if anyone is still interested in my ongezellig x warrior cats crossover, go ahead and follow @m4ya-mentioned . this is my alt blog where any and all ongezellig stuff is gonna reside, but most importantly my comic when page one preview one is done !!!
It was a little hard deciding who should and shouldn't be added, but I think I'm happy with the final selection. I tried to limit myself to 1-2 characters per series
Challenge started by @/lesbianambermoon
Character reveals under the cut!
Scaramouche and Furina (Genshin), Carol and Zosia (Pluribus), Cho Hyun-ju (Squid Game)
Shin Godzilla and Hedorah (Godzilla), Mel Medarda (Arcane), Darkstalker (Wings of Fire), Kang No-eul (Squid Game)
Bojack and Kelsey (Bojack Horseman), Lefty (FNAF), Spongebob, ENA (Dream BBQ), Makoto Nijima (Persona
Kieran (Pokémon); Foggy, Cloudy, Murky, Misty, Smoggy (Jelle's Marble Runs). Sorry Smokey, Hazy, and Shade but 5 kittens is more than enough
I wasn't sure if Darkstalker and Makoto should be apprentices or warriors, sooo let's say they just had their warrior ceremony
Despite Mymy being a satirical and comedic character, I do genuinely find it kind of sad how much she resents her roots. I think it’s safe to say you can indulge in the culture of another country without hating the one you came from. Like not to get serious about Mymy Schoppenboer of all characters, but at the end of the day she’s just this teenage girl who basically hates herself
And that’s not to say I don’t think she’s genuinely happy in the Netherlands just living as a Dutch person, but it IS to say that she is incredibly distraught by anyone even knowing she’s from Japan. Kinda sad just in of itself despite the comedic aspects
No I don’t think Mymy is depressed or mentally fucked or whatever, at least not as she stands now. I think she’s actually doing pretty well for herself. But I imagine that if she stayed in Japan she’d definitely be a lot like Maya (hikikomymy is my cited source here)
I like to think that as she gets older, she kinda chills out. Doesn’t really hate Japan anymore. She doesn’t love it and doesn’t actively participate in the culture because at that point, it doesn’t really feel like hers, she’s become disconnected from it. But she has a healthy relationship with being an immigrant, and I think that’s a good thought
Sorry I get so serious about Mymy cause I hate to see her get bastardized the way she does. They’re sending this 16yo off to war </3 she’s just a girl hopelessly fixated on the Netherlands
I made this post in tumblrclan and decided “hey, this would be cool to draw!”
so, i started doing design notes for mymy, then the lore kinda started branching out more because of the clans
(ex, mymy, coco, and maya grow up and have drama or something which leads them to split one big clan into three small ones that create even more drama)
and decided that i should probably write all the extra lore down,,, then decided to make it into a full fanfic on ao3
I think fanfiction as a medium is different enough from mainstream literature in the tools it offers writers that it's a shame that it's not talked about more often. And it's not me saying "fanfic is better than books xD" because that sort of mindset is a symptom of people who aren't particularly well read in either medium. I'm just speaking of like... The little things you get to do with a fanfic that you genuinely can't really do in an original story.
I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.
I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.
You could call it cheap or a crutch and I mean, yeah, sure, it is a little bit: the fanfic relies on previously established emotional bonds and stakes to achieve its goal, and in some cases it saves the author from having to 'properly' build up its stakes. But I think it's INTERESTING that it has that tool at its disposal. I think it's a fun thing to play with and I think these built in expectations and emotional bonds are especially why I find story driven aus in particular to be fascinating in the amount of ways you can play with them. You know??
anon in my inbox said fanfic writers who wrote about dark and taboo topics were not “real writers” because of what they wrote about.
reblog if you believe anon is wrong and writers are writers, no matter what they write about. no matter how they portray these taboo topics.
reblog if you believe art can be about topics that are controversial, taboo or outright disturbing, and artists who create controversial, taboo or outright disturbing art are as valid as artists who create art of conservative values.