#Dissembled

[imekitty]

I've been reading your Dis- series around the clock this week (genuinely, I've been staying up every night because I was so engrossed!), and juuust caught up on Disillusioned.

I really like the way you don't shy away from exploring a darker or more realistic (imho) side of a lot of the characters. Especially Danny's parents-they feel way more fleshed out than the standard cartoon couple, thanks to the way you portray their relationship and all of the worries/messiness within it.

And while I do like when authors write Maddie as purely scientifically motivated through and through, I found it really interesting that you've been exploring a more sinister part of her that, honestly, would make a lot of sense to exist in a vivisection story like this. I don't feel like I've ever really seen her character handled this way. It's really interesting.

Thanks for writing! It's been fun to read <3

Thank you! I'm so thrilled to get a message like this! :D

I remember when I was a teenager that I wasn't very good at writing adults, but now as an adult myself, I love being able to flesh out adult characters and make them so much more complicated and human than what we see in cartoons aimed at kids.

While I was writing Disparaged, I read a "Maddie experiments on Phantom" fic and I don't remember much about it except that Danny observes that Maddie is cold and clinical with him, detached, nothing at all like his mother who is warm and loving and nurturing. And that intrigued me because I thought, well, what if she were more warm and nurturing even during experiments? What if she were intimate with him during these experiments instead of detached? What if the woman who tortured Phantom really was the same woman who loved Danny? Would that add to the trauma, the torture? That inability to separate the scientist from his mother?

And then it evolved from there, Maddie being very affectionate with Phantom during experiments, feeling straight up arousal during their time together because her work really does turn her on, achieving the results she wants is better than any orgasm. And seeing someone as powerful as Phantom submitting to her will, also better than sex.

I also saw a comic here on Tumblr where Maddie and Jack had successfully captured Phantom and locked him up in a cell and Maddie was conflicted because he was acting so much like a child, like Danny would, and the author commented that they didn't believe Maddie could actually experiment on Phantom because her motherly side would kick in, she'd have too much sympathy. And I thought but what if Maddie sees Phantom acting like a child as just a trick? What if she learned to ignore ghosts trying to act like humans? What if she saw these ghosts trying to play on her motherly sympathies and chose to continue with the torture anyway? Because she is just that convinced that ghosts only imitate human emotion and can't genuinely experience it?

I think fics that portray Maddie as being cold and clinical and other fics that have her showing sympathy to Phantom and hesitating when conducting experiments on him are completely valid and awesome. I just really enjoy writing Maddie as sadistic and obsessed lol.

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Danny endures captivity at the hands of his mother, all while she persists in a futile search for her son. Sequel to Disparaged. Actual rating is Tplus.

Author: @imekitty

Note from submitter: Ouughhh oh this one hurts to read like in a good way. Oh that poor thing. Doesn’t really pull punches. Had me audibly gasping at multiple occasion. So so good and so so heart wrenching.

[j9veve]

@imekitty YOU'RE AMAZING. YOUR WRITING STYLE. WHOA???? I literally have to drop my phone and stare off Into space to collect myself. The words. The flow. The PLOT. Reading dissembled was the first time I ever cried while reading a phic.

[growingwildgardens]

Good news: you can fix many electronics by taking them apart and cleaning them of dust and grime!

But!

Bad news: you have to put it back together again

[sicksucculentz]

N: “UZI THERES SOMEONE IN YOUR APARTMENT!!!”

Both Uzi and Khan runout from their rooms, Khan having heard it to. N is standing in the living room his tail flicking side to side in aggression. His whole body is tensed up in preparation to attack. He’s growling a low almost difficult to hear growl. Right as Khan comes out of his room he spots what N is growling at.

Khan: “……Uzi……Uzi that is his reflection….”

Uzi: “I know dad. I know”

Khan: “couldn’t you have picked a smarter one!?”

He asks as Uzi approaches N to calm N down. She starts to rub N’s back

Uzi: “because there are no smart ones dad! V scared herself with her own leg, and J ran face first into a plate glass window attacking HER own reflection!”

Khan: “how does someone scare themselves with their own leg!?”

[ryllen]

I could only got up to the sketching stage for this but they're so cute AHBFSUBFUYFIAFIUWFHSFU

sketch ? no color ?? no problem! 🎨🖌️✨

[sari-wn]

no, i definitely dont hate Danny lol

Fandom Problem #5354:

I often look at well-written abusive father and son dynamics in fiction and then sadly realize most audiences would hate the son in those relationships if they had an abusive mother instead. And most likely, not even call the abusive female character abusive.

And no writer should be praised for writing abusive female characters who aren't seen as abusers of male characters.

Also, it doesn't help the overall lack of male characters who rise up against the women who ill-treat them. Or are just not seen as abuse victims.

It's not only women with "power fantasies" of dealing with abusive men.

Plenty of men have their own tales to tell about abusive mothers and abusive women in general, much like women or other men with abusive fathers and fiction has gone too long, acting like they do not.

[ri-afan]

Imagining a less hostile relationship for Danny and Vlad opens up the possibility in a Mad Scientist Fentons AU where they’re practically torturing Phantom for the whereabouts of Danny he tells them that Plasmius has Danny and it’s in the Fentons going after Plasmius how Vlad finds out where to rescue Danny from (or that he’s captured at all depending on how the set up is).

[asofterutena]

(Maybe we can meet up later if you’re going out?)

[original comic by @diaryofadissembler]

[imekitty]

I updated the series title to “Dis- Series” on AO3 but I should try to think of something better…

[wayward-delver]

Lizzy likes to live dangerously.

[j9veve]

where do I put my sanity after reading the dis-series by @imekitty .

[mamawasatesttube]

i know geoff was supposedly a huge superboy (1994) fan but reading the comics he wrote about kon, you know, the ttk guy, really just makes me ponder...

(panels from adventure comics (2009) #6.)

[lucy-moderatz]

[danganronpafakes]

Shuichi: The only thing I’ve ever prepared in my whole life is my steadfast panic.

Source: diary of a dissembler

[traumatizedartist]

Hey y'all, so I saw an idea that I really REALLY liked, said idea is here, and since I haven't seen anybody use this idea and make it into an au I have decided to do that >:3

Since this au is based off of a few ideas (including the skits, credit to @banthegirl11521 for thosel) I feel like I have a lot of creative freedom, so I'll be working on that for a bit, right now I'm working on a design for him which will be under the cut once I finish the concept doodlez

Hope you all like it :3