#that doesn't make sense math and dad are still terrible

[icga-blog]

Headcannons about Heartbreak High Characters

I have so many ideas for these guys... So I decided to speak about them! You can clearly see that I start getting tired so Rowan, Missy, Dusty and Sasha (also Quinni and Spider if I am being honest) have lasy sections, but I still think I had some interesting points to make

Note: I seach and know (as well as someone can know from google searching) a bit the foster care in Australia, including that is actually called child protect system, but I will be calling it foster care and not getting into details

Malakai

Realized he had crushes in at least 8 other boys before Rowan, he just didn't notice at the time

Hates watching baseball, even if he loves playing it

Likes rugby

Is into fashion, but just in the sense he wants to wear things that make he feels beautiful

Is really good at languages, but doesn't want to work with it

Is really close to his parents and (eventually) told them about Amerie's abortion

Did not, however, came out to them, but just bc he forgot he needed to

Watches educational videos on tiktok covering topics he actually has no interest in

Knows a lot of random facts

Smokes a lot of weed, but just do it alone (did once with Missy's brother)

Doesn't know how to identify emotions

Never was homophobic until it was his time to be queer, then he needed to overcome the "it's ok when other people do it, but I should not be like that" feelings

Loves "profession reality shows" where people compete to be the best at their job, unless it's a cooking show

Amerie

Used to steal alcohol from Harper's dad cabinet until Harper got too drunk and borderline pass out, then she swore she would never drink again

Her "no drinking" promised lasted almost a year, but she still doesn't get drunk to the point of forgetting things

Watched all the reality shows possible

She has used a lot of different drugs tho

Told her mom all about Dusty back when she was crushing on him

Tells her siblings horror stories sometimes, but she is terrible at making them sound scary

Sometimes sleeps in her mom's bed

Cannot watch horror movies, in any circumstance

Loves her siblings to death, and also hates them with all her heart

Misses her dad a lot since his dead

Knows the lyrics to all top 10 hits of the last 10 years and almost exclusive listen to what Harper calls "way too popular music"

Has an ugly ass handwriting

Knows all her siblings school drama and loves to help them, even if her advices are really bad

Obsessed with clothes and looks, follows all the big influencers

Never had a step-father

Had an active tiktok account with Harper

Harper

Is pansexual, but haven't figured it out yet

Painted her hair black once, with Amerie's mom hair paint, and immediately regretted it

Had a choker phase

Is way better at math than he should be

Was abandoned by her mom when she was very young

Didn't know some words were cursed words bc her dad said them constantly

The first time she passed out drunk she was 12

Had an active tiktok account with Amerie

Kept the house clean to her father

Knows how to make lettering

Posted the whole Chook situation, with updates, on reddit bc she could never tell anyone but also couldn't keep it to herself

Googles anything and everything

Listens to divorce-dad-rock

Started learning how to play guitar and them gave-up 7 times

Has a nice singing voice

Has the worst periods and is in pain for almost a week at a time

Never misses a flu shot

Would do anything for the right amount of money

Accepts anything that is giving to her for free, doesn't matter what it is

Love to drive around at night

Wants to have a munch of tattoos but is afraid of the pain

Quinni

Writes fanfics and have multiple tumblr pages to different fandoms

Likes to theorize to the point where she probably did connections that the authors didn't plan to

Studied a lot of different symbolism

Prefers reptiles and insects to mammals

Knows her biological mom, they have an aunt/niece type relation

Didn't get why having 2 dads was weird for years

Likes fluffy things and have textures she is obsess with

Love to do her hair

Knows how to make jewellery and have a collection of beads

Can do 8 different types of braids, but never has the patience to do them in herself

Knew she was lesbian at age 6

Got a considerably early diagnoses to a girl

Used to try to learn how to make eye contact

Loves Disney movies and knows all the songs

Can name so many different colours that some people think she is inventing

Don't like glittery things

Marks and write in her books

Wants to be a fantasy writer, but probably is going to college to a very different thing (probably pedagogy, but she aint sure)

Spider

Wants to know his bio dad

Loves rugby and have stress headaches after bad games

Likes sudoku

Is freakish good at guitar hero

Knows how to play the violin bc his mom wanted him too

Would never came out to his mom, bc if she isn't going to love him as he is now he is not giving her the parts of him that she would love

Like wine

Dreams about being a father

Is planing in becoming a engineer

Loves to be at Ant's house

Dusty's mom likes him a lot, for aparently no reason

Goes to church when Ant ask's him too

Was the kid that builted cities out of blocks

Knows a lot about constalations bc he wanted to be an astronaut

Has fancy taste to the weirdest things, and do not realize some things are privilages

Do not care about sexualities

Thought he might be trans for 3 minutes before realizing he just wanted his mom to stop calling him names for being a boy

Actually like the name Spencer a lot, but don't like typical nicknames like Spence

Liked to read a lot when he was younger

Begged for a sibling for his whole childhood

Wanted to have a step-dad so bad

Hates both Father's day and Mother's day

Likes Valintine's day

Loves action packed movies

Is going to buy a bike as soon as he is able

Chook

Started to sell drugs bc he grew out of the foster system and didn't have here or how to live

Straight out was homeless for a portion of his life

Have a parent in jail

Beat-up anyone that looked Cash the wrong way

Gave all "his boys" nicknames bc he hates his own name

Lost his virginity way too young, for an older woman

Lets multiple younger boys in bad situations sleep in his house, no questions asked, if they need it, as long as they do small things for him

Darren

Couldn't tell you the name of 3 ministers to save their life

Learned to do make-up as a kid and never stopped

Their favourite colours is orange, but wouldn't tell it to anyone (other than Quinni) for a million dolours

Has way too many glitters and lip balms

Never even asked anyone to test their pronouns before coming out in a moment of impulsiveness

Made their mom call their dad so they could came out to both of them at the same time

Changed schools instead of coming out to the people that knew them before

Refers to themselves as a girl sometimes, but would never let anyone else do that

Cannot lie at all

Never had a boyfriend before Cash, even if they have slept with 60% of all queer man in the Sydney area

Hated Finding Nemo as a child sole bc the dentist was from Sydney but the accent was wrong

Loved playing with dolls

Wanted to be a zookepper before realizing that animals are gross

Doesn't know how to take care of an house

Rowan

Loved the scouts and would actually come back both as a scout and a instructor

Have a lot of camping gear

Like children a lot, regardless

Do not have plans for the future

Learned how to skate out of spite

Likes to swin a lot, but was scared of waves as a kid

Doesn't remebering ever believing in Santa Claus

Could survive out of ice cream

Wanted to work in cinema when he was younger

Actually knows how to take care of farm animals

Never had a pet

Hates lettuce

Missy

Had a pet bird and its dead was so traumatic she never let her siblings got another pet

Behold her older brother, also have a younger sister

Came out to her family in a big family gathering

Is alergic to pinnaples and kiwis

Hates coffe, but drinks it anyway

Wish she could survive out of meat (rare, well done isn't for her)

Listen to country music when she is cleaning the house

Wants to know everything that there is to learn about her culture

Meet Harper first, they become friends at the beach first and her is the one that introduce Missy for the other girls

Had a crush in Natasha Romanoff

Have online friends

Knows how to sew

Ant

Had asthma as a kid (kind of still has, but knows how to deal with it)

Prays often

Knows biblical stories and reference them in casual ways

Knows way too much animal facts

Listen to almost all times of music, but cannot for the life of them remember a single lyric

Played the drums at Church, is were he learned music

Wanted to be a firefighter

Cannot lift weight

Doesn't like sports, but knows a lot about them bc of his dad and older brother

Have the worst grades and also can probably win everyone else in trivia

Knows how to speak Spanish, but his grammar is atrocious

Likes to drink a lot

Is pansexual and doesn't think God particularly cares about it

Loves to climb trees

Hurted himself a lot as a kid and has a lot of scares to prove, but has never broken a bone

Likes to just ride his bike around

Had a crush in Amerie at some point in time, but then start seeing her as a sister

Is the youngest

Loves his brother, but isn't at all close to him

Knows how to make almost all the household chores since he was a kid

Absolutely hates to mop the floors

Likes warmer weathers, but doesn't like summer break bc he actually likes to go to school and see his friends everyday

Dusty

Loves to sing and did singing classes for years

Likes poetry

Never read a room aproprialy in his life

Asked Spider for a kiss but was rejected, so he just pretented to be drunk and don't remember

Knows he is pretty and owns it

Has over 20 different perfumes and likes to dissect their aromas

Hates the concept of cheating and is jealous as fuck

Loves romantic songs, but often missinterpets them

Is too honest at all moments where isn't active lying

Doesn't think most of his actions tru

Loved to play in the dirt as a kid

Cannot stand being alone for more than 5 minutes at a time

Doesn't like to play sports

Spoil brat

Sasha

Isn't out at home, and it is partially because her parents straight up don't notice that she is dating girls

Often finds herself seaching social causes at 3 am

Likes the concept of veganism but is incapable of sticking to it

Is often afraid that people will poke holes at her activism, but it's the only way she knows to try to be a good person

Worst imposter sindrome ever

Cannot let anything untouched, overthinks everything

Is a social butterfly in all fronts

Loved Missy like she never liked anyone else

Polyamorous and shoving it down other peoples throats

Tilla

He's so jealous of Cash and Chook's relationship it's not even funny

Grew out of the foster system on paper, but actually didn't step in a group home since he's 16

Lived with Chook until he manages to get his own house, that he shares with 5 other guys

Zoe

Don't care this much for the indigenous movement, but care way too much about her family and they care for the indigenous movement, so ends up in all kinds of political things

Cannot cook to save her life

Started the pureteen movement to give woman back their bodily autonomy after seeing her friends being catcalled and sexualized way-too-many-times

Was really surprised when boys joined the pureteens

Gets uncomfortable with sex in television or in conversations

Watched pornography once before deciding she couldn't do that

Reads spicy things anyways

Isn't a virgin

Was disgusted when the Incest Map thing happened

Did not care when Missy came out

Jayden

Another boy pointed him in Chook's direction when he needed somewhere to hide from his dad, and since then he is walking around Chook's little gang

Abusive and really poor parents

Thought Chook and Cash were actual biological brothers for almost a year

Knows Cash is queer for ages and do not care

Cash

Disassociates at any sit of trouble

Has drunk as hell when he lost his virginity

Didn't live with his Nan consistently bc his foster agent didn't think she was fitted to raise a small kid

Had bigger problems than politics, so knows nothing about it

Don't actually know some things are illegal, since he has always done them

Hates cops with all his heart

Don't go see a doctor since he was 9 and broke his arm

Knows a guy for almost anything

Start tattooing when he was 15 (and bc of that actually knows how to draw and can imitated designs very well)

Run away from several foster homes and group homes, specially after Chook got his first (very tiny) apartment where Cash could crash if he needed

Lived in the street, but never alone (sometimes with his mom, sometimes with Chook)

Convinced his foster agent to let he stay with his Nan by just saying that finding him every time he runs away is more trouble than letting him stay wherever he wants

Has kissed other eshays, and in fact knows which eshays are secretly queer

Would wear anything anyone hands to him, even female clothes, as long as they don't make him itchy

Was treated like a maid in foster homes before so actually know how to take care of an house

Nan

Fought tooth and nail to get Cash to stay with her

Threatened God and the world every time they took her grandson away from her

Don't think her older son is a good parent, but never manage to take those grandkids away

Has very poor for most of her life

Raise 4 kids in a bad neighbourhood and survived it

Still loves to dance

Had an open-ish kind of marriage before open relationships were a thing

Went to a pride parade at least once

Never protested fully bc she thought it was useless

Hates politics

Doesn't know how to cook

[bubblepopspit]

🍄 Mario and Luigi headcanons 🍄 (Because I'm bored. lol)

⦁ Luigi has a huge fear of spiders. He can not sleep if there's a spider in his bedroom, even if it's way up by the ceiling. If he finds a spider in the house, he runs to Mario and forces him to kill it. The only way he can handle killing one is by smacking it with a shoe, and even then he rarely does it.

⦁ Being the food lover that he is, Mario is very good at cooking. He makes really good homemade pizza and spaghetti, as well as a few other Italian dishes. However, he isn't very good at baking, and tends to burn or totally mess up cookies and any other baked goods he tries to make.

⦁ Luigi is a decent cook. The food he makes usually turns out good, but he is known for messing things up a lot. (ex. crunchy under-cooked rice, mushy pasta, watery soup.) He also likes to experiment with his cooking, often coming up with really weird dishes that usually aren't very good.

⦁ When Luigi has a nightmare, he'll sometimes crawl into Mario's bed with him for comfort and safety.

⦁ Mario tends to fall asleep in strange places throughout the house. Sometimes Luigi walks into the kitchen and Mario's sleeping between the microwave cart and the fridge. Sometimes he's sleeping behind the chair in the living room. Sometimes he's sleeping under his bed instead of ON it.

⦁ Luigi is extremely ticklish. All it takes is a very light touch to the back of his neck, or a gentle poke to his ribs, and he'll turn into a giggly pile of mush. He's very self conscious about it and gets easily embarrassed if someone tickles him. Mario likes to take advantage of Luigi's ticklishness, often tickling him if he misbehaves or if Luigi refuses to do something important. Sometimes he'll tickle Luigi just to annoy him. When Luigi gets tickled for longer than a minute, his voice tends to get super squeaky and high pitched, which makes him all the more embarrassed. He's ticklish ALL over, which leaves him completely defenseless against tickles and makes him an easy target.

⦁ Mario is also pretty ticklish, but not as much as Luigi. He's able to hold his laughter while being tickled, which makes people think he's not ticklish. He has a weird ticklish spot behind his ears, and if you give it a little scratch/tickle, he'll instantly go into a laughing fit. He's also very ticklish on his feet, and can not stand having foot rubs/massages. If he's tickled for extended periods of time, his laughter turns super goofy, ranging from squeaky ohohohohoho's to wild cackling.

⦁ Mario is better at video games than Luigi. He often beats him in racing and fighting games, and is usually better at platformers than him. Luigi however, is better at puzzle games (ex. Dr. Mario, Tetris, Puyo Puyo, etc.), often beating Mario.

⦁ Luigi is terrible at math and failed his math classes more than once.

⦁ Sometimes wild animals will follow Mario around while he's out walking. (ex. bunnies, squirrels, chipmunks, etc.) On more than one occasion he has brought a wild animal into the house, trying to convince Luigi to let him keep it because it's "his friend" and it "needs him".

⦁ Luigi loves to tell jokes, usually dad jokes/puns. Usually his jokes don't make much sense, and the only one who laughs at them most of the time is Mario. (no one knows if he's laughing at them cause he finds them funny, or if he's just being a supportive big brother and laughing so Luigi doesn't feel bad.)

⦁ Mario and Luigi love to give hugs to their friends/each other. Their hugs are super nice and comforting, like hugging a big teddy bear. You never want to let go.

⦁ Mario smells like fresh cologne and clean linen. Luigi smells like Irish Spring soap and Degree Sport deodorant.

⦁ Luigi loves plushes. As a kid, his mother used to buy a plush for him almost every time she went to the store. He still has all his plushes stored safely in the attic.

⦁ Instead of plushes, Mario was a big fan of racecars as a child, and when his mother used to buy Luigi plushes, she'd also buy Mario toy cars, which are also stored safely in the attic.

⦁ Mario is very good at singing. He is able to hit both high and low notes due to his vocal range.

⦁ When Luigi speaks to Daisy, he tends to stutter and fidget more frequently, while also avoiding eye contact, due to his massive crush on her.

⦁ Luigi is an ugly crier. When he cries, his eyes get all red and bloodshot, and his nose runs like crazy. He's also prone to hysterical sobbing that sounds so heart-wrenching, it sometimes makes Mario cry as well while he tries to comfort his little bro.

⦁ Mario is good with kids. The kids in the Mushroom Kingdom love playing with him, playing tag, hide-and-seek, etc. He's also close to their height since he's so short, making him more fun to play with than any of the other adults.

[ridiasfangirlings]

In an au where Munakata adopts Fushimi, it's that day where parents visit the school to watch how their kids are doing in class. Fushimi has avoided telling Munakata anything about it as he doesn't want Munakata there. He even intercepted calls and all that but Munakata still showed up. Munakata is encouraging him from the back of the room everytime he has to answer any questions and praises him for doing tasks. "Isn't he amazing! That child is mine." Munakata tells the parent next to him.

Of course Munakata found out, as if he would overlook anything when it comes to his child XD Imagine at this point Munakata has been parenting Fushimi for long enough that Fushimi’s wariness has turned into a resigned acceptance that okay, maybe his new dad isn’t horrible like Niki, instead Munakata is exhausting in an entirely different way. When Fushimi’s teacher announces they’re going to have a special Parents Day, where all the parents come in and see how their kids are doing, initially Fushimi has no reaction because he’s had these before, he didn’t tell anyone and no one ever bothered to show up for him. But then as he’s leaving class the teacher smiles at him and says ‘remember to tell your dad about Parents Day’ (because she met Munakata when Fushimi enrolled and my such an involved parent how sweet) and Fushimi suddenly has the terrible, horrible realization that his embarrassing nerd dad will absolutely come to Parents Day and dote on him in public with no sense of shame whatsoever. 

Little Fushimi realizes he has only one choice: he must keep Munakata from finding out about Parents Day at all costs. He makes sure to destroy any flyer he’s given in class, imagine him even seeing one abandoned on the street one day when he and Munakata are out and he like dive bombs into it to grab it and throw it away before Munakata can see. He intercepts all calls from the school, reassuring his teacher that yes his dad will be there unless of course he comes down with a debilitating disease that day. Fushimi even hacks Munakata’s computer and his PDA to block any mention of Parents Day in the class parents group chat (which Munakata is absolutely an active member of).

Finally Parents Day arrives and Fushimi heads into class, all ready to tell his teacher that his dad did in fact come down with a terrifying debilitating disease and couldn’t attend. The moment he walks in though he sees Munakata sitting there at the back of the class, the very first parent to arrive, waving proudly at him as Fushimi’s just like ‘…’. For the rest of the day Fushimi has to deal with Munakata being the proudest parent, every time Fushimi answers a question or completes a math problem on the blackboard he can hear Munakata happily telling the other parents about how that amazing child is his. At lunch time Munakata sits with Fushimi to eat and Fushimi grumbles that how did Munakata even find out about this, doesn’t he have work and does he really have time to be here anyway. Munakata smiles softly and says of course he would know, attending important events for your child is a parent’s responsibility, and what work could be more valuable than that. Fushimi feels his cheeks getting red and quietly mumbles that it’s fine then, he supposes it’s okay that Munakata showed up. 

[the-firebird69]

When Giant Wrestlers Take Over

I can get this big but I don't think it goes that tall but they measured me

Jason

We got him at yeah we went there no we were just kind of goes on the same area. Now he was about 12 ft tall and that's about right and the wrestlers were teeny like 4 ft so it's only three times or size but at 12:45 above the top of the road roughly and it's about right a little bit more so that makes sense and yeah it's Giant and horrific his mouth is huge and gross and he's saying gross stuff not really gross but gross like get out of my way or else and he hears you belong in prison tough call and he says you would probably kill the guy he said no I wouldn't cuz I know the math as and he says yeah you're not even doing your characters like the sultan he says why would I said I don't know if I'm going to do that I do like my characters and he says okay so it's like a little kid but I know your prison idea is stupid but you're just going to get rid of yourselves and I'll have to do the job you can't keep doing this dumb s*** you guys suck he says what do we do since you beat the door down with the worm in the Zerg and oh and we take over and I don't think prison would work for me before or after and he goes you know you find it pretty easy I said yeah I don't have to do much it's Federal versus state versus private there's plenty of it especially with Tommy f for there and other groups too have their wackos even Mac proper and they don't see us either prisons not the place after a while a bunch of you start pushing for it and I start doing things like venom and Shawshank redemption so if you want me there are you going to be there getting ready instead of being a free person with realistic plan you end up killing Tommy f and I shouldn't have to say what happens and other groups too so he's sad after that and he says I hear it doesn't go well is your wife can't stand your lighter and I think I know where it came from it was 20 years ago and it's the Black Knight and he thought he would do it and say it's me but I'm The dark Knight LOL and he started smiling if you know what I mean so he's after that guy and it's Dave Dan

Thor Freya

This hurts real bad I'm emotionally a mess and mentally not strong so I might break the salt and out the sultan out and might gain some strength and get back to my roots this is terrible

Jason

I've seen it before I know you guys don't want to do it it takes a lot of strength and my dad couldn't do it and he did the amazing

Zues my dad too and he keeps falling and he is an excuse he's still pretty strong

Hera

I don't want to be this person but they understand it and I know I've been hurt and they understand that it's not mad at me it's not mad at Tommy f and he wants us guys to fly straight a little he knows that we like to mess around but we're going to do that and people really like the presentation tonight we get that

Jason

Olympus

[evelynndecipio-blog]

July 6, 2021

Dear Evelynn, The letter did find me well! Specifically for the reason that I received the letter. I like your owl a lot. He does seem pretty proud of himself for delivering his package, and how can I blame him? I'd be proud of myself too if I flew... however many miles he flew; I really have no idea how far away you live. I do hope there's not too much distance between us. It would be great to see each other in person over the summer, other than just summer camp. If I'm being entirely honest, I'll probably forget everything you've taught me within the next month. Come August, I'll be saying 'hocus pocus' again. Or did I ever actually stop saying that? I don't know. I'll definitely be at camp, though, so I'm glad to hear you will as well! I'll be the one screaming loud enough that everyone in the stands just wants me to shut my pie hole when you catch the snitch to win the match. The other seeker doesn't stand a chance; they'll be blinded by the fire in your hair and the storm in your eyes, unable to look away until they crash into a goal post. At least, I know I would. Come to think of it, riding a broom is rather unsafe with you around... Oh, that reminds me! I need to get a broom of my own! Learning on the school brooms has been fine, but I don't want smoke trailing behind me when I finally make the quidditch team... unless it's cool smoke. You know, from fire that's supposed to be there, instead of like a blown engine or something. Brooms don't have engines, though, do they? Do they smoke? Does anything I'm saying make sense? Probably not, because every time I talk at the mirror, I realize that I don't understand a word coming out of my own mouth. Crazy, right?

I forgot what I was supposed to be talking about. Let me check your letter again_____ Oh, right. Rich people, big houses, you apologizing for something you should never apologize for. Eve, you should know by now that any time you talk to me at all brightens my life, as the sun's rays would when they grace the cold face of the earth, reminding its inhabitants that there is a life to be lived, and hope to be perceived. Oops. I'm not supposed to be writing poetry for you, am I? That's awkward. I suppose I could cross it out, but what if it makes you smile? Tell me if it made you smile when you reply. I forgot where I was again. Okay, I remember now. Honestly, I can't believe how big some houses are. What do these people do that allows them to live that way? I'd probably get lost in a house like that. I still turn the wrong way sometimes when I'm trying to use the bathroom down the hall from my room at night. How can I be expected to remember things like that when I'm half asleep? Let alone navigate a palace. My only hope would be if the butler put a tracking device on me or something. Which is actually not something my mum would object to doing as it is. The closest thing I have to a fireplace in my room is my window during the summer. If I'm cold, I just lay in the sun like a cat. It's pretty great. I don't think I've ever met this Healy person, though now I'm very curious. How tall does a half-giant grow, I wonder? I almost wish I could be one. I don't enjoy being short. I'll be taller than you someday - just you wait. Then you won't have to look down when I compare you to a summer's day. I can't believe you have to do summer school! And you'll be doing extra homework at Hogwarts? That's terrible! I'd just die. My will to live would be shattered. Doing homework that involves magic is bad enough, but at least it's better than math or English. I'm so sorry to hear that. If you need someone to rescue you, just tell me and I can get my dad on board. I won't even have to beg. One word from you and we'll prepare the getaway car. In case you're being watched, the code phrase is 'Romeo and Juliet.' Not for any particular reason, of course. It just seems ambiguous. In any case, I'm so glad you decided to send a letter, and I hope we can keep communicating! I may ramble a bit, but at least you can tune me out this way. ;-) You should help me go broom shopping sometime, because I have no idea what I'm doing. Help. With admiration from much too far away, Marshal p.s. I do have a mobile number! It's xxx-xxx-xxx. Feel free to call or text me at three in the morning! I always have a joke ready to go if you need one. It's a skill my dad taught me. p.s.s What do you call a dead fly? A flew.

[pimientos-especiales]

it's me with more mlb season 5 spoilers

I'm sorry I'm still just kind of losing my mind that technically Adrien killed both of his parents on Miraculous Ladybug and nobody cares?? He's 14 and he killed his dad and doesn't even know. His very existence is what killed his mother.

ALSO everyone shits on Gabriel for being a bad dad, and sure, he is. But if you follow the timeline of the show, Emilie was a terrible mom??

At first on the show it seems like maybe Emilie died years ago and Gabriel has been distant since then, but we find out in the Christmas special that she only died A YEAR AGO. So Adrien being sheltered with no friends, forced to be perfect and do things without any say, and only getting a pen for every birthday and not getting Christmas presents? Not Gabriel's fault. His mother was still alive during all of that.

Why doesn't anybody ever bring that up???

ALSO the implications of some reveals in season 5 is that Emilie and Colt (Felix's dad) died as a result of using the broken peacock miraculous, which somehow kills people. It apparently took 13 years to kill both of them after *creating a human being inside of a uterus*. Nathalie died - or almost did - over the course of what by my math was like a month and a half of using it. Granted she did use it more often than Emilie and Colt, but like... it just doesn't make sense.

ALSO the timeline of the show makes no sense. Some of the episodes could simply not be in chronological order, but if we go by "episodes that clearly take place after another episode" that means the last like 60 episodes of the show take place between March and June. Even putting aside that several of the episodes take place on the same day, that's still insane. So they had like 26 episodes take place from September through March and then all of seasons 2, 3, 4, and 5 took place in March, April, May, and a bit of June?? Insane.

I'm sorry I have nobody to talk to about anything ever and I enjoy watching this show, and because I enjoy it, it makes me insane to think about it. It could've been SO MUCH BETTER. GAH

ALSOALSO I thought more about my "what would I have done if this show was on when I was younger" and I realized I definitely would've made the white cat or CHEETAH miraculous holder love interest of Adrien named Bridget or Bridgette (because that was my go-to French name when I was 13) and then would've been so furious to find out that's what people nicknamed proto-Marinette from the 2D animated PV proof of concept thingy so then I would've had to come up with some other name for her.

I'm almost out of stuff to complain about until 2025 when season 6 finishes airing, presumably - since season 6 isn't due to start airing until "quarter three of 2024" which probably means January of 2025 which would then likely mean it won't finish airing until March 2026.

The show is really not good enough to justify what a mess production is. Like we have to wait a millennium for Invicible to finish season 2 but at least that show is good other than the really bad cgi which seemed to partly be because of covid. Miraculous Ladybug was already a mess before covid.

[blackshadowswriter]

✨️ If you get this, answer with ten random facts about yourself, and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications. Anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog ✨️

Lol, thanks for tagging me, @arabianflowers!!!

Ok, let's see, I'm a pretty boring person, but let's go:

I am a huge mythology nerd, specifically Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Norse mythology. This makes me a huge fan of all the books Rick Riordan wrote, but if you asked me if I liked the PJ movies, I will throw hands over the utter terribleness of those films.

I only crush on fictional men, and I have learned that my type is ✨hot, badass guys with long-ish dark hair. Also, most of my crushes are old enough to be my dad, which is weird.

I cannot shape my eyebrows correctly even if my life were depending on it. And my two eyebrows will never be symmetrically plucked no matter how long I've spent on them. Maybe cuz I have super shaky hands. As in shaking when I'm writing math problems out. Nail art is impossible for me.

I cannot do eyeshadow properly. I either look like a glitter bomb exploded over my eyeballs or a racoon with eyeliner. You know that scene in CATWS where Bucky shoots Nick Fury and Steve runs after him, and there's that one shot of Bucky with smudged eyeliner/eyeshadow? That's me whenever I try eyeshadow.

I'm Asian, specifically Chinese, but I was born in America (I'm a total ABC), and both my parents were born in Hong Kong and left before China took over.

I'm pretty good at math. I did Kumon as a kid (if you're Asian, you'll know this), and I got an award for doing 11th grade math as a 5th grader even though I didn't understand half of what I was doing because Kumon doesn't explain whatever the fuck polynomial functions are, and I only understood it like several years later.

I'm the biggest procrastinator you'll ever meet, but it works for me. I once started an entire persuasive essay like five hours before the due date, and I still got a perfect score. I shouldn't be proud, yet here I am. Although I did recently learn leaving all assignments to do Friday night when they're due gives me stress acne, and I broke out yesterday.

I've never been diagnosed for it, but I think I have some form of social anxiety. Whenever I have to talk or meet people I don't know, I get really nervous and can't speak. Especially when I'm there to learn something I don't know, I get very self conscious cuz I always think I'm doing worse than everyone else. I'll be very awkward and quiet, but once I feel comfortable with you, I'm loud as fuck and you'll never have another moment of quiet with me.

I have a super dark, very edgy, and pretty shitty sense of humor that only I laugh at and worries most people. My humor probably makes me sound like a serial killer and offends 90% of people, so I've learned to stop making jokes.

I have issues. And one of them is that I think being dark and depressed makes me sound cool, but I can't help it.

There you go, 10 very random facts about me. I probably sounded like a psychopath after that, but yeah. Let me know what you think!

[sailorwritesstuff]

The seven head canons + nico (HoO)

i haven't written for percy Jackson since 2018 but in honor of me considering a riptide tattoo. i give you some head canons I have of the seven

Percy really enjoys crocheting

Frank learned how to do box braids

Hazel really enjoys cinnamon bagels

One time Jason fell out of a tree and forgot he knew how to fly so he hit the ground in the rest of the seven teased him about it for weeks

Percy speaks Spanish because Sally is Puerto Rican.

Annabeth is terrible at Sudoku

Nico plans picnic dates because he knows that Will likes sitting in the sun

Annabeth hates to admit it but if you ask her she'll tell you Leo is smarter than her when it comes to math.

mortal sometimes think that annabeth is really mean to Percy because she calls him an idiot often usually combined with a few curse words. But it's just because he did something stupid.

Piper doesn't like saying "I love you too." She really likes poetry so she'll say "and I you" instead

Percy lets Estelle cover him in stickers and Band-Aids whenever he gets hurt. He doesn't have the heart to tell her that it'll be healed in 10 minutes tops.

Annabeth hates spicy food

Nico tried a Whopper from Burger King once and he cried. No one really knows if it was because it was good or bad

sometimes whenever Leo does something stupid Jason will put him on the roof while he sleeping. (He makes sure he's secure so he doesn't like fall and break something)

sometimes Percy and Leo have conversations in Spanish and then because the dialogue is different depending on where you learn Spanish they are you over certain phrases.

Percy's really into cheese which is unfortunate because he's lactose intolerant.

Hazel likes to bake

One time Leo had weed and he made edibles and Hazel ate 2 of them. so the two of them cried together Hazel because ponies can't kiss and Leo because Frank was going to kill him.

one year for Halloween Annabeth and Percy went as Morticia and Gomez Adams

Percy frequently gets mistaken for a Jason Todd cosplayer Because of his white hair streak.

Percy has a slight New York accent and sometimes whenever he speaks Jason has no idea what he's saying

Piper and Jason found out once that their parents did a movie together. They bought a copy and burned it because fuck Jason's mom.

Percy and Jason have kissed twice the first time was an accident. the second time was a dare.

leo has really long fingers.

sometimes when all seven of them are together they watch Disney movies and sit under one big blanket with a box of store-bought cookies.

at Annabeth and Percy's wedding Leo fell over when he tripped over his own shoelace during the middle of the wedding and neither of them were even mad they both made eye contact and burst it out laughing.

percabeth wants children but realistically don't think they'll ever have any.

Piper and Jason have a best friends forever rule that states if they ever break up they'll still be best friends.

sometimes Piper paints Reyna and Percy's nails. They call it their hot bitch hang out time.

Piper and Annabeth are bisexual. Percy and Jason are unlabeled but everyone senses the underlying gay tension between them.

Annabeth sometimes calls Jason Percy's boyfriend

Piper sometimes forget she's rich?? And then she remembers oh shit my dad's a movie star and she'll spoil her friends.

Drew Tanaka introduced Leo to Sadie Kane a girl from her school and they hit it off pretty well. they email each other sometimes on public computers.

Percy has personal beef with Annabeth's cousin Magnus because he doesn't like the color blue.

Jason dislikes Harry Potter with a burning passion and he doesn't understand why.

Nico makes really good mac and cheese

Leo laughs about Hispanic stereotypes in front of his white friends to make them uncomfortable.

Piper doesn't celebrate thanksgiving and so Leo and Jason spend it with her and they just do stupid shit together instead.

Percy and Piper sometimes just sit in silence together because they like the company and before they leave they touch fingers like in ET.

Annabeth and Piper are very affectionate with each other sometimes mortals mistake them as a couple.

Jason will blush no matter who's hitting on him so sometimes everyone in the seven will just drop a pickup line on him.

Frank makes really good waffles.

Hazel gets cold but really easily so Percy crochets her a lot of scarves and hats.

Frank and Leo thought about making a podcast together.

Leo drinks milk straight.

Hazel really likes anime But she gets really flustered when inappropriate scenes show up. Her favorite is Sailor Moon.

One time Annabeth ate two whole birthday cakes just to prove a point

Nico's guilty pleasure is that he enjoys pomegranate flavored drinks.

All eight of them like to go to malls or parks sit together and just watch pedestrians and make up ideas on where they're going or where they just come from. sometimes they give them names.

[thequeenofthedisneyverse]

City life au facts

I am announcing that from four all the way up to six years old that Antonio is a professional vet. Bruno noticed that Antonio liked animals so he bought him all the vet and animal books he could find.

Antonio usually reads the books with one of his siblings or dad so he can learn how to pronounce some words but he's learning how to pronounce some things on his own.

2. The kids have a mixture of each other's gifts because they help with missions and life-or-death situations. And who doesn't want to talk to animals, grow exotic flowers, be able to lift a house, or hear when an enemy is approaching miles away? The hearing gift isn't annoying it can only turn on when someone really needs it

3. The shape-shifting, super strength, and superhearing only activate for emergencies. The flower and Zoolinguism gifts are constant because they live in a house full of animals and therefore need to communicate with them. Isabela is mostly the only one to use her plant gift but the others will use it if they want a certain flower or need to reach something.

4. Mirabel spends her days building very colorful steampunk machines and since she was given the gift of superspeed instead of taking months to build a machine it only takes her about 3 weeks. The size of it doesn't matter. When it comes to regular days she can't use superspeed at all. The only time she can use it is when she's building something or when it's an emergency. Mirabel has made a ship, and a train(along with Luisa), a submarine, guns, and much more.

5. The other family members fancy building things as well. Antonio built mechanic mice so the big cats have something to follow when it's time to go to the barn. Dolores built her own car and Expresso machines, Isabela built many explosive devices, Luisa built and designed a literal train and Camilo made a typewriter that can produce any font and any color ink you want. He made one for himself and

(Luisa also makes toys for kids)

6. I'm gonna change the ages a little bit. Bruno left a little before Mirabel was born and the girls walked into his home a little after she and Camilo were born(they were both 6 months old). I'm changing it because these kids need a lot more time to build half of the things I've mentioned.

7. Whenever they come across a kid without parents or a kid with terrible parents the family scoop them right up and claim them as their own or take them to the orphanage where Luisa volunteers. But it's safe to say the Aventura's are a way bigger family than they were.

8. Bruno and the others teach the kids at the orphanage about everything their is to know about plants, animals, Self defense, math, writing, acting, art, science, and Robotic/mechanical engineering. They try to make it a fun learning experience for them and they always succeed. They also teach abroad.

9. When Luisa was 12 she volunteered to work at the orphanage and never left sense. When she gets older she plans on adopting.

10. I switched it to Mirabel making the doll when she was 11 so Casita could grow up and learn with Antonio and the rest of them. He looked 1 year old but he could move like a 5-year-old. It baffled everybody that still doesn't/don't know Casita was a sentient house. Casita didn't care how they looked they were just happy that they can move around on their own.

11. Doll/toddler casita stayed with Bruno a lot. Casita didn't realize that they weren't being the responsive house they were so whenever Alma or the other adults asked for something they wouldn't get a response. And once they did realize it they didn't care, what's Alma or the adults going to do about it? nothing. they responded when they wanted to or when their siblings were in the house.

12. If Antonio can't help an animal the others will step in.

13. The older kids are amazing cooks but will sometimes fool around in the kitchen just for laughs.

Isabela's bombs

Antonio's mice

Mirabel's ship, train, and submarine

Luisa's train, I can't decide between this one or that one

Dolores's espresso machine and car

Camilo's typewriter and Bruno's typewriter

I didn't mention this but Casita made a TV with their older siblings' help of course. I love steampunk anything so I had to make them steampunk too.

If you have any questions, ideas, headcanons, or drabble ideas my asks are open

[slayerkid]

Chapter 1

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There was a child who lived a rather peacefully up till now.

His life was a simple one, for he and his parents lived on a plot of land growing medical herbs and wheat.

Their home was a bit further off from the village they lived in. Though it somewhat made sense since his family needed a big enough plot of land in order to grow their business.

Though something the boy couldn't understand was why he looked different from the other kids. More specially why did his eyes look different?

He knows he got his eyes from his dad. Then again, he looks exactly like his father with the only difference being that he was a 7 year old boy while his father was well, a full grown 30 year old man.

His father was a handsome man. Hair as black as a raven's feather, his hair too was spiky yet soft to the touch, long lashes, a delicate yet masculine completion, and a beauty mark faintly could be seen on his bottom lip.

Although his most notable feature was his eyes. They were as crimson as newly drawn blood with a small tint of violet. But the abnormal part of his eyes were that his scleras, they were a midnight black.

The boy too inherited those same eyes.

He doesn't however resemble his mother at all. Funny how genetics can be like that sometimes. Though to be fair, his mom also had black hair. And the boy also has black hair. Yet also the father does too. Black hair do be a dominant trait.

The woman also had silver grey eyes with a hint of orange in them. The boy believes his mom too had pretty eyes.

Other than that, she was a beautiful woman, she had smooth clear skin, fluttery long lashes, and lips red as a rose.

It didn't matter to the boy on who he looked more like, all that mattered to him was being with his loving parents.

He knew his mother was essentially a witch who helps others with her magic. And sometimes uses the medicinal herbs grown in their home to make potions for those who seek her help. He'd sometimes help his mother with those jobs and she was more than happy to teach her son.

Both her and her husband agreed to let their son learn more about magic from the both of them and let him choose if he'd like to pursue it or not.

As far as the boy knows, his father was an ordinary man who delved in alchemy and simple everyday magic use.

Though what the child didn't know was that his father had an affinity with dark arts. Both he and his wife agreed to not introduce their son to such magic at a young age since it could lead to terrible consequences when handled incorrectly. To an extent even the boy's own mother is selective and careful with what witchcraft magic her son could learn for similar reasons.

The boy was still getting a hang of magic. He did grasp the few witchcraft spells that his mother taught him but struggled to understand alchemy from his father. Which required a lot of knowing different chemical compounds and math that he wasn't familiar with yet.

He understood some of the basics and was still interested in learning, so his father took it upon himself to teach his son math that kids his age wouldn't be taught yet.

The child would understand alchemy better, but wasn't confident with his skills without his father double checking if he did everything correctly. Over time he would improve, just not as rapidly in comparison to his mother's witchcraft.

Life for him was blissful and always listened to his parents.

The little boy would never forget the words his father told him, "Remember little one, you can't let others see your eyes. Ah, well not just yet I mean"

"Why daddy?" The boy said as he was sitting on the stack of wheat bags they harvested earlier.

The raven haired man took a moment to figure out how to tell his son in a more understandable manner.

"Well... Let's just say that people aren't very nice to people who look too different from them. Though this doesn't mean you should feel ashamed for looking the way you do. Always be proud of yourself regardless of how you look. We just unfortunately need to blend in a little."

The boy looked at his dad's eyes, "Is that why you can change your eyes?"

The man softly laughed, "Yes this is why your old man goes from having red eyes to any color of the rainbow that he feels like having!"

The boy pouted, "I wanna be able to change my eyes like daddy can someday! It's hard using magic to do it!"

The raven haired father couldn't help but softly smile at his son, "Little one, don't worry. You'll get the hang of it, I believe you can do it." He said while he ruffled his son's soft spiky hair.

The boy couldn't help but grin.

Sometimes he didn't want his father to cast an illusion enchantment on him just so that people couldn't see how different his eyes were. But he knew that his dad was doing it to protect him. Sometimes he'd forget that his dad even put an enchantment on him.

Both his parents were outcasts for reasons they haven't told their son yet about, but they made sure to educate their son on being accepting and open minded of others who might be a bit different from what is deemed "normal". Which was a thought process their son will fully abide by.

Something that the boy had the most fun with his parents after a long day in the fields, was playing card games.

It vary from poker to black jack and other tcgs that they all would come across. His mom was very competitive in these card games. Saying that she must do it in order for her son to become more intelligent both intuitively and emotionally. For those two skills are rooted in accelerating in magic abilities.

In the beginning it was mostly a battle of whits between wife and husband but as time kept going, even their son started to catch up to them. Which resulted in close games where he'd almost win. He's only ever won a single game against both his parents.

The day the little boy won a game of poker, it was the happiest week for his parents.

They showered him in even more affection and have for once taken him out of the village to experience an amusement park that his parents went to on their first date 10 years ago.

It was a tad bit of an expense to do it, but they couldn't be happier to let their son experience a place they used to frequent on dates.

Since they use magic, the witch mother made a magic circle that would teleport them all to the amusement park. Which thankfully made it easier for the small family to save money on travel.

Many things were new to the boy when they arrived.

Sure he knew the concept of theme parks and amusement parks through what was on TV and in books, but they were always too expensive to go to. At least that's what the other kids at the village say. So he's never asked his parents to take him to one.

But now he fully understood why they're so fun.

The rides that he was allowed to go on were really fun to him. And they all varied. Some required him to pair up with his mom or dad, and some he got to go on all alone. With his parents still being able to see him of course. His parents always had a sort of clairvoyance when they monitor their child, and this was no exception.

The only rides he wasn't allowed on were the ones meant for older people. Though luckily his parents were able to explain to him why he couldn't ride those rides yet.

The boy finally experienced cotton candy for the first time and really enjoyed it.

Both his parents couldn't help but laugh seeing their son be a bit messy with eating cotton candy that some of it stuck to his small face.

There were a few brief times where someone would come up to the family to either hit on the husband or wife. It would either be when either of then had to go to the restroom or went to buy something.

Though it was something that hasn't happened to them in a long while, they would try to clear it up for strangers and politely decline their advances.

One instance left the boy confused yet peeved.

There was a group of teenage girls who mistook the family for a group of siblings!

"Are they dummies?! Mama and papa look like my mama and papa!" The boy pouted

"Now now my little witch, don't let it bother you that those girls thought we were all brothers and sisters. Sometimes people will make wrong assumptions about you and it's okay that it happened." His mom chuckled.

The father meanwhile carried his son into his arms to kiss him on the cheek, "Let's go buy some candy, little one. You can pick whatever you'd like before we leave."

The little boy puffed his cheeks out and hid his face in the crook of his father's neck.

"O-okay daddy..." the child said while his voice was muffled.

While they were on their way to the candy store, the boy's dad walked passed a window display of toys and such from a nervy store.

Since he was carrying his son on his shoulders, he removed his son from there and placed him in his wife's arms.

"My beloved, you two go on ahead, I saw something that I'm gonna buy. I won't be long."

His wife kiss him in the lips, "Alright, make sure to not take too long. Or my little witch over here will cry that his daddy has been gone."

The boy whined in defense, "No I won't! I'm a big kid! Big kids don't cry!"

His father laughed and booped his son's nose. Using his magic it made small sparkles pop out then he lightly tapped his son's small nose.

"Aw little guy, it's okay do cry sometimes. Don't worry, papa will be back soon enough."

The boy puffed his cheeks, "Okay papa."

They went their separate ways and the raven haired man walked inside the store. There were many people in the store, some were other families just like him, some were just groups of friends hanging out, and there were groups of school kids in the shop.

Although he paid no attention to that, he already knew what he was going to buy. He looked around the store till he found the same item that was advertised on the display case.

He picked up a pack of playing cards that were fantasy themed. Something about the design of the cards felt right to buy for his son. His son has mostly been playing with his playing card deck that it was time for his son to have a deck of his own.

The tall man went to purchase the cards and quickly made his way back to the candy store.

He did debate on just teleporting but remembered that there's detectors in case people try to break in by using teleportation magic. And since he plans on living the rest of his life on a low profile, he would just rather walk.

When he got there he used his clairvoyance to locate where his wife and son were and made his way there.

He saw his son pointing at candies that he wanted while his wife placed a few into the basket.

He casually walked up to his wife just to play his head on her shoulder from behind.

"I'm back darling." He softly said.

His wife smiled and rolled her eyes, "I knew by the time you stepped foot into the shop."

"Aww I guess ____ over there wasn't the only one missing me huh?"

His wife jokingly scoffed away, "I merely wanted to know if you would take too long. Which you live to see another day, you didn't take too long."

This made the man grin, "Wouldn't mind dying by your hands."

The boy grabbed his dad's leg, "Papa you took too long!"

The man kneeled down to see his son, "Daddy went to buy you a present, as long as you keep being a good boy today, I'll give you your present when we get home."

The boy's eyes widened in surprised, "Really?!"

"Yes, now behave yourself now. It's starting to get dark so after we're done here, we're leaving." His dad instructed.

"Aww already? But I didn't get to see everything! Will we come back here again?" The boy whined.

His mom kneeled down too, "Next time when he have some money."

"Okay!" He happily said

Once they got home they told their son go get ready for bed. The raven haired boy complained but was very quick to stop when his dad brought up that he will get his present if he puts on his pajamas.

The small boy quickly put on his pastel red pajamas and jumped into his bed waiting for his dad to walk into his room.

Once the man does, he made quiet the entrance for his son.

Bubbles descended in front of the child and as all the bubbles popped, his father suddenly appeared and plopped right onto the bed. And immediately tickled his son.

"Ha ha papa! That tickles." he said as he was laughing.

The raven haired man smiled, "That was the point little one."

He stopped tickling his son and showed his son what was in his hand, "Here you go little one. Here's your present."

In his hand was a rock with googly eyes.

"A rock?" the child questioned.

The rock caught flame and the fire was immediately put out which then emerged a pack of cards.

"Look again child."

"Cards? My own cards?" the boy said in amazement. He gently reached out for the pack of cards.

A smile came upon the boy, "Thank you papa. I love it!"

"Have fun with your cards! You earned it." The said as he turned the lights off in the room.

Before he left, he properly tucked in his son to bed and gave him a good night kiss on the forehead, "Sweet dreams ____."

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The male walked down the stairs and saw his wife sitting at the kitchen table, "Is he asleep?"

He put his hand in his pocket and scratched the back of his head, "I gave him a light sleeping spell just to be safe." he nonchalantly said.

"You sense it too don't you, Astrie?" his wife said referring to her husband by a nickname.

"Yes. Though it may be far from the village, we should still do something, Neoma." The man said.

Neoma stood up from her chair, "I'll set up the barriers around the village and his house." The raven haired woman said as she walked out the house.

She closed her eyes to concentrate on setting up the barriers. Wind started to blow around her and a purple light stared illuminating. Seconds later a sigl appeared under her and the two barriers were formed. They were hard to see at night but upon closer inspection the barriers were formed in translucent hexagons.

Astrie wasted no time heading towards the outskirts of the village.

The man let his eyes revert back to normal to conserve mana. He then proceeded to use his eyes to sense any dark forces in the area.

He stood there for a brief moment. He frowned and summoned his battle axe to immediately throw it towards a tree trunk. Which turned out to be a Basilisk.

"A basilisk!" He said out loud.

He clicked his tongue in annoyance and closed his eyes to track the serpent.

"Neoma, it's a basilisk! Make sure not to look into its eyes." He said into his earpiece.

"Understood! I'll work on making a substance to kill it off. Just make sure to restrain it."

The serpent spat poison in retaliation, Astrie's instinct was to dodge and attempt to create some stone pillars around the serpent.

The serpent broke free and some of the pillars went flying off the ground.

The raven haired man used the sound of the wind to determine where the pillars were flying. Then encased his huge axe in a dark substance to hit the pillars towards the serpent like a bat to a baseball.

The pillars made an impact with the basilisk and fell to the ground. Though it was still alive.

Astrie was about to dash towards the serpent until an explosion happened towards the basilisk.

"Hope I wasn't too late." Neoma announced herself.

She was wearing a blindfold that help prevent her from seeing the basilisk's deadly gaze.

"Quick, the odor!" His husband urgently said.

Neoma headed towards the serpent and released a mist on the serpent.

The basilisk cried out in pain and in a last effort to defend itself, it attempted to attack with its claws. Neoma wasn't quick enough to react on time, which made her husband dash in there to save her.

He was able to get in front of her and push them both out the way.

The serpent shortly died after that.

"Are you unhurt?" He asked worryingly.

"No I'm unharmed, thank you."

The couple both got up from the ground, "I'm going to look around this area to see if there's any more or, if there were any unfortunate victims from that basilisk. You should look on the other side of the barrier to see if there's any more."

She nodded and ran off.

Astrie started walking around looking for anything remaining until he felt that he was loosing consciousness. As he was, a dark figure started approaching him.

"W-who?"

He fell unconscious, not realizing that he had a light scrape of poison from the basilisk earlier.

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Astrie woke up with a bandage covered on his ankle.

"Where...?"

"Sweetie you had me worried sick! Luckily there wasn't much poison so it was easy for me to treat." Neoma hugged her husband.

The man was at a loss for words. He wasn't sure what exactly he saw before he passed out.

"I think there was a person around somewhere." He said as he got up from the bed.

"I'll look around again later in the day. For now rest up." His wife said with concern.

All he could do was nod.

He'll use this time to come up with an excuse to give to ____ in the morning.

Oh boy, that'll be fun to come up with.

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[hi-i-love-u-bitch]

So I bindged watched the entry of Metal Family (a Russian YouTube series) and its absolutely adorable. My favorite characters are Glam and Dee because obviously I'm always gunna go for either the goofy dad type with a tragic backstory and the sarcastic little smartass.

Anyway, I've been hearing around that Dee might have a girlfriend and as much as I like the idea of him having a cool laidback goth gf, I just can't picture it. He probably doesn't like to admit it but I think Dee and his dad have similar taste in women; ie badasses who are slightly batshit crazy.

Meet Sasha, they were put together as tutors for each other, she was failing math while he was failing art.

At first glance Sasha seems like a sweet, giggly, airhead with an affinity for tacky jewelry and thrift store clothes. Which is of course what Dee assumed when he offered his usual method of helping her cheat her way through her classes.

She smiled at him and called him: a pig-headed narcissistic asshole who couldn't smell the rancid shit coming out of his own mouth.

Yeah, turns out she isn't stupid just has really bad ADHD and needed someone to help her study math because her brain finds it too boring and therefore unimportant to focus on.

Their relationship is sort of similar to Glam and Ches when they first met; Sasha being a witty yet odd character while Dee struggles to makes sense of what the hell she's saying sometimes.

Because of her ADHD Sasha tends to switch out hobbies like socks; she especially likes activities that keep her hands occupied, such as knitting or origami. Dee has no idea how she can multy task so many things at once.

She is very forward and can be quite blunt when speaking her mind, though she tries her best to remain polite.

She is a big fan of grunge music and punk rock. Nirvana and Foo Fighters being her favorite.

She is the third oldest of six, so middle child syndrome all the way!

She's a bit of an anarchist and can often be found during the weekend tagging government property or big name brand store. Somehow she never seems to get caught.

Her parents are ex-punks so they aren't really surprised or disappointed with their daughter's antics so long as she doesn't get arrested. (More on her family later)

She knitted Dee a beanie during one of their study sessions, it was black with little cat ears. Now he wears it any time its even remotely breezy outside.

Heavy was the first to meet Sasha since they go to the same school. He couldn't understand how such a sweet girl could be friends with his asshole of a brother. She simply giggled and ruffled his hair, stating how Heavy remind her of her own younger siblings.

After that meeting people suddenly stopped bullying him. It was weird but Heavy wasn't one to look a gift horse in the mouth so he didn't question it. He did, however, wonder why Sasha had a baseball bat in her locker when she didn't even play the sport.

When Dee first invited Sasha over to hang out he made sure that his family would be out all day, because he knew that they would all make it their personal mission to embarrass him in front of her.

That plan backfired very quickly as they returned much earlier than expected and the two teens had been in the living room watching movies and cuddling.

Victoria adored her immediately, insisting she say over for dinner all the while making cheeky remarks at Dee to "make sure to keep her happy so she won't realize that she can do better."

Glam had meant to interrogate her, as he is secretly an over protective father at heart, but he was just so damn charmed by her he didn't have the nerve to do it. Instead he ended up showing her the boys' baby pictures (much to Dee and Heavy's protest).

Her and Ches vibed so well together, it was kind of weird and fascinating to observe. They later find out that Sasha is probably the only person out their that can beat both Glam and Ches in poker.

By the end of it Dee is red in the face with embarrassment and when he escorts her to the bus stop he apologizes if it was all a bit overwhelming. Sasha simply giggled, giving him a quick kiss on the cheek assuring him that she really likes his family and can't wait to come over again.

Of course Sasha was the first to confess because Dee still had no idea about his feelings. Thought it was less a confession and more of a statement as if it was something she assumed he already knew.

He didn't, obviously.

Sasha knew that Dee liked her back but she needed for HIM to come to that conclusion himself if they had any hope of starting a relationship. So she remained patient and waited for him to catch up.

Though this did NOT stop her from teasing and flirting with him just a little 😋

She really couldn't help it, Dee was way too cute when he got all flustered and shy (much like his mother in that regards).

So they aren't OFICIALLY dating but they are together, kind of like a trial run (according to Dee at least).

ABOUT HER FAMILY:

Her parents are high school sweethearts that used to ride around town with Victoria and her old crew.

Sasha's mom is a headstrong yet laid back woman that runs the local laundry mat, popular with bikers as it specializes in cleaning leather. Her father is this big, burly, stoic man that works in construction and doesn't tend to say much. They love each other and their children very much.

Sasha has an older sister and brother as well as three younger siblings, twin boys and a little sister. Her older sister is living in England while also going to college to study political science. Her older brother is on his last year of high school and works as a mechanic at a local bike shop. Her twin brothers are in middle school, just a year below Heavy, while her little sister is just starting the first grade.

When Sasha invites Dee over to her house to study he is greeted at the door by her father who looms over him, glaring daggers. Dee may have seen his life flash before his eyes for a just moment.

Thankfully, her mother was much nicer, inviting him in as she called Sasha downstairs. Her younger siblings were very rowdy, asking him questions about who he is and why he was here. Her older brother however, joined along side his father to glare holes into his head.

He was all too thankful when Sasha finally came downstairs to get him, announcing that they would be in her room studying until dinner. Her older brother shouted after them to "keep the door open" and Sasha gave a cheery reply of two middle fingers in his direction.

Dinner was awkward, at least for Dee, but it wasn't terrible. By the end of it, when they were hanging around the bus stop, Sasha (who insisted on seeing him off as he usual does) proudly said: "I think they like you."

"Oh really?" Dee said with a nervous chuckle, he wasn't quite sure but he trusted her judgment. 🖤🖤🖤

[lionheartedqlf]

text || Faberry

R: [233AM] It was easy to forget.

Q: [300AM] I'm sorry.

R: It doesn’t matter now.

R: How was dinner?

Q: It does to me.

Q: It was good. I guess.

R: Okay. I just needed to get that off my chest.

Q:Can I ask why you still wear it, or is that something better left alone?

R: I love you.

R: That’s why. It’s the only thing I have left of you.

Q: Oh.

R: If it makes you uncomfortable I can throw them away.

Q: DON'T

R: Ok

Q: Sorry. That wasn't supposed to be in all caps. And I'm sorry for the voice I took with you earlier too. It just slipped out because I still hate hearing you talk about yourself like that. But I know that's not my place anymore and I need to remember that. Because that won't be my place until I've made up for so much more than I think even you know.

R: I was saying what feels like the truth.

R: You wouldn’t have taken that tone with me in the first place had you believed it wasn’t warranted.

R: We can go back and forth all day on who hurt the other more.

R: I think we’re not meant to go there.

Q: I still do not have your consent to dom you and that is what I am apologizing for. Because we both know what that tone means and I am not your dom, you are not my sub, and as such I was out of line. For which, I am sorry.

R: I accept your apology.

R: Like I suggested, I can just throw them away.

R: It’s clear I’m holding onto them and I shouldn’t be.

Q: I don't want you to throw them away. You can if you feel you need to, but believe me, it is not what I want. But whether you know it or not, I was a bad dom to you. And until I can sit down and explain to you why I feel this, until I can apologize to you and make amends, I do not even remotely deserve to have you associate me with such. But that does not mean that, when all is said and done, I do not wish to be given a second chance.

R: I was bad to you in general. I’m trying to be better.

Q: I wasn't good for either of us and maybe you weren't either, but at least we're both working on it, apart.

Q: I hate to admit it, and if you ever tell them I said this I will purposefully buy a sheet of gold star stickers and burn it JUST to send the video of it to you, but your dads were right, to do what they did with us. To interfere.

R: That was not a very nice thing to say!

R: I’m going to plead the fifth.

Q: But you get my point, which is what counts.

Q: It's just something I personally feel, though pleading the 5th ONLY protects you from self-incrimination so... things to consider.

R: I’m not sure I could incriminate myself more than I already have. I’ve been doing nothing but owning up to my failures and mistakes.

R: They didn’t have to make you leave me.

Q: You and me both. You and me both.

Q: Yeah, they did. NOt because of you, but because of me.

R: I don’t know what to say to that.

R: I should be sleeping but I can’t stop thinking about you.

Q: I'll explain later, it makes more sense in context of everything I know now.

Q: I should also be sleeping, but not sleeping because I'm thinking about you is common.

R: Fine.

R: I know that feeling.

Q: Believe me, it's not the kind of conversation one can have over text. OR so says my sponsor...

Q: Would me not texting you help?

R: I’m not asking you to text me anything. I was simply complying.

R: I just found out for myself you’re actually alive. I don’t know what I want right now.

Q: I know, but I've learned telling people the reminders I need to keep for myself is helpful in actually getting them to stick. Accountability and all that. Still not that great with it.

Q: Okay. Well, I'll be here, if you still want to text.

R: I get it. I try and do the same.

R: There’s no such thing as great

Q: Yeah but saying "not that great" is better than "completely terrible" so... little things.

R: You’re right. Thanks.

R: Little things turn into big things to be proud of most of the time!

Q: Yeah, they do. Doesn't matter how big the step is, as long as you're making it in the right direction.

Q: Which is why "12 step program" is a misnomer

R: Seems misleading and stressful

Q: I mean, it's 12 sets of things you should do but it's more like floors of a building and each stairwell is located in a different place on each floor, cos each individual "step" tends to have a lot of little parts and then you have to navigate from the end of that "step" to the next one and it's not always the easiest thing to do.

Q: So, yeah, it can be stressful.

R: So it’s not really 12 steps?

Q: It's like those math questions with like parts a through f or whatever. It also isn't the best system as it's highly biased and religious but I like parts of it.

R: Sounds frustrating. To me anyways.

R: That’s all that matters though, that you like it.

Q: My sponsor is cool. He only abides by the idea of knowing you've got problems, doing what needs doing to help yourself heal, and making amends to those you hurt along the way, and then working to keep from backsliding and if you do, knowing how to move forward from that. It's less stressful and more open minded.

R: Sounds like exactly what you need.

Q: It is

R: How was the day?

Q: Lazy, mostly. Yours?

R: What does lazy mean to you?

R: Busy but in a good way

Q: Video games, some reading, music, a trip to the gym. And now Netflix with my cat.

Q: That's good.

R: I knew it wasn’t actually lazy.

Q: I don't know how to do proper lazy since getting clean. So, I improvise.

R: I like it.

Q: It's nice. I actually do Zumba, keeps me from overdoing it at the gym. It's fun, but I'm the only guy.

R: I do yoga for that reason.

R: It sounds fun though. I’m sure all the girls stare at you.

Q: The scars tend to scare them off.

R: Right.

Q: It's the kind of honesty that makes people uncomfortable.

R: I understand to some extent.

R: I’m sorry.

Q: Nothing to be sorry for.

R: Is the music fun?

Q: Usually, yeah. If we're talking about Zumba still.

R: We are. I am I mean!

Q: I mean, that's not to say I don't find the music I spend my free time playing not fun, but just wanted to be sure.

R: I’d hope what you do in your free time is fun!

R: I started taking singing lessons again.

Q: Sometimes it's more for catharsis than fun, but usually... I have a banjo now.

Q: Really?!

R: A banjo? What for?

R: Yes really.

Q: To play.

Q: I'm really glad to hear that.

R: That sounds fun!

Q: It is. I've even started singing again myself...

R: I’m so happy to hear that!!

Q: I sound nothing like I used to but... I'm not terrible, at least?

R: I hope to hear one day!

Q: I hope so too.

R: Really??

Q: Yeah, really.

R: That makes me really happy.

Q: Maybe next weekend we can do something?

R: I know of a place that does karaoke? That sort of something?

Q: As long as it doesn't get me near alcohol or drugs I'm down for anything. Just as long as you want to.

R: Hmm.

R: I’d like to see you. I would love to have you as my friend.

Q: We could meet in Central Park, talk a walk through the Shakespeare Garden? Something nice, public, and lacks any sort of pressure to come or leave together.

R: You always know the answer 🙂

R: Sounds perfect.

Q: I definitely don't, but I do have my moments.

Q: Saturday then?

R: Often with me

R: It’s a date!

Q: I look forward to it. I've missed you.

R: I’ve missed you too.

R: A lot

Q: If Saturday goes well, maybe we can figure out when will be best for me to apologize and explain myself. I don't want us to get too far into friendship and then blow it all apart because of that. If that makes sense.

R: Right.

R: I think that we should maybe talk first.

Q: And we can, if that's what you want. I just figured- we've only seen each other once in public since then and I worry about what happens if the second time we interact is in private, as the talk will need to be. Y'know?

R: What do you mean?

R: I’m not sure I can have fun with you before hashing out all the yucky stuff.

R: I dong think I’d like the fun being taken away.

Q: I don't know if I trust myself to be emotionally vulnerable with you in private and not do something I'll regret in the process, yet. I feel like I need more time to build up the right defenses for myself and I can only do that by being in public with you. I don't even know if that makes sense, but... I'm scared of slipping into old habits because of what we need to talk about.

Q: But if you don't want that I can figure something else out. Maybe you can plan to come by a couple nights this week just in case I can't do it all at once and then if you still want to be around me we already have plans for Saturday?

R: It doesn’t have to make sense to me.

R: I need to respect that. And I will. Saturday is fine.

R: Thank you for telling me.

Q: I... thank you.

Q: How about this. We do Saturday in the park and because Monday is labor day, we do something small together in public and then come back to my place (should we both feel ready) and have that talk?

R: That’s as long as Saturday goes well 😛

R: I can commit to that.

Q: Yes, but that was stated earlier so I wasn't going to repeat myself.

Q: Thank you, for even considering the idea of allowing me the opportunity to do this.

R: I want to know you again.

Q: I want to know you too

[cottoncandyreaper]

((Winfred has a bad day so of course Branch will do something to fit it!!))

Today was not good, probably one of the worst days I had in months so I guess there was some karma somewhere that had to be settled. First: getting to school, Dad dropped me off so nothing different there and we had fun singing in the car but then choir practice right after? My stupid voice cracked at least three times and I had to get pulled out by some friends so I wouldn't have a panic attack...great. Get that annoying hell over with then having to talk my teacher into believing I would be fine in my next class(she knows me too well) but I went on to fail a stupid pop quiz in history instead. Literally the best class ever and I love learning about the surface history so failing a test!? Sure, let's hit Winfred further down into the hole that was already dug. My teacher in there was decent and after seeing the look on my face of complete destruction he informed us all that this was just to see what we knew and wouldn't effect our grade. Wow...thanks Mr.Devin, really appreciate you(insert eye roll). Math was after that, nothing terrible, lunch with some choir friends and Branch, good. Branch could tell I was stressed out still from earlier events keeping his hand on my leg under the table knowing I needed some kind of contact from him so when we had to part I had the undeniable urge to curl into him. Controlling myself was difficult but I managed through almost the rest of the day until....until last period.

Science, the one thing I loathed. It never made sense to me and always swam in the opposite direction of every other thought in my mind. Dad helped me with my homework given his job involved alot of science which he was amazing at but even he could tell it wasn't going to be a easy subject for me. There wasn't a test or anything...far worse then that...my teacher Ms.Higgs signaling me out specifically knowing what my dad did for a living.

"Ms.Font, could you come up to the front and please draw simply the formula needed?"

Oh...my...stars....

"I-I don't know the formula for that Mrs.Higgs."

I could barely make out the light chuckles in the back thanks to my stutter. Shut up.

"You don't? Your father's job uses this primary formula in 90 percent of what they do."

"That doesn't mean I know it. Dad doesn't talk much about work."

"Well he should, he should be helping you with your class work as much as possible to help you pass my class this trimester Miss Font."

She did not just, blatantly state that I was failing...did she? My chest tightened up so much it felt like a fire was starting to build and consume every fiber of my soul that as voices began around me I couldn't even piece together what they spoke. But papers fluttering around brought my attention back to a classroom with books and papers all over the floor, what was hanging on the walls now either dangling or completely gone and desks emptied of their contents.

"I'm....I'm so..."

I refused to cry but the panic was coming back so with the only thought of this being last period I snatched my backpack and bolted. The bell was just ringing as I threw open the front doors and went on my merry way running almost half way to the house stopping when my lungs hurt as much as my pride.

I lost control of my magic, I hadn't done that in so long. My emotions controlled my magic and I...I was trained by Uncle Pap to have the best control of them. Yet, I lost it and...so many people saw it. Most if not all knew that I had magic so that didn't bother me; it was the horrid mess that I left behind in a panic as this walk home became slower and slower. I needed to be home in my own space, listen to music, cry, do something other then just be sad like I was right now. Cars driving by faster then needed with birds singing their songs were the only sounds and even most of them seemed so far away until I arrived at the front door focusing just enough to dig through my purse for my...

"Where are my keys?...Are you serious right now universe?"

No where...my keys were no where in my purse or backpack. If I had left them Dad would have dropped them off at the school and I would have been called. They had to be lost somewhere and now I had to go through the hell of waiting for Uncle Pap to get home and let me in. I could have walked to Uncle Grillby's...I loved him but his booming voice mixed with my mood probably wouldn't end well. Leaning my head against the solid wood door I gripped the handle grumbling to myself about the universe hating me for whatever reason today.

"I have no clue what I did to have this day but if I need to bake someone a cake of forgiveness I will."

Jiggling the handle randomly I wasn't expecting to almost fall into the entry way as it gave with my weight. But hey, I was in.

"Did Daddy forget to lock up the house again?"

Whatever, it didn't matter. I was inside at last. Shutting and properly locking the door I dropped my backpack on a kitchen chair, left my shoes somewhere along the way and trudged upstairs to my room. That had to be where my keys were, it was the only place that made sense so I guess I had to destroy all the cleaning I did the day before to find them. I needed my music for sure for the task so opening my door heading to my desk I screamed not ready for Branch being in there.

"What...H-how did you get in here!?"

He smiled pulling my keys out from his pocket and tossed them off to my desk.

"Stole them out of your purse when you went to the bathroom during lunch."

"You...ass...I was freaking out trying to figure out where I-!"

I scanned my room while yelling wanting to throw something only to notice what he had done: every blanket from my bed and even the ones I stored in the closet were down on the floor bunched here and there with pillows lined against the side of the bed shielding from the uncomfortable wooden pieces of the frame. Some snacks and soda off to the side with my laptop set up.

"You stole my keys, broke into my house and...made a nest in my room?"

I had no idea what he was up too crossing my arms giving a puzzled look as he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly looking towards a wall.

"You were really stressed earlier and didn't tell me why. Then everytime you passed me in the halls you looked zoned out and even worse so I wanted to um, try and...distress ya some?"

If he didn't have fur covering his face I would probably see the red cheeks from a blush build all over his features. Letting my arms drop I took two big steps falling into his arms letting my body melt.

"I'm s-sorry, thank you."

One arm around my waist as the other slid into my hair his hold was the only thing keeping me together.

"You think I'd let ya have a shit day and not do anything about it? Dork, I've planned this the moment I stole your keys."

I should be mad about the stolen keys but hearing him only made me giggle about the ordeal as he brought us down into the best thing ever, adjusted the lap top some and gave me the sweet carbonated beverage.

"So, tell me what happened."

Oh boy...here we go; telling him every issue, every emotion, every thought just spilled out like a flood wall was broken down with just his presence alone. Ending with the magic ordeal feeling those few tears fall down my cheeks while I stuffed the rest down he guided me back to laying my back against his chest and held out his hand.

"Gimme your hand sweets."

"What are you about to do?"

"Just do it."

Rolling hazel eyes I did as instructed.

"Now make one of those bones appear."

"Branch."

His name came through as a whine that he silenced by covering my mouth.

"Come on ya big baby."

"Oh my stars..."

Doing as he asked with the glow of violet magic from my eyes covering the room the bone stood calm in my hand waiting to either be thrown or dismissed.

"Well....I got good news and bad news."

"Branch I swear to the-"

"Good news is, your magic is fine. You have amazing control like you always do and I'm kinda jealous still that you can summon bones. Bad news, you have one of the rudest teachers in the building that everyone talks about and I think you should tell your dad what she said to you today. She shouldn't have spoken to you like that sweets, no one should. Ya best be glad my tail wasn't in there or I would have gone off."

My weight settled into him smiling now relaxed more then I had been all day.

"I'll let dad know, I promise...thank you though, for this. Even though you stole my keys."

"Hey it was worth it sweets to surprise ya like this, how about we jam to one of your playlists you've made and just relax for a bit?"

"That sounds nice."

He sat everything up pulling the laptop closer while handing over a ear piece settling the other in his own carefully. Cuddling into his arms as the first melody started I came to terms with the day and remembered that even if it happened again, Branch would make it seem like it never existed.

[the-real-nekoma-kenma]

I, as well as a lot of people on this site (don't try and deny it) are terrible at math.

I remember getting really hung up on multiplication for some reason because I couldn't wrap my head around how to do it. It just didn't make sense and honestly it still doesn't make sense now but I've learned to accept that part.

When I told my parents that I was having a hard time with multiplication, they said just memorize your times tables. Write them down 12 by 12 5 times if you have to but the key was definitely the times tables yeah they were for sure.

A month or so later, im still like what the fuck is multiplication and that month also happened to be the time when my moms dad would come up to Kentucky from Florida and visit us. Now I didn't find this out until this or last (I hate New years) whatever, 2020 year, but he actually used to do some pretty dramatic math for some huge corporation and so everyday he was sitting there im his office or whatever just spitting put formulas and algorithms, various probabilities, etc. Ya know, math stuff.

So that year he came and visited us and I had said fuck you parents you don't know how to help me with my homework which is pathetic so I asked him about it. Lo and behold he pulled me aside and taught it to me in a way that made sense. He still made me draw a times table but he showed me how to use it which was something that my teachers completely skipped over. 4x5? Put your finger on the 4 on either side and then move it either up or right 5 spaces and you'll have your answer.

A simple little lesson on how to use the chart and I would have been passing the class but it wasn't until we had already moved past that when I actually learned it.

I wish the takeaway from “bean dad” was not “this one specific guy is a bad person,” but that the very, very common “they’ll do it when they’re hungry/tired/bored enough” attitude towards children isn’t a good one.

[gch1995]

Bonus! A few more recurring bad writing tropes on OUAT that I found here!

• What Cliffhanger: A cliffhanger which merely promises that some shocking plot twist will be revealed later, instead of just revealing it right now, is usually not that exciting - I can’t remember many specific instances of this on OUAT, but I suppose Neal’s fake out death in S2 through the portal...What was the point in fake killing him off, only to real kill him for good afterwards like a season later? That’s cruel, blatantly emotionally manipulative, and gimmicky storytelling, which is exactly why TWD went downhill so quickly in quality after just three seasons when fans started catching on to the same systematic emotionally manipulative pattern the writers used for killing off characters over and over again in their writing.

• Writers Cannot Do Math: If simple arithmetic in a story doesn't add up, fans will notice and be left scratching their heads - The multiple timelines and on OUAT never made any fucking sense, and they stopped trying to make sense of it after season three. The writers even made a self-insert joke about how fucked up their timelines were in S7, which could mean we’re “good writers, right?” LOL! I’m so glad I quit watching this train wreck show after season five...

• Yo Yo Plot Point: It's okay if a few plot points repeat themselves throughout the series, but if it's the same story every other episode, your audience is bound to get bored - Pretty much every remaining main character’s arc on this show followed this pattern after 3x11, especially for Rumple, Belle, Rumbelle, Emma, Hook, and Regina.

• And That's Terrible: Telling the reader how evil the villain is, instead of showing it (or even doing both). That's a bad thing - Rumple in 5B, and even though I know he was overreacting like an increasingly OOC deranged jackass with Belle in 6x04, 6x08, and 6x09 (not that Belle’s characterization, behavior, motives, or parenting choices seemed any more healthy, cautious, sane, intelligent, or in-character in regards to Rumple or their baby as a mom to be in 6A either, tbh, which was why I wasn’t taking sides in this OOC character destroying Rumbellle dumpsterfire plot that was so obviously not them, but the writers fucking up the characters deliberately to make Hook and Emma look better after 5A, so I didn’t see the point in blaming the characters), I still never got what the necessary EVOL behind the shears of contrived plot for him with Gideon was with how many plot holes there were in how the things worked for so many different things as the plot demanded without rhyme or

• Concepts Are Cheap: Using concepts and buzz words to pad out a thin script - I noticed this starting to show in season 2, and it just kept getting worse from there.

I’m glad that Rumple and Belle sort of got a “happy ending” by principle because they were the whole reason I got so emotionally invested in this show in the first place, and watched for as long as I did up to S5 before quitting. But I’m still not really emotionally invested in their ending in canon because it was ableist, cheap, contrived, and OOC in a way that completely goes against the grain of some of their defining core character traits as nurturing parents. Both Rumple and Belle would care way more about being around for Gideon’s sake as his parents, and no way would either of them knowingly go on a suicide quest when there was no immediate need to do so.

No way would Gideon be like “Hey dad, I know mom just died, and it’s really sad. I know that we just dug a grave to bury mom in by hand for hours without magic, and it’s really sad for both of us to lose her. I know that you’re really feeling depressed and suicidal right now because you want to be with her again in the afterlife. I know you’re feeling depressed right now, and planning to go on a suicide quest to be with her in the afterlife again, but how about instead of going through all that pain and trouble, I kill you myself right now, so that I can unburden you of your pain. Does it matter that I just lost one of my parents less than a day ago? It would on most shows where characters are given realistic and healthy reactions to trauma, loss, mental illness, and grief, but the writers stopped giving a shit about those things long ago on this show, so it’s totally normal for me to not be more broken up about just losing my mom, and being willing to kill my dad to end his grief over losing her to reunite with her in the afterlife. It’s totally normal for me to not be incredibly concerned about my father’s mental health right now when he’s going on this suicide quest to break the curse ASAP to be with mom in the afterlife, even though I’m still here, and there’s a lot more in life for dad to still go on living for without her.”

No way would Rumple be like, “Remember, how I spent three centuries manipulating people and events to cast an entire curse to tear the FTL apart to find Bae just so I could tell him how sorry I was, and how much I loved him after accidentally letting him fall through a portal in a moment of blind fear in S1-S3A? Remember, when I once said Bae was my happy ending and redemption, implying that my children were the most important things in the world to me, even before Belle? Well, apparently the writers don’t remember that I was a dad even before I was Belle’s love interest, so now I’m going to go on this suicide quest to be with Belle again in the afterlife ASAP, even though our son is still living, and he just lost his mother. Would Belle really be okay with me leaving our son ASAP when he just lost his mother? I don’t think any human being would realistically be okay with that, but on this show any sort of realistic humanity and human reactions died long ago back in 3x11, so why not?”

It was often difficult to characterize Belle consistently, read her true feelings, or to be able to truly define her as an inherently heroic, purehearted, selfless, intelligent, cautious, or nurturing woman who made a trustworthy good mother to be, or role model from S4-S6 when they turned her into a walking self-contradictory plot device who’s entire personality changed from one episode to the next. If I’m going to be honest, I don’t think either her or Rumple were making a good case for why they deserved to have custody of this kid in 6A, thanks to OOC character destroying writing for both of them, even if Rumple was the only one framed as the “bad guy.” I thought they were both wrong, and I hated the wildly OOC despicable writing for both of their characterizations in 6A because it was so obviously not who either Rumple or Belle were, but another contrived way to fuck over Rumbelle, so that CS would look “less abusive” after 5A. *snorts*

But Belle still said she loved Gideon “more than anything,” so I don’t think she’d be okay with accelerating her life to help Rumple break the curse without his consent/knowledge, especially since that was Rumbelle’s entire problem from S4-S6. They shut each other out by trying to unilaterally make decisions that they thought were for the best in regards to each other, their personal values, and their loved ones best interests because they were too blindly broken, insecure, impulsive, reckless, cowardly, proud, self-righteous, selfish, and too plot driven to not communicate so they would self-destruct, instead of sitting the fuck down to talk to each other, listen, and understand one another’s point of view, so they could come to a compromise. So now, they were romanticizing the most problematic issue of the Rumbelle relationship, their lack of communication, lack of compromise, and keeping each other in the dark to do what they felt was best without each other’s consent/knowledge.

I know it was mostly OOC writing for both of them to prop up Hook/CS, but I’d think that when Rumple and Belle were married for fifty plus years happily, these poor communication issues, and keeping each other in the dark to do what they felt was for the best would be completely resolved now. Instead, they were sort of romanticized from Belle’s side of the relationship in “Beauty,” and it kind of annoyed me because if Rumple had been in her shoes in this episode, the narrative would have demonized him, and the fandom would have torn him to shreds like they did in 4A and 6A, even when she did shady and fucked up things for good reasons too.

Is OUAT Worth Watching?

The first two-and-a-half seasons felt worth it as someone who personally got emotionally invested in the show for Rumplestiltskin (Robert Carlyle), Emma Swan (Jennifer Morrison), Belle (Emilie De Ravin), and Rumbelle. However, the show drove straight into the past the point of no return territory of very bad writing for every remaining main character after the first half of season three over and over again, and drove me mad because they pretty much destroyed all of them in one way or another, so I finally quit watching after season five because I couldn’t handle the disappointment anymore. But even as early on as season one we were seeing bad writing tropes that kept growing worse and worse over time, which were affecting all of these characters in one way or another, such as:

• Aesop Amnesia: The more times a character is taught a lesson without learning it, the lower the viewer’s opinion of him/her and you - There’s nothing more that I hate in Drama/Fantasy TV shows than bad writing that keeps fantastic characters getting wasted by writers who keep them running in circles, learning the same lessons over and over again. Characters should evolve and grow organically. That’s the whole point of a journey that keeps me emotionally invested in them on your show. However, A&E and these writers just could not come up with more than the first two-and-a-half seasons for organic character development/redemption in these characters on this show, and even then there were issues starting to show with this trope after season one. I think the best they did with organic character development/redemption arcs on this show satisfyingly for me were with Rumple and Emma’s characters back in seasons 1-3x11, but they fucked them up pretty badly after that by putting them in annoying circles of increasingly OOC, inorganic, and repetitive progression and regression, too.

• Angst? What Angst?: Make your characters react realistically to setbacks or tragic events. Too little angst makes them appear callous or ditzy-Characters should react realistically to crippling mental illness, abuse, addiction, grief, loss, and trauma. However, A&E and these writers seemed to throw those issues in for shock value, and/or demonize dark characters for enduring those issues without the ability to get emotional support by pretending they didn’t exist in the narrative.

• Character Derailment: Characters can grow, but don’t suddenly mutate them into something else - Emma, Hook, and especially Rumple and Belle were probably the most tragically affected by this trope from the end of 3B-S6 on-and-off again.

• Character Shilling: Having characters suddenly talk up another character for no real reason doesn’t make a whole lot of sense-The dialogue on this show could be both the best and worst possible thing about it. It could either be really heartwrenchingly beautiful, tearjerking, and tender at best, but at worst it could be so illogically OOC, nonsensical, and/or cringeworthy that it made you want to gag.

• Chickification: Be careful when you decide to make an Action Girl less action-oriented; if not done properly, it will annoy your audience-Emma after getting set up with Hook out of nowhere from S4-S7.

• Compressed Vice: Don’t have a character develop a bad habit or flaw out of nowhere solely for the sake of setting up An Aesop (doubly so if it contradicts previous facts about the character), and especially don’t show its consequences in a hamfisted, unrealistic manner - Every main character on this show from S4-S6, but especially Rumple, Belle, Emma, and Hook who were the biggest victims of Drama™️ plot-driven derailment, and ship wars where Rumbelle was trashed to prop up Hook/CS.

• Conflict Ball: Don’t have a character cause conflict just because the plot says so-Every main character on this show at one point or another from S4-S7, but especially Rumple, Belle, Emma, and Hook.

• Creator’s Pet: Treating a certain character with tons of love when they really don’t deserve it is never a good idea-Regina, Zelena, and especially Hook.

• Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy: Making the story excessively bleak and giving absolutely no hope will only tire out the audience until they lose interest in the story - Cheating/infidelity, incest, unacknowledged cases of meaningless “rebound” relationships in on-and-off again true love couples when the true love couple should just be together in an established relationship together, homicide, rape, domestic abuse, child abuse, kidnapping, heart snatching, consent issues left and right, stalking, abuse apology, etc. etc. Bonus: If you’re a Dearie/Rumbelle fan like I was, the writers abruptly, cruelly, and unfairly started treating Rumple and his loved ones like total garbage on this show when Eddy got a boner for Hook out of nowhere at the end of S3, and even before that, it was clear they never cared about Nealfire or Belle after season one as individual characters. So much for being a show about “hope,” and “family,” Adam an Eddy.

• Demonization: Some of your potential audience may actually see where this position is coming from, if not actually agree. You’ll turn them off by your exaggerated portrayal. It also makes it seem like the position you hold isn’t nearly as solid as you think, since it can only stand up to strawmen - Rumple on-and-off-again from the end of 3B-6A as the plot demanded to prop up Hook/CS, Hook in 5A, Zelena pretty much always, and even Regina back in S1 when the show was still good. For all of the opportunities that A&E and these writers had to create emotionally complex redeemable villains, they far too often took the mustache twirling villain caricature route whenever they made them “big bads” of an arc. I’m the most disappointed that they did this with Rumple on-and-off-again from 3B-S6 because he actually was originally characterized and developed as the most well-written, organically emotionally complex, relatable, sympathetic, dynamic, redeemable, and likable one of the three consistently for the first two-and-a-half seasons of the show, he was easily my favorite character, the whole reason I got into OUAT, but A&E and these writers probably fucked him up the most tragically with bad writing in later seasons.

• Derailing Love Interests: Breaking up a promising relationship just to get the official couple together is not going to sit well with the viewers who care more about the characters than the concept - Swanfire for CS

• Designated Hero: Having your hero Kick the Dog and still expecting your audience to see them as a paragon of virtue because you say so doesn’t usually work; rather, it makes your hero unlikable -There’s a reason why herocrites became such a popular term from S4-S6 for Emma, Belle, Snowing, and even Henry. They became annoyingly self-righteous, narrow-minded, needlessly cruel, and hypocritical brats with little to no self-awareness of their own horrific choices, while they still treated the “bad guys” like filth that was so beneath them. When the heroes are just as bad as your villains if not worse, why should I care about “good” and “evil” anymore.

• Designated Love Interest: If you say that two characters are in love, don’t make them hate or be apathetic to each other, actually go out of your way to make them love each other. Otherwise, it just feels contrived-Belle with Rumple from S4-6A, and Rumple and Belle with each other from 6x04-6x09 due to OOC bad writing to prop up Hook/CS, and Emma and Hook always because CS was a mistake.

• Designated Villain: Having your villain come across as harmless or even too benign and still expecting your audience to see them as a monster because you say so doesn’t usually work; rather, it makes your villain petty and perhaps far too sympathetic - Rumple in 5B.

• Die for Our Ship: Attacking a rival of your pairing of choice doesn’t necessarily make that character a bad person and makes you look petty - Every other ship/character on this show getting destroyed, killed off, or sidelined for CS from the end of 3B-S6

• Distress Ball: Don’t have a character get kidnapped for no good reason

• Draco in Leather Pants: Have an acceptable reason for making a truly evil character suddenly be nice. “He or she is hot!” will not do - Hook and Regina.

• Dull Surprise: Have your characters emote during events that would make a real person do so - Wasn’t super obvious in S1, but it got worse as time went on.

• Failure Hero: While having the hero lose from time to time adds some realism to the hero and drama to the story, if they lose every single fight or mission, not only will it destroy any and all tension, but the reader will feel bad for relating with the hero - Belle from S4-S6.

• Faux Action Girl: If you say that a girl is strong, then make her strong. If said Action Girl comes off as too weak, the audience will begin to hate her - Emma Swan from S4-S6

• Hero Ball: Heroes are expected to make bad decisions every now and then, but when they do this against all common sense it becomes annoying - Every hero on this show from S3-S7, but especially Belle, Snow, and Henry

• Idiot Ball: When the character is suddenly acting like an idiot - Every main character on this show whenever it was convenient for the plot for generally intelligent characters to be total idiots, especially for Rumple, Belle, Emma, and Hook, though.

• Informed Wrongness: If a character is actually in the wrong, prove it - Rumple’s main motive in 6A, even though he went about accomplishing them in horrible OOC ways.

• Jerk Sue: Having a character be a complete Jerkasswho gets away with it just because the author designates them as such and says you should support them does not make for a strong character, and is more likely going to turn out be a case of Creator’s Pet, and often The Scrappy. Also, it tends to look like a half-assed effort when the author just throws in some secondary throw-away detail in an attempt to make you feel sorry for the character and expect you to not get upset when they behave like a jerk for no other reason than they feel like it at the time - Zelena

• Mary Sue: A flawless, invincible character who never loses at anything makes for a boring story. Mary Sue Tropes and Common Mary Sue Traits contain lots of information on different types of Sue - Hook was the male version of this trope, a Gary Stu. He had potential to be complex, but then they set him up with Emma out of nowhere.

• Moral Dissonance: Don’t have the hero behave contrary to their usual morality and be completely oblivious to it - There’s a reason why herocrite became such a popular term from S4-S6 for Emma, Belle, Snowing, and even Henry. They became annoyingly self-righteous, narrow-minded, needlessly cruel, and hypocritical brats with little to no self-awareness of their own horrific choices, while they still treated the “bad guys” like filth that was so beneath them. When the “good guys” are just as bad as your villains if not worse, why should I care about “good” and “evil” or “heroes” and “villains” anymore?

• Romanticized Abuse: Make sure that your romance is actually a reasonably healthy relationship. If abuse, either physical or emotional, is presented as sexy or sweet, the characters could become Unintentionally Unsympathetic, and viewers may get the wrong idea of what an acceptable real-life relationship requires - Crapstain Swan on both sides. Belle’s “strength,” “heroism,” and “goodness” in her relationship with Rumple sometimes seems more like emotional/mental/verbal abuse, and/or emotional blackmail/manipulation, and while the actors who play the characters are both fantastic

• Ron the Death Eater: Have an acceptable reason for making a truly good character suddenly be mean. “I hate him or her!” will not do - Belle and Emma

• Satellite Love Interest: Define your characters by something other than being the lover or crush for The Protagonist, or the archetypal “perfect” boyfriend/girlfriend - Belle for Rumple, though to be fair, she was far from perfect or innocent in her relationship issues with Rumple from S4-S6, even though the narrative often tried to pretend she was.

• Strangled by the Red String: People going directly from being strangers to being genuinely in love is not very realistic or satisfying to watch. If you’re going to make two characters fall in love with each other, try to take it slow - CS

• Strong as They Need to Be: Don’t have characters suddenly gain or lose power without any explanation.

• Stupid Sacrifice: Characters shouldn’t give up their lives for nothing (if the character is not a Martyr Without a Cause).

• Villain Ball: See Hero Ball, only swap “heroes” and “villains”. - Rumple on-and-off again from S4-6A.

• Villain Decay: Don’t have your antagonist lose their power and competence without a good reason - Rumple on-and-off-again from S4-6A. A lot of people say he was made the de facto “bad guy” on OUAT because he was the most competent one. However, that’s actually the complete opposite after all of the trauma he went through, and the removal of his seer power. They should have just left him dead after 3x11, and/or kept him in the neutral antihero zone after his regression in S4 by building him back up with Belle consistently, and explored his trauma.

• Wangst: Make your characters react realistically to setbacks or tragic events. Too much angst makes them unrealistic and annoying.

• What an Idiot!: Characters should not make unrealistically bad decisions to drive the plot-Everyone on this show from 3B-S7, but especially Rumple, Belle, Emma, and Hook.

• Wimpification: Stripping the action, common sense, and strength from characters to add Wangst is a good way to piss off the audience.

• Most Writers Are Male: Don’t write women from ignorance, stereotypes, and/or in unsympathetic ways (either in the form of misogyny or over-sexualization) - This one is obvious with the “evil is sexy in bad girls,” while good girls are innocence, chaste, and virtue in romance. Sexuality is not evil! I’m so sick of this trope. Also, abuse is always wrong. Emotionally manipulating others to get what you want with ultimatums, threats, and/or false promises of affection is always wrong and unethical. Violating consent/autonomy of someone else is always wrong and unethical. Committing crimes is always wrong, no matter the endgames. It is not “empowering” or “feminist” for women to abuse emotionally vulnerable, or helpless men by taking advantage of them, or kicking them when they are already down. I don’t care what gender the abuser is, female or male, abuse is still abuse and it’s always unethical and wrong. Emotional manipulation through the use of ultimatums, threats, lies, and/or false promises is always wrong and unethical, and I really don’t care what the gender of the person who does it is, or whatever the intent is. It’s still wrong. Men who get emotional easily are not “cowards.” Men who feel afraid easily who fear failure are not “cowards.” Men who are introverted, elegant dressers, spinners, sewers, old-fashioned romantics, awkward, socially anxious, crippled, etc. are not “cowardly” or “weak.” Men who value family, men who value domesticity, and men who are desperate for true love, loyalty, understanding, and affection because they have abandonment issues and think they are unlovable, are not “weak” or “cowardly.” Men who don’t face external conflict with others by using brashness, swords, recklessness, or through beating enemies up with their fists, are not “cowardly” or “weak.” Men who don’t just “get over” their fears and trauma are not “weak.”

• New Powers as the Plot Demands: Don’t give a character a new ability out of thin air depending on the situation - This comes more in the form of magical macguffins that the characters fuck around with, and get destroyed to use in later seasons, especially Rumple, Belle, Emma, Henry, Hook, and Snowing for the sake of dumb plot “twists.” However, I never understood how Regina gained light magic when she was born to a family that inherently used dark magic, and never taught how to use light magic. I also never understood how Emma learned how she had the ability to use light magic when none of her blood relatives had the inherent ability to use it.

• Out of Character: Moments when the character does something that he wouldn’t normally do without any justification - Sadly, this happened 98% of the time after 3x11 for every remaining main character, except for Regina to prop up Hook.

• Positive Discrimination: Don’t make the female or minority characters better than the others simply because they are minorities, and don’t make the male characters incompetent simply because they are males.

• Protagonist-Centered Morality: A character’s moral standing should be based on their actions as a whole, not solely on their actions toward the main character. A sure sign of a Mary Sue or a Designated Hero.

• Aborted Arc: Plot points should go somewhere eventually.

• Ass Pull: Don’t introduce major changes and/or important elements at critical moments in the plot without some foreshadowing or justification.

• Cliffhanger Copout: This is what happens when a Cliffhanger’s resolution comes in the form of tweaking the continuity between back-to-back installments (usually creating Plot Holes), a refusal/failure to follow through with delivering a big Reveal after setting an audience up for one, or outright aborting a story arc.

• The Chris Carter Effect: It’s a good idea to actually finish things. Sooner or later, the audience will get bored with you screwing around and not getting to the point - Everything about this show’s entire existence from 3B-S7. What was the point?

• Continuity Snarl: Plotlines can snag if you aren’t careful.

• Deus Angst Machina: Too much misfortune makes too little Willing Suspension of Disbelief - So much for being a show about “hope….”

• Deus ex Machina: Do not save your characters with an Ass Pull - This slowly became more and more of an issue after season one when magic was introduced to Storybrooke

• Diabolus ex Machina: A victory for the bad guys pulled out of thin air might be amusing for shock value, but it doesn’t make for great storytelling - There’s been a lot of these, but I don’t really feel like going into details.

• Ending Fatigue: The viewer should probably not be yelling “END ALREADY!”- I’d been feeling this about OUAT ever since 3B, tbh.

• Esoteric Happy Ending: If you want to write an uplifting ending, make sure that the audience can agree with you that you wrote one - Rumple and Belle’s “happy ending” together in S7. Was it really, though? I know that 3A technically was more bittersweet and sad of an ending, but the journey along the way actually made sense, and felt well-earned. This ending in S7 for Rumple and Belle just felt cheesy and lazy, especially after how much A&E and these writers trashed them with OOC character destroying angsts bad writing from S4-S6 to prop up Hook/CS.

• Forgotten Phlebotinum: Previous installments included something that would resolve the problem of the week. The something is not brought up- This happened a lot on OUAT.

• Fridge Logic: Though much more forgivable than a Plot Hole, this can be bad if it doesn’t have enough Fridge Horror or Fridge Brilliance to go along with it. If you have a complicated universe, don’t gloss over the minor details - How they treated Belle’s character on the show.

• Gratuitous Rape: Rape is an incredibly grave subject matter. Don’t shoehorn in a rape scene just for shock value, or have so much it loses impact - I think this happened at least four times on OUAT in the outright sense, but that’s not covering the hundreds of consent issues with magic at every corner in every main character on this show of rape culture.

• Idiot Plot: Unless the characters are supposed to be idiots, the plot should not be forced to move forward solely by people making stupid decisions - Rumple and Belle in 4A and 6A. Hook and Emma in 5A. Regina in 4B.

• I Just Knew: Characters need an in-universe reason for knowing (or not knowing) something in advance - The lack of explanation for how or why Rumple, or any of these characters for that matter, just knew how this or that magic macguffin of the week worked without ever having being shown using it before, or how we’re supposed to just suspend our belief that it will supposedly work for their specific purposes, even if it works for multiple different things on screen in practice. Or how we’re just supposed to believe that these generally intelligent characters will just automatically believe what magical dreams, prophecies, or visions without any sort of explanation for why whenever the plot demands they do it.

• Just Eat Gilligan: If there’s an obvious solution to the problem(s) that drives the story, you would think the characters would go for it rather than ignoring it - Every character on this show at one point or another.

• Kudzu Plot: It’s fine to have a dozen different story threads at once, but you have to be able to tie them together. If they go off into infinity without ever being tied, who’s going to care about any of them? The pieces of your Jigsaw Puzzle Plot have to fit - Sadly, this was what OUAT devolved into.

• Lost in Medias Res: If there’s not enough exposition when starting out In Medias Res, the viewers will feel completely lost and lose interest in the story.

• Only the Author Can Save Them Now: Do not put your characters in a situation where only a Deus ex Machina can save them - Happened all the time on OUAT after season one. I think it really went off the deep end, though when they broke their own rule about not being able to use magic to bring back the dead in 3B.

• Plot Hole: Don’t think the audience won’t see when you forget to cover something - There’s a reason why OUAT was dubbed by many fans as Once Upon a Plot Hole. They started showing up in S2, and just kept getting worse over the next six years.

• Relationship Revolving Door: See Yo Yo Plot Point - Rumple and Belle from S2-S6. Look, they were always my favorite main couple on this show, but I finally got tired of the inorganic contrivances separating them to make Rumple “dark” after season five, and decided to quit watching the show.

• Romantic Plot Tumor: Unless the plot is romance, don’t let it take over.

• Series Continuity Error: When you set something in stone, you can’t chisel it out without leaving marks - OUAT did this all the time.

• Shocking Swerve: Don’t have a Twist Ending just to have a Twist Ending - The writers of OUAT had been doing this shit ever since the end of season two, and it only kept getting worse as time went on.

• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: If the premise is interesting, DO something interesting with it - Rumple’s storyline in 5A, Emma’s storyline in 5A, and Regina’s storyline in 5A. There’s a reason why so many fans hated this arc, and decided they were done with the show afterwards. A&E and these writers promised great things for their their three main leads, but then trashed them all to make it about the Emo Fuckboy and Crapstain Swan.

• Trapped by Mountain Lions: If someone’s in a story, they should be part of the plot, too - Belle in many of her storylines with Rumple.

• Unfortunate Implications: Be careful with the way you portray certain characters and the situations you put them through; viewers could get the wrong idea - Unfortunately, this applies to every main character on this show at one point or another.

• Voodoo Shark: When patching over a Plot Hole creates a different, possibly more troublesome, problem - OUAT writers covered up their plot holes with more plot holes and contrived character assassination all the time.

So OUAT had a lot of potential. It had fantastic characters, fantastic actors, and fantastic ideas. It makes for fantastic fanfiction, and it was genuinely enjoyable as a fan of Rumple, Belle, Rumbelle, and Emma from S1–3A for me. But there were always issues with bad writing that wasted them all in ways that kept getting worse and worse every season because A&E and these writers refused to learn from their mistakes…

Tldr; OUAT had potential to be something amazing and groundbreaking, but it pretty quickly devolved into a ridiculous supernatural soap opera, including bad writing tropes, OOC plot driven melodrama bs, incest, sexism, meaningless affairs and/or rebound relationships, betrayal, lies, secrets, consent issues, heroes who weren’t really all that heroic as time passed, abuse apology/criminal behavior apology, except for with Rumple (and even then their were issues), repetitive arcs, lack of growth, everyone being related, lack of character growth, and character destroying “shocking”’plot twists. I had fun with the first two-and-a-half seasons, then it all went to hell from there.

If you’ve ever seen the TV show “Charmed,” OUAT was actually pretty similar to it, though. It started out decent, it started out with potential, but then quickly went down the drain when every main character devolved into an OOC toxic mess for the sake of Drama™️ plots, and everyone stopped growing due to bad writing tropes, which were already showing potential to become major problems later on in the first two-and-a-half to three seasons of the series.

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