#And write some analysis pieces…

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Me: Okay so what are we gonna do tonight brain

Brain: we’re gonna do that work that we really need to get done

Me: Right, so what’s the first step

Brain: We’re gonna listen to some music

Me: Uh hm well okay but that’s not what I-

Brain: And we’re gonna think about that fanfic you want to write

Me: We’re gonna what

#I’m so dumb #Between my dndads hyperfixation and just being kinda burnt out from school #I’m drowning a bit this semester ngl #So the fic is a non-magical au sort of enemies to lovers Grant x Lark road trip fucking mess #Also gonna throw Nicky in at some point and he’ll be lovable but absolutely unhinged #And he and Grant are exes #I’m so dumbb #😭😭😭 I don’t want to do school anymore #I think if I wasn’t starting my masters in fucking May I’d have a bit more motivation #But no #😩 And I’ve been DYING to draw more #And write some analysis pieces… #Maaaaaan #But I stay silly :3 #but I stay sillly #But I sta #BLUGH WHY IS THIS SHOWING UP IN THE DNDADS TAG NO TUMBLR THIS WAS FOR THE BESTIES

[skrunksthatwunk]

thinking about how eiji's a pole vaulter and how ash talks about eiji "flying" and how eiji's associated with bird imagery and how eiji's free (unlike ash) and how eiji comes in on a plane and leaves on a plane and how ash cannot fly, ash cannot be free, how nyc is ash's prison, and how ash is the leopard who dies climbing the mountain, unable to live at such elevation, how he was trying to reach the sky and be free but was always stuck to the earth, how he chose to die instead of climbing back down, how he chose to die where he could see the sky and hope and freedom almost like a bird with eiji's letter right in front of him rather than letting everything go wrong and ruin it once again, how eiji's a failed pole vaulter anyway, how a bad fall ruined his career and grounded him (physically and emotionally), how it took flying to america and meeting ash and needing to save him and skip for him to try flying again, how he landed hard and harsh and still the thought of that escape compelled ash to protect eiji at all costs because if he could fly that means something to him, even if he doesn't think he can fly, how eiji is the manifestation of his hope and how when he breaks and asks eiji to stay with him a while he folds himself over his legs and weighs him down and traps him and grounds him, how ash fights like hell to keep eiji alive not because he thinks he can be like him (hopeful, flying, innocent), but because he makes him forget the gravity of his situation, and so he can see eiji fly again. how he wants to see him escape. how eiji is a bird and ash is a wildcat and how ash never once saw eiji as prey. how eiji never saw ash as a predator. how it is eiji's naivete that first endears ash to him, how it is his freedom and flight and removal from darkness and his ability to leave that darkness that really roots eiji in ash's blood as something essential to him keeping on living in this hell of nyc. how it is that distance from the violence and that hope for the future that ash chooses to surround himself in as he dies. how ash dies in a dream because he feels more than anything that he can't fly like eiji, that he can never leave. how his violence is a part of him and will be forever, how it weighs him down. how he wants to enjoy the view from the mountainside rather than looking up from the ground below. as if they can both fly. as if he is with him up there and not grounded. eye-to-eye with what he can't have, seeing eiji's homeland: the sky. how he dies trying to reach the top because he couldn't take retreating and trying again. how ash, tired and tired and tired and convinced it will go on forever if he crawls back down the mountain, chooses to close his life deluged in eiji, in eiji's insistence that they can fly together, in eiji's hope for him and for them, in eiji's beautiful dream. how ash dies without trying to realize that dream. how ash, in dying, destroys it.

#banana fish spoilers #I'M HAVING A FUCKING MOMENT #mutual reblogged exactly one (1) piece of ash fanart and sent me on A Multiple Hour Long Thing and now im rewatching it lol #yes i am only on episode 2 yes i am still going to write big long analysis posts ANYWAY #whatever hope this makes sense. anyway #banana fish #okumura eiji #ash lynx #asheiji #hhhhh i can't believe i've only watched this twice in like what 5.5 years?? sheesh #anywayyyyyyy i care about them a lot ok. god #and yes i DO kinda have beef with the decision to kill ash off at the end but it really does say so much About his character #that he chose to die in the way that he did even though he's been throwing his life away since episode 1 #dying in peace in comfort in solitude rather than in some chaotic battlefield.... ough...... in the peace eiji alone could give him..... #anywayss i relate to ash a little more than i should so. this one's for us cool guy bottoms up #edit i uh.... i forgot it was a leopard.... in the story..... but whatever it doesn't really affect the symbolic meaning it's just embarras #ing that i forgot >;/

[comradekatara]

Do you have any pre genocide air nomad thoughts? I've been rlly fixated on them and was wondering if you had anything to fuel it

yeah I actually think that the kyoshi & esp yangchen novels do a pretty good job of expanding on the air nomads’ role in the world, how they were treated, how they were viewed, how they treated one another, what functions they performed, various details about their culture and beliefs, etc etc. so if you haven’t read those I would recommend doing so! (they’re very quick reads btw, I finished each within a day easily.) something that really stood out to me in the novels is the way that air nomads are sort of the envy of the other nations because they have the privilege of keeping their hands clean, and never have to worry about making decisions that might weigh on their conscience. which is super fascinating wrt to air nomads like yangchen, kelsang, jinpa, and aang, who do have to get their hands dirty in world affairs for whatever reason (avatarhood or proximity to the avatar is fundamentally a burden and an injustice as much as it is a privilege!) and the way they are either figuratively or literally excommunicated from their temples for causing harm in any way, even if such violence is necessary for the greater good. yangchen also points out that the sort of enlightened tranquility and peace that the air nomads are revered for cultivating also comes at the cost of labor (especially to maintain the temples), rigorous study, no guaranteed stability, and very few material comforts — which, perhaps condescendingly, she assumes that non-air nomads couldn’t actually handle. the novels provide a really interesting tension, expanding on a lot of problems aang faces but in subtler ways. they also further elucidate why the air nomads were considered unfit to exist in sozin’s ideal fascist imperialist society, as their way of life is fundamentally antithetical to his ideology. not because it’s a perfect utopia beyond reproach, but because their values exist in direct opposition to any sort of hierarchizing force that seeks dominance through power and violence.

#twitterpat #asks #chronicles of the avatar #yangchen #aang #I do wanna write a larger piece on air nomads & violence in response to the novels at some point #so consider this a sort of teaser for that #and at some point I will actually like. provide quotes and analysis etc etc #and if there’s anything else you’d like me to expand on. I always appreciate specificity in ones questions!

[sayheykid]

i genuinely don't think a story's worldbuilding and lore has ever drawn me in the way that check please did. it's been years and i still think about it every day. the characters and plot were always superb but i think what has stuck with me the most is the depth of the settings and how everything feels so lived in and tangible. everyone wants to make a fake world and town and university but no one else has EVER done it that well

#like the college setting especially is so delicious to me #there isn't a day that goes by that i don't think about the campus map and the building names and the haus and the stop and shops #ugh i need hardcore analysis injected into my damn veins #also this could be it's own post. but #the generations of players and how every fan has different people that really speak to them #like i'm not a huge kent/tater or dex/nursey fan and honestly am pretty ambivalent to jack/bitty #(don't take this the wrong way) #but i LOVE ransom and holster and shitty and lardo #and even some of the other characters like bully and tango though i admit the later years don't hit as hard for me as the first couple #i just love that everyone finds something to go batshit over #the attention to detail was just so so incredible and still for SURE holds up #no matter what aspect #i was never super directly involved in the fandom but when i think back on formative pieces of media for me as a person and as a writer #i don't think that there are many things that compare #if you've read my writing i don't think it's hard to see the correlation at all #also if you want to talk check please analysis (or can rec me others' analysis!!!) i'd be forever grateful #otherwise i'm just going to keep marinating forever #omgcp #check please #omg check please

[tadbitsketch]

yk when you're talking to yourself about mcsm analysis whatnot and then you accidentally figure out a cool detail that ties multiple characters together?

hehe :)

#this may or may not be about some of the antagonists #and i may or may not have been trying to piece together my thoughts on a certain blondie #it's stella #it's always stella when it comes to analysis tbh #oh my goodness stella is so fun to analyze #ty eric stirpe for writing her #i need to have a giant corkboard and a crap ton of yarn and pictures of mcsm characters because i will figure out something i promise #mcsm #mcsm stella

[theogonies]

dressrosa/donquixote brothers brainrot incoming

i feel like the reason that a lot of rosi-focused fan content doesn't hit for me is that he's so woobified. like yeah he's definitely the better father figure to law but he also beat kids (even if his intentions were good in a weird shounen logic way lol) and repeatedly retraumatized law out of what was imo an ultimately selfish desire to prove his brother wrong--i genuinely cannot see a way that path would have ended well, even if doflamingo never intervened.

plus in light of doffy's grooming by vergo and trebol et al i think it's a lot more narratively interesting to ask how being raised by the navy would affect rosinante, possibly in a similar way. like we see him die *just* as he's getting a taste of the personal agency that his brother's had for years so we never get to fully see him through the repercussions of his own trauma, but even though from what i understand we don't really *know* whether sengoku raised rosi with the intention of sending him back to the donquixotes as a spy, it does create an interesting contrast where both brothers are being played against each other by outside parties using their respective senses of justice.

not trying to downplay that doflamingo is a fucked up guy who does fucked up things but i think it's weird that so many fics treat him as this utter monster while rosi gets to be, like, a normal dude. and i think that's because we see doffy at his absolute worst while rosi has always been filtered through law's grief and nostalgia. but at the end of the day they're way more interesting to me as narrative foils to each other, brothers who have been manipulated for most of their lives by forces outside of their control. it's not that they don't have agency but their relationship is so deeply defined by the terms of their separation as teenagers and i want to see rosi's side of that period and its consequences explored more.

idkidk not really sure what i'm getting at here i just wish that rosi was more interesting to me than he is lol. i know it's just because he wasn't around for long but imo he has so much untapped potential compared to the rest of the whole doffy/law/rosinante triangle. if you know any good darker/psychological, corazon centric fics please send them my way <3

#sorry i usually keep my unprompted character analysis thoughts to my notes app but felt like sharing this one #i feel like the whole fandom sees something in rosi that i just. do not get #but i want to love him! i really do! #i know the answer is to just write this stuff myself so maybe it'll make it into leverage at some point lol #idk if you really can get into doffy as a character without talking about rosinante #ronan talks #one piece #donquixote rocinante #donquixote doflamingo #trafalgar law #donquixote pirates

[nicepersondisorder]

i'm here with more npd headcanons <33

☆ zenitsu agatsuma from demon slayer

1) he believes he's The most pitiful, The most weak person in the world, therefore he deserves all pity and saving (self-centered, believes he's "special" so he should get "special" treatment). he craves external validation & strives to meet expectations of others. during the entertainment district arc when he played the samishen he tried to be perfect at it from the first try. something else (i forgor)

2) im projecting <3

3) he's pathetic sopping wet beast of a guy & i like him for it

might edit it later & add / tweak some things

#too tired to write an analysis post but i might add something later ig #when its not 4am and i have slept more than 5 hours XD #☆.txt #zenitsu agatsuma #kny #kimetsu no yaiba #kny headcanons #demon slayer #npd safe #also i read the kny several months ago so my memory is a bit fuzzy </3 #i do remember bits and pieces and the main plot. but some details evade me </3 #honestly i find the entertainment district arc one of the most interesting. #npd headcanons

[starlooove]

Ok but the Duke in my mind having the feeling that those who choose vigilantism have a responsibility to uphold the SECOND they curate a space where others are reliant on them + Cass solely wanting to fight at first and putting the mission above all else due to not caring about herself being Bruces (who also puts the mission above all else and feels a responsibility to Gotham that he knows will kill him one day) favorite kids

#is it rlly that they’re his faves bc of being the ‘good ones’ #or do they reflect parts of himself that he’s constantly told are detrimental in a way that allows him to take pride in said parts #taking HEAVY liberties with canon btw this is basically a hc to me do not take it seriously this is NOT srs character analysis thx #I mean it’s kinda serious in MY mind but it’s purely based in being tired of fandom and not actually comics 💀 #this is my version of the ‘Everyone treats tim badly so he is sad till they’re sorry’ thing #anyways #BONUS #Bruce is so mean to damian bc he reflects him in ways he doesn’t like #and he’s projecting his failures onto him instead of seeing him as a fucking child #thinking of that one panel #yknow the one #anyways everytime damian does smth he doesn’t like he sees it as the Batman failing on a moral standpoint #not his kid having his own personality or needing some guidance #whatever tho #I’m deleting this tomorrow but if I ever learn how to write #imma make my own sad tim fic where it’s just tim wallowing over nothing and everyone ignoring him <3 #for my piece of mind #I promise I like Tim guys this is abt fanon Tim #but yknow what writers are riding tim too much atm tbh so this is current tim hate as well #Tim was cooler when he was well adjusted and bitchy and everyone knew it #instead of pretending he’s right all the time and every1 just went “ofc Tim! #ALSO I’m a big fan of great dad Bruce I just know him kinda sucking is also canon and fun for angst

[goatmilksoda]

Man, it would be so cool if I could get PAID to write shit. If I stopped writing for a newspaper "for exposure", for school assignments, and strange age regression fanfiction for myself it would he all over for you people.

#idk just watched the new HBomberGuy video #it got me thinking about a huge media analysis essay i just turned in #and a speech i judt gave #where i thought both times 'man i wish i had room to write more about this' and how I Analyzed and properly cited my sources #which is apparently too hard for some people to do??? #idk maybe i gotta get my head into the YouTube video game #but i also really dont want to edit stuff lol is the thing #wild to me that people think the month of writing (including prewriting!) to make a 10 page analysis about a Monk episode FOR FREE #is somehow too much work #like??? no??? it isnt??? #its fun work?? #but also if these people can get paid for passionlessly stealling... #could i possibly make 25 cents from making an original piece of content?? #is writing actually possibly a profitable skill that i am not irrideamably bad at? #**edit btw as in VIDEO editing not as in script editing #goat talk

[hella1975]

i know everyone's freaking out about Everything That Happened in ch40 but can i share this tiny parallel that i snuck in?

chapter 2:

chapter 40:

#!!! like idk why i love it but as i wrote it i was like omg!!! #bc the whole 'wont turn his back on the door/the crew' was what literally lay the foundations for kanut and zuko's relationship #bc kanut immediately understood and accommodated it instead of forcing him and that genuinely created their bond #and now zuko can turn his back on him so easily and trusts him so easily and feels safe and it's a tiny tiny thing but i love it #also actually putting snippets from ch1 vs ch40 is so funny bc after EVERYTHING that happened kanut and zuko's humour is still the same #aka zuko getting bullied and kanut being a sarky piece of shit #i love them your honour #also not relevant but i had to read through some of book 1 to find this snippet and EUGH #me reading book 1: she's a ten but she doesn't know basic grammar #'it's nice to be able to so clearly see how much progress you've made with your writing!' yh but not with thousands of people watching too #taob analysis

[ahalliance]

i don’t get how people can complain about the writing “doing Martha dirty” when that same writing gives her an ending that addresses her treatement over the course of the season, allows her to finally put her to foot down, to establish her self-worth as an individual and to air out her grievances, and gives her the most respectful and satisfying exit from the TARDIS we’d yet seen in the show . like it’s one thing to dislike the direction the writing team took with her arc and to criticise it (perfectly fine) and another to somehow miss it entirely lmao . the ‘martha feels out of place, second best, and like a rebound’ is an intentional piece of writing that gets resolved by the end of the season . like that wasn’t smth they threw in for shits and giggles, it had in-story repercussions

#and if u don’t think those repercussions were Enough then that’s totally cool and smth to start a discussion over #but . don’t act as if they didn’t happen lmao?? #i just . yells #like i have my own criticisms about the writing (giving the ‘i feel second best to this dude’s past love interest’ to the first POC #companion was . probably not the best of choices let’s be real #though there’s some leeway there as im assuming the character was written before audtions . but still . could have been reconsidered #idk i totally understand why people aren’t fans of the storyline itself (outside of how coherent the writing is) but i think it’s a shame #that many others just kinda seem to miss the point because it’s such a unique and interesting arc to give to a companion #i like fresh ideas!! i like the doctor Actually being portrayed at someone who is clumsy with relationships and emotional intimacy!! #i like it when his trauma spills over in ugly and complex ways like we see in season 3 in regards to his friendship with martha #and i like it even better when his accidentally cruel actions and mistakes get brought up and criticised by the narrative!! like it does in #the end of s3!! it’s so good!! #i enjoy 10 because he’s my favourite wet cat but also because he is allowed to fill up room like a real traumatised individual would #it’s like . okay i enjoy ‘ooo the doctor is the oncoming storm ooo he’s hurt and killed so many people ooo’ #but it’s also good to See the actual ramifications of that shit you know . hearing about his legend status is always fun but damn man #is it satisfying from a character analysis POV to see him hurt the people around him . to see him treat his friends poorly on accident #because of his own character flaws . like that’s GOOD #and it just sorta irks me sometimes bc people will have this smug attitude of ‘well MY blorbo isn’t a rude piece of shit and is actually a #paragon of morality’ and like girl i don’t give a shit . that’s fine in small doses but it’s not what’s compelling #people tend to like interacting with ‘angsty traumatised edgy characters’ if their edginess is contained in a nice little box that doesn’t #overspill . fuck no give me the characters that are loud and ugly and unpleasant about their trauma THAT’S THE REAL SHIT #jay rambles #dw.txt #10.txt #marthaj.txt #sometimes u wanna treat the blorbo from your show like a real person sure but sometimes it is better to remember that they are fictional #and there to be considered as part of a bigger story and as an item to analyse . case in poiny #point #maybe i shouldn’t be surprised by this though since people still get hung up over rose quartz

[senadimell]

uuuuugggggggh, I really want this fic to be ALREADY finished at the same level of quality that I produced for the opening bit

(which i guess expecting it to be done and easy discredits how much work went into the opening bit but still....it’s so so far from being done and i wish it was already done because i want to find someone who is also in love with this idea and analysis and talk to them about it)

#look it's a crossover so it's going to be doomed to obscurity #and the fact that i'm trying to ape danged sir terry pratchett does not make this any easier #BUT NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO WRITE THIS IDEA SO GUESS I'M STUCK WITH WRITING IT #i've got about four fics total... #i've only got about four fics total...but only one is conceivably close to completion #and two are frankly above my skill level (this is one of them) #but...i get the feeling that these things are so niche that i am the only one who's gonna properly speak them into existence #(not necessarily niche as in no one will enjoy them but i also zero expect to find someone else writing them the way i want) #if only i had more energy more often to do anything other than army-drag myself once a week to working on any one of them #rose-ten cyborg dystopia thing that combines my favorite fandom-specific tropes has a monster plot #and i've been avoiding it for over a year because i can't bring myself to write this dang next scene #martha character analysis piece is super dang hard because i'm laser focused on every line (i swear i'm gonna have to be a poet or somthng #because i don't think i'm cut out for novel-ing with the amount of scrutiny that each line gets) #and also the martha piece involves Sensitive Subjects and Heavy Things that require respectful research and so. much. thought #susan character study/science-fangirling piece's end is literally in sight but i keep not writing it because i have to do describing #(i hate describing. it's so hard. stupid plot and things that happened are way harder than conversations or thoughts) #and also the remaining scene and ending involves writing about some kinda heavy stuff #then this crossover piece! which combines all of the problems! except i guess objective length #it's supposed to be only 4 chapters max but it's 4 plotted chapters of distilled prose with heavy subject matter and satire #and it needs aforementioned Plot which i don't care much about inventing but really is necessary for the story to work right #people who say fanfiction is easy are wrong actually

[neverendingford]

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#goncharov really is no different from any other media piece I interact with on this website #I'm interested. I tell myself I really should watch it at some point. #I know the characters. the plot. three layers deep analysis. video essays and fanfic. #six years go by. I still have not watched it. #like. the only difference is that it's made up. but so is everything else. it makes no difference to me that there's no source material #anyway I almost stayed up late last night to catch up on lore so I could write Andrey x Alexei fanfic but I didn't cause I'm responsible

[tonya-the-chicken]

Like do how to explain you but most stories are not about women's rights or the disadvantages of economic systems. They are about overcoming obstacles, freeing yourself from the expectations of others, changing yourself and the world, understanding the way the world functions and coming to terms with reality. You want to read a propaganda piece

#you ever feel the cringe effect when the author painfully obviously writes in a self-insert to criticize shw #*sjw #you want the same cringe but that alligns with YOUR views #this is a terrible idea if you care about art #please read some think-pieces or manifestos or non fiction #no one can do feminist analysis of media anymore!!!! #of fucking course women are more prone to forgiving their abusers AAAHAHSHSHAGAGAUAUQH #*dies* #vent

[travalerray]

sometimes I think I sound unhinged about MDZS and then I remember how I used to take screenshots of every single second from a BSD episode (not joking. You WILL be horrified if you look through my old phone gallery) and patiently explain how Mori twirling his scalpel in Fifteen foreshadows Chuuya getting recruited into the Mafia (and I stand by it /j) and how the S1 ending in fact foreshadows the whole plot

#i like to say that some predictions came true ex the part with the character songs but like #a thousand monkeys typing on thousand keyboards WILL produce shak/espeare #anyways #it probably goes to show how much free time I had back then #it's doubly funny because apart from like 2(one) very short pieces I never wrote a fic in the fandom #despite it influencing everything I do and write now #there's this gap I think. Over analysis and faithfulness to canon material sometimes kills the necessary liberties your unexperienced self #needs to take to write fanfiction. #and everytime I did write something there was a feeling of ''it's SO wrong omg'' #hm #kk's rambles tag

[emeryleewho]

I used to work for a trade book reviewer where I got paid to review people's books, and one of the rules of that review company is one that I think is just super useful to media analysis as a whole, and that is, we were told never to critique media for what it didn't do but only for what it did.

So, for instance, I couldn't say "this book didn't give its characters strong agency or goals". I instead had to say, "the characters in this book acted in ways that often felt misaligned with their characterization as if they were being pulled by the plot."

I think this is really important because a lot of "critiques" people give, if subverted to address what the book does instead of what it doesn't do, actually read pretty nonsensical. For instance, "none of the characters were unique" becomes "all of the characters read like other characters that exist in other media", which like... okay? That's not really a critique. It's just how fiction works. Or "none of the characters were likeable" becomes "all of the characters, at some point or another, did things that I found disagreeable or annoying" which is literally how every book works?

It also keeps you from holding a book to a standard it never sought to meet. "The world building in this book simply wasn't complex enough" becomes "The world building in this book was very simple", which, yes, good, that can actually be a good thing. Many books aspire to this. It's not actually a negative critique. Or "The stakes weren't very high and the climax didn't really offer any major plot twists or turns" becomes "The stakes were low and and the ending was quite predictable", which, if this is a cute romcom is exactly what I'm looking for.

Not to mention, I think this really helps to deconstruct a lot of the biases we carry into fiction. Characters not having strong agency isn't inherently bad. Characters who react to their surroundings can make a good story, so saying "the characters didn't have enough agency" is kind of weak, but when you flip it to say "the characters acted misaligned from their characterization" we can now see that the *real* problem here isn't that they lacked agency but that this lack of agency is inconsistent with the type of character that they are. a character this strong-willed *should* have more agency even if a weak-willed character might not.

So it's just a really simple way of framing the way I critique books that I think has really helped to show the difference between "this book is bad" and "this book didn't meet my personal preferences", but also, as someone talking about books, I think it helps give other people a clearer idea of what the book actually looks like so they can decide for themselves if it's worth their time.

Update: This is literally just a thought exercise to help you be more intentional with how you critique media. I'm not enforcing this as some divine rule that must be followed any time you have an opinion on fiction, and I'm definitely not saying that you have to structure every single sentence in a review to contain zero negative phrases. I'm just saying that I repurposed a rule we had at that specific reviewer to be a helpful tool to check myself when writing critiques now. If you don't want to use the tool, literally no one (especially not me) can or wants to force you to use it. As with all advice, it is a totally reasonable and normal thing to not have use for every piece of it that exists from random strangers on the internet. Use it to whatever extent it helps you or not at all.

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