Taika: I LOVE THE SOFT PO#N!

Con: IS THAT ALL YOU GOT? SEND IT ALL TO ME I NEED MORE!

Rhys: I ran away to Costa Rica because explicit images scared me.

I have a feeling T and C shared way too much in the group chat and R left the group. XD

🍐 and 🫐!

🍐 is there anything in canon that you absolutely hate and love to fix in fics? a wrong choice made, a fuck-up in characterization, a misunderstanding never cleared up, a conversation never shown onscreen, etc…

answer 1:

the last fandom i sat on the fringes of was star wars. as you may well be aware, its canon is an overcomplicated, top-heavy, redundant mess after the first three films, and george lucas spent way too much time no one asked for in 'fixing' what wasn't broke in the first place. i wasn't even aware of fandom as a community at the time, or in a good headspace to let myself play in that way. so it never occurred to me to patch any of those holes myself with writing or art. were i to travel back in time, i'd merge the prequels with my favorite bits from timothy zahn's heir to the empire trilogy (AKA the thrawn trilogy). i'd purge all the weird ethnic stereotypes like watto and jar jar. and i'd give anakin more meat on his bones as a character. as written, padme's sacrifice for him still makes no sense: i have no clue what she saw in him. as for mob psycho 100, the origin text of my current fandom? i don't find it lacking in any major way i want to fix, really. though i do wish it had more girls; ONE is quite good at writing them. (it is a shōnen series, after all... sidelining female characters seems like a contractual obligation when writing for that demographic /s). i'm a huge fan of the mangaka's approach to characterization in this particular story, too, and the ending is just so damned satisfying. actually no, i take that back. i'd either lose takeuchi or not make him a weird ethnic stereotype. little black sambo all grown up as an indian holy man in a sparkly gold robe? whyyyy. no, he doesn't read as 'black' to me just because he's dark-skinned. look at his hair. (by the way, the illustrations in 'little black sambo', whom he does appear to have been patterned after, are racist caricatures of southern indians that were eventually co-opted to ridicule dark-skinned peoples in general. it's still a beloved children's book in japan.) he's still offensive AF and largely forgettable on top of that. but the easiest fix is to treat him like he doesn't exist. he appears in exactly 4 fics on AO3, and is a POV character in only one of them. tldr: well-drawn characters are my lifeblood, so i tend not to fall hard for stories where i have major bones to pick with the character writing. mob psycho 100 is the first story i've loved deeply enough to write or draw for.

answer 2:

game of thrones deserved an actual ending; GRRM himself will die before he finishes its source material. don't hire me to write it. i will never have enough energy to fix that.

🫐 what’s your favorite underrated thing in your fandom? (a ship that only you seem to write for, a character there’s almost no fics about, a trope that criminally hasn’t been written yet, etc.)

relatively well-adjusted thirty-something kageyama shigeo poking his way around a mild existential crisis, whom i have attempted to write and draw, and shoumob, whom i haven't but absolutely adore @inkedberries' fanart for.