#I might commit arson otherwise

[vividly-vermillion]

Let us manifest that my co worker won't annoy the hell out of me tomorrow 🥰

[reiding-writing]

hi hi!! i love your writing! if you’re interested, i think it’d be cute to see something with spencer & fem!reader (cold!reader or otherwise, up to you) where the team is stuck working a case on christmas. could be kinda angsty or fluffy, i just love a fluffy ending

no worries if not! all the love!! 💚

JUST ANOTHER DAY — SPENCER REID!

you and the team get caught in texas over christmas.

s5!spencer reid x cold!reader 1.0k fluff? cold!reader masterlist.

main masterlist.

a/n — trying to put out as many christmas themed fics in the next two weeks as i can—

It doesn’t feel like Christmas, despite all of the decorated trees and flickering fairy lights that line the Austin streets.

A lack of snow? sure. A generally high temperature with sunny skies? Well, obviously.

But of all the serial crimes someone had to commit over the Christmas period, arson was probably the most ironic.

“It’s almost funny,”

“It’s pathetic,” You cut JJ off with a roll of your eyes, crossing one leg over the other in the office chair you were inhabiting. “Arsonists are idiotic cowards, Christmas or not,”

JJ raised her eyebrows at your sharp tone, but she didn’t push. Instead, she gave a small shrug and leaned back in her chair, flipping through a file. “I think Garcia would say they’re more like... Grinches.”

You scoffed. “The Grinch had an actual motive. These guys just want attention.”

Spencer glanced up from the pile of maps and data he was poring over at the conference table. His brow furrowed slightly, but the corner of his mouth twitched upward in something that wasn’t quite a smile. “Technically, the Grinch’s motive was rooted in deep-seated emotional trauma from early childhood neglect and social isolation—”

“Thank you, Doctor Christmas,” you interjected, though there wasn’t much heat behind your words.

His brow furrowed slightly, as if he were trying to solve a puzzle. You’d been sharp all day—more than usual—and he was silently cataloging every detail of your demeanor, trying to understand what might have set you off.

“Statistically speaking, arsonists often escalate during the holidays,” Spencer offered cautiously. His tone was measured, but there was a note of hesitance, as if he were wary of setting you off further. “It’s a time when a lot of people feel isolated or resentful, which can fuel the compulsion.”

“Yeah, well, maybe they should try therapy instead of lighting up someone’s livelihood,” you muttered, not bothering to look up.

Morgan, sitting across from you, exchanged a glance with JJ, then leaned back in his chair. “You’re extra spicy today, Ice Queen. Everything okay?”

“I’m fine,” you replied a little too quickly, flipping a page in the file.

But you weren’t fine. Everyone could tell, especially Spencer. He tilted his head slightly, studying the way your shoulders were tensed, your jaw tight. You were usually sarcastic and a little standoffish, but this was different.

“Maybe you just need a break,” Spencer suggested gently. “We could grab coffee?”

Your eyes flicked up to meet his, the suggestion catching you off guard. For a moment, your steely exterior faltered. There was something in his gaze—warmth, concern, understanding—that made you feel seen in a way you weren’t sure you were ready for.

“I don’t need a break,” you said, voice softening slightly despite yourself. “I’ll be fine.”

The room fell quiet after that, the team respectfully giving you space. Spencer, however, stayed attentive, his mind already whirring with possibilities. You weren’t fine—and he was determined to figure out why.

—

It wasn’t until much later, when the team gathered around a small table in the precinct’s breakroom for a makeshift Christmas dinner, that Spencer finally got his chance. He sat beside you, close enough that his knee brushed yours, grounding you with his quiet presence.

“You’re not really mad about the case,” he said softly, his voice just loud enough for you to hear.

You glanced at him, startled, but his expression was open and kind, not accusing. “What makes you say that?”

“You’re not a big fan of Christmas, are you?” he asked, ignoring your deflection. “Or maybe... you don’t have the best memories of it.”

You opened your mouth to respond, to brush him off like you had the others, but the words didn’t come. Instead, you sighed, your shoulders shrugging exasperatedly. “It’s just another day, isn’t it?”

Spencer nodded, as though he’d already suspected as much. “I suppose so,” he said gently. “I never really enjoyed Christmas much when I was younger, with… my mom and all,”

You hum softly at his response.

His understanding took you off guard. You weren’t used to people digging into the grit behind the surface, and you certainly weren’t used to them doing it with such care. “Spend most of mine alone,” you asked, deflecting the attention. “Just wish I was actually in my own apartment,”

“I know what you mean,” he agreed. “I spend mine very similarly most years, when I can’t fly to Vegas anyway,”

Spencer lets out a soft breath. “I still enjoy it though,” He tilts his head slightly at you, like his opinion is somehow controversial.

“But not because of the traditions or the decorations. I like the idea of it—the chance to appreciate the people who matter, to make memories, even if they’re small.” His gaze softened as he looked at you. “I think that’s something worth holding on to, no matter what’s happened in the past.”

His words lingered in the air between you, warm and unexpected. For the first time all day, the tension in your chest began to ease.

“Yeah, maybe,” you murmured, absently biting on your cheek as you seem to deliberate.

Spencer smiled back, a flicker of relief in his eyes. “You should try the cookies Garcia brought,” he said, changing the subject with an almost boyish awkwardness. “They’re... very festive.”

You raise an eyebrow. Festive sounded about right if it was coming from Garcia. “Sounds like her,”

As the conversation shifted to lighter topics, the weight on your shoulders felt a little less heavy. Spencer didn’t press you further, but the way he stayed close, quietly attuned to your mood, said more than words ever could.

Maybe Christmas didn’t have to feel like Christmas. ‘Just another day’ didn’t seem so bad.

[elumish]

I know everyone has different views on both worldbuilding and characterization, and especially on the idea of consistency in both, but I wanted to share my feelings on both of them (which are kind of the same! people and places are sort of the same thing sometimes).

Consistency, to me, is about three things: rules, guidelines, and lies.

Rules are things that (whether they've been told explicitly or not) are immutable. They are the law of the land, and you don't break them. You don't actually need to tell the reader what they are, but you should know what they are. They can be simple or they can be extremely complex, but they are things that you stick with. Unless stated otherwise, readers will generally assume that the rules of the real world apply to your story.

For the world, that might be "water is H2O" or "mountains will not stand up and turn into giant creatures and walk away" or "vampires and werewolves can cross-breed but only if they have sex during a new moon" or whatever. For a character, that might be "this character will not kill under any circumstances, no matter what" or "this character won't every tell their parents about that one time they committed arson." It's easier to do never rules for characters than always rules, but you can do both.

Guidelines are things that generally happen but aren't a requirement. This is where people tend to get caught up in character/worldbuilding consistency. Most character traits are going to be guidelines, not rules, because most people do have exceptions or things that change their mind or just character growth. Most things in the world don't work exactly the same way 100% of the time. But there generally needs to be an implicit or explicit explanation for the guideline not being followed, or it just feels like the author screwed up.

For the world, these might be "water isn't flammable--except in those cases where it is" or "vampires and children can't have kids, except in those super rare cases where they can" or "that one time, a mountain stood up and walked five feet and sat back down, but other than that it's never happened so we're pretty sure it'll never happen again". For a character, that might be "this character's instinct is to run away from things that scare them, but this one time they will overcome that instinct to protect someone else" or "this character is generally happy-go-lucky but right now they are deeply sad because something tragic has happened".

Lies are where it gets fun. Lies are things that you have presented as rules that are actually not. Somtimes this is because a character is literally lying to the reader or to other characters, sometimes it's because characters don't have full information, and sometimes it's because some other factor has changed.

For the world, this might be "only people from the royal family can bond with dragons because they have been genetically modified to bond with dragons--oh, actually, that was a lie perpetrated by the government to keep people from trying to bond with dragons" or "there is no eighth continent on Earth--actually there is, it was just hidden from view by magic". For a charcter, this might be "this character would never under any circumstances kill someone--except they just did."

The thing about lies is that they need to have a good in-universe reason behind them, and they can't conflict with other rules you have. I always go back to Stephenie Meyer when I think about this. Early in the series, she set up two rules that she told the reader explicitly: 1) all of vampires' fluids are venom and 2) vampires have 25 chromosome pairs, werewolves have 24 chromosome pairs, and humans have 23 chromosome pairs. The lie that vampires can't have children with humans runs into the issue that it's in direct conflict with those two rules above--but those two rules are never rescinded. So it doesn't feel like a lie so much as it feels like an inconsistency. It feels like she messed something up.

When you're thinking about internal consistency, consider:

Is something a rule, a guideline, or a lie?

If a guideline isn't being followed, is it clear why (e.g., is it an exception? character growth?)

Why was the lie a lie?

Does the lie conflict with other rules in the world?

What does the lie or the exception to the guideline accomplish?

[eldritch-nightmare]

do they have deal breakers?

a/n: idk i just thought this would be an interesting thing to write.

synopsis: what are some deal breakers for them? what can they not tolerate?

includes: slenderman, jeff the killer, eyeless jack, laughing jack, jane the killer, nina the killer, the bloody painter, candy pop, the doll maker, jason the toymaker, dr smiley, nurse ann, the puppeteer, clockwork, zalgo, hobo heart, ticci toby, zero, kagekao, nathan the nobody, homicidal liu + sully, tim wright, brian thomas, jay merrick, jessica locke, and alex kralie.

SLENDERMAN doesn't have a lot of deal breakers, to be quite honest. it doesn't have any preferences when it comes to romance. i suppose if it had to pick something, it would say that it would rather avoid dating people with a disdain towards nature. it literally lives in nature, so... it would also probably avoid people who have children in their life, be it a parent or a teacher.

JEFF THE KILLER has a two off the top of his head. firstly, he will never date a Fangirl capital 'F'. if he even gets the slightest inkling that someone might be a fan of his, it's an immediate no and that person very well may lose their life. and secondly, he refuses to date anyone who hates his brother. yeah, he and liu don't get along and liu wants him dead but in his mind, liu is still the most important person in jeff's life. people who commit arson are on thin fucking ice.

EYELESS JACK is fairly lax when it comes to 'deal breakers'. he doesn't have anything he dislikes, and there isn't any type of behavior that he necessarily avoids either. people who aren't fond of cannibalism would be difficult to date, he supposes. he doesn't really like people who may try keeping his as a pet either. and... maybe people who are in cults...

LAUGHING JACK is one sick and twisted bastard so deal breakers are very unlikely. realistically, his partner being around kids should probably be a deal breaker but that's... literally the only way to meet him. he's incredibly complex so he really won't know his own deal breakers until he's like... in the situation, y'know?

JANE THE KILLER has one immediate deal breaker. if you like jeff the killer, she immediately feels immense disdain toward you and she will never even acknowledge your existence, not unless she's forced to. jane richardson is also lesbian, so men are an immediate no.

NINA THE KILLER has one immediate deal breaker as well. if you dislike jeff the killer, she will not get along with you. she and jeff have a love-hate relationship but at the end of the day, he's still her idol and she looks up to him a lot, so.

THE BLOODY PAINTER barely interacts with people to really know if he has any deal breakers. perhaps people who dislike art? though, he can't really fault someone for not seeing the beauty held within the multitudes of art all around the world.

CANDY POP isn't the biggest fan of people he deems to be annoying or boring. now, i know what you're thinking, candy pop literally finds joy in annoying people, so wouldn't he be delighted to have a partner who behaves the same way? absolutely not. he likes to be the one terrorizing people; he does not want to be terrorized.

THE DOLL MAKER is immediately hesitant around older men, so if you are a guy and you're older than him then just know he'll avoid you like the plague. also, due to his pyrophobia, arsonists and people fascinated by fire get an immediate no from him. anyone who may poke fun at the dolls he creates aren't welcome either, and he'll probably end up turning them into a doll.

JASON THE TOYMAKER has one goal only and it is to find 'the one for him' so like... not many deal breakers here. just fall in love with him and never ever reject him and everything will be good! you'll be turned into a wax doll, otherwise, and that's a terrible fate to suffer.

DR SMILEY also rarely interacts with people, though he's not the biggest fan of people who so desperately cling to life and believe that death is something to be afraid of.

NURSE ANN just doesn't like people in general and only has like... three people she enjoys being around so the likelihood of her growing to like someone is small. that being said, something that immediately makes her dislike a person is when they mock her for not speaking often.

THE PUPPETEER has major disdain for people he cannot control. unless he's already grown attached to (ex. emra) or reliant on them (ex. zachary), then disobedience is not something he can tolerate. he's also not the biggest fan of super-duper cheerful people, though that's only because it makes killing them harder.

CLOCKWORK by default cannot stand anyone who reminds her of her past. she wants nothing more than to forget the pain and hell she went through, so to find a person who reminds her of all that trauma? yeah, no, they gotta go.

ZALGO literally hates everything and everyone but on the very slight chance that someone manages to worm their way into the essence of his being, then so long as they don't mind humanity's downfall then they're fine. bonus points if they're good with kids because holy shit he doesn't know how to be a dad. and if they dislike kids then like... that's fine, i guess, but he'll be a bit bitter.

HOBO HEART is fairly hesitant when it comes to love. the one time he fell in love, she threw his heart away. he's hesitant to fall in love again, but he could never fall for anyone who would so willingly leave him behind. he's not the biggest fan of liars either. simply put, he could never love someone who doesn't value their own heart.

TICCI TOBY already keeps people at a distance, but it's an immediate deal breaker when someone starts making fun of him. if someone makes a bad comment about lyra or his mother, then that's also an immediate no. anyone who heavily drinks alcohol is a no. anyone who 'teases' him about his tourette's is a no. anyone who doesn't take his CIPA seriously is a no.

ZERO could never be in a relationship with someone with the mindset of 'i can fix her' because she doesn't need to be fixed. honestly, you should consider yourself lucky that she's somehow managed to grow an attachment to you considering her disregard for everyone around her. do something to make her hate you and you'll regret it.

KAGEKAO is gay, first and foremost, so if you're a woman then it just won't work out. he's fluent in english as well so you don't necessarily have to know japanese, though he'd love for you to learn. people who make comments about his wine habits or tell him to cut back on drinking wine will be disposed of immediately. he also isn't fond of boring people.

NATHAN THE NOBODY tends to believe that most people are in the organization that took away his sister, so by default, it's an immediate no if he comes to believe that someone is in the organization. he can't come to terms with his sister's death, so he'll get rid of anyone who tries to make him see that she's dead.

HOMICIDAL LIU hardly ever gives romance any thought because he's so caught up in his goal of trying to kill jeff that it rarely ever crosses his mind, so deal breakers aren't something he's given much thought. people who aren't fond of arson probably won't like liu, so they're a no. anyone who thinks he should forgive jeff is an immediate no. anyone who is a fangirl of jeff or idolizes him the way nina does is also an immediate no. people who aren't fond of smoking most certainly won't like him so they're also a no. anyone who sees no harm in mocking and bullying other people is a no.

SULLY has deal breakers relatively similar to liu. if you're a jeff groupie then he honestly wants nothing to do with you. if you are a threat to liu in any way shape or form, then he's already planning a way to dispose of you. other than that, he's pretty laid back with this sort of stuff.

TIM WRIGHT has a habit of smoking so people who can't stand the smell of cigarette smoke should probably avoid him. he isn't close to a lot of people so when someone betrays his trust, it really hits him hard so people with a habit of lying are an immediate no.

BRIAN THOMAS is a bros before hoes sorta guy in the sense that if his partner doesn't like his friends then suddenly he doesn't have a partner anymore. he can't date someone who dislikes the people he's closest to, it just doesn't work that way. especially if they dislike tim, like... that's his best friend there, dude.

JAY MERRICK is a gay man so if you are a woman, then... yeah. it won't work. you stand no chance with jay if you don't believe him when he tells you that something is seriously wrong. he doesn't like people who avoid telling him about an issue because it stresses him out a lot so he would rather prefer people who can openly tell him if something is wrong.

JESSICA LOCKE is lesbian, so men simply just do not have a chance with her. she doesn't really have many deal breakers though, to be honest. at least none that come to the top of her head. she'd probably have to experience something to decide whether or not that's a deal breaker for her, y'know?

ALEX KRALIE is like... deeply unhinged in every way possible and will try killing his partner no matter what, so. let's just use the alex before all the operator stuff happened! he can't be with anyone who doesn't support him or his passion project, marble hornets. and in the midst of marble hornets, he will try to kill his partner. there's no avoiding that. he, himself, is a deal breaker, gotta be honest here.

[murderandjambalaya]

Stick figure hcs!!!

It’s been a while since I got on tumblr and I STILL haven't posted, like, anything about my hcs (except for old writing from before I switched accts & devices but SHUSH WE’RE NOT LOOKING AT THOSE), so here’s some stick-focused world building stuff (mostly the hollowheads)!

rambles. Very much rambles. Only some coherent rambles. This is your only warning.

WTF IS A GENDER

Most sticks are closer to drawings or computer programs than humans, and their perception of gender reflects this! A few sticks across the outernet might take on more traditionally human genders, but most sticks see gender and pronouns as a fluid extension of their personality and self-expression. How attached a stick is to their gender varies from each individual to the next. That being said, most stick figure “genders” are more like pronouns (or lack of them) + flavors. My flavor hcs for the sticks (or at least the ones I have a clear idea of) are: (EDIT - this was supposed to be gender flavors and it slowly flew away from that but it’s long enough that I don’t want to delete it. I am so sorry.)

Red- uses she/he, cat videos, brainrot, bright blue artificial dye, time-out corner, three yo-yos at once

Orange- uses xe/xem, Yippee, Power of Friendship, orange juice mixed with caffeine in a Monster Energy can, loaf of bread, Take On Me music video but make it cosmic horror

Yellow- uses she/they, raccoon covered in car grease holding a wrench, ridiculously thick goggles+gloves, tism, curious. A bit too curious. Why are you googling “how to get away with arson.”

Green- uses he/him, disaster bi, theater kid (only derogatory during the influencer arc), WHAT’S UP DEMONS, it’s ME, yaoiYA BOI, Siren by Kailee Morgue

Blue- uses all prns, witchcore, “my farmer gf- or as I like to call her, my crop top,” if their eyes open yk you’re fucked, LET HIM COOOKKKK, rhubarb & lemon, Willow from ToH, 🫵rehab

Ourple- uses he/they, moth, capitalism, product is dairy free (father has not returned with the milk yet), “hello, Zuko here,” you’re literally broke how do you have so many suits, anxiety, Cavetown, flower crowns, psychological warfare, “DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE A PLASTIC BAG*ugly sobbing*”, birb. Birb is love. Birb is life. grisp the birb.

Chosen- uses he/him (anything but ‘it’), Shadow the Hedgehog, Falling in Reverse, Transcendental Cha Cha by Tom Cardy but make it the seven stages of grief, Sobbing on the Ground, *pac man noises*, traumacore, Alan gave me depression bc he knew otherwise I would beat him in hand-to-hand combat at 14, eats pizza crust-first, coffee as dark and bitter as my soul, cornered stray dog, 🇺🇸F🇺🇸R🇺🇸E🇺🇸E🇺🇸D🇺🇸O🇺🇸M🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🍔🍔🍔🍔🍟🍟🍔🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸

Dark- uses he/they (‘it’ when the mission code is in control), Murder, “spider-man, spider-man, does whatever a- OH NO NOT THE CHILDREN,” the crackling sound of a circuit board being broken in half and emitting sparks, ✨extra✨, shoplifting from Hot Topic on a Thursday, I’m Gonna Kill Santa Clause by Danny Gonzalez, masculine but like in a peacock way, knife pronounced “kuh-NIFF-eey”, chaos, the Sillies (aka bloodlust so strong I could commit a felony. Perhaps even multiple felonies.)

Vic- uses she/her (annoying local qpr always wearing the same gender), a woman politician???!!/pos, I’ve been near you for five whole minutes when are you going to murder me already, wet cat, tears, fluffy blankets, bones, space, I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot.

MT- uses he/him, musty crusty Old Man, *eyebrows widen in surprise*, Flashbacks to The War, beefing with literal children, Dad Jokes, dust, depression

Agent- no time to Gender, never beating the loyal dog allegations, lost all whimsy in The Great Fire of 1941, “I just wanna be part of your SYMPHONYYYY,” ink, crunchy, fucked-up lil guy/w bg explosions for dramatic effect, IM SMITH SHADY YES IM THE REAL SHADY ALL YOU OTHER SMITH SHADIES ARE JUST IMITATING SO WONT THE REAL SMITH SHADY PLEASE STAND UP PLEASE STAND UP PLEASE STAND UP

Mitsi- uses she/her, Girlboss, actually the woman ever, paint, daffodils, ashes, earl grey tea, :3 “friend-shaped”

Gold- uses all prns, ash baby, space but it’s a liquid that will suck you into it, LET ME OUT, crayons, cotton, sunlight, glitter, sand, Minecraft end poem

Corndog guy- money, corndogs, repressed godhood, Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan

Did any of that make any sense? Admittedly, no. Am I saying that if you bit into Red, you would taste artificial blue dye and cat videos? Yes. Absolutely. For added fun, read these like Ao3 tags.

WTF ARE THE HOLLOWHEADS

In my hcs, the hollowheads are not siblings *coughcoughchodarkpropaganda*. However, Vic and Cho are practically twins. Why? A hollowhead’s physical appearance (since I usually draw them like Fleshy Human People) is mostly determined by their creator’s intentions when creating them. Alan can only see them in stick form, so their appearance being shaped by his intentions is kinda like how ppl have hcs of their ocs that are still a part of them even though they’re only in the creator’s head and haven’t been drawn yet. Vic and Cho are so similar bc they’re only in we’re both drawn as punching bags, even though Cho was a challenge and Vic was a training dummy. Sec didn’t actually have a comprehensible mortal form until xey found RGBY (just picture an Eldridge Horror exploring Alanspc when TSC was first introduced) bc Alan created xem without any intent to make xem alive or any idea of what xey’d be for who xey’d be, so TSC is Art. Literally. Xey embody art itself. That’s why xeir whole green glowy power is so effective, it’s not meant to be an offensive measure, but a large part of the outernet IS art, so xey have a very wide range of control (or xey would have, if it was what xe wanted when xe realized it. Xey find more purpose and joy in just existing with xeir friends. Xey connect and create. It’s xeir whole thing).

A hollowhead’s appearance is also heavily shaped by the attachments they make, most notably their secondary colors. Their second color reflects the deepest attachment they make. When a hollowhead is first created, before they make any attachments, their second color is clear. The hollowheads’ pupil/irises being different colors would also make them blind until they form an attachment (light passes through clear stuff instead of being absorbed by it), and by that logic, even while attached, most hollowheads are some form of colorblind. Vic has never not been blind while Dark is the only hollowhead with Rainbow Premium™️. Second’s secondary color is Green, Chosen’s is red, Dark’s is black, and Vic’s was white but faded mostly back to clear with hints of silver (after Misti’s death, Vic kinda self-isolated and got addicted to the VR memory tech). Attachments forming appearances is also the reason why Sec is the only one with a cursor ahoogie. Vic has a large, cursor-shaped scar on their back. It fades while Mitsi helps her heal, but starts growing again once she starts blaming the cursor for Mitsi’s death. Sometimes, during her really bad flashbacks, her old cursor scars will start to show up on her skin, even though she has a new body with no scars each time she’s drawn. Chosen still has all his cursor scars. They function like normal scars. During his terrorist years, Cho also gained a “halo” after seeing the one on the Angel of Death poster. With each attack, he’d gain a few small, jagged, triangular red arrows floating around his head. Dark thought they looked cool, but Chosen would sometimes feel like they were poking him. Cho would gain more arrows per attack as the destruction went on, having an overcrowded full-on halo by the time he stopped killing sticks. It hurts a lot, these days. Sometimes, when the sunlight hits it just right, the halo flashed purple. Although his other powers remained unaffected, Chosen’s fire started to burn a little redder after escaping the PC. After the Showdown, it sometimes burns his hands. Just a little, not so much that he can’t use it anymore. It just hurts when he does. The same thing happened with Dark’s fireballs. They got darker as time went on. Dark only has a few scars. The star-shaped one on his neck only gets deeper. When under the mission code’s influence, Dark’s secondary color reverts to clear and the whites of their eyes go black. With the virabands on, Dark’s pupil/irises turn red. During the Showdown, they had red pupils and black eyes. The virabands also project six small screens in front of their face which look like eyes with the same coloration. These projections act as a targeting system for the virabots, give quick stats on how many are functional, track the location of the other band if only one is being worn, and look really fucking cool (according to Dark).

OK THAT’S PROBABLY ENOUGH FOR ONE POST, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk!

[ikibli]

The Evil Exes Verse

Look, it really does not take much background re-arrangement to make dating Barry, breaking up with Barry, and then stealing his latest invention on the way out the door the backstory for basically every single Rogue. Barry's a scientist, and he's definitely capable of making basically all of their inventions

Captain Cold? Broke up after Barry found out he was a petty thief, stole the Cold Gun on his way out.

Heatwave? Broke up over his pyromania leading to Barry having to bail him out for arson, stole the Heat Gun on his way out.

Dr. Alchemy? Broke up after he plagiarized Barry's paper, and stole the Philosopher's Stone on his way out.

Trickster? Broke up after a prank gone wrong. He might not have stolen anything besides maybe a few notes, but he might also have stolen a bunch of small things and reverse-engineered them.

Golden Glider? Lisa didn't actually date Barry herself, but she stole the Gold Gun while Barry wasn't looking and Len brought her over.

Mirror Master? Broke up over his ego, stole the Mirror Device and Barry's notes on the Mirror Dimension on the way out.

Weather Wizard: Broke up after Mark committed a petty theft. Stole the Weather Wand on the way out.

Godspeed? Er, I'll just give you this actual panel from an actual issue of The Flash(don't remember the issue number, sadly).

The hardest part, frankly, is coming up with unique and in-character reasons for them to break up.

In this universe, there are four types of Rogue: Barry Allen's ex-boyfriend, Barry Allen's ex-boyfriend's younger sibling, Barry Allen's ex-coworker with a crush(romantic or otherwise) they never acted on, and Gorilla Grodd.

I imagine that the Rogues might actually make having dated and/or fucked Barry Allen an official entry requirement for new members.

[whisperingrockandroll]

Ranking Aquato family members by how likely they are to commit tax fraud (least to most)

8 - Razputin Aquato

Of all the members of the Aquato Clan, Raz is currently the only member confirmed to be working for the government. He's the absolute model of a federal employee. The kind of agent they would make naively optimistic 50s movies about. The kind of hero who is everything J Edgar Hoover was not. Honest, caring, loyal, hardworking, excited to chase the call of adventure alongside his heroes, who are also employees of the federal government. He's not a slave to authority, but he could best be described as "Lawful Good" in D&D terminology. As such, Raz would never commit tax fraud. He only wants to help people, rescue their brains, and occasionally commit arson and kill animals. But only when its cool. Also, he hates math.

Likelihood: Never.

7 - Dion Aquato

Dion is a contentious character. Some people hate him because of the way he bullies and insults Raz. Others like him because they see past that and see him as depressed and anxious teenager who's taking his insecurities and pain out on his little brother out of jealousy and the fear of his entire world changing around him. But we're not here to talk about that: we're here to ask if he'd commit tax fraud. The answer is he's simply not smart enough to. We're talking about a guy who heard from his toddler-aged brother that real living human beings reproduced via eggs. He simply isn't smart enough to figure it out. He'll either need a caregiver or spouse to file his taxes for him, or he'll download a terrible app on his phone that he can just barely navigate and might still have to go through an audit just because he got stuff wrong.

Likelihood: Too dumb to commit tax fraud. Even if he were smart enough, he'd probably get frustrated and bored very quickly.

6 - Augustus Aquato

Auggie won't lie to you, the thought of cheating on his taxes has definitely crossed his mind. There's a lot of overhead on a circus, even a small one. With how much the family struggles financially, the temptation has always been there to write off a few fake expenses. But he never has, because he's a responsible father and husband, and would never want to endanger his family by putting their finances and freedom in jeopardy.

Likelihood: Highly unlikely. Good dad energy too strong.

5 - Mirtala Aquato

The member of the family we know the least about. She seems kind enough, though often times sarcastic and smart-alikey. A spirited and adventurers young lass, she might find certain parts of the Internal Revenue Code to be arbitrary, annoying or overly cumbersome. The thought might occur to her to commit tax fraud, but its doubtful she'd ever go all the way through with it. The potential jail time and fines would likely be enough to make her decide against it.

Likelihood: Might do it under pressure, but very unlikely otherwise.

4 - Donatella Aquato

A very passionate Italian mother, often times theatrical. Also very uncool about guilt-tripping her kids! Not cool, Donna! Though in fairness it's treated as a gag, and seems to just be her way of burning off the conflicting emotions she's going through. Still, sometime in the VERY near future she needs to give her son a hug and an apology! Moving on to the tax fraud, she's most likely faced the same temptation as her husband, but likely has weaker moral reservations. Donatella strikes me as the rebellious type, the kind who'd angrily stare down the head of a government agency for talking shit to her. Were it not for Augustus reminding her of the dangers, she'd probably get "creative" with her return filings.

Likelihood: Possibly. Similar motivations to Augustus but less moral apprehension. It'd take some pressure before she gives in.

3 - Frazie Aquato

She's a bitch but I like her. She throws shit around and says fucked up evil things. But she still clearly has a heart, can have a pleasent conversation with Raz, and even admits she misses him. Like Dion, she's a dumb teenager with issues, she's just slightly less douchey about it. Slightly. Would she commit tax fraud? This girl breaks into private government property, tosses pinecones at people and skulks around in trees like a spider monkey.

Likelihood: Would commit tax fraud, but doesn't make enough money. She lives in the woods.

2 - Queepie Aquato

This child is an agent of chaos. He runs around in the forest at the age of like 4 and is under no threat by wild animals. If anything, the wild animals are scared of him. His mind conjures up insane and silly conspiracies about psychics that he doesn't even believe and tells his older brother just to fuck with him. This kid will claim his toys and dependents to help fund his pirate radio station.

Likelihood: Already commiting tax fraud with his co-conspirator Morris Martinez.

1 - Nona Aquato

Nona has been committing massive tax fraud for decades, but only by accident. She's been filing as her dead sister, whose identity she unwittingly stole. By now, she's in her golden years, and I'm sure she figures it's too late to stop now. Might as well go the extra mile and fudge some of those numbers. Especially since she recently reconnected with her friend Cassie O'Pia, infamous criminal counterfitter. The stuff Cassie knows about cooking books will be instrumental to her fraudulent claims.

Likelihood: Serial tax scammer

[timelyovertime]

Marvel Comics #1

Date of publication: August 31st, 1939

Back in the Golden Age of comics, "Marvel Comics" didn't exist yet. The company at the time was called Timely Comics, hence the name of this blog. But, it just so happens that the first book they put out would also be called Marvel Comics, and it would go on to be their central pillar throughout this era. Obviously, it's the future namesake of the company, but it's just serendipity that this first comic had such a good name for them to adopt later, especially because that name will change in the very next issue. I wonder what would have happened if this first issue was "Marvel Mystery Comics #1" instead.

The other thing you might notice immediately from the cover is that the headliner for this book, & a lot of Timely Comics in general, is the Human Torch. I think it's not super obscure knowledge among comics fans, but as a fan of secondary media instead, it was definitely surprising for me that Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four actually took his name from this otherwise unrelated character.

Golden Age comics in general were mostly anthology books, collecting different shorter stories from different creators, & Marvel #1 is no different. The first page is 5 single-panel gags, which I am sure were hilarious in 1939. After that the first proper story is the origin for this Human Torch: a synthetic human, somewhere between robot & man, created by a brilliant scientist named Professor Horton. However, somehow, a flaw in the creation causes the Torch to burst into flame on contact with oxygen. Unable to control it, Horton seals the Torch in a concrete block until he can find a solution, but a leak allowed the Torch to escape. Setting everything in his path on fire, he takes refuge at the bottom of a swimming pool, that just so happens to make him easy to capture for a criminal named Sardo, who has a very poorly thought out plan to use the Torch as part of a racket, threatening companies to melt their wares if he isn't paid. But he doesn't mention having the Torch, nor does he have any plan to recapture him, so he gets nothing, commits a single case of arson, & then the Torch comes to burn his house down in revenge. In the conflict, some nitrogen gas neutralizes the Torch's flame, after which he is able to turn it off & on, & gains overall pyrokinesis. Police release him back into Horton's custody, but Horton mentions how much money they could make off his newfound powers, & the offended Torch leaps through the ceiling to freedom.

It's mostly an interesting story in comparison to how the Torch would go on to be portrayed. He's a tragic monster here, a victim of his own powers who is hated for no fault of his own. But he's also notably manic, frequently laughing, even with a firehose turned on him. Just an oddity of this being the first ever Timely strip.

The second story is The Angel, Tom Halloway (although his name won't be revealed yet). He's a crime fighter with no powers, with his trademark being a winged shadow he casts while leaving his defeated baddies for the police. In this issue, a mayor is convinced to ask for his help as a wave of violent crime rocks the city, over 200 arrests all walking free as no victim is brave enough to speak against them. Before the Angel can be contacted though, he sends a message that he's already on the trail of not just the "Six Big Men" behind the crimes, but also the "Big Boss" they all answer to. He promptly begins a violent crime spree of his own by killing 3 of the Six Big Men, before being captured by the 4th and a mysterious woman called Lil. He's driven out of town to be executed by 4 & 5, but Lil cuts his bonds, allowing him to kill both of them. He makes it back, unceremoniously kills the last of the 6, & finds a lead that brings him to Lil and the Big Boss, who turns out to have been the man who suggested to the mayor to contact the Angel in the first place, in the hopes that they could split their loot 2 ways instead of 8. It's a solid little story that sets the tone for the Angel well. My understanding is that he gets flanderized into a brutal killer in his few modern flashback appearances, but here as is often the case he's satisfied with just getting the criminals for the cops when it doesn't impede his ongoing investigation- but he definitely doesn't mind killing either when the situation calls for it. That's honestly kind of the vibe for most Golden Age comics, though.

The third story is famously the first to have been made, & the only character here to have an ongoing importance to Marvel today. It starts as a mystery, with a salvage ship sending 2 divers down to a wreck to find that someone had already been there. That someone was Namor, a capricious, water-breathing prince who cuts their airlines, this being over a decade before scuba was invented, so divers had actual tubes leading all the way from their helmets to the boat for air. He then crashes the entire ship, gathers up the divers' bodies, & carries them back to Atlantis (though it hasn't yet been identified as such), where his mother eggs him on to wage war on the surface world, telling him the story of how she came to love his father while acting as a double-agent on his ship, sending info back to her people about how to avenge the surface's accidental bombings of Atlanteans. Namor & his cousin Dorma then go on a short mission, attacking a lighthouse, & hijack a small plane so Dorma can escape before Namor plunges back into the sea.

This strip, or at least the first part of it, before they swim to the lighthouse, was originally produced for Motion Picture Funnies Weekly, a comic meant to be given away at movie theaters earlier in 1939, but it was never released. It was also not a Timely publication, so I don't really have any intention of going back to it. In every way that matters, the Sub-Mariner begins here. I have read that Bill Everett came up with the character after hearing about the plans for the Human Torch- might be just hearsay, but as the most long-standing duo in Marvel comics with only a couple of competitors on the DC side of things, it's only appropriate they both start alongside each other in the very first issue of Marvel.

One other thing worth mentioning is that the underwater scenes here are all covered extremely blue, to the point it is difficult to see details in a lot of cases. As a result, most appearances of the Atlanteans here show them as being blue, & they become established as just being blue-skinned in canon. However, the same is true for Namor, & both his mother & cousin have a caucasian skin tone when shown out of the water. Blue skin clearly wasn't intended, & is just a quirk of this heavy-handed coloring choice.

The Masked Raider is a typical western story, & unlike the previous three it won't be sticking around for very long. Jim Gardley here refused to sell his ranch to the man who "rules" the town, whose name is either Brunder or Brunter depending on the panel, even after Brunder kidnaps him and turns him into the sheriff on a made-up charge. He breaks out of jail & goes on the run for weeks, honing his skills as a gunslinger & taming a white stallion he names Lightning. After he's satisfied with his preparation, he takes on this secret identity & returns just in time before the rest of the ranchers decide to sell, teaming up with the sheriff to take the Brunder Gang down. Aside from the reaction of Brunder's right-hand man Slick to Jim's offer of surrender being very funny to me, I have little else to say about this comic, or most Masked Raider strips.

The fifth story is a one-shot called Jungle Terror, and it's at this point the negatives of media from so long ago become apparent. We made it about 2/3rds of the first issue before we hit any blatant racism. A professor has been missing in the Amazon for 3 months, so his nephew & a family friend resolve to go after him, while they are followed by a plantation-owner called Crafton, who wants to get the hypnotic diamond that the professor had gone to look for, owned by an "Indian" tribe. The protagonists' plane crashes, & they are taken captive by the "savages", who of course speak in broken English. In the hut where they are kept they conveniently find both the professor and an entrance to a cave full of the diamonds, but are forced to flee as they are first threatened by Crafton, then he is killed by the natives & they are chased from the cave. They manage to find Crafton's intact plane & get away. For exactly one panel on the last page, without explanation, the natives are also shown with demonic horns. It's a less than mediocre story & I'm glad it did not spawn an ongoing series.

The sixth story is in prose! Most of these early comics have a 2-page written short story, & the majority are self-contained. I also skipped over any that didn't involve existing characters for my first read, so in skimming back through these it will be my first time actually reading most. Burning Rubber is an... interesting story. Bill Williams (William Williams?) has a racecar that looks shabby because he & his mechanic Fred dedicated everything to its performance. The first segment of the story is dedicated to this dynamic, making it seem like it will just be about the ugly duckling winning the race. But the next segment has Fred explain to Bill's girlfriend Ann, who is worried about him crashing, that the race is actually a final test for their experimental new gas-feeder, which if anything goes wrong could explode, & that if she wants to save his life she needs to go to an acquaintance of hers with the blueprint & convince him to buy it. She succeeds, just in time as gas starts to fly out onto Bill's face & the car begins to smoke. Bill is, naturally, mad & sexist about being interrupted, thinking she was just stopping him from proving the gas-feeder made the car go faster, until he learns what happened & is is happy that they can discuss selling the gas-feeder... that is blatantly faulty. I'm just not sure what the takeaway here is, other than that Bill is terrible. Such an odd story.

Finally, we have Ka-Zar, another Golden Age character whose name will get reused for a completely unrelated Silver Age one. As the title card there says, he's a pre-existing character, from the 1936 novel King of Fang and Claw. The first five Ka-Zar stories here are adapted from that book. John Rand, owner of a South African diamond field, gets what he deserves as his plane crashes deep in the Congo with his wife Constance & their 3-year-old son, David, who quickly begins to befriend all the wildlife except for a leopard called N'Jaga, who tries to eat the boy but is wounded by John. They repeatedly try to get the attention of passing planes, but fail, & eventually Constance dies of a fever. Before they can start to try to reach civilization on foot, John is struck by a falling tree during a storm, & the injury, implied to have caused some minor brain damage, convinces him that Constance's grave is their home, & they would continue to build a life for themselves in the jungle. As he grows, David continues to grow close with the wildlife, learning the language of the beasts, & ultimately saving the lion Zar from quicksand.

A week after saving Zar, David and his father see smoke, & it leads them to the camp of a white man, Paul de Kraft, who is using native Africans for labor and is repeatedly emphasized as being both fat & greasy. de Kraft has come for emeralds, and when told to leave by John, pulls a gun out, but David hits him in the arm with an arrow so they can escape. However, de Kraft tracks down their home, mortally wounds John, & captures David, but Zar leaps into the clearing, killing the natives & driving the white man away. With John's death, Zar adopts David as his brother, & he officially becomes Ka-Zar in the final couple panels.

Ka-Zar's treatment of Africans is not exactly charitable, but at least they are the minions ordered around by an evil white guy instead of being the antagonists themselves. The comic is much meaner to overweight people than to racial minorities. Otherwise, it's a pretty typical "white baby grows up in darkest Africa" story, & while a solid example of that weird genre, it's nothing new for anybody that knows Tarzan, at least not in this first issue.

Skipping some advertisements as is typical for the back of these books, this is the end of the first issue of Timely Comics. This took longer than I expected, definitely longer than just reading the comic itself; I'd say that I'll try to keep future posts shorter, but I know myself better than that. Some issues are just gonna take 3 hours to write up. I will have to give up any delusions of being caught up with what I have read soon, though. Until next Timely.

...Yeah, I'll keep workshopping, I don't think that's gonna work as a catchphrase.

[systastic]

ty for this blog! can we request three lvl3 werewolf alters who go together?

meow :( dogs… but oki!! the more friends the merrier <3 -🍥

i know you said werewolf, buuuut werewolf pictures are damn hard to find. so i went with three shifters instead :] -🌳

name :: vellatrix, trixie, bellatrix, xenia, hendrix, lux, maddox

age :: 21 to 24

pronouns :: they/them, xe/xer, shx/hxr, it/its, nim/nims, fang/fangs

roles :: verbal protector, janusian,

species :: werewolf / vampire hybrid

gender identity :: panea, soluperic, transmascthing

orientation :: sapphic / skoliosexual (may be controversial, use w caution!)

source :: brainmade

aesthetic :: goth punk, grunge

appearance description :: being an albino bat/wolf hybrid, xenia has pure-white skin, white fur, and red eyes. xe often has to stay in a semi-transformed state specifically to avoid sunburn and wears sunglasses outside to prevent eye irritation, but plays this off as though it’s a faulty gene or something. it’s only at night that it can transform fully into a bat, wolf, or human — though it sometimes likes to mix and match xer attributes for the “aesthetic”. hendrix’s choice of fashion is mostly strapped clothes, flannel, ripped jeans, platform shoes due to their measly height of five foot zero, and huge dangly earrings that glimmer in the moonlight. vellatrix doesn’t want to cover up fangs albinism; to fang, it’s a mark of pride that makes them stand out from the others.

personality description :: bellatrix is what the kids would call a “little shit”. a troublemaker. an absolute gremlin. a full-blown creacher. it lives up to the name with its eccentric personality and chaotic way of composing itself, as well as its commitment to breaking several laws over and barely even batting an eye. xenia wouldn’t murder someone, granted — but a little bit of arson? jaywalking? owning several raccoons and referring to them as trash puppies? oh, yeah. they’d do that. it is genuinely hard to tell if xena even knows that these are crimes or if theyre doing it on accident. the open tab of “weirdest crimes in america” in their browser might suggest otherwise...

likes :: albino rats, spooky dudes, funky little guys, collecting bones and scraps of old letters, raccoons (trash pandas), snakes, any weird or commonly disliked animal, other hybrid species, people who upset the status quo (reasonably so, not like literal serial killers), anarchy, attending riots, cherry-flavored anything, chapell roan, and sucking the red color out of things to feed on (vegan moment!)

dislikes :: straight-laced people, goody-two-shoes (brad and chelsea are exceptions!), snitches, serial killers, people with main character syndrome, being compared to the manic pixie dream girl stereotype (it is NOT a pixie, it’s a werewolf vampire obviously), ableism, twitter, drama forums, taking shit from other people, unwritten rules (if they didn’t want people to break them, they should write it down!)

front triggers :: lists of rules it has to follow, tired gender norms, debates or arguments, anything chappell roan

signoff :: 🦴, 🐁, or 🩻

image credit here

name :: bell/bella, britney, kiara, madeline (mads), hailey, caitlyn, audrey, chelsea

age :: 23 to 27

pronouns :: she/her, occasionally they/them

roles :: protector, coach, athlete, physical protector, coltenoir, anger holder

species :: werewolf

gender identity :: girldiun, ludovigirl // wolf emsoul, knightsensus (not genders but part of her identity)

orientation :: heterosexual

source :: brainmade

aesthetic :: vsco preppy, basic girl, bubblegum dance

appearance description :: kiara has blond-dyed brown hair that’s slowly growing out back to its natural color. hailey is extremely toned and has abs hard as rock. like — literally. people who try to punch her in the stomach might end up breaking their fist or worse if they go toe to toe with audrey. she stands at an imposing six feet and two inches tall, towering over most of her friends and relatives. mads has been blessed (or cursed, depending on how you look at it) with a severe case of resting bitch face that could curdle milk with a single glance. she isn’t trying to be mean all of the time — it’s just the way her face looks! fortunately, the people who are close to her know this and don’t take her looks to heart.

personality description :: blunt, sarcastic, rude, and gruff: those are the four perfect words to describe caitlyn. she doesn’t beat around the bush and tells people how it is straight up, no bullshitting. why lie? lying only makes shit worse. their overly dry and snarky sense of humor can get audrey into hot water — not that they really care. they shrug it off like nothing ever happened. her bluntness can come off as being rude to others, as does her generally gruff way of speaking. cora tries to hold it back for her friends and family, but it still slips through on occasion. god help you if you insult their friends; you’ll be pounded into a pancake faster than you can say ‘sorry’.

likes :: sports (especially basketball), getting fit, maintaining her figure, savory foods like steak, cooking on the grill, weightlifting, hitting the gym with her friends, showing off her muscles, proving her strength, defending her friends and family from assholes, starting arguments, infighting among her six (yes, six!) siblings, wrestling matches, family dinners, and spending time with her loved ones

dislikes :: sugar-heavy foods like cakes or donuts, anything that’s overly rich in carbs unless she needs to carbo-load, vegetarian meals aka “rabbit food”, karens (eugh), entitled people, those who have no sense of respect or patience, bastards, her brothers (sometimes), being called a “sweet girl” or “adorable” unless you’re a grandma (cus damn you, she’s a woman! put some respect on her name!), criminals, people with no sense of justice, chaos for chaos’ sake

front triggers :: physical activity and working out, mealtimes (especially if the body is super hungry), and bouts of exhaustion (she supplements the energy to keep going)

signoff :: 🏀, 💪, or 🏋️

image credit here

name :: kai, kyle, kodiak (kodi/kody), danny, drew, dave, aiden, cole, brad, chad, billy

age :: 16 to 18

pronouns :: he/him, rarely bark/barks

roles :: happiness holder, mood booster, advocate, caesian, confidence holder

species :: human-dog shifter

gender identity :: demiboy

orientation :: bisexual!!

source :: brainmade

aesthetic :: athlete, himbocore

appearance description :: brad has fluffy black and white hair, bright brown eyes and a face with an eternal smile on it. he’s really muscular and has tanned skin due to constantly being outside and running around. chad has a stupidly floofy tail right above his hindquarters and floppy ears that hang down on either side of his head. these ears and tail are an actual part of his body — so pulling, pinching, yanking, cutting, or even just touching it will definitely get a reaction. he is almost always in sportswear and ready to rumble with whatever the activity of the day is. frisbee? heck yeah! rafting? bring it on! it’s more of a challenge to find anything he doesn’t want to or is willing to do. with the right group of friends, chad is down for literally anything.

personality description :: it may or may not be obvious by now, but billy is a himbo. as in, very much a himbo. he is not very bright when it comes to passive perception, academics, the arts, or basically anything that doesn’t involve physical activity. he is the kind of guy who peaked in high school but genuinely has not realized it yet (and you really don’t want to tell him because damn it, he’s so darn cute and you wouldn’t wanna break his heart!) he loves his friends and family so very much to the point of sacrificing his own life for them. in his mind, it’s better to have his companions be safe instead of himself. if he has to fight a bear to do that - which everyone but him knows that he is no match for - then so be it! heck, danny still isn’t aware of the fact his friends are werewolves and not other dog shifters. he just assumes they’re all the same because big dog = the good friendly sniff smell.

likes :: head pats, scratches between his ears, playing with his pals, frisbee, chasing things down, dog parks, walks, exercise, playing in the backyard, sniffing weird shit (yes, this includes other people’s butts), yapping about his current interests and hobbies, making new friends, meeting up with old friends, fun activities, action and adventure, and hanging out with vellatrix and britney!!

dislikes :: people yelling at him over small mistakes, thunder and lightning, being told to shut up, betrayal, getting kicked out of his bed, taking naps, losing his stuff, people stealing things from his giant hoard of toys, fireworks (they are very “unpoggers” as he puts it), being misled (when someone says they threw the ball but they didn’t actually throw it…), and being blamed for stuff he didn’t do.

front triggers :: being called a “good boy”, ultimate frisbee, interesting smells, and being left alone with large quantities of food (yes, he will try to eat it all)

signoff :: 🐕, 🐾, or 🍗

image credit here

[tanabeth]

imagine wasting all your energy hating on angel when you can spend that energy on characters you love.

ok

The “who hates Angel the most” poll was not done out of personal hate for angel, but curiosity of what other fans of the show think other characters think about him.

A lot of my posts involving Angel have to do with me thinking the dynamic (or at least, potential one) between him and Giles in s3 was interesting. For example, recently I reblogged a post and tagged it “Giles with angel.” This has nothing to do with my own feelings towards angel, more so a statement towards how I feel another character feels about him.

i don’t really hate angel as a character, my criticisms are about the narrative treatment of him (amends reminding us of how he murdered people, including a character we knew, just as an attempt to make us feel bad for him, s3 trying to acknowledge the events of s2 but rarely acknowledging how it effected anyone other than Buffy and angel, etc) and how fans treat him (acting as though characters are in the wrong for not liking him in s3/being upset about his resurrection/being upset about the resurrection being hidden from them)

Angel can piss me off at times (amends, also his crimes in s2 but I’ll exclude those cause soul or whatever) but I also find him funny sometimes. I also haven’t seen ATS so I’m not going to say I HATE him until I’ve seen the show he’s the protagonist of.

Most scenes I’ve reblogged seeming anti-Angel are scenes between Giles and Angel (because, as I mentioned earlier, I find their dynamic interesting,) specifically referring to three scenes I’ve reblogged: -reblogged the arson scene in passion and cheered Giles on in the tags (angel/us is currently soulless and also just murdered Jenny). -reblogged the scene between them from amends encouraging Giles to hurt angel (if angel has the nerve to ask Giles for help with an existential crisis after everything that happened I think Giles should have been allowed to respond by stabbing him a little. He’s a vampire he’ll be fine. Besides it’s not like he’s doing it unprompted angel if you’re going to seek out someone who hates you because you murdered their partner and tortured them, hoping they’ll help you, you have to expect that you might lose a bit of blood). -reblogged the scene right before angel/us tortures Giles and said I was going to stab angel/us (again, still soulless and about to commit torture). In none of these cases did I, to my memory, reblog a random gif set talking about how much I hate angel, because not only is that a dick move, I myself would not want people reblogging, say Fanart, of a character yapping about how much they hate them, but I’m also mostly nuetral on him in general, except when he pisses me off. (I have criticized the godawful take that people were “too mean to poor innocent angel” in s3 but pointing out that the other characters are allowed to have negative feelings towards him when someone claims otherwise is different than reblogging a random post about how they like him as a character that doesn’t use their opinion to villainize characters for having emotions, or a gifset of scenes where he doesn’t do anything wrong posted by someone who likes him, and going “actually you’re wrong he’s awful and I hate him”) I only reblogged gifsets and commented hyper-negatively when he’s doing/has done/will do something shitty, two of which, depending on how you interpret soul lore, weren’t even technically him.

I talk way more about characters I like than I shittalk angel. The last post I made on this blog about Buffy, if I remember correctly, was about how I had rewatched some assembly required and how Giles had no game. Look through the Buffy tags on my account and I think most of the posts will be about Jenny and Giles, and then some that aren’t about them but also aren’t about angel.

most of my issues are related to characters I like. I know it wasn’t technically him cause soul or whatever, but he killed Jenny, tortured Giles, tried to kill a bunch of other major characters, probably would have killed them if not stopped, made Buffy’s life hell, and tried to end the world (not really a character but still kind of a big deal.) even if it wasn’t technically him, it effects my view of him (AND AGAIN: most of my issues aren’t even because of the events, but because, in s3, those events were rarely acknowledged outside of “you should feel sad that angel is guilty for murdering a bunch of people” or “it’s so sad Angel and Buffy can’t be together (cause he murdered a bunch of people).” Which is more of a writing issue than a character issue.)

I can do what I want

[clownfucker9000]

And for Vanelly ( I might come back later, so lock your doors)

🍇🍆🍰🍩🍷🥃🍟

You telling me that as if you werent gonna slip through the vents anyway 🙄

🍇: What sort of friend are they? Where are they in the group dynamic?

She's the toxic friend lmfao, really manipulative and will always try to spun things in her favor; she moves from friend group to friend group either before they catch on what type of person she is or after creating catastrophic drama between the others

🍆: Does your OC have any favourite form of affection, physical or otherwise?

She likes receiving gifts and having people do whatever she says :3c

🍰: What's something your OC counts as unforgivable?

When people get in her way or ruin her plans, she can't stand being told no or not getting what she wants when she wants it

🍩: What's a crime your OC is most likely to commit? What's a crime they're most likely to get arrested for?

Murder, fraud, tax evasion, assault, arson, she actually has been caught a couple of times shoplifting

🍷: What's one of your OC's pet peeves concerning food?

Hates when stuff advertised as spicy is not spicy enough, she needs to be coughing and crying or its not good enough for her

🥃: If your OC was in this universe, what would be their favourite show/book/band/social media platform?

She would be an american psycho fan (he just like me fr), also theres this one telenovela, Teresa, i think she would identify with the protagonist too xdxdxd

🍟: What does your OC admit to be their guilty pleasure? What actually is their guilty pleasure?

She's like "omg i like dark stuff like horror movies 🤭 and loud music 🤪 lol so random XD" which like, she does on purpose bc its part of the quirky manic pixie dream girl charm, in reality shes got dad hobbies like whittling and fishing and butchering and taxidermy which dont really fit the cutesy aesthetique so she keeps those only to herself

[mywaysthehighway]

About the last add-on to this:

Firstly, In the good lords name stop equating anarchism to leftism for the love of everything that is true this makes me crazy. Anarchism in itself should logically be understood to be completely separate from any centralized government derived two party system. That is kind of the biggest part of it. We do not buy into politics.

Secondly, you should really *really* start only writing about systems in YOUR geographic location because otherwise you will inherently provide wrong information. For example when you live in the UK and you try to educate people on how the police works in the US. That’s a problem because you have no lived experience and it shows. It’s a lot more simple and complicated at the same time, and so much more specific then you think it is. That’s how they trick you actually.

Thirdly, please stop equating anarchism with the antifa and violent youth. It just shows that your young age prevents you from understanding that anarchism is primarily building and maintaining and saving things not destroying and whining and rebelling. I’m sure I’ll get blacklash from the online kids here but anarchism is actually very non-violent in functioning communes, the ones that work as well as described in OP. That’s kind of the secret to a self sustaining healthy human group and peace. In more practical terms, burning down army offices would be considered asinine by real anarchists because all it would do is piss on tax payers (taxes are HUGE in true anarchism) twice around, fuel a harsh government response, and literally just do nothing good at all. Like.. that won’t make the army go away lol that’s ridiculous. It’s a total waste of valuable resources and throws your siblings into danger achieving nothing. I would only recommend it for immediate conflict, such as hostage release pressure. PLUS it completely ignores all the humans drawn into the military industrial complex with classist lures. It’s just not smart or efficient. If you wanna talk army then what you want is turning members of the armed forces and let them bring their combat training to fight the 1%- for an actual brighter tomorrow

Real anarchism is PRO active. It’s not about taking shit down it’s primarily about putting shit up and strengthening the community.

If you burn down a building that any working class citizens call home or that has been paid for with tax dollars you are just not helping. At best you want to take over and convert. This will also get you a better impact in the media, which might not be something you wanna consider because it’s not “rebellious”, but is a huge mass manipulation tool.

True anarchists know these little hysterical acts of random violence don’t hurt the actual overlords one bit

In short: if you are out there randomly burning down ANY buildings that provide ANY kind of service to any kind of working class citizen (and this includes employment) you are not an anarchist. You’re a hysterical loudmouth. You could’ve used the time and effort to help fix necessary infrastructure, distribute books, food, water, medical supplies, taught people self-defense to avoid the need to police, and more. You commit arson on the tax payers dime you get punished. I wouldn’t want it any other way.

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[lesbianogecharlie]

Anyways weird stuff that’s happened at my public school:

My teacher mispronounced roof. Everyone makes fun of her for it (she called it a ruff)

One time last year my friends and one teacher made flower crowns.

One of my teachers got caught making a TikTok of herself twerking to baby shark

I can’t tell if one of my friends is pretending to be straight or not cuz I remember that during the summer they said they might pretend to be straight all year but idk

There’s this weird tradition during lunch that feels kinda illegal to talk abt where everyone will randomly start clapping and it scares the teachers so much it’s funny

Last year one of my teachers let us gamble but the principal walked in (she still has a job)

That same teacher watched the outsiders with us and paused when Darry was shirtless for like 2 minutes

Her husband also looks identical to Pedro pascal

Me and one other person convinced our teacher to let us do Rasputin on just dance (this was our strictest teacher who we had last year but had to move up to our grade cuz they hadn’t hired a math teacher for us yet)

We have this one sub, who everyone calls mr clean (his real name is mr Christian but he just accepts the name mr clean) and at this point he has lore: he’s a ginger (his beard is at least lol, otherwise he’s bald), he’s a lawyer, he was in an opera, he walks like an npc, a kid moaned cuz him and more stuff

Literally half of our grade is lgbtq

My school is doing a musical and one day after rehearsals, it’s around 5pm and most ppl are gone, we hear screaming from the girls bathroom so me and two other ppl go in, and it’s just these two girls names Norah screaming seventeen in the heathers the musical soundtrack

Last year we joked that our health teacher was a serial killer so much that he left the school and every new one only stayed for 3 weeks at most

I got to “commit arson” for a presentation

My friends had to do something where we chose who lived or died on a desert island and we killed one guy cuz he didn’t join the baby singalong

On the first day the fire alarm went of 30 times. I’m not even exaggerating

We all got to throw stuffed animals at each other

Last year some kids found drugs on the playground for the elementary school (right next to us)

Anyways ye my school has more chaotic shit and this is just a little but hopefully you can understand even a little how chaotic it is

[ixiot-ghostrebel]

Ok, I've had this idea in my head for WEEKS

(Sagau) what if creator just nonchalantly told the characters (archons (including nahida(platonic ofc)))

that they were pushed in a campfire as a kid? (God this is so random please save me)

^ mmm Pyro brain go burrr

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READER WAS WHAT?!

OHOHOHOHO, @royalrose2011, THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GO DOWN. THEIR ACOLYTE CAREERS SHALL BE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN >:)

(Disclaimers: Might be OOC!)

Venti

Man would be concerned as frick. How—no, why would someone push you into a campfire of all things?! Were they not concerned for all the hazards it could've brought?

"Your Grace, you were pushed into A WHAT?!" Man will be praying to the Almighty Creator (aka you) that what you just said was just a prank—or maybe he heard it wrong.

But once you confirm it, this man is throwing all dignity into the wind (get it?) and about to hunt down these dudes who decide to throw you into a fire.

It takes all of your will to stop him from committing arson in your world, knowing you have no control over the government :')

Zhongli

He's more worried if you were hurt from the incident than worrying about morons who don't know what's dangerous or not.

"Your Grace, are you unharmed from such an incident?" Constantly checking over you to make sure you're unharmed whenever he gets the chance. He might not be exactly free all the time, but he can certainly make sure you are protected.

Guy will use every excuse in the book to make sure you are shielded. Whether literally or metaphorically, that depends on the situation.

Once this guy sees your hurt, expect to be walking behind you like some sort of bodyguard for a good few months.

Raiden Ei

Both worried and enraged. Who dares to hurt the Almighty Creator, going so far to have the audacity to push them into a campfire?!

"You need not worry, Your Grace—I will ensure you that these traitors deem no threat to you any longer." Even though it's probably been years since this incident, here's the archons, taking it seriously. Ei is not an exception—she will literally hunt the people who pushed you into that campfire.

Would see no end until she's killed the traitors, even though you're basically trying to convince her otherwise. It was years ago—you've gotten over it! Besides, you weren't dead!

She is not taking any of your excuses, so be prepared to pin her down when she does realize and see those traitors. No one shall stop her pursue of vengeance for the Almighty Creator!

Nahida

Very very worried and is practically hoping you weren't hurt.

"Your Grace, why would they push you into the campfire? Don't they know how dangerous it is?" Doesn't really like the fact that mortals do this to one another, let alone the Almighty Creator.

Poor bean is very worried about you so now you must reassure her that you are fine whenever you go off on long trips, travels, etc.

And that's about it! Sorry if it isn't to your liking, but that's all I got lol :')

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[ikibli]

Look, it really does not take much background re-arrangement to make dating Barry, breaking up with Barry, and then stealing his latest invention on the way out the door the backstory for basically every single Rogue. Barry's a scientist, and he's definitely capable of making basically all of their inventions.

Captain Cold? Broke up after Barry found out he was a petty thief, stole the Cold Gun on his way out.

Heatwave? Broke up over his pyromania leading to Barry having to bail him out for arson, stole the Heat Gun on his way out.

Dr. Alchemy? Broke up after he plagiarized Barry's paper, and stole the Philosopher's Stone on his way out.

Trickster? Broke up after a prank gone wrong. He might not have stolen anything besides maybe a few notes, but he might also have stolen a bunch of small things and reverse-engineered them.

Golden Glider? Lisa didn't actually date Barry herself, but she stole the Gold Gun while Barry wasn't looking and Len brought her over.

Mirror Master? Broke up over his ego, stole the Mirror Device and Barry's notes on the Mirror Dimension on the way out.

Weather Wizard: Broke up after Mark committed a petty theft. Stole the Weather Wand on the way out.

Godspeed? Er, I'll just give you this actual panel from an actual issue of The Flash(don't remember the issue number, sadly).

The hardest part, frankly, is coming up with unique and in-character reasons for them to break up.

In this universe, there are four types of Rogue: Barry Allen's ex-boyfriend, Barry Allen's ex-boyfriend's younger sibling, Barry Allen's ex-coworker with a crush(romantic or otherwise) they never acted on, and Gorilla Grodd.

I imagine that the Rogues might actually make having dated and/or fucked Barry Allen an official entry requirement for new members.

Woke myself up laughing today at the idea of a Scott Pilgrim AU where the Rogues are all Barry's exes that Hal has to fight for his affection. I have never read nor watched Scott Pilgrim