#it would be interesting to explore

[melvika]

I need the tea on the ATLA AU you referenced in the tags. Sevika as an earth and metal bender......hmm. Maybe Mel could be a metal bender too. But she gives water or fire energy too. Hmm.

so i’ve actually already done a lot of brainstorming for this because atla and arcane are my favorite western animation series. also currently commissioning the goat @g-vlssz for what i’ve had in mind 🥰♥️

but yea, i think mel is absolutely a firebender avatar. the entire medarda family are firebenders and sevika is an earthbender who can also metalbend. lowkey wanna headcanon her as a lavabender too while i’m at it 🤫

i have several melvika fics in the works including the atla au but idk when i’ll actually finish it because i’ve been obsessed with playing infinity nikki over my winter break and catching up with old friends/family while also preparing myself for the new year 😅

regardless, please enjoy this side by side comparison i used for visualizing my mel avatar truthing because this pic reminded me of aang 🫡

[rewrittenwrongs]

Just remembered that Lady Shiva was one of Willis Todd’s contacts, and now I’m imagining him doing something, calling her when he learns of Catherine’s death and asking her for something, maybe calling in a favour, to protect, even raise Jason.

[un77404]

ive found that, unlike what many people say, i actually find it harder to confront people / assert myself online than in person

[chloesimaginationthings]

How William Afton got his wife in FNAF

[littlecrittereli]

WK Elemental AU

(because I don't have enough AUs already...) Let me introduce you to something thats been rolling around in my brain for a little while now... The Elemental AU!

Heavily inspired by Avatar the Last Airbender, the elemental AU takes place in a universe where some people are born with the ability to control a specific element. The main difference is instead of the 4 western elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air- it's the 5 Chinese elements of Earth, Fire, Water, Wood, and Metal. (Just bc it fit the crew better! and gives me some more room to world-build)

The basic plot remains close to Wild Kratts canon. They travel the world, saving animals from the villains (Who are also elementals!) except instead of relying on technology, or their creature powers, they use their elemental gifts.

I am planning on writing about this soon since Decoded is coming to an end in only a few weeks. But I figured I would go ahead and introduce it now since I've finished all of their refs!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x Firefly AU: A ragtag crew.

[eggbem]

I had an epiphany

I started working on this one back in late March. And after I saw that amazing animation by @bowandbrush, I figured it was about time I finished it!

(I guess this is a series now? Original, Painting)

No-chains-or-glowing version below cut:

He float

[manguopudding]

i think they should have all worn dresses :( what a missed opportunity TCH

[hay-bails]

telling my kids this was jesus and judas

[casscainmainly]

In my opinion Duke and Alfred should hate each other. Duke should not be so okay with Alfred manipulating him and his friends into We Are Robin, particularly after Troy dies (and Alfred's weird white saviour-y guilt that vanishes pretty quickly). If Alfred ever found out the role Duke played in Bruce getting over his amnesia, he should be all the way pissed. I also think Alfred never wanted Duke to actually be in the Batfam. In this essay I will-

[bumblingbabooshka]

Thinking about marriage/women's rights on Vulcan Some may think that T'Pring not being allowed to divorce Spock was because he was going through the pon farr but if she were allowed to divorce him at all she probably would have done that a long time ago, confirmed by T'Pol when she's speaking with Koss, who isn't suffering from the pon farr. She says that he can choose another mate (without invoking a fight it seems: note the difference between a 'mate' and a 'challenger') and after he makes it clear that nothing she says will change his mind about marrying her, she finally threatens to declare a kal-if-fee. It's clear that Vulcan women cannot divorce/refuse to marry a man they've been betrothed to under any circumstances if A) He himself doesn't consent to ending their marriage or B) She doesn't have someone else waiting in the wings to be given to in his stead. Though, if the challenger she selects fails to win the fight, she'll have to marry her betrothed anyway unless (again) he decides he doesn't want her after the challenge. That seems like an incredibly unfair system, heavily biased towards men. SNW is an alternate universe in many obvious respects but most egregiously in that T'Pring has a lot of non-canonical agency over her relationship with Spock. It's interesting to me that Vulcan society has women in many positions of power and treats women as equal to men from what I've seen despite these laws. We don't really see Vulcans exhibiting a misogynistic attitude towards women in general but in TOS (perhaps because of its general writing style but it's still interesting to note) both Sarek and Spock take on patriarchal attitudes specifically regarding wives. Amanda says that 'of course' Sarek commands her because "he is a Vulcan and I am his wife." It's worthwhile in my eyes to note that she specifies 'wife' instead of attributing this attitude to women as a whole. Again, with TOS' writing style it wouldn't be out of place for her to say "he is a man and I am a woman." Spock, while in a pon farr induced irritation, states that it's "undignified for a woman to play servant to a man that isn't hers" - again implying that there's something specific about being a Wife in Vulcan society which is different from being a woman in general and demands subservience to a husband. This could perhaps stem from the extreme sense of ownership that Vulcan law has permitted men to have over women. A woman legally cannot point blank refuse marriage. There is no option which guarantees she won't have to marry her betrothed other than death. When T'Pau speaks of T'Pring she refers to her as being 'property' and Stonn, before being interrupted, states he's made 'the ancient claim' - we don't know what this is because he gets cut off but it's obvious they're both using the language of Vulcan law. Men are permitted true freedom to choose. If a woman wants to choose someone else to be with there is no option available to her other than the kal-if-fee which might result in the death of the one she wants to be with. And, if her lover fails, her husband can still just decide he wants to marry her and she'll be forced to. T'Pring gives two scenarios: One where Spock 'frees' her and one where he doesn't - it's still ultimately his decision which is clear when he ends the conversation with "Stonn, she is yours." This again isn't just because of the pon farr as T'Pol also goes through this. Koss can choose another mate and when the option is talked about there's no implication that this would result in any sort of fight (both by the casualness of its mention and by the fact that there's no formal word for it unlike the kal-if-fee.) Also, the fact that Koss does eventually grant T'Pol a divorce and it's all fine means that T'Pol isn't lawfully required to have another man waiting if her HUSBAND doesn't want her. It's ONLY required if SHE doesn't want her husband. Tradition must take precedence over individual desire UNLESS!!! You're a man. Then it's fine. Like, your parents might not be happy but legally you're golden.

[lorasx]

jean confesses and jeremy desperately starts trying to convince jean that it is a bad idea. not because he cares what the others think or say but because jean deserves the best and it sure isn’t jeremy. he starts listing all the things he’s done wrong in his life, all the ways that he is wrong because jean needs to know. because he loves jean too much to let him end up with someone like him, it doesn’t matter that it’s everything he’s ever wanted in life, jean needs to know. but jean doesn’t listen, and jeremy has always been a weak man. so they get together.

they get together and jeremy still waits. he waits for the moment that jean will finally see everything. the moment that jean will look at him and realize that he deserves so much more. the moment he will see all the ugliness inside jeremy that he’s desperately trying to cover every day. the moment jean will realize there’s so much more to life than jeremy has to possibly offer, so many options he can easily have. he waits and keeps reminding himself that what they have isn’t forever. it’s an ugly thought, if jean were to know it would leave a frown so deep on his beautiful face, but this is not the first time jeremy hides something ugly inside him. so jeremy waits.

every time they argue, every time jean sighs louder than his normal, jeremy thinks it has come. he never thinks what he would do after, after the moment jean leaves him. he imagines all the scenarios how the moment would happen, all the things jean would possibly say, he imagines looking at jean’s beautiful back as he’s leaving jeremy behind, never the after. the aftermath of it is all darkness. jeremy knows what it means but he never thinks it. he has always been a weak man. he keeps waiting.

sometimes, there comes moments where he pushes jean’s limits on purpose. he says the wrong things, just to give him a reason. jean only looks at him as if he’s solved jeremy’s scheming, and jeremy thinks do it. he’s been waiting for so long.

jean gives him a name, a home, a family. he gives jeremy half of his heart and vows to choose him every time. he never lets the bed get cold. he holds jeremy every time he trips and his kisses make jeremy forget what he’s been even waiting for all this time. jeremy stops waiting. the moment never comes, anyway.

[chloesimaginationthings]

HBEBEBEBEBEB UR WILLIAM DESIGN IS SO SILLYYYYY THAT SKRUNKLY OLD MAN IS GETTING THE CHAIR <3333

The worst man ever 💜

[tsuutarr]

With a dazzling burst of light, your summoning circle flickers as a figure begins to materialize with a golden glow. Soon, bright violet eyes meet yours.

“Are you my new witch?” the voice gasps, eyes sunny and smile toothy.

You give him an affirmative, which makes the light spirit seem to glow even brighter.

“Oh! I’m so excited!” he beams, bursting with sunlight and energy. He grabs your hands in his, warming up your skin. “I’ll be the best familiar ever, promise!”

And he is a rather good familiar, doing everything you instruct without much protest or error. His upbeat attitude is really pleasant to be around, too.

The only catch is that he changes at night. When the sun goes down, basking him with moonlight instead of sunlight, his skin turns from gold and sunkissed to silver and moonkissed. 

“Did he not tell you?” your new moonkissed familiar asks, referring to his sunny counterpart. “What a loser...” He eyes you up and down, before letting out a small huff. “I guess you’ll do fine.”

Your moonkissed familiar is… more terse and sharp edged, his lips in a perpetual scowl. However, it’s evident that he doesn’t really mind being yours – not with how he follows you around, helping you with the little things. And when you curl up at night to go to bed, he’s a comfortable pillow that lets you cuddle him close.

“It’s not fair,” your sunkissed companion complains when you awake with the sun. “He gets to cuddle you? I wanna hold you too!”

It’s really not your fault, but your sunkissed companion is too much like a puppy to take too seriously. So, instead, you allow him to hug you more, his hands clinging to you whenever they can.

“You’re just lettin’ him touch you whenever?” your moonkissed companion asks when the moon is in its zenith. You give a curious look, which makes him scowl, his gaze flickering away. “I’m just sayin’ okay? It’s not ‘cause I’m jealous or something.”

Oh, so he’s jealous. Now that you think about it, you’re pretty sure your sunkissed companion was jealous, too.

You’re really not sure what to make of this revelation, though. The last thing you expected was to be stuck in a love triangle between your… familiar? Familiars? They’re technically the same familiar, but they’re also not, which is kind of complicated.

Well… it’s nothing to worry about, probably.

But oh, how wrong you are. As the days pass, that much is obvious.

“You like me better, right?” your sunkissed familiar asks, suffocating you with his warmth. He’s gotten clingier and clingier, smothering you with his presence.

“There’s no way you like that dolt better,” your moonkissed familiar states, constantly hovering over you with his chill. You don’t know if he’s aware of it or not, but you’ve been getting less and less sleep with him around.

Nowadays, they’re just… always around you. Day and night. There’s no escape, no room to breathe. They’re always there somehow, always watching.

It’s driving you crazy. Maybe it is something to worry about. Maybe it’s for the best if you cancel the familiar contract.

“What?” your sunkissed familiar asks, eyes wide. “Oh, no, no. Darling witch, why would you say that?”

As you feel him burn hotter, you quickly realize that bringing up the idea to him was a mistake.

After all, light spirits are notoriously powerful and you’re just a newbie witch. There’s no way you can control him unless he offers that control to you – you should’ve realized that.

And, well, from the look in his eyes, it looks like he’s done letting you take charge.

“You’re our witch, darling. For as long as the light shines.”

[twilightkitkat]

Everyone knows that Deadpool can break the 4th wall. It's a large part of his charm: being able to directly address the audience and make popculture references that don't exist in the MCU.

It's a common gag in fanfiction for Logan to be slightly weirded out by this but to just let it go.

But can we talk about the implications of knowing about 4th wall? The potential?

Imagine Wade, knowing that he's trapped inside a story that nobody else is aware of. Knowing that his fate is in the hands of the storywriters and that if he doesn't perform well for the audience, his universe could cease to exist. Knowing that he's just a character and being completely alone in that knowledge.

Knowing that he's played by an actor. Knowing that nothing is really in your control. Knowing how your fate rests in the hand of corporations and money. (Knowing nobody is safe as long as they can be used to further your character development.)

He knows that there's a plot and the general rules of it. He knows that The Conflict can't be resolved that easily and when the end of the movie is coming. He knows how to tell narrative death flags.

He partially makes references to keep the audience engaged (to keep his existence renewed) and partially because it's funny to see everyone confused over a joke only he gets.

But every reference is trying to see if anyone else knows, too. He's throwing out the bait. (Trying to see if anyone knows that the world they're living in is fake.)

And everyone sees him as crazy for it. Schizophrenic, manic, insane. (And maybe he is. It's not like he can prove it to anyone.)

Wade assumes things about the world and they're generally correct. He knows the rules of the game, knows the writers, and has a razor-sharp intuition that has his allies questioning him sometimes (he knows popular tropes).

And so, when he realized that he was in a movie with Logan, he made a lot of assumptions. That they would have to work together. That they'd overcome their differences and grow closer.

But most importantly, he assumed the limits. Disney wouldn't make an openly gay character, would they? Deadpool is fine because he's a joke but Wolverine would never be seriously gay, even if he was queer in the comics.

So he sees it as safe to flirt and joke because it wasn't going anywhere. Being gay was funny to the target audience, but that was it. It'd never be taken seriously in a superhero movie. (Especially with characters as popular as Deadpool and Wolverine.)

Wade was either getting Vanessa or nothing. That was how the story was written.

So he never takes Logan's feelings seriously. He cared about him in a very family-friendly bro kind of way and that was it. He doesn't even consider the idea of romance. He jokingly flirts and spews innuendos, but they never went anywhere. Wouldn't go anywhere. Ever.

And Logan is confused because he thought Wade was attracted to him, yet he keeps brushing him off as friendly when he tries to be sincere. He one time legitimately shared a bendy heart straw with him by Wade's request and Wade just played it off as a bit.

And also, Wade keeps making references he doesn't understand. That nobody understands. And he'd chalk it up to saying random shit except Logan starting paying attention and it's all oddly cohesive and creates a singular story. It ties together in ways that complete nonsense doesn't.

And that's leaving out Wade's "intuition." How he makes comments about "tropes" and "cliches" like they're in a movie except that he ends up being right. Almost every time. It's like he can predict the future, but in a vague yet oddly specific way. Like he can see how things are going to go.

And sometimes, when Wade thinks Logan isn't paying attention, he notices how he mutters to himself in dread. And how something bad almost always happens after.

It makes him disturbed and painfully, achingly curious. What was Wade seeing that he wasn't? It could be that Wade was a secret prodigy, but that didn't seem to be the case? Some of this was too specific and far-fetched.

(All while Wade laments over the lack of agency in his own life, subject to the currents of the story while being painfully aware of it. He couldn't live a life of blissful ignorance like everyone else. It's like he saw a tsunami hurdling toward him—even if he ran away at full speed, the plot always caught up to him somehow.

Trust him. He'd tried to outrun it.)

[hollyberrygarden]

something else I really like thinking about is how Pitaya Dragon's reputation in the Hollyberry Kingdom evolves and changes after Hollyberry announces their relationship

it starts really bad for obvious reasons. they took the kingdom by force, threatened the king and queen regularly, and have a lengthy history of battling the former queen. they're probably hated, honestly, by everyone there. Hollyberry knows the reception to their relationship will likely be negative, at least at first, until Pitaya Dragon can prove their good intent to everyone. Pitaya Dragon doesn't care about what Cookies think of them, but they would rather be liked, if only for Hollyberry's happiness

they get stared at a lot. mothers will grab their children and hurry away if they see Pitaya Dragon in public, even if they're with the Queen Mother. they're never outright confronted or scorned—Pitaya Dragon has shown the kingdom how powerful they are, and no ordinary citizen will beat them in a fight; besides, attacking the partner of a member of the Royal Family is a ticket for trouble—but no one needs to say a word for Pitaya Dragon to know how they feel. Hollyberry hates it, even if it doesn't bother Pitaya Dragon much

the trick is bringing them out in public. after her return to the kingdom, Hollyberry lives for going to the Grandberry Market, eating in restaurants instead of always eating palace cooking, and buying from local stores. she brings Pitaya Dragon along for most of her ventures, even if they don't necessarily want to go. the citizens are horrified seeing them, but then they see them just…eating a meal. talking to waitstaff in a restaurant. carrying a shopping bag for Hollyberry. holding one of those insulting Pitaya Dragon plushes, grumbling about how it makes them look non-threatening, smiling when Hollyberry laughs at them. holding Hollyberry's hand. very normal things, things a Cookie would do, things a Cookie would do with their partner

public opinion shifts. a little girl holds up her own dragon plush and bounces them around when Pitaya Dragon walks by, smiling when they look her way. people still stare, but they don't look scared for their lives as often. people often buy things on Hollyberry's behalf, meals and flowers; she's adored by the public for numerous reasons. someone buys a meal they're sharing together. when someone buys Hollyberry a flower, they hand her two, too afraid to give one to the dragon directly. but the way they glance at them, their smile remaining, reveals why there are two. things like that

it's all really slow, over the course of several months. it's hard to notice at first, but when the kingdom sees Pitaya Dragon's care for the Queen Mother, it's only natural the kingdom starts to like them too