So, I'm currently working on a Winx Club fusion MDZS fanfic and wrote the first instance of empathy. I don't know if it will stay in the end, but in the meantime, I intend to use this for the final story. under the cut is the written product.
Not knowing what else to do, Wei Wuxian touched the comb and gently picked it up, ready to bring it back, before he was filled with another person's memory. He knew of the magic used, he had developed it to connect with Suibian in Yilling after all, when the pixie had been too young to speak more than the gibberish infants spoke. He knew this kind of magic and knew it was futile for him to try to block it, so he let it happen.
Grey filled her vision immediately when she opened her eyes. The white walls of her prison turned grey from the dim light outside. It was daytime, she knew, the bells for the night rest not having sounded yet. She wondered if her ‚husband‘ -the word, a curse and cuss all in one- would visit her again this night. She had born him an heir already and his visits had lessened over her pregnancy and her recovery from birth, but now, a year after her son was born, they had started again. Did he hope to bind her to him more, when he made her pregnant with a second child?
She snorted, an undignified sound nobody could punish her for as she served the greatest punishment already. She knew his son would soon be taken from her, only allowed to visit a few times a week until they would let him forget about her altogether. She was not sure she would survive the separation, but she had to try. Her ‚husband‘ -she still did not know how the man could be called that- did not know about the tiny spark of magic and life growing inside her.
It had been many years and everything still was grey and lonely in her prison. Her youngest son had turned six a few days ago. She had not been allowed to see him on this proud day, it was not the allowed time for the visit of her children. Once a week, always on the same day of the week, at the same time, she would have her sons back in her arms. She knew of the strain it put on her sons, saw them freezing their emotions under emotionless ice and rigid stone, as their uncle taught them that emotions were the downfall of their life. It strangled the magic inside them and maybe it damaged it as well.
She was interrupted in her musings as two sets of arms hugged her from her sides, her oldest son on her right, her youngest on the left. They soon composed themselves again, her youngest turning so fiercely serious, that she couldn’t help but tease him about it. She could feel her time slipping, her health failing and wished to only impart and leave happy memories for her sons. They were the only good thing coming out of the ‚marriage‘ -a word as cursed and acridly stale tasting as the word describing her relationship with the man responsible for her plight-.
It was the day before her sons would visit again, a week after her youngest sixth-year celebration when she felt her time run out. She struggled with breathing, the everlasting grey turning dark and black, drowning in the salty bitter tears she couldn’t contain with her waning strength. Her voice had left a few hours ago, leaving her unable to utter her death wishes. She thought about her two sons, about their pale faces, burdened and marked by life's hardships already, and wished with her last strength for their happiness.
Quackity: Oh, it's gonna be so cool to see how this develops. I'm excited, I'm gonna try my best. I'm not the greatest at Minecraft whatsoever, I did nerf Green Team a little bit by accident on the second day. My bad! But, you know, I'm so ready to just grind out and see what we can do, and I just–
I wish everyone saw it with the same amount of, like, kind of enthusiasm. I think all of this and all the development and all the potential arcs, that's going to fcking allow for something absolutely incredible.
And if anyone ends up clipping any of this, something I do want to say is I implore people to view everything with a lot of enthusiasm. No stress, no anxiety, just a lot of enthusiasm. Because, again, this is going to allow for a lot of cool things in the server. Not just now, but in the future, too.
okay now that i'm no longer trying to keep a project secret from certain people i can complain publicly about a thing i've been losing my mind about:
why the fuck is the evo wiki like that.
listen. i know. i know fandom wikis being decent entirely relies on whether there are people who both want to obsessively categorize things enough to fill out the wiki, with the free time to do that kind of obsessive categorization, and the desire to manage it all as a wiki. believe me, i know. but please i'm just trying to do research please, please at least bigb's page was just Entirely Empty so i knew i had useless information and just left. why the fuck did the mafia's page, by contrast, have this:
a sentence that is actively LESS USEFUL THAN IF IT WERE NOT THERE.
and then grian's page - GRIAN'S. GRIAN'S. THE ONE PAGE I THOUGHT MIGHT HAVE A SHOT OF BEING FILLED OUT. JOKE'S ON ME I GUESS.
BECAUSE IT HAS THIS????? I'M LOSING MY MIND. WHY ON EARTH IS THE WIKI LIKE THIS. WHY IS IT THIS BAD. PLEASE I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT EVERYONE'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH JIMMY AND MARTYN WERE PLEASE,
anyway thankfully i had friends who could help me with their own knowledge and who also found the evo recap but in conclusion i have been being driven mad by this for weeks, thank you for coming to my ted talk.
hey folks who interact with creative works online! just a tiny PSA
If you don't like a character, that's totally fine! If you have a different reading of a situation in a show & have issues with stuff that's going on, that's also fine.
What is NOT fine is to ACTIVELY SEEK OUT fans of the characters you don't like and talk shit about them, the characters they have feelings about, or the content they've posted b/c you, Freddy McHatesalot really needs to tell everyone how much you dislike a...fictional character.
You are totally welcome to consume content in your own space in whatever way you see fit. It is disrespectful of the fandom space to try to drag other people into your space and interact with you if they don't want to. And dunking on a character in writings or art of them is fucking rude as hell to the person who put work into into the creation they made out of some feelings they were having.
Also. side note, it is possible to enjoy a character who is Wrong About Some Things or Isn't Doing The Right Stuff In The Right Situation. Sometimes it's possible to like a character and disagree with them, and shitting on people b/c you can't see what they see in a character is pretty trash garbage and is 90% of why I just make silly little art for me and my own silly feels and hope folks get a chuckle or some enjoyment out of it too.
You're my neck of the, neck of the woods
Leave you, babe, I never could
Ginger and gestures of goodwill go forth, let go
Of sorrow and sadness and spite
I'm somebody taller tonight
it always pisses me off a bit when i see people trying to use their platform to Educate The Public and the "educational resources" they provide are twitter threads, tiktoks, and carrds. like yes absolutely a social media post from a primary source is invaluably helpful when it comes to getting first-person perspectives on current events, but you just cannot learn extensive history from tiktok. idk. maybe you can. maybe i'm being too quick to write off tiktok as a whole. it's just rare that a tiktok is going to be well-researched and provide sources for the viewers to vet or use for further research on their own, so it's natural to be doubtful.
people easily believe anything on social media if it's well-said and seems sincere, which is just dangerously stupid. vet your sources. think critically. don't just blindly believe a tiktok because the person filming it is using smart people words
Arya watched them die and did nothing. What good did it do you to be brave? One of the women picked for questioning had tried to be brave, but she had died screaming like all the rest. There were no brave people on that march, only scared and hungry ones. (Arya VI, ACOK)
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The night she was caught, the Lannister men had been nameless strangers with faces as alike as their nasal helms, but she'd come to know them all. You had to know who was lazy and who was cruel, who was smart and who was stupid. You had to learn that even though the one they called Shitmouth had the foulest tongue she'd ever heard, he'd give you an extra piece of bread if you asked, while jolly old Chiswyck and soft-spoken Raff would just give you the back of their hand. (Arya VI, ACOK)
Arya: *restrains herself from acting out when captured by the Mountain and his men because she knows fighting back/being brave wouldn't accomplish anything*
Arya: *takes note of the temperments of several Lannister guards so that she can learn how to navigate around their behavior*
Fandom: Arya is a feral idiot with no self-control uwu 🤗
yes i am aware that you wouldn't be able to puncture bones with a needle. i also Don't Care
anyway, i enjoy the idea of ink's emotion vials being more like needles instead of little potion things. it's almost like everytime he uses the needles, he gets a quick "high" from it upon injection, then is all like "alright let's get started fellas" while everyone's like wtf.. (they'll get used to it eventually)
i don't actually know if it'd work on other monsters/people. did comyet ever specify that? IDK. whatever's happening here is ink's last ditch effort to stop blueberror from being such a baby
of course, ink by @/comyet, berror by @/loverofpiggies
I love how despite the party trying to shake the secrets out of Colin, no one has made an Insight check against anything he’s said about himself yet, which means that technically, nothing he’s said actually has to be true. It doesn’t mean it’s not, but if it wasn’t, who’s to say?
Odypen definitely and equivalently adore each other BUT I weirdly can't see them as the type to actually say "I Love you".
They still definitely vocalize their love for each other but it's more so in "My Joy", and "Extraordinary Woman", "Strange Woman/Man", etc. And very cheesy lines (both say some cheesy shit in the Odyssey, and he definitely does in the Iliad as well. "Joy like a drowning sailor seeing land" bit???)
I could see "I adore you" but even then, that's probably during very specific moments but the actual "I love you"??? I just typed it just now for fic shit and... It weirdly just didn't feel right and I don't know why. 😅
Idk maybe it's kind of because I see them as over the top in ways, they love wordplay and riddles and I think they'd almost think "...That's not good enough >:( " about it??? I don't know???😂
I say a lot that Wash isn't empathetic when talking about people giving him Carolina's personality, but I don't think that really explains my thinking. Empathy is too vague of a concept in discussion of character.
Wash cares a lot about people. Wash cares so much it hurts. He trains the Chorusans without being asked, on his own initiative. He doesn't leave the reds and blues at the first sign of trouble. He's traumatized by violence by his own hand that he still agrees with the logic of, he remembers what he's done to people and while he doesn't regret it, it still haunts him. He doesn't want to care so bad but he does, he cares so much that violence against relative strangers hurts. Even if it was his best choice. Even if it was his only choice.
Carolina doesn't want people to know violence like she does. Carolina wants to tackle the whole world to keep it away from the ones she loves. Carolina wants to be the one to handle everything, to keep war off the doorstep.
Washington knows violence, and well. He thinks it is something that sometimes is the best option. He knows how to make the people he loves capable of protecting themselves. So he does.
Carolina is someone who wants to protect. Washington is someone who wants to teach people to protect themselves. Carolina wants to be the one to offer shelter in the rain. Washington wants to burn the fire so hot and so bright the rain evaporates before it can ever touch them, so hot it never even comes down, so bright no one could ever get lost. And he wants to teach everyone he cares for just how to do it, too.