#except obviously ivy is a lesbian

[the-doomed-witch]

hey boo, can u make 1800's reader and married nat having secret affair but reader convinces nat to run away with her somewhere else where they can live and love peacefully, inspired by ivy and the lakes

MAGNIFICENTLY CURSED

Natasha Romanoff x Fem!Reader

Summary: You question your need for running away with the woman you love passionately, but her dreamy desires do it for you anyway. // based on ivy by Taylor Swift; the lakes by Taylor Swift

Word Count: 1.0k

Warnings: 18+ ONLY MINORS+MEN DNI. set in the 1800s, infidelity, homophobia + closeting, allusions to smut not really described, nat is like a whole ass poet bro i will cry 😭

SEND ME REQUESTS BASED ON TAYLOR SWIFT SONGS

Author’s Note: hi anon, i hope this justifies your request <3 obviously this is emisue-dead poets society-anne with an e-elizabeth bennet coded bc i’m a raging lesbian with an obsession with the 1800s for no reason at all🤭

MASTERLIST // NAVIGATION

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Stealing glances with Natasha was the glory of her. She was a distinguished woman, known to be married to one of the most revered men in town. The ladies at the lunch discussed stories of her well established marriage, but no one knew the truth except you, and Natasha.

Sometimes you would go to meet her, with the excuse of needing to talk with her clinquishly. Her husband was a fine fellow, a gentleman who’d welcome you to their warm domicile, and let you take your time alone with his wife.

On the days when your blood boiled with envy of his nauseating smile, you’d meet her in forbidden places, near rivers of estrangement, and away from the common folk.

She held no love for him, you weren’t oblivious like the neighbourhood women. What made you bitter was the way he was associated with her throughout the town. He was the one credited with your efforts of making her the happiest woman around.

Oh how you longed for Natasha to be known as your lady.

But it’s worth struggling for, when she touches your lips, when she kisses them, and when her hands entangle with yours. “My most beloved,” she addresses you every time before she dares to break the space between the two of you. You respond, “Yes, my lady.” before leaning in.

It’s been years of meeting Natasha in darkness and in delight, touching her as if speaking of poetry. Your hands find their place in the heat beneath her gown, leaving her to the euphoria of gushing. She does the same for you in return, sometimes sitting on her knees to have a peek of what her fingers feel.

You have a rendezvous in the privacy of her own house, while he’s patiently sitting on the porch, doing something like pretending to read a newspaper. She sighs loudly against your kiss, it’s almost romantical.

He knocks on the shut door, asking if everything was alright. You break your contact with her abruptly, and answer him with a loud, stern voice, “Yes, Natasha is trying a new corset I brought along with me. Nothing to worry about.” He walks away with not a single penny of care, unbeknownst to everything you could do only if his wife had her corset taken off.

“I sense something bizarre about you today, my love.” she remarks, pushing your back against the stone cold wall, opposite to which is sat the notorious husband. To think the two of you could be vulnerable within inches was a terrifying thought. “I don’t think standing here is a good idea..”

“What would he even do if he finds us out? He can burn this house all he wants, at least my death greets me with you in my arms.”

“Natasha…”

“Tell me what is troubling you, my Y/N. What is so tragical that I can’t take it away from you?”

Her poetic mouth never failed to leave you enraptured. “W- well, all I've thought of since the past nights is running away. I mean to take you along, but I’m troubled by all the presumed consequences.”

“You meaning to take me along is singularly the greatest thing I’ve heard. To be with my muse, in a place where all the poets went to die, is a privilege I'm blessed to have.”

“I don’t belong, and Natasha, neither do you, you understand it, and I know it. But going out into the wild, with no shelter to take? I’m worried to death.”

“Again, my beloved, at least death greets us with you in my arms. I don’t fear it.”

You entwine your finger in her fierce red hair, and pull her face close to yours till you can hear her breathe and feel her heart pound against your chest and tell her, “Your musings, God, they make me want to be with you all the time, alone. Your poetry is the sole reason I live, dearest.”

“You’re the sole reason my poetry lives. You’re my muse, Y/N.”

You push her against her vanity, with an attempt to taste her delicacy, this time not confining her sounds to your secrecy. You lift up your leg, to give Natasha a place for grinding slowly. The skirt of her apron is lifted, along with her pale yellow dress.

The door smashes open, with her husband walking in, “You’ve been alone for far too- What is going on here?!”

Natasha speaks in a fake pleading voice, “Sir, let me explain to you.” before she gives you a long kiss, and grabs your hand. She squeezes your palm, hinting you to follow her along.

His chin falls agape, the green nerves of around his wrist pop out, irefully.

“What monstrosity is this, Natasha? I thought you were a pristine lady, but evidently you’re a disgustful woman! You should be- Get away from her Y/N!” He comes forward to push you away, but she doesn’t let him finish, and runs out of the house with you.

You hold up your dress to make yourself a room to run with her through the fields. After fleeing for a while, you notice he has missed the trail. So she tugs your arm again, making you run till you reach the illustrious lake, till you’re out of breath.

She laughs as you hold her in an embrace, and screams towards the deserted forests and mountains on the other side of the lake, “I can feel the freedom in me. I can feel it in my blood!” Her voice echoes back at you.

You join her laughter, eyes filled with tears, and cry out, “I am in love with Natasha! I am a woman, and I wholeheartedly love another.” She pecks your lips repeatedly, till you can’t stop laughing and hold her blushing red cheeks away from yours, “We’ll find ourselves a home, we’ll find us a way to live. I promise you.”

You lace her gentle hands with yours. They’re cold with the breeze and the disquietude. You grasp her untamed heart, and she cleaves on to your pain.

[spanishskulduggery]

wait are you telling me that in spanish Gotham City is literally just "Gothic City"?

It actually depends on the localization - it is in Latin America, but not in Spain

Side Note: A "translation" is more about the words themselves. But a "localization" is about trying to adapt certain characters or concepts to fit with a target audience. Localizations involve translation, obviously, but you might find certain elements of a translation changed due to the localization team - such as changing a character's name if it's deemed too inflammatory or silly, or adapting certain cultural elements to better reflect the target audience's culture. This may include censorship of certain things, omitting certain elements, or adding a variation on what is being said or done. This is done in an effort to make material more palatable and sometimes to get it past censors or laws - the most glaring example that comes to mind is Sailor Moon where Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune were lesbians in the original, but for the English localization they used to be referred to as "cousins" (which backfired spectacularly) but it was done to get it by censors

Localization can be less accurate than direct translations, because they're also trying to translate culture. You may find a localization gives characters certain accents or speaking patterns to better fit the intention - like adding a Southern accent to someone who is portrayed as speaking with a country accent or an accent that denotes a certain location. It may also influence word choices or design choices

It might be easier to think of localization as "translation + marketing"

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Strangely enough, Spain calls it "Gotham" as far as I know. Many of the names of the heroes are kept as they appear - except for certain villains which can be translated one-to-one [Espantapájaros being "Scarecrow", Hiedra Venenosa "Poison Ivy", or Dos Caras "Two Face"]... but "Catwoman" and "Joker" are kept the same

In Latin America, you see it more as Ciudad Gótica and see more translations of things and people; "Catwoman" is sometimes Gatúbela, Joker as Guasón or Comodín

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The idea about "Gotham" is that it literally means "gothic settlement", since -ham as a suffix usually means city or settlement, and "gothic" might refer to the Goths as a people/ethnic group

With place names, there are times in Spanish where you see some kind of translation of certain elements like "new" or the suffix -ton/-town is sometimes translated as is "village" in some cases, or even specific cities may have certain translations in Spanish ["London" is Londres in Spanish for example, or "Geneva" is Ginebra]

In Batman stuff, it's one of the rare cases where Latin America/Hispanoamerica has more direct translations than Spain but that's not unusual with different localizations of a program

[harlivycentral]

Just wanted to say thanks for breaking down the comics that lead to Ivy’s series. I read some of it before but I knew I was missing something so your post is super helpful. Also I’ve been loving the Kate/Maggie posts as well I’ve been meaning to read more batwoman. 🙏

Thank you so much for sending this ask, I'm glad you've been enjoying it! It was really kind of a pet project for me, since I was in the same boat as you for a long time & wanted to archive for myself the complete backstory. I think seeing how they built up Harley's interest in being a hero for multiple years was really interesting, plus I loved a lot of Ivy's storylines!! So it makes me happy to hear people are appreciating it :)

In 2019, I was a very casual Harley Quinn fan--much more into other comics & hadn't read most of her stuff. I was living in Seattle and going weekly to this awesome comic shop that's since closed (RIP 😢), so I picked up & read all of the limited-run Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy. After that, though, I didn't really keep up with their main storyline. I prefer to read things physically, and I'd buy certain single issues I was interested in (I bought single issues of Joker War and Catwoman: Fear State that I read online had more Harlivy content specifically), but I was always slightly confused/wanted to know the full scope of it. When they finally gave Ivy her own ongoing series, that's when I was like, okay, I'm fully diving in!

(Just a side note, midtowncomics.com is awesome for buying cheap back issues physically. Although I have temporarily subscribed to DC Universe just to catch up on the full backstory & decide which comics I want to own physically. I also hoped excerpting stuff from them would help other people decide which arcs they wanted to read in full for themselves! I can definitely give my recommendations if anyone is interested.)

And I definitely had to do some digging on like old reddit posts and random comic reviews etc. to figure out which comics had their complete storyline over the past few years, so I was like, okay now that I've put this all together, let me put it one place for posterity. There's definitely parts of their storyline I think are way better written than others (though I've tried not to editorialize too much except for Heroes in Crisis lol). I was on vacation last week & had a dental emergency this week (which turned out to be fine as of yesterday woohoo!), but I'd love to make some more text posts with my thoughts on stuff (separate from just archiving it). And I would definitely love to hear from my followers any of their thoughts on specific Harlivy storylines/comics/writers/etc.!

Glad you've been enjoying the Kate/Maggie posts too! I have such mixed feelings about that Batwoman run. It is truly like, sigh, the amount of canonical gay women that DC makes former army or current cops is truly abysmal. And it also definitely has more running themes of violence against women than I expected/wanted (obviously outside of villains physically fighting Kate, I mean, as that's to be expected). But the art is TRULY gorgeous, the storytelling is engaging, and it does represent a lesbian relationship and center a lesbian superhero in a way I haven't really ever seen anywhere else. I love DC Bombshell's version of Kate SO much (the art is also gorgeous for that & her backstory is WAY more appealing to me personally), but sadly they were more focused on including a breadth of characters in that comic than diving deeply into any one character's storyline, including Kate (after like the first six issues). Anyway, I won't go too in depth on my Batwoman thoughts here lol.

But yeah, I was in the Batwoman tag and it was mostly Batfam memes. Which, understandable to some extent, since her last solo comic ended a few years ago, so that stuff is probably just buried. But I was like, well, since I'm reading this anyway, I would like more of the art & relationships from her actual solo comic to be in the tags, at least on my blog for my own reference.

Anyway, sorry, feel like stuff has been running mostly on a queue for the last two-ish weeks, and now I'm back and energized & your ask happened to spark this rambling. Lol thank you for dropping in to my inbox, hope you have a good one!

[once-was-muses]

anonymous | Misc. Asks

do you have any ships youre more inclined to?

[ I will admit that I do have some favorites for certain muses, that doesn't mean I subscribe any less to the "shipping with chemistry" philosophy. Even if one of my mutuals is a character I really like with one of mine, I'm more inclined to sit and think on it and run a few interactions before approaching the subject- or accepting if I was approached first. ]

[ Now, with my wee disclaimer out of the way, here's my list of an answer (minus OCs because. Everyone except Jackdaw is original fiction, and even then Irene doesn't have any ships at the moment.) ]

Abe: I am very attached to both the idea of Abe Has Two Hands (for Hellboy and Liz), and B.P.R.D. Agent Found Family Siblings- but the former has been growing on me lately. I don't particularly like Abe with Kate, I see them more as explicitly close friends, but I could be persuaded otherwise.

Bro'Dee: my first big ship for him was an itty bitty rarepair with Martian Manhunter. That's still near and dear to me, but Arkillo, Hal, and Kilowog have entered my multi-shipper heart. The idea of Bro'Dee and Sinestro or Iroque/Indigo-1 has crossed my mind a few times now, but those are harder to explain, lmao. Bro'Dee's Mentor-Slash-Adopted-Dad relationships with Kyle and Razer are So Important to me, thus unsurprisingly no-gos as far as romantic ships.

Dedan: I don't really ship him with anyone. He absolutely has feelings for Queen Vader, not just protective/loyalty but romantic- however he knows better than to ever admit so allowed. He and Enoch are a big no for me, same with Japhet. Dedan and Hugo Found Family is all I really care about dhhsks-

Edwin: besides (obviously) Jon, I really like the idea of. Not necessarily a romance (not at first) but he and Eddie. I like ships with Nygma that go from "I hate you so much you're so stupid" to "okay maybe you're not THAT stupid but I STILL HATE YOU" so on and so forth. Also love the idea of Winnie and Selina being little shit kleptomaniac friends.

Harriet: hello yes I think Harrie and Steph Brown would be so good. Not for anyone else in a five mile radius, but they would be the perfect Chaos Lesbians. (There's a joke about Steph liking people with caffeine addictions to be made here.)

Harvey and Harv: Bruce Wayne or Oswald Cobblepot are who I almost always think of for romantic ships for the Dents. I think them and Selina and/or Eddie could be interesting as well. A really inexplicable pairing I like is them and Jon of all people, I have no clue why, lol. (I also think it'd be interesting to see what a Two-Face/Batman/Riddler relationship would look like òvó)

Jon: again excluding the obvious answer (Edwin), I'm not opposed to he and Riddler but it's not my favorite. I'm more partial to Batman, Catwoman, Bane, or even Two-Face or Croc as a partner(s) for Jon. Harley, Ivy, and Hatter are hard nos for different reasons (found family, usually found family's girlfiend and/or lesbian, and Very Bad History respectively.)

Linda: another I don't really ship with anyone. She's not aromantic, but. In terms of like practice, Yes She Is. Linda isn't that concerned about a partner (and refuses to tell me what her type is beyond "people I can use.")

Salaak: Guy. Or Kilowog. It's inevitable that Salaak is the "long suffering" in the "jackass and long suffering partner" dynamic, and name two bigger jackasses in the Corps (that aren't Hal or Kyle.)

Sameer: also zero ships. The only Squad member he has even close to a positive opinion of is Harley, and even then it's more "you didn't plot to kill me, leave me to die, or try and force me into shit so. You're cool I guess" than anything.

Thoth (really straddling the line between "canon" and "OC"): I've mentioned this on my sideblog for EoK but. I didn't intend to pair either god with anyone (and still don't, not in the main story at least), but Set and Thoth have become my number 1 pairing for that project (tied with a pair of goddesses that do actually get together in main story.) I also like the idea of Thoth hanging out with other wisdom gods and psychopomps, not necessarily as a romantic thing but a fun dynamic.

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

The Gotham Rogues Say LGBT+ Rights!

[gingerteaonthetardis]

okay Abbey i'm surrendering. Please tell me what gilmore girl is about, except about rory and lorelai, i want to read your posts without just being like (´･＿･‘)

ahhhh, hello, sae!!! i am glad to see i've worn you down. >:) okay, i'll try to sum things up for you, but i'm sticking to the first few seasons, because i like those best. (everything is going below the cut, because this post is gonna get long, sorry.)

gilmore girls is about a mother and her teenage daughter who live in a quaint and excessively quirky small town called stars hollow. the show centers their relationships—with each other, with men, and with their family in general.

this is lorelai, the mother. she got pregnant with rory as a teenager and ran away from home (and her wealthy parents) with her infant daughter, carving out a life for herself in the town of stars hollow. she is pretty much the blueprint for moms who are actually more like best friends. she is quick-witted, obsessed with pop culture and coffee, hard-working, and highly emotional (though frequently immature).

this is rory, the daughter. she is a highly intelligent overachiever and bookworm who aspires toward an ivy league education and a career in journalism. she also shares a lot of traits with her mother, like her coffee addiction and love of pop culture and music, as well as her work ethic. the show follows her entrance into the world of dating and romantic entanglements, as well as into the world of academia. (it does not always do this well.)

this is luke danes, lorelai's friend (askdfhsks). he is, to paraphrase lorelai, the one who feeds them. he owns the diner that serves the best coffee in town, and because of that, the diner often becomes the setting for lorelai and rory's daily dramas. he has a huge crush on lorelai that everyone in the entire town seems to be aware of... except lorelai, obviously. he sometimes acts as rory's substitute father (since her actual father, christopher, is only sporadically in the picture) and is one of the backbones of this show, imo.

and for a while, so is his nephew...

jess mariano, the only valid hemingway stan and local hottie that makes your teenage daughter think about sex for the first time. jess is sent to stars hollow by his deadbeat mother who doesn't want to take care of him anymore. his entrance into the story serves to disrupt rory's relationship with her first boyfriend (dean) as well as... well, basically everything in the whole town. like rory, he's a massive bookworm (who bonds with her by stealing her books and leaving notes in the margins), but he doesn't value academics in the same way she does. as in, he is flunking out. as a result, lorelai does not approve of him. i could go on about how much i like him and how he did nothing wrong forever, but the summary would remain incomplete without...

emily and richard gilmore, lorelai's parents. rich, snobbish, and controlling, they start out as the kind of central antagonists of the show. when lorelai goes to them to ask for a loan so she can pay for rory's education, they agree—on the condition that lorelai and rory attend family dinners every friday night. though they are often manipulative and cruel, they also were deeply hurt by lorelai's actions all those years ago, and want to have a relationship with rory. the evolution of their relationship becomes a kind of secondary plotline later in the show.

some other miscellaneous persons you might see me mention:

paris geller, who we all agree is a lesbian, despite every piece of evidence to the contrary. she initially starts out as rory's private school rival, but they develop an unlikely friendship. and she's in love with rory, and she's a lesbian, and—*gunshots*

this is lane kim, rory's best friend in stars hollow. raised by highly conservative and religious parents, lane is a rebellious audiophile who has a secret closet where she can listen to her sinful rock music. she's adorable and i love her.

this is dean, rory's suckass first boyfriend and local tall guy who will eventually go on to... idk, kill angels, i didn't watch the other show. anyway, i do not like him at any point in the narrative.

this is sookie st. james, an accomplished chef and lorelai's coworker at the independence inn, as well as her best friend. together, they dream of opening their own inn. she is also extremely adorable, as well as notoriously clumsy.

and yeah, there's more to say and i could try to give an actual summary, but i need to stop at some point, so this is kind of an overview of who tf i'm blogging about.

[luna-eclipse2000]

Little Miss Perfect

Mikasa x Reader

I walk into the school councillor’s office at the very start of the school day so no one sees me. “Good morning, (y/n).” Ms. Lynn greets me. “How are you doing? I have to say, I was surprised that you requested to see me.”

“I’m… I should say I’m fine but I’m not.” I respond as I take a seat. “I don’t know who to talk to. I’m seen as this perfect person with no flaws and it honestly puts me under a lot of pressure, so I feel like I can’t talk to anyone about my problems.”

“Alright, why don’t you tell me what kind of pressure you’re under.” Ms. Lynn requests. “I know you feel like you need to be perfect so just elaborate what you mean.”

“Well, I’ve gotten straight A’s all throughout high school.” I start to explain. “I’ve got perfectly straight hair. I don’t cut corners on anything I do, just take a straight path, go straight forward. I’m the head of Student Council. I hate being late so I always make a point to be on time.”

“Alright, what about outside of school?” Ms. Lynn asks me. “You have a life outside of school, right?”

I nod. “I’m invited to all the parties but I don’t drink and especially don’t black out like almost everyone else does. My favourite singer is Paul McCartney- I love old music like the Beatles but also like new music and singers like Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga. (“Ok, what else?”) Well, I was adopted when I was two. My parents spoiled me rotten. Often, I ask myself ‘What did I do to get as far as I’ve gotten?’”

“Ok, so why exactly did you come to talk to me?” Ms. Lynn asks. “Um…” I say and look down nervously. “Nothing that we talk about in here will be discussed out there.” Ms. Lynn assures. “Unless it’s incredibly disturbing, of course.”

“Well… A few months ago I saw my friend walk by locker and I felt my heart flutter, and my face heat up.” I tell her. “Are you afraid that your feelings won’t be reciprocated?” Ms. Lynn asks me. I nod my head. “Well, that’s a worry we all have when he have feelings for someone.” Ms. Lynn says. “Except she’s a girl…” I tell her quietly. “I’m the perfect student, perfect girl, perfect friend, but I have a crush on my friend who’s a girl. What stereotypical perfect family depicts one of the children- hell, the parents as gay or lesbian?”

“When you think about how you feel about her, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?” Ms. Lynn asks me. “I can’t fall off my throne of perfection. I’ve never been in a relationship before so how do I even know what love feels like?” I say. “So I just pretend that I’m straight in hopes that I’ll trick my mind into liking someone like Armin, who’s extremely smart and already has three Ivy League schools begging him to go there when he graduates next year. Or Jean, who’s the star football player, captain of the team. Or even Eren. Anyone but a girl. But it didn’t work.”

“Of course, it didn’t.” Ms. Lynn tells me. “It’s the chemicals in our brain that determines what kind of person we like.”

“That’s not exactly what I mean…” I say. “I stayed over at her place last week because we were studying for a history test. I kept saying that everything I was feeling towards her was completely platonic, it obviously wasn’t. Her smirks were so enticing when I’d answer a question from the cue card and I got it correct. I didn’t even realize that hours had sped by until it was 9 pm and we ordered pizza.” I remember how when she took a sip of her water, I bit my lip and when she joked about a question on the test, I nearly choked on mine. “After that, she wanted to braid my hair and it was the first time I blacked out.”

I hesitate to continue. “You look nervous, (y/n).” Ms. Lynn notices. “What happened?”

“I lost control…” I say. “I’m sorry, I don’t understand-“ Ms. Lynn says but I cut her off. “I kissed her. Then I swear I saw a face in the window behind her as she looked… I don’t know, creeped out? She just kinda stared at me. The face reminded me of how I’ll fall off my throne and that I don’t know anything about love so how could I possibly love her? Then it said that I’m just confused and that we can forget all about this and no one will know. I freaked out and she told me that there wasn’t anything there, so I booked it out of her house. All my stuff is still there.”

“Why did you run away?” Ms. Lynn questions me. “She said ‘There’s nothing there’.” I answer. “Do you think she was talking about the face, and not about returning your feelings?” Ms. Lynn asks. I open my mouth to speak, but I don’t. I didn’t think about that. “Has your friend tried to talk to you?”

“I… I don’t know…” I say. “I’ve kinda been ignoring the whole situation like it never happened.”

“Maybe you should go find her and talk about it.” Ms. Lynn suggests. “The worst she can say is ‘no.’ And it’s alright to like someone of the same gender. It’s completely normal. And if people don’t like you for it, then you know who the real people are.”

I nod and stand up. “Thank you.” I say before exiting the office and going out into the hall.

“I remember seeing her every morning outside with Jean hitting on her.” I think to myself as I head out the front doors. “Maybe she’s there.”

I look around at all the students arriving for the day and indeed see Mikasa sitting on the same bench under the same tree with Jean hitting on her. I can hear my heart beating in my head and can even see my shirt shake slightly. “She’s gonna push you away.” The negative voice in my head tells me. “Run away, now. You’re reputation can be saved. You can still be the perfect person.”

I take a deep breath and ignore the voice as I walk over to Mikasa. “You know,” I hear Jean say to her as she reads her book. “I’ve got a game tonight, and it’d be great if you came. People say that I’m gonna score at least four- no, five touch downs!”

“Uh huh.” Mikasa responds monotonously. “Mikasa?” I call out her name. Her head snaps up from her book and I freeze when she looks right into my eyes. “Run away! Run away! Run away!” The voice orders me. Mikasa stands up and walks over to me, Jean looking completely confused. “I, um…” I stammer. Mikasa then, without saying anything, cups my left cheek her free hand and kisses me. “Don’t run away from me again, please.” Mikasa whispers as she pulls away. “You can come get your stuff tonight.”

All I can do is nod until I see Jean’s face as he realizes he’s been going after someone who will definitely never love him back which causes me to start laughing. Mikasa turns around and starts to laugh as well. “Sorry, Jean.” Mikasa apologizes. “I thought I made it clear in grade seven that I had no affection towards you.”

Jean nods, then gives us a thumbs up before going after the head cheerleader, only to have her friend, Ymir, punch him in the face. “Ten bucks says next month those two get together.” I bet. “Twenty says they already are.” Mikasa bets back and then we head inside to go to class.

Little Miss Perfect. That’s me.

[just-an-aussie-fandom-hermit]

The BatFam at Gotham Pride 2020.

(Running under the assumption that they’re not affected by the virus).

- Kate “How Dare You Assume I’m Straight” Kane, rocking up to pride parades as the local lesbian wine aunt, donating generously to youth groups and LGBT+ activist campaigns. Later, checking in as a Batwoman (because no cops at pride, except Jim Gordon because he’s the mvp and Renee Montoya, a lesbian and also The Question). I imagine she waves around a lesbian pride flag or has one attached to her cape.

- All the Robins/Bats either appear directly for a little while (saying hi, de-escalating arguments, helping people make signs and banners) or swinging overhead waving their respective pride flags.

Jason attends as Red Hood (sans the guns, because they’re probably very triggering for plenty of people, and the whole point is to feel safe), with a bi pride flag and a trans pride flag.

Steph also rocks a bi pride flag, popping in as Batgirl as well as Stephanie Brown.

Dick appears as his civilian self and Nightwing, boasting a pansexual flag as a cape.

Tim hangs up a bi pride flag in his room, his office at WE, and attends several festivities as Red Robin (or Drake).

Bruce comes out as bi during a speech beforehand, makes absolutely insane amounts of monetary donations (perks of being a billionaire), signal boosts LGBT activist groups and celebrities. He then attends several events a suit, sipping colourful mocktails while chilling on a float. Being very on-brand and extra.

Cullen is loud and proud, painting tiny gay pride flags onto his cheeks. Harper joins him as both her civilian self and as Bluebird.

Damian posts a selfie of him and his pets, with an ace pride flag in the background. He looks only slightly murderous.

- Various other straight, Gotham-bound vigilantes (or whatever the Outlaws qualify as) attend wearing shirts and/or banners/signs showing their support. (ie. “I’m straight but I don’t hate!” or “I support my LGBT bestie!”)

- Roy tags over a bunch of homophobic slurs/graffiti and paints a bunch of pride flags over them. He’s over there with his gay pride flag as a cape, living his best life.

- Duke and Harper hears about what he’s doing while they’re patrolling the Narrows, goes to the nearby hardware store, buys heaps of spray paints, and then they both go to town erasing slurs and dodgy graffiti and replacing them with pride flags and positive messages.

—> Bonus: They get Instagram famous!

- Alfred volunteers as a vendor for the parade, because he wants to make sure everyone has access to food. He also wears one of those “free grandpa hugs” shirts.

- Bruce, as Batman, is uncomfortable with conversing with civilians for long periods of time (especially in the daylight) but he approaches a group of distressed kids (obviously at their first parade) who have been separated from their friends and helps them rejoin their group. He holds up one of those tiny pride flags (the ones connected to toothpicks, or something) to show his solidarity, and then disappears in classic Batman fashion. The kids lose their minds.

- Bruce, as Batman, travels to Arkham Asylum to spend an afternoon with Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, resident bisexuals and currently in a relationship. He checks in to make sure they’re not bring mistreated or discriminated against for their sexualities. He negotiates to have little pride flags placed in their cells.

- The Rogues enter a kind of unspoken truce, to not do anything too drastic during the parades (because they know the retaliation from the Bats and other Rogues will be especially vicious.)

(Please add more to this I would love to read some headcanons!)

[waxcylindersonata]

I’m really bad at paying attention when I’m reading, and I kinda don’t know much about the mechanisms, but I really wanna. Is there any way you could like give me some info about them. Obviously you don’t have to lol, I’m just really lost tryna figure out what the hell they are.

YES THEY'RE SO GOOD OKAY

This may get a bit long, feel free to skip around!

So they're a concept band, sort of! They all play characters on stage, and those characters play characters within the story albums! Their main characters are "immortal" space pirates aboard the starship Aurora! Here's the main set of characters:

Jonny d'Ville (the first mate, his mechanism is his heart)

Gunpowder Tim (the gunner, his mechanism is his eyes)

Drumbot Brian (the pilot, his mechanism is everything except his heart)

The Toy Soldier (officially listed as their mascot, its mechanism is everything except its voice)

Ashes O'Reilly (the quartermaster, their mechanism is their lungs)

Raphaella la Cognizi (the science officer, her mechanism is her wings)

Ivy Alexandria (the archivist, her mechanism isn't listed on the abouts)

Marius von Raum (the medic, his mechanism is his arm)

Nastya Rasputina (the engineer, her mechanism is her blood)

There's also Doctor Carmilla, she made them all "immortal" (and gave them their mechanisms and whatnot), but she's not around for much of the canon because Reasons hdjdkek

If you want to start with character backstories, here's a list of Mechanisms who have backstory songs (with links to those songs!):

Jonny – "One Eyed Jacks", "Homesick"

Nastya – "Cyberian Demons"

Tim – "Gunpowder Tim vs. the Moon Kaiser" (this one also has a little TS backstory too!)

Ashes – "Lucky Sevens"

Brian – "Lost in the Cosmos"

Kofi Young, the person who played Marius, is working on an album as well that will have backstory for his character! It's not out at the time of this post, but it's worth mentioning!

Now, if you want to get into the main story albums, they go in this order (I'll be using these as links to playlists with lyric videos made by @tentiredcats, who has done so much for this fandom I swear):

Once Upon a Time (in Space) – think fairy tales but with a dark twist that's also very sci-fi AND THERE'S LESBIANS

Ulysses Dies at Dawn – Greek mythology but also very steampunk and has SO MANY VIBES (I believe on fybutches I've shared a couple songs from this album, it's my fave for so many reasons)

High Noon Over Camelot – THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND BUT MAKE IT A SPACE WESTERN AND ALSO THERE'S CAMELOT'S FAVE POLYCULE BEING ABSOLUTE ICONS

The Bifrost Incident – Norse mythology but sci-fi/steampunk and it WILL make you cry and there's lesbians again and they WILL make you cry (and imo this album is peak Mechs singing skill)

Death to the Mechanisms – it's maybe a stretch to consider this a story album as it's mostly a combo of songs from the other albums (it's also an audio recording of the DTTM live show!), but it does bring a close to the story of the band as a whole, as well as detailing their deaths (no forgiveness for how they did TS hmph)

And then there's the fiction! The Mechanisms' official website has a whole host of fiction that didn't make it into the songs, which you can find here!

Okay, I tried not to make this suuuper in-depth, so I hope it works well as a kind of intro to the band! Lmk if you have any more questions!!

[meme-spren]

Hello everyone I've barely dipped a toe into the dark and mysterious waters of mechs fandom but I've already inflicted pictures on the discord to see what the squad thinks they do

[Image of Drumbot Brian, seated, looking off to the side]

S: Criminal S: I'm gonna guess morally repugnant P: Well it's a pirate band so that stands to reason S: One bad bad man P: I think this guy would be the captain because who else would wear a full suit and a rose on his hat O: Not captain, I'd think. Captain is for a lead person and drummer is not. O: I wanna say... the one that fires the cannons? P: Probably bard vibes S: It's a band P S: I bet they all have bard vibes R: He looks horny R: He looks like he flirts with everything that moves, that is

[Image of Nastya Rasputina playing her violin]

S: Assassin S: Was assigned to kill one of the band members and just S: Is REALLY into the cover story S: Maybe turned on the people who hired her? S: Maybe about to kill the dude? S: Who knows S: Not even she does

J: Geddy lee from rush realizes she's trans, switches from bass to violin haha classic rock jokes that everyone else here definitely understands

R: Bad luck on a ship is her deal M: I'm gonna tell you this because I hope it'll just raise more questions: she's romantically involved with the ship R: PILOT R: SHIP FUCKER PILOT R: Or engineer S: Yeah I'll still go with my idea

P: I will second pilot P: Also despite being romantically involve with the ship she's somehow the proverbial straight man of the group M: Love how you've drawn the conclusion that everyone else is ridiculous just from these two pictures and the fact that I'm the one presenting them to you

O: Uh, clearly Fiddle here is the Necromancer

[Image of Raphaella La Cognizi singing into a microphone, two other indistinct figures behind her]

J: dlc fenyx dionysus-themed armor and wing skin

O: Hmm, alright so, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say... she's the singer :V M: Why do you assume there's one(1) singer M: (also like: ah yes, the pirate job of... The Singer) O: If One Piece has taught me anything, then yes :V

P: I'm gonna say she's the lookout, because having wings is very handy for getting to or leaving the crow's nest P: She's also the best fighter of the group P: Maybe also the treasurer? or w/e the pirate equivalent is P: Which is why she has fancy velvety clothes with gold decoration P: Actually no scratch that P: Its because her backstory is she ran away from her rich parents

[Image of Ashes O’Reilly playing their bass]

O: Captain, obviously S: Yeah, with that hat

P: Gunner P: Because cigar

R: Lesbian S: If anyone in this crew is cishet I'll bake an edible hat and eat it

[Image of Gunpowder Tim, dimly lit, playing his guitar. His hand is motion blurred and his guitar is dramatically angled toward the viewer]

J: the token bastard warforged S: he has goggles he must be the engineer

M: His last name is Tim J: First name Tiny

O: Goggles on hat are aesthetic. Goggles on forehead means madlad. Either Engineer or something something chemistry, alchemy, whatever. Something that can explode.

[Image of Ivy Alexandria, holding a book in one hand and her flute in the other.]

P: I'm gonna say tough love mom friend P: Probably the smartest one because book P: Maybe the cartographer?

O: I'm gonna say she is smart, but NOT the "meek scholar" type. More like, brains and brawn. People that know how smart she is are surprised by how strong and brutal she can be, those that only have seen her fight are surprised that she is so intelligent

S: She's the quartermaster

[Image of Jonny D’ville, with a hand on his holstered gun]

R: Home of sexual S: Your fav S: He's got a scar and some weird tech on his chest S: I'm guessing he's another fighty boi S: Gunslinger extrordinaire xP P: Trigger happy loose cannon trash boy P: Commonly drunk P: Causes at least half the crew's problems S: Reminds me of [Spades] Slick R: Wait no R: Omnisexual R: Crew omnisexual

O: Stowaway who snuck aboard

[Image of Marius Von Raum, squatting and holding his little claw thing.]

J: Gremlin J: In the sense of gremlins in the works J: Ship gremlin

P: He gambles P: that's his entire job I think he'd also be like, a spymaster of sorts? P: Knows how to get into places or how to chat up the right people to get that juicy gossip

O: That weird head thing makes me think of a doctor, so, I'm gonna say he's the ship doc P: Counter-point: the doctor really should not be carrying live ammunition around O: Counter-Counterpoint 1: Should not? Sure. Doesn't mean wouldn't Counter-Counterpoint 2: Also, Pirates R: Counter counterpoint 3: gunpowder can be used in emergencies to cauterize a wound :mspa:

S: Oh he's definitely a sharpshooter S: That monocle thing looks like a fantasy rangefinder S: Smug bastard energies S: Like S: 17 rogue/2 bard energy

[Image of the Toy Soldier, saluting cheerfully]

S: Conductor? S: Waiter? S: Avatar of the ship? O: Season One antagonist who used to hunt the crew but got defeated and disgraced and joined them to take revenge on its original boss S: If u combine that with my idea of it being the avatar of the ship then that makes for one hell of a TV show P: It does have an aura of not-pirateness about it P: I'm gonna say this is a recurring "antagonist" and is in fact still hunting the crew, except it kind of sucks at its job and is basically no match for these pirates But it keeps up a chipper attitude regardless

[leondaltons]

Hellooo, so, I’m sharing my small town verse oc’s so far:

💃 Frankie (Francesca) Van Herten (fc: Madelyn Cline):

♡ Frankie used to be the captain of the volleyball team back in high school, member of the theater club and took classes at the dance studio (which is what really makes her happy)

♡ She came back to town two months ago after graduating from college (she studied marketing after her parents insistence)

♡ She is determined and strong willed. Someone who likes being direct and taking the initiative (except she has problems doing this when it comes to her parents).

♡ Frankie is also a social butterfly and she genuinely cares about the people around her, especially those who are important for her.

♡ Frankie's father is a doctor and her mum is a lawyer. They both used to be big names back in the city but moved to the town when Frankie was around 7 years old after an important case caught the media attention and the resolution left Frankie’s mum with negative press. They both are really talented at what they do, her mum just got really bad luck, so that’s why they moved to a town where they knew a lawyer was needed.

♡ Her parents really care about her but they are really dedicated to their work and not always present. However they insist she needs to move to the city if she wants to become “someone important in the world” and are really pushy about it. Frankie has tried to explain multiple times she doesn’t want that, she loves the life in the small town and what would make her really happy is to teach dancing (they obviously pretend not to listen lol)

♡ Despite their insistence to move to the city right after she graduates, she has been able to convince them about staying 1 year in the town while she works for her mother office before moving away

♡ Frankie has had a crush on her friend Daphne older brother since she first saw him at the age of 11 but is convinced he sees her as nothing other than her “little sister friend” even after she comes back from college (please they are SO dumb, someone punch them in the head). She tries to convince herself she has moved on, but “sure, hon”

♡ Currently looking for more friends! Maybe some girls from the dance studio or volleyball team?

🧠 Mina (Wilhelmina) Kyung (fc: Rosé):

♡ Mina is the textbook definition of smart at brains, dumb at heart AND dumbass lesbian lol

♡ She is an extremely nice girl and the perfect daughter; has no problem in helping others when needed. However she can be a little awkward at first, getting a little tongue tied at times but tries to play it cool ✌️ (yes I inspired her a little in Amy from Booksmart lol)

♡ Sometimes that comes as a problem because she works at the local diner and she can’t get tongue tied for too long if she wants to take people orders. But she needs the job to make ends meet so she will pull through

♡ She had perfect grades at high school and was probably her class valedictorian. After it she had multiple scholarships from Ivy League colleges but had to decline all of them when she found out her mum was sick (her father abandoned them when Mina was around 5 years old)

♡ All of these things put a lot of frustration inside of her, but tries to push it away in favor of her mother’s sake.

♡ She really loves photography, her most valuable possession is her grandma’s old camera. Probably also knows how to play the guitar lol

♡ When the old family car breaks down, good girl Mina gets more than she bargained for when the only available employee is a cute girl who also happens to be a gang member 😳

♡ Currently looking for more friends!

🎨 Dani (Danielle) Gwon (fc: Seulgi):

♡ She is the new person from the city who moves into town. Everyone can tell she is from the big city and wonder why someone like her would move to such a small town

♡ Dani is a talented artist. She created a stunning art piece as a present for her fiance, however he copyrighted it, sold it (which made him rich) and dumped her.

♡ This obviously shook Dani’s entire life. She was completely co-dependent of him and this broke her into million pieces, falling into depression and making feel empty and without inspiration. 

♡ Despite trying to pretend everything is okay, the situation clearly left her really closed off and scared of getting hurt again

♡ The art piece was talked about in almost every media outlet with her ex-fiance face appearing everywhere; she needed to escape all the memories the city held

♡ Dani remembered seeing some time ago a painting about a certain place that gave her the feeling of peace and happiness, after some investigation she discovered it was this town. Hoping to find that peace and hopefully get inspired, she decided to move.

♡ Little did she know she would be meeting the artist of said art piece running his own art gallery! 👀 

♡ Currently looking for someone to become her friend!

⛸️ Sam (Samantha) Yung (fc: Jinsoul):

♡ Sam’s father is the town sheriff and her mum owns multiple buildings all around town (so she is basically a landlady?)

♡ Sam has taken advantage of her parents position her entire life, becoming used to getting out of trouble easily. This has made her entitled, manipulative,  reckless and vain, as she is used to getting away with what she wants

♡ I know this is a coast town, but it has an ice rink and Sam has been doing figure skating there since she was 5 years old. Right now she works there part time as a coach and choreographer after an accident

♡ She takes dance classes at the local studio and is in college on the neighboring town

[chaoticoconut]

1, 6, and 18! 💛

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these will be long as hell I'm sorry lmao

1. for as long as I can remember I've felt attracted to women and drawn to the community. I grew up watching Saturday Night Live with my parents, which I think is where I first encountered homosexuality but a close second was on this other skit show (whose name I can't find for whatever reason) where girl a was getting engaged to her boyfriend and girl b, the best friend and roommate, was freaking out and it ended with girl b kissing her and I don't know why its stuck with me for over a decade but I used to spend so much time up late at night thinking about what love was or why we kiss each other but I never once considered I was anything other than normal until elementary school. Everytime my friend and I stumbled across two girls kissing in pop culture or really any gay representation for that matter we'd tell each other about it and it became this weird fixation of ours until an older girl overheard us and called us weird and gay and I remember I went home and cried and cried because being weird and gay were obviously synonymous at my Texas charter elementary school and would have a negative impact on my life if people found out.

I didn't start taking those "am I gay" quizzes till about 5th or 6th grade. I had forced all homosexuality into a very taboo box for me and when I didn't like this one (very creepy, I might add) boy back in 6th grade and I told my parents, I remember getting this really adverse reaction from my mother ("well then what are you?") that perpetually kept me fully closeted for another year. That being said, I knew I was attracted to boys too. I think I had my first real crush on a boy in 3rd grade, but before that I had liked Wilbur Robinson and Peter Pan and Justin Bieber and Taylor Lautner for Christ's sake so I had it in my mind that even if I weren't fully straight I could pass as everyone else's normal and not face the repercussions of being weird and gay. I'd still marry a man and have kids like every other female role model I my life at the time. I felt a lot of guilt during puberty and had tremendous gay panic thinking I had to be one thing or another or even one thing in secret and I was lying to myself in some way about my feelings and then my dad's friend (or my self appointed aunt actually) came out to everyone after having been married to a man for several years. As 7th grade rolled around one of my friends came out as transgender. And the internet finally seemed to really give a shit about the LGBT+ community, and the world felt bigger, and I felt more comfortable giving myself exceptions ("maybe you could have a girlfriend in college but still marry a man"). I discovered flannels, I had gay ships (Harley and Ivy saved my whole life), all my friends were coming out at an increasing rate, and suddenly all sorts of people were attractive to me. The quizzes called what I was bisexual. A pretty girl I knew identified as bi/pan (I can't remember what it was at the time, she changed labels a lot those days) I had met at a birthday party just a few days before asked me over breakfast if I liked girls.

I damn near choked on my toast.

And against every voice screaming in my head to just say no and that it wasn't worth it, I told her the truth and within a few days we were dating. Granted, it was only about 3 days the first time, I finally had one thing straight: I was a legitimate bisexual (pardon the pun).

Then everyone found out and called me a lesbian and I was back in the hole. I didn't want to be a lesbian, not because somehow that was more weird and gay than being a bisexual, but because that wasn't who I was. And I knew that much about myself. I had a lot of internalized oppressive tendencies to confront but at least I had some solid footing in my identity. According to my friends my energy was much gayer in middle school and freshman year and I "struggled" with that (I didn't want to shoo away any cute guys but had to accept that even my bisexual identity was polarizing for some) and now I'm here. I'm 16. I'm very confident in my identity. I'm out to almost all of my friends (except for most of my elementary school pals (including the girl who talked about wlw stuff w me bc she's really homophobic now)), some of their families, and one other adult (she was my counselor in the hospital and after like 5 minutes she was like "and are you LGBT or am I mistaken?" and I had to make sure my mom wasn't lurking around the corner before I said yes, honestly my big gay energy is so powerful), and I may or may not tell my dad before I move out (probably not. I've never been very open with my parents about my social or romantic life. Telling him would probably only make things weird or harder for him to trust me going out and doing things lmao). I felt a part of the community for real when my friend came out to me as bisexual for the first time last month and told me my embrace of it helped her come to terms with her own feelings.

6. I don't know how popular of an opinion this is but finding a label that fit me was really empowering. I played around with the idea of pansexuality and demiromanticism and found that in my specific case they held me back more than they defined me. I felt pansexuality was an unnecessary title to hold with the updated and more fluid and forgiving definition of bisexuality and the biphobic tendencies the community had when trying to empower their base but at the same time who am I to tell someone that their label of choice isn't vaild. I don't give a shit. If it is part of you do you. Have your own normal. Everyone else is weird to everyone else anyway. It won't help to reduce yourself to something you aren't. If labels aren't your shit, splendid for you. If they are, that rocks too. Queer is another label I particularly love. It enforces this no confirmative ideal I have. I didn't even begin to rant about Gender & I. I find the word queer the most empowering label of all in the community, because in whole, we are queer, but we're queer together.

18. I love the memes. Lmao. I love feeling connected enough we can laugh about it together. Growing Up Gay memes in particular made me feel so much better about myself. Those memes where both the guy and gal are attractive. I love the sense of style/lack thereof too. There's this lez senior I already have a crush on who just wears whatever the fuck she wants and idk why but I love it and am so inspired.

[flockofdoves]

was trying to think of a way to divide up ocs on toyhouse so i don’t get too embarrassed about them yesterday but then it turned into just trying to list like every character i’ve ever made the vast majority of them i’d never put on toyhouse lol. but this was fun for myself even though i definitely forgot chracters and even whole stories from when i was younger

kinda old (definitely need updating they’re from when i was 17/18 and haven’t done much in recent years but nonetheless are my most recent ocs and i would probably like to do something with them someday still):

all the alienated characters - raul and michael primarily, also side characters like their relatives (lennie, joaquin, marcell, maybe also shinsuke, natalia, nina, naomi, hana, leela, etc) and friends (still need to name them lol) etc

justicia (less set on doing her story any time soon compared to alienated, but still theres something to it i might want to work with someday)

pretty old (like i was 16-17)

gf debate characters (this is actually older than a lot of the ones i list as even older in this list but i kept working on them til i was like 17 so they hold up better even if i don’t want to finish making their story anymore) - isaac, micah (micah is literally kinda from when i was 12 lol but i brought her to like 3 different stories and she was a boy in the first one too so shes basically not that character anymore), and then side characters like mirabel (originated in same story at 12 as micah), ayçin, anna, micahs mom and her wife, micahs cousin (another one from that old story) etc

those ocs that literally none of them have names or barely personalities i only ever did character sketches and basic concepts but its like a ghost story thing i was gonna do - 12 y/o baby butch protag, the ghost girl, baby butch’s trans girl cousin, cousins trans guy friend

really old (characters from when i was like 14-15 that did not really develop much from there. most of these are characters i have had fun with and maybe drawn since but are goofy and don’t hold up in a lot of aspects and most of them i’ll probably never pick up for stories again)

football lesbians - monica, wanda, and rania

pigeon magical girls (technically maybe i actually finished a very abbreviated version of their origin story for a school art project when i was 15 lol but i planned to do more back then and now i dont want to) - zehra, ronni, the pigeon, probably not amy and zoë that was just a cameo for myself of ocs from when i was like 11 lol

naomi’s story (this one i might actually want to do something with someday, i wrote a short story about it plus a bit more, but i have to make some serious changes i don’t really think i thought of some of the implications of some stuff in it before) - just naomi and the ghost basically. not to be confused with naomi in alienated who is michael’s sister they are not at all the same person

assorted characters that never really had a story - mels and cvijeta, charlotte (thought about putting her in football lesbians. she does basketball but. jock wlw you know)

really really old (characters from late middle school, like 13-14)

uhhh that wizards story. it never had a name idk. i still kinda like them though tbh even if i’ll never do anything with them anymore - tess, ali, nataline, brandy, mo, remora, cnidarian

really really really old (characters from the middle of middle school, like 12-13. at this point my recollection of what came before what might be kinda off tho)

that fae folk in pennsylvania and ohio story - emilia, ilana, micah (first version! lol), mirabel, that boy that i just hate and don’t remember the name of and resent making a character that had a crush on micah, micahs cousin, darling/angel (a faerie that just went by terms of endearment as if they were names), uhhh the second group of characters in a different more rural town i tried to write that i dont remember the names of

haunted victorian house story - benji, aisha, elizabeth

updated onex arget (fantasy world i wrote about a lot when i was in elementary school) story - nai, rieae

idk this story never had a name and barely a plot beyond ivy and victor becoming friends and venting to each other - victor, ivy, miles, maitê

forks and spoons (story i improvised with my little cousin who was like 8 at the time lol) - florimundi(?), i’m forgetting literally all 3 of the other characters names lol (maybe reese and victor for two of them??? but maybe not bc those are also other very old characters that idk if i reused the names of)

theo and ted - theoni and theodore (aka theo and ted!), oh also that guy they meet who wears like. a trench coat iirc

super old (characters from the later half of the 6th grade and early 7th, like 12ish)

really dumb story about a closeted trans person with did getting transformation powers - i actually dont remember the main character and their main other alters names anymore, i remember the other character they had a crush on stephan though

all those characters in bands that i never actually could settle on a story for beyond a variety of interpersonal drama. very inspired by the webcomic jenny hanniver tbh - avery, mark, etti, adrian, xavier, pepper, uhhh theres literally So Many more of them and also so many i dont remember the names of anymore but just for some that come to mind. that periwinkle colored hair in a bowl cut character that always wore a beanie who was in avery’s band whos names on the tip of my tongue (maybe that was etti and the character i’m calling etti was called something else?? maybe victoria? maybe andy? maybe andy was an entirely different 3rd character?? idk. actually yeah i’m positive bowlcut character was etti rereading this), xaviers ex-boyfriend who was obsessed with homestuck (lmao), that guy with red hair i accidentally directly ripped off the design of some jenny hanniver character, that goth guy with braces and glasses (maybe he wasnt in this?), that screamo band with 2 lead singers, that guy with brown hair that said he was straight with an exception (msfdkjghhsfd god), that person with the emo haircut in flame colors, this literally is not even all the characters lol

extremely old (largely from 6th grade, like age 11ish. weird period of time where i suddenly wanted to write about romance but thought it had to be straight but then very quickly was like ‘wait actually nvm i have a laptop now and think i’m bicurious i’m only gonna write about gay people)

gsa story (this might have been the summer before 7th actually but it feels distinctly before the other stuff in the last category so idk maybe just my whole impression of when i made things for middle school is off) - emmy(?), allie(?), noah(???), some other kid, i think noah(?) or the other kid got reused to be the guy i regretted making a part of that faerie story who liked old micah lol, maybe more kids, their teacher

idk that kid with blue hair and black eyes with white irises and his sister

middle school lesbians - leah and cass

lesbian who works in food service and there were weird references to comic books but filtered through me referencing an obscure emo humor youtube channel that made jokes about comics i’d never read - amy, zoë, amy’s straight best friend i dont remember the name of??

tosca (this wasnt straight romance but it was like the last thing pre me always having lgbt main characters) - idk. there were two characters i drew like once. theres nothing to note about this except wanting to make it is what made me learn about webcomics

that story i posted the first chapter of on quibblo about a hippie girl (somehow in 2010?? dont ask me) and an emo boy liking each other before abandoning to never write about cishet romance again. didnt even get to the romance part lol - i forget her name. maybe it was april? maybe it was florimundi and i reused it later for another character, nix, reese (her goth lesbian best friend. thank god for reese)

first attempt at straight romance. also about like. idk. fantastical powers in clouds in providence rhode island - selia, shay, cassandra, selias other friend i forget the name of??

ancient (literally elementary school ocs. obviously theres a lot of grades covered here but its just my memory and ability to reference this is so loose idk if i could even try to accurately divide it further)

shadow magic - mezzaluna, her aunt tabby(?), alexa

a, j, & j (barely counts i didnt do anything with them. those are the only characters also)

arine (some of these characters might not be arine characters and just from other onex arget (fantasy world i wrote a bunch of stories in and made a shitty conlang for and stuff) stories but i just dont really remember) - lia, lias sister, dibujurm, that other fantastical creature who was friends with dibujurm i forget the name of that kinda looked like calcifer from howls moving castle but fuzzy not an actual fire (maybe isigo??), emiaelaesa, that obnoxious prince (i think the story was called arine bc that was his name?), the prince’s servant, there absolutely were more

the musical adventures of shiri and don - shiri, don, some evil villain and his henchmen

rosington (there were like no characters besides her. weird junie b jones rip off with nonsensical humor to everyone but me)

that tree prophecy story (maybe set in onex arget?) - nico, emi (?? maybe not her name), their uncle (i forget his name, maybe lester?), their uncles shipmates, that fortune teller

idk some kid that goes on a scavenger hunt to solve a mystery on vacation in like bermuda or something where he meets some quirky girl character who helps him. thats all

i had some characters that started out as me trying to draw characters from the book hoot by carl hiaasen but for some reason then turned into my own ocs and looked nothing like those characters were described and also basically had nothing to do with them in personality and action beyond name after a while. - beatrice and napoleon. this was in a phase where i got a ‘how to draw anime’ book and napoleon straight up looked like a yugioh character his hair was ridiculous

those fake siblings i made up and lied to a substitute teacher in kindergarten about me having 6 siblings because of for absolutely no reason even though i only have one sibling irl

imaginary friends i shared with my brother and then made stories about - theres so many of these, the most important though was chick-chick-chick. who was a very small chick who wore a top hat. and then he had a family(?) of infinitely smaller chicks (chick-chick-chick-chick, for example) the more “chicks” you added to the name

[artificialqueens]

Hey Stranger Part 1 (Biadore) - Houdini

A/N: come on part 1! Firstly, thank you all so much for your kind comments on this and Glow (I am shook). Secondly, originally Hey Stranger was supposed to be Biadore but it kind of became a monster, and I’ve hinted at a few side pairings here. Any feedback/comments/suggestions/bribes would be amazing, hit me up at @princess-banana-lady :) Here’s the official first part of Hey Stranger, enjoy! xoxo Houdini

Fuck. Adore rolled over once again, trying to will herself to sleep. She had to be up ridiculously early tomorrow for orientation and she had a feeling showing up with dark circles wouldn’t go over well at Charles’. One sheep, two sheep, three sheep- what if I don’t make friends? Ganj will be there, she’ll be outgoing, but I can’t just rely on her. What kind of weirdo has one friend that’s also their cousin?

Adore’s inner monologue was interrupted by the sound of her door creaking open. She held back a smile as she heard feet padding towards the bed. Obviously. Rolling over to make room for her cousin, she let out a groan. “Can’t sleep either?”

Laganja snorted. “Nah, I just felt like squeezing in your bed,” she replied drily, flicking on the bedside lamp and slipping her amazon-long legs into the sheets. The two faced each other silently. After years of living together, words weren’t needed. Adore blinked as she noticed a lilac streak running through Laganja’s long hair. “That’s dope,” she commented. Laganja smiled. “Gotta keep up the image, girl”.

Adore let out a laugh. Always one to march to the beat of her own drum, Laganja had gone through virtually every hairstyle on the planet. A few years and lifestyle choices after their move, she had ditched her plain-jane (literally) name and threw herself into more advanced dance classes. People at school saw Laganja as the loud, leggy blonde with a penchant for tongue pops, but Adore could see the same cousin who had come to live with them when Adore was 7. And right now, she was scared shitless.

Not that Adore was any different. Starting tomorrow, she couldn’t rely on her social butterfly of a cousin to make friends for the both of them. They had homeroom together, but other than that, Adore would be in the music stream and Laganja in the dance stream. “Adore?” Langanja whispered. “Yeah, Ganj?”

Laganja paused before continuing. “Can you do that purple eyeshadow thing on me tomorrow?” she asked quietly. Adore punched her playfully. “Yes, bitch. You do the cat eye on me.” Laganja nodded eagerly. “It’ll be okay I think. Plus, Bianca will be there and her mom says she’s got tons of friends,” she said before lowering her voice. “Are you ready to see your lesbian awakening again?” she teased.

Adore shrieked and slapped Laganja’s arm. “Don’t play that, girl!” she responded before letting out a huge yawn. Laganja giggled and turned off the lamp. “You didn’t answer,” she mumbled, already drifting off. But they both knew the answer. Hell no.

*****

Bianca checked her reflection in the mirror again, pursing her lips. She didn’t normally wear makeup to school, but Courtney’s excessive tirades about “The importance of senior year, B!”, had gotten to her. Dark brown eyeliner made her amber eyes pop, and her glossy lips looked downright kissable. Grabbing her bag, she made her way downstairs and out the door just as Courtney pulled up. The upbeat Aussie flashed her pearly whites as Bianca slid into shotgun. “You look stellar, lady killer!” she trilled, revving her engine. Bianca cackled. “You’re just excited for new meat, aren’t you?”

Courtney feigned shock before nodded. “I just want to find someone I can actually have a real thing with, you know?” she mused. Bianca nodded, trying to hide the look of disgust on her face. She failed. “Bianca! Not everyone can just fuck and leave like you do. Besides, there will definitely be some cute new girls” she teased. Bianca rolled her eyes as Courtney began singing along to the radio.

3 songs later, they pulled into the parking lot and were promptly greeted by Alaska and Jinx. The two theatre majors grinned as they greeted Bianca and Courtney with hugs. “Court, you’re never gonna guess who the new dance head is! It’s Alyssa–” “Edwards.” Courtney finished. “Her daughters are here too, apparently,” Jinx mused.

Alaska’s eyebrows shot up. “Girl, Adore Gelato’s back?” she exclaimed.

“Delano.” Bianca mumbled.

Alaska nodded before continuing. “Shit, if both her kids are here they must be talented as hell. We haven’t had siblings since Shangela and Gia last year.”

The foursome made their way through the front entrance. “Where’s Trixie?” Bianca questioned, searching the halls for the last member of their group. As if she had magically conjured her, a pink faced Trixie emerged from a classroom and lumbered her way towards them. “Move!” she snapped, practically pushing a new kid out of her path. “Shit.” Courtney muttered, staring at the angry pink tornado as she approached.

“Ican’tfuckingbelievethisfuckmrkressleyIamnotgoingto-” “Bitch, breathe!” Bianca barked. Trixie took a deep breath before speaking again. “You know how I applied to be the student director for the fall production, right?” she began, balling her fists. “Of course we know. We read through your application about 40 fucking times.” Bianca exasperatedly replied.

“Right, well Mr. Kressley emailed me to meet with him today, saying I got the position. But apparently, there’s going to be two directors this year,” she seethed. Courtney wrinkled her nose, staring at her fellow music major in confusion. “Why is that a bad thing?” she questioned.

“It’s not. It shouldn’t be.” Trixie retorted. The four girls waited for an answer. “Except the other director is KATYA ZAMOLODCHIKOVA!” she hissed.

Bianca bit back a smile as she eyed the other girls, each of them trying equally as hard not to crack. Finally, Jinx spoke. “You know, Ivy really likes Katya. Maybe you’ll finally get along,” she chuckled.

Trixie and Katya had been rivals since they began at Charles. Although to be fair, it was more of a one way rivalry. They were the top two students in the year, but Trixie never understood how the perpetually chilled out Russian did so well. The girl was constantly pulling all nighters and managed to show up in weird prints every single day, and to the driven Trixie, that was a reflection of her work ethic. However, Bianca had seen Katya’s work. The girl was fucking talented, and a gem to boot.  

Trixie huffed as the group approached a table filled with fliers. “And she’s a design student. Since when has a design student qualified to help direct a musical? No offencee Bianca.”

Bianca smiled. “None taken,” she replied, picking up a flier and handing it to Courtney, who gasped. “Legally Blonde??? YES!!!” she exclaimed. “I’ve always wanted to play Elle,” she raved, raising her voice to be heard over two excited new girls.

One of the newbies, muscular with unruly blonde hair turned towards Courtney.

“I see that,” she remarked, unabashedly raking her eyes over Courtney’s body. “Yes gawd!” her friend sang, snapping her fingers at the now blushing Courtney. “Come on, Elle!”

Alaska and Jinx laughed at the blonde, who had legs up to her fucking ears and a light purple streak in her sleek hair. Bianca blinked as she stared at the girl’s blue eyes, framed by long lashes and shimmery purple eyeshadow. The girl looked weirdly familiar.

The muscular one grinned at them. “I’m Willam, and this giraffe is-” “

Holy shit!” the leggy girl exclaimed. “Bianca! Bianca Del Rio??” she cried, her  haughty face splitting into a warm smile.

Bianca nodded, still not sure who this girl was. “That’s me,” she rasped. Willam’s eyebrow shot up. “Sexy voice,” she commented. Bianca rolled her eyes. “Nice try blondie, but I don’t do charity work,” she quipped.

Willam shrugged. “You’re not my type either,” she replied, eyeing Courtney, who was batting her annoyingly long lashes.

The tall girl stared at Bianca before raising her eyebrows. “Girl, it’s me!” she said, gesturing wildly. Bianca stared at her before shaking her head. “Sorry, I don’t remember-” “Jane!” , the tall girl whispered, looking around furtively. Willam let out a loud laugh. “Your actual name is-” she screeched, cutting off abruptly when she saw the glare coming from her new friend.

Bianca’s eyes widened. “Holy shit, you grew the fuck up!” she cackled, giving the girl in front of her a hug. “It’s Langanja now,” Laganja announced. Jinx laughed. “I can smell. I mean, tell.” she joked.

Bianca quietened. If Jane, or Laganja, or whatever is here, then Adore’s gotta be here already too. Why am I so invested in seeing that kid again? It’s not like-

“Where’s Adore?” Alaska asked, looking around the atrium and rousing Bianca from her train of though. “She’s helping Aunt Alyssa set up the studio. I would help but the school doesn’t want me hanging around Alyssa that much. Conflict of interest or some shit,” Laganja explained, rolling her eyes.

“She’s in dance. I’m music,” said Willam. Bianca nodded. “I’m design, these two bitches are theatre,” she suppled, turning to Courtney slyly. Courtney turned pink as she looked at Willam. “Trixie and I are music too,” she said feebly, as the other seniors tried not to laugh.

“What’s up Charles! This is Manila Luzon and Latrice Royale with your 5 minute warning!” blared a familiar voice over the P.A system.

“We should get going to homeroom, the bell’s gonna go,” warned Jinx. Trixie turned back to the two younger girls. “You guys should audition for the musical. It’s just one song and a monologue, and I’m the assistant director.”

“Co-assistant director,” Alaska teased. Trixie rolled her eyes. “But yeah, Court and Jinx normally do it and Bianca’s head of costuming. Auditions are in two days.”

Willam nodded. “Sounds good.” she decided, before turning to go. “It was nice meeting you girls. Bye Courtney,” said Willam, shooting the Australian a wink.

“Have you seen Adore yet?” Laganja questioned, her expression unreadable. “Nope,” Bianca responded, trying to ignore the weird feeling in her stomach. Laganja nodded before sauntering away with Willam.

“Who’s gonna tell them new meat always get the chorus?” Jinx chuckled. Bianca smiled. “They’ll learn.”

Trixie checked her watch. “Let’s go,” she suggested, turning to Jinx. The two headed down the east corridor while Alaska made her way to the south one. “I’ll say hi to Katya for you!” she yelled, laughing as Trixie flipped her off.

Courtney grabbed Bianca’s arm as the two headed to their own homeroom.

***

Laganja pulled out her phone as Willam led her to their first class. She grinned as Adore picked up on the first ring.

“We finally finished setting up that fucking barre, I never want to see a dance studio ever again,” Adore ranted. Laganja laughed at how out of breath Adore’s voice sounded.

“Adore?”

“Yeah Ganj?”

“What do you think of Legally Blonde?”

[aparticularbandit]

ALL OF THEM@!!!! (I kid. Unless you want to.) 3, 5, 7, 12, 19, 25, and 33.

TV Show Ask Game

3) have you ever quit a show before it finished? why?

ouat.  because i was upset that they broke up my canon happy ending ship from ouat:iw for no reason just to throw the popular guy into the main show and have him fake date belle while she was pissed at rumple and then didn’t address why he was there or do other stuff with him after that.  and then the writing was just really bad and i stopped caring.  (probably would’ve stopped before s4 except they brought in elizabeth mitchell and mmmmmmmm i really like her.)

also naruto.  although i’m not sure if that counts because i quit somewhere during all the filler arcs before shippuden.  and i quit.  because of the filler arcs.  (there was almost an entire season of yu-gi-oh that i skipped because it was filler.  and i think i missed most of the last season, but i think i went back for the finale.)i stopped about halfway through wonderfalls because she got together with the guy and it felt like it was going to go into super shipping territory and i wasn’t about that life (and then apparently i’ve heard that it didn’t because i think she helps him get back with his wife? or something? like that? idk?? i haven’t seen it, obviously.  XD).

–obviously i have done this multiple times, particularly with long-running shows.  (i feel like i should include pokemon, too, but that had more to do with conflicting times between it and digimon, i think, which i enjoyed significantly more.) i don’t really watch shows all the way through and stick with them, so the shows i have done that with are probably a bigger deal than the ones i haven’t.

5) what’s your comfort show?

my little pony: friendship is magic.  don’t judge me.but, like, it started out as a comfort show because my ex and i had gotten into a HUGE fight and one of my roommates had been kind of involved (long story) and that was basically the fight that finalized for me the end of the relationship and my other roommate was like okay, we’re going to sit down and watch ponies and you will fall in love with luna and you will feel better and she was right.  luna is best pony.i’ve used other shows that way, too, but mlp:fim is my go-to when i’m in a depressive period.

7) have you ever been inspired to start a new show based on gifs or memes it has produced?

jane the virgin.  i mean, there’s a combination of influences that led to that, but the main final bit were those gif sets that nessie reblogged of luisa and rose and tagged for rhea and ivy.  because no one told me when they were trying to get me to watch it that there were lesbians.the only other one i could think of was symphogear, but i think that was more because i made a friend who wrote one of the main characters and less to do with the actual gifs.

12) have you ever watched a show just for a specific actor? did you enjoy it?

the fall. for gillian anderson (and jamie dornan because with his beard he’s actually not bad to look at).  and yeah, i enjoyed it.  the katie stuff in s2 was b a d, but other than that, yeah, i really enjoyed it!american gods i didn’t see all of, but i mostly saw it for gillian anderson to especially the episode she and kristin chenoweth were in together i really just saw it for that episode it was a great episode.i’ve been debating watching agent carter for bridget regan, and i definitely saw the tick for yara martinez.  i loved the tick and look forward to s2.oh and i saw ally mcbeal for calista because cat grant is great and ally mcbeal was great.and then i saw swingtown for lana parilla and i had to get past the first two episodes and also i was seeing it with jae but swingtown is also great.i started wonderfalls for caroline dhavernas (alana bloom in hannibal, if that helps) and i own it but i didn’t finish it.  i should add that one up above, actually.  i heard jewel straite shows up in the last few episodes, though, so.  might go back to that.  eventually.  maybe.

i do this a lot.

i may have gotten super excited about big little lies because nicole kidman and reese witherspoon and it was totally worth they hype and it was really good and it can be triggering but it was SO good.–might stop there because this list could maybe get really long.  but it’s a thing where in most cases i’ve actually enjoyed what i went back to see.  i’m sure there are examples where things didn’t live up to hype with things i watched primarily for actors?  but?  i can’t think of any tv shows where that happened.  maybe glee because idina menzel but i also started seeing that because the girl i had a crush on was super into it so.

19) are there any shows on your “to watch” list right now?

doctor who (which i’ve started and got distracted from finishing), legends of tomorrow (but skip s1, right?), a series of unfortunate events (which dad and i started but then we’re rarely in a place to see shows at the same time so now he’s on a doctor who marathon and i’ve been catching up on supergirl - but i’m hoping to jump in on his doctor who marathon when he gets back to where he left me the first time), merlin (because katie mcgrath duh), the kominsky method (which i’ve seen bits of and liked), person of interest (BECAUSE LESBIANS AND ALSO JIM CAVIEZEL), gurren lagann (which i’ve started and haven’t finished), jessica jones - and there’s other stuff, like, i have a long list on netflix and i think there’s stuff i’m not thinking of, but those are the ones that stand out.

OH KILLING EVE.  KILLING EVE IS ON THAT LIST.  AND WESTWORLD (which i’ve seen bits and pieces of while dad was binging the first season after we got it for him for Christmas).

25) do you prefer proper opening credits, or a simple title card?

opening credits.  give me a catchy theme song i can sing with and that will make me think of the show when i hear it.  give me a theme song that’s cool and then release it so that i can buy it.

get on japan’s level, america.

33) would you be interested in trying a show in another language?

ANIME IS REAL.

uh.

i mean.

uh.

>.>;;;;;;;

i’ve already done this with anime and at least one japanese drama so, like, yes definitely.  as long as i’ve got subtitles and it’s not content i wouldn’t want to watch anyway.

[beauregardance]

Why Rewrite?

I’m rewriting cover my skin (Sun-Kissed Light) due partially to becoming more conscious about what kind of mlm fanfiction I’m writing (as a cis-woman outside of the mlm community) and whether or not it contributes to homophobic fujoshi-esque tropes of torture porn. I’ve elaborated more on it under in this post.

Since I’ve already explained my feelings there, I won’t be talking more about it unless anyone else has questions, which I will gladly answer.

Now more on the logistics!

Confessions:

1. I did not intend for it to be a long fanfic. In fact, I went out seeking 3 chapters. And then 5. And then? Indefinite. Which leads me to my second point.

2. I had no plot.

No really, I didn’t. I had absolutely no idea where I was going with it, and my continuity errors (though I fixed them on rereads) were examples of this meandering. I had no idea who Beatrice was. I was going to cross that bridge when I got to it.

3. Unrelated subplots. 

I had no main plot, but I had too much going on the background that I wasn’t committed to exploring, and it’s very visible on a reread now. Examples include: 

Piper/Reyna, which, shame on me, wasn’t explored enough or properly!

Bianca di Angelo - which YIKES veered into ableist depictions because I had no idea what kind of illness she had and that’s already a red-flag. To understand better: Koogi from Killing Stalking not having researched BPD, and saying that she characterized Sangwoo as “not normal” and it happened to “fit” with BPD. Mental illnesses does not mean someone is unable to function in society, like I wrote in with Bianca. That shit was not okay, and I was 18 when I wrote that, not 14. I’m owning up to my mistakes now.

Hazel’s mom. What was she doing? Why was she estranged? Why is she absent from the family picture? I remember it was an important part of the story...but how? I had no idea what she did in this fanfiction to be honest. That piece was not fleshed out.

Octavian. He was going to be a subplot of the story that dealt with bullying but I don’t even think I thought more about that than beyond the first introduction.

Drew Tanaka. Who is she? Why? What does it have to do with this? What was I planning with her character? Obviously I knew I wanted to redeem her, but that’s pretty much it.

Percy Jackson. He appeared in like two chapters and disappeared. I don’t think I wanted to do anything with his character except to show that Nico’s interest was switching over, but it still didn’t make a lot of sense.

4. The main characters themselves were not fleshed out.

Yes, they are already existing characters that don’t need to be fleshed out because RR has already done it. But. BUT. That is no excuse to write them blandly without any hints of AU. That’s what an AU is - they’re slightly different depending on their circumstances. That’s why Nico is a Levesque! Yet there’s nothing to be said about aspirations, dream jobs, futures. The only thing we know is that Will is going to an Ivy League school for the life sciences. That’s it. And that’s not enough. I knew Hazel was in college, but where? What is she studying? And Reyna is practically a blank slate. She cares deeply about Nico and is a Big Lesbian, which is great, but she needs more development. Piper - oh Piper. Why is she so casual about Jason having cheated on her? Did she never love him in the first place? Was she in love with Reyna the whole time but was scared due to going to a conservative school? Unfortunately, I knew I had never planned on expanding these questions, and she would always be relegated to the detective girlfriend role with no depth of her own.

5. The School / Geography

No layouts. Nothing. The only thing keeping track of the story for me was labeling the top of each chapter with the week day it took place (e.g. Monday, Tuesday etc) in my document. I had no school layouts - which okay, can be overlooked since school was almost over, but I spent 20k words in that school. Some people write a whole tragedy in 20k. Basically, when you spend that much time, there needs to be some sort of layout. Something to structure it. I had absolutely no structure.

While speaking about the school, why is it so intensely homophobic? I had written it in just for the sake of homophobia but it doesn’t sit right with me. Yes, people can be just homophobic but there’s something wrong about this.

I also had no sense of where this was taking place. The suburbs was my assumption, but it could easily be the city. Anyways, main point is: needs more development.

Now onto the writing aspect:

1. 20k words, and nothing happens.

Literally...nothing happens. I used to make fun of Twilight but....literally nothing happens in it, which is why it was dragging on so long. Part of it has to do with the fact that I didn’t know what I was going towards.

2. The purple prose is everywhere.

The reason why it’s so long and nothing happens is because there is so much purple prose. At the time I thought I was being touchingly poetic. When I reread it last week, it was too much. So many descriptions and feelings that could be cut. So many little details that took away from the scene and distracted the reader. Yes, while it was poetic, it also felt like a try-too-hard poetry, like I was forcing something out that didn’t want to be written.

3. This post.

I think this says everything about writing on abuse. I was talking in the negatives all the time. Nico was in a constant state of emptiness with no let up, no presence of anything replacing his security.

4. It doesn’t interest me anymore.

Mainly because I had no plot to begin with. Something needed to change before I could go back to it. I couldn’t keep writing chapter nine like I wasn’t feeling all of these things.

5. There was so much stalling, not a slow build or a slow burn. Just stalling.

This also had to do with not knowing where the plot was. I was putting off so many things because I didn’t know what to do with them. The main plot, I didn’t know where to go. The sub-plots - they were also a lost cause. I also knew I didn’t want Will and Nico to get together that early. But in the midst of trying to write a slow burn, it doesn’t read like a slow burn. And I think what’s essential about this fanfic is that it needs to be a slow burn. That’s the whole focus of this fanfiction. The fact that it doesn’t read like one makes it, frankly, kind of boring to read.

6. Falling in Love?

Because...it doesn’t feel like it. It’s abrupt, comes out of nowhere, and yes fanfiction can be unrealistic, but I was kind of aiming at some semblance of realism here. The gradual love didn’t feel real enough, which is why on a reread, I couldn’t invest in Will and Nico. That’s also why it didn’t feel like a slow burn. Because I didn’t buy that Nico was falling in love with Will and vice versa.

That’s all she wrote for now. 

Now what can I do with all of these notes I have for myself? Well quite simply - change it up - find the plot - retcon, and dig deeper with this story that I’ve only been skimming the surface with. Which is why I’m going to be uploading my old chapters onto my tumblr for archiving while I update with newer chapters. Some subplots are going to be retconned (you can count on the Bianca subplot disappearing because it’s disrespectful af!), replaced, or entirely made anew. So what’s going to change about the new rewrite? Is it going to be basically the same? Well yes...but also no. We’ll see when we get there ;) sketch out the entire plot! But yes, I do have a basic idea of what is going to say, and a hint to what happens in five words is: The Winter’s Tale - William Shakespeare. Take what you may from that!

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