#if your character mocks the universe they're in the audience will do the same

[idylliclament]

The Course of Love: Professor D./Reader (Resident Lover) [Snippet]

When one misstep from Cassandra leads to her opting out of the school play to you preforming as the lover for the world of theatre, you find yourself dressed beside Professor Dimitrescu, awaiting the curtains to reveal the light. OR: You are Romeo. She is Juliet—and your professor.

You know all too well that Cassandra, daughter of the Professor Dimitrescu and star of Mother Miranda All Girls' University, can be quite the—

"Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!" Juliet's finger curls over the pommel, releasing the weapon from the deceased Romeo's belt; the first for a fair girl. "This is thy sheath;" She lifts the dagger and points the blade to her chest, thrusting in with the carry of a sharp gasp. "there rust, and let me die." She mutters her final words to the audience, dramatically so for the effect, before joining the body that lays beside her. The death marks the end of a young love that how so appealing, would so too be pronounced guilty on six charges (With one manslaughter.) of murder.

Woe, Juliet, by a miracle come true, walks the day once more and converses with Romeo on stage, rolling up his sleeve to write her phone number on.

"ENOUGH!"

—clutter, one you cannot pinpoint a singular word to ascribe to it.

Cassandra, the actress posing as Juliet, sheepishly winks at the director before bringing herself up, dusting off her dress as the backstage crew steps in, beginning to re-arrange the equipment for a restart of the scene.

"The rest is silence, as Hamlet said. I advise the same to you all." Cassandra declares elegantly, holding up a hand in honour.

She stretches her arms out, standing tall for her upcoming soliloquy, that of which is but a ramble. She has always been one to become her character in act.

"We all know he's the best Shakespearean hero to take advice from." Estera reacts scornfully, mocking Cassandra, who discards her response nonetheless.

"Well, the play should have ended here, the perfect moment. People come to watch Romeo and Juliet for Romeo and Juliet. I bet you no one buying our tickets knows any of the other characters' names or even the plot itself." Cassandra raises fair points, receiving differing answers to her words, with a 'Don't steal my thunder after stealing the whole show.' from Prince Escalus and two 'The final lines have meaning even if they're not said by you, attention whore.' from Lord Montague and Lord Capulet, respectively. 

With a quick turn of her heel, Cassandra shifts to face your classmates and instead, shamelessly so, falls behind and into the Capulet tomb, pushing it against Romeo, injuring the actress (You wonder how the poor thing could deserve such luck?).

'A minor sprain', they said, would not mean a new rehearsal nor a hundred so students aligned politely at 8 in the morning with playbooks and mugs in hand, determined to prove themselves a candidate, a suitor even, fit to be the new Juliet's new Romeo. 

Most shocking of all, you had not pictured a goddess ascending down on a rainy Monday of exam week to throw a dice and gamble her chance for a role—Oh, wait, now, that hat does seem most familiar...

"Professor Dimitrescu? What are you doing here?!" A wave of students exclaim at the sight of Cassandra's own mother, here to replace her daughter as the tale's heroine; a dispute between family, to be called the classical soap opera trope you were but swoon over with as a teenager. 'O, traitorous villainy!' shouts the audience, yet in your love would this woman be cherished.

Suddenly, Romeo seems a fate for you to play.

Ignore the low-quality edit. It has become a ritual for me.

The full work will be posted later on ao3. When? Great question...

#resident evil #resident evil village #resident lover #lady dimitrescu #alcina dimitriscu x reader #ao3 fanfic #sapphic #current wip

[valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn]

I was going over some quotes for a discussion else where and it's more clear than ever how no-sense Mobius motivation to bring Loki in to help ends up being. Because I don't understand what he expected Loki to do or what he actually wants from him

Two things about this. First off it's laughable in a way how they try to make out Loki stalling for time as some sort of bad conniving thing. Like, how dare he try to get out of being murdered as if that's not something any other character would try.

Secondly, this is stuff Mobius should know just by watching his life. Talking to him face to face doesn't provide new insight that Loki plots, plans and talks his way out things.

What I really get from this is a sense of performative charity from mobius. Like, what he really wants is the credit for helping rather than actually being motivated by kindness for kindness sake. Because Mobius quickly looses his patience and temper when things don't go his way.

Yeah, to some degree I guess he might view Loki as someone who could be good if given the chance, but the problem is not only does Mobius at best have a very warped sense of right and good he seems to just expect Loki to change right away.

"I was nice to you why are you doing what I want?"

Loki actions were because he was disrespected and felt dismissed so why would the expert think mocking and threatening Loki would make him want to stick around?

This is the craziest thing. What does Mobius expect Loki to do? Point at a map and find the variant immediately? They take him to the renfair Loki gives some input and sure it wasn't helpful, but at the same time what else was Loki supposed to do? He told tva what he would have done if was him.

It confuses me a bit. They say Loki is the variant they have pruned the most and the powers are quite similar but their appearance might be different from one variant to another, but isn't the TVA capable of chasing the temporal aura or whatever they call it? Isn't that how they know it's a Loki doing this and not just any other variant?

I don't know what they were expecting Loki to do either. If they're so familiar with his life and his variants, they would know more than he does. They're all the same, right? But if they weren't... then what is 616 Loki going to say about a Loki from another universe?

That 'stalling for time' shtick is ridiculous, it reminds me a bit of Natasha's "thank you for your cooperation" in The Avengers. It doesn't really change anything and it's not like knowing Banner might turn into the Hulk is a huge revelation. It seems lazy writing to me, like they want the audience to believe they have figured out something big but when you think about it… it's nothing. Loki was simply messing with them, it's not a big deal.

Mobius tells Renslayer he thinks Loki might be able to change but that line is despicable for two reasons: 1) why does he have to change? because who or what he is turns out to be something the TVA doesn't like? But Ravonna quite literally says during that conversation that the Time Keepers decree what role everyone plays in the Sacred Timeline. If they don't like it they have the Time Keepers to blame; 2) Mobius says that line because Waldron wants the audience to believe he's a good guy but he's not talking with Loki's best interests at heart, he's saying he wants him to change so that he can be useful to him and the TVA. This is proven the moment Loki makes decisions of his own and Mobius immediately turns against him - let's not forget the reward for trying to escape the TVA is physical assault… and that time cell is Mobius' idea, nobody else's.

First Mobius says he wants Loki to talk and when he finally does Mobius chastises him for talking too much. Mobius says working with him helps him find the variant but when they work together he doesn't like it either and he criticizes him anyway. He claims he wants Loki to change but when he exercises his free will he gets mad at him and has him beaten up repeatedly. He tells Loki off for "working" for the TVA only for his own interests instead of a higher calling as if the TVA hadn't kidnapped and threatened with killing him several times...

None of it makes any sense except everything Mobius says he says because the plot requires it. There's no cohesion at all and the characterization is all over the place. Typical Waldron.

Personally, the only line that I think is honest and true to Mobius' character is: "I just want to catch this guy and I'll tell you whatever I need to tell you."

#anti mobius #loki negativity

[princessesfanarts]

Me : I hate this new trend in Disney Movies where they make self referential humor to mock the earnestness of the old disney movies. It’s getting annoying. 

The literal first sentence of Raya and the last dragon : “I know what you’re thinking : a lone rider, a dystopian world...” 

Can’t they just let us get immersed in the universe without having those “We know it’s cliché *wink wink*” that adds nothing to the movie 

This is so boooooring

#disney #raya and the last dragon #stop it disney #I know it's the marvelization of disney movie #but for the love of god stop #having your character saying the plot or the world is cliché won't make it less cliché #if your character mocks the universe they're in the audience will do the same #UGH I HATE IT SO MUCH #bring back first degree in disney animated movies please #I want wonder and excitement #not this #anyway #didn't want to watch Raya #but I told myself come on maybe it's not gonna be that bad #and the first sentence #THE FIRST SENTENCE AND I'M ALREADY OUT OF THE MOVIE #FUCK THAT

[ichinoue]

hey on twitter an ir account was recommended to me cause my account is mostly bleach and i got nosy and they were posting old images of kubo and his Twitter likes and he liked a lot of ir content and romantic one at that. do you think that he baited sometimes? cause i think he did especially with that one colorspread of rukia and Ichigo on the beach, that was not a normal nakama spread.

Personally I think it's just a case of Kubo wanting to show appreciation for people who made art out of his work, or to interact with his audience (which was largely made up of IR shippers who inundated his twitter replies on a regular basis with things to get a reaction out of him and use it as 'proof' of him shipping IR). Almost like when people will take a song by an artist and come up with their own interpretation that's completely different from the artist's point of view when they wrote the song--as long as you're appreciating their work, they're not going to tell you you shouldn't view the song that way, or that your interpretation is totally wrong (unless it's an extreme case of it being something really personal that's being used in a sort of mocking manner? Like with the Green Day 'Wake me up when September Ends' thing.)--I think most artists/authors are open to the fact that their works are open to subjective fan interpretations, and they welcome that. Could he have just ignored the tweets? Sure, but he had already told fans IR wasn't romantic back in 2008, and so if they chose to keep shipping it and making art of it anyway? That's their choice, let them have their fun. At least they're still fans, right? (Up until they weren't anymore after IH became canon lol). The reason I don't think Kubo was baiting is because he shut down IR in an official interview the way he did. If he truly wanted to bait or tease or string the IR fandom along, he would have kept his mouth shut about whether or not it was romantic, or been totally ambiguous like *wink wink, nudge nudge, you'll have to keep reading to find out ;) *, or hell, at the very least he could have written more material for them into the manga so that IR was more even with IH in terms of content instead of starving them for years, but he didn't. These same people that were sending him IR fanart on twitter were also begging him for an IR reunion in the final arc, and it never happened. They begged him for an IR tagteam against Yhwach, and he still gave it to IchiHime instead! I think it just speaks to what I've always said: they clung to things like colorspreads and artbooks, merchandise and 'likes' on twitter instead of canon manga material and Kubo's own words. As for the "honeymoon colorspread," I've already pointed out in this post that that colorspread was in celebration of Bleach's 10th anniversary, and not some wedding between Ichigo and Rukia as shippers insisted. But even so, colorspreads (especially ones that seem to take place in an Alternate Universe, where Kubo just wants an excuse to visualize his characters in different outfits and scenarios that would likely never happen in canon lol)--the Bleach colorspreads are not exact representations of canon and shouldn't be taken as such lol. Especially when you consider that as soon as Orihime and Renji are added into the mix, Kubo paired up Ichigo with Orihime and Rukia with Renji. Basically, I find it really interesting that IR's would take the time to dissect and analyze something as vague as 'likes' on twitter, but yet completely ignore Kubo's actual words of "it is not romance" lmao. Like....which one did they think held more weight? They only see what they want to see and ignore the rest. But the manga speaks for itself.

[rjalker]

I'm, upset right now. I really like Doctor Who. But, I think I'll be giving it a pass until Chibnail leaves and we get someone actually competent back.

Was Moffat at all controversial like Chibnail?

(Made with speech to text forgive typos)

Oh god Moffat is even worse >:[ blatantly racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, oh my god. And there are so many rape and pedophilia jokes that it's not even fucking funny. He turns the Doctor into a fucking pedophile. He goes out of his way so that the doctor meets his companions when they are little girls so that they fall in love with him. Literally. I can't think of a single female character that Moffat introduced that did not meet the doctor when she was like 10 or something and fall madly in love with him. He started doing this shit in the girl in the fireplace when the 10th doctor was still around, and then he did it like 5 more fucking times. It's just fucking disgusting. He's constantly also making dick jokes despite this supposed to be a family-friendly show, and has the doctor sexual assault people and has a companions sexually assault the Doctor and it's all treated like it's funny and a joke.

Steven Moffat is like... Think of literally all of the horrible things that a person can say and do and that is what Steven Moffat does. He is a fucking blatant misogynist and homophobic and racist and transphobic. Everything you can think of that someone can do wrong he has done wrong.

As a single example of the homophobia, there are two gay characters. They don't have names. Because, and I quote from memory, "he's the fat one I'm the short one, we're gay, why do we need names?"

He literally had the gay characters themselves say that they don't need names because they're gay and one of them is fat and the other is short and they're the summation of their personalities. And they only exist for a single fucking episode for this oh so funny scene.

And even more than the bigotry, Steven Moffay is an absolutely horrible writer who can't tie a plot together to save his life. He actively builds up and makes you think that that's something important is going to happen and then just fucking drops it and makes fun of you for expecting a payoff. Key is you've heard of the unreliable narrator, now get ready for the untrustworthy writer. He doesn't know anything that he is doing. He thinks that a plot twist is lying to your audience and pulling something in that makes no sense and had zero foreshadowing and is literally coming out of nowhere. He thinks that having stories that make no sense is the same thing as being clever and that if you don't understand the story, because the story makes no fucking sense, that means you're stupid and just not smart enough to appreciate his talent.

He actively mocks and belittles his audience for actually giving a crap about the writing. He is the one that wrote Sherlock the BBC Sherlock, and during the Hiatus between I don't remember what it was season 2 and 3? Everyone was coming up with theories for how Sherlock survived falling off of a fucking building. We were all expecting season 3 to explain it to us because you know, it was kind of a big fucking deal and kind of a requirement for the story. He decided not to tell anybody and not to explain it.

He was literally too fucking lazy to come up with an actual solution to the problem that he fucking created, and not only that, he literally spent half the episode literally mocking The Audience by portraying fans in the universe see rising and talking about it and making fun of them. He literally hired people to play the role of the audience so that he can make fun of them and say look how stupid they are they think there's an actual solution to this problem look how much they care about this they're so stupid. I am not even joking. He literally spent half the episode making fun of his audience for daring to give a shit about the story he is telling.

I'm not even joking. I wish it were a joke. How the fuck do you see people being excited and invested in your story and being passionate about it and make fun of them for it????

Steven Moffat is literally the reason I stopped watching Doctor Who.

When chibnall took over I thought I would be able to start watching it again, and was unfortunately proven very fucking wrong.

Chibnall is also not a good writer, but from what I've seen before I gave up he's not even remotely as bad of a writer sad Moffat. Chibnall at least sort of kind of seems to be able to carry a plot even if it's going in a stupid Direction, Moffat's stories are so filled with plot holes and inconsistencies it's ridiculous.

Steven Moffat is a raging bigot, and I do not recommend anyone ever subject themselves to his writing. He is a misogynist, he is racist, he is homophobic and transphobic, and he likes to portray pedophilia as romantic and constantly has the Doctor running around making dick jokes and leering at people and sexualizing the companions.

If you trust my opinion on media, I always stop watching Doctor Who the moment 10 dies. It's all downhill from there.

There is classic Who to consider, if you can find it, and there are also Doctor Who audio books and audio dramas, and I can personally recommend the 8th doctor's Adventures With Charley Pollard, which I freaking adore, aaand @walks-the-ages is the one who got them so she can explain how to get the audios.

But yeah. If you hate Chibnall, you will loathe Moffatt.

Moffat stans do not interact 🔪🔪🔪🔪

[Plain text: Large red text that reads, "Moffat stans do not interact" followed by four knife emojis. End Plain text.]

#anti Moffat #don't you think he looks tired #in 2021 #fuck steve moffat #fuck chris chibnall #anti 13who #steven Moffat

[theangrypokemaniac]

Your whole Contest rant read almost like a parody. The Contests were the most popular goal for female companions in the anime, and the vast majority of fans of Contests were female fans. Likewise Misty had already gotten stale and dull in Johto, and Contests brought in better battles, storylines and character development. Saying they're all about being girly makes me think you have no idea what they're about, since most are abut battles and combinations. I doubt most will agree with you.

Oh, but Nonny, you don't believe in what you're saying since you won't put your name to it, so why should I listen?

It's a 'rant' because you disagree, not for actual content.

The nature of a rant is crazed disorder, but this comes in numbered sections clearly laid out.

More aptly, the first three words of that post were 'I hate Contests'.

If this view is such an anathema, why did you keep on reading?

Who's the fool here?

Whether anyone agrees with me or not is immaterial. Truth isn't a popularity contest.

It's still my opinion whatever anyone else thinks, no lesser or greater.

If you want to be liked, then lie.

I tried this method, keeping my feelings to myself, never daring to speak my mind, and where did it get me?

• Unfollowed

• Ghosted

• Insulted

• Blocked

• Shunned

Where is the incentive to hold back if that's the reward?

Might as well say what I want. I think I've a right to on my blog.

It is you who misunderstand. I complain Contests are vacuous and girly, and your defence is that they are for girls and most fans were girls.

Well, yeah. That's what I said. A show once having universal appeal downgraded itself to be toddler fantasy pap:

The anime began aimed at everyone, especially children and teenagers, but now, when its concern with fluff and sparkles takes precedent, it's a fantasy for toddler girls.

You tell me I'm wrong by concurring it's for girls, then you insist considering it to be girly means I know nothing about it.

Eh?

Girls got along fine watching Pokémon for years without being pandered to and infantilised by shallow spectacles like this.

Pokémon used to be for everyone, although because game-players were, and still are, mostly boys, what one saw of the fandom was largely their input.

• Letters to magazines were mainly from boys.

• If you knew of any fans at school, they were boys.

• Attendants to downloading Mew were nearly all boys.

The exception were fan sites, shipping and art, which were dominated by girls.

Then along came Contests, and that balance tipped, until we get to the point now that I doubt many viewers of the anime are male, because it no longer holds any appeal.

Why should they put up with a monotonous fashion parade when they watched it entirely for fierce showdowns?

We started with tough girls like Jessie and Misty, then along came the Contest blender, and we ended up with feeble vessels like Mallow and Lillie.

Ultra girliness is all very well on the periphery, or as part of an ensemble, but when it's the only stock feminine character available, it's boring to the point of paralysis.

Why should I be pleased a series with edge devolved into a mess of pink and cuddly cushions?

With whom were Contests the favourite female occupation? Fans?

What were the options?

• Tagged along because she was going that way (Misty/Iris).

• Contests/Showcases (May/Dawn/Serena).

• Lives nearby (Lillie/Mallow/Lana/Chloë).

I'm not really surprised at the result. I still don't see why this invalidates my take.

Amid your ravings, I am told that 'most are about battles and combinations'.

Most? Some aren't then?

What are these few about then? Vietnam?

By your own admission, a few are nothing but vacuous posturing.

Again, you agree with me. What's the complaint if I'm right?

What storylines? New Ribbon or no Ribbon?

And what character development? May and Dawn began wanting to be champion, and finished wanting to be champion.

Since that was the close of their story, any 'lessons' they learn are redundant as we'll never see them put into application.

Better battles? Better than what?

Have have you the nerve to lie that Contests are about combat?

The entire premise is showing off how pretty attacks are, not the strength.

Were it a display of power, as a normal fight is, people would be entering with teams of enormous hulking beasts, leaving the likes of Piplup bloody lost.

Some ugly Pokémon, like Gabite and Ambipom, are included, but because they've got some shiny move up their metaphorical sleeve.

Come on, man! The first round is decided on who's bustin' out the sparkles!

Every subsequent round may pose as battling, but you don't succeed by beating the opponent unconscious as usual.

You win if your 'energy bar' is highly than theirs, bought about by pulling off attention-seeking stunts.

Knocking 'em out is a blessing as it assures a win, but it's not the goal.

How is that battle in any legitimate sense when the very markers of victory and loss are removed?

Since beauty is subjective, the winner doesn't succeed because they are measurably superior to their opponent, or at least capable of thinking on their feet.

They win just on the whim of this set of judges liking their performance more. Another day, another panel, and it'd be different.

A real fight in a proper competition doesn't depend on arbitrary standards like that. You take 'em down here, you'd take 'em down in any stadium, any country. It is thus a quantifiable achievement.

In real life, we don't class a sash from a beauty pageant as of equal value to a black belt.

It's okay, but we know it was a matter of luck, whereas any sporting trophy comes from clearly out matching the rest, with hours of strain, sacrifice and suffering paving the path to that moment.

Contests involve no such effort. You pick what glitters and the rest is rehearsal. No need to enter a single fight to hone your skills.

Why isn't Ash eager to get in on the action then, if it's 'truly' such a test of combatants?

The answer is because it's nothing to do with his career as a Trainer. If it were, we wouldn't need the separate term of 'Co-Ordinator' to describe entrants.

Trainers train Pokémon, Gym Leaders lead Gyms, Co-Ordinators co-ordinate routines to be spectacular.

Why have different descriptions if it's exactly the same?

Martial arts, both in fantasy and reality, have a spiritual element. Those who dedicate their lives to it are regarded as having reached a higher level of being.

Battles share that quality. It's not about brute force, focus is place more on inner strength, in heart, courage, determination and loyalty.

A Pokémon which, on paper, is weaker than its foe, can still come out on top if it's prepared to go the distance and want it at all costs, compared to an apathetic opponent.

Simultaneously, the Trainers have their own battle of minds, picking up on style and mistakes, always ready to pounce.

Contests have no such deeper consequence. They are wholly fixated on what's flashy and external. Ice shards are no more glassy just because you really mean 'em.

Combinations are a couple of attacks put together to look nice. How is this refuting my assertion they are but ephemeral bits off fluff?

Why should I be interested in a career so hollow, and ultimately futile, since neither girl won, and now never existed?

Your also claim the ejection of Misty is warranted since she became 'stale and dull', as  if refuting my words.

If you'd bothered to read it properly rather than twisting yer knickers, you might notice I wrote exactly the same thing.

Perhaps it makes no difference. By Hoenn they'd rendered her a leaden blandness sucked dry of all that made her special.

I am not saying a Hoenn Misty would've been a more interesting companion. Her personality had to be erased before being allowed back at all.

I was mocking the excuse given for her exit, that she had no longterm goal, when there was no reason she couldn't participate in Contests.

A. If featuring them is intended as promotion, the audience is more likely to invest in the activity of a familiar face.

B. Just ruin her character if it's an obstacle, as they did everyone else.

C. Contests are a rip off of a competition Misty entered!

The truth still stands that had Misty stayed, we'd have no May, and in turn, no Max, and that's a bad thing?

In conclusion, you disagree with me by agreeing with me, so what exactly is the issue?

Since you fail to object elsewhere, I take it that the remainder is to your taste, and you also think Jessie was shafted, resembles a backwards country cliché and that May and Dawn should have won.

Not a bad dissection then.

#pokémon #contests #misty #hoenn #inbox