-STRANGER THINGS S5 was badly written but it didnât queerbait anyone into believing any queer relationship was going to happen but didnât
-COMPLEX CHARACTERS are interesting but that doesnât make them good. Not liking a complex characters doesnât always mean someone didnât understand them
-A lot of peopleâs ENEMIES TO LOVERS fanfics are just tolerating disrespect and abuse in the name of âloveâ and if youâre into that just be into that but itâs not âgoalsâ and donât label it as anything other than abuse
-AMBER is so obviously the disposable black girlfriend and is just a placeholder until eve developed her character more. From the start it was obvious that eve was going to be love interest for mark and it later became obvious that amber wouldnât be able to sustain a relationship with mark. Which leads to another point
-INVINCIBLE writers have a bad trait of making female characters only to develop male characters and AMBER being a huge example. She was a device to show mark how hard it is to balance being a hero and a teen boy (which was veryyy short lived)
If I see one more fucking frat JJK fanfic Iâm gonna tweak. Nothing is appealing about them; itâs just men being dickheads and using you for sex wtf like Iâm gonna end up blocking that entire tag atp đ
Why is it that whenever a new older character is introduced in a show all the x reader fics are like MC X (new older character)âs DAUGHTER.
Theyâre always the same, theyâre very overused, and I wanna read one where the reader is tryna indoctrinate MC into being on her dadâs side through seduction. And they donât just give up bc of love or wtv.
Not all of the people reading your x reader fics have white skin
Just a gentle reminder before you write characteristics that assume whiteness and exclude your black/indigenous/poc supporters-specifically in 'x reader' works.
I love and appreciate writers, but this is a recurring avoidable issue (going on for decades now).
"your dusky pink nipples" "your face turned just as red as his" "he could see the blush on your face" âyour cheeks furiously blushedâ âyour ears burn bright redâ âThe look in your reddened faceâ âyour knuckles white with effortâ âbruised purple against your light skinâ
Describing the physical feeling instead of the visual change helps include your readers while also elevating your writing IMO.
Anyone can say "Your cheeks turned red with embarrassment" or "Your face flushed" but wouldn't you rather say "A burning heat rushed across your face, from your neck to the tip of your nose, prickling right underneath the surface. You look anywhere but him, hoping your newfound interest in the buildings ceiling tiles will ease the fire tightening beneath your skin" And instead of the other character pointing out that the readers face is red, they can point out the obvious flustered facial expression/body language.
If you want your reader insert to have white/fairskin, then just label them white!reader or put the mention in the warnings/summary.
âŞI have reached out to writers I favored/supported before and sometimes I have been met with severe hostility and defensiveness. I often wonder if people are doing this purposefully or for some reason think only white people read their fanfics (?)-if that's the case then be upfront and label your reader inserts as white!reader or something PLEASE. Itâs gotten to the point where I feel like black women and other POC arenât wanted or considered in these fandoms because it comes off like that in your writing. If you need a different motivation, just know you're missing out on more interactions, reblogs, and a bigger reader base. I donât know why white is the default for so many writers in unspecified x reader/reader insert fics-the people on your blog following, reading, and supporting you arenât all white and fair-skinned.
I am not talking about OC fics or fics where race/skintone is x specified in summary or warnings. This is specifically about unspecified "x reader" where whiteness is assumed as the default
Put in the comments good replacements for writers to use!
OP is so right!! I genuinely feel so sucky when Iâm reading an x reader fic and I have to start mentally changing things in my head so I can convince myself Iâm included. I get if writers write for themselves but then you should say itâs a self insert or even based on you. Iâm in so many fandoms, some were male dominated, some were woman dominated, some were poc dominated, but they both have a habit of not even considering black women in the equation.
And being defensive or hostile about bringing up this problem doesnât fix anything. You look just as sucky saying âitâs not for you, itâs for me!!â As you did writing a fic that excludes poc.
Or is it all a Shawn Hatosy fans watching whatever heâs in?
Donât get me wrong itâs great that people are supporting Shawn Hatosy bc heâs a great actor with a great range but it lwk sucks that whenever I wanna talk about pope Cody as a character or any other character it seems like no one is really interested. All I see about animal kingdom is how hot pope looks or its people babying him. I get having sympathy for him bc heâs definitely tragic but saying stuff like âmy precious bebeh đĽšâ at things that definitely shouldnât be babied (like taking trujillos eye)
I donât even have nothing else to say cuz I just watched Smurf criticize Julia for messing up when she was literally the only one who didnât royally fuck up I hate her sm
AND TO ADD ONTO THIS YALL MISCHARACTERIZE ALL OF THEM.
NO pope isnât some super cool dominant guy thatâd fit in your dark romance fantasies, unless you were a hooker he wouldnât want to sleep with you if it lacked intimacy and heâs shown that so many times in the show.
NO deran wouldnât sleep with a woman(???) idk where yall got this idea from but from season one itâs been abundantly clear that heâs GAY
NO J was not hypocritical in the end bc he literally used everything SMURF taught him against the rest. The Codyâs were grown up to think family first but Smurf really took that to mean the boys put her before everything and each other over others. There was never any room for anyone else and thatâs why they didnât want J in on anything in the beginning. Smurf taught him that he was an outsider but that was a good thing bc it meant he wasnât brainwashed dumb by Smurf and could still function without her.
AND PPL STILL DONT TALK ABOUT CRAIG
(Unless theyâre talking abt how deran and Craig were too young to help or keep in touch w Julia but thatâs not the point. Itâs the fact that even when Julia came back pregnant they were sooo detached from her (which is still smurfs fault) and thatâs why J still held a grudge against ALL of them)
People who say J is the worst Cody clearly did not watch Animal Kingdom without bias. If weâre being honest, every single member of that family did things far worse than what J ever did â and they did it for years.
Deran constantly belittled and excluded J from the moment he walked into the house. He invited his nephew to beat up his own boyfriend because he was too scared to live in his truth. He took his anger and insecurity out on the people around him and pushed away anyone who actually loved him. He acted morally superior at times, but he still participated in the same crimes and cruelty as the rest of them.
Craig left Renn to overdose and robbed her. He stole his nephewâs teenage girlfriend and introduced her to drugs. He was reckless on jobs and repeatedly put everyone at risk because he couldnât control himself. He chose addiction and chaos over stability again and again, and when responsibility got heavy, he ran from it.
Baz cheated for years and had a secret family while pretending to be committed. He treated Catherine horribly and treated his daughter like she was optional. He helped freeze Julia out of the family and allowed her to spiral into addiction. He constantly played both sides and betrayed whoever benefited him most, all while acting like he had some kind of moral high ground.
Pope claimed to love deeply, but he still killed the woman he loved because his mother told him to. He forfeited the chance to truly save and protect his sister. He used violence as loyalty and justified horrific choices in the name of family. His trauma explains his behavior, but it doesnât erase the damage he caused.
Smurf groomed her sons into criminals from childhood. She emotionally manipulated them, pitted them against each other, and controlled every aspect of their lives. She abandoned Julia and let her daughter die in poverty and addiction. She used affection as a weapon and sabotaged any relationship that threatened her power. She built an empire on exploitation and called it love.
J Cody grew up watching his mother die while the rest of the Codys lived comfortably. He wasnât raised in that house. He wasnât protected. He wasnât loved. He walked into a family built on manipulation and survival and adapted to it.
Did he lie? Yes. Did he kill? Yes. Did he calculate? Yes. But everything he did was learned behavior in a system they created.
J isnât the worst Cody. Heâs the consequence of their choices.
They built the game. He just learned how to win it
Or is it all a Shawn Hatosy fans watching whatever heâs in?
Donât get me wrong itâs great that people are supporting Shawn Hatosy bc heâs a great actor with a great range but it lwk sucks that whenever I wanna talk about pope Cody as a character or any other character it seems like no one is really interested. All I see about animal kingdom is how hot pope looks or its people babying him. I get having sympathy for him bc heâs definitely tragic but saying stuff like âmy precious bebeh đĽšâ at things that definitely shouldnât be babied (like taking trujillos eye)
I donât even have nothing else to say cuz I just watched Smurf criticize Julia for messing up when she was literally the only one who didnât royally fuck up I hate her sm
Wooo you wanna write for Omni mark and reader arm wresting⌠wooooooo hypnotizing stuff
Test of strength
Omnimark/reader
Summary: You realized you don't actually know how strong Mark is, if only there was a convenient way to test it. GN reader, reader has superstrength
A/N: You didn't specify which sort of reader but I assumed one that could keep up with him, so he gets hero reader back!!
WC:1.1k
Youâve gotten used to working with Invincible, picked up on how he acts when heâs irritated, or tired, even when heâs happy (but thatâs a once in a blue moon event). Something youâre pretty proud of actually, considering how little the guy actually emotes. On top of that, with how much time you spend fighting togetherâ it is your jobâ youâve got a solid idea of how he fights, and how he fights is not full effort. You can totally tell heâs holding back, which is fair when youâre fighting regular criminals but youâve fought so many actually juiced up supervillains and youâve still never seen him punch someone full force.Â
You first really realized this a couple weeks ago and itâs been bothering you since. You could probably ask him to lift weights until he couldnât anymore but even with GDA training equipment he might not hit his limit. So what would be the best way to test that? You could try him against you, youâre certainly above average in strength and depending on exactly how much heâs been holding back you might even outclass him.
Itâd be a lot easier if Mark ever bothered to participate in sparring matches with literally everyone else. His edgy loner image was just too important, you guess. He doesnât technically work here anyway, something about his dad not letting him, which is funny to hear coming from a grown man. At least he hangs around, it would be so hard to track down otherwise. It took a bit of wandering GDA halls to find him, (maybe you can bother Cecil about his civilian life? Mark seems like the type to keep things separate but still) itâs not like it was too awful to kill time.
âMark, hi!â You called once you spotted him walking through the halls, running to catch up to him, he nodded as you approached and that was plenty acknowledgement from him, âYou busy?â You asked, slowing your pace to walk side by side with him.
âNot particularly,â Mark answered shortly.
âCool, cool.â You let the silence linger for a bit before talking again âYouâre pretty strong right?â
âYes?â Mark tilted his head, probably starting to question your intelligence.
âHow strong?â You asked, just asking is a bit boring but much less work for you.
âVery.â Which was a real specific and helpful answer, thanks Mark. You suspect he doesnât actually know but is too prideful to admit it. Or maybe he does know and wants to make you do more work, under the assumption heâs somehow figured out your scheme.Â
âMan of many words.â You rolled your eyes, âArm wrestle me,â You demanded, flexing your dominant arm. You werenât getting enough out of him to segway smoothly, this was easier. Â
âWhat?â Mark asked, finally actually turning to look at you (seriously, who taught this guy how to have a conversation?).
âDo you know what arm wrestling is? Itâs something people do on earth to test how strong they are,â You explained slowly.
âI was born on earth.â Mark grumbledâ you did know that, for the record, but messing with him is funny- âWhy do you want to do that?âÂ
âTo see if Iâm stronger than you, duh,â Why else would you want to do it? Mark tries to act all smart but damn is he dumb sometimes.
âYouâre a human, of course youâre not,â Mark dismissed.
âWow.â You huffed, âOkay, whatever, I see how it is,â You sighed dramatically, hanging your head, âOh so powerful alien doesnât think his human friend can do anything,â You glanced back at him after a few moments, catching the way his jaw was clenched. â...Are you going to deny it?â You asked after a few moments of silence.
âFine, let's arm wrestle,â Mark relented, taking a turn into the nearest room with actual tables.
âAre you gonna deny it?â You reiterated the question, following after him.
âIf you win,â He decided, sitting down and holding his arm out.
âWhen I win,â You corrected, sitting at the table and taking his hand.
Mark was evidently very strong, it took your full effort to push against him, and he still didnât look like he was even close to breaking a sweat. It seems to be that your ego may have been unfounded, you talked too much trash to lose terribly now, thatâs embarrassing. Sure you did reach your original goal of figuring out his strength in proportion to yours but now you need to win, you need to knock Omni-boyâs ego down a few pegs while keeping your pride intact.
An outcome thatâs proving to be difficult with how close your arm is getting to the table. Uh oh.Â
âHey Mark,â You started, your words coming out a bit strained with how much effort you were putting into not getting trashed. You got a short reply of your name in return and decided that was enough to continue âIf I win youâll agree that Iâm not a weak human or whatever I said earlier, but what do you get?âÂ
âI wasnât aware we were staking anything on this game,âÂ
âWell itâs only fair, I could handle your patrols for the next week,â You offered, âOr, since youâre offering to say something, maybe I could tell you how big and strong I think you are,â you added, leaning in as much as you could while still keeping your elbow on the table.
Markâs expression didnât change but you could see the red tint on his face, and more importantly feel the falter in his strength. Taking advantage of the opportunity you created, you slammed his arm against the table with your full force, breaking the table and giving you the win.
Mark just stared at his hand in silence as you celebrated your victory.Â
âYou- you cheated.â He sputtered, a little cherry on top of your win considering how little he ever broke his composure.
âCheated how?â You asked, some obvious smugness seeping into your tone
âYou distracted me.â Mark huffed, standing up and brushing the bits of table off of his suit, âIâd like a rematch, no tricks this time,â
âNope, I won and I believe you have something to tell me,â You grinned, rocking on your heels.
âThis is ridiculous.â Mark complained, switching right back into his usual cold demeanor. You cleared your throat making him sigh, âFine, you are strong and capable. For a human.â
âYou just canât talk to anyone like a normal person, huh?â You rolled your eyes. Thatâs probably the best youâre gonna get about him, for now at least.
ik the variant invincible hype kinda died down but HEAR ME OUT!
Imagine being the universal soulmate of mark in every dimension, like your love was hella deep with a ride or die dynamic going on. It doesnt even matter what you are, viltrumite, a normal human, a metahuman wtv you always end up being marks girl.
Now imagine its the invincible war, Angstrom pulled up with a bunch of other alternate invincibles who either fumbled the bag with you and you died in their dimensions, or both and THEY killed you. So some of them have the goal to find you in this dimension and take you back etc.
All accept for one mf, you can decide who but I say Shiesty Mark and Mohawk Mark. For some odd reason nothing bad happened in your relationship despite them turning evil, in fact, YOU GO EVIL WITH THEM. So imagine the surprise of the other variants when their dead loml appears with some cocky mf who knows hes infinitely better than all of them combined cause he managed to not only NOT fumble you but also TURN YOU EVIL.
So now in his dimension you're both just a crazy villain power couple who are crazy for each other and are joining in the war for funsies.
And if this alternate mark were to die and the others were planning to snatch you up for themselves? baby you're DYING WITH HIM. Like, it doesnt even matter if they're all mark, they aren't YOUR mark so its an instant decision for you just, join him in death.
I haven't seen this in a fic before so I wabted to put the idea out there and get some invincibke fic writers working because its always "oh you died in my universe" or "oh you betrayed me" but never "you lived and became utterly devoted to me to the point that if I died, you'd join me in death and Id do the same for you." like?? WE NEED MORE YNS WHO ARE JUST AS CRAZY.
The whole idea of the marks witnessing them is so funny to me as well, cause wdym I lost my girl but some other mf out there in another universe ends up being luckier than me that his girl is jist as crazy ?? LIKE ID BE PISSED, GOD HAS FAVORITES.
Anyways hope this reaches the right audience, i need this in a fic writers please.
mark x reader âŚâŚ.with the devoted and eternally loyal dynamic of Odysseus and Penelope hc/drabble
its so in character for him I swear. The people yearn for homophrosyne mark and reader
Mark X Reader: Odysseus/Penelope Dynamic
okay I KNOW this was requested like almost a calendar year ago WAY before season 4 came out but shut up I can do what I want-
(fair warning this did NOT come out as homophrosyne-coded as I wanted it too.... but I got finals so it's getting marked as done)
SPOILERS FOR S4 AHEAD!!
Mark had told you before he left to go fight his space war
He'd held your face in his large, impossibly powerful, unfairly labored hands when he broke the news
"I'm going with my dad and some aliens to go save the planet, and a lot of other people, but I could be gone for a long time. Like, a long long time. More than a few months. I don't..." he looked away, his expression hardening "I don't know how long, really."
You'd responded as supportively as you could, wrapping your incredibly un-powerful arms around him, burying your face in his chest
"Just come back, okay? I'll be waiting for you."
It had been months. More than last time. More than any other time. Just like he'd told you it would be.
Every morning you rolled out of bed to see the photo strips of you and Mark from your local mall, making silly faces and kissing
He was still in his burger mart uniform.
What a nerd, you rolled your eyes, before tearing up, and dismissing the memory entirely in favor of a productive morning
You tried not to dwell too much on him, he'd come home as soon as possible.
Even if you wanted him to abandon ship and come back to you, it's not as if you had any way of reaching him.
This thought soured your morning despite best efforts, as you gloomily looked into your cereal- gone soggy while you were missing him- like most things in your life
College sucked, unanimously
People knew your boyfriend had dropped out, they didn't know he was Invincible, they didn't even know he was gone
When any of your friends asked about your alleged boyfriend, you'd just say he was studying abroad with family, or something to that effect
In the first few months, people got the idea, and it wasn't so hard.
But you started to get romantic attention from all the wrong people
and it was getting pretty hard to put up with
It wasn't harassment or anything, luckily, every person you'd rejected had taken in well, but it was a long line
Sometimes it seemed like it never ended
You'd ditched fancy hair and fashionable outfits about two months ago, it's not like you had anyone to dress up for anymore
You maintained yourself, and that was about it
but that didn't stop the long line of suitors from asking if "You want to get coffee and go over the notes for Art History?" or if you'd like to "Go skating at the plaza with me?"
It didn't help that you were nearing graduation, and your sweet parents were pushing for you to bring a boy home
"Y/n.... when are you going to bring someone to a holiday? I hate seeing you so lonely, dear." Your mom had cooed as you sat somberly on the floor on Christmas morning
The gift you'd gotten Mark in June was sitting in your closet, and it would be for who knew how long
They wanted the best for you, but it felt impossible to even humor anyone else
You didn't want anyone else
You wanted your boyfriend, the man you'd loved since you were seventeen.
More than anything you wanted him alive
just to know he was alive
anything
Time keeps passing,
and you keep lying around,
it all comes to a head when your best friend invites you to her older sister's wedding.
You sit in an audience of people and watch your best friend's sister-- a girl you went to high school with-- get married.
And you don't even have a date
or a date for expected arrival
and the night is long with other dateless guests asking if they can get you a drink, steal you for a dance, etc
steal you???
They all think they can steal you, you think to yourself bitterly as you drink your alcohol of choice
It's been almost a year since you'd seen Mark
Almost a year
Not a year, you remind yourself, pushing your head up to finish your final projects for Uni
taptaptap
You lazily swivel your head to look out the window
You didn't have a groundfloor dorm, so were your next door neighbors messing with you orr....
Then you saw him
"MARK!!"
You try to open your window, to little avail
"Stupid-fucking-suicide proof chain-" you struggle, before giving up on the idea and running full speed to your staircase, dashing down three flights of stairs and busting out of the double doorway to the outside,
barrelling straight into the arms of your boyfriend, hovering above the ground waiting for you with a big smile
You heaved for air between sobs as you clutched him tight, moving with him as he let his soles hit the ground
"I got you, i'm home" He whispered, cradling your head in his hands, his arms fully enveloping you
You cried like a baby for longer than you thought you could, and when you finally had no more tears you cry, you kissed him.
It was desperate, and it was harsh, and it was everything you'd been aching for since this time LAST YEAR
he held you like your skin was paper, like you might fall apart if he held you too tight
that was okay with you, you'd just hold him even tighter
"I hope you didn't miss me too much," he muttered sheepishly
