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youturningintodust · 3 months

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Xena was lean, mean, man-killing machine, Mean Angry (technically Kinsey 5)-Dyke representation and I will always love them for giving that to us so goddamn much

When have we ever seen in fiction a woman having a past with, and THEN rejecting men so flatly, as Xena did with Ares towards the end?

Letting him know smugly that "Gabrielle got the job" of her child's father... Always mocking him to his face, and at one point telling him to just go die. (in 6x20.)

Even now, where are the righteous, man-killing lesbians on tv? They fully punished Villanelle for it in the final season of Killing Eve. (and technically as an undercurrent throughout the whole show (written as an evil act, always, vs Xena's moral righteousness, Robin Hood-style motivations).)

I feel so seeeeeen lol. Amazing that they did this in the 90s. I feel like there's no room for this kind of rep these days because everyone in mainstream writig is trying to be So PC about it all. My writing is about dykes rejecting and killing cis dudes and I need a publisher who won't handwring about Bad Representation and Upsetting the Hetero Allies~!

The really subversive part about this character is that the homophobic line of "she just hasn't tried the right guy yet" is patently false. She tried it, lived it, and in the end, it wasn't as good as her female soulmate. She consciously chose something else.

And it subverts the notion that "oh, well it's okay if you were just BORN fully gay and couldn't help it!" She wasn't. She "could have" been with a man and turned away from that. It didn't fulfill her as much, as shown by her life choices in the end. And, arguably, they were destined to meet each other and be soulmates in all lifetimes, through reincarnation, on a metaphysical level. So it was both choice AND nature, meant to happen. From the hetero incarnation shown in India - with Gabrielle as the man - to Mel and Janice - to Annie and Mattie in the modern day. Among other things, they showed us that a woman can have been with men, and STILL be destined to be with woman/a woman, forever. That's powerful.

God, I could go on. When has ANY show ever given us something this special, in general? Ever since?

#x:wp #xena warrior princess #fav #writing ideas

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musashi · 2 years

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Ooh, question dump time! I hope you don't mind these being a mix of fandom and sickfic/fanfic stuff, haha

1) I know they haven't been released yet and we just have promos to go off on, but do you have any thoughts on Scarlet & Violet so far?

2) Which of the starters is your favourite? Are you planning on using that one when you get the game?

3) What about all the other pokémon we've seen? Do any stick out to you? Do you think any of them will make it on your team?

4) I've noticed you put some Godot posts in your kin tag, so I'm curious about what he's like- what's his personality and role in the games he's in?

5) Also, the above but for Dahlia Hawthorne?

6) You've mentioned you're not particularly picky on sickfics you read, but what would you consider the Best Sickfic™? As in, what tropes, dynamics and symptoms do you enjoy the most?

7) What are some other fanfic genres you like?

8) You've spoken about making physical copies of DTE before, so do you have any other fics of yours you'd like printed out? I think it'd be fun to have a physical copy of your Sicktember fills from this month

9) If you have any for her, what pokémon does Maya have in your AU?

10) What's been your favourite Sicktember fill to write? Out of the ones you posted, do you have a specific line or description you're particularly proud of?

If you'd like me to elaborate a bit more on a specific question, I don't mind sending another ask clarifying what I mean!

OMG THESE ARE SO MEATY THANK YOU TAHNK YOU THANK YOU I DONT MIND QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING IN ANY ORDER I LOVE. TO TALK WAH THANK YOU

1) I know they haven't been released yet and we just have promos to go off on, but do you have any thoughts on Scarlet & Violet so far?

we've gotten like... a weirdly scant amount of promotional material for this game, so i actually don't have a lot of thoughts beyond the typical 'OMG POKEMON IM SO EXCITED TO PLAY POKEMON' fdghdfhgf. i can't say any of the designs have stuck out to me yet but thats also cause we just haven't seeeeeen any like even the leaks have been quiet? its so weird. but i am excited :]

2) Which of the starters is your favourite? Are you planning on using that one when you get the game?

honestly i think sprigatito is my favourite because... it reminds me of jessica dfgjkhfsghgf she loves cat pokemon and grass types and when i saw the grass kitty i was filled with so much indescribable fucking joy on her behalf i could not contain myself. i'm using fuecoco myself but grass kitty is everything to me...

3) What about all the other pokémon we've seen? Do any stick out to you? Do you think any of them will make it on your team?

nothing yet. i like the little poison fucker but not enough to bother using him.

4) I've noticed you put some Godot posts in your kin tag, so I'm curious about what he's like- what's his personality and role in the games he's in?

diego is a double-sided character~ he has two distinct "eras" of his life by his own admission. in earlier days he was mia fey's partner in law and her mentor as a defense attorney. he's very calm and collected and has a distinct kind of poeticism with words, usually incorporating motifs relating to coffee into the things he says because he's a coffee autistic who makes his own blends fdghfg. he was deeply in love with mia and her passion, in the anime dub the word he uses when he describes how he felt about her is captivated and it lives in my head rent-free. they dated for at least a little while, but diego was lethally poisoned shortly after one of their cases together and fell into a years-long coma. he survived, but mia was murdered while he was comatose.

diego came out of the coma with a major vision impairment and with his hair having gone white. when he found out that the love of his life had died while he was asleep the guilt of not having been there to protect her ran so deep that he threw nearly every trace of his prior self away. he renamed himself godot, which takes components from his first and last names diego and armando, as well as being a waiting for godot reference--mia was waiting on him, and he never showed. he switched sides to become a prosecutor and swore to ruin phoenix in court because diego could not handle blaming himself and so he forced all the anger he had onto blaming phoenix, the only other person mia really had in her immediate life.

eventually he realizes that mia poured so much of herself and her love into phoenix, and phoenix so adoringly leaned into her every word, that within phoenix lives mia's undying flame. once he sees mia's spirit living on through phoenix, he realizes what a fucking shithead he's been.

post-coma diego is pretty similar to who he was before but with a cold, simmering kind of anger that shows itself in occasional moments and especially around phoenix. also his weird poeticisms have ramped themselves up and 90% of what he says in court or otherwise is completely incomprehensible. i can't even really describe to you the way diego talks. he is basically just the "i don't sleep. i just dream." meme amped up to 11.

diego views the poisoning and coma as a death and rebirth. he refers to his surviving as crawling out of the depths of hell to get vengeance.

5) Also, the above but for Dahlia Hawthorne?

she poisoned diego.

lmao.

dahlia is a merciless, abusive, cold-hearted killer. i could go on and on about how she is, like many criminals, a neglected child from a broken family and how every single thing she's done has such clear reasoning behind it but quite frankly i have so much less to say about her. she's just a vindicative, vengeful, cruel fucking murderer who steals and lies and cheats. she sucks. she tries to poison literally everything that even slightly inconveniences her and barely succeeds, ever.

how to even summarize her... dahlia was one of two daughters of morgan fey, but their dad divorced morgan and fled the fey clan pretty much the second it was clear that morgan would never surpass or live up to the power that the main family had. he took the kids with him and he apparently sucked really hard, hard enough that dahlia fuckin SNAPPED and decided to just start fucking killing people at like age 14.

she did some of that and that's how she ran into cousin mia. mia tried exposing her shit in court but dahlia poisoned the decisive witness and he literally died on the stand. it traumatized mia and she didn’t stand trial for like almost a full year after that. to rub salt in the wound dahlia poisoned diego pretty soonafter when he was questioning her. she got away with all these crimes until mia found her tied up in another case some time later, dahlia dating one phoenix wright who was the prime suspect in a murder on his college campus. obviously she did it and tried to not only frame phoenix but poison him, too--the most she could do was coerce him into swallowing glass but he’s phoenix so he survived. .

mia managed to get dahlia for that murder but after she was executed in prison she continued to do ghost crime. namely her mother and her teamed up to possess the shit out of someone and try to kill maya, the last surviving member of the main family. mia ends up giving the most powerful fucking reason you suck speech to dahlia alongside phoenix and they fucking exorcise her spirit in one of the most glorious goddamn scenes in the whole franchise.

dahlia sucks. she has no redeeming qualities. her story is a tragic one at its root but i revel in how shamelessly evil she is about it. a long time ago im sure i would’ve felt ashamed about being kin with her but now i mostly just use it to antagonize my phoenix & mia kinnie friends.

6) You've mentioned you're not particularly picky on sickfics you read, but what would you consider the Best Sickfic™? As in, what tropes, dynamics and symptoms do you enjoy the most?

i actually answered this!

7) What are some other fanfic genres you like?

i’m pretty sure besides sickfic the literal only thing i read is smut. sometimes i’m in the mood for a slowburn/fluff but only rarely. i moreso read fic based on the characters featured than any genre, i tend to scroll through whole character tags until i reach the beginning.

oh i have a physical copy of down! the PDF’s are here.

DTE has been an undertaking because i also wanted to edit the grammar and tighten up the dialogue a little bit~ and also, its too long, so it’s split into three books. i have the first two all ready to go, just struggling to make the cover for the third dfghdf.

i was planning on making my sicktember fills a physical book, yes!! if anyone’s interested in that i can post the PDFs here haha. haven’t worked on them yet but i plan to very soon.

9) If you have any for her, what pokémon does Maya have in your AU?

i actually haven’t touched maya or the AU in ages ghdg...... i think we were all very adamant that she inherited mia’s chikorita who is named charley though

10) What's been your favourite Sicktember fill to write? Out of the ones you posted, do you have a specific line or description you're particularly proud of?

my favourite was my day 21!!! i talk about it more in the author’s notes but i had been fixing to write it for a very long time. it’s based on true events!

i’m proud of all my writing, so i think that questions too broad for me~ i know it’s like, hip and cool to hate your art or whatever but i absolutely refuse to give my perfectionism a voice this late in life. left that behind me.

sorry i don’t have an answer for you there! i love it all!

#wendy answers #cottagebore

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