#meta ish

Fics and art where they are together in TOS are amazing and need to exist, but looking at the bigger picture of the movies (tmp, wrath of khan, sfs, even tvh) and now strange new worlds, it makes the most sense developmentally that they're not together in TOS. SNW is here now and teasing all this spirk stuff - the s4 hug, the handshake - but there's a really low chance it'll go beyond teasing because in their universe jim and spock are not together yet! their characters haven't developed enough to have that relationship on screen in a way that's fleshed out and true to their characterisations, and if SNW and Paramount actually try to get them together in snw season 4 I'll be disappointed.

Spock's whole journey throughout TOS is centred around his struggle with being half-human half-vulcan and wanting to overcome his emotions in order to become worthy, while also following a rebellious Starfleet path on a ship full of emotional humans. He's at war with himself for most of the original series, shown best in episodes like The Naked Time, This Side of Paradise and Amok Time. By the time The Motion Picture rolls around, he's gone to gol with the intention of purging all his emotions and is only brought back to Starfleet by the call of V'ger. Spock isn't in a place where he's able to justify a romantic relationship with Jim, or request/reciprocate one while still staying true to his (repressed as fuck!) character until at least the end of TMP.

Similarly, Jim goes through some major growth throughout the original series and into the movies, becoming a better, more just captain and developing his friendship with Spock, gradually seeing Spock's emotional struggle for what it is and learning all his little nuances. But Jim's also pretty repressed! He's the captain, the one in charge, the one who can't lose. As captain, he can't just form relationships with anyone and he holds a lot of professional boundaries. Even though Spock's rank as first officer would make a relationship between them legal, and even if Spock was emotionally available enough to initiate/reciprocate romantic affections, Jim's adherence to duty WOULD keep him from entering a relationship that early in the series.

They are, partly due to the 60s writing, incredibly repressed young men, and that's okay. Their story spans decades beyond TOS, and it genuinely works better as a love story if they are developing a strong and compelling friendship during the original show and their love for each other (whether romantic, sexual or otherwise) only comes to a head after V'ger and the TMP plotline.

with brown-haired and white-haired shion, my first thinking is between 'fear and anger' or 'indifferently reactive or reactively indifferent'. With brown-haired shion, I think he's more reactively indifferent and fear as a sheltered person with nothing but No.6 providing him with privileges, education and then really framed him as a criminal afterwards -- I do think in a sense that brown-haired Shion is aware of it but he's still playing a role in the system (reactively - to the No.6 ominous nature - indifferent - status). White haired Shion is more anger and indifferently reactive as he is more exposed to No.6's heinous crimes and then went in actions more, but he does it in a calm manner like when he's confronting Rashi and later on Yoming. I really think the indifferent and reactive thing is mostly motivated by this passage in volume 8 - Nostalgia

First of all, Elora is not purely good. She is a whole person! The fact that she is gentle and friendly and loving does not take away from her also being cranky and stubborn and mean!

Airk is introduced as a playboy prince and Dove as the latest of his conquests but literally the FIRST thing we hear Airk say is that he's never felt like he does with Dove! And yeah on first watch we can say that's a line he might use on everyone, but on rewatch we know Airk isn't a great liar! He is being completely sincere.

She brings up the rumors of his, say, hunting habits, and he doesn't deny them and the fact that they're not just rumors clearly is bothersome to Dove. Now we don't know what exactly those rumors are but later, Kit says Airk jumps from one girl to another as soon as he gets bored. So the thing Dove is worried about isn't necessarily that he's been with a lot of people (no slut shaming here), but that he leaves when he's bored. We know she wants to be special and appreciated, and a little bit wants to be a princess, so she's worried that she isn't going to get those things because Airk will "lose interest".

So when she sees Airk talking to the countesses at dinner, her immediate thought is "damn he's lost interest, this isn't going to work out because I'm not special enough". Now, Airk isn't actually flirting with them and Dove wouldn't have been able to hear anything from the distance she was anyway. But her insecurities come rolling out because that is the struggle she's having the whole season. Am i special or am I nobody?

Airk is having his own struggle with whether or not he's special. He and Kit are both late but Airk is the only one trying to pacify Sorsha. He thanks every servant he passes by. He charms the people at his table. He goes to Graydon after Kit makes a scene. He tries over and over to get people to like him and it seems like he's pretty good at it. It seems like the girls are an extension of that. Putting on charm and trying to get attention, and maybe he loses interest when he doesn't have to try anymore.

When he's in the Immemorial City, Lili makes him try to get her to like him. She didn't just immediately fall in his arms as a damsel in distress because that isn't what he wants. Airk wants to put in the effort and find and angle so he can say 'there it is! I did it! I broke down your walls and now you find me charming!' (and yeah he also wants to make out obviously i mean can't blame him)

Losing Pyrrha, dealing with his own self doubt and inadequacies, having to kill Penny... Getting stranded in the ever after for about twenty plus years and going slightly insane... damn what a whump champion; self insert... oh no no no no no... it's simpler than that, He's the writers' favorite character. (Or at least that's how I see it)

Cinderella is quite literally stuck between a rock and a hard place. The only realistic way that Cinderella could get out of her situation is by marrying and marrying well. So while marrying a prince might not have been Cinderella’s goal when she went to the ball, I think that there’s nothing wrong if that was her intention. In this scenario she does the opposite of what she is accused off (i.e needing to be rescued).

In fact in canon Cinderella saves herself too. The only reason why the fairy godmother comes to her to fulfill her wishes is because she never stopped believing, she literally says that to Cinderella. And the reason why the mice, the birds, and the dog go so hard for her is because she saved them and showed kindness to them first.

Ever since the changes to Daniel’s character in the AMC show have been revealed, there have been many mixed feelings about it. Personally, when I learned about the casting, I was pretty surprised and dismayed. However, I am very intrigued by what we’ve seen of AMC’s Daniel so far. Bogosian is a talented actor and him and Anderson have worked together to create an interesting new dynamic between their characters. The line “I’m not your fucking boy” really drew me in, for example. Daniel’s anger and resentment were palpable. It’s a different facet of his character and a hard-baked cynicism that we’ve only seen in canon before during Devil’s Minion. 

While a brunt of the criticism towards the character has been about aging him up, since the release of the first episode, accusations of “straight-washing” have been thrown around. While I can see why people would think that, there’s clearly a lot more going on underneath the surface. It’s rash to assume so much from the first episode. I believe the showrunners are turning the tables, so to speak, with Louis being confident in his sexuality, but Daniel being in denial or closeted. He’s purposely acting dismissive and cagey, perhaps seeing his queer feelings a part of his life he doesn’t want to revisit, much like his addiction. Louis purposefully baited him with his remark about the gay bar and will probably continue to do so. Much as Daniel is still fascinated with Louis, Louis is incredibly curious about him too. There’s unresolved tension between them in many forms, which may include romantic/sexual. 

I am here for it, let me tell you. Maul/Kanan, Maul/Ezra, Maul/Kanan/Ezra, queue up Queen’s I Want It All because I certainly do.

Maul whispering lurid enticements into Kanan’s ear? “Your skills are lacking for a Jedi of your years. I can show you how to make up for it,” he says as he gently slides his hands over Kanan’s shoulders? Yes, please.

Maul seducing Ezra closer and closer to the Dark Side and turning him into his obedient little pet? Or kidnapping an unwilling Ezra and keeping Kanan as his blinded hostage in order to prevent Ezra from escaping because Maul swears to execute Kanan if Ezra makes a wrong move? Unf ♥

I’m here for all the angsty, darknasty stuff as well as the G rated stuff, too. Like Kanan and/or Ezra teaming up with Maul and pulling him just a leeeettle bit closer to the Light. Or Maul actually opening his heart(s) and learning to love because of Ezra, forgetting his lifelong plan of vengeance and embracing a new path, a new purpose. I have at least four (4) fic ideas where something like this happens and they’re almost all platonic, so I guess you could say that, like Kanan and Ezra’s relationship, I love the dynamic of these three characters whatever form it takes.

I really wish there was more Kanan/Maul art, though. And Maul/Ezra art, for that matter. One of my first-ever explicit artworks for Rebels (drawn in October 2020) started out as a threesome between Maul, Kanan and Ezra, but I eventually cut out Maul entirely (better than cutting him in half lol) and just focused on the Jedi.

I also have one (1) Maulezra fic under my belt with plans to eventually write more someday. You can read it here on AO3; please mind the tags and warnings. It’s dark, dubcon, and very, very explicit.