spiritually screaming while chasing this fic through the word document like "GET IN THE BOX GET IN THE BOX GET IN THE BOX" rn.
"why do I do writing so much if I also hate it so much," I say, at every time I get to this point in the story (66% in).
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you know what fucks me up. you know what fucks me up every time. that its the stormlight archive. not the stormlight archives. archive, singular. i know its bc the archive in question is singular. doesn't matter. is still fucks me up. it should be stormlight archives. every time i say the series name, the s tries to sneak out my mouth. every time i type it, the s key beckons my finger. the rare times im using paper, the pen calls to write just one more letter. fucks me up fr
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today is simon's birthday and also the first day of oc_tober, in which the first prompt is favorite oc. So I get to draw both simon and morgan todayyyyy
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where did the whole bylers are misogynistic and ableist come from??
like i saw it used as a ‘milkvans and bylers are just as toxic as each other’ on tiktok
and like i’ve only every seen milkvans be homophobic, misogynistic and ableist towards bylers and to el, will and max as characters
maybe i missed a point in time were that was everywhere in the byler community, but it just seems like a (homophobic) stereotype that because we ship a queer ship we’re misogynistic towards el, and because quite a few of bylers (and it’s also the ga and some other ppl in the fandom) agree that el isn’t/wasn’t ready for a relationship yet because of her lack of understanding of the world
like it just seems like ppl wanting to downplay the homophobia in the stranger things community and especially in the milkvan community by bringing up something that is very rare to see in the byler community
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I understand that the act of creating a new self is toil and requires allowing the parts of you that are dying to rot so that they can nourish the earth where you grow but that takes TIME
part of me wants to burn the whole tree to the ground and just sweep it away and start again, but i put energy into this tree goddamnit. it has borne fruit - not the sweetest or largest of fruits, but fruit nonetheless. it has sheltered me. i have watered it and tried to provide it with fertile soil, it was provided with plenty of staves as a sapling - yet it does not branch the way i wish it to
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even if the tree had blight, or was swamped with ivy, or an invasive species was nesting in it, that would not justify the burning of a tree that you've been working on for over a decade.
perhaps the tree was given too strong a stave for the windy weather it would experience? perhaps now it still requires guidance, structure to cling onto, even if it no longer needs it just to stay upright.
You might prune a tree but you aren't going to just burn the whole fucking thing down and start over just because the branches aren't falling where you'd hoped, or because it broke a branch from producing too much fruit
the trunk is strong. The branches we can work with. we'll be ok.
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OKAY season 3 thoughts time. not as long but also s3 was like half the size:
worst thing first: the jay/naya/cole love triangle is so ...... bland. its got nothing going for it. like at this point in the show jay/naya honestly speaking doesn't really have a lot going for it. like we dont ever see them hang out or do fun stuff together as a couple or have any cute bonding scenes outside of jay being like "wowww nya hot" or anything. we dont have any real reason to root for them, so why they decided to introduce a love triangle is beyond me. like i guess its because they haven't done anything interesting with jay/naya and a love triangle is the easiest and blandest option possible, but like. come on. cole & naya barely interact in the season outside of cole fighting with jay and i'm really confused as to why we're supposed to think cole has any romantic interest in naya because they... have even less going for them than jay/naya. like man if we're gonna have a love triangle anyways i'd like to have any reason to root for at least one side. please. im not asking for much. make your characters hang out a bit and have some common interests and enjoy spending time together before you start telling me they're in love.
number two: im kind of obsessed with how garmadon's moral standards consistently disappear when it comes to lloyd. like pre this season he takes his vow of non violence or whatever but after lloyd gets captured it just. goes completely out the window. moral compass: son
number three: circling back to ninjago's inability to write a compelling romance i dont inherently mind zane/pixel (and its certainly got better writing than the.... uh . competition, if you want to even bother calling it that) but i do wish the writers would start out these romantic relationships with a much more solid platonic base. like its not the end of the world but i do wish it was more compelling.
number four: ZANE GIRLBOSSING IT THIS SEASON FINALE!!!!!!!!!!! this is one of the few things i did remember from like 8 years ago and for good reason its because hes literally perfect in every single way
number five: im nitpicking here but i think lloyd should get to swear. i think he's earned it
number six: this is more of a general observation than anything else but one thing i think is really . weird. about ninjago's writing is that it seems that every season they give the ninja new cool epic powers and then by the next one they get taken away. and like i understand the reasoning for this - its like when shounen writers keep giving their protagonist increasingly world-shattering powers and the power levels just keep getting more and more ridiculous, because if your original villain is "conquering the whole world and turning everybody evil" then theres only so much you can amp that up as the seasons go on without tacking on too many powers that nobody should be able to stand up to the hero anymore - but also its just. its just weird because i dont think ive ever seen anything like this.
okay i think thats abouttt it im, as always, very excited to get to some of the things i distantly recall (namely in particular the giant green eyeball thing and possibly a tournament / survival island arc that i think was a thing (???)) i know lots is in store and all i really want rn is character interactions. thats my dream i will honestly forgive so much as long as im having fun with the characters and dynamics in a series
whuff…. yeah. as much as thematically i love pixal and theoretically jaya could be extremely interesting. they do NONE of the work to make them so. zane <3 <3 baby’s first traumatic character death. he is. he really is. he deserves it all and so much more. whoever’s censoring lloyd must get paid well bc that kid grew up in eternal middle school. kid knows more swear words than the rest of these socially isolated dorks let him use them
i’ve never really thought about that but,,,, holy shit yeah???? i’m nowhere near an active dragon ball fan but it IS baffling that instead of the usual shonen style they-just-keep-getting-new-powers and we stop using them bc a) we forgot they existed (which does happen a bit here, but less commonly) or b) they’re just obsolete, in ninjago they EXPLICITLY get said new powers taken away. multiple times. is it a medium limitation?? is it just a quirk of the writers??? i’m gonna be thinking about this all night
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