#wally is part panda

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But I fricken DID IT

I DID IT WOOOOOOO!

[cartoonyfangirl]

This is just something that I've been thinking about that is a part of @thepixarau AU world, and that is the outside studios besides Disney and Dreamworks that are included in their AU

So I decided to do my rankings of how each side would be on, We have Allies, Neutrals, and Enemies (Might not be any, but still)

Here's what I got so far!

(The Muppets) - Allies!

Yeah, this was a no-brainer! The reason is actually very sweet, in RL, Pixar actually helped the branch with giving some ideas, and even doing some technical stuff for the 2011 film, which I never knew, but I thought was very nice and kind!

As for the group in the AU, The Pixars would probably get along with The Muppets even more so than the Disney's, why? Two reasons

1. Both are just a chaotic group of characters that while can get on each others nerves they still love each other, to the point of being a family in whole

2. Both leaders always try to keep the group as steady as possible, but even they know that can't be achieved very well

It's just something that I feel like it could work, especially with a chaotic yet colorful group like The Muppets

(Universal) - Neutral

Okay! This one is going to be split for some characters, as some do see The Pixars as good people, while others, not so much, Woody Woodpecker is definitely one of them, in my version, he does see them as interesting, but when he has his limits, he won't hesitate to go "screwy" on them, since while he is more tame and zany, he still has his early 1940-1943 insanity with him

Winnie Woodpecker is the opposite, she enjoys seeing the chaos that The Pixars have, and sometimes has the urge to want to get to know them better, but even she knows that she doesn't want to get in trouble with anyone that's against them in The Universal Lot

Woody.W's other counterparts (Wally Walrus, Buzz Buzzard, Andy Panda) are just as neutral towards the group as they could be, despite Wally and Buzz being enemies themselves

(Illumination) - Neutral

Like Universal, I think the Illumination characters would be on neutral standings with them as well

For me, I feel like The Mario characters and Gru and his minions would get along with The Pixars fine, but for the rest, they either back off, or won't hesitate to fight back, if messed with

(Warner Bros) - Slightly Allies

Yeah, this one is just a me thing, I don't understand why everyone would think Disney and WB would be against each other, quite honestly, I feel like they would work something out (The Pixar and Dreamworks feud works more than that)

For me, The Looney Tunes, as well as the Warner Siblings would be kind of interested with The Pixars shenanigans, but they usually keep it to themselves, as they want to stay focused on what's been happening with their home (Since WB has been kind of been sinking recently)

Otherwise, I don't see why they wouldn't be allies by the slightest

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Rocky and Bullwinkle (Allies secretly)

These two are apart of the DreamWorks team, and while they pretend to hate The Pixars, they secretly don't, they feel like they're forced to hate on a group that like their antics, but they know that one wrong move, and William (Or Tigress) won't hesitate to get rid of them (Despite those two being close to Mr. Peabody and Sherman)

Felix The Cat (Neutral)

He is the oldest toon around, and being a crazy toon himself, he does take interest in The Pixars by a bit, but he doesn't really go near them, as he tries to keep his distance away from the toons young and old

[pandawriterstuff]

Writeblr Introduction Post

So, I figured it was probably time to make a proper writeblr introduction post instead of leaving my ramble about finishing my last WIP up forever.

I'm Panda, I'm in my thirties, I mostly write middle grade to new adult(maybe?) stuff if it's original, fanfiction is more a bit all over the place. I dabble in Sci-Fi and Fantasy, but generally my stuff is set in the real world, or at least adjacent to it. I follow a decent amount of writers, but not really any active middle grade authors, and I definitely see (and love) more fantasy than anything on my dash, so if you're writing realistic fiction or middle grade please interact with this post so I can follow you!

I tend to write about families, the ways they can fall apart and rebuild themselves and all the things in between. I love happy endings, but they aren't always possible-hopeful endings can be.

You can find the things I deemed worthy of it, ie actually finished, on my AO3 page.

My Stuff

So, The Buster's a Narc... My finished Fast & Furious AU! When Brian is recruited out of Juvie to go undercover with Toretto's team it changes a lot things. Hurt/Comfort and found family, with a tiny bit of romance between him and Mia(I'm aro/ace, but I tried), and an attempt to deepen characters that I felt had a lot of potential, but got short changed in the actual movies.

Home Is Where The Crankshaft Is My current wip! Mia/Brian Hurt/Comfort, found family, and deals with both past child abuse and current abuse of an adult child to warn you. Also a whole heck of a lot of Brian being torn between the team and his job/sense of right and wrong. It gets angsty. But there will be a happy ending! Because I write what I want to read. Summary below :)

Brian's big challenge today was supposed to be not breaking Vince's nose while helping Mia pick up stuff for a garden project. That was it. Nice and simple. He sure wasn't expecting to see his dad.

Untitled Brian & Vince as half brothers AU. This is a pre-series AU, where neither Brian or Vince know they're related until their dad dumps Brian on Vince when his mother goes to jail. This is going to be my nanowrimo, and it already has a massive outline and a couple test pages. When I shared a small chunk in the comments of Buster, a commenter used the phrase 'platonic slow burn' in response, and that sounds about right, it's not going to be an easy fix with Brian or Vince instantly or quickly getting along. I am really excited about it :)

Superhero 'Series'-an original series, though initially inspired by prompts from @writing-prompt-s and @gingerly-writing. A cartoonish, golden/silver age of comics without the chaff, inspired world, where all the superheroes and villains except a few rebels have two part names (The Charming Gunner, Golden Cricket, The Dapper Daemon, Mighty Mamba...I had fun), superpowers and mad scientist type devices are plentiful, and every powered person(they don't all go into heroics or villainy) has a familiar. Only two stories so far, but a sequel to the first is outlined.

Pinehallow Ranch-Monty, an eleven year old boy who has spent most of his life traveling from place to place with his in-demand lawyer mother, Irene, is sent to live at his uncle's horse ranch because she thinks he needs roots. Used to nearly everyone but his mother not being around long enough to get to know, Monty is more than a bit uncertain about this. But in scrambling to find his place in a town different to anything he's ever known, he finds friends, both human and animal, makes discoveries, and even manages to foil a plot against Pinehallow Ranch itself. (an actual summary!) This story is on hiatus for the moment, but here is a link to a WIP introduction with a bunch of character and some town/location descriptions and if you search #pinehallow ranch you can find a bunch of excerpts/last line tags I shared.

Middle Grade sort-of-suburban fantasy WIP-Wally and his friends aren't pretending to be secret agents, they're practicing for their future careers. Also walkie-talkies make it much easier to alert each other of bully sightings. In this world certain magical animals exist, but they've always been there and aren't too special, some people have powers, but they're almost always pretty mundane-being able to change your own hair color, to hover a few inches off the ground, heal minor injuries, etc. Wally's power is on the extreme end, it lets him sense people with bad intentions-but what a ten year old considers bad intentions, so it's sometimes pinging on his teacher on the day of a pop quiz. In the first of this 'maybe a series' Wally and his best friend Alison are convinced there is something nefarious in the eyes of the class hamster...(inspired by a prompt, but I don't remember from where)

Middle Grade Sci-Fi Wip-inspired by a prompt from @writing-prompt-s. "When Glenn saw the proof, he packed up his little sister and they went.  That was all it took." A story about how sometimes the promise of the unknown, whatever it might be, can be better than what you have. Also a story about two kids getting adopted by aliens that look like a cross between spiders and teddy bears. Only a few pages long so far, but this one calls deeply to my heart and is going to be finished. Probably Novella length.

Aiden's Day-planned future rewrite of an old WIP I started when I was 17. Parts of it have been rewritten many times, and there is still a copy of it up on an old Fictionpress account I can't get into anymore. "Aiden knows his mom had to leave. If she hadn't left town, she was going to leave them permanently. It burns, but he gets it. But he's still a 20 year old drop-out with four siblings he suddenly has sole responsibility for and has to try and feed on a gas station salary. When desperation leads him to reach out to his long absent father, things get complicated." Themes ranging from, 'we get by with a little help from our friends' and 'family is something we make' to suicide, neglect, and religious abuse, and with a definite touch of 'broken doesn't always mean you throw it away'. Angsty and humorous. It was originally written as a diary style novel, and while I don't want to entirely drop that, in this version each chapter would start with a diary entry rather than it being solely that. (I had the man grocery shopping with three teenagers and he was writing in his diary while doing it. My only excuse is that it was very, very fun to write, and I was very young.)

This is getting ridiculously long, so I'm just going to end it with, 'Happy Writing!'

[maurooochanthejellomjlimefan2022]

Top Cat, Choo-Choo, Benny, Brain The Cat, Fancy-Fancy, Spook, Spooky (Jellystone)

Hanna Barbera, Jellystone

Doing (Mork and Mindy: the Animated Series), Mr. Cool (The Fonz and The Happy Days Gang), Orbit The Robot Dog (The Partridge Family 2200 A.D.), Squealy The Pig (Laverne and Shirley Animated Series 1982), Smokey and Flash (The Dukes 1983 Cartoon), Dog, 2 Panda's and Magical Hat Bird (Mission: Magic!/The Brady Kids), Bumper The Lizard (Giligan's Island)

Orange Snake, Light Purple Striped Pink Snake, Little White Snake, Blue Rattlesnake (Inspector Gadget) (Snakin' All Over)

Characters From Hanna Barbera Debut After 65 Years in 1957 (Ruff and Reddy), 60 Years in 1962 (Astro From The Jetsons, Touche Turtle and Dum-Dum, Wally Gator From The New Hanna Barbera Series), 55 Years In 1967 (Moby Bleep From Mighty Mightor and Moby Bleep, Gloop and Gleep From The Herculoids), 50 Years In 1972 (Chu-Chu From The Amazing Chan Clan), 45 Years In 1977 (Satchel From The Skate Birds), 40 Years In 1982 (Kip The Kangaroo From Shirt Tales And Cavemouse From Dino And Cavemouse, The Flintstone Funnies and Flintstone Frolics), 25 Years In 1997 (Chicken From Cow And Chicken)

I Do Not Own Nothing, All Content Belongs To Respective Owners

Credit To Filmation, Hanna Barbera, Wildbrain, Warner Bros Discovery, Sony Pictures Television, Paramount, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Hallmark, TMS Entertainment, Monkey Punch, NTV

Shag Rugg (Jigen), Yakky (Goemon) and Augie (Lupin iii Part 6 Green Jacket and Purple Shirt)

[anothertimdrakestan]

Batboys/YJ Boys Reaction To You Falling Asleep On Them

req: Hiya! If this is weird you don't have to write it but I fall asleep everywhere. All the time. So I was wondering if you would write a batboys/young justice boys reaction to their like s/o falling aslee on them and it's all fluffy and cute? I love your blog thanks!"

hi angel! this is totally cute hehe i also have a couple fics ab this too if u wanna read them :D anywho i hope you enjoy!

(i didn't do my normal 8 i picked the cutest ones so i could go a little more in depth i hope that's okay i can always do a pt 2!)

Tim Drake:

- i imagine this HAS to be you passing out next to him while he's grinding out case files

- you convinced him to slouch next to you while you watched tv and he worked on cases then suddenly your head lolled onto his shoulder and the slight vibrations of your breath clouded his brain

- he tried to focus through it the first 80 seconds but when your head started to fall off his shoulder he suddenly became a living y/n pillow, timidly wrapping his arm around you to prop you up better while trying to will his heart back down as it tried to beat out of his chest

- when you woke up you were on his chest, his arm slung around you, and a blanket draped over the two of you (thanks alfred) and he was passed out in his deepest sleep for a while

- needless to say there was definitely a "so hi good morning yea i'm in love with you too" conversation when he woke up and it was ADORABLE

Wally West:

- he'd love that shit at the beginning, thinking it's adorable how you can fall asleep standing up while he rocks you back and forth

- then he gets kinda antsy

- he resolved this problem by just picking you up bridal style and carrying you around with him

- like you'd pass out on the couch with him and then he's like "i want to go to my room for my phone" and suddenly you're picked up ever so delicately and promptly moved wherever he's off to next

- it literally looks like he's kidnapping you (he kinda is) but everybody learned to normalize it and now it's just a fundamental part of life like "op where ya off to wally?" "oh y/n fell asleep so we're going back to bed" and it's just normal now lmao

Jason Todd:

- i have this inexplainable belief that when you fall asleep randomly jason just instinctively wraps you in a blanket burrito

- when he was a kid alfred and bruce would find him sleeping around the manor (being robin is hard) and always tucked him in with a pillow and fuzzy blanket and he instinctively carried this concept over to you

- now, whenever you fall asleep he'll gently pull you out of the strange position and place you on the nearest soft surface then proceed to wrap you in either one of his massive sweatshirts (it's basically a blanket on you) or one of the fuzzy blankets he stole from dick

- you always wake up burrito-ed in, like the sides tucked and everything, jason's usually nearby- cooking or reading or there's a small note explaining that he's off vigilante-ing

- now it's a staple in your relationship, and on the off chance jay falls asleep randomly he can expect to wake up wrapped in fluffy warmth with you cuddled into his chest

- tim and dick have SO many blackmail photos of y'all snuggled up but bruce has a single, small picture he always keeps close of the two of you wrapped together the way he taught jason all those years ago ;) proud batdad moment

Gar Logan:

- gar LOVES that you're down to curl up for a catnap at any given time ;)

- he's content to let you cuddle in his lap while he plays video games, though he's definitely gotten in trouble for yelling too loud (not like you can't just fall back asleep lol)

- he also likes to suprise you with food or little gifts when you wake up, you love waking up to his large mischievous grin as he shows you his lastest find

- there's literally nothing better than deciding which fluffy animal you want to cuddle each day, so far pandas rank pretty high, very close to st. bernard doggos and tigers (which are surprisingly soft) but there's also something special about cuddling gar himself, letting him mindlessly run his hands through your hair while you use the slow sound of his breath to lull you to sleep, safe and protected by your guardian angel beast :)

Damian Wayne:

- dami is very chill about it, he won't necessarily cuddle you and swoon over your sleeping form rather defend you from any incoming "threats"

- "drake i recognize your step pattern, y/n is asleep and you shall not dare to wake them"

- "yes. y/n is asleep, do not stare Kent, it's rude"

- he takes special joy in getting to wake you up, there's a certain pride in knowing he's the last person you see before sleep and the first person you wake up to

- "mhm beloved we must go, please wake up dearest i hope you slept well" he's so soft with you, his tone still deep and rumbling but softer and cooler than his normal harsh quips

- he won't admit it, but his heart does a somersault everytime you do that little wake up yawn and stretch, if he weren't around his family he'd probably wrap you in his embrace and kiss your face until you'd completely woken up from the tickling

- but for now, he settles with holding your hand and gently guiding you wherever you're headed next, giving a loving squeeze to remind you he's always there for you no matter where you decided to pass out next

i hope you enjoyed! thanks for the req :) lmk if y'all would want a part two! ily!

[fastestloseralive]

Okay but now I’m just imagining Wally as like a mentor to someone because he is going to retire for the most part to raise his kids and Bart isn’t ready for flash (and no one can see him as flash they see him as impulse forever) and the older hero’s are too old or busy and no one else wants to do it.

By some luck there’s a new speedster who is like yes! I’ll do it!

And I just imagine Wally being a good one and making sure they know what to do but Wally is also an asshole.

He’s like that turtle from Kung Fu Panda or something where he does not give straight answers.

It drives the newest flash member crazy and Wally and Linda find it hysterical.

wally’s basically just that teacher who goes “I dunno, can you?” when you ask if you can go to the bathroom and I guess that’s the hill I’m dying on today

[incobalt]

Really Weird Asks

What's your favorite part of the sky?

Where do you go when your feeling whimsical?

What fear really interests you?

How long does it take you to finish what you started?

What D&D class is your worst rival?

What's your Monsterhearts playbook?

If you could have any superpower, what would you absolutely NOT want?

If you could have any curse, what would you want?

What's a non-classical element (not air, fire, etc.) that you identify with?

How long does it take to get from your computer to your bed?

What's one thing you'd change about your morning?

Favorite thing to smell when your melancholy?

How long would it take a woodchuck to do your taxes?

What story do you really resonate with?

Whose history do you think needs to be explored more?

What is the spookiest thing about your house?

What would you do if you discovered a body?

How tall is too tall?

What did the last cloud you saw look like?

What's something you imagine a lot?

If you could live in a book, what would your character be?

What fictional character would you enjoy being roommates with?

Name a game no one talks about.

How many hours have you spent in between things this week?

What kind of dreams do you have (or wish you had, if you don't dream)?

What's hanging out nearby?

How slippery is your phone?

What's an animal you'd love to have as a pet if it wouldn't kill you?

What's a mythical/fictional creature you wish existed?

If you could combine any two creatures, what would it be?

What's something you collect for no apparent reason?

How many colors of pens do you own?

If everyone spoke the same language, what would it be like?

What's the strangest way you'd like to be addressed?

What kind of closing do you give for a letter to the last person you saw?

If you could put anything on your resume, what would it be?

When was the last time you watched the sun set?

How good is your eyesight?

If you could instantly read any book, what book would you read first?

If writing was directly brain to page, what would you write about?

What do you think about pandas in old houses?

What would you wear to a haunting?

Where would you hide if you were Wally (Waldo in the US)?

If you had a golden ticket, what kind of factory would it be?

What's certain to send a shiver down your spine?

If you got on a magic train, where would it take you?

What number seems suspicious to you?

What are your walls made out of?

What's a board game you wish was real?

What would you cut out of paper right now?

[childofsquidward]

Speedy^3 Kids

Y’all can thank @temmie-loony for being subjected to my ramblings because she was the one who fed my obsession. Hope you like my the kids!

Zander Sebastian West (KJ Apa)

born May 14th, 2015 (Taurus); 25; eldest of the speedy^3 disaster fam

Sebastian was actually his last name, but he took Wally’s last name after they adopted him, so it became his middle name; he goes by the name “Bounce” on the field

he actually wanted to use Blink, but there’s already a pretty powerful superhero who’s well-known throughout the multiverse that uses the moniker and Zander didn’t want to step on any toes, especially as a first-time hero

he almost went with Shortcut before his wonderful younger siblings all pointed out that it sounded more like a speedster’s name, which he begrudgingly agreed with

his top choice was actually Super Saiyan, but he thought no one would take him seriously; Cisco later on told him that Super Saiyan was his top choice as well

if one more person says some variation of “Bounce, let’s bounce,” he will start chucking people into the netherworld

metahuman: in short, his power is matter manipulation; this means that he can shape matter into anything that he wishes, which also grants him the ability to move just about anything and anyone anywhere his heart desires (he can telepooooort)

when they first met him, after Jesse has analyzed his powers, they thought that he might actually have telekinetic abilities as he could use his powers without physically touching anything while in reality just his very presence, regardless of proximity as they developed, was enough to take a building apart (which they later found out and Jesse geeked over it for a good two hours or so)

manipulating air particles allows him to teleport to the sky, which makes it seem like he can fly even though he can’t

his powers are tied entirely to his emotions, more so when he was younger and little control over his powers; he has grown to be so laid back and easy going that it’s almost impossible for him to ever lose control of his powers now

when he got a little older, he discovered that his ability disperse particles applied to living things as well; he pretty much just exploded into little scattered bits one day and Jesse had a meltdown

despite popular belief, no, he can’t just teleport criminals to the pipeline cuz they’re metas 99.99% of the time, and dark matter is not the same as matter, therefore, he can’t manipulate dark matter; this applies to dark matter objects as well, like, he can’t just move Cicada’s dagger into a volcano

very limited knowledge/use of combat skills; he learned basic self-defense from Alex of all people (he refused to learn from both his mother and uncle Ollie because he claims that running around an island that translates to fucking purgatory is insane, not mention just dramatic as hell)

he hates running with the white hot intensity of fifty billion suns; this is also why everyone was shocked when they learned he joined the track and field team of all things to which he promptly assured them, “as a high jumper guys, don’t be crazy”

they took him in when he was five after falling in love with his little puppy eyes and adorable smile (fucking Harry thought he was the most precious thing to ever walk the face of the Earth)

moved out about three or four years ago actually cuz the house is SO crowded, like geez, Connor thinks living with Dawn's bajillion pets is bad?

he picked up Jesse's death smile, like that charming Disney smile she has before unleashing all hell

he's pure childlike wonder and basically a giant puppy

the goofiest of goofballs

fun fact: he once saw ‘Hogwarts’ as one of the WiFi accounts available on his phone and promptly exited the bus a good twelve stops before he should’ve, magically discovered a megaphone and shouted “will the house with Hogwarts wifi please speak up?” into it and a girl marched out of one of the houses half annoyed half amused

Zander asked if she believed in soulmates and then how she felt about the movies; she called him a doofus and said she’d see him tomorrow for the 2 o'clock showing of Kung Fu Panda

that was a five-year relationship

when he was younger, yelling or shouting of any kind, especially directed towards him, would immediately trigger panic attacks

the first time it happened, Zander was six and had been living with them for less than a year

they were at Star Labs, Wally and Thea were arguing about something and Jesse tried to intervene, which led to her yelling as well

it took all of ten seconds for Zander to start shaking uncontrollably and accidentally shatter the mug on Jesse’s desk in the process which caused his parents to realize that he was there

Thea was first to approach him, more adept to the symptoms of a panic attack than Wally and Jesse, but Zander backed away from her

Wally and Jesse were frozen in place while they watched their son curl up into a ball, continuously switching from chanting and mumbling to screaming “go away” and “stop it”

meanwhile Thea just sat across from him, keeping her distance so she wouldn’t make things worse, not saying a word - which helped because after a good ten to fifteen minutes of pure deafening silence, Zander’s breathing slowed down and his muscles relaxed and he didn’t flinch when Thea moved closer

from that day on, Thea, Wally and Jesse agreed that to never raise their voice around their kids, especially Zander

the second time it happened was two years later at Star Labs on Earth 1

now we all love Harry, and we know that him yelling and shouting is just a part of his personality

Zander, who hadn’t gotten to spend as much time with his grandfather as he would’ve liked cuz Harry always seems to be needed on different Earths, did not

Speedy^3 left Team Flash to babysit while they went on a mission, and only Harry and Cisco were in the cortex at the moment, and you can’t have Harry and Cisco be in the same room and not argue

so Zander was just doing his homework at what had become Iris’s writing nook, when Harry and Cisco’s argument turned into Harry yelling at Cisco and the latter marching out of the cortex in a huff

and that’s all it took to trigger a panic attack - he dropped his pencil and a beaker in the med bay burst before Harry finally turned to him

Harry had no idea what was going on because one, he had never experienced someone going through a panic attack or an anxiety attack in his presence, and two, none of Zander’s parents had ever mentioned his panic attacks to him

his first instinct is to immediately switch to a softer tone that he’s only ever used with three people - his wife, his daughter, and now his grandson

he started off by assuring Zander that he wasn’t yelling at him, and then he went on to explain that he wasn’t actually angry, and just a lot more of fumbling around for right thing to say until Zander didn’t look absolutely terrified when looking up at him

Harry actually kind of toned down his incessant need to just be shouting all the time - even after Zander had worked at understanding more or less that if his parents did end up yelling at him or at anyone else, it usually wasn’t out of anger, but out of concern and love

Zander was never open to talking about his panic attacks with anyone, it was kind of a struggle for him to even open up to his parents, like, if someone even accidentally let it slip or hinted at it, he would just shut down

he had actually been forced to go to therapy by the foster system he was under, and he hated every second of it, it was no help to him

at one point, maybe age 9 or 10, Zander just blurted out “What’s wrong with me?!” which led to a three hour discussion between Thea, Jesse and Wally as to how they would explain Zander’s panic attacks to him because while they know what triggers it, at that point, they still had no idea what exactly caused him to get triggered (they explained it to the best of their abilities though, because they can’t just not explain his panic attacks to him)

he hated that there was no possible way for him to control his panic attacks, they just happened, and he didn’t want anyone telling him how to go about dealing with them, so he was very adamant on finding his own coping mechanisms because he wanted to have some sense of control over the situation

he graduated from teachers college about four years ago and found a permanent teaching position at the local elementary school less than a year ago; he loves the idea of being able to have a positive influence on young kids and loves coming in and seeing their bright smiles at ass crack of dawn

always comes home with chalk and marker stains on his hands and clothes because what even is an eraser?

Zander is also not a morning person and is usually super cranky if woken up before 10AM, but being a teacher and having his one place has changed his daily routine in such a way that he may be turning over a new leaf

probably has a cheesy tattoo to remind him of home (trust me, he’s the type); maybe like the star labs logo? or the outline of the state of Missouri (which is where Central City is)

Francine “Frankie” Laurel Queen (Olivia Holt)

born March 22nd, 2019 (Aries); 21; second eldest

she was named after Wally’s mother and Thea wanted at least one of their kids to have Laurel’s name as a middle name; goes by Eagle on the field

they found her on Earth 2 when she was a baby - Wally and Jesse were putting out a huge fire, where Frankie’s family died, so instead of putting her up adoption they just decided to adopt her themselves 

she looks like a young Moira Queen, it’s ridiculous, Malcolm (who shows up occasionally as he does, that relationship is just waaaaaay too complicated to pinpoint, much less explain) and Oliver both bring it up constantly

every time Frankie’s on Earth 1 with her mom, someone will mention how much she looks like Moira, right down to her mannerisms; like former Queen Consolidated employees have walked away from her accidentally the first few times she came around because they thought Moira Queen had returned

Thea doesn’t really notice it herself at first because she has adopted a lot of Moira’s tendencies herself without realizing, but when she finally did, she actually admitted that it was a little scary, almost like looking at the ghost of her mother

also, turns her biological grandmother was actually a Moira Queen doppelganger

this close to moving out

even though she constantly brings it up, Zander knows she never will; like, freaking Tess (their youngest sibling) will probably move out before Frankie ever seriously considers it because out of all her siblings, Frankie is the most attached to their parents

she and Jade both have keys to Zander’s place though

he doesn’t know (but he does)

since she is the only non-meta out of all her siblings, Thea had hoped that she’d take up archery, but given the amount of time Frankie spent around Sara, she quickly became infatuated with the art of knife throwing; her knives of choice include f-s fighting knives (because they’re practical and effective) and karambits (because they look badass and are great for interrogations and such); she rarely uses her knives to penetrate through flesh, she’ll actually throw them so they catch on someone’s shirt and nail them to the wall (her aim is scary good - I mean, we all know who one of her two mothers is - only to be rivaled by her younger brother Robbie’s)

Harry and Joe both had a heart attack when they found out

Wally thought it was cute… up until Sara started saying crazy shit like, “you know, Frankie would be a great addition to the Waverider” which led to Wally hanging up every time she called

Jesse was surprisingly only mildly concerned

Thea immediately bought herself some Aspirin before yelling at Sara

Sara responded by then teaching Frankie how to hotwire a car

she took karate (started age 5) and gymnastics (started age 4) as a kid

she gained her black belt at age 10

Sara tried to teach her kung fu, but Frankie insisted that karate was better for combat because she found kung fu to be too calming; Sara did however manage to interest in other forms of martial arts like taekwondo, judo and sambo

she actually got really into artistic gymnastics specifically and even seriously committed to competitions for a few years before deciding to get serious about college (to everyone’s surprise)

even though she’s never gotten the chance to meet Laurel, the former Black Canary has had a huge impact on her life, mainly stemming from Frankie’s curiosity of her middle name and things kind of just snowballing into Thea and Sara telling her countless stories about Laurel

she actually took up boxing after being inspired by the fact that it first was the first kind formal fight training that Laurel had before becoming a vigilante

unfortunately for the entire family, she gained Jesse’s spending habits, so Thea will find a thousand dollar inflatable mattress in the family gym, or Robbie (Child #4) might step on his sister’s spikes for shoes and hop around his room with blood and glitter covering his foot

100% the most anal of all her siblings:

she color codes everything (including her notes on the freaking Notes app)

would probably lose her head without her planner

can tell you exactly where everything is in her room and will know if it’s been moved

constantly reorganizes the pantry

Wally, at least once a week: “Did you alphabetize the spice rack again?”

will move the couch even while someone is sitting on it because she thinks it’s crooked

Kara, when she first witnessed it: “Are you sure she doesn’t somehow have Kryptonian dna or something? Cuz’ no speedster I know has superhuman strength.”

hates that one of their walls is a lighter shade than the others

Robbie: “Oh my god, you can’t even tell, let it go Frankie”

has only ever seriously committed to a few things, be it activities or relationships; she just has this need to always be on the move and feels the need to constantly change things up in her life

has been through many phases in her life as a result: her art phase, her music phase, her baking phase (which led to a cooking class at the community center, and then resulted in a life ban cuz she blew it up), her dance phase (twice), her ‘wanting to be a scuba diver so bad she was ready to start taking lessons before she remembered that she’s deathly afraid of water’ phase and so on and so forth

she tried ballet but quit after two days because she has zero rhythm

she wanted to learn guitar, and the poor instrument would be collecting dust in their attic if Zander hadn’t decided to pick it up

she also took piano for a hot second... a literal second

after quitting pro gymnastics to focus on school, Frankie immediately regretted it because she had no idea what she wanted to do; she didn’t want to sit in some boring lecture hall with 400 strangers for three hours every week, she wanted to do something more hands-on (hence she always enjoyed watching her hacker aunts and uncles - who 100% contributed to her taking apart just about anything with a circuit board - as well as learning from them), but nothing seemed to catch her attention

she eventually just enrolled in undeclared arts, which let her take whatever she wanted, and a lot of what she took ended up being criminology classes, which fascinated her to no end

with a lot of hard work, she ended up finishing a four year bachelor’s degree in criminology in just three years

the minute she graduated, she applied to take the LEE (Law Enforcement Examination), which surprised just about everyone

Joe bawled

next stop: police academy!

also, it should be noted that Frankie has made it a point to emphasize that while she carries small daggers on her off the field, she will not be doing so a cop, so you can breathe now Uncle Barry and Papa Joe

her favourite romcom of all time is hands down 10 Things I Hate About You, and it is one of the few things that she and Jade will ever argue about

Jade, every single time Frankie sits down to watch it: *groans in agony*

Frankie, who has perfected Thea’s (Moira’s) ‘i can and will fuck you up beyond your imagination’ glare: *hisses*

has an eagle tattoo on her forearm and Laurel’s calling card on her lower back (y’all know that classic Black Canary logo right? that’s what I’m talking about)

easily the bossiest person you will ever meet

gets in the most trouble; also most likely to throw a party when her parents are out of town

that one person who’s always like “ooo, what does this button do?!” and then proceeds to press it

this usually leads to everyone completely losing their shit (I on the other hand, along with Ralph of all people, think that it’s adorable - she’s just a curious kid)

easily the best driver in the family because Wally and Jesse never drive and whenever they do it’s like being in a death trap, Zander has switched to public transport because he tends to swerve a lot (you need to hold on to something while in the car with him, it’s a must) and just - parking in general is kind of a struggle (thanks Wally and Jesse), Jade has major road rage and this tendency to hit poles, so does Thea (where do you think Jade gets it from?), and Robbie and Tess haven’t gotten their licenses yet but they’ve already had four driving instructors quit and five classes kick them out

actually feels kinda’ inadequate compared to her siblings and has gotten really well at hiding it because if they ever knew she’d just feel even worse because they’d think that it’s their fault even though it’s not

she just always has this gnawing feeling in the back of her mind that she’s not living up to her parents’ expectations the way that her siblings are

and then she feels bad cuz’ parents are cool and even with five kids they’ve never, ever shown any sort of favouritism towards any of them

it’s just like, she sees Zander having his life together like a functional adult and being this amazing wise big brother, and Jade’s a genius like she easily the smartest person that Frankie knows and their family (including the never-ending extended family) is filled with intelligent people; then Robbie’s like this super friendly, charismatic class president/captain of the baseball team who is good at honestly everything that he tries his hand at, and Tess is just so responsible despite being the youngest and manages to keep them from falling apart and will probably end up with either her own multi billion dollar company or just the best president of the US that Earth 2 has ever seen

she’s super proud of all her siblings, but somewhere deep down she’s always like “what have I even managed to accomplish in life?”

fiercely protective over her family

if she sees her five year-old brother get sand kicked in his mouth, she will hang the punk did who dared to do so upside down by his legs (she does not give a fuck if he accidentally stepped on your sandcastle, Billy, that’s no excuse to treat her baby brother like that)

if she sees some little brat grab her sister by the hair cuz’ she told the teacher that she and her friends were cheating, she will not hesitate to smack a bitch (tattling is not an excuse for you to get physical with her little sister, ‘mkay?)

it was sooooo worth getting sent to the principal’s office both times, and probably many other times cuz’ people are the worst

Jade Van Queen (Lana Condor)

born May 23rd, 2021 (Gemini); 19; middle child

like her older brother, she now uses her last name, before Speedy^3 adopted her, as her middle name; goes by Owl on the field

highly skilled acrobat, after years and years of lessons from Thea, Sara and even Nyssa (don’t tell her parents, specifically her mother)

owns like five katanas and keeps leaving them around the house; also keeps making new katanas and experimenting with different materials

she actually doesn’t go out on the field and prefers to stay back with Frankie (who actually doesn’t really go out on the field either) and help from behind the scenes

unless they’re actually needed or there’s an annual crossover happening

also, Jade and Frankie make a really good team in general, hence why they’re usually sent on all the covert stealth missions, which leads to their parents and grandpa Harry taking over (Zander, Robbie and Tess hate every single fucking second of it)

has a bit of a knack for both welding and engineering (under the tutelage of proud poppa Wally and super psyched Uncle Cisco)

she actually managed to create her own version of the cold gun (upon Frankie's insistence), helped design her siblings’ suits, creates explosives for funsies, custom made Frankie's favourite knife along with a few others (gives anyone - Sara - who gifts her a knife the stink eye), built Robbie's bow from scratch, and the list goes on

is well on her way to sending Harry to an early grave with the shit she says/does

Jade: “I should be an actress. Like Angelina Jolie level famous, constantly photographed, but it's actually me in a wig under a stage name.” Harry: “Please don't. You can't draw that kind of attention to yourself and you absolutely can not live a double.” Jade: “It worked for Hannah Montana-” Harry: “She's not a real person.” Jade: “-and Bruce Wayne” Oliver, 15 galaxies away: “Batman's just a myth.”

Cisco ADORES her

her and Frankie have the closest relationship out of all their siblings

she's always wanted to be just like her big sister because she thought that Frankie was the coolest person to ever exist

continues to look up to her even though she's the biggest dork ever

Frankie thinks it's the cutest thing on the planet

she and Frankie still share a room to this day

she actually took ballet only because Frankie did, but while her sister quit, she continued for years, and is still continuing to dance, although she never had the urge to do it professionally much to the dismay of her many, many ballet teachers throughout the years

when they were little though, Frankie once did something totally stupid that she really shouldn't have and Jade was so upset that Frankie vowed to always strive to be someone that Jade will look up to; however, Frankie once got so in her own head about being the perfect big sister that it nearly cost Jade her life; when they're in the med bay later on, Jade says to her “I would never stop loving you just because you made a mistake dummy, and we were literal babies back then so just… be nicer to yourself.”

multilingual

Vietnamese - self-taught because no one else she knows speaks the language, and the only three things she knew about herself before meeting Speedy^3 were one, her last name, two, that pomegranates were unnecessarily complex for fruits, and three, that she’s Vietnamese

Mandarin and Cantonese - Oliver offered to teach her, mainly because when she was younger and he would start speaking in another language, her eyes would always widen and she’d seem so fascinated by it that it made his heart melt

Japanese - started with Jade pestering her dad about how he learned Japanese, when eventually he got her to let the matter go if he agreed to teach her instead

Arabic - Jade and Nyssa were sparring one day when Jade just randomly went, “teach me how to speak Arabic” and Nyssa froze for a split second which led to Jade instantly gaining the upper hand on her; after their match though, Nyssa asked her if she was actually serious about learning Arabic, and Jade’s enthusiastic smile was all the answer that she needed

Spanish - Jade, age 10, went up to her Uncle Cisco and asked him if could he teach her Spanish so that she would have a more of a chance to pile on a variety of classes in high school so she could explore her areas of interest a little more; Cisco was more than happy to oblige for the sake of his favourite niece

German and Italian - started with Jade telling Nate how cool it is that he knows like six languages and then next thing you know, Jade’s skyping him every week and Cisco’s threatening to blast Nate because he is the favourite uncle so back off Heywood

Jade: Uncle Cisco, I can have two favourite uncles. Cisco: But I’m the favourite of the two favourites… right? Jade: *blinks, then leaves the room*

French and Latin - she needed an upper liberal and her college offered both languages; Nate was a little offended that she thought CCU could provide her with a better education on languages than he could, but he’s not Cisco, so he won’t be petty about it (lies)

strives to have five majors like her momma (actually might end up with six)

unlike Jesse however, she had no intention of skipping a few grades even though she very well could; she just preferred going through school at the same pace as her friends because the idea of skipping ahead and all older kids always judging her for being the youngest kid there sounded horrifying (she took Grade 11 bio in Grade 10 because it was normal to fast track, but everyone gave her the stink eye all semester which made her think that she made the right decision not skipping a few grades)

it is actually very common however for people to hold multiple on Earth 2 and have more than one or two majors; the most is probably Harry with like, idk 7 or 8? and then Jesse has 5

she’s in her second year at CCU as of right now

she didn’t want to take any math or science esque majors because she feels as though she already has/is exposed so much knowledge on that front, she wants to challenge herself and try a variety of majors so that she have a more diverse learning experience

History & Philosophy Dual Major

this was the first major she started with

Nate declared that she was his favourite niece when he found out

Cisco blasted him

Sociology

she started sociology at the same time as her dual major since they’re in the same faculty and therefore all her required courses like Critical Thinking I and shit are basically the same

Accounting & Finance

after her first year, she started taking courses in spring and summer for this major

Professional Communication

has just now started taking a crack at this during her second year

Social Work

has yet to take a single course for this, but with the co-op program and all the different concentrations, this is the only one of her majors that’s stressing her out

she might also be doing a minor in French and Psych

she’s literally always in school, no one knows how she manages to maintain a 4.0 while helping her siblings fight crime and then building the occasional bazooka while she’s at it - SHE CAN DO IT ALL

she takes at least ten classes per semester but only because one, that’s a limit that CCU has set, and two, her parents were firm about her not burning herself out even though she insisted that she wouldn’t

proud member of team ‘let’s annoy our parents into finally letting us get a dog’ along with her older siblings

when Robbie was born they thought there would be a strength in numbers but this little golden child claimed he didn’t care

Tess was then their only hope and she asked for a cat (traitor)

has like, multiple identities in multiple countries and on multiple Earths, across the multiverse

she has created lives for herself, LIVES

every time they go anywhere, Jade gets recognized, and some random stranger will be like, “Dr. Abigail Matthews, how nice to see you, I thought you were treating patients in Germany?” and her parents are immediately just like, “you’re grounded, you’re grounded for the rest of your life, let’s go Abigail”

she can multitask like her life depends on it

no, seriously, she once somersaulted through laser beams while writing her final paper, and also reapplying her lipstick in between

Frankie couldn’t decide whether or not she should be impressed or claim Zander as her new favourite because Jade apparently has their father’s incessant need for theatrics

Robert “Robbie” Joseph Wells (Amir Mitchell-Townes)

born January 8th, 2023 (Capricorn); 17; the second youngest

named after both his biological parents’ fathers; goes by the name Red Arrow in the field which made Thea so happy

he uses a recurve bow like his mother did which Jade made for him out of iron wood

he has Wally’s speed, but he prefers using it as a last resort to one, fuck with people, and two, because he didn’t people suddenly getting bright and making a connection between him, Speedy-the-archer, and his sister, Speedy-the-speedster

random citizen: how does Red Arrow have super speed? are the rumors about Kid Flash and Speedy true? Robbie: this is an illusionnnnnn, you are having a dreammmmm

between his speed and flawless aim, Robbie never really saw the need for formal fight training; he can throw a punch, but he can’t parkour off of skyscrapers like Frankie and Jade

he also has very keen senses, and his reflexes are insane

the only one allowed to go grocery shopping because his family has no sense of anything, specifically, Frankie ‘what even is a nutrient? idk’ Queen and Tess ‘expiration dates are optional’ Wells; over 50% of the family is made up of speedsters, yet no one other than Robbie has half a mind to get something other than Big Belly Burger all day any day and everyday

Oliver, Caitlin and Alex cried when he brought home apples; they fight over who gets to give him a ride to the store

Kara once went with him and claimed that carrying groceries with him made her daily work out seem like a piece of cake, like, why does this child still continue to go to the gym?

loves to cook and is constantly experimenting with different flavours and combinations of flavours

usually they turn out well, but on the off chance they don’t, Frankie will eat literally anything that’s either carbs or sugar

he has all of Grandma Esther’s recipes and Iris and Joe both swear that Robbie chasing people out of the kitchen with a wooden spoon during Thanksgiving is like Grandma Esther come back to life

he prefers like, chicken dinners and pastas and lasagnas and such to desserts, which Frankie claims is such a waste because his matcha white chocolate chip cookies are the best thing on the planet

Frankie can reorganize their linen closet to her heart’s content for the gazillionth time, but she will never be able to fit months of Thanksgiving leftovers fit for five speedsters into their tiny fridge the way that Robbie can

he’s also great when he comes to packing

Frankie and Jade might be like martial arts prodigies or whatever, but Robbie’s the real ninja of the family - he sneaks up on everyone, and no one has any idea how he does it, and they can never tell when he’s about to strike

observant as hell, which means that he always knows what’s up with siblings and his parents and just about everyone, and can read them like an open book

which is annoying because they can never do the same with him; his poker face is on a whole other level, which is why he’s the one always chosen to go undercover cuz the rest of his siblings would probably have a meltdown and accidentally give their firstborn away

it’s actually a little scary; also, Robbie on vs off the field is like watching yin and yang; the first couple times he went out on the field, everyone was freaked out by his demeanor because he was so stoic and serious and not kind eyes and gentle smiles (which honestly is not a thing during his solo missions because he’s not the family prankster for nothing)

because of his observant nature, he also knows everything there is to know about everyone

which is a problem because he always knows when to call bullshit

has this tendency to second guess every single thing that he does; actually thinks that nothing he does is ever good enough

he’s a social butterfly, super friendly, life of the party - extremely different from Zander in that Zander is a ray of sunshine, but he prefers small groups of friends, like not more than three people please and thank you

remember when Frankie quit piano after two seconds? guess who ended up having to take her lessons?

Frankie: you’re a literal musical prodigy, if anything, I did you a favour Robbie: I dream of throwing you like a lightning bolt

sometimes he sees Jade conquering her life the way that she does and feels like crap because he needs to talk himself down from spiraling when he has too much on his plate, and he has WAY too much on his plate, like, drink a milkshake and chill

really good with kids, has been babysitting since he was twelve; he’s like the perfect balance of ‘tickle monster’ and ‘eat your veggies’

would use desserts to sneak in vegetables (it’s what he does for his siblings)

lives off coffee (literally walks away from his coach when he goes on this tangent about how ‘your body is a temple’)

functions on like three hours of sleep, like, what is sleep? 

Theresa “Tess” Morgan Wells (Talia Jackson)

born November 5th, 2024 (Scorpio); 16; youngest; Jesse was so adamant on not having kids because being a meta and a speedster at that, she didn't want to risk it, but after running into her doppelganger on Earth 22 who once had similar concerns, she changed her mind

she was named after Jesse's late mother Tess Morgan

Harry got so emotional he actually had to leave the room so no one would see him cry

goes by Speedy on the field

Cisco: You can’t be a speedster named Speedy. Thea, who only heard ‘you can’t be’: My daughter can be whatever the hell she wants. Wally & Jesse: Aw, babe, that’s so sweet... but like, think this through. Tess: Ignore them. I chose my superhero name. Thea: Awesome! What is it? Tess, using the same smile that Oliver once did when he ‘accidentally’ ran over Thea’s lego castle: Speedy. Thea: You’re grounded.

Tess has the spirit of an elderly person screaming “you kids get off my lawn” and fun fact, she once did so at age 4 and the kids on the lawn thought it was super adorable until she started throwing toy cars at them

Jesse blames Oliver

Thea blames Harry

Wally blames them all

despite being the youngest, Tess is the one to mother them all, she is the only responsible child in the family

she is actually the closest to William in that they're constantly going off about how stupid their siblings are; Tess claims she has it worse because “Dawn and Connor may run in without a plan and whatnot, but at least they've never accidentally launched a space shuttle to freaking Saturn (Frankie), or cut the Eiffel tower in half (Jade), or gotten banned from Nevada because they accidentally sent it spiraling through a black hole (Zander), or caused a war between Earth 3 and Earth 19 (Robbie)”

she’s also the biggest worrywart, and because she is allergic to emoting and basically a splitting image of her grandpa Harry, her parents and siblings and just about anyone really always feels super guilty when they do something stupid to worry her and then hear that Tess cried

you'd think that being the little angel she is, she'd like to keep her space tidy, but nooooooo; her room is a pigsty which she likes to refer to as organized chaos

Frankie calls it a toxic waste dump

Jade swears that she once sat in Tess's bean bag chair and ended up getting sucked into an alternate dimension

has this aversion to doing chores and can sense when she will be asked to do something, which leads to her promptly exiting the premises

being the control-freak that she is (like her mother, Wally, Jesse, and Oliver all say, with even Roy chiming from the great beyond or wherever), everyone assumed Tess would be an archer like her mother but she straight-up said that a bow and arrow on the field is impractical

Thea grounded her for a month

Oliver wrote her out of his will

having two speedster parents led her to have the strongest connection out of everyone to the speed force to the point where the idea of losing her powers isn't as daunting as losing her connection to the speed force

a cat person, hence why Zippy the ninja with a penchant for hiding out in people’s closets exists

Zander, Frankie and Jade refuse to believe that this kid just went up to their parents at age seven and asked for a cat, and then got one

despite the huge age difference between her and Zander, and being closest to Robbie in that they share literally everything, she actually has this tendency to cling to him whenever she’s scared or confused

she’ll always pick him for advice over anyone else

Zander actually used to sing Cheer Up by A Great Big World to her when she was younger

even when she got a little older, she used to poke him awake and he’d always go back to her room and stay with her until she fell asleep

Tess was by far the most affected by his moving out, sometimes she’d just got into his mostly empty bedroom and sit there and stare at every item missing from his room (no one else in the family ever made any move to disturb her)

Zander started calling every night to check up on her

she’d pretend to be annoyed, but he knew she was smiling the whole time

oreos are her weakness

enjoys photography

married to her computer, aka, the love of her life (her words)

A few things that I want to point out…

Speedy^Cubed got married on Earth 2 and decided to permanently move there mainly because Earth 1 already had so many superheroes and Wally and Thea ended getting more attached to it than even Jesse is.

They weren’t sure if their kids would want to operate from Earth 2 because like their father, all of them were out on the field during massive team-ups, and they were worried that their kids would love the idea of working with everyone else so much that they’d want to move (which all three of them of support, but later on tear up about). To their surprise, every single of their kids preferred to operate as part of Team Speedy^Cubed on Earth 2, mainly because Earths 1 and 38 have like four teams between them and Earth 2 has like, two heroes outside of their parents, both of whom are retired. It might also be because they love their parents, but no one other than Zander would ever admit it.

All three of them made a collective decision to keep their own last names though, that’s one thing that they were very adamant on, which their kids are constantly complaining about as they made that decision when they were at a point in their lives where having kids was the furthest thing on their mind.

This obviously means that their kids all have different last names, but they secretly think that it’s actually kind of helpful because on whatever Earth they may be on, each of their parents’ last names comes in real handy! Like, “oh, a Queen?! can’t piss you off in any way, shape or form!” // “detective/captain/lieutenant/sergeant West’s grandchild? by all means, have the key to the city!” // “professor Wells’s grandchild? well damn, now I have to give you clearance to enter this highly secure facility that not even the president knows about!”

KJ Apa, Olivia Holt and Lana Condor are all 21, which boggles my mind because if you’d told me that Olivia was 21, I would believe no questions asked, but KJ and Lana?! KJ looks at least 25, and with Lana I MIGHT believe you if said she was 19, so it all works out in the end.

I wasn’t sure what codenames to give Frankie and Jade. I nearly had them be Artemis and Cheshire before I changed Frankie’s choice of weapons and decided that the team is better off with one archer. Then, as I was thinking of a cool name, it kind of dawned on me that a common theme among assassins and special ops and such are to have bird names as their codenames, so I chose literal birds of prey as their superhero names because I just thought it would be cool to include the Birds of Prey somehow. This also means that I saw a lot of pictures of birds and had nightmares for the three consecutive nights.

Personally, I think Jesse seems like the type of person who has zero self-control when it comes to impulsively spending her money. She’s like that one person who has to get something from Cinnabon every time she walks by it, and she doesn’t even really like Cinnabon to begin with. Wally is big on saving and Thea’s just a lot more tactful when it comes to her spending habits because unlike her lovely wife, she’d probably get something on sale or use like 100 different coupons (she owned a nightclub, businesses are already so expensive to run, but alcohol being sold at the price that it is makes it 400x worse, she knows what her money’s worth).

Tess Morgan was actually Earth 1 Harrison Wells’ wife, so since we never learned Jesse’s mom’s name, I made the executive decision to declare that it’s Tess Morgan.

[program-800]

Exploring D:BH fics (Part 5)

For this part, I’m going to discuss how I prepared the data and conducted the tests for differences in word use across fics from the 4 AO3 ratings (Gen/Teen/Mature/Explicit), as mentioned here.

Recap: Data was scraped from AO3 in mid-October. I removed any fics that were non-English, were crossovers and had less than 10 words. A small number of fics were missed out during the scrape - overall 13933 D:BH fics remain for analysis. 

In this particular analysis, I dropped all non-rated fics, leaving 12647 D:BH fics for the statistical tests.

Part 1: Publishing frequency for D:BH with ratings breakdown Part 2: Building a network visualisation of D:BH ships Part 3: Topic modeling D:BH fics (retrieving common themes) Part 4: Average hits/kudos/comment counts/bookmarks received (split by publication month & rating) One-shots only. Part 5: Differences in word use between D:BH fics of different ratings Part 6: Word2Vec on D:BH fics (finding similar words based on word usage patterns) Part 7: Differences in topic usage between D:BH fics of different ratings Part 8: Understanding fanon representations of characters from story tags Part 9: D:BH character prominence in the actual game vs AO3 fics

What differentiates mature fics from explicit fics, gen from teen fics?

These are pretty open-ended questions, but perhaps the most rudimentary way (quantitatively) is to look at word use. It’s very crude and ignores word order and can’t capture semantics well - but it’s a start.

I’ve read some papers/writings where loglikelihood ratio tests and chi-squared tests have been used to test for these word use differences. But recently I came across this paper which suggests using other tests instead (e.g. trusty old t-tests, non-parametric Mann-Whitney U-tests, bootstrap tests). I went ahead with the non-parametric suggestion (specifically, the version for multiple independent groups, the Kruskal-Wallis test).

Now, on to pre-processing and other details.

1. Data cleaning. Very simple cleaning since I wanted to retain all words for potential analysis (yes, including the common stopwords like ‘the’, etc!). I just cleaned up the newlines, removed punctuation and numbers, and the ‘Work Text’ and ‘Chapter Text’ indicators from the HTML. At the end of cleaning, each story was basically just a list of words, e.g. [’connor’, ‘said’, ‘hello’, ‘i’, ‘m’, ‘not’, ‘a’, ‘deviant’].

2. Preparing a list of vocabulary for testing. With 12647 fics, you can imagine that there’s a huge amount of potential words to test. But a lot of them are probably rare words that aren’t used that often outside of a few fics. I’m trying to get an idea of general trends so those rare words aren’t helpful to this analysis.

I used Gensim’s dictionary function to help with this filtering. I kept only words that appeared in at least 250 fics. The number is pretty arbitrary - I selected because the smallest group (Mature fics) had 2463 fics; so 250 was about 10% of that figure. This left me with 9916 unique words for testing.

3. Counting word use for every fic. I counted the number of times each fic used each of the 9916 unique words.

Now obviously raw frequencies won’t do - a longer fic is probably going to have higher frequency counts for most words (versus a short fic) just by virtue of its length. To take care of this I normalised each frequency count for each fic by the fic’s length. E.g. ‘death’ appears 100 times in a 1000-word fic, the normalised count is 100/1000 = 0.1.

4. Performing the test (Kruskal-Wallis) and correcting for multiple comparisons. I used the Kruskal-Wallis test (from scipy) instead of the parametric ANOVA because it’s less sensitive to outliers; while the ANOVA looks at group means, the Kruskal-Wallis looks at group mean ranks (not group medians!). As an aside, you can assume the K-W test is comparing medians, if you are able to assume that the distributions of all the groups you’re comparing are identically shaped.

Because we’re doing so many comparisons (9916, one for each word), we’re bound to run into some false positives when testing for significance. To control for this, I used the Holm-Bonferroni correction (from multipy), correcting at α =.05. Even after correction, I had 9851 words with significant differences between the 4 groups.

[[For anyone unfamiliar with what group mean ranks, I’ll cover it here (hope I’ve got it down right more or less erp): - We have 12647 fics, and we have a normalised count for each of them on 9916 words. - For each word, e.g. ‘happy’, we rank the fics by their normalised count. So the fic with the lowest normalised count of ‘happy’ gets a rank of 1, the fic with the highest normalised count of ‘happy’ gets rank 12647. Every other fic gets a corresponding rank too. - We sum the ranks within each group (Gen/T/M/Explicit). Then we calculate the average of those group-wise ranks, getting the mean ranks. This information is used in calculating the test statistic for K-W.]]

5. Post-hoc tests. The results of the post-hoc tests aren’t depicted in the charts (didn’t have a good idea on how to go about it, might revisit this), but I’ll talk about them briefly here.

Following the K-W tests, I performed pairwise Dunn tests for each word (using scikit-posthocs). So basically the K-W test told me, “Hey, there’s some significant differences between the groups here” - but it didn’t tell me exactly where. The Dunn tests let me see, for e.g., if the differences lie between teen/mature, and/or mature/explicit, and so on.

Again, I applied a correction (Bonferroni) for each comparison at α =.05 - since for each word, we’re doing a total of 6 pairwise comparisons between the 4 ratings.

6. Visualisation. I really didn’t know what was the best way to show so many results, but decided for now to go with dot plots (from plotly).

There’s not much to say here since plotly works very well with the pandas dataframes I’ve been storing all my results in!

7. Final points to note

1) For the chart looking at words where mature fics ranked first in mean ranks and the chart looking at words where explicit fics ranked first in mean ranks, I kept only words that were significantly different between mature and explicit fics in the pairwise comparison. I was interested in how the content of these two ratings may diverge in D:BH.

2) For the mature/explicit-first charts, I showed only the top 200 words in terms of the K-W H-statistic (there were just too many words!). The H-statistic can be converted to effect sizes; larger H-statistics would correspond to larger effect sizes.

3) Most importantly, this method doesn’t seem to work very well for understanding teen and especially gen fics. Gen fics just appear as the absence of smut/violence/swearing, which isn’t very informative. This is an issue I’d like to continue working on - I’m sure more linguistic cues, especially contextual ones, will be helpful.

[akane171]

Ugh, humans and social media are just SO tiring...(Things like these are what remind me why I'm a social hermit and prefer it that way😅😂🙈)

And ohhh, yup, that's another problem: People saying stuff like that just to get attention as if such things were children's games... Seriously, this is exactly what makes it so hard to make the people Who DO actually have this problem speak and be found...😫 But well, there is still SO much that society likes to sweep under the carpet or make light...😫🙄 Humans...

I think it's best if people just realized that yes, everyone will have some kind of opinion, but NO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO SPEAK OUT LOUD IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY! Maybe watching Disney's Bambi should be made obligatory for all...😅

Aww, okidoki😊 Well, for one, I have the headcannon (don't even ask me how I came of with this, I have no idea😅) that Mon-El totally met Bart Allen (one like in Young Justice, not The Flash) and became best buds with him, cause 1. They're both in/from the future, 2. They both (well, I'm going with S2!Mon here) have a tendency for joking around and hiding their pain behind a smile, 3. They both strive to fulfill someone else's shoes (Bart Wally's and Mon Kara's), 4. They are both kinda Speedsters so noone can tell me they wouldn't be racing all around just for fun, 5. They are both incredibly lonely and loyal/loving, and 6.Well, Kara has Barry, why shouldn't Mon have his own speedster bestie?😂🤷🏻‍♀️ My mind's stuck on them being friends and I doubt I'll ever get rid of this headcannon even though I doubt there has ever been any interaction between any versions of them🤷🏻‍♀️😅🙈 (Extra point: MON DESERVES FRIENDS OF HIS OWN WHO WERE HIS FIRST DAMMIT!😭) [Curiosity's sake: Whatcha think on this? Would you disagree?🤔🙈] 

Aww, thank you!🤗🤗🤗🙈 It's fine by now, but seriously, thanks! And haha, yess, Happy😊😊😉😂

(I MEAN IT!)

Haha, Yeah, it's super fun 😁 

Hmm, yeah, maybe, dunno🙈🙈 I just don't wanna step on any toes or for anyone to feel shitty because of me, ya know?🙈🙈 Got some other stuff I should be doing or writing first tho anyway, sooo🤷🏻‍♀️😅🙈

Aww😔😔😖 But oh well, at least I van come back and reread this "summary" of it 😊

😱😱😍😍😍 Aww, THANK YOU!!💃🏻💃🏻 And ohhhhhhhhhhhhh, that sounds like one crazy, messy political headache in-coming😂😍 And aww, daddy's not so little girl wanting to follow in his steps makes me all warm😍 But poor Karamel, how terrified they must be for her life, esp. considering the, JUST got all back together 😭😭 

Ohh, you have even more space operas?😍😂

Thanks, you too! *Big outer space stray panda hug* 

Btw: ...We are NOT murdering kangaroos 😅 Is that what it sounds like to everyone else? Oh god... Well, long story short, there was this crazy "argument" we had about sth which involved LW introducing a Kangaroo Court as judges (...I gotta be honest, I have NO idea where that even came from and don't even remember what the argument was about😂) and now she's accusing me of being guilty of something again (...I'm worse than a goldfish, cause I already forgot what THAT was about too😅😂) and apparently the faint from the stinch of "my guilt" WHICH IS NOT TRUE, CAUSE I'M NOT GUILTY OF ANYTHING AND THEY TOTALLY ONLY FAINTED BECAUSE THEY SMELLED LW, NOT ME!😂😂 [...I know this probably doesn't make sense, does it?😂]

PS: Ohhhh 😂😍 I'm not surprised considering you said that is part of one of your OTPs but uhhhh, it DOES look very fitting😍😍

Btw2: OH, ups sry, I only saw this after writing her, but I'll try next time?🙈 But hey, I AM currently arguing with her about the importance of her sleep, so does that count?🤔

XXXX

That's the HEALTHY way of life.

Yeah, we love cancel culture. Or how someone says something dumb and is cancelled and then someone is motherhugger, like a seriously a horrible person and the narrative is: but he is famous, or did a lot of good or whatever and I'm like... Why set some rules or high moral standards and then making excuses for some folks? It's caled waste of time.

Exactly. The fact we can spread our shit doesn't mean we HAVE TO. Some people should learn it.

...why watchin g Bambi should be obligatory? Aside of traumatizing people with the death of his mom xD Please, continue!

I don't know Flash and the comics, but sounds cool.

And yeah, he deserves a best friend for his own. In some of my headcanons or ideas I gave him one aka his ex-guard, and what is funny, she is a girl xD Also, in my Let's Mix A Lot Of Other Stories Together, i paired him with Gavin from Lightbringer series, because, damn, they are twins, I can tell you.

Also, for fuck sake, he is such loyal and lovely and funny person and the fact they didn't give him someone like that (well, Winn, but Winn's real FIRST best friend is Kara).

What made me wonder about his Daxam past and how it looked like. Was he seen as the prince and was he surroundened by a lot of fake ass kissers? Or did he have a real best friend? Was his guard one? The one who sacrificed his life for him? We never learnt and it's, in my personal opinion, a criem against humanity. And the fact he was judged for copying with the lose of his entire fucking planet and life. Like... give him a fucking break.

(SUREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE)

Yeah, i know, good ideas, NOT WRITING THEM XD

Yep, the one when I mix some other stories and characters. Where there was a soviet like revolt on Daxam but some rich families were able to escape to Krypton and live there for some time in peace. That's how Mon-El and Kara met - their typical prejudice and falling in love with each other, but then Daxamites kidnap Mon-El and other yound Daxmaites and take them to Daxam. And after a decade or something they meet again, while their nations are on war. And shit happeeeeeeeeens.

And then i have fantasy AUs and some super angsty romances, because I was on some point super angry too. And Hades x Persephone AU. And that super ansgty thing about their future kid coming back to Kara and accusing her of some things. And i would put them all in a psychiatric ward. And even Jedi AU, lol. I think i can put them in any situation and make a fic idea of it xD

...no, it completly makes sense... believe me... still.... sounds klike murdering poor animals.... shame on you =='

I know, imagine bearded Mon-El wearing it. Like, daaaaaaaaaamn

DO IT NEXT TIME

[karenpines]

Even more about me

My name is Karen :D. Cartoons are my LIFE *u* My faves are: ❥Kung Fu Panda  ❥Zootopia ❥Mr. Peabody and Sherman ❥Gravity Falls ❥Wreck-it Ralph ❥Frozen ❥Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero  ❥Star vs. The Forces of Evil  ❥Miraculous Ladybug ❥Trollhunters ❥Monster High and Ever After High ❥Danger Mouse ❥WordGirl ❥Villainous ❥The Three Caballeros

Current obsession: P i x a r’ s  C o c o

I'm 17 years old, I live in Mexico . My birthday is on September 25th :)

Fave live-actions movies: ✦Back to the Future (Trilogy) ✦Who Framed Roger Rabbit ✦Night at the Museum ✦Enchanted

Fave artists: ♪Melanie Martinez ♪Imagine Dragons ♪Poppy ♪Selena Gomez

Another favorites: Color = Blue, Lavander and light Green. Animal = Dogs and foxes. Season = Autumn Food = Pizza, Mexican food, corn dog. *TV and movies crossovers, being happy, music, etc. :D*

Disney | DreamWorks | Laika | Pixar | Illumination | Blue Sky

Numbuh 185 of the KND / Main Pokémon: Leafeon / Airbender

;My daughters and my son; 〉Robecca Steam 〉Ginger Breadhouse (B-Day January 24th) 〉Luan Loud 〉Arnold Perlstein

● Moderate shipper ● ✓ Starco (Star x Marco) [Star vs. Evil]  ✓Penashi (Penn x Sashi) [PZPTH] ✓TiPo (Tigress x Po) [Kung Fu Panda] ✓Chocolate Cake (Carlos x Dorothy Ann) [The MSB] ✓Wilde Hopps (Nick x Judy) [Zootopia] ✓3x4 (Kuki x Wally) [Codename: KND] ✓Marichat (Marinette/Ladybug x Adrien/Chat) [Miraculous Ladybug] ✓Shermenny (Sherman x Penny) [Mr. Peabody & Sherman]

My do not: ✘Pinecest  ✘Loudcest ✘Any one that is incest

 ✌ I respect your ships and your non-ships. I respect if you don't like to ship. Have fun and have a happy life :)

Dislikes: ❌People taking advantage of others. ❌Haters ❌False people

[thealpacalypse-archive]

more liveblogging because i cannot shut up about this show it’s so freaking good [insert a million heart eye emojis]

i’m at the training montage video now and loving every second of it

first of all, heck yea for Aggie going full on witch, especially her amazing space outfit omg I WANT that look i’m so gonna steal it

(if i can find that shirt and the skirt anywhere)

also, that bit where Erica is talking nonsense about sitting still and focusing, and Aggie just looks at her and sloooowly pushes the cup from the table with her hand. A+++++ move for asshole cats and telekinetic witches alike

and thEN AGATHA’S AUTISTIC PRIDE SHIRT I AM LIVING

and Gemma’s panda beanie came back to grace my eyes with its (cute) presence on Gemma’s head

okay honestly Erica????? triggering a person to make them do magic?????????????????? wtf

i’m so glad Aggie exists in my life now because she’s actual #goals in so many ways

definitely in fashion

also in laughing about straight people rom coms with Gemma

and that intense level of sarcasm, damn, gotta learn that

also, Gemma and Aggie shouting “Mystic!” and “Valor!” at each other and me, a smol Team Instinct gay, just sitting here, chilling [sunglass emoji]

(honestly why am I not typing these on my phone? they’d be so much more fun with emojis)

Aggie acknowledging her “living priviledge” 

omg

that whole conversation is literally the best thing I was ever allowed to witness

Aggie is a beautifully stimmy girl and i love her

and then that whole conversation of them talking about pathokinesis omg and Gemma being so scared i’m gonna cry

it’s okay Gem we got you hon

aaaahahaha and they look so guilty when Erica walks in on them cuddling loool

[tfw you’re finally about to make a move on your crush and your combustion witch friend comes in and explodes the moment] I’M SCREAMING

the rainbow dino baseball shirt aka. the love of my life is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the agatha and wally relationship gives me way too many emotions considering they’re never even on screen together

honestly???? i always feel so bad for the fantasy kids who get stuck with the insomnia and the bad dreams and all that. going without sleep, or becoming afraid of dreaming, is one of the most messed up things i can imagine doing to a character. if you go without proper sleep for long enough, things will begin to shift, everything will begin to look different, and not so much in a good way. i feel for Wally

i have so many emotions about Wally anyway. poor kid, so far from home, missing his sister so much.....

WHOA OKAY AGATHA IS MOVING THE CAMERA WITH HER POWERS THAT IS THE COOLEST WEBSERIES MOVE I HAVE EVER SEEN

and by that i mean, what a fucking incredible way to connect the storytelling device and the story, in a way that makes sense in-story wise and makes everything so much easier and better outside of the story!!!!!!

GOSH DARN  PARAFABLE SURE KNOW THEIR MEDIUM

aaaaahhhh and Aggie looks so pleased with herself it’s amazing

all the cool webseries kids are watching Buffy, makes me think that i should finally watch that, too

no time tho, got too many awesome webseries to watch

(this is the only one I’m watching at the moment, I admit. but shush)

agatha spacing out like that is scaring me :/

are there for grown people literally hiding behind a few leaves???? omg those folks are incredible

“you’re a healing person and I’m a sensing person” well, whoever you are, you’re not very good at sensing that you’re being filmed by some nerds who hide behind a couple of leaves

are they calling Agatha “slender”?? omg

okay so i actually wanted to go to bed after this video but then I saw Wally sitting on Viola’s bedsheets and I’m?????? i wasn’t aware of how many details of 12gw are burnt into my brain, but my heart flipped instantly when i saw these

okay gonna watch this one more wally video and then go to bed

Wally being extra salty and angry about Aggie’s cliffhangers is Me tbh

yaaaaasss Wally let it all out my boy <3

but also poor him i wanna give him a thousand hugs

Daphne is so pretty????? but I somehow still don’t trust her. i’m pretty sure the only person I trust around Wally is Jake, and even with him i’m scared that i’m going to regret it

Wally getting “a tad overprotective” over Jake tho is my THING

AAAAAHHHH??? DAPHNE’S CUTE SKIRT HAS POCKETS????? well maybe i should trust her after all

also she’s helping Wally sleep, so that’s gotta count for something

i think i’m getting a tad overprotective over Wally here, friends, don’t mind me, i’m just projecting away like always

i’m only noticing now the “thanks to our indiegogo backers” part of the info box and it reads like the who’s who of webseries fandom and I just wanna say, thank you all for supporting this amazing webseries who has become the light of my life in the course of not even 24 hours

and by “light of my life” i actually mean “hyperfixation that keeps me up at unreasonable hours and that I annoy everybody with because i’m not able to shut up about it”

honestly thank you folks so much. and obviously that whole cast and crew as well. you folks rock!!!

[gwynnew]

Why Narrating 'Born in China' Made John Krasinski So Emotional

‘Born in China’ narrator John Krasinski at the premiere of his 2016 film “The Hollars” (Photo: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)

John Krasinski has always been a guy who gets emotional watching nature documentaries — but narrating the Disneynature film Born in China, shortly after having his second child with wife Emily Blunt, took things to a whole new level. “I was weeping very openly,” Krasinksi tells Yahoo Movies of his experience working on the documentary (in theaters April 21), which he describes as “the entire process of parenthood in 76 minutes.” That is to say, the film’s rare footage of panda, leopard, and monkey families, as ably narrated by Krasinski, is at once hilarious, heartbreaking, adorable, and awe-inspiring, in a way that most parents will find familiar. Of course, Disneynature’s younger audience (including Krasinski’s older daughter, who, at 3 years old, is new to the movie-going experience) will just want to see the baby panda and funny monkeys. Yahoo Movies spoke to Krasinski from the set of Amazon’s spy-thriller series Jack Ryan (he’s playing the title character) to talk about crying over animal babies, his nature doc obsession, and the art of telling a Disneynature story.

Is doing this narration this a bucket list item for you? Do you have ambitions of being David Attenborough?

Oh my god, no! No one can be David Attenborough. There’s only one. But certainly the programs like his are the inspiration for why I’ve always been into nature programs, or even YouTube clips of baby pandas — I’m a sucker for all of it. But truly for me, the Disneynature movies have been a step above all of it. I’ve seen every single one of them, and I’ve gone to all of them on opening weekend. I’m that much of a nerd for them, because not only are they so beautiful and so much fun to watch, but they’re so emotional. And I think they’re as good as any narrative out there that’s scripted.

Do you take your kids? I guess they’re a little young still.

My older daughter is animal obsessed, and we did our first movie recently, so I think our second movie theater experience might have to be this one. She’ll probably not like the person narrating, but she’ll like the images.

Like you, I had a baby last year, and I found myself relating very strongly to the panda mom in the movie.

Oh my God, right? It doesn’t take much for me to cry, but with this movie I was a mess. It’s the entire process of parenthood in 76 minutes.

‘Born in China’ pandas Ya Ya and Mei Mei (Photo: Ben Wallis, Disney)

Did you see the footage for the first time while you were narrating?

They pretty much had the finished movie for me to watch, which was amazing and obviously extremely helpful… But I think the coolest thing for me was how seriously they take it. You know, I would have totally leaned into the adorable nature of the images that you’re seeing and probably read this a much different way. But instead, they really push you to feel the reality and the drama and the intensity of these stories — you know, really take it seriously and respect the landscape and the environment that you’re talking about, which was so great, because of course, that’s how you get moved and that’s how you learn something. You know, they’re fully aware that they have baby pandas in their movie. [Laughs.] But the baby pandas are part of a larger structure. And that’s what makes these movies so good and so moving.

What were the kinds of directions they gave you for your narration?

They really want you to communicate to the audience the gravity of what’s going on. Just outside of China, with all these cities and industries and people, is this whole different world, a whole different planet, for lack of a better term. I think they really want you to frame the story in that way. So right from the beginning, talking about the crane being a symbol in China of taking the souls of people who recently passed and bringing them to the other side, there’s such beautiful imagery and such beautiful poetry. They don’t want it to just be, “Aw shucks, look at that baby panda.”

There are some serious moments of drama, too — more than I expected.

It really sneaks up on you. And I don’t know if you were like me — I was weeping very openly.

I was noting in the narration that you have to pivot relatively quickly from “Look at me, I’m a silly monkey!” to “There is a force stronger than love, and that force is nature, and it’s tearing them apart.” I’m paraphrasing a bit, but that’s a big range.

What you’re saying is it’s my best performance yet. I appreciate it. Thank you. [Laughs.]

John Krasinski and wife Emily Blunt on January 29 (Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)

Is there an animal you found yourself relating most strongly too?

I think most people would think I related to the monkey the most, but we had recently had our second daughter when I had gone in to record this, and so the snow leopard story really just completely gutted me. It’s inspiring to know that this sort of love and commitment to your kids at all costs is inside each and every one of us. In human terms, everyone’s heard the story of the mother picking up a car to save her child. And to know that that’s in us is really inspiring. So seeing her go through that whole adventure with these beautiful, adorable cubs, but also this incredibly treacherous and intense situation, was really moving and powerful to me.

It’s been 24 hours since I saw the film, and I can’t stop wondering what happened to the cubs.

They’re fine, don’t worry. They’re fine. Look away!

How did working on this film affect you? Have you booked your ticket to China?

I have not booked my ticket to China. I was offered by the Disneynature folks to go over there, and sadly I couldn’t because I was starting Jack Ryan, but I would love to at some point for sure. But like I said, I really am first in line to see these movies because I find them so inspiring. It’s very rare these days to leave a movie theater and feel better coming out than you did going in. We live in a very digital, insulated world, and so there is something very expanding about seeing all this stuff and knowing that it’s right there — if you wanted to go, you could go! — and that these animals are existing like this every single day.

Well, thanks for taking the time out of your intense Jack Ryan schedule to talk to me about pandas.

Hey, it’s always nice to talk about pandas.

Watch the trailer for ‘Born in China:’

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