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harrysfolklore · 7 months

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MASTERLIST | MY PATREON

Yours and Harry's relationship was still a secret to the world.

Even though both of you were famous for your careers and fans and media were always following your every step, you have managed to keep what you had to yourselves for six months now.

Rumors were out there, for sure. And they started when you decided to be in the crowd with Harry's friends for his final show in Reggio Emilia, instead of hiding from prying eyes backstage.

However, no one had really caught up that you were in a relationship, people just assumed that you were friends and you wanted to see the show.

Right now, you and Harry were spending a few months together in his London home, you decided to do that since soon you both would have to go back to your busy careers and be away from each other. You basically moved in to his place, with your dog included.

"Milo! Come over here buddy!" You called out for him, sitting on the den and watching play around Harry's backyard, "You're such a good boy!" You cooed at him when he curled up to you.

"What are you pals doing?" Harry asked, walking through the sliding door that connected the kitchen and the backyard, sitting down next to you and pecking your shoulder quickly.

"We're just hanging out over here," you turned your face to look at him, matching his soft smile, "But I think Milo is eager to go outside, poor thing couldn't go on his walk yesterday because of the rain."

"I can take him for a walk," Harry said, and you noticed that he was indeed dressed up to go outside, "I'm actually meeting with Brad in a few minutes, I can take him with me."

"Would you?" you asked, and he pecked your cheek, standing up and offering his hand so you could join him.

"Of course, love. I can pick up some wine and food on the way back for dinner, you stay here and relax."

You pecked his lips softly before speaking, "You're a dream," he smiled and pecked your lips again, "And you, be a good boy for H, okay?" you knelled down to pet Milo, and with a final kiss to Harry's lips they were off.

You took in Harry's words and decided to relax since you had the house to yourself, you filled up the bathtub, lit up a scented candle and put on some music, leaving your phone behind as you took a bubble bath.

When you were done in the bathroom and clad in one of Harry's soft hoodies, you grabbed your phone and decided to lurk on social media as you waited for Harry and Milo to come home.

You opened Tiktok, your explore page showing you some Harry videos, cute dogs and even some edits of yourself. When you got bored of scrolling there, you decided to open Twitter, which wasn't your favorite platform at all but every now and then you got there to see what fans were on about.

However, you were surprised to find out that what fans have been discussing over the last few hours was Harry walking your dog.

At first, you found funny that his fans were trying to decode if he had adopted a dog, or where did the dog had come from, not knowing hat it was your dog and you were practically living with him.

However, your mood changed when you scrolled down and saw that they somehow connected the dots and found out that the dog with Harry and Brad was your Milo.

You shook your head, surprised by how quickly fans could put the pieces together, and not sure about how to feel about yours and Harry's relationship being exposed by your dog.

As in on cur, you heard Harry and Milo walking up the stairs to the bedroom, and soon you saw both of them enter the room.

"We're back, love!" Harry cheerfully said, sitting on the end of the bed and Milo staying close to him, "Brought the wine and some food, are you hungry yet?"

"I think Milo just exposed our relationship." You simply said, laughing and how comical the situation sounded out loud.

"What do you mean?" a confused look appeared on Harry's face, and you showed him your phone so he could see.

After a few minutes of scrolling to your Twitter and seeing what fans were saying, Harry couldn't help but find the situation comical too.

"Well, that's better than TMZ, right?"

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sirfrogsworth · 1 year

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The Babylon Bee School of Comedy

Have you ever wanted to make Elon Musk reply to you with a double cry laughing emoji?

If you crave that sweet billionaire validation you need only follow this carefully crafted conservative comedy content creation course for that powerhouse of online satire... The Babylon Bee.

Soon you too could be bootlicking billionaire balls with the rest of The BBee writers.

Are you ready to get your learn on?

Let us Bee-gin.

The number one most important rule that all The BBee writers must internalize to their core...

Conservative comedy abhors effort.

Brainstorming for hours on end to craft the perfect premise and punchline... is for the Libs. Check out this Facebook meme that got 10,000 likes.

Can you order Starbucks from a bar? Doesn't matter, it's a snowflake drink for a snowflake Lib.

Does this joke not have an actual punchline? Doesn't matter, get lost you stupid Lib!

Is this technically a joke by definition? Doesn't matter, if you believe it is a joke, then it's a joke! Just like modern currency.

If you put too much thought into a joke, it might grow in complexity. That could be confusing! The death knell of any conservative joke are the words, "Hmm, that's a thinker."

This brings us to rule number two...

NO THINKERS!

Let's take this Ben Garrison comic as an example.

Spell everything out! Label everything! Don't leave anything to the imagination! If your audience has to figure something out or draw their own conclusions, what fun is that?

Conservatives want to hear things that are familiar. They want their beliefs parroted back at them. You must regurgitate those beliefs and then just make it *sound* like a joke. Don't break new ground or introduce new ideas. Don't get all caught up in interesting wordplay or clever puns or subverting expectations.

All expectations should be fully verted.

That is definitely a word because I saw someone use it on Facebook. End of research.

Here is a helpful tip. If you can't imagine the joke coming out of the mouth of late night comedy genius GUTFELD!, then you need to dial it back a bit. Do not surpass GUTFELD! levels of humor. GUTFELD! is your touchstone.

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Oh, GUTFELD! I laughed so hard I FELD it in my GUT.

See, I went too far with my fancy pun. That is not the GUTFELD! way.

But what happens if inspiration is fleeting and you can't pay attention to your comedy writing task because you don't believe ADHD is real and thus you are unmedicated?

Don't you worry. If you do happen to get writer's block or are distracted by a funny Pepe meme or a shiny object, just call your racist uncle and say the magic word... "Bidenflation."

As the ensuing unhinged rant darts from subject to subject without any kind of connecting theme, just start writing down every right wing buzzword you hear. Then just insert those buzzwords Mad Libs-style into a derivative joke format.

Let's practice!

Ex. 1: Why did the PRONOUNS cross the BORDER? To get to the DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR!

Ex. 2: How many GENDERS does it take to GROOM a lightbulb? Two! One to hold the BUTT PLUG and one to GO WOKE, GO BROKE.

Great start! I'm sure with a polishing pass those will make more sense. Or not. The bar is pretty much "will it get clicks?" so we're not too worried about coherence.

Heh... Mad Libs.

U MAD, LIBS?

Get it? Cuz Libs are always mad? About the normalized bigotry and whatnot.

Jokes are always better when you need to explain them.

Oh! That's another rule. Write that down. Wisdom like this is why I am teaching this course, of course. Hah, that's like that horse show song. I got jokes coming out the wazoo. Wazoo is my butt, right? Siri, is wazoo a butt? Oof, I'm kinda spacing on what the next lesson is.

I really wish Matt Walsh hadn't flushed my Adderall down the crapper.

Can I get a second opinion? Top Gun was so good. What does Tom Cruise think about ADHD? He always has good takes on stuff like this. Did I leave my oven on? Shazam, what song goes doodoo doo doo doooooo? Can you vacuum a yard? Has anyone tried that? That sounds more like a marijuana thought than an ADHD tangent. I should double check the THC content of that cotton candy vape juice.

I'm flyin' off the rails over here.

Matt, are you super duper sure it's not real?

Okay, fine. I'm an "energetic boy."

I hope whichever fish absorbs my meds is extra focused on whatever fish shit he needs to get done.

COMEDY WRITING!

Sometimes it is best to learn through observation. Let's eavesdrop on an actual The BBee writer's room to see how the sausage is made...

"So what did your racist uncle have to say?"

"Well, first he texted me a cameraphone picture of Trump as an astronaut that he wants me to print out cuz he doesn't know what a crypto wallet is... but then he said all the woke schools are turning kids into a bunch of gay commies."

"EUREKA!"

Classic! The BBee writers strike again. I mean, they aren't striking. There is no commie clamoring for a union at The Babylon Bee. That's for damn sure. FOCUS!

Do you get the joke though? With the kids and the gay and the communism?

Because all of those woke schools totally cover complex economic theories in 4th grade and all it takes to turn gay is a little persuasion from a teacher with green hair. Libs of TikTok wouldn't lie about that. End of research.

Look at this public school teacher!

I mean, you knooow she has a litter box in her classroom. I can just sense it. End of research.

Sure... it is just a context-free picture of a person with green hair in front of a flag and you cannot actually judge the quality of their teaching ability from this. But yoouuu knoooooow she is skipping right over grammar lessons and giving detailed instructions on how to turn gay.

Step 1: Look at a bunch of butts. Step 2: Touch a bunch of butts. Step 3: Gay sex a bunch of butts.

(Replace butts with cooches for lesbians.)

Grooming accomplished.

And you definitely shouldn't look up that green-hair'd, nose ring'd educator and research her any further. Extensive research is for the Libs, bro. Because you definitely don't want to discover she is a passionate high school English teacher who makes fun content on TikTok in the hopes that people will buy things off her wishlist so her students will have a better learning experience. I mean, caring about her students? That's so gay.

YoooOOOuuuUUU knnnooooooOOOw she is a bad teacher because she has green hair and a flag. End. Of. Research.

So... you have your gay communist headline that is perfect to get all of those sweet conservative clicks. But you still have a full webpage to fill out with more words and stuff.

Now I want to see if you learned anything from my perfectly focused and informative teachings. I want you to write some jokes about kids becoming gay communists.

Ready? GO!

Joke #1 Little Billy has wealthy parents so all the students will share his cookie at snack time.

Joke #2 At the beginning of the day, students pick a new gender out of a hat but all the kids fight over Attack Helicopter.

Joke #3 At lunch, the students have to stand in a peanut butter and jelly bread line.

Joke #4 The teacher makes the kids take turns combing each others' hair for a grooming session.

Wait a sec... are those... THINKERS?

No no no no no! You made my brain all confused and thinky!

You need to calm down, you overachieving silly billy. You forgot the first rule... NO EFFORT.

Just make the same joke over and over again with slightly different wording. EASY!

Remember the classic final rule of comedy...

Jokes always get funnier the more you repeat them.

Anyway, that's probably enough... joke.

Now let's close this article out!

Maybe we can drop the pretense this is comedic satire and just do some hardcore pandering. Gotta own the Libs, amirite?

Gender theory and drag queens and guns, oh my! That is pure pander-monium.

Just shove those factless tactless Tucker talking points straight down their gullet. They'll forget this was supposed to be funny and shake their fist in the air with exaltation. And it's definitely a great idea to put the thought of gunning down drag queens in their heads. That won't backfire in any way!

Congratulations! You are now ready to "write" for The Babylon Bee.

Please purchase this official Trump NFT certificate for $99 that acknowledges that you have completed this course and have a very poor understanding of what satire actually is.

End of research.

#long post #trigger warning #matt walsh #transphobia #homophobia #satire #babylon bee

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writing-for-life · 27 days

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Hey there! I hope you’re having a good day. I just saw a post you made about Dream’s type romantically. Thoughts on Calliope and Dream’s relationship specifically? It always stands out to me how though Dream has had a number of lovers throughout the millennia, Calliope is the only one he married. (And of course, Melissanthi Mahut and Tom Sturridge’s blistering chemistry in the show is an additional component for me xD but feel free to respond only based on the comics if you wish!)

Hey, always happy to see your asks in my inbox!

So, first of all; I don’t care what everyone else thinks:

Dream and Calliope are the OTP even though I’m not a shipper. There, I said it, hit me over the head with a hammer, I live well in that tiny little corner of fandom 🤣

Conceptually, they are very, very alike. There is definitely something in there about dreams marrying epic poetry (and eloquence!) that’s just so on the nose.

But I also can’t help thinking: Slight power imbalance maybe, and we also get this more directly via the “all gods get born and die in the Dreaming.” I think often about how this would have played out for them once Calliope’s last worshippers have died—it’s certainly a tough one, even if their relationship hadn’t soured.

But even so: She is the Muse of Epic Poetry, he is the Prince of Stories, so there is A LOT of overlap between what they stand for. And hence, a lot of mutual understanding. They always struck me as *getting* each other (probably why they fell in love in the first place)—until they didn’t. The fact they didn’t live together was good for them I think, because thoughts need to be allowed freedom to form and develop. Plus, there’s also a lot to be said for Calliope keeping her independence that way. Not just in terms of personhood, but again if you think of how she was essentially created in, and will return to, the Dreaming. It’s probably wise for her (in conceptual terms) not to hang out there ALL the time?

She seems a lot more grounded in the mortal world than Dream is though. I always thought that was down to the fact that humans know her, as in actively worship her/ask her for inspiration, which must make her much closer in a way? Because bar a few, no one really *knows* Dream exists, although everyone does, if that makes any sense? Mortals know him on a subconscious level (that’s why he’s forever nebulous and *lonely*), but people know Calliope as a deity and seek connection explicitly. I’m not sure what I’m trying to say here, but to me, that was always a reason why, although a goddess, she seemed far less removed from the mortal plight than Dream was (at least when they were still an item—we all know he changed, even if he didn’t admit it [well, he did in the end to Nuala, which is a whole ‘nother topic]).

And when I think about why they didn’t work out, I can only think: “Orpheus”.

I mean yes, she said that they were already starting to drift apart slightly before she was with child, but there was still a lot of love between them even so. I think the death knell was to have a child on these wonky foundations. Why they did, we’ll never know.

Conceptually, there’s again something very deep and painful about dreams and poetry becoming something real. And then, that mortal child becoming immortal (until his father finally intervenes). But Orpheus was still all mortal and human to his core, even when he became immortal for a while, and that was *always* at the base of their rift. But I digress…

Back to why was Orpheus the death of their marriage? Dream’s advice to Orpheus was sound, yet it was unfeeling and lacked empathy. Calliope’s was maybe (?) not as reasonable, but she understood her child because a mother’s love is (usually) unconditional. We all know Dream’s wasn’t for a long time although it should have been.

I think if they’d all sat together as a family, supported their son in his grief in a balanced way, this whole catastrophe could have been avoided (I mean no, not really—it’s a tragedy, “doomed by the narrative” and all that). But all of Dream’s relationships (be that to his son or his lovers) fail because he is unreality (hence he has a hard time when things quite literally get real), and despite *knowing* mortals on a very deep level, I don’t believe he truly *understood* them at this point. But I think Calliope did—maybe due to who she was, maybe just because she actually *allowed* them in? Because Dream never truly did that. And when he finally did and truly understood what unconditional love actually means, he came apart at the seams and unravelled.

There’s also something really interesting conceptually in thinking of the Prince of Stories who doesn’t believe he has his own, and the Muse of Epic Poetry who inspires. Who is trying to control whom in this scenario? It’s mirrored in how they behave when the whole Orpheus tragedy takes off:

Calliope tries to inspire and, dare I say try to control the narrative a bit, and I don’t mean this in a bad way, quite the opposite: She looks for the most favourable outcome for everyone involved, even if it means bending the rules: She tries to convince Dream to put in a good word with Hades and believes he would listen because Gods respect him and, dare I say it, are even a bit scared of him.

Dream is rigid. Which is so mind-bending for someone who is the personification of hopes, wishes and possibility. But he is an immovable object: If he’s right, he’s right. That’s the rules, that’s it. And he won’t bend them, not even for his son. I’m not saying that it’s not understandable from his point of view, because he might know things we don’t (potentially also that although he *could* bend the rules because he has the power to do so, it might have knock-on effects no one else can understand or see—it’s impossible to say), only that they are fundamentally different in their approach although they are *both* about inspiration. And inspiration is so closely related to bringing on change (ouch!).

Part of me wants to say that Calliope uses it to control the narrative while Dream doesn’t, that Calliope believes that we can change our destiny while Dream doesn’t, but that’s also too simple. Because Dream *can* be controlling, but in totally different ways and areas.

I feel like I’m rambling out a lot of unordered thoughts, but I guess what I’m trying to say is that Dream and Calliope were so close because they are so similar in so many ways bar one:

Their understanding how inspiration can be used to bring on change. I would somehow go as far as saying that Calliope understands what it means to have personhood, also for herself, and that’s why she understands it in others (I think this is made *very* clear when Richard Madoc holds her hostage). Dream doesn’t—least not at the point where it would have mattered with regards to their relationship, because I think the fishbowl has changed him in that regard. This is also why he wants to make things right with her I believe. But of course he would never openly admit it (he basically stops himself before blurting it out), simply because it would also mean he’d need to admit it to himself…

With regard to that meta:

I definitely think they were highly romantically attracted, purely down to who/what they are. I can’t say too much about their sexual attraction, but after Calliope’s speech at his wake, it would be somewhat unlikely to assume they weren’t 🙈🤣

Was it unconditional though? No.

Was it pragmatic (that sounds so bad and unfeeling, but it’s not a bad thing, because a certain level of pragmatism is what grounds love in reality and makes it last)? I think they tried. But ultimately, he can never live that way because he is unreality, and I often wonder if they both knew 😭

@two-hands-toward-the-sun ask answered

#the sandman #sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus #sandman meta #calliope sandman #calliope #sandman analysis #sandman character analysis #ask answered #asks always open

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augustheart · 2 years

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i think that the cape comics fandom mantra of “comics suck don’t read comics” has been very detrimental to new readers and to the general state of comics fan circles online in general. criticizing something is good and it’s not exactly the death knell of the industry to go “i think this thing isn’t well written/has poor characterization/isn’t well illustrated,” far from it, but i guess it’s just… i don’t think it’s good to only ever tear down and complain about something that you claim to really love.

it’s also just not encouraging for people who want to get into comics. if comics suck and are universally terrible then why should someone read them instead of getting all their information from random comic panels referencing memes posted on twitter? consuming them that way must be inherently superior to actually reading them because comics are bad and these specific scenes are flukes in otherwise terrible issues, right? there's no point in reading comics if they're all just awful.

of course i'm guilty of this. there are definitely characters where i look at their backlog and i'm just like wow, all of this sucks, but at least more and more i'm seeing people explain why they don't like or wouldn't recommend something. and just saying "this comic sucks" can easily be shorthand for "this work has something fundamentally flawed in it like racism or misogyny or what have you" and it's good to discuss those things and call them out when they might be hiding behind a shiny exterior. but while i kvetch and moan about comics all the time i do earnestly love them. more than anything, i want people to love comics the way i do. i want them to like the characters i like and enjoy the stories i enjoy, because some of those stories are the best i’ve ever read anywhere! i want them to see this art form as something worthwhile and incredible!

comics are bad, but comics are also good. i think more people would like them if they knew that.

#plus like. you can read something else! if you’re sick of big two stuff check out an indie title!#read something from boom! or image or please for the love of g-d ahoy!#if cape comics just aren’t doing it for you in general there are tons of indie comics doing new things with the medium every day #my 'if you talk about comics you should read comics' post is getting Some Notes and like. yes!!! yes!!!! please read comics!!!!#read big two cape comics read indie comics nobody's heard of and tell people about them #i love comics so much please. comics are good.

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ihopesocomic · 7 months

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I remember both of you mentioning that you used to be fans of My Pride? If it's not too much of a weird question, when exactly did you both realize that you no longer enjoyed the story? I love this comic so much and, while I don't like to think of this as a origin-related question, I'm still curious when things shifted for you.

Episode 4 was certainly when we began to have misgivings about things.

lol betcha y'all thought it would be Episode 5, right?

But in all seriousness, Episode 4 proved to be a bit of a turning point. Mainly due to Hover joining the pride, Nothing abandoning the cubs and other writing decisions that just went from bad to worse with Episode 5. In hindsight, I guess I wasn't really super on board with the story to begin with? I was very invested with COTW back when My Pride first dropped and I felt that, even back then, My Pride was its death knell. Its upload schedule was already incredibly spotty so, with My Pride in production, I wasn't hopeful COTW would continue and... well, we all know how that ended.

But yeah, I supported the show initially regardless because I liked the creator back then and wanted to give it a chance. Obviously, things also began to come out about the creator not long after Episode 4 was released so that made us wary too but we're not going to go into that on the blog. - RJ

#ask #ask us stuff #my pride mention #rj answers

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vermillionworks · 4 months

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A concept art of characters from my webcomic, Knell. The Toad Lilies (three mages, not a band, but they like to sing XD) from left to right - Etra, Amaline, and Felicity aka "Sissy".

#knell comic #webcomics #dark fantasy #webcomic #comics #webtoon #webtoons #concept art #witches #mages #witch coven

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mdhwrites · 1 year

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What are your core problems with The Owl House?

I'm feeling sick so I'm doing one that's weirdly a little simpler. Not simple but simpler. (It did not stay simple. Shocking, I know.) So if I were to be objective, I think the core problem with TOH is ego. I've been saying it a LOT recently on my Discord that "Ego is the death of art." Eventually, once you get your head shoved so far up your ass, you just stop being able to produce something good because you can't even make the statements you're wanting to make. That's the real death knell for TOH. It is so focused on being special and being meaningful that it forgets to be fun but it's also so self satisfied and convinced that its elements are sacrosanct that they don't question how they're using those elements or what they're actually saying. There's a reason why I'm personally happy as an author that I normally figure out themes within my works post figuring out what they're going to be like because my first goal is just making sure the story is COHERENT. And TOH doesn't give a FUUUUUUU- But subjectively... It's the characters for me that are the core of what lost me with TOH and what attracted me at first. S1 doesn't have the greatest cast. I literally brought in a two off antagonist in Boscha to have a third main character in my stories and focused WAY more on the Blights than literally ever including King in Power of Love. But... That is also is fine because just Amity and Luz in S1 by themselves has an incredible amount of potential as well just being incredibly likable. In fact, for all the shit I gave Eda and King a literal day ago, S1 of them are... enjoyable enough. King's joke is well and truly played out by then so I literally could not care about him but he is the best comic relief in S1. Not a high bar but he does clear it. Meanwhile, Eda has enough interesting going on with the curse to make her flaws not as apparent. Lilith is a compelling antagonist and the possibility of her bringing her more interpersonal comedy style into the main cast was exciting. Gus and Willow are barely characters but they're written likably and don't ever do anything truly wrong which could be said about them for the whole show.

And that also just kind of brings up the awkward element of S1. You have Amity and the curse but otherwise... It all feels like setup. Like we're seeing the first traces of these characters but we still haven't gotten a good, deeper impression of any of them yet. Including the world quite frankly. For fanfiction this was AMAZING. Everything was setup to go in a billion different ways, especially with Amity and Luz (individually or together) and it was exciting to theorize about. I tempered my expectations of course, I doubted I'd ever get the true nuance of my own version of Odalia and Alador but... I expected something a little smarter. The show seemed like it trended that way after all. That a bit more care and realism was put into the characters of the show. And then S2A is... more setup. Or just entirely changing characters to new forms of themselves that we still don't really know. All we do know is that they're less compelling. Amity becomes literally nothing more than Luz's girlfriend and how easy her change becomes more and more apparent with each passing episode. We get Momma Eda in one of her like... Two, maybe three appearances as any sort of criminal in S2 and they're ALWAYS motivated by someone else's scheme. I guess maybe not with Reaching Out but I'd have to check. The point is that the firebrand version of Eda is FIRMLY dead. Lilith becomes a total joke who's hard to even give credit to for the curse because Affearances is making her nothing more than a pathetic woman with unresolved mommy issues because... Sure. That's what the ex-coven head is just like now. Willow has ALL traces of either her morality or really any personality just gone for half a season, in part because she has no part in this season. She even insults Gus for his illusions in Escaping Expulsion in a scene where I SWEAR they swapped Amity and Willow's lines. Not that either should be pushing for bum rushing the door but it makes more sense coming out of plant goddess Willow than theoretically smart girl Amity.

And then you have Luz who is acting even more indignant this half season? Like not a lot has changed but the shifting tone is catching up to how they write Luz. How she can so quickly get annoyed at things not going her way or people not treating her like she's special. How she'll use her friends for personal gain. How she needs to be better than everyone else, both in her eyes and the writer's eyes. All while this isn't getting properly getting interrogated by the characters or even a bit of snark from Eda like it would in S1. It frankly reminds me of something I would say about bad porn: It's Barbie dolls being mashed together. They may have a little flair, like this one is wearing a skull hat or this one is non-binary, but as far as real personality goes... It didn't matter. You could swap out anyone and the writers would force it to work regardless. What personality was there was becoming increasingly cookie cutter or accidentally mean and cruel, just like toxic beauty standards. It's not Barbie's fault that sticks on a torso is the beauty standard to America but it also has no interest in being smart enough to make an appealing doll while avoiding reinforcing the worst parts of it.

And like bad porn, the reason this is done is similar. Rather than actually dealing with the emotions and complexities present in the topics and actions that are desired for the story, they make it so the characters just do it anyways. In porn, you get fucking. In The Owl House, you get... Subversion and representation I guess. But like sex with no setup or emotion, you need to only want the face value elements of these things or else you're just going to feel like you're watching other people having a MUCH better time than you while you're wondering why you're there. Also, yes, this is a weird metaphor. It's mostly done I believe. I do want to mention though that this is why my erotica series struggled to have a lot of sex scenes because those books took themselves and their characters and concepts pretty seriously so I couldn't just ignore the characters if they just weren't in the mood.

The fact that the main payoffs are emotional and metatextual statements that are poorly setup is a REAL problem. It has the feeling of a highschooler who's spent too much time on Twitter seeing their seven year old baby sister playing with her dolls and stopping her from doing that to then put the Barbie on a soapbox and lecture their sister about how dolls are oppressing her and having fun like this is awful. It's not just boring, it's literally anti-fun. Worse yet, it's not smart enough about the topics not to feel mean spirited and somewhat misguided in how its doing it. As an example, they wanted good queer rep. Unfortunately, Amity turned into an incredibly bland trophy for Luz, as boring a pointless as any straight female love interest frankly, and Raine is criticized by much of the fandom for obviously existing only for Eda. They're not just turned into a sexy lamp: That's almost their point from go with how little time they AREN'T just about Eda. This all culminates in the real turning point of the series. Now yes, I've said the point of no return is Escaping Expulsion but that episode is more the objective core issue's turning point. It's the show going "We're not as smart as we think we are and so are going to murder some of the elements that are stopping us from doing whatever we want to... But that doesn't mean we're gonna have fun with it either. Instead, we're going to act lazy, bitter and make the laziness and forced aspects of this episode way too apparent as we move on to what makes us feel special like Lumity." For the characters, Yesterday's Lie is the final nail in the coffin. I've talked before about how Vee's callout of Luz not only makes the problems of S2A being awkward with Luz's character more questionable, it throws her entire CONCEPT into question. Whether she ever was made an outcast because of others or because she told other outcasts to go fuck themselves. Why didn't she know anyone like Mascha after all? They clearly exist in Gravesfield. Why was she trying to be a cheerleader when she clearly isn't interested in sports or athletics. At least most of the time. S1 seems really fucking confused about whether or not she's a nerd or a truly basic bitch school kid who likes everything at least a little bit. But you didn't question it until the new statement that wanted to be made with Luz was "We have a dramatic, changing protagonist who is not just a ball of sunshine but also capable of extreme levels angst and change. She's not just another cartoon main character."

Boy that statement is reeking of ego though, isn't it? Especially when the point Luz isn't going to become "Reality matters over fantasy, others are more important than me," but instead her character finish is "I literally need everyone to recognize that I'm the most special person on the planet and I will only properly listen to anyone who is like me since I blatantly ignored everything my mom said until she earned my attention by being a closet nerd." Luz's character finish is REEEEEALLY BAD.

And no, I don't blame this on the shortening. Just look at fucking Amphibia. It has a VERY vivid cast that mostly keep to their own roles that are dictated by their personalities and despite the lack of time characters like Sasha get, the show knows how to sell their personalities, their relationships, what they're doing, etc. like that almost instantly and part of that's because it's having fun. It's willing to take things to the extreme from go. Sasha's INTRODUCTION is convincing someone to turn themselves into a CLOWN and leave their entire life behind so as to make it so she's no longer guarded. You are sold IMMEDIATELY on this being some master manipulator... But then she also saves Grime and her manipulations are through kindness rather than cruelty like most others which reinforces the loose threads we already had on Anne and her's relationship. You can see she's such a close friend... But why she's not a GOOD friend. And you know all of this by the end of S1 where she gets ONE AND A HALF EPISODES. That is frankly more than I can say about, especially firmly, the majority of TOH's cast by the end of S1. MAYBE Luz and definitely Amity clear the bar but that's the main character and her love interest. Not King. Not Eda. Not even Belos, the main fucking antagonist. I could have speculated on him but I could have told you more about Grime through the toads, Sasha and effectively his ONE episode than I can about the leader of the ENTIRE ISLES.

It really does continue to make me wonder why I'm not compelled to write Sashannarcy instead of Lumischa, the two share a lot of similarities after all, when even S1 has Sasha and Anne as so much more dynamic than Luz and Amity. I guess I liked the playground though. There was more empty space for me to play in with my own writing and I definitely will admit that the fandom, for both TOH and Amphibia, have made me feel far more connected to the shows than the actual products. I'm just weird that way I guess and it's probably why I keep ending up here. Where the show has gone fallow on me and I no longer see the characters as fun people with potential but instead just mean spirited Barbie Dolls.

It happened to me with MLP and it happened to me with TOH. *sigh*

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geeky-politics-46 · 2 years

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Weird thought: but I picture doctor strange as being the type of guy used to instantly wooing the parents of anyone he is with. So I had the idea that Strange could meet the dad of his current s/o (who is a total daddy's girl btw) and everything just goes comically wrong and the dad just instantly hates his guts. Stephan has never had this happen before so he is just a complete mess over it and is like "whelp I guess you gotta kick me to the curb now I'll go pack my things"

Always The Easy Part

Pairing: Doctor Stephen Strange x Reader

Warnings: not much it's mostly fluff - language, reference to Strange's bad relationship with his dad, reference to smut, light angst

This wasn't how this was supposed to go. This was the part of relationships he had always been good at. He was a doctor and a literal superhero. He should have been every parent's dream for their son or daughter to bring home. In the past he had been able to woo his partner's parents without even really trying. This time around though, the time it really mattered, he seemed to be crashing and burning. At least with your father.

Your mother had been easy enough. His classic good looks and charm were enough to get her approval. Especially when paired with the bouquet of her favorite flowers that he magicked up as a gift for her. Your father seemed to have it out for him from the very moment their eyes met.

He was a far cry from the teddy bear of a man you said he was. His ice cold facade only breaking to wrap you in a bear hug. For Stephen he opted simply to slap him on the arm. He also insisted on calling Stephen by his last name, just calling him Strange. Despite you and your mother both imploring you to call him Stephen. He seemed to like that by calling him Strange it seemed like an insult while not actually being one.

The awkwardness between your boyfriend and your father didn't go unnoticed by you. You were a daddy's girl through and through. So the fact that he was fighting an Everest of an uphill battle wore on him more and more as the day went on. He knew that if your father made you choose, Stephen would lose that battle without even a second thought.

It would have even been better if your dad wasn't so nice to everyone else. He seemed to actually be a really nice guy in general, so Stephen couldn't write off as your dad just being an asshole in general. It had been easy for Stephen to write off his own terrible relationship with his own father. The man was not well liked and was about as far from warm and loving as they came. He knew your relationship with your father had been the opposite, and he refused to let his own bad paternal memories influence his relationship with your dad. So he was really trying to get off on the correct foot with him.

It seemed that everything he did just seemed to make your father look at him more skeptically. Stephen was the only one your father seemed to have an issue with. Although he was also the only one present who was having sex with you. So in a way he knew some resistance was normal, but he feared it had to be a death knell for the two of you.

By that night back at the Sanctum, Stephen was wallowing in his own self-pity. He basically assumed he had already lost you. How could he have crashed and burned so epically? At least your mom liked him. That was better than nothing. There couldn't be much coming back from such a bad initial first impression though. As long as you stayed with him, he would have a bullseye on his forehead.

He fell back on the bed and waited for you to come confront him about how bad the day had gone. Maybe you would take pity on him and let him spend one more night in your arms. He really loved you and the one time he needed to come through for you he didn't. He felt like such a failure as a boyfriend.

When you finally came in he could already hear the hesitancy in your voice. He immediately started trying to brace himself for the inevitable blow. You approached the bed slowly and came to sit next to him. Brushing one hand through his hair and undoing the very top button on his light blue shirt. The one your mother pointed out matched his blue eyes.

"I don't understand how you can wear your shirts with the top button closed. Doesn't it feel like you can't breathe?"

He exhaled and let himself melt into the bed even farther. You were making small talk. Surely just trying to find the least painful way to rip off the bandaid and dump him.

"You don't have to ease me into it. It was pretty clear your dad hated my guts. I know how much your dad means to you. So, I understand if you don't wanna be with me anymore. I can leave you alone if you want. I can move into another bedroom and you can stay here until we figure everything out. Just know that I really love you and I'm so sorry that I couldn't be a better boyfriend for you. That I couldn't be who you deserved."

He closed his eyes and put his hands over his face. He was determined to be strong for you. He was determined to take the high road. Bowing out before you could say what he dreaded hearing, because if he heard you say it he didn't think he could hold back the tears.

If he could see your expression though he would see how utterly confused you were. You had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. It sounded like he had lost his mind. You reached down and pulled his hands away from his face. Pulling them to your face and kissing his knuckles as his hands trembled softly. He kept his eyes shut until he felt your lips on his skin.

"Stephen, what the hell are you talking about?! I'm not going anywhere and I sure as hell don't want you to go anywhere. You realize that I love you right? That love isn't conditional on how you get along with one member of my family. Especially the first time you meet them, and especially when it's my dad. Hell, he liked you better than any of my ex's. You actually got full sentences. Usually he just kind of grunts and grumbles."

Okay now he was confused.

"You're kidding right? That was him liking me? He basically only spoke to me when he absolutely had to, and not once did he call me anything other than 'Strange' or 'the wizard'. He pretty much growled when you mentioned living here at the Sanctum with me. He was even so much nicer to the delivery guy."

You crawled up to sit up against the headboard of the bed and patted your lap signaling for Stephen to lay his head there. You knew one of his favorite things when he felt insecure was extra snuggles and pets. Stroking your fingers through his hair, occasionally scratching at his scalp. Soft loving touches in general. Although he definitely wanted some firmer, naughtier, touches from you later after such a bad day.

He promptly scooted into position as he felt very much in need of some cuddles and extra love. Especially since you assured him you wouldn't be leaving him. He still wasn't sure he believed that your dad didn't hate his guts, but he was very pleased that it didn't seem to change your opinion of him.

"Well honey, you have to remember that he is gonna have a problem with any guy I'm dating. First of all, you sleep with me. Living together means we have sex. That immediately makes you a corrupting force. In his mind, he would prefer to think I have never had sex. Ever. Second of all, being with you means I need him less. That I'm not his little girl who needs rescuing anymore. Especially with you being who you are, the idea that I would run to you instead of him when I need help is all the more real. To the same extent though, he knows you can actually protect me. I guarantee you that he is grateful for."

He exhaled and started to relax more into your lap the more he snuggled into your touch. He hadn't told you much about his past relationships other than Christine. Of course that is partly because you had met and got along with Christine. So really he didn't have much choice in showing you all the skeletons in that closet. He had been hiding his skill with parents as his ace in the hole. Now he figured it was time to come clean about that too.

"I know I have a terrible track record in messing relationships up. You know Christine, you've heard the stories. Meeting the parents has always been the easy part for me. I just expected it to be easy this time too. I'm pretty sure your mom liked me, but your dad… I know how much you love him. I just assumed if things didn't go just right that was it. This was a test I had to pass. You know how well I got along with my dad. Anything less than a glowing reception just felt like I failed you."

You leaned down to place a kiss on his forehead and then another on his lips. Stephen's past was clouded with a lot of not so pleasant experiences. He always assumed gloom and doom weren't far behind him. That was part of why the two of you worked well together. He was the eternal pessimist and you were the eternal optimist.

"You have a tendency to assume the worst. I know your father treated you terribly and expected perfection from you, but real families love each other not in spite of their faults but because of them. You never have to be perfect for my family. You'll learn that when you meet my weirdass siblings. My nieces and nephews will tell you countless times their favorites are Captain America, Iron Man, and Spider-Man just to try to bug you by the way. Also yes, my mom loves you. It probably didn't help with my dad that she said how handsome she thought you were like five times today."

That did make him laugh a little. That was a good sign. It meant you were starting to pull him out of being stuck in his own head. He knew you were right. Real love, in real life, doesn't have to be perfect. If this was good enough for you, if he was good enough for you, than it was definitely good enough for him.

"I just wanna make you happy darling. I love you more than anything."

"I love you too, Stephen, and you do make me happy. Happier than anything else in the multiverse."

You both started laughing. That was always how he said things to you. You didn't really know much about the multiverse. Other than what he told you. You knew it was true though. You couldn't imagine being any happier than you were with Doctor Stephen Strange.

"Now come on Stephen. Let me show you how much I love you."

You shifted his head off of your lap before you crawled on top of him to straddle his hips. Smiling down at him and planting a passionate loving kiss on his lips.

"Besides, it's gonna take a lot more than today for you to get rid of me. You are quite the catch."

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Loki season two review – by far the best Marvel TV show in years ★★★☆☆ | The Guardian

Tom Hiddleston’s lovably narcissistic Norse god is back with Owen Wilson for a spectacular time-hopping caper that may just save the MCU from certain death

If ever there was a time for a second season of Loki, it’s now. The first outing was a witty romp through time and space, in which Tom Hiddleston’s lovably narcissistic Norse god charmed the pants off viewers. There were wild cameos (Richard E Grant as a weird alternate Loki!). There was sizzling chemistry (the bromance with Owen Wilson’s Agent Mobius!). There was even the tender blossoming of love (with Loki’s metaverse alter ego Sylvie – almost certainly the most poignant romance a TV character has ever conducted with themselves). So, naturally, the Marvel Cinematic Universe chose to follow up this televisual triumph with a disastrous series of flops, culminating in June’s Secret Invasion: a slog of a show that felt like the death knell for the franchise’s entire TV future.

[Possible spoilers ahead]

Luckily, Loki’s action-packed return suggests it is more than prepared to rise to the challenge of shaking off Marvel’s track record of TV tedium. We’re taken to the exact moment the previous season left off: the aftermath of Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) killing He Who Remains – the shadowy figure behind temporal police the Time Variance Authority (TVA). There are slow-mo chases, car crashes in flying vehicles and Loki constantly running into effigies of He Who Remains. One thing is instantly clear: you really can’t avoid season one if you expect any of the following to make sense.

A good chunk of the opener consists of Hiddleston vanishing into another timeline. His body briefly turns into something that looks like it belongs in Stranger Things’ Upside Down, while he makes the sound of a man who has eaten some seriously out-of-date scampi. “It’s horrible,” quips Wilson’s Agent Mobius. “It looks like you’re being born, or dying – or both at the same time.” There are temporal loops, baffling causality chains and the establishment of what will be a series-long plot about stabilising a “temporal loom” – whose explanation is so convoluted the characters may as well be repeatedly chanting the word “MacGuffin”. Compared to the first season’s simple thrills, it’s all a bit overcomplicated – a disappointing choice of direction, if predictable.

Less explicable is the decision to do away with the beating heart of season one – the surprisingly lovely romance between Loki and Sylvie. This time, they’re on very separate paths, with Di Martino’s character reinvented as a time-hopping assassin, while Hiddleston moves ever further from his character’s mischievous past to buddy up with Agent Mobius in a bid to fix the McTimeWotsit. This makes for more zingtastic back-and-forth between Hiddleston and Wilson, but it robs the show of emotional heft. And with Loki proving ever less of a bad cop to Mobius’s good cop, there’s less edge to that sparkling comic chemistry too.

Nonetheless, the performances are as excellent as ever. Hiddleston is fantastic in every mode, from debonair to monstrous or ashen after a brutal insult from Sylvie. Di Martino is a bubbling pot of empathy, eyes constantly dewy with sadness, when she’s not spilling over into murderous rage. Wunmi Mosaku’s reprisal of her role as a TVA agent is ineffably intense – from taking down fugitives while wearing a tangerine ballgown to subjecting goofy colleagues to a Paddington-esque hard stare. And Owen Wilson is … Owen Wilson: a twinkle in the eye in human form.

When it spreads its wings, Loki’s second season manages to have plenty of fun. By episode two it feels like a time-travel thriller, with Loki and Mobius being shot into period-specific missions. There’s a retro spy caper in 70s London, our heroes suiting up like extras in Gangs of New York for a hot pursuit through 19th-century Chicago and an attempt to track down Sylvie in a 1980s McDonald’s in which romantic tension simmers over retro cash registers. The design is spectacular throughout, particularly the gloriously stylised TVA building in which every computer monitor looks like a microwave’s great grandparent, corridors are lined with tarnished aquamarine filing cabinets and even their IT guy (played by Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Ke Huy Quan) is dressed in a Ghostbusters-esque boiler suit that drips with vintage cool.

A few episodes in, things are settling into an enjoyable enough – if not tremendously exciting – groove. Then there is a gigantic cliffhanger that upends the narrative, wrongfoots the viewer and blows the show wide open. The final two instalments aren’t available for preview, so it is hard to say whether this will kickstart the show into scaling the heights of its first season. But either way, one thing is certain: this is easily the best Marvel TV series in years – for all that’s worth.

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What kind of projects do you currently have and what is the progress phase that they are in?

That is such a great question!

My main progress stories currently are Knell and Nightlight (with Wiccar Briar being my one dream story to make)

Witching Hour is still being revamped into a more amazing version of itself!

Under an Ivy Crown and Not Dead Yet are just for fun and was gonna be my Patreon exclusive comic(s) but then depression and ADHD took over and that didn't happen but I still might do it cuz it's a very easy story. It just depends!

Overall: Knell is ready to be started, Nightlight is in progress, Wiccar Briar is ready to be started, Witching Hour is being revamped, Not Dead Yet is ready to be started, and Under an Ivy Crown is ready to be started too!

I'm a chronically depressed idjit and life has never been easy otherwise I'm sure I'd have all these stories out and made already! Heck, my computer died this year along with it all-- I don't make enough money to survive comfortably I'm still struggling and trying to keep up with my own stuff, but I will continue to try my hardest. óvò )9 Maybe one day I'll get a story out soon and I hope to see you on the way!

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Just wanna say that I REALLY love your ultrakill fanart and headcanons, like, that's some good food right there 👁️👁️

Also something I was thinking about for some time and was reminded of by the heaven structure ask:

Names. Like, who gives/used to give them, God? And how are they picked? Are they like titles? Do they affect angels in any way? Well, actually, if nothing else, some names may be a source of guilt and various other issues, I guess

Like, take Gabriel as an example, his name means "God's strength"/"God is my strength", which is likely a yet another source of guilt and maybe confusion for him after he loses (in fact, I think I've seen something like this in a fic)

Also as a person with a name that has something to do with God (specifically, Yana, which is a slavic name that means "God is gracious", "He answers", "Doer of good deeds upon others", "Favoured by God", oh and also "River", which I personally like the most cause there's a river in Russia named Yana, so basically river named river, which I find funny), I can see how that might fuck a person up, especially if they're religious (thankfully, I am not, so I'm just vibing and enjoying the symbolism)

Anyway, sorry for the rant ahah

aaaa thank you!!! and don't apologize because this is something i NEED to talk about!!! it picks at my brain constantly!!!

YES YES THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I MADE THIS COMIC - i 100% headcanon that angelic names are not so much names as they are positions. god has given them these names to denote their duties to him - to use gabriel as the example, i interpret this as meaning he is made in the mold of a warrior and acts in turn as soldier or guardian, whatever is needed of him. his strength is his identity, he wields the power of god and he is the vessel through which god punishes those that act against him. this is how gabriel conceptualizes himself, this is the context through which he understands his own identity, not as a being in and of himself but as an extension of the work god does through him. he is not an individual but literally a hand of his father, made to do work in conjunction with other angels as a piece of a whole. gabriel is given the highest command of god's power and so through that he cannot fail, he cannot use it for anything but what he is ordered to and he must use it for any purpose he is set to because it is not his own. he is not his own.

however, this is untrue. gabriel does have his own thoughts, his own feelings - again, i truly believe gabriel has sympathy for the sinners in hell, he has kindness for them and he genuinely believes for many of them....their punishments are unfair. they're wrong. in many ways, he thinks hell itself is wrong. he cares for the sinners and (IF YOU ASK ME...) he harbors deep affection for some of them, but for him this is a failing. he is failing when he thinks so softly of them, he is failing when he questions anything of god's justice. he should not have thoughts apart from his master's, he shouldn't be thinking on his own, and so over and over he betrays the morals he refuses to believe he has separate from god's. he is a tool, he must function only as gabriel, as the strength of god and in turn derive all of his strength from god. so he condemns, he punishes, he kills, all while smothering his guilt and claiming this is true justice.

this crumbles, however, when he fails against v1 - without god's strength, he is nothing, his identity and his very existence is worthless, devoid of meaning. if he fails in combat, he has failed in purpose and so becomes a broken tool to be discarded. i mentioned this in that heaven ask, but to fail as an angel is truly their death knell, it calls their life into question because they are made only for their job. and so gabriel throws his tantrum after that first loss for a couple reasons to me - one, gabriel truly is incredibly arrogant and thinks VERY highly of himself despite how he should be humble. he's a favorite, by god and by all in heaven, he is likely lauded constantly and told how special he is. he's one of the angels that really NEVER fails, no matter how difficult the task, and his strength has never faltered to a such an extreme. he thinks he's the best there is and he's told it every day, so losing to an object is incredibly shocking and humiliating. he really is throwing a fit because it's not FAIR and he's the one that's special, he's the one that everybody loves and he's perfect, not some weird little robot piece of shit!!!! but it really is also a reaction to gabriel experiencing true fear for his position and life for the first time. i give gabriel a multitude of scars because he's been in so many wars, has fought against so many, and he doesn't always come out unscathed - but no matter how difficult the conflict, he always won. he may be bloodied and exhausted, but he prevailed and so his image was preserved, to himself and to the people. but this is is the first time his strength failed, his body couldn't move anymore, that he had to retreat while his opponent still stood. and that is failure. he's throwing a tantrum because he's scared, because he knows how severe his punishment is likely to be. scared because his identity has broken down in front of him, everything he ever was. gabriel does not lose, and now he has lost to a machine. and in that moment, he throws a tantrum because he's not gabriel, the saint and archangel, but just a failure.

tbh it makes for an interesting contrast with his second fight and subsequent failure, as he once again loses contact with his identity - he becomes euphoric as that contact is broken, truly engaging as himself and not as gabriel the position. he's thrilled, seeming to almost stop treating it as work or as a desperate bid to regain his lost rank and simply indulge in it for himself, to excite in a battle like he's never been able to despite being made for this. and when he loses again, there is a brief moment where that comes back, a wave of hurt pride, but it ebbs away, he sits with his loss of identity and instead begins to wonder at it. he begins to view himself as separate from that and he eventually gains his first bit of autonomy...through failure. now like. i think he still has massive issues going forward and is a mess trying to ascertain who he is and what he believes, but only through failing so thoroughly could he be allowed this.

#PART TWO OF TALKING ABOUT ANGELS FOR AN HOUR....#but this is so important to my characterization of gabriel ooaagghh #also your name sounds so neat omgggg....#with so much interesting meaning attached to it!!#thank u for sharing AND for connecting on my wavelength lol #cake answers #gabriel

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