Hey, howdy, what up, hello— I am commonly called Ether because I was an idiot years ago making my username and misspelled Either but I like my name now, so I own it. I like a many plethora of things, my asks are always open, I am an adult woman with opinions, but I am trying to express those without being an ass online because that’s the golden rule around these parts. I love world building, I’ll answer any odd ask you might wanna send, my messages are always open and all that yada yada.
Current stuffs
Current Ask Game
Current Fic Project
Notices for followers; 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
Notable Tags rn
#part of my ether ; When people make things based off my ideas or convo's
#gwen 10 ; Gwen 10 stuff in general, including my au
#anodite Ben ; Anodite Ben stuff including my contributions
#Reboot Ben is Eon AU ; AU with @/toringo stating what it says on the tin. Reboot Ben is the Ben that turned into the Eon we know and love as an evil alt Ben
#Angst ; Because I am an evil bitch >:)
Fair warning, everything I love I will always be a critic of and will have an opinion on. Fandoms drop like flies for me nowadays because people can't handle a differing opinion on headcanons, ships, what they do and don't enjoy out of a media, and other such whatever-- feel free to have your opinion and I'll be free to have mine. This is what we have block buttons for.
Remember your fandom etiquette people! I have (unfortunately, but wouldn't trade that time for the world) been in online fandom spaces since I was 9 and if my child self was better behaved than you, that says a lot. Remember DLDR, SaLS, and respect the people around you. I might be preaching, but I've gotten hate mail enough for ship wars.
Fandoms, likes, interests generally
Thus far, my specific likes fandom wise have and continue to include—
2005–2014 Ben 10 + Dynamite Comics
DC Comics, focused around Captain Marvel or Batman
MCU
Undertale and Deltarune
Genshin Impact
Popular Classic Lit (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, HP Lovecraft, ext)
Greek Mythology
Predator and Alien franchises
Sonic movies (blaming my bestie for this, curse you! /pos)
Avatar:TLA, Legend of Korra
Hazbin Hotel
Hellova Boss
FNAF
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
And many other things, feel free to ask!
I'll be over here, doing my fanart, my paintings and all my discussions with the lovely moots I've made here. Always open for new members on that last one
For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times.
Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.
If you could CANONICALLY change your Blorbo's gender, would you do it?
Yes, permanently
Yes, but only temporary before I change them back to their original gender
No
Remaining time: 5 days 14 hours
Every poll on this blog is about fictional characters only. This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds
what if Gwen actually did die during soto and was replaced by a sneaky shapeshifter like the ones mentioned in Perfect Day or the ones in Permanent Retirement 🤔it’d explain the changing of the color of her magic
Sunny, sensing a disturbance in The Force™️: Oooohhh, make believe fun! (Pops over to where Ben is) Hey super dweebus cousin, I’m totally alive and fine now!
i think more ppl really need to get more vocal in calling out how half the al ghul fanon/incorrect quotes/hcs that float around here are just really fucking racist.
What’s the gaydar version of “I see you are making ship art of this same sex pairing, but I can also very much see the Yaoi proportions leeching into the rest of the interpretation”
And you know what, speaking of Superboy Prime, at some point we may need to interrogate why “violent, misanthropic white man gets forgiven and praised for his growth after apologizing in a way that specifically does not invalidate his masculinity” is such a popular, quickly latched-onto narrative.
And perhaps we should interrogate who that narrative is for.
Damian has literally been sent to hell. Tara has been treated like...Tara by basically every narrative she has ever been in. To this day, people still refuse to acknowledge their growth, their nuance, or the lack of agency baked into their circumstances.
But then you get a willing, spiteful mass murderer who spends five dubious minutes posing as less of an asshole, and suddenly he is the freshest, hottest concept in comics. We simply must root for him. We must celebrate his growth. We must ignore the continuity of his crimes. And if you point out that he has, in fact, done horrific things on purpose, suddenly you’re “taking comics too seriously.”
Interesting.
Redemption arcs are not the problem. Growth is not the problem. Characters with blood on their hands becoming better is not the problem.
The problem is how quickly some fans recognize humanity, nuance, pain, and potential in a violent white male power fantasy, while treating characters like Damian, Talia, Tara, and plenty of others as permanently defined by their worst context, their worst writing, or their least charitable interpretation. Even Diana suffers from this and she didn't even really do anything wrong--
What could possibly cause people to project so hard into that archetype?
Haven’t seen this mentioned on here yet but it’s officially been 1201 days since DC has published a mainline ongoing for a Black character! So @jpenumbra on TikTok and YouTube has organized a boycott of DC comics until they start doing right by their Black characters!
Cancel your pull lists, don’t buy DC comics, and sign the petition here to help fight for Black representation in comics: https://www.change.org/p/dcsowhite-end-the-black-superhero-drought
#DCSoWhite: End the Black Superhero Drought
When a company goes over three years disrespecting its Black characters like this (in a way its’ competitors don’t btw, even Marvel has multiple mainline Black ongoings rn) it becomes really obvious that they’re committing an intentional act of anti-Blackness. Black comic book characters matter and DC already has so many cool ones that they’re squandering and they deserve better. But even more than that, Black comic book *fans* matter. And we deserve better than this.
You can find more information about the boycott on the website I’ve linked below, and on JPenumbras YouTube, Instagram, and/or TikTok: https://www.dcblackout.com/
Reboot Ben is Eon AU is definitely very fun and, were it true, would give Eon a lot of reason to be as messed up as he is between how humiliating his life was, how belittled he was, how many times his life/the people in it were universally worse to him than other alt Ben’s (Looking hard at you Tetrax, fucker), and fits well as an answer to the question of “What was Eons universe like?” that we will never get to see
Maybe I and others jokingly or seriously going along with the headcanon might come off as annoying to other fans (as ig it does when I shared the idea in a different Ben 10 server) for not letting the Reboot be its own thing and enjoying it on its own merit, but it’s jsut a fun concept and the series already satirically compares itself to the Classic iteration between the references and the literal Alien X-Tinction special having so many of the Classic Ben iterations popping in.
It’s fun, it enthuses the Eon fans wherever they are, and unrelated Ben moments from that show just make me smile when compared to the wettest cat of a character done dirty that is Eon as an Alt Ben.
Damn headcanon is making me consider giving the reboot a second chance after first watching it as it came out, it just delights me! Same person!
Also thank you @toringo for the screenshots, I have many saved
