One Piece Thought

DCU

It’s probably my Superman bias, but I get really bothered by the trope that has all of the Supers being scared of the Bats. Like, sure, Batman and his kids are cool, but come on, it’s SUPERMAN, he’s the strongest superhero in the world and the rest of them are almost as strong. Superboy I, Superboy II, Supergirl, Power Girl, all of them, it’s just not happening. They respect the Bat Clan, they are incredibly intelligent and well trained heroes, but they aren’t going to seriously be able to beat the Supers, nor would they actually want to. They’re friends, they trust each other. I get that it’s short hand to show a character is bad ass by having their allies be scared of them, but I’ve never really understood why genuine friends who cared about each other would act that way. So yeah, that’s just me.

Fairy Tail Question

Is Lucy’s luck ever really explored? They hint at there being something special, especially around the Tenrou Arc but nothing ever really comes of it. I think it would have been neat to take that plot device and actually go somewhere with it, Celestial Spirit Magic as a whole really could have gotten more development, I think. The idea of it has so much potential and the Heartfilia family history too, a matrilineal line of celestial spirits who may or may not come from nobility in a country where the Princess/Queen is also a celestial spirit mage? (was that ever confirmed in the manga or it is it anime only?) I guess the worldbuilding in general is a lot of wasted potential. Mashima gave us such a wonderful world and then never really explores it, kind of reminds me of the lost potential in Naruto and its political landscape which could have been so interesting and then was ignored in favor of cliche shounen power boosts and big energy/monster fights.

Sakura’s excitement for her team assignment had faded somewhere around the first hour mark, after all the other teams had been collected by their jounin-sensei. Sasuke has resolutely ignored both her and Naruto the whole time and even the hyperactive blond himself had run out of steam in their long wait. His stupid prank was in place and all three were staring somewhat mindlessly at the chalkboard ahead of them.

It was just as Sakura had resolved to go ask someone if they’d been forgotten that the door to the classroom finally opened. A Kunoichi stepped into the classroom, the eraser balanced on the top of the door fell neatly on top of her head with a plop, prompting a cloud of chalk dust to puff into the air and settle on her head. Naruto immediately started guffawing over it while Sakura jumped to her feet and tried to apologize while internally she was pleased at the silly prank’s success. Sasuke made no real movement.

The Kunoichi who was to be their sensei observed them silently, head tilted slightly. She was pretty, even with most of her face hidden due to the mask covering the bottom half of her face and her hitai-ate tilted to cover her left eye. She was dressed in a standard Shinobi uniform and had her long silver hair pulled back into a ponytail. With a small nod she addressed them, “My first impression of you? ... I hate you, now meet me on the roof in ten minutes.” And with that, she vanished in a swirl of leaves, leaving the three Genin gaping after her.

A Silly Thought

The Guardians during Descendants. Pitch would have been locked up on the Isle of the Lost just like the other villains but since he is a literal alien, the barrier doesn’t work quite right with him. The Guardians take advantage of that. Sandy and Pitch bond to share their magic, creating a loophole in the barrier that allows spirits and only spirits to pass through and use their magic. So Sandy can still send his good dreams to all the kids of the isle and Pitch can still monitor the nightmares of the world, fear has its place after all. Likewise, Tooth can still collect her teeth, North can deliver his presents at the Winter Solstice and Bunny can bring his sweets at the Spring Equinox. Though it’s Jack that really does the most, he personally sees to winter on the Isle, making it the one time of the year that everyone calms down, even the worst of the villains hold back, like an atmosphere of joy that works agains the isle’s natural bleakness. Winter is the favorite season for all the children of the Isle of the Lost.

MCU Spider-Man

So this is really late but I was thinking about Civil War and wasted opportunities recently. They should have had the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man be the one introduced, with maybe Tony going to his dorm or apartment to do the whole “I know who you are come to Germany with me” thing. They could have had Flash as his best friend and Zendaya playing a kick ass Mary Jane Watson. I can’t get over how the Michelle Jones character was just so bland and a waste of her talents. Also all the other MCU casting has been horrible, and yes I mean Tom Holland too.

Fandom Complaint

I really hate the Marvel Superfamily trope for a number of reasons, mostly centering on the infantilization of Peter Parker and the erasure of his actual family in favor of Steve and Tony which makes me sick, I actually like that pairing but just give them their own kid, Peter’s characters is so OOC in all those stories anyway, just go all the way and make an actual OC.

But whatever, right now the thing that pisses me off the most about Marvel Superfamily is that they’ve stolen the term “Superfamily” from Superman and his actual family. How am I supposed to look up content about Chris, Conner, Jon, Kara and various related family members if Superfamily isn’t about the actual Superman Family?

OUAT AU Idea

Killian and Liam are the sons of Wendy Darling and Davvy Jones. At some point Wendy and her brothers end up back on Neverland, only they’re all older and for Wendy that makes her an adult, not something welcome in Peter’s Neverland unless you’re a pirate or a member of the tribe. She’s not welcome with the latter so Wendy becomes a pirate, taking up the moniker she’d thought up for herself so long ago, Red Handed Jill. With James Hook gone the Jolly Roger has been left adrift, none of its crew willing to take the captainship.

When Jill steps in they’re tired enough to let her take command, especially after she promises to help them leave Neverland. She keeps her word and they end up leaving in what is probably a fascinating story that involves Wendy sending her brothers back to England and Peter being forced to give up the title of Pan.

The Jolly Roger ends up in the Enchanted Forest realm and they sail there for a while as pirates until the ship is destroyed in a battle with another pirate ship, the Flying Dutchman. Jill and the surviving crew members, one of which is Smee, end up on the Flying Dutchman with the option of joining the crew or being run through.

Over time Jill and Davvy end up falling in love and he extends to her and the other interested crew members the situational immortality his magic blood and bond with his ship allows. They sail together for decades, Jill becoming known for her love of obtaining book and amassing a great collection. Eventually they choose to settle down and Davvy sends the Flying Dutchman off...somewhere. Jill and Davvy have two children before some kind of event happens that forces them to leave the boys to take care of it. They intend to return but don’t make it and Killian and Liam are left as orphans.

From there their canon story occurs, mostly as is. Malcom takes over Neverland as the new Pan and Killian, after losing his hand, decides to take after the man of his mother’s stories and takes up the moniker of Hook.

The England that Wendy is from isn’t the same as the England of the World-Without-Magic, but is instead a close copy where all the famous fictional stories and characters set in the “real world” take place, like Sherlock Holmes, Alice, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein (who doesn’t live in a world without color and doesn’t try to bring his brother back, it’s the actual book), etc. So, basically Killians is actually familiar with the geography and some of the history of Emma’s world, but he keeps that to himself since you never know what could come in handy.

AO3 Complaint

It’s really frustrating that AO3 conflates Past relationship tags with the overall relationship tag. If I’m trying to find fics about a specific ship, I don’t want to have to deal with stories that are actually about a different relationship and the one I want is already broken up. I wish there was a feature for just ships that are past or temporary. It’s really annoying when people tag a ship that they plan to break up or are actively writing negatively about. Everyone is free to write about whatever ship they want, I just find it kind of rude for people to tag ships they don’t actually like so that people who do like it and are specifically searching for fics about them end up having to deal with fics that are the exact opposite of what they want to read.

The same thought goes into Tumblr and other social media post where people tag ships that they’re actually against and force people who do like them to read their negativity.

PJO Headcannon

How powerful a demigod turns out to be is dependent upon their parents’ relationship. The stronger the emotional bond between god and mortal the stronger the half-blood.

The Fanfiction Question

The one thing I’ve never been able to understand are those unfinished stories that have no proper explanation as to what happened to the author. The ones that say they haven’t been updated in years but when you read the author’s note it sounds like they are still writing it and plan to regularly update, some even specifically promise an upcoming update that never came. What happened? I get that since it’s fanfiction these stories are being done at the author’s leisure and we can’t expect too much, but is it that hard for the author to write a quick note saying they’ve abandoned the story or they’re going on hiatus? Why just leave it without explanation? The not knowing is one of the most frustrating things about fanfiction, even when compared to the over abundance of horrible out of character stories.