#this is how the story ends ok

[kathaynesart]

Let’s just say I have a lot on my plate at the moment but I’m so grateful for all the support you guys have shown me through these past busy months. Thank you as always for your patience with my slow updates and maybe I’ll find some time to sketch something for the TMNT AU Competition later on @tmntaucompetition Hopefully some of these projects will be finally wrapped up in the next few months and I can return to Replica 100%

Also fun fact about me. Sometimes I get a little carried away with world building. Normally my friends and collaborators keep me on a tight leash, but now I’m completely unsupervised and reaping what I’ve deeply sewn. For better or for worse.

NOTE: Don't be scared, my question shouldn't have much impact on the actual story of Replica... I just like to know all the little details.

#i just wanted to tell a story about silly/sad turtles #how did it come to this? #I'm in too deep #but seriously where did all the water go in the opening of the movie? #it must have been after most of the skeletons ended up in there because it's more likely the bodies were washed out to sea #did the krang evaporate it all later to try and kill off the resistance? #ok I'll stop #replica #replica propoganda #? #tmnt au competition

[nibbelraz]

Warning! Warning! Character No longer Exists!

#svsss #shen qingqiu #Shen jiu #scum villian self saving system #scum villain #scum villains self saving system #scum villain's self saving system #been also thinking about Yue Qingyuans reaction to the system reveal #about him learning about how Shen Jiu is no longer here #how he's been with an imposter for so long #how he actually failed to save Shen Jiu and in a way betray him in a way by thinking this other guy was him #god im also thinking about the system calling him a character #how angry he'd be #a lot of fics have Shen Yuan scared that Binghe would be abgry that he read his story and just used him as entertainment #they have a happy ending so its ok but Yue Qingyuan??? #he never #no matter which story or dimension #would be happy with Shen Jiu #i think shen jius love for Yue Qingyuan also sufficated him along with his hate #you know how it hirts when you think about the what ifs after you see what you could of had #Yue Qingyuan doesnt even get a good side to that its always a broken future #anyways this is why every fic that fixes that i thank you for crating a dimension that had him with a happy future #Creating* #my art #nibbelraz

[jackoshadows]

Sometimes I recall what GOT did to the character of Daenerys Targaryen and I still can't wrap my mind around it. The single worst bit of character assassination I have ever seen in fictional media. I don't get it. They took the heroic protagonist who freed slaves and saved the realm from a zombie apocalypse and in the penultimate episode had her randomly slaughter thousands of innocent people FOR NO REASON!!

Cersei was already defeated, Daenerys already won, she got KL. The people of KL were not fighting against her like the slave masters or the Lannisters. And it's not even like the Mad King because even the Mad Kind only wanted to burn down KL with Wildfire because Tywin got through the gates and he wanted to take everyone down with him. Daenerys had NO REASON! They just wrote the protagonist of the series randomly massacre people in the penultimate episode for no reason - it's not madness, strategy or villainy! NO REASON.

It would be like if Tolkien did not finish LOTR and D&D got their hands on the adaptation (*shivers*) and there would be no Gollum and Frodo would end up not destroying the Ring and becoming a dark lord, the final big bad even more powerful than Sauron himself, to subvert expectations and surprise viewers...

Or if George Lucas stopped with The Empire Strikes Back and D&D finished the trilogy with The Return of the Jedi and Luke joins forces with Vader and Palpatine to subvert expectations....

And EVEN all of those endings would still have made more sense than Daenerys randomly massacring thousands... FOR NO REASON!!

#anti GOT #anti D&D #Daenerys Targaryen #I don't get it... #How did they look at the absolute shite they wrote and think that was ok? #How did the top folks at HBO look at this absolute shite and think it was okay? #and this garbage will be the only ending we will get because GRRM can't be bothered to finish a story he started 30 years ago

[makeurmoneywhore]

can’t stop thinking about how when the HIV/AIDS epidemic started, people thought that you could contract the virus simply by touching an infected person. so in the something bad is happening reprise where dr. charlotte pulls marvin aside and tells him this virus seems to spread from one man to another, she could’ve been implying he should refrain from even hugging/holding/comforting whizzer because he might be putting himself at risk

#like ok i know it’s implied he probably already has it #but idk just thinking about the confusion and panic of the time and how everyone was so afraid #because nobody understood how or why this was happening #the only thing people understood about AIDS at that time is that if you got it you’d die. end of story #so just thinking about marvin having to grapple with the fact that comforting his lover could be getting him sick #and him having to choose to forego the risk even if it means he will die and leave jason fatherless #and anyway i’m gonna go cry #falsettos #falsettos 2016 #whizzvin #marvin falsettos #whizzer brown

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

I think one of the reasons why the theory that Arya will go away at the end of the story because she’s too far gone to assimilate back into society is so unconvincing is because she literally spends the latest two books (AFFC and ADWD) doing that very thing! Like her training hasn’t been about her being a reclusive murderous hermit. She literally spends the two books talking to people, making friends, integrating into new cultures. She’s around people all the damn time! And even if we bring up her ACOK and ASOS arcs which were rather dark in nature, she’s still around people interacting with them, still being a part of society (even if she’s quite low on the totem pole in those books).

Arya is a character who feels so strongly and whose arc is often dictated by how she interacts with the people around her. So to take that away from her is not only a bad understanding of her character arc (not to be condescending or anything), but it’s also not very satisfying as far as character/narrative progression goes. Because if the narrative has proven so far that even in her darkest moments, Arya can laugh and love and be such a passionate member of society, how then does it make sense for her to go away and be on her own?? How does that make sense when AFFC and ADWD prove that she still loves being around people?

#I cannot think of a single instance where Arya going away because she’s too far gone #And can’t do ✨ society ✨ anymore makes sense from a character development point of view #Had her story arc been her gradually choosing to not be around people anymore then ok maybe yeah #If she spent ADWD waxing about how she just wants to live in a cave because ✨ society sucks ✨ #Then sure whatever #But her arc has been about her surrounding herself with people even when her identity and safety are taken away from her??! #She goes to Braavos…..and then spends months on end talking to people and hearing their stories #And she says she loves it! #Or did people conveniently forget that part when she says she loves spending time listening to people’s experiences? #She constantly thinks about how she loves her family and home #So how does it make sense to have her go away on her own when her arc has been the opposite?? #Someone pls explain idgi #looking at you Reddit btw #y’all continue to just suck donkey balls #arya stark #asoiaf #my rant I gues…

[anominous-user]

triple threat end card but with the honkai inpact trio. and also bald TT.

#the henry stickmin collection #thsc #honkai impact #bronya zaychik #kiana kaslana #raiden mei #do i tag. the thsc trio for this. i mean they are here as bald as they can be #i guess. #charles calvin #henry stickmin #ellie rose #a-u edit stuff #note that i edited them based on their poses/expressions this does NOT mean bronya = charles or mei = ellie cuz #characters flip around a lot in my edits there is no set standard except for maybe like one lr two characters and even then. #ok anyway i mainly edited this with the honkai trio cuz. they dont interact enough in the story. #like its funny when you think about it but like they separate in the early chapters and only reunite completely in the final arc of part 1. #and i wish there was more. just like how i wish the tt dynamic was more fleshed out #theyre nice and all. just. nothing for me to chew on #ok rant over #i actually am currently redrawing the end cards in the same vein as honkai cgs i jist needed to get this out of my system #i was also highly considering leaving kiana bald. jsut like her great-grandpa^44 kevin.

[stealingpotatoes]

I really enjoy the picture of your Star Wars legend interacting with Star Wars Canon. Have you ever consider drawing a pic of Ben Skywalker hanging out with Rey and what would their dynamic look like.

thank u!! and i have not bc i don't know shit about Ben LOL

#besties i dont know ass abt old legends ok. i mean it. i dont know the stories or any of the kids' personalities sorry LOL #i just know their names and how to google what they look like and thats where it ends loll #thanks for the ask!

[lavenderjewels]

This fight was a gift to me personally for making a surprisingly sweet and ridiculous fight somehow work between a half-naked comedian side character and arguably one of the most reprehensible people in jjk

#jjk spoilers #jjk 243 #kenjaku #takaba fumihiko #shout out to takaba mentioning how hot kenjaku is several times during this fight lmao #genuinely this fight was sm fun and is really interesting for both of their characters #the theme of loneliness continuing #the silly jokes while kenjaku is fighting for their life #them actually making a heart felt connection despite being a Gag character and one of the main evil villains 😭 #takaba being strict on not killing but also 100% ok with developing a partnership with kenjaku #exploring kenjakus character and motives #anyway. could go on and on it was soo good #still not happy if kenjaku is just. dead and out of the story after this since I wanted more with them and yuuji or tengen #but it sounds like this is it from the end of the chapter 😓 at least I got to watch takaba and kenjaku go on a date and then die together #choosing to believe takaba is dead unless proven otherwise since he probably thought it’d be funny to die LMAO

[hazeldough]

#TACHIKIRYU / #MAJIMAKO : I won’t melt, I won’t cry

#tachikiryu #majimako #majima goro #kiryu kazuma #makimura makoto #tachibana tetsu #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #yakuza 0 #rgg #fancam #amv #video #my stuff #the song is koori no tojikomete by superfly #anyways yeah ok if kiryu and majima’s stories mirror each other #then that definitely means they both fell in love here and it ended in tragedy #majima chose to walk away from makoto to give her a better life #meanwhile kiryu didn’t have a choice to leave tachibana and he returned to the dojima family #majima learned how dangerous it is to hold someone close #kiryu learned to not run away and also developed self-sacrifice as a love language #oh these mfs r doomed by the narrative fr

[pagesofkenna]

i unironically love the Rat Grinders so much and its so funny to me that everyone on tumblr has jumped onto hating them so vehemently; these kids are transmigration light novel protagonists and it's hilarious. they reached level 100 killing nothing but slimes etc etc

that crap is some of the most soul crushing work imaginable. i will forcequit any video game the moment it's clear that grinding is the only way to advance because i hate it so much. they're not having fun. they're not enjoying the work. they got stuck with a DM who thinks XP leveling is worthwhile and they're slogging through it in the most tedious and boring way possible. they're 'powergaming' in only the most loose definition of the term. they're having the worst high school experience of anyone. they've traumabonded over spending 33 hours a week in abject misery and have now turned feral

#fantasy high #di20 #i also absolutely believe they have beef we haven't even heard of yet #like WHY have they been rat grinding? literally no one could EVER want to do that! #i ASSUME they don't WANT to be doing that so there must be an interesting story about how this all happened! #anyway i'm adopting all of them. holding their hands gently. showing them the healing mercies of milestone leveling #honestly that revelation just gave me flashbacks to the time one of my players really wanted to do XP leveling #and I had to like. actually SHOW them what I was doing at the end of every single encounter and session #before they were like 'oh. ok i get why you say this sucks'

[kylo-skywalkerr]

Okay LISTEN. Kylux has such beautiful parallels and opposites in their life stories that it's almost beautiful.

The height of Ben's life was him being young. He was naturally gifted, had a great family, and a promising future. There were problems, but he had friends, and he was thriving. Then he grew up and renounced his identity as Ben and things went downhill.

Hux's childhood on the other hand was his low point. It wasn't until adulthood that he rose up and became stronger.

Kylo killed his father because he loved him. Snoke saw it as a weakness and made him do it. It tore him apart.

Hux killed his father because he hated him. He needed to thrive and that had to happen with Brendol's death.

Hux is reserved and handles his emotions accordingly, rarely ever doing more than raising his voice whenever the occasion permits it.

Kylo can't control his emotions and only acts in anger, unable to ground himself as well as Hux does.

They're opposites but also so much alike. Violent, self serving, desiring full control over the throne.

So alike yet so different. I mourn the loss of the duel of the fates script because in that they actually did come together. Rey refused Kylo's help so Kylo took Hux's hand. Let him lead, obeyed enough to shave his entire head simply because Hux found it too disorderly. Original Hux was fascinated by the force, he wished he had it. While Kylo's life is ruined by it.

Sometimes, I think that Kylo and Hux's relationship was tarnished just to make Rey and Kylo seem more probable. Those two were stronger together, and the writers tore them apart. But they're perfect together, opposite yet one in the same.

#kylux #ky rambles #im sorry if this one got away from me a bit but you get it right?? #they're on some yin and yang shit with how their lives overlapped #and the final thing they have in common is that neither of their deaths were satisfying ends to their stories #let them find solace in each other #let them heal their pain through shared experiences #i know people like reylo but they just dont have the same type of lives and experiences as hux and kylo #ok done tagging i just needed to get this out of my system lol

[mikimeiko]

Speed Racer | Directed by Lana and Lily Wachowski (2008)

#speed racer #trying to render through gif how truly batshit the editing of this movie is has been a challenge #if there's one thing this movie is not is boring #the story is... ok #the acting ranges from exceptional to lacklustre #the first hour was kinda all over the place and it wasn't easy to get into it #but then i was hooked and i was completely unironically invested til the end #this movie is a visual EXPERIENCE #movies #films i watched in 2022 #i made this #i just want a tag for the things i personally put out into the world

[lyndentree63]

I just finished episode 6 of Burrow's End and I have SO MANY THOUGHTS.

I just keep thinking about expectations, and the way Aabria. . . plays with them. But also — Ok back up because one of the things I noticed about ACOFAF is that Aabria is really good at listening to players, taking what do they do and say, and in return saying I believe you, then weaving it into the narrative. (The Green Hunter is the most obvious example of this.) And she's doing this with Burrow's End in a way that's even more intense than it was in ACOFAF. . . it's not manipulative, and 'genre subversion' isn't quite the concept I'm looking for. . . it's playing into the player's expectations. She's holding up a big mirror but the players (and us as an audience!) aren't realising that it's a reflection of the path they just carved out, they think they're seeing a new hallway. It's not quite a feedback loop, but it is more of characters latching on to an idea and RUNNING with it and not stopping to question or wonder if maybe they should be running full-tilt ahead? Anyways I think I'm starting to understand why 5e was chosen for Burrow's End.

#how many of the monsters were actually MADE by the players thinking they were monsters? #ok sorry if this is incoherent rambling #and honestly I could be COMPLETELY off base because again this is about expectations and mine could be completely wrong #I've already been wrong like five times #but I cannot wait until this is all done and I can see the entirety of the story Aabria is telling #and it feels important to watch along as this is being unveiled #because it's a unique experience to know in part along with everyone else #burrow's end spoilers #burrow's end #dimension 20 #acofaf #acofaf spoilers #dnd5e #also very INTERESTING you shared that post about characters not knowing what genre they're in Aabria

[shapeshiftershenaniganary]

my knee-jerk response to horror (specifically jumpscare horror) is to just check out emotionally for a while, so the Nightmare path for Slay the Princess was a lot of just

"uhuh. uhuh. yeah thats great sweetie. heart lungs liver nerves"

#oh ok i sorta get how that all led up to this. #feels a lil weird tho #thats my new live laugh love btw #Slay the Princess #“and theres that fear again” yeah sure thing. whatever you say. heart lungs liver nerves #chattering #stp spoilers #loved that inbetween bit tho thats so good in the greater context of the story #like I didnt get Nightmare first run through and the ending did kinda feel a lil like #Nightmare ending its like. oh no ok yeah 100% #totally got you man no notes here #edit: yo what the fuck scrambled my tags I didn't even know that was a thing that could happen whadda hell

[roseworth]

YEAH!!! HIT HIM AGAIN!!!!

#slade: im ending the cycle of violence #rose: ok im not <3 #rose wilson #dc #feel so insanely cheated that i didnt even know this story existed???? #how did i miss this #anyways everyone check out faces of evil: deathstroke just because half of it is rose trying to kill him #thats my girl <3

[ellzilla]

Wip bc idk when/if I'll finish this anyway would you believe me if I said LJ's story wasn't my favourite 'classic' creepypasta and it was this guy's

#reason being is that LJs origin story is a kinda meh read despite the uniqueness n how much Ive obsessed over it #Meanwhile the only flaw I can give the NGC is the corny ending #but it's a sweet one so I don't CARE!! :sunglasses: #if my ass can enjoy Biollante's corny ass death then my ass can enjoy the stupid sweet NGC ending #NGC has so so SO much work put into it its inspiring... #also why are my redesigns just “Ok I give you more spikes” im gonna kms #red ngc #ngc #ngc red #nes godzilla creepypasta #kaiju #lizard's art #OH ALSO it's the reason why I got into the fandom in the first place #ily red I give you a kiss on your wrinkly forehead <3