you are at the mercy of my whims

Annie/she/xe/NO DONATIONS/🇸🇬 Chinese/multifandom/if left alone will sink into a funk/have a good time wherever you are https://archiveofourown.org/users/Annie_phoenix

[shadowuserannie]

~Intro post~

Hi I'm Annie and really happy to be here! Pronouns are she/xe and I'm SG Chinese. I write on my AO3 a lot, and I'm also in a bunch of fandoms because my brain refuses to pick and stay with one.

DMI; No condoning proshippers/incest/uncomfy with that, no adult x minor, no homophobia, xenophobia, racism, intersexism, and in general try to be a decent human being and I'll be nice back.

My pfp is from the Witch picrew, and my background is a fanart of Beliung found on @znyxsone on Twitter/X!

If we're mutuals but then I unfollow you, just know it's likely unintentional. I am the exact perfect amount of stupid and sleep deprived to click the wrong button by accident.

Quote;

"Imagination creates something from nothing. And that just so happens to be the definition of magic." -Chris Colfer

[anxietyproblem]

[jjellecubed]

Reblog if you love your mutuals with all your heart and want to give them a big hug and shiny rocks

@allieslittlewritings @thecrimsonfog @ajsbau @finnjareau-prentiss @mxmmyprentiss @toomanyfanficsbruh @prehistoric-bau @ohmygoly

[ohmygoly]

SHINY ROCKSSS

@shadowuserannie @myfairkatiecat @doodle-do-wop @swans-chirping-in-the-distance @kale-of-the-forbidden-cities

[shadowuserannie]

@solangelo-taylors-version @cer-rata @telugu-girl-13 @fantasygeek-134 @samaniala @sabrine-bree-the-bravery @deniroses

[cer-rata]

Will @ckalaveram ever escape?

Another generation prepares to weather the horrors of a Gotham fundraiser... Textless + more under the cut.

[cer-rata]

Art by @ckalaveram ✨

"You're disgusting."

"Hey, I'm not the one getting blood everywhere."

"...I think that's worse?"

...Other things under the cut!

[shadowuserannie]

@cer-rata HAPPY NEW YEAR

New Guardians as their spectrum colours from the Jewel Changi Waterfall;

Emily Anderson

Korg

Tai Pham

Thyra Valkyr

Brian Bishop

Dyl Nox

Conrad Bishop

[inejsgirl]

♡ am i cute or am i jst annoying ♡

[shadowuserannie]

Orpheus AU

Name: Luka Couffaine

Miraculous: N.A.

Alias: N.A.

Age: 16

Likes: Music, Jagged Stone

Known For: being kind

Abilities: Mild music-based empathy

Goal/s: To get a job to do with music, hopefully start a romantic relationship with Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Date: Season 3, Pre-Desperada

Name: Luka Couffaine

Miraculous: Snake

Alias: Viperion

Age: 17

Likes: Music

Known For: being kind

Abilities: Mild music-based empathy and awareness, learning future outcomes

Goal/s: To get over Marinette, to stop the new Butterfly villain

Date: Season 6

Name: Luka Couffaine

Miraculous: Snake

Alias: Viperion Orpheus

Age: 17

Likes: Music

Known For: being kind

Abilities: Music-based empathy and awareness, manipulation through viewing of others' 'melodies', learning future outcomes

Goal/s: To defeat Hawk Moth without Adrien suffering, to stop the rise of Chrysalis

Date: Season 3, Post-Desperada

Name: ??

Miraculous: Snake

Alias: Orpheus

Age: ??

Likes: ??

Known For: Cryptic awareness of the future, stealing their Miraculous

Abilities: Music-based empathy and awareness, manipulation through viewing of others' 'melodies', learning future outcomes

Goal/s: To defeat Hawk Moth????

Date: Season 3, Post-Desperada

[whimsymosaic]

So…I finished ToA and I’m completely normal about it….

[inejsgirl]

Out of curiosity, did you ever learn about birth rates?

(this is going to be a KOTLC AAAAHHHHH SHANNON YOU DID NOT THINK THIS THROUGH)

like in school, or on my own? i did take a look at your post about it

[shadowuserannie]

Sort of both but also in general? Like have you learnt about it at all.

I've genuinely forgotten what post that would be.

But the reason the Lost Cities have set themselves up for self destruction is because IRL, people /die/, which is why kids are needed so the population doesn't decline. Uh, to explain better;

You need a continually growing workforce to support a continually growing economy. Hence you need a birthrate of 2.1 babies per couple (obviously you can't have 0.1 baby but I just thought I'd put that) 2 to replace the couple when they die and the 0.1 for increasing.

But 1. No one in the Lost Cities dies and 2. They likely have a birth rate of 1.0001 something.

The stigma against siblings means they're probably extra rare, because of the idiot "your best genes go to your first kid" thing, and therefore most likely most couples only have one child. But no one in the Lost Cities dies, so technically speaking this birth rate should work in their favor, right?

Wrong.

Because gene diversity. Because the supposed only good thing coming from matchmaking is not marrying you to family. Except if you only have one child per couple that will continue to narrow the number of children per year.

And in addition, space is also a concern. It's already been highlighted that population is growing but space is staying the same. That's eventually going to lead to overcrowding (if the series doesn't end with humans discovering the other species) or perhaps what comes first is total population collapse.

BUT AAAAAAALLLLLL OF THIS DOESN'T MATTER. KNOW WHY?

BECAUSE SHANNON'S ECONOMY MAKES NO SENSE

[ninjaarsenal]

daily reminder that both keefe and sophie have thought on a separate occasion that if dex was their enemy, they’d be screwed.

[mxsshxvon]

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[shadowuserannie]

I wish, that'd be so badass

[mxsshxvon]

oh boy you are gonna love the au I'm working on then

[shadowuserannie]

please tell me more

[mxsshxvon]

i would but the writeup is already 17 pages and only getting longer (and I don't even have a plot yet) so idk where I would send that to you

[shadowuserannie]

My direct messaging works, but I also have google docs

[ann-lol]

Wait I’m very confused with the current discourse about the matchmaking system…I thought it was so obviously put that it was bad and that almost every character in kotlc despises it and that it’s a system that needs to be overthrown…like that very fact doesn’t need to be interpreted- it’s not even implied? It’s like IN YOUR FACE. So much so that even ALVAR is against it like I’m actually confused /gen

[lezabeththetheodoraimposter]

wait wait i’ve been living under a rock (copious piles of homework) are there ppl defending the matchmaking system??

[ohmygoly]

I assumed they meant there should be more nuance or subtlety to the matchmaking system's good or evil question. To encourage actual analysis instead of being told the author's opinion outright.

[shadowuserannie]

In theory it makes sense but it falls apart under scrutiny.

Supposedly, here are the problems it resolves;

So you don't accidentally marry family

The way the elven society is set up means no matter who you kiss or date or marry, it's probably a distant relative of a relative. But what matchmaking seems to take into account is immediate and close blood ties, which makes sense. Bad idea to date your cousin. But if elves are so intelligent, so capable, why can't they just... memorize immediate family like normal people?

But okay, sure. Maybe they slip up a bit. /Then/ we have a registry or open ancestry record to check! And finally for security, have it be the law to do a DNA and paternity test before you are allowed to go ahead with your marriage. Just in case.

2. Gene pool diversity

Hahaha somehow I don't feel like I can trust this when Talentless are being bred out of the population along with Pyrokinetics. (And my lesser HC Shades)

It's also possible that elf DNA is wack in some ways and not actually that well understood. That's my best explanation for how despite best eugenics attempts Marella still exists.

PLUS! ALL THE GOOD THE SUPPOSED GENE POOL DIVERSITY DOES /DOESN'T/ /EVEN/ /MATTER/

Know why?

Because they have ONE KID PER COUPLE.

Their culture has the idea that one kid only is best. Obviously some couples have siblings but guys twins are something to be upset by and the Vacker and Dizznee siblings are not normal. Most elves have only one kid. To have a growing population you need a birth rate of 2 per couple or 2.1 to replace the parents except that doesn't even matter with the elven system because they live forever--

their newborn numbers are shrinking every year. their diversity is dying. Because the real issue here is the fact that they don't make siblings--

[ninjaarsenal]

daily reminder that both keefe and sophie have thought on a separate occasion that if dex was their enemy, they’d be screwed.

[mxsshxvon]

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[shadowuserannie]

I wish, that'd be so badass

[mxsshxvon]

oh boy you are gonna love the au I'm working on then

[shadowuserannie]

please tell me more

[ultralazycreatorfan]

Why did Brant burn Dex’s abdomen instead of his wrists like he did to Sophie? Surely that would’ve been much easier to obtain and repeat?

[ninjaarsenal]

potentially upsetting?? idk it’s all stuff that’s implied in the books but beware

probably because he wasn’t drugged like sophie and someone needed to pin him down. he seems to have been awake or semi-awake for most of the 10 days vs sophie who had to be drugged because she kept transmitting.

[shadytrashcollector]

It's also said that his burns were worse than Sophie’s. He probably did get burned on his wrists, but the abdomen was SO BAD that it left a scar. Sophie only got mental scars from that experience, Dex has that and more

[shadowuserannie]

[ninjaarsenal]

daily reminder that both keefe and sophie have thought on a separate occasion that if dex was their enemy, they’d be screwed.

[mxsshxvon]

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[shadowuserannie]

I wish, that'd be so badass

[killjoygem]

In case anyone missed the debate that's been happening on twitter right now 😭

This is killing me

[shadowuserannie]

I actually took it upon myself to create sixteen different scenarios based on different landscapes/combat areas, foreknowledge yes or no, and *inhales* unfortunately, even if they would receive prep time. But ultimately, here are the outcomes, even *after* removing the factor of Bunnyx;

Scenarios with prep time; all were won by Ladybug utilizing Second Chance and Mirage to gather knowledge about her enemies even without factor of foreknowledge. With factor of foreknowledge battle is won faster, however in those scenarios Second Chance is also disabled by Creati.

Scenarios with no prep time; the only ones where Class 1-A stands a chance due to raw power and reaction time. Due to the stupid amount of possibilities from an all-out battle, this is the one you can argue over. Depending on how quickly Second Chance is used, the chances of Miraculers winning either increase exponentially or fail. If foreknowledge is given you throw dice. If foreknowledge is not given and Bakugo gets lucky with who he blasts first the Miraculers lose. If Bakugo is not lucky and the Miraculers are not fast enough to start a plan together they lose.

Ultimately if the Miraculers can do a plan they win because they all default to Ladybug and they have more varied powers. If they don't Class 1-A wins in the remaining few scenarios.

[laughter-loving-thalia]

Just to be clear, I don't think Fitz's arc should be about learning to direct his anger to those who would 'deserve' it. The consistent reason why Fitz has been directing his anger at 'the wrong people' is because he had bottled it up instead of managing it healthily, which means his explosions were 1) completely outside of his control, and, 2) directed at people who 'didn't deserve it' simply because they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Fitz was not actively seeking to evacuate his anger on 'innocent' people and use them as punching bags, he is just really, really unlucky about the timing of his explosions, because they always happen to be in public. Which could just be another one of these disadvantages of being the Lost Cities' golden boy that they don't tell you about on the job's résumé.

Thus learning to direct his anger would be more like trying to treat a symptom than looking for a cure. The 'cure' would be to confront the core issue: Fitz should not be bottling up his negative emotions, and should not see his explosions as the only way to get them out. The explosions are not the flaw themselves, they're the result of a flaw, a psychological failure; which is that Fitz, the most elf to ever elf, doesn't know how to healthily regulate his emotions to save his life.