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[flukysims]

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[merlyybird]

you’re literally so right about spamtenna and crew btw. I was feeling crazy like I was the only one before seeing your posts

hey thanks for giving me an excuse to talk about this at length LMAO

like. i don't dislike tenna and co. on principle. anyone who's followed my blog knows that tenna was my favorite newcomer when chapters 3 & 4 dropped. i only started having a problem when spamtenna started eclipsing nearly all other discussion about the game and its characters. even tenna's relationships with characters besides spamton, and to a lesser extent the mikes, stopped getting much focus in the fandom. filtering spamtenna means blocking pretty much every third post in the deltarune tag. it's a little irksome when i feel other characters deserve more of the spotlight.

regarding spamtenna...the ship just feels too stuck in the past for me. especially compared to something like mettatenna, which is also based in canon material but involves a fresh start for tenna. i think it's more narratively satisfying to see him move on from his old life in the dreemurr household, after we spent the whole of chapter 3 watching him cling desperately to a past that no longer exists.

i like tenna's relationship with spamton when viewed as another vehicle for chapter 3's themes. he's obsessed with the idea of a good relationship with spamton, how things could have been different and better, but the truth is they never were and never could be. the fandom-wide obsession with spamtenna has us dwelling in the painful nostalgia right along with him. that's part of the reason why the video from the newsletter—or rather, the resurgence in spamtenna discussion following it—kinda made my eye twitch. yes, those two were doomed, and yes, that's interesting, but tenna's life doesn't have to continue to revolve around The Divorce(s). the game gives you the choice to let him move on from that, actually. that cutscene, according to the newsletter, only plays if he's still in your castle town by chapter 5, feeling more lost than ever and enabled to backslide into his old ways.

anyway, i know i'm sounding a little bitter here, but i do want to be clear that i still think there's merit in examining spamton and tenna's relationship. i think it says a lot about the kind of characters they are, and the little ways in which they're intertwined are interesting. i just don't understand it being the center of so much fandom attention several months later. it amounts to a squick for me at the end of the day, but like, damn. i miss susie.

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 3x15 - "The Big Bang Job"

[auncyen]

My random fandom thought that popped into my brain during work: Royal's third semester being optional is the best sign I can think of that Maruki, while DEFINITELY having dubious and bad methods, really is trying to help people and not hurt them.

[cyber-streak-2]

Because I’m still thinking about the new idea I mentioned in the last post, im just gonna go ahead and talk about it, and I wanna dump out some stuff for it already:

It’s a bit paranormal/supernatural.

Found family (Can Never Have Too Much Of Found Family)

I’d say “Ghost-Hunting”, but it isn’t exactly that- the characters are just doing... normal-ish things, and then ghost related (or other creatures, not just ghosts), happen. I guess sometimes the characters would be out searching, but not every time.

There’s six main-ish characters in total. Five of them are human, while the sixth is a ghost that can be seen and heard by everybody, although said ghost kept themselves hidden for a while until eventually revealing themselves to the others.

Tags: @aecholapis @ivycorp @novafire-is-thinking @swede-fish

[abigailthedreamer]

*Crashes Down from the Celling* HI HELLO I COME WITH MANDELA CATALOGUE THING.

It’s kind of a headcanon/Theory so Hear me out:

The existence of Alt Gabriel basically ceased the existence of Christianity from the get-go. let me explain. Theory under cut.

As we all Know The angel Gabriel was the one to foretell to Mary that she’ll be giving birth to Jesus. But of course, given that original gabriel was taken over by Alt gabe (maybe the devil in disguise) that promise proved only hollow and the biblical story went on as normal. but without the characters you’d usually see in the tale, no 3 wise men (With no Jesus being born, King Herod never sent them to find the child), no star and obviously no shepherds because lets just say alt gabe already scared them off. Just Mary and Joseph, in some musty ass stable surrounded by animals, and Mary giving birth to a completely ordinary boy.

‘But Abigail, who was the person talking in the desert at the end of overthrone?’ good question! i have 3 possibilities. 1. It’s Mary cursing herself for believing what, to her must’ve been just a hallucination but having the most horrid feeling that she just doomed everything just from letting alt gabe trick her. (almost like the serpent tricking adam and eve HAYOO-)

2. It’s the now ordinary Jesus, the aftermath of probably getting the first and last words from his would’ve been father, god. making the ‘if there’s a god, please help me’ terrifying

3 and pretty out there, Its god himself being cursed to wander the desert for eternity by alt gabe/the devil. without a holy power stopping him, he (alt gabe/the devil) has all the time in the world to build is alternate army. also the thought of God, an all powerful and all knowing being begging for another god to help him is a haunting thought. Ok that’s my theory. uhh....yea. TL:DR: The existence of Alt Gabriel royally fucked over Christanity as the mandela catalogue universe knew it.

[crackinglamb]

Fic Author Self Rec

Tagged by @dreadfutures, thank you! 💕💕💕

Tagging @ir0n-angel, @fasterpuddytat, @pikapeppa, @sinsbymanka and @sorrelchestnut. No pressure, as ever.

When you get this, reply with your favourite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love.

I've written a lot, you know, over several fandoms. This was incredibly hard. In the end, I determined my own favorites are the ones I have reread over and over. And even then I'm gonna cheat with some honorable mentions at the end.

In chronological order:

1 - Unexpected (FO4, F!SoSu/Kellogg, rated E, 30K words, 'ware the tags). Listen, sometimes you just need to be the change you want to see in the world. Kellogg's arc disappointed me on many levels. From the standpoint of him being a 'villain' to the possibly haunting everyone's favorite synth bait. This was my first truly canon divergent AU, and I never meant for it to become a full fic, I honestly didn't. But I ended up falling in love with the concept I'd created, so I had to see it through to the end. I have a weakness for the broken ones. Tien Xu remains the OC with the darkest backstory. Seriously, pay attention to the tags if you read it.

2 - Accidental Synchronicity (ME, Jack|Subject Zero/Thane Krios, rated E, 17K words). Ahh, rarepairs. Completely unplanned ones, at that. To date I am still 22% of the ship's authors. A one off line in the main fic of my Shakarian series became a plot bunny that wouldn't quit. It grew into a slice of life romance that covered the events of ME2 and ME3, leading to canon's hamfisted ending for Thane. The only reason I didn't change it is because it was already established elsewhere. Still, it remains one of the fics I am most proud of.

3 - Hope Is a Fragile Thing (DA:I, Solas/OFC, rated T, 13K words). In a lot of ways this fic was an experiment. I love to write MCIT's, but it's hard to come up with a backstory sometimes, so I didn't make one. I wanted to write something post-canon, a favorite trope of mine. And I wanted to completely finish a fic before posting it. Many, many of you have found me because of Twist, which is light and relatively fluffy, to say nothing of its sequel that is pure, unadulterated sugar. But angst with a happy ending is my bread and butter.

4 - Of Ruins and Restoration (DA:I, Cadash & Solas, rated G, 3870 words). If you asked me where Lark Cadash came from, I would immediately blame Manka (with all the love, of course), because without her whole entire throng of Soladash works, I wouldn't have fallen down this rabbit hole. Suffice to say, I got hooked. And then I got Ideas(tm). OR&R is the culmination of many headcannons about dwarves, the desire to have more content for a ship I didn't know I needed and the feverish grip of the Muse that sprang out of my head wholecloth at the end of 2021. It is the introductory work for this character I've absolutely gone to pieces with love for. Eventually there will be more of it, but for now it stands alone as a oneshot. There is a companion oneshot that falls outside of her 'canon', as well.

5 - What a Wicked Game to Play (DA:I, Solas/OFC, rated E, 278K+ words, current WIP). 😏 Did you really think this wasn't going to make the list? WG is everything I have ever wanted to put into a fic, and Imogen is the character I have always wanted to write. Aside from being the new shiny (because it really isn't at this point), I have enjoyed almost every moment of digging into the lore and rebuilding it from the ground up. I have so many plans and so much left to tell for my curly haired girl.

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order):

Junkyard Dogs (FO4, F!SoSu/Hancock, rated E, 107K words) my very first fic.

No More My Heart Beats Without You (DA:I, Solas/F!Trevelyan, rated E, 5555 words), sad, angsty pwp. 'Ware the tags.

Unrepentant (DA:I, Solas/F!Lavellan, rated E, 3096 words), smutty dark!Solas Fade shenanigans.

And Maker Damned Fools (DA2-I, Varric/F!Hawke, rated E, 16K words), my vector into writing DA. I will go down with this ship.