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Reverse uno card : Jugdral edition

2014 : "yay, i can't wait for a Judgral remake, with updated graphics!!!"

2024 : "gods please no remake"

What happened in ten years to make me dread the remake I would have sold my soul for back in the days?

Well... IS's policies and new writing, mainly.

While I was joking about "Genealogy of the Holy Self Insert" in 2015, I still had faith in eventual Jugdral remakes. Sure, we were in the big Fateswakening era where the only things I could frown at IS were the "writings" worshipping self inserts (Ryoma being jealous of Corn's talents, when Corn was like, 5?) - but I still had hope for a more "serious" FE, and I first I was very delighted by FE15 - no self insert, a more "serious" setting, no hyperbolic time chambers to try to explain in watsonian words why second gens exist, etc...

But there was still something ringing dead wrong with FE15, which I only noticed thanks to FE16 and its years of discourse - at one point, IS's writing went in a certain direction that makes it impossible, imo, for us to have a "correct" Jugdral remake, as long as IS still follows this direction.

I'm not talking about uwufest - even if it is part of the larger problem - but back in FE15, I remember being really pissed at the schizophrenia of the plot : saying one thing and the inverse at the same time.

The narration reminds us of the classic Kaga lesson : whatever madness exists in dragon/gods, a greater madness/evil lurks in the heart of men.

And yet, we have the Hero (who was so cajoled by the plot that, at times, you have to wonder if Alm wasn't the devs's self insert, he's lavished with praises almost as extensively as Ike was!) saying nonsense - without being contradicted by characters at all (or when Celica does it, she admits later she's wrong) - like Duma being responsible, mainly, for the events that transpired in Valentia and, novelty that wouldn't have been in the original game since the character was made for the remake, Berkut's fall and madness.

By that point in the game, the player saw that Berkut hunts low class people for what he sees and perceives as sport, is the textbook classicist asshat noble, but has a lot of pression on his shoulders due to his role of being the heir of the Empire, pression that isn't alleviated at all by his Uncle who mocks him and refuses to give him a third chance... to fight against a person said uncle very well knows cannot be defeated by Berkut himself, especially as said Uncle pretended to "care" for him, only to pit him against his trueborn son whom he names his heir just before dying.

Point is : Berkut feels betrayed by Rudy and goes mad - because of this betrayal : Rudolph named him heir when he fully knew Alm was alive and was the true heir he always wanted, in Berkut's eyes, no matter what he did, it wouldn't have mattered to Rudolph since Rudolph planned on giving Alm his throne since day 1 - of course, without telling him a thing and making him believe he would one day become Emperor.

Is it Duma's fault that Berkut went off the deep-end in Part 4? Because Rudolph's shit gambit involved playing with the life of his nephew and crush it in a bid to have Alm unify the continent against Duma ? Or... it's just Rudolph being an asshole, not curbing the worst of his nephew tendencies (and in a larger part, of Rigel in general) ?

Now, Rinea. She too, is called one of Duma's victims, and yet, who pushed her in Duma's magic pyre that turns women in witches? Duma himself?

No.

Berkut, who already, when pissed tells her "silence woman" pushes his fiancée and love of his life in a pyre to sacrifice her, because in his grief and rage (caused by Rudy!!!) Rinea is only a pawn to be sacrificed to gain more power to kill Alm. Sure sure, Berkut is redeemed in death and Rinea - in a classic Kaga style writing that wasn't here made by Kaga since this plot is basically new so where the fuck does this sexism come from - forgives him and they both die and ascend to another plane of existence.

The point is, despite what Alm says, Berkut and Rinea's fates weren't caused by Duma's degeneration - but by Rudolph and Berkut's own actions.

Heck, I remember when I was sort of live-blogging my run back then, Desaix's greed and lust for power wasn't fueled by Mila's apathy : it wasn't Mila who burnt Celica's house and tried to cook Conrad, it was Desaix, and why Desaix did it? Because he wanted to become king. That's it, and that's all.

So why FE15 - while giving the Kaga message - still tries its hardest to pin the blame of everything "wrong that happened" on... dragon gods, refusing to acknowledge the own responsibilities of humans in their suffering?

I think we had that lunar dialogue at the end of FE15 (or in part 4?) where Clive (i think?) tells Alm without gods giving their blessings, people in Valentia will starve, and Alm saying that may be so, but ultimately Valentia will survive and work hard through those upcoming harsh times to demonstrate how humans, when they work together, can achieve things without needing to rely on Gods - basically, King Alm tells his people to starve now because Humanity will come out stronger afterwards, since they will have learnt to grow their own food without needing magic dragon blessings to make the ground fertile.

... yeah. That's definitely going to work.

FE15 took the Kaga lesson to try to hammer some "humanity fuck yeah!" Square JRPG message and it completely messed up what FE2 tried to say.

(I confess, retconning Duma'n'Mila in dragon gods like Naga from Archanea was a big part in this shitstorm - that was also retconned to explain Grima from FE13! - i mean Duma'n'Mila have to die because they're degenerating, but they didn't get the memo from Gotoh living overseas that degeneration can be stopped by using dragonstones, instead of being a fatality that must be dealt with death...)

Humans cannot be held responsible for what they did, everything BaD that happened is somehow due to the influence of dragon-gods : even if it means "suffering" and sacrificing a part of your population, this choice is a good one to get rid of the obviously nefarious influence of dragon-gods.

So, is it so surprising that FE16 - the most popular title in the franchise uwu - went in the same direction?

Even if it tried to mitigate the "gods BaD" spiel because the avatar - Billy - is the Goddess reborn, the thing is the CoS - aka the dragon - is blamed for humanity's mistakes through each route (AM dodges the question completely) and all routes end up with the dragon going away (her skull being cracked open, or she retires, or she dies off-screen, or she dies because the plot commands so unless you want, as the player, to shag her).

"But in VW, Claude reconsiders his initial stance!"

And yet, it is only off-screen that he seemingly becomes aware that Fodlan people are not superpals with Almyra because Almyra raids them, not because Rhea told them Almyrans are BaD, that's why he tries to negotiate - off-screen and post-game - some sort of ceasefire between the two parties, or at least make it so Almyra doesn't try to raid Fodlan every Thursday for their weekly dick measuring contest.

No matter the ending, Rhea retires and in the worst support, muses on her failings for "having turned a blind eye" to Fodlan and its people in her quest to resurrect Sothis : aka, Rhea (and the game, since Billy doesn't tell her anything) believes Fodlan's state is due to her inaction and not, you know, the action of the humans who lived in the continent and ruined it of their own volition.

Which is also what fuels the endless discourse about what kind of power she has - or not : Rhea BaD for using her power, but also BaD for not using it and letting humans to their own devices.

Supreme Leader's memetastic line from the trailers ring even more true : in Fodlan, Crusts are to blame for everything. For Adrestian being attracted to young women because otherwise without crests they surely wouldn't seek to bed a 12 years old Doro, for Miklan trying to murder his younger brother (and not because, at least FE16 wise, Miklan is a terrible person who is very jealous and not afraid to kill even a child to get what he feels like he deserves), and for people basically killing their wives/letting their daughters die to get a "suitable" heir.

Humanity/Humans can get a pass for doing horrible things (Berkut burning his fiancée alive) because those horrible things can sort of be linked to "dragon-gods", and so, the blame exclusively lays at their feet.

I am always reminded of that Obi-Wan reply to Anakin when Ani accuses him of having turned Padmé "against" him, Obi-Wan basically tells him he brought this upon himself.

Now, what would Obi-Wan tell a non-recruited Doro who blames the Goddess for the War, the leader she is actually protecting, started?

Billy is no Obi-Wan, so we are left in this limbo where characters are telling you everything wrong that happens in Fodlan is due to "dragon blood" aka their existence and presence, even dragons who blame themselves for "being blind" - but not once do we have the Kaga message, or an Obi-Wan reminding people that they have to take responsability for their own actions : Hanneman will blame crests (dragons) for having killed his sister, but not the man who forced her (marital abuse?) to bear him many heirs until one was "good enough" for him.

Claude blames dragons for creating, both literal and metaphorical walls between Fodlan and Almyra - and it's only in his best ending, after the game credits and off-screen that he seems to realise that those walls were built by Almyrans raiders.

"enough about the fodlan rant, what about jugdral?"

Jugdral was sort of unique for not having a giant eldritch abomination as a boss, unlike the later FE8, we never fight Loptyr in his "original" form, Loptyr is fought through his host, Julius.

And I love Jugdral because unlike Fodlan, the local evil death cult might stage a few skirmishes and manipulations here and there, but Jugdral people are... asses, in general.

Elliot will mount an army to seduce Raquie while Eldie is away - and it's not because Manfroy told him to seduce her, no, Elliot does it from his own will.

Reptor'n'Langobalt'n'Andrei rebel against Kurth and Azmur? Sure, Arvis is pulling some of their strings, but Reptor'n'Langobalt are ambitious, even without Manfroy whispering anything.

Arvis pulls out his gambit... with Manfroy's help (and blackmail?), but also because he genuinely thinks he can sacrifice lives to make HIS world a reality because HE has great ideas about how the world should be and will torch anyone who opposes him.

F!Lewyn, as much as I dislike the character, reminds the cast that while Travant's actions might seem justified to him and to the Thracian people, he is still a man who assaulted a bunch of randoms + non-combattants in a desert, amushed them and slaughtered them : no matter his reasons and how justified he was, Travant is still a criminal to Jugdral people.

In Jugdral, people do things and have to take responsability for it - Oldvis basically dies after losing everything he had - by Seliph's hand (and with his own participation!!) because Oldvis has to take responsability for what he did in Barhara. Ditto for Travant, who accepts to die if it means the peninsula will be united (tfw his son doesn't understand what he meant !).

Dragon blood and Dragon people are never blamed for the shitty state Jugdral is in in the 1st or even 2nd gen, if Danan turned Isaach in giant brothel, it's not Julius-Loptyr who asked him to do so, nor Manfroy.

At least, that was the case for the pre FE15/FEH/FE16 Jugdral.

Now...

While I want to blame FE16 for this shift, I know the roots are more ancient (FE15?), IS's writing seems to favour a certain narrative, aka people having sad and or complicated fates because of their brands and Holy Blood - when the ONLY case of having a fate tied to Holy Blood was the Curse of the Gae Bolg, aka a sibling quarrel between Dain and Noba that will eventually "curse" Noba descendants, but through the events of the game we know that curse is more like a prophecy : Quan doesn't die because he had Noba Holy Blood, Quan dies because Travant kills him in Yied. Why Travant kills him? FE5 reveals Quan and his forefathers are basically letting Thracians starve and refuse to "give" them arable lands, or even export food.

Now, did Travant kill Quan because Quan had major Noba Holy Blood, or because Quan (and his forefather)'s policies made Thracians so desperate that their king feels like he has to resort to murder to "save" his people?

The issue is more complicated than "he has Noba HB so I had to kill him".

Come FEH and we had, in 2018 (before FE16 but after FE15) this :

My blood has granted me gifts, it's true. I have expended every effort to be worthy of those gifts. That same blood makes it impossible for me to live a peaceful life. That's a lesson I learned from my mother...

Now, even if I was dissecting and hc'ing and posting about Saias a lot for 5 years, I fully understand Saias is a character with maybe 20 lines in FE5, so you can only dissect the script and theorise and read between invisible lines to get something about the character.

But this?

It might be a reference to Cowen's last words who basically tells him his job is to "pass on" his Fjalar HB, and how having major Fjalar HB was the reason why Manfroy tried to kill him when he was younger (his mother Aida died to protect him).

And yet, FEH here seems to imply Aida died because Saias had Fjalar HB, and not, y'know, died because Manfroy wanted to kill him due to this HB.

It wasn't HB who killed Aida, but Manfroy!

FE5 never reveals why - but if Fjalar HB was the reason why Manfroy targeted Saias, then why the fuck wasn't Oldvis iced earlier, since he has the same brand and blood?

In a way, Saias blaming HB here as the "reason" why his mother died and why he cannot live a "peaceful life" is similar to a Leif who would blame Quan'n'Ethlyn for being the reason why Travant and the Empire were after his life : what is to blame, their "blood" that makes people want to kill them, or the fuckers who want to kill them?

Granted those lines from FEH completely miss the point of Saias as a character - FE5!wise Saias is in a class that cannot use fire magic, when his HB automatically gives him the highest rank in fire magic, and he is funnily enough the only character who "retreats" in his death quote -> Saias doesn't "expend" every effort to be worthy of HB, he hides and doesn't use the abilities given by said HB!

We can say, mkay, this was just FEH trying to fit their "gods and their influence BaD" narrative and missing the real culprits, aka humans themselves (Manfroy is one!) - from FE15 - in Jugdral, even if it meant retconning a character no one cares about.

But then, last year, we had Galzus' FB :

You speak of the blood of the Sword Saint Od. Perhaps. Is that the reason you have been set on a path of violence and bloodshed?

Nyx says Galzus' "curse" isn't tied to his HB, but it's basically his regret at not having been able to save his daughter.

So far, it's completely the inverse of what I decried, so this was a good FB, right?

:)

There is no doubt that the blood within you compels you to lead a cruel life. However, the loss of your daughter was the wedge that split your life into pieces and let the curse in.

Damn it Nyx, why???

Why Galzus's brand "compels him" to lead a cruel life - when it was just established that Galzus fell to despair and became a mercenary who kills for money after the loss of his daughter?

Before losing Mareeta, Galzus, at least per this FB, wasn't killing people right and left as the merc he now is (or was in FE5).

Now, much like Saias...

Why was Galzus left to roam around Jugdral with a toddler to begin with?

I had a daughter. When my wife died, I brought my daughter with me as I traveled around Jugdral.

This FB establishes that Galzus settled with Mareeta's biomom for a while, but when she died he "traveled around". Why Galzus couldn't return "home" and had to "travel around"?

You know the Ribaut family was devastated by our own House Isaach.

Timeline wise : Ribaut is already demolished during the prologue of FE4, and Mareeta is no older than Leif himself, which means she was born after Galzus' grandfather and Ayra's brother, aka, his uncle, beheaded his dad and demolished his kingdom. Galzus, in exile, had Mareeta, and then had to "travel around" Jugdral because his home had already been demolished by "House Isaach" -

Note how Ayra talks about the Ribaut (i prefer rivough but meh) family when she talks about her very own sister - Galzus' mother. Jugdral family trees being what they are, Shanan, Larcei, Scatach and Galzus are actually cousins, Galzus is Ayra's own nephew, just like Shanan!

Anyways, in FE4, the reason given behind Ribaut's destruction is their attack on Darna, so the Isaachian royals killed them.

Galzus' "cruel life" wasn't compelled by his HB, Galzus' life took a turn for the worst when his Uncle and Grandpa knocked at his door and slaughtered his entire family, destroying their Kingdom.

So why FEH tried to fit his backstory in some sort of "dragon blood is to blame" Fodlan narrative?? They at least acknowledge the bad blood (lel) between Isaach's royal family and Ribaut's, hell, Ayra even wants to say Mareeta is a part of Isaach's royal family in her FB with her son, so it's not to whitewash the Isaachian royal family because their units are more popular and would sell more...

Contrary to Saias, Galzus's writing and his FB seem to have been made by people who cared and didn't completely ignore what the character was about so... why this emphasis on his HB ??

Are we bound in post FE16 releases to have, at least with the current writing team, the excuse of "dragon blood is to blame" ? Galzus cannot blame the Isaachian Royal Family or even the slavers for his (and his daugher's!) fate, but he can blame his HB, aka, a non-entity?

Will HB be now used as a "responsibility free" card, because the fate a character suffers or their actions are only tied to said HB? Arvis will get a pass because his HB compelled him to save the world (tfw Victor prefered to "seduce" women instead), Lewyn will be lightly chided by his mom instead of receiving the beatdown he has in FE4 because his HB now makes him unable to stay in place? Ditto for Ced, Karin won't chew him out for abandoning his mother and sister because his HB compelled him to travel around, so in the end, dragons are to blame for him abandoning his sister and mother?

That's what I'm the most afraid in future Jugdral remakes, that had humans characters with human flaws in a crapsack/shitty verse, the insertion in a future remake of a very Squenix "but aksuhally gods and church bad" when Jugdral is the pinnacle of "the world sucks because people living in this world suck". No need for secret sects manipulating everything in the shadows like FE16's Agarthans, Chagall is a horrible person without needing Manfroy's help, and Hilda will not say "Holy Blood is to blame" when she tortures Tailte to death.

When Tailte is caught and Hilda'd, it's because she participated (or even commited) in parricide, and because her camp/army lost the battle. She doesn't die because of her HB, she dies because Hilda kills her, most likely, for having killed Reptor (Hilda wants to avenge her "father" when fought, i'm pretty sure she means her father in law aka Reptor!).

As befits a game called "Genealogy of the Holy War", people aren't targeted because of their HB, but they are targeted because they are part of a genealogy - see the Leif comparison earlier on : Leif is hunted because he is Quan's son, even if he doesn't have Noba major blood. Seliph is hunted because he is Siggy'n'Deedee's son, not because of his Baldo HB.

In FE4, Manfroy tells Julius Arvis was a thorn at their side because "Fjalar's ways" ran too strong in him - implying he had some moral fiber that would make him oppose the return of Loptyr (but those same "ways" didn't prevent him from torching his own brother and conquering the world...) - I will have to check the translation and og script, but was Saias targeted because he had Fjalar HB, or because he could develop the same moral fiber Arvis does in his later years, or just, because he is Arvis's son? Cowen seems to suggest it is FB, but we know Fjalar HB cannot harm Loptyr so... what was the true reason?

Blaming dragon-gods reduces the complexity of Jugdral's setting and characters - and in a post FEH world where tropes win character contests and sell a lot of alts if they are flanderised enough + a post FE15/16 world where characters, to be likeable enough, have to ditch their responsibilities or at least have the plot elude them to pin them instead on vague and non-important (gacha wise) gods, what is going to happen to Jugdral?

Fanfics are fanfics and people are free to write whatever they want - but I wonder (especially after Nopes and the plethora of 'golden endings' fics that ended up with the CoS as the big bad lol) if fics where Mareeta and Ced blaming their HB for their various hardships is going to become the new canon...

I seriously hope it will never, and it if happens then...

I guess I'll still yell at cloud and nerd about the 1990s versions of those games, completely ignoring the new releases (save for maybe updated artwork).

Tl;Dr : FEH makes me afraid Judgral remakes will borrow the "humanity fuck yeah" page from FE15 and FE16 and put the blame of Jugdral's shitty situation from Jugdralians to... Holy Blood and "dragon-gods", completely missing and rewritting the point of those games. IS already said "fig" to Kaga once or thrice, but this might become the most contentious "fig" they ever give him if they decided to write a Jugdral remake this way.

#rant #heroes salt #fe series salt #at least the few last games #FE17 is a breath of fresh air #will it become the new standard or will we have more and more shit like those FBs? #jugdral stuff #at this point i'm afraid of that fandom syndrome #where you put much more thoughts and love and care about a setting than its own authors #so when said authors develop it you're disappointed #because you feel like it's a downgrade to what it was before #like star wars maybe? #i'm very worried about the writing of future games especially since the faux issues raised in Fodlan games apparently #made people want more writting as consistent as pudding #as long as has a veneer of being solid and realistic

[soft-pentagon]

6 years with Pentagon!    ☆

It’s been 6 whole years! When youtube recommended me a Like This performance video 5 years ago, I’d never imagine I’d still be here after so much time loving PTG. It all started with that one video. I went through a lot of emotions as the years passed, I laughed a lot, I cried A LOT, I was happy and I was sad but still, having the opportunity to grow with them, is something I won’t ever experience again. To my happy and safe space, to the kpop group I consider home, happy 6th anniversary Pentagon. 

#pentagon #hui #jinho #yeo one #yan an #wooseok #yuto #kino #hongseok #shinwon #uninet #*mygif #damn writting these stupid captions ALWAYS makes me tear up #anyways i have this BIG law exam in like 2 weeks; its my last exam ever and even tho im hella stressed with no time I HAD. to make this set #its thats not true love idk what it is #for context i made this october 8th

[everydaydg]

#Started my marathon of this show #Man theres something about revisiting the first season #the artstyle and writting are so different #well at least for the first few episodes. the base for whats to come is set up rather well #they get into groove after a few eps #anyway I cant wait to be a wreck by the end of season 3. dawg most people ive seen post about the end of the series are crying #Havent been spoiled but im eager to catch up #summer camp island

[land-of-sinners]

in the scene where alastor is telling mimzy to leave cause she brought danger to the hotel, then mimzy asks if he actually gives a shit about the place, the screen would immediately pan to serenity standing by the doors; as in to say "do you really care about the people in this place". and while its not stated, his answer is clearly 'yes'.

because if serenity cares about it, alastor cares about it-

and he cares about her!

#doot do doo writting my oc like shes canon again #hazbin hotel #self shipping #self shipping community #self ship community #self ship #alastor #i don’t want to set the world on fire 🌹 #hazbin hotel oc

[guideoftime]

▴ — @puxrlunae ;; Sheik & Amaron. 𝑺𝑶𝑭𝑻 𝑫𝑰𝑹𝑻𝒀 𝑻𝑨𝑳𝑲 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺. ❛ i love when you talk to me like that. ❜ Warnings: suggestive content / nsft

   There’s only two candles lit, and they’re giving only a soft light. There’s an incense burning in the window, giving off the soft scent of cinnabar. It isn’t a favorite scent of Sheik’s, but it seemed fitting for the mood, the rather calm and warming atmosphere that he was trying to encourage. Getting the Hero to relax, after the last few days they had, where things felt tense. He doesn’t think, at the very least, that he’s typically the one to initiate this normally. But today he most certainly had, grabbing Amaron by the belts and yanking him up against him. 

   The words the other speaks draws his attention over toward Amaron, pulling himself a bit out of his head once again. It happens often, even during this, his mind wandering away from him. Amaron can usually tell, asking him if he’s overthinking. His mind is just never quiet. He can’t turn it off, but Amaron has gotten quite good at distracting him at the very least. 

   Except he’s the one on top at the moment, quite literally, straddling his husband’s waist as he stares down at him. He’s already rather flushed, his ears a soft shade of pink and his breath coming out unevenly, chest rising and falling rapidly. He blinked down at the other and then turned his head slightly away, a smile tugging at the corners of his lips. Another breath out, a small huff of laughter and he slides his gaze back to Amaron’s own. “You do realize I only complimented you, right?” He asked, rolling back his last few words to Amaron. 

   He’s already quite worked up, he’s erection pressing into Sheik from behind and he’d remarked on it. Amaron was by now means small, but Sheik had known that before he’d ever even seen the other naked. In his first life he’d run around in tights after all, which is never something he’s going to let Amaron own again. Sheik doesn’t have an interest in letting anyone else look at him like that. But he’ll keep those thoughts to himself. 

   Considering the type of suit he wears, he has no right to criticize Amaron’s fashion. 

   He shifts a bit on top of Amaron, moving enough that he can lean down over his husband. He can feel the way it rubs his body against his partner, can hear the sucked in breath he takes, and Sheik smiles a little bit more. “You let me on top of you, if you don’t think I’m going to take it as slow as possible and tease you–then you don’t quite realize the amount of patience I have. You don’t even have your undergarments off yet, husband.” 

   With his one arm braced against Amaron’s head and the other hand lightly dragging his fingers against the bare chest beneath him, Sheik pressed a gentle kiss to the Hero’s lips. “You can always ask me to do something. Do you want me to move a bit more, Amaron? Do you want me to strip you?” Another teasing shift, this time Sheik intentionally, dragging himself across the bulge beneath him. He knows eventually one of their patients will run out and it’s very likely going to be Amaron’s. “Or maybe you want me to compliment you a bit more, since you liked that so much.” 

#// suggestive #// nsft #puxrlunae #▴ — path / guide of time #( it's been a very long time since I've written anything like this ) #( feel free to set it on fire if it's TERRIBLE ) #( sdfghj I always try to improve my writting in the aspect of things I don't normally do ) #▴ — the eye of truth / asks.

[linashirou]

Yay!

I already do all the mutual letters. I hope you enjoy them!

I had a great screenwriting lesson today! ♥♥

I was so happy to find out that TEC was well structured. (This little Lina was made by @vaydemona)

#writting #writing dialogue #setting my mind out of my fic for a little bit

[cestacruz]

Mmm Jeanne

#servants cant learn new stuff (i'll talk about jalter in a second) therefore #jeanne shouldnt know how to read or write #we actually Dont get a confirmation that she can do those things in summer 3. because the book that jalter thought jeanne wrote #was actually Her own book #jeanne works with marie. maybe she comes up with the ideas and does rough drawings that marie would be Delighted to bring to life #marie reads to jeanne is my image #jalter taught herself how to read and write and i think that was possible because of the unstability of her existence #if you try to teach jeanne how to read and write it will stick for a second but if like idk 15-20 min pass she would likely find herself #unable to read again and her writting to be suboptimal #she can sign her own name ofc thats historical #she can recite the bible from memory iirc #i love jalter's ability to be her own person even if it comes with the fact that she is very much. an ephemeral dream #like her FCKING SKILL IS CALLED. #WHY MUST YOU HURT ME LIKE THIS FGO #anyway. now jeanne again but physical #oughhh thank u for the support in the tags when i said jeanne should have self image issues because she looked different in life #i hadnt fully talked bout it i just went with hair but yeah. i need to check again because im pretty sure her body wasnt Suuuper different #but i just gotta confirm #but im just so i love the idea of her just not liking the way she manifested abd not knowing Why she manifested like that #when there are Countless depictions of her with her short brown hair #sieg looks to the side whistling (its not his fault but he knows the pseudo servant part #and its probably a mix of . fate apocrypha's manifestation and of how some people imagined jeanne looked like #but it still upsets her #not that she'd ever complain to people #you can probably get it out of her tho #unrelated and only to those who reached this far: im thinking of a singularity set in 15th century orleans in the Middle of the hundred year #war. but the difference aint “oh jeanne d'arc came back to life evil” rather than “there seems to be a battle here where it shouldnt and oh #my god is that jeanne- oh god jeanne d'arc fucking died-- #and chaldeas has to try and fix the war without living breathing jeanne d'arc #actually thats not the middle of the 100yearwar but yknow what i mean. also haha jk unless...

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Things I have learned today:

Evernote is useful for letting me put multiple versions of drafts and scenes and outlines all in one place, so I can try things out without making a jumbled mess of documents. This is very helpful in the early draft phase when I'm second-guessing everything and want to change things without destroying old versions.

I shouldn't second-guess myself so much. It's good to follow my instincts and let things develop naturally, instead of trying to make everything fit into a certain mold right away.

This especially applies to characters. So what if you don't know your MC? So what if she seems like all your other heroines? Just let her go through the story and then figure out who she is. If you step back for a second and stop being judgemental, you can work with the good in the initial idea instead of muddling everything up by trying to get rid of the bad.

#adventures in writing #the twelve huntsmen retelling had a decent beginning #that led to me getting jumbled up with options as soon as i stepped away from the draft #was this the right pov? should i try for a different personality for my narrator? #what even is the pov character's story here? #so many options for how to fix it that i thought i'd just have to set it aside as another story that needs more percolating time #but then this morning i reread the opening and really liked it #the mc has a good personality #i can see how her story can go #it's okay if she doesn't have an intense personality or a major arc #she can be in the fairy tale role of the 'normal person whose adventures startle her because she is normal' #the developing friendship between her and the fairy tale mc and the adventures it gets her into can be enough of an arc #it'll be nothing groundbreaking but it'll feel like the story i want instead of the story my internal critic tries to tell me i should writ #who knows how long momentum will last but for now i'm enjoying pecking away at the opening

[iheartbookbran]

Honestly seeing all the new HOTD pictures is kinda surreal bc they actually make the show look cool? Like for starters just based on the pictures and few minutes of footage we have so far the costumes look ten times better than anything Clapton ever did in GOT, like… those costumes look like something rich medieval people would actually wear, and we even got variety and color??? And those trademarked silly GRRM’s helmets???? I can’t believe it.

I’ve also been reading the new article and some of the things they’ve added are also pretty neat, an tbh the source material is I think perfect for this kind of adaptation because it’s so flimsy and vague to start with the writers have a lot of leeway to tweak things and give more depth to the characters if they prove themselves to be talented enough to pull it off, which I think the audience will be able to make a judgement on that pretty quickly since the new writers won’t really have GRRM’s scenes and dialogue to fall back on the way D&D did, only the broad strokes of what happens in the story, but still a clear ending in sight (and given what happened with the original series, that’s a huge relief already).

And all of that leaves a sour taste in my mouth in what otherwise would be a show I would be excitedly looking forward to… mostly because of Dany, of course. And I don’t mean it in the sense of like, Rhaenyra “losing” at the end is equally as bad as what GOT did to Dany which is a take I’ve seen floating around an I don’t necessarily agree with. The Dance, the way I see it, is a conflict streaming out of sheer misogyny and what society would do in order to keep women out of power, and Rhaenyra is both a victim and a perpetrator of that, but the story is still very centered around the nobility and a commentary of what they would do to keep their status quo and power, no matter how they hurt the people who depend on them in the process. That’s like, the complete opposite of Daenerys “Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?” Targaryen.

That’s the whole point of Dany imo, how much she cares and how she’s so willing to act in order to implement change and help those who need it, in spite of the repercussions that come with it. That doesn’t scream Rhaenyra to me (though I don’t know how the show is gonna flesh her out, and I’m curious to see Emma D'Arcy and how they work around to make the character more nuanced), but maybe that’s a topic for another post.

My point is that at the of the day, Dany is the original Targ, she is the most important Targ, the fact that there’s like 3 different Targ centered shows in development is only because of her, that’s her legacy, but still HBO didn’t care enough to prevent her character from being so utterly butchered. That’s the problem.

#do i have a point in writting all of this?? eh just that i’m still bitter about g*m* *f thr*n*s and will in fact die mad about it #i wanna make it clear that though i’ve got some criticism of rhaenrya as a person #SHE WAS STILL IN THE RIGHT #aegon the usurper and alicent were huge backstabbing assholes and she was the rightful heir. fight me #still i wouldn’t say she’s like dany #literally nobody is like dany she set the bar too high #and honestly as curious as i am about all these ‘successor shows’ as grrm calls them #ultimately dany’s still a presence hanging over all of them and specifically the targ-related ones #which lbr is gonna be the majority of them precisely *because* of dany #it’s like a never ending cycle #daenerys targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen #house targaryen #asoiaf #twoiaf #fire and blood #a song of ice and fire #house of the dragon #hotd #got #dracarys to d&d

[kebriones]

Reading that post you made about that book hurt. He would not fucking do that

Yeah. This entire book is so bad, and he is so out of character I am just skipping pages at this point to see if there's anything else crazy enough for me to mention.

#it's such a bad book like #i've read other books where the setting is ancient athens and at least #they manage to paint a believable and lively picture of the city #this book is so dry and so soulless #it doesn't feel like it's set in the period it's set in #some characters are interesting and charming but it feels like an accident #and alcibiades is so not himself I cannot stand it he doesn't have a shred of charm on him #the lack of socrates is a glaring unforgivable hole #the romance with aspasia KEEPS GOING for like 13 chapters it's actually ridiculous #and it's all full of stuff like they're writting letters to each other and swear to never see each other again and look at each other longi #like you have no idea the psychic damage I have sustained #I have given up for today I think #I might actually skip to the end #oh also one last very annoying thing #aspasia is the only woman so far. im almost halfway through and she's the only female character

[saxifactumterritum]

I can't really stop thinking about Jeeves putting on/taking off his drag in Bertie Wooster's room. sitting at his little fancy table with the mirror (I do know the word I've forgotten it).

#I had writ more but we don't need all that. just take it as read I have a lot a lot a lot of feelings about this #I love when they partake in 1920s queer culture in fics and I hope everyone continues and all that #for me i just think a lot about jeeves just doing his drag alone in his room for himself. just for love. just because he wants to. #I also think about a throw away line queer studies was making a lot of when i was studying it about one of the actors in Shakespeare's co #in the 17th century who was the hostess at parties. he was a man they were all men. he'd wear dresses and wigs and be the hostess. #one day I'll refind the source for that but it is not this day #just queer people being quietly queer doing queer little mundane things in small settings. #i dont know how big these parties were and there's a written record so obv... anyway. #Jeeves can be hostess. Bertie Wooster like 'oh yah my friend from the USA isn't she grand she's hostessing for me pouring the tea' #ok but also Jeeves being hostess for aunt Agatha and having an absolute ball talking disaprovingly about nephews who will not conform #hahahahah I just thought of that how fun.

[palettepainter]

So kind of a vent I guess

Yeah all the new Helluva Boss animation sneak peaks we’re getting it great. Moxxies dad is fine (kinda hate that he looks like a copy paste of Moxxie but whatever-), seeing Striker again is fine, seeing Stella’s brother is fine, seeing Barbie Wire is fine, seeing Asmodeous and Fizz is great they’re the only two I am hyped about 

But uh, hey, anyone remember that episode back in season 1? You know where the human government literally discovered demons exist and have video evidence of them trashing their headquaters? Remember the Cherubs episode where three cherubs got exiled from heaven and are now presumably stuck on earth?? Remember THAT???

#Admittedly it does seem like we're going to have episodes of the IMP going to earth #So if we get an episode that adresses either of these plot points that where set up in season 1 then I will hold my hands up and admit #I was wrong #This is kind of my ick with the Helluva writting right now #Seeing stars was great #the dialgoue was so real and the voice actors did amazingly #HOWEVER this was like the second time we had seen Octavia and out of no where the episode switched from being about finding Octavia #To suddenly an episode about Blitz and his daughter Loona #and lets not forget the fact that the entire events from the season finale seems to have been forgotten in this ep but we also have #the missing episode that may have covered over those events sooo ye

[spunchthegoblin]

This is the meanest essay I have ever written about a book. Good god

#to be fair the teacher didnt set parameters #i dont think im supposed to be writting an essay actually but she said she wanted my honest opinion and im autistic so #the book is autonomous by annalee newitz btw

[sosoane1]

I want Fox to be my dad

@100wednesday | TXF | Emily Sim | 100 Words | AO3

‘‘Mom? Do I have a dad?’’

‘‘No darling.’’

‘‘But I want Fox to be my dad. Can he be my dad?’’

Scully smiled at the question, she wanted nothing more than for her two favourite people to share this bond.

‘‘I think you should ask him that darling.’’

Emily turned on her seat at the kitchen table to face Mulder.

‘‘Can you be my dad?’’

He looked at Scully waiting for her approval. When she nodded he could have sworn his heart grew.

It would be the greatest honour Pumpkin.’

And that night, they were now finally a real family.

#moon's fic #wednesday100 #txf #xfiles #txf fanfic #the x files #the x files fanfic #I wasn't going to write one this week but this popped into my head #this is part of a series i wanna start where scully adopts Emily #and at some point mulder becomes part of the family #(this is that moment) #Also i'm writting a fic where emily sets them up on a date #This story assumes they are already together #also this is my 10th fic on ao3!

[cjgladback]

[ID: First GIF is a turnaround of a stylized scorpion walking quickly with a potted cactus character sitting on its back, the camera orbiting around to show all sides of the cactus' wooden chair and luggage including a large corked terracotta jar, a leather-wrapped metal canteen, a small but stuffed cloth sack, and a green blanket folded and fastened with a belt around a cane's shaft leaving the cane's handle visible.

Second GIF is the same walk cycle shown from the characters' forward right, while everything jiggles the most dramatic movement other than the scorpion's legs are the cords with dangling gems that swing from the spokes of a wood and cloth umbrella tied to the scorpion's stinger.

The third GIF is the same as the second but with the wireframes of the 3D objects overlaid in dark purple. End ID]

I'm calling these characters done! All items in the character and prop sections of my to-do list are crossed off. Except technically one line saying to err on the side of pink for the flower if/when I change the lighting, and if I have good reason to view the umbrella too long I'll add some handwavy stitching to explain how that fabric's fastened to the spokes--but no! They're done. I'm pretty happy with the balance I struck between a one-to-one recreation of Nicholas Kole's lovely designs and a more tactile and riggable setup that one might call my style.

So now there's the environment. I've made one layer of what I hope to be a three-layered ground material (cracked clay melding into sand based on proximity to things that can't just be sitting on cracked clay but won't have to be run over). And in stream yesterday I made the leaves and modified the geonodes from the flower to be the shapes of aloe, agave, and yucca. Still to be determined whether the agave will get flowers--it's so many unnecessary vertices and I'll have to see if they'd even be visible in the storyboard or always out of frame, but stalks' flower clusters would be such a cool echo of both the umbrella-on-stinger shape and the cloud cluster shapes I intend if we are going to see the sky.

#enthusiastic entomology #cj gladback #3d wip #blender #3d animation #swear it's coincidence that the flowers would also have many similarities to the fishbee eggs of my next project #just like i realized i love the gems and cords on the umbrella and then realized they were the colors of Watts the dragon i never published #I had to cut myself off and perhaps throw myself out through the metaphorical saloon doors before I made more characters #really want to draw some pictures at least of the way-too-many-characters options for this animation #from the babies and their baby scorpion to the townsfolk (some buried some putting out the laundry & pots) seeing our adventurers off #also haven't yet played with settings so my final showoff of things will have a better wireframe layer - though the cactus face is dense #based on the fact it's definitely happening with the scorpion i think part of the raccoon eyes is her eyeball wires showing through her lid #i'm hoping it's something as simple as reducing the clipping distance so blender can afford better accuracy in its viewport render #ramblings #tag you're writ

[void-botanist]

Six-sentence serendipity

I was tagged by @sarahlizziewrites and I thought it would be much longer until I could post six new sentences (I don't think that's a requirement, but it's fun to do it), but I had an idea for Nicea. After finding out Cady is alive, Isabel has to explain to the local pub owner why she suddenly isn't going to meet the terms of their music performance agreement.

“You know Declan’s husband, Cady?” “I know of him,” Mal said. “I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting him.” “Well, he supposedly died ten years ago.” Mal treated her to half a scowl. “Maybe you should have led with that.”

Tagging @kahvilahuhut, @sunset-a-story, and @vacantgodling (as always, no pressure)!

#I get another shot at having a pub owner be a pivot point for the plot #when I shifted TFA to the current setting Ysa became significantly less important #Mal doesn't really show up after the exposition because he's just one of those guys you see planetside #but he accidentally causes minor crew chaos as one does #tag games #six sentence sunday #rose writ #c: Mal #c: Isabel #wip: nicea