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shhh-secret-time · 2 months

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Hello!

Two questions:

One: where do you get your inspiration for writing?

Two: who's you're favorite south park character?

I love you! Drink some water!

Hi! Thank you for reminding me! Twizzlers and a Coors Light Beer is not dinner, but it is a good intro to this answer haha!

For the first question that's a tough one so I'm going to warn you all, BIG RANT AHEAD!

My biggest inspiration for the reader inserts are you guys. There's a reason in my ao3 I leave those kind words and words of affirmation after every story. I need every single person who reads my things to know that I care about you guys.

You read it all the time that story tellers, artists, and musicians are nothing without their audience. And it's absolutely true. I cannot stress enough that even though you know nothing about me, and I know nothing about you, doesn't mean I don't care.

I love people so very much. I think we as humans have the greatest gift this universe could have ever given us.

We have the compacity to love so much. With so many different ways to love!

It could be romantic, platonic, familial, whatever! We have it. That's so fucking awesome!

So if I can express that love and make you feel better, just a little bit, by writing these situations where you are loved. Then I'm going to do it.

As for the scenes and settings, I usually carry a outrageous, over-the-top, bright pink notebook around with me. It is so ugly and atrocious, but I remember it because of that. I write down thoughts I have throughout the day and things I see.

Aside from that, I take in the works of others. I let it show me a different way of thinking and perceiving situations I wouldn't have otherwise. There are artists on this website that absolutely blow me away and keep me humble. I've got much to learn, and I'm so excited to do it!

Music honestly it the biggest source of this. I have so many Playlist of moods for scenes and emotions I need to tap into. (That's another thing that makes humans so fucking awesome)

Like. As an artist you need to invoke a feeling using colors and shapes. If you ever stop to think about that, that's so amazing. A little circle shaped and molded to make you feel happy. Melancholy. At peace. Nostalgic.

Like holy fuck dude.

A storyteller does the same with words and moments like this.

I think a thing a lot of creators, including myself, tend to do that keeps their work from their absolute best. Is the fact that we want so badly to take the image we have in our head and the feelings in our hearts and put it in our work and hope you get that exact feeling!

But I think letting the person enjoying our work and coming to their own feelings and conclusions at times is what puts the spice in a really good dish!

For my Pomegranates and Honey story, that's what I'm trying to do. I have experiences and emotions that I know other people have felt, or they need help feeling. You know when you listen to a sad song so you can cry and feel a little better, I want to capture that but with the pains of growing up.

People are going to move on. There are some that are going to change and grow with or without you. It sucks, it hurts, but you have to accept it. Grow at your own pace, find something that works for you. Things that get you through this frustrating world.

For me it's writing. For me it's love.

So yeah, that's my inspiration. Veeeeery long winded answer, short.

As for my favorite character?

It's a tie between Stan and Kyle. Kyle because I love that little dude, I love what the Fandom has let him grow into. The fact that this community took these circles and went, "Yeah this is awesome."

Kyle has character traits that I admire in a human being. The will to just go. That temper of his is funny don't get me wrong, but I admire that so much. What I would give to just feel anger like that, to express my frustration so freely. He's caring to those around him, and he had a strong sense of morals. He isn't afraid to stand up when those morals are put into question. He's not afraid to defend those he loves, even if they may not always be in the right!

Stan is my favorite because everything about him I feel. That fear of not being good enough for anyone, so you try to pull the spotlight on you. Real talk, I used to be a very self-absorbed person growing up. I would actively deny ever wanting it, but if I ever found out my friends did something without me, I'd feel hurt. The need to be wanted so very badly is still there, but I'm better about it. Stan struggles with depression, we all know that. But the feeling of watching everyone you know move on while you're stuck in this fucking pit, and sometimes it feels like it's too much. Yeah I feel that. I love Stan because I want to see him get better, I wanna see me get better.

So, thank you so very much for these questions. I love, love, love things like this! Please feel free to ask more. It's never a bother!

#ooo long response #oops im rambling #i went off #but these questions were important to me #I get to know you guys and you guys get to know me!#anon ask #i do for you anon #stan marsh #kyle broflovski #south park #reader insert #not a request #shhh its a secret #sp fanfiction #south park fanfiction #south park x reader #x reader #pomegranates and honey

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goobiestar · 2 years

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hollyleaf as solsquirrel’s kit?

What it hollyleaf turns to sol’s judgement on the clans and starclan and had her very dramatic scene where she reveals her parents at the gathering is on the day of the eclipse instead

Squirrel is … not happy!!!

#hollyleaf #squirrelflight #sol wc #squirrelsol #solsquirrel #warrior cats #art #au #warrior cats au #asks #doodle #sorry only able to do one!!#i went off #ppl’s kitty aus

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blitheringmcgonagall · 1 year

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You know what's absurd? I've seen people, a lot of them!, criticize Lily for breaking up that friendship. I try to be neutral about Snape and his fandom but it's hard.

I honestly don’t try to be neutral as you’ll know if you’ve read my fics 😬🤣! I’ve seen people criticise Lily for ending her friendship with Sneep too and I’m utterly baffled…

Like… what even… (lost for words)

I don’t even know where to start without offending anyone unintentionally but it’s like a person, a girl, from an oppressed minority being friends with a guy - this guy’s mum is also from this oppressed minority but his dad isn’t. And he can pass as not being from this group at all. He’s “best friends” with this girl.

But bro starts hanging out with dudes who are well known for being blatantly (insert racist/antisemitic/homophobic/transphobic/whatever bigoted/fascist group you want). These mates - everyone, literally the entire school - knows these guys are bad news/dangerous/vicious and everyone is aware they are planning on joining a right wing violent group bent on targeting the girl’s oppressed minority- by targeting I mean there’s a war on (which I forgot to mention) and this group is involved in terrorising/torturing and killing the girl’s minority.

At this stage you’re wondering why TF this girl is still friends with the guy, right? Yeah… well, he doesn’t act like that in front of her, girl refuses to believe the gossip (correct) about him - due to misplaced loyalty Bla Bla etc…

AnYwAy… girl sees posh knobs being cruel to bigoted fascist friend. Feeling (weirdly) sorry for him, she gives out hell to the two stupid pathetic arses who are bullying him. The posh knob who fancies her but isn’t a fascist wannabe killer guy rolls his eyes at her (girl, what?) and agrees to stop because he likes her.

This upsets fascist dude greatly because it, eh… upsets his masculinity/ fragile ego, so he reacts by lashing out against the reportedly (unrequited) love of his life. As you do, apparently…

So he calls her a nasty slur. Which tbh he’s been calling other members of her minority all the time, outside of her earshot, which is why it so easily “slips out” when emotions are high. Yeah. I know. She reacts as well as anyone could, and is a bit mean back to him. Shocker.

AnYwAy…

Fascist dude tries to apologise afterwards. “It’s okay, I know I say that about everyone else but not you, gurl, you’re different- I’m not bigoted, I’m friends with you, right?”

“No can do, bro,” she says. “ you’ve just revealed your true feelings for me. I’m an exception to the rule, you feel you own me and I’m yours and as long as I don’t step out of line that’s fine but you think I should consider myself lucky that you’re my friend despite my lesser background.”

And she’s finally faced with the real Sneep, the side he tries to hide from her, and decides “bro, I’ve made countless excuses for you over the years, but enough is enough, I can’t remain friends with you. It’s over.”

Now, apparently, according to some people, calling her a slur like that isn’t that bad, because people who are upset and humiliated sometimes say mean and hurtful stuff they don’t mean.

Eh, bollocks. If I am angry with my lesbian family member, the idea of calling her a homophobic slur has never entered my head. Not even remotely. I’ve been very upset with my friend who is from Sudan, has the idea of calling them a racist slur ever entered my head? Nope. Are you joking?

But you see, Sneep did have these thoughts about muggleborns, all the time. He not only thinks this but says it to people all the time.

Not only that, but one of his lovely friends attacked one of Lily’s classmates Mary McDonald with dark magic (Mulciber) and he thinks that’s fine, tries to minimise it saying it was a laugh. Hilarious.

So - as he admits himself - it just sort of slipped out, when his emotions were heightened and he wasn’t thinking straight and being careful hiding that side of himself from her. And the fact he says it as a reaction to feeling humiliated is a bad sign, a sign that he is misogynistic - even if JKR didn’t intend to write him that way, (makes sense if you’ve read my post on incels).

James Potter: "You're lucky Evans was here, Snivellus -"Severus Snape: "I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!"

Severus Snape: "I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just -"

Lily Evans: "Slipped out? It's too late. I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends... you've chosen your way, I've chosen mine."

Lily Evans: “You call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus. Why should I be any different?”

THE FACT IS THAT PEOPLE HATING ON LILY FOR ENDING HER FRIENDSHIP WITH SNAPE IS ALL BASED ON MISOGYNY.

For a really good article on this:

#I went off #Lily Evans #why she was right to end her friendship with Sneep #misogyny in the fandom #Lily Evans is my queen #loved that ask #thank you #people who criticise Lily for ending her friendship with Sneep don’t realise they are being misogynistic but they are #send more of these meta asks!

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nerdyenby · 1 year

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I’m sure plenty of people have thought about it but I haven’t seen anyone dissect it so let’s talk about

Soren and Claudia as a reflection of Zuko and Azula

Obviously there’s the whole “kids of the big bad, son gets redeemed, daughter falls further into evil” thing but you can go so much deeper with it.

The Azula/Claudia parallels are pretty overt: villain’s prodigy daughter bases her whole identity around being good at what her father wanted her to be and becomes so desperate for approval she becomes functionally irredeemable (withholding the acknowledgment that she is a victim of manipulation and emotional abuse).

But we get to see in tdp what we never got in atla: the fall.

Azula was conniving and ready to do anything for her father’s approval long before we met her, and similar is true for Claudia, but we get to see a window into who Claudia could have been. We see her have friends and passions and interests and doubts. We see her looking for the best in people and believing what she’s doing is right. We see Claudia wrestle with the morality of her actions. We see her crossing the line and knowing it. We see her losing herself in desperation to get back a life long gone. We see her acknowledge that she has done unforgivable things and hating herself for her willingness to do them.

Claudia is Azula’s arc in reverse. Instead of getting this terrifying, perfect warrior fall apart at the seams when losing control, we get a girl who knows there is a line treading closer and closer until she’s crossed it so many times she doesn’t bother going back any more. We watch Azula’s prefect image fracture and break, we see Claudia collecting her broken pieces, reconstructing herself into something unrecognizable. We watch Azula’s fall from grace, we see Claudia’s rise to power.

Soren and Zuko’s parallels are almost more interesting to me, because they’re a bit more subtle. They are not each other, you could not slot them into each other’s stories like you could with their sisters. They are distinct but that’s what makes them such interesting foils.

Zuko’s arc is of him breaking out of who he was “supposed” to be and finding who he wants to be. Soren’s isn’t. He’s an adult, he’s already decided magic wasn’t for him. He knew he didn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps, but he still wanted to make him proud. Soren is a warrior but he doesn’t try to be anyone he’s not, he’s a fierce fighter but he’s also an absolute goofball. He’s not the smartest, but he enjoys exploring new ideas and he wants to make people happy, he knows who he is. Zuko, however, is heartbreakingly clueless to what kind of person he is outside of his father’s orders.

Soren has a more defined personality from the get-go, but Zuko has to figure himself out on how own starting halfway through the series. Zuko’s life had been governed by a desperation to earn his father’s love and years of rage, he never got the chance to explore himself beyond this until season three. Soren, on the other hand, knows himself, but has his identity challenged and chipped away at. He is a crown guard, a protector, but he finds himself causing more harm than good. He’s loyal, he wants to fight to make the world a better place, but when he becomes paralyzed he knows that this is better — that he doesn’t want to hurt anyone and that he doesn’t trust his orders to not lead him astray. He wants to do the right thing and make people happy, but standing up for what’s right breaks his sister’s heart and pushes her over the edge. He is determined to help make a better future, one of peace and forgiveness, but that means protecting the king, even against his own father. Soren believes goodwill and faith are the key to a better world, but he can no longer trust Claudia, his sister and closest friend. He believes in letting go of the hurt of the past, but he’s mourned his father twice and he’s still alive.

Soren is a good man who wants to do the right thing, but every step of the way is a personal challenge. While Zuko is struggling to find himself and who he wants to become, Soren is fighting not to lose the best parts of himself when his identity is constantly being challenged.

Zuko’s banishment is a key part of his story, he was thrown out, forcefully separated from his family and forced to find himself on his own while his father’s shadow loomed over him. Soren, however, had been his father’s right hand in a way. He was right there, watching his father and sister slip further and further into dark magic that gradually eclipsed who they once were. He was by Claudia’s side as she did increasingly horrible things to satisfy their father, he watched as she slowly became someone he didn’t recognize anymore. Soren himself was ordered to kill for his father and almost went through with it. Zuko was never asked to do anything like that, probably because Ozai didn’t think Zuko would be willing or able to go through with it, but Viren believed in Soren. He wanted his son by his side, and for most of his life that’s what Soren wanted, too. Viren’s a messed up dude but, in his own messed up ways, he did care for Soren.

That’s part of what makes these families such good foils: that there was love there. Viren loves his kids in a possessive and controlling way, but he does want them safe and close; Ozai only ever wanted his kids to be useful. Claudia loved her brother, and Soren continues to love her.

Zuko and Azula have resented each other for most of their lives. There is sadness there, a sense of loss of what they could’ve had, but they never got to have a proper relationship. We get to watch Claudia and Soren fall apart, while we only ever got to see Zuko and Azula hate and pity each other. That is what hurts.

Look at their goodbye in season three, look at their reunion in season four, look at how they care for each other and how terrified they are of what’s happening before them. Now imagine Zuko and Azula in their place.

That is how you do good foils.

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tteokdoroki · 2 years

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Y’ALL I HAD A FIGHT WITH SOME GIRLS AT MY KPOP SOCIETY TODAY LMFAOOO STORY TIME ???

#IT WAS SO WILD #I WENT OFF #🗑. aali’s chatroom

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inamindfarfaraway · 2 years

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That roleswap au for king and the collector is actually so interesting and cool. like wow. I love it a lottt and i wanna know id u have any extra ideas for it or if that was all. (also yk how king had an arc trying to find his father? would there be something like that for the collector or no)

Original post here.

Yes! The Collector has an arc analogous to King’s ‘who and what was my dad, why did he disappear on me and who am I?’ arc in Season Two. This is an arc exploring, addressing and wanting to make up for their morally grey actions (namely their role in the Titan genocide), the sheer power and irresponsible behaviour of their past self as a whole, and how to reconcile all of that with who he is in the present and the mature, heroic person he aspires to be.

“Echoes of the Past” and “Edge of the World” are title-swapped in the AU, I think, because Season Two episode three has them visit Titan Trapper Island and the other becomes the one with King and his island.

So, in Season One we know that the Collector used to be a god in terms of his power level, had much the same naively careless, selfish, flippant personality they had at the start of the show, and therefore did some dodgy stuff without realizing how harmful it was. But the worst example of that we have is persecuting and trapping the Owl Beast and that hatchet is mostly buried at the start and fully buried in an early Collie-centric episode. As far as we know, his actions never had more severe or far-reaching consequences. Associating real murder with this kid who sleeps with stuffed animals and thinks making bread puns with Luz is the height of comedy is just impossible.

“Edge of the World” begins with a news broadcast about Belos and King and ‘the Titan’s plans’, which the Owl House family scoff at. Collie has already said in “Young Blood, Old Souls” that they saw live Titans and know that the very dead one they live on retaining the ability of communication is bullshit, but now they casually mention an old friend named Bill who might still be alive and will back them up on that. Luz and Lilith jump at the chance to help people - if someone other than ‘the Owl Lady’s weird delinquent kid’ can verify that nobody can hear the dead Titan, they could prove Belos is lying to his subjects to control them! Lilith individually is also interested in the rich history of a whole different civilization to be learned. Collie is on board and thinking more in the short term excited to see how Bill is doing; even if he’s dead, the Titan Trappers are probably still around, and it’ll be so fun to introduce their new friends to their old friends’ descendants! Eda is wary because she knows, but hasn’t really talked to Collie about it due to discomfort with deflating their joyful mood and damaging their faith in people, that it seems like most of the Collector’s “old friends” were just using him for personal gain. But her kids beg her, so she agrees. Off to Titan Trapper island they all go, including Hooty. They bring the Collector’s tablet to prove it’s him (their last physical form looked different) and in case they know how to fix it, or can unlock their power with their own tablet, though it’s already broken. Between prospective reunions, showing Eda, Luz and Hooty around his old stomping grounds and the slimmest possibility of restoring his god status, Collie has high hopes!

The Titan Trappers do indeed recognize the Collector. They warmly welcome “the Grand Hunstman” and their company with gifts and a feast. Collie explains the name is a nickname they gave him for being the best at playing the Trappers’ favourite game: Titan chase! Before they can elaborate on what this game involved, they’re distracted catching up with Bill, who seems genuinely interested in them and their life even after learning he’s no more powerful than he looks now. Meanwhile Luz is supportive but more interested in debunking Belos’s Titan claims. She, like Hooty and Eda is more cautious of the Trappers, but Eda is barely concealing hostility and tries to keep up with her kid. She smells a rat. This is way too good to be true. Bill inspects the cracked tablet and he and Collie dig deep into magical research.

Meanwhile, Lilith and Hooty go with Luz to look for Titan info to leverage against Belos, Lilith more focused on historical and cultural knowledge. They finds the skulls. Child skulls. They’ve seen King, so they has a frame of reference for the sizes.

Holy shit. Titan chase was genocide.

Collie led a genocide.

Bill figures out a magic-freeing ritual might just be possible, by channeling it through the two points of connection with the Collector’s former prison and exposing him to the flow. Problem is, they’ll need Titan blood to activate the ritual. And Belos is guarding the last surviving Titan. Collie is content knowing it’s possible and remarks that Belos has plenty of King’s blood fuelling his machines and stuff (as Luz observed during “Young Blood, Old Souls”) and it’ll just be a matter of stealing some of it. Then they can play all the cool superpowered games they used to and more!

Bill seems weirdly upset about this and reminds the Grand Huntsman that they still need to resume their long-paused game of Titan chase. It was so much fun, doesn’t he remember? The Titans are all cheaters and bullies anyway, like the bully that trapped the Collector in the first place. King is his very own son! Surely it would only be fair to kill him in revenge? The Collector remembers that he did find slaying Titans a lot of fun, but, well, it’s hard to explain, but it just doesn’t feel good anymore. King hasn’t really done anything bad, as far as he knows. If he has, it’s ‘cause Belos ordered him to and he thought his dad wanted to, and Belos is the meanest of all and Collie listens to Eda all the time, so he kinda understands. Everyone nowadays thinks the Titan is a god. But Collie knows they were normal people in their minds and hearts; and they’ve learned they are, too. It’s wrong to hurt people who haven’t done bad things, isn’t it? It’s wrong to kill people even after they’ve done some bad things. He and King are both people and that takes all the fun out of Titan chase. In fact… Bill tries to deflect before he can finish that thought, but they do it anyway.

What… what was the point of Titan chase in the first place? Why did the ancient Titan Trappers come up with it? What did they want the Titans’ power for?

A flashback sequence with his new perspective confirms that they were exploiting him and it all along and doing serious damage to the world around them (the authentic versions of rose-tinted memories of fun and games seen when he first recalled the Trappers). Struggling to process this, the Collector takes the tablets and backs away in revulsion and terror. Bill completely loses his patience and orders the Trappers to capture the Collector. The new plan is for them to hold him by force until they have the Titan blood, whereupon they’ll perform the spell but intercept the flow of magic. Bill himself will absorb the full extent of the magic and, as a god in his own right, restore his civilization to its former glory. And then, well… he won’t need the magic’s helpless, useless last vessel anymore. He omits when he relays the objectives to his people, instead spinning it as them ‘helping’ their confused, misguided god and ‘liberating’ him from their corporeal prison. Eda, hating that’s vindicated, tells her son to run and fends them off.

This is when Luz intervenes, spiriting the Collector to safety. On one hand, she loves her sibling figure and wants to protect them and is logically aware he didn’t understand his actions. On the other hand, her emotional side: “You killed all the Titans? Why did you kill all the Titans?”

Her frantic questioning tips Collie from panic into a full breakdown. He sobs that they lied, he thought it was a game, he thought they were all having fun, but it wasn’t fun, was it? It was never a game. Nothing was ever a game! Not Titan chase, not Eda and Belos’s hide-and-seek; everything’s always been big and real life and death and people getting hurt, and they were too caught up in the fantasy to realize it. And how much else did people lie to them? How many more of his old friends were just using him? They don’t know what’s real and what’s fake. The guilt is crushing like the bottom of the boiling ocean and he hates themselves for being naive and selfish enough to be complicit in atrocities on a scale an adult mind, let alone a child’s, struggles to process. There’ve been so many lies and misunderstandings, he doesn’t know who he is at all. Luz calms herself down and tries to reassure Collie that it matters that he didn’t have bad intentions and it’s going to be okay. It doesn’t do much.

Eda and the Titan Trappers both find them. A battle breaks out with protective big sister Luz, mama Eda, Aunt Lilith and Uncle Hooty fighting in all their in glory. But the Trappers’ numbers and unfamiliar style of magic and weaponry wear them down. During the fight a blast grazes Collie, leaving a small pink burn scar on his right cheek (parallel to the darker blue stars on his left one and King’s left broken horn) symbolic of his mortality and vulnerability and how it’s forced his personal growth. He is sick and tired of being the reason people are hurt. They don’t know who they are, but they know who they aren’t.

He stands up on a rock formation and announce to the Trappers, his sheer presence commanding their attention, “Stop! I’m not the Grand Hunstman anymore! I’m not your god! I didn’t even know what it meant that I was a god! [voice hitching] I was just trying to be your friend… but I didn’t know what that meant either. [hardening] Now I do. And I know more about power than you adults do. I know it’s wrong to kill people because of how they were born and to be even more powerful and call it justice! I don’t deserve your worship and you don’t deserve my power, or my friendship.” They rip off their necklace with their pre-imprisonment colour scheme and throw it at Bill’s feet. “This is over. We’re going home.”

Luz activates the Titan’s finger teleportation mechanism to escape on and Collie uses Luz’s ice and plant glyphs to destroy the finger. Returning to the Owl House, Hooty reveals they at least have the two tablets, which he swallowed while Collie’s speech was drawing everyone’s attention. The utterly exhausted Collie collapses into Eda’s arms. The episode ends on a note of uncertainty and innocence and ignorance, including the audience’s, shattered.

Jesus Christ, that was long. So the Collector’s subplot in Season Two is unpacking and coming to terms with all of that on top of needing to let Luz go. It’s… rough. He also gains a lot of skill in using glyphs, so they can be helpful in battles now having decided they can’t unleash his magic until he can trust themselves with it. He’s a fast learner and actually remembers how the ancient witches would do glyph magic. Those long, baggy sleeves? Full of glyphs.

“Echoes of the Past” follows on from “Hollow Mind” revealing Belos and Hunter’s origins by revealing King’s. I can’t figure out how to integrate King into the overarching plot really, but I know by this episode he’s pretty far down his ‘redemption’/abuser-escaping-and-defying arc that needs to somehow not just be a copy of Hunter’s. And Luz is determined to help him make that final step now she understands even more how despicable Belos and his parenting of both Hunter and King is is, and how urgent it is to defeat him. Collie is invested because a) he empathizes with King due to their similarities, i.e. being manipulated and exploited to enable atrocities for happening to be innately powerful organisms; and b) he desperately wants to atone for that whole genocide he led and helping to ensure the safety and happiness of the last known living Titan seems like a way to do that. Eda, like in canon, finds sending the kids to a distant, apparently safe location they could hide away in very convenient.

Though I don’t have a proper plot for this yet, I know King’s side is that he’s starting to doubt if what Belos says the Titan says is true, in a ‘Belos doesn’t realize it and means well but the connection might be patchy or something’s lost in translation from the Titan language or something’ sense, because apparently his dad doesn’t want him to have his recently developed friendship with Hunter that makes him happier than he’s literally ever been before. So he grudgingly teams up with Luz and the Collector, who are secretly planning to gently ease him into ‘your life is a lie’, to travel to his place of birth from his earliest memories, in the hopes of learning more about his father and species’s nature, culture or language from anything he or other Titans might’ve left behind there. What he gets is Belos and/or the antagonistic Coven Heads we didn’t get much of in canon coming to take him back (ironically weaponizing Titan’s blood tech he helped create), since Belos remembers that island. And thanks to Phillip’s forgotten notes, his very own ‘MY LIFE IS A LIE I AM NOTHING’ breakdown! It’s rough. This is when the false and real backstories for the previously seen broken horn are shown. We and the heroes also see all his scars and learn more of what Belos has put him through, a snippet of which along with Belos privately making it clear he purely cares about King’s power and it’s him, not the Titan, who has “big plans” for him on the Day of Unity, was observed in “Hollow Mind” (parallel to the Collector scene). But Luz and Collie are there for him. King, like Collie did his necklace and Hunter his cloak, discards his horn caps, crown regal robe for good. He keeps the underclothes because he isn’t comfortable with baring his scars yet.

Another big thing that happens in this episode is that the Collector saves the day. He and Luz are out of glyphs, Hooty is incapacitated and even King is too emotionally distraught/in shock to act at a critical moment and gets subjected to a countermeasure Belos of course devised against him. They put their faith in him, and he delivers, putting his knowledge of a really advanced spell into practice with King’s gladly offered battle-spilled blood. In the process actively risking his life. It’s the most simultaneously competent and heroic thing they’ve done so far. We have another ‘oh yeah Collie is a motherfucking GOD older than most existing continents in this world’ moment, only in a good way this time. But like how “Edge of the World” in canon ends on a overall loss, the spell is still unable to free King (to be Titan-proof, a restraint’s basically gotta be anything-proof) and when the villains retreat he’s taken with them.

Collie blames himself for this, and Luz and Hooty getting hurt before he remembered something useful. The episode heightens their already inflamed sense of personal responsibility - which brings them full circle from being all power, no responsibility, just like canon King - by both proving he has the knowledge and experience, and now the will, to make positive change and yet in his current state lacks the wisdom and raw power to always execute that perfectly. Few feelings are worse than knowing exactly what you need to do and how to do it, but just not having the ability to. This leads to their decision to finally unleash all their sealed magic in “King’s Tide”. It… doesn’t work as intended.

#collector clawthorne au #long post #very long post #i went off #the owl house #toh #toh spoilers #toh au #the collector #toh collector #king clawthorne

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clydin · 2 years

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LOOK AT THEM GOOOOO

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meliesfooddiary · 1 year

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She'd like you more if you were skinny and somewhat muscular. You know that right? You had a goal and instead decided to go above that trying to tell yourself "well... at least i'm under 2000." But does that matter to her?

I think the fuck not. You seen her reactions to when you workout. You know she treats you better when you tell her "I'm just doing weights" or "Yeah I finished a run just now."

As much as I'd love to be cruel and tell you she's cheating on you, she's not. Just wishing she wasn't with a fucking loser.

Get off your fat ass and do your workout. It's literally so fucking easy too, it's Thursday. You literally only have to walk for an hour. And you definitely should with your BMI of 28.5... At least you lost something and you're overweight. At least you're not fucking obese like last year with your 31 BMI...

Get out of here. Stop eating and workout. She won't leave you if you're skinny.

Just remember: Skinny is pretty. I'm just trying to help you be pretty my love <3

#🎀 mel's diary 🎀#i went off #oops #🫧 meanspo 🫧#directed at myself #workout motivation for myself #i am gaslighting myself

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hellfire--cult · 6 months

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I wrote a fic that I thought would do very well. Only 20 people liked it, maybe 1 reblog. It is severely disheartening, like I didnt post it for likes or anything, but I was so excited for this idea and to have no one enjoy it?

It makes me not want to write. Especially when I see these blogs immediately share their friends posts that they haven't even read, meanwhile barely anyone shares mine.

I imagine its just as frustrating for you. I love your writing and am a huge fan, I think your work deserves more notes

I understand that pain.

It was actually Run Rabbit Run the reason why my love for writing declined. Not even a month went by and in just a week I felt disheartened because... I just compared it to other people's works.

I put my soul into writing this part, people hyped me about it, friends too,everyone seemed excited about it, I EVEN COMMISSIONED someone because i had commissioned Eddie for Bunny Bunny Bunny so I saw fitting to commission for Steve as well.

I was really excited for it, and it just hurts to see something you were so pumped about and that you think you wrote well be disregarded in such a way.

I know notes do not matter, and THEY DON'T, but there's always that psychological part in your brain that always goes and stabs you anyways.

I am trying to not let it affect me. It's hard, and it sucks, but maybe it just has to reach the right audience. Maybe it's the theme, maybe its the words, maybe its the idea, the banner, everything has to do with catching people's attentions, but we will never know.

I appreaciate you for sending a message like this, I am not going to hide and say that I don't care about notes when I absolutely do, but I am not driven by it.

I do not write stuff people expect me to write. I don't write for the notes specifically. I still write things I WANT to write, I still have ideas of my own, always trying to make it a little different from what it is normally seen everyday.

I do appreciate everyone that actually interacts with my work, and my friends that do boost it up.

I hope the same thing occurs to you love, just keep writing because you want to, not because you need to. ❤

#roe answers #oops #i went off #but i needed to vent #roe rants #i guess

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inspiredrawaw · 1 year

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Since myrvin is back, whats new for him? I really love his character.

I feel like everytime I comeback to drawing Myrvin from a break I develop and finalize his story more-

First the design! Pretty similar as to when I drew him last the changes I did make is: instead of a Galaxy on the inside of his cloak it’s just the draco constellation so the idea is that he can spread his cloak out like a vampire and a giant magic star dragon forms around him he can control. This is his most powerful spell that he must be careful with

His mask changed as well! I change the mask because the shape felt weird to me and didn’t really flowed when I drew him with it. So I did some research and currently going for a more masquerade mask this allows that space between his nose and mouth that can make it easier to have him emote! It also feels fitting for Myrvins aesthetic.

Still keeping his half blind eye, along with his scars as well. I added in a tuff of hair below his left ear based on how my hair works as well! Myrvins hairstyle is based on a pixie cut similar to my own hairstyle and when the sides get long they curl upwards! Which is what that tuff of hair is for Myrvin just a little growing tuff of hair from not cutting it short again in weeks plus it makes him look more fluffy

And his magic as well! Originally I had it so he draws the constellations in the air. The fact that I didn’t really drew this out much shoes that I wasn’t too invested in the idea. So cards were brought back! They’re a customized deck of cards Myrvin made himself that shows the star constellation, 2 small stars in opposite corners and a larger star that sits behind the constellation. Myrvin uses these cards to summon those constellations. I added in back the cards because it’s another element from the OG Marvin that made him fun to draw

And now onto the story! In the last version I had Myrvin as an established successful magician where he gets tangled up into dark magic nonsense. I felt like this took away Myrvin as the main character and it was hard for me to figure out story beats that made sense. So I scraped this to now Myrvin being a college sophomore where he meets Jackie in a math class they both have to take! This story focuses on a meet cute between Jackie and Myrvin, college classes shenanigans, Myrvin learning to let others in and be more him instead of this sarcastic sona he built up to protect himself.

Jackie is an engineer student and Myrvin is a theater student with a minor in mythology. They end up studying together to Jackie helping Myrvin with math homework that leads to friendships and eventually getting tangled up with dark forces (the death omens) to crutches and dating

I also have this scene in my head where they’re at a cafes coffee station and Jackie sees Myrvin with a cup thinking it’s coffee and asks Myrvin about it because he was told Myrvin doesn’t drink coffee. Until Myrvin tells him it’s hot chocolate and Jackie immediately throws his coffee away and goes back to the station to get hot chocolate because how on earth did he not know they had hot chocolate here

I know in previous versions for Jackie he was more of a himbo character but I really like the idea that because of his buff build from being a hero that people don’t tend to see him as a smart boy that lead to Jackie being a little more quiet and socially awkward.

So basically now the dynamic is sassy x awkward or >:D x :3

And the death omens are more back! With them getting corrupted!!!!!!!!! But this time it’s by a solar eclipse death omen. More specifically what Myrvin starts calling the void eclipse. When the void eclipse happens those with a connection to star magic starts getting targeted by death omens. I essentially want Myrvin and Jackie have to fight the moon that sounds so cool and funny to me

#I went off #anyway enjoy my rambles #Myrvin McGrove

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struggle-but-its-all-ocean-floor · 7 months

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for a second I thought maybe the collabs are because (aside from him probably wanting them) he didn't nearly have enough time to do his own things but that doesn't make sense because

pretty sure a lot of those songs were already made, he just needed to sing them and create/learn the choreography &

yes they're all English and created by other people (not a criticism just an observation) but those could've still been solo songs? Like them being English singles doesn't mean they needed to be collabs

I'm not sure why I had that original thought lol.

I think maybe it's the label's influence (the American label). something to do with the marketing and introducing him to different audiences in America. Plus It's not like JK would be opposed to working with different artists he finds cool.

I am hesitant about his album though. The tracks might not all be collabs but at this point I don't think any of the songs are gonna feel like him at least the him prior to chapter 2. And I think they'll all be English (which isn't necessarily a bad thing because English songs can be meaningful, but I don't think they'll go for that. Hope I'm wrong)

I would've said differently before I discovered 3D and Seven were part of the album, but now I think this is the case.

They want his name out there and known across America as much as possible before military and before he'll literally be absent for almost 2 years.

But then that makes the whole thing so confusing!!

Well, collabs have the obvious advantage of getting fans of the other artists to listen to Jungkook's songs as well, and possibly becoming fans. I think it also helps Western audiences accept Jungkook, since he's already been "accepted" and "vouched for" by American artists. It gives him more credibility? If it was just Jungkook, maybe his solos would be regarded as side projects, and maybe his streams and records would be seen as the BTS fever effect. But with popular artists credited to his songs, I think that confers Jungkook a certain degree of legitimacy, and maybe shows he's interested in reaching a broader audience and in really building a name and career for himself. I can see the pros of the collabs. At the same time, those can quickly become cons if Jungkook just becomes the dude who only does collabs and can't succeed on his own. So far, all of his solos that charted well and had radio play have been collabs - L&R, Seven and 3D. Now that people know who he is he definitely needs to establish himself solo.

Regardless, he did a poor job choosing the collabs. It's obvious that the alternate version of 3D's better than the main one, and the reason why 3D isn't doing nearly as well as Seven is that, apart from Seven being his anticipated solo debut and having a trendier, and I'd say more tasteful, sound, even Armys didn't like Jack Harlow. The fandom itself isn't responding very well to the song. The MV was lackluster compared to Seven, which had made every Army's Y/N fantasy come true, and if the first song about sex shocks people, the second one is just more of the same. Worst of all though is probably Jack's feature. The lyrics are terrible and sexist, he's not a particularly liked rapper, many fans (like me) are only streaming the solo version and the solo and alternate versions doesn't even combine on Spotify. The way Big Hit lets BTS collab with problematic or not very well respected artists is insane. It's like they'll take anyone and don't even bother understanding what fans want. There are tons of respected, liked and very popular artists that would love to work with BTS and they chose Jack Harlow? They could've fucking asked Cardi B (who is problematic too but generally well liked), and she probably would've said yes. They could've brought back Megan.

The thing is that I don't think Jungkook even knows or understands that Jack Harlow ain't shit. He likes him, but not that many people seem to, which actually surprised me because I thought he was a big name. It's Big Hit's job to at least inform Jungkook of that or suggest other artists. With Latto the problem (aside from the racists tweets that I either misinterpreted or everyone chose to ignore) was more that no one knew who she was and he helped her career more than she helped his. However, since she's an up and coming rapper, it's a much more interesting feature, introducing him to a more specific type of audience and also showing that he's serious about music because he noticed her talent and chose to work with her even if she's less known.

The point is, people loved Seven, including Army, and mostly liked Latto, but the response to 3D has been very lackluster, and Jack is a big reason why. I wonder if Bad Decisions wouldn't have done better with different people, even if the song is Benny Blanco's.

I also think the 3D MV was a huge mistake. I saw someone on Reddit say Jack Harlow's parts give Blurred Lines and it tracks. I watched the MV yesterday and even Jungkook's parts aren't great though. The choreography is poorly shot and Jungkook's dancing doesn't look that good, the dance practice video is miles better. After Seven, which was a huge production, with a beautiful, famous actress and Jungkook being the goofy lover boy, the 3D MV is so low effort. It killed the hype for the song. And Jack dominates the track too much, it's ridiculous. I like the alternate version quite a bit, but Big Hit and Jungkook need to be smarter. I think Jungkook lacks self-confidence and is too humble to realize he's better on his own. He still has this mentality of "the more the merrier, I'll take anything", when he should've listened to the alternate version and realized the feature needed to, at least, be shorter.

As for collabs in other artists' tracks, those are an easy way of having more songs and getting his name out there, since he doesn't need to look for the songs or perform them. He just does a bit of work in the recording booth and that's it. Hybe doesn't even need to promote the songs much either, since that falls more on the main artist. However, again, it's not just about having more songs and exposure. His image matters, the kind of discography he cultivates matters. He needs to be choosier. He can't just take anyone, which at this point feels like what he's doing. It gives less "I'm a pop star" and more "I'm just a nobody from Korea who will take anyone who will help me and isn't big enough to attract more high profile names". I don't know how to express that in a non cruel way. This is really the vibe I'm starting to get, despite Jungkook carrying all of those songs and being so big already.

I don't know what to expect of his album, but 3D didn't help build up anticipation for it. I don't even know if 3D will debut on the top 10 of the Hot 100 and Army is way less excited about Golden now. At least Seven is still going strong. I remember when Seven dropped. 3D only had a week's notice which didn't help, but when Seven dropped the timeline was insane. The horniness was off the charts. The explicit version, as cheesy as it was, had everyone grabbing their hair. When 3D dropped, the reaction was much smaller, and a lot more negative. Visuals matter a lot, and 3D didn't have them. Jungkook also showed everything with Seven, so flashing his abs and talking about sex isn't going to shock people anymore.

Anyway, it's a shame, because I like the solo version of 3D a lot, the choreo is much better than Seven, the performance is better too, and I love Jungkook's vocals so much in the alternate version. I pray he does that high note live. I don't even mind the lyrics. 3D needed a much better MV and no Jack Harlow. I won't even complain about Latto anymore, since, in comparison, she fit Seven better, had less screen time and lines, and helped the song be better, and not worse, received. Maybe I'm biased because I only know what's happening in kpop spaces, but...

Thanks for the ask! Sorry for the rant...

#ask #bts #jungkook #text #thanks for the ask!#I went off #I was being so positive about 3d is asks too and now I'm the one slandering it

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