From What I Understand From A General Fandom Consensus, A Lot Of People Seem To Dislike Danny? Idk How

from what i understand from a general fandom consensus, a lot of people seem to dislike danny? idk how he’s written so maybe there’s just a lot of problems with writing and what not, but that’s also so disappointing bc danny has so much potential. 

he’s someone who grew up in k’un lun, which besides the crazy death cult vibes that happen there, has a lot of asian influences, and it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume that because of that, danny acts way different from a typical white guy. i.e. his accent/beliefs are going to be (almost) comically differing from a typical christian skinny white boy. why do i feel like they’d think he’s racist or some shit, but that’s just how he sounds. and due to DJClawson’s fics, i’m now a firm believer of Buddhist danny. like he says a bunch of spirtual things, but he actually believe is in it.

and he was gone for like 15 YEARS. so he’s going to need to catch up on so much pop culture, because yea, he might be peppy, but he was raised with monks, right? so the way he behaves/interprets people’s reactions is going to be so different... considering how there seem to be parallels between stick & matt’s relationship and danny’s relationship with k’un lun, because i mean from my understanding he was basically a kid when he started training to potentially become the iron fist? it’d serve as an interesting comparison as well as an interesting friendship imo.

then, moving onto the fact that he was raised with monks, he prob had the bare essentials and then he became a fucking billionare. like would he even understand how much he has, compared to the typical person? is he going to go crazy bc he literally just gave a tip, he didn’t realize that it was enough to pay for the waitress’s rent for the month!! is he freakishly generous?

ugh. the possibilities 

just realized but this could be another reason why szn 4 felt a little... off. like the way they chose to do the finale and have it all be inside his head is... weird imo. like community has literally made an episode where everyone has literally become a zombie, but they can’t entertain the idea that there actually are 7 different timelines?

I love Community's outright refusal to have episodes that aren't canon.

"Tree house of horror?" Fuck you. In this episode there are zombies. Why? ;). This week the tone and style of the show will dramatically change with no warning, only to return to normal next time, because we thought it would be funny. Yes the claymation is canonical.

Neil deGrasse Tyson reminding us that we are all special.

i’m surprised there isn’t more greek mythology AUs for samsteve/sambucky/samtasha/anything sam related cuz like i mean the imagery is strong in the movies. and for the sambuckies, seb stan literally called mackie icarus, like what more do y’all need 🙄🙄

Worldbuilding Masterpost

Some of my most frequently asked questions involve worldbuilding, and I’ve compiled quite a collection of resources on the matter.  As such, I’ve decided to compile them into a handy list, for your convenience!  

Worldbuilding Resources:

Worldbuilding 101

Making New Cultures

Woldbuilding Masterlist

Resources For Worldbuilding

Naming Systems

Free Wolrdbuilding Website (World Anvil)

Worldbuilding Website (Notebook AI)

Worldbuilding Blogs:

@wbqotd

@vcreatures

@worldbuilding

@worldanvil

@cabaoneoneone

@script-a-world

@teratoscope

More to come!

Happy writing, everybody!  <3

i adore this analysis (even tho i am one of the ppl who does suggest that it was a bit out of his fondness for Kreacher) because even if he did trust Kreacher to a certain extent, he was a still a pureblood, who was raised with and believed pretty much everything his family said about muggles/muggleborns. he would have to have some extremely ridiculous - for the time - notions on what exactly it meant for someone to be worth something in this case, people w/o magic < house elfs??? like what type of stretch would that entail??? i feel like a person would have a lot more questions on how he viewed the world after reading that sort of explanation than having any of their questions answered.

+ you covered his likely suicidal and/or depressive state by the time he did choose to retrieve the horcrux, in a really realistic way, bc of course you’re going to be fucked up when you realize the one person you literally idolized beyond compare (i’m looking at you, Voldemort shrine in Reg’s room) is actually terrible and the biggest piece of shit, ever, basically.

this also enables a genuine redemption arc and a difference from snape, because ik a lot of regulus stans who like the kreacher theory a lot, but also hate snape, which... makes no sense. especially if they try to bring up lily as a reason for why he’s horrible (and he is horrible, but they can’t choose when to like someone and when to hate someone for the exact same reasoning. it’s a complete fallacy and just seems like they like the idea of regulus being a tragic, attractive white boy who died young than anything else)

Why Regulus Black Defected.

I should be writing fic, rather than meta (which I never write) but I needed to get this out before I could re-enter the world of fan-creation.

I’ve seen this notion thrown about a bit in the Regulus tag today:

The reason Regulus Black defected was because he loved Kreacher and him defecting and going after the horcrux was to avenge Kreacher’s suffering.

…I doubt this.

From what Sirius tells us in the books, we know that the Blacks were supporters of pureblood supremacy who were, initially, on board with all that Voldemort had to say. However, upon seeing the methods that he was willing to use to execute his quest for world domination, they withdrew their support; something that Sirius, somehow, hears about, so it’s not a big secret.

Most likely, being the ‘soft’ one of the family, Regulus also no longer supported Voldemort after seeing the methods he was willing to go to. However, Regulus takes the Mark when he is sixteen, is still at Hogwarts (so obviously not out fighting, yet) and graduates the same year in which he dies. Assuming he dies at the latest date possible, that gives him six months to fight for the first time with the Death Eaters, volunteer Kreacher to Voldemort, mull over his horcrux hunting mission and then die.

Re-reading Kreacher’s Tale and Sirius’ explanation for his death, it comes across as more like Regulus sees first-hand what the Death Eaters are doing in summer 1979 and is immediately appalled but, having taken the Mark, he is in for the long-haul.

At some point after this, Voldemort requests the use of a House Elf for an assignment. Regulus volunteers Kreacher (someone Regulus trusts) to find out what this is (possibly something he might be able to use against him/use to get himself out of this mess – Regulus is a Slytherin, not an idiot, and he looks for things to use to his own advantage/ambitions), and orders Kreacher to do whatever Voldemort says and then return home. Kreacher says this is considered an ‘honour’, but Kreacher isn’t a reliable narrator – obviously Regulus wouldn’t tell Kreacher he is having doubts about his loyalty, as he is hoping to keep his family safe from the repercussions of his possible defection, as Hermione says.

Kreacher then returns from the cave and Regulus is horrified by the suffering that Kreacher has been put through by Voldemort, but I doubt he is shocked/surprised by this to the point that this was the big turning point that actually led to his defection, considering he is likely to have witnessed Voldemort and likely other Death Eaters torturing and murdering human beings and any other creatures standing in their way. That he actually orders Kreacher to come back suggests that he doubted Kreacher would be returned to him by Voldemort at all and he thought he might be kept somewhere on this assignment.

And so, after learning the truth about the horcrux, Regulus becomes withdrawn. He knows that Voldemort is invincible. He most likely has no wish to live at all at this point, as he knows he’s not willing to carry on serving as a Death Eater and is resigned to his own death (hence the RAB note) but decides that his death will not be in vain and he will die by retrieving and having Kreacher destroy this horcrux, thus rendering Voldemort mortal without the Dark Lord knowing about it.

At eighteen years old, he chooses to die, alone, drowned by Inferni, in an attempt to try and bring down Voldemort and make him mortal, so that whoever the ‘hero’ may be that defeats him actually has a chance. That his mission fails is irrelevant. Intentions matter, just as much as the end result. And Regulus has nothing to gain and everything to lose by going against Voldemort. If Voldemort wins, he and his loved ones would be just fine. Still, he defects.

That is why Regulus ultimately dies as a good person.

But, just in case Voldemort does happen to come back to check up upon his horcrux, Regulus leaves him a sassy little note from the great beyond with a great big middle finger up from the Death Eater who defected for reasons other than personal gain.