#or not touching the actual story at all

[erraticprocrastinator]

A reminder to all my lovely fellow writers: progress is progress, even when it isn't. Writing four thousand words in a session is progress. Writing a hundred words in a session is progress. Removing an entire scene because it doesn't flow well is progress. Rethinking your plan for the plot in order to get unstuck is progress. Development looks different for every writer and every story.

#I know it's hard when you don't feel like you're being conventionally “productive” #but every little thing puts you one step closer to finishing your WIP #even when you're actually taking something away #or not touching the actual story at all #writeblr #writing community #writers #writing #writers of tumblr #writing mood #writing advice #friendly reminder #reminder #writers on tumblr #writers community

[bengallemon]

okay so its going to be impossible for me to write a full post about isat until after my 2nd playthrough and i have a bunch of notes, but i WILL be insane about how the senses are depicted, especially things siffrin smells, tastes and sees.

(spoilers for the whole game but when i get to act 4/5 ill put it under a cut)

because it starts off normal. everything that's experienced for the first couple of loops is alright, and that's because siffrin's mental state is still mostly the same as when they went into the house for the first time with the squad.

until the text starts commenting on little things, like how the cookies are getting old to the malanga fritters not being exactly the same as how sif is trying to remember, to how whenever they get to the end and talk to the head housemaiden how they smell burnt sugar just before looping back to the start.

the most jarring is the sight. slowly, throughout all the loops you start seeing an image of siffrin standing somewhere, such as in a hallway, before vanishing, and it gets a bit more common the more loops you've been through. it becomes more obvious the more things taste less like anything (and the more the game comments on how siffrin's stomach feels) and how easy it is to miss something new someone says (because you and siffrin are speeding through everything you hear), how quickly his mental state is declining.

(now spoilers for acts 4 and 5 because thats when it gets Real)

during act 4 it's possible (for some ungodly reason), when talking to bonnie at least for the first time in a loop, for the music to cut off and their sprite suddenly be half covered in black. because. why not. (this happened the second time in act 4 i talked to bonnie in dormont and i jumped badly)

the most probable explanation for seeing this is because of how the last moments in act 3 are of bonnie literally being crushed by the king's hand. probably siffrin remembering what happened and it starting to overlay in his vision.

it's probably also why you see other sifs throughout the castle, especially the further along you go. either he's seeing vestiges of past loops, or hallucinating. probably both. their mental state is getting more and more worse.

act 5 shows this even more, with blacked out sprites of the other characters and visions of them in places such as the break rooms, or getting their dialogue when interacting with objects despite siffrin being completely alone in their rampage throughout the castle. most notable is the mirror room dialogue.

how the initial picture you see during act 5 is with the whole family, until you view it and siffrin is completely alone. how the memories of the past loops are overlaying with the current one to the point where his senses are starting to become more unreliable.

during act 5 as well if you interact with any candles they smell sweet. before siffrin either didnt smell anything or it was something he didnt really know.

anyway. siffrin's own senses becoming unreliable reflecting his own deteriorating mental state is a brilliant touch to add to the horror in the story. (even without talking about how his relationship with touch is).

postgame our man absolutely would not be able to trust his sense with how the past looping affected his perception of everything around them.

#lemon time #isat spoilers #in stars and time #WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. FINALLY MADE AN ACTUAL POST ABOUT SOME THOUGHTS. #anyway. still trying to figure out if the ghost siffrins are glitches from past loops or hallucinations or both. #im leaning towards both. #i dont think i even need to mention how the sense of touch plays into the story. all That speaks for itself #i didnt even mention how the Acting plays into all that. #welp. right time to draw more frins.

[dnd-smash-pass-vs]

They're elves of the shadowfell, normal human height. They specialize in teleportation and invisibility, with the casters among them throwing in confusion and fear and illusion. Be careful though, as any trained in combat start making non-elves slower and worse while within 10 feet. From depression, from the sound of it. Their angst about being more ancient and timeless than you wordlessly attaches to you like a parasite, slowing you down. Good for if you enjoy concepts like-

Shadows, but like DARKER than shadow, that lash out when they're moody

looking beautiful unless in shadow, in which case they're corpselike

ignoring pointless things like "comfort" and "morals" and "rules"

being the chosen of the Raven Queen, and on her behalf collecting dark tragedy, sorrow, and feelings of loss.

being corpse pale with jet black hair, pure black eyes, and covered with tattoos/piercings/anything that would make a generic white suburban mom in the 50's scream in terror.

Lumping them all together because they're all the same outside one having mage hand and such. Idc what weapon they're holding.

#closest I'm getting to saying something nice about them. #i don't even care. #I can withhold bias on near anything but not these and sun elves #its fine. I make you suffer by pitting your favorites against each other. getting these into the next tournament is only fair. #you know that giant anti-shadarkai rant I went on a few months ago? #how I thought whoever did this to thier lore probably rewrites Warhammer stories to remove the satire and humor? #apparently he actually did write warhammer books holy shit I called it. #seriously though I love basically all monsters but these I looooooooooathe. #not even touching how annoyed I am that the shadar kai WERE ALREADY A THING #Like they weren't even elves #they just went “hey we'll bring them back as elves because 33 is a reasonable number of elf species” #yet not a green version of goblins there's already like 3 that'd be absurd. #like no make your OWN name for the special elves version 33 that hit on par with a demon lord while being cr 7 for some reason #shadar kai #looked into it #dnd #dnd5e #DnD 5e #d&d #smash or pass #5e #monsters of the multiverse #mpmm

[coffee-system-uwu]

Neil took Andrew's ice cream to kiss him. Let me repeat that. He took Andrew's ice cream. To Kiss Him. If he was literally ANYBODY else, he'd have had a knife in the stomach. And honestly I love that for him.

#moral of the story: dont touch andrews sugar #dont do jt #its not worth it #trust me. #trust me like Neil trusts andrew #actually do NOT trust me that much i do not under any circumstances want to try to hide anyone from the mafia #or maybe i do.. ig we will see. #aftg #shae #neil josten #andrew minyard #tfhc #all for the game #the foxhole court #all for the gay #andreil #andreil trash #shitposts #aftg shitpost

[denkies]

Some of yall do not know the difference between "media that glorifies Bad Thing" and "media that portrays Bad Thing and the audience has to use critical thinking skills" and its actually concerning

#for a bunch of ''burnt out gifted kids 🥺'' yall don't use those gifts of critical thinking much huh #media that contains uncomfortable topics (especially horror) is not glorifying said topic by default #killing stalking is the first example that comes to my head. it was just a horror series that had gay people. #wasnt glorifying the horrors at all. in fact it actually portrays the horrors as Bad and Not Okay At All #seeing our mc rationalizing the behaviours of his abuser due to stockholm syndrome is upsetting to us as the audience. #and yall were like ''it glorifies abuse and murder 🥺🥺🥺'' no babygirl. it contains abuse and murder as a subject. #you are just incapable of critical thought and you assume the portrayal of any subject is glorification. touch grass. #thats like watching hannibal and being like ''this show glorifies cannibalism 🥺'' it very much is not. #there was also the manga Star Lover that y'all were canceling for ''glorifying pedophilia'' and when you read it it's about A VICTIM OF CSA #like its literally about a character who is sexually abused by her uncle and this is an integral part to the story. its not fanservice. #sometimes media is created with the belief that the audience has the ability to think for themselves #and therefore should not have to a Explicitly State "hey this morally bankrupt concept is bad!'' #because you should be able to come to that conclusion on your own <3 #media consumption #a.txt #media and information literacy #media analysis

[stormxpadme]

Me @ the beginning today's ep: Cool, cool, the fucking annoying love triangle again, no wait the fucking TWO love triangles. Well, let's hope that's not the most interesting thing happening today.

Me @ the ending of today's episode with like half the cast dead and Genosha burning: Can I see the love triangles again?

#x men #everything after x2 didn't happen sue me #x men original timeline movies #x men movies #x men 97 #spoilers #i mean the ace of base song was a nice touch #really catering to the 90s-kids-audience here #but also #that's a lot of blood and gore for a kid show #i mean the setup is clear enough #this will all be reversed obviously #but holy shit #also damn just when i thought i couldn't love remy more #now if someone would finally tell the marvel about #how polyamory is a thousand times more interesting #than fucking jealousy stories #then we could at least get rid of that only fucking annoyance of this show #just to be clear this is a shitpost #actually i do prefer drama and death over that goddamn fucking love triangle #but today was a close second

[kennyomegasweave]

As a Zouey hater who stopped liking him hella early on, I actually feel bad for him about how it played out with Nant. I was vindicated with the reveal cause I knew he was NOT the only one clean in this entire story (that's Puen), but at the same time, it wasn't Nant's story to tell about what Jason did to him. Jason needed to be brought down, but I'm not cool with the implication that Nant was in the right to want to reveal Zouey's rape. Especially when Zouey clearly doesn't want that to be publicly known (Nant was the ONLY person who knew). Zouey didn't owe anyone his story. He was already violated in the worst way a human can be violated, so no shit he lost the plot entirely while panicking knowing Nant wanted to publicize what happened as if it was his right to talk about what happened to his actual body.

I'm not excusing the role Zouey played in the kidnapping and the outright lying he did to everyone for months and I will never excuse what he did to Nont the entire time, but I get how Zouey was definitely panicking and in survival mode during this show.

(And technically, Zouey didn't kill Nant nor even really play a part in it. He's responsible for the kidnapping, obviously, but Phop killed Nant when he showed up to say goodbye to Nuth. That had nothing to do with Zouey, unless you count him trying to get Nant out of the country as being the cause, but technically Nant would have needed to get out of the country anyway cause he wanted to turn on Jason for everything, including the drugs, so he would have been on his kill list anyway.)

#playboyy #playboyy the series #I'm a Certified Zouey Hater but I do feel bad for him about all of this #he's a fucking asshole for lying to everyone and getting Nant kidnapped at all #and I won't even touch the absolute psychological warfare he waged on Nont until the absolute end #because fuck him so much for that #but he didn't actually kill Nant #and it wasn't his story to tell about Jason raping Zouey so I mean I get why Zouey freaked #the boy obviously never got any help whatsoever after being raped so he's clearly still in survival mode #I don't know #it's all just so sad now #this show can be summed up by me as a sad lol #regular clyde

[wouldntyoulichentoknow]

touch, 9, kharish and colette

NOT an accurate representation of her resting heart rate 😔

#Elder Scrolls #Skyrim #Kharish gra-Shatul #Colette Marence #touch mega list #real actual fact: the earliest stethoscopes were Just A Tube! so the story goes: guy was like IT WOULD BE IMPROPER FOR ME #TO PLACE MINE EAR UPON THE CHEST OF A LADY........ witnessed some kids playing with a pipe or something on his way to work. #and went 'aha! I bet such a device could amplify sounds from inside the body as well!' #THUS: THE FIRST STETHOSCOPE. I am sure this brief historical recap is exactly what you were all here for thank you for attending -

[specialagentartemis]

My favorite genre of sci-fi is “small research team goes to a distant plant/star/space station/black hole/etc to study something weird there, and then the weird thing there Wrecks Their Shit.” Can’t get enough of it. “Small research team goes to a deep undersea research station” and “small research team goes to a deep Antarctic research station” are also very good variants of this as long as they get completely rekt by a weird mysterious alien thing there. I love it every time.

It is also important to note that these stories can range from “TPK” to “lone survivor” to “a few losses but most of the main characters come out of this harrowing ordeal alive, if changed” to “everyone survives this harrowing ordeal and they have a new friend now!” but the more characters survive the better the story better be. If it’s a TPK/lone survivor I eat this up and will love it no matter how bad it is (Underwater (2020) starring Kristen Stewart I am vaguing you here. Stupid movie. Saw it on the big screen and loved it). But if most/all of the cast survives, the writing and the story and the characters better be goddamn amazing (All Systems Red by Martha Wells and Wolf 359 by Gabriel Urbina and Sarah Shachat I am vaguing you here <3 )

#However many short stories I love dearly and think about constantly are in this camp also #‘Dead Meat’ by Maria Haskins. ‘The Green’ by Lauren Beukes. ‘All That Touches the Air’ by An Owomoyela has elements of this. #‘The Brides of Heaven’ by N. K. Jemisin also has elements of this #And then podcasts—‘Wolf 359’ obviously. ‘Janus Descending’ is everything I like about this genre. ‘Micro-Cosmos’ does this too which is why #I liked it before it went on Indefinite Hiatus. #and of course this is also about The Thing (1982). Love The Thing #This is just a very good premise and I love the combo of ‘exploring an alien planet’ and ‘oh shit oh fuck oops’ #‘Tides’ podcast is mostly just the exploring part and less Shit Getting Rekt but it’s very good also #And I am still holding out for ‘Primordial Deep‘ to get more bloodthirsty #science fiction #tropes #OH ‘Event Horizon’ with Sam Neill was stupid as all shit. It was also this though and it was Fun. It was not actually good but it was fun

[embyrinitalics]

Don't get me wrong. Tears of the Kingdom is a fantastic game. I'm still having so much fun with it. It delivered on so many fronts. It has my favorite final boss in the series. And the new mechanics really do make BotW feel like a tech demo.

But.

My Big Complaint is: TotK should not have been a sequel to BotW.

(spoilers below the cut!)

I understand why they did it, and think it was inevitable. Getting to reuse the assets and maps saved so much time. And BotW was such a huge success that they couldn't not give it a sequel.

But seriously, what the heck?

TotK's storytelling basically ignored or erased everything that happened in BotW. What happened to the Sheikah tech that was literally everywhere? The Divine Beasts that had been plaguing the four regions for a century? Zelda's incorporeal battle with evil incarnate for 100 years and the inevitable trauma she and Link must have after everything that's happened to them? Nah we don't talk about that. Half the NPCs don't even know who Link is despite having plenty of canonical interactions.

And I'm like, ok, I get it, sure. We are so 100% into this new plot we don't have time to explain away the old stuff and I'll just have to deal with it. All right, sure! BotW had very cool and well crafted lore, I'm sure TotK will too! I can't wait for this airtight new story!

Except 🤨

Who are the Zonai actually? Why did they come to Hyrule and from where? Why do we only meet two of them? If Rauru and Sonia are the first of the Royal Family, is she part of the goddess' bloodline (a direct descendant of SS Zelda)? Did she die childless? If they had a child, was it distinctly half Zonai? SO MANY GANONDORF QUESTIONS I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START??!?! What's the deal with the secret stones anyway? Who made them? Why do they cause draconification? Is that what happened to Dinraal, Farosh, and Naydra? The Sheikah Shrines were trials left behind by devoted monks who underwent self mummification to train the Hero, but what's the deal with the Zonai ones again? And if they're supposed to be for Link too, when did Rauru have time to build them? And like the Depths?! Make zero sense??!

I could go on and on. As much fun as this game is and as cinematic as a lot of it was, the whole thing is riddled with holes and would've been SO MUCH BETTER if they just made it its own pocket universe like they did with Termina. Trying to have it make sense in the world BotW already established is impossible, and honestly just sort of like. Disrespectfully shoves BotW's dead body off a cliff and hopes no one finds the remains.

So, yeah! Great game! Beefy cutscenes! Fantastic ending! Awesome mechanics! But really really disappointing BotW erasure.

(I also feel like it suffered from trying to follow the same open world formula? Lots of people found the Tears in the wrong order and felt like they spoiled the story for themselves. And the way you were going around doing "search for Zelda" sidequests when you knew where she was but couldn't tell anyone seemed like an oversight. And I wouldn't have minded some more traditional dungeons, like what the Fire and Lightning temples had going on, but just, like. More.)

#totk #totk spoilers #totk complaints #THIS SOUNDS REALLY NEGATIVE I ACTUALLY DO LOVE THE GAME I SWEAR 😂 #But I also have Strong Opinions about it lol #especially as a fic writer I'm having a hard time like. #even attempting a totk fic that touches on the new elements is intimidating because they're so contradictory with the world we know #and like trying to reconcile it all in a way that makes sense just so I can tell a lil story in that setting does not appeal to me #I just came up with a weird theory tho maybe the Zonai tricked Din Farore and Nayru into eating stones and turned them into dragons 🐉🤔 #silly goddesses secret stones are for sages? #long post

[the-earnest-system]

#hyperspecific poll #really stretching my 'don't post anything that would make people who know me in real life realize this is me' rule #but this looked so fun and I have so many silly things #fuck that orthodontist though #the whole way through he was doing these incredibly painful things and being like 'i think this has an about 10% chance of working' #and then when it did actually work he treated it like a success story #when for me it was just meaningless torture #that I guess means more than just my back teeth can touch now... #not worth it at all

[craycraybluejay]

The funny thing is I've met ppl with both super deeply harmful and abusive occasionally incestuous family dynamics and I've met ppl with otherwise pretty regular romances to their sister or cousin or something. And it reminds me of how a guy I knew in HS told me age gaps are abusive because he was incompatible w his bf of 2 years older but i've known ppl who regularly date with larger gaps and are fine. Ymmv but if you only date people of your same class same age within 3 months same race etc etc. I think you have like some weird neurosis going on which is also not my business but I hope you become less anxious with experience and meeting different ppl and whatnot.

#like bro trust me when i tell you i have heard The Horrors #but i've heard them from all across the board gay straight age gap no age gap fwb romantic relationship familial #and i've heard success stories from all across the board too pretty much and or lived them #i am so deeply uninterested in other people's dating lives but seeing as some ppl keep shoving their disgust-morals in my face i'll talk #about it #i have seen random ppl harassed bc their dom is like 5 years older. stop. touch some grass. go somewhere nice to eat. oh my god #i actually cannot fathom that level of investment in anyone's relationships unless they're like my best friend or close family or something #and even then only if i distrust the other person for a reason. i don't make a habit of acting fucking weird ab my loved ones other #relationships #in fact i USED TO so I KNOW when i tell you its WEIRD and RUDE and CREEPY #but even then not with strangers i could not imagine having that level of entitlement or feeling like i know their shit #idk any of you people or your friends or lovers or family but i hope ur safe and happy thats it

[youtappedout]

#WWE #Fight Owens Fight: The Kevin Owens Story #Kevin Owens #gifed #2017 #DVD #y'all can i yap for a sec about this set. #so i was clearing my bookmarks on my browser because i had SO many dead links saved. i went through all of it one by one #i had separate folders for each material actually and i saw this youtube video about kevin i was curious what it was #and so i clicked AND the timestamped saved was this exact fucking adorable touching scene argh!@@!@!!!!!! 🥹 #this was 6 years ago look at Owen omg #also earlier today i was trying to find a good vid to gif from i jdk what. then this shows up. #zowens rules my gifmaking life :'))))) #anyway enjoy<3 .

[gynecologistmsfrizzle]

okay listen neil newbon would absolutely deserve to win best performance for astarion at the game awards and I’m going to applaud if and when he does. however. if devora wilde isn’t at least NOMINATED alongside him you can all expect me to make some angry posts about it.

#sorry if you didn’t like lae’zel (wrong opinion) but devora fucking KILLED that role. went into the woods and wrestled it into submission. #she sawed off its head and put it on a pike next to her tent. #they both gave incredible performances but i think lae’zel was a tougher role than astarion #because nobody pries at lae’zel. you have to tell a story with her to people who aren’t really interested in working for it #and so all those little mannerisms that make her feel really alive become much more important #the actual text of the dialogue can’t do as much heavy lifting because there just isn’t as much of it #so SO much of her character really comes from devora #while astarion’s chattiness means our impression of him comes much more evenly split from his writer and actor #who both did fantastic jobs!! again bg3 is an abundance of riches when it comes to exceptional performances #and I’m not even TOUCHING wyll or gale yet. OR AMELIA TYLER who honestly will probably be neil’s biggest competition before devora is #but anyways. expect Posts. You’ll get them. #although on second though. seeing what the internet did to laura bailey … maybe we Should let a guy take this one. #Rhi talks #ok to rb

[lttleghost]

I am so sorry that I am so bitter about this but still DEAR LORD

#this is a jab at the fandom and not a depiction of myself btw just to clarify i beleive the top text #breaking bad #jesse pinkman #brba #jesse brba #this is my girlfriend don't touch him #im tired #theres more to my issue w/ transmasc Jesse than just the popularity #but they wouldnt be as relevant if say the trans hcs that actually fit Jesse were equally or more popular than it #like thats all that needs to change thats it #anyway nonbinary transfem Jesse supremacy #(tho any hc where he REALIZES hes trans during the stories events works well)

[supahstarrr]

"whitemisia" are you fucking stupid.

#white people want to be victims so badly #''an example is getting hair touched when your blonde''???? ''people staring at you for ‘looking different'''????? #do you fucking hear yourself. #also let me remind yall. these people whining about ''whitemisia'' are radqueers. #idk whats up with that space but bitches on those communities always turn out to be racist as fuck #oh and i heard that theres ''slavery flag'' where you want to be a slave or want to be a victim of past slavery #so that could also tell you a lot about radqueers (and about how they view generational trauma from slavery ^^) #i feel like out of all of the classic ''community that give a font that they're progressive but actually very fucked up and racist'' #communities that makes me so angered the most... its got to be radqueers #genuinely have no fucking idea whats up with their ideology. and i heard so much from minors escaping that community #ive definitely heard some fucked up stories about constant grooming.. like wtf #this community is SO detached like.. do you hear yourself.. racist mfs. full of nasty and horrid bigots #i wish therapy was free!!!! almost seems like they need it more than i do