#superb thoughts

[fictionadventurer]

Have I mentioned lately that creating AUs is the most fun thing ever? You get to take a story you love and then mash it against another type of story you love and fit all their pieces together like they're a jigsaw puzzle. You get to find all the unexpected points of similarity where the stories fit together really well, and see the places where their differences change and make commentary on the original stories/genres in really interesting ways.

And then once you fit the pieces together, you get to look at the new world you've made and see how these characters in this specific world have different conflicts and explore new themes, and you get to play with another level of puzzles as you figure out what this means for this story.

It's the most fun ever. It's my favorite game.

#random thought of the day #adventures in writing #this goes for both fairy tale retellings and for aus of specific shows/novels #this last week was a week for aus #between the north and south sci fi au coming up again #making up a northanger abbey fantasy au #coming up with a new angle for retelling maid maleen #and having tons of new insight in how to rework a story that's a retelling of cinderella and three different austen novels #plus looking back on the powers and prejudice au #this is just such a great game #the moment when the pieces click into place in a way that makes both elements make sense #there's nothing quite as satisfying #to some extent this applies to plotting original fiction #but it's a different feeling when you're making an au of something #because you don't just get to work with malleable clay #you have specific pre-formed pieces #so you get the challenge of figuring out how to fit them together without damaging either one too much #and when you find the way they fit together it makes you appreciate both stories in a new way #plus it makes you feel clever for making the connection #astounding superb wondrous past time

[asteroidtroglodyte]

#superb owl #Super Bowl #troglodyte thoughts #free range sustainable shitpost

[noughticalcrossings]

Dragon Sickness

Inktober day 27. Beast

I will not part with a single coin

#my art #inktober #the hobbit #thorin oakenshield #say what you will about these movies but the way they played thorin’s growing descent into obsession was superb #that said the poor guy never gets any proper warnings and it’s all couched in #“the dwarves were greedy and deserved what they got #which isn’t how economy works #you’ve got to have a demand for the supply to be outstripped #either way #i thought it would be fun to make him more dragon-like #draconic #that was the word i was looking for #the hobbit art #Thorin Oakenshield art

[aghoulprince]

new favorite 2 seconds of twin peaks just dropped:

#i'm rewatching twin peaks and holy shit i love this show soooooo much #the comedy of this is superb i totally didn't remember this show being this funny #twin peaks #my thoughts #also this is just perfect: his outfit + the whole look of the great northern + the drawing of the weasel + HE'S JUST EATING CELERY????

[usedtobecooler]

from this trailer alone it’s clear as day eric is dying lmao

#like. cmon #also the eddie-eric screaming parallel was incredible #like truly superb #candy has thoughts

[shedontlovehuhself]

10 year old Misha asking his mom to make him a purple baret because he watched and loved Purple Rain.🥺🥺💜

#why is he so damn endearing #he thought prince was cool and wanted to dress like him #misha collins #also superb music taste mister collins! #six year old me was loving purple rain in 84! #going around singing darling nicky🥴 #misha #prince

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

I'll tell you one thing about the British though is they've got me saying "advert". We were flipping channels and came to the one with the Superb Owl and I was like "oh we could check out the adverts". It just came out, but to their credit, it does sound better than ads I think. For one thing I mean at least it isn't like completely indistinguishable from abs. I dunno, there's just a flow to it; it has a nice inflection. Advert. I knew I was reading too much Doctor Who fanfic the other day, lol. I've got to be the first person to call them the super bowl adverts.

#I know I'm probably not but it's funny to think I could be #I feel like my grammar is atrocious in this and I should edit it but also I think it's probably funnier #if I just leave it straight stream of consciousness as it came out #organic Tumblr posting #as it were #my rambling thoughts #actually my tag for that is #I ramble #Super Bowl #Superb Owl #adverts #speaking British #Britishly #lol #even in the tags i ramble #<- I hate how if I let tumblr complete the tag for me it uncapitalizes the I #anyways #funny linguistic things #I will give the British points for this one word

[toadminako]

I watched the leaked WWDITS S4 episodes 9 and 10 and I’m now going to word-vomit out my thoughts, but I’ll do it under the cut ‘cause I got manners. DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED

Well… That was a bummer.

OK, let’s list the things I did like about the final 2 episodes first:

Al Roberts is a sweetheart as Freddie and gets to do some very funny comedy with what happens in the back half of episode 9.

We get lots more Guide and Nadja (Guidja?) scenes. They’re so delightful together, I love Kristen Schaal and we get to see Nadja being a messy bitch a falling all over the place again.

Laszlo’s empty-nest desperation at child-Colin growing up is funny, sweet, sad and well-acted. Matt Berry really getting to show his acting chops again for this finale.

But here’s the thing…

I get that, narrative-wise, Nandor would have to do something terrible to drive Guillermo away properly; they set that up immediately in episode one that Guillermo was already set to leave and was just holding on to help with the wedding and raising Colin. But the awful thing that Nandor does is just… Too awful, in my opinion?

It’s a thoughtless thing to do to Guillermo, yes (and thoughtless in a way that seems more in-character for season 1-2 Nandor, not season 4 Nandor) but it’s a HORRIBLE thing to do to Marwa, like it has genuinely upset me. She had her personality slowly chipped away at, only to finally be subsumed into a different person entirely. An almost textbook example of “death of personality”.

I get that she was always going to be a side-character and more an accessory to Nandor’s arc this season, but we saw little glimpses of her finding things she loved for herself (watching Mamma Mia with the girls) and little glimmers of her fighting back against Nandor (locking him out of the man-cave) and now she doesn’t even get the chance to escape and live her own life? What the FUCK man?

Yes I know the cast are all goofy serial killers, but what happens to Marwa – being Djinned out of existence after we’ve got to know her, even if only a little bit – just leaves a nasty taste in my mouth. I hope this plot thread returns in some way and we get to see the real Marwa come back in some form.

I just wanted some kind of actualisation for Nandor, some recognition of what he actually wants and what he actually needs to change about himself. I’m not saying I wanted a Nandermo kiss, but I at least wanted Nandor to have a genuine moment of realisation. Not even realising what he feels for Guillermo is love necessarily, but at least realising that he values Guillermo as more than just a familiar-friend-bodyguard-best-man. He makes some very stupid attempts at making amends at the end of ep 9, but by ep 10 he’s just regressed to being an aloof asshole which is what finally drives Guillermo away. If they were going to follow through on his character development in season 3 and 4, he should at least have offered to make Guillermo a vampire, or held out some other genuine olive branch to him (like he tried to do at the end of S3).

They really appeared to be setting up an “Oh” moment for Nandor (how much sweeter they are together for much of the season, the dick wish, Marwa-as-Nandor kissing Guillermo), then just totally dropped the ball and made Nandor do something that seems uncharacteristically selfish, even for him.

And I GET it, we need the impetus for Guillermo to leave and find someone else to make him a vampire. And I DO like that they’re finally acknowledging that Guillermo knows plenty of vampires willing to turn him. And I LOVE that we’re probably going to be seeing more of Derek in the future but…

Yeah. I’m disappointed.

“Guillermo might finally be turned” is a great cliffhanger, but honestly? After how they totally wasted the “Guillermo and Nadja go to London” cliffhanger in season 3, I’m not sure I trust them fully to follow through on it.

TLDR: I am dissatisfied by this finale, and depressed by that.  

#I'll review my thoughts when the episodes air #but my initial reaction is :\ #most of season 4 has been superb so this is a downer note to leave it on #wwdits #wwdits s4 #wwdits leaks #wwdits spoilers #wwdits s4 leaks #wwdits s4 spoilers

[bernie-the-nugget]

GROUNDED FANDOM-

RISE!

Did a bunch of drawings of Pete-

my favourite boooooyyy

I adore him so much and I love that he is voiced by Max Mittelman 👀💕 (my sis noticed that Pete's voice sounds familiar and then only after she told me it is Max I realized and my heart opened up since Max also voices my fav Genshin boy 👁👁💕)

Hwr- words can not describe how much I love Pete for his dorky- and nerdiness! I adore everything he says 😫👌💕

I also saw that a lot people complain about the same voicelines 👁👁

as a passionate genshin player I just can say-

"Osmanthus wine tastes the same as I remember-"

Hwr! I also love how the people who made the game made sure to do proper research on all the insects that appear in the game! Since I started playing I find myself researching the different creatures aswell 👁👁💕

also the puns

and the 80s

and the artstyle

it's all so colorful

and the hysteric Orb Weavers when you take on step too close to them

I love it all so much-

#Why is this fandom so small 🥲 #I NEED PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT THIS GAME! #OBSESSED RN 👁👁 #also also- I added Eli (and Steve) from Tales of Arcadia because I feel like they'd get along superb! #Eli and Pete have the same energy ngl' #I saw the live slug reaction meme here on tumblr quite often and thought it was funny because the slug looks like a slug and pete is small #so I was like... haha slug reaction and- in my head it eas much funnier #grounded #grounded game #tales of arcadia #eli pepperjack #pete boggs #Peter boggs

[adazzlinggirl]

I went from finishing Return of the Obra Dinn to playing Frog Detective 2 & 3 and let me tell you it was wild going from the most detailed notebook ever with passages explaining the deaths of people by terrifying beasts to "I've never been extorted before, what a thrill!"

#and they're both superb games #i was so bad at obra dinn i thought the second mate was the third mate for ages until i relistened to his memory and was like #“oh shit he's scottish!!!!” #but real good game #and frog detective just made me chortle #nearly all the games I've played this year have been muder mysteries?? #return of the obra dinn #obra dinn #frog detective

[sfsolstice]

does anyone else think there's a difference between sweet and kind or am i just crazy

#solstice shares #words #COMPLETELY unrelated but i just saw the fattest bug in my life like i thought it was a bee at first #and then i looked up and it was just a big ole dot with wings #what a superb lil dude

[vonlipvig]

finished reading the liar by steve cavanagh ANOTHER BANGERRRR read the eddie flynn book series, my final message, GOODBYE

#courtroom drama + action truly superb genre of fiction! lawyers need to be cunty in the courtroom and dodging bullets outside!!! #these books would also work SO well as a tv series too? like each season is one book that would be so sick (is never gonna happen0 #but yeah READ THEMMMM (start at the beginning. even thought it IS the wildest one. just roll with it lmao) #according to jules

[minijenn]

Watched the first three episodes of the Avatar live action remake

It's.... interesting

#its not a good show ill say that much #but i cant say im not enjoying it #i think its almost so bad its good??? #kind of? #bc there are things i genuinely actually really like about it #the costuming is amazing and the fight scenes and bending are all pretty well done #the casting is also largely spot on #and any scene with zuko and iroh is just superb #but god #the writing is so bad #esp in the first episode yeesh #and the pacing is a fucking wreck #also god they just #do so little with katara its shameful #idk man its such a weird show #ill have more coherent thoughts when i finiish the full season #avatar the last airbender

[birdmenmanga]

had a dream about birdmen where everything was the same except Takayama was a girl and I do mean everything was the same like she was walking around with the same haircut and demeanor and perhaps a skirt and a breast or two... the butch swagger... the everything

#just thinking thoughts... #i feel like it could work but then the order of events in the beginning would have to be different #i feel like getting over misogyny is the last step of Eishi's character development in the first third of the series #and if Takayama is a girl then he's not as incentivized to talk to her as he is in canon #i think it really takes Sagisawa pushing him to do it for him to start breaking down his walls with Takayama #anyways do you think the straights would like takaeishi if Takayama was a girl? #i think they'd hate it which i think is a superb win #they'd be like christ eishi can you stop obsessing over a dyke. and is there anything better than dyke obsession. be honest

[jencsi]

HC- Finn sits on Russell's desk because, Seattle circa the 90's, the crime lab building undergoes renovations of some sort causing furniture and equipment to be displaced including several of D.B.'s favorite office items. In the interest of not wanting his personal belongings ruined, he stores them away until the construction work is complete, leaving only a desk in his office, so what choice does she have but to deliver lab results and discuss cases via this method? Grab a chair from another room? Absolutely not. Sit on the floor or a window ledge? Abhorrent. Perch upon the only other free-standing piece of furniture left in the room? Yes. 10/10. Top tier. Highly recommend. There would be no questions asked either, just acceptance that this is the norm now.

#julie finlay #superb desk sitter #db russell #csi cbs #seattle days #I want to elaborate more on this in a fic someday #and by someday I mean probably never #I'll just think about it and hope everyone can read thoughts instead of fics #because sometimes what plays in your head can't always be translated to fic form

[earthandsunandmoon]

David Attenborough in The Living Planet, 1984

#just finished the rewatch and have so many thoughts. #it's such an informative and well written series!!!! ugh now i need to watch life on earth again #but more importantly his fits are just utterly superb and are making me excited for sweater season. #david attenborough