#not a big moment in the plot but

[wiishopchanelboots]

“Now, then, you look beautiful!” said Tenar in her seamstress’s pride, when Therru first tried it on.

Therru turned her face away.

“You are beautiful,” Tenar said in a different tone. “Listen to me, Therru. Come here. You have scars, ugly scars, because an ugly, evil thing was done to you. People see the scars. But they see you, too, and you aren’t the scars. You aren’t ugly. You aren’t evil. You are Therru, and beautiful. You are Therru who can work, and walk, and run, and dance, beautifully, in a red dress.”

The child listened, the soft, unhurt side of her face as expressionless as the rigid, scar-masked side.

She looked down at Tenar’s hands, and presently touched them with her small fingers. “It’s a beautiful dress,” she said in her faint, hoarse voice.

When Tenar was alone, folding up the scraps of red material, tears came stinging into her eyes. She felt rebuked. She had done right to make the dress, and she had spoken the truth to the child. But it was not enough, the right and the truth. Love, her love for Therru and Therru’s for her, made a bridge across that gap, a bridge of spiderweb, but love did not fill or close it. Nothing did that. And the child knew it better than she.”

- Tehanu, Ursula K. LeGuin

#Tehanu #book quotes #ursula k. le guin #earthsea #tenar #therru #text #this is such a good book so far #like this #not a big moment in the plot but #it speaks so much about how we deal with pain and trauma #That love helps but cant heal everything #sometimes its only a tenuous connection #an important valuable connection #but not a cure all

[fernsnailz]

losing my mind over these ponies from Daring Don't whose cutie marks are just cartoon violence vfx. like imagine finding out your special talent is beating the shit out of other people

#also idk if this is controversial or not. but i did not like this episode at all #so far season 4 feels more focused on big action plots rather than like... interesting character moments? #idk. left a bad taste in my mouth #mlp #ferntext

[markantonys]

season 3 episode 7 is titled "goldeneyes"! (source)

definitely makes me think this episode will focus on the battle of the two rivers and climax of perrin's plotline while 3x08 will focus on the climax of rand & co's plotline, but we shall see!

#then i feel like nynaeve & moggy's big showdown could be the B plot of either 3x07 or 3x08 #or potentially happen earlier in the season depending on what else they have planned for her and elayne i suppose #but i do think that showdown would be great as a big Finale Moment #wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #perrin aybara #wot book spoilers #wot show spoilers

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

I just rewatched 02 x 07 for the first time since finishing all the books and I can't stop thinking about it. I feel like everyone is either on the side of (1) it was all a big ploy, or (2) that's it for Moiraine and Siuan they can never come back from this--but I really don't think either of those are true.

I think the most in character thing Moiraine could possibly do is forgive Siuan, for the following reasons:

Moiraine knows that she would do the exact same thing that Siuan did here--namely, sacrifice anything (even their relationship and their trust in one another)--for the sake of the world and their mission. And this shared goal, these compatible values, and this mutual understanding is literally what has kept them together despite 20 years of distance and secrecy from the world.

[MINOR BOOK SPOILERS] We see in one of the books that Moiraine believes she and Siuan have made their beds and will lie in them one day by becoming involved in the quest to find the Dragon -- I believe the way she phrases it is about payment coming due for all the rules they've broken and the secrecy etc. that they needed for their quest. If this is her attitude, she is not only willing to give up everything, but expects to give up everything. And she expects it of Siuan as well.

Siuan has already proven how much she would give up for their quest. She became Amyrlin despite, as we learn this same episode, how much she did not want to be trapped in the tower and could not see her future there. She gave up any semblance of a happy life (how she would picture it both with and without Moiraine!) for this quest.

In some ways, if Siuan had just let Moiraine take Rand through a waygate to Falme, it would have actually been a betrayal of their mission. Their mission wasn’t “get Rand to Falme.” It was “protect and train the dragon reborn.” Siuan feels the need to do that as acutely as Moiraine does--and critically, Moiraine knows this about Siuan.

This goes quadruple if Siuan actually did think Moiraine could be a dark friend. Siuan thinks Moiraine lied to her!! And Moiraine knows this too, since Siuan does at least have the chance to say "You lied to me!" Moiraine would understand that if there was any chance Moiraine had been turned or was compelled, Siuan had to try and stop her from taking Rand off to god knows where.

Literally just a few days earlier Moiraine had threatened to have Alanna take Lan’s bond by force if he stood in her way--aka, the way of her mission. At this very moment, Moiraine herself has spent days (weeks?) contemplating what it would mean to betray the autonomy and trust of those she loves most if it means saving the world. And she knows what side she's on.

When Moiraine says, “if you have ever loved me don’t do this” my heart shatters into a million pieces. But that line is not just ,“it will be a betrayal of our love and trust if you compel me." It is that, but it's also a call for Siuan to see Moiraine for MOIRAINE. She’s saying “you know me.” She’s trying to get her (Siuan) to see that what she (Moiraine) is doing is not about her shame and pride but about the mission. Because it is ALWAYS about the mission, Moiraine IS the mission, and Siuan loves her because of that, and Moiraine knows Siuan loves her because of that 

Moiraine clearly hesitates before going through the waygate. Her character isn't one to linger out of shock and betrayal. She lashes out and she puts up distance--we've seen this all season. Moiraine moves forward. So I read her looking at Siuan here as far more "I love you and I'm sorry [I can't help you? it's come to this? we can't reconcile?]" than "How could you?" or "You're a different person to me now." I’m not trying to minimize the violation Moiraine is also feeling in this moment, I just think that if the violation was her primary emotion she would likely behave differently. And if she can have this messy a set of emotions even in the heart of the moment, I have faith she can similarly hold multiple emotions later when reconciling.

The flashback scenes are so heartbreaking but they don’t have to mean that Moiraine and Siuan feel so betrayed and far from those versions of themselves that they will never be together again. Those flashbacks can also be saying “remember when we were those people?” Holding onto those versions of themselves is how they hold onto their love despite this scene.

Those flashbacks also remind us that their relationship in the show is like 50 years old. It is deep. People don't throw away 50 years of relationship without a conversation, even if there is a deep betrayal involved. And that's normal people--not even people who have given up absolutely everything for a cause that the relationship has now gotten wrapped up in. In the books, they are together for a few years and then seemingly go their separate ways when the Dragon is reborn. I don't think the show would have gone out of its way to deepen and lengthen this relationship just to end it so quickly and unceremoniously.

#anyway maybe I'm delusionsal #but it just seems absolutely impossible to me that they would spend that long building up their relationship to just be like okay poof bye #but I also think them working together and having this all be a big plot sort of cheapens the moment #plus that just isn't the type of show this is #and the episode titles have been more applicable to the following episode in season 2 for whatever reason #so daes damar can refer to the games everyone is playing in the finale #although I remain confused how siuan knew where to go and where the waygate is #ANYWAY I get why people are so distraught by what siuan does here but I just don't think moiraine will see it that way #moiraine is a morally complicated character despite being so sure of right and wrong and I just have to believe she sees that in Siuan too #wheel of time #moiraine damod #siuan sanche #siuan sanche waits for only one woman

[grayintogreen]

I feel like the Otohan situation on a viewer level is very much not taking into account the fact that maybe she was boring to us, the audience, but I KNOW INTIMATELY that feeling of dread on Marisha’s face every time she yelled TRESHI SCRY BALL, like you have not experienced true fear like barely escaping an encounter with an OP Mook that’s going to take your ass down and how exciting/terrifying it is every time they show up no matter how unimportant to the plot they are. Like that was for THEM.

Anyway I swear I’m done having opinions on something I don’t actually care that much about because whatever it was, it was good and the players were emotionally compromised by it in the best way, but lol it does seriously remind me of my gaming days. I have been in that fight with that asshole and I was scared and had fun and had some of the most epic moments from it.

#shout-out to Anderson from my home game who was nowhere NEAR the big bad of the campaign #and in fact had less to do with the main plot than Otohan does and yet EVERY TIME that asshole showed up was my favorite moment in the game #except the time I failed a spot check and arrived to the fight with him late and didn’t get the killing blow myself #shit HAUNTS me #critical role #cr spoilers

[kazanfamily]

Starting a masterlist of ships who I always saw as sibling dynamics until I shockingly realized that the fandom shipped them romantically, and then they proceeded to become pretty much or actually canon

Sincerely, a hopeless panromantic who loves shipping but is still sick of amatonormativity in media.

-Migi

Ed and Winry - Fullmetal Alchemist

Yuu and Mika - Owari no Seraph

Catra and Adora - She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Eren and Mikasa - Attack on Titan

#fma taught me to really appreciate sibling relationships as a whole #but ofc you “need” romance for the happy ending #yuu and mika were raised in the same orphanage with a huge family of siblings where everyone shared the same last name #catra and adora grieved over their shared surrogate mother just moments before the big kiss #similarly mikasa was adopted by eren's mother #ever notice how similar the plots of owari no seraph and she-ra are when it comes to the leads? #two kids raised as orphans living under a tyrannical regime #one of them flees and finds a gang of resistance rebels #the other pleads loyalty to the regime and the two have a strained 'nemeses but also family' dynamic #fma 03 #fmab #fma brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #edward elric #winry rockbell #owari no seraph #the end's seraph #yuuichirou hyakuya #mikaela hyakuya #she ra and the princesses of power #catra #adora #aot #attack on titan #snk #shingeki no kyojin #eren yeager #mikasa ackerman #amatonormativity #siblings

[heich0e]

trigun college!au where knives doesn't think you're good enough for vash, and hates how close the two of you seem to be getting as your friendship develops. so of course the obvious solution is to fuck you within an inch of your life on a semi-regular basis so that you don't get any ridiculous ideas about trying to date his little brother.

#no one is online and therefore i'm allowed to post this #nai wanted him and vash to go to a better more prestigious school #but vash's heart was set on this one #so he followed (with the obvious intention of convincing him to transfer somewhere more respectable after a semester or two) #you and vash meet at frosh week and have a few classes together #and knives resentfully watches as the years pass and you ingratiate yourself further and further into his brothers life #he waits until you're at a party one night to put his plan into motion #finding you in a dark corner when you FINALLY leave his brothers side for more than a few fleeting moments #and he corners you with his big BIG frame and has every intention of questioning you and YOUR intentions with regards to vash #but you're blinking up at him with slightly intoxicated doe eyes that make him uncharacteristically hesitate #next thing you know he's dragging you into some random room at the stupid house party he never even wanted to attend in the first place #and the rest they say.... is history #(plot twist your friendship with vash is completely platonic and you've had a crush on nai all along anyway) #trigun college!au

[blackkatmagic]

Once again screaming wailing gnashing my teeth over the lost and ignored themes of distrust, worthlessness, ambition, and loyalty in Son Jin Woo.

Like!! This is a man who explicitly says he learned to never trust other people because they always turn on him and betray him eventually, and raises soldiers from the dead with the explicit feeling that they're desperately reaching out to him, specifically, to save them from death. He surrounds himself with an army of fanatically loyal undead, and it's mentioned a few times that he's just as fanatically loyal to them in return, that he mourns every single one, and it's purely his own willpower that lets him reanimate them, that how much he wants them to be his is what gives him the power to raise them.

He's quiet and ruthless and set up to be a remorseless killer who doesn't give a damn about anyone but those he decides to love, who follows and surveils his loved ones at all times so he knows they're safe, who uses people without pause and doesn't care what people think about him. He loves fighting and gets a thrill from every time he gains power, says explicitly that as he levels up he feels more and more divorced from humanity, and only relies on his shadow army! He's a villain-coded figure in the role of hero and it's!! so cool!!!

And yet the narrative takes all these interesting bits and just. never addresses them. There's no consequence of Jin Woo feeling any of this. The whole series devolves into bland power fantasy/Gary Stu ridiculousness where the whole world can be divided into Good Guys Who Love the Protagonist and Bad Guys Who Hate/Are Jealous of the Protagonist. What a waste. We could have had it aaaaaall.

#kat rants #solo leveling #yes im still salty about this #i've been rereading the books and just. there are SO MANY interesting plot points set up #jin woo is an OP character to the max #so his story conflicts NEED to be emotional/social #there are so many interesting ways to do it too #like!! #what about if he actually didn't trust anyone who didn't prove themselves to him #like keep jin ho as a friend #but make him more skeptical of everyone else not his family #make it have consequences! make jin woo deciding to trust people a big moment! #it could have been so GOOD OKAY I WILL NEVER GET OVER THIS

[idkaguyorsomething]

me tryna explain the shipping implications of the missy comic to anyone who’ll listen

#guys that comic was so so good #okay so of course you’ve got twissy #but also #a big part of the plot revolves around unit and the delgado master #and missy impersonating the doctor to gain delgado!master’s trust #so you have threegado going on #but also missy flirting with another one of her past selves again while she’s doing a shitty impersonation of her boyfriend #BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE #river song shows up out of nowhere to save the day while missy’s pretending to be the doctor #so of course they flirt #then missy and delgado!master hop around their timelines to look for the macguffin #so we get a highlight reel of some of the gayest thoschei moments #including the tensimm junkyard tantrum and spydoc kneeling power play #So that makes uhhh #twissy #threegado #tensimm #spydoc #thoschei #best enemies #doctor who #missy doctor who #delgado!master #gomez!master #doctor who comics #twelfth doctor #it was also just a really good comic too #great art fun writing solid characterization #if you’re a fan of missy or thoschei definitely give it a try

[tennessoui]

⭐️⭐️⭐️

Also what story had you feeling “giggling, twirling my hair, kicking my feet” the most

(director’s commentary ask box game)

So she’s not PUBLISHED yet, but I feel like I’m constantly giggling twirling my hair kicking my feet at my campaign manager anakin au aka exploiting the body politic au because it’s just so silly. literally almost too silly to function. they’re all snippy to each other and it’s honestly me reliving a lot of my sophomore year college days lol except anakin is trying to seduce a lot more housewives than I did

to carry on with that theme, I’ll choose that au to talk about !!

I really wasn’t sure how or where I wanted to start the campaign manager fic when it was time to put it into a fic document - there are just so many good moments I want to hit. I’m honestly 100% sold about starting the fic with anakin introducing himself (because I find me funny) but I also definitely considered starting after obi-wan and anakin have met and are in the middle of all their sexual tension and also their campaign

I figured that’s going to have a lot of fun moments, like for example as obi-wan’s self-assigned campaign manager, anakin is at least partially responsible for obi-wan’s image so he can sign him up for random things that are basically hell on earth as punishment for? slamming him up against a wall? or letting him go from said wall?? even anakin doesn’t know what he’s most upset by. But he knows for sure that making obi-wan do a hot Pilates class is exactly the kind of suffering he deserves

#asks #body politic au #obikin #the problem with spending a lot of time thinking about an au on tumblr #and then turning it into an actual fic #is that it’s just a completely different structure #like as AUs on tumblr i can jump around in time #hit the highlights and not worry about continuity or plot #so I have all these moments I want to hit #like his election night and anakin bringing Padmé as a date but then obiwan finally fucking him in his office #but I can’t write that before writing 20k of set up you know!! #also big thank you for sending this in 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[whitmore]

really actually kind of enjoy how the big lore moments are sort of quiet on a singular stream (or a small group!) instead of the events solely being the lore; i think there would be this hesitation to develop anything solo if the server reinforced this idea that Big Lore could only happen during scheduled events and days. instead the more narrative-progressing moments (take the baghera hybrid experiments revelation or the philza birdnapping for recent example) are very low-key and almost unhyped up— there’s no expectation for that kind of lore necessarily at the time which makes it more rewarding to experience as a viewer. big fan of how they do the events as player bonding time rather than serious narrative progression because it allows all the players (especially the ones who don’t engage in the rp side that much) to participate and get to know each another more; it’s very neat it’s really smart it’s nicely executed

#eleanor.txt #qsmp #tag expansion time get ready for the nuance #do i think that the events could be executed better in terms of like. coding / design. yes on occasion #i’ve seen some frustration that some players don’t take the events seriously enough and that it’s frustrating as a viewer #which i understand and empathize with i think there’s definitely A solution somewhere but i’m not sure exactly what it is tbh #i try not to criticize what i cannot personally solve i think they’re doing their best with what they’ve got #i also do believe that like the Expectation for Big Lore almost always backfires #it’s something u cannot win i think . the expectation will always in some way let you down #(especially re: character involvement seriousness of the stream amount progressed narratively contribution to general plot etc etc #there’s so many variables when you expect ‘lore’ and what that means to people) #i think there’s always some disappointed group when Big Lore starts to be hyped up & teased #whereas i see a lot less general complaints when it’s an unexpected moment (other than people upset they missed it— #arguably unavoidable whether you advertise the stream as lore focused or not) #there’s still Lore during the events things still occur information is still exchanged #but it’s not structured on lore. lore isn’t the foundation for the event it just occurs by implication #anyway. very good job qsmp impressive stuff very enjoyable

[lazycranberrydoodles]

the people in the tags understand me. starembers art is super pretty but also weird at times.

#xie lian has been doing manual labor for a living (breaking boulders on his chest WITH NO SPIRITUAL ENERGY brick laying farming etc) #im anti twink xie lian #also i dont think he should have mxtx protagonist snowy white skin. maybe as a sheltered prince. but he has been planting rice for years. #AT LEAST GIVE HIM A TAN #and hua cheng died as a malnourished 17 year old (he has been working out since then but i still prefer skinnier headcanons). #why does everybody have light eyes (even putting aside the colorism in the novel.) #why does xie lian have this wide-eyed-lips-parted-blank look and hua cheng have bedroom eyes all of the time #(not that they can't necessarily make these expressions but augh.) #why are they tall as fuck in every full body shot #why are their hands so big. #again i don't want to put any opinions in an actual post because i havent read the comic and it might be different than i think #but just based on the art ive seen... theyve been very yaoified. thats the best word i have #even by the point the manhua has reached (lqq arc iirc) #they've been having sincere and vulnerable moments #and i havent really seen panels that tell me that. let them be silly and awkward and fuck up. even if it makes them less sexy for a moment #and also?? xie lian (again just based off the art) seems to have lost a lot of agency? #he is a 'go with the flow' guy but he is also pretty situationally aware and clever #but the vibes i get are that he gets wide-eyedly dragged from plot point to plot point #(in the case where hua cheng slung him over his shoulder literally??) #(he would not fucking do that book 1.) #please correct me if i'm wrong #i'll probably get around to reading the manhua faster if someone tells me theyre more in character than i think they are #lmao #if you love the manhua disregard me. #not art #to delete l8er #(possibly) #(if i turn out to be wrong about this which is possible) #(or if someone decides they are very emotionally invested in my medium intensity feelings)

[peachdues]

hello! i feel like you’ve totally answered this before but is this next chapter of netherwood the end? tbh i could read it for like 5000 years but i was just curious! thank you for all your amazing stuff!

Hi bestie!

No, I can definitively say that Part IV of Netherwood is not the end — but Part V will be. This is especially true after I finally hammered out a major plot detail/reveal that will definitely be a huge focus of Part IV.

Both Parts IV and V will be hefty chapters — that I can promise!

#and the major plot point in question is going to be a BIG “’holy shit’ moment #I showed Sam already and he sent like ten texts in a row going HOLY FUCK #hehe #🍑’s asks #asks — Netherwood

[fandomsniper]

kallus and zeb

#I just love the idea that zeb is this big fluffy maine coone while kallus is this scrappy floppy eared mutt #I once made up a whole canine based alien race and I kinda want to write a fic where kallus is a hybrid #but I don't feel like making up the whole major plot around it how it all worked in the empire and all that shit #I just have this funny moments of him acting dog like #plus that cat dog dynamic between him and zeb would be hilarious lol #alexsandr kallus #agent kallus #zeb orrelios #garazeb orrelios #sw rebels #star wars rebels #headcanon #au

[aauroralightss]

happy work in progress wednesday!! here's a passage from my current multichapter wip! the premise is fallen angel vash au, but this is an interaction in chapter nine with livio :)

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“A roommate?” Livio’s eyebrows shoot up. “In that tiny rental?”

“Well, it wasn’t—planned. He’s sleeping on the couch.” Wolfwood scratches the side of his neck. “But yeah. His name’s Vash. He’s…” Wolfwood struggles for the right word to use to describe his roommate, actively fighting the urge to call him angelic or heavenly, knowing how that would sound to his brother. (Even if it would be really funny to recount to Vash later.) “He’s a nice guy. You’d probably like him.”

Livio’s eyes widen. “A nice guy. You like him!”

“I—what?”

“As a person,” Livio clarifies with a hand lifted. “Unless—”

“No.”

“Okay, then as a person.” Livio grins. “But you definitely do. The only other person you’ve ever outright called nice is that Millie Thompson.”

Wolfwood can’t deny that—or at least he can’t deny that Millie is nice—but it’s a little humiliating that Livio has been keeping track. “...So? I’m living with him, I’m allowed to like him.”

#nicholas d wolfwood #livio the double fang #trigun livio #wip wednesday #rora writes #vashwood #well... it's kind of more implied in the passage #but trust that the fic is vashwood bahaha #i'm working on chapter eleven at the moment and approaching 40k words #i plan to start uploading either when it's finished or when i get pretty close to that #just because it's a pretty big story and i don't want to leave anyone hanging if i get the post serotonin immediately #loved getting to write livio... the introduction of this fic is kind of slow plot wise but we're getting to the good stuff probably within #the next few chapters or so #we pray #can't wait to post this so i can stop talking my friends ears off about it i'm sure they're sick of me

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

TODOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

#BEST BOY IS BACK I SHED ACTUAL TEARS #FUCKKK i forgot how much i love him 😭😭 #he ALWAYS appears when yuji needs him most what if i cry and throw up #(nobara comeback soon TRUST) #anyway i liked this chapter BUT . i’m mad abt choso #like as far as deaths go . i think his scene was good. i cried . yuji calling him big bro at the end feels fitting #BUTT his death was a lil toooo sudden for my liking + i feel like it undermines the fight he had w kenjaku !!! #bc that fight ended w choso’s death as a curse. and . so . I MEAN #in a way i can understand the appeal writing wise of having him die once as a curse and once as a human #BUT LIKE ….. yuki telling him to ”live as a human” was suchhh a powerful moment n i rlly felt like it gave him plot armour 😭 #so . well. im not too happy w this. BUTTTT you have to understand how my brain works …. i see todo aoi and i get hyped #and the final yuji/choso scene was rlly rlly heartwrenching :((( #so i liked the chapter. but i cant say i rlly like the writing choice…….. #im just praying for todo not to die PLSSSS dont take my bestie from me 😔😔😔 #(also logan if u happen to see this my grievances are with you and your family at this time) #ari noises ✩ #jjk spoilers #jjk manga spoilers #jjk leaks #jjk 259