I Fully Support This Stance

A few lil clauderry headcanons bc I'm in a clauderry mood

Earthblood body parts are useful in a specific branch of healing spells (think stabilizing), so when Terry finds stray eyelashes of his or hair trimmings when he cuts his hair, he puts them in a little locket or something for Claudia, just in case she needs it and he's not there. He likes being able to keep her safe, even if it's just indirectly.

When Terry's sad, Claudia will dig out his glasses and put them on and do a goofy voice, pretending to be a doctor and prescribing him lots of kisses and hugs.

They will never agree on how they met. Claudia insists he was all sweet and romantic and heroic, and Terry's like "I was literally just sitting there babe but ok."

Terry sings to plants sometimes, and Claudia just likes to listen to him because she loves his voice. (She thinks he doesn't know, but he does. She's not subtle in her eavesdropping. So he starts doing it more and more.)

They agree that the "love languages" thing is complete bull because they both regularly practice all 5. "Can you IMAGINE only loving your partner in one way? Sounds like a you problem."

Terry paints Claudia's nails. End of discussion.

Marcy is one of those characters who can steal the show from the main characters in less than a instant.

babies

Reposting this because I’m seeing people not having realized this is a thing.

FTF will be available for free in the US after the west coast slot finishes airing. If you don’t have cable you can watch it on YT for free

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This exactly

And this part: "the neglect was more from the writers than them as genuine character" - yes. There are a lot of things about her story where I choose to take that approach. Somewhere in my head there is a timeline where it all went a little differently cuz Marcy was honestly treated so unfairly by canon it hurts.

Ok but one thing that bothered me is Marcy’s relationship with the newts

Anne earns the frogs respect and becomes a hero.

Sasha proves her use to the toads, and while most of them leave, grime, Percy, and Braddock stay

Marcy does everything she can for the newts, and they forget about her the moment she gets stabbed.

Like what gives? Why are the newts so uncaring towards their hero? Some fans say that she spent so much time having adventures that she didn’t get to know them, but we know that isn’t true with how much she tries to befriend others(and even if she didn’t, certainly someone would have cared out of gratitude). So instead, it comes off as the newts being self serving jerks, and Marcy shouldn’t have even tried to help them.

Oh no no they didn’t forget about her!! Well they probably did for a bit but, after they decided to turn on the king, they then considered breaking her out JUST so the physically and emotionally scarred 13 year old could help them outsmart him. Not only did the thought of a rescue attempt only cross their minds for selfish reasons, but Yunan immediately tried to shoot the idea down. She wanted to abandon Marcy and leave her terribly injured in the hands of a “mad king” just because she overheard ONE mistake she made when she felt like her whole world was falling apart and wasn’t thinking.

I can see Marcy maybe not having a whole lot of personal conversations with Olivia or Yunan, but she was someone they knew — a CHILD at that — and had good experiences with. Yet they would’ve left her for dead if Olivia didn’t know Marcy once beat Andrias at a board game, meaning there was a chance she could outsmart him for them.

I do like Olivia and Yunan, honestly, and am deciding to think that the neglect was more from the writers rather than them as genuine characters, but it just makes me so sad cuz they could’ve cared a LITTLE BIT without affecting character arcs ;-;

As much as I love angst, Marcy deserves better than this shit that lowkey just makes the two newts just seem like bad people and doesn’t even serve the plot :<

Edit: WHOOPS I got so caught up in my rage that I didn’t even realize you meant the newts in general, not just two of the ones she personally knew XD. BUT UH I can sorta excuse everyone else (except like the Triple B ig) cuz she was up in a flying castle that only a handful of people had access to lol.

Never thought of using that option tbh. Sure, realizing that a great fic hasnt been updated for a long time and it has most likely been abandoned can be heartbreaking but I can still appreciate the chapters that are there. Limiting yourself to reading only completed works deprives you of seeing so many interesting scenes and concepts for stories etc.

And yeah definitely, the authors arent paid to write fanfics, the best motivators they have are the love for the og characters and the energy they get from the rest of the fandom. They deserve to get a nice word for all the emotions their work is bringing about - doesnt have to be super long.

Btw sth one misses out on when reading only completed works is waiting for the next update and it can be fun too - wondering what happens next, re-reading to appreciate the details more, being super happy when it updates, getting excited whenever there is a snippet on the author's social media etc.

I feel like this is an unpopular opinion, but more people should read incomplete/unfinished/in-progress fanfics.

I've noticed this huge trend where creators on tiktok and tumblr who will be explaining how to use Archive Of Our Own to new users and they always say "and make sure to scroll down and click completed only" or how people will go out of their way to mention they only read completed fics 'because they were traumatized when they forgot to check the dates and didn't realize this fic hadn't been updated since 2012'.

The thing is - I think by not engaging with and/or actively avoiding writer's WIPs readers are potentially adding to the aggregate of abandoned works. Now this obviously isn't the case for all abandoned fics, anything from major life events, to loss of interest, to getting busy can be a reason for a fic getting abandoned - but at least on some level I just know that writers are quitting while they're ahead when they aren't garnering any response or feedback because reading WIPs has become unpopular. If you're worried about reading something that hasn't been updated since 2012 then you can use the date updated function to sort out old fics.

Anyways, support your favorite fanfic writers by engaging with their WIPs.

you’re my frankenstein, and i’m your monster!!

(everyone go watch dead end paranormal park right now bc i have a mighty need for a second season thank you)

(also my commissions are open!)

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[ID: a drawing of norma from dead end paranormal park. she is singing aggressively into a microphone. her eyes are scrunched close, and she is holding out her hands to her side. behind her is a cracked mirror. the reflection in the mirror shows pauline in the same poses as norma. she is smiling as she sings into her microphone. there are clouds of smoke around norma’s feet. the background is green. End ID.]

NOT ONLY do i want more m/f friendships in media where there's nothing romantic between them, but i want m/f friendships where both characters are SINGLE so that there's no reason there to "justify" why those two can't date. i want the platonicness of their relationship to be something that stands on its own merit.

i wish flapjack could have met stringbean… </3