UnproblematicMe

Probably older than you, female, nerd, weird, but alright (I think), fanfiction writer. NSFW, no minors please My stories on AO3   Buy me a coffee?

[emeraldstorms]

Spoilers for Supergirl under the cut

Can we talk about how Kara's father sent her deliberately to the same place his brother had sent Kal-El, but with the opposite mission? He knew what Jor wanted Kal to do and what he possibly would have done had the message not been destroyed and Clark had not been raised with the Kents' values.

But Zor sent Kara out, telling her to protect those who can't protect themselves. Maybe now, that the last piece of Krypton was dying, he didn't want what remains of his home to be a ruthless dictator.

I won't stop thinking about that for quite some time.

[comicpolls]

Favourite Platonic Duo: Round One Match Sixty-One of Sixty-Four

Dick Grayson (Nightwing/Robin) & Damian Wayne (Robin)

Bruce Wayne (Batman) & Cassandra Cain (Batgirl)

Voting ended onJun 13

[unproblematicme]

Dick and Damian always! They were there for each other like the original Dynamic Duo used to be. They mirrored perfectly what Bruce and Dick had as Dick now had to be the bright and hopeful Batman to Damian’s brooding Robin just as he had been the bright and hopeful Robin to Bruce’s brooding Batman.

This dynamic perfectly places Dick between two generations of Waynes who carry their own and other people’s expectations on their back and need to cut others but mostly themselves some slack.

Not much time left, but vote Dick and Damian if you can.

[the-hollanov-agenda]

”Do you think Ilya finds it hot when Shane…”

Yes! Ilya does. He finds it hot when Shane. “When Shane” is his favorite thing in the world and it makes him hard immediately.

[tarawitht]

I love the idea of Shane and Troy being besties, but logistically? It’s just not happening. Troy is way too shy and introverted to make that jump. He’s a sweetheart who respects boundaries to a fault, so if Shane acts distant or quiet, Troy is just going to politely give him space. They would literally just nod at each other in the locker room forever.

To befriend Shane Hollander, you have to aggressively force him into it. He has so much social anxiety and such a need for control that he will never initiate a friendship because he constantly thinks he’s bothering people. You have to completely ignore his polite aloofness and just decide you’re best friends now. That’s definitely how Hayden adopted him, and it’s exactly why Hazy is the one who would actually become Shane's bestie.

Hazy is way too social and open to care about Shane's chilly exterior. He would literally force feed Shane his presence until Shane randomly wakes up one day and finds himself hanging out one on one with Hazy at his house. Hazy would just show up with takeout, plop down on the couch, and start rambling about some reality TV show until Shane just sighs, accepts his fate, and realizes three months later that they are attached at the hip.

Ilya would be so smug and amused.

[the-hollanov-agenda]

Shoutout to “Random Third Guy”.

Hollanov are laying the foundation of the gayest Ice Hockey scandal ever and he is just happy to be there.

[the-hollanov-agenda]

Ilya Rozanov is God’s strongest soldier. Not many people could have watched Shane Hollander neatly fold his clothes mid-striptease without asking for his hand in marriage.

[unproblematicme]

I love that both Ilya and Shane have an “anti [character]” tag. Both tags have only a handful of posts and exactly two users posting in them.

[depraveddame]

Also! If you have been wondering “why didn’t Crowley and Aziraphale disappear when the BoL was destroyed that seems like a pretty major plot element” don’t worry you’re not alone because at least one of the three writers also doesn’t know!

They’re not even trying to hide the bad writing. They are being very open about it actually which I think is interesting.

And before anybody comes for me— I don’t subscribe to the idea that public art isn’t subject to criticism. If a writer is going to play in fandom spaces like this and admit they don’t know what they were doing then that information is FAIR GAME and we SHOULD be critical of this. Never attack creators or cast or crew directly but miss me with the idea that we cannot be critical of very real and very openly shared issues

[purpie-goddess]

"In every universe" EXCEPT THE ONE THAT MATTERED

[bananafishgorillashoelace2]

genuinely struggling to cope, GO was my escape and now I have to escape from it 😞 🫂

[unproblematicme]

Book based Good Omens fics

Checkmate

On the one hand Crowley really loved the post-apocalyptic – more relaxed – version of his angel. But since Aziraphale felt more comfortable in the demon’s presence now, the arrogant bastard he deep down was showed more often than in the past. He had acquired a liking for teasing his old friend and while Crowley of all people had no business being annoyed about friendly bickering, this time he really was miffed.

Bargain

Aziraphale has been living among an order of monks for a few months. Books, good company and peace. Nothing more to ask for. A demonic attack disturbs the harmony. Aziraphale can save the monks, but can he also save the monastry's biggest treasure? Good thing he knows the leader of the hostile forces personally.

Old Flames

This was not the first time faith had thrown them together and it would not be the last. And it was not the first time they were so close, their noses brushing, their breath mingling and both staring into the other’s eyes intensely, not as friends and certainly not as enemies. But it was the first time their defense broke.

[unproblematicme]

I will be focusing on the Good Omens bookverse for now. After all we know that there the Antichrist and his Hellhound walk back home to Tadfield. “Forever.” And as long as Adam is there - and he is there forever -he will keep the universe in line and the Earth, including Crowley and Aziraphale safe.

[sunkissed-strawberries]

I think it's fair to say that one went down like a lead balloon

[cliopadra]

Please excuse the text and let me be cringe, that ending fucked me up so bad I’ll be recovering longer than from OFMD Izzy’s death

Plus a little extra:

[unproblematicme]

Clio should’ve been in the writers’s room!

[whispsofwind]

Ok no

One last thing about the GO finale because if I see another post about "that's how Terry would've written it" and "it's beautiful and makes thematic sense" and "you just don't get it" I WILL lose it, and I am getting pissed already because you don't get to drag one of my favourite authors through the mud to justify a rapist making a mess of a beloved story.

This is from the book. You know the only thing Sir Terry Pratchett actually had a hand in writing

Pag 206:

Adam wasn’t listening, at least to any voices outside his own head. “It’s all too much of a mess,” he said. “We should start again. Just save the ones we want and start again. That’s the best way. It’d be doing the Earth a favor, when you come to think about it. It makes me angry, seeing the way those old loonies are messing it up . . .”

Pag 212

“Er,” said Wensleydale, “don’t you think our mothers and fathers—” “Don’t you worry about them,” said Adam loftily. “I can make some new ones. There won’t be any of this being in bed by half past nine, either. You don’t ever have to go to bed ever, if you don’t want to. Or tidy your room or anything. You just leave it all to me and it will be great.” He gave them a manic smile. “I’ve got some new friends comin’,” he confided. “You’ll like ’em.” “But—” Wensleydale began. “You jus’ think of all the amazin’ stuff afterwards,” said Adam enthusiastically. “You can fill up America with all new cowboys an’ Indians an’ policemen an’ gangsters an’ cartoons an’ spacemen and stuff. Won’t that be fantastic?”

Pag 286

“I can make them better, too. Better trees to climb, better ponds, better . . .” His voice trailed off. “You can’t,” said Wensleydale flatly. “They’re not like America and those places. They’re really real. Anyway, they belong to all of us. They’re ours.” “And you couldn’t make ’em better,” said Brian. “Anyway, even if you did we’d all know,” said Pepper.

Remaking the Earth so it would "be better" and making new people to populate it is, you know. The Bad Ending of the book. As written above.

Anything but saving and protecting and improving the flawed world we have right here right now is a slap in the face of the original work.

So don't come at me with bullshit

[darklinaforever]

I realize that every time a Western show ends, the ending disappoints me. This is almost never the case with Asian works or books. It seems like screenwriters always create sad or bittersweet endings as a pretense of maturity and realism, rather than in response to a writing structure that actually leads to that. When a second part ends on a negative note, the third part isn't supposed to be anything but a happy ending. Or the fact that they create characters with suicidal tendencies and then actually kill them off at the end. What the hell is wrong with these damn screenwriters?!

[ivejustbeenthinking]

Laying in bed tonight I just am moping and I actually wish it had just never been made. I would rather have been left on the cliff hanger of the kiss forever.

[crowleys-hips]

the problem isn't “they didn’t get the ship moment I wanted.” the problem is thematic incoherence.

season 1 and 2 kept hammering the idea that individual lives matter. not replaceable copies. not "close enough." actual people, with continuity and memory and history. Crowley and Aziraphale repeatedly chose imperfect, messy existence over grand cosmic plans. so ending with "the universe gets reset and everyone is replaced by alternate versions" isn't just horribly depressing. it's philosophically backwards. like the story literally abandoned its own argument in the final act.

the Job parallel especially points that out pretty cleanly. The whole emotional weight there was: replacement children are not the same children. new children (even if they had, by some chance, looked and acted Exactly The Same) doesn't fix the tragedy of losing the original children. that mattered to them. so yea, this ending feels less like "hopeful transcendence to tear down The System" and more like “congrats on your happy ending! everyone is dead, but the cottage is cute!" bold creative choice ig. like serving tea with eccles cakes after detonating reality.

my frustration is basically: the story spent years arguing that personhood matters — memory matters, continuity matters, these exact souls matter. and then solved the finale with a cosmic reset that wipes out the very identities the narrative taught us to care about. very much like the nuclear apocalypse they were trying so hard to prevent. it goes against the very thing Crowley was staunchly opposed to during The Flood. against everything they did in the Job minisode. against literally the entire Jim/Gabriel narrative, about Jim not really being Gabriel without his memories. and also, to quote Crowley, "the angel you knew is NOT me."

"but they found each other again! we got them back at the end!" no we didn't. that is NOT them. and to say that they are is kind of insulting tbh. they LOOK similar and maybe have some of the same interests, but just bc a blonde and a red head are into books and astrophysics doesn't make them THEM. their memories, their history, everything they went through together and fought for, the experiences that shaped their characters, those 6000+ years — that's all GONE.

Also. people keep saying stuff like "it was the only right choice" as if there were only two horrible choices? if the story introduces negotiation and moral choice, we'll naturally start imagining alternatives. once “God offers options” enters the chat, people will obviously ask, “wait. why was this the chosen solution?” when they could've gone for idk, literally anything else. God literally offered to put things back as they were. they could've chosen to have THAT universe, THAT world —THEIR world— put back into place and then added their own conditions to tear down Heaven and Hell. they could've chosen to keep their memories. they could've chosen to make everyone human from then on if that's what the writers were so hellbent on. they could've chosen to make God erase her own memory for all i care idfk. but this ending feels like a bad consolation prize.

after EVERYTHING they did, and everything they went through, they deserved SO much better than this. THE WHOLE WORLD did.

New Earth isn't Earth. a Michael Jackson impersonator isn't actually Michael Jackson. The Other Mother isn't the real mother. those new people aren't their original selves. and whoever those guys are at the end are not Aziraphale and Crowley.