#targetted at that one anon

[altijd-november]

ASPEC PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL <2

#targetted at that one anon #i hope you fall off ten chairs #echo rambles #aspec #aspec pride #aroace #aro #ace #aromantic #asexual #ace pride #aro pride

[fixing-bad-posts]

Quick, hit me with a follower-losing take!

sometimes, burying your gays is not only okay, but critically necessary to telling a good story and honouring your thematic arcs. and "good representation" is an undefinable, largely useless pursuit.

#ask fbp #anon ask #this one is targeted: unfollow me if you disagree #if you understand me please stick around

[pinkeoni]

“How would they reveal Will’s powers in the final season. There’s no setup or foreshadowing and it would come out of nowhere.”

The show, since episode one: This little boy is a WIZARD who CASTS MAGIC SPELLS. In this episode we put him in a little wizard outfit to really hammer in that point.

#was saving this for later but im recieving some… interesting anons that i will have to answer #one nice with genuine questions the other one…. #stay tuned ✌️ #will byers #will byers has powers #stranger things #byler #<- target audience

[skullsemi]

thoughts on donald x clarabelle?

Really?

I feel like I should be offended

Instead I prefer to think of it in a fight sense

I have nothing against different ships, as long as it's not problematic, but idk this ask felt different

Not sure what your intentions were anon, but in case I wasn't clear with my entire blog, I'm a peaceful goofbelle enjoyer

#really one look at my art and you eventually find it #I may be overthinking this idk this felt targeted somehow #if you were genuine anon. the answer it's no #inbox #donald duck #mickey mouse #Clarabelle cow #goofy #clarabelle x goofy #my art

[buckxtommy]

do you recommend any good TommyBuck fic? if there is any

sorry it took me sooo long to respond to this anon, i don't rly use ao3 and have read only a handful of fics in my life. my best and two favorite recs would be:

evan, elated and euphoric by brewrosemilk 16.5K | Explicit

you can find the author here at @gayhoediaz who in my opinion, is thee smutsmith of all time who understands their dynamic in a way no one else does (she had an anon saying this fic should be required reading and I AGREE) and this fic specifically made me yell from excitement 💖

you can reblog the fic here

&

call me by... by evcndiaz 1.2K | Teen and Up

you can find the author here at @buckttommy and you should read all of her fics actually bec she is doing MAGIC with words & her fics are so soft and sweet and they will easily become your comfort fics that you will read over and over again just like they did for me !!! 💖

you can reblog the fic here

#were so lucky youre both writing for both ships FR!!!!!!! #also idk if anyone rmrs but i made a poll asking authors if theyre ok w getting fanarts for their fics #these are the 2 authors i had in my mind asking that bec their fics are SOOOO . def wanna make art of them one day!!!! #im so glad that poll reached my target audience fnfjfj <3 #anyway anon youre gonna LOVE THESE 💖 #enjoy and happy reading!!!!! #fic recs

[euryvices]

"oh they changed this" "oh they changed that" CAN EVERYONE JUST STOP HATING ON REMAKES? like i get you're so cool for liking this thing that was super awesome before the "big media" took it over, but it's still part of the same franchise, has the same characters AND IS BRINGING JOY TO NEW WATCHERS and you somehow feel immense hate? can you chill? there are people who HAVEN'T seen this thing before and they LIKE it and all art is DIFFERENT stop acting like a toddler throwing a tantrum JUST BECAUSE YOUR VERSION IS DIFFERENT!!!!

#very targeted post to the one anon in my inbox who told me that they hate the remakes so much like shut the crack up #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #avatar netflix #avatar the last airbender #appa atla #EVEN DISNEY LIVE ACTIONS FOR THE MATTER!!!! #you are NOT in a closed off space or ur dms ur posting ur thoughts or the world to see and some ppl will START TO FEEL ASHAMED OF LIKING #THE REMAKES IF YOU KEEP BEING A LITTLE HATER!!!! #STOP SPREADING HATE #SPREAD LOVE MFS #OR I WILL FIND YOU #I AM NOT SCARED OF GOD OR DEATH I AM TERRIFIED OF HUMANITY BEING LOST TO CLUTCHES OF LITTLE HATING BITCHES #BE NICE ABOUT MEDIA DONT GO TO PPLS INBOXES AND BE LIKE “yea ur super wrong and im super right fuck u slut” LIKE STOP #I AM NOT AFRAID TO PICK A FIGHT. #FIGHT ME IF YOU CAN ABOUT THIS I FEEL NO REMORSE

[oifaaa]

Do you think in current canon, Dick actually likes Jason (as a brother/friend)? Bc I kinda feel like when all's said and done Jason is fond of Dick as a person, but Dick mostly just feels responsible for Jason rather than actually liking him.

Like with most things in comics it does really depend on who's writing them but overall yeah I would be more inclined to say Dick doesnt actually like Jason and this has been the over all vibe ever since Jason came back to life more then a recent thing (tho in canon no one really likes Jason which I'm not exactly blaming anyone for Jason's a cunt)

#ask #anon #is it kinda sad that Jason has like one genuine friend in canon who actually feels like jasons friend #absolutely #does jason deserve it bc hes actually the worst #also absolutely #but yeah like this was also very prevalent when jason was in his villain era #and he targetted Dick in weird ways

[two-tyred-problems]

it’s truly baffling to me how many people just believe what random people on the internet say

especially in regard to the whole Esteban thing in Monaco, you don’t really believe some random anon saying there was an HR complaint about him because of a 'serious incident', that people in the company hate working with him because he’s manipulative and that he is definitely going to get fired this year??? Like didn’t your parents tell you to not believe everything on the Internet

Remember the Carlos-has-a-secret-child thing from last season? Total BS and it was funny to me cuz it was so obviously not true but some people really believed it

#Like girl #where are your critical thinking skill #Yes this is a little bit targeted #Idk how serious the people who posted the asks took it but some reblogs seemed to believe it #also please don’t start beef with me #This is an accumulated list of many anon posts I’ve seen so not just one person #Rant #sorry but I think some of y’all are just stupid apparently #esteban ocon #f1

[important-question-anon]

nobody hates [franchise] like [franchise] fans

This is true and it never makes sense to me. If writers go a little bit off-canon(in their own telling, mind you), then they ruined the franchise and it's the worst movie to exist. If they stick to the story, then you guys complain about how its always the same thing. You want them to stick to the original but also want them to get creative with it. It's so contradictory and a some of you are just so impossible to make movies for.

#anon-sense #yeah this post is sorta targeted #there is also only ONE movie i can say was bad. the batman vs superman movie bcs i fell asleep during it #i NEVER fall asleep during movies; even if a majority people think its shit #okay tangent over

[difeisheng]

hi ash, i think i may have asked this before, but from one asian diaspora to another, i was wondering how, if you're able to, you keep up with your chinese practice in a country that's dominated by english (and/or french canadian since ik you live in canada). bc i know a lot of suggestions are like turning your tech to the language you want to learn, put sticky notes on objects with the name in the language you want to learn, etc. but like. i feel like it doesn't matter how much i try and practice bc i'm not in a class, so i don't get it consistently enough, and the rest of my day is filled with english bc, well, that's my first language, and what is needed for my job and every day living. do you have any recs, strategies, or tips? i'm getting desperate; i used to be so much better than i am now. thanks!

hi! honestly, most of my chinese upkeep since i stopped taking mandarin classes (which tbh was relatively recent; this april, and then i'll be taking a cantonese class next term so i can learn to read it) has been a lot less I Need To Practice My Chinese through exercises or dedicated study time, and more just making sure i have frequent exposure to the language that i'm also engaged in. which is a long way to say that basically c-media is how i'm maintaining my proficiency.

i listen to music, i watch dramas and variety shows, look up other vids on bilibili that catch my interest, sometimes read articles, and (very slowly) read fanfic, with pleco open to note new words. just generally scrolling through chinese social media has helped too. having that environment i can immerse myself in helps me learn new vocabulary and practice using what i already know + listening skills, but it also doesn't feel like work or study, just dealing with things i like and am interested in. (this is important for me because i'm so exhausted when i get home every day lmao, if language upkeep outside of class felt like additional Student Time i might have tapped out on attempting it. this way turning on a c-drama at the end of the day just seems like relaxation first and then chinese exposure on top of it).

just by poking through c-drama or fandom things, i know my vocabulary has definitely expanded since i finished my last class, instead of shrunk. even though i watch c-dramas with english subtitles (or chinese and english depending on the platform), i've still picked up stuff from them, and when it comes to things like variety shows i don't rely on subtitles anymore/make myself not. you absorb a lot more of a language than you think just through exposure, imo. although as a caveat for reading specifically, picking up new characters, recognizing them, and reading has been one of the easier parts of learning chinese for me, when it's probably the inverse for a lot of people. i don't know how well just casually reading things will work as a method for others, ymmv.

the thing that i struggle with is getting opportunities to practice speaking, because it's english in my classes and usually with my friends, and either english or cantonese with my family (and i'm not living with them right now). however, i do have a lot of diaspora friends given that i'm in vancouver, and we occasionally dip into speaking mandarin or cantonese. this isn't perfect, but hopefully in future i'll be able to get more speaking experience somehow. what's also helped me with keeping up pronunciation despite these limits is learning to sing chinese songs. singing is one of my hobbies anyway, so i'll use pinyin or jyutping as a guide (getting better at sightreading characters for singing though!) and it's helped me work on certain sounds i had trouble with, and improved my accent. (watching c-dramas even if i don't speak as often has also aided on that front tbh; i listened to recordings of myself from last year and i sound less canto when i speak mandarin now compared to back then, or even earlier this year).

if you want a place to start that i personally think has helped me maintain chinese proficiency, i would choose a variety show you're interested in and try watching it without english subtitles, when you've got free time and want to do something fun. most will have chinese ones you can use to practice reading along with listening, and people usually speak at a conversational enough level that it shouldn't be too difficult to follow along (for ref, after a year and a half of heritage learner mandarin classes at uni i could watch 《我们的歌》/Our Song without english subtitles and understand most of it). variety shows are also really accessible lmao, so many have full seasons on youtube.

tl;dr it's been media exposure for me all the way down since i left classes, wherever i can get it.

not sure how actually helpful all this rambling might be, but this is what i do to keep up my chinese proficiency and keep learning in daily life nowadays! hopefully maybe you or someone else will be able to get something out of it :)

#sorry anon i hope this all connects i'm answering this late at night oop #you can ask me clarifying stuff if you want tho! #also for those of you who see this and are still building up a basic vocabulary and language foundation/grammar #please do not feel bad or kick yourself that you can't just throw yourself into the deep end on bilibili and learn chinese that way #all this was targeted to answer a specific question and assumes some kind of existing proficiency #i believe in y'all to get there one day tho!!! 努力学习 加油吧 #languages #mandarin #chinese #ashton answers #anon

[front-facing-pokemon]

#mega altaria #thank you to anon for the reminder about this one. i had absolutely forgotten it #this one's a bit more low-poly than the others but that's okay. it's a mega i don't think anyone remembered this existed except anon #unless you like competitive pokémon. i imagine this thing is good in comp just bc it's a dragon-type and also has a mega #i like how it just gets Even More Clouds when it mega evolves. and uhh apparently mysthalery will enjoy this too #since they seemed to enjoy swablu. big shoutouts to you‚ mysthalery. icon checks out indeed #now it's time co move this up to the beginning of the queue ahead of zangoose. y'all don't get zangoose until tomorrow #can i be honest for a second. i thought that person's URL was altaria-propaganda and i was a thousand percent convinced of this #the altaria icon and the “post reached target audience” thing i was just entirely convinced that was an altaria blog. i didnt bother to look #so i hope i got their actual URL right. mysthalery? i think so. you know who you are‚ you altaria fan. get altaria'd. have more altaria

[fromtheseventhhell]

what do you think about the affc 2003 old script release? sansa fans are claiming because it says “take north” it means actually retake the north instead of heading north

It's interesting to look at George's notes and try to line them up with the plotlines we already have, but it's hard to make predictions on future ones because of how fragmented they are. The only reason it's being used as proof is because Stansas have already decided that's how her story will play out; It's just confirmation bias.

Regarding Sansa's portion, I think it lines up with what we've already gotten from her AFFC + TWOW chapters. Her final AFFC chapter includes LF outlining his "plan", which is supposed to culminate in her revealing her identity, gaining the support of the Vale, and retaking the North...hence the "take the north" in the outline. The fact that it predates the Tourney on the list, introduced afterward in her TWOW sample, seems to line up. LF's "prizes" of returning her identity and Winterfell give us her motivations + reasoning for why she is, for now, willing to follow his plan. The only actual new point seems to be "Kill the Mouse".

It's hard to theorize on any of these because they could all be subject to change/revision but to me, this outline shows that George has an entire arc in the Vale planned out of her. The Tourney hasn't even begun yet, we have Myranda potentially realizing Sansa's identity, Sansa hasn't even begun allying with the knights of the Vale, an engagement to Harry hasn't been secured, SW's health is up in the air, I doubt that the Mad Mouse will be killed off anytime soon, etc. She has a lot of story left to play out where she is and nothing actually indicates that she will be physically heading North anytime soon. The issue is that people keep trying to align her book arc with the show. Ultimately we won't ever really know until George releases TWOW, but it is funny to me that this is taken as ultimate proof when there's so much from George that they ignore. They'll rally around a few fragmented thoughts from 10 years ago, but then they ignore it when he outright says he has no idea what D&D are doing with Sansa and that things will be very different in the books 🤷🏾‍♀️

#ask #anon #anti sansa stans #just in case #George has said several times that the books and the show are different but somehow that's always ignored/debated #but I'm supposed to take a bunch of fragmented scribbles as absolute proof...asoiaf fandom logic in a nutshell 😭 #also not to be a party-pooper but that transcription is debatable given how sloppy George's writing is (he's just like me fr) #looking at George's notes makes me realize why we don't have TWOW yet 💀 #wished he didn't cross out some of those points cause they could've been really interesting...maybe he'll circle back #it would also be very interesting if Sansa was the one to ultimately kill the Mad Mouse considering he's targeting her #like if he does kidnap her but she kills him before they reach her destination #I doubt it will play out like that but it's fun to think about

[presiding]

What is your favourite thing about Billie Lurk?

(Answers are obvious possibly but i love when people talk about her👍)

thanks for the ask!! YEAH ME TOO I love when people talk about Billie! I can't say I have a favourite thing specifically, but I can explain why she's my fav. apologies for not taking this qn literally, but -

short answer: she’s really cool

& you can stop reading there, or, for the maybe 2 mutuals who might have time to read this my thoughts on her as a character, her meta, and her character as raw potential...

long answer:

i considered making this entire thing a gush so you could read a gush about Billie. but, part of what draws me to her is that she’s not always well written, and in fandom she’s underrated for a literal protagonist.

since you ask...

billie is a cool character

when I played Dh2 (hadn't played Dh1), I was excited to see a black woman with disabilities who was captaining a massive ship by herself. wow.

then I discovered Billie’s backstory with Deirdre, the way she responded to that, then having to survive while living on the run, and her bisexuality. as well as her history with daud & delilah. fascinating!

she’s an outsider who has so much to lose, and knows what it's like to lose everything - having lost everything not once but three times - but nevertheless speaks truth to power. she's so brave! she went and helped Emily & Corvo and she must have known they might kill her! plus, she’s smart, she’s funny, she gets shit done, she’s gorgeous.

but... the meta

mild critique of fandom & arkane incoming.

skip this bit if you want - you've been warned twice now - jump to tired Hayao Miyazaki and read from there if you'd like my thoughts on writing her.

i thought Death of the Outsider was going to be amazing and then... well. *sad trombone* i've written about that before so i won't keep banging on. i figured others must be disappointed too, so I joined a few fandom spaces in hopes of finding camaraderie.

most people with complaints about DotO didn’t like how the Outsider and Daud were handled. which is valid & I agree. but it seemed like most paid no attention to Billie; when people talk about her it’s with respect to Daud, as opposed to in her own right. you could argue for fandom misogyny because people don’t talk about adult Emily Kaldwin that much either, but in Billie's case, it’s misogynoir (compare & contrast with the popularity of thomas, particularly the popularity of thomas portrayed as a white man for no particular reason that i've been able to discern - i keep asking around, is it in the books???).

i think this is a LOT better now than it used to be, which is fantastic. or perhaps i have found the correct echo-chamber? ha.

ultimately, The Fandom is a fraction of the entire picture, and not even the important bit since The Fandom is not who these games are made for. you can't make money relying on only your hardcore fans even if all of them spent a fortune on merch, this is true for any AAA game.

while it's true that Billie is underrated from a fandom perspective - but Billie as an underwritten protagonist is squarely Arkane’s fault.

it was reasonable when she was a side character - the lack of info in Dh2 makes perfect sense (if anything there was more lore in Dh2 which is kind of wild)-

- but as a protagonist in Death of the Outsider?

.... there’s lousy writing, and there’s whatever is going on with Billie Lurk, a black woman who mostly exists as a foil or saviour for light-skinned characters. In her own game there’s barely any of her own lore except where it's relevant to saving two dudes.

lore hints at, but barely touches on what race means in the Dh universe (xenophobia is stronger in Dh1; separate essay i guess), but Arkane has patted themselves on the back for portraying non-white characters, which feels like the same thing as the aesthetic of diversity we're seeing in advertising currently because it’s in marketing trend guides. it's self-congratulatory and it's a missed opportunity for deeper storytelling.

you can see an example of diversity at its most shallow in the way that Billie’s written: there’s little engagement with her as an entire person with history & wants & preferences, and the world she walks through in that game feels like it has nothing to do with her. you could make a case for alienation as a theme, but then, how do you handle the titular premise of 'Dishonored' without ever letting Billie make changes in an environment without a chaos system? it's disappointing from that angle too.

in my opinion, whatever it's worth, it was an accident Arkane created such an awesome character - they needed someone to betray daud. congrats billie.

all this said, it makes her an underdog as far as characters to enjoy & create art & stories for. it's nice to find so many like-minded, switched on people! <3

billie's character potential

she’s got a wealth of unexplored lore, being deeply intertwined with both Karnaca & Dunwall’s fates & criminal underbellies, as well as her connections to the witches & whalers, and three Empresses.

she’s lived a few distinct lifetimes and in the games we get to meet her at two peaks (KoD & DotO) & a low (Dh2 as Meagan).

her voice is very distinct, her dry & often dark humour is entertaining & fun to write. her perspective is really interesting - she’s had the widest variety of void-powers of anyone canonically, and she’s also lived through the highest highs and lowest lows.

she's got everything going for her :) i couldn't really pick a fav thing!

#i assume my followers are cool enough to let me give a brief measured critique on fandom trends and DotO #thanks for the anon question!! what fun! #i love billie lurk <333 #jumped on the opportunity to rant n rave #what part of billie isn't my fav! (im a guy who likes the bad stuff too. mmm interesting meta) #trying to be not unfair or mean- i'm not targeting anyone but rather trends. and it's ok to be disappointed with something you love #fuck it. make it part of the appeal! her writing sucks! plenty of room for me & other creators! #its easier for me to indulge my billie brainworms when it sorta feels like she's not getting as much love as she deserves #you know? i want stories where her history is explored and her agency is important so i guess i'll roll up my sleeves #tumblr is a terrible place for this sort of critique IMO- lots of nuanceless empathy-free guilt-trip-ish rhetoric #so i hope i avoided that. but not so much that i seem forgiving. #that said i'm not tagging this one with fandom tags! no thank you. #i am blaming arkane yes. but that is also not without games industry context #i could complain about amateurish writing but that also never happens in a vacuum. industry problem(s) for sure. #people love to blame writers for things #and yeah a couple really fucking good writers can push a boulder uphill #but its usually a company problem #hire lots of diverse people in your company. give them authority and respect and reasonable workloads. and no crunch. #ah fuck this is a separate essay in tags. again #THIS WAS A SIMPLE QUESTION #*clutches head in hands* #uh if you're still reading at this point im SO sorry and thank you and i love you

[beevean]

“I love when a protagonist is a complete blank slate until you analyze the text, and then they become a reprehensible monster”

Go fuck yourself. You clearly have no sense of empathy at all whatsoever if you’re willing to demonize children. You’re confused as to why people like Omori? Here’s a hint for you: Get a soul first, you heartless, empathy-lacking fuckwit.

Reply: yes, you’re right! I lack the necessary empathy to empathize with a child who willingly let his friends believe that they failed a girl they all cared about when in reality he was the one who accidentally killed her in a fit of frustration, and then twisted their words of comfort built on a lie to feel better about himself lol. I would never have the gall to do that.

Sunny is not “a bad person” because of manslaughter. He’s bad because he’s a coward who never shows any ounce of care for his friends, shown best of all in how he left Basil (who instead is staunchly loyal to him, to the point of staging a suicide to protect him) to deal with the fallout of the truth while he gets to live far away. Even a 16 yo should know better than that… and if they don’t, the story shouldn’t put Sunny’s own conscience on a level much higher than the grief of his supposed friends. I’m not going to feel bad for the sad bean only because there’s moving music during the climax. I’ve enjoyed works who explore the terms of forgiveness in the face of bad actions with much more maturity than this game :V

#submission #omori critical #bro why are you even targeting me i'm not the one who dissected the game to pieces #this was unexpected so i chose to answer because it was funny lol #write again and i'll block anons though #i don't care enough about this game to get into discourse it bored me to tears and that's all

[leonsliga]

My friend said: Leon has been huge lately

What do you mean, he’s always huge ☠️ That thing starring at us first okay 👀

Lately?? I’m with you anon; he’s always been huge—huge in all the right ways 😮‍💨

From his bubble boobs:

To his bulging biceps:

Yeah, ok, sure, you could tell me that neither of the above two were there during his twinkeon era, and I’d agree with you. But what about the fact that he has a truly quality mannschaft lying between his legs?

(nsfw-ish content below the cut):

Are we not supposed to look at it or—?

#anon 💖 #can’t believe he showed up to training fully armed on his birthday—he did it for us 🤭 #not only that…but I think we can all agree that Bayern knows their target audience after they posted that last pic #all I could think of while making this was that one post-wc Mario Götze vid where they showed his live reaction to his own ‘mannschaft’ 😂 #the poor man #leon goretzka #my asks

[cuppajj]

It’s really funny how KOS Overlord is with Drill because I have this mental image of them making eye contact at the same in like a restaurant with Drill politely leaving and speed walking to the exit trying not to panic and be a nuisance while Overlord is just hurdling tables to get him. Tom and Jerry but you’re actually rooting for the mouse vibes and it makes me chuckle.

I swear to god do not let these two see each other in public, the indomitable butthurt and broken hubris of Overlord versus Drill’s Literally Just There syndrome is going to be a nightmare for everyone and I mean everyone involved 😭 he WOULD throw tables. They all miss for some ungodly reason. Overlord screams while Drill banks the frick out of there with his tail between his legs. Dear god neither of them asked for this outcome but fate is ever the cruel mistress

#you can tell I’ve been thinking about them lately #drillburst #overlord #the Tom and jerry connection is so funny #if OL is Tom and Drill is Jerry then Max is the bulldog and they’re all doing #the one gag where they’re hitting each other with blunt objects while trying to hit their target with a blunt object #the one where they round the corner. that one #lovely anon