#like yeah not narratively tbh

[strangersynth]

i enjoy s3 what can i say

#like yeah not narratively tbh #this is certainly not the best season #but ig there's the moments like will sensing the mind flayer or breaking castle byers apart which is not good but storyline wise #and mike honestly what can i say i loved him he was shitty and said a lot of shit and it wasn't always okay and thats him and hes priceless #stobin kinda carried a bunch of it alongside too. so did dustin. the scoops troop actually #lucas was already setting the bar pretty high for all men ever too. season 3 is not excluded from this #i would say billy ending up dead and gone if it wasn't for how the whole redemption vibe it gives the entire time kills it's core

[beneath-themilkytwilight]

"something so scary the tardis ran away 😨😨💀" babe this is nothing new name one episode where the tardis doesn't vibe w the energy and just fucks off to who knows where until the conflict is resolved,, bye guys I'll catch you at the end of the episode

#like yeah i get that the doctor saves people because its good and kind blahblahblah #but like most of the time he has no choice because the tardis just strands them there 💀 #tbh peak doctor who is the doctor being like “oh shit i dont think we can get out of this one!!” #and the camera just panning to the tardis already fading away like lol bye bitches good luck undooming the narrative #see you at the end of the episode #doctor who #tenth doctor #donna noble #fourteenth doctor #the doctor #rtd era #tardis #i talk too much

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 251

so like remember when i said i was gonna be mentally ill about utena

#day 251 #year 4 #aradia megido #jade harley #homestuck #arajade #revolutionary girl utena #so this is a wip but i dont have the time or energy to finish it today unfortunately #i do plan to finish it at a later date tho #this isnt really meant to be like #a fully realized au or anything #utena doesnt seem like the kind of thing that lends itself super well to this kind of au? #like the kind where you slot other characters into the roles or the setting of the og series #the characters that exist in it are too integral to the like. Point of the thing. to me at least #BUT there are some themes that cross over really well #into the things i find the most most most interesting about aradia and jade and the differences between them #and how they cope with an environment that attacks their agency and like. responsibility. and resisting the established narrative. and. and #and okay TBH? yeah i drew jade in the rose bride fit. but frankly i could say some shit about EITHER of them in either role. #the themes are absolutely there like theres a connection im making in my brain here i swear im just struggling to articulate it #maybe once i finish the drawing i will have finished my rgu arajade thoughts as well.

[newnevermind-sanity]

Actually I think I do want to ramble a little more on the subject.

While I do love making buzzsaw jokes (especially after completing Path of Pain, like, the fuck?) I do also think the layout of the Dream White Palace wasn't intentional. If he did it after that horrible cry came out of the Black Egg temple the first time when Holly was starting to crack, he must've been in a fucking state.

Like imagine you convinced yourself that what you're doing is for the greater good, that this being that you do love (even if you're denying it to yourself) that you thought was emotionless, a blank slate, only does as is told, has no hopes, thoughts, aspirations, merely exists, suddenly with one cry proves you wrong.

Just imagine that horrible realization that you were wrong about them (you always were, you ignored all of the signs they were alive) and you damned them to a fate worse than death. Eternal imprisonment sucks too, but since they're an unfeeling creature, it's fine, right? Nope. Definitely not. It was not fine, even if they were an unfeeling creature, but now it's even worse because the infection is eating at them now.

All of those children left to die in the abyss? That all happened for nothing.

Those dreamers you made to sacrifice themselves to keep people out? They're now the only thing holding the vessel inside of their prison but they sure as hell are not containing the infection. That too was all for naught. Your daughter lost her mother for no reason.

You did this all to save so many people, your entire kingdom of Hallownest. You choked down the guilt of your decisions because it would save the kingdom. Now you find out it was for nothing.

I think anyone would break, and break the King did.

By that point, there was no one left to stop his spiral. The White Lady was gone, most of the knights too, his council, everyone. No one was left to stop him from making extremely irrational decisions, including putting his palace into the dream realm to flee from the infection along with anyone inside. As he runs into his throne, trying to somehow run from the guilt, the grief, the horror, the palace twists. It becomes extremely hard to follow him, almost impossible. He makes it to the throne, the Kingsmoulds loyally guarding the outside...

It's there he breaks. He spirals. He falls into a deep despair.

I personally think the Pale King died of grief, and with that death, left his surviving children the monumental task of cleaning up the mess left behind.

#sanity shut up #hollow knight #pale king #he's a very fascinating character tbh #with so many conflicting opinions on him too because of his actions #like yeah the dude was trying really fucking hard to save his kingdom from an angry moth god #but did the end justify the means #I personally don't think so and my version of ghost doesn't either #but other characters and people would say yes #this man really is haunting the narrative and making people have some interesting conversations #headcanons

[drbtinglecannon]

It's actually kinda sexy of Caleb & Evelyn to haunt the narrative so thoroughly while never having any speaking lines or even appearing on screen outside of 400yr old repressed memories, delusions, and/or hyped up folklore

We don't even know for sure if Evelyn was a Clawthorne, or what she looked like, or how the fight between Caleb and Philip went down, or Caleb's reasons for leaving without Philip, or what their half witch half human baby looked like, or how long after Caleb left before Philip found him again, or what Evelyn did when she discovered her dead lover's grave was robbed, or how quickly after killing Caleb did Philip decide "I can make a new Caleb that's Better™"

We have scraps to give us pretty good ideas for most of these, but nope they really just haunt with no reward. Like yeah babes give us nothing!

#toh #toh spoilers #remember how it took all the way til KT to hear belos drop the name ''caleb'' but then the subtitles wrote it wrong so it became even more #of a theory fight & then it took until TTT for fucking masha to explicitly name drop caleb AND evelyn???? AND give us any scraps of lore??? #like we had so much foundation for it all but it took til the 3rd to last episode to finally confirm SOME of it & it was done in a way #that is unreliable bc its all legend & thats so hilarious in a mean way #caleb wittebane #evelyn clawthorne #philip wittebane #LIKE YEAH WE CAN SAFELY ASSUME MOST OF THIS STUFF BUT ITS NEVER ACTUALLY EXPLICT. THE GRAYNESS OF IT ALL #tc posts #my last hyperfixation before s2b aired & toh seized my life again was dgs & IT DOES THE SAME THING THERE IS ALSO A TRIO OF 2 MEN 1 WOMAN #THAT HAUNT THE NARRATIVE & THE WOMAN IS NEVER FULLY NAMED OR FULLY SHOWN & THE TWO MEN ALSO HAVE A DUEL TO THE DEATH LIKE. & NO WE GET #BASICALLY NOTHING ON ANY OF THEM EXCEPT HOW MUCH THEIR DEATHS FUCKED EVERYTHING UP. THEY HAUNT THE NARRATIVE SO MUCH #its a ''2 nickels which isnt a lot but its weird it happened twice in a row'' situation for me tbh #yes im disappointed we didnt get a fuller pic of the wittebane lore but also i kinda like its a vague thing of the past bc thats what it is

[autistic-beshelar]

ah yes dungeon meshi, the manga where an autistic man gets repeatedly bullied by people he thinks are his friends and not a single person supports him

#dont get me wrong i am enjoying this manga #but i'm failing to see how this is some great amazing autistic rep #like yeah laios is obviously autistic #and the struggles he has due to his autism are VERY relatable #but it's deeply uncomfortable that even the people closest to him are routinely awful to him #specifically for his autistic traits #and their bullying is almost always a joke #not a single person defends him #literally senshi is the only character that's never been cruel to him #well and farlyn but lbr she's also autistic and also has been in like half a chapter that ive read so far #maybe ive just not read far enough or not seen enough posts #but im not understanding why the fandom are treating it like amazing autistic rep and how it understands us so well #you could argue that the narrative tends to support laios's methods and way of thinking #but nothing else does #the scene with shuro was fucking awful to read tbh #'you're so annoying because you're autistic. how dare you think im your friend when you should have just guessed that i hated you' #and not a single person defends laios #or calls shuro out on what a fucking horrific way of treating a party member that is #like i dont know MAYBE you could have just said 'hey i don't really want to be friends' #maybe you could COMMUNICATE. #but no it's the autistic man who's the problem. for the crime of.... being too nice. #i don't have a problem with the scene. #i have a problem with the fact that shuro is framed as reasonable here. instead of utterly fucking vile. #i have a problem with none of the other characters sticking up for laios. #dungeon meshi #maybe ppl will start treating him better #i would like to continue reading #but if he continues getting bullied in EVERY fucking chapter as a 'joke' then idk man

[songofwizardry]

anyway I’ve been on intense critical role catchup mode for the last week bc I knew Something Very Big happened and after watching like six episodes in a week I just finished c3e91 and god. I knew it would be Something Very Big and I was expecting a PC death but like. was COMPLETELY unprepared for the way in which it happened and the emotional weight of it. what a fucking character choice. what a way to go out. what a moment. holy fucking shit.

anyway yes I hope you are all prepared for the many many FCG posts I will now be reblogging.

#critical role #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #bell’s hells #c3e91 #FCG #I’m still one episode behind but like not really cause that one just aired #I WILL catch up on that today or tomorrow #I’m off to see d20 live tonight tho! #but yeah once I am fully caught up I will join y’all in the new character speculation zone #like a lot of people. I don’t think this is a resurrection moment #I think the sacrifice and narrative and the character choice and the framing #and the stakes it lends to the whole thing #are leaning towards a permadeath #but god what a choice #what a moment #I love this show it destroys me emotionally #but goddamn #when Matt started tearing up is when I started crying tbh

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

I was considering how an unreliable omniscient narrator might present in a story and realized that it was literally just Les Mis.

#les mis #thicc vicc #thicctor hugo #vicky huge-hoe #but yeah like a story where the narrators perception of events is just so incrediblt skewed #that the reader is led to the entirely wrong conclusion about Everything #despite having all the facts #I Just Think It'd Be Neat #Hugo is just unreliable because he decides to handwave details like what happened to JVJ's niblings #murder of roger ackroyd is also a good example tbh #well a decent one #the personality isn't as big as I'd like #you know those grinder screenshkts where the person who took the scree shot is the villain? #that energy combined with the voice of an autobiographer or Victor Hugo within the narrative

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

btw someone remind me to write out my thoughts on how Love From the Other Side is a conversation between two people but sung by one

#it's a bit crack theory ish and a tiny bit edging into rpf but also pete has historically written from patrick's pov #so I don't think I'm going too far #and there is the narrative distance within the song obviously so like yeah I do think it might be or can be read as #a two part conversation tbh #Lu rambles #music #fob

[foxgloveinspace]

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot is that a lot of Sleep Token songs are about Vessel, and like I have a list, but I want to drop the concept that I have a thought that sometimes Vessel is the ‘she’ in the songs.

#very much so #sleep token #Nazareth is possbly a song about Vess-*gets smacked before I can finish the sentence* #idk I just think it fits the narrative and I just. *gestures* #I think a bunch of songs are actually about Vessel from an outside perspective to try and deal with trauma in a ‘safe’ way and yeah. #I think in some songs vessel is the ‘she’. #and if you hate this take just leave me alone please I don’t want hate or anything like that I just had a thought!! and it’s been awhile #since I’ve had one of those tbh/j

[pepperpixel]

Some art of these two! Mostly just to practice drawing them cuz their designs are a lil complicated lol.

#cookie run kingdom #cookie run #pastry cookie #red velvet cookie #crk #crk pastry cookie #crk red velvet cookie #doodles #ghghg. cookies…. #religious cookie…. #idk I like these two ghghgh I think they’re cool #like the whole… u kno… internal conflict shit… questioning ur thought to be ironclad faith and beliefs??? love that shit! #red velvet has internal conflict too! not the religious kind but. ‘twas just a young boy when taken in by enchantress cookie…. #they’ve both been spoon fed a very specific narrative since birth and thru meeting each other (+some other factors) #are forced to question it. #and I just think that’s neat ghghg #anyway… yeah cookies good ghghghg #(also tbh I still dO NOT COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND ENCHANTRESS COOKIES GOALS. I haven’t finished the main story yet #but from what I’ve seen in the tower of sweet chaos she’s. NOT WRONG LOL THE WITCHES ARE BAD. but also she wants to like??? #kill everyone because of it???? ‘make a new world’ which seems to imply destroying the old one #and. I dONT RLLY KNO WHY… so that’s why I’m like.. from what I’ve seen she’s def right about the witches… #she’s gotta be wrong about sOMETHING HERE. like she has to have something twisted up lol. #which is why I said red velvet cookie has also been spoon fed a narrative.) #(also.. pls don’t tell me exactly what her motivations and thoughts are if that’s revealed later… #I’ll figure it out eventually ghghg don’t spoil me pls!)

[yugiohz]

do you mind explaining why you find dabihawks so compelling? (I also find them compelling— I just like hearing other people’s takes! And I think you have a really great grasp on the characters!!)

wishing you the best!!!

IM SHY but as i keep saying, i find their dynamic so fascinating i think my #keeping up with the todorokis tag has some fun takes on them lol

#the fact that their parents are such an integral part of hteir mess... cinema #like i keep saying i cant ignore endeavor that man is haunting my yaoi narrative it is so crazy #much to unpack with dabihawks like does hawks even feel shameeee when dabi is like you are so weird about my dad kys #asks #anxious avoidant dabi vs anxious attachment hawks FIGHT #they are void avoidant tbh like hawks is also hyperindependent but he does cling to the todorokis hes an enigma #oh yeah the fact that hawks inserts himself into dabi's family.. and calls him toya... hes ssooooooopasndklsdn

[anghraine]

It's honestly kind of funny when people in Silm fandom go on about how Tolkien's narrative is biased against Fëanor et al., and meanwhile it's like

Tolkien: his name was Curufinwë Fëanáro and he had raven hair and limpid grey eyes like tears (also like my wife, a major fucking hottie) and he was the greatest craftsman of the Elves and a brilliant linguist, he made the Silmarils and invented the tengwar and so many other things, oh and he had a great body and was an incredible warrior, and he and Galadriel were the most amazing of all the Elves in Elf heaven, and he slammed his door in Morgoth's face, and you wouldn't believe what it took to actually defeat him but it was really cool, guys, there were all these Balrogs and

#you know how tolkien talks breathlessly about how amazing and beautiful and cool túrin is while chronicling his disasters? #that's not him being unfairly biased; that's one of his main ways of showing love for a character #the treatment of denethor is also of this type imo—they're very different people but the basic type #of a very cool and powerful and brilliant and beautiful figure who falls tragically but with a weird kind of glamour #is SO much his type #i think that's a large part of why he kept going back to the narn and trying to get it right #and it's part of why the narrative adores fëanor so much (gandalf: imagine. imagine seeing his hands at work O_O) #it's not an uncritical adoration but that's because the character's fuck-ups are part of the appeal in the first place #and yeah i like túrin and denethor a lot more but it's clear that fëanor is treated as the middle-earth apotheosis of that type #anghraine babbles #legendarium fanwank #legendarium blogging #honestly tolkien's treatment of his characters sort of reminds me of my fantastic dm #who will create involved storylines spinning off from dubious player choices rather than #a) just letting them pass or b) aiming to punish them #for him 'your choice has consequences... so many consequences' is fundamentally affectionate #and i feel like tolkien treats his characters similarly tbh

[kithj]

Hey, hope you're doing well! Had a couple questions for you if they're not too personal:

1. Whats your favourite story you've written so far? Is it something public? Is it finished?

2. Do you have any long form non-interactive fiction you've written that's available to read? I would genuinely kill to read something like that from you

hi :-) ohh these are fun...

my favorite story is probably My NovelTM which isn't finished yet, i've written a first draft and now it's just been languishing until i can find the motivation to start a second draft. i finished the first draft in august i think, and started editing it pretty heavily before i realized i was just going to have to rewrite the whole thing again. i'm mostly having trouble with the ending, which always seems to be my problem lmfao... anyways it follows the relationship of Angel and Valerie, after Valerie has been missing for a few months and suddenly returns as a vampire with no memory of Angel or what happened over the months while she was away. it alternates between both their povs in both present day and through flashbacks.

so unfortunately for your second question, no, but i do hope to publish Angel and Valerie's story one day, either traditionally through a small press (lol here's hoping) or by self-publishing it. otherwise my only published work is what's available on my itch.io (siren's call, one day hike, etc)

i am working on a short story for vampire jam, which i'll hopefully be sharing next month. it's still in the form of interactive fiction, published in twine, but it's more of a short story than anything like blood choke or tnp. i also have a butch cowboys and zombies story i've been working on for a while, but i'm not sure when i'll get around to finishing it since it's not a priority project.

i do want to write another novel as well, a very old story i've been kicking around for years, but as usual i haven't been able to come up with an ending for it... but maybe one day.

#one thing that amazes me abt published authors is just. the way they churn out books #how do they have so many ideas.... esp when their stories are so varied #i feel like my work is very one note lmfao one day hike & blood choke & hell's holler& even my vampjamp story& the cowboy story #are all very similar. it makes me feel self conscious tbh like im just writing the same thing over and over #but whatever it's what i need to write rn to keep myself sane even if it's all jsut sad lesbians LOL #i tell myself it's helping me refine the narrative i want to perfect in hell's holler (the novel) #idk i would like to write something more happy eventually #like i want to write a YA book. everyone brace yourselves but i want to write a historical fiction during the early 2000s/2010s #it sounds silly to call it historical fiction but like. it would be #around when gay marriage was legalized in the US & the lead up to it #as well as political/cultural attitudes in the US during that time post 9/11. through a high schooler's perspective #think something like the old american girl doll stories when they were actually historical and educational rather than nostalgia bait #yes i AM bitter about the 90s twins why do you ask #anyways. yeah 👍 #ask #sproongoose

[senselessalchemist]

Pretending it's still 2011 and making playlists is a thing that happens

#dead cells #the beheaded #the collector #is the collector actually associated with the moon? #definitely at least superficially #just by general... like... proximity #but tbh at this point sometimes i dont know what is actually supported and what was just something that i thought once and was like yeah #but yeah its a ship playlist that ive spent a stupid amount of time on #shrugs #i think its good #the music is nice anyway #some of it is incredibly on the nose and some is more vibey but i tried to make it flow and have a kind of narrative #enjoy if its your kinda thing #its my kinda thing because back in the day it was one of the only ways i found new music #so im very fond of them #Spotify

[ginalinettiofficial]

idk i just don’t trust ppl who say “billy is a racist abusive piece of shit” but then turn around and reblog jason content like. okay if u have that opinion that’s your prerogative but it’s MY prerogative to point out that it’s weird af to feel that way abt billy and NOT abt jason

#d speaks #st #billy hargrove #jason carver #like if u hate billy that is your prerogative esp as a black person. that said #these are white ppl i’m seeing who’re like billy is so racist!!!! btw here’s my blorbo jason #it’s just like ??????? does not compute #like if we’re comparing things that got said in canon. saying ‘there are types of ppl u stay away from and that boy is one of them’ and #saying to a black kids face ‘i thought u were one of the good ones’ like. those are. very on par with one another #like there are 4 characters on this show who made racist comments: troy. mike. billy. jason. #as far as i remember at least those are the Big Ones #and while i understand not liking billy and having his racism be one of your driving reasons behind that #i do NOT understand turning around and liking jason????? #mike okay! yes he was fully microaggressive to lucas but yeah he’s a protagonist #and the show does a lot to try and make u like him. he was younger than billy & jason and they also played that moment off for laughs so #like i get if you can sit there and be like i have no reason to dislike mike wheeler for his racism #troy tbh just doesn’t get any talk in the fandom so idk how ppl feel about him. he IS the only one to fully use a slur but #he’s also 13 and i’ve seen many ppl in the fandom who define morality based on this middle schoolers are learning high schoolers should have #already learned and should be better narrative so i wouldn’t be surprised if i saw ppl defending troy #but billy and jason are. very on par with one another in terms of the micro aggressions they committed and the level of antagonism #so i am just very thrown by seeing ppl hating one and praising the other like #it’s almost like they…… don’t actually care about racism and are in fact nowhere near as anti racist as they believe themselves to be #and instead just use the term ‘racist’ as a trump card to try and win arguments abt characters they don’t like without ever actually #putting any critical thought into this show and the way racism is intertwined into every aspect of it #because surprise!!!! it was written by blatant racists lmfao #fandom wank #i suppose lmao. wank in the tags at least #also to clarify. i think both billy AND jason are compelling and interesting multifaceted characters #they’re both good antagonists and they both present very good looks at The Type Of White Boy You Meet In Small Towns #stranger things