I Refuse To Accept Canon Deaths

Writer of "Merfolk Courting Rituals are Confusing!" on both Wattpad and Archive -- 22 years old, A Scorpio/Libra Cusp -- REQUESTS: OPEN! https://ko-fi.com/spookswrites

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◟ヾ *Introducing Me: Zips or Spooky*

22 ⟡ Artist/Writer ⟡ Scorpio/Libra Cusp ⟡ AceSpec ⟡ They/He/She

**~~CURRENT INTERESTS~~**

-͟͟͞☆ Shows: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 3-6, Mashle, Kaiju No 8, Transformers: Earthspark

-͟͟͞☆ Music: Scene Queen, Set It Off, Jorge Rivera-Herrans, Rustage, Shwabadi

-͟͟͞☆ Games: Identity V, Honkai Star Rail, Wuthering Waves, Twisted Wonderland, Dragon Ball Fighterz

-͟͟͞☆ Ask Box Rules: No NSFW, I probably won’t answer an ask if it will spoil MCRAC, PLEASE don’t feel pressured to stay within merfolk JJBA, I’ll gladly write a lot of fantasy and even base JJBA!

-͟͟͞☆ DNI: Racist, Homophobic, Transphobic, TERFS, Proshippers, Hazbin H*tel fans, will add more.

-͟͟͞☆ OLD Masterlist: Right Here!

-͟͟͞☆ NEW Masterlist: TBA

[zerozerozio]

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

[boimann]

reblog to let people know it's ok to bother you with questions and statements

[loveesiren]

like please? I'm so bored all the time lol

[emmiesoverthemoon]

BOTHER ME PLEEASEEE oomf or not i dont give a gaf

[no-he-is-not-a-villain]

YES drown me in asks!

[transformers-spike]

Believe it or not, I also accept stuff that isn't related to transformers. I am but a creature in need of social interactions

[zippers-flowers-and-wine]

Been a while since you’ve done something related to your merfolk AU, hasn’t it?

Oh it’s been ages man — the entire month of October, I was working two jobs, I’m trying to deal with my dad’s new puppy, and I’ve been trying really hard to not let my hyperfixation switch.

I’m going to try and draw something, maybe even write a continuation of the Anasui and Weather Report piece, but no promises I fear

[thataroacedude]

REBLOG IF YOUR BLOG IS A SAFE SPACE FOR AROMANTIC PEOPLE AND IF YOU THINK THEY ARE VALID

I want to see how many people actually are willing to say this and not just act like it

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Yes, nonblack people can reblog. I'd appreciate it, in fact, if y'all took the time to vocally support your Black friends/fans in fandom.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

@sparks-chaotic-cove I say this to you honestly: despite your intentions, "why not just go somewhere else" in this context is naive at best and racist rhetoric regardless ("why not go to Black schools/Black neighborhoods/Africa if they don't like it here?"). You should consider why this was the first solution you came up with, rather than "what aren't we doing to make this space genuinely inclusive". There also is no "somewhere else", at least not where nonblack people are also in the same space. It's ubiquitous. I shouldn't have to filter through hate to find that "welcoming space".

[voidvelociraptor]

Assholes on the internet relentlessly harassed and attacked a 16 year old Black child for drawing fanart. They bombarded her with slurs, death threats, and more and did the same to two Black English VAs for supporting her publicly. This is not an unusual or isolated incident AT ALL. This, in fact, is the norm.

When we make Black only spaces, nonblacks try to infiltrate and destroy them. They mass report them and try to get them broken up and taken down. nonBlack, and especially white, people attack us and our spaces even when we do try to "go somewhere else" and make our own spaces.

And why should we *have* to segregate just to be safe and engage in fandom? Why don't you want to ensure your spaces are safe? Why don't you want to welcome and protect us and have fun with us? Why do you think you (and we) shouldn't fight for safety everywhere? Why do we have to hide in back alleys?

Like we're "scared" for a reason. Thousands of people descended on a *child* with racist vitriol and violence and that's THE NORM. That is not rare! This happens A LOT. "Bad beliefs?" It's literally violence. It's abuse. People get assaulted at cons for cosplaying.

You're downplaying and minimizing actual danger and violence. You're excusing exclusion for a just world fallacy. This isn't a matter of going where the people are. Every community is either ruthlessly cruel and violent or is filled with people acting like we're just overreacting, unreasonable and just need to "forget about the bad ones" like the bad ones don't literally follow us around and are protected by naive or "gently" racist folk telling us to just use the colored facilities.

[zippers-flowers-and-wine]

In less angry news: Hi! I’m trying to come back to writing, but my father got a new dog and I was working two jobs so I haven’t had as much time to sit down and write as I would have liked : ((

I’m gonna try and write a follow up on that Anasui and Weather Report piece I did, and maybe start redrawing the older merfolk (mostly bc I think Joseph looks…. ugleeee)

[zippers-flowers-and-wine]

Unfollow me if you support/like/make art for Hazbin Hotel and i’m so serious. Fuck that show, fuck its creator, and fuck the network that picked it up.

[personnotfound]

i hope whoever actually shot that CEO is having a good day.

[slavlje]

[pluckyredhead]

Is it just me or has a lot of fandom forgotten what "AU" means? It's short for Alternate Universe. I keep seeing people talking about, like, "fake dating AU" or "only one bed AU." Unless your characters exist in a world where a) beds don't exist or b) beds exist in such abundance there could not POSSIBLY be only one of them, that's not an AU. It's just a regular degular story.

[pluckyredhead]

Okay I truly expected this to get like 5 notes, what is happening. Anyway some of these tags are bonkers. "An AU describes anything that doesn't happen in canon" bestie that's what fic is. You're literally describing fanfiction. Is there a huge category of fics that just summarize canon that I'm missing? What on earth is going on.

And for the "what about canon divergence" folks out there:

Fic where the Avengers are starship pilots or cowboys or, idk, cavemen or something <- THIS IS AN AU

Fic where Bucky becomes Captain America in the 1940s instead of Steve <- THIS IS ALSO AN AU, just the canon divergence kind

Fic where Sam and Bucky hook up during or after TFAWS <- not? an AU?? just because they didn't film it???

"What about if it's an AU where the Avengers are all giant slime creatures AND there's only one bed, that's an Only One Bed AU" bro c'mon.

[nonasuch]

agreed but this is the funniest possible example you could have used

[grogblogging]

handy dandy rule of thumb: an AU says 'forget what you know, this is the story now'. AUs often completely overwrite the existing canon, remixing it and reimagining it for the new setting -- a high school au of elden ring is completely incompatible with the canon, it's a whole new story, and part of the fun is in seeing how the author has translated the original into this new work.

if your fic says 'remember what you know, just add this' then it's not an AU :)

[ceevee5]

[cock-holliday]

Idk man it’s so easy to get bogged down in all the bullshit online but when my then-6 year old cousin found out I was trans he said “ok” then corrected my grandma when she misgendered me. I was once the third between a gay man and a lesbian. Two lesbians once invited me back to their place when I presented as a man. I met an AMAB nb butch who looked strikingly to outsiders like a cis man and it was one of the more sapphic experiences I’ve had. I nervously wore a boydyke shirt to pride and got 3 different cis-looking femme folks tell me they loved my shirt. I once told a trans group at a protest that any pronouns were fine for me and one person said “wow, I’m impressed and intimidated by people like that. I don’t know that I could be that chill with pronouns.” I once told a GNC friend I wished I could wear a type of “opposite” gender clothing after I had already transitioned and so it would be associated with my AGAB and he said “You could just do it.” I’ve had cishet men fight cops for me before. The first time I had a doctor ask me if my name was different than what was on my forms I had to try not to cry. Last week, a phone call with a doctor’s office where I am generally cis passing asked unprompted if my name listed is what I want to be called. It touched me then too. I told a lesbian friend once I felt like my attraction to men AND women both felt gay. She said “makes sense.” And we moved on. I go by different pronouns in different circles. I’ve had gay women love my facial hair. I’ve had gay men like my tits. It’s all out there, I promise. It can be hard to find it but I promise there is community like you and community who likes you. And it’s more messy and beautiful than tumblr discourse makes it out to be.

[cock-holliday]

These are from the last 8 hours only. And not all of them.

We're here! We're here we're here we're here!

Check the notes! There are so many of us and so many who love us.

Queer love, baby!

[the-haiku-bot]

Check the notes! There are

so many of us and so

many who love us.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[the-fab-fox-deactivated20250925]

Thank you so much for this op in the current climate, one trans to another. 💖🙏

[dubioushonour]

Spin this wheel of ~300 AO3 tags three times.

Congratulations! The 4th dimension exists and you are their FAVORITE blorbo. The tags you got are from the most popular, most influential fanfic starring you. How are you feeling?

this is the best possible outcome for me

this is pretty good

this is fine. i guess.

this is terrible actually

they're assassinating my character

i'm suing the fourth dimension

Voting ended onFeb 13, 2025

[the-fab-fox-deactivated20250925]

IDK if y'all know Dannyphantomexe of YouTube. He's hilarious and great! So funny! Check him out if you haven't yet.

But I'm coming here to share this because he's so spot on for this so it needs to be shared.

Listen to him y'all. If you see someone stealing necessities, NO THE FUCK YOU DIDN'T.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Yes, nonblack people can reblog. I'd appreciate it, in fact, if y'all took the time to vocally support your Black friends/fans in fandom.

[patrochilles-or-bust]

@sparks-chaotic-cove I say this to you honestly: despite your intentions, "why not just go somewhere else" in this context is naive at best and racist rhetoric regardless ("why not go to Black schools/Black neighborhoods/Africa if they don't like it here?"). You should consider why this was the first solution you came up with, rather than "what aren't we doing to make this space genuinely inclusive". There also is no "somewhere else", at least not where nonblack people are also in the same space. It's ubiquitous. I shouldn't have to filter through hate to find that "welcoming space".

[voidvelociraptor]

Assholes on the internet relentlessly harassed and attacked a 16 year old Black child for drawing fanart. They bombarded her with slurs, death threats, and more and did the same to two Black English VAs for supporting her publicly. This is not an unusual or isolated incident AT ALL. This, in fact, is the norm.

When we make Black only spaces, nonblacks try to infiltrate and destroy them. They mass report them and try to get them broken up and taken down. nonBlack, and especially white, people attack us and our spaces even when we do try to "go somewhere else" and make our own spaces.

And why should we *have* to segregate just to be safe and engage in fandom? Why don't you want to ensure your spaces are safe? Why don't you want to welcome and protect us and have fun with us? Why do you think you (and we) shouldn't fight for safety everywhere? Why do we have to hide in back alleys?

Like we're "scared" for a reason. Thousands of people descended on a *child* with racist vitriol and violence and that's THE NORM. That is not rare! This happens A LOT. "Bad beliefs?" It's literally violence. It's abuse. People get assaulted at cons for cosplaying.

You're downplaying and minimizing actual danger and violence. You're excusing exclusion for a just world fallacy. This isn't a matter of going where the people are. Every community is either ruthlessly cruel and violent or is filled with people acting like we're just overreacting, unreasonable and just need to "forget about the bad ones" like the bad ones don't literally follow us around and are protected by naive or "gently" racist folk telling us to just use the colored facilities.

[zippers-flowers-and-wine]

have you seen @garuye 's mer AU? 🧜🏻‍♂️

I have actually!

Another ask sent it a while back, but I never had the time to answer until recently.

[zippers-flowers-and-wine]

a favorite au trope of mine is "everybody lives au but they still bear the injuries that killed them in canon".

absolutely dying tho imagining how this would apply to la squadra. since melone got bit on the tongue by a snake maybe he ended up losing his tongue and is now mute, ghiaccio got impaled at the back of the spine of his neck so he's now the world's angriest quadriplegic, and illuso got burned by purple haze so he's now badly disfigured and is angry about what happened to his beautiful face

OOOOOHHHH!!! I tried to incorporate this a bit in the merfolk AU, specifically bc I HATE angst (and I like seeing how many characters I can mash into one fic)

Melone would have gotten off the easiest tbh, but I can see the first few months of his survival after the fact being rough. It would be easier than if that sort of thing had happened to a human tho; Merfolk would probably rely more on vocals made in their throat/chest area than one’s made with the tongue, and that’s for long distance communication more than close ranged speech.

Illusio, Pesci, and Prosciutto would all be pretty crippled, and it would only be Giorno’s insistence on benevolence that keeps other podmembers from “mercy” killing them — well, that and Risotto is a pretty solid deterrent on account of his size.

[zippers-flowers-and-wine]

YOOO CHECK THIS OUT

https://www.tumblr.com/garuye/765807121643274240?source=share

OOOOH! BIG OLE MERMAN JONATHAN!!!! In LOVE with giant merman Jonathan, especially whaleshark Jona <33

However! If you’ll send me stuff like this, try to @ the person! That way they get credit when I answer asks like this! Thank you <3