#maybe i should go reread it again....

[baeshijima]

ngl after re-binge-watching hq!! with my mum, i have the urge to pick up my hq!! various x reader series again,,, i still have all the notes and plans and rereading that made me realise it would actually make a good fic 😭

[floating-far-from-earth]

so while not quite birthday art, a doodle of the two of them for the birthday~! the sillies......

[bacchuschucklefuck]

i like that the power scaling in the worse manga AU goes a classmate → a biotech genius with four extra machine arms → a self-engineered "perfect life form" → a circus gymnast → a tour guide → a LARPer

[verved]

For the based people who want to see Amanda handled as a complex character capable of change and with her own potential insecurities and fears explored, may I recommend The Feeling of Home by CoffeeJay? It's a few chapters before the Amanda train really kicks off but I was so pleasantly surprised by it.

I think it's worth exploring yourself but if you want potentially spoilery specifics:

We get to see Amanda experience actual character growth and her distrust of Connor is now rooted in personal fear rather than him not meeting the mission parameters set by Cyberlife.

Hank and Amanda interactions.

Amanda craving a physical form and feeling genuine dysmorphia over just being an AI in a garden.

Amanda isn't perfect or entirely rational all the time! She's allowed to have doubts and feelings!

Connor and Amanda toxic codependency. They're both hypocrites calling each other out going "no u"

Hank isn't entirely nice at first. Like not outright on purpose he just sucks and is immature and a little clueless. Like he does. (this is a plus to me)

RK900 is there and he's like, his own fascinating character with his own troubles without being thrust into a ship.

Good study of Connor. He is feeling things and isn't very good at dealing with it, but it's like not infantalizing. He's just stubborn and a bitch. Even to himself.

[mamawasatesttube]

saw someone being wrong about kon on the internet again (i know. shocking) and you are all so lucky i'm sick and feverish and lazy because i DID just seriously entertain the thought of writing up a small essay complete with issue and panel citations about why it's simply incorrect to say that kon never really seemed to reciprocate any sort of crush on tim before geoff/tt03. this is just not true. you dont have to actually ship them but to downplay their importance to each other even in the earliest days is simply incorrect. i'm too tired and achy to bother digging through comics to pull up all the issues that have the bits i want to point at but like... they were both very mutually important to each other from early on. it was in no way shape or form one-sided, whether you want to read that as platonic or romantic. man.

[floralovebot]

ANYWAY in my perfect world, garth doesn't pass on the aqualad name to jackson because 1. aqualad isn't a symbol stop making them batfam dc are you listening to me dc do you he- and 2. while garth is fond of the name, he also thinks it's embarrassing because of his trauma SO instead jackson should be the one to Ask for the name.

jackson, who looks up to arthur and garth, and really, really doesn't want to be associated with black manta, makes the decision to ask for the name aqualad, because to him it's a symbol of Good. garth, who hates when people look down on him because of his past as aqualad, should be like "are you fucking serious right now". and while i still think jackson should have a Different hero name, if they're really stuck on aqualad, then garth can agree. this helps jackson feel like he truly belongs, that they trust him, that he's not like his father, etc. and it helps affirm to garth that his existence as aqualad actually meant something and he wasn't just aquaman's lame sidekick.

after that obviously garth should become a mentor figure to jackson. Not a second dad or even an older brother figure, though i am slightly more agreeable to the latter, but a mentor who helps him and is There for him. even if garth didn't care about jackson in the slightest, you can't convince me that he would just ignore this kid.

[winglesslepidoptera]

I SEE LES MIS AGAIN IN EXACTLY A WEEK!!!!

[neige-leblanche]

actually. during the 2016 election era when everyone was stressed & i was a teenager so felt very powerless i got rlly into the pokemon anime as a comfort thing. maybe i should rewatch shugo chara or something

[apotelesmaa]

As a side note why did ohkubo put the little section with kid meeting eibon/asking if lord death was the cause of madness in the chapter that has crona murdering their abusive mother. For what reason. What did he mean by that. Also I forgot about the existence of sky whales (what the fuck? What the fuck) + the lord death line “I don’t think I’ll ever see him smile again” (what if I killed myself)

[darlingpoppet]

If I may critique myself a bit, one thing I would improve about Liminal Spaces if I could is the beginning of the story… I don’t know if it comes off this way to others but to me it’s a bit stiff/clunky and idk if it’s because of the lack of dialogue or just the prose not working quite right for the pov/setting or what it is, exactly… whenever I read over the story again I read that first little thematically relevant bit about the stairwell, but then after that I usually wanna skip straight to Zagreus’ first conversation with Achilles, which to me feels like a bad sign haha. But at the same time I’m not really sure what it needs/how to fix it, or indeed if I should fix it, even. The rest of the story for the most part works for me just fine and isn’t all that much different I don’t think, so idk.

[agenttexsflippedshit]

Someone on tiktok is trying very hard to convince me to post the smut im writing and it’s like jokes on you kid, it’s one-sided phone sex disguising a character study between an OC and a character so full of fanon and headcanons that he may as well be an OC, no one’s enjoying this but me and my 3 loyal readers from the Hellboy days

[wistoriasideblog]

I am so frustrated with myself that I am on my fourth week of trying to figure out how to do a Will/Julius fic. 😖 Like it shouldn't be this hard! All the material I could work off of is right there! Jealous guard puppy boyfriend Julius should be the easiest thing in the world for me to write! Will buttering him up with genuine, no-strings-attached compliments should be so straightforward!

But I just cannot think of a scenario for them! 😵‍💫 I can't even think of how to get them to kiss for this fic! My brain just isn't working with me!

[screechingsandwichhologram]

my uninformed american opinion is that i will be calling it derry not londonderry because im american and therefore will always support ireland if its ireland vs the british.

(i wasn't even going to post this but i wrote a whole essay in the tags so i don't want to waste that)

[adanseying]

There’s a meta I want to write about the commagate breakup non breakup and how I think backtracking made such perfect sense for Adam as an extension of his attachment styles and just generally him in relationships literally since TRB and how there is so much about that choice that would be extremely interesting to explore and even I think could function so well as a climactic point to his identity crisis and force him to face some fundamental disconnects between his self perception and self that have always been there, but the maddening thing is that it’s framed narratively as a positive rather than Adam falling back into negative coping mechanisms. But I haven’t found a great way to articulate it all yet beyond steam coming out of my ears about it.

[void-botanist]

sid & avis or sid & horatio?

Help me with my boy lol

Sid & Avis part 2 :3

I did part 1 over here but these two have a lot going on:

She knows way more about him than he does about her, because her policy has long been to be beholden to no one. If he asked, she'd probably tell him, but he rarely asks (he's caught up in his own stuff for sure but also if Avis doesn't feel like telling him stuff that's her business). She was also there for his teen years and got to experience firsthand parts of his life that in hers she'd rather forget. I guess the only time she's more communicative is when she's sailing with someone, because not only are they in the same space for days or weeks at a time, they have to coordinate what they're doing. Sid doesn't know the first thing about sailing, though, so she also has her work cut out for her. She struggles a little bit with him not being like her and not approaching his parents as a couple of emotional freeloaders who should be thrown out on their asses. But when he says jump ("help me figure out how they've been lying to me") she says how high ("get in the boat we're going to Diobos"). Unfortunately, if he doesn't say jump, she's not always around. She never has been, but he low key thought that when they got back to Rade she wouldn't just keep sailing off whenever, because she wouldn't be avoiding Emma and Donovan. Isn't she supposed to be his emotional support? Whereas she knows he has that handled with his whole weird friend's family.

Sid & Horatio

Horatio adores Sid, and this is only somewhat because he's had 16 years of non-contact to build him into a concept of the ideal friend. Sid surprise coming to live with him is THE most exciting thing that has happened to him, maybe ever. While he considers Marcus equally as much a best friend as Sid, he and Sid have a much longer history, given that they went to school together until Sid moved to Ensaum. Sid finds Horatio comforting, but in his current exhausted state, also tiring as fuck. As he uncovers things about his parents he also slightly resents Horatio for having perfectly good parents (and an extra bonus dad??) because why couldn't he have some too? Aside from being constantly distracted by work, Horatio also isn't really sure how to help Sid, because of a lack of personal experience and because he doesn't want it to come through that he's a little disappointed that Sid is not the same upbeat person he was even in his letters. Unfortunately what he feels is a minor disappointment in the situation Sid easily magnifies into a broad personal attack, and neither of them realize they are not on the same page. He also feels like Horatio does not truly grasp the tragedy of him having lost all of Horatio's letters. Still, despite all of the challenges, Sid feels that being here with Horatio & family is the most like being home he's felt in a long time.

[sinshckled]

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