i’m getting so tired of people thinking that everyone is mad at the writers simply because a silly little ship didn’t become canon. no, i’m fucking mad because they literally had will’s character arc revolve around mike and el’s relationship drama and that he was sidelined once again, with barely any plot relevance of his own. it’s the fact that in volume one, it seemed like mike and will’s friendship was finally going to start getting better again (”friends, best friends”), but instead, mike regressed right back to where he was and treated will like trash in volume two. it’s the fact that will’s narrative with his unrequited love was essentially pointless, except for how it helped further mike and el’s relationship, because even without his feelings for mike, a lot of us already knew will was gay. it’s how they took will’s moment in the van, his beautiful monologue about his feelings for mike, and then had mike’s monologue to el be eerily similar to what will said instead of having mike discover for himself what he should say to el on his own. it’s the fact that will has been suffering over and over again, and having nothing narratively come out of it. so no, i really don’t give a shit about byler and if it’s canon or not. i give a shit about will byers and how his character has been sidelined, treated like garbage, and only used to further the development of other characters and their relationships instead being treated like the main character he’s supposed to be, by being plot relevant and having character growth for himself, and only himself. that’s why i’m angry.
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everyone but miles knew about the nature of the facility: don’t interfere with canon events, don’t mess with the timeline, contain anomalies. gwen and peter b convinced miguel to give miles a chance to come around before containing (and probably killing) him like he clearly wanted to, but bc of hobie’s history with authority and his current feelings on miguel, he knew it wouldn’t work. so, he tried to convince miles to back out, to run away, to not interact with him. bc there’s NO way hobie heard of a spider-man who’s breaking the universe and wasn’t going to meet him somehow.
hobie saw this boy and immediately went “oh fuck i gotta get him out of here” but every attempt was thwarted by miles’ eagerness to be a part of something
miles decided to pursue science instead of art for the sole purpose of getting back to his friends, his loved ones, the only people he could be himself with. he was willing to sacrifice his future just to see them again. and then he finds out peter b and gwen, two of the people he fought life and death with, could have seen him any time and just didn’t.
and then there’s hobie. hobie meets him once, probably hearing a lot about him from gwen but still only once, for less than a day. and instantly, he’s doing more for miles than peter or gwen were even thinking of doing. hobie is making him a backup plan, teaching him to be stronger, slowly implanting doubt and ideas, calling gwen out on her lies without being direct because he knows miles would never believe him if he said it. he’s working in the open shadows to help miles before they’re even really friends
when everything goes to shit, hobie gives gwen a second chance. he only made one extra watch, after all, as far as we know. he lets gwen choose to rebel, just like he didn’t force miles but encouraged him, and he joins the fight to help get miles to safety.
hobie is the best fucking character in this movie don’t chat to me
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I love the Kamski and Gavin half-brothers AU for many reasons but the best one is that it's literally so convenient. For any purpose. Are you writing a fic where Nines, or Connor, get injured and need serious repairs but they're so advanced that no one has their parts? Gavin can call Kamski. Wanna give Gavin a reason for hating androids that's different than the 'just hates androids' reason? He had a falling out with Kamski. You wanna write Gavin with severe daddy issues? Well the only way he and Elijah could be brothers (with their birthdays) is if they had the same dad, so that checks. Wanna write Gavin as the 'acts like a dumbass but is secretly smart' trope? His brother is the genius Elijah Kamski, it only makes sense that Gavin would know android stuff too. Wanna write a case fic but you're too excited to write to think of entirely new characters/mysteries/villains? Kamski, or Chloe, or both, get captured and oh look at that his half-brother Gavin is a cop who takes the case. Or maybe you just like Kamski and Chloe and wanna include them in your fic? Of course Kamski would interact with his half-brother Gavin. And depending on how you write their relationship you can cover all sorts of dynamics. Maybe they're best friends who get along swell, and you can write some crackhead brotherly nonsense. Or, maybe you prefer to have them absolutely hate each other, and you can write them reconciling. The possibilities are absolutely endless and all allow for convenient and fun plot points.
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FULLY agree with the daddy/clown thing. Every time I see an author put Anakin in the Top Only box because of "Vader energy" and BoTtoM aNaKIn is BoRInG I want to scream. The man is DESPERATE for a gentle Dom and yet people keep forcing him to fuck nasty when all he wants is a cuddle
(Fully on board with top anakin BTW but I believe in switch supremacy with a 60/40 in favor of bottom anakin)
i think my takeaway opinion of that post is really just what I put in the last tag I made aka something like “maybe neither of them is daddy dom maybe they’re just clowns helping put each other’s make up on”
i definitely go through phases of interest and preferences when it comes to this ship and I think if I didn’t I genuinely wouldn’t still be here after almost three years because of how my brain works with things I’m interested in and right now I’m just in a phase where I’m just. so tired. of the focus on d/s as a core and universal element of obikin. I think obi-wan in canon would be a shit gentle dom. dom in general. I think anakin would be too, and they’d both be shit subs. It’s gotten to the point where something with my brain right now is just going ❌❌ whenever I even see those words.
they can just fuck. they can fuck nasty and fuck up their relationship and even fuck up the galaxy and not have anyone be a gentle dom. or anyone be experiencing subdrop or be a needy sub or whatever. he can cuddle without it being a part of aftercare. people who are not in relationships that have a d/s dynamic cuddle too and i know that’s something we do understand but it’s not something I’ve seen a lot of lately and I genuinely miss it
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The hardest part about selfshipping is convincing myself that it’s okay to interpret the character the way that I want, even if it isn’t canon-consistent. Sometimes it feels like I’m lying to myself in my belief that certain characters would feel love for me or treat me in ways I am comfortable with because it would be “out of character” for them, but there is absolutely no harm in that. It literally does not hurt anyone to interpret a character however you want & it’s only hurting you when you force yourself to adhere to characterizations that aren’t compliant with how you want to feel while indulging in that specific media.
I struggle with this a lot because I have some rougher F/Os, but if I want to believe that they’d be sweet with me, I can. It doesn’t hurt anybody to interpret a character however I want if the content I’m creating is for me anyway. It’s easier said than done, however, but I am doing my best to remind myself of that.
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