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I don't know what I'm doing but I sure am doing.

[disorganizedkitten]

2025 Masterpost Update Let's Go

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I'm Apple, you may call me DK if you wish, I write silly shenanigans or Murder and that's about it.

"oh but some of the fandoms you write for were created by bad people" I know that and they can rot, they get none of my money and in theory my attention would scar them.

I am not the best at tagging but I'm getting better and as such here are some relevant blog tags!

Jaymeow Speaks, Jaymeow Writes, Jaymeow Reads, Jaymeow Watches, Jaymeow Draws, Ask Box Things > Me tags! These are consistent through all of my blogs!

And We Are Children Of Empty Graves is for the inherent trauma of being improperly dead or alive, Outline Snippets is a great insight into what my writing looks like on the inside and also just fun fic teasers, the DK stand for Doo Knowledge is my fun facts about the IP tag, DK Watches JCA is for my rewatch of Jackie Chan Adventures.

Equals Theory is a term I coined for a well known phenomenon, and it is my favorite relationship dynamic. Link to the explanation post.

Rabbit Hole Essays is a tentative project for compiling fic research into easy to use essays and source lists.

Project: MESOSA stands for Make Everyone Sick Of Seeing Apple In Their Inboxes and it means I'm going to spam update. You cannot escape. (you can, actually, but let me pretend to be foreboding)

The first iteration of MESOSA came in 2022 under the title 12UpDays, and the official iteration came on August 1st, 2024. That's also the first time it was called MESOSA! There was an unofficial MESOSA in January of 2025 to announce three months worth of fest fics, and the second official MESOSA took place over the month of July, 2025.

Jaymeow Watches and Jaymeow Reads are just general 'I'm getting into a new thing and/or an old thing and have thoughts' tags, Writes has writing updates and some old writing from the days I posted directly on tumblr, Speaks is just rambles.

Okay, and now the hard part - if you want to read my works the best place really is Ao3, especially after tumblr's ai issues, but I have a couple short Miraculous stories that are here to stay (until I give in and start a, shudder, short story fic on ao3), Ghost Fic, Outfit fic, The Salt Fic, and The One Where Everyone Knows, as well as The Paper Lanterns Round Robin.

If you don't want to go to ao3 for whatever reason - first off you're lowkey doomed, second off congrats I put in so much work for you specifically.

This is the 2024 master post, it's not current but it is a good list for wips. This is the official 2025 WIP List, it was eight pages long in google docs.

If for some reason finding me on tumblr isn't enough, I moderate the Nino Lahiffe Appreciation Squad Discord, the Ethereal Grimoire Discord, and the Magpie's Hoard Discord Server. I don't mod Maribat Insanity II but I do have rights to links on request.

 In any other situation you can be a wild Apple may be spotted (probably in fic writer specific discords, I thrive in a very specific ecosystem) and you're always welcome to say hello.

[benyavin]

i will NEVER understand why bryke thought that quasi-face stealer amnesia plotline in the search comic was a good idea. never till the day i die.

because here’s the thing. i’ve harped before on how fucking dumb it is to take the character whose central line in the og show was “no matter how things may seem to change, never forget who you are” and have them immediately afterwards 1. actually somehow just not leave the country they were banished from, and 2. deliberately and knowingly choose to have their own memories wiped. like ???????!!?

and yeah, that then leaves the question, when it’s revealed in late s3 that she was banished and is possibly still alive: why didn’t she ever come back for her kids? why didn’t she at least seek out zuko, who was also banished and therefore at least theoretically accessible to her? why didn’t she try to intervene when she presumably learned about the agni kai and her son’s disfigurement? and if she never learned of it, how could that be without her either deliberately forgetting she had kids or choosing to actively ignore any opportunity to get information about them?

and my friends, this is where the silliest part of the whole kerfuffle is. because there was ALREADY a built-in, solid, well-explored piece of worldbuilding that could very easily have answered all of those questions in a way that wouldn’t fundamentally violate the basic foundations of her character’s nature. that piece of worldbuilding? the city of ba sing se.

As a writer, this solves so many of your problems. If Ursa ends up in ba sing se (which there’s decent reason for her to do, given that it’s entirely reasonable that she’d be worried about ozai changing his mind and deciding he needs to tie up loose ends, and that the city just repelled iroh, making it about the most secure location she could get) then once she makes it inside the walls she discovers there is no war in ba sing se. suddenly, trying to get information about anything to do with the fire nation, let alone the royal family, becomes extremely difficult and dangerous. she has a plausible reason not to know, or have very little and extremely delayed awareness of what’s happening to her children.

also, the city is fucking massive and packed to the brim with refugees. even with zuko and iroh getting all about the lower and upper ring, it’s completely plausible for her to have even still been there without amnesia and just. never happened to cross paths. big cities are like that. you could see a million people in a day that you’ll never see again and they’ll only be a tiny fraction of all the people there that you’ll never catch a glimpse of. plus, once you’re lucky enough to get in as a refugee, it’s probably not so easy to leave again, especially if you want to have a chance of being able to come back.

if you really want the amnesia plot, the dai li/joo dee worldbuilding is already set up there too! all you have to do is have ursa keep trying to find out about her kids, maybe even discover zuko’s banishment and try to either reach out or leave the city in response, and have the dai li catch her in a sting to crack down on citizens promoting awareness of the war.

badabing, badaboom, ursa gets joo dee’d and now you have an amnesia plotline without ursa deliberately abandoning even the memory of her kids.

[imthepunchlord]

Another thing that really bothered me was a take of Ursa being a commoner that Ozai plucked up against her will and had his way. Which I know it's done to stress how evil the royal family is, but I always thought it was far more interesting of a young Ursa who desired to be a reagent. Who pursued for that power just as much as any other noble woman did, who was just as ambitious and bold as a true Fire Princess should be. And potentially prove that her family had loyalty to the Royal Family if there was suspicion of them through their familial ties with Roku. It even could've been a means to save her family or improve their livelihood amonst the FN nobility.

I also thought it was far more tragic to work off what Zuko said, that they were a happy family once, but Ozai had a bigger love for power than family.

I know as a kid he could've not realized how things actually were, but it just hits me harder to think that they were a happy once, and from Ozai's lust of power, his family fell apart, it broke, it grew weak and divided. Conflicting.

And it just added to the lesson of pursuing absolute power is a loss of love, a collapse of your house, a weakness in your foundation.

How the higher you climb, the farther you are from the roots that held you up and together, and it makes the fall far more devastating.

His want of power over family, he sent away the wife he once loved.

Turned an older brother against him to plot in secret.

Banished the son that would help lead to his defeat.

Broke his most loyal and effective daughter and soldier as he left her behind.

And all it left him was being alone and overconfident. No one to come to his aide as he faced the wrath and mercy of the Avatar.

[nobodyfamousposts]

It also begs the question of why she didn’t just take Zuko with her.

Fanfiction after fanfiction and theories upon theories of what happened to Ursa—locked in a prison cell on the Boiling Isles. Exiled. Trapped in Ba Sing Se. Left imprisoned on an abandoned island. Even that she just died somehow. All of them INFINITELY better than what they decided to go with because they at least gave the woman who sacrificed herself to save her son the credit that she would have at least TRIED to get back to him if she could!

[australet789]

HAPPY PRIDE, LET'S GET MORE AROACE TOGETHER OR ELSE

[office-anomaly]

across eras (ref)

[goddessofbees]

Haven't done a Dc x Dp in awhile so here's this!

Ko-fi

[teaboot]

Do you think Clark Kent's first few major articles were about the continued presence of lead pipes in parts of Metropolis' water system

[teaboot]

(Average Metropolis reader after investigative reporter C. Kent's 452nd article on yet another case of landlords/business owners/factories' continued use of lead pipes/paint/gas/glass knowingly exposing the public to dangerously toxic lead levels) what the fuck happened to this guy

[teaboot]

One day Bruce Wayne mentions in an interview that heroes like Superman are overrated, as the most effective way to reduce crime is to provide public resources and improve local infrastructure, then cites how neighboring city Metropolis has effectively lowered their violent crime by 13% after addressing their outdated water system and investing low income housing. the reporter conducting the interview suddenly starts looking a little uncomfortable

[teaboot]

To be clear, Clark is still a fantastic investigative reporter. He still has to track down the sources to prove all this shit

[teaboot]

"Who, Clark Kent? Yeah, we're pretty sure he's a Meta. Is he a superhero? Like what, "Lead-detector guy"? "Captain pipes?" Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy and it's a handy trick, but it's lead detection, not laser vision. He's not about to go running around in tights any time soon."

[sindri42]

I just love the idea of a cape maintaining their secret identity by pretending to be a completely different and less impressive kind of parahuman.

[roach-works]

everyone assumes that kent is so squirrely around superheros because he’s just desperately hoping not to be conscripted to the JLA to fix their plumbing

[teaboot]

Local Metropolis Reporter Publically Recognized For Contributions To The City; Awarded Medal Of Distinction

[championofdnd]

They tried to get superman to present the medal but he was offended at being called "overrated" in comparison to Clark so he declined

[teaboot]

Counter offer: Bruce Wayne disguised as Superman

[teaboot]

beating this dead horse with memes

[everythingismadeofchaos]

Hey this was a real fun little read. It's so great to find these treasures on this site

[teaboot]

We’re happy to have you!

[spore-loser]

t h e c o l d e s t g i r l i n c o l d t o w n { h o l l y b l a c k }

“I screwed up.” Tana looked at her shiny, clean face in the mirror. That was the problem with monsters. Sometimes they looked just like everybody else. [...] She didn’t want to explain the recklessness, the pleasure of making the bad choice, the glory of at least this once, picking her own path to damnation.

[disorganizedkitten]

Official Review of Match, Meet, Murder (2025)

...this is like if Barbie Fashion Fairytale had a ken of a different flavor and also a serial killer

That's it that's the film

[beardedmrbean]

Congratulations on the cat

[sohrleas]

@disorganizedkitten this is how Díi finds new siblings, isn't it?

[disorganizedkitten]

yes

Except they take her home and wake up in the Wilds

[spaceistheplaceart]

I think the idea of Daphne being chill with monsters has something to do with the 13 scooby doo series. Its more obscure and doesn't really feature the entire gang, only Scooby, Shaggy. And Daphne partnered with common side character Scrappy. There was a semi recent movie that added to it called Scooby Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost. Its actually the series that introduced the concept of real monsters being villains

ive seen the 13 ghosts of scooby doo and i really liked it actually!!! though idk if i actually remember daphne being chill with ghouls in it, because... most of the monsters ARE evil. thoooo she's probably more desensitized to it and definitely more open to investigating real monsters. after all, Velma and Fred are the most skeptic of the group-- so daphne's gotta be a believer. especially if we take her Zombie Island characterization into play.

also im gonna have to "um, actually!" ☝🤓 you because 13 ghosts was not the first series to have real monsters, that would have to go to Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980)! Although not explicitly stated to be real monsters, the monsters are never unmasked and thus can be safely assumed to be real.

[spaceistheplaceart]

Hi again (same anon who did the Meddling Monsters KISS thing) :3

Camp Scare because omg yesss!

As you said it's Shaggy's old camp, but Fred is still a bit hyped about it, cause it's a human thing and I like the idea of him, Velma, and Daphne being excited about things like that. Also, because of vibes, Luke is a human, and Trudy is some sort of monster (dunno what kind tho). Any whizzle, they get to camp, meet the campers yadda yadda. At some point the Woodsman shows up and winds up taking off Velma's head in front of Luke and Trudy and oop! secret's out. Luke is slightly traumatized; Trudy is comforting him.

Another big change would be Daphne foregoing scuba gear when they're investigating the lake, as she is a ghost and not in need of it. (Fred doesn't necessarily need it either, he's just not a fan of water in his lungs. Probably feels really gross.) She winds up traumatizing the guy pretending to be a sea monster by phasing through him when he chases after her.

It's been a while since I watched it but that's what I remember.

Also, would you mind sharing some of the differences in "What's New Scooby-Doo?", like your favorite episodes? Or The New Scooby-Doo Movies (for this one I do have a few suggestions, such as the Batman and Robin ones, or the Addams Family (*Snap snap*) episode?) Only if you want too of course!

ooo i didnt think about the lake part!! i like the idea of daphne just going down there, no scuba gear, lmao. im sure the gang would spawn their own "urban legends" just by existing. also since they're supposed to be councelors, maybe fred has on a cute bucket hat or mountie hat hehe. blocks the sun.

ALSO YES!!! I know about What's New and New Scooby-Doo Movies heheheeee!!! differences... there's so many episodes!!!! I'll just do the ones you listed, and more will probably come whenever I feel up to it

THE DYNAMIC SCOOBY DOO AFFAIR:

When everybody "hides" when batman and robin first show up, I think Daphne just turns invisible and Fred turns into a bat and goes to the rafters. Once they see it's Batman and Robin, Daphne reappears behind them and accidentally scares em a bit haha (or at least robin, I don't think Batman would be phased)

There's GOTTA be a joke in there somewhere about Fred also being a "Bat man" considering he's... a vampire

When they need to be taken to the batcave, Daphne suggests they 'don't mind being blindfolded' so that the secret location of it isn't revealed. I think due to being a ghost she can peek anyway >:) she wouldn't tell, of course, but she loves knowing where it is now

I think Fred doesn't have a problem eating "batmilk and cookies" because he knows it's highly unlikely to be made from actual bats, and even if it was, he's not a BAT he's a VAMPIRE... completely different! Shaggy still gives him a sideeye.

Shaggy turns into a werewolf from the coldness of the milk, and this is when it's revealed to batman and robin that the gang are all monsters! Just in time to enter Joker and Penguin's Batman and Robin Exhibit.

In the moving hallway room Shaggy may transform to achieve his super speed and reach the door anyway haha. either that or run really fast, transform, and then bc he's so much faster now, smash through it and leave a cut out impression in the wall!

I think it'd be great if both Scooby and Shaggy chased the "skeletons" (Penguin and Joker dressed up) for bones. I feel like Joker and Penguin would be a lil more hasty to run from them considering they just saw this mfing werewolf bust down a whole solid door on accident

The upside down house segment would be TOTALLY different. For one, Daphne isn't that affected by it. She can just float around! She probably acts as a telephone between Batman, Robin, and the gang. Going through the floor/ceiling to talk, then trying to get back. The only problem is, with the constantly rotating house, she gets lost :(

Fred in the episode says "I always get a weird feeling when I stand on the ceiling" that lines up SO WELL with vampire fred I may add to his powers by saying he can walk on walls and ceilings for a short time :) which also makes the whole house turning thing less confusing. But poor Velma, still getting shaken around.

All this chaos goes double for the warehouse segment. I think there's a lot of good gags you can do in there. Daphne getting stuck in some contraptions by accidentally phasing through, FredBat getting stuck in the elephant head with shaggy (that would be so awful for them lol), Velma's head getting dunked through a basketball hoop, etc

WEDNESDAY IS MISSING:

I always found the fact that the Addams are TV characters in universe weird, so I'm eliminating that. It's much more fun if they're just humans with a deep respect for the creepy and ghoulish. Which I think Fred, Velma, and Daphne really rock with :)

Fred assumes Gomez is a vampire cause he can walk on the walls. He's quite confused when he's just a human. I think this goes for a lot of the gang.

Velma detaches her arm to give Thing a proper handshake hehe. they match!!

I think instead of the house's weird decor giving Fred the creeps he'd remark on how it reminds him of his childhood home lol. it still freaks out Daphne and Velma though. Fred is a special kind of freakish.

Daphne lays down on the bed in the locked room and shaggy wants to join for a rest, but scooby stops him. turns out the bed is full of nails! daphne's like 'oh, oops! guess this beds only comfy for the dead :)'

not much needs to be changed honestly! a p good episode all around, and lots of the dialogue fits the monster gang too

[spaceistheplaceart]

Hello! In regards to the Ghost School clashing job in the Meddling Monsters AU: Would Shaggy and Scooby be more relaxed when realizing they're coaching a bunch of ghouls? Seeing as in this AU they would have been friends with the mystery gang and also grown up in a monster town (? Assuming that's still the direction you were planning to go in)

I just rewatched the Ghoul School for the first time in forever and also watched the OK KO episode with the ghouls in it

Yes they would! They'd only be scared because of the fathers of the monsters, really, and of course Revolta. Although, I do think Ghoul School will take place before Shaggy and Scooby turn into monsters themselves, so they're still humans in this crazy world of ghouls... which means they still get pulled into shenanigans that can scare them haha

also yay! ! ! i hope you enjoyed it, i really like that movie and the special too :) the girls are so fun

[spaceistheplaceart]

OMG I never even thought of that scene from Cinderella 3

I imagine the bad guys even panicking, thinking that this kid just threw himself out of a three-story window to his death

Only to look down and see him safe on the ground or in a tree just waving out them or giving them a peace sign before walking off lol

kjahefrjkhasdkfhsd

fred does this a lot, and sometimes he doesnt even wave-- he just vanishes. it makes for a great laugh when later on he reappears as if nothing happened.

[spaceistheplaceart]

I'm honestly a bit iffy on Be Cool Scooby Doo (what is that artstyle) but I do like Mystery Incorporated, granted part of it is that that's what I primarily grew up with. Plus, it was how I introduced my partner to Scooby-Doo, so I likely think of it fondly. But no matter! People are different. Anyways differences in mysteries. Starting with Scooby-Doo and Kiss cause yes.

It's basically the same except Daphne is less receiving of Starchild's advances. She's a ghost and he's...close to human. There's also Shaggy and Scooby hiding behind Fred and Velma when they first transform to hide their Lycanthropy from Kiss. They all reveal that they're monsters on the ship through the portal after Kisstaria. Kiss are taken aback, Demon thinks that Shaggy and Scooby are weird but cool, still teaching them how to breathe fire. Starchild at first thinks he's been flirting with a dead girl until Daph elaborates that she was born dead. Spaceman wonders how no one noticed that Velma's skin is green (additionally throughout the whole thing he points this out maybe?) Also, Fred's dislike of Kiss stems from sensitive ears (since bats use echolocation) thus the gang are a bit more understanding, letting him play The Ascot Five on the way to and from the park. Daphne also gives him earplugs while in the park.

yess i love the differences here! i havent personally seen the entire kiss movie, so ill leave this here for those of you that have :)

also i love the sensitive hearing for fred!! im putting that in my AU for sure. also makes me think he can echolocate which would be. so funny. just screaming in the dark to see shit.

[spaceistheplaceart]

Hello!

I, a severely normal person about Scooby Doo, have found you and your meddling monsters au.

And I would just like to say

I am. Very normal. Exceedingly normal in fact. About this concept. And the gang being monsters.

Hey entirely unrelated, how do you feel about Camp Scare and how this au would interact with that whole story.

thank you!!! im glad you like it :D

i have not seen camp scare :( buuut after reading the synopsis i think not much needs to be changed other than making it's shaggy's old summer camp instead of freds. fred's a vampire, bro is not gallivanting outside in the sunshine.

if anyone has anything specific, or any ideas about camp scare they wanna share, feel free!

[spaceistheplaceart]

In meddling monsters lore, Shaggy and scoob were transformed, in a summer where the others weren't there.

So they have met prior transformation.

But those 2 are terrified of monsters. How come they have befriended the gang in this version?

I like how in many movies with supernatural stuff, scooby and shaggy befriended the monsters.

Like the boo brothers.

The grimwood girls.

Jack the pumpkin and the other magical beings in Goblin King!

Also, what do you think about flimflam? I loved 13th ghosts as a kid.

Then after décadas we got a conclusion but at which cost?

I give it to the movie to aging flimflam to a teen as well, and making him more likeable.

Ps: have you seen the new scooby-doo team up comics? Só many crossovers too!

One with the specter amd phantom stranger.

Swamp thing

Dick dastardly and the flying machines

And perils of penélope pitstop. Where again after décadas, penélope learns her uncle was the villain.

ill answer how they became friends soon, so stay tuned for that

i love flimflam!! honestly, i think 13 ghosts is really solid. the first episode had me and my pal laughing hard. the only show from that era i'll really watch tbh. scrappy and scooby show was hit or miss, but I think 13 ghosts was fun. just so... off the wall. loved it.

and i havent read any scooby comics tbh, im not a comic reader typically. i have seen a few panels from scooby comics and they look alright :)

[spaceistheplaceart]

Love the meddling monsters AU. I'm just wondering what Scooby-Dum's reaction would be to werehuman Scooby Doo

honestly, i dont think he'd get it. I think scooby could literally transform in front of him and he'd be like "huuh??? cousin scoooooby where'd you goooo??"