#< doing my bit for the greater good

[ninjawitdaddyissues]

tatinof is so fucking camp i had forgotten. it surpassed cringe entirely and wrapped around to camp, a time capsule, a moment

#also jesus they look so young #im 2 years older than dan was then and 2 years younger than phil was that shit is wild to me #olly rambles #dan and phil #tatinof #phan #< doing my bit for the greater good

[zxal]

3 extra people in your head = 4x the hairstyle opportunities

#yugioh arc v #ygo arc v #arc v #zuzu boyle #yuzu hiiragi #celina #serena #rin #lulu obsidian #ruri kurosaki #arc v art #my art #drawing this made me realize how much more similar zuzu + co. look to each other compared to yuya + co #zuzu and celina in particular have pretty much exactly the same hair just in different colors + worn differently #rin + lulu are the outliers with shorter + longer hair respectively but even they still have the two strands framing their face #i kinda struggled with rin tbh i feel like i don't have a good grasp on her personality and it comes across when i draw her #but i ended up feeling like high pigtails / low pigtails / high ponytail / low ponytail was a good contrast between everyone #(and rin with her hair down just looked like lulu) #their colors don't clash nearly as bad as yuya + co.'s do either so there's a bit more cohesion among them - #- which is ironic considering the boys are the ones with identity issues and the girls are the ones with greater independence comparatively #but i've said too much already...(tugs my hat down and walks away pensively)

[bumblingbabooshka]

[Tuvok & Janeway: Control, Distance, Duty & Connection.] Sources: St Voyager Transcripts / Mitski 'First Love Late Spring' / Disco Elysium

#web weaving #star trek web weaving #st voyager #Kathryn Janeway #Tuvok #be the change you want to see in the world - make a long post about Tuvok & Janeway's similarities <- angel on my shoulder #I feel like a lot of people see them as 'opposites attract' sort of friends where Janeway is unhinged & Tuvok reigns her in #but in reality I think that while there is that element in there (exacerbated HEAVILY by their delta quad circumstances) #what I see most in their relationship is how they both value loyalty and duty above all and are extremely rigid with themselves #and the people around them. How they both have to maintain distance from others bc of their positions as captain & vulcan #I hate when people dismiss Tuvok as not being remotely interested in Maryana or Noss - it erases an interesting struggle that he and Janewa #both share - their desire to stay loyal to their spouses vs the 70 years of loneliness that that loyalty demands of them #But they BOTH triumph and they BOTH remain loyal (Tuvok until he returns to T'Pel and Janeway until Mark informs her that it's over) #and for both of them it's a little bit insane for them to do that. #Isn't it more interesting that Janeway and Tuvok both have feelings for people other than their spouses but don't give in #to that temptation? #They're both people who live very fastidiously by codes. Either written codes or moral codes - they very rarely if ever do things because #it's what THEY want to do. I'd say they're the least emotion-driven members of the crew and yes I'm including Seven because Seven #has a very...how to describe? It's a blunt and insular selfishness. She does what SHE wants to do and doesn't really care about others. #To me that's emotion-driven. Or...personal desire-driven? Not a bad thing at all but very different from Janeway & Tuvok who #are always more 'this is logical' or 'this is for the crew' rarely do they think 'this is what I want' bc they can't afford to #for different reasons (captain & vulcan) #they both also are in the most 'caretaking' positions on the ship from my POV. Security and Captain - both are directly in charge of #ship and crew safety. #Janeway & Tuvok #star trek voyager #st voy #when I say caretaking I'm NOT saying they're everyone's mom and dad or whatever - I'm saying they're in positions where they always #have to think about the greater good and the crew as a whole and how much danger is acceptable etc etc. #Janeway is always killing herself for the crew but Tuvok is right there beside her

[rmbunnie]

Red Hood Characterization

This is really long so I'm putting a cut here, I've been thinking about Jason Todd's character motivations and the question of whether or not his actions are based in a Moral Code (I don't think so, not to say he's without any morality) and I talk about that in more depth here.

I saw someone say on here that Titans: Beast World: Gotham City was some of the best Jason Todd internal writing they'd seen in a while, and I've been a Red Hood fan for 8 years or so now? pretty much since I read comics for the first time, so I went and checked out and I thought it was good! The way the person I saw talking about it as if it was rare and unusual made me wonder though, because as well-written as i thought his stances on crime were, there wasn't really anything in it that went against the way I conceptualize Jason?

This kinda plays into a larger question I've been thinking about for a while with Jason though, which is that, do people think that the killing is part of a fundamental worldview that motivates him a la batman, and that worldview is the reason he does the things he does?? Because 8 years ago i was a middle schooler engaging with fiction on the level that a middle schooler does, so I simply did not put much thought into it beyond "poor guy :(" but ever since I actually started trying to understand consistent characterization, I don't really see Jason as someone who's motivated by a moral code in his actions the way batman or superman is!

tbh my personal read is that he's a very socially-motivated guy, his actions from resurrection to his Joker-Batman ultimatum in utrh always seemed to me like every choice made leading up to his identity reveal was either a. to give him the leverage and skill necessary to pull off his identity reveal successfully, or b. to twist the knife that little bit more when he does let Bruce find out who he is. Like iirc there's a Judd Winick tweet like "yeah tldr he chose Red Hood as his identity because it's the lowest blow he could think of." And I think that's awesome, I think character motivations rooted so deeply in character's relationships and emotions are really fun to read! I also think it's where the stagnation/flatness of his character comes from in certain comics, because if his main motivation is one event in one relationship that passes, and he is not particularly attached to anything in his life or the world by the time that comes to pass, it's a little harder to come up with a direction to go with the character after that, because there isn't much of a direction that aligns with something the character would reasonably want? But I do think solving this by saying "all of the morally-off emotionally driven cruelty he did on his way to spite Batman was actually reflective of his own version of Batman's stance that's exactly the same except he thinks it's GOOD to kill people" isn't ideal. To be fully honest, it seems to me like he never particularly cared one way or the other about killing people to "clean Gotham of crime," he just did everything he could to get the power necessary to pull off his personal plans, and took out any particularly heinous people he encountered along the way (like in Lost Days.) Not to say I think the fact he killed people keeps him up at night anymore than everything else in his life events, I just never really thought he was out there wholeheartedly kneecapping some dude selling weed or random guy robbing a tv store for justice.

Looping wayyy back to my question, Is this (^) contradictory to the way he's written/the overall average perception of the character? Because like I enjoyed his writing in Beast World i have zero significant issue with anything there, I just didn't believe it would be a hot take, like yeah, that is Jason. It's been a while since I've read utrh and lost days, but I don't think my takeaway directly contradicts either of those too bad iirc. Idk all this to say I think Jason killing and being alright with killing is an obvious and objective fact, but i guess i've always seen it as more of a practical tactic than a moral belief, and I think taking the actions made during the lowest points of a character's life where he is obsessively focused on this ONEEEE thing and trying to apply it as a Motivating Stance to everything he's done after that, doesn't really follow logically for me.

#edit: i am so so open to discussion and disagreement on this but please try to have something substantial to say. god bless! #like ofc jason kills but to me it was less “everyone I've ever killed deserves death objectively” #and more “when people are dead they stop doing things like heinous atrocities and trying to kill me" #i don't even think he wanted the joker dead (only) because he thinks he objectively morally deserves death #although the joker is one of the most extreme cases possible and he if does think that he's VERY justified #i really do think it was just about bruce #and wanting bruce to avenge him to show he loved him and he mattered and wanting his dad to give him security #all the killing was about the clown and everything with the clown was about bruce #i've NEVER forgotten the bit in lost days where he has the joker tied up at gunpoint and doesn't kill him #i think if it was only about a moral greater good situation he would have taken him out then and there #if you disagree i'd love to hear why provided you can be civil and not an jerk #also if you disagree PLEASE PLEASE put screenshots and comic issues if possible #i'd love to check them out and form my own stance on them #just know that if you say like. battle for the cowl. or the Tom King batman annual or something i probably won't care too much #comic characterization is ever-changing and inconsistent i truly believe that the best thing to do is just read the important stuff #and try to form your own stances from there #because there's never gonna be 100% of comics involving a character that align with each other perfectly and that's just a given #jason todd #red hood #dc comics

[mishy-mashy]

Kudo and Lady Nagant are actually parallels and foils to each other.

Kudo led a Resistance to fight for what he believed would be the greater good (taking down AFO), knowing his path was hard and killing many for that purpose.

Lady Nagant follows that same path, Pro Hero version: being a Hero to help others, but killing many in the process and realizing how this bright light she believed in casts a darker shadow.

Lady Nagant's tired, which is why she killed the chairman and was arrested. Exactly because she grew tired of everything and shouldering the duty on her own, she's set apart from other Heroes and inmates

But even though she's sick of platitudes (righteous/flowery words for a greater moral purpose), Kudo doesn't dislike them

Kudo isn't tired of those. He wasn't tired of fighting against AFO. He's still fighting, and in ch. 413, he's still willing to die for this purpose.

Even if All For One is technically dead, the Quirk and will lives in Tomura, and Japan is still collapsing. It's all about to come down, and Kudo's seen this before.

Kudo could've easily been just like Lady Nagant. Fighting against society itself, scrounging things and people to fight, and watching so many die on your path, for and against you, so you can keep doing what you should...

Kudo's not optimistic like Midoriya and Hawks. He's aware of what he's done for his purpose, like Nagant. But he still looks toward the future, and is optimistic to believe in that. That what he's doing will help the future.

Lady Nagant saw Hawks and Midoriya, and wondered how they could keep fighting. Why were their eyes still alight?

Lady Nagant asks Hawks how that can be. AND HAWKS' RESPONSE?

HE WASN'T ALONE. HE'S STUPIDLY OPTIMISTIC. WHO DOES THAT SOUND LIKE?

Hi Kudo.

Can you imagine how bullheaded he has to be to do this? How could you grow up in crumbling Japan, and still think about stopping the great evil looming on the horizon? How could that thought have ever occurred to him, to go against current reality? That the person bringing peace really isn't? That he should stand up and fight?

Even Kudo thought Midoriya was delusional, and Nagant can't understand them for being so hopeful. But Kudo himself is crazy for standing up to fight the greatest evil at his peak, with even less strength than anyone else. First Generations were weak, not only because AFO took everything good, but because they were the base of the age of Quirks. The first Quirks were all weak. They'd only grow as they mixed and evolved through time.

Kudo falls into the group of people Nagant can't understand. The group that Nagant grew out of.

If Kudo had been alone like Nagant, he'd have been just like her in the end. But he wasn't. Even though their paths are so similar. They're both fighting a dark, bloody path for the "greater good" they can't see, and with all the death they're responsible for, the purpose behind this all is becoming muddled. But Kudo still managed to keep his eyes set ahead, and didn't lose sight of it.

Kudo knew he couldn't do it alone, and gathered allies. He had Bruce, and the Resistance, who followed him to their graves.

How could he have the will and charisma to gather people and be able to pull it off? Even All For One has to acknowledge that stupid, stupid light in their eyes that persists.

Kudo's eyes have a similar, if not the same light as Hawks and Midoriya.

The two panels even parallel each other. A shot of their left eye, with that light, and text in the exact same place, questioning the existence of that glimmer.

Kudo may not be a Hero or even a vigilante, but Star still reached out and caught his attention directly.

Bakugo has the same will as Kudo. Like Nezu with that "first step", and All Might paving the way for the next generation, will spreads.

Kudo had allies. Nagant was all alone. Only when Midoriya reached out to Nagant and told her to fight with them, recognizing her will, did Nagant smile and call him a real hero. She even gave them the information needed, and did join their side, to keep fighting.

Nagant had allies late. Kudo had them from the start, and so could continue.

#of all the characters KUDO and LADY NAGANT? wow #honestly id never think of a correlation between those two #until that weird word [platitudes] #i hit an image limit here #this post is all over the place BUT DO YOU SEE MY VISION? #its a bit “not really” but their paths are similar #wanting to do for the greater good. walking the path and blood starts gathering on your hands and at your feet. the end goal isnt there now #but the future has it. #kudo #lady nagant #bnha #mha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #spoilers #when the greater good is actually more exhausting and darker than you think #but you chose this path. society has to be preserved. you have to continue. youre in too deep #such and such yknow

[willowcrowned]

“Making anyone over the age of 8 watch tcw should be forbidden” okay, but why?

because it’s bad in the way only bad kids shows can be. and then it’s also bad in fifteen other ways

#I don’t think it’s uniquely terrible but I do think it sets out with some very lofty goals and faceplants in an attempt to achieve them #also it gets anakin’s character really wrong in a way that I think undermines a lot of what’s compelling about him #I will say something I do like about it is that it fleshes out the clone wars in greater detail #like the bits with syndulla on ryloth #but it fails to do anything compelling with those bits in a cohesive way #it’s so wrapped up in conveying an obvious moral lesson that it loses nuance #which! of course that was going to happen! #you can’t pick a tangled political morally ambiguous war as a topic #and then use a kids show to try and depict it without losing nuance and cohesion and a host of other things that make good storytelling #even kids shows that are about war and do it well (like atla) aren’t dealing with wars as tangled and difficult as the clone wars are #like. tcw was just never going to be able to say anything about politics or war #with the depth and coherence the clone wars necessitate #in my unprofessional opinion tcw was. much like the prequels. and anakin too I guess. doomed from the beginning #asks #anon #star wars #this is my highly developed opinion

[spookykestrel]

you make plans with your friends when youre growing up that you'll move in togehter and always stay near and go to each other's weddings and always talk and always call and then you get to the age you're supposed to start doing that kind of thing and realize all the friends you had hoped would stay by you forever have gone off to do things without you and you're just in the same spot and suddenly you have to do it all on your own

#kestrel calls #text post #chitter chatter #negative #???? #ive no idea im sort of just having a late night spiral #my best and really only good close friend decided to go to college after all #and id always thought and hoped we'd just move out west together #but now tht's not happning and i can't wait for them to finish college #bc my parents are moving #and i can't support myself here #and im sort of just #spiraling and panicking a little tiny bit #i just want to move in with this nb artist i found today on craigslist #but that won't happen and i don't know what im doing with my life #and i feel stuck #and yk.... scary #anywayyyyyy like it's totally fine this is just all i think about everyday dw abt it #but if you know somebody looking for a roommate in the greater mt/idaho/wy/nd area uhhhhh hmu #/hj

[spotsupstuff]

what happened to boreas during the events of saint's campaign? I'd have figured because of his self sustaining properties, he'd be one of the last iterators actually functional before saint inevitably bababooeys him

-snaps fingers n fingerguns atcha- you got That right, buckaroo! Boreas indeed is still kicking just fine when Saint enters the Aeolus Root ring, especially if you ignore his mental state consisting of crushing loneliness and nasty ass giant case of guilt. i told Shkiki this- i geniunely think he'd only die if a lot of ice would block his water filtration systems. he's like a damn cucaracha

(see, Beebee is stationed very high up north n i think he's close enough to the sea that he uses That as his water supply. he runs Very cold, much more so than a normal Iterator- this is mostly the case cuz i wanna give the greek god Boreas shout out with it, but in-universe can be blamed on his sheer massive size. he needs to keep himself as cold as possible. can't exactly cool his systems with solid ice tho and so this person who doesn't like/can't handle other people Needs these other people that warm up the atmosphere n keep the polar caps at bay. so honestly even tho he's fine n dandy when Saint finds him, he was already living on borrowed time)

Saint has a bossfight with Boreas just like with Sliver except Boreas is.. kinda more sturdy n also more aggressive n has a bigger chamber- he's like Sliver+, that girl was a weasel. hard mode Sliver.

it takes a bit, but eventually Boreas' puppet falls and the antigravity stutters to a stop. i imagine that working iterators that put up a fight need multiple blasts before they completely die because each blast is killing only a portion of the Hivemind, then the rest of it rushes to fill in the holes, that gets blasted and the process is repeated until there's no more of the collective left. so you can imagine what kind of state B is prolly in after like 9 direct blasts

torn apart, exhausted and so much more smaller n lonelier than before, Boreas finally stops fighting and instead huddles in a corner. for once absolutely terrified out of his mind n insterestingly enough- regretful. he tries to send out a warning signal to the rest of the group, but he can't manage it with how diminished he's become. Saint approaches. Boreas doesn't plead for mercy. he stares the rat down even when its eyes wildly flash

Saint finishes him off. Leaves. Notos watched the whole thing

to say that Notos is fuckin Traumatized from that is an understatement. its special overseer stays with Boreas' puppet beeping at it for an hour, waiting for him to wake up. but of course, nothing

now, i'll add- Beebee n Notty didn't ever really Fully Click together. either they didn't interact much because of their "i gotta work, man" mentalities, they were shit at interaction or they barked at each other (even in mythology it says that fights between Boreas and Notos were catastrophic and absolutely terrifying- fun fact! Notos actually seems more dangerous than Boreas from what i've read n this Is meant to be reflected with the Anemoi Iterators too). like i've had the idea that when Notos calls for an elder brother n Boreas n Euros look up, it'd specify "the elder brother that I actually appreciate" when needin Euros

either way, these two were still siblings and Boreas *did* Mentor Notos when it needed it (along with Euros; the Winds r kinda like a lil self-sustaining group within the bigger group- they are "Elite"/Leading Iterators of The Children of Eo after all) n they still like... Loved each other. even when Notos cut the communications with him after everything started going down the drain, it still loved him. n it regrets some things it said to him (thoughtless.. cruel things...) but cuz of the way it is as a person it never decided to step up n be the one to reestablish contact and apologize

and now Boreas is dead. one of the first iterators of the group gone, maybe the third. it can never say now, how it is so sorry and never meant it

#Spot says stuff #rw #oc tag #Notos' relationship with saint is a strange n complicated one. nobody traumatized notos like saint. saint is its friend. saint will kill- #-it one day. saint killed all of its family. Notos is the one who guided the death to them. saint is the salvation they need. saint is the- #-final doom. its family isnt moving anymore. it did the right thing. it's so terribly lonely and scared. saint hugs it in comfort. #No One Else couldve pulled through All That the whole way. only Notos who is painfully used to what it means to do a horrible thing for- #-the greater good. yet it doesnt mean these things dont torment it. it can state that it is a machine however much it wants. at the end of- #-the day Biting Notos is a Gen 3 technoorganic Iterator. at the end of the day it's still a little sister to over a hundred other Iterators #well this turned into Notos thoughts party my bad GJDSCKMMKLS hard to talk bout just one of em im doin my best to interconnect em as much- #-as i can. i Might make a comic for Boreas' fight at some point too but rn theres other things i wanna do n also just. need a bit of break

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#me @ my youngest sister at 6.30 this morning: yooooooo can u draw me a fishy so i can get it tattooed on me? #i drew her some flowers so i want a paralell tattoo with her initials bc she has my initials on her #but i literally have not spoken to her since like may bc i do not talk to my sisters unless we r in the same room. no hate we just dont hav #a lot in common. it makes me a lil sad tho bc im curious abt them. my youngest sister is at least nice to me 😭 #ive been thinking abt asking her for ages and last night i was asked abt my sisters so i was like. the time is now #while im still a bit elevated #which has been to my advantage bc i was able to stay v chatty and energetic while talking to ppl. and i think i made some friends #we bonded over fic reading. so theyre a bit. ya kno. girls gays and theys of science #we make the world go round. but its so interesting to hear them talk abt coming to school here bc they both liked where they were and r #leaving their support systems. and im like bruh if i didn't leave the southwest i was gonna die. im so happy to b here #support system? whats that. i talk to my parents once a month and that's it lol. but im gonna try to establish one here #and try to actually make actual friends. this school is way better abt making grad students interact #my last school was not at all like that. but anyway i had fun #and i mean im only at the start of the semester. and im in a good mood. and i kno things will get stressful #but im just really happy i got accepted here #and the longer im here the more clearly i can see how much i was suffering #the funny thing is tho that i wrote this last night and only hours later i was squirming in frustration bc the fact that im back in therapy #means i feel a greater obligation to not b actively self destructive. evil coping mechanisms my beloved #this is y my mum wanted me back in therapy bc im a goodie 2 shoes and when my counselor is like: did u do X the next time i see her. ill b #honest and itll b annoying >:-[ ugh #its just hard for me to b around ppl a lot bc i get stuck in mental loops bc ocd. which is exhausting. and i want it to stop #and i want to do bad things to make it stop but i wont bc im trying to b better #its just funny to me that ill go from everythings awful to everythings great i shoukd talk to my sisters and make friends and do this and #this and this. to oh god i cant do this anymore in such short time frames with certainty that how im feeling is how ive always felt #ive also noticed that my peaks of high energy do come before stressful events. which does make me worry for future stressful events. like #defending. i mean ive never gone fully off the tracks but its a lil alarming when it feels like the train is going at a million miles an hr #unrelated #meanwhile my other sister is apparently in Colorado but when i saw the pics is was like: YOU BITCH #R U CLOSE TO ME RN??? but no. Colorado is far away

[yuridovewing]

Shounen protag Firestar is awesome and cool and I love those types of designs, especially with the fire motif lending well to anime hair, but I know when I get to him, I want to make him look kind of like a geek? At least when he's Firepaw/Fireheart. I always saw him as the type that, while gullible and easy to persuade, is always questioning things and seeking out knowledge. He wants to learn each and every type of clan job there is, and he's all too willing to sniff around when Tigerclaw is acting suspicious. He's definitely an action guy, but he uses his head a lot and takes special care when making tough decisions, something that he honed when he became deputy.

So in my hypo-rewrite au, I wanna lean into this a bit. He joins the clan ready to stuff his brain with every bit of clan culture, their festivities, their training, their contruction, their meals, their practices, and he even becomes a bit of a medic assistant, spending a lot of time with Spottedleaf in the medic's den (NOT romantically like in canon, I wanna retool Spotty as well, but she's a mentor figure the same way Bluestar and Yellowfang are). He's ambitious, he is that guy who is striving for that 4.0 GPA, he wants to prove himself and be in every single type of patrol. And this combined with his knowledge from when he was a kittypet, makes it easier for him to note when things don't line up, and when that happens, he's shoving his nose in it.

But he's book smart, but not street smart. When he goes into a conversation unprepared, he can be tricked pretty easily with "Um, Tigerclaw was obviously at the border with brokenstar's lackeys cause he was telling em off, DUH." Because he still wants to see the best in people despite that- and that can be a double edged sword. So while he's a little detective, yeah he needs the help sometimes. He's also not great with thinking on the spot, he needs a lot of time to ponder what action he's going to take on sniffing out evidence for his case. He doesn't really hone this until he's deputy.

#i reread into the wild and the first bit of fire and ice recently and tbh i dont quite think that holds up in canon #firepaw just accepts a lot of what hes told without too much question #which mayyybe could lend to him not being street smart but idk #i do like how in canon he's willing to break the code and go against bluestar for the greater good #he will break boundaries if he thinks any good will come of it #and i hate how post tpb they get rid of that quality :/ man #also another reason why hawkleaf au wont be canon to my rewrite is that i wanna keep him bending the rules #and in leadership he doesnt fall to pressure as easily; hardened by his deputyship #so if the other clans were like ''EXILE UR GRANDKIDS!!!!'' he'd go ''lmao kiss my ass'' #he did it when starclan was preaching that ''skyclan disbanding and getting exiled was Good Actually'' and he'd do it here #so itll probably be out of character for him to be pressured into going through with that #when leafpaw gives prey to riverclan he does still scold her in public but when no ones looking and theyre in his den #hes basically like ''cmon kid lets go get ice cream'' and they gotta hide that from their clanmates #he lets so much shit slide tbh even with other clanmates who do ''wrong things'' for the right reasons

[bonefall]

Sorry if you've already talked about this (if you have, I'd appreciate a link) but what are your thoughts on canon Lionblaze?

No apologies! I think I've only mentioned my thoughts on Lionblaze in passing as I talk about Po3 and OotS

In short, I feel like Po3 up through AVoS were so unfocused that they weren't able to tell a clear story about Lionblaze, or any of the Three really. They didn't have a clear arc as much as they all had disconnected story beats. I like Lionblaze as of TBC, but before...

In Po3 he has a friendship with Heatherpaw that gets broken off, which comes to a head in Eclipse when he's betrayed that the secret of the tunnels reached Onestar. What is it trying to say? Just that he's hurt...? That he will take revenge...? Controlling? No, none of it had a point, because he doesn't kill Ashfur.

He trains with the Dark Forest, but breaks it off easily later. If he's so lonely and thinks he's so special, how does this conflict go away so early? How does Hawkfrost not exploit Lionpaw's self confidence being centered around his fighting prowess? Why can't we get a scene with him and Bramble about this?

He doesn't do much of anything, really, besides wonder about the prophecy. It makes him think he's very special and hot stuff, but this doesn't really impact his relationships, or cause much drama besides Lionblaze occasionally fighting Berrynose. Hollyleaf is the one who's sneaking around and moving the plot.

Once we get to OotS, it feels like something's gonna happen when Lionblaze sends Russetfur into orbit... but it Doesn't. The arc's mostly about Lionblaze trying to force Dovewing to find and move the plot because Hollyleaf is gone, while being furious about Squilf.

It's not pleasant or compelling-- and OotS is where I stopped reading for many years because of it.

In TBC? NOW it feels like Lionblaze has a point. He's reckless, ferocious, violent. I appreciate that they made him into a BAD deputy, it was horrifying to see him react to Shadowsight the way he did.

The way several ThunderClan characters have been hardened in this arc-- It's good! FINALLY some good drama!

I hope this is the final incarnation of Lionblaze. I will be very disappointed if he mellows out. I appreciate characters who can move conflict on their own and ngl I hope he kills someone again.

#My favorite characters are ones who do things #Lionblaze #Warrior cats analysis #He is a bit different in my rewrite though-- a lot more protective and willing to sacrifice for the greater good #Though it isn't always a good thing because he's willing to endanger his kids for the greater good of the clan #I also like to think he's sillier than canon #My California Girl <3 #Slightly more fun loving #Enjoys games and challenges #Helps to balance out the Three since Holly and Jay are both quite serious

[ninjawitdaddyissues]

great day to be a phillie

#dan and phil #phil lester #amazingphil #phan #< doing my bit for the greater good #olly rambles #dapg

[found--family]

Helluva name for an ep! I'm thinking it's a trifecta: 

Steph dealing with her father - again, though hopefully less heartbreaking than last time; maybe something happens and he comes around to her way of thinking ie. her mom needs professional help. (I hope Steph gets someone on her side) 

Duela's mom visits her for her birthday - she got out of prison, maybe escaped? Or maybe Duela goes to visit her for her birthday. Either way, Duela's mom reveals The Joker is not her father. (I'm still on the Duela Dent train but I don't know if they'll reveal that as well; if Duela's father is fugue!Dent, her mom might leave clues for her to figure it out for herself which would mean a second reveal maybe at the end of the season, maybe just before or after Harvey's Two-Face incident leaving a cliffhanger for season 2.) 

Harvey encounters his father. The way it's worded - 'collision course' - is intriguing. Will he encounter fugue!father? Will fugue!Harvey encounter his father? Did he think his father was dead? We've only had scraps of his past and whatever the comics say, GK is doing it's own thing so who knows what could happen. If his father is alive and it's a surprise maybe fugue!Harvey will kill him? But there's still the possibility that fugue!father is in league with the owls somehow (how else would they know about the piano trigger? Unless fugue!Harvey himself gave it to them..) 

I love the crew's passion for creating this story! They care about good storytelling, they care about the details, they want to entertain and surprise us! They're taking the best bits of the DCU and giving us something new! I'm very excited for the possibilites of this ep. This story continues to keep me guessing, has me caring about the characters, and keeps me invested in how things will unfold. 

#gotham knights #thoughts #harvey dent #duela dent #just tacking on a disclaimer here to remind folks i'm not a dcu fan so that probably skews my opinion but idgaf #I've never read any of the comics or seen the various shows nor cared much for the movies (Batman bores me tbh) #so I don't have any of the annoyances or reservations DC fans have with what GK is doing with the characters and #and plot deviating from canon; they're taking the best bits and spinning their own tale and I love that because #it keeps us theorising and enjoying a true mystery! I love speculating! And I love that they've created something #that you don't have to be a diehard DCU fan to enjoy or appreciate - but which incorporates so many versions of canon #that even if you are a fan and make your guesses you still might be wrong - and that's a good thing! why watch something #new where you know everything that's gonna happen? that's boring and not what GK is about. GK is about #going on a new journey together. it's bringing a rich universe into the modern era and discovering #new ways to tell its story. it's a batman show without batman! it's a major villain before he was a villain! #its a group of young unlikley friends coming together not only for themselves but for the greater good! #this probably deserves its own post but it was in my head while speccing on 1x11 so i'm putting it here.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

Y'know I think a real friend would've told me "you have too many WIPs already" and not shamelessly encouraged my new Xedgin fic idea like @captainofthefallen did.

*flipping through a book ominously titled Dead in Thay* Anyway pay no attention to me! I'll just be over here reading! You all go on about your days!

#mads writes stuff #la la la... #my poor DM is like I've been trying to get you to pay attention to dungeons and battle mechanics for YEARS #and THIS IS WHAT GETS YOU TO DO THAT!? #he's in despair #I blurted out 'well since she's a bard she can use Greater Restoration' during our last session #and everyone stared at me and my DM was like did you... just... know... who can cast what spell off the top of your head? #picture the John Mulaney Last Supper Thanksgiving turkey bit and you've got a pretty good idea how that scene unfolded

[violexides]

last night i finished my "rewatch" of SDR2 and i do have a lot of thoughts specifically when comparing the different strengths and weaknesses of THH and SDR2 however for the sake of time (i have to leave for class soon) one thing i will say is that getting older and a hiatus did not, in fact, make me any less in love with komaeda nagito's character.

#ides.txt #he is earnestly my favorite antagonist just for the fact that the DR set up of plot is kind of... finnicky #like in THH a lot of twists happen that were nigh impossible to see coming and SDR2 is just a mess of a plot #but while i think the THH plot was a little more coherent i think the SDR2 plot had some better foreshadowing #and i think komaeda's character was a very good vehicle of that foreshadowing. #if a little bit on the nose but yk. It's Komaeda We're Talking About Here #i still think i like SDR2 more but i have greater appreciation for THH because SDR2 is just...wild #but THH is very true to danganronpa and is a little more coherent all around. while still not being super coherent #i just really do love komaeda hinata mahiru kuzuryuu gundham chiaki... a LOT of SDR2 characters #because they are very very fascinating to me and i think the game did better with plot buildup albeit worse with character emotion #which isn't to say that THH didn't build its plot up but you do get kind of thrust into the like. #like the junko reveal could not have been seen coming from that far away do you know what i mean #and i think the one in SDR2 especially with izuru also couldn't have been foreseen but like #via mahiru and the kuzuryuu conflict + mikan's whole shit (which i don't Love but unrelated) + komaeda's character #you kind of get the sense that things are Off. and i really like that about SDR2. #anyway. i have to finish breakfast and get ready and go to class. love u

[bmpmp3]

it is interesting how different stories about showbiz try to depict a character as having star power like a common method in audio-visual mediums is music and lighting to try to make a fictional actor's performance in a fictional movie look transcendent (like in Babylon 2022 which I watched the other day) while mediums that don't have the benefit of audio or the moving picture like most comics will have something like a bunch of sparkly screentones all over the place or glitter in their eyes that kinda thing (like too many manga about the entertainment industry to name) but i still have a soft spot for Penguin Revolution's method of just hallucinating wings on everyone

#if ur not very good but have potential ur star power wings look like shitty little chicken wings <3 #also my thoughts on babylon: i dont think id recommend it to like anyone it was 3 hours and the parts that were wack were REALLY wack #but the parts that were good were REALLY REALLY good so im conflicted HJKDSJKDSJDKS #i dont think i have a very favorable opinion on it but im glad i watched it. the sum of its parts is greater than its whole i guess #i truly madly deeply hated the grossout humor bits not just cause they were grody but also like. they were so far and few between they like #jumpscared me every time. just long enough between each bit that i forgot about the last one. guess thats why its 3 hours #but some parts were SO SO GOOD and so so well done. huuuurghghhguhghrhhhghh im so conflicted about that movie #but i do appreciate it as a movie thats so conflicting to me. part of me thinks maybe i should have been weirder #i know im biased cause i love my weird ass manga and my weirdass visual novels about the entertainment industry but i think maybe #maybe it should have gone weirder with it. get more heightened. can we get much higher (slowly morphs into a one piece cock edit) #um. anyway i do love seeing how different stories in different mediums try to depict a characters electricity and charisma #in scenarios where the audience would not be able to tell #its like fascinating