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birbtails · 2 years
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Tomorrow
Summary: Just angst and depression, bruh. Remember, I let you guys vote for either this fic or the fluffy one and... well...
Platonic!Reader & Dean & Sam
Word Count: 1583
TW: Hospitals, ed, cancer, avoidance
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“That was the hospital,” Sam said once he hung up. He ran his fingers through his hair and looked at Dean with tired eyes. “Y/N’s there again.”
It hurt, but it wasn’t a surprise. “What happened?”
“She collapsed. They’re running tests now to see why.”
Y/N had been getting worse for months now. She hid it, but after it got to a certain point, to the point where the hospital got involved, she couldn’t hide it any longer. Dean grabbed his jacket and keys. “Let’s go.”
The ride was silent and familiar. It was the third time in as many months. The first time was just to pick her up. Y/N had gone to get a sleeping pill prescription, and the doctors wouldn’t let her get behind the wheel, saying that she would be a danger in her current state. The second time, she’d been so sick that her roommate insisted she go. Sam and Dean had been called because they were still on file from the first time.
And now she collapsed.
If only she would tell them what was going on with her.
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“They shouldn’t have called you.” I hated seeing Dean and Sam here. They shouldn’t have to take care of me. I was an adult. I could do this on my own.
Well, theoretically.
The Winchesters shouldn’t have to worry themselves about me. Sure, we grew up together, but that doesn’t mean they need to watch my destruction.
“They said you collapsed,” Dean said, pulling over a chair beside the hospital bed. God, I hated hospital beds. I hated everything about the hospital.
Okay, that’s not entirely true. I use to hate hospitals. Now though, I found a strange sort of comfort.
“I had them remove you as my emergency contacts last time. They shouldn’t have called.”
“Well, they did. Why’d you collapse?”
Why does anything collapse? Governments, buildings, organs… too much pressure.
At my lack of an answer, Sam sighed and came to sit on the edge of the bed. “We’re worried about you, Y/N.”
“They shouldn’t have called you,” was all I said. I’m an adult. I don’t need people looking after me. I should be able to do that myself. They could worry about their own problems.
“Why not?”
So far, my favorite part about living on my own was the independence. I could do whatever I liked. Whatever I wished. I just wish people would stop worrying about me because of it. I was on my own, so I should be on my own. I hadn’t talked to either Dean or Sam since the last time I was here. That was a whole month without any Y/N problems hanging off their shoulders. Now the hospital ruined that streak by calling them.
“I took you off my contact list. It’s unprofessional, really. And probably against HIPAA.”
“Why did you take us off your list?” Dean clarified Sam’s question with a sigh. He knew that I’d understood the first time. So he should also know that I wasn’t going to answer this time.
“They said they’re keeping me here overnight. You guys should go back to whatever you were doing. I’ll be fine.”
They shared a look and Sam stood up. “I’ll go find a nurse.”
He shut the door behind him. It was just me and Dean now.
“He’s going to get answers, Y/N. You might has well just tell me why you collapsed.”
Dean was raised right. Sam too. I suppose I was also raised right, but the lessons just didn’t stick for me like it did for them. The three of us. The fearsome threesome. A force to be reckoned with back in high school. Back when life was simpler.
“Have you seen the news? All those hurricanes and earthquakes? Man, I would hate to be there.”
He knew I wasn’t going to give him a real answer, so he just sighed heavily, pulled his baseball cap down over his eyes, and slid down the chair until he was comfortable enough. He was going to have to go to the chiropractor if he fell asleep like that.
“Dean, go home. Get some sleep in your bed. You have a game tomorrow that you need to be ready for.”
“Surprised you even know about that,” he mumbled, not moving.
The school sends out weekly emails about all of the events happening on campus I still get them even though I dropped out a month ago. Of course I know about the football games.
I’m not very good at being a real person lately. There’s just too much happening. Too many strings to keep track of. A to-do list that keeps getting longer and longer. More failures that keep piling up in the corner of my closet. I can’t do it all, so some things had to go. Dean and Sam just couldn’t see how much more free they were without me.
I guess they would figure that out soon enough.
“I forgot to eat,” I finally say out loud. It’s not completely the truth. I knew that I had to eat, but I just… didn’t.
Dean peeked at me from under the bill of his hat. “What?”
“That’s why I collapsed. They’re going to give me whatever I need then send me home. That’s it, okay? Nothing to worry about. You guys can go home now.” I closed my eyes, knowing that Dean was going to blow this completely out of proportion. If I had to hear it, I didn’t want to see it too.
“How do you forget to eat?”
It’s a lot of work. You gotta figure out what you want to eat, then see if you have everything to make it, then if you don’t you have to go to the store and spend money and time and be around people. And if your roommate is home, then you run the risk of having to be in the kitchen with her too and small talk is just something that I can’t do. Then, after all that hullabaloo, there was no guarantee that I wouldn’t just puke the food up in a few minutes.
It’s just easier to… not.
“Y/N, c’mon, what the hell?”
This would have been so much better if the hospital hadn’t called them. Dean was all about eating right. He cared about his body. It got him his athletic scholarships. It was his future. He was going to be in the NFL. He had to worry about that shit. And Sam? His future was all about being a personal trainer. It was his job to figure out the right way to eat and exercise and all that crap.
I was the brains. Well, I used to be. I used to think I was.
Funny how fast things change.
“Go home, Dean. Take Sam with you. The hospital’s got my back now. You have a game tomorrow.” I settle further into the bed.
“When was the last time you ate?”
The worst part of hospital beds was getting comfortable in them. It was impossible on a good day, but with wire and tubes sticking out of you? It was better to just resign yourself to a very uncomfortable night.
“Y/N.”
“And it’s not just the hurricanes and earthquakes. There was a giant tsunami too. It’s like the earth is trying to tell us that we’re not welcome anymore. Crazy.”
“I don’t care about that right now. Y/N, when did you last eat?”
I was so tired. And all this probably wouldn’t matter in a few weeks anyway. Dean had a game tomorrow. “If you don’t leave, I’m gonna call security.”
His mouth dropped open. I couldn’t stand to look at him anymore, so I stared straight ahead at the door instead.
“Y/N, what the fuck is going on with you?”
The door opened and Sam returned with a nurse and a doctor. It was never good when the doctor came back in. Especially with a nurse. I addressed them, rather than my friends. “Can you get them out of here, please? I don’t want them here.”
“Y/N, I don’t think that’s a good idea given—”
“Get them out of here!” I yelled suddenly, finding some hidden reservoir of energy to protect my friends from the ugliness that the doctor was about to tell me.
Dean and Sam protested, but they were too nice to fight against the nurse as she pushed them out the door. As soon as they were gone, I slumped back against the pillow.
“It spread, didn’t it?” I asked weakly.
The doctor nodded sympathetically. “The tumor in your brain that we found a month ago is growing faster than we thought, and the cancer has spread to your spinal cord.”
It didn’t take ten seasons of Grey’s Anatomy for me to know what that meant. “How long do I have?”
“It’s hard to say, but…” the doctor flipped through a few pages on my chart. It was just a stalling technique. It couldn’t be easy to tell a twenty-two-year-old girl that she was going to die soon. “I would say somewhere between three weeks and four months.”
“I can go get your friends, if you’d like. You don’t have to go through this alone,” the nurse offered.
I just shook my head. A single tear trailed down my cheek, but other than that I was able to keep all of my emotions buried deep. “No. They need to go. Dean has a game tomorrow.”
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shyrgyrryn · 7 months
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Spop Rewrite
I mentioned in my first post that I was planning a Spop rewrite, and I want to go into more detail about what I'm planning and some major notes.
The Story
The story will include many elements from the 80s show, especially the world building, while following the reboot story structure.
Major plot points from the reboot will still be included, for example, the portal. However, it will be written differently and happen for different reasons.
I want to put emphasis on how war can affect people differently and the changes people undergo during it, as well as show multiple different demographics be affected rather than just the main cast.
Additionally, I want to focus Adora’s platonic relationships. Platonic relationships are going to take a forefront in this story rather than romantic ones.
Major Notes
Catra’s redemption arc will be longer and separate from Adora.
Catradora will be canon. However, their entire backstory and relationship will be rewritten. To clarify, I am not a C//A stan. However, I do like their characters in the 1985 comic and can entertain the idea of those versions of them dating. Also, the ship's writing makes me mad, so I want to prove that I, some rando with a lot of free time on her hands, can write a better friends, enemies to lovers relationship than the people who got paid to do it. So, I'm essentially making it canon just to prove a point.
The major changes in their relationship are that there will be no "siblings or dating?" mess involved in their relationship(yuck), Catra will actually be shown deeply caring for Adora, and their relationship will not be abusive in the slightest (still toxic because Catra is a villain but definitely not abusive, and becomes healthy later on.) Additionally, it will be a subplot to the story, not the main focus. It also will not only be made canon at the very last minute.
Seamista will also be canon. However, it is completely rewritten as Sea Hawk is 80s Sea Hawk, not reboot Sea Hawk.
I'm on the fence about Glimbow and Scorfuma, so there's a good chance they won't be canon.
(Clarification: My Double Trouble is closely resembling 80s Double Trouble and the She-ra Bible version, so if I use she/her pronouns for Double Trouble, I am not talking about the reboot version. )
Conclusion
Is there anything you would want to see in my rewrite? What should I consider when writing it? What should I avoid? Tell me what ya think.
(And before anyone complains, I'm tagging this in the main tag because this post is related to the show. I find the idea that you can't tag posts related to a show in the main tag because it's not " positive" and is criticizing it to be a bit ridiculous. There's nothing wrong with critism as long as it is respectful to the real people that post under the tag.)
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allamericanb-tch · 16 days
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you signed up for this thoughts (1)
currently riding off the adrenaline rush that was doing my final project for english literally 30 minutes before it was due. will i be pulling an all nighter? i hope not. i have things to do tomorrow. but it is entirely possible. it is currently 12:11 am on may 4th. i will be back with the time when i stop reading. ok. it’s 1:50 am and im done with chapter two. i’m tired but also im not but im going to force myself to sleep bc ill regret it if i dont. 
chapter 1
guys i need long rosekiller fic recs. this is so irrelevant but
cruel summer! i love swifties.
modern AUs are really starting to grow on me
guys i love dorcas so much she’s so cool i’m in love with her 
celsius jump scare (i just looked up the conversion and 30°C is 86°F which is PERFECT WEATHER what is regulus yapping about)
“honestly, straight guys. a mystery to regulus.”
“dorcas is almost too gay to function.” we should totally just stab caesar!!!
they’re in spain why did i think they were in australia
BARTY?!
yes dorcas you ARE a bad bitch
i’m living for dorcas and regulus friendship
lily! my love <3
remus!
JAMES POV!!! james is my favorite guys i love him so much
is james hispanic in this omg (wait yeah that would make sense if this takes place in spain…) hispanic james is so dear to me
MARLENE!!!! just a mention of her but i love marlene. so. much.
no why is he being mean ☹️ i mean i get why but james fleabag potter is the most Genuinely Nice Guy to every Genuinely Nice Guy
peter!
frank!!
hogwarts spa and resort 😭
regulus pov again!
rip bartylus ☹️
six weeks!
the tired is setting in i might just read one chapter and then go to sleep
omg black brothers reunion when??
james pov again! i’m glad this fic clarifies the povs i like that
eeee jegulus
sex wax mention
regulus pov again again! 
dorcas calling remus “tall dark and handsome” genuinely that phrase confused me so much for so long (it still does) like im just imagining them being enveloped in a perpetual shadow
what the fuck is a half british half american accent with a spanish twang
this fic is irking me, but generally all modern AUs do
“there go his plan for ogling” REAL
james pov again again!
sirius!
not lily thinking regulus is dorcas’ boyfriend
sirius is a short queen and i love him 
remus pov!!!
eeee sirius
wolfstarwolfstarwolfstar
PANDORA!!!!!!!
i love remus and regulus friendship
i love long end notes
chapter 2
“But also, he’s so freaking tired.” james being the realest ever
enemies to lovers wolfstar
SIRIUS BEING 5’5 i love it
regulus pov! 
oooooo
jegulus is jegulusing
i have to pee SO BAD rn omg
eee james pov
oh me oh my 
remus pov! 
dorcas!!!!!
regulus pov again 
chapter 3
i am back many hours later (i am driving to prom) (don’t worry i am not the one driving)
excited for this one
i have no idea what the work aspect of this fic is about
STOP DONT CALL SUNSCREEN CREAM AHHH
“i’m weird. i’m a weirdo. i don’t fit in. i don’t want to fit in.” 
platonic prongsfoot ❤️‍🩹
“i want to be marlene when i grow up” REAL
i hate the way paraphernalia is spelled so much
dorlene!!!!!!
marlene 😭 i love her so much
ew stop saying tall dark and handsome it’s so wattpad
dorlene is dorlening
i think regulus is going to stumble upon sirius rn
I KNEW IT AHHH
and he’s running away
AH james
jegulus is jegulusing
oh my god
this is so wattpad and im living for it honestly
“hello brother” BAH STOP
regulus having a canis major tattoo ❤️‍🩹
chapter 4
i stopped reading and it is now one more day later
james is so. james.
“Grumbling under his breath, he connects his phone via Bluetooth and finds his one sad playlist. It exists for emergencies only, but he thinks this qualifies.” HELP
regulus has been found 
jegulus jegulus jegulus
james 😭 
regulus having a peanut allergy
jamessss whyyyy ☹️
barty jump scare
stoppppp omg ew
lily!!!!!
pandora!! i love her so much
🎶you look like stevie nicks🎶
pandalily ?! eat. 
i love pandora so much omg
greyback ??
james and sirius 
chapter 5
what is 1700 in normal time
sirius leaving the note for regulus ❤️‍🩹 
remus “i can’t fucking stand you” lupin and sirius “you’re welcome to kneel” black
dorcas!
arepas mmm
dorcas!
PLEASE barty and regulus texting i can’t with them
i lpve moonwater
chapter 6
dinner ahhh
beer is literally just bread soda
james is such a mom friend
midnights !!!!!
NOAH KAHAN !!!!!
sirius has excellent music taste
jegulus ahhh
peter 😭 i love him so much
stop this is giving me the ick
WHAT THE F
i’m eating this enemies to lovers wolfstar up please they need to kiss so bad
jegulus
chapter 7
regulus just pining
yes sirius you’re absolutely right lost the breakup IS a banger
MATILDA IS NOT A SKIP
omg is it called you signed up for this bc of the maisie peters song. 
“There are only two reasons Sirius will get out of bed before eight am. Mortal peril or good waves.”
sirius and remus alone together ?!
KISS ALREADY
AHHHHHHH
wolfstar is wolfstaring
oh they’re really going at it
yeah that was really. hmm. i mean good for them honestly but
“Remus’ mouth twitches, then he looks at Sirius, who is trying very hard to avoid his gaze for some reason. It’s odd, and Regulus doesn’t like it. Did they have a fight or something?” yeah or something
sirius and regulus ☹️
marlene 😭 icon as always
james!
yay i love dancing
regulus being regulus (pining after james)
chapter 8
oh? hanky panky in this chapter ?!
no hablo español
regulus calling james mr darcy
THE HAND FLEX SCENE yes it is a classic
mcdonald’s so america core
james carrying an epipen for regulus ❤️‍🩹
omg they’re going dancing
james respectful king
omg daddy yankee mention we used to listen to his songs in middle school spanish class 
jegulus is jegulusing omg
sirius pov 
eeeee wolfstar happenings
moonwater friendship <3
CANNON FODDER 😭
chapter 9
lily!!!!!
pandora ?!
i love lesbian lily
pandalily!
keeping it platonic my ass
yeah inside joke. sure.
“If Mary finds out he took Remus into the staff corridor, she’ll neuter him” 😭😭
wow this author just loves the phrase “kisses their teeth”
i love sirius and regulus
BAH REGULUS AND THE TAYLOR REFERENCES i love him so much
regulus having no friends his whole life he’s just like me fr
james you menace
STOP SAYING CREAM IM BEGGING YOU
“While Regulus is having a small, private crisis” that’s one way to put it
i really don’t like barty in this which is sad for me because i love barty
“Do you really want to faint in front of Sirius like you’re a Victorian lady?”
what are they doing
please stop saying “#/10 would ___” it’s so millennial 
i was gonna stop here but i think i will read one more
chapter 10
hanky panky hanky panky
i love dorlene 
i love pandalily
we need more wlw centric fics if i was confident in my writing abilities that is what i would do
dorcas!! 
guys i love dorlene so much
being a multishipper is so fun bc i love marylily so much but pandalily eats every time
i love forced proximity
sirius having to run after remus bc sirius is Very Short and remus is Very Tall so real
oh they’re in the backseat now
oh jegulus
oh me oh my
THEYRE KISSING AHHHHHHH
stop i can’t believe it’s only been a week
they’re really going at it aren’t they
ew stop this is giving me the ick
ok im going to read another chapter
chapter 11
this is the last one i swear
sirius telling lily! underrated friendship frfr
marlene!
i love jegulus so much omg
i love the word magnanimous 
remus telling regulus
poor dorcas ☹️
“You’re like a pesky mosquito, you know that?” Remus groans, shaking his head. Unbelievable.
“Hmm, yeah, I guess. I mean, I’d like to bite you.” 😭😭 sirius you menace
regulus you menace
“You are a menace.” this is exactly what i’ve been saying
sirius jump scare
oh me oh my
i love pandora
oh ?!
ok reading the next chapter
chapter 12
oh me oh my
not imagine dragons 😭
hospital 🫡
eeeeee they’re kissing
wolfstar
sleepover ?!
why is this hilarious
sirius is such a menace
i love sirius and regulus so much
“Barty made Regulus feel like the world was against them. James makes Regulus feel like it’s them against the world.”
dorcas! 
dorlene ☹️
jegulus is jegulusing
ew stop this is giving me the ick
ok i actually have to sleep now 
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etherealbelphie · 2 years
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Hey-o! I was wondering if you could do a Obey me platonic oneshot where the reader asks lucifer "hey why can't mammon indulge in his sin I mean asmo can and so can beel and I just don't get it" like they're genuinely curious bc they just don't understand at all and he get defensive in his usual avatar of pride way and subtly is like "why can't he???" And avoids the reader?? If this doesn't make sense or if you just don't wanna do it feel free to ignore this!
Whatever do you mean? (Ft. Mammon, Lucifer and GN!MC)
Warnings: Season 1 spoilers, Mentions of MC almost getting killed, minor injuries (?)
Word count: 0.6k
A/N: Thank you so much for your request! I'm hopeful this is sort of what you were looking for, I wasn't entirely sure where to take the story. The ending is kind of open, but I could definitely make a part 2 :D Also, finally after *checks calendar* 9 months, Lucifer finally makes an appearance in a story!
I think I added all the right warnings, if I should add any, please let me know!
-Ethereal ^J^
Story below, please don't claim as your own!
This week had been chaotic.
Things were almost always chaotic in the House of Lamentation, but you felt that this week had to have hit some sort of record.
Then again, you felt like that most weeks.
Regardless, by the time Saturday rolled around, you were more than ready to slip on your headphones and stay in your own world the rest of the day.
You hummed along to the music as you walked down the stairs.
Then stopped as something hit you on the head.
“Ow-!” You bent down, picking up the offending object. It was a very familiar pair of sunglasses.
Curious, you glanced up.  
“Whoops, my bad!”
Mammon was currently dangling from the chandelier, strung up by his ankles. 
You stared, dumfounded, at the ceiling. “What are you doing up there?”
“I’m baking a friggin’ cake.” Mammon rolled his eyes. “What do you think I’m doing up here?”
“You know that’s not what I meant,” you said, rolling your eyes right back. “Why are you up there?”
“Lucifer got all pissy when he found out I was at the casino last night,” Mammon said. “Said I had to ‘restrain myself when it came to my sin’ or something like that. I’ve only been there once this month! That’s not even that bad!”
“Last night?” You exclaimed. “You’ve been up there the whole night!?”
“Yeah, pretty much.”
You hesitated for a moment. The consequences from Lucifer could be extreme, but it’s not like you could just leave Mammon up there…
“Okay, give me a second, I’ll help you down.”
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Soon enough, Mammon was down from the ceiling. (Basically, you cut the ropes and he hit the ground face first. Good thing demons were more durable than humans…) You’d told him to get out of here just in case Lucifer came back, and you didn’t have to tell him more than once.
You decided to hang back for a moment and clean up the ropes. Leaving a tripping hazard on the stairs seemed like a recipe for (another) disaster.
Suddenly, you felt a hand clamp down on your shoulder.
You jumped, dropping the ropes in your arms. 
“A-hem.”
Of course, you’d been caught by the eldest brother. Reluctantly, you turned around.
“Where’s Mammon?” He asked with an unimpressed glare.
“Um…geez…I dunno-“
Lucifer held up one hand, using the other to pinch the bridge of his nose. “Just…don’t. I was about to let him down anyways. But don’t do that again, understand me?”
You nodded quickly.
“Wonderful. I’ll be seeing you, then.” He started towards the steps.
“Wait, can I ask you something?” You knew you were probably pushing your luck, but you’d had this question for a while. “Why is Mammon punished for his sin so much more often than everyone else?”
He turned around to look at you. “What ever do you mean?”
“I mean, like, Beel literally tried to kill me over some custard. Levi tried to kill me because he got jealous I won a contest, Satan tried to kill me because he got mad— you get the point.”
“Yes, that’s true.” He said.
“I…I know it is…I was there. That wasn’t the point,” you clarified. “I mean like, they barely got in trouble for it-“
“Would you like me to punish them for it?” He asked.
“What? No, I-? Maybe? I don’t know!”
“You’re not making any sense,” he said.
“Just-!” You paused for a second to recollect your train of thought. You turned around, resuming your collection of the ropes.
“It’s just, why can’t Mammon indulge in his sin?”
“Can’t he?” Lucifer questioned. “Wasn’t he out all of last night doing that?”
“That’s not what I mean-!” You turned around to look at him, but saw nothing.
He was gone.
“Well…okay then,” you threw your free hand up, and headed toward the garbage. You’d get an answer out of him one day…you were sure of it.
(You weren’t.)  
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myfaveisfuckable · 5 months
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Tuvok:
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Ok, first off: real world standards, he's not normal passing. Apart from the ears, he's just too autistic (sorry, "Vulcan" 🙄) to be considered "normal looking". He went to 1990s earth once and Did Not Pass as normal. But in universe, he would on the surface seem like a model Vulcan. And he is, kinda. But he's also so gd weird. (/aff)
Not even gonna get into how badly he wants to be Will Graham because obviously that's there too but we don't have all day. Anyway.
Obvs the emotions struggle is real as it is for any Vulcan worth paying attention to, if only because they were all only ever written by humans.
But also, tangential to him being Will Graham coded (but still separate enough) he is a total mind slut. You know how some characters will go "when I have a problem, I set it on fire" or shit like that? When Tuvok has a problem, he mind melds with it. Homoerotically if it's an option. Dude even got a mind std one time, despite the fact that's not even a thing.
And then whatever the fuck kinda thing he has going on with Janeway. Not even necessarily in a shippy way ("not romantic, not platonic, so devoted the lines blur") but like... not only is he unreasonably loyal to her but he does shit like not only letting her touch him whenever she wants but *deliberately offering her HIS HAND to hold* to comfort her when she needs it (reminder that hand touching is very intimate to Vulcans and can be likened to human kissing) and again, they're never even stated as romantic or anything, they're just friends and yet he is more loyal to her than he is to his own code of ethics.
Obviously part of all of it could be because Janeway (or possibly Kate Mulgrew) is simply Like That, she does do shit like tell her platonic subordinate "then be a good rat and find us the cheese" in a tone that makes me lose it, but it's not all her, Tuvok is also extremely not normal about it. I should submit Janeway too actually, I'll do her next.
Also, afaik Tuvok is the only crew member of Voyager (who makes it back) who had a romantic partner before the ship got lost in the Delta quadrant and remained loyal the entire seven years they were lost. I *think* Samantha Wildman also did but she's a minor character (so she could've been getting it off screen) and she started out pregnant so once born Naomi both kept her busy and was a living reminder of her husband's love. So in that regard, Tuvok is very much not normal but like in the most positive way. He literally didn't cheat on his wife even when his life was in danger (they *were* out there for seven years so of course he hit pon farr eventually) and I think that's really cool of him. But also very not normal.
I'm very tired rn but once the polls come out, simply check out the blog of Bea @bumblingbabooshka (wanna clarify, I'm not him but he is THE Tuvok blogger in my opinion) who has written much on this already.
There's also the whole stuff that happened around his monestary era but I'm not even at that part yet but it must've been wild.
Anyway. Vote Tuvok
Janeway:
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- will literally martyr herself at the drop of a hat
- will kill you if she thinks it's what she needs to do for her crew
- will not kill you if she thinks you've got residue humanity after decades as a borg drone even though realistically she really should've (tho ofc we're all glad she didn't)
- will violate your personal rights if she thinks you're not "human" enough and also compare you to a replicator (yes I'm still salty about that. wait what was the question? right, i'll get back on track)
- will say absolutely deranged shit like "then be a good rat and find us the cheese" in the a tone that makes me lose my mind and basically give everyone a crush on her (and also mommy issues) if they spend too long in her vicinity, leading to a very loyal crew
- her solution to having a crush on a fictional character was to delete his wife (very relatable but also very not normal)
- she wanted to watch hot Q on Q sex (possibly for scientific reasons) and looked very disappointed when it was severely underwhelming
- WHO brings a bathtub on a spaceship???
- there's more but y'know
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fandomsoda · 3 months
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Ok so let me start off by saying that this post is probably gonna be very clunky simply due to the fact that I’m addressing a two day old situation and I’m doing so without it being directly prompted,, please bear with me.
So, late Tuesday night an anon expressed concerns over the ways that I’ve brushed over the topic of aromanticism in the past, expressing that I only ever seemed to mention partnering aros and that it came off as if I was saying all of that only in service of shipping. These things of course are not things I intended, but are not unfounded claims nonetheless.
My initial response to that ask was definitely not great, I came off as very customer service-y and expressed that I felt as if it was exaggerated (simply due to the way it was phrased as “constantly”). It didn’t help that it was like 11 pm and for some reason my dumb ass didn’t actually go back and look through stuff, purely going off my notoriously bad memory.
Needless to say, this wound up coming off as dismissive and insufficient, and thus I’m making this post now as I have processed everything and want to give the proper actual respose (and in a sense, apology) that this situation is deserving of.
After going back through past posts, while definitely far from constant, I have been able to observe that whenever aromanticism was brought up I definitely had a really bad tendancy of only mentioning partnering aros and it definitely came off as scummy now that I look back at it. This was never something I consiously did, but it was shitty and potentially harmful nonetheless and should have been something I was being more aware about. I’ve already been trying to boost aromantic voices lately since the Valentine season’s been around, but doing that and centering non-partnering aros especially is going to be top priority from here on out.
Now let me real quick circle back around and address the shipping bit, as that’s like its whole own thing-
Now I definitely stand by the fact that I was never only talking about stuff in service of a ship, at least not consiously, but the topic often came up in reference to or alongside shipping and thus I acknowledge that that extrapolation is not at all a difficult one to make. And the fact that I even acted in a way that resembled that is not good.
And discussions with my friends have brought to my attention that I have not been making a number of things nearly clear enough and that whole mess is entirely on me so let’s get some things straight-
First of all, due to the more fluid attitude I’ve seen a lot of people have towards it, I never realized just how strictly romantic most people view shipping. Maybe I’m just a little bit dense but for the longest time, the term “ship” being used in a more platonic sense seemed more common than it actually is. And for the longest time, I’ve viewed shipping simply as “I think these characters have a nice dynamic and that they should be affectionate with one another”. But it has been a violent wakeup call recently that that is far from the most common thought process.
And in this I’ve come to realize that I’ve not been clarifying or establishing the fact that most if not all my ships are queerplatonic in some fashion because romance is a concept I’ve never fully grasped (not gonna go too deep into that here though, my weird perception of relationships is a topic for another day-). And things involving aro characters have especially always been queerplatonic in my mind.
I have not been nearly as clear enough about that as I should be and have failed to mention or establish that as much as I should. So from here on out, im going to be much more clear about that to avoid future misunderstanding or sending the wrong message.
It should also probably be noted that it’s very hard to convey these things given the type of art I do. I don’t properly write nor do longform comics, so it’s much harder to convey the internal complexities of things in the simple individual pieces my art often is.
Characters are also often left unpaired and single in my mind, but once again these types of things are hard to convey visually and the bonds between characters usually inspire art more often.
So most of this has just been a matter of “it’s all been up in my head but my ability to convey it or actually make content of it has been extremely lacking”. And again, in a sense, that’s on me.
Overall I know my handling of this situation has been incredibly scuffed from an outside view, for a lot of this I’ve been just very confused and all over the place so the few things I have said have been poorly summarized and basically just me completely tripping over myself. I’ve been processing things and getting things in order privately though, as you can probably tell. And in that I have come to the conclusion that I must take accountability for my actions as it is truly the only correct course of action here. I’m sorry to those this whole mess has upset, I hope this post is enough to explain everything.
I’m not super certain how to end this off but that’s about it, please let me know of any futher concerns. I’m genuinely sorry for all this mess.
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snufkinsnogger · 11 months
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Probably one of the most iconic scenes from Moominvalley is when it seems like Snufkin is going to admit to having feelings for Moomin but get more of a "yes but" vibe from it.
He makes a couple of what could be Freudian slips which could also just be him actually clarifying his sentiment.
I wonder why someone would go through the effort of rephrasing what they said to make it sound less like something else if the plan was to admit to the sentiment they were trying to steer away from?
If was going to admit to having feelings for Moomin, why bother changing the sentence "I do think about you a lot" by adding "our summer adventures I mean."
I just feel like this was a "I love you but I'm not in love with you" moment but the ship can't officially be denied or confirmed. Can't deny it officially because of the inevitable backlash and heartbreak of fans who understandably love the ship and even rely on it for their own healing and self care.
Can't confirm it because it seems that making such an important change to such a long running dynamic is probably against the rules. Like how after Ken Penders, there were things writers COULD NOT do with Sonic storylines.
Maybe Tove intended for them to get together eventually or wanted them to but something something Finnish publishing laws something something. Maybe it was always meant to be unrequited. Maybe she did mean for Snufkin to have feelings but just...never cared to act on them. Maybe it was meant to be a lesson on guys loving their besties without expectation of it being more than platonic or familial.
Well never know. Not unless they crack open that secret locker in the secret Moomin warehouse and Tove had doodles of the two screwing. Or just snogging.
I just don't feel like that scene convinced me at all. I get vibes that Snufkin wanted to tell Moomin he cares but he just has is own thing going and Moomin should stick with Snorkmaiden.
The phrasing, the emphasis on "do"..
I don't say this because I ship with Shin Snufkin who's basically an entirely different character anyway, but as someone who wants more representation for other queer identities and who feels like this could be it but the love for the Snufmin ship is so powerful. Too powerful.
I feel like it's the perfect missed opportunity for ace representation, primarily.
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redheadbigshoes · 1 year
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I really hate to say this (I'm going to post anonymously) but sexual orientation (and attraction) primarily encompasses who you are sexually attracted to and is ultimately based on who you want to be physically intimate with. I know that a lot of people are going to be pissed when they read this like, "How dare you reduce homosexuality to who you want to have s*x with, we get persecuted for this." But there are a few things I want to clarify.
Firstly, why do we have to reduce physical intimacy in its mechanics? And why do we have to view it so negatively? Who you love carries so many nuances to it. Read any romantic poem by anybody ever and they will tell you that infatuation and longing encompass a feeling of wholeness and completion. It is a basic part of your own humanity.
There are of course people from the ace spectrum, but from what I have seen and read it is not that they hate intimacy entirely (some of them are repulsed by it, and some just don't care about it too much). Some of them can still experience romantic love which, at least to me, is a form of non-physical intimacy that has the same emotions attached to it as physical intimacy.
People of the ace spectrum have their own experiences that are different from a lot of people and when 'bi lesbians' use them as an example to explain 'you can still be attracted to a man even though you are not sexually attracted to them.' It feels like they are taking aces' vocabulary and using it as their own. But, the split-attraction model is not for non-ace people to claim because most of us see romance and sexual attraction as interchangeable and which are both necessary to experience attraction. There are of course literal twelve-year-olds that form relationships but we call that puppy love for a reason.
Now, I am a lesbian which means that I am exclusively attracted to women and some enbies which means that I experience romantic and sexual attraction exclusively to that group. Why? I don't know, just anyone that has enough 'womanly' attributes arouses me. Well, if a man has 'womanly' attributes are you attracted to that too? No, because my brain registers them as a man. This is why I can be attracted to a butch but not a trans man, one is a woman and one is a man. Do you hate men? No, I can still form friendships with them. But isn't platonic attraction also attraction? In some form yes, but platonic attraction, at least to me and a lot of other lesbians (not including ace people), don't view platonic attraction as actual attraction. Do you think men are attractive? Some of them, yes. Is that also not attraction? No, because attraction (in the romantic and sexual sense) encompasses more than who you find pretty, and reducing it to that is kind of insulting.
Honestly, I can go on but I think you get the point. It is just really frustrating that lesbians have to go to such lengths to explain their orientation when it should be obvious by the definition.
You’re very right. And in my opinion finding people attractive is not attraction at all (not aesthetic, not platonic, not sexual, not romantic). Simply finding someone physically beautiful isn’t related to attraction. If we counted finding someone beautiful as attraction the logic would be that we’re somewhat attracted to objects too (because we can find them pretty) which is very incorrect.
We shouldn’t have to explain our attraction, you never see straight men explaining why they’re attracted only to women or straight women explaining why they’re only attracted to men…
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knownoshamc · 2 years
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i don’t get why everyone in the byler fandom are mad? i mean mike and will ended in good terms this season,they are best friends again,they have a beautiful platonic bond! i know is cruel that will has a crush on mike and it’s not required but at least you have their friendship :) the situation is not so bad🤷🏼‍♀️
do we have the friendship though? [thor meme here] Mike literally said that his life started when Will was missing (edit: and since apparently it is really important to clarify this: it wasn’t the same day Will was missing, it was the day after, when Will was in the Upside Down and he was fighting for his life. okay?). Even if Will wasn't being traumatised at the time...Nothing else matters/mattered than being with El. Not his family, not Lucas, not Dustin, not his own interests, not Will. No life before El, no life if El is not his girlfriend (how about Mike saying something like "I met you at one of the worst times in my life. I never thought you'd be as important to me as you are now" which sounds more genuine and doesn't erase anything else). Then, of course, there is 0 explanation as to why Mike was an asshole to Will in s3-s4. Zero. Is Mike's entirely personality about being El's boyfriend? So that's one of the reasons. then! painting has always been something Will loved doing, something he expressed himself with. Something that was special for him and Mike (e.g. binder full of Will's drawings), was used for a straight relationship. Mike and Will had no scenes together that weren't about El (or Vecna at the end). Will could have given Mike the painting and not make it about El. They could have talked about how Will feels about this whole thing (El, Vecna...) . He cares about El too. They could have had one single moment talking about something else that has been going on in their lives (the hellfire club, what Will has been doing all this time etc). Mike could have actually showed some interest when Will told him they could play D&D for the rest of their lives. That's what friends do. Will's arc was to be a cheerleader for that couple. He's not shown to be happy, he's just miserable.
I don't get how people that don't ship these two, are unable to see that this was just wrong and think that this was actually beautiful or how we should be happy that the only gay kid is traumatised/miserable and has to also get over his straight best friend, because...idk Mike is still there?
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britneyshakespeare · 1 year
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I just read your last post and ughhg I know exactly what you mean, like at this point I'm so tired of carrying the Weight of a guy's feelings for me, and carrying the burden of rejecting someone who has not explicitly Asked Me Out, because like you I hate hurting people's feelings ... I've been ignoring a friend for a few months because of this, actually considering putting on my big girls panties to tell him that his attitude pissed me off (mind you I already had to have The Talk with him, and by that I had to ask him if he was interested in me just so I could reject him directly after, but it seems like he still thought I would change my mind and kept being ambiguous with me ??). I don't like being unnecessary mean, but that makes me even more angry bc I feel like I already have to manage the other person's feelings and emotions by adjusting my attitude so they don't think I reciprocate their feelings and if I choose to confront them about it then I also have to mind how I say it so they don't get hurt ... This is too much for me to handle so I just end up ghosting people, which I don't like doing but if they choose to be a coward then I should be allowed to be one too
Sorry this has become a late night rant for me but your post literally resonated with me so much I had to type this. I don't have the perfect solution but asking people upfront if they mean a date is a good strategy, not saying it's easy though, but it feels great immediately afterwards, it's like ripping off a bandaid ! in any case, good luck, and know that you are not alone facing this struggle ~
God thank you for understanding anon ;____; people never talk about how shitty this is!! If someone's asking you on a date but not calling it a date, it only really goes well if both people want to be going on a date anyway!!! Just cuz I don't wanna date someone doesn't mean I reject them entirely as a person!!! But that's how it's set up to be if I'm asked innocuously to hang out or get food. You don't have to pour your whole heart out to me just to clarify that, yes, the situation isn't meant to be platonic!! I'm not going to be offended by it!!! I'll appreciate the honesty!!! It's never fucking not clear to me when this is happening anyway. Like I'm not stupid. I know random single men I've just met don't wanna be alone w me because they want to be *friends*.
And you described perfectly the emotional turmoil of having to balance politely rejecting these open-ended advances. It's really not fun!!!! I end up ghosting people like that often because it's just too overwhelming. I shut down. I don't know what to do. I don't wanna lead the conversation about somebody else's feelings, but the other person won't take the lead either. What am I supposed to do but fall off then???
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Hello! First I wanted to say I love you blog it's very cute and safe.
TW (I just wanted to put this in case it's only briefly mentioned): childhood neglect.
I was wondering if I could ask for some advice? (If you don't have any advice for this that's fine!!! No worries). I've been in a long distance platonic relationship with my caregiver for about 6 months now and I love her lots she's an amazing mama and a great friend too. But I've been struggling a tiny bit cause I wish she was a bit more strict with rules (I know crazy to hear a little wishing for someone MORE strict). She's very very lax with them which wasn't an issue initially cause I was VERY new to having a cg. But now I find myself wishing she'd put her foot down a little more. To clarify the reason I wish she would is because the few rules I do have are entirely for my own well being (bed time, food, water etc.) and I think to have someone making sure I follow them would give me the comfort and safety I need. I was pretty severely emotionally neglected as a child and I think to have her tell me no I need to go to bed (or equivalent) instead of letting everything slide would help me to know that she actually truly cares for my well being because my parents never really cared enough to pay attention to stuff like that. I'm unsure how to bring this up with her I'm worried that it would make her upset or make her question how good of a caregiver she is, even though she's never made me feel bad for expressing myself and she's an amazing mama! Idk I'm just rambling at this point but yeah
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This was in my drafts im so so sorry for not replying sooner! :
Hey there little one, I'm so so sorry to hear this :( sometimes when a person is new to caretaking it can be hard to know the right level of enforcement a little needs. My biggest and most important suggestion is to bring it up while you're big enough to have that conversation- ask them if they can be a little stricter when it comes to things you need.
I make charts if you think that would help too! If you send me the activities you need more help with, I can make you a cute little sticker chart for encouragement! It may help to have a physical checklist of things that you need, and that way your caregiver can also follow up more and make sure you can get everything checked off.
I know having that conversation might be hard to bring up, especially if you're like me and get anxious about expressing any form of need. However, if someone cares about you, they will respect the request. I know what childhood neglect can do, and maybe expressing that trauma (or as much as you're comfortable sharing) can help your cg understand why they need to be a bit more strict on things. Explaining that you *need* them to help set bed times or making sure you've eaten enough in the day can help them get into a rhythm of checking on you. For example, Star and I always brush our teeth together and make sure to shower on the same day.
Long distance can be hard. Star and I first met online through the supernatural fandom on Instagram back in..... 2015..? We started off as platonic but one day when we were 15 we started dating. It's hard to be with someone who's far away, because your only communication is on the phone, and unfortunately that can lead to a lot of misunderstandings or issues with checking in if you or they are busy. Time zones can also be an issue for some long distance relationships, platonic or not. I've unfortunately had a lot of relationships that were long distance and the communication was just not there. We all get busy, and we all have times were we can't have our phone out to text- but it's important to communicate it beforehand so your friend/partner knows that you won't be avalible.
You deserve to be taken care of, and your partner should be able to listen to your requests and help as much as they can! Just remember that cgs are people too, and sometimes struggle to help without directions on what to do. Keep communication open, and remember that as long as you're both listening and being honest, things should be okay! Sending love and hugs!
Pippi Saturn 💕
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mulderscully · 1 year
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River anon here.
That was super helpful, thanks for answer! I should clarify that I don’t hate River, and wholeheartedly believe people should ship things they like so I don’t want to trash her or Alex, who I thought did a fantastic job in Silence of the Library/Forest of the damned, in particular.
What you said about River loving the Doctor like a god made me realize that what I personally find so off putting is that her entire character is revealed to revolve around the Doctor. She is the way she is because she was exposed to the Vortex, her entire life was her being trained to kill the Doctor. She even became an archeologist to find out more about him, and that just makes me sad, ya know? When we first meet her she holds all the cards, which is fun. She knows everything and he knows nothing. But by the end, everything she is, is because of him. In another universe, there is a much better story about a capable, intelligent woman who meets the Doctor while adventuring and blows his mind.
It is weird that there’s so much telling and not showing of their relationship. I feel like there should’ve been, at minimum, one episode dedicated to an Eleven/River date that turns into a fiasco and they have to save the day together. I’m not sure what Moffat was thinking. Either go for broke and show them being in love, or don’t do the storyline at all. I can’t decide if he backpedaled on River’s story or not. Either way, it feels like some major blunders were made for a character so crucial to the Doctor’s life.
Also, I didn’t make that connection about Moffat connecting love interests to childhood but now I’m never gonna not think about that 😂
Thanks again for the answer!
no worries! i didn't think you did, i just wanted to make that clear on my end.
and yeah, part of me feels like he started this relationship and then realized it wasn't working as well as he imagined it would/got bored so he threw clara in there during s7 while river was still alive - and clara was absolutely written as a romantic interest - so it's very strange.
you could argue the eleventh doctor is poly but i just don't feel like that was the intention within the writing.
it does suck because there is potential for their storyline to be really interesting but the way her entire character revolves around him makes me deeply uncomfortable and we never see them falling in love which to me, as someone who loves yearning, is very important.
there are a some big finish audios of jack and river together though, and i love to imagine all the shenanigans they must have gotten into. and i hope they had a lot of platonic sex 😌💗
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I know this post was meant romantically and honestly I’m indifferent like see it however you want jaibabs doesn’t offend me as much as other ships tbh but even platonically I feel like this gets the heart of what a friendship would look like specially these parts: Barbara is one of the very few people who can understand a large part of what Jason went through. He really should have at least talked to her in canon. I think they could both off each other something most people couldn't, in that respect. And Barbara wouldn't condemn him for wanting to kill. She wouldn't consider him monstrous or vile. She wouldn't agree with how much he does it, but she would understand why. She would tell him her point of view reasonably - that it's best not to kill unless it's the very best option. And maybe they'd come to a compromise, eventually. Jason needs someone he can compromise with, who won't flinch away from his rage, who can talk him down from recklessness without dismissing his anger. Barbara needs someone who's blunt and candid, who respects her but isn't intimidated by her.
I don’t know I thought it was interesting to read. Maybe not share this ask? I feel like it would make you or others uncomfortable and I don’t want that. I just wanted to share some thoughts or posts I saw that might help when forming your thoughts and etc.
I’m the one who sent the ask with the link that mentioned you might being uncomfortable and about being seeing as romantic or platonic. I’m not sure how make asks you have gotten 😂 but if you want to answer it you can? I just didn’t know if it was something you wanted to answer or etc.
it’s a couple of asks so i wanted to clarify for sure lol! but yeah i don’t mind this one like i don’t ship it personally for a myriad of reasons but obv that doesn’t preclude the discussion of the worth of the dynamic itself, and these are really good points! i really appreciate the stress on compromise and how barbara would potentially present that middle ground wherein she doesn’t entirely condemn jason but she doesn’t necessarily enable him either. she’s just there, in theory, as someone possessive of the same experiences and empathy but also of mental-emotional clarity and arguably solid judgment, so she’s maybe in one of the best positions to reason with him where others wouldn’t be. this is something i’ll address in a subsequent pair of asks but really i find there’s a lot of irony in the fact that prominent women in the bat mythos are some of the people most reasonably set up to be receptive and yet simultaneously cautionary to his goals, only for almost all of them to be erased from his story. it’s very convenient lol
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I think with the moon being related to he is because we don’t really know that much about it, or the universe, just like we can’t fully understand gender. We can try but they’re both just very very vast.
To answer your question about why the kids started dream sharing so young, it is mainly because of the trauma the three of them had gone through. This might sound like some really bad reasoning, but it is the reasoning for it according to some of my paper notes.
To elaborate, all three of the kids had suffered through some form of trauma, specifically with their abilities (not sure if I ever mentioned this or no but Tam manifested shortly before the dream sharing began but didn’t really realize it and so did Keefe) and a thing that can happen between soulmates is that if all soulmates had trauma, then they could start sharing dreams earlier than usual. This is to help both soulmates out, and is a sort of coping mechanism with your soul.
So it does have some to with Sophie’s abilities, but not entirely just her. The reason the kids don’t understand this is because of the fact that it’s pretty taboo.
Also, should clarify: one’s soulmate will be close to your age. However, not everyone gets romantically involved with their soulmate in real life, or even in dreams. Ex Alden and Quinlin are soulmates, but due to the views of the lost cities, they deny that they are soulmates to everyone and spend most of their dreams in silence for a long time. Or Elwin and Livvy, who are soulmates but are simply best friends for life. However, you do not need to be soulmates to be cognates.
I feel like you would write a platonic soulmate au and make the main gang soulmates for some reason. Like you do like the matching marks one. Feels like a thing you would do.
Anyway, I hope this answers your question, and if you have anymore let me know!
I suppose so, I just wonder what it is about the moon and space more specifically, because it's not the only field or area we don't fully understand. Perhaps its because it's also very present and visible, we can look up and see the moon and stars easily, but not say, all the atoms and particles composing us.
Also that makes sense! Trauma changes how your brain works and therefore how your dreamsharing works, I can follow that logic. Although I don't know if I would've realized the thing about it being connected to abilities as well. I was about to ask if the trauma had to be connected to their abilities, but realized probably not since dreamsharing doesn't seem to be a uniquely elven thing and other species don't have abilities. So it's probably just how it worked out for the three of them. Poor kids
The age thing makes sense as well, matches with what you wrote. And I do appreciate soulmate aus that acknowledge non-romantic connections, it's always nice to have that as someone without romantic attraction. And complexity in relationships! Alden and Quinlin deny their connection while Elwin and Livvy embrace it and have fun with it, there's so many different ways to have people in your life and I find soulmate aus are greatly enriched when they lean into that.
You're right though, a platonic/queerplatonic/non-romantic soulmate au that focuses on family is definitely something I would write. I actually don't know if I've ever written something explicitly romantic, nothing immediately comes to mind. I'm not against doing so, it's just not what I default to because it's not part of my personal experiences.
But anyway! Thank you for answering my questions, I will definitely let you know if I have any more :)
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myfaveisfuckable · 5 months
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Ok, first off: real world standards, he's not normal passing. Apart from the ears, he's just too autistic (sorry, "Vulcan" 🙄) to be considered "normal looking". He went to 1990s earth once and Did Not Pass as normal. But in universe, he would on the surface seem like a model Vulcan. And he is, kinda. But he's also so gd weird. (/aff)
Not even gonna get into how badly he wants to be Will Graham because obviously that's there too but we don't have all day. Anyway.
Obvs the emotions struggle is real as it is for any Vulcan worth paying attention to, if only because they were all only ever written by humans.
But also, tangential to him being Will Graham coded (but still separate enough) he is a total mind slut. You know how some characters will go "when I have a problem, I set it on fire" or shit like that? When Tuvok has a problem, he mind melds with it. Homoerotically if it's an option. Dude even got a mind std one time, despite the fact that's not even a thing.
And then whatever the fuck kinda thing he has going on with Janeway. Not even necessarily in a shippy way ("not romantic, not platonic, so devoted the lines blur") but like... not only is he unreasonably loyal to her but he does shit like not only letting her touch him whenever she wants but *deliberately offering her HIS HAND to hold* to comfort her when she needs it (reminder that hand touching is very intimate to Vulcans and can be likened to human kissing) and again, they're never even stated as romantic or anything, they're just friends and yet he is more loyal to her than he is to his own code of ethics.
Obviously part of all of it could be because Janeway (or possibly Kate Mulgrew) is simply Like That, she does do shit like tell her platonic subordinate "then be a good rat and find us the cheese" in a tone that makes me lose it, but it's not all her, Tuvok is also extremely not normal about it. I should submit Janeway too actually, I'll do her next.
Also, afaik Tuvok is the only crew member of Voyager (who makes it back) who had a romantic partner before the ship got lost in the Delta quadrant and remained loyal the entire seven years they were lost. I *think* Samantha Wildman also did but she's a minor character (so she could've been getting it off screen) and she started out pregnant so once born Naomi both kept her busy and was a living reminder of her husband's love. So in that regard, Tuvok is very much not normal but like in the most positive way. He literally didn't cheat on his wife even when his life was in danger (they *were* out there for seven years so of course he hit pon farr eventually) and I think that's really cool of him. But also very not normal.
I'm very tired rn but once the polls come out, simply check out the blog of Bea bumblingbabooshka (wanna clarify, I'm not him but he is THE Tuvok blogger in my opinion) who has written much on this already.
There's also the whole stuff that happened around his monestary era but I'm not even at that part yet but it must've been wild.
Anyway. Vote Tuvok
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he can't remember the last time he slept. he hates himself so much he literally used mad science to create an entire ass guy to blame his problems on but accidentally made it so he can never be truly happy because uh oh! the silly magic mountain dew turned that into a man! now he can't fuck! whoa!
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