#there is meaning and theme in these quotes and idk what they are yet but. i will find them

[kerubimcrepin]

Liveblog - Dofus, livre 1 : Julith [PART 21]

I've already said how weird this whole situation is from Joris's pov, but imagine dying, being given a new body with a way smaller brain and no speech yet, as well as no object permanence, and having to comprehend while in this condition, that your brother, who spent the last 50–80 years trying to hunt you down and make you into a coat, just saved your son from being blown up, and is now dying.

But you lack the brain capacity to understand any of that. Or remember any of that history.

You just know that he's hurt, badly, and that you don't like seeing him in pain.

Joris knows now, that for an ecaflip demigod, it's not that big of a deal to die. At least not the first time.

So it's really more of a "You sacrificed yourself for me?" question.

He's paying back his debt. He can't be mean to Joris, when all he's done is be nice to him, he's not that kind of person.

And when he wakes up again, things will be different, between him and Kerubim. Something new is going to happen.

To quote Dofus Aux Tresors de Kerubim: It will have a different taste. A different feel.

Kerubim's current lack of object permanence or the idea of death, is both a blessing and a curse, because he has no fucking idea what happened, or where Atcham went. Poor kbitty.

On one hand, this is inherently traumatic for Joris. He must be tired of watching ecaflip demigods evaporate.

On the other hand, I can't help but feel that this is the moment Joris and Atcham truly begin to love one another. So I can't even feel sad about this moment, like a normal person.

Chat, this is what I cal coping and perhaps even seething. Joris is inclined to think Bakara is wrong because Bakara fucked up Majorly at this part of the movie. Also because Joris has not slept the entire night. Also because he watched 2 people die. Also Simone is far away. Also what IS Simone to do with a dofus-related issue?

Julith would absolutely have hurt Lilotte. There is absolutely not a single doubt in my mind, that if it got her what she wanted, she would dismember Lilotte as Joris watched.

I don't blame him for making mistakes and fumbling, though. He's like 10.

If she really isn't that bad... If ALL she wants to do, is to bring Jahash back... If that's what it takes for her to leave Lilotte and Kerubim alone...

And among all else, if this brings the man she loves back? He doesn't mind, then.

(Puts on a giant, Dofus Aux Tresors de Kerubim themed tinfoil hat)

Joris is a difficult character to read due to his insane multitudes and affinity for lying to everyone and himself.

Due to his passion for wanting to learn about his birth parents, I think spending time with Julith and Jahash is like a dream to him.

But I can't miss the dimension in this interaction that Julith is a scary dark mage called "the butcher", who already killed his father once and then kidnapped his friend, and they are both standing near her, behind him, and she is holding what is essentially the magical equivalent of a nuclear bomb in her hands.

And the things he says to her may or may not be affected by like, idk, two or three of these factors? Like there might be a slight possibility that he said "I'm sure she wouldn't have hurt you" and "a real family" specifically to decrease the chances of her killing Kerubim and Lilotte. Not sure where I get this idea from, though.

This is literally the worst day in Kerubim's life as a father. There is literally no going back. Thank god his little kittybrain is going to forget all about this in roughly 3 minutes.

#ro liveblogs dofus #dofus #wakfu #krosmoz #dofusmovie #joris jurgen

[elia-nymmeros]

who would you say is your all time favourite character? could be any media, not just asoiaf :)

tysm for the ask!! i genuinely wince every time i think about favorites bc my mind suddenly wipes clean and i can't remember any piece of media ever. as far as i remember, i really like henry winter from tsh, natasha romanov from marvel and elizabeth bennet from p&p, but i'll say that right now my all time favorite character is brienne tarth. very long propaganda about her under the cut!

at the risk of sounding deranged, i could talk for hours about all the facets of her character that i think work so well with asoiaf's themes? for example, the fact that she's a genuinely ugly (and i think it's super important to her character that she's considered ugly), shy and socially awkward young woman in a world where your appearance determines your morality in the eyes of society and where noble women are expected to perform certain social roles. these traits work very well in her story about knighthood, because she's the one character in the main asoiaf saga that cannot be considered a knight by society (and, in fact, is not even considered a woman in many cases) and yet she truly embodies the values of knighthood (chivalrous, brave, defends women and children at her own cost) to the point that i think her quote 'no chance, and no choice' raises her to the position of the one true knight in westeros (echoing 'are there no true knights among you?' from dunk, her literal ancestor!).

and yet, even though she sounds like the perfect character who is superior because of her morality, she's actually not very successful canonically? like, she failed at protecting renly (and renly didn't particularly liked or respected her), she failed at protecting catelyn and has not been able to find the stark sisters so far, she failed at bringing jaime to king's landing too (and she won their duel because he'd grown rusty after being chained for months), and in her greatest scene so far, fighting seven against one, she's defeated and mutilated and has to be saved by gendry bc she's not actually superhuman and fought while heavily outnumbered.

in most other sagas she'd have been a petite and graceful girl, she'd have defeated rorge's companions without suffering debilitating injuries, she'd be loved and respected by everyone after seeing her noble personality and excellent swordsmanship. grrm goes deeper than this, so brienne embodies the traits of a knight and yet cannot ever become one, she behaves like the hero of a story and is mocked/insulted/assaulted constantly because she's not the ideal of a hero in westeros' social canon (just like dany, tyrion, jon, bran, arya, etc), she's a very capable and strong fighter and yet has also been in 3 different sides of the war with no success (and probably will end up in another side yet again if she lives to fight the others), and long emotional abuse has left her deeply insecure, paranoid, resentful and doubtful of her ability to perform gender (to the point that she calls herself a 'son' at some point bc she utterly fails at westerosi femininity)

idk, i think in her character there are a lot of super interesting themes intersecting, such as gender, social expectations and naivety, bravery and honor, self-esteem and physical ability, treachery and prejudices, what does it mean to be a good knight in an unfair, deeply hostile society, and what does it mean to be a hero where your only reward is most likely going to be injury, mutilation and/or death. she's even more interesting to me when you compare her journey/themes/decisions to her foils jaime and cersei, so there are lots of ways you can explore her character and find very cool meanings (also i've been the biggest braime shipper since i was 15, so that's a bonus!)

#asoiaf #brienne of tarth #ask box #tysm for the ask! #i'm completely normal about her #i just have like 4 metas about her character running in my mind constantly #grrm has a lot to answer with the way he writes women (especially women of color) #but he cooked with brienne

[strangesickness]

losers playing ttrpgs... losers playing ttrpgs save me...

mike is running a multi-year homebrew ttrpg campaign that is basically just a combination of any rulebook the losers can get their hands on + anything they come up with. i know it to be true. the campaign started as a call of cuthulu campaign but it is now a terrifying mix of call of cuthulu, dungeons & dragons, and cyberpunk with elements from a dozen other games including star wars: the roleplaying game, warhammer, harnmaster and somehow alma mater(??? idk how. but i know this happened). richie was like. "mike man, i love you forever, you're great at this. but why don't i have magic powers?" and he pointed at ben's collection of d&d rulebooks he'd been browsing through and he sounded so earnest and excited that mike knew in that moment he was going to sacrifice the integrity of his cool mystery campaign so richie could cast vicious mockery (99% sure vicious mockery didn't exist yet... don't quote me on that but it doesn't matter because the idea of richie using it constantly is hilarious)

they've all been playing the same characters for years and they keep convincing mike to add more stuff so they're all like super powerful and mike keeps having to come up with more and more powerful enemies.

mike's dice collection is so so so cool he has so many dice, and whenever he introduces a new important character he goes out and gets dice that fit their theme and it is such a moneysink but it's worth it because ooooh pretty dice

after four occasions where the losers decided to adopt a random npc mike hadn't planned anything for, mike has started planning every single npc out down to the specifics of their childhood education. he has endless character sheets hanging out in his room with characters he's created that populate his game world.

okay hanbrough agenda time: bill is the most oblivious guy in the entire world. i know this. (he is the guy who looks at brokeback mountain and goes "what do you mean it was gay? why can't men be friends anymore?" this is based on that one passage at the beginning of the book where he goes on one of those "why can't the curtains just be blue because they're fucking blue" rants lol. he does not know what media literacy is. to me) and mike is. increasingly frustrated and feels like he's losing his mind. he is like head in hands because he asked bill to go to prom with him and bill was like "yeah sure man! sounds great, you're my bestie forever!", and he has no idea what to do, because how is this man this dense, so he just starts having all of his NPCs fall head over heels for bill's character and flirt like madmen. it is painful for everyone involved. except bill. who still has no idea what is going on. that is a very unfortunate month.

mike and ben hang out a lot and ben helps mike brainstorm for the campaign so ben has all this insider knowledge and mike will just look at him before something insane happens in the campaign. they'll like make eye contact and ben will be like holy shit holy shit holy shit :0 and mike just drops some insane new lore. it's very special to me.

#i know it might be like. why isn't ben or bill GM? they're the writers! #but like. idk it just fits. watching mike in it chapter 2 gave me so much unhinged GM energy #that man can spin a TALE. i know it. i also know he can improvise like crazy #they finish a session and he's like. btw guys everything after like the first hour was improvised i hope it didn't feel to awkward #and the losers are like... wdym you didn't perfectly plan all of that????? #bill could not run a campaign to save his life. he does not know what chekhov's gun is. he does not know what nuance is. #he would be trying to run a campaign and the losers would do ANYTHING even slightly off the hyperspecific plan he made #and he'd start trying to railroad everyone and everyones just getting increasingly stressed #basically it would be a bad time #that man can't do improv i know it in my heart #ben on the other hand is a massive ttrpg nerd and has run multiple one shots with the losers #he's not big into long campaigns like mike is but he loves coming up with new campaign ideas #he also collects ttrpg rulebooks and is always looking for weird ones to try out with his friends <3 #they all have so much fun doing character creation with ben too. it's great. #i'm not done with this btw. i have so much more to say #i love ttrpgs and a party is the highest level of friendship. this is true #my high school best friends were literally just my d&d party #and cyberpunk (the ttrpg) is how i made friends in college lol #posts afflicted with a strange sickness #it stephen king #it 2019 #it 2017 #mike hanlon #bill denbrough #ben hanscom #hanbrough #richie tozier

[deathsbestgirl]

Oooh, saw your tags and now I'm curious! What are the differences between my thoughts on Never Again and yours? Always open to hearing other opinions-- helps me clarify my own or add to them. :DDDDD

okay like i told you this is just going to be funny now. first because where i diverge really seems kind of insignificant to me, because it doesn't change any of your points or the ~outcome of how i think about never again as a whole. or really, t's about the evolution of scully's position, so it isn't different? second, because i literally need to shout about one specific part. it's so real. so anyway, onward.

the referenced post. most important part quoted below, but read the whole post bc it's good!! (and i really don't know much about the bts or writers but it's cool to learn about!!)

so specifically this is what you say in the context of never again. you lay it out simply and perfectly.

As much as Scully denies her actions aren't "about you" to Mulder, Never Again isn't solely about daddy issues or feeling trapped-- it's feeling trapped by being second best. Romance was explicitly written into the dna of this episode: she takes the rose from the grave-- someone's lasting legacy on their loved one's life-- extrapolates meaning from it behind Mulder's desk, and deflates when Mulder runs off to his vacation that even he rates as secondary to his quest (Mulder missed her entire point: needing his reassurance and reinforcement, needing his speech in the FTF hallway; and Scully missed that he missed it.) When she meets Jerse, she's flattered by his sole focus on her, takes his card, but still plans to leave; Mulder has been calling, but when he reconnects and hides the fact he missed her behind "how's the quest going?", it kicks Scully in the shins and she decides to change plans and meet up with Ed. "The tattoo you deserve" and one night stand with Ed drags down Scully's view of herself, in hindsight-- how did she not see that he was psychotic?-- and the final scene in the basement is tinted with second guesses of her own character: more specifically, what Scully thinks she has the right to ask from Mulder, doubting her own judgment (a theme she continually struggles with throughout the series.) If she sits and remains in the basement, Scully has to accept that Mulder won't move them forward; and she does, choosing to be Starbuck to this (in her perspective) doomed (relation)ship because at least Mulder needs her... which is why The End and Fight the Future hit her so hard, convincing her she has no use in his life, period.

obviously we agree that mulder doesn't get it from the start. you nail what hurts scully perfectly, what she needs from him. i truly think scully could wait forever as long as she knows they're on the same page. and here, she isn't.

but specifically, the part i want to shout about: the bit about scully's judgment, and what she can ask of mulder. like YES. i just don't think i've seen anyone say this and you're just right. you're so right. how often do we see scully struggle with her judgment? i think she does when diana shows up and it's part of the reason she needs mulder to trust her judgment in those circumstances. there are so few times that scully is SO sure about what's happening. she tries so hard to be rational, the voice of reason. but it's like her desire scares her, and i think that's a lot of what's happening in never again. because what can she ask of mulder? especially when it looks to her like he doesn't want her, doesn't need her, doesn't trust her with the x files. why is she there at all?

now, me being nitpicky? idk really. "it's feeling trapped by being second best." i think this is right. it's just that. at first, she was okay with this. because they were partners, the x files are his life. she thought she understood this and accepted it. at the beginning in season one, of course she did! they didn't have a personal relationship yet. everything was all about the work, and in never again, it's all about them with the work shrouding their relationship. scully definitely thinks they have something and she thinks they might be on the same page, but he seems to confirm the opposite. it's just work and there isn't really room for her, or a personal relationship. so she is absolutely reconciling if she can keep on this way. if the work and following mulder and being what he needs is enough...if she even has a choice. and she does, and reconciling her choice to stay with what she wants is the struggle.

so really?? i don't disagree. i just wanted to talk about how being second best became a concern the longer she was on the x files, the more her feelings grew (or maybe the more she recognized them), her feelings scaring her and what they mean for mulder & the x files & her life, etc etc.

SO all of that to say, i actually agree with you. i just love the slow evolution and consistency of their characters & relationship <3 now please share your thoughts on my nonsense!!

#asks #txf meta #never again #the x files #dana scully #mulder and scully

[afaramir]

5, 8, 12, 15, 33, and 34! <3333

YAYY thank u jamie for all of these <333

5. quote one of your fics out of context

A memory, to an architect, is a prison, a haunting, a noose.

from two shadows burning out a glory day, my bizarre inception/bond crossover fic. its very close to my heart it was kind of my first. idk if i can say non-conventional fic but it kind of is. like conceptually and narratively Weird. something that messes with the reader's head.

8. share the last line that you wrote

oh BOY. im trying to ease back into writing after the wackass week i've had but something seized me and i AM up at 3am picking away at umbar fic. but its time for bed because i have work and also i just thesaurused "retreat." when i start looking up synonyms of VERY simple words its a sign the night is over.

[his father] would give him every honour, and would that not mean he would accord him every accompanying sin?

hehehehe the thorongil-ecthelion-denethor dynamic IS absolutely in the air. its funny because right before this denethor basically curses thorongil out for daring to bring up His Damn Father when they're making out. yeah its pretty insensitive. but it leads him here and from MY perspective the introspection is yummy. don't think of elephants or whatever.

12. what fandom do you want to write for most often

hmm i feel like. my answer is just whatever im? hyperfixating on at the moment? when i get in there i REALLY get in there. but maybe pacific rim. it just lives at a low simmer in the back of my mind at all times but it's also the hardest to bang something quick out for because it is one of, if not THE most emotionally fraught for me to deal with. its just. well its a lot of grief. and also a lot of times my style becomes very um. Particular. because of my personal headcanons about how drifting fucks with your head and how that kind of comes across in the prose. and i gotta be in the right headspace for All That.

15. what fic of yours would you most like to rewrite

honestly i'm not sure if? any of them? i saw a quotation once about only having been able to write certain things at certain points in your life and i really believe that. current me could not produce a lot of my old stuff at all. there's small parts of many things i might change but not complete rewrites, and i also want to preserve them in their posted form for posterity. e.g. there's parts of dreamlike, and yet no dream that i would want to tweak to match my current Denethor And Faramir complexities (it's missing a Little of the nuance. and the terrible pity that i think faramir ends up feeling for his father) but i would NOT want to completely rewrite it. i'm scrolling through my ao3 and like. yeah. and i do think that after maybe 2020 it really begins to stand the test of time and most of my prior stuff i don't have a strong enough attachment to really want to rework. i leave it up entirely for archival purposes.

33. which of your fic titles is your favourite?

i really like five year plan for the afternoon. i honestly really like most of my titles i’ve probably mentioned i think really hard when im choosing them and i hope it shows in the match between the title and the energy/themes of the fic. but i DID create this one from my own mind (rare) and i feel like it really gave the energy of like. having the future you never thought you would have because you've spent your whole life fighting an impossible fight thinking you would die trying...and getting to not have to have a plan for the future not because you think you won't have one but because you just have all the time in the world.......wow.

35. have you ever written a fic because you were inspired by a title?

hmm. not really. i do have some inspired-by-songs ones (talked about those here) that eventually ended up with corresponding lyric titles but it doesn't really work the reverse way. i mostly will hear a lyric and create a Scenario rather than a title

fic writer asks

#from the inbox #aaronstveit #thank u jamie<333 i had so much fun with these thank u for sending another

[sayakxmi]

[Magi reread] Night 70: Bird

Yeaah, wasn't exactly feeling very Magi lately. Or anything. Kinda hard to go back to normal uni mode from a winter break, so I was busy trying to make sense of my sleeping schedule, which, frankly, is still shit, but, hey, I'm doing my best here XD

Also, damn, I really like that new blog theme. It's so readable. For me, at least. No regrets.

But anyway, the actual chapter.

RIP Alibaba's Weapon DE burnt arms, you will be missed by ME, because I thought they were super cool.

Tbh, I don't think it evolved? I've always read it as Alibaba not mastering it fully, actually. I mean, most DE's cover the body better, and later naturally transform into Full-Body DEs. So, basically, it wasn't until that moment that he actually reached Weapon Djinn Equip.

Low blow.

Well, fuck

Very good catch, Morgiana.

Tbh, I don't think they would've died... Or at least, I don't think Sinbad would've died, cuz I think Alibaba could've cushioned him a little, but it also probably would've really sucked for him, too. Like, from that hit, his spine could've broken, probably...

Actually, damn, the fact that Alibaba's didn't break. Or, damn, shouldn't he have some head trauma? By now he probably should've. Anyway, but also I checked the previous page, and from the way he hit the wall, he sort of avoided hitting his head, but god damn, the fact that his spine is fine after this is a goddamn miracle.

You know, I really think it's pretty cool. Just, these two working together. Idk, man, I'm always weak for Sinbad and Alibaba.

It took me an embarrassing moment to realize he was being pulled by Djinn!Cassim's gravity powers...

This entire part deserved to be here. I love how aware he is that he can't do it yet, and just braces himself for a hit... that never comes.

10/10. And the fact that SAHBMAD is commanding them.

When did you get back there.

Also, love how he's so concerned for them, but Sinbad calms him down.

-claps- You go, guys

I genuinely love how desperate the situation is, and how everybody's trying, anyway.

Lowkey made me think about Honkai Impact 3rd's "Everlasting Flames" animated short. There's that quote "We're connected by this sword. It will burn up the darkness to make way for light!". Feels quite fitting.

Like, it has nothing to do with each other, obviously, but I just thought it was fun.

JUDAR FUCKING JUMPSCARE

Like, I genuinely forgot he appears here.

Also, damn, Alibaba gets no breaks, does he?

I love that Sinbad's immediately next to him.

Alibaba, being the normalest guy around: Al-Thamen: Nope, we can't have that.

Jokes aside, yeah, dude's not wrong. Alibaba might be nothing special compared to behemots like Sinbad or Kouen, but he's got an ungodly amount of willpower when push comes to shove, and is smart enought to maneuver himself in difficult situations. Tho the fact that he seems so unremarkable is also to his benefit, since people tend to underestimate him.

But Al-Thamen doesn't. It makes sense for them - they've been running the world from the shadows for hundreds of years. They know that just because somebody might not look like they can amount to much, doesn't mean they aren't capable of it. And Alibaba's given them the proof of it. He went not only against fate they'd envisioned, but also against the one Sinbad had. He is a threat-in-making.

Well, yeah, the situation really fucking sucks. I've said it before & I'm saying it again, I like how Alibaba isn't fucking fooling himself into believing he can do this... but at the same time, he doesn't give up. He has to do this, somehow. He just doesn't know how yet. And it's well in line with his characterization, just like his talk with Cassim about avoiding bloodshed. He doesn't know yet, but he will figure something out. There's too much to lose if he doesn't.

I mean, yeah, somebody had to handle this.

"That's...?"

._.

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Like, bro, what do I say. This fucking sucks.

HIT ITAAAAAAHHHHHHH

I NEED A HERO~!

You know I had to.

#saya's magi reread #magi #alibaba saluja

[howtobeapersonwithfibro]

For the music thingy: 10 and 23

💜

hi! thanks for sending an ask!

10. you have to get a lyric tattoo - what is it?

ahh. my tattoo artist friend is not really into words in tattoos and i tend to agree, and i'd worry about feeling like any quote/lyric would get cheesy to me over the years. but there are a lot of lyrics that mean a lot to me so let me think...

maybe "i'll be the banks for your river" from Banks by NEEDTOBREATHE as an homage to my partner

i also like small artist (who used to be on tumblr, idk if she still is) Paola Bennet, she is such a talented musician and songwriter. from "Morning" I would maybe get "if morning will rise, then I will get there" to continue the theme for me of making it through my darkest moments

23. how did you discover your favorite artist?

I'm more of a song person than an artist person, if that makes sense, but some of my big artists - I grew up on Taylor Swift since I was tiny (I'm not a superfan or follow her as a person but I still like most of her music), and a friend I've known since elementary school introduced me to both Bastille (beyond their popular radio song I'd heard) and Ron Pope. I think I stumbled into some of my favorite country artists (like Maren Morris) on Pandora or something years ago when I was in my country phase and spotify wasn't really a thing yet.

#ask game #music ask game #answered asks #about me

[brilla-brilla-estrellita]

Trope Grading Game

I do not have Six Sentences for you this Sunday, so instead I'm finally doing this trope game that the lovely @artsyunderstudy tagged me in... some time ago. And thank you to @shrekgogurt for tagging me in Six Sentence Sunday this week!

Prior to Carry On, I mostly read Harry Potter fanfiction with a little bit of Percy Jackson and a little bit of Avatar: TLA thrown in there. I was pretty specific about what I liked in my fics in those days (which were primarily 10+ years ago), but the Carry On fandom has absolutely changed me. I'm not yet sure what is Carry On-specific or what applies outside the fandom because I haven't ventured back out again yet. So let's see who I am now...

Rules: How much do these tropes affect your decision to click on a fic?

-10 -> very dissuaded

0 - don’t care either way

+10 -> very enticed

nope -> if it’s a hard no and you’d never click on a fic with that tag or or you even have the tag blocked or you’d insta click out of the fic if it wasn’t tagged

Bonus points for explaining the rating and whether it’s conditional.

Age gap: -7

Would make me hesitate for sure. Depends a lot on the characters. If they're like... under 20, I'm probably not interested. If they're a little older, maybe? Idk, definitely sensitive here, but not quite a hard no.

Codependency: +3

Given how much I love Snowbaz, there's no way this is a turn off for me 😂

Obsession/Possessiveness, jealousy: +4

I'm going to quote artsyunderstudy's answer here because she already explained it perfectly,:

Complicated feelings. I'm kinda into it, so it definitely wont put me off, but jealousy as a trope can either be really fun in a story or really toxic. Like, I'm a little obsessed with Simon's jealousy in the series, because its not the kind where he gets mad at Baz, really, or lashes out at him, its very internal and about his own insecurity, but also really indicative of how very attached he is despite his assertions through wayward son that he was going to end things. I love a bit of possessiveness as long as its not the kind that hurts their partner or turns really bad to the point of me disliking the character. So, yeah, in most situations i'm a fan of exploring this, though I can't say I specifically look for it.

Opposites (grumpy/sunshine etc): +7

Yes! I do love a good grumpy/sunshine, black cat/golden retriever combo. Solangelo, anyone?

Enemies to lovers, Enemies with benefits: +10

Boy do I love me an enemies to lovers, and this has always been true (Dramione was my first non-canon ship... followed by Zutara, so. There's a theme here.) That was one of the major selling points of Carry On when my friend told me about it.

And enemies with benefits only if they end up actually having feelings for each other, ya know? If it's like... enemies that evolve to have benefits but never really have the emotional connection, meh. Though I can't say I've really run into that.

Friends with benefits: -2

Aaaand quoting artsyunderstudy here again because she nailed it, which... um... hm. I maybe am questioning certain aspects of my sexuality now... so... anyway......... 👀 Though I changed the rating to -2 because unless there's a tag telling me emotions are involved and important and leading somewhere, it's a turn off.

Ehhh is it benefits to full on love? I don't really connect with allo perspectives on sexual relationships, like I get them intellectually but I don't jive with them on an emotional level, so there has to be that emotional draw for me, that underlying romance. I mean tho, @fatalfangirl stacy is writing an excellent fic on this premise right now that I absolutely love because there are clearly feelings involved. But it also might fall more into the realm of the next trope on this list ... which is ...

Sex to feelings: -5

This one is new with Snowbaz (this was not at all a thing I read in previous fandoms. I was not ready for sexy fics back then.) It's another kind of weird one for me. I feel like it has to be accompanied by something else, but I can't tell you what off the top of my head. Like I don't know what this is missing right now... I think I just want the feelings to be there first? Idk, maybe I'll go read some fics like this and see if I can work out what I'm feeling here.

Actually I'm already having thoughts. I think the context of the sex has to be right. I'm not super into things like hookups because that sounds personally terrifying. Like... character a meets character b at a bar/event/etc and there's physical attraction and that's all they need. Just doesn't jive with me.

The only example I can think of off the top of my head that gets close, though doesn't exactly fit, is @facewithoutheart's "to do, to know, to want" with Gareth the Cherry Plucker. Except for this Sex to Feelings scenario it would need to be Baz falling for Gareth (which... HAH. I... I can't with that image.) But anyway. Context. Baz is going to Gareth for help and would then would develop feelings during/after the fact, and that would be fine. And I guess that's probably still about emotional vulnerability. Also hatefucking. That's fine too? Anyway, I'm losing my train of thought on this one.

Fake dating/relationship: +8

I quite enjoy the fake dating trope, especially when combined with enemies to lovers.

Friends to lovers: +5

Yes! Very cute. But also can have a lot of angst and I am more cautious about reading those and making sure I'm emotionally equipped to handle angst. So yes, but handled carefully.

Found Family: +10

I looooove found family stories! I love seeing people choose to care for each other even though they don't have a traditional familial or romantic bond. This is a big part of what I've loved about all of my favorite YA series. People taking care of and understanding each other in ways their families can't or won't and filling voids... I'm actually getting emotional just thinking about it ok moving on.

Hurt/Comfort: +10

As artsyunderstudy said: "It gives me the swoops." Yes. 100%.

Love Triangle: -10

I'm not sure I ever loved this trope, but I was ok with it. Now I think I am just generally over love triangles. The angst doesn't usually hit right and I end up feeling more annoyed with the character doing the choosing than anything.

Poly, open relationships: -3

I'm pretty sure this is my bias coming through. My introduction to the concept of open relationships was through some people that were... not... great... imo... I recently realized how much that first introduction colored my perspective and I'm trying to undo some of that. In addition, just the idea of my partner also being with other people makes me so incredibly jealous, which I know is also my own issue to work on. So I should probably actually read more fics in this area. Fics often help me work through these kinds of internal issues.

Mistaken/hidden identity: 0

I don't know if I've ever read a fic with this trope? Not feeling any particular way about it either.

Monsterfucking: +8

Oh, this is certainly new with Snowbaz. I remember a time when I was like "wow, no, absolutely not. I do not get it." And then Spadey came along...

Does this apply outside of Snowbaz? TBD. I so far haven't been interested in even Shepard's scandalous stories, so this may be Simon specific.

Pregnancy: -1

I am very confused. This is new with Snowbaz, which on it's own was a "?" moment for me. I was very unsure about mpreg at the start of this journey, but wanted to try it out and very quickly became fine with it. mpreg specifically is probably at a 0, maybe -1.

But pregnancy in general terrifies me. Not in the way where people are like scared of/grossed out by pregnant people. Other people being pregnant is fine. It just sounds so incredibly uncomfortable and painful that I'm like... no thanks? Don't really want to think about it for me. Very excited about it for you, though. But I haven't really read any non-mpreg fics, so I'm not sure where pregnancy as a whole falls... I'm going to go with like -1 because if it's not me it should be fine... maybe...

Second Chance: -9

artsyunderstudy again:

breakup angst wounds me deep ya'll. I hate thinking of them not together. I hate thinking of them thinking they are better off not together. I hate IT it makes me cry all of my tears.

But where she loves the coming back to each other, I just can't get past the breakup/betrayal/whatever it is that needs a second chance. It hurts too much to even finish.

Slowburn: +8

YES, but in the right mood. Sometimes I just need fluff and falling fast and I need it NOW. But otherwise, yes yes yes.

Soulmates: +6

I feel like I've missed out on this entirely. I can't think of any soulmate fics I've read? Or what qualifies as a soulmate fic as opposed to other fics with magical ties between people. So maybe I have read them? Idk. Sounds nice though.

I don't think I've seen anyone's posts for this game come across my dash aside from Ashton's, so if you've already done it... oops! My bad. Or consider this a last-minute Six Sentence Sunday tag: @onepintobean @thewholelemon @technetiumai @iamamythologicalcreature

#tag game #favorite tropes

[inflammatoryfandomblog]

Tbh that Aaravos being responsible for every conflict in the last millenia gives me major degenerate cospiracy theory vibes and of this quote of a show that I am not a fan of https://youtu.be/Mq1EphvZGMg

I like how the greatest danger coming from him is implied to continue rickrolling and "trust me bro" some mages (which he already does?) rather than possessing magnificent cosmic powers?

The main characters get dragged along with the plot of stopping him without stopping and reflecting for a moment, you could literally ask them why he needs to be stopped and it'll be something like, "because he is making stoopid humans do war against xadia, duh"

And Apparently Ezran's ancestor/dynasty founder from 300 years ago betrayed him? And humans, elves and drakes worked together to imprison him? Yet their relationship still didn't improve at all??

Yeah I prefer reading dnd's filled to the brim complicated lore over what that is, a villain whose motives you do not know until this point isn't interesting and I yet haven't seen anything morally gray about him and I don't think he should be near women for some reason. His ruthless actions make sense in the situation he is in, I guess, but he is still an asshole?

Like what does he want? Become an Archon with his mindslave mages?

Lmfao the Diamonds from Steven Universe were more menacing

i wouldn't lob that at the showrunners; i mean obviously conspiracy theories like the illuminati have been pretty far-right in recent years, which has made some plots that involve them a bit uncomfortable in retrospect. but the far-right aren't the only people to fall for them, and for fiction they're an attractive way to have the focus on the characters rather than writing a societal treatise or whatever. dealing with Issues that require consideration is hard, writing wise; it's much simpler to have a final boss.

i think it's just sort of easy to show that a character is an mastermind by having them be responsible for literally everything. aaravos is more like lucifer than an expy of any group of people, i mean he's a fallen star and seems to have heavenly brothers/people, you can't really get more on the nose than that.

which like, the concept isn't *inherently* bad even if i hate it, like aaravos could just be successful because maybe he exploits faults that were already there in society in the first place or he's a metaphor for something, or whatever. it could work in theory, but this sort of plotline is so botched like a good 99.99% of the time (so much so that just the use of this trope is a pretty big red flag) and without a lot of work it really DOES undermine the "cycle of violence" theme completely if everything is the fault of one guy.

the dragon prince is just not good at showing the different sides of any issue with any depth of consideration, especially when it comes to the human side, so i'm not really holding my breath.

as for his motivation, idk the fact that the dragons are so afraid of him and that he could solo them means that he has a lot of power, he just wants to fuck about for some other issue other than just to gain power, like maybe revenge against somebody else (or to gain power over bigger fish than the dragons/elves and fucking about lets him do that), probably because he wants to stick it to his former star-people or whatever. who knows, there are literally no hints in the show as to why he might do this. it doesn't really matter to our characters or literally any other conflict that has emotional weight behind it, so i don't really care.

yeah the fact that a human was the one to bring to light aaravos's deception is... kind of weird, that the relations didn't improve at all. on one hand it probably explains why the dragons have been more ambivalent about humans than the "kill on sight" border patrolling policy they have would suggest (though at least one, rex igeneous, seems to disagree with it.) on the other hand... there's that "kill on sight" border patrolling policy they have, and also you'd think the existence of a primal human mage wouldn't be unknown for the first few season if she was literally buddies with a queen pivotal to the history of katolis. but the whole “callum is the only person ever to have wanted to be a primal mage badly enough” is not as compelling as the writers think it is.

"i don't think he should be near women for some reason." yeah. in his interactions with the female characters there's this very harass-y element to how he's portrayed (for example, khessa's death--not the obliteration itself, how he handles it just before). he also uses the word "ravishing" unironically, which... lmao. tryhard reddit vocabulary.

#anti aaravos #tdp #tdp critical #me.txt #ask #anon

[kholran]

Fic Writer Interview

Thanks for the tag @lucientelrunya!

name/nicknames: Kholran or Khol. I don’t use my real name online much.

fandoms: I’ve written for DMBJ, Les Mis, and The Hobbit fandoms, but I’ve created things Black Sails, Outlander, LotR, Person of Interest, and a handful of anime (Gundam Wing, Hellsing) fandoms. The ones I follow but haven’t created for yet are too many to list here.

two shots?: Wild Fire was supposed to be a one-shot that got away from me and ended up as two chapters, but everything else is actually either a one-shot or an absurdly long multi-chapter.

most popular multi-chapter fic: Pyre, hands down.

actual worst part of writing: DIALOGUE. Look, I’m barely functional in social situations as it is, and now I have to write two (or more) sides of a conversation, while making it sound natural, AND keeping character voices instead of just my own? RIDICULOUS.

how do you choose your titles: They usually end up being quotes or song titles/lyrics. I try to incorporate some form of light/fire in my Pyreverse titles so they fit the overall theme.

do you outline?: I usually have a few set plot points that I want to get to, like stepping stones. And then I have to connect those points into a full story. I don’t actually write any of it down, though. It all lives in my head until I get to that point of the story. With varying levels of success at remembering what they all were.

ideas you probably won’t get around to, but wouldn’t it be nice?: It’s been ages since I worked on my Weilan Mermaid AU,but I do hope that I’ll write it some day. I don’t actually get very many ideas, so I’d like to try and get to all of them eventually. But we’ll see.

callouts @ me: Just do it. It doesn’t have to be perfect from the start. You can fix it later. Just put some words on the page first.

best writing traits: I’ve been told people like the way I write a character’s perspective of the setting and events so I guess that?

spicy tangential opinion: Do I have any? IDK. I mean there are some ships I don’t get and some popular characterizations I don’t agree with but that’s not very spicy, I don’t think. Everyone has opinions.

tagging: @merinnan @alxina @xantissa @foxofninetales @amidalogicdive

#things i'm tagged in #writer asks

[pokemon-my-beloved]

my thoughts on the new scarlet/violet trailer

and also the information about it that was added to the official site, though granted i will be referencing the trailer more

under a readmore again because BOY is there a lot to unpack

general

the big theme is going to be past and future, i’m calling it now. i don’t speak japanese, so forgive me if this is incorrect, but to my knowledge “korai” means something from ancient times (aka the past) and “mirai” means future. also, sada could possibly come from “pasada” (past in spanish) and turo from “futuro” (future in spanish)

they’re officially open world pokemon games??? screaming /pos

it looks like you go to a school at the start of the game, so the story probably starts with you going out to fill the dex as part of an assignment or smth

it sounds like you can do the gyms in any order you want, at least based off this quote from the website, which is a touch i adore “...a world that you’re free to explore at your leisure and not in an order dictated by the story.”

you can play the game co-op, apparently, which is probably not something i’ll do (at least at first) but still is cool!

got a look at the new battle interface! nothing too special, but still pretty visually appealing!

the region is definitely based off spain, i’ve made up my mind. shoutout to @modern-alebrije for pointing out the windmills on my last post about sv, which basically made up my mind, and @kirigaya-art, who saw smoliv, thought it was a corn pokemon, realized it was an olive, and was disappointed until he realized corn would make more sense for latinam than spain and olives did make sense for that

speaking of, no region name yet! i want to know what this place is called cause it looks really cool and i’m very excited, but i’ll manage to wait probably fjlkasjgla

we’ve got a release date, november 18! looking back, i didn’t really put much thought into when the games would come out, but this does make the most sense. mainline pokemon games generally come out between mid and late november, except pla for some fucking reason idk

the pokemon centers look VERY different. i mean, i like the fact that they’re outside now, that’s cool, but the design seems more consumeristic, i guess. like, it’s more of a gas station than a cafe, if that makes sense

still don’t know what the significance of scarlet and violet are. i can’t tell if the light spectrum theory has been debunked for sure, but it kinda seems like it, especially with the past/future symbolism

pokemon

sprigatito weed cat confirmed lmao

we’ve got a look at the box legendaries! they’re okay, i guess, not BAD or anything, but i’m not super big on them, they feel like the least creative box legendaries aside from dialga and palkia, but those two at least have different body shapes and types. also why do they have wheels for chests, is that necessary, what the hell

pawmi looks to be the pikachu clone this gen. having it unveiled so soon is new (at least to me, i only started paying attention to this shit at the beginning of gen 7), as is the fact that it looks like it might evolve into something, which the pikachu clones have never done, iirc

i would like to personally shake the hand of every single person who contributed to naming lechonk and smoliv JGKLASJGLKAHSGLJKA

lechonk is probably based on lechon tho, which is made by cooking a baby pig so that’s. morbid

as the early-route normal-type, i cannot WAIT to see what lechonk evolves into ljgkasjgkjalgkjs

we seem to have moved away from early-route rodents to early-route farm animals as the first normal types. gen 8 had wooloo AND skwovet, but now we’ve just got lechonk (so far, at least)

also excited to find out what the early-route bird is, that’ll be exciting

so far, the previous confirmed pokemon are pikachu, fletchling, flaaffy, chewtle, bagon, larvitar, venonat, coalossal, toxapex, cryogonal, lurantis, talonflame, flabebe, starly, hoppip, petilil, psyduck, drifloon, combee, meowth, stonjourner, clauncher, pelipper, swablu, blissey, seviper, magnemite, and lucario, plus (by extension) all of their respective evolutions and pre-evolutions. seems like a good balance of pokemon from all the previous regions, though i’m unsure of if this means we’ll get the natdex or not (i’d guess probably not, though. this game will likely bring the total number of pokemon over 1000, and there’s no way they can fit all of them (plus alternate forms and possibly mega evolutions and such) into the game without sacrificing a decent amount of quality)

no regional variants have been revealed yet, which is kinda disappointing. hopefully we’ll get some later (maybe with the reveal of the region name), but if they get rid of that, i will be very upset

also i know we’ve only had two regions with variants (three counting hisui), but meowth is the same as its kantonian form in the og trailer, which means that this is the first time since that feature was introduced that he won’t have a variant. just something that i found interesting

characters

gamefreak said “happy pride month to wlw ONLY” huh /j

i am obsessed with professor sada she is so pretty

also the rival, nemona? incredible

speaking of nemona, this is the first time we’ve had a girl as the main rival! the closest we’ve gotten to that before were gens 3 and 6, where the rival depended on the player’s gender (and also shauna was in gen 6 ig), gen 5, where we got cheren AND bianca, and gen 8, where marnie was a rival, but not the main one (which was hop). tldr, i’m very excited to see what they do with nemona

continuing on the nemona train, according to the website she apparently has a smoliv on her team, which means there’s probably going to be an early-route water-type and early-route fire-type to balance it out and she’ll have one of those plus the starter depending on which one you chose

alternatively, i’m completely wrong and she breaks new ground by NOT having a traditional starter and having a preset team that doesn’t change based on your choices at all instead

we’ve got two professors now! they differ based on version, and i gotta say, as much as i love the futuristic aesthetic and prefer it over the historical one, i might pick scarlet JUST for professor sada

also, this is probably just me here, but i don’t like professor turo that much so far? maybe it’s the outfit (it’s definitely the outfit), but i’m also not a fan of his face, if that makes sense. definitely a “me” thing, but i’m not super big on more masculine looking characters, which professor turo seems to be. i know a lot of people disagree with me on this (callout post for @yamakagashiz /j), but i still wanted to put that out there

i mentioned this a bit earlier when i was talking about the past/future thing, but our professors aren’t named after trees! they’re not named after any sort of plant at all!!! at least, no plants that i’m aware of. this is unprecedented, as far as I know. like, there’s probably some random fuckoff professor in the anime that’s not named after a plant that only showed up a few times or something, but i never kept up with that religiously and also it’s been a hot minute since i watched it at all. regardless, another first in the series!

that’s about it, i think. i’m very excited, and can’t wait to find out more!

#pokemon #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #pokemon sv #pokemon gen 9 #sprigatito #koraidon #miraidon #pawmi #lechonk #smoliv #professor sada #professor turo #nemona #og post #paldea

[t4tdnf]

🦚

🦚 - Are there any queer books/shows/etc. that you would suggest?

ok i rambled so so much sorry 💔 putting rhe answer under a cut

books !! i actually am looking into some more queer books i want more transmasc main characters. SOME I LIKE ARE i was born for this by alice oseman (gay transman and bi man slowburn, not the main focus of the story tho, also its so much better than heartstopper i promise), aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe (gay boys in the i think 80s? this is one of my fave books actually) i mever ended up finishing pulp but (lesbians in the 60s and modern day, pretty good) meat market by juno dawson (also a book thats so important to me, by a trans author but not many queer themes as far as i remember) ive read a lot of the other popular ones but i wasnt really too big a fan, i mostly read nonfiction nowadays anyway

i dont really watch movies if u want movies i have nothing sorry 💔

SHOWS OK !! our flag means death (my fave actually so good, i quote it everyday and it changed my life), what we do in the shadows (im a bit behind idk if the queer has started yet), shera and the princesses of power (so good), . (young adult, epic actually, i watch it with my friend and we always predict the plot points)

not very many but these are all so great i promise. i have other recs that r just a little too personal (mostly podcasts) but if anyone is interested in them i will post,, anyway more trans media please i beg

#TY ANON i love rambling #happy pride !!

[backhurtyy]

Now onto revenge of the sith. THIS is the Anakin I know with the long hair and everything. The infamous “kill him. Do it” line. Also I think the disconnect for me on why this is supposedly such a big thing is that. The Jedi kill people all the time esp aliens? Why should him killing a Sith Lord which are so ~dangerous and evil~ be any different? Also it’s that guy from clone wars the evil robot guy? Idk his name yet. OH general grievous of course, how is he coughing when he’s a robot? Anyway. Also I asked my dad if he knew who Ashoka is and he goes “I Ashoka my dishes in the sink” and I THOUGHT he was gonna make a dick joke and it almost killed me. Are we not supposed to know Palpatine is the other sith at this point? He’s way too recognizable in voice and what we see under the cloak for anyone not to know who he is immediately but they’re really pushing the secret identity thing it seems lol. I love Anakin but he is so many red flags wrapped up in one in general and with Padme especially he’s just. I used to love him a lot but now I’m like mmm he says words. Obi Wan mentioned Cody! Its that guy! Idk what that means but it’s that guy! The “hello there” “general kenobi” part happened but Grievous doesn’t pull out all four sabers until a little later I feel lied to. “Are you going to kill me” “I would certainly like to” I love this Tik tok audio. Also palpatine is the Sith Lord, who would’ve guessed that’s crazy. Also all of this bc Anakin wants to save Padme. She’s like I can just… get an abortion it’s no big deal and he’s like no! I will simply become evil there is no other way! Palp told Anakin to kill everyone and he’s walking down the hallway in like full dark attire and all I can think is “oh ani what have you gotten yourself into.” Also I realized at some point, Padme was definitely an awakening of some kind for me as a kid she’s just so pretty. Order 66 they said the thing, that’s not good. I forgot Anakin kills all those kids, god that’s. That’s bad. Obi Wan doesn’t want to kill him he’s convincing Yoda he can’t, this is breaking my heart. Not the shot of Anakin crying after killing everyone NELLIE this is so fucking sad. I used to quote the end of this movie all the time as a kid cause I thought it was FUNNY and NOW look at me I wanna cry. And to think, Anakin does get to kill Obi Wan in like episode 4. God this whole thing is killing me, Anakin is just so angry and Obi Wan just wants to help he’s so sad. The transitions between Padme giving birth and Anakin being operated on, damn. Vader’s theme softly playing as Anakin taking his first breath in the suit, ugh. Padme saying there’s good in him in her last breath, him immediately asking for her when he gets up. Padme and all the flowers in her hair in her casket, still with a baby bump I’m gonna lose it I cannot take this. I always loved that shot of her too idk why. This movie was my favorite one when I was a kid and now I see why I think it still is it’s just. Fuck man. The Whole Time I’m like ani please just talk to anyone about this have A conversation, someone will help and he just doesn’t 😩 - 🤍

‘DEWIT 😈😈😈’ yeah okay palpers let’s get you to bed

i think the difference is the context in which anakin kills dooku? like yeah the jedi kill people but typically only when there’s no other option (i.e, civilians are being endangered and the only way to save them is to take out the bad guy) or like. when obi wan is fighting maul in phantom menace and it’s the only way he can stop him and try to save naboo. but anakin has an unarmed man in front of him— yes, he’s a sith lord, but he’s still unarmed and taking him in as a prisoner would likely have ended the war had palpatine not been pulling strings— and also kills him from a place of rage, anger, frustration, and desire to end the war, with the urging of palpatine, who is technically a civilian. it’s not a way to protect anyone. it’s done purely for selfish reasons. or at least, that’s my understanding of it, i’m sure others have explained it better!!!

as for grievous he’s a cyborg so i think he used to be human or like some alien species, but something happened to him and his lungs and stuff were put into the metal body??? i did not fact check that so i could be wrong but i’m pretty sure that’s what happened to him lmao

it’s dumb for them to expect us to not know who palpatine is because like. the original trilogy established it was emperor palpatine??? so idk why they push it so hard. probably dramatic irony or something lmao

ladies if his name is anakin skywalker… 🚩🚩🚩

CODY MY MOST BELOVED I MISS HIM EVERYDAY!!!!! the biggest crime of this century was them not including more of cody in anything because he’s. the best. and idk if you’ve started watching clone wars yet but. if you haven’t you’ll get to see him a bit more!!! he’s obi wan’s husband commander and they have some awesome moments together 💖

anakin makes me so sad because. he loves so hard and so fiercely. and it brings the galaxy to its knees. like that quote that’s like ‘i love you to the point of ruin’ (is that real or did i make that up???) is just. that’s him. thats anakin skywalker. and it’s worse too because that love is only a bad thing because of palpatine!!! because palpatine abuses it and turns it into fear and preys on it and— like if palpers hadn’t been there he would have been the best brother to ahsoka and obi wan, the best husband, the best father, the best jedi…. GOD. IN TEARS.

bestie if the movie makes you sad you have GOT to read the revenge of the sith novelization by matthew stover because. that shit ruins my life daily. it is so fucking sad. i’m so— ani. obi. best friends and brothers who love each other even at the end.

#this movie. it’s so #it’s my favorite one and i think that’s a major cause for concern honestly #like hello mental illness wooooo!!!!! #but it’s also peak obi wan like. ‘another happy landing’ ‘hello there’ etc #answered #🤍 anon #long post #just in case lmaoooo

[elliebartlets]

veronica mars rewatch 3x05: president evil

• I don’t get good vibes from this TA guy. Idk if that’s cause he played Lucky in the last season or what. But honestly it might be a red herring.

• lol did Weevil just wink at Dianna Agron?

• wow he didn’t even know Veronica was dating Logan??

• And when he said “you’re with Logan after the way he treated Lily?” I’m assuming he means the fact that Logan kissed another girl cause I don’t remember Logan being a bad boyfriend to her…

• oh my god the whole time Veronica was ranting about the Porsche I was like “shut up!!!” because I knew the owner was gonna be in the office with Keith

• Wallace’s professor looks familiar. And just like an asshole in general. No offense to the actor.

• this is such a long cold open. Like we’re 10 minutes in and the theme song hasn’t started yet.

• oh a robbery, how fun.

• where the hell was Logan in all this?

• well at least they reported the robbery. I was thinking maybe the Mercer guy wouldn’t want to cause he’s doing an illegal gambling ring.

• “start collecting IDs from everyone.”

“Uh, we had our wallets stolen.”

lol Lamb is such an idiot

• how on earth does Veronica know who robbed them?

• also what are Veronica and Logan dressed as?

• so she assumes Weevil was behind the robbery because…he’s mad at her for dating Logan again? and so he wanted to get back at her by…stealing her necklace?

• Oh nvm it’s cause he talked about missing the gang life

• lol at Keith and Cliff pretending to be voice over actors

• only a heartless bastard would refuse to help save their child’s life

• “Hey, what do you say we do your Miranda Rights in harmony this time? I'll take lead. You take tenor?”

File this under: quotes from asshole characters that unfortunately make me laugh

• why do I feel like this “tutor” the kid recommended to Wallace is actually a guy that just does the homework for people

• “Call Cliff, and get off.”

• wait the dean’s wife discharged her son who is dying of cancer, went to Mexico, and didn’t tell the dean where in Mexico because??? surely not because he got angry with the deadbeat dad for refusing to give his kid bone marrow

• yeah I figured the guns were fakes

• uh that scene with the theater kids staring at the stage covered in Pam spray was so weird

• “You're Logan Echolls, right? I heard you were going here. Did you ever think of investing in-”

“No.”

lol

• wait they actually kidnapped the dead beat dad and made him donate the bone marrow? Literally how? Because that dude would’ve needed to consent like to the hospital staff and stuff.

• ah so the campus security guards did the robbery. And the security guards bitch of a daughter had lily’s necklace.

• I don’t understand how yanking the necklace like that off someone’s neck hasn’t broken it??

• I’m confused, did Wallace cheat??

• aw there’s a email in Veronica inbox from Wallace about snickerdoodles. Throwback to when she made him spirit boxes with snickerdoodles in high school

• ohhh the guy in the ATM photo with Claire is her boyfriend?? and she pretended not to know him?? that’s…not good.

#veronica mars #vmars #vmars rewatch #President evil

[psych---ologically-deranged]

psych 2x14 dis-lodged with steve franks & tim meltreger, 2 ppl, easy to understand what is going on in the commentary

"we write theme songs for each episode" I'll take your word for it wdym you are not allowed to sing on these?

I think it would be great if the show, which kind of is generally about shawn, actually has the flashbacks told from gus's journal as a kid, even if they are about shawn. Show me different eyes.

TM: If you listen closely, they are chanting kyrie eleison Me, a devout folk catholic: TM: which was my attempt to get a big 80s reference in there Me: to what? TM: Mr Mister song My deaf ass: Mister Chiffon? (People, usually americans or brits but not canadians as much & idk abt australia have this slur where they say sh instead of st) SF: But as it turns out it's not from just that TM: It's real medieval biblical latin Me, metis folk catholic: YEAH. ???? SF: I thought we had licensed that song. (if they hadn't licensed that song for use, they would get copyright claims) SF: Fortunately, this song existed somewhere else & they weren't singing it in the way it was in mr mr TM: I heard it in the many masses I had to attend as a kid, but I also heard it on the radio when mr mister was singing it Me: *catholic increases*

*henry watching gus chew shawn out for his misplaced prepositions* I could kiss gus & his love of correct grammar.

*fighting over what song henry should have in the truck* Shawn has been back for a year now, two years even, & their relationship is healing, & yet they don't want to go on a man camping trip.

Gus *steals the cup of au jus*

Original idea: Shawn & Gus would speak in handshakes exclusively by the end of the episode Me, deaf: great idea TM: I was unable to make that work on the page As it turns out it was impossible to pull off in reality, but there was a great bit where they were going to have an argument with secret handshakes but maybe later, season 4

Slap it on a biscuit

Josh Bycell on the wall! That's Tim Meltreger on the right! That's Mel Damski! Andy Berman! "Me"! I mean-- Steve Franks! Corbin Bernsen! They all got to have portraits made SF: & I say "me" with finger quotes up because that's a weird pasty strange version of me TM: You after all the blood has been removed from your body

*paintings still in the writer's office*

TM: I was aged in my portrait, now whenever I go get coffee, I come out of the kitchen area face to face with myself 35 years from now SF: It's kind of like a dickens book Or an oscar wilde book

TM: That house is where "Canadians" would "entertain dignitaries" Me, canadian: what was that cadence+diction?

*weird story starting* Me *concerned* No it's just that TM is the one who says 1 2 3 4 in the theme song

"Let me feel your forehead"

Lassie is still on three creams four sugars

Extended part: arguing over koffee klub tracking your information *big brother*

You can't handle the truth!

Gus chatting up the doctors

SF: I told Mel as a sort of way to endear him to tim that tim was a big fan of yellowbeard, just speculating that Tim had probably seen it & probably enjoyed TM: & I spent the whole dinner hoping Mel wouldn't ask me about it

ChairWOMAN meow! I love the way they fight

TIM WROTE THE WEBISODES & INTERNET BLOGS? MY MAN YOU ARE THE ONE WHO WROTE SHAWN'S JOB HISTORY? I LOVE YOU *kisses you on The mouth*

& the cartoons! My man please that stuff is Lost Media (which is true crime for chronically online antisocial nerds)

Juliet concerned for Carlton (I love it when she uses his first name. Everyone else he is Lassiter. or ig booker or binky.)

I love this lassiter story indeed

Gus vulturing all the doctors here I love it

SF: I set you up for a nice long conversation about Lassiter! TM: Oh look Gus! Gus: is pushing his pharmaceutical product. Meanwhile a dead body is five feet away. TM: Holmstrom, named after my seventh grade social studies teacher, who happened to give me detention on the second day of class because I got lost on my way there. That is NOT the reason I murdered him in this episode.

Anupam!

motorcycle be there with bells on

TM: Mr Holmstrom was a decent guy & I learned in my years as a schoolteacher that sometimes ya just got to make an example of somebody SF: To become a writer on the show, Tim quit his job as an elementary school teacher Me: typical writer TM: 13 years!

TM: I made an example of many a student, & in turn they may kill me when they grow up to become writers

"origin" of lassiter's anger sure babe

They just hang out at the psych office at night

SF: I was shocked when ou wrote the line "lassiter I love you" that Dulé actually said it TM: it remains my favourite part of the episode

TM just talking about sneaking into this creepy lodge in his hometown

Big scary lodge filled with powerful people Vancouver: Here's what we got Me: it's santa barbara, of course it's going to be this place

Holstrom the social studies teacher built his own house!?

"Hey what about me?" they ask you as soon as you start adding people in TM: I have no friends tho SF: You seem to have more friends when you start putting their names in a television show

He once removed a boil from his own thigh with nothing more than a paperclip & a warm can of sprite

what

WAIT WAS HE A MATH TEACHER? I... I would not have expected that

TM: The beauty of being a first time writer is you can get away with a lot of crap

Reading lines of the other person during a phone convo has always interested me All of juliet's lines were delivered by [TM] standing about five feet away from [TO] TM: It was a throw for me SF: I was proud of you

Juliet, grinning: You're having lunch with Shawn?

"finds his inner liar" *proud of himself for such a bad lie* *they sit for a while. Nobody says cut.* JRr/SS: This is uncomfortable

Kelly *not understanding the thumb to the nose*

William Zane Gus being charming!!!

"Sales Reptitute" I think it's reputation. Though if it was rap, then it would be rapport

"Billy!?"

*international clocks* *there is one for vancouver* *not santa barbara*

"personal forklift" He drove it for 14 days all the way to vancouver "He needed to gas up every 38 minutes" 'nono, he's green, it runs on banana peels'

South american airline codes SF: Shawn knows all information that is pertinent, but forgets key pieces of information

I feel like Gus, mr countries of the world toilet book, would know the airline codes

Shawn: I lived in an airport for a month Gus: That was Tom Hanks

"To all those who made this scene work despite my writing, I appreciate it"

SF: If you've dusted these DVDs off 25 years in the future Me: Well, maybe 15? Quick what's 2024-2007? Ok so like 17 years bro. I didn't realize Hulu was that old. It is no longer on USA network.com btw. It is on peacock actually. Help me out with the Lost Media. In fact, the shorts & webisodes & stuff should all be given on the DVDs, & there should be a box set of all the movies that I can purchase (PHYSICAL COPY) with bonus features like deleted scenes, bloopers, psych outs, old webisodes, set tours, interviews with background artists, & all that stuff. Come on! Let's keep things physical! I want a DVD that will scratch & I'll never be able to watch again, but I'd rather that than webisodes that get taken down with no backups. Make physical copies of everything!

Workshop it? Workshop it.

*Irving parker can see lassiter through the one way glass* he just hates him that much

did its not did its

*skilled portrait artist* *only gets to do lodge members* "The art department was NOT thrilled about us all getting portraits

Huge success, great skill, interesting life, reduced to apinting heads. Bitter man. SF: That's a lot of backstory for a guy who has two lines TM: I know

Oh oh the music sting & the lights

i THOUGHT IT WAS THE LODGE I didn't know it was arthur holmstrom's home at first

TM: Where is this filmed? Bretleiger? Botulism? SF: British Columbia? TM: No the town!

I have to admit, it's always weird when they mention places I've been

All those pictures are of Corbin's Mother

Yeah, I didn't get the burn joke.

The goal of this scene was to have Gus & Shawn stuffed into an impossibly small space

TM: The Martin 16 safe was named after my wife SF: Her name was 16

He did that thing with the jacket at least 30 times

I love how Gus has skills. Shawn broke into the house with a credit card I mean a screwdriver I mean it was unlocked, but Gus can get them into the safe

Shawn *guesses the gal's measurements perfectly* TM: I didn't think we were going to talk about boobs right now

That's TM's handwriting & that's the school

"We had to cut down the episode so my ear gets a cameo" Good for you mr meltreger

My man was hit by a car in this scene...

Heather, my wife

Shawn's adhd "I want to weigh/height myself-- wait no I shouldn't"

Who's killing henry? Me? Sid?

Tim's Writing Fire alarm!?

VICTORY DANCE

SF: Good shot of Tim getting to turn the car around TM: Not me tim. I was up on that hill getting hit by another car.

The magic head of gus, the wisdom of baum, & ... that stuffed creature

TM: Dr Downs was named after my optometrist, who complains whenever I get into the chair that optometrists are not represented on television in the dark crystal (movie) the dude had glasses so someone had to make him glasses

Beautiful day for them, happy for them. TM: But I'm not going to gush because we're sitting very close in this office right now

Often the villain stands there in shock, I am indeed happy to see Roger fight back

*slaps his butt*

There was an earlier version of this episode where this was happening during lassiter's indoctrination

"The only real membership that mattered was family" *his marriage still fell apart, his wife still left him, his son still hates him, his son ran away to "help [his] mother through her divorce" but who knows what happened or when that was, & he didn't speak to his son much in ten years*

SF: Besides all the intricate mysteries & the comedy, this is a show about family. & pineapples.

They have Shawn's portrait & they stole (stole?) henry's too

you're right there WERE no pineapples that I saw

The Meltones, a band by the camera crew! Richard Coleman had a migraine, poor guy, during this episode, & Tim Meltreger filled in for him on guitar that friday

I love how the camera crew has a band. TM rented a guitar up in vancouver to play with them

SF: We can't speak past this, quick say one last thing! TM, really close to the mic:

Speak to my lawyer

#psych commentary 2x14

[quercus-queer]

hey, what’s up with tlou 2? I keep seeing comments mentioning how it’s related to zionism but I can’t find info on it

Im not someone who gets very interested in creators of the media I enjoy (idk what my fave band looks like or their names) and I was only a very casual watcher of tlou adaptation and gameplays. I only recently found out Neil Druckmann is a Zionist and that tlou2 was “inspired by the Israel-Palestine conflict.”

This is to say Im not the most informed and have no desire to watch the podcasts this Vice article gets quotes from, the article was more than enough information for me. There’s some reddit threads out there too but I digress.

Some excerpts that I think sum up the article, Druckmann’s bias, and explains the criticisms people have always had about tlou’s writing.

But "cycles of violence" are a poor way to understand a conflict in a meaningful way, especially if one is interested in finding a solution. The United States, for example, hasn't been at war in Afghanistan for almost 20 years because it's trapped in a "cycle of violence" with the Taliban. It is deliberately choosing to engage with a problem in a way that perpetuates a conflict. Just as the fantasy of escaping violence by simply walking away from it is one that only those with the means to do so can entertain, the myth of the "cycle of violence" is one that benefits the side that can survive the status quo

In The Last of Us Part II's Seattle, Scars and Wolves hurt each other terribly, and the same can be said about Israel and Palestine. The difference is that when flashes of violence abate and the smoke clears, one side continues to live freely and prosper, while the other goes back to a life of occupation and humiliation. One side continues to expand while the other continues to lose the land it needs to live. Imagining this process as some kind of symmetric cycle benefits one side more than the other, and allows it to continue.

As a result, The Last of Us Part II never quite justifies its fatalism.

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This seems to be The Last of Us Part II's thesis: humans experience a kind of "intense hate that is universal," as Druckmann told The Post, which keep us trapped in these cycles.

But is intense hate really a universal feeling? It's certainly not one that I share. I, too, have seen the video of the 2000 mob killing of the Israeli soldiers in Ramallah, and it's horrific. Yet, my immediate response wasn't "Oh, man, if I could just push a button and kill all these people that committed this horrible act, I would make them feel the same pain that they inflicted on these people," as Druckmann said.

This is not a universal feeling as much as it's a learned way of seeing the world.

…

The trouble with [the story/writing/themes], and the reason that Ellie's journey ultimately feels nonsensical, is that it begins from a place that accepts "intense hate that is universal" as a fact of life, rather than examining where and why this behavior is learned.

Personally, I’ve come to understand that people who cling to the Cycle of Violence as human nature, especially concerning community/global conflict have an deep misunderstanding of humanity.

This post details an article that requires an account to access, but elaborates on a certain mentality about Landback movements:

Additionally, the casting for tlou2 adaptation has come out and it’s a shit show:

Dina (the only Jewish character in the series + her fam) will be played by a very skinny conventionally attractive Hispanic non-Jewish woman who is allegedly a Zionist

Abby will be played by a very skinny conventionally attractive 5’2” woman who is also allegedly a Zionist

Also worth noting since some redditors misunderstood: the author is NOT saying Palestinians are literally like the Scars, the entire point is that Neil created the Scars to parallel how HE (biased) sees the conflict.

#palestine #tlou #tlou2 #tlou hbo #in conclusión #creators a Zionist #neil druckmann #show has Zionist themes #he casted zionists who regardless of that are unfit for the characters