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bliss redesign based off one I made in my teens

thought process + various other bits and bobs under the cut

I was 15 and annoyed by everything that moved when this character first came out, so in my own head I was very much making a Point with this redesign. Hence, I made very minimal changes. I wanted to work with what was already there and basically just make the existing design more thought-through. Little breakdown ahead (keeping in mind i myself am very much An Amateur who doesn’t know shit and am just ranting about my opinions and i also haven’t seen a single second of the 2016 reboot so i don’t know much about Bliss to begin with)

1. one of my Biggest pet peeves with Bliss is that the powerpuff girls each have bangs that are simple, memorable, and iconic while also being unique from each other and being reminiscent of irl little girls hairstyles. It’s very neat and clever and I like it a lot

and then Bliss has this confusing jumble of shapes that looks like it changes in style halfway across her forehead

i have absolutely no idea what the intent is here. My only guess is maybe it’s meant to look weird on purpose like she was trying to cut it herself or something (I suspect it’s something like that since she seems to have normal looking bangs as a little kid from what I can see) but it doesn’t really come off that way if that’s the case. It just looks like baby’s first PPG OC where you Understand that it’s meant to be hair and that it is made out of shapes but have 0 understanding of hairstyle or character design in general. Heck I might have put this exact hairline on a character in the past at the age of like 8

So in my redesign she’s got 5 even notches across her bangs, not thee most exciting change but it does the job I think. It is pretty reminiscent of Blossom but they look different enough from each other that I wasn’t too worried about it

2. low-hanging fruit time, Bliss’s hair color is horrible on the eyes. I’m bewildered at the decision to do this, especially since there is just so much of it, I struggle to think of how she could exist in any scene without hogging all the viewer’s attention constantly. That said, I understand they wanted her to have an unnatural hair color to really signal that she is a Fresh new Teen character from the late 2010’s, which is. Whatever, that’s fine, so she gets purple hair now. I kept the streak for the same reason, especially since she’s got a lot of hair, so no harm in a little extra interest in there.

I also learned recently that her hair glows sometimes? which i did Not know when first drawing her but well i think the darker color helps anyway. It adds some contrast for when she’s normal vs when she’s glowing and makes the latter appear more,, idk threatening or powerful or whatever the mood generally is when she’s doing that.

I did re-add that toothpaste blue to her eyelids though. I like to think it’s also the color of her lasers. It’s a cute color, just not as like 70% of this character’s palette

3. real talk I was drawing this from memory and didn’t mean to change the way her hair flares out from her head. realistically I think the original is fine, maybe just a little boring but fine, so that part of the redesign was an accident. Only thing is, it’s in the exact same position in every screenshot I’ve seen? It doesn’t seem to whip around when she’s flying or anything which looks weird and probably looks weirder in motion, especially since it takes up so much space onscreen. Idk it’s a strange decision, esp since the original show liked to use the ppg’s hair to emphasize their movement, so I’d just bring more movement into her hair. I mean if nothing else it’d make her look cooler.

very very rough little visual of what I mean

I also ended up making it shorter in my redesign—again, not really intentional, but I think it’s better that it eats up a little less of her silhouette

4. Her headband is largely the same, I didn’t hate the idea of her having an accessory, so I just toned down the colors. I’m not personally a fan of the powder blue and that pink heart is very bright and just doesn’t go with the rest of her (once again the color of her hair is doing it no favors). I also moved the heart over. Not necessarily needed I think, but I feel like it reads quicker as a headband and not a weird crown that way+introduces some asymmetry into her design that I think is nice.

5. my biggest gripe other than her bangs are her hips. I’m not against adding anatomy to this character design to make her read visually as older than the girls, but it’s so awkwardly done and distracting. I feel like it even interferes with her line of action more often than not (which is not helped by her unmoving hair).

Part of the issue is she still has the teeny tiny torso, just… with those square-ish hips slapped on, which makes her legs look all gangly and stretched out. I tried to balance out the proportions more in my redesign, as well as change the hips to a flared skirt. I think it helps differentiate her from the girls and still implies hips underneath, it just also functions as a less clunky transition from her torso to her legs.

Lengthening her torso also allows the stripe to look more like a belt above the skirt, which I think helps to sell her as “similar, but not the same” from the ppg

6. Her leggings(? Idk Im not a fashion person) aren’t a bad idea I think. like a more mature version of the girls’ stockings, but I think the white makes them look really distracting. It would help to make them a darker color I think, but since I wanted to keep them reminiscent of the girls’ socks I kept them white and just shortened them.

7. Not really sure what Bliss is wearing on her feet. I think they’re Mary Janes, but they’re drawn a bit different from the girls’ and I honestly think it’s too babyish a shoe for her to wear. I’m not sure what she’s actually wearing in my redesign either honestly, but the goal was just to make them look like the girls’ Mary Janes while clearly being something different.

8. Uh her signature color is something I’ve contemplated changing a lot but to be real I think it’s fine. I feel it was a very bad idea from a marketing standpoint because people were hype about Bunny and would obviously be mad they didn’t get her once the character actually dropped (and in the long-run she would just end up being overshadowed by the character everyone has already assigned that color to) but I’m personally not bugged by her being purple beyond that. If I were to draw them together though I think Bunny would have a more pinky shade of purple and Bliss leans more blue.

Loosely on the same topic, because of Bliss I’ve had a running headcanon that “only child” types of powerpuffs tend to come out purple. Kind of like how trios tend to have a red, blue, and green. It’s a fun little piece of fake lore to rotate around in my brain

Anyway with all that out of the way, here’s some redesigns I decided to have some fun with. Wasn’t being too precious about recognizability or simplicity or anything like that, but I did run out of steam partway through. There’s also one based off Whoopass Bell bc idk, why not

Finally, here’s some OCs I only ever drew once before out of a desire to give Bliss her own teen girl archetypes to form a team with. This is Bee and Beetle, who I’ll probably definitely forget about again immediately after posting this

[al-gay-tor]

Things I want to see in a Dinosquad reboot

Veloci as a serious villain - the original show has a bad habit of trying to make Veloci look as ridiculous as possible and then doing a 180 and trying to make him seem like a serious threat. It just doesn’t work.

Minor villains - This is part of the reason I made my OC Valentino. Having minor villains would add some variety between episodes and help add to Veloci’s more serious main villain image.

Consistent character writing - anyone who has watched the show knows what I’m talking about.

Character development for anyone other than Caruso - I love Caruso but can we hit someone else with the 3 dimensional character beam please?

An enemy of my enemy episode - Forcing team Veloci and the Dinosquad to work together is a disaster waiting to happen and I for one cannot wait to see this mess implode.

Bring back Peter - This goes hand in hand with my minor villains point, plus Veloci can have a homoerotic evil advisor as a treat

Ms. M and Veloci backstory exploration - I know they explained their backstory in the show but they did a terrible job and I have elected to ignore their explanation.

Terri keeps her job - Remember when Terri was officially added to the Dinosquad? The show creators sure don’t.

Morally questionable Ms. M - I seen a few theories floating around here about Ms. M’s true nature and intentions. I think it would be interesting to see a more complex moral dichotomy between Ms. M and Veloci.

More focus on character dynamics - each episode in the show was focused on how much everyone fucking hated each other which was funny but not exactly ideal in a show that’s very power of friendship centered. A proper development and exploration into each characters friendship with the others would be nice.

Accurate dinosaur facts - For a show about dinosaurs it sure did know absolutely nothing about dinosaurs.

Dino-mania - Kittery point is very calm about dinosaurs suddenly being alive again. Where’s the hype, the news teams, the dinosaur hunters, the tourists??? I fully believe that the town would not just be this chill about something like this.

Edit: More Liam content- As a neurodivergent person I just think this would be really cool. He could bond with Buzz about cool bugs.

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I draw....like...ALOT. No seriously! I can fill up an entire notebook in a short time period. both traditional and digital art...though I tend to have my time to post my digital works.

I also write and love LOVE LOVE! To read. Pretty much a book worm also.

I have a sweet tooth and occasionally I love eating savoury foods.

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My hyperfixtations can be and not limit to:

Wordgirl, Eddsworld, Adventure Time, BATIM, Cuphead, DHMIS, bee and puppycat, and undertale/deltarune

I like to make ocs. Be for a fandom or original work! („• ֊ •„)੭

Speaking of original works...

Im hoping to turn one of my ideas into an animated series someday!

i really post most of my original content on my side blog @the-mis-adventurers (it means alot to me if you do look at my original work) ( ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)ഒ

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-art commissions! Only if you want and have the money. Message me about commissions.

-art trades (depends on how busy I am tho)

-collabs/crossovers yes plz!

-rp (also long as it isn't that creepy stuff or adult rps like NSFW, that stuff makes me uncomfortable)

-Art requests are for FRIENDS only. Bc I trust that they will repsect my limits u-u (don't friend me just so you can Free art. (•ˋ _ ˊ•) I AM A PERSON WITH FEELINGS TOO!)

-share headcanons, rant about each others ocs

-tone tags helps with jokes so no one gets confused on anything

❌❌❌ Things I DONT LIKE/accept or have limits with

-venting (venting is OK as long as we KNOW eachother. And we both feel comfortable venting to each it other, keeping in mind that neither of us are professionals/therapist and everyone's experiences are different)

-NSFW, fetishes (this include jokes, asking for me to talk and draw it, rping that, showing any of that to me. ILL BLOCK YOU WITHOUT SECOND THOUGHTS)

-hate talk/speech

-please don't harrass me for art

-trying to bring drama. (I got enough drama to deal with irl )

-Pro shipping and incest (EDIT: including selfcest. Its confusing to me and I don't get it)

keep in mind that if I feel uncomfortable its in my right to block you.

shipsss. Yeah I have ships... (No hate. I understand some of these are considered mid by the vast majority but idc/pos) and I'll update the list over time bc I'm always joining new fandoms.

Experimental cheese (two brains x oc)

star crossed cheese (two brains/Steven x oc)

Bigslie ( Mr. Big x Leslie)

Quesibrent

Plasmarope

whatever the ship between the butcher and dupey is called

tobecky

Whatever the ship between violet and scoops is called

Starco (yeah ik it's mid but I could have written them better)

Jantom (aka the ship between Janna and Tom.)

cherry oreos (if you know you know)

Cherry soda (same with this one)

Dancing portraits

Randy x Theresa (Rc9gn)

edd x coco

Edd x honey(the ship has grown on me)

Eduardo x laurel (depends on the fanon version of they're exes or not)

Eduardo x Claire

(Ik almost nothing about My hero academia but I have two ships) dabi x miruko and izuocha

fluttercord. (I may have fallen out of mlp but this is my forever otp for that fandom)

Sonamy

Silvaze

Tailsmo

Knuckles x Rouge

cherry pie (bob x oc)

Sugar crash (Kevin x oc)

pastel gothic (streber x oc)

deadly love (patty x friend's oc)

inner reflections (Dexter x friend's oc)

Some cool friends/mutuals to check out!

@crazywolf85 @wordgirl-reboot-eva @nyxcharliechaos @animation-is-my-jam @ninjastormhawkkat @drtwobrains @drtwobrainsstuff @professor-boxleitner @oddedd @kagurafernandes @lartmacabre

@earth-420-69. @liloskull343 @pantakichi @bloodthirstypigeon @kadiwright @notsosw3et @peanutbutter-doodles @fluffytimearts @hibiscus-candy @soupsy-daisy @misscreativity94

@luckykaix @spaaceeboyy @lauritanaomystery @sfcabanasstarcgs

Andd A BUNCH of other cool peeps too! 😊

[mamamittens]

Thoughts before I pass out.

I don't know what the hell is going on, but I'd like studios to just leave nostalgia heavy series for 'kids' the fuck alone.

You don't get brownie points for rebranding a decades old show as 'something totally better cause now I'M at the helm instead of those OLD, LAME LOSERS'.

Seriously weird how many of the old cartoons are getting new shows but like... Edgy or with 'self aware' humor that feels more like they want to get a time machine and bully kids that grew up with it for being total nerd losers who will amount to nothing with their lives.

No. Turning the 'designated Pretty Girl' into a vapid bitch is not as innovative as you think it is. And having the MC be a smug twat isn't as fun as you think it is either.

Most of these reboots just feel... Strangely embarrassed of their roots and Completely Fucking Desperate to be taken seriously as their own thing without actually adding anything noteworthy.

Teen Titans Go was at its best when it was actively having fun with how ridiculous superheroes as a genre is rather than butchering serious and Seriously Fucked Up story lines for a derpy joke. And I hated Teen Titans Go, but the movie... That shit was actually pretty funny.

Powerpuff Girls (the failed TV pilot that supposedly is being rewritten after being roasted to shit) got waaaayyyy too edgy and was downright insulting for the characters we've only really seen as kids. Like... Porn star? Really?

I know it's hard to get anything greenlit these days unless it comes pre-packaged with %100 guarantee money return X1000 but if you're that desperate to tell your own story... Just fucking do it? Stop carving off the faces of Beloved Character Everyone Knows to place on your OC like a demented Halloween mask.

It's just getting weird at this point how many of these shows want to take the subtle sex joke for the Tired Adult Supervising Saturday Morning Cartoon Time and making it the main star of the show.

You don't need a studio to find porn of cartoon characters getting freaky. Just... Damn. Just open DeviantArt I promise it's there somewhere.

Or at the very least, if you INSIST on having the characters be in incredibly Adult +18 situations have the decency to... Actually let them be adults. It's getting creepy how often child characters are twerking or alluding to blow jobs. Please stop.

My faith in humanity drops by at least %.05 whenever I have to watch a slow camera zoom around a preteen-teenagers body in a way that would get you arrested if you recreated it irl with an actual child or teen.

Oh, also stop with the intense self loathing. We don't have to constantly hear a quipy barrage of insults about a character that will be used to justify shitty behavior. Or make me worried the writers need therapy for something other than Deeply Traumatic Backstories.

[kyriemrmister]

well

i've finally finished reading the crossover monkees RPF fanfiction (aka Time Prison Fic) that i liked that davy design from and um

how can a fanfiction be so unapologetically LGBT-friendly and anti-TERF and also hate women and sapphics so much?

it's also painfully obvious how much of a self-insert the fic's version of mike is (and tbh it also stinks of naruto harem fic except it's mike nesmith from the monkees instead of naruto and he's transmasc and there's more then women in the harem)

the earlier parts before mike came in were more tolerable (elaine kido is both a girlboss AND a girlfail. what a queen. i love her) but wow the monkees popping up and taking over the story ruined it.

mike literally has none of the babygirl and pathetic meow meow qualities he actually had (according to the monkees fandom on here) and is literally every poorly written alpha male OP self-insert harem smut fic lead on ffnet except he's trans, and surprise! he doesn't just like women! (props to that bit! but it's just an excuse for male and nb characters that half of the writing duo has the hots for to also get into mike's pants and be his cheerleader and do nothing otherwise like the women also do in this fic and almost any other harem fanfiction from ffnet)

there's also other Questionable Things, socks and his flanderization from genuinely good and interesting lead to 'heehoo funny meme guy', for one (i could write an entire dissertion on what the story lovingly calls the 'TFSP' oh man)

and whatever tf they did with micky dolenz (once she comes out as a woman in the fic she just becomes another cheerleader and porking object for mike and they disregard previous characterization for that. did i mention how much that half of the writing duo hates women and sapphics? because wow he sure does)

and tbh this fic also does davy dirty (he's just there for fetishization of fat people because the half of the duo who writes him has a weight gain and feederism kink and it's painfully obvious but he doesn't want to push it on mike because he doesn't want him being 'weak and helpless' or something)

peter is also done pretty dirty too tbh (literally he's just boiled down to 'hippie pacifist plantboy who puts up protective barriers and heals people', which is not a bad concept in itself, but it's executed so SO badly. like you gotta make socialist and bisexual autistic icon and avid woman respecter peter tork into a soft 'don't hurt me or i'll cry' boy to further elevate mike?)

and when a new character appears or an old character from earlier in the fic, 9/10 they're just there to be mike's cheerleader/pork mike/for mike to beat up

there's some genuinely good humor in this fic (the puns and wordplay are top notch in this fic, and they know the right time and place to slip in a meme or reference)

but wow. WOW. does the male half of the writer duo ever hate women and sapphics.

i'm currently reading the reboot of the story and tbh it also stinks of some of the same problems (mike somehow has the ability to turn straight men gay for him, which is funny, but also the ability also makes sapphics fall in love with him, a man, who isn't even close to being butch, fall in love with him too, which is kinda gross lol)

the only fun parts of the reboot of the story so far is the reimagining of the seiya and ikki rivalry as more of a bugs bunny and daffy duck situation (a very galaxy-brained but clearly not canon-compliant take on their rivalry. doesn't stop from making me love it though), women having more agency (when mike's not around lol), and the use of pizza tower as a new addition because peppino's pretty bang on characterization-wise so far and he's been frequently enjoyable as a character for the Most Part, as there's the One Misstep for the Crossover Mother of his OC Child because the whole 'don't age up children and ship them' discourse which taints the fic's version of peppino Slightly.

it's obvious the writers care a lot about representation but hm. there's a lot of woman and sapphic hate permanating this fic saga and its reboot (the reboot significantly less so but it still Stinks of it Slightly) and i think that's what ruins it.

[its-the-zcu]

Long post ahead

The MCU constantly showing time and time again that they do not give a flying fuck about Sharon is the main reason I’m starting this blog. The way they treat her also made 2019-me realize that they don’t give a fuck about the source material like I thought they did when I was younger.

The whitewashing/lightwashing, important storylines meant for one character in the comics being given to someone that barely had anything to do with it in the MCU, having a character act nothing like how they are in the comics to the point where they might as well be an OC, etc. Basically, diving deeper into the comics made me realize how much cooler the MCU could’ve been if Marvel Studios actually respected the source material.

Before I became a comics stan in 2019, I used to be like “Oh, Sharon? I know of her. She’s cool. The movies didn’t develop her or her relationship with Steve well, but they are cute together. I hope they’ll bring her back eventually. It sucks that the fandom hates on her and her actress so much.”

After I became a comics stan and learned more about her, how great her relationship with Steve is, the friendships they could’ve given her in the MCU, how the mfs over at Marvel Studios kept writing her out of shit and/or giving things meant for her to Natasha, Peggy, and Maria, I became a Sharon Carter warrior! She was literally supposed to be the female lead of TWS, in the airport fight in CW, and still dating Steve in IW! Imagine how much less MCU stans would hate on her and SteveSharon if that happened!

She disappeared from the franchise for 5 whole years till they decided to bring her back in FATWS! The writers promised us some great things for her and promoted the show as SamBuckySharon being a trio and taking down some bad guys.

Us Sharon stans were so happy and finally seeing her again in the show made us even happier! But that was before the last episode came along and ruined everything… By making her a damn villain… Like, after she finally came back in ep.3, she started to feel more like a glorified cameo and her saying she was the Power Broker really twisted the knife…

Sharon Carter is the leading lady of the Cap comics, the love of Steve’s life, besties with Sam and Bucky (they’d die for her and vice-versa), one of SHIELD’s top agents, and a god damn HERO in the comics, but you’re telling me that all y’all could do in the MCU was sideline her, write her out of the franchise for 5 years, bring her back for a new show, sideline her AGAIN when she was marketed as a LEAD, and then randomly make her a villain at the last minute of it?!

Secret Invasion was the PERFECT opportunity to fix this mess! All they had to do was say that FATWS-Sharon was a Skrull and it would explain her crazy character switch and give MCU-Sharon a soft reboot like they did for Peter in NWH. But nah, instead they made Ross and Rhodey the Skrulls… Two characters that literally didn’t need to be. Especially cuz if Rhodey and Ross got taken right before Endgame, FATWS, or Wakanda Forever, that means the emotional scenes they’ve had with other characters hold absolutely no weight now! And Sharon was RIGHT THERE!

I get they didn’t reveal EVERYONE that was a Skrull in the last episode of SI, so there’s always a chance she could be one in future projects, but this show was THE moment to do it! The build up was there, it would’ve made perfect sense, and Sharon’s character could finally have a do-over! But of course that didn’t happen…

I’ve spent 4 years hoping the MCU would do right by her and I can’t imagine how the people who have been her fans since before she first joined the MCU must feel. We’ve had to deal with so much shit from Sharon/Emily haters over the years and I’m honestly just over it.

Of course fancasting Sharon in my personal Marvel universe wouldn’t erase what happened, but it would feel like it’s a fresh start with one of my favorite characters of all time 😌

If the MCU reveals Sharon as a Skrull or that she’s undercover for SHIELD/SWORD some time after SI, Emily will be Sharon in my universe again, but for now Tracy Spiridakos is my Sharon Carter!

[forgiveness-in-the-misery]

DC is really just fucking up terribly when it comes to movies. Firing actors, wanting to reboot shit for the millionth time, hiring new actors, firing and rehiring, releasing the Flash movie despite Ezra Miller essentially being seen as Charles Manson level of dangerously insane at this point and the fact that the DCEU this version of the Flash is part of no longer exist so what is the point of releasing or even making a film that is a continuation of a story that died long before it actually started?

If they get somebody else to play Superman it’s whatever unless we get another origin story, same with Wonder Woman and Batman and Flash etc. nobody wants to rewatch these characters origin stories just because the studio had to hire new actors.

It also feels like Gunn wants to focus more on villains and anti heroes which is fine to an extent but also it is a toss up on how well those films would go.

Would a lot of people like a Lobo movie or would people who know nothing about comics take the piss out of it and hate it claiming him to be an OC thats a complete rip off of Deadpool but super edgy?

Also I have always worried about Poison Ivy being brought into the movies because she’s a character who has changed a lot through the years and people are very particular about her so if they make her some try hard social justice influencer who spouts off cringey shit people will be mad and the studio will just say nobody likes female characters or a gay romance, but if they make her overly sexualized then that will also piss people off.

Adaptations are difficult to do and DC consistently proves they fucking suck at it most of the time.

[buns-with-a-book]

Into the Spardaverse 2 - The Demon King

aka little bitch and yet the reason I’m diving into all this. Mostly OC/Reboot!Vergil here, but 3 will continue on the trend of Dante/Reboot!Dante doing stuff.

Fandom: Devil May Cry, DmC (Devil may Cry) Characters: Dante, Reboot Dante, Vergil, Reboot Vergil, OC Tags: @nimnox @furyeclipse @harlot-of-oblivion @synchronmurmurs @queenmuzz

Summary: Cassandra meets the Demon King of Limbo City. 

‘The fuck did this little bitch say.’

That was the first thought that went through Cassandra’s head, staring at the man who so introduced himself as Vergil. But no, there was no hint of playfulness or a joke in his voice. He was indeed Vergil, far younger than the Vergil she knew, with more malice hiding in his eyes behind a polite facade. 

“Limbo City, huh. That’s a name.” Cassandra commented, keeping her gaze on Vergil. “And you’re the Demon King, I presume?” She asked carefully.   

“Yes, angel.” She blinked. 

“Angels don’t exist. And I bet you’re not complimenting me.” Vergil raised an interested eyebrow at her words. 

“Angels don’t exist, you say…” He murmured, walking to the window. She took a step back, watching him carefully. She hated how he said it, that cold tactical tone that hid a rather disturbing interest in her. “Does the air not make you sick with revulsion?”

“Because it stinks of demons, yes. Anyone with a working nose can smell the stink of demons.” She huffed. “And here’s the worst of it. But it’s your palace, if I’m not mistaken.” 

“No, no you are not.” He murmured. 

“So, enlighten me a little. I can only presume you beat the previous Demon King. Who was he?” She had an idea who it was, Mundus, but she would feign innocence for now. 

“Only if you do the same for me.” His eyes flicked to hers. Cassandra frowned. It was going to be one of those conversations, wasn’t it? He returned his gaze to the green-choked city beyond. “To answer your question, the previous Demon King was Mundus.” So she was right. She felt his gaze on her again and scowled. It was a bit too familiar to someone else she’d rather not think about. 

“Mundus then...the only good news I’ve heard so far.” She commented, crossing her arms in thought. 

“And now for you. You haven’t told me your name.” She tensed up. No way was she going to reveal her actual name to the Demon King! 

“It’s Rose. Rose Greensleeve.” Not a total lie, but who knew how demons worked in this world? Were they like the Fair Folk back home, where handing over your name would doom you to their whims?  She wasn’t sure and she wasn’t going to take that chance. Vergil narrowed his eyes, searching for a lie. She stood her ground, meeting his gaze. After a few tense minutes, he let out a sigh. 

“Very well, Rose.” He said, with a tone that told her that he didn’t quite buy the name she gave him...but, technically speaking, he did get his answer. Now it was her turn.

“So, how exactly did you become the Demon King. It must take more than usurping the throne of the previous to get an army of demons at your beck and call.” There was also the fact that, if this world had Vergil, then there must be a Dante somewhere. “Maybe a co-ruler of sorts to act as your will among the de-” 

“I rule alone.” Vergil growled, the red in his eyes seeming to glow with a furious intensity. “There was only one who could rule with me and he rejected me.” And there it was, indirect confirmation that there was a Dante here in this world, in the words of rage mixed with a certain hurt. Whether her Dante and this Dante met or not (she did see his red coat falling into the yawning portal moments before she landed in this strange world of Limbo City), she would have to wait and see. In the meantime, she held up her hands.

“Alright, alright, don’t get pissy with me.” She pointed at him. “Your turn.” Vergil opened his mouth before pausing, his eyes snapping to the window as if he heard something in the far off distance. 

“I do not know if you are feigning naivety or you are blind to your true nature, angel.” Vergil whispered. His gaze returned to her, his red eyes shimmering with deadly interest. He stepped closer to her, causing Cassandra to step back. Her back meeting the grimy wall, with the Demon King too close to her for comfort. “But I do know you did not come here alone.”

“And so what if I did not?” She whispered. “What will you do then?”

“I will kill them. And then I will kill you.” Cassandra’s lips pressed into a thin line. It seemed that Vergil knew that her Dante was here...and maybe her Vergil as well. The Demon King stepped back, walking to the door. He paused, his hand on the handle of the door. “And if you try to escape...well, I suppose you will end up exactly where I want you.” 

‘Dead.’ Cassandra thought. The silent answer was all he needed as he stepped out of the room, locking the door from the outside. She collapsed onto the floor, letting out the breath she didn’t know she was holding. It was very rare that she was intimidated by demons but him...she knew she wouldn’t be able to finish him off without help. Hell, she wouldn’t be able to escape without the help of Dante and Vergil. 

But he did, at least indirectly, tell her that they were in this world. And that was all the information she needed to plan. 

She rushed to the window, grunting as she worked the tarnished handle to open it. It let out a creak as she pushed it open, the scent of blood flowing into the room. She gagged at the scent, something she would never get used to in this hellscape that Vergil called ‘his kingdom’. 

“The sooner we get back to Red Grave City, the better. Red Grave smells like a fucking spa compared to this shithole.” She grumbled, holding her hands together. A pair of small butterflies formed in her hands, radiating sunlight and warmth. She gently blew on them, sending them flying out into the world. 

‘Find Dante and Vergil...please. Lead them to me and we’ll get out of this shithole together. And maybe kick some demon ass while we’re at it, because Earthmother help me, I want to kick this little bitch’s ass and I don’t care if he’s the Demon King.’

[bucksfucks]

THE BET | CHAPTER ONE.

Series Masterlist

Abstract | Bucky has to be delusional if he thinks you’ll be his fake girlfriend to his best friends wedding. Why? Because you hate him. Well, no. It’s because you have a hideously inappropriate crush on him and don’t want to accidentally fall in love with him. Luckily, you’re able to confide in your best friend.

Pairing | Roommate!Bucky Barnes x f!reader

Word Count | 2,999 words

Warnings | Slow burn, enemies to lovers, dumbass 1 and dumbass 2, playful roommate dynamics, pet-name [Sweets], reader insert with a set last name [Y/N Sweet], feelings of jealousy, alludes to masturbation, Bucky is a bit of a fuckboy, swearing, reader believes her feelings are unrequited — 18+ ONLY [MY BLOG IS NOT FOR MINORS. MINORS DNI.]

Authors Note | I want to thank everyone for their support on me rebooting this story. The OC version is up on my A03! I hope you enjoy! There will be smut in this story, but it is a slow burn.

"You've got to be out of your fucking mind." You laughed, an ugly chortle bubbling from your throat as you stared at your roommate in disbelief. The roommate who was clearly out of his goddamn mind if he thought you would be onboard with this ludicrous and frankly, stupid, idea. 

He only rolled his eyes, crossing his arms over his broad chest before cocking his head to the side to look at you. 

A smirk tugging on his lips. He had a nasty of habit of poking his tongue out, running it along his bottom lip, and looking you over. 

You hated it. 

Despised him and that dark, hungry look he got whenever he did it. 

"Why not?" The single syllable words fell from his mouth so effortlessly and it made you look at him with an expressionless and nearly unreadable look on your face. 

He was toying with you. 

"Why not?" You repeated his words. 

He said nothing, continuing to look at you with that same cocky expression on his face.

You continued to wait for his response. 

When you realized that it wasn't coming, you groaned, wiping your hands down your face in frustration because he was serious. He was actually dead serious. Bucky thought that his plan was genius—foolproof, even. Once again, he was getting ahead of himself and not thinking things through. 

There were consequences after all, though, he often found ways to avoid those.

"Because, Bucky." You began, his name was harsh and sharp on your tongue. "It's probably your worst idea yet." 

Bucky only had bad ideas. Like, notoriously bad. Ones that usually involved alcohol, getting naked, or both. 

He scoffed, feigning hurt but that didn't deter you from your belief that his idea was absolutely stupid. You’d been living with Bucky for nearly two years now and these surprise ideas were nothing new, but this one, this one took the cake for most extravagant. And last summer he had somehow managed to convince you to do cheap dollar shots with him before you ended up in Central Park in one of the fountains. 

Or at least that's what Bucky had said the next morning. You had consumed so much tequila that you couldn't remember much of anything after you had stepped foot in the dingy, half-dilapidated bar one of Bucky’s friends owned. 

"So let me get this straight." You said, looking at him with a raised brow. 

Bucky straightened his posture, readjusting himself against the counter he was leaning against. He was much taller than you, something you noticed the day you had first met. You were always in awe of how much bigger than you he was. 

A disturbed fascination, really. Considering that you and Bucky hated each other. Did whatever you could to make each others lives significantly worse. 

"You want me," he nodded his head. "To be your date to your best friend's wedding all because of some stupid bet you made nearly ten years ago?" It felt even more ridiculous now that you were saying it out loud. 

"Sorta." Bucky then said, scrunching his nose like he always did before delivering bad news. "Except I actually need you to be my girlfriend, not just my date." 

Jesus Christ. This man had no shame. No bounds. Nothing. 

You scoffed for the umpteenth time during the conversation, shaking your head as you weaved past him and the kitchen counter to grab yourself a glass of water. Bucky was actually serious. He was dead-set in his plan to have you as his fake girlfriend and it caused an odd sensation to flutter in your stomach. 

Not quite excitement. Not quite dread. 

You took a look at him as you sipped on your water slowly. He had turned around, still in the same spot and you wanted nothing more for this conversation to be over. 

In any other circumstance, you would've jumped at the idea of being The Fake Girlfriend. A night away from their cramped apartment would've been welcomed, plus, there would be a free dinner and an open bar. 

However, this was different. It was different because it was Bucky Barnes asking you this. 

You had failed to address the huge and hideously inappropriate crush you had on your fucking roommate. Now it was too late; you were too-deep in the friend zone and extremely non-confrontational with both people and your feelings.

After all, this was the same roommate who had a line-up of girls just waiting for their chance with him so they could stick their claws in him and hope he let them stay for breakfast. 

Spoiler alert: he never did. 

Bucky had a nasty habit of kicking them out right as the sun came up, telling them he would call them but never would. Oftentimes he couldn't tell you their names, scratching the back of his neck as he blamed it on the many gin and tonics he had consumed the night before. 

Bucky Barnes was a certified bachelor, or as you liked to refer to him, a dumbass. 

While you were good at covering up her emotions, you knew you would also do just about anything to have just one night with him. To experience what made Bucky Barnes so irresistible that he couldn't even keep track of all of his options. 

Your little crush wasn't helped by the fact that the walls in the apartment were paper thin, effectively doing very little in the fantasy you had conjured up that Bucky actually sucked in bed. 

That wasn't the case and you unfortunately ruled that out very quickly. 

No, instead, you would lay in bed at night, pillows upon pillows over your head as you tried to block out the grunts and moans that left Bucky’s lips and the God-awful, but deliciously sweet things he would utter before you were once again swallowed by silence and left with a painful ache between your thighs you had no choice but to take care of yourself. 

"[Y/N]?" His voice snapped you out of her trance. "You still with me?" 

You shook your head, stuttering and tripping over your words. "Uh, yeah. Totally, sorry. What was the question?" 

It was moments like these that you couldn't help the way your body flustered.  You just hoped that the one lamp that was on in the living room wasn't nearly bright enough for him to pick up on how flustered you looked. 

Then he chuckled, softly, in a way that told her he wasn't mocking you. 

"I was waiting for your answer until you went to space on me again, Sweets." He smiled, a perfect set of teeth on display as you felt the familiar churn of your excitement that often happened when he did that. 

And he did that often. 

Your stomach flipped at the nickname. The same nickname he had given you the first day you met.

Hi, you must be Bucky. I'm [Y/N] Sweet, your new roommate. It's nice to meet you. 

Bucky had greeted you with sparkling dazzling blue eyes, a big smile, and a handshake. 

It's nice to meet you, Sweets. 

And that was all it took, despite you attempting to correct him. 

Oh, it's actually just Sweet. Singular. 

But Bucky just chuckled, leaning his tall frame against the door and shrugging his shoulders. 

Whatever you say, Sweets.

You still had Bucky’s words swimming in your mind, placing the glass somewhere on the counter because you weren’t quite confident that you could keep a steady grip on it. 

"Oh, I," you went silent soon after, mouth slightly ajar, but the words never came out. 

The next sentence just slipped, an accident, really. 

"Doesn't it just make sense to take one of the many women you go out with? I'm sure any of them will jump at the opportunity to go to a wedding with you." 

It was silent soon after, and not the good kind. 

The heavy kind where you could cut the tension with a knife. You regretted your words immediately, wincing on the inside at how insecure you must've sounded. You didn't think you were ready for any answer he gave you, you weren’t even sure you wanted to hear what he was going to say, certain that it would hurt your feelings no matter what. 

Bucky sighed, dropping his arms from his chest to his sides. The gleam of his prosthetic caught your eye like a taunt. 

"Because," You willed herself not to flinch at the way his voice rasped. "I really like you. Besides, who knows me better than my best friend?" 

Your heart grew a little, beating even faster as he took a step closer to you. He wasn't dressed in anything particular, just a white shirt and what you swore was his only pair of jeans and yet, he looked as good as ever. 

Smelled even better. 

Like bergamot and sandalwood, rich and deep and his scent became synonymous with home to Iris.

Then you swallowed thickly, you're just a friend.  

Bucky took another step closer and you had no choice but to crane your neck up so you could look at him. The blue in his eyes seemed to disappear at that moment, but you could easily point out where the specks of gold were. Even in the lowlight of their New York City apartment that was far too expensive for what it was. 

A box. Two rooms with a bathroom the size of a locker and something that only sort of resembled a kitchen. 

"I just don't understand why you need me to go to this wedding, I'm sure your best friend won't even remember this stupid little bet you both made when you were drunk off your asses in college." You said, watching the way Bucky’s eyes scanned your face and for a brief second, wandered just below your chin. 

"Oh, he'll remember. And then I'll lose the bet and my reputation, you know how important that is to me. Would you do that to me, huh? Would you let me ruin my reputation?" He rambled on melodramatically, playfully as your lips tugged into a small smile. 

"I'm sure the bet can't be that bad anyways." You assured him, watching the way he raised an eyebrow competitively, silently telling you oh, it's bad. 

"If I lose," your interest peaked, hanging onto every word as she waited in anticipation of what this horrible, no-good bet was. 

"I have to dress up as Elvis and perform a hit in front of the entire wedding party." Your brows knit together as you desperately tried to conceal your laugh with a cough. 

Bucky knew better though, saw right through you and his mischievous eyes met yours again. "Oh you're evil for laughing at my misery, you know that, Sweets?" 

God, why did he have to use the nickname that caused you to turn into complete mush? 

"I just don't understand, why Elvis?" You asked, one hand onto your hip as you propped yourself up on the opposite leg. 

Bucky looked at you with a wicked grin, placing two large palms on either side of you on the counter and leaning in so close you could smell the beer he had with dinner just a few hours ago. 

"Oh? Did I not tell you? The wedding's in Vegas." 

_

There was something sinister about Bucky, there had to be. Because it was nearing two in the afternoon and all you could do was focus on the way Bucky’s body heat radiated off of him and onto you, his scent invading all of your senses as he smirked when he told you the wedding was in none other than fucking Vegas. 

"[Y/N]?" A voice snapped you out of your thoughts, or space as Bucky liked to call it. You had a tendency to get lost in it, wandering up there for a little too long sometimes. 

"Ava." You replied as your co-worked-turned-best-friend walked through the threshold of your make-shift office before she was standing right before your desk. 

"You've been…" Ava searched for the right word. "Off...all day. Is everything okay?" She asked, knitting her eyebrows together as you closed your laptop and tangled your fingers in your hair. 

You had done everything you could to make yourself look presentable, but there just didn’t seem to be enough hours in the day. You just didn't have the time, not when you had been promoted to editor at Amber Publishing House. 

It wasn't a massive publishing house, not with all the competition New York had, but it was doing well for itself. Well enough to give you a promotion that your boss, Lucien, congratulated you with a bottle of champagne straight from France.

Which is why this job just barely paid you enough to live somewhat comfortably, but it also felt like a 24/7 job with the amount of copious "URGENT" emails you received as you were just leaving the office or just about to crawl into bed. 

It just never ended. And Ava understood that, felt it deep in her bones. 

"I'm okay." You lied right through your teeth. "Just tired." 

Ava scoffed, her heels clicking against the wooden floors as she walked up to your' desk. 

"Liar." 

You looked at her, determined to win this staring competition. 

"You can either tell me what's wrong or I'll get it out of you by dragging my ass in here to work with you for the rest of the day. And you know how much I love country music." 

You rolled her eyes, slumping against your old, worn-out chair your boss had graciously "gifted" you a few months after you had begun working there. 

"You're seriously the worst." You grumbled, watching Ava hop up onto her desk and smile victoriously. 

"I'm a Virgo, what can I say?" She laughed as you couldn’t help but crack a smile. "Now c'mon, what's up? Is it Josh from payroll? You know I'll kick his ass easily, I mean he lives off of Monster Energy, his bones have got to be as brittle as styrofoam by this point." 

You interrupted her with a laugh. "It's not Josh." You said, "it's Bucky." 

Ava had to take a second, racking her brain for a moment before her eyes went wide and she jumped off of the desk. 

"You slept with him!" 

"What?" 

"I knew it, oh I called it, ever since last year's Christmas party I just knew you were both banging each other oh my God what h—"

"Ava I did not sleep with him and would you please keep it down?" You begged with wide eyes as you managed to scrambled to your feet, going to shut the door. 

"There's no need to falsely project my non-existent sex life to the entire office." You whisper-yelled as Ava just clapped her hands together and laughed, falling into your old chair. 

"God, you need a new chair." 

You rolled your eyes. 

"Okay, I'm sorry. I'll admit I got a little bit carried away, but can you blame me? You live with the most eligible bachelor in New York City and you still haven't even tried to hook up with him? I mean you've got will power, I'll give you that." Ava's words made you nauseous with anxiety. 

Or perhaps it was the same feeling you always got whenever Bucky’s name was mentioned. A feeling that very closely resembled jealousy. Not because you really cared, but because you were in far too deep and he would never, not in a million years, feel the same way. 

You were stupidly friend-zoned. Nothing more than a roommate. 

"Ava," you quickly interrupted the red-head. "He asked me to be his fake girlfriend for to his best friend's wedding." You finished, squeezing your eyes shut and bracing for the screech of excitement that would surely come at any moment. 

Right about… 

"He what?" You opened your eyes slowly, watching a dead-serious, slightly concerned Ava looking at you like you had revealed you grew a tail overnight. 

"Last night." You sighed. 

"He asked me to be his fake girlfriend because of some stupid bet he made ten years ago. Something with an Elvis costume." You muttered the last part of the sentence as Ava absorbed all of the information.

"Hang on, let's just rewind. Elvis?" 

"Oh yeah, and it's in Vegas. In like, a month." 

It didn't take long to catch Ava up on everything, there was very little to say as the both of them sat silently. 

"And why didn't he ask, I don't know, one of the girls he's hooked up with? Isn't that like, the point of weddings?" Oh God. Your eyes went wide, like a deer in headlights at Ava's words. 

You had somehow glossed over the point that Bucky, a 30-year old bachelor, viewed weddings like his own personal dating game. What did he say? Oh yes, free booze and vulnerable women is the Barnes special.  

You shuddered at the memory because Bucky could have a) gone alone and had a whole weekend of promiscuity in Vegas or b) asked literally anyone else. 

He had a month to prep them, hell, he could make cue cards and quizzes. 

"He said that he needed someone that knows him. He needs his best friend." You groaned in pity for yourself. 

You were the most pathetic person on the planet. The universe. 

Rock, meet bottom. Stay a while, we have punch. 

Ava hummed, processing everything. 

"What are you going to do?" She asked, looking at you with a quizzical expression as you laughed dryly. 

"That's kind of what you're here for. I have no idea. This has the potential to be the best and worst decision I make." 

Ava nodded before jumping out of your ancient chair. "My place. After work. I have wine and frozen pizza." 

You didn't even argue. It was Friday night and the countless “URGENT” emails could wait until Monday. 

This was a personal crisis. A dramatic, trivial, but life-changing dilemma. 

[thedarkknightswife]

🐱Batman Don't Eat🐱

Inspired By recent discourse over whether or not Bruce Wayne can drink cream.

Pairing: Nicola Holden (OC Batmom insert) & Bruce Wayne. Past BatCat & Brutalia

TW: oral, satire of Harley Quinn show (if you're a fan plz don't get offended).

Being on the top trending pages was nothing new for Bruce. He had his own business to mind over trite gossip and libellous slander. But lately he was disturbed by a controversy caused by reboot of his childhood show The Gray Ghost - or what he thought until he learned the Ghost wasn't even the main character - that caused him more trouble in a few days than Joker had in years.

Entire sites even the news was asking one simple yet vulgar question: Can the Gray Ghost eat pussy? According to the idiot behind the libellous slander they had thought about adding an intimate scene between him and one of Ghost's female villains involving oral, but was cut out due to the studios' desire to shill a friendlier image of their moneymaker.

"I think he can," Nicola said at breakfast, nearly causing Bruce to spit out his drink. "He's an adult right? Shouldn't be that much of an issue."

"Sex is not an appropriate topic to discuss at breakfast Nicky," Bruce chastised her as he wiped his mouth. "We're talking about the Gray Ghost here, there's more to him than just sex. Clearly these people have no respect for his character!" He knew it was silly to get so frustrated but Gray Ghost was his icon and he was damned to sit back and watch his good name be dragged by discourse.

"I mean the cartoon is based on you, I'm sure they must've taken inspiration from your exploits," replied Nicola. There was something in her voice that suggested envy.

"If that's the case they should cancel that garbage. 'Sides, the last thing I need is everyone dissecting my sex life," Bruce grumbled before shoving some bacon into his mouth.

The social worker gazed at his lips for a moment and tilted her head on her hand. Bruce practically saw the question lingering in her mind; 'Can you eat pussy?'

Can he? Of course he has! Plenty of times with Selina and Talia. The former would certainly find all of this amusing; the times he went down on her she made jokes about cats liking milk. Talia enjoyed the act as well, vocal and jumpy, but she obviously didn't enjoy having to call him early this morning, pointedly concerned over how scandal could affect Damian's social life.

Oral wasn't his biggest kink but he did like it enough. The only person he hadn't done it on was Nicola.

Oooooh....now he realized it.

The constant gears picking up in his head, Bruce leered over at her with the smile he got whenever he put smug assholes in their place. "You talk as if you're jealous."

"Jealous of what?"

"Someone never going down on you."

His mischief ranked up a level as he saw her eyes go wide for a moment. Then she smiled coyly. "How about you show me how it's done."

The next thing she knew she was back in their bedroom, pants and undies discarded and her hips jerking up at something hot and soft touching her other lips. Her hands clutching everywhere from her curls, to the sheets, to his own hair.

Her mouth open in a voiceless scream as his teeth nipped the soft inside of her thighs before diving back in to lap at her pearl. When she tried to jerk her hips the Bat's strong arms held them to the mattress leaving her trapped beneath his ruthless tongue.

Bruce groaned at her taste - she tasted oddly salty - but the drive to prove a point to her made him all the more determined to drive her to that breaking point.

By the time her insides clenched in soaked the sheets, she had her eyes closed and her breathing slowed down. She pulled him up for a kiss, embarrassed to taste herself on him - but the sheer ecstasy made her forget.

It was confirmed - the Ghost can feast on pussy, and she didn't question it nights after that.

***

Baby's first smut 😢 also threw in some Protective!Talia Al Ghul since I hate the way modern DC writes her these days.

[hogwarts-is-my-wonderland]

Writing in a Winter Wonderland Challenge

Day 16: Cabin│Storm│Quiet

Pairing: Barry Allen / Karen Starr (OC)

Timeline: set after the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths.

For a cabin in the middle of nowhere, there was too much noise around. The howling of the wind, the shaking trees, the snow building up outside the wooden building—and yet, Karen found everything comforting.

Not once did she complain to Barry. Not when he told her he'd rented a cabin for a short Christmas getaway or when he showed her the clothes he'd bought for each. She didn't bring up the usual argument about her being capable of paying all this when she was the millionaire in the relationship nor did she argue about the three-day period of their vacation.

Frankly speaking, she wasn't sure this wasn't a dream.

She sat down in front of the fireplace, watching the flames crackle. Karen focused on that sound, drowning the storm outside.

But it did nothing to abate the one going inside her.

Barry dropped in front of her with a sigh, leaning his whole body on her legs until she opened them and now his head came to her chest. He was, to her amusement, still wearing the many layers of sweaters under his parka, a stark contrast against her flimsy white turtleneck shirt. Speedsters did not stand the cold, after all.

Another mystery of this surprise: Barry could not have thought this on his own. He wouldn't have willingly chosen the one place on earth where he was at his weakest.

Or maybe that was the point. No one would expect to find them there.

"You're thinking too loudly," Barry said.

She smiled weakly. "Am I?" Her fingers threaded through his hair.

He melted at her touch, falling completely into her embrace.

"You are. I hate it when you do that."

She pulled at his hair. The noise she got in response was lewd.

"Didn't you say you loved my smarts?"

He chuckled. "Okay, it's a love/hate relationship. You know how much I like your laser focus... but when you think too much about... whatever, it's like you're on another planet."

"Loved the pun there," she commented dryly.

"You're not with me. And I want you to be with me all time."

Her mechanical heart thumped loudly at that. She’d had an inkling about the reason behind this trip.

"Who gave you the speech?"

"Cisco and Caitlin." He turned his head so he could look at her face. "You?

"Iris." Her eyes darted. "And Mattie."

His face twitched. "They don't have a right to butt into our relationship."

"They do it because they care." She took a deep breath. "And because they aren't wrong—we are getting too co-dependent." They had moved in together not a day or two after the Anti-Monitor's defeat, just shy of Karen having her memories fixed. With her strength and his speed, they'd settled down in five hours. Then Barry had formally requested a Leave of Absence at the station and Karen had asked Bruce to send her replacement at the New York headquarters.

They only left their new—old?—place whenever a Flash emergency happened. Barry couldn't be away from her for minutes (to him, it was akin to hours), couldn't stop touching any part of her to ensure she was alive and real. Karen was no better, asking him all sort of things—whether it was from their shared experiences, the memories she had from Power Girl, and even daring to bring up Divine—just to confirm she wasn't going crazy.

Team Flash hadn't liked it. They'd tried to get them both at STAR Labs and when that ultimately failed, they'd cornered them separately.

Barry's response? Renting a cabin in the outskirts of Keystone City and stranding them in the middle of a storm.

And people said Karen was dramatic.

"They can't blame us," Barry complained. "You died, I died, then Oliver rebooted the universe, and you didn't remember me but the Anti-Monitor was still kicking alive—then Clark threatened me—"

"Oh my Rao," she rubbed her eyes, "are you still on about that?"

"I just wanna spend time with my wife." His stubborn face dropped. "Who isn't my wife anymore."

"Well, at least we get to plan the wedding this time," Karen said carefully. "Make it as romantic as you dreamed as a kid."

His voice was a near whine. "Our wedding was romantic."

"We eloped in Las Vegas two days before the end of the universe." At his pouting, she relented; Karen ran a thumb over his eyebrow. "But yeah, it was romantic."

He was smiling now and so was she. She'd forgotten how much happiness Barry brought her. That whenever he was around, the world's loudness paused. It did not fall silent, it just... quieted down.

Suddenly, being cut off from everything and everyone seemed like the best idea ever.

[peachywander]

All asks

Holy shit, this will be so much fun B-) *cracks knuckles*

Ask me: FANDOM EDITION

A - Your current OTP

Uhhh pff,,, skeleton dance I think?? I mean sure, skelley dance is always my current OTP, ngl. They're basically made for eachother, hell, even craig himself wore tshirts and stuff with wander hugging hater ifthisisn'tcannonthenidkwhatitis

B - A pairing you initially didn’t consider but someone changed your mind

To be honest,, wander x beza. I used to dislike every wander x girl ship bcs I see him as gae and nothing else. But I have a friend who does lots of art with them so I think it grew on me more and more with time?? Now I think they would look cute together, even if i'm still not super big on it.

C - A pairing you have never liked and probably never will

Wnder x domi. No comment, I despise it with all my heart 😂😂 Like I said earlier, I don't like most of wander x girl ships, and domi really hates wander. Sooo this ship simply doesn't make sense to me,, lmfao.

D - A pairing you wish you liked but just can’t

I think Twi x Flash from mlp. Yeah, I thought twi was cute when crushing on him in the 1st EG movie but they don't seem to have that chemistry I was hoping for. Plus I haven't seen any recent episodes of mlp in a long time, though I heard ppl say that he was mean to her once, if I remember well? Anyways, doesn't work so much for me.

E - Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what

Besides memes/ shitposts, not really. Check @gunxball if you want to see posts of mine back when I was into gumball 2 yrs ago (golly i miss those times)

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom

Probably su (2016-2019) or kid vs kat (2011-2014)

G - Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in it

Why yes, of course I do. cosmo x wanda from fop. They were so adorbs together esp in the first 2 seasons. Don't like how they got so flanderized with time, their dynamic was absolutely destroyed, and my day was ruined when I found out.

H - Do you prefer characters from real action series or anime series

I don't watch either lolol

But I think anime.

I - Has tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why

Dislike the fandom, not the show itself? Probably hzbin hotel. The show has a pretty neat concept and animation and it had such a big impact on my artstyle when I first watched it. But the fandom? Absolute hell. (pun intended)

From shipping wars, to pestering vivz, anything is possible. Glad I haven't actually interacted with that part of the fandom.

J - Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr

Not a show but among us. Back in september/october last year, my tl was FILLED with among us, up and down. Made me a lil tired of it but once I tried playing that game, I couldn't stop. Also the owlhouse, fell in love with the artstyle and story.

K - How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom

I don't have a current fandom. Not feeling in the mood + school + inactivity bcs of school. So I'll say abt my latest fandom, which was animaney. Well, people were really nice, and they seemed to enjoy the reboot. Nothing more to say tbh,,

L - Your favorite fanartist/author gives you one request, what do you ask for

Ummm I don't really like giving rqs to my fave artists, i don't wanna bother them haha

M - Your favorite fanart or fanartist

I don't know aaaa, prolly toonipi but she also draws ocs, not just fanart.

N - Your favorite fanfiction or fanauthor

Anything cute or sappy with skelleydance (NO nsfw)

O - Choose a song at random, which OTP does it remind you of

Lasers and feelings. Skellydance again. It matches sO well-

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)

I used to have a skatepark AU ft. su chars but never put anything over here. I still have the sketches from 9th grade lmao.

Q - A ship you’ve abandoned and why

To be completely honest, Amydot. Up until s3 they really gave me possible ship vibes. They interacted a lot, and peri discovered her metal powers thanks to amy. But after s3 they hardly ever interacted anymore (besides that one ep from s5 with the kindergarden). I was so dissapointed, but hey lapdot isn't so bad anyway, right?

R - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships

Back in 2014 I would have said chred from angry birds, definitely. Not many really shipped them, and when I saw some fanart of them on dA everyone would say "ew, gae". Well, 2014 everyone. I was always like "so?? i like that ship, what's the problem??"

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon

Uhmm, i headcanon darwin from tawog that he likes to yodel lol

T - If you mostly have homoships, do you have any heteroships

I think my ships are 50-50, but here are some examples:

Larsdie

Stevnnie

Blckeye

Fluttrcord

Beeckard

Starc0

Tanyamao

Foxodile

Pennball

Carwin

U - If you mostly have heteroships, do you have any homoships

Same as T. Another examples:

Skelleydance

Wnderingeye

Sylava

Lumty

Rupphre

Pearlmthyst

Badgrmao

Bubbline

Flutterdsh

Patbob

V - Are you one of those fans who can’t watch anything without shipping

Lol no. Tbh, i'm not super big on shipping either. I only slighty like/dislike any ship i listed earlier (with the exception of skelleydance, i'm too in love with that ship)

W - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms

wakko warner (animaney)

wander (woy)

fluttershy (mlp)

amethyst (su)

bubbles (ppg)

X - 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms

skelleydance (woy)

lumty (toh)

stevnnie (su)

Y - A fandom you’re in but have no ships from

kid cosmic (or maybe I do ship papa g w/ chuck), animaney, okko, gravity flls

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go

That one fan made episode from su called the smothering, it was so freaking amazing. It helped a lot in relieveing the pain of that big hiatus from 2017 (which was the biggest one, i literally turned into a skeleton waiting for new eps). Loved peri's needy personality, as well as lappy's playful one. It was so well written, like it could be perfectly fit as a role reversal episode in the main show.

[hellzyeahthewebwieldingavenger]

Marvel sometimes feels like it has a very love/hate relationship with Mary Jane (sometimes as in it hates that the fans love her). They've tried multiple times, even before OMD, to shove her out of Peter's life but they still bring her back and parade her around. In the MCU movies they gave an OC MJ's name despite having nothing in common with either the 616 or Ultimate versions because they knew how attached to the character fans are. If MJ makes them money, why keep trying to get rid of her?

Oh Marvel internally has generally been against Mary jane for decades even in Stan’s day. They changed MJ’s hairstyle and gave Gwen MJ’s old one whilst also sidelining her alot. Wolfman broke her and Peter up and again side lined her before essentially writing her out completely. Then you had the Clone Saga, the Mackie/Byrne reboot, Brand New Day, Slott’s run, etc. 

MJ is the inverse of Gwen in that she’s a great character who is if anything unfairly demeaned by Marvel whilst Gwen is a shitty character unfairly worshipped. 

[smokeybrand]

What Comes Next

My brother posted something about the new Wonder Woman from Didio’s failed 5G initiative, Yara Flor. New Wondy is, apparently, a literal Amazon; She’s from the Amazon in South America. I think she’s Brazilian, specifically. My brother, who doesn’t even give a sh*t about comics like that, had no kind words for this odious turn of events. Didio’s fever dream of a live wide reboot, the third one in a decade, was rightfully killed and he, himself, fired when the ATT buyout went through. Look, i love comics. I think they are one of the purest forms of storytelling outside of actual novels, that we have today. They’re an infinite well of creativity and inspiration so it boggles my mind why the two major comic houses can’t seem to write a compelling f*cking narrative to save their lives and always resort to this reboot bullsh*t. Marvel is much less guilty about this, the less said about All New-All Sh*t, the better, but three times in ten years? Really? What the f*ck was Didio doing?

I mention All New, All Different because DC’s Future State, the re-branded moniker of 5G, is exactly the same goddamn thing but with a DC twist. That means it’s going to be worse. We already see this sh*t happening. New Wondy. Johnathan is replacing Clark. Batman is presumed dead but is really on the run, like in the vastly superior Court of Owls arc, replaced by an unknown vigilante wearing his symbol. It’s Luke Fox. DC already spilled the beans about that sh*t. Force that diversity directly into your books because that sh*t worked SO well for Marvel, right? It’s not like that disaster didn’t take until now for them to get back to good, even if sales don’t reflect the good will because comics are a whole ass dying industry. It’s dying because no one tells great stories anymore and companies rely too heavily on desperate, ill conceived reboots like this or thousands of variant covers. Future state is doomed to fail. DC has no faith in it, no faith in the actual work, proven by the fact that Jim Lee announced the books will be returnable. Who the f*ck makes comics returnable?? When has that ever been a thing?

I give DC so much sh*t because their product is sh*t. It’s been terrible for a long while now, with the exception of a few Flash arcs, DCeased, most of Earth-2 before it got canned, and The White Knight run. I’ve written at length about my love for that sh*t. Hell, even Joker War turned out to get it’s sh*t together in a hurry and end on a ridiculously compelling note. I even found myself intrigued by where Punchline was left and i hate that b*tch. I also hate The Batman Who Laughs. This Gary Stu ass mass of originality is everything wrong with DC and comics as a whole. Dude is a try hard, edgelord, OC character getting an unearned push, forcing him down our throats as readers. It’s f*cking ridiculous. Marvel is dong this same sh*t with f*cking Knull but he’ll eventually be forgotten. TBWL is around to stay because casuals love this f*ck. We’re in the middle of another Crisis event that he orchestrated which is the lead-in to the entire Future State slate. The biggest boner in recent DC history is going to be the direct result of the worst character DC has pushed in twenty years. If that isn’t the most flaccid poetry, i don’t know what is.

I know I'm giving this Future State a lot of sh*t, and it might be fully warranted, but there aspects of this nonsense that i do, in fact, like. I like that Cassandra Cain is Batgirl again, even if that means the other one i don’t like, Stephanie Brown, gets the same treatment. I like the look of Latina Wondy and that Gotham City seems to be super Cyberpunk now. I don’t think I've ever seen that in the books before. Gothic Cyberpunk? Can it really be everything i dream of? Manta’s kid is, apparently, taking the Aquaman mantle with Curry’s daughter inheriting the Aquagirl title. Luke Fox shouldn’t be Batman, Damian Wayne should be. If Artemis can be Egyptian, then Latin Wondy is fine. I’m even borderline okay with John Kent being “Superman.” I like the fact that there is more diversity coming to DC’s books, overall, i just don’t think this is the way you go about doing it. Non of this feels organic or competently executed. This sh*t feels so goddamn miserable, it hurts. Everything i just said. I've seen before. Cass had an entire series to herself as Batgirl, same as Stephanie. Gordon was the first to don a high tech Batsuit when Bruce was missing, not Luke. F*cking Nubia is a thing. I watched Aqualad hit all of these same beats in the Young Justice show and Johnathan is literally Superman in DCeased. That book may or may not still be running alongside these Future State titles, man! That’s my biggest issue with all of this; It’s just more of the same, but worse. Even f*cking Red X, that asshole identity Robin took on when he worked for Slade in the old Teen Titans cartoon, has a part to play in these books. If that doesn't clarify my problems with this event, I don't know what can.

Future State is the most transparent, unoriginal, corporate pandering effort i have ever seen. It smacks of desperation. I know that because, aside from the return policy, instead of this being an entire line wide reboot like Didio wanted, it’s only supposed to be a two month run. Two months and then the status quo returns. This tells me that, the only reason we’re seeing any of these books, is because DC lacks content. The Wuha f*cked up A LOT of sh*t and it seems DC was wounded more than we thought. Before Didio's firing and the jumbling of the comic hierarchy, work was already complete on some of the 5G sh*t. I imagine, maybe, speculation on my part, about two months worth of content? Sub-par content at that? It’s insane to me that DC is floundering this much. Marvel is killing it with their X-Titles and Thor is gaining ground quickly but there is nothing currently being published but DC that even comes close to those books. Rehashing a failed idea that was already canceled once, ain’t the answer. As much as i what the comics industry to be okay, as much as i want DC to tell great stories, and as much as i want to see Cass back behind that symbol, this ain’t it, chief. I would love to go into this event with cheery optimism but, if DC’s recent history has proven anything, it’s that optimism in their content is for fools. This entire run seems like an obvious mistake.

[johannepetereric]

I just imagined another thing to my AU where the Blaster Blade, Dragonic Overlord, CEO Amaterasu/an OC super-obscure super-dowry named Genesis, Asura Kaiser, and Blaster Dark of my AU (Unit #4 about “Genesis” was a BS-wrote-itself sitch, didn’t exist put I put that first part of this what-if down on here) are yeeted into the bodies of their Vanguards (you can easily assume who they are) in the reboot—starting from ep 1.

Ok, after the Kai vs. Aichi fight (in that one, no stakes are there anymore. The two Clan Leaders recognized each other immediate and it just turned into a regular teach-the-noob-the-rules game. Dragonic Overlord kept the challenge, cuz dueling Bladter Blade is super-duper fun, but he would’ve given his mate his card anyway. They talk like old friends are they completely avoid any question of how they suddenly got so buddy-buddy as if the “extras” (Dragonic Overlord’s opinion) didn’t exist and Miwa didn’t know about it)), after Kamui is introduced, Q4 can just be chilling alone in the lobby downstairs for like 6 hours or somethin’ and NOT play Vanguard. “Misaki” is reading a book, “Aichi” is reading a book on a bench, “Kai” is napping on “Aichi,” “Kamui” is doing exercises, and Shin is wondering wtf they’re just doing nothing in A FRICKING CARD SHOP!

The Misaki sub-plot is shut-down cuz it’s Misaki’s trauma and not Genesis’ trauma. It’s just another of teaching “Aichi” the new version.

Same with Kamui—mostly. Their fight is just because they can.

Asura Kaiser wins that one cuz I say so.

Ok, back to the chillin’:

Dragonic Overlord can be calmed (well, it’s just them and the others don’t wanna do anything so this stops any “rampage” of his) if he’s being given physical affection by his mate for a long period of time. In this one, his mate is scratching the dragon’s (so to speak, cuz he’s stuck with a regular human body) ear rhythmically and always for those six hours—the ear will be red and throbbing and “burning” (to the human, but this is a dragon so it’s like the burning doesn’t exist), but Dragonic Overlord misses being red.

Genesis (supreme ruler of Oracle Think Tank and Genesis combined, but she doesn’t appear for official matters. It’s just to hang with the other leaders fir a fortune to be told or something.) is reading a book at the cash register. Assista-cat is napping all day.

Blaster Blade is reading a book one-handed. That scratching-hand never strays from its scratching, but Blaster Blade is already experienced in being one-handed with his dragon so it doesn’t matter. As if he’s doing it two-handed.

If that scratching-hand stops or tries to leave, Dragonic Overlord will wake up immediately and do something and “deal with the threat” (the default assumption, even tho he can clearly see it’s night).

Asura Kaiser is just exercising loud enough to be chi but not to distract anyone or wake the Overlord.

Another way to wake the sleeping dragon (pun intended!) is for a threat to walk in: Dragonic Overlord considers Koutei too weak to consider Koutei even remotely a threat so not even a stir, Leon is powerful so he’s wary and likely to move his mate cuz some plot s**t would go down, Blaster Dark is the love rival so immediate full-frontal assault and it’s a full-our war to stop the trigger-happy berserkers, and everyone else doesn’t immediately wake him up but he stays just conscious enough to be able to immediately respond to any threat/“threat.”

Also, they get to hear their theme songs/OSTs from the OG anime magically play in their heads during, well, on cue. The first time it happens, it’s to Dragonic Overlord during his (first) fight against NwO. He’s just shaking his head wildly to see where it’s coming from. Genesis offers, “Maybe someone allowed you to break the Fourth-Wall?” And they just accept that cuz there’s no other explanation.

Yeah, the Team Handsome plot stays cuz Asura Kaiser is just G-era Kamui here and he wants to show “Aichi” around. He isn’t as invested in Emi here, just admits that she’s cute, but it’s not strong enough to cause any shenanigans and related comedy. Still revolted with Nagisa, and they’re all surprised af with this Nagisa’s initial alliance (aka hating on Kamui).

Yeh, lotsa stuff change.