#i actually don't totally hate this but some things just bug me but i've been working on this since the 26th and i am going a tad crazy

[itwoodbeprefect]

fic writer 20 questions

i was tagged by @luredin! thank you! <3

i feel like i've done this one (or one very like it) at some point before, but i couldn't find it when i went searching, so maybe i just read through it and composed answers in my head? or my very confused tagging system is understandably failing me.

How many works do you have on AO3?

right now, 242!

What's your total AO3 word count?

587,542.

What fandoms do you write for?

several! these days mainly starsky & hutch, but h50 is still very present too, and i think both stargate atlantis and 911 may also be worth mentioning. beyond that there's a lot of other things for which i'm working on a single fic, or there's a document with multiple of them but i only open it once in a blue moon.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

well. four out of five of these are for a fandom i wouldn't write for anymore today for obvious reasons, and the other one (Tell me I'm perfect) is a Shadowhunters fic:

It's the truth

Tell me I'm perfect (but tell me the truth)

I dare you to dare me

Finders Keepers

That escalated quickly

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i wish i did! i keep trying to get into a healthier habit on that front, because i love comments and i'd like to say thank you and engage with people more, but it's a complicated thing - not in real life, but in my head, unfortunately.

What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

not an easy question, and it's not because there's too many to pick from! i'll indulge in a little melancholy at times, and maybe even a somewhat things-aren't-perfect ending, but generally there's at the very least a solid spark of hope even if the rest of the fic was sad. i think maybe Sobering (a mash hawk/trap fic) could qualify for actual angst, but even that one i seem to have tagged as "angst? i think?" when i posted it.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

now this, this is where we get tangled up in weighing a hundred fluffy fics against each other to decide happiness rankings! maybe something like Flowers for no reason but you missed me (starsky/hutch) or And I love every inch of you (And then some, and then some) (h50 steve/danny) because both of those are just pure giddy happiness start to finish, which means the happiness has been building for the longest by the time the ending rolls around.

Do you get hate on fics?

thankfully, not really! most of my stuff is deeply inoffensive. there's been a sporadic comment here or there over the years of someone randomly telling me they didn't agree with something i wrote (by which i don't mean people pointing out genuine mistakes - that's very different, and very helpful), but even then i wouldn't necessarily classify that as "hate", just as a very awkward way to respond to reading something that annoys you for whatever reason. what springs to mind is one that started with "i have not seen the episode" and then proceeded to interpret an in context line from a character as my personal beliefs on whether children are capable of evil, so. that kind of thing.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

not officially! but unofficially i've been told that it's fun and really really sweet, so no surprises there.

Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

not usually, which means that the craziest (and only) one on ao3 is probably the h50/s&h crossover (Said the apple to the orange), which is truly very uncrazy.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

i wonder about that sometimes (i feel like after many many years and with the recent bot stuff on top, the answer should maybe be "probably"), but not that i know of!

there was an instance once of someone copying a story title, but they did so in a way that didn't even work. i was writing in dutch at the time, but english titles were Very Cool, so my story was called "ladies, bugs and ladybugs", and the other person took that, translated it to dutch, and used that for their story, which. those words don't match up the same way in the slightest, so it's just a random sequence of things by that point.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes! actually, i was probably the first person to translate any of my fic - all of the very, very early stuff posted to ao3 was just an english copy of originally dutch stories - but these days there are also a lot of russian translations (russians seem to be very active in h50 fandom!), some mandarin, some french. one italian, i think. it's very cool!

also, shout out to people who do podfics, too. <3

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

a few attempts were made over the years, but most of that never went very far for one reason or another. none of it is on ao3.

What's your all-time favorite ship?

as of right now, probably starsky/hutch!

What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

oh, i'm afraid i could fill, well, lists. one that immediately comes to mind that's technically a little past this category because i know i'll never finish it is a very long h50 project in which i took up about a hundred different little threads from the series and tried to weave them together into a giant fix-it-ish getting together coming out case fic sort of thing, and i still think the plotting work for that one was sound, but i'm just never going to actually get 100k down for a fic like that at this point in my life. (note that this is not a fic that's already up on ao3 in part - i'll finish those, one way or another.)

and oh my, for maybe a better answer: the starsky-watches-cowboy-movies starsky/hutch fic. i want to write that one, i do! and i am, and i do have real hope that i may one day finish it, but it's a fairly ambitious project in multiple ways, so there are some serious obstacles i will need to find some way around.

What are your writing strengths?

i love the patter of writing dialogue! people tell me characters sound believable and like themselves, so that's nice. also, balancing ridiculously fluffy things in such a way that it doesn't tip over into saccharine, and i also think i manage good jokes sometimes. i've been working on descriptions and atmosphere, and that's been fun.

What are your writing weaknesses?

i've completely unlearned how to write long stories! and ironically, i do write a lot of overlong sentences. also, i'll turn to google for absolutely anything, but deep down i'm a pretty impatient writer when research is needed and it doesn't happen to be a subject i'm already interested in, which oftentimes means i'd rather handwave things or scrap the idea entirely, even though i think really well-researched fic is amazing. and on that note, no matter how much american media and internet content i consume, i'm not american and have never been to america, which can be a challenge when writing for almost exclusively american fandoms. (i think i understand beds now, but i'll have to google sinks one of these days.)

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

ha! this was a thing that was very, very common for a while in my dutch fic writing community, because more or less all of the fictional properties and/or real life celebrities people were writing about were british or american (maybe with tokio hotel as the one notable exception), so there was A Lot of fic written in dutch with stilted high school english dialogue thrown in. i was never very into that, but hey, if it makes you happy, definitely go for it, and that goes double if it's just a few sentences for flavor! compared to what i used to see, ao3 culture is extremely conservative with these sorts of things.

all of which i say while also still, in the back of my head, considering the possibility of writing a really obnoxious ted lasso fic with 90% dutch dialogue, so. i too might become guilty at some point in the future.

First fandom you wrote for?

twilight! it was nessie/jacob, with i think a love triangle with a vampire thrown in. we all have to start somewhere.

Favorite fic you've ever written?

i recently reread How To Build A Triangle (or accidentally fall headlong into one, or whatever the fuck) and i still think it's really good and fun, plus it's a minor miracle that i got it finished so easily! there's a decent chance i'd name a different fic if you asked me again tomorrow, though.

Tagging

I have no idea who has already done this or been tagged for it, so I'm just going to throw a few names out there (@redgoldblue @actingcamplibrarian @stephmcx @spurious @goneahead), and then give the usual disclaimer that obviously i'm tagging you all with no pressure, and that if anyone sees this and it seems like a fun list of questions, i'm tagging you too! ✨

#tag stuff #*

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[justatalkingface]

Hey! I've been reblogging some of your stuff and throwing my two cents in what I think. So I come here with a simple question...

What're your thoughts on Shota Aizawa?

Because for me, he's no different than the teachers in Aldera when it comes to handling Izuku. He's also a flatout hypocrite by getting onto All Might for favoring Izuku when he does the same with Hitoshi.

And I'm not even mentioning how he uses his trauma to justify his bs teaching ways

...Hahahahaha! So, you have no way of knowing this, but I've basically been preparing for this moment, to make this rant, for the longest time. More than probably any other character in this series, I've thought about Aizawa, tried to put into words what bugged me about him, scoured the internet for opinions to broaden my understanding, to find the right words. Quite a few posts have been yours, actually.

The short answer is that, simply, I hate him. Once I got past his Kakashi Aura from my first impression, I didn't like him, but fandom hype for Dadzawa, as well as the fact that usually comes with horrifying levels of bashing for people like All Might (ironically, perhaps the most unsung hero in the setting, seeing how few people seem to like his character) curdled it deep into loathing. Still, I'm going to be try to be objective as I talk.

The long answer is more complicated, and very, very long, but still overwhelmingly negative. For me, part of it is that Aizawa is easily the winner of the title of being The Favored Mouthpiece. This is a mixed blessing for him, to say the least; on the positive side, this fact has done a lot for his positive reception and total screen time, the the narrative bends over backwards to agree with what he says, time and time again. On the negative... for all that I'm aware that he's just lines on paper, on deeply visceral level I have sympathetic disgust for all the times he's been used like a puppet to parrot one agenda or another, and it muddles the water on who his character actually is. Honestly, it's been going on for so long, and it's still going on, I wonder if I should just... accept these random outbursts as part of his actual characterization.

At a fundamental level, I've had this question burning inside of me for a long time now: does this man even want to be a teacher? No, this is a serious question: he is effectively working two jobs, and managing it terribly (unlike every other UA teacher, who are all heroes for no apparent reason, and especially Present Mic who somehow has three jobs and still is full of energy. Does that man ever sleep?). He seems to hate the daylight. He seems to hate being clean. He seems to hate children. He hates, if not teaching, then teaching people that don't vibe on his level. He hates being on a schedule. He hates following authority. Really the only part of being teacher he does probably like is the actual paycheck.

So, again, why is he a teacher? I know he likes taking someone under his wing, but that use of a singular pronoun was very specific: he wants one person, one that fills whatever bizarre and unknown criteria, to teach (I'm still not sure what made him look at about five minutes of Shinso and say, 'This, this is the child I shall give all my skills, all my knowledge, and even my physics defying combat weapon.' Like, do they have to be his mini-me? Bear the soul of Grumpy Cat? I really don't know), an apprentice, not students plural. From what I gleaned from the Vigilante manga (which I should probably reread at some point), it's that desire, but misunderstood, combined with nostalgia, loneliness (his friends were already at UA) and peer pressure, that motivated him to start teaching at UA.

I don't really need to say it, but those are terrible reasons to become a teacher, and probably help explain why he's so bad at it.

Before I get into that, I want to address one thing: I've seen, online, that Aizawa's role as homeroom teacher is something completely different in Japan than it is for anywhere English speaking. So these various comments and what not say is, in Japan, these home room teachers aren't actually supposed to teach. They're supposed to be... something like councilors, I believe: they stay with the children and help guide them, and so on, and that's why he's a better teacher than we think he is. I've never actually seen anyone counter that argument, just agree, and I've had this response waiting for a long time now: when do you see Aizawa do that?

I know the Final Exam arc is supposed to show us that, yes, Aizawa is perceptive and does notice things about his students, and does care, but that's shit. His inner monologue tells us about Momo and her lack of self confidence. The implication of that, that he's only dealing with this now, means he's been sitting on this for... how long? However long he noticed that, I guess? So, from a time period ranging between the first day of class, and just before they prepared for the test, Aizawa noticed Momo had confidence issues and apparently did nothing until that test, probably because he wanted to be 'efficient' and deal with two things at once. Why do extra work and deal with a student's issues, when you can do it while they struggle to pass their final exams? Wow. A+ job there, teach.

On Shoto... just... just no. Come back to me, someone, anyone, when Aizawa even acknowledges that that mess is made out of red flags: the fact he doesn't use half of his goddamn Quirk until Izuku beats some self reflection into him. The fact he unsubtly hates his father. The fact he doesn't seem to know how to be a normal person. The burn scar on his face when he's heat resistant. Anything. Anything. I don't expect him to look at the kid and magically realized he's abused, but there's enough there that if he's a good teacher, or councilor, or whatever, he should probably be low key probing for information on his situation, see if there's something wrong in the most general of senses, because there's clearly something wrong there.

Literally anything about Izuku or Bakugou, though I'm putting a pin on discussing that mess until later.

See, the problem with saying that Aizawa is supposed to be the class's... councilor or something, instead of a teacher, brings up the fact that he's a shit councilor. Even if it's true (I'm not Japanese, I have no idea), this doesn't make his character better, this just brings up different problems instead.

Alright, so now that that's out of the way... now I need to point out that Aizawa is a Kakashi clone, and that's a good deal of the reason he's so popular; he rode off Naruto nostalgia. Let's list off how many traits he blatantly got from him. It's more than you think!

Aizawa is like Kakashi in that: he's a teacher that doesn't want to teach, his students include the Great Hope of the setting and his 'rival', he's traumatized from a friend dying when he was young, he deals with his heavy PTSD with unhealthy coping mechanisms, he has an eye based power that turns his eyes red, he loses an eye, he takes on an apprentice that reminds him of himself and gives him his signature technique/equipment, his dead best friend is alive, his dead best friend is the enemy, his dead best friend has been heavily experimented on, his dead best friend has warping powers, his friend group consists of people more cheerful than him who respect his skills, his best friend is overwhelmingly cheery in a way that balances with his low key behavior.

...When you list it out like this, it starts to get a little nuts, doesn't it? I wonder, sometimes, how much actual thought went into the character Eraserhead, and how much was Hori just... copying the copy ninja.

Here's the problem with that though, beyond the laziness of it all: Kakashi is a ninja. He is a mercenary, a child soldier, has killed more people than we have names for in all of MHA. He lives in a military village, under a military dictatorship, and is expected to kill. The teaching system he's part of is largely involuntary, though he avoids in in part because he's so good that everyone looks the other way when he ducks out of it. These students are also ten. There is just... just so much there, so much that is utterly alien to how MHA works, that putting a copy in is... flawed, to say the least.

That's why the Bell Test Quirk Apprehension Test is so bad: Hori put that in, as a blatant echo of Kakashi testing Team Seven, without thinking once of the differences in the setting.

He's in a school, and his job is being a teacher. His literal, actual ass job is to teach students (or 'help guide them', either way). This is something he chose to do, of his own volition. Kakashi trying to ditch his potential students is him trying to avoid an unwanted burden and him avoiding poking at this massive issues with teammates and responsible and everyone he knows and loves dying around him. And when he's forced to take some on? He tries his best to teach them, and he does: think about the first Battle of the End. The way Naruto and Sasuke fought each other. Think about how Naruto used to fight. Where did he learn to throw a punch like that? Kakashi. He may show up late, but the man did his work off screen.

Aizawa trying not to teach his students is literally a man too fucking lazy to do his own job. We all know Hori retconned it with 'he just wanted them to get a taste of death' via expulsion (which, apparently in Japanese culture is something that would set them back in their prospects for life) but it's so nonsensical that it's hard to take it seriously that he just... does this. Was planning to do this the first day, because they were excited about being heros, like that deserved a taste of death (They aren't in the military, you ass, they're in high school). Is allowed to do this. That he did this to an entire class for some reason but not Bakugou, when Bakugou exists.

Which means it's time to wade into the mess that is Aizawa and Izuku and Bakugou. Let's start with Bakugou, first, since I already started.

Blatantly, obviously, Bakugou has plot armor in how people react to him, or don't, as the case may be, and one of the worst victims of it is Eraserhead. The fact that Mr. 'Taste of death' and 'Expels entire classes' doesn't at least punt Bakugou into detention, or more likely a 'taste of death' to threaten the other students (because that's how you teach your class of high schoolers! By fear!), after he actively attacks Izuku, is just... mind boggling. The way he constantly refuses to acknowledge which of them is the aggressor, which of them is the first to throw a punch, which one is constantly threatening the other....

The obvious conclusion here is that Aizawa likes Bakugou, for whatever reason, but... I don't think it's true. The thing is if he liked Bakugou, you'd think he'd... spend time with him. Try and train him. Something. But no, by and by large he acts like Bakugou doesn't exist, right until Hori needs someone to compliment him for the readers, or someone to defend him after he does something bad, yet again, and then all of a sudden he's singing his praises. This is where the downsides of being The Favored Mouthpiece comes in: every time he's complimented Bakugou, every time he's said that this mess of a child is going to be a great hero, every time he cries desperately that he, 'Still needs to be Number One!' or whatever the hell that bullshit was? That was Hori. That was always Hori. Aizawa basically isn't allowed to exist near Bakugou without Hori running interference for him.

Izuku, on the other hand, is half the opposite, half Aizawa's own biases coming in. Part of it is Hori needs Izuku to feel stressed to pump up the tension, make cliffhangers, and get Jump selling; Izuku can't have a normal school life, he needs a heart pounding one. In most shonen school settings, this is easy to accomplish because they're generally hell holes that put their students in life and death situations on the regular, and live in hierarchies based off power levels. UA, though? It's a normal, or at least "normal" school, if exceptional, in the "real" world, plus some super powers. There are standards, is the thing; they can't and won't send their students off to maybe die because of they're a secret society or whatever. They have accountability (to some extent) to the general public, in other words.

So where does Izuku's cliffhanger filled school life come from? Well, Tomura and the Tomura-ettes, for one, but for all the other times... Hori turned to his teacher.

Let me say this again, because I want to emphasis this: part of the reason Aizawa exists as he does, is so that Izuku can feel threatened at school by his teacher. Why? Because Izuku's suffering sells.

Meanwhile, though Izuku does get pulled into Bakugou's plot armor sometimes, and suffers for it (more), but as a person and a character, I think Aizawa unironically disliked Izuku from the start. He grows out of it, to some extent, but....

Let's backtrack a second, back to the Quirk Test. Izuku, at this point, is ripped. Even without his Quirk, he was throwing around fridges and working all day and night to prep for UA. He was at the peak of realistic human fitness, instead of whatever increasing soft cap we have for heroes is.

Toru is invisible. Sure, she's in shape, since she passed the exam, but Izuku clearly focused on his body in a way most of the other students aren't, and she has no Quirk that'd help her pass the test (a test that, as many have pointed out, Aizawa would have failed). She's a nice girl, sure, but there's no way she could have out performed Izuku in raw physical ability, even before the ball throw which was one of the best of that category, and far beyond whatever she could have done.

Yet Izuku was the one at the bottom, not Toru. Why? Well, you could blame Hori, and that's technically true, but the thing is, unlike Bakugou, Aizawa acts like he doesn't like Izuku. He blames him for everything, he refuses to do anything as he breaks his bones constantly, he calls him Problem Child, and anyone who thinks that's affectionate, and that Izuku should as such, and that it's a cute little nickname needs to consider that through the lenses of Izuku's low self esteem, much less from a teacher who constantly threatens his students.

Aizawa sabotaged Izuku's scores. He did it because, you're right: he's just like the teachers at Aldera, if more restrained, and for different reasons. Not because Izuku is Quirkless (though he would if Izuku was, because the man honestly is Quirkist), but because he has the wrong Quirk. Because Izuku had the audacity to come to a school to learn about how to use his Quirk, instead of practicing it illegally, or inside his own house where, at that power level, one wrong move could accidently his house. Because he apparently didn't read the files that said Izuku got it a month ago, or didn't care. Or maybe it's just he looked at Izuku, and realized that having him learn to control that was just... too much work?

At the end of the day, which reason he did it doesn't even matter. What matters is he did. The same way he plays constant mind games with his students for shits and giggles, in ways that should undermine their faith in him, the same way he paired a bully with his victim so they could 'work it out', the same way he puts minimal effort into so much of the work he does, and it's why I loathe him as a teacher.

Aizawa is a good hero, but the moment Nezu let him into a school was a mistake.

#ask #mha critical #bnha critical #aizawa critical #Someone: asks my opinion on Aizawa #Me: pulls out The List #The List: unrolls until it hits the ground #Me in my best Sabaton voice: MY TIME IS NOW!!! #sometimes the language for what I want to say doesn't exist #so I make it myself #The Kakashi Aura #The Dubious Honor of being The Favored Mouthpiece #Why is this man even a teacher? #Shoto is made out of red flags #I'm sorry to inform you that your Dadzawa fics lied to you #Aizawa is a Kakashi Clone #The moral and practical logic of a world of ninjas should not be applied to a world of heroes #Bakugou critical #Bakugou's long standing issues with basic impulse control #Izuku deserves better

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

Trapped

First posted: July 30, 2018

Focuses on: Jason Todd (and Bruce Wayne)

My favorite bookmark: "i think this is my favorite jason fic now?? shit" thank u but I've written better, please come back

Tier: Top 20 in terms of hits, kudos, and bookmarks, surprisingly

This is my "behind the scenes" series where I indulge myself horribly by annotating my fics. Link to the fic itself above. Thoughts below the cut.

Another BatFam Week entry, but this time the prompt is the title.

This one started with a very specific kinetic image of being able to feel Bruce's hand covering Jason's eyes and knowing why. Very horse blinders, but soft and dadly. From there it was just a matter of writing it.

A panicked whine whistled through the dark.

In my own fics, the use of "whine" is very "Oh hi, I've been binging fic indiscriminately for weeks and now have plunged headfirst into writing without knowing a thing about how to do it my own way." No shade on people who do use that verb. I just don't anymore, because it's not my style.

He was buried. Buried in the dark with the bugs and the worms and the dirt.

Treble parallel structures are just the best and I rely on them way too much but also I AM NOT SORRY.

He swung his arm in a panic, forearm slamming against the wall of rubble. Nothing moved, but his arm screamed, so he joined it.

☺️

That was him. Good, good, that was good, dead people didn’t know their own name, because they were dead, but he was going to be dead because he couldn’t see and couldn’t get out and oh god he was buried again—

I really hecking love stream-of-consciousness panic, though I would edit some of the commas here. They were technically, grammatically correct, but a few implied breaths Jason was definitely not taking.

Also I don't remember if it was this fic or another early one but some commenter tried to be like "capitalize that g." No. When the characters reference the deity or deliberately the name, that's God. This is god.

No matter where Jason had cried out for him—in a warehouse in Ethiopia, in a muddy grave, on the banks of the Pit—Bruce had never been here.

Listen, you might think you hate your dad, but when you're living out your worst nightmare, it's good to have him around! Like oh thank goodness AN ADULT, and not just any adult, the ADULT WHO FIXES THINGS.

Bruce’s hand tightened on his ankle.

Some things are just fun to write because it's less about imagining and more about, no, I can just tell you Bruce has his gloves on and his fingers are around Jason's ankle and the pad of his thumb is pressed to that little hollow between the ankle bone and the Achilles heel, I'm not conjuring it, that's just how it is.

It was a ludicrously heavy beam, and his muscles were already weak from panic and fading adrenaline.

I have no idea how heavy concrete with a rebar center actually is. If I were Audrey, I would have googled it and researched down to the ounce. As it is, my brain went "It's like the Little Billy scene in Rocketman, it's fine."

“I have died here,” Jason reminded him, voice teetering like a small figure on a bridge.

I pat past me on the back for that wording.

Bruce placed his hand over Jason’s eyes, sandpapery callouses rubbing across soft eyelashes and bloody skin.

Bruce has my dad's hands. Which doesn't actually make sense because Bruce is a manual labor guy and my dad's only callouses are writing callouses, but it's true.

“You’re not alone. I’m here, and I’m not leaving you.” Bruce kissed Jason’s forehead tenderly, then prompted, “Say it.”

Yay forehead kiss.

“You are not alone.” “I am not alone.”

I am not fond of dialogue-only endings (when I do them.)

Also, to pull out one of my own replies from the comments:

The hill I choose to die on is that the majority of both the strife and bliss between Bruce and Jason at any point in their lives centers on the fact that Bruce is the closest anyone has come to earning total trust from Jason. Period. So that makes every betrayal ten times worse but also means that when the chips are down, Jason will turn to Bruce. 

Another gem from the comments: my elation that @cerusee (whose work I had devoured) read AND liked this fic AND liked it well enough to text it to @audreycritter (who had not yet appeared like a Jack-in-the-Box to drag me bodily into friendship.) I tried to play it cool in the reply. I was not chill in real life.

#fanfic bts brain dump

[sidprescot]

i uhhhh finished 1899

(spoilers for all episodes below the cut, don't read if you haven't finished watching!)

GOD this show!!!!! i have been screaming internally for like 10 hours now and this is going to be so incoherent sorry

who else thinks the space ship at the end is just another simulation and the start of another loop? the season beginning and ending with maura waking up to a 'letter' from her 'brother', the ship also being called the prometheus, the technology also seeming out of place for the time period, being trapped in the vastness of space instead of the vastness of the ocean but it's still a prison.... could be totally wrong and it's just parallels but i trust nothing and no one on this (space)ship

literally every character on this show is so fucked up (affectionate) i am studying them all like bugs

i did guess that the boy was maura's son but i thought daniel was either an older version of him or her brother, the husband reveal fully knocked me on my ass because up until that point i was convinced they were setting up a maura/eyk romance which i 100% think was intentional clearly they have some connection outside of the simulation and the heart wants what it wants when you have amnesia lmao it's so valid of her tbh i too am making eyes at andreas in that coat

also hear me out what if daniel and elliot are both dead in the original reality (or never existed at all) and the versions of them that we see are actually AI created by maura to cope with her trauma... seems like elliot at least is dead or dying considering the grave bunker and his memory in the chair... if maura is the creator of the simulation, maybe she's also their Creator? what if she can wake up but they never can

tinfoil hat firmly ON

or alternatively what if daniel is actually the antagonist leading her deeper into the simulation OR maybe they're both literally exactly what they seem to be and he's just a guy who loves his wife and wants to save her from herself and also her fucked up family and also maybe loves his son sometimes i am sooooooo full of shit lmao it's 3am bestie

also i was NOT expecting olek and ling yi to fuck me up like that... they speak the language of LOVE ok do not perceive me

and speaking of that i've seen some people say that they feel like the simulation reveal took away the gravity of the death scenes but it didn't at all for me, for one everyone jumping overboard like lemmings off a cliff while you hear their bodies thunk thunk thunk was fucking haunting and that was the bulk of the deaths, but also i just think the implications of the whole thing fuck me up more on a psychological level when it comes to the main characters... they are all doomed by the narrative, new liver same eagles, this is going to happen again and again because they can't escape their emotions, they can't escape love or hate or rage or fear or desire or grief, they can't escape what it means to be human no matter how deep into their dreams and nightmares they go at the core nothing ever changes and it's fucking tragic

in other words, i ugly cried through most of ep 7

and then there's the triangle symbolism, the tattoos, 'what is lost will be found', 1011, some of the names being anagrams, etc etc

THERE ARE SO MANY LAYERS

everything is too real nothing is real at all they're alive they're dead they're in purgatory they're in a hell of their own making they are the glitch in the matrix they are the (literal) bugs in the code i am going to scream

actual footage of me making this post

also i am definitely going to gif the show but i have a really busy week coming up and i'll be out of town for most of it so it might be a while unfortunately but just know the gifs are coming eventually they are living in my little brain as we speak

ok i'm going to shut up now if you read this far thank you, i love you, and i'm sorry lmao

#(inhales deeply) #(screams) #rj.txt #1899 #1899 spoilers #i made a short post and then was like no #i am going to release the demons from my drafts

[hopper-wheeler]

every season el goes on a journey of self discovery away from mike and learns new important things about herself and the world and then she comes back to mike and they still love each other so much and every season people say “el needs to be her own person and go on a journey of self discovery away from mike to learn new important things about herself and the world!!!!!” like y’all it’s been four seasons of her doing exactly that. and mike and el just always love each other even more afterwards and have an even deeper connection each time. when will these people realize it’s okay to just not like a ship you don’t have to make up faux-feminist reasons to act like it’s morally wrong or whatever. you can just. dislike it lol

“I hate mileven bc I care about el! all she cares about is mike!! she’s solely dependent on him!!!” woah wild how they missed so many of el’s plot lines and character arcs while they were so busy “caring” about her

(sorry for dumping this in your inbox lol I just wanted to get it out there to someone who probably gets it, I hope you have a good day!)

don't be sorry, it's totally okay to vent here! and i do get your frustration all too well.

one of the things that bugs me the most about the hate mileven gets, aside from it being wholy underserved imo, is the way people keep trying to find reasons why it's problematic or badly written to justify their dislike. it's okay to just not vibe with a character/relationship. that's fine. it's actually a lot more respectable than whatever this is.

but people would really rather be annoying and waste their time on something they don't even like just to try and come out on top. as if instead of not shipping a couple of 15-year-olds they're actually standing up for women everywhere or something.

which is really funny when the woke takes these people tend to come up with are actually some of the most misogynistic, ableist takes i've ever seen.

"el needs to be her own person."

so women can't be in a relationship and be in love with someone and still be their own person.

"she's too dependent on mike, she needs him too much."

so women wanting support from the people they love makes them dependent and therefore weak.

"el doesn't even have any real world experience. she can't even talk properly and doesn't even know what clothes she likes. she shouldn't be in a romantic relationship. and it's weird that mike likes her. seems predatory idk."

so anyone who's been through terrible abuse and struggles because of that, has a difficulty with speech and understanding social cues, and/or is still developing a sense of identity shouldn't be allowed to make their own decisions or be in a loving relationship. and it's weird for someone else to take a romantic interest in them unless they're taking advantage in some way because no way would anyone just... love them for who they are.

great. that's actually very gross of you.

and don't even get me started on the canon erasure. it's like 90% of people didn't even watch this show. i'm tired of people claiming mileven needs to be given breathing room when they're the only couple to have been separated in some way every season. you can say whatever you want about st, but one thing the show has done since day 1 is give el, the character, plenty of agency. el is not stuck in hawkins. she's not stuck with mike. she chose that. she chose her family and we saw her do that, every step of the way.

so yeah anyone who says "i love el but mileven..." is full of shit. if you actually loved el you'd respect her choices and want her to have the people she loves by her side, supporting her.

#asks #anonymous #mileven #mike x eleven #ableism tw #anyway i hope you have a good day too 💙 #text

[ratcandy]

Whats a class you've taken (can be any subject and grade) that you were expecting to dislike, but actually ended up enjoying and/or learning a lot from?

Oh man this is a hard question. and also super random HSKDJGH Hi

Hmm. I can think of plenty examples of classes I expected to hate and did end up hating (chemistry), or even a class I expected to like and ended up LOATHING (debate class that was a philosophy class in disguise), but one that I expected to dislike and ended up liking? Mgmn.

The closest thing I can think of was a class I took to get a humanities credit. How my college works is that you need a certain number of credits for things not necessarily covered by your major (humanities, composition, natural sciences, social sciences, etc), and for Me, Well. Being in Entomology made it pretty easy to get natural science credit, and being an English nerd, I already came into the college with all my needed composition credits.

But I needed humanities credits, so I ended up taking a class called Women in Film. I didn't really expect to dislike it, which is why I consider it the closest thing I can think of, I just didn't expect to be like. As interested in it as I am bug classes.

Anyway it ended up being one of my favorite classes and introduced me to one of my favorite professors ever. She was this funny old lady who was constantly cracking jokes and looked at film from EVERY possible perspective, even shit I could've never thought of before. And though her criticisms on essays were considered "scathing" and "ruthless" by other students, I thought they were super helpful and awesome and I respected her 1 million times more than pretty much every other prof I've had grade an essay.

also the final assignment of the class was to make a meme based on something we learned or a movie we covered in the class and she liked the one I made so much she apparently printed it out and put it in her office. and I think about this a lot

Anyway the class was super interesting too and has totally warped my perception of movies. I don't really watch movies to begin with, it's never really been my thing, but now anytime I see any film with a Woman in it I just start picking apart the most random of things in my head thanks to that class.

Watch any film and in the back of my head I hear that prof saying "Now do you think the director is a second, third, or fourth wave feminist?" and soon enough I'm going to become insufferable @ my friends about it

we watched some weird movies in that class but honestly ? sometimes it's just the part of the semester where you watch The Children's Hour or Rosemary's Baby and have completely different visceral responses to both of these films and then go to class and everyone gets to be as abnormal about it as possible . and it's awesome

#ok thanks for the random question I love being prompted with random things #ask #rosemary's baby features cultists and the birth of the antichrist btw .and this is just something most of us were not expecting when #we started the semester with. legally blonde #things got so wild inthere #but i will say the quote ''he's like a pavlovian dog'' from my prof sits in my head all the time #''lights go out pants go off BOINGGG''

[danses-with-dogmeat]

AHHHH CONGRATS ON 1.5K!!! Ive been reading your writing for years, and i always love seeing your events. Would you write 🐍 🐕 for butch? first or last name, its totally up to you 🥳🥳

THANK YOU!!! <3 And omg YEARS!? That's crazy ( I actually can't believe that I've been doing this for years now, it feels like it's still so new, even though it all started for me in 2021 😅😅)

And yes! Here's an alphabet for Mr. Deloria. (even though I actually went with his first name for this, lol).

B) Baby. Do they want a family? Why/why not?

He's not thinking about a family now, so early in both your lives, but down the road... who knows? The ex-vault dweller could definitely stand to see a few little baby Butches running around in miniature Tunnel Snake jackets. But he tends not to plan too far ahead. If it happens, he's happy about it, and you'll make it work, but if not? That's cool too. Plenty to do and see in this big world, whether or not kids are involved, that's just details.

U) Understanding. How well do they know their partner? Are they empathetic?

Say what you will about Butch, but he knows his partner, inside and out. He grew up with you, he knows what you were like in every phase of your life, he grew up knowing the same people as you, living through the same experiences, and when he escapes the vault too? He takes the time to get to know this new you as well.

Butch is actually very sensitive to your emotions and understands your preferences to a T. Even to the point that he can guess what's bugging you before you even really know. Whether or not you remember the exact date, he knows exactly when you were driven from the vault, and he understands that you may be emotional on that day. The same goes for good days too, and for your favorite foods, what you might be allergic to... yeah, Butch may not always seem it, and he definitely doesn't realize it himself, but he knows damn near everything about you.

T) Thrill. Do they need to try out new things to spice up your relationship? Or do they prefer a certain routine? 

Oh, Butch likes to spice it up. He's been dealing with routines since he was born, and he's hated them just as long. Getting out of the vault was one of the best-- if not scariest-- things he's ever done, but now? Now he can actually live a little. Jump off the rails on the outside of Rivet City into the ocean, kiss you while you're hold up during a rad storm, give a ghoul a haircut, raid the liquor cabinet at Moriarty's Saloon and run naked through Megaton in the dead of night. Whatever, just live! Butch is "here for a good time", and all that.

C) Cuddle. Do they like to cuddle and show affection? How?

He's guilty of being a big cuddler. Don't tell Wally Mack or Paul, but... when he's not out kicking ass and being a Tunnel Snake, Butch loves to take little sunlit naps with you, or throw his leg over yours under the table, or wrap an arm around you as you walk. His cuddle of choice though, is when he can lay over you with his head resting on your chest while you idly play with his hair... Never fails to put him into the best sleep ever.

H) Honesty. Are they honest with their s/o? How important is it to them in a relationship? 

Okay, he's not always honest in the relationship, but when that's the case, it's always just some stupid shit. He'll lie about eating the last of your favorite snacks, or whether or not he thinks you look hot in those weird jeans, or telling you how good his new experimental haircut came out when he tried it on you... Yeah, he doesn't really be too malicious or conniving with it. Usually he just lies to cover his own ass on something that's ultimately inconsequential. So, it's not a deal breaker or anything for him either. He gets it if you lie every once in awhile, just so long as it stays pretty innocent.

#1.5k event #1.5k celebration #fallout #fallout companions #fallout 3 #fallout 3 companions #butch fo3 #butch deloria #fallout butch #relationship alphabet #night stalker

[hollowflight-propaganda]

Unpopular opinion, but I genuinely think that March of the Oni is one of the worst Ninjago seasons, (That is if you even count it as a season.) and it's all because of that last episode. The fact that the title is even "Endings" and yet is one of the worst season finales I've seen in this whole show just makes my blood boil.

Because when you think about it, this episode is supposed to act as the ending not only for itself and the two seasons before it, but the first ten seasons and the Wilfilm era as a whole. But, to me at least, it just feels like it dropped the ball. (If you wanna read my long ass rant, be my guest.)

The most egregious thing this episode does is what they did with Cole. Literally what was the reason for this fake out death if he's just gonna show up completely fine afterwards. And yes, I know that it sparked some of the most tear jerking moments in this show and furthered what Lloyd and Garmadon had going on, but doesn't that just make it worse that it feels like this whole thing went nowhere? And I don't want to hear anything like, "Well, bad and unexpected things happen in life all the time! It's just being realistic!" If this show was going for that type of realism everyone in the main cast should be dead by now. And I'm not saying that that's not a true statement about the world, but this is a lego ninja show aimed at eight year olds.

And then there's the second fake out death in this four episode season. And I'm also aware that the scene where Lloyd meets the FSM is cool. I also think that the scene is really cool! But my problem lies in the fact that Lloyd dying and then being fine minutes later doesn't serve anything. At least Cole falling caused some interesting scenes, but what happened to Lloyd doesn't cause anything! And yes, he met god, but then god told him that he won't remember any of this anyway. Oh well.

And then Garmadon just walks away??? Like, I get why HE would do that, but Wu just let's him leave????? Isn't this guy literally only the evil parts of who he was before? And not to mention that he forcibly became a dictator like three weeks ago.

And there's so many other things that piss me off, like how Kai has kind of a full circle moment with his smithing abilities, and as a longtime Kai fan I really like this idea! But then it was only a 20 second montage. Like, you aren't even going to give us a reason as to how he became so good at being a blacksmith that he can reforge the fucking GOLDEN WEAPONS? NO??? Ok then! *explodes with rage*

And my next complaint is moreso targeted at the whole season, but am I the only one who thinks that the Oni where really underwhelming? Like, these are supposed to be demons hellbent on the total destruction of the universe, but they're also the most forgettable villains in this entire show. The only reason why I even remember Omega's name is because that name in this context is kickass, but other than that he has nothing going for him. He's just here to destroy and kill everybody, that's it. What makes him and say, Kalmaar so different, is that Kalmaar has an actual personality. They have the same fundamental plan, but Kalmaar feels more like a classic disney villain while Omega is an extremely watered down version of the Christian take on Satan. This could've been the chance to make some absolutely epic lore about the Oni, where they've been, what they're like, or literally anything. But no, they're just here to kill.

And then they where defeated by the power of spinning really fast with your fam. The whole Tornado of Creation coming back just to serve as a callback and a convenient Oni killswitch has always bugged me. It just feels really cheap, especially with how everything faded to white and we didn't even get to see what actually happened.

But the real reason why I hate this final episode so damn much is that, I really liked the episodes before it! When it was coming out I thought that this would be really good, and I was legitimately excited to see how it ended! But then it crushed my dreams by having the worst ending possible and I haven't been able to trust since.

Okay, I think I'm done now, these aren't all of the reasons why I hate it so much, but I've rambled enough so I'm done.

#yes I'm making this because I saw the outcome of that worst season poll #and Skybound's ending makes me as mad as everyone else but that season at least gave me Clancee #it just annoys me how nobody else talks about how sucky s10 was #and it isn't even my least favorite season overall #that'd have to go to The Island #(and I know that not everyone considers it a season but I don't care I just loath it with a passion) #okay #I think I'm actually done now #ninjago #march of the oni #cole brookstone #lloyd garmadon #kai jiang #kai smith #omega ninjago #I don't know what tag people use for him #probably because everyone forgot he existed #phoenix's ninjago thoughts #<- that's for when I go off the rails like this #because it will happen again

[candyskiez]

20 questions for fic authors

thank you to my lovely mutual @zyrafowe-sny for the tag! for my no pressure tagging, only if you wanna, @phantasmaltrain @thousand-winters @kolapon @msbadatnamingthings @violet-prism-creatively @sir-ballister-boldheart @bleezebrew and anyone else who wants to join in!

how many fics do you have on ao3?

18! most are shoved to pseuds because I do not want them associated w me anymore but I don't want to make it so people who like the fics can't find more by me because that shit drives me insane.

what's your total ao3 word count?

29,876

what fandoms do you write for?

the owl house, mostly. I'm planning on expanding to more, writing for several more fandoms now in fact. but I mean if you've seen one of my fics somewhere, it's probably from owl house.

what are your top five fics by kudos?

an open book (with a torn out page) is very much in the lead still, stubborn is in second, loyal is in third, eggwart salad in fourth, and identity in fifth. I do think most of that is the toh fics being that popular because hunter + they were made during the show being super !!!!!, so when I post more fics the rating will probably change more. one day I'll actually finish more lmao I'm sorry guys I'm busy as shit.

do you respond to comments? why or why not?

I try to! because when I'm commenting I'm always worried I'm being annoying andbtoo much about the fic and bugging the author so me replying is me trying to say "hey!!! I really appreciate this!!!!", although sometimes I just don't know what to say and ghost (sorry!!!!)

what's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

ohhh god I gotta talk about my old fics great /lh, cold probably. I think it's the only FULLY hurt no comfort I've ever written? it and settle for a ghost. I'm leaning towards cold because

A. I hate settle for a ghost /lh

B. cold is literally about Pure Pain. there is no silver lining there is no "this character in canon gets a happy ending", it's just "this character is gonna die horribly in a few days, here's some angst"

what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I mean, eggwart salad is entirely father son fluff. it's just darius loving his weird son for several thousand words. but if we're talking fics with some sadder parts with a happier ending, probably happy new year, dear, or maybbbeeeee roses and lilies? I used to write a lot of that shit. man I need to write more of it.

do you get hate on fics?

not yet

do you write smut? if so, what kind?

none published no. that is all I'm gonna say and y'all can mind your business on everything else /lh

do you write crossovers? what's the craziest one you've written?

nope! never been my forte besides shit like in the setting of another media. ex, what if [x] character was a pokemon trainer and that shit.

have you ever had a fic stolen?

not to my knowledge but they've probably been gobbled up by an ai at least once 😔

have you ever had a fic translated?

nope

have you ever cowriten a fic before?

that depends on your definition! I've done a lot of things where me and a group will brainstorm an idea together, make into a fully fledged thing and we'll all suggest dialogue. some of those conversations have become fics, sometimes even with my dialogue and a lot of my ideas. so I guess...yeah, I've cowriten fics! if that's your definition.

what's your all-time favorite ship?

hmmm, I'm not as much of a shipper anymore. but I did love twohina back in 2020-2021-2022 (ifykyk) and I do have a soft spot for raeda. goldenheart is currently blorboing though and I do love huntlow. and oh I love zukka! I don't know if I really have a favorite ship, though.

what's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

I really really really REALLY wanna finish dadrius week and am trying so hard. but ohhh my god my life is on fucking fire lately July just kind of exploded and it's been downhill from there lmao. but I'm slowly getting back up again so hopefully I do finish it. sorry gang my life's been on fire. as y'all have probably noticed lmao.

what's your writing strengths?

INTROSPECTION!!!! ohhh my god. character studies I like to think I can do pretty well! character analysis is my special interest. give me a character and I will find a way to give them depth so help me god.

what's your writing weaknesses?

ohhhh god. describing actions. like hand motions, fight motions, movements, expressions, visual shit, or anything descriptive, or just! shit like that! it's insane!! I don't fuckin know how!!!!

thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I have no fucking clue how and considering I want to write more luz stuff I really should learn. the problem is I Have No Fucking Clue How. do you see the issue.

first fandom you wrote for?

warriors, not on ao3. first fandom bb.

favorite fic you've ever written?

open book! I think it holds up pretty well, although I do wish I focused more on how the secret effects gus. one day I really want to sit down and write something with him , I just need to get in his head more. I do think my hunter characterization was pretty good there? I think? I hope so. I need to work on him again, he's tough to nail down.

thanks for the tag, and I hope you enjoyed seeing my thoughts :D

for anyone curious, my ao3 is here! mind the spoilers!

#candyskiez ramblings nobody asked for #candyskiez fics

[anomalouscorvid]

1, 9, 10, 16, 18, 21, 22 for fallen london🦇🦇🦇

as usual this goes under the cut because i like to type a lot. but a lot of this is '¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i don't know anything about the actual fandom so i couldn't say for certain what my thoughts would be'

1 (the character everyone gets wrong) - well, as someone who doesn't interact with the fandom except for what i see on tumblr and doesn't read fl fanfiction or anything, i'd have no idea lmao, some of the stuff i've heard makes me think the answer to this might be mr veils (but not really) or actually potentially mr apples but i'm just not certain

9 (worst part of canon) - this isn't the worst part for me, but here's a fun opportunity to admit something: it's always annoyed me that curators have arms as well as wings. not just because the anatomy is annoying to get right when drawing (two sets of limbs! in the same space! what are your shoulders meant to be doing) but also because i just think any curator interpretation could be improved with hands on their wings. it just looks more balanced when they only have wings and not separate humanoid arms. and yet it seems like in canon the arms and wings are separate. tragic

anyway space bat limbs aside. i'm sure there's actual probably-the-worst things about canon that should actually be changed but i think any concerns have already been talked about with better wording by others? so i don't know what else i could say here

10 (worst part of fanon) - here's another opportunity for me to admit something that isn't precisely answering this question but i wanted to say it anyway: i don't get why people seem to hate the manager's design in motr. like that's less fanon and more fan reactions to canon but regardless. he seems... fairly alright? accurate enough to how he's described? visually makes me think "yeah that's him"? but apparently people hate the design, i haven't seen a single person talk about it in a positive way. i don't get it maybe there's just like. a fan design that the fandom decided was the only accurate one idk that seems to happen a lot with stuff like this where there's suddenly a canon design after so much time being relevant with no canon design

anyway again i must mention that i don't know anything about the fl fandom that doesn't appear on my tumblr dash. maybe there's a really popular bit of fanon elsewhere that everyone agrees on but i've never seen. maybe everyone agrees that [x character] is totally a snuffer or [y character] is actually a star in disguise or whatever and i had no idea.

i mean apparently there's december discourse and people have actual opinions on it but i didn't even know there was december discourse until recently. i mean yeah there's liberation of night discourse i get that but discourse about December specifically? december of the calendar council the twelfth month? we know like 3 facts about them. what would you even discourse over. about whether or not calling them a borzoi is actually even remotely accurate? (and for the record my view on that is that it totally isn't but i call them a borzoi anyway)

so anyway yeah i don't know enough about popular fanon to make any judgements here

16 (you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)) - why is candles so often drawn as specifically albino? i'm not sure if it's canon or not but i haven't heard of anything mentioning him (?) as albino or leucistic in canon. like yeah the colours fit with the themes i guess but i don't think i've ever seen a fan depiction of candles that didn't include pure white/pigmentless fur. obviously disclaimer that it's not necessarily a bad thing it's just like. wow that appears a lot

18 (it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on…) - the grand devils. so aesthetic! so dead! so.... bugs! not even necessarily the canon ones, i think it'd be cool to see more grand devil ocs, or just devil ocs that don't follow the usual 'human with weird eyes' physical form (i know i don't really have any of those but. regardless i think it'd be very cool to see more of from others.)

21 (part of canon you think is overhyped) - would the masters of the bazaar be too obvious an answer for this one 💔 i just. think there's plenty of other interesting non-human species in the fl universe. yeah not much else to say for this one. i could also say seeking the name or mr eaten as a character in general for this one. but overall there isn't much overhyped in such a small fandom i think?

22 (your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores) - maybe the grand devils also fit as an answer to this question. i haven't really seen anyone talking much about them anywhere, which is fair given their crimes of being monarchs, but it's kind of surprising. i simply think that sometimes people should consider the dead or sort-of-dead bees.

also, maybe this is obvious from a few of my recent fl posts, but i think the god-eaters could be interesting (although there... isn't much to them in canon compared to the other important figures from past cities), and yet i've never really seen anyone acknowledging them (except for maybe, in some cases, mentioning them when talking about mr eaten)

[noblechaton]

so ultimately I really enjoyed season 5 as a whole and think it might be my new favorite season of ml in general since most episode were bangers and the finale eps weren't really any different lmao

but there's two elements that - like other folks I've seen - are kinda bugging me and bog it down a good bit I feel and I kinda wanna ramble about em. ml spoilers below (no salt tho I am complaining somewhat)

the first thing was something I'd caught a glimpse of just before I passed out last night thanks to some lovely blogging from a few mutuals and that I caught onto midway thru the second part of the finale and that is of course the weird attempt at seemingly redeeming? Gabriel in some capacity

now of course he's not at all redeemed to us, the audience, and it doesn't feel like a redemption so much as like. absolving him? but either way like....why at all? 5 seasons (2 specials and a video game too) across like 8 years I feel sorta showed that the guy legit could not be redeemed, especially S5 itself with multiple instances of him doing just. unforgivably heinous things to everyone including that son of his he kept talking about protecting and like for a time in the show maybe I could have seen that path where he was genuinely doing this to improve Adrien's life but that was tossed a long time ago lmao, he's actively tormented Adrien more than anything and that's without factoring in his beatings of Chat Noir, threats towards Marinette, etc.

Gabriel sacrificing himself at the end was something I sorta always knew was coming bc nothing else really made sense. no way he'd go to jail, he couldn't just be absolved of all he'd done and there was no real other option and yet they tried to absolve him anyway?? not to mention how little sense I feel it makes for Adrien to believe this in the least after even just the last few episodes, let alone the season and then some

Paris in general treating Gabriel like a hero sucks - most of the class at least should know better - and while I think there's a chance it'll lead to some juicy drama between Marinette knowing the truth and Lila knowing what she knows, one of them feels bound to take it to Adrien, I'm concerned it'll just be a flat point never to be addressed again

now I've often felt the show is more clever than ppl give it credit for but idk. something about it just feels weird and wrong and not just bc of what it is on the surface - Marinette building a lie into her relationship with Adrien is fascinating and it should absolutely come up in the future, but I'm worried it won't

and the reason I'm worried is bc of how Adrien was handled in the finale - in that he wasn't really handled at all

I understand that the story had him locked up in a cube, I get that he was purposefully tossed aside by that same father he supposedly believes is heroic now but like....why did we get nothing from him past him forfeiting the ring? why did he give up so easily? why was he a total nonentity in the finale of what is, essentially, his arc? in this story that has the most bearing on Adrien, Adrien himself was just....gone for most of it, arguably all of it

I feel like it flies counter to a lot of what the show's been doing especially lately with him in how Adrien is basically stripped of any and all agency by the end of the finale and honestly I hate it lol. him having no say on anything, no knowledge of anything or any real reaction to....anything that happened. we don't see him really react to the lie of what his father did, to Nathalie being returned to health or to the mysterious blonde woman at the pool who may or may not be his actual mom (the storyboards and deleted scene apparently confirm it was, at least, at some point), we don't even see him get his ring back. like I wasn't expecting a reveal at this point - I don't think we're gonna get one tbh - but....nothing??

which is part of why I feel the stuff at the end with him and Marinette in the garden - while very nice and cathartic after 8 years of watching - felt so off, almost hollow. Adrien didn't really get to be a character in the finale and just sort of reappears to finally kiss Marinette again? that's it? he's all smiles and sunshine again after being genuinely, undeniably tortured by his father that he again somehow believes is heroic in some manner? huh??

I think I'd feel better about things if we at least got his reaction to things - if he somehow rolled up on his destroyed house or found Nathalie walking around under her own power or w/e but there's just nothing. like he's an action figure that got lost under the bed for a bit. and again there's a chance we get some of that next season but like, not only do I think we shouldn't have to but I also see it as less likely than the Gabe stuff proving to be a plotline since that feels much more like a lingering presence that sorta needs to be dealt with and honestly Tomoe needs to be dealt with too idk how Kagami could ever go back to her after this

which really has me excited about season 6 more than I was - I admittedly kinda groaned when they revealed there'd be more seasons since I knew about the 5 season arc (especially since main villain Lila did not interest me in the least at the time lol, and still kinda doesn't tbh) but if I'd sorta softened on the decision across the last few years, I've fully turned around with this - so long as they address some of this stuff going forward at least bc I feel like if nothing else there's some really juicy drama and story potential in the Gabriel lie coming undone

ultimately again I loved this season and felt the finale was appropriately crazy - the kwamis in their ultimate forms, Gimmi's appearance, Bug Noir and the fight across the mansion, it all worked really well imo and there was a lot of payoff still in the finale even if I feel they didn't really stick the landing with a couple of rough edges and odds and ends hanging out

I also wanna say that I kinda like the ideas I've seen floating around about how the epilogue might not be what it seems - that Gabriel's wish wasn't so pure in nature, it kinda fits him to warp reality in just such a way after all but idk if that's what's going on here for sure yet. think it'd make a really cool twist if that evil AU special thingy came straight off of this tho, or if we got midway thru S6 and it's like, oh dang we're living a total fabrication!! I love stuff like that lol

also also ngl I am not excited about the whole team being back at all in any capacity lol. think a smaller team - which would now be Ladybug, Chat, Carapace, Rena, Ryuko and Argos maybe - just works better

also also also - addendum that ties into the Adrien stuff - it feels really weird that Chat Noir wasn't present at all during Monarch's defeat right? like. idk that just doesn't sit well with me, like he should have had some impact there, some role. maybe he could have broken out and given Ladybug the ring himself (albeit in a mask or something) or done literally anything. idk. really weird

#noble ml catchup 2k23 #not gonna tag this as spoilers so as to not clog the tag too hard but like. ml spoilers #just me kinda talkin for a bit

[soulsxng]

4. Favourite thing about roleplaying?

17. Least favourite trope?

@arcxnumvitae | It's a (belated) Munday | No longer accepting!

4. Favorite thing about roleplaying?

The people I've met! Though in some cases, people are also my least favorite thing, too. Anyway, I've met quite a few friends on here in the time that I've been around. Like...it's crazy to think that I've actually known some friends on here for longer than I've been married? And I've known a few since I was still in animal behavior school, which is even more wild. It doesn't feel like it's been that long at all!

Still, it's been a lot of fun, and I'm glad that I've been able to meet so many cool people while doing something that I enjoy!

If that's a cop out though, then I would probably say worldbuilding? I have a lot of fun with it on my own, but being able to meld that with the worldbuilding my partner has going for their own universe? Chef's kiss, it really just makes it even better.

17. Least favorite trope?

It's hard to pick just one, so here are some of the main ones that irk me: "Love fixes everything", "Villain is evil SOLELY because they're mentally ill", "Every Other Character Has to Love/Hate This Character or They're Wrong", aaaand "There is no such thing as a platonic relationship, and breakups are illegal"

I have some issues with romantic tropes, if you can't tell by the first and last things (and I guess the third in some cases) lmao. I think it's more than I'm just picky, though? It just bothers me when all of the attention is put on the romance and THAT'S IT, you know? A lot of times, when characters get into a romantic relationship too, it's like...that's the only character you see them with after that. As if that's the only relationship they need/that matters all of a sudden.

It's kind of the same thing with breakups. I know that with writing, there has to be some drama or it gets boring, but...there's so many cases where romantic relationships are viewed as Final. And if one of the involved parties wants to break it off for any reason short of flat out abuse, they're viewed as the asshole by everyone. Or it's just extremely one sided, like "Oh, A is a dick and treats B poorly, so of course B would break up with them!"

And I'm not even trying to say that all breakups need to be amicable or whatever! I don't mind messy breakups, but it's nice when sometimes both parties were at fault!

With the second one, that's fairly self explanatory. Especially with the "Villain has DID/schizophrenia so they're obviously evil/dangerous, and totally unhinged" branch of the trope. It bugs me.

And then with the third one is also fairly self explanatory. It's just irritating, I dunno. I don't mind if a character is supposed to be perfect, and lovable, and whatever, that's fine. It's when it's expected for that character to be adored by all, nobody can bring themselves to stand against them, blah blah blah, etc, etc. when it starts to get on my nerves. Especially when other characters then view the one that doesn't adore said character as evil, or a bad person or whatever just because they don't care for the "perfect" character. Same thing with characters that are supposed to be hated by everyone.

Which is similar to my hatred for the "I did something bad/I did something that hurt someone(s), but everyone still has to forgive me, otherwise they're unreasonable." trope. Maybe it's just because I'm low sleep, so words aren't wording well right now, but I can't even really tell you why it bothers me so much. It just does.

#[what is she getting us into now? -ooc-] #(least favorite tropes always gets me going asdlkfnas #so I wrote a whole bunch sorry)

[riverstardis]

binge britain:

hmm i think this is the ep with michael stevenson's wife in

oh charlie and duffy are back from their honeymoon. and they've come straight to the hospital with all their suitcases and whatnot? do they just live here???

dylan tells ethan that cal called in sick claiming to have a stomach bug but his speech was slurred and ethan's like "i'm sure he just needs to get it out of his system... the bug i mean" sjfjjfgfgjk omg what did i say a while ago about ethan getting it in the neck every time cal skives off bc why is dylan telling him off as if he's personally responsible😭

aww ethan calls cal and leaves a message saying he just wants to know if he's okay🥺 i guess cal is probably still upset about what happened with alicia and ethan can tell something's wrong even if he doesn't realise why cal did what he did

sam's the new medical director😃🔫 can see a bit too many of the threads that lead to cal's death coming together now for my liking

lmaoo alicia tells ethan she's taking a quick break and invites him outside for some fresh air but he says he can't. soo now she's broken up with cal she wants ethan to forget that she wouldn't break up with him earlier so they could be together?

HELPSJSDJFJ iain's saying he needs to get out more and meet new people and jez is making fun of him for being old and says he should have a house party bc he knows loads of middle aged women he could bring and iain says he can't have a load of strangers in his house bc he's just had the carpets done shjsjfjf yeahh not sure you're helping your case there mate😭😭

yep there's lauren crace! aka chrissie flipping danes

iain and gem's mum😬

"seriously!? henrik, if sam strachan was your best choice for medical director i'd hate to see the other candidates" SHSJDJF so true though connie

grace isn't communicating and doesn't even seem able to hear them

lmaoo lauren's character has an arrow in her arm and dylan says that taking it out is the "fun bit" and then after it's out he asks her if she wants it as a souvenier and she looks horrified SJDJHFGHJGJ

lily's so autistic i love her

charlie says "i've never understood why people beat each other up when they get a few drinks" and duffy goes "same reason some people get a terrible tattoo, stupidity" SJDFJFJ of course he was never going to be able to hide it from her💀 does he still have it now? i don't remember him getting it removed?

lmao a guy in a mankini

oh a creep in a mankini

alicia has a bottle of some kind of alcohol and asks ethan if he fancies cracking it open in the park "come on, we can pretend we're teenage reprobates" sjdjfjfg something tells me ethan never once did that as a teenager but he does seem to be actually considering it for a second but then he says he's going to stick around at the hospital a bit longer and she's like "didn't your shift finish half an hour ago?" "yes, it did, um, it's been a crazy night, i'd feel bad leaving everyone" "orr you could tell me what's really going on? come on, ethan, lying really isn't your forte." "it's cal, he's been staying out all night, he called in sick this morning and i can't get hold of him, so he's obviously in a really bad place. i just don't think it's a good idea for us to be spending time together." alicia says "right, er, yeah, that makes total sense. coool. I'll see you around then" in a way that suggests it is not, in fact, cool

awww ethan's face as alicia walks off :(( he's making a sacrifice for cal🥺

i guess it's BECAUSE lying isn't his forte that alicia doesn't realise how much he's actually hiding. i mean fenisha said the same thing only to be immediately shocked by him telling her about having HD but she only found out because he was planning to tell her anyway, whereas it's still so wild to me that despite he and alicia being so close, even when they weren't dating, for so long, she NEVER found out

i miss duffy they should've killed off charlie instead

iain says the only reason he joined the army was because he couldn't stand be around his mum anymore and had to get out

iain invites gem to live with him and she says only for a couple of nights until she gets somewhere more permanent... and then it actually takes until she moves in with alicia in s33 lmao

dylan saying he should've been a vet shjsfdjdfj

ah dylan suggests a booze bus

lileh

gem says that iain and lily are so going to get together and iain's like "what me and chuckles? nah that would never work, never in a million years" .........smash cut to them fucking in the hearse at cal's funeral🤢🤢

#classic casualty #binge britain

[tobe-sogolden]

I don't know if this makes sense, but i just think that the erasure of women, their works, specifically the stuff that they have achieved in the industry that is well known to be male dominated, and to have the belief of how these women are in their current position or their success is credited to men is insane. It is more insane to see how this action of diminishing a woman's success is done by some women themselves.

Because the amount of people I've seen in this fandom acting like Olivia is famous only because of her dating Harry is crazy. Very frequent conversations that I managed to witnessed for the past years especially whenever someone is attending HSLOT and got the chance to interact & take pics/videos with/of Olivia:

"You're a fan of Harry at HIS concert, why are you focusing on her?!"

"Well, I am a fan of her works too!"

"Her works? Let's be real she is only famous because of Harry and that no one knows her before she's dating Harry!"

Or more or less of how this conversation goes, if you get me. I just think that it is very ....? to think that, not when she is already a well known actress and director even BEFORE she met Harry. And for some reason these people have the thought of, if you are a fan of Harry, it would be weird to be a fan of Olivia too when it is not at all.

I'm still not sure why they would think it's weird LOL is it because Olivia is dating Harry? Because as we all know, she is also an actress and director, people could've been a fan because of that and perhaps have been a fan of her before she was dating Harry. But also if the fans were to become a fan of Olivia after they're dating, I don't see anything wrong with it either. Isn't it great, though? These people acting like they did not stan/like some of the singers/actors/whatever through Harry or after they have been associated with Harry.

But back again to the main point, it is sometimes very annoying and very sickening to see those people trying to erase Olivia's success just because she's with Harry. Yeah, perhaps she is not on top of there with Harry when it comes to big fanbases and things, but these people are always implying that Olivia would be nothing without Harry which is totally wrong.

I am well aware that most of them are conspiracy theorists but I have been seeing comments like this coming from Harries themselves very often nowadays, which is very sad to see actually. I tend to just ignore them, and I think everyone should too, it's better that way but it's been bugging me LOL.

So sorry for ranting! I know I'm rambling but I hope you get what I mean. Thank you for providing the space to talk, I feel the need to let it all out lol ❤️

No I totally get what you mean! I think it's helpful to remember that the people saying that stuff are just doing so out of jealousy and resentment towards her. It's bothering the hell out of them that their relationship is serious and stable and all they can do is just lash out and make fun of her/anyone who likes her to make themselves feel better. They have to act like she's only going to shows bc she's irrelevant and desperate for attention so they don't have to accept the reality that she's just a very supportive partner to Harry. And they hate on people who acknowledge her at shows bc they can't stand the idea that anyone could possibly like her or her work bc they're so blinded by how much they hate her and can't imagine that other people may have different opinions! They're so childish and and bitter it's unreal

#ask #very few people are at harry's level of fame or have his kind of fervent fandom #doesn't mean they're irrelevant or unsuccessful

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Karkat Vantas, Terezi Pyrope

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CG: HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WAKE UP.

GC: 1 DONT KNOW!

GC: SOM3TH1NG D1FF3R3NT DO3S 1T FOR 3V3RYBODY

CG: HOW MANY OF US ARE AWAKE NOW?

CG: HOW MUCH OF THE FUTURE DID YOU "SEE" BEFORE WE STARTED

CG: IN THE CLOUDS, LIKE KANAYA

CG: ALSO HOW DID YOU GO BLIND ANYWAY???

CG: WHAT DID SHE DO TO YOU, I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU'RE SO CAGEY ABOUT THAT.

CG: I STILL DON'T SEE HOW SHE COULD BLIND YOU WITHOUT BEING ANYWHERE NEAR YOU.

CG: OBVIOUSLY SHE CAN'T CONTROL YOU, SO WHAT GIVES?

GC: K4RK4T SHUT UP!

GC: GOD

GC: HOW 4BOUT 1F

GC: 1 T3LL YOU 4LL 4BOUT TH4T STUFF N3XT T1M3 W3 4R3 "1N P3RSON" >;]

GC: 1N F4CT, 1 W1LL T3LL YOU WH3N YOU W4K3 UP!

GC: UNT1L TH3N 1 W1LL K33P T4BS ON YOU 1N YOUR TOW3R WH1L3 YOU SL33P L1K3 4 L1TTL3 HON3Y P4J4M4'D PUP4 N3STL3D 1N H1S COCOON

CG: WAIT LET ME GUESS.

CG: DO I LOOK ADORABLE?????????

GC: 4CTU4LLY

GC: YOU LOOK K1ND OF L1K3 4 B1G P1L3 OF SM3LLY B4RF

CG: WOW, WHAT THE FUCK.

GC: OF COOOOUUUUURS3 YOU DO, DUMB4SS >:]

CG: OH

CG: THEN

CG: GOOD I GUESS

GC: OK 1V3 GOT TO FLY

GC: DONT WORRY 4BOUT TH3 R1NG M1SS1ON

GC: YOU C4N ST4Y BUSY W1TH R3G1SURP

GC: 1 W1LL ORG4N1Z3 TH3 N3W M1SS1ON MYS3LF

GC: L4T3R!

CG: WAIT

CG: TEREZI

CG: PLEASE DON'T TELL THEM ABOUT MY BLOOD.

CG: I WANT TO TELL THEM, I MEAN I WILL TELL THEM.

CG: LATER

CG: ONCE THEY RESPECT ME AS A LEADER.

GC: OK

GC: 1 W1LL K33P TH4T S3CR3T 1F YOU K33P TH1S ON3 1 T3LL YOU

GC: WH1CH 1S TH4T

GC: B3TW33N YOU 4ND M3 K4RK4T

GC: 1 TH1NK TH3Y 4LR34DY DO

GC: BY3!

GC: <3

CG: BYE

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carcinoGeneticist [CG] ceased trolling gallowsCalibrator [GC]

carcinoGeneticist [CG] began trolling gallowsCalibrator [GC]

CG: <3

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