#Project: Written in the Stars

[rintoki]

“aventurine! what is the meaning of this?!”

your heels clacked on the cold marble floors, echoing throughout the otherwise empty space. you find the man hunched over the bar, and a loud thuack resounds out as you slam a stack of papers onto the counter beside him.

a crooked smile plays on his lips, about time, he thinks to himself. aventurine takes a swig of the drink he’s been nursing, emptying the remains of the smooth liquor down his throat.

“this was not what we agreed on.” your tone was harsh, accusatory, and he could feel your gaze burning holes into the side of his head. but the man could only laugh, his head lolling to the side to meet your eyes head on.

“aventurine. answer me.” there was a dangerous glint in your eye now, and aventurine felt if he stayed quiet any longer, he may very well never speak again.

“you finally came to find me,” the grin on his face was almost sickening, and you could just barely keep the red from clouding your vision. “is this what i have to do for you to look at me?”

aventurine turns his body to face you, leaning in close enough for you to catch the stench of alcohol on him. his smile quickly turns into a pout, “it was just a little mistake… are you going to punish me?”

your eye nearly twitches, what is this man…? but you compose yourself quickly; reigning in your anger as you turned away from him and let out a frustrated sigh. even though it’s clearly not a mistake, neither of you are in the right mind to resolve this. “we will discuss this—“

your words were abruptly cut off as the drunken man in front of you grabs your face, turning it back to face him. “why won’t you look at me?”

his arms slowly crept around your shoulders and before you realise, he’s so much closer than you remembered. and this time, the pout on aventurine’s face looked much more genuine. it was a rare sight to see, one that now held your full attention.

“i am looking at you,” your voice had lost its edge, softening as you answered your colleague. a beat passes as the pair of you stood unmoving, each unable to tear their gaze away from the other.

but aventurine breaks first, sighing deeply as he casts his eyes downward, “that’s not what i mean.”

somehow he’s found his way even closer to you, resting his head upon the crook of your neck. and somehow, you can’t find it in yourself to push him away, instead letting your arms rest on his lower back.

“… you’re drunk. get some rest and we can talk again tomorrow.”

you slowly pulled away from aventurine after a while, assessing that he’s more or less stable enough to be left alone. and with the same clack of your heels, you turn to leave, with an arguably bigger headache than when you first came here.

#reader you’re such a baka!!! >///< #<- that’s aventurine on the inside #LMAOOAOSOAJSJDHA #six.writes #honkai star rail #hsr aventurine #aventurine honkai star rail #aventurine x reader #but anyway i just had the thought of aventurine purposely making a mistake on your joint project just to get your attention #this is so poorly written but i just wanna write the idea hehe

[chamerionwrites]

As a small-time Stellan Skarsgard's Acting enjoyer and big-time Morally Compromised Old Man enjoyer I was inevitably going to fall down a Luthen Rael rabbit hole at least once so forgive me for being fully on my bullshit. But I can't explain my read on this guy without talking about That Speech, and I can't talk about that speech without dumping a bunch of thoughts about dialogue.

Because in my own writing the thing I get most obsessive about is character voice, and the thing about character voice is that not everyone is a poet. Sometimes the craft of writing is about euphony pure and simple. But sometimes (revealing my biases) I think the craft of writing is being able to ask yourself - sure it's good, but is it true? Can you find the poetry in the everyday? Can you express something sharp and compelling and resonant and stay faithful to the perspective of a character who isn't consciously honing their words in that way? All fictional dialogue is constructed. But there does come a point on the spectrum of naturalistic to constructed dialogue - it's partly a matter of taste - where you see more of the writer patting themselves on the back for writing a banger of a line than you see of the character, and personally I often find this off-putting.

Which doesn't mean you never get to let the poetry off the leash (God, that would be joyless). It just means there's a time and a place.

Andor's writers are dropping a lot of bangers and they absolutely know it but largely it works for me, because they're smart about the time and place. Cassian gets to be a guy who's resourceful with his words when the chips are down - that's a big part of his characterization. Maarva and Nemik get to break out the poetry when giving a speech or writing a political manifesto; those words are crafted in-universe as well as out. And Luthen - a performer, a salesman, a man with constructed identities - he gets to use a lot of constructed speech even when he isn't in full-throttle soliloquy mode. I've said before that a lot of stories about espionage are also stories about storytelling: people who create characters, fictions, who tell lies in an attempt to get at truths. In this story Luthen is that guy. Wouldn't you rather give it all at once to something real than carve off useless pieces till there's nothing left - it doesn't matter how constructed that sounds if it's a sales pitch he's rehearsed. It doesn't matter if you see a little bit of the author or the actor peek through when he says things like I know the outside; I imagine the rest, because it functions as characterization when in some sense he is both those things.

All of which is to say That Speech works for me because it tells you something about Luthen beyond the face value of what he says. It tells you this is something he's THOUGHT about, at length. If he hasn't delivered those lines to a mirror, he has absolutely worked through some version of them in his head more than once. And that tells you something just slightly to the left of who Luthen objectively is - it tells you how he constructs and sees himself. I fully believe that Luthen believes what he's saying there.

I also fully believe that this is a man who self-admittedly has an ego and a desire for recognition, who says he's given that up but evidently hasn't let go of some measure of resentment about it. That here's a guy who put on a billowing black cloak, pulled out all the spy theatrics for the express purpose of unsettling his informant, and then gave his best space King Lear audition. That here's a guy with a soliloquy about his sacrifices locked and loaded. On some level Luthen is a little bit into being a martyr for the cause. He's a little bit into the dark glamor of being a lone wolf operator pulling morally tarnished strings. He's a little bit into frightening and manipulating his informant! For all the cynicism of what he's saying, he's a little bit enamored with his own self-image as the sort of man who says it, in a way that suggests an inner romantic more than an inner pragmatist. He says he's damned for what he does but there's more furious pride underlying it than self-loathing; in the same breath he's admitting that a tiny piece of him wants a parade.

Which is fascinating and a little unflattering and way more interesting than just a badass character delivering a badass monologue. The characterization here is partly that Luthen is the kind of guy who monologues.

And to give him his due - I also fully believe that he's a very driven and committed man who has sacrificed a lot. Seen in that light, in fact, I think some of his character flaws come into focus in highly sympathetic ways. Ultimately this is a guy with a deep sense of urgency - "terrified the Empire's power will grow beyond the point where we can do anything to stop it," as he says. And sometimes there can be a lot of ego in urgency. It is a special kind of crazy-making to feel you are taking a problem far more seriously than almost everyone around you. It is a weight of responsibility to believe it's on you to fix that problem before it becomes too big to solve. Under those circumstances it's very understandable that Luthen has big responsible student leading the group project energy and a touch of main character syndrome (which is interesting and sort funny, contrasted with Cassian spending much of the story desperately trying to avoid becoming a main character). It takes a certain kind of drive and audacity-verging-on-arrogance to accomplish what Luthen has accomplished. But character flaws are often the flip side of character strengths, and I think a lot of his are tied up here. Sometimes he's a little enamored with his own isolation (he could choose to be more open with fellow rebel leaders like Saw imo). Sometimes he's awfully comfortable instrumentalizing others while insulating himself. He says Imperial arrogance is remarkable, but sometimes he's blind in similar ways - Luthen is almost as surprised as the Imperials by the funeral riot in the final episode. He's spent so much time stage-managing his would-be rebellion from Coruscant that an organic uprising startles him. In his self-appointed position as the lonely string-puller at the top, he maybe has a bit too much fondness for control and not quite enough regard for community (imo it's also kind of telling that there are no actual Aldhanis involved in the heist on Aldhani). As Clem says - sometimes people don't look down the way they should.

All of which are very interesting and human flaws for him to have! And which I do think the show subtly gestures at in the sort of contemplative way he reacts to that riot, and which I'd love to see come into focus more in S2.

#at one point I said luthen is one of the only people in this story who both knows and likes that he's in a genre film #cassian may be doomed by the narrative but luthen is AWARE of the narrative #he soliloquizes! he prophesies! (he may or may not have a line to the force?) #and he has enough chutzpah to decide that if he can't be the narrative's lead actor he'll settle for being its author #what a guy. i wanna put him under a microscope and study him. #luthen rael #andor #star wars #my posts #anyway it took me ages to solidify my read on this dude bc he's written kind of deliberately opaque #but this is where i'm planting my flag. he is a self-appointed amateur general with a general's ego #who (correctly and admirably) takes the empire deadly seriously #and (somewhat less admirably) has a deeply stressed highly understandable but kinda self-important group project manager complex about it #solidarity community grassroots bottom-up organizing etc etc

[teddywesworl]

k took me a minute to get going on final tulips chapter bc i was having many thoughts and epiphanies about Original Fantasy Novel but im back im 2k into the draft it is on its way

#when tulips is done tho i might step back for a hot minute to write the aforementioned novel #the stars are aligning #i WILL definitely be writing >:C for jules birthday and i'd be shocked if something else doesn't also get written before then #but the priority project will be the novel

[shima-draws]

ok this might seem like a bit of a dumb question, but is there any like official fanfic or smth of ATS or is it more like a running universe that you’ve created and make art for? Like do you have some sort of like way to read the full story or do you plan to make one, or is it more like a universe and characters you’ve made/are adding to over time?

It’s not a dumb question at all, no worries!

SADLY no there is no current story written for it :’0 I mean I have a couple things sitting around for certain scenarios I’ve written out but yeah,,

I know that once I start “officially” working on ATS (I say that in quotes bc I’m p much working on it officially all the time anyway lmao) it’ll be a huge commitment so. That’s why there’s not any consumable story thing out there yet besides all the stuff on the official site and throughout the posts scattered on my blog. And at this point I don’t even know what direction I want to go with it. Written story? Webcomic? Game? Some other form of media? It’s a lot to consider haha

But yeah I do plan to make one eventually!! Can’t say when but it’s the Big Dream to make some sort of long running series that covers the plot of ATS ^^

As for now tho yes it’s just like you said it’s just a universe I’m continuously expanding and adding characters to. Super grateful for the interest hehe 🥰

#I think the most fleshed out written thing I have is a snippet from Ginni and Kaz’s character arc #It was an assignment for a creative writing class so I chose to write about them 😳 #If y’all wanna read it I don’t mind sharing 👉👈 #Shima answers questions #Among the Stars #ATS #Shima’s OCs #BUT YEAH SOMEDAY……I wanna do smth with it… #I just know if I start smth now I will never finish #It’s just not the right time and I’m not in the right place to start a huge project #(Esp since I’m working on a different huge project already)

[dathomirdumpsterfire]

~Chapter 2: Snippet~

Maul is scooped up with the force, left helpless and suspended. He howls about it.

“Wow. Is that… a cat?” asks a mon calamari coming over to look at him.

“I believe so,” Kenobi replies, “Though it needs a bath rather badly.”

The force which has him pulls Maul back to the medical bed, and gently holds him there. It smells terrible in here, like antiseptic and bacta.

“No kidding… but don't they hate water?” The mon cala asks.

“Bant my dear, I honestly have no idea,” Kenobi offers, “I've never seen one outside of holos before.”

“The horns are so cute…” the healer muses, pulling a scanner from her belt. “...looks like it's a ‘him’? He's intact too. I hope you aren't looking to get him neutered, I don't know how.”

Neutered?!

Cursed or not, Maul is going to kill these jedi.

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Darth Maul : Featuring cursed Cat!Maul, the underside of Obi-Wan's couch, and a lot of entertained but confused jedi. : Crackish : Rated T but may change : 👍🏽

#written on a lark #please write this for me #i just want it to exist #cat!au #cat!maul #no not a tooka #CAT #meow lord of the sith #star wars #darth maul #sith #obi wan kenobi #silly and fun #maul is angry and projecting #he's also sad #quigon lived #and now obi-wan is alone and sidelined #he's angry and sad and burying it #we're solving problems by adopting sith-cats #star wars fanfiction #ao3 #jedi

[rubberduckyrye]

Okay so it's been a hot minute since I read your fics(I should reread them soon) but the fics/parts that stick out to me is.

That part in the chapter 5 fic where Kaito saves Kokichi, where Kaito gives Kokichi the makeshift antidote and he almost dies.

That soulmate chapter 5 fic with the kiss and color.

The introductions in twins au(specifically Mui and Gonta's), and the part where Monokuma starts beating up the kubs and Kokichi comforts Kurochi.

That part where the warriors of hope tend to Kokichi's wound.

That Kokichi Kurochi hotel fic where Kokichi reveals that secret.

Oh and the part in your wanderer fic when he sees his memories, specifically that scene where he starts panicking due to seeing how a certain doctor treated him.

(this is just off the top of my head/the first ones I thought of)

In relation to this post!

RWBY I SAID ONE FIC, NOT 6--

fmdknjkngjfngkd

I'm so happy that you like so many of my fics--and especially my Genshin fics, since you don't play Genshin :'D Honestly I'm sorely tempted to make a full LP of Genshin and like 50% of my inspiration is so you can watch it and get the lore tbh--

Okay, let's go through them one by one!

How to Stay Behind the Doors of Life - One of the first RPs turned into fanfic, I cannot talk about this without giving @aroseandapen credit here too! While I did ficify it, my favorite part of it was actually roleplaying it. Writing with L is extremely fun, 10/10 I highly recommend

Our Colorless World - This fic!!! I sometimes come back to this fic, and I just. Oof. This fic was fun to write because it's one of the few times where I technically wrote a tragic ending instead of a happy one. Fun fact: If I ever write a tragic ending, I always imagine an AU extension of the ending where the fic continues and it's revealed that everyone's alive and they get a chance to heal from the Trauma. In this fic's case, it's a VRAU and Kaito has to win over Kokichi after realizing their soulmates. ANYWAY. My favorite part to write for this fic was probably Kokichi's story about the boy under the yellow slide up until the end. Just, so much oof that Kokichi knew his own soulmate hated his guts and thought he was the worst person in existence...... and still hoping (but not expecting) a second kiss from the person he was bound to. There's a lot of tragedy in this fic hhhhhh

Danganronpa V3R: Graduation - Twins AU, Twins AU! I knew this one would come up, hueueueue. Twins AU has a special place in my heart and forever will, and I really aim to one day complete and post the fic in full. While Twins AU had a lot of RPing done with L, I actually think my favorite part to write (and subsequently, to reread) was the introduction of the fic itself. I tend to go hard with surreal imagery and I think that it's one of my strong suits in writing--so of course to this day the introduction of Twins AU is such fire that I can barely hold it without burning myself from how much I love it. I'm currently editing Twins AU's prologue and what little I had done for chapter 1, so hopefully the scene is even better now!

A Change of Fate - Hey, this is the commission you got from me! I had a feeling you might bring this one up too~ Writing this fic was overall a very interesting change of pace as I was HEAVILY in the Genshin Fixation at the time--I think I ended up putting this fic on hold for a long time in favor of "Chasing the Voided Moon" actually (I'm still sorry for that, the fixation wheel refused to free me--) and tbh it did remind me that I love the Twins so very much. I think my favorite part to write was when Junko appeared--there's something very cathartic about writing a really chaotic evil character, not gonna lie. But I also liked how Kokichi was acting during that confrontation--it was overall a great interaction.

Can you really call this a Hotel, there weren't even Mints on the Pillows - To this date this fic has the LONGEST name, and I love that for it. The chapter you're talking about was really fun to RP and ficify, too! Kokichi finally revealing that he saw Kurochi's half-written suicide note is oof. However, I think that the Korekiyo chapter deserves some credit too, since it does change the context of the LSE to one of BDSM and consent than... whatever the fuck canon was trying to do LMAO. Still, this is ALSO a fic I plan on continuing for Twins AU! I even think I know which character will appear in the next chapter >:3

Chasing the Voided Moon - The fact that you've read this fic and enjoyed it even without knowing much context for Genshin is a thing I take GREAT pride in. Though it's actually interesting that you chose that scene in particular, since the favorite scenes of that fic are often chapter 12 and chapter 16. Yet I think you're right in that there is a haunting, disgusting revelation in that chapter that is never spoken, but doesn't need to be spoken. The fact that it is canon that Wanderer's body was mutilated to the point where the big robot he was put in was his life support and his initial reaction to the idea being "Yeah that sounds about the same as what Dottore's done to me before" is. Honestly the fact that Scaramouche theorists on YT miss the severe torture/abuse implications of that scene in canon alone is staggering. It's definitely not a top favorite of the fanfic, but it really does highlight that Scaramouche didn't just suffer three really bad instances of trauma and nothing else happened to him--he endured so much off screen that was so heavily implied, and who knows how much for how long. Anyway murder maim kill Dottore. Though as for my favorite par to write... I'm sorry to say, it is chapter 16 :'D I went hard on that chapter and I'm very proud of it. Chapter 12 too, but I prefer catharsis over pure angst tbh.

#genshin impact #danganronpa v3 #the wanderer #kokichi ouma #kokichi oma #Scaramouche #Kurochi Ouma #Kaito Momota #Yuuto Wrenn #Fun fact #Yuuto Wrenn is the tag I used for wanderer on my blog but #I actually named him Wrenn and will call him Wrenn in future projects of my own #(not including commissions from a certain Star) #and that is because the name Yuuto is STAR'S Wanderer #and CTVM was written with him in mind

[pierfangs]

@pierprincess : don't say that. don't say that to me. angst prompts ; accepting.

    𝖎𝖙  𝖜𝖆𝖘  𝖆  𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓  𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙  𝖍𝖊  𝖍𝖆𝖉  𝖇𝖊𝖊𝖓  𝖆𝖛𝖔𝖎𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖌  𝖍𝖆𝖛𝖎𝖓𝖌  𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍  𝖍𝖊𝖗,   maybe  because  he  knew  that  his  anger  and  pain  was  bubbling  so  close  to  the  surface  that  there  was  no  way  that  he  could  keep  it  contained  if  they  got  into  it.   the  issue  was  his  anger  wasn't  loud.   it  was  quiet  and  simmering  to  a  point  of  unpredictability  and  he  took  him  to  a  place  that  he  rarely  allowed  himself  to  go.   but  they  could  no  longer  skirt  around  the  issue  any  longer.   they  could  no  longer  avoid  the  inevitable  conversation  that  had  his  heart  already    𝖇𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌   because  there  was  no  way  that  either  one  of  them  was  coming  out  the  other  side  completely  unscathed.   as  much  as  it  pained  david  to  ask    𝖜𝖍𝖞   she  had  done  what  she  had,  he  needed  to  know  because  she  must  have  known  that  there  was  only  one  way  out  and  they  had  been  set  up  to  walk  into  a  trap  the  moment  they  entered  the  emerson  home.

    𝖎𝖋  𝖍𝖊  𝖍𝖆𝖉  𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖞  𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖉  𝖙𝖔  𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖐  𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙  𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙  𝖍𝖊  𝖜𝖆𝖘  𝖘𝖆𝖞𝖎𝖓𝖌,   he  never  would  say  that  it  was  her  fault  because  on  some  level,  he  didn't  blame  her  for  what  happened.   he  blamed  himself  for  keeping  things  from  her,  from  allowing  his  family  to  be  put  in  harms  way,  for  allowing  himself  to  do  something  so  foolish  and  fall  in  love.   everything  she  had  done  was  his  fault.   but  would  he  ever  admit  that  to  her?   not  anymore.   david  was    𝖍𝖚𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌   and  he  wanted  to  do  whatever  he  could  to  make  it  that  she  was  hurting  the  same  way  he  was.   eyebrows  raised  at  her  plea,  shaking  his  head  as  he  laughed  meanly,   "   don't  say  what,  star?   that  they  are  all  dead  because  of  you?    "

    𝖍𝖊  𝖜𝖆𝖘  𝖈𝖎𝖗𝖈𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖌  𝖍𝖊𝖗,   much  like  an  animal  would  do  its  prey  and  whilst  he  had  no  intention  of  physically  harming  her,  he  would  do  whatever  he  could  to  make  her  on  edge,  to  scare  her  and  to  make  sure  that  she  knew  just  how  much  she  had  hurt  him,   "   we  brought  you  in,  we  kept  you  safe,  we  gave  you  a  home  and  we  loved  you,    "   it  was  easier  to  say  we  than  single  himself  out,  but  it  was  still  the  truth.   each  of  his  brothers  had  their  own  connection  with  star,  they  all  loved  her  in  their  own  way  and  they  would  all  be  just  as    𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖐𝖊𝖓   to  learn  how  she  had  betrayed  them  all,   "   and  how  did  you  repay  us?   you  let  michael  and  his  amateur  vampire  hunters  sneak  in  and  kill  marko  whilst  we  slept  like  cowards.   you  ran  from  dwayne  and  took  laddie  from  him.   you  did  nothing  to  help  paul  as  he  screamed  whilst  he  died,    "   with  every  word  he  closed  his  circle,  getting  closer  to  her  until  he  was  stood  in  front  of  her,  blue  eyes  completely  dark  as  he  looked  at  her,  his  expression  nothing  but  pain  and  hurt  as  he  looked  at  her,   "   you  betrayed  me  by  whoring  yourself  out  to  michael  emerson  and  thinking  that  you  could  just  kill  me  to  get  your  happily  ever  after,    "   if  she  wanted  him  to  be  the  monster  and  the  villain,  then  so  be  it.   even  if  all  of  this  was  killing  him  inside,  he  wasn't  himself,  he  was  letting  his  pain  and  grief  for  the  family  that  he  held  close  for  so  many  years  speak  for  him.   even  now  he  knows  he  can't  hide  the  way  his  eyes  glisten  with  tears  as  he  stands  in  front  of  her,  so  close  that  they're  almost  touching  and  yet  he  didn't  dare  do  it,   "   i  really  hope  he's  worth  it,  clara,  because  i'm  done,    "   david  didn't  even  know  if  he  believed  it  himself,  if  he  really  thought  he  could  walk  away  from  her  and  not  think  about  her  again.   they  were    𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖓𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖉   in  a  way  that  couldn't  be  broken  and  there  was  always  just  something  about  them  that  he  never  quite  understood.   never  did  he  think  she  would  turn  against  him  like  this  and  would  help  destory  everything  he  held  close,   "   you  all  thought  i  was  a  monster  and  now  that's  exactly  what  you're  going  to  get,    "

#pierprincess #i. answered : 𝖎𝖓 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖗. #iv. in character : 𝖎𝖒𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖆𝖑 𝖋𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙 𝖛𝖔𝖎𝖈𝖊 𝖘𝖔 𝖈𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖗. #( honestly think this is the most mean thing i've written so far ) #( i am sorry star ) #( he is just in pain ) #( projecting his own blame )

[jewishcissiekj]

I feel so Thrawn when looking at Star Wars concept art. I could not beat Iain McCaig in a fight but I get it. I really do.

I do however absolutely believe I could beat George Lucas in a fight because he'd get scared if I shoved unused concept art into his face. Or just art of Women tbh.

#star wars #sw #george lucas is afraid of beauty and women I think #also symbolism #terrifieddddd #Dough Chiang Iain McCaig Dermot Power I love you #geniuses visionaries masterminds #should be in charge of all upcoming sw projects tbh #concept art #star wars art #just going through artbooks.... #woah #i have personal faves but everything's just so damn stunning! #and the unused ideas have i mentioned George Lucas is a fucking idiot #'the three artists I've mentioned should've written the prequels tbh #with women in the writing room bc the prequels lacked that as a whole #but yeah i love their ideas sm

[psalmsofpsychosis]

So *honks clown noice introspectively* real stair wars talk.

The original trilogy is an americana/folk fairytale scifi. You can look at it from many different angles but at the end of the day it's a small town, small people story; its politics are not the politics of big names and big city complications, it's politics the way sideroad nobodies understand it. We all make fun of Luke in the Disney era for going into a war not knowing shit about fuck but that is exactly how small people do it, and that is how causes are won time and time again; by small people doing small things and it all adds up and suddenly you have a revolution.

(Leia is ALSO part of the story not as The Main Senator, but as the daughter of one of many senators, another relatively small figure in her context.)

The prequels are synthwave big city scifi and big name politics, mouthful of responsibilities for mouths not big enough for the bite. Compared to the sincerity and the heartfelt approach of OT this is a different angle and a downgrade but it's still okay!!! it's good it's lovely it has many merits.

next we have Disney era star wars, which is hospital aesthetics. Distilled and strile to death and commodified to accomodate every fragile soul on this planet, overstuffed and underperforming at the same time and it ends up easing the itches of absolutely noone.

but then there's the one exception: The Mandalorian (2019–). We're back to americana/folk fairytales again!!! We have a wandering knight in shining armour and a magical child and small town people each with their own evil and endearing stories. The wonder of The Mandalorian is precisely about it's small scale, there lies its heart and sincerity, and that's it, i refuse to talk about anything else–

#this meta has been written with exactly zero bias i'm completely at pease and free from utter hatred for the sequels #and everything disney-stamped-and-approved that's not Rogue One/visions/the mandalorian #''i am one with the peace the peace is with me'' i chant as i try to not percieve any of the recent projects #and ANYWAY what i'm saying is!!!!! more folk fairytales less big city problems i literally do not care about large scale politics #i'm here for the small people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #and i do fear for Din Djarin's future very much the darksaber was entire unnecessary 😊🔪 #star wars #star wars meta #the mandalorian

[raayllum]

previous sir sparklepuff oneshot word count: 1,588

updated word count: 2,360+ 

#aka i probs have another like 1k written by hand that i need to transcribe but #this is what's in the doc so far #fic: twice as many stars #upcoming #projected word count: 4-5k so we're nearing the mid-point #sir sparklepuff #exploring the horror of 'you're starting to resent the people you were literally designed/made to care for <3' #he killed a mouse. having a breakdown. bon appetit

[friendofthecrows]

Wish I had more of that stereotypical "refined genius psychopath mystery villain" vibes and less "dysfunctional no sleep cycle can't tell when/if they have emotions traumatized mess doesn't feel like a human paranoid future true crime psychopath" vibes. So that was word salad. Moving on.

#i have been described as a genius but unfortunately the #aspd and other mental illnesses mess with my impulse control and risk vs return and energy/motivation levels #so it kind of gets in the way of showing off my intelligence most of the time #which probably makes me less insufferable but also leads to some people underestimating me #or just thinking of me as too much of a mess in general #both of which i hate #and when it comes to the 'coolness/sophistication factor' vs 'unfortunate creature that needs to stop interacting with humans vibe' well. #trust me i would go into seclusion for the rest of time if it was financially viable and if #my various projects didn't require working with other people #ugh I'm not really that upset today I'm just frustrated by my brain #also my body and other people and the universe and the concept of time but that's a whole different subject #sometimes the stars align and it's like the best aspects of everything 'wrong' with me are displaying at once #and i actually feel like myself and like myself #then something shifts idk but the worse things start showing again and the best bits lose some of their influence and #suddenly I'm struggling to get through a day with a decent level of functionality and without engaging in destructive behaviors #the AND is very important because i can usually do or. At least i have that i guess #today i don't feel like a person i feel like a poorly written character who's been brought into real life #only to find out that when faced with normal everyday problems #their fucked up little traits are way more of a disadvantage than they thought #i could probably blame it on the trauma or the aspd or a million other things #but maybe it's just because i am the person i am #and idk how to feel about that #just want the stars to align again

[cadmuslabs777]

I know it in my heart that Michael C. Hall and Zachary Quinto would be besties if they ever met. They would forge a deep bond out of playing beloved serial killers and gay men.

#they are also an aquarius and a gemini they would love each other it's written in the stars #zachary quinto #michael c. hall #pls someone put them in a project together

[mylittleredgirl]

There was a guy I was watching on Youtube who said he wanted Georgiou to take a look at what Section 31 did to the Changelings (the virus and the stonewalling and also the torture they showed in Picard) and condemn it to really solidify the idea that like, they are the BAD GUYS. Like, if Georgiou thinks it's fucked up, it's gotta be REALLY fucked up (and what they did to the Changelings was REALLY fucked up). I agree with him and with you and I am also glad it's a movie because if it was a show they'd have to water Section 31 down to being just like, a standard black ops team situation that exists in the morally grey, which is so completely not the point. the point is that they exist in the morally black.

exactly! i get what deep space nine was trying to do -- that starfleet and the federation council look the other way even after it comes to light because they're about to lose the war big -- but they also wrote it as section 31 making the virus BEFORE the big war! how many other threats has section 31 preemptively acted against!? and the federation just let it happen for all these centuries???

i wish in ds9 actually that section 31 could have been something created during the war (perhaps brought back to life from a previous war, using outdated starfleet regulations, if they want to imply that something has been rotten in the state of denmark for a while). it would have the same narrative impact and make much more sense!! this would have most logically happened between seasons 5 and 6, when the alpha quadrant is overrun and they're losing this war badly.

unfortunately in regards to that youtuber's thought... i don't think emperor georgiou, even the domesticated version of disco season 3, would ever denounce a tidy little necessary genocide in a situation like the dominion war, when the federation was in danger of being wiped out like that.

even dyed-in-the-wool 24th century starfleet admirals ordered bashir to stop searching for a cure!

georgiou would certainly mock the federation for allowing that to happen under their umbrella of moral ideals, but there is no way that she would even think twice about the necessity of that in a dominion war scenario. she would consider bashir and the deep space nine gang traitors for trying to stop it.

like i love the end result that guy's going for there, and it NEEDS to be said, but georgiou's character would really have to be bent sooooo far out of shape for her to say that and mean it.

#there's some kind of interesting media studies project here about section 31 as written in a pre- and post-9/11 world #star trek thoughts #anonymous friend #chatter post #deep space nine #star trek picard spoilers

[taron-egerton-fan]

Firebug is greenlit

EXCLUSIVE: Taron Egerton and the creators behind Apple TV+’s lauded drama Black Bird are re-teaming on crime series Firebug, inspired by events surrounding notorious California arsonist John Leonard Orr. 

 Black Bird creator Dennis Lehane, star and executive producer Taron Egerton, and executive producers Richard Plepler, Kary Antholis, Bradley Thomas and Imperative Entertainment’s Dan Friedkin will reteam on the Apple Original series. 

Firebug will follow a troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator (played by Rocketman star Egerton) as they pursue the trails of two serial arsonists.

More: https://deadline.com/2022/12/taron-egerton-apple-john-orr-firebug-denis-lehane-richard-plepler-arsonist-1235193335/

and at Variety

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/taron-egerton-firebug-apple-tv-plus-1235454219/

I wonder who else will be cast? This is soooo exciting. Such good news.

#Taron egerton #Exciting new project #denis lehane #appletv #I love that people who work with Taron always love him and want to work with him again #I love TV drama series that are well written and star Taron Egerton #woohoo this made my day

[kirbyddd]

remembering this video i watched about the history of Mario 3 that ended with sentimental music and text saying "Shigeru Miyamoto is considered one of the greatest game designers of all time"

#how can you say that in a video about MARIO 3 OF ALL GAMES. TEZUKA'S BABY #there was another one that credited him with Ocarina of Time's themes #like he hasnt spent the last 20 years explicitly denouncing the idea of themes and stories in games and the standards OoT set for Zelda #god #ok it's time for the Miyamoto Rant #he's the grandfather of modern video games #but he's a drunk barely functional grandfather whose primary contribution was conceiving the infant #he's been taking credit for other people's work the moment he got promoted #his actual game design looks like donkey kong arcade zelda 1 color splash star fox zero #even in mario the actual physics and interactions that made the game what it was were created by several different devs... #he never Richard Garriot'ed any of “his” games and wasnt even a proper dev on the real groundbreakers like Mario 3 and World #he hasnt gotten his hands dirty since the early famicom days with primitive games like Mario and Zelda 1 #absolutely he played a vital role in the history of the medium #directing the projects that spearheaded the transition from tablegame-like repetitive rounds to more art-like full experiences #but he wasnt responsible for the later masterpieces people tend to credit him for. Mario 3. World. 64. Star Fox. OoT. Pikmin. and so on #in fact he often actively hindered projects and caused them to drag. It didnt start with color splash. See the history of World and 64 #I'd call him Japan's Peter Molyneux but honestly he's closer to George Lucas. His underlings often ended up actively working AGAINST him #anyways.... there's my rant about the cult of Shiggy M #he finally had his free reign influence neutered after his Wii U era travesties... better late than never #next time on Video Game Myths.... Eiji Aonuma is an illustrator who has never written a line of code in his life #Masahiro Sakurai's game design youtube channel is an attempt to restore his reputation #after his last projects earned him universal praise from investors as a producer but destroyed his reputation as a game designer #Reggie Fils-Aime's post retirement attempts to wash his hands of the failures that transpired under his leadership and cement his legacy #and how Satoru Iwata was personally responsible for the company's early 2010s crisis through dishonest and anticonsumer business philosophy #(and how he spent the rest of his life attempting to right his wrongs and lead the company back into alignment with Yamachi's vision RIP) #as for Yamachi himself.... #I think the fact that he kept the company free of yakuza influence in the era that they OWNED the industry is testament to his principles. #Yamachi is the one Nintendo exec name i respect #also shoutouts to Kondo the one guy at nintendo who ACTUALLY personally creates the things he's credited with

[wren-of-the-woods]

😈 next WIP after this one?

Probably the one you suggested where Jaskier is cursed to be a bird, actually! He's gonna be a tiny sandpiper and Geralt will have to figure out how to take care of him and deal with feelings. The idea absolutely refuses to leave me alone. It might become a multi-chapter thing. It is all your fault. I love it.

From this ask game!

#alternative next projects include jaskier-has-wings au inspired by art #a movie star au that has been waiting to be written for ages #maybe some more fics in the birthday bard au #and various ficlets #maybe even a goncharov fic lol #but! cursed sandpiper au is currently taking up the most space in my brain so it's probably next! #i have so many ideas for it #samstree #wren talks #asks