#postwar headcanons

oh and if that’s not fitting then just a quick compliment for TDS & Passing Clouds! sometimes that fan universe of yours is almost canon to me.

i hope anon asks are okay, had a little search on your blog and couldn’t find anything against it.

Anon asks are enabled and encouraged on this blog, Kind Anonymous Friend! (I appreciate you trying to check first!)

I'm reminded of a Normal Rockwell Saturday Evening Post Cover every time I think about this - it's called Imperfect Fit:

The gentleman in this image is Air Force (note the crusher cap, wings, and insignia on his bag) But I think about Ron - or Dick - going home and finding out that the suit doesn't quite fit the way that it used to, because he's grown and changed, but also because the uniform has so much defined how he sees himself and carries himself that to be out of it feels like he's lost a part of himself.

Okay, so! Other headcanons about A-Town, the shitty postwar sitcom based on Jake Berenson's life (to Jake Berenson's eternal annoyance):

The love triangles have love triangles. Trina (the main character's cooler and more competent cousin) is constantly dating Liam, only to cheat on him with J.J., only to start dating J.J., only to cheat on J.J. with Liam. Jordan's of the opinion that girl should just get herself two boyfriends, but of course then the show would run out of plot.

Gina, Liam's stepsister and the Ax stand-in, is so friggin weird if you pay close enough attention. It's probably just a side effect of bad continuity, but at various times she a) implies she's over 300 years old, b) has various lines that imply she's an andalite in morph c) has various lines that imply she's a yeerk in morph, d) apparently killed a visser off-screen through means so horrifying they can't be described, e) can reprogram computers by licking them, and f) may or may not have eaten Liam's aunt, depending on how ironic certain lines are meant to be.

Sort of like Batman and Robin having exposition-conversations as they walk up the side of a building, most episodes will have a scene with the actors doing a voiceover overtop footage of two or three pigeons sitting on a power line. The most popular clip of the show on YouTube is the one where the "Crystal" pigeon visibly takes a shit midway through a tearful love confession to "Brandon." (Spoiler alert: she cheated on him with Liam.)

[For everyone just tuning in: A-Town is my idea for a shitty postwar sitcom inspired by Jake Berenson’s life.]

Honestly, Jean would never. The problem with her having anything to do with A-Town is that then it lends the show too much legitimacy. It would be like when King Kong trumpeted about having consulted with Jane Goodall and Fay Wray all over its marketing materials. It'd be Full Metal Jacket making its whole press tour about how all its actors got a week of Army training, for realsies. It'd be Titanic hunting down the three octogenarians who survived the wreck as infants and trying to parade them at the premier. So on and so forth.

And to be clear, the team from A-Town has most certainly tried to get Jean to write or consult or at minimum comment on the show. They know that it'd be absolute gold to get one of their real-life inspirations to comment on their stupid crappy show. That's part of why people are even bothering to hound Tom (who isn't even famous outside of being Jake's brother) for comment. That's also the only reason anyone bothers to air his comments, even though said comments have to have the awkward pauses edited out and must always be subtitled with "Tom Berenson (real life inspiration for Daisy A) (not Visser Seventeen)".

Jean is totally, utterly silent on the subject. Like Jake, she loathes and abhors that show. Unlike Jake, she has a grudging respect for the industry being what it is, trite nonsense and all. Like Tom, she can appreciate that A-Town is not nearly as bad as the historical fiction blockbusters that purport to be The Untold Story of the Animorphs, because unlike the blockbusters it's not implying the lie that it's nonfiction. Like Steve, she has moods when she's willing to get wine-drunk and binge-watch a few episodes, falling off the couch laughing at the inaccuracies. Like Steve, there are times when she finds the whole concept so upsetting she can't even think about it.