#RR Works

[aad1952]

490. Voor de tweede keer Carré wat was dit gaaf

9 juni 2023. Voor de tweede keer in zijn carrière speelt René in het Koninklijk theater Carré. Dit keer voor het eggie. De vorige keer speelde Coronavirus nog parten in het geheel. Hij speelde toen in een half bezette zaal, dat dan wel twee keer op één dag. Nu werd het een feest en wat voor een. Wanneer René aangeeft dat hij zijn voorstelling 2636 in Carré afsluit, beginnen mijn ogen al te…

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#Amsterdam #André van Meurs #Koninklijk theater Carré #Laurens Chrispijn de Boer #Loetje Oost #René van Meurs #RR Works

[ofswordsandpens]

imagine writing this. imagine writing percy increasingly losing himself to his anger and his resentment, sympathizing with Luke, spiraling, being immensely powerful, burning away at his mortality, and not knowing how to deal with any of it. Desperate for help and the one time he breaks down enough to try and get it (Jason) his worst thoughts and perceptions of himself are inadvertently affirmed. He never talks about it to Annabeth. He never talks about it to his mom. Oh but everyone is aware of it. Aware of his anger. Afraid of his anger. Concerned for him and by him. They give each other looks, worried, because they recognize what a danger he could be — to himself, to others, to the gods. But no one says anything, at least not to Percy. No one helps him. No one intervenes. They don't know how to, it seems. (Or maybe they're afraid to). And so they all pretend everything is fine. Percy pretends, bottling it all up inside until the pressure gets too great and that anger boils over and he loses it all over again. He's so desperate for normalcy that he'll take anything, believes in all of the sweet, sugar-spun tales of New Rome and looks away from the rotting underside. He lets himself believe that once he's there the gods will have to leave him alone, because he's done with it all, he's retired (and the gods always keep their promises don't they?).

Imagine writing what is arguably the well-plotted, compelling, and tragic beginnings of a fallen hero arc for percy and none of it being intentional.

RR's penchant for Percy to be explosively angry and scarily powerful, alongside characterizing him as jaded and resentful and desperate, mixed with his refusal to write any in-depth emotional resolution to any time Percy snaps has created an enthralling narrative of a hero just about to fall from grace. and it's all seemingly an accident.

Oh, and another, amazing, unintentional coincidence? if you're taking RR's word that Percy is still 17, that's also the age Luke was when he failed his quest, marking the beginning of his fall as a hero. Like. The narrative parallels are all there. And without any meaning for them to be.

#I cannot even begin to fathom the inner workings of RR's mind. #he's set up a fallen hero masterpiece and he doesn't even know it like ??? its amazing its astonishing its insane #like I cannot imagine writing a Percy Snaps narrative so cohesively and to this level without some level of intention #and yet #here we are #OR he is aware and is too much of a coward to follow through with it #so then percy's character is just stuck in this limbo of constantly being one more bad meltdown away #from reaching the point of no return #which is just unsatisfying for everyone involved #screaming crying ripping my hair out #pjo #percy jackson #mine

[aroaceleovaldez]

im really not a fan of Rick's recent trend of recycling bits of his writing that got a good reaction the first time and acting as if that's a valid substitute for. actually bothering to write something original a second time around. It's clearly just there as a callback and nothing more.

It's "Nico's rage exploded" and "Percy's rage exploded" with the exact same paragraph formatting. It's CoTG having titles like "My Singing Makes Things Worse, and Everyone Is Totally Shocked" (reference to TLO, when Percy says he thinks his singing would cause an avalanche) or "Pretty Much the Best Good-Night Kiss Ever" (reference to TLO "Pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time") or any other number of near word-for-word references to the first series. It's Nico calling Percy "seaweed brain" in Un Natale Mezzosangue (when Percy says in TTC that anybody but Annabeth calling him that is a major offense). It's Nico and Will falling into Tartarus in TSATS word-for-word referencing Percy and Annabeth in House of Hades, despite it not making any sense for their characters (and otherwise being written as Percabeth 2™). It's the show making huge changes but keeping random "fan-favorite references" (mostly overusing "seaweed brain" and "wise girl" and emphasizing percabeth) only because they're popular in-jokes and considering that a faithful enough adaptation to market it heavily as such. It's lazy writing.

And it's a disservice to the series and to the audience, because it clearly shows Rick doesn't have original ideas anymore (though given all his writing is heavily derivative to begin with, it begs the question how much was original in the first place and how much he has difficulty when he doesn't have a structured mythological plot to work from) and that there is an expectation that the audience will just sit down and accept that behavior hook-line-and-sinker. Everything recently is clearly such lip-service to the audience, either in retcons that are overt speaking-to-camera acknowledgements of things he's been criticized on or wink-wink-nudge-nudges of community in-jokes that have no business in the actual text (see: over-use of ship names in canon). Especially since Rick tends to be about 5 years behind on the fandom uptake. It's just so disappointing to see.

#pjo #riordanverse #tsats crit #pjo tv crit #rr crit #< OH BOY A TRIPLE #MCGA's reference to Jason's concussions in the chapter titles is on thin ice but can stay for now #callbacks can work! in-jokes and references can work! see: Percy's dam joke in Son of Neptune #or Percy in the musical making the joke about his singing causing an avalanche as a reference to TLO #or any other number of references in the musical #but you need to know when they belong and when they ABSOLUTELY DO NOT #and when it's a fun nod and when it just feels like you're copying your own homework #a great example actually - i was recently reading an *excellent* fic by @vivitalks #and in it Jason uses the phrase ''you knock me out'' as a fun nod to Jason's ''you're a knock-out'' in TLH #that's a good little reference! that's how you do it! #a character who has already used one phrase uses a similar phrase. because theyre the type of person to say that phrase. #that's already been established. and it highlights something about their character that they return to that phrase #in that fic it highlights that Jason is a total dork especially when it comes to romance #Percy's ''dam'' joke reference in SoN works because it's only used once very briefly and it's very quickly brushed by #and it's literally Percy making a reference to his own past and acknowledging that he's doing that. it's his own in-joke! that's reasonable #it's not reasonable to expect FOUR DIFFERENT PEOPLE to have the EXACT SAME REACTION to FALLING INTO SUPERHELL #especially when they're established to all be EXTREMELY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS with DIFFERENT DYNAMICS #long post //

[xx-ames-xx]

i said this in tags but im gonna make it it's own post.

pj/otv was not marketed as a kids show. it was marketed as a book accurate adaptation of the series. the people who care about that are largely teens to adults. most people who were around for the original series, fandom, and movie release who would want that the most are fans are well into their 20s at this point. rick knows this thats why he joked about it.

we've seen how kids media is marketed especially by disney and it's not as "accurate adaptations for long time fans" and certainly not as the gritty fantasy epic that the show and the trailers were attempting. it's as fun fantasy adventures with funny one liners and goofy characters in a grand adventure.

"it's a kids show" is a wildly disingenuous attempt to dodge criticism and media analysis when 1. childrens media is not exempt from analysis and 2. it's marketing (both official promo material and metatext from rick) was clearly not advertising just 'a childrens show'

#rr crit #pjotv crit #fyi im saying this as someone who loves kids movies #who has worked on childrens books #and who is currently writign a pitch for early readers

[radiance1]

Danny and Jason meeting somewhere, somehow and somewhen.

They both sense each other and look around to find the object of their focus.

When Jason sees Danny, he feels an odd sense of comradery between them. Which puts Jason off instantly. But also an underlying respect? It’s ignorable but he’s still like. Woah why the fuck do I respect this random ass kid-

Danny is just, also senses comradery between them. Is very curious as to why, seeing as this guy isn’t a ghost(but he doesn’t really feel that with ghosts either tbh) and he’s also a total stranger. Then is like, woah this guy reeks of some weird not-but also not not-ectoplasm.

So they both just stand there. Noting moving and just staring at each other.

Then something breaks them out of it.

First thing Danny does? He bolts, cause he is NOT dealing with whatever the fuck Jason is.

First thing Jason does? Grabs a fucking gun and turns towards the noise, finding it to be nothing. Turns around, and the kid isn’t there anymore.

So now he has to go looking for this kid(that he’s pretty sure is some kind of spawn from the lazarus pit)

Cue Danny just avoiding Jason and Jason doing his damn hardest to find him. With the batfam somehow getting roped into it after Danny does something as phantom.

Which somehow. One way or another. Leads to them thinking that Phantom is the living(well not really living) breathing(not really that either) conscious  of the Lazarus pit taken form in the shape of a child. 

With the League of Assassins also getting roped into this because they heard about Phantom and also coming to the same conclusion.

So now it’s turned into a fucking custody battle between Ra’s and Batman in hopes of not letting the other get phantom.

#dc x dp #I dunno how it evolved into this #I swear #Also Ra's treating Danny like a stray cat #Maybe tries to entices him with Lazarus water #and it's actually working- #so Batman doubles down on enticing Danny with human food #The idea was provided by RR as a joke #didn't expect to be taken seriously by Bruce #and it's working-

[canary3d-obsessed]

Episode 41

#i never get tired of watching jgy on the stairs #i'm nearly done working on the rr for this episode #but SO MUCH happens in this episode you guys #i feel like i've been giffing forever #anyway #there will be new posts eventually #canary3d-original #restless rewatch extras #jin guangyao #jinlintai #rolling rolling rolling

[s0fti3w1tch]

Some things I've drawn for the Sep!AU discord over the past 3 weeks that I haven't post yet:

Most recently: @red-rover-au's Leo (Red) and my TD Leo (Trainee) except not in ninja gear (cuz god dammit they need to wear casual clothes sometimes)

Red will make fun of Trainee for looking like an early 2000s [redacted coorperate mouse] channel protagonist. (Trainee looks fine, Red's just an asshole lol)

The Karaoke Trio from a couple weeks back

@daedelweiss's Life Mission AU Leo + @trubblegumm's Bloodbath AU Leo + my Tentative Devotee Leo have karaoke nights. It's just a fact ♥︎

Shells

@dianagj-art's SLAU Leo (One)

Some misc doodles :> (first 1 is w/ LM Leo, the other two are with Red)

I think I've already posted most of the others?

#td!au crossover #rottmnt au crossover #td!au leonardo #rr!au leonardo #lm!au leonardo #bb!au leonardo #slau leonardo #i wanna tag tn!leo but i aleeady posted those- #i will draw more tn and td crossover stuff after the mini comic bc right now #work had ended me- #anyway! #my art #buwan's art #rottmnt au fanart

[dapiando]

what I want to know is, now that the villain can create a portal into camp whenever, are we planning on just skipping books 2 and 4 entirely, Richard?

Ik it's an easy thing to forget (esp if you haven't read the books in a while, cause why would you? you're just writing a whole show based on them who cares abt knowing what happens), but the entire plot of those books is finding a way into camp. They poison the tree to weaken the barrier and they use the labyrinth door to get in regardless of the barrier, so ??

#but who cares you know? getting cash from disney to write a fanfic of your own work is a damn good deal. I'm not gonna argue. idc #pjo #pjo show crit #rr crit #why can the sword create a portal? I can't get over how stupid that is. I'm like in shock #it's so dumb #also ik the plan in som is actually to revive thalia but thay was plan b. killing the demigods inside the camp was plan a

[heteromerous-rhyming]

just speculation, and after this i swear i'm going to write what i did appreciate in the show, but.

to me it kinda feels like riordan cast these three kids and went, these three children, they are my trio. and he should have! they're amazing - they're cast Very Well.

but then it feels like riordan assumed that because they already embodies the characters to him, that he didn't need to do characterbuilding in the actual fucking script. i get the feeling that the writers and showrunners are constantly both overestimating and underestimating walker leah and aryan. the scene with thalia? very much felt exposition dump. leah did what she could with she was a hero (and she kills her emotional moments, the parts that show annabeth's softness), but the themes came before the characters here and that for me feels a little unexcusable. annabeth is smart, we all know that, so riordan constantly forgets to show us that annabeth is smart. percy explains to annabeth how the lotus is in the air not the food. like HOW IS IT PERCY THAT FIGURES IT OUT BEFORE ANNABETH?

i think maybe grover/aryan got the best treatment out of them because of his scene with ares and the scene with the animals on the street, but even then the "betrayal" at the beginning felt slightly off. because percy never fully finished reacting to it (or if he did i don't remember which itself is not great)

which gets to another part of the writing / directing that's really getting to me. which is the relationships between characters, and how that's undermined by how short the scenes at the beginning of the show are. because more than half of the dialogue in the first two episodes ends up as (slightly unnatural or at least not in character exposition) and because the scenes (that is, however long a section before they cut to black and setting changes) are all wildly short (at least to me) there's no time for the characters to breathe. there are hardly any beats or pauses or just moments of breathing in a character's emotion or reaction.

going back to thalia's explanation, the scene ends after the exposition. going back further to luke showing percy around? all exposition. the subtle character moments are only in the scenes without dialogue and for a brief second at luke's introduction. there's no long scenes (from what i experienced) in the downtime, in the relatively quieter moments. only long scene i can think of was the fight with the minotaur.

even later, the scenes that are emotional and long? sally and poseidon. they don't allow grover's self-recrimination to breathe. they don't allow the panic after almost getting pulled into the Pit to breathe. the scene cuts, the emotion is squashed, and the next scene is more action, more traveling, more gods.

i think that this is partly why clarisse made such a big impression on me, because by design she can't be a part of the exposition. she's actively antagonistic towards percy, half of her scenes are some sort of action, and so the little characterization that we get of her (this time little is justified bc she's a side character) works really really effectively. you clock her character, her motivations immediately.

the scenes are getting longer. i think that this specific critique is one that will get fixed as the writers get used to the visual medium. but the rest? i really really hope that the writers realize that the characters just. need more space. i hope they trust their actors to play out these emotional scenes and i hope they give them more emotional scenes, more banter, more silly moments.

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo show crit #please #you cast so amazingly #so why ... why don't you give them more to work with #rr crit #.

[total-drama-brainrot]

i love how basically every future! au i've seen has noah divorced from emma.

it's just so funny that, instead of having the two break up amicably after dating for a while and realising they're just not compatible/meant to be, most creators go out of their way to make noah this sad divorced man who fumbled his successful lawyer wife and ended up with the short end of the stick. yes! make this man pathetic and depressed! he's the saddest wet cat in existence!

#not aimed at anyone btw i've just noticed this trend in the future aus i've read. not a complaint either. keep up the good work! 👍 #anyway i think nemma would both realise they're incompatible after the honeymoon stage wears off #becuase emma's got impossibly high standards and control issues and relationship trauma that noah wouldn't know how to help with #and noah's... noah. not exactly prime husband material for someone with standards/expectations of any kind. #plus she'd probably get bored of his lazy ass once he gets too comfortable with being a trophy house-husband #they break up under a mutual agreement and emma goes to therapy for her attachment issues 🥰 #(and then meets courtney in their shared practice and they become a power couple who help each other heal) #(also nowen husbands real) #total drama #td noah #rr emma #nemma #thoughtless posting

[baambastic]

Behold, a rudimentary in-progress outline for my most complicated WIP yet (click for readable quality). The fic's called "Red Robin: Scales of Justice" and is both a fully canon-compliant continuation of the Red Robin comic from the 2000s, and an AU where Tim discovers that his patrilineal part of the family are all drakes that were cursed into human form by a wizard many centuries ago. Rather than a standard chapter-by-chapter plan, I've structured this fic around "volumes," much like volumes of a comic book, with each one consisting of a few chapters. The current volume count is 27, but there will definitely be more (though I doubt more than 35 total). The drake concept comes from @polarspaz, though the story is my own (insofar as is possible with a canon-compliant continuation of a comic).

#the actual Scrivener doc goes into way more detail than this outline does #this is so goddamn complicated #i mean. I'm trying to tackle *everything* left unresolved by Red Robin *and* incorporate and tell stories about a huge fundamental change #to Tim's status quo. #and I'm dealing with stuff from RR that was made into a cliffhanger by other comics (eg. Pru)! #but I'm loving it so far. It's a real challenge. #Surfing the Darker Web is currently planned to be the finale #hopefully that doesn’t have to change. #baambastic works #my works #my stuff #ficblr #fanfiction #fanfic #tim drake #dc red robin #red robin #red robin 2009 #batman #dc #dc comics #🐍

[static-symphony-fm]

ship of the dead spoilers

i don't ship fierrochase. like at all. no hate to people who do but in canon and most fanon alex acts like a total bitch to magnus, toying with his feelings, kissing him without consent twice and then not actually getting into a relationship with him after

("but- but alex wasn't ready for a relationship! :(" then she shouldn't have kissed him?)

alex also repeatedly cuts magnus's hair without consent. magnus feels like it's "impossible to tell him no". doesn't sound like a very healthy dynamic to me.

magnus doesn't really show any attraction to alex besides physical. he's intimidated by her. alex thinks she's better/smarter than magnus and doesn't treat him well. they shoudn't have gotten together imo.

feel free to disagree as long as you're respectful

#d.j. robin's corner! 💐🎧🎙📻 #magnus chase #magnus chase and the gods of asgard #alex fierro #anti fierrochase #magnus deserves someone that actually likes him #and shows him affection instead of being a bitch #rr crit #anti alex fierro #“but alex shows love by being mean!” #what #that's not how it works #that's not healthy #fierrochase #mcga

[fromtheseventhhell]

"The best calumnies are spiced with truth," suggested Qavo, "but the girl's true sin cannot be denied. This arrogant child has taken it upon herself to smash the slave trade, but that traffic was never confined to Slaver's Bay. It was part of the sea of trade that spanned the world, and the dragon queen has clouded the water. Behind the Black Wall, lords of ancient blood sleep poorly, listening as their kitchen slaves sharpen their long knives. Slaves grow our food, clean our streets, teach our young. They guard our walls, row our galleys, fight our battles. And now when they look east, they see this young queen shining from afar, this breaker of chains. The Old Blood cannot suffer that. Poor men hate her too. Even the vilest beggar stands higher than a slave. This dragon queen would rob him of that consolation." (Tyrion VI, ADWD) Should you reach your queen, give her a message from the slaves of Old Volantis." She touched the faded scar upon her wrinkled cheek, where her tears had been cut away. "Tell her we are waiting. Tell her to come soon." (Tyrion VII, ADWD)

I appreciate how George explicitly makes the point that slavery isn't just about the economic aspect and that it is, at its root, built on subjugation. Even the people who don't directly benefit from it will fight to keep the system in place just so they have someone beneath them. That's why all the criticisms of Dany not replacing the economy before abolishing slavery fall flat, because that wouldn't have worked either. The slavers would've fought to enforce slavery regardless because they enjoyed the power and privilege it granted them. We also get insight onto the slaves thoughts on Dany's revolution, which makes it feel like this perspective is only coming from the consideration of the slavers and not the people actually being subjugated. The slaves want to be free, they want Dany to free them, and that shouldn't have to wait until the people who think of them as property decide it's acceptable.

#daenerys targaryen #pro daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #george rr martin #I just know some of y'all were in history class playing devil's advocate when the teacher was covering slave rebellions #there's no other explanation for why people in this fandom advocate so hard for the slavers and ignore the slaves #slavers: uwu I'm nervous being around my slaves who I think of property cause this new Queen is giving them ideas #and those are the people fandom is choosing to defend 🙄 #never mind that she's actually working to rebuild the economy and instead of working with her the slavers are digging their heels in and #fighting to reinstate slavery...but these are the people y'all want Dany to compromise with (knowing you would call her a slaver if she did #/dragons don't plant trees so Dany doesn't know how to rebuild/ and she's literally replanting the trees that the /slavers/ burned sdksdkds

[simplepotatofarmer]

rr!niki, holding rr!dream in his rabbit form: this is the best day of my life

rr!phil: that's literally a criminal you're holding

rr!niki: look at his little nose!!!

#rr!dream NEVER bites niki because of phil. #he keeps warning niki that dream bites and dream is like 'fuck you old man' out of spite #amazing work team #rabbit run au #loyal talks about stuff and things

[mynameismad]

2022 has been a whirlwind, wherein I FINALLY FINISHED most of the big outstanding projects that I’ve been slogging through for the past few years. RR Chapter 1 finally got kickstarted and is in production, and the nearly 300 pg graphic novel I signed on to in 2018 is DONE (sans post-pro edits, cover, etc.) 

As a pallet cleanser, and to finish out the year on an easy, fun note: I’ve thumbnailed a short 24 page comic about some wizards going to a barn party, based on an idea I had about 7 years ago. Here’s some pencils for a double page spread! 

#webcomics #wizards #mynameismad #madrupert #looking forward to 2023 and armed with a much better understanding of my maximum daily work output #i'd like to focus on sakana v4 and rr chapter 2 this year #no hard dates yet just throwing that out into the world #thanks for sticking with me and for all your patience over the years

[nano30cm]

im sure they all get along swimmingly

#reprise reprise #total drama fanart #td alejandro #td heather #td owen #im going to definitely redo the older body sheets ive done because doing all of these has REALLY loosened me up #sorry to heather for not detailing her legs i am. so tired. #its fine girl we both know you have knees #tragically i am in love with heather so i spent so long staring at her face i forgot abt the rest of her #theres so many errors here to make up with the confident lines lmao #like owen should be taller but i scaled him down wrong #i had a lot of fun drawing owen hes such a big sweetie and i think hed go full mountain man #it used to be convenient bc of izzys lab being out in the sticks away form light pollution but. well. #i guess youll find out in this comic im working on #alejandro waxes his entire body unfortunately. more power to him but. #yall heather looks so good. do you see her? are you looking at her? #theres so many things i like and also dont like abt this BUT its just a general body/height ref sheet for the futura #also i am OFFICIALLY out of ideas for TD ref sheets so request mode is on #i have yet to watch RR or the reboot tho