#GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! arc of all time truly

[thesiltverses]

Hi there! I just finished a relisten of the silt verses and oh my GOD the writing is just incredible. I’ve always been blown away by the world building but on this listen I realized just how enamored I am with the way you write complex character relationships. Of course the major relationships develop naturally and beautifully but I have so much appreciation for the less central relationships (Paige and Faulkner’s dads come to mind as characters only on the show for a little while but who absolutely blew me away.)

It’s been said a million times but it’s so refreshing to follow a cast of people who are all terrible (or complicit in terrible things) in different ways. It’s such a natural extension of the worldbuilding—of course it’s near impossible to be a “good person” in a world ravaged by consumerism. I admire how it’s such a fantastical world yet even the worst of the villains feel wholly human.

Anyways I haven’t had the energy to draw for over a month now but I was so inspired by this relisten that I’ve now finished a whole art piece and I have several new ideas to work on! The imagery in tsv is so rich it’s like it wants to be drawn.

Tldr; the silt verses is my fav podcast of all time. I truly hope you feel incredibly proud of your creation. Thank you for putting something so amazing out into the world

Hey! Thank you so, so much - it's comments like these that really just make your day and make all of it feel worthwhile.

On your point about relatively minor roles, I completely agree - of course Steve Shell nails his performance as Faulkner's dad, but I also think Graham Rowat deserves a ton of praise and recognition for what he does with Dennis, and maybe he tends to get forgotten a bit because of the nature of the character.

I see a lot of people raving about the start of his character arc (hating his guts) and the end (feeling moved by him) in completely opposed ways, and I think that really speaks to Graham's brilliant range.

(Also, I think I saw your art piece of Paige and it was absolutely gorgeous! Really thrilled that the show gave you a bit of extra inspiration and thank you in turn for putting something so fantastic out into the world.)

[lynxindisguise]

It's been a little over six months now since you slithered into my inbox and proposed the Ineffables and Wolfstar breaking up and switching partners. How's that going for them? Six months down the line, which couple is having the worst time and why is it Azirius?

ahhh sorry imp I forgot to respond to this!

I'd say there's no way this would be sustainable for six months, but we are talking about four of the most stubborn people alive so...

I think crowley and remus have reached a point of quiet acceptance, in which they both know this is really more of a friendship than anything else, and they spend most of their time getting stoned and waxing poetic about their exes and occasionally having extremely damp noodly sex. they're both very mopey and insufferable to be around, so they're really the only people who can currently stand one another.

azirius are having the WORST time. my god. they are constantly filled with rage, and at this point, they're too disgusted with each other to even hatefuck so all that anger is being channelled into ruining each other's lives and vandalising each other's shit. truly a lovers to enemies arc for these two. occasionally one of them will break down and cry about their ex, and the other one will say something along the lines of, 'it sounds like they're better off without you.' they are also insufferable to be around, both to everyone around them and each other <3

#ask the lynx #azirius #crowmus #ineffable wolfstar crossover #imp tag

[andi-o-geyser]

The desire to write a 200-page-long dissertation on Percival de Rolo’s journey and the deep importance of how trauma presents itself and isn’t easily healed and on the meaning of vengeance and the trials and crushing guilt that manifests which one must fight through to truly forgive themselves and learn to live again baked into his story Vs. my biological requirement of sleep to be a functioning human being: FIGHT

#im writing essays and apparently its got me in one hell of a mood because i just want to rant about him for hours #honestly i just want to rant about all of VM and how much I love their arcs and stories #but percy truly does have me by the throat and his sad little trauma hair and tortured inventor aesthetic just does something to me #good god. he's the only character ever actually #blorbo of all fucking time #critical role #cr1 #vox machina #percy de rolo #percival de rolo #putting his full name just for the fuck of it #percival fredrickstein von musel klossowski de rolo iii #tlovm #lovm #the legend of vox machina #andis thought geyser

[coffeepilled]

one of the biggest reasons why alfred is so smiley, goofy, happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care during the 19th through 21st centuries, (besides deciding since before 1776 that he was going to be completely contrarian to arthur in his outlooks) is that he’s been through the wringer for the past hundred years already. give the guy a break!

spending your formative years (or the country equivalent of a ‘childhood’, anyway) educating yourself deeply on politics, fighting for independence, then fighting again to keep your nation together, and then trying to expand throughout the rest of the continent, while dealing with crazy winters and starvation and swathes of diseases… well.

alfred grew up with the expectation of perfection under england, and even after becoming free he still had to raise himself by the bootstraps. help create a government with his people, for his people, and hope and pray to whatever deity was out there that america could survive. and those first 100 years certainly were not sunshine and rainbows — pictures of alfred’s youth show everything except smiles. he wears melancholy expressions that don’t suit his face.

battling for your place on the world stage is hard enough, but to become a self-made, global superpower on top of it? alfred grows in spades, and by the time the industrial revolution comes around, and his house is the most bustling on the entire planet, and the gold rush comes and goes— that constant work and isolationism has paid off. he loosens up a little. he can smile now. relax a little! eat in excess knowing there will always be food on the table.

that’s when he finally gets to live out the years of childlike ease he never truly got to indulge in: to laugh and be merry without a care in the world. momentary ill spell during the great depression aside, the great wars later only solidify america’s place as the strongest in the world. the other countries wouldn’t dare admit it, but alfred’s self-proclaimed epithet of ‘hero’ is not without cause and reason, and not without hard proof. (and besides, he deserves a little gloating after all this time, doesn’t he?)

ivan had threatened his status in the hierarchy for a while there, and 45 years of foolhardy, workaholic america stepped out of the shadows again. but again, alfred surpasses the literal and proverbial soviet wall. and this time it isn’t just the world he has in his palms, but outer space, too — he has the moon and the stars and a damn space station.

finally, on top— finally, he doesn’t have to battle tooth and nail just to survive. instead, maybe he’ll set a whoopie cushion on françois’ chair at the next meeting, or order everything off the mcdonald’s menu tonight just ‘cause he can, or maybe even get matt to film him doing some outrageously ridiculous parkour—

that’s the beauty of it: it’s enjoyable to let go, act as immature and carefree as you want, knowing you’re at the top of the food chain. the others have gotten used to boy scout america, to the silly superhero alfred — they’ve definitely forgotten how scary and smart and cutthroat and frankly bloodthirsty he is when he gets serious. the america that lies asleep beneath the surface, the sleeping dog that you’d better hope you don’t wake up.

and, hell— his people chose him. his people left the other nations for him. left their homelands to stay at his house. that’s a testament to the unshakeable empire he’s built up, right? the others should be following his lead.

so he’ll act as he pleases, screw all the manners and customs and old-world european way of doing things — the freedom-loving rebel bastard that he still is, deep down.

al’s earned it, after all!

#UP LATE AT NIGHT DOING ALFRED CHARACTER STUDIES #bunnie's coffeehouse #hetalia #alfred f jones #aph america #hws america #/ long post #RAMBLE INCOMING #really i think alfred had a huge come-to moment during the 1800s-2000s #as we kind of see in the industrial age arc… #and some of the america and canada stories in world stars too you can just totally see in his early years how dead serious he was !! #yearning for greatness and the stability and renown that comes with that. unable to have more of a 'childhood' like canada. #soon enough he realizes he’s become number 1 in like everything. but at the cost of being deeply entrenched in his work #he hasnt had time to do much else. and thats when he knows he can /rest/ and i imagine that’s when he truly indulges in his childlike wonde #like we SEE how hard of a worker he is… how many fucked up odds he’s overcome. America has conquered them all #he is truly the epitome of veni vidi vici #veni vidi vici & THEN HE SCREWS AROUND MANUFACTURING MEMES & CHUGGING COLA FOR THE BETTER PART OF A CENTURY. GOOD FOR YOU AL YOU DESERVE IT #god i love him

[zabiume]

re-reading that one ulquiorra short story in bleach unmasked and it's like. he really is the poorest little meow meow in some ways because you'll see him say the wildest, most depressing things, trying to pass them off as absolute truth and fact, but he's such a cunt about it that any and all sympathy you feel for him is overpowered by the urge to slap him

#the spirit of orihime came over me while i wrote this post huh... #but honestly arrancar arc was just peak bleach i wish i could experience it for the first time all over again #the THEMES the CHARACTER WRITING. GOD....you just had to be there #everything that is and ever will be *bleach* in essence was in that arc. truly THE arc of all time respect herrr

[acaciapines]

Please tell us abt the parallels :o

YEAH OKAY SO!!!!

in this au (and as i write ralsei in my canon always lol) the biggest thing that puts pressure on ralsei's life is the prophecy--it says a human, a monster, and a prince from the dark, and because it is a prophecy, and it is fate, is HAS to be true, and ralsei, as a darkner, a group of people who literally exist below the lightners, is charged with bringing this prophecy into fruition. she has spent her entire life ALONE, with nothing but this prophecy for comfort, saying that one day, ONE DAY, she'll get through this and she'll have friends. but yknow, that weighs on a person! its heavy and terrible and she has contorted herself to fit what fate tells her she must be.

and then for noelle, the big thing putting pressure on her? her dead siblings (dess and kris. kris isnt technically her sibling but yknow for ease of language thats what i use. also we know they arent dead but noelle and the rest dont). with their deaths means noelle is now the baby of the family, a family that is shaped by this great gaping grief noelle cannot comprehend, because when dess and kris died she was young enough she barely remembers them beyond like, maybe half-formed memories but she isnt sure if those are real or just what people have told her. shes expected to be grieving her dead siblings but really she just sort of. hates them a little bit. for going off and dying and now her mom and toriel are super overprotective of her, and she knows its her fault asriel never left to go to college and hasnt even left hometown, and its just. its rough.

so both noelle and ralsei have these Huge things that have defined their lives that neither of them want, but. too bad! WHICH LEADS TO EVEN MORE PARALLELS. slash foils lol.

because when it comes to the prophecy? noelle isnt supposed to be in it!!! while this au is sort of a roleswap in that noelle takes kris's place its not a roleswap in Any Other Way, which means, yeah, the prophecy is still supposed to be a human. and noelle, uh, isnt that! but she goes around and helps close dark worlds and is part of the delta warriors anyways, which is, for ralsei, this like, really scary point.

cause ralsei? adores noelle!! thats her best friend!!! ralsei doesnt know if she has a crush on noelle or wants to be noelle! noelle just does what she WANTS. she bucks against the pressures her family puts on her. she dives into the dark despite the fact that this world was never made for her. shes TRANS. shes a GIRL, and she can just DO THAT, and ralsei looks at her, and just. wants. in every sense of the word.

because noelle has all these things put on her like ralsei does--but noelle gets to slip out of them. noelle gets to be a person.

and ralsei, non-person, darkner: she doesnt.

she never will.

#drkau #deltarune #I LOVE THEM. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH..... #also she/her used for ralsei here but at this point in time ralsei is Not out lol. like not even to herself #god its so messy its SO MESSY but dont worry of course they get a happy ending <3 #ralsei has an antagonist arc for a bit (mix of prophecy + jealously + the human soul which yes is a player here) #and yknow who goes after her. thats right noelle. and susie cannot forget susie #and its just. god. i care about them all so much okay. this au truly has everything #i mean i wrote it so of course it does BUT. #DRK AU MY BEST FRIEND #also can you tell how anti-fate i am from this lol #its sooooo obvious in this story sorry i simply reallllllly dislike fate and how its portrayed in a lot of things #its the same reason i take issue with soulmate aus. i simply think the world Would Be Worse #and if you arent pushing it to that conclusion what is the point #BUT THATS ANOTHER TOPIC THIS IS A POST ABOUT NOELLE AND RALSEI DELTARUNE

[somewherefornow]

ARTHUR CURRY/AQUAMAN & DAVID HYDE/BLACK MANTA in AQUAMAN (2003)

#truly one of THE bm/aqua interactions of all time #in a comic full of h o r r i b l e moments between the two of them #including what has got to be the wildest plotpoint I have ever seen in a comic book (the arc where Arthur 🚨 ‘‘‘heals’’’ 🚨 him via water #hand. good GOD iykyk) #IM SICK OF YOU MANTA IM SICK OF KNOWING THAT YOURE ALIVE #anyways what a way to end the ‘03 series #david hyde #arthur curry #aquaman 2003 #‘​I know you’ is the most intense most brutalizing most cruel most kind most merciful terrible ugly beautiful thing you can say #to someone #arthur x david #aquamanta #*panelsandpages

[maraslesbian]

we finally finished s5 of the dragon prince with my roommate and man that show is doing things to me... the last 2 episodes were absolutely incredible i am. on the floor

#the dragon prince #the dragon prince spoilers #(bc of the tags) #the whole thing with soren choosing not to fight back against elmer to show him that he didn't have to take finnegrin's shit #because he recognized his own relationship to viren in the finnegrin/elmer dynamic. fucking. ended me #soren is such a bonkers insane character i am unwell #90% of the time he's just a silly little guy !! he's the comic relief !! #and THEN. he gets the most emotionally devastating moment of character development you've ever seen. absolutely unhinged #and then the whole thing with claudia in the last episode. GOD. could write a fucking essay about claudia and viren's entire arc #and man it gets DARK but i think it's really lovely that they don't let the fact that it's supposed to be a 'kid's show' get in the way #of the story they want to tell #like. all of the characters are nuanced and their relationship to each other are deeply layered whether they're villains or heroes #the storytelling is *chef's kiss* and it dives into truly complex issues and character dynamics #in a way that feels organic and not overly moralistic #they don't shy away from showing the ugly side of things #like the moment when callum literally gets TORTURED ? i was like wow. they're really going there #same with viren's fever dream #and like it's clearly intended for older kids #but still. i love that they respect kids' ability to handle pretty dark stuff and to understand nuanced storytelling #without having to make everything exceedingly literal or censoring themselves #this show genuinely has better writing that a lot of 'adult' tv i've seen and it's often on par with some of the best stuff i've watched #and yeah. that's really precious i think #oops i ended up writing an essay in the tags lmao. oh well #mara talks

[pinkfey]

being a hater but i'm sad about it :((

something something da2's tumblr popularity something something fandom's means of consumption something something the prioritization of concept over execution

#like how fans invent substance where there is none to heighten their enjoyment?? #which there is nothing wrong w i want 2 clarify !! i do this all the time #i was just kind of hoping that upon replay i'd get what everyone is saying a bit more #bc the things i love abt da2 are all conceptual and abstract (like most posts that praise it are) #but god the game is just not good the actual text of the game is just not good and the gameplay itself is just. exactly how i remembered. #like critics bombed this for a reason and it shows. i love da2's arc and story in my brain but i truly can't stand playing the real thing #anywayssss i've had this opinion since it came out which is why tumblr's adoration of it sort of shocked me but i was rlly hoping to go #into this w the benefit of the doubt n some fresh perspective and it makes me rlly sad idk!!!! #anyways.txt #delete later

[mythvoiced]

❝  you will understand in time.  ❞ ( patrick at...maría?? >:3 )

@clemencetaught | PHANTOM OF THE OPERA / SENTENCE STARTERS

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A tale as old as time: the young and the less so, not quite old, but drained by life just enough that hearing what digits they carry with them in actuality, when contrasted with the age reflected in their eyes, the weight of the time equivalent of the experiences they've gathered, few don't find their own eyes widening when realising, putting two and two together, recognising the implications of a person not yet grey-haired speaking of pain and war with intimate familiarity.

A tale as old as time: the young, reckless, the first year of war, or the second, their first run, their first time smelling decaying corpses and feeling flaws crawl up their nostrils, choking them from within no matter how desperately they attempt to beg them to stop.

A tale as old as time: frustration v wisdom.

She will. She doesn't assume she won't. But as she stands there, body always angled away from Patrick and that wise, old, holder of past hurt look in his eyes, as she stands there and keeps dragging her hands through her hair, fingers getting suspiciously entangled just enough for her to rip, as she stands there and doesn't stand but paces, with her mascara dragging black lines down her face, as she growls in spite of her tears, she realises one thing, what-

"- if I don't want to?!" she hiccups into a shout, whipping around to stare at Patrick. A part of her acts as the spokeswoman to her shame, making her chest feel hot with it, when she recognises what she's doing.

Hasn't he suffered enough?

Hasn't he been here enough, stuffed into a suit, shoved into his victor throne, made to face her as she burns on the stake of her ache? Yes, yes, he has, yes, he knows better, yes, yes, yes, all of that, yes, BUT-

"How can you say that?" she lowers her voice until she's pushing it through her teeth, jaws clenched, stepping closer, face contorted, incapable of sticking to a grimace that manages to hide the desperation in her eyes.

They say, rely on your 'elders'. Listen to those that came before you, let them guide you in a world you don't understand. The Capitol, lights too bright, sounds too foreign, so many of the colours she's broken her back to help put on their clothes, stuck with her neck in the noose of their world and one foot stuck back at home.

One foot stuck in the Arena.

She inhales, sharply, reels herself back in.

"I don't want to," she metaphorically puts her foot down. Then reaches up to mess her hair up further. The Capitol can doll her up all they want. She'll always find a way to ruin it. When her arms drop back at her sides, they do so almost defiantly. She lifts her chin.

"I don't want to understand. I want to do something. How can you ask me to sit here and... and- and just..." her hand tries to encompass what her voice struggles to, but she drops it, bites her tongue, lifts her gaze to meet his once more.

"You shouldn't do that to yourself, either. Understand. They're not kind enough to understand us. Why should I bother to-- isn't that what they want us to do? Sit here and ponder until we realise why we deserve all this? No. There's nothing to understand. All I need to know, I already know."

Her forefinger reaches his chest. She doesn't stab him with it, much like her features soften, mellow out in the pleas of a child hoping the adult she wants to keep safe sees how hard she tries.

"You can't do that to yourself. You have to keep fighting. Don't let them-- don't give up on yourself."

Please.

#clemencetaught #the seeker;joan of arc;hunger games verse #GOD I HOPE THIS IS OKAY???? I!!!!! #this is the first time i'm actually writing María and still figuring her voice out ESPECIALLY within this MAGNIFICENT verse #SO I truly hope it's okay and wasn't too meta-gamey towards Patrick I'M??? NOT SUrE?? if it is at all i'm just!! KLFDJGLKHG #I HOPE IT'S OKAY OMG I'M SO EXCITED I WANT TO Scream And Shout And Let It All Out #your dash icon btw KISSES!!! OH DID YOU SEE on the 5th of June first ever international aromantic visibility day >:333333 #;answered

[soldier-poet-king]

Ooohhhhhh no the end of pt 1 of Naruto????? DEVASTATING. Sasuke childhood backstory w itachi for a FULL volume. The Fight. "What are you" "I'm your friend". He can't kill him. He can't and he walks AWAY.

#fran reads #IM UNWELL. ABT THIS #these r CHILDREN #lonely children motivated by pain and neglect and im just. HELLO. HELLO #WHO ALLOWED THIS #not to be like. i get it. but maybe the greatest love story of all time. maybe. #theyre parallels and foils and best friends and enemies #and i am going to throw up #dgmw gaara and rock lee are my faves by far #but maybe i get the main conflict appeal. MAYBE. #god. i need a vacation. or a lobotomy. truly this is not normal person behaviour of me. im so tired #like too bad there r no fleshed out female characters but also. its shonen. i knew what i was getting into #not everyone can be christa/historia snk to me #pls pls pls let Sakura have an arc in pt 2 i want to like her so bad

[nerice]

Red Hurting Sun and/or (idk what the timeline/overlapping here is) Dream Game sounds like a hellfire and the Belle/Faye dynamic does too.

And I would read the fuck out of said hellfire.

ya!!!!!!!!! red hurting sun is the faye/belle dynamic tag so it's part of dream game (the novel !!) pls join me while i go insane over it for the rest of 2023 w

they have their first little scene in the epilogue of the main book/current novel actually (cute little r*bbit parallel moment where faye gets belle to swallow the eternal souls. dw about it this is not going to come back around At All :))) just preheating her for all that is to come <3 nd by dream game 2yrs later they have settled into an iffy little mentorship where faye is the only adult belle trusts bc she keeps appropriate distance and does not try to replace the family belle lost (oh well. !) history tells us soulless make excellent parents & faye gets just a tiny bit impatient guiding belle thru the process for the 723th time (normal behavior. illusions of you killing everyone you love etc) but belle absolutely thrives on the antagonism and the impossible expectations bc she always knew she was destined for great things! :))))! this ends well, ofc

#god bless sketchbook content from before The Wrist Explosion. i will not be drawing faye her proper armor sorry // #the actual arc title for their lategame content is 'black rose/blue sun' (shhhh) on account of qs death & angel visuals >:3 #trying my best not to just lay out their entire thing here gmfkgm as if i haven't talked abt it a billion times before but yeah #hellfire is definitely what it is :))) blue angel fire the proof of what you were always meant to break for #the juicy juicy core of it is ofc when jumie+jack show back up and suddenly belle has everything she wanted. her true family back<3 #but it's not at all how she remembers it feels different. she grew up. she doesn't want love she wants what faye is giving her 💙 #soulless stop being mean 2 jumie's daughters challenge (failed successfully) #askbox #anonbox #oc asks #i WILL be posting so normally during dream game. theres two other major arcs prior to angel hell i will be well & truly dead by then :')

[the-faultofdaedalus]

@tin-can-iron-man​ has reminded me of my zeke-stane-in-mcu-brainrot and so once again i am just

#and also how underutilized the stane and tony relationship was in general #LIKE. GIVE ME THE FALLOUT OF LEARNING THAT YOUR TRUSTED MENTOR FOR DECADES #has likely been manipulating and gaslighting you for all of that time #and who also tried to kill you three seperate times. like. fuck. fuck. #we deserved to see more of the fallout of that betrayal #and of how it was dealt with going forewards #like. i would give anthing for like. homecoming specifically #like give us some indication that THAT is one of the reasons tony is struggling!!! #trying to mentor this kid. that he sees so much of himself in. #while also trying to untangle whatever good lessons stane taught him from the heaps of maniuplation #and just learning. and learning. and learning. that it was always so much worse than he thought #like howard issues yeah sure fine we get that we know that #but just. GOD IT COULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOD #mcu mention stane post im1 challenge #we truly did not get nearly enough fallout from any of that #also like. once again i am still thinking of mcu drinking arc #specifically the 2nd one #specifically the one stane is largely behind #like. imagine that but mcu #where the connection is like. a lot. #a lot more than in comics. where stane was just a rando (who prob fucked maria but THATS NEITHER HERE NOR THERE) #like it could have been so fucked up im so mad we missed it

[astrxealis]

i am so obsessed with fandaniel tbh. epitome of guy i want to shake around in a jar and study. i want to bite him. i want to put a clown nose and cat ears on him and watch him burn down the world and fall off a cliff.

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #⋯ ꒰ა ffxiv ໒꒱ *·˚ #he tickles my brain in a way no other can ... i cannot describe the different powerful holds ffxiv characters have on me #his introduction... the first time he introduces himself to zenos. and the first time you get acquainted with him #and all of his appearances until the last. and. and. all parts of fandaniel are just so...!! #raha and themis are my faves and theres hyth and alisaie and venat and so many more but then theres zenos and fandaniel #i love how ffxiv does their antags tbh. there is a certain flavour to it i cannot really describe #i love the different stories of people who deserved 'better'. but they've caused so many atrocities too and #not everyone gets their redemption arc but some do! some do. even if it takes a long slow time #<- stormblood with that ... and shadowbringers ...... #all parts of ffxiv story mean something to me even with all the imperfections. and. agh. yeah #i think of the warriors of darkness and the shadowkeeper. their story. i think of mide and her love. their story. i think of the dragons #and how they tell their stories in song. i think of the dad who could have been such great heroes... i think of what they could have been. #and ffxiv makes me think so much and there's just such a massive world and it isn't even all of it yet. and there are so many other worlds #to explore! i am just so in love with final fantasy xiv. the way it is an mmo and an rpg. and very good at both. #the way the journey of 2.0 started with the world literally being destroyed... the way it is an mmo and for a long time our journey truly #will never end. the way millions of people have a sense of comraderie from just playing this game even with the so many different playstyles #and kinds of people who play it. the way those behind the game truly love and know it and respect the playerbase. and there is just so much #in it and i love final fantasy xiv so much and just. man. #this came from a post talking about how silly fandaniel is... oh my god

[kingdomoftyto]

...BIG FEELS AND BIG PLOT DEVELOPMENTS AT THE END OF THAT BOOK, HUH

#Tyto reads WoF #i know it's not the most pressing issue what with the vengeful ex-Queen and the murderous sister and all #but I still want to point out how alarming it is that the new crew are all going to be wearing seemingly radioactive rocks as jewelry now #Turtle please don't pick up strange rocks that give off their own heat for the love of all that's good #ANYWAY yeah what the actual frick is going on with Darkstalker huh. I genuinely do NOT know whether he's trustworthy or not #desperately lonely and unfairly demonized? absolutely. truly cares about Moon as a friend? I think so. #capable of integrating peacefully into modern dragon society without letting his own ego turn him into the monster he denies ever being? #....... 😬 remains to be seen #god and there's Scarlet's mysterious new accomplice(?) with the maddeningly vague physical description and also THE SCROLL(!!!!) #and i just realized we failed to get resolutions in this book for EITHER the vision of Turtle attacking Anemone OR #Flame's unique and frightening ability to sense and/or attack mindreaders???? #where the HECK are we going with Flame I am going lowkey INSANE over him #ugh frick and Umber and Sora are both on the run too...!! this book is nearly as cliffhangery as Dark Secret #(though thankfully i prepared for this by checking the next book out ahead of time so i wouldn't have to wait LOL) #uhh buhh final thoughts before i force myself to go to sleep: #I love Moon and everything going on with her but I do feel like on some level it's even more of a slap in the face for poor Starflight #that the only tribe to get multiple POV characters in this first. like. extended arc(?) appears to be the NightWings #and Starflight himself doesn't get any of the tribe's unique defining features or abilities #i mean i guess the same is sort of true of Sunny and yes i know it was the POINT of book 4 that the tribe had no powers #but still idk it just feels like kicking the poor boy when he's already down. in addition to him literally getting beaten up again #(... now watch me be a total fool and the arc actually extends past book 8 or something making this point moot lol) #(I'm only assuming it ends at 8 bc that's where the previews in the back of the previous books have stopped) #EDIT: LOL yep turns out this arc does extend out to book 10 and the other POVs are Turtle and Qibli so I stand corrected. #that's what I get for nightblogging

[arolesbianism]

Hi sorry for disappearing but uhhh 25ji 👍 (<- not ok)

#rat rambles #sekai posting #its just. the 25ji work friends to real friends arc is hitting hard rn #its like. they may not be the closest compared to some other sekai characters but god would these assholes die for eachother #they care so much. and now that things are truly going to shit its hitting them like a truck #just the scene with kanade and mafuyu. god kanade is trying so hard to put up a strong face for mafuyu and god is it. rough to watch. #in an ideal world smth smth kanade character debelopment thats actually abt her own issues but yknow blah blah blah #Ill save my pissy kanade fan stuff for if they truly drop the ball with her this is the climax of mafuyu arc so its mostly focused on them #also obligitory * that I dont fully think they intended kanade to read that way but Im trying to be optimistic here #anyways holy fuck this event was so fucking good #this is what Ive been waiting for #and I am genuinely so glad they didnt have mafuyu get like. properly mad at their mom just yet. #Im glad that them expressing their feelings is them expressing their absolute Desperation #they dont Want to fight their mom. theh dont Want to see her hurt. despite it all they are desperate to believe that she loves them. #they genuinely loved their mom and in a way they still do #but at the same time they are so so fucking Scared of her #and that fact alone is another reason for their despeeation I think #they dont Want to be scared of her. they dont want to hide things from her or feel so boxed up in their own home they #they desperately want her to show them they dont have to be scared of her. and she is very much not doing that. #and now theyre backed in a corner. and with no other options it seems all that much more likely that theyre going to have to fight. #I doubt theyre fully running away right now tbh. I think they Might in the future but rn I just dont think mafuyu will allow it #theyre still desperate for their mom to understand. I think they might try making peace one more time but ofc it wont happeb #so its either fight or flight. and eventually itll kind of have to be both #cause freezing sure as hell wasnt workinf #my current prediction is that kanade or someone else in 25ji will put up the offer but mafuyu will push back initially #shes probably going to stay away from home for a lil bit at least even if shell probably try to push to going back way too soon #maybe her dad will get involved? idk hopefully the writers have plans for him I could see him going either way #either way mafuyu will probably either decide to 'temporarily' stay at one of the other's places or will start more openly rebeling #the former would probably be better for mafuyu and is more likely but idk Im not fully sure if thats where theyre taking them #I will have some bitching to do if its at kanade's place but hey probably better than enas despite everything