#both better writers and a better ending

[flythesail]

I'm so tired of the way tv is working right now. And it's not working. Seasons are getting shorter, and shows are canceled before they even get a chance to prove themselves. Shows with new concepts often get the worst of it, and it just makes me so sad to think of all the fantastic stories we're losing because of a system that prioritizes profit over the art itself. I want to live with these characters over years. Get to know them and grow with them and not watch as their stories are crammed into six episodes or even worse, go entirely unfinished.

#shows used to be 18+ episodes for 7+ seasons!!!! how did we end up here #with both writers and actors on strike too.. i can only hope they get what they deserve and it's a turning point for the better #audiences want these long run shows #either streaming needs to get on that or go away #disney+ moving to prevent password sharing now too.. like do you want people to watch or not?? i dont get it #this isnt even getting into the way they erase shows from existence either #flythepost

[ladyalicentshightower]

"Team Black is better than Team Green because Luke's funeral is private while Team Green hold a public funeral for propaganda purposes!"

Kingslanding is the biggest city in Westeros and is densely populated, and while Dragonstone is also densely populated, it's infinitely smaller. If Team Black were in Kingslanding instead of Dragonstone, they would never have been able to have a private funeral because the small folk would want to attend too. Furthermore, as an island, Dragonstone is isolated as few would travel for a funeral in a time of war. Kingslanding even during war, has Westeros' highest population density. Aemma and Baelon also had a public funeral in season 1.

In the books (hopefully in the show too), Haelena is remembered as being beloved by the small folk. Jaehaerys, as her son, was loved by and is mourned by them too. Even if they wanted to - and likely they did want to - have a private funeral, they wouldn't have been able to due to public reaction and outcry.

#hotd #hotd spoilers #house of the dragon #house of the dragon spoilers #alicent hightower #haelena targaryen #i wish there would be more emphasis on the common folk by both the writers and by the fandom #because they play a significant role in whats to come #one can argue that rhaenyra is disconnected from her people and that is one reason why things end the way they do for her #rhaenyra to me is reminiscent of mary queen of scots #but also we only get two characters who are not noble but they only either get dogs abuse from or are ignored by the fandom #mysaria deserves so much better #she gets a better ending in hotd i beg #the essays i could write about criston cole

[kimwexlersponytail]

The only thing that kept me going was knowing you were here.

#bcsedit #better call saul #mcwexler #jimmy x kim #kim wexler #jimmy mcgill #been seeing a lot of people saying that they don't deserve a happy ending after everything and though i get why that's being said #i disagree with the idea that they must be punished by the narrative in the form of an absolutely devastating end where they both die or #are broken down even further because they're Bad People and they Deserve It...their relationship is the heart of the show and #i don't believe that the writers spent over half a decade building this relationship up just to leave everything hanging in the balance #we can argue all day about jimmy and kim being Good or Bad but they love each other. they do. and bcs is a love story #do i believe that they're going to live happily ever after and get a fairytale ending? no of course not but i don't see a doom and gloom end #for them either. narratively speaking jimmy has been in prison all this time and who knows what kim has been up to all this time #i just don't think it would be narratively satisfying if the ending was about punishing them i really don't #i think it's going to be bittersweet for sure but there's no doubt in my mind that it'll be full of heart.... #but god all of the takes about jimmy not deserving to meet up with kim in the gene timeline are just making me root for it even harder #and i really hope the world turns back to color the moment he sees her and idc how many people think it's cheesy <3 #and you know what someday maybe they'll finally get their house. #mine

[lameow-l]

so wait… furina is the name of the archon role that “furina” had to play

wouldn’t make more sense narrative wise to give her a name of her own?? like scara gets his own epic chapter about him ridding himself of his past and adopting a new name then proceed to ignore said name in favor of “hat guy” but the actress playing “furina” doesn’t get to be known for her own name?

like people of fontain (partly maybe) know the truth so why not let her free? let her enjoy the simple human life she so so longed for? even the other furina wouldn’t want this

#i think her story is a better use of the (give character name) mechanic that wasn’t really needed in scara’s arc imo #like yeah it’s cool and all but we literally saw him throw the actual physical manifestation of his past into the fucking void!!! #i personally think it was kind of wasted on him on top of me thinking that idea was entirely stupid to begin with and hyv keeps proving tha #no one actually refers to him as wanderer or by the name they choose online.. its just scara #thats both bad marketing and confusing burying the character away from new players #and like the amount of shit u have to go through as a new player just to name ur weird huge hat angry little dude is just.. #but imagine how impactful such a mechanic would be for ‘furina’ who spent all her live acting a role she wasn’t #at the end of all that agony do u think she could endure hearing people call her by that name?? #unlike scara she did that for the people every moment of those 500 years knowing that the fate of every person is mere a breakdown away #there was nothing in that for her or for a reward she thought deserved.. just suffering on her own #it just makes more sense for her to want a different name a different identity that has nothing to do with that role #and again i think that mechanic is stupid anyway but if it had to happen i’d loved it more with ‘furina’ #or idk give her like a clueless friend she gets to meet that keeps calling her a different name for reasons and her liking the name or smth #maybe give her a different role she gets to play.. or have neuvillette give her a name #same with scara i think it would have been a lot better if he went by a name he choose when all his previous names were chosen for him #i dont see how the entirety of genshin writers and devs agreed to this mechanic being implemented honestly #like traveler is literally there waiting for a single soul to address them by their actual name (the one we choose) but every time it’s jus #traveler traveler.. even their most beloved companion calls them traveler #like that alone should've changed the writers minds bc such a name would 1. either not ever be used or replaced by a nickname #2. the hell devs had to go through to not allow certain phrases and names and 3. the hell both teams will suffer should they add a new char #tl;dr stupid dumb mechanic but they should still give furina a new name #genshin impact #furina #fontaine archon quest #scaramouche

[feenmies]

i constantly say "i wrote dbh" to jokingly justify my headcanons if they don't totally match up with canon but i take it back almost immediately in my head because i actually don't want to be david cage in any timeline ever. that guy needs to put the pen and paper DOWN

#i've played two whole quantic dream games and both of them had these insane plot holes that were Never filled by the end of the game #heavy rain was the worst of this because there were whole instances where the game would just make things up to aid the plot #at least with dbh it's just “huh. this taking place over the course of one work week makes zero sense. cool” #(like that's any better. the bar is low) #i try my hardest to interpret the messiest parts of this game in a way that makes them Less headache inducing but it's very #Very. hard. #when i say the only reason i'm in the fandom today is bc i'm autistic it's true. if i was capable of being normal about anything it'd be dbh #this isn't me shitting on anyone who likes heavy rain & dbh (EYE like them) but cage could've benefited from a ghost writer #and a little sensitivity training .

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

still thinking about shiv trying to blackmail with zero leverage (and being so shiv-ly sure she didn't need any... girl) the one person on this show sociopathic enough to live consistently by gerri's maxim (how does this serve my interests); and also, relatedly, the fact that the conversation greg and shiv had, in which he asked "what's in it for me" and she said "nothing," is essentially the same as the conversation greg and tom had at the top of the episode, and i am really wondering if tom's refusal to settle that question for greg yet is going to become relevant sometime in the final two episodes, the way that shiv's refusal to settle that question for tom became extremely relevant in the finale of season 3

#i don't typically bother to speculate with this show bc like #they zig when you think they're gonna zag and it always feels so obvious in retrospect and is impossible to see coming in real time #but if i had one (1) prediction for the end of the series....... sporus stabbing nero is probably it #would i bet money on it? no. well. maybe. but like. five bucks for fun #but that's the one thing where both i think it would fucking slap #and as the writers' room is composed of people with similar taste to me regarding what slaps #i feel like we may be on the same page #and also i'm kind of like. ok so if this doesn't happen why is greg even still on this show #to be clear i don't think greg would stab tom out of revenge #i don't think greg would do anything out of revenge which is again why he is better at playing his hands than any of the kids #but if an opportunity opened up........ #also to be clear i'm not complaining about greg still being on the show #if greg is in season 4 to be disguting and hilarious that's fine with me #succession #succession spoilers

[longroadstonowhere]

just reread my beta kids sedoretu fic, and you know what? i am a good writer

#it is taking all i have to stop myself from saying 'decent writer' or adding 'sometimes' to the end of that statement #like no! i wrote a good fic and i'm happy with it #there are elements i could've probably done without or developed better #but it is still a good story! and that means i am a good writer! #anyway school vacation is next week for me so maybe i'll take the extra time to try and write more of the last five years rwby thing #which i was working on before christmas and recognized that if i didn't write as much as possible then #it would be a very long time before it got finished #or i'll just play a thousand hours of persona 3 both are possible

[michaeljoncarter]

sry but dc publishing a jason/kyle teamup is really my worst nightmare lol. like jaykyle is fun and all, and i’m glad y’all are having a good time, but if dc ends up watering down & nerfing kyle to the point where it’s feasible he’d start running around with jason in the main timeline and the weakass woobified version of kyle twitter/tumblr has invented to pair them together leaks into actual canon, i’m quitting my job to become a full time batfam hatepage

#kyle rayner #this post feels so mean but i s2g it's not meant to be hate to the jaykyles #like i get the appeal but the way dc is right now?? & with both their characters where they are #i just don't see a way that him being lumped in w jason WON'T end up being an absolute disaster for his character #this is (probably? please god??) some elseworlds type stuff but #it's also an indication that actual dc writers are starting to pick up on all the people screaming about jaykyle and like #for them to team up for any significant portion of time a lot of things would have to change about kyle and his status in the glc #and probably not for the better #the fact that the only thing we know about him in this book is that they've fucking blinded him is. not comforting <3 #this is just a one off (god willing) but it's like.. this is how it would happen if they did do a jason/kyle teamup in the main universe #in that kyle would have to be completely changed and none of the changes made would actually be about him or done w his character in mind #they'd be made solely to bring him down to a level that would allow jason to look good in comparison #because they need jason to be the strongest smartest most specialiest boy in the world at all times #it's a problem with all the bats tbh but it's ESPECIALLY bad with jason #& slowly turning me into a full on jason hater. like kill him again. the joker was right #ghghrnfc i'm yelling a lot about a comic that's not even out yeah but just like. bad omen bad omen BAD OMEN #i live in fear of the rhato roy disaster happening with kyle and this is like. one step closer to it <3 life is pain <3

[welcometogrouchland]

Also in the replies of the Steph concept art on twitter announcing she was gonna be in a new project at DC (posted by Travis Mercer), there were at least 3 comments saying "will Tim be there?" I don't care how hard you ship timsteph I'm exploding you with my eyeballs if you do that on my girls post again

#ramblings of a lunatic #taking a step back to acknowledge that my stanning may be getting overzealous #but then again I'm not in ppls quotes or replies I'm vagueing on an entirely different website with no relevant tags. it could be worse #anyway I know tims had it rough these past couple of months ever since zdarsky shifted focus of the batman title to have less tim #but it still feels. idk. just a wee bit uninspired to act like steph can't go two steps without tim being behind her #im ngl i like timsteph when they're cute but timsteph twitter has been. pissing me off a tad lately #the refusal to acknowledge the sexism in dixons robin run and how it impacts stephs writing and their relationships writing #the refusal to acknowledge tims occasional condescension and hypocrisy when it comes to stephs vigilantism #seemingly only wanting her to be spoiler when he wants her around and telling her to give it up most of the time #also the constant disrespect of stephs batgirl era on there weirdly enough? #I've harped on about this on main and in drafts but despite it's flaws it's a good turn for stephs character #she's the focus she gets development (an upward trajectory! which had previously been unheard of for her! bc she did have flaws as spoiler- #-its just that both writers and characters alike seemed to arbitrarily decide she didn't have the capacity to grow past them! but she did!) #hell i saw a BIZARRE take today i just have to bitch about #which was them saying that Batgirl was a ''heteronormative mask'' steph put on #with spoiler being her more authentic self (and this being paralleled to gender expression with stephs isolation from the batfam as spoiler- #-showing how she ''wasnt like them'') #which. I'm not denying you the view that spoiler has a certain genderific swag to her but the needless dragging of her batgirl persona #steph got treated badly as spoiler bc she was A Girl. it's genuinely that simple dixon felt batman and robin would never stand for a girl- #-running around doing the things they did and would need to chivalrously stop her. he's gone on record saying this #she's constantly getting belittled by mostly men (cass also dismisses her but it feels distinctly less gendered) #and in the end it's barbara who learns to give steph a second chance despite her mistakes and they have a positive relationship #something ppl are quick to dismiss as being in and of itself sexist bc they're pairing the two girls off together #as if batgirl isn't a legacy and as if babs and steph don't have parallels in their resilience and refusal to accept when ppl tell them no #for better and for worse!! #like. idk how you took the strongest feminist element in that comic (bc there are elements of sexism here and there! 2009 n all) #and somehow turn it into ''heteronormativity'' YOU PPL ARE JUST SAYING WORDS AT THIS POINT!!! #anyway. someone take away my internet access

[pa-pa-plasma]

about to watch an hour & a half long video titled "Why How To Train Your Dragon 3 Is Not Good" & I feel so fucking vindicated right now

#I'M GONNA SAY IT: HTTYD 3 SUCKS ASS. I'M RIGHT & I SHOULD SAY IT #like from a writer's standpoint it sucks but ALSO from a viewer's standpoint. HTTYD 2 & 3 just aren't very good #i mean obviously 3 is waaaay worse than 2 but both take any & all character development from 1 & kinda throw it in the garbage #& i think because 1 was so good it just set the bar so high. but then again #Riders of Berk. Defenders of Berk. & RTTE were all very good shows with like less than a quarter the budget of the movies #why did the shows have better characterization & development than the actual main movies? #you cannot imagine my disappointment when they were like ''whatever let's just slap Ruff with Snotlout or Fishlegs at the end'' #Snotloud & Fishlegs are bisexual & dating. this is the only version of canon i will accept #the shows gave me that why can't the movies??? #yes they literally kiss in the show. yes you need to watch it right now #idk i feel like in the movies hiccup is the only character. everyone is a background character to him #& his characterization isn't even consistent with the first movie #he unlearns how to draw. he fucking unlearns how to draw because he's too cool for loser hobbies now. i'm going to kill someone

[lovers-instead]

anyway read Ms. Marvel (2014) and Ms. Marvel (2015)

#ms marvel #ms. marvel #kamala khan #despite technically being 2 books it's basically 1 full series imo #last year after the tv show (which i liked!) i reread both and i was so moved that i bought hardcover copies #i strongly dislike comics as a whole (see the current drama for why) but with hindsight #this story ends up remarkably cohesive. 1 writer + 3 artists total #short enough to be able to (mostly) pretend it's progressing in real time and not comic-book stasis #(it'd be better if time actually moved on purpose though obviously lol) #and my favorite characters: kamala's human teen friends #i've been complaining about them not being used enough across all media since 2018. but this is particularly egregious. not even her family

[yioh]

the whole csm discourse on twitter is so dumbbbbb oh my god😭

#like fujimoto writes interesting women … why is that so controversial HXKXHDJDN #i feel like ppl are so used to hating male shounen writers that they can’t stand when a good writer gets complimented 😭 #he’s not the father of girlhood or whatever like that’s a p dumb title anyways but the way he writes asa’s character and depicts her #specific girlhood is so cool !! that should be celebrated if anything smh #tbh i kinda wish there would stop being a war between whether shoujo or shounen is better or male or female writers are better #bec both are dynamic and have great and terrible characters + writing #shoujo has a lot of flaws as do female authors but they are different to flaws of shounen and male authors #not to mention men can write for shoujo and women can write for shounen too #shoujo struggles w misogyny too !!!!! #i think it’s more of a societal problem imo #this is a v interesting topic of debate tho i’m sure im missing a lot of nuances but #in the end i think fujimoto is doing a great job and we shouldn’t discredit his successes by saying it’s the bare minimum? #there’s not a linear scale for writing women where 0 is bad and 5 is minimum and 10 is amazing #fujimoto depicts varied women (some written well some not) and his cast of women is so dynamic and interesting and so human !!! i think that #this is something we should see more of! it’s not the bare minimum for me because his characters like quanxi and kobeni and power are so #fulfilling to me #anyone can write amazing and terrible stories regardless of their gender #like their gender definitely influences the type of character they write but i think authors should be seen as a collective instead of #judged upon depending on what gender they are? #many thoughts lol

[tea-cat-arts]

Where would you rank every battlesuit of kiana,mei and bronya in terms of design?

Seen your recent post and thought of saying this

(That’s a lot of designs, so I’m not gonna do in depth commentary on each individual design here. If you have questions on certain ones rankings, I can elaborate elsewhere. Also, every design within the same tier is the same level of good. I’m not trying to say one design is better than the other if it’s placed higher up on the S tier segment than other)

Disclaimer: I’m trying my best to be objective here, but this is art so personal biases will come into play. I’m not trying to force anyone else’s opinion on this matter, just sharing my thoughts

S (fantastic, wouldn’t change a thing)-

Void drifter (combines elements of both her mother figures with Elements of HoV while still keeping signature elements of Kiana’s designs)

HoV (truly looks like a pissed off goddess ready to kick ass. Set the standard for Herrscher designs)

HoF (already explained this one elsewhere)

HoT (ok, we all already know this design is amazing. I don’t feel the need to explain this one)

Orochi Cuirass (takes the silhouette of Danzai Spectramancer, and refines/streamlines it. The different textures on the blacks help them stay separated. Little splashes of gold keep this design from feeling to flat)

Haxxor Bunny (Bronie was out here doing the cyberpunk edge runners look before edge runners was even a thing. The dot texture makes her feel like she walked straight out of a comic book)

HoR (she looks like the tech queen she is. All the frills help give her a much bigger/grander appearance)

A (good design, could be great with minor changes)

Valkyrie Ranger (very solid starting out design, very little lore relevance)

Prodigal Girl (takes what works with White Comet and makes it scrappier. Feels very true to Kiana’s personality)

Striker Fulminata (if they made the shirt a little longer or given her shorts or tights, I think this would’ve been an excellent starter design for Mei. Looks soft and comfy while still being combat ready)

Drive Kometa (takes the mech elements of Yamabuki armor, puts them into Bronya’s usual silhouette, and puts her in a much more complimentary color)

Silverwing N-EX (Bronya’s literally just living her best life here and I love that for her. Brings her into the APHO aesthetic while keeping bits and pieces of her mech and Angel aesthetics)

B (overall good, but has one minor thing that just isn’t working)

White Comet (solid starting out design, looks kinda like a wet suit ngl)

Knight Moonbeam (looks like a refined version of divine prayer. Feels almost like the type of Valkyrie Kiana was trying to be at the beginning of the story. Personally would’ve liked more color though)

Wolf’s Dawn (solid starter design. I miss the mech legs)

Snowy Sniper (wouldn’t be my first choice in snow gear, but it’s alright. Wish they gave her a bulkier jacket and scarf)

HoTr (oof I want to rank this higher since it’s an excellent evolution of HoR, but it just doesn’t work as part of the trio. Lacks Mei’s purple and Kiana’s orange)

Dimension Breaker (looks more like a snowy sniper skin than a whole new design.

C (overall good, but has one major thing that just isn’t working)

Red Lictor/Radiant Blaze (Void drifter but with more white and only 3 colors. Very flat tone wise)

Crimson Impulse (the first and thankfully last time we see Mei in pink. They added armor in places it just shouldn’t be and it ends up making the design look clunky. Revealing outfit is weird given Mei’s more modest personality at this point in the story)

Danzai Spectranancer (combat jorts. It’s just a lot of overlapping patterns in textures without really intention behind them)

Valkyrie Bladestrike (same color palette problem as Shadow Dash. There’s a lot of unnecessary gaps in the clothes, and the stiff, revealing design doesn’t make sense for her personality)

Valkyrie Chariot (would be ranked higher if it wasn’t for the panty shots. That’s literally my only gripe with this design. Just put her in tights)

Black Nucleus (man, early Honkai really was determined to show us as much Bronya ass as physical possible. I think they should’ve gone with a color other than red)

D (ya, this just isn’t working)

HoFi (already explained this one elsewhere)

Divine Prayer (why nun? Flat tone wise. Never seen a nun outfit turned into shorts before and after this, I never want to again)

Lightning Empress (Mihoyo, get out of here with the revealing school uniforms. Isn’t this supposed to be her Herrscher persona??? She’s not threatening in the slightest)

Shadow Dash (it’s just too much stuff. Having Mei in so much red and black so early in the story muddies the thematic intentions with HoT’s color palette)

Yamabuki Armor (get that 16 y/o’s ass off my screen Mihoyo. Unnecessarily revealing and yellow just isn’t a good main color on Bronya)

F (this is just blatantly a bad design)

HoO (explained this one elsewhere)

Overall thoughts: other than how weirdly sexualized Bronya was early on, I think she’s the most consistent in terms of having good designs, and Kiana is just overall very solid. I feel like the writers just didn’t know what to do with Mei early on, and that ended up getting reflected in her designs, but once they hit their stride they took off sprinting and fell flat on their faces in the end with HoO

#honkai impact #raiden mei #bronya zaychik #kiana kaslana #Mei got snubbed by both the designers and writers #I’m sorry queen- you deserved better than that #I think the lack of clarity with Mei early on also ends up hurting Kiamei as a couple #because both her design and their dynamic peaked at the divorce

[corbinite]

I don’t want a fionna and cake series. Please hbo just let this show have a narratively satisfying end pleaaase. The ending of adventure time was so good and such a good sendoff and it only WORKS if it’s an actual ending, it only works if we’re actually saying goodbye. Literally the whole message of the finale was that sometimes you have to let things end and accept that things will never be how they were, and that there’s beauty in that acceptance because no matter what changes it doesn’t erase what you had. You cannot literally have that be the entire THESIS of the last three or four seasons and then keep drawing it out for cash and nostalgia

#mine #at #adventure time #also I'm gonna say it the fionna and cake episodes do not hold up #they very much fit into the early days of adventure time when a simplistic and normative mythos of boyhood was central to the premise #and fionna and cake stood to contrast that which is why when it comes to gendered things fionna got treated *so* different by the writers #like how the narrative in the early seasons was pushing finn to 'get the girl' meanwhile the narrative within fionna and cake #was more about self-acceptance regardless of a man (keep in mind they were both like 13 at the time) #that's VERY gendered and it's the kind of thing that the writers clearly realized they were doing wrong #given how they recontextualized the gender stuff into something way more productive starting in the flame princess arc #and I get that they were all in ice king's imagination but let's be real that's not why those episodes aired #so the in-universe logic for why fionna was treated so differently than finn don't really make sense #anyway this is basically the same thing I was saying when they initially announced distant lands #and I still think they never should have released distant lands (even though I do love some of the stories told) #there's just no ending they could ever give the show that's better than the initial ending #and even if it was possible to give them a satisfying new ending they're NOT going to reach it by dwelling in nostalgia #because that's completely antithetical to what makes an ending good #at least antithetical to what made adventure time's ending good

[rhys-ravenfeather]

More respect and love for fanfiction writers, please.

I already made a much longer post about this in the past, but many, MANY popular characters, and even stories, at least started out as fanfiction in some way (i.e. The Shape of Water being a reimagining of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Peridot from Steven Universe basically being an expy of Invader Zim, but more rational)--you never know WHAT could come from fanfiction. Heck, I’ve legitimately seen fanfiction that was a thousand times better than what we got in canon.

And whether someone ends up deciding to rebrand their fanon stories/characters into OCs for an original story, or just stick with the source material, don’t you dare knock fanfiction writers, or treat fanfic as if it’s ‘lesser’ somehow.

#rhys-ravenfeather signing in #okay to reblog #fanfiction #fanfics #i say this as both a fanfiction writer myself (and one who REALLY needs to advertise her fanfic better ^^') #and as someone who's working on an original story that's basically a huge ahit/batim/fnaf crossover #with how many retooled characters i have planned for it... #seriously though--props to my fellow fanfic writers no matter WHAT you ended up doing with your stories

[senxitive]

It's 2023 and I'm still hoping my favorite Beatles fan fics get surprise updates this year 😭

#sometimes i try to read A Book #and im like Ok but kathleenishereagain could do it better #or this aint got NOTHIN on Imagine Beatles #i be like this is cute but they should read The Ballad of Lennon and McCartney by please dont wake me #im SO serious #some of you are the most gifted writers i have had the pleasure of reading #im humbled by your passion and skill #i think this OFTEN #usually its me feeling the need to reread art and obligation #this time i was shook with the desire to read Ten Minutes #both are so surprisingly complex in their relationship arcs that i hope to all that is holy one day they are finished #i cannot wait to read how they end #they are GUT wrenching