#just ignore my chatter

[whimsical-sonic]

pose

#cosmic chatter #doodles #my art #sonic #sth #posting both the ver w color and w/o bcuz tbqh i like it more w/o color #JUST realized i forgot one of his buckles oops. ignore that im not adding it

[honeybard]

btvs s4 was like okay so they're gonna do a spell to combine all the protagonists into Combo Buffy that has Buffy's strength! Giles' knowledge! Willow's magic! and Xander

#he's just. in there with em #dont get me wrong i surprisingly like xander. i relate a lot to his not going to college and feeling left behind #and any of the shitty misogyny lines they insist on is just male writers projecting so i can mostly just roll my eyes and ignore that #but also it is funny that s4 keeps asking the question 'why is xander here' and then just. doesnt answer it sjdhdj #like they pass him a tarot (heart i think?) so i guess he's like. moral support #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #chatter

[barrenclan]

Hey! I was sent an ask awhile ago inquiring about a possible Discord server for PATFW and I thought it was a GREAT IDEA! Community is more fun when you can directly chat with each other, even though I do love the Romeo and Juliet letters my anons will sometimes send to each other through me. 

Here is the link to join! WAPOW

https://discord.gg/xXUqTYtvx5

Hope you have fun!

#patfw #chatter #pinepaw and the forgotten world #oh no i just realized everyone's gonna see my garou pfp #ignore him

[ickyguts]

flaky blep

#ignore the silly blo- jam #red jam #ignore the red jam on their face #they got really excited about their pb and j #this is actually a piece i just finishsd but ill post later when im not decaying #time to snooze like the dead BWAHAHA #my art #chatter

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

also, not quite related to Great Hate but is related to some stuff said therein; I don't think any of the Skarloey/Arlesdale/Culdee Fell books are bad (honestly i rate them all very highly) buuuuuut if there was ever another attempt to adapt the books for television or television-adjacent-media, I would probably just opt to cut the non-North Western Railway stories out entirely. (the railways wouldn't be straight up Not Canon, there just wouldn't be episodes based on the stories about them.) They're a bit of a narrative cul-de-sac in terms of the overarching story of The Books, and while they are all excellent I feel like the opportunity cost of adapting those instead of expanding on the existing North Western stuff would be too high... Insult to injury is that by doing this, you don't really impact the North Western stories at all besides a little bit of Oliver the Western Engine's content and that can be adapted around (as has been done before...)

Ooh. You make a compelling point about how you could have a very good adaptation by cutting out the smaller-railway stuff.

At minimum, if one did not want to take their literary axe that far, the writers should very much take the opportunity to come up with a better way to manage the narrative of the multiple railways. I agree it's a big weakness that the RWS flips back and forth after introducing other railways — it doesn't always feel like all these books are in the same series and the going back and forth can be jarring. It's understandable, since Awdry was constrained by writing them in the order than he created them. But with distance there is a chance to reconceive things in a better way.

TVS Series 4, I think, made a vast improvement by grouping all the narrow-gauge stuff together — showing the Duke rescue before Peter Sam's and Sir Handel's S.R. breaking-in is awkward, of course, but having a whole half-season devoted to the narrow-gauge railways helps the narrative flow immensely. Sadly I think for the rest of the TVS they fall into the same choppy waters Awdry did. Obviously plenty of people do like the narrow-gauge episodes despite all, but they are definitely not set to best advantage when a handful of them feel kinda randomly sprinkled within the other stories. The improvement TVS continues to make however is finding ways for "the big engines" and "the little engines" to interact, as in creating more and more locations with mixed gauges.

Anyway your idea of a fresh television adaptation of the RWS is so enticing. My ideal series would be 30-minute adult-TV-esque episode dramas (hey, we're dreaming). You could have a significant number of episodes that take a birds'-eye view of Sodor rail and, instead of being organized around One Character Gets Put in a Situation, are organized by some new development (a new service, coal shortage, dieselisation, key person retires, labour strike, etc.), then you can have an A and a B plot on two different railways and see the fallout.

(Usually the North Western would be one of the two railways in focus, just coz a lion's share of industrial activity and travel on the island is going through them. But can you imagine how cool and special an episode it would be to have a Depression-era episode where we see the Skarloey and Mid Sodor Railways trying to pluckily adapt and eke out their survival? And we could see the Skarloey, who seemed to be in the more precarious position at the beginning, still squeaking through at the end with one engine, one engineer, etc., and downer ending! at the very end we see the Mid Sodor is ruined. Cue silent montage of putting up "Closed" signs and boarding up windows and selling off Falcon and Stuart over sad music.)

It would, indeed, necessitate coming up with original plots, especially for the smaller railways (even if, again, the North Western probably will get a big share of screen time), but the fandom has shown that there's plenty to be done there. However, the goal is to cover all the classic RWS stories — just putting them into a larger context and thinking about the island's arc over the course of a season. Fleshing out the dramatic bits of lore.

The openers for most of the episodes would be, like, a little slice-of-life showing miners or dockers or farmers or housewives going about their life for a minute or two until the Pressing Need is shown and a hint of what the railways are gonna do about it appears; a bunch of men in top hats and tails shaking hands over some new venture; new track is being laid; or some piece of news reaches Sodor and then! opening theme song and then we cut to our engines <3

#so sorry jamie's ask just sent me on a 20 minute daydream and i was typing all the while #if this makes no sense kindly just ignore it... i'm having a great time watching my new favorite imaginary television show #chatter #the railway series

[goblinofthelaboratory]

maybe this is a small story but I woke up feeling really miserable and depressed today. but instead of spiraling, I told myself that i was at the very least going to try. this included:

I HAD to shower(because feeling clean is a good start)

I HAD to eat breakfast (even though I wasn't hungry and didn't care enough to try)

I HAD to dress warm (so i wouldn't be more miserable)

i still didn't feel great after that, and I sorta fell prey to the temptation of depressing music during my commute. however:

as soon as i arrived, i turned said music off

i said as fact that "I am going to have a good day. I will be okay."

and then i treated myself with a mocha because:

warm cozy

enough caffeine to wake me up but not worsen anxiety

chocolate helps sometimes

and you know what? i think it will be okay. I'll make it okay. even if I have to claw my way through I will be okay.

#eternal goblin chatter in my brain #my story #hopepunk #you can just ignore me im speaking into the void

[cosmicaces]

im so happy to have gig back but man. the character assassination and the undermining of the og lore that abstraction added in is Really Bad

#cosmic chatter #gigantic #its a huge mess! im so mad dude #my one fear abt this game coming back happened #im just largely gonna ignore whatever dumb shit abstraction put in #it just ughhh imagine saying you respected the og devs and then treat it like this #the old lore was Incredible. the new lore is lazy. inconsistent. all sorts of bad

[scarletiswailing347]

why is bacon zams no1 defender

#rereading some of my transcripts and tell me why bacon spent 5 whole minutes arguing against the chatter who said zams blue #zam i understand cause his rep is at stake here but bacon gen soudns like His rep is at stake too #and the stuf hes saying is like. bacon are you an analysis girlie too #he probs is ngl #idk streams are usually at like 3 am for me lol #meanwhile everyone else is just ignoring them aldsjhsldf

[torchiiko]

ik wheatley being dumb/having bad ideas is the whole reason he was made but isnt kinda sad how hes so insecure abt it? like imagine being brought into the world and your main purpose is having so many stupid thoughts that you distract a homicidal robot and then being constantly told how stupid you are no matter what you do or how hard you try not to be

like geez. no wonder hes always trying to compensate

#maybe i just sympathize w him bc im also insecure abt my intelligence who knows #not to mention his escape plan Worked!! hes not fit to run the facility ofc but he was able to come up with and carry out his plan #i wonder if hes ever had any other decent ideas but got brushed off & ignored bc hes just The Dumb One. idk not up 2 date on the portal lore #torch chatter #portal #wheatley portal 2

[dreamwinged]

ouh . sometimes canon makes me upset

#.mei’s chatter ˚༘⋆ ๋࣭ ࣪ ˖ #cuz I’m Not In There no matter like how hard i try #but WHATEVER THAT DOES NOT MATTWr #just got bombarded with ships i hate #but i am Ignoring and Opening Character.ai . my wife loves me and me only okay good NIGHT!!!

[chipistrate]

Hello I @ you but I don't know if you got it.

The GGY song is out

Hi!! Sorry sorry- yeah I saw!

I haven't gotten around to listening to it cause my brain is. Very Weird in how it handles excitement sometimes LMAO But I'm going too later!! ^^

#Chip Chatter #to briefly explain what I mean; if I'm a bit too excited over something my brain just kinda. doesn't want to interact with it sometimes? #just for a bit #idk my brain is weird this happens a lot LMAO #Not trying to ignore it though urfehjgliafrsg Promise I'll listen to it later!!

[whimsical-sonic]

ouppy

#cosmic chatter #doodles #my art #sonic the werehog #sth #sonic #werehog #chip #this was hard to draw LMAO ignore the leg i just gave up on that

[armenelols]

I am at a coffeeshop studying organic chemistry and some two primary school kids with their math tutor sat down very close to me and now I can't focus because all I hear is the tutor explaining math. Help

#i cant focus like this at all #i literally come here because #A/ change of scenery helps me focus #B/ coffeeshops are loud but the top floor of this one is mainly visited by students who are quiet #and the chatter from the ground floor sort of fades into background if i listen to some white noise #so i can actually focus! without constantly being distracted! #by every little thing! #and now they just *had* to sit down at the same table as me #there are six chairs #my and another student occupy two at one end of the table #and the tutor and the kids another tree chairs at the other end #so they are hella close and the voices too distinct for me to ignore them #but i dont wanna ho bsck to dorm yet because i wont be able to focus there at all till it's at least 9 pm #h e l p #ema rambles

[nomiyakazehaya]

that moment when i'm trying to brainstorm a predacon/dragon design for megatron but i'm too damn cold and fighting off sleep deprivation so my thoughts are scattered and i cannot focus 🥲

#⋘ 『 ─ noms' chatter log; 』 ⋙ #it's really just an excuse to see a big‚ strong‚ scary and fierce mama dragontron #who's actually (exclusively) super gentle and loving to her conjunx (op) and sparklings 😩 #so far i've been just thinking about maybe pulling and mixing design elements from bayverse‚ tfp and my own kkss au #it sounds cool on paper but hmm.... how to execute it properly... 🤔 #just came up with a really REALLY stupid name for this au but #might call it “we said SLAY the dragon‚ not lay it” 😂😂 #i'm sorry please ignore me and my unhinged silly antics

[baeshijima]

my dad noticed the jing yuan pics on my wall

and yes i told him it was for good luck and he went "good luck? oh, yeah, you're gonna need it." and i have never agreed more

#sophie’s idle chatter #it took a day for him to notice despite him coming in and out of my room #MY MUM WAS IN HERE EARLIER AND SHE DIDNT NOTICE EITHER?? #that or she just ignored it LJD

[bisexualdinahlance]

I love being told I sound holier than thou by someone condescending every single person that talks to them, nicely or not lmao

#calls coming from inside the house bro #you couldve just ignored the post its not like i tagged it with anything #chatter #also funny thing tumblr i think? still sends me the reply alerts on my post for people who block me? #anyway washing my hands of that