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mariana-oconnor · 1 year

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Types of AO3 Summary

Option 1 - The Excerpt:

The quickest, the easiest! Find a section of your fic that contains the main premise of said fic and also showcases your writing. Copy paste that into the summary box. BOOM! Done.

Best used for any fic, unless it's so short the excerpt would be the whole fic.

Option 2 - The No Frills:

Just a description of the fic. No need for drama. No need to complicate matters. Keep it simple, keep it safe.

Example: "A short character exploration of Blorbo's thoughts after Daisy leaves."

Best used for short fics, poems and fics where the style/format is more important than the plot. Or fics that tie directly into a scene/episode from canon or another fanfic.

Option 3 - The Hook:

Draw the reader's interest by giving them a set up with no conclusion. Introduce the main character(s), introduce the status quo, describe an inciting incident, leave a question in the reader's mind.

Example: "Blorbo is a barista at a coffee shop, struggling to pay their bills, but after handsome rockstar Obrolb walks into their coffee shop they find that they have to decide whether a chance at love is worth the cost of fame."

Best used for mid to long fic where there's a strong premise and follow through. Especially good for AUs. Can be expanded for more complex plots or used multiple times in one summary for multiple characters or subplots.

Option 4 - The Sitcom One-Liner:

"The one in which [over simplified description of one of the main plotlines]" This is essentially 'boil your plot down to the very simplest statement you can, oversimplify if possible. The more bizarre or unhelpful the better.

Example: "The one in which Blorbo learns to like cake".

Best used for fics with at least a little humour in them.

Option 5 - The Rule of Three:

Three is a magic number. Find three key moments in your fic and just list them. That's it. Often ends with 'not necessarily in that order' if used for comic effect. If it's an AU, establish that quickly (i.e. 'Star NHL player Blorbo…').

Example: "Blorbo makes a friend, falls in love, and almost burns to death, not necessarily in that order."

Best used for anything, really. Three is a magic number. The human brain loves things that come in threes.

Option 6 - The Trope Lure:

Why bother describing the plot? We all know AO3 readers are here for the tropes. Similar to The Sitcom One-Liner just using tropes instead of plot. Often followed by the phrase 'that nobody asked for'.

Example: "The Space western / A/B/O / Mail Order Bride fic that nobody asked for."

Often tacked on to the end of The Hook or The Excerpt as a tl;dr.

Best used for fic that plays its tropes straight with no shame or second guessing.

Option 7 - The Pre-emptive Strike:

(Not recommended) You just wrote this fic, the self doubt is consuming you. You feel the need to apologise profusely for your existence for no apparently reason. You feel cringe, you think the fic is cringe, you want everyone to know that you think the fic is cringe in case they don't like it and judge you for it.

Example: "So I fell in love with this pairing and had to write this. It's weird and terrible. Lol! I suck at summaries! Sorry!"

Best used for no fics ever. I cannot stress this enough.

(Seriously, I am begging you, don't do this. If you're planning to use this option, rethink it and do one of the others. I guarantee you more people will want to read your fic.)

Sometimes added on to any other summary as a strange disclaimer. (srsly. don't.)

Option 8 - The Unapology:

Embrace the mayhem, embrace the deep dark depths of your soul. The opposite of The Pre-emptive Strike. A combination of The No Frills and The Trope Lure that truly gives no fucks.

You have committed crimes and you are proud of them. You know what your USP is and you're going to make sure your target market finds you. Look upon my works, ye readers, and despair!

Example: "There aren't enough tentacle fics in this pairing, so I had to write one myself!"

Best used for fics with controversial/polarising tropes with all relevant details already clearly stated in the tags.

Option 9 - The Interrogation:

What if you wrote a summary entirely in questions? What if your readers had to read the fic to discover the answers? Who knows what will happen if you do this?

Example: "What happens when Blorbo McBlorbo gets his wish and Daisy doesn't make it to the plane on time? What happens when Obrolb finds out? How will this change Daisy and Blorbo's friendship?"

Best used for... I honestly don't know. This style of summary does not vibe with me. Mystery fic maybe? Sorry guys.

Option 10 - The Multipack:

Got a bunch of shorter fics in one work? No way of summarising them all without a wall of text larger than the Great Wall of China? This one is similar to The No Frills in that you're not describing the plots themselves and similar to The Trope Lure in that often broader genres and tropes are mentioned. What links those fics? Are they all in the same fandom? The same pairing? The same challenge? Just slap that right in the summary. A chapter list with 1-2 word trope/pairing summaries can be included or not.

Example: "A collection of Blorbo/Daisy/Obrolb fics based on Tumblr prompts. Chapter 1: Regency AU Chapter 2: Werewolves vs vampires Chapter 3: Ghost!Daisy Chapter 4: Space pirates!"

Best used for (obviously) works that are compilations of fic.

Option ? - The Void:

I said The Excerpt was the quickest and easiest summary to do. I lied, well... I didn't exactly lie. What is quicker and easier than not having a summary at all? After all, that's what the tags are for.

Example:

Best used for... nothing? Write a summary, guys. Please?

#AO3 #fandom #on writing #clearing out my drafts #long post #Qd #This list is intended for entertainment purposes only #I just came across a lot of fic summaries that followed similar rules #so I decided to post this about it #I'm sure other options are available #If you've ever used number 7 that's not bad of you #But my advice would be to not do that

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mean-scarlet-deceiver · 3 months

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Wilbert's Worst

Right, so I really was open to having my mind changed on The Worst One but nobody’s argument has budged me.

I was going to write a complete, balanced essay on The Worst W. Awdry Book, but I’m a) mired in the research phase (hey if anyone knows someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of Tom and Jerry hit me up, for real) and b) right now I wanna talk about the characters and their Beloved Dynamics instead.

So I'm just gonna get this out of the way so I can post the poll and move on to answering fun asks and watching Tom and Jerry in peace. Behold: a salty and unbalanced review.

Wilbert’s biggest failure of a children’s storybook?

Henry the Green Engine

Ohhh… because of the, uh, ra —?

Because of the racism, yes!

Oh. You do know that since 1972 they’ve republished it without the n-slur?

Good for them. Two things:

1. I know it used to be there, I’m never able to read it without knowing it was there in the first edition.

2. I consistently try, when ranking the books, to consider them in the context in which they came out. Because of this, I don’t like using “things that happened later” (like a new character never being properly used again or whatever) against the book. This helps me evaluate the author’s successes and failures against what they were trying to achieve when they wrote it vs what I would most want (blorbo content). It helps me not bring to bear the whole weight of fanon and fandom on a text that should be able to stand or fall on its own. Tl;dr I try to read the books like a guy who picked it up in 1951, or whatever.

And yeah, if I’d bought this when it came out it would have had the slur. I’m going to judge it accordingly.

Look, racism is bad, no argument, but does that mean the book as a whole must be condemned?

Yeah, I think the slur and the “aaaand suddenly, blackface! heeheehee” bullshit fuck over the entire book, game over. Go directly to jail, do not collect $200.

The Railway Series is not a work of high art or deep thorny complex literature. The books are meant for children — small children, at that. Children small enough to get bedtime stories read to them. The main goal of each book (especially this early on — you do have to manage secondary priorities like “pleasing the long-time fanbase” the longer you go, but right now we’re only 6 books into the series) is to create a happy imaginary world to enhance childhoods and family lives… to impart to other parents and kids a similar cosy happiness to that the author and his own kids enjoyed when he was workshopping/drafting the stories for them. When we say “children’s book” we really do mean little’uns — these average 1.25 full-color illustrations per page!

And these books sold in large numbers. This means it’s a certainty that somewhere in 1951 there was a Black family who owned the whole series, who went out to the shops, whose kid was like “ooh! Henry gets a book, neat…,” who like everyone else enjoyed the wild ride of Henry’s inspection and coal and wreck and rebuild… only to get verbally spat on one page from the end.

Real mood-killer there. Epic fail, as the cool kids used to say in my youth.

All right, fine, cool kids never said that. Anyway, statistically speaking there was certainly even more than one family that got that experience. Not to mention the non-Black families who even in 1951 were like “... wtf? i’d smack my kid if they ever said a word like that around me, geez. no.” Just a lot of people who had the light the book was kindling in them snuffed out all at once.

You can actually be totally racist and your book not commit creative suicide on the penultimate page! Awdry flubbed his job of 'bestselling books-for-six-year-olds' here. Creative failure. Unforced error. Automatic zero.

But times were different then, you have to consider it in the context of the time.

1951 U.K. was not the nadir of multiracial equality or Black power, but jfc. I can assure you that over 99% of children’s books published that year in the Anglosphere managed to not use the n-slur.

All right, all right. That was bad. But this feels off-topic. If you had never known about what used to be “Henry’s Sneeze,” would you still rank the entire book as dead last in the Wilbert Awdry corpus?

Not dead last, but it is not a strong book. “Coal” and “The Flying Kipper” are super-interesting as material for Henry, but after that the book kind of falls off a cliff; the intrigue drops dramatically. The railway incidents chosen to make stories of are all solid choices, but it was not only “Sneeze” where Awdry’s handling of the material feels clumsy and weird. (And I’m not even talking here of the “heehee blackface — ain’t i a stinker?” gag in “Sneeze.”)

But… “The Flying Kipper”? C’mon. It’s a superb story and no book that contains it can be the absolute worst in the series.

“TFK” remains easily the best single TVS episode ever – but a lot of that is down to Britt and David’s artistry and judgment.

Don’t get me wrong, a full-on railway wreck makes interesting material. But I don’t think the book does nearly as much with it as it could (and I’m trying sooooo hard here to forget about the amazing TVS adaptation, as I think it REALLY shows Awdry up. Even so, the storytelling here is surprisingly tepid and low-stakes). I get that Awdry probably wanted to lean into the comic angle and not make Henry’s condition afterwards seem too grave, in order to ensure the material wasn’t too dark for his young audience? (*mutters* again, a level of tender consideration for his readers’ youth that went right out the window when it came to small Black kids, evidently coz he couldn’t imagine that they read) Understandable, laudable — but if he outright refuses* to make the wreck too dramatic or scary then, well, then the wreck isn’t real scary or dramatic. And it can’t save the rest of the book from its flaws.

*For all I know it could have been the publishers who insisted that the wreck be made preschooler-safe, that’s possible (although it’s also consistent with Awdry’s brand of humor and his overall low degree of emotionalism in his writing). Either way, though, the end result book is what it is and it will be judged accordingly.

In addition to not being as exciting as many remember... @trainsupessandhuntresses asked me once if I thought some of Awdry's stories were "mean-spirited." I had to assent vigorously. And a surprisingly high proportion of those "mean" moments are in Henry the Green Engine? For some reason? It’s not just the racism. Awdry was not in the game to give Henry a deserved happy ending, he’d wanted to kill him off (the fuck?) and when his publishers prevented him (I don’t say this often, especially since I love how salty the Awdrys get about their publishers, but this in case good job, publishers!!) he wrote “TFK” with the primary motivation of giving Henry a new engine basis. Any soft or hearty emotions we get out of the deal are a side-effect — the only emotion that was fueling Awdry as he wrote this was spite, spite and a weird resentment towards his poor, long-suffering, invaluable illustrator. (I don’t blame Awdry for being frustrated that the engine illustrations were continually inaccurate or confusing, but I do think it’s weird to read all this great Henry material knowing that it was written with such poor grace.)

So his ‘happy Henry’ stuff feels perfunctory; his Percy interlude is just brutal (why did you have to drag Percy into Henry’s book purely to give him a fuck-up, a scolding, and a messy dunce cap?); Gordon’s savaging of Henry for being too happy after recovering from a near-death experience is such an incredibly low point for Gordon that it’s hard for me to accept it as canon (there’s being proud, boastful, and self-absorbed, and then there’s being the straight-up raccoon dumpster fire Gordon is in that scene). Oh, and I think “call the police [local constabulary, doesn’t bear firearms]” woulda probably a less reckless way of dealing with the rock-throwing youths than the sneeze of hot locomotive ashes, which of course the Fat Controller doesn’t like, that shit coulda been real dangerous! Mind, there are small rays of kindness throughout that do get me (the interactions between Henry and his crew feeling to me the least perfunctory and most heartfelt), but this is overall such a mean-spirited book. God. It starts off with such a gentle story (almost a non-story, if you’re in it purely for the “railway incidents” game and not character drama), but in short order the vibes just sorta suck. At least in other RWS books, when the vibes are off, they’re usually off near the beginning and then improve by the end. This one gets worse as it goes on. Oof. Don’t like that.

Also, the last page is sooooo lame. I suspect the publisher strong-armed Awdry into writing most of it so that at least the slur wasn’t on the last page of the book... and if Awdry had any idea of how much he’d just empowered Henry and all his fans in this book he shouldn’t have found it hard to find 50 extra words to sum things up. As it was, he’s just filling space and running out the clock, lol. Lame wrap-up. Boring. As usual when it comes to every little thing about this book, Britt and David closed this up better (mind, their closer – “He had taught Gordon and silly boys a lesson, with a whistle and a sneeze” – also sucked. But at least it was blessedly short.)

Didn’t you once list HtGE on a list of your favorite Wilbert Awdry books?

I did list it as one of the books that “at one time or another” have been my favorite in the series. Unfortunately in the case of HtGE, that was back when I really couldn’t read a story that I knew from the TVS without mentally substituting the adaptation into my brain as I read… largely overriding the actual text. Plus, everything I knew from TVS as a kid kind of automatically got a halo effect. Plus, I was super into Henry’s arc.

The first time I read HtGE after calming down and actually reading all the books as books... massive disappointment. There is such a gap there between what I'd thought the book said (all our incredible fanon work overanalyzing and headcanoning Henry and building this beautiful fantasy arc about disability!) vs. what it actually said (limp and careless writing, mean vibes, airbrushed n-slur, bad aftertaste).

I do think there is some stuff about the development of Awdry’s storytelling technique here that is interesting (again, Tom and Jerry superfans reading this, please shoot me a message!) but it doesn’t counteract everything else.

At least we’re over the racism stuff?

Nah, I’m not over it, actually.

#showed his whole ass #an rws book shouldn’t leave a nasty taste in your mouth #but! here we are #okay this rant was not as short as i thought it'd be #but again. there will be a proper analysis in the fullness of time.#henry the green engine (rws)#rws discussion #racism tw #slur mention tw

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bourbon-ontherocks · 10 months

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on a cheerier note, shoutout to céline’s double take at morgane’s outfit 😄😏 il lui en faut peu pour oublier ses problèmes avec le préfet… (while we’re at it, prayer circle she dumps fachoman sooner than later, c’est la saison des ruptures anyway 🕯️)

let’s also note it’s the outfit morgane shows up in at the date/debrief debacle. bourge coinços vibes much? 👀 loved how out of sync they were, adam was trying SO hard and morgane just couldn’t wrap her head around what was going on 😂😂 (meanwhile, ranir hovering around them, tu crois qu’il avait été briefé sur Le Date™ ? they weren’t seated at the usual table, iirc 🧐) ahh. the way they don’t fit together… delicious. without a case to fall back on they’re completely lost!!

Idk, I’m just a sucker for the contrast between the glimpses of vulnerability they let on and their general uselessness on the day-to-day. something about the miscommunications being trumped by a deep trust, yknow? 🥹 (and I kinda loved how they talked about ~décryptage. it has a blorbo débrief ring to it)

when morgane comes for adam’s help… gaaah. 🥲❣️ (the music had me think we’d get les démons 2.0, tbh) best interaction of the ep. and then she backs out because she doesn’t want to be a burden????? sign me up for that sweet sweet angst!!!! 😱 followed by "vous avez pleuré ?"--😭😭😭❤️💔 pfiou, my hearttt ⚰️ we need more of this healthy gut-wrenching stuff, don’t we? (ils nous doivent bien ça 🥲)

I can't wait to hear your thoughts on all of this, the good & the bad. thx for reading and bye til next time! 👋💖

Lololol, I love how Céline like... freezes whenever she sees a co-worker presenting unusually. Be it Adam without a beard or Morgane in fancy clothes, it never ceases to amuse me 😅 But yea, Céliane vibes all the way 🤗

Also let's not forget how Adam's eyes were falling out of their sockets when he saw Morgane climbing off the car (in his defense, she does look amazing in his clothes lol), so it's very likely that he really enjoyed that she came to the date in her "bourge coinços V2" outfit, this man probably has a kink and now I can't stop imagining the kind of roleplay they'd be into if they were a couple 🙈

The date was SO fun!!!! I've said this before, but a few months ago I had this idea of a disastrous date fic about them, and I just LOVE that the show went this way, it was just SO them, the out-of-sync-ness, le malaise absolu, "et sinon vous êtes allée au cinéma ?", "Ninja Warrior, c'est japonais ?", somebody puts them out of their misery already 😅😅😅, the fact that they only get their chemistry back as soon as they talk shop... Ranir awkwardly standing in front of the table after bringing the wine (btw, "Ranir, le Languedoc s'il te plaît", is it me or did they imply that Adam knows all of Ranir's wines list? This man takes ONE glass of wine at a housewarming and now he's a patented alcoholic I'm losing my mind here) was HILARIOUS, as was Morgane cheering with him out of despair 😆 Also I can't help thinking that Ranir has seen Adam bring all his dates here, he must bet with himself on how many times he'll see this one again, c'est sa télénovela à lui lol!

And I'm with you on the contrast between the deep connection they share, but also their absolute incompatibility regarding mundane things, that's the kind of stuff we want in this house!! 🥹🥹 The décryptage argument was a great moment too, especially when lit up with Morgane's bad faith (but also Adam's inability to call a date a date lol), ambulant disasters 😅

But also. I love SO MUCH that he tries again. He asked her out on a date, it was a complete mess and it would be easy to give up, but he doesn't. And he asks her out again because he believes in them while I turn into a puddle of goo 🫠🫠

Finally finally, Morgane knocking at Adam's door... 🥹🥹🥹🥹 Gah indeed! Bonus point for the implication that Adam listens to love songs while eating dinner alone 🤣 but the simple fact that she comes to him. And he lets her in without even protesting. And he SEES THAT SHE CRIED AND HE WON'T TAKE HER BULLSHIT ABOUT THE RAIN AND SHE'LL QUIETLY ADMIT IT AH BAH OUAIS EN FAIT IL PLEUT PAS -> we were THIS CLOSE to Morgane openly admitting to him that she cried and ugh, my heart 😭❤️

And then cue the case-solving where Adam BLATANTLY is only thinking about kissing Morgane, and they work her way (🥹) and end up in a post-orgasmic haze (it's been two episodes in a row where the final resolution sounds like they're having/just had sex, just saying) where he ASKS HER OUT AGAIN BE STILL MY BEATING HEART ⚰️⚰️

All of this was such a great scene altogether and I agree with you, we need more of this gut-wrenching angst of Morgane taking bad decisions not to be a burden and actually making things worse 😈 Something tells me 308 will deliver in that regard...😏

I honestly can't wish you a happy finale-watch for reasons that I've mentioned too many times already, but when the time comes I'll be happy to hear your thought if you have any. Stay strong, and see you on the other side anon 😘🫂

#julia's adventures with the hpi anon #ask #anon #hpi #tf1 hpi #hpi tf1 #hpi season 3 #hpi analysis

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bylightofdawn · 3 months

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Dear Star Wars Fans

It's Hot Take time with El.

I am sooooooo fucking sick of seeing these "Weh, Star Wars sucks now posts" or "Disney keeps putting out the bad stuff and is RUINING MY CHILDHOOD" posts.

It's legitimately like I'm being transported back to the '90s/early 2000s forums where endless fanboys were whinging over Lucus ruining Star Wars with the prequels. And BTW, they have not stopped in the past 20 years. They will continue to be pedantic and toxic and generally pessimistic about everything.

So to come to Tumblr and see that same mentality being shoveled about like three pounds of horseshit that cross my dash at least once a day. And well, I'm grumpy enough this afternoon to go off.

Hot Take Point One: Just because YOU don't like a show or a series doesn't mean your opinion is the majority. There is someone out there who loves the season you're proclaiming is the worst thing ever. That character you detest is someone's special blorbo and the ship you despise is someone's OTP. And that is okay; their tastes are entirely valid, and your experience is not universal. You are not a peerless bastion of flawless good taste and the supreme authority on Star Wars.

How do I know this? Cause you're on this hellsite and you like Star Wars.

I'm not naive enough to expect people to not bitch about and complain about things they don't like, and honestly, you're allowed to do that. I encourage you to do it. I want people to keep in the back of their minds that it's their opinion and that it's not universal. And their opinion is no better than another person's. Even someone who you think has a shitty opinion or ships something 'problematic'. If you're going to proclaim someone else has dogshit taste, I would encourage you to look into the mirror and realize someone else thinks your tastes are dogshit as well. And fuck right off with canon is the only real and valid opinion. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES DISNEY HAS CHANGED CANON? They can't make up their fucking minds; nothing is set in stone, so just enjoy what you enjoy and let other people enjoy what they want. We're all here because we supposedly love this fandom, right? I feel like people have lost sight of that point. We're supposed to love Star Wars, and it should bring us together as a fandom, not tear us apart. But that's a rant for another day.

Hot Take Point Two: Have a little appreciation and respect for the people working on these shows. Unless you are in the industry or working on said show, you probably don't understand the amount of work, effort, blood, sweat, and tears that goes into making these things. Some of these people grew up dreaming about working on a Star Wars IP. This is probably a dream come true for a lot of people working on these shows, and you're pissing all over those dreams for popularity points on the internet like this is fucking Reddit, and you're farming for upvotes. No, it's not perfect; yes, there are going to be shitty VFX and cringe as fuck dialogue.

It's not perfect, but they do their best with what they get handed. We had a saying in my old print shop, you can only shine up a turd so much. aka you take the shit you are given and you try and make it as polished and pretty as you can but at the end of the day you're working with the shit you were given. And I'm not saying these series are criticism proof or that you're not allowed to ridicule some of the terrible bad choices made.

I will go to my grave ranting about the ridiculous batshittery of fucking jetpack jousting in Mando S3.

Hot Take Point Three: I will also argue that there are good elements in every new Star Wars IP released by House of Mouse. Yes, even the one you hate down the cockles of your black heart. I challenge you to shut out the noise from Tumblr, the bandwagon hating on something, and go in trying to find something you enjoy in a season or an episode. Find, say, 5 things you enjoy or a character (even a cringy one) or a set piece you visually find interesting. Maybe a funny joke or even a special effect so ridiculously stupid you can't help but laugh. (I'm looking at you Ahsoka fighting god damn fighters with a lightsaber while on top of the Ghost zooming around at full cruising speed. It's so utterly preposterous I can't help but laugh and shake my head all at the same time.)

You don't have to post about it or speak about it to anyone don't worry your friends don't need to know you might secretly enjoyed something you all 'hated'. Though I would also challenge you to actually speak about it as well because...hear me out here, you might find NEW PEOPLE who enjoyed those same things you might make more friends in the fandom, shocking I know.

But just trying to FIND a positive thing in a show will give you a slightly more balanced relationship with how you consume it. Honestly, that's just general life advice you should try and take to heart. That's a freebie from your old Auntie El there.

It's so easy to be a negative, pedantic fan who hates what we claim to love. But by making the conscious choice to find something good in this so-called pile of shit in front of you, maybe your relationship with the IP will be a happier one. If nothing else, you'll perhaps get sparked and remember what made you love Star Wars so much in the first place.

So yeah, keep in mind your experience is not universal, even if you hate it, respect the time and effort it took to make it and try and find what sparked joy in you in the first place when interacting with the media.

Oh, one other thing? 20 years from now? You're prolly going to look back on these shows you hate and find yourself nostalgic and maybe even a little apologetic for how much you dogged on this stuff because there will be a whole new cycle of brand new IP people are creating where people are proclaiming THAT is the worst shit ever made and they don't make Star Wars content like they used to.

Cause that's just the human condition, and as someone who has been in this fandom for thirty years? I've seen that cycle replayed multiple times. We love the Prequels now, but twenty years ago, everyone hated them and thought they were ruining Star Wars. It doesn't get worse, it doesn't get better; we just grow older and learn to have a new perspective and learn to interact with the fandom in different ways.

I'm just begging you, please stop being negative, toxicly pedantic fans who just sit there tearing down everything and learn to interact with the thing you claim to love with...actual love.

#el's hot takes #this has been a rant #toxic fandom #star wars fandom toxicity #I'm preparing myself to be read to filth in my own notes #please come prove my point about fandom toxicity by telling me what a fucking idiot I am in the notes below #as a genuine fandom elder who has been interacting with this fandom for longer than some people here have been alive my goat has been got #also I am fully willing to accept my opinions are dogshit as well #and I'm completely wrong

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crowscauseart · 6 months

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I absolutely adored the fnaf movie, it was amazing. 10/10, will watch again. Heres my disconnected 2 am thoughts on it.

I was expecting it to be a lot more gore-heavy than it was, which I honestly really appreciated. They focused more on the spirits inside the animatronics rather than them being a plot device for scares. They had feelings and personality, and they were deep down, still scared little kids.

A lot of people are complaining about the drawing story line and I understand thinking it's childish, but.... abby is a child. The spirits are children. Why wouldn't a drawing be an acceptable way of story telling? I thought it was well set up and the payoff was extremely satisfying.

Abby loving art from the beginning and using that to end the movie was so fun. Like- it was honestly just so fun. The drawing was cute and silly, the animatronics trusting her immediately was heartwarming, and the comeuppance was disturbing yet satisfying. For non fnaf fans, i think it's a solid movie. It makes sense. For fnaf fans, especially those who enjoy story over horror, it's a delightful few hours of seeing the blorbos interact.

I would seriously urge anyone who hasn't seen it but wants to start horror movies to go here.

ALSO. mikes story line was really sweet. Its not the most obvious, but it has a clear intention that lines up really well in hindsight. The way he interacts with abby is very dismissive until the end when he realizes she's the most important thing in his life.

The PUPPETS IN THIS MOVIE TOO I MEAN. HELLO. JIM HENSONS CREATURE SHOP?????? THEY LOOKED SO GOOD. I didnt believe they were even real until abby hugged one. Incredible work from that studio as always.

#fnaf #fnaf spoilers #fnaf movie spoilers #crowsramblings

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just-a-dinosaur-i-guess · 3 months

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tachihara, ivan, and atsushi for the character ask game?

TACHIHARA <3

first impression:

i kept getting him confused with tanizaki i think

impression now:

this isn't even all of my thoughts

favorite moment:

when he tries to kill himself with the knife. that is the entire reason i wrote a fic about him, i had So many thoughts about it. but also just that entire fight against fukuchi was so good

idea for a story:

post doa, he and aku go shopping together thanks to gin (she wants them to bond). it does not go great

unpopular opinion:

i don't look in his tag enough to know if i have any </3

favorite relationship:

tachigin.. also his dynamic with the other hunting dogs and the black lizard in general

favorite headcanon:

he used to fidget a lot via his ability. he stopped doing that when he had to go undercover, hirotsu noticed he was fidgety and got him like. a fidget cube :)

ivann <3 my bestie's blorbo

first impression:

GONCHAROV???

impression now:

the silly!! the blorbo by proxy!! where is he asagiri PLEASE wherE IS HE

favorite moment:

he is so silly in this fucking panel. i swear i have more thoughts on him then just silly but tbh it's mainly @feralshadowdemon that has proper thoughts about the gonch

overall i really liked his fight with aku and atsushi :)

idea for a story:

stemming from the concept you mentioned where shibu just. vibes as a dragon after dead apple, ivan wanders into shibu's little(ish) "off limits, go in the foggy area at your own risk" section and shibu proceeds to take a liking to him. it's not romantic shibuvan bc i don't ship ivan in canon with anyone due to lobotomized ppl not being able to consent but it sure is a flavor of some kind of shibuvan

unpopular opinion:

despite being a shibuvan shipper i don't ship ivan with people in canon due to the lack of consent thing lol. give him his frontal lobe back before he can kiss

favorite relationship:

shibuvan!! also idk i think he could have met the doa at some point and that makes me very curious as to how that would have gone

favorite headcanon:

i think he would know how to waltz <3

atsushi!!

first impression:

oh wet cat of a man but he is kinda cute

impression now:

HES GROWN SO MUCHH,, i love to see it!!! also love that he gets to be vulgar sometimes and be MAD it's so!!!

favorite moment:

i like when he runs back to the ada terrified that they've been hurt and they're just. fine. and he's in tears

idea for a story:

i don't have many fic concepts for him tbh but one of the wips i have is one where he leaves mii-chan at the vet

unpopular opinion:

i think this counts? i don't ship ss.kk

favorite relationship:

HIS DYNAMIC WITH THE ADA <33 also with aku, and kyouka. i wish we got to see more of them all together

favorite headcanon:

he has a pet chameleon

#bsd spoilers #bsd #zukkaoru #dino answers #tachihara michizou #ivan goncharov #atsushi nakajima

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butterflyslinky · 2 years

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AO3: How to Get Your Fic Seen

I was going to put this on a reblog of another post, but realized it would get too long and distracting for OP, so I'm going to write my own post. This is in relation to people who seem to think that AO3 has an algorithm that determines which fics get seen, and are thus making life more difficult for everyone by trying to game a system that doesn't exist.

The way to get your fic seen on AO3 is through the tag system. Not for algorithm purposes, because there is no algorithm, but because tags are how people find things! That's how the site is organized and how people decide if they're going to read a story.

Let's say that I have a fanfic where Blorbo and Dinkus from My Guilty Pleasure Show fall in love in a coffee shop, have no problems, and then there's smut. I, an attention-whore fanfic writer who craves validation, want to make sure that people find my story and that they're the people who will enjoy the fic.

So I start with the rating. I have a very explicit scene at the end, so I rate the fic "Explicit." This means that people who want to read smut will find my fic, and the people who don't want to read smut can see the red E marker and decide to skip it. I might add a tag saying the smut is only in one chapter--put a pin in that.

Next are the Archive Warnings. In this story, everyone's happy and nothing bad happens, so I will select "No Archive Warnings Apply." This means that people who don't want to see Major Character Death, Underage Sex, Graphic Violence, or Rape/Noncon can look at my fic and know it's safe for them.

Or, if there's a scene with a warning that I feel would spoil the entire story, I can select "Creator Chose Not to Archive Warnings." This means that there could be a situation that someone might want to avoid, and they can use the additional tags and their best judgement to help decide if they want to read the fic.

After this is the Fandom. Blorbo and Dinkus are both from My Guilty Pleasure Show, so I'll enter My Guilty Pleasure Show. This might bring up multiple tags, but I want the one for the TV show that ran from 1970-1982, so I'll find the one that says "My Guilty Pleasure Show (TV 1970)". If I have a character from That Awful Thing You Hate play a major part, I'd also choose "That Awful Thing You Hate (TV 2004)". This will categorize the story as a crossover, and let fans of both shows find the fic.

Next up is the Category. My story is a romance, and Blorbo and Dinkus are both male characters, so I will choose the M/M category. This is fairly straightforward for anyone who's ever written fanfics, but just in case, the options are F/F (a female/female pairing), F/M (a heterosexual pairing), Gen (a fic not focused on romance), M/M (a male/male pairing), Multi (if there are a lot of pairings of several types), or Other (if you aren't sure or your story doesn't fit any of these).

Next is Relationships. My story is focused on Blorbo and Dinkus falling in love, so I'll put in Blorbo/Dinkus, so people who liked that pairing can find it. But there's also a subplot where Blorbo's brother Gulp falls in love with another guy named Shitto, so I'll also tag Gulp/Shitto so those shippers can find the story. If Gulp/Shitto is a very minor part of the story, I can also put that tag into the Additional Tags field--put a pin in that.

Next is Characters. This is where it gets complicated, but generally speaking, you should tag every character *who plays a major part in the story.* If Blorbo's bff Thingie is the one pushing Blorbo and Dinkus together, Thingie should be tagged here. If Thingie only gets mentioned for one line, they should be put into the Additional Tags.

Which brings us to Additional Tags. This is where I'd tag everything that doesn't fit into the above categories to make it easier for people to decide if they'll like my story. I'd start with Alternate Universe-Coffee Shops and Cafes. That lets readers know this is a coffee shop AU. Since it's a happy, feel-good story, I'll tag it as Fluff. It's a story that goes on for twelve chapters and the smut is at the end, so I'll tag Eventual Smut. And then I'll tag everything that comes with the smut.

This is also where you put the minor characters or pairings. If I want to let people know Thingie is mentioned in the story but they don't play a big role, I'll put Thingie in here so that Thingie's fans aren't disappointed that they don't play a bigger role. If I mention Thingie in conjunction with their girlfriend Whatevs, I'd put Thingie/Whatevs in this field.

Finally, the Additional Tags field is where I put things that aren't Archive Warnings but that I think might be triggering to some readers. So if Blorbo and Dinkus go out to a bar and get drunk, I'll tag "Alcohol" and "Drunkeness." If Blorbo and Dinkus have sex while intoxicated, I'll tag "Dubious Consent" or "Drunk Sex." This lets readers decide if they want to engage with what I've written or if they'd rather go find a story without these elements.

Keep in mind, though--you can only have 75 tags between the Fandom, Relationships, Characters, and Additional Tags. This means you should only tag the things that are super important to your story, potentially triggering to readers, and common enough to draw readers in. You don't want to tag every minor detail or passingly mentioned character, as this will only eat up your tags, meaning you might miss something that really needed a tag, and frustrate your readers, who will wonder why you bothered to tag the blue rug that shows up in one scene.

Remember, there is no algorithm on AO3. While the results for a tag default to "Oldest to Newest," readers can change it to be alphabetical, or by the number of hits or kudos, or anything else. The people who want to see your story will see it if it's tagged correctly for them to find it.

Happy writing!

#ao3 tags #ao3 algorithm

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inkforhumanhands · 4 months

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I love your comic edits and would love to know more about your creation process. How do you decide you want to do an edit- as in, do you come across some quotes or lyrics and thing "this is such a vibe I need to make an edit with this" or are you moved by the image source first? What makes the best raw material for images for you? What is a particularly clever bit of editing you've done that you don't think other people noticed because you were just that skilled?

Hello! First of all, thank you! Answers under the cut.

These are very good questions haha. I think as far as deciding what edits to do, both the things you listed happen, though maybe it's more inspiration from the source? 🤔 I went back and looked at my edits and saw that two of them were inspired by prompts from MattFoggy week, but also I think I had it in my head that I wanted to use a bunch of images from the Soule run so I'd collected about 100 or so screenshots that probably wouldn't look bad in an edit and then looked at them to see if there was any way to put a story together through them. I think most of the time the lyrics I've used have come at a later point in the process. I also knew from the beginning that I wanted to do a Foggy edit from Kill Krew, and I wanted to make one from DD: Noir. That said I do have a couple lyrics/quotes that I'm like "maybe???" for lying around.

As for your second question, the best raw material fits a number of criteria: 1) contains blorbo, 2) blorbo looks good in it, 3) either no speech bubbles or ones that can be easily removed, 4) bonus points if the image is large, 5) some sort of emotion or action is readable in it, 6) not too contaminated by background clutter/easy to cut out (DD Noir was a bitch for this lmao those images were not clean), 7) bonus bonus points if blorbo is not cut off in some way like missing half their head.

Regarding that last point, I haven't actually finished this edit yet lol but I have been working on one on and off and I had to rehabilitate a partially decapitated Foggy and like. It looks fucking good! Also, for those with keen eyes who bother to go back and look at my Noir edit I'll tell you a secret: that outstretched hand in the last image meant to represent Foggy's was not from a comic at all lol. Royalty free clipart I doctored up a little because I couldn't make any of Foggy's actual hands work there. Also I don't know if this counts as clever or not, but I'm still proud of myself for using the super nondescript phone in this comic page below as such a key part of my edit!

ask me other stuff for Talk Shop Tuesday

#asks #Anonymous #inkedits #talk shop tuesday

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incarnateirony · 9 months

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Thank you for sharing all these articles and opinions about the wga SAG aftra strike.

Do you think the studios will keep refusing any kind of negotiation till October? I feel like this is really a suicide, but they seem so sure they're gonna win. Do they know something we ignore or they're just too arrogant?

Hm, why is Brad Pitt better than Gaiman? I thought Gaiman was on strike too. Maybe I missed something

Re: Studios

Right now, they're counting on fans listening to their Studio Teachers Pets to not cut the cord. Zaslav has bragged people will stay subscribed because of their giant content libraries, for example. Amazon has Gaiman doing cartwheels promoting his stuff for Amazon, even if he can weakly peep, I did it of my own will! Meanwhile, Witcher writers are being held over the fire for doing it once, because it breaks the image of solidarity. As per the articles of people doing things pissing off others like Silverman by scabbing without ~technically scabbing and so on, the studios are sitting smug going "eh, we'll get 'indie's. We'll get money from subscribers watching our old stuff. We'll get international films" until people stop making use of the loopholes for personal gain on things the unions can not ~force or even ~gives permission to do. But then you have those that ARE shutting down even WITH permissions and excuses. Because what's right is fucking right.

Brad Pitt was under scrutiny until lately for continuing to film something overseas, which appeared to lack solidarity, but he just shut his shit down. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here heartbroken, and realizing, everything I ever believed about Gaiman was a lie. He was formerly one of my favorites. He is rapidly propelling himself towards being one of the most vile ~technical not a scabbers I can see that I will never allow myself to support again, while monkey training fans who aren't willing to think deeply.

This right here: I'm going to remove who made the statement, and paste David Zaslav over, so you can see how it looks when it's Not An Author Of A Favorite Blorbo

DAVID ZASLAV, MAYBE??? (in this thought exercise)

Pretend Iger or Zaslav said that. A person who is naturally in solidarity will just say, "Yes, it will impact us, even if we have different guilds, we stand in solidarity and will not continue production". It is very, very fuckin weird corporate speak to go, Well, WGA and SAG are striking against my show carrier, so We Can Not Use People From Those Unions. That's. That's big ick. Put the picture of a CEO you know is a dickbag next to it and read it again. That doesn't even say we don't intend to continue. Just who can't be involved. Similarly, he has used phrases like "As part of WGA, I Have To Strike", not want to. Scroll his wall. Where's his real big support?

Things I see: Watch my show, watch my show, tell people to watch my show (advertise for me), I Wish My Distributor Would Comply, Me, Me Me Me, Me.

And then a friend of mine that worked in comics shattered my heart worse. They were basically like, yeah, duh, he's from the comic book space since the 80s. They're non-union and even anti union. Not everyone in unions like even being in the union. Comics are a very Every Man For Himself environment and toxic as fuck about competition. He does not know how to be a meaningful contributor to a union.

So then I sat there, with my heart in pieces in my hands, and went to unlist my Good Omens videos, because I can't bring myself to look at it again. Other podcasters are closing up shop for the same reason. Any influencer that's even not union yet, caught advertising for studios whether paid or ORGANIC EVEN, can be blocked from SAG entry in the future, and some producers like the one in question is fine with bright eyed fans of themselves unwittingly crushing their dreams for their own gain. People even with union waivers to work a job are going, no this is wrong. No, I pass. No, don't do this, we're in this together, everyone takes hits.

Again I point to Witcher fandom. The guy was like well it ~TECHNICALLY didn't break the rules but I see how it breaks Image Of Solidarity so I'll delete my tweets about it. Then on tumblr side you get the little content addict goblins trying to crush out anyone that IS making the personal decision to restrain or cut cords because, frankly, Neil is being loud as shit.

Meanwhile SAG or WGA members are deadass like. Can someone explain to me how this shit isn't scabbing? (Not Neil, specifically, but the image of it) Like, tell me, please, actors and producers beg, how is this not scabbing, while we're all making sacrifices.

The reason studios are smug is because they know. They know it is human nature to climb over people, to find workarounds, to try to place themselves first, and that they can starve the guild until people start causing dissent by acting like this. People afraid of losing their cuts. People afraid of losing rank in the market and, while retweeting YEE GUILD stuff, still maneuvering to try to put themselves above the others sweating with them in a market that's about to crunch and restrict job availability, still posing themselves forward individually while citing Thin Lines. You know what I think of when I hear about Thin Lines? Blue ones.

Meanwhile creators of other shows like say, Gotham Knights, just deadass stopped tweeting about their shit, even things Not Directed By Studio. Because it's fucking selfish, and looks bad, and many have narrowed it down to "THANKS FOR THE FANART" or "<3333 thanks" to fans, not HEY, TUNE IN AT 8/7 CENTRAL AND ADVERTISE MY SHIT LOL "THIN LINE"

There are things they can not enforce in text while being fair (or in cases like secondary boycott damages, announce/enforce at all as anything more than a suicide bomb last ditch effort when they're willing to dead stop to the cascading legal battles). And there are people that cartwheel past and through those like greased pigs going WELL TECHNICALLY. There are those that make mistakes and go "shit sorry didn't mean to look like that I'll delete". There are those apologizing for not talking to fans about their work more. And then there's the motherfuckers broadcasting how to watch and the technicalities their production could be uninterrupted under.

Ever notice Neil doesn't say "we?" it's not "we're in this together." "We decided," it's not We. He, who "has" to strike, and is relentlessly advertising his shit and just saying, well we just cant use WGA/SAG people, addresses it as a detached thing: The WGA has said. The WGA's intent. The WGA, some distant other party he seems to feel unfortunate as an IP owner to be part of, someone who makes infinitely more money than your average working class writer or actor. Pay the fuck attention to who is going "JUSTICE FOR ME BUT NOT FOR THEE" or worse, just talks about the strike like a sidebar inconvenience fans can just hope stops messing up their shows, rather than centering the lives of creatives being fucked up.

Gaiman is worth over 18 million. He is not one of these little barely paid people struggling. And he is increasingly proving, not only does he not give a shit, he at best is treating it like an inconvenience and encouraging fans to focus on and support his product, and thus the studios, rather than centering the dialogue on the strike and the suffering workers like everybody else is. Even when his actions don't blatantly betray him, his verbage does. This is why it's never "we", but "the WGA", as a different, detached body, and not being able to use WGA/SAG people. Like, ah, I see, you're only union because it's mandatory to join the union in the US, and you didn't want locked out of the US scene, but the union itself is a fucking inconvenience to you. This is the opposite of Neat.

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nopoodles · 7 months

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Hi paperbirch

Your blorbos have to go to the grocery store. How does it go?

Hi Sunshine ☀️

My Unlicensed Delivery blorbos do actually go shopping in the book but both times it goes pretty badly (and it's not a food shop so much — although for one Matter is trying to get specific food so...). Anyway.

Basti would have a properly budgeted list to stick to. He knows what they need and he has no intention of getting distracted. Honestly, he'd much rather do click and collect but he's here now so let's get this over with.

Dimae is very respectful of the list. For the most part. He can't help it, sometimes Basti looks at things so wistfully, he just has to sneak them into the trundler. He does try to stay in budget, though.

Brruuh is having the worst time of his life. He's just working not to have a toddler-level tantrum at the whole situation. He's always been more of a 'live out of the corner shop' kinda guy.

Sauraxen is in the gadgets aisle even though that's not what they're here for. She trusts that Basti and his list have considered her needs so her attention is on more interesting things — look at this toaster! It's got clear sides so you can tell how toasted it is!

And Matter was really good for the first half of the shop but now they've lost interest and have started playing "toss this in the trundler and see how long it takes Basti's head to explode". It's not meant to be mean, it's really not, it's just that shopping is boring and Matter does badly with boredom.

#blorbo blursday #thank you for asking!#unlicensed delivery meta

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teecupangel · 1 year

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I wanna hear the Altair blorbo origin story

Alright, nonny. You asked for it. Let me tell you in my own long-winded ramble-y way how Altaïr became my blorbo. (and a sorta summary of my experience with AC games I guess)

(It got long because I wrote how I got my first few AC games 'cause I always found it funny. If you want to just know how Altaïr became my blorbo, search for "by 'accident' ", yes, with the single quotes, those who wants to learn how my awkwardness got me to buying a lot of second-hand AC games all in one go, read on)

It all started... well, a couple of years back. My family and I went to this bigass mall because my sister thought it would be cheaper if we buy Christmas presents for our relatives there as things there were usually cheaper (it was not anymore) and I was given free rein to go wherever I want alone for an hour or so. The thing about this mall is that it has a big section that is just filled with second-hand video games so I went there, just to check what cheap game I could buy that I won't play anyway (and also maybe find a COD that we don't have yet that I can give to my father as a present). At this point, the PS3 is pretty much dead so PS3 games were cheap and I just got a PS3 like a year ago or so.

Anyway, so I just looking around, my primary 'target' was any JRPGs I haven't bought yet when I got to this stall. I don't remember which AC game they had but I think it was either Brotherhood or Revelations? Just, one of the middle PS3 games. So that made me remember how my best friend and childhood friend both liked the series and how I really liked watching my brother play Prince of Persia on our PS2 (may it rest in peace) so I asked the dude manning the store if he has more AC games. He was like "wait" and I'm just standing there awkwardly, watching this man check like three boxes filled with PS3 games. I was just thinking of getting AC1 and maybe AC2 to try it out but this man was checking every game they have and then he looks at me and went "if I find all of them, you'll buy them?" and I was like "uuuuhhh... sure....?" because he was really looking for them and I felt bad and awkward.

So this man placed I think Revelations and Brotherhood on the box of PS3 games in front of me and told me, "Wait here."

Then he left his goddamn stall and went to the next stall???

The owner of the other stall went to his stall and told me, "Oh, miss, just wait for a bit."

And I don't even know if they own both stalls or if this dude asked his neighboring stall to man his store while he goes to the other stalls in this section of the mall. I swear he went to every stall and I'm just awkwardly waiting there, blaming my awkward self for this weird situation.

It probably took 10ish minutes or so and he came back saying, "Sorry, miss, I couldn't find Rogue."

And I thought 'Yes! That's my out! I agreed to buy them only if he found all!'

But then he placed the AC 1, 2, Brotherhood, Revelations, and 3 in front of me and said, "But these are really good games."

So I was like, "Oh, okay. I'll buy these."

And internally I'm like 'ohmygod, this is why you should never shop alone, you dumbass'

So I bought second-hand AC games by 'accident' and, when we got home, I started AC1 just to check if it was working.

At this point, I should probably tell you that the only things I know about Assassin's Creed back then were:

Ezio's hot and I am obligated to love him because of my best friend

Leonardo Da Vinci must be hugged at all costs (although I didn't know that she meant it was a QTE thing)

You can whack people with a broom and it sounds like a hammer

Desmond dies in the end (and, ooohh boy, I had to comfort my best friend when this happened and I did not know anything about Desmond or AC back then)

Oh! And Lucy dies somewhere in the middle and it's supposed to be 'wtf'.

Anyway, so the PS3 installs it then I started to play it just to check if it really works.

.............

............

About 3 hours in and I was still playing it.

I actually didn't know anything about AC1. I only knew about Ezio because of my best friend so I wasn't expecting anything. The thing about past!me is that I was primarily a JRPG player and my favorite were turn-based RPGs. The only stealth game I ever played was Metal Gear Solid and I sucked at it. So the parkouring and social stealth mechanics were brand new to me. I know that a lot of people would say AC1 wasn't as polished as AC2 or that there is a lot of QoL missing in it that should have been implemented and, yeah, those are all true but, as someone whose main gaming background in parkouring was Drakengard 3's platforming? It was fun.

AC1 was fun.

And I love the setting because I love history. I love the modern-day setup too because:

Desmond is voiced by Nolan North and I love him as Captain Walker in Spec Ops the Line so I was instantly in love with Desmond (and knowing he was going to die meant that I was on the 'Desmond deserves better' bandwagon even though I haven't even finished AC1 yet back then)

I love sci-fi in general and I enjoy stories that make me go "wait, what?" so this whole "we're using the memory of your DNA to watch your ancestor's memories" made me love it just for how ridiculous of a premise it is

So, yeah, I love AC1.

Just one caveat: WHY IS THERE NO SUBTITLES??? WHO THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA????????

Annnyyywwwaaaayyyy. I went from just trying it out to pausing whatever game I was playing during that time and just blazing through the entirety of AC1 game. I learned it had no trophies on the PS3 so I didn't have to do any of the collecting thingies unless it was mandatory and, yeah, it got repetitive but I was enjoying the places Altaïr went to and all this "you know nothing" mystery about his targets were interesting for me.

But here's the thing.

Altaïr wasn't my blorbo then.

He was just there. He was okay as a character and I did like his redemption arc but...

My favorite in AC1 (other than Desmond who got that title because Nolan North) was... Malik.

Then I played AC Revelations last year.

And I realized that, as much as I like playing as Ezio, my favorite parts of Revelations were Altaïr's memory seals. Seeing how he went from this arrogant jerk to a more cautious knowledgeable man.

Then Altaïr used the Apple to try and kill Swarmi and I was like "Oh?".

Then Altaïr killed Abbas by creating a freaking gun during the 13th century and I was like "ohmygod, what???" (I knew he made the specs for the hidden gun but I thought that was like, just, sketches and stuff. I didn't think he would actually make a working version of it and also, where the hell is that gun by Ezio's time???)

And then Darim said "All that is good in me, began with you, Father. and I cried.

With just a few scenes in Revelations, I fell in love with Altaïr as a character but I didn't necessarily think of him as my favorite. But the more I play the other AC games, the more I missed him.

I missed the kind of Assassin he was.

By the time I finished Valhalla, I was messaging my childhood friend about how I missed Altaïr and how I wanted to play as him again. He was surprised because when he asked me after I finished all the OG AC games how I would rank all the AC MCs, I had put Altaïr in the middle with Edward Kenway as my no 1 protagonist. (Desmond doesn't count)

But then I started playing Origin which I thought was pretty good. Then Odyssey... then Valhalla...

The more AC veers away from the stealth-focused games, the more I missed being an actual Assassin in an Assassin's Creed game. And the one character that I missed the most, the character I thought about when I think Assassin was Altaïr.

And talking to my childhood friend made me realize...

Oh, fuck, Altaïr is my Assassin's Creed blorbo.

(considering Assassin's Creed is also the first stealth game I actually played AND finished, I guess you can say that Altaïr was my 'first' and you never forget your first)

#tldr odyssey and valhalla made me realize i love altaïr and the kind of assassin that he was #ask and answer #this also shows how awkward i am in real life #altaïr is my blorbo but desmond is my baby girl #teecup rants

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soulventure91 · 6 months

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emoji asks for u:👑,🙈 (esp for dir) and i'd love to know 🌌 -- for as many of ur blorbos as you see fit!

emojis bb! |

Diric Vajon 👑 CROWN - what does your oc want to be remembered as? why? I think I answered this one in the last round doing this, BUT. If he's to be remembered, Dir would like it to be as a protector, someone that could be counted on when he was needed. He grew up believing that being a soldier, a fighter - someone able to stand up for himself and others - was how he was going to make it out of Blackthorn and make a difference in the world. He's not as sure now as he's been in the past whether that's how he'll be remembered - if he'll be remembered at all.

🙈 SEE-NO-EVIL - whats a side of your oc that they don’t want to show other people? It's peeked out a bit since he's come back from Tsenden, and it's a side he is trying to be more comfortable with letting out: being playful, not being wound up in his armor all the time. Diric's never felt comfortable letting down all his walls and allowing himself to have fun. He's going to make an attempt once we get out of the Shadowfell, though - day at the spa, do some frivolous shopping and maybe some new piercings, and get down some dancing if he finds a good place. Dir needs something to help his soul heal and stabilize his broken heart at the very least.

🌌 MILKY WAY - what was the inspiration behind your oc? what was the first thing you decided about them? So when I fist started playing a ttrpg in uni, I was able to get my hands on a HeroLab license (that group was running a heavily modified Pathfinder 1e game, hence HL) and started working with a few different concepts. Around the same time as I was starting to read up on Drow (since I wanted to play one and my DM wanted to ensure I didn't accidentally make a Drizzt), I also discovered mind flayers! There's actually a sequence in the second Homeland Trilogy book where Drizzt is! Briefly captured and enthralled by mind flayers! And part of that stuck with me enough that when I was passing time doing concepts and inspired by art on Pinterest, I created a psionic dhampir ranger - a man that had been captured and enthralled by mind flayers and escaped, but was forever changed by the experience. I then shelved that concept and that character sheet has since been lost to time - sometimes I'd think about it again, though, and the thought came on strongly after Tac died and Tez was spiraling rapidly out of the party. Of course at the time 5e didn't have dhampir or psionics, but I could still have the mind flayers in the background - and I could play not a full Drow (at the time that PF1e Drow had gotten kinda shafted in terms of chardev so playing full Drow some years later had left a bad taste in my mouth, and something similar happened in an in-person game I'd been in while also playing a full Drow) but a partial Drow, who would be outside the dangerous society and more easily exit onto the surface. And that's how you get to Diric!

Rosette Gang 🌌 MILKY WAY - what was the inspiration behind your oc? what was the first thing you decided about them? So for the Rosette kids, it began with Kassi and playing the first open beta of Diablo 4. The opening intrigued me, and Diablo being a dark fantasy universe the idea of playing a necromancer seemed like a cool, lore-infused place to start. Of course though the necromancer's body model was bony and starved-looking - but that just set my creative juices turning. Necros in Diablo are sort of a combo class of D&D wizard and warlock - sturdier than a sorcerer but still a solid magical cannon, if restricted in some ways compared to a magic-heavier class. Building from there I could reckon Kassi as someone that tried to be the full-wiz style of necromancer - but can't. So she needed a more warlock-esque arc - leaning again into Diablo and the character of Rathma, born of an angel and a demon and known as the First Necromancer. So of course with most things when I want to develop further, I turned to my bestie @tatooine92 and said 'hey what if some portal magic went wrong and this skinny little necromancer that actually has 15 STR landed in Thedas'. She followed it up with 'what if she landed in Kirkwall??' This is how we get to Dylen and Jerrik - originally two nobody Templars guarding the Kirkwall Chantry when the Veil gets popped open briefly and this maybe-demon person falls right out in from of the Grand Cleric. Jerrik was the Quiet Stoic Protector, while Dylen was the Curious-But-Wary-And-Witty Newbie (and yes they're husbands, we knew this immediately). Kassi immediately bonded to them, and when I started developing her original world Steph agreed that I could port Dylen and Jerrik in as well - which meant I had to figure out "Templars" without actually having Templars. Cue D&D again and the Eberron setting with dragonmarks - just altered and made rarer! That's how you get the most sunshiney-yet-goth necromancer who can bench press you while still grinning; an ex-con who suddenly has magic that lets him be EVEN SNEAKIER; and a very tired sword-and-board-plus-protection-magic man who really doesn't like necromancers for Deeply Personal Reasons \o/

#THANKU FOR ASKINNNNN #oc: diric vajon #project: rosette

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Please tell me about the psekai enstars headcanons I need to hear them!!

Ok well to begin these hcs mostly center around my blorbos

My favorite one is arashi and Mizuki are online friends. They both have a lot of common interests and also are the token idol game transfem and I think their personalities would work well together, so I just think they’d get along well. Mizuki doesn’t know arashi is arashi narukami for awhile but eventually figured it out. Afterwards they meet up in person sometimes to go shopping and go to cafes. Their cameras are full of so many selfies with each other. Mizuki thinks the way arashi is so careful about her appearance and loves taking pictures reminds them a lot of ena. On one occasion Mizuki introduces her to the rest of 25ji and arashi thinks kanade reminds her of Leo, and she says as much. Kanade says she’d love to meet another “genius composer” so arashi gets them together. And their brains work on levels normal people can’t understand and maybe bust out a whole collab song in the time they’re together.

Next is tsukasa and emu. I think sometimes the suous and otoris would get together for parties and things like that when they were kids (usually tori was there too) and emu LOVED tsukasa. Obviously she and tori got along better but it was her favorite thing as a kid to do things to make tsukasa laugh or smile. Eventually their families stopped having reasons to see each other but emu still held tsukasa very close to her heart, and then when the suous start working in the entertainment industry, the two families begin working together more. Eventually the otoris ask to use one of the stages the suous are in charge of for a wxs performance and they agree. Tsukasa is put in charge of running things for it. Emu is so excited to see him again and his first thought is that she hasn’t changed a bit since they were kids. There is a bit of name confusion due to there being two tsukasas present at the time but it’s quickly fixed due to emus nicknaming. The two of them have a very similar friendship to torikasa and sorakasa combined.

Another one is Hajime and kohane. They are like. The same. So therefore I think they’re besties. I think they grew up in the same neighborhood and would play together a lot. They don’t live in the same one anymore, as Hajime had to move to a cheaper one, but they’re still very close. Hajime really wants to see one of kohanes lives, but is so busy that it’s hard. He’s extremely proud of her and looks up to her and wishes he could gain the same confidence that she did. By extension, Hajime is also acquainted with Minori and eventually the other members of VBS. If I’m in the mood for a crack au, I replace kohane with Hajime in vbs. This also ties into my next one…

Which is the tenma siblings times 3!! In which I decided. Yeah fuck it why not? Mitsuru is the middle kid of the tenma family, with him and saki being twins and saki being the younger one. Mitsuru is like the opposite of saki, extremely energetic and 100% healthy and never gets sick. He also cares greatly for his sister, just like tsukasa, but isn’t quite as doting. Tsukasa also dotes on mitsuru but not quite as much as with saki. All three of them get along extremely well and have a strong caring relationship. This also means that Mitsuru is childhood friends with Toya, so when they don’t have work, he and Hajime will try and go to vbs lives together.

Arashi and Izumi are also quite familiar with Shizuku, having done modeling work with her in the past. Izumi thinks she’s a complete airhead and gets frequently impatient with her, but still thinks of her as a good acquaintance. Arashi on the other hand is great friends with her and they get along well. Arashi loves whenever they get to work together and Shizuku always has beauty tips for her. This could also lead to a potential MMJ and knights collab.

I think Ritsu and toya also knew each other in childhood. I think Ritsu learned piano from toyas father, and thus toya was frequently over at their place. Both of them were quiet so they didn’t do much talking with each other, but liked to sit in each other’s presence a lot. They lost contact as they grew up, but sometimes they still think about each other and wonder what happened to the other.

I’ve occasionally dabbled with the idea that arashi and the tenma siblings played at the same playground a lot as children and were playground partners. Sometimes arashi visited their house. When saki got sick they stopped coming to the playground and whenever arashi went to their house no one was home, so she never learned what happened to them. When she meets Mitsuru again however, her worries and wonderings are eased, and she gets to reunite with them.

I also think midori and akito were in the same class for all three years of middle school. They hated each other but midori liked toya.

#if I remember anything else I’ll rb this #sorry oh my god this is a lot I just have a lot of thoughts #asks #enstars #pjsekai #longish post

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Brandon or Riven for the ask game? 👉👈(I can't decide lol)

First impression: both of my first impressions of Riven we're the same because I hated him them held a grudge since childhood against him for multiple years until I re watched the s1 finale. I'm not joking. "Oh hey that squire guy that Stella is dating" was both for Brandon too, did not think much of either of them

Impression now: Oh my god it's the only man ever and blorbo from my shows 💞💞💞 Riven my precious little bastard asshole jerkass, no one understands you and the way you lash out due to past trauma like I do. And Brandon! 💗💓💗💓💗💞 Best man in the world, and resident brain cell holder of the specialists. Also number on Riven and Sky apologist. Love him so dearly

Favorite moment: "I have a heart, and maybe a few friends", "IF YOU FUCKERS DON'T SING FOR MUSA IM GOING TO DO SOMETHING DRASTIC", *that expression he made when Musa dragged him into dancing*, *comforting Timmy*, and "Chillax mainframe". Vs literally ALL of s1 Brandon. That man could do no wrong in s1. Tho the time he caught Stella in s4 when she fell out of the van was so cute

Idea for a story: I would like to see what Brandon's family thinks of everything that's happened to him maybe please? EXPLAIN THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS THING RIGHT NOW!!! Riven actually joins the Trix, and does his prince of darkness thing or whatever. The specialists get to do something useful after s2 plz, that's all I ask. Sky and Brandon clothes shopping bf s1 and Sky slowly losing his mind at the horrific ass outfit Brandon is picking out

Unpopular opinion: I saw someone on YouTube say that Riven was making it up when he said she's interested in things she was never interested in before and I don't get that?? They interpreted it as him talking about her music carrier, and I always assumed he was taking about her interest in hanging out with Andy when Musa was VERY stand offish in s1-3 before the crime the writers committed on her in s4 and actively snipped at people around her. Also!!! Her fashion and her mannerisms all changed in s4!!! I was also confused on why Musa was acting different!!! Also Riven's personality stopped in s2, I don't count s3 Riven as the same person. S1-2 is one guy, s3 is another guy, and s4 is a different guy. I don't know if I have an unpopular Brandon opnion. UHHHH I think he'd look like a fucking idiot if it wasn't for his personality, and he definitely should of been the leader of the specialists because he obviously has the best teamwork skills. Sky isn't good at working with the other guys if you really pay attention to him. Like he'll work along side but he's bad at working with. If that makes any sense

Favorite relationship: Rivusa and Brella I would do anything for you. Also Briven. Ya know how it is over here. but Stella, Aisha, Nabu, and Timmy's friendship with Riven lives in my head rent free. Not to mention Sky and Riven bonding after Sky gets his own mind control trama. For Brandon....tbh I like his friendship with everyone because he is really good at reading people so he always knows™

Favorite headcanon: Riven is actually really protective of his spot at Red Fountain, and the most obvious sign that he wasn't acting completely of his own will in s1 was him endangering his spot there. But because he wasn't close enough to anyone for them to know that, no one realize that he was under Darcy's control. Being a servant has strongly colored Brandon's opinions of most royalty, nobles, and rich people in a very negative way due to they way he was pretty poorly treated by people like Diaspro. One of the main reasons he was interested in Stella romantically at first is because she caught him off guard with how nice and genuine she was. RIVEN GETS FUCKED UP AT THE END OF S2!!!! FUCK YEAH SCARS!!!!! Brandon being asexual is just a good hc to me, it's so much fun. He's constantly flirting and trying to kiss people and he doesn't experience physically attraction, he just likes it. Riven has a sibling but they take after his mom and are like a terrible person. Their the main reason Riven worked to hard to escape his home town. Brandon has had a crush on ALL of the specialists at some point

#winx club #winx riven #winx brandon #rus chatters #asks #ask game

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