#IFs are not as well

[jinxed-games]

Only RO I was interested is now F only yay...

I'm pretty sure you've put another ask like this in my inbox that I decided to ignore. But I won't ignore this one.

Maeve is a lesbian. That will not be changing. I made the change because I realized I could only imagine her with a woman in the context of future romance scenes.

And there are many, many well-written fantasy/political IFs that have Maeve's personality archetype that you can read instead. So yeah. Go enjoy those if this is a dealbreaker.

#Jinxspeaks #RoE #Maeve #asks #usually don't have to have these kinds of convos with people #which is why i ignored the first ask #but i'm gonna nip this one in the bud #maeve's sexuality isn't being unchanged #friendly reminder just like a regular novel isn't your story #IFs are not as well #it's the authors

[dormatheus]

Some thought I had about "what if the lamb decided to break their own vows to never be the sacrifice of a god just to see Narinder be free and 'happy' " which has probably been done but I thought mostly about Narinder going back to the cult, seeing all the time the corpse of the lamb in his dreams or just seeing them everywhere in the corner of his eye.

He was locked so early and for so long he can't really handle all the responsibilities of taking care of the cult, he's overwhelmed, wondering if this is even the freedom he thought about.

At some point maybe bc the crown grew so attached to the Lamb (like Narinder) it kept the ghost of the lamb around and when it actually was able to show and notice they weren't exactly dead... they started bothering Narinder and ngl I have many silly ideas about this but also ... Narinder wanting them back "to take care of the cult instead of him" but actually misses touching the lamb hearing their voice instead of just soft whispers that don't feel real, etc....

The lamb doesn't want this. They made their choice knowing it'd not be able to take it back and betraying not only their kind but themselves so they'd rather just die.

Narinder having to come to terms with his actions and what he made the lamb do.

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#cult of the lamb #cotl lamb #cotl narinder #narilamb #true devotion #the one who waits #cotl toww #💊💊💊 #this has probably been done so much lmao but ah well I just like to think a lot of what ifs and the concept of devotion #and loyalty to one's beliefs and love and idfk idfk #I can't fucking draw narinder and it makes me so sad ... also i write so much someone shoot me lmao pls

[carlyraejepsans]

i think i might be legit happy for the first time in my life.

i got out. i actually got out.

#and i mean unabashedly #fully wholly no ifs no buts no compromises. I'm out i have friends REAL friends like irl we hit it off so well in just a few days #we're all here cause we all love the same things i can hop on a bus and go anywhere i want in the city (ANNUAL BUS PASS FOR 25€. HELLO???) #i live on my own I'm meeting my roommate tomorrow and ik she's a sweetheart my professors are trans friendly the prices on stuff are decent #I GET TO USE MY OWN NAME. #i get gendered correctly even with long hair this is the first time in my life where i recognize myself in the mirror #this still doesn't feel real. if i think about it too hard i start to tear up #i think the local mutual aid group might even have resources to get started on hrt

[horchatahz]

Hey you sittin' there with your smug fuckface, will anything ever be good again?

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still enamored with the @infamous-if / au where we are currently hashing out If Rue Was A Famous Angsty Rockstar tm version of them, so here's a little personal jam sesh with Polly

#infamous if #infamous mc #uhh hm may as well do it up this is still a broadly general rue tm #fhr #sidestep #fallen hero rebirth #fallen hero retribution #my art #oc art #fhr sidestep #oc: ruben flores #just gonna tag them as that even though they have like 15 variations on their name between nicknames and alternate surnames across IFs lol #currently obsessed with the barely chin length / tiny pointless messy bun stage of their hair

[milkyvast]

what if moray n starlo childhood friends or have meet each other once in the pasts

#milkart #undertale fan game #art #fanart #undertale #undertale yellow #starlo #moray #uty yellow #uty starlo #Well uuuh just whats ifs but imagine young moray hadn't make any friends and was constantly shuuned by other classmates #and was to shy #headcanon moray was terrified of his household and run to hide away and was crying onto the building hiding themselves away #Until young starlo walking home with his parents to visited oasis for business meeting and saw someone crying behind building #Maybe that's how theyve know each other #So starlo communicate with them by drawings #cause he isn't confident to talk beside his best friend #And first he drew was a horse with leg #and well thats how theyve know each other #But they both probably forgot that

[atomicnumber47]

i dont think he's used to it

#pokespe #pokemon #dexholder silver #pokespe silver #pokemon adventures #johtoshipping #idk if that counts tbh this is more him having a mental breakdown over people being nice to him #ah well #i imagine the shift of. his childhood straight into doing. Normal. Kid Things. would be the most whiplash inducing thing. #being invited to a Home with someones Parents. i dont doubt he was shitting himself the first time gold invited him over #plus i think there'd then be a whole load of messy feelings about it too. i dont think ... he's jealous.. if you are to understand me.. #its hard to describe. not necessarily jealous.. but it leads him to probably think of what ifs for the entire night that day. yearnin n all #anyways. is this too edgy.... i always liked these style of ....... things

[13eyond13]

Something I think fiction does sometimes is make sex represent the end goal for relationships so often that if two characters sleep together it causes readers to automatically see them as truly in love / that it would solve all problems for the pair to be together forever, even when that isn't necessarily what the narrative is trying to say / depict otherwise.

I am thinking about this because of Guts and Casca... to me they sleep together initially almost as an act of friendship? A way of experimenting with each other and learning about sex, perhaps of distracting themselves from the person they're both more actually into, and of course also because they do care about each other and maybe are attracted to one another on some level, and want to see what it would be like to try to get even closer together. But I think the story also makes it pretty clear that Guts is more emotionally invested in his relationship with Griffith than with Casca, in what you might call a narratively romantic sense... and Casca is shown sort of seeing the futility of her feelings for Griffith and eventually growing apart from him that way pre-Eclipse, even though she still cares for him the most out of everyone she knows (though I don't think he ever feels nearly the same way about her). So getting with Griffith isn't end game for Casca (and she herself eventually realizes that), but I also don't read Casca as a character for whom getting with Guts is the end game character arc-wise, either. I'm not sure Miura even had a concrete end-game character arc in mind for her, to be honest. I feel as though unfortunately she was written mostly as something to be used between Griffith and Guts rather than to end up having her own fully realized narrative journey in the same way that Guts (and maybe also Griffith) will. I want to see her and Guts as friends and at peace more than I want to see them live happily ever after together as a couple, because I feel like that's actually more how they really feel for one another than anything else. Granted, there's a bit of an interesting ironic twist in the story that happens during the Eclipse, where Griffith (unintentionally?) drives Guts and Casca closer together than I think they might have been otherwise with the trauma that he causes them both (even though I think their relationship is probably something he'd be jealous of and read as more romantic than it actually might be and wish to destroy, simply due to his own insecurities and his own possessive feelings for Guts). But I also didn't really read Guts' reactions in the Eclipse scene as Guts being jealous and possessive over Casca in a sexual / romantic sense - I read it more as him feeling empathy for her pain and desire to protect her from harm / from the darker side of Griffith he maybe knew about a bit better than anybody else. I DO care about Guts and Casca's relationship a lot, and find it one of the most emotionally compelling things in the story. But I don't think shipping them together for a happily ever after is really what I'd want for them, nor something that the narrative was actually trying to work towards / suggest to be the best ending for anybody involved? I don't know if I think shipping Guts and Griffith necessarily is either, particularly because of how irredeemably awful Griffith behaved during the Eclipse... but I DO think the story intentionally hinges more around the Griffguts relationship and their emotional journeys / character developments than it does about any other pair/relationship in the series, and that both of them have intense unresolved feelings for each other that come off much more suggestive and stronger than ones of just simply wanting to be friends. And I think all of these characters are pretty explicitly aware of that themselves even in the story as well.

Haha I don't even know what I'm trying to even say here except to work out some of my own thoughts about the main 3 that I care about, I suppose!

#like it became especially apparent to me when starting to read berserk fic #that the griffguts fics seemed more interesting to me to read than a gutsca fic would #which was weird to me because when i read canon i feel after the eclipse #i was almost more invested in guts and casca having a resolution of some kind #and cared the most about the two of them #but now that im reading fic i want to skip anything thats about getting guts and casca together as end game #and wanting to explore the 'what ifs' involving griffith and guts #and i think a lot of that is just due to how the story is written and what is still left unknown about the ending? #people make griffith easier for me to understand in fics as well #berserk spoilers #p #berserk

[zishuge]

What is it? Just now that person seemed so familiar. I think it was Yuan Lu. Are you sure? Why would Yuan Lu be here? ...You're right. He should be with Lao Qian and the others. A Journey to Love (2023) | Ep. 36

#a journey to love #一念关山 #yuan lu #ning yuanzhou #chen youwei #liu yuning #cdrama #cdramaedit #cdramasource #ajtledit #*gifs:mine #a journey to love spoilers #spoilers in the tags below as well #of all the mean things ajtl did to us in the last few episodes this was 10000% the worst. #just because it was so unnecessary. so completely cruel. #the way my heart sank like a rock #that's his CHILD #i wonder... when yuanzhou finally found out what happened – did he have the unbearable realization that it WAS yuan lu that he saw here? #did he think about the terrible what ifs? #what if he had stopped him? what if he had seen him one last time? #what if he had made yuan lu stay at the inn while he and ruyi went to a-ying instead? #augh i hurt

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hm. im not very big on new years resolutions, they're too much pressure. but... perhaps i can handle new years Desires

this year i want to complete a lil comic, fan-based or otherwise. i'd like to also complete some sort of storyboard/animatic thing. i want to develop a coloring style that i can be proud of. i want to get to a point with my dragons where they can have a coherent story & world to live in. i want to think of so many fun, trivial facts about my characters. i want to post more about them. i want to write and post an original thing, be it 1k words or 10k. i want to finish the rough draft of a book i outlined. i want to be kinder to myself. i want to create more gift art for others. i want to put more effort & care & love into my art. i want to force myself into the world and figure out how to live. i want to make an irl friend. try a new craft - scrapbooking, maybe, or making an enamel pin. i want to finish that last commission and make a new sheet for more. i want to be freer with myself. i want to finish at least three fics. i want to go whale watching again. i want to improve my art, especially in the matter of drawing people. i want to bake something tasty and share it with the neighbors. i want to be content with existing. i want to have more good things in life to list on bad days. i want to build a birdhouse.

#i also... want to buy sort & jar more clay sprinkles #and unpack everything in my room #last place i lived in for three years had boxes from that move that i never opened #not this time... this time Everything will find a place... #maybe ill try poetry! maybe ill volunteer on a tallship again! #maybe ill change my hair! spice up my style! leash train my cat! #i want to improve my writing as well #and read more books! even if im just rereading! #No! i want to read priory of the orange tree! #absolutely unprompted #the last few years ive just... had very little hopes or desires #it was just one month after the next with the knowledge that id do nothing the next year too #not this year please. not this year.... #i want to Try. i want to live. please? please #the beginning of this year is gonna be tough and my life's stability is being threatened #but! i will hold on hope with bloody teeth. im gonna make it this time. i want to change for the better #and i will. thats my only resolution. the others are maybes and what ifs #but i Am going to change. i want to be in the world and so i shall be. i want to be a person and so i will make it happen #clinging to that this year. im worth it! this time i really am worth it.

[pup-pee]

dont ask how old this is dont ask dont ask dont

yes they r talking about tim, sr r yyyyyy

transcript;

((i think its called that))

steph, is talking about tim; "this 1 is when i was crawling through his walls & saw him practicing tiktok dances in the mirror!

bernard; lol

yeah ik my comedy knows no bounds

honestly the sketch was cuter so here

#bernard has heterochromia(?) bc of cringetober btw #yes the design is sticking w/me 4 now im plauged w/it #u can tell how old this is bc STEPH GIRLIE Y DO U LOOK LIKE THAT ;;; #i find it stupid how much ive drawn steph but never posted bc i never go past the sketching ohase #my finished sketchbook has her littered in it like shes hidden in the corners of my dick pages ifs stupid #omfg i never posted the stephcass button here either #OMG ;person_standing; im ok well then #steph chinchilla girl im so srry #chinchilla girl <3 #stephanie brown #bernard dowd #dc #puppee art

[shrinkthisviolet]

Alternatively an AU where Eowells 'raises' Barry alongside Morgan and they get to grow up as brother and sister (with the world's shittiest dad)

OOOH I LOVE THIS!

Making the case is easy enough for Eowells—Joe assisted in Henry’s prosecution, he shouldn’t get to adopt his son. And Eowells recently lost his wife and has his daughter, baby Morgan. He could use another child to fill the desolate quiet…and he’s more than happy to take in a child whose pain he might somewhat understand. (And ofc he’s a rich white man—that helps too)

Barry is ofc an angry kid at 11. Made angrier by the fact that he couldn’t even be adopted by someone he knows (Joe) but by Eowells. But…baby Morgan is adorable, and Barry finds himself at least coming to adore her, if not her father. Because yeah—Eowells is “Morgan’s father” to him. Barry won’t change his name, won’t call him Dad. But he’ll softly call himself Morgan’s brother, and hold her close like she’s the most important person in the world. Iris (he’s not allowed to interact with her outside of school, but ofc they find their ways) notices and teasingly remarks on it, saying he makes a wonderful big brother

Barry is parentified by the time…well, maybe by the time Morgan is 5. He was a little bit before, but this is when it really starts. He’s 15, old enough to stay at home by himself, so often he and Morgan have the house to themselves. He soothes her nightmares, sings her to sleep…when he turns 16, he’s the one taking her to and from school. It’s tough balancing this and his own life, he’s not cut out for all this by himself…and Tina notices. She asks after Eowells, but he makes excuses (because yeah, by this point, he considers Eowells his dad and even cares about him, even if that love is mixed with resentment for his late hours working). Still, Tina insists, and Barry reluctantly accepts, letting her shoulder some of Morgan’s childrearing. They become a sort of team…and Tina even helps him out from time to time

In this AU, Morgan is much more attached to Barry than to Eowells. She doesn’t think of him as her dad exactly, but…he’s not far off either, and in a lot of ways, he’s at least more parental to her than Eowells. The first time she got scared of thunderstorms, it was Barry who cuddled with her, sang her to sleep, and told her a funny story about thunder and lightning being “show-offs” that made her giggle. It’s Barry who comes to all her choir concerts and karate belt tests with (or without, on occasion—Tina’s still a busy woman) Tina, being the embarrassing big brother who says “that’s my sister!!” and insists on taking a million pictures and teases her just enough to make her roll her eyes but smile anyway (and she, ofc, gives as good as she gets)

It means that she’s also much less conflicted about Eowells. Sure, she loves him, but if it’s Barry’s life on the line? He’s always been there, Eowells hasn’t. It’s an easy choice to make. She’ll always choose her brother. She even changes her surname to his—although she’s now Tina’s legal child, she’s always been Barry’s baby sister before anything else.

Admittedly, parts of this AU overlap with what I have planned for the Childhood Friends AU (you’ll notice there are some chunks I didn’t address in these headcanons, and that’s because they’d be spoilers for some CF AU plot points 😅), which is…really the only reason I’d hesitate to write it. And yet…👀👀

Also, to anyone else reading this, @fezwearingjellybananas (the wonderful sender of this ask) did sorta write this premise in their amazing Speedster Siblings series (with the addition of Wally, and it’s Jesse rather than Morgan so she’s a speedster). I highly recommend it!

send me an au and i’ll share 5+ headcanons about it!

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#no lavi you do NOT need more wips #daddy issues au #au headcanon ask game #brotp: i know my hero #oc: morgan wells #barry allen #morgan wells au what-ifs #the flash

[gazoline6725]

Drew Devi and Tenna from "I Feel Sick" because I recently read the comic and I love it SO much. I wanted to make a pride art so what a perfect time to draw my label headcanons for them. 👁️

#I Feel Sick #johnny the homicidal maniac #clunky arting #devi d #tenna ifs #ifs #lesbian #bisexual #asexual #demisexual #aspec #fanart #personal headcanons pls be kind aaaa #my first time drawing the two as well #I really love I Feel Sick rn #it's soooo good #we stan spooky on this blog #safe to tag as ship #digital art #artwork

[sometimes-i-make-mcr-fanart]

I over saturated the market with blood

#I make very specific references to my own posts based on how well they are doing so I’m sorry if this comes out of left field #the reblog ifs but I’d much rather leave you without context #simmcrfa #mcr #my chemical romance #gerard way #my chem #mikey way #frank iero #ray toro

[sepulchritude]

Sometimes I think dang some of my classmates and coworkers have a go-to theoretical framework for therapy that they love, like specializing in CBT or DBT or IFS, and I feel weird for taking such an eclectic approach. Like should I put more time into learning one system really well instead of taking bits and pieces from everything I see?

And then over the course of one mutual therapy sesh with a classmate friend I applied both diet advice and art advice to her communication troubles in her relationship in a way that really worked. So I think probably I just am the way I am.

#loveeee a good mutual therapy sesh #i do want to learn more systems in depth but i want to learn ALL of them #like. okay jargon incoming sorry but it’s for me #ACT and DBT and SFBT are at the top of my list rn #but i’ve heard a lot of interesting things lately about IFS and the gottman method #CBT can lowkey huff my shorts but i’d like to train on it so i can 1) steal what works #and 2) have a more well-developed rationale behind why i’m :/ about it #anyway #sepulchritudinous

[alexiethymia]

Eyyy if Lilith is in Heaven and let’s assume that she loves Charlie, what if her deal with Alastor has something to do with getting Charlie into Heaven??

#hazbin hotel #lilith #alastor #charlie morningstar #supposedly her and lucifer are (still?) madly in love #she’s shady shady #admittedly based on a lot of what ifs #and I don’t know how it’ll work #and maybe she never disclosed the full plan to alastor at all #but I would think charlie could get into heaven #I mean she’s not in hell through any decision she’s made #you could say amongst any of them she’s a true innocent #I mean going by sir pen #assuming this is true charlie would have to be killed to get into heaven #but while it’s proven to work for sinner mortals #well charlie isn’t exactly a sinner is she? #what if killing her as a hellspawn just erases her from existence?

[dash-o-frost]

Remembering my favourite part of Dragon ball is the ‘What ifs?’

#I believe in saiyan tail supremacy #BRING EM BACK COWARDS #Dbz #dbs #dragon ball #myart #goku #son goku #raditz #Raditz what ifs are my favourites no clue why #I just want more saiyans #and saiyan lore #(which I ain’t gonna lie the better lore shit is often in the fan fictions 🫠) #well done us !!!