#NOT ENOUGH FLASHBACKS

[artheresy]

I have not forgotten the draft regarding "How I would write Clouds Leave No Trace", it still lingers its still there

Im still thinking about how my least favorite parts are Yanqing's characterization, The way the world around Jingliu treats her like she's normal when clearly she's not, The way there's such an effort into putting Yingxing and Dan Feng on the same level of guilt for every single thing that it makes Blade's desire for revenge feel nonsensical and out of no where when he has good reason for it, The way that they don't do more to play up the HCQ's dynamic especially in the normal areas thus making caring about their tragedy a struggle if you haven't done all the "prerequisite reading" (even tho the quest should make the players care more and want to read instead of requiring the opposite), The way that they literally mention Bailu and Blade crossed paths but never show us that scene DESPITE all of the importance placed upon Baiheng and Yingxing's friendship, Did I mention My Massive Problems with my boy Yanqing's characterization in this quest versus what we see of how he's affected both before and after it?

Oh and of course, to mention Jing Yuan not really feeling like he has as much significance being in this quest despite being apart of the HCQ and Jingliu's disciple because yet again, they especially don't do enough to develop on screen (but also not enough in the readable text too) his connections to the rest of the HCQ (which in general if you ask me, makes it a lot harder to be that sad at the moments they clearly want us to feel sad for him over the HCQ)

I could go on and on about the problems of Hyv not fully giving the audience a reason to care for the HCQ's tragedy by the way they are barely shown on screen, shoving it all in readables and character stories and relic lore. Even their legends get barely any screen time to build up to when we hear about the fall out.

Also again, not kidding about Jingliu and the world's perception around her. She is described solely in the beginning as bringing a chill to the room, but she's clearly very intimidating, if you ask me she seems very clearly unstable as well and yet when they waltz around in a populated area with no attention getting drawn to them or suspicion or anything. I also call Massive Bullshit on Bailu being like "Wow but she seems so normal and kind, there's nothing about her at all that could make me think she's marastruck 😲!!" When if you ask me, that whole scene could have been used in a much more meaningful way to make a connection between Bailu and her resemblance to Baiheng Specifically in a way I will further elaborate on in my full post about it BUT YEAH Jingliu deserved so much better with this quest, so so much better

And even just small details get me like Jingliu leaving first from Scalegorge Waterscale, then Jing Yuan, Yanqing and Ren leaving? Like if you ask me, let Jingliu leave with Jing Yuan and Yanqing like they're escorting her (idc about any "She was already turning herself in!" There are a number of reasons to be cautious, not solely of her, and keep her in their view) and then talk to and have Ren leave last.

I am still thinking about it, that post still haunts me daily, I have grown to like the quest but my problems with it are so strong and so clear that it's like AHA I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT IT

#I have so many opinions on this quest #And a clear vision in my mind #I still don't know why it exists in its own little bubble #Why is Yanqing acting so odd in this quest but then goes right back to his normal consistent point of character regarding his failures afte #Also even with the argument of it being Jinglius biased words #Having NO mention of Dan Feng while talking about Yingxing's fate at all is wild and weird #Not even a “His stupidity and loyalty to you got him turned into a monster” kind of thing #Where it doesn't even have to be explicitly all the fault on Dan Feng but treating it like he wasn't at all involved in that transformation #It's crazy to me #But yeah uh #I bet if I wasn't obsessed with Blade and the HCQ #To the point of going through the readables and little quests with any mentions of them and their character stories #That I wouldn't be as emotional as I was during Clouds Leave No Trace because they really don't do enough to give reasons to care #The reason I cried for Blade when I played it is bc I read VotU knew what Baiheng meant to him & the ChrStr to know what they meant to him #The game should do more to tell us those kinds of things upfront if they want us to be more likely to have the reaction they seek #ALSO #NOT ENOUGH FLASHBACKS #SERIOUSLY ADD SOME MORE !!! #Even just snippets and add little lines and moments or views of the past overlaid on the prescent? #Hsr #Honkai star rail #Jingliu #Baiheng #Dan heng #Dan feng #Yanqing #Jing yuan #Yingxing #Hsr blade #high cloud quintet

[egophiliac]

innocently logging in to look at the Twst schedule for May like

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 8 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 8 spoilers #tsumsted wonderland #i-is that enough spoiler tags #anyway twst just absolutely obliterating me with the schedule again #i saw the story completion campaign ended in june and was like 'oh okay that'll be when we get the next part' NOPE HA HA #oh my god rook. oh my god savana rook is real. #w...why is this a story card. hey twst wHY IS THIS A STORY CARD -- #is rook dreaming of still being a rowdy boy or #and why is he...(squints) why is he in a pomefiore bedroom #never mind i'm actually terrified of this card now #god. the STETSON. i'm crying. #he really is just applejack huh #also vil i don't know what your problem was this man's mane is LUSCIOUS #and what's this? it's twst following up that first punch with the right hook of EVEN MORE of the best and silliest event #malleus is going to be in the middle of an angsty flashback while dangling us over a pit of spikes or something #and then we're going to cut directly to him having a charming little tea party with a small plush version of himself #oh twst your sense of pacing remains exquisitely incomprehensible #(no i love this though)

[anne-is-confused]

Captain Francis Crozier, at Furthest North.

#the terror amc #francis crozier #my art #can't believe it took me 2 rewatches AND getting refs for this to realize it's the hungarian state opera house. girl i was there last month #anyway yeah i was looking at gifsets of the last shot of the show and feeling nauseous with emptiness etc etc when #the thought struck me that it looks an awful lot like the tableau vivants from the ep1 flashbacks in its stillness #i have no idea whether that was an intentional reference (a sort of twisted mockery of how that scrubbed and polished portrayal of history #contrasted with the deeply sad and inglorious reality #or some sort of meta about storytelling itself. i'm not really smart enough to say lol) but i made this anyways. enjoy #pattern recognition go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr #i bent over backwards trying to make this symmetric and harmonious. it isn't but if i don't post it now i never will

[prahacat]

when the horrors catch up and you take an evening off to batch-process

#obi-wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #ahsoka tano #maybe obi-wan just read the outline for the next wip #why do i love to torture him so #one of my fav fanfic genres has to be meta fic horror #just imagine. how deeply disturbing it must be to find out you're a fictional character #somebody has *intentionally* written all those horrors onto you #and it wasn't even the guy who created you #he did his part. but the ppl who love it most to ruin your life and see you suffer are your fans #it's not enough that there's prob a lot of jedi rpf around in the gffa already. scarred obi-wan for life #lmao drawing anakin like this gave me so many flashbacks to my old ocs where almost every male character had that hair #also i have a job interview in one hour dsdsfhjgj #my art #prahacat draws

[wolfziedraws]

Good Gorgug Hunting

#more colored sketches while i procrastinate my thesis #i cant stress enough how much i love the school scenes this season #theyre so deeply chaotic oh my god #Gorgug giving me flashbacks to taking 1 million ap classes oughhh #he can do it though hes the greatest barbarian wizard artificer of our time #d20 #dimension 20 fhjy #fantasy high junior year #gorgug thistlespring #fanart #spoilers #but out of context so not rlly

[videogamelover99]

Chuuya angst comic at 1AM?? More likely than you think!

Part 2

#originalartblog said there's not enough dazai comforting chuuya content so i aim to please #part 2 is still out there~ #bsd #bungou stray dogs #my art #nakahara chuuya #fan art #soukoku #dazai osamu #vee's art #skk #comic #the context is: #chuuya started getting flashbacks to his time at the lab #which resulted of him losing control of corruption #and it taking over his body #im surprised theres no fic out there about that...

[haunted-xander]

Using my god given ability as an artist to emotionally hurt as many people as I can

#everyone has to suffer with me HAHA #i originally wanted to cloud end with 'we are... but who are you?' bc it was supposed to be a flashback dream #before it was revealed that cloud was subconciously imitating and projecting himself onto zack #but i couldnt figure out how to compose it without having an additional page of just that #so i just left it as is #so now whether or not cloud consciously remembers zack at this point is up to you! #zack fair #cloud strife #tifa & yuffie are here too but not enough to warrant a tag #final fantasy #final fantasy 7 #final fantasy vii #ff7 #ffvii #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

[himebushou]

One of my favourite things about Buddy Daddies is the fact that Miri is incredibly well-written.

In Episode 8, Miri asks more about Rei's father — her grandpa. She's excited at first, but when she finds out that it won't be possible to meet Suwa Shigeki, she asks, "So is Grandpapa mad at Papa Rei?"

She continues:

We don't know how Miri frames the argument in her four-year-old mind, but I wouldn't be surprised if she imagined the pair fighting over the last cookie, or something.

Kazuki, however, somewhat forgets that he's talking to a tiny pop and starts telling Miri about the complicated family dynamic:

Watching this part, I felt pretty sceptical — how was Miri going to understand concepts like 'special circumstances', overbearing expectations, family businesses and so on? It would have been pretty ridiculous if she'd followed everything Kazuki said and responded like an adult.

But Miri, darling Miri, zeroes in on one particular part of Kazuki's dialogue:

The bit that really matters to a four-year-old child! The bit that she can understand!

Kazuki corrects Miri. The conversation concludes with Miri coming back on track; she simplifies the situation, no doubt relating it to her own experiences at daycare:

And that's another reason why the writing for Unasaka Miri is fantastic.

#buddy daddies #buddy daddy spoilers #unasaka miri #kurusu kazuki #sometimes... anime kids are a bit too advanced #and you conclude that the writers haven't really handled the characterisation all that well #ALSO #kazuki has a very good understanding of the situation #either kyuutarou researched the suwa family extensively (or rei opened up to HIM) #and then kazuki inferred a ton of stuff #(but that seems unlikely because rei was half-alive in those flashbacks; it's hard to imagine him having a heart-to-heart with kyuutarou) #OR #rei felt comfortable enough around kazuki to talk to him about this stuff at some point in the last few years #because it's just NOT stuff an outsider would know

[izzymalec]

Shadowhunters 1x12 Malec

#shadowhunters #shadowhuntersedit #shedit #magnus bane #clary fray #s1 #1.12 #mine #giffing this in honor of recently having had this exact conversation with my colleague #well not exact tbf he wanted gin not cocktails #but me going ''it's nine??'' and him going ''it's happy hour somewhere'' was flashback worthy enough #me at work: 400kb for a gif??? isn't that a bit much?? #me making gifs for tumblr dot org: oh 9.9 mb perfect #funnily enough that work convo happens with the same colleague #anyway!!! i couldn't remember what font i'd use for these kind of gifs for the life of me so. maybe it was this. maybe it wasn't. #200

[chibifatou]

The X-files | 1.01 x 2.06

#the x files #when the rain started in that scene i immediately got flashbacks to the pilot episode like girl. girl. i had enough already that’s too much #txf #txfedit #myedits #mulder x scully #msr

[keepthetension]

went back to the first few eps of dff to get a memory refresher and when fluke says por will probably die soon, jin says

and the camera cuts to phee giving jin this look

which may be absolutely nothing at all but i can't stop thinking of it as a "oh? now you're desperate to help? now you're worried about letting a friend die?" face

#dead friend forever #dff the series #my memory is so bad i can't remember a damn thing about exactly how the shit hit the fan at the start of the show #and it's amazing rewatching after seeing everything that happened in the past flashback eps #i like the idea that phee has some long revenge game in mind #and it's fascinating going back with that in mind #i support phee in making them all suffer #as a treat #this show is incredible like at first i was like: how are they going to keep this interesting for so many episodes? #but now i'm like OMG I HOPE THEY HAVE ENOUGH EPISODES TO TELL THE STORY #unbelievable lol

[suckishima]

oH SHIT!!!

okay it doesn’t look as epic as I was hoping and i’m sad you can’t see tsukkis own little smile but I don’t care right now because it’s HERE!! it’s gonna be in the movie ohhh my god

#this is enough confirmation for me that the sequence will be there ohhh I feel so much better #like why have the high five if they don’t serve and block and why serve and block without #the flashback and ‘he’s always one step ahead of me’ #…….and I’m gonna save judgment about whether the sequence is done justice for when I actually see it lol #hq manga spoilers #hq #garbage dump spoilers #karaneko manga spoilers #hq movie spoilers #tsukki #Yamaguchi #x #garbage dump

[reineyday]

how cute is it that sanji's promo poster has him wearing a ring with zeff's cook pirates jolly roger logo? :') im so soft

#one piece #opla #one piece live action #sanji #black leg sanji #vinsmoke sanji #taz skylar #red leg zeff #THAT'S HIS DAD YOUR HONOUR #rei rambles #mb i will look it up next time to see if it's in the show but like #what if that's zeff's captain ring or smth and he gave it to sanji when he got old enough for it to fit on his finger 🥺🥺🥺 #mb sanji's having one of those days where he just feels so bad that he's kind of the reason zeff never restarted his crew #and continued looking for the all blue #and then zeff is like 'no eggplant you and the baratie staff? YOU'RE my crew and i dont regret a single day of raising you' #and he gives him the ring #and then sanji cries a little and laughs and makes a joke abt how he might not regret raising him but he definitely regrets hiring him #and zeff rolls his eyes fondly #oh by 'it being in the show' i mean if zeff is wearing the ring in the flashback where he comes onboard baby sanji's ship #i digress

[yujikuna]

anyway hinata lets his kids win when they play volleyball together but kageyama would block his 10 year old daughter with no mercy

#kags’ kids grow up w absolutely no fear bc their dad has been serving at them w full power since they were old enough to play properly #he’s gonna raise at least one nationally ranked libero i know it #his kid gets interviewed in hs about how they became so skilled on defense #and they have war flashbacks to being 12 n trying to have a ‘friendly’ match with their dad kfjekdndkdnd #all in good fun though #but i will say if hinata’s kids were actually wanting to be serious and get better then he would take it seriously lol

[warning-heckboop]

Choosing to believe that the reason it was only the brothers and their grandmother at the time of Brozone's breakup was because their parent(s) were captured and eaten at one of the last Trollstice's before the escape while protecting the rest of them, and Branch, being only 1-2 years old, was the only one young enough to not remember the traumatic event that ultimately put strain on the brothers because they all felt somewhat guilty yet also resentful towards the others for what happened 💕

#he's canonically around 23 in the first movie i guess and that took place exactly 20 years after the escape #meanwhile the next youngest Floyd looked like a teen at least while branch was still a baby in the last concert flashback #so i get the feeling the other four would have still been pretty young #but at the same time old enough to feel like they could have done something to protect their parent #I've been thinking about the timeline a lot okay #trolls #trolls band together #trolls brozone #brozone

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

i remember that post where its like “damn imagine being in the old hexsquad’s graduating class three of your classmates became coven heads and two of them become wizard steve jobs what a high life success rate for that year” and it’s funny but also like. no it’s not just three coven heads and two wizard steve jobs out of a graduating year. they were all from the same friend group.

you had a friend group of seven and three of them became coven heads and two of them became wizard steve jobs. and one of them became a famous reporter and basically a household name bc he shows up on the crystal ball every night. and the last one became a hermit in the woods but also the most powerful criminal in the country? like that is a success rate of seven out of seven if you count eda’s life of crime as a "successful life” which i do.

like imagine being in that graduating year. literally all your other high school friends are just some guy except for this one group of seven. they mostly stopped being friends with each other by the end of high school for reasons you’re not rly sure on but you see them on the news like every day now.

and then the apocalypse happens and the world is saved by a group of plucky teens and you find out three out of five of them are kids of that old friend group. but they didnt actually end up becoming friends bc of their parents they became friends just cuz. and somewhere along the way they roped in the literal golden guard and an actual titan? oh and theres another girl there too her dads are just some guys. the nepotism in the main character industry is insane

#toh #the owl house #hexsquad #eda clawthorne #lilith clawthorne #raine whispers #darius deamonne #perry porter #alador blight #odalia blight #luz noceda #amity blight #willow park #gus porter #hunter toh #hunter noceda #and yes im including odalia in the hexsquad #she was important enough to eda to show up in her flashback to her friends in kings tide #so she is important enough to part of the friend group as like #the gangs actual friend and not just aladors girlfriend or the Evil Woman who Steals Alador From The Group Because He Is Woobie #dana just didnt include her in the gallery nucleus art bc she wanted to fit six characters for both hexsquads #au where she left someone else out instead and odalia and amity point at each other like that spiderman meme #theyre like who is that girl that looks exactly like me like the porters were doing