I'm with you there on preferring bottom!Alastor and getting squicked out by top!Alastor. The squick is worse for me when searching radioapple than radiostatic stuff, and I think it has more to do with the egregious amount of uke-fication of Lucifer that I've seen. Vox and Al get it sometimes too, let's be real that's gonna happen in any mlm ship. But I feel like it happens SO often to Lucifer, mostly cause he's small and cute, that people completely forget he's the oldest and most powerful entity in hell.
He would NOT be genuinely scared or intimidated by Al or any other sinner for that matter and Al would NOT be able to physically overpower or threaten Luci. It just feels so wildly out of character for me that any of the appeal of the ship/characters is gone at that point.
Like, for real, no shade to anyone that likes that, go on and get your food. But my extreme dislike of it has me now avoiding bottom!Lucifer radioapple like the plague just so I don't risk being subjected to it.
I think...I think you just described why I feel so squicked out by bottom!Lucifer and top!Alastor 😦 Like, I couldn't figure out what exactly about it was throwing me off, but you just said it perfectly!!
That's literally it! It's the uke-fication of Lucifer. That's it. Lucifer would never feel threatened by Alastor. He would never be overpowered by Alastor. So when I see depictions of Alastor successfully intimidating Lucifer, or overpowering him at all, it just throws me out of the story.
Lucifer's been alive longer than Hell. Alastor's measely 100+ years of being alive is nothing compared to his millennia+ lifespan. And yeah, Lucifer is the strongest person in Hell, he could beat Alastor in any fight, no question. He has no reason to be scared or threatened by him.
And look, there are ways to get Lucifer to a point of being afraid. There are always a way to make characters act in a way you wouldn't typically see. In fact, Lucifer, the biggest, baddest person in Hell, being threatened by something would be a huge thing for his character and for the story. That could totally work!
But when it comes from Alastor just going into his demon form, or looming over Lucifer, I just 🥲 it takes me out of the story. I can't. Alastor may be a big bad Overlord, and he's dangerous for sure, but like...power-wise he is just not on Lucifer's level and Lucifer knows that--Alastor knows that--and this is what makes their dynamic so, SO interesting, especially if they're in a relationship or slowly building into a relationship. That's what makes it so spicy and flavorful. The push and pull. The insecurity and emotion. The complex dynamic between them.
I think you're right about it making bottom!Lucifer and top!Alastor lose its appeal. I went back through my Twitter bookmarks yesterday and found a few top!Alastor's & bottom!Lucifer's that I've saved, but I've come to dislike that generalized characterization of it so much that I avoid it it like the plague too.
And like you said, there's no hate to those who enjoy it. This is fandom and people are allowed to write, draw, and do what they want. It's all fiction and it's not hurting anyone.
I just don't like the top!Alastor & bottom!Lucifer dynamic in most fan-arts, and I don't click onto fics with it cause I just don't want to subject myself to an unenjoyable time 😂 I'm here to have fun too, afterall.
51 notes
·
View notes
GO IRISH
only time y’all will ever see me go for a team that miles likes
107 notes
·
View notes
Usually, while reading comics, when any character pops up mid story, no matter who they are, my brain lights up with OOOOHH CHARACTER, no matter who they are or what they're doing. Even if I don't particularly like a character, my brain is just happy that I Know A Guy.
But you know who kills the vibes??? The character that I couldn't even determine if I like personality-wise or not because when I see him lurking in the background of a comic panel, my brain turns to static?
Did you guess Plastic Man? It's Plastic Man.
I feel like this statue is the best representation of my point.
I have multiple comics where he doesn't even do anything substantial, but every time the Justice League is together, he's doing something fucked up in the background of a panel. The man makes my skin crawl.
29 notes
·
View notes
Dude I think if MIILWAC springtrap met Dead Flowers Springtrap the world would just explode. It's like if you took a guy, made two of him, and told one of them "I can fix you" and the other one "I can make you worse"
8 notes
·
View notes
timothee chalamet makes me violent
11 notes
·
View notes
the blue paper doodles are back baby! for anyone wondering: these are my Brit lit notes
I was trying to figure out his hair :P what a little guy
I feel like I've been spamming, but never have I had such motivation to make art
11 notes
·
View notes