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DP x DC Prompt #51

Damian would like it on the record that this is Todd's fault. If Todd hadn't encouraged Damian to start making fan art, he wouldn't be in this mess. Stupid Todd, Damian should've known better than to listen to him.

But here he was, blushing like mad as he nervously asked his favorite author to sign the fan art he had made for his book. He was such an idiot! Danny Fenton surely would be-

"Oh this is amazing! Do you have any prints I can buy off of you?"

Damian will swear up and down he did not faint.

[dandylion-s]

Oh man Hobie Brown saying know what the war is fighting for before you enlist before Miles asks Miguel to be a part of the spider society which wants him to stand by and let his dad die.... that's CINEMA BABEY!!!

[sudaca-swag]

these days only a few fantasy books stand truly unique, most just seem to be following very strict writing styles and filling in the same plot points, maybe its because fantasy has been dominated by usamerican and european writers who tend to see the world in a very lineal way and who crave immediacy, these authors are honestly scared to "break the rules" (there are no rules in art imo) in terms of time-space and such because most of their readers will get mad if they dont understand everything the series stands for in 60 pages or less

[towboats]

a little too familiar

[shotgunhoney]

New Authors: Russell W. Johnson, Ilyn Welch, and Meagan Lucas

New Authors: Russell W. Johnson (@RWJesq), Ilyn Welch (@IlynWelch), and Meagan Lucas (@mgnlcs)

We are excited to announce the signing of three new authors to the Shotgun Honey Books family: Russell W. Johnson, Ilyn Welch, and Meagan Lucas. Russell W. Johnson brings Shotgun Honey a novel set in the hills of West Virginia with his bedraggled protagonist Sheriff Mary Beth Cain titled Moonshine Messiah. Quick Synopsis Sheriff Mary Beth Cain has always had a tough job. Protecting her…

[teaboot]

(I'm a security guard.)

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

[brandyschillace]

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[lazycranberrydoodles]

contributing to the vampire hua cheng fandom o7

pose referenced off of this / follow for more fafa :)

[joelslegalwhre]

this is just like a little library for all the amazing fics and authors we love <33

I'll update this list with new fics as I'm reading, and you can always send me your favorites too!

The list is sorted by Pedro's characters so you can find your favorites faster, but besides that, they're not in any order. Some are NSFW, some are (unfinished) series, etc; you're responsible for what you're reading so please always check the warnings.

My favs (= those I've read) are in bold, as I haven't read all of the ones I got recommended yet <3

Don't forget to show your love and support with reblogs and comments that all these absolutely amazing & talented writers deserve! 🤍

I'll have to post this list in separate posts because it won't let me edit and I want to add more fics (probably because there's too many links and mentions...) to everyone I've tagged, I'm so sorry to move everything around and tag you again in another post..

@hellishjoel @darkroastjoel @jrrmint @absurdthirst @cool-iguana @millerscoffee @tightjeansjavi

@breakfastatjoels @theywhowriteandknowthings @mandoisapunk @justagalwhowrites @musings-of-a-rose @thelightsandtheroses @gracieispunk @wheresarizona @frenchiereading @elvinaaficupdates @rhoorl @wardenparker @mvtthewmurdvck @swiftispunk @whiskeynwriting @guess-my-next-obsession @thetriumphantpanda

Javi P fic recs

Joel Miller fic recs

Din Djarin fic recs

Dieter Bravo fic recs

Dave York fic recs

Frankie Morales fic recs

Ezra fic recs

Oberyn Martell fic recs

Tim Rockford fic recs

There are still some characters missing on this list, so please let me know your favorites!🤍

[kyouka-supremacy]

I think we should just bring back Wungo Wednesday and start a fandom collective anime rewatch

[mentallyin1989]

my favourite part of the day is going onto ao3 and seeing that the number of completed fics for my comfort pairing has increased

[hammerbonk]

Here’s a goofy ooc Vernetto exchange I came up with. Tbh I just wanted to think about sleep deprived Vertin being silly and Sonetto continuing to never beat the ouppy allegations💀💀

Sugarcrash

Recently, Sonetto had witnessed the Timekeeper go through one of their most challenging ordeals yet: no Picrasma Candy.

They were due to get another batch from Medicine Pocket themself, but due to ‘higher priority projects’, they refused to manufacture any unless Vertin coughed up some extra funds, which they had a distinct lack thereof.

When Sonetto checked earlier that day, Vertin had been on their last few pieces, determined to ration what they had. It was now late in the evening, leaving Sonetto with very grim feelings about what state her superior could possibly be in.

She could distantly recall learning the signs of withdrawal symptoms, and her blood ran cold. If the claims of Pricrasma Candy containing alcohol were to be believed, then Vertin could be suffering from a lack of that and the cell stimulating effect of the Pricrasma concentrates.

And as the Timekeeper’s chief assistant, their wellbeing was her top priority! She had to check up on them.

“Timekeeper? It’s Sonetto. Please may I come in?”

She knocked on Vertin’s door, ears pricked for a reply.

“Come in.” Came the Timekeeper’s voice in an unusually flat tone.

Entering their office, Sonetto immediately made a beeline to Vertin, whose posture was a bit too rigid while their head was slumped at a good 45° angle.

Even in their exhaustion, they held onto the pen that they were using to fight off the insurmountable amount of paperwork they had received. Her gaze softening, Sonetto wrenched the pen from their hand and put it aside.

“It’s alright, Timekeeper,” she whispered gently. “You can go rest in your room. I’ll handle the rest of the reports for you.”

In scenarios like these, Sonetto expected to hear some sort of protest from the ever altruistic Vertin. But to her surprise, none came. They simply watched her as she took the papers from their desk.

“Mmh… Thank you, Sonetto…”

There was a long pause before Vertin said something else, half lidded silver eyes blinking slowly at her.

“…pretty.”

“Sorry?” Sonetto asked, cheeks instantly turning as red as her hair.

“Pretty girl. You’re such a pretty girl,” Vertin said in an incoherent manner that somewhat resembled cooing. “Who’s a pretty girl? Who’s a pretty girl? You are, you are…”

To Sonetto’s flabbergasted delight, Vertin brought their gentle, uncoordinated hands to her head, ruffling her hair and squishing her cheeks, all the while tumbling all sorts of strange praises from her mouth.

But just as she was settling into the affection, they snapped out of it, and quickly recoiled their hands. She just barely put a lid on the whine that was about to escape her throat.

“My apologies, Sonetto,” Vertin whispered, mortified at themself. “To be frank… I think I am losing it.”

“I— you—” she took a deep breath. “That’s alright, Timekeeper.”

[wormfarmm]

dear god,

if a lip-ringed frank iero style boyfriend is in my future at all, please please please send me a sign, otherwise i will forget about this dream, run away to a cabin in the woods and churn my own butter. i am begging for a sign, please god, just do this for me.

amen

[broke-art-girl]

"Signs of Love" by Broke_Art_Girl

🌶️spice below ;)🌶️

Fandom: Stranger Things

Summary: Hawkins high starts teaching sign language and Steve Harrington doesn't get why. That is until Steve Harrington meets Eddie Munson, the new deaf student.

Words: 300+

Characters: Steve Harrington, The party, Eddie Munson.

AO3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54962152

Steve was very confused why Hawkins decided to start teaching sign language, but when he heard there would be a deaf student coming to town, it made a lot more sense. He didn't know who it would be and didn't know for a long time. Nobody seemed to know.

The benefit of Eddie coming to school at the begining of 10th grade was that there were a couple other new kids from other schools plus he didn't miss anything from earlier in the year.

Eddie, Dustin, Mike, Max, and Lucus become great friends immediately because the party used to have a deaf friend Will Byers who moved away, so they were extremely practiced with sign language. Plus El wasnt exactly verbal the first couple months she lived with Mike.

But then Steve met Eddie. And boy oh boy did sparks fly

Eddie ended up telling Mike how cute he thought Steve was so Mike mentioned it to him and watched him turn fire truck red.

Dating a deaf guy isn't like anything Steve has ever done.

Dating anyone isn't something Eddie has ever done

When Steve hears (or well sees) Eddie tell him how he got the nickname "freak" he feels like punching everyone who ever went to his old highschool.

🌶️

Intimate time is a little odd for them. Eddie can't hear himself or how loud he's being so Steve keeps covering his mouth, telling him to shut up.

The first time Eddie puts his hand on Steve's throat, he thinks Eddie has a thing for choking, but it turns out he just wanted to see what makes Steve feel good. Feel how he moans or groans. Missionary seems to be the best for them for a while before they learn eachother's body's.

Steve is there the months after Eddie gets his cochlear implant. And by God does he revel in the blush Eddie has after he hears his first lewd moan at Steve's touch.

[hussyknee]

Seeing characters in romance stories just jetting between countries at a moment's notice with no thought for visa; seeing airports as sites of triumphant climaxes and romantic denouements instead of places of fear and danger where a sword hangs above your head— it all breaks off little pieces of my heart. They're constant reminders that my people will never be human enough in the colonial world order to be allowed to move freely around it. No matter what your race, those non-refugees living in the Global North will never understand what it's like to be part of a global ghetto where your passport is nothing but a trembling supplication and humiliation.