While we can agree the Voltron fandom is currently a crash site of vicious disagreements and ship wars, one thing that has risen above the ranks is the sheer amount of ao3 author support. A lot of people are frustrated with the newest season, particularly if (like me) you’re a member of the LGBT+ community who has come face-to-face with the “Bury your gays” trope yet again, or even if you’re someone who has issues with how the plot or characterisation has been done. Everyone’s frustrations are valid because everyone has their own opinion (and I’ll slip in here that while these emotions are yours to express please don’t abuse the creators of Voltron, they deserve respect like any human), but I am LIVING for the sheer amount of genius fix-it fics that have been boosted on this website. While discourse will continue, please be respectful of the fic writers who put their effort into improving the plot how they see fit, and enjoy the works that they lovingly give to the fandom. A lot of reblogs of fics are appearing in the tags so keep up the support for our fandom in these tough times and channel your shipping frustrations into supporting your favourite authors!! Stay positive through these dark times and respect one another!!
Okay but like the HxH movies are so much unnecessarily gayer than even the tv show. One of the first scenes in Phantom Rogue is Killua staring adoringly into Gon's sleeping face, after which they start arguing like a married couple. Then you've got Leorio fussing over Kurapika and never letting him out of his sight, That Scene everyone knows where Gon is splayed over Killua's lap after getting knocked off their feet (they got knocked into each other a suspiciously large amount of times in that one fight), as well as Killua holding Gon's hand to lead him to the mansion, despite Kurapika walking unassisted behind them (Killua is so thirsty for skin contact but doesn't wanna say it in actual meaningful hugs). And the worst contender of all: Killua literally acting like a jealous boyfriend as soon as he met Retz. He was so threatened by her when he thought she was a guy, but not so much when she was a girl???? He must think Gon is like exclusively gay if he's only worried about him being taken by another guy (despite Gon being a powerful pansexual icon). Please watch the HxH movies. You will not regret it.
Every time I watch the Haikyuu stage play I always laugh at the ridiculous amounts of pushing around and generally fighting like toddlers the Karasuno members do. Then I watch the show. Within one episode you get either Hinata or Noya thrown around like a messed up game of catch, Kageyama beating up Hinata in creative new ways, and several creative death threats floating around (either at outsiders or at each other -- Tsukishima I'm looking at you ya salty crow). I swear to the fucking gods I love my fucked up baby birds. Squawking and fighting and all.
MY REIGN OF TERROR SHALL NEVER END
someone: hey u wanna read this fic that ruined me
me, at high volume: IM ALWAYS A SLUT FOR SUFFERING
For a second I thought this was real life and got really excited and confused at the same time.
when you hate someone but they’re still really cute
(This may have spoiler for those who haven't seen season 2!!) - The parents of each Sensate have all seen at least one foreign language being sung from their child's mouth. When pressed the children didn't know that they had been singing a Icelandic lullaby or a religious chant in Hindi. They were just singing what was in their head. Once when Nomi was in a row with her parents, she yelled at them in Swahili for about ten minutes. She was locked in her room for being a 'devil child' not long after. - Every Sensate aside from Sun was proficient with chopsticks as soon as they touched them. Didn't even have to be shown how to use them, they just did with the ease of someone being raised on using them. - Wolfgang once got dared to jump onstage at a club by Felix and mess around with the set up there. He proceeded to drop the sickest beats for several minutes before he was escorted off stage. He was offered a job there not long after but he declined as he didn't know where to begin with DJ-ing. - Lito was only in a fight once when he was younger, and he managed to break the kids' arm with a ridiculous form of martial arts. The view of this super tough and manly boy persisted through the years, and is one of the reasons he was picked up for his first movie as an action role. Lito has no idea what happened between the first punch and the kid crying at his feet, but he felt p o w e r f u l. - Riley has broken out of handcuffs no more than five times despite never learning how to do so. She's impressed a lot of people with that trick. - The first time Capheus ever went on a computer, he shut down a large portion of the power grid with his 'messing around'. He still has no memory of being taught what internet explorer even was, but sometimes he dreams of long codes and in his sleep his fingers twitch against invisible keys. - Though she has no idea how, Sun managed to pass her final chemistry test in high school with flying colours to secure her the grades needed for university/college. Her professor couldn't explain how she'd done it as they'd already checked her for cheating, but Sun couldn't even explain what possessed her to write several pages on parts of chemistry even her fellow students hadn't known. - Will became best friends with Diego after he proceeded to do some dope and fancy bar tending skills at a party they were both invited to. Despite the fact Will couldn't hold the liquor he expertly poured and Diego was stuck holding him upright a few hours later, the latter knew that this boy was going to be his best friend, even if it only was for his fancy cocktails. (Will claimed he has no idea how to make any of those fancy drinks, and Diego always thought he was holding out on him until he met Lito and kind of went "ahhhh...you're the fancy bar dude.") - Kala won't tell anyone how she managed to get an important business partner for her work from Korea, but even she's not entirely sure how she apparently managed to seduce the young man with her dry humour and quick Korean. To this day Kala still doesn't know what she did, but now most people at work go to her for business advice as she apparently has the know how?? - The sensates sometimes had moments when they were younger of almost dysphoria. There were days when Nomi almost felt okay in her body prior to the surgery. She can almost feel phantom full hips and budding breasts, and for once she didn't feel like she was wearing a false skin. She felt totally and completely female both outside and in, and not even her family could take that away on those days. In contrast there were days where the others didn't feel comfortable in their bodies. A crawling sensation on their skin as they were hyper aware of what made up their sex. Days where the boys found themselves almost looking longingly at skirts and flowing tops, and feeling uncomfortable with their scratchy stubble. On those days the other girls couldn't help but feel oddly grateful in their bodies, and more self-confident than usual. - Sexuality was another confusing aspect when the sensates grew up. There were days where Will found himself looking at men with a sexual desire he had only ever felt towards women. He was straight (was being the key word here) but sometimes he found himself being turned off by the thought of full thighs and long hair wrapped around his hands. Kala occasionally found herself gazing after the soft dark skin of girls walking by, immediately feeling ashamed after as that wasn't something a proper Indian woman should do according to her family. But the older she got the more she grew accepting of the idea of loving both sexes. And when she finally connected with the others, she could feel acceptance within them. Lito will always be a gay man. That's who he is and always will be, but the lines of sexes blurs whenever he is with the sensates, and it reminds him of the feelings of his childhood where sometimes he didn't even know who he was or what he liked. (I'm sorry this is so long!!)
Holy shit I was just making a mild observation. I didn't expect to get such an extensive answer. Nice!
The best thing about Blue Exorcist is that the True Cross Academy literally lets a demon that they CLEARLY don’t trust be in charge of the entire school. Just like…they don’t trust Mephisto at all yet they let him take care of the next gen of exorcists???? Who the hell let this flamboyant sinner take control???
Please don't. I don't need those mental images.
majestic portraits
I've literally only just joined Tumblr and I already know how weird it is.
So I had a lot of feelings about the bubble changing Mabel, especially after reading this and of course this awesome post here, and then I began to wonder how it would fit in TAU. Also @marypsue helped too!
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Mabel coming out of that bubble changed and Bill made a big mistake, using her mind to fuel his apocalypse. Mabel who is chaos personified, Mabel and Dipper who thought the reality warping would stop once they were out of the bubble but it…doesn’t look like it? Eek. But then there are more important things going on to worry about; that Mabel’s eyes are still glowing white, flowers that smell of macaroni and cheese follow in her footsteps, that there’s a herd of kittencorns springing into existence just at her mention-that all can wait.
Here the Transcendence happens in the wake of Weirdmageddon, and the tear is repaired and the damage undone but nothing will ever be the same again and there is no hiding magic anymore. Here Bill still gets the shit beat out of him, still he tries to possess Dipper as he dies, still Dipper fights him and wins.
And yet as Mabel watches, Dipper’s chest falls still, stops moving. She runs to him and puts her head on his chest, but there’s no beat, no sound. He’s dead, her twin is dead and no, no no.
Mabel, eyes so bright white looking at them is like looking at the sun and encased in a bubble that swirls with a million colors. Mabel who tears reality apart, ripping into the very fabric of existence, shattering and reforming reality so that Dipper lives.
The demon thing is kind of unexpected, she admits to herself afterwards, but at least Dipper is alive, is still with them, and that’s what counts.
After pulling that stunt Mabel returns to normal, her power spent in keeping Dipper alive, in helping him transcend. Or at least, that’s what it seems.
Because Dipper can’t see any trace of power left on his sister, doesn’t see anything out of the norm in her aura, in her soul, and yet sometimes it rains when she cries and one day snadgers are just, suddenly a Thing. Like, been around for all of human knowledge, in the history and science textbooks, yes of course snakes and badgers can make snadgers just like mules, duh. He has no idea what Mabel can do or how he does it and it terrifies him a bit (if he’s not the smart guy, then who is he?)
Dipper who still possesses Mabel to do Mystery Twin cult-bashing shenanigans but he doesn’t peek into her Mindscape any more, not after the last time left him on the floor staring at the ceiling dazedly and wondering what the fucking fuck he just saw. Dipper who eons from now will have the might to destroy the world (he knows this, feels it in his bones), but he looks at his sister and knows with that same bone deep certainty that if she wanted to, Mabel could destroy it all now without a second thought. Because he is still bound by rules and deals and wards but there is nothing constraining Mabel, nothing that can hold her back other than herself. Dipper and the day he realizes he holds not just Bill’s power within him, but Mabel’s as well and then he goes and stares at the wall for a bit.
(He laughs when people call him the Lord of Chaos. He’s no ruler, only its servant and subject. Mabel, though. Mabel is the Empress of Chaos, the embodiment of madness and sheer possibility.)
Mabel doesn’t tell Henry at first because honestly, it’s almost never a big deal or issue and she isn’t sure how to explain and there’s the whole “my brother is a demon” thing and dating moves to getting married and it never comes up. Then Mabel gets pregnant and suddenly everything is going haywire. All the cartons of ice cream at the supermarket turn to pickle flavor, she cries and it rains frogs and kittens and bowties. And one day Mabel leans up to kiss Henry and burps madness bubbles in his face on complete accident oh my god. Henry gets a bubble full in the face and afterwards coughs up some fur and feathers and just Looks at Mabel. They end up on the couch, Mabel curled up in his lap, and murmuring into his shirt because she’s so scared and she fucked up and she doesn’t know where to start or how to explain and and-
Henry just gives her a gentle hug, and “It’s okay, you told me now, that’s the most important thing.” Then he looks at her stomach and asks “Um, are the babies going to do that burping thing?” and she laughs because everything is okay again.
(She makes him feel like the hero of all his favorite stories, the books where the brave adventurer stumbles into a world stranger and vaster and far more magical than their own. When they kiss sometimes his mind explodes into a riot of color and sound, madness on her lips. She’s disorder and bedlam incarnate and the kindest, sweetest woman he knew and every day he felt so privileged to be loved by one such as her.)
Dipper telling the kids bedtime stories about how Mom saved the world; he just did the cleaning up afterwards. Willow looks at her mother and Mabel in Willow’s eyes are the swirling colors of madness bubbles, a thousand flashing swirling maelstrom of color. It should hurt her eyes, hurt her brain but it doesn’t because, well, it’s Mom (and if Mabel is Chaos, then the triplets are the children of Chaos. There’s a bit of madness in all three of them.) Triplets and the shenanigans they get into because like attracts like, and weird attracts weird.
Willow still almost drowns when she’s fourteen, and Henry still becomes the Woodsman, but the difference here is that when they call Mabel, they don’t get thirty seconds into the call before there’s a feeling of plib and Mabel spilling out on the floor of the living room, the thousands of miles from Australia to Gravity Falls nothing to her will. Dipper can see the tear in reality his sister made mending itself. (He can see what would have happened if it had been him and her that rescued Willow. Sees eyes glow a cleansing, horrifying white and a pink haze rise around her. Sees her raise a hand and clench it into a fist and every soul in the room is obliterated, gone completely from the cycle of reincarnation, completely and utterly dead and gone in a way that no demon, no god, not even him can do. His sister glows and blazes before his eyes and she is utterly terrifying.)
It’s easier, in this timeline, for Henry to accept the Woodsman. How can he not, when he looks at his wife and there’s something beyond human comprehension hiding in her skin, sometimes he holds her at night and the world goes mad around him and he loses all sense of time and place and self. But she’s more than that, she’s love and sweetness and distractability and maybe there’s something a little (a lot) Wyrd about her but that’s not all of who she is, just like the Woodsman is not all of who he is. And maybe he’s not quite human any more, but neither is she, and together they make a perfect pair.
Just.
Literal Goddess of Chaos and Destruction Mabel Pines.