This was inspired by a Tumblr post by @gummynyx imagining an AU where Ray is a police officer and Henry is always getting in trouble . I loved the concept so I had to draw them :3
Why are they like THIS? This looks not-straight in and out context 😭
And in the same episode, HENRY CALLS RAY DADDY MULTIPLE TIMES, UNPROMTED
ahhh, the numerous times they ended up in genuinely weird physical positions and also the numerous times henry called ray "daddy" un-prompted or -provoked. also i think the time henry said "you wish [i was your mom]" in response to ray being snarky. honestly just everything about their behavior was weird and confusing. thank god lol.
AU: President Obama falls for part white house intern part rockstar Harry Styles. Obama surprises Harry in the audience of one of his shows and the affair blossoms from there.
I didn't really watch Danger Force, but everytime Henry has a cameo, he and Ray are so gay and it's sending me 😭 like, Ray telling Henry he loves him, and then pretending he didn't say it? Them dancing tango? Ray being angry about Henry not picking up his phone when he's on a date? Henry being Ray's babysitter after Ray throws two temper tantrums and he immediately calms down seeing Henry?? RAY TELLING THE KIDS HE'S ON A DATE WHEN HE HANGS OUT WITH HENRY??
At this point I think Ray got married only because Nickelodeon didn't want to make him seem too gay (bi) for his former sidekick
looool it's truly crazy how hogwild they went into it in danger force, like they'd been making weird tasteless jokes about it since the pilot and then steadily ramped them up until it seems like half the swellview villains assume that captain man is dating his sidekick, and then with danger force they got new writers and creative direction and instead of quietly dropping all of that in favor of more platonic interaction they. they didn't. they didn't do that at all, and in fact it's essentially canon from the get-go that not only would ray blow up his entire life in swellview to join henry in dystopia if he snapped his fingers but also! he is down bad! and like i see the vision, i respect the vision, i personally am having a great deal of fun with the vision and hope cooper barnes and jace norman did as well, but wow! wowzers! that's sure what all the writers and actors committed to from start to finish!
and like, i've gone on record as not minding credenza conceptually and understanding her narrative utility as the end-point of ray's overarching character development, even if it's a rushed ending, but also like. i sure hope credenza knows that, upon marrying ray, she now has a 20something boyfriend-in-law who ray is extremely weird and insane about and who is extremely weird and insane about ray in equal measure. like i hope someone prepped her for that. i hope there's a deleted scene of all the danger kids plus schwoz yoinking her into a big theater where they sit her down to endure a two-hour powerpoint of mika explaining in excruciating detail What Ray And Henry's Deal Is. like forget a shovel talk, i hope they gave her the henry talk asdfghjkl;
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
ANIMALS:
catenarwhal: #mandatory 'how cows produce milk' mention#i'll never recover from that one I fear
piromantic: #one time i saw someone fake their way through describing how spiders behave
pluto-lichen: horses
misskittypotter: #stardew valley faking its way through what fresh fish smell like
pa-pa-plasma: #saw someone faking their way through knowing what a seal is once #i still am fucked up over that one to this day. they just straight up did not know #& they were NOT good at guessing it either like it was clear they had never googled that animal ever #& was only just now realizing via answering questions from anons that seals are not!! what they assumed. initially
SEX:
dykevandyke: #what a prostate is #and where it is located #as in. external.
dreamyeyedrose: #I remember back in the ff.net days reading an Ichigo/Renji fic where the writer assumed the penises go inside each other #and I was like “I mean I don't know how it works for sure I don't have one but idk if that's how it works”
SOME OTHER FOOD STUFF:
thetrekkiehasthephonebox: #add another one to the list bloggers#this character is cooking a salad
shosta: #still baffled about the published work that didn't know food could freeze
sun-dari: #once i read a fic where the author didn't understand cinnamon
alto-tenure: #read something recently where the author was just. blatantly wrong about spices
dramatic-dolphin: #i saw someone try to fake their way through what ramen is once. like 14 years ago.#but i remember.#i was very confused about ramen for a few months. they were writing it so authoritatively.
the-celery-stalks-at-midnight: #i will never ever forget someone putting leftover fries in the microwave to reheat them and setting the timer for five minutes
typeghost: #this sparked a memory of a hannibal fic where the author had to fake their way through writing about gravy
draculin: #the one fanfic where the author knows about coffee only as a concept wrote a character as a coffee drinker#was very interesting#I don't remember the fandom or the plot but I was mesmerized by the coffee actions and choices
11235811235811: #there's a lot of faking their way thru congee in the svsss fandom i'll also note
fishali3n: #read one where the person clearly didnt know what tofu is
emmy-everafter: #in the aftermath of shadow and bone s2 i saw a lot of people pretending to know what stroopwafels are #babes they are more like cookies than breakfast waffles #like yes there is a waffle pattern but you're not gonna cut into a stack of them with syrup and sugar#🤣🤣🤣
NON-FOOD STUFF:
red-umbrella-811: Shoutout to Dame Agatha Christie for faking her way through what a wrench is in a very popular published work.
bluebeetle: #once saw someone have a character put an entire phone book in their pocket
nonametis: #- sex talk in languages other than english #<- or just the petnames in a different language other than English
sadisticpony: #the fanfiction i saw this week where op DIDNT KNOW HOW AUTOMATIC DOORS WORKED #and that they arent in peoples homes!!! of course. also opening the automatic door for someone is unironically very funny but its not #its not like. grabbing the door handle to let someone in. helpppp
danmeichael: #reminds me of the fic with the figure drawing class where the character started with the feet. #i love you feet first figure drawing author
meowmix1100blr: #me watching this one fic absolutely obliterate what the board of directors does
vexedhexes: #one time i read an architect character making a doorway bigger by building a bigger door #what a beautiful world. #OH. also gravity falls fic where they go 'oh piedmont is in california so its warm all year round'
leveragehunters: #characters going to a beer garden #And it's literally a garden outside the pub#It was a very cute mistake
fitofpique: #yes! #grown men do not get blind drunk off two beers #but i am possibly guilty of the hypothermia one #assuming it does not make you very horny?
dadvans-likes: #always thinking abt the soup kitchen fic #the entire setting of the fic was 'soup kitchen' #and i very quickly realized #the author did not know what a soup kitchen was #and they thought that soup kitchens only served soup #fic
msmargaretmurry: #i love fanfiction #once read a fic where the characters played 20 questions #but the author seemed to not know how to play 20 questions and was just kind of winging it........ #immaculate
shakespeareaddict: #Look I know not all of us are hockey experts #But it takes about ten seconds of research or any attention paid to the show to realize #That the Stanley cup playoffs are not in fucking September
baejax-the-great: #the funniest one i saw #was someone faking what church is like #like 1. they really didn't have to write an entire church experience for their fic #and 2. they had clearly never even watched a show where people went to church #it was bonkers weird
twosunson: #things ive seen authors faking #knowing how to unclog a drain #knowing. literally any history #knowing what ketamine looks like (apparently- oregano) #(you know who you are)
waterhorseyblues-ao3: #beltane being celebrated in winter #wales being portrayed as a completely separated land from england (i wish) #characters getting up after weeks of bedrest like that dosnt completely fuck you up
violetfairydust: #i once read a fic where the flight time from london to seattle was 3 hours
purekesseltrash: One time, in a fic set specifically in Des Moines, IA, two of the characters casually drove 20 minutes to the ocean. The memory continues to delight me. I want to know where that author thought that Iowa was.
i don't read a lot of fic anymore but i'm forever thinking about stephen king's 'it' where the characters went into a chinese restaurant and were greeted by a waitress wearing a kimono
One concept I love and won't leave my mind is domestic older adult!Henryxold man!Ray. They'd be even more obnoxious but the idea of Henry going home to his husband, grateful to see Ray retired and considering that path himself is just so sweet
i’m new here but from what i’ve gathered, the general consensus is bottom henry?
i raise you, bratty bottom ray. he’s already kind of a bitch to be around, what’s to say he isn’t a bitch in bed. poor henry, who, much to his chagrin, is essentially ray’s handler in any other circumstance.
he’ll make little jokes, do childish things that get under henry’s skin, just to get what he wants out of it.
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