#Story Arc Update

[suntails]

echo

#its the way baul called sebek a human with such disdain and sebek looked so HURT. and thats exactly what he does #it's the way this is his chance to face the music. to realize what he has accidentally carried forward in attitude towards everyone else #it's SEBEK TIME BABEYYYYYYYY it's SEBEKKY NATION!!!! the relationship and similarities between sebek and baul are SO interesting AGHHHH #cannot possibly overstate how floored and overjoyed i was that bauls design was getting put in canon. not even in an event #in the MAIN STORY. as an IMPORTANT CHAR im WHEEZING #sebek's internalized everything is so important to his char. yes we KNOW hes annoying and mean. its bc he hasnt gotten his ARC YET this is #GGRGGAHGAHHAHAHAH #twst #twisted wonderland #twst spoilers #book 7 spoilers #sebek zigvolt #baul zigvolt #oh Also shoutout to all the old man yaoi coming from this update. i appreciate it so much #lilibaul nation #suntails

[cappycodeart]

"In a twist of fate, I found you again..."

Some artwork inspired by some story stuff for my Glitchy Simon AU. Unfortunately the file got accidentally deleted before I finished it,,,, thankfully, I took a screenshot, but it still pains me bc I WASN'T DONE...

A lil story blurb + related doodles under the cut:

For several days, Simon had been wandering in this universe that looked uncomfortably close to the world he left behind over a thousand years ago (give or take a handful of historical details here or there). Betty living there crossed his mind, and while he knew pursuing her was a horrid idea, he... he couldn't help himself. He wanted to see her so bad, even if he knew it wasn't actually her, y'kno? Just... to see her as a normal, happy human again could satisfy himself enough to live his days in peace. At some point he was able to locate her and caught a glimpse of her from a distance. And, with this simple gesture, he found himself... content...

However... fate had a different plan as she caught sight of him too, setting the stage for things soon to come...

That first meeting went insignificantly enough for Simon to not think much of it. She didn't recognize him? Had the Simon of this world not met her yet? Well, even better! He could simply give himself a fake name and walk away from her life with hope to leave it at that. But, to his dismay, they kept running into each other by accident: on the street... in the shops... at the fated library. He was no longer a blip to be forgotten in her memory, but an acquaintance... one that was making an impact on her. Not Good...

It was only a matter of time before she found out.. she knew she wasn't going crazy when she caught sight of the faint blue glow and strange ear-piercing static she heard standing next to him. No, something was off with this one. Her roommate scoffed at the suggestion, but she had to know. Who was this man, really? And why did standing next to him fill her with a dread she couldn't explain?

Soon... he was cornered. Left with no other choice but the truth, he told her about who he really was and why he was here. She couldn't help but feel... sad. So sad for him. She didn't know why, but her heart yearned to do something about it. But that was the LEAST thing Simon wanted…

#adventure time #fionna and cake #simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #glitchy simon au #itchy #fan art #digital art #2023 #shaded #background #line art #so... let's just say... in itchy's story... betty kinda takes fionna's place in the magical universe hopping adventure... hehehe #it's only been 2 months and he's already got like 3 arcs and this one is the least developed but also the most important aughgh... pain... #maybe forcing myself to post things chronologically will motivate me to work on this arc #I think it’s working… but in that case it might take time before the next update

[magpieclan]

Gifts for two of my favorite clangen blogs!

Up first is @dawn-clan with Bleakpaw and Petalpaw <3

And then there's @fog-and-the-frost with Fogscreech, Frostflash, and the beloved Currentpaw who I miss very much :(

#other clans #clangen #warriors #warrior cats #BluejaysArt #Art #i miss currentpaw with every update but i love the lore and story to bits #also bleakpaw healer arc??? cant wait to hear more about these dreams #gift art

[nocturnalazure]

Author's note: Reference is made to the following scenes: (1), (2), (3)

#ts3 #sims 3 #sims 3 story #sims stories #tteot story #laurie golzine #omar ayad #muhammad al-saud #i'm sorry for going into details #i hate doing that #look i work in investment but imposter syndrome is kicking me hard #plus it's kind of difficult to make a plot look seamless when there is so much time between updates #in summary: laurie is managing a conglomerate including an investment fund of which noah is a partner #so laurie is a shareholder of a small tech company through that fund #he sold the antivirus via noah to that company as a solution to the virus he developed himself #when the stock market got hacked (by laurie) all companies rushed to get an anti-virus #but it also contained a spyware (also by laurie) #and this is how laurie's main business is now stealing data #laurie arc

[holocene-sims]

just a guy and his snowpal ⛄❄️

#ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #sims 4 screenshots #simblr #it's missing my pixel son grant hours #actually i've seen a lot of him lately bc i've been working super hard on story posts - yippee yippeee!! #it's just going slow but i swear they're coming again *pinky promise* #btw if you are reading the tags and you do read the story - question?? #do y'all prefer waiting for me to finish a whole bunch so a cohesive arc is released over a short span all at once? #or do you prefer more frequent updates mini updates that just take longer to cover the arc overall? #if that makes sense #it's much easier for me to do the former bc i've styled my story that way but i notice a lot of people do mini but frequent updates instead #and i'm just kinda curious if one would work better than the other or if people have preferences as readers #i don't know that i would retool it bc i like the long drawn out scenes/arcs i do but i also do want to make more story #and the potential is maybeeee there that i could push things out faster as for the whole narrative if i don't wait until i have time to mas #produce the content #like rn because i'm doing a whole sprint to finish this one arc all at once but i had to wait forever until i had christmas break to do it #holocene.png #hlcn: story extras #hlcn: grant

[1000sunnygo]

Op academy updates tomorrow and it's the end of Doffy Law and Cora subplot,,,

this has become so important for me what am I gonna do

#two more updates left I'm already suffering from withdrawals #well the onigashima side's subplot probably wouldn't end with it but the law cora doffy drama has been resolved #my motivation to continue translation after that depends on contents 😔 #will do if cavendish comes bc I care him #WCI and wano are arcs I have the least attachment to so uhhh #I love translating though! if a group picks it up I'm willing to help #one piece #one piece academy #trafalgar law #donquixote doflamingo #donquixote rosinante #at least I hope law reappears soon in the main story?? oda please give us something 😭😭

[lee-hakhyun]

lhh's new story has a name

'one who rewrites fate'

#orv side story #orv spoilers #side story lb #side story spoilers #sorry for the lack of updates here! this arc is complicated. i'm more active in discord currently

[bellaxgiornata]

Two FFTD related bits of news this morning:

If I can get enough free time to update this morning, y'all will get part 93 "The Unexpected Introduction." Which means y'all get our new mystery character finally revealed!

And also, the Second Angst Arc has mostly fleshed itself out as of this morning and I think y'all might hate me a little for some things that will happen...

#bellas story updates #fftd news #yay an update! #but also second angst arc fear intensifies 😅

[seraheart]

I kinda wish that the DetCo canon would do more with the fact that the relationship (I don't mean this in the shipping sense) between Conan and Haibara has been, or at least logically should have been, really strained for a long time.

Originally, they had this development where Haibara was really messed up, overly cautious and trying to force her maladaptive survival psychological issues onto other people, and generally not good at positive interactions. Then, slowly, Conan and the others started gaining her trust (not entirely though), and also her general mental health improved (never completely though).

But then it turned around, and started getting significantly worse. Haibara isn't really in a healing arc anymore. If Aoyama still took her seriously as a character (which, to be fair, I don't think is the case), she would be in a retraumatization arc. Conan and his allies are limiting Haibara's agency, invading her privacy, dismissing her concerns about all this, and pretending that this isn't happening while she can obviously tell that it is happening.

I think the really obvious turning point was the Mystery Train arc. Haibara even called Conan and Agasa out on it and stated that she wouldn't forgive if she were to be treated like that again. Instead of taking her hurt seriously, they just told her she should "be thankful", and dismissed her hurt as "tsundere", refusing to take her trauma seriously after using it and using her as a mere chess piece in their plans (and Akai even triggering her more by gloating about it).

Since then, Haibara has been trapped under the constant, violating supervision of these people who have demonstrated that they don't respect her, and also refuse to acknowledge that the problem even exists. It's not a situation where her recover arc could realistically continue. By all logic, she should be spiraling, getting worse again.

And maybe this is on purpose; Aoyama definitely didn't plan the manga to get this long when he introduced Haibara, and originally the slow-burn of her recovery was a good way to postpone a scenario where Haibara could actually trust Conan enough to give him the kind of information that would lead to the finale arc. But... eventually, even with the extreme slow burn of DetCo, Haibara's recovery arc and relationship development with Conan would have gotten to the point where her continued withholding of crucial information would no longer make sense... and, I guess, rather than start concluding the story at a humanly reasonable rate, Aoyama just opted to nuke Haibara's whole recovery arc and character and relationship development (not only with Conan but also Agasa).

Which could have been tragic but realistic (albeit kind of a major downer out of tune with the manga's usual tone, and upsetting to anyone who had been invested in the slow-burn mental health improvement arc), but then Aoyama can't even be arsed to take it seriously, and is now just pretending that the situation with Haibara and her relationships with Conan and Agasa are still "normal" instead of FUBAR.

It's regrettable and really shows how much everyone dragging out this franchise to milk it for more money just... doesn't actually care about the story anymore, hasn't in a long time. They'll eventually just kill central, fan-favorite, long-running story arcs rather than actually letting them conclude or evolve in a satisfying manner if that would mean risking their precious status quo (which has warped beyond all recognition anyway, so I'm not sure why they bother).

#dcmk criticism #detective conan criticism #haibara ai #edogawa conan #professor agasa #dcmk writing criticism #eternity series #haibara #conan #agasa #by the way the same refusal to let story arcs develop in a satisfying way if it risks status quo #is also warping the shinran relationship development and secret identity issues into something not... good #Aoyama & co. want it to be a positive relationship but they're taking away the capacity for it to be. #the secret identity drama has honestly run its course and they should have updated the situation to Ran finding out #and the characters dealing with the fallout and the development that would have followed #a WHILE ago. #instead it has become a rehash of a rehash of a rehash that makes Conan/Shinichi more and more unsympathetic & less justified each round. #do Aoyama & co. not realise that letting these plotlines evolve would actually be HELPFUL by giving them NEW scenarios to work with?! #I give up #old fan yells at cloud

[ask-ranma-and-ryoga]

MARCH UPDATE SCHEDULE CHANGE

It’s time to switch things up a bit!

For the month of March, to celebrate the start of a brand new story arc, Ask Ranma And Ryoga will get DOUBLE weekly updates every Tuesday and Thursday, starting March 12th!

#ranma 1/2 #ranma #ranma saotome #ask ranma and ryoga #ryoga #ryoga hibiki #ask blog #ranma rp #ranma ask blog #not an update #schedule change #annoucement #new story arc

[ellies-enrichment]

oh my god my editor for this fic is the slowest editor that has ever existed

*i am the editor for this fic*

#the problem is i dont know how to end a story so i write and i write and i write #and it's been a week #and i'll no doubt write even more if i hate the ending when i get down to it #i live in a constant state of not wanting to forget a stupid comment made by either tommy or ellie #and if i read through it a billion times to make sure i have everything i'll see a spot where i can make one of them say something else #i prommy its coming #its oddly so connected to graceland too which was not the plan at all but i guess somewhere in my mind while i slept #i was like tommy & ellie graceland too arc #and now i have that in my mind #so my silly fluffy fic turned into something i actually cared about a lot more #because graceland too is special to me #graceland too tommy & ellie arc right before the kyoto joel & ellie arc #anyway theres your obligatory update #its still coming im just slow

[luc1d17y-ffxiv]

Wake up, honey, new benchmark just dropped

(Raex stole his cousin's hairstyle because Styled for Hire isn't a default one, so the benchmark software excludes it v.v)

#hopefully this means that I won't have to upgrade anything for most/all of this next story arc #I'm so tired of PC troubleshooting sometimes #oh and obligatory “my boy looks so GOOD with the graphical updates” #dawntrail benchmark #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #ff14 #ff14 ffxiv #ffxiv viera #ff14 viera #male viera #rava viera #ffxiv screenshots #ff14 screenshots #ffxiv screenies #ff14 screenies

[siriusfelis]

Tbh I kindof hope they don't go in the white lily / dark enchantress redemption route but that's probably what they're gonna do

#like I’ll hold out and see what they do cause #they’ve been building this story up fairly well #I feel like a redemption arc would just kinda ruin what they’ve established? I guess? #but I’ll see. #worst case I can just rewrite it myself #lol #🍪 #I can already tell pure vanilla is gonna do more stupid things this update and I’m afraid forbhim #YO SOCRATES ITS A COOKIE

[dailynakaharachuuya]

(just some thoughts about things, I think its rather long so you don't have to read ❤️❤️)

#(sorry for the sudden post but hmmm) #(I cant tell if I am just not into bsd as much as other people) #(or if its simply bc Im just not as opinionated) #(the current story arc has gotten so far and like woah that I don't feel like super excited or shocked whenever there's a new update) #(either that or seeing everyones complaints about everything kinda dampens the excitement) #(tbh I really enjoyed up to like the guild arc but once it got into the whole like fyodor business my brain stopped) #(its interesting but maybe I just like happy endings too much haha) #(I dont talk to anyone in the fandom but I feel like it is very negative( #(hence the reason why I dont really interact outside of posting these drawings every once in a while) #(I like slice of life stuff I suppose and all this is too much haha I much prefer bsd wan honestly) #(itd probably be easier to just ignore the fandom or so) #(but its a bit difficult to do when I wanna see cool art and cool ideas too) #(I dont know) #(maybe bc I dont remember much from the manga but I dont feel as negative as others) #(sorry this was really long hahaha) #(I think I just dont want to feel alone again) #(though I dont have any mutuals so I guess I kinda already am haha) #(🌟🌟 it makes me happy if even one person likes my drawings or ideas) #(makes me feel like I can do it) #(and not feel so negative about something I quite enjoy!)

[nocturnalazure]

#ts3 #sims 3 #sims 3 story #tteot story #laurie arc #anh wong #laurie golzine #anh's thoughts coming in a jumble :D #i doubt she heard a word of what laurie was saying :D #so is laurie evil? :D #let's find out in the next update! ;D #this one's not over yet #we're going to follow other characters tomorrow ;)

[hotcheetohatredwastaken]

Can you tell me all about your favorite blorbo, LU or otherwise? Why do you love them? I have a guess, but maybe I’m wrong, and the WHY is the best part.

WILD BEST BLORBO, as I'm sure anyone that has even glanced at my stuff could guess that.

I've already said it on here, but in the context of my own story, I love the struggle of him trying to figure out who he is, wanting independence and wanting someone to watch out for him (ie. Twilight), how much of his past defines him, how much of his future is actually his own to decide, y'know that sort of coming-of-age story and all that jazz with a spritz of Fate and a slight sprinkle of Hylia is a mean mfer.

The why? Gah I'm trying to figure out how to answer this in a way that doesn't spoil all of BDOR. But basically, I find it really fun and challenging--and also quite self-reflective, cuz y'know therapy isn't free but fanfiction sure is--to write like five emotionally stunted beings in a trench coat resembling one semi-functioning edgelord of a human without A) also making it SUPER obvious that I am doing so, at least for arc 1 and B) not coming off as "inconsistent characterization," at least so much so that people stop reading XD

So now my question to you, dear SkipBreaker, is the same--who is your favorite blorbo (I think I know who lol, at least for LU but you don't have to answer that way) and why?

#I may delete this later #I've already said too much #Gah I say that as if anyone is paying as close attention to the story details as I am #Ya'll gonna hate me with how long this story is going to take to come out #I'm taking like a month's break to make sure that everything is together for arc 1 #And I'll be updating a lot of prologue stuff #so at least ya'll have something to eat #but this will literally be a story that goes on for years if I do my once a week updates like I've been doing #Oh well #bdor #blooddropsonroses #cheetoanswers #not gonna tag this linked universe #I feel like sometimes I clog up ya'lls tag with my rambling lmao