#i don't know this is just some babbling

[sandflakedraws]

so i'm readin various stuff on the xray cause this silly film is my current source of joy and

wait

hold up.

what...

WAHT ??? WHAT

XRAY CAST DESCRIPTION????

YEARS???

xrAY dESCRIPTION eXPLaIN!!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN FLOYD WAS HELD CAPTIVE FOR YEARS, WHAT SECRET INFO DO U HAVE ACCESS TO???

#joey babbles #trolls band together #trolls floyd #I. don't know what to do with this random snippet #to be fair - #each description of the brozone bros expands a little bit further than the films do (ex. clay being a prankster) so is this. is this canon? #no? yes? half? #did velvet and veneer have him for years and only recently explode on the scene cause they got like. a big break? #some financial backing? a viral video? spotlight on spotify? #were they just experimenting with the best way to harvest a troll's core and only recently hit the jackpot method? #we never learn how the spritz bottle was made in the first place #my brain is bungled . #y. years....?

[bonefall]

i'm ngl depicting thunder's prosthetic as a burden is pretty uncomfortable even if it is something some amputees experience because like. there's a huge stigma around prosthetics already you know? it's like having a parent forcibly strap a child into a wheelchair when they don't need it and having a horrible experience with it and that being your only character in a wheelchair. some full-time wheelchair users do resent their wheelchairs but when that's the only time you're bringing it up at all it feels like you're playing into our society's perception of wheelchairs and mobility aids in general as useless and best and divine punishment at worst. idk do let me know if i'm wording this wrong because i really do love better bones! it's just that this detail is... strange.

I mean, I'm open to feedback if that's not something I should do-- but I do actually have other characters in prosthetics and mobility aids! A lot of them! Thunderstar's actually the only one who ends up rejecting his own, because I also wanted to depict that it's bad to force a device onto someone who does not want one.

Especially in circumstances like Thunder Storm's, where that sort of device would be actively unhelpful for his lifestyle. It might help in open field environments like moorland, but then I got more feedback and realized that it would just make a lot of unwanted noise in a forest (since cats have carpal whiskers to help them figure out where to place their paws). Then I figured it was a good way to show how BB!Clear Sky doesn't actually listen to his son's needs and acts differently when he's not "grateful" enough for his gift.

But he's far and away from the only one with a mobility aid or prosthetic!

I haven't figured out Frog entirely yet, but he's going to be the first cat with a "wheelchair" type device, to set up a long line of cats through the generations improving on it (Probably not much more than a reinforced canvas or durable leather, as this was the age of very early flax processing)

Wildfur's the next in the big advancements, even making the Great Journey in his own and getting a side story based around Littlecloud and Cinderpelt collaborating over this

The device is then improved upon by Jessy for Briarlight, giving her a level of independence and confidence that she needs to finally cut her mom out until she learns how to behave

Deadfoot has a brace for his front paw because the joint is loose (it was based on a friend's carpel tunnel bracelet) which is affectionately referred to as The Bonker; his name is also now an Honor Title (Old name: Hoprunner) for inventing a battle move by distracting with his good paw, and then SLAMMING his other limb down hard on his opponent. It's called "deadfooting."

I think mobility devices are super important, usually massively improve quality of life, and I just enjoy designing them, so the choice to portray Thunder Storm's as negative was a very deliberate one that I did in response to what I thought was a desire in representation. Even the fact it's a hind-leg prosthetic was thought out, since those have a much higher satisfaction rate in humans than hand prosthetics, but in a cat would probably be the opposite.

Still, I'm not missing a limb, so now with all of that context presented, do you still think the same thing? Should I just add even more limb prosthetics to make the ratio of satisfied prosthetic users vs Thunder Storm even steeper?

Sunlit Frost is actually going to have a bite on his good paw go septic (the other side has permanent damage from the fire). I could have that paw get amputated and have Thunderstar "return the favor" for how Sunlit Frost created the prosthetic he rejected by helping him build his own. A pawsthetic, if you will

OR would it be better to just remove the subplot of Thunder Storm grappling with/rejecting a prosthetic that is unfitting for him entirely, and have all prosthetics be 100% treated as positive in the narrative?

#I especially want to hear from anyone who happens to be missing limbs or uses some sort of mobility or accessibility device #Ultimately I consider myself a pretty confident and well-read person but I'm just a single guy! #So I'm open to changing stuff if it's not accomplishing what I wanted it to #I'm not perfect and don't know everything. So I try to listen. #Though I will admit that I am a little emotionally attached to Thunder rejecting the leg prosthetic #I WILL drop it and back off if it is unpopular #but in addition to just liking there being an example of a time where one is unwanted and being able to explore *why* #(with a very important and powerful POV character mind you) #I do like the symbolism of it #With him chewing it off after leaving with Sunlit #Like he's literally leaving the expectations of his father behind #And Sunlit complaining about good leather and hard work lmao #BUT that said. It wouldn't be worth it if I was doing something very insensitive SO lmk. #bone babble #disability #prosthetics

[almea]

lmao every time Miles talks about RWBY it's the most validating experience ever for me because it's always "wow, this is literally what I spent years saying."

#Annie babbles about RWBY #He did a cameo where someone asked if he had any behind the scenes stuff to share about the Bees #And he talked about how Blake and Sun was always meant to be a teenage crush #And the Bees were a slowburn about two friends realizing they had feelings for each other #So it's all very validating #He also said if they did it again he didn't know if they'd go as hard with the Sun stuff because it just made people so mad lmao #I still don't think the Sun stuff was the worst decision ever in a vacuum but the bar is too low for m/f ships and too high for f/f ships #And some people are just incapable of admitting they're wrong so yeah that probably would have been for the best #He also mentioned everyone being in love with Blake was a deliberate choice and that's always so funny to me

[possamble]

realizing im kind of a weirdo about laios and marcille

#possramble #ignore this im just babbling but #the thing is that like. i don't ship laios and marcille together. their relationship is so so important to me in that laios comphets himsel #and THINKS that he might be in love with her but he isn't and that's my insane obsession #platonic soulmates for real but they're so sweet together that i fully expect them to be shipped together #like i get it. that's almost the appeal for me. if dungeon meshi were any other series there'd be an epilogue where they get married #convention dictates that they're meant to be together as the male protagonist and his beloved female deuteragonist #but dungeon meshi DOESNT do that and i love it so fucking much they're the comphet besties ever for my strange little brain #like if i ever did an arranged marriage au it would absolutely be laios and marcille having a platonic political marriage and then just #the most insane mutual pining with marcille and falin while laios and marcille struggle their way into becoming best friends #the imagery of the king and his beautiful court mage being tender to each other and everyone thinking they're in love is like catnip to me #like yeah they'd be like that and have no idea people think they should be together and the subversion makes me so obsessed #the more people ship them romantically. the more i enjoy their platonic dynamic it's like some sort of weird comphet fetishism idk #people think they're in love and im outside the window like YES... YES!!! #but also the second i see stuff of them kissing on the mouth or fucking im like oh god no i went too deep in here i gotta get out #don't wanna see that. i'll go feral over the idea of laios and marcille being arm-in-arm like king and queen but they would not fuck. #i want marcille to be his default comphet beard and dance partner/plus one at official royal events but they're not kissing. #she's there on his arm because he's scared of the other noble women tryna get him and being a baby about it #and people see them muttering to each other and laughing and generally being very sweet and think that they're dating but they're not. #she's actually covered in hickies from falin underneath her dress and is gonna get dragon dicked right after the party is over #like she's in her bedroom and falin's helping her take her ridiculous dress off while listening to her complain about politics #and falin is the person she goes home to the person she falls asleep to and wakes up with #they're a triad of utter devotion to each other but only farcille's side of the triangle is romantic #it's almost like an open secret because they're not trying to hide it at all but people assume and are surprised to find out #like people are so right about her relationship with the toudens but with the siblings' roles switched #love of her life & irreplaceable life companion. does anyone get it #anyway. i don't know what's wrong with me #it bothers me that they're not the undisputed most popular het ship for marcille on ao3 #it's unnatural. marcille being paired with any other man should be a fringe case.

[anghraine]

“What a delightful library you have at Pemberley, Mr Darcy!”

“It ought to be good,” he replied, “it has been the work of many generations.”

“And then you have added so much to it yourself, you are always buying books.”

“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.”

This conversation is intriguing because, as is often the case in P&P, there is so little narrative framing or comment that you have to make quite a few assumptions based on how you read the characters. We don’t even hear Elizabeth’s reaction to this interchange and don’t know how she takes it (though when Darcy later tries to talk to her about books, she’s sure that their tastes are so wildly different that they won’t have anything to talk about).

In any case, both fans and critics have come away with a lot of different interpretations of Darcy’s book-buying sprees and, in particular, what he means by “such days as these.”

I just read an article that dismissively characterized it as a stuffy civilization-is-falling-down-around-us-in-these-degenerate-times thing showing the basic conservatism of his mindset, and while that article was particularly hostile, it’s a pretty common reading. And you can read it that way, but frankly, it doesn’t seem the most natural reading in the context of either the scene or his overall characterization.

Darcy is repeatedly associated with books and reading and general intellectualism. The Pemberley library links his family pride and his sense of legacy with his personal inclinations—as an individual, he’s bookish, clever, and fairly cerebral. He reads, he buys new books, he enjoys philosophical debates, his response to Elizabeth’s assertion of their different tastes in books is “cool, then we can argue about them :D”, he encourages his teenage sister’s artistic interests and defends her disciplined approach to them when she’s not even there, he collects fine and apparently borderline-incomprehensible paintings, he’s dismissive about the expected accomplishments of upper-class women in favor of reading (partly bc Elizabeth has been reading, but it’s not surprising that a man responsible from age 23 for the education of a young girl has Thoughts on the ongoing female education debates of the time).

All of this is to say that Darcy is engaged with what was then contemporary culture and discourse. This is especially the case if you go with the time of his creation, 1796, but it doesn’t make a huge difference because these debates were still ongoing in the 1810s, and he rarely refers to specific figures and instead prefers more generally familiar concepts and arguments (or chooses to rely on those in conversation with women), and in any case, the English artistic movements of the 1810s owed a lot to those of the late eighteenth century.

And a big eighteenth-century debate was about the merits of modern art, especially literature, compared to ancient art. Historically, there was a lot of deference in English literature to ancient models and dictates, and controversy over newer forms like the novel (in English) but also in poetry and drama and essays. To some people, it seemed like art was going horribly astray by diverging from the ancients (despite the continuing strong influence of Classicism). Others thought the artistic movements of the time were fucking awesome valuable and important, which is generally Austen’s position (most famously in the defense of the novel in NA).

So when Darcy speaks of “such days as these,” I don’t think this is coming from snooty disengagement from the current literary zeitgeist, but rather, the reverse. He’s seeing all these ideas being hotly debated in various essays and treatises, and the English novel taking modern form, and poetry undergoing changes that will only become more drastic, etc etc, and thinks—this is important. Anybody with a family library should be adding the literature that’s coming out at this time.

TL;DR I think Darcy has an affinity for modern art/literature/culture in any case, but also, is so convinced of the importance of the literary “moment” he’s living in that he thinks he’d basically be shaming his ancestors if he didn’t include it in the collection that he’ll pass down to the next generation as it was passed to him.

#it's not just that people like him need to maintain family libraries with what's currently out there #but that he thinks that what's happening /right now/ is a really big deal that needs to be added for its own sake #i find it a bit weird that this reading seems unusual but some people are very committed to stuffy conservative darcy so #i do go with the c. 1796 setting which makes this fairly funny... lyrical ballads is coming out in two years #and darcy can't know that! it's just. something is going on! clearly! what is the point of being rich if you don't preserve this stuff??? #anghraine babbles #austen blogging #austen fanwank #lady anne blogging #anghraine's meta #fitzwilliam darcy #pride and prejudice #jane austen #tangentially: this is kind of associated in my head with how the preceding darcy-like characters are pretty much all 18th century #elizabeth has this whole beatrice/rosalind legacy and the debt to much ado about nothing is obvious #but darcy isn't like benedick. he's like... lord orville if he were interesting. #so he's a fairly distinctly /modern/ man in the original context where he's often now seen as a quintessential/old-fashioned figure #and it makes sense that he would have a lot of affinity with modern culture where elizabeth is more detached

[sciderman]

I did not know you wrote fics I’m truly living here

🫶

my fics are so delicious, you are SO lucky you get to experience them all for the very first time anon

#spideycablepool fic incoming... im devoting my ENTIRE saturday to finishing her. will not be thinking of anything else. #it's fuckigng. its freaking. 12k+ words. i don't know how it happened. #i never write fics that long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i just had a lot to say about nathan summers. #which is hilarious because nathan summers himself doesn't have a lot to say. #but he says some things. and i feel a lot about him actually. #i kind of really want to hold 9319 nathan summers in my hands and kiss his forehead. he's a nice boy. people don't know he's a nice boy. #he is pretty shitty too (all cables have to be) but he's a nice boy. and he loves a whole lot. #i hope people get as attached to 9319 nathan as i have suddenly become. i love him. i love him. #feeling a lot about him. like a lot. feeling a lot about his and peter's differences and similarities. #him and peter have a lot to talk about. like a lot. #i really really want all three of them to lie down and sit under the stars and have a soul-searching conversation. #obviously wade would dominate the convo and talk about very strange nonsense that doesn't make any sense. #so maybe peter and nate should distract him with a shiny toy of some kind so that peter and nathan can actually have a profound conversatio #but of course they'd both just love to listen to wade babble about nonsense . they love him. they love his voice. they love his weird ways. #what a simp circle. wade surrounded by two boys who just have Heart Eyes for him #and he acts so oblivious. like these guys aren't falling over themselves in love with him.

[y-rhywbeth2]

I'll bet money that Patch 6 has destroyed my save file (again) and that I'm going to have to completely restart.

And if I do I swear to god I'm just going to walk right past the druids grove this time as I rush through Act 1. Sucks to be the tieflings and the entire Shadowlands, but such is life when the game destroys itself!

#I. NEED. That. DIALOGUE #I need to know the tone so that I can interpret where he was going with it #I need to know if it was mockery #bland as he brushes it off #it can't be emotional SURELY it can't #Will Minthara be willing to make out with me if I don't talk to her in Act 1 or kill anybody for her? #Act 1 is becoming Irenicus' dungeon to me I swear. #If only I could get rid of that mod I WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM #But for some reason the game just installs it by itself now so clearly I screwed up too badly #babbling #playthrough shenanigans

[hazmatazz]

fashion designer will and his model, mike, who typically has the worst style outside of what will puts him in

#originally mike was more a mannequin for will #then it progressed to photos/demonstrations of him with his face covered/blurred out/cut off in the designs #but maybe he shows his face eventually. i also like the idea that he continues being anonymous and he's just like a fashion mystery #there's also the idea they both work in some kind of agency and don't know eachother and will sends his work off to be modeled #but mike is an anonymous model and will is fascinated by the boy who keeps modeling for him #maybe he requests that specifically mike model for him. maybe they meet at a show and get along but mike doesn't reveal who he is #maybe they know eachother outside of it too... #btw i don't think anonymous models exist but like. think of how fun that would be #also with the first idea or whatever everyone in the fashion scene fuckin knows that model is special to will #ohh i'm thinking #i have more thoughts but i'll keep those to myself #one more tho: if they know eachother outside of fashion but don't know eachother in fashion then will doesn't suspect mike #because he knows that boy well and he knows that boy doesn't have any fashion sense. well not one that would line up with his model #stranger things #byler #byler au #babble

[meownotgood]

my very first fictional crush vs my current one what do you think they'd talk about if they met

#outing myself as an n lover.... I was never immune to his charms #I don't know why but I've been thinking about pokemon lately and how much I want to replay some of the games #every summer I feel the urge to play a pokemon game #and I was just reminded of N #when young me played black and white and N invited me on the ferris wheel with him.... #and then when he walks towards your sprite really fast so he basically gives u a kiss #I felt things in my heart towards pixels on a screen I have never felt before #I literally remember using the internet function on my ds to search for N x hilda fan art #and I would save it to my gallery so I could admire it later when I was thinking of him #hilda was me btw #he's still so cool by the way I love you natural harmonia gropius #why do I feel like they have nothing in common besides having stupid looking hair #N immediately starts babbling on about how he's gonna liberate all pokemon and aki's like 'ok what is a pokemon is that some kind of devil' #forgive me I can't sleep and so I need to post about my silly little fixations

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

Fucking hell, listening to "Hopelessly Devoted to You" while browsing pictures of Cidolfus Telamon makes me feel all sorts of feelings AND I AM NOT READY FOR THAT.

Like.

I was already feeling FEELS to a certain degree.

BUT I CANNOT FEEL MORE. I WILL IMPLODE IF I FEEL MORE FOR HIM, FML.

THE GRIP THIS MAN HAS ON ME.

oh, who the fuck am I kidding.

I live for feeling like this.

I LIVE.

#Nemo babbles #Yeah I have been living in FF land lately #jumping around between FFXII and FFXV and FFXVI #just cruising around and living my best life #also sorry for no new post of artworks #I did a few for FFXII but those are from my own story and therefore I am not really willing to share them here #as for the one for FFXV #those are NSFW-ish in natures #so I cannot post them here #maybe cropped #but they are sketches so I don't know #SORRYYYYY #I might share some moodboards or headcanon I don't know #I know my mutuals are mostly here for AC so I do not truly feel they would be of interest

[littlewigglers]

Shoelace wanted for the suspected CRIME of eating one of her tank mates!!

My only male avatar meaning I won't be able to breed them!!

EDIT: Warrent on hold as she likely just ate him after he died.

#bug babbles #I don't know for sure if she did #but I changed the whole tank and he was missing and there was noly some mystery shell in the soil right NEXT TO SHOELACES SPOT #I'll be real bummed out if she did eat them as it means I can't keep her with the small guys anymore #but I've no proof... #but millipedes don't just VANISH in 5 days #even if he died the minute I put him in the tank his body would have still been in there #they wouldn't rot away that fast #though he could have died and she ate him... which is fine I guess #as long as she's not eating live tank mates

[bonefall]

Firestar getting treated to a character assassination after The Darkest Hour is my villain origin story tbh

You can see the EXACT moment where the brain worms go terminal when Tigerstar dies in front of him, and he starts going "oooga booga he was strong and noble and had good traits... well need him to fight all these evil foreigners..." Just ceremorphose already, this is #NotMyFirestar

#Fennelposting #Bone babble #I know some ppl like the idea of him being broken over time by a cruel system and becoming an enforcer of what once bound him #But I Don't. #It just reminds me of how the Erins were were so scared of ever challenging the status quo that their own books scared them lmaoooo #They had to GO BACK and retcon a bunch of excuses for why uhhh everyone was just mislead they really did love their clans :( #If it's your thing I get it. But it just makes me think of how they massacred my boy y'know? #I prefer the idea of killing him earlier. Let the leaders live with this sudden and violent change in leadership #Talk about how radical people like Fire aren't ALLOWED to hold power for long in such a system

[almea]

Any idea about the what the flowers in RWBY and what they represent? Ruby's flower is obviously a rose. So what are the others? Sorry if the question is dumb.

Nah, it's not dumb.

Weiss's is a white lily, which represent purity and rebirth.

I think Blake's is a purple amaryllis belladonna, which apparently represents royalty and spirituality.

And Yang's is a yellow chrysanthemum, which generally represent friendship and longevity but yellow ones also specifically represent neglected love, which was A Lot when we first got the team RWBY flowers in volume 4.

#ruetien #Annie babbles about RWBY #rwby spoilers #I don't know if they've ever specifically said which flowers they are #Since I know some flowers look similar to each other #These are kind of just what the fandom figured they are

[margindoodles2407]

hi Margin! idk if you're still doing those 3-sentence fics, but in case you are, here's a prompt suggestion: "dawn"

bonus points if it's HW zelink? <3

Ohohohohohohohoho YES >:)

(full disclosure this was sitting in my inbox for weeks because i couldn't figure out what to write but i did it today in math class so here you go)

He was stern, and cold, and dispassionate; a statue, they called him, beautiful and unfeeling and as pristinely white as marble, resistant to the colors of love and laughter- or at least, that's what they said.

She was beautiful too, but not in his opaque, colorless way- if he was a marble statue, she was a stained-glass window, full of light and warmth and color, and her soul was the dawn that shone through and cast her illuminating hues on the grey congregation of the soldiers around her.

And when he was with her- when the dawn of her smile graced the Captain, not grey and battered like his men but pristinely alabaster- he absorbed her color; the white and colorless turned brilliant shades of gold and green and blue, and the few blessed to witness this transfiguration swore that, for a moment, she could make their Captain look almost human.

#guys i swear paladin's not actually cold and unfeeling okay #it's just how most people perceive him #on top of his army conditioning he has the self-hatred that comes from knowing a time witch started an interdimensional war because #she got the hots for him #so my guy's retreated WAY into his shell like. 10 times more than the average link because of said time witch and her hots #he's gaslit himself into thinking that he needs to be emotionally stable (read: repressed) to be an effective captain #because otherwise he'll get too attached to his men and won't be able to move on from mourning them when they inevitably die #or worse- he'd get caught up in his emotions and unwittingly give cia an upper hand #in actuality his heart is too big for his body #but because of his self control (read: emotional repression) the only person who can coax him out of the prison of his own design is zelda #and lana and impa (and baby orpheus) to some extent #but mostly zelda #because they love each other <3 #i don't know why i felt the need to explain all this in the tags but i didn't want y'all to think i actually write him as cold and distant #that was EXTREMELY important for me to be clear about #margin writes #you ask margin babbles #my beloved hyrule warriors

[anghraine]

I'm too fried from various things including the dissertation to have very coherent thoughts about anything right now, so instead I'm just having amorphous affectionate feelings about Jyn/Cassian (Rogue One iterations specifically) and Elizabeth/Darcy (book versions specifically). I have other het ships but none that compare tbh

#i know i don't say that much about jyn/cassian any more #or at least lately #but it's been 7 years and i'm still astounded that star wars graced us with them #i love sw for other reasons but it's always so shaky w/ romance imo and then without a kiss or a declaration it DELIVERED #and elizabeth/darcy rules my heart forever obviously #very different ships in some ways but in others it just makes sense that they would reign supreme #actual eternal faves!! #anghraine babbles #otp: welcome home #otp of otps #star wars #austen blogging

[dumbbullet]

everyone i know is an enabler and now I'm going to see hozier

#Dumb babbles #Friend i haven't talked to in a year: you can crash on our couch and come see him with us :) #Brother: ill go with you so you don't have to go alone #Mom: oh nooo I just got my bonus and I don't know what to do with it guess ill buy you some tickets ;) #Wh-? Why and also how and also why???? #I'm incredibly grateful but also I don't think I'm processing it yet??