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Ngl they were my favorites to make and it shows

#my little pony fanart #twilight sparkle #rainbow dash #fluttershy #sunset shimmer #mossy art

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We need to talk about the lack of "filler" in series that're been released recently

I just watched a video about ATLA and it's filler or lack there of and, they're right, ATLA doesn't have filler episodes as we define "filler episodes" now. Our understanding of filler is closer to what's used for anime that is, non canon episodes that are made so the anime doesn't catch up with the manga. Applying this to western animation (I say animation bc I graduated in it thus a better understanding and I don't really watch many live action series so I don't have much of a say) we ended up with the impression that it means "episodes that don't move the plot forward"

Which, doesn't make sense with Western animation since most of it isn't a adaptation of something else, or with comic adaptations for ex, they're mostly adaptations of various arcs coming together as a single story. Smt very different from the manga to anime adaptation process

Comparing ATLA who positively doesn't have "filler" and X-men 97 who negatively doesn't have "filler" is a good example of what I'm trying to say.

Not all of ATLA episodes move the "learn the elements and defeat the firelord" plot forward and that's good thank fuck not all episodes are rushing ahead to throwing this 12yo we barely know into a battle with a full grown adult who's perpetrating a war against the rest of the world. Instead we actually get to know the characters, we see them traveling from the South to the North Pole instead of spawning where the plot demands, we see Aang adapt to the world post iceberg nap and learn to be the avatar, we see the effect the 100 year war had in this world. And most of all, the more "filler" episodes contributed to the pacing of the series, when binging the series now I still feel like the Gaang traveled across the whole world and didn't just teleport to the plot.

Opposed to X-men 97, don't get me wrong I'm absolutely loving it but the story is always being racing forward at a breakneck speed. They did try to pace it better inter cutting the main plot with Scott, Jean, Madelyne, Wolverine's whole deal and the "LifeDeath " plot, but if there wasn't the weekly wait for the next episode we would not have any time to breathe and digest what happened in the episodes.

I'm still confused on how Madelyne went from trying to have a normal life outside the x-men to being in Genosha's council. Still on Madelyne, I didn't care that they had to part ways with Nathan, ik he's their baby and all that, but as soon as they named the baby Nathan I knew they were throwing that baby to the future to complete the time loop of him being in the original series. And that's because they never got the chance to try to make us care, the writing team couldn't waste time with that since they only had 8 episodes to tell all these stories, the speed that the plot is being taken makes me believe that when writing this season Disney still hadn't signed on the second season and when they did it was too late to rework the script.

This whole thing is reminding me of Hazbin Hotel's pacing problems, analyzing it as if I didn't watch the pilot, we just met the characters and suddenly had to care that they were going to die in six months, we don't really know Charlie other than 1. she's Lucifer's daughter, 2. daddy issues that aren't rly addressed besides jokes, 3. she's with Vaggie (other character we didn't get to know) and 4. she's the owner of the hotel and wants to rehabilitate the sinners. The worst part of it is, we teleported from the start of the season to 6 months later out of nowhere and suddenly we're at the finale with the big boss battle. Of course HuskDust is a more popular ship than Charlie and Vaggie, we never got the chance to see them being together other than in episodes when the characters are being dragged by the plot while Angel and Husk had an episode where we met them and got the time to see them interact without being pushed by the extermination plot

This is exactly why "filler episodes" are important, we should actually know who these characters are before the big fight at the end so we can actually care about what happens to them. X-men 97 may not suffer that much from it but it's because we already knew most of the characters, but we never got to meet this version of Madelyne, see her going out alone to a world that hates her existence, see her morn having been forced to send her baby off to the future and maybe not being able to see him ever again and finally see never see how did she even end up in Genosha.

Or Storm, sure we got a two parter, but how did she get to fuck knows where to meet Forge in that bar, what did she go through during the time she was traveling alone, it's not as if people wouldn't recognize her as a x-men even if she'd left the team, maybe see more of how the relationship between her and Forge developed, cuz I didn't get why she still wants to be with him even after he basically created the tec that was turned into the weapons used to kill mutants, that's smt one can't just forgive, and yes I'd like to see her as she struggles with not having her powers, smt other than she feeling lonely without the wind (this would work even as just a montage with sad music as she travels to the fuckall haunted desert)

On a rly quick note on Invincible I do think they did a good job with their pacing and character development with the time they had, I'd like to have seen a bit more of Rex's development from complete douche to Lizard Leader homemade lobotomy to where we are now, but on the Grayson family whole thing they did an amazing job at showing how they're dealing with the aftermath of season 1, there was just a little jump from Debbie downing a bottle of wine every day to full bug mom mode but I do think she'd step up to it no doubt.

Maybe just some scenes of her still working through s1 trauma and questioning wtf is wrong w Nolan bc from her perspective he just killed hundreds of ppl on Earth, almost killed Mark, fucked off to space and suddenly there's a purple half bug baby living in her house calling her mom. But I don't think that's strictly necessary since there's always fanfiction to bridge this gap and it's just a minor thing that bothered me

TLDR: Filler in western cartoons isn't really filler, these are just episodes to help develop the world or characters without having to rush with the plot and also episodes that help with the pacing of the story, thus showing the passage of time or great distances being crossed without having the characters spawn at the next plot point. And we do need it specially for shows that are intended for binging, such as most shows now. What determines good filler from bad filler here is good writing

#atla #avatar the last airbender #x men 97 #hazbin hotel #invincible #animation discussion #on writing #pls feel free to add to this id love to see other ppls opinions on this #moss thoughts #just had to get this out #i do think in my friend group im the most annoying one when it comes to analyzing the script and how things are executed #im also the only comics nerd so i dont have anyone to talk to so to here it all goes

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Two x-men with their magical girl transformations

Pls let the next one be Gambit! Bring him back with a beautifully animated magical girl transformation, he deserves it

#madelyne pryor #ororo munroe #remy lebeau #gambit #x men 97 #pls pls pls pls bring him back #mossy thoughts

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are you going to remove all your hcs from here after you take them to ao3?

No, I'm keeping the ones already I've posted here, if they were to be scrapped to AI they probably already were stolen, but anything new I'll be posting over on AO3 and making a post here

Ik it's more annoying this way but I was already thinking on trying to do one-shots and multi-chapter fics and I do think AO3 works better for that

#swamp asks #moss thoughts

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Chapters: 12/12 Fandom: Homestuck Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Aradia Megido/Reader, Tavros Nitram/Reader, Sollux Captor/Reader, Karkat Vantas/Reader, Nepeta Leijon/Reader, Kanaya Maryam/Reader, Terezi Pyrope/Reader, Vriska Serket/Reader, Equius Zahhak/Reader, Gamzee Makara/Reader, Eridan Ampora/Reader, Feferi Peixes/Reader Characters: Aradia Megido, Tavros Nitram, Sollux Captor, Karkat Vantas, Nepeta Leijon, Kanaya Maryam, Terezi Pyrope, Vriska Serket, Equius Zahhak, Gamzee Makara, Eridan Ampora, Feferi Peixes, Beta Trolls (Homestuck) Additional Tags: /Reader, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Purring Trolls (Homestuck) Series: Part 1 of Homestuck Trolls Hcs Summary:

You've been stressed for the past few weeks and your matesprit tries to help with some good ol' cuddles and purring Headcanon collection

#happy 413 #rework of trolls comforting their s/o by purring #ao3 rework #homestuck x reader

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WHAT

#x men 97 #ep 5 #mossy thoughts

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got possessed and did this painting study after redesigning Ezllor's outfit

#homestuck #fantroll #violetblood fantroll #ezllor #mossy art #fantrolls

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Ok, how did they manage to make me love Rex that quickly?? I used to hate that guy then he got shot through the head and now he's my favorite dumbass of the show

#invincible #rex splode #should i write hcs for him once i have time??? #mossy thoughts

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inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.

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Yosh dump be uppon ye

#yosh fridge #yosh fanart #yoshinom #vampnom #yannom #darleene #mossy art #cant wait to have some free time to draw more of this scoundrel

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started this when it was insufferably hot here and thought Moon would also be hating how sunny it was

#fnaf security breach #the daycare attendant #fnaf moon #mossy art

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FUCKING FORGOT TO POST THIS HERE

#noooo #mlp fim #pinkie pie #rarity #apple jack #my little pony fanart #mossy art

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Scene from this fic I read a while back by @/wing-ed-thing

#snk #eren yeager #titan eren #mossy art #we rly need more early seasons eren content #he was so cute #and more titan eren #hes way prettier than regular eren #pls go read it #its so good and so cute

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when will they confess??

#hiveswap #hiveswap friendsim #mallek adalov #mspa reader #mallek x mspa reader

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Since the rise of ai in the fandom space I've lost much motivation to keep writing and posting it here and now that tumblr has decided to sell our souls to the devil I'll be posting/ reworking my headcanons and writing over to ao3, even if I cant fully protect it I'll be making stealing my art a pain in the ass to those thieves

After that hopefully I'll be back to writing and will be posting my long procrastinated DCA fic still on the editing room

All that I post here will be restricted to those with accounts, sorry but that's the better I can do given the situation

#moss thoughts #fuck ai everything #headcanons

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Somehow even more of a dick than he normally is

#jennifers body #jennifer's body au #low shoulder #creepypasta au #jeff the killer

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The drama queens of the group

#homestuck #alpha kids #alpha kids lineup #dirk strider #jane crocker #god tier designs #mossy art #cw gore #tw gore #gore