#he's just.. never the norm

[thekingsparty]

crowley + being the odd one demon out

we all know that crowley is one of the only demons to actually remember his past as a human before his soul war tortured & twisted into its darkest form. he remembers pretty much every detail - especially the abuse he suffered & the losses he faced, but also the pain he caused others. it’s that weird, little thing he’s never talked about to anybody.

for the longest time, crowley hid it from the others; mostly out of fear because he did not want to go back on the rack for another century or two until he was shiny & properly functional, but even after he’d made a name for himself he .. didn’t really parade it around. he’d always been different, had always been the black sheep, so just this once crowley wanted to be an ordinary demon, not a broken boy toy.

then again, crowley never really wanted to be ordinary. since his rebirth as a demon, crowley wanted more - always. he’d always secretly been a curious boy, but that thirst for more was never quite sated in his human life. now, with the power to be anything he ever wanted, crowley found that thirst within him again & quite soon, he found himself different yet again. the other demons only wanted one thing: to get out of hell. meanwhile crowley wanted more than ever before; ambitious & ruthless in his pursuit of happiness. 

he worked harder, faster, more thoroughly than the others. he didn’t go terrorizing earth for entertainment purposes - no, he did it to form connections, to bring back souls, to close contracts. once again, crowley found himself the outsider, only this time he didn’t care. 

#ι waѕ worтн ғιve pιgѕ aт leaѕт ( нeadcanon \ мυѕe ) #i think i have to go look at my tracker tomorrow #this headcanon marks the end tbh #of headcanons i mean #i have gadreel left to do but muse for him is super rusty despite my love for him #so i can't just whip one up #i'll need research he he he #anyway #i love my complicated demon baby #he's just.. never the norm #not as a human not as a demon not as a king nor as a friend #or a lover #i love him

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I ABSOLUTELY ADORE YOUR SQQ HE LOOKS SO FUCKINH DONE WITH LIFE

The recipe for SQQ is: calm on the outside, screaming on the inside.

#poorly drawn svsss #svsss #shen qingqiu #ask #No joke I'm pretty sure he is my favourite 'guy gets transporte'd to another world' character #I recently rewatched the (sadly never to be continued) animated version of SVSSS and I cant get over how perfect he is for the role #He is *so* done with everything going on around him. Forced to be calm and mean. Born to scream and be kind. #The gap between the internal and external dialogue is one of my fav character/writing quirks. #The personification of the 'he lied' dialogue tag. #Love how deep the SVSSS meta and literary analysis community gets with him. Piosplayhouse has opened my eyes to trans SQQ #what is the system is *not* a metaphor for pressure to adhere to societal norms of gender and sexuality? #I really need to finish the books...that is probably my biggest burning hole in my 'DNF' pile. I liked it! I just got busy.

[loving-jack-kelly]

Jack Crutchie and Race childhood best friends who took turns sleeping at each others' houses when things were bad at home, who spent so much time together that they practically have their own language, who understand each other so well they don't even have to speak to know what's going on, who are so casually affectionate and loving with each other that all of the have been accused of dating the others more than once, who are each others' stability and solid ground and constant through everything life throws at them.

#and davey coming along and being insecure because how can he compete with these friendships? #while crutchie and race privately worry that davey coming in means they get forgotten #when really what happens is davey gets absorbed as a new part of the group #and it's not the same because how could it be when he doesn't share so much the way they do? #davey will never speak jackcrutchierace the way they do no matter how well he speaks jack because he wasn't /there/ #but he can be there for jack just as solid and steady and true. and he can laugh with crutchie and race. tease them and #joke around with them and let them be part of his life too #he can learn that it's totally normal to wake up to race cooking breakfast in their kitchen when he lives six subway stops away #and totally normal for crutchie to show up at dinner time and sit at the place at the table jack set without being told with words he had t #and crutchie and race settle into the norm of knowing that davey is for jack in a way they aren't and that doesn't mean they're losing jack #it means they're gaining davey #anyway. i love them <3 #newsies #jack kelly #racetrack higgins #crutchie morris

[nerdie-faerie]

I'm once again thinking about the missed opportunities to have Klaus and Kol bond more. Part of Klaus' whole motivation as a vampire is to get his werewolf part back and to finally be stronger than Mikael (sort of, I'm simplifying) both of which can be obtained by breaking his curse. But Kol? Kol is the only other original that can relate to having a fundamental part of themself ripped away from them. Klaus might not have known he was a werewolf until he killed, but he likely still had a connection he couldn't explain, as evident by him going to watch the wolves transform. And something he'd never been able to explain was now gone. He might only be able to realise the connection afterwards through its absence.

Kol though. Kol had grown up with magic, a connection to nature and the world around him in a way the rest of his siblings supposedly didn't have. And then he gets turned. And not only has his baby brother died, his father has just murdered him and the rest of his siblings after forcing them to drink human blood, which he'll later learn. Now, not only does he have to deal with the grief of Henrik's death and also his own but also the loss of his magic. A loss that's likely only worsened by Kol being a self-proclaimed child prodigy.

Kol is pretty much the only one who could understand what Klaus is going through with the binding of his wolf. We know Kol searched for ways to get his magic back/carry on practicing magic in the same way that Klaus was looking for ways to break his curse. While Klaus likely could still feel his wolf there despite being bound, Kol has no access to his magic anymore. I just think they should've been able to bond or connect over their shared loss of an intrinsic aspect of their selves at the hands of their parents

#TVD #The Mikaelsons #Kol Mikaelson #Klaus Mikaelson #briefly back on my the originals shouldve gotten to be a family goddammit and as someone from a big family im personally offended bs #i did right a lil snippet about them bonding over this that i havent posted yet for the joml verse but still think its an unexplored concep #need more witch!kol acknowledgement honestly. just need more content of my boy #anyway. klaus having a fascination with the moon and kol telling him about celestial events and how it affects his magic when theyre boys #klaus losing that connection to the moon feeling lost & extra tempermental feeling his wolf claw at its binds and vowing to break his curse #kol determined to get his magic back at any cost relating to that devasting loss and promising to help him find a loophole for his curse #kol who becomes extra reckless and determined when he learns that theres a way to break klaus' curse so maybe he can get his magic back too #that knowledge and recklessness combined with his loss of magic driving him to become the volatile vampire that we see #that leads to him being daggered repeatedly but that first time breaks something in that bond between him & klaus that never fully recovers #it makes him bitter and resentful only fueling his reckless behaviour particularly when there seems to be no leads on reclaiming his magic #that he becomes distant from his siblings in the process especially with finn still daggered but that distance only cements the idea #to his siblings that hes a danger and cant be trusted that he needs to be daggered if theyre to stay safe from mikael #the loss of his magic leading to his spiral as a vampire and him being ostracised by his family > actual tvdu kol canon #klaus being trapped in a room staring at the corpse of his little brother knowing he never repaired that relationship with him #and now he never can so he refuses to look away as penance and a reminder of his failings to his little brother #*edit: one of the reblogs on this post is the author of big bad wolf and honestly she does an amazing job at portraying the mikaelsons #as actual siblings if you havent read it its one of my favourites for characterisations but we need more 😭 i want it to be the norm

[paellegere]

"their relationship is romantic" "their relationship is familial" "their relationship is platonic" you're thinking too narrow. their relationship goes beyond labels. the family is inherently queer. their platonic love is romantic. the erotic is familial. each one is the other and the other is them

#.txt #i've gotten to the point of relationship anarchy where i no longer understand the obsession with labeling relationships #there's a post floating around like 'it doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic the point is that they love each other' #and i get the message. however may i propose that distinctions such as that don't even have to matter. consider #bold claim probably. but whatever i didn't have the choice to think about love in a normative way and as a consequence i have thoughts #of course i am thinking about wincest but it applies everywhere. jopzier even #jopson views crozier as a surrogate parent but in an inherently queer way. does that mean he want to fuck his mom? probably not #but the fixation and need for redemption turns the traditionally familial relationship into something far more #do you understand #once you leave the normative behind labels become useless #do sam and dean love each other romantically or platonically or familially? consider: it doesn't matter. there are no words to describe it #their love is queer in the sense that it extends beyond normativity. society holds no sway over them. they are ungovernable #i find it ultimately unhelpful to discuss fiction in normative terms when the characters themselves exist outside of normative society #shows like supernatural and the terror are perfect examples. sam and dean were never normal and franklin crew left normal behind #the arctic doesn't care if you fuck your mom. the impala doesn't care if you kiss your brother #this isn't really about anything i just saw that post the other day and i was like. why doesn't this Hit for me. well this is why #however it IS helpful to discuss fiction set within normative society in relation to normativity. it's relevant! #most stories are not however set within the bounds of normativity. that's kinda the whole point of a lot of fiction #baby i explore relationship anarchy in ways that you couldn't even imagine #<-tldr #i have a tendency to write essays in the notes every time i post something. sorry about that. it feels safer here and i am skittish

[adelinamoteru]

the problem with jason’s writing post resurrection is that like. you spend all this time while he was gone building up these batfam characters and their views and morals and way of interacting with each other and their world. and then you bring back this one character who’s been dead for however long, but an insanely long period of however long, and you’ve made it so his worldview has become drastically different than what he was being taught. then you dump the antagonist route completely and start trying to figure out how to bring him back into the fold.

but once again, you’ve spent around 15yrs expanding these characters separately from jason todd. so what do you do? you mold and reform what jason is meant to be post resurrection until he fits into those standards. its what makes sense to do. how can you justify the batfam characters doing an almost complete 180. maybe a 90. on their views purely because of one character? purely because of jason todd when nothing has set ever been able to set that change in motion beforehand? so now jason has to be the one to change. except the change completely contradicts all the beliefs he’s formed in his post resurrection plot-line.

and now jason todd as a character becomes bland. he becomes a victim to bad writing and character assassinations. he’s wishy washy. nobody knows what to do with him so his character and the characters he interacts with only continue to suffer as a result. everybody begins to stop taking him and his stances seriously. all because you’ll never remove him from the sources that led to the origin of jason todd.

a batfam character away from batfam? well now why would the writers ever think to do that!

#jason todd #dcu #red hood #dc #dc meta #it’s aggravating like #you bring back and hes put into this role— into being a foil and bringing stellar contradictions to the norm— and then u realize that would #Be too much of an upset to the world u’ve already built and the status quo u’ve already held #So u toss him in the gutter and keep cutting him up to fit into that norm #And as a result his character suffers his writing sucks and absolutely zero positive changes in his relationships have occured #LET THE LITTLE BIRDY FLY AWAY FROM ITS NEST #already jason has trouble finding writers that like him #and now u want those writers to develop batfam characters in a way where they have to actually acknowledge some of jasons points? #its like telling them to shoot a dog dead #except that dog was robin jason and they actually gladly did it #and also all of this is a part of the reason why fanon reconciliations are handled the way that they are #both the writers and the fandom just dont know how to write development on the side of batfam minus jason #Its never been done before!! Not when it comes to THE rule and THE percieved legacy of jason todd the dead robin #how would they change? how would u write it #THEY DONT KNOW HOW #its literally never been seen before #How do u resist the system ur boxed in 😭😭😭

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Wait, but what is it about wally in the human au that makes him so weird?? Is it just an ableism thing or does he have like strange habits/interests

mmmm it's a bit of both kinda? more so the latter honestly! i mean by social norms & standards he's already a quirky guy, and i think he'd have a plethora of 'odd' mannerisms & habits on top of that. so yes, he's genuinely strange, but it's up to others to view/treat that as a negative or a positive or a neutral yk yk

#personally im standing off to the side sighing wistfully #wishing i could live my life so unbothered by how the world views me. oh to live your most genuine self without fear or compromise.... #like for example i gotta stick with the apple theme. he fucking Loves those things. he'll talk for hours about them #like in his & barn's kitchen there is an Apple Basket for him to gaze upon or pick out an apple to admire or paint #and he gets distressed whenever he views someone eating an apple or cutting one up cause to him they're Not Food & he loves them yk? #and of course there's the intense unbreaking eye contact with literally everyone #unless he's explicitly asked 'dont look me in the eye' he Will Stare Into Your Soul #and if asked he'll Remember & will literally never make eye contact with that person again. he'd rather close his eyes completely #& in this au he's still Constantly Smiling & honestly is very hard to ruffle to the point of it being slightly unnerving #he goes through a haunted house with his friends and has them all cowering behind him as he strolls through casual as anything #rambles from the bog #wh modern human au #i could go on! he's just... yk! he's Him! without compromise! he takes norms & expectations and crumples them up! #he looks at them and says 'wow! this is worthless!' #and keeps doing his own thing

[hopelesslovebug]

@naramisweek day 6

i'm taking my precious time btw (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠)

[the full design ↓]

mr smith guys (i can not take him srsly) also like i didn't wanna draw an airplane (sorry aerosmith you're my favourite stand yet i treat you so dirty) then i remembered these designs i made last year so like YEAHHHH💪💪🔥💪💪🔥💪

#mr smith and his insane polyclue #actually idk about mr Smith pronouns i just go with he/him as the norm but they might be non binary 🤔🤔🤔 #idk i never been good with assigning pronouns anyways #jjba #jojo bizarre adventure #vento aureo #golden wind #jjba part 5 #my art #mine #jjba fanart #jojo part 5 #narancia ghirga #guido mista #naramis #naramis week 2023 #stands

[macksartblock]

I’m being very regular about the convergence of interests right now.

#yes this is about dndads yes it’s about tma my brain is uhhh whirling #where’s that fucking conspiracy wall image #I can’t get the idea of Teenie being an artifact of the stranger out of my head #and Normal just never clocked it like that fucking plumber that was largely unbothered until it was right in his fucking face #fully too autistic to clock the Wrong Vibes #‘Norm these are *real teeth*’ ‘Oh wow!! I just thought whoever made him was just super detail oriented. Put a lot of love in yknow?’ #and he’s begging them not to lock Teenie away in the basement #idk I’m working out concept designs when I get home lol

[fucktheroyals]

It must be so sickening to JK Rowling that One Piece is beating Harry Potter when Oda is so clearly obsessed with Drag Queens, Trans people, and people who do not fit in the gender binary. Yeah maybe sometimes Oda’s depictions aren’t the most flattering, but that guy is OBSESSED in the opposite way that JK Rowling is. You gotta give it too him.

#no because what I love is that whether he writes them to be comic relief or not that doesn’t mean characters (like Luffy)… #don’t love and care about them just as deeply as everyone else they love. and at the end of the day that’s kind of all that matters. #because people deserve love no matter how far out the social norm they are and that’s something One Piece gets right. #and JK Rowling just will never get that. thank god for One Piece killing it with those numbers. #one piece #I’m just reading all the volumes that are considered Wano and that fucking giant having the gayest way of speaking. a skirt on…. #ODA IS OBSESSED BRO #Love how he makes the jump from Drag Queens to specifically trans people. he’s insane. it’s great.

[songtwo]

most of the time i feel like im just an average person like i know im really lucky to be living my dreams working a job i love in the city i always wanted to live in like i know im a very lucky and privileged person bc most ppl don’t get any of that but most of the time i also forget it’s not just that like most ppl in my hometown never get out and don’t even go to college and like even in my family im still the only one to ever attend university and move to the city which is just crazy like it’s so crazy to me to think im not really average specially not where i come from which is idk so weird

#like we ran into this neighbour yesterday and he literally said he talked to his son abt how i went to college and now im living in the #city as some success story and as if that was something so extraordinary and it’s like. omg #like it was all just natural to me study a lot get into a good college get a job in the music industry move to the city #like i never gave it much thought i just did what i had to so to me it was never like this Huge thing any of it #and my mom was also telling me abt how her friends always bring me up in conversation to talk abt how ‘great’ i am while their children #just aren’t like 😭 #like idk i just don’t really think of myself #so when me and my life are brought it’s like . wow ok #like in uni moving and going to college was the norm and in the city i meet so many ppl who moved to pursue their dreams everyday so #its also become the norm to me #so when im remembered it’s not the norm at all where i come from is crazy

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

No Sharing.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wen ning #Wen Ning voice: “A cuck *hold*?” (tearing up) Yes.....yes I think I'd like that.“ #(Seriously...That boy is in need of so many hugs. Being held by chains isn't enough. He needs kind arms.) #Drunkji 2.0 has arrived. And his first move is pout about WN being in the vicinity until he leaves. #I do not think we give enough credit to the fact that if LWJ was not in the picture (or had different chemistry with WWX) #Wen Ning would be the Holder Of Most Relationship Potential #Though I supposed even in the TV drama there wasn't any hard defined romance but wangxian was still strong and tangible #The mutual obsession is too strong for any third party to have a chance. #LWJ is only actively jealous when uninhibited (drunk). Sober he would not stop wwx dating someone else (wwx would never) #he would hate it but hate himself even more for feeling as he does. #wwx does not strike me as the type to get jealous (to a significant enough extent (JYL is the exception not the norm). #LWJ would fake date someone to 'make wwx jealous' and wwx would just go 'oh neat :) anyways.' (he is never allowed things for himself).

[llumimoon]

literally still thinking abt the liveshow. like that will be burned into my memory but also im SO SAD bc i think bc of technical difficulties this show isn't actually being uploaded to the paetron BUT IT WAS GENUINELY SO FUCKING GOOD. Like the dads as teens interacting with the s2 teens ??????? the dads as babies ???????? GENUINELY? I WISH I COULD BEAM MY MEMORY OF THIS SHOW INTO ALL UR BRAINS i need more ppl to know of its existence so i can scream about it. Also never fucking recovering from emo teenager henry actually

#dndads #cal rambles #like there was genuinely so much #so much stuff that I KNOW the tumblr part of the fandom would absolutely lose their shit over #IM SO SAD THAT IM NOT GONNA SEE THAT HAPPEN #WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY BEINF SO ECTASTIC THAT I GOT TO WITNESS IT #normal stabbed tilt in the heart with an arrow btw she kept trying to call his bluff and he got increasingly more unhinged #I CANT EVEN DESCRIBE EVERYTING THAT HAPPENED ACTUALLY SORRY IM JUSY STILL REALING FROM NORM STILL BEING SO MISERABLE AND UNHINGED #DESPITE THIS BEING PRE-S2 CANON #anyways genuinely if anyone has ANY QUESTIONS AT ALL abt it I WILL ANSWER!!!!!!!!! #rolling on ghe fucking ground i cant cover everything #not over glenn telling taylor he's perfect just the way he is ans to never change #not over henry telling normal to be his best self and GIVING NORMAL THE PG FIRST DRAWING OF TEENIE THEREBY INSPIRING NORMAL TO BE TEENIE #not over Scary instantly having a crush on emo teen Henry #not over Link saying PEACE OUT FUCKERS and leaving them all behind in what is essentially dimensional prison #not over the teenage Henry writing poetry abt Daryl and wanting to ask him out #TBH I HAVENT TALKED MUCH ABT IT BUT THE FIRST HALF WHERE THEY WERE BABIES? THAT WAS FUCKING TOP NOTCH TOO #anyways. i need to calm down and go the fuck to sleep

[greekromann]

the version of tashigi that lives in my head is soooo much cooler than anything oda could ever hope to write about women. oda doesnt understand her I Do Though

#the smoker and tashigi episodes that live in my mind. oda wishes. he wishes he were me #this is true of every woman in 1pc but its so frustrating watching any scene with tashigi bc like #yes shes clumsy scatterbrained etc etc those are fine those can stay bc through all that shes. SUPPOSED to be competent. shes been /said/ #to defeat strong opponents and theres a /reason/ shes smokers right hand but odas allergic to letting women fight onscreen. bc hes a coward #im taking her away from him im taking away his tashigi rights. Girl You Are So Cool To Me #this is like. gdjgffgjdhf between tashigi and kuina oda does this thing where hes like. ''what if i almost engaged with being a woman in a #heavily gendered society in an interesting way and i /talked/ about doing so but then never follow up on that. so rather than creating a #story that includes gender norms for the purpose of questioning them i just /talked/ about questioning them but then reinforced them with my #starring cast of characters bc im incapable of writing a woman who isnt Dainty. what then.“ and what happens then is i Bite him #and by 'allergic to letting women fight onscreen' i mean. women can only fight women and if theyre NOT fighting women they still have to be #Elegant or Feminine about it and occasionally a woman could defeat a Man™ but shes always gotta be Pretty about it. nami complains about #fighting and robin Only Slaps People Bc She Doesnt Like Punching :( and tashigi (whos fighting style is more traditionally. yknow. Fighty) #doesnt get to Do that often or when she Does she gets put out of commission early and its. Bro You Are So Close #head in my hands. 1pc is good i love it dont get me wrong but i could make it Better

[orcelito]

I think the #1 thing to make writing good is to just. Stick to your guns. Take yourself seriously. If you treat your writing as if it's serious, even if you're doing some crazy shit, people are willing to believe it. The moment you doubt what you're doing in your writing, it's gonna shine through. So even if you're scared, pretend you're not until you get the hang of it & no longer feel so scared

It's worked for me so far 😅

#speculation nation #this kind of thing is why i never mention on ao3 when im nervous about a chapter #bc i do get nervous. i get nervous Plenty. #anytime i do something different from my norm. or bring in a new aspect of the story. Anything. #im nervous. i am! #but i dont mention it on ao3 bc so long as i portray that i know what im doing. people tend to believe it. #with this kind of thing you can do shit like 'so Yeah he has telepathy and can listen in on thoughts but he chooses not to #bc it would be an invasion of privacy' #i just kinda decided that and put it in the story. explained my thought process for the decision in the end notes #but ive never tried to over-defend it or anything. especially not in the text. #it's just a Thing that he can do. he accepts this as his reality. no need to over explain in the text where this comes from. #Stick To Your Guns. if your characters treat it as a given then your readers will too. #this has been Writing Advice by Fanny Orcelito. more to be shared later (maybe.)

[cronagorgonzola]

Its always so heartbreaking and frustrating to me how easily adults will dismiss teenagers' complaints about school. How often theyll just shoot back "so what, high school sucks? It's supposed to"

Like. How can you look a suffering child in the eye and say "your experience doesnt matter to me because i think it's normal"? If so many teens and former teens agree that high school is a miserable experience, shouldnt we be working together to fix it? Shouldnt we listen to the complaints of the people currently experiencing the system, and do our best to constantly improve it moving forward? Cause the complaints are almost never "i just dont want to learn" - kids, in general, like to learn! Many of them have just been trained to believe they hate it by a school system that makes them constantly miserable!

And what about the kids who are uniquely suffering? Kids who are being abused at home or bullied in ways the teachers cant even identify because of how quickly communication technology has evolved? Kids with undiagnosed disabilities who are forced to bash their heads against material they cant focus on until they believe theyre just too stupid to get it? Kids with diagnosed disabilities who are forced to suppress their own self-regulatory behaviors to sit quietly in class? How can anyone say "it's normal to hate high school, get over it" with a clear conscience when you have no idea what could be going on in a kid's life or in their head?

Like. Im not saying it's easy. I remember being a teenager, and i barely understood what i was feeling most of the time, and communicating it to adults felt impossible. But thats because no one gave me the tools to do it - any time i tried to complain, i heard "high school sucks, everyone knows" and i shut up. I never bothered to analyze my feelings further because i thought it didnt matter.

And at a certain point, there are things adults cant fix; teenagers are mean and they have big feelings, they havent developed empathy or communication skills yet, theyre going to do things that hurt each other. Thats part of growing up. But if we make teenagers think that theres no point in ever going to adults for help, we rob them of the chance to learn how to understand and communicate whats actually going on in their lives.

Adults built this system. Adults forced their kids into it. And now adults have a responsibility to listen to the kids experiencing the system and not just dismiss them because "i hated high school too"

#.txt #idk i got doug walker's shitty 'parody' of The Wall stuck in my head #and ive been watching danny phantom with my gf #butch hartman also expresses a lot of 'lol high school is hell but it will never change' in. every show hes worked on. #both assume that their (shitty but uneventful) experience is the norm #neither questions whether it should be changed. it just is.