#and neither story is bad!!!

[star-ocean-peahen]

i couldnt sleep last night because i was passionately ranting to myself about how the changes in the themes, messages, and general structure of the Disney Princess movies reflect the changes in generational perspectives and the socioeconomic factors of our society 🤦‍♀️

#its not JUST about feminism okay #its about how the makers and marketers and audience of the classic and renaissance movies were willing to believe that things would be okay #so all you had to do was wait and try to do good where you are #so we got stories where the protagonists didnt necessarily set out to save themselves or others #but modern makers and marketers and audiences cant believe that things are going to be okay if we dont do anything about it #so we get stories about Being Right and The Real Solution Was You #and neither story is bad!!! #we need both kinds of stories!!! #just like we need princesses who got married and princesses who didnt and princesses who saved themselves and princesses who didnt #i just. ksjdfnhjkahfiauwesjcnfwe. #maybe this is a ''ive connected the dots''you didnt connect shit''ive connected them'' moment but. it makes sense to me. #disney

[future-crab]

It's been said before, it will be said again, but it's still worth saying: the fact that art centering on straight romance is allowed to just be bad, but art with queer romance in it always has to be indicative of A Serious Problem With the Way We Tell Queer Stories makes being a queer person making queer art deeply stressful

#just saw smthing about red white and royal blue #and like i never watched/read that one so maybe everything ppl say about it is true #and i never watched heartbreaker or love simon so maybe those ones are also genuinely a sign of a serious problem #but idk. the fact that this happens every damn time makes me think that maybe queer stories are being held to different standards #and it's exhausting writing stuff while having a chorus of voices in the back of my head saying i'm misrepresenting my own identities and #making the whole community look bad by writing mediorcre romance #and knowing that even though i'm neither straight nor a girl there WILL be ppl calling me a straight girl fetishizing queer relationships #lgbt #queer community #writer stuff #idk what else to tag this #asexual #bisexual #nonbinary #venttag

[see-arcane]

Dracula: Go on, my child of the night, break the glass and send them running into frenzy, that I may take what is mine!

Berserker the Wolf, hating this: Shit shit shit, Mr. Bilder’s going to be so disappointed in me, shit 

Lucy, seeing a giant wolf smash in her window: Oh, God! A wolf! My dead mother! My drugged staff! I’m going to die! D:>

Berserker, a Good Boy Doing This Against His Will: I’M SORRY I’M SORRY I ALSO DON’T WANT TO BE DOING THIS D:>

#Mr. Thomas Bilder will NOT have 'Big Bad Wolf' slander in this story #and apparently neither will Stoker as he really is going out of his way to show the Count is mind-controlling an animal against their will #Berserker/Bersicker is a GOOD BOY #he was coerced into Bad Boy behavior and did not enjoy one minute of it #dracula #lucy westenra #berserker the wolf #bersicker the wolf #dracula daily

[laufire]

jason's lazarus pit was golden jason's lazarus pit was golden jasonslazaruspitwasgolden jason's lazarus pit was golden JASON'S LAZARUS PIT WAS GOLDEN

AND PIT MADNESS IS *NOTHING*

#can't you read the TWO universally accepted good jason stories #(utrh and lost days) #they're good jason's there. the pit? gold. the madness? NOT FUCKING REAL #your story? WORSE FOR NOT KNOWING THIS #talking to the void #my thoughts #fandom nonsense #dc comics #jason todd #before someone comes at me about how people can write what they want and canon isn't sacred and blah blah #yeah i know. you'll notice I'm ranting about this in my personal blog! instead of leaving it in someone's inbox! #in my personal blog i can say express my own opinions! #and my own opinion is that the pit madness trope SUCKS and if you use it your jason writing is BAD #and also at this point I've developed a violent pavlovian response to the word ''green'' but that's neither here nor there #bitter lau tag #dc #dc thoughts

[starspoiler]

as a reformed cinniter the thing that really gets me about people refusing to see the nuance in cdream (and cdiscduo) is that cdream not being fundamentally evil is literally the point of the story. the finale did an excellent job of forcing ctommy and by extension the audience who was actually paying attention to reconsider their opinions on cdream, and the ultimate takeaway from the disc arc is a really relevant commentary on refusing to see people who have hurt you as people with feelings and complicated perspectives of their own, and that choosing to respond by escalating and trying to hurt them worse than they hurt you is a completely ineffective way of solving problems. and in ignoring this you end up doing exactly the thing the story is critiquing!!

#ctommy literally chooses to nuke the entire server before he considers that cdream might have a good reason for his actions #which is also the story of literally every controversy in this community #and to be so clear both cdream and ctommy did bad things to eachother #neither of them are completely innocent #but tommy’s perspective is categorically that he should be able to do whatever he wants forever #and it’s really easy to think this is reasonable until you start to consider the effects of his actions on anyone else in the story #thinks about ctommy convincing csnf that cdream doesn’t care about them. cries throws up ect

[sketching-shark]

love the meme you did for best divorcees niuhou 😭 if its not too much against the aroace king agenda, would you do zhuhou for the opinion bingo too?

ARG so sorry it's taken me awhile to get to this ask anon, though in all fairness this was the second zhuhou ask that I got for the opinion bingo (honestly hoping that means interest in this ship is growing lol). As is though answer still stays the same. While aroace king SWK reigns supreme in my heart, I've come to think of zhuhou as actually a pretty great and dare I say very unique ship when allowed to go full sillay (i.e. canon-compliant) with how astonishingly violent & fucked up but getting better together and even eventually becoming protectors for those who need it Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie are <3

(with fully apologies for the yaoiful zhuhou based on @bonkalore art and lgbt elders zhuhou based on art from blizzard entertainment)

#ask answered #sun wukong #monkey king #zhu baie #zhu wuneng #jttw #xiyouji #journey to the west #zhuhou #anyway #moral of the story is that for zhuhou to reach its full potential #you got to let them BOTH be ultraviolent & fucked up but getting better #neither one is the 'bad boy' #they both start off as the 'worst man' <3

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

Something rubbed against his leg beneath the table. Jon saw red eyes staring up at him. “Hungry again?” he asked. There was still half a honeyed chicken in the center of the table. Jon reached out to tear off a leg, then had a better idea. He knifed the bird whole and let the carcass slide to the floor between his legs. Ghost ripped into it in savage silence. His brothers and sisters had not been permitted to bring their wolves to the banquet, but there were more curs than Jon could count at this end of the hall, and no one had said a word about his pup. He told himself he was fortunate in that too. His eyes stung. Jon rubbed at them savagely, cursing the smoke. He swallowed another gulp of wine and watched his direwolf devour the chicken. Dogs moved between the tables, trailing after the serving girls. One of them, a black mongrel bitch with long yellow eyes, caught a scent of the chicken. She stopped and edged under the bench to get a share. Jon watched the confrontation. The bitch growled low in her throat and moved closer. Ghost looked up, silent, and fixed the dog with those hot red eyes. The bitch snapped an angry challenge. She was three times the size of the direwolf pup. Ghost did not move. He stood over his prize and opened his mouth, baring his fangs. The bitch tensed, barked again, then thought better of this fight. She turned and slunk away, with one last defiant snap to save her pride. Ghost went back to his meal. Jon grinned and reached under the table to ruffle the shaggy white fur. The direwolf looked up at him, nipped gently at his hand, then went back to eating.

Jon I, AGOT

It's interesting that GRRM would dedicate several paragraphs to a seemingly unimportant exchange between a boy, his wolf, and an unfriendly third party. But there's just something about this passage that has continued to nag at me for years since I first read it because, considering how heavy handed GRRM was with the foreshadowing in AGOT, this feels important.

Jon is sitting at table full of squires - aka would be knights. We don't really know who they are or what families they belong to, but it's safe to assume that they come from a certain level of privilege; this is considering the fact that it cannot be financially easy to be a squire. And these boys already have a slew of tales detailing all their previous knightly exploits regarding "battle and bedding and the hunt" which suggests that they have some capital. So you have boys who will soon be men. And they will, presumably, become men of some power.

These lads eat their fill of the chicken until only half remains, which Jon then gives to Ghost. The direwolf's name is not so important here but what he represents is. Throughout the series, we're told that Ghost is reminiscent of the weirwood trees (because of his red eyes and white fur). He's stated to be of and from the Old Gods and since he's a personification of the weirwoods, he might as well be one of them. It's almost as if Jon is presenting whatever is left on the table to the Old Gods (Ghost). He lets them devour his offerings while he silently watches. And the motif of watching is so interesting here because it's kind of like Jon takes on a stewardship role - to watch over land/people/etc. He oversees Ghost eating the chicken, so he's overseeing whatever has been given to the Old Gods. This is not new imagery to his arc. As a brother of the Night's Watch and eventually its leader, we have several instances where he leads people to adopting the Old Gods in some fashion. In ADWD, several recruits swear their vows to the Old Gods while he watches on as their Lord Commander. The Old Gods are also primarily of the North and we're told that Jon has more of the north in him than his brothers; interesting that this also includes Bran. So perhaps whatever is being offered to the Old Gods relates to the North.

We must also note that Jon initially thinks to give only a small portion, a leg, before pivoting and providing the entire thing. It feels to me a bit like the process of carving up a kingdom or something similar. The lords (represented by the squires) take what they want and leave aside what they don't; or perhaps they have eaten to their fill and can take no more. Then when his time comes, Jon first considers a small piece of land/group of people before eventually absorbing all of whatever is left behind. The concept of carving up a kingdom rings harder considering that we have several callbacks to the ideals of kingship in this chapter. Robert, Jaime, Tyrion, and even Mance though we don't know it yet, all play into this. And then there's the aspect of Jon letting the chicken slip between his legs which evokes birth/fatherhood, a very curious choice when GRRM could've just had Jon place the chicken on the floor. So land/people are carved up and Jon then uses whatever is left to birth his own type of kingdom. And this kingdom is one for the Old Gods.

This also touches on something that has been quite prevalent throughout Jon's arc. It's the concept of accepting the "others" or "those left over" who live apart from the accepted social norms. Arya (a tomboy), Sam (a gender non-confirming boy), the Night's Watch (criminals, extra sons, and men who have no future left or place to go), and even the wildlings are all examples of this. And Jon takes on a leadership/paternal role to every single one of them. He looks after them as a leader would/should. Sometimes, in the case of Arya and the wildlings, he's equated to a king. He's a steward/shepherd/king. There's messianic undertones to this:

Come unto me, all you who are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:28-30).

If you're familiar with Judeo-Christian tradition, you'll know that Jesus is often personified as one who spent the majority his time among the outcasts. The idea is that he came to save them too and that anew kingdom (or new earth depending on your translation) would spring up after the end of the world where he would forever rule as king; which presents the idea of a final king after the earthly ones are done away with. Now GRRM isn't so heavy handed with Christian allusions as other authors out there, but he does have a Catholic background and Jon is so overtly a Jesus figure. And in Revelation, Jesus is king and god at the very end....

One last thing: the mention of the mongrel who challenges Jon has always been rather interesting but confusing to me. A mongrel doesn't really relate to one specific type of dog. But it's interesting that Jon notes several roaming about where he is. They follow the serving girls who carry the food to be offered. Mongrels are used to describe antagonist/villainous groups in ASOIAF. Sometimes, they're used to describe slavers in Essos. But what's interesting is that most of the time, they're used to describe Euron's Ironborn especially in Victorian's POV. So I don't think the mongrel who challenges Ghost is a supernatural threat of death (i.e., the Others) but rather a human one. They represent those who are called to the scene once the lords have finished playing their games. It almost feels like a feast for (carrion) crows....

But it doesn't really matter because this mongrel isn't much of a challenge for Ghost. Though the mongrel is much larger, the direwolf is able to fend her off very effortlessly. Given that "mongrel" is used to describe Ironborn raiders, could this exchange between Ghost and the mongrel point to reavers or sea raiders who rise and fail challenge Jon kingdom? There is a historical King Jon Stark who did this....

When sea raiders landed in the east, Jon drove them out and built a castle, the Wolf's Den, at the mouth of the White Knife, so as to be able to defend the mouth of the river.[1][2] His son, Rickard, followed him on the throne and annexed the Neck to the north.

ref.

So this might shed some light not only on Jon's already published arc, but also on what we can expect in the future. We have some foreshadowing through Jon's ADWD dream that he will not only rise with the dawn (thereby live through the Long Night), but will be in a position to lead people (wildings in that chapter) to a new peace after a hard fought war. Also remember that the wildlings, rather enthusiastically, swear oaths to him as if swearing oaths to their king. In this instance, the supernatural (a dream of the war for the dawn) is followed by the natural/human. So perhaps this particular passage (and Jon's dream) can be used to predict that Jon comes out on top, and quite effortlessly too, as a leader. And he becomes a leader who rules by association with the Old Gods; or rules a kingdom for them.

To end, I think it's of note that this passage immediately precedes Jon's conversation with Benjen where he voices his desire to go out on his own - the hero's call to action. This is the adventure that's going to kickstart his growth as a man, warrior and most importantly, a leader. So it looks like before we even began, GRRM telegraphed how it would all end in just three short paragraphs.

#jon snow #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #ghost the direwolf #some random extra thoughts: #the aspect of fatherhood is closely tied to kingship as kings are often regarded to be the fathers of their nations #so we might see a parallel where jon-like dany-doesn't have children of his own physical body #but rather rules a kingdom as its symbolic father #think of how odin-a mythical parallel for jon-is called the all father because he is father to all men/lands #also it's interesting to me how kingship is a theme but it's almost like the actual theme is that of kings coming of going #but jon remaining and prevailing above all #we have robert who is a disappointing/bad king and his rule doesn't last very long and neither will his dynasty #jaime looks like a king and even if grrm didn't go through with his original ideas he was never meant to rule for long #in the new story jaime is symbolic of rhaegar a would be king whose time comes and goes leaving jon to pick up the pieces #then tyrion who stands “as tall as a king” but not quite! he still is not as tall as jon and tyrion also says in a later chapter #that soon he'll be even shorter than ghost + tyrion wasn't hand for long #mance who is hidden also has his time as king but it's very short lived and jon later absorbs his kingdom to make his own #so we have the wolf devouring the “left behinds” in a way but the interesting thing is this happens in reverse doesn't it #might Jon's new kingdom not only be made of remnants of the nw and wildlings but also have those left behind from the rest of the 7k? #it's possible since jojen tells us that once night comes all cloaks become black 🙂 #so yeah this is all just more jon endgame king of winter/a new north propaganda lmaoooo

[raiiny-bay]

monster boyz thoughts...

#ok so. basically i woke up thinking about teeth & how he would show his love for red #bc 1. he can't talk & so he can't outright say he loves him but also. #2. neither of them really understand love or that what they feel for each other is love yk #so i was thinking. teeth probably always leaves the actual act of killing their prey to red or #at the very least. makes sure red is watching when it dies bc he knows that's like... uh. he knows that's the ''important'' part to red #if that makes sense #also! i think the only reason teeth eats people is bc of red #if he hadn't met red i really don't think he would have survived all that long bc he's not particularly fast (bad leg) #& he's not particularly smart either. so he most likely would've gotten taken out by monster hunters if he was alone #though he is very strong so the hunters wouldn't have been left unscathed #& i think red wouldn't have survived all that long either bc he was never particularly careful about anything until he met teeth #he was doing increasingly risky & dangerous hunts bc he simply didn't care yk. but teeth gave him like. a reason to be careful & calculated #which just further proves they're bound by fate yk. #um. i also had some breakthroughs with teeth's origin story so. i maaaaayyyy work on those today. i might actually make red's finally #we'll see. i might end up drawing all day again. idk. n e way. #rainyrambles

[gaystonerdragon]

sometimes i feel like the people reading black butler forget that the whole premise of the narrative is a boy who saw his entire family and household massacred on his birthday is tricked into forming a revenge pact with a demon that was summoned by the cult that killed his brother after abusing the two preteen boys for weeks on end, to bring equal humiliation, pain, and suffering to everyone responsible for the aforementioned horrors committed against him. “its so dark” like yeah… what gave it away? “the subject matter is so heavy” again… what part of the narrative set up made you think it wouldn’t be? like you know how this is ending, right?

#like ive seen some pearl clutching at the noah’s arc circus stuff again #because of current events #and its like #yeah queens #shit is bad… its BEEN bad #like hello?? i know yana likes to distract us with curry buns and polo matches or what ever #but the backbone of this story has always been cultists and killers and psychopaths oh my #i for one am happy to be delving further into the filth #sorry some of ya’ll didnt get the memo that thats what Black Butler was always about #digging thru the shit to get to the worser shit #like i dont mean to be a bitch but some of the shit i read sounds like vitrue signaling like *well I WOULD NEVER* #like okay congrats i guess if you had better media literacy neither of us would be here right now #but since u are here can u like shush ant let me enjoy my depravity in peace? #oh my GOD rant #i have feelings on this maga and no one understands them #not even me #black butler #kuroshitsuji

[biracy]

I know this can be contentious (and even just mentioning this kind of analysis as a serious one makes a lot of people who don't understand what literary analysis is very angry) but I actually think it's pretty cool that people can draw both transfeminine and transmasculine reads of Jesse from hit TV show Jesse out of the text of the show. Something something shared experiences something something solidarity. You get the idea

#i've done the Analysis(tm) i'm smart i know how to read. i think a trans read goes 'in all directions' as they say #idk i Barely participate in any discussion abt the show on here bc i haven't finished it yet #but just like most instances of interpretive lgbt analysis i think neither is the more objectively 'correct read' #bc that's not really how literary analysis works oops #open mick night #breaking bad #jesse pinkman #i could also post at length abt how transgender reads of 'prestige television' or 'classic literature' #are disregarded and treated as like 'stupid online teenager fandom nonsense' #but like it's a genuine analytical lens that can be applied to characters and stories even if 'that's not what the author intended' #but i don't wanna talk abt that rn. i wanna talk abt achy breaky bad and i've expounded most of my funny thoughts #so i'm testing out smart ones #don't worry i think abt other characters TOO. i'll get to it i wanna space em out

[ganondoodle]

the way i think about my stories can be so annoying bc there will be a point when i reach a certain story beat after which i dont know how to continue, and the way i do find are usually ... not good .. or i imagine it is not so i think man i cant do that thats so dumb and annoying i gotta think of something better, but then i cant come up with anything better bc once i got a solution to soemthign i cant think of anything smarter- and then i get bored of it as a whole bc man, this really was stupid from the start wasnt it

(this is all some stupid rambling and does NOT represent anythign that will happen in destiny, i swear the actual story with a proper end makes much more sense)

listen to me rambling but this morning i thought about the essentialyl non-canon good "ending" of destiny, a kind of self indulgent dumb lil alternative where everyone lives blah blah, but then of course it cant just end there, bc the end goal of the both of them is to find out the gods plan and secrets and also kill the gods, as you do, then i got a certain point that i found cool (which initially came from the whole thoguht of what if zelda game but you could play demise and it took place after the alternative ending in which the goal is to get rid of the gods) where the fight one of the gods but are kinda losing and as the god is trying to devour demise, as gods do, he abandons his body and his spirit/core, who cant exist without his body so hes still connected through the spirits tail , and climbs through the gods interdimensional weird 'mouth' while its trying to rip him apart to reach the core of the god in a last attempt to take them down with him, while hylia is fighting to keep the god from severing the thin connection he still has to his body but fails just as he reaches the core so the god is killed but his core is immediatelly starting to dissolve and hylia manages to grab his core and put it back into his body and flee from whatever is happeing to that dead god back into hyrule

he survives but is incredibly weak as his spirit has lost half of itself (blade spirits are also forged throguh sacrificing part of their spirit/core permantently but this is besides the point, none of this makes sense anyway), something he obviously hates but cant do anything about really, once a part of their core is gone its gone (not like lost energy but gone gone) but the core is also slowly dissolving further which is a death sentence with no way to act against- then theres a whole quest to .. well, stop that, while hes falling back into self hatred and fear bc hes now so weak that hylia can break his bones without any effort if she were to treat him in any way similar to before and to a deity that all their life was never so fragile, one whos most defining feature IS his power and strength to keep going no matter what, thats gotta be pretty existentially dreadful (and also its a set back to know that they cant just go fight the gods together like that, theres still two more and he cant fight like that)

then i wondered ok what if then, even if the time doesnt quite line up but at this point the entire prophecy cant be done anymore either so everythings out of order, the cloud barrier weakens and zelda is abducted (not by ghirahim) and link goes and tries to find her, but since everythigns not as it should have been he meets hylia and demise (disguised tho) and they immediately know who he is and then go along and try to help link find his friend (hylia does it bc she got the idea to make him find the triforce and wish demises spirit to be restored, since only a mortal can do that and links the most likely candidate to be able to go through the trials of it since he was supposed to already, even if the circumstances are different- demise goes along with it bc hes still trying to deal with essentially slowly dying and not knowing what to do with himself since hes afraid to get into fights or similar, much to his disdain, so hes acting like a companion of sorts, a mentor figure in a way, not knowing what hylias plan is)

i found the idea kinda interesting to have them be like a lil group that goes on links adventured with him, but with strangely intricate knowledge of how the dungeons work, link still doing the heavy lifting but them being there like parents cheering on their kid in a competetion, all the while putting the whole puzzle and dungeon aspect in a way different light bc half of them were never completed (they wanted to escape the prophecy after all) so they all work completely differently, some bosses being maybe some of the gods creatures instead (like the skysw guardians)- the mid journey point being that they find zelda, and who kidnapped her, it being one of the shiekah having most closely worked with hylia before the whole -break the prophecy- thing started (idk if it would be impa .. idea is neat) and is hellbent on making the gods plan work out like it was supposed to, kinda like the inverse of the games plot, so they got ahold of zelda as part of making her into the new hylia (despite hylia being .. right there, but they dont believe it is her truly since the true tm hylia would never betray the gods- ALSO a paralel to how the downfall of demises world worked bc his mortals turned on him after he started destroying their version of the triforce in the belief destroying it would be the only way to save mortals from going to war agaisnt each other for it over and over, mortals believing that their true deity was gone and replaced by a demon despite demise being ..right there)

after link wins the fight and frees zelda from them they in a kind of last effort to do anything against their group they stab demise, normally that wouldnt do shit against him but in his already fading away situation it basically puts him from very slowly dying to actually dying, as a reaction to it hylia kills the mortal (maybe impa idk), which is the first time she does anything like that to a mortal but i like the idea of her being actually super ruthless when it comes to things she cares about

now with a much more dire time limit hylia sends demise back to essentialyl go hide in her temple and try to not die and to trust her having a plan to make this all still work out- he does and once he is away she reveals pretyt much the entire story around why and what is happenign to link and zelda, hylia herself cant go above the clouds as the barrier is still partially up and she cant do anything to reach the triforce either - so she sends link and zelda to go do that, and it works out in the end bc even knowing the truth know, demise was with them on half of their journey so they know and care, he WILL be mad about them wasting their wish on him (even if he is still happy to be alive- i imagined scene where hes watching himself fall apart and die, alone in hylias temple, having to come to terms with the fact that after everything they had went through hed still die alone- it made me cry while thinking about it, yes, yes you are allowed to laugh)

i didnt get that much further but his spirit was essentially reset to when he was in his prime back in the day through the triforces power- something he both likes and despises, it being the gods power of all things that lets him live again, but also lol to use it agaisnt them by giving another chance to the gods greatest enemy- the next plan is of course to kill the next one of the gods but much better prepared, as they cant just go and do the same thign again (neither wants that), one idea was that hylia goes on a secret quest to try and bring back courage (the third deity that demise killed when his world was still thriving) but it involves diving back into the realm of the gods so she doesnt tell him at first, i do think theyd go together in the end, not to fight but to release courage; the whole thing is also an elaborate revenge plot of hylia, how dare the gods do that to him!!

anyway thats most of what i got from that thinking session but its so frustrating bc none of this is even in the actual comic (since it ends in a way that leads into canon skysw, this is some brain fart nooo i want blorbo to live and succeed!!) and its also convoluted and kinda dumb, the idea to inverse the games plot in a way (instead of it being ghirahim trying to bring demise back its someones plan to make the gods prophecy happen no matter what) is neat but i cant have demise almost dying be the thing THREE TIMES, it kinda undercuts his character and is way too much centered around him, all three times also more or less involving it needing help from others to get him back, when his whole thing should be being unkillable bc he jsut keeps refusing to die, also hylia is, as of now in this spaghetti derailment of random thoughts, way too much of a side character, which i dont like, and it all would make people not like demise when im trying to do the exact opposite of that in the main actual comic

i know being super self indulgent and jsut doing what you want is good for the most part but theres a point where it becomes stale cringy fantasies about my blorbo tm and i wanna write at least decent stories- in the end none of this matters anyway as the actual REAL story of destiny is already pretty long and i got no plan to write that alternative 'good ending' anyway and i mostly just thought about it bc "i dont want blorbo to die :(" and "wouldnt it be fun if the entire plot of the game would get messed up and now demise link hylia and zelda etc can all just drink tea together and make plans to get rid of the gods that wanted them all to suffer needlessly"

i probably shouldnt post this as it was really only a vent to get out dumb thoughts from my brain before they poison me into losing interest of the biggest comic project i have worked on so far but i am unable to keep these things to myself so

if you read all of this, im sorry (´。＿。｀)

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #dare i tag it as that #long post #dont read unless you want to cringe #and yes i know even bad art and stories have value #and i know im not as bad as i always think #but this really is the kind of stuff that makes me embarrassed to even be able to think #its all shortened and badly written #but some scenes i got so clearly in my head its like a movie #and those scenes make my brain go wooooooooooooooooo even if they make no sense and i cant fit them together properly #uh oh self doubt #sorry im neither a professional artist nor writer #im autistic with a blorbo and one skill that i only have bc i didnt know what to do with my brains rapid train of thoughts other than draw #big time for “oh no i made people think i am better than i actually am- i am a liar and a cheater oh god” kind of thoughts #the want to just do whatever you want VS wanting to make soemthing of value VS not wanting to embarrass yourself

[angrylesbianstereotype]

Jesse Pinkman is somewhere between 5’3 and 5’5 to me I literally dgaf what canon says. Every time someone so much as mentions his canon height I’m like wow how does it feel to be wrong? Embarrassing. If you read my fic just know he is 5’5 when I’m writing him. When I read fics where they adhere to his canon height it literally takes me out of the story. Aaron Paul may be 5’8 but Jesse Pinkman is only one lighter tall

#i don’t care ab the actor’s height it literally makes more sense for the story for him to be a short king #he’s written like a who from whoville that lives in a speck of dust so how is he 5’8 #if the ages of the cast don’t matter then neither do the heights actually #breaking bad #brba #jesse pinkman #aaron paul

[soupnoodle]

my friend who went to see the new master and margarita movie, not familiar with the book: what the fuck is going on

me, watching the new master and margarita movie, familiar with the book: what the fuck is going on

#i'm the plot accuracy nerd 🤍 #i tried to be objective but turned out i can't #it's hard to be one when the director suddenly decides to bring his own ideas into the adaptation and makes it modern looking #people are mostly saying yeah august diehl was so cool so sexy it's bad margarita is the one naked at the end #i can tell you're missing the point and all that huge budget and these actors are not enough to hide all the fuck ups #and you're ready for this conversation #i can be bitchy for no end when it comes to movies that are supposed to be built on the primary source (the book) #but instead of it directors just borrow the characters and ideas and create it in something absurd #i'm not here to drool over august diehl. i am in fact here to re-experience the story i really love #also someone said that actors were good but i leave it to those who really appreciate it #ps. woland's retinue was dull and bland #master and margarita #for the first rime in a while i felt nothing after watching a movie #neither good nor bad emotions it just wasted my time #как похорошела москва при собянине

[trainingdummyrabbit]

observation: i like to draw roland with coattails.

fact: roland does not in fact have coattails.

reasonable conclusion: canon divergent design is a normal outcome of character interpretation and this is one such instance.

fun conclusion: roland didnt have coattails before, but after getting library'd angela added them on subconsciously because they needed to match at least a little bit and she is incapable of not being extra.

#neither of them notice until halfway througj the story. #piktalk #projmoon #iwanna try and design roland an outfit more like the gang so bad but also he just. looks like that. yanno. #try to put him in smthn else and turn around and suddenly hes in a suit again. he just spawns in that way. #a rolands is an animals. 2 me.

[fictionadventurer]

I love setting fantasy around and after WWI. It's such a good combination. WWI was a loss-of-innocence on a societal level. There had been this assumption that technology and progress could solve all our problems and make us better people, and then WWI comes and shows us horribly and violently that it does not, and then in the aftermath we have to deal with what this means for us as a society and as people.

Throwing magic into that is a perfect thematic fit, because magic and technology are basically the same thing--people trying to impose their will upon nature. It can do good things or terrible things, but the issue is not necessarily the technology or the magic itself, but the hearts of the people using it, the cost to bring it about, the drain on resources and the effect on the environment and people. In the aftermath of a major conflict, we have to take a long hard look at ourselves and the choices we've made and will continue to make. Are the benefits worth the cost? What is the true nature of man--can we ever trust ourselves again? Have we progressed to a better stage of humanity or reverted back to beasts? There is just so much to explore there. The WWI connection has been built into the genre ever since Tolkien, and it continues to be relevant to our modern world.

#random thought of the day #adventures in writing #fantasy #wwi #history is awesome #i've been thinking about this since i reread chunks of 'the fairy's daughters' last week #i started writing that not long after 'rilla of ingleside' first sparked my wwi interest #and i didn't know nearly as much about the war back then #i managed to hit upon a core truth that makes the central story pretty compelling #like there are big issues with the story on a logic and character level #but the core thing is that the fae have cut off contact with the human realm after seeing what horrors they were wreaking with technology #but the humans distrust my half-fairy girls because they're afraid of what they can do with magic #the girls fit in nowhere #and neither side realizes they're both making the same mistake #trusting or distrusting a certain method of imposing one's will on the world #and forgetting that it comes down to the choices of the person who has access to the technology or magic #and that theme is strengthened because it's a twelve dancing princesses retelling #so the story pivots around one human man who is trusted with a powerful magical item because he has a good heart #and my explanation here is really bad #but what i'm getting at is that the history weaves together with the fantasy here in really cool ways #because the specific conflict of post-wwi lends itself really well to this magical setting #i've also got my story idea where the spanish flu is replaced with a plague that gives people animal-shapeshifting abilities #so people are literally having to grapple with their beastly natures #which plays out a different aspect of the post wwi conflict #and no matter what form it takes wwi is just a really good setting for fantasy hence the above post #that refuses to put the words in my head into sensible order #i hope maybe a little of this makes sense

[punkeropercyjackson]

Oh so when Luke and gods stans erase Percy's canon punkness,disinterest in romance and dislike of older people which are all rooted in trauma to make 'cute' and 'relatable' jokes about Percy crushing on them that's 'bi rep' and 'as good as canon' but when i say Percy is a femme trans woman because she canonically thinks women are better than men,finds hypermasculinity to be gross and unappealing on guys and a burden she has to force on herself to fit in and her personality reminds me of tons of irl transfems i know that's 'something you've never thought of' and 'me not knowing how genders work'🤨?

#the second kind of reaction i've gotten is so infuriating because i'm literally a man and a woman and i experience neither in a binary way #and the first kind isn't so bad but it's also like #oh yeah of course you don't think percy wants to be a girl despite how obviously she does you're too busy making her be obsessed with men #man i don't give any fucks that rick tried to write her as a cis guy her story is an extremely transfem one #and her intending her as straight too never stopped y'all🤷🏽‍♀️ #percy jackson #persephone jackson #transfem percy jackson #bi percy jackson #anti luke castellan #antilukercy #anti percy x gods #black percy #latino percy #pastel punk percy jackson #team mom percy jackson #autistic percy jackson #pjo #the anomalies #part krytonian percy #hydro #per-el #symbiote!percy #momcy #stepprincess of the underworld #demi percy jackson #biphobia #transmisogyny #💌 #summerposting