#he just doesn't know how to proceed

[666writingcafe]

MC Meets Lucifer in the Music Room

"Ah, you're here," Lucifer greets me as I step into the music room.

"Of course," I reply. "You told me to come here before class, after all."

"I know. I'm just not used to people being quite so...obedient."

"I can imagine. Your brothers don't seem to want to listen to you very much." That gets Lucifer to faintly smile.

"That's a topic for another day. Several days, as a matter of fact, I digress. There are a couple things that are more important right now. Firstly, how have you managed to make pacts with three of my brothers in such a short amount of time? You're not forcing them, are you?" I shake my head.

"Mammon did it out of spite. Levi felt like he needed to when I borrowed the vinyl from him, and he didn't allow me to stop him until it was too late. Beel's the only demon out of the three that I've wanted to make a pact with." Is this another test? I feel like it is.

"Interesting. Why Beel?"

"He seems genuinely interested in getting to know me, and in return he's shared some things with me that I don't think he's told anyone else. Mammon and Levi seem to just want to use me for their personal gain."

"I see. Thank you for the insight. Now, you never did tell me what happened the night you gave me that vinyl, which I find peculiar, because you've been very upfront with me about everything else so far." Somehow, I'm not surprised he's brought this up.

"Well, obviously no one was there to stop me from sleepwalking, so the white light was able to take me to the top of the stairs." My head begins buzzing in pain.

"Were you able to meet the person that's been calling to you in your dreams?"

"Yes." The buzzing intensifies, but it's still managable.

"Did they do anything to you?"

"Well, he--" The buzzing turns into an explosion, and the pain brings me down to my knees. Lucifer kneels down and grabs my shoulder, worry written all over his face.

Stop prying into my business! Belphie screams in my head. You've done enough damage; just leave me alone! Lucifer's mouth tightens, and I realize that the youngest brother has used me as a mouthpiece.

"Once you're able to get up, you're free to go," he tells me sternly.

#obey me shall we date #obey me mc #obey me lucifer #obey me belphie #obey me belphegor #lucifer definitely knows at this point that belphie has possessed mc #he just doesn't know how to proceed

[corfisers]

i really need to finish this one day

#one of my fave ideas but i keep getting stuck or starting over. third time's the charm hopefully #anyways. posting it as an excuse to rant because i'm losing my mind over this rn for no reason #incoherent but i just need to Talk or my brain won't shut up #you ever think about how fucked up it is that aoi feels guilty over what happened. i do. i think about her a lot #he can't even look at me. we aren't even blood related but he still had to go to jail because of me. i still love him #in reality none of it is her fault. it shouldn't be about doumeki in the first place. baby girl you were 15 when it happened. #you can say that yashiro is cruel in his dismissiveness (on the surface) of doumeki's trauma but you can see where he's coming from #you got a glimpse of what your sister was going through? of what i went through? and now you're sooo guilty over it? and who does it help? #doumeki's so focused on his own feelings that he ignored aoi when they were living together. “saves” her by pure chance #proceeds to focus on his guilt and ignore her again. if yashiro didn't get involved she'd be sitting in the rain for god knows how long #yet she still loves and to some degree idolizes him #yashiro and aoi both saying that doumeki isn't the type of person to be a yakuza too. doumeki's good doumeki's better than that #and then ch 24 happens. where yashiro says that he's going to throw up and doumeki's response is “i probably won't stop even if you do” #“guess i am like my father after all” and yashiro still goes “you're not. you're pure and im the problem” #(touches doumeki's face. rare gentle gesture. he's gentle afterwards too before leaving. man.) #he's not cruel enough to repeat what he said in the earlier conversation and he doesn't actually believe it anyway #but i wish yashiro was cruel there. it shouldn't have been about doumeki and his feelings. again. #something about yashiro throwing a knife at another person and it flying back at him huh #for all the talk about how doumeki supposedly romanticizes yashiro it really is the other way around. always has been #which is a whole other conversation but yeah. everything about aoi and yashiro in relation to doumeki makes me so fucking sad #but this is also what i mean when i say that aoi doesn't haunt the narrative per se but still has this weird presence? #she's in the parallels. she's in the brief but important mentions. she's in the “your sister was lucky she had you”. #wips tag

[bluehairperson]

Apprenticember! Day 7

 Let’s go back to their physical description, but go even deeper! Do they have tattoos, piercings, scars, etc? What sort of clothes do they like?

Jamie has several scars all over their body (they used to be super clumsy in the earliest months after coming back to life), but the most evident is definitely the one they have on their left arm.

Both Jamie and Asra hate talking about it, but this also happend because of an accident.

At that time Jamie had a lot of troubles regulating his magic and its strenght, and after this particular accident Asra almost stopped trying to teach him magic altogether because of how bad it scared him. It took a lot of time to convince him to give it another shot.

Interestingly enough that scar appeared in a pretty reminiscent spot.

Both Asra and Val fucking hate it.

#asra just stares blankly at the wall for several hours and then proceeds to pretend he doesn't see it #I can see val having a pretty bad reaction to it the first times he sees it #like he feels gutted and steps away probably raising his voice and ordering james to cover his arm #but jamie obviously doesn't know nor understands it's a reactiong coming from a place of trauma so he just assumes val must find it gross #I like the idea of julian straight up being brain empty and not realizing how kinda weird it is even tho he was lucio's private physician #live your best life jules don't worry #apprenticember #james apprentice #the arcana #my art #I'd like to make other days but I'm on the verge of a burnout because of work so this will probably be the last one or so I do oof

[franeridan]

dressrosa really is the best arc........it really just is.......

#i read up to dof lowering the birdcage #there's just Something about dof listing all the reasons why the strawhats won't be able to win #and at the same time showing that they're all invalid because the mugiwaras are doing exactly every single thing he thought they wouldn't #then he's like “how did you know about the tontatta and sugar? talk! it's impossible that you formed a convenient alliance on the spot!” #when not only that's exactly what happened but #it happened four? times over in the span of a few minutes #even if robin and usopp hadn't met the tontatta and made up the noland lie #zoro would have met wicca and if zoro hadn't met wicca #franky would have met kyros and if franky hadn't met kyros #sanji would have met viola! #they formed FOUR convenient alliances that would have brought them to the tontatta on the spot #and the best thing is that this happens right after dof says i need to deal with the strawhats bc #too many underestimated them and were burned for it #he says!! and right after he defeats law and law's like didn't you say you wouldn't underestimate them #he REMINDS HIM #but dof proceeds to do just that anyway cause he's not underestimating their strength #and he's right in doing so they ARE strong #but what he doesn't understand is that what he needs to take seriously is their /luck/ #they're Always in the right place at the right time and this has been acknowledged on paper in the past already #they're lucky! luck is on their side! on jaya luffy managed to pick the only not poisoned apple on the spot he's LUCKY #and he uses that luck combined with his natural kindness to make allies wherever he goes #but dof only prepares for their undeniable strength and thats why he loses despite being the one taking them the most seriously up until now #and that's also why law wins #because despite grumbling and huffing and trying to push them away and out of harm's way #he has unshakable faith in their ability to make miracles happen #he never tries to sell them and keeps on buying them time for as long as he can because he Knows they'll find a way to win #and he outright says so! dof laughs at him for believing in luffy so much and he doesn't shake even for a minute! #bro I'm insane about dressrosa i truly am #insane about dressrosa AND about law's kindness and love and care for and trust and faith in his “convenient allies” #straight up he gave them the zoo vivre card cause he knew they'd take care of his crew for him if he never made it i just KNOW

[sayakxmi]

Trying to write the Beta Trolls session, and I like to imagine everybody actually trolled Sollux to check if he was ok after the glub, bc, well, the guy kinda died. And now was back.

I feel like this is the best summary to how I imagine Sollux and Equius' relationship to look like.

#hope it doesn't look horrible bc mobile #homestuck #sollux captor #equius zahhak #beta trolls #hs: pfh #beta trolls session #tfw youre trying to check on the lowb100d bc you should as the leader & definitely not bc you actually care abt him why would you consider #somebody so beneath you as sb important or a friend or anything its just your duty as the leader but it doesnt matter bc the lowb100d #proceeds to gaslight you into thinking hes dead bc youre annoying af & hes having a shit night partly bc he just fucking died #you know how it is

[dragongirltongue]

I rly hope Scott Pilgrim Takes Off really doubles down on making it clear that Scott is a mess of a person who has never had a moment of introspection at the start of the story so badly. I need people to stop treating his precious little life phase especially as a thing that doesn't suck specifically because of Scott himself.

#6aaah #scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim takes off #scott pilgrim vs the world #spvtw #spto #look there's a reason why he's introduced as a 20something dating a high schooler #and then proceeds to cheat on her with the first alt girl he's ever met #and ignores the consequences that comes with dating her until he literally needs to physically fight the consequences in single com6at #the story is a6out how scott is an asshole 6ut 6ecomes less of an asshole #the movie and the comic so so heavily a6out this #and the game does an interesting thing were in 6y only challenging his physical a6ility if you play as scott he doesn't learn a thing #and tries to just get with all of his exes at the same time with no regard for them as people #I know all art is up to interpretation 6ut Scott is a total failure of a person is pivotal to the story functioning at all #6ook 1 scott would 6ecome worse than gideon if he goes unchallenged and that's vital to him fighting gideon #I just hope the cartoon does Nega Scott right #Scott's fight with him does a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of Scott coming to terms with how terri6le a friend and partner he is #and pushes him to improve #it's a whole thing #the nega scott joke was funny 6ut I think a lot of people need to see the fight done correctly given some of the things I see on my dash

[transingthoseformers]

I love expanding Conjunx Endura and Amica terms to include others nuisances amd also the fact they established that Conjunxing can be poly! You can have a triad with all three Conjunxing, a mech Conjunxing two separate people etcetera.

Also the fact Conjunxing is supposed to be incredibly rare, it's just the Lost Light was basically the Love Boat and already had Conjunx Georg on there with Chromedome.

Caminus's relationship with Amica and the fact they form intelrocking groups called sororities is fascinating to me (and probably why everyone assumed everyone on Caminus was a female Transformer for ages).

One of my friends is designing a whole list of other kinds of Endura relationships covering all sorts of relationships. I also think considering Endura relationships are called "elective kinship" that means Cybertronian's should get to formally recognize someone as their weird uncle or their cousin they only see at barbeques or there wifes platonic life partner they will never be rid of. Which yes is a narrow list but examples!

That's cool as hell! Chromedome was contagious and spreading the love bug lol

Caminus' culture with Amicas and Sororities is intriguing, especially with the concept of otherwise being considered societally "uncool" if you didn't have one by a certain age

There is so much possible variety, and part of me is silently hoping we get to see these terms used in another canonical continuity no matter how slim that hope is

#maccadam #transformers #transformers idw #you know I wonder why exactly Chromedome is conjunx georg #like there's probably a canonical reason that my brain just skipped #but now that i think of it it might be because of how when he loses a partner he proceeds to wipe them from his memory #because part of me is thinking while the memory isn't there anymore the sort of impression of it is #like a fossilized footprint #and that he's subconsciously trying to fill that imprint with someone else because he knows he's supposed to have a conjunx #but doesn't know why (which in this scenario we and brainstorm would know why— because he never properly healed) #i mean look at how quick domey went back to being in a relationship with rewind 2.0 even after rewind 1.0 died so very soon ago #sorry for going on a tag tangent on your ask😅

[textualviolence]

well. i DO know how joan of arc felt.

#read souriau's the work to be done and the portion where he talks about how when an individual realises he has been called upon by a work #which he must realise in the time he spends with it he is not alone #and the work is not alone either they are in intimate whispering union with one another #& i have had this many times but this week has been the experience of trying to get the work its proper due realization while someone #(assigned classmate for group project) is actively insulting me & thwarting me at every turn #he doesn't get what im trying to do or why i must do it and as a result thinks i am an insane idiot and hates my guts #insults everything i do and tries to get me to drop the insistence on what i know is the right way to proceed #& it is objectively awful but also the whole time the work itself is there saying i am the one who matters and if you do anything except #ignore him and get on with my realization you are betraying me #and people don't get it they're like why don't you just drop it & let this guy have his way. or alternatively why don't you tell him #to fuck off & drop the project. it's clearly taking a lot out of you you're letting this guy ruin your life etc #and its not the guy its the work. the work demands #and im so oddly at peace with it. he sent me like 9 messages nitpicking every portion of my section & it was so strange #bc i was like yes this hurts my feelings at the same time the work itself is by my side like the angels speaking to joan when she was #being tortured. you say i am of the devil i have none to defend me #but the angels are there by my side and i know i belong to them as they belong to me

[feedingicetothedog]

i officially have the vampire chronicles brainworms bc i'm reading the vampire lestat rn and i keep thinking back to when the first trailer for the amc show came out and ppl were like "um......lestat only kills BAD ppl >:(" bc like......that's not true at all. yes, when he first gets turned, he's like i have to create a system for this or i'm going to lose my mind (which bads news bud you already lost it) and he only kills thieves and muggers and stuff. but then he has his mental breakdown in renaud's theater and says, and i quote:

"What sublime idiocy that I had dragged that paltry morality with me, striking down the damned ones—seeking to be saved in spite of it all? What had I thought I was, a righteous partner to the judges and executioners of Paris who strike down the poor for crimes that the rich commit every day?"

and then later that night he eats a beggar woman and her child while they're seeking shelter in a church (and trying to get him to a doctor bc he's covered in blood and they think he's injured) and says that their blood tastes better bc of their innocence. and then louis says in iwtv that lestat saw them (vampires) as beings akin to god who acted as independent agents doling out life and death at their own discretion. and this is something i find so fascinating about lestat as a character which is he is always constructing some sort of self mythology, some code or story about himself to define himself and then he carries it around until it begins to chafe and then he completely throws it away and recreates himself in hopes of eventually manufacturing an identity that makes his existence have some sort of meaning. bc that's really what he's looking for, a version of his story/life where everything is profound and nothing is simply (cruelly) by chance

#i also think a lot about him talking about the commedia dell'arte and how if you know your character then you don't need a script #which is basically what he proceeds to do when he becomes a vampire: he fabricates this character that is lestat and plays it #and bc he knows what he's hoping to achieve he doesn't need lines it's all improv it's all a show #but like all performances that kayfabe can get super tiring and he just wants to stop performing #but he's forgotten who he is outside of the performance so he just has to make a new self and call that one authentic or real #and there's an interview w sam reid where he says that it's hard to say if lestat actually relishes in killing or if it's an act #i love liars ❤️ #lestat de lioncourt #tvc #vampterview

[lunatrics]

┊ ┊⋆ ┊ . ℒ ༄ؘ ۪۪۫۫ ♡ 𝓐 𝓕𝓐𝓡 - 𝓞𝓕𝓕 𝓜𝓔𝓜𝓞𝓡𝓨◞ accepting ⋰ unprompted ​​ ⤸ SANEMI "--no." it's the obvious reply. new orders have come in - ones that'll ( hopefully ) allow their number to be maintained & perhaps even grown. so simple, like he's been stupid not to see- though the master hasn't offered any scorn. up against foes more powerful, it makes sense to make themselves stronger than the sum of their parts: teams of hashira will fall less quickly, leave behind their duties less easily.     so, okay. fine. whatever. annoying,     but not a problem---      excepting exceptions:    traitorous cunt - obanai is teamed up with kanroji. one will move heaven and hell before managing to break that up- uzui & shinobu are forming a toxic power duo, rengoku's taking the mist brat under his wing. himejima's staying behind for a month to train the straggling newbies fresh out of final election. that they might, mumbling mantras, turn into something like a recruit before the end of that.    which leaves---      his knees ache against the shiny floorboards.   tomioka's knees are inches from his, the man quiet & poised as if he came out of the womb tearlessly. "i'm not fucking doing it." profanity slips out / choked after - the crawling burn of shame is invading his skin. tomioka makes no protest at all: pristine. he does not argue against the order, no matter how he eschews their company outside of them. "i-"     the master's smile is painted on, patient.    ...is he being childish..? "...i- ugh." the itch of thrill / shame's stinging burn --- the threeway meal he's being made into by d e n i a l ' s wilful struggle.     he can do this. technically.    but he doesn't want- ... "...fine." fuck. fuck! fuck. @sanyemi

If it's to help maintain their ranks, then that was that for Giyuu. His job, his very purpose, was to hunt down demons. These new orders wouldn't bother him. Though, it would be his first time truly partnering with another Hashira since his missions with Shinobu ; perhaps, somewhere deep inside his heart, that made him anxious. It wasn't his place to be standing beside the pillars. It never had been. It was a fact he knew well. Let him be replaced by the true water Hashira, and let it be soon.

But until then, he would keep fighting. It didn't matter the conditions.

❝ Understood. ❞ Is his only response. Whatever it was the master wished, he'd do. As long as Giyuu was able to keep killing the demons, it was fine.

Shinazugawa ... their personalities would definitely clash. He's not opposed to it, as long as it doesn't hinder their goals. No. The true Hashira were more then capable. More then him. It was himself that could only hold them back. Teaming up with Shinazugawa ... he had to be extra focused.

Shinobu was someone who forced her way into his life. It's a fact that ... he doesn't mind, at all. It made their missions easier. They split up often, when the situation called for it. Giyuu preferred to work alone after all ; a fake. A scam. At least, this way, he could focus on his task, and leave it at that.

And truth be told, when Shinobu approached him last, he expected ... her to be partnered with him. It was a cold shock when she teased him for it, as if reading his vacant expression with ease. Try to make friends with the others, then you won't be so disliked by everyone. She apologised after, but, was he really ... not well liked?

❝ It's fine. Our primary goal is to slay demons. ❞ Never bats an eye in his direction Perhaps, also, just a bit ... unsure of how to approach Shinazugawa. Shinobu did a lot of the talking, enough that it made Giyuu talk back. He doubted they'd have such idle chatter.

Giyuu doesn't wait before exiting, once the Master had bid them a farewell. It would be fine. They trained together for this purpose.. so that's what should matter most. If he's lucky ... if they can talk ... maybe he could learn more about Shinazugawa. He just wasn't quite sure how.

#sanyemi #( I'm not disliked- proceeds to distance and be so reserved he looks like he's superior ) #( instead he's just putting himself down in his head ) #( INSIDE HE'S SO NERVOUS. Shinobu was his saviour for these things. ) #( HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO TALK TO EVERYONE ELSE ) #( HIM: sanemi is so capable. more then I am. ) #( THEN HE ACTS LIKE THIS ON THE OUTSIDE LIKE MY GUY I LOVE YOIU BUT YOUR SOCIAL SKILLS-) #( BOYS GETTING PAIRED AS A TEAM LETS GOOO ) #( Obanai is LAUGHING git fucked teamed with Giyuu. partners. the duo ) #⋆ ┊GIYUU. ╱ : ❝ ᴺᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵃᵍᵃᶦⁿ ʷᶦˡˡ ᴵ ˡᵉᵗ ᶠᵃᵐᶦˡʸ ᵃⁿᵈ ᶠʳᶦᵉⁿᵈˢ ᵈᶦᵉ ᵇᵉᶠᵒʳᵉ ᵐʸ ᵉʸᵉˢ◞

[theconfusedartist]

Des and Alex would be soooo domestic. Alex comes back after beating the shit outta infected and Balckwatch troops and just. Collapses on Dana's couch.

They argue over who's allowed to use the controller first and end up watching horror movies for about half an hour before the power and signal cuts out bc all over the island bc they're making sure nothing gets in or out.

They banter over how the movie should or will end, when Des knocks on the door and Alex is all over him when he opens it up, like a massive koala bear. Des is so used to Dr. Mercer doing this, then trying to pretend like it was Des that jumped him like he was losing his mind that it's actually refreshing how Alex is unabashedly cuddling him.

They go over to the apartment that Des took over since most people left the vicinity of Penn Station days after Balckwatch was shooting people in broad daylight and Alex asks "wanna see something I just learned? It's cool as hell". Ofc Des agrees and it's just a montage of them play fighting as Alex shows off ALL of his abilities bc he knows Des won't be scared off or scream, with crashing and ungodly noises of destruction.

Dana peeks in hours later when things are finally silent and sees the two of them snuggled up on a completely destroyed couch (that was destroyed last time they did this, is the damn thing respawning?) and assumes they just got done doing some of the most disturbing sex stuff ever. She doesn't wanna know, doesn't ask, but can't get away without them seeing her and saying hello. It feels like the worst experience every time this happens to her bc she assumes that they're having ungodly weird virus on human sex, and they do, just never the time she peeks into the apartment. They're just playing.

#alex turns his arm into a whip “so i learned streetsweeper today. tell me what ya think” #proceeds to use it in this tiny fully decorated apartment destroying everything #des smiles “sure lemme use my whip too! <3” #proceeds to whip back #yes Desmond got his whip and training from Aveline. yes Aveline trained him AND Altaïr how to use a whip #Altaïr is amazing at it he chooses not to use it mostly. Desmond loves using it #Des at any time is carrying on his person at least one gun the tomohawk (Connor gave him that one but he did also make him build one of his #own) a machete (thank you Aveline!) and one of the daggers Altaïr made for him #he just looks cute and innocent #that man is armed to the teeth bc people are hunting him #and he refuses to be caught slippin #Alex just enjoys being able to use any of his powers against Des with the knowledge that Des is not only fast but smart enough to not gethit #yes Des is currently pregnant in that permutation. doesn’t stop him from fighting or singing to the twins when hes got downtime #Altaïr wakes up in Desmond's body sometimes (bc hes watching over Elijah in Brooklyn) and is being aggressively cuddled by Alex. #hes like i can't believe im waking up in this position AGAIN #alex is like “oh hey Altaïr whats up?” #Des and Alex are domestic with each other but Dana thinks weird freaky sex is happening when it really isn't #Altaïr knows whats going on 99% of the time but sometimes he doesn't because he wakes up in Desmond's body and is surprised af #is this rambly? yes. #Alex and Des are very domestic people just don't get what the fuck they're doing 100% of the time and assumes its nasty sex #but in reality sex is going on a lot less that people think and more than they would like to know about #also the couch came back bc Alex biomassed it together #most of the things in Desmond's apartment is just biomass at this point and thats how Alex likes it

[paperlovesadness]

Look, all I'm saying is that if I found Catapult & The Jeweller's Hands back when I was first questioning my sexuality I would have a ball with some of those lyrics

(Like the speed in which this shit would find it's way into my journal):

#like deliberately or not these goddamn lyrics nail that specific brand of confusion & denial & longing on the head #it's astonishing #the entirety of Jeweller's hands actually would just be rewritten a bunch of times over my journal #I'm ranting about it because everytime I see people post the lyrics somewhere it hits me all over again #/Without the last corner piece I can't calibrate. Let's get it ingrained/ is just OOOF #and hey - fully aware here I may be taking it all wrong but I mean - art interpretations belong to the art perceivers #and just saying - if this is a coinidence Alex doesn't even know how well he captured this very confusing specific experience #(would be fun to let him know) #(though I'm sure he'd proceed to just mumble something in confusion) #my posts

[none-asked]

The cats are named Luna, Harry, and Roman. They are all special and stupid and I love them.

#their full names as given by my mother are Luna Lovegood. Harriet Pawter. and Roman Weasley. #Roman is 8 and very fat and Very dumb. I love him so much he smells like shit and steals food directly off peoples plates mid-meal. #No one in this damn house stops him and my mom encourages it so I gave up on trying to teach him otherwise lol #Luna is 4 she has all the brain cells and all the attitude. she hates everyone who doesn't live here and lets them know by glaring down #from her perch until they leave. When it's just us tho she Demands cuddles several times a day. #Harry is 1 and is small and fast and Loud and she doesn't like when doors are closed and cries and cries until I let her join me in the #bathroom. where she proceeds to try to eat toilet paper because I am not entertaining enough while peeing or whatever. #she is also Evil but we hope that is related to age and boredom and she will calm down soon #all three cats are snuggle buddies which is impressive and we are lucky to have such good tempered cats #Luna also knows how to open doors. Harry splashes the water out of their fountain. Roman kicks all the litter out of the boxes. #Menaces all of them #Beloved menaces #no one asked (me) #no one asked (cats)

[energon-goodies]

you ever just. minding your business, wanting love but not seeking it bc of of who u r as a person or w/e, and end up stumbling into a silver fox of a man who is head over heels for you (but married!! oh fuck) and conflicted about his feelings for you, and end up with him deciding to be a sugar daddy that wants to cuddle you every chance he gets bc this is not how I anticipated my hot girl summer to go

#im so fuckin confused #he is literally paying for my first tattoo lads #and to clarify i do reciprocate the feelings he is literally the sweetest person on this earth and i wish i could just be with him #but we literally cannot bc i do not want to be a fucking homewrecker #he's told he does love his wife but since meeting me 6 months back hes been. conflicted and having thoughts #and he doesn't know how to proceed on either end #i tried suggesting they do marriage counseling but apparently she freaked out on him for suggesting it bc she doesn't see any problems #which... is indicative of a problem to me lol #i care about him a lot tho this is a very complicated situation. i dont want to be the other women and i dont want to make a mess #im totally okay with just being his best friend bc im generally an affectionate person! #but if his wife knew we hugged this much she would probably consider it cheating lol #but we did sit down and have a really good talk where i told him i do have stronger feelings but he is still so confused and we both cried #seeing a man be that vulnerable is heartbreaking i just want to keep him in my coat pockets forever 😭😭😭 #anyway #lukan runs her mouth #i literally tried to refuse the money he gave me too bc he handed it to me in cash #if he gave me a check i would have said no and never cashed it #but he was like i know you actually appreciate it and i want you to love that tattoo when you get it (: #and i 😭💕 #send help #the sugar fox chronicles

[iamthedukeofurl]

Scott Pilgrim is, I think, the best example I can think of for establishing a setting's Nonsense Limit. The setting's Nonsense Limit isn't quite "How high-fantasy is this". It's mostly a question of presentation, to what degree does the audience feel that they know the rules the world operates by, such that they are primed to accept a random new element being introduced. A setting with a Nonsense Limit of 0 is, like, an everyday story. Something larger than life, but theoretically taking place in our world, like your standard spy thriller action movie has a limit of 1. Some sort of hidden world urban fantasy with wizards and stuff operating in secret has a nonsense limit around 3 or 4. A Superhero setting, presenting an alternate version of our world, is a 5 or 6. High fantasy comes in around a 7 or so, "Oh yeah, Wizards exist and they can do crazy stuff" is pretty commonly accepted. Scott Pilgrim comes in at a 10. If you read the Scott Pilgrim book, it starts off looking like a purely mundane slice of life. The first hint at the fantastical is Ramona appearing repeatedly in Scott's Dreams, and then later showing up in real life. When we finally get an explanation, it's this:

Apparently Subspace Highways are a thing? And they go through people's heads? And Ramona treats this like it's obscure, but not secret knowledge. Ramona doesn't think she's doing anything weird here. At this point, it's not clear if Scott is accepting Ramona's explanation or not, things kind of move on as mundane as ever until their Date, when Ramona takes Scott through subspace, and he doesn't act like his world was just blown open or anything, although I guess that could have been a metaphor. there's a couple other moments, but everything with Ramona could be a metaphor, or Scott not recognizing what's going on. Maybe Ramona is uniquely fantastical in this otherwise normal world. And then, this happens

Suddenly, a fantastical element (A shitty local indie band finishing their set with a song that knocks out most of the audience) is introduced unrelated to Ramona, and undeniably literal. We see the crowd knocked out by Crash and The Boys. but the story doesn't linger on the implications of that, the whole point of that sequence is to raise the Nonsense Level, such that you accept it when This happens

Matthew Patel comes flying down onto the stage, Scott, who until this point is presented as a terrible person and a loser, but otherwise is extremely ordinary, proceeds to flawlessly block and counter him before doing a 64-hit air juggle combo. Scott's friends treat this like Scott is showing off a mildly interesting party trick, like being really good at darts. The establish that Scott is the "Best Fighter in the Province", not only are street-fighter battles a thing, Scott is Very Good at it, but they're so unimportant that being the best fighter in the province doesn't make Scott NOT a loser. So when Matthew Patel shows off his magic powers and then explodes into a pile of coins, we've established "Oh, this is how silly the setting gets". It's not about establishing the RULES of the setting so much as it is about establishing a lack of rules. Scott's skill at street-fighter battles doesn't translate to any sort of social prestige. Ramona can access Subspace Highways and she uses it to do a basic delivery job. It doesn't make sense and it's clear that it's not supposed to. So later on, when Todd Ingram starts throwing around telekinesis, and the explanation we're given is "He's a Vegan" , you're already so primed by the mixture of weirdness and mundanity that rather than trying to incorporate this new knowledge into any sort of coherent setting ruleset, you just go "Ah, yeah, Vegans".

#Scott Pilgrim

[reanimatedgh0ul]

trying to nail down eli's character rn (aka my fanon version of danielle)

so here are some characters i can see her taking after

#i'm considering rolling youngblood's character into hers since i'll be honest as a character he rlly isn't THAT #distinct or unique enough where i don't think much would be lost if i were just axe him and fold him into eli's character #him and dani are both child characters who show up have 2 eps where they're plot relevant #again they're not like SUPER well defined as characters #they both just kinda act like your standard child character in a cartoon would imo #so the backstory i'm currently brainstorming for her is that instead of being danny's clone she's a girl that went missing a couple yrs ago #and was never found she's basically a runaway who tragically died and likes to play pretend/read books as a form of escapism #from the crappy life she had when she was still alive and living w her parents #ig if you're wondering as to why she's not a clone here is bc imo i think valerie could've served danielle's role in the narrative just fin #had the writers actually fleshed out her mentee/mentor relationship w vlad actually #so in my eyes it's not necessarily plus why have vlad idk like try to actually emotionally manipulate danny after bitter reunions #and get him back into his good graces instead having him yk make clones or w/e #like i think it's funny how vlad's like 'man i rlly want danny to abandon his father and be my son' #(proceeds to do literally NOTHING to make that happen bc he continues to just be an asshole to his nephew once he knows the truth lol) #also for as much as i extend sympathy to maddie/jack bc to me they're brown immigrant parents who are clearly flawed but trying #i don't want eli to get adopted by them simply bc yeah no offense maddie/jack but you guys literally fucked up the 2 kids you did have #so maybe let's not add a 3rd one to the mix ok #also i should mention that eli's name is a nickname (her given name is elizabeth but doesn't rlly like going by it anymore) #robi rambles