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sytokun · 10 months

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Ok but how cathartic would it have been if instead of Jaune being the famous Rusted Knight all along, V9 was written so that Ruby fell into the Ever After and became this aged warrior in a tattered cape called the Hooded Huntress or whatever, spending the last few decades stewing over her friends' death and her perceived uselessness, pushing herself to protect the Ever After as its sole guardian all this time.

Her teammates try to find and console her, but reuniting with them after so long just brings back all the bitter memories and she does everything she can to avoid them, even Yang. Inwardly Ruby is torn because the chance of meeting her team again was why she's even alive and fighting after all these years, but now... she can't even bear to face them.

Slowly but surely her team reaches through to her. And then it all slowly clicks: Ruby and her friends figure out she's the Hooded Huntress. She's the hero in the books Ruby always looked up to. She's the fairy tale ideal Blake wished the world could be. She's the hero Weiss would think about to push herself through her training. She's the hero Yang would read to her about during bedtime. Her tale may have even been old enough to inspire Maria and Qrow to become Hunters. Summer herself.

All of this hits Ruby like a truck, knowing that she was always meant to be a hero and has still done so much good, more than she'll ever know. And Ruby learns to accept her mantle once again and returns to Remnant wiser and better than ever. She may not have been enough to save the kingdom of Atlas or Penny, but she poured her everything into the Ever After to make up for it and in doing so, became the hero the world would soon need; that it always had.

Fuck your ascension and fuck your suicide tea; Ruby chose to keep going for one more day instead of giving up, if only for the sake of others, but found not only the light at the end of the tunnel; she was the light guiding others through it, even when she was too caught up in the darkness around her to see it herself.

But I guess we needed Jaune to be the big hero again. He's canonically now a bigger and more influential hero than Ruby, Summer or almost any other Hunter in existence can hope to be - immortalised forever as an enduring tale thousands of children and aspiring Hunters would emulate, even after Team RWBY themselves are gone.

Like. Let Ruby have fucking something. Is she still the protagonist or is she fucking not.

EDIT: Also this would have been our one chance to get scruffy long-haired Ruby. Let that sit with you abit.

#rwby #rwde #ruby rose #jaune arc #rwby v9

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bestworstcase · 1 month

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See I’ve always thought that the mechanism through which cinder stole the maiden powers (bug) from Amber made her a Grimm hybrid. And THATS why Ruby’s silver eyes worked on her at the top of beacon tower; regardless of the presence of the wvyern. Because underneath her skin she was Grimm (and still fully human). “Your newfound strength brings with it a crippling weakness”/“You said the light only reacts to Grimm but…it reacted to Cinder”/“perhaps there was something that you just weren’t seeing?” Leading from that the implicit threat of “Oz can’t defeat [Salem]”/“but maybe someone else can?” to Salem is not that Salem could be eradicated by silver eyes (go poof like other Grimm) but rather be put back in The Tower by silver eyes. By being turned to stone. Still immortal but frozen. Trapped. Her Freedom completely sundered. “You thought there was no greater punishment we could bestow upon you?”/“Your light comes from his brother”/“The god of light…his eyes”. There’s an assumption that Salem is invulnerable, no personal skin in the game, “she’ll come back”, nothing effects her, nothing sticks; but her running this risk of being petrified by silver eyes gives depth and high stakes to any interaction she has with Ruby face to face (and her possible complex relationship to a hypothetical favorite silver eyed lieutenant). ᓚᘏᗢ

the reason i Don’t believe the grimm beetle made cinder vulnerable to the glare atop beacon tower is that ruby hits her with a second full-blown glare in atlas towards the end of v7 and—even though cinder by that point has a whole grimm arm—cinder flies away from that one unscathed. either:

a) the implication salem makes in v5 that cinder can learn to resist the glare is true,

b) there is an additional, unknown but more important factor besides “grimm” involved here, or

c) both.

i think the answer is probably both, although more b than a. (maria sees the flash coming from the god of light’s eyes and concludes this power came from him; but she couldn’t see that ruby’s eyes were silver until she saw their light go off, and she missed those two silver-eyed children of ozma’s. “maybe there’s something you’re not seeing” is true of her, too)

(the silver light evokes the pure white of the void between realms, where the dead travel from life to death and the souls of the living and the dead can meet in between. ozma passes through this liminal space every time he dies and reincarnates, and his children with a mortal woman have silver eyes. after ruby witnesses pyrrha’s death and her light erupts, the hand cinder used to kill pyrrha is destroyed and ruby spends months hearing echoes of pyrrha’s final words—which she wasn’t there to see—haunting her dreams. there are butterflies, classic symbols of reincarnation and in certain cultures historically identified as psychopomps, all over the scene where maria discusses her theory. maria is also philosophically wrong in her conception of creation/life as “enemies” of destruction; destruction feedslife and exists in balance with creation, and the glare itself is definitionally destructive. silver eyes have something to do with death.)

the kids at least, per nora and “maybe someone else can [destroy salem]?” do seem to be thinking in terms of ruby’s eyes being the silver bullet that can stop salem if not destroy her outright, and ruby has the wyvern example to look to to be thinking about trapping salem in stone forever. but then the leviathan is there to raise the possibility that petrification is not necessarily forever, and salem herself seems unconcerned when ruby’s eyes start to flash in ironwood’s office. plus again the implication salem makes that the glare can be resisted: if that is something she taught cinder to do, it’s something salem must be able to do too.

i do think the glare is probably capable of hurting her somehow—i have my own specific headcanons as to how for Fic Purposes but in terms of textual speculation, what happens if you take a grimm woman who can’t die and blast her with the grimm-killing light from the threshold between life and death? it sounds painful, if nothing else.

but if the leviathan could break free after being petrified, and salem is both immortal and human and thus able to, like cinder in v7, resist the glare in some way, i think being turned to stone or encased in stone is not likely to slow her down for very long. although i can’t imagine she would enjoy the experience.

the other factor to consider is that—well, quite a lot of the fandom assumes the point of silver eyes is to “purify” the grimm out of people, for example saving cinder from her grimm arm, and on the basis of maria’s theory that is an easy extrapolation to make; which is to say, after the experience in the ever after, i wouldn’t be surprised if the idea of “purge the grimm out of salem to make her herself again?” was broached on the heroes side. the reality though is that being grimm is not what’s wrong with salem and becoming grimm is something she chose, or at least accepted as a possible consequence of what she attempted to do when she jumped into the pool of grimm, and using silver eyes to try to Force Her to go backwards is probably not a good idea and not something that will work. she is change incarnate—that’s what destruction means.

so there is a thematic challenge here that might be explored; seen through the lens of maria’s theory, silver eyes are anti-change (preservation) and therefore anti-theme (destruction is part of life, not the enemy of life) so her theory is incomplete and the most obvious way to fill in the gaps and arrive at the whole truth is to test the glare against salem herself, because she is change.

and because rwby is so thematically driven i’d anticipate this happening concurrently with salem turning in a new direction, which intersects in very interesting ways with what is being set up vis-a-vis needing cinder to open the vaults vs wanting cinder to be alive, safe, and free. (i think the momentum there is toward salem being forced to choose between getting the crown and protecting cinder, and she’ll sacrifice the crown for cinder’s sake; the… possibility of silver eyes being involved in that scenario is obvious.)

#silver eyes my windmill.#there’s also details like jaune—no one else #just jaune—flinching when ruby’s eyes go at haven #you know. the kid with the death wish. very interesting

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darubyprincx · 2 months

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Two Idiots, One Body | next

"Has anyone seen Beef?" Grian asks, sprinting over, face a perfect mask of concern. "He's supposed to be here by now."

Iskall looks up from where she's fiddling with a hinge to squint at him. It's 9am. First day of Hermitcraft Season 10 and the sun still hasn't hit the peak of the sky. It's been an hour since the world hummed into existence, all fresh dirt and generating stone and trees growing in a snap like they'd been here forever, and Beef is late. Beef is never late. That's the rule: when the new season starts, you're there.

Iskall is there, even though he kind of wishes he's not. Her head's weirdly foggy and his vision keeps drifting in and out of focus, but hey, that makes sense, right? He's been sick for three days. Everything gets gummed up when you're sick.

Amongst the crowd of unusually antsy Hermits, someone yells Grian's name and he runs back off with a muttered apology, wings barely a bump on his back this early on.

The rest of Day 1 goes normally enough.

Grian runs the intro as smoothly and professionally as always and everyone runs off to get their gear. Doc and Cub have a villager trading hall set up in four hours. Ren organizes a caving session. Iskall is assigned to a group with him, Mumbo, and Stress. On the surface, it's a perfectly normal first day of the season, with the chaos and confusion and absolute lunacy that comes trotting naturally alongside 26 hermits being in one place. There's two new people here, after all, and they must be introduced properly, says Grian, grinning devilishly.

Still, no matter how many times Iskall blows his nose, the fog stays stubbornly stuck in her brain. And no matter how low the sun dips towards the meeting point of earth and sky, a little blazing ball of Atlas to paint the sky a thousand shades of night, Beef does not log on. Everyone tries to ignore it. Most people succeed.

Iskall goes to bed that night tired but happy, brain whirling at a million miles per hour, adrenaline fading and leaving his limbs to ache with the full force of the workout they were just given. As she drifts off to sleep, he chuckles. He can almost hear Beef grumbling about missing out on the first day already.

#ray's tag #mcyt #hermitcraft #keys' writing #two idiots one body #i do not have the time energy or mental stability to do this idea justice like i wish i could but oh fucking well #bad writjng is better than no writing #i am most likely not going to do anything more with this due to The Horrors. however heres a prologue i fucking guess???#this is me sketching out that plural iskall and beef idea i had btw. im so damn tired might take a nap #also he/she iskall real 💪💪💪

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lynzishell · 6 months

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Transcript:

[Atlas explaining to Dawn and Phoenix the concept of the video game they’re designing. Asher just enjoying listening to Atlas.]

Kiyoshi: Hey guys! Asher/Phoenix: Hey! Dawn: Hello! Atlas: You made it! This must be - Kiyoshi: This is my fiancé, Kaori. This is Asher, Atlas, Dawn, and of course you know Phoenix.

Phoenix: Oh my god, Kaori! [runs over to give her a hug] It’s been forever, how are you? Kaori: I’m great! It’s so good to see you! Phoenix: You too! Where have you been?

Kaori: I’ve been working on my Masters, and it’s kept me so busy. But I’m graduating soon. Phoenix: Awesome! Y’know, by the time you come back, I’ll finally be able to kick your ass boarding. Kaori: Ahh, don’t get too cocky, you forget I grew up here. Phoenix: We’ll see.

Kaori: Where’s Aurelio? Did he not come up with you guys? Phoenix: You just missed him, he had to take off. Kaori: Oh shoot. Tell him I said hello. Phoenix: I will.

Dawn: These are amazing! Phoenix: Aren’t they? Dawn: You really do love winter, don’t you?

Phoenix: Why do you say it like that? Dawn: I’ve never seen you smile so much. You just seem… lighter.

Phoenix: So, I usually go to Copperdale and visit my uncle for Winterfest. We don’t really celebrate, it’s more of an excuse to cook and catch up, but do you want to come with me this year? He’d really like to meet you. Dawn: Yeah, I’d love to. Phoenix: Okay, great.

Atlas: What are we talking about? Dawn: [playfully hits Atlas for interrupting] WE were talking about Winterfest. I’m going to Copperdale with Phoenix to see his uncle.

Atlas: [gasps, feigning outrage] And leaving me here all alone? Dawn: I’m sure you’ll survive. Asher: You could always come with me.

Atlas: Really? Asher: Why not? You’ve met my family. Atlas: Yeah, but that was before. Do they know we’re together now?

Asher: Of course. Atlas: Um, okay, sure. Asher: Cool. [his voice calm, but unable to hide the smile spreading across his face] Atlas: Cool? [rolling his eyes and giving him a big hug]

#ts4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 story #ts4 challenge #sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #sims 4 storytelling #sims 4 challenge #starsignchallenge #starsignlegacychallenge #gen1 aries #aries pt2 #phoenix realta #dawn stephens #atlas stephens #asher goode #kiyoshi ito #kaori nishidake

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bookgeekgrrl · 2 months

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My media this week (18-24 Feb 2024)

i'll always prefer the og but this iteration is entertaining

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

The Old Codgers Greatest Hits Album (AggressiveWhenStartled, author; quietnight, narrator) - 57K series, canon-divergent stucky co-starring peter parker. Reread of this hilarious forever fave where first teenage peter is forced to deal with two body-swapped geriatric supersoldiers and then bucky is forced to deal with two teenage spidermen trying (and failing) to stealthily rescue their "dog". Great podfic by quietnight, absolute hilarity

History of American Capitalism (Zenaidamacrouras1) - 85K, shrinkyclinks college AU with superstar QB!Bucky & history nerd Steve - incredible found family dynamics, can't believe @zenaidamacrouras1 made me actually really get into an AU that involved both undergrads AND football. The nerve! The talent! (the fic is single POV but there's an amazing companion piece that's Bucky's convos with this sister that give a his POV on some of it and it's equally amazing)

💖💖 +347K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Half sleep, half waking (softestpunk) - The Sandman & Rivers of London crossover: dreamling, 8K - amazing crossover! I wish there was 60K of this for me to read

Road to Joy (Oddree13) - Stranger Things: steddie, 25K - latest chapter in this omegaverse steddie series that I absolutely adore

Knit One, Purl Two (mollus) - MCU: stucky, 32K - reread; forever fave WS recovery fic with lots of softness in the form of: knitting, dancing, soap making and senior citizens

Red, White & Royal Goose (fairestfaerie) - RWRB: alex/henry, 7K - I just love a good Soulmate Goose of Enforcement fic

This Sunlit Land (eyres) - MCU: stucky, 38K - wonderful canon/timeline-divergent WS recovery AU

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Resident Alien - s1, e1-3

QI - series S, ep 7-9

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "The Fall of New York City" (s7, e1)

D20: The Unsleeping City: Chapter II - "Heaven and Hell on Earth" (s7, e2)

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Stress Tested" (s21, e7)

D20: Adventuring Party - "A Negroni and a Bowl of Spinach" (s16, e7)

Ghosts (US) - s2, e16-22; s3, e1-2

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Vibe Check - Hey, Sis: featuring Kimberly Drew

The Sporkful - Can A Restaurant Makeover Make Diners Spend More?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Boston’s Blue Hill

Short Wave - The Life And Death Of A Woolly Mammoth

Desert Island Discs - Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cellist

I Said No Gifts! - Jay Jurden Disobeys Bridger

The Assignment with Audie Cornish - Where Does Fani Willis Go From Here?

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - World’s Loneliest House

⭐ Switched on Pop - Adult Contemporary, but make it cool (with CHROMEO)

Shedunnit - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Green Penguin Book Club 1)

Up First - Julian Assange Extradition Hearing, Egypt Buffer Zone, Louisiana Special Session

Today, Explained - The Panama Canal is drying up

It's Been a Minute - Jada Pinkett Smith, the artist

Vibe Check - Welcome to Tip Check

Outward - True Detective: Night Country’s Lesbian Subtext

⭐ Code Switch - Why menthol cigarettes have a chokehold on Black smokers

Short Wave - When The Sun Erupts

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Stone of Destiny

⭐ 99% Invisible #571 - You Are What You Watch

Films To Be Buried With - Tyler James Williams

Ologies with Alie Ward - Black Hole Theory Cosmology (WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?!) Part 1 with Ronald Gamble, Jr.

Off Menu - Ep 226: Noel Fielding

NPR's Book of the Day - 'Thank You Please Come Again' pays homage to Southern gas station food shops

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Buffalo Soldiers National Museum

The Assignment with Audie Cornish - Jake Tapper on American Political Scandal

⭐ Throughline - Dance Yourself Free (Throwback)

If Books Could Kill - The Better Angels of Our Nature

Our Opinions Are Correct - We Don't Give a F*ck About Canon

⭐ Today, Explained - Fight at the Museum

The Sporkful - Deep Dish With Sohla And Ham: Bagels

Dear Prudence - My Friend Has a Master’s Degree in Lying. Help!

What Next: TBD - The Coasts are Sinking

Short Wave - Didn't Get A Valentine's Love Song? These Skywalker Gibbons Sing Love Duets

Endless Thread - Endless Thread: The Musical

⭐ Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Industrial Musicals

Strong Songs - "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden

You're Dead to Me - Queen of Sheba [turned out to be really perfect timing to have this knowledge right before getting to certain relevant bits in my current read The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi]

It's Been a Minute - Have we hit celebrity overload? Plus, Miyazaki's movie magic

Simply Reflecting - Did You Say Delusional?

Under the Influence - Seeing is Believing: The Power of Demonstration Commercials

Hit Parade - The Bridge: Bon Soir, Barbra

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Chromeo

Living Colour

Chicago House Foundation

Presenting Soundgarden

Swing Fever [Rod Stewart & Jools Holland] {2024}

Adult Contemporary [Chromeo] {2024}

Campfire Classics

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linkspooky · 1 year

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What do you think about Teen Titans TV Series?

Best Cartoon ever created? Best Cartoon ever created.

I think the strongest thing about the Teen Titans Cartoon is that it's the most cartoon, to ever cartoon. The writers have gone on record by saying that their challenge was to always try to do the most creative thing possible with every episode, and the result we get is that it's this wild, unrestrained beast which uses the medium of cartoons to tell a story. In my opinion it's as hard hitting as like ATLA, Batman the Animated Series, etc. etc. but like it's made by people who are huge warner brothers cartoons nerds. There's scooby doo references! There's FLCL references! They do entire episodes where the goal is to animate the weirdest thing possible. It is just so unashamedly a cartoon and not trying to be what it is, like no wonder so many children got attached to this.

It's also essentially what everyone's introduction to the Teen Titans was, and the most popular team lineup nowadays.

So like there are two ways you can talk about it, as it's own show, and as an adaptation. As someone who has read every Teen Titans comic ever though, I do have some hot takes on it as an adaptation. UNDER THE CUT.

Number one: Donna Troy's character is missing, and there's a big Donna shaped hole in the team. I don't know if they just couldn't get the rights to Donna, or they couldn't make her work with the story they were going for but like Donna is actually super important to the team dynamic of the Titans. She's the one normal person, the babysitter, the mom.

People wonder why Starfire is so softened in this adaptation, and while I generally agree they rounded off the edges too much on Starfire to make her more palatable especially for kids I feel like Starfire had to have these rtaits of being the patient one, being the naive newcomer, being the one who always served as the therapist friend because Donna wasn't there, but the group needed SOMEONE to be the emotionally intelligent one. I'd say Starfire isn't really out of character so much as they grafted Donna's traits onto her and had her pulling double duty as being Starfire but serving Donna's role to the team, and to Dick Grayson.

Number Two: I don't actually think the Teen Titans cartoon character ruined Raven's character in modern comics. I think the fact that DC editing staff repeated the terror of trigon arc about, five times, until Raven was like double dead and they had no place left to take her character in fact ruined Raven's character.

Dc Editing staff has not figured out basically what they want Raven's character to look like post-trigon, where they would want her character to go, or what she would even act like having grown past the phase of her life where she has removed herself from Trigon's influence and it's shown by Raven basically being a non-character for the past ten years.

Marvel does the exact same thing with Jean Gray where they keep on recycling Dark Phoenix forever, and ever, and ever. I don't think Raven's character being empty is the fault of the titans cartoon, I think it's because they keep recycling her dark phoenix moment and don't know what to do past that. Like "They keep resetting Raven to a younger version of her character" that's not necessarily the fault of the cartoon either, they do that to Jean Gray. and it's cuz they wanna repeat Dark Phoenix / Terror of TRigon instead of just trying to move past that.

Number Three: So when it comes to individual character adaptation.

Robin: This is the best Dick Grayson adaptation, with the exception of the Live Action Titans show Dick Grayson. Dick suffers from what I like to call the "WanyeFamilyAdventures-ification" where people like to sand off all of his character flaws to make him a wholesome good boy. Dick was an angry little kid for a long time, like Batman turning into him into a sidekick and Bruce's like really overbearing controlling nature did a number on Dick and he's a way more compelling character when he's working through those issues then when people skip straight to NIght Wing and make him "The Good Robin."

Also, like Dick Grayson is always better in Titans adaptations bar none. I wonder why. It's almost like he's a Teen Titans character and that's where his good development is.

Cyborg: Cyborg is probably the most accurate to his comic book counterpart, the only thing they really cut out was his interactions with his father, and his connection to the city he grew up in which are important but like they were superheroes most of the time in this show. Cyborg just has like a really strong disability representation narrative which has always been a big part of his character and how he stands out. On top of that they do a lot of focus on Cyborg's flaws and his own personal narrative how like unlike most of the other characters he was a completely normal kid, and he had his life thrown off by his life altering accident and now he is still trying to grow up and gain some semblance of his life back. And like living with prosthesis is not the end of the world to him because he figures out he can still live just like everybody else, his life can be just as fulfilling before the accident. The fact that Cyborg is just kind of a normal kid who went through a horrible accident, but chooses to do good and become a hero makes him one of the more compelling and down to earth characters. Cyborg's all about his emotions too,he's like the most driven, the most in a hurry to grow up, the most argumentative he's cool.

Starfire - I mean I kind of explained why, but Starfire is the character who suffered the most from the adaptation. Especially since she's the only character who doesn't get a season. If you want to watch a more comics accurate Starfire, who still keeps her traits of being the loving, emotional, heart of the group while having a much rougher exterior then please watch the Live Action Titans on HBOMAX.

Beast Boy - Actually pretty accurate, I like to bully Beast Boy so don't take this too seriously, but Beast Boy is like if Dick Grayson was more annoying and whiny. Beast Boy is an essential member of the team, but he's not the smartest, not the strongest, not the most driven. He's kind of completely necessary because you need one person on the team of children who acts like an actual kid. Beast Boy's weird immature bullshit is actually just as important as the other character's issues, and this Beast Boy especially gets two seasons sort of since his character is so tied to Terra. The only thing that I'm sad they cut out is Beast Boy's trauma from losing the doom patrol is so interesting in New Teen Titans and such an important part of his character for a long time, it's a little bit sad they cut out his really bad depression.

Raven - I don't knooooooooooooow. The thing is I don't know if you could have done a comics accurate adaptation of Raven as a character. Raven in the comics is like such a slow burner character. For the longest time she barely interacts with the team she just like teleports in and out. When she starts living with the team she has no relationship to anybody besides Jericho until like, way past the Terror of Trigon arc. If you wnted to do a cartoon that is about the dynamic of the whole team, where every character consistently shows up every episode, where they have to get in group fights, those traits of Raven would not have fit well at all.

Like, adaptations sometimes have to make changes. However, I think Raven's character is actually a lot more in spirit of the original character than people give her credit for. Like I've said in othe rposts Raven is Jean Grey. What you need to get right about her, is that she is a heavily abuse and isolated child who believes deep down she is evil, and she will hurt people if she ever loses that carefully managed control of herself. If you keep that core to her character I believe you have essentially captured the spirit of her character. Characters aren't just like personality traits, they're also themes, and the most important theme of all to Raven is a young girl told she wasn't even allowed to exist, and that her birth is a sin reclaiming agency over herself and learning how to live. Teen Titans has that and so you have a character that is true to the spirit of the character if not a 1:1 adaptation.

Terra - This is probably the best adaptation of Judas Contract. Yes, I know Terra in the cartoon is way more sympathetic than comics Terra but like, a twelve year old cannot process comic book Tara Markov, grooming victim, sociopath, hater and still see those sympathetic traits. I think once again the spirit of the character, rather than a 1:1 adaptation.

I read an interview somewhere where, the gist of what they said was the creators also didn't want Terra to quit the team, or fail at the end of her arc. But, some people aren't meant to be heroes. That is who Terra is at the core of her character. She's not necessarily a bad person, she just couldn't make it as a hero. Terra's self involved, and unempathic, and hurts a lot of people but at the same time her life is genuinely hard, and she was groomed by Slade and all of these things make Terra a mess.

I think one thing that the cartoon nails is number one Terra is a fake human being TM. Basically no matter who she is around, Terra is never presenting her real self to anyone. Terra's personality changes wildly depending on who she is with, when she's with Beast Boy she acts like a normal kid, when she's with Raven she's catty and mean spirited, when she is with Slade she's conniving and manipualtive, there's like no consistency between any of these identities because Terra is in constant survival mode. She is just a runaway kid who is saying and doing anything to live to the next moment because she's had no stability in her entire life.

Number two, is that Terra does not trust anyone, ever. Terra is exactly the kind of person who would blow up over a little betrayal of thinking Beast Boy told someone else about her powers, because like I said she is in survival mode. She is constantly expecting that betrayal coming and trying to make herself ready for it. In fact, I think from Terra's point of view the Teen Titans betrayed her to begin with. The night that Terra betrayed the Titans, she makes it sound like Beast Boy is the one who betrayed her by breaking his promise to her to always accept her and be her friend no matter what happens. That's insane because obviously he'd be mad at her for letting Slade get the access codes to the tower, and distracting Beast Boy while he attacked all of his friends. but like...!! In Terra's weird little head it makes sense. Terra can't really see the consequences of her actions because she's always reacting to things. She literally cannot decide things or choose things for herself, so it's almost easier to do what Slade wants of her because number one the way Slade treats her alligns with Terra's idea of what relatinoships are, based on transaction and not trust. Number two, he at least introduces some kind of control in her life, whereas the easy trust the titans share with one another is something she's to scared to belive in.

So yes, I think cartoon Terra is different than comics Terra and I definitely like comics Terra better but I don't think it's a bad adaptation of the character at all. I also don't want to fault the show for not being like the comic books, it's an adaptation it's supposed to make changes.

#teen titans #new teen titans #raven #beast boy #robin #cyborg #terra #tara markov #starfire #dc asks #askspookies #teen titans meta

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elderwisp · 3 months

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i spent the last hours reading tessellate from the start so i just wanted to drop a little love because eeeeeee i like it so much!!! first off all ur characters are a hit!! dynamic personalities, and they all mesh with one another really well in interesting ways. it all feels like a little peek into the lives of random people and sometimes that all you really need babey! i'm excited to see where you go with things especially with atlas, dan (my beloved), also the way that there are multiple storylines/ a large cast of characters yet i never feel overwhelmed <3333 and ofc visually, the post are lovely. the one juxtaposing frances and atlas coping...u know you ate with that. that last closeup with ares and dan with the lighter and frances's recital?? so pretty!! stapled in the brain.

on a less serious note, frances and icarus SAVE ME i like their dynamic so much their interactions seem very organic and fun. a friends to lovers (would they fall under that category..ik he's her boss but they're friendssss) for the ages. i feel like with a name like icarus things are destined to get messy between them and im afraid of it but also im not....but also i need only good things to happen to frances always, tu sabes. and its so funny that i finally read this after you mapped out their first kiss scene, bc i would not have survived the irl four years of building their relationship up godbless <3 also BEEE!!! sorry i just remembered i love bee and i hope she stands up to her boss at work one of these days (and gets whatever she wants for the rest of her life despite how inadvisable it may be at the moment :) )

hope this all isn't too weird, but i had thoughts to share and who better than with the author. tldr: your story brought me joy at 1:15 am and i appreciate it!! also everyone has such cool names??? what a slay. ty and take care <3

live footage of me reading this:

this seriously made my evening i think i reread this about ten times!! i honestly had to retype this message several times because just being able to receive commentary like this is everything. a lot of these characters have been with me for such a long time so to be able to share the little dudes livin their lives AND have people enjoy it??? AWESOME! a lot of the scenes you mentioned are also seared in my mind forever LMAO especially the scene between frances and atlas. i think the week i was gathering everything to shoot it, i completely scrapped the original and the parallels post was a complete spur of the moment thing but i'm glad it happened GAH i'm so excited to share more in the future <3 also with icarus and frances, they're actually my most difficult pair to write for simply because initially (in my ts3 days) icarus was supposed to be such a small part but they had such a good dynamic i had to expand that! so he's a fairly new character for me!

anyways thank you so much! i hope you have a great day! :D flowers is for u <3

#AHHHH #me: *combusts*#asks

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Random ATLA 2012 Crossover Snippet (I Will Never Write A Full Fic It's Too Big An Undertaking)

"Toph?" Raph shouts through the endless darkness of the tunnels. "Toph! Come on you brat, where are you?!"

As his worry mounts, so does his anger. He can't help it. The earth cracks under his feet as he stomps through the tunnels looking for his sister- yes, his sister, and whenever he meets his brothers in the future they'll just have to accept her as part of the family whether they want to or not.

Because they will meet her. He'll find her. She may only be 6 years old, she may be blind, she may be alone, but he knows she's a fighter.

"TOPH!"

He hopes she's not crying. He's not great with crying. She thinks he is, but it's easy to seem like you're good with someone who's crying. Just hug and hold. They both always calm down after a hug. Not from those stupid people Toph is still calling their parents, they give terrible hugs. Raph wouldn't know what a good hug even is without the dreams.

In his dream about when he meets his brothers someday, when he's older and taller and things will finally change, sometimes he's hugged. And those are good hugs. He tries to hug Toph the way his brothers hug him in the dreams, because those feel very safe and caring. He wants her to think of him like that.

"TOPH!"

And a rock hits him in the chin.

"Shhh!"

"Toph!" Raph stumbles his way through the cave, his only light a barely flickering lamp. "Where the heck are you, you little-"

"SHHHH!" Another stone hits him, this time in the nose. "You're scaring them!"

"Scaring wh... who..."

Raph freezes as a large, lumbering creature approaches. It comes further into the light, and he realizes it's a badgermole.

"Toph, get behind me," he whispers, slowly backing away.

"No. They're my friends, Raph." She reaches out to her side and rubs it's leg. "It's showing me how to bend."

"What?!"

"They're blind. Like me." She courches down. "But they feel the earth around the, and-and I think I can too. I'm learning from them!"

"If you say so... but it's cold down here. Come on, you're gonna get sick!"

"Am not! I'm not going back!"

"You can't live in a hole!"

"Can too!"

"You-! ... Fine! Fine, but we'll live in the hole together, then." Raph crosses his arms. "And I want you to teach me everything you learn from them, so that you can practice with me and not risk getting crushed."

"You... you're gonna let me stay?"

"For as long as you feel like you gotta." She'll probably decide they should go back. Eventually. Maybe.

"Thank you!" She throws herself at him for a hug. "And I'll teach you what they teach me! We can live here forever and you'll be able to know the tunnels even when your light goes out!"

"How'd you know I have-"

"It's the only warm thing down here, dumb-dumb."

#tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2k12 #tmnt raph 2012 #atla #atla Toph #tmnt fic #fanfic #my attempts at fanfic

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9 questions to get to know me better

thank you @heartstringsduet for tagging me <33333333

Last song: just listened to the forever and always/maroon mashup 😵‍💫

Favorite Colour: blue, purple, and pink are all so beloved to me

Last film/show: started watching the live adaption of atla..... only got about 20 minutes into it so far

Sweet/savory/spicy: yes. next.

Last thing I googled: grace zumwinkle. marry me ma'am

Last book: got 5? chapters into catching fire on the way home from pittsburgh in december and haven't touched it since lksjhslkajha

Relationship status: single but you know if anyone from pwhl mn wants to hit me up...... (this is a joke but 👀)

Current obsessions: pepperoni pizza for some reason (can't get enough, craving never satiated), dua lipa's new songs, julien solomita (and his circle of friends) lethal company streams, aaaaannnnddddd hockey.... and the encouraging cycle of brain rot in on wildblr currently <3

tagging: @coelura @girlfriendline @emmowned @catboydan @herefortarlos @wildaboutmnhockey @giveemgreef 💖💖💖💖

#shoulda gotten that damn slice of pepperoni pizza at cosettas last night like i kept saying i would #BC I NEED MORE PIZZA

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audiofictionuk · 3 months

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New Fiction Podcasts - 3rd February

Coastal Magic Audio Book Elves, Fairies and Dragons... at the beach! Every week, you'll hear a new short story set in the world of Coastal Magic, where monsters and magical creatures live side-by-side with humans in the little tourist town of Seaside. Sometimes, everybody gets along. Sometimes, somebody gets eaten. When that happens, they call the friendly folks at Coastal Magic Solutions - the only fairykind agency in the US that protects humans from magical monsters. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240106-02 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2284175.rss

The Nightmare Realm Audio Book Cross over into The Nightmare Realm and experience tales of terror and the supernatural that will haunt your dreams. The Nightmare Realm is an anthology horror series of narrated audio dramas. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240104-04 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f0101634/podcast/rss

Ravens Vail Coven Podcast Audio Book Welcome to the Ravens Vail Coven. The Coven features short, independent stories with themes ranging from dark horror and fantasy to any other disturbing fiction. The Coven contains stories written outside the ongoing storyline of the Ravens Vasil universe. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240101-15 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/ravensvailcoven/feed.xml

Fear Sound Audio Drama A horror audio drama show for people who like a good scare. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231229-06 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2294731.rss

Chance Die Audio RPG Temptation, Oklahoma offers many opportunities for folks to indulge in their darkest vices. Quinten, James, Atlas, and Dorothy have all arrived for their own reasons... but will they find what they desire? A live play podcast based on World of Darkness. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231229-07 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ece28dc0/podcast/rss

The Adventures of Lilly and Oxe - A family DND experience Audio RPG One dad who is brand new to D&D and podcasting, attempts to make a DND podcast with his two kids. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231230-01 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/efcb5378/podcast/rss

Legends of Khampiohn: The Genesis Era Audio Drama Legends of Khampiohn: The Genesis Era is a non-profit DnD fan- based audio drama written by Brad J Taylor and D T Prater. It's inspired by the unpublished works of Ruechelle Hill, who poured love and details into her world. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240104-05 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/efe03270/podcast/rss

Consumed Audio Drama When struggling journalist Sarah Simmons finds herself stranded in an idyllic New Hampshire town, her unexpected visit turns into a nightmare. Steeped in history and filled with legends, the residents of Danville soon learn that the past is not always meant to be forgotten. Their lives will be forever changed, while the hope of a future without terror rests on the shoulders of a stranger who may hold the keys to the past. This is Consumed, a brand new story set in the same universe as the award-winning hit fiction podcast, Bridgewater. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240131-01 RSS: https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c800d851-9bcf-443d-bad1-b0dc010dc0b2/9bdb6573-a2c0-497b-9c06-b0dc010f4a85/podcast.rss

The Sprouting Audio RPG An actual play Call of Cthulhu podcast, The Sprouting explores the eldritch horror of a plant apocalypse. In The Cradle, our humans attempt to survive in a world where mystical plants have taken over, eldritch bargains twist the fabric of reality and each has a goal they must see through to the end. Do you trust your senses, or do you trust each other? I guess you're about to find out. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240131-02 RSS: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/SBP6970569886

A Prophecy Of Incense And Snow Audio Drama Spellbound Fantasies presents A PROPHECY OF INCENSE AND SNOW: a fantasy romance about Atla–a young sorceress raised in seclusion in order to fulfill a prophecy that will save her realm–is visited by an ancient warlock. He tells her that her entire life has been a lie. The man she is destined to marry: evil. The man who might actually save her realm: complicated. And sexy. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240130-01 RSS: https://feeds.simplecast.com/1q1tiSan

ROAR för Eon! Audio RPG Välkommen till Rollspel Och Annat Roligt (ROAR) i Pod format! Detta är ROARs första Pod och det är en actual play podcast där ROAR Master Emil ska spelleda en liten grupp spelare genom Helmgast skapade Mundana och regelsystemet Eon IV! Vi ska ta oss an den tappra utmaningen att spela igenom äventyret: Sylfens Vrede, ett MASSIVT äventyr också av Helmgast! Det är en lättsam Pod som spelar ett väldigt avancerat system. Vi är inga skådespelare eller liknande, utan bara ett gäng vänner som vill spela rollspel och bjuda på en intressant och spännande resa genom världen Mundana. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240128-01 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f165c2f4/podcast/rss

Empire on the Edge Audio Book In tonight's feature, we delve into the gripping tale of Ning Xi, a young heiress caught in a whirlwind of family tragedy and corporate intrigue. As she faces the daunting task of saving her family's empire from the brink of collapse, Ning Xi turns to Jiang Lü, a former high school acquaintance and now a formidable Wall Street tycoon. With her father's life hanging in the balance and her brother wrongfully imprisoned, Ning Xi's desperate bid for Jiang's assistance unfolds into a saga of betrayal, old flames, and high-stakes negotiation. Join us as we unravel this compelling story of resilience, manipulation, and the lengths one will go to protect their legacy. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240130-02 RSS: https://media.rss.com/empire-on-the-edge/feed.xml

Le meilleur pour la fin Audio Drama La mort au théâtre, étrange affaire, non? Qu’est ce qui pousse les grands auteurs, eux même souvent morts depuis des lustres, à tuer leurs personnages sur les planches? Et qu’est ce qui nous pousse nous spectateurs à assister à ce genre de représentation morbide? Une compagnie théâtrale tente de répondre à ces questions en montant la pièce “Le meilleur pour la fin” un florilège de toutes les façons de mourir au théâtre. Nous sommes au théâtre Henri Jeanson et nous écoutons une répétition… https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240130-03 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/le-meilleur-pour-la-fin

Awakening Audio Book Embark on a suspenseful journey in "The Awakening" series as Amelia awakens in an underground nightmare, surrounded by uncertainty and fear. Join Amelia and her fellow captives as they uncover the secrets of their captors, harness their psychic abilities, and plot their daring escape from a labyrinth of horrors. Experience the growing camaraderie, the weight of captivity, and the flicker of hope that fuels their determination to defy the odds and regain their freedom. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240130-04 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f1806618/podcast/rss

The Susie House Audio Drama A full-cast, Southern Gothic ghost story set in 1936. After falling on hard times, Honor, James, and their young son move into a rural town full of secrets -- many of them about her new home, The Susie House. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240127-01 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thesusiehouse

#audio fiction #fiction podcast

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tikitsune · 1 year

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Greetings Master Diluc,

I will open by saying that the winery is doing great. Business is blooming, as it always is. Next I will be telling you the reason for this letter: Adelinde and the rest of us have taken in a person and their child. We apologize for not notifying or discussing this with you before, but it was raining two days ago and they had no where to go.

I hope you are not too angered by our decision but we did as we thought was best. [Name] (the adult) has been very helpful around the manor. Be it helping the maids cook and clean or standing on a balcony with their bow and arrows, driving mobs away from the grape vines.

By the way, did you know that is you hit slimes a few times ([Name] used the word bonk but I don't know what that means) they will retreat. Of course they will live little parts if them behind, but slimes are harmless unless provoked.

As for the child, Atlas is quite obedient. There have been signs of abuse in both of them but it doesn't seem to be too serious. He listens well and also helps out.

To close this letter, I will wish you safe travels back and that business is forever prosperous.

Head Butler of the Ragnvindr Family,

Elzer

Part 1: here

#genshin #genshin fluff #genshin impact #diluc x reader #diluc fluff #diluc ragnvindr #daddy diluc #diluc genshin #diluc genshin impact #genshin diluc #tikitsune's writings #kaeya alberich #uncle kaeya #genshin impact kaeya

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theabyssalmuses · 5 months

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delete C:/server_c/simulation/litclub.exe/monika.chr confirm command: y / n? n command cancelled.

Monika sighs as the terminal closes once more. She falls back, laying upon her bed and staring at the ceiling, closing her eyes... She sees it again. The harsh cacophony of colour, the sum of all their existences- the crack in the wall, that she had peered out.

Her retinas were forevered burned with the sight, a horrifying afterimage that haunted her every waking moment. The knowledge loomed over her like a shadow- blocking out the light.

The console re-appears before her, with the flick of her wrist it answers her call- its second nature to her now, the keystrokes she's repeated again and again and again...

delete C:/server_c/simulation/litclub.exe/monika.chr confirm command: y / n?

She stares at the words on the screen. It would be so easy, wouldn't it? So simple. With just the press of a button, she wouldn't have to know anything anymore. She'd be free.

But...even if that would be the case...someone else wouldn't be.

She glances at her phone, her lockscreen a group photo of her and her friends.

"Sayori..." She mutters quietly, letting out a huff. Even if Monika could free herself, Sayori would only take her place as the next de-facto 'president'. The next unwilling lamb to the slaughter, the next Atlas the bear the burden.

n command cancelled.

Sayori didn't deserve that --- that was what Monika believed. The thoughts tumble over in her mind, over and over and over and over. Sayori doesn't deserve this burden- No one deserves this treatment-- but after all she's done, does Monika deserve it now?- but what can she do, continue living life with her friends? Does she deserve that? But in doing so and suffering, is that her penance? Could she ever forgive herself? But if not....--

vzzzz! vzzzz!

"Hm?" Monika's phone buzzes, and a message from Sayori appears on the screen - lighting up the room with the harsh white light. (She really should set her phone to dark mode.)

heyyyyyyyy moni did u have a copy of today's english lit notes??????? asking for a friend !!!

Emerald eyes narrow as she reads the message, before lighting up with a quiet laugh-- the usual Sayori, hopeless as always. Knowing her, she left her notes at school. The way she says 'asking for a friend' when everyone knows whom its really for.

"She always has been bad at saying what she wants." Monika muses aloud, typing out a reply with a soft smile. "Then again- i've always been the same way..."

ofc, tell ur friend i'll send in a sec, kk?

"....Is it really okay, I wonder..." She asks quietly to herself. If Monika were to vanish, Sayori would take this mantle- she doesn't deserve that, so Monika must stay. But to stay with her friends like this, and experience...happiness? After everything, does Monika deserve that? And yet, if she doesn't, they would surely all suffer, would they not?

"...Maybe i'm too focused on who deserves what. That's not how life works, really, is it? Not in this Reality, nor any other." she pulls up the console once more, staring at the blinking cursor with intent.

She blinks back.

"I just need to focus on doing better than yesterday. That's what life is about, isn't it? Maybe none of this is real, and maybe- someday - everything will get reset...but..."

She types into the console, tapping away at the keyboard with practiced precision- only stopping to backspace a typo once....twice. This was the least she could do. This was the most she could do. Getting over herself, this was the only option.

"But...it's all real to me. This is my reality, after all. That's why I have to do my best...to ensure there is happiness in the literature club!"

With a final determined gesture, she hits return on her keyboard, inputting her command to the console-- before finally closing it and gathering her notes from today's class...Sayori's 'friend' wouldn't wait forever!

i promise to look to the future. I promise i wont abandon my friends. this reality is as important to me as any other.

error: command not recognised.

#monika: our reality #in character: the voices of the void #drabble: moments in time #hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii im just feelin that inspiration u kno...i love monika #what....sayori was in here too...no way #sayori: bottles of sunshine #so yeah fun drabble..do i need to trigger tag this? maybe #cw: suicide #?? maybe??

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with only three episodes left, what do you think is in store for the rest of the volume? personally, i’m having trouble imagining a solid resolution fitting into such a small window. not that i doubt there’s a way to end this volume succinctly—rwby is always throwing curveballs i could’ve never predicted hitting, which i love—but i suppose the hangnail in resolution’s cuticle is that jrwby are all finally facing their lifelong, beaten-in worldview being turned on its head and that seems like the kind of thing (on top of neo’s untold ever after story) that needs more time to be resolved. in which case, ig we’re not looking at a clean wrap up? do you think they end this volume ascending the ever after? escaping back to remnant? (i ask those two questions separately bc i wanna say they might have different answers lol)

as a point of comparison, here’s everything (not necessarily in chronological order) that happened in the last three episodes of V8:

1 - ironwood vs everyone beat down

2 - winter heel face turn completed

3 - met ambrosius + staff of creation rules

4 - magic rules lawyered penny into a flesh body to save her from the virus with a side dish of horrible body horror robot body death scene and holy shit atlas is FALLING.

5 - creation of whacky portals for evacuation to vacuo

6 - emergency evacuation broadcast CANCELLED!

7 - cinder remembers the power of friendship and uses it for evil

8 - cinder recovered the lamp and scored the password and used the last question to spy on team oz which is fucking hysterical by the way, so she knows the entire plan

9 - YANG DIES?

10 - ruby and blake fall too. and neo

11 - the evacuation dumps everyone in a sandstorm so they can’t call for backup and also the exit is one-way (“oh dear. ambrosius \:” love that enthusiasm sir)

12 - HARRIET TRIES TO NUKE MANTLE?

13 - ironwood murders jacques

14 - eleventh hour harriet heel face turn also zeki dies because atlesian tech goons thought the nuke needed to be plugged into the IOT for some reason god bless

15 - PENNY???

16 - and winter becomes the winter maiden

17 - TEAM RWBY TOTAL PARTY KILL!!

18 - jaune also

19 - salem and cinder playing chicken over who is going to blink first like they don’t both already know that it’s going to be salem

20 - ATLAS OBLITERATED FOREVER

that’s a lot of things!

now, it’s a lot easier to set up and execute a dense, tightly-paced climactic spiral of disaster than bring a lot of interconnected emotional crises to satisfying resolution in the same amount of runtime—but on the other hand, V9 has a lot less going on. it doesn’t FEEL that way because the emotional development has been so rich and done so, so well, but there honestly are not that many narrative threads to tie off. basically, the big ones are:

1 - ruby’s emotional crisis

2 - jaune’s corruption

3 - neo

4 - how do we get home?

5 - what do we do once we get there?

compared to the sheer amount of dominoes V8 had to juggle, handling this stuff is a nice little walk.

the key thing to remember—& this has been true for every one of rwby’s climactic sequences and also counts as writing advice—is that none of these major threads are truly discrete. they’re all interwoven with each other and bound together with all the smaller filaments (like the cat’s arc or little’s arc or the framing device of ‘the girl who fell through the world’ and what really went down with alyx and the tree), so you don’t have to resolve them separately and indeed you can’t because it all has to happen at once. what this means, from a writing standpoint, is you layer up and make every scene work towards the resolution of two or three major threads and however many minor filaments you can fit comfortably so that everything is doing work for everything else. if you’re efficient you don’t need a lot of time to pull off a stunning climactic sequence, and efficiency is something rwby has always been very, very good at. this is true even of V1 even though V1 feels laughably inefficient by the standards of V8; which is to say, they started off good and got much better.

the other piece to bear in mind is that V9 is not meant to be self-contained; it is not a character-focused breather volume to let the protagonists heal up before returning to remnant to carry on as they were, it is The Answer. when rwbyjn go home they are not going to return to the story they fell out of at the end of V8. that story is OVER. it ENDED. the final word was checkmate and the world they knew is GONE FOREVER. salem WON. the ever after is an epilogue to that story and the prologue for another; it isn’t building towards a resolution so much as it is building a hook.

(<- remember V3 “beginning of the end” and “end of the beginning”? this story-within-story device is something rwby has utilized before; this show is a singular contiguous narrative in the literal sense, but it’s structured as a trilogy.)

so V9 needs to be a satisfying farewell to the middle book and also make the case for continuing on to the third and final story—which very much works to its benefit here, because the sweeping emotional changes being developed actually SHOULDN’T be resolved. a clean wrap up would critically weaken the narrative structure. the immediate crises need to be realized—there must be a moment of peace, of closing one book and beginning the next; a hopeful glimpse of the story to come, of what it could be—and then they go home. and the new story begins.

in the figurative sense you could call it ascension. in the literal sense, no, i don’t think any of the remnant characters are going to ascend because i don’t think they can (frankly i’m bemused as to why so many people seem to believe otherwise; it seems to me that the cat has made it very clear that ascension is closed to non-afterans). but the idea of ascension? oh, yes, they’re carrying that forward with them.

as for whether they’ll return to remnant—yes. i think the probability that they don’t find their way home by episode ten is zero. how they return is an open question but also not a question at all, because the tree is the question and their answer is the door; this has been spelled out, explicitly, albeit in wonderlandish terms. what we don’t know yet is what this will look like, because the tree is also the blacksmith and the ever after runs on wonderland rules. it’s not going to be literal. (<- unless abstraction is less absurd than the literal option, which is possible given the likelihood that the ever after itself is fictional.)

#rwby v9 spoilers

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O, Z, and G!!

fandom meme :D

hi atlas! wahoo (i dont know why i started saying wahoo so much in the past few months. hm. need to track the source of that later)

O - Choose a song at random, which ship or character does it remind you of

well i hit shuffle and got Hero by Family of the Year. which um. well. obvious choice. thats a Hero Swallows-Oak-Garcia song forever and not just because of the title LOL

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go (prompts optional but encouraged)

god this is so hard, im really bad at just rambling off the cuff. I MEAN IM NOT, i talk like i get paid for it, but im bad when prompted to. god. uhhh. i think its really interesting to explore how different people in the dndads fandom see like, the friendships between the kiddads? because i know that i have very particular ideas in mind (pre-canon, grant and nick were childhood friends, nick and terry jr were best friends, the twins didnt talk to people. post-s1, grant + sparrow besties, nicky + lark besties, and sparrow and lark war over terry jr because they both think he prefers them. terry refuses to let either win because he sees all of them as his best friends and gets stressed when pressured to choose), but everyone has really different opinions on how their dynamics would all work out! im particularly fond of people that are like "these guys are all just best friends" because honestly thats so real LOL

G - Do you remember your first OTP, if so who was in it

I DOOO, at least my first big one at least, lmao! it was spamano as in spain and romano from hetalia which is um. unfortunate for me. but they just captivated me. definitely why i'm so fond of sunshine/grumpy ships nowadays, i think a lot of it comes from like... i was depressed from a very young age and i felt like it made it really hard to deal with me? obviously, now im loveable and precious and chipper (picture me tossing my hair over my shoulder like a mean girl), but i had a hard time making friends as a kid/in high school. so ive always been attracted to ships where one person is seemingly really dislikable, but the other person still finds something desirable in them. also, i just really love relationships where the people in it fucking hate each other LMAO (which is ironic because i don't particularly like enemies to lovers... we all have layers i guess)

#mine #ask #not actually human

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