okay so i'm combining two posts for this one since they're the same premise, fanmade keyblades.

its name is Wayward Void, and it's made for a fanfic i wanna write, basically a "what if the fusion worked but not really and now it's a two minds controlling one body type of scenario?"

this ones name is Lone Dark, and it's also made for a fanfic of an au i have of baldr being sent to quadratum and becoming friends with strelitzia (and eventually sora), getting to start a new life free from the battles of light and darkness and heal

Heeeeeeeey! L8sten!!!!!!!!

Good Omens 2 and Wayward Son - A Fan's Commentary on Fandom Reactions

I’m going to start off by saying apologies for any obvious grammatical errors. I am writing purely from the heart here. 

Also, apologies to my Sandman friends. If you haven’t read The Simon Snow Trilogy, this will go over your heads. However, I have been going back and forth on writing this meta since the release of Good Omens 2, and I just finished reading a spectacular meta on queer ships becoming canon by @avelera, which you can find here (read it, it’s brilliant). Anyway, I feel now’s a good time to let out all of my feelings when it comes to Good Omens 2 and how similar it was to reading Wayward Son. 

Simon Snow friends, you all know that Wayward Son is my favourite book out of the trilogy. You also know that this can be considered a controversial take within the fandom. And I don’t mean that in a toxic way, this fandom is one of the more wholesome fandoms I’ve seen; But in the way of like… Wayward Son is itself a polarizing book. 

I say this, knowing full well what went down when Wayward Son was released. Perhaps I had the advantage of not being completely embroiled within the Simon Snow  fandom until after I’d finished reading the book, but I lived on the periphery. I followed Rainbow on Twitter (fuck you, I am not calling it X), I had saved some artwork on Pinterest (before I found out those were stolen, wherein I immediately unpinned them and deleted my fandom folders), and I was excited to get Wayward Son as soon as it came out. So much so that I asked my husband to go to the Indigo near his office and buy it because I wanted to read it right away. 

Friends, I demolished that book within a DAY. 

Then I read it again. And again. And again. 

Then I wrote my first fanfiction in eight years. 

This book changed me. But you all know that. I’ve talked about it often, and that’s not what this meta (Editorial? Opinion piece? Shouting into the void?) is about. 

What I am going to talk about is the amount of pure vitriol this book got once it was released. There was SO MUCH complaining about the book. It was too short! There was no point to it! Why aren’t Simon and Baz having sexy vampire sex? Why aren’t they living together (never mind that this was briefly discussed at the end of Carry On, but go off I guess)? 

And you know what’s even funnier? Within a couple of weeks (it might have even been days, I’m a little fuzzy on timelines) Rainbow announced the third book. We knew, right away, that Wayward Son was meant to be an in-between book! Rainbow, being a fandom person herself, has said time and time again that she had always considered Wayward Son as an in-between book, structured like The Empire Strikes Back within the Star Wars original trilogy. Like think of the in-between books of any series, they are ALWAYS the darkest ones. In order to fully appreciate the win in the end, you need to go through the tough shit. 

What I loved about Wayward Son was it took that idea and spun it. It went all “ok, yeah we dealt with the win, now let’s deal with the aftermath. Only then can we have the makeouts and sexy times these guys deserved.”  (and damn, did Any Way The Wind Blows deliver on that promise).

But I am getting away from myself again. Point is, it was always meant to be an in-between book. There was always meant to be a resolution at the end of the trilogy. But that sure as hell didn’t stop people from outright demanding Rainbow give them the happy ending NOW. Pestering her on Twitter, (not so much on Tumblr) demanding she do this, or do that, or “you better not kill Baz” (even though she has ALWAYS SAID SHE NEVER WOULD) or “they better not break up” (even though, narratively, it was heading in that direction). The closer the book got to release date, the more people complained about how awful Wayward Son was. 

It was really disheartening to see. 

Which is why I got really upset when the SAME THING happened after the release of Good Omens 2. 

(For clarification purposes, because several of my friends have spoken to me about their own personal issues with Good Omens 2. And you are all super fucking valid. I am strictly referring to the amount of anger I saw online because although Aziraphale and Crowley kissed, they didn’t have an immediate happily ever after. I am also speaking of the anger expressed because the season wasn’t wrapped up in a neat little bow.)

Like with the release of Wayward Son, people seemed to have forgotten that season 2 of Good Omens was meant to be an inbetween season. Neil Gaiman has not been shy to talk about that. He has said over and over again that Season 2 was always meant to be a bridge between the Good Omens he and Terry Pratchett wrote together, and the sequel they had been planning. 

What… did you all just forget about that? Do you not know how narrative writing works? 

It’s like people refused to take a step back and breathe for a second and appreciate the season for what it was. A beautiful romantic story (because, IT WAS! Just like Neil said it would be), as well as a lead up into what will be the epic, dramatic conclusion. No, instead people started demanding the happy ending NOW, and getting angry when Neil wouldn’t budge and offer more information (even though he never has before) (funny how people just… forgot that).

It was Wayward Son all over again.

Yeah, I’m not going to lie, I was crushed with the way Good Omens 2 left off. Just like I was so confused when Wayward Son ended out of the blue. You know what I did about that? I wrote fic, I read the book again, and I happily anticipated the upcoming final part that would tie up all the loose ends.

Know what I’m doing to heal after Good Omens 2? I’m looking at gifs, rewatching episodes, laughing at memes and crack, and hoping to all the gods of story writing that Amazon approves of a third season, so that Neil Gaiman can be allowed to finish the story he and Terry Pratchett built together.

It’s become sad to watch this feral hunger from fans demanding immediate gratification, and getting upset when it isn’t the ending or gratification they were expecting. Wayward Son came out after years of Carry On fans having nothing else but the one book. Like I said, I wasn’t part of the fandom then, so I don’t know how fans from 2015 felt upon learning they’d get more Simon and Baz. Same with Good Omens. I only really got into the fandom a few months before season 2 came out. So I don’t know how OG fans felt waiting and waiting and waiting. So maybe I have that going for me as an advantage, that my hunger wasn’t growing more and more feral. 

Then again, I’m now a part of The Sandman fandom, and we’re essentially waiting on Season 2 to start development. And while I’m hoping a few things are tweaked (like Dream and Hob’s relationship), I’d be more than fine if it stays the same as in the comics. And if they decide to go about that in an entirely different way, I’d be fine with that too. You know why? Because I’ve learned to trust the writers of the stories I love not to lead me astray. 

And if I’m unhappy with something –because nothing is ever 100% perfect, and even my favourite stories end up coming short– there are always fanfictions to write, gifs to laugh at, and fandom friends to discuss plots and meta with. 

I may have lost the point of this meta. I tend to do that, following a train of thought that doesn’t always make sense in the end. 

Fandom friends, can we all just agree to take a breath and be thankful of the stories given to us? Can we learn to appreciate the entire picture, and not just a tiny section of it? And for the love of all that is holy, can we learn to be patient and to listen when our story tellers remind us to wait and see? To trust them when they assure us that our characters will have a happy ending, even if they need to traverse a little in the dark to get there?

I sure as hell am, and I hope you will too. 

Gonna tag @carryonsimoncarryonbaz because she was instrumental in encouraging me to write this.

okay actually these can go here as well (picrew linked here)

My selfship with Clio (using Lorenza):

..versus my selfship with Zero (again, using Lorenza):

..Suffice it to say I have quite the range of vibes =P

Soft launching my KNY OCs with a dumb little WIP bc I regret to inform the council that I fucking CARE THEM

Bela Talbot + 12 for the character ask game?

What's a headcanon you have for this character?

I have SO MANY lol. but the one I feel strongest about, born in part out of the fact that I simply can't imagine any other actor playing her, is that when she returned to the earth as a demon, she made sure to recover and inhabit her original body. I've imagined it in several ways: she might've ensured it before death, as she knew it was coming, or she might've done it after returning, with some helpers. but she's reclaiming that body, dammit xD

another headcanon that I feel very strongly about is that this woman does NOT become a crossroads demon, or a queen of hell, or any kind of high authority or super-threatening demon within it. literally nothing in her appearances pointed to leadership skills, ambition for those positions, or a sadistic streak that would make her stand out among demons. I tend to imagine as someone who actually thrives as one, but in her own unconventional, non-partisan way, where she just does her thing, dealt with everything but souls, and does quite well for herself lol.

(and in that regard, I'm bringing back an old excerpt I have from a "wayward sisters" au idea I had, where bela would appear and kind of become claire's crowley, that showcases a bit of both headcanons :P)

Having cased the joint itself, Claire turned her attention on the demon. She sat at a small table in the middle of the restaurant, with one other empty chair waiting, presumably, for Claire’s arrival. The table was set at the exact same level of those surrounding it, but something about its placing, about her demeanor, made it seem like it was elevated amidst the rest of the diners. It unsettled Claire to discover that the demon wore a body that couldn’t be much older than herself: a young woman, barely in her mid-twenties at the most. Soft waves of light brown hair framed her face, and a low-cut dress in dark blue left her arms and chest open to the view, as well as one leg through the slit of the skirt. And with them, a constellation of scars and what looked like arcane tattoos running down from the back of her neck, were visible. There were uneven, long scars through her arms and chest, three of them climbing her neck and stopping just shy of her chin. From her position, Claire recognized bite marks on her calf. All the scars were faint, suggesting they’d healed years ago. They weren’t survibable wounds, and Claire took some reassurance in it: if the deal went sideways and they fought, and things went downhill so fast that an exorcism wasn’t an option, the demon would be the only one to die in its body. The woman drew the attention of everyone in the room, her scars making her all the more eye-catching. Claire didn’t look any less out of place, and she knew everyone would be watching the two of them, making it all a very public affair that was meant to ensure both of their caution. With any luck, any fight would wait until they’d left. Claire took a last deep breath as she watched the demon smile at the waiter serving her red wine. She clasped her hand tighter around the handle of the guitar case she’d used to carry the angel sword in -alonside bottles of holy water and guns full of salt rounds, among other things-, and walked towards the table with determined swagger.

hey I know ya busy dying in unova but when you're done with that. unfriendly reminder that you should read homestuck ;)

you know what. screw this. i was gonna try to be funny about it by sending younes an ask about kanaya after i met her but time's run out on that clearly.

THIS IS MY OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. I HAVE STARTED ON HOMESTUCK. IM SO SORRY EVERYONE

anyways its pretty good. ive finished act three and the first intermission with the midnight crew (which ill be honest. didnt care a ton for. i know that theres some plot significance to it because i recognise the names Snowman and Lord English so i didnt skip it but it took the wind out of my homestuck sails HARD) and uh. good comic. big fan of jade (which does not surprise me in the slightest) and relate a little too much to rose (which DOES surprise me quite a lot, i wasnt expecting to like her a ton), but all four of the kids are supremely well-written thus far.

Hollow Knight Charm Pins!!!

It's 3D printed and Hand Painted, AND has a pin on the back side!

If you want to nab one of these in the future, keep an eye on my twitter OR Tumblr page once I open up my Etsy Store!

I will be making the rest of the charms in the future! Stay tuned!

after i reblogged a post about character playlists i immediately went to spotify to listen to my snowbaz playlist and now i'm crying over fucking ricky montgomery because, ok. y'all cannot tell me baz pitch did not write my heart is buried in venice. this shit is so wayward son coded, i aM A MESS

whenever i see posts from terfs that talk about “oh i feel terrible when beautiful lesbians transition into ugly men” i have to stop and wonder who are they talking about specifically? because it’s a narrative that only truly applies to (1) category of trans masc people—a very small margin of white, conventionally attractive people who are now trans masc (binary or otherwise).

they are never talking about someone like me. someone who is black, someone who has never been lesbian or solely attracted to women, someone who wasn’t conventionally feminine or attractive to catch the eye of them in the first place.

and while that’s definitely good—i don’t want my name in terfs’s fucking mouths—it also becomes alienating even in transmasc community for me. men who were lesbians (or still are), who are white, who are conventionally attractive to have someone lusting, pining, and whining over their transitioning and “losing another lesbian” sometimes feel completely foreign to someone like me.

and while i WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree, that lesbians, other women, terfs, whoever, etc. have no right and jurisdiction over their bodies, their identities or their experiences—and i will happily help debunk and fight tooth and nail for my brothers— i suppose i’m also tired of always seeing this be the only narrative when we talk about how and the ways that terfs hate us. i can’t fucking relate to being desirable or wanted by them enough to have complaints be launched towards me about it. i can’t relate to being a lesbian or to having those experiences intertwine with my pursuit of masculinity. i feel like it does a disservice to other trans mascs/men like myself who aren’t even part of this particular conversation that always seems to be the center of transandrophobia.

we were never the “daughters” that anyone cared about losing in the first place.

-tag dump-

au of the au in this post, the wayward void part i mean (twitter ver with more details);

so when xehanort split ventus, what if he wasn't able to physically split him, only his heart becoming two while his body is (debatably) fine. xehanort still names vanitas after he realizes what happened though.

visually, their heart would now look like a combination of this post and the example in this post, as the now split ventus would be able to summon unversed just like in the original au, which i don't think i've ever actually mentioned it before anywhere oops.

what happens after that, i'm not sure. it would probably lead to similar circumstances of my darkness awakened ventus au which is probably my most fleshed out au. hell i could probably just integrate it as the beginning of that au, though it already has a proper-ish beginning... hmm... i dunno it feels like too much

(that au ventus uses darkness to save himself from the neo shadows and is therefore never dropped off at eraqus')

Ig I did a fuck up by not summarizing my Methods of Research subject since the beginning of the term and now I’m stuck rushing through summarizing it so I can study before the midterms and I’m not having fun :/

Album Review: Wayward Dawn - All-Consuming Void (Emanzipation Productions)

It is a seven-track album of undeniable viciousness in a classic death metal way.

On September 9th, the Danish death metal killing machine Wayward Dawn return with its third album, All-Consuming Void. Released on digital, CD, and LP (transparent orange vinyl, limited to 300 units) via Emanzipation Productions. Death metal that slays. Wayward Dawn unleash a savage assault of extreme with their new album, All-Consuming Void. Six meaty offerings of hellacious noise and one…

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please perceive Clio and her abs

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