#it is genre bending but

[tavina-writes]

briefly going hnnnnnnnng at people misrepresenting genre norms and tropes re: wuxia, but this is tumblr so I am merely going hnnnng and getting on with my day.

But god it does make me tired to behold these misconceptions with my eyeballs sometimes.

#a tragedy named leaf #honestly sometimes I think that missing the context for a bunch of stuff makes the MDZS morality debate weirder #I've seen so much meta about it but #MDZS is a wuxia with some light high fantasy sprinkles #it is genre bending but #things interact with the genre that they're bucking traditions with #and missing that context really does a number on some of the analyses i've seen

[shikai-the-storyteller]

I've been thinking a lot about Leonarda's not-death ever since it happened back in April.

("What death?" you might ask, to which I say: "EXACTLY!")

Back in mid-April, Vegetta and Leonarda were mining together in a one-block wide tunnel. A mob (a Petriman) got between the two of them, and Vegetta told Leonarda to step back while he took care of it. At this point, they'd spent enough time together that he trusted Leo to listen to him.

Instead, she was killed by the same sweeping edge bug that killed her siblings.

-

Vegetta's reaction here is what's really interesting to me. Unlike most other parents on the Island, there are no shouts or tears – only a very brief "Hmm" and then silence. He very quietly takes stock of the situation, saying "Vegetta, no" and wondering aloud why Leo didn't defend herself. In chat, Foolish says "It was a bug, right? LAG" to which Vegetta slowly responds "Yes, lag. Bug." (Despite this, Foolish still asks "WHAT HAPPENED" in chat, though Vegetta doesn't reply).

Instead, he creates a slightly wider space in the tunnel where Leo's body is. He continues quietly taking stock of the situation, wondering why Leo didn't defend herself (which is what necessitated his intervention). She'd been lagging a lot that day, and he figures that must be the cause, and eventually when Leo re-appears out of thin air in the middle of the cave and collects her stuff, she confirms that the lag got to her and that's why she didn't fight the mob.

Now here's where things get interesting:

Vegetta checks the tab list. Online, it's just him, Leonarda, Roier, and Foolish. He quietly tells Leonarda "The body has already disappeared, and without a body, there is no crime. Nothing is happening. Did you die?" Leo shakes her head, and Vegetta shakes his head too, and in the kind voice he uses sometimes with Leo, he says: "I believe you have not died. Where is the body? It isn't anywhere, no mija. If it was a mistake, it was a mistake."

Leo says: "I saw Diosito (God) pa, and I was scared. God, what am I doing here?" and Vegetta laughs, telling her it's alright. Leo says "No pasa nada (don't worry / nothing happened)" and Vegetta says: "And the people who are watching us have not seen it either." To Foolish and Roier, he messages: "Secreto."

And the funniest thing about this is it worked.

Not a single person spoke about it. I saw this entire event go down live and I didn't see a WHISPER of what transpired among fans. I can't even remember if the QSMP official accounts talked about it (they sure didn't mention it in Vegetta's recap of the day). We could discuss this in meta terms of course– Leo was having known lag issues that day, Vegetta's beloved by the admins so of course they're willing to turn a blind eye rather than slap a "?" over Leonarda's life on the Eggstatistics, but meta talk isn't what I'm interested in here.

I'm interested in q!Vegetta, the weird "god-adjacent" aura he's got, and the way the universe bends to his will.

Before he took a break from the server, Rubius seemed to be a caretaker for the Eggs who died (for example, he was present when Maxo, Quackity, and Mariana & Slime said their final goodbyes to Trumpet, Tilin, and JuanaFlippa). Because of his role as an "angel" and some of his dialogue during the early days of the server, it's not a stretch to say he probably came to collect any Egg who lost a life. I can imagine he did the same when he saw Leonarda die – that is, until Vegetta said "And the people who are watching us have not seen it either." Realistically, we know Vegetta was saying this to Chat (and possibly the admins as well), but again, we're looking at this from an "in-universe" perspective.

I wonder if Vegetta was aware of Rubius' role, and this was his way of telling Rubius "No. I won't allow that to happen." We know Rubius has a soft-spot for Vegetta (and we also know that Rubius was cast out of heaven several months later) so it makes me wonder if these two instances are connected.

Either way, this isn't the first time the laws of the QSMP universe have bent for Vegetta, and I certainly don't think it'll be the last.

Rubius or no, Leo didn't die that day.

Vegetta made sure of it.

#i talk #QSMP talk #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #I FOUND IT #I wrote this post TWO MONTHS AGO #MAYBE LONGER!!! #I had clips and links prepared but I have no idea where those went #I'm not gonna bother saving this as a draft and risk losing it again #I have nearly 70000 drafts on my main blog but by some miracle this got saved in my art blogs' drafts instead #than the stars #Anyways. Leo was killed by a whale a few days later because Foolish was in the bathroom lmao #''powerful god-adjacent man who bends the laws of the universe'' vs. ''man whose entire life is a series of sitcom episodes'' #I still really want to write out that ''QSMP genre'' thought I had ages ago. It's still relevant and always will be relevant #but anyways #I wrote this months ago on very little sleep but DANG. It's a banger. #I miss writing analysis stuff I wish I was in a headspace where I could do this more like I used to #QSMP analysis

[ambrosiagourmet]

In a world where both “long-life/short-life” and “party leader/party mage” relationships are both seen as very popular and common romances, Marcille & Laios are fighting for their lives w their undefined qpr thing. And I’m proud of them.

#it’s so funny to me that they are at the intersection of two - TWO!!! - of the most common in universe romance tropes #and then proceed to build this incredibly close important relationship but they are like dodging the ‘genre mandated romance’ at every turn #they don’t realize they are doing it it’s like the gag where a character bends down to tie their shoe right as something whizzes by overhea #except instead of Deadly Projectile it’s hetero/amatonormativity #(don’t tag/comment that they are in-laws please. leave me be make another post)

[dduane]

@greggs-mistflower, this is *your* fault...! :)

Via the comments here:

I really can't justify asking her to put in effort to make a classic romance cover too. A shirtless Herewiss (with extra blacksmithing muscles) bending Freelorn backwards, about to kiss him. The title would be better as "Flaming Love".

What, you mean like this?

(adding a cut so that no one gets scandalized*)

Just an experiment, mostly about sorting out the lighting.

...Which is a bit too flat. I made the mistake of turning up the outside-the-forge light from the sky too high, and as a result lost considerable modeling on the figures. (shrug) Oh well... we learn by doing. I'll turn that down on the next pass and restore the original in-room lighting.

Also possibly make Lorn's shirt a little more diaphanous... because why not, if we've shoved him into that particular role.** (snicker) And make that bend-back deeper. ...And see about some other minor changes. For example: where the hell have their pinkies gone? I must have adjusted those four or five times. Make sure everybody's eyes are pointing in the right direction, and doublecheck their expressions. (Too often the figures in bodice-ripper poses have a tendency to look a little, well, constipated.) Mess around with the fire (which I borrowed from another set, the much-loved Red Crow Inn, and just chucked into that space to see what it would do for the lighting.)

*But see also one of the local operating principles: "Make 'em laugh. Make 'em cry. Make 'em wait." :)

**An amused comment from the background: "I am reliably informed that I am versatile. Next time I expect to be the one doing the bending-back."

#Middle Kingdoms meta #digital art #fake covers #forced crossing of genre barriers #(“genre-bending”?)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

oop oc concept posting! this bad bitch is for an original story of mine - the main characters are all from different "genres", and i needed One More to round out the group and well. puppet-y guy fit the bill! i can't decide on a name!

she's from a children's show that had a western themed rock group that would provide lessons through the power of Music! she was the band guitarist until she fuckin. fell into the labyrinth & got corrupted by her found family of idiot assholes

#SHE IS EVERYTHING TO ME. IVE HAD HER FOR ONE HOUR #if anything happens to her ill kill everyone in this room and then myself #she's LOUD she's CONFIDENT she's got an INFERIORITY COMPLEX her catchphrase is HAWYEE #she has a HORSE her LOYAL STEED her BESTIE who has KILLED BEFORE & WILL AGAIN #she is inspired by: cowboys. 80s rock. and roosters #in my mind she can bend reality a little so she can just pull objects out from behind her back #like her trusty guitar! and lasso! and hat that she never wears bc her hair is Too Big! #scribble salad #forced idiots <3 #oc #original character #i think i'll try to make her look more... puppety down the line #we'll see! she rounds out the group nicely i think #lets see for genres we have: slasher / sci-fi / high fantasy / horror / bizarre / ghost / puppet #anyway ill be So Honest #she is entirely based off of the tiny Clip i have in my mind #of her about to (badly) sing a song w/ her guitar after the group fucks something up #she gets One strum in. then Aces (featured in the post) grabs her guitar and hits her with it full force. like a baseball bat <3 #and i was immediately like Ah Yes Perfect She Fits In So Well <3 #it is important to me that everyone in the group gets on each others nerves <3

[justanotherhh]

the trajectory of

loo loo land: stolas hires blitzø to "protect" him, even though he doesn't need it, and pretends he's in a fantasy in which blitzø is his dashing bodyguard, which blitzø probably partway misunderstands as purely a sexual fantasy, and only begrudgingly participates in (until he gets distracted)

(the circus: it becomes clear how stolas formed certain highly romantic notions about blitzø that weren't quite true for blitzø's actual life, which is very non-romantic and more about pragmatic "just-getting-through-the-damn-day" choices that don't mesh with stolas' fantasies of blitzø as essentially his personal knight/hero/Romance Genre Lover/etc.)

western energy: stolas actually needs help, but blitzø doesn't realise this until too late, and so doesn't show up to protect/save him, dashing any fantasy or idea that he'd actually be that sort of figure in stolas' life, for both of them

[episode ???]: stolas curled up at blitzø's side, while blitzø holds a sword up to defend him, actually (maybe) becoming that knight in shining armor that stolas already perceives him as? we'll see how it goes

#stolitz #stolas #blitzø #blitzo #there's something in this about genre that i want to unpick #genre and stolas vs blitzø and that in narrative two people could be in incongruous genres and that heightens their miscommunication #they need to get on the same page... of the same story.... #and/or allow the fluidity of genre bending/breaking in order to work as metaphor for class and hell and trauma #blitz

[petewentzisblack1312]

laughable to imply that mcr put emo on the map when fall out boy quite literally gained mainstream success at the exact same time and in fact at the exact same music festival. like. they both put emo on the map. together. at the same time.

#dils declares #like. #you can argue mcr is more accurate to the mainstream definition of emo #thats true because fall out boy as a career trend can more accurately be described as alt rock due to the way they bend genre #mcr technically isnt emo their music is more hardcore in sound (and sound alone sorry) #but they do fit the bill of the stereotype #that being said. historically. factually. they literally both did.

[marinvolk]

Since grandmaster honorary queer man David Jenkins taught us all that things like genre and tone are apparently irrelevant now, I’d like to bless you all with my first ever attempt at writing fan fiction. I present to you:

The Night is Dark and Full of Muppets

Stede threw his arms up. “You can’t blame Izzy every time you smash something when you’re upset, Ed!”

“There’s a darkness inside me,” Ed said from the dining room table, glaring daggers at the broom handle lying in two pieces on the floor; he’d broken it against his knee when Stede had mentioned wanting to talk about his anger management issues. The broom had been in his hands because he’d been sweeping up a broken kettle, which he’d broken because it had been ‘giving him a funny look’. “Izzy won’t let me be Ed. He wants the Kraken. You wanted me to be Blackbeard. Remember when you said how fugly I looked without my beard?”

Stede rolled his eyes. “I did not say that. Come on, Ed.”

“Your eyes said it. They looked at me and said, ‘you look so fugly, not-Blackbeard.’ It’s Izzy’s fault I broke the broom.”

“Really, Ed? I don’t know if you remember, but we buried Izzy. It quite literally cannot be his fault—”

“Then it was Pop-Pop’s fault.”

Stede did a double take. “Who is Pop-Pop?”

“My fisherman dad. He and my fisherman brother—I never gave him a name because I never actually had a brother—took me in when I left you at the docks. For a time, I was happy again, loved, content.” Ed’s eyes watered. “I was Ed.”

Stede scoffed. “Ed, you were gone for a night.”

Ed banged his fist on the table. “I was Ed! Pop-Pop made me go get my leathers!” Ed sobbed. “Pop-Pop made me!”

Stede’s face crumpled into a very muppet-like expression. “What?”

“You just don’t want me to be Ed, do you? You think Blackbeard’s better! Pop-Pop told me to go do the only thing I was good at, so I had to go be Blackbeard again! It’s all your, Izzy’s, and Pop-Pop’s fault that I can’t be Ed!”

“I want you to be Ed, I just don’t like when you throw all our things at the wall!”

Ed snapped, “I wouldn’t throw things at the wall if they weren’t there when I get mad! Maybe we just need a maid!”

“Christ, Ed! We can’t afford a maid because we bought too much fishing equipment—”

They both stilled as lightning split the skies beyond the window of the shitty inn by the sea, darkness falling like a heavy shroud. The candles went out in a hissing puff.

Stede glanced to the door. “Do you hear that?”

Something on the porch. A footstep? No, something thumping. Strange. That had almost sounded like…

The door creaked open.

Silhouetted against the moonglow, a man stood clad in black. A seagull perched upon his shoulder with knowing, very hex-filled eyes.

A voice that sounded like someone was whispering cigarettes said, “The night is dark and full of muppets.”

Stede glanced at Ed. “That isn’t…?”

Ed swallowed, taking a step toward the door. “Izzy? Is that you, man? How? We buried you!”

“You took my ring. You took my cravat. You took my leg. You took my redemption arc. You took my family.” One gold-painted unicorn hoof slid forward as a familiar face loomed from the darkness. “Now, I’m taking it all back. Edward Teach—born on a beach—prepare to taste lead!”

Izzy whipped out an AK47 from the darkness. A maelstrom of bullets thundered through the inn, peppering Ed’s body until he was flailing back and forth like Kermit the Frog. Meanwhile, Stede hurled himself to the floor and scrambled under the table as Buttons shot laser beams from his beady seagull eyes, destroying the remnants of a porcelain vase that Ed had hurled against the wall only just the night before, when Stede had yawned too loudly for his liking.

The whisper-cigarette voice said, “Stede Bonnet, you fooken twat. Get up, muppet. We got a ship to catch.”

Stede crawled out from the table, staring up at Izzy with wide eyes. “What are you, oh, sea prince who was promised?”

“Me?” Izzy pulled out a pair of sunglasses, put them on, and said, “I’m the motherfooken unicorn.”

No, I will not be taking any critique, you media illiterate cretins. This is 100% plausible because DJ never actually said that seagulls in this universe can’t shoot laser beams from their eyes. Also, the fact that Izzy knows a song from the 1940s is in fact proof that he’s also a time traveler, therefore the AK47 is officially canon appropriate. In fact, this is so plausible—remember, genre and tone are no longer important—that it’s basically just the new ending.

#ofmd critical #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd izzy #ofmd izzy critical #ofmd fanfic #behold my genre bending magnum opus #ofmd #izzy hands

[enderspawn]

oli orionsound is so funny bc he does all this complex and competent stuff but also only ever does it on accident. like virgin wizard gem who carefully researched and nurtured the dragon egg to try and hatch it vs the chad oli who really fucked up making an omelette

#empires smp s2 #mcyt #orionsound #og post #he does really impressive high level high skill stuff but only by accident #he can genre bend his way into doing any task as long as it’s not the task he wanted

[kiss-me-chekov]

Y’all this Star Trek fic is gonna blow your minds once it’s done.

#genre bending #sci fi and fantasy #star trek the original series #star trek alternate original series #star trek aos #star trek tos #star trek #mcspirk #chekov x oc

[feral-teeth]

American Psycho lesbians… American Psycho Lesbians save me…

Oh yeah it’s all coming together

Based off of TV girl lyrics and my own gender-bent American Psycho characters… <3

#american psycho #american psycho gender bend #this is so niche #but oh so good #for me #feral-teeth art #feral teeth art #feral-teeth american psycho art #lesbian #lesbians #sapphic #sappho #bisexual #look at the ties #bisexual flag #! #lesbian flag #!!! #i also used a lesbian flag w gassian blur and make that the bg #also yall i feel like this should blow up cuz this is so tumblr genre niche #also the tv girl pink and blue #and the purple text… #do u get what im putting down #also sent this to the discord first and it was a hit :3 so why im posting this #also #also the queer theory of american psycho… did anyone else watch that youtube deep dive on it…. #also the musical…. pls someone talk to me about the musical.. #WAIT THERE WAS ALSO THE YOUTUBE DEEP DIVE ON THE AMERICAN PSYCHO MUSICAL THAT MADE ME WATCH THE MUSICAL #the story for me is this is their cigarette break after they made out in the bathroom - peep the orange lipstick smeared and the lipstick #on the right ones neck <333

[girl4music]

“‘Xena: Warrior Princess’ is about a female ex-warlord that has changed her ways and vows to serve the greater good. On a mission of redemption along with her sidekick, Gabrielle, she battles the forces of evil in the hopes of atoning for her dark shameful past. With guilt and goodness now driving her motivations, she and Gabrielle embark on a journey of self-discovery.”

#xena warrior princess #out of context #xena #lucy lawless #gabrielle #renee o'connor #it’s not just a drama #it’s genre-bending genius #this is why 90’s/early 2000’s TV is better #they didn’t give a shit #this video missed an opportunity to depict xena and gsbrielle singing a dramatic opera

[gaal-dornick]

apple tv is doing amazing things absolutely no one is watching

#personal #started watching sugar now that i know what the genre bending twist in episode 6 is #it's absolutely gorgeous

[vonlipvig]

dave in not for broadcast: the previous broadcast editor, a fun-loving, slightly lazy, kinda irresponsible guy.

dave in bits of your life: a medium-aware, 4th wall breaking, time manipulating, fun-loving, slightly lazy, kinda irresponsible god.

#this dlc is tickling me so much why was that so fun why is dave being all-powerful so fucking fitting #i love how the dlcs bend the genre and just have FUN. theyre SILLY. i love it #not for broadcast #bits of your life #bits of your life spoilers #jules plays not for broadcast

[goryhorroor]

i just saw your tags about Late Night With the Devil where you mentioned something about AI sucking. i had been kinda interested in checking the movie out, but didn’t realize AI was used in its production, do you know what parts/how much it was used for? i’d be really interested to hear your review of the movie overall, too, if you’re willing!

it's the "right back" sequences. the art is so obviously from an artist ive seen before, but the director did admit to using it. wild to think considering they could had easily hired an artist to make it.

besides the ai, i liked it alot! i loved the 70s talk-show vibes it had to it, the acting was off the chart, and the bits of analog horror they added really gave me excitement that this would encourage more horror directors to venture into the analog sub-genre. there were parts that dragged on but overall i highly enjoyed it!

#answered #i just didn't rate it because i have to stand on my morals that ai doesn't belong in the horror genre #horror has stood on practical effects since its beginning and for horror directors to bend the knee to ai sucks

[joespinell]

#bend the genre a little if you will #for research purposes…. #considering they’re both hypothetical situations about nuclear annihilation it’s kind of horror-y?? #like with the various shots of dr strangelove brooding in the background #and don’t get me started on fail safe #dr strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb #fail safe 1964