#gg rewrite

[ayatxt]

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⇢ ˗ˏˋ 12 april 2024 9:17am ࿐ྂ

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[xawkward-ariesx]

Trying to motivate myself to write Golden Girl is just 'do I watch series 2 or series 3 this time?'

#ace writes sometimes #writing process #GG #C16: frosted affair #do i watch series 2 for tenrose vibes? or series 3 for martha characterisation? #were trying series 2 this time cus ive rewatch series 3 relentlessly for the episode rewrites #someone asked if i was okay on golden girl and now im trying to force myself to get back into dw fanfics #should i be packing up my flat for summer? yes. am i focusing on this to procrastinate doing so? also yes

[bonefall]

Questions

Does Squirrelflight have another mate or kits (Juniper and Dandelion) or is she chillin?

Does Russetfur have kits? She’s a clean slate if you don’t have her and Raggedstar share a father. I’ve seen some say Redwillow could work as her son but who knows.

What’s Bramblestar and Jessy’s relationship like? Same with their kits

Hope your day going great bones and remember to hydrate

Does Squilf have another mate or kits?

Not currently! I don't think she really needs one, honestly. I know a lot of people write her as finding happiness with someone else after breaking away from Bramble, but in my mind, I want to give her satisfaction in her family, in power over her clan, in doing the right thing, in all of the other things in her life more important than romantic love.

I wouldn't be against letting her get with someone though! But only if it shakes up that way as I get into the specifics of the story. Imo it's more important to give her a satisfying arc with finding a new mate as a possible nice bonus, if that makes sense.

(I will mention that Daisy is the only current candidate, as they are both having arcs about moving on from bad mates and they might end up having a lot in common. But also this is just a scintilla of an idea at the moment.)

She will also not be having any bio-kits; Squilf is infertile! Weird that they just sorta obliterated the only fertility issues in the whole series...

Does Russetfur get kits?

Not impossible! But unlikely. Something about Russetfur to me feels child-free.

If she has kits, she will probably be a surrogate and the litter will be raised by another couple, ergo be counted as that couple's children for all intents and purposes.

I do want to casually drop, though, that Hal will be getting some major rewrites. He is now a leader of BloodClan, and, I am tentatively planning large changes to how Chelford Township cats view fatherhood. Depending on how those changes go, it might not even be relevant if Hal is their sire or not.

Bramblestar and Jessy

I think the biggest thing to remember with abusive partners is that there's no perfect partner that could 'fix' them. Though growth is possible and I very strongly believe that anyone can change, I feel equally as strongly that most abusers don't. So, I'm actually reaaaally trying to be careful with them.

I don't want to frame Bramble as someone incapable of improvement... but at the same time, I'm not sure if he's the sort of person who actually would. Especially with him being the Clan Leader, an unaccountably high social position. That said, I'm also not interested in just turning Bramblestar into a demon that I just beat with the narrative for catharsis, if that makes sense...

I am leaning towards having them together for a few books, before Jessy breaks it off with him after Bramblestar, inevitably, starts up the cycle anew with her.

I even actually considered her taking Alder in the divorce, returning to her twolegs, with Alder eventually being drawn back to the Clans. To make for a more 'clear' reason why Bramble is so often dismissive of him and his concerns-- clan xenophobia. I'm not very fond of how AVOS glossed over Squilf and Bramble as parents, it ended up sort of implying both of them were toned down personality-wise.

But I'm still unsure if she even leaves ThunderClan, because she does end up with a very respectable position as an excellent builder and general problem-solver. I'm not sure if she should want to give that up.

So TL;DR I've been waffling a lot with my drafts and don't have hard answers yet.

The Bramble/Jessy litter

I mentioned Alderheart earlier, but Sparkpelt is kind of an inverse situation. No matter what happens with Jessy, Spark absolutely excels at her tasks and has a huge interest in clan history. She does a lot to impress her dad and live up to his legacy, hoping to continue the family tradition of becoming leaders of their clans.

Tigerstar is an inevitable part of that history, but Bramblestar named her after his mentor, Firestar. She holds him in high regard, a sort of familial respect towards the cat who saved their legacy by opposing Tigerstar. Because of this, she is apprenticed to Squirrelflight, and they become extremely close.

In contrast to canon that sort of implies Bramblestar was a better father to his first litter than to his second one, I think Bramble was more present for Sparkpaw. Not neccesarily as a nurturing father, but as a quite assertive one. Like a paternal teacher of sorts, keeping her informed on the family stories, social expectations, doing a lot of personal training. Not in a strict way, more... authoritative, is probably the best word for it. Still somewhat emotionally distant, however, though he is trying.

He is also proooobably prone to jealousy, when Sparkpaw is closer to her mentor than to him. I think this eventually causes fights to break out between father and daughter, as Bramble suddenly gets colder and Sparkpelt realizes that she can't just over-achieve her way out of his emotional problems.

I have a huge fondness for complex family dynamics, in case it isn't obvious.

ANYWAY I'm running out of room for Dandelionkit and Juniperkit to fit into the narrative, honestly. I've considered their deaths to be the start of "The Fight" that lead to Jessy and Bramble's kitty divorce, but I don't think Bramblestar is THAT KIND of bad. If anything, it would temporarily cause him to treat Jessy less badly, if they had brewing issues, as these situations make him do in-canon.

I may end up just eliminating them both entirely... giving them to Squilf as a rough pregnancy and stillborn litter seems cruel, unless I shuffle them back earlier to be 'born' at the same time as Holly/Lion/Jay.

#Thanks for the Rewrite asks btw #Makes a good break between me violently shaking main series characters in my mouth #Bonefall Rewrite #I did have a good day btw! #We had like 7 graves to visit and managed to tag 5 before the rain chased us out #Found out apparently I have an ancestor who drove tanks in WW2 so that's cool! #When we visited my Great Great Grandpa we started googling the division he served in and the sun came out as my mom read it out loud #Like right before the clouds rolled back in and it started raining #It was both awe-inspiring and funny because it was right around the moment she says #`Apparently (division) served /w British infantry and got jam and tea as rations causing them to descend on France in search of real food` #Like GGGrandpa was out here trying to REALLY DRIVE IT HOME that British rations sucked LMAOOO #Used his magic ghost powers to make the sun shine down upon dunking on the British #Absolute legend thank you GG Grandpa #Bramblestar #Russetfur #Sparkpelt #Squirrelflight #Alderheart #Jessy #Jesse

[descendantofthesparrow]

that feeling when ur trying to find one of your own fics that has a specific line and you just-cant find it

#im looking for the one where (y/n) goes #gg dragon girl to lonnie as she stabs the fecing sword next to lonnies head #AND I CANT FUCKING FIND IT #i dont think its apart of my poyw series both og n rewrite cuz its def better written than poyw og and rewrite doesnt have (y/n) #on umas 'side' during its goign down #all i remember is that (y/n) is...from our world?! n is with the pirates during the trade #thats it #thats all i remember #and she fights lonnie #THATS ALL I REMEMBER AND IM TRYING TO FIND THIS DAMN FIC SO I CAN REMEMBER IT AND AAAAAAAAAH #disney descendants #harry hook x reader

[sweetface-the-dollbaby]

Series rewrite because the whole second season was just- n o

Glen: *high as shit and British as fuck* Heeey mum you still killing people?

Glenda: Glen! You don’t just ask people if they’re still a serial murderer! Glen: shyit sorry sib- just aaaskin’

Tiffany: well honey if you must know I did just commit a murder before you walked in

Glenda: oh…lovely…say I’m…gonna put my coat in the closet *opens closet door* oh…a dead body…how charming…

Sweetface(aka doll glen): *walks in the door* hey everybody what’re we doing- *sees tiff in a pool of blood* oh…mum’s back on her bullshit I see

glen: yeeeah sorry mate

sweetface: I’m so sorry this has been bugging me the whole drive here- are you high?

glen: it’s- it’s just a bit of weed I’m fiiine

Sweetface: is that what those brownies you made me protect in the back seat were?!

glen: nooo those were the brownies I made for mum, but you ruined the surprise!

Tiffany: oh it’s alright honey I’m sure they’re delicious and not spiked with weed

Glenda: whatever let’s just- get our things into a spare room

*later*

Glen: heeey am I like- reeeally high or does that woman have no limbs?

Sweetface: HOLY SHIT- ma’am are you ok?!

nica: *muffled* I’m in a fucking gag!

Glenda: *takes gag off nica* are you alright?!

nica: Jennifer Tilly is not who she says she it her real name is Tiffany valentine and she kidnapped me and I got possessed by a serial killer and then she cut off all my limbs and she’s convinced that she’s in love with me and-

Sweetface: dammit mum-

nica: wait…she’s your mom? Glenda: all 3 of ours actually- but that’s not important, we’re not like our mom. And we need to get you the fuck out of here.

*even later*

Sweetface: hey mummy, can I tell you something?

Tiffany: oh of course sweetie you can tell me anything

Glenda: *from the shadows* we know about nica pierce. Tiffany: oh…shit…

Sweetface: we got dad to talk after a while and he told us about a little someone named Andy. He also told us the exact location of “scout chucky” He was quite cooperative once we forced him to listen to glen prime’s incoherent stoner rambling for half an hour…

Tiffany: where are glen and nica by the way…

Glenda: waiting by the car.

sweetface: by the way…mum we don’t ever want to speak to you again. Good. Bye.

They then drove to where scout chucky was nica and Andy made quick acquaintances. Glenda and sweetface made a friendship with Nadine (who didn’t get yeeted) and Glen sat on the porch with Lexi…about that…

glen: look…I’m no stranger to the stems myself…but you’re only a kid…like- they tell you this stuff isn’t addictive but it is…I know I don’t seem like it on the outside but I'm not having much fun on the inside…I really don’t recommend smoking anything at the age you are

Lexi: why should I listen to you? You don’t know what’s best for me…

glen: i don’t know you…and you don’t know me…you don’t have to listen to me…I’m not trying to scare you…but it’s dangerous…even though it’s legal it should really only be used for medical purposes…it seems nice in the moment…but after a while…your just left with a splitting headache and a stomach full of munchies and regret…so don’t take it from me…but I’m only trying to help you…

Lexi: *sigh* thanks glen…

#chucky season 2 #chucky season 2 rewrite #I know it’s shitty but don’t come for me #I made glen a stoner purely to aid Lexi in her recovery arc #glen ray #glenda ray #glen and glenda #gg ray #(Renamed to sweetface) #lexi cross #andy barclay #nica pierce #tiffany valentine #charles lee ray

[britishchick09]

my 'gentleman giant' review on goodreads! ;D

bonus- my jennifer phillips one:

and one for 'boy giant'...

and one for 'looking back and up'! ;D

#robert wadlow #robert wadlow trash #i found the rewrite on there so i decided to claim it! ;) #and i figured i might as well review gg since it's the anniversary year! #it's easily my fave senpai book! ;D #edit: i added more! ;)

[hythlodaes]

i still have a bunch of those otp questions to answer but my brain is in writing mode today so hopefully i'll get to them later tonight or tomorrow ;-;

#i always feel bad bc i rb those and then never finish them sdfjklsdf #but i only have three more sections of my wip left to rewrite!! i'm v excited about it :) #gg txt

[pasteilian]

This is not hate at all I really love your Yoshisato storyline but usagi’s last name is Miyamoto and Yojimbo is a title referring to his role as a warrior 🙏🏼 like I rlly like ur stuff and I can understand the confusion cause in some of the early tmnt stuff they mistakenly call him Yojimbo too

Nan, are you good! I actually found this out halfway through making lore. 💀💀 But like, I didn't want to go back and rewrite, so I just went with it anyway. I feel like the name Yojimbo fits his story in my AU, at least, so it all works out for me. GG!

I've been taking a bunch of liberties with Usagi's story already, so giving him Yojimbo as a name isn't gonna kill anything.

But for lore, he was a nameless child that wandered into a rabbit's village. He was feral and mean and didn't know how to speak, but was taken in by the heads of the tiny village. As time went on, they saw he had skill with the sword, blah blah blah. As he grew, everyone started calling him Yojimbo/Yobo, and at some point, he just took that as his name. :p

#rottmnt #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt usagi #pastriesart💌 #pastrieschat💌

[smileyfacemojisworld]

Epic Winter Rewrite?

OKOKOK DONT HATE ME BUT

Replace Rosabella with Cupid-IM SORRYYY😭

Like what if, after Cupid finally accepted her destiny to not find True Love(Idk, maybe a Monster High curse, like Faybelle’s with parties?) and decides to help out others again and when Daring and Apple broke up, he gets depression… yadda yadda yadda… trauma dumps on Cupid… yadda yadda yadda… Cupid helps…him get with Lizzie cuz we need the Wonderlandians :))

I KNOW IM GG GET HATE FOR THIS CUZ ✨ITS CONTROVERSIAL✨ BUT THINK ABT THE BRIBELLE😭❤️

I need opinions. Badly.😭💔

#eah #ever after high #apple white #apple #briar beauty #Briar #faybelle #faybelle thorn #daring #daring charming #cupid #ca cupid #Lizzie #lizzie hearts #dizzie #Epic winter #bribelle

[laf-outloud]

D*stiel shippers would swear that their ship is canon yet still be crying about it three years later. What is funny is them not connecting the dots between having 100K fanfictions and the ship not being canon lol. Do they see actual slow burn like Delena (TVD) or Chair (GG) shippers still crying about their ship being canon or sending anon to blogs trying to prove everyone about it? Off course not because their ship is canon and they get to enjoy every epic scenes, foreshadowing, heartbreaks and reunion ONSCREEN. I was in the TVD fandom and I know for a fact that people go crazy with fanfictions, manips, fan arts and edits when the ship is NOT canon. People try to make up for what they don’t have onscreen/canon and once it become canon the desire for fafics and all decreases because people are satisfied. It’s must suck to always purposely delude themselves and desperately find blogs/panderers/cult who would constantly validate their delusion.  

Exactly! You only ever need to "fix" something that doesn't exist. Don't mind me, but I'm going to venture into the math portion of my response, lol! Obviously, this is a small sampling off of one tag, but I imagine it's a decent representation of SPN works.

If you sort by the Fix-it tag in AO3, there are 7600 total works. Based on that number, 66% have the Destiel tag. And that Dean and Sam number? 413 of those also have the Destiel tag. Remove that and Sam & Dean Fix-it fics only equal 4.6%.

(Oh, and that number for Eileen/Sam fics? All but 48 have the Destiel tag.)

Sam and Dean fans have 327 glorious episodes of brotherly love and codependency that, in large part, requires no fixing. Hellers have to rewrite the entire show in order to make their ship work, and they're too idiotic to see it.

#ask box #anti hellers #idiot hellers #anti destiel #also... leave sam & dean out of your destiel fics #and don't insult eileen and sam like that #ao3 statistics #spn fan fiction stats

[theliterarywolf]

NO NOT LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW I WILL STAND FOR THIS!!

When you play as Juliet, you're given prime view of her ass, it has noting to do with "cracking eggs" or whatever weird shit twitter wants to push which is mainly why dudes (and me!) Played her in the first place it's the same reason why dudes back in the 90s played Tomb Raider

Anonymous asked:1 As a female fan of Bayonetta way back when, and knowing some other female fans of Bayonetta at the same time: You literally got so much shit if you liked the game. Hell, I'm a WlW, and I knew several non-straight women, and one of the common insults/accusations we got was that we were sockpuppets for dudes, esp during GG, and that we just didn't get it. And obviously we were lying about being attracted to women, because a male gaze character like Bayonetta could never be appealing to actual women. I remember the bullshit I had to go through, and even when pointing out the designer for Bayonetta's design was a woman, I still got bullshit thrown at me. Don't get me started on the overt racism against the designer, Mari Shimazaki, when talking how Bayonetta was HER power fantasy of a strong independent woman. Trying to rewrite history, and pretending she was always an icon, is fucking insulting after all the shit us OG female fans went through for years!

I think it really is just showing how a lot of the, oh what to call them... Terminally-Discoursed folks are slowly starting to realize that 'hey, sometimes you can just... enjoy things' but they're going through withdrawals from not being negative and confrontational all the time.

So that's why you have this strongarmed effort to rewrite who the original audiences were for things like Bayonetta, Lollipop Chainsaw, and I think I even saw someone try to pull this for Senran Kagura.

I also think this relates back to why so many people had such a vitriolic reaction to Bayonetta 3 ending with Bayo Prime being in love with Luka, thus resulting in Viola. Even though it's not like it erased Bayonetta being wlw because 1. Bisexuals exist and 2. Bayo Prime is literally just ONE Bayonetta out of thousands so it's very much possible that Bayonetta (1) and Bayonetta (2) are still shacking up with Jeanne.

[xawkward-ariesx]

I'm rereading a fic of mine to contextualise a comment I got it and my god I meant to write 'tooth and nail' but the dw brain rot is so deep that I unironically put 'tooth and claw' kill me

#ace writes sometimes #Comments #GG #my god im cringing so bad it looks like a dumb fcking pun but its clearly just another instance where i couldnt remember a #common phrase properly any other phrase in any other fandom would not have been as cringe a mistake goddamn #god i need to rewrite this fic so bad but i havent even finishes the next challenge yet which is probably more important #anyway thank you sunnie for your comments this is the most focus ive been on this fic in months

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[classpectpokerap]

Pesterquest Rewritten - Jade Harley

happy late 11/11 oops. i finished this on 11/10 and waited till 11/12 to post it on tumblr LMAO

anyway shoutouts to @estrobiologist for the prospit theme. it fucks severely and i couldn't have imagined a better theme for GG/this prospit

and if the idea of a pesterquest rewrite sounds interesting to you...

leave a comment! share! rb! we JUST finished the beta kids, meaning we're five routes in. it has been an incredible ride so far and i'm so fucking excited to start the next arc

i sincerely hope this serves as a good ending to this part of this version of the story :) while i have my fair share of issues with the original pq, i still am only able to do this project Because PQ exists, and i'm really not trying to make it as a smarmy takedown. i think the fansim format could use more love!!! i've fallen in love with ren'py storytelling recently, frankly.

anyway, yeah. lmk what yall think :)

#homestuck #homestuck fanfic #pesterquest rewritten #pqr #jade harley #fansim #pesterquest #my fanfic #beta kids #Youtube

[masked-alien-lesbian]

I really wish we could get past the whole child like, party animal asexual trope. I'm sure it's unintentional, but making the asexual "the mess" with everyone thinking she needs to "grow up" is insensitive. Growing up, I got so tired of being called a late bloomer and made to feel like a child because I wasn't hanging off someone's arm constantly like MC is in GG.

If PB was creative, they would had made Anita the asexual one, I mean her job is all about beauty and presenting herself in the most enticing way to her viewers, it would have been a fresh breath of air to have her story be about coming to terms with her asexuality in a job where sex sells. But that would be putting too much expectations on PB since all they're doing is rewriting Bachelorette Party

#Plus I don't want Anita to be the lesbian rep #The spoiled diva trope is so old #And I'm sick of the aro/ace rep be the party animal #And I don't think I like MC #How do you get from cheated on the alter #To throwing yourself into your exes arms?? #Allosexuals make no sense #GG #getaway girls #choices #pixelberry #playchoices

[pallisia]

hello, gg! I had your flower fella in my head while I was gposing around some flowers in Elpis, and it brought a question to mind. How did you feel about the Elpis arc in Endwalker? On my first playthrough, it absolutely blew me away, but on my replay, I feel like parts of it retroactively cheapened Shadowbringers (if that makes any sense). idk, I'm curious to hear your thoughts, if you have any to share. :>

sure. i feel like i mentioned a while back that i'm not crazy about endwalker for this exact reason. like, i had fun playing through the msq and i acknowledge the difficulties of trying to wrap up a decade-long story for a massive fanbase with varying expectations, but it just didn't land for me. especially the elpis arc. this is going to be really long and full of spoilers, so i'll keep the rest of it under a cut.

arriving in amaurot in shadowbringers was easily one of my favorite story beats in all of ffxiv. i loved that the ancients were portrayed as kind strangers, the anxiety about the final days from their dialogue, the vulnerability from the villain; it was all just great. one of the things that helped sell amaurot to me was how little was concrete about it. it was a faint memory of a place that didn't exist anymore. we couldn't see anyone's faces, we couldn't feel like we actually belonged there in any meaningful way. and when you confront emet-selch, it's like, "sure, it's sad that this happened to you, but we're here now, so you have to let it go."

looking back, i feel like elpis is the polar opposite of all that. i smiled at hades' beautiful wife and shitty haircut as much as the next guy, but it just felt...unnecessary? where shadowbringers said "the unsundered world is not coming back, you have to get over it," endwalker said "Bring It In, Guys !!" and showed me more of the ancients than i ever really wanted to see. i didn't need to go back in time and run around with my pal emet to sympathize with him. and again, he's beautiful, but i didn't really need to put a face to hythlodaeus, either. i thought he was much more compelling when i didn't know anything except that he was nice and emet-selch loved him.

this is more personal preference than anything, but i was also let down that the ancients were just...humans? i was hoping that the origin of all the sundered races would have more varied features to reflect that, and the way they were portrayed in shadowbringers allowed me the freedom to imagine them that way. 

anyway, going back to the the time travel... in shadowbringers, i loved the bittersweetness of the doomed timeline continuing even after g'raha tia fixed everything. elpis changed how time travel works within the story to tie everything up with a bow. i know it functions the same way in the alexander raids, but i thought it was bizarre to rewrite the rules within the main scenario right after the expansion where it was a big deal. (using the same time machine, even!)

venat was fine. i didn't really consider her to be the same character as hydaelyn at all, and it felt like a stretch to equate the emotionless crystal god voice to this nice, cool lady we spent an afternoon with. also, explaining the echo the blessing of light as a "traveler's ward" was such a letdown, man. it was a tremendous deal when hydaelyn and zodiark were revealed to be primals, but endwalker essentially threw out the concept of tempering, so it didn't matter at all. again, i get that retcons are inevitable in a decade-long mmo storyline. but the way she'd been built up as a morally questionable figure as early as heavensward made me hope for more flavor than what i got from venat. 

hermes was a pretty interesting character. i liked meeting someone who didn't fit in with ancient society, and even resented a lot of what was considered normal for them. he just didn't get enough time to cook. i probably don't have to harp on the stupid amnesia machine, so i'll skip that part.

meteion was... well, getting back to the point of your question, i kind of hated that the final days ended up being "a bird in space is beaming us with nihilism energy." i'm not sure what i wanted the final days to be, but the mystery of it was so much more intriguing than the explanation. the idea that the ancients' creation powers went out of their control was so cool! but, oh, it was because they were too aetherically dense to transform into monsters, i guess... okay...

maybe that's my overall problem with elpis, that it eliminated all mystery for the sake of neatly wrapping up loose threads, even when the mystery was more fun. every subsequent dev interview really drives this home, to the point where i wish they'd stop explaining things altogether. i'm feeling the same way now with the alliance raid series and its explanation of the twelve. of course, that storyline is still going, but i don't have high hopes for the last part.

wow that was long. sorry. thank you for your question i've been bottling this up for like a year lmao

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