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I've got tons of fic ideas that I'm never gonna write but would love to read so I'm dropping them here in hopes that people will write them and tell me about it (in addition to just random stuff ig) *NeonLightzzz9000* on ao3

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Every time "Say no to this" from Hamilton comes on I remember when me and two friends watched the musical for the first time. When I looked over during the song the others had the exact same look of utter disgust on their faces (I probably also mirrored that expression)

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2 people who give me similar vibes? Alligatoah and bbno$

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Honestly I feel like a lot of the problems of modern superheroes arise from their powers not being properly explored and utilized.

Like, could Dr. Strange not have cut Thanos in half with his portals? Could we have explored what effect the usage of the stones in the mirror dimension would have?

And as much as I love Atom Eve, I feel like doing something like solidifying the air around (or inside) Conquest would have been much more effective than just creating various constructs to hit him with (we even saw that her density shifting affected him much more than the giant mallet).

To be fair, maybe you're not at your most creative in a high stress situation, but please, if you go down that route, adress it.

The reason why characters like Hama are so great (besides posing moral questions to the characters and the viewer, in this case at least) is because they think outside the box and find unconventional but effective ways to use their abilities and environment.

The fight between Rex and the Retro Invincible is great (and devastating) because he HAD to be creative to win. He couldn't brute force is way to victory but he could take Invincible by surprise. It's given weight because there's no other way that it could've ended, not with the defeat of Invincible at least.

It's frustrating when in the big moments you're most powerful characters are at their least inventive. When they fall back on patterns that we're familiar with and that we KNOW won't work, when we also know that they're capable of so much more.

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The devil may work fast but my biochem prof grades exams faster

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Really in my feels rn so if someone has a short and sad fic abt the remaining Apollo kids missing their siblings after the second titanomachy that'd be great

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It's time for another semi-regularly scheduled "Am I naturally more productive at night or is that just when the stress becomes big enough to override the executive disfunction?"

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Conquest every time he gets a new assignment to subdue a planet:

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I saw one edit of Ekko and Jinx to 'Est-ce que to m'aimes?' and now I can't listen to the song without thinking of them and feeling vaguely melancholic.

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I love the way Invincible poses moral questions without a clear answer, as opposed to most heroism media.

Are some people too dangerous to be left alive? Does the saving of untold numbers of lives condone their death?

Should criminals be punished for their crimes and/or rehabilitated so they can do better and give back to society from now on? And do those good actions redeem you eventually, or will you always have to make up for your crimes?

How unmoral are your actions allowed to be until they're not worth the good they do overall? And is not allowing any unsavoury actions in the interest of the greater good immoral in itself?

Are your good deeds worth anything if they're done without the intent to do good but as a byproduct or a means to reach a different goal?

Is the possibility of someone wreaking havoc enough to have countermeasures against them? Do the actions of their loved ones make them more of a threat?

I appreciate it so much when fiction actually looks at such issues from different angles instead of just going with the usual 'Bad actions as a means to an end are evil' kinda judgement. It just isn't that easy with many conflicts. That's why we have courts, to individually look at the situation from an unbiased standpoint. (Or that's what they're supposed to be anyways.) It surely doesn't get any easier when you throw superpowers and world ending threats in the form of individual people into the mix.

It's easy to say how you would handle a difficult situation when you're not in it. But would you really act that way if you were? Would you actually have the strength and courage to solve the problem? And if you don't, would you be willing to take responsibility for letting it be?

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Thank you, ao3 overlords, for scheduling maintenence tomorrow for when I'm at work anyways

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Ho wake up, eternalglitch just updated Like Father Like Son

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I think the parallel between Miguel and Kingpin should be explored more.

Kingpin tried to bring an alternate version of Vanessa and Richard to his universe and failed. He lost his family because of his own choices before trying to use the multiverse.

Miguel tried to go to a universe where he can live happily with Gabriella and failed. He lost her twice, a second time because of his own choices of meddling with the multiverse.

We don't get to see what Kingpin's next course of action would've been, but we know how it affected Miguel. He's using the theory of canon events to justify what happened to his daughter and tries to enforce that upon the other Spider-People because if Gabriella's death wasn't set in stone, if they aren't meant to lose their loved ones like this, that would mean he could've saved her. Could've saved her and still have her but he didn't. If the deaths of their loved ones are not inevitable and could be prevented sith the knowledge that their community gives them that means Gabriella could have lived.

Assuming that Miles will save his parents and disprove the canon events theory, what will that do with Miguel?

Miguel and Kingpin are similar in that they both weren't able to let go of their lost loved ones. Miles isn't willing to let go either, but he can still do something about it.

If Miguel had started Spider-Society and thought up the canon events theory but Gabriella was still alive, would he be willing to help Miles? Is the reason that Miguel tries to stop him because he thinks that that will destroy his universe, ir because it would prove that Gabriella could have been saved?

(Of course that leaving out some nuances and surrounding information, but it's a question of how the people around you and grief can influence your perspective and actions.)

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I love dimension travel, I love crossovers and I love fics where Tim basically gets isekai'd and is being a badass about it so I present to thee: Tim becomes the Shield Hero.

He already has experience fighting with blunt weapons and, while he's a social butterfly when he wants to be, he is practised and comfortable with working alone and he knows feeling ostracised and unjustly mistrusted. He knows what being alone entails, he knows how to survive being hunted.

So despite their protest and despite the hatred he has to endure by everyone around him, he manages to bully the other heroes and anyone who gets on his radar as a fighter to be their best selves and get competent enough to not die and to be able to protect the civilians during the waves.

After a while, his little band of misfits and the other heroes and their people manage to work together and even become friends.

Of course all of that is preceeded by a shit ton of angst and Tim levelling up to an absolute badass.

I also love dramatic reveals, so in this version of the tale, the heroes will eventually be sent be sent back home. No time will have passed at all and, at least in my imagination, they won't have aged but still retain the marks of their quest.

They also get to keep their weapons.

Tim, of course, tells no one, and goes right back to being Red Robin. The others feel like somethings up but they don't have any proof (they have yet to see Tim use the Shield to get out of a tight spot, or be injured enough that he needs to use one of his potions).

Tim kept the book that started it all, hidden in the Nest, but it is found. The family is worried about Tim so, like the sane and normal people they are, they go through his stuff. Thoroughly.

They find the book just as Tim arrives and seeing him tense at its sight, they naturally have to read it.

That's how they all end up in Melromarc.

They appear in the throne room in front of Queen Mirellia, Melty and their guard. The bats don't even have time to brace themselves as Melty barrels into Tim. They're initial defensiveness is replaced by confusion as they watch Tim hug the teary-eyed girl. Their questions get ignored as the Queen quietly talks to one of her guards before coming over as the guard leaves.

They don't know what to think when she greets him, respectful but warmly nonetheless.

Tim knows these people, he's been here before. They just need to figure out where 'here' is.

They have still not gotten any closer to answers when a woman with animal ears rides in on a giant bird and scoops Tim and the girl up.

When the bird transforms into a girl and starts calling Tim 'Papa' (he'd gotten Filo to stop calling him Master eventually and this was the alternative she settled on) the bats have officially checked out mentally.

They vaguely register Tim dragging them through a medieval looking city and meeting a blacksmith? They've decided to just let Tim have his moment and hound him for answers when they get back home.

Why did they end up in Melromarc? Were they summoned? Were the other heroes? Will Tim get to show off the skills he's learned here?

(You could even build in a little scene where Tim mentions how useful his potion skill is with his asplenia and everyone freaks out because what do you mean you're missing an organ?!)

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"There is no bad weather, only bad clothing."

Yes, but unfortunately I do kinda need to wear my glasses.

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I know people have already pointed out the similarities between Odysseus and Penelope's story with Stoick and Valka's and I've seen at least parts of an animatic of Stoick and Valka to Would You Fall in Love With Me Again, but dear gods I need someone to animate a younger Odysseus and Penelope at their wedding to The Dancing And The Dreaming.

Maybe even them meeting and it transitions to their wedding day and beyond during "And love me for eternity"

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Most or the time when I see an animatic I don't actually look at it cause I get distracted singing the song it's overlaid with

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I can't think in these lighting conditions.