#because it's relevant to the plot right now

[ladsofsorrow24]

idk why i'm crying from this scene lol but...

i did. i'm crying right now.

#idk it's just... to see shizuo who take the initiative to break their status quo #like i know it'll always end up like this but... there's comfort in thinking everything will stay the same you know #goddamnit i don't even know why i feel so sad yet so fucking happy with this scene #but yeah the tears are still going #i'm crying #why are you guys breaking up you're not even together for fucks sake! 😂😂 #tmi tag #shizaya #because it's relevant to the plot right now

[afraidparade]

will the exorcist clans have anything to do with future plot for Pazu and Theo ? Also will Theo& Pazu ever cross paths with Faust and luke ?

yes, eventually there will be an exorcist from each clan (theo already taking one of those three slots) in the story. depending on how fast i can get certain planned projects done hopefully one of them will be revealed relatively soon-ish, but the other one is still a ways out from being relevant

also ghoststories and lufa are separate universes, so no, unless it’s just silly crossover art

#also i’m not counting avery and robin because they’re not quite exorcists #nor are they plot relevant #they are distant descendants from the two clans theo isnt from though #asks #i SWEAR the clans are plot relevant i know it doesn’t seem like it right now LMAO

[sonknuxadow]

i hate being overly negative about a new sonic project because. while im not against criticizing them and will criticize them when i see fit. i still try to find the positives in everything sonic even the games that are widely labelled as irredeemable garbage. because i love sonic and i hate it when sonic is the punching bag of the internet and i do genuinely believe that every piece of sonic media has at least some good qualities but like. the knuckles series really isnt very good im sorry people are right about this one . and i say this as someone who likes the sonic movies and thought knuckles was awesome in sonic 2 . where did we go wrong as a society

#andthere IS some good stuff in there. but its not enough for me to confidently say the entire show is good. does that make sense ... #like the good stuff was knuckles and sonic tails and maddie #and sonic tails and maddie were only in the show for like 5 minutes max and then disappeared into the void forever #and knuckles is supposed to be the protagonist but the second wade shows up the plot starts revolving aroudn him instead #to the point where knuckles is barely even in the second half of the show #and also a nonzero amount of the good knuckles moments are just him standing around looking cute while nothing interesting happens #its not his fault hes doing his best . its wade and his family drama who are dragging everything down #not to sound like one of those annoying people who gets mad every time a human has any level of plot relevance in a sonic thing #but god. there is TOO MUCH WADE in this show #i did think episode 4 was kinda hilarious despite being wade centric though just because of how absurd it was #but other than that . idk. i dont really care for wade as the protagonist. get this man away from knuckles right NOW !!!

[syl-stormblessed]

i love watching certain wheel of time moments and going “oh tumblr user [insert canon wot url] is probably having a field day with this”

#is this about how my first thought when i saw moghedien was ‘oh tumblr user @moghedien is probably having the time of their life right now’ #yes #it is #but it also applies to a lot of my other besties with wot urls #i hope that you guys think of me whenever mat has plot relevance #because you better believe i think about you guys when your canon url characters/references have plot significance #vin speaks #wheel of time #wot on prime #wheel of time season 2 #wot season 2 #wot show #wheel of time spoilers #wot show spoilers #wot prime spoilers #robert jordan

[mokeonn]

I'm playing bg3 again and trying out the honor mode (which as it turns out, might be a bad idea if you never beat the game in general, much less beat it in tactician mode) and I have been confronted with the fact that I absolutely have dnd race favoritism and it absolutely is contributing to my need for many many bg3 saves because I constantly think "hmmm I want to try playing as a deep gnome to see if I get special dialog with Barcus Wroot, the Iron hands, and the underdark" before picking Drow for the 4th time.

#simon says #to be fair!!! #for my honor mode run I picked half-elf drow heritage because I liked the male face shapes more #and also because picking a Lolth Sworn drow for the 4th time would be a sign of a problem #if you want to know what option number 2 is for character creation is when I think 'i should pick something other than drow' it's halfling #i love halfling characters I love halflings I love the adorably sweet dialog options you get and I love how the game is in a new camera #like it's so fun talking to small characters and having them just look at you normally but having every large character look down at you #it makes every threat 100 times more threatening #someome threatens you and you're a big ol dark urge dragonborn? yeah okay bud. I got acid breath we'll see who wins here #someone threatens you and you're a fucking tiny little wild mage halfling who just spent the last hour telling Lae'zel to be cordial? #yeah I believe that threat. they could absolutely just pick me up and run off with me right now and the most I could do is accidentally fog #if you wanna know default number 3 if I dont wanna be a drow and halfling is just no cutting it? #dragonborn #in actual dnd I have never played them because there's so many other races I default to (like tiefling which is 4 in this list) #but in bg3 they're just SO fun to make and look so cool #it goes in order of special favorite little cultists > special favorite little combat avoiders > the most fun thing to make and play #and finally tiefling. i don't have much of an explanation besides the fact that tieflings are fun and I love their plot relevance in bg3 #but yeah dragonborn is absolutely the most fun to create in character creation and very fun to play #but I gotta choose my special little guys with nothing in common #do I pick a dark elf choosing to leave the cult of lolth to be good? a dark elf who is still Lolth's special little baby girl? #a dark elf with nothing to do with the underdark since their parent left who has lived a surface life and doesn't like cultist association #or do I pick a halfling who's here to be as cordial as possible and find the funniest ways to avoid combat #I was considering having a halfling for my honor mode because I thought romancing Halsin would be fun #but I decided a drow because avoiding the goblin combats without using the tadpole is a HUGE plus #and also because I had used the best halfling hairstyle on my other halfling and I didn't want to just make the same guy twice #anyways I still need to do like every other race and class soon so I can get the fun dialog #but here's the tough truth that funnie pony artist number 32 really loves Drow and Halflings so so so much

[ymdslf]

nonbinary steve who reads about being trans in a random zine in a tiny queer bookshop robin dragged him into and now he's having a full on gender identity crisis, because he's a boy, right? obviously he is. he's not a girl. when he asks robin how she knows she's a girl she just shrugs and tells him "i dunno dude, i just do" which really isn't helping, so now he's just reading every. single. thing he can about the topic.

and when he takes robin to a gay club, to get her a girl already because he can't take one more day of her lesbian yearning, he loves her but one more "her eyes were like the moon, steve. like the moon!", he will jump out of a moving car. and there, nursing a beer at bar, he meets someone; this super hot dude. or girl? a very attractive person. and they ask him his pronouns, and he tells them "just the regular boy ones" and they laugh and tell him theirs, and that's the first genderqueer person he conciously meets. and they're talking, and drinking, and then steve is slightly tipsy and then he's asking "how'd y'know?" and then the person has that same soft look, the same soft spoken "oh" that he had when robin came out to him. and they tell him, and now steve's crying and this stranger is holding them, because wow. there it is. this something that just feels right.

and a week later, they just breaks down on a bathroom floor, in the cubicle next to robin. and they're sobbing, and in tears they tells her, because they can't not tell her, but also they're terrified of her rejecting them. but she crawls over the wall separating the two of them, falling down and somehow managing to land on her feet. and she hugs them, and tells them that it's alright. she'll always be there for them. she'll punch everyone who's an asshole about it. she asks if steve still wants to be called he and they tell her they have no idea, but maybe she could say they instead? and she says that she'll absolutely do that, and now they're both crying and hugging, sitting on a dirty bathroom floor.

#steve harrington #robin buckley #platonic soulmates #nonbinary steve harrington #stranger things #he's also bi but that's not really relevant to the plot here #lesbian robin buckley #gender identity crisis #*throws this at you* *cackles demonically* *runs away* #i'm at school right now and supposed to be doing history but this is more important #i am gonna write this #pls hold me to that #even if it kills me i need to get this idea out #because trans/nonbinary steve is just so special to me and there's just not enough of them out there #is that hot androgynous person eddie? who knows #they/them steve #but only with robin #they're not out to anyone else #max and el are the first to know and they're amazing about it #mike is last and doesn't really get it but tries his best (el max and robin all gave him separate shovel talks) #erica doesn't give a single shit whatsoever

[rosemirmir]

Gotchard Spoilers and Theories in a stream of consciousness under the cut

Getting feral over reading the rising fighter English lyrics and connecting potential dots in my head.

The uses of both fire, tomorrow and future, in the lyrics makes me very 👀 since daybreak gotchard is now in the show and looks to be a prominent part of this arc.

Some snippets that have really got my attention:

I was born into this world for a reason When you’re alive you can get the good and the bad Go beyond yesterday Go change the world Ready, go push your heart forward Stand up and take action Move on and look forward Going on until it burns out, let's go Don't stop, it's not over yet No one is truly alone Now is the time to fight

I think the entire opening chorus is worth mentioning, since I feel it describes Hotaro's overall attitude pretty well.

How he's willing to keep on going for his dreams, what he would call his "gotcha!", and pushing through and never giving up along the way. As well as fighting alongside those beside him.

Get it on Gotchard Gotchard Gotchard Burning Fire Gotchard Gotchard Gotchard Shining Future

This part of the chorus really is interesting to look at now given the existence of Gotchard Daybreak looking at this has me thinking as I've been listening to this on repeat since the full version dropped:

Gotchard Daybreak might be Hotaro from the future?

Either that, or some other alchemist from the future. (And there's a lot of possibilities there if it's not a future!Hotaro.)

But even if he is or not, given his one quote about Hotaro grasping the future into his own hands, my guess I he might have come from a future and is trying to make Hotaro change something that must have happened from his time period.

Whoever this is, he has come to steer Hotaro to the right course and help him overcome whatever weaknesses he is still currently dealing with, and finding himself more in general.

He's stronger than he was at the start of the show, but Hotaro definitely still has much more growing he needs to do. Which was also shown in this episode.

Something I've been taking note of is a general theme in Gotchard that looks to be shaping up thus far is: Taking charge of your own future, with your own hands.

Which we can also see parts of this theme present in how Rinne's arc looks to be shaping up. I think even Spanner might potentially get a taste of this theme too...

(Though it's still a bit too soon for me to say with any confidence. We're only now beginning to get more looks into him since his mentor is now part of the picture.)

And I think the lyrics in this song really reflect that theme of grasping the future too.

#Hello dash would you like some gotchard meta and theories #this show just has something in the sauce im telling you. it just activates my autism. its like a sort of catnip for me. #there could have been more that I could add to this post but I want to keep it coherent (and i hope it is!) #also its hard without having actually seen the film because there could even be more stuff in there that i just dont know right now #ive read some spoilers for the film but i certainly dont know them all #and the film is plot relevant (which makes it sad that we have to wait 6-7 months BUT ANYWAYS) #kamen rider gotchard #gotchard spoilers #linky watches gotchard #linky posts #gotchard meta #gotchard theories #<- adding those last two tags for myself and the sake of self organization on my blog

[juniperhillpatient]

I can never make it as a professional writer because I logically know editing is often supposed to mean deleting parts but it always inevitably ends with me adding parts instead like i just can’t help myself if I see a part that could be expanded on or a detail that would add to the story or get an idea for an insightful flashback well it simply must happen 😭

#writing #rose.txt #I finished the final edit for chapter 7 #for real this time. probably. I’m not gonna add anymore. probably #look. does the scene I decided to add impact the plot hugely? #no. but it DOES tell you something about the characters & it does imo help build the narrative & themes #also. I really really wanted to reference lake mungo #because I fucking love lake mungo #& it’s so relevant right now ok

[aparticularbandit]

i just realized. re: the very long this post.

in ultimate ventriloquist's murder trial. the victim was monokuma.

like. nobody actually died. and junko would probably think that killing off the puppet that killed monokuma was an equivalent exchange. good bit, good fun, reset to center, no more puppets as people, the joke ran its route, good on everyone!

ultimate ventriloquist wasn't supposed to actually die. it was...it was a bit. a joke!

no wonder it gave junko the shakes.

....

this is either a case 2 or a case 4. i'm not sure which.

probably a case 4.

#musings #danganronpa #it can't be case one because you have to pre-establish puppets as people #which doesn't feel like something they would establish in case one because that's tutorial case #so it could be established as a bit of a brick joke in case 2 #probably related to 'how many people discovered the body' similar to case 2-2 #it /can't/ be case 3 because there's always two victims in case 3 #and case 5 is always big plot relevant before the exposition wrap-up of case 6 #and it would be even more effective as a case 4 because case 4 is always heartstrings case #but we're talking about monokuma and puppets there's no way #absolutely not #this is just a bit right? #it's just a bit it's FINE #and then suddenly it's not fine and you get why it's a case 4 #sakura's death changed the entire game; so does ventriloquist's #(and we get monoclekuma instead of minimaru!) #ANYWAY LETTING IT DIE NOW #IT WAS A GOOD BIT #I JUST SUDDENLY HAD THOUGHTS OKAY DROPPING IT NOW #brain whirs

[g0reoz]

if i ever do make a pax fortnite mask amv it WILL be in like 240p by the way

#IMAGINING IT...I JUST NEED MORE CLIPS. GONNA WAIT UNTIL QS ENDS #hasbruh should leak all the episodes to meeeee right now because i am the specialest guiy ever and i need more pax 🥰 #NOT ONLY for mask amv. also because i wanna know more about his BACKSTORY and PLOT RELEVANCE #and his weird habit of putting CRYSTALS in a tank of WATER #.woof. #beyburst #pax fortnite

[coaldustcanary]

Me @ me: After you write the 5k words, some of them very sexy, leading up to the actual voyeurism you do, in fact, have to get over your flustery feelings and actually write the voyeurism.

Me back @ me: ...

#gif is very relevant #sorry for stealing heytheredeann #but this is in fact the expression i'm leaving illya with because i can't follow through on this one right now #possibly the debilitating secondhand embarassment and the voyeurism plot aren't gonna mesh tonight #oop

[marypsue]

Figured out why the ‘Mike doesn’t say he loves El anymore’ conflict feels so out of place - it’s because that’s Steve and Nancy’s conflict from season 2. It doesn’t belong to Mike and El! It’s literally a different couple’s conflict badly and sloppily tacked onto their relationship! No wonder it doesn’t feel like it fits! 

And honestly, looking at it from the perspective of ‘this isn’t just not-foreshadowed and poorly introduced but also out of character’: it also doesn’t make any fucking sense that El would ever lie to Mike. Especially not to try to convince him that she’s cool and popular and happy without him. The whole thing just smacks of ‘we watched half an episode of a random sitcom in a hospital waiting room one time and thought we could just steal and give that conflict to our literal main characters without anybody noticing that it doesn’t belong in our story or their relationship and makes no fucking sense.’

#well that and/or 'what do people in relationships fight about? uhhhhh women being lying bitches and/or overemotional crazy people' #not 'what things that THESE CHARACTERS care about might come into conflict' #it's bad writing #on top of blatant misogyny #I love that one of tumblr's suggested tags here was 'i hate the duffers' thanks bro #if no one else got me i know tumblr's extremely broken predictive algorithms got me #stranger things #seriously 'el thinks mike only loved her because of her powers and that now they're gone he doesn't care about her anymore' was RIGHT THERE #and THEMATICALLY RELEVANT and would have CONTRIBUTED TO THE PLOT i am GNAWING GLASS #i'm still not finished the season but i'm STILL MAD ABOUT IT

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#I found their original stuff while I was researching various waterhorses and their folklore for no reason #because one of the characters in their original work happens to be an each uisge #and then it turned out it ALSO included a lot of figures from welsh folklore in general #so yknow if you happen to have my incredibly specific hyperfixations you'll love it but even if you don't it's great #I didn't mean to bring up phantom of the opera so much it just happens to be very relevant to a lot of my talking points #I haven't actually seen it in years

[strawberry-crocodile]

Shit I’ve learned about Disco Elysium without having played Disco Elysium:

You play the most disgusting pathetic being ever to exist.

Your partner is a more run-of-the-mill pathetic loser man and he is so excited to have someone around who sucks more than him.

There is a small child named Cuomo who does barbituates and know the exact slur to use to kill you instantly.

It will literally kill you because all damage in this game is potentially lethal, and most of it is from either getting your feelings hurt or staring at a lightbulb for too long.

Instead of boring shit like “Strength” or “Wisdom” your stats are like “Cartesian Dualism” and “Ability to Top”. They also talk to you.

Its about a police investigation

Its about communism

Its about gay sex

With a corpse?

It takes place like 30 years after Pathologic

It takes place in a rich and absolutely bizarre world the creators painstakingly sculpted over a decade. Most of it has no relevance to the plot and the rights now belong to a shitty game studio.

I should pirate it.

I should really play it.

#dalucaray #disco elysium

[daisukitoo]

I am 40% of the way through Gideon the Ninth. There are no plot spoilers below.

What is refreshing about Gideon as a protagonist and POV character is that she is a jock. She fundamentally does not care about all this nerd shit going on, i.e. the entire setting and plot. She misses exposition, background, and other explanations because, as one person who starts explaining how magic works observes, "right, you're not even pretending to pay attention."

Most writers are writers, so this is not a common perspective for a book to hold. Plot-relevant details can be sprinkled freely because Gideon's narrative will see them and not even shrug before moving on.

GIdeon lacks the emotional and mental maturity to be a good person. She is not evil as such, just apparently unaware of the existence of moral implications. When we meet her, her motivation is to get out of this hick town and join the military, because fighting is glorious and cool and this hick town sucks. She likes weapons and fighting and working out and hot chicks. She fantasizes about leading military charges that bring death to new worlds and fuel necromantic rituals because that would mean hot goth babes would see how cool she is and be grateful. She does not dwell on the thought of worlds that apparently have never known death and her plan to look cool leading imperial invasions and killing enough people to fuel necromantic rituals. She does dwell on the thought of that prissy bitch from her high school having to see how cool and hot she is now that she's a war hero who gets medals and hot babes.

You as the reader can be carried along very quickly by this incurious perspective that does not think twice about things. You as the reader may want Gideon to backtrack and dwell on something or explore it further. The weirdness of the setting is more or less swept under the rug by Gideon's not noticing it. 98.5% of the children on a planet gone (died?), but Gideon doesn't devote a second sentence to boring backstory like that. What was that about galactic conquest, in a setting where the main weapons are swords and necromantic magic? How little advancement has there been in technology or magic in 10,000 years, despite a possibly continuous civilization that whole time? Or some references to what sound like dark ages? Damned if Gideon cares or even notices.

The necromancers are dying to talk shop about their powers. Gideon rolls her eyes and wants to talk to that woman about the cool flip she did, because Gideon wants to look cool doing flips during fights and have girls notice how cool she looks. Also her biceps. Gideon cannot pay attention for a full sentence on necromantic magic, but she does have a half-page to dwell on girls noticing how big her biceps are.

#gideon the ninth #tlt #the locked tomb #tamsyn muir #gideon nav

[deer-motif]

I am. normal about a complete kingdom

#sending a very thank you and curse you to the dash for getting me into this. there is no way i am coming back in one piece from this #also i don't see it mentioned but i appreciate the fact that dean's getting sober. like it's not relevant to the plot or themes at all #but it's just there every now and again and its like :] he's trying his best #btw i'm like. in the middle of chapter 4 I believe? right after dean and cas talk in the lighthouse for the first time #i cannot wait for the rollercoaster to drop mostly because i have no idea what's happening #ack live reaction #seth.txt