The nature of making OCs is that every few fandoms I end up reinventing Hotaru.

Sam coming back into Izzy's life after so many years, and Izzy doesn't laugh anymore, he doesn't sing anymore, he barely smiles. and it breaks Sam's heart, but he loves the Izzy that scowls and yells and storms around, too. and he'll help him remember how to do the other stuff if he wants

24) Super supportive and their emotional mess of a partner

Is the implication that the supportive one is not also an emotional mess? Because I don't have any that fit that. Mess4Mess here.

(In response to this meme.)

God, I love BellHands. This ship does not exist. Sam is not in this show. He will probably never be in this show. If he is, he probably won’t look like Jemaine Clement or Matt Berry or Rahul Kohli or any of our fanart. He almost definitely won’t be Izzy’s long-lost husband or newfound love or childhood friend or old rival. There is absolutely no basis for any of this. There are novel-length fanfics. There are common tropes and shared fanon. There are three pages on AO3. That’s more than there are for Izzy with some canon characters. This ship does not exist. This is a shared fever dream. This is our OTP.

I just want Izzy to feel safe with someone. I want him to be held, to be loved, to be appreciated. I want someone to tell him he makes them happy. I want him to be chosen, just him, specifically him, just like he is, again and again and again. I want him to have what he’s given so freely for years. I want someone to see him, see all the places where he’s torn off pieces of himself for someone else’s sake and fill them up with little pieces of their own.

It's crying about The Venture Bros. hours.

Hawkgirl explaining--with the frayed patience of someone who has been asked this five times already today--that she cannot talk to birds. It is actually a serious problem that she cannot talk to birds. She is on thin ice with birds. She looks just enough like one when flying that nearby flocks will assume she’s some kind of fucked-up super predator, and it’s a 50/50 toss-up if they decide to take the risk to chase her out of their territory.

And she can’t just fight birds. She’s a superhero, she can’t be seen slapping sparrows out of the air. What the fuck is the League’s PR supposed to do about that? And she can’t communicate with them either because ancient Thanagarian vocalizations are just different enough from Terran birds’ that she can’t make herself understood and just similar enough that she sounds like she’s talking some serious shit. And the crows. Oh God, the crows hate her. She still doesn’t know what she did.

So no. She cannot talk to birds. You want Wonder Woman.

Izzy has daddy issues, and Sam has mommy issues, and this is why they’re perfect together actually.

Sam Bellamy’s Piracy Tips

1) It is always morally correct to steal from the rich and Henry Jennings

2) Sometimes you need to let the boys set shit on fire even if you’d prefer they be more chill, it’s good for morale

3) It’s not kidnapping if the kid asks to join the crew

4) Benjamin Hornigold is a chickenshit bootlicking coward, please remind him of the time he was mutinied by a guy who’d been doing this for a weekend

5) Date a witch at least once

6) When in doubt, dicks out

(thanks to @lordess-dickery-doof for some of these)

Back to this AU (it really needs a name), thinking about Sam noticing how tense Izzy is from being stuck in the two-bit circus that is the Revenge and taking it upon himself to give him a nice, thorough back and neck massage. That absolutely sounds like Izzy’s getting a slow, tender, deep dicking from the other side of the door.

Listening to Batman Unburied again.

Eddie wants Barbara to fuck him so bad, and I think she should go for it.

Commissioning a friend to draw my version of Sam, and I described his personality to her as “like if a golden retriever were a theater major.”

Yesssssss

Izzy sword is broken in the duel with Stede, and he’ll be needing another one. So in my AU where Izzy joins up with Sam after being banished, Sam has a new sword made for him that’s an exact replica of his last because he knows Izzy is a creature of habit.

It’s a nice gesture but also means Sam is forced to come up with an answer for “How the fuck did you remember exactly what my sword looked like?” that isn’t that he’s been in love with Izzy since he was 12 and remembers everything about him.

The Return of the Revenge of More Grammar Help

I’m back in the beta saddle, and that means it’s time for me to overthink grammar and come crying to you all for help.

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First:

In this sort of situation, where the sentence could also be written as “The red is so dark in parts that it’s turning black,” would it be correct to put a comma in place of “that?” “The red is dark in parts, it’s turning black.” I’ve seen examples of such with and without the comma but can’t find an actual statement on it.

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Second:

Would this need to be “By reflex” instead?

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Third:

Regarding the comma after “relax,” I had thought that you shouldn’t use a comma to separate a correlative conjunction set (either/or), but it looks like there's some disagreement on that. Here are the sources I consulted, which say different things:

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/comma-between-correlative-conjunction-sets/

https://study.com/learn/lesson/either-or-using-examples.html

https://prowritingaid.com/grammar/1000074/How-should-I-use-commas-with-not-only----but-also-

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Fourth:

Regarding the comma after “sound.” This is a situation that’s been tripping me up a lot lately. Because while that comma is separating independent clauses, “the keypad made a chirping sound” and “Kabru heard the lock disengage” both follow “after.” Do they need to be separated into separate thoughts when they seem to belong together? I do not know how to properly express my confusion about this.

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Fifth:

The same sort of situation as above. “They felt cold” and “the tendons were rigid and tight” both proceed from “after a shower.” They both describe the things happening after the shower. Do they need to be separated by a comma? Or is it correct without one?

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Sixth:

The same situation again. “Malthus was the legitimate heir” and “Mithruin was an illegitimate child” are both what was proven. Does that comma need to be separating them?

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I appreciate any help anyone can give, especially with those last three examples.

(All snippets are included with the permission of the authors.)

Thinking about my versions of Sam and Izzy and how while there are a lot of ways in which they mesh pretty naturally thanks to history and familiarity and personalities that just slot together, there are also things that they have to actively work to understand about each other. Like, there are some things they each want and need in terms of sex and intimacy that the other finds absolutely baffling at first.

Sam: Tie me up and make me look at what I can’t have. :D

Izzy: But you can have it?????

And then on the other hand

Izzy: I want to wear this muzzle and sit at your feet and be a good boy.

Sam: But you are a good boy, you can sit on the couch! D:

They figure things out to where these are comfortable and satisfying for both of them, but I do like to imagine those initial moments of “Darling, what the absolute fuck?”

Finished Batman: Death and the Maidens, and holy fucking shit, Ra’s. 😐