#which was. fair ig.

[gideonisms]

since we are a week from nona here are my top predictions. Now I don't have "evidence" for these so much as Vibes. With that in mind:

*alecto in harrow's body, harrow in alecto's body, gideon back in gideon body by end of book

*gr*ddlehark kiss but in the most convoluted angsty possible way before they are parted once again by circumstance

*ianthe makes suggestive comments to john who nopes out of there to the dream bubble where he meets with harrow

*coronabeth badtwin moment

*nona has to sacrifice her identity to become someone she was before, we all cry

*camilla palamedes tragic choice

*Anastasia/Alecto scraps

*mercy/augustine Actual failed marriage pre-necromancy

*john hot professor moment (vindication for me specifically when everyone who isn't a lesbian or a Good People Enjoyer follows me into my toxic waste thirst zone)

*some kid Nona knows becomes a zombie

*3 shakespeare refs this time

*between 5 and 10 bible refs

*yeah I'm still on my nona is alecto bullshit. I don't buy gideon, harrow, or any combo because both of them are intense in ways that Nona is not & I don't think you could go back far enough in their memories to make either one of them easygoing but who am I to say

*fuck it. pyrrha/camilla give camilla a sexy summer fling let's see how complicated we can make this polycule

*aiglamene with a steel chair

*nona not affected by resurrection beast, thinks it's cool & potentially a friend

*tamsyn picks a new character to convince me to like better (babs?? silas??? some new horrible teen I have trouble getting invested in but grow to appreciate by the end?)

and finally

*I don't cry at the expected moment but at a totally different moment that hits me out of nowhere

#nona the ninth #nona the ninth spoilers #ig? #for the shorter preview which i'm using to make some of these guesses which are in all honesty just crack #like this is just me amusing myself #also dni if you've read the arc we're a week from what i consider fair game for spoilers #honestly i'm not a huge cryer for books i tend to just get unexplainable emotions that are the same as drinking too much caffeine #but both prev books did make me cry a little. in h*n it was the one scene where she goes to the planet & she's away from the horrible lyctor #situation & she has the little monologue about bugs & trees & how her heart is an empty burrow but it's okay now that she's alone #in g*n it was gideon comforting harrow after her *own* death. moments that simply. #anyway i hope nona makes me full on sob. stuff rarely does but i need some quality angst okay!! i need my heart stomped on

[princekirijo]

I'm curious and I personally don't know the investigation team that well so:

Feel free to reblog and put your reasons in the tags :3

#persona 4 #im not tagging everyone 💀 #i never finished persona 4 so i want people who have played the game's opinions on the matter #it is curiosity but ig its also for my personal project #not that the IT are going to make an appearance in said project but it would be nice to have a cameo or two #whoever wins i'll make them a member lmao #also i might have forgotten someone idk i think these are all the core members #and i know for a fact i probably spelt someones name wrong 😭 i did double check but knowing me 💀 #and yeah feel free to add reasons/opinions/whatever i love reading tags :] #also this would be assuming they join like after college or something idk #when they join isnt that relevant #i know like a very base level info about them but a lot of it is based off spin offs which isnt fair to them at all so

[antennatoheaven]

my favourite thing about portal 2 fanworks is that wheatley is always there for some unexplained reason. like yeah he got back from space it's chill now

#portal 2 #portal game #wheatley #wheatley portal #ig its only fair that since chell gets to hang around even tho she killed glados that one time #wheatley gets a pardon for a failed attempt at murder #logically i get that otherwise it would only be chell and glados #which also doesnt work with the ending of the game since she was kicked out #but its still slightly more likely that chell would go back to apreture than for wheatley to somehow make it back on earth #ramblings

[oceanwithouthermoon]

this is kubosai core to me, idk how to explain it though,, i just think,, they are Beach boyfriends,,,

#we didnt ever get a beach episode with kuboyasu did we ?? #(we got the island arc ig ? doesnt rlly count) #but we know he went to the beach with kaido #and how he kaido and nendo wanted to take saiki to the beach #idk he just strikes me so much as a beach guy that i honestly forgot that that isn't necessarily canon #its canon to ME ok (thats literally what a headcanon is but sh) #HES JUST A BEACH GUY OK ! TRUST ME ON THIS ONE GUYS I JUST KNOW ! #i still also have an hc that hes scared of deep water (which is the part of the beach that saiki most loves lol) l #but i dont think it effects him much on land #just trust me kubosai love the beach and they go on beach walks and walk on the shoreline during and after the sunset #but anyway that aside i also just really believe that aren is the type of dude to insist on doing silly couple activities like this #they definitely have their fair share of matching sweaters and stuffed animals and mugs #artist kuboyasu also comes into play with that one.. but that goes into my whole hc of artist aren giving kusuo homemade gifts #that post already exists and was really long. i love that hc. #Instagram #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #kuboyasu aren #kubosai #meows post

[dream-of-the-bitchless]

This might've already been discussed in the fandom, but since I just jumped in, I need to know: what's the general consensus on the social media usage of The Corinthian?? Is he an IG hoe, or does he fly under the radar the whole time? Does he take pictures of Dream and post them or does he rather not? Does he act all smug around Lucienne because she can't stand social media? Does he have a secret Dream stan-account on Twitter?!?! I need to know!

#i personally think the answer to the last question is obviously a yes but that's just me #also Dream strikes me as the kind to just like social media in which he can read things #but to be fair dreams are very visual so maybe he does like IG #or maybe he likes Pinterest xDD HAH #corintheus #the corinthian x dream of the endless #the corinthian #the sandman #headcanons

[curiosity-killed]

HUAQING GAY CHICKEN PLEASE

I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD ASK

It’s not a romance. Mu Qing isn’t blind to Xie Lian’s knowing looks and unsubtle comments. For all his lack of interest in personally experiencing romance or the like, Xie Lian seems to delight in the idea that Mu Qing and Hua Cheng have fallen into some sort of wild forbidden romance. That is blatantly false. “So, what do I get for not killing you?” Hua Cheng asks, sounding a bit bored, as he tilts E’ming’s blade a hair closer to Mu Qing’s neck. For one thing, Crimson Rain has clearly never heard of romance in the first place. Snarling, Mu Qing shifts and swings his right leg up hard toward Hua Cheng’s ribs. Hua Cheng slips out of reach fast enough to avoid getting hit but not fast enough to avoid Mu Qing grabbing his ankle and dragging him down to the ground. Mu Qing rolls on top of him, catching his wrists and slamming them down on the wooden floor.

send a wip title, get a wippet (wip snippet)

#could not decide which part to post bc this has probably my fave beginning to a fic i've ever written #not because its /good/ but bc it cracks me up #but i figured i would actually share part that has the titular characters in it. u know. for fairness #anyway someday i would like to finish this pls god #wip title ask game #ig #asked & answered #crimsonrainseekingflower

[roostertuftart]

I, on the other hand, still adore stendy

#haha idk seeing a lot of hate for the ship now #which. fair ig but I love them #they’re toxic af dgmw but idk I think it’s more complex than Stan doesn’t care about Wendy slash Stan is bad actually #stendy #deep learning

[dont-look-me-in-the-eye]

another win for the alphabet mafia 🫡

#ig sometimes all you need is good rep #watched em in secret so our VERY DEEPLY queerphobic parents wouldn’t get pissed #queer media #nimona #good omens #the owl house #hey now rec me some good movies w trans ppl so she’s not transphobic lmao #i think it’s a literal matter of blindly hating what they tell her to hate which… #fair enough. that was me for a while. #once she actually saw gay ppl I think she was like. hmm. that’s it. okay. #(please rec me openly trans media i beg of you)

[kimdokjas]

objectively i know not everyone has the same taste in books and stories reach us in different ways at different times of our lives and that's beautiful and part of the human experience etc etc but also seeing my irl friend rate one of my favorite books 3 stars on goodreads makes me want to commit real life murder

#i'm joking i'M JOKING. but yeah #the book was orv vol 2 btw #she said the reason she disliked it was bc hsy was not in it which. yeah that's fair #but i just know she did not understand the nuance of it #she called it boring and like i can see why u would think that ig ?? but #it's precisely BECAUSE it's so desolate that it evokes so many raw emotions #like on god u have got to look past the surface of unreliable narration #it's about human connection!!! it's about writing on the wall!!! #it's about coming face to face with loneliness and the dichotomy of choosing vulnerability vs falling back to self-destructive patterns!!! #okay i'll stop now #gabby speaks

[prisonpodcast]

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#sometimes I wonder if drantis follow me #like erm hi #I mean if they like techno and can put up with posts about someone they hate fair enough ig #but sometimes I’ll see ppl follow me and they’re just qsm.p blogs who don’t even talk about Phil/techno that much and I’m like ? hello ? #I mean y’all are welcome but I wonder if I’m being hate followed #if they have drm stans dni it’s an instant block but i don’t check every single acc that follows me #sometimes I just get curious like hi hello r u lost #if not than welcome ..? to the blog ?? #hope you enjoy your stay ..? peace and love #maybe they are closeted dream stans which the idea of that is a bit funny to me but also sad #.___.

[inkling0121]

I love when the turtles are transed but I think it would be so funny if nothing about their design changed because of it, no bows or eyeliner (which is popular and cute), no skirts or dresses or anything before or after being transed (Splinter never gave them clothes aside from their masks and belts anyway), they just go "call me a boy/girl"

#Im starting to realize all the clothes examples were mostly transfem turtles #which ig is fair cause theyre all canonically guys #*squints at 2012 Leo suspiciously* #tmnt #ink talks #2003 Mikey is an exception cause he dresses however she wants to trans or not

[hella1975]

realising something bad about someone that means the world to you should be illegal. id like to live blindly actually

#ive been tiptoeing around this realisation for a WHILE now but today was the first time i actually verbatim in my head #went 'i dont like living with my mum'. and the moment i thought it was like no nooononono lets NOT do that #like objectively my mum is my favourite person in the world and i love her more than every other person in my life combined #but LIVING with her in HER HOUSE is just not... it. and it makes me feel awful for even thinking it bc that's her biggest fear #that we're gonna grow up to have the same relationship that she had with her mum and that ISNT what's happening like i could never #be distant from my mum in fact the reason she has such a chokehold on me is BECAUSE there's so much love there #but it would still break her heart to know i felt this way and i just feel so shitty for it. but like? i CANT relax here #like the thing that made me think it this morning wasn't even an explosive thing like it usually is with her #like every shouting screaming argument we've had ive just taken it. but then this morning when nothing exceptional happened #i was just. done. so basically i told u guys she wanted me to hoover today and already yelled about it YESTERDAY which. whatever #and she goes out every thurdsay until lunchtime and i think ive said on here before that the days we're home alone are HUGE flashpoints #bc if she comes home and perceives that not enough chores have been done/one thing has been done wrong she just hits the ROOF #like her temper is entirely disproportional she gives the same energy for the washing up not being put away that another mum would #give for finding drugs in their kids room. ive truly never seen someone maintain a temper like that woman can it's actually impressive #so yeah she was gone this morning and it just always leaves me On Edge it's never a huge thing bc im not SCARED of her but im not relaxed #and i hoovered for an hour and washed up and then also dusted the stairs and did some other tiny irrelevant jobs #and my sister did fuck all. she pulled a sickie off work and stayed in bed while i fussed about what to do with the dogs and shit #and so when my mum came home ig i was expecting some sort of acknowledgement? like not a round of applause #bc obvs it's just chores and the hoovering she literally told me to do but when my sister had been SO unhelpful and it had been #SO on my mind for hours now i was just. waiting for something? and even i didnt know what so it's not even fair #but my mum came home and decided she was in a bad mood and she had a go at my sister for being lazy and not doing the chores she said #she'd do today and she DIDNT yell at me which she sometimes does just do if she's pissed at my sister. but she just got mardy with me? #like she got up and left to go watch TV in her room and i was like 'oh i can watch it with you?' bc sometimes when they row my mum #hints at me and her going somewhere else to bitch about my sister. but she just shook her head and snapped at me for some dumb shit #like TINY shit id missed and then wouldn't even spend time with me and i was just like. are you serious #and THAT was when i had the thought bc i was like there is actually no winning with her temper #and i can never fully relax around her because of it. even when we're getting on she is at any point seconds away from ripping my head off #and it's not nice being around someone like that ALL THE TIME. and i dont mind it when im at uni bc im at my own house in my own life #but when it's HER house and she makes it very clear that it's HER house and we need her and the car if we want to so much as LEAVE #then that's just not a fucking pleasant environment to be in? right? even if it is just me being a baby? ugh idk and i hate this

[glamjrwi]

I’ll be honest, I really like grizzly’s characters, they are often my favorites along with charlie’s. Like grizz has some very blatant personal issues that I genuinely hope he actually unpacks and fixes for everyone’s sake(pleaseplease I’m so tired) but I feel like people are taking easy digs at his characters a lot and acting like he isnt very creative with them….which I just have to disagree. Like aside from all being ✨pretty✨ they have all been vastly different in their goals, personalities, and hell even design details. And he is not the only jrwi player to make majority white boy pcs, in fact, I believe charlie and bizly have only ever had white boy characters. Grizzly also played aster and rumi/elena, which puts him on par with Condi (jay and vyncent) for non white boy characters. Ig I understand being annoyed that they all have to be pretty, but his characters are far from one dimensional/copy pastes

#grizz make an ugly character challenge is on equal footing with Charlie make a character who isn’t a weirdo challenge #ig I just want the judgement to be fair and be about shit he’s actually done #which I’m aware is a fair amount #so I don’t see the need to go after cheap targets #like call out his bs in the most concise way possible I feel would be more productive #I am very open to conversation or clarifying questions btw #discourse #<- just to be safe #grizzly crit #jrwiblr crit

[waffietato]

No actually though while I'm on a roll ranting about the funny monke show

THIS FUCKING SCENE IN PARTICULAR GETS ME SO BAD. I THINK ABOUT THIS SCENE SO OFTEN

The timing of MK's words and what we see on screen.

"I'd never abandon her when she needs me"

When MK says this, the shot is focused on Wukong, as he listens in and starts to glance back at Macaque.

LIKE WE KNOW. WE K N O W WUKONG ABANDONED MACAQUE. Those two have SOME shit going on in their past. Macaque needed Wukong, and he left him (either intentionally or unintentionally) and that left Macaque bitter and sad, and that bitterness was prolly left to rot after hundreds of years (not to mention that whatever happened between them got worse and worse and. Yknow jttw. Wukong ends up killing him.)

BUT WHAT GETS ME IS THE NEXT PART AFTERWARDS.

"We're heroes, it's what we do!"

Macaque and Wukong have ALWAYS been compared to the sun and moon. Like, canonically. Wukong calls Macaque his shadow, Macaque compares him to light-- they're opposites.

When MK talks about them being heroes, it's focused on Macaque because- well, he's NOT a hero. Not to himself, anyway. And this is brought up again and again; during his shadow plays, he specifically refers to Wukong (and MK) as "the hero". And they are! But Macaque doesn't see himself like that-- he refers to himself as "the Warrior". He doesn't feel like a hero. And this is brought up again in the s3 specials. "I'm not a hero, bud-" and "then be a warrior".

He's so used to living in everyone's shadows and being at the bottom of the barrel-- he's got a "worse version of Wukong's powers" (in Wukong's own words), he's revived by LBD only to be forced to do her dirty work, he's punished when he doesn't fall in line with her- he loses no matter what.

AND LBD SAYS IT HERSELF.

As soon as Macaque was given the chance (or, a "breath of new life") he tries to fuck off and do his own thing! He tries to stay far away from everything else.

But he doesn't get to.

He's threatened and shoved down into the dirt again and again and again and it's no wonder he was so desperate in s3e8-10. He tries to freak Tang out, tries to compare them to each other, but it backfires. LBD immediately tries to off him, but he desperately screams at her about a weapon MK and the others are planning to use- he doesn't care that he's giving her information, he just doesn't want to DIE. He begs MK and everyone else to stand down, that he just wants to take the Samadhi Fire and leave. He sounds just so DONE with it all during that scene. And when Tang does finish the ritual and the Samadhi Fire is reawakened-- what does it do?

It gets rid of LBD's hold on Macaque. He's no longer being trapped in crystal.

And he says, all happy, "it worked!"

You see the same thing in s3e8. After Tang tells him "don't you see the Samadhi Fire is our only way of helping humanity?"

Macaque tells him, "the Samadhi Fire is MY only chance at getting far away from the Lady Bone Demon"

He never wanted to help her. All he wanted to do was get away from her. He never intended to give her the Samadhi Fire, the rings-- nothing.

He's selfish, and honestly, who can blame him? Given everything we know about him, he owes everyone here nothing. He doesn't want to help them, he doesn't want to help or listen to WUKONG, who (again, either intentionally or unintentionally) abandoned him and later killed him, he doesn't even want to rlly hurt MK that much ("stand down, or I will PUT you down" implies that he doesn't want to fight him if he doesn't have to, but at this point he's so desperate for his own survival that he will if MK won't get out of his way).

Macaque doesn't see himself as a hero because he can't identify himself with that kind of title.

Just.

This scene, man. There's so much behind it.

#Lmk #Lego monkie kid #Monkie Kid #I think there's the often characterization that Macaque is just an asshole and finds joy in fucking with them and that's just... #Not how I see it #I think? #Like. #Hm. #I'll avoid talking about jttw until I actually get the books and read them but for now #LBD revealed to us in s3 that Mac's only alive bc she brought him back in order to help her uj #Perfect the world or whatever #Nonsense like that #And then went off about 'with the first breath of a new life he reveled against fate' #The moment he got to live on his own he immediately looked off from her and abandoned ship #Ig the first thing on his mind was to get back at Wukong? #Which like. Fair ig. Given what we know about their backstory he definitely resents him #Adding that I think the Fanon idea/what the show might be hitting towards for the two of them is so dramatic but #But the original Canon. #Was just. #Macaque fucking around and finding out

[eternal-reverie]

got all my wisdom teeth removed yesterday and my face has gotten so puffy ( ･_･̥̥̥ )

#my first trial of the new year woohoo #why didn’t I do this in my early 20s!?!?? #click clack #my sister laughs whenever she sees me which is fair I look funny and then my mom turns around & calls me kiko 😭 #gotta find a propeller hat ig

[melodyofthevoid]

Writing Wrap Up 2023

Another weird year, to be sure. Between finishing up school, job hunting, moving out, and all sorts of family things, it's been... a really slow year. It's a feeling I keep coming back to, this feeling like I'm not doing enough. Like there's some invisible deadline that I'm failing to meet. And that failure is what's keeping me from getting any enjoyment out of the works I do finish.

But that's not really... helpful, is it? Loathe as I am to admit it, focusing on what I did accomplish makes me feel better and it is worth celebrating, I think. Darn therapy actually giving me helpful tips and advice.

Now, most of what I wrote this year I shared exclusively with friends. Tbh this is both because it's all been pretty self indulgent OC stuff ngl, but also it's niche content for my DnD characters. But both Lorna and Alexi got some really excellent pieces, and Euripheus' origin/demise piece was another one I enjoyed doing.

Except for the part where I had to write an awkward family discussion/fight. Nearly did me in.

On a different note, Alexi's AU piece clocks in at nearly 10k words, which is the longest one-shot I've ever done. Bonkers. I really just wanted to torment him, huh?

Aside from that, I've been diligently chipping away at my worldbuilding documents, each of which is wildly different in construction/layout. Mostly due to their different reasons for being, and purposes. The OI one is the least developed as of now, but I hope in the next week to really dive into (hah) the nations and make those tangible cultures. My Fading Reflections one only really needs a timeline and some loose details added here and there.

The Sun/Moon game concept expanded to having a separate NPC doc, and I'm testing out how the dialogue could theoretically sound. In Stars and Time really inspired me, and I think it'll be a fun little side project as I side eye other things.

Then my big one, the Crane Wives Analysis. It's the first time I've ever done something like that and it really gave me a deeper appreciation for a band I already adore. 20k words over the course of the year, with half of those coming in November alone when I did NaNoWriMo for the first time! Not the traditional way that event works, but I completed all my goals, so hooray!

I also did nearly half of the Whumptober prompts I picked out, and am still doing those when I feel stuck.

I don't know where this next year will take me in terms of writing. I'm starting my new job, which while extremely exciting, does raise the question of Time. I'm on my own, going to have to do all the Adult Things™, and free time is definitely going to be at a premium. It does worry me, but I'll adjust (I hope).

So yeah! I'll attach links to some of my works below the cut, and wish you all a happy new year! Thanks for sticking around!

The Well Analysis

TCW: Singles

True Reflections (Magnus Archives Fanstatement)

TCW: Foxlore

TCW: Coyote Stories

TCW: The Fool in Her Wedding Gown

TCW: Safe Ship, Harbored

"Captive"

Bodies Are Business

Reassignment

#melody rambles #my writing #I'm sure there's some of y'all who've followed me this year who're reading this like #'they write? I just thought they posted memes about writing' #which is fair #Just really haven't had the drive to post my stuff that I've done #I'm trying to separate my need to write from my desire for feedback/responses ig #anyways #but I think my stuff is getting better on the whole