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xoteajays · 8 months

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Oh! I did message you in instant messages. I can't always remember who I message someone. And I know that I send long messages that not everyone likes. So there's also that reason too.

Yeah. The High&Low franchise came out eight years ago. So you wish there was more people who still created content for the H&L fandom.

Which is bizarre to me? Because High&Low was a popular franchise when it came out, but now there seems to be nothing for the fandom. Especially because there are similarities between High&Low, Worst and Tokyo Revengers. Pretty boys who are delinquents. [I've only ever seen the Worst crossover movie with High&Low, not even the original series. So I can't comment much on Worst.]

Chimknj also wrote another High&Low story. Well.. There story would be a one shot, a one chapter story. Not that you have to read it. But it is a smutty story between Rocky and his girlfriend (original character) - during the events of the first movie.

And, I think, there is a person who's under the name FireOfJudgment on here. They have H&L stories, and AIB stories too. But I don't know what characters or ships they write for though. In case you may want to search their work. They might be an option for you.

It's best for me to write notes for ideas to stories, and characters, and who knows what else while being involved in the fandom. Because if I try writing when I'm not in any fandom, then my thoughts and ideas... I became fickle and scattered on what I want to write. It's a problem.

Being in a fandom makes me more focused to write for that fandom. If that makes any sense.

I mean.. The color coordination to my characters was accidental for me. Because I tend to go for a specific appearance for my characters, I was very adamant about using those people for my face claims but I wasn't sure for what fandom - and I probably will use them for a lot of other fandoms too. Most likely. But not sure which other fandoms yet though. Anyway. Anyway.. But one person's favorite color is blue, one is orange, and another is red which eventually became their signature colors. So I unconsciously connected them to their respective gangs, which is kinda funny because their personalities actually seem fitting for those gangs too. And since the High&Low cast of characters have been predominantly men, I wanted more female characters involved in the story. But there have been a few things I've been stick on lately.

i am just hella awful at answering my private messages. i’ll be like ‘ill reply to that in a bit’ and then completely forget.

it’s just weird. like fandoms used to stick around for longer and h&l is still relatively recent. like 2016 wasn’t even a decade ago yet! everybody go watch h&l and feel emotions you didn’t expect about a pretty boy gang show. the song ‘break into the dark’ literally got me F*cked Up, everybody go watch the unofficial music video.

i will absolutely go read a smutty fic, that’s half of what i’ve been reading lately anyway. love me an explicit fic. and rocky has grown on me, do really like that dude.

i used to be really good at writing short original stories, but now i find it a bit harder. need that high school inspired brain back. fanfics do come a bit easier for me, but i also second guess myself a lot and some stuff i don’t end up posting or even finishing. which is a shame bc it’s supposed to be a fun hobby. i definitely need a fandom to obsess over or i just go totally blank in the brain.

im so bad at colour coordinating my ocs, i can rarely ever decide on what colour suits them best. idk if anyone’s noticed how many light blue or pink characters i have ahsjdl. my own h&l oc kinda started as an oya oc and then developed into something more and got switched around a bit, i think i’m mostly happy with where she’s at rn tho. im having a lot of fun with her.

h&l is definitely lacking in the female character department. like even the strawberry milk girls don’t get a whole lot of screen time like i thought they would, which is a shame bc i think they’re cool and i love pink. i think naomi got the most screen time out of all the girls and even that wasnt a whole lot. n-e-way yamato’s mum and the bartender lady are, like, definitely gfs tho, that’s my hc.

#tj answers #writers bc like ‘its not gay!’ and then have no women in sight #there is no bechdel test passing here #long post //#long post anon

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lizardsfromspace · 9 months

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Ben Chatham was too niche to ever become known outside one forum but it's the My Immortal of Doctor Who. It was a series starring the writer's self-insert companion, Ben Chatham, and I guess it started with his fanfic version of series 2 (not sure if it's still online anywhere, but there's a summary), where Jackie dies of cancer bc the author thought chavs shouldn't be allowed on Doctor Who & the Doctor murders a hamster. His stories are full of random grim moments, and no one is ever heroic, since everyone just dies until UNIT can save the day. Ben Chatham is gay and a military-loving Tory. He reintroduced Adam and Jack over the course of the season bc he didn't like writing women doing or saying things and bc he felt Rose was too lower class to be allowed on television

I think I first learned about him when he posted his pitch for Matt Smith's first story:

"Martha Jones is walking down the cobbled street of the Cornish village of Little Bampton towards the local Inn, pondering why UNIT had sent her to investigate the strange sightings nearby and disappearances. Since entering into full time investigative work for UNIT in the UK following the events of Journey’s End she had never been so bored by a case. Nothing has happened in the three weeks that she had been in the village and she found the locals distasteful and she suspected some of the older ones were rather prejudiced.

Suddenly there is a familiar sound and she sees the TARDIS materialise in front of her. She grins excitedly as the door is flung open: “DOCTOR……….OH” she shouts as instead of the Doctor, a slip youth with floppy hair emerges, dressed in jeans and a casual jacket. “Who are you? Wheres the Doctor” she exclaims. “Hey babe, I’m like the Doctor. I’ve regenerated like. Wow its great to see you again. Wicked!”Martha is perturbed:

“But you’re so….. So much younger.” “Yay its great to be a kid again. I’m like so gonna get a myspace page. You look great in that jacket babe, I’ve like SO got the hots for you. Hows about we get up close and personal on the TARDIS double bed.” The Doctor coyly lets his floppy hair descend over his eyes."

There's a lot going on here, but my fave parts are picturing Matt Smith saying "Hey babe, I'm like the Doctor" and the fact that Martha internally refers to the events of Journey's End as the events of Journey's End. I've accepted ever since that Martha Jones can sense episode titles; she was just out there living her life until she suddenly sees a vortex and the words "THE STOLEN EARTH" floating in the air and groans at having to do this again

Also, in the Chatham canon, Martha hates going on adventures and loves to whine and do nothing. Just like everyone else. Meanwhile the Eleventh Doctor is a horny freak who wants to fuck and post to MySpace. Both of them despise poor people

This story also features the Russian mob whose leader, named Ivan, has henchmen named Ivan, bc he could only think of one Russian name.

Was the writer of this serious or a troll? We will never know. Certainly he was surrounded by trolls. He got an entire subforum quarantining promoting his stories, and there were fanfics of his fanfic, made by trolls whose sincerity was also, for many years, in doubt (they were trolls)

What we do know is that the writer repeatedly insisted it was canon, and wrote a letter to Doctor Who Magazine demanding more coverage of his OC. They sent him a lengthier letter he posted on forum but in the magazine all they said was

"Er…who?"

Which just about sums it up

#doctor who #long post

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matoitech · 4 years

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Do you think Trigger meant for Galo and Lio to be written as gay specifically or just MLM? Do you think bi headcanons are problematic?

i was hoping we were over this kind of thing in fndoms and really didnt want to see it pop up w prmr x_x no i dont think its ‘problematic’ i think ppl get too into framing gay and bi as two radically different sexualities with no overlapping experiences and while ofc theyre not the same, gay/bi men are both attracted to men, as men. so really i dont think its that big of a deal. ppl can project whatever they want as long as theyre not writing them straight or genderbending them or whatever.

also i dont think its helpful to look at how the (most likely cishet) prmr writers wrote this, esp framing galos rship w aina as proof he is gay specifically, bc their writers r cishet and their understanding of both gayness and bisexuality arent.. on point. bc theyre cishet. imo the way its framed seems to be more ‘galo has this subtle arc implying hes in2 men but cant do anything abt it considering hes kind of under obligation to Follow The Rules and do things Correctly + hes not in2 aina but he IS in2 lio and theres a whole Thing w aina being framed as the easier choice in the way that its Correct and he’d get societal approval but it would b wrong for him (and aina!) vs lio and helping lio as the Wrong Choice in the eyes of kr*y and the foundation and their society as a whole.’ i dont rly think that implies enough 2 tell u specifically what sexualities theyre meant to be (esp considering thats not a certain sexuality specific experience its kind of just a common lgbt one and even then its not exclusive to lgbt ppl; in this case it is, bc its written for a man who is attracted to men, but it doesnt HAVE to be) beyond ‘clearly galo is attracted to men, specifically lio, and not attracted to aina’. the way its written also has the vibe that galo is aware hes attracted to men already so lio is kind of just a turning point in several ways for him but i could go down the rabbit hole w talking abt this so lets get back to the point.

my point of this isnt to say galo could theoretically b attracted to women bc frankly i dont care and im not interested in arguing that, my point with this is to try and bring up that when the writers r (again, most likely) cishet, they bring stereotypes n certain ways of writing shit to the table that lgbt writers probably would know to avoid to clarify things in a more specific way if they cared about it. triggers still at the point where they cant say the words in love or gay wrt galo and lio so i think if ppl r looking for clarification theyre prob never gonna get it. i can make assumptions abt galos specific sexuality from how they wrote the movie, youre Supposed to be able to see what theyre implying about him and so i could absolutely see galo being gay and that being the intent with him, but ultimately if trigger doesnt specify hes gay then its not like.. problematic to hc him as bi. its only problematic if trigger explicitely states that galos gay. i do not think implication is enough fuel to get on someone for being problematic

my other point with saying all this instead of saying ‘no i dont think its problematic’ is that i dont particularly like how fandoms frame this as a Vs. i saw this shit happen w hxh fans abt hxh chars like killua and i dont want to see it repeated here, cuz it inevitably gets homophobic and/or biphobic when ur arguing abt one hc being ‘problematic’ when theres IMPLICATION but no explicit confirmation abt gay or bi. id b interested in talking to ppl further abt how galos written but im not interested in arguing abt whether hes meant to gay or bi cuz i dont think it matters! what matters is he is in love with lio and they are husbands :) love wins

also cuz i cant find a good spot to include this, but since u asked for both: i have no idea about lio. he clearly likes men and hes designed to be read as into men on sight (particularly to galo lol) but galos the one with the hetbait scene and the protag with more time spent on him and this underlying arc so i dont rly think you can say anything clear abt him except clearly he IS attracted to men lmao. but in galos case, given how trigger writes, implication isnt rly enough to say that bi hcs for him r problematic

tldr: no its not problematic lmao

#god i talked so much #anon #fess replies #this shit would get me vagued if i said it w hxh last yr so if u need more clarification abt something: ask #its not like every bi person is hcing galo bi to do it.. maliciously.. they just like him and want to relate 2 him w that #and im bi and my hc for him is gay so like gjdbghdbf #long post

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okaypie · 5 years

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Asks 1-50

im gonna gun whoever this is down

What’s your favorite thing about yourself? i have,,,good choice in clothes n now i smell like peaches due to my mom going ham w peach scented stuff for me (also getting me a dress w peaches on it, someone stop her)

What’s the best joke you know? ok im only good at one-liners so here’s a recent one: “KERMIT THE FROG HERE AND I LOVE SENSELESS VIOLENCE” also: “the only man that can eat THIS pussy? Is Jesus”

If you could only have one of your non-canon OTPs become canon, which would it be and why? hhhh i don’t actually do a lot of shipping anymore but i might get back to u on tht

What’s your dream vacation? AMSTERDAM/THE GREEK ISLANDS,,,

If you have a girlfriend, what’s the cutest thing she does? If you don’t, what’s something you do that you think is super cute? tbh i don’t really know!

How do you prefer to spend your free time? uhhh sims and recently i’ve been scouring monologues to prepare for class next semester lmao

What’s a random fun fact that you learned recently? the play by the title “Slave Play” that’s hitting broadway and the writer/director has made it to where 10,000 seats will only cost $39 bc he remembers growing up without access to see shows and knew that some of his friends wouldn’t beable to afford broadway tickets, it’s very good i think

When you play truth or dare, do you tend to choose truth or dare? Why? I tend to choose truth only bc i tend to get too embarrassed to do dares ppl give me and it Feels Bad Man

What’s your favorite thing about being sapphic? yall seen sapphic aesthetic? it’s nice, soft hands, lavender,,,very good (it’s not every saph but its what I like yknow)

Who was your first lady crush? HHH like most of the girls from the band Little Mix

If you’re out, who was the first person you told? The last? (If you aren’t out, who is the first person you want to tell?) the first person i told was my sister Jakie, the last person i told was? i cant remember lmao,,,ppl don’t normally ask or i just don’t feel the need to, if they are curious i’ll tell them but otherwise if i’m dating a girl they’ll figure it out

What scares you the most about the future? Global Warming! Also money

Do you have a type? If so, what is it? Freckles, messy hair, good smiles n good music

Funniest childhood pet story? i had a dog named oliver (he was my stepmoms dog but yknow) and he used to chase me around the house bc he got too excited. I was like,,,six maybe

What’s your aesthetic? Modern 50s fashion if that makes sense lmao,

What’s your idea of a perfect date? Have you been on it yet? I don’t really have one, i’d like to be taken somewhere nice tho i’ve never been on a date like that before.

What does your favorite color remind you of? Sunflowers

Quiet studier or loud studier? Quiet for the most part

Coffee, tea, or energy drinks? Tea

What’s your stance on glitter pens? 10/10

Do you believe in love at first sight? no, love takes time

Who knows you the best and how did they get to know you? gaytown, i’ve known them for a few years now n we’re all p open with each other lov them

What’s your favorite question to ask? To answer? anything abt music lmao,,mostly playlist stuff

Do you like camping? Sometimes! I don’t very much like bugs but i like nature so it’s a 50/50 deal

Cats or dogs? (Hamster is an acceptable answer) Cats!

What does your dream house look like? Cottage in the woods w nice flowers around it and we have a cute lil fireplace

What’s your random, useless superpower? I’m good at digging up music ppl haven’t heard of/finding songs i know my friends will like. I’m also decent at reading ppl

Tell me about the most beautiful thing you can think of right now. wildflowers

If you could only hear three songs for the rest of your life, what would they be? Hey fuck this question i think,

What’s the most stereotypical gay thing you do?? (Besides being attracted to women) hhhhh hands

If you could time travel without any negative consequences, would you? Would you change anything? i would and it’d be for selfish reasons but i want things to not be as shitty lmao

What were you most afraid of as a child? Are you over that fear? loud voices and i’m still scared by them but i can control myself enough tht if i need to i can keep my voice level and talk to them like the child they’re being

Favorite mythical creature? fairies

Have you ever dyed your hair an “unnatural” color? Would you? I have!! I dyed it blue w green, purple, and dark blue streaks n some of it glowed in the dark

What’s your favorite book? The Night Circus or The Little Prince

If you could live inside one fictional world, what would it be? let me live in the night circus universe it slaps

Most embarrassing story? No,

Proudest moment?

What’s the most comforting smell you can think of and what does it remind you of? Maple n it reminds me of my grandmas house

Do you like fluff or angst more?Fluff

What’s the last thing that made you smile? Alexis calling me a human peach

What’s the first thing that draws you to a person? (Romantic or platonic or both) Are they funny? Are they chill? Do they give off a good vibe?

Your favorite place to be kissed? cheek

What’s your opinion on zoos? That’s a whole can of worms tbh, it depends on the zoo they’re not all the same

Do you have any siblings? Are you close? Many, all sisters, and jakie is the only one i actually like ngl

Did you have a favorite movie that you would watch over and over as a child? What was it? It was tuck everlasting and also the third cinderella movie

Do you have any tattoos? If not, do you want any? If so, what are they? I don’t n i do want some

What’s your go-to hairstyle? Brushed or up in a ponytail

What’s your favorite flower? Poppies

Are you the first person to fall asleep at a sleepover or the last? Or somewhere in between? Usually the first i am a week beech

#Anonymous

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