#blinded by the setting sun

[milliekyway]

erkin: *gets stabbed*

erkin: ok first thing first, RUDE-

#incorrect quotes #manhwa incorrect quotes #manhwa #webtoon #erkin sizes #blinded by the setting sun #the spark in your eyes

[pyeryte]

I love revenge plots that focus on like, the emotion of revenge instead of the act of revenge itself. When people sympathize with understand that hatred and either regret doing it or spur it on. The blind hatred. I love it all. It definitely doesn’t feel morally right, but I love reading about revenge. Protag or not. 

I found that when characters let go of that revenge for little reasons, it’s boring and anticlimatic. “This character got over their toxic emotion of hatred! It’s a good thing!” and in my mind, I’m wondering what’s going to drive them now. Is this character’s fickle relationship really enough to distract the wronged from their target? Was their vengence really that strong to begin with?

Anyways, this is about Shut Hell.

#Shut Hell #Blinded by the setting sun #it goes by something else now but i forgot #Irises that are drawn as multiple circles around the pupil are my weakness. #Act-Age has that during moments of Hatred. #Shut Hell has multi-circle irises too.

[cloversandcleverness]

His family...

#blinded by the setting sun #younger Elkin is so cute 🥺 #webcomic

[grandpoetrynerd]

the way he looks at her

#manhwa #blinded by the setting sun

[faceclxims]

#griselda #female fc #kaia #blinded by the setting sun

[canisalbus]

IDK if I'm phrasing this correctly, but in my brain, Vasco is, like, the personification (caninification?) of an afternoon chilling on a back porch swing.

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#ah #that's adorable #I can totally imagine him doing that #answered #anonymous #Vasco #to me he usually conjures the feeling of being warmed by sunlight #winters in northern Finland where I'm from tend to be pretty rough at least for me they are #they last about six months or so #sun starts to set earlier and earlier until it gets dark before 2 pm #in december the sun barely rises at all it's like this brief moment of twilight at noon between two 22+ hour nights #it gets harder to wake up in the morning and your energy levels plummet you go into battery saving mode #polar night messes up your brain seasonal depression gets really bad #and the cold and dark goes on and on and you feel like you'll never feel warm or happy or properly awake again #but eventually it starts to veer towards spring and on one day you notice that the sun is shining??!?! #not like bleakly and weakly but proper sunlight with warm hue and capability to actually warm the things it touches #you've forgotten what it looks like when it's truly light outside #and it's the craziest feeling to see bright natural light it blinds you and pierces right through into your very core #being kissed by the sun for the first time in months feels unreal it feels SO GOOD #I don't know it's probably not that big of a deal for people around me #but I personally react to things like changes in temperature and the amount of daylight pretty massively #I like to think that Vasco is a first ray of sunlight hitting you after you've spent what feels like an eternity in someplace cold and dark

[mikefrawley]

Winter's Setting Sun

Having outlived our old world long ago with heads bowed, we yet walk alone slowly fading into winter's setting sun seeking a better place to call our own Falling through her blustery darkness remembering a time we were not blind and the love we cherished now long ago praying one new day might be so kind

#Poetry #Growing Old #Alone #Darkness #Remembering #Blind #Love #Praying #Kind #Winter's Setting Sun

[muffinlance]

After reading the tags on your latest post I was wondering if it would be possible for you to make a brief overview of the iffy tropes/details your sensitivity reader helped you pick up on? Of course it wouldn't replace doing research ourselves, but I'd love to hear about it regardless!

Have not run it by them yet because it is in no fit state for human consumption at this point; the tropes are just from reading their blog + others on Tumblr + general Internet research including the excellent "blind people walk you through normal activities from their perspective" videos on YouTube. But off the top of my head:

Face touching. Where the blind person gropes someone's face to see? Sighted people made that up. I rewrote a chapter in Towards the Sun when I realized that one. Which makes sense, because why would a blind person be any more inclined to run their hands all up in your facial juices. Eww.

Negating blindness with magic and pretty much ignoring the blindness henceforth. Which is why Zuko isn't going to learn to see with firebending. There are very interesting discussions on how Toph herself fits and doesn't fit into this trope; finding them is left as an exercise for the reader.

Token blind character, AKA only having one blind person in the narrative who represents All Blind People. Going to have a few blind NPCs running around, with various levels of sight and accommodations, to thoroughly negate this one.

Being Depressed and/or Overly Inspirational about the blindness. AKA character devotes a large chunk of the story to bemoaning their blindness, with bonus inspirational "overcoming" at the end. Think about how it would feel if the majority of characters like you spent vast word counts hating the thing that makes them like you. And then solving it, in a way you can't, so they don't have to have the tragic fate of Being Like You. ...So Zuko is not getting cured, and he's also not wasting much time wallowing in an angst puddle.

Etc.

Basically, I want this to be a story that low vision folks can read and go "that was fun and less offensive than 70% of actual media representations", and sighted people can go "that was fun and hopefully I internalized some positive things that will make me less likely to grab a blind person's arm and forcibly Help Them Cross The Road, Try To Pet Their Dog (and Get Huffy When Asked to Please Not), or Call People Out On Not Being Blind Because They Don't Fit The Stereotypes".

#I am never going to claim to be an expert on this topic #but I'm pretty sure I can do it better than 70% of writers actually getting paid to write a blind character #which says less about my research skills and more about how media favors sighted-friendly interpretations of blindness #worst story I've come across is the blind actor who didn't get a role playing a blind person #because they came off as too competent at navigating the set #surely no sighted person would believe that this actor was actually blind! #...yep #avatar the last airbender #atla #blind Zuko #no specification necessary Toph #actual low vision folks please feel free to correct anything in this post #or my stories in general #it was reader feedback that got me to fix that Towards the Sun chapter #and it is a far better chapter for it

[synthshenanigans]

Jashtober Day 14- Blinded

points if you can guess what this is referencing

below is a smaller like, phonescreen size? Idea for my phone but idk how good it'll be lol v

#don't have an actual set idea on how heart went blind tbh. im open to most ones #but if i had to choose. i would go with basically what happened in HS tbh lol #explanation for others: Mind in some way forced Heart to look into the sun. Which is what caused Heart to go blind #i went a lil “HS style” ig with this in general. with the pixelated everything and over saturated pngs. #idk why there are pillars there. just felt like it should be #maybe if i make lands for all three of them. One would have pillars #again idk just messin around with ideas #also again here to say that Vriska & Mind have a lot in common and i find that hilarious #chonny jash #chonnys charming chaos compendium #cj heart #cj mind #well mind implied at least #jashtober #jashtober day 14 #KJ stop adding chains to every art piece challenge: failed lol #they look cool aight #also lore reasons #eye strain // #// bright colors #if this needs more please tell me or tag them! #i still cant draw pants #-atlas art-

[elvenbeard]

"So, you wanna work with the best?"

"Congrats, you found him."

#cyberpunk 2077 #male v monday #male v cyberpunk #cyberpunk v #corpo v #cyberpunk vp #cp2077 #cp2077 vp #king of the fucking afterlife <3 #will never be over how much I screamed at the sun ending fitting him so so well without knowing where it would lead #and how unlikely it was I even got it on my blind first pt bc.... yeah xD reasons #vincent ezaki #my vp #sir gimme just a slice of your confidence please #(even though even he has to fake it sometimes especially in 'business' settings) #but he also knows his strengths and how to use them to his advantage - and doesnt take shit; goals tbh

[kijosakka]

got possessed and decided i must make a post about noahs character arc in dramaturgy Immediately

ok,, so the gist is friends. this is the Give Noah Friends Arc. he starts with no friends and then he gets some.

and he also gets some character flaws. for fun. dont worry he grows he develops,, umm so noah [in this AU] as a Character is very deeply rooted in two things: his defense/coping mechanisms, and his background in the industry.

to cover: his defense/coping mechanisms. they are. Bad. his primary defense throughout the show is his nonsubstance itself — but beyond that, the way he intentionally makes himself unpalatable. he makes jokes and seemingly mean-spirited quips at peoples expense and that would be innocuous if it wasnt all he was. but he very intentionally doesnt have character beyond that.

its like advanced self isolation (and regular self isolation when he refuses to interact with anyone after he gets eliminated and generally when hes off camera). additionally (to bring in themes from my original two posts) he creates a severe disconnect between noah The Person and noah The Character and it seeps through to his perception of his castmates as well.

^ this ties back into his Industry past, which,,, kinda fucked him up?? its not like its a normal developmental setting and it shows when hes being noah The Person. he doesnt really know who he is in normal settings; hes so firm in his identity within the industry and his role in it, but in Real Life, Teenage settings? clueless. has no idea what hes doing.

his severe disconnect of person and character also affects the way he sets boundaries, which is to say, hes really fucking bad at it. entertainment industries are Sketchy As Hell, and he kept his head afloat by navigating the system and working within it, but never learned to set clear-cut, do-not-cross boundaries in his relationships as a result (smth smth setting those limits were ‘taboo’ within the industry and could limit the work you got or how many people were willing to reach out)

< tacking onto that parentheses thing, hes also wildly unfamiliar with non-transactional relationships (in this way, him and alejandro are very similar). hes grown up seeing these people around him play nice for the strict purpose of give-and-take and has very few examples for things that are not that. he constantly struggles with understanding that he doesnt have to ‘repay’ things or ‘give’ something to be treated fairly.

(also smth to be said about his ‘keep everyone away’ thing where he silently thinks that even beyond the cameras if he tried to form relationships on the show he would be treated poorly/‘trampled on’ because his nonsubstance wouldnt allow him to ‘give back’ in a way that would make those people see him as worth treating fairly.

his castmates are effectively part of the industry now, why wouldnt they treat him like hes always been taught the people in the industry would?)

^ and again, it seeps through to his perceptions. to things like the love triangle, or sierras obsessive behavior towards cody; noah has trouble understanding why people like courtney would be distraught at it, because to him he can only see it in a transactional light (amplified by it being an on-camera relationship eventually turned plot point). similarly, it takes him A While to properly understand codys distress because to him it seems like sierras giving and he should just ‘return something’ to make them even (not really hitting him that he cant ‘return’ feelings like that).

which brings be further into his overarching Arc. you know, the character one. kicked off initially by wanting to unmask alejandro as a patent fake, he gets his development in other areas too --- like finally getting some real-world experiences with kids his age instead of studio execs three decades his seniors.

it gives him proper, real point of reference as to what matters to his peers beyond a clinical sense and observation --- in short, he learns to better understand the castmates around him beyond what the industry exploits them for, and in doing so he develops past his initial stunted-ness.

< and that in turn helps him learn past his slightly (very) fucked up headspace and perception that his childhood environment created.

(and to slot in now, noahs character in the AU is perfect for consistent themes of internal conflict. how he initially builds up relationships, conflict. struggling on whether to keep the act or expose alejandro, conflict. being hyperaware of both the audience and cast perceptions of him, conflict. realizing his battle has become two-sided and alejandro and thus the cast/audience is catching glimpses of his Person, conflict. realizing hes in too deep and now the plot itself demands him from a meta-ish standpoint, conflict. just conflicts all around for this guy.)

now there is the whole... being a person on camera thing. which is in essence what the entire AU and story arc thereof is centered around: noah learns that he can Be a Person and drop the overly sterile self-regulation sometimes. im,, slightly torn on how exactly to cement this kind of shift in behavior,,

< as it makes sense in my head, noah would be more willing to relent his vice-grip on his facade for the sake of achieving his goal (being expose alejandro outright/at least see whats underneath). so therefore, for the story to progress, there would have to be those opportunities, and for it to make sense those opportunities would have to increase as the plot goes on (and, ofc, inline with alejandros own relent on his mask for the sake of going back and forth in some weird bid for who can expose the other and still keep up their own facade)

^ this is kindof what ive 'settled on' to build up the rest of the AU events on (i will have to find some way to slot in those opportunities proper uuuughghgggh) but yet again if Anyone has Any thoughts at all,, hand them over pretty pls pspspspspspsp

#this went off the rails does this even count as an analysis of a character arc #uhh whatever #before bed rambling is my favorite type of rambling #wrote half of this during a baseball game being blinded bt the setting sun btw #iidk what this adds to the post i just want to ramble somewhere #dramaturgyAU #total drama #td noah #character analysis #again umm look over inconsistencies pls and thanks #or tell me maybe but be nice pls

[milliekyway]

she went from contemplating killing the man at every minor inconvenience to wearing earrings that reminds her of his eyes

#🎲 . . . 〢millie ramblings #hildegar aelius #erkin × kaya #kaya #kaia #erkin sizes #the spark in your eyes #blinded by the setting sun #im so normal about them

[delta-orionis]

Every time I choose to buy a new device that has RGB, I always think to myself "that will be cool! I like pretty lights" and the novelty lasts like an hour maximum before I have to turn that shit off

#my old and shitty keyboard finally stopped working. I got myself one with RGB and was nearly blinded the first time I plugged it in #like staring at the fucking sun #I had to turn it down to the lowest brightness setting immediately. and no color changing because it's too distracting #but alas I keep thinking to myself that perhaps next time I buy an RGB device it will be different #personal

[lemonsweet]

#reason being i think is bc i cant do that or im gonna wake up at like 2pm #if fhe sun comes up ill wake up on my own #even if i set an alarm and my room is dark it feels more fucked up to me that i wake up to complete darkness #like im being tricked #i have a curtain so it blocks out some light but i dont want to keep my room totally closed off #ive just been thinking abt it bc the houses in germany had those blinds that would seal away all light and i never got the point of it

[theeflowerofcarnage]

So um got to that scene w asatrion,……….its a whole thing

so like an immense sense of guilt followed me thru the durge playthrough cuz of what happened in last light inn, which I wouldn't have even felt THAT bad abt if I hadn't tried really hard to save Jahiera and the nightsong. Like I am the reason she had to kill her girlfriend n I feel so bad about that I don’t even go near her side of camp……..sheesh n don’t get me started on jahiera like she deserved a warriors death I literally obliterated the harpers n then I take her w me to baldur's gate n orin wipes out the rest like I am her Judas

THEN we get to the murder tribunal  that’s  when I found out what happens to a bhaal spawn when they die; they become servants of their lord and technically their souls go back into bhaal so he is resurrected- and that durge is a being born from an immaculate conception, an antichrist like figure- this has been in the back of my mind while playing like damn when we die we are NOT seeing those pearly gates.

And then we went to cazador- I got this dialogue with him, since I romanced him n was like no, no we arent going to let him ascend this time its an insane choice! This 'to care is to live again' would not have hit the same if I wasn’t playing durge!! It in perfectly incapsulates my entire experience its why Rhena didn’t fuck everyone over to be the last woman alive to rule over a dead world- as Amelyssan (Bhaal's former priestess) would've done like damn w an evil durge ending Rhena could've become a messiah like figure in the bhaal cult- the power she couldve received from it, makes a nice parallel with Astarion n Cazador- was it worth it? I am HAUNTED BY consequences astarion shouldn’t be!! its like they say you may start the walk towards power as a person of dignity but ultimately you end it as a gnat

Also the way he FUCKING CRIES IM DEAD AAAAA

#2000000 out of 10 storytelling in this game #im still blind in this play thru i do not look at peoples theories n stuff so this is just how i feel in the moment this game mannnn #Just enough freedom n flow for you to interpret what you like about your tav n these characters without boxing you in to a set good or bad #I still do like the ascendant ending because he can still live in the sun but it doesnt work this time #astarion is one of my top choices for durge romance rn #i gotta be up 5 tomorrow but im staring at the ceiling thinking about this whole thing #they defo fucked nasty on that grave #bg3 #bg3 Rhenawedd

[safety-sam]

Just saw a middle aged man wearing a dig tour shirt at the restaurant I'm at. Gresties are everywhere :)

#I'm also wearing sunglasses inside at our table and I feel like a rockstar lmao #the glare from the sun setting over the ocean is blinding me