#im glad that sentiment stayed consistent

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

manhwa chapter 75

[seasonalmoss]

What's your Amanda AU?

its a Crossover AU! Written by me and @thequasarwinds

the AU actually started out as a thought experiment and it was supposed to be a silly side thing but, here we are. Its a AU that mostly consists of: Amanda the Adventurer, The Mandela Catalogue, and EPIC: the Musical. sorta weird combination namely with EPIC, but thats sorta the point? Me and my Twin (the writers of the AU) wanted to see what we could do with something like that.

so there���s variants of the AU, basically AUs of that AU, the pure raw AU with it alone is going through some rewrites so In this blog I’ll mostly talk about another variant of it (which has a lot of other fandoms in it, but it will largely stay irrelevant until I have to mention a piece of lore or another AU) So as a heads up all of these characters are typically actually cats, for many reasons, but mostly because 1) I cant draw humans for the life of me and Cats are cooler then humans /lh /hj 2) Warrior cats is in this silly AU (at least in the variant I’ll be talking about)

Overly simplified description of the plot:

in the nation of Serenity consisting of the counties, Mandela, Yonder, Bythorne, Werksha, and Kensdale, Riley after the events of ATA 2 decides to call a local paranormal group called BPS, for some further help, being confused on what to do. This eventually leads to Adam helping Amanda out of the TV show but getting lost and stranded on an island in the process. They get found and helped by Odysseus, who during his journey made a pit stop at a tiny island for extra supplies. Odysseus takes them home and fosters Amanda and takes care of Adam with his family, Telemachus upon gaining a new sister and learning of Hameln decides to join BPS figuring and hoping that’d it help him help his sister.

it is primarily an EPIC au, all the other fandoms are incredibly important to the plot and get there own time to shine, but it does start in Ody’s perspective and many of the POVs are in EPIC characters. The entirety of the first arc is mostly just the vengeance and Ithaca saga but reflavored. But the third act is when its primarily focused on Amanda and Wooly

so many aspects of this AU (like the locations) will be explained I swear but this is a very simple description of the plot. its also important to note that this AU is relatively new! So we’re still actively writing and rewriting it.

this AU has actually become very important and sentimental to us for a myriad of personal reasons. And im glad to be able to share it in some way, though I doubt its gonna get much traction.

[jekyllhyde]

gonna write out my tav salvian's relationships with the guys who are currently a part of his team . for reference im in act II

wyll: salvian's partner. he's absolutely smitten with him. salvian hates asking wyll to stay at the camp for a bit but sometimes he does so so as to give wyll a break from the constant moral dilemmas. he loves dancing with wyll, which was thankfully a skill that he already possessed (though not nearly as well as wyll) so he didn't completely embarrass himself when wyll first asked to dance. salvian enjoys wyll's almost cheesy level of romantic prose and has no problem committing public displays of affection - he asks wyll for a kiss before and after every long rest. your honor they are in love

gale: salvian's closest friend. being a sorcerer, he gets into a lot of banter with the wizard, but it's always with a friendly tone and a genuine interest in what gale has to say about his magic. learning that mystra wants gale to blow himself up made salvian very distressed and he has been constantly checking in with gale about the whole issues in an attempt to dissuade him.

shadowheart: salvian's second closest friend, which he was certainly not expecting. their relationship started a bit strained, with salvian a bit concerned with over her secretive nature. however, as they've travelled together and shadowheart has opened up, salvian has grown to greatly enjoy her company. he hopes that she will make the right decisions within shar's temple, as he does not entirely trust the deity she's aligned herself with.

karlach: nothing has brought salvian greater relief than finding out karlach was not an evil demon but instead an innocent tiefling. he immediately accepted her into his party and has been travelling with her consistently since. he immediately hugged her once her engine was fixed, glad to indulge her in what she'd been missing for so long. salvian's stress about her engine, though, has created a bit of tension in their relationship as he's very scared of losing her

halsin: the two grew close together extremely quickly, despite halsin's more recent addition to the team. salvian admires halsin greatly and the sentiment seems to be returned. he particularly enjoys watching halsin turn into a bear and will try to get halsin to stay in bear form juuuust a biiiit longeerr which halsin does not seem to mind at all. (i am so scared that hes going to develop romantic feelings for salvian and ill have to turn him down 😭

lae'zel: the two have a bit of an awkward relationship, as salvian has had to turn down lae'zels advancements twice. regardless, he tries to foster a good relationship between the two of them and is trying his best to support her after the whole githyanki creche thing didn't work out. once threatened her and she was like a little too into it so now he cant do it ever again

astarion: probably the companion salvian is the least connected with, though he is trying to work on their relationship. they just tend to butt heads on the whole lawful good vs chaotic neutral(?) aspect. very supportive him nonetheless and was not at all surprised about astarion being a vampire. almost died from letting him drink his blood lol

also salvian has scratch and the owlbear and he loves both of them so much an d pets them all the time

[mochuelovelli]

Since you've opened the door for more ideas on the fix it au, let me first ask you about how Della's relationship with Goldie would come into play and in which episode? How does it go in it?

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Im so glad you asked! Okay so how I see it is that Goldie had been part of the twins' lives ever since they moved in officially with Scrooge, in fact she has even interacted with Fethry and Gladstone on multiple occasions (seeking out Gladstone for his luck at first before realizing it doesn't bleed over to passerbys like she hoped). Donald had been mistrustful of Goldie since he met her, though he was mistrustful of pretty much everyone but Della gravitated towards her.

In my mind (and in this AU), Della is shown more explicitly to be like Louie in that she often did seek out short cuts to adventure for the sake of glory (though the riches were also a nice bonus). While Della may be a good woodchuck, she isn't necessarily "Smarter than the Smarties" like Huey but what she is good at is getting herself and her family out of trouble. While the comics aren't all completely canon they are inspired by the characters. In Della's case she is often shown there as well as in the show to consistently figure out an idea to "scheme" if you will, to solve their problems.

This would be mostly expressed during the "Happy Birthday Doofus Drake" episode as well as "Glomtales" and of course the "Moonvasion" two parter.

Specifically in HBDD, throughout the episode Goldie would hint at having schemed someone like Louie before. For instance in that scene where Louie tries to guilt trip Goldie into mentoring him and Goldie asks what kind of "crying act" Louie was aiming for she might say something along the lines of "You should've known who you were dealing with, I've been aquatinted with your type for as long as you've been alive - erm well, however old that is what are you 11 now?" Maybe a little later Louie asks how she knows him so well, "Did you have a school for schemers or something? What's with all the weirdly specific comments?"

"You think I have patience for a whole school worth of wannabe tricksters? Please, I could hardly handle one." "Did your partnership with him also start by infiltrating a rich kid's party?" "No. Pretty sure she stowed away on my plane to find some kind of mythical Money Tree(or an artifact idk yet)."

Throughout the episode Goldie also refers to Louie as "Sharpie Junior" or "Lil/Mini Sharpie". She also says stuff like "Stop pulling that face kid, you're making me nostalgic." Once Louie returns back and laments about Goldie, this scene might stay the same or substitute Della for Scrooge where she would confess to her relationship with Goldie. Alternatively Scrooge could also reveal that Della was the first "Sharpie" and explain that his mother also got tricked by Goldie on their infamous first mission.

In "Glomtales", Della will also hint at her past as Goldie's first unofficial apprentice during her recorded message. She would also have a more in-depth talk with Louie instead of the more vague "I'll accept you as you are even if I don't understand it." I want her to relate to him, hint at or explicitly state her insecurities as a call back to the first episode of Season 2 where Louie doesn't think he belongs in his family. It might also make it a bit sadder for Della to express in her video message that instead of stating his schemes are hurting the family she tells him "Look, I know what it's like to want to prove yourself. But this isn't the right way I..." She will stop, still not explaining her feelings "perfectly" and implying that she wants to say more but not on video, and finish by saying "This is for your own good, okay? We'll be back soon and erm, if you finish these video logs and not ignore them I'll bring you a souvenir. I'll check if you do too, so don't lie to me Mister!"

Maybe towards the end of Glomtales she adds "I don't want you to be like me, Louie, I want you to be better. So far, you are, I know you're good Louie" Of course Louie "steals" Scrooges company which means the ending of Glomtales might be played more dramatically in an effort not to undercut Della's comment. Scrooge might also echo Della's sentiment in "The Richest Duck in the World" just for more sadness.

Other than that, she would definitely mention it more explicitly in S3 once Goldie returns. As far as fanfiction goes, Goldie and Della's relationship would be flushed out more than just a quick flashback and a couple lines. I headcanon that Gladstone got his habit of nicknaming people from Goldie. Her nicknames for the cousins were "Sharpie" for Della, "Sunshine" for Donald, "Shrimpy" for Fethry (bc he was very small when she first met him, also he rambled about shrimp) and "Clover" for Gladstone

[book-o-scams]

This is a p long Ed edd n eddy ramble, brace yourself lol: I’ve really tried to like eddy as a character throughout the series. But the more episodes I see the more upset I am at how cruel, uncaring, selfish and greedy eddy is. I’ve noticed he hardly cares about ed or edd unless its extreme (and even then, sometimes he won’t do anything) or he is manipulated into caring via compensation. There are few instances where he gives into legitimate guilt, but they’re rarer than they should be.

Don’t Rain on My Ed really nailed at how terrible eddy really is, especially to Double D. The entire episode builds up tension between edd and eddy, and I was really intrigued to see where it was going. Edd makes it clear more than I’ve seen in the series so far as to how eddy disregards consequences or his friends to impulsively indulge in whatever pleases him at the moment.

 Pt3: This continues as eddy abandons ed and edd to clean up their scam, and once again abandoning edd to the kanker sisters. And (to my frustration which I’ll later explain in more detail) edd aids eddy and still stays by him. 
Then the pivotal moment in the episode-the chicken crossing- highlights where eddy’s priorities stand, and it’s utterly heartbreaking. 



0t4: ’ll give the crew credit, I was honestly unsure as to whether eddy would either rescue edd and risk losing the jaw breakers or leave him. It’s rare for the trope of “will they won’t they x” to actually be convincing, and I believe it tied together the heavier atmosphere of the episode. 


Pt5: Now, It could be argued that eddy at least is concerned for edd’s well being since he takes up a good portion of the final minutes caught between two options, but I think that at this point in the episode, it’s hardly a plausible argument given the evidence for eddy’s behavior. 


6 (I think? I lost count lol) 
So, eddy’s greed wins out, and he makes a break for the jawbreakers (which are rightfully denied to him). 
This episode, I believe, was meant to bring out how eddy is always ready to leave behind his friends or drag them across the mud as he pursues his ambitions, and Im glad that edd more often berates eddy for doing so, but… gah!! I want him to DO something about it rather than just tell him off!

So here’s my question: why the hell does Edd even stay with the eddy? 
Going back to my statement about edd always ready to jump back in and help edd, I really want to know why double d even stays when eddy clearly abandons him. It doesn’t help that the very next episode, eddy straight up says to edd’s concerns, “what’s that?? I think that’s the sound of no one caring!”

Edd is clearly capable of spending his time in a more productive manner and healthier company if he stopped hanging out with eddy. Ed, on the other hand, is a very dear friend to edd, and often stays by edd and shares his sentiment…at least to the best of his abilities given his impaired intellect. Edd is also well aware that the scams eddy likes to pull off are morally wrong, and I become frustrated when double d routinely criticizes eddy’s actions but still goes with him.

. Really, all he does is claim “he’s so stubborn” on jumps in right as the scam backfires to say “I find you so”. n fact, I’ll even go as far as to ask what does Edd even SEE in Eddy? Eddy’s flaws clearly outrank the good, as we see he displays his crueler, greedier nature more often than not. I think also, (besides the love of jawbreakers) they have nothing in common.

Last one!: Polar opposites doesn’t mean a friendship is impossible, but given edd and eddy’s attitudes towards each other most of the time, their clashing personalities strain their relationship rather than compliment each other. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my rant, I know you’re well versed in the show so please correct me if my interpretation is wonky. This has been something I’ve been fighting myself over :p

So this is a pretty common takeaway from the series, and while I rarely feel I’m able to dissuade anyone who feels that way, I’ll give it yet another shot!

Ed, Edd n Eddy has a deceptively consistent continuity. The key timeline it follows is 5 months, beginning when the Eds start being harassed by the Kankers in June and ending with Eddy overpowering the Kankers in October (and then the specials, season 6 and the movie expand the world beyond that timeline, a little less clearly connected to the main series due to the specials being made in a pretty random order). The main story of the series is focused on different types of child abuse, how it creeps up in more ways than kids can notice, the damage it does to developing personalities, and finally the demonization and lack of empathy children receive after the damage has been done.  The Kankers are made the foreground of that abuse, but it is important to take in the background information we get about the Eds’ families and the townspeople, and then to also factor in that each season turns more characters into the Eds’ bullies, until the Eds are completely alone in the world and forced to bicker among themselves.  This eventually leads us to the movie, which doubles down on these themes by literally cutting the Eds off from everyone, taking a long hard look at the ways Eddy fronts to avoid talking about the abuse in his life, and then finally revealing the previously unspoken physical abuse he received from his brother as an infant.

Late season 3-mid season 5 have issues with the show clearly favoring Edd over Eddy. Despite Edd making most of the same mistakes as Eddy in other episodes, the most memorable stories are spent going above and beyond to make Edd’s side perfectly reasonable, while Eddy’s side is insanely unreasonable.  It got frustrating to watch, and the show would also sweep Ed’s bad behavior under the rug in favor of spotlighting Eddy’s, making it hard to understand how Eddy could ever be perceived as moral if even the “nice” characters were low-key jerks. But at the end of season 5, the focus on Eddy’s downhill spiral pays off in two ways: 1. ‘Smile for the Ed’ and other later episodes finally bring it to Ed and Edd’s attention that everyone in the town targets Eddy specifically without provocation, AND 2. ‘A Fistful of Ed’ has Eddy finally reaching the boiling point of his built up rage and he scares away the Kankers, saving his friends. For the episodes leading into the movie, Eddy starts reclaiming his season 1 dignity (back when he was frequently the only Ed shown to have any interest in protecting the other two, and would even be portrayed as the only one with social skills) and Eddy maintains that positive role with his friends as they start turning the tables on their many antagonists, until the movie deems it necessary to show how his season 3-5 behavior was the result of denial over his brotherly abuse.  Late season 5-season 6 makes painstaking efforts to show how Eddy was a good kid at the beginning of the show and still wanted to be that good kid at the end of the show, even though their cruel surroundings had driven him to misbehave.

For me, the history of loving support Eddy showed them prior to his depression arc and the guilt they should feel for treating him with less empathy than each other are reasons enough for Ed and Edd to care about seeing Eddy through.  Not to mention Eddy is openly suicidal.  But as for specifically rationalizing why EDD keeps coming back to the Eds prior to getting the apology he deserves in the movie, I think Edd is smart enough to see the recurring themes of abuse.  Deep down, Edd knows there must be something psychological he isn’t seeing about his friends’ lives, something troubling that explains their behavior.  When Bro exposes the truth at the end of the show, I think Edd’s sudden bravery partially stems from finally having closure in knowing why Eddy needs his help.