some self indulgent concepts for a 20-something year old Chang where he becomes Tintin’s photographer. I wanted him to have a slightly eccentric sense of style to reflect his playful personality.
as my Area 51 post where Chang and Tintin are middle aged did well I was speculating on what would have happened between the “canon” timeline and them being in their mid-40s, just to get a better idea of what their relationship would be like! A Lot of background stuff beneath the cut, cw for mentions of racism and homophobia - buckle up boyos:
After Alph-Art Chang finishes school and starts studying commercial photography at university. On an exchange programme, he goes to study in Belgium for a year. Haddock has Chang live at Marlinspike during his studies, hoping he would keep Tintin out of trouble (and perhaps convince Tintin to finish school). This backfires significantly.
He’d bring an emotional intelligence to the Marlinspike team, as well as an outsider’s perspective on things. As he’s around Tintin’s age, Tintin feels more comfortable confiding in him. I imagine he’d have a wicked sense of humour too which Haddock appreciates, and, most importantly, he’s the guy in the group who brings a bag
He’s juggling a photography course, dangerous adventures, his job with the newspaper and a social life, but deep down he doesn’t feel like he truly belongs anywhere. He’s very aware of his outsider status, so embraces it. As a working class orphan who was taken in by a family of academics he’s used to not quite fitting in. He’s also trying to work through his trauma from his two near death experiences, wanting to Live Life To the Fullest, frequenting jazz bars and staff parties whenever he can.
Tintin is overjoyed to finally be able to spend time with him and takes him sightseeing in between adventures. A few months in he realises he’s developed feelings for him and has A Crisis - he is gripped with feelings of guilt and self disgust and is terrified he’ll lose Chang’s friendship. At first he attempts to bury his feelings, leading to some Incredibly Unhinged Adventures. Chang catches onto this and confronts him about it, and helps him overcome his self hatred. The two start a relationship in secret (Haddock can totally tell tho, he quickly makes it clear they have his full support). Chang’s photography career takes off and he starts engaging with local immigrant and LGBT communities
things seem to be going well for the two of them until a tabloid outs them publicly (could it be Rastapopolous? I know he took a tumble but maybe he survived? idk). Chang and Tintin lose their jobs and their reputations. WW2 hits and they take it upon themselves to travel around, beating up fascists and foiling nazi plots (I know the canon comics follow a floating timeline with some being set post-war but here I’m rooting things in a specific time period)
after the war they manage to find more work. Tintin finds work with a small local paper and Chang scrapes out some freelance jobs. The war shaped their perceptions of journalism significantly, with Tintin now giving more of his attention to less flashy stories, pledging to do what he can to prevent anything like the war from happening again. Their itch for adventure returns, however, when reports of alien sightings start cropping up in the papers...
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I dunno if you’re in radblr or consider yourself a part of it but there’s multiple posts floating around there about how other things people in radblr are endorsing rape and violence against women in the name of decolonization.
but it’s funny how they are not actually calling out anyone by name. if people on radblr are genuinely endorsing those things and promoting them it would be great to know who they are to block them. yet there’s no direct replies to these radfem rape apologist posts that apparently exist, almost like people are trying to create a narrative that support for Palestine = endorsing rape
yes lol, that’s exactly what they’re doing. that is entirely the point of this discourse. i got these two comments on my post about the PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
see how the last comment is more explicit. she responds to my invocation of the palestinian people by asking me if i meant “that terrorist group.” she asks what could i possibly be talking about besides “terrorist men raping and killing women.” it kind of does not get any more mask off than that. they want you to have to qualify your support of an oppressed people by insisting you don’t support barbarism, so that you admit you think palestinians are barbaric. i don’t, so i won’t be doing that. some of the most pro-israel people on this website have endorsed the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki under the guise of humanitarianism. i won’t be lectured about morality by this cohort
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Do you have a favorite outfit of the Challengers press tour so far?
Ooo... it's hard to pick just one outfit Anon because I think Z has looked great so far in every single outfit! 😅
But if I had to pick my faves so far, it would be these:
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Update on the winter shoes saga
Dug around in my wardrobes and found my VERY forgotten about winter shoes last worn 2006 (yes literally)
Last worn when i was 12, and then banished to a closet for not being "cool enough" for 13 year old me.
ANYWAY
This was a long winded to say that these shoes have good grip? I am can walk across the 100% ice stockholm without fearing falling???
What is this :O
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surely there must be a reasonable explanation for this but i went upstairs to go to bed a while ago (it may surprise you to learn it's difficult to sleep under these circumstances and it's making me too forgetful to add diphenhydramine to my grocery list) and i left my mom and sister watching the tail end of grant/hepburn charade. i'm pretty sure neither of them will fit in a european womens size 39 shoe. i didn't hear anybody enter the house, and the door is locked. and yet
whose bubblegum chouboutins...
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all i'm asking is for emmerdale to wait til after the new year to 👀👀👀👀 y'know maybe pull the trigger of what i hope that mention was about 👀👀👀 so i can properly deal with the batshit insanity that EE is likely to bring us this Christmas. i can only handle one soap fandom losing their minds at a time pls.
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