she only reads books and she cannot draw!

24 years old, any pronouns. mostly mp100 with a fun side of whatever the hell i feel like. terfs fuck off. title is lyrics from whatever song i’m feeling atm

[ajloun]

ok last thing. but what people fundamentally need to get through their heads is the significance of gaza fundraisers not being the same as like mutual aid when you're helping someone get groceries, because it is a genocide. there is insane deliberate scarcity and prices are unmanageable, because there is nowhere nearly enough for everyone, so only people who can pay can eat. and what positioning individual fundraisers as the only course of action does is quite simply give a tiny percentage of random people whose fundraisers take off the ability to pay those prices while thousands of others can't. and every one of those thousands of people without a fundraiser is suffering through the same inconceivably horrific reality. it is giving a few completely desperate people out of hundreds of thousands a slightly more favorable position in a horrific war economy of imposed scarcity. and what grassroots community kitchens do is try to mitigate in some small way that inconceivable hierarchy of who can pay and who can't, by stretching ingredients as far as they can last to cook meals at large scale and give them out at no cost. and obviously people are still going to send money to their friends and families because this is hell what else are we supposed to do but please just think about that before promoting endless individual fundraisers as somehow the most ethical way to help

[akaratna]

Operation Olive Branch has a spreadsheet dedicated to mutual aid, local distro, community kitchens, etc. in Gaza.

Operation Olive Branch

This is a good place to start if seeking to donate to a community resilience action. Just contact the group(s) directly to make sure they are still active. Life in Gaza and Palestine is full of uncertainty.

[hed-romancer]

180k into a slow burn smut fic,,,, when does the smut start????????

[hed-romancer]

win! part 18 of my mob psycho 100 strength swap au where mob is just as strong as he is in canon but teru is just a bit stronger. updates Fridays!

no amount of strength is gonna stop teru from getting elbowed in the head it seems, but hey. it will stop him for believing a con artist.

how'd they get to the 7th division base without terada coming after shigeo??? uhhhhh.... idk man. maybe some random claw member just left data at the awakening lab and ended up in terada's place. maybe no one was there but shigeo, teru, and dimple found a clue to the location anyway.

but yeah! ishiguro is knocked out cold just like canon, but this time it was teru who knocked him out. like. pretty instantly after reigen got them out of that room and they ran into the scars in the hallway.

(wait. so. ritsu got kidnapped and rescued all without his "i've obtained loss" scene or any confrontation with the brother he's still scared of??? i'm sure that won't have any repercussions!)

(speaking of repercussions... where's onigawara?? cause he's not with the body improvement club. he never had any white t poison to search for. and what's kamuro up to?? because he hasn't gotten beaten up by the rival bosses for being assumed to be white t poison, and everyone at their own school's been blaming ritsu. so he's still on his power trip then???)

Next week, the real canon divergence begins!

Strength Swap AU Original idea

Strength Swap Comic: part 1 and links to all other parts previous part reminder to click today!

image id under the cut!

image id:

Panel 1 is just the text, “Teru won against the boss of the 7th division of Claw.”

Panel 2 is Ishiguro knocked out, body crumpled out in a cracked wall. To the side, text reads, “CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP”.

Panel 3 is just the text, “Teru is the strongest esper ever!”

Panel 4 is Shou, from the waist up, smile on his face, saying “You beat him on your own, Hanazawa? I’m impressed.”

Panel 5 is just the text, “There are at least 6 more divisions of Claw.”

Panel 6 is Shou’s face, with a smirk on it. He says, “The 7th division will be disbanded.”

Panel 7 is just the text, “Claw knows about Kageyama now. Kageyama, who is weaker than Teru and only alive because of a con artist with no powers.”

Panel 8 is Shou pointing at Shigeo, who sweats nervously. Shou looks unimpressed and says, “Even if YOU are a disappointment...”

Panel 9 is just the text, “If Claw shows up again with more people and more power, can Teru win again?”

Panel 10 has Ritsu and Teru in the distance, and the back of Shou’s head on the side in the foreground. A text bubble coming from Shou says, “Clearly not EVERYONE else here is.”

Panel 11 is just the text, “Of course! Teru is the strongest esper ever!”

Panel 12 is of Teru’s face, smirking slightly but also sweating a lot. Thought bubbles coming off of him read, “I’ve got this. I have to.”

end id.

[hed-romancer]

CLAW. Part 17

of my mob psycho 100 strength swap au where mob is just as strong as he is in canon but teru is just a bit stronger. Had an unplanned hiatus, but usually updates Fridays!

(edit: accidentally posted this today bc i forgot current day of the week ope)

Even in this universe, where Shigeo isn't the strongest, where he's been beaten by another kid his own age... he's still gonna go get his brother back. What else?

Next week, the real canon divergence begins!

Strength Swap AU Original idea

Strength Swap Comic: part 1 and links to all other parts previous part next part reminder to click today!

image id under the cut!

image id:

Panel one is a text bubble says, “I do.”

Panel two has Shigeo, still sitting on a bench in front of a sidewalk. Shigeo asks, “Huh…?”

Panel three is a closeup of Teru, with a complete black background. Teru says, “I know them. A group that’s been after me for the last few years.”

Panel four is a jagged (indicating surprise) text bubble that says, “?!”

Panel five is a closeup of Teru’s face, with shadows under his eyes. Teru says, “Let me… give you one warning. Don’t get mixed up with them or you’ll wind up dead.”

Panel six is just the text, “They call them selves CLAW.”

Panel seven has a very tiny drawing of Shigeo’s face. He says. “I’ve never even heard of them, but now my brother Ritsu’s been kidnapped…”

Panel eight Teru’s face again. He says, “That’s how they grow.”

Panel nine is another text bubble, asking, “Who told you about it?”

Panel ten is of Teru, with a smug expression on his face. He says, “The one who tried to kidnap me, who stayed conscious enough for me to be the info out of.”

Panel eleven has Shigeo, sweating and looking nervous. He says, “Well okay then. If you could beat them, maybe I could withstand them long enough to go get Ritsu back…”

Panel twelve is just the top of Teru’s face, his eyes are very wide, he looks a little wild. He says, “Hey, hold on! There are over 100 of them!”

Panel thirteen shows just the top of Shigeo’s head. Just his hair. He says, “Hanazawa, I need my brother back. I have to do this. But you’re stronger than me. Will you help me save Ritsu?”

Panel fourteen has a full body drawing of Teru, smiling with sparkles around him. He poses with his hand out to the side. He says, “How can I say no to that? You’re gonna need someone reliable with sharp wits on your side. You need the strongest. Of course I’ll help you rescue him!!”

end id.

[hed-romancer]

yes bloodymary became so popular bc these two movies got released at the same time and have many common themes and motifs but wildly different genres/endings and we love a fix-it.

yes bloodymary became so popular bc fandom has a white man problem. and (differently) also an asian man problem. and a need to make everything m/m even if that means throwing together two characters from entirely different media. (I love bloodymary (since I am not exempt from fandom problems, and also love a fix-it), but rip me as someone who ships simon/ava lmao).

all of that being said. connoisseurs of crack crossover ships, could I maybe interest you in:

Clark (backrooms) x The Lost Man (Exit 8).

(Would bloodymary have been so popular had Simon not been given his first name and instead only been known as the convict? Who knows!)

but hey hear me out.

These two have hella similarities! They’re both not great partners. They both get stuck in mysterious empty rooms trying to find an exit, dealing with monsters.

and their movies have similar themes. Clark is going to therapy bc he theoretically wants to be better and change, though he’s making no real changes and eventually decides he’d rather not change. The lost man, on the other hand, doesn’t really want to be better or change at first, but he gets there by the end of the movie.

Clark is doing all of this work to hopefully someday have kids, The Lost Man is having a kid and doesn’t know if he wants to do all the work for it.

the lost man is very not happy about being lost and only gets more freaked out as things get worse, and only makes it out because of help from the boy, because he learns to listen and pay attention. Clark never even had to return to the backrooms but does out of pure curiosity and excitement, and as things get worse he starts to prefer the backrooms more and more and doesn’t want to leave.

(Disclaimer here: I saw backrooms today but I saw exit 8 a month ago and I’m probs misremembering details.)

okay so. Are we putting Clark in exit 8 or the lost man (TLM) in backrooms?

As much as I love the boy, I think we’re gonna put TLM into backrooms! One, because there’s more space to explore there. Two, because I think the premise of “TLM gets to exit 8 and makes it out alive, shortly thereafter ends up in a different haunted liminal space” hilarious and now I’m using it.

also if bloodymary can hand wave away different universes im hand waving away different languages. backrooms ghostfuckery shit. Whatever.

okay so TLM makes it out exit 8, for some reason doesn’t see the boy (my one gripe with the movie, that he never saw the kid at the end, made no sense and made me sad). Wants to be a dad, gets on the train, makes a different decision to confront the asshole, and goes to the hospital.

but holy fucking shit the hospital is pretty liminal spacey too. It’s not a train stop so he doesn’t get freaked out until he’s accidentally walking through a wall in some abandoned corridor (needed a break. He’s gonna do this, really, he’s sure! He just needed a break) and now suddenly he’s in some weird ass backwards version of a hospital corridor. What. The fuck.

(my favorite aspect of the backrooms in this movie for sure, that it’s escapable. That Clark chooses his fate multiple times over.)

why would TLM stay though? Surely he’s scared shitless?

hmm okay. I think it’d be kinda funny/sad if TLM entered the backrooms, immediately got freaked out because of the eerie similarity (even distantly) to the subway corridor, and just started moving forward automatically, looking for the rules, and then didn’t realize there weren’t any until he fell down somewhere or passed some other point of no return.

On the other hand, I think with Clark, we’re gonna put him at. After he discovers the backrooms but before he talks to Mary and decides to get proof for her.

he’s mostly having a good time right now. Manic, definitely. Avoiding his reality? For sure. But he’s exploring and mapping and diagraming and enjoying himself. His life hasn’t been this interesting or fun for a while.

okay so Clark’s vibing, TLM is having a panic attack and running around looking for instructions, and they bump into eachother.

Clark, not generally the best at deescalating emotional situations, yells at the guy to chill out. Relax, he says, there are no rules, it’s just a bunch of rooms. You can go back where you came any time.

TLM calms down, finally, and is relieved. Okay. He just has to find his way back to where he was. No big deal. Except he was panicking and can’t remember and now he’s starting to panic a bit again. Clark, more gentle this time, gets him to calm down and offers to walk with him back.

(TLM misses the boy. He hopes he’s okay, hopes he found his mom and is happy.)

they start walking, and TLM is like “I know this sounds crazy, but I was in something like this before” and Clark is like, “do you see where we are right now? Nothing you could say would sound crazy here.”

so TLM talks about the corridor and the exits and the boy. And says it all helped him realize he does want to be a present father in his kid’s life, even if he’s not planning on getting back together with his ex.

he talks about it like it was worth it, and Clark finds that strange. Because the subway corridor with all the rules and the tiny details you have to pay attention to or end up in a loop sounds like hell. He much prefers his backrooms with their sprawling rooms that go on forever.

go on

forever

they can’t find TLM’s exit. Shit.

Clark’s not doing anything really. His employees know how to run the store without him, at least for a little while, and his wife’s certainly not going to miss him. Is it sad that the only things he’ll be skipping if he stays here are shifts and therapy sessions? He decides not to think about it.

Clark keeps moving with this man. He seems on the verge of a breakdown, and he’s got a future kid he needs to get back to, and helping him get back seems more important than Clark’s therapy session.

so they’re going and Clark’s mapping, and TLM needs to get back but that’s happening very very slowly and there’s no rules and

Clark wants to try sitting on that halfway-made sofa to see how comfy it is and why not?

For a while they walk through rooms that only have piles of clothes in them and finally, exhausted, they both crash down to sleep. The laundry here is clean, god bless, so in the morning TLM decides to rifle through everything to find more practical clothing for what’s looking like a more long-haul survival mission than he’d like. Clark joins him.

This water-less pool has a slide that looks impractical but still usable and TLM kinda wants to try it…

there’s footsteps. Banging. Heading towards them. Clark starts running, gestures him to follow. TLM’s grateful that Clark’s instinct to run is faster than his is, because they escape the Whatever That Was unscathed.

they run until they can’t hear anything anymore, then the speedwalk until they feel safer, then they crash down onto the hard ground and lie there, staring at the kinda gross ceiling.

this place is so retro, TLM remarks.

what does that mean? Clark wonders internally. It’s weird, for sure, but not noticeably out-of-date. He decides not to ask though. He’s not trying to be called old by a guy only six years younger than he is.

I always wanted kids, Clark says. And maybe it’s because it’s the time of the week when he’s usually in therapy, but suddenly he’s telling TLM a few more details than he normally would with a stranger.

are they still strangers to each other?

anyway. They get up, they keep going. TLM has occasional asthma and/or panic attacks. Clark gets less and less chill as he starts to reveal more and more about his home life and past to TLM.

idk what the end goal would be here. Obvs a happy ending for them.

maybe TLM convinces Clark fully that he’s gotta actually think about what he wants in life? Like yeah therapy’s great, but if you’re working a horrible job you can’t stand 40+ hours a week, no amount of therapy is gonna make you content.

if Clark’s drinking to wind down from life, why not try changing his life instead?

and Clark does want to change! He’s in therapy, he’s taking it seriously, doing the exercises the best he can. He doesn’t like being so angry. He wants to live the best life he can.

(in the movie, how it goes: Clark wants to prove he’s not crazy, that he’s sober and sane and knows what he’s talking about. He wants his credibility intact. He asks his employees for help proving it, offers to pay them overtime, they agree. They don’t really know what they’re getting into. Then these two twenty something year olds, one white and the other half-white half-Asian, who he does care for really, die. Horrifically. On camera. And he has the camera, and he keeps it with him even as he runs for his life. Because if these two employees disappear from his store, and he has no proof of what really happened, his life is fucking over. Probably literally. And then the camera is stolen.)

But that doesn’t happen here. Here he’s enjoying the backrooms, but he still has a life he can return to eventually. He does want to be better.

idk what TLM’s arc would be. maybe he’s debating if he should try getting back together with his ex, despite not really wanting to, for the kid’s sake? And Clark’s gotta convince him of how absolutely horrendous of an idea that is?

idk if this is anything. It’s 4:30am. I’m going to sleep

[hed-romancer]

also lowkey but if my therapist were as smug as Mary constantly is I’d be pissed off too! Why doesn’t she ever talk to him like they’re both people???

[ghastlyvampire]

Thought on the Backrooms movie + why I think maybe people should be a little more careful when casting without thinking about race

Overall I did enjoy the Backrooms movie. I look at it more like I'd look at a painting rather than a story, in a way. It made me feel very tense and I think that's good. The scenery was, of course, amazing, and I really like that they used more practical effects for this instead of CGI — at least that's what it seemed like to me, I haven't really looked at backstage stuff. If it was CGI then it must have been really good CGI.

I do know a few people who didn't like it, and I get it. If you were expecting a satisfying narrative it will obviously be frustrating. I did see some people complain about the lack of other levels, but I feel like what they did was the better choice. To me, it would have felt more like an adventure movie than horror if there was a bigger focus on exploring other levels.

Many people wished to see more of the science and research related stuff, but I feel like if it went that route it would have ended up in them trying to explain it too much and that would have kind of ruined it for me. In horror, some things are better left unexplained.

The pirate was amazing. Perfectly uncanny.

The biggest thing that I think could have been better about this movie was the raceblind casting.

Clark is a good character, I think, if you ignore that. A person who does feel real. But it does feel a bit iffy that the only black character is an aggressive alcoholic. It's fine to have black characters like this, obviously, but something about him being the only one doesn't sit right with me. I understand this is a small cast, but this could easily have been fixed by at least making Mary black too (not that I think the actress was bad or anything, she was great, but this isn't about that), maybe his wife too*, and maybe even another man in the cast as well. Unfortunately black men often are stereotyped as aggressive and a danger to, especially, white women, and it is implied that his wife was at least scared of him, and we all saw what happened with him and Mary.

Something could also be said about how this movie follows that trope of everyone getting killed off in horror movies except for the white woman. At first I was surprised when Clark died too, since he's one of the MCs and the first character I thought of when I think "protagonist" for this movie up to that point, but it seemed less shocking and innovative when I gave it some more thought. I think people who are used to watching horror movies (and aware of this issue, of course) probably clocked who would make it to the end in the first 5 minutes. This is also why I think maybe it could have been a better choice to make Mary black too.

(Btw I don't watch a lot of horror movies, I based this part off of complaints my mother, who does watch a lot of horror, always makes.)

I understand that this (probably) wasn't intended, and obviously the actor who plays Clark did an amazing job and I am in no way complaining about him. He was really good and I wouldn't wish for a different actor for the protagonist at all. But I do think this is why, when casting, you do have to be aware of race. Raceblind casting sometimes results in reenactment of stereotypes, which is probably the opposite of people who do cast raceblind are trying to aim for. Movies do not exist in a vacuum and you do have to think about how certain things are going to look like when creating them.

I've heard that the director is a very young white man, which isn't surprising. I hope that if he does make more movies in the future, he pays more attention to this. Obviously, for this to happen, people have to talk about it. So I hope people are talking about this.

*and before anyone (as if anyone's going to read this LMAO) takes this in the worst faith possible, this isn't because I think black character should only have relationships with other black characters, I myself am black/white mixed so obviously I think it's cool. I am also not saying that stories can't portray relationships in which the black man is aggressive (and I mean in the way that he's quick to anger and has an alcohol problem, not saying he hurts her physically) and has a white wife. I just think that in this case it would have, maybe, been better if it was different, considering what I say after.

(apologies for the over explaining, being on Twitter leaves you like that)

[hed-romancer]

writing this before i look into any reviews or info.

idk who produced/wrote/casted backrooms. im sure it's likely the script was well written when the actors were cast. and the actors all did absolutely fantastic.

it just feels noticeable to me that this movie starts out asking me to have empathy for a black man trying to work through anger issues, gets me invested in his journey, only to, after an unknown-amount-of-time-jump at the halfway point, go "actually he's full on crazy" and switch to focusing on a white woman and the horror she's going through dealing with him.

that it's his white woman therapist is even more noticeable.

[hed-romancer]

danny phantom fic recs!

danny phantom absolutely SWEPT this poll (shoutout @dp-marvel94) so i've dug through my ao3 bookmarks to find yall the goods. fair warning- i haven't read most of these fics in a while, even though i still remember how much i love them, the descriptions might be a bit vague

Something's Wrong With Danny Fenton Vol. I by Ghostly_Cabbage ( @ghostly-cabbage) is a no-one-knows au where danny transfers to casper high as a junior and meets sam and tucker. as they slowly become friends, tuck and sam realize something isn't quite right with this kid. this fic is such a vibe- the mysteriousness of sam and tuck interacting with the ghostly and the slow somber build from danny being alone to having supportive friends absolutely MAKE this fic. volume 1 has a satisfying conclusion but when i say i have author notifications on so that i get an email the second any potential vol 2 drops...

Dying To Know You by Fridurmus ( @fridurwrites with art by @faerynova) is an absolute delight of a fic wherein valerie ends up half ghost too after the events of Reign Storm and deals with it with the help of danny. the writing in this fic is so well done, perfectly capturing the horror of the situation. this fic is nearly entirely from valerie's pov and it is so so good. the art is also fantastic, i'm such a sucker for less-human ghost designs and faerynova's art and fridurmus' descriptions absolutely kill it (pun intended) here!

Undercover Phantom AU by artistfingers ( @artistfingers) is a comic series, a no one knows au where sam and tucker independently befriend both danny phantom and danny fenton. more lighthearted than Something's Wrong With Danny Fenton, and currently incomplete, this collection of comics so wonderfully captures the teenagerness of danny, sam and tucker. the art is so wonderfully adorable.

Dancing Around the Truth by Taliax ( @dannyphandump) is a very cute gray ghost fic ft paulina! Paulina discovers Valerie is the Red Huntress and blackmails her into getting a date with phantom. which is suddenly a much easier (or maybe harder) task once valerie in turn finds out danny is phantom. the reveals in this fic happen in the first third, and the rest of the fic is glorious glorious scenes of these three characters talking out their feelings. obviously i adore the danny/valerie of it all, but the aroacespec!paulina here is ABSOLUTELY DIVINE, such a great insight into the character!

okay i'm giving up and posting this for now. it's been in my drafts for months. have your bread. everlasting trio and gray ghost 4eva.

[hed-romancer]

Dimple! part 16 of my mob psycho 100 strength swap au where mob is just as strong as he is in canon but teru is just a bit stronger. A day late, but usually updates Fridays!

The text bubbles got a bit wonky on this one, but hopefully you guys are all still following! Ritsu still awoke via The Big Cleanup in this AU, but White T Poison obviously doesn't exist here so. Ritsu is just getting in more fights with kids from his own school, Kamuro is still going strong, probably, and Onigawara has not joined the Body improvement Club. Oh and Ritsu got kidnapped without ever confronting Shigeo. But I'm sure it's all fine!

Strength Swap AU Original idea

Strength Swap Comic: part 1 and links to all other parts previous part next part reminder to click today!

image id under the cut!

Image ID:

A shoddy comic drawn in black pen.

The first panel is of Shigeo and Teru sitting on a bench outside. Shigeo says, “Thanks for meeting up to talk to Tome. She wants to meet other espers so badly.” Teru replies, “No problem, Kageyama! Tome was… fun to meet!”

Panel two is a large panel of just Dimple’s face with a large text bubble that says, “Shigeo! Kid! Your brother’s been kidnapped!”

A second text bubble (coming from off-page) asks, “Ritsu?! By who?”

Dimple answers, “An adult esper, some guy in a purple hoodie. Your brother and I were… well. Your brother awakened his powers, and I was helping him with it.”

The second text bubble asks, “You possessed him?”

Dimple answers, “No. I couldn’t, I was just along for the ride. And we got into a fight with some kids from your school. No big deal! But then, out of nowhere, this guy shows up, knocks Ritsu out, knocks me outta Ritsu, and disappeared faster than I could follow!”

The second text bubble asks, “You let him take my brother?”

Dimple answers, “Shigeo, kid, I promise, I would’ve stopped him if I could. I don’t even know who he is!”

End id.

[hed-romancer]

I love aroace Ryland Grace headcanons! A lot!! But just a reminder:

a character being single doesn’t make them aroace rep

a character not showing any interest in dating doesn’t make them aroace rep

a piece of media not having any romance plot does not make it aroace rep!

aroace rep is only rep if they acknowledge the identity! even without naming it! we can’t just let anything that’s not explicitly romance count as “aroace rep” because actual aroace rep is so needed!

that’s why I call media where the character isn’t explicitly aroace but also it’s very plausible that they are; or media where romance/sex isn’t involved or important to the plot “aroace friendly”

project Hail Mary is aroace friendly. There’s no romance plot and Ryland Grace can easily be headcanoned as aroace. But it’s still not rep. It’s still perfectly normal for people to headcanon him as not-aroace and ship him with Eva or Rocky or Simon. He’s not canonically aroace. He’s not aroace rep.

we can call it what it is and what it is is still good! I love aroace friendly media and characters!

[oldtvandcomics]

I mean, obviously. I think that everyone engaging with that headcanon knows this. (Also, if we are going to discuss the politics of the book, then the fact that the protagonist is a straight white man from the US is kind of important, too.) But you are right, the community's habit of mixing up "no romance" and "actual aro/ace representation" IS a problem.

But maybe this could be a good moment to start recommending each other actual aro/ace books? Science fiction, if possible? I'll go first.

The Heinlein's Fiches series by Robin Banks is a dystopia, but it still has a lot of the wholesome friendship bonds that people seemed to have liked in Project Hail Mary. All the books are stand-alones, and while I haven't read every single one yet, I can say that Banks in my experience always includes neurodivergent rep, asexual rep and transmasculine rep (which includes nonbinary people). The protagonists are all aggressively normal people, who have to deal with a Situation, and need to improvise and teamwork their way through it.

I don't want to compare it too much to Project Hail Mary, because they are very different books with a very different tone, and above all, a very different speed to the story, but they do have some of the plot beats that the fandom seems to have enjoyed in Project Hail Mary.

The Dreamhealers series by M.C.A. Hogarth follows two university students from two different alien species, who form a telepathic bond with each other, and discover that they can use said telepathy for a new form of psychological treatment. One of them is canonically asexual, and comes from a species where everyone is. While they are life partners, their bond is very explicitly platonic. I also loved the worldbuilding with all the different species. We do spend most of the story steadily on a planet and later a space station, but questions like high gravity do pop up, and so does the difference between the life spans of the protagonists, which is also something that I saw the Project Hail Mary fans enjoy.

While it does deal with some heavier topics, this series is more calm and slice-of-life. Definitely has the unlikely interspecies BFFs vibe.

So yeah. It is amazing to see people headcanon the protagonist of a popular mainstream movie as aroace, but it would also be important to talk about the actual representation that we already have.

[hed-romancer]

thanks for the recs!!!

[hed-romancer]

I love aroace Ryland Grace headcanons! A lot!! But just a reminder:

a character being single doesn’t make them aroace rep

a character not showing any interest in dating doesn’t make them aroace rep

a piece of media not having any romance plot does not make it aroace rep!

aroace rep is only rep if they acknowledge the identity! even without naming it! we can’t just let anything that’s not explicitly romance count as “aroace rep” because actual aroace rep is so needed!

that’s why I call media where the character isn’t explicitly aroace but also it’s very plausible that they are; or media where romance/sex isn’t involved or important to the plot “aroace friendly”

project Hail Mary is aroace friendly. There’s no romance plot and Ryland Grace can easily be headcanoned as aroace. But it’s still not rep. It’s still perfectly normal for people to headcanon him as not-aroace and ship him with Eva or Rocky or Simon. He’s not canonically aroace. He’s not aroace rep.

we can call it what it is and what it is is still good! I love aroace friendly media and characters!

[hed-romancer]

curious,

do you like first person pov in fanfic?

I usually like 1st person pov in fanfic and books

I usually like 1st person pov in fanfic even tho I don’t in books

I usually don’t like 1st person pov in fanfic or books

I usually dislike 1st person pov in fanfic but usually like it in books

other (specify in the tags!)

Voting ended onMay 10

personally I usually like it in books, but something about it in fanfic gets me feeling weird sometimes idk.

[hed-romancer]

Two fears, part 15 of my mob psycho 100 strength swap au where mob is just as strong as he is in canon but teru is just a bit stronger. Updates Fridays!

this comic has a plot now! When figuring out where to go, the biggest issue I had was trying to figure out what stays the same and what changes in a universe where black vinegar doesn’t end up in the sky. I decided Ritsu still awakens almost like normal in this au. Kid has no shortage of issues, and Teru hanging around is not helping. also featuring my first attempt at panel redraws!

Strength Swap AU Original idea

Strength Swap Comic: part 1 and links to all other parts previous part next part reminder to click today!

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A black and white comic, still drawn terribly!

Panel one is just text that says, “Ritsu has two fears. His brother and a boy stronger than his brother.”

Panel two is of Shigeo and Teru’s faces side by side. Teru asks, “Why do you always looks so worried, little brother?”

Panel three is of an unbent spoon clenched in a shaking hand.

Panel four is just text that says, “And so…”

Panel five features President Kamuro of the Salt Middle School Student Council as he smirks and says, “The big clean up.” (Drawn similarly to the panel at the bottom of page 71 of Mob Psycho 100 volume 3.)

Panel six is of Ritsu walking outside on the sidewalk. A thought bubble reads, “I can’t go after students from other schools…” and another reads, “But that doesn’t mean I can’t make my brother’s life easier!” (Drawn similarly to the panel on the bottom of page 74 of Mob Psycho 100 volume 3.)

Panel seven is simply text that says, “And then,”

Panel eight is of the Awakening Lab business card with Kenji Mitsuura’s name on it in an outstretched hand. (Drawn similarly to the panel on the bottom of page 75 of Mob Psycho 100 volume 3.)

Panel nine is of Dimple turning around to face the viewer (to face Ritsu). (Drawn similarly to the panel on the bottom of page 190 of Mob Psycho 100 volume 3.)

Panel ten is a bunch of bent silverware. (Drawn similarly to the panel in the middle of page 12 of Mob Psycho 100 volume 4. Kind of.)

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Leaving, part 14 of my mob psycho 100 strength swap au where mob is just as strong as he is in canon but teru is just a bit stronger. Updates Fridays!

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Strength Swap AU Original idea

Strength Swap Comic: part 1 and links to all other parts previous part next part

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A black and white comic, shoddily drawn.

Panel one is an establishing shot of the Kageyama house. It's dark out and the moon is full.

Panel two is of Teru and Shigeo on the Kageyamas' couch. The moon is visible in the window. Shigeo looks asleep, his head on Teru's shoulder.

Panel three has the Kageyama dad opening the door to walk into the living room.

Panel four is closer up of Dad, as he says, "Hey boys, it's getting late. Teru, you should start heading home."

Panel five is Teru, smiling slightly, as he says, "Ah, alright. Thanks for having me!"

Panel five is a close up of Shigeo, still on the couch but now looking awake, sayiing, “Thanks for coming, Hanazawa.”

Panel seven is of Teru, now standing and closer to the door, saying, “See you next time.”

Panel eight is a shot of his back as Teru walks out the door, saying, “Bye!”

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Friendly, part 13 of my mob psycho 100 strength swap au where mob is just as strong as he is in canon but teru is just a bit stronger. image id under the cut!

I might've made Shigeo too talkative in this one?? But he's a pretty honest kid being asked direct questions, so I figured it's enough in-character. I hope.

Strength Swap AU Original Idea

Strength Swap Comic: part 1 and links to all other parts previous part next part

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one giant panel of shigeo and his dad sitting on the couch looking at each other and talking. shigeo is wearing a fairly blank expression while his dad looks more concerned.

the dialogue bubbles read

shigeo's dad: You’ve been spending a lot of time with that Teru kid lately, Shige.

shigeo: Yes.

shigeo's dad: Is he… being nice to you?

shigeo: Hanazawa’s a very friendly person.

shigeo's dad: ...

shigeo: ...Why do you ask?

shigeo's dad: It's just... I'm curious. One month ago, you didn’t even know him. Now he’s over multiple nights a week. What happened?

shigeo: It’s nice having Hanazawa around. He can contain my power if I lose control.

shigeo's dad: … Oh.

shigeo: When I'm with him, I know everything’s going to be okay, no matter what happens.

shigeo's dad: … He sounds like a good friend.

shigeo: He is.

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