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releasemefromthevoid · 2 months

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MY ATLA LIVE ACTION S1E8 THOUGHTS

EP7

Alright guys, this is the end of it. Not gonna lie, I thought this was a little… underwhelming. They’re focusing a lot on the aftermath of a battle, which could be cool if done correctly. I wasn’t that into it.

At the very least, this episode, the visuals went crazy! We had the red color grading when Tui was captured, and the monochrome gray with the specific highlights when she was dead. La’s possession of the Avatar looked incredible as well. They sold it as a fairly awe-inspiring moment, but I think this moment was undermined a little in other ways.

I think there are a lot of little inconsistencies throughout the show that really culminated here. Some of my worries were resolved, but some of them really weren’t.

In any case, I think this was fine for a season finale. It fit the tone of the show and went harder than the other episodes to end things off.

I’ll write a full series review tomorrow, I’m trying to go to sleep.

Live reactions under the cut

well i do love seeing strategy sokka

disappointed by the lack of catapults on the ships so aang couldn’t creatively use them to destroy the ship

did iroh just tell zuko to swim in freezing waters? lol

wait we already did koh, so what’s up with tui and la? how are we gonna figure out where they are? are we even gonna see the spirit oasis?

oh so. we’re introducing the war balloons now? early for the fire nation? with a vague reference to the mechanist? how’d they even get the plans? sure do wish we’d seen more about those before, besides just making them. maybe used one to take down the firebenders invading the northern air temple? maybe a fire nation soldier could’ve found the remains of a balloon. just a thought

the. ice moon?

AND YET THEY INTRODUCE THE CONCEPT OF LION TURTLES NOW!! this is BAFFLING to me

so tui and la only take physical form once a year in this version? huh

and he’s gonna kill tui with KURUK’s spirit knife. interesting macguffin

THEY ALMOST KILLED OFF MOMO????!!! JAIL

okay so there is the spirit oasis. and they’re using it to bring back momo

sorry that was actually genuinely deeply upsetting. they just did something illegal i swear to god. don’t fuck with the animals

i am Not believing that katara is skilled enough to fight zuko. sorry but it’s not happening. she hasn’t even been trained. “you found a master haven’t you”. no zuko, she hasn’t. NO ONE HAS TRAINED HER. “yes, you’re looking at her.” katara, someone called you a master once, girl, that doesn’t mean you Are one

good lord that’s so red. i like that they kept that visual cue though

tui: dea. the color grading on this is still good too. the only colors we really see are the flashes of yellow and red with the fire balls being thrown around. theoretically, everything else should be grayscale/monotone, with the exception of yue’s blue eyes (which i don’t believe are blue in this adaptation). i don’t really have complaints about the look of things

okay la, your turn

do we need a “reality of war” moment again? tbh i feel nothing for these people.

oh yue’s eyes ARE blue. chill

hey what do you mean “you’ll be lost forever”. something something killed in the avatar state killed forever can’t reincarnate

okay la possession looks cool as hell. obsessed with these visuals

though idk if it’s just me, but people are really trying to get the “avatar is gone”, “there’s no more avatar”, “you’ll be lost forever” thing across huh. i feel like that kind of undersells the moment when seemingly everyone knows what’s going on.

zuko’s gonna fight zhao now why? purely so zhao can give zuko a moment of realization, got it

and then he tries to kill zhao. i still think zuko would never.

and now zhao is almost certainly dead, because iroh pushed him off. and zuko didn’t have that moment of offering mercy, and zhao didn’t have the moment of rejecting that mercy. this IS a downgrade

woahhh hahn dead confirmed. wish i could celebrate, but he’s nice now

so pakku is NOT becoming katara and sokka’s grandfather in this one. i bet we won’t even learn the significance of katara’s necklace

SHE IS NOT A MASTER STOP SAYING THAT. SHE LEARNED OFF OF ONE (1) WATERBENDING SCROLL WITH ZERO SUPERVISION

sorry are you relying on bumi for earthbending training? you haven’t even started waterbending. this bumi is barely reliable from your interactions with him

oop there goes omashu. weird that we’re seeing the takeover

okay. sozin’s comet. i thought you were taking that out? was that just a lie then? shouldn’t aang know about that? might actually make him learn waterbending. considering the series just ended. and he HASN’T EVEN LEARNED WATERBENDING YET

liked: the visuals went so hard, no kataang romance

worried about for potential season 2: zuko's arc

disliked: zuko and zhao's fight, katara "mastering" waterbending despite never having trained with a master, aang literally not even once showing that he was the avatar outside of the avatar state (not learning ANY waterbending)

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animebw · 1 year

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Short Reflection: Fall 2022 Anime

Was Fall 2022 the single most stacked season of anime ever? It’s certainly a contender, at least. Not only were there once again far too many good shows to keep up with, not only were a lot of those shows really fucking good, but there was such a wide variety that no matter your tastes- shonen, slice of life, mecha, political drama, whatever the fuck Akiba Maid War counts as- you were basically guaranteed at least one phenomenal show to stay hooked on. And if you’re someone like me who appreciates pretty much every genre as long as it’s done well? Then my god, I hope you skipped lunch, because this feast never fucking ended. I’ve already given my thoughts on Yama no Susume’s underwhelming fourth season (6.5/10), Mob Psycho 100′s safe but deeply satisfying finale (8/10), and the bonkers roller coaster of Chainsaw Man (8.5/10), and there’s still way too many anime left to talk about. So without any further ado, let’s dive right in to the disappointments, the hidden gems, and the runaway smash hits that closed out this fantastic year for anime.

My Hero Academia Season 6: Unfinished/10

There’s not much I have to say about this one yet, as I’m planning to give it a full review when it’s all over. But I at least wanted to say this: I fucking told y’all My Hero Academia was going to reclaim its crown. I told y’all this show was eventually gonna earn its place back as one of the greatest long-running shonen of all time. But nooooo, you were all busy pretending that a few lackluster fight scenes meant this show was the worst garbage ever and handing out accolades to gorgeously animated pieces of stale cardboard like Demon Slayer for plastering pretty wallpaper all over the vapid nonsense at their core. Well, how does it feel now, huh? How does it feel to remember what an actual great shonen action series looks like? This is the best that MHA has been since season 3, and while it’s gonna fall to the next cours to determine where season 6 ends up on the pantheon, it’s so fucking good to see this show operating at full capacity again.

To Your Eternity Season 2: Unfinished/10

Genuine question: what the absolute fuck happened to To Your Eternity? I still remember when that incredible first episode dropped back in 2021 and everyone was ready to crown it the new patron saint of cry-inducing philosophical fantasy. How did we get from that to this? To increasingly hacky production values that rarely rise above passable and never once manage to capture the awe and wonder this story is so clearly shooting tor? To writing so tonally inconsistent it decides to introduce a cast of wacky over-the-top camera-muggers in this serious and serene fantasy yarn? Didn’t this show used to be good? Didn’t it used to be a genuinely compelling exploration of human nature and immortality and moving on from loss? When did it fall apart so badly that it barely even resembles the show it used to be? And that’s not even getting into some of the most abysmal queerbaiting I’ve seen in a very long time. There were definitely worse anime this year, but nothing else left me feeling so utterly betrayed. I can only pray the slight upswing of quality it’s experiencing in its current arc continues, because otherwise this is going to end up the most crushing disappointment of anime in 2022.

Reincarnated as a Sword: 3/10

Let us all stop for a moment and consider the absolute state of the isekai genre. Here we have yet another story of some personality-deficient schlub transported to another world that runs on JRPG logic, where he instantly becomes the most OP person (or, well, sword) around and never has to struggle for anything. The characters and setting are all as painfully generic as every other entry in the genre. The plot wastes so much time rattling off video game stats to justify its boring OP worldbuilding that it forgets to write any sort of interesting or nuanced personalities for the people in its world. The production values are passably okay without ever showing a single shred of personality beyond the most by-the-basics staples of this watered-down Dragon Quest backwash. There is nothing worth recommending here, nothing you can get from this show that you can’t get in a million better ways elsewhere. And yet, Reincarnated as a Sword has one thing going for it: it doesn’t try and justify slavery. In fact, its real protagonist is an enslaved catgirl who breaks free from her chains and seeks to prove her worth, with the titular sword serving as her paternal guardian. And that alone puts this dull, uninspired, pointless slab of processed anime loaf above a decent chunk of its contemporaries in the isekai genre. Because that is how fucking far the bar has been lowered at this point. God help us all.

My Master Has No Tail: 4/10

The frustrating thing about My Master Has No Tail is that there’s not really anything wrong with it. It’s a cute little historical anime about a tanuki girl learning rakugo from a fox spirit in a time of huge technological upheaval for Japan, a time when all the old spirits are at risk of losing their place in the world and must find some way to adapt to the new era alongside humanity. That premise should result in something really interesting, or at least unique enough for a mellow slice-of-life hobby show with a supernatural twist. And yet despite the lack of things to complain about, I just could not get on this show’s wavelength. It just doesn’t push far enough in any direction to be memorable; the animation is competent but also as basic as it gets, the characters are inoffensive but simple, the comedy is decent but rarely rises above a chuckle. Every single aspect of this show is just a little too underwhelming to really make an impact, and with nothing but average everywhere you look, the whole thing ends up kinda boring. I do like the themes it’s playing with, how art is used as a vessel for spirits and humans to keep their connections strong in an increasingly secular, industrialized world, but it’s not enough to bring this show up anywhere above harmlessly mediocre. What a shame.

Arknights Prelude to Dawn: 4.5/10

I find myself fairly conflicted about the first season of Arknights. On the one hand, it’s a relief to get a gacha game adaptation with some actual gravitas behind it, and the story of a post-infection dystopian world struggling between compassion and justice has some genuinely complex things to say about the morality of living through hellish situations. And its cinematic production ambitions ensure it’s rarely boring to look at. On the other hand, though, I get the sense that whoever was behind the script didn’t take into account the differences between what works narratively in a video game and what works in a TV show. Divorced from their role as an audience surrogate/POV who needs to be explained everything so the player can understand how to play, the mostly silent Doctor comes off as a nothing character who could be cut from the show without changing anything. Ditto the under-explained, underutilized tactical cell phone that probably only existed in the first place to justify how the game’s combat looked and functioned, and the dialogue that’s mostly a series of plot points taking us from one Important Setpiece to the next. I want to like what Arknights is doing, but it’s not until the shockingly great final two episodes that it starts to feel like a proper show and not just a lavishly animated cutscene compilation. Hopefully the second season continues that upward trajectory, and maybe then we’ll be able to call this a truly excellent gacha anime.

Do It Yourself: 5/10

Between this show and Healer Girl from earlier this year, I think I’ve come to the conclusion that I really need more than vibes to keep me interested in a show. Don’t get me wrong, vibes are good! But there’s a whole subsection of cute-girls shows that are basically nothing but vibes, and absent anything else to sink my teeth into, I find myself feeling very little connection to them. You’d think Do It Yourself might have a little more going on, what with its near-future setting, stabs at commentary on the importance of not letting automation fully run everything, and extremely gay undertones. But no, it’s mostly just cute girls doing DIY carpentry for twelve episodes. It’s a show for you to turn your brain off to and just, well, like I said, vibe to the expressive FLCL-esque art style and richly detailed guide to DIY carpentry with a bunch of intermittenly interesting characters. And while I can appreciate those vibes well enough, there’s so little intrigue to anything that I can’t really bring myself to care about it all that much. I dunno, maybe they shouldn’t have kept the one character who actually generates interesting narrative friction at arm’s length for nearly the entire show. And maybe they should’ve let Serafu and Pudding kiss. Actually, no maybes there, they definitely should’ve done that.

Play It Cool, Guys (1st Half): 5.5/10

Here’s a pleasant little surprise I don’t think anyone saw coming. Sure, this slice-of-life about a bunch of clumsy dudes navigating their own awkwardness isn’t gonna set the world on fire, but it’s become one of the more unusually absorbing short anime I’ve encountered in a while. I think what draws me to Play It Cool, Guys is that it’s just very unpretentious; it promises a chill twelve minutes every week of low-key sweet-natured comedy, and that’s exactly what you get. The punchlines aren’t amazing, but they pretty much always hit. The characters aren’t very complex or interesting, but they all carry themselves well enough that you enjoy seeing them on screen. It’s even got a certain kind of confidence to just be so low-key and not try to overextend itself with cheap gimmicks or recycled plot beats to grab your attention, because it trusts that its word and characters are charming enough to earn your investment on their own. And you know what? That confidence is not misplaced. It might not be my favorite thing in the world, but I have a sneaking suspicion it’s just going to keep growing on me as it moves into its second cours. Check back at the end of winter, and I might just end up giving it a much more enthusiastic recommendation.

Urusei Yatsura (1st Half): 6/10

Is there still a point to Urusei Yatsura today? Yes, Rumiko Takahashi’s groundbreaking rom-com about an alien girl falling in love with a philandering douchenozzle invented the anime rom-com as we know it, not to mention possibly starting waifu culture itself with Lum. But fifty years later, with all its component parts iterated upon by basically every romance-adjacent anime that followed it, does the original property have anything left to offer on its own merits? Or is it a relic of a bygone time, no longer useful as anything but a historical artifact for tropes and archetypes that have all been used better by the works it ended up inspiring? Halfway through this modern reboot, I’m still not sure what the answer to that question is going to be. What I can say for sure is that this show makes me laugh more often than it doesn’t, and while not all of it has aged gracefully, it’s oddly refreshing to see just how much more egalitarian the anime rom-com used to be. This is no incel wank fantasy where a loser guy gets all the hot girls by doing basically nothing; this is a show where everyone’s just a little bit nuts, and you’re not so much rooting for anyone to get together as you are just enjoying the chaos that results when all these different flavors of asshole butt heads. That’s far more my speed than any of the wish fulfillment harem slop that learned all the wrong lessons from Urusei Yatsura’s success. Whether or not it’ll end up anything more than a series of mostly amusing episodic sketches remains to be seen, but for now, I’m content to just watch the madness unfold. Plus, it’s got Hiroshi Kamiya and Mamoru Miyano sniping at each other like every episode, you can’t not love that.

Pop Team Epic Season 2: 6/10

Sometimes, you just need a little chaos in your life. That sentence probably sums up the appeal of Pop Team Epic better than anything else I could ever write. Sometimes, you just want to let loose on a stream of consciousness through utterly batshit comedy skits that switch tone and animation style on a dime, packed with references to countless things you’re only vaguely aware of, never quite sure if all this insanity has any kind of point or if the pointlessness is itself the point. Pop Team Epic is just fucking weird, y’all. But it’s the kind of weird that clearly comes from a group of talented people having a blast throwing anything and everything at the wall just because they can, not caring about whether any of it sticks or not because the messy, nonsensical act of creating the damn thing in the first place is reason enough for it to exist. What other show will give you a dating sim spoof, yaoi lesbians, legitimately great mecha action, a final fantasy parody, gratuitous violence, a live action flipbook segment, and a full-on tokusatsu show starring Aoi Shota as a time-traveling sentai hero, all in the space of 12 episodes? If that kind of memetic insanity is your jam, then you need to get this show in your eyeballs yesterday. Pop Team Epic makes no goddamn sense, and god bless it for that.

Spy x Family Part 2: 7/10

Does a show need a plot? Is it enough for it to simply wander through a bunch of random side quests and coast on charm alone? That certainly seems to be what Spy x Family is banking on; after a relatively plot-solid first part where most episodes had at least a little in the way of new developments, part 2 seems content mostly to put the Forger family members in a variety of amusing scenarios and leave all the big picture stuff in the background until the final episode. And it’s a testament to just how damn charming these characters are- and how slick the production continues to be- that it mostly gets away with it. it’s fun watching Loid, Yor, and Anya bumble about as they slowly figure out what it means to live a “normal” life. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t impatient for the plot to pick back up. I dunno, after so many episodes of just faffing about, I felt myself getting kind of burnt out on the sitcom hijinks. And it doesn’t help that the biggest new character introduced is basically just a genderswapped Yuri, a.k.a. the worst character in the series. Spy x Family works best when it’s balancing its fluffy and kickass sides, and part 2 just leaned a little too far into fluff for my tastes. I still had a lot of fun, but I’m more than ready for the Ostania-Westalis conflict to be important again.

Blue Lock (1st Half): 7/10

The premise of Blue Lock is one of those immediately head-slapping moments of “Wow, why has no one tried this before?” brilliance: what if you took a shonen sports anime and made it an edgy death game? Sports anime are already full of larger-than-life personalities and conflicts, so taking that over-the-top competitive camp and applying it to a situation where the characters have to destroy each other to get ahead in a winner-takes-all battle royale is such a no-brainer, I’m shocked it’s taken this long for someone to come up with it. Sure, you don’t actually die if you lose Blue Lock, but losing the ability to play competitive soccer ever again might as well be death for a shonen sports boy, so it still counts. Point is, this premise is certifiably genius. Which makes it slightly disappointing that so far, the show isn’t taking as much advantage of it as it could. Don’t get me wrong, there’s some of the skullduggery and backstabbing you’d expect from your typical death game, but for the most part, Blue Lock just plays like a traditional soccer anime. A very good soccer anime, to be sure, but I find myself wishing it was willing to get nastier and edgier and really take advantage of its premise. Hell, it’s not even the best straightforward soccer anime this year; Ao Ashi has it beat in everything but animation. So count me a fan, but also count me hopeful that it leans more into what makes it unique going forward.

Raven of the Inner Palace: 7.5/10

In a fantasy-tinged version of Medieval China, there lives an imperial courtesan known as the Raven Consort. But unlike the other courtesans, her duties do not involve, well, nighttime visits. No, her mission is to put to rest the wandering spirits of the dead, the shades of those who died with regrets or unfinished business that still tie them to the world of the living. As long as anyone can remember, she’s lived alone, existing for nothing but her mission with no bonds to the world around her. But when a new emperor deposes the corrupt regime, he makes it his mission to set right everything his forebearers set wrong... including freeing the Raven Consort from her isolation. Thus begins one of the most absorbing anime I’ve watched all year, a story of the sins of the past as they claw at the fabric of the present, the struggle to untangle eons of societal oppression, and what it truly means to make amends for mistakes that left scars too big to ever heal. Raven of the Inner Palace is a bit of a slow burn, but when it takes off, it fucking takes off. And I know most of you barely even heard about it because it was overshadowed by all the louder, flashier shows this season, so consider this your wake-up call. Don’t sleep on this one, it’s really damn good.

Akiba Maid War: 8.5/10

Honestly, I don’t even want to say anything about this one. I just want to tell you all that you need to fucking watch Akiba Maid War and let you experience its many surprises as deliriously blind as I did. So if that alone is enough to convince you to go watch it, then stop what you’re doing and go watch it before you’re spoiled on anything. But if you need a little extra convincing, then consider the following: what if I told you that this seemingly innocuous maid cafe show is not, in fact, a quaint little otaku-centric slice of life, but a full-on pastiche of yakuza movies that takes all the genre’s bloodshed and mayhem and filters it through maid-colored glasses? A show where maids gun each other down and jockey for power and get in vicious turf battles and yet never once break maid keyfabe? Where the simple joke of “yakuza movie but they’re maids” is played so straight and pushed so far to its absolute limit that it somehow wraps back around to being both a completely ludicrous parody of itself and a completely genuine, 100% heart-on-its-sleeve love letter to both seemingly incompatible sides of its double identity? And walks that seemingly impossible tonal tightrope near flawlessly before bringing it all home in a final episode so pitch-perfect it forced me to pump my score up half a point just from how hard it stuck the goddamn landing? Are you convinced yet? Did I mention there’s a thirty-six year old murder maid who totally kicks fucking ass and doesn’t let anyone shame her for being a middle-aged woman working a cutesy job? What more do you want from me? JUST GO FUCKING WATCH THIS SHOW ALREADY I SWEAR TO GOD

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury: 8.5/10

I had no idea what to expect going into my first ever Gundam anime. Sure, I was excited to finally get a taste of what this storied franchise had to offer, and the excellent prologue and promise of an interesting female protagonist were certainly reasons to be hopeful, but as someone who’s rarely clicked with mecha as a genre, I wasn’t sure how this first foray into the definitive mecha anime would turn out. What I never expected- what I don’t think anyone could’ve expected- was that The Witch From Mercury wasn’t content to just be the first even female-led Gundam. No, this show decided to be REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA. IN SPACE. WITH MECHA BATTLES. And I don’t think I need to say a goddamn thing more to convince you to watch this show. It’s goddamn Gundam Utena! It’s the queerest, most socially conscious anime of all time re-imagined with a futuristic metal exoskeleton, only with Utena’s symbolism-drenched ruminations on gender and patriarchy replaced with a no-less-compelling grounded portrayal of the evils of space capitalism and the political consequences of corrupt systems. Well, presumably; this first cours has mostly focused on the ground-level school romance antics as it builds up all that big picture stuff in the background. But I say again: GUNDAM. FUCKING. UTENA. I couldn’t have picked a better introduction to the world of Gundam if I tried. And as long as the second cours doesn’t shit the bed, this is going to go down in history as one of the greatest things to over come out of the mecha genre.

Bocchi the Rock: 9.5/10

And yet. Despite all the big shonens and bold anime originals, despite Chainsaw Man and My Hero Academia and Gundam Utena, when all was said and done, one series rose above them all. One series that looked at all those big names with a smirk and sailed past them as naturally as breathing. Ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between, Bocchi the Rock is a goddamn motherfucking masterpiece. It takes the band-girls coming-of-age majesty, the painfully relatable social anxiety of Watamote, and the sheer animation flexing of Nichijou, and blends them all together into a gut-busting, tear-jerking, jaw-dropping tour de force that raises the bar on what slice-of-life anime is capable of just as thoroughly as K-On did thirteen years ago. Hitori Gotou is a socially paralyzed weirdo who’s never had a real friend because her anxiety’s too overwhelming to make friends, but she knows how to play some mean guitar. So when a chance encounter leads to her joining a band, she resolves to stick with it and try to finally break out of her shell, one hilarious misstep at a time. It’s a wonderful story of overcoming what holds you back and finding a community that accepts you for who you are, brought to life with some of the most astonishingly Extra(tm) animation that regularly left me choking on my own laughter. And the music uniformly kicks ass, and the incredible supporting cast provides a wide array of perspectives of introversion and extroversion, and Ryou is such an asshole and I love her, and fucking hell, I love this show! Other anime may be deeper or more complex or have more to say, but almost nothing else is so consistently charming. Every second of this show is delightful. Every moment is lovable. It’s a new gold standard for animated comedy, for cute girls, for coming-of-age, and for music anime in general. Bocchi the Rock fucking rules, and every single one of you needs to give it a watch. Something tells me this is gonna be one of those shows we’re still going to be gushing over for many, many years to come.

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Velma Episode 1 Thoughts

“So, how’s that promise to not watch the Velma show go-”

*Sees a list of Youtube reviews*

“...May as well check out for myself then.”

-Wow, you guys are trying so fucking hard to cause a rise out of people. This is some of the most pathetic baiting I have ever seen. And I’m autistic- I am literally wired to not get this stuff.

-And because I’m feeling cruel-

‘Tall handsome guy given even more power’- Ever heard of Spider man?

‘Oh hey, what made this hot chick go crazy?’- Ever heard of Samus Aran?

-’Not Fred and his creepy sex van’. Five bucks says you end up riding around in that ‘creepy sex van’ with Fred giving you orders because your show will be tanking so hard you’ll need to pander to the original audience to survive.

And as an original fan, I say ‘die in a ditch’

-’I hate Daphne. >:(’ Wow, the nerdy girl hates the popular, conventionally pretty girl. Real great work subverting those stereotypes. Especially since that notebook has ‘Velma Dinkley-Jones’ written in it too.

Fun fact, my own little Team STRQ headcanon has Raven and Summer hating each other’s guts due to ideological differences (Raven believes that people need to survive on their own while Summer believes that people should help if they have the power) among other things. But I’m insecure about it because it can also be read as ‘two girls fight over a guy (Taiyang)’. In short- I have more awareness of stupid tropes regarding women than this show.

-’This is my story, told MY way!’

Which is why you’re not even remotely Velma Dinkley and this told through the same fucking story telling seen everywhere nowadays.

-...This show is going to use swearing as a substitute for actual maturity, isn’t it?

*Shows two cockroaches bumping uglies*

... Yay...

-Is...is this bitchy girl Daphne? The sweet, emotionally intelligent, kind hearted Daphne?

-You know, you guys could have given the girls some variety in their body types other than ‘curvaceous, busty and leggy’. I’m no prude but coming to be more true to myself, I’ve come to appreciate the variety in the female form. I also say this because this involved me coming to terms with how I appreciate the male form as well.

Also just because sex sells (I have checked out series because I found a girl hot) doesn’t make shoving gratuitous nudity in my face entertaining. At least let the girl fully check them out.

-You know what, here’s a lesson to any aspiring writers-

If you’re gonna be sensual, be sensual. Fully examine the beauty of the female and male bodies. The graceful curves and the hardy stockiness- be free, be open, be true to yourself! That is what it means to be an adult!

-Nobody gets physical over these kinds of discussions. Where the writers fucking high when writing this?

-Maybe they were because the chick I’m pretty sure is Daphne is DROWNING SOMEONE.

Please for the love of god, someone ax her ass!

-THANK YO-

‘And how do you feel about race blind casting, Daphne?’

Oh god FUCKING DAMNIT!

- “I wasn’t expecting such an enlightened answer from such a bitch.”

https://youtu.be/CN2s-rFYQqI

VELMA WOULD NOT ASSAULT SOMEONE!

-... Solid JJ did this better.

-... I want everyone whoever called RWBY’s writing as ‘exposition dumping’ to write an apology. NOW.

No one would respond to ‘How long has it been since X has had you over’ with ‘ever since my mom died. Two years ago.’ It should be. ‘Two years ago, ever since Mom...’. That is something people SAY.

-Oh god, this is so painful.

You-you know how a lot of dialogue in media can be boiled down to how it advances the plot or characters but the extra fat is necessary to make the dialogue digestible to your average viewer since media is an exchange between the audience suspending their disbelief and the creators presenting a nice story in exchange?

No one ever taught these writers that. It’s ALL just plot progression and obvious references with nothing to give it any taste!

-*Slicked over blond hair, blue jeans, white sweater, bumps into Velma while on his phone*

Oh no no no no no no no-

“Oh hi, Fred!”

“I have a disease where I can’t remember anyone who isn’t hot-”

-NO, FUCK YOU!

The one. ONE! Guy who was never even close to anything to being toxic in his masculinity. A kind, cheerful, calm, caring man who suffered from single mindedness but was nonetheless a man who carried himself with dignity and kindness who was beloved for basically creating the ‘himbo’ archetype-

You FUCKED HIM UP! IN ONE SCENE!

-... Fred’s gay and in the closet, isn’t he?

Of course he is. Because of course any man who dresses fashionably must be sucking dick. Just like Velma’s probably LGBT because she’s nerdy and not conventionally feminine. Because as everyone knows- if you deviate from the overly strict definitions of masculinity and feminity, you MUST be LGBT.

-Can we have ONE good father in a fucking cartoon for once?

-Whatever is inside her...isn’t a baby.

-’Oh we’re ABOVE the ‘slutty girl deserved to get murdered’ trope~’

And yet you roll around in those other, even more cliche tropes. No credit.

-Oh yay, this really is a ‘toxic masculinty’ plotline with Fred. And ten bucks says it will still get its ass beaten by Jaune’s.

-’I’m at fault for my mom leaving my dad who knocked up a waitress’

And you’re supposed to be the smart one...

-’Wow, I am emotionally invested in your journey and it’s stakes!’

Cool. Glad someone is.

-...Why is Shaggy even here? What’s even the point without his connection with Scoob?

-’I hate drugs! *wink*’

Shaggy being a stoner was a joke, not canon. May as well give him Ultra Instinct at this point.

-Oh cool, the fucking waitress knows ‘Velma’ better than her fucking father. Yay...

-’Maybe Velma’s mom left her because she was a brat...’

... Judging from how Velma looks and her size, she’s likely no older than 6-8 during those flashbacks.

If that is true then Velma’s mom bore a grudge or resentment towards her child for...acting like a child. And no, the eyeball injury is not an excuse because in no universe is spray water into someone’s eye going to cause enough damage to make it pop out.

Velma’s mom was a fucking bitch and her dumbass dad is implied to be the better parent...because she’s a bitch. Fucking wonderful.

-... This show was some tax write off, wasn’t it?

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theres-whump-in-that-nebula · 10 months

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I love how Colleen Ballinger thinks she can impress people with her “talent” of staring menacingly into the camera and talking while playing the ukulele; when what she’s playing on the ukulele is exactly three chords, with the most stupidly-easy fingering and strum pattern imaginable… During the talking portions, she drops it down to two chords, and she switches between them about every thirty seconds. She never varies her strumming pattern throughout the entire song. Of course she can stare down the camera and talk while doing that; anyone with a shred of skill on an instrument can too. I can even do that, and I don’t play the ukulele or converse very well at all. She’s not fooling anyone lol.

If you’re gonna be stupid and take FOUR WHOLE WEEKS to write a song instead of actually addressing the very real evidence against you, at least put a little more effort into the music than your facial expressions ahsbshdjdbsjs

— This has been a song review by a musician, singer, and composer who eats 16th and 32nd note, multi-chord arpeggios for breakfast

(I didn’t watch her video from the source; I watched it through the video Adam McIntyre made responding to it. I refuse to give that sick woman money. Fuck her.)

#She’d better be careful otherwise she’ll end up singing a different song with a train in it — Folsom Prison Blues #chug chugachug chugachug chugachug I HEAR THE TRAIN A COMIN’ IT’S ROLLIN’ ROUND THE BEND #(sorry I just like that song)#(and I hope she faces legal ramifications for grooming so many minors)#colleen ballinger #drama tw #She’s a fucking disgrace

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ginnyrules27 · 1 year

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Me: looks at upcoming expenses and wondering how I’m going to budget for them, especially with the rent hike

Me: glares at January me

Jan Me: What?

Current Me: That 1300 you spent for the BTTMW4 pass would be nice to have right now!

Jan Me: Oh really? How was I supposed to know we’d be laid off? Besides, March Me was the one saying we’d find a new job in no time!

March Me: Leave me out of this! If 2022 Me had actually gotten a good review, maybe we wouldn’t have been in this mess!

2022 Me: Hey I did my job! In fact, our boss said I did it perfectly! It was just other people in other departments were doing things boss lady had no idea about until it came time for the review!

Current Me: ...is it too late to set up a TikToc? You can make money there!

Jan Me: You turn 30 this year, you’re ancient to the kids there. Besides, what would you talk about? It’s not like people would want to turn in to listen to you talk about your writing process.

March Me: Besides you really want to put hope into something that might get banned by our government?

Current Me: Well we’re not getting hired anywhere and maybe people would want to listen to me ramble about football or something!

March Me: Plus it’s likely the only freelance way you could make money because of the whole divide in the fanfic community about getting commissions for writing because of past legal issues in the community...we were thinking about doing that weren’t we?

Current Me: Yeah, you? You stop talking. At least January Me had the brains to think about selling things on eBay for some extra cash. With rent going up to 1500 a month starting in July, we’re gonna need that.

July Me: ...it’s not going to be a good month for me is it?

June Me: Hey, at least you don’t have gifts to buy for people!

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Apologies for this very long and pointless post. Today was day one of officially being unemployed and well, you can see what that does to me.

#personal #still unemployed #in limbo in a job application #about ready to scream #anyone hiring?

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latibvles · 1 year

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more of the TP band au, a direct continuation of this except from Hoos's point of view this time around. also ! check out @almost-a-class-act 's renditions of the sandbox here and here. Fleetwood Mac enthusiast-guitarist-Hoosier has thoroughly rotted my brain and stole my keys, honestly .

He really didn’t mean to oversleep.

And it wasn’t like he forgot about the journalist either. However, the prospect of seeing Bob Leckie and his spiral notepad and his pencil didn’t exactly incentivize Bill much, not since he tore into their last album like it’d offended him personally (there’d been a line like that somewhere in the review). Not that he had a problem with Lucky anymore. He’d grab a beer with the guy on a Monday night and contemplate throwing one down with him on a Tuesday morning, now that he knew him well.

It wasn't his plan to wake up in a stranger's hotel room, and it wasn't his plan for it to be damn near impossible to hail a cab. Or not have sunglasses, making the alcohol-induced-headache that much more painful. It really turned out to be a shitty start to his day.

Still, Bill likes to think he’s smart enough to at least not show on his face just how bad of a morning it actually was, if he knew what he’d be walking into.

She’s got orange-red hair curled in big bouncy ringlets and tied up in a ponytail. Gold hoops, thin gold chain of a necklace, white sleeveless turtleneck and black pants. She’s got an accent that clearly isn’t American. She writes in a blue pen. When she walks passed him, she’s wearing a nice-looking black leather jacket, too.

Lucky’s friend. Vicki. The journalist.

So yeah, if someone told him that, he might’ve done better in the first-impressions department. Even if first impressions are more Lew’s responsibility anyway.

He really doesn’t know what it is with music journalists and having the whole hot-but-scary thing going for them, but Bill can only hope the few times he caught her staring are indicative that he, at the very least, hasn’t made a complete ass out of himself yet.

The sidewalks are busy and his headache only worsens with the bright afternoon sun. He has to squint a bit as they make their way towards that market on the corner with the sandwiches.

“Is it always like that?” She breaks the silence first, and Bill looks at her as she keeps pace with him. “Last one in gets lunch?”

“Sort of,” he tries to keep his tone light enough. “It’s usually Runner. And Runner just happens to be the one who’s late all the time,” he watches as she scribbles something down. His brows furrow. “You’re writin’ that down?”

“Contrary to popular belief I’m not a part of a gossip column,” she looks back up to him. “A feature is a feature. Corrigan wants you to look good, I want the truth. You showed up late, the public’s gonna want to know if you’re always late.” Corrigan usually dealt with the guys in suits so they never had to — his suits were always pressed and he always carried a briefcase. He had that quality about him, a sense of I’ve been in this business longer than you’ve been alive, kid.

She can’t be much older than him, but somehow she’s got that same sense to her.

“I didn’t mean to—”

“Offend me? I’ve heard worse. Mostly about men’s wives and girlfriends,” For a moment, Bill loses all sense of words and how to form them. She continues on. “If Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie could put up with way more for what, twenty years? Then I can deal with an assumption or two.”

For a moment, all he can really do is stare as she says it so briskly.

“I just… didn’t think that’s something people’d wanna know.” He almost wants to slap himself for how simple it sounds tumbling from his mouth. Her lips quirk into a smile, and she chuckles to herself.

“There’s a lot of things people are gonna wanna know about you, cobber,” He can’t help but notice how she didn’t write his fumble down, but scribbled down what he just said. “Like your humble beginnings. Let’s get right into it, yeah?”

She’s good at what she does, Bill can give her that. She gets him talking — about his start, the first time he picked up a guitar, the first song that really got him into music. He doesn’t miss the way she smiles when he admits it was one of his dad’s Fleetwood Mac records, Go Your Own Way crackling through his living room as a kid, as he grabs drinks from the fridge in the back of the store.

“Gold Dust Woman,” she replies simply. Vicki doesn’t write her part down. He kind of wishes she did.

He manages to make her laugh with his story of himself, Lew, Wilbur, and Sid all driving the miles from Alabama to L.A — the run-ins with crazies at gas stations.

“You ever spent a week in a van with four guys?” She giggles. If he could record the sound and play it back he probably would.

“I can’t say I have, no.”

“Good, I wouldn’t recommend it. Not with Lew. Guy fuckin’ reeks,” he pauses at the counter, as he’s grabbing sandwiches. “That’s going in there, isn’t it?” Vicki grins at him.

“Oh definitely. I only write the truth. Besides, they've said their fair share about you anyway. Gotta give everyone a moment to get a lick in.” Grabbing the plastic back and sliding the cash across the counter, he quirks a brow.

“Oh, and what’re they sayin’ about me huh?”

She walks slightly ahead of him now, like she already knows the way back, her own bag hanging from the crook of her elbow as she scribbles. He’s tried to catch glances, but her handwriting’s barely legible to him — more like scribbles than letters. She hums, tapping the end of the pen against her lower lip.

“That you walk around with a scowl on your face like someone shit in your cereal,” Vicki tucks the pen into the spiral of her notepad. “That one time Runner broke a string on your guitar and you looked just about ready to kill him,” There’s a long pause, Bill can feel that heat again creeping up his neck. Vicki looks him up and down, the sun hitting her just right and catching all the different flecks of green in her hazel eyes. “Works hard, parties hard. Now they didn’t say it to me but there was definitely a bit in there where they were trying to figure out if you went home with the blonde girl or the brunet.”

Bill coughs harshly into his fist, then reaches up to rub the nape of his neck stiffly. He could kill them. He just well might, once she leaves for the day and nothing can stop him from getting his hands on Lew and Wilbur.

“Well ain’t that a goddamn pretty picture.” He mutters sarcastically. Rather unexpectedly, Vicki leans over to bump his shoulder with hers.

“I’ve heard worse. They also said that they don’t know a better guitarist and you’re usually the one keeping them on track,” he forces himself to look at her, and her smile is significantly softer. “When you’re on time, of course.”

“I’m never living that one down, am I?”

“We’ll see how you fare the rest of the week. First impressions are everything, you know.” Bill presses his lips together for a moment and nods. The studio comes back into view, but he pauses at the glass double doors leading into the lobby, turning his head to look at her. Vicki’s staring at him expectantly.

“Well, what’d you think, Miss Graves?”

“Of what?”

“Me. My uh…” he pauses, brows furrowing. “Second first impression.” Vicki lets out a long sigh, rocking back and forth on her heels and parroting his question in a quiet murmur. She looks up at the sky, and then back to him. Reaching up, she gives his shoulder a squeeze for a moment — he tries to ignore how it almost feels like she’s burned him, in some way.

“I think there might’ve been a redemption story in there after all, Bill.” He likes the way his name sounds, the way she says it. But before he can voice it, or say anything else, she opens the door and walks inside, leaving him content in her dust.

#the pacific #bill hoosier smith x oc #the pacific au #au: let me down easy #. vicki graves

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austenwazright · 9 months

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Fourth wing by Rebecca Yarros- a spoiler free review

So, I read it, and I’d like to start saying if this is your favorite book or if you’re one of those people who get mad when someone says bad things about the things you love please don’t read it, I’m only writing this cause I wish so hard someone else had so I could’ve read it instead of the book.

If I have to choose one word to describe it’s shallow, Rebecca doesn’t bother to get deep about absolutely anything, not the plot, not the world creation, not the relationships, not even the fucking main character, so she accomplished something really hard here, she was able to be completely mediocre in the whole book and still make it a hit (I hate you tik tok).

The main character is exactly like any other in any ya novels, she so weak and little poor thing and she didn’t really wanna be there you know, what don’t get me wrong that can work in the right writing but not here, Yarros just told us how much she suffered and how much she was trying without never really showing us what just makes the mc into someone that gets everything handed out to her, what actually gets worse bc the girl is like literally a nepobaby, many times things only work out for her cause she had an unfair advantage but she never recognizes it, Rebecca keeps insisting with us that she suffered to get where she is, yeah, right.

The plot doesn’t catch you, or at least didn’t catch me, and if you’ve read a couple of ya novels already nothing, I repeat, nothing, will surprise you, is so formula made you can literally track the step you’re in you know. And since I’m talking about this is like no one else going to mention how much this sounds like a court of thornes and roses?? The romantic interest is SO Rhysand coded, and of course we have Tamlin, except Yarros writing lacked the subtlety that Maas had so he’s just plain out toxic from moment one, it doesn’t has the same effect.

The dragons were cool tho, the only thing that kept me going, what just means that the whole ideia of a college where you go to learn how to ride dragons is great, but I bet it didn’t turn out how Rebecca wanted. In more then one moment I felt like she knew where to start and where she wanted to go but had no clue how to get there. And since it wasn’t bad enough the fact that she was struggling to write about the life of a 20yo it get’s worse when Rebecca tries to go for politics, it’s so predictable it’s stupid, it makes you sad you’ve read so many pages for this.

About the romantic love interest, he’s also formula made, tall, dark skin, sarcastic, powerful and all that, I’m aware this has not gotten old for most people yet so you’ll probably love him, he is one of the most likeable characters, but the relationship build is plain out stupid, this is not enemies to lover, don’t fall for that. All the characters exist around the mc, they have no plot of their own (with one exception), as I said it’s really shallow.

Well, anyway, I really needed to put this out there or I was gonna choke. For real, if you LOVE acotar you’ll like this (if you only like acotar it’s not worth it), and if you’re 16 or younger you should give it a try, but if you’re like me and has been reading this genre for years don’t bother, there’s nothing here for you, or idk ignore me and read it, so you can come here say I’m just bitter or say I’m so right.

#book #books #book review #book recs #Book Recommendations #fourth wing #rebecca yarros #violet sorrengail #violet and xaden #xadenviolet #xaden riorson #tairn

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kira-the-whump-enthusiast · 1 year

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I posted 2,911 times in 2022

That's 2,911 more posts than 2021!

149 posts created (5%)

2,762 posts reblogged (95%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@whumpsday

@whumpwillow

@whump-queen

@oddsconvert

@emcscared-whumps

I tagged 2,217 of my posts in 2022

Only 24% of my posts had no tags

#whump - 1,372 posts

#whump prompts - 576 posts

#whump writing - 343 posts

#whump art - 180 posts

#villain whump - 156 posts

#kira talks - 148 posts

#whumper turned whumpee - 98 posts

#saving for later - 97 posts

#vampire whump - 92 posts

#oc isaac - 70 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#and telling someone that they should be locked up in a mental hospital is horribly insenstive to everyone that is in one or has been in one

My Top Posts in 2022:

me, who doesn’t know shit about committing crimes: yeah, I’m gonna write a story about a bunch of people who commit crimes and get away with it all the time

80 notes - Posted November 6, 2022

Whumper who plans where to inflict every scar and bruise on Whumpee’s body. They sprinkle extra blood on Whumpee’s wounds. They restrain Whumpee in an awkward position that puts all their injuries on display.

And they tell Whumpee, “You, my dear, are my most beautiful creation.”

88 notes - Posted April 12, 2022

I’ve been sorta obsessed with the phrase “You’re not going to die” in a whump context lately. Like, it’s so versatile. So good in so many situations.

Maybe a caretaker is saying it to comfort a scared whumpee. Maybe it’s whumpee’s last words to caretaker before giving themself up to whumper for caretaker’s sake. Maybe it’s said by whumpee to whumper once the tables have turned, to inform whumper that whumpee’s revenge is going to be very long and very painful. And there’s probably so many other contexts that I haven’t even thought about too. I’d go crazy for all of them.

208 notes - Posted April 8, 2022

There’s something so appealing to me about captivity whump, to the point that I pretty much put it in all my whump stories. And I think it’s cuz there’s something so soul-crushing about the monotony of captivity and repeated pain. And the fact that the whumpee often can’t escape it easily at all. Maybe they never will. (At least, that’s an possibility in the character’s head.)

It’s a horrible cycle that they’re trapped in, and no matter how much they want to escape it, no matter how much they actually try, every day they wake up in the same place and the same situation.

And god it’s just chef’s kiss. Definitely one of my favorite ways to break a fictional character: hurt them over and over again and chip away at all the hope until there’s nothing left, except the parts you want <2

220 notes - Posted October 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

As much as I love whumpees with permanent scars,,, I also really love the idea of a whumpee that doesn’t have any scars.

- Like a whumpee who didn’t get physically hurt, or a whumpee who has fast healing that got rid of any scars.

- Does anyone believe what they went through when they don’t have the physical scars to show for it? Maybe even caretaker believes that they’re lying or exaggerating.

- Can whumpee even convince themself that they went through it? Do they wonder whether it was all just a vivid dream or their imagination? But it felt so real… and they have the trauma to prove it.

- Does whumpee try to pretend nothing ever happened? Go back to their old life or start a new one and try to return to normal life? Their friends and family might notice something’s changed in whumpee, but they won’t talk about what happened.

Well. I might have to write something like this.

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #I hate like all my top posts lol #mostly cuz they keep getting notes. and eventually I get tired of seeing them in my notifs

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clumsyclifford · 1 year

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2022 Writing Evaluation

hi i dug this up from the archives of this time last year because it was fun to do and i wanted to give other writers a chance to reflect if they’re so inclined! so here is my 2022 writing self-evaluation. point of order, i’m mostly filling this out specifically for my bellawritess ao3 and all the rpf stuff i write, not my other secret ao3 where i put fics written about fictional media. okay, onward.

1. number of stories posted on ao3: 23!

2. word count posted for this year: 117,763

3. fandoms i wrote for: 5sos, atl, and 1d (but also teen wolf, mcu spiderman, hawkeye, and daredevil)

4. pairings: cake, lashton, malum, jalex, narry, halex (you know that very popular harry styles/alex gaskarth ship), and mirry.

5. story with the most kudos/bookmarks/comments: the answer to all three of these criteria is a change of heart and a silver lining, my winter 2021-22 fic exchange fic, which makes me very happy. i cannot believe that fic was from last year, january feels like forever ago but i love love love that specific work so much, in large part because of how much i was able to tailor it to meg as reciprocation for all the times and ways she tailored things to me.

6. work i’m most proud of (and why): i’m gonna say a three-way tie between (1) i got a radar for trouble (and you’re a renegade), (2) between all the gasping i finally breathe, and (3) play it again and again and again. #1 is the cruel summer prequel fic that i always half-jokingly said i would one day write and then surprised myself by actually writing, and i am incredibly proud of how well i managed to recreate the vibes of cruel summer fic but also write a prequel that made sense with the direction the actual cruel summer story took. #2 was one of the first legit fics i wrote to break myself out of this big 5sos fic slump i had been in (consequence of a perfect storm of a lot of small things), and i may have gotten lost in the metaphor sauce but i maintain that the metaphors are really fucking good which was gratifying to me as a writer who had felt like maybe i’d lost my real writing skill before then. #3 is the christmas fic i wrote for hazel, and what i’m most proud of there is that i fuckin actually wrote that. my love for my friends carried me through the warfields of attempting to romanticize christmas, and in so doing i think i actually learned something about christmas, ugh i feel like i’m getting less jewish every second i spend talking about this but i really am proud of myself for writing that and even moreso because i think i tailored it pretty well to hazel’s taste and that made me happy. it was like an extra challenge i set myself and then i did it well.

7. work i’m least proud of (and why): pretty much all the prompt fics from this year’s batch, tbh. this malum roommates one is really funny if you imagine you’re a fly on the wall of mine and megs’s dorm room but it’s the most nothing fic on the planet otherwise, and you’re my whole house is cute but again, literally nothing. unfortunately these were written while i was binge watching seinfeld which probably contributed to how much they were About Nothing but that’s no excuse.

8. share or describe a favorite review you received: i’m super terrible at remembering comments and stuff that people leave me but a few days ago i got a comment on yssdf saying it was one of the best love stories they’d ever read and that just about knocked my socks off

9. a time when writing was really, really hard: from aboutttt february to september, which is pretty obvious when you notice that i didn’t post a fic (on this account) between march 18th and september 27th of this year. i hit that aforementioned slump in a big way and i was also busy with life stuff and i was also just. unmotivated and uninspired! but in that time i wasn’t really doing a lot of writing to struggle with. something that was actively hard to write was definitely parts of the jet lag songfic i wrote for the fest. megs and hazel both experienced various aspects of my intense battle with Plot and Characters. it was not pretty.

10. a scene or character you wrote that surprised you: luke in the muke college beach fic!!! he was so much more gutsy than (a) he’s usually written and (b) i expected him to be. and tbh, michael in that fic also kind of surprised me, although less so because he was based on a real guy i know, so it was more like trying to delve into the fictionalized mind of a real human being i go to school with and understand what it is that makes him only APPEAR to be an asshole and in reality maybe actually have a heart of gold. if that makes sense. character work but the character is based on a real person who is based on a real person. meta af.

11. a favorite excerpt of your writing: ill be the first to admit im a sucker for when there’s a song playing in the in-universe fic scene and then the lyrics tie into the moment. i have that in two fics that i can think of, so here they both are:

(1) from everywhere, everything:

Luke is trembling when he looks up at Ashton, but he only nods. Tilts their foreheads together.

Say it’s me that you’ll adore— Sinatra sings, and then there’s a scratch and a crack, and the whole record player crashes through the glass tabletop.

(the end of that lyric is “for now and evermore” !!!! HOW FUCKED IS THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(2) from faith in a stolen car (the jean jacket songfic i just wrote for the fest):

Calum’s rumbling laugh shook both of them as Springsteen vowed I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul, and Ashton sang along in a silly voice so Calum knew he meant it with everything he had.

[and]

He turned up the music, and ‘No Surrender’ blared out of the surround sound. The lines that had been stampeding around Ashton’s brain since Calum had first swept him up in tonight’s teenage delinquency now screamed against the wind in his ears.

Ashton smiled wider than his face could handle and screamed right back.

“WE MADE A PROMISE WE SWORE WE’D ALWAYS REMEMBER,” Calum’s voice joined his, and together they beat back the deafening gales; “NO RETREAT, BABY, NO SURRENDER!”

12. how did you grow as a writer this year? this year i learned the importance of conflict. “hey bella, didn’t you learn that in seventh grade english?” YES but then i IGNORED it and now i have relearned it in a fanfiction context and in the broader sense that i now understand every story has a conflict and more than that, a story needs a conflict, because that’s what drives it. after i finished writing those prompt fics, i thought, damn, these are fun but nothing is fucking happening in any of them. i wonder why that is! and then i realized. there was no conflict. i was writing “scenes” but nothing interesting within those scenes, so there was nothing pulling the characters from point A (the start of the scene) to point B (its conclusion) and as a result they all became meandering blocks of text with no goal or direction. anyway. point being that i have embraced conflict as a necessary factor in storytelling and i hope this will mean no more seinfeldian fics, prompt or otherwise.

13. how do you hope to grow next year? yes <3 jk but i sincerely have no idea, i don’t have any current ideas on how i plan to grow next year i just very much intend to grow. how it happens is anyone’s guess

14. who was your greatest positive influence this year as a writer (could be another writer or beta or cheerleader or muse etc etc)? gotta be a tie between megs @igarbagecannoteven and hazel @allsassnoclass. obviously megs is my #1 rubber duck roomie, whether she likes it or not, and she has helped me solve more problems than i am comfortable admitting. actually i’m very comfortable admitting it megs has untangled a myriad of fic knots on many occasions this year she is the best rubber duck in the world. and hazel has become my virtual rubber duck which is great because it means i have all my bases covered! truly these two are a dynamic duo because they will both just let me sit there and complain and yet always have the right thing to say.

15. anything from your real life show up in your writing this year? as always, a great many things. make the same mistakes ‘til the morning breaks and the muke college beach fic are both inspired by things that happened with this one guy i know from school (yes, the same guy, and yes, he is represented by michael both times, and no, i do not know why it happened like that). the latter came from just a single snap i saw on his snap story, and none of the fic is actually based on real events, but the former is HEAVILY based on real events between this guy and one of my good friends at school. lmao!

i’ve been wishing i could breathe underwater is based on my experience scuba diving, which is to say, pure unmitigated terror, 1/10, do not recommend except to say that you did it. tequila shots from the dark scene of the crime is chock-full of baseball talk, specifically about Worst Team In Baseball the Washington Nationals (affectionate), so those feelings are straight from my heart. the concept of tell me what to see has not happened to me but it was very much inspired by my experience of getting in the habit of working out and realizing your muscles are literally increasing in size. the christmas fic has all my jewish disdain for christmas. that’s the shortlist, i think!

16. any new wisdom you can share with other writers? honestly, nope! i think other writers are thriving on their own fic journeys, as i am on mine. you guys seem to have a handle on things. i can reiterate my vehement loathing of comma splices or otherwise incorrectly-placed commas, but other than that i don’t have much to offer in the way of wisdom.

17. any projects you’re looking forward to starting (or finishing) in the new year? yes!! i am really excited to (hopefully) finish this fic ive been intermittently writing that is based on back together by tss. well, actually it’s based on the specific energy that was created in the world when back together and 2011 were released on the same night. it’s a tss!5sos au. it’s going to be really good okay. it’s tasty. and as always i hope to finish summer camp au i am dead fucking set on finishing that fic there is no question in my mind that it will be completed someday sooner rather than later i hope but definitely eventually. aside from those, i can’t think of any other fic plans i have! just gonna see where the winds of fic fate take me.

18. tag some writers whose answers you’d like to read: @igarbagecannoteven @allsassnoclass @kaleidoscopeminds @burstingsunrise @cringeycal (?) <3

#stuff #tag games #fic talk #it's 3:20am im going the fuck to sleep #tomorrow is going to stress me out so much #ive been experiencing low-grade but slowly-growing levels of stress for the past week or two about this trip #and now it's. now i'm leaving in TWO DAYS and jesus christ im nervous #i am so stupid for this #for everything #it's going to be fine #ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gay fucking fear!!!!!!!#goodnight

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milfglupshitto · 1 year

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I posted 2,202 times in 2022

That's 123 more posts than 2021!

326 posts created (15%)

1,876 posts reblogged (85%)

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I tagged 1,821 of my posts in 2022

Only 17% of my posts had no tags

#star wars ocs - 129 posts

#fic tag - 75 posts

#andor spoilers - 72 posts

#my writing - 44 posts

#ask game - 41 posts

#albatross - 32 posts

#boost - 31 posts

#severance - 26 posts

#pygmalion theory - 24 posts

#star wars ronin - 22 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#usually though if i’m at a friends i’m not there long enough to eat unless it’s for a party in which case food has been planned for already

My Top Posts in 2022:

hey if you go onto a post and act like a condescending fuckwit to people who justifiably call you out for posting gross shit completely unprompted and comparing your deserved backlash to actual literal hatecrimes… just delete. you do not deserve to be met with a polite counterargument and you’re not gonna fucking get one

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on the list of star wars villains and antagonists ranked from most to least likely to be effectively christmas carolled (dissuaded from their current path by visits from ghosts) vader comes in dead last

67 notes - Posted June 17, 2022

it’s really fun seeing people engage with Dracula through Dracula Daily, but as the story progresses please pay attention to the some of the cultural anxieties which influence the work! here’s a paper which takes a comprehensive look at several of those anxieties

editing the original to say please feel free to add on with links to other works! one of the neat things about reading a book like this semi-collectively is that each person has their own additions to bring into the conversation by virtue of the sheer volume of scholarly writing that exists on this novel

77 notes - Posted May 9, 2022

thinking about force haunting in the context of non-force sensitives… your companion is accustomed to seeing ghosts everywhere and their power is such that they always find what they are looking for. the longer you are near them the less you recognize yourself but can you bear to pull away?

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My #1 post of 2022

when I say 👉👈 I am tapping my fingers together like wall-e from wall-e. if you even care

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #this is pathetic um whatever #tag edit actual this is great I love that one of my friend’s cool projects is in my most-used tags #*actually #and I’m proud of myself for showing off my own work even if no one else saw it

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destinygoldenstar · 2 years

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“Nerd Gets Revenge On Cool Guys” & “Dorky Girl Gets Revenge On Hot Guy”=TOTALLY Different Videos

Pretty sure you heard the complaint before. Dhar Mann’s scripts are nearly IDENTICAL to each other, to the point where he just recycles scripts. Like this one.

I reviewed “Nerd Gets Revenge On Cool Guys”, that’s actually the post with the most notes (for Dhar Mann centric posts at least) And so the question is: Did Dhar Mann do anything different? Anything at all?

Well yeah! The old video was about a science project.

THIS video is about a SINGING AUDITION.

BOOM, DIFFERENT STORY, RIGHT?

No. Not at all.

EVERYTHING I said about the old video still applies here. Black and White world. The moral that you can only be traditionally beautiful to be attractive. The moral that ruining people’s lives is a good thing.

The ‘bully’ is doing something so he doesn’t have to go through another something, and needs the girl’s help to do it, so they use her. The girl had a crush on him for some reason, until she realizes how trash they are, so she turns beautiful and ruins his life.

EXACT SAME PLOT.

ALSO, since I didn’t do it awhile:

THE INNACCURACIES TO HOW DRAMA WORKS:

-The director CANNOT give out roles to auditioners during audition. They have to schedule the report, and write down the ENTIRE casting. This director is not allowed to just say who they want to have the lead role, BEFORE casting is revealed. That just makes the director look biased.

Even then, I did have a teacher like this, who shunned me despite my efforts with singing. They were incredibly bias towards one girl, who grew into an egotist as a result, and that girl got like, 8 solos throughout the entire middle school years I had. I got none. That girl received a reward at the end of the run, for best student. You can’t tell me that isn’t biased.

That doesn’t give you a good impression.

Heck, I even got kicked out of the concert by this teacher. Why? Because I had a negative opinion on the song we were doing. That’s it. I didn’t quit. I didn’t talk back. I was willing to go through with it. But the teacher said I LOOKED like a freak when singing it, so I was kicked out. And ever since I was shunned by ALL my chorus teachers. Didn’t matter how good or talented I was.

Craziest thing is that everyone else, to this day, saw that teacher’s choice as CORRECT, and that I was the problem, and that I deserved that punishment.

I still don’t get it.

-The director IS NOT ALLOWED to cut off the audition of ANYONE. Again, makes you look biased. The point of an audition is for everyone to have an equal chance to show what you’re made of. Therefore, their skits need to be heard from beginning to end. Cutting off the auditioner just because you don’t like them takes that away.

-Again, THERE’S A THING AS AN UNDERSTUDY.

“I think the director’s gonna let Julie decide”

-Not allowed. Understudies exist if the actor can’t perform. On top of that, someone who KNEW couldn’t play a role, wouldn’t even audition in the first place. It’s the DIRECTOR’S choice on this decision, NOT AN ACTOR. You cannot have an actor decide what roles other actor’s get, that is not their job

The message of this video is basically: “The truth won’t cost you anything. But a lie will cost you everything.”

NOT TRUE.

There are several truth bombs that hurt people. Stuff like cheating on people, stealing, cheating on exams, or personal promises. Admitting to stuff like that and being honest can cost you everything. Now, doing that stuff in general is bad, but in situations where you find yourself caught in everything, it’s YOUR CHOICE what you do with your actions.

Lies aren’t the enemy. It’s the context surrounding the lie that hurts.

What if someone wanted to plan a birthday and lied to the person to protect that secret for a surprise? Would they be deemed as bad people because they lied to do something nice?

I know in the video, this is in the context of a guy using a girl, which should go with consequences, but Dhar Mann frames it as if the message applies to every scenario ever, which is why he uses his scripts over and over again just with different settings.

Either way, the message doesn’t even work for this plot. He didn’t ‘lie’ to her, he’s using her for his own gain. The message should be: “Don’t take advantage of people’s feelings for selfish reasons”

And heck, real life people, actually DO use others to get ahead in certain roles, not just acting. It’s not deemed as evil. If anything, it’s a marketing strategy. You can treat someone extremely well, see them as friends, and even loved ones, and STILL use them to get ahead in a career.

And when you’re broke, unpaid, and out of your element, and you need to get ahead, then YES, you DO have to go to people higher in power to get you up the ranks.

The action itself ISN’T evil here. The evil part is the emotional abuse.

Dhar Mann frames it as if it’s the action that’s to blame, which is all kinds of messed up in my opinion.

On top of that, the ‘bully’ is NOT EVEN THAT BAD. He’s under a very abusive family, and HE’S not the one appearance shaming the girl, they are, and he actually calls them out. His dream is to act, even though everyone around him is telling him to do baseball. That’s relatable to me, I can’t tell you how many people want me to be a scientist. Plus it was THEIR WORDS and THEIR PEER PRESSURE for him to use the girl in the first place.

Might be a good opportunity to teach kids about resisting negative peer pressure...

NOPE.

The guy is deemed as wrong because he went through, and it’s completely his fault.

(He even willingly BREAKS CHARACTER IN THE SHOW, not rehearsal, the show. Which is what you DO NOT DO IN A PRODUCTION NO MATTER WHAT. YOU CAN GET FIRED FOR THIS.)

Now, I will admit, the girl here isn’t as horrible as the girl in the previous video, in fact she’s kinda justified in removing him from the show after breaking the rules. But Dhar Mann is still teaching us that sympathy does not exist at the end of the day. That there’s no such thing as forgiveness, there’s no such thing as redemption. That once you do something wrong, you’re a bad person, and no one will ever want you or like you. That all your hard work is for nothing, and that your feelings don’t matter. And anyone who dumps on you for that, is deemed as great people.

That’s not a good message Dhar Mann, especially recycling your scripts with those exact bad messages. This could’ve been the opportunity to course correct, however, Dhar Mann doesn’t seem to want to do that. He just wants the views, and well, the previous video got over millions of views, so why change anything? Who cares about the mentality of the audience?

These videos are almost always #inspiring, and yet they have such dower endings that talk down and insult the audience.

Want to be #inspiring? DON’T WRITE EXTREMES.

Just don’t write antagonists in the plots. Don’t write extreme clickbaiting plots. Don’t tackle serious issues every day. All you have to do, is have your characters show POSITIVE expression. Just make them positive kind people.

No big messages, just show people doing good deeds, like helping a poor dude, helping students get by. Just show people being kindhearted, doing the right thing, and how that rewards them. THAT sounds far more inspiring than anything I’ve seen Dhar Mann make.

Trust me, simply showing good deeds goes a long way to reflect that positivity onto people. REAL positivity, not toxic positivity that gives the viewer anxiety problems and tears them down for not being noble enough. That’s what’s going on with these vids.

If a #inspiring video makes you have stomach problems, boiling paranoia of your actions, trouble sleeping, and all of that, you think that’s staying true to the intent? I think not.

(I mean yeah, Dhar Mann does do those kinds of videos, I’m aware, but only because they’re based one true stories and real life events, which would be fine if he didn’t brag about it directly afterwards.)

#Dhar Mann #Venting #Bad Messages

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subbyenbywitch · 2 years

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[book review] blood and chocolate by annette curtis klause (1997)

this is really messy ya fiction that goes to some fucking intense (and i think, occasionally, irresponsible) places. i know i say this a lot about books like this but it really does feel like a similar energy to the kinds of writing i always really vibed with in fanfic but never really intentionally seek out in profic and i really do need to do something about that because i frequently end up loving it.

also it does that super fanficcy thing where it refers back to characters’ backstories in a way that makes you wonder if you missed a previous book or something even though this is the only book in the series. perfect. exquisite. i’ll take three.

i just fucking adore this kind of heart-on-its-sleeve bullshit. and this one also does that thing where it feels like a pretty restrained, conventional narrative for a good long while and the intensity just very abruptly spikes and it’s like “oh! ok. we’re doing this now i guess!” for the rest of the book.

that kind of thing can frankly actually be detrimental if it just doesn’t land for you for whatever reason, and for me at least i find my reactions to this kind of thing to be pretty fickle, and in this particular case i actually found myself completely onboard with the abrupt shift (... heh, shift).

like there is for sure shit in here that i could be obstinate & complain about if i really wanted to, and i wouldn’t even be wrong because i actually do think a lot of it is big-P Problematic, but for whatever reason this particular book just really lulled me into enjoying it anyway, and i like liking things so i’m just gonna go ahead and let myself like this.

(spoilers, cw: suicide mention, age gap relationship)

if you’ve followed my reviews for a while in one form/venue or another you might be thinking, “wait, robin, it sounds an awful lot like you’re describing a guilty pleasure, you said those aren’t a thing.” but i promise you that is not what’s happening here? nor am i “enjoying it ironically” (something i basically refuse to do, heck something i might be incapable of doing). my enjoyment is genuine. i will certainly allow that this is a “problematic fave,” which i suppose some people consider synonymous with a “guilty pleasure,” but i still think there’s an important distinction to be had there.

enjoying (or not enjoying) art is an inherently dialectical process and the meaning isn’t produced wholly in the media itself or wholly in you yourself, but rather in the relationship between those two things. i do not feel guilty about enjoying blood and chocolate. (wow that sounds like a whole thing out of context lmao.)

i am uncomfortable with some of the messages that can be derived about relationships from gabriel’s 180-degree turn from a guy made of literally nothing but red flags to the embodiment of gruff but tender masculinity, given the patriarchy-shaped patterns of abuse many women are subjected to in their searches for mates, and i think especially for a book marketed largely towards young women this does them a serious disservice.

but i’m an adult and i know better so i can separate my enjoyment of this from its problematic elements as long as i responsibly call them out when discussing the book. and against what i thought were pretty long odds when i realized where this story was going, i do like gabriel & vivian’s romance. i do like the guy he turns into later in the book, no matter how blatantly unearned that turn was. and i’m perfectly willing to just allow myself to enjoy that, in spite of all the fairly obvious reasons why i “shouldn’t.”

hell, his ideas about werewolves having an instinctive need to dominate & protect are fucking hot and i could easily see them being rewardingly incorporated into a power exchange relationship? and also like… even in the context where they came up in this book, they actually aren’t horrible? he’s basically explaining why relationships between werewolves & humans are inherently unsafe, but he’s doing it in a very empathetic, nonjudgmental way. and just… if that really is how things work in this world, i’m actually super behind his take?

but what really helped the most is that it wasn’t until vivian had been through something similar to what gabriel had been through, and he shared his story with her, helping her begin to recover from her trauma, that i was really sold on them. because their relationship really is built on them being kindred spirits.

i’m deliberately ignoring something rather huge here, and that’s the fact that vivian is 16 and gabriel is 24. and, i mean… some of the discourse about age gaps in romantic & sexual relationships can be overly rigid. like, as someone who was simultaneously being emotionally abused & manipulated by someone roughly my own age in a “romantic” relationship while also being in a much healthier fuckbuddies-shaped relationship with someone who was almost twice my age, i just don’t see how so many people can see this as such a one-size fits all kind of thing? but in the case of a 24-year old adult man and a 16-year old high school girl, i feel pretty fucking okay saying that this is one of the clearest-cut cases of “that shit is not okay.” and again this is an aspect of the story where i think the book pretty clearly fails its target audience, because holy shit should you never be drilling into people’s heads that that kind of thing is normal.

for the record, i also will briefly mention that i also don’t really think the way this book treats suicide is responsible at all, again especially in view of its target audience. i don’t super want to get into it in any more depth than that? and i am sorry if anyone feels let down by my bringing it up but not really feeling super comfy getting into it in depth, but i frankly just wouldn’t feel responsible if i didn’t mention it at all.

but, again, that really isn’t what decides whether i like a given story or not, it’s just context that i feel responsible to put out there. because in spite of all of that, i really like this book.

it really helps that vivian is actually super into being a werewolf? she isn’t all angsty & self-hating, she thinks her werewolf self is beautiful (because it fucking is) and she is hurt & confused & angry when aiden can’t see that. and gabriel seeing that & understanding it and talking her through it was a pretty huge breakthrough for me with that character. but really i just love vivian as a narrator, and i actually got pretty fucking miffed when a reviewer i usually like found her annoying because she really is my favorite thing about this book.

this is not only a problematic fave, it’s a problematic fave that has me excited to branch out and discover whole new problematic faves in this genre, because i understand that both a lot of the things that i found uncomfy in this book and a lot of the things i liked about it are basically genre staples. and yeah, i can for sure deal with more of this.

a-rank

#reviews #books #book review #blood & chocolate #blood and chocolate #annette curtis klause #werewolf #werewolves #werewolf books #cw: suicide #cw: age gap

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