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ultfreakme · 1 year ago

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I genuinely don't care if you like Chris or not. He's a fictional character, so you don't even need a reason to dislike him. It's your right to hate him if you want. But nitpicking a six-year-old's every move to justify your hate for him isn't it. And also, don't try to dismiss his abuse because "it doesn't make sense." It's wrong to do that. You should probably consider joining Tim Drake's fandom because this is the same thing they do to Damian.

It's obvious the reason you don't like Chris is because you like Jon. But maybe don't go on Chris' tag, a tag used by his fans, and say how you don't believe anyone cares about him. The tag you should've used is "Anti Chris Kent." You wouldn't like it if someone said, "I don't understand how anyone can like Jay Nakamura" and tagged the post "Jay Nakamura." (And no, I don't hate Jay. He is a cool dude. It's just an example.)

As for your arguments:

You don't need your hand held through the whole story to understand why Chris acts the way he does. He's an abused kid who latches onto the first adult who shows him kindness. It's not a headcanon, it's shown in the story. They don't need to spell it all out for us to understand;

Seriously, nitpicking a child saying he is hungry? Really?;

In the story after the one with Tim, Chris is shown to be scared Clark is going to abandon him. It's why he acts like a picture-perfect kid. At the end of the story, Clark reassures him he would never because they are a family now;

Even post age-up, Chris is still Clois' kid. That's how adopting a kid works. Lois is a recurring character in his portion of New Krypton. Chris has something the twins don't—a relationship with Lois. Unfortunately, PKJ never bothered to give Lois any scenes with the twins. Not that he had the page space to;

Almost every argument you gave as to why you don't like Chris can be used for Jon. He was tortured for years by an evil version of his dad and came back normal. He even ate an apple and isn't hungry Clois kids something you dislike? Jon shows no signs of PTSD, no nothing. So clearly, a character showing no signs of previous abuse (even though there isn't a right way to be an abuse survivor) is a problem to you only when you already don't like the character;

Don't try and dismiss Chris' abuse because "it doesn't make sense" for Zod and Ursa to do that. They are monsters and what Chris went trough sucks;

At the end of the day, unlike the Batfam, Clark and Lois' kids don't get enough time and space to develop properly, so there's a lot more that could be done with them. This applies to Chris, Jon, and the twins. There are things I didn't like about how they handled Chris' character (mainly his New Krypton arc), and there are things I didn't like about how they handled Jon and the twins. None of them are perfect or have had their full potential utilized.

Like I said, like what you will. Don't care. Just don't go on characters' tags and say you don't understand how anyone could like them. I ain't coming back to argue more, this is my last anon. Peace.

You're right I should have used the anti tag. You know, I outlined about 5 times, that I am NOT talking about the character. I had also said "hey, this is all entirely on ME, I am not convinced by this storytelling". I had not mentioned Jon extensively(three or four lines iirc) & stuck mainly to the super twins. I had constantly said "Geoff John's fucked up writing this story". You are the one who kept sending me asks, I gave you an explanation. I had repeatedly said "I see why people enjoy the themes attempted at being explained by Chris Kent but the execution was not compelling to me "

I will not be treating a fictional character, ultimately vehicle for storytelling and conveying themes, like an actual human. The Zod-Ursa thing, let me illustrate; Brainiac is an absolutely evil villain but he wont be calling any potential child of his a "little shit" or resorting base verbal abuse because despite this being legitimate child abuse behaviour, because for Brainiac-the-character, its OOC. He'd call any child of his inferior and dismiss any concerns or questions the child has, he won't be using his own hands, he'd be using his tech, he'd not raise his voice. And if he did, I'd ask why because this isnt in line with previous behaviour. I'd say the same for nice character as well, Clark's kindness is different to Bruce's because their backgrounds dictate the way they act. Clark is going to take a kid he rescued to park & talk to him lots and initiate jokes to calm them. Bruce is going to give a kid he rescued candies, speak to them calmly and have a more settled tone focused on helping this kid process the experience. Character motivation and MO.

I am not going to feel bad about asking a fictional character to be written with more coherence. I'm not nitpicking. That was an entire page with a giant establishing shot out of about 20 pages. I'm not nitpicking an actual 6 year old, I'm questioning GJ and the artist's choices in depicting that entire interaction so strangely. This entire medium is visual storytelling, and im going to ask for better. Chris in that issue was apparently so insecure and afraid he was....lifting shit up and smiling the entire time, cool as a cucumber. The tone was WILD. Pardon me for critiquing a creative move.

EDIT ADDITION: "He even ate an apple and isn't hungry Clois kids something you dislike? Jon shows no signs of PTSD, no nothing. So clearly, a character showing no signs of previous abuse (even though there isn't a right way to be an abuse survivor) is a problem to you only when you already don't like the character;" this made me crack up oh my god.

Okay, I'll take it seriously. Jon ate an apple, Jon actually on his return from torture volcano time specifically, pointedly, ate a LOT. Because we see via art on previous pages that Ultraman was barely feeding him and when he did, it was a LIVE PIG. Jon's hungry because of the torture. Even a detail you think is innocuous had previous establishing moment. Jon still eats and eats a LOT, because he was starved. Abuse impacting behaviour! And Jon does show symptoms of PTSD throughout SOKE & AOSJK & every subsequent run he's been in.

It manifests as his insecurities about his powers, and his apprehension around Clark! Jon's been told by Ultraman and many others that he is a tool, an object for people to do whatever they want with. He is also been a rather mercurial and too-powerful tool who on-page has been manipulated for his powers specifically time and time again(even in the recent arc). So how does Jon deal with his trauma? By controlling his powers and making them as fine-tuned as possible. Jon DOES exhibit signs, and it makes sense for his character. His entire deal is being a good Superman, and to do that he neglects anything bad that happens to himself and keeps suppressing, this plays a role in his coming out too (illustrated in SOKE #5 and in Dark Crisis). So no, Jon eating an apple & exhibiting signs of PTSD in a covert manner....is intentional and entirely present & you'd have to read subtext. This is where the writing leaves stuff for readers to pick stuff up from the background and won't handhold me through, which you have entirely forgotten despite how obvious it is.

I literally led you through why, from an objective standpoint, PKJ is a better storyteller, but you keep making this into a conversation about the characters and act like I have kicked an actual breathing 6 year old and made him cry. I read the Tim issue, I further read to the issue where Chris Kent finally expressed an actual emotion that made sense for his character and it took.....let's see....about 10 issues from his moment of existence? And it was done by a different writer! Busiek is good at writing Chris & I'm sure if they continued writing him, or started by writing him, they'd have done a better job with everything. The whole abandonment and adoption theme actually exists as a thing under Busiek in Superman.

I don't care about Chris. It's not a "ahaha I'm evil I hate this abused child" thing. I don't care about Tim, Damian or a million other characters with similarly tragic backstories which probably got handled well. I personally, am not compelled by him and in year 2020-2024 when I jumped into comics, I have more options of super kids to enjoy.

You dont need to make me imagine a scenario where people say Jay or Jon sucks and they arent compelling because half of Jay & Jon's tags are a billion times worse than the two lines I said, often with people tagging on "Chris was better" accompanied by sprinkles of biphobia, homophobia and a dash of racism against Jay. I didnt even say "Chris Kent bad". You are also free to think Jon and Jay dont compel you. If you make such a post, I will block you and delete any ask outlining that, because I don't care to subject myself to that. I'd also probably make a meta post on my own blog about jon and jay. I said I dont think Chris Kent fans exist because at this point in time, the Chris Kent iteration is completely gone from any ongoing storylines and I just didnt think people would be dead-set on a writing decision made over a decade ago. That'd be like saying "hey I miss robin version of Jason Todd, he should come back" at least in my perspective, but I am clearly wrong.

You could've just directly initially informed me to put in the anti tag, you are right in asking for that and I am sorry I didnt do that. I assumed you wanted a conversation with me since this is my blog, my platform & I'm too detached to Chris & the Super twins so I can talk in terms of writing rather than "this character is precious blorbo". I had only read on the Geoff John's Action run and the writing and art was so bad and that's all literally anyone in the chris kent tag even talks about. I get that you're defensive about chris, but you're barking up the wrong tree on speaking of his good traits because I just, I really dont care. Not dislike. I'm utterly indifferent to him as a character. The fan reaction from that side to Jon is what prompted me to make the initial post.

If you are still reading for some reason, go forth, have fun making Chris headcanons, live your best life. I still am not compelled and am confused why people are this hung up on him.

#riki asks #anti chris kent #god i hope I'm among the first to use that tag #jon kent

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shouta-aizawow · 3 years ago

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Things kid!bakugou does bc I did them when I was little:

If you’re even slightly androgynous, expect multiple “Are you a boy or a girl?” Questions. Whether you answer or not won’t limit the amount, bc if you answer, he’ll just forget and ask again later.

Hug the parents of his friends (and accidentally hug strangers). Expect conversations like “You’re pregnant? What are you gonna name them? When are you gonna have them?” And talk to the adults like long time friends, going up to them in crowded places and striking up a conversation

Embellish stories about experiences and tell everyone and then have his parents tell him that, no, it wasn’t that extreme, feel guilty for being a liar even though he didn’t know, and plan to make a self-callout post and apology statement at the next show-and-tell

Have one of his parents tell him that he can have a snack in a specific number of minutes, not know how to read the clock, is told to watch for the seconds hand going around, and just sits and stares at the clock and waits

Draw a teacher with very clear incorrect features (that may or may not be similar to his own) and give it to them

Play with pets he was terrified of a few minutes prior so much that they end up being scared of him

Ask one of his parents to lift him up and put him on door knobs or just generally high places bc he saw a character in a kids show sing about being a superhero that was taller than buildings or smth

Cry when his ice cream falls/when waking up, tries to turn the page when his parents read to him, pretends to need help getting dressed, etc, bc he saw kids on tv do it and figured that that was how he should act

Accidentally steal a toy/accessory to a toy from school/daycare and also accidentally (or on purpose idek) burns a hole through it later that night

Hide in places and then screams until one of his parents come find him

Claustrophobia induced by getting stuck in his dad’s pants. Arms through one leg, legs through the other

“Do you give good hugs?” “I guess?” “Can I have a hug?”

#there’s more #but also the ‘more’ that I remember was encouraged by my parents #so it’s lame #fun fact #the last one happened a few months ago #bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bakugou katsuki #bakugou #bakugo katsuki #bnha headcanons #bakugou headcanons #I spelled his name wrong like 7 times while typing the previous tag #if you saw typos no you didn’t

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douxie-casperan · 4 years ago

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Rise of the Titans and the assassination Hisirdoux Casperan’s character development

I’ve been ranting so much since Wednesday morning that I finally condensed by thoughts of WHY this one subject keeps setting me off namely the utterly diabolical way they handled Douxie and Archie’s relationship in Rise of the Titans and how it wasn’t just enough to hit him with the nerf bat.

Please note I’m at the point where I literally cannot tell the difference between Aaron headcanons, Teny headcanons and my own they are all mixed together in the blender that does funky things. I also apologise for typo/weird wording it’s half 1 in the morning and I’d rather sleep than edit.

If asked to sum up Hisirdoux Casperan there are certainly several things that come to mind:

Sees the value in people as a whole and will find do anything if there is a chance of help someone out

Prefers tactics that disable/banish rather than kill an enemy yet willing and able to pull the trigger if circumstances become forced

While not academically inclined he is very capable of thinking on his feet and outside the box calling back to his time on the streets where a split-second decision making is the difference between being caught and not

Terrible at planning he’ll be in there figuring it out as he goes along which is what makes the previous point so vital to literally how he goes through life

A natural charmer that would let him talk his way out of trouble 9/10 providing a perfect cover for his distrustful nature and reluctance to be touched by random people

Very down to earth, humble and never one to brag unless outright sassing someone

Will bang out some hot tunes at the drop of a hat, his love of music has never wavered once since he caught the bug despite instrument hopping ironically becoming a jack of all trades much like his magic style

The earliest memories he can recall are him as a young boy lost in the woods where he was for an unknown amount of time before his soon to be familiar finds him amongst the roots covered in dirt and drying tears, there is nothing before that. Unbeknownst to him is the colour of his magic matches the blue of a lost mother’s eyes and the song that haunts his nightmares as much as fire could well be hers though there is no way to be sure. From that moment on Archibald, shortened to Archie, would become his entire world and their friendship only becoming closer during the years they prowled Camelot together trying to keep themselves in one piece until the fateful day Douxie tricks the wrong person leading him straight into the path of the famous wizard Merlin Ambrosius.

It's no real secret that Merlin is a very closed off person who keeps his emotions as well guarded as his secrets, prefers the style of negative reinforcement over positive encouragement and is a very strict perfectionist in his. At this point in his life he can be very easily described as a disaster that is genuinely doing his best with every little mistake held of his head and his future self when brought back to that time period is belittled by Lancelot (Errand boy) and Arthur (Boy) too meaning it’s hardly a wonder his confidence was very fragile revelling in the times where he could do things without being told off for it. With Morgana largely ignoring him too (Though personally I like to think as he got older she’d occasionally take an interest until the blistering arguments with their master started to talk over daily life) a certain disguised dragon would have remained a lifeline and give that physical affection he craved much like being told he’d done well never seemed able to earn.

With Killahead he’d lose that home and family he made leaving just the two of them behind struggling to figure out their place in the world that had abandoned them.

There wouldn’t have been the words for it back then but the way he had been treated prior was outright abusive instilling very bad habits into Douxie yet by irony he was always willing to give people the benefit of the doubt and help those in trouble without thinking earning a reputation as the Shepard of Fire. He refused to become like him seeking to be better, perhaps not as a wizard (Even though he was learning new charms and spells along the way) but certainly as a person. Despite everything he suffers through or witnesses in the intervening years, the loss of friends and kindling of far newer ones he never loses his good heart

That said is it any wonder that after rightfully sassing Merlin for resurfacing, ignoring his existence despite being in the same town and only visiting him to run a finding errand that all the confidence he’d managed to build completely from scratch after Camelot wavered causing him to fall back solely into trying impressing his old Master who was acting like his humble apprentice must have coasted the past few centuries who himself fell back into old habits of belittling? It’s only when Merlin started to truly listen and acknowledge that this was not the same Moppet he once knew after Excalibur was fixed that their relationship finally started to become more like equals. After the defeat of Janus the changeling that broke into the castle he touched Douxie’s shoulder with a genuine smile and for a second he simply didn’t know what to do because the old man never did this before his brain kicked into gear and realised he’d finally earned that one thing he’d been so desperate for his entire life: That in Merlin’s eyes he could be more than a failure who only caused problems for the closest thing to a father figure he’d ever had, never solved them.

A staff will be earned, history would be set back on trap by banishing Morgana tag teaming with Archie because they know one another inside and out, as promised he’d get the kids back to the present but soon after things would go badly wrong. They’d lose Jim and because of his very nature he’d make a gamble to try and get him back because that life is worth trying for just for in a moment of surprising selflessness Merlin would be sacrificed to save him. The only constant in his life apart from Archie would apologise, openly express pride and how the greatest thing he’d ever done was saving this orphan, call him son for the first and final time before turning into ash in his arms. There would be no time to grieve for things will barrel into the crescendo of Douxie sacrificing his own life to buy everyone time to escape because if they did that everything he’d ever done would be worth it with one last whispered goodbye.

(Zoe sees him fall, so does Archie – His heart would break if he was conscious just like theirs does when his body crumples into the ground)

On the very fringes of the Light Realm he is gifted one more conversation with Merlin in a truly heart-breaking sequence (THANKS TENY) where they can just talk without any fear of consequence or politics and just be completely honest. Douxie is allowed to stand equal to Merlin, to have the hug he’d needed since he was a child and be allowed to simply let go of every pretense and cry his heart out because this can never happen again. He’s allowed to say goodbye to both his master and Morgana who had both shaped so very much of his life but like the painting he’d always remained firmly in the long shadows of until that moment.

When Hisirdoux Casperan finally leaves Wizards if we just accidently deliberately put the shawarma back in along with checking in with Zoe before departure, it is with having learned to live during his wandering years but this is the point of true freedom because he can finally escape into his own light with Archie by his side to keep Nari out of the hands of those that would see the world harmed. It won’t be easy but it feels possible somehow even with the knowledge everything is simply running on borrowed time.

Then Rise of the Titans happens.

At first everything is genuinely fine! No more running, they engineer a solution shut the Order’s magic down to make them a lot less dangerous and potentially at least incapacitate them until they can come up with a longer-term solution but all the best laid plans and all that. Douxie’s quick thinking stops the train from crushing any of the people below and it’s a very him style move to switch places with Nari to stall for time because for some reason the plot disabled Claire from portaling her or any of the threatened people/heroes to safety. He openly sasses the Order despite knowing the consequences will be bad for him because once again he’s managed to trick them, buy time that at the other end isn’t even slightly utilised until he’s forced back into his own body in excruciating pain. Archie immediately mobs him with comfort just as he has done every single time the wizard is distressed or collapsed with exhaustion without thinking because that is what their bond is like, incredibly close and far more than the Soul Bond mark that connects them together. They’re very alike in that regard, you have to earn the right to touch while equally knowing exactly what form the other needs the most in that precise moment in a way very few others could.

Bar the moment of figuring out that an illusion is in place to hide where the Order is opening the Genesis Seals and the brief insistence on reconnecting with Nari somehow Douxie manages to forget everything that makes him who he is after this point choosing to stand in the background being very no thoughts head empty or can only use the most basic spells of his youthful days not the seasoned master wizard he should be. Nomura is treated like an innocent slip rather than an outright death he did absolutely nothing to prevent (Not to mention the stupid daytime thing) nor seems to care particularly about afterwards yet with Nari’s he’s allowed to openly grieve in a gorgeously animated visual showing how he’d failed to keep her safe despite everything. He did nothing to help here either mind despite allowing himself to be tortured in the same piece of media to keep her safe, just watched another loss happen right in front of his eyes in his conga long line of them.

Then there’s Archie, oh god then there was Archie.

The dragon who even here he’d been shown to have an incredibly close bond with him decides you know what sod that tell him goodbye I’m going to make a joke about having a kingdom now dad and me are trapped in here forever. Douxie on his part looked sad for all of three seconds saying that he hoped he’s happy like it's a pet that wandered out into the world one day and never came back instead of a lifelong companion that has been there for as long as he can remember. He was now completely alone in the world since Zoe was also written out entirely and because every bit of his background had been forgotten about it somehow meant nothing. This wasn’t “I know you miss him, I know you need to grieve but you are running out of time” moment like things had been with Charlie, this was “cool shapeshifting dragon cat is now stuck in a plot hole that’s a shame” with zero pay off or any of the genuine reaction that should have been there or hell even trying to Ohana him back that very second because it never should have happened in the first place. Then even this wasn’t enough somehow, they managed to de-power Douxie even further into uselessness bar the (Admittedly nifty!) sticky feet stunt, the one who fought Skrael and Bellroc to a stalemate was shunted aside with barely a thought and his head would somehow get even emptier.

The one person who knew the danger of time magic the most stood by and said nothing.

The one person who would suffer the most by a reset because the lynchpin to his issues would be asleep if you got it wrong and should have drilled it into Jim’s head the best time to aim for stood by and said nothing.

The one person who had just suffered the loss of his familiar, best friend and only family along with the almost sister like Nari stood by and said nothing.

Then to add further insult to injury the caption when Douxie and Archie is shown says Some go their entire lives living an existence of quiet desperation because every drop of his character growth, his ability to finally start addressing his trauma instilled back in the 12th century, the staff he longed for was instead openly mocked by going “Aww he got his cat friend back how nice!” Everything he’d rightfully earned and had now would be unable to progress until certain criteria are met because it hinges entirely on the Trollhunter going to Merlin’s tomb and there’s only so much your support network of two (One if she’s written out) can do, the root of the majority of his issues all stem from one man.

And this folks is why I’ve been going on multiple rants about Douxie in particular, everyone was hit with the out of character bat to some degree in this film but when they came for him they didn’t just stop after they took his legs out because they wanted him to suffer from something he’s never had any control over to begin with all over again. Abuse survivors deserve better, these characters deserve better and we as viewers deserve far far better writing than we were forced to endure.

#Ooc - Behind the curtains #Rise of the Titans #Rise of the Titans spoilers #RotT Spoilers #RoT spoilers #Wizards #Tales of Arcadia #ToAWizards #Hisirdoux Casperan #Douxie Casperan

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myaimistrue · 4 years ago

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del myaimistrue’s underrated destiel fic recs part 2!

as with part 1, these are all fics i’m a big fan of that aren’t as popular or well known. they all have less than 10k hits on ao3 OR were published pre-2015 OR both. hope you like them!!! leave a comment for the author if you did :)

list under the cut, organized by word count!

in earth, and sky, and sea by charcoalcas

1.6k. on easter morning, cas tells dean he had a crush on jesus. very funny and very sweet and very domestic. featuring some jesus/dean comparisons!

Meant to Be Near Me by Sass_Master

1.9k proposal/marriage fic. sweet and wildly in-character. this is a fic i read sometimes when i’m bummed out because it always makes me smile.

absolvere by microcomets

2k that takes place after the attack dog spell and dean’s refusal to be healed in 11x03. so tender and so wonderfully written. yes perhaps i did tear up at the image of cas washing dean’s feet. don’t worry you will too.

walking on a string by swordfishtrombones

2.7k set during season 6. cas goes to see dean to help with a hunt in the midst of the civil war. they’re in a kinda sorta relationship and it’s soooooooo interesting. i’ve decided the author is a certified cas-understander because this is his pov and i think they totally nail it. beautifully written and absolutely worth the read.

Scenes with a Shark (Or: Hello, Blåhaj) by aeli_kindara

3.3k established relationship fic. dean and cas have an stuffed shark and visit ikea! super cute and offers up an alternate look at the way cas might handle the empty deal. if you can’t tell i love an established relationship fic, and this is a great one.

Ain’t Ever Gonna Part by ellispark

MIXTAPE FIC!!! 4k retrospective looking at previous people dean’s loved with sprinkling of moments from season 12 and 13. great dean character study with such a perfect final scene.

Things that were, things that are by dreamline

6.8k. very dean-centric. sam finds out that dean engaged in sex work when they were both children, which brings up a lot of old trauma for them both. it’s a super heavy topic and the author handles it with respect and no exploitation or glorification. the dean and sam conversation is amazing and the scene with dean and cas at the end is so tender. dean studies fic for sure.

Deprived of Every Planet by KelpietheThundergod

9k words. a case fic that features extremely touch-starved dean and cas being very gentle with him. such an intimate look at their relationship, all cozy and a little sad and very very sweet.

all my goodness is gone with you now [15x09 coda] by emmbrancsxx0

fics that make you a shell of your former self. like i’m going to be honest i had to go sit outside in the sunshine after reading this because it absolutely DEVASTATED me. it’s 9.9k of the universe we see in 15x09 the trap in which cas has the mark of cain. featuring incredible character work and dialogue that was so painfully in-character. you will probably cry but it will definitely be worth it.

The Art of Giving by cenotaphy

i truly love a fic in which dean is a bit of an asshole because he has no idea how to be in a relationship--this 9.9k story definitely fits within that category. you’re going to be frustrated with him, but you’re also going to love all of the interactions with him and cas because they are super well-written and in-character. and don’t worry, it has a very sweet ending!

Good Hands by aileenrose

13.2k. first of all, i highly recommend everything by this author--they write my favorite aus EVER. this specifically is one of my favorites. cas owns a b&b and dean is a drifter/handyman who stops in and ends up staying to help make repairs. the atmosphere is so good, and the story is trope-y in the best way.

We Both Kinda Liked It by elizajane

one of my new all-time faves. 13.5k that dives into rhonda hurley and dean’s thing for panties with a lot of cas being lovely and supportive. there’s a lot of ideas out there about who rhonda was and how dean knew her and the version of her in this fic is now my personal headcanon. if you love dean being loved, then you will adore this fic.

Death Rattles by emmbrancsxx0

i normally don’t read horror fic much but this one is soooo good and honestly frightening. 30.1k established relationship deancas with a side of casefic--especially recommended for my cas fans. you’re going to think you know what’s going on like six times and each time you’ll be wrong. and that ending...hoo boy!

Light in the Dark by nurfherder

110k. this is SUCH a story. i read it kind of slowly over a couple weeks so i don’t know how it feels if you binge it, but i really enjoyed it! it’s an au in which dean inherits the family apple orchard after john dies and cas is a businessman who buys it from him. they work together to make a profit and turn the place around but it is…. SO MUCH more than that. it gets pretty heavy so heed the tags but god it’s a great read. the emotion is so realistic and so well done. highly recommended if you’re looking for something longer.

#del's fic recs #destiel fic rec #deancas fic rec #spn fic rec

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carewyncromwell · 4 years ago

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Time for the next Cinderella AU part...and the fall-out from the ball in the kingdom of Florence!

Rakepick’s gown is based on this design -- and yeah, I actually headcanon Orion being 5′9″, just like Rakepick (as well as Cate Blanchett, who inspired Rakepick’s design)! I was also too lazy to draw the person holding Rakepick’s arm behind her back because honestly, this sketch was a last-minute addition and the whole thing took longer than I’d intended. >> The good news is that the next part is already a third done with its sketch finished, so hopefully I’ll have that up by tomorrow! We’re coming up on the home stretch, people!! 😄

Previous part is here -- whole tag is here -- Katriona “KC” Cassiopeia belongs to @kc-needs-coffee -- and I hope you enjoy!

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When Orion returned to the entrance hall, he was immediately met by both the simple-black-masked court magician Severus Snape and the canary-dressed military Healer Penny Haywood. Snape offered to cast a spell to temporarily stop the bleeding from Orion’s side until Penny could finish a proper potion, but Orion patiently declined.

“My wound isn’t serious,” the young King of Florence told Snape as he walked quickly toward the ballroom, the slipper still in his hand. “Please use your talents instead to collect the lioness on the main staircase. I have some questions for her that I believe both I and King Henri will need answered.”

When Orion had returned to the ballroom, all of the Royaumanians who had fired upon or made to attack him had been gathered in the center of the room and told to remove their masks. All of them looked very white and scared, many of them pleading with the Florentine guards surrounding them that they didn’t know what had happened. Palest and most shaken of all was King Henri himself. The Queen held onto her husband’s arm in a vice grip, looking very frightened and close to tears.

Orion soon found Skye, McNully, and KC rushing to his side. They too had discarded their masks. All three of them were worried about Orion’s injury, however much Orion reassured them that it was both shallow and (in his words) “ultimately a necessary one,” and they weren’t the only ones. Molly Weasley actually emerged from the disheveled remnants of the crowd, dressed in a second-hand red gown and a handstitched cloth mask, and she dashed over to help. Before Orion knew what was happening, the matron of the Weasley clan had ripped off part of the closest tablecloth and rushed over to place it up against his side, to try to slow the bleeding. Arthur and the rest of the Weasleys excluding Bill and Charlie soon joined her.

“Are you okay, Orion?” Ginny asked anxiously.

“I’m fine,” Orion reassured the youngest Weasley before addressing Molly, “Thank you, Mrs. Weasley.”

Percy looked from Orion’s face to up at the coronet resting in his dark hair.

“Then...then it’s true?” he mumbled. “The strange man that hopped the Royaumanian palace wall is the King of Florence?”

“Could’ve left off the ‘strange’ part, Perce,” George said amusedly.

“Even if it’s the truth,” laughed Fred.

Orion smiled. “It is indeed.”

Once his bleeding had slowed, Orion swept over to the Royaumanians assembled. Andre stood in front of his parents, his face very solemn. He opened his mouth as if to speak, but Orion held up a hand to stop him. Then he faced the pale-faced King Henri just behind Andre.

“You and your people don’t need to fear any retaliation from me, King Henri,” Orion said patiently. “While it’s true that magic should be used to protect, not harm, that does not mean that it can’t sometimes be used for the wrong reasons.”

His eyes softened.

“...Guards, please release them. None of these people were aware of their actions, nor responsible for them.”

The Royaumanian lords and ladies assembled all gave a silent sigh of relief as the Florentine guards broke apart and dispersed. One actually burst into tears.

Despite Orion’s words, though, King Henri did not completely relax.

“...You mean to say you don’t hold Royaume responsible for this...attempt on your life?” he said lowly, disbelievingly. “You don’t hold me responsible, for the injury I dealt you?”

Orion smiled. “King Henri, the beautiful lady who came to the ball to warn me of the plot is just as Royaumanian as you...and I daresay just as honorable, as well.”

He offered the Royaumanian King a handshake.

King Henri stared down at Orion’s hand, taken aback. He looked up at the young man’s face, then back down at his hand, almost unsure. He caught Andre’s eye, and his son beamed. Then the Queen placed a gentle hand on his arm, he looked at her, and she nodded encouragingly. At long last, King Henri’s face burst into a smile as warm as Andre’s as he faced Orion again.

“You truly are as wise as my son has said, King Cosimo,” he said.

With this, he took Orion’s hand with a warm, resounding clap of their hands. The two Kings shook hands, both smiling.

“You said your maiden warned you of a plot,” said King Henri, his face becoming more solemn. “Did she tell you the identity of the person who...well, cast this curse?”

“Yes,” said Orion.

He caught the sight of Severus Snape striding toward him out the side of his eye and shifted around.

The court magician was holding the arms of a middle-aged ginger-haired woman with a lioness-themed gown behind her back and pushing her in front of him.

“Unhand me!” Rakepick snarled at Snape. “Unhand me this instant, or I swear I’ll -- !”

Snape twisted her arm painfully behind her back, making her choke in pain and rage.

“I don’t believe you’re in much of a position to make threats,” he hissed coldly in her ear.

“Master Snape, please,” Orion said calmly. “I asked that Patricia Rakepick be brought to me, not that she be harmed.”

He faced Rakepick with a very solemn expression. He considered her for a moment, his eyes lingering on her high neck and covered shoulders, before they rested on the long gloves she had on under her long sleeves and narrowed upon the red spots he could see staining the right sleeve.

“Madam,” he said quietly, “would you show me your right forearm, please?”

Rakepick stiffened sharply.

“Your Majesty,” she said in a rather defensive-sounding voice, “that is hardly appropriate -- ah!”

Snape rather roughly yanked off her glove and then pushed up her right sleeve. Emblazoned on the skin under her wrist were three names, etched in sickening blood red -- the last of which looked fresher than the others, as it was still bleeding freely over the two faded ones above it.

The Weasley children all inhaled sharply in surprise.

“‘King Cosimo Amari VII,’” Orion read his own bloody name aloud.

Andre’s eyes were very wide. “So that’s what Talbott meant, by black magic leaving a mark on you...”

Orion nodded. “Indeed. All those who have a hand in a spell being used to harm another person wear the scars of that damage for the rest of their lives. I daresay that was why my grandfather wished to spare the magician who ran across our border so many years ago,” he said with a glance at King Henri. “She no doubt bore the scars of every single person who grieved your grandfather’s loss...and, eventually, all those who died in the War avenging him, and the family members who grieved their loss as well.”

King Henri looked very pale and repulsed. Molly clutched Arthur’s arm anxiously.

“With how many died in the War...all the families left behind...why, she very well might’ve bled to death,” she whispered shakily.

Andre looked at Orion, his eyes narrowing. “Is this why you tried to activate her spell, by running across the ballroom? So as to prove she had a hand in it?”

Orion nodded grimly. “This evidence would only have appeared if someone had been harmed by the spell she’d cast. And since I was the only one the spell could target...I had to be injured, if I were to make sure the perpetrators were properly identified.”

“Perpetrators?” said the Queen, startled. “Then there were others?”

“You bet there were,” said a voice behind them.

Everyone turned around, to find Jae striding over with his cohorts. Barnaby and Tonks had successfully wrangled Lord Malfoy, holding him back with apparent ease despite how he struggled.

“How dare you!” he snarled. “I will make sure you pay for this insolence -- GAH!”

Jae rather roughly grabbed Malfoy’s exposed forearm, wrenching it up in an awkward angle to show off the newly bleeding letters etched there as well, spelling out the exact same name as was on Rakepick’s arm.

“‘King Cosimo Amari VII,’” Jae read aloud coolly. “I do believe that means Lord Malfoy had a say in this whole thing, right, Merula?”

Merula nodded, her magenta eyes flaring with dislike toward Malfoy. “The spell certainly holds him equally responsible.”

“Then I shall as well,” Orion said quietly. “Lord Malfoy...you are hereby stripped of your rank and title. You will no longer be welcome at court, and you shall pay proper reparations for the War you sought to reignite to benefit yourself. I think your land and property being seized by the Crown will be a good place to start.”

His eyes were very calm and unflappable upon Malfoy, who looked horrorstruck.

“You -- you can’t just -- !”

“Be fortunate that you are not one of my subjects,” King Henri said harshly. “I would think execution would be a far more just reward, for treason.”

Malfoy closed his mouth, a flicker of cowardice running over his face that then morphed into resentment.

“I’m afraid that Lord Malfoy and Patricia Rakepick are not the only ones implicated in this, Your Majesty,” said Orion solemnly.

His black eyes darted around. Upon not finding who he was looking for, he bent down to whisper in McNully’s ear.

“Where are the Cromwells?”

McNully scowled. "They left forty seven minutes ago. They supposedly wanted to make sure that the youngest member, Tristan, got to bed at a reasonable hour...though I’d say there’s less than a 1 percent chance that was the only reason...”

Orion’s eyes narrowed as they flickered in King Henri’s direction and then down to the floor.

Without Charles Cromwell being present, Orion couldn’t prove that he held the same scar on his arm that Malfoy and Rakepick had and was therefore also involved. And if he merely told King Henri flat-out that Carewyn had said Charles was involved, Orion couldn’t help but worry that the King might balk at the suggestion, given how trusted of an advisor Charles had made himself to the royal family...

He had to be patient, the young King decided. He had to come at this from a different angle.

Orion’s hands were tightly clasped in front of him as he considered both Lord Malfoy and Rakepick. As his eyes glided over their identical scars, they then narrowed upon the names above his on Rakepick’s arm.

...wyn...?

Striding over, he pulled the sleeve of his doublet down so as to hold it in his hand enough to wipe the blood off of Rakepick’s arm. When he did, he could see two very familiar names etched into the skin just over his.

Orion’s black eyes grew very, very wide, losing a lot of their light. It...it couldn’t be...

“What is it, Orion?” asked Skye.

When she came over to look over his shoulder, she inhaled sharply.

“‘Carewyn Cromwell’...and ‘Jacob Cromwell?’” she read aloud, horrified.

The Weasleys’, Jae’s, KC, and McNully’s faces all went very white too.

“Carey?” Ron whispered shakily.

“I know Carewyn Cromwell,” said the King, perturbed. “She is Lord Cromwell’s peasant granddaughter -- she used to work in our castle as a maidservant. But I know no Jacob -- ”

“It was you!” cried Andre.

His eyes had gone very wide as he stared at Rakepick too, but out of fury rather than horror.

“You’re the one Lord Cromwell hired to supposedly save Jacob’s life! You’re the reason Lord Cromwell was able to keep Carewyn under his thumb -- !”

Erika had to hold him back so Andre didn’t try backhanding her across the face. Both the King of Royaume and Orion looked at Andre, taken aback.

“You know this ‘Jacob,’ son?” asked King Henri.

“He’s Carey’s older brother, your Lordship!” said Fred, sounding unusually angry. Percy was holding him back so that he didn’t get too close to Rakepick.

“He and Carey were taken in by old Lord Cromwell together, ‘til the old geezer sent him off to War,” spat George, similarly held back by Arthur.

KC moved over to Andre’s side to help Erika restrain him, her eyes burned with loathing upon Rakepick. “He died nine years ago, under...rather unpleasant circumstances.”

Orion looked from Andre to King Henri to Rakepick, his eyebrows furrowed over his murky eyes. his hands were clasped very tightly together as he faced Rakepick.

“It sounds as though there is a story here,” he said softly, but his voice betrayed a slight edge. “Will you share it with us, Patricia Rakepick?”

Rakepick stared up at Orion with a defensive, distrustful look. Snape tightened his grip on her arm, making her hiss in anger.

“Master Snape, I told you I don’t wish her to be harmed,” Orion said in a quelling voice.

His black eyes bore into Rakepick very severely.

“Madam Rakepick, it appears that the woman whose name you bear on your arm is someone dear to those present. You needn’t fear further punishment from me, so please tell us...what was the nature of the spell you cast that injured Jacob and Carewyn Cromwell?”

Despite the words sounding kind, it was clear that Orion was deathly serious. Rakepick considered him for a moment, her eyes narrowing upon his face.

“‘Needn’t fear further punishment?’” she repeated very softly. “Even though I have hurt this girl who has inspired so much love and respect in those who know her?”

Her eyes flitted over the Weasleys, Jae and his associates, Andre, KC, Erika, McNully, and Skye briefly, but seemed to stay largely locked on Orion. It was clear -- to Orion, at least -- that she could see right through his vagueness. She knew that he was speaking of himself, even more than anyone else who might be fond of Carewyn.

Orion’s lips came together in a straight line.

“Given that I cannot think of any personal reason you might have to plot my death, it’s only reasonable to presume Lord Malfoy -- and perhaps others -- coaxed you into using your magic for evil,” he murmured. “So I don’t find it unlikely that you did not actively set out to harm Carewyn Cromwell. Therefore the people she loves shouldn’t assign their ire to you, but to your employer.”

Something hardened in Orion’s eyes at the last words. It was very clear that he knew exactly who that had to have been.

“I daresay you might ease some of the pain you have caused her -- and therefore perhaps your own guilt -- should the person behind the injury to her soul and your flesh face proper justice.”

Rakepick considered Orion for another long moment. Then, finally, she inclined her head in something of a nod, her dark blue eyes never leaving Orion’s.

“I will tell you...so long as you give me your word that I shall never have to look at Carewyn Cromwell’s name on my arm and wonder about the extent of her suffering again.”

Orion’s eyes softened. “I give you my word.”

Rakepick told them everything -- about how Jacob had been brought to the Cromwell estate on death’s door with the Plague; how Charles had capitalized on a favor she owed him to convince her to come and cure Jacob; how Jacob was already beyond her reach when she arrived, and so she only was able to give him one more day in the realm of the living; how, not long after leaving, she found her arm being cut open with the scars of the Cromwell children’s names and -- upon confronting Charles -- learned that her act of charity had instead been used to coax Carewyn to remain at the Cromwell estate. When Percy demanded to know why Rakepick never went to Carewyn to tell her the truth, Rakepick had no good answer, but Orion thought it was very clear that it was more out of shame than anything. Penny even commented that casting a spell that caused such damage would be crippling to just about any magician, due to how central the doctrine of magic being used for protection was. It was Jae who pushed Rakepick on who had coaxed her to target Orion -- and sure enough, without much reluctance, she identified Charles Cromwell. After all, she was already likely to be locked up somewhere far out of his reach -- there was no sense in her protecting him anymore.

Orion had gone very, very quiet in the face of the revelation -- quieter than anyone had ever seen him, and in a very unsettling way. He clasped his hands very tightly together and actually had to physically remove himself from those assembled for a moment to regain his composure. Even those who had heard about the lie Charles told Carewyn from Bill -- Andre, KC, and Erika -- were very disturbed to hear the entire story with context. Jae looked very stunned and pale, like he had no idea what to do or say. Arthur had had to wrap his arms around Molly, since she’d started to cry. King Henri looked noticeably shaken.

“This...this can’t be true,” he said weakly. “Lord Cromwell loves his family -- he always speaks of how much he loves his grandchildren...and he was one of the first people who agreed to attend the ball with us, so as to give peace a chance! He said he would support our position, whatever it might be...”

“People can say things that aren’t true, Father,” said Andre in a very quiet voice.

“Well, yes, certainly, but...Lord Cromwell has always been a friend of the Crown, Henri. He’s always supported our family...”

“Can we even believe her, that he truly did everything she claims?” asked the Queen, her eyes very distrustful on Rakepick. “She could be trying to make things easier for herself...shift the blame elsewhere. Truly, it is only her word, that Lord Cromwell conspired with them to hurt King Cosimo.”

Skye shot a rather cold look at Malfoy. “Care to add your own testimony to that?”

Malfoy sneered. “I know full well that it would not endear me anymore to our bastard king whether I did or didn’t, Lady Parkin...so don’t hold your breath.”

Ron flushed with righteous anger. “Don’t call Orion a bastard, you no-good -- !”

“Mind your temper, Ronald,” said Molly as she held onto her son’s shoulders tightly, though she also shot a fierce look at Malfoy through her tears.

When he returned at last, Orion’s face was miraculously clear, but there was a noticeable hardness to his black eyes. His hands still clasped tightly in front of him, he inclined his head to Rakepick.

“Thank you, Madam, for your testimony,” he said lowly.

He then turned to Barnaby and Tulip still holding Lucius Malfoy, and then to Snape and Penny.

“Madame Rakepick and Mr. Malfoy will both need some medical attention for the wounds to their arms. Escort them to the castle prison, for the interim -- Miss Haywood, perhaps you could administer treatment there, once you’ve brewed the proper potions.”

Penny nodded, though she shot a beady look at both conspirators. “Yes, Your Majesty.”

“In the meantime,” Orion said, facing King Henri again, “I believe our time to speak on the matter of peace has finally come.”

King Henri nodded seriously. “It’s more than overdue, I’d say...and not just because of how long the ball has gone on, either.”

And so Orion, his two advisors Skye and McNully, and the entire Royaumanian royal family retired to a smaller, quieter room to talk. It seemed that the ball had indeed been successful in persuading the King of Royaume to consider peace, though not for the reason anyone intended. Orion’s grace and wisdom in the face of the assassination attempt, even to those who had been responsible for carrying it out, truly had swayed Andre’s father more than his hospitality ever could have alone. Within a half-hour, King Henri had agreed to sign a peace treaty with Orion that would finally bring the Fifty-Year War between their two countries to an end once and for all.

The entire time Orion spoke with the Royaumanian royal family, the “stained glass” slipper he’d fetched from the front staircase sat on the table at his side. During a lull in the conversation, Andre finally addressed it.

“King Cosimo,” he said, “might I have a look at that?”

Orion’s black eyes twinkled. “Of course.”

Andre picked it up gently in both hands, considering it.

“A striking design,” he said. “Diamond on the outside, for durability, I should think...but made mostly of cloth, for the sake of comfort. Yet the cloth itself is painted so well, it looks like it were made of stained glass...”

His lips were curled up with a rather wry smile as he glanced at KC, who was likewise smiling.

“...It’s a truly remarkable shoe.”

“It is lovely,” agreed the Queen, completely naïve to her son and niece’s knowing expressions. “Your mysterious princess was wearing that this evening, wasn’t she?”

Orion raised his eyebrows. “My ‘mysterious princess?’”

“Oh, I’m sorry,” the Queen chortled behind her hand, “that’s just what everyone else was calling her. Naturally her posture and overall manner communicated noble heritage, but I asked around, and nobody seemed to know who she was...so it was theorized that she was a princess of some foreign nation you’d invited...”

King Henri frowned in thought. “Mm, yes...but you said your maiden was Royaumanian, King Cosimo. Pray, who is she?”

Orion shot a quick, significant glance at Andre and KC before offering the King and Queen a smile.

“...That is a fine question,” he said mildly. “But I’m afraid I have no name I can give you.”

Not so long as Lord Cromwell is at your side.

His black eyes softened as he looked down at the slipper in Andre’s hands.

“...She is, however...my equal and one true match, in every way. The only person I could ever envision living the rest of my life with.”

The Queen’s expression seemed to light up as she clutched her hands over her heart. “Oh, how romantic...falling in love with a stranger at a masked ball, only for her to disappear just as mysteriously as she appeared...all without you even knowing her name!”

KC brought a hand up to her upturned lips thoughtfully. “Hmm...well, perhaps there might be a way to fix that.”

Orion’s unflappable expression flickered with some interest. “Oh?”

KC smiled more broadly. “Well, Royaume and Florence will be allies now...it’d be only right that we express that with a gesture of good faith.”

“Hmm, yes,” said King Henri, considering this himself. “Especially considering the good faith you’ve showed us, King Cosimo. Very well! We shall try to find this mysterious maiden of yours.”

Despite how startled he must have been, Orion somehow managed to maintain his cool. “That’s...very generous, King Henri...but I fear that my lady might not deem it safe to identify herself. Why else would she attend, garbed in such a strong illusion?”

King Henri waved a hand dismissively. “If she’s truly so concerned, then the Crown of Royaume may offer its protection. She is one of our subjects, after all.”

Orion’s heart clenched. Would he really protect Carewyn...even from the man he still had trouble believing would have hurt her so badly?

“She must be among one of the noble families at court,” said the Queen eagerly. “I’m certain if we make it known that the King of Florence wishes to marry her, she will come forward...”

Orion’s olive face betrayed a flush. “Marry?”

“Well, you said she was the only one you could imagine living the rest of your life with, didn’t you?” Skye muttered to him with a mischievous smirk.

Orion’s flush darkened and he clasped his hands a bit more anxiously. “Yes, I did, but -- ”

McNully cut Orion off before he could conjure up a proper objection by addressing the Queen.

“Ah, but if you merely say that, your Majesty, there’ll be plenty of women who might claim to be King Cosimo’s mysterious princess, just to land a throne,” he said, looking almost as mischievous as Skye. “We would need some way to determine who’s telling the truth and who isn’t.”

Andre’s lips curled up in a rather sassy white smile. “Leave it to me -- I think I know just what to do, to ensure we locate our ‘princess.’”

Before Orion knew it, it had been decided that Andre would track down the mysterious owner of the “stained glass” slipper. It was only when the King and Queen were out of earshot that Orion finally managed to pull Andre aside enough to try to protest.

“Andre,” he said under his breath, “I know we...all of us already know who the owner of the slipper is. I would even guess you made it for her. None of this is necessary.”

“On the contrary,” said KC. “If we just strolled up to Carewyn and identified her as the ‘mysterious princess,’ no one would believe it. Even if we just had her try on the slipper, people could argue it was a fluke. But Carewyn’s shoe size is distinctly unusual -- you said she once told you her mother used to have to order custom shoes for her, right, Andre?”

“Yes,” said Andre. “They’re incredibly narrow, and yet slightly large, for a woman her height and age. Not to mention it’s 1/4 larger than the closest standard shoe size and her toes are slightly longer than average. I had to study a whole stack of cobblers’ books just to figure out how to make sure the shoes I made actually fit.”

KC nodded. “Therefore only Carewyn will be able to wear that shoe. And if she fits them when no one else in Royaume could, then no one can cast doubts on whether she was really the one who saved your life -- not even Charles Cromwell. And if that’s the case, the King will have to put her under his protection, just as he said he would.”

“But offering my hand in marriage...” mumbled Orion, an almost self-conscious flush clinging to his cheeks. “Carewyn would not seek out that kind of incentive -- ”

“No, but it stands to encourage more people to try the shoe and fail,” McNully pointed out, “and every additional ten people who don’t fit the shoe would bolster KC’s point by a good 12%.”

Orion looked rather unsettled as he looked down at his clasped hands. Andre clapped a hand on his shoulder.

“Don’t worry, Orion,” Andre said confidently. “If you really don’t want to marry Carewyn yet, I’m sure she’ll be willing to wait for you. Think of it this way -- at least you’ll be able to see her again!”

Orion shook his head. “No -- I mean, yes, that is a benefit -- I had hoped that opening up about ‘my lady’ might illicit some support from your parents, in me visiting Carewyn in the future, rather than...”

He brushed the end of the sentence aside.

“Regardless -- all of this can only be a benefit if Charles Cromwell is dealt with first,” he said, as an odd shadow passed over his face. “He'll never allow Carewyn to be happy or free, so long as he remains powerful...and King Henri is still reluctant to see Charles Cromwell for the creature he truly is...”

“Don’t worry,” KC said with a smirk, “I’ve already factored that element into our strategy.”

McNully’s eyes were sparkling as he grinned at KC. “As to be expected by Royaume’s most brilliant strategist.”

KC’s cheeks darkened with a proud blush. Skye rolled her eyes, but was still smiling amusedly.

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7-Year D.A.D.A. Syllabus (Professor!Harry AU)

I’m a sucker for details, so I made up a syllabus for all seven years of Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts (as I headcanon Harry would teach it) for the fic I’m writing. Figure that, since I already made it, I might as well put it out there. Feel free to use it — or parts of it — for fanworks of your own.

Two things!

For each year, I list topics to be covered and group some learning objectives or specifications/suggestions under each topic — but they’re not in order. Professor!Harry wouldn’t cover solely one topic at a time, but most likely group topics together and teach the necessary spells as the class went through activities.

I also made two lists of spells under each Year — one which lists the spells students would learn while in DADA class, and another which lists the spells that students might use in DADA class but which would be learned in either Transfiguration or Charms.

More essay-length notes included at the very end of the Read More, since this is already getting too long.

[Syllabus begins]

Year 1: What kinds of danger are there in the wizarding world? And how do you know something is dangerous?

“...Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain! Why didn’t you show the diary to me, or your mother? A suspicious object like that, it was clearly full of Dark Magic--”

“I d-didn’t know...”

(HP&CS, ch 18)

Topics to Cover:

Detecting Danger

Identify potentially dangerous objects

Identify suspicious situations

Common Encounters

Ghosts

Poltergeists

Hags

Vampires

Ghouls

Doxies

Calling for Help

Shoot red and green sparks from wands

Describe what Aurors are and know when to call them

Accurately operate the Floo network

Physical — Reflexes and Speed

Snowball fights with low visibility, catch a practice snitch

Tag, races

Spells to Learn:

Human-presence Revealing Spell (Homenum Revelio)

Jinx Revealing Spell [not canon, as far as I know, but it should be!]

Green Sparks Spell (Verdillious)

Red Sparks Spell (Vermillious)

Smokescreen Spell (Fumos)

Spells to Use Besides:

Wand-Lighting Charm (Lumos)

Wand-Extinguishing Charm (Nox)

Year 2: How do wizards fight with magic? And what do you do if you’re hit by a spell?

“I don’t think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?”

“I’ve used it against him [...] But if you think it’s beneath you, you can leave,” Harry said.

Smith did not move. Nor did anybody else.

(HP&OotP, ch 18)

Topics to Cover:

Dueling — Introduction

Rules to formal dueling

Stances

Healing — Introduction

Basic principles: clean the wound, stop the blood flow, don’t sleep in case of head injury

Potions and salves interlude: identify which substances are needed in the healing and care of different types of wounds, including bites, stings, lacerations, and blunt trauma

Chocolate

Uncommon Encounters

Banshees

Trolls

Zombies

Pogrebin

Yetis

Kappas

Dragons

Physical — Accuracy and Coordination

Target practice, both spellfire and nonmagical, still and moving

Spells to Learn:

Full Body-Bind Curse (Petrificus Totalus)

Leg-Locker Curse (Locomotor Mortis)

Knockback Jinx (Flipendo)

Trip Jinx [incantation unknown]

Freezing Charm (Immobulus)

Disarming Charm (Expelliarmus)

Spells to Use Besides:

General Counter-Spell (Finite Incantatem)

Dancing Feet Spell (Tarantallegra)

Tickling Charm (Rictusempra)

Year 3: How do you defend yourself against dark creatures? How do you defend when at a disadvantage?

The screwt was inches from him when it froze — he had managed to hit it on its fleshy, shell-less underside. Panting, Harry pushed himself away from it and ran, hard, in the opposite direction — the Impediment Curse was not permanent; the screwt would be regaining the use of its legs at any moment.

(HP&GoF, ch 31)

Topics to Cover:

Dark Creatures

Red Caps

Grindylows

Hinkypunks

Boggarts

Werewolves

Acromantulas

Lethifolds

Dementors

Basiliks

Inferi

Physical — Endurance and Teamwork

Mock-battles in teams

Activity after performing magically-exhausting spells

Obstacle courses

Dueling — Creative Thinking

Use physical surroundings to an advantage

Apply spells to surroundings as distraction, obstacle, or shelter

Charms and Transfiguration encouraged

Create viable strategies in various terrains

Spells to Learn:

Boggart-Banishing Spell (Riddikulus)

Spider Repelling Spell (Arania Exumai)

Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronum) — incorporeal

Freezing Spell (Glacius)

Banishing Charm (Depulso)

Spells to Use Besides:

Fire-Making Spell (Incendio)

Softening Charm (Spongify)

Lumos Maxima

Severing Charm (Diffindo)

Engorgement Charm (Engorgio)

Shrinking Charm (Reducio)

Avifors [turns small objects into birds]

Reparifarge [un-transfiguration spell, undo wrong castings]

Locomotion Charm (Locomotor)

Year 4: When is the law on your side? Can you talk your way out of a dangerous situation?

“Cruc—”

“NO!” shouted Hermione [...]

Ron froze, his eyes wide; Ginny stopped trying to stamp on her Slytherin captor’s toes; even Luna looked mildly surprised.

(HP&OotP, ch 32)

Topics to Cover:

Legality

Identify when it is legally advisable to defend using magic

Identify the types of magic that are illegal and why — the Unforgivables, necromancy, muggle-baiting, etc.

Conflict De-escalation

Think critically even while provoked or afraid

Identify hostile entity’s POV and immediate desires, and use these to stall, lie, reason, trap, compromise, bargain, and/or flee

Reason-able Entities

Review: Vampires, hags, banshees

Sphinxes

Giants

Merfolk

Counter-Curses

Understand theory of counter-curses

Describe what counter-spells work for which curses

Physical — Competitive Dueling — Reading an Opponent’s Style

Apply different spellcasting and dueling strategies

Identify strategies used by opponent and counter them

Use opponent’s characteristics and habits against them

Spells to Learn:

Shield Charm (Protego)

Stunning Spell (Stupefy)

Reviving Spell (Rennervate)

Impediment Jinx (Impedimenta)

Reductor Curse (Reducto)

Deprimo [blast hole in floor]

Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronum) — corporeal

Spells to Use Besides:

Summoning Charm (Accio)

Ventus [strong gust of wind]

Year 5: What does DADA look like in the real world?

“You don’t know what it’s like! You — neither of you[...] You think it’s just memorizing a bunch of spells and throwing them at him[...] The whole time you’re sure you know there’s nothing between you and dying except your own — your own brain or guts or whatever — [...] they’ve never taught us that in their classes[...]”

(HP&OotP, ch 15)

Topics to Cover:

Review!!!!

All Common Encounters

Zombies, inferi, banshees, werewolves, boggarts, and hinkypunks

Dueling rules, stances, and common strategies

Legality

Counter-curse theory and practical

Knockback Jinx, Disarming Charm, Boggart-Banishing Spell, Shield Charm, Stunning Spell, Impediment Jinx, and Patronus Charm

Passive Defense

Understand warding theory

Describe the use and purpose of various wards

Physical — Competitive Dueling — Fighting as a Team

Apply all previous Physical and Dueling objectives in a team competition, in both dueling platforms and challenging terrains

Survival Skills

Apply all previous knowledge to survive various dangerous hypothetical situations

Student presentation!

Spells to Learn:

Salvio hexia [deflects hexes in an area]

Cave inimicum [conceals presence within an area so caster can’t be seen, heard, or smelled]

Intruder Charm [alarms caster]

Caterwauling Charm [loud alarm]

Shield Charm variants (Protego Maxima, Protego Totalum, Protego Horribilis)

Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronum) — corporeal against pseudo-dementor

Spells to Use Besides:

[literally any spell they can think of that might help them in the hypothetical situations posed]

Year 6: What does dark magic look like? What can it do? And what can we do against it?

“The Dark Arts,” said Snape, “are many, varied, ever-changing, and eternal[...] You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible[...] Your defenses,” said Snape, a little louder, “must therefore be as flexible and inventive as the arts you seek to undo...”

(HP&HBP, ch 9)

Topics to Cover:

Dark Arts Case Study — Curses

Students choose a specific dark curse/spell and research how it’s been used in the past, what it does, how it works, and most importantly, how to counter it

Curse-Breaking

Recognize common curses, identify them on objects or locations

Know how to remove said curses

Safely handle the cursed object or location while removing the curse

Healing — Spells

Know when to use foundational healing spells and in what order

Understand the danger of incorrectly-cast healing spells and avoid such situations [not canon, but headcanon of mine]

Dueling — Nonverbal Casting

Emphasis on being able to cast the General Counter-Spell, Shield Charm, and Disarming Charm nonverbally with confidence

Introduction to spells that work better when nonverbal

Spells to Learn:

Episkey [heals small lacerations]

Anapneo [unblocks airway]

Bandaging Charm (Ferula)

Vulnera Sanetur [heals serious wounds]

Confundus Charm (Confundo)

Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronum) — nonverbal

[ideally, I’d list curse-breaking spells here, but I can’t find any canon ones, so... insert spells that break curses here]

Students will inevitably learn dark curses, though they are not expected to (are in fact, expected not to) use them

Spells to Use Besides:

Tergeo [wipes clean]

Switching Spell [incantation unknown]

Silencing Spell (Silencio)

Year 7: How have wizards used dark magic? And how do you defend against esoteric magic?

It’s gone wrong, he thought… it’s drowned… please… please let it be dead…

But then, though the mist in front of him, he saw, with an icy surge of terror, the dark outline of a man, tall and skeletally thin, rising slowly from inside the cauldron […]

Lord Voldemort had risen again.

(HP&GoF, ch 32)

Topics to Cover:

Review!!!!

Dueling strategies and nonverbal casting

All Dark Creatures

Counter-curses

Curse-Breaking

Passive Defense

Shield Charm, Disarming Charm, Boggart-Banishing Spell, Stunning Spell, and Patronus Charm all nonverbal, plus [spells that break curses, whatever your headcanon is for them]

Dueling — Nonverbal and Competitive

Strictly nonverbal competitive dueling, applying all past lessons

Dark Arts Case Study — Dark Wizards

Students choose a dark witch or wizard from history and research how they gained influence, what sorts of dark magic they were known for, and how one might defend oneself against them

Mind Magic

Understand Legilimency and how to apply Occlumency against it (practical challenge optional and with consent)

Identify being under the influence of mind-altering curses and potions (including the Imperius Curse, Confundus Charm, love potions, and Veritaserum) and practice techniques to fight against them (practical challenge only with consent, highly encouraged)

Understand the theory of possession and how to throw it (no practical)

Spells to Learn:

Patronus Charm (Expecto Patronum) — completely mastered

Students will inevitably learn dark curses, though they are not expected to (are in fact, expected not to) use them

Spells to Use Besides:

Focus continues to be using previously-known spells nonverbally [so, once again, any spells can be under this category]

[Syllabus ends]

Notes

When making this, I tried to keep in mind

What Harry, based on his life experiences, might believe students need to learn

How difficult spells are to learn, canonically

What the Ministry expects Harry to teach them (and what will therefore be in their OWLs and NEWTs)

The purpose of the DADA class in general, and

How the rest of the classes in Hogwarts have been impacted by the yearly change in DADA professor

What do students need to learn?

The closest we can come to answering that first question is Harry’s experiences teaching Dumbledore’s Army. Unfortunately, we don’t see much of these lessons. What we do see tends to be combat-oriented — Harry tells the DA about a spell and then gives advice on their casting as they practice on each other. It’s all practical, no theory at all except for the books on the shelves in the Room of Requirement, and nothing on magical creatures (though this might be because he felt Lupin had already done a good job on that front).

Harry’s lessons to the DA were cut short, besides, just as they had reached the Patronus Charm — so we don’t know for sure what Harry would have gone on to teach them. I like to think that, if he was the professor, the answer would have just been — everything.

Everything he knows. Everything he’s used to defend himself.

He knows first hand that it’s not just about knowing the spells, that there’s a lot more to surviving than being a good duelist — he even says so outright when discussing the DA with Ron and Hermione. And I think that, as he continued to teach, his lessons would begin to reflect that.

The first thing that comes to mind — besides spells and combat — is physical activity. Learn how to dodge, get used to running, hone your reflexes, etc. DADA would be the PE of Hogwarts with Harry as professor. The second things that came to mind were wards and healing — things that are, admittedly, used far more creatively and often in fanfiction than in canon smh. Still, the canon use of them is there, and Harry relied on that knowledge during his camping trip from hell, so.

What’s on the OWLs and NEWTs?

Apart from just the things Harry would want to teach as part of DADA, there’s also whatever the Board of Governors expect him to teach — what will be on the OWLs and NEWTs.

Sometimes (most times? depending on your interpretation of Harry) this coincides with what Harry would teach anyway. However, I explain in this post why I think the Ministry would want to emphasize defense against magical creatures. I also imagine they would want the Legality section above taught at some point, though we know Harry found it horrifically boring in the fifth book.

The Review!!!! section in Year 5 is comprised mostly of whatever I deemed the minimum a student should know to not immediately die by the time they step out of Hogwarts + whatever the Ministry might want all students to know + the bare bones of defensive spells that one might use against a wizard.

All students take a DADA OWL because it is a required class for the first five years. At this point, students who are not interested in the subject and/or do not need a DADA OWL for their intended career will drop the subject. I tried to reflect this on the syllabus by making NEWT years more specialized — on the assumption that careers that require a DADA NEWT will also require specialization within the field.

How difficult is this class?

Harry would be a demanding teacher. I know a lot of people headcanon him as the fun teacher — and I do think a lot of his lessons would be fun, and he would try to make them fun — but I can easily imagine him getting annoyed when people don’t take his class seriously. The DA was voluntary, and everyone there wanted to learn and practice defensive spells; a lot of children in a time of peace would not see it that way. Many would drag their feet at the physical activity and complain about the hard work, the hard spells, and when are we ever going to use this anyway?

So I do think that, even when he isn’t actively trying to push his students, Harry’s DADA class would be hard. He sees himself as an average wizard — even though his teachers called him bright, even though people tell him he’s exceptionally good at defense — he thinks he’s nothing special, and he knows that if he can do it, you can too! So yes, he’d have high expectations and his class would be especially difficult if you’re not that into it.

Which is why some of the spells above are listed one year (or more!) earlier than the DADA class in canon presented them. Not that many, honestly. (The starkest difference is Homenum Revelio, which I listed as a Year 1 spell, but we only see Hermione use it canon in Deathly Hallows. But hey — canon spell difficulty isn’t mentioned; it could very easily be the case that Hermione simply hadn’t known the spell until then, or hadn’t thought to use it.)

We just don’t know very much about what makes a spell difficult. A recurring spell throughout this syllabus is the Patronus Charm — it’s listed under Spells to Learn in Year 3 and then continues being listed all the way through Year 7. That’s because it’s supposed to be an especially difficult spell (”beyond NEWT level”)... and Harry mastered it in his third year. So of course — if you’re following my interpretation of Harry — he would start teaching it in Year 3.

He might make allowances, given that apart from him, we only know of a few people who managed to cast it before their fifth year (Luna, Ginny, while in Dumbledore’s Army) and not while suffering the effects of a dementor, at that. So next to every reiteration of the Patronus Charm in the syllabus, I included what I think would be Harry’s minimum expectation of success.

DADA vs. Hogwarts

Why is the Knockback Jinx canonically taught in Charms class? This is complete speculation, but Flitwick (and maybe McGonagall) probably had to pick up the slack after a few years of the DADA professor position being cursed.

As the years went by and as Hogwarts expended all the competent teachers and scared away the rest, OWLs and NEWTs continued demanding the same results. Student performance on these tests must have steadily dropped, and I think spells that would have usually been covered by the DADA professor gradually shifted unto Charms class.

That might explain why Harry learned some offensive magic in Charms class instead of DADA — but the only reason I’m mentioning this right now is because I included a lot of charms in the Spells to Learn list that I’m quite sure were canonically covered in Charms class, but which I wanted Harry to cover earlier that Flitwick did. Oh well.

Concluding thoughts

This took way longer than I thought it would. Just... the sheer amount of time spent referencing the wiki, the Lexicon, the books... I checked the wiki’s specific references, too.

...But, hey, I had fun thinking about Harry Potter.

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inagetawaycarxo · 5 years ago

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𝓥𝓪𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼

Whats love without some fluff, smut & angst… Requests are open for valentines *READER INSERT ONLY* Requesting for Valentine’s Day ends at the end of February. Send in the fictional character/celeb, as well as the prompt. If you have a selected valentine idea of your own send it in. NOTE: LI= celeb or fictional character of your choosing. Don’t be vague when requesting.

𝓣𝔂𝓹𝓮

Smut

Headcanon

Preferences

Imagine

Oneshot

Drabble

Blurb

Gif Imagine

Gif Drabble { for Gif imagine/drabble Please submit your request/as well as the gif}

Song fic

Moodboard

Aesthetic

𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓽𝓼

𝓕𝓵𝓾𝓯𝓯

❛It’s you. It’s always been you.❜

❛Are you gonna kiss me?❜

❛You were always worth it. You were always enough.❜

❛I want everything, and I want it with you.❜

❛I wanna spend the rest of my sunsets with you.❜

❛She likes you, but she’s too shy to tell you.❜

❛Your smile is literally the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life.❜

❛You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies. You have me.❜

❛You’re interesting, and different, and I like that.❜

❛And all I want is to be hugged, kissed, wanted, and loved, preferably by you.❜

❛I like you more than I planned.❜

❛You smell like love.❜

❛You’re the reason why I’m smiling again.❜

❛You make me feel things I didn’t believe in anymore.❜

❛You’re it, you’re my person.❜

❛Kiss me again.❜

❛That’s my girl.❜

❛As long as I have you, nothing else matters.❜

❛Grab my waist, pull me closer, kiss me.❜

❛You’re just like a dream.❜

𝓐𝓷𝓰𝓼𝓽

❛It was always you.❜

❛Stop checking your phone he’s not going to text you.❜

❛‘Don’t leave me’ he said, and walked away.❜

❛All the memories come back, but he never does.❜

❛All the memories come back, but she never does.❜

❛I wish you were here to tell me that everything is gonna be okay.❜

❛You let him go. It’s better that way. For you or him?❜

❛But you’re back now-❜ - ❛I didn’t come back for you.❜

❛I wonder if he lies awake at night missing me the way I miss him.❜

❛Why do we always want what we can’t have?❜

❛You and I will always be unfinished business.❜

❛It was all a dream.❜

❛Its not that serious.❜

❛You’re not a bad boy, you’re just a bad person.❜

❛But ‘just friends’ don’t look at each other like that.❜

❛Missing you comes in waves, and tonight I’m drowning.❜

❛I cant do this anymore.❜

❛He doesn’t even know I exist.❜

❛I can’t fall for anyone else because of you.❜

❛I miss the way things used to be.❜

❛Tell me I’ll see you again.❜

❛No reason to stay is a good reason to go.❜

❛You ruined me and I called it love.❜

❛You were the hardest lesson I ever had to learn.❜

❛Don’t give up on something that matters.❜

❛You never people as much as you miss them.❜

❛I got a mind full of unsaid things.❜

❛The bigger the love, the harder the fall.❜

❛You probably don’t think about me at all, and that hurts.❜

𝓢𝓶𝓾𝓽

❛Your sexiness is distracting me.❜

❛I want you in my bed, and between my legs.❜

❛I love the way you fuck me.❜

❛So wet and waiting.❜

❛I may look calm but in my head I’ve fucked you ten times.❜

❛I want you to run your tongue up my inner thighs.❜

❛If I was naked in front of you right now, what would you do to me?❜

❛If you can still walk, then we’re not finished.❜

❛You have no idea how much I crave you.❜

❛Let’s misbehave.❜

𝓘𝓷𝓫𝓮𝓽𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓷

❛It began as a mistake.❜

❛How can I be upset over something I never had?❜

❛Are you crying?❜ - ❛Nope, I got something in my eye.❜

❛I wouldn’t have sex with you if you were the last person on earth.❜

❛I’ve been thinking about you.❜ - ❛Try a cold shower.❜

❛Can you two just date already.❜

❛Dick is everywhere. Chemistry isn’t.❜

❛A million times over, I will always choose you.❜

❛Its always you.❜

❛Don’t worry, the right ones won’t leave.❜

❛Little does she know, he thinks about her too.❜

❛It’s driving me insane how I can’t have you.❜

❛I’m madly in love with you.❜ – ❛Well, good luck with that.❜

❛The bad days don’t stay bad forever.❜

❛ Nothing changes if nothing changes.❜

❛I feel nothing for you. - Nothing, uh? - Nothing.❜

❛I’m not jealous, I’m territorial. Jealous is when you want something that’s not yours. Territorial is protecting what’s already yours.❜

❛I will always care for you, even if we’re not together, and even if we are far, far away from each other.❜

❛You’re all that matters to me.❜

❛I’ve never trusted someone as much as I’ve trusted you.❜

❛We could be so much more.❜

❛I kinda wanna be more than friends.❜

𝓢𝓬𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓼

Forehead kiss

Making out

Neck kisses

Thigh kisess

Hand kiss

Cheek kiss

Nose kiss

Eskimo kiss

French kiss

Bite kisses

Body kisses

Earlobe kisses

Kisses

Hugging

Bear hug

side hug

Back hug

Hugging from behind

Tight hug

Straddle hug

Eye to eye hug

Hug with resting heads on each other

Twirling around hug

Hug around waist

Slow dance hug

Catcher hug

Wedding

Love Triangle

First “I Love You’s.”

House Hunting

Reunited

PDA

Interruptions

___ Asking You Out Would Include

Breakup

Makeup

You Run Into Them After the Breakup

Dating Headcanon

They Get Jealous

Jealousy Headcanon

The Makeup Tag

Cuddling

You Get A Pet Together

Insecurities

Amusement Park

Time Of The Month

Meeting For the First Time

First Kiss

Being Married To ___ Would Include

Post Breakup, Run In’s

Speak Now Or Forever Hold your Peace

Sex Headcanon

Sleeping Headcanon

Losing Your Virginity {The Lead Up & The Aftermath}

Meeting Yours/Their Child From A Previous Relationship

Taking A Bath Together

Sleepless Nights

Spending Valentines Day With ___

Long Distance Relationship

Coffee dates

Midnight car rides

Candy hearts

Roses

Chocolates

Flowers

Teddy bear

Kinky accessories

Valentine cards

Lingerie

Love coupons

Stay at home date

Breakfast in bed

Movie theatre

Candlelight dinner

Blind date/ set up by friends

Movie night

Ate for a date

Wrong restaurant

Strangers alone on Valentine’s Day

Rained out picnic

Surprise date while working late

Forgot to get anything

Forgot

Babysitter canceled

Family date night

Secret admirer

Pick up lines

Asking to be valentines

Confessing feelings

Surprise date

Love letters

Proposal

Fancy dinner

First meeting

Double date

Wingman

Serenade

Cuddling gets handys

Flirting

Secrecy admirer/secret crush

Date gone wrong

Stood up

Vibrating panties

They broke the readers heart in the past and wants the reader back

Reader believes no one can ever love her

Breakfast in bed

Romantic movies

A quiet night t home

Kiss at midnight

Speed Dating

Breakup to makeup

Accidental kiss

Almost kiss

Blind Date

Camping

Carnival

Family don’t approve

Handcuffed together

Height difference

Love confession

Meddling family/friends

Post Breakup

Protective

Possessive

Recreate your first date

Restaurant

Road trip

Stranded

Strangers who end up on kiss cam

Kiss cam

Volunteer together

Vacation

One of them is promised to someone else

One of them is married to someone else

LI/Reader is interested in someone else in addition to Reader/LI

LI/Reader is infatuated with someone else instead of Reader/LI

Their together is limited

IntImacy issues

Their love is forbidden by others (family etc, media, people)

LI/Reader into something Reader/LI doesn’t like

Different classes

LI/Reader believes no one truly loves them

It was supposed to be sex only

Their love was supposed to be fake

Faking it at first

Reader is a suspect {probably best of Chicago P.D.}

LI/reader family is the worst

LI/Reader got a reputation

Terrible first impressions

LI broke Readers heart in the past

Trust issues

LI/Reader doesn’t see LI/Reader in a romantic way

Anti-Valentines

𝓐𝓤’𝓢

One Night Stand AU

On the Run AU

Fake Engagement AU

Agent AU

Scandal-Induced Marriage AU

Tortured Hero AU

Agents Dating AU

Awkward First Meeting AU

Firefighter AU

Love Turns Them Evil AU

Accidental Pregnancy AU

Best Friends Sibling AU

Millionaire AU

Teacher/Parent AU

Unholy Matrimony {Villainous married couple} AU

Weakness Turns On Lover AU

Bodyguard Betrayal AU

Arranged Marriage AU

Angel AU

Age Gap/Difference AU

Adopt A Pet AU

Affair AU

Amnesia AU

Actor AU

Actress AU

Angel/Demon AU

Animal Shelter AU

Alpha/Beta/Omega AU

Babysitter AU

Babysitting AU

Boss AU

Betrayal AU

Best Friends Wedding AU

Blackmail AU

Bodyguard AU

Bakery AU

Bartender AU

Beach AU

Bed Sharing AU

Costars AU

Coffee Shop AU

Cozy Cabin In The Woods AU

Crush AU

Childhood Friends AU

CEO AU

Coworkers AU

Detective AU

Dog Walker AU

Domestic AU

Demon AU

Double Agent AU

Dom/Sub AU

Doctor/Doctor AU

Doctor/Nurse AU

Damsel In Distress AU

Doctor AU

Doctor/Patient AU

Dimension Hoping AU

Enemies To Lovers AU

Ex AU

Fuck Buddies AU

Friends To Lovers AU

Friends With Benefits AU

Fake Relationship AU

Fake Dating AU

Fake Marriage AU

Fake Ex’s AU

Fling AU

Forbidden Love AU

First Love AU

Flower Shop AU

Florist AU

Gangster AU

House Sitter AU

Hanahaki Disease AU

Heat AU

Hospital AU

Hero AU

Internet Friends AU

Jilted Bride AU

Kidnapped AU

Love Affair AU

Love/Hate Relationship AU

Love Triangle AU

Lured Into A Trap AU

Love Spell AU

Lost In The Woods AU

Mob!Boss AU

Mafia AU

Mechanic AU

Mistaken Identity AU

Marriage AU

Movie Night/Date AU

Merman AU

Mermaid AU

Neighbour AU

New Neighbour AU

Nurse AU

One Sided Love AU

Office Romance AU

Personal Assistant AU

Private Detective AU

Pen Pals AU

Paramedic AU

Parent AU

Police Officer AU

Rivals To Lovers AU

Retreat Weekend AU

Roommates AU

Runaway Bride AU

Runaway Groom AU

Reunion/Reunited Lovers AU

Resurrection AU

Rivalry To Romance AU

Rockstar AU

Runaway AU

Sugar Daddy AU

Sleeping With The Ex AU

Sleeping With Te Boss AU

Secret Relationship AU

Secret Baby AU

Single Parent AU

Secret Angel AU

Surfer AU

Time Travel AU

Teacher/Single Parent AU

Time Travelers AU

Unrequited Love AU

Undercover Cop AU

Vampire/Werewolf AU

Vampire AU

Veterinarian AU

Waitress AU

Wedding Planner AU

Werewolf AU

Witch AU

Writer AU

𝓝𝓢𝓕𝓦

Nipple kisses

Genital kisses

Phone sex

Skype sex

Trailer sex

Plane sex

Against the wall

Double penetration

Triple penetration

Threesome

Comfort sex

Dominance/ Sub sex

69’ing

Locker room sex

Hotel room sex

Quickie

Masturbating.

Getting caught.

Handcuff sex.

Sex in a hot tub {or jucuzzi}

Car sex

Beach sex

Elevator sex

Public sex

Celebration sex

Honeymoon sex

Sex in a candle lit room

Sex under the stars

Sex marathon {everyday}

Mirror sex

Office sex

Rough sex

Jealous sex

Angry sex

Kinky sex

Breakup sex

Makeup sex

On a table sex

Shower sex

Bath sex

Making love

Slow sex

Drunk sex

Sex on the dining table

Riding him

Sex tape

Strip tease

Teasing

Blindfold

Role play

Bondage

Tied up

Daddy kink

Sex games

Dry humping

Spanking

Squirting

Dirty talk

Sexting

Lap dance

First time

Booty call

Doggy style

First time orgasm

Orgasm denial

Orgasm control

Voyeurism

Oral

Fingering

Eating out

Blowjob

Sex toys

Ice play sexually

Sex with food.

𝓛𝓲𝓼𝓽

Chicago Fire;

Kelly Severide

Matt Casey

Sylvie Brett

Gabby Dawson

Chicago Med;

Connor Rhodes

Will Halstead

Ethan Choi

Chicago P.D.;

Jay Halstead

Adam Ruzek

Antonio Dawson

Kevin Atwater

Kim Burgess

Erin Lindsay

Hank Voight

Hailey Upton

Dceu;

Bruce Wayne

Diana Prince

Lena Luthor

Kara Danvers

Clark Kent

Marvel;

Bucky Barnes

Steve Rogers

Tony Stark

Thor

Peter Parker

Bruce Banner

Clint Barton

T’Challa

Loki

Wanda

Carol Danvers

Sam Wilson

Supernatural;

Dean Winchester

Demon!Dean

Sam Winchester

Castiel

Jack Kline

Crowley

Criminal Minds;

Derek Morgan

Spencer Reid

Luke Alvez

Chris Evans

Sebastian Stan

Jensen Ackles

Richard Madden

Zendaya

Jake Gyllenhaal

#chicago pd x reader #chicago pd imagine #chicago med x reader #chicago fire x reader #criminal minds x reader #spn x reader #marvel x reader #dceu x reader #dc x reader #chris evans x reader #sebastian stan x reader #richard madden x reader #jensen ackles x reader #jake gyllenhaal x reader #zendaya x reader #valentine prompts

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lostinthewinterwood · 5 years ago

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Past Imperfect

Right, so, uh. About that letter…

Well, it’s a bit late, but here you go. I haven’t done much in the way of prompts—the tags themselves are pretty good prompts, I feel, and I… sure did think I had more prompts in my head than are currently present—but I’ve at least consolidated it all in one place! Sorry it took me so long.

I’ve also requested all these fandoms before, so if you want to see more I’ve written about them check out the fandom-specific request tags for previous letters.

General DNW

non-con/dub-con;

explicit sexual content;

incest (incl. adoptive/chosen family);

a/b/o;

mpreg;

non-canonical permanent major character death;

complete downer endings;

hurt no comfort;

heavy angst;

on-page deliberate self-harm*;

on-page suicide;

gore;

graphic physical trauma;

character bashing;

cringe comedy;

fic-as-writer-soapbox;

fic that’s all about real-world bigotries or real-world politics;

canon-typical 2020;

unrequested full-setting AUs;

unrequested identity headcanons;

unrequested romance as the main plot.

*I don’t include things like, say, punching a wall in a fit of emotion under this. However, something like cutting would not be appreciated.

General Likes

– I really like plotty fics

– Secret identity and disguise shenanigans, the more layers to them and more absurdity the better.

– Crossdressing for whatever reason and gender disguises, also for whatever reason, though not as a fetish thing—that I enjoy less.

– Time travel and time loops are always fun (as i say for every exchange, but it’s a little obvious here innit)

– A focus on family and/or friendship, especially characters realizing they’re not nearly as alone as they think they are, and just generally characters who like each other and enjoy spending time together

– Found family; families of choice

– Character studies

– Worldbuilding

– Canon-divergence AUs and missing scenes; things set pre- or post-canon; wriggling into canon and poking at it to see what it spits back at you, if that description makes any sense at all.

Mother of Learning - nobody103

Fanfiction – Relationship

· Group: Zorian Kazinski & Zach Noveda (Mother of Learning)

· Group: Raynie & Kiana (Mother of Learning)

· Group: Kirielle Kazinski & Zorian Kazinski (Mother of Learning)

· Kirielle Kazinski (Mother of Learning)

fandom-specific dnw: romantic and/or sexual Zach/Zorian; physical parental abuse within the Kazinski family; significant exaggeration of canonical emotional neglect/abuse/general family dysfunction

· Canon Characters Meet Too Many Meddlers from the Future

· Character Gets Stranded With A Past or Future Version of Themselves

· Character Travels Back to When They Were Still a Massive Jackass

· different type of time travel than in canon

· different time traveler(s) than in canon

· Fixing the Timeline Requires Saving An Enemy

· Future Character Can't Tell Past Character Their Fate

· Peggy Sue

· Physical Time Travel to Past

· Secret Identity of Loved One Discovered While Stuck in Time Loop

· Spell goes wrong and results in time travel

· Stuck In A Time Loop With The Worst Person

· Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Groundhog Peggy Sue

· Time Travel Doesn't Work How Characters Think It Does; This Becomes A Problem

· Time Travel due to a Magical Artefact

· Time Travel due to a Magical Curse

· Time travel due to magical artifact breaking

· Time Travel Fix-it - Time Travelers Disagree On How To Fix The Problem

· Time Travel For Fun And Profit

· Time Travel into Body of Past Self Results in Cohabitation

· Time Travel to Close Causation Circle and Preserve the Present

· Time travel via magical locale

· Time Traveller Cannot Reveal Their True Identity

· Time Travelling Character is Wildly Overpowered

Star Wars: Rebels

Fanfiction – Relationship

· Group: Ahsoka Tano & Darth Vader (SW:R)

· Group: Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios/Alexsandr Kallus (SW:R)

Fandom-specific dnw: apologetics for space fascists

· Accidental Time Travel

· Character from future needs help from past version of beloved

· Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together

· Character Travels Back to When They Were Still a Massive Jackass

· Enemies Travel Back In Time Together

· Enemies-to-Lovers - Time Traveller Must Convince Enemy That They're Lovers in the Future

· Future Character Can't Tell Past Character Their Fate

· Peggy Sue

· Redeemed Villain Travels to Before Their Redemption

· Time Loop

· Time Loop - Fixing Character Death

· Time Loop - Mother of Learning rules and mechanics

· Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Both Characters Stuck in Loop

· Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Groundhog Peggy Sue

· Time Travel Fix-It - Derailing The Bad Guy's Descent Into Evil

· Time Travel into Body of Past Self Results in Cohabitation

· Time Travel into Body of Past Self Replacing Past Self

· Time Travel Through the Force

· Time Travel to Save Someone

· Time Travel Via A Spaceship Flying Through A Wormhole

· Time Traveler Trying to Change the Past is Hampered by Lack of Full Knowledge of the Past

· Time Traveller Cannot Reveal Their True Identity

Secret Society of Second-Born Royals (2020)

Fanfiction – Relationship

· Any Character

o Group: Catherine & Eleanor & Sam (SSoSBR)

o Group: January & Matteo & Roxana & Sam & Tuma (SSoSBR)

o Group: Sam & Eleanor (SSoSBR)

o Group: Sam & January (SSoSBR)

o Group: Sam & Mike Kleinberg (SSoSBR)

o Group: Sam/January (SSoSBR)

o Eleanor (Secret Society of Second-Born Royals)

o January (Secret Society of Second-Born Royals)

o Sam (Secret Society of Second-Born Royals)

Fandom-specific dnw: January as purely, irredeemably evil; absolute monarchy as unambiguously purely good.

Fandom-specific note: since I’d be super down for politics if they’re the politics of Illyria or the other countries the kids are from, it would be a bit silly to fully dnw real-world politics in this real-world-adjacent setting. Don’t worry about referencing real politics if that’s where you go with your fic; however, I would rather any focused-on politics be filtered through the context of the fictional countries the film uses, and please don’t reference real-world American politics post-2015. “unrequested full setting aus” dnw has been modified to “unrequested mundane aus” so if you want to, idk, put them in a fairytale au or a sports-but-still-have-powers au or something—go right ahead.

· Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together

· Enemies Travel Back In Time Together

· Enemies-to-Lovers - Time Traveller Must Convince Enemy That They're Lovers in the Future

· Redeemed Villain Travels to Before Their Redemption

· Secret Identity of Loved One Discovered While Stuck in Time Loop

· Stuck In A Time Loop With The Worst Person

· Time Loop

· Time Loop - Character and Enemy Are the Only People Aware of Looping

· Time Loop - Enemies Have To Work Together To Solve The Loop

· Time Loop - Intentionally Created for Problem Solving

· Time Loop - Looping character trying to save another character's life

· Time Loop - Mother of Learning rules and mechanics

· Time Travel Fix-It - Altering Canon or Backstory

· Time Travel Fix-It - Derailing The Bad Guy's Descent Into Evil

· Time Travel Fix-It - Seducing the Villain to Save the World/Timeline

· Time Travel Fix-it - Team Trying To Fix The Problem Together

· Time Travel Fix-it - Time Travelers Disagree On How To Fix The Problem

· Time travel to secretly visit deceased loved one

· Time Traveller Cannot Reveal Their True Identity

· Time Travelling Character is Wildly Overpowered

Original Work

Fanfiction – Relationship

· Group: Child Superhero & Their Concerned Supervillain Nemesis (OW)

· Group: Male Student Mage Disguised as a Girl/Female Fellow Student Mage (OW)

· Group: Male Student Mage Disguised as a Girl & Female Fellow Student Mage (OW)

· Group: Male Student Mage Disguised as a Girl/Female Student Warrior Disguised as a Boy (OW)

· Group: Male Student Mage Disguised as a Girl & Female Student Warrior Disguised as a Boy (OW)

· Group: Male Student Mage Disguised as a Girl & Male Student Warrior (OW)

· Group: Male Student Mage Disguised as a Girl & His Older Female Mentor (OW)

· Group: Spellsword Mercenary & Mathemagician (OW)

· Junior Priestess with Unusually Strong Magic (OW)

fandom-specific dnw: age gaps in ships of more than 3 or so years when one character is underage; predatory manipulation between characters in the relationship in service of the relationship–if characters are manipulating each other for non-relationship things and such that’s okay, but i’d rather both parties in any of the ships be interested in the romance of their own accord. Additionally, please don’t have characters react to any gender-disguised characters (or characters in general, but it’s most relevant to them) in transphobic or transphobic-adjacent ways (i.e. none of the characters are requested as trans, but I still wouldn’t want to see the kinds of comments people make about trans people aimed at them). I’d also rather not see any kind of serious relationship with at least one character disguising their gender pre-reveal of that disguise–flirting, starting to date a little is okay but if it’s going further please have them reveal it. Please don’t play into the idea of gender-disguised character as “trap”. If actual trans characters are present, then some transphobia isn’t a hard dnw—my gift in Heart Attack didn’t bother me at all.

also dnw characters requested as gender-disguised to be written as trans or to be written as absolutely loathing their disguise. other characters are fair game. if writing trans characters, dnw them to be explicitly nondysphoric (but not addressing it is fine).

…in my signup I alleged that there was some expansion to be had here, but I honestly have absolutely no idea what I was planning to write. Sorry about that.

fandom-specific note: the “setting au” dnw obviously does not apply here; my typical “identity headcanon” au dnw has been replaced by a dnw for “marginalized identities as the main focus of a fic” since there isn’t exactly a canon here lol.

· Accidentally Becoming a Famous Historical Figure Through Time Travel

· Adjusting to a Different Era

· Backwards Time Traveler Realizes They've Become a True Seer

· Character Gets Stranded With A Past or Future Version of Themselves

· Character Has Control of Mental Time Travel and Uses It to Save Scum

· Character Meets Their Child Self

· Character Travels Back to When They Were Still a Massive Jackass

· Making friends with a past version of an enemy

· One character likes other character's past self way more than they expected

· Peggy Sue

· Redeemed Villain Travels to Before Their Redemption

· Secret Identity of Loved One Discovered While Stuck in Time Loop

· Spell goes wrong and results in time travel

· Stuck In A Time Loop With The Worst Person

· Time Loop - Character and Enemy Are the Only People Aware of Looping

· Time Loop - Enemies Have To Work Together To Solve The Loop

· Time Loop - Mother of Learning rules and mechanics

· Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Both Characters Stuck in Loop

· Time Loop/Groundhog Day - Groundhog Peggy Sue

· Time Travel - Cannot get back to own time period

· Time Travel due to a Magical Artefact

· Time Travel due to a Magical Curse

· Time travel due to magical artifact breaking

· Time Travel Fix-It - Derailing The Bad Guy's Descent Into Evil

· Time Travel for Historical Research

· Time Travel to Close Causation Circle and Preserve the Present

· Time travel via magical locale

· Time Traveler Must Pretend To Be Identical Looking Family Member

· Time traveler stranded in past has to take the long way back to their correct time

· Time Traveler Trying to Change the Past is Hampered by Lack of Full Knowledge of the Past

· Time Traveller Cannot Reveal Their True Identity

· Time Travelling Character is Wildly Overpowered

· Year Inside Hour Outside

#exchange letters #requested: fic #requested: mother of learning #requested: star wars #requested: star wars rebels #requested: original work #requested: secret society of second born royals

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alexannah · 6 years ago

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Intro and Questions for the Miraculous Ladybug Fandom

I know I haven’t been very active on Tumblr lately. Or ever, really. My posts have been rare and I have to admit I never really figured out how to navigate the fandom side of it. I’m hoping to change that now, and starting off with a new fandom. (I’ll still post on my others from time to time, I hope, but since I’m new to Miraculous Ladybug and the inspiration is buzzing—also I’ve fallen behind on canon for a couple of my other fandoms, so I’m avoiding those parts of Tumblr until I’ve read the new books—it’ll probably be mostly this for a while.)

If anyone following me hasn’t seen the show (or past season one), this post is spoiler-free except the end which is clearly marked, but future ones will definitely have spoilers. For clarity I’ll be putting the relevant fandom initials in the title of all my posts from now on, and endeavouring to not put major spoilers right at the top of posts, to avoid people see them accidentally. I was accidentally spoiled three times for this show while trying to find out how to see season two, so I empathise!

I’ve been a fan of the show for about a year now, but wasn’t able to see past season one (all there still is on the UK Netflix) until this summer, and I still determinedly avoided the online fandom until I’d seen all the season three episodes, which was only a few weeks ago. So I’m very much a fandom newbie. And I have a huge backlog of geeking out, and questions I’ve been dying to ask other fans. (I’m not going to put it/them ALL in this post, that would make it really long and leave no material for future posts …) Please be kind when answering stuff that may be obvious to more experienced fans!

First of all, as I said I’ve not been very active on Tumblr, but I love Pinterest and I see a lot of fandom things on there that originated here. A few weeks ago I created a Miraculous Ladybug board and have since repeatedly got very distracted looking for pins! I’ve seen a lot of fan comics (some have actually inspired fanfic ideas …) and there is one question that I’ve been dying to ask since noticing a pattern in a lot of Marichat ones.

Where does this thing with CN calling Marinette “princess” (or pun variations of) come from? Did this originate from something in canon (I’m guessing in Weredad) that I just don’t remember?

Also, I’ve been writing MLB fanfiction for months without having read any, and all that time I’ve been writing “Cat Noir” and “Hawk Moth”. I’ve started reading fic now, but not very much yet, and I’m still confused over whether the villain’s name is one word or two (I have now seen it both ways), and whether or not everyone writes Chat instead of Cat? I know it’s a French fandom, but I’ve only ever seen the English versions and he’s called Cat in it, so that’s what I’ve always written and what I default think of him as. Plus I am positive the show was made in English first. I used to only be 99% sure, because there are a few moments when the dialogue seems slightly out of sync with the characters’ mouth movements, but then I found out Hawk Moth is called Papillon in the French version, and having rewatched him introduce himself, I’m positive there is absolutely no way his mouth can be saying ‘Papillon’.

Since the plural for Miraculous seems to be “Miraculous*es*” in season one and “Miraculous” after that … what do you write in fanfic? For the sake of being clear I prefer to uses “Miraculouses”.

As a fun aside, I recently discovered I’ve been spelling all the Kwamis’ names wrong. All except Plagg, but that’s just because I initially misheard it and couldn’t be sure what it was, so looked it up on Wikipedia early on. (As well as the word Kwami, which I had no idea how to spell but was sure started with a Q.) So I’ve been slowly correcting all the instances of Tiki, Waze, Trix, Nuru and Duzu.

And don’t get me started on how long it took me to figure out how to spell Bourgeois …

***season two spoilers below***

So to shipping.

I love all sides of the Adrien and Marinette love triangle, though it wasn’t until very recently that Marichat grew on me. Since Glaciator, the canon interactions have definitely been more interesting, but I admit I didn’t really see it as a proper ship until the other day when I read @chatnoirinette ’s awesome piece on what made their relationship so good, and it got me thinking …

If you count the love triangle as all one ship (which I do, because it’s much simpler in my head, plus I write a lot of reveal fics …), then I have two OTPs for this fandom. The other is Gabenath. (I’m new at the ship names, do you pronounce the H?) So many things I’d love to say about them, but I’ll save for future posts. Those four characters are without a doubt my favourite (in order: Nathalie, Gabriel, Adrien, Marinette; but it’s really close!). I also like Luka/Chloe, and I paired them together in my head (well, in a fanfiction plan) before I knew anyone else had thought of it.

With regards to fanfiction, I’ve never read much on or posted directly to Tumblr (I prefer archives where chapters are easily organised and you can’t accidentally read something before you’ve read the previous instalment), but I will try and remember now to at least mention when I post something new. Usually I’m on FFnet and AO3 under the penname Alexannah. (I’m also registered under pretty much every Harry Potter archive still online, though I admit I’ve rather lost track of which of my stories are posted where on them, with the exception of Potions and Snitches which I frequent regularly.)

I have a mass of multi-chapter MLB fics in the works, but can’t promise when any of them will be posted. I might post some info about the more promising looking ones if people are interested. However I do have a drabble and a one-shot on both archives, and I’m working on a couple of other one-shots. I’m also working on a response to a prompt I came across on Tumblr which I plan to post in full here since this is where the inspiration came from (and I also promised to tag people who were interested), though I don’t plan on doing that for the rest of my stories.

I’ll leave it there for now, but expect some headcanons, season three reactions and other geeking out in due course …

#miraculous ladybug #mlb #marichat #gabenath #adrienette #ladynoir #ladrien #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #gabriel agreste #nathalie sancoeur #fan fiction #fandom #shipping #newbie

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tumbler-tidbits · 7 years ago

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POST 2/2 NON SMUT FIC RECS:

Non-Smut Fic-Recs:

1)Always Have, Always Will by @spnfamily-alwayskeepfighting

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Summary: On the biggest day of Dean’s life, nothing goes the way he had hoped. Everything went wrong. It always does for a Winchester

Pairing: Dean x reader, Sam and Castiel

Warnings: Swearing, pure angst, depression, self-hate, self-harm, mentions of sexual assault, violence, suicide (graphic), and character death

My Review: Ok y’all I’m gonna be brutally honest... this one hurts! ALOT. So please HEED THE WARNINGS . Jess’ writing is amazing and the fact that she had so many of us in tears is testament to that fact! The pain starts immediately and let me tell you it gets worse as you read. Yes it is soul crushing but it is also poetically beautiful 😭😭😭 which is why I repeat,HEED THE WARNINGS. “Always have, Always will” has a special meaning and makes the story that much more dynamic and beautiful❤️❤️❤️ if your a fan of angst or even if your not (like me) if you don’t have triggers, give this fic a try.

2)Alpha!Sam Headcanons: Trouble At School by @saxxxology

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Summary: Sam’s daughter has recently presented as an Omega and is receiving unwanted attention at school. When the officials won’t do anything about it, Sam fixes the problem himself.

Pairing: Past Alpha!Sam x Omega!Reader, Omega!Alice (OC daughter)

Warnings: student-on-student molestation, bullshit school system, swearing, mentioned underage presentation, Sam being a protective single parent

My Review:

I’m gonna be honest, this is sexy, because who doesn’t love Protective Daddy Alpha!Sam?! Major win!! When Sam’s daughter is in danger at school, Sam takes care of the problem himself!

3)Bedtime Stories by @because-imma-lady-assface

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Summary: Just sweet uncle Dean and his niece Harper

Pairing: Uncle Dean x Harper

Warnings: Super Fluff

My Review: This is so sweet and fluffy! I love reading Domestic Sam and Dean! In this drabble Uncle Dean is babysitting his niece Harper while Daddy Sammy is away for the night. Harper misses her Daddy and can’t sleep, so Dean comforts her ❤️❤️

4)Alpha!Sam Headcanon - Being Woken Up By His Baby by @saxxxology

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Summary: Sam’s daughter needs some attention at two in the morning.

Pairing: Alpha!Sam x Omega!Reader

Warnings: just tooth-rotting fluff, Sam being in Dad Mode

My Review: I am LOVING these Alpha!Sam headcannons! This is just sweet Daddy Sam taking care of his baby girls need for some cuddles ❤️

5)Two Little Winchesters by @ladywinchester1967

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Summary: Sam and Dean are de-aged by a spell and when they come down sick the reader takes care of them

Pairing: Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Castiel, Y/N Female

Warnings: Swearing, sick!Dean, sick!Sam, de-aged characters, fluff, mothering tendencies

My Review: This was so sweet and fluffy! I absolutely loved it. The fan art picture that accompanies the Fic is absolutely adorable and adds to the sweetness! Fussy Wee Winchester’s for the win 😍

6)Jamming Out by @simply-wins-little-sis

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Pairing: Pairings: Sam and Dean x little sister Winchester! Reader

Warnings: None just silliness

My Review: This one is just fun and silly! AU where Sam and Dean have a little sister and she is enjoying her alone time in he bunker 😂😂 then her brothers come home.

7)Bobby and His Boys Drabbles by @because-imma-lady-assface

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Summary: Sweet moments with Uncle Bobby

Pairing: Uncle Bobby, young Sam, young Dean

Warnings: None just sweetness

My Review: These little drabbles just make you go “Aaawwweee” 😍😍 special little moments between Sam and Dean and their Uncle Bobby.

8)My Real Dad by @winchesters-favorite-girl

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Summary: The reader is Gen’s daughter who’s had an absent father, meaning she doesn’t really know what it’s like to have a dad, that is until her mom starts to date Jared Padalecki

Pairing: Jared x Gen, Gen’s Daughter

Warnings: Absent-Parent, Sweetness

My Review:

This little series is told from the point of view is 12/13 year old girl who is Gen’s daughter from a previous relationship. The story explores her accepting Jared and her Dad and the obstacles they overcome together. Super sweet and slightly angsty this ongoing series is a must read!

9)Paint it Pink by @supernatural-teamfreewillpage

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Summary: Halloween’s Around The Corner And Dean Has Pranked You More Than Once And Your Sick An Tired Of It So You Come Up With A Plan With Sam’s Help To Give Dean The Fright Of His Life…

Pairing: Dean x Reader, Sam

Warnings: Language, Hilarity

My Review: If you love the prank wars constantly pulled by the Winchester brothers, check out this drabble! It’s hilarious! The reader and Sam are fed up with Deans pranks and team up to teach him a valuable lesson

10)Mixed Emotions by @crispychrissy

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Summary: After a brothers-only night of trivia, Sam returns to the bunker with a riddle that has been bugging him. When you answer it with some embarrassed hesitation and run away without a full explanation, Sam decides to take matters into his own hands

Pairing: Sam Winchester x Reader, Dean Winchester

Warnings: Fluff, minor angst, minor violence/blood, sexuality, language

My Review:

Ever wondered how Sam would act as a jealous and angry boyfriend? Well after a Secret is revealed you get to see just that lol, don’t worry though it’s not entirely what you think 😉

Tag List:@supernatural-teamfreewillpage @dean-winchesters-bacon @maddiepants @pisces-cutie @covered-byroses @anotherwaywardsister @currentlyfangirling99 @treat-winchesterswith-kindness @spnmightkillme @spnfamily-alwayskeepfighting @team-free-will-you-idjits-67 @xxhalfbloodprincessxx @supernaturalsammy01 @evansrogerskitten @sammyimpala-67 @lunarboycas @bobasheebaby @ladywinchester1967 @spnskinnyballs @kbl1313

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forest-of-stories · 6 years ago

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Fanfic Writer’s Year in Review!

I was tagged by @letterblade! <333

The following post will focus stories that I posted in their entirety on AO3 in 2018, and so will not include my X-Men: Evolution WIP Ordinary Town (which I started posting in 2017 and will probably finish this year), or most of the scenes in my Knight and Mage AU (although they total almost 5,000 words, which is Not Too Shabby).

Also, I’m skipping a couple of questions about character and pairing breakdowns. Spoiler: while I wrote in a few different fandoms last year, I probably wrote more about one character and pairing than all of the others combined.

The stories...

Black Lightning:

Overridden (110 words)

Doctor Who

Three Heads Are Better (180 words)

Gravity Falls:

Like Something From A Dream (635 words)

Odd Twins Out (640 words)

Most Likely To Stay Weird (160 words)

Following Ghosts (1,020 words)

Tell You Anything (500 words)

Seen And Not Heard (2,940 words)

Only One Step Away (200 words)

Star Wars:

Treading Water (380 words)

Your Own Heart As Signal (500 words)

Light Me Up Again (415 words)

Mark My Words (600 words)

Secrets Silenced By The Shame (515 words)

Thank You For Sharing (310 words)

Fold Your Wings (165 words)

Stranger Things:

Missing Girls (560 words)

Tortall:

And We Are Left Standing (340 words)

Set Alight (400 words)

Wrapped In Darkness (465 words)

To See A Friend Go Down in Flames (1,000 words)

Those Seasons Made Up And Undone (1,815 words)

Moves and Countermoves (1,060 words)

We Were Meant To Be Sparks of Light (335 words)

Dreams Of The Spider (1,135 words)

Merciless Kisses (435 words)

If Your Strife Strikes At Your Sleep (670 words)

Sealed With A Spell (185 words)

The Cold Is Closing In (2,072 words)

In Winter Light (608 words)

Great Minds Together (240 words)

And I Start To Drown (1,895 words)

Only The Finest (185 words)

Captive Listener (240 words)

Flight of Curiosity (535 words)

Out Of The Rain (200 words)

As I Burn Up In Your Presence (2,412 words)

Total Fics: 37 Total Words: c. 30,000

Specifics…

Best/worst title?

Best title: Excluding the ones that come from songs (which is many of them)? I’m pretty happy with “Flight of Curiosity” and “Mark My Words,” both of which contain puns/double meanings while also – I think – saying something about the characters or tone of the stories.

Worst title: “In Winter Light” is serviceable, but I think I could have done better, and consequently ended up with one less title that included some variation on the word “light.”

Best/worst first line?

Best first line: The shape of Arram’s mind is as familiar as the long, lean body that trembles beneath Ozorne’s hands. (”Great Minds Together”)

Really, what’s better than a sexy mindmeld between mage boyfriends who will one day be enemies? Nothing, that’s what.

Worst first line: Alex sometimes feels more than a little bit dazed after talking to his knight-master, and so it takes him a moment to react – a moment that could have cost his life in a fight – when another familiar voice calls his name. (”And I Start To Drown”)

I’ve written a few first lines that tried to establish too much in one go, and that’s definitely one of them.

Best/worst last line?

Best last line: Much later, lying sore and spent in the darkness, Alex still isn’t sure whether he’s been punished or forgiven. (”Merciless Kisses”)

I think that does a good job of conveying something that I hope is apparent throughout my Tortall Trash Fire fics: that Alex almost but doesn’t quite realize how bad Roger is for him.

Worst last line: Alex turns another page, still uneasy, but certain that Roger will know what to do. He always knows. (”Those Seasons Made Up and Undone”)

I’m proud of that story, for the most part, but that line didn’t wrap it up as elegantly as I would have liked.

General questions…

Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?

I can rarely predict these things. My total number of works is higher than it’s been in past years, but some of those works are really, really tiny.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?

Tortall, without question. I read and reread the Song of the Lioness books when I was younger, but another fan’s incidental comment about Alex motivated me to take another look at them. And even when I realized how much the implications about his relationship with Roger (which mostly unfolds behind the scenes) pushed all of my buttons, I’m not sure I could have predicted that I’d be writing so much about it.

I am also not a huge fan of Rey/Kylo (though I totally understand why some people are!), so “Thank You For Sharing” was also decidedly unexpected, though I don’t plan to write them doing anything more than fantasizing about each other.

What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.

Probably “The Cold Is Closing In.” There’s a lot of unexplored potential in Alex’s relationship with his own squire, and it’s always fun to write a character that understands a lot less than the reader (especially if someone else is manipulating their perceptions).

Okay, NOW your most popular story.

I was bemused to find out that “Secrets Silenced By The Shame” had the most kudos, especially since it was a Dead Dove ficlet written for a kink meme, focusing on the pain and anguish of a character about whom I have very mixed feelings, and I hid it behind an “Anonymous Creator” byline until very recently. Story most underappreciated by the universe?

I would have liked to see “Following Ghosts” get some more love, especially since the Gravity Falls fandom seems pretty fond of Wendy (as well we should be).

I always have a hard time answering this question, and it’s even trickier when thinking about the past year, since my most recent primary fandom is not what I would call a hotbed of activity, at least on AO3. (They have a message board that is somewhat busier, but I haven’t investigated it much.)

Story that could have been better?

“Set Alight” could have worked better as part of a longer work (I can even guess at which one), but I was still very much testing those fannish waters at that point, so I can sort of understand why I was like, “Throw it at the wall and see if it sticks.”

Sexiest story?

I’m very happy with the third section of “Those Seasons Made Up and Undone,” which I think is Hot Wrong all over the place, but “As I Burn Up In Your Presence” had more sexy (and also Wrong) bits, and I’m pretty happy with those, too.

Saddest story?

Everything about Alex’s downward spiral is saddening to me. “To See a Friend Go Down in Flames” gives an outsider perspective on that spiral, so maybe that one. “Missing Girls” and “Secrets Silenced by the Shame” are also meant to evoke a lot of pity and horror for the characters, and “Your Own Heart as Signal” is very much about grief, so maybe those.

Most fun?

“Most Likely to Stay Weird” (Waddles for Most Valuable Pig!). Story with single sweetest moment?

Either Kali giving Eleven calming visions in “Missing Girls” or the OT3 snuggles in “Flight of Curiosity.”

Hardest story to write?

I had never tried anything like the structure of “Seen And Not Heard,” and it took a fair amount of trial and error before I figured how to organize the sections and transition between them.

Easiest/most fun story to write?

“Merciless Kisses” (it helped that I had a really good set of prompts), or “Moves and Countermoves” (I often cackle when writing Roger, but probably never more than when he was trying to get under Myles’ skin).

Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?

The need for a fifth POV in “To See A Friend Go Down in Flames” gave rise to some very persistent headcanons about Geoffrey, a character who gets little to no canon characterization. Also, although my Thoughts About Kylo Ren would probably derail this post more than any of us want or need, I sure did write a lot about his feelings last year.

Most overdue story?

“Following Ghosts” and “Seen And Not Heard” are both based on ideas that I’d referenced in previous works and wanted to follow up on ever since. On the other hand, I’ve wanted to write the exact scenario in “Three Heads Are Better” for roughly a dozen years.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?

I think I learned a little bit more about how to set and contextualize a scene from the structure of “Seen And Not Heard,” which was, again, a pretty big risk.

What are your fic writing goals for next year?

The first ones that come to mind are: wrap up this round of H/C Bingo, whip another “You Cannot Save Him With Your Love, Geoffrey” story into shape, and finally finish Ordinary Town. More or less in that order.

I’ll tag @ellekess and anybody else who wants to do it!

#fandom #fandom year in review #writing

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character in general: Well - River writes twenty-two different muses. I’m not going to go through all of them in this meme because, to be quite honest, that’s going to take far longer than I think is fair to the other people waiting on theirs. Also, for the purpose of con/crit, it is going to be easier to focus on the characters that have been around the longest (depending on your definition of longest) and then compare that with some of the newer ones and what looks like is happening and how best to expand on all of the above. Varying stages of muses on a spectrum.

I’m picking five - Bedelia is the origin of the blog (and the longest running) and so therefore has the most character development over time (and in multiple partnerships), Scully is the character I personally have had the most experience with (consecutively speaking), Rey was a long runner during the Bedelia hiatus (and also has significant character development over time with a partner with who has that with another character so that leads to good comparison), Freddie is a frequent character (but not always a long-lasting one pre-multi and not one with a lot of consecutive threads so as to follow character development across them), and Hermione (who has less threads overall but still gives some idea of development).…my general opinion on Bedelia as a character is full of probably too much salt and not worth reiterating here. I think the idea of her was solid, and I think Gillian did a phenomenal job portraying her. She is also the only reason I made it past the first three episodes of the series - because I was watching it for her, and she didn’t show up until episode six. End comment.

Dana Scully deserves the world and got hell instead.

I’m still undecided on Rey. I think she has potential as a character and enjoyed her in Ep. VII (she’s not Finn, but she’s cool), but I reserve the right to make a decision as to my full opinion on her character until the end of this trilogy.

Freddie is the only character where I think Fuller considerably improved on canon material. In the first two seasons. We didn’t see her enough in s3 for me to make that claim. But overall? Yeah.

I remember identifying with Hermione very strongly when I read the series the first time through (at least initially, although I think I may have grown out of that by the time the last…two? came out - definitely by the last one). I don’t think she was ever my favorite (I may be wrong on that), but I typically had positive feelings towards her.

how they play them: As a general rule, the answer to this question is well. River is a fairly strong writer and has been for as long as I’ve known her. This carries over to any character she writes, regardless of how long she may have been writing them. Therefore, since the general answer to this question is a positive one, further consideration must be taken into individual characters, writing development, and general commentary.

Thus, a con/crit section.I do have a set criteria for what I’m looking into as a whole. I’ll talk about the character and writing development aspects last. First, I want to talk general writing commentary - headcanon, length of posts, grammar/spelling, etc. - because that’s the foundation for the more detailed aspects of writing seen in voice, theme, consistency, character as a whole.So, let’s get started. River has few issues with grammar. In fact, the only one I want to point out (because it was a consistent bother to me), is this: when you start a new paragraph and the character is still speaking, it is not necessary to close out the previous paragraph with quotation marks. Leave it open; the character is still speaking. Only close when the character is done, or when you are going to have them do something else before continuing. Outside of that, you’re golden.

(As an aside, you are not the only person I have seen do this, and it actually appears to be something you’ve picked up later, because you weren’t doing it in your earlier threads. This may be a stylistic choice, but it is not a good one.)

River has no issues with spelling. Occasionally there is a misstep in wording, but that can be solved with a brief read-through before posting. Pretty much everyone has a tendency to do this - I do, anyway - so it’s not a big deal. However, I’ve found it is more apparent when you’re in a hurry. But, again, it isn’t necessary to fix, because this is RP. Just a comment.River is good with any length of post (one-liner, para, multi-para), but she hits her stride particularly with paras or longer. A vast majority of her characters are introverted or put a lot of thought into their actions, their manners of speaking, so although you do one-liners well (which is a praise in itself, considering the internal dialogue just mentioned), your strength is in longer stuff. You know this. From a reading perspective, all of your writing captures the character well, you just have more room to breathe there, which works best for your muses. Again, you know this.You are also extremely versatile when it comes to thread genres (fluff, angst, tragedy, violence, romance, slice of life, and crack). Most of your threads tend to focus on either romance (with a potential mix of angst, depending) or slice of life (albeit, plotted, but you know what I mean), and these are only your strong suits due to their more frequent use. You do them all well, even violence, so I have no comment here. Kudos. (Although I will say, I personally have a strong preference for your fluff threads because they typically also include character development as well - but that’s just me.)Headcanon, however, I have a little more commentary on. When you post them, your headcanon is more than on point and does a good job of elucidating your character. However, a lot of them are found in threads, which runs the risk of not having adequate enough information on a character to lead to good plotting. For instance, below, when it talks about shipping, half of these I only know would be cool ships because I’ve read your threads and understand your character better. I can tailor fit a thread to your interpretation. Without headcanon posted separately from threads, this becomes significantly harder, and most people (I would guess) are not going to read threads to get that information. Also, it is hard to find your headcanon separate from your characters’ threads, so that they have a tendency to get lost within everything else. There’s no easy route of access. I’d suggest at least having a catchall headcanon tag, so that someone who is looking at your characters, who is thinking about potential plots, has a way of getting to them.As a general rule, you are extremely good at capturing a character’s voice, whether in dialogue or in narrative. You know this. It is particularly apparent in your Amelia blog (there was a link in one of your Freddie blogs, and I’m a completionist in most things writing-related where these are concerned) and in Freddie. Amelia shows that this has always been one of your strengths, but I think Freddie is where you show your growth as a writer best - because you can physically read how your writing grows just from looking at her voice in your first blog for her (where it wasn’t bad) to where it is now (where you channel Freddie like nobody’s business) - and that’s with months or longer between actually actively writing her, so that means it’s just you getting better. And that’s cool to watch.All of that said, we can begin to look into more specifics as far as individual characters. I’m going to do this within aspect, so - consistency and themes first, then finish with potential for future development.Within threads with partners, all of your characters are consistent, and in that same way, they are consistent across different threads with multiple partners. However, of these five, four deal with the theme of surviving vs. thriving (this is explicitly mentioned in the text for three of the four (Scully [x], Rey [x], and Bedelia [x]) and is a basis for Freddie, even if not explicitly mentioned), and all five deal not so much with strength as not appearing vulnerable or weak, albeit in different ways. Scully deals with this through closing herself off, through appearing like her male peers; Bedelia does this by controlling everything and being intimidating (because surely someone like her has no apparent vulnerabilities - she is ice and cold and impenetrable because she is so high above the lesser mortals); Rey’s is more a need based on not being taken advantage of within the context of the other street rats (she would like to be but cannot be); Freddie’s is simply due to the nature of her job (”She wasn’t supposed to be this weak./She was a journalist.” [x]), and Hermione’s actually is a basis in strength, which is a welcome development. It actually becomes an interesting dialogue among the characters (particularly across some of Bedelia’s threads - you have Alana specifically stating that she “never found vulnerability to be a weakness” and Bedelia’s remark against it [x] and in further development with Stella, you have Bedelia specifically noting that “Vulnerability need not always be a weakness” [x] - it has even shown up as commentary in the Scully/Jess threads, “she felt less of a need to/wear a mask, less of a desire to feign the/strength she lacked. She wasn’t expected/to be invincible. It was freeing, but she/could only embrace that so far” [x] and in the meme where you attempted to write Alana, “If she can weap-/onize her own pain, perhaps it will no longer be a weakness” [x]) - which gives you a consistency across characters, which is admirable.You have mentioned that you like survivors. You write them well. You also expand and expound and dive into what surviving looks like across various muses (in fact, a majority of your other muses could also be labeled as survivors) as well as the battle that the feminine must have with the ideas of vulnerability, weakness, and how that interacts with gender (of the five, this is most explicitly brought up with in Scully’s threads, as far as gender is concerned, but that battle of vulnerability/weakness is constantly present). And, despite doing this so frequently, it never seems old, it never seems tired, it never seems out of character because it is so much in character for the muses you are writing. And that is to be commended.

Now, as far as future development, I want to broach this in two different ways: personal development as a writer (which is really about character types worth exploring in the future) vs. character development (which is more tied into places to explore with your existing characters, ways of individually developing them further, which still leads to writing development, but on a much more minor scale). I’ll start with the latter and work my way to the former, just because that seems easiest to me.With Scully, I would like to see her within the context of some sort of relationship (friendship works well for this, actually, because peer pressure and support is a thing) reach a point where she is comfortable embracing her more feminine aspects and vulnerability. In one of your OOC posts, you said that what you wanted was for Scully to wear a dress. That’s…pretty much what I mean. Because so much commentary within Scully’s threads is focused on not being vulnerable and on needing to appear more masculine so as not to be judged wanting by her male counterparts in the Bureau, the best development for her is to reach a place where she does not have to be preoccupied by either of those things, even if it is never in her work sphere, even if this is something she is only comfortable with around certain people. And, whereas with other characters their greatest development is in a low point, we see enough Scully abuse in the show. Her best growth arc is in the opposite.

With Bedelia, I want two things: one, I want to see her somewhere where she embraces her darkness, instead of trying to force it out, and two, I want to see her somewhere with a complete lack of control, not by her own choice. I’m more concerned about the former than the latter (as the latter will be hard to pull off well without an adequate partner, to pull off without further debasement of her character, and that’s not what I mean by this. Only that in every situation where she has lost control, it is by choice and she still retains some aspect of control. It has not been a full out loss. It’s worth exploring, but harder to do well - not that I think you can’t, as I have great admiration of your writing and have no doubt you can, but that finding a partner up to the challenge without it turning into torture porn will be complicated). Of course, Bedelia can embrace that darkness in a multitude of ways - violence is the easiest route, but I hesitate to say I want to see Bedelia violent, as that is certainly not the case. It simply seems to me that in the most developed ship you have for her, Bedelia is embracing the aspects of her that are more light - you have done phenomenally in this, so I would like to see the opposite explored.I have little commentary on Rey in this regard. I like how she is developing and would like to see more of that in the future. Any Luke/Jedi development seems like it would fall under similar development as the Stella/Rey development (only less intriguing), and I’m of the sort that likes waiting for canon before developing in that regard anyway. I do want to see Rey within the context of a romantic ship - that would be a good next step because it builds on what you are currently doing - but I would also like to see Rey with a compatriot, a peer, within the context of her lack of identity. Rey isn’t homeless, but I’d like to see her struggling with someone to make ends meet, someone equally at or even financially beneath her level. (I’m not particularly interested in seeing Rey embracing the dark because that is not her struggle. People is her struggle. Relationships are priority.)With Freddie, I do want to see her in a low point. From what I can intuit of your Freddie, her financial priorities are less on where she lives and more on fueling back into her job - fixing her camera, having a camera, gas money, etc. are all of much higher priority than her location, which waits until she gets big enough to afford somewhere better. So, I want to see Freddie lose her apartment. I want to see her choices in this regard in a financially bad situation lead her to not having a place to live because she cannot afford it. There is not much point in Freddie succeeding - there’s no growth there because she’ll keep doing what she’s doing. There’s no change. This puts her in a situation where she has to make decisions and go from there. Also, this leads to interesting interactions within the context of relationships and threads you’re already building within the Hannibal RP community. I mean, putting Freddie in a place where she lives with one of those characters (not because she went to them, because that’s not her style (Alana, maybe), but because they notice and forcibly don’t leave her because of their priorities (Alana, Zeller, Will (mine, because show!Will doesn’t care), heck Frances would be great for this) can lead to the interesting conflict of, well, job is priority and this actually puts her in a closer proximity to people she can feed off of - take advantage of their kindness. Or not. Depending on how characterization goes.I do not have any particular direction for Hermione’s character development at this point. Most of suggestions above deal with explorations separate from what you’ve already done or that can be founded entirely in the character’s set personality and systems. As of right now, there is not enough information in your threads or significant enough relationships for me to get a good idea of what you will naturally explore with her, and so I have no specifics. Any and every direction seems good at this point. In the future, I may be able to be more specific. My apologies.Now, as far as your general growth as a writer, I think there are two potential next steps. As we’ve discussed, I do think having a comedic muse would be a good expansion simply because comedy is something you could stand to work on (in that same breath, you do have at last one comic muse, so this is of less importance). What I would really prefer to see you doing next, in order to further your growth, is to pick up a villain, someone dark, dangerous, irredeemable. Bedelia is the closest you have to this at the moment, and a dark elaboration on her would be closer, but even then, it still isn’t the same. She is very much greyscale. I would like to see you write someone who is evil, who enjoys being evil, who desires and acts upon an intent to harm simply because they want to do so. Even with a villain, you can play into the themes that you tend towards because those are easily good motivations for a villain, so although it would be a step outside of your comfort zone, you needn’t go too far outside of it. I just see this as an area you haven’t touched on and would like to see that potential growth.the mun: River is one of the most amazing people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting - not just on this site, but as a general rule. It is even more to her credit that we met on here, given the tumultuous landscape of tumblr in general. We’ve known each other for almost three years now (!!), and although we disagree on some things (and I’ve caused drama), River’s consistently been someone who works to find a solution rather than being bogged down or drawn into the overemotional side of things - and that’s true not just from the standpoint of our relationship, but also from the standpoint of problems within fandom as a whole (or things she picks up on from her blog). River is always very careful about what she posts and what she says - diplomatic is perhaps the best way to put that - and it’s a skill that I find very admirable, given the overwhelming amount of salt that is seen pretty much daily on the site (not that salt is bad, but there’s a way to be salty without alienating people, which is what I mean here). Which is not to say she has no faults, because everyone does, but I have no intention of going into any of those. River is worth far more than any of that, and I think it does her a disservice to suggest otherwise.

do i;

follow them: Yes. Fairly consistently, I think. Except for a few months on Rey, but that was only because I hadn’t seen the movie yet. As soon as I did, I was. …oh, and Jack. I didn’t follow her Jack blog.rp with them: Yes. Not as consistently as we used to? But I think that has more to do with me jumping around from muse to muse than anything on her end. (Then again, we’ve got…eleven?? twelve active threads, so. There’s that.)want to rp with them: Always.ship their character with mine: …depends on the character(s). I like our styles together; they have a tendency to compliment each other more often than not. Outside of that, I feel like it’s really up to how the characters’ relationship(s) develop? So, yes, basically.

But if you want to know for each of the characters mentioned above in relation to Rabbit!Jess (and other muses in parenthesis because I spent far too much time thinking about this and some of these seem like they would be easier for potential shipping than others):

1) Jess/Scully comes first because to this day it is probably my favorite ship to have written (am I allowed to say that?), and that is partly because Jess does not shut up about it. And if I’m honest, with purely chemistry in mind, it’s proven itself to work. Jess will never stop loving Scully, and even when I was writing timeline canon as a thing, she constantly referred to her in other threads because she never stopped loving her. I said it two years ago, and I’ll say it again, this is the healthiest ship Jessica Rabbit has ever been in. So. The short answer is yes. The long answer is best summed up as: the greatest regret Jessica has is that she met Dana while Roger was still around and she desperately wishes that they had met in other circumstances. (As far as other muses, there are a handful with potential, but I think they all work best as friends. Reyes will probably be the best other muse option here whenever it is I add her. But can’t be sure until get to that point.)2) Jess/Bedelia is next. I think a ship with River’s Bedelia only works if there is something about the other character that catches Bedelia’s interest on an intellectual level - a human puzzle for her to figure out. Even if it doesn’t stay in that realm, it has to start there. I do not believe that Jessica would be the puzzle she would need to be for Bedelia to have an invested interest, unless we go into Toons as an idea, but since that would so clearly be conceived of as a delusion, I doubt she would find that interesting.However, if we go with Jessica’s earliest time period and the idea that violence against a Toon still counts as violence but doesn’t ruin a reputation and if Toon abuse was considered as a viable alternative to Bedelia’s other attempts to not be violent, then that, I think, is a possible scenario where enough interactions could lead to potential shipping. Just from the continued use to take care of that need. Although there could be the added complication of Jess as a loose string where Bedelia would want control over any possible discussion of the act, at which point you can add in ownership discussions (honestly, outright buying her would be the best solution in this situation), and then there might be further extended contact outside of the potential violence, which works even better. The question then becomes whether Bedelia would consider it a loss of control at all. Or, since Jess would then be considered as property, whether that perspective could be shifted (doubtful). Which is all to say tentatively yes but the scenarios aren’t likely. (Amy, on my multi, would probably be the best option for a Bedelia ship.)

3) Jess/Freddie is third and, uh, yeah. Definitely. Because with all of the Toon upheaval throughout Jessica’s entire life and the fact that Freddie is a tabloid journalist, there are a ton of different ways to throw them together and since Freddie has used sex as a way of getting information (looking at you, Zeller) and Jessica, if she knew that, would definitely see that as the best use of her time as far as giving information, then yeah. Not that sex = relationship, because it doesn’t, but like. Extrapolate from there. It’d be great. (Then again, this scenario might work better for OC!Jess because band or model!Bedelia because model - although my Bedeals is ace, so some slight differences in that aspect of the potential plot. Also, honestly, baby!Bedelia and foster!Freddie. Because reasons. Or Camille/Freddie because rivalry because journalists being journalists. Heck, I could even rock a Will/Freddie but only because my Will doesn’t suck. I OBVIOUSLY HAVE A LOT OF THOUGHTS HERE.)

4) Jess/Rey is fourth and no. No, I don’t. Even if Rey is old enough for it to be a thing, she feels young in relation to Jess and she would feel too young to Jess and so it wouldn’t happen on her end. So very firm no here. (OC!Jess is the better option here. Or Finn, if I brought him back.)

5) Jess/Hermione is possible, but I think the easiest point of interaction for them would be if Toons were considered magical non-humans and we play into the whole Toon Rights idea (because Hermione is very active for the rights of non-humans - and, honestly, we can make a comparison between house elves and Toons, really we can). If Jess were still within the young period of life where she would actively care and think things could be changed, then I can see a partnership forming and a potential ship from there based on the interactions and how the two characters play off of each other. Outside of that, Jess…probably wouldn’t get involved and would be super reluctant as a whole. Or involved with Roger. Or after his death and not wanting to deal with a witch because she would think Hermione could have fixed it, and please let’s not go that route. (Bedelia is far and away the better option here, because her Hogwarts verse is much more useful for this (please let them bond over house elves, please). Heck, even her Coven verse is better for this - it’s set up well enough that you don’t need to have seen the series, it’s got magic worth researching, and you get conflict with some of the morals. Probably good for mutual character development, depending on age.)

what is my;

overall opinion: To sum up, River is far and away one of the best writers I have had the fortune of seeing on this site, and that’s a position based on her dedication to her characters and the insight she has into them, combined with an impeccable writing ability which only grows stronger. Outside of that, as an individual, River is in most cases a good example of someone to look up to within the community - because, regardless of any differences of opinion, she is extremely diplomatic and speaks (and writes) in a way so as not to alienate the other person involved and never sees that as a reason to rant or rave or hate anyone. Above all else, River is kind, and that shines through in all of her interactions both in and out of character.

In short, I love her (and her writing). What else is there to say?

**Note: Mun’s answer are all to be completely honest. Don’t send url if you don’t want brutal honesty.

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