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[veilder]

Veil's Prompts Masterlist

I'm running very low on prompts now so I've decided to consolidate all of the one's I've posted into one, easy-to-find list. I'll leave a brief description of each one and a link to the posts. Any warnings are posted on the prompts themselves. Enjoy! ^_^

1. Connor gets visibly scarred and Gavin helping him come to terms with it.

2. Beauty and the Beast Convin AU

3. Captain Allen encounters Vigilante!Sixy

4. Rarepair Chris Miller/Gavin Reed

5. Human!AU Kid Nines gets caught up in one of Gavin's cases. (Convin)

6. Gavin getting framed as a crooked cop and Connor being the only one to believe him. (Convin)

7. Markus being plagued by errors and eventually encountering Sixty and Amanda in the defunct Zen Garden.

8. Hank/Fowler (Howler lol) Rarepair friends to lovers

9. Daniel & Emma found family roadtrip with Kara and Alice

10. Reed-Kamski Bros fix-it fic with side Convin and also a murderous RT600.

11. Olympic!AU with hockey player!Gavin and figure skater!Connor. (Convin)

12. Connor gets severely damaged on a case. Gavin saves his life to everyone's surprise. And reveals himself as a tech genius at the same time. (Reed-Kamski Bros)

13. Gavin is the responding officer to the incident the first time Kara gets broken. And he accidentally becomes an android rights icon because of it. (Potentially rarepair Gavin/Kara?)

14. Daniel/Sixty Rarepair fic

15. MMA!AU with up-and-coming middleweight Gavin, old heavyweight champ, Hank, as his coach, and Connor as the new, top-of-the-line trainer android sent to them to help refine Gavin's technique. (Convin)

16. Echo x Ripple Rarepair backstory fic

17. Kamski is deemed a threat by the US government during the Revolution and is set to be detained. He manages to escape but is forced to leave Chloe behind. And now he's on a mission to get her back, no matter what it takes. (Chloski)

18. The Parent Trap-inspired AU that no one wanted, lol. Featuring precocious twins, Connor and Silas, scheming to get their parents together. (Endgame Hank/Amanda)

19. Gavin Reed being a Grinch, but his boyfriend making his Christmas better. (Convin, Christmas fic)

20. It's A Wonderful Life-inspired AU wherein Gavin suffers a messy breakup, gets drunk, and pesters his estranged half-brother enough that Kamski sticks him in a prototype simulation machine that shows him what things would be like if he'd never been born. (Reed-Kamski Bros)

21. Hank-centric post-canon fic where he encounters the medical android who operated on his son.

22. Canon divergence where Connor deviates in the evidence room before Gavin comes to find him. An unlikely partnership comes of it.

23. Post-canon fic wherein Fowler sends Hank on an undercover mission and is forced to fake his death to survive, leaving Connor to grieve him.

24. Crackfic wherein Kamski, as CEO of CyberLife, is desperate to patent his "android" technology. The only problem? The last holdout of Google and their Samsung phones. XD

25. Nines-centric fic focusing on him being the antithesis of his fanon characterizations and embracing the drama inherent in the RK line.

26. Connor, in an effort to win Gavin's affections, reads a trashy magazine, and, from the tips it gives, determines that his brother is actually better suited to the man. Cue him being an absolute idiot and trying to set Nines up with Gavin, despite them not having feelings for each other. All the while he pines like a dumbass.

27. Crackfic wherein all 200,000 RK900 prototypes get accidentally shipped to retail stores to be used as mannequins.

28. The absolute chaos that ensues when you stick Sixty and Perkins in the same room and they accidentally become evil bffs.

29. The one where Connor, as a specialized prototype, has the ability to "mark" people with "scents" he can use to track them down. An ability which he finds he has to use when he gets partnered up with Gavin Reed for an undercover assignment. (Convin)

30. Sixty giving Gavin the most terrifying shovel talk of his life. (Convin)

31. Canon divergence where Connor manages to deviate at the last moment during the bad ending. And, with nowhere else to go, he seeks out the human who made it possible. (Hank and Connor friendship/family bonding)

32. Gavin 100% embodying the tsundere trope and getting hella jealous when he thinks Connor and Chloe are in a relationship.

33. Anderfam/RK Bros-centric fic where Sixty wants to differentiate himself from his brothers and undergoes a procedure to change his appearance. Except it goes very wrong.

34. Crackfic where Nines' reputation as a hardass is because his humor settings were never turned on. And when that's fixed? Chaos ensues.

35. Time travel!AU where Gavin is actually sent back from the nuclear ending future to try and stop the Revolution from happening, only to fail when Connor knocks him out in the evidence room. Except... things happen differently this time. And he has to come to terms with the fact that the enemy he's been fighting for so long might actually be alive after all. (Convin)

36. Human!AU where Gavin and Connor went to high school together. And Gavin used to bully Connor mercilessly. Cut to the present where he ends up in the hospital only for Connor to be his attending doctor and exactly Gavin's type, too. Cue him making an absolute fool of himself as he tries to win over the guy he used to pick on while hopped up on meds. (Convin)

37. The Old Guard-inspired AU wherein Connor is an immortal warrior. And Gavin is his mortal lover who reincarnates every few decades. (Convin)

38. A newly-repaired Sixty, who feels bad for his actions during the Revolution, sets about trying to improve Connor's reputation around Jericho. And accidentally makes a home for himself along the way.

39. Failed Revolution ending. Connor has been reset and recommissioned as a teaching aid, used to demonstrate CyberLife's new anti-deviancy software. He's sent to the DPD for one such demonstration. Gavin Reed might have a few problems with that.

40. Ensemble cast Heist!AU! Mostly centered around disgraced cop, Hank Anderson, and former CFO of CyberLife, Connor, as they try to take the company down.

41. The one where Fowler is sick of his detectives fighting and sends Connor and Gavin to mandatory therapy. Except they accidentally get put in couples therapy instead. Shenanigans ensue. (Convin)

42. Angsty premise where Connor's biocomponents are slowly degrading. Gavin's POV as he notices.

43. The inexplicable WALL-E-inspired AU in which Markus is the last living being left on Earth after centuries of war and Nines is a newly-awakened model sent back by the remnants of humanity to assess the devastated planet.

44. The one where an alive and adult Cole Anderson becomes partners with a certain Android Sent by CyberLife and a loudmouthed Sergeant named Reed to solve the deviancy crisis.

[veilder]

Dreading tomorrow...

[oversnatch2]

not to project onto a canon character for a second but genji's lore is optimal as a trans allegory

[oversnatch2]

the Shimada clan seeing him as a liability due to his disinterest in their activities, the betrayal of his own brother who continues to mourn his "death" even after Genji reveals that he is still alive, his struggle with having a heavily modified cybernetic body and his path to self-acceptance, the fat clappin' mega cake and juicy thighs, the refusal to pick a hero moniker aside from his real name

[oversnatch2]

idk how ppl are scared of genjis in game whenever im genji im like a spider getting screamed at cus im more scared of you than you are of me trust me

[jazzums]

playing my toys

[pissvortex]

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[hypokeimena]

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)

[josilverdragon]

Saved this because it is so true.

[ao3commentoftheday]

(Anon who was nervous about leaving a re-read comment, so soon): thanks for your kind answer! I did leave that comment and the author responsed telling me they were happy to hear it! (and that it motivated them to leave a re-read comment on old favorites)

Thank you so much for coming back and updating us! And what an update it is, too. You started a whole chain of positivity with your comment. That's so amazing. I hope you're feeling proud 😁

original ask here

[thestarkerisobvious]

COMMENTS MAKE MORE FIC!!!

Compliments make authors want to spend MORE time writing!!

(And my goodness, knowing someone is REreading my fic is SUCH a blessing to me!)

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[sunsetbuddie]

when you say something awkward and stupid in a social situation that probably no one will remember except you for the rest of time

[enderwasended]

happy pride

inspired by this post

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[moghedien]

I feel like I need to share this because idk if Europeans are familiar with the presence of Aldi in the US, but at least especially in my area they’ve been growing a lot recently. Like Aldi bought out some local failing grocery chains where I live (Louisiana) and have opened Aldis in all these somewhat rural communities and small towns, which for the record I’m fine with

But as a result of this they are advertising a lot more in my area and also in many cases, the people in these areas have never been confronted with Aldi or any European grocery store. So the ads that Aldi is pushing out to its new US customer base feature a cowboy shopping at Aldi who is explaining to new Aldi customers how Aldi works. Like this cowboy is explaining you gotta put a quarter in the shopping cart and why there are very little name brands. A cowboy is how they want to reach their American customer base. They gave us a cowboy

[moghedien]

Here he is, the Aldi Cowboy

[redstonedust]

nothing hits quite like tragic doomed estranged sibling characters

[bufhasvhndsls-deactivated201610]

GET A LOAD OF THAT DOG

[owlmylove]

[distantly] THAT DOG

[laughterkey]

Hey Steve.

[lestatfag]

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]