hey i think we need some more ant love in the hbh community because that man is so precious and has done nearly nothing wrong except for The Patriarchy and being a gullible teenage boy but he is so special please can we just talk about him for a second

i don't think this man could intentionally every hurt anybody ever

Man.

there's just something about the love between a woman whose impending death is inevitable and a man who's an immortal undead...

So I recently had a not-so-nice anon in my inbox asking why I write for desi readers when ‘barely anybody who is actually desi’ reads my works. I chose not to respond to their original ask because it has a few racist stereotypes, not to mention blatant insults.

First off, I’m sure that’s not true. I refuse to believe that on this enormous site with well over a million people there is not one desi who watched ATSV and fell in love with its characters, and wanted to see more of themselves in readers. I refuse to believe that because I know for a fact it’s not true; I’m moots with a few desi writers and let me tell you even if they don’t necessarily write fics targeted towards explicitly Indian readers, their works are still fantastic and yes, they read my desi fics. (vee silvia shoutout to u guys ily ❤️) And I’m sure that there are others, too. Maybe they don’t read my writing but I’m sure they’ve searched for a fic that has a protagonist that they can relate to, at least once.

That first part may not have made any sense but anyway — secondly, it is not my duty to have to write for everyone else. I can very well choose to write about my own culture and my own experiences if I want to. I write desi readers because in a way, ATSV helped me love my culture and my background. And now, I want to introduce other people to my experiences, and to my culture, because I think it’s beautiful. I personally LOVE reading fics with Latina (or any ethnicity at all) readers that highlight parts of their culture. I love reading about cultures that I previously wouldn’t know much about.

Anyway, to summarise this: fuck you anon I’m just gonna write more desi-centred fics 😊

Me and my 3-4 mutuals who've always hated James Somerton watching his downfall

My fear is that DC makes Bernard such a beautiful well written character that mixs his old asshole personality with his newer tamed personality and people start actively liking him because he is own person with his own hopes and dreams and then fans want more of this Bernard only to be met with a shitty shell of a character and starting back at square one by forcing him just to be Tim’s love interest

this too actually

(about aroace alastor)

... aroace people can date people????? where did you people find the impression that we can't or that we don't feel romantic or sexual love /lh. information about aroace people is so limited and far / few in between that if viv were to actually canonize alastor's sexuality, he would be amazing representation alongside being shipped or canonically being in a relationship. there is so little aroace representation like that and i crave to see more!!!!

to explain further, the general definiton for aromantic and/or asexual is a "orientation defined by a lack of or limited sexual/romantic attraction". some aro/aces feel absolutely no attraction in these aspects, some feel it sometimes or only towards certain types of people, and some people have fluid/ever changing feelings.

for example, aegosexual, which describes someone who feels disconnected from the subject of arousal, generally have little to no sexual attraction, but still consume sexual content, engage in sexual fantasies, or even masturbate! another example is lithromantic, which describes someone who feels romantic attraction but doesn't want it reciprocated or loses attraction when it's reciprocated, they may enjoy romantic relationships in theory but most likely will feel no romantic attraction or enjoyment in a romantic relationship.

i beg you guys, please learn about each of the spectrums before engaging in discourse about it. there are so many beautiful and cool labels people use to describe themselves, and if someone whose on either spectrum could see themselves in alastor and ship him even so, that's another win. please

- an aroace

Oh, definitely! Thank you for the informative ask.

Everyone bellyaching about how Trigun Stampede is “giving away all the plot twists right in the first episode” needs to watch this video and then go outside and sit under a tree for awhile.

Bonus:

Ngl I hate fanon’s interpretation of Jason. They turned him into an angry murder edgelord (but it’s not his fault because pit madness even though that doesn’t exist boohoo). Jason is a good person 😭

Its bc he's easier to write and understand this way Jason in good Canon is a really interesting 3 dimensional character he has good intentions but is massively flawed its why he's my favourite dc character

I have… complex Thoughts about Boa’s introduction

dungeons in linear loz games made you feel stupid because you’d sometimes be wandering without a clue until stumbling over a little detail you’d overlooked; dungeons in totk make you feel stupid because they hardly seem to trust that you have any more than very basic problem-solving skills

Also in the replies of the Steph concept art on twitter announcing she was gonna be in a new project at DC (posted by Travis Mercer), there were at least 3 comments saying "will Tim be there?" I don't care how hard you ship timsteph I'm exploding you with my eyeballs if you do that on my girls post again

only thing im really taking from the volcanion movie is that heracross fucking died

365 Days of Writing Prompts: Day 186

Adjective: Buried

Noun: Valley

Definitions for those who need/want them:

Buried: placed or hidden underground; covered up or repressed

Valley: a low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream flowing through it; (architecture) an internal angle formed by the intersecting planes of a roof, or by the slope of a roof and a wall

You know Peacemaker was a D list character who will never be for DC what Moonknight currently is for marvel because we have no images of Peacemaker in a straitjacket. If anyone knew who he was we’d at least have one horrible image of him in a straitjacket but we dont.

can we stop exhausting ourselves with discourse over whether this 'x' comic writer fucked up jason todd's character or not and just agree that almost every writer who has written jason post-resurrection as red hood has screwed up his characterization so bad with scott lobdell being one of the worst offenders?

the good omens 2 poster is a little cute but i'm still not watching it