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whirlwindimagines · 1 year

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I love your writing so much! Finally some good Vash content 💖💖🥹 thanks for posting it really makes my day😭💖

I was wondering, would you do a Vashxreader where the poor baby is having a rough day and the reader decides to get him donuts to cheer up? Poor baby needs a tight hug and comfort food I swear 😭

Omg thank you so much for the kind words 😭 I’m having so much fun writing for him, I love him so much 💙 Also baby girl needs to be loved, I want to hug him! So he’s a nice little soft thing for y’all! Also, I am so sick I feel like I'm dying, so I need comfort lol

‘You are loved more than you know’

Vash x Reader

You lay the blanket as gently as possible over Vash’s sleeping body, hoping he’s actually asleep and not pretending to be. Smiling softly at him, and brushing his bangs back. He shuffles in his sleep and you still your hand, once it seems like he’s not going to get up you let out a sigh of relief.

Getting up quietly, you move across the room to leave. Giving Vash one last glance, before exiting the hotel room. You were going to find some breakfast for the two of you, and hopefully something sweet.

The last town the two of you were in had truly been a disaster, Vash had tried to help the best he could but it resulted in another instance of being chased out. You remember the way they spat that horrible nickname at him, ‘Humanoid typhoon’ it always made him flinch, but he still wore that gentle smile on his face. You wanted to step forward and defend him, but he placed a hand on your shoulder and with a shake of his head led you out of town.

It pained you every time, and you couldn't imagine how Vash really felt. The walk to the next town had been quiet, you leaving Vash with his thoughts. Unsure how to help, you simply grabbed his hand and held it loosely in yours, hoping to offer some comfort. His grip tightens, and his hand trembles for a moment before dropping your hand completely and trudging ahead like he always does.

Shaking your head, you continued on your way. One problem at a time, at least this one you could solve. You exit the hotel and head out into the street, hoping to find a cafe you didn't get a good look at the town when you entered it.

Walking around for a couple of minutes you spotted a brightly colored cafe. The moment you walked in you were hit by the smell of all the sweet treats, this would be perfect.

Making your purchase quickly, you waste no time heading back to the hotel. Once inside, you go back to your and Vash’s shared room. You try to open the door quietly, but Vash is awake now rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

He turns to look at you with a pout, “you weren’t here when I woke up.” You smile softly joining him on the bed, leaning in you place a light kiss on his cheek. Your own face begins to heat up as you watch a cute blush form on his face.

“Sorry, hopefully, this makes up for it?” You asked placing the box of donuts in his lap. You watch as his eyes light up with interest, opening the box carefully to uncover the sweets inside.

“You didn’t have to–“

“I wanted to.” You cut him off leaning your head on his shoulder and picking up one of the donuts to eat. You savor the taste, letting out an exaggerated ‘hmm’ noise. Vash watches you for a second, before grabbing a donut of his own to enjoy.

The two of you eat in silence for a couple of minutiae, enjoying the sweet treat and each other company. Before Vash places the box on the nightstand and pulls you into his lap, you let out a startled yelp your face heating up.

You smile moving to wrap your arms around his neck and hold him close. “Can I have a kiss?” He asked if shyly squeezing your waist, and avoiding your gaze.

“You don’t need to ask, you big baby.” You tease lightly, grabbing his chin and turning his face towards yours. You lean in, Vash meets you halfway and you close your eyes when your lips finally connect.

Letting out a please ‘hum’ as you press in closer, Vash pulls back but not before placing another kiss on your lips. He smiles, “You taste sweet.” You let out a ‘huff’ as he looks at you with his kind eyes.

“Not as sweet as you.” You grin as Vash’s whole face goes red, he’s so easy to tease. “Let’s go back to bed.” You say with a yawn, grabbing the covers. Vash shifts you around so you are both laying down on the bed and under the covers.

You smiled as you curl up next to him, his arms holding you close. “Thank you,” Vash says it so quietly, you nearly miss it.

“You don’t have to thank me; I want to take care of you.” You admit to him softly, moving to place a kiss on his shoulder. He pulls you close, pushing your head to his chest, most likely to hide your gaze from his own flustered one.

With a content sigh, you cuddle up close to Vash, and he starts to run his hand through your hair. The motion starts to lull you to sleep, the best and safest place to be will always be in Vash’s arms.

A/n: lol can you tell I’m touch starved?

#vash the stampede x reader #vash imgaine #vash x reader #vash imagines #vash the stampede #trigun #trigun stampede imagine #trigun stampede x reader #trigun stampede #trigun x reader

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doevademe · 4 months

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What do you think of Annabeth as a character ? Letting aside the fact that she's the protagonist's love interest I mean. And what would have been more interesting to do with her?

Oof, this is a hard question because... I love Annabeth, but not in the way the PJO fandom loves her. Most people think she's a great female character, strong and brave and even a feminist icon (which, lol). Me? I just want to study her under a microscope.

I think she's plenty interesting as she is, but the narrative just needs to lean in on her flaws that are already on the text and really explore them, even if that makes her not suitable as Percy's love interest anymore.

Because Annabeth is so messed up, and it's all so consistent with who she is as a character, but I don't believe that was the intention when writing her.

Like, looking at her backstory and how she acts (like she knows everyone and everything best, like she can't do no wrong, how she treats people as being beneath her, even when she loves them) paints a very consistent picture of a damaged young woman with very bad coping mechanisms.

Annabeth has abandonment issues, and that's why she's a strategist. She needs to plan ahead of everything, control every variable, keep tabs on every minutiae, and that checks with her backstory of feeling left out by her father's new family, of losing Thalia, of losing Luke to Kronos, of her estrangement to Athena. She believes that if she's in control, people won't leave her.

This need for control extends to her relationships. We see how she strong-arms Percy into being what she wants. She punches him for not getting that she wants to dance with him, she insults his intelligence so she can be "the smart one", she judo flips him when he leaves, even if it's not by his own choice, because him leaving is her worst nightmare thanks to her trauma. She becomes codependent once they start dating.

We see how every girl who could take away Percy is a potential enemy for that reason. This tracks with how she might blame her step-mother from taking her father away. She hates on Rachel, she thinks Reyna and Hazel may be after Percy. She's a bit of a misogynist because she's that afraid another girl will come and take her relationships away from her.

She also idolizes Chiron and Athena. Chiron was a parental figure to her, one that never left, but Athena... she wasn't present, and Annabeth desperately copes by thinking she must have had a reason, that in her perfection (a perfection reflected in her) she knew she could be great, she just needs to prove herself.

Her fatal flaw is hubris, but that hubris presents itself as a deep insecurity over not being the best, and a fear of being left alone, and that's very interesting. Honestly, if she was real, I would stay miles away from her, because on top of all that, she doesn't want to be fixed, she doesn't think she needs fixing. But in the realm of fiction that makes for a fascinating, layered character. I wish her flaws were actually explored, acknowledged, and eventually overcome rather than just swept under the rug so she could be the Smart Love Interest to Percy, because honestly? Both of them deserve better.

#ask #anonymous #long post #like really long #character analysis #unpopular opinion #rick riordan critical #kind of #pjo critical #annabeth chase

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andypantsx3 · 24 days

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what's wrong with men in tech

Lol it’s the tech bros you gotta watch out for!! There is a not insignificant group of men who think they are the second coming of Steve Jobs and basically mainline the kool aid, touting the latest industry trend as a sort of panacea for all human ills. But they almost never consider the ethics of the technology nor the conditions under which people are expected to deliver it.

There is also a small group of men with some overlap with the above who are extremely smart but seem to enjoy lording it over everyone and being obstructionist and combative on projects just to flex their knowledge base, no matter how obscure or insignificant the detail is.

But then 😌💕 there are genuinely smart dudes who can hash out the minutia with the best of them but know how to timebox discussion, prioritize, and talk in accessible terminology (or at least industry terms that don’t rely on you having a post doc in quantum computing to be familiar with lol). I perhaps develop crushes too easily lol but I literally love when I get to work with a dude like this, they make project partnership so easy and efficient. 😍🥰

#ask andie

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nkjemisin · 1 year

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Things in my ask box

Hi folks. Every so often I get questions from folks that are good, but which I worry might catch them some flak from my other readers or whoever. Sometimes I answer those people privately, but in general I prefer not to do private replies to asks; for one thing, other people might want to know the answer, and for another, I've had a few awkward situations result from doing so (basically just people going parasocial on me), and I think that sort of thing is less likely when it's clear I'm talking to everyone. So, I'm going to handle these awkward asks by just treating them as Q&A questions -- without showing that person's username and where necessary, altering the question in order to protect their identity. I've got a few of these stored up, but just gonna do two this time for length and time reasons. I'll get to the rest later.

Are you a proshipper?

Yep. Feel free to alter your decision re following me on social media now that you've read that answer. But I believe in "don't like, don't read," and that fiction doesn't indicate what an author really believes (because it's fiction), and that there's no subject matter too immoral to explore on its face (everything depends on the execution), so... yep.

2. I love the Broken Earth trilogy, but I have to say, the middle book really didn't go anywhere, literally. Essun stayed in Castrima and Nassun moved around a little more but mostly stayed in the same place too. It killed a lot of the story momentum for me. Why did you decide to do this?

[spoilers for Broken Earth books, though I'll try to minimize them and will put a "read more" before I get there]

Because I felt like it. I'm not saying that defensively, I'm just noting that the answer to pretty much any question you might ask a writer about why they do a particular thing is... because they felt like it. Period full stop. Sorry that wasn't what you wanted to read! It was, however, the story I wanted to tell.

To elaborate... different people have different expectations of trilogies. That's because there are a lot of different ways to handle them, narratively speaking. Sometimes a trilogy is really a group of shared-universe stories taking place in the same world but not necessarily featuring the same characters, and with unrelated plots. Some are telling a single story, but through different POVs and smaller plot arcs that each have their own terminuses; that's what I did with the Inheritance Trilogy, for example. And sometimes, as I did with the Broken Earth books, the author is just telling one big story broken up into three parts. (There are more ways to do a trilogy than this, but let's keep this brief, lol.)

Now, there are a lot of ways to handle this kind of story, but a pattern that most of us are used to is:

Book One: Introduction to the world and important characters and the apparent stakes;

Book Two: Deep dive into the important characters and world, thus giving the audience a reason to care more; and

Book Three: Now we really know the stakes and shit just got real! Now we care what happens to the characters when EVERYTHING! BLOWS!! UP!!!

(I am feeling very silly today, sorry.)

We're familiar with this pattern because we see it all the time, especially in American media. It's a variation on the three-act structure seen in plays and other narratives. It's the basis of our most popular longform stories! The original Star Wars trilogy did it. The Mass Effect trilogy did it. (Andromeda was a separate story, probably meant to be the start of a new trilogy.) The Lord of the Rings did it, prequeled by the Hobbit and mirrored by the Silmarillion. I mentioned those examples because the middle stories of each all exhibit the same traits: a drastic change of pace or location for the protagonists, putting the protagonists through personal character growth arcs, and poking at minutia or seemingly unimportant aspects of the world (which usually end up pretty important before all is said and done).

Now let's answer your question. Spoiler warning again:

In the Broken Earth, we got introduced to the Stillness and Essun in Book One. There was a lot of physical movement in that book as Essun was on the road for most of it (as were other characters), but the plot itself was relatively simple: A bad thing happened to this person and she needs to go somewhere and find someone, to fix it! And then pretty much the entirety of that book's narrative was "Who is this person, why does the bad thing matter, and how close does she get to finding her missing person?" Then in Book Two, we learned a little more about this person, a lot more about her impact on other characters including the one she's been trying to find, and we spent a while learning about orogeny, the Obelisk Gate, and what the stone eaters have been up to. I cheated a little on this; there wasn't room to do a deep dive into the backstory of one pivotal character, but I did finally reveal that this character is the "secret" narrator of the whole trilogy, and made his agenda clearer. I ended up putting his "deep dive" into Book Three instead, where it was particularly relevant to the STUFF! BLOWING!! UP!!!

The reason a lot of readers complain about "Middle Book Syndrome," I suspect, is because of this pattern -- and because of their expectations. A lot of people come at a middle book expecting Book One Redux. That's what you often get in shared-universe trilogies -- Book One over and over again, roughly the same balance of characters vs events each time, in a familiar setting. We're conditioned to want that, I think, from other episodic works. Comic books, for example: When I was working on FAR SECTOR, my editor at the time explained that I needed to try and have a fight or action scene in most of the issues. I hate fight scenes -- sorry! -- so that was hard for me. TV shows -- the ones that aren't themselves telling a single big story over time -- do this, too. I think of it as the "If You Liked X, Then Try... X!" structure. Absolutely nothing wrong with this structure, by the way. I'm just describing it, not throwing shade. I'm a big fan of stories like this myself.

But even for audience members who were expecting the Three-Act Trilogy structure instead, that middle book is going to be jarring. It's supposed to be jarring. The refugees have survived the first book but stopped to dress their wounds and regroup; the adventurers on a quest have reached an impasse and need to find allies and grind to build up their strength; the stalwart hero has just suffered a massive setback and needs to overcome their own doubt or character flaws. A good way to handle this is to take the characters out of their familiar space, and put them somewhere new, or give them a very different kind of challenge. [Mass Effect and LOTR spoilers] Oh, no, Shepard died and their team broke up! What now? Oh, no, Frodo and Sam are on their own trying to get to Mordor! They're just these little guys! How are they gonna make it? If you got overly attached to Shepard team from ME1, or the Fellowship, you're in for a rough ride in these followups. But the jarring nature of this kind of followup is absolutely necessary. An author who does this knows they're going to lose some readers, when they do it. Clearly I almost lost you! But I stand by that choice, because I think it made the whole trilogy better.

Sidebar: I'm old enough to remember the controversy back when "The Empire Strikes Back" came out. Critics haaaaaated that movie! It was too dark, they said; wasted too much time on unimportant stuff. Too much character work, not enough space battles. Then it became clear that audiences loved the second movie even more than the first, precisely because it was darker and because Luke spent so much time futzing around with Yoda and because there were all these girl cooties romantic moments between Leia and Han. A lot of the critics backpedaled at that point, with some of them even acknowledged that they'd been hoping for Star Wars All Over Again and not What Happens Next That Is Not Star Wars. They'd simply brought the wrong expectations to the story.

This is not to say that you have the wrong expectations, Ask-er. Maybe you were expecting exactly that structure, and you just don't like the way I handled it, or you think I did a poor job. Every reader's experience of a story is different, and not everybody's gonna want to pick up everything I throw down. But you asked why did everyone stay in one place, and this is why: to do a deep dive into the character of the Stillness itself. In a story where the setting was as much a "character" as the people in it, I felt it necessary to show enough of that setting for readers to care about it. Would you care, for example, if the town of Brevard (Damaya and Schaffa spend one night there in Book One) got blown off the map in Book Three? Probably not, because I spent no time on any of its citizens or issues. A lot of people cared about Castrima, though, by the end of Book Two.

Whoo, this got long! Hope it answers your question, Ask-er.

#answered asks #the broken earth #spoilers #things in my ask box

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rationalisms · 7 months

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had a conversation with a friend the other day where she was genuinely shocked that i feel safer and more at home with gay men than i do with straight women for the most part. it's a conversation i've had with other women in the past (some who agreed with me and some who didn't). where usually my friends/social circle agree that they inherently feel safer with women than they do with straight men, but that cohesion breaks down once you bring sexuality into it.

and i've been trying for a bit to tease out where the disconnect lies between the two camps i guess lol. because there are definitely trends for who agrees with me and who doesn't.

usually other butch lesbians or otherwise gender non-conforming women feel the same, as well as gay/bi women who came out/were outed very early in life. especially gay/bi women who grew up in small or very conservative towns. which makes sense to me as someone who ticks all three boxes lol. because, like... when i was outed at thirteen against my will, i was subject to absolutely vicious bullying from my peers.

and the bullying obviously came from boys as well, especially the more physical kind, but the experiences i remember most clearly are still stuff like, idk, being made to change in the bathroom instead of the lockers during p.e. throughout the entirety of high school because being into women obviously means i was a predatory sex pest.

and some of the only allies i had at the time were the couple of boys who were bullied for being effeminate lol. we had absolutely zero things in common otherwise for the most part, but there was still an implicit understanding that we were on the same side.

there was one other girl in our little circle of freaks, who was the only out trans person at our school. and i think a lot about a convo i had with her at the time, about being out as ~elgeebeetee~ in high school, which essentially boiled down to: even if she hadn't come out, people would still have known something was "wrong" with her anyway, because she was incapable of masking or fitting in with boys her age, so how much difference does it really make. (and then you get into the minutiae of: is it more painful to be rejected for your "true" self or the front you put up, and how does that balance against being able to openly be yourself rather than repressing it, yada yada, but i digress).

personally i completely understand and relate to her thoughts, too. because i was always a "tomboy" as a kid as well, so the rejection by other girls my age started early. and when i was outed it took on a very particular flavour, but the message that i'm not one of them and straight and/or gender conforming women/girls don't claim me or want me around was made clear to me from kindergarten on.

anyway, there isn't really a point to this, i'm just waffling, sorry. basically: i love u fellow gays. kisses and hugs

#wish more gay men loved butch lesbians the way butch lesbians love gay men but that's a whole other can of worms #txt

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coochiekrab · 1 year

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hey i hope this is okay to ask. your grasp on anatomy is really really nice and conveys character really well without dwelling on minutiae that would weaken the pose and overall be tedious to deal with. i really admire it. do you have any advice for learning construction? what's your sketching process like?

I feel like a lot of my strengths in anatomy lies in both a love for doodling loose gesturelike sketches and my like….. journey in liking my body as a fatish (small fat?) person. Taking a figure drawing class taught me that keeping it loose is sometimes more important than keeping it realistic yk. If you’re looking to build on that skill I would recommend learning how to draw gestures rather than flat out figure drawing (fast, loose, not necessarily accurate)

another fun lesson I really liked when I was taking figure drawing classes was working with like negative space, I’m far too lazy to pull out my work from that class lol but if you Google Negative Space Figure Drawing you’ll get a good idea of what it’s like, it’s verreyyyy helpful in making poses clear but also uniqueish

My grasp of anatomy skyrocketed at the same time I started appreciating my body so I used a lot of my Standing Naked in front of a Full Body Mirror time studying how my body fat is distributed and how things pulled and sat when I moved. I focus a lot on my curve to straight line ratio but it’s not like a Religious thing just like….more curves than straight lines

Another thing that really helped my grasp of anatomy and construction was giving up on being a semi realism artist and just going nuts with a toony ish style because it felt the most natural and loose for me (going back to the gesture looseness) I think deviant art stunted a lot of people by pushing the “learn realism first” narrative lol

I’ll reblog this with a few timelapses of my sketching process brb

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kickedshins · 7 months

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readalong riverdale playlist guide

songs have been added in no particular order. sometimes songs tie to broader visions of a musical episode, but some are just “they should have shoehorned this in somewhere in that classic riverdale way”. all songs are musical theater songs. yes i know they did superboy and the invisible girl but they did it wrong (sorry cami, you were great). this is an eternally updating playlist and guide. enjoy!

Corner of the Sky, from Pippin: Archie!!! This literally could happen anywhere at any point in time. What is this song if not Pippin going left Pippin going right. Put this wherever your heart desires. I want to come up with a Pippin musical episode plot because it’s so good. Jughead singing "Simple Joys" over a montage of Archie not dealing with his problems… I’m getting carried away.

Kind of Woman, from Pippin: Veronica would sing this in an entirely unselfaware way. I’m thinking early season two. Isn’t it a beautiful vision?

Superboy and the Invisible Girl, from Next to Normal: THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A COOPERS SONG. I’m mentally rewriting the n2n episode with this being a Coopers song.

Could I Leave You?, from Follies: A timeskip Veronica and Hermione duet at their respective shitty husbands. It ends with Hermione resignedly going back to the minutiae of marriage and with Ronnie shooting Chad in the face. Don’t worry about how this messes with plot this isn’t about that.

Your Fault, from Into the Woods: Read this post and envision a beautiful ITW episode.

I’ve Never Been in Love Before, from Guys and Dolls: Okay honestly? Archie and Josie duet. Cuter than "Fight For Me", imo.

Mother Knows Best, from Tangled: Alice, duh. Season one or season seven.

Do You Hear the People Sing?, from Les Mis: Season six union stuff baybee! Hand in hand with "Bread and Roses". It also would be really funny to have KJ and Vanessa, who in my opinion suffer the most from iPhone Voice in the cast, to do such a grand musical-y song. It would not be very good but boy would it be entertaining.

Therapy, from Tick, Tick… Boom!: BUGHEAD DYSFUNCTION DUET YES PLEASE. Let’s say season four. "Exquisite Corpse" vibe, but suppress it all. Maybe the problem’s simply codependency!

Get This Right, from Frozen II: Okay hear me out this is one of the most stupidly romantic songs I have ever heard. An Archie song, obviously. Timeskip Varchie. Maybe he’s actually about to propose, maybe not, doesn’t matter. All that matters is how much I genuinely think KJ could have slayed this song.

Being Alive, from Company: Obviously go read Jughead’s Weird Fantasy right now if you haven’t already. But even in Riverdale canon I would want Jughead to sing this in timeskip. If we’re getting specific it feels very Tabby tucking him in after he gets too drunk at the key party. Sorry for nixing the gay subtext by putting it next to a Jabitha moment jail for a million years for me I know. It could also be after Archie calls him when he’s in NYC. There you go, gay people.

Something’s Coming, from West Side Story: Season one or seven Archie. Just feels very wholesome. I think it would be cute. Could be performed on stage if season one.

How Did We Come to This?, from The Wild Party (Lippa): A Veronica La Bonne Nuit performance that somehow becomes a group number (she’s the only one singing on stage though). Season three. No "Queenie Was A Blonde" tag. I could make an AMV to this song. I should not do that I already have three in the works. But I could.

Run Away with Me, from The Mad Ones: This is purely self-indulgent because I like on-the-road Jarchie and I have a soft spot for this mediocre musical for personal reasons.

Suddenly Seymour, from Little Shop of Horrors: Choni! Choni forever and ever amen. Season seven, I think, when Cheryl finally accepts that she’s a lesbian and is facing homophobia from her family/society/etc. Cheryl is Audrey which is funny because “mama was poor” lol no she wasn’t. They should go all the way and get the rights to change the lyrics to Suddenly Toni. Neither Madelaine nor Vanessa has the right voice for this song even a little bit. I do not care.

Partner in Crime, from Tuck Everlasting: Betty and Archie. In my wildest fantasies this is like a season four flashback to them as kids and we have kid Barchie sing this song but other than that I think this could be a number when they’re hooking up in timeskip. Even though I don’t approve of Barchie hooking up in timeskip because I hate straight people I do think they would slay this. KJ specifically I think would sound great on this, it’s not really a Lili song but oh well. Another version that would be incredibly funny but not as good would be having timeskip Veronica and Reggie sing it about, like, actual crime.

Totally Fucked, from Spring Awakening: Kevin-centric group number in the style of "In" or "Beautiful". Could be anywhere from seasons two to four. Maybe we include the “did you write this?” thing with Betty and Jughead as Melchior. They did some expose for some paper. You know how it is. I wish the Riverdale characters were allowed to say fuck so bad.

Moving Too Fast, from The Last Five Years: Timeskip Jughead. It almost fits but doesn’t in a way that’s oh-so-Riverdale.

The I Love You Song, from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee: Sad. Shared between Betty, Veronica, and Cheryl, but Veronica-centric (could be an unhinged La Bonne Nuit performance from her with cutaways to the other two, actually). Whenever the most amount of parents in this group are in jail. There’s at least one meaningful shot of Jughead reacting.

I’m Breaking Down, from Falsettos: Okay this one is sort of cheating because I don’t necessarily want to fit it into the actual canon of Riverdale I just think if Archie had come out in high school Veronica would have pulled a "The Ladies Who Lunch" and done this at La Bonne Nuit. I think Cami would body that.

What Is This Feeling?, from Wicked: Hear me out. Bret/Jughead duet.

For Good, from Wicked: Betty and Veronica, season seven. Or quad number in late s4/early s5 before the timeskip. I think Lili would sound gorgeous on this, especially the bridge.

Two-Player Game, from Be More Chill: Look Joe Iconis wrote music that was used in Archie: The Musical let me have this okay. Season one Jarchie. Jughead as Michael obviously even though he’s nothing like Michael and Archie is nothing like Jeremy. I just want to make Cole Sprouse say “favowite”.

Mother’s Gonna Make Things Fine, from A New Brain: I have a whole beautiful vision for an A New Brain musical episode that takes place in season four. It’s too long to get into right now but just know it’s there and it’s gorgeous and I’m going to fully flesh it out soon. Once again this is obviously an Alice song, except instead of well-meaning Jewish mom it’s overbearing evil (albeit MILFy) WASP. She’s fretting over Betty because Betty’s fretting about college or Jughead or something who cares. I just need Mädchen to do this.

Change, from A New Brain: This would happen about three quarters of the way through the episode. In classic Riverdale fashion they’d get a little insensitive with it and this would be a Ronnie La Bonne Nuit performance. Change the government kill the mayor! Say that! Even if the mayor is your parent! Especially if the mayor is your parent!

Brain Dead, from A New Brain: This is my favorite part of my A New Brain musical episode. It’s once again a Bughead repression duet. Just imagine the lavender marriage dream sequence anger tango they would do. I also think Cole Sprouse wouldn’t sound too horrible on this song. High praise. No lyric changes Jughead is saying “as the MD lifts me in his cruisy chiseled arms”. I’m getting angry about the fact that I will never get to see this on my screen I’m going to do some breathing exercises to calm down.

Take Me or Leave Me, from RENT: We’re gonna split this up among couples in classic Riverdale fashion. Timeskip, our Maureens are Kevin and Veronica, and our Joannes are Fangs and Archie. The Joannes don’t really work so maybe we’ll pull another classic Riverdale and cut their verses. Unfortunately the best line of the song (“Women, what is it about them? Can’t live with them or without them!”) has to be cut. I wish Choni could also sing this but alas it can’t work in this. Mostly this is an excuse to give Casey Cott more stuff to sing and I think it would be hilarious if he sung this.

Tango: Maureen, from RENT: Honestly, Riverdale both could and would do a really messy RENT episode. I should ruminate further on that. Anyway. I don’t actually know where or how this could work but I want it to be a weirdly sexually charged Vughead duet. But that makes Betty or Archie Maureen, and they are not Maureen… I don’t know. This one’s just in here because I like imagining Cole Sprouse dancing, and because I think Jughead is Jewish and it would be really funny to hear him say “Riverdale Jewish Community Center”. Let’s go with timeskip. She cheated! She cheated! Betty cheated! Fucking cheated! Oh, shit, could this be a Jarchie song in timeskip when Betty and Archie are hooking up? I think it could! Wow. Good work gang.

Razzle Dazzle, from Chicago: I’m also creating a beautiful Chicago musical episode that I don’t have time to detail right now but trust me it’s awesome. It’s in season four, Hermosa is relevant to it. Anyway this is another Kevin-centric group number where everyone is lying to different people about different things. Crucially, Cole Sprouse says the line “they’ll never know you’re just a bagel”.

I Can’t Do It Alone, from Chicago: Veronica’s asking someone to help her scheme!

Mister Cellophane, from Chicago: GAY KEVIN. NEED I SAY MORE.

My Own Best Friend, from Chicago: Beronica duet. Lives would be changed. They’re sort of fighting at this point in the episode so there would be an underlying current of potential hatefucking. But that’s sort of always the case with this song tbh. Also this isn’t on this playlist but imagine Reggie singing "Roxie". So bad. So good.

American Idiot, by Green Day/from American Idiot: Songs from jukebox musicals count too, right? Archie-led group number obviously. Let’s go with season six, but it could be season one or five, too. Maybe he is the faggot America. Jughead says the line “now everybody do the propaganda”. There’s a coordinated dance thing a la "Random Number Generation".

A Cockeyed Optimist, from South Pacific: Archie, duh. Season one, six, or seven. Probably sung directly to a Lodge.

Watch What Happens, from Newsies: Betty, season four. She's doing a piece on the community center that Archie and Mad Dog co-run. I think Lili would slay this honestly. I debated adding the reprise largely so that I could have Cole sing the snake line and to have an iconic "the poor guy's head is spinning" thing side note how can I make Davey and Jack about Jughead and Archie someone needs to shoot me. Anyway we'd cut the stuff about Katherine being into Jack in this song obviously because Betty is unhappily hetero with Jughead. Hashtag women in journalism.

Matchmaker, from Fiddler on the Roof: 50sdale girls. Really strong fun gay visuals exist in my brain for this one.

Anything You Can Do, from Annie Get Your Gun: Vughead. Neither can I!

Let Me Entertain You, from Gypsy: Ronnie duh. Season three-ish La Bonne Nuit Era. Or Polly Amorous.

I Cain't Say No, from Oklahoma!: 50sdale Betty sexual awakening era. I can SEE a beautiful beautiful dream sequence vision where she dances around flirting with Archie and Jughead and Reggie and Veronica can't you.

Tribulation, from Schmigadoon!: Yes this is a TV show not a staged live musical who cares. I don't like Music Man I'm not putting "Ya Got Trouble" on here. Alice gets a patter I don't think Mädchen would be particularly good at it but it would be extremely fun. Season seven most likely, but let's be real it could come at any point in the show.

Naughty Baby, from Crazy for You: You think I'm about to say Veronica or perhaps Cheryl don't you. WRONG Dark Betty. Oh it would be so cringe so painful so bad so terrible. It must happen. I don't know when in the show it happens it could literally be any time in s1-6.

With One Look, from Sunset Boulevard: Ronnie... I'm thinking s5 Riverbucks era.

that's all i have for now but there's more to come :]

#riverdale #kickedshins originals

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lost-tardis-room · 8 days

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something i've noticed about the difference between good omens and doctor who fandoms rn is that the good omens people are either making funny art or coming up with increasingly unfeasible theories about supposed 'hidden messages' in the show and generally being weird about it going out of their way to say they LOVE EVERYTHING about the show, and the doctor who people are like. damn this sucks.. unfortunately it's also really compelling. oh well <3

like idk the good omens people (generalising here of course) seem incredibly strung up on what Could Be Meaningful and making wayyyyy to much of a big deal out of minor details. and like the show is clever! there are secondary levels of meaning! but not everything is or should be. not everything is a metaphor. continuity errors exist. and the doctor who people (even new fans) are still yknow eating drywall over it but are also like HAHAHAHthat bit was awful. anyways its also incredibly thematically relevant to these other episodes so it's very important you watch it lol.

and i think the difference is that good omens is twelve episodes. just twelve. there's the book of course, which is a different angle than the show, there's the radio version etc. but there's only so much story. and a lot of the version are the plot of the book in different formats. whereas doctor who goes on forever and ever and ever and there will always be more content. so the good omens people are overanalysing the same few moments over and over again because thats all there is, they probably know their content better than the doctor who people, but b/c you only see them in so many Situations, its also easier to begin to warp your perception of them. you only see them deal with a crisis a couple times under very specific circumstances. there are only so many character moments, so things can be blown out of proportion b/c you cant compare it to another similar moment.

but doctor who is infamously long and infamously has a Very large eu so you have a lot more time with the characters to pull together your perception of the characters, even when regenerations and new companions come and go. you simply have more to work with to build your understanding.

like if you compare the 'i just lost my best friend' scene from good omens to any of the 'doctor thinks companion is dead' scenes--crowley reacts like that only once. he is distraught, obviously, doesnt quite know what to do about it at first, doesnt know what's happened to aziraphale--but its a specific moment. bookshop burned down. world is ending. aziraphale Gone. whereas doctor who there's a range of scenarios with a range of reactions--guilt and also hope when bill gets shot and then taken away. anger and denial over clara willingly dying knowing that she must (actually resolved her character arc quite well i thought, though so did hell bent). there are more but i forget. uhm end of s1 second to last episode rose gets vaporised but it's actually a teleport, the way nine responds to that. there's just more to work with!! which i think is why the good omens fandom is so deeply embroiled in arguing over minutiae of character and background detail b/c they dont have anything more to read about them except fanfics (which are obvious a feedback loop in any fandom) and because they only see aziraphale and crowley for such a short time. they cant compare their reactions during times of The Literal End of the World and The Disruption Of Their Quite Nice Life Together And Also Possibly the End of the World to them just chilling.

#idk thats my take on it at least #havent really thougt about good omens much recently but i'm still seeing a lot of teh fandom stuff #had to unfollow a few people though cos. hoo boy.#but yeah.#just something i've noticed #good omens #doctor who #damn this is long sorry. hopefully you see my point

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miqojak · 10 months

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I'ma get you all back It's not "if" - no it's "when"

Better watch out

'cause I'm coming for revenge

I'ma train hard, I'ma go far -

I will learn with every new scar

Got a cold heart, yeah, a villain arc

I've been putting off doing this set for... a month and a half? Every time I sat down to do it I'd either lose motivation because I knew how long it would take me to do them (even with poses that were 80% there already, even with the outfit made... tweaking shaders is a pain...getting the right angles is a pain...and then sometimes you have to tweak the shader between shots and it throws off the colors in the next shot, and you have to post-edit!) Plus I tend to work on expressions more these days now that I'm more comfortable with it, but that kind of minutiae is a lot of precision-work as well! And did you think posing a tail was easy? (Also my youngest cat loves to come tap me on the arm and ask me for help with a variety of things as soon as I settle in to commit myself to something on the computer...) My ADHD just sees a thousand steps between me and the work-out-Jak pics I'm dying to take, lol! But I got there in the end!

#ffxiv gpose #miqo'te #gpose #ffxiv #lfrp ffxiv #ffxiv oc #shades of red #nefex #My Goth Girlfriend™ Summer Collection 2023 #feeling the heat?#get the My Goth Girlfriend summer collection and make someone else sweat!#or something #In my head AU!Jak is basically a famous musical artist as well as the WOL so I imagine she has to do photo shoots #and has her own goth/punk clothing line /cough #hanzo dojo mods #YAB mods #mmmm scars

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How do Kikimora and Caleb feel about each other in this AU? Would Kikimora's jealous streak extend to Caleb? Would he feel sympathetic for Kikimora or does he hate her and only hope that she becomes the Golden Guard so Hunter won't be on the chopping block?

ooh good question! I'd been thinking about this one a little bit before you brought it up, but i wasnt sure i'd ever have a chance to go into it!

I think Kiki actually sees Caleb as a way to get in good with the emperor 👀.

As Belos' assistant she's largely responsible for managing the minutiae of Caleb's care, and she is very ruthless and observant. She knows that Belos is abusing him, but she also knows that he's ...obsessed with him, and invested in curating the image of loving caretaker who looks after and pampers his dependent, disabled brother. So she takes her cues from that. Always makes sure he has the FLUFFIEST pillows, demands all guards and servants be at PEAK performance guarding him and cleaning his room, takes GREAT pride in pushing his wheelchair. And also, if he steps a toe out of line, she's more than happy to tattle to Belos and stand by silently during the consequences.

Meanwhile Caleb has no hopes of her taking Hunter's place because he knows better than anyone that the Golden Guard is not a position you can earn or bribe your way into; it can only be obtained by having the misfortune to be literally created for it. Even if it could be, he wouldn't wish that fate on even his worst enemy, although Kikimora does come close to being that sometimes lol. He can't stand her.

She makes him annoyed and uncomfortable because he knows perfectly well that she's a snitch who only melodramatically dotes on him for schmoozing purposes, and he's Displeased by how she treats Hunter. He has to pretend to play nice oftentimes, but he's actually pretty happy to make things as inconvenient for her as possible. Drags his feet when Belos expects her to get him ready for a public appearance. Rolls over her toes "on accident". Pretends to be more out of it than he is to make her job difficult. Casually "praises" her kindness towards him to Belos while she's in earshot in ways that embarass her.

So basically, I think you can sum up their relationship as combative in a petty, fake nice gritting-their teeth kind of way lol. Just full on mean girl vibes with the two of them. It's a shame they're not together in the story more, because I think they'd be funny

#Brother's Keeper au #doodlereply

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msmargaretmurry · 4 months

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11, 13, 17!

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

sigh....... yes but i hate it because those are my darlings. i try to be ruthless about it but i don't always succeed!! i do have a graveyard, any fic gdoc has a corresponding dump doc where i put anything i cut. usually it turns out fine because i'm cutting the stuff for a reason and having a good finished product is more important than keeping it in, but sometimes it turns out something i really love just doesn't fit into a fic and that does make me sad!

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

i have often avoided having female pov characters because my own relationship to womanhood and femininity is kind of fraught and complicated, so it's tough for me to write about that stuff? part of the reason i am writing the girl!quinn wip is to challenge myself on that front and honestly it has been tough but rewarding so far! her issues are different from my issues but the weird tangled web of gender connects us all.

something that is really easy for me to write about is grief. i feel like all my protagonists are always dealing with some sort of grief (the loss of a close friendship, the loss of the life you wanted your parents to see you live, the loss of something you didn't know you wanted to keep). not to be maudlin but i don't really remember what life without grief is like so i'm just constantly getting it all over everything i write, lol.

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

jess ilysm but i'm not doing this. i will tell you wip lore on gchat but no spoilers on tumblr 😂❤️

#ask #writing meme

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earlgreytea68 · 2 months

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Okay but the lil smile at the puppet strings? He’s been doing that move for so long! And Pete is still charmed by it and him!! Can you imagine??? My heart! (Sorry that you’re the person I always send these to but I know you really get the MINUTIAE)

hahahah THE MINUTIAE ARE THE WHOLE POINT lololol all those tiny little moments that add up SO HUGE. I love how very obviously they are still charmed by each other, and how it comes out in a little moment like that, looking over at the crowd, then glancing at Patrick and being newly startled by how adorable he is lol

#peterick #fall out boy #fob

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homunculus-argument · 2 years

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Romcom concept that doesn't involve people chasing people who are taken/aren't interested:

There's two unfathomably vain and superficial people, like straight-up caricatures of the instagram-perfect social media obsessed, plastic-coated ghouls who have next to no hobbies or interests other than wanting to show off a fabulous lifestyle and be admired and envied by everyone. They start dating each other, largely because both think the other one is a solid 10/10, and showing off your Super Hot Partner is ideal for both of them.

Plenty of ~date outfit~ selfie posts and full-blown photoshoots at lavish restaurants ensue.

They move in together and at this point realise that both of them are selfish, self-centered, can't communicate, can't compromise and altogether fucking hate each other, but whining about "haha hate wife" on your social media is such a boomer move and a really bad look. They've also already gotten accustomed to how convenient it is to have a partner who doesn't think it's weird to not only photograph and document random minutiae of their life, but deliberately set the scene and stage fake, artificial "candid" pictures of a far more aesthetic and photogenic life than theirs actually is.

So they double down on the relationship - and broadcasting it - by doing more stuff together, going from "look at how hot my date is" to "look at how awesome our relationship is" -content. Actually getting to know each other and their interests more, even if it's just to show themselves off, "lol look at how cute and clumsy I look on my boyfriend's dirtbike!" and bragging about the absurd lengths he went into to find a replacement when his girlfriend's discontinued favourite contouring brush fell apart.

Gradually this deliberately fabricated ~flawless perfect couple~ larp gets deeper and more genuine, to the point where they truly, actually love each other. They're still both astonishingly vain, empty, hollow and superficial people, but they've got a mutual passion for it. At the end they get married, and have the most unfathomably, obnoxiously stylish, photogenic and picture-perfect wedding that anyone's ever seen.

Last scene is of them after the wedding, guests are gone and music has been turned off, they've changed into sweatpants and are sitting on the sofa, ignoring the champaigne flutes on the coffee table in front of them. They're both quietly browsing their phones, not talking, until one of them shows the other something off theirs. They're both browsing through the comments people have already made of their wedding photos online. And you know the two of them are going to annoy the ever-loving shit out of literally everyone else except each other, happily ever after.

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(ask game from here)

damn shawty calm down why you yelling at me! (jk but the text is huge on my screen and it's funny kJDKFJD)

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

i'll talk a little bit about the fic i had planned for revalink week d1 >:] it's a prince revali x prince link au because i love royalty aus yahooo

i'm still deciding whether or not revali is going to be human/hylian and whether or not the rito people should still retain avian features or have their livelihoods and economy dependent on aviary travel and innovation, e.g. the rito people deal in the creation and distribution of paragliders, parachutes, air balloons, primitive airplanes, etc. not that i'll go in depth but i was thinking about it !

because of that, there will be a couple bird puns and shit LOL

revali's late mother the queen is named ceruli and i took her name from the species of bird, cerulean warbler

revali is the only child of the hebra royal family, because his father (kaneli) never remarried after ceruli died and thus revali has no siblings. he'd actually be a great big brother if he had any though :)

revali learned archery from his late mother, who was one of the greatest archers who ever lived. :) it's his fondest memories of before she passed, and he trains as frequently as he can, in hopes that he can one day be on par with her skill and honor her memory

link & zelda are fraternal twins and their mother also died when they were young so link n revali are on the same wavelength

zelda is older than link because she was born first, but she's the more natural born leader between her and link, who likes to take naps in the castle gardens or bake in the kitchens with the staff or something, which is why she's the heir to the throne of hyrule lol

thinking about having zelda meet mipha in the background, who has ceded her right to the throne to sidon, hence why he's also at the ball, attempting to court link because the ball is for zelda and link to find suitors

kaneli has one-sided beef with rhoam for marrying his children off for political gain because the rito people in the hebra kingdom have a strong belief in marrying for true love over status, etc.

he would have gone to the ball out of courtesy as royalty and maintain camaraderie or whatever, but knowing rhoam's ulterior motives and having a strong moral code as a rito, kaneli is now attending with spite and a plan masked under his warm and grandfatherly facade

so finally, here's an excerpt from when i was just braindumping about how i want the fic to go because i don't think it's going to make it into the fic and i liked that last sentence teehee:

"kaneli decides to kill two birds with one stone; bring revali to the hyrule birthday ball to meet prince link and have them fall in love. (1) to satisfy both revali’s wishes for strong political ties to the advantageous kingdom of hyrule and to marry for love and (2) save link from a loveless political marriage. kaneli hopes it might even kill a third bird: softening revali’s bristly personality with link’s sweetness."

#revalink #loz #botw #loz botw #legend of zelda #amihan's revalinkverse #ask #ask game #noraiir-arts #zelpha #hehe >:]#this has been in my drafts for so long i'm so sorry KJDHFHJKDf #i can't wait to write this but i'm so totk brainrot right now #i LOVE royalty aus so bad

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