#sorry if the english is shit too

[nadia-cannot-think-straight]

This is more or less a speculation, not a theory.

I have read some pretty decent post act 3 Arcane fanfics, yet one thing always bothers me a little bit about them. It is an obvious thing that Viktor will return to Zaun at some point, like this is inevitable. The same goes to his falling out with Jayce. Many people have created some cool scenarios on how it will happen, and i appreciate every single one of them.

With that said, i really cannot imagine Viktor getting banished as an event that starts it all. For a simple reason.

I don't think Viktor would have been bitter about it.

With the way he acts in the last episode of season 1, i believe that he'd think it was deserved. The thing he could be charged for would be an illegal experimentation and the manslaughter of Sky Young. Things he feels so guilty about he tried to off himself. He has very little time left, and if the trial is a necessary procedure, he'd probably accept it. Would he be upset? Of course, but i don't think he would even try to put an effort to avoid it, once people find out. And at the peak of panic in Piltover after Jinx's attack, the whatever the hell is left off the council would try to ensure that there is still at least a renmant of government control. Just like in act 1, that was literally the reason why Enforcers were trying to arrest 4 kids.

If anything, i think it would be Jayce who'd be the most desperate in this situation. "He'd be mad at Viktor for killing an innocent person" he literally did the same thing (if you think about it, Jayce have killed so much more people besides that kid, we just don't discuss it because in the show they are presented as scary monsters, not human beings that got drugged the hell up and now have their entire ripcage obligarated. But y'know, that's the point of this scene). "What about Viktor's illegal experimentation?" What Jayce did with Vi was also kinda illegal? I mean, he is a councilor, he can do whatever the fuck he wants ig, but before hand it was clear that other councilors would not want that to happen.

I imagine that Jayce would do anything in his power to cancel this trial. Viktor is his best friend, person who he has such a close bond to. And while what he did was wrong, he isn't much better. Yet it is Viktor, his dying friend, who is punished.

I can see Viktor actually being like: it's okay Jayce, it needs to happen, i will be okay (he's lying but trying).

So yeah i don't think that Viktor being banished to Zaun would be a death blow to their relationship.

Buuuuut you know what would probably make more sense (at least to me :3)?

Viktor's punishment being working on hextech weapons against Zaun.

Think about it. Jayce in an act of desperation convinces other councilors that as a co-founder of Hextech Viktor would be a viable asset in designing weapons that would "protect" Piltover against Zaun.

Well wouldn't that make Viktor absolutely fucking furious. Viktor may have ****kinda**** accepted his death but making him work AGAINST the city he spend his entire life wishing to improve and protect? Over his dead body, he'd rather be eaten alive by rats in Undercity alleys than do such a thing.

It works for me much better because it keeps Jayce's character much more consistent. Like, it's understandable why would he do it (he doesn't want his friend to die) but also highlights his change in priorities after season 1. Like, he told Silco that Undercity doesn't stand a chance against Piltover, and well, one rocket proved hin wrong. Now there are dead people in Piltover. I think he'd be more radical, more bold, maybe even less forgiving and 100% stressed af.

Does he want to keep Viktor safe? Yes. But does he find building weapons is now necessary when they are at war? Also yes. And considering the "I'M from the Undercity" scene he also tends to forget that Viktor is not, in fact, Piltovan, that as much as he loves Jayce, he does not associate with Piltover society. He is from Zaun, it is an important part of his indentity. Something that Jayce keeps neglecting.

It also doesn't change the fact that he still feels guilty over the death of that ONE child. Not the countless men in chemtanks, that are as much victims of Undercity's terrible state as Viktor is really. I think that when he'd make a decisions "a necessary decisions to keep them saved" he'd think about them, scary, crazy monsters with blades. Not that one kid. Kid feels so much more personal, people who attack them-not.

I'm not saying that is how the conflict in season 2 will look like, nuh-uh, it's just me making some fanfiction prompts lmao.

Anything could happened since them. Viktor trying to sabotage their work which would end up in an explosive and dramatic break up once Jayce finds out? Yep, i can see that. Add some fire and leave Viktor crying on concrete floor, now we have some nice parallels. But i can also see Viktor fucking off right there and there, or other stuff i dunno.

So yeah i have fanfic ideas.

#txt #arcane #arcane viktor #jayce talis #jayvik #arcane spoilers #fanfiction prompts #i guess #??? #divorce era #just me brainstorming tbh #btw yes i didn't mention hexcore at all #i just didn't thought it was relevant to this specific plot point #but this shit could probably mess up some stuff too #i am sorry for every grammar mistake too #me not native english speaker me stupid

[tragedykery]

[ID: the prophecy from percy jackson and the lightning thief transcribed into tengwar, tolkien’s elvish script. the prophecy reads:

you shall go west and face the god who has turned / you shall find what was stolen and see it safely returned / you shall be betrayed by one who calls you [a] friend / and you shall fail to save what matters most in the end.

/end ID]

ipa transcription + rambling under the cut!

this was originally practice for my phonemic english tengwar mode with inherent vowel schwa but it got. a bit out of hand lol. tenchnically the mode’s still under construction but that’s mostly bc I’m running into issues with the guide I wrote for it (mainly font & accessibility issues)

both the ipa and the tengwar transcripts are based on how I personally would pronounce the prophecy if I were to read it aloud slowly & carefully. which is to say I don’t sound that much like a stuck up ass irl lmao. the ipa is mostly based on geoff lindsey’s transcription guidelines for standard southern british, with a few adjustments. also I didn’t use stress markers in monosyllabic words bc I’m lazy

ipa (so warning for screenreaders):

jʉw ʃal gəw wɛst and fejs ðə gɔd hʉw has təːnd | jʉw ʃal fɑjnd wɔt wɔs stə́wlən and sij ɪt séjflij rɪtə́ːnd | jʉw ʃal bij bətréjd bɑj wʌn hʉw koːlz jʉw frɛnd | and jʉw ʃal fejl tʉw sejv wɔt mátəz məwst ɪn ðij ɛnd

#realised only as I was writing the image description that I’d forgotten the word ‘a’ in the third line. sad :( #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #riordanverse #percy jackson #r #tengwar #the deviations from geoff lindsey’s transcription guidelines are that I used ej and ij where he uses ɛi and ɪj #to better portray the ‘formal’ accent I’m using here #in colloquial speech I would pronounce it closer to ɛi and ɪj #that said in colloquial speech I do sometimes use ow instead of əw & ɑ or ʌ instead of ɔ #in order to not sound so insufferably poshly british so like. my accent is inconsistent as shit anyway #also I used s instead of z in the words ‘was’ and ‘has’ bc the following sounds are devoiced & so I would devoice the z too #but I’m not sure if this type of voicing assimilation is sth that actually standardly happens in english or if it’s just sth I do bc #it happens in dutch lol #anyway. nerd moment over. sorry

[crazy-fangirl2524]

The reason why English feels so distant and people find it easier to express their feelings and emotions in English is because English has become so common that it loses its meaning. The English language itself has evolved into just a means of translation.

#English itself has kinda lost its beauty like yk what I’m saying ?! #not saying English isn’t beautiful but um sorry compare to other languages English is shit lmao #English basically stole most words from other languages anyways #like idk English has become basic yk?? #I still love English but idk other languages are too underrated #I think what I hate most is how most people (especially native English speakers) don’t bother to learn other languages and thus other cultur #and that frustrates me sm like how can u not love learning other languages?! and thinking one is sufficient??? #how ignorant are u to think that only knowing English is enough when there’s like 7000 languages out there #like I love English with my entire heart but sometimes I wish other languages will be more common too #I wanna force everyone to be fluent in at least two languages like come on that’s bare minimum #ik it’s hard tho but like it’s worth it #English language #English literature #literature #history #English

[yellowocaballero]

I just finished your New Wave fic. I’m convinced everything your write is gold. I loved your TMA fics, with the most heartbreaking demon AU imaginable and the hilarity of Fahrenheit 101. I loved your moon knight fics, starting with Steven talking to animals on the reg at work to the system growing closer with a focus on Jake, i- there’s- it’s sooo much packed into it. When I’m on burnout, of art or writing (maybe life in general at times) I revisit your work and am thrown back into a creative headspace.

You are my favorite writer, you cram so much meaning and thought into your work and it shows. The characters are dumbasses and say the most ridiculous shit and turn around the next chapter and say the most thought provoking thing, and I don’t get whiplash from it because these characters just work! They just do, and I… am very much off track!

Anyways I just got into Batman and reading your fic is fueling that flame! I can’t wait to see what you have in store next, and I shall now stalk your blog for writing tips! I hope you have a nice day broski 💙

Thank you!! This is so sweet thank you so much! This ask is so nice!

Trust me, if there's meaning then it's because I get obsessive over these fics and I massively overthink them. I honestly wish I was better at making simpler, more elegant stories. I feel like nothing I do is truly going to be good until I can find that simplicity.

"Dipshit who says stupid stuff and then turns around and spouts ridiculous philosophy" is just how I talk. But I habitually approach my life from a standpoint of finding humor in everything, if only to soften the blow. I was once told that it's really hard to tell when I'm joking, because everything I say is always half-joking and always half-serious. I feel like that's pretty evident from my narration too...

As for writing advice...um, I was just speaking about this with somebody. When you're plotting a story, the first thing I like to figure out is what I'm trying to say. Everything else should be built around that. The joy of writing is that I think we all have something we want to say, or something we want people to know, or that we have an aspect of ourselves and our lives that we want to express. Most of the time, trying to convey those things verbally just results in a frustrating approximation of your true feelings. I find that when I manage a successful story, the depth and scale of what I'm trying to impart is fully understood and felt. It's rewarding. I think if people aren't understood on some level, by somebody, they kind of die.

Thanks for the sweet ask!!

#dungeon meshi is the peak of storytelling and im not joking #my asks #my writing #(my writing tag is a good place to find my dumb essays!) #i dont consider myself a creative and i barely consider myself a writer #so i professionally have no fucking opinions on art or whatever #also im not sure you can call what i do art in like any meaningful way #but i know a lot of musicians and everything #and so much art is just a person trying to convey something that can't be conveyed through words alone #so much stuff is lost in translation between our brains and our mouths - its like translating english to a foreign language #the meaning can be conveyed but inherently it'll never capture the original meaning exactly in every way #i think art can help you achieve a more perfect translation more than anything else can #you just have to feel like that poor schmuck in j alfred prufrock all the time #'that's not what i meant at all; that is not it - not at all' #JASLKDF sorry for the pretentious tags and also pretentious essay #all i do is write fanfic i dont know shit about this tbh #i just think that idk. there's things in this world that only we know #things that only we can say or understand #and sometimes we have to say them ourselves in our own words #sometimes ppl focus too hard on making their writing sound pretty or correct or 'good' #and they dont focus as much on how pretty writing is a tool to say what youre trying to say more effectively #idk! im sorry for quoting ts eliot some things can't be forgiven etc

[blushinggoku]

Been watching some dbs related videos and I'm sosoo glad I gave up on that anime because oh my god the story gets worse with every arc. Wtf are they even doing anymore

#watched a vid summarizing the granolah arc and literally genuinely what was that #my favorite part was when frieza showed up outta nowhere with a new form he'd cultivated #in a alternate dimension that distorts time in a similar way that the room of space and time does #proceeded to one hit kill the big bad of the week. knock out goku and vegeta for shits and giggles and then dip #hilarious #but it was meant to be totally serious and to show that frieza's totallyyyy a threat again guys for real lets goo round 3 #and that was literally the most interesting part of the arc #Im so mad about the fucking bardock retcon #but not about the hypothetical wish he made. I remember reading somewhere that the English translation of the manga was incorrect #and ik a lot of people argue that the wish he made just retconned the whole message of dragon ball #but thats based on the English version of the manga #also speaking of bardock and retcons related to him Im still livid over the fact that they changed goku's origin story #to be an almost exact ripoff of superman's #and they retconned the start of the saiyan arc with that too #radirz said goku was sent to earth to destroy it as a baby. but now goku was sent to earth on purpose to save his life? #bullshit. I call bullshit #man Im sorry that most of my original posts so far have related to me bitching about Super #I want to engage with dragon ball contentbso bad but how can I when mostly everything is about Super now? #can't even read a good fanfic without goku's character being bastardized and infantalized the way it is in Super #literally fouvd my dream fic the other day but it got ruined 12 chapters in because the writer had started watching super #and completely changed the plit of the fic and goku's character to fit into the world where super resides and it made me want to eat glass #I will be more funny and talk about better dbz related stuff soon I prommy <3 #star scrambles

[philzokman]

just got my exam results back! chuuya nakahara if ur looking for another person to shoot i’m right here 🥰🥰

#literally sobbed though like i cant get into my main two unis if the appeals don’t go through #YAY #HSHANFNWNDHS #i fully don’t understand how i got a b in history though considering i was on target for 100%. #ONE HUNDRED PERCENT DHKDFBKWDN #AND LIKE I DIDNT FUMBLE LN THÉ EXAM EITHER LIKE #got a b in philosophy too whcih. makes sense bc it’s holistically marked but that’s even worse tbf #have no clue how i got an a in music considering i called a mass r&b AND the fact i do vocals and couldn’t speak during my practical exam #bc i was so sick #like i striaght up had the flu. THTE FLU. AND I HAD TO SING shit was so bad #english i got an a in which slay fun love that for me #FRENCH I GOT A C💀💀💀💀💀 #like i expected it. but. aurthur rimbaud if ur here bbg im so sorry #KDHAKDHDHD #losing my mind though bc im order to get into st andrews (my main uni) i needed MINIMUM 3 a’s 2 b’s #and for glasgow i needed at least one a for a humanity which #KDWLFNWKFBEKDBFKWBDJDHDJDHDHSKSHDWKDJWJDHWKSHDKSNDH #it’s fine. it’s great it’ll be fine actually i’m gonna appeal it’ll be fine gnwjcnekfnehsjdmsnsns #AHHFWJDBENCBFND #lea.txt

[beethefallen]

friendly homestuck fandom reminder

in canon, dirk is not a little uwu soft boy that has never done anything/anyone wrong.in canon, nepeta isnt your nya discord kitten. in canon, dave isnt a lil soft pretty boy. in canon, jane isnt a selfless girl. in canon, the majority- if not all of the cast of homestuck, not a single person hasnt been an asshole at some point. 

friendly reminder that, if someone does not like your comfort character/kin for something they did in canon, you do not need to take it personally. or, if you do take it personally, respect this person for their opinions. 

(same goes for ships)

dirkjake wasnt flawless

davekat wasnt your lil soft gay babies

and the list goes on. (i dont hate these ships btw i love dirkjake content)

((before you get mad at me-))

can you pretend all is fine in headcanon and fan content? absolutely. dont let me stop you there. but please remember source material when interacting with the fandom.

please remember that there are people who have real life experiences, and will often relate to certain characters for certain reasons while hating other characters for very, very personal reasons.

it is not your place to fix their opinion, or yell at them.

every homestuck character is an asshole (at some point). yes, even that one, yup, that one too.

if someone says, “hey, this character makes me very uncomfortable” do not say “omg how dare you they are my biggest kin!!!”

instead, respect it, and talk about the character to someone else. your interpretation is not another’s. 

this goes for every fandom.

#sorry i had to get this off my chest #ive just been seeing way too much shit lately #homestuck #homestuck ships #dirk strider #roxy lalonde #dave strider #jake english #homestuck headcanons #nepeta leijon #jane crocker #karkat vantas #dirkjake #davekat

[running-in-the-dark]

oh! my nephew stayed here last night, and he told me that his grandma's partner - the most annoying, conceited, boring man I have ever met - said he doesn't like it that I always contradict him :)

I've met this guy maybe... 5-10 times total? and every time he manages to say something even more stupid than the last! it's almost impressive! like, he thinks he knows everything. and no one ever says anything, they just let him talk because it's not worth it (I know that because almost every one of them has told me this).

but I get too pissed off when it's something I care about. and I'm an adult now, I can talk back to shitty adults, I don't give a fuck.

anyway, I just think it's absolutely hilarious that he feels that way and now I'll do it even more often :) it's very fun when I ask him what his sources are for what he's saying and he just stammers some bullshit and tries to say that's not the point (pretty sure it's 100% telegram and tik tok, because that's the kind of useless old guy he is).

#some fun recent examples include... my niece gave back my rainbow high doll. he saw it and commented that it's disgusting that dolls #sexualise little girls like that because of crop tops and high heels and makeup and garter belts. what the fuck man. no one is sexualising #anything except YOU #that's a fashion doll. meant to be like 15. wearing fun pretty clothes and colourful makeup. if you look at that and think oh that's #too sexy. then I'm sorry but that's YOUR problem #(and garter belts??? it was some decoration hanging off her skirt what the fuck.) #he didn't like it when I said that no one ever says toys for boys have to be good role models :) #got realllly pissy when I wouldn't stop :) like hello dude you know there's something you can do if you don't want anyone to respond to your #fucking bullshit right? it's called THINKING. just keep that shit in your head #I'll keep doing this until he no longer wants to say dumb shit when I'm around :) (so. forever probably. but he's old he'll die before me so #it'll be fine). #oh and one time he tried to convince us that regular people in the UK are better off since Brexit. hello? dude you don't speak a damn word #of English. you barely know how to order a drink or something. how the fuck would you know #it drives me insane. he couldn't be any more mediocre and stupid if he tried. yet he thinks he's the greatest person ever #can't fucking stand him #and men like him in general. (yes it is only ever men. women like my mother are similar but they're never this fucking sure of their shitty #opinions.) #(in fact they usually give up way too easily. in my experience at least.)

[leapingthroughworlds]

okay so perhaps it's cause it's 1am rn where i live but have yall ever stopped to really think that we are currently living?? like ok i know that i exist ykno, i see things and i say shit or whatever. but to really think that this is A Life and (in my personal perception of things) our Only One at that?????? that's just bonkers. and really weird imo. aaandd alternatively, also other people's one-life. so we're all currently giving our best shots at living and not just existing while interacting with other people, and that in turn affects both our own little bubbles of life if that makes any sense. it may be that i'm too self-centered but sometimes it's just really difficult to conceive that this world is Something and that we're all in it – as in, outside of my room and on the other side of this screen there are loads other individuals with thoughts and preferences and stories to tell during this relatively short period of time that they're still breathing

#i might have gone too far with this one. i admit it #i just really thing about this life thing a lot a lot #yesterday i had sort of a breakdown bc i realized that the tile in my bathroom was Real and had a 'history' #that's just shit #this dying thing but also not knowing if until then you're living properly #yeah i'm sorry if anyone really does get to read this. i cant express myself properly in english specially in this existentialism(?) matter #rants

[theghostofashton]

.

#the genre of posts that's like 'stop being so demanding about people pronouncing foreign names our mouths can't move like that' is just so. #like i'm sorry but this is not a real problem #it truly is not a real problem that people are too mean about wanting their names pronounced correctly #as if that's been a demand forever and not something that's just becoming more of a thing as of the last few years #the default for decades has been putting up w anglicization even when we didn't want it or it butchered our languages #because that's easier and how dare we ask people to put in the effort #so now that people are pushing back and being like no this is how my name is pronounced we end up being told we're demanding #and we're all just assholes looking for ways to be mean to the poor english speakers who can't say them right #we can tell when you're trying and we can tell when you're not and the idea that the former is more common is literally ridiculous #the most regular occurrence for me is people pronouncing my name correctly at first and then suddenly anglicizing it for no reason #they have demonstrated that they can say it correctly. they just choose not to. #that is the default #not to mention poc not being able to pronounce english words correctly or not knowing how to pronounce them get way more shit lol #idk like i am never trying to be mean #i have so much respect for the people who try because most people do not #and it is so endlessly frustrating to see this framed as us being assholes when we're simply tired of putting up with this #sorry i saw a post that made me mad lol #delete later

[mishkakagehishka]

But actually finally Neo doesn't have to keep trying to explain how the twins' eyebrows are different

#this one's funny enough i can post it in english too #sorry for being absolute shit at telling anime charas apart do you know how long it took me to tell koga and izumi apart? yeah

[priceofreedom]

“zack is an irrelevant NPC”

“when will his stans accept that he is dead and no one cares about him”

he is

irrelevant

#sorry if this come off as toxic but i'm celebrating this shit :) #all these trailers were such a slap in the face of the haters i'm enjoying it ngl #i've seen too much hate towards him in the past years so i'm super happy all of this happened <3 #zack fair #my post #to the haters* i can't english lmfao #i barely woke up today

[deepfriedseagullfeet]

while were talking about homestuck stuff something that really fucking bothers me about the epilogues is how jane and jake got married. like it really felt at the time that jake was just going along with janes proposal cause he did like her and wanted her to be happy. and then she turned into a very evil and practically abusive person that jake put up with cause hussie Really Hates Jake and he is just Stupid and Complacent apparently.

idk if anyone else remembers the Crockertier Jane thing where she kidnapped jake and put him in jail and then proceeded to tell him that he would be her partner who she would bear many children with and he had no say in that and he freaked out when she tried kissing him, saying something along the lines of "i am a man not a piece of meat" and also he was crying during all of that. but i sure fucking do and i really hate that they got together.

#sorry ive been following a few jake stans and what can i say. theyre all right #like why does hussie hate him so much. hes just a boy. he couldve been so interesting #homestuck #jake english #tw sa mention #fuck the epilogues all my homies HATE the epilogues #this though. this was the thing that i hated the most #besides everyone getting butchered and also the gamzee and jane thing. that sucked shit too

[viiridiangreen]

yes hello i'm tempted to actually Flesh Out OCs 4 the first time around the seraph / haruspex / queensguard titles..........................

#i love these titles it's ALL vibes no bragging rights. makes the fake geek bros mad. marks me as rasputin / eris / mara's little pogchamp #viitalks #MAYBE...... #*hsm voice* i don't write tho #<- has literally never Written A Little Guy Into Existence #i've been around the concept for over a decade tho it's just. scawwy #like i started out designing a bunch of little creatures for ppl to buy for like 5 bucks on deviantart #but i could never like. sit down & play w/ the dolls bc i was constantly fucken supervised & inconsistently online #like i'd get screen time for a while & then it'd be confiscated for a couple days or a couple weeks like #it was super inconsistent so i always had a hard time like... reaching out + sticking w/ people bc of like shyness & fomo #english-as-a-second-language shit too lol my folks were Weird abt that as mexicans who wanted to stay in the uk rly rly bad #like they tried sooo hard to Not Be Like The Other Thirdworlders but still didn't get picked....... so they made me Weird abt english #& anglophone spaces. & that took (is taking?) A While to unpack oops #sorry if it's Always Trauma Processing Hours Here lol it's just. do i look like i can afford therapy to u

[whiskeysorrows]

Who knows that it only takes 2 days of exams for me to want to try and drown myself again

#tw sui vent #i mean i predicted it but now i want to kill myself so bad #want to cut too and break my clean streak so bad #fuck fuck fuck #and i have english exam forst thing tomorrow and i haven't revised and im probably going to fail and die miserably anyway #rambles #mortem sibi consciscere #im sorry i usually don't vent this shit on this blog