Hoodlander

We post Butchlander in this house. Art header by the incredible Pumpkinseed001 with permission 🩷 Side blog of thrud-of-asgard. AO3: Vee017

[homeb0ys]

guys please don’t kill me but the pics of antony from the critics choice awards always make me laugh cause he reminds me of carl from up. like i’m sorry but they’re legit twinning. 😭😭

[purplehairsecretlair]

The events of The Boys get paused because Stan Edgar has to take Grace out to dinner. They talk long into the night about the proper handling of supes, their delightful pseudo-grandkids that would be almost perfect if it wasn't for those pesky powers, and what on earth they're going to do with their problem 'children', Billy and Homelander. By the next morning, Butcher and Homelander are engaged to be married - whether they like it or not.

[pumpkinseed001]

Comic vs TV XD tv!Homelander is so tiny<3

inspired by this https://x.com/ZenMa_Trang/status/2013457533705580578

[22psyduck]

i think soooo often about the way homelander has been given storylines typical to female characters; tropes that exist so commonly because of the patriarchy. these tropes are deeply misogynistic, but they exist.

feeling dread or simply like a failure for being infertile, having shown grief on or off-screen over this fact

worrying about his appearance and the horrors of ageing while in the public eye, because you've been valued and propped up for being pretty most of your life.

the struggles of being a parent in a seemingly "divorce" situation, butcher here was quite obviously the dad figure; homelander took ryan in, cleaned up after him, and began trying to nurture him.

the way he bullied a-train over his weight is a typical trope of female characters due to the extreme pressure women have on looking a certain way, turning outwards in a nasty display.

wears shapewear that distorts his body to conform to certain beauty standards. gets airbrushed like hell in every image or video.

the scene of someone/something fantasising about fucking him, while showing him in some degrading position (ty anon)

yes... even the grooming that happened to him. male characters do experience this, and it should be a more common storyline, but it isn't often it is framed in the same light.

i think this stuff was done well, too. as well as misogynistic tropes can be done. when they began making fun of him in s5 for being this way, it was an extra layer of disrespect to his character. it isn't his 'feminine' qualities or life experiences that make him a bad person and they made it seem like it was.

[aarontveit]

What's so funny? What was I so afraid of? You are... fucking nothing. Really? Yeah. Really. You're just an empty fucking suit. Take away these powers... and what are you, huh? A pathetic... weak, sniveling fucking loser.

THE BOYS | 2019 - 2026 S05E01 ("Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite")

[kosmochlor]

Tags by @xieyaohuan.

Exactly! The thing about A-Train is that he lived under Homelander's thumb and also Vought's for years. This is the side of Homelander and of the company that he knows very, very well. It makes sense from his POV to say this and it suits his character's journey. He felt he was a nothing loser without his powers for a long time but then he was inspired to be better by his family, by MM, and by his own grief and guilt. He reached down into himself and found that kid he'd buried that had to face a gunman before he knew he had powers. Reggie earned this moment. This was his.

Butcher repeating this insult in the finale was a writer's mouthpiece moment, empty of meaning to the characters at hand and flat because of it. It is also stupid, because it's not a real gotcha sentiment to have toward Homelander. It only works for Reggie because of who Reggie is and his history. That line is not at all relevant to Billy's experience with Homelander or Vought or himself in the same way as it is for A-Train. Homelander is, to Butcher, this horrific life-ruining monster that was made in a Vought laboratory just as Butcher is this horrific life-ruining monster that his father raised. Butcher knows the big picture of what Homelander represents, just as the writers do, and he knows some of Homelander’s past, though less than the writers do. Furthermore, Butcher was not afraid of Homelander. Homelander was not an immediate constant tyrannical force in his life that existed within and as a part of a greater oppressive system that was Butcher's normal day-to-day. That is Reggie's story and Reggie's opposition to overcome.

Billy calling Homelander "nothing" doesn't make any sense. Nothing did not rape Becca and Billy did not dedicate his life to the pursuit of Nothing. If he was there for the finale in Butcher's place, I can see Reggie not killing a depowered Homelander more than I can see him killing him. Because Reggie would have been glad to leave Homelander to his fate and whatever justice he and his victims were due, satisfied by reducing him to "nothing" and looking to be a better person than he was and than Homelander is. Homelander could never be nothing to Billy after what he did though, so Billy could never have walked away from him and could not last long in a world without him. But Reggie could absolutely run far away from Homelander and be happy to never think of him ever again, because Homelander was really just nothing to him.

[22psyduck]

the homie at the top is making me lose my mind why does he make this face when they are all having a trauma moment lmao. that’s definitely the part of himself that steers when flirting with william butcher

[22psyduck]

in another life; in most other lives, actually

[drrikkytikkytavy]

Fuck, the concept of this show

Maeve is Homelander's ex

Butcher fucked Maeve

Homelander SMELLS Butcher's scent on her

Locked her up

And now he says he wants her eggs to make their kids

Just like before, he fucked Butcher's wife and got Ryan

These two are fu—

The question is, when will you stop torturing women and fuck each oth—

[22psyduck]

all these videos pitting homelander against other superheroes such as omni-man and such, and everyone in the comments call homie weak. but he doesn't train at all. can you imagine how strong he could be if he trained?? also, the show's power-scaling is really bad. they said no weapon on earth hurts him, yet melchemical managed to knock him out with gas, he was rendered pretty weak in a radiation chamber.

like i've said before, homie's physical strength (especially against other superheroes) barely plays a part in why i love him a lot, so i don't think about it too much, but they really nerfed him, and i only care because it made no sense; not because i'd care if he became weaker. like, was vought lying this entire time??? had they not really tested a nuke on him like they implied? if it was a lie, then why wasn't it a bigger part of the storyline that he wasn't as untouchable as he got told? see that'd make more sense, they bigged him up as a threat, but they never touched on that, he mostly just began experiencing nerfs in s5, then in the final fight he was very slow, which his extreme speed has been showcased so many times. he could have easily escaped.

whatever the explanation, it isn't a good one!!!!!!! if there was reason behind any of this, which i doubt, then making it something that happens off screen and is never addressed, when they spent the first 2 seasons implying he cannot be stopped is weird...

idk just something i think about since seeing a lot of the homelander vs. clips, because what are we basing it off? s5? or when they said that no weapon on earth could hurt him?

[kosmochlor]

The Boys writers just suck at superpowers in general. It makes all their super characters impossible to power scale. You'd think people who make a hobby of it would realize that after all these years and stop, as it makes the power scaling discussion even more pointless than usual. Homelander is just the most glaring example of how bad they are at it. Both because they hyped him up so much and because they write truly stupid stuff, like how in the same episode he can haul a grown man out of a building and up to space and then return inside that same building within seconds, but later on he cannot escape the Oval Office. There's no reconciling that in the way they wrote it because they didn't even care to try. They only wanted to humiliate and kill their Elon Musk and Donald Trump patsies.

It can't even definitively be said that Homelander was nerfed in season 5 because the problems began far earlier than that. The Oval Office fight, the season 3 Vought Tower fight, and the Herogasm fight were all equally embarrassing in terms of writing, fight choreography, and budgeting. Which is truly sad on the part of the show's crew because they are basically the same fight and they could not get it right even once. They were all terrible scenes, and not just because of how Homelander was handled. Each fight had a minimum of one flyer/teleporter, three or more fighters with superstrength and somehow the walls can contain these fights (so that they are easy and cheap to film)? The walls and the filing cabinets are not pulverized or even significantly (to the point a regular human could not manage) damaged by the punches these characters are throwing with lethal intent?

The bit about Homelander's fights being so neatly contained is especially annoying because they let Soldier Boy and fucking Bombsight go from inside to outside during their fight. Kripke, grow up and tell Jensen you are in love with him.

I once really thought the lackluster angelic and demonic fights of Supernatural were down to the limitations of the CW, but the truth of it is that Eric Kripke just sucks.

I can go on and on about this but there’s been a lot of good discussion in the comments already so I'll stop here. Sorry for the rant but it drives me up the wall how badly the powers were handled. These people could not even write a fight scene for a show like Cobra Kai, they should not have been given superpowered beings to handle. They should be writing weed-based comedy movies about suspiciously incestuous brothers for Seth Rogen to star in. That is where their passion lies.

[canidaefello]

Kripke tried to do a bunch of rent lowering gunshots and make it clear to right wingers this isn’t the show for them, when the most obvious fucking answer was to just give Homelander an onscreen gay sex scene

[plasticfangtastic]

That or stop the idea that average kinks and fetishes equate being a bad person.

[canidaefello]

Kripke: but how else are we supposed to show the bad guys are weird

[sgt-dignam]

hey, were you having a dream, were you? was it a goody?

THE BOYS | 5.05 - One-Shots

[ocmaker]

It takes one minute to imagine the scene and 500 hours to write it

[sxletters]

🎊！！

[hoodlander]

Homelander was built to be a stay-at-home dad.

His soul cried out for the househusband life he was denied.

[hoodlander]

Keep the Home Fires Burning - progress update

Almost 4800 words and three scenes left. But then the characters take over and start doing their own thing and I'm like, wait no fuck you guys how do I connect that?

It's why I tend to write linear, so that I can't be surprised like this lol. But I've been stuck in places so had to continue in different scenes. And now the connections need to happen. And then the editing and polishing. I am working on it though! (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) .ᐟ.ᐟ

Tiny unedited sneak peek for the interested and a cute mental image:

He shifted in his seat one more time and was met with a snort from beside him. John felt his jaw tense as his body stilled, a small puff of air escaping his nose as he turned to look at Butcher. His brow furrowed in confusion though at the genuine smile on Butcher’s face. He caught John looking at him and gave a low chuckle.

“Look in the back.”

John blinked in confusion and turned to look into the back seat, a small smile of his own slowly spread across his face as all of the tenseness drained right out of his body. So that’s what Butcher had snorted at. Not his fidgeting or nerves, no, just their daughter in the rear-view mirror.

Alana grinned at him from her car seat in the centre of the SUV, or at least she tried to over Terror’s head. She had at some point coaxed the dog up halfway into her car seat with her and was holding onto him as he lounged partially on top of her.

[22psyduck]

Brute - Emily Skaja // No Children - The Mountain Goats // Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines - Natalie Wee // Bloodsport - Yves Olade

[mozzcho]

Priest!AU

…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ

This is an AU I've had in mind for quite some time, totally inspired by Antony's G20 priest look. I can't believe the fandom hasn't done anything with that style because the man looks spectacular in it.

So, an AU without powers (because I love all kinds of AUs). My idea is that John is a well-known and respected priest—very kind and compassionate—obviously pretending, but he’s totally out of his mind. He genuinely believes that God speaks directly to him, and although he doesn't use this to gain fame or scam people, he channels all his frustrations into 'saving' sinners.

For Butcher, I thought it would be much more fun to make him an angel than a demon precisely because of the clash between his personality and this type of celestial being. Butcher is part of the second angelic choir, a Power. He doesn't interact much with humans, but he's sent to deal with this priest. Butcher's lack of human understanding makes him sound cruel and cynical. He doesn't know how to handle human delicacy, and he doesn't care much since his job is to eliminate sin and evil.

Because he hasn't had much need to interact with humans for so long, he's never taken on a human form. His physical representation isn't as humanized as one might expect, but the more human parts are mainly taken from John's mind to make him seem more relatable.