#or when it becomes plot relevant

[definitelynotshouting]

what if i told u guys i finally settled on a canon hunger au grian design

#shouting speaks #grian #watcher grian #hunger au #by design i mean Wings Design but either way #tbh for the longest time i was like ''well i wanna keep it vague'' but that was honestly a confidence thing too #but NO MORE. IVE EVEN FOUND A WAY TO GRACEFULLY INTRODUCE IT LATER WHEN IT BECOMES RELEVANT TO THE PLOT #i just think having a unique wing design for hunger au is cool :] working with crow rn for refs #and also...... there might be a crow art arc 2 spoiler coming yalls way soon........... #txt

[nyxi-pixie]

'omg mikes character used to be so important and now hes barely relevant to the plot :('

i hate to tell you this but.. its a byler thing again

in s1 and 2, mike is one of the most important characters because his motivations rely entirely on his care for will. like s1, everything mike does is to help find will. the reason he meets el. the reason he keeps her around instead of sending her back to 'pennhurst or wherever shes from', the reason hes around for plot happenings. Literally everything is bc of will.

s2, again mike is a main character bc he flat out Refuses to be apart from will for more than like 2 seconds. this man is down bad. hes like 'oh nooo will hasnt been in school and i am for some inexplicable (gay) reason so much more worried than my other friends so im gonna show up to his house and refuse to leave.' and this means hes around for plot stuff (also earlier s2 mike relevant to plot stuff is bc him and will are just the bestiest of bropals so will tells him more stuff than he tells anyone else, Including His Own Mother)

the reason mike is a main character in early seasons. the reason hes relevant to plot. the reason he actively Does Shit is because his main motivator is will. his character motivations are literally 'will is in trouble i will immediately drop everything and put my whole wheelussy into helping this man'

then we see the drop off of relevance in s3 and 4. Why?? because will isnt the driving force of plot anymore. will is also now more of a side character. mike is less involved bc will is less involved u literally cant prove me wrong im so correct and right about everything all the time.

#byler #mike wheeler i know what you are #literally his motivation is will #which is why he immediately becomes involved more in plot in s3 AFTER will tells him his spidertingle is back #s4 the guy is honestly mostly irrelevant throughout the entire thing bc the el plot she honestly could have done everything herself #caligang are literally just there to be her uber #anyway mike only cares abt plot when its about will and yk what ME TOO #hes so correct for that honestly #mike understands that stranger things is actually The Will Show so he takes a backseat whenever its not focused on will LMAOOOO #wait ive just realised mikes only moment of relevance of s4 which wasnt even that relevant but yk was his monlogue. and guess what #he only does it bc WILL tells him to #im going to kms hes so stupid he LITERALLY ONLY DOES ANYTHING EVER BC OF WILL ASHDJKLSHDJKA

[densitywell]

are we ever gonna get actual hishari story though. is ashton ever gonna get a chance to truly talk about it with someone other than laudna, learn about what really happened to them, get some closure? because this felt like the perfect time to explore it and all we really got was a slightly expanded version of the same lore we already had.

#alternative version of this question: are we ever gonna get a storyline focused on /ashton/ the way every other pc has had at this point #i was not stung when bassuras arcs focused on fcg and fearne bc like whatever! story! #but the fact that this is the second time they've gone somewhere directly related to ashton's backstory #only for him to mainly end up just playing support in other pc's emotional arcs is. #ashton greymoore #critical role #cr spoilers #like maybe they'll go back to issylra to learn about ludinus or go to vasselheim or something. #hopefully this elemental dark heart or whatever becomes a plot relevant thing and doesnt like. turn into a story abt imogen and chetney lol #bc like my worst fear is ashton ultimately getting nothing. when they are one of the most interesting characters in the party!! #and my personal favorite but like. there are SO many interesting stories you could tell based off of his bullshit @matthew!!

[revvethasmythh]

the necessity of me rewriting the final scene I finished last night vs my fervent desire to just move on and write this new chapter: FIGHT

#you know when you write something and then immediately after finishing you're just like ''nope that was wrong'' #me last night doing this but I was too tired to fix it then #like if this scene wasn't relevant to later plot stuff I'd probably just leave it #HOWEVER #also this chapter alone is like 10k words I want to get it out of my SIGHT I and DONE with this #every consecutive chapter gets longer than the last. when did I become this. what happened to me #where did the girl who could barely write 70k drafts go? I used to be a short chapters girlie #I think grad school did this to me. I think it changed me and not for the better lmfao

[mixelation]

Okay, so I read about a promt "you have a tattoo somewhere on your body representing what your soulmate is passionate about." and I thought about Tori. So I got to thinking what Toris 'passion' would be and who would be her soulmate in the Narutoverse. Like, not necessarily romantically, just in general. Soooo. Yeah. I'm asking cause I really wanna draw someone with either a tatoo of a bunch of grass, the icha icha cover or someone dying of that sickness you described.

Sorry for the bother :D

I thought about this for a bit, and I think it would be really funny if Tori's soul mark was just the biohazard symbol. Tori is still figuring out her scientific interests so I don't want to suggest anything super specific, but I think this.... I think this sums it up LMAO. (Also it means someone is just living their life with a biohazard sign on them.)

Potential characters based on their interactions so far: Hidan (cosmically bound together whether they like it or not!), Sasori, Deidara, Orochimaru (for the YIKES route).

Kakashi isn't going to show up for a while, but he's going to end up plot relevant so like. This option might be good if you want an Icha Icha soulmark?

#kakashi is slated to be plot relevant because he is in canon but also #tori wasn't obsessed with icha icha when i made these plans #so he might become more enmeshed in the story just as like #a part of the fandom #fic: plasticity

[hobimo]

anyway. might get cancelled for this but the namkook a/b/o fic is like............................... really good. sorry ill see myself out

#listen.......................................................................... #its good #ive become so used to [BTS SHIP AUTHOR] i forgot bts fic could be good. #honestly? this shits bussin #sorry lol #i am not immune to atypical dynamics. sue me #also i actually really like the sun wolf world building. its kinda fun #i like when the character is like yeah its mostly bullshit. anyway #the lunar wolf thing yeah ok im a bit iffy on but AT LEAST ITS RELEVANT TO THE PLOT OK. SO MANY AUTHORS COULD LEARN FROM THIS #yeah nah sorry i actually really like this fic. cancel me now itll be quicker. sorry

[phoenix-is-the-hottest-thing]

[image ID: a twitter screenshot from @lesbiot titled "mal ; honkai unpopular opinions pinned". The tweet is a poll with Agree and Disagree as options. The questions is "i feel like if people are going to make mei trans, can they not overly sexualise that hc. like its coming across as fetishy sometimes."]

Today, on twitter is stupid:

People looking at nsfw content and thinking "Hmm. The trans character is sexualized in this nsfw piece, that's a bad thing."

Look. I like women. I think women are hot. I write women in sexual situations. I include trans women in the "women" I write in sexual situations because they are, indeed, women, and I think they're hot too. Additionally, I am a genderqueer person and I relate to my fellow trans people, including trans women. I personally really like the trans Mei hc so I've been writing it more and more. I also write nsfw fics a bunch so when she lands in one of those she's usually trans.

Hell, sometimes I write tentacles instead, but I assure you, whether Mei is written as cis or trans or whatever, if I'm writing porn she's gonna be sexualized exactly the same, because women are hot and I'm writing an nsfw fic. It has NOTHING to do with whether Mei is hc'd as trans or not, and I'd wager that it's the same for most other nsfw content creators.

What this person is trying to say isn't "trans women are being fetishized by the community and that dehumanizes them" (you know, the ACTUAL problem with fetishizing a minority). Because that's not happening. No one's been writing fic that dehumanizes Mei for being trans, I think I'd have come across it if they did. All the fics and art I've seen are very lovely.

Reading the above, I see two answers to this line of thought:

"There should be less trans people in porn", so... more cis people? (is that not transphobic?!)

"There should be less porn, or at least less porn I don't like" (what they most likely want, but won't admit to so they make it about the trans thing instead)

But the thing about content you don't like is that you can just not interact with it. So to me, what's really going on is this:

"I want creators to cater to MY tastes and makes more of what I like and makes ME comfortable"

Which is just being a huge dick. And I'm really praying the OP is only being this kind of dick rather than a TERF.

#hi3 #honkai impact #i can make Mei trans in my sfw fics but it will probably come up less you dumbass #i HAVE done this btw. i have literally written a sfw fic where shes explicitly trans but the only reason it came up is #because it was relevant to the plot #sometimes it's vague because it doesn't matter what my hc is! #headcanons becomes obvious when the situation is relevant #looking into mei's pants makes it indeed relevant whether or not she's trans #lemons

[the-sage-libriomancer]

sometimes i get so obsessed with imagining how stories would've changed if the parent(s) survived. it always completely upsets the story's foundation and sometimes even invalidates the whole entire plot, but a lot of times it also brings up a lot of additional problems that are really fun to chew on in a what-if scenario.

#it's also a great opportunity to make cookie cutter “dead parents” into 3-dimensional people #like sure things would have turned out better for the orphaned protag if their loving parents were both around #but it might also create equally big problems when it turns out the protag's parents are also making plot-relevant decisions #that maybe don't work out in the protag's favor #what happens if the protag and parents have a clash of values? #what happens if the parents (despite trying their best) still fuck up their kid? #if one parent is supposed to be a foil to the protag then how does their survival affect that symbolism? #“what if this flat dead character lived” aus involve a lot of hard and boring work so i understand why no one ever writes them #but like. i can't stop thinking ab the implications of such a story #what happens when the saintly dead parent characters survive to become flawed and human #sage speaketh #trope talk

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

ROSE: Actually, what IS your religion, anyway?

JUNE: i'm an atheist, but only when it's plot-convenient

#submission #source: an actual conversation i had with my friend who will become president don't forget to vote for her #// #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #rose lalonde #june egbert #mod terezi #when it's not plot relevant she is a self ascribed member of the church of dave #i personally think that each god-tier and troll that came through the session ended up getting a church in their name #june and dave try to be casual about it meanwhile rose would be channeling her inner elvira lady of darkness and having a good time

[journey-to-the-attic]

Okay, now I'm curious about how IK's dad would fare in the past Devildom. Specifically, IK's dad and baby IK.

oh god that poor man. he was already so incredibly stressed out by his first appearance in the devildom, now he finds out he's in the fucking past and no one here knows him and he just has to cope with that, all while trying to protect his tiny daughter from all the evil things around here??? he's in tears already

he spends his first two weeks in the past just looking like a kicked puppy at all times. he still does his job of managing the brothers with surprising efficiency, but he looks like a physical embodiment of the 🥺 emoji the entire time

little ik is having a Time of it. zhao doesn't exactly know how to communicate to a toddler who still can't count past fifty that they went back in time, much less that the familiar demons around her aren't, in fact, the uncles she likes so much even if they look identical

i imagine he just tries to keep ik with him at all times, but every now and then she manages to wander off and thoroughly confuses the demons with how friendly she is. how is this tiny child more confident than her father

#though having played some more of nightbringer it turns out mc being mistaken for a demon has plot relevance #so we'll have to retcon that in some way for this au #(also if having a human in the devildom is such a big deal. isn't solomon there?? or is he a special case since he's an op sorcerer) #answering asks #anon asks #dad in the devildom #zhao is also a regular human without magic so he gets by in the devildom by virtue of sheer fatherly talent #since zhaolu kind of ended up becoming ddvd endgame i imagine the rest of the brothers just start treating zhao like their dad too #(going from crushing on to thinking of him as a parental figure once lucifer snaps him up lol) #(maybe some of the side characters get to maintain their feelings but i imagine the brothers find it hard to keep crushing on a guy #when lucifer is like so disgustingly in love with him it isn't even funny) #in terms of zhaolu i wonder how past lucifer is handling this whole siutation? #present lucifer is probably going demented with worry in the meantime #zhaolu #(adding the tag since i mentioned them here)

[knxfesck]

Not to be a terminal voltron fan but it pisses me off when people draw less stylized versions of the characters and don't give keith any asian features. The mf has the last name kogane for fucks sake it's not like the alien genetics are packed with eurocentrism 💀

#or when they make his dad white #doesn't matter if his first name is heith the guy lives in texas and has a southern accent he's probably adopted or something #I'm aware that the directors/writers never really confirmed these things but I think its bull that the rest of the paladin circle have #their background/culture talked about at least once #keith being half galra is a plot point I get they didn't want to overdue it but it seems off #he doesn't just become full galra whenever he's being percieved by other humans #and navigating america as a mixed asian person especially in Keith's situation without having parents is a unique experience that I feel #could be touched on by someone better at writing and with more lived experience than me #I'm going crazy in the tags but you get my point #because keiths entire character arc revolves around identity so in the cut scene of his life before space of course that shit applies #this is barely relevant to the post at this point lmao I'm just rambling #voltron #txt #keith kogane

[thefandomcassandra]

Yuri of Absence (title pending) is a very funny fic to think about (I'm gonna only think about it until after Malaprop and Schrödinger's Cat are finished) because its genuinely sincere but also there is a plot-relevant packer (Chekhov's penis) and it just...

#the sheepy speaks #999 spoilers #zero escape 999 #so clover was intended from get-go to be trans #because i hc her as trans as is my right as a queer person #but what wasnt intended was junpei being trans (i dont hate the hc its just not mine) #when you put clover in june's spot and june in junpei's spot and snake ij santa's spot and santa in snake's spot and junpei in clover's spot #you wind up with some unfortunate contrivances you need to create to make the plot work #and to remedy the door 3 problem i simply realized the funniest answer was just #junpei instead of snake #which when you combine with the offhand mention of snakes arm=junpei's dick #you wind up with a joke about a character being trans suddenly being a very important plot point #esp when he dated and broke up with both june and santa (june broke up w him. santa he broke up w) #plot relevant packer really haunting my brain rn i should be asleep s2j #but uh...yuri of absence is just me joking about a clover-snake situation and then deciding clover/june neat #ergo the june/junpei thing becomes clover/june and thus this too is yuri #im very sleepy so if this shit dont make sense im not sorry #tldr one chara trans on purpose one chara trans for plot reasons to make door 3 and the chapel work

[alas--pringles]

..... i might have a problem. what even is other music who needs regular music when there are so many spiderwebbing obscure tangents that totally aren't all related to the same thing?

#spiritworld is only on there because last month is when i went through each track to see if i liked any of it #plot twist i only liked the demo which wasn't on the relevant discography 🙃 #the band ghost #unmasked ghouls #that list of artists though lmao #the only unrelated one is sleep token #which is a different masked anonymous band with fictional lore #get married. dan andriano and the bygones. the moore family band. and spiritworld are all just because of the same person #petition for more musicians to have public discography playlists please! #randy has become a favorite partially BECAUSE it's so easy to deep dive on his stuff lol #dan andriano and the bygones #please please please let them do a norcal show when randy gets back #i would drive into SF for that. or for the moore family band. or get married

[goodwitchazurafan666]

Okay so this guy:

My image isn’t the best quality but that is pretty clearly a titan skull on it’s head. So, with the information we currently have, that leaves two possibilities: either that's an actual titan or it’s a titan trapper.

Could be a real titan I suppose. We’ve been told that they were wiped out but then httyd (the movies and shows, not the books) also told us the furies were wiped out and look how how that ended up. However, I... sort of doubt it? I mean I don’t think it’s beyond the realm of possibility or anything, but I feel like establishing a new titan is going to require an amount of explanation (how did they survive the massacre, how did they stay hidden for so long, why are they appearing now, why were they in the in-between in the first place) that we just don’t have time for.

It could also be a titan trapper. This would make some level of sense: Luz and co. blew up the portal they had been using to travel between the sides of the world; maybe they constructed a new one (titan blood is probably more available where they are anyways). I think this is actually pretty possible- the titan trapper have a matching... dial? plate? the thing the collector was trapped in- it’s fairly possible that they know he’s escaped.

I also think it would be a little strange to introduce the trappers and then do so little with them (of course some threads will almost certainly be left hanging courtesy the great shortening) and I guess if they were ever going to come back now is the time.

#who knows I guess #these are just the options we have with the information we've been given so far #quite likely we'll get a last minute explanation that no one could have predicted #not that that would be bad! #nothing wrong with only showing your hand when it becomes plot relevant #toh #the owl house #toh theory #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers

[cak31ssuperi04]

You should get into your post 1beat headcanons

Man I want to but it's kind of convoluted because I feel like they would still have a long way to go and at least a few more incidents to deal with before defeating him Once And For All. But Haruka(Shinobu) seems to have it out for them in particular so I think he would continue leaving breadcrumbs and letting them keep their memories and it would start to pile up even if not being able to catch him played hell on Misane.

#Also one of my biggest hcs about Shinobu feels like it'd be controversial but is also a major plot point in my head so it's #hard to get into how exactly they'd defeat him(he dies sort of?) #but the point is that he wants to screw with them he wants them on his trail #He continues catching them off guard and the incidents start happening closer together because at this point he's in a bit of a hurry #When I learn how to write fic longer than oneshots it's over for everyone #Izuchi(+Sagara because what's the point if my faves aren't relevant) becomes a recurring character after 1beat but not #a “main” one until one of the later incidents he's kind of off doing his own tangentially related thing #I haven't decided if Arumu sticks around. I feel like she shouldn't initially but #they'd run into each other again eventually and after being caught up to speed she'd dedicate herself to helping them solve the ordeal #I won't get into the incidents themselves rn because that'd take a bit but the next one definitely happens at a carnival and Sora is there #pieceofcake.txt #cake asks

[devotedlystrangewizard]

my main thoughts, per expansion, were "i do not care about ANY of this", "hhhhhhh aymeric" "hes not hot hes not hot hes NOT" "why should i care about any of these people", and "this could have been an email."

#as for the post expansions #post arr is 'crystal braves sounds cringe sorry can we get back to the elezen' #post hw was 'estinien please come home i miss you' #post sb was 'what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck' #post shb was 'when will this get interesting again' #and so far post ew its been 'ohohoho everyone i love is either dead or not plot relevant' #thats like hj #i do love the scions i just. #i took such a long break from the msq even now that i meet the ilevel requirements im too invested in other things #also you could consider my main hw thought to be uncontrollable sobbing considering thats what happens when i remember now #but no i spent every moment of that expansion aside from haurchefant dying just going 'ok but when do we see aymeric again' #im motivated by men i find attractive. sue me #MIGHT BE AN UNPOPULAR OPINION BUT I DIDNT?? LIKE??? SHADOWBRINGERS??? #i love g'raha and emet-selch was a wonderful villain and i adore the costume changes & thancred becoming a Dad but like #the overarching plot? #didnt care #you cant drag me into a completely different realm and expect me to CARE #I DONT KNOW ANY OF THESE PEOPLE #im ashamed to admit it but the one thing that got me through the majority pf shb was the fun little 'whats happening in the source' scenes