#changing the story

[away-ward]

If you could erase any storyline from devil’s night series, which storyline would you get rid of?

Personally:

Damon not telling Winter it was him till the videos were released. I love Damon, but he deserved that jail time because Winter didn’t know who he was half the time.

I felt like Alex served zero purpose, she just made shit confusing. Also the whole black church plot was f-ing weird.

Allex and Will - I like that they were close but I just felt like them sleeping together was unnecessary, like it would have been nice to have an actual friendship that was asexual for a change.

Alex and Aydin story should have been focused in another book. NF was supposed to be about Will and Emory and to have another random couple thrown into the mix really took away from their story.

The group Wedding was just weird. I mean I like this ride & die dynamic between friends, but that doesn't mean that they have to share everything together. The wedding between the couple's should have been personal to them. I really wanted to see Michael and Ricka getting married under the night sky infront of St. Killian's as they had planned because it was them and the gazebo wedding should have been between Will and Emory without much fuss, it was a a spot that was important and personal to them.

Kill Switch should have been the last book and Nightfall the third in the series. I'm sorry but Emory and Will's relationship needed more breathing room to develop properly, we needed to see more of them as an actual couple and Emory as a character needed more time develop into the circle of friends to make it more believable to where they all consider each other family. It's really weird because Will and Emory's story has the most potential but it's also least developed one. Also having Michael's father as the main villain was just weak especially compared to Banks and Damon's father and even Damon himself who was quite a wild card, you could've really done so much more on that front.

The guys should have apologized for what they done to Ricka and how they treated Emory. I love the Horsemen and all, but one think that continuously pissed me off about them is how they kept blaming their own actions onto other people especially the girls who frankly got dragged into the shit they themselves caused instead taking accountability for their crimes and mistakes they committed. Also Ricka and Emory should've been more pissed at the guys, it should have taken quite a bit more for them to forgive them after what they had done and said to them but an apology should have been the absolute minimum and we never got it.

Willemmy needed more alone time to talk. Instead of the train scene where Emory was getting it on with Alex infront of everyone (which was hot and all) we needed more so a scene between Will and Emory to talk some shit through and resolve their problems and thereby get closer on an emotional level.

But Alas that's just me, what is your take?

It’s funny that you ask because I wrote this thing several months ago. We have a lot of the same points as far as KS and NF go.

For me it’s not so much that I would remove or erase a storyline or plot point, but that I would have liked to see it handled differently. Removing anything, especially the big things, would create an entirely different story.

With Winter and Damon, I have mixed feelings. Catfishing anyone is violating. Convincing Winter that he was someone else, letting it go as fair as he did, I consider sexual assault. She didn’t know it was him and if she did, she wouldn’t have consented and he knew that; he used it against her. He violated her. There’s no getting around that.

But…she…knew she didn’t know his name. She made the decision to sleep with someone who’s identity was being concealed from her. Can we really place all the blame on Damon when Winter was aware that he was lying to her, that he could have been anyone – including Damon Torrance – and in fact, that was part of the draw and attraction? I don’t think so. I think both of them share responsibility for how things went. Damon should have been punished, and I don’t think there was any getting around him being put on a watch list, because even if Winter had come forward, he still did it. But it’s not fair that he carries the entire burden of their secret relationship, and that’s probably the core of their story – Winter admitting that she had a hand in it.

So I wouldn’t change this storyline. I think it’s fine as it is.

Alex and Will: I don’t think I would change that storyline either. Their relationship began with Will being one of her clients. If they weren’t having sex at all, there would be no reason for Alex to have been introduced. Their relationship grew to friendship from there. I agree at some point it should have become completely platonic, but you’re dealing with a group of people who treat sex as causally, so it’s not out of the norm for them to just keep it up. I wouldn’t have minded if Alex didn’t try to sleep with everyone in the group or complain that she didn’t get to. I kinda feel that undermines her character, but that’s just me.

I don’t mind that Alex and Aydin started in NF, but since PD didn’t want to write a novella just for them, they sort of backed themselves into a corner, because they then needed to finish it in NF, which took valuable and needed pages from Willemmy, and Emory’s story in general. I think a novella for the Alex fans would have been a good compromise, because then those who wanted to continue Alex’s story could have, and those who didn’t still got a well rounded and completed conclusion to the core cast, especially NF’s main characters. I would have welcomed that change.

The group wedding. Oh boy. Yeah, I might have opted to change this. The way I see it, the wedding was not just a ceremony for the core couples to commit to each other, but it was The Family committing to each other. I would have preferred if we got a wedding for Michael and Rika as promised, and then later a ritual ceremony for the family. Some real secret society, magic friendship nonsense. Maybe something in the catacombs or out in the woods around St. Killian’s. Or even, at midnight in the gazebo*. Something with just the family and no on-lookers. And I don't think it should have been too heavy, but something a bit silly and lighter; they should have been able to joke with each other so we could see their bonds strengthening. Will and Emmy could have had their wedding at a later point – and maybe Winter could have interrupted it by going into labor and then we get the scene where Emmy tells Will she’s pregnant.

We almost had it all.

The forgiveness and friendliness between everyone happened so quickly for me, but I don’t know if I would have been happy with a whole apology scene. But maybe something that truly indicated they were going to elevate their woman in the future and acknowledging it was them that dragged everyone through a mess they created.

Like I said, I don’t want to completely change the story. The concepts were fine, but perhaps need to be developed a little differently. After all, if the concepts were that terrible, I wouldn't still be here, blogging about it a year later.

However! A change I would have made that I don’t think would have changed this story at all:

Rika and Damon shouldn’t be siblings. It just creates more confusion and trauma for Damon and makes the scenes in Corrupt even more uncomfortable from Rika’s POV. Even though we know what’s going on with Damon, the fact that it even gets to that point and then it’s never discussed, except for jokingly, is a bit weird. And the storyline doesn’t really go anywhere except for Damon being mad at a woman who, quite frankly, has always been framed as weak-willed. And his father was certainly no joke. It makes it hard to side with him in his anger when from his “mother’s” point of view, she really had no choice. But I’m not sure if PD is really concerned with us siding with or justifying Damon’s anger…

And as mentioned in the other post, I would have liked if Aydin was aged up to somewhere in his early 30s. Him being the same age as Will and the others makes it hard to believe in his authority or his "big brother" relationship with Emory. Even that minor change would make it a bit more convincing for me. Also, I feel that Alex is suited to a man nearly 10 years older than her; let's not pretend that's a significant age gap for this genre.

Hmm....I'll probably update the post if there's anything else, but I can't think of anything right now. The other post does talk about how I would have liked Alex to be a better character, but I think we've all discussed that to death.

Maybe the timelines! For my own sanity, I wish those were clearer. But then, I can't really be mad at PD for bad math.

...I think that's it.

Anyone have any other thoughts?

*I’m reading divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood right now so I can see this very clearly at the moment.

(I feel inclined to do that youtuber closing thing for giggles. You know, if you liked this post, give it a thumbs up (like). If you like my channel, subscribe (follow). Ring the bell for notifications. I post...whenever. Anyway...)

#asked and answered #devil's night series stuff #the horsemen of devil's night #the women of devil's night #changing the story #devil's night series #asked and answered 47

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[resizura]

i need to know the science of why people rave ab re2r and not re3r because the criticisms for re3r can be applied directly to re2r 😭

#resizura rants #changing characters #changing enemies #changing the story #core mechanics are gone (AB/zapping system and the choice system) #my only guess is the length of the games and the extra content #like thats all i can think of why people dont criticize 2 as much as 3

[tariah23]

The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

#it’s just??? #at the end of the day all these people want to do is draw and write their stories and share them with the world #why is death from stress the end game for so many of them #this should not be part of the package when finally deciding that this is what you want to do with your life #rambling #I still never got over miura’s passing man #and Togashi is still here but he’s been suffering from the consequences of overwork #it’s just… all so bleak #fans just need to learn to be patient if these changes are ever made and to be respectful #your fav series is not gonna die just because you can’t get it right now #I’m glad that gege does this now like he takes a break every 2-3 chapters and that’s good #this should be normalized

[autumn-may]

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

#The boy and the heron #how do you live #studio ghibli #ghibli #in all honesty that movie was legitimately so fantastic and im like changed as a person #Story wise as well! It hits really hard if you know a bit about miyazaki and his legacy. Its a very personal movie i think #And you can feel it in every aspect #The eng dub voice actors were really good as well and the animation was beautiful as always #Also really loved the tone!!! The story really relied a bit on the use of negative space in both sound and pacing and i enjoyed that alot #in conclusion go read a article about miyazaki and his son and then go watch the movie it’s probably going to be one of my favorites #image id in alt

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

#exilley's diary #this is about utena btw like. yeah its feminist and a coming of age horror story but also #it was in part ikuhara’s response to the changes he observed in the corporate anime industry and an attempt to subvert those trends #it doesnt really help that i feel certain aspects of the show are filtered through translation and certain cultural emphasises are lost #like for instance. the blood type symbolism. or wakaba’s gestures with making packed lunches #theyre incredibly japanese expressions of conventional gender roles that non-japanese audiences might not fully resonate with

[ronanlynchbf]

tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY

#i literally JUST finished hill house a few days ago and i already want to reread. Badly. it's sooo so so soo sooooooooo good <33333!!!!! #also completely enamored by shirley jackson's writing style i NEED to read everything she has written ever like right now.. #opening lines of ALL TIME btw 👆❗❗❗ #r.txt #the haunting of hill house #ALSO i've seen commentary videos on the tv show they made of hill house but from what i remember of it it's SO different from the book??? #i think they were all siblings in the show which is??????? like why would you change that part?? i love sibling relationships as much as the #next guy but i feel like the fact that none of them knew each other was such an essential part of the story like why would u change it.... #also eleanor was like. an entirely different character who was also already dead in the show i believe??? and dr. montague doesn't exist?? #hill house could've been really good as a show idk why they changed it up like that...like was the original story not interesting enough for #you or something?? WHO decided to make that change i just wanna talk 🤨

[neutral-towards-mindmaps]

can't stop thinking about tamsyn muir's choice to present her deep, morally and politically complex science fantasy world with a central web of magic, secrets and lies reaching back ten thousand years through the eyes of three characters who:

1. tune out and start thinking about hot women whenever the magic system or worldbuilding are being explained

2. experience hallucinations on a daily basis, have brain damage and are being deceived and misled by their peers, authority figures, themselves and God

3. don't know who they are, have spent their entire life in one place and are, on all levels but physical, six months old

#she said: you will have concrete information when i say you can have concrete information #and then every new bit of information you do get fundamentally changes some earlier element of the story #like. rereading these books the first time doesn't even count as rereading imo #it's just an entirely new experience #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

the most anticipated comic from this blog: White Boy Goes Dancing (follows directly from this)

Everyone's been sending me asks for this! I have a second part to this planned for the future. Watch this space!

#tintin #adventure of tintin #comic #chang #tinchang #fanart #swing dance #long post #probably the least tintin feeling comic ive posted here lol #must be the colour palette and genre shift #i put so much detail into this one it took a lot out of me lol #i hope you guys enjoy this! #my stories

[sandflakedraws]

hug time 🌺

#trolls #trolls band together #floyd #bruce #clay #john dory #branch #brozone #? i suppose #sandflakedrew #whEW that's a list of names #anyway. #smanch the branch #be the change u wanna see in the world etc etc. wanted more hug outta the movie so i will feed myself #also got slightly emotional about john dory's color story #as the brother who is wearing all of his other brother's colors... #small weepy

[misojohnist]

finally came up with a good poll idea so, for posterity:

#thought about the lottery again today and realized i need this information #tell me about the stories that changed you as a child i want to know!!! #will not beg for reblogs but since i have like 900 followers and half of them are bots i welcome this post breaking out of containment

[downydig]

please forgive me for whatever i do, when i don't remember you

#doodles #my art #such a tragic story! and a wonderful song #it changed 12 yo me #or however old i was when that episode aired #adventure time #simon petrikov #marceline

[inkskinned]

yesterday while feverish i wrote about how boats can moor next to each other like pigeons, cooing with the gentle rap of water against their hull. you once said that that the way i see things - birds in the water, feathers in marina paint - was "childish and naive." you said i'd been misdiagnosed - "it can't all be adhd. you might be just kind of stupid and lazy."

i still do certain things like how you taught me - turn the pillow case inside out before putting it on. drive defensively. hate myself entirely.

the prompt for this poem is "mahler's fifth." i wish it wasn't, but mahler's fifth was our song. it ended up in my book. every person that knows your name has promised me they'll give you one swift rabbit punch, right to the face. dean read the book and showed up on my front porch, drenched in sweat from running the 8 miles at 4 in the morning. he was shaking. pacifist and gentle - he works with children - i'd never seen him furious. a punch isn't going to do it, he said, and then said i'm sorry. i had to come to see if you were okay.

mahler's fifth was mine first, like my girlhood. i like the way each movement piles onto the next movement, each instrument bleeding into the next. i like the horn version the best. before i met you, i danced to it on grass still-wet from sprinklers.

later you would tell me that the way you heard it was somehow better. you understood something in it that i couldn't quite wrap my fingers into. once, on our anniversary, you asked the classical music radio station to play it for us. we missed hearing it because we were fighting. one of the things people get wrong about abuse is that sometimes victims are, like, brutally aware of the stupidity of our situation. what do you mean that you thought i wasn't good enough for you? you? you're just... nothing.

sometimes people can pull the poetry out of your life. i watched my words become clothesline, and then thin out into kite twine. i watched you chew through every good syllable of me. so many good songs and places and moments were ruined. i am glad you didn't like most of my music - less to tie back to you.

but still mahler's fifth. the music swells, and i am 21 and throwing up in a bathroom on my birthday. a woman i will later refer to as lesbian jesus runs a cool hand down my back, her perfect pantsuit starch-pressed. she told me to leave you. she said - and this is true, and not an invention of rhyme or fantasy - i'm you from the future.

i am 22, and i got home from an award ceremony, and i remember you telling me - you act so proud of yourself when you're actually so fucking embarrassing. i took you to disney world. you took my virginity. i gave up visiting spain for a week with my family - i instead choose you, to spend the time just-cuddling. you called it "our fuck week." the music swells. it probably should have been a red flag that for about 3 years - i just gave up on crying. my grandfather died and you said nothing. my uncle died and you ghosted me for 3 weeks. you said i need to protect myself from your ongoing tragedy.

every so often i come back to the memory of one of our last afternoons in person. i had just told you that i wasn't going to law school, despite the free ride - i was going to join a creative writing program. master's in fine arts. i was going to finally do it - i was going to follow my dreams. this blog was already internet-famous. however reluctantly, i would occasionally refer to myself as a poet. i got into umass amherst's writing program for fiction authors. it is one of the the top 5 programs in the country.

wait are you seriously considering actually attending that? dumbfounded, you turned completely towards me in your seat. for the 3rd time in our relationship, you almost crashed the car. you actually want to be a writer?

the first time i went viral, it was for a poem i wrote about you:

he wants to say i love you but keeps it to goodnight because love will take some falling and she's afraid of heights.

every time i see that, i want to throw up. you weren't in love with me, you were in love with the control you had over me. a little truth though: i am afraid of heights. you caught a rabbitgirl and skinned her alive.

mahler's fifth still makes me sick.

give me that back. give me back music. give me back everything i had before you. give me back fearlessness. give me back bravery. give me back a scarless body.

give me back what you took from me.

#nosebleed club #sorry stephen not ur fault #just like. thinking #writeblr #spilled ink #warm up #every time nat is like - oh let me get that for u #im like .... this is a trick right like ur gonna be mean now bc u did something nice rn #so obviously if ur being nice now either u did something mean and im about to learn about it #or you're going to BE mean #or ur gonna hold this over my head forever and i'll never get a nice thing ever again? #and every time nat is like .... babe i just actually like u #lesbian jesus story is 100% real btw. she also told me not to be an event planner #literally changed the shape of my life

[cursed-angelic-art]

I need to write about how Jun Wu's belief that everyone has the capacity for evil, if you just push them hard enough, torment them long enough, is directly contradicted by the entire story of tgcf, which posits that, actually everyone has the capacity for good. The misogynistic womanizer, the depraved cannibal, the man dead set on revenge, the one filled with envious resentment, are all able to do the right thing when it comes down to it. In a way, doing good is a surrender, it's giving up, it's as easy as falling asleep. And it's so much easier than letting the evils of your past dog your heels for hundreds of years. Isn't it such a release to change? To not be stuck in your old ways?

#i genuinely cheered when xl finally decides to tell hc about his past #hed been keeping it so close to his chest for so long and his inability to confront it was keeping him stuck #meanwhile hua cheng is so mutable #so able to change and learn and grow #the themes in this story are so fucking beautiful #tgcf #heaven officials blessing #xie lian #hua cheng

[anuphim]

so. i recently had an idea.

#lamb is very fun to draw with long hair #i am still working out the details for this au like idk who to make the horse but #might twist/change some stuff in the original tangled story just to fit cotl better #like for the bishops #but i have MANY THOUGHTS #cult of the lamb #cotl #narilamb #true devotion #narinder #the one who waits #shamura #cotl aym #cotl baal #ratau #tangled au #my art

[dawntones]

the day has arrived

#stardew valley #from twitter #if you are able to pls mark any spoilers in posts about 1.6 changes! #(for notable story changes i mean!) #happy stardewing fellas 🤍