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you're the only one who understands me mr strobbery

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"Un-uhlaive? UN-UHLAIVE? Ma'am, that man has been killed. He has been MUHDUHED. To DEATH."

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eh, screw it *releases my fucked up vampire au from the confines of my mind*

anyway I decided my blog is for me and I can draw and post all the weird silly concepts of my dreams and nobody can stop me. I actually have a lot of potential comic ideas ping-ponging in my head for this AU — not a linear story or anything (beyond what's on this post), just some good fun and shenanigans.

bonus:

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toxic friend: Okay stay away from me since I'm toxic and you could get an adverse reaction. Because I guess I'm just soooo toxic that you can't even hang out with me🙄 It's methyl ethyl ketone peroxide and it causes blindness.

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Laios heaven is Marcille hell it.s a very efficient system

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hello fmab nation

is this anything

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this is literally the funniest plot twist in any form of media ever

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got eaten up with 3 words

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fanfic writing culture isn’t “oh dang! I wanted to write about this prompt with this character but someone else already wrote it, so now I can’t”.

fanfic writing culture is always “two cakes is better than one. the more the merrier. there can ever be enough fics of this character with this prompt!”

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DND character who accidentally becomes a paladin at their wedding bc they meant their wedding vows a little too hard and invents the Oath of Love subclass. Is this anything

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you get to cut one basic need out of your life. you can still CHOOSE to partake in them and they will feel as good and refreshing as normal, but going without will no longer affect you negatively.

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"So, how's the wife?"

"Ah yes, the old ball and chain."

"That's a little rude, don't you think?"

I pull out a wedding photo from my wallet and you see me at the altar across from a chain chomp with a pink bow.

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The thing I think that gets most mischaracterised about Azula in fandom is the fact that Azula, canonically, is really silly and thinks she's the funniest person in the world in the most earnest way possible.

Like sure, you have a different take on how Azula's mental illness manifests? That's fair, we don't have a lot of info on it or her psyche (within the show), you have a different take on how many friends she had and how much they liked/feared her? Alright, that's environmental and isn't even necessarily up to her. But if your Azula isn't cracking jokes and then laughing at them, that's not Azula. That's someone else.

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Crossover AU's I'll never write (watch as this one is the one that forces me back into Longfic) but I like playing around with: Zuko In Westeros.

Set after S1, a little after Cave of Lovers in atla, well before Jon Arryn's death in Westeros. You know he has to run into Ned Stark. Ned Stark is the only high lord who wouldn't have him killed/thrown into a dungeon, if we're being honest. Yes, obviously Zuko gets a new dad - I believe strongly in giving Zuko parents, like you would give an enthusiastic dog squeaky toys even though it keeps ripping them apart and making a mess.

I thought about Tywin, but - Tywin has no regard for honor. While Tywin would be very interested in making a vassal of this foreign prince with strange powers, for Zuko it would just be terrible. It would make a brilliant psychological thriller where you're waiting for Zuko to figure out what kind of person Tywin really is, and Tywin trying to stay one step ahead, but it wouldn't have Softness, and Softness is key here. Though: the comedy potential of Robert dying and Tywin immediately announcing that Cersei will marry the foreign prince is tempting.

There's also that Northerners are more superstitious and accepting of things like "the spirits dropped me here." The North is fertile ground for multiversal travellers.

In no particular order, here's a list of uncollected thoughts:

1. I don't remember Ned's character well enough to remember if he's the sort of person who would believe that Zuko showed "shameful weakness" or that Zuko is a coward. But I think it'd take about the space of one Regular Zuko Action for him to realize that Zuko is neither weak nor a coward and that it's a miracle he's still alive.

2. Building on that: Ned does have a good grasp of the realities of court life. He has a number of ideas on the reasons a king might want his son and wife gone after grabbing power. (Zuko does not take well to theorizing.) He also notes that anyone having an affair with a royal consort would be risking their life. Almost anyone. Add to that his uncle following him into banishment? Not contesting the coup and the murder of his father? He puts two and two together and gets 22: Zuko is Iroh's illegitimate son.

3. He takes Zuko out to a vast, open, snowy field to tell him that. It's a good precaution.

4. To the Westerosi, Zuko is obviously from the uncharted West. This makes a neat bit of sense for everyone involved, except for Zuko, who has had access to the maps and education of a nation that has steam-powered ships. Zuko wisely doesn't say much about it.

5. To Zuko, it's spirits. The spirits, representing authorial whimsy I guess, literally tell Zuko "guess what kid the age rating of your surroundings is about to go up" and yeet him. They also give him the Westerosi language, because frankly I'm not nor will I likely ever be good enough to pull off a learning the language-plot. At least not well.

6. Speaking of which? The thing that made this idea rotate around in my brain endlessly? The inciting incident? I thought about the bilingual struggle of literally translating a word into English and going "wait, that's stupid." (Or the other way around. Like guys, pineapple? Seriously? Pine apple.) And then I thought about Zuko realizing that his country, full of Firebending people, has a name that literally translates to "Fire Nation."

7. Okay this is me abusing the list format, I just wanted to break up that paragraph. But my fellow bilinguals, you get it, right? The word refers to the thing. You don't have cause to interrogate it. Until you forget it in English and you have to break it down into its components and you realize that the word is stupid. It's dumb. To Zuko, the word for his nation is one word. Which happens to translate to "Fire Nation", which Zuko thinks sounds ridiculous.

8. Dragons. "My uncle killed the last dragon in single combat" is an absolutely terrible thing for a Ned to hear, having it be followed by what boils down to "which is a shame, because I always wanted to ride one" is criminal. This is also a great reason for Ned to keep Zuko under wraps: while he doesn't look anything like a Targaryen, Robert might not care. Talk of a dragonrider - even a prospective one, even a hypothetical one, even one who just idly imagined it - becomes very dangerous when the rider in question can breathe fire.

9. Zuko would like to not be married to anyone. It seems that literally everyone wants otherwise. This vexes Zuko.

10. Zuko is not aware of exactly how groundbreaking Firebending is for the people of Westeros. Zuko is also not aware of how terrifying his descriptions of a vast warlike empire with steam-powered metal ships and legions of Firebenders are. Zuko honestly isn't trying to scare anyone. He isn't!

11. Everyone who gets a chance to talk to Zuko is terrified by the end. (Varys makes a special trip to the North and has a brief but illuminating - or at least he thinks it's illuminating - conversation with Zuko while in disguise. He comes out of it deeply disturbed.)

11.5 Hopefully no priests of R'hllor see Zuko. oh, shit, too late.

12. Ned thinks that maybe his ancestors who built the Wall were Waterbenders who retreated across the polar ice caps and ended up making a kingdom in the deep, deep North. He wouldn't be opposed to visiting an ice palace.

13. Firebending can kill White Walkers.

14. For maximum Soft, the Gaang is dropped in shortly before the end. Katara and Sokka are questioned about whether they know any Starks, by Ned. Ned takes Sokka's description of wolfshead helmets as proof that they are at least distant kin. Zuko is perplexed and a little offended.

15. I am drawing a huge blank on the Stark kids. I feel like Jon and Zuko would HATE each other, though. Robb would be respectful, but distant. Bran, I feel, would be cool with him, maybe the most out of everyone. Arya would be endlessly intrigued by him, but not necessarily like Zuko as a person that much. Sansa might hate him too, which would provide interesting common ground for her and Jon. Rickon... no clue. I don't have a good grasp on Rickon.

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