#or a plot point for later

[flipomatic]

#rwby #rwby volume 9 #rwby volume 9 spoilers #weiss schnee #rwby 9 #spoilers #weiss being the comedy relief again #it's happening more now since ruby is in MOURNING #I wish one of these characters #blake it should be blake #would freaking take a few minutes to ask ruby how she's feeling #and let her vent some of that sadness off a bit #or at least comfort her and show that they care #but they're just pushing onward and ignoring it #idk if it's an issue with episode time #or a plot point for later #but a little more emotional intelligence would be appreciated lmao

[carlyraejepsans]

in light of the coming sans vs cecil finale, i have to say that there is no bad outcome to this now. you did it. you mad sons of bitches, you did it. we could vote this like a true sexyman showdown or we could vote this for a gag, it doesn't matter anymore. but most importantly, the question that this poll raises is...

WHERE is the undertale/wtnv crossover episode where cecil announces monsterkind's return to the surface right outside of town. because "thousands of weird creatures came out of the nearby people-eating mountain after millennia of imprisonment and are currently settling into town via wacky hijinks" is a VERY night vale thing to happen

(UPDATE: you should check the full post cause i swear to god if y'all mention the goddamn mountains again)

#IT'S BEEN ADDRESSED ALRIGHT??? IT'S BEEN 4 YEARS. I FORGET ABOUT SHIT SOMETIMES #idk about later cecil because i stopped listening sometime around the wedding but #if you set this early enough in the podcast you can include the sexyman battle as a plot point and have him like #worry that that skeleton is gonna steal carlos' heart with his ''devastating good looks'' and comedic shenanigans #and then at the last second it turns out he's actually talking about papyrus gskkgkak #sanssweep #sexyman poll #wtnv #undertale #tumblr sexymen poll #sans #cecil palmer

[wildflowercryptid]

the kalosian worms are quickly eating away at my brain, folks.

#enjoy my shitpost doodles i'll do more serious ones later #mjv!calem is so funny to me i want to study him in a lab #the most fucked up lil dude in all of kalos he's so god damn haunted #just girly things : when an evil ecofascist ceo tricks you into almost killing your friends by brainwashing you <3 #i actually need to talk about what happens in mjv!xy instead of just dropping wild out of context jokes about plot points aksflj #pokemon #pokemon xy #pkmn xy #pokemon serena #trainer serena #pokemon az #trainer az #pokemon calem #trainer calem #rival calem #pokemon shauna #rival shauna #pokemon emma #trainer emma #hc : (pkmn) mjverse #chara : serena vidal #chara : zephyrathes '' az '' vidal #<- fucked up in that hc post and forgot to write out his full first name oops #chara : calem durant #chara : shauna bellamy #chara : emma khalil #🎨 : mj draws #tw explosion

[empty-dream]

“You’re not hollow.”

#jigokuraku #hell's paradise #jigokurakuedit #gabimaru #gabimaru's wife #myedit #mygif #i dont rlly wanna give away her name cuz its kinda plot point later #at least it was impactful for me #the credits also dont mention it #one day if the anime gets to that ill properly tag her #anw THEY SO CUTE AHSNFUSD #yea face it gabimaru ur not edgelord ur a dork

[buggachat]

"augh, this [media] sucks. it's all about shipping"

romance is a genre, harold

#this is the funniest thing that i keep seeing #im hardly mad at it honestly it's just funny at this point #like sometimes i'll see people criticize shows that used to be plot-based that in later seasons turned into just romantic drama #and i get that can be frustrating. but if a show has been ''about shipping'' since the pilot then maybe it's just the genre #this is like the funniest and most mundane version of dead dove #imagine explaining to a boomer or something that a show sucks because ''it's about shipping'' and then having to define shipping for them #and they look at you and say ''you... you mean like.... a romcom?''. how would you recover from that. what would you say

[radiantmists]

reading animorphs sequentially instead of in whatever random order you can get your hands on them is such a trip because you can see these kids getting progressively better at war and worse at being happy, you can see how traumatic events from one book echo into the next ones but never quite get dealt with because these kids have no real way to take care of their mental health, you can see their relationships deepening but simultaneously gaining friction and faultlines as they learn just how far they'd go for each other but also how far they'd go in general...

obviously this series was meant to be episodic in nature, and i actually think that might be the better way to first encounter it, but the arc of the series in publication order is extremely well-crafted

#though im having to take a break #i just read 16 and like. In the context of Jake's endgame it has me so fucked up #i mean it's a lot in itself especially since he doesnt really deal with any of what happened #but also like. him genuinely not knowing if he thinks fenestre killing hosts to get their yeerks is okay ot not? #its a bad turning point for him but also still so much better than where he ends up and im too sad #animorphs #tbh im very [miles studying beter meme] about this #its so good at establishing character and themes #and laying down plot hooks for later #in a format i really dont think about much #Semi-episodic book series arent really a thing anymore are they?

[descendant-of-truth]

I never really thought about this until now, but. why did Aang never express any opinions on Azula whatsoever after she literally killed him

Like, am I supposed to believe that he's not deeply afraid of her after that? Or at least angry? She left a scar on his back that interrupts his culturally significant tattoos, and we just... never see him notice or care about that??

I'm currently about halfway through Book 3 on my rewatch, and the fact that nobody's even told Aang on-screen that Azula was responsible for what happened is more than a little absurd. I'm pretty sure they acknowledge it at some point, but in some kind of offhanded way that really doesn't do the matter justice.

It honestly feels like the show didn't want to touch that plot point with a ten foot pole, only mentioning it when it was absolutely necessary to further the plot on Zuko's side of things. Which is weird! Why kill your protagonist on-screen, leave him with two permanent scars when he's revived, and then never have him confront or even talk about the person who killed him again???

Aang deserved to have a significant dynamic with Azula after what happened at the Crystal Catacombs and the fact that they dropped the topic almost entirely two episodes later lowkey fills me with rage

#avatar the last airbender #atla #aang #azula #analysis #meta #Not sure if this really counts as an analysis but I'm tagging it anyway #Also by 'two episodes later' I mean the second episode of Book 3 #Can you imagine it?? the intrigue?? the parallels with Zuko over being scarred by the Fire Nation royal family??? #If the Netflix version gets this far and keeps the same plot point at the end of Book 2 #then this is absolutely what I want them to expand upon afterwards

[yusuke-of-valla]

The thing about mean rivals is that like there's kinda a reason we stop having them the second the plots started getting world-ending in scope and that's because you do not have time to deal with some whiny asshole who you've beaten over and over again's shit when a space chinchilla is about to suffocate everyone in the region

Like if they're a dick to you the entire way through they quickly become all bark and no bite because narratively they're going to keep losing to you, and again progressively destroying the ego of a small child is second to whatever this year's eldritch abomination is (and if they went so far as to help the eldritch abomination it raises questions about why they're friendly enough to battle you in the post game).

So like. It's simpler if they're just nice? And have arcs where the fact that they keep losing to you is the point? Your rival isn't the final boss anymore you don't have to build up to finally being able to defeat them for good (except not really) (I guess Hau in USUM arguably but LBR the final boss is Ultra Necrozma)

Like I guess I get annoyed when people don't acknowledge there's a point to how the rivals have been handled since gen 3. You don't have to like it per se but there's a reason the rivals are like this and it's not just the devs don't want to upset little kids.

The fact that the adults care about your safety on the other hand...

#I'd have to go play through it properly but like. the plot of Gen I is really weak and for narrative sake I think we should not be holding #ourselves to its tropes #(i don't say this to be disparaging to Gen I I respect those games so much #I mostly say it to like make a point) #also like the rivals didn't start exclusively choosing the Pokémon weaker than you until the one stronger than you showed up elsewhere #what's more intimidating Kukui and Leon having the stronger starter or the weaker one? #meanwhile Hop and Nemona are like. explicitly going easy on you. Nemona was about to waste you with her champion level team like a Pokémon #player stumbling across a bug catcher they missed while having god in their party #yeah of course when clavell points that out she chooses the weaker starter #Hop also has two Pokémon on you and is not ready for you to be as good as you are that's why he takes losing so hard later #he's being cocky #ANYWAY THIS HAS BEEN YOUR SEMI MONTHLY ALTO RANT ABOUT CERTAIN POKÉMON FANS #Pokemon

[layla-carstairs]

"the atla live action is the worst adaptation ever" none of you people would have survived shtv

#also... some people need to go back and rewatch the atla movie lmao #it does not have 'more soul' that the show bffr #same with pjo like the way some people are changing up with the movies.... #the only early 2010s movie that deserves to be favoured after the release of a tv show is the city of bones movie #because the tv show badly adapted tmi in ways you couldn't even imagine #like what did Jace even do in the later part of the show? didn't they give all his plot points to other characters? 😭 #bella talks #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #city of bones #avatar the last airbender #atla #nalta #netflix atla #atla live action #atla la #shadowhunters #shtv

[sarcasrnspasrn]

ok yknow what this is something i actually have been wondering abt for a while since apparently the fact that i've used the internet in my dreams like i would when i'm awake is not a universal experience so fuck it.

I'd appreciate it if any of you would like to elaborate on your experiences in the comments/tags also!

#ylimespam #polls #first got introduced to the idea that it might be abnormal because of a batman episode #where it was a plot point that bruce couldn't read in what he later figured out was a dream #and i was like '...? but i can read in my dreams?' #later asked my family and a bunch of them were like 'every time i try to read in dreams it's always a little too fuzzy to make out' etc #so. just something i've been curious about ever since!

[bonebabbles]

Slash's Famous Scene

Here we are, lads. Everyone's favorite scene in the totally best arc of WC. The one where Slash pins a pregnant woman to the ground and licks her face, while threatening her fetuses and cutting her cheek open so Clear Sky can have more man pain.

So far I've been using "fridging" as synonymous with the brutal killing of a female character to advance a male character's arc; but I do want to remind everyone that the term "fridging" describes disproportionate violence done to women in the service of their husband/brother/father/son's arcs. It doesn't HAVE to be death; it can also be battery, maiming, depowering, or sexual assault.

So far, 8 women have died to serve male arcs, most of them for Clear Sky specifically. Fluttering Bird, Bright Stream, Storm, Misty, Bumble, Turtle Tail, Rainswept Flower, and Petal. Now Star Flower gets sexually harassed and kidnapped, bringing the arc's fridge total to 9.

Anyway content warning, obviously. It's still Warrior Cats and doesn't get too graphic, but this bag contains a dead dove.

First, Clear Sky gets another toesucking from the ghost of his wife who died after leaving his controlling ass. Specifically, after he threw his disabled brother out of his Clan, and after his lust for seeing random people (including his brother) get mauled at the border resulted in the death of Fox.

She tells him that his behavior never drove anyone away, it was all totally not his fault. I'm waiting for a laugh track and it never comes. The apologetics in this arc are unrivaled.

Then, Clear Sky wakes up and his pregnant wife is not next to him. So he goes looking for her and sees her being flanked by Slash and his memorable minions, Grunt 1 and Grunt 2. Star Flower is so possessed by fear that she doesn't move.

They REALLY need to sell that Slash is TRUE evil, PURE evil, because of the wet fart that is Clear Sky's redemption arc. They're saying that Clear Sky ISN'T bad, because he is not this. A dirty, sadistic monster who coos evilly about how he's going to hurt the kittens in his wife's belly and cruelly twitches his whiskers.

(as a petty side detail, please also note that this passage cannot even keep Slash's fur color straight. Behold, a cat so evil that he cannot even remain a brown tabby! He turns gray when he commits nefarious deeds! Ashfurification included!)

Star Flower is the one being pinned to the ground and having her face cut open as Slash screams about how she promised her father she'd be his mate, but this scene is about Clear Sky's distress. Star Flower is an object to this narrative, which these two men are in conflict over.

The pinning, the violence, the sexual implications, are being done to make Slash as monstrous as possible to contrast to Clear Sky. Slash doesn't kill anyone, so the narrative needs to make you SO UPSET your emotions are thrown into overdrive, so you'll accept how truly terrible he is.

The simple truth that this rancid book is trying to make you ignore, is that Clear Sky is exponentially more deadly. He has caused harm so unspeakable that they have to describe his bloody murders in passive voice. They "died" now, instead of "were killed," and the violent system he created is presented as "making up" for the trauma he's caused to the survivors.

"Pushing his muzzle close to her injured cheek, he licked the blood from her fur with a long, lingering lap."

Think critically about the characters they are presenting and the actions they make them do. None of these are real people. They are writing choices. They have portrayed Slash as a perverted, domineering, child-abusing savage, so Clear Sky the Settler can look good in comparison.

then Star Flower gets dragged off, kicking and struggling, feeble and completely unable to defend herself as clear sky thinks about how she might die along with his fetuses.

Obviously Clear Sky is so very stressed out by all this and needs to blow off some steam, so he smacks the nearest woman and starts screeching about how Star Flower is more loyal than the son he abuses

The first thing he does after the Slash event was physically assault the nearest woman. I can't... I don't have the words. Are you seeing this. Do you see what I am fucking dealing with. literally the first woman he sees.

"DOES THAT FEEL LIKE AN ACT??" He bellowed like a fucking wifebeater at the girl whose face is bleeding because he cut her in a fit of rage. That's fine as long as you don't lustfully lick it afterwards I guess!!!

#dotc hate #bones reads dotc #Slash dotc #this arc is going to END me #ill also get into how slash's description of events is a lie #but the fact he is a liar and pulling a bluff is a plot point later #Starf is around the same age as Thunder based on her order of events and Clear describes her as 'young' #Starf also does not lie. They talk about 'manipulation' and 'betrayal' but no. she's very honest #the only misleading she ever does is through vagueness like when thunder asks her 'do you know one eye' #and she says 'yes' but doesn't elaborate #a woman will have absolutely no choice in her actions and do nothing wrong by telling her dad about an assassination attempt #and the writers will put that on the same level as a man who beats kids and kills women and commits war crimes

[finnabar]

workin on an izzy agere fic and figured i'd illustrate some scenes... he's just a lil guy fr

please keep this sfw btw! <3

#not sure if/when i'll finish the fic but i'll reblog it here when i do #the plot is essentially him rebuilding his relationship w ed through the power of age regression/caretaking #he finds a little stuffed dog and it brings up lots of memories of how their relationship used to be #and i want the crew to get involved as well at a later point #izzy hands #ofmd #agere #sfw agere #age regression #our flag means death fanart #our flag means death #fanart #sfw age regression #myart

[watcherintheweyr]

desperately need people to understand that alicent is a victim but she’s also an abuser and a perpetrator

that she actively makes choices to harm other women because of jealousy and envy and the greed deep in her bones because submitting to suffering didn’t get her what those women fight to grasp for themselves.

she is absolutely a victim, in show.

that doesn’t change that she abused rhaenyra and her children, her own son, most likely helaena given how she flinches every time her mother touches her, and is actively weaponizing the patriarchy of westeros against other women- rhaenyra primarily, but also mysaria and dyana.

she isn’t the moral, righteous force of good that even she thinks she is, she’s a wounded woman directing all of the rot, pain, and fury inside her at the wrong people and forces.

#anti team green stans #anti team green #anti alicent hightower stans #i don’t wanna say it’s anti alicent bc honestly it’s more ‘accept her for who she is bc she’s so much more complex and interesting when you #but i made this bc someone genuinely tried to say that the reason people hate her is that they don’t see her as a victim #most rational people know show!alicent is a victim #it’s the point that’s she’s an abuser as well #that makes them dislike her #that she’s a hypocrite and a traitor #i don’t even like young alicent bc i don’t at all think she was a good friend to rhaenyra #‘it’s not your place to question the plots of lords and men’ to the named heir #dismisses rhaenyra’s hopes and idealism entirely out of hand #is baffled that rhaenyra is more worried for her fathers happiness and mother’s wellbeing than her position #she knew as early as ep 3 that otto was conspiring against rhaenyra and never told anyone #condemns ‘targaryen customs’ only to wed her daughter to her son even younger than she was when otto dangled her before viserys #acts entitled to rhaenyras secrets whilst condemning and judgemental even though she did not give rhaenyra that same courtesy #made no attempt at apology for the insensitive comment of aegon’s birth #though rhaenyra DID try to apologize for the ‘imprisoned in a castle’ line and tried to comfort her #uses her power as queen to push past the space rhaenyra is trying to create because she feels heartbroken and betrayed #rhaenyra took part in alicent’s culture with prayer at alicent’s urging because she cared about alicent and alicent was trying to help her #alicent is never once shown to return that favor instead condemning it for ‘queerness’ and growing to later #erase and remove all targaryen and valyrian heraldry from the red keep to replace with her own #like alicent is a victim and i DO have empathy for her. but i don’t like her and never will #especially not after the way her stans behave #she deserved better than otto’s machinations and viserys’…. viserysness #but that can also be true whilst i condemn her actions and behaviors

[feelingtheaster99]

In this recap, Brennan mentioned the curdling feeling and Fig’s strange accidents right before talking about Gilear and Hillariel leaving Fabian which has me more convinced than ever that Gilear and Fig have switched luck

#I am very behind so if that is confirmed later whelp #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #not all who wanda are lost #it all who wanda are lost spoilers #fig faeth #gilear faeth #emily axford #brennan lee mulligan #this plot point kind of reminds me of the movie just my luck? #with Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine? #I’m really wondering how Fig is going to deal with a sudden turn in fortunate #and how will Gilear function if everything is going well for him??? #fhjy speculation #d20 fhjy #live reaction #fhjy ep 3

[mitsies]

reo mikage but he’s the biggest gossip known to man. like as SOON as he gets home he takes chugs a bottle of water sits down and starts off ‘okay so BASICALLY..’

#reo mikage x reader #blue lock x reader #mitzi’s world! #it’s part of the rich boy lifestyle ig #killer side eyes come w being the top 1% #internally he catalogues every detail just to relay later on #has a note on his phone of literally just details (plot points) he needs to touch on when he’s recounting his gossip

[inamagicalhallucination]

everytime a new chapter comes up therell be ppl huffing and puffing about how much the new chapter sucks and how asagiri cant write like if u hate bsd so much why r u still keeping up with it 😭😭😭

#am not talking about genuine criticism btw like ppl pointing out plot holes that may or may not be addressed later #but at this point r just as they r