#tbqh i have literally lost the plot

[aubsforthewin]

thinking about taking a break from listening to new episodes of woe.begone…

…so that i can go back and re-listen to the last 12 seasons of woe.begone

#because i love it and it’s an incredible show and also because WTF IS HAPPENING ACTUALLY ?? #tbqh i have literally lost the plot #woe.begone

[faejilly]

I was tagged by @la-muerta​ & @facialteeth​ & @thedivinemissema​ for the WIP/Title Game

rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and interests you and i’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

AND THEN  by @shadoedseptmbr​ @msviolacea​ & @ravenclawnerd​ for the “stories you want to write... but for some reason haven’t yet”

so this will be a mish-mash of both? The WIPs will mostly have blurbs in this case (to fit the second meme) but you are still welcome to ask follow-up questions, if you’d like ;) Assuming you make it through the list, it is uh. Not Short.

Anyone who would like to play with their WIPs, please consider yourself tagged in either or both of these. :D

Misc Fic Folder:

“untitled document” - where I’m working on fictober fills so I have word-counts for my GYWO tracker. I am not working on these because Brains Are Dumb and also Going Back To Work Is Exhausting

I made a file called “YULETIDE!” which has nothing in it but I’m determined to finish this year so that is definitely technically a thing in the Unending WIP List of Doom worth mentioning. (Tho obviously that’s all I could say even if I had started, because anonymous.)

“coda-fics, rewatch!” -yes, that exclamation mark is important! it’s to keep me motivated! (it didn’t work). Much like untitled, this is for putting stuff so I can do word count tracking even if I don’t know what I’m doing. Currently I think it just says “MARYSE” because I was working on my SH 1x6 coda-fic and then got distracted and haven’t typed anything up yet. (Yay notebooks? Boo notebooks? Not even sure at this point.)

WNIP (works not in progress) Folder:

“TOG” - I had one vivid mental image of how Nicky & Joe met (blood-stained evil smiles?) but then no idea for a follow-up story and also the fandom is insane and I’m not sure I want to deal with all of *gestures vaguely* all that

“Shan Xia Notes” -for a TTRPG that never quite got off the ground; she was a semi-tragic selkie who was still in love with the evil queen/lady who stole her skin and I got to play her for like one session and she was surprisingly chaotic neutral, which wasn’t at all what I’d been expecting. But the game never really got off the ground, so I never had enough info to really delve into writing backstory fic

“post-Kruschev” -Kruschev’s List was the last episode of Scarecrow & Mrs King, and I was debating writing an epilogue in place of the s5 we never got, to try and tie up some loose ends, but the fandom’s three old-ladies in trench coats and I never quite worked up the gumption to get it anywhere

“Code Realize warm as silk sequel” -there is literally nothing in this file except “SEX! Only a little angst” because I wanted to write some “we can’t actually touch each other” smut but never actually did. 🤷‍♀️

BioWare (also all Not-In-Progress Anymore)

“seb/adelaide”, “Theia” & “DAI Erana” -these WIP folders were cannibalized for ficlets for the last few times I did fictober, and while originally I had ideas for longer epilogues for all three of them, at this point I don’t think any of the remaining bits could support a story any longer.

”whispers in the dark” -Maia Ryder never really got much fic at all; the cancellation of any further Andromeda stuff was really disheartening, and at this point I’d have to play the game again, and I don’t think I’m gonna manage that any time soon

”TSP” -a Mass Effect 3 Shepard AU collab project that kind of went off the rails, and our mutual brains/lives never quite seem to line up so we can try and rebuild it ”Ngaio & Tane” -my one truly ruthless Shepard (Alliance background, who romanced Traynor) whose father Tane Shepard was, I think, in PsyOps, and I wanted to figure out their complicated relationship but never really did know where I was going with it

”JE Zu & Yaling” -so I’ve rambled about my Tragic Sagacious Zu Romance Thoughts regarding Jade Empire more than once (#Icy Yaling should have most of it) but apparently I want to yell about it more than I want to actually write it? Whoops.

”CI sequel: 5 times fic?” -Cruel Intentions is a kinkmeme fill that I started and then it sat for like five years before I actually finished it, and I liked the ending, but it does leave a giant fucking question mark in terms of how those people got from there to where they are after the game, and I kind of wanted to write a proper h/c fic rather than just... leaving them wallowing in all that trauma?

But I didn’t. I don’t even remember for sure how I wanted to frame the 5/1 of it all, besides it being something sad about allowing people to see you or touch you in some way. (Prayers maybe, since I think there was definitely some Sebastian & Fenris & faith stuff going on in there.)

“candles” -Merribela prompt fill that I never was happy with? Not sure what I might do with it at this point, so it’s just sitting there all sad and lonely and neglected-like.

Shadowhunters

pt1: WIP LIST ONLY

“Persuasion” -so I keep trying to write Persuasion AUs in many fandoms because it’s my favorite Austen, but I think I like it too much, I have no real solid concept of how I’d transform it, and if I don’t have anything else to say about different characters within that framework, I have no push to actually write anything? Also this SH version of it suffered from MASSIVE scope creep when I started outlining and it got too big for me to handle so I like, killed it twice? Whoops. This one is really probably never gonna happen.

“oosdt sequel” -I wanted to write more about the Forest That Eats People and Magnus & Alec as Guardians Between Worlds, and also some background Magnus’ Found Family & Lightwood Family Feels (maybe some clizzy?) and I left a Madzie plot-thread dangling from the first one on purpose even but I think this one had too many ideas and not enough focus so it’s sort of sprawling all over a doc with a lot of “???” in it

“procedural-ish” -this was originally going to be a sex-farce. and then it turned more serious. and then maybe kind of copaganda which was uncomfortable in terms of the Everything That Is The News in 2020, and then maybe it was more a Mafia AU and at that point I had self-inflicted tone whiplash and I wished the voices in my head were a little more forthcoming about their plans so I stopped before I brained myself on my computer monitor in frustration.

“I had rather a rose than live forever” -I started a reverse!verse Malec (Shadowhunter!Magnus, High Warlock!Alec) for bingo last year, and I couldn’t quite get it together in time, so I made a moodboard inspired by the bits I’d started instead. I may see if one of my prompts from Bingo this year help me finish it?

“fall fright fest (practical magic  au)” -exactly what it says on the tin! almost exactly a year old & neglected! IDEK ANYMORE (I talked about this one with the WIP meme last time tho: here)

“priest!kink theology?” -I thought it was gonna be smut? I like priest!kink. I have made other people like it and yell at me even! But then I kept diverging into demon!Magnus thinking about Priest!Alec’s faith and as usual, IDEK ANYMORE *laughs*

(If they’re remotely canon-adjacent or divergent, a bunch of these are in here because I need to rewatch the show to get the pacing/timing/tone right and I haven’t, and I don’t know why, because I enjoy the show, but BRAINS! Are Dumb! So I guess that’s it?)

“I do” -I have tried to write this damnable Malec arranged marriage fic like six different times. I have signed up for fic exchanges and bangs with it, I have rewritten massive sections, trying to change tone or structure or POV or whatever, and it basically comes down to they like each other too fast and I keep not gutting it enough to get back to a useful pace, but by the time I realized that I was on take six and kind of sick of it. I may get back to it eventually

“wing!fic” -canon divergent in early s1, trying to deal with the consequences of Simon’s kidnapping as the Truly Serious Event that it should have been. It uh. Got heavier than I expected with those consequences (considering it was originally just supposed to be Alec’s wings flirting with Magnus) and also see above re: rewatching for pacing.

“2x20 aftermath/date night/pandemonium porn“ -yes that is the actual wip title. It used to be “spite fic” because I was originally inspired by fighting against a lot of fic!Alec characterization that was clearly based more on the books and ATG syndrome than the Alec in the show, which is the Alec I know and like and want to read about. BUT, pacing and etc. again, I think. Also I have somehow entirely lost my knack for writing porn, which makes it difficult to finish something originally intended to be smut!fic. Or even teasing almost!smut.

“rubbish heap” -so this is about three different fics that I realized complemented each other really well so they’re now all in the same file as I try to turn them into the sequel of “with an if in its soul”. It includes amnesia, parabatai lore shenanigans, a s3 rewrite, and some truly awful Owl adjustments that make me wince in horrified authorly delight and pain. BUT, as with the other ones in this file, the scope is large and I normally write short-fic and I kind of just threw up my hands in exasperation. I may have to break it back up into the three different fics instead, if I ever actually want to write it. Them? But also I need to take better notes on s3 to make sure I have what I need in here.

SH Pt 2: Started posting or not yet in hiatus because it’s actually almost ready to be a thing in the real world! maybe!?

“kisses (firsts)” -I actually started publishing this one, a “series of firsts” that was supposed to be kind of relationship milestones and kind of an excuse for smut, and then there wasn’t that much smut and I lost momentum and also dear lords & ladies the timeline is stupid, wtf. I may not ever add to this one, tbqh. It doesn’t stop in a terrible place, and they’re all ficlets so they stand alone all right.

“clizzy epilogue” -this is blank atm, it’s more a reminder for me to keep poking away at my “girls who can’t breathe air, only fire” collection BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO ACTUALLY GET TO THE CLIZZY AT SOME POINT

"mer!alec" -pts 2-4 of a series, but apparently having an actual plan gets in the way of me *writing* the thing, and I haven't managed to throw the half an outline far enough away from my brain to be able to write again. Or something like that.

"ibhww" -if broken hearts were whole is a soulmate fic I started a million years ago, and purposefully set aside to finish some other WIPs because I thought they'd be quick, and now it's just buried under two and a half years of regret and shame so it's hard to get back to it

"iafy" -i am for you is a delightful & frothy semi-epistolary fluff piece that also just lost momentum because Life & 2020 & etc. It's far and away the most popular thing I've ever posted on AO3, which also makes me feel weird sometimes, and I feel like the fact that there's no grand conclusion planned, just a bit more fluff and settling in, might end up being disappointing? Basically, it's the first time I think I've psyched myself out about reader expectations, and until I get over that I'm going to have trouble finishing the last couple chapters. (There really are probably only two more chapters though. IT’S SO CLOSE, I wish I could just... write it. And yet?)

“fake-hating” -I do not like fake dating as a trope that much, I just do not get it, but I love outside POVs and arranged marriages and there’s this delighful tumblr post about how they wished there was more fic about people who were together but had to pretend they werent’, and uh. This may be that? Eventually? I’m not exhausted by my failure to finish it yet, so it’s still in the regular folder rather than the hiatus folder, even though nothing’s been posted for it.

AND I THINK THAT’S IT?

Not as terrible as it could be, but still. MANY WORDS THAT MAY NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY. Posting the equivalent of one’s old ratty sketchbook is always a weird feeling. :D

#on writing #writing memery #unending WIP List Of Doom

[incarnateirony]

In what season and episode did you realised that Destiel went from subtext to actual text?

Difficult question really. I don’t exactly have a magic switch of some weird personal set goalpost I have, and frankly, wasn’t even really a shipper, just defended shippers, until... 13.5/6. I think I started slipping after 12.19 because I’m not a moron, I don’t live under a rock, I have eyes and know what the fuck a mixtape means to Gen X. But I kept it at arms reach because even Carver era was so totally subtextual-- atop all the stuff that got cut S10 after the S9 blowout, I didn’t exactly want to invest myself as much as point out shippers weren’t crazy for seeing what they saw, especially S8/9+ and even prior the resonance of the hero’s journey over our entire human civilization and historical othering of queerness made earlier readings or notices of it completely fair even if not really like, directional by the crew?

But to begin, Carver era was when I saw /intentful and meritful construction of the body of text, via subtext, to subtextually tell a story with classic queer coding./ Because a lot of what this fandom calls queer coding makes me want to hide my face behind a quantum hole of facepalms and is often like, pretty much the reverse of what should be advocated or considered. All those retro old “he’s been written as queer from S1″ make me want to kick puppies or something because oh my god it’s Not Good, most of the content there is Very Bad And Hugely Problematic, and it’s an attempt to retroactively prove what old canon was doing without any substance.

Carver era was the shift to substance, but silent substance. Subtext that’s genuinely thematically scaffolded into the storyline in a way that while the events themselves were largely cued on subtext, consideration of that subtext was critical to understanding the full body of text and people that refused to grow into and adapt with that text as the tone shifted are the ones that got more and more confused and angry.

Dabb era was the threshold crossing into (often low-visibility) text. Fandom intentionally arguing points that require complete removal from social structures (which is everything from regional meanings of major symbols, social codes, language, or why-letters-mean-things) doesn’t mean shit doesn’t mean what it means. A mixtape isn’t subtext any more than getting on one knee and popping open a box is subtext even if they don’t verbalize the words. We know what these fucking things mean and anyone who doesn’t is in DESPERATE need of going outside and experiencing the real world before making any kind of social commentary on a body of text.

When it comes to dialogue text, Last Call is where Bi Dean or at least Queer Umbrella Dean was textualized. Again, it doesn’t matter if people don’t understand the long argued history that was put to bed about repeat sexual encounters with men, it doesn’t matter what the gender of the other triplets were, literally none of that matters. It doesn’t matter if the person understands it. It doesn’t matter if they know their queer culture enough to know their arguments were already buried. It is what it is.

There’s this disillusionment that unspoken physicalized shit like kissing or sex, or verbalized ones like “I love you,” but “I love you, in a gay way, specifically and only you, and want to be romantic with you” because every other statement of the like so far has people crying or arguing about it as not enough either. 

These things are nice, but it is not the only way to deliver a textual romance. These are things we want and deserve, and people aren’t wrong for wanting them, the only wrong comes in deleting other text because it isn’t the style of text they want. 100% unhelpful.

Text in AV is complex. No matter how decontextualized people try to pretend this all is, throwing pasta at the wall and calling it an argument worth validating, AV media study doesn’t just incorporate social codes on shit like dialogue -- though anyone that applies those social codes wouldn’t be arguing anyway, as per my old post on that -- but visual language and TV literacy are a long studied topic and are just as relevant as understanding of textual/verbal language and having textual literacy. People trying to eschew these in the interest of favoring fanspaces to try to keep them equal within the canon, which is NOT what fandom space equality is supposed to be about, is just... lol. 

When that soap opera reporter that doesn’t even watch the show wandered in commenting on the full mise en scene of the 15.03 breakup being classical “Dark Point in the Romance” framing, that’s not subtext. In a book, characters aren’t running around on a blank canvas. Their environments are the text. 

What people may draw symbolically out of an environment varies, and if someone’s /interpretation/ holds up, that’s fine. But being able to digest the entire presentation of a work, that is to say, to read an entire scene in a book and understand their setting and the relevance of that setting is simply a form of text. And when literal fucking randos can spot classic cinematography, it’s time to consider what the full cinematic framework is telling you both in incremental minutiae of texts and in the full body of work.

So basically, I acknowledged lowkey text based on the most basic understanding of social codes, by 12.19, even if I was still kinda eyerolling about it. By 13.5/6, Castiel returned to Dean in something later echoed by Eileen for the zoom shot, but the rest of the arrangement was verbatim identical to the original ending of Swan Song with Lisa, with the only difference being “Never too late” wasn’t a verbal line, but an entire sound track they applied to highlight the scene.

Despite the Swan Song parallel ending reactives went up in arms about the fact that they weren’t having big romantic moments anymore and kinda failed to wrap braincases around the fact that the endgame reunion that was literally the ORIGINAL endgame shot, which ALSO didn’t include physicality (in fact, the text read, “this isn’t sexual at all. He’s a lost soul, and she’s his home” in the script for Lisa), and this dumbass fandom would go “SEE PROOF THAT MEANS THE TEXT MEANS IT WASNT SEXUAL AND HE JUST BECAME BEST FRIENDS THAT WAS HER BEDWARMER MAYBE SHE HAS COLD FEET AT NIGHT” and that’s not how this fucking WORKS. Common sense is NOT removed from fucking discussion and what sense is applied needs to be levelly-- again, social codes.

So at 13.5/6 I had considered it textually paramount to the original endgame arrangement. S14 was just... blatant ass domesticity. Dean got his happy ending. He had his family. He got his win, his everything. They spoke frequently in the kitchen -- only vaguely over cases, more slapping around idioms, eyerolling over barbarous eating, and occasionally discussing how to raise their son. In fact, if you look at non-research-non-casework S14 kitchen scenes I’m gonna let you sit there and map out what all those domestic moments in the heart of the kitchen was, minding 13.5/6. 

It was something gained. It was their life. And it was something to lose. 14.18 already advert framed it, we all saw it. Troubled family. People delete history of what is connected where to pretend “we” is vague or makes the romance any less of a canon piece and lmao guys 

And season 15 is their year long run where they’re spearheading a huge part of the plot and will be a critical final resolution.

Speaking of 13.5/6 and social codes, anyone remember that Jack hadn’t met Dave Mather and looked at one nonphysical picture of them and recognized “he’s her boyfriend”? SOCIAL CODES MEAN SHIT GUYS.

So there’s no magic moment. There’s S8/9 coding and subtext. There’s S12′s tape and other elements -- tape is just the easiest to nail down but several through the year tbh -- there’s S13′s Never Too Late, and all things that followed that in waterfall. There’s S14′s established domesticity with Castiel having essentially moved into the bunker, something that wasn’t even entirely established in S12 yet even if he was more frequent there than Carver era.

Without social codes, I could argue that “Dean loves pie” doesn’t actually mean he loves pie. In fact, I could argue those letters mean nothing, because basic social codes are what even give words meanings. Without them these are just squiggly lines on a screen. If I eschew social codes, I could take a “love me some pie” line from Dean and say it means he fornicates with children and make long convoluded excuses around it instead of the observable fucking fact that Dean fucking Winchester likes goddamn pie.

Waiting for your perfect personally dreamed magic moment for a landmark to call text generally disregards the full body of the text and merit of the work. The amount of time and effort this FUCKING shipping fandom has put into -- even Destiel shippers -- bashing down and calling blatant ass text subtext because it’s not the text they want -- just because they want to argue with people that threw the logic baby out with the destiel bathwater they thought was dirty -- it’s fucking embarrassing tbqh. Imagine if people’s competitive fandom BS was muted how anyone here would be addressing this body of text.

Like. “After Carver directed Misha to play Castiel as a jilted lover in season 9, Cain through S10 escalated it into Castiel as Colette, which was confirmed by both the author and actors, seating him as a lover, as Sam was Abel the brother; by season 11, pining and connected hearts becomes the driving theme of the show, repeatedly denounced both in text and showrunner commentary that it wasn’t Amara that was that romance, and instead, a different one rose; by season 12, domestic arguments were many, mixtapes were shared, coming into rooms and playing people for things secretly stashed under pillows were a hinging plot moment, by season 13 he was the Never Too Late Big Win as a far more powerful version of Lisa, by season 14 Castiel moved in, by season 15 their giant sacred marriage euchartist ceremonies on repeat are driving the entire body of the season while overtly making the straight pairing a secondary parallel to the primary Dean and Castiel pairing by 15.09 such as the AU scene, or the ending where they mimicked the same phrase, truncated by physicality. But anyone viewing this text is an adult not competing for their preferred fandom playbox to be considered in the text, and had eyeballs, saw Sam and Eileen were clearly courting, flirting, and/or romantically engaged for a long time before this.”

Can we hope for the equality in that, sure.  I want that, sure. That doesn’t erase all the other modes of text before that though. 

But there, I just addressed 4 consecutive seasons of storytelling as its stands in the critical themes, without breaking down the dozens of independent scenes themselves that have already been analyzed to death and yall have scorched in your eyeballs by now like angels have prophet names. 

I’ve seen people desperately, desperately try to reinterpret this text, or this story structure, in inconsistent ways that fall short. They’re never held accountable for their entire shit falling flat on their face, they just keep building new shit that falls on its face too and keep using it as a base. People can *interpret* ~text~ however they want. Anyone that tells you that “true text is inarguable” is either an idiot or selling you something for your subscription to their blog. Anyone CAN make any jackass interpretation of anything they want. 

So sure. You can make some nonsensical explanation around every core theme their relationship is shadowed by, removing all social codes and context from basic elements understood by adult human beings natively, whatever. You can take 200 pages writing around it and degaying it. Generally when I see this, I see unhinged, incomplete writings with no central thread, just a thousand disembodied excuses that don’t even make a story. They’re just that. Desperate excuses. Years of it at this point. And they’re free to /interpret the text like that/ if they want. But that’s their /interpretation/ of a /text/ and as-above generally in /intentional, willful, conscious denial and erasure of the basic social codes we all understand./

Just because they /can/ warp the most left field interpretation doesn’t make it not text. If I pulled an “I don’t know I can’t english suddenly” and threw those codes out the window that doesn’t mean that the shit doesn’t mean the shit it means just because it’s inconvenient to me lmao

And this isn’t necessarily at you, Nonnie, I just feel the need to expand on this because any single time I don’t nail down these conversational stakes, someone breezes through and intentionally hotboxes the conversation to go down these very predictable manipulations and extremizations of the conversation that I really am far too tired to repeat the arguments raging in my mentions again, so I head ‘em off before the shit ever reblogs.

[kinetic-elaboration]

July 6: Writing Ideas 3: Long-Abandoned Fics

Here again with more lists. Would sure be aces if I had it in me to write but the days.............. are so long............... hard on my brain and my soul.

Jonty Dual Timeline: I started writing this without an outline so as of now I have only that which I wrote in idk probably 2017 and no more and no less. No idea where I was going or if I even knew where I was going. Basically it’s half modern AU and half S4 bunker AU and in both of them Jonty just angst and Monty in particular Angsts. That’s it that’s the plot. I like what I have so far but I have no idea how to continue it tbqh. Fun fact: All of the Love Songs Have Been Written (a Bellarke fic in which Jonty don’t even appear) is in the same universe as the modern AU part.

Marriage Fic: Literally the opposite; Jonty and Bellarke, supremely fluffy; I never wrote much of it but I had a decently good idea of what was supposed to happen. My soothing project around the time Jasper was killed off.

Bellarke Beat AU: So the Beats are my guilty pleasure shh. I started writing this probably in 2016 for a Bellarke event or something?? Can barely remember. The same reasons that this isn’t important to finish--it’s just a light, atmospheric, romantic piece--are the same reasons it seems silly NOT to finish it. It’s been a while since I read any Beats though so I dunno about matching the tone.

Bellarke Exes: This was going to be a BFF fic but it’s been off and on for years. I was really getting somewhere last time, then hit a wall and oh no, it’s abandoned again. Some Modern AU nonsense.

Sequel to Where I’ll Spend Through Winter: Bellarke again. This was going to be my Bellarke January Joy fic but it was too hard for reasons I still don’t understand. Why is it hard?? I feel like it shouldn’t be. The last time I worked on it, in February, I lost all my day’s writing to technical error and I’ve been so upset about this ever since that I’ve been unable to get back into it.

#the year 2020 #2020: writing projects #the 100 #the 100 fanfiction #bellarke fanfiction #you can tell i basically stopped writing bellarke at some point at the crossroads of burn out and chopped and so here i am #with lots of unfinished and unstarted bellarke fics

[janiedean]

I have to tell you something but PLEASE, please, don't be mad. I love Brienne, and I loved her with Jamie, and I'm mad and sad that they didn't get to have their happy ending...but I don't think his ending was shit. Or OOC. First at all, book!Jamie is not TV!Jamie: his relationship with Cersei is different, not as sick or manipulative. He loves his siter and is loved by her in a more "helthier" way: in the show she told Tywing the truth about them, and it's huge considering the love for power1/?

He watched her lose their 3 children, he learned about her walk of shame to get back to Tommen, he witnessed Robert’s humiliations. I think he would have stayed with Brienne if she knew his sister was safe, but he couldn’t be happy if his siter died and he did nothing to save her. He needed to be that person, otherwise all his growth would be lost, and he would have dragged Brienne in his spiral, and he didn’t want to make her miserable. To me he is still an honorable man, bc when there was a chance to do something, he did it: he killed the king to save KL, he fought the dead army, but over and over he said that the Lannister army didn’t stand a chance against the dragons or the Dathraki, he was not a fool. His speech was not about NOT CARING, it was about knowing there was nothing he could have done. He did good, he was good, and till his last moment he tried to be honorable, he tried to be the person Brienne inspired him. P.s.: Still heartbroken that he died, but I think there is some poetic justice with Cercei crashed by the symbol of the power she tried lo long to hold.

anon, I appreciate that you’re being nice and I appreciate that you’re trying to find some sense in this entire thing, but… okay, I’ll go over it and please don’t take me as *me* being mad or whatever but I don’t think a few things were clear here so I’ll try to do it now:

jc in the show is not healthier. it might be different, but it’s not and the fact that it might have been less obvious doesn’t mean that they didn’t drag that toxic mess out for four seasons when it had no reasons to exist. now: I was down with looking at it until s4 because that was book canon and I can deal with book canon. I had to look at three more fucking seasons of that toxic abusive mess happening and I don’t know if it’s obvious or not, but if I have one thing, like one in the universe that I can’t deal with, that I hate and that makes me feel sick more than anything else it’s emotional/psychological manipulation. and show!jc has that in spades and I can’t. like, as it is right now I’m pretty damn sure I’d take reading explicit thramsay fic that ends horribly with annexed detailed fanart than even rewatching five seconds of a scene where those two are in the same frame and is2g if they had kissed at the end of 8x05 I’d have thrown up. please for the love of everything if you think it’s better than book canon your prerogative, but don’t come at me informing me of that because I can’t. especially not right now;

I honestly can’t give much of a damn about the stuff c. suffered when 80% of that is her damn fault and I’m especially talking about tommen who only did that because she gave zero shits about his opinion in anything but we’re supposed to think she’s a good mother or that she cares which makes me especially sick because people have decided that for her out of nowhere when we all know how much leeway they give catelyn for that and I’m honestly done with it, and maybe it’s not inconsistent that he’d care, but it’s inconsistent how they wrote it;

because I mean if they showed some half-regret over leaving brienne or she was mentioned or if the entire thing was addressed instead of spending four episodes building it up and then did in four minutes what it took six feet under an entire season to do with nate and brenda back in the day is bad writing, has no consistency, it also murdered tyrion as a character because I can’t believe that in the span of two episodes he goes from I’m happy that you’re happy to WELL I DON’T HATE MY SISTER SO MUCH JUST GO TO PENTOS when ah, wait, c. sent bronn to kill both of them?

also ‘who ever cared abotu the innocents’ or whatever the fuck that line was??? wow, that’s all this asshole has ever cared about in canon to the point of losing his reputation for it not counting c. or tyrion at least in the very beginning of the series when everyone thinks he’s an ass, and I have to buy that this episode was halfway decent writing?

also: even if I was okay with jaime’s ending - which I could have been if at least it amounted to something because that entire episode was a plot hole after plot hole (where’s widow’s wail? he waves WITH THE FAKE HAND??? WTF??, did he ring the bells so he actually helped destroy the city without knowing dany would lose her shit through jon connington’s ghost possessing her? if bran didn’t rat him out bc he had A ROLE TO PLAY what was the damned role since he hasn’t done anything until now that warranted it??? just the first four) and he didn’t even… help cersei or take her out like he literally was there to just give her some basic human comfort and rocks fall everyone dies, what’s the sense of it?? -, anon, this entire narrative leaves brienne horribly;

because sorry but in the best of chances she’s not pregnant and someone lies to her and tells her jaime went there to stop cersei and tried to be honorable (which given what they made him say about not caring for the innocents makes it bad writing but nvm) and she can think okay, I waited years for the right guy to trust/open myself to and then he left me like that but at least he did it for a good reason now will I ever trust anyone again, maybe, and I assure you that getting over such a thing is not too easy, but that would be the best option. mid-bad option: she still thinks he did it for the right reasons but she’s pregnant so hey, she has an illegitimate child from a man who left her like that to go into a senseless death making her believe she was wrong about him and breaking her heart and she has to play single mother in tarth without him or maybe she can hedge knight along with the kid or leave him with pod or smth but that doesn’t look good on jaime either. or worse, she’s pregnant and she finds out he went just to die with cersei and didn’t even mention her or anything to tyrion along the way so she did all of the above…. for a guy who at the end of it as the narration puts it just went back to die with c. and a kid he didn’t even know might be real or not when she could have given him what he always craved/wanted/needed and left her like that? like, anon, even if it was a good ending for jaime, there is no bloody way that brienne gets out of this mess of a season with a dignified ending unless they somehow manage to pull a miracle out of their arses and sorry but their writing has been so bad that I honestly doubt it, not even david milch showing up like the calvarly could salvage this crap of a finale, and for all characters tbqh, not just them;

on top of that, sorry but it passes the message that brienne, only rep. in this show for nonstandard attractive people who spends years thinking she’ll never find love and suddenly thinks she can be happy with the guy who also fulfilled her greatest dream and opens herself up to him putting her vulnerability on the line (and while I don’t really think the whole virginity thing is that much of an issue since she actually did manage to give it to the guy she wanted it does mean something in this context)…………. shouldn’t have done it because wow, left like that without a second thought and without being addressed in the next episode at all by at least tyrion who has spent the previous four episodes either admiring her or trying to get her and jaime together never mind jaime? wow, I mean, I surely signed up to see the character I always saw myself in getting this shit treatment by people who obviously didn’t understand either her or jaime at the bottom of it for as much as I still think 8x04 did it right until the end?

anon, I appreciate your optimism about that narrative, but this episode was so badly written that it managed to about destroy the narratives of characters that weren’t even in it (sansa and brienne, and let’s not even discuss sansa because lmao), to have every single person but davos and possibly jon but meh behave ooc given what half of their lines said if not their actions because even if we take jaime’s actions as your reading (legit) what they made him say was still atrocious and ooc and same for tyrion, let’s not even touch dany or sandor/arya or really anyone that wasn’t davos. I cannot, in all good conscience, find anything good about this mess because it was badly written. period. even if we decide that the plot and motivations were fine and we try to make them make sense the way you did, the execution was shit, the dialogue was shit, it looked like they weren’t even trying, it did a disservice to every single character that was in it except davos who was there for five seconds to smuggle stuff and I honestly, honestly, cannot even find the force of will to try to make sense of it.

this entire season has been a gigantic plot hole, it wasn’t coherent within its own narration see ep. 2 clashing with ep. 8, 90% of what happened post 8x02 was for shock value without giving a single fuck about making it look in character and making the characters behave nonsensically - and I don’t mean just jaime, I mean all of them to serve the undoubtedly wtf shocking ending they have in plan for us which if I guessed already I’ll hate with the force of a thousand suns, and I’m honestly done with trying to make sense of this thing because nothing makes sense anymore. I appreciate that y’all are trying but I give up. I can’t make sense of a narrative that goes like ‘we’re doing this because it’s cool and if it doesn’t add up with everything we did before who gives a fuck’, and I honestly can do without trying to find a silver lining in a show that has totally twisted the message of the books and turned into an angst fest for which everyone has to be miserable at all costs or it’s not good tv, and that’s the last I’m going to say about this specific matter because:

a) I’m tired, b) I want to finish my spitefics and ignore this mess ever happened and concentrate on doing something that makes me happy, c) if I just keep on thinking about how bad this was IN GENERAL I wish jaime was my #1 problem I just feel worse and I don’t need it, d) the fact that they did brienne this dirty and she wasn’t even in this episode is really leaving the worst sour taste in my mouth and it’s already bad enough that I have to hope her ending is only 80% crap and not 100% crap, I honestly can’t with discourse that tries to find any basic sense in how this episode was conceived and executed beyond my problems with jc, jaime’s writing and the fact that they managed to get wrong one of his three most basic character traits that has nothing to do with brienne or jb for that matter.

thanks for being polite and nice about this and I swear I’m not mad but I honestly can’t with this episode and I would appreciate if from this point on anyone could refrain from trying to make jc sound better than it is where I can see it/where I can’t blacklist it because it’s really not a good idea right now. thanks again and have a possibly nicer than than mine. ;)

#Anonymous #ask post #only slightly less toxic than chernobyl's ruins #anti-cersei lannister #anti-cersei #anti-lannincest #anti-jaime x cersei #got negativity #game of thrones spoilers for ts #jaime x brienne for ts #otp: i dreamed of you #guys i get it but no #and now i'm going to do some work see y'all later

[sage-nebula]

pokemon (games) and/or pokeani for the meme?

I’ll go ahead and answer for the anime, since although I prefer the games, I think the anime works better for memes like this.

the first character i ever fell in love with:

Ash Ketchum, way back in 1998. He was pretty much an instant fave for me, and no doubt contributed to my love of snark and sass (given that his name could have just as easily been Sass Ketchum and would have arguably been more accurate).

a character that i used to love/like, but now do not:

Manon. I liked her well enough at first, but the way her stans constantly bashed and degraded Alan while using that degradation to prop Manon up (often by making him her trophy boyfriend, which is really disgusting when you consider not only the age, but the maturity difference between them) quickly ruined any fondness I had for her. The fact that she got off scot-free in the show without having to realize or own up to any of her own mistakes or shortcomings (while Alan took the fall for all of them instead) didn’t help.

a ship that i used to love/like, but now do not:

Mmm, I can’t really think of anything for this one. I don’t think there’s anything that I used to seriously ship in this show that I don’t ship now. There are casual ones I can think of that I no longer even casually ship, but even those were more of a shrug and acceptance rather than something I actively liked.

my ultimate favorite character™:

ALAN [SYCAMORE], FIRST OF HIS NAME, HEART OF A CHAMPION, SOUL OF A DRAGON. It’s honestly no contest. I cannot think of a single character in the whole of the PokéAni that could come even close to comparing with him. I still block on sight for any nonsense hatred or condemnation thrown his way, and I regret nothing. 

prettiest character:

I mean … I know I’m biased, but …

My valiant dragon son is beautiful. I mean, in particular, his eyes …

He has dragon fire in his eyes. You don’t get much prettier than that.

my most hated character:

Paul. He’s straight up abusive to his pokémon, and him learning to give them the absolute bare minimum of care and praise at the end of a match (or losing to Ash at the League, which I literally do not care about at all) is not enough for him to curry favor or earn forgiveness in my eyes. He can go burn, and for that matter, he can take that bastard Damian from the OS right along with him as he does.

my OTP:

Ash/Misty will always be endgame to me, as well as Jessie/James. 

I do think that it’s probable that Ash and Misty would end up dating other people as they grow older—that Ash would date Dawn for a while, for instance, and that Misty would have a relationship with Lana—but at the end of it all I think they’d find their way back to each other, once they’ve grown up and matured and realized that, while their first crushes on each other might have been puppy love back when they were kids, now that they’re older … it’s deeper and more meaningful than that. It’s real.

As for Jessie/James, I think those two are soulmates, however you want to interpret it. Maybe their relationship stays platonic forever. Maybe their relationship is romantic. Maybe their relationship floats in a nebulous space between platonic and romantic, undefined as Meowth rolls his eyes from the other side of the balloon. Whatever the case, I don’t really care as long as they’re together. That’s what matters most.

my NOTP:

Aside from the obvious ones of bestiality, incest, and pedophilia, my answer to this would have to be Alan/Manon. I never liked it to begin with because of the age / maturity gap between them (honestly, Manon acts like Bonnie, the show parallels her to Bonnie, and Alan is so mature people often mistake him for an adult despite Malva referring to him as a boy, how is this even a question), but between how the show handled their relationship and how the ship’s stans (who are always Manon stans, from my experience) handle it / treat Alan, I honestly want to scrape my brain out with an ice pick every time I’m reminded this ship exists. It’s a trashboat of epic proportions as far as I’m concerned.

favorite episode:

It’s less one single episode, and more one trio of episodes: OS022 - OS024, a.k.a. “Abra and the Psychic Showdown”, “The Tower of Terror”, and “Haunter vs. Kadabra.” Those three episodes left a major lasting impression on me as a kid, in a good way. That depiction of Sabrina as a villain with a creepy monotone, who had a small “doll” that represented her childlike innocence (that was still villainous in her innocence!), and the way she presented a formidable threat that no one else in the series had managed until that point … not to mention the backstory with how she drove her own parents away (and turned her own mother into a doll), how she was always waiting for her father to show himself again, how she drove herself to that point by obsessing over her powers (I would too, ngl) … man. I loved everything about that trio of episodes. I still love that trio of episodes. There are quite a few episodes in the OS that I turn to regularly whenever I just need something to watch, but I think those three are extra special.

saddest death:

LATIOS IN THE GUARDIANS OF ALTO MARE. At first I was like, “wait, did anyone who wasn’t a villain ever even permanently die?” AND THEN I REMEMBERED LATIOS AND HAD TO CLUTCH AT MY HEART FOR A SECOND. RIP LATIOS, YOU ARE MISSED.

favorite season:

It’s a tie between the very first season (Kanto), and the second season (Orange Islands). While both had their faults, what I like most about those two seasons that latter seasons (even in the OS, with Johto!) lack is how organic they feel. Kanto especially was created before the Pokémon Anime really decided on its identity, and chose a formula to stick to for successive seasons, most likely because they weren’t sure they were even going to get successive seasons back when they were making it (the series was supposed to end with Mewtwo Strikes Back, after all). As a result of this, we had some truly original episodes. We had the three episodes with Sabrina that I mentioned above, but we also had episodes like “The Ghost of Maiden’s Peak” with a Gastly that could talk for reasons unexplained and who impersonated humans to keep a dead girl’s legend alive; we had episodes like “Mystery at the Lighthouse” with a giant Dragonite that was never explained or seen again (also, still mad at Team Rocket to this day for attacking that poor baby); we had episodes like “Electric Soldier Porygon” where everyone traveled into the internet with Porygon to stop a computer virus (and give 800+ Japanese children seizures, but that wasn’t supposed to be part of it); and we had episodes like “Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon” where Ash discovered that a bunch of fossil pokémon were living underground and, in the process of all this, almost got eaten by an Aerodactyl. And the Orange Islands, while slightly more tame, was similarly allowed to be pretty free and fun given that it didn’t follow the badge quest formula, and the Orange Islands weren’t drawn from the games, meaning that the anime team could do whatever they wanted with them. So between the anime not yet having a set formula in season one, and the anime being set somewhere completely new in season two, seasons one and two of the PokéAni had plots that were basically like:

That was every day in the first two seasons of the PokéAni, because the first two seasons of the PokéAni were already so goddamn weird, and they were better off for it.

Aside from how weird and strange the plot could get, though, I also feel that the first season especially felt a lot more organic than even the second because the effects of the journey were regularly shown on the main characters. They were lost pretty much all the time (which is why they needed to keep Tracey for Johto, tbqh; he was the only one who had a sense of direction). They were often dirty and longing for baths and laundromats. In “Wake Up Snorlax” they’re out of food and practically crying as the town they reach doesn’t have anything to offer them because it’s been so long since they’ve eaten. Ash, Brock, and Misty are two children and a teenager traveling across the continent by themselves. It makes sense that they wouldn’t always have a nice place to sleep, that they’d run out of food, that they’d be grimy and exhausted a good deal of the time, especially since they’re always lost. (They were lost for like 70% of the first season istg. The narrator even lampshades when it takes them two weeks to reach Vermilion City and they all cheer.) I really liked how the first season in particular showed them tired, grody, hungry, and lost for a good portion of the journey. It felt so much more realistic than the perfect, spotless journeys that came later on.

least favorite season:

Outside of Alan and everything to do with him, I’m not much of a fan of Kalos. I’m also not really a fan of Alola because I don’t think slice of life really suits this series as much as the adventure genre does, but it had some good cameo episodes and also has Gladion, so it has its good points, too.

character that everyone else in the fandom loves, but i hate:

Paul and Manon. Paul in particular is incredibly popular and I will never understand it.

my ‘you’re piece of trash, but you’re still a fave’ fave:

Honestly, I’m not sure? I think the closest I get to this is Jessie and James, since they’re two grown adults constantly stalking and bullying a ten year old boy, which would be insanely worrying if not for the fact that said ten year old put them in their place literally every other day. (Plus I like to think they actually do really care about him at this point. It’s what I’d like to believe, anyway.) Maybe Cassidy and Botch would be better contenders, though. They have no redeeming qualities, they’re just assholes, but I’d still be super mega excited to see them come back.

my ‘beautiful cinnamon roll who deserves better than this’ fave:

ALAN deserves better than all he has suffered, and definitely deserves better than this goddamn unappreciative fandom. He is a burned cinnamon roll, been through hell and back, slightly charred, and he deserves the world.

Apart from him, though, Ash every time he gets put through some hell because of fate or destiny or legendaries or whoever the hell has decided to mess with him this week. After everything that went down in Kalos, can we really blame him for going to Alola for a vacation? And yet he’s STILL pulled into Ultra Wormhole nonsense! My god, just let this poor boy rest, he deserves it!!

my ‘this ship is wrong, nasty, and makes me want to cleanse my soul, but i still love it’ ship:

Listen, I’m not one of those fools that thinks it’s canon, but I always loved the fic trope of Giovanni being Ash’s father because he and Delia had a fling way back in the day and I am grateful to that awful musical for giving it to us. The angst potential is real for this one, and I also like the idea of Giovanni allowing Jessie and James to chase Ash all over creation despite how it completely tanked their careers and potential not just because it “keeps them out of the way,” but also because it’s a way for him to keep an eye on his son without them ever knowing that’s his son. There’s some good fic potential there.

On a more serious note, while I don’t think it’s “wrong,” or “nasty,” or “makes me want to cleanse my soul,” I’ve always kind of shipped Spencer/Delia, too. The idea of Spencer Hale and Delia Ketchum finding love together later in life, and Ash and Molly becoming step-siblings as a result, is one that warms my heart. I know that Molly’s mother comes back at the end of Spell of the Unown, but … well, that was just a post-credits scene and so it’s easy to ignore. Come on, let Ash have a little step-sister. Let Molly have the mother she always wanted. It’s what they deserve.

my ‘they’re kind of cute, and i lowkey ship them, but i’m not too invested’ ship:

I wouldn’t say I’m highkey invested in any romantic ship in this show, haha. I mean, let’s be honest, it’s not like any of them have a chance at development outside of small hints here or there, you know? So there’s no reason to get all up in a twist about it. So I think that most ships I ship could fall into this category. Cute, but no need to make a fuss about them.

#fandom meme #pokemon #pokeani #tangelomadness

[thelegendofclarke]

wait why is not shipping sansa with someone ugly an unpopular opinion? i know a lot of sansa ships aren't but idgi? what did i miss?

Oh maaannn lol! Ok this was like forever ago (almost as long ago as you sent this, so sorry for the late reply I am The Worst!), but I distinctly remember everything that happened because it was just so incredibly ridiculous…

This occurred around the time those “spoilers” first came out a while back that said Sansa and Gendry got together. Naturally, fandom lost it’s ever loving mind about it, which is generally an exercise in patience in itself. But the bullshit reached a fever pitch, and the straw that broke the camel’s back for me personally was some “~meta~” in the Sansa tag that basically said “Sansa and Gendry can’t end up together because Gendry is a Handsome Prince and Sansa can’t end up with anyone good looking or else she didn’t “learn her lesson” from all her abuse in King’s Landing.”

Now, for me personally, this was just ~slightly troubling~ for a few reasons…

It was really (not so) thinly veiled Sansa vs. Arya and “Sansa stealing from Arya” stuff, which I generally find annoying in all it’s forms.

“Pretty Girl ends up with Ugly Dude because she’s a ~better person~ now” is  an incredibly gendered trope. It tends to be very misogynistic and patriarchal in it’s application and essentially has very minimal reversal in popular fiction… So I find it irritating af on principle and have no patience for it.

I only EVER see this logic applied to Sansa. There are countless other females characters who are rape and abuse victims in ASoIaF, but I literally never see anyone saying they can’t shack up with a cute guy/gal and make lots of pretty babies and live happily ever after because they should have “learned” life ain’t a romcom. In fact, on multiple occasions, I have seen the argument that certain other female characters ~deserve~ to end up with Mr. Kind & Handsome because they have been abused and suffered so much in the past… It’s another double standard this fandom has a tendency to apply to traditionally feminine characters and it’s some nonsense. 

The idea that abuse is meant to “teach a lesson” is just, so unhealthy and uncomfortable and beyond gross… Abuse doesn’t have any kind of positive affect on character development. Abuse isn’t meant to make someone a better person. Abuse isn’t a learning experience. Abuse sin’t an opportunity for growth. Abusers aren’t positive influences or role models. Abuse is abuse, period. Dressing it up as some kind of moral or parable is honestly downright offensive and kind of repulsive.

SO I proceeded to vent my frustration about said “analysis” in the tags of some random post made by a friend kind of related to the subject, as I have ~maybe~ done ~on occasion~ once or twice. Theeennn some Asshole Anon (whose identity I do not know, but who I maintain is absolutely an asshole) decided to be a shit disturber and tell a mutual (whose identity I do know, but am not going to include or disclose because honestly at this point it’s unnecessary and irrelevant) who I had NO IDEA had any kind of firm stance (or stance at all) about Sansa x Pretty People that I was shit talking them and calling them a misogynist over a post they made about shipping Sansa with someone ugly (which I still don’t think I have ever actually seen).

For the record, I have zero problems with shipping Sansa with someone ugly or not conventionally attractive for aesthetic or appearance reasons. Any issues I do have with those ships are pretty much in no way based solely on the fact that the person Sansa is shipped with isn’t hot (although I gotta say, this saga reeeaaalllyyy tempted the spiteful bitch in me to do exactly that). One of the prominent tropes in Sansa’s arc (as well as other characters’ because GRRM is a hoe for fairy tales) is Beauty and the Beast and “beauty on the outside =/= beauty on the inside” ect and so forth. That is not what I was objecting to… What I WAS (and still am) objecting to, is the idea that Sansa must end up with someone ugly because she was abused. That if she does end up with someone attractive then she didn’t “learn her lesson” and essentially her abuse had no effect on her and meant nothing, or that she in any way needed to prove herself in that regard. Placing those kind of narrative limitations on an abuse victim because they were abused is something I find very icky and yikesy.

ANYWAY, then this (ex) mutual basically ~went off~ and complained for a while about how I was pathetic and Silly Sansa Stan who didn’t understand the story and blah blah and got a bunch more anons about it as well. Which is whatever, it was annoying but I don’t particularly care that much. What I did care about though was the fact that I then got anons telling me I am stupid and shallow (which I mean, yeah I am. but that is kind of beside the point), and just a delulu Jonsa shipper or something like that (also true, but also beside the point), and a terrible person (true again tbqh) because I think ending up with someone ugly is a “punishment” and being ugly is a “crime” that lessens someone’s worth (which no actually, I don’t. the supposed ~meta~ framed it that way, not me. in fact, that was one of the main themes of the post that I was objecting to). And then when I didn’t answer those anons, I got MORE anons angry with me for not answering because I guess they somehow thought that would make me be more inclined to answer the previous ones. In a SHOCKING plot twist, it did not.

… AND THAT’S WHAT YOU MISSED ON GLEE!

#it's a very gripping and compelling story i know #truly one for the memoirs #asoiaf for ts #got for ts #sansa stark for ts #wank for ts #fandom wank #alys answers #alys anons #anonymous

[hinasaki]

KH Thoughts because I finished the game a few days ago

Starts with no spoilers, then goes in depth.

Okay so non-spoilery thoughts first:

Pacing was…. Bad. We’ll get how later. 

There was a lot of variety in the combat system - like there was a lot I could do, but because there was so much it started to get stale very quickly? Like every other second I’m getting a prompt for a combo attack or a form change or an attraction attack. I loved the forms tbqh but the attractions ended up feeling… dull after seeing them all a million times. I feel like they would have been more enjoyable if they triggered less often. Also stunlocking frequency was way the fuck too high. It was easy to stunlock bosses and just whack them to death. On the flipside, it was easy to GET stunlocked, which was frustrating.

I’m conflicted about tying some abilities to certain boss battles. On one hand that’s good because it lets you do things like no exp runs or whatever without missing out on stuff like Curaga. On the other hand it gave me level anxiety? Like I didn’t get Curaga until REALLY late in the game, so I was worried the whole time that I was underlevelled and about to get destroyed (which never happened).

Gummi ship is bad. It’s always been bad but this was the worst yet. The controls were clunky as heck and there was no point in upgrading the ship. Kudos for trying something new with it but it didn’t work so uhhhhh no thanks.

There were SO MANY mini-games and gimmicks. I didn’t even touch Classic Kingdom and I was still annoyed at the amount of mini-games. Camera was cool but often didn’t register on the characters in the shot. Cooking is another mini-game and probably fun if I’d bothered to spend any time doing it. Game itself is really pretty but there’s not much incentive to stop and enjoy the scenery beyond looking for emblems. 

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The game was short. I’m not usually one to complain about game length but for a game that was supposed to be the end of a saga it felt… rushed. The Disney stuff was very separate from the KH stuff. There wasn’t any FF stuff at all. I feel like it would have been better if they’d interspersed the KH stuff between the worlds because everything happening right at the end made endgame feel very rushed.

Speaking on that, I feel like the game banks overly much on us having our own investment in the other characters already. What should be emotional moments are glossed over. Wayfinder trio reunited after a decade? Sure, we’ll do that mostly offscreen. Sunset trio has the closest reunion to satisfying but even then it feels… off. It’s mostly just Xion crying and some hugging. Are we also not?? Going to talk about Ven and Roxas basically being twins??? They look at each other awkwardly but that’s about it.

Sora’s story in the Disney worlds felt like it didn’t matter. Okay sure we’re looking for “the power of waking” but it’s a flimsy-ass excuse when we could have been actively investigating the whereabouts of our missing members. It’s kind of the same complaint I had about FFXV actually: that the viewpoint characters have too limited perspective on what’s happening in the wider story. Honestly it felt at times like it would be 500% more interesting to be focussing on what Riku was doing rather that going on Sora’s irrelevant tour. Like I legit forgot what the point of visiting the Disney worlds was. I shouldn’t forget. That’s bad writing.

On a similar tangent - what the fuck was the point of Kairi? Axel/Lea gets shafted to a lesser degree (also… why are we back at Axel… I still don’t understand why the insistence there. Sentimentality for Roxas and Xion? So they match? Maybe spend some more time on this and it would make sense!). She has one scene before endgame and mentions she and Axel are gonna fight to end their training. Which we don’t see. Then she does SFA in the endgame and “dies” for man-angst. What happened to “I’m tired of waiting and being left behind”? What happened to “I’ll fight too”? Sure Kairi hasn’t had too much of an active role in previous entries but this felt…. Worse.

Similarly, they gave Aqua the idiot ball far too often for my comfort. Oh Aqua’s weak after being in the realm of darkness for 10 years - okay! But this literally isn’t an issue for any of the male characters and their various situations. Whenever anything bad happens Aqua immediately gives up in this game. That’s not Aqua. That’s bullshit. I might have accepted it if they’d spent time on it and had a whole arc on her regaining hope but they didn’t so it just sucked.

Xion has like 1.5 scenes and mostly is there to cry. Namine doesn’t show up until the end cutscene. Nomura write women well challenge.

Endgame goes on for a million years. Underwater Xehanort fight is bad. I did like the scene with Eraqus. “The Final World” is terrible and I hated it. Gathering bits of Sora was boring. Same for chasing the Lich. The first time was cool! The subsequent 6 went from meh to boring. Time travel is still stupid and Nomura needs a gotdamn editor.

Ending was…. Eh. I liked everyone hanging out but how did Sora find Kairi? What happened there? We got hints on a “price” for using the power of waking but like… okay. Feels like we lost a good few hours of story there.

Epilogue was okay I guess because it was literally just a hook.

Anyway it kind of felt like after sitting in dev hell for so long once they started it SE wanted to rush out the game. It doesn’t have any of the emotional resonance that I loved so much about the other games. Some things were fun! Like the mechs in Toy Box. A lot was pointless, like the entire ship upgrading thing in the Caribbean.

Even the worlds themselves were mostly underwhelming TBQH. There was the whole mention of Toy Box being a copy of the real toys’ world and that just… didn’t go anywhere. The Caribbean had a whole ocean that you had no real incentive to explore. Frozen made me climb the same damn mountain three times. Also, Disney, no one over the age of 10 likes Olaf. Stop trying to make it happen. Corona was fun but I felt like I was just running through so much without being encouraged to look around. BH6 was GREAT but the city was underutilised - it was a huge map and I hardly spent any time there. I’m probably forgetting other worlds but that kind of hammers home my point - they were forgettable. There were some great things I remember from the old games - climbing Oogie Boogie’s treehouse in KH1, the first time I made it to Hollow Bastion, the Traverse Town music, Christmas Town in KH2, the animal forms from Pride Lands, the entirety of the World that Never Was. I could go on.

You can’t go to Radiant Garden. We don’t see the restoration team at all. It’s a world they spent a lot of time building up and showing off in previous games and not being able to go there felt really bad.

TL;DR I feel like the game had potential but felt super rushed, tried to over-complicate its plot, didn’t spend time on emotional moments, and completely failed its female characters. BYE

#el fucking rollo #kh3 spoilers #obv

[chromsai]

🔥Arc-V's ending

ooooooo man talk about a controversial subject in yugioh (hmmm now that i think about it....🤔🤔🤔 has there been a more controversial topic in any yugioh before? honestly someone give me a list of controversial topics in ygo pls...)

anyway (cut for spoilers, obvs...)

(a long read...)

i liked it! a lot actually. borderline loved it... but not quite. 

i will admit that during the airing of that episode i was... drunk off my ass so i didn’t... process it properly at that moment. if anything, i was in this weird drunken shock... my favorite show of all time was ending... it’s really hard for me to cope with that lmaao... 

i rewatched it more recently sober tho, so don’t worry... but only once...

i can understand why it makes people upset but i cannot for the life of me agree with them. the ending wasn’t bad. not at all. it was just not something you expect from this franchise. it’s an ending full of consequence and one that recognizes that healing may be hard and takes time but it can happen and there is hope. 

i think one of the most disturbing factors of it for some people is shun’s infamous smile of acceptance— people seem to think that it’s out of character for him. in the heat of the moment, tbqh, it really isn’t. i think people easily fail to use some good deductive reasoning skills to be able to tell that he is hurting so much on the inside BUT... he always has been all along. nothing is going to change that. nothing ever will. and neither his smile or even yuya’s entertainment is ever going to cure that.

shun’s been grieving for the entire show. at the end of his duel against yuya, he comes to accept that both ruri and yuto are still with him in some form, and that they always will be no matter what. he has hope. not for yuto or for ruri. the hope he has is for himself.

this conclusion of his character arc wasn’t by mistake or accident or wasn’t just a botched up rushed conclusion either. it’s literally alluding to the acceptance of loss. and guess what, shun smiling in the end is him coming to peace with that emotion... for a moment.

i’m not sure why some people assume that he’s unrealistically happy for the rest of his life from then on just because he was shown smiling in the final shot that showed him. i really don’t understand that logic and tbh people who are upset about shun smiling in the ending only have themselves to blame for not thinking ahead for a bit about what he’ll be like post-canon. his smile, which he 100% deserves, only shows us that despite all the hurt, he’ll be okay, even when he’s hurting later on (and trust me, he will, unfortunately, as such is the nature of the experience of loss)... it’s a symbol of hope for him. i can’t for the life of me understand why that makes people upset.

shun also lost his homeland, but again i see many people concluding that WELP I GUESS HEARTLAND’S FUCKED FOREVER. why... why would anyone assume this? did they not watch episode 144 where edo told us directly that they’ll be working on restoring heartland?? was i hallucinating??? i’ve seen so many people complain “ugh they never fixed heartland”... god... it’s not that hard to imagine that this will take time post canon. they’re not gonna waste time on the final episode to show us the progress of its reconstruction...

admittedly, i can agree that it was rushed. or, to put it more accurately: production of the show was blatantly cut short for some unknown reason. (yes, unknown reason. everyone thought that they cut arc v short by a month because okay we’re preparing for vr now... and yet... vr itself is in production hell and has been from the very start so either they were dicking around not actually doing shit to prepare for vr OR vr’s production team absolutely sucks with getting shit done on time. i think we all know by now that it’s the latter tho.)

but despite the ending feeling rushed due to vr’s production issues, (yes, i’m gonna blame it on vr because y’all won’t stop blaming arc v on vr’s production issues for some damn reason even tho arc v has literally nothing to do with vr. two can play at that game bitch.) it’s still a satisfying ending to me. was it 100% satisfying? of course not. what would have helped it? imho, a proper epilogue, but that’s just me being wishful. does the lack of an epilogue make me hate it? hell no, i have the freedom to make up my own epilogue as i please now. would it have been a nice addition to it though and helped wrapped things up a bit better and made it seem less rushed?

yes. absolutely.

does the fact that it’s not the ending most of us wanted or not a completely satisfying ending disregard the merit of the rest of the entire 147 episodes of the show and its message and themes?

absolutely fucking not.

i constantly see people trashing on the entirety of arc v just because they personally didn’t like the ending. it’s tragic that they apparently forgot what happened during other 147 episodes of the show, but i guess to each their own. just goes to show that they most likely cared more about the destination than the journey to get there, honestly.

btw, the points that i mentioned above are just some of the gripes i see people have with the ending that mostly come from people that:

1) don’t understand proper deductive reasoning or refuse to use context clues in order to draw a more thorough conclusion of how the characters will all develop beyond the ending (the characters’ lives don’t just end at the “THE END” screen...>.>)

&

2) refuse to accept that this ending fits perfectly with the show’s themes, understands coping with loss and the experience of healing (which, by the way, is not a linear, phase-to-phase experience and never truly goes away), and acknowledges the consequences brought upon by its own plot.

in the end, what i wish people would take away from this ending, most of all, is that it sends off the viewer with one last message:

despite everything that has happened, you can still find a reason to smile.

so many of these characters will need some form of therapy & healing: yuya, yuzu, and shun especially... but... why is them finding a reason to smile despite all the loss they’ve experienced... why is that so hard to swallow?

“Take a step forward with courage.”

as someone who has experienced grief & depression before, it really takes a lot of courage to make yourself muster up a genuine smile through the hardest days, through the guilt, through the sorrow & pain, through the regret, etc. but... i’d never discourage it. never.

and i’m thankful to arc v and its ending for doing the same.

#cypsiman2 #ask #reply #arc v spoilers #arc v #spoilers

[aprilmillerphd-archive]

This is a Bias List. Because I am Biased, and also a Follow Forever. For reasons. Mostly that April hit a milestone and that’s friggin’ amazing in my book.

So I have to start with @darcywho who has been my main and exclusive Darcy since... well actually since I took April from the private rpc into the independent rpc something like four or five years ago. I know Mariah IRL (and will soon be living within easy driving distance of her)-- and basically. Mariah is bombtastic. She’s hella smart and funny, and when I’m having a crappy day (or given how the beginning of this year went, a crappy year) -- she texts me incessantly to talk about what Darcy is doing, and what April and Darcy should be doing, and I have so much character history, and Important Events, and developmental experiences just from talking and writing with Mariah, that I honestly don’t think April would be the character she is, without having had Darcy’s mitigating influence. We’ve just done so much that we’ve reached a point in our friendship and writing relationship where I literally feel as if Mariah could write April, and do her justice and vice versa. If y’all don’t follow her already, you should get on that because seriously, she is the absolute best take on Darcy Lewis that I have ever encountered in the Marvel RPC, and I know the PC rp com is going to jump down my throat for ‘making comparisons’-- but again. THis boo is my main and exclusive Darcy Lewis, also I do whut I want. @scarsearned MANGOOOOO. Okay so funfact; this brat used to have a diff url and we chat on dis/cord and it STILL took me like three days to realize on tumblr they were the same person. I FOLLOW YOU ON FOUR BLOGS MANGO. THis is what you signed up for all those years ago. I’m sorry. SO TO THE POINT! Mango has a bevy of blogs she runs, I met her when she wrote almost exclusively on Rummers here, and what I say ‘met her’ I mean I started sending her asks talking about Brock Rumlow, reread her rules and realized she had a password, at which point we were already talking over Skype, and then I sent in her password and she teased me relentlessly for it. (I deserved it, I’m a total goob)-- Mango is right up there with Mariah in terms of IMPORTANT character development shit. Mango writes a CANON DIVERGENT Brock Rumlow, and has put so much time into developing him, I think Marvel should give her a fuckin’ job. She’s also like... insanely smart. I say this as someone who likes to play at being really intelligent. Mango talks and I feel like I’m back in grade school and I want to hide myself away in shame. So obviously it’s no wonder we ended up shipping. (Actually no, I still have literally no idea how or why THAT happened tbqh I’m a fuckin’ potato) -- but Mango and Mariah go hand in hand because I introduced them and now their Brock and Darcy are inextricably linked forevermore as siblings and it’s fuckin’ A Plus. @russkiyuragan YET ANOTHER PERSON I MET BECAUSE OF MANGO. But also hella quality child of canon OC. Like, legit we started talking because Mango dragged us into a group rp and it turned into us mutuall talking about character development and now basically Seamus is one of April’s smols. Even though he really ISN’T one of hers. She’s basically claimed him as a child who needs mothering and dammit she is going to give him all the mothering ever. Even if he doesn’t need or want it. AND BASICALLY THEY ARE A FUCKING SWEETHEART WHO NEEDS ALL THE FUCKING LOVE because they’re really insanely smart and super sweet and friendly and I heart them. @phxtxn PHIL!!! OKAY SO I MET PHIL IN A CLOSED RPC FOR-FUCKING-EVER AGO. And immediately Genis and April butted heads. (He destroyed like half her office, ruined a couple PRICELESS books and then offered to buy her lunch in apology. Suffice to say April was less than impressed) -- except over the years, they’ve gotten really close. Occasionally Phil and I delve into the divergent canon where April and Genis actually end up romantically involved but it always ends in heartache because April is bad at being happy and Genis is bad at... well.. mitigating April’s more extreme bouts of self-loathing. BUT they are exceptional friends and Phil has a fantastic knack for finding the fun and funny in every situation and driving April absolutely UP A WALL. Phil’s also another rp partner I dragged into the collective with Mariah, because I like it when my writing partners all write together because I’m a spoiled princess. Phil’s a total sweetheart though and his Genis Vell is motherfucking spot on. He’s spent a lot of time with the character and it shows, but he also understands pragmatic, human interactions from a writing sense so it’s always a joy when we write together or chat. @askprofessorx NAAAAYYAA -- Naya’s another of those rpers I sort of. Grew on. Like a fungus. I wooed her with poetry first and then introduced her Charl to April and what I consider to be one of my more beautifully painful plot ideas. It involved time travel and the overhanging possibility of April dying. And because April was from the modern era trying desperately to get back, it was that much more painful when she started developing connections. And basically Naya and I plotted everything out over IMs and asks and now we have the most ridiculous tiny person ship in the history of ridiculous ships and Naya’s Charles is like... the cornerstone of my favorite Charles’s. She’s got this beautiful grasp of our fave telepath’s charming flirtatiousness and paired with the very Serious way he views morality and the world, which combined with April’s general cynicism (and it should be noted, our mutant verse involves April being a touch-telepath who can’t actually touch people without destroying their brains because control? what is that)-- and you have an April experiencing her worst fear. Which is not being in-control of herself. It’s beautiful and Naya is beautiful bean. @iremembereveryonethatleaves AHAHAHA Lilo was the first  ‘child’ April ever like. Accidentally adopted. And it happened entirely because of my age of aquarius verse, wherein instead of April seeking out Charles Xavier, she looked for Magneto instead. She found him. And his kid. And I literally have no idea WHY OR HOW April ended up becoming surrogate mom to Lilo since there’s no rational reason for Magneto getting along with April who is a cynical, borderline nihilist with Serious Rage Issues. But-- April and Lilo. Mommy and daughter and just. LITERALLY ALL MY HEART AND LOVE FOR THIS PERSON WHO MADE WRITING MUTANT APRIL FUN AND NOT PAINFUL. Until you (you asshole) made it painful. I still go through our tags to read all th angst, and I didn’t do it half so well as you and Tori did so.. @actually-i-prefer-magneto frick me so apparently I did my mutant crew in a triumvirate.  The flipside of the age of aquarius verse, where April found Magneto instead and became part of his Brotherhood. Because who wouldn’t have a need for a hyperpolyglot, with genius level intelligence and touch-telepathy? Magneto knew what he was getting out of the bargain, I just don’t think he expected April Miller. TBQH. Nobody ever expects her which is great, and this basically started as an incredibly painful, probably tragic plot that I had (sort of) intended to result in April’s death and it didn’t go that route. Like. At all. probably because these two babes understand that good angst is hard to come by and with the persistent low-hanging threat of April’s head getting blown off, or even worse, her returning to her own time, it meant that every interaction was always charged with a lowkey kind of desperation and tension.  Even when Erik and April got that ‘happy’ ending. It took an actual fucking lifetime to get there. And the best thing about Kristy is that she’s smart as fuck, I seem to surround myself with people who make writing look easy, and whose ability to thread together a long arching plot is so absolutely bafflingly amazing I am often struck stupid. @captain-outoftime AaBbbbYyyyYyy. So like- I met Abby through Mariah. Abby is the Steeb to Mariah’s Darcy. They’re hitched. It’s great. April helped Steve propose to Darcy even though April seems to have a PERPETUAL ISSUE with Steve Rogers that defies all explanation. IDK-- it’s probably something to do with the fact that April is a giant pain the ass and a tiny, fight-y blonde? WTF knows. Steve tolerates April. Abby tolerates me. Abby is a goddess. Beautiful, smart, funny as fuck, and like. Constantly busy. How she manages to balance RL shit with rp is beyond the scope of my ability to grasp yo but she’s the bomb-diggity. @americanasitgets MOTHERFUCKIN’ GABBY! My DC babe. Light of my liiife, fire in my loins, (not really but I was on a roll yo) -- I also met Gabby because of Mariah. And Gabby’s Clark. Gabby’s Clark is made of fucking sunshine okay, and the best part is, is that we’ve had like a sustained rp universe where April harasses Clark and doesnt know he’s superman, WHILE TASH-TRALKING SUPERMAN TO CLARK’S FACE. It’s comedy gold. Poor April. But I love Gabby, because she’s smart as shit and fuckin’ hysterical, and will literally snowball crack scenarios over IM into the wee hours of the morning. Even better, I’ve found someone whose as bad at keeping track of threads as me. (I say, as I eyeball our New Krypton thread that’s been in my drafts folder for like. Six months. Oops). @talonscourt D I KNOW THROUGH MY TIM BLOG-- but who I first met on April and then promptly FORGOT ABOUT because I’m a total dipshit. D writes Jason Todd, April surrogate son. This is a recent development. Tim loves Jason, April loves Jason. D is amazing as Jason. D is like... my platonic lover from Narnia. They’re smart as hell, and incredibly sweet even when I’m shit at keeping in contact because my real life is a hot-fuckin-mess and I’m always sick and on the verge of nuclear collapse. I would be TOTALLY LOST WITHOUT YOU. @galaeus Echo. As written by the ever talented Amy who I’ve known since April’s very first incarnation. Which... is a long ass time, Amy’s seen April through several character developments and rewrites, and has legit known April as a character since like. Legit. Post Tim. When April was a baby.  Echo is April’s other southern, raised by a pageant queen biffle. They shoot the shit together, Echo is also legit the only person in existence whose allowed to give April nicknames, or turn April into a diminutive. Amy’s basically like... hands down the reason why i never gave up on writing an Indie female OC, and that’s because Amy’s a boss and she also happens to be a spectacular writer, both in the RPC and in real life. @agentharrisonofshield and last but not least, this girl. Right here. April has like... a bevy of Awesome Girl Squad frands. All of whom are infinitely more talented and bad ass than she is, like. Legit. April’s smart. but in a fight? She’s basically cannon fodder by comparison. She just isn’t built for the field. April and Viv became friends because they got locked in a closet together. I’m not sure HOW that happened, but now they get together and chat in other languages and April feeds her, and basically this s the woman April goes to when she wants someone shot. I literally love all the headcanons we’ve put together and that Agent Harrison is invariably the first ‘shield agent’ April casually mentions outside of Echo, in threads of mine. That’s how you know you’ve found an awesome rp partner and friend. When their own characters start casually infiltrating your threads in the form of namedrops.

#bias list #how the fuck did I hit a milestone y'all? #im confused #follow forever

[monsterpie]

howliday special thoughts

i finally got around to watching it!!! only a few hours late, lol 

anyways, assorted thoughts and stuff under the cut!

i kind of have trouble believing not a single monster knows about presents? like did they just never give/get presents or...?

i guess im nitpicking, but i also have trouble believing there is no monster holidays at all? like not even any celebrated by a particular race of monsters? i dont know, its just... seeing how many different types of monsters there are, it seems a bit... improbable... (also, wasn’t that collector Abbey doll supposed to be from the reboot era? wasn’t she celebrating something?)

what was the little blue new student at the beginning... looked like some sort of bug... im going to guess a fairy?

toralei’s concept of a holiday is spot on......

oh no... food might fall on gob... aka the monster that literally eats food... the monster who ate trash out of a trash truck.... the monster who is literally made of some semi permeable liquid which allows him to absorb anything he wants to absord.... how would he ever have gotten out of that situation...

gil found dead in miami

how much water was in his tank if he flooded the entire lobby with at least three feet of water (presumably? considering where it was at on the doorway)

“IM SORRY YOUR HOWLIDAY WAS TOO WEAK TO WITHSTAND YOUR ICE FISH BOY” EHGLWIEHGGWEHGEW I LOVE ABBEY

O MAN THERES A SKULLETTE 

IM ACTUALLY REALLY HAPPY TO SEE IT

ITS THE WOLF KIDS

i like that cleo realized how to tell when frankie’s lying.... it was kinda cute, kinda like ‘aw they are friends even tho they don’t have much in the way of important interactions thus far in the reboot’

 lets go graverob a child’s grave

well at least now we know how to pronounce alivia 

frankie and alivia are already adorable and im so glad

cleo’s poses are so cute omg 

alivia’s eyes are blue and not heterochromatic

@mattel get your story straight

what if alivia does like scinece but she needs time.... shes basically a newborn, scince is literally in her blood, so shes looking to branch out a bit...

LET GHOULIA COME BACK SO FRANKIE AND SHE CAN TALK ABOUT SCIENCE

there’s deuce’s band... but wheres woolie.... 

WOOLIE HAS BEEN MISSING FOR LIKE. ALL OF THE GHOUL SQUAD WEBISODES. WHERE IS SHE.

as far as i remember it monster high was situated back in the woods with no direct road to normie town.... it was probably a couple of miles from normie town as well.... why did they build a road that connects straight to the main road and not even build a fence to stop trespassers....

MAKE A POTATO BATTERY

parade floats cant spin that fast without flipping over

“whered you get all this talent?” “you made me, so it obviously came from you!” THATS SO SWEET IM DYING

gob is glue... glub?

abbey is so good at snow im love her

seriously i never realized how much i loved abbey until this special which is, frankly, shocking and also sad

that looks like a doggy bowl that mom wolf is sipping out of

i hope those arent the $1000 icoffins (lol)

can the pups not talk or do they just prefer barking

hc that barker actually has pink hair bc he got into some of his moms or clawdeens crafting supplies and they accidentally temporarily dyed his hair pink

euorgehgpergpeaph;eajrhijoerag clawdeen sounds downright murderous when she sasys “let’s play in the snow’ and honestly thats just how siblings are tbqh

they should really include abbey on their team.... she couldnt hit all the pups in one throw.... and build a snow shield....

THeyRE USING HIM AS A BATTERING RAM

WHO GAVe THEM SHOVELS DRUMS AND GRAPPLING HOOKS

even if they lost the snowball games, would the pups not have tired themselves out enough to willingly go to bed anyway??

i mean it makes sense the pups arent listening to her since clawdeen isnt the alpha....

well i was right about the pups....

draculauras comforter is so cute omg

frankie and lala are sharing a bed bc theyre dating

NO TTHAT MUCH CHILI PEPPER DEUCE

ok but the bone bros’ hug was so darn cute

there is literally no way theres that many students that go to monster high,

dpeaking of which WHEre IS MOANICA DID THEY FINALLY SUSPEND HER

abbey just freezing the pups to the float is KILLING ME

ah yes, catty singing instead of ari... just how it should be

fangelica should know better than to fly to normie town....

this normie girl... is terrifying...

batterina is a good name.... how has nobody made an oc with that name

is fangelica younger or older than lala, canonically? i cant remember

“theyre nothing... but bones and bones” leajhrbalejkrhb;jaekrhaer

“hi dad!” THATS SO CUTE, LET FANGELICA AND DRACULA HAVE MORE FATHER DAUGHTER INTERACTIONS

HOW did the little normie girl even GET THERE

IT COULDNT HAVE BEEN THE MAPALOGUE COULD IT??? THE BANDAGES WERE NT ATTACHED TO CLEO, SO THEY WOULDNT HAVE TRANSPORTED WITH HER, S OTHEY WOULDNT HAVE BROUGHT THE LITTLE GIRL ALONG

SO HOW DID SHE EVEN GET THERE

WHAT THE HECK

since we never saw the little girl go back, guess what? now dracula has three daughters

new meme: dracula keeps getting children

i mean thats literally the entire plot anyway right?

every student at that school is unofficially his new child

thanks dad

overall that was a super cute special!! there were a few loose ends, and a few things i didnt like, but overall it was super enjoyable and sweet!!!

#dont know if i should tag it or not but i might as well lol #monster high #mh #monsterhigh #mine

[starryseo]

high schooler!donghyuck

SECOND ! PART ! WHOOP!!

high schooler haechan gives me life tbqh

donghyuck !!!!

my precious bb give this boy love pls

ok so i think we all know hes the class clown + trouble maker

but whos complaining??? the dude's funny as heck

hes the type of kid that starts pointless arguments with the teacher

but everyone loves it bc 1) entertainment !! 2) no learning !!!!!!

also that one kid that keeps clicking a pen during a test/ quiet study

like

stop

he finds it irritating himself, but if it annoys mark then it's worth it

ok so remember that aforementioned rap performance thing from mark's imagine??

u bet your butt hyuck was there !! life of the damn party he was

he took over the mc's mic when it was his turn to come on and made everyone call him Haechan

he even got the crowd to chant it whilst he was rapping lmao u go boi

11/10 he dropped the mic at the end of the performance

he probs also bribed chenle + jisung to stand at the front of the crowd and throw roses after he performed

ok so,,, least fav subject: science

hes gotten one too many detentions bc he never pays attention

hes probs also tried sabotaging the lesson in multiple ways so that the teacher cant teach properly or so he can escape

pretending he was ill so he could go to the med room

sitting on the papers that the teacher was meant to hand out to every1 whilst the teacher wasnt looking lmao

constantly asking questions so the teacher would have to pause the video playing

or complaining about the volume/ quality of the video

he doesnt hate doing experiments tho bc at least he can move around the class and talk to the other dreamies in that class

aka he gets jaemin to do the work and record it in his book too as he goes and ruins mark's experiment in 1748734 different ways

literally sCrEaMS when the bell rings and he's the first one outTA THERE !!!

@lunch time, he always steals food from the other dreamies like

"omg jisung is that a cockroach??????"

*casually steals his crisps, watching jisung scream/ cry*

jeno was gonna expose hyuck but he was offered some crisps by hyuck for his silence

ofc jeno agreed

ok so your meeting:

you were walking past the music classrooms bc you got held back after school for a quick talk

and you hear a noise

so you stop, thinking someone was playing the bass

like who doesnt stop to listen to ppl playing instruments????

anyways,,,, after a while youre just like tf? bc this doesnt sound musical at all

so you go into the class aaaaand

lo and behold

hyuck is sleeping on the floor of the class, his jacket's on top of the keyboard as a makeshift pillow

and you recognise him who doesnt tbfh but also bc renjun is always telling you abt the shiz he does to the others

so you pop open your chat with renjun and snap a pic of hyuck who's got drool and messy as heck hair

"quality blackmail material ;)" and you hit send

you nudge him until he wakes up at hes literally a lost puppy

like ..... uh? who..... are you?

complete opposite to the haechan you watched on stage rip

but its kinda cute pfft

anyways you tell him that he fell asleep and you, being a kindred soul, woke him up

hes just like o ok thank u byEEEEE

the next day w0000

as soon as he sees you at lunch he is fuL L SPEED RU N NIN G @ YOU

youre actually terrified, like contemplating whether to run away or not

but you staaaaay yay !

but holy heck hes mad

hyuck: >:(

you: uh hi?

hyuck: you sent the guys a pic of me!!!!! wht did i ever do to you?!?!?!

you: o whoops? i guess my hand slipped? :')

ever since then hes been trying to get revenge

but you obviously wont let him win

so whatever he throws at you, you throw back

basically y'all start a huGE lil' sabotage war

started off with mindless hiding the others homework/ stealing their food

but then it turns into full on getting mark to distract hyuck

as renjun and jeno sneak you into hyuck's house so you could stick up multiple printed off copies of that Sleeping Hyuck™ picture that started this war off

as payback, he got chenle and jisung to ask you to help them out with their homework

meanwhile, he snuck into your locker and stuck up lots of pictures of himself in there with hearts and everything on them

he used duct tape and permanent glue and whatever else he could so getting the pictures down would be vvvv hard

eventually as y'all done this, and you learned the others weakness, you also got closer !!!

like sometime during the debacle, phone numbers were exchanged and you guys have a love/ hate relationship

the other dreamies have 2 bets going on:

one: who will confess first, hyuck or y/n?

two: how long will it take for them to start dating?

ok so

one day you told renjun that you had this killer plan to just end the whole war between you + hyuck

so you told him to make sure no one came to hyuck's house bc you wanted to prank him when he was alone

and on that fated day he was waiting for you to spam him about the success of your plan as you usually did

but you didnt??? like he waited for h o u r s (like 2 but watevs)

and you didnt message him at all

so he got reaaaaaally curious and he told the other dreamies and they all decided to go check out what was going on

and there was utter silence @ hyuck's house so they snuck in

they expected one of you to be screaming

so the silence could only mean one of you had killed the other as the Ultimate Revenge™ 

they made another bet on who was dead

they went inside as quietly as they could

and guess !! what they !!!! saw !!!!!!!

you and hyuck just chilling 2gether on the sofa watching a film

bUT

PLOT TWIST

jk

holding !!!! hanDS !!!!!!!

chenle was the first to scream omf

yall got so sh00k hyuck literally pushed you to the ground to "hide" you

"they already saw us, duMBASS"

all was silent after that

until jaemin starts screaming "omg!! i won the second bet!!!!!!!! pay up sucKERS!!!"

#nct #nct 127 #nct dream #lee donghyuck #nct donghyuck #nct haechan #haechan #hae #nct fluff #bulleted imagine #dreamies #nct writing #haechan in high school #donghyuck in high school #boyfriend haechan #boyfriend donghyuck #nct school #high schooler donghyuck #high schooler haechan #nct renjun #nct jeno #nct jaemin #nct chenle #nct jisung #nct headcanon

[faejilly]

tag game

Fic Writer Edition (tagged by @silver-latin-and-salt​, tagging, idk, whoever is writing atm? @twistedsinews​ @leahazel​ @junemermaid​, anyone who’d like, no one who doesn’t, etc.)

Fandoms: atm, primarily Shadowhunters. But also BioWare: Dragon Age and Mass Effect and maybe someday I’ll post some Jade Empire.

Also the occasional other game or TV show or Yuletide inspired one-shot. It’s a wide and ridiculous range of things, from a Georgette Heyer regency epilogue to Code: Realize and #7kpp to Firefly & even some Sleepy Hollow ficlets from back in s1 before we realized how terrible TPTB were going to be.

Number of fics: I have 158 works published on AO3.

This includes a couple of fanmixes that are linked on there to companion fics/series, two collaborative fics which are not just mine, even less so than most writing that is, and four WIPs: two of which I am still working on, one of which will absolutely 100% NEVER ever get more, and then that last one will probably not get more but who knows, maybe in ten years we’ll do a reunion and try again (it’s one of the collabs).

AS WELL AS: forty-seven different ficlet collections, sorted by fandom and pairing(s), because otherwise I would honestly have almost 1000 things and never be able to find a single damn one of them when I wanted to (and neither would anyone else). Like, ten of them are just for Shadowhunters because I split up the coda-fic by season and then also I put the porn in its own thing and Clizzy is kind of a post-canon AU so they’re on their own too and spin-offs of a particular fic setting get their own collection so they’re all together and etc. etc. etc.

Fic I spent a lot of time on: Do we count time actually writing? Or just the amount of time it hung out in my head before I finished it? Because I probably spent the most actual physical writing time on Lost For Words, which is a frothy cotton-candy experiment in long-fic for Mass Effect that I posted chapter by chapter as I wrote it and actually finished. (I have never successfully repeated the experience, tho I suppose a couple of my Shadowhunters fics will sort-of qualify in terms of length when they’re done, but they didn’t get posted semi-regularly and in progressive chapters in at all the same way.)

In terms of time between debut and completion, that would probably have to go to Cruel Intentions, which took over five years between initially going up on the Dragon Age Kink Meme and actually getting a conclusion.

i am for you and if broken hearts were whole have both been lingering WIPs for over two years at this point now, though, and a couple other DA2 fics were pretty close to that five year mark as well. 😅

Fic I didn’t spend a lot of time on: ashes of angels because I was coming up on my bingo deadline so I just pounded it out in a day. (It’s actually quite good tho! I think so, anyway! I am very proud of it! Read part one first, if you haven’t yet!)

also Impossible, (DA2, Bethany/Sebastian, confessional!porn) which mostly wrote itself in pretty short order, which was delightful. (Tho I also had a very astute beta for that one; don’t think he’s on tumblr anymore tho, or I’d yell at him in thanks again.) I told y’all I had a priest!kink problem. Not that you hadn’t all noticed on your own, anyways...

Longest fic: Finished? The aforementioned Lost for Words at just over 62k.

In limbo? Persephone Rising is literally three times longer than my next longest fic (and still not done!) but it is also a collab fic with three authors, so I suppose that sort of evens out?

Active WIP? i am for you at 59k. I’m not sure how much more is left of that one, tbqh... it will probably end up a bit longer than LfW, tho maybe not by much.

Shortest fic: I have no fucking clue, 47 ficlet collections, remember? In terms of a thing that I forgot to collect, apparently it is Consequences, which is my Brosca after the Landsmeet in DA:O.

Most hits/Most kudos/Most bookmarks: ALL THREE FOR i am for you! (Wonder how it’ll do when it’s no longer marked as a WIP?)

Total word count: On AO3: 1,137,609 !!!

(Sorry, you can see why I had to make that big tho, right?)

Fic I want to rewrite/expand: Except for the revisions to what is now Maleficar, I much prefer to leave fic as is, once it’s up there, so nothing on the re-write front. It was what it was when I did it, and it’s important to remember that, even when you move on to new stuff, imo.

But! I have potential/hopeful sequels in the WIP folder for and breathing is wishing, out of some dreaming tree, with an if in its soul, and several assorted ficlet collections & prompts I’ve sort of teased over the years. 

Favourite fic of mine: At the moment, they have hung the sky with arrows because it’s a thing I’m not sure I ever really thought I was going to write, and then I did and I surprised myself a little, but it was fun and it ties together a lot of my thoughts on the Shadowhunters finale in a way I really enjoyed. (Also it has an actual plot! I don’t do that terribly often, I’m usually very introspective in my fic.)

Sneak peek of a WIP/Share an idea? I started a Shadowhunter!Magnus fic for a bingo square, but then scope creep! so I made a moodboard, but there is maybe a fic on the way... eventually. After my Bangs. 🤞🏻

The first time Magnus Bane met the High Warlock of Manhattan it was during his "travels", the two years after graduating from the Academy when most Nephilim wandered from Institute to Institute, seeing how things were done differently around the world, how they were still so often the same, learning about all the things you couldn't see in a classroom.

He wasn't actually in New York City in order to meet the High Warlock, of course, not as a 17-year-old foot soldier, that was well above his pay grade, as the mundanes put it. But when all the full-fledged Shadowhunters had work to do, he was assigned escort duty when the High Warlock showed up to do his yearly wards inspection. 

Magnus met High Warlock Lightwood at the main entrance, and almost swallowed his own tongue at the sight of him, a broad shouldered, long-legged white man dressed in a conservative but very well-tailored suit, with heavy eyebrows, even heavier eyelashes, and a complete and utter lack of anything resembling an expression on his face. 

A shiver went down Magnus' spine as he met the High Warlock's gaze, and he refused to think too much about why.

Magnus managed to introduce himself reasonably coherently, he thought, offering a hand to shake, but the High Warlock just raised an eyebrow at him. "I thought I'd talked them out of this nonsense last year."

"Uh." Magnus swallowed. The man was both terrifying and ludicrously attractive, and Magnus resigned himself to being a slightly stuttering idiot for the next four-to-six hours. "Not my call, I'm sorry to say. Sir."

The High Warlock rolled his eyes, and stepped forward. Magnus barely managed to dodge out of his way, and followed along behind him as he stalked towards the Angelic Core, where all the Institute Wards were anchored.

He never once acknowledged Magnus' presence as he worked, never asked for directions, or needed any sort of assistance. Magnus followed him anyway, and couldn't even bring himself to be upset about the waste of his time because damn, that view. He could see the shift of Lightwood's shoulders beneath the line of his coat, the tension in the muscles in his arms as each tiny motion correlated to whatever he was doing with his magic. There was so much power there, constrained and under his complete control.

The High Warlock never took so much as a wasted step in his clearly perfectly planned spiral of a route through the Institute's halls, circling out from the Core, stopping at each node, hitting all four corners of the building, before reaching the main doors again several hours later. 

Once there he finally turned and looked at Magnus directly. He dipped his head in some slight acknowledgement, straightened his cuffs, and his face shifted into something that was merely neutral and professional rather than granite. "There were no concerns to note, Mr. Bane. The wards have been refreshed, and the contract terms have been met."

"Thank you," Magnus managed, though he had to cough to get his voice to cooperate. 

The High Warlock's face softened, a hint of something that wasn't quite surprise in his eyes, but Magnus wasn't sure what to call it instead. "You're very welcome."

He nodded again, slightly more sincerely, perhaps, though there still wasn't enough of an expression on his face to properly qualify, in Magnus' opinion, and then he turned and left. 

Magnus blinked at the doors as they shut behind him, and let out one long slow exhale. His shoulders relaxed, and it was only now that his posture sagged that he realized he'd been extra tense the entire time, as if waiting for an attack that had never come.

#on writing #fic memery #silver-latin-and-salt

[kinetic-elaboration]

April 13: Mr. Robot 4x05

Today, a Christmas Mr. Robot.

Well, technically the whole season is Christmas-themed.

I was literally 30 minutes in before I realized this was the episode without any audible dialogue because I’m very smart and observant. I loved it, though. It’s the sort of concept I’d be very wary of in general, especially on another show, but it worked really well--I mean it was so well done I didn’t even immediately notice it, as I said!

Plus I like when they do those little meta/form jokes, like starting this one with “We don’t have to talk” and ending it with “It’s time we talk.” Similar to the episode that started with “Elliot won’t be coming today,” that then didn’t have any Elliot in it.

I only sorta get what Darlene and Elliot were doing. I get the overall plan is to rob the bank. I get that access to the bank couldn’t be gained remotely because no one has that security clearance (aside from the dead Susan Jacobs). But, I don’t really get what they were doing specifically in this episode. The only specific parts I followed were the fake out with the card to get Elliot in and the stealing of the fingerprint, but as far as the vagueries in the big room full of computers...idk!

This doesn’t really matter because I was still having fun with the overall suspense (* JJ Abrams voice * The music will be playing and everything will be happening at once and no one’s going to care about anything other than something big is happening !! ). But, I don’t get what the status of the plan is at this point. I mean obviously they’re not done first because there are eight episodes left still and also because if this was it, they wouldn’t need Price.

I kind of already forgot why they need Price.

I also loved all the Alderson sibling stuff. Darlene just picking him up off the side of the road, like he’s just had this big nocturnal adventure getting lost in the snow and the woods, and then morning comes and Darlene swoops in and takes him away. And then when she did it again at the end!!! And he holds her hand!! Yes, she is his most important person.

Dom looked very pretty today in her Christmas dress. I don’t have much else to say about her story line--it hasn’t really moved much yet tbqh--but I am excited to see her now in the Aldersons’ path.

Price was also dressed nicely; he looked downright grandfatherly. His plot actually felt the most Tinker Tailor to me, even though everyone (other than Krista) was doing some kinda spy type shit.

I mean Darlene literally had disguises!

It was like 3 different genres of spy narrative, I guess.

Krista is so good, honestly. So adorable. I hope her boyfriend and his silly sweaters is good to her. Also I hope Vera doesn’t hurt her.

Having no dialogue meant the ability to really showcase all the Christmas music. I love that they went all out with a “Christmas season Christmas-season” and really pulled all the stops. Also, I’m not necessarily a fan of most Christmas music, most secular Christmas music anyway, but I liked all the songs in this ep a lot. I would listen to the Mr. Robot Christmas playlist.

Shout out to the excellent shot of the entire Nativity scene on the bus.

I didn’t really watch this episode properly because I was also trying to ineptly make dinner that I started way too late, and I had to keep starting and stopping, and I feel like I’m already forgetting certain things, like how Price fits into Elliot’s plan but, nevertheless, I’m going to keep watching and following along as well as I can. It’s a good final season so far!

#the year 2021 #2021: fandom thoughts #2021: mr robot

[madokasoratsugu]

henlo!! here’s a complied post of unused fic ideas/fic tidbits for “a place for the sun to return” that @yuerise very kindly requested for on ao3 !! 

QUICK WARNING: this pretty much spoils the entire fic ! if you haven’t read it yet and don’t want spoilers press J on your keyboard or scroll real quick if you’re on mobile aha :”DD

unused ideas

little known fact: the fic was initially going to be written from Takumi’s perspective ! it was supposed to be a 2-3k word fic, focusing on the last reincarnation they had together before Souma became human. It was to be set in a modern university AU, with Takumi as our local college senior struggling to come to terms with the fact that a literal, actual God has presented himself before him and is apparently in deep love. While finals are coming up. The fic was originally supposed to be a lot more light hearted, with a little slapstick comedy surrounding the duo’s shenanigans in Takumi’s cramped apartment and a lot more Isami involvement. In fact, Isami was initially planned to play the ‘love advisor’ role instead of Alice :”))  The idea never took off from my mind (i s2g i thought i wrote down the intro but it turns out it was all in my head weeps) simply because...it didn’t Feel right? it didn’t really feel like a proper sequel/idea, although writing about it now makes me want to do this version HAHA :”D 

one of the scrapped reincarnation scenarios was mobster!Takumi LMAO. It was a fun idea I entertained for a bit bc it’d add a nice bit of contrast, you know? but I got the idea after nearly finishing the entire fic and there were...certain elements that were already written that I didn’t want to remove/sacrifice if I replaced one scenario with another. I still feel it’s a pity I never used this plot point, since it would have been an incredibly fun reincarnation to explore, considering how different it is from the rest :”)) It would also have been a neat challenge for my writing, but ah well. another idea for another day, I guess uvu

this is my Favourite unused idea for how absolutely shitty it would have been in the actual fic -  a bad end. the happy ending? yeah, it was planned from the beginning - in fact, even before writing the fic i Knew. there had to be a happy end. but there was another ending I thought of (obviously a bad one) - in which Takumi is the soul that gets chosen to become the next Sun God and it’s an endless loop of despair and god-mortal love.  if this had been the actual end, what a shit move that would have been. because a) it’s cliche, and the Bad kind imo. im just letting them suffer pointlessly for nothing. it does nothing for the plot or emotional value tbqh imo. b) there’s zero, zlich, nada satisfaction in that ending. kinda like I brought you for this entire 12k word rollercoaster ride that ends with flinging you off the cliff. so yeah. it was a fun idea, but definitely not one i Ever considered to be an actual, proper end to the fic. like how fucked up would that have been lmao. 

fic tidbits

none of the other shokugeki characters were actually planned to appear (apart from our main duo) ! they just slipped themselves into the fic and im really pleased with how they did, tbqh. my favourite turnout is Akira the Moon God. I kinda wish I could have written him more, lmao.

you know how the original prequel fic had parenthesis ( ) after every scenario or so? the sequel fic was supposed to have the same format to a T, but i skewed with it and messed around till it wasn’t...

adding on, the ( ) were supposed to contain Takumi’s POV in the initial plan ! but I later decided that that kinda took away the ~mystery~ and ~unknown uncertainty~ that Souma is going through so I didn’t ;v;;  here’s a line that was written with this idea in mind though ! (4th reincarnation based) (when he wakens, the sun god is already there unblinking, unmoving he raises an arm and this time, does not drop it.  cards his fingers through red smiles through the fracturing dreams (of cloth of music of lost love - he may only see pieces but they are enough) that cling to his lashes like the tears not his that threaten to fall  ‘good morning’) 

actually, the whole “God falls in love with a mortal” fic idea was jumping off another drafted soutaku fic that i may or may not ever finish, with mermaid/sea god!Takumi and fisherman!Souma :”)) I had some really nice lines written down, but never had a concrete plot for it OTL. here’s my favourite lines from the draft ! “You’re a fish.” “I am a God! How dare you behave so insole-” “You’re a fish.” The merman’s shrill screams spike in pitch.

...........I really want to write a prequel to the prequel (prequelception) about Sun God Souma and Moon God Akira. maybe someday. maybe.

aand that’s pretty much all I can remember for now ! it should cover most (if not all lmao) of extra trivia on the fic !! I hope yall like this kinda thing lmao bc it was hella fun to do :”)) 

#soutaku #shokugeki no soma #bluh bluh text #this turned out. long. #long post

[sol1loqu1st]

hi i want to talk abt foi bc its legit among the coolest things ive done; this is long as Fuck but the book is longer i just really wanna talk,, abt this,,

it’s a high fantasy set on the northernmost side of a huge desert (a sea borders its northern side; beyond the sea is a country filled with plains and forests)

there were seven tribes (i still need to look up definitions and see if thats the most accurate term for what im goin for; im thinking abt just using ‘city’ tbh but yknow) in the desert:

-the riches tribe, whose people could shape gemstones and metals (think metalbending but add precious stones in the mix; each person can only control one thing and ur power is usually decided by the stars or some shit)

-the elements tribe, who could control the forces of wind, fire, water, or stone (now LITERALLY think atla; powers are passed down genetically and a few people can control two elements if their parents controlled different ones)

-the land, sky, and sea tribes, who could control animals related to their tribe (land tribe ppl can also learn to turn into their favored animal, sky tribe ppl grow wings as toddlers, sea tribe ppl can breathe underwater & usually live in the sea on the northern border of the desert bc they dont do well on land; powers are decided based on the animals’ preferences – e.g. if ravens had a specific affinity for a kid in the sky tribe the kid would grow raven wings and be able to communicate with and eventually control ravens)

-the time and space tribes, who destroyed each other 60 years ago, and have the power to speed, slow, or even stop time during the hour of their birth, or manifest physical objects from glowing blue energy that makes up everything in the world (also can see in the dark, i guess?)

60 years ago, a huge war happened between the seven tribes, wiping out the space tribe completely (except for one person; more on that later) and destroying all but 200 of the time tribe, who repopulated to about 1,000, and ruining a Lot of stuff in the other five tribes. for the most part the remaining 5 tribes (minus the time tribe for Reasons) have rebuilt themselves but hints of the past war linger. no one is aware that the time tribe survived (they rebuilt their city FAR from the original location). the time and space tribes faded from public consciousness pretty quickly since all their historical records were destroyed; most of the knowledge about them now is legends and myths

in the present day, 5 children (one from each of the remaining tribes) who lost various loved ones to the same glowing blue knives (created, ofc, by the surviving member of the space tribe, ebon (…courtesy of 2012 me’s genius naming skills, they’re all gonna be like this it’s part of the aesthetic), though the kids dont know that or even recognize it as a space tribe power) are approached by an old man (guess who! its ebon) who claims to be the last surviving member of the space tribe and apparently has evidence that the time tribe is plotting revenge and theyre the ones that killed the kids’ families and he speaks of a supposed prophecy that 5 kids who the time tribe had stolen from are gonna defeat the time tribe once and for all

the kids (and at this point, hopefully the reader too) are the wrong kind of genre savvy, and believe they’ve been approached by gandalf or some shit, and each end up Accepting The Call

(meanwhile back at the time tribe, the king and his rebellious teenage son talk about the future of the time tribe. teenage son, midnight (heyy GUESS what hour hes able to use his powers) learns to use Time Powers that are suspiciously dissimilar to the ones ebon was talking abt the ppl from the time tribe being able to use. midnight uses his powers to get more sleep bc his dad kinda overworks the shit out of him bc like the future of this horrifically unstable and tiny city is in midnight’s hands, basically, and we learn that Its Dangerous bc if u get stuck slowing down/speeding up time after ur 1 hour is up u basically become Time Tobias and ur trapped like that Until You Die)

if uve made it this far i think its time for a proper introduction to the 6 protags of part 1 (another is added in part 2 but we’re not there yet)

-eagle, from the sky tribe, a Massive Fuckin Jock Who Loves To Sport. shes 14 and pretty athletic but tends to chicken out when shit gets tough and so never makes it to the Fly Sport Playoffs. shes a Massive Optimist at first but then she finds her parents dead (hint: it was ebon). she deals with this throughout the novel i hope im writing her well lmao because i wanted it to have a Legit Impact on her character and not just be angst. A N Y W A Y she instantly pegs ash and emerald as The Rich Kids (ash is legit a rich kid, emerald is just from the riches tribe where they traditionally sew gems and shit into their clothes) and judges em for it

-snake, from the land tribe, a 13yo, Lonely Autistic who loves reptiles. (ok i mean. this is high fantasy and im really not sure if autism is a diagnosis in high fantasy. ive done my absolute best to code her as autistic and she is in fact autistic i just dont say it in canon bc idk how to bring it up) ppl dont like her at first because she comes across as cold but actually shes like the most adorable fuckin dork youve ever seen shes great. she doesnt talk hardly at all unless shes Super Comfortable around the people shes with, which is a challenge for me to write but tbqh shes my absolute favorite of the bunch,, also her only friend ever was a thief named lore who was (supposedly) killed by GUESS FUCKEN WHO

-ash, the 14yo daughter of one of the 4 ruling families of the elements tribe. her family’s genetic power is fire but she could never figure it out (later she discovers her power is actually water; im…..still figuring out how that works genetically she might just be adopted lmao) ebon brought her the news of her parents’ deaths and managed to kill her little sister while her back was turned; somehow she does not suspect him. shes kind of a snob and doesnt really /get/ the rest of the group and comes across pretty rude at first. (also, she and eagle deal w their very recent grief very differently but idk her exact Grief Arc yet)

-emerald, who i think is? 12? 13? i cant remember but somewhere around there; shes from the riches tribe, was orphaned as a toddler and raised by supposedly extinct desert dragons (which are basically 12-20ft desert iguanas), which were all wiped out horribly by more of ebon’s shit space weapons. she lived with ash’s family for a while when they were years younger but eventually emerald got blamed for ash’s lack of control over fire and was forced to leave, she found the riches tribe and discovered that she could metalbend emeralds lmao. shes a storyteller and raises money for orphans now i guess

-shark, a scrappy homeless 10yo from the sea tribe who will steal anything shiny enough. he has pointy teeth and an eyepatch (which covers a golden sphere in place of his eye) and hes reckless as fuKC. he was too young to remember his parents but when questioned about it he remembers blue knives (GUESS WHO). hes pretty unaware that sharks are infact chaotic neutral sea predators who do not give a shit about him even if he can communicate with them and he starts the novel with a Pretty Serious Bite Injury™. he takes a lot of shit apart and puts it back together in horrifying ways. yknow sid from toy story? basically thats shark if sid lived underwater and was portrayed as a fundamentally good person

-midnight, the 16yo prince of the time tribe, a Rebellious Teen™ who doesnt want responsibility and has Horrible Insomnia. he thinks his dad is Evil And Controlling and probably listens to heavy metal behind his back (meanwhile his dad is actually pretty decent just busy as Fuck trying to keep the time tribe from accidentally inbreeding collapsing and trying to show midnight how to lead; hes overprotective but not evil). he broke a pattern of various people born at midnight/noon alternating every century and people think hes Destined For Greatness™ or some shit; he is having absolutely none of that will someone let this child sleep instead of waking him up in the middle of the night to practice magic

anyway yea thats p much all ive edited so far and tbqh i dont remember a whole lot of details but That Is My Book!

#novel: foi