#ALSO THE WHOLE INSERT THING ABT HOW it's me but in different flavors has me smiling rlly hard /pos

[lavend-ler]

you're literally so real and based about the misogyny in the onceler fandom like none of the plot would've happened without audrey or norma (although i am a bit biased when it comes to norma cause she's my fave), and mrs wiggins helped A LOT and everyone just ignored them. also the vitriolic hatred towards the onceler's mom (yeah she sucked but still) is kinda weird where is that treatment towards the rest of his family

thank u dear anon 🙏

I posted my post out on a whim from my drafts but lemme elaborate - the lorax/onceler fandom is incredibly misogynistic. from the fact that ppl make fun of younger often girls having fun and being attracted to Once-ler. I was also a young girl when I first joined this fandom and I could completely feel the mockery over the years. all bc I dared to have fun abt one of my fave characters. and over the years I feel like the nature had become even more so hostile against fans, esp abt women who just join

my another glaring issue is with the fact that this fandom completely overlooks female characters. as u've said, the plot wouldn't have happened without Audrey and Norma. and when u join the fandom discussions u see ppl complaining abt how thinly they are written, the fandom does nothing to expand on them

I'll start with Norma bc she's my absolute fave too - u can barely find anything with her these days. yes I love Normaler but it doesn't have to be all there is to her. if u don't like Normaler, why can't u make Norma be Once-ler's friend? why aren't u exploring her life as a young woman, single mother and then a kind and upbeat old woman? why can't u pick up the pieces in canon abt her spunky but lighthearted nature, love for stories, enigmatic but understanding personality, nostalgia towards different times but still living in the moment, even affection towards things as gentle as nature and as extreme as sports? she fckin drives a crane all by herself! Norma is such a fantastic character to explore but this fandom just doesn't want to. and then when ppl DO explore her character it's dismissed as a self-insert fantasy for girls. even if so, so what? are we circling back to hating young girls for having interests?

Audrey is a similar case. she's either used as a mouthpiece, side piece for Ted or fucking shipped with an adult. why don't u explore her life beside this? why won't u talk abt her being an artist, softspoken dreamer and an introverted character who has to make choices? I love when ppl make her more active but she can also be passive, not everyone has to be an adventurer. and if u make her active, she could make a fantastic protag. all I'm saying is, do better

I'd argue the story of The Lorax also couldn't have happened if it wasn't for Mrs. Wiggins. she's such a fun character too, lovable and sweet and energetic, but also no nonsense and stands up for what she believes in? when I read this ask to my bestie they looked at me and said "Mrs. Wiggins has more personality than Ted" and I AGREE. she deserves more spotlight as a single woman who tries her hardest and balances her life all around. she's so so good

as for Once-ler's mother, she is a total bitch but like........so is his whole family. yes, she's the abuser but everyone else enables her abuse so they're also guilty. like fuck them. I do totally get hatred for Once-ler's mother but she's also a pretty good antagonist. her manipulative behavior and mood swings are very well written in a realistic way. why can't we even say that a woman is a good antagonist? besides, she can also have her past (which does not excuse the abuse ofc, just makes her a deeper character). I see a lot of potential and it's just wasted a millionth time

can I also say that female OCs in this fandom are super scarce? I remember there were a lot of times when fem!Once-ler blogs got deactivated bc they were relentlessly bullied. all for the sake of shipping two mildly different flavors of the same guy. and u don't have to make them side pieces to ur Once-lers. women deserve their own stories to tell. when I was developing my Lorax OC Felicia, her relationship with Once-ler was the last thing I thought of

anyways, it's a total tangent at this point but I wanted this to be an ode to female characters of the lorax/onceler fandom. they deserve their stories and they deserve to be treated with respect. do better

#ask #onceler #the lorax #norma wiggins #audtree #mrs wiggins #onceler's mom #all this bc I couldn't test out my walkman with my new cassette bc I forgot batteries lol #anyways I've been thinking abt this for a long time and I'm glad I could say it out

[tequiladimples]

I hope this doesn't come off as rude, but I saw that you dislike when collision is branded het cause you're not het, but no one's talking about you personally? like for me, I really like collision but I can understand the criticism in a way and that isn't an attack on you (or an attack at all lol). again hope I'm not rude but idk it seems unnecessary to get upset, it's better to take it as constructive criticism

sigh i don't think ur rude but it simply isn't constructive.

look i’ll talk abt this one more time n then i Beg we can put it to rest! (this is gna be a lot of word vomit but if i'm elaborative now i hope i won't have to talk abt this ever again)

i’m deeply insecure abt many aspects of collision. i don’t really keep that a secret. i also know some ppl don't like fantasy, some ppl don't like the kinds of dynamics i like, some ppl don't vibe with my style of writing (hell, i barely vibe with my style of writing). those things are fine. i can't control that and i don't take that personally. the reason why this is the one critique i do take personally is because it genuinely presumes wrongful, harmful things about me and my values, especially when i've made deliberate efforts to avoid writing the exact flavor of fic they're accusing me of having written. just because people don’t mean for what they say to reflect back on me, doesn’t stop it from doing so.

the thing about calling something a “het fic” is that the term brings along certain connotations which i don’t stand by at all and feel deeply uncomfortable and distraught to possibly have created. i’ve gone over this godforsaken story again and again just to be absolutely sure i didn’t actually do so. when people say “het fic” they generally don’t mean “boy meets girl and they fall in love”, they mean “super rude and mean boy meets uptight virtuous girl and makes her fall in dependence with him through manipulation and treating her like shit until she behaves how he wants.” and that is straight up not the fic i wrote. i’m not stupid. i know the dynamic i went with is widely and easily misused and there’s a lot of fiction depicting really bad, uneven, unhealthy relationships through it. i knew this going in, and i’ve tried persistently to avoid making those same mistakes. 

skipping over the fact that they’re both boys (bc duh)--harry doesn't exhibit any real manipulative power over louis. collision harry is a grumpy, fruity little nerd who happened upon a really unfortunate lot in life and managed to trick himself into believing he's evil for like half a second of the story and his resolves crumble like a danish pastry the moment he receives his first hug. he's kind of aloof and arrogant, and understandably hardened from his past, but he's not bad. he's just lost. that's the basis of his character arc. now on the other hand, louis has harry wrapped around his finger starting like chapter 4. harry’s the one who opens up emotionally first, harry’s the one desperately seeking louis’ approval and caring about his opinion, harry’s the one who makes himself vulnerable continuously throughout the entire story. the only time louis makes himself vulnerable on a comparable scale is during the smut scenes, and even then, harry is gentle and attentive and puts louis first. louis is less experienced than harry in that area, but he isn't scared or intimidated by harry, and he has full reigns of the progression and nature of their relationship as a whole. that’s kind of how it needs to go with tough x soft dynamics for the power balance to not feel uneven, and i wrote the story accordingly. if you then happen to still be so blindly determined to associate soft/small with weakness (and thereby uh, womanhood ig) that you still felt like louis had an inferior position to harry solely because he is indeed soft/small, that sounds quite frankly like a you problem.

now, the whole point of louis’ character is that he’s underestimated. sure, he’s naive and self-centered and sheltered from the real world--that’s the basis of his character arc. those things all change. but louis isn’t ever weak. like idk who apparently needs to hear this but you can be small and simultaneously not be a pushover. the two aren’t mutually exclusive. there isn’t a single time louis takes shit in this story, especially not from harry; he gives back as good as he gets every time. oh! and then he literally saves the entire universe and the execution of that whole thing was his idea alone. i tried really hard to underline how strong-willed and full of grit he is to contrast what others think of him. if you think he’s portrayed as a meek and frail damsel, you missed the point. once again, i feel like we circle back to this misconception of louis being kind of naive and physically small = louis being inferior = louis being female. just do some soul searching.

(i could also get into the fact that for a bunch of people who don’t know these boys personally (no matter how much we like to think we do), this fandom is weirdly opinionated about characterization. especially regarding sexual stuff. i know creating a version for ourselves of who we think these boys are based on things we recognize in ourselves or things we find endearing is part of the comfort with loving them. but that doesn’t really equate to actually knowing them, and besides, this is fan fiction; no one’s opting to write a biography, anyway. being experimental and explorative and putting different aspects of their personalities in different lightings is what makes fic fun. if someone’s writing harmful or one-dimensional characters, that’s one thing, and preferences is again whatever floats your boat. but the “out of character” argument feels mostly really strange to me. this is a bit of a tangent, though.)

lastly, the thing is that i will and i do take it personally if someone insinuates that a character--a gay character--that i, a lesbian, construed is a secret vessel for expressing heterosexual attraction. if someone calls louis a “self-insert”, that does reflect back on me. and to elaborate on that--i don’t particularly love to bring it up, but it's quite disheartening to pour personal PTSD experiences into a character and rly put effort into doing it right and justice and underline growth and healing, just to find out people disregard all that completely in favor of declaring that my self-projection lies in the attraction to a man--which is to say, the one thing i couldn’t possibly feel more estranged from. it's so incredibly tactless. i feel thoroughly whiny at this point but how is that not supposed to make me a little sad?

anyway. none of this is to say that you can’t dislike or critique collision. you can. sometimes ppl don’t like things. but i hope i’m clear about where i’m coming from with my discomfort now. people’s preferences and dislikes are indeed not mine to be hurt by, but these things are. this definitely got unnecessarily long and i probably look like i take myself unbearably seriously (i promise i don’t), so i’m sorry. but at least i've said everything now, and if i encounter this sort of rhetoric in the future, i have something to redirect people to. also anon, none of this is directly pointed at you, i know you mean well. take care <3

#look away this is so long #also @ my non fic mutuals scroll past it pls #it’s not that deep i’m just tired #ask

[ghostfacesvalentine]

Dating Alexei would include.. (Alexei x Fem!Reader)

Pairing: Alexei x Fem!Reader

Warnings: Some cursing on my part, my bad I got excited

Type: HC

Request:  Oh my god I would die if you did dating Alexei from stranger things would include!! ❤️❤️❤️

Word Count: 838 rip my shortest one yet

Prompt: What would dating Alexei include?

Notes:  I usually don’t write for Alexei but hopefully I didn’t butcher it! I hope you enjoy this just as I did ! :)

- When he first saw you he was taken aback.

- He stared at you for a few seconds, normally having a smart comment to make about anything and everyone, but with you he was speechless.

- Then when you both are introduced, he has that dorky smile, mumbling nonsense.

- He would calm down his snarky comments around you, honestly just distracted by you.

- You’d catch him staring at you from time to time

- Hopper would clap vigorously while yelling “Hey! Hey! Hey!!” to get his attention. “Yes, I know she’s very pretty but I need you. To tell me, (Insert whatever information he needs)”

- You’d be flustered at the sudden attention.

- It didn’t help Hopper in any way.

- Murray would talk with Alexei in russian about you.

- You’d do your best to talk to him in a way he would understand your language and he would actually try to understand you.

- He thinks it’s adorable how you motion around to try to make some sense to him of your words.

- Eventually you would catch him reading a russian-to-english translation book.

- He would hide it away quickly as soon as you walked into the room, pushing up his glasses and giving you that familiar dorky smile.

- Hopper would just eyeroll the evening away when in the room with you.

- Hopper would definitely try to use you to get information out of him.

- And you would try, but you also wanted to get to know him.

- You both enjoy watching cartoons together, it was the closest bond you both could have due to the language barrier.

- You were left in charge of Alexei one day while the trio went out to scavenge for a lead Joyce was sure she had.

- You’d sit across each other on the couch, legs crossed with stupid wide smiles plastered on your faces.

- His smile was contagious, you couldn’t deny that.

- He would look at you with sincerity, you picked up on this by the obvious contrast he had for Joyce and Hopper.

- And he looked at you even sweeter than he would to Murray, so you kind of assumed his attraction was more than just a mesley foreign friend.

- He would struggle with insecurity as he tried to speak English, more fearful he’d say something he didn’t mean, or mix up a word.

- “I, like, you.” He would pause to see your reaction, frankly shitting himself as your smile disappeared.

- You were taken aback at his comment, not knowing if you were more surprised that he was able to form a sentence in English, or at what he was saying.

- Surely it was a mistake, maybe he just liked you as a person, you were the nicest to him after all.

- “I like you too.” You’d grin widely giggling away.

- You noticed the sense of relief overcome him

- Unfortunately he wasn’t able to say much more in a language you’d understand.

- He’d look to your lips, laughter soon fading away from you both.

- You’d lean in simultaneously and go for a soft kiss.

- You’d both pull away from each other to see one another's reaction

- This is so fkn cute

- You’d erupt into a giggle fit when you mirror each others scared reaction, afraid you overstepped each others boundaries.

- No neither of you did.

- After this laughter, you’d go in for sweet pecks.

- Not a makeout session.

- Literally just pecks, pulling away giggling like you were both some eight year olds with an innocent crush.

- You’d sneak him out and take him to the nearest corner store to get slushies.

- You’d mix and match flavors and try to guess what flavor the other mixed it with.

- That’s another thing, besides his initial words to you, he only knew how to say different slush flavors.

- Strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, grape.

-All in his cute thick accent though.

- You loved it though.

- “I like you.” Became both of your versions “I love yous”

- You kept your relationship discreet, it was more fun this way anyway.

- Murray of course knows this whole time, Joyce finds out through the looks you give one another and catching you both from time to time, holding hands, kissing or head rubs.

- Oh he loves caressing your face.

- He loves to hand your hand.

- Nudging each others knees often as you watch cartoons

- You always brought him a slush and some fast food when you left while he was on lockdown.

- You’d sneak into the room he slept in after a few weeks of dating, doing your best to ask if this was okay.

- He’d get excited, sitting up suddenly and shoving his glasses on his face, making space for you in bed.

- He’s such a cuddle bug I know it.

- You’d snuggle up to him, both of you would have a quiet giggling fit.

- Lots of giggles have you noticed?

- You’d bring him little plushies you’d win at those crane games in restaurants of his favorite cartoon characters.

- He’d cherish every single one.

- I could go on abt this one too :’)

#Stranger Things #Alexei #Alexei X Reader #Alexei Imagine #Alexei One shot

[acemenagerie-a]

(( dash: talking abt apocalypse domains me: yes perfect time to share my end!elias in the apocalypse ideas but not in a very coherent manner bc that’s how i figure shit out

Because, honestly, the End!Elias AU is set to default toward the Apocalypse happening since I try to keep certain verses close-ish to canon to make them easy to hop into.  Depending on what Jonah is actually shown to be up to ( give me my bastard man where is he where is bastard man ), I may also have to change up this but fuck it let’s go.

I just like the idea of Elias lowkey giving some amount of influence to the Apocalypse’s Whole Deal because he and Jonah kinda exist on top of one another.  He didn’t influence a lot and it’s still very much Eye-flavored, but I am enchanted by the idea that Elias’s existence makes the End and its domains slightly harder to see.  

Jonah has this huge blindspot toward Elias’s little facet of the End which makes the Eye in general have a slight blindspot toward the End. 

[Insert poetic bit that people have talked about before about the Eye being able to see everything except the future which is specifically a thing the End has been able to show]

It’s probably not even that noticeable of a difference between seeing other domains but like... perhaps... if there was someone... doing an Apocalypse world tour... that someone would perhaps maybe notice... that End domains are harder to get a beat on.... perhaps.

Meanwhile Elias is just “Hey Jonah, if you tripped and fell out of this Panopticon and splattered on the pavement would that be fucked up or what?” except Jonah 100% does not know why he is suddenly getting a stronger stream of fucked up what if scenarios of his demise.

Elias’s domain is small and personalized for Fuck Jonah Magnus.  If he could be an avatar of Fuck Jonah Magnus I Hate Him he would. ))

#(( i love ppl w their well-written metas but that is not my style #we throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks on this blog #always ready to change stuff around )) #ace the helpful place | ooc #death mention #violence mention #v { elias }; dancing on his own grave | end aligned