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thenotoriousscuttlecliff · 2 months

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The OP's complaint is that the term "Avengers level threat" is so reductive it diminishes the threats the likes of the X-Men and Fantastic Four face, thus unfairly painting them as lesser teams compared to the Avengers despite facing similar threats. But the Avengers fan is obviously so opposed to the very idea of any team, especially the fucking X-Men, being seen as equal to the Avengers they see this is dickriding slander. Some obviously got so into Avengers vs X-Men they still have it as their entire personality over a decade later.

#x-men #fantastic four #the avengers #marvel #marvel comics #avengers vs x men #the term itself was coined by a villain to describe his fake attack #that was prevented by one hero #and it sort make sense in universe because the avengers are like the only well known team #but there are other teams who do face similar threats #the stuff the guardians of the galaxy deal with is often bigger in scale than the avengers #and the mcu really limits itself by treating the avengers as the role premier team #especially since all the main ones are either dead or retired or unable to star in their own movies because of legal issues

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un-pearable · 8 months

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absolutely hate that the oni trilogy reframed lloyd as his father’s enemy bc he was unwanted or unloved bc the whole point was that lloyd was wanted so so badly that his father was willing to give into the prophecy that had doomed him in the hopes that he could save them both from it, and in the process ensured that they would be on opposite sides

#text✨#THIS ISNT HERO WITH DADDY ISSUES. ITS VILLAIN WITH SON ISSUES (HE WANTED SO BADLY TO PREVENT IT THAT HE PLAYED EXACTLY INTO DESTINY’S HANDS #lloyd does has father issues but. not those ones . i miss them so much (pre retcon garmafamily)#mainly i’m just upset that this is the lingering view in fandom and keeps getting retroactively imposed onto their dynamics pre-s8 #and not only is it infinitely more boring it’s just outright sad #this isn’t @ any particular fan writers im just mad at the show writers again ✨

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jakey-beefed-it · 1 month

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Annual Ides of March reminder that while Caesar was promoting/planning to enact policies that would have benefitted the Roman plebeians and that's the main reason the Senate turned on him, it doesn't mean he was some kind of 'good guy'. Just ask the Gauls. Even his contemporaries thought his bloody campaigns (arguably genocidal, inarguably extravagantly violent beyond any argument of necessity) were 'a bit much' which, given the Roman attitudes toward 'barbarians', is saying a lot.

Shithead rich men ganged up on and stabbed another shithead rich man because he was costing them money and power to exalt himself as a proto-Emperor. Celebrate the ides as an example of instant karma, but don't make the mistake of thinking there were any 'good guys' involved.

#boring personal bullshit #seriously you guys Rome was Horrible as a Republic and only got worse #please don't pick out any Roman patricians and laud them as any kind of hero #some of them had some admirable traits #Marcus Aurelius is a personal 'problematic fave' but even he's fucking awful #for one thing he could've prevented the reign of Commodus by just adopting an heir like so many other emperors #for another he was hardly a friend to Germanic civillians living on either side of the Rhine

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anotherpapercut · 8 months

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ori/ons/belts -> anotherpapercut

unfortunately I had to change my url. I will be tagging new posts with 'formerly ori/ons/belts' (but I'm bad at remembering so sorry if I forget sometimes!) so that hopefully you shouldn't be able to find me as easily by searching the old url but you can still see that I've changed what it was. the posts in my queue will not have this tag added for a few weeks but this message will be pinned for anyone who missed it

EDIT: no longer consistently tagging bc I'm lazy. but it will still happen when you least expect it

#thanks for your patience im not very happy about this #i specifically chose my url with the intention of not having to change it again 🙄#anyway this is a reference to the song papercuts by gym cla/ss heroes listen if you dont know it #formerly ori/ons/belts #also yes i was spitkaleidoscopes for a hot second there. you did not imagine that it was a place holder #btw all the slashes is to prevent them from showing up in tags

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hazellvsq · 8 months

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frank/hazel/leo most popular pjo ot3? an analysis

okay so the love triangle poll had me thinking. i knew frank/hazel/leo had ship content on ao3, and i was curious to see if other love triangles or popular trios got the same treatment.

(this is very long and rambling)

this is the amount of ao3 content frank/hazel/leo has:

these are the other trios i was looking at:

last one is crazy lol. anyway, other potential trios like jason/reyna/piper or different combos of percy/annabeth/piper/jason all had less than 20 fics each. its possible i missed one but i'm pretty sure i tried of all of them.

for context, the general state of pjo character and ship content looks like this:

the vast majority of tagged fandom content with frank and hazel has them as background characters. finding content that centers them takes digging. aside from calypso/leo, they have the least popular canon ship, and the only other character that either has any substantial fan content with is leo. the pjo fandom has shipped leo with literally any character he was in proximity with, and hazel was a canon love interest of his. in addition, the pjo fandom has incredibly popular mlm ships and has gone through the time-honored tradition of finding ways to sideline, if not villainize, the canon female love interests. which makes these next stats so interesting to me:

a decent portion of works in both of these tags are frank/hazel/leo fics that got crosstagged. obviously, frank/hazel have more fics than frank/hazel/leo:

however, its impossible to figure out how many of these fics actually center frank/hazel, as opposed to them just being background characters. so i did a test and filtered out all of the more popular ships in their tag:

this isn't a perfect representation, because there are definitely frank/hazel centric-fics that had other ships in the background, and frank/hazel/leo aren't the main couple of every fic they get tagged in. still, though. that's less than the frank/hazel/leo fics.

the other thing about hazel and frank content is that they are the two characters who are most frequently headcanoned as straight. it's died down some in recent years but it used to be CONSTANT (it happened to leo too, but not as much). most fans thought they were the two most "traditional" characters, value-wise. so i was thinking, if frank and hazel got this much content for a poly ship, then the characters that this fandom actually thinks are gay have to have more:

and then i was like, hmmm well okay i'm very surprised there's not more for those three. but there's so many people who ship some combo of nico/percy/jason/will. i've seen so many big 3 edits that leave out the girls. there's no way frank/hazel/leo is beating out the white slash ship industrial complex.

frank/hazel/leo beat out the white slash ship industrial complex (big threesome is a very funny ship name tho).

my biggest guess would be that there was some sort of beef between the percy/nico and jason/nico crowds that has led to this lack of ot3 content. i wouldn't know. i'm wondering if they're going to catch up; its not far off right now. as far as i can tell will solace has no popular ot3's that broke more than 20 fics and is pretty much only shipped with nico.

other potential ot3's like jason/piper/leo...i have a theory that a lot of jason/piper shippers only really shipped it in conjunction with percy/annabeth because they were were a good secondary couple for percabeth-centric fics, and didn't care about leo as much (which could explain why there's more overall content for jason and piper than for leo). also, i think historically a lot of leo fans thought jason and piper were bad friends, although these days there's a lot more renewed appreciation for their trio. piper has also been commonly written as a ship obstacle since the inception of her character, when people thought she was homewrecking jason and reyna (the jason/nico crowd uses this trope too), which might be why she's not commonly put in ot3's despite having chemistry with most of the cast. on the other hand, the "ship wars" between hazel/frank and hazel/leo shippers in the mark of athena era were pretty mild, because most readers liked all three characters and didn't have strong enough feelings about either pairing to fight about it, whereas other ot3's don't get written because fans have a very strong preference for their other ships.

i know frank/hazel/leo has its origins on ff.net, but it was mostly one author and mostly just kink. there's a much bigger variety on ao3. i'm wondering why people liked it enough to make it a side pairing for other fics, and at what point the bulk of content for it was written. i'm wondering what people get out of combining the three of them that you don't get from just two. is it because all 3 dynamics are so clearly defined in canon? some of them also are based on kinks like mpreg that historically exclude women, so why do these authors include one? this is also interesting because the rest of the fanbase, including both fans who ship frank/hazel and fans who think that shipping hazel with anybody is problematic, refuse to write about hazel or frank having sex to the point where it was a fandom meme for a while. except in frank/hazel/leo fics, where a large percentage have explicit content. i'm wondering which of the nico/jason/percy or frank/hazel/leo tags has more mpreg, but i'm okay not knowing.

if you made it this far, there's not a real point to this post, except pointing out that for characters who barely get shipping content, frank/hazel/leo is unexpectedly popular considering how much content exists about them otherwise, and also goes against popular fandom perception of the characters in interesting ways.

#i have NO idea what to tag this as lol #frank zhang #hazel levesque #leo valdez #frazeleo #i'm still kinda shook that this had more fics then the nico ot3 i did not see that coming #lost hero trio deserves more fics tho tbh like every combination of it has been popular at one point. its time for a merger #also this essay is not an endorsement or criticism of any ships listed idc about any of them #just trying to figure out what makes different ships tick in fandom #if someone ran a ot3 poll rn i do not think frazeleo would win. but if you ran it during the height of the pjo ship wars?#my running theory is that ship wars prevent ot3s. since ppl usually have a strong preference. this is just one of the rare cases where peo

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amethystpath-writes · 2 years

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Affogato

NOT A PR0MPT- happy ending, stay tuned for the end :)

Could you write about a villian with severe anger issues, but still somehow, they've managed to come to love hero, and so has hero. Now, as they live together, villian just one days, snaps at hero for small little things. And at night, hero just storms off. Villian at this point wants to hate the hero now, and when thru hear a knock, they almost bring in their knife, and when they open the door to hero, IT TURNS OUT THAT HERO JUST WENT TO BUY VILLIAN SOME ICE CREAM AND COFFEE. CUZ THEY REMEMBERED THAT VILLIAN LOVES THESE TWO TOGETHER, SO JUST TO BRIGHTEN THEIR MOOD, THAT'S WHY HERO STORMED OFF. Cue the villian breaking down into tears as they hold their selfless hero in their arms and cry and apologise and kiss the hero and the hero just absolutely not minding it at all, cuz they are understanding enough to know that villian is going through something that is making them act like that, and they don't really mean it.

Just anything like this :")

This request is long overdue. Thank you, and all nonnies, for your patience <3 May I bestow upon you a long snippet for a long request? It’s quite nice if I do say so myself.

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“I don’t know, Hero. I don’t know. I don’t know!” Villain snapped. “God, you keep asking me questions. Why the hell would I know how aglets are put on shoelaces? Or- or what type of plastic is supposedly safe to eat from? Or when- exactly, as you asked- sugar turns into caramel in a skillet? I don’t know, Hero!”

Hero’s lips parted halfway through Villain’s outburst. Shock took up many of her emotions, but somehow hurt triumphed them all. “I didn’t mean to upset you,” she said, and her voice was hardly heard. “You’ve just been gone all day; I wanted to make conversation.”

Not seeming to understand just how much damage he was already doing, Villain continued. “Yeah, well, I’m tired. It was a long day and the last thing I want is someone asking a thousand questions a minute.” He repeated, “I’m tired. I just want to sit here- here, in my goddamn chair- and watch a show. Can I please, for the love of everything in this universe, just do that?”

He sounded like an old man with nothing better to do than to wrap his lips around a cigar, while watching Casablanca for the tenth time in a week, wearing a fedora that went out of fashion seventy years ago.

“Do you have a show in mind?” Hero tried.

“No.” Without another word, Villain closed his eyes, laid his head back, and slept in his chair as he wished.

When Villain awoke, his mind was still in a place of dread, and the feeling intensified as he watched Hero’s small figure dart about the house as she gathered her things.

“What are you doing?” he asked, voice darker than before. Neither he, nor Hero, could tell if it was sleepiness or irritability which made his voice so low and unwelcoming, though caring little about what her lover’s voice meant, Hero responded, “Leaving.”

Her purse was already tucked into the crook of her elbow, and she had her wallet. Now to find the keys.

“You’re leaving?” Incredulous. “What the hell are you leaving for?” By the time Villain asked it, Hero had found the keys- in plain sight, on the kitchen counter- and business-walked to the front door. “Don’t forget the rest of your things! You’re going to leave me with your clothes and jewelry and all your other shi-” The door slammed shut. Villain began talking to himself instead. “Why would I ever think that she’d stay here with me? Why would I ever think she was any different from anyone else I’ve ever known? The hell is wrong with me?”

In the next hour, Villain moped around his home, drinking glasses of water, eating the crumbs out of old chip bags in the cabinet, and watching tv. It wasn’t particularly horrible; Villain just felt…off. As angry as he sounded, he wasn’t. He wasn’t angry, wasn’t sad, wasn’t much of anything other than another human who was overwhelmed and burnt out. There was no emotion- only exhaustion.

The sky outside was darkening more and more. If Villain squinted in search, he’d find a few stars shining through hazy clouds. It made him wonder, now, if Hero was ever coming home, or if this was really the end to…to them. Had he really been so horrible that she’d leave with nothing else but her wallet and keys? Maybe so.

Then again, Hero was easily saddened. She’s overreacting, Villain thought, because facing the fact that he might be the one in the wrong was preposterous.

Villain shifted in his chair and uneasily pulled his phone out of his pants pocket. He dialed Hero’s mother.

“Villain?”

“Yeah, hey.” His voice was typically more enthusiastic. Not now. “Is Hero around?”

Hero’s mother hummed. “No. No, I haven’t heard from her since this morning. Is everything okay? Are you home?”

He took a breath and closed his eyes. Yes, he was home. No, everything was not okay. Maybe Villain should have called Hero first, but then he considered a scenario in which she wouldn’t pick up the phone, and that thought infuriated him. What if he was worried? It was getting dark, and she wasn’t home. If she didn’t pick up the phone, it’d make him worry even more, and how was that fair to him?

He didn’t give thought to her answering the phone.

“Villain? You there?”

“I’m here,” Villain assured. He inhaled once again, and as he breathed out, he said, “I fell asleep earlier, and her keys were gone when I woke up. I figured she might have headed out there, but she might have just gone to Friend’s.”

“Did Hero not pick up the phone when you called?”

“I didn’t call,” Villain admitted. Then, “I had a nightmare, and I guess my mind just went to the worst place. I’m sorry. I’m- uh- I’m going to call Hero. I’ll get back to you when I know she’s alright. I’m sure everything is okay.” It was too difficult to admit he got angry, and Hero left him because of it. “Anyway, I’m going to-”

Knock, knock, knock.

“I’ll get back with you later.” Villain hung up, then scurried to the kitchen where he had immediate access to steak knives.

Soon after, Villain recognized the sound of keys rattling in the lock. But who else had keys to the house except for himself and…“Hero?”

Her face emerged into their home as the door creaked open more. “Little help?” She yelped as a bag dropped to the wooden floor. “Shoot! Oh, I hope the eggs weren’t in that one. Could you- you’re holding a knife.”

“You went grocery shopping.”

“I did. And you’re holding a knife. Should I,” Hero ventured, “go back to grocery shopping?”

“No. No, I”- Villain put the knife down- “was just shocked. We argued and then I fell asleep and then I woke up and then-”

Hero extended her free hand out to Villain. Free, as in, it held only one item, and that item was for Villain. “It’s probably half-melted by now- sorry. It’s an af…afro…afrogato? No, that means cat, doesn’t it? No, that’s gato.”

“You got me an affogato?” Villain’s brows pinched and his lips jutted out. Someone who didn’t know Villain, they would interpret his expression as anger, but Hero knew better. He was only confused.

“I don’t know what you’re going through, but I can tell you’re struggling. I thought this might help brighten your night.” She smiled sweetly, then tilted the small paper cup towards Villain, reminding him that he might want to take and eat it, or else he won’t get the chance to enjoy it. “If you can help get the groceries in really quick, I can put them away so you can enjoy the ice cream.”

Speechless, Villain took bags off Hero’s arm and rushed them to the kitchen island. He stuck his affogato in the freezer, then rushed to his and Hero’s car in the driveway. “Sit down,” he called out behind him. Hero didn’t like the grocery store; it exhausted her.

After the groceries were brought in, and Villain, not Hero, tucked them all away in the fridge, freezer, and cabinets, Villain took his treat- one he didn’t feel he deserved- and sat beside Hero on the couch.

Hero curled in, toes tucked between the couch cushions, and her arm wrapped around Villain’s. “You keep shaking your head,” she said. “What’s wrong.”

“I don’t deserve you,” Villain replied, head still shaking with his lack of understanding.

She sat up, then, and looked into his eyes. “Everyone deserves love. All tonight means is that we have some things to work on. We,” she emphasized, “not just you. I shouldn’t have taken off the way I did. It wasn’t helpful to either of us.”

Maybe she was right. Still, Villain’s outburst…“You didn’t deserve that.” His eyes darted away for a moment but came back as quickly as they left. “I’m sorry, Hero.”

Nodding, Hero tucked back into her love. “I’m sorry, too. Now eat your afro-cat.”

#NOT A PR0MPT #Affogato #request fill #I got to make one of these once during my time as a barista. The guy who ordered it was quite confused by it but seemed to enjoy it anyway.#(psst...it's vanilla ice cream with hot espresso poured over it!)#Hope you don't mind the small adjustment Nonny! I had to flex my barista knowledge 💪☕#hero x villain #villain x hero #hero x villain snippet #hero x villain story #hero x villain drabble #heroes and villains #hero #villain #good hero #anger issmues >:(#The anger which villain expresses at the beginning is not good by the way. If you have a partner that treats you like this...the two of you #need to have a talk. Maybe they're struggling but that's no reason to treat someone you love so poorly. You deserve better.#That isn't to say that you can't help. Remind them when they're acting poorly and express your care. Even I'm guilty of getting grumpy with #my boyfriend and it's not fair but we work it out. I apologize and we discuss change and prevention for the future. He's also had moments.#We talk about it. Communication genuinely is key and if your partner is not willing to communicate- to solve problems- you might need to #reflect on the value of the 'relationship.'#Glad we had that talk. I love you guys <3

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pocketramblr · 2 years

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What would happen when, Aizawa, watching as Izuku's hair and eyes change color, as he beats a human being (Overhaul) in the suspected nomu au? Like, he's already being suspected and then he does what normal nomus do? Would Aizawa think that is because of Eri using her quirk on him they didn't lose him completely after they learned Oboro was Kurogiri?

Aizawa's Reaction to suspected nomu Izuku after the Oboro reveal

No, Aizawa doesn't think rewind was involved in saving Izuku because he thought Izuku was fully a nomu until Izuku told him about OfA.

Other heroes do though. Rocklock and Ryukyu go to UA, concerned about the whole "we think midoriya is a nomu" thing. Aizawa tells them he thought the same, but has proof Izuku is not. He and All Might won't tell them what it is though, because it relates to secrets and a highly sensitive quirk.

They assume the quirk is Rewind, and that Eri using it on Izuku saved him from the nomu influence and effects. Aizawa and All Might lets them believe that, not revealing the quirk they were actually talking about: OfA

#a logical ruse if you would #though one they only tell heroes they trust #if a rumor went around that Eri could prevent or free nomu.... bad times #So they only tell heroes who will keep a secret and only ask because they're worried for Izuku #not anyone chasing a story #anon #pocket talks to people #eye glow au #suspected nomu au

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one-starry-knight · 15 days

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I was thinking abt Bella's powers in the context of my hero oc-verse and I think he has two specific powers, short range teleportation and minor mind control.

the teleportation plays into his rabbit theming, where he makes "rabbit holes" that he can jump into that act as portals to a nearby location. they close immediately after he passes through them. he has control over where they lead, mostly. he has to focus on where he wants to go, otherwise he'll just go in the general direction of where he wants.

the mind control is a bit more particular. he can't take full control of someone's mind, nor can he command people to do what he wants. instead, his mental ability compels people to fulfill his requests, with the requirement for this ability to work being that he does actually have to ASK people to perform a task for him. "bring me the money" would have no effect, but "will you bring me the money" would immediately cause the affected to carry out the request. further stipulations are that the request has to be within the person's ability, mental or physical.

outside of his powers, he's a skilled combatant, trained in acrobatics and incredibly deadly with his chosen weapon.

#etc etc etc #when I give characters strong abilities like mind control I like to add restrictions or consequences to prevent ''all powerful'' abilities #I have one exception in my hero-verse-- Vanta has mind control so powerful its horrifying but I've decided he doesn't use it #not unless pushed way too far (backstory relevant)

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tothesolarium · 10 months

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Thinking about how I kinda pitched my story as a hell striving for utopia, with a lil hint of the moral authority being the “mad/bad guys”

When it’s more like, a hopeful critique of Utopia. It’ll always be struggle to make a safe place, but that struggle with keep Many happy and safe, even if not perfect

And that the moral authority, while being tortures are also soul themselves that have experienced a millennia of grief and been traumatized by their family as well as the memory of an earth that can no longer connect to, and really want to bring Justice to a life they feel will never be just

And how there’s whole other parts of hell with their own magic rules, coping with grief by making reality a dream. Spirits crafting their own rules on the backs of sleeping demons, demons acting as if they’re just a tree to watch what will happen, quiet nudges, or a world unlike anything seen before