My Buffy Problem

DC Fic Trope Question

Why is it so popular to write fics where the Justice League has never met the Batfamily? I seem to see it a lot and I just don’t get it. It just seems so sad to have a Dick who didn’t get to grow up with Clark and Diana around or the Teen Titans. His relationships with other superheroes mean so much to him. And then there’s Tim who is practically soul mates with Connor, Bart and Cassie, I hate the idea of him not getting to have them in his life. It all just seems so isolating for them to have no connection with the wider superhero world.

I know this trend is just going to become more popular once the new DC movies come out. The only thing I’m not a fan about the James Gunn announcements is that Superman is going to be starting off younger but Batman is jumping straight into the Damian Wayne storyline and the age implications that come with that. They’ve already confirmed that Nightwing is already going to be a thing too. Is Clark now going to be of an age with Dick? That just doesn’t seem right to me.

Dragon Ball Fic Idea

I’m sure someone has likely written something along these lines before but this is just a thought I’ve had. So the Saiyans are all but extinct, but they’re a tough warrior race so there’s believable odds that more than just Vegeta, Raditz and Napa survived the destruction of their planets. I’d find it interesting to have Vegeta and Goku have to handle some group of Saiyans that managed to stay hidden, with like political intrigue and culture clash or whatever. Especially considering Goku is supposedly a third class Saiyan or whatever who managed to go Super Saiyan, not to mention everyone else on Earth. I read an interesting fic where the author suggested that the adrenaline Gohan, Goten and Trunks inherited from their mothers makes the jump to Super Saiyan easier than it is for full blooded Saiyans. That would be a really interesting idea in the context of a larger group of Saiyans, especially if, like, most of them are men and they haven’t really been able to find a compatible species or anything. Actually, that last idea coming into play during the Vegeta Saga would be super interesting. Like, Raditz comes to find Goku only once he learns about Gohan and his priorities completely shift because, holy shit, his baby brother found a compatible mate. That could be a potentially huge idea for them. Maybe have it be a full on AU where Vegeta is secretly working to undermine Frieza and has a group of hidden Saiyans working as a rebellion or something. I don’t know, there’s a lot of ideas you could play with. Just food for thought.

Superman - a thought

So Lex Luthor is just the worst but you can kind of get where he comes from if you assume Superman hasn’t told anyone he came to Earth as a baby. Like, it’s always been my assumption that he let everyone think he came not long before he made his hero debut so no one has any reason to think he has a secret identity. I mean, he tells everyone his name is Kal-El and that he came from Krypton, which is true, so why would anyone think he has a third name? But this idea also leads people to think he excaped Krypton as an adult, which for someone with Superman’s ideals and moral code doesn’t make sense. Clark would never abandon his friends and family willingly. So if you’re Lex, you see this ultra powerful alien being who left his own planet without trying to save anyone else and came to a different one that gave him superpowers and is worshipped for doing things that, with his abilities aren’t all that hard to do. The hero thing is easy when you don’t have to give anything up to do it. It absolutely makes sense not to trust him, the whole situation is super suspicious and that worst case scenario is basically Omniman from Invincible. Of course Lex is also a narcissist with a god complex, so there’s that dynamic coming into play but it was just a thought I had after watching the show.

My Fanfic Spider-Man Problem

I love Spider-Man, I love fanfiction, but it’s nearly impossible for me to enjoy fanfiction about Spider-Man. It feels like every one out there is about some infantilized teenage Peter Parker, and I hate it. It’s not that I have a problem with teenage Spidey, though I’ll be honest it’s not my favorite iteration, it’s just that most stories have him as the only teenager in the hero community, which ruins all of his best relationships. One of my favorite comic book friendships is that of Peter Parker and Matt Murdock, Spider-Man and Daredevil are great together, but most fanfic with them has Peter as this goofy innocent kid and Matt as this grizzled adult mentor type, which kind of sucks because they can be a real riot together as friends. I hate having Spidey cut off from all the other superheroes because of the age gap, and that’s not even touching how the Spidey being written in these fanfic is usually completely unrecognizable as Peter Parker. It’s tiresome and makes me want to avoid all marvel fanfiction in general, which sucks. That’s all.

That Time I Was Reincarnated As A Slime

This was a really great show and I’m looking forward to the next season, I just hate that so many of Rimuru’s subordinates were made to look more human when they got upgraded. Especially the lizard men.

Naruto Fic Idea

There are a lot of time travel fix it fic, and even a few time travel nothing was wrong fic, and it occurs to me that both perspectives could happen depending on when in the Naruto timeline the person travels back from. So, Obito is dying at the end of the fourth shinobi war and pulls some crazy something or other and travels back in time along with everyone else from Team Minato at the point of their deaths. So Rin and Minato are obviously on board with this, Rin just committed suicide after the Sanbi sealing and Minato just turned his son into a junchuuriki, they both think Obito died at Kanabi and it takes a while for everyone to figure things out. So three out of four are thrilled with the chance to make things right, but then you have Kakashi. Kakashi has lived through all the wars to see all of the hidden villages find real genuine peace and see the end of the shinobi era. As far as he’s concerned despite his regrets and all the pain it took to get there, the word ended up as good as it was going to get big picture, he just died in his sleep, at peace with his incredibly long life, he was probably like 90 something which is an insane age for a shinobi to be, let alone dying of natural causes. Then he wakes up as a ten year old in the middle of war and he is absolutely pissed. Minato and Rin have no idea what’s going on because as far as they know Obito gave them a huge chance but Kakashi is so done with everything, he’s an old man, the word isn’t his responsibility anymore but now it is, and he’s the only one who knows how good it could be if a very particular set of events take place, the peace is strong and sturdy when he dies but it’s beginning is so so fragile, and now it’s all on him to make sure it happens. So, of course, he just wants to rip Obito a new one, the incredibly selfish bastard. No one has any concept of the type of peace Kakashi knows, for Minato and Rin, peace is just Konoha not in active war and Obito doesn’t really care about anything except screwing over Madara and Kaguya. It’s all on Kakashi to make sure they get to what he got to live, but he’s really fricken old and is just so tired.

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?

Suspension of Disbelief in Sci-Fi

The problem with learning anything of significance about history, geography, linguistics, biology and psychology is that it really interferes with the suspension of disbelief you need to enjoy science fiction. Humans are so complicated and so different depending on their culture and region, their language and the time period they exist in that all the alien species that are introduced always seem overly simplified. Not to mention how diverse the planet is depending on where it is, the alien planets are also overly simplified. The thing of it is, I really like sci-fi, I just want more thought given to diversity of alien species and planets.

Sandman Fic

I’m getting pretty annoyed with the trope in fic that Morpheus is out of touch with the modern day. I get that he talks pretty formally and is an ancient being, but he’s also the personification of every living thing’s collective unconsciousness. He’s going to know all the same everyday stuff of any modern person that’s in their unconscious mind. The fact that he was trapped for a century, or 80 years depending, wouldn’t change that. Especially if you consider the comic canon that he’s Dream for the universe, not just Earth. Just because he missed humanity’s jump in tech doesn’t mean any of it is new to him. There are probably plenty of alien planets with similar and more advanced technology he would have known before he was imprisoned in the first place. I just don’t like that idea and I see it way too often.

Buffy Idea

So there’s all sorts of ideas and headcannons for how vampires work in the Buffyverse, most of the ones we meet are mindless which completely contrasts just how much personality we get from the Whirlwind. The meta explanation for this of course is that most vampires are just plot devices rather than actual characters the way Spike, Angel, Darla and Dru are. Then there’s the whole Angel/Angelus dichotomy vs how Spike doesn’t change too much after he gets his soul aside from a better moral compas. So I was thinking, we know vampires are made when the human soul dies and a demon takes over the body, but what if it’s essentially a demon soul that takes the place of the human one but leaves everything else intact. Like, people are made up of mind, body, and soul and it takes all three to make a person, so a vampire is still 2/3 who they used to be but the demon that replaces their soul completely changes who they are on a fundamental level. Just how evil the new vampire is depends on what kind of demon ends up reanimating them. So poor Angel got reanimated by a particularly nasty demon and since as a human he was unfulfilled and pretty immature, the demon has a lot more influence over who he becomes as Angelus compared to Spike who, I would say, had a weaker demon reanimate him and probably a stronger presence from the other 2/3 of William, he was a poet and a pretty passionate guy, so the demon didn’t have quite as big of an influence. Of course, the rest of the Whirlwind trained him to suppress his more human aspects and let the demon have more control. The chip wouldn’t let him have his demon have free reign so his more human sides could come out more. That’s why when he got his human soul back it wasn’t as big of an adjustment, because he’d kind of already been making space for it. Angel on the other hand had his properly evil demon running loose completely before his human soul was stuffed back in without warning. It was a far harsher adjustment, traumatic enough for him the completely wall off the demon aspect in his mind to the point even some memories were actively repressed along with it. They just ended up with two very different demons and started out as two very different people, which is why they ended up being two very different vampires. All vampire are as unique from each other as humans are.