possession horror where the thing possessing the autistic character causes them to behave in a more neurotypical way. autistic possession horror where the thing inside you is easier to communicate with than you are, the thing inside you doesn’t have a flat affect, the thing inside you doesn’t let your body stim, the thing inside you is how you were told to behave and you can only do it when you are no longer you. autistic possession horror where you will never forget that everyone liked it better than you before they found out something was controlling you. autistic possession horror where they know what’s inside you isn’t you and debate whether it would be easier for everyone to leave you like this anyway. you agree. reblog.
My (completely unfounded) Doctor Who hypothesis about why Billie Piper is back is that she (the Doctor) is going to follow up on the Timeless Child arc and explore more about where she came from. And on the way, she accidentally or on purpose wanders in to Rose Tyler and the Metacrisis Doctor’s world.
Guess what Rose and Tentoo have.
A child.
Since the last episode revolved so heavily around the Doctor as a parent, this would give them a way to just pile on the angst. Imagine the Doctor (Billie Piper) watching the people that share her face live the life she wants.
ALSO I feel like they should use this as an opportunity to bring back Jenny because Billie Piper is closely associated with the Tenth Doctor and as nice as it is to have David Tennant in Doctor Who, I don’t think anyone really wants to see him act as his wife’s dad.
And then if Ncuti Gatwa’s schedule has space, I really hope he can come back and wrap up his storyline. There are so many things left unfinished and Fifteen had NOWHERE close to enough time on screen.
Adding unnecessary coding to AO3 to make it pretty because I can
I can and will elaborate (no one can stop me)
To do this, all you have to do is make your own site skin on ao3 and use custom css. Here's the code that I personally use, but you can just replace the tags with whatever you want. Just go to the link of the tag you want and it's the text between https://archiveofourown.org/tags/ and /works:
/* makes these tags orange */
.tags a[href*="Hurt" i],
.tags a[href*="Angst" i] {
background-color: #fff1dd;
}
/* makes tags containing this character's name green */
You know according to Urban Dictionary “fae” specifically refers to a young fairy so an old one could say they aren’t a fae and still technically be telling there truth
I’m not super fond of the way vampires turn pale no matter their skin tone so here’s a proposal:
Colder tones!!!
This was loosely based off livor mortis which is the bluish-purple discoloration of the skin of dead bodies. It’s a result of the gravitation of blood but fuck that vamps are purple now
hey asking for a friend but uh. what’s it gonna take for fandom to relearn the difference between “canon” and “word of god”?
★ canon = the text itself; the show/movie/book/comic; the actual up-on-Netflix content; anything a casual fan would reasonably interact with
★ word of god = anything else, i.e. interviews with cast/crew/showrunners; DVD commentaries; comments from the crew on social media or at cons; literally any written or verbal remarks about the text made by writers or showrunners or actors
word of god does not equal canon, and yet i increasingly see fandoms conflating the two and acting like word of god comments from The Powers That Be count as canon and are equivalent to canon footnotes to the text and i’m. NO. listen. it’s not. that’s not what canon means, and word of god comments should not be treated as part of the canon text. this isn’t just me being a pedantic text purist, this has actual negative consequences for shows and fandoms and people’s experience of the stories, i mean:
it privileges the creator’s interpretation of the text as the only “correct” one. death of the author? no one’s heard of her. writers and showrunners get to tell fans how to interpret the text, and a solid 80% of fandom is going “okay, if you say so!”
it stifles fandom debate and analysis, because fan analysis of the text at hand is rejected outright by other fans on the basis that “well the showrunners said it’s like this”
it contributes to fandom bullying, in which word of god comments are used to harass people who have the audacity to want to interpret the work differently, or who disagree with the powers that be, or just don’t want to consider those comments at all in their understanding of the story
word of god comments may be confusing; they may change over time or contradict earlier statements; they may even contradict the text itself. all of which leads to fans frantically trying to reconcile word of god comments with actual canon, rather than going “okay fuck this, it doesn’t make sense so i’m disregarding it”
again: this only creates more arguments in fandom; if creators say x at one point, and y at another, you end up with more fandom slap-fights over which comment was the ‘correct’ one and which interpretation ‘wins’
it encourages lazy and unsatisfying storytelling. if fanon will accept word of god comments as canon, showrunners develop an attitude of “it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make sense, we can just handwave it in an interview”
this results in poor writing, or important plot points being explained in word of god comments rather than in actual canon
this in turn makes the story confusing and incomprehensible to anyone who’s not knee-deep in fandom. casual fans, kids, someone bingeing the series 5 years from now on crunchyroll… they’re not reading the interviews or tweets or watching the comicon panels. those viewers still need to be able to understand the story, and we are slip-sliding towards a creator-fandom model in which they won’t be able to, because word of god comments run the risk of becoming required reading for understanding the story
this has serious implications for how stories handle representation: if fans start accepting word of god as equivalent to canon, it means shows can keep canon rep (particularly queer rep) vague and ambiguous, and prop it up with word of god comments that “confirm the representation”. there’s no incentive to actually commit to unambiguous, clear canon rep if stories can lean on word of god to compensate for the utter lack of actual diversity in the canon text itself
the canon text has to stand alone. word of god should serve as a trove of fun trivia or behind-the-scenes tidbits about the writing process; it is not supposed to be a substitute for clear, concise, and comprehensive storytelling. a story that doesn’t make sense unless you’ve read 8 different explanatory interviews by the writers is badly written. showrunners who treat interviews as a place to offload all the character development or plot explanations they didn’t bother to include in the actual text are lazy hacks who are bad at their jobs.
word of god can be handy and fun and informative, and for people who are interested in creator comments or interviews there’s no harm in paying attention to that stuff. but it’s not canon. the canon is the text itself. anything else is supplementary to that, and fans are absolutely allowed to disregard anything not in canon if they choose.
Can i just say that one of my favourite things about the show "Lucifer" is that it does NOT conform to the classic YA trope that the right woman can "fix" a broken or bad man.
While Chloe does INSPIRE Lucifer to be better and to deal with his issues, he sees a THERAPIST to do so, instead of Chloe being turned into the one to help him through his emotional problems.
I'm really tired of the idea that if you love someone enough all the trauma and mental health issues they experience will just go away.
Lucifer's emotional maturity grows and evolves as the show goes on, and he heals from past trauma BECAUSE he seeks professional help, not because a woman helped him or fixed him.
Anyway yeah I'm a psych student so this kinda shit really gets me going. One of the reasons Linda is one of my main faves.
pink - commander and the leader. probably really nice and sweet
blue - probably very close to pink, is either 100 iq smarty pants but shy or very tough and cool
yellow/orange - very happy and positive. can vary from being newbie of the group to be older and mature, probably known as the beautiful one
purple - mysterious, usually starts off as a rival or joins the group later, but is definitely known to the members as another MG. Probably has a softer side they don’t show
