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I stole this idea from another blog,but I cant reber the name. Every single person who reblogs this before 10 February will recieve a baby pokemon in their inbox,after this egg harches.
This better be a Bulbasaur
Whatever it is, I will love it.
Please be a Piplup Please be a Piplup Please be a Piplup Please be a Piplup Please be a Piplup
Well I may as well jump on board...Eevee or death.
which one of my OCs are you?, a quiz I threw together in the space of an hour which is spectacularly shitty, enjoy!!!
Welp June. Cranky bitter and wants to be left alone sounds pretty accurate...Munchkinpumpkin my hat is off to you this time.
types of people: d&d classes
barbarian » toothy grins, stories around the campfire, clothes covered in pet hair, hot temper, old jeans, heartbeat in head, potatoes and steak, beaded jewelry, bruises like galaxies, mementos, backpack stuffed full, craigslist furniture, spontaneous road trips, air ripped from lungs
bard » homemade bread, white lies, easily excited, trying on hats, band geek, pep talks, no impulse control, sunsets, vintage fashion, long showers, selfies, following dreams, rosy cheeks, song mash-ups, pink lemonade with tequila, loves easily, animated storyteller, full of comebacks
cleric » list of wishes, biting their tongue, band-aids and neosporin, shoulder to cry on, morning sun, necklaces, trial and error, homemade quilts, formal clothing, astrology fan, messages in bottles, pleated braids, speaking up for friends, feathers, motivational quotes, vivid dreams
druid » bird watching, shy kid, wind chimes, trying to whistle, summer camp, apple orchards, lost in their head, glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling, hoodies, thrift shopping, saving worms off the sidewalk, pig latin, bare feet, thunderstorms, numb fingers, braided hair, naming potted plants
fighter » goose bumps, leather jackets, adventure, chewing nails, cares deeply but can’t show it, bronze locks, no sleep, taste of iron, netflix binges, never forgets, combat boots, stories behind scars, table for one, official soundtracks, sore calves, trusts themselves the most
monk » always trying to be better, wanderlust, meditation, sweat pants, old photographs, yoga, sleeping in hammocks, nostalgia, minimalist design, breath of fresh air, baby animals, volunteering, perfectionist, doesn’t care about fashion, healthy snacks, noticing the little things
paladin » school uniforms, thick jackets, sleeping with the windows open, logical advice, scrapbooking, compasses, i fight for my friends, sculpture gardens, cold morning air, big soul, likes routine, secret romantic, last to get jokes, sunflowers, practical presents, misty weather
ranger » herbal tea, smell of rain, blinking away tears, camping trips, collecting bones, swiss army knives, first impressions, anxious thoughts, bobby pins, burnt marshmallows, too competitive, clothes lines, messenger bags, holding grudges, gets along better with animals than people
rogue » flirtatious sarcasm, candid photos, lost phone chargers, adrenaline rush, picking dirt out from beneath their nails, social chameleon, clashing clothes, self-deprecating jokes, claw machines, sits in chairs wrong, smudged eyeliner, has too many sunglasses, eats nothing or everything
sorcerer » infectious laugh, family trees, shivers down their spine, lipstick and roses, mood swings, clumsy, believing in destiny, high expectations, sleeping in darkness, collection of nail polish, passionate, good grades but never studies, poetry books, blowing kisses, not knowing their own strength
warlock » knowing everyone’s secrets, backpack covered in pins, envy, being in walmart late at night, earl grey, selective memory, conspiracy theories and cryptids, keysmashing, need to know basis, can’t cook, bags under eyes, experimental art, flickering bulbs, black clothing all year long
wizard » piles of textbooks, cat in lap, keeping a diary, indecisions, scented candles, studying alone in a café, lingering touches, museum dates, unanswered questions, taking on too much responsibility, collections, chalk dust, comfy robes, unnecessary apologies, coming home after a long day
race / class
I wonder if, in superhero universes, the villains ever get contacted by those “Make a Wish Foundation” and similar people.
I mean, the heroes do, of course they do, kids who want to meet Spiderman or Superman or get to be carried by the Flash as he runs through Central City for just thirty seconds.
But surely there are also the kids, who - because they are kids and sometimes kids are just weird - decide that what they really, really want is to meet a supervillain. Because he’s scary or she’s awesome or that freeze ray is just really, really cool, you know?
Oh, man, that would absolutely be a thing. The heroes would be so weirded out by it. The villains with codes of ethics would totally band together to force the villains without one (should they be the one requested) to do their part for the cause.
But imagine the person who has to track down the villains and organise everything?
Like, the first time it happens, no one actually thinks it’s possible, but one of the newbies volunteers to at least try. They get lucky, the kid wants to meet one of the villains who is well known to have a personal code of ethics (eg one of the rogues), and it takes them weeks to track the villain down to this one bar they’ve been seen at a few times, plus a week of staking out said bar, but they finally find them.
So they approach the villain, very politely introduce themselves and explain the situation, finishing with an assurance that, should the villain agree, no law enforcement or heroes will be informed of the meeting.
The villain, assuming it’s a joke, laughs in their face.
At this point, the poor volunteer, who has giving up weeks of their time and no small amount of effort to track down this villain, all so a sweet little girl can meet the person who somehow inspired them, well, at this point the employee sees red.
They explode, yelling at this villain about the little girl who, for some unknown reason, absolutely loved them, had a hand-made stuffed toy of them and was inspired by their struggle to keeping fighting her own and wasn’t the villain supposed to have ethics? The entire bar is witness to this big bad villain getting scolded by some bookish nobody a foot shorter than them.
When the volunteer is done, the villain calmly knocks back their drink, grips the volunteers shoulder and drags them outside. The bar’s patrons assume that person will never be seen again, the volunteer included. But once they’re outside, the villain apologises for their assumption, asks for the kid’s details so they can drop by in the near future, not saying when for obvious reasons. They also give the very relieved volunteer a phone number to call if someone asks for them again.
A week later, the little girl’s room is covered in villain merchandise, several expensive and clearly stolen gifts and she is happily clutching a stack of signed polaroids of her and the villain.
The next time a kid asks to meet a villain, guess who gets that assignment?
Turns out, the first villain was quite touched by the experience of meeting their little fan, and word has gotten around. The second villain happily agrees when they realise it’s the same volunteer who asked the other guy. Unfortunately, one of the heroes sees the villain entering the kid’s hospital and obviously assumes the worst. They rush in, ready to drag the villain out, but the volunteer stands in their way. The hero spends five minutes getting scolded for trying to stop the villain from actually doing a good thing and almost ruining the kid’s wish. The volunteer gets a reputation among villains as someone who can not only be trusted with personal contact numbers but who will do everything they can to keep law enforcement away during their visits.
The volunteer has a phonebook written in cypher of all the villain’s phone numbers, with asterixes next to the ones to call if any other villains give them trouble.
Around the office, they gain the unofficial job title of The Villain Wrangler.
The heroes are genuinely flabbergasted by The Villain Wrangler. At first, some of the heroes try to reason with them.
Heroes: “Can’t you, just, give us their contact details? They’ll never even have to know it was you.”
The Villain Wrangler: “Yeah sure, <rollseyes> because all these evil geniuses could never possibly figure out that it’s me who happens to be the common thread in the sudden mass arrests. Look man, even if it wouldn’t get me killed, it would disappoint the kids. You wouldn’t want to disappoint the kids would you?”
Heroes: “… no~ but…”
The Villain Wrangler: “Exactly.”
Eventually, one of the anti-hero types gets frustrated, and decides to take a stand. They kidnap the Villain Wrangler and demand that they give up the contents of the little black book of Villains, or suffer the consequences. It’s For the Greater Good, the anti-hero insists as they tie the Villain Wrangler to a pillar.
The Villain Wrangler: “You complete idiot, put me back before someone figures out that I’m missing.”
Anti-hero: “…excuse me?”
The Villain Wrangler: “Ugh, do I have to spell this out for you? Do you actually want your secret base to be wiped off the map? With us in it? Sugarsticks, how long has it been? If they get suspicious, they check in, and then if I miss a check-in, they tend to come barging into wherever I am just to prove that they can, even if they figure out that they’re not being threatened by proxy. Suffice to say, Auntie Muriel really regretted throwing my phone into the pool when she strenuously objected to me answering it during family time. If they think for even one moment that I’ve given them up, they won’t hesitate to obliterate both of us from their potential misery. You do know some of the people in my book have like missiles and djinni and elemental forces at their disposal, right?”
Anti-hero: “Wait, what? I thought they trusted you?!”
The Villain Wrangler: “Trust is such a strong word!”
Villain: “Indeed.”
Anti-hero: “Wait, wha-” <slumps over, dart sticking out of neck>
The Villain Wrangler: “Thanks. I thought they were going to hurt me.”
Villain: “You did well. You kept them distracted, and gave us time to follow your signal.” <cuts Villain Wrangler free>
The Villain Wrangler: <rubbing circulation back into limbs> “Yeah well, you know me, I do whatever I have to. So I’ll see you Wednesday at four at St Martha’s? I’ve got an 8yo burns unit patient recovering from her latest batch of skin grafts who could really use a pep talk.”
Villain: “… of course. Yes… I… yes.”
The Villain Wrangler: “I just think you could really reach her, you know?”
Villain: <unconsciously runs fingers over mask> “I… yes, but, what should I say?”
The Villain Wrangler: “Whatever advice you think you could have used the most just after.”
Villain: <hoists Anti-hero over shoulder almost absently> “….yes.”
The Villain Wrangler wasn’t lying to the Anti-hero. They know that the more ruthless villains would not hesitate if they thought for one second that the Anti-hero would betray them.
But this is not the first time the Villain Wrangler has gone to extreme lengths to protect their identities.
Trust is a strong word. The Villain Wrangler earned it, and is terrified by what it could mean.
My first official deadpool headcanon is this. This this this.
Okay but this whole concept actually makes a lot of sense, because villains are a lot more likely to be disfigured/disabled/use adaptive devices (bc ableist tropes), so of course, say, a child amputee is going to be more interested in the villain with a robot arm who almost destroyed New York than the heroes that took him down.
Also, imagine one of the kids gets better, and a few years down the line becomes a villain themself, except their crimes are things like smuggling chemo drugs across the border for families that can’t afford treatment, or stealing from corrupt businessmen to make donations to underfunded hospitals (idk this turned into a Leverage AU or something) and every time the heroes encounter her, they’re like “oh no. she’s getting away. curses. welp, nothing we can do.” Though it isn’t that she can’t take them on; bc of course once the villain from way back when found out what she was up to, he started helping/training her.
“I thought they just hired someone to dress up and pretend to be you,” she says, amazed, when he reveals himself. “I didn’t think they actually got the real you!”
Every year the Villain Wrangler gets a very expensive gift basket from the pair.
and for the kids who don’t get better the villains are there too, they show up to every funeral, they bear too small coffins on their shoulders and the heroes stand aside
they are fierce with grieving families assuring them that their child will not be forgotten, and they don’t balk at negative emotions, they don’t tell people to be strong or “celebrate their child’s life,” because these parents have every right to their grief and anger
and the lost children are never forgotten. flowers appear on graves during birthdays and anniversaries, heroes find pictures of those kids and they carefully take them down and ensure they’re delivered to the villain’s cell, and a few villains can be seen with friendship bracelets wrapped around their wrists the cops have learned not to try and take them off
This is all soooo good, but I wonder what effect this has on the villains. Like, can they really wreak indiscriminate havoc when they know the kids that worship them might be in the area? Like, what if they attack a shopping mall and it just so happens that Annie’s mom ran in for a pair of shoes or something? What then?
So what you’re saying is that there is now an organization of henchmen who do round the clock, exhaustive research in order to make sure the villain’s plan isn’t going to ruin the life of some kid. Just imagine some aunt getting a call from an unlisted number.
“I swear I am not a bill collector ma’am. It’s just. Well. Ok and I swear I am not a stalker even if this is actually going to be a very creepy phone call, but you said you were going to the mall at four? Is it possible you could reschedule or postpone that trip for about an hour? That mall is way too close to…well. It just wouldn’t be safe. I could wire you some money, and you could go to the much nicer mall one town over? Would that work for you? No? You are calling the police? Yes. Yes that is the sensible thing to do. Definitely do that. You have a nice day, ma’am. Tell Marcus Doctor Evil says hello and to have a nice day.”
And then the poor minion has to call the villain and explain why robbing X bank isn’t a good idea that day.
“Yes. Hello. Sir? Oh good I caught you before you left the base. Look, Marcus Smithson’s aunt is going to be near the blast radius for that job you have scheduled so-yes. Yes I am aware that rescheduling is going to be a lot of work since most everything is already set up, but….but, sir think about poor Marcus! She’s his favorite aunt, and the woman refused to ‘reorder her life around some crazy mastermind’. ……no…..no, please do not kidnap the aunt, sir. It’s terribly rude. Yes I realize you weren’t going to keep her or doing anything other than drop her off at an alternative location, but, well, citizens frown upon that sort of thing and….yes….Yes, of course. You have a good day, too, sir.”
And they turn to their coworker and are just like “So if I don’t come in to work tomorrow it’s because Doctor Evil threw me in his dungeon and/or sent his hellhounds to maul me. Please remember to send help.”
Oooooh yes.
But but but… what happens when one falls through the cracks? When Lord Dominion or whatever does a typical baddie thing but then Penny’s new best friend gets caught up in the damage and Lord D didn’t even KNOW Penny had a new bestie so how was he to know but now the kid is devastated and it’s all his fault? I mean, how does that even shake out?
Penny SWEARS REVENGE! Lord D is distraught but also somewhat proud. He sends Penny a very sincere apology and also a bunch of tips on how to execute a proper vengeance plot, in case she decides not to accept the apology. He sends henchmen to spy on her, and he keeps the surveillance photos of her sitting in her room, plans and schematics strewn all over her desk. He puts them in his wallet and brags to all his villain friends that one of his kids is taking up scheming, look at her go, she’s already started on pattern analysis of his latest heists. He’s so proud. Later this month he’ll show up on her way home from school so she can have her first Confrontation.
omg yes. Yes to all of that. There will inevitably be mistakes and tragedies.
Penny is an intelligent kid. She catches on to the spying henchmen pretty quick and bribes some of them to her side with snacks. That first confrontation does not go like Lord Dominion expected because Penny has minions (minions that are using his OWN WEAPONS against him, even)
Lord Dominion is the proudest villain ever, even if he did almost lose an ear thanks to the impeccable aim of a nine year old with a grudge. He does let the laser blast graze him just so he can have a scar to show people because that girl is a villain after his own heart.
He doesn’t want to ask his villain rivals to help her out because that would imply he doesn’t think she’s capable of eventually growing strong enough to kick his ass. Turns out Penny already thought of that and has mailed letters asking for advice to Lady Sinister, Lord Dominion’s long time, mostly friendly rival. (She mailed a letter to Lord D’s arch nemesis, but man. Heroes are always trying to make you do The Right Thing. Penny doesn’t have time for the high road. Plus, the low road has lasers.)
Lady Sinister thinks Penny is the best thing ever and while she has mostly stopped kicking Lord D’s ass, she still breaks into his hideout to sit in his favorite chair with a glass of wine and brags about her new favorite up and coming villainess. (She doesn’t warn Lord D about the attack rabbits she agreed to train for Penny as a favor, and for obvious reasons, she is going to be a bystander at the next confrontation, filming everything on her phone to post the dark web so all their villain friends can see this)
@deadcatwithaflamethrower - there is more. Took me a moment to find where I’d reblogged it, though.
THERE IS MOAR.
For @cantankerousintrovertedpumpkin aka Matt aka the MunchkinPumpkin
Some may say Heart is not a impressive Quirk-And perhaps they were right on that. You couldn't make explosions or create any object...Or maybe you could? Well sort of...your power was one to be able to create little balls of light. What? You expected something more? Then you would be correct and incorrect at the same time. Your power may have been 'just' to be able to make little balls of light for people but anyone holding those balls of light you could copy the Quirk of. Making their strength your own. Though you can tire yourself out. You can be unsure... You will never stop being a real hero. A light to look up towards in the dark.
So yes perhaps all in all...Heart is an awesome Quirk. And you will always be an awesome hero.
tag yourself!!
iced tea- conspiracy theories, hates small talk, still watches cartoons and anime, gives good advice, everyday is an existential crisis
milkshake- underrated humor, listens to lofi hip hop, good at taking photos, only loud around friends, wears oversized shirts
frappucino- the hype friend, has lots of inside jokes, insecure about being too annoying, can sleep anywhere, loves dogs, likes hot showers
soda- always has low storage, wears face masks, procrastinates a lot, rants to friends, the type to cry and say tears are good for the skin
lemonade- self-deprecating jokes, cranky in the mornings, has more internet friends than “real” friends, tries to be organized but can’t
go find what a fic of ur life would be tagged as on ao3
i h a v e m a d e a m i s t a k e
Passionate supermarket angst.
Cowboy fisting
Cringeworthy capitalist fingering
gay library blowjobs! hey, that was my first fic!!!
Magical office rimming!!! Man, that generator is on point! 😂😂😂
unsafe library fluff
I mean… It’s not wrong…
Trying to be fictional , not going to well , self aware
spicy wizard smut. I’m so happy rn. 😂
reckless seaside nipple play sure
lovecraftian assassine “hate” sex
angsty all-american frottage
Well lubed robot pegging-I MEAN IT’S NOT WRONG BUT ???
“Open for business!” - Scattered Heart
Scattered Heart the newly open business for the long lost art (”I wouldn’t call it an art.”) of demon slaying! This time run by totally 100% humans (”That’s not true in the slightest.”) instead of a single cocky son of a bitch half devil. (”Who would kick our asses if he heard you call his mother a bitch.”) That is entirely besides the point! Plus he likes me too much.
The members of this glorious (”Pfft glorious?”) organization are skilled enough to kill any demon you can think of! (”That’s tempting fate y’know sweetheart...”) We currently have an undefeated record of no failures! (”Technically true...only because we haven’t had any jobs yet!”) BESIDES THE POINT! Also Here are our members!
Brianne Sechs
The leader of Scattered Heart. She grew up with her younger twin sister Yuliya and her parents. One day when the twins were playing out in the garden they were attacked by a demon and managed to narrowly hide and escape however Yuliya bitten by said demon and it made her extremely sickly not to mention needing a constant supply of demon blood to survive. That is why Brianne took up demon hunting. No one knows quite how she got Snow her rather odd definitely supernatural polar bear except herself of course but she fights along side her with protective determination. She greatly enjoys shooting demons apart from afar with her sniper rifle and lets the somehow supernatural polar bear Snow take care of the close fighting.
Weapons: Snow (Polar Bear) & Glacier (Sniper Rifle)
Colette Levia
Scattered Heart’s second in command. She was a human who made a deal with some sort of devil to allow her to fight demons to protect her friends...Mainly Brianne and Yuliya. She gained the power to subject demons to her service via killing them with golden flames she could conjure. Keeping the demon alive and under her service take a lot of of her though and she seems to be consistently in less than stellar health. One turn of events with her powers is the shift in her personality and hair. Originally while her personality with cool collected and kind while she is still all those things she now has a darker side and a very pragmatic brutal streak. Her hair used to be a shining golden has also turned a partially demonic silver. Likely the most powerful member of Scattered Heart.
Weapons: Aurum (Flames) & Diabolia (Demons)
Xandria Jaqui
One of the original four members although unlike Brianne and Colette she is not an active participant in combat mostly as a squishy human with no real abilities other than her mind she instead decides to figure out ways of hurting demons via chemicals or other odd and ends that they find. Actually mainly makes bullets and grenades for the gang which can harm demons although it isn’t cheap. She’s peppy and somewhat flirtatious at all times but has some secrets which she keeps hidden from her team. She seems to have a minor crush on a red coated silver haired figure from her childhood which she sees rarely but always has enjoyable banter with. She admits to wanting to try to learn how to fight but is poor at physical cardio though she’s not a bad shot.
Weapons: Alchemical Shenanigans (Grenades mostly) & Running away
Yuliya Sechs
The sister of Brianne after getting attacked by demons as a young girl she has needs demon blood in order to survive. As she is so frail she doesn’t fight at all and instead usually just lounges about in the company van watching movies and occasionally answer calls. Although she can somewhat feel the tug of demons when they are near enough. Her memory of childhood is rather foggy and seems to only remember being locked in a room by her parents for her own safety supposedly for most of it. She has wild mood swings and a hot temper but usually can’t do any of it...Although the demon blood seems to be changing her in more than the mood swings and actually her health has been improving...Although she has also been getting more nightmares lately.
Weapons: Claws & Teeth (Secretly)
Adair Forrest
The first of the new additions to Scattered Heart. Adair is...suspicious at times. He’s awfully generous and polite but loose lipped and harsh to those he doesn’t know. He powers his abilities on crystallized demon blood containing souls. He’s...unsure how he even does it beyond a certain “faith” of sorts. Adair won’t talk about his family if asked at all. Though if pushed enough he will admit to being from Fortuna Island. He first met the Scattered Heart gang when he was their first client after he saved Yuliya. The job being finding a pendant which could amplified his powers a great deal. However as it turns out the pendant was shattered a long time ago and used to summon a giant demon tower. For reasons no one is really quite sure of after the job was done he joined up.
Weapons: Manifestations of Demon Souls & Martial Arts
Zane Rhys
The newest addition to Scattered Hearts-Zane was originally a courier traveling around with naught but his weapons motorcycle and the clothes on his back delivering special packages to people in demon infested areas...However after Scattered Hearts hired him for a job and then he got trapped with them in a rather troubling situation he bonded for one of the first times of his life with the group and decided to stay. Also they never actually paid him and he wants to collect on the deal which made him drive across half the country. Zane’s rather snarky and pessimistic with a not-so healthy dose of nihilism but unfairly clever at times despite his...Issues. He also has a rather odd obsession with his weapons and bike even naming them. Seems to have history with Adair.
Weapons: Artorias (Sword), Morcant (Pistol), Myrddin (Rifle), Medraut (Knife) & Vivienne (Motorcycle)
And so those are the employees of Scattered Heart! Please hire us so we can stop sleeping in the trailer that we use as an extension of our office-It’s not comfortable with six people...
(You’re not supposed to tell them that!)
Tag yourself: weapon choice
Knives: wary-eyed, limited color palettes, light steps, vantage points, dodging conflicts, careful mediation, small and welcoming spaces, trusts slowly, listens deeply, constant radio contact, misty weather, ferocious anger.
Heavy Swords: metal hues, strong gaze, deep laughter, dry thunderstorms, unafraid of people, flinty jokes, masked discomfort, soul-searching, mildly attentive, somewhat headstrong, adapting to any space.
Light/Fencing Swords: stinging humor, comfort clothes, no hesitation, last minute work, up in the morning, respectful even if frank, reads people well, frighteningly comfortable, unassuming but powerful, modest space occupation but iron-set boundaries, soft fabric.
Spears: woefully insecure, afraid of people, social experiments, unassuming fashion choice, wanting to be liked, loneliness, overcast skies, voices like thunder, tripping over words, caring deeply and having a hard time showing it, protectiveness, unrestrained awareness of mortality, loss, dogs at their heels, tenacity, unsure how to occupy space.
Sheilds: harsh reprimands, quiet approval, unemotive, highly sympathetic, unaware of their own strength, achy knees, heavy snowfall, pastel shirts, watchful, bear hugs, accidental callousness, willingness to learn, accountable, sometimes intimidating, jumping to conclusions.
Maces/Bludgeons: eyes too hard for eye contact, wild hair, torn clothing, ragged, sleep-deprived, highly emotive, coffee at night, November wind, unstoppable, great personal restraint, powerful empathy, baby animals, stubborn, impressionable, takes things too seriously, always with a friend.
Staffs: Distant, assertive, will not be interrupted, cruel-seeming, well-meaning, responsible, organized, guarded personal life, familial, tired bones, earl gray, snowless winters, seeing too much, blackmailed, stretched thin, wounds badly, self-sacrificing.
Bows: too much caffeine, finishing two hours before it’s due, online chatrooms, few possessions, uninvolved, prideful, challengers, high resting heartrate, poor hearing or auditory processing, underweight, skipped meals, transience, summer nights, hard to contact besides one preferred means, static, hooded jackets.
Unarmed: intensity, hyperfocus, present, attention-seeking, easily crossed, curious, resilient, red meat and hearty food, droughts, plucky, loyal, hidden intelligence, underestimating themselves, high achieving, strong sense of style, even gazes, big and frequent smiles.
Bludgeons and unarmed
Journal Entry 1
New thing I’ll be doing...Late night ramblings about how much I hate life and stuff probably. I figured I have to get these feelings I hate out somehow and there’s no one I can talk to about them...
So there’s this guy I met on a forum for a game series and I really like him I’ve liked him for over four years in fact...And he’s known that for a while but at first I was way too young and like-yeah cool totally understandable. But I still am head over heels for him... I did a valentines day re-confession and asked him to be my boyfriend again and it’s like-I didn’t expect anything since he doesn’t wanna do the online relationships thing which again I get. But he did say he’d be willing to try if we were IRL. Which both hurt even more and gave me some hope... Then couple months later he said that he liked a girl at his job and me being the good absurdly nice friend I am encouraged him even while I could feel my heart breaking.
Then I get busy for the next few weeks and didn’t get to talk to him for a while and when I finally get the chance yipee he has a girlfriend and he’s pretty decent emotionally which is fantastic because he usually is about as depressive and self loathing as I am. And I’m happy for him. I really am extremely happy for him.
But I’m still a miserable piece of shit because it’s not me. And I want it so badly to be me...
I have had other offers and confessions before and I know what it’s like to reject someone and how much rejection can hurt the person rejecting just as much as it hurts the one doing the rejecting,..But I’m a bitter selfish person stewing in my own misery at too late 0′ clock...Wondering why she can’t get anyone she loves to care about her in the same way she does them...
My Petopher Appreciation Week Submissions Masterlist
These aren’t all gonna be fics+aesthetics like I planned they’ll probably be one or the other because uh-Well my brain died when I was supposed to be writing them soo...yeah. Anyway I hope you enjoy my horrible fanfictions/aesthetics/whatever!
Day 1 - March 12th - Match Maker: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13949841
Hunter Argent and Werewolf Hale would like to battle! - Stop saying I’m procrastinating on writing!
Rant about fanfiction writing
I was just informed by my brother (who thinks he’s a better writer than anyone else because he has some fancy degree in writing) that fanfiction “doesn’t count” as “real writing” because you aren’t using your own “ideas.”
He doesn’t know that I write fanfiction. He probably wouldn’t have admitted his opinion if her did. But it has pretty much solidified that I will never tell anyone I know in person what I write.
I’ve already been told by several family members that my obsession with a “stupid tv show” is ridiculous and that I’m “too old” to fangirl.
Sigh. /rant
In Defense of Fanfiction
I am a professional writer and editor in real life. I have a double degree in English and writing and am currently in school once more to obtain a master’s degree. If your brother’s fancy writing degree was worth anything at all, he should be able to admit that the vast majority of all literature is in fact fanfiction of someone else’s story and its elements. In other words, no one’s idea is, by definition, original.
Let’s take a look at just a few examples to support my theory that some of the most important or well-known pieces of literature ever created qualify as fanfiction:
Ancient/Old Literature
· Around 2000 BCE: The Epic of Gilgamesh was inspired as a fanfiction of a historical King of Uruk, mixed with Mesopotamian mythology. The story includes the character Utnapishtim, who lives through a world-wide flood by building a ship per the instructions of the god Enki and ultimately landing on a mountain in the Middle East, similar to Noah’s story from the Bible (dates for the book of Genesis vary anywhere from 1400 BCE to 800 BCE). Many historians suggest that the story of Noah was directly inspired by Gilgamesh’s story of Utnapishtim. Other historians suggest the two were simply inspired by a similar source. Either way, there’s too many startling overlaps to classify Utnapishtim and Noah as only a coincidence.
· 20-ish BCE: The Roman author Virgil wrote The Aeneid, which is a direct sequel to the previously created epic The Iliad attributed to Greek bard Homer. Virgil was also known for writing pastoral poems based off and inspired by the work of the great poet Theocritus (280 BCE). As a fun addition, Theocritus himself was known for rewriting the cyclops villain (Polyphemus) of Homer’s Odyssey into a love-sick idiot in his work, Idyll XI.
Medieval Era (500-1500-ish CE)
· 700-1000: The Alphabet of ben Sirach was an anonymous Hebrew collection of satires that included a parody of the biblical Genesis story of Adam and Eve. The story gave Adam a totally different wife by the name of Lilith, the character of which was inspired by Babylonian mythology. The whole of the collection is additionally wrapped in a fictional account of telling the stories to the historical figure of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar—another real person fanfiction of a celebrity from that time.
· Around 1000: The world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, inspired the massive outpouring of Japanese Noh theater plays involving characters from the novel, such as Aoi no Ue (Lady Aoi), which has been attributed to a few people (Zeami Motokiyo and Inuo). This play appropriates the Lady Aoi from Shikibu’s psychological novel to explore her death and is only one example of the available fanfictions of the novel.
· 1308-1320: Dante’s Divine Comedy (known most famously for the Inferno) is a literal OC self-insertion of the Italian Dante Alighieri himself into the hell, purgatory and heaven from Catholic / biblical texts. Its format is in an epic, in an attempt to outdo the Aeneid and Iliad before it. It also includes an insertion of a ghostly Virgil, who copied the Iliad to write the Aeneid. Furthermore, Dante’s work includes insertions of real historical people that Dante didn’t like. It’s possibly the most self-indulgent fanfiction ever created while also being named one of the greatest poems in literature.
· 1392: Geoffrey Chaucer (known as the father of English literature) wrote a famous collection called The Canterbury Tales. The collection takes its basic format and inspiration from Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (written in 1351). It’s suggested that some of the tales Chaucer uses actually originated from Boccaccio’s work.
Renaissance Era (1550-1660-ish CE)
· 1590: English poet Edmund Spenser borrowed the legend of Arthur of the Round Table in his epic poem, The Faerie Queene. In it, Arthur is pretty love-sick over the fairy queen.
· 1597: English playwright Shakespeare borrowed various mythologies and historical figures and mixed them together. Not even his most popular play, Romeo and Juliet, was original. He took the idea from a poem written by Arthur Brooke in 1562, called, “The Tragicall Hystorye of Romeus and Iuliet.” Even more interesting, Brooke had taken his idea from the 1554 Giulietta e Romeo by Italian author Matteo Bandello. (Shakespeare repeatedly sourced other people’s ideas or historical existence for his plays.)
Enlightenment Era (1660-1789)
· 1667: English poet John Milton wrote Paradise Lost, a fanfiction epic of the biblical story in the book of Genesis about the fall of creation and humankind into imperfection.
· 1712: English poet Alexander Pope wrote a mock-heroic epic called the Rape of the Lock to make fun of all the serious epic writers before him, borrowing such images as the way epic warriors put on armor and connecting it to the way rich people put on rich clothing and jewelry. He used other standard epic elements as repeated throughout The Iliad, Aeneid, and so forth.
· 1759: French writer and inventor, Voltaire, wrote a satire Candide. It borrowed various elements from Tales from a Thousand and One Arabian Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folktales from the Islamic Golden Age.
Romantic Era (1789-1850)
· 1819: In Don Juan, English poet Lord Byron took the pre-dated legend of Don Juan, which was about a man who seduced a lot of women, and reversed the original plot so that Don Juan ended up seduced by a lot of women.
· 1820: English poet John Keats wrote a poem as a retelling of the Greek mythological creature called Lamia, which was a half-woman and half-monster (description varies depending on the Greek source). A lot of his works borrowed heavily from Greek mythology and literature, and he idolized the English Renaissance poet Edmund Spenser, to a point where his first work was called, “Imitation of Spenser” (1814). In it, he borrowed various images from Spenser’s epic, The Faerie Queene.
· 1843: English writer Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, based off the various stories compiled in the 1841 and 1842 The Lowell Offering, a publication magazine written by a group of intellectual but mostly anonymous women. He borrowed the certain pieces of plot, language, and descriptions for Scrooge’s ghostly encounters from the stories “A Visit from Hope” (anonymous), “Happiness” (anonymous), and “Memory and Hope” (by someone named Ellen). A Christmas Carol is additionally littered with biblical allusions all over the place.
· 1844: French writer Alexander Dumas borrowed The Three Musketeers, as well as many of the story’s side-characters, from The Memoirs of Monsieur d'Artagnan by French author Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras. He didn’t even change the names or who the villain, the Cardinal, was.
· 1845: American author Edgar Allan Poe wrote The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade, in which he has the mythical Scheherazade from the Tales from a Thousand and One Arabian Nights telling another story about the legendary Sinbad the Sailor.
· 1861: Hungarian author Imre Madach wrote The Tragedy of Man, which reverses the biblical moral principles of God and Satan: In this story, God is the violent and evil ruler, and Satan is the jaded/trickster victim just trying to open humanity’s eyes to the truth.
Modern Era (1900ish-1950s)
· 1922: Irish novelist James Joyce wrote his stream-of-consciousness novel Ulysses, which was based off of Homer’s Odyssey, to a point where he took the characters and simply renamed them, as well as aligned the structure of his book to the various episodes in Homer’s work.
· 1930: The Nancy Drew series was created under the penname Carolyn Keene, who did not exist. Instead, an American man named Edward Stratemeyer would write three pages of a story, then send it to one of several ghostwriters who wanted to write Nancy Drew. The ghostwriter would take the story and expand it. The anonymous group of ghostwriters all writing about the same character still exists today. Each individual ghostwriter has made changes to Nancy’s personality, looks, and age, as well as the type of plots said character engages in.
· 1937: English writer JRR Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and then Lord of the Rings in the 1950s. He borrowed the names of characters and places after those seen in the Icelandic sagas Poetic Edda and Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. Tolkien admitted he based the physical appearance of Gandalf off of the Norse god Odin. He modeled the character of Aragorn directly after Beowulf, from the old English epic (700-1000 BCE) Beowulf. Aragorn himself even paraphrases the Anglo-Saxon poem, “The Wanderer,” as an example of a verse created by his people of Rohan. Another fun fact is that Tolkien specifically borrowed the phrase “my precious,” from a Middle English poem called Pearl. Additionally, Tolkien was a big fan of romantic prose/poetry writer William Morris and wanted to write like him, so he borrowed a lot of phrases, aesthetics, and even names from such works like the 1888 The House of the Wolfings by Morris, including the place called “Mirkwood.” Of curious note is that Morris’s work was massively influenced by Virgil’s Aeneid.
· 1938: African-American author Richard Wright wrote a collection of stories called Uncle Tom’s Children, with an obvious borrowing of the title from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852.
· 1930s-present: DC and Marvel comics mostly just updated the mythological gods and goddesses for a modern era, appropriating their names, special relics, and abilities for their heroes, and then mixing them with some modern-day cover identifies. As an example, Wonder Woman was originally a nod to the Greek goddess Diana, a nod to the female Amazon warriors, and a redesigned image of Rosie the Riveter. As another example, the Flash is a reproduction of the Greek god Hermes, his winged helmet further clarifying the connection. Even the name Superman was not entirely original. 1938 Illustrator of Superman, Joe Shuster, took the name “Superman” from the German “Ubermensh,” a term coined by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. As a final example, sometimes the appropriation from mythology is incredibly obvious, as in the case of Thor.
· 1949: English author George Orwell reviewed a book called We by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin. He wrote a rave review on it and declared that he would try to write something similar, which ultimately became 1984, sharing many similar plot points and concepts while bringing the story of We into a more realistic environment. The novel We also inspired Ayn Rand’s Anthem and Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano, for which Vonnegut admitted he also borrowed concepts from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
· 1950s: The Chronicles of Narnia by British author C.S. Lewis was based on biblical stories conveyed through various mythological elements as well.
Postmodern Era (1950s-Present, debatably)
· 1977: African-American author, Toni Morrison, wrote a critically acclaimed novel called Song of Solomon, which took its title name, as well as the names of several characters and plot points, from the Bible.
· 1988: British-Indian author Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses was inspired by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammed. Its title is a direct reference to controversial verses once placed in the Quran but then removed. These highly controversial and sensitive connections to Islamic and Old Testament personalities of Gabriel and Satan resulted in the banning of Rushdie’s book from several regions.
· 1997-2007: The Harry Potter series by British author JK Rowling borrows heavily from historical alchemy, including the age-old legend of the philosopher’s stone and the 1652 book Culpeper’s Complete Herbal, which was about the medicinal and occult properties of plants, which helped her build how magic was used in her stories. Rowling also admits the 1652 book inspired many of the character’s names. She appropriates several historical figures as well for her own purposes (as a sort of real-person fanfiction), including references to alchemists Nicolas Flammel and Paracelsus. She even admits to, while writing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, dreaming about Flammel showing her how to make a philosopher’s stone.
· 2003: American author Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and its twisting conspiracies are based almost entirely on the books of Margaret Starbird, most of which were written between 1993 and 2003.
· 2009: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by American author Seth Grahame-Smith, is a rehashing of Jane Austen’s 1813 Pride and Prejudice. But with zombies.
· 2015: American writer of critically acclaimed The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton, claims that she has posted anonymous fanfictions of her own novel, as well as at least four Supernatural fanfics, being a huge fan of the show and of the paranormal.
As a professionally educated and trained writer and editor myself, I had to study the intertextualities of several of the pieces I mentioned above. But this is not an exhaustive world list by any means and is missing some other fantastic and influential writers—I’ve included only what has come to my mind in a short time. Plots and characters and ideas have been largely passed around throughout the history of literature. Without fanfiction, a solid portion of well-known literature would not exist.
In fact, many authors and even inventors will say that there is no such thing as an original idea. Certain pieces get touted as creative because they combine previously suggested elements in a different or thought-provoking way. (Don’t even get me started on how science fiction is a driving force behind many scientific advancements today!)
If you’re writing fanfiction, then you’re participating in a tradition that spans millennia. There is no piece of literature created in some “original” vacuum. That is precisely why literary critics, and those who have professionally studied fiction in an academic setting, use the word “intertextuality” to describe how works of fiction are ultimately interrelated in some way or another.
Therefore, fanfiction is the legacy of literature. If Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Keats, Poe, Dickens, Tolkien, and Brown can write fanfiction about and expand other people’s works, you can too. So the next time someone tells you to stop writing fanfiction, or tells you that it’s not a valid form of art, tell them that they obviously have never read the most important historical works of fiction, or even many popular modern stories, which are all rehashed fanfiction stories, borrowing characters and names and setting and even syntax. Rant written for @greenappleeyes and everyone else unfairly shamed for writing fanfiction. Content was retrieved from my own class notes, as well as publically available online interviews and articles.
This! Should be spread. No author should be ashamed of writing fanfiction.
Do not be ashamed of writing fanfiction. Fanfiction is writing and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise.
I don’t post or reblog at all usually but THIS is something worth breaking that tradition for.
