#this is my evil backstory by the way

[daisey14]

one of these days i will stop being uncomfortable around spelling bees (i was SO FUCKING CLOSE to making it to nationals in eighth grade before stupid covid.) and listen to the 25th annual putnam county spelling bee. because i feel like i would really like it. but i am so pissed about the spelling thing still so we’ll see

[98chao]

truly i love all of you and i'm so grateful for all the support i get on my vanilla milkshake posts here because i've just seen the way people talk about vanilla milkshake and mysticao on twitter and its genuinely taken 50 years off my life. now i've been reminded as to why i should never join the crk fandom on twitter

[cruelplatonic]

ruminating on 'the vees died despondent nobodies' thoughts

velvette interrogates vox after she hears him give various conflicting and bombastic accounts on air. a selection of these include: blew his brains out on live television, administered the death penalty for killing his "bitch wife," a tragic accident involving two shetland ponies, dubiously legal iranian yogurts, and a whole lot of cocaine. the actual cause was shockingly ordinary- a heart attack in front of the television, alone, his corpse only recovered after two weeks passed. he was watching a game show and his last mortal regret was never even learning who won, because he died during the commercials.

[robotlesbianjavert]

afo mom lore is crazy it's literally the last thing I expected

I'm going to be honest, I find the writing choices around that tasteless at best, and really gross in general. It's one thing to sprinkle in some edgy melodrama as a part of the narrative's backstory, I can't fault that it has it's place, but this really upset me.

Personally, I go back and forth a lot on how misogyny and objectification of female characters manifests in BNHA, but one of the conversations I think about the most was how violence is depicted against female characters in comparison to their male counterparts, where Mirko was the central point of discussion.

I think about that discussion now, because "seemingly homeless sex worker is weakened by her Evil Fetus, dies giving birth in the elements, has her corpse preyed upon by rats and her own fucking Evil Baby" is frankly indefensible, and really emblematic in that connection between misogyny and violence. It's also just very immature grimdark lit with an unnerving fascination on the interplay of Sex and Violence-core.

The funny thing is I was telling @stillness-in-green after reading the final part of her Heteromorph & Heteromorphobia series and reliving how disappointing the Central Hospital mini-arc was is that I was thinking "well at least there's not a lot that BNHA can do to disappoint me to that extent again". I should know by now, never underestimate Horikoshi. Oh well!

[stabbyfoxandrew]

you know what's fucking insane though???

it's only been 3 days in the mafia front fic. THREE DAYS= ~34k. (so far, we're still on day three rn)

wow i'm truly insane. three days... mein gott

(potential spoilers for this fic in tags???)

[palespawn]

i know it's a popular fandom theory that astarion was a corrupt magistrate prior to his death/turn (which i think was a concept idea in the bg art book? i could be wrong), but i've seen a few other theories floating around that align with the opposite, which i'm kind of leaning towards here. like, he becomes a magistrate in baldur's gate, which is more of a progressive city than most others, with maybe the idea that he can do some good or make certain changes for the better and his rulings kind of start to disturb the status quo, which some powerful people/groups don't like and that eventuates in his murder. i just think it would be sadder for his character, especially since now he has no recollection of who he was prior to being turned into a vampire. cazador really twisted him and his ideals/morals, he goes from this studious, hopeful young man with promise to make his city potentially a better place, and instead becomes understandably bitter and angry, loses his faith, culture, and identity and thinks that the only way to escape the hurt and trauma and reclaim his autonomy is to gain that power for himself and inflict pain onto others.

[svampira]

if you've seen me post this already no you did naut anyways human elias

[queerstudiesnatural]

i think my brain should be studied i'm being fr

[ragyragd0ll]

Anyone else has this thing where they like a villainous character, but as soon as the villainous character stops being evil, or their backstory gets revealed, they just completely lose interest in this character?

[ladykailolu]

Do you think that...for the rest of Klavier's life, he's haunted by the image of his brother? The Gavin brothers resemble each other very much in the face, so every time Klavier looks in the mirror, he can see Kristoph looking right back at him (without his glasses)

[livvyofthelake]

did i ever tell y’all about my little cousin who i’m very patiently waiting for her to turn 12 or 13 so i can get her to read city of bones as a long term comedic revenge plot against her father

[egg-emperor]

so glad it's been said by Flynn that he doesn't think Eggman is actually going to become a better person because of Sage and only has the potential to be worse, and also that the Egg Memo about Maria wasn't supposed to be a sign that he was neglected and abused because he's a biased unreliable narrator. (and it does just sound like Eggman was bratty, selfish, and jealous out of entitlement to attention due to his ego which is very in character but people were interpreting it as something vastly different)

those are two things I'm happy to hear after starting to fear my nightmare would come true and his character was going to suddenly take literally every direction I hoped it wouldn't. Flynn doesn't get to decide what happens to the characters and stories in the future games unless they let him of course but I'm hoping all that stuff doesn't change because I'm mostly happy with it and it's much more true to his character, even if there are still aspects about how it's done that I'm not a very big fan of

[hanzajesthanza]

some terrible part of me wants to comparatively analyze the reynevan/jutta sex scenes VS the birkart/douce sex scenes as good VS evil…

it’s about the worship of VS subjugation of…

[dreamspring]

i literally think about the evil queen’s sdcc collector letter to raven everyday

[yuridovewing]

Feel like one of the best ways you can convince someone that no, villains with compelling motives that have sad backstories are not terrible writing compared to straight up born evil villains who just want to kill everyone and be done with it, is to tell them that Warrior Cats writes born evil villains constantly while literally preaching “That’s how evil works, you can’t CHANGE, you’re either touched by demons at birth or you aren’t!” and it blows chunks

[mariatesstruther]

tangled au with tommy and maria

maria as badass rapunzel and tommy as cocky flynn rider

idk why this just appeared in my brain but i feel i must share w you

okay okay okay maddie ur a mf genius for this like wow. WOW. i will admit, my mind immediately went “how do i make it so maria’s dad is still good” bc in my mind hank is never evil so its a lil different from tangled, but it def still works because like. here’s how it could all start

maybe maria’s mother, dorinda, was like a witch or sorcereress. maybe her family’s lineage was blessed with the same drop of sunlight that blessed the flower in tangled, or maybe she’s fae-descendant. either way, she has a magic garden full of flowers with magical properties and shit: anti-aging tulips, sick-remedy sunflowers, good-luck clovers, that kinda thing. her and maria’s father try at first to keep themselves secret, but it gets hard because she’s known to their small village as a healer. everyone tries to keep the news of her magic under wraps when it comes to outsiders because they know that, if word got out about maria’s mother, she would be quickly taken away by the king and queen, and locked away forever in the castle

so the secret stays buried—at least until maria is born. at this point, it’s virtually impossible to keep maria or her mother’s powers a secret, because maria is even more powerful than her forbearer. flowers bloom when she laughs, animals go haywire when she cries, and anyone who has the privilege of twisting her hair is blessed with a surge of healthful youth. dorinda has always had the power to heal people with her plants and herbs, but maria’s abilities are external and as powerful as she’s ever seen. she knows instantly she needs to be protected, so she and hank agree to do what’s necessary: they disappear to protect maria. with the help of the villagers, they give away all of dorinda’s magic plants and burn the roots away. they’re gone before maria reaches three months old

decades later, when the old queen falls deathly ill, the castle sends out gaurds to every corner of the kingdom looking for magic. they’ve heard rumors of the villager’s healer, a commoner witch with the powers necessary to save the queen, so the king orders them to raise hell until she’s found. village by village, soldiers interrogate everyone for information on the secret healer’s identity. eventually, they have a lead on a hideout and find them

before they’re stolen away to the castle, dorinda makes a deal with the king: that she can remain the queen’s nurse, dedicating her life to keeping her alive, but only if her daughter remains a protected secret. the king agrees, and they all decide it’s best for maria to be locked away somewhere safe, where her powers wouldn’t be witnessed by anyone.

so NOW we’re at tangled: maria is locked away in a tower and only gets occasional visits from her father, when he can get away from the castle. tommy, former blacksmith and current fugitive, is on the run from castle guards when he happens upon maria’s tower and hoists himself up with a pick-axe. she wipes him out with her cast iron pan, and it’s love at first knock-out