#she's talking like a writer

[the-bi-fangirl-biatch]

the entire season they've shown sylvie perpetually being okay to just walk away from the fray and getting no consequences whatsoever. which would be ok since she doesn't rlly care about them like loki does. but in the end she just moves on so fast after she watched loki isolate himself and go off JUST to fix her mistake.......

meanwhile mobius is there, frozen in that time, left behind by the person he's an "expert" on not only bc of his job but bc of their friendship, him quitting the job that was his entire life, because loki has left and his previous purpose didn't have loki anymore

it's just fucked up how everyone else got their happy endings (good for them) except for loki and mobius. they're apart, separated once again, looking miserable in their last shots. just like last season.

#hhnnggg i dont hate sylvie i think she deserves peace and to rest #but the fact that loki had to sacrifice everything he's work on (his friends. his changing. the love of his life) just to fix HER mistake #marvel why the hell do you hate loki huh why do you keep making him lose everything #idc sure his arc has changed but what does he get? what's his reward? doesn't he deserve something too in the end? yes he fucking does #loki: i dont want a throne i want my friends back #writers: ok here's a throne where you're lonely asf and are at risk to end up like HWR who's been isolated for so long too #also fuck your friends and your lover #LIKE?!?!?!?!?!?!? #(if anyone wants to chat i beg of you please dont hesitate) #tag talk #loki tv show #loki tv series #loki tv #loki season 2 #loki series #loki show #loki season two #lokius #mobius x loki #loki x mobius #anti sylki #not really anti HER but it was so unfair

[heroesriseandfall]

I think if a fanfic says Cass is in Hong Kong the writer should be obligated to explain exactly why she is in Hong Kong and the answer cannot be “I didn’t bother learning anything about her so I shoved her in HK to avoid writing her.”

#in the sense that it actually impacted her canonically it was worse from comics writers #but the massive nonsensical extent it’s used in some parts of fanon is it’s own kind of frustrating. #after it’s already be fully resolved in canon too!!! like why would she be there now!!!! #if you wanna write cass please read batgirl (2000). what am I if not a batgirl 2000 propaganda machine #and for cass talking about home & coming back to Gotham go read Batman gates of gotham you will not regret it #heroesriseandfall #cassandra cain #batfam

[laufire]

"batman is first and foremost about rehabilitation and the possibility of redemption for everyone-" is he. is he really, though. when he clearly believes "criminal" is some personality trait divorced from circumstances and goes around calling goons "scum" and acts as if killing once, even under extreme circumstances that are not at all their fault, taints someone forever?

#see: when he finds out cass was made to kill once as a child #he's witnessed cass's current reverence for life and yet he has a fucking meltdown about it because ''she *was* perfect'' #and that's just one example. #like canon is extensive. there are examples for anything and what you cherry pick to read will influence what you believe #the truth of the matter is that the bulk of what *i* have read shows me this lol #like even in comics where he touts this line some of it (his classism and utter disdain regarding criminals for one) still shows #(often in reflection of a writer's values for sure) #and i can reconcile it as... change is something he WANTS to believe is possible. he TRIES to believe it. but he doesn't. #but i can't agree this is his core #there's also the fact that even if it was he'd often display unbelievable carelessness towards rogue's victims due to it #but that's a whole other topic #and this is all something he teaches to those under his tutelage btw. this is something all bats follow to some extent #talking to the void #my thoughts #dc #dc thoughts #dc comics #bruce wayne #i might be opening a can of worms with this one but i needed it off my chest lol

[project-sekai-facts]

i find it funny how minori is probably the character with the best mental health/most positive and least angsty personal story in the game (i thought kohane was but i decided minori wasnt as bad off) and dont get me wrong both minori and kohane go through some shit but honestly compared to everyone else they seem to be doing the best mentally

Minori and Kohane really out there with the best mental health in the game meanwhile everyone else has been put Through It. Especially An like I thought we were meant to be getting better she's getting worse

#asks #mod talks #like An really got punched in the gut when you think about it. she started off with basically a perfect life and nothing ever went wrong #and the writers completely deconstructed that. especially once they added Nagi to the story

[existencebringsonlypain]

I love hyperfixations. you can be playing a video game and there's a character you can interact at most twice, and you only see them in ONE scene, and they are of no significance whatsoever, and everyone who plays will be like "oh yeah that's jockington, he love sports. one time when they didn't give Catti a hoola-hoop during gym class she just used him instead" like we have NO REASON to know that. WHY do we know that

#that's also partially because Toby is such a masterclass writer #his characters are endearing and memorable #and we know details about them even if they're people you talk to once #his npcs and side characters aren't flat billboards with a face on them. they're characters #they have personalities #and THAT is a big part of what makes all of his games so GOOD #the characters may be made for the story but they are not plot devices. they aren't props #they are people #and it's SO GOOD #like. you can imagine a world where we befriended catti instead of susie. she says next to nothing to us and yet we know her #it's. so. good. #nutdealer posting #deltarune #utdr

[pattarainn]

I just want to see them happily retiring together, with him as a Battlestar Commander turned househusband, and her as the Secretary of Education, a working wife. Then, years later, a party asks her to run for presidency, and she gets elected, and they become the unstoppable power couple they are.

(Also not me, trying to write a fanfic where they first meet at the Galactica decommissioning ceremony and then fall in love. Adar regrets losing her, especially to an aging soldier he deems unworthy and socially inferior.

He even insults them, saying she's playing a matador, messing around with a Tauron bull, and trying to SA her. But she punches him in the face (because Bill taught her boxing skill), and it's all caught on camera. Suddenly, she's the talk of the town, praised for defending herself against assault and becomes the new face of #metoo.

And Tauron people all become fans of her because she chose to defend her Tauron partner and chose him over the frakking President of the Twelve Colonies himself. And baby Kyliegh Curran as Lenore Usher, may or may not be their granddaughter from Lee and Dee, who's so close to and loved by her grandparents <3

But since English isn't my first language and I'm so busy with work and adulthood, I don't even know if I could find time to continue drafting this shite. I just love Roslin x Adama in AUs without the attack soooo sooo bad.)

#bsg #battlestar galactica #roslin x adama #laura roslin #bill adama #alternate universe #note to self #talk to myself #thanks fellow tumblr users for the gifs #can smb write this for me instead i'm so tired of not being able to use proper english lmao #also in this fic she's a mysterious mystery writer who no one knows the real name/face/gender like at all #and is bill's fav author #heehee not him dating his fav author unknowingly at first

[astrobei]

every byler creator who has ever felt unappreciated or has never seen their work on a rec list or has stayed awake for hours working on something for it to get no interaction or has had their work passed up in favor of the big fandom favorites or has never been taken a chance on or has ever come last in a poll they didn’t ask to be on or has felt self conscious about posting or about calling themselves a creator if what they’re posting is not a magnum opus or has created something for themselves and still hoped deep down that people would love it: get behind me. i’ll protect u

#i’m five foot three and terrified of confrontation but i’ll go down swinging #andi would like me to add that she and i are standing on top of each other in a trench coat fighting for u all #thea is also wearing a trench coat but it’s just her and tutter in there #u all better fear thea’s fully developed frontal lobe and streamlined leadership experience (her words) #but seriously guys like #maybe i’m taking fandom too seriously or whatever but i know how scary it can be to put urself out there #especially in fandom spaces where the whole point is u want to enjoy urself and be accepted and not be judged #i’d be lying if i said that luck and timing wasn’t a huge part of why ppl enjoy my fics #and i’m flattered that my name shows up in rec lists a lot but. there are so so so many talented writers that go unnoticed when ppl fixate #on the same 5-6 names #and i know bc i’ve been them for other fandoms! #especially in this community there is such a big issue with putting big creators up on a pedestal #expecting them to be perfect and to keep churning out high quality stuff for free on demand #twt is something else too . like i’m not even talking abt that rn #and people always saying stuff like #‘atp i refuse to read fics unless they’re by _ or _ or _’ #just know that even if u are not one of these names u are so so valued and appreciated #get behind me fr #ok Bye <3333333 #🫂 #byler #/astro posts

[bonebabbles]

Slash's Famous Scene

Here we are, lads. Everyone's favorite scene in the totally best arc of WC. The one where Slash pins a pregnant woman to the ground and licks her face, while threatening her fetuses and cutting her cheek open so Clear Sky can have more man pain.

So far I've been using "fridging" as synonymous with the brutal killing of a female character to advance a male character's arc; but I do want to remind everyone that the term "fridging" describes disproportionate violence done to women in the service of their husband/brother/father/son's arcs. It doesn't HAVE to be death; it can also be battery, maiming, depowering, or sexual assault.

So far, 8 women have died to serve male arcs, most of them for Clear Sky specifically. Fluttering Bird, Bright Stream, Storm, Misty, Bumble, Turtle Tail, Rainswept Flower, and Petal. Now Star Flower gets sexually harassed and kidnapped, bringing the arc's fridge total to 9.

Anyway content warning, obviously. It's still Warrior Cats and doesn't get too graphic, but this bag contains a dead dove.

First, Clear Sky gets another toesucking from the ghost of his wife who died after leaving his controlling ass. Specifically, after he threw his disabled brother out of his Clan, and after his lust for seeing random people (including his brother) get mauled at the border resulted in the death of Fox.

She tells him that his behavior never drove anyone away, it was all totally not his fault. I'm waiting for a laugh track and it never comes. The apologetics in this arc are unrivaled.

Then, Clear Sky wakes up and his pregnant wife is not next to him. So he goes looking for her and sees her being flanked by Slash and his memorable minions, Grunt 1 and Grunt 2. Star Flower is so possessed by fear that she doesn't move.

They REALLY need to sell that Slash is TRUE evil, PURE evil, because of the wet fart that is Clear Sky's redemption arc. They're saying that Clear Sky ISN'T bad, because he is not this. A dirty, sadistic monster who coos evilly about how he's going to hurt the kittens in his wife's belly and cruelly twitches his whiskers.

(as a petty side detail, please also note that this passage cannot even keep Slash's fur color straight. Behold, a cat so evil that he cannot even remain a brown tabby! He turns gray when he commits nefarious deeds! Ashfurification included!)

Star Flower is the one being pinned to the ground and having her face cut open as Slash screams about how she promised her father she'd be his mate, but this scene is about Clear Sky's distress. Star Flower is an object to this narrative, which these two men are in conflict over.

The pinning, the violence, the sexual implications, are being done to make Slash as monstrous as possible to contrast to Clear Sky. Slash doesn't kill anyone, so the narrative needs to make you SO UPSET your emotions are thrown into overdrive, so you'll accept how truly terrible he is.

The simple truth that this rancid book is trying to make you ignore, is that Clear Sky is exponentially more deadly. He has caused harm so unspeakable that they have to describe his bloody murders in passive voice. They "died" now, instead of "were killed," and the violent system he created is presented as "making up" for the trauma he's caused to the survivors.

"Pushing his muzzle close to her injured cheek, he licked the blood from her fur with a long, lingering lap."

Think critically about the characters they are presenting and the actions they make them do. None of these are real people. They are writing choices. They have portrayed Slash as a perverted, domineering, child-abusing savage, so Clear Sky the Settler can look good in comparison.

then Star Flower gets dragged off, kicking and struggling, feeble and completely unable to defend herself as clear sky thinks about how she might die along with his fetuses.

Obviously Clear Sky is so very stressed out by all this and needs to blow off some steam, so he smacks the nearest woman and starts screeching about how Star Flower is more loyal than the son he abuses

The first thing he does after the Slash event was physically assault the nearest woman. I can't... I don't have the words. Are you seeing this. Do you see what I am fucking dealing with. literally the first woman he sees.

"DOES THAT FEEL LIKE AN ACT??" He bellowed like a fucking wifebeater at the girl whose face is bleeding because he cut her in a fit of rage. That's fine as long as you don't lustfully lick it afterwards I guess!!!

#dotc hate #bones reads dotc #Slash dotc #this arc is going to END me #ill also get into how slash's description of events is a lie #but the fact he is a liar and pulling a bluff is a plot point later #Starf is around the same age as Thunder based on her order of events and Clear describes her as 'young' #Starf also does not lie. They talk about 'manipulation' and 'betrayal' but no. she's very honest #the only misleading she ever does is through vagueness like when thunder asks her 'do you know one eye' #and she says 'yes' but doesn't elaborate #a woman will have absolutely no choice in her actions and do nothing wrong by telling her dad about an assassination attempt #and the writers will put that on the same level as a man who beats kids and kills women and commits war crimes

[writer-room]

I’m personally imagining Jay and Cole somewhere off in the desert sitting around a campfire. Just chilling silently in the dead of night as coyotes howl in the distance. There is not a single thought in either of their heads and in the next ten minutes they’re probably gonna start fist fighting in the sand again over something petty.

Pixal meanwhile can be seen over the distant horizon in mech suit she built out of rusty pipes and a piece of lint. It’s somehow managing to hold off a giant monstrosity from the depths of hell with one hand while she researches how to make an even cooler Bounty 3 electric boogaloo with the other. She hasn’t interacted with a sentient being in months.

#ninjago #lego ninjago #dragons rising #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago cole #ninjago jay #ninjago pixal #jay walker #cole brookstone #ideas #headcanons #memes #jokes #talk #text post #holding the ninjago writers by the shoulders please dont forget about pixal PLEASE DONT FORGET ABOUT #i realize cole and jay probably arent anywhere near each other but it would be funny if theyre just #duking it out in the middle of nowhere. theyre not even really that mad theyre just annoyed and felt like it #i think its funnier if pixal knows exactly where cole & jay are but she hasnt at all told them shes also alive #it just didnt cross her mind. she didnt think about interacting with people. she just went 'oh hey' and then went right on #shes busy tring to find her dad borg. and also hopefully zane. mostly because shes very concerned hes gonna get himself killed again #at this point im sure she fully knows that the ninja are drawn to death like moths to a flame but zane ESPECIALLY is awful #jay is weirdly very unkillable and cole DID die that one time but then he came back so she figures theyll be fine #you know that she avoids imperium like the plague cause she thinks theyre stuck-ups. she didnt even know about the dragon harming #she just thought they were all prissy and hated them on principle. cole and jay meanwhile dont even know what imperium is #jay is just facedown in the sand missing his girlboss nya and cole is living his best life because there are DRAGONS HERE HE CAN PET

[landlordevil]

strangely the writers hate gale for completely different reasons but still don't make jokes about how we all want to fuck mystra. in EA if you made that kind of joke about cazador in front of astarion he threatens to kill you. as he SHOULD.

#it's mind boggling to read half of these listicles and interviews #and see the writers themselves encourage just awful takes #from ''let's only talk about how hot the women are and not their stories and character development'' #to ''even if you don't like wyll recruit him so you get mizora!'' #to ''yeah karlach's main character trait is 'labrador' what do you mean she has greater depths than that'' #there's so many funny jokes and memes about the game that don't fall into these categories. just get good jokes?

[lunarharp]

"Found out" set in kind of a made-up chapter where the girls are in trouble, or something.

#witch hat tag #orufrey #i hate having a strong cinematic image in your mind for months..working hours on it..& at the end looking you have to be like “Sure. :/" #i'm especially unsatisfied with the beginning and the end and how i can't get eyebrows to work as i want #but i dont care any more... this is probably the comic that has given me the most trouble ever i just dont care #i barely even care whatsoever if anyone even sees this..Ugh..but at least i can move on to the next era now #i'm just annoyed i cant get out good enough my image of qifrey flinching bc he thinks oru will hit him but then he is not hit #i feel like sensei will do something along these lines. i want to see what she will do. #there are also other variations i have in my mind. i just want to know #i just don't want it to happen with qifrey on his deathbed or something. but it possibly will. I DONT EVEN KNOW. #i have another very cinematic image in my mind for something sort of along those lines which i will do soon. it never ends... #btw after this is probably my fics. yeah.... i think it has to be my fics. jasmine sort of goes along these lines #i need that space for dialogue. look - i'm a writer. this is HARD for me. so i am really glad i had the space and freedom of words #to process all the feelings. but i tried to get something out in a quick visual space too. <- me defending myself to myself at cai court #anyway going along the lines of 'Jasmine' - they talk this out and argue and cry and oru pushes the hat at him and tells him #why not just erase every memory i have of you then. That would be easier for us all wouldn't it? #they kiss and sob and kiss and lie outside in the flowers for many hours in that one. and then there's 'Deep End' where it turns out #way way way way more time and words is needed for this actually and that's upsetting for everyone. #the destruction of the hat is certainly another path to take. Can you make this work without that hat going up in flames? #something you have always had and have been clinging to will have to be destroyed. You have to lose something now. This is the crux qifrey #I CANT GET IT OUT IN ONE COMIC!!! I CANT DRAW IT OUT!!!! I NEEDED THOSE FICS!!!! PRAISE WORDS!!!! whatever im going to have dinner now

[jakeperalta]

i think sometimes swifties can unintentionally have a weird reaction to taylor working with more than one or two cowriters on a song. like i get that we all love solo written stuff but it’s not 2010 anymore we all know she can easily write entire albums by herself... clearly if she has a higher number of people in the room it’s because she wants them there to push her creatively or bring out a different side to her as a writer or just because she enjoys the experience of collaborating!

#i feel like we're all defensive over her as a respected writer #and it's obviously a point of pride that she doesn't need a bunch of cowriters on every song #but that doesn't necessarily make it a negative when she does choose to have more people writing together #talking #taylor swift

[mariathechosen1]

“Babygirl can only be used about male characte-“

What about her???

#I love her #she’s so babygirl!!!! #she’s also very dyke-coded #@slow horses writers give her a girlfriend!! #I think she should have a deeply toxic homoerotic rivalry like the rest of the slow horses ensemble #shirley dander #slow horses #maria talks about things

[homosekularnost]

pov youre having another meeting with the annoying academics & this person in the back looks kinda familiar

#im abt to reread network effect just for this does she know what it looks like???? do you think shell ever find out what happened????? #my dream for leonide is for system collapse to irrevocably alter her worldview and she finds herself unable to do her work as efficiently #cause shes constantly wondering what the secunits are thinking about the people etc etc she starts trying to make conversation with them #she ends up getting rescued by mbs humans again when the secunits take over the be ship and leave her on some colony #and then when shes unemployed (because she lost sm equipment or whatever) and forced to take up a job at pumnt they do tell her #& then she doesnt talk to anyone for twenty days #(also shes fucking. like so much.) (<- in any fic writer is taking inspo. please note) #the murderbot diaries #system collapse #system collapse spoilers #leonide #three #my art

[asteracaea]

i know this isn't what she says* but i just love thinking about the phrase

In a world of boys, she's a gentleman

#especially because we always talk about how karlie is such a gentleman #*i def believe taylor switches pronouns in her songs from what she MEANS to what is socially acceptable aka straight #just like emily dickinson did... #and many many other sapphic writers #'slut!' #1989 tv #kaylor #gaylor #gaylor swift

[teeth-draws]

“What do you mean he’s scary!! Look at him!”

— taking artistic liberties to scrunkle the face of @shepherds-of-haven’s Blade Bronwyn - a man with 0.6% body fat lol

#shepherds of haven #if games #blade bronwyn #this is mc privelage at work #hc mcs but especially the ladies are like no he’s fine!! look he’s a lamb!! but if someone else tried this they’d get their wrists broken #being an artist (like being a writer) makes your proclivities rly obvious because in this instance you can tell that I love #babying men who could kickflip me into the sun #picking fights with famed assassins like… wow blade ur so confident for your height! and leave #blade likes girls with good hearts and Halle is not quite that but she IS an efficient worker so she always comes back with the win… #and a bunch of rescued orphans and mages and stuff it’s… not a reflection of her personality but rather her work ethic which even then #is reluctant and put-upon #she didn’t want to be a captain let alone commander she was meant to be using this gang of do-gooders to fulfil her fate and then bounce #but they’re all so wholesome and now she loves them despite her better judgement #and he’s so cute!! with his poetry and plants and the googly-eyed clam he keeps on his desk and talks to about his feelings!! #what’s a girl to do? #there’s only so strong you can be in the face of a man who tells you straight-faced he’d mcfucking die for you #talking the talk and walking the walk even to the most wary of wilderness orphans #as always blade you are a nightmare to draw I lost sleep over your skin tone #my foe of four years aka blade’s left elbow is cunningly hidden #their child would be a serious force of nature and also really tall #fanart #shoh #can you imagine the name? between austere ket names and whack mage names… #these are my parents: blade and halwendi. my name is steele mechanicus and I DONT want to talk about it #just realised that if his brother saw this shit he’d get blade stoned for being a public hussy gosh sorry better make an honest man of him #new blade hairstyle is a shaggy wolfcut bc I think it’s cute on him lmao #this is a really autistic couple honestly #not quite sure where to put his hands #like when you flip a shark upside down