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shadowpuppetteer · 2 months

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After my post on New York, I got really curious about a bunch of other monster media locations. New York City area is a popular spot because: long history of immigration on the east coast (pointed out by @jedipirateking) high population, variety of cultures, one of the oldest cities in post-colonial America. California is the second most popular spot: long history of immigration on the west coast, high population, variety of cultures, large amount of immigration on west coast. Massachusetts is a hot spot for Witch media (Salem witch trials) Kansas being nearly the center of the USA is a good spot for isolation and very Americana aesthetic. Lilo and Stitch being set in Hawaii not only makes it that much more special, but the fact that it is one of the few set there is why we need to support more native writer's work (it's just good to support native writers in general). In general, it would be fun to see monster media take place in more spots in America. There is so much history and culture to reflect on in these kinds of stories. That's why I put up my webcomic Legend Catcher, being in the northwest I didn't see enough stories set there. Growing up they were big into environmental/forestry education and that has seeped pretty deep into my work. If there are any others I missed, please add them in!

#monster media #monsters #map #monster media map #america #map of america #tropes #location tropes

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gauntletqueen · 24 days

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When a non-horror game has a horror section, I often find it a little more effective or memorable than a full-on horror title's horror, in a way. I think that's because, for characters in fiction, they usually don't know they're about to experience a horror story, so they aren't mentally prepared at all. As the audience, we know that when we boot up Silent Hill, we're gonna see some scary stuff and can mentally prepare accordingly. But when some innocuous children's platformer or RPG or whatever suddenly throws genuine horror elements at me, I'm taken out of my comfort zone much more roughly since I don't expect it at all. I think that's neat :>

#Fallout has some great examples of this #A Hat in Time and Rayman as well #the Zelda series of course #One of the most fun uses of this trope to me is in games with sidequests #Where you're send to some location that might be kinda suspicious #maybe sent to get an item or look for someone who got lost #and Oops! The places is Haunted by Actual Ghosts!#An until now unknown element of this world!#That's so fun #you get to feel just like some investigative journalist or whatever from a horror story #who has no idea what they're about to get into

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mjulmjul · 2 years

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Making up

#artists on tumblr #sketch #our flag means death #ofmd #gentlebeard #haven’t had time for ANYthing lately #MAXIMUM cheesy romcom tropes…fighting in a storm then the sun breaking through when making up…an entire wheel of cheese is what I’m saying #saw bethell’s cave is a possible s2 filming location? anyway my apologies to the landscape #it’s so hard to find good pictures of that cave or rather it looks very different in every pic it seems #me making more fanart that’s silhouettes in a landscape: it ain’t much but it’s honest work

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jyrinestories08 · 6 months

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The most elegant woman in the whole world

Their boyfriend/husband who is utterly insane

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lemonfreshlysqueezed · 4 months

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On today’s episode of ‘Shared BL Locations’ we have Pat’s dorm room in Badbuddy and Jeffs home in Pitbabe:

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whumpdaydreamerx · 9 months

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A Whumper wanting to have fun torturing the Whumpee, but also not wanting to deal with too much cleanup. So they keep them in the bathroom, making them stand in the tub. Binding Whumpee’s hands to the shower rod.

#whump #whumpee #whumper #whump scenario #whump scene #whump prompt #whump tropes #whump ideas #torture #torture whump #restrained #bound #tied up #whump visuals #restrained whumpee #whump locations #my writing #whump community

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tofixtheshadows · 4 days

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Inside of me are two wolves.

One really loves the way the fandom moniker "Kabru of Utaya" sounds and how it gives Kabru the dignity of a full name, and how it connects him to his past.

The other knows that "[x] of [location]" is canonically the dwarven cultural naming practice and thus Kabru would never go by it in canon.

#THIS BOTHERS ME SO MUCH....#Kabru #babe. we have GOT to get you a last name.#this is such a potentially painful subject to think about especially postcanon #he's got like ... an official role in government. does he have to sign documents? be announced in court?#like “[x] of [location]” is such a common western fantasy trope and also existed in real life #so naturally we as fans just kind of fill it in ... but Kui had to decide that dwarves do that specifically #so I know that in-universe it would be off the table. like a white person taking a Japanese name or something.#especially when. again. you are a royal advisor. real political blunder territory.#I need to explore this in a fic for real #Dungeon Meshi #posting for one as usual

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hephaestuscrew · 8 months

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I want to talk about this moment between Lovelace and Minkowski immediately after Cutter dies:

Lovelace GASPS in relief. Both women COLLAPSE, wounded, at the end of their ropes. LOVELACE Nice... shot. MINKOWSKI Couldn't... have done it... without you, Captain. You all right? LOVELACE No. You? MINKOWSKI No, I... I... yeah... LOVELACE Stay with me, Minkowski. MINKOWSKI Yeah... We're almost through this. We just... need to... get Eiffel... And off of their attempts to hold onto consciousness, we -

Firstly, the acting of this scene is incredible. (The timestamp is 1:42:26 if you want to listen back.) I'm in awe of the way Emma Sherr-Ziarko and Ceilia Lynn-Jacobs convey the sense of pain and exhaustion and relief and trying to hold onto consciousness. The kind of damage they've undergone has been very different - Minkowski bleeding out from her gunshot wound, Lovelace recovering from the external control that caused her to inflict that gunshot wound. But the way these experiences manifest in their breathless pained voices is pretty similar. There's almost a kind of unity in that.

I love that the first thing Minkowski and Lovelace do after Cutter dies, even as they are struggling to speak, is to acknowledge each other's contribution to this moment.

"Nice shot" feels like a comment more suited to congratulating someone on doing well at a shooting range than as a response to a friend successfully harpooning their evil boss. There's a casualness to it as a phrase that feels almost humourous in this context, but it also reflects the fact that there isn't really an established thing to say in a situation like this. (More below the cut)

Minkowski could have just taken full credit here - after all she's the one who fired the killing shot - but she doesn't. It reflects the ethos of this show that neither Cutter nor Pryce, the major antagonists, is defeated by a single protagonist alone, and that the protagonists themselves are aware of that.

This scene is an example of a kind of exchange we get a few times throughout the show, where a character asks another character if they are okay and the answer is a clear no. There's an conversation like this between Eiffel and Minkowski in Ep12 (EIFFEL: You okay, Commander? / MINKOWSKI : No, Eiffel. My second in command just betrayed me and tried really, really hard to murder both us. I’m pretty damn far from “okay.”), and between Hera and Minkowski in Ep29 (HERA: Commander? Are you okay? / MINKOWSKI: No. You? / HERA: No. But I will be.), and between Eiffel and Hera in Ep41 (EIFFEL: Are you okay now? / HERA: No, Officer Eiffel. I'm not. But... I'm going to be.) I think I've said this before in tags on a post, but there's something about that type of exchange that fits the tone of this show so well to me. Of course none of these characters are all right, not with what they've been through. But the asking is still important, because of the care these characters have for each other. And the honest answer is still important, because this is a show partly about communication and because sometimes the awful things need to be acknowledged.

I should probably also say that there are also plenty of instances in Wolf 359 where people falsely claim to be fine in response to questions like this. There's an awful lot of emotional repression and compartmentalising on that space station. Which makes it more significant when characters are honest about not being okay.

In this scene, Minkowski and Lovelace don't need to waste words on saying why they aren't all right. I picture them both looking down at Minkowski's wound as she speaks here. And they laugh, or as well as they can do in their current condition, at how absurdly obvious it is that they aren't okay. Maybe that attempt at laughter is a way to keep going. And they are both so determined to keep going.

Lovelace tells Minkowski "stay with me", even though Lovelace is struggling to remain conscious herself. There's something so tender about that to me, and it's particularly heart-wrenching given that Lovelace was forced against her will to fire the bullet that wounded Minkowski.

When Minkowski says "We're almost through this", it feels like a call back to her conversation with Eiffel earlier in this episode, when he said "We're almost through. Just one more day, and then we're done." The "this" in "almost through this" somehow holds everything that they've been through on the Hephaestus. The repeated sense that this is the last confrontation that they will face on that station is perfect for a finale. But there's also something very emotionally heavy about that finality, especially when spoken by a woman who is bleeding out from a gunshot wound. And yet through her exhaustion and her pain, Minkowski expresses hope that they will get "through this", that they are "almost" on the other side of the whole nightmare.

Neither Minkowski nor Lovelace even consider the option of not going to look for Eiffel (and Hera). It would have been perfectly reasonable for them to have gone back to the Urania to try to patch Minkowski up and to wait to see if Eiffel and Hera were able to join them. But these characters would never do that.

They go to look for Eiffel even though Minkowski has been shot and Lovelace has been subject to horrific external control. They go to look for Eiffel even though both of them are "at the end of their ropes" and struggling to hold onto consciousness. They go to look for Eiffel even though waiting on the Urania was the plan they'd agreed upon with Hera. They go to look for Eiffel even though, for all they know, Eiffel and Hera might have the situation completely handled, or might even already be safely on the Urania. They go to look for Eiffel (and Hera) because only once they are all together can they consider themselves "through this".

#It's surprising that I've barely talked about this scene #given that it is definitely one of the finale scenes that lives in my head rent free #I put Hera in brackets in that last point because they don't explicitly mention her #and the location aspect of 'looking for Hera' isn't quite the same #but I know that they wouldn't have left without her either #Also characters telling an injured/sick loved one 'Stay with me' is one of those tropes that really gets me #It's a way of saying 'don't die' without saying it (cos they don't want to say it)#It's a way of saying 'don't die' that disguises itself as says just 'stay conscious'#It's a way of saying 'don't die' that also says 'don't leave me. I need you here with me'#wolf 359 #w359 #wolf 359 spoilers #w359 spoilers #the empty man posteth #renee minkowski #renée minkowski #isabel lovelace

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starrysharks · 9 months

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are u planning to do anything with charlotte? the ghost hotel girl?

or minty?

i actually did have an idea for a short comic about them, but i really forgot about it until around a few months ago when i drew up a few potential redesigns for both of them. they're really still up in the air - i might end up selling them as adopts, but i do actually want to do something with them!

(also, here are the redesign sketches from around may-ish? i might end up finishing these designs when i'm in the mood to draw more halloweeny stuff, though they'll probably look a lot different as my artstyle + chara design work has improved)

(the minty pic is also for an unfinished ref sheet!)

#ask zeno #zeno's art #charlotte cardamon cinnamon #minty #(just giving them their own tags for when/if i do expand on their universe)#one thing is i feel like a lot of my oc universes/stories are very similar in plot with the exclusion of ultimate excalibur #i feel like its always a girl and her friend going on a little adventure often in a single location to retrieve the girl's lost memories 😭#beryl's story falls into this as does reassassination to an extent and when i was first writing it out so did charlotte's story #so if i decide i want to do something with them expect a full rewrite #(for context originally charlotte's story was about her starting the hotel to save a specific amount of lost souls #so that she herself could rest. not exactly regaining memories but i think the tropes i follow the most are memory loss #and having to do tasks to get to something. read about the herculean tasks once as a kid and never recovered

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valoale · 4 months

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Idk if you wanted actual color responses but you’re getting mine. Purple, pink and a small drop of black just to see who would win

LESSGOOOOO I’m 5’4” but I’m ✨feisty✨lemme just google the closest Denny’s real quick but I’m down 😏

But fr you’re far too kind I can’t, I love you so much 🥹💞

#I can’t turn away from a good homoerotic fight #is this enemies to lovers?#if you come here to pick up a fight we can change the location to Hesburger bc we don’t have Denny’s sadly #also I need to know your favourite tropes for scientific purposes #all innocent purposes I swear #shhhhhh

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the-everqueen · 8 months

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my major problem with fanon Hob is that he's treated as universal. which a) is impossible, nothing is actually universal, there is no singular Human Experience, and b) the text (show and comix) doesn't consider him a universal. he's an anomaly in his irrepressible desire to live. he's a foil for Dream. he's one of an unspecified number of immortals who occasionally cross paths with the Endless. he's not an Everyman, he's very much the product of the world around him (which changes with time but also doesn't - a white man in an established British empire holds a certain degree of power/liberty across centuries). why does whiteness = universality? why does whiteness = Human?

#sandman #fandom discourse #this is the major difference i notice between ppl's canons around hob vs canons around the corinthian #the corinthian - esp. as played by bhol - is a horror trope #and the americana signifiers locate him in a specific spacetime even if he's older than that #but mostly ppl pick up on the corinthian's ''thingness''#he's literally not human so there's less room to claim him as representative #i think there's possible parallels between coco and hob #(and then a Major Difference in how they're treated by Dream - for obvious reasons)#but also...#there's so many other human characters who are not afforded the same grace that fandom extends to hob #rose walker; lyta hall; jo constantine; unity kincaid #mostly they're women! and a lot of them aren't white #but rose IS supposed to be the every(wo)man trope #she IS supposed to be something of an audience insert bc she's encountering #the dreaming and the Fates and the rules around the Endless #along with the reader/viewer #why is the Black young woman not someone that fans identify with?#i'll give you three guesses...

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uncannygoat · 2 months

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If I had a nickel for every time I hyper-fixated over a random mascot horror creature, I’d have 3 nickels and a bowl of spaghetti.

🦌🦊🐶🐱

#smile dog #creepypasta smile dog #spookys jumpscare mansion #specimen 8 #poppy playtime #catnap #poppy playtime catnap #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf sister location #sister location #creepypasta #four goobers #I’d see them sharing an apartment together #all i need is one more until I officially get the 5 man band trope

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dallonwrites · 3 months

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also when i say this i mean absolutely no criticism of the poll i like it i think it’s fun but just speaking generally, i try not to see any writing idea or theory as controversial or unpopular because all of them are valid ways to approach writing if it’s suitable for your story. im saying this as someone who changed parts of their writing when i was younger because i thought i needed to shape my stories a certain way, don’t ever be afraid to experiment with second person or a prose style or whatever just because it’s not popular on tumblr or your writing group or your genre or even the market, or people say it’s difficult to “pull off”, all ways of approaching craft and writing can be done well (and even “done well” is not an objective measurement, so just follow what feels right for your writing) and can be suitable for a story, and as a writer you should always trust your intuition about what is best for you and your story

#also what is popular if we’re looking from a publishing pov can be so trend and marketing based #there’s a certain style of prose that I see a lot in newly published litfic for example #tropes are another example #I know The Market is unfortunately something to consider for some of us but I’m not gonna let it #have the final say on what I do or don’t write lol #some things too especially prose style can depend on location and language #again there is a certain style of prose that’s been popularised by Anglo and western centric writing

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muslimintp-1999-girl · 2 years

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Remember when Conan asked Haibara to technically be his fake gf to convince Ran that Conan and Shinichi are different people