fear of repercussions and responsibilities to negatively impact him.

Cosmic Actress doesn’t know what to feel; Horrified? Disgusted? Angry? Numb? Tired?

In the end, pure rage and hatred won.

“YOU….” Nix gnashed nix teeth from wrath. “DIE!”

A blast of energy came to existence, obliterating everything around nix.

Adrien along with the Agreste mansion and the surrounding houses ceased to exist.

All what was left was Cosmic Actress trying so hard to calm nixself back down. Nix body was shaking, and nix expression was still wrathful. Nix wanted to just obliterate the whole world, but barely, nix controlled nixself.

It would be several long minutes later that Cosmic Actress managed to calm down enough, and decided to deal with Scarabella and the rest.

Then nix will see if the Wish can help nix in attaining nix desires.

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The battle with the rest of the heroes was basically a cake-walk.

There was nothing they can do.

Just Cosmic Actress was more than enough, but with the help of Natasi? It was basically like a level 999 monster fighting a newbie in all but name.

No matter how much they tried, it was all useless.

It didn’t matter how much they resisted.

Defeat was the only option.

As nix wore both the Ladybug and Black Cat miraculouses along with the Butterfly and the Peacock, Cosmic Actress breathed.

“Natasi. I am going to use the Wish. Do you really want to follow me still? It might be dangerous.” Cosmic Actress asked nix friend.

Natasi only smiled. “I’m sure. I want to be with you. Please grant this selfish request of mine.”

Cosmic Actress could only shake nix head. Maybe having a friend with you in a rewritten universe will not be so bad.

Nix can only hope.

Nix breathed once more.

“Okay then. Tikki, Plagg, unify! I wish that———!”

With that, the world turned into a rainbow as reality shuddered…

And changed.

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End Part one.

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Part Two:

Universal Theater

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“And, done!”

Chloe, the user of the Ladybug miraculous, going by the name Roselina, breathed as she defeated the duo of Amok and Akuma, purifying them and fixing the damage.

“Finally we defeated this duo, huh?”

Chloe looked at her childhood friend, Adrien Agreste, the wearer of the Snake miraculous going by Do-Over.

With them, the other protectors of Paris were feeling happy that they finally defeated this threat.

The group constitued of Kagami, weilder the Fox, with the name Kyubi.

Alya, the weilder of Bee, called Honeymoon.

Nino, weilder of Black Cat, called Destructo.

And Ivan, weilder of Turtle, called Protector.

“So,” Kagami started “Did any of you have any sudden flashbacks, like usual?”

The teenage heroes frowned at that, and they nodded.

Chloe had no idea of what’s happening in the world, but ever since she started superheroing, she was having some weird feelings of deja vu, that slowly turned into flashbacks.

She didn’t believe the flashbacks at first because, well, she was the daughter of a therapist and a nurse who took it on her shoulder to help people, as she felt her father and mother are good people and she felt pround of going on their path.

She really didn’t get why she saw visions of her being cruel to others, being spoiled rotten by her father, or abandoned by her mother.

The others had similar visions, except most of them had more adjusted lives and morals than her version in the flashbacks.

Adrien was also weirded as he was just the son of gentle and nice normal fashion designers, not the son of an abusive billionaire who tormented that Ladybug heroine like the flashbacks show him.

“And about that mysterious figure, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, did any of you get to know about her?”

Marinette Dupain Cheng was a mystery to the team.

Not only did she not exist here, as Thomas and Sabine stated that they don’t remember having a kid, but they stated that they feel a strange feeling of pain and loss every time they think of the name “Marinette”.

It was as if the girl’s existence was erased out of nowhere.

“I think I do, let me remember for a minute…”

Alya concentrated, trying to remember any new detail, and she saw it.

A girl crying in rage, screaming to the world, just as black and purple aura covered her, before the entire world became nothing more a myriads of colors, and then everything went dark.

Alya gasped and dropped to her knees, as her teammates rushed to her side.

“I- I remember a little more! She- she was Akumatised, maybe also Amokized as well!”

The entire team paled.

The Akumas and Amoks in their flashbacks might not be the most creative or subtle, but the fact is that they needed to go to the timeline where the Akuma/Amok was made to find the very important answers needed to deal with their situation.

It would have been so simple to fix using the Rabbit miraculous, if not for the fact that time travel was risky, and deadly as well.

Sabrina, the Rabbit heroine with the name Eternity, had warned them of the dangers of messing with the timelines.

For whatever reason, there existed some deadly Akumas and Amoks who live between the timelines, called Time Deletors, and who attack anyone trying to mess with the timelines.

The only reason they even survived their first timeline travel was because Sabrina held them back, and even then, she was so hurt that she could have died without immediate help.

They became better with the next atempts, but it was always a close thing.

“Th- then, you kno-”

Chloe’s attempt at moralizing the group was cut off as a portal appeared, and Sabrina exited from it.

“Yes, you know, and you will have to face her.”

Sabrina’s tired voice resounded, and she warned the heroes.

“But, you have to know this, this timeline travel mission is going to be a lot harder, since as far as I was able to see, this girl’s Akuma and Amok were never defeated. At all.”

The grim tone of hers made the rest feel fear.

This mission might be their last…

After few days of relaxing and calming themselves down, they were prepared, and Sabrina opened the portal, and they entered.

And immediately, things went wrong, as the group were immediately and magically pulled towards a black hole that appeared out of nowhere, and Sabrina screamed along with the group.

Slowly opening their eyes as they realized that they are not dead, they saw that they were in some dimension where there is nothing but colors.

“Took you long enough to visit me.”

An unfamiliar voice brought their attention, and they looked to the source of the sound, only to see a blue-haired person, wearing civilian clothes, wearing a blue brooch, and a purple necktie on nix, who was actually sitting on a table, and drinking a cup of milk, in here.

Their instincts warned them. Nix is dangerous.

None of them knew how they knew that this person’s pronouns were nix/nixself, but they knew it was true.

“It is actually quite amazing to see how different you are now, than how you were before everything ended.”

Nix gentle smile fooled no one, and they brough their weapons to face nix.

“Well, I have to introduce myself, I am Cosmic Actress, but you may know me as my previous name, Marinette Dupain Cheng.”

Nix simply kept smiling at them, sensing their fear.

“How? How can you exist? Or not exist? How can someone paradoxical like you exist!?” Sabrina, being connected to time, was panicking.

This person, nix exists, and yet, Sabrina’s power tells her that at the same time nix doesn’t.

It was maddening.

The akuma simply chuckled at them.

“It’s obvious, dear, after all, I was the one who had your role, Chloe. Or should I call you Roselina?”

“WHA- HOW!? And what do you mean!?”

The heroes were shocked by nix statement, and confused by everything nix said.

The akuma sighed.

“Le me ask you this. Do you know what theaters are? Okay, dumb question, you do. But think of this, what does this have with this whole situation?”

Nix pointed at the area they are in, much to their confusion.

“"You see, life, and universe themselves, are like theaters, everyone gets a role, a job to do, and they are forced to obey it, and do what they are told to do with no complaint.’

“I, was the ‘hero’ of a previous ‘story’, you can say. I was a normal teenager, got dragged to the supernatural, had to deal with a magical terrorist planning on using my miraculous and my partner’s for evil, all while having to deal with my crush.”

Everyone looked at nix weirdly, because nix description sounded exactly like a story from a magical girl cartoon.

“Yeah, I know, sounds cliche, but you see, I never liked how I was treated.”

Nix smirked in a horrifying fashion.

“Being punished for trying to know my crush better, being humiliated for wanting to get a straight answer from him, being bullied and gaslighted for years from childhood, losing sleep due to my double life, being always anxious and afraid of being taargeted by the villain, being harassed by the person who I thought was my partner, and having any attempt at fixing my life turn into a nightmare. Until; I finally stopped feeling, becoming more of a machine than a human, simply acting as if programmed, with no will or emotions, until I finally lost it.”

As nix kept talking, the heroes were paling more and more as black tears flowed from nix eyes.

“It was at that moment, I realised, I am not going to be happy, I am not going to be granted closure or happiness. I was fated to be tormented by a world who forced me to become it’s punching bag. Which is why, I abandoned my role as a hero. I gave it up. I hated it, and hated being in this pathetic story, and killed the villains who thought they can control me.”

She slowly calmed down.

“But, the universe is just like a cruel movie producer, or writer. I didn’t like being a hero, therefore, the world was reset so I am the villain, and other people had their lives changed to accomodate their new roles.”

Nix just shook nix head.

“This is the truth, heroes; You either die a hero, or you become a villain. This is why I will keep this world as it is. Why I would not give you a chance to defeat me. Maybe I am not allowed to win as a villain, but I can stop you from defeating me and ending my story.”

Nix stood up, a black aura coating nix body.

“Now, let’s fight. You win, and you get to fix all the damage I caused, and maybe you can free me from this painful fate I was bound with. I ‘win’, and the world gets reset so we can repeat this process all over until you win. Either way, you are the ones who are lucky.”

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End part two.

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Part Three:

Universal Oblivion

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You know, people always speak that the reality is stranger than fantasy.”

Cosmic Actress sighed as nix spoke.

“Well, to me personally… I have to disagree.”

Nix shook nix head.

“In fantasy, the heroes triumph. No matter how hard the battles are. No matter how strong their foe is. The power of friendship will always save the day! It doesn’t matter how smart and creative the villains are, no matter how outnumbered and outclassed the heroes are, the Good will win!”

Nix raised nix hands as if to emphasize nix point, nix face mockingly gleeful, before the expression became one of boredom.

“But, that isn’t how reality works. At least to me. Reality is never so kind. Or at least, it rarely is.” Again, nix shook nix head.

“In reality, a hopeless battle will still be hopeless. In reality, there is no way for you to defeat someone who is both stronger and smarter than you. Especially when they can easily hide and have minions that can change the fabric of reality as we know it.” Nix sighed again.

“So, how do the heroes win in this scenario? How do they rise to the realm of fantasy, and surpass all these insurmountable odds? Simple. Have the universe give them unfair advantages. Give them inexplicable power-ups. Hit the villains with the Idiot Ball, if that’s what the trope is called in this reality. Or maybe, some sudden interference out of nowhere, without any proper reason for it to occur. Do you understand, heroes?” Nix looked at the heroes facing nix.

None of them were in a good state.

Kyubi, Honeymoon, Do-Over, Destructo, Eternity, Protector and Roselina.

All of them were barely standing, some of them had their protective armors literally damaged and cracked, even though it should have been impossible.

They were trying their best to not fall or lose focus despite the pain.

Because they were not even sure if they would not faint and not wake up for days.

What was worse for them was the fact that the Akuma in front of them…

Nix wasn’t even serious. Not even trying.

No matter how many combos they tried, no matter how many time resets via the Snake miraculous, no matter what kind of power they used to attack.

It all was useless.

Venom barely stopped nix. If it even hit nix at all, that is.

Shelter was casually broken with a finger.

Mirage was basically useless, and even a Mirage with of light as bright as the sun itself it was worthless.

The Cataclysm, the power of Destruction, that they hit her with by sheer mistake and mental exhaustion from the battle, was useless. Nix defenses and regeneration were too high to do much other than cause nix a slight annoyance.

Even the Lucky Charm was useless. No object could help them from the absolute power that was facing them.

They could only watch as nix literally ran circles around them, and defeated them soundly.

It’s only thanks to the Akuma suddenly deciding to monologue that they were even given enough room to breathe properly.

Cosmic Actress looked at their state and sighed again.

“What I want to say is; I am not being… nerfed.” Nix explained, “Back when I was Ladybug, when I was a hero, even when the universe was against me, the reality went out of it’s way to not let Hawkmoth just win. Unfortunately for you, I am immune to all of these machinations of the cosmos. The only rule that applies to me is that I cannot truly win. I cannot use any of the Miraculouses in a way that allows me to free myself from this cosmic thread that is suffocating me.”

Nix directed a single palm at them, and a large orb of chaotic energy came to existence.

“Me trying to do so will only cause a time reset. That also means that you… are not going to face me in the ‘Easy’ difficulty. Oblivion Orb.”

With that, the orb rapidly sped towards the exhausted heroes, who could only watch as darkness consumed them all.

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Chloe woke up with a killer headache.

She clutched her head, trying to stop the pain, as Tikki’s voice suddenly rose next to her on her pillow, the little kwami screaming wordlessly as if having a nightmare.

“Wha- where am I?” Chloe asked, the overwhelming sense of confusion overriding even her concern for Tikki.

She took a moment to look around, trying to fight through the helpless confusion, as Tikki’s frantic screams stopped, her eyes opening wide.

The same room, the same bed. But something was missing…

She wondered if she was having memory problems.

“Tikki, why were you screaming? Did you have a nightmare?” She asked her companion gently.

The poor kwami took a large breath before speaking. “Yes. I dreamed that you and the rest were fighting an Akuma and it- it wasn’t even a contest! You all were…!”

Chloe could understand the meaning of her unfinished sentence and tried to calm her down. “But, an Akuma that powerful to easily ki-”

Words stuck in her mouth as she looked at the large mirror on the wall.

There, instead of her and Tikki’s reflection, the figure of another being was showing.

A figure her mind immediately remembered. Just as she remembered the fight.

“C- C- Cosmic Actress!?”

The Akuma ignored the girl’s paling, terrified face along with Tikki’s.

“We need to talk. I, you, and your teammates. Meet me at the Eiffel Tower in an hour. Your team is being spoken to.”

Just as suddenly the akuma appeared appeared, nix had disappeared.

Chloe shakily breathed and calmed herself.

She called her team and they all stated they faced the same thing.

And she knew that there is no other choice but to do as the Akuma told.

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Time flew rapidly as the hour ended.

Chloe was on the top of the tower along with the rest of the team.

Only Sabrina decided to hide in the Burrow just in case things went south so there might be something to save… Or someone.

They couldn’t argue against that.

Now, they impatiently waited for the Akuma nixself to appear.

It didn’t take too long as only a minute later, space and time twisted beyond recognition, finally taking the form of a circle in front of Adrien, and Cosmic Actress appeared from it.

For a moment, Adrien could have sworn to have seen a humanoid figure peeking from the portal besides the Akuma, but the portal closed before he can make sure of what he saw.

“Now that everyone is here – Well, except Sabrina – I will talk. You cannot defeat me. Absolutely. And definitely not directly.” Nix tone was as if nix was stating a fact.

And nix was stating a fact.

The heroes know it also.

“You said that you also can’t win.” Kagami spoke to the akuma.

Nix smiled. “Yes. I can’t. I am not allowed to win because I am the villain. That is why… I am raising the white flag.”

Adrien blinked. “The… white flag? Wait. You will give up!? After all that, you will just–!” He cut off his words in sudden horror in fear of enraging the akuma.

Nix only kept smiling. “Oh, I am not giving up. I am simply not going to fight you in particular anymore.”

“… What?” Alya asked in incredulity.

The akuma is not giving up, yet, she will not fight them?

“It’s really simple.” Nix starts explaining. “You are not able to defeat me so, I just need to wait for the next generation of the Miraculous holders to stand up to me instead.”

They can’t believe nix.

“It’s the perfect plan, really. If we go by the principle of the younger generation surpassing the older one –which I assure you is very true for the Miraculous holders by the way–, all you need to do is to train the younger generation to make the world a better place, and maybe, in the distant future, there will be someone or a group of people able to truly defeat me. And free me from this cursed fate and save the world at the same time.”

The heroes look shocked at the plan. Even more was the utter conviction in nix voice.

But the surprise disappeared too fast and turned into dread as Cosmic Actress’ smile turned into a cruel smirk.

“Of course, this is if you are ready to face the fact that this universe… Is already marching towards Utter Oblivion.”

A shiver ran across their spines at the words.

“Oblivion?” This time, it was Nino who asked.

“Yes. And since this might be the last time I meet you, I might as well tell you everything.”

Cosmic Actress took a breath. This will be a little long.

“Now, let me ask you a question. How many times has it rained in Paris this year?”

Needless to say, that was not the question they expected. It was just too random.

“Rained? Really?” Even Chloe couldn’t comprehend the randomness of the question.

“Just answer me. Let me guess. Only once or twice?”

As they tried their best to recall, they found out that nix was correct. But it still doesn’t explain anythi-

“Even in the winter and the autumn? Only once or twice?”

That-

Now that Alya thinks of it, it is indeed strange, but it is not enou-

“What about the fact that Alix, your friend, had never dyed her hair again? She had just dyed it once and the dye just… stayed there?”

Okay, that too was-

“Or maybe the fact that none of you, that no one in this city, ever changes their everyday clothes? As if you only have copies of the same outfit for no reason?

"Or maybe that, even with Paris being known as one of the biggest centers of fashion, the very designs are plain or are too similar to each other?”

They couldn’t refute nix.

And as they ponder more, they realize that things are not normal.

“I will tell you why these things happen. It is all thanks to…” Nix pointed at them. “The very jewels that allow you to transform.”

“Uhh, what?” Adrien’s voice resounded.

Nix stopped smiling as nix looked at them.

“Didn’t you find it strange? That the sources of the power for your Miraculouses are literal deities? Doesn’t it sound even more ridiculous then, that the kwami, who are supposedly governing the universe, cannot refuse a holder’s order? That their power can be used against the kwami’s will? If the kwami are such powerful beings, why then, did they not erase me and the many other supervillains right away? Why didn’t any of them decide to just not transform without their will?”

The dread and horror return to the heroes as they absorb nix speech, and the meaning behind it.

“That’s right, the kwami, the fragments of the literal concepts, are slaves. Shackled by the Miraculouses. And what is happening to Paris, from the weather, creativity, and the rest… is because of that.”

“No, no, no nonononononnono! It can’t-!”

Just as they started to mutter and scream in denial as the reality slams itself on them, Cosmic Actress simply pointed at them.

Their high and raging emotions ceased to exist. They literally couldn’t feel panic anymore, and they dropped from the shock.

“You can get shocked later. I still need to finish my talk. So, anyways, it’s because of the kwami being enslaved that the world is marching toward it’s annihilation.”

Nix continued speaking casually. As if nix was talking about weather. And maybe, nix was literally like talking about weather from nix viewpoint.

“When the… Order of Guardians” they can hear the venom in nix voice when nix said that name. “Created the Miraculouses to enslave the kwami, they made a disastrous mistake in their arrogance and greed. They broke the concepts. They broke the universe’s balance. The universe itself was no longer the same from the very attosecond a fragment of the concepts was enslaved and separated from the cosmos. The universe could no longer move the flow of causality in a natural way.

"The concepts are shattered, none of them can ever work in the natural and proper way they should. In some places in the universe, they work better, in others, they are unstable and annihilate everything that exists. Nothing is truly created or destroyed anymore. Nothing can be truly illusionary, Time and space are so twisted that it is impossible to understand. Even worse is that the universe can’t sustain itself or heal the damage in any way. Its will is spread too thin and it cannot do anything. It can’t simply act unnaturally. But the cracks in its existence do. They are slowly growing and widening. The universe as you know it is the equivalent of a person on life support against an illness that will kill them regardless.”

Nix shook nix head as it stopped speaking for a moment as the group absorbed nix words.

“The kwami are, in a way, a better version of the will of the cosmos. They have an ego and their will and ability to think is much higher if only because they are literally a large mass of a concept shackled in a very small area and in a very tiny form. Their will is not spread too thin. But it is the same with the cosmos. They are shackled, and their powers are severely limited by the Shackles you are wearing. At the rate this is going, a millenia or two will be the most generous estimate for how long this universe will hold, before it collapses on it’s own and it simply… ceases to exist.”

Silence was deafening.

No one could speak. The revelations are too much.

It’s only because Cosmic Actress made them unable to feel terror or panic that they are not having a mental breakdown.

“… Can’t this be fixed? If the kwami being shackled and separated from the universe is the problem, then shouldn’t breaking the shackles help?” Ivan asked this time.

The akuma shook nix head.

“No. It’s too late for that to just fix everything. Far too late. Had that been done just a few days, or at best, a few years after the enslavement of the kwami, that might have been fixed with little problems. But today, it’s been centuries if not millenias since those idiots at the Temple shackled the kwami. The universe can no longer fix this level of damage freely. Trust me. I know. I tried doing that before. At this point, if you do that right away, it will be like like taking a broken vase and having a literal toddler do the fixing. The universe as you know it will be completely unrecognizeable. And it won’t stop the kwami from being enslaved again. The Order of the Guardians will still exist, they will still get the idea of enslaving literal concepts, and the universe will still want things to happen naturally so it won’t stop them. And no. Time travelling to stop them is impossible. The laws of causality will not allow that to happen. Even I almost died and had my literal soul almost erased when I tried in one of the many time resets I’ve lived through.”

“Is there no way to fix that?” Chloe asked.

“… To be honest. I don’t know anymore. I’ve exhausted all my options through my long life. Teaming with other heroes. Creating subordinates to do it for me. Freeing the kwami right after they are enslaved. Even in timelines where I allowed the heroes to defeat me, another version of me will still exist in another timeline, still undefeated. Nothing really worked for me. I don’t know if it’s because of my position as the 'Final Villain’, or because of any other reason. All. Failed.”

For the first time since Cosmic Actress spoke, tiredness and resingation seeped into nix tone.

They could understand that.

It just sounded so hopeless.

“There’s only one last options that I did not really try until now. It didn’t really seem plausible to me, but I guess I must gamble here.”

Nix took a breath as Chloe and the rest held theirs in anticipation.

“The only option left to me is to… gamble on the coexistence of the Theory of Narrative Causality and the Protagonist-Centered Morality. And that you are the protagonists of this era.”

“I don’t follow.” Adrien told nix sincerely. All of them can’t really understand nix words.

Nix rubbed nix forehead, feeling the headache resulted from explaining this. “Look, you people have media entertainment. And sometimes in the show, things happen because and I quote, 'because the plot says so’. Sometimes characters act in a different way only to justify the plot. Got it?

"This is exactly the reason why Hawkmoth, or rather, the former villain, Gabriel Agreste- not the current one, this reality’s Gabriel is a good person somehow–didn’t just win. He could have overwhelmed Marinette and the 'original’ heroes by spamming Akumas every hour until they dropped from exhaustion. He could have made a tracking Akuma, or any of the other ways for him to win easily or solve his problems. He didn’t do that because the universe, or at least the not-so-healthy area of the universe made it so.

"The same thing happened with Marinette and the many problems she had. She could have easily defeated Hawkmoth many times over, rescued herself from her partner’s harassment (literally take the ring away with no guilt), forced people to respect her boundaries even if it required violence, stopped people from shipping her against her will, made better choices in her life. But the choice was basically stripped from her. In fact, me coming to existence was because the universe was stable for a moment and suddenly Hawkmoth couldn’t magically ignore her negative emotions being unleashed like it happened many, many times before.

"And here we come to her partner. Your previous counterpart, Adrien Agreste.”

Nix pointed at him much to everyone’s surprise.

“You might be a good person in this reality, but in Marinette’s reality, you were one of the most horrible people I’ve ever seen. You were a two-faced brat with no morals and with no care for anyone but yourself. You never cared that your classmates were threatened by an akuma, you casually joked in the most inappropriate times, you contstantly sexually harrassed Marinette as a 'hero’, and you abused your power over her to stop her from dealing consequences to those that hurt and bullied her. You were all but literally given everything on a silver platter. You had the easiest and stupidest test to be a superhero, your classmates liked you instantly despite apparently never having time to bond with them. You all but have gotten a harem of girls fawning over you for the most nonsensical reasons, and somehow no one in Paris could see that you were literally harassing your partner. But of course, when someone does the slightest thing that you didn’t like, it’s suddenly the most horrible act ever. You were literally an embodiment of the Protagonist-Centered Morality in all but name.”

Adrien was paling, but he didn’t refute nix.

He’d seen them, the memories of what he did in that timeline. He knew just how horrible and disgusting the previous him was. It still didn’t make it any less painful to hear it told to his face so bluntly.

But Cosmic Actress was still not over.

“Not like the rest of you were spared either from being Narratively Right or Narratively Wrong either, but it will take too long to talk about every little thing that you were tangled with. So I will just sum up that your entire behaviours as being a bunch of racist stereotypical caricatures, and existing to woobify the rich. I mean, how else would Chloe’s pervious counterpart stay a billionaire or how her father didn’t get murdered because he didn’t even punish his daughter for crashing a train and basically committing to aiding a literal terrorist? Of course we can’t also ignore forcefully trying to shove someone into a relationship simply because the relationship in question sounded 'cute’, even if the person in question is making it clear they are not happy or comfortable.”

The whole team was shaking, horrified by the pictures nix was painting.

Nix waited for them to calm down, feeling drained nixself. What nix was saying were things nix had wondered about for a long time, and never spoke to anyone else (except nix Amok and friend Natasi) so it felt a little liberating to voice them out.

“Okay, but what is our role in that? What can we do to fix all of–” Adrien spread his arms as if ponting to the world around them. “–This?”

Nix looked at them.

“Honestly, at this point I only have assumptions to go with.” nix admitted “But the only thing that might work is you using the so-called favouritism of this broken universe for your benefit. If you are really the Heroes of this Reality, the Protagonists, then maybe, just maybe, if you desired to get rid of the shackles put on the kwami, wished so hard to fix this messed-up reality, you might bend the broken will of the universe for you and make it give you the results you desire. You may even allow for the current versions of you to continue existing, instead of being erased or reset to that of your original selves.

"Of course, this is not even a 50/50 chance for success, it might even be a one in a trillion or less in your favour. But at this point, I am more than satisfied by this infinitesimal chance of success. I really have nothing to lose either, except losing my sanity and memories as I continue living forever.

"But you do have a lot to lose. If you don’t stop this, the entire universe might cease to exist, or the world will be reset, and you will be erased anyways, along with all your loved ones.”

That was it. That was the whole message. A long speech about how messed-up the whole reality is. Nix has nothing else to tell them.

A portal opened behind Cosmic Actress, and nix glanced at the heroes for the last time.

“The choice is in your hands. Will you gamble on this one chance to give everyone their happiness? To free the kwami and fix the damage while simultaneously making sure that the history will not repeat itself? Or will you abandon all Hope, and succumb to the Despair? From this point, I am leaving this little war between us. You are also free from your responsibility to fight me. Do whatever you want in your lives. If you want to live normal lives, go for it. If you want to prepare the world for the worst, go for it. If you want to risk everything for a possibly nonexistent chance of happiness for you and the world as a whole, go for it. You are the only one who can decide what to do from now on.

"Farewell. We might never meet again, Heroes. Regardless of what you choose, I hope you live contently… Until your last breaths…”

With that, the portal closed, with what seemed to be a final farewell.

Only the superheroes were still there on the tower, processing the whole speech.

“Just… what should we do now? If this was true, what can we do…?” Alya asked, doubt clear in her voice.

“I don’t know, Alya. I don’t know…” Ivan told her.

None of them knew what to do.

The weight of the knowledge of their world’s impending end hangs heavily, and there are not enough answers to how they can even start untangling this cosmic web that is hanging on every living being.

===========================

End.

#Miraculous Ladybug #ML writing prompts #writing prompts #Marinette Dupain-Cheng #Neopronouns in action #nix/nixself #clo/loc/(locs)/clockself #clo/loc/locs/clockself #nix/nix/nix/nixself #Miraculous LAdybug #Universal Chaos #Universal Theater #Universal Oblivion #Cosmic Actress #Natasi #TGP TW #Adrien salt prompts #Adrien salt #described images #neopronouns in action #Marinette deserves better #Chat Noir salt #Chat Noir #Adrien Agreste #Akumatized Marinette #Amokitized Marinette #Amok are people who deserve rights. #Show!Miraculous #Show!Marinette #Show!Adrien

[galvanizedfriend]

I was listening to a podcast today about fandom/fanish stuff and there was a discussion about the state of fandoms in general and how people seem to be interacting or responding less and less to content creators. It's something that's been happening all over, but it becomes more glaring in older fandoms that seem to be shrinking (such as my little piece of hellsite here). We could talk about reasons why and all, but I don't think there is one single reason. More like a combination of several different things. Fandom spaces moving to discord, people losing interest, newer fans having some different ideas of how to interact with stuff due to arriving in fandom with an experience that comes mostly from TikTok/Instagram/algorithm-driven platforms, etc.

I've written about this in the past, but I feel like it becomes more and more relevant with each passing year. Since I have some new followers as well, just wanted to remind yall of the importance of giving positive feedback to your fave fanish content creators.

The only way content creators have of knowing what they're doing is being seen and appreciated is if you tell them. And the only way their content can spread is if you help them. This is not to say you have to share and comment on stuff you don't like, but if you *do* enjoy it, then yes. Writing comments on tumblr or hearting posts are great, don't get me wrong. These are awesome and everyone loves them. But the only person who sees those are the OPs. The way to help content spread is to reblog it. On AO3, it's to comment and kudos the fics. That's how you make stuff stand out. I don't know why people won't even leave kudos anymore, it's literally just pressing a button, but it's been happening a lot.

I promise you there is nothing wrong with leaving comments on old fics or reblogging old stuff on tumblr. This is not instagram, nobody thinks you're stalking them. Doesn't matter if the story was posted a few days ago, a few weeks, or even a few years. Or if the gifset has been going around for a decade. I know I don't speak only for myself when I say it makes my day to know people are still reading my older fics, or starting a series that I finished writing years ago. And as for newer stuff - there is really no better way to encourage your fave writers and creators in general to keep doing what they do then to show them you're there. Doesn't matter if it's a single line of comment on AO3, or a reblog with no tags whatsoever on tumblr. It works just the same as long-ass comments and a gazillion screaming tags.

When you spend weeks working on something, hours every day, and it feels like nobody cares, it's really discouraging. Some people deal very well with doing stuff for themselves, and that's awesome, but most people get super motivated through validation. Be it to continue something, or to start something new. It can be super scary to share stuff with others publicly - it is for me, to this day, I get super nervous posting stuff, just freaking out about how people are going to react, and I know how important having this validation is for me, which is why I feel so strongly about this. I know I can consider myself somewhat lucky in my current fandom because I seem to get a kind of traction that not many authors do these days, at least with one of my fics, but even then it can feel a bit discouraging to see that general atmosphere of silent contemplation of stuff spreading.

I know we have loads of new people around, so please, please, don't underestimate the power of your support! It really does magic! Sometimes, getting an awesome comment might encourage people to continue stories they had practically abandoned. Or to post something new. Or to finish that update you've been waiting for. It does not bother anyone to know they have readers eager for their stuff, and when they do publish/post it, it's super important to let them know you were there and you appreciated it, because that's the only way we know. We cannot just guess.

So if there's any content creator out there that you follow, admire and whose work you'd like to see more of, be it a fic writer, or a video maker, or an artist, or someone who makes edits and gifsets, *anyone* creating stuff in your fandoms, don't hesitate to let them know. Show your support, KUDOS the stories, reblog their posts, leave comments whenever possible - *on the actual stories*, if possible! Let people know they're not screaming into the void. Fandom is also about community, and there is no better way to create that feeling than to share - experiences, ideas, content, anything. It's how we keep our blorbos alive and thriving even years after their original habitats have been extinct (or made toxic by crappy showrunners).

And as always, this is a reminder that my inbox is always open to whatever. If you want to share recs, talk about a fic you read, about the shows, silly blorbos, or if you have a thought or a question about something I've made, so long as it's not disrespecting anyone in fandom, all's fair. I do not mind at all.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk, hope you have a wonderful week!

#yokan talks #fandom stuff #fanfiction writing #podcast gave me thinky thoughts

[strangerthingsrpdiscord]

Hello and welcome to the tumblr blog for the Stranger Things Roleplay Discord Server! What a mouthful.

This blog is essentially for managing entry and applications for the discord server I'm going to make for the RP community here to join. As a lot of you know, it's very easy to hit post limit as a RP blog on tumblr, and that's something we won't have to worry about on Discord. Tumblr also doesn't have a group chat feature and Discord is a solution for that as well.

Now, here's a rundown of how this server will be:

18+ ONLY. No minors will be allowed into this server. Full stop. Please do not lie about your age. If you do and mods find out, you will immediately be kicked with NO opportunity for reentry. Ever.

Literate roleplay only. This means writing your thread replies in full, third person paragraphs with proper grammar and spelling. There will be a "group chat" channel where characters can essentially "text" each other in first person. However, for proper threads, no first person or asterisk roleplay.

Each person can have a maximum of one canon character. There are a lot of people who want to be in this server and play canon characters, so letting anyone play more than one really wouldn't be fair.

Dead characters are still playable. We're essentially functioning in an AU where these characters either died and came back (through ooky-spooky Upside Down magic) or had a near-death experience rather than actually dying. You're at liberty to decide how/why your character is alive. Making them undead, a vampire, a ghost, etc. is totally okay.

OCs are welcome. That being said, do not assume a relationship with any other characters without discussing with the writer of that character! That means no sibling/lovers/exes/parents/etc. unless you've cleared it with the person who plays that character. If you play a canon character, you are not obligated to say yes.

If you'd like to change your character a little bit from the canon, that's okay, just make it clear with the mods first. Small changes are fine.

This server will include NSFW. Threads that include smut, gore, death, drug use, or any other potentially triggering topics will be allowed. All I ask is that you discuss these topics with your RP partner before starting a thread. Do not throw these topics into a thread without making sure your RP partner is okay with it!!

There will be both SFW and NSFW channels, so if you aren't comfortable with NSFW, there will still be spaces for you.

If you'd like to play one canon character and one OC, that is okay. Just ask the mods before adding any character(s).

As time goes on, canon characters that haven't been taken will become available to server members. Meaning if we're three months in and no one has picked Lucas, for example, someone in the server who already plays a different canon character would be able to apply to write for Lucas as well.

Underage characters can be written for, just stay out of NSFW channels as those characters. If you write 18+ content as these characters, you will be kicked from the server.

For the love of god, please don't start drama. We're all adults. I don't want to have to manage everyone like you're children, so just... no judgment please.

We'll have activity checks about once a month. If you go inactive without informing a mod that you'll be gone, you'll be kicked to free up that character for someone else.

There will be a strike system for minor infractions; starting fights, posting in the wrong channels continuously, interrupting threads, etc.

Now, as you can probably tell, I've decided that it just makes the most sense if we only have one of each character. I know that's unfortunate and probably disappointing, but I just couldn't really see a way to make it viable to have multiple of one person.

So, if you'd like to apply to be in the server, feel free to fill out the application below and DM it to this blog! Don't be afraid to ask questions, either!

I will make a post to keep track of which characters are taken as we accept people <3 Also, I'm looking for mods! Anyone I interact with often and know I can trust, DM me if you are interested!

Writer Name:

Writer Age (18+):

Writer Pronouns:

Discord (Numbers included!):

Character(s) Wanted:

Writing Example (2+ Paragraph preferred):

What are you most interested in writing?:

Do you promise not to judge/bully?:

Triggers/Nos:

A fun fact about you:

#stranger things #stranger things rp #;intro #;welcome

[smooth-goat]

🛒✨ ⛔🧐 (I know the answer is YES but I'd love some insight) 🧠 (SNUFKIN)😬

from this post

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics?

Already answered ! 

✨ Give you and your writing a compliment. Go on now. You know you deserve it. 😉

Already answered ! 

⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped?

Already answered ! But I will say there was an idea in “acacia & asphodel” that I wrote, decided to scrap, and then after some conversations with Lance, decided to put back in. It’ll come up in a few chapters, and is something I’m Quite Nervous about posting, but I think is another grounded and realistic progression for the story to take that adds more dimension to it

🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories? (I know the answer is YES but I'd love some insight) 

DO I? I literally spent like three hours tonight poring over 2018 Illinois legal codes. I have a whole folder dedicated for every one of my fics just for research. I look for All Sorts Of Things. For a&a, I’ve spent a good deal of time learning about immigration and abortion legality and state benefit programs such as EBT (food stamps). 

A lot of the disability stuff I write, I don’t have to specifically research; it’s almost entirely personal experience and research done for personal reasons, except in the case of my Infinity Train fics, where I did quite a bit of research on ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, PCD, and Kartegener Syndrome. 

For various Moomins stories, I’ve also researched Finnish-Swedish political relations, local fish and plants (and their seasonalities), and herbal medicine (which is an online hellscape as a chronically ill person). 

For "Black Cohosh", not only did I research period accurate train routes, but I did so using a Polish-langugae bicycle tournament map. I also studied the proper regional dress in that specific region of Switzerland—big fan of the hats there!—and even the local timber so I could properly describe what would be cheap furniture. It can be a lot sometimes but I really do enjoy it a lot. 

I’m very good at Jeopardy fjxkldsa 

A big thing I always research for the stories set in real places is the local geography! Google Maps is my best friend there, and I’m Constantly looking up local businesses and travel times. For a&a, I can also rely on my memory, but I’ve never been to Flagstaff, AZ or North Branch, MN, so Google Maps was really invaluable for me. Travel time is one of those things I Always think about when watching or reading something, but is so rarely accounted for, so I take a (perhaps disproportionate) amount of pride in always fitting it in. 

I like to start with just a quick google search and some articles, but I very frequently fall down rabbit holes and read academic papers, medical studies, and sometimes whole books. For firsthand experiences, I also like to lurk in social media spaces such as different tumblr tags, or watching youtube videos, and reading old forums and blogs—that’s how you can see a variety of unfiltered Individual experiences. 

Every once in a while, though, I get way too far into something that not only doesn’t matter that much but Also doesn’t interest me (hello, US-Finland tax treaties) and have to force myself to Stop.  

🧠 Pick a character, and I’ll tell you my favorite headcanon for them

I always have a hard time with favorite, so I’ll just discuss a few I like. 

Obviously, Snufkin Cripple King. His disabled vibes are off the charts. And we Know he is trans. That’s not even a headcanon to me; trans snufkin is just Canon in my head and my heart. 

 Big one for me is casual sex? Stopping in different towns for supplies he can’t get himself (medicines, tobacco, sewing supplies, etc), meeting someone, and spending a little time with them. It’s part adventure, part danger, and part a genuine seeking for human connection. He’s not good at talking to people. He’s not good at opening up. But he also craves connection, and this is a way that has a pretty set social script, is low stakes in his mind (will never see these people again), and doesn’t require him to converse much. He’s not comfortable with vulnerability, but he’s very comfortable with persona. And that’s key. There’s a certain Expectation from others when you’re seen as someone who is sexually available, as a mymble is seen. And anything you do is interpreted through this framework. And it’s very easy, especially for someone like Snufkin—a very reactive, fairly passive character—to go along with this. Is it good sex? Emphatically not. That actually requires communication. You don’t need love for good sex, but you Do need some basic conversation happening. And that conversation is not happening with Snufkin in a tryst. He is just like this the whole time: 

[alt text: the tbh creature, cropped just to show the eyes. Image is tinted red, referencing the obama "then perish" meme]

No you haven’t found the clit. No, he’s not going to tell you that. Also no, he’s not going to fake anything. He’s just going to send psychic messages and hope you notice or at least get bored and give up/move on. 

😬Which of your fics would you be most horrified for friends, family, or coworkers to stumble upon? 

Probably “acacia & asphodel” ! Jfadsl; idk I think making the modern AU (which I put in a setting—time and place—pretty clearly drawing on personal experiences), and also the subject matter, of teen pregnancy, the relations between sex and disability, about uncertain Jewish identity, and also some stuff that I’m going to put in later…. It’s a piece that I’m really proud of, but Also one that I think would just be a Little Too Revealing for people who knew me irl. 

#birdsong #ask #asked and answered #id in alt #desc #id added

[whentheresmoonlight]

Ok I read your post. Literally sat down with my cup of morning coffee first thing in the morning and read it start to finish. I was busy traveling which is why I'm just getting back to you now though, by ask because my followers probably aren't expecting a reblogged discussion of top/bottom dynamics on my otherwise sfw blog.

So let me know if I'm getting this right:

Like, Bakugo wanting to give something to Izuku he would never give anyone else (the vulnerability, I mean!!! not, y'know, access to his... god, just forget it). And their relationship has shifted so fundamentally since when they were kids, multiple times, and opening up (figuratively!!) in such a way to Izuku is just another way for him to shift from whatever toxic shit they had going on earlier to the mutual love and understanding and willingness to be vulnerable with each other they have now. I don't even know if that makes sense. The point is, I totally hc them as vers now.

Also Izuku taking charge. It really is such a huge part of his character, becoming stronger and a leader and more confident and it's so easy to set that aside and focus on his cute, bubbly side but my man's got both! Honestly it's why I tend to avoid fics in general, and fandom too (tho I'm weak and couldn't stay away from mha/bkdk tumblr). I'm always afraid that the versions of characters in my head will be fanonized. I hope I didn't do that to Izuku and Kacchan, ykwim? :| (If you ever wanna like, idk, 👉👈 check out one of my fics and tell me if you think I got them right, that would be cool but no worries if not.)

Also I get what you mean about the feminized Izuku, no shade to anyone who likes that (I mean, he did wear a maid costume in MHA Smash and he does look cute with puppy dog eyes and bunny ears) but omega/bunny/thicc/size-difference Izuku isn't really my thing because... Well, I prefer canonverse too and I've rewatched dvk2 like four times and for me it really hammers home that their power dynamic has evened out so any dom/sub-type dynamic doesn't feel like it fits.

[also re: soyboy. If you check my blog on mobile, it has the urban dictionary definition of soyboy as the header. Plus the first syllable of my irl name sounds like "soy" so that's why I picked it haha :) ]

I'm so flattered that you bothered to read all that word vom! I hope that you're traveling for something fun, or at least that the travels go well. And yeah, please, keep your blog sfw if that's what it is, lol. I'm such a mess in that respect.

But yes, I'd say you've distilled my opinion! Thank you, haha. Squeezed some good puns in there as well. I'm glad you've been pulled over to vers, tho 😈 I know I said that I wasn't trying to convert you, but let's face it, I'm always lowkey trying to convert people, hahahaha. I wish I weren't but I just want people to like what I like, lol.

The way you broke my heart when you said you avoid fics 💀 Let me send you recs! I think I've got an idea of your taste and I can PROMISE quality! However, avoiding fandom is a good choice, haha. Like, I'm happy about all the friends I'm making, and I have a very visceral need to have many many bkdkbks to scream about our boys with, but at the same time, there are a lot of ways in which I was happier in past fandoms where I wasn't involved in the fandom beyond reading and writing fanfic. I could engage with only the content I enjoyed much easier. So, you know, some of this, some of that.

I'd totally read your stuff! Message me or otherwise lmk what one you want me to try and I'll word vom at you again!

#omg i had no clue that's what soyboy meant 💀 #how embarrassing #i feel so old #actualsoyboy #anjum answers #not/sfw