Hiii :D I'm going to go with Y T R O K for the ask thing
Hey babe! Let’s give this a go!
Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Ha so right now, Yuri on Ice is a big one. STAR WARS is also a big one though Rogue One has potentially ruined that for me, we’ll see how deep I am willing to dive. Gotham was also a big one but I’m almost caught up. I try to watch the things that are all over my dash because I wanna know, generally. Supergirl is on that list too. I would say Voltron and Overwatch but I literally have no idea what either of those are about, they’re just on my dash a lot.
T - Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
God in which fandom? I guess my hardest and fastest headcanon is that in the series finale of Hannibal, Will was playing Hannibal the entire time. He was never going to go with him, he was always going to push him over the edge of that cliff. That was the plan from the beginning of the episode, that he would never be free of him so they both had to die. This headcanon is why I hesitate to talk to Fannibals about the finale, as much as I love ally’all. I will also die defending that Mr. Eames is genderqueer. A dream can always spot an unconvincing fake, and for Eames to be such a convicing forger of THE OPPOSITE GENDER he has to have a deep, physical understanding of being that other gender. You can’t learn that shit 100%, you have to have it intuitively. Mr. Eames is genderfluid af.
I’m sure I’ll think of more once this is done.
R - Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
The Doctor and his companions. 100% always. I do not ship the Doctor with any of his companions except Romana and Rory, because Romana is a Time Lady and Rory is actually mentally older than he is. I ADORE the pure, beautiful friendships he has with his companions, even if he is the worst and abandons them more often than not. He’s a coward but his friendship is so fucking good and so fucking pure. Also: Tommy Shepherd and Kate Bishop. As much as I DO ship them I find their friendship 10000% more important than any physical or romantic relationships they might have at any point. And it makes me SO angry that. Also Also: Grantaire and Joly’s friendship, because it is literally the friendship between me and one of my besties, and I genuinely believe that this friendship is incredibly important to Grantaire’s character. Grantaire is a deeply depressed alcoholic artist who is very very gay. It is historically relevant because historically emotionally unstable gay men would end up being best friends with their doctors, because they were the only people they could talk to. Joly is his best friend and his Doctor. Joly is also in his social class, as a similar sense of humor, and is generally unaffected by Grantaire’s endless ranting. Their friendship is so important. R isn’t Joly’s best friend but Joly is definitely R’s.
O - Choose a song at random. Which ship or character does it remind you of?
I put my ipod on random and it gave me Waterfalls by TLC. Which, hilariously, has a much stronger rl connection for me than a fandom one. BUT. This is a really good (Netflix) Defenders song. Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Matt Murdock, Danny Rand (even if we haven’t seen Danny yet).
K - What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?
I love a good development arc. My favorite though…I don’t know. Not to sound like a broken record but Rory Williams from Doctor Who has fantastic development and so does Amy tbh. Like their development TOGETHER is a shining light in a sea of garbage writing, baby plot aside. Agron’s development in Spartacus is really good, but it’s more subtle. I think though, out of all of my favorites the best character development arc has to be Arthur Pendragon on Merlin. He was so receptive to everything that was happening that he really developed for better or worse as a character. S1 Arthur is a child. S5 Arthur is a King (with so so much baggage). I love Arthur so much.