Stop Calling Me "my Fragile Little Flower" Or "my Beautiful Delicate Pet" Im Literally Going For A Glass

Forgive me my bare bones rp blogs, but i am five years out of practice RPing on tumblr and even in my day I never quite learned how to format a fancy system like most of the more well put together folk have. I have no interesting borders and i don't really have the energy to make icons for every expression as much as I wish I could. And as an unemployed disabled late 20-something I cant afford to commission any...

Maybe some day I can figure out how to do all that and it look natural for my characters. But until then, I'm sorry my posts are bare and uninteresting.

oh no my pornography is turning into an angst-filled character study

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

From one of my (many) favorite scenes from @xdeusxmachinax‘s ‘31 Days in the Darklands’ fic!:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19945390/chapters/47228989

nothing pisses me off more than when i see a fic on ao3 talking about reach. "this ship isn't here but i added them for reach" "this fandom tag isn't necessary but i'm adding it for reach" "reposting for reach" STOP IT!!!! this is not tiktok this is not twitter this is an ARCHIVE this is not how it works!!!

I saw the poll recent-ish by @azurewildflight and thought I'd try my own with a significant difference. I'm going to do each show in TOA as its own poll. So this will be only Trollhunters characters, then at the end of this poll I'll move on to 3below, then Wizards.

Other is still an option as although I'm trying here to include ALL the fan favourites of Trollhunters, there will of course always be characters I can't include due to the limit on polls being 12. Do let me know in the comments who you voted for if you choose other! But please keep things civil.

Also there's a few characters I didn't include here due to their crossover potential with other shows as a more major player. So Eli and Nancy Domzalski will be in the 3below poll, and Merlin and Morgana in the Wizards one, for example.

I mostly based the choice of characters on the comments on the previous TOA poll about their favourites being missing, mostly what I saw it was Draal, Angor Rot, Steve and Strickler, hence including them here.

Mostly just have fun! I'm curious to see whether a strictly Trollhunters choice of characters will influence the result, as well as a more even distribution of fav characters.

Some old trollhunters ocs I still like the look of. Elias and his son Jaden.

being queer and seeing historical queer love is like a punch to the gut in a good way every time