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#stop reducing it to just ‘unhinged lol’
belle-keys · 2 years
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I hate how the booktokification of the “unhinged woman” genre has completely reduced the concept of female rage to just “girlboss” without taking seriously how important it is to unequivocally portray female rage.
Throughout the history of literature, we’ve been given countless instances of women in despair and in sadness but save for a few writers (take Euripides, for example), we’ve rarely ever been given angry women who aren’t the villains or the foil for the perfect poised passive princess. Female rage has constantly been subdued and erased or warped into “she’s just batshit crazy” in pretty much every society.
And now that publishing and media marketing has reduced women showing rage in books to the “white hypersexual girlboss with a knife”, instead of uplifting the way women are allowed to have more dimension and sympathy in their visible anger than ever in literature, the media still isn’t taking this subgenre seriously.
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vtoriacore · 1 year
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Yo! It's me! I was wondering if I could request Ruggie, Idia, Riddle, and Malleus with a significant other who fights people for just breathing in their direction. Like Crowley opens his mouth and their already like "SHUT UP!" And throws chairs at people. I think the comedic potential for this is exponential
✧ alla stocatta (this chair)!
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note: this is such a funny fucking concept LMFAO😭 gremlin MC agenda has gotta be my fucking fave they have the power to be so unhinged and i live for it also not proofread because it's low-key 12 am BUT. it's readable so-
characters: ruggie, idia, riddle, malleus
people who reblogged here is a special heart and a kith y'all do the most and ily 💞
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♡ RUGGIE
ruggie finds it both amusing and kind of intimidating (and kinda hot but he'll die before he admits this yk) how you literally defend his honour (even when it doesn't necessarily need to be defended) but is he complaining? fuck no! 
half the time he is laughing and the other half is him cheering you on and maybe even encouraging you to do something just a little overboard (nothing that will get you into trouble, and if it does he's usually happy to take the blame) 
the first time he witnessed you literally throwing your broom at leona in joint flight class because he wouldn't stop bitching to ruggie was just about the most hilarious fucking thing he's ever seen and oh- there he goes falling off because he couldn't stop laughing (he stops when you catch him and ask if he's okay though - this mf may think he's slick but is literally reduced to a blubbering mess once he finds himself in a position considered a little too intimate with you) 
the second time he saw you trip someone up because they looked at him wrong, and your silly, sly self simply gave them the most unimpressed look you could muster with a "watch where you're going" 
the hyena was too stunned to speak 😮 no but seriously he found that both hilarious (as always) and admirable because holy shit, you did it so nonchalantly and it looked so fucking cool- he questions how he was even able to pull you (dw ruggie, you've got rizz!) 
he absolutely loves when you stand up for him for more serious stuff though, like if someone's insulting him for his status or for having to work etc. because your no-bullshit attitude actually works so well? you just casually throw a chair at the mf even daring to look at him and his heart goes ✨✨✨ all the while he's laughing and cheering you on from the sidelines. 
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♡ IDIA
at first, idia is fucking terrified! bro is borderline crashing because how the fuck did you have the strength to haul that heavy ass cauldron at the person making a snide remark about him? he was going to say he's NEVER coming to class again but after this, he changes his mind so quick
like, you looked so badass doing that? the savannaclaw loser who tried insulting him barely got two words out and you just- oh wow! he just got the "in love" status applied to him again! 
nah but fr he is literally fucking grinning as he stares at the poor, poor fool laying on the ground and is so fucking smug about it too! 
"that was an ez no scope, didn't even have to be 360 lol'
"idia ily but what"
"it's a roundabout way of saying this bozo stood no chance, you pulled up on him too quick lmao"
at first, he is a bit concerned that you might end up in trouble with someone for doing all this but . . . yk, his money speaks for itself and if something does ever happen covering up wouldn't be too hard so he lets you do as you please
this hades-rapunzel secret love child thinks its low-key hot too, but he'll never admit it and he literally turns bright fucking pink anytime he even thinks this. you tried prying the answer out before, but he pulled out his secret trump card - fainting on you so he wouldn't have to say a thing
idia is another mf to absolutely egg you on as you cause some more chaos, it's getting to the point ortho had to warn you of nearly breaking someone's arm before you stopped. idia was just standing there, the most villainous, evil grin to have ever graced his face; "no, no! let them cook!"
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♡ RIDDLE
riddle. fucking. FAINTS! 
he was NOT ready for that strawberry tart to end up lodged down someone's throat as you victoriously shrugged your shoulders with a "what? they had it coming."
"oh great heavens what have you- where is the decorum? what could have possibly compelled you to-" aaaaaaaand man's down!
when he awakes, he's frantically shaking your shoulders and asking why you would even think that nearly suffocating someone (not really, you pushed the tart far enough they could swallow) was appropriate 
but let me tell you, when he hears it was because they've insulted him and brought his mother into it, he low-key feels light headed and oh wow his cheeks are getting pretty warm huh? 
riddle, in his own spiteful way, actually doesn't probe you on this any longer and makes you promise that you won't do this in his vicinity again
you of course, nod along. you won't do it in his vicinity, but will be perfectly fine exacting your revenge straight after he's out of sight
when you actually end up having a . . . a chair duel. yes, he read that right. (he wasn't about to even question how that came about but nontheless) he ends up both impressed at you exploiting a loophole you've found within his statement and at the fact the person you've just beaten (both literally and figuratively) is miserably sitting on the floor apologising for giving riddle the wrong look at 12:34 AM on the 3rd of march. very specific 
riddle doesn't even chastise you for this one, he is exasperated but does actually pull you away from the scene and thanks you for defending him. this time, he makes you promise to resolve your fights for him verbally, but he won't be stopping you from this point on (it's because he doesn't want to and enjoys you standing up for him)
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♡ MALLEUS
the student walking away from malleus makes him feel a bit bad. so naturally, to remedy this, you end up shouting at them! now they're backing away from you instead, isn't this the meaning of true love? (no)
this silly little very capable of looking after himself fae is fucking over the moon! absolutely smitten! completely in love! when you come to defend him and angrily shout at people for not treating him like a being worthy of respect and love.
he low-key debates proposing to you on the spot after you also somehow manage to get a student to apologize to him for fearing him for no good reason! he appreciates the sentiment and you caring for his well being, isn't that basically marriage already? no? he'd like to digress immediately
malleus does get a bit concerned when things get physical, not that he doesn't trust you to take care of yourself or anything but he worries that you might end up hurt. oh, did you think he'd care for the person you're fighting? or you getting in trouble? nah, he could literally BBQ anyone who even dared harm you anyway and if crowley even thought to step in, he'd soon be reconsidering because he doesn't want to end up an elaborate crow dish
however, on the occasion that you do outsmart your opponent (aka the savannaclaw student who just rolled his eyes at the dragon fae) he feels hella proud and is very amused at your antics. i mean, the way you just psychologically destroyed the fool in front of you for their comment on malleus not even being that good at magift is very sure to leave them questioning why they even bothered coming  out the womb for the rest of their life. 
he is another one that finds it low-key 😳😳😳 like damn, did you always look this badass when flipping someone off for even breathing wrong near him? sane thoughts just weren't made for malleus
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myfaveisfuckable · 4 months
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Killer rabbit:
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Kills people
Pete:
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(^little video that shows how not normal he is lol. cw for torture and violence)
starts off as the comic relief side character. gets kidnapped and tortured. laughs in the face of the man electrocuting his dick. ends up sleeping with him later (by choice. like he wants him), decides he's in love witht he single most crazy unhinged character in the show and reduces him to like crying in his noodles because Pete escaped the safe house torture/sex dungeon where he was kinda a prisoner. shoots his man in the arm (to keep from being killed by other people), beats the shit out of him (that one is for personal reasons), the man confesses his undying love and kisses him before running off, pete chases after him, has to point a gun at him again, the man runs off, pete quits his job and chases after him again, pete stops the man from killing himself and is like "I'm your pet, you're my owner, you have to feed me" (it's a callback from their days in the safehouse torture/sex dungeon), the man gets shot by someone else, and pete goes crazy kills the guy who shot him. so yeah he's totally just a silly comic relief character
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justlarkin · 2 months
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Yoshitsune gremlin this, Yoshitsune unhinged that. Let's discuss how fucked Ainurakkur is lol. His mother was accidentally reduced to everburning charcoal by his dad and since it says her remains are forever providing warmth for him, I guess he just carries around her corpse. Normal behavior. Casually massacres any opponent. Burned down an entire realm, murdering everyone there. Brutalized a wind goddess for being annoying in the most passive-aggressive way ever lol. Murdered his wife's brother when he tried to stop him from kidnapping her and threatened to do the same to her if she didn't comply. Just in Housamo alone, he's a brainwashed, child soldier, who was raised with the sole purpose of taking down his enemy by any means necessary and sacrificing himself. We're sleeping on this creature too much.
-Keep thinking about Ainurakkur occasionally mentioning that his mother is always with him and patting his chest, and everyone just assumes that he means figuratively, in his heart. While he actually just keeps her charred remains in his breast pocket. She's still warm. 
-The Wind Goddess story is actually really funny because why did she decide to decimate an innocent village by dancing up a windstorm because she got bored and then get mad when she couldn't destroy his house?? That's why he showed up to her house later like "That was a cool dance, here's mine," and destroyed her home and fucked her up to an inch of her life before being like "Just kidding" and reversing all the damage. Bro was crazy for that.
-I always forget to mention it, but Kanna probably is the dragon whose protection he has in Housamo since his weapon is blessed with Kanna's power. It can summon lightning to annihilate evil, so what I'm really saying is that he's He-Man.
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neon-moon-beam · 9 months
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I've lost any interest in Submas because of what the fanbase did to Volo, stripped him of all his redeeming qualities to turn him into a Ghetsis clone. And yet no matter how many times I see it, my heart inwardly screams "LOOK HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY".
Oh my god yes. Volo has been done dirty so badly by the Submas fandom and other people who enjoy him to the point of it being the default.
Volo is a fairly complex character. He can’t be reduced to “unhinged and will hurt people when given the chance lol” or whatever else the fandom likes to do all for the sake of making things angstier, especially when it comes to Submas. In-game, he’s in more of a grey area and comes off as a character with issues having a bad moment, not an overall bad person. I'd put him somewhere around the same level as Archie and Maxie in terms of how much of a villain he is:
-Not entirely a bad guy, just bad ideas, bad solutions to problems (that might only be a personal problem for him or a select few, we know he had a rough life but we aren’t told how or why, but it has created his entire worldview and motivation)
-Might not have actually followed through with his plan anyway (he does have things he genuinely cares about, and say what you will about salty and rude Togepis in Hisui but he had high enough friendship with one to get a Togekiss)
-His feelings of being wronged in life and wanting to hold someone or something accountable, get answers, maybe an apology or to make things right is a fairly common human experience. He just lives in a world with magical monsters where confronting one with the ability to instantly change things is a definite possibility.
-Unlikely Arceus would have listened to him, Giratina did not want to listen to him (and Giratina is the failsafe when Dialga and Palkia are out of commission), so even though he appeared to have the means to reshape the world, he really did not
-Accepted the player character defeated him, stopped antagonizing, and probably left Hisui to sort out his issues
-Also is NOT responsible for Ingo being in Hisui (I did make a huge in-depth post about how he could have gotten there, and the evidence does NOT stack up in favor of Volo being the cause)
Sometimes it feels like people didn’t interact with PLA in any capacity and just go with whatever the fandom says about these characters, or else just don’t care about canon whatsoever, and that can be really alienating to other fans. Especially when other fans do like the canon characterization and all they can find is ooc depictions, bad takes, and anything else where it's essentially Volo in appearance only.
I know some people have said they never want to see Volo interact with Submas ever again, and I agree. Cr*zytr*inshipping and tr*inwr*ckshipping are built on ableism, the idea that mental illness is “scary”, and grossly mischaracterizing Volo, and at least Emmet (not sure about Ingo because I refuse to bother with content containing these ships or even interactions between these characters).
Volo deserves so much better. I’m sorry fandom spaces are not kind to him.
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mykatzone · 10 months
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Answering asks #1
I thought it'd be easier to answer asks in a batch! Also I am so sorry it took me so long to get to them! I've been all over the place aaa I'm sorry! Anyhow, I hope you enjoy my responses ;w;!!!
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I'm embarrassed of that video honestly T_T I feel like I was being too mean in it? That's basically it! And in general I lowkey wanna remake it! So stay tuned for that :>
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Of course! I would say credit isn't rly necessary for me! As long as you don't claim my art as yours, I'm chill with it! :D
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Thank you so so much!!! AAA I'm always so happy when ppl tell me they enjoyed my Grelle animation ;w;!!! It's one of my fave recent creations hihi!
To answer your question- what I love most about Grelle is the concept behind her character. Like it has sm potential to be so interesting. I love fucked up women, I love fucked up LGBT characters, and she's both!! Though I would say the way her character is almost always reduced to a joke and a comic relief is annoying to me. Like I love that she's silly and goofy and flirty don't get me wrong, it's moreso the fact it feels like the show is laughing at her rather than with her :(!!
I don't rly have headcanons I dislike... well outside the man!Grelle headcanon. Like I'm sorry that removes everything i find interesting about her character! Her relationship with gender, femininity, theatrics and motherhood is some of my fave stuff about her, so making her a dude kinda makes me yawn.
Anyhow to stop myself from going off about Grelle I just wanna say thank you sm again for this sweet message!! ;W;
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I own the DVD! The subtitles are only compatable with the DVD, so if you wanna watch the Stageplay you gotta get your own copy ;;!
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I got annoyed with not having all my art in one place XD that's why I deleted the sketchblog! You can find some reposted sketches on here!
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This is the sweetest anon omg thank you!! But I gotta ask, when you say I have your dream artstyle I wonder which one you mean? XD I feel like I change my artstyle slightly every week LOL. (I love experimenting hihi)
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Thank you for the kind words tho ;w; it really means a lot!!!
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Aww I'm so happy you enjoyed my modern AU designs for them!! Thank you so much :'D I'll be on the lookout for your fic btw! 👀 
And I doodled a little modern AU Cielois for you, to apologize for how long it took me to answer this ;W;! Hope you enjoy the sillies!
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@porfiriea
People in my puter saying nice things makes me happy :')
Srsly tho, thank you for this sweet ask, I'm always nervous when opening my inbox so I'm really happy I got such a kind message upon reopening!
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@eemoo1o That is so lovely to hear like?? The fact my animation (here it is if you haven't seen it!) inspired your drive to write more?? Omg... Thank you thank you thank you for this wondeful message!!! Even if it's been a month or so since I posted it, I love getting people's thoughts on my animations :'D!!! No matter how recent or old they are! I always appreciate it!!!
Thank you for liking my Grelle <3333 I love drawing her the most. I love drawing unhinged characters (especially unhinged women hehe), and Grelle is particularly fun because not only is she red (one of my favorite colors!!) she also has sharp teeth which are always fun to draw. In general, anime characters are fun to stylize because I have the freedom to adapt their features in my style!!! So I'm really really happy you like my Grelle :')
Here! Have a scrapped sketch frame from the animation as a thank you ;w;!
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Also sorry for the slightly delayed response!!! I love doing these silly little doodles of my persona to show my appreciation for these kind messages which is why they sometimes take a little to get to! :')
(Also I really love your fanfic The Story of Grelle The Reaper!!! It's one of my favorites in the fandom!)
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golbrocklovely · 7 months
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I miss when they would do instagram lives more regularly, I know they do lives in xplrclub but it's not the same. Do you think the fact that often the fandom is a bit unhinged has made them reduce the amount of lives and things they do?
i mean, they do one right before each video they've been posting. i always miss them bc instagram rarely gives me notifs for stuff like that. plus i'm usually napping when they post their videos lol
and i don't think they stopped doing lives bc of fans. i think they just are really busy. i mean even the ones they do on xplrclub have to be scheduled so i don't think it's not for lack of trying, they just don't got the time.
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1 and 13.
Hello, and thanks for the ask! Oh my god I've forgotten how to be articulate this morning. I hope this doesn't sound unhinged lol
1. What is a piece of symbolism in your fic?
I use birds a lot in my writing, so much that they're a symbol, a motif, and maybe just a particular quirk I have (because my god do i love birds)
anyway, a direct example that comes to mind is a rosebush. This rosebush has absolutely no business being alive after the village gets razed to the ground by the canonical symbol for the Hubris of Man. Like there's no signs of life anywhere (aside from some survivors found in the church, the only building left standing, make of that what you will).
anyway, rosebush. Ariel finds herself in this decimated garden with her romantic interest, who shows her the rosebush, which has two roses blooming upon its branches. The roses in themselves symbolize a number of things; faith, rebirth, love and even the two characters themselves. I'll drop the passage itself under a readmore because words are escaping me.
13. Is there a transition in your fic you're proud of?
I'm not sure if this is a transition exactly, but I think about a slight segway that Ariel does in one of my more recent chapters a lot. Basically, she ends up accidentally injuring herself, and her LI is helping her patch it up (as one does, obviously), and Ariel says something to the effect of, "It's ok you don't have to." You know, "why are you doing this" basically. The LI responds with "Well, we're friends right? Friends help each other."
And Ariel just kinda...blue screens for a second and recalls a traumatic event from her childhood in which she nearly drowned and says at the end, "that's how I feel right now, I feel like I'm drowning" before going on with the rest of the patching-up scene.
From Chapter 10, The Dragon in the Chantry
“Before I stepped out of the cloister, I had a dream,” Leliana says, drawing me along. “In it, there was an impenetrable darkness, and a terrible, ungodly noise. I stood upon a peak, and watched as the darkness swallowed everything.”
“You dreamt of the Blight?” Her eyes flash over to me before going back down. “I’ve had dreams like that.”
She lets go of me to carefully gather her covering as she picks over debris. “I suppose I did. That is what the darkness was, no?” I reach out to offer support, but I stop myself short, snatching my hand back. I fold them behind my back instead. “When I woke, I came here as I always did. And I saw this.”
She motions with her head towards a corner of the garden. At first, I’m not sure what I am supposed to be looking at. Whatever greenery once decorated this place has long since been reduced to ashen sticks and branches. Ravaged and blight-riddled, unwilling to support life.
But two splashes of carmine rest amongst tangled and thorny branches. 
All the ugly emotion I feel—all the doubt, fear, anxiety; all of it flows away like water. Bewilderment blooms in its place instead. My lips part with a soft exhalation as I step closer to the bush. “Oh, wow.” The words tumble out and drift away on the morning air. 
A glove twists off. I thread my fingers beneath the sepals of one flower and tilt it lightly for further examination. Frigid dew collected amongst its labyrinth of petals trickles into my palm and down my wrist. I let my thumb swipe against its face, reveling in a texture akin to rich fabric. 
Leliana drifts into my periphery. She lets an index finger trail along the face of the other flower. “If you think it looks ungainly now, you should have seen it before the horde came here.” I watch silently, unsure of what she means. “Everyone knew it to be dead. It was grey and twisted and gnarled—the ugliest thing you ever saw. And yet there it was; a single, beautiful rose.”
“And now there are two of them,” I manage. I wipe my hand across my pant leg and stuff it into my pocket. I clench my fist tightly, digging my nails into my palm to distract myself from the stinging sensation lingering across my skin. “How can something like this survive the Blight?”
When I look back at Leliana, I find her watching me with a contented look on her face. Her chin dips when our eyes meet.
Her makeshift hood comes down, hair spilling forward. It catches sun rays, etching lines and shadows across her skin. Her hair is nearly golden in the early morning light, falling gently around her face. It’s textured and messy from days without washing, but it does nothing to detract from how beautiful she looks.
And it is her again, I come to realize; the too-beautiful woman I recognize. Soft, innocent and carefree. I know somewhere in my stifled heart that she’s anything but. Somewhere below rests a facade cut from steel and replete on calculation. It speaks of a life before the Maker, of a world I could probably never understand. 
My stomach flips, my throat tightens, and I look away to anything except her.
How, indeed.
“Who is to say?” Her tone is a whisper, almost reverent. “Perhaps it is the Maker stretching out a hand as if to say, ‘Even amidst all this chaos, there is hope and beauty.” She weaves an arm into mine, fingers gripping lightly. It’s a simple tether, but it dredges up and soothes some ache I did not know I possessed. “‘Have faith.’”
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Okay so I have a bit of an unhinged theory that has zero effect on TSC. In a similar way to all demigods having adhd I think that all shadowhunters have adhd. Like demigods it would help them be better fighters. The restlessness and hyper-awareness would be very beneficial. Due to their late night patrol they would need to have a delayed sleep pattern (common with adhd).
some people seem to have hyperfixations, however in saying that, it might reduce the characters interests and goals to a fit a head canon. But in the New York trip Jace's Intense desire to show Julian the weapons just gave me hyperfixation vibes. low-key Julian's painting and Emma's intensity to find her parents killers, but that feels like it's reducing who the characters are. I do feel like for me hyperfixations are hard to catch because a few months after I stopped doing the thing and I realised it was just a hyperfixation. Also, I feel like it would be hard to write into a TSC series with everything else going on.
Lastly, Emma and Julian (and everyone) going head first into danger is very impulsive and adhd.
Am I only thinking this because I have adhd and therefore force characters to have adhd? maybe.
Will I continue down this rabbit hole? yes.
I apologise if this sounds insane. it's almost midnight and I haven't properly slept in days.
Anyway, what do you think? wanna jump in the rabbit hole with me?
Lexi! Ah! I love this ask so much! Unhinged theories with practically zero relevance to the plot are some of my favorite things 😌 and this is such an interesting detail to focus on! This is long-winded so hold on tight lol
I had this exact thought while reading City of Bones for the same reasons actually! (Rick Riordan did the lord’s work by teaching kids that ADHD was actually a super power of sorts.)
Anyway Clary notices that Jace always fidgets with his stele, and my first thought was, ‘oh, my sweet summer child is part of our ADHD club.’ The stele tick, his fixation on weaponry, his own fierce desire to avenge his father’s death, his impulsivity and overall restlessness? All can point to ADHD.
As you pointed out, so many of our characters share similar traits — which makes the possibility of them all having ADHD for battle purposes feel more likely.
You mentioned that it might be hard to write it into the story, but there’s the backhanded way of portraying it without having to interrupt the plot by outwardly saying they do — the Nephilim painfully don’t have the same level of medical knowledge as mundanes and thus don’t know what ADHD is or have the word for it. They could all have it and not know; and, since they are all similar, nobody would feel the need to put a name to it — it’s just ‘normal’.
That being said, I personally don’t think they all do 😅
I believe many of these things we see as hyperfixations are actually just coping mechanisms they picked up because of trauma — i.e. Emma and Jace both go after their parents’ murderers to deal with the pain of loss and train to be the best SH to appease guardians that no longer exist.
Can a coping mechanism be a hyperfixation? Absolutely. So I’m not completely axing the idea! I want it to be so.
Like you, I tend to try to fit characters into the very broad and open box of ADHD, because I want to see myself represented in them. It’s a natural thing to want that connection.
That is actually why I fell in love with PJO as a kid, because the connection wasn’t just a headcanon but actual canon and it’s the first time I saw adhd represented in fiction, especially in a positive way.
This is an unhinged answer written at 3 a.m. for an unhinged question … and it’s honestly barely an answer. More like unhinged rambling. I hope you got something out of it at least 😅
Bry 🖤
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sumechiayuu · 1 year
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1 + 3 + 16 + 23 :)
1: the character everyone gets wrong
Did you mean the entirety of the danganronpa cast Jk anyways it's Sayaka no she's not a cunning manipulative snake if anything her behavior and post-trial 1 proves that she wasn't and that's how she failed. And she DID genuinely like Makoto don't @ me
3: screenshot or description of the worst take you’ve seen on tumblr
*Cracks knuckles in a dramatic manner* OHHHH BOY I have several
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Something something Lilo is not an evil unhinged brat and this movie is not comparable to the GODFATHER ffs something something by that stupid logic in the second screenshot all the more "negative" (in general more disliked characters like Toko and Monaca) were also lying about their trauma in general Hiyoko is really not a good liar at all something something FUYUHIKO AND PEKO DON'T EVEN HAVE SIBLING VIBES AND THIS IS COMING FROM SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY DOES HAS SIBLINGS LIKE HELLO? Being kidnapped doesn't count as adoption
16: you can’t understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)
Something something DRV3 Chapter 5's trial like Kokichi's plan this whole time made no sense to me. So he's pretending to be the mastermind to throw off the real one...when he doesn't even know Tsumugi's true identity, pretty much gives everyone in the room a reason to kill him (and this DID happen in chapter 4 btw with Miu, rest in peace) and basically causes chaos in general. I don't really get how this was going to benefit anyone in the killing game? And don't even get me started on the "impossible trial" plan...like did he think that Monokuma would just let everyone go...? He'd probably just kill them all and hell he was planning to do JUST THAT until Kaito in the exisal admitted it. The killing games have never been fair in general (coughs When Junko just threw mukuro's body in a field so she could take out Kyoko when Monokuma gave everyone the despair disease out of nowhere the existence of the motives in general) Anyways I've gotta stop here because Im going wild lol ALSO when the fandom does redesigns of the female characters and reduce their chest sizes like isn't that just bodyshaming...
23: ship you’ve unwillingly come around to
Hmm this is hard because this never really happens but I've come to appreciate Naegiri more ever since my phase reawakened lol
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radellama · 3 years
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I find it interesting how quickly people who align with male gaze/masc predominant plot and story within media want to remove gender as a theme when it comes to female oriented stories.
Being a man in media can be nuanced and explored intimately through the male gaze in multiple ways, but as soon as being a woman or anything that aligns with a theme of 'not a man in a man's way,' the topic of gender gets discounted, discredited and dismissed.
And god forbid a feminine oriented story be made by female teams and creators, cause it's obviously not worth watching.
#i feel that a more nuanced discussion on race and sexuality can also be had here but i don't feel i have the brain or qualification start#and though obviously it's a bit.. tricky to talk about gender in media.. i think it's sad that female oriented things haven't been allowed#allowed to just exist really. they're not able to be told without some male influence..#whether that be through the story and characters itself or through the means of production#by downgrading or straight up swapping out the female creators and directors for male ones to make it 'better'#it's like any kind of nuanced take on aspects of femininity have to be smuggled under the radar to even exist#and sometimes to the point where they become so misconstrued that the original intent of that fem narrative is lost#just to make room for whatever masc narrative was obviously more interesting and important#lest it be 'unbelievable' that women that hold power and influence and women who are bad or ugly or scary simply.. exist#i just.. would like to see more women and female oriented things within media in the same way we get to see men and male media#and ofc i definitely would like to see genderless and non conforming and non binary takes and narratives for characters and stories#but i just wonder how well they could be created and received if there isn't a solid framework for female oriented media#I'm guilty of being dismissive and not going out of my way to engage with female oriented media.. but it doesnt stop me from wanting better#i dunno if I'm really making sense it's like 3am and i just want to see more women in media held in the same esteem as men#and I'm saying this from a perspective of someone who doesn't want this simply to sexualise it.. i just think women are neat#when can women be as messy and complicated and conflicting and powerful and charming and unhinged and wild and refined as male characters#without their characters being reduced to different flavours of 'hot eye candy'#There are some really cool and nuanced female characters rn and thats amazing! but i still feel like they're discounted cause they're women#I'm trying to unlearn my personal biases and prejudices towards this. so when can we have more complicated and nuanced female media lol
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(^little video that shows how not normal he is lol. cw for torture and violence)
starts off as the comic relief side character. gets kidnapped and tortured. laughs in the face of the man electrocuting his dick. ends up sleeping with him later (by choice. like he wants him), decides he's in love witht he single most crazy unhinged character in the show and reduces him to like crying in his noodles because Pete escaped the safe house torture/sex dungeon where he was kinda a prisoner. shoots his man in the arm (to keep from being killed by other people), beats the shit out of him (that one is for personal reasons), the man confesses his undying love and kisses him before running off, pete chases after him, has to point a gun at him again, the man runs off, pete quits his job and chases after him again, pete stops the man from killing himself and is like "I'm your pet, you're my owner, you have to feed me" (it's a callback from their days in the safehouse torture/sex dungeon), the man gets shot by someone else, and pete goes crazy kills the guy who shot him. so yeah he's totally just a silly comic relief character
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look he seems like just your average forensic pathologist who hates cops but then his relationship with Tan is so buckwild like what. ah yes the normal respectable doctor has now moved in with the man who he sees as a primary suspect in the murder case he's investigating. yes he's cooking him breakfast and flirting. oh and then our totally average doctor is installing a tracker on Tan's phone and telling him about it so Tan can't lie about what he's doing (re: still thinks he might be involved in a murder case). oh our favorite normal doctor and his boyfriend have to fake their deaths? well of course they're going to say I love you for the first time while Tan is pointing a gun at Bun and is about to actually shoot him (they're wearing bulletproof vests), that's the normal thing to do. oh? Tan is proposing to Bun? how nice and typical was it? oh Tan had their friends put on masks and chase them through the woods at gunpoint pretending that he got involved with the local mafia again and then their friends (in masks) point their guns at Bun and make him read the little proposal note than Tan wrote? wouldn't that be a bit traumatic especially considering how many times they've been chases through the woods/held at gun point in actual life or death cases in the past few months? what's that? Bun immediately said yes? well then
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For the DVD commentary <3
She froze, and Ron watched something flash behind her eyes. A storm was brewing inside her, a hellish anger at the implication there. He didn’t agree with what Harvey was saying either, but that was just the sort of comment that set Juliet off.
“Your entire argument is childless women being unhinged simply because they are childless,” she said, and there was a strain on her voice to keep it level. “There are plenty of women who cannot have children who do not go around murdering other people’s, myself included. Your head is up your ass if you think this will be an acceptable defense in a court of law!”
It took Ron a moment to fully absorb what she had just admitted. He wondered for a fleeting second if Juliet was bluffing, but she was too ethical. In situations like this, she wouldn’t lie - not about something so serious. He also wondered if it was something he could ask her about, but that was a conversation for later.
“Any doctor would diagnose her as unstable,” Harvey said, face darkening. “And I don’t appreciate your tone, Miss Fletcher.”
“I don’t appreciate your ignorance, Mr. Cooper,” she shot back. “She wasn’t diagnosed as anything except woman, and that was by you, not a doctor.”
“Hold on -”
“So if I - I dunno - leapt over this desk and strangled you,” she cut across him, and Ron held back a laugh. “You would reasonably expect another attorney to argue that it’s the responsibility of the London Pursuit because they should have known, say, that my ex-fiancée was an attorney therefore I’m more likely to kill one? Because scorned women are known to be more furious?”
“That’s not the same.”
“It’s exactly the same, only in your case, worse,” she snapped. “A child is dead, and you are making a mockery of the fight for justice.”
“I’m doing my job -”
“Your job should entail getting Mrs. Fisher evaluated by a doctor and arguing down her sentence based on her mental capacity,” she returned. “Instead, you are reducing her to a monster because she is unable to give birth.”
“I’m not -”
“Even if it were true - which it isn’t,” she interrupted him again. “It would still be her own fault for putting her hands on a child!”
Harvey slammed his hands down on his desk, which prompted Ron to get to his feet, but Juliet didn’t even flinch. She stared that lawyer down as if they were in the courtroom already and she was the cross examiner. She was so unafraid it was almost difficult to believe that just hours ago a little spider had sent her running across the room.
“Miss Fletcher,” Harvey said levelly, casting a sideways glance at Ron. “You clearly came into this interview with your mind made up about my client and this case. I must ask you to leave.”
She stood up. “You’re right, I did come in here with my mind made up,” she said. “But that’s because I’ve got the facts. Unlike you, Mr. Cooper, I do not rely on drollery to do my job.”
“That’s a bold statement coming from a woman -”
“Do not ever reduce me to my sex, Mr. Cooper,” she snapped. “Yours certainly will not protect you from being intentionally stripped of your dignity.”
With that, she turned on her heel and swept out of the office. Harvey stood up. He went around his desk and started after her.
“Hold on, what does that mean?!” he called.
Ron intercepted him at the doorway, stopping Harvey with a hand to the chest.
“No,” Ron said simply, with a warning look. It went without saying that Ron had about fifty pounds on Harvey, so if he followed them out, there would be consequences. When that was well understood, Ron went after Juliet.
She was already outside by the time he caught up, and she was waiting for him. The wind blew her hair, and he was briefly struck by how attractive she looked. He was already aroused by how she did in the interview. When he wasn’t on the receiving end of her ranting, it really was something. It was something when he was, but ultimately more enjoyable when it was directed at someone else. Because he could just sit back to watch her go and admire her.
ps: I'm so sorry this are way more than 500 words, but i just loved this whole scene so much. Juliet is incredible
Thank you so much for the love for Juliet! I am so glad she's well-liked. And lol it's not a problem that it's more than 500 words, I'm more than happy to break it down :)
SO. This scene has a few layers to it, some that are not immediately obvious. I have a lot of scenes where Juliet establishes her passionate ideas about feminism, and this is clearly one of them. Only this time, we're seeing it from Ron's perspective, instead of hers, directed at him.
But, this one's complicated, because it reveals something about her that contrasts to the ideal of "womanhood" at that time period - she is unable to have children. And, like she does with most things, she handles it with almost nonchalance. It isn't this burden she carries, it's just...a fact about her same as her hair being blonde.
This ultimately is me laying the groundwork for one of the themes of this fic, which is the idea of woman/motherhood and subverting tradition. It's going to come up later in a big way with the Plot Twist™ that I've got coming toward the end of the fic. It also serves to set up the contrast between her and Melanie, with that theme in mind.
Another thing I wanted to do with this scene was remind Ron that Juliet is smart. She's professional and she knows what she's talking about, as goofy as she comes off in other moments (i.e. the aforementioned spider scene). And he gets the message loud and clear. So much so, he's literally turned on by how impressed he is. She's powerful not just with him, but always, and he respects that. He still feels protective, which is why he stops Harvey with one of his psycho-killer looks, but he ultimately knows that Juliet can handle herself.
Notice that this scene is from Ron's perspective, but he does not speak until that moment. Not only is this something that is in character for him in my opinion, but it shows that he is aware of how capable she is. He doesn't do things for her because he feels like he has to, he does them because he wants to. This also adds to a theme from Ron's part of the story - having to do with the role of a man in a woman's life - not an easy task with a woman like Juliet, who has been let down by almost every man in her life except her brother, who is, through no fault of his own, not in her life at the moment. Ron sees that Juliet is independent and strong, but he wants to be the place where she takes a break. The quiet support system to make her even stronger.
lol, I'm getting away from the scene a little bit
But yes, this scene just further establishes the ground work I'm laying down for later on, and Juliet gets to be sassy and hilarious, much to the admiration of Ron.
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Hi. Did you, at some point, believe in Charmie and A&T relationship? Because you have written so superb fics bout them (dont mentioning looot of sex between them in those fics 😊 ). And now it looks like you are quite disgusted by charmie fandom and also by Armie too.. So when did you change your mind (if there of course was any changing of mind)?
Hi nonnie!
I think I talked about this before but anyway...
Yes, at some point at the end of 2017/beginning of 2018 when the promo was in full swing, I did believe there was/had been something happening between these two.
What started to change my mind though was in February 2018 when they returned to Crema and Liz was there and said they made Ford there (I remember we discussed her being at almost every awards red carpet and promo event before, as some kind of no homo device)... I was so confused. This couldn’t be right! T & A had been hanging out all by themselves during the filming, they’d been the only two English speaking people in town (lol, sorry, but Crema is not a small Sicilian village in the 1950s, I’ve been there), they’d bonded deeply... they told us all about  that!
I’m still grateful to the person pointing out that Liz and Harper had been there most of the filming... then gradually more and more ‘came to light’: that Will had been there before filming, that Tim had hung out with some locals (even a kind of gf was mentioned), stuff like that. That started to burst my bubble.
I confess, I had a shit day accepting that it had all been a fantasy because at that point they seemed so cute and right together. They sold that pretty well and I’m not mad at them - it was me who got in too deep, they just promoted their film. And wasn’t it easy to see all these bluring lines and believe in them?
Anyway, once you see the ‘cracks’ you start to question and see more. Things like Armie cancelling the Asia promo tour; saying he ‘sucked dick on film’, reducing cmbyn to THAT.
So I accepted it had been just a fantasy, but still shipped them as in ‘I like to imagine them together though I know it’s not real’. That’s were most of my fics come from, because these stories are pure fiction; I made it all up.
I think then came TIFF and those IG stories - they were clearly taking the piss at shippers, but in a kind way, saying ‘we know what’s going on and don’t mind’. What secret couple posts such stories, I ask you? So I felt validated in my shipping because they were okay with it.
When did I fall out of love with Armie though? I think it started right after the Oscars with above mentioned incidents. He was never my type anyway, I’m all here for the twinks :). He really only does things for me in the contrast he provides to Tim. 
But then I learned more and more about him. His weird family. The way he was okay with how Liz pimped out their kids on her IG (because, come on, if a father doesn’t want that he can make it stop. Now it looks like he used Liz to sell the image of the perfect American family). His fights and ramblings on social media.
I still truly think there was a window for him that he could have used to stear his life and career in a different direction. I still believe cmbyn was a huge formative experience for him. For a while, something changed. Maybe it was all PR bla bla, but maybe not. He dared to accept a stage role after it. He made STBY, which I haven’t seen but people say he was very good in. But then he fell back into old patterns.
I became indifferent to Armie. But then he went to Saudi Arabia. And that was it. I can’t support someone who does what he did. Oliver would at least be whipped there, if not executed; Armie is a gay icon after portraying that beloved character. That’s a responsibility. All he had to do was not go to SA. I don’t expect big political statements - but why did he go there for a government event? Sorry, that was the final nail to the coffin.
But, you know, I still could ignore him. I followed Tim who is goofy and kind and weirdly smart and a great actor. I confess, I speculated about his sexuality (always traveling with male friends, no gf, taking his mum or sister to awards) - but then the Lily thing started - and I was happy for him. Someone his age, who knows about life in the limelight, with whom he could share his life.
And that’s when shit hit the fan. You know, I don’t know either Armie or Tim and what they do has no real influence on my life. But I knew a lot of people on here. I’d been with cmabn since 2017; I’ve written some well liked stories. But suddenly many people I used to have fun with, I thought were my friends, for which I wrote stories - they totally freaked out and behaved abysmal. They sent hate to Tim, to fellow fans. They bullied people really badly on here. Many deleted stories or blogs. And the worst was - these mutuals of mine thought that funny. They were proud of their shitty behavior. They started to scream at anyone doubting Tim was gay and in love with Armie. I got death threats for pointing out that maybe T&A played their friendship up a bit during cmbyn promo.
And almsot no one stopped these people destroying what had been a fun small fandom. Almost no one said to these people ‘Calm down, stop it’. Instead, these people, who used to be my mutuals, congratulated themselves on how efficiently they harrassed Tim on IG and fellow fans on here. I remember a person who told me to my face they loved me first ridiculing Tim and in the end sending vile hate to me.
That’s why I can’t support Charmie any longer. Because of these scumbags of fans. Hating on Tim is one thing, he has people working for him, sadly, these things happen to anyone in the industry. But hating on fellow fans just because some don’t follow a certain narrative BNFs made up? That, to me, is unforgivable.
Therefore, I now delight in how their King Armie is exposed as just another straight white man, cheating on his wife (and maybe doing worse). He debased himself going to SA, and I really don’t know how people who profess to love cmbyn and it’s message can still support him after that. Then he showed his privileged white ass during quarantine. And now those Biden tweets.
Seriously?
I know many on here just ignore these things. I can’t do that. I can’t forget what he did. I can’t support someone like that, who has no principles, either privately or politically (and maybe even sexually assaulted a woman).
And what really did it for me is that Armie can do all these despicable things and people still love and defend him him (a grown man and father of 33) - while Tim just has some gfs, or buys bagels, or carries his guitar - and people ridicule and hate and cancel him for it.
He did nothing wrong despite not living up to the narrative some very rude people who don’t know him wrote for him! But suddenly he’s the whipping boy for them. Because he’s into girls (like Armie, btw).
I just can’t with that. I can’t with the hate spread on here. I can’t with the motives showing behind this narrative, the sexism, the homophobia, the misogyny, the racism... I have to laugh when I read the eulogies some write here about the deep, true, pure, everlasting love between A&T that will win in the end (sorry, I’m not 13 anymore, and neither are the people who write this); I also can’t with the ideas of fucking someone so hard for real they can’t walk anymore (fic is different from reality, you know). It is either pathetic, embarrassing, or truly disturbing.
And I really, really hate these people breaking the fourth wall. You NEVER tweet to the actors about your conspiracy theories! You never harrass them on SM! You never insult their friends, business partners, SOs. And you don’t, never, ever bully some small local businesses during an economic crisis because they dared to burst your bubble.
If you support Charmie - you support this behavior. I don���t. And as being quiet has only led to the assholes taking over - I now try a different strategy. If people don’t like it they can unfollow.
Sorry, these last few days have shown just how unhinged some Charmies are. I know some had planned actions against Tim at The King red carpet in London (and thankfully didn’t realize them). I really don’t put it past some of them to now truly become violent against Tim at some event, in the name of the greater good of Charmie. They are completely bonkers.
I’ve seen threats against me and others in different forums as well. People want to make us pay for what we did (like, what did we do?). People call for their followers to take action against us. I have no idea what they will or can do, as I’ve lost so much within this fandom already (fics, followers, friends) but as they are truly mental I expect the worst. It’s not that I’m afraid but it’s still a weird feeling to see people talk about you like this... because you don’t like an actor. Or don’t think he’s gay...
Yeah, so, that was surely more than you bargained for.
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Some of the comments on Tumblr (not linking to usernames)
“Slowly telling them who is Mrs. Holmes. I love Louise.”
“Jesus Christ. Leave her alone! Sick people should get some help because they’re not ok. Definitely. Stop harassing the cast and crew of the show. You’ll change nothing. Sorry but that’s the truth.”
“I love how by doing this they’re again confirming that they’re really mad because they know Sherlock meant it! I love how Loo is so aware of this! She fu** ing rocks! But also: STOP BOTHERING LOO, IDIOTS!!!!”
“In two tweets Louise Brealey uses her megaphone to tell it like it is. The TJLC contingent just couldn’t help foisting their obvious resentment onto her and by doing that, they absolutely trashed every argument they ever had, revealed their agenda and exposed themselves to the world’s scorn for disappointed hopes. No one will ever entertain the whinging of a group who targeted the most sympathetic person on the cast. They look irrational if not completely unhinged and can’t be taken seriously. These are what businesses refer to as cut-and-loss customers and TJLC just handed a whole bunch of other productions an excuse to not even try to appease their fans. Louise righteously has zero fucks for them. She’s my fricki-lickin’ hero right now.”
“These whiners have stooped really low even for them! Why bother the actors? Loo is absolutely right! They are just proving the point that even they know deep down when Sherlock said ILY he MEANT it. Period.”    
Wow. Imagine being so infatuated with your favorite actress that you start frothing at the mouth when she brings up shit that didn’t even happen. *
A few of the comments on Twitter:
Ridiculously Tiresome.
Reduced To.
Bad Eg.
But then she backpedals (read the rest to see what happens) and says that “certain people” are blaming her for what happened. Like, where’s the receipts, bruh?
Here some johnlockers graciously and kindly reaching out to tell Loo that they certainly never sent her grief and that just because they knew Molly deserved better, doesn’t mean they would ever send hate to anyone. Note who are the nasty ones responding to them. Hmm, interesting, I wonder who they ship (one of them is the infamous soyeahs0. Blurgh). (Source #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7)
So I’m just wondering, why is no one bringing up the fact that many johnlockers (as well as other nonjohnlockers who were disappointed by s4) came forward with what I posted above? Are we expected to believe that johnlockers have no manners, period? Everyone has good manners, as long as they remember to use them, and from what I saw, the only ones having a hissy fit were the sher-lollies when one of the aforementioned Tweets were created.
And then this - which makes it look like everything that just happened was not purposely spread around. Loo’s cleaning house. But when you say shit like people getting “mad at you” for something not going their way, you are encouraging bad behavior. Because you DO have fans who will draw their own blood protecting you.
I don’t see any TJLCers attacking Loo. Jesus. By doing this, she’s just riling up her closest fans.
* So where is she getting this shit? Is she just assuming that because there were people who didn’t like the scene, they must be johnlockers? Or is she just ranting because someone out there is mad at Moffat and Gatiss.
Loo, sweetie, c’mere, sit down and chill out for a second. We know you've got gumption and you’re a sprightly little egg, but JESUS CHILL, LOL. Maybe you can bring soyeahs0 and some of her friends over as well.
Johnlockers have asked time and time again for solid evidence that Louise Brealey has been harassed by them. Since apparently no one has come forward (it really doesn’t take that long to take a screen capture and post it on Tumblr and I know antis don’t drag their feet if they have ammunition) I’m going to say that the sher-lollies are just talking out of their asses. They’re upset because TJLCers are mad at Moffat and Gatiss, but they’ve decided to drag their little poopy mess over to Loo and make her believe that we hate her, too.
Until someone comes forward with proof that a johnlocker had a temper tantrum and yelled at Loo (because I don’t approve of that kind of shit either, I don’t care who you ship or don’t ship) I’m calling bullshit.
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So a lot of people didn’t like TFP. That doesn’t mean 100% of those people are Johnlockers.
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Irritable (Danny Williams x Reader)
Prompt: dickgrysvn said:
Hiiii it's rey again. First off, happy new year! Second, I was hoping you could write a Danny Williams x Reader where they have a mcdanno type relationship (like they bicker all the time) but then the reader gets hurt or gets put in danger or something and then its like angry/angsty confession time blah blah blah. In case you can't telll I love angsty love confessions lol. And your writing <3
Pairing: Danny Williams x Reader
Words: 2123
Warnings: Uh....mentions of death, arguing, mentions of human trafficking, possible cursing....Idk of anything else
Notes: Haha, I’m writing this about Danny’s shortness and all I’m thinking about is the similarity between Danny and Damian Wayne at this point...sorry, I’ve been obsessed with the batfam for a few days now.
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They never said when you were signing up to be a part of the Five-O Task Force, that you would have to deal with someone as insufferable as Daniel “Danny”  “Danno” Williams. You don’t understand why, but Steve decided it would be a good idea for you to be partnered with Danny until you learned the ropes of the team. Actually, you were paired with both Steve and Danny, although a lot of the time, Steve spent with Chin and Kono, leaving you alone with the short and angry Detective.
Okay...so you were shorter than Danny, but that’s not the point.
The point is that you don’t understand what you did to make the Detective hate you so much.
Currently, you were investigating a trafficking ring who took young women and girls from all across the islands and sold them to other countries as sex slaves and whatnot. You and Danny were tasked with talking to some of the ‘former’ trafficking men and women to see if any of them had any idea who was behind this current round of trafficking.
“Look, all I’m saying is that you should stay in the car,” Danny’s hands moved as he spoke and you glared at the man.
“Why? Because I’m a woman? I’m sure that if you were partnered with Kono you wouldn’t be telling her to stay in the car! I can take care of myself,” you yelled at him.
Danny’s face was heating up. He looked at you and you looked back, “I’m saying to stay in the car because this imbecile is not someone that you want to meet!”
“Whatever, Danny,” you growled out and stepped out of the car, making your way to the warehouse.
Danny cursed under his breath and followed you into the warehouse. He hated that you ignored everything he said. It was like he was partnered with another Steve McGarrett.
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After an uneventful chat with multiple traffickers, you and Danny were in a heated fight, walking into the office space of the team, “if you had let me talk to him before pulling out your weapon-”
“He wasn’t going to talk to you! We had to make him believe we’d shoot him if he didn’t talk,” you exclaimed and you both stopped in the middle of the room, not paying attention to the three pairs of eyes watching you both.
“We are cops, we don’t go around waving our guns in people’s faces,” he stressed, his hands moving wildly as he spoke, “and not to mention that when his friends pulled out their guns, you told them you’d shoot them in the balls if they tried anything! We don’t do that!”
“Sometimes you have to make threats you won’t follow to get the information you need out of them,” you glared at the man in front of you, having to look up slightly to see him, which annoyed you to no end.
“This is exactly how I got shot the first time I was partnered with Steven, he did things in a brash manner and I got shot! I am not going to allow you to put me in the same position,” his face was red from the bickering you two have done since you both got in the car from the last visit.
“Oh poor baby, quit your whining. You didn’t get shot,” you rolled your eyes and turned away from him.
“Don’t you turn your back on me, we’re not done talking,” Danny hissed and you turned back to face him.
“Correction, you’re not done talking. I am. You have any more complaints, stuff them up your ass,” you growled and walked to your office, going to sit in the chair and stare at your computer, looking up any leads you could get on the case.
Danny watched you and he could feel his anger building. He went to Steve and glared at him, “I can not work with her! Assign her to someone else,” he demanded.
“No can do, Danny,” Steve replied, a smirk on his face, “you’re the best role model for her,” he laughed.
“This is not funny, Steven, she is going to get me killed. Killed I tell you! Then, you’re not going to have me around to keep you from getting yourself killed, then you die and the team goes into disarray. Get where I’m going?”
Steve laughed again and shook his head. “Danny, you’re her mentor. Find a way to communicate with her instead of bickering. You need to get past everything else and get to a point where you can teach her. She’s not as bad as you make her out to be,” Steve stated, placing a hand on Danny’s shoulder.
Danny rolled his eyes and went to his office.
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Steve and Danny were out on a lead as were Kono and Chin, leaving you in the Palace alone. You were continuing to research, seeing if you might be able to find a solid lead. You were just about to give up when something on the style and place of the kidnappings took place. You had a gut feeling and you raced out of The Palace, calling Steve as you got into your car.
“I have a lead. I’m heading there now,” you stated before Steve could say anything on the phone.
You heard a click, assuming Steve put you on speaker, “don’t go by yourself. Where is it, we’ll pick you up and-”
“No time, if I’m right, the next kidnapping is taking place in ten minutes. You are twenty away from the site,” you stated and your car tore down the road.
You heard Steve slam on breaks, “where.”
“The last kidnapping site,” you stated.
“On the way. Don’t engage until we get there.”
“If I see something, I’m acting,” you replied.
“For once, stop being so pigheaded and stupid, (Y/N)! Don’t do anything until Steve and I are there,” Danny groaned.
You hung up and pulled into a parking spot, looking at all the people milling around. No one was going to be kidnapped while you were watching.
A couple of minutes later, you saw what you were looking for, a young girl being lured away. You followed her at a distance and finally came to a warehouse. You pressed a speed dial and put it back in your pocket. You walked up to the warehouse and went in, following the sounds of girls crying.
You came to an opening where there was crying and you looked around quickly before looking at the girls. You walked between the cages, your attention momentarily not on anything but getting the girls out of the warehouse. “Shh, I’m here to help. I’m going to get you out of here,” you whispered and the girls quieted down for a minute before they screamed.
“Nice thought, but you’re not going to be getting out of here any time soon,” a voice sounded behind you before something connected with your head.
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You woke up with a headache. You wondered what you’d had to drink last night as you sat up and looked around. This wasn’t your room.
You were in a cage and you could see frightened girls looking at you through cage links. You got up, trying to get to the door, but was stopped by being choked by a collar around your neck. You tried to undo it, but there wasn’t anything to unhinge it by.
You felt your panic rise before you calmed yourself. You heard footsteps and a man you recognized from the lead you’d been searching popped into view, “you finally woke up. I was beginning to think I’d hit you too hard.”
“Let the girls go,” you stated.
“I don’t think you’re in any position to demand anything,” he chuckled, “it was stupid of you to come alone.”
“Save it, I’m going to hear it from my annoyance of a partner later,” you spat back.
“You’re never going to see them again,” his voice sent cold chills down your back, “the more you move, the tighter that collar gets around your neck. The more you fight it, the tighter it gets, until, eventually, you suffocate. Let’s see what happens first, do you die from suffocation or malnutrition?”
“Let’s see what happens first, you die when I get out of here, or when my friends show up.”
“Feisty until the end, good to know.”
He walked away and you messed with the collar, feeling it tighten against your neck. You stopped messing with it and tried to relax in the cage. Steve, Danny, Chin, and Kono would be here soon to get you...you hoped.
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You don’t know how much time passed before you heard shouting and gunshots. You perked up and stood, moving to go to the cage door again, but reminded that you couldn’t by the tightening of the collar around your neck.
You coughed as you’re air supply was reduced for the first time. The door to the part of the warehouse you were in opened and a gun was pointed at you, “shoot me and I shoot your precious teammate.”
You saw Danny come through the door. He looked at you and you saw the anger in his eyes, “how about you put your gun down before I shoot you,” he growled.
“Danny,” you whispered, not able to fully speak with the collar as tight as it was. It started to get tighter and you looked at the man, seeing as he had a huge smirk on his face. “Can’t breathe,” you wheezed.
Your legs collapsed from under you and you hit the hard ground. “(Y/N)!”
You heard three shots and watched your tormentor hit the ground before you were on all fours, coughing and gasping, trying to get air into your body with the ever tightening collar around you neck.
The door to the cage was yanked open and Danny rushed in, kneeling beside you. He looked at the collar, not knowing exactly what to do, “listen here, you are going to calm down and everything will be alright. You keep breathing,” at your wide, but glaring eyes, Danny groaned slightly, “don’t look at me like that! You will be able to breathe, I promise...but if you had just listened to me, you wouldn’t be in this mess! You should have waited! I swear, you’re always getting yourself into trouble and maybe that’s what I love about you, but can you give me a day off?!”
Your arms shook, your left arm gave out and Danny grabbed you before you fell. He brought you against the side of the cage. He had you tucked under his arm, “STEVE,” he yelled. He knew the Seal would have a way to get you out of the collar. “STEVE,” he shouted again and the Seal bounded into the room, immediately sprinting to you and Danny.
“(Y/N), I need you to calm down,” you hadn’t realized but your were slightly thrashing and tears were falling down your face. “I promise you that I’m going to get this collar off, but I can’t if you’re thrashing around,” he stated and you tried to calm your movements, but all you could think about was the fact that you couldn’t get air into your lungs.
Danny started whispering things into your ear as he tried to calm you down. You focused on the sound of his voice and felt yourself start to calm down.
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You walked to the main lobby of the hospital and stood, looking for your ride. Even with the Doctor’s insistence that you stay overnight for watch over any damage that might have been done to your neck, you signed yourself out and were now waiting on a very unhappy Danny Williams to pick you up.
You absentmindedly touched your neck and a lone tear fell down your face. You could have died.
You didn’t notice Danny approach you until you heard his soft voice, “you know, when we couldn’t find you, I panicked. I thought the worst...that you’d been caught and killed...and that almost happened.”
You turned towards Danny and, you don’t know why, but you wrapped your arms around him and the second your head hit his chest, a quiet and broken sob left your mouth, “I thought he was going to actually going to be able to kill me,” your voice still wasn’t recovered from the assault on your neck.
“I know…” Danny trailed off. He backed away from you, gently leaning your head up so your eyes met his, “don’t do that to me again,” he whispered and leaned down, placing a soft and gentle kiss on your lips.
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