#arc 2 challenges

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 1: Dread on Arrival

(Part 2)

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #jiang fengmian #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #Yungmeng Jiang Training Arc AU #MDZS AU #The AU name for this idea is something I am 100% willing to change if someone has a better one. #There will be at least 2-3 more comics so *please*. Ideas and feedback welcome. #The core idea behind this AU is that LWJ goes to study with the Yunmeng Jiang sect instead of JC and WWX going to Cloud Recess #But why? Well I imagine Lan Xichen set it up to give LWJ a challenge (more social than skill based) and LWJ rose to it (begrudgingly) #Sort of a 'You've mastered so many Lan techniques but Other Sects have styles that are worth learning.' set up. #Lan Qiren agrees mostly on the basis that...well it's LWJ. Yunmeng Jiang is unruly but LWJ is beyond that riff-raff. He'll rise above it. #This is the story of a boy who thrives on routine and rules spending time in a place that is his apparent antithesis. #Also it is so warm there. He is used to it being cold and what do you MEAN just take off some of my layers? #I just want to see him struggle and flail in many situations. And get him in Jiang Purple. Is that so wrong of me? #(Soaking wet JC is part of my 'JC was born to swim; forced to hold a sword' agenda. Do not remove him from the water) #((Politeness notes: JFM would *not* call LWJ 'lan wangji' nor would LWJ be vocally impolite to a sect leader.))

[artsyebonyrose]

mukuro in cherry pop!

feel free to send me more suggestions if you have any, here are the palettes :3

#danganronpa #sdr2 #dr #danganronpa fanart #danganronpa sdr2 #super danganronpa 2 #colour palette #colour palette challenge #requests #requests open #art requests #character request #palette challenge #palette requests #danganronpa requests #danganronpa mukuro #mukuro ikusaba #mukuro #dr mukuro #danganronpa 3 #danganronpa 3 anime #future arc #despair arc #the end of hopes peak #cw guns #tw gun #thought i'd put those jic #artsyebonyrose art

[wuzhere75]

why did i decide to do this right before band camp started why did i decide to do this right before band camp started

anyways left to right top to bottom

Joy Ang (cover/general artist for the American version of the main series), Mike Holmes (graphic novel artist), @liliumaa

@anik8tion, @talonboot, @tenebris-aurea

@electric-blue24, @otiksimr, @human-wof-designs @vanillaflowerstuff

#my art #2023 #procreate #wof #digital art #dragon #wings of fire #wof headcanon #wof design challenge #wof nightwing #wof icewing #wof hybrid #I'm sorry Otiksimr yours is basically a parody of all of your designs #also why the Joy Ang one so sad #like how did I do that #it looks intentional but I was just trying to imitate the cover #cw eyestrain #wof darkstalker #wof arc 2 #wof ledgends #fanart

[mwagneto]

people seeing gifs of the 15th doctor having gay little moments and going "ohh what's this show? i gotta watch it" is literally ending me not just coz of the concept that anyone can be unaware of doctor who but also bc like. while i do think it's a show ppl should watch in its entirety. DON'T DO IT FOR GAY REP LMAO. like it literally does have a lot of lgbt rep even all the way back in season 1 of 2005 fame but watching 13 seasons of doctor who coz something gay happens in the new eps is like. idk finding out there's a new pride and prejudice adaptation with a gay character in it and going ohhhh that sounds fun:) guess i'll go watch every adaptation ever made

#IT'S SO FUNNY. BABES THIS SHOW IS PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE #im rly glad 15 is getting ppl interested in it dgmw but it's wild coz like. i grew up with this it #really doesn't feel like a Regular Show to me like. that's a whole world #also like it is sooo god damn difficult to watch the entire show in order coz of all the specials #i know all of the eps in order coz im insane but I've been handholding 2 different ppl through #watching it for months now and it's such a challenge LMFAO especially if you dont have bbc iplayer #like yeah yeah the main character has an incredibly important arc no most ppl haven't seen it coz it #happens in some obscure series of specials that's near impossible to find. sorry #anyway. if u wanna watch dr who u should but if you're waiting for him to have a romance with a man uhm. so is everyone else sorry #it's gonna happen this season but like. it has been a Long battle oh my god . ohhmy god #doctor who #15th doctor #nuwho

[trapezequeen]

ZENDAYA sparkling on the Red Carpet @monthly-challenge | Day Nine: “Sparkle”

#magicalmarch2024 #gif challenge #zendaya #zendaya coleman #queen z #gifset #my gifs #red carpet #Hollywood star #actress #mcu actress #marvel actress #Celebrity #model #dune #dune part 2 #premiere #met gala #no way home #fashion #joan of arc #the force awakens #movie premiere

[plumbob-pudding]

Sly had absolutely no idea what to do next, he couldn't return to his apartment- Mr. Langraab owned the building and his job at the factory was probably no more. He did the only thing he could- he went home.

#sims 4 decades challenge #sims 4 gameplay #sims 4 legacy #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #ts4 decades challenge #the mosleys #gen 2 #aww sly redemption arc begins

[buckys-metal-arm]

Y'ever think about the wasted potential of Bucky in What If episode 2x02 and just scream a lil'?

They could've set him up as a parallel to Peter, two people forced to do horrible things by horrible people who don't care about them as people. Have Peggy and Howard racked with guilt over seeing what became of their friend/friend-in-law. Actually DO something with that scene where Hope says that "he [Peter] deserves our help as much as anyone" or whatever and Bucky looks away. Still have the scene where Howard talks him down from shooting Peter but not immediately lampshade it with a one-liner from Howard. Maybe have Bucky try to run off after that but have the others (maybe even Peter specifically) stop him and use the "we're a team now" line.

You could even make it into a 2 parter, have it start in 2x02 and then later have another one thats like "What if the Winter Soldier Broke Free from HYDRA in the 80s?". Maybe T'Chaka shelters him in Wakanda, or maybe Mar-Vell offer to help him regain his mind using the Kree memory band we saw in the Marvels. May if he does the Memory Band thing have him go through it and THEN make the decision to leave the group to go find himself instead of him running off without a word and no one giving a shit.

Not to mention if you did all that and gave Bucky a whole "what if he broke out of HYDRA brainwashing early" episode you could play with it SO much. Does he decide to work with SHIELD? How does he react to Steve being unfrozen? How would he react to finding out HYDRA infiltrated SHIELD? How would he react to finding out Zola, the man who tortured him and made him the way he was, was a member of SHIELD after the war? How would Howard not dying in 1991 change the events of the MCU?

It would be SO INTERESTING and I will DIE mad

I just. I know the episode wasn't about him but that didn't mean they had to squander his story when it could've been SO GOOD

#my expectations for good writing in marvel properties have gotten lower and lower and yet here they are limboing with satan #kes rewrites the mcu #bucky barnes #mcu #marvels what if #what if season 2 #james buchanan barnes #james bucky barnes #the winter soldier #marvel hire me to write Bucky's mcu character arc and ONLY Bucky's MCU character arc challenge

[annalyticall]

Not done with bg3 so maybe my opinion will change but right now I think that while bg3 is a great game and has so much to offer in terms of character and story, I also just... vibe with the world of Dragon Age more. Like bg3 is by far the more fun game to play and it has meaningful themes about cycles of abuse and realizations of self-worth. But dragon age. I don't know. It feels more concise about what it wants to say. Bg3 throws everything and the kitchen sink at you which means some things get lost in translation or are so obvious that it beats you over the head with it. But dragon age is, for the most part, about religious authority and oppressive systems stemming from that authority, and it's entire world and story and cast of characters are built from that one premise to explore dozens of different perspectives on the same theme, and I feel like I can connect with that approach to worldbuilding so much more

#like ok. besides karlach and wyll everyone basically has the same arc for their religious trauma #shar and vlaakith and cazador nd mystra are all varying types of abusive authority figures #shadowheart and lae'zel have the same arc of shunning their god to just follow another one? like i don't think that really fixes anything #in the end they're still defining themselves by the god they worship #gale and astarion also kind share an arc of shunning their authority in favor of seizing the power for themselves #it's a better one for sure but still it feels like only astarion gets to actually stand up to his abuser no matter the outcome #wyll doesn't really get any kind of self- actualizing arc that's not depending on the player which feels like it's defeating the purpose #karlach is. like i love her but her arc is just simple in comparison #meanwhile you have the da:o characters constantly challenging and reassessing the systems they grew up in #they have similar cycle of abuse arcs too but in wildly different perspectives from each other #where no two arcs really feel like each other even though they have parallels like alistair and morrigan #idk just kept me more engaged in the characters' development in relation to my own player character #and i didn't even mention dragon age 2. god. #dragon age #anna plays bg3

[lotus-duckies]

she's so worried 🥺 worried about boboiboy, worried about the state of this planet 🥺

#insert photo of yaya duct taping boboiboy together to keep him Safe #i hope this goes. in the direction i want it to #cause i think this kind of arc works really well with her character #as someone who often worries about the well being of others but actually being able to fix it is a challenge #not to mention it's interesting to see Yaya who tries to be cheerful show signs of distress #yaya and boboiboy are more alike than you'd think #yaya yah #boboiboy galaxy #boboiboy galaxy season 2 #bbb #bbbg #bbbglxs2

[mejomonster]

Oh also when I start dropping the Red White and Royal Blue book quotes expect a FLOOD I'm highlighting the fuck out of this book

#red white and royal blue #lb #okay so 1. its well written. sincerely. #2 it knows the GOAL of its story so in its own way its Plenty deep #in regard to a. romance. b believable lived in characters c hinted emotion and biased pov narration #d political commentary social commentary international commentary generational commentary family trauma commentary #e excellent at what seems to be its theme which is showing how to connect to people you see as different #and like. the way that ties into the core romance and ties into the leads individual family trauma and fharacter arcs #and the way f OUTSIDE the novel how that affects the reader #the novel expects all readers to connect to this democrat politicial loudmouth half mexican texan child of divorce #whos stubborn as hell and somewhat self centered and so Mean to a guy he barely actually knows (when novel starts) #and thrn of course Alex is asked by his life to Connect to Henry. and the readers even if they are a TON like alex #still will also find connecting to Henry a leap (after all most of us simply are NOT royalty and know no one who is #even if we know public social media figures. its not to rhe degree of the Fantastical levrl of Prince Henry #and i think partly the character is a prince rather than Old Money generally because it TAKES the point further #it makes it so unrelatable to nearly all readers. so it asks us and alex to be open and get to know someone we simply cant judge or guess #ok anyway my point 3. i fucking HATE writing advice and heres why #different authors who are GREAT tackle the challenge of writing wrll very different. theres somr advice to #avoid writing thought felt wonders etc type words. this novel does it. and i feel does it well #it keeps the pace snappy in a DENSE book that needs it. it helps create the biased unreliable pov narration of alex #by telljng us not what he Actually thought but what hes PRETENDING TO HIMSELF to acknowledge or not. #which is alsl how i use those words. and its a fun time when the character is lying to themselves and readers have to notice #and get to be in on it

[elliethefroggy]

The Hunt

SangChengMonth2020 (on ao3)

Day 30: Free Day!

“If we get caught, I’m breaking your legs,” Jiang Cheng threatened in the dead of the night, Lan Qiren hot on their heels.

“We’re not getting caught,” Nie Huaisang replied, lugging Jiang Cheng along, forcing him to walk faster. Nie Huaisang could move very quickly with the right motivation. And Lan Qiren methodically hunting them down was motivation enough.

“I refuse to get caught,” Nie Huaisang continued, panting, “I’ve actually bothered to put some effort into my studies this time and I refuse to return to this dump another year.”

“If we denounce ourselves now, maybe the punishment won’t be so severe,” Jiang Cheng said, like the naive soul he was.

“Where have you been these past few weeks? This is the Lan Sect. Do you honestly think they’re going to go easy on us just because we gave ourselves up? No. If Lan Qiren finds us out of bed, we’re either going to spend a great many painful hours locked up in the library writing lines or get expelled,” Nie Huaisang said, as they crept their way through Cloud Recess, “Lan Qiren didn’t see our faces; he doesn’t know it’s us. We just need to make sure he doesn’t catch us.”

This was not how Nie Huaisang had envisioned this night going. No, this night was meant to be spent staring lovingly into Jiang Cheng’s eyes, maybe even some light making-out if the mood struck them. Not this. Not sneaking around every corner and ducking behind every pillar, hoping the darkness swallowed them up and hid them from any nosy grandmasters.

Alas, the light making-out was no longer a viable plan.

Jiang Cheng continued to mutter about Nie Huaisang’s terrible ideas, but he was whispering quietly enough that Nie Huaisang allowed it.

Nie Huaisang heard the pitter-patter of footsteps nearby and dragged Jiang Cheng into the nearest conveniently placed bush, pressing his hand against Jiang Cheng’s mouth, before a shout of protest could be uttered.

Hidden amongst the underbrush, all manner of branches digging into his sides, Nie Huaisang prayed to whatever deity would listen that they remained concealed. He made sure to sound especially pathetic; that tactic usually worked on Da-ge.

Marching up the path, at a brisk pace, but not a run (never a run in the Cloud Recesses) was their pursuer, Lan Qiren. In the light of the lanterns, he appeared incensed.

Nie Huaisang kept his hand pressed against Jiang Cheng’s mouth, trying not to focus on how lovely Jiang Cheng’s back felt against his chest (he couldn’t wait for Jiang Cheng to get comfortable enough for long, lazy, and decadent cuddle sessions). Neither of them dared breath as Lan Qiren approached their hiding spot, fearing the slightest air from their lungs would alert the grandmaster to their presence.

Lan Qiren did not even glance at the conveniently placed bush, just kept on marching in the direction Nie Huaisang and Jiang Cheng had been heading.

They waited in silence for some time, before finally allowing their breathing to go back to normal. Nie Huaisang felt Jiang Cheng’s breath on his hand.

Reluctantly, Nie Huaisang removed his hand and unwrapped his arm from that very well-defined torso.

“Come on,” Nie Huaisang said, extracting himself from the branches, offering a hand to Jiang Cheng who took it without hesitation. “I refuse to spend the night in a bush, no matter how nice the company is.”

It was a shame it was too dark to see the blush no doubt colouring Jiang Cheng’s cheeks.

Nie Huaisang, with Jiang Cheng close behind, slunk away, in the opposite direction of Lan Qiren, turning a corner of a cabin only to abruptly step back, knocking into Jiang Cheng.

They peeked around the corner.

“How does he move so quickly?” Nie Huaisang hissed as they watched Lan Qiren—who should definitely be somewhere behind them—stride with all the vigour of a predator having caught the scent of its next meal.

“I don’t know,” Jiang Cheng hissed back, equally disturbed by Lan Qiren’s stalking abilities.

They tiptoed away, hoping beyond hope Lan Qiren would just give up. But neither of them were that lucky.

A loud crack shattered the quiet of the night, radiating out in all directions. They both froze and looked down at the broken twig under Jiang Cheng’s foot.

They looked up at each other in wide-eyed horror.

Without a word, they tiptoed away faster.

Farther off, they heard the tell-tale sound of footsteps on the pebbled path.

Nie Huaisang searched left and right for a hiding place and found none.

Until finally, he spotted a small shed, not far off.

Nie Huaisang veered towards the shed, hauling along a silently cursing Jiang Cheng.

He swung the door open. The footsteps drew closer. He threw Jiang Cheng into the dark opening and followed right behind, delicately closing the door just in time.

Jiang Cheng was stiff by his side, the type of Jiang-Cheng-stiffness usually attributed to sudden rage and/or annoyance.

It took a moment for his eyes to adjust. There was barely enough moonlight filtering in through the wooden roof to see Wei Wuxian—hair dishevelled, robes loose and hanging off a shoulder. He had one of his legs wrapped around Lan Zhan who was holding him up against the flimsy wall with a bruising grip on Wei Wuxian’s thigh. Lan Zhan did not have a single strand of hair out of place.

Wei Wuxian opened his mouth to speak. Nie Huaisang glared at him and signalled him to keep his trap shut, throwing in a few rude gestures to get his point across.

Wei Wuxian wisely closed his mouth, Lan Zhan wisely didn’t open his mouth at all, and everyone wisely stayed still and silent as the footsteps outside passed the shed.

Noone talked once the footsteps could no longer be heard, no one dared leave the shed either.

There was a very obvious hickey growing on Wei Wuxian’s neck.

It was going to be a long night.

#sangcheng #nie huaisang #jiang cheng #the untamed #mdzs #crack #I'm almost free from this challenge. Almost. I just need to hold on a little longer. #Lan Qiren is once again getting in the way of Nie Huaisang and Jiang Cheng's bonding time #cloud recess study arc #Honestly it feels as though I’m making Jiang Cheng blush in every story #Sangchengber #sangchengber's sangcheng month 2020 #SangChengMonth2020 #free day #I ended up with 2 ideas for day 23—Whisper—so here's the second one because I wasn't bothered to come up with a new idea

[fortune-maiden]

Maybe I could just reread the first part of King's Avatar up to first All Stars tournament & Chen Guo learning Ye Xiu's identity

It's only... 350 chapters....

#the king's avatar #when i first discovered tka this is about where I stopped the first time #so I always remembered it being about 150 chapters because no way I read THAT many chapters my first go! xD #the way i remember TKA is split into 4 major parts #Part 1: The Incognito King (up until Chen Guo learns his identity) #Part 2: Guild Happy (the most draggy part for me ^^'') #Part 3: The Challenger's League #Part 4: Season 10 #...at the very least i want to read up to the Xmas event because no version of TKA ever adapts it #It's one of the funniest arcs! T_T #(and also just has YX & SMC being adorable and sometimes that's all one really needs in life ;w;)

[aeide-thea]

[fic crit, amatonormativity (blogger's own) cw]

revisited a story that i remembered really enjoying, but have had difficulty digging up for a reread because, as it turns out, it's a good 200 pages deep in the relevant pairing tag, and—

turns out that i do still really dig it, and also that the other thing i remembered about it is equally still true, which is that it totally fails to really resolve the emotional side of things! like, it's a fic full of Plot and briefly- but vividly-drawn OCs, and people from the main characters' pasts who show up in ways that work for the story but are also random enough to lend verisimilitude, and we get to see the elements of the foil's day-to-day life—what keeps them busy and burnished when they're not off Adventuring with our protagonist—in generous, engaging detail, and all of that remains really satisfying and compelling to me; but it's billed as a fic ft. a pairing, and yet all we see of that is an established, undiscussed level of ambiguous intimacy that's lovely and warm but queerplatonic at absolute most, and doesn't get tied into any sort of bow by the end, even a friendly one.

and the thing is—there's absolutely nothing wrong with that! if it weren't for the pairing tag i probably wouldn't even find it unsatisfying: it'd just be lovely warm plotty genfic, and i'd enjoy the hell out of it! but i am, for better or for worse, amatonormative enough that when i see a story with a pairing tag, i do personally expect some combination of Romance Feelings and/or sex to appear on the page, unless the author's notes inform me the relationship is queerplatonic or similarly asterisked, and having that expectation go unmet feels like a disappointment even when the fic is on all other fronts the opposite of disappointing. which i'm fully ready to accept is my own failing, rather than the story's! but. idk. pondering and processing. :)

#(i understand this is a totally useless post without citing the fic but. rude to do that! so. #just thinkin out loud here in my Thoughtful Spot (milne voice) 4 my own future reference. #inquiries privately entertained.) #anyway honestly part of me wonders if the author just ran out of time‚ as much as anything else #because it's one of those 'wrote this for a challenge‚ got carried away‚ bon appetit' situations #but another bigger part of me just thinks they don't conceptualize Satisfying Relationship Arcs the way i do! #which—maybe they're aro but also honestly i know allo writers who don't write relationships i find satisfying so. who knows really #generally best not 2 assume even if available evidence points a particular way! #anyway. truly a stupid number of words just 2 say: (re)read a thing; loved it; was disappointed by one aspect of it; #feel stupidly disproportionately let down by that‚ in the way one does when everything else was good and it got you hoping #you were Kindred Spirits and then you turn out to not be‚ not quite‚ after all #fannish things #also i guess #bookblogging

[nerice]

Red Hurting Sun and/or (idk what the timeline/overlapping here is) Dream Game sounds like a hellfire and the Belle/Faye dynamic does too.

And I would read the fuck out of said hellfire.

ya!!!!!!!!! red hurting sun is the faye/belle dynamic tag so it's part of dream game (the novel !!) pls join me while i go insane over it for the rest of 2023 w

they have their first little scene in the epilogue of the main book/current novel actually (cute little r*bbit parallel moment where faye gets belle to swallow the eternal souls. dw about it this is not going to come back around At All :))) just preheating her for all that is to come <3 nd by dream game 2yrs later they have settled into an iffy little mentorship where faye is the only adult belle trusts bc she keeps appropriate distance and does not try to replace the family belle lost (oh well. !) history tells us soulless make excellent parents & faye gets just a tiny bit impatient guiding belle thru the process for the 723th time (normal behavior. illusions of you killing everyone you love etc) but belle absolutely thrives on the antagonism and the impossible expectations bc she always knew she was destined for great things! :))))! this ends well, ofc

#god bless sketchbook content from before The Wrist Explosion. i will not be drawing faye her proper armor sorry // #the actual arc title for their lategame content is 'black rose/blue sun' (shhhh) on account of qs death & angel visuals >:3 #trying my best not to just lay out their entire thing here gmfkgm as if i haven't talked abt it a billion times before but yeah #hellfire is definitely what it is :))) blue angel fire the proof of what you were always meant to break for #the juicy juicy core of it is ofc when jumie+jack show back up and suddenly belle has everything she wanted. her true family back<3 #but it's not at all how she remembers it feels different. she grew up. she doesn't want love she wants what faye is giving her 💙 #soulless stop being mean 2 jumie's daughters challenge (failed successfully) #askbox #anonbox #oc asks #i WILL be posting so normally during dream game. theres two other major arcs prior to angel hell i will be well & truly dead by then :')

[violentdevotion]

#btvs #rape mention #sa mention #tw rape #tw sa mention #none of season 2 or 3 wouldve happened because buffy and angel wouldnt have had sex #the season 6 story with jonathon warren and the other one wouldnt happen because their plan is to make buffy their sex slave #season 6 willow wouldnt have happened because she wouldnt have raped tara #xander would die #<- dream episode #the spike arc wouldnt have happened #wow #joss whedon die challenge

[m0th--teeth]

silly goofy oswald scribble

#gotham oswald cobblepot #gotham edward nygma #i love this evil little man this is his arc every single time #gothamites genuinely care for and be loyal to oswald for longer than 2 minutes challenge #sorry for sketching in blue ur honor i have brainrot #mYART!