#fundamentally annoyed at his existence and what they tried to do with him as a character

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Stolen from @pinkandpurple360 anonymous ask.

"Blitz still has a long way to go with character development”

That's great. I can't wait to never see it.

This was an issue I tried working into my Fizzarolli Dissection but it kept feeling less about the character and more an overarching writing issue, so let's just take it here.

Every bit of character development in the series is inconsistent or entirely spontaneous. Stolas being in love with Blitz seemed like a slow burn until out of nowhere in Ozzie's he is so head over heels for Blitz in specific. Asking why Blitz only now is asking him out "after all this time", like he has been waiting on and expecting it despite that never being a thought towards their dynamic before. Going from being entirely obsessed with their sexual contract and seeing Blitz as a sex object to suddenly wanting cuddles on the couch with no strings attached?

That change was never shown in the series. It was never developed. There is no character growth, they merely are different to suit the new direction to the plot.

So again, I'm so glad Blitz has more character development to go through, can't wait for it all to be implied off screen like every other ounce of character we've been gaslight into believing has "grown".

If you never show it on screen, the dynamic, the relationship, the change, it never happened. Loona at the end of Queen Bee seems to get closer to Blitz but the next time we see her she's trying to assault him. We never saw any moment of change following the end of Queen Bee where we felt her character actually develop. Even after calling Blitz dad in the episode, she ignores him in favor of strangers at the party. She expressed clear disgust with Blitz before leaving with him, and her mild softening towards him at the end could just as easily be seen as nothing at all as it could be a character growth.

However growth requires reinforcement. If you never reinforce that moment meant something, it isn't growth, it's a cheap emotional scene to get a reaction from an audience. A short scene of Loona simply telling Blitz good morning to show some kind of change was all that was needed, but it was not as important to establish change in the characters as it was to have the most cringe scene in existence. Priorities.

One of the biggest issues with the series is how blatant the meta agenda of the writing is. They never allow the space to establish characters or change, instead citing these one off moments as “proof” of story when they do not amount to anything at all. There is unfortunately a distinct difference between a story and a scene, and it is painfully obvious by how Medrano and Nylan utilize these scenes that it is entirely for a superficial effect.

The relationship between Fizzarolli and Blitz similarly is extremely vapid and has no foundation to establish what their dynamic actually was growing up. Additionally, the two scenes of them being younger are fundamentally contradictory. Younger Fizz from The Circus is assertive and confrontational. He threatens to punch Blitz for being annoying and not playing the way he wants to play. He's bossy without necessarily being mean and not only knows he's popular, but also how to utilize it as manipulation, seen in how he draws attention to himself to spare Blitz the embarrassment of his failed joke. This Fizzarolli actually lines up also with the Fizz from Ozzie's. It's hard to claim that Ozzie's Fizz was "just an act" when as a literal child he has all the same traits

Then in the Special he is insecure, timid, has very little self esteem and is an anxious people pleaser with a mousy voice. There is nothing to establish this as the same person at all, and all the narrative context clues around his popularity does not support the direction of change this character has experienced. Fizzarolli has only gotten bigger between being what appears to be six years old and what I can only assume to be thirteen based on his cracking pubescent voice and gangly limbs. All we can go on is context clues and extrapolation, but arguing of a non-existent event that humbled Fizzarolli to this extent, while maintaining his stardom prior to ever meeting Mammon, is founded on nothing, when there is a much simpler answer.

His whole personality has taken a 180 turn for the sole purpose of the episode’s narrative. Fizzarolli being the pathetic whump he is in the episode is not founded anywhere else in the show, but we need that so people feel bad for him. There is no confidence in this writing. It shows that instead of believing the character is likeable as a whole for a complex personality, the only way anyone will like him is if he is just the softest jellybean in the bunch.

It is only this way because it suits the episode right here and now. And when his character changes, it isn't founded on any concrete narrative of growth and actions having consequences, but on what the writers need to get the audience to feel a certain way. So I say it again:

That's nice, I can't wait to never see it.

#helluva boss critical #helluva boss critique #helluva boss criticism #vivziepop critical #vivziepop #vivienne medrano #spindlehorse critical #spindlehorse criticism #helluva boss #vivziepop criticism #writing criticism

[braininatankwithalaptop]

One dynamic I wish was explored in Gravity Falls x Danny Phantom Crossovers is how paranormal investigators can be dangerous and invasive for peaceful cryptids.

Like, imagine you're Bigfoot, and you're purposefully hiding yourself because you hate society/ scared of government/ are in danger/ etc. Can you imagine how annoying cryptozoologists and paranormal investigators are? Their mission is fundamentally at odds with the cryptids' quality of life. Cryptozoologists want to document and prove Bigfoot's existence for fame, respect, money, what have you, and legitimately don't care how it would affect Bigfoot. They work in the name of "science" and "truth" without caring for how public knowledge of those things would hurt them. Now imagine that dynamic with Danny and Dipper and how it could create a great character arc?

Dipper wants to grow up too fast. He wants to prove himself the capable and respected scientist/ paranormal investigator/ adventurer/ what have you and sees the inhabitants of Gravity Falls as methods to do so. Danny, in his human form, would be the cynical "ethical" guide that tries his best to remind Dipper that someone is sentient, they deserve respect too. And as Phantom he'd probably be the outspoken and direct "leave me alone and keep those cameras away from me" while consistently proving his "humanity" with action and diplomacy.

Also can you imagine if after resolving his parents not wanting to hunt his ghost self anymore Danny suddenly has to deal with a 12 year old that (while not actively malicious) wants to catalogue his weaknesses and "weirdness" in a book to publish?

Dipper: Why can't I get Phantom to fall into my traps? I'd be able to get that Cryptid Evidence Contest prize for sure.

Danny: I don't know, maybe Phantom weighed the options and thought him being strapped to a dissection table wasn't worth you getting 500 bucks.

#danny phantom #dp #danny fenton #gravity falls #dipper pines #headcanon #musings #fanfiction crossover #maybe Valerie would be a good way to teach Dipper the ethics of interacting with the supernatural from a perspective #idk #I think this crossover idea is neat #maybe an entire species quality of life is more important than some guy proving his bullies wrong

[fandomconsumesme]

Rambling as to make sense of DTAMHD, tw ed and klinsky reference, this is horrifically long but i promise i'm going somewhere with it

I gotta say, watching it the first time I was fairly disappointed (The acting and episode were great, just wasn't sure how I felt about it as a finale) But having spent time to process, i would say this does its job as a Dennis catharsis episode, particularly symbolically

Starting off, Dennis has been almost scarily normal this season, or about as normal as Dennis can be (catfishing your roommate into using xl anal beads), not creeping on women, not getting fed up with the gang all the time, working with them in a familial manner again. Shockingly, it seems he's doing pretty good, and growing into himself

Like at the beginning of the episode, he's actually going to a doctor and apparently everything looks normal. Either this doctor immediately needs to be disbarred, or Dennis has been doing better taking care of himself, an unheard of concept

4. Dennis has a desperate fear of getting old, willing to do anything to prove himself still valuable, something to be desired, both connected to his childhood abuse by Mrs. klinsky, a way of rationalizing that it was okay because Dennis is special, just more developed, and his tenuous relationship with his mother where he was the golden boy, but emotionally separated from her due to drug abuse.

5. Dennis' mind scenario thing starts right after the title sequence i think, and we pretty much immediately get his interpretation of the gang and how he sees them.

6. Charlie is childlike, confused over the concept of sea level, and Dennis has an almost patronizing view of him, not understanding how he's this way if they are so similar

7. Frank brings up the family style cooking, the point of the pressure cooker, but dennis and the gang are in two different places, and the only reason they called was the sea level thing. Dennis sees the gang as a family, but feels like an outsider

8. Dee is reasonable and kind, backing Dennis up, supporting his decision for a mental health day, but seems to lack understanding as to why Dennis is doing this, a fundamental disconnect

9. Mac is always in view, all of him, the focus of the call. Dennis stays watching him, even though he says nothing particularly relevant in the scene. The whole of him appearing also has interesting implications of Dennis knowing who mac is, but he can only get a picture of the other members of the gang for a few seconds at a time. Mac is his constant.

10. To continue that thread, the other members are always yanking the phone towards them, stopping Dennis from being able to interact with him, but Dennis always knows where he is.

11. Frank is an asshole, diminishing Dennis' problems, acting like they don't exist, and as a much smarter person noted here, dennis' watch starts beeping the moment he starts talking.

12. Mac is also patient, cautious of Dennis' boundaries and doing exactly what he has to to make dennis feel safe.

13. Dennis is insistent on it being his mental health day and none of them participating, but as becomes evident later, the day is miserable BECAUSE they aren't there to back him up and support him. Dennis tries to stay away because they make things complicated, but they make things complicated by causing him to have big feelings.

15. He also gets repeatedly annoyed by very little things, like downloading an app or not getting the precise tea he wanted, but then calms by blaming it on the system (system seems like such a familiar word in the context of dennis and his thoughts... I wonder what it could be referencing lol) So all of those little inconveniences that stop Dennis from doing what he wants, can in fact be attributed to the system. Not only does he acknowledge it's the system, but also that he isn't the only victim, that others suffer because of it.

16. The tsuma blares the song when he opens the door in the parking lot, and he's so focused on stifling it that he doesn't notice he's just made a mistake that will hurt him in the long run.

17. On the French dip, dee once again works in conjunction to Dennis, encouraging them not to eat it. Charlie is afraid of Dennis' wrath, but Mac wants for Dennis to come home and be happy. Mac tries to reassure dennis.

18. Overall an aggravating phone call, but the moment he turns it off there are almost reactionary consequences, a police car pulling him over.

19. Dennis comes up with his own metaphors for what he's going through in his mind, likening himself to a pressure cooker.

20. He also has Dee and Mac decide not to call because they want him to have a successful mental health day and respect his boundaries, but frank continues to belittle

21. Along the lines of 16, "Dennis' true self is the tsuma" theory, he goes into a fit of rage when he can't communicate with his car. Dennis is comfortable in the car, but when he exits he puts on a mask, and now can't get back in.

22. The true DENNIS System,

D-Deliver me from this as in get me out of having to demonstrate value

E-Engage with human as in wanting a real connection rather than a physical one

N-Nancy(boy)/Neighbor/Nightmare/Never ending as in repeatedly nurturing dependence in a way that hurts him with the wrong people

N-NIGHTMARE/Never gonna help me as in even worse than the first n, and him knowing that it only hurts to neglect emotionally

I-Is this real as in the potential of something real with inspire hope

S- Somebody help me as in him wanting to escape the system

23. By my reckoning there are 3 people the ceo could symbolize, those being Frank, mac, or Dennis as a mask.

a. Frank because he is so oblivious, able to live a live of lounging at the beach, but it was his actions and neglect which have led to Dennis being trapped in his own prison. The frank is an older figure, and it makes sense for the diamond to be derived from his heart as he is his offspring in a sense. Dennis is reclaiming his sense of free will, taking back control so he can live a life that isn't predestined by his upbringing. The hand on the chest is trying to make frank understand, dennis still gets the pleasure of violent retribution though.

b. Mac is the one orchestrating the pressure cooking of the diamonds, explains the extreme homoeroticism of the scene. The systems have been created to protect himself from mac, mac is allowed to lounge because he has found peace with himself (MFHP) Dennis wants that for himself, and receives it from mac. Mac reaches out first, at the encouragement of dennis, but is pushed away so dennis can show his appreciation, upon which mac looks shocked. They clearly understand and have sympathy for one another. A love song is playing, and dennis takes mac's purest essence for himself, showing how intertwined they are. Mac is left unhurt because it was about the gesture, not the carnage.

C. Dennis as a mask, or what Dennis has made himself into to survive, lounges because he has been given control over the inner dennis. He has created all of the systems, and tsuma is his, made into a form that he can control for his own benefit. Dennis is his own worst enemy, and seeks to deconstruct this unfeeling being in order to find himself. He has a touching moment with himself, where mask dennis realizes that it is necessary that true dennis come to power. explains the homoeroticism because of narcissism, and ultimately true dennis decides the most humane thing he can do is leave behind mask dennis, killing him gently and taking his heart, condensing it into a diamond that symbolizes his innate goodness and incorporating it into true dennis.

I personally think it's a mixture of all three, but regardless this IS Dennis' catharsis. The motifs are there (crying, a powerful body of water) and dennis takes back control, actively choosing to be better. it's different, but it's still there.

24. In the end, when it's all revealed to be a glimpse into Dennis' mind and he's lowered his blood pressure, it's not because he's won per say. before the title, Dennis was keying up for some kind of angry meltdown, but he takes a moment and thinks better. i wouldn't say Dennis has had just one catharsis, but a million little ones in his mind since the season started, a million little choices to be kinder, more patient, better. He calms down and has found at least a temporary solution to his problem (The kratom doesn't hurt either) dennis has gotten so much better with interacting with others this season tbh, and to continue that to an extent would stop him from being the dennis we all know and love, sleazy and manipulative. And what he loves, what he knows will help him, is to be with the gang, his family. And he makes the choice to go to them too.

Remember, there is a structure. It will be fulfilled. (And if it isn't, at least we have FVR and Tends Bar)

#iasip #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #dennis reynolds #oh dennis reynolds #dtamhd #macdennis #mac mcdonald #charlie kelly #frank reynolds #dee reynolds

[whetstonefires]

I hope you're having an excellent day 😊😊😊 What about Wei Wuxian as Naruto?

Thanks! It was pretty good. I organized my embroidery floss and took advantage of being alone in the building to dance around like a maniac for about 20 minutes. My cat hated it. My knees aren't sure they approve either.

Wei Wuxian as Naruto has a lot going for it right out the gate. Orphaned sunshine boy protagonist types, now we're cooking with propane. They're even both fox coded!

However, at the risk of stating the obvious, if Wei Wuxian were Naruto he wouldn't be Naruto anymore. That is. Fundamental to Wei Wuxian is that he is brilliant and talented and he damn well knows it. He would excel without effort in ninja school--not as much as he did in Jiang Sect unless he unlike Naruto was still getting personal mentoring in honor of his late father, but still.

Difference is, when this Wei Wuxian slacks off in class and the teacher tries to embarrass him, if he reels off the correct answer and then reinvents senjutsu from first principles in a creepy-sounding way for a lark just to show off, the teacher is not going to think that he's just like his annoying late mother. (Though he'll still have one. Kushina and Cangse Sanren are fairly similar Dead Mom archetypes too.)

The teacher is going to think things like, no real child would say that shit and I'm expected to teach the monster fox that killed my family basic ninjutsu I hate this I hate this we're all gonna die.

So basically this Wei Wuxian gets his Yiling Laozu reputation mod as part of the starter pack. I don't think he'd handle it super gracefully! But not the worst, either.

Not even as badly as he did in the actual version, probably, on account of he doesn't know his own dark secret. So he can't self-isolate to protect it. Though him pulling away from people once he does learn would be cool.

He'd probably have forged slightly stronger social ties rather sooner than Naruto did, even if he was just as neglected and radioactive; Wei Wuxian doesn't care what people think of him nearly as much as Naruto does, but in some ways he's a more genuinely social person, and he's got much better social intuition, so it's easier for him to figure out what people want and either do that or not do that on purpose.

He'd have at least a bunch of casual friends. Mostly civilians, and other kids from ninja school whose parents told them not to play with him but they did anyway.

Wei Wuxian cannot do therapy no jutsu. He does not have that ability to confront and exist with emotional discomfort or that intensity of interest in what is going on with other people.

He does however have some level of Friendship Beam Attack (the plot to some extent hinges utterly on how effectively it hit Wen Ning) and it would presumably be more effective, in a shounen context.

But that's the thing, Wei Wuxian isn't really built to confront shounen manga style problems. Or, well, he is, but he's overbuilt for them; they're his bread and butter. One of Naruto's key motifs, early on at least before we got into the heavy power creep, is not being a genius.

Wei Wuxian, by definition, is a genius. He is the kind of guy who walks up to shounen manga sorts of problems scaled to what ought to be his level, handles them, and goes 'what, like it's hard?'

Wei Wuxian is designed to be destroyed not by external threats but by his own loyalties, politics, and lies. (Which was a point of confluence with Itachi I didn't really touch on because the flow was so different lmao.)

He's also, otoh, designed to be destroyed. Naruto is designed to start off artificially low and climb steadily up toward heaven. (Ymmv on how this worked out but he sure did escalate.)

You have to pick which schema to apply when performing the fusion--I mean, it's not either-or, the whole deal with Wei Wuxian is he goes through the entire arc of a tragedy and then comes back to life and stars in a romcom. These things can superimpose and stack. But there are structural decisions that have to be made early.

So anyway, Wei Wuxian as Naruto is not going to enter the Genin Team phase of life with the same priorities, even if he has largely conducted himself about the same way hitherto. 'Proving himself' so 'people will accept him' is not a motive that works for this character--you basically have to give him actual precious people earlier just to get him to care about attaining ninja rank at all.

Otherwise he would probably much rather loaf his way through his teens stealing jutsu and making trouble. Which is the well-adjusted reaction to the idea of becoming a child soldier, like. He likes recognition but 'showing off' is a reason he does dumb fun things, not difficult high-commitment ones. He's like if Shikamaru had ADHD and no parents.

Being twelve is going to make him dumber, but I can't see it making him not the kind of person who stops caring about his marks in school if the teacher is hostile.

If Wei Wuxian here isn't acting out of appreciation for the Hokage raising him, or something like that, you have to give him a practical motive to enter military service like 'Konoha stops supporting orphans out of the public purse at thirteen so he's got to get some kind of job and ninja is the least boring option' which. Is significantly less like either Naruto or Wei Wuxian in terms of reasons to do anything, and starts getting into solidly OC territory.

The whole fact that Konoha's worldbuilding centers around an attempt to move away from decentralized clannish social organization and promote the idea of shared, communal social institutions and (in theory) civil society, and the ways this does and does not work out for people especially considering it is still a relatively small military dictatorship, honestly interfaces super interestingly with how, in Mo Dao Zu Shi, one of the underlying challenges backstopping all character choice is that there is no feasible alternative to the clan system, and you have to pick a family-faction to depend upon and submit yourself to, or face the world with no safety net.

Like. Huh.

.....Kishimoto is honestly unusually-for-shounen well-grounded in the genres he's riffing on tbh, for all my bitching there were some very good reasons his work found such success; I would have liked to see what kind of story he produced without the insane pressures of the Weekly part of Weekly Shounen Jump. I wonder if he'll ever publish again. For all I know he already is lmao.

So anyway, however we manage it we get Wei Wuxian on his genin team with like. Lan Wangji and Mianmian or whoever. Actually that's hilarious. Yeah, make it lwj and lqy, both of them so done with his shit.

Setting up some wild role-reversal here--Lan Wangji being the one to go Away and Wei Wuxian asking him to stay? Or Naruto-person leaving into the dark, and Sasuke-person remaining and calling for him to come back? Either way. Getting some inversion. Tasty.

Where does this leave Jiang Cheng, though? Because in a lot of ways Uchiha 'Deuteragonist by Editorial Mandate' Sasuke is straddling both roles.

In many ways Wangxian is much more like if Naruto had an endgame romance with Neji. Which is a great ship tbh, I saw very little of it back in the day?? In a series with a smaller cast or with less Sasuke Creep (not sasuke being a creep, it's like power creep) it would probably have done numbers.

...Naruto going away for that timeskip really limited his opportunity to make connections in the village huh.

I guess it depends on the kind of narrative you're trying to put together. On one hand, you can do Jiang Fengmian as the rather-more-involved Third Hokage, with Jiang Cheng as an aged-up Konohamaru kind of figure. And then Jiang Yanli is standing in as both Iruka and. I know I know the ramen guy's name. Ichiraku. Soup! XD Emotionally significant soup!

But with a different backstory than either lmao. Kurama very possibly killed Yu Ziyuan in this universe, though I can't visualize her as a midwife.

[[[Why do I have so much Naruto lore on tap, there is no life value in knowing Sarutobi Hiruzen's wife was at ground zero of the Kyuubi attack because she was the expert overseeing Uzumaki Kushina's childbirth a;kdj;lafdks. I do not remember the things I was actually studying in high school nearly this well.]]]

(Actually Jin Ling is Konohamaru and Jiang Cheng is aged-down Asuma. But whatever.)

And in this case Wei Wuxian's genin team is Lan Wangji and Mianmian under idk who. Lan Qiren, possibly, although he seems more the Ebisu type. Lan Xichen? (It's not like he can serve as a plausible Itachi. Can you imagine.) Actual Kakashi, possibly; we can't replace everyone with mdzs characters; the cast sizes don't square.

Kakashi training Wei Wuxian is very funny to think about. He deserves this.

Or on the other hand for a different pacing and focus, the genin team is him, Jiang Cheng, and Jiang Yanli under Jiang Fengmian, who dies sometime after or probably during the climax of the chuunin exams. And Sarutobi stays Hokage, and probably doesn't die during the chuunin exams. And we aim for a Naruto/Neji kind of romance storyline lol.

What is the Lan Wangji equivalent of Neji exposing his caged bird seal in front of god and everybody and ranting (it is very unclear at what effective volume though you'd think the proctors would have shut him up if he could be heard from the stadium seating that shit was sedition) about his traumatic backstory and the deep injustices in his family's system of hierarchy? I'm gonna say Not That.

Wei Wuxian versus Lan Wangji important ideological-conflict bonding duel in the Chuunin exam finals sounds excellent though.

Either way Wei Wuxian is going to get much more thoroughly involved in the ugly ninja politics than Naruto ever did, and he's going to hate it so so bad and at least temporarily lose so so so hard. A likely story element is he becomes troublesome enough he winds up having to flee the village ahead of a scheme by Danzou to (fatally) rip the Kyuubi out of him and implant it in some thoroughly conditioned ROOT kid.

Maybe Wen Ning?? Idk. I'm mostly saying this because Wen Ning 1) canonically gets Victimized and Transformed and 2) shares some notes with Sai. And this means he's leaving, in part, for Wen Ning, which ties into some plot and character stuff from their original narrative. You could make it work.

Also him taking the replacement human sacrifice with him when he books it would be hysterical.

Anyway he's branded a missing nin and it is, canonically, illegal for him to tell anyone who doesn't already know about the kyuubi thing, so both Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji are appropriately what the fucking fuck and receive no adequate answer. This is a workable plot element.

Either the Jiangs or the Lans are the Uchiha, here, which has its own story value, lots of fun to be had. Gotta engineer a way he's protecting Jiang Cheng--does Danzou want to make him the jinchuuriki? Is Orochimaru or his replacement making a play for Jiang Cheng's bloodline limit, whatever it is, fun if it's eyeballs, and Wei Wuxian bargains to give him a jinchuuriki instead? Hmmm.

You want an inside and an outside threat, the obvious viper and the political spider, so you can silo information and make sure nobody entirely knows what's going on.

If it's Jiang Cheng who's assigned the role of bloodline limit macguffin, I have the very wicked urge to cast Yu Ziyuan as some combination of Itachi and Obito. Very Vader kind of effect.

Jin Guangyao as Kabuto, excellent, I need that innocent smile and those torture skills. This may require making Jin Guangshan much smarter than he really is just to fill out the ranks, or again you can keep Danzou as himself.

Tsunade is amusingly enough occupying an overlapping Baoshan Sanren and Wen Qing position; given one of them impersonated the other that time you'd have to do something with that. She's also got some Yu Ziyuan vibe up ofc. Tsunade just contains an entire franchise's supply of girlboss tbh.

Who could possibly stand in for Jiraiya, nobody, but at the same time. Wei Wuxian (with internal sapient asshole nuke) apprenticing under Jiraiya of the Sannin sounds like enough problem-creating goofy jackass genius clown energy in one place to open a singularity. That's too much. No narrative could survive.

Anyway someone please feel free to write this, I am intrigued but also will 100percent never ever put in the time it would take to realize any version of this concept.

#ask #hoc est meum #ramblebrambleamble #mdzs #naruto #fusion #meta #ig????? #return of the son of the jane bennet cinematic universe #fanfiction #the thing about protagonists is they require a story #if lwj is neji then mianmian is tenten #who is Rock Lee? #hard work...pays off...but lwj holds him in contempt...there is no such person???? #actually it would have to be Wen Ning #he's friends with Wei Wuxian and lwj's petty jealousy grudge is even fiercer and pettier when he is thirteen #haha then wwx casually ships lwj/lqy while lwj resentfully imagines wwx/wql #phantom love triangles that do not exist! two of them! #beautiful #if you need wen ning elsewhere then disrespect rock lee's name and plug su she in as their third #this is so fun and so not productive i have so many other things i should be doing a;ldsksdf; #i play a lot with the dog thing but i'm pretty sure #the number one creative reason wwx is afraid of dogs is just #that's a traditional way for foxes passing as humans to give themselves away #motif~~~~

[therese-lokidottir]

You know I definitely realize when I see loki series for first time that tva definitely bunch of bullshit. You know why?

It's simple, they literally only made peoples only have one choice, basically multiverse didn't allowing to have free will, they make multiverse only one one 'story' DNA it's multiverse literally not in fault but them all workers blame variants for the choice that tva made for them. I am sorry what?

Let's recap mobius blame loki for new York and well everything that happens by tva decision that ' this story must like this and there's no alternative' . In reality loki can be something sles but tva not allowed and then tva /mobius blame him for event that tva decided?

WTF?!! Seriously what's wrong with them, you know what I know what's wrong with them. It's bunch of bullshit, and many claims that tva is only make sure fate keep happens but that not how fate work. Fate is something that keep exist even you take different path that is fate. Fate not taken choices and paths.fate is something that keep exist.

From all tv series in COVID time, loki season 2 definitely many problems like many, the reason peoples just realized how problematic the series was because well it's tom, and people felt bored in COVID and they will take anything in that time.

Something that annoys me about the Loki series is the personal reason, that I am a pedantic nerd and I don't like how the series fundamental doesn't understand the Marvel multiverse. Marvel has done so many multiverse stories, Spiderverse came out three years prior to Loki. So the series annoys me when it's trying to claim it's the most important thing when it's so unimpressive and confused in its lore.

I've discussed this plenty of times. Mobius's character makes no sense. Because from his perspective Loki is just acting out a script and he'll be killed if he doesn't. Mobius is someone who wants to judge others but never wants to think for himself or consider the full implications of what he's doing. What he is supposed to believe is people are just acting out the timekeepers' will.

The TVA are the ones stomping out free will and forcing things to only happen one way. That is what is stated in the show. Even if Waldron tried to fill in the blanks in an interview it still makes no sense.

The series never makes the distinction between fate and the way people truly are vs what is the results of Kang's meddling.

#asks #loki series criticism

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

I'm tired, stressed and overwhelmed so I'm going to try and vent frustration by ranting about the movie we played for the preschoolers today (tomorrow's Thanksgiving so we're off for a few days so we had a movie day).

So we watched an animated adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" that I didn't know existed but apparently came out last year that was just literally called "Scrooge: Christmas Carol" and boy lemme tell you the movie was as bland and unoriginal as the title.

Tell me this: why would you make a Christmas Carol adaptation and then take out everything from the book?! Like, there are fundamental plot points they skipped in favor of flashy over-the-top special effects that served no purpose and didn't further the story at all.

Anyway, here's the thoughts I typed up on my phone while watching it:

"We should have watched the Muppets Christmas Carol (oh my word that's the first one how telling xD)

Why did they give Scrooge a dog?! He never spent extra money on lamp oil, why would he for a dog?! (dog had -17 narrative value btw)

Too many random characters in this

Scrooge hasn't said humbug enough (Idk if he actually ever DID say it at any point and to be fair the movie wasn't very loud but he SHOULD say it a few times at the beginning it's his CATCHPHRASE)

Why does the ghost of Christmas past look Like That? She's supposed to look like a kid not a candle (also she was irritating)

Too many theatrics (why did they travel through the Time Vortex every time Scrooge went somewhere with the ghosts?! why did reality keep fracturing during musical numbers?!)

Where's my nice aesthetic scene of Scrooge flying over rooftops?

If Scrooge isn't scared witless by the ghost of Christmas yet to come you're doing it wrong.

(at the end when he's changed) Where's him tricking Bob and being mischievous?! (like seriously one of my FAVORITE parts is when he goes to Bob's house like "how dare you not be at work today, jk here's a pay raise :)")

Ugh, this movie was annoying, gorgeous animation but the story was BUTCHERED in favor of special effects.

On the upside, Tiny Tim was adorable."

Also Scrooge wasn't really... how do I say this? I was more annoyed than horrified by him. Like, he's not a *presence* like he should be, he's just kind of grumpy. They tried to portray him as sympathetic from the very beginning which is NOT how he's supposed to be and I think it backfired in all ways. He turns out feeling kind of wishy-washy, not an awful, evil miser, but also not a nice guy.

The whole ending was a mess, it COULD have helped the movie A LOT if they had gone the traditional route but nah, Scrooge invited some random kids into his house and they decorated it offscreen and then all the people he ever wronged just showed up at his house for dinner. No turkey the size of Tiny Tim, no shocking everyone by showing up and being suddenly friendly, Idk, it was just extremely disappointing.

I think the theatrics around the ghosts actually made them less intimidating/frightening, especially the ghost of Christmas future. Like, ghost of Christmas present just kinda melts and turns into Future and there's a storm and a ring of fire and Idk man, it was just too over the top. The whole movie was like that and it just got really old really fast.

And WHY did they give Scrooge a weird tragic backstory? The whole point was that he CHOSE this life, he wasn't FORCED into it by circumstance (I read a review that pointed out that instead of his traditional backstory they gave Scrooge Dickens' backstory and just... why).

Also the songs were totally unmemorable, there weren't even lines or tunes from it that stuck in my head. You know what's been playing in my head instead? Songs from the Muppet Christmas Carol.

The only good thing was that it did keep the kids' focus for quite a bit. Like, for prek it was fine I guess but it was just kind of mind-numbing and annoying as an adult. tbh I think the kids only were interested because of the flashing lights and colors and they largely lost interest after snack and I can't blame them.

I think the movie could have been decent if it had kept the original plot points and had Scrooge be miserly and totally unperceptive to Christmas at first like he is traditionally. They could still have added stuff but they should have kept the original story. Like, I didn't mind the scene where I think??? Scrooge and Marley evicted Bob Cratchit's parents when Bob was a baby. Like, that could have added some interesting depth if they'd DONE anything with it besides show it to us. And Scrooge's "transformation" was so watered down it hardly mattered.

Anyway, it kept the kids entertained for an hourish so I guess that's the important thing, but next time we have a movie day I'm definitely offering to bring something in to watch. xD

#movies #a christmas carol #rant #scrooge 2022 #no hate to anyone who liked it btw it was simply not my cup of tea at all

[pontevoix]

--- todo aoi + spirituality

spirituality was not a part of todo aoi’s early childhood. however, it came to him as a realization & as an awakening by the time he was thirteen.

when he thinks of himself at eight years old, nine years old . . . todo remembers when his that his nose ran too much when it was winter time, that he got bored in class, that teachers sometimes battled to determine whether they wanted to consider him inept ( a behavioral risk) or a promising student.

todo remembers that he entertained himself by clucking his tongue & enjoying how it to felt to make the sound - whenever he was reprimanded, he clucked his tongue to reprimand his critics too. it was annoying : that there were assumptions being made about him. about the sounds he made, the things he sometimes claimed to see, the flares of temper, the whatnots & everything in between.

there was no spirituality in his family. there were no ideals for success. there was survival of the fittest in a workforce arena. there was the threat of disconnection, & there was something else too.

at age eight, age nine — meals are whatever. when he has the chance, he overloads his food with spices & too-salty things of which he doesn't particularly enjoy the taste. mostly, todo just likes the flavor to be something bold. 

with two day old rice in hand, he watches whatever played on television. sometimes there were documentaries about buddhists & monks & christian missionaries & who knows what. sometimes, he wonders if these documentaries would explain things he saw. 

never mind. 

when ( & if ) he considers the spirituality of his peers, he dismisses it. what others choose to do is none of his business. it does not interest him.

besides. there are more important things.

at age eight, age nine — he clucks his tongue against the roof the mouth & tries to imagine why the world feels a little slanted sideways.

sometimes he imagines that he can see everything. & then he wonders why he can't decide if it's too quiet, too loud.

mostly, it feels jumbled.

—- it occurs to him later.

later, as in: after he trains hard, brutally, beautifully. after he learns fundamentals about curses, about energy, & about the dead.

it occurs to him later to that spirituality can be a synonym for balance. it occurs to him later that he believes a lot. that he understands a lot.

todo believes:

perspective is everything when it comes to untangling the jumbled.

he doesn’t see everything. he sees flow. things that flow together don’t necessarily need to be compatible. they don’t need to fit together.

things can be jarring, & that’s a part of existing within balance; if the world is slanted, then it’s necessary to adjust the posture & the frame of vision to make things upright.

todo also believes that:

it’s a myth that balance means peace; he is not a peaceful person. he will never be a peaceful person.

self-discipline, self-awareness is necessary to maintain balance.

he believes other things too. about what it means when he asks what kind of woman is your type.

but mostly ? somewhere after age eight, age nine:

todo learned to interpret how he processes the world in terms of balance & flow. he thinks about his environment & himself holistically.

he was not born spiritual. but now he thinks spiritually about energy.

he applies this in how he prioritizes self-discipline in his own behaviors.

#aoi todo #5. headcanon #100. c. todo #not nearly edited enough but hey i sdiufhgsdf wrote something for once sdfgdsf

[nickblaine]

What are your thoughts on the Luke/June dynamic and Nick/Rose dynamic in the finale? It sounds like Luke wasn’t as annoying and I feel bad for Rose

Luke had his patronizing moments toward June, and their relationship still strikes me as familial more than romantic. but i get the sense he's grown a bit by this episode. his sacrifice at the end was a mature choice to make and also pretty moving.

i always expected the writers to give Luke a gracious happy ending (not as June’s husband, just in general)... but now i'm not so sure. there was heavy emphasis on his promise to find June again someday, which in TV land doesn't bode well for any character. regardless, i think this is a real separation and even if they do find each other someday, i don't think their relationship will exist in the form it's in now, if that makes sense. i believe this was a fitting ending for the s4/s5 version of June and Luke.

Nick and Rose are very similar to June/Luke in a lot of ways. they have that same bond that feels more familial than romantic, but still strong. Rose is certainly devastated by the realization that Nick will never love her the way he loves June. and i think it hurts Nick to hurt her. he genuinely tried to "make the gilead shoes fit" but in the end he can't. i think he truly loves Rose, just not the same way he loves June. and to let her down like that feels like a failure to him. their scene together carried a lot of closure too, though i don't know how that's going to play out next year since they have a child on the way. but much like the June/Luke ending, it does seem like the end of Nick and Rose as we know them.

all in all i feel like both of these relationships have fundamentally changed as of this episode and even if they come back together, it's never going to be the same.

#asks #spoilers #the handmaid's tale

[heroicgartist]

Ghost X Roach MW Reboot Headcanons (Or if MWII got Ghost backstory DLC, warning: RIP Roach, but this is only backstory. I would want an alive future MW3 Roach)

Ghost tbh would be low key a jerk. He is an edgy guy but without the experience and wisdom to let up his attitude

Ghost always wants to takes on tasks by himself. Because he doesn’t want to be held back and thinks his strengths are more useful as a covert loner.

Roach was assigned to be a partner alongside Ghost to make him develop teamwork and communication skills.

Roach tried to make his way into Ghost’s graces the normal way. By being his interactive equal, but in turned out to be a VERY frustrating path to follow

Ghost often pushes back with demeaning comments, saying that his strengths are enough alone.

Roach felt sorry for Ghost a bit though, because Ghost did know how to do everything alone. He didn’t need anyone.

At least he used to feel sorry. That was until Ghost said “Heh, annoying bug. You were all up in my crosshairs.” right after a mission where Roach practically almost died carrying the mission with his usual run n gun + fundamental tactics. He was teed off that was all Ghost had to say, an joking insult to his name!

Roach did not want to be Ghost’s equal anymore, he was gonna be his rival and be the better half of them. Just to remove that smirk off his skull masked face! (The Classic style one)

Roach would always insert himself into Ghost’s moments. If he was an annoying bug, he would always make sure Ghost was not alone

In the coms, Roach would always be a chatterbox. Filling in the dead atmosphere Ghost always immerses himself in.

Ghost slowly but surely warms up to Roach, as much as he can by just not shutting him out anymore. Not leaving or being stubborn.

However, one time Ghost needed to do more. Roach came into Ghost’s quarters unsure of himself as Ghost was presumably sleeping. Roach didn’t want to disturb him, but he needed to get whatever he had inside out. His words coming out breathlessly and stuttering towards the sleeping Ghost. “…Ghost. I-I’m sorry that I must be… a-a-a.. annoying to you… I’m so… *hiccups* sorry… B-but… *Roach lays his head onto the side of Ghost’s bunk* I just need you right now.. I-I don’t want to be alone, s-so please… Let me in Ghost…”

Ghost could only guess what happened, Gary always had angry calls with his family, mainly his parents. It was a simple request that Roach gave, to give him some company. He can do that alone. All what Roach needed right now is… the Ghost.

Ghost did not say this to Roach. But to him, Roach’s company was like a warm-hot sunny overcast while Ghost overwhelmed others with contrasting shadows. His eyes are burned with the image of Roach, even in the dark Ghost could never mistake Roach as an enemy. Roach was his ally, friend, his partner, and unfortunately his better half

Roach had better speed and instinct to push Ghost away from death before Ghost could do anything about it. Despite all of Ghost’s strengths, he could not have the heart to embrace Roach before the grim reaper took his heart and soul.

Ghost’s eyes embraced light and life that day. His eyes used to be flat with apathy, but the shine of Roach marked deep onto his eyes to be a permanent scar in Ghost’s life and his perspective of everything.

Even if the history books may forget the existence of an Gary “Roach” Sanderson, Simon “Ghost” Riley’s body will always remember that they once loved an annoying bug each time they basked in the warm sunset since that fated day.

#ghostroach #ghost x roach #simon ghost riley #gary roach sanderson #cod #cod mwii #mw2 #call of duty #call of duty modern warfare 2 #call of duty modern warfare ii #ghost cod #call of duty modern warfare #ghost mw2 #the best bunkmates in the worldddddd

[theroyalsavage]

heyoo!! sorry this is kind of an annoying ask so feel free to ignore but I loved all your thiam fics and they characterizations you have for everyone especially theo is so spot on and perfect so I was wondering if you could do a character analysis on any of them?

hi anon!! thanks so much for your kind words! i’m 99% sure this unhinged rant is not what you were hoping for but bestie my professors chose violence this week and my brain is made of soup so please. bon appetit

i really think the thing that's so compelling to me about theo is how fundamentally his character arc captures the themes of change and redemption that are at the center of teen wolf's dna as a show.

pretty much as soon as his betrayal is revealed in 5a, theo's framed as a figure whose very survival has itself become a selfish act. tara's heart is an obvious and visceral symbol of what he's taken from others in order to survive, but her death is also a direct parallel to what he does to tracy and josh, and what he tries to do with scott. like corey and mason and the rest of the chimeras, theo is a victim of the dread doctors - perhaps even more so. he was a child, taken from his family, raised in an unloving and unsympathetic environment for almost ten full years. as a result, his primary defense mechanism has become a twisted sort of ambition. gain more power, and no one can hurt me. gain a pack, and i won't be alone anymore. become an alpha, and i’ll never feel helpless again.

in 6a, after he's brought back from superhell (rip), theo immediately declares himself to be the same person he was before he was sent away. joke’s on him, though, because within three episodes he’s actively sacrificing his life for someone for the first time that we're aware of. when he throws liam into the elevator and stays to hold off the wild hunt, there is absolutely no reason to believe he’s getting out of there alive. nobody else has up to this point. s5 theo wanted liam to kill scott - kill his alpha and his friend, scarring himself permanently in the process - so that theo could kill liam and gain both of their power. s6 theo, unprompted, makes the choice to put his own self-preservation on the backburner in order to give liam the chance to survive another day. setup, meet payoff.

i really think a lesser show might've killed him there - redemption complete, a selfish existence thrown on its head and then ended. when it’s not doing the Absolute Most, though, teen wolf actually kind of slaps really hard. so instead, we get s6e10 the wolves of war (complimentary). this episode is a mess and i understand why people have issues with it, but i'm a wolves of war apologist just because of theo's final scene in the hospital. that shit is such immaculate character work. i cannot shut up about it. s6e10 tells us that what theo needed to be redeemed was never to die for someone - it's to fight with someone, to live with someone, to reframe existence and life and growth in terms of support and mutual benefit instead of selfishness. theo’s able to take gabe's pain, in the end, because he's no longer putting his own self-preservation first. but he doesn't need to die to prove that - instead, he fights at liam's side, and eases gabe's pain as he dies, and proves his survival does not have to be a selfish act.

theo proves the point scott’s been making for the whole fuckin show. he's not only capable of change, but he does it - and he does it because he decides to. because he finds something - someone - worth fighting for. it doesn't erase the things he's done, but it does recontextualize them. i believe that in life we do the best we can with what we're given. theo was given tara's heart and a chimera's body and then - finally - liam's outstretched hand. good is a verb, not an adjective. theo is redeemed because he's given the opportunity to, and because he actively seizes that opportunity.

theo raeken is when dove cameron said “so you wanna talk about power? / well, let me show you power.” and when mitski said “open up your heart like the gates of hell / you stay soft, get beaten. / only natural to harden up.” and when khalid said “sister, sister, please know that i’m sorry; / i wish you could’ve stopped me.” and when mary oliver said “you do not have to be good... / you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” and when rina sawayama said “i’m trying to be normal / but trauma is immortal... / i don’t wanna be a monster anymore.” and when silas denver melvin said “you are not as damned as you think you are.”

#anons #oooooh boy theo raeken u live rent free in my cranium #he's like a marble inside the pringles can that is my skull and the universe is shaking it vigorously #i didn't even mention this but cody christian is fuckin phenomenal in this role. he did what he had to do he gave what he had to give. #i got a lot of shit to say about liam too but like. i've subjected you to enough here #sorry this is absolutely unhinged and also if this isn't want you had in mind anon dsfjghgk i have 400 pages of reading for this week #if i see another acronym my brain is going to implode on itself

[alectology-archive]

ACoS chapters 5, 6, 18 partly, 27:

(since those are the chapters where Faile and Berelain makes appearances)

Me before starting the reread: I’ll try to approach this with an unbiased opinion (<- lying liar who lies because she read the title “A broken crown” and thought that was a very cool chapter name for Rand’s POV and then realised it was actually Perrin’s POV and decided that Perrin is very melodramatic and annoying)

I went ahead and made a wholeass gif just because he was annoying me that much, if you were wondering how well this reread went. 

I guess this counts more as reading the interesting things that other characters have to do or say since I sort of skimmed the chapters more than rereading it because I’m not sure I could survive that.

- I’d managed to find a soft spot for Min this past month or so but she’s... still wincing after dumai’s wells?? why didn’t you let an aes sedai heal you, girl. I’m aware this is probably not her fault. I don’t feel particularly rational now because I’m annoyed by how she exists to make Rand feel Guilty and serves no narrative purpose as a character besides Damsel in Distress. ugh.

Perrin’s first (1) opinion is already setting my teeth on edge. shut the fuck up, Perrin. I know the books and fandom like to poke at Mat acting indignant about being a lord and developing a taste for finery - I mean, he can afford it so I don’t see what the problem with indulgences are - but he’s a very empathetic person and always treats servants and soldiers with a lot of respect! He understands the motivations which guide them and never begrudges them for acting based on fear! Not everybody can survive standing by their principles - and sometimes they just don’t have the power to do so. I think I’m particularly annoyed by the fact that this observation follows his notice of servants choosing to wear a certain house’s colours while not really making a similar or more critical remark about the nobles who also accepted Colavaere’s rule.

I also just hate the way Perrin’s inner monologue sounds. Not my cup of tea. It’s not just the whining - it’s even the sort of vocabulary, he uses. I get the impression RJ is trying to push for the “he’s just a humble blacksmith” angle with it, but Perrin... very much has a taste for receiving respect that he thinks he deserves. He lords his power over the more capable women in his plotline and prevents them from doing anything Actually Useful, so. 

Rand was so sexy for this. Brandon Sanderson wanted this for him when he wrote the gathering storm. His downspiral was done okay, but it failed to hit the mark because he was too afraid to really push Rand’s buttons or isolate him from Min in any meaningful manner because he clearly loved her best out of Rand’s girlfriends. And liked the idea of him having sex with her (which is also an RJ problem, let’s be clear).

Like, again. RJ sets the mood so well. He knows how to make you feel the sort of dark vibes radiating off Rand when he’s slipping into Dragon Reborn Mode. 

- goddamn, can Perrin learn to think about anything except Faile. 

- Perrin: *notices details like the asha’man not sweating only because he has his wolf powers*. Also Perrin: why don’t the people in the hall realise the men are channelers?

Yeah, this paragraph fundamentally highlights my issues with Perrin and Min as characters. Min is always trying to insert herself into situations that would undermine Rand’s image and always tries to make everything about her (not pictured here, but it’s fully what she does in WH-KoD). She doesn’t have the political acumen or mind necessary to survive being Rand’s girlfriend and does nothing to try and remedy that - I was never sold on her interest in philosophy, and it didn’t help matters that she always behaves like a fourteen year old. On a similar note, Perrin is self-absorbed, has no sense for politics and doesn’t have to apply himself to learning the intricacies of taking care of people or navigating Daes Dae’mar the way Rand does. Sure, Rand got away with a bunch of silly Daes Dae’mar moves in TGH - but that was partly for comedic effect and he eventually learns the necessary skills! Unlike Perrin! Who only scrapes by because of the girls politicking on his behalf! Ugh.

I am so, so sad that randlayne didn’t get the screentime it deserved :/

- Perrin is the kind of guy who essentially treats Rand with a “You’re depressed? You could just stop being depressed!” attitude that I really loathe. Compare and contrast this with Mat patiently listening to Rand ramble about his duties in chapter 5 of lord of chaos. Perrin could never!!!! Mat really is the better friend of the pair but gets the worser reputation for having the unreliable narrator thing going on more strongly than any of the other characters.

- Have I mentioned that I love Annoura? I love Annoura. Rand’s relationship with Annoura and Merana are definitely some of my favourite Rand/Aes Sedai dynamics. Also Annoura and Berelain have romantic history because I say so.

Once again... why does Perrin generally talk about women like this, lol. It always sounds like he’s pleasantly surprised to discover that women have brains. 

Unlike Perrin, I would choose to appreciate Faile for her political ability instead of her beauty after she helped Rand corner Colavaere into admitting her crimes. It seems Perrin is only capable of appreciating her beauty and pretty much hates everything else about her (why did he marry her, then?)

- To stop myself from making 10 more notes about how RJ Writes Rand I’m going on record to say I love how RJ writes Rand in this chapter. The parts where he’s talking to Lews Therin... the one where he breaks and remakes the crown... this scene is iconic from beginning to end. It might have been one of my favourites if Colavaere’s plot wasn’t bogged down by Rand’s inability to kill women, but that unfortunately affects my enjoyment of it to a great degree.

The little nuances and subtleties and wording choices make all the difference! Which is why Sanderson’s writing is so severely lacking - the very arrangement of his words in a sentence grates on my nerves, lol. I think this is also my cue to mention that Rand is one of those characters who’s extremely enjoyable to read from another person’s perspective even if you don’t like his POVs, specifically. 

This is so funny. I would have loved to see a proper Faile/Rand conversation in the books.

I, as a person, lie constantly and all the time and just for fun sometimes so Perrin should shut up. I’ll probably use this gif whenever he annoys me henceforth.

Reasons I love Mat: he’s a “women who are dangerous and can probably kill me” appreciator

Reasons I hate Perrin: he barely qualifies as a feminist

- the language of fans that Saldaeans have going on seems so random tbh, sdjfdfgdf. 

- I hate how clingy Min is. She’s always physically attached to Rand in a way literally no other female character is with their love interests.

- Perrin has learnt a little bit of the language of fans? I find that hard to believe. He literally refused to take lessons in Daes Dae’mar at one point, I think? Maybe it helps that it’s a cultural thing and not a Manipulating People thing although I disagree with the books that he’s a good leader.

- Wheel of Time insults are so bad, and I’m always periodically reminded of this fact. Why are they so bad. 

- I... do think RJ is trying to do something with Perrin’s character and his paranoia for Faile’s safety specifically because Elayne and Min don’t get the same treatment - but I don’t quite understand why or what. The show’s introduction of Laila made sense, in that context, but is also one of its This Shouldn’t Be A Thing In the First Place choice (the unnecessary Perrin/Egwene/Rand love triangle which doesn’t serve any real narrative purpose, for instance, which fully made me cringe a bit because it gave me war flashbacks to some of the terrible YA books I’ve read - and it really does Laila dirty in the process too). The show should’ve just entirely done away with Perrin’s overprotectiveness because I don’t care for that sort of thing when it’s done in such a heterosexual manner - I would’ve vibed more with it even if it had been a Rand/Elayne thing because Elayne and Ilyena are supposed to look slightly similar.

you literally did not give Berelain a proper no. Is there some commentary about sexual harassment here? I don’t know, but all three ta’veren definitely face varying degrees of harassment at different points in the series. I would have to do a proper reread to really dissect my feelings on whether Berelain respects Perrin’s boundaries or feels Perrin is encouraging her, but I’ll hopefully get a vague idea about what direction my feelings skew towards as I continue to read. RJ was probably just pulling the sexy woman trope and trying to get Perrin to pick between really applying himself to his duties and dithering around because he disliked the idea of married life and its constraints (answering the call, more thematically speaking, I suppose), but that’s just me guessing at this point.

(which are again major Mat themes but somehow the fandom seems to have decided that Mat disliking the idea of marriage is bad but Perrin being involved in a disastrous one and Rand not marrying the literal person he got pregnant is not a big deal. what.)

I just know faile and berelain had hate sex.

(although I definitely don’t vibe with Faile’s insults for Perrin - they always really made me uncomfortable. This paired with Perrin getting violent enough to scare Faile into locking herself into a room... idk what RJ was doing.)

- The sentiment of Perrin wanting to lie down and die on Faile’s grave if something happened to her would’ve been really romantic if it had been applied to any couple except literally them.

- Faile is now asking Perrin to mourn her for a decent period of time if she were to die and then instructs him to take a new wife. Perrin is able to smell that this is the truth but says that he doesn’t believe her anyway. There is absolutely no winning with him, wow. 

Rand saying “I need to know” twice. He desperately needs friends and allies he can rely on and he’s afraid he’ll get a rejection and is starting to equate it with an ending of friendships :/

- On principle I agree with Perrin asking Rand to not treat the Aes Sedai the way he does - and it’s good that it’s explicitly challenged, especially for the men reading the series, since a lot of them don’t have the reading comprehension necessary to pick out that what Rand did to the Aes Sedai was not being framed as a good thing. But I’m also very annoyed that Perrin practically has no concern for Rand and doesn’t comprehend the fact that his choices stem from his traumatic experiences! He’s severely lacking in the empathy department.

This is technically from chapter 7, but I need to keep a track of the number of ‘cutting Rand’s hand’ jokes RJ pulls the same way he makes several strangulation jokes with Mat. I think my eotw count for strangulation jokes was 3 before I paused my reread?

- Rand blushes a lot in the books even post-book 4, lol. I’m kind of surprised by the frequency - but again, RJ is fully writing a comedy as much as a fantasy. 

- And Berelain’s angry confrontation of Rand after being asked to leave is the last we see of her in Cairhien! I’m devastated! I loved all the politicking and governance she did in Cairhien and her relationship with the Wise Ones was so sweet in lord of chaos. I really miss this era of her character. Having reread the throne room scene where Rand confronts Colavaere, Berelain’s dismissal was fully contrived - RJ wanted it to happen, so it happened! Dobraine is the first and only noble who speaks out against Colavaere which is what prompts Rand to really appoint him as Berelain’s replacement - and while I like him, the fact that Berelain is the one being displaced because of him makes me really mad. This is fully operating on the same levels of I Need X Plot To Happen as Mat being conveniently replaced by Bashere in lord of chaos, too. And all the girls conveniently forgetting to tell Rand that Mat was trapped in Ebou Dar - while I was reading the series I thought Rand waged a war on the Seanchan because he learnt that Mat was trapped there - so it was sort of baffling to see Mat’s absence never being brought up again. 

- Anyway, onto chapter 27. “To be alone” is once again a title that would’ve made me very sad if it was one of Rand’s POVs - but it’s Perrin’s.

Again, Perrin/Faile is written in such a bafflingly convoluted manner. I would think RJ was trying to discuss domestic abuse - except I’m pretty sure he definitely wasn’t.

- Sulin leaving Rand to accompany Perrin is also one of the silliest things to happen in the books, wtf.

- Oh hello! Seonid! Edarra! Masuri! Selande & co! 

- Why do the asha’man do salutes? lol. I suppose RJ is trying to indicate that they’re more of a military institution than the White Tower is.

???? why does he talk like that all the time? 

But I’m... done with his sections of the book! It was very short, all things considered - especially because I skipped the first few chapters where Faile and Berelain didn’t make an appearance and skimmed the passages where he was monologuing to himself. But I didn’t quite find the chapters where Berelain was actively pursuing him - I thought those chapters were in ACoS but I’m assuming they’re probably in LoC. I might try to pick it up tomorrow and figure out how I feel about the whole Perrin/Berelain situation.

#text #wheel of time #wot book spoilers #a crown of swords #aelia reads wheel of time #aelia reads a crown of swords

[alltheshadesofgray]

Numb Little Bug Prologue

Masterlist

DAMIAN AL GHUL HAD been taught from day one positive emotions would be his doom. Well, that, and the several ways to kill or cause severe bodily harm to someone. He knew torture methods and the best way to blackmail someone. He knew he was the heir to the greatest guild of assassins. 

His world turned upside down when he was ten. That was when Deathstroke and his band of traitors attacked the League, forcing his mother to flee with him in tow. Shove him under the care of a father who had no idea he existed. The only thing Damian knew was how to attack, how to make sure he was safe. He didn't know how to care. He didn't know how to love, like his elder adopted brother, Dick, loved unconditionally. 

You cannot let your emotions control you, Damian. His mother had told him one time, while he was sparring with another child of the League. This person's only use is to die for you. You cannot feel anything. 

Damian had learned everything from a to z. Except the art of caring. The League of Shadows had no room for emotions. The League certainly didn't need sentimental and emotional messes. Damian supposed that was why his mother had drugged his father in order to conceive him. 

Talia al Ghul was his mother in biological terms only. Damian al Ghul didn't grow up expecting love, nor did he give it so easily. And neither did Talia. It didn't really matter, because Damian wasn't an expert in love. He didn't need his mother's love to survive. And if Talia in any way wanted Damian to love her like typical mother and sons do, she had no-one to blame but herself. 

Bruce Wayne was his father, but with vastly different backgrounds, Damian and Bruce didn't connect easily. The same could be said for any of his adopted siblings. Though they'd all been through traumatic stuff, nearly none of them understood growing up and being raised by assasins. Except for Cass, who could understand his past better than the rest of his family. 

Damian al Ghul was not Damian Wayne. Though yes, Damian Wayne had the same chararistics, physical features, and overall knowledge, Damian Wayne had one thing Damian al Ghul never had. A family. Though dysfunctional and chaotic, the Waynes were a family nontheless. Damian al Ghul was cold, heartless and ruthless. But Damian Wayne had a chance to live.

 MANON CHAMACK HAD GROWN up knowing that negative emotions would get her killed. From the age six, Manon had grown up with the reality of Hawk Moth and Akumas being completely normal. That was absolute hell. But if she allowed herself to feel angry or annoyed, then she would have no control over what would happen next. She wasn't powerful enough to resist Hawk Moth. Nobody was. Eventually they all succumbed to the power and the promising words, the lies, of Hawk Moth. 

Manon was suffocating. Drowning. She tried to scream but nobody could hear her. Her terror was flooding through her veins. Get me out of here, she thought. Syren laughed maniacally, and Manon was dragged into darkness. 

Most of Paris were able to trauma block Akuma attacks. But Manon? Manon couldn't ever unsee what she did. She could recall any of her deaths perfectly. She could recall the deaths of her friends, when August had jumped in front of a strike aimed at her, when Ella and Etta were too a moment too slow, when Chris had been torn apart, blood spraying on her. 

Manon lived by a code. 1) Do not feel, 2) Should rule one fail, then everyone is fucked.

It was as simple as that. 

But it wasn't. Because humanity did not function without emotion. With Hawk Moth taking away Paris' fundamental link to humanity, it was impossible to survive or thrive. Paris's humanity relied on two teenagers to save them, teenagers who'd been thrust into the position without any forewarning or preperation. Not to say that Ladybug and Chat Noir didn't do a kickass job, but they just weren't meant to fight an emotional terrorist. 

Manon lost any ability to feel during the reign of Hawk Moth, and even after Hawk Moth, some days she just wanted to stay in bed and never get out. Manon Chamack never had any chance to live, but she was a survivor. She fought, and she stood strong at the end. 

But truly living was a foreign idea to her. What did it even mean? How could she live when she was vitally broken? 

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bruce thomas wayne

son of the late martha and thomas

and

marinette dupain-cheng

daughter of tom dupain and sabine cheng

request the honor of your presence at their wedding

the wedding and reception will be located at wayne manor

this is a black tie event

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And of course for Destiny

He's Death's twin, as per that headcanon that he is the 'first living being' and that he was always older than her. She is a newborn, he is vaguely 5-7ish. Destiny is shown to be a bit of an ass but he's also this in the comics, and I tend to have him eventually getting tired of sitting back and watching his family suffer and taking more direct action. As per the canon Destiny tries his best to give beings free will in every way that he can, so he's one of the few Endless who shares his sister's delight when his sphere, however briefly, grinds to a halt.

He is also indisputably the most powerful of the Endless in real terms and there is a deliberate ambiguity in his 'you will do X' proclamations of if they happen because he says it or if he's just describing what happens.

Destiny is not an antagonist, but given what happens the siblings that go through the shit are not entirely fond of the sibling who in their view sits back and does nothing about it. Destiny also assumes the Endless are stuck within their spheres narrowly until the remaking of Delight, murder of Despair, and Death and Destruction both leaving in different ways with completely different outcomes finally shakes him into questioning assumptions.

I also go with the idea that the whole mess Death made at the dawn of creation with leaving led to one or two bits of reprisal from her parents (as Time and Night barely deserve the term at best), so there was this entire happy childhood where Death and Destiny truly got along with all the WAFF young Endless cuteness you could imagine......and then Night sweeps all this away and Destiny remembers it, in all AUs but one, and Death doesn't....in all AUs but one. She refers to Destiny as her twin in sarcasm but they literally are twins.

From the perspective of Death she and Destiny see each other more than Dream and Death do, ultimately, as a legacy of the relationship she no longer remembers and because the two eldest of the Endless have a closeness none of the younger ones can match in some ways, while both are also non-linear characters who see their parents' spheres in fundamentally different ways.

Destiny is beloved, Death was initially but then it turned very sour and when the memories were wiped away she grew to have a whole set of views that Destiny is a passive enabler at best of the bad things that happen to his siblings and that creates its own set of fraught ironies between them.

To Dream Destiny is an intermittent reality befitting, for a lord of stories, a character who is a plot device. For Death, whose sphere intersects with Destiny's in specific ways and where the times of myth make her function more tenuous in their apexes, they see each other more frequently and he's less plot device and more distant older brother sundered by time, fate, and mutual misunderstandings boosted by pride and rival views of their functions.

In TV Tropes speak Death is the Responsible Aloof Older Sibling and Death is the more Foolish Annoying Younger Sister, while to the rest of her siblings she's the Cool Sister even where there's antagonism (and that adds its own element with Desire and Despair where it exists, as they *do* care for her and admire her and that it's not reciprocated makes things much worse). Destiny is, with Dream, the most deeply dedicated to the rules of the Endless and the most formal. Death is the most informal and one of the least bound to these rules because she exists outside them, and this always creates a degree of tension between them mirroring both sibling aspects and that as forces of existence they have diametrically opposed means of going about who and what they are.

#destiny of the endless #sandman meta #fanfiction characterization guide #death of the endless #destiny is a plot device in a dream-centric story because Dream is lord of stories and thereby the ultimate Tropes wielder #in Death-centric tales he's a distant older brother where there are many personal and work related barriers #and neither of them truly know how to get past them #and neither of them really are willing to put in an effort to try #it makes them foils to Desire and Despair #and it serves as a quiet point that however else those two are a mess as siblings they're really the best Endless #bar is in the Marianas trench but it still counts!

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16. Red Dead Redemption

Release: 2010, PS3/Xbox 360 Beaten: March 24th, Xbox Series S Playtime: 19h 27m

I’ll start off by saying I like Red Dead Redemption a lot.  I think it’s one of the best games Rockstar has ever done.  My background with Red Dead is that I played it a lot as a teenager but never really got beyond the second act of its story.  Now that I’m a lot older and have a more nuanced opinion of games and story writing, I want to take the chance to share some opinions on this game which is now somehow over a decade old.

Red Dead Redemption is a great story which can’t quite decide what it’s trying to say.  And I don’t really mean it doesn’t know what its moral is; I genuinely don’t know if it’s aware of that... I think it does know?  What I mean is, the characters within Red Dead don’t know what they stand for.  Characters will criticize John Marston and then immediately herald him as a hero.  The game forces you to go through storylines with two completely opposed groups, killing both sides (rebels and the Spanish government), and it can’t quite decide which side of that war is the noble one.  It features writing so derogatory towards Natives that it’s obviously parodying the ignorance of those views, but it also asks you to slaughter hundreds of Native Americans during battles where they might well be considered in the right.  The most definitive moral judgment that the game makes is that there will never be peace so long as men with guns exist, and that redemption as a concept is unattainable (and that second part is debatable as to whether the game is trying to say it or not).  It was hard to take the story at face value when no one can firmly decide where they draw lines in morality or whether they like your protagonist or not.

The characters themselves are eccentric, often parodic, diverse, and funny or compelling.  The game does shine through its character writing and through their complexities (when those complexities don’t belie the bigger issue of an unclear voice).  John Marston, our protagonist, is a hot-head with an itchy trigger finger who clearly only wants to put the past behind him despite being, fundamentally, a killer and criminal.  His story is genuinely compelling and you feel his frustrations as he’s strung along with a hopeless promise of redemption, and he’s never dishonest about the fact that his actions are unforgivable, he never tries to genuinely justify his past outside of a vague sense that he thought he had a set of morals that guided him.  It’s refreshing to see a “bad guy” who never defers accountability and tries, consistently, to do good in a world that won’t seem to allow him to.  He’s one of my favorite protagonists purely because he is so complex and well-defined, despite having very few relatable moral convictions.

I think the first “act” and the final “act” are the strongest.  The middle two “acts” are pretty weak and are the best representation of that issue I pointed to wherein the game doesn’t know what it’s trying to say.  Meanwhile, act one is an entertaining story about Marston exhaustedly gathering together a ragtag group of freaks and lawmen to enact a ridiculous assault on a fort of bad guys.  Act four serves as a brief reprieve and a glimpse into the kind of life John Marston wishes he could live, leaving behind his violent past but maintaining his sense of self, before the finale which really nicely wraps everything up by leaving everything in utter disarray.  Act three does have one really good scene which I won’t spoil, but I just want to acknowledge that there are highlights throughout every act.

I haven’t spoken much on the gameplay because I don’t really have much to say.  I think the game’s strong suit is writing, but the gameplay is fun and there’s a lot of variety to it.  There are some segments I don’t generally like, such as herding cattle, which is as annoying as I imagine it would be in real life.  But for the most part, the missions are fun and well-structured, usually divided into their own sections of high action, lulls, and twists.  Rockstar is criticized often for gameplay boiling down to “go here, kill some guys, go here,” but I genuinely don’t dislike the way it works here.  The entertaining part of missions is following a weird character while playing as a skeptic and then being thrust into surprise situations where it’s kill or be killed.  I won’t go into any more detail about it because I feel a bit out of my depth, but I do think it works.

Finally, I just want to briefly touch on a major aspect of this game: its online multiplayer.  I played Red Dead’s online a ton as a teenager, and curiously, Rockstar still supports servers for it, and even more curiously, people still play it.  It feels like going through a time capsule to play an Xbox 360 game online and encounter both players level 5 and level 50 with “prestige” mechanics.  The online is essentially a sandbox where you can do whatever you want and it breeds both the most insane people you might ever encounter as well as some of the kindest.  I think I fall somewhere in between those two categories.  Either way, I think it’s beautiful that there is still a tiny, thriving community of people who enjoy this game’s multiplayer despite it being two console generations past and having a sequel.  Maybe it’s a testament to how well-liked this game is, or maybe it’s the only game with online support owned by 360-havers in 2023, but it’s sure nice to see.

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naruto blogging part 7? chapters 693-694

this is all sakura and sasuke's relationship has ever been, she's begging crying and he thinks she's annoying and just in his way. sakura deserves to be free of her shitty cringe middle school crush, she deserves to be free of kishimoto's bad writing.

and then 6 pages later its about how sasuke's entire life has been about his strong love fueling his strong hate and how hagoromo hopes that naruto's going to turn all that hate back into love.

so now that kishimoto has retconned the finger thing (a decent idea just wish it had been introduced at the actual beginning of the series), the statues poses signify two shinobi acknowledging each other for a spar. sasuke was on madara's head last time too

694:

sasuke's a direct counterpoint to what naruto said at the bridge, the lessons itachi learned, and what the whole shinobi war arc was about. sasuke's hokage means someone severed all connections. where as naruto's is about the trust built by others. naruto even had that mini arc where he tried to do everything on his own and had to be reminded himself of the lessons he taught to others about achieving things together. at the bridge naruto said himself that he would take on the burden of all of sasuke's hatred (even if it meant dying together with him).

Hokage as someone acknowledged by everyone in the village vs Hokage as someone alone who takes on the entire world's hate.

i'd say "hell yeah revolution" but this sound like the same military dictator ship except this time its continent wide.

naruto and sasuke didn't actually spend all that long being friends. it was a few months maybe a year that team 7 was a thing (anime filler arcs dont count) sure they knew each other existed at the academy but kishimoto added a lot of that in later chapters. but that short time fundamentally changed both of them and guided their lives for the rest of the manga like they obsess over each other for like 4 years through to the end of shippuden despite maybe having only like 1.5 conversations in shippuden at the bridge and while fighting madara. totally normal friend behavior. there's definitely something with there's two, i don't think its necessarily romantic/sexual but there's some level of attraction platonic or otherwise constantly drawing these two together.

They both agree that they are friends and that this is their main driving motivation, but what they decide to do because they are friends is wildly different between the two. "i must kill naruto because i must be alone to be hokage and he's my only friend" vs "I think we can mend our relationship because we're such good friends". these two...

The discussions between hagoromo, sasuke, and naruto have the same narrative structure as itachi's final fight with sasuke is that for both situations key parts are withheld from the audience for many many chapters. For the itachi-sasuke fight, itachi's final words to sasuke are only revealed after sasuke's discussion with tobi where tobi reveals the truth of the uchiha massacre. this is done to parallel sasuke's own realization that itachi always loved him and his grief and subsequent mangekyo awakening, the audience is walked through how sasuke's finally pieces everything together, tobi's revelations bring his mind back to itachi's final moments. for the hagoromo scenes the relevant part for that arc was that sasuke and naruto got powerups to fight obito, madara, and the ten-tails. its only later that the second half of their conversation about what hokage means and what naruto and sasuke mean to each other become relavent. however because like 25 chapters/weeks happen between those conversations and the reveal of the second part of the conversation (lit 671 to 696) these conversations are incredibly hard to keep track of. it doesn't help that these interactions are flashback to at other points in between. i had to reread chapters with a wiki guide to keep track of what was going on. i should not have to take notes on the multiple disjointed chapters 1 single conversation is spread out over.

now that i think of it why didn't naruto awaken a rinnegan, well he got the black ball things instead. i say this because the rinnegan is tied to hagoromo with the sharingan being the rinnegan without ashura's chakra, then wouldn't it also stand to reason that a senju/uzumaki/ashura reincarnation when given indra/hagoromo's chakra would also get a rinnegan. of course the real answer is that kishimoto didn't think this through he just had a cool character design idea, which fair.

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#5

Okay but I’m going to cry at Klaus’s inherent selflessness.  For years the character has been accused of being the most selfish of the siblings, and I have never grasped where that comes from, aside a societal bigotry against addicts, an ableist victim-blaming mentality, but how can you watch the scene where he is dying, again, in excruciating pain, but using his ability to conjure to help Luther say goodbye to a woman they both just met like a week ago--and STILL call him fundamentally selfish?   He uses these bewildering abilities that have traumatized him all his life, to give comfort to his loved ones. 

I know Klaus is disastrously flawed (aren’t we all) but.  Please do not tell me Klaus is anything but ride-or-die for his family, and one of the most astoundingly accepting, compassionate people in the world. I think what’s so beautiful and compelling about it is that it can also be deemed a flaw--to be so forgiving and trusting that you would even let your primary abuser back into your life, thinking he could be “better now.” Being inevitably betrayed by Reginald again, in the most painfully resonant way, and STILL! STILL! Virtually MOMENTS later, having the capacity to show kindness to your brother so he doesn’t have to feel the pain you felt, of never having closure to say goodbye to the person you adore, and only having dog tags to remember him by. 

I love you. There is no courage quite like compassion.  You are braver than anyone knows. 

211 notes - Posted July 9, 2022

#4

I’m trying to figure out how to articulate how gutted and desolate I feel about the wedding reception scene, where Klaus goes to every single sibling shy of Allison and tries to convince them to figure out a way to save the world with Reginald.

I’m trying to understand why it makes me nauseous and weepy that he asks Five, and Five is for once the one who has given up and is seeking solace in substance abuse, and Klaus lets him with the first expression of annoyed disappointment I’ve ever seen on his face toward a sibling. 

I’m trying to process how I feel that Lila treated him like an agent of malice and threatened to torture him if he spoke to Diego.

I’m trying to not actually outright sob that he called Luther “baby” and “Lulu” and begged him as desperately as during the days when he was stealing money and valuables for another fix, to consider his new addiction--a fictitious, delusional idea of a real bond with their father, in order to “find his purpose”--and Luther is so desperate to not spend the end of their lives in any form of discomfort (understandable and actually, an interesting mirror) that he bellows at Klaus so loudly, that Klaus ends up curled into a ball, ears covered, audibly whimpering.  It was an exact replica of the times in S1 (in the rave) and S2 (being shot at by Commission agents) when he was covering his ears and freezing from a PTSD flashback.  The way when Luther apologizes and hugs him, he just hangs there in his arms and immediately placates with “sure, that sounds nice,” the way he is just USED to being dismissed out of hand by loved ones, even when they have not even a day of existence in all the universe left....

I’m trying to explain to myself and anyone reading this why this makes me sadder and sicker than the actual “bus-ball” scene in which he repeatedly killed himself to find that sense of purpose, of human value. 

How desperate do you have to still be, to be valued by somebody else, anybody else, that you’ll be complicit with your cardinal abuser, and help him to recruit your siblings in perpetuating that abuse? 

I’m the first person to say Klaus has grown in leaps and bounds this season. And yes, I know that his suicide in the White Buffalo Room marks that he has broken free of Reginald and really is beginning to grasp that he has value irrespective of all Reginald pretended to offer. But it’s still AGONIZING. 

And it makes me sad. It makes me sad that he still has this IMMUTABLE capacity to LOVE.  That he goes to Sparrow Ben and softens him and comforts him, gets him to “open up his kimono.”  That he, ONLY he, pays any attention to Allison, and escorts her onto the dance floor, WITHOUT snubbing Viktor:

That he treats Sloane with unreserved happiness, with compassion, and officiates the wedding.  Like look at his face in the bg when she comes off the elevator: 

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256 notes - Posted August 5, 2022

#3

If he didn’t believe this about every single person whom he loves, he’d be so much better off...but then he wouldn’t be Klaus <3 

283 notes - Posted August 7, 2022

#2

I know a thousand other people have articulated it better than I have, and I miss the days when people listened to my character meta (on other blogs) but it will never get old to me how Klaus cheerleads and emotionally supports others--sometimes deservedly, and sometimes not-- with the blind adoration of the biggest idiot,  yet you can tell it’s 100% pure and with 120% conviction: 

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299 notes - Posted June 27, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Klaus Hargreeves’s REAL superpower isn’t straddling both sides of the Veil or resuscitating and regenerating bodily damage or astral projection or levitation or even conjuring and exorcising ghosts....

It’s being able to get along with ANYONE and EVERYONE, lol.  It’s making people who hate everyone find him tolerable. It’s his irrepressible affability. Ingratiating is too strong and negatively-connoted a word, but it’s in that ballpark.  Got a new dangerous foe? Just send in Klaus, the funky queer Human Hug, to charm them into feeling relaxed, heard, and valued. 

“Why am I smiling and when did I start smiling?” they think, baffled. Because Klaus, that’s why. The “King of Death” is better than anyone else at making others feel ALIVE. 

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