#what a time to be alive and in this fandom

[gatesofminrathous]

As someone who is from The Old Times™️ (i.e. I’ve been reading fanfic since long before ao3 existed), the concept of algorithmic engagement never really occurred to me, but I do think younger readers are so used to every website tracking your every move that they’d assume that’s how it works here. Hell, I watch one YouTube video slightly off my norm and suddenly that topic is all I get suggested for days. So I do think this bears repeating.

Just like ao3 will not curate your experience for you, it also does not reward authors for driving traffic because there is no monetary benefit to the site (its non profit). Direct interaction with a fic is the only way the author knows you’re having a good time so please interact! Interaction keeps fandom alive, and that’s what fanfic is all about.

a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

[attabxy]

Hiii <3 could you please write an Erik Campbell x reader fic where Reader is a 'Y2K it girl' (like pink animal print, playboy bunny necklaces, fake tan vibes)

And Julia is like Reader's bestie too? And if you would like, include a song to read along to?

Dating a Y2K Reader - E. Campbell

Pairing: Erik Campbell X Reader (romantic, gender-neutral).

Media: Final Destination Bloodlines.

Content Warning(s): Julia is Reader's best friend, opposites attract, feminine-leaning/presenting Reader (she/her is not used), Erik once had an emo phase, the nickname 'Kiki' is used for Erik, Julia and Reader are mid-twenties while Erik is late twenties to early thirties.

(Author's Note: Hi, Anonymous! Take this heart <3 and brace yourself because I've never written Y2K before! This is the most I've had to research for headcanons because I'm only vaguely familiar with the Y2K aesthetic. I'm not sure if this is explicitly a female reader, so I've written Reader to be gender-neutral but more leaning to being female. I've also taken inspiration from this Erik 'fic by @/multi-fandom-imagine. Show them some love! As well, I included Sexy Drug by Falling in Reverse as the song. It's not exactly Y2K, but I think this would've been Erik's anthem as an emo boy).

Erik remembers the 2000s', for better or worse.

When they were kids, Julia would drag her older brother to see the newest movie that had Lindsey Lohan or whatever chick-flick was playing in theaters.

It was only mildly embarrassing to walk into Legally Blonde in full black, eyeliner, and belt chain.

He completely forgot about those times until you walked in the door with Julia, dressed to the nines in a pink leopard-print crop top, low-rise jeans, and a belly chain.

"Kiki, you remember my friend, right?" Julia asked him, but his mind was taken aback and into 2005.

He thought 2005 stayed in 2005. Y'know, twenty years ago. But no, it didn't come to him at any point that just maybe someone would keep the aesthetic alive.

There's this part of him that's still a teenager listening to My Chemical Romance and frequenting the local Hot Topic. He's also trying to push down that part of himself.

Lo and behold, that part of him was not pushed down when he started dating you.

While forgetting to tell you that he had an emo phase as a teenager, he was entranced by how you embraced the Y2K aesthetic.

Can't help but (not-so subtlety) stare at your figure in the jeans and the jewelry. He's close to biting his lip and twirling his hair at the sight of you.

He helps you DIY and thrift your clothes, and he's really good at repurposing old clothes. The emo phase really came in handy.

Since Erik's pretty clueless about Y2K, he asks Julia about the aesthetic, as well as what to get you. Not only is she more aware of the Y2K aesthetic, she's also your friend, so she helps with gifts that are tailored to you.

Julia played matchmaker with you and Erik. That's it, send Tweet.

He was surprised that not only did you own a flip phone, but actually used it.

His gifts to you (that aren't clothes) are accessories for you flip phone, as well as an iPod he found at a thrift store for thirty dollars.

Another revelation he had was hearing someone squeal. He didn't think people did that until he gave you the iPod.

Date nights tend to consist of watching 2000s' movies and thrift shopping, which he found himself enjoying (he finds a lot of shirts at thrift shops and Mean Girls is a guilty pleasure movie).

Eventually, you find out Erik had an emo phase. It's the opposite of Y2K, but it was a big aesthetic during the 2000s'.

You sometimes tease him about it, but you try to get him to embrace it, or at least come to terms with it and realize that it isn't that bad.

Fine, he thought as you unearthed the old band shirts, chokers, and 15-year-old makeup that he likely stole from Julia.

Yes, he's cringing. Yes, he's remembering some good memories as he looks at old MySpace pictures of himself. How did he think that was cool?

He's not emo anymore (more metalhead than anything), but his emo phase was a stepping stone into him discovering metal music. He now gets weirdly sentimental over his emo phase and appreciates you for allowing him to look at it in a different light...

...until you post a picture of him recreating one of his emo looks. Now his family teases him about it.

(Author's Note: Anonymous, thank you for bearing with me as I was posting this later than expected. My motivation went to the toilet, and I have summer classes starting. Thank you to everyone who requested headcanons and showed them some love, but I think I'm done for now. I was starting to get burnt-out, and on top of school and a job, I figured it was best to close my requests for now. I still love you guys tremendously, and I think this is a great community that I'll continue to interact with! Go easy on me if I totally misrepresented Y2K, I had to ask several people to define it because I neither partake in Y2K nor emo. Let's hope I didn't misrepresent two aesthetics!

Signing off for now,

-Libby)

[yourbloodysunrise]

Hello. How Huggy Wuggy, Mommy Long Legs, Dogday, Yarnaby and Doey would react to Reader who goes full-on "I'm getting all of you out of here" mode: picks evey single toy which is currently alive, quickly patches it's wounds, returns with it to the exit (somehow avoiding every single obstacle), leaves the toys there, promises to return, tells them to not try to eat other toys, do this with another new toy, and do this until every single toy is at the exit and ready to leave this place with them? Sorry if it's too much.

🌤️ — it's not too much, don't worry! I actually glad to see that you want me to write for Dogday and Doey, they are my favourites :)

🌤️ — please, enjoy!

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❝ No matter how much you want to, you can't save everyone. ❞

— FANDOM: POPPY PLAYTIME.

— PAIRING: HUGGY WUGGY, MOMMY LONG LEGS, DOGDAY, YARNABY, DOEY x READER THAT TRYING TO SAVE OTHER TOYS.

— RATHER PLATONIC THAN ROMANTIC.

— HCS/CONCEPT.

— TW: BAD ENGLISH, BAD GRAMMAR, OOC, MENTION OF VIOLENCE, MENTION OF DEATH, SOFT ANGST.

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— HUGGY WUGGY:

☆ ┈ Since you won't see any other living toys in chapter 1, the action will take place in chapter 4.

☆ ┈ First of all, Huggy is furious. He is injured and in great, great pain, not to mention that when he fell, he realized that he has a lot of competition in who will eat whom, and it will not be easy for him to survive with wounds.

☆ ┈ However, he survives, and that's not good for you.

☆ ┈ Huggy Wuggy blames you for everything, and, although, it's not surprising, so almost all the time he's just trying to find you to get revenge.

☆ ┈ And when he finds you, he first decides to follow you, since you are often in someone else's company.

☆ ┈ Apparently, this will save your life.

☆ ┈ He sees you taking small toys somewhere, as he heard, to the exit. It discourages him.

☆ ┈ Do you want to help them?..Why?

☆ ┈ In fact, Huggy almost feels insulted. You feel sorry for the toys, you want to help them, you want to save them.

☆ ┈ Why, even though others have done you harm, do you feel sorry for them?!

☆ ┈ ..Why he want you to feel the same way for him?

☆ ┈ Now, his purpose is changing. He doesn't want to kill you, but he also doesn't know what else to do, he doesn't know how to get out of here.

☆ ┈ Huggy Wuggy just wanders in the shadows, watching you, interested in your actions..

☆ ┈ For a while, you can say that he has no bad intentions, and he may even try to approach you purely out of curiosity about how you will react to him.

☆ ┈ ..However, unbeknownst to him, someone noticed his presence next to you. Perhaps Huggy shouldn't follow you everywhere, it could let someone think about it in wrong way.

— MOMMY LONG LEGS:

☆ ┈ Oh, that's so sweet! That you think you could break through her to the exit.

☆ ┈ Whatever good purpose you have, it just won't let you go.

☆ ┈ Although we know that Mommy Long Legs treats children more gently, and the sight of how you want to save toys makes something forgotten wake up in her..

☆ ┈ She won't let you leave just like that.

☆ ┈ It reminds her of how she treated children before the Hour of Joy came. She's not sure if these are pleasant memories or not, but she would like them to stay anyway.

☆ ┈ If Huggy is rather offended and puzzled by your attitude towards other toys, Mommy is jealous.

☆ ┈ You tried to help Bunzo even though he wanted to eat you. You tried to make friends with the Mini Huggies after you won.

☆ ┈ Why do you feel sorry for them? Why did you pay attention to them? You should have focused on the games, on her! Why? Why why why?!

☆ ┈ You can try to offer her help, but Mommy Long Legs will just laugh like crazy at this.

☆ ┈ There's no way out of here, she realized that a long time ago. Especially for people like her. It would be foolish of you to let a few eternally hungry creatures come to the surface.

☆ ┈ So, nope, you're staying. Even if she has to kill all the other toys, she won't let you get away, and she won't let you help them.

☆ ┈ Your only option to help others is to kill her. So, decide: them, or her.

— "Where are you going with this little pathetic thing? To exit? Ahaha.."

— "..But Mommy was hoping you'd stay forever! What makes you think that other toys won't eat your insides once they'll be free?"

— DOGDAY:

☆ ┈ When you reach out to help him, his first reaction is shock.

☆ ┈ Do you really think you can save him?

☆ ┈ DogDay feels ambivalent. On one hand, he is impressed by your desire to help him, but on the other hand, he has long since given up hope.

☆ ┈ He asks you to leave and abandon him, as he will not survive, but you persist and manage to free him.

☆ ┈ As soon as you freed him, the Ruined Creatures appeared, intent on devouring both him and you.

☆ ┈ DogDay tried to tell you to let him go and escape on your own, as your life was more important to the fate of the factory than his, but you still took him with you as you fled from the small toys that wanted to gnaw on your face.

☆ ┈ He is not just grateful to you; he is amazed that you did not leave him behind but instead saved him. After all, if you had stayed a couple of minutes longer, he wouldn't have been alive.

☆ ┈ He's amazed. He's almost certain that there might be hope in this forgotten place.

☆ ┈ Somehow, you've managed to find toys that don't want to kill him or you. He doesn't know how it's possible, but he's glad that there are still someone who haven't lost their minds in this place.

☆ ┈ Of course, you're unlikely will return to exit, but even in his condition, DogDay will want to help you.

☆ ┈ Please, let him.

— "..You truly are Angel, you know that?"

— YARNABY:

☆ ┈ I'm not sure how he'll react, but I think confusion will be the first thing he feels.

☆ ┈ Like, for him, you're helping the food, so he finds it strange. You, his goal, helping the food. Unclear.

☆ ┈ The Doctor will likely be annoyed by your attempts to help the other toys, and he'll encourage Yarnaby to kill you.

☆ ┈ He'll listen, but there's a doubt in his mind.

☆ ┈ The exit. You're looking for an exit.

☆ ┈ ..Exit even real in this place?

☆ ┈ Hm. Strange. But curious.

☆ ┈ Yarnaby is slightly interested, and watches you before attacking.

☆ ┈ You could try to offer him help as well, but..He will most likely try to attack you.

☆ ┈ If you manage to calmly approach him, it is only if he does not fall completely into the lava vat and you help him out, possibly by putting out his paws and tail that have managed to ignite.

☆ ┈ If you save him, he will be confused and will stay where he is, trembling and growling in pain. He will only allow you to approach him if you have extinguished him.

☆ ┈ Yarnaby involuntarily presses himself against your outstretched hand, trying to find comfort in your presence and imagining The Doctor in your place.

☆ ┈ He is unsure whether to attack you now or not. If you are The Doctor's enemy, you would not help him, would you? He's so confused...

— DOEY:

☆ ┈ He almost feel how his thoughts is drifting away when he sees this.

☆ ┈ When Doey first met you, he wasn't completely sure about you. Ollie said that he can trust you, and he would like to think so, but he still doubts you.

☆ ┈ His trust in you is small at first. But it accelerates very, very fast. Faster than you would like.

☆ ┈ Poppy told Doey what happened to you. And, admittedly, you suffered at the factory too. Not like him and the others, but you've done yourself a lot of harm.

☆ ┈ He's developing towards you..sympathy.

☆ ┈ You're nice with the toys from Safe Heaven. It makes something inside him shrink, the memories of how he once behaved with other orphans almost make him go crazy.

☆ ┈ Everyone is starting to like you. Matthew for how gentle you are with toys, Jack for reminding him of his parents. And since the personalities of all three are connected, Kevin also has thoughts of affection for you.

☆ ┈ And no matter how much he starts to get attached to you, when you tell him your opinion that you should evacuate toys from Safe Heaven (obviously suspecting something), he is against it.

☆ ┈ It's dangerous outside, Doey can't risk losing the toys in Safe Heaven! Including you..

☆ ┈ They're his family..But now you are too.

☆ ┈ Now, he's starting to panic. What if you yourself try to evacuate others without listening to him? His thoughts are filled with those moments where you were on the verge of death, escaping from other toys.

☆ ┈ He's afraid for you and for others. Even if he tries to evacuate others, he will be there for you, every second.

☆ ┈ When it turns out that Safe Heaven was blown up while you were evacuating..He doesn't know what to do.

☆ ┈ He pretends to be confident in himself and that you will bring other toys to the exit, but this is just a mask to give hope to others.

☆ ┈ Doey creating a kind of new shelter not far from what's left. It's much less secure than the past, but he's trying his best.

☆ ┈ He notices the other toys next to you that you saved, and he's not against them. On the contrary, it makes you even better in his eyes.

☆ ┈ However, he soon notices that there are..hostile toys hanging around you..

☆ ┈ Doey intends to keep you safe, albeit in a slightly brutal way.

— "Heey, pal!..You seem tired. Look, our Safe Heaven is also yours, so.. Uh- here, you can rest in there."

•.✯.• BONUS •.✯.•

You sigh, shaking your head, leaning against a concrete wall, staring forward wearily.

You've just lost a toy you were trying to bring to Safe Heaven. The small version of Hoppy Hopstotch you tried to save took the hit when Yarnaby attacked you..

You've lost count of how many toys you've lost like this. Guilt consumes you because some of them willingly sacrificed themselves to help you.

You look down at the two trembling, tired toys clinging to your leg. No matter how much you've suffered from failure, there are still those who need your help.

Gently pushing them forward, you turn around when you hear a noise. You tense up, but you can't see anything, even though you could have sworn you heard something fall.

— "..Is everything okay?"

One of the toys asks you, gently tugging on your pants/skirt. You turn your head to them and see them looking at you with their friend, and although their expressions can't change from smiling to anything else, you know they would have a pleading look.

— "Yes..Yes, it's fine. Let's move on, we shouldn't stay in one place."

You say it encouragingly and lead them on. At least you hope it's all fine..

..As soon as you get far enough away, long arm wraps around the corner of the wall, peeking out from behind it, staring at you in the distance.

Huggy has been following you for a while now. He must have discovered you a few hours ago. He's not sure, time passes terribly slowly here...

Wanting to step further so as not to lose sight of you, he takes a few steps forward before stopping, not by his own will, but by feeling something holding his other hand.

Huggy turns around to see what's going on, but feels something heavy gripping his arm and pulling him back forcefully, hitting him against the wall several times.

He growls, trying to break free from the grip, scratching and biting, before noticing who it is.

— "..Hiya there..Now, what are you doing so deep in here, hmm?"

— "You shouldn't have wandered in here. Especially near them."

..Uh. Huggy didn't realize that he wasn't the only one watching you.

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🌤️ — while I was writing for Doey, I had an idea that it would be interesting for Doey to think that Huggy wanted to attack Reader while Huggy was just watching, so I added this.

🌤️ — hope you like it, have a good day ☆

[homicidalbrunette]

It's giving I'm Baby/yes you sure are energy

[zombiecowboy65]

Respectfully, the words used are “promise me u won’t try again, I don’t want to lose you” , which maybe it was the wrong wording but wording is important, no? I don’t want to lose you implies that this promise was for Kevin. And sure he was 16(?) so he was young and a kid and scared but. And the French sharing was “would you teach me when he’s not watching? It could be our secret”.

Kevin loved and hated Riko and to say that Riko is all Kevin needed in that nest also sweeps aside Kevin’s character to ignore the nuance there. He was abused too. He was suffocated too. In fact that’s pretty much his whole arc . He’s the better striker but he lets Riko win because there’s no alternative. Kevin day has the talent and the status but not in the ways that matter. Riko is king and number one, and even tho he and Kevin are “brothers”, the point is that Kevin will never come out on top.

He has nothing of his own. No sport no position no team no family. And then Jean shows up. And Riko has Jean as property but Kevin has him in the ways that matter. An ally. A friend. Whatever you want to call him. Jean hates Riko and for Kevin to go behind riko’s back like that implies that he hates Riko too. They are the only two in their specific position. The only two who know all the details. Of course they’d latch onto each other.

I think Kevin & Jean’s relationship is complicated. I think Kevin needed him as an out from Riko but also cared about him to an extent. But as Jean says, Kevin was not his partner and it was not his job to protect Jean. And he didn’t. Zane is the one who gets between Jean and Grayson. And as far as we are aware Kevin has nothing to do with it. Kevin doesn’t “keep Jean alive” . He keeps him from taking the only out he has . And it is the only out Jean has. Whereas kevin had a father to run to in times of crisis.

In terms of Neil, that pretty much is the only reason he sent Jean out anywhere. Maybe the usc part was because he knew Jeremy, but Kevin did not plan on even talking to Jean before Neil guilt tripped him into it.

The thing about Kevin in this fandom, is that him witnessing torture often gets equated to Jean undergoing it. It is always “Kevin cannot be gay because he witnessed Jean get raped for it” , and not “Jean was raped for being gay”. It is “kevin was not selfish for escaping abuse” (which he isn’t), and never he was selfish for using Jean “when he knew what Riko would do to Jean when he realized Kevin was gone”. So yeah. It gets to a point where it feels like boo hoo. He witnessed it. But what about the guy he trapped in it?

Kevin making Jean promise to stay alive in a place where he knew he’d be tortured and raped on repeat was actually so fucked up and selfish but u guys don’t wanna have that convo. U wanna have the convo where the story revolves around Kevin day. And excuse all the parts of the story where Kevin is someone’s villain! Was he wrong for escaping abuse ? No. Was he fucked up for making Jean promise to stay alive and then using him to escape when he (in his own words) “knew what [riko] would do [jean] as soon as [riko] realized he was gone” and therefore trapping him in an endless cycle of abuse? Yeah. He didn’t give a second thought to Jean after he left that nest. And oh boo hoo he felt guilty. Oh boo hoo he had to witness it all and bear the pain of surviving. He felt guilty bc he knew it was wrong. Neil calls him out on it. “You left him once don’t do it again” . THATS the reason Kevin sent him to usc. Not because of Jean’s crush. Not out of the goodness of his heart. He did it for the same reason he’s done everything. Guilt

[eliiyis]

is this anything

[butmakeitgayblog]

Something about how fast the night changes

[rickktish]

Hoping I meet all the qualifiers but:

Naruto:

Kakashi and Temari both have uncombable hair syndrome

Naruto is partially deaf (hence why he's so Loud all the time, to hear himself better) and has an auditory processing delay/disability on top of it

Naruto has ARFID and Ramen is his most, if not only, reliable safe food

Gai has prosopagnosia

Kakashi has POTS, which he controls with careful applications of chakra throughout his system, but that's why he goes down so hard when he's low on chakra, because it takes him more chakra to keep his body at a functioning level and when he can't do so he crashes.

Sasuke had a developmental delay that his parents were concerned about until he was about 6, when he seemed to start hitting milestones with his peers instead of months or more behind them.

Hinata has asthma.

Shikamaru has chronic fatigue, which might also actually be POTS.

DC:

Batfam:

Jason has waardenburg syndrome

Damian has an attachment disorder of some kind

He also struggles with depersonalization and wonders whether or not he's actually a person; he's received enough organ transplants from the clones his mother has made of him to question whether he himself might not be a clone and has simply never been informed.

Bruce has "pure o" ocd (most of his compulsions are internal rather than external) and struggles with alexithymia and involuntary mutism

Dick experiences both visual and auditory hallucinations and takes medication to treat them

Tim has reverse seasonal affective (gets depressed in summer but does better in fall and winter, sometimes spring depending on how sunny it is)

Tim and Bruce both have GERD and for both of them it sometimes borders on developing into ARFID out of fear of eating the wrong thing and having to deal with the consequences

Superfam:

Lois is dyslexic, and Jon inherited it from her

Martha Kent has restless leg syndrome and persistent insomnia

Even on Krypton and not having to navigate human/alien relations, Clark would have struggled with fertility due to congenital differences about his own body

Criminal Minds:

Garcia struggles with agoraphobia. Her safe places are home and work, and leaving one to go to the other is the hardest part of her day. If she has to be somewhere else she'd better be with Her People (the team) or else it's the hardest part of her week, and honestly it might still be anyway.

Marvel:

Clint has chronic fatigue and slipping rib syndrome, which might be part of a broader hypermobility thing like ehlers-danlos or might not

Harry Potter:

Arthur, Bill, Percy, and Ron all have HEDS

Neville experiences involuntary mutism

Harry had a growth disorder/delayed onset puberty which eventually mostly resolved itself

Coco:

Hector had Marfan syndrome when he was alive

There was also a character a while ago that I decided had the part of the Cystic Fibrosis gene that causes azoospermia and was infertile because of it, but for the life of me I can't find who it was in any of my notes or anywhere else, so I can't remember who it was or for what fandom.

What's your favorite Character-Specific Uncommon* Disability Headcanon?

One of mine is that I like to write Obi-Wan Kenobi as having a joint disorder that readers have generally interpreted as being analogous to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

Some examples that I've read would be Bo-Katan Kryze having diabetes, Uzumaki Naruto being colorblind, or Natasha Romanoff having a severe anaphylactic response to kiwi fruit.

I just want to hear what specific thing you've decided a character has that doesn't get explored in fiction as often as it does.

* Requirements to qualify:

Not canon stuff (e.g. Anakin and Luke Skywalker are both amputees)

Not 'well I translated this canon thing into a real world context for a modern au (like Tony Stark having a heart defect since the glowing magnet to ward off shards isn't necessarily realistic)

Not the Super Popular stuff (generally the umbrella of autism, ADD, ADHD, depression, PTSD, addiction, and anxiety disorders that are commonly projected onto or extrapolated from characters)

The disability itself doesn't need to be uncommon IRL, but its presence as a meaningful headcanon does.

It has to be specific to a character. "I like to think that this character, or these several characters, have XYZ" rather than "I like to give XYZ to characters."

Important! It cannot be played for a joke. 'This character has an allergy to a weird or tasty food' only counts if it's treated seriously. An example of a canon 'joke' allergy would be the mushroom incidents in That's So Raven.

'Why are there so many qualifiers?' because I know how people tend to misinterpret my posts/prompts, and if I give people a numbered list and examples, we might be able to head off some of the 'whoops, I missed a word' responses

[chickenchirps27]

hello denizens of tumblr i come with humble offerings

they wish to romance you

[sunnylovesgirlythings]

Oh it wasn’t just corporate laziness. It was corporate cheapness too.

There’s three things you have to keep in mind when discussing equestria girls.

1. It was designed with the doll line in mind first.

Equestria girls was created mostly to compete with the explosion of “creature” themed fashion dolls started by monster highs unprecedented popularity.

Suddenly every toy company wanted their own line of technically inhuman girlypop fashion divas. Hasbro initially had a lineup of rat dolls in development called trashion alley for this purpose, but that was cancelled in development around the prototyping stage. Probably to save money on trademarks.

So we got equestria girls instead. Anthro versions of the pony characters they already had all the rights too.

2. The really early brony fandom was a bigger obstacle than you would think.

The first bronies came from 4ch!n. That is a fact most people know.

But the under discussed result being that 4ch!n culture and humour set the groundwork for how the early brony fandom behaved.

Meaning it was embarrassingly common for very early bronies to be ableist, homophobic, fatphobic and most notably in regard to equestria girls?

Racist.

It was not that uncommon of a sight to see every slur under the sun flung at anyone who would even dare depict the main six as anything but thin, roughly young adult aged, pale white women.

Except rainbow dash. They were weirdly ok with her in particular being tanned. If I begin to unpack the stereotyping in that I’ll be here all day.

And hasbro was aware of this. Hasbro was way more aware of the brony fandom than people think. They had an in company pamphlet to explain what a brony was to new investors and staff.

Them choosing to give all the girls the same (but slightly lighter) fantasy tones as their pony counterparts was a conscious decision on hasbros behalf to minimise uproar and controversy.

They knew if they made any of them not white they’d have the worst people alive screaming at them until the end of time. But they also knew if they did make them all white actually normal sane people would rightfully call them out.

Because having not a shred of diversity in a cast of six characters says something. And not a good thing.

So they picked the cowards path. Played it as statistically safe as possible. Pretending they had absolutely zero internal view of what races and ethnicities the main six would be as humans.

That they were “leaving it up to audience to decide!”

But that’s not true. They did.

Ever wonder why it’s so common for humanised main six fanart to depict twilight as Black or darker skinned south Asian? Like with everyone else it varies wildly but with her it’s notably more consistent.

It’s because she’s the only one of the main six who has known equestria girls concept art with a human skintone.

And she’s very unambiguously not white.

Like they didn’t just make her ambiguously tanned. This is intentionally a woman of colour.

So if they knew what skintone twilight would be? They know what the others would be too.

Ambiguity like they used in the final designs is only ever included by corporations to better sell characters as not people of colour. That is the goal. The only goal. It’s cowardice.

We know that’s the reason because every single time they had to adapt a pony whose fur colour would translate to anything even remotely implying a darker skin tone suddenly their entire design philosophy gets kicked out the window and they’re bending over backwards to make them as light as possible.

Either by inverting their colour palette so the lighter colour is now their skin like cheerilee.

Or just straight up giving up and lightening their skintone with no visual excuse like Luna.

(Before anyone pulls the “it’s season one Luna’s skintone!” Excuse? no it’s not. Even she’s darker than that. That’s her pony shoe colour. They were so desperate for her to pass as white they picked her shoe colour over her actual fur tone.)

It was only ever about making them all as ambiguously white as possible. They give up any design rule integrity the second their own rules would imply otherwise.

3. Hasbro is the toy company that hates making toys.

This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when hasbro cared. But by the time equestria girls popped up? They’d long checked out. They’ve never been shy in the business updates about how they would switch to just making board games (which they deem more profitable) if they could.

So there’s only so much they allow their employees to care too. Because hasbro doesn’t want good they want cheap.

They want something they can pump out as quickly as possible for the lowest price possible. To retain copyrights as close to on autopilot as they can.

The main six actually got pretty close to production with very different outfits.

These ones.

While still not perfect they’re much more individualised. Actually meaningfully unique silhouette work. Layers and varying materials.

Hairstyles that aren’t just “hair out unstyled or ponytail”

All of this creates cost. Cost an average toy company wouldn’t mind save a detail here or there (eg: fluttershys tights might have been omitted from merch.) but to hasbro? No. This was way too much.

They wanted clothes so simple they could make the tops out of rubber to save on costs. Example?

Rainbow dash.

Note the biggest design changes. The downplaying of the jacket and the removal of her pants.

The jacket used to be big and baggy. A detail that would have to be fabric in order to not look stupid. You can’t make that out of plastic. Not could you have it printed onto a stock t-shirt pattern without looker cheaper than even hasbro would tolerate.

So it gets simplified, shrunk and reduced. Just off being part of her shirt. Not really meant to be read as a separate piece. Why?

So they could be made into the same rubber top instead of the two fabric pieces they would have to be otherwise. In the process of making the cheapest dolls conceivable.

Same reason they traded the pant for a skirt. So they could save money by reusing the same skirt pattern used on twilight.

And pinkie.

And fluttershy.

And rarity.

Same reason the unicorn girls lost their horns. They were using the doll hair fibre polypropylene. The nastiest cheapest one in the market. Likely wouldn’t sit flat around the horns.

The budget doesn’t budge and hasbro is cheap. The artists have no choice but to work around it.

So yeah. Equestria girls design work sucks. But it was never going to be allowed to be good in the first place. That wasn’t the point.

“Why do you dislike the equestria girls artstyle?”

Because it’s not how Lauren Faust draws humans.

It’s how she draws horses anthropomorphised by completely separate artists.

And i can’t unsee that.

This is what Lauren fausts genuine artstyle looks like on human characters.

Note the very dramatic stylisation. The heavy emphasis on individual silhouettes between characters. She’s a Cartoon Network veteran and it shows to this day.

Now look at equestria girls.

They just take the way she draws eyes, horse ears and wings (but not horns because they’re cheapskates) and slap it onto an anime girl body.

Not bodies. Body. That’s the exact same body five times in slightly outfits.

It’s genuinely uncanny yet so incredibly boring at the same time.

They tried to reverse engineer the way she draws humans with only the way she draws horses as reference.

[sunshinechay]

First it was daddy kink, then it was pet play. Then they gave us time travel and undercover twins. Then came the reincarnated lovers and mythical creatures. Now we also have omegaverse and transmigration to other bodies for a second chance at first love.

So you know they had to fit fuck or die in there somewhere. Glad to see it was from the first uncensored wuxia bl

[astrobbie]

“this show is making me like the men more” when the shows literally been setting this up from ep1. they literally eat people did you think they WERENT going to lose their morals more and more as the show progresses? did you think the hunting scene in season 2 was the worst it got and not the beginning of their descent into violence and horror? i feel like i’ve entered some alternate universe because half the complaints about season 3 make no sense to me and i just think a lot of you need to stop watching the show and just stick to reading fanfic or something because a lot of the complaints just sound like you dont like the season bc its not going the way you made up in your head

[starmaker-astral]

Me because I was lucky enough to be born in a timeline where Good Omens exists and to be old enough to appreciate the hype and being part of it's unhinged and insane fandom

[g3othermal3scapism]

let’s go for another round, I hate what this song is about

[random-fandom-tandem]

Mike Schmidt: Dating Headcanons

Because this guy hasn't left my brain since seeing the movie a few days ago, and I finally broke down and had to do something about it.

18+ only

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GN!Reader

Sweet (SFW):

❤️ Can be a bit overprotective at times. Given that he still blames himself for his brother's disappearance, though, it's understandable. While he doesn't admit it out loud, he's uncertain he could handle it if something terrible happened to you too.

❤️ Having grown accustomed to being up at night, due to his recent security job, on the nights he's off and is able to find someone to watch Abby, he'll sometimes invite you for an evening drive. His hand remains on your thigh nearly the entire time, occasionally giving it a gentle squeeze, as you two sit in a comfortable silence, just enjoying the soft music on the radio.

❤️ Is actually pretty lenient when it comes to what is chosen for movie night. He's more happy to just have some needed downtime with you. Also, cuddling during the movie is almost always guaranteed. (Please give him some, the poor man needs it.)

❤️ Got a little annoyed with you one time after you borrowed his walkman and forgot to swap back the cassette tape to his nature sounds one. Cue him getting startled one night when he turned it to help him sleep, only to be greeted with whatever pop or rock idol you had been listening to beforehand. Being that it was an honest mistake, he couldn't stay mad at you...but he never lent you his walkman ever again. (On the flipside, though, he did gift you one of your own for your birthday.)

Spicy (NSFW):

🔥 When it comes to sex, he typically lasts one round, just because he's often so tired, but he tries his best to make sure it counts. Even if he's exhausted, he will try to make up for it with lots of kisses and soft words.

🔥 Exception being when he's extremely pent up or needs to release some frustration after a bad night at work. During those times, you can expect at least 2-3 rounds out of him. He starts out with a rather quiet intensity, focused on just getting rid of that mounted tension, but the volume of his groans increases the closer he gets to finishing.

🔥 On the mornings when he ends up waking up earlier and doesn't have to go anywhere, he actually enjoys sleepy lovemaking. During those times he just wants to hold you close (and/or to be inside you, if applicable) even if you two don't move very much.

🔥 Expanding on an earlier headcanon, car sex is absolutely a thing. He likes the privacy it offers, and will often just park at some abandoned spot where it can just be you and him, with no outside interruptions. He's barely put the car in park before you are straddling his lap, furiously making out with him and rubbing yourself up against his hardening cock. Next thing you both know, hours have passed. Uh, he didn't need to be at work that night...right?

[bugsandboos]

i miss the rage (it's 2019 chat blanc just released and the entire fandom has gone into cardiac arrest)