i have SO many feelings about maximum ride. i also post bird appreciation. my maximum ride rewrite was Gay Birds. my icon was drawn by @maximum-ride!
Two former lab rats navigate young adulthood, new and old traumas, and their budding queerplatonic relationship.
For silly posts and other content: #zipper & river
For writings:
Unsexy Vampire (oneshot)
Be My Valentine (oneshot)
love is something you do with your teeth (oneshot)
Night of the Living Clone (multi-chapter)
Caught (oneshot)
me when i find a new fandom to obsess over vs me when the characters start tormenting my mind
Being an evil doppelganger has to be so fucked up like imagine meeting a better version of yourself. Some chain of events going differently that led to "you" being a better person in a way you can never achieve. Personally I'd have no other option but to try and kill them
It's always "oh no my evil clone or twin or whatever is trying to kill me" and never How is my evil clone? Says a lot about society
Me, crashing the fuck out: you think you're better than me? You think you're fucking better than me???
My good clone, dodging a glass: I mean like objectively yeah
Actually that no punctuation plot hole ooc wattpad fanfic written by that 12 year old will ALWAYS be better than character ai. And I love that 12 year old btw
does anyone have a recent screenshot of jimmy P's twitter or insta bio? trying to figure out if the Maximum Ride mention in it was always there or if it's new. The most recent version I can find on wayback machine is from March last year, and that's not really recent enough to be relevant.
... well that's suspicious , he usually puts his new releases and has pushed away maximum ride content since 2016 ( movie) and only briefly resurfaced in 2020 for Hawk and city of the dead.
So i think it's mainly due to Maximum ride getting banned in a Florida school district ( which is stupid don't ban books)
But you never know with this man.
i’m so tired but later someone remind me to talk about how zipper and river’s genders, sexualities, and neurodivergencies would be different if they’d been normal kids and not lab experiments
the downfall of the found family trope over the last decade or so has truly been something to witness. studying the phenomenon under a magnifying glass like a bug
i am being overdramatic for fun when i call it a downfall but the way its general perception has shifted from "universally loved" to "seen as kind of cringe by a not insignificant amount of people" is interesting to me because it's not a case of "it's popular, so it sucks" - or not entirely, at least; i think it's also a result of:
1) people completely missing the point/appeal of found family and assigning every character a Traditional Nuclear Family Role (annoying) (& if there's a woman of colour in the group she will inevitably be deemed The Mom regardless of her actual personality. so also racist.)
2) people, usually overenthusiastic fans, overusing & watering it down as a descriptor. i'm sorry but are they actually found family or are they just coworkers. are they found family or do they just have friends
3) media trying to capitalize on the popularity of the trope - or earnestly but clumsily trying to depict it - by rushing into it and trying soooo hard to convince the audience These People Are Family Now without earning it (i.e. actually depicting them getting to that point of familiarity and intimacy). it comes across as cheap and inauthentic - like it's trying to appeal to your fondness for the trope as a shortcut in place of developing the characters' particular relationships properly
does that make sense
fat character who becomes a vampire and loses a ton of weight and blood can not sate their hunger but they can't eat anything they used to like anymore. everyone views it as a positive healthy positive development but they're starving and dying slowly but never truly dying, a living corpse. this is a metaphor for something
People finally think they’re attractive and cool and funny but they’re dead. People finally treat them well but they’re dead. Do you see the vision
Transforms into a shell of my former self and finally gains the respectability society never bestowed upon me before
