#and everyone in this book kind of annoys me. but not necessarily in a bad way LMAO

[deklo]

i’ve got 1h 45m left of the summer sons audiobook but even less considering i’m listening at 1.2 speed BUT it’s so hard for me to pay attention when im drawing UGH

#i’m gonna try for a bit #i listen when i’m working which is much easier usually #i just miss a few sentences here n there lol #most recent thing that just happened? fucking on page #nice. #also i’m assuming the professor is the Bad Guy™️ #and everyone in this book kind of annoys me. but not necessarily in a bad way LMAO #also i read a few fic before finishing the book and i thought sam calling andrew princess in fic was one of those instances #where people overuse a word used once or twice in canon #(like junkie in aftg) #but boy was i wrong! he won’t stop calling him that! and andrew LOVES ITTT HEYYYYY

[phoenixyfriend]

I think Modern AUs of Beauty and the Beast need to lean harder on the "since the morning that we came to this poor provincial town" line

Belle came from something that is not a small, economically shaky rural town! There are a few possibilities, but I choose to understand it as Belle being a City Girl, because I think I can make it funny.

This is a City Girl who moved here, and looks Generically Pretty, because she's just Different from the others (that's why she's the most beautiful girl in town). It's not necessarily that she is prettier, but small towns tend to have limited options, and a new look is an interesting one.

She reads so many books because she never got agribusiness classes in high school, so she isn't set up for small town life in terms of actually getting a job locally, and she tends to avoid other people and hide in her books because it's easier than people. Everyone reads into this as her being kind of stuck-up and snotty because she looks down on the locals.

Her dad is some Weird City Man Who Lost His Tenure For Blowing Up The Science Wing, so he's now the eccentric who had to move to Nowhere, Middle Of for the sake of getting away from a whole lot of Crap regarding his reputation.

The local dudes who all peaked in high school are joshing for a chance at Belle, because she's the Hot City Girl. They do all think she's weird as hell because she's got Political Opinions And Uses The Wrong Slang, and are very much of the opinion that there is a certain level of crazy that can be excused by being hot enough.

Cue "Dad gets lost, gotta go find him, agree to stay in the cursed castle because, well, gotta save Dad! And curses are a pretty extenuating circumstance to 'weird guy wants me to stay with him indefinitely,' especially since isn't asking for sex or housework while living with him, so... whatever. I still have a phone and Dad knows to call the cops if I miss a check-in."

Also in regards to the various servants, there are cult rumors. These days, live-in staff are a lot less common. Nobody's seen anyone from The Big House in ages, but the building still accepts food deliveries and puts out trash for collection, so someone must be there, so the only reasonable take on why they're out of contact is cult.

From the perspective of the town... she falls for that weird rich dude who lives in the foothills and has what seems to be a cult, which for the peaked in high school crew is very "Okay. You weren't that hot anyway, bitch."

The 'magic mirror shows that Belle is trapped by a monster' is actually just people going "aw shit, new girl got sucked into the cult, should we go check on her?" Her dad keeps saying that she's fine and hasn't said anything is really wrong, but everyone insists that she's lying because it's all Cult Bullshit.

After that whole mess is over, with the Beast and crew once again human and Belle clearly annoyed and reading the riot act to both the townsfolk and Adam, showing she's not fallen for any brainwash-y bullshit, she was just a pissed-off girl who decided "I can bully him into being a better person," which is probably a bad decision, but she's a grown-ass woman, so...

The cops are no longer trying to kidnap her back from the local rich eccentric (as opposed to the local poor eccentric, of which there are several, including Belle's dad).

The townsfolk decide by and large that this was probably for the best because Belle's apparently broken the cult situation? Somehow? And people from the big house in the hills are finally visiting town and proving they're alive again, so that's good.

It was never a cult, they just couldn't show their faces when the faces were furniture.

This turned into a bit more 'massive misunderstanding' with a heavy dollop of accidental Hallmark movie, but hey, we got there in the end. We all know I love a good genre mashup, and a romcom on one side with a horror on the other is basically how Disney did it, right?

Also I've been bingeing a lot of SNL and the actress I've got in my mind for this is Ego Nwodim.

#beauty and the beast #modern au #cults #cult mention #phoenix posts #disney

[meadowmusing]

my thoughts before the PJO finale

overall? A good fun show but with some definite stumbling. Faithful in a "remake" sense, but as much as a "port" would be. Still a genuinely good time with a likeable cast, gorgeous visuals, and an engaging (mostly) interesting plot.

Beware spoilers for ep1-7!

My biggest gripes

Pacing. the first episode was horribly paced. Somehow both rushed, not well condensed, and yet also failed to effectively deliver tension in important scenes it was needed in. Scenes like the minotaur felt dragged out and lacked the urgency it deserved, and the fight/victory fell kind of flat. Pacing got better in later episodes thankfully.

Sally Jackson. Yeah I know, not a hot take. She's a more realistic depiction of a mother in that kind of situation but I didn't find her likeable outside of her first scene talking about the name Perseus. She's not necessarily a "Bad Character" per se, but she is not the Sally Jackson from the books. Frankly, I didn't find book Sally all that important, but seeing this version has definitely wised me up to importance of her kindness and patience. Sure she might have seemed like a "doormat" at the beginning, but the more u learnt about her, the more her inner strength and self sacrificial love for Percy was apparent. TV Sally just doesn't have that, it doesn't feel like she has that much affection for Percy, she seems more distant and less loving. TV Sally has far too many scenes of her raising her voice at Percy and being frustrated with him, it makes it seem more like she was randomly stuck with this child and while she loves him, she knows deep down she would have been happier without him. Again, understandable but not book Sally. I feel they've sort of played up Percy's fierce love for his mum (or maybe it just feels more so because its more present in his spoken lines), but it doesn't feel as justified. If anything, id believe a more messy wrought relationship between the two. Its not a bad thing she's not the exact same as her book counterpart, but I do think it was a bad decision when they went so hard on Percy being ride or die for her, when most of her longer scenes are her being just frustrated with Percy being a child.

Gabe. ok more of a hot take I guess but I seriously disagree with his re-characterization. I don't mean to downplay anyone's experiences with toxic or abusive partners, but Gabe is far too bland and inoffensive. At worst, he's kind of annoying and maybe lazy. But he is nothing like the human sht stain that was book Gabe. Book Gabe deserved petrification and a lot worse, TV Gabe does not. The guy deserves a break up, not murder. Me and my friend actually laughed at him, because he didn't give "beats his wife and emotionally abuses her and her child", he gave "dead beat crypto boyfriend". Maybe it was the casting as well, the actor was funny and just seemed more goofy than actively horrid. "what makes u think he hasn't hit sally?" have u met TV Sally?? are u kidding me? she would have that man arrested.

Hades. I don't actually dislike making Hades friendly and more sassy. Sure its not book accurate, but you could argue its a little more mythologically accurate (maybe). My real problem is that he lacks PRESCENCE. Yes he can be nicer ect in this, but he is still the GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD. He should still be able to command a room! His words, even if they're not malicious or intimidating, should hold a certain kind of weight. I don't blame the actor here, I think he does well with what he's given but pretty much everyone else dropped the ball here. If they had supported him, we could have had a friendly Hades that was still a fitting lord of the underworld. Writers, directors, lighting, sound, ect let him down.

Persassy. Percy was great in the beginning but I felt like he started to lose that as the show went on, to give more of his lines/sassy moments to the other members of the trio. Which wasn't a terrible idea, I just think they did it too much, especially with the Ares scenes. Percy is meant to have an epic beef with Ares so much it transcends magic amnesia, but I could not believe that with the current lack of sass. Even the upcoming battle doesn't feel as weighty or deserved as it should. Again, don't hate the idea of sharing the sass around, just don't think it should come at the cost of Percy being toned down so much.

Getting into the underworld / mattress scene WHAT WAS THAT. I can accept that Percy knows more about Greek mythology because of his mom and i feel generally from just current cultural zeitgeist, but WHY THE HELL WOULD HE KNOW WHO CRUSTY IS?? and why was it so quick? there was no quick desperate clever thinking, it was like bro had read the scene from the book and then SPEED RAN IT. Also the Charon scene was far more interesting imo and I don't like that they cut it in favour for Crusty, without even doing that scene well. God that was so poorly executed.

Anyway thanks for reading my rant. Its long so it may seem like I didn't like the series but im being truthful when I say I did. I pretty much liked the rest of it, even some of the changes. I thinks a good show and adaption with some flaws, thats all. Im excited to finish up the season and im so pumped for season 2 and hopefully the rest of the series :D

#just musing #pjo #percy jackson #pjo tv series #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson series #pjo series #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #pjo tv show spoilers #spoilers #percy jackson spoilers

[lakesbian]

i need toknow what the fuck is happening in rose's brain (or was before blake got eated rather) i may have to undergo the mortifying ordeal of theoryposting publicly and all. which is why people wanted me to liveblog in the first place. anyway. why the fuck did she hug him. what's wrong with her brain. i'm compelled by the idea of like. upper middle class bitchy cutthroat cishet white girl doing a very good job at Continuing The Cycle--not necessarily lying to herself that the way she's behaving is because she's the only good-hearted one here being slighted by everyone else like some of her relatives might be--but believing that the ends justify the means, or perhaps that performing those means to perpetuate those ends is inevitable and/or inescapable on her behalf. she was born into & raised by The Thorburns and not only can't escape but quite possibly has no Desire to escape the perpetuation of the involved cruelties--task set upon her which she will grimly carry out as her grandmother did before her and etc etc.

the interesting wrench here for her is that part of carrying out those tasks means watching someone who is literally [deep inhale] Herself But If She, Due To Different Life Circumstance, Left Home, Experienced Different Traumas, Attained A Deeply Loving Friend Group, And Formed A Personality Based Largely Around Kindness And Fair + Equal Exchange march like a lamb to the sacrificial altar to buy her time. perhaps nudging his course on the way to the altar at times but largely just watching it because he's a really blundering meandering lamb who doesn't like being told what to do very much. (neither, i imagine, does she.) which, like, that's an inherently fascinating dynamic. not just seeing but Knowing the person she could've been if she had only stepped away from the cycles of family cruelty. blake is doomed, bound to die (obligatory: badly) and drag people down with him with very little awareness of the fact and without making anything tangibly better for the next generation. he's bullheaded, and he doesn't read the fucking books, and he's quite frequently impulsive and bad at compromising and prone to horrendous mistakes which harm far more people than just him.

he's also the type of person who can talk at length about how amazing his friends' art is, how much he loves the tattoos he got from one of them. who will lend his own jacket to an acquaintance even when he's in worse shape. who will take on nigh-suicidal tasks not because he Is suicidal (or at least isn't yet, anyway) but just because they needed doing and no one but him was willing.

how do you, as a bitch of a woman trapped in (& willing to function within the trap of) the horrors of your particular family, meet a You who turned out like that, and not hate him at least a little? find him bumbling and annoying and ignorant, resent him for not being the best sacrificial lamb he could be, for being the type of person who ran away from home instead of getting it into a chokehold. but also, how are you not at least a little fascinated by him? the vestige of what could have been will be gone the second the illusion of blake thorburn inevitably shatters and she takes back her rightful place, but for the brief period of time where that illusion is solid, how could she resist the urge to entertain the idea least a little? the idea of a version of her that will put up with a hug purely to make her feel better despite hating touch, the idea of a version of her that naively believes there's a good way out for both of them.

like i think perhaps she hates his ass because his ass is, from her perspective, a dumb and cringefail miserable little sacrificial lamb who is going to be a BITCH to play along with until whenever he kicks the bucket. and she is fully aware that she is lying her ass off because she has 0 desire to intervene in the process of this alternate-her marching himself to the altar for her. but also she mayhaps. occasionally. just a little. gets lost in the sauce of that game of pretend where she's pretending she actually respects him as an equal or has real investment in him not dying badly. is this anything. are we going anywhere with this. like literally what If you met an alternate version of you and that alternate version of you is dumb and stupid and unsustainable and totally fucked but also nicey. you would totally Strongly Dislike their ass but also Genuinely find yourself compelled to wring a moment of real affection or connection out of them before they explode. anyway blake has next to none of these complexes about her and thus no hypothetical weird psychosexual obsession with her. but rose? yeah you can get a hypothetical weird psychosexual obsession with blake out of rose.

#pact time #if i'm not onto Any Thing ill die forever badly

[namusthetic]

The Weird Relatives at the Family Reunion

Half the rumors at the dining table involve them, but they attend family reunions just to cause drama. Their alliance still stands, and gets stronger each gathering.

No.1 - The Chaotic

Is made 70% out of anger issues and 30% out of spite

Does not care about people's opinions and judgement

Has no patience

Mom friend, scolds you first and then takes care of you anyway

Has their life organized, knows what they want

Only listens to a few selected people whom they trust

Devours sexists for breakfast

Their resistance to caffeine is the same as that of a 5-year-old to sugar

"Bold of you to assume I've reached my peak of dumbass"

Avoids physical touch

Their love language is food giving / cooking

A public danger when driving (and in general)

Eats cereals from the box

Falls completely silent when angry

Probably made a deal with the devil for clear skin

Hates the government with a passion

Listens to hard rock, metal and techno, not necessarily in this order

Helps children with mischievous plans

Ready to throw hands and chew people out if someone is getting bullied

Slapstick humor

Plots new, fun ways of causing mayhem

Catchphrase: "Improvise, attack, overcome."

Playlist:

Don't Stop Me Now by Queen

Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants

all the good girls go to hell by Billie Eilish

Cigarette Ahegao by Penelope Scott

LA ESPADA by Eternal Raijin

Scopin by Kordhell

Besos I by Bo Burnham

Supermassive Black Hole by Muse

My Ordinary Life by The Living Tombstone

Maneater by Nelly Furtado

spy? by WHOKILLEDXIX

Let's Groove by Earth, Wind & Fire

No.2 - The Neutral

Always looks half asleep or annoyed or both

Sarcasm and dark humor

Done with everyone's shit

"save the bees, punch a racist"

comes off as kind and easy-going, but would watch the world burn and not bat an eye

Is inclined to tollerate you better if you offer them coffee or cookies or if you start talking about books

Will cover for you if they like you, tell on you if they don't, you'll never know which one it is until the last second

They'll sit down in a spot away from the family chaos to either ignore or judge everyone

Has a keen eye for body language and nonverbal communication

Bad at managing anxiety and stress

"binarism is for computers, do I look like a fuckin MacBook to you?"

Says they don't like kids but carries candy in their pockets for their nephews

Commitment and trust issues

Starts yelling when they get really mad

Their love languages are acts of service and quality time

Not easy to impress, unless you start the conversation quoting Shakespeare or Dante

Passive aggressive

Listens to literally anything except country music

Hates parents who don't take their children seriously, so they're always ready to lend a ear and give advice

Helps no. 1 plotting by giving technical details and suggestions

Catchphrase: "Oh, I haven't told them good morning simply because I don't think they deserve one"

Playlist:

These Times by Far Caspian

Treehouse by Alex G, Emily Yacina

Tired by beabadoobee

Summer Child by Conan Gray

Young by Vacations

Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now by The Smiths

The Adults Are Talking by The Strokes

O Children by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Sex, Drugs, Etc. by Beach Weather

Bitter Taste by Billy Idol

Obstacles by Syd Matters

No.3 - The Lawful

Sensitive, must protect

Love languages are words of affirmation and physical touch

Cannot cook for the life of them

Made of sunshine and rainbows

"Please, assume I have dignity"

Sweet but awkward

Wears sunglasses to hide the eye bags

Always rushing somewhere

Loves children

Takes things personally and thus gets hurt too often

Quotes cringy positivity lines

Hard working

Always brings something to eat

Is actually the most insecure about themselves and their body

No.1 and no.2 are ready to physically fight anyone who is mean to them

Cheers you up and has your back

Ready to forgive and forget, rarely blames people for stuff

Too willing to give second chances

Gives stern scoldings if they're mad

When something goes wrong they take it badly and get really sad

A cinnamon roll inside and outside

Knows how to play several instrument so they sing and play for children

Tries to keep no.1 and no.2 from achieving world domination

Catchphrase: "Even if the world is big, you're enough for it"

Playlist:

El Mismo Sol by Alvaro Soler

Brazil by Declan McKenna

OUR SUMMER by TXT

Baby I'm Yours by Arctic Monkeys

Hey Lover! by Wabie

Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles

NIGHT DANCER by imase

HOME by BTS

Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) by Edison Lighthouse

Bossa No Sé by Cuco ft. Jean Carter

Swing Lynn by Harmless

Promise by Jimin

#moodboard #aestethic #character aesthetics #types of people #tag your aesthetic #character concept #tag yourself #song suggestions #playlist #chaotic #lawful #neutral

[victimsofyaoipoll]

please please Lizzie NEEDS to win this. I understand she's up against katara and the atla fandom was INSANELY against aang x katara back in the olden days (and now she's doubly pushed aside for zukka) but. hear me out.

i admittedly can't really think of any yaoi ships with aang in them and idk if that just wasn't the side of the fandom i was in, but like. i feel like most people just disliked katara x aang on Principle rather than like, because she was Getting In The Way of a Yaoi(tm). so more of just like, a general fandom misogyny thing.

LIZZIE on the other hand. Oh my fucking god. I don't necessarily ship her romantically with ciel because they're both like, what, 14? and cousins? but holy SHIT their relationship is so deep and meaningful.

I'll try to keep this brief so that there's a chance people will actually read this. for some context ciel has a canonical engagement with lizzie— she's his fiance. ciel is also extremely traumatized, and kind of cold to her, and at the beginning of the series you kind of her the impression that he finds her slightly annoying or pestering, but especially as the series progresses you can see that he Cares a Lot about her. a while into the series it's revealed that Lizzie actively Noticed that ciel was suffering and traumatized and she took up swordfighting lessons. to protect him. she is KICKASS and she.... she tries to be cute and pretty most of the time so she doesn't scare him, but when she noticed he was in so much pain and that bad things happened to him she trained herself so that she could protect him. and she DOES protect him and it's fucking awesome. she loves him unconditionally and is completely prepared to give her all to defend him and make him feel safe in a world that has persistently hurt him so many times over. not necessarily romantic love but oh my god that devotion. (and he clearly cares for her and wants to give her the best in return and tries to keep all his dark secrets away from her to protect her from himself and. i just. ausvfhdghddbbdbcm.)

.... except, you know what everyone was talking about instead, in the early 2010s fandom? how ciel should have a romantic relationship with his butler, who is a very powerful demon he has explicitly sold his soul to and who is simply using him and keeping ciel in a miserable and hateful state for his own benefit. barely any positive word about Lizzie who is so fucking cool. admittedly maybe the book of the atlantic arc (where most of those reveals about lizzie were) hadn't come out yet at the time? but like the yaoi crimes against this girl are absurd. no one fucking talks about her!!! even though she is the BEST!!! please vote for my girl who is constantly portrayed as just a stupid ditzy annoying character in the fanon to be forgotten about at best, pushed aside or actively slandered at worst. please please she's so fucking cool

Black Butler season 4 is coming she deserves the win

#not poll #propaganda

[sandshadow9]

You know what puts me down? It feels like this fandom cares more about dragging Tui and her work through the dirt as much as possible so they can act like they're "superior" to her or "better" than her, and they do this by nitpicking as many flaws in her work as possible, even flaws that aren't actually present in her books to begin with. Thoughts on this?

The quick answer: Yeah, I completely agree.

The long answer: Buckle up because I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while actually and have some thoughts. Ultimately reading a book is like having a conversation, and everyone will experience it differently. What some people find annoying others may find charming, and what some may think of us a frustrating plot hole others may not notice or care.

I will start by saying that, indeed, this fandom loves to drag Tui, and I myself like to pick apart her books to see how things work or don’t work, but at the end of the day I have immense respect and admiration for her. Tui’s writing is extremely immersive, full of personality, and engaging. Wings of Fire is one of the few series I’ve read that fully engrossed me in the world and characters. 

When it comes to reading books, there is definitely a bias towards seeing the things that can go wrong. When things are done right, we don’t really notice, but Tui does a lot of things right. There are a lot of factors that go into making a good book/series and I’d like to point out some of the maybe lesser appreciated aspects of the WoF books. 

Emotional scenes and tension: Tui is supremely good at writing those heart wrenching scenes, as well as those endearing scenes that steal your heart. Perhaps I speak for myself, but I cannot think of any scene that came across as melodramatic or weak in the emotional sense. She does not hold her punches. There have been several emotional scenes in these books where I had to just stop reading and stare at a wall for ten minutes, many of them in the Darkstalker Legends book. Writing intense emotions in characters is hard enough, but Tui manages to make them compelling and believable. 

Characters: I think this is the main reason most people are in the fandom. We all have at least one little creature that lives in our heads rent free. In my opinion, Tui really put her whole ass into the Arc 2 characters, but in general, when Tui is writing from the perspective of any character, she’s does an amazing job of pulling you through their emotions and perspective... although due to the point below, sometimes the character development can kind of slip away from her. 

Plot: For better or worse, Tui puts the plot ahead of everything. This isn’t necessarily a good or bad thing, it’s just what Tui decided to focus on, and when she does, she does it extremely well. Keeping a story moving at a good pace, while keeping things interesting, is pretty much a necessity for any good story. While some books in the WoF series are stronger than others, Tui is able to keep the plot moving both within a single book and across each arc. I can’t tell you how many books I’ve read, YA and adult fiction, that can’t even manage to do that. When I read WoF I was glued to the book. I’d have to force myself to slow down when reading because I’d finish them in a day if I could. The downside to this, as mentioned in the above point, is that sometimes the character development that happens in previous books is lost. 

Writing style: What can I say? Her descriptive language is amazing. She knows how to make the most basic scenes interesting with her writing. There are many times when reading that I wished to myself that I could write like that. I think some people might not completely agree with this point, as Tui loves to use all caps and a modern sounding language in a fantasy world, but I personally don’t really mind that, but I can understand that some may find it unappealing. 

Conflicts: In terms of writing, “conflict” is another one of those super important components. They can be internal or external, and whether you agree with how the narrative handles them or not, Tui writes conflicts that stick with the reader.  Tui also knows how to keep things surprising and unpredictable but in a well written way. Seriously, how many of us were floored when the Prophecy turned out to be fake? Or when we learned that it had been Gill that Tsunami killed? Or that Turtle had been the one to turn Anemone into an animus? That is some good drama and conflict!

                               Other factors

This section is mostly about other factors that I, personally, keep in mind when I think about the series as a whole.

Timeline and publishers: This woman was pumping out a book each year. That’s a wild pace. I have been trying to learn more about publishing contracts, the agreement between authors and the publishing company, and haven’t learned much other than each contract is unique. Some authors have more creative freedom than others as certain contracts allow the publishers to request changes to the text. The main goal of publishers is to sell the book and if they think the text has content that will negatively impact sales, they may have the power to ask for it to be changed. I have no idea what type of contract Tui has, or if there was a contractual deadline for each book, but it’s something that should be considered. I bring this point up because it may explain her priorities and why certain elements had to be set aside in favour of finishing the books rather than fleshing them out. For every published book there is probably another novel’s length of deleted scenes and paragraphs.

                                Conclusion

Ultimately Tui’s strengths can create imbalances in other areas. Her prioritizing of Plot can mean world-building and maintaining character development falls to the wayside. Also, perhaps the biggest issue that fandom notices is that Tui asks complicated questions in her books but then tries to give black and white answers when really, no direct answer should be given. In the first arc we get questions like Am I enough just as I am? Even if I’m not the smartest or bravest or strongest or fastest or biggest, can I change the world? In the other arcs we get questions like Is there such thing as pure good and pure evil? And when faced with someone who continues to make choices that hurt us and others, even if we love this person, at what point do we offer compassion and when do we draw the line?

This post isn’t intended to discuss whether or not Tui succeeded in answering these questions - I’ll leave that for others. What I do hope came across in this post is that Tui does indeed know what she’s doing and I hope that we can all take a moment to appreciate the things that made us love this series to begin with ❤️

#wof #wings of fire #wingsoffire #my asks #wof analysis #my own humble opinions

[yuikomorii]

Nahh fr I'm in for the shu slander. I also never understood the "poor bby he lost his bff now he's all alone" ok? So are the others, they are alone just like him and also had it worse(ik I'm comparing them but it is a fact).

Maybe shu stans also see him as a challenge, he swear he will never have someone special again but guess what! You can change him! Sure, ayato has the same concept(and others like him) but just a glance at ayato and you know he doesn't mean it, but shu? Hoho so you're approaching me xdd

We know ayato likes takoyaki, but never shows it in your face like shu does w his sleeping schedule. Every single time I see shu he's either sleeping or yawning, and at some point he began to annoy me xdd he's just predictable ig? He doesn't really has a personality, all I know about him is that he sleeps and plays violin sometimes.

When he smiles from the bottom of his heart I'm like🤨🤨 I just can't believe someone so lazy like him(who won't show any kind of empathy w/o counting the ends of his routes), and also someone who didn't do nun when he found out his brother killed his mom(or at least I think he didn't but considering that reiji is doing well shows shu never cared about his mom in the first place), has feelings.

I like his looks tho. He has this prince vibe he gives off, well he is a prince xdd

// I’m not necessarily slandering him because as I said previously, I do like Shu but I was just stating facts there?^^”

I do feel like the DL and the otome fandom babies him way too much. It was confirmed in a DL book that Shu is the most sadistic out of them all and I’m really questioning how he got this way. Losing a friend won’t make you suddenly that bad, you know. As you stated, everyone is alone, it was mentioned in Subaru’s MB route that none of them got any friends. I do agree that he can be quite challenging, or maybe people like him because they feel like it, with no specific reason since that’s something that sometimes happens.

All Diaboys dislike being alone; solitude, after all, hurts. Shu doesn't want to make anyone special because he is afraid of losing a loved one, which is expectable given that humans aren't immortal. What matters is cherishing every moment with that person and forgetting about the depressing things for the time being. Taking into consideration that you mentioned Ayato, the reason he doesn't want to make anyone special is that he believes that even if he is in love with someone, there is no chance that person will love him back. Ayato's MB route demonstrated that he knows deep down that no one will ever love him, as evidenced by his reaction when Ruki literally told him, "That's why nobody loves you!". Maybe I'm just biased, but I find Ayato's situation far more tragic because Shu is fully aware that he can get anyone, that he's attractive, and that he has a good status, whereas there are characters who are extremely insecure about themselves (Ayato and Subaru for example).

I can't say Shu's feelings aren't genuine, but I do agree with you that, unless we count animals (or Yuma), he rarely empathy outside his routes. I don't recall him ever reacting to Beatrix’ death either; I mean, it wouldn't have been necessary, but she was his mother after all, and she didn't even treat him that badly throughout his life. Ayato cried after killing Cordelia, and she hurt him and his brothers far more than Beatrix. I know that apathetic people exist but something deep down surely must hurt you after hearing such bad news.

#admin

[autisticcassandracain]

3, 7 & 13 seem juicy

3 is answered!

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

JASON FUCKING TODD

fuck this guy but fuck his fans more. Some Jason fans are like, reasonable and just think he's an interesting character. I disagree but that's mostly because I think we just don't need any more characters challenging Batman's no kill rule specifically, I just think they're boring. Jason has a bit of a leg up in that he does have interesting family Baggage, but ultimately his writing (at least preboot) was so incredibly inconsistent that nothing outside of what they did in Under The Red Hood really came of it. I don't know much about post-flashpoint Jason but frankly he seems to have gotten all unique attributes sucked out of him over the years so he's not all that appealing to me there either. That said I really don't necessarily hate Jason in canon, I mostly just find him boring.

That said the subsection of Jason fans who think he's Right, Actually single-handedly made him my least favourite comic book character outside of the Joker. It's positively infuriating to see a bunch of people argue that Jason's completely nonsensical 'ideology' is Right, Actually, with the justification that yeah, we SHOULD totally just kill criminals! Not that kind, no, only like, the Really Bad Ones, like rapists, you know? And Bad Drug Dealers. How do we filter the Really Bad Criminals from the Poor Misunderstood Criminals? By vibes or something idk their arguments usually don't get that far because they're reactionary and don't think beyond their base instinct of 'I Want Bad Person Dead'. Also, 'Batman SHOULD kill the Joker he's just that bad!' a) the Joker's not gonna stay dead, death is about as effective as fucking Arkham, there's no point, and b) the Joker is not materially worse than most other supervillains. Most other supervillains have done shit that's on par with the Joker. Yes, the Joker is often portrayed as Uniquely Bad, but this is mostly a combination of narrative framing and Personal Baggage Batman has towards him than anything objective. If Batman kills the Joker there's literally no reason for him not to kill, say, Zsasz. And a Batman who kills freely is, frankly, a boring fucking character, because it does away with almost all the idealism and, yes, optimism that makes his character compelling. Shut up forever.

Anyway Jason Todd was wrong on every possible level, and you're all annoying and I hate your fave now.

13. worst blorboficiation

Honestly I'm not sure what 'blorbofication' means, I'm assuming it's like, fanon-ifying/woobifying? This is a bit difficult to answer tbh bc I tend to get invested in characters that are less popular in fandom (this is deliberate btw), so while there's plenty of characters who had all their interesting traits sucked out in the name of making them Blorbo From My Tropes, MY faves usually get stuck getting all their character traits sucked out due to a terminal case of fandom not giving a shit about them. That said if I can nominate Stephcass as a duo, Stephcass. They have an incredibly interesting, multi-dimensional dynamic, or at least they HAD until the post-flashpoint continuity was allowed to actually use them and realized that queerbaiting was lucrative. Not that fandom was less boring about them before then but at least it wasn't actually canon. Anyway in fandom they're annoying as fuck bc everyone is dead scared to give their f/f ships any conflict at all and it makes me want to chew drywall. Fluffy fics are fine the one (1) stephcass thing I wrote was fluff too so like, stones, glass houses, I know, but would it seriously kill people to stop reducing them to the Sunny One/Stoic One combo.

Oh wait, also Damian. He Would Not Fucking Say That.

#my posts #asks #most of these answers are probably gonna be about the batfam solely bc the batfam fandom is the only one large enough to be obnoxious #for the most part. like there's exceptions of course #but most other DC subfandoms are just much less annoying by virtue of being smaller

[ocdhuacheng]

thoughts on 3 body so far (episode 5), as someone whos read the books and not yet watched the drama

to get the obvious out of the way its very unnecessary to set it in england :/ but we all know that so.

i love wenjie i think zine tseng is perfect for her i really love wenjies scenes (for the most part. whhyyyy did they make her get with evans. like i groaned so hard. and they completely skipped over her actual husband and how she well. murdered him.) but yeah in general i think her parts are done really well. few complaints there. also she is gorgeous. Rosalind chao is great as well but I think the writing for old!wenjie is not as good as for young! Wenjie. That’s not ms Rosalind’s fault tho obviously I think she did really well with what she got.

besides wenjie i really like jin cheng as well. i get shes filling part of wang miao's role from the books and she is partially based off of cheng xin from book three and i think jess hong is a really good choice for her. even just appearance-wise she is perfect for what i imagined cheng xin to look like. and her attachment to the follower character in the game is a great set up for how her story might go if she follows cheng xin's footsteps.

i think auggie should be older. it seems like they want to make everyone all like a group of school friends so thats why they made her younger but i dont really think that it works.

lemme elaborate....... i........ do not care about auggie at all lmfao. honestly i welcome more female characters but if she is to fill wang miao's place as the nanotech expert... wang miao.... who is a man in his fourties... why are they replacing him with a girl who barely looks out of grad school. and shes cso and developer of groundbreaking tech already? SHE SHOULD BE AT THE CLUB. not trying to be MARY SUE ALERT but its unrealistic, and it kind of ruins making him into a female character imo. she should be middle aged!! fucking cowards!! it seems like they just made wang miao into a woman just so they could have a pretty face to slap on as the main character (though she is SO not my type but whatever thats not important.) if they wanted to genderbend and actually be ~feminist~ or whatever, they would have cast a 40+ year old. again, i get they want it to be this friend group so maybe it would be strange that she would be older than the rest of them but also they could have just.. not done that. so anyway. yeah. she kind of annoys me. she is too young. too pretty but in like such a hollywood way that it turns me off. also shes boring. and annoying.

in general, other than wenjie and jin, im not particularly attached to any of the characters. not necessarily a bad thing bc the books themselves were much more plot driven over character driven, so yeah. kind of a neutral statement. i do like will (even though...... he should be chinese -_- though i guess i am grateful that they did seemingly make an effort to make the cast diverse, rather than just make them all white brits.) and i like uhhhh *checks notes* tatiana, mainly because i think shes extremely pretty lmao. i think the guy who plays old!evans is great, i do Not care for the guy who plays him when he is young. cringe. gigachad looking ass. wade is good too, when i saw his name show up i was like omg what are you doing here????? hes a bastard but hes fun. also like shi, i think the actor they chose is great and fits really well. i did prefer him in the books tho he was so much fun in the books. saul fits in well, if hes the luo ji character i can Definitely see him wasting government resources to do fuck all as a wallfacer lmao. godspeed king.

i think them making all these characters who are going to go on to be key players in the future all know eachother to begin with is funny. and not a great choice. unrealistic. in the books like most of these people had nothing to do with anyone else, either to begin with or at all. and now theyre all somehow friends? in the books the main characters were scattered all over the place (or.. well.. at least all over china) but now u gonna tell me 90% of the ppl doing important shit for the human species were all like buddies in college or smth instead of just some randos in the right place at the right time with the right (debatable) credentials? less believable to me. like for example the zhang beihai adjacent character being the cheng xin adjacent character's boyfriend before everything goes down. like girl did they even meet in the books? idr

sophon is gorgeous, so is her outfit, though i hope they keep the japanese aesthetic shes got going on from the books, i think it was a very telling and important, if not large part of the books for her to latch onto japanese culture specifically.

the sophons... in the book it was just miao who was given the universe blinking vision but now its basically everyone on the nightside of the planet? how did they do that with just 2 sophons. i mean. idk maybe. sure. they do travel close to the speed of light. i aint doing the calculations to know what is or is not plausible at those speeds. but damn these poor things are so overworked. they need to unionize. wish they kept the numbers on the photographs tho instead of just in their retinas. that could have been really cool.

the sequence of the sophons unfolding over earth was cool and all just kinda funny bc they had just established in a previous scene that they needed like a supercollider in orbit to unfold one and now they can just unfold willy nilly? ok.

uhhhhhhhhh. yeah thats all for now. i have more onions but im sleepy tired and thats all i can rememver i wanted to say. im enjoying it. just kind of bitter at them making it british but thats old news. i think if i were watching this blind without there being a book series to compare it to its very solid! some hollywood esque quippy humor and added annoying romance (particularly with wenjie) and stuff that im not thrilled with but over all its well done imo. definitely going to have to reread the books when im done and also watch the drama :)

#.txt #three body #3 body problem

[leseigneurdufeu]

Okay, what's ur take on the Gotham story in Time Princess I gotta know

Mixed opinions ig.

I mean on one hand I loved it. 1920's mafia story with corrupt politicians, a woman pilot, newspapers, the question of ethics vs productivity ends vs means etc with the Boseman route and the Puzo route... and anyway anything with 1920's fashion is just chefs kiss to me.

It's the second story I played btw, as soon as I learned how to get out of the Queen Marie tutorial chapters and had enough tickets, I looked the other ones, found one about the 1920's and was like "rad!" (plus I thought the gotham part was referring to the DC city and it would be some kind of 1920's batman au or something?)

However there were two things that annoyed me:

The Mafia Route:

a) the fact you couldn't follow the mafia route without being sexually assaulted in it or having to trade sex for infos, which means no way to complete the story without it. Didn't like it much, yet I'm a Puzo simp so it still was my favorite route.

b) Still, the fact the best possible ending in that route was to end as a mafia boss alongside Puzo? To me the best possible ending would have been to go back to being a journalist while still being friends and/or lovers with Puzo. Not necessarily to lead a life of crime you know.

And other thing that annoyed me:

The Dead Ends.

By which I mean the fact it all starts about abusive personnals in Psychiatric Wards... and then after chapter 2 we never hear about that ward again except to be informed they have a very bad managing policy for the belongings of the patients. I don't think even the bestest end (the Pulitzer price ending) has us manage to close the ward or better things in it. Not even the Mafia route! Vittorio's sister is in that damn psych ward! It's never mentionned again after chapter 2!

And other dead ends: the fact in most of the minor endings/bad endings, we just... live the rest of our lives in a casino or in Cefalu or in Cuba, etc. We are literally a real person isekaied into a book about the 1920's. When are we getting out of this book since we're supposed to be later going into other books?

But then it's a good story by many other aspects!

The three different routes spanning four chapters, the gallery of characters, the telegraphed-but-good-enough relations between everyone... I liked it all very much. And obviously the fact the crooked politician who trafficks people was also a progressive and loving father? A nuanced villain? A human villain? Loved it.

So that's what I think of it, basically.

#gotham memoirs #time princess

[zalrb]

Can you tell me why you didn't like the 'Luckiest Girl Alive'?

OK well, first of all, I don't like Gone Girl, I'm not a fan of Gillian Flynn and Jessica Knoll who wrote Luckiest Girl Alive said that both Gone Girl and Gillian Flynn were a big influence and I could tell because the tone, the pacing, the dialogue felt like it was trying very much to be a Gillian Flynn movie/book so that annoyed me and I found the characters to lack emotional nuance both in the writing and in the acting (including Connie's and I like Connie Britton!) -- I may have rolled my eyes at the plot of Sharp Objects, for example, but Amy Adams can act so I at least got a good performance out of watching Sharp Objects, I didn't get that this time. I have a really hard time with glossy, cold, stylish movies that try and double as character pieces and fail and that's what I felt happened here.

Then there was the plot that felt poorly, poorly handled to me, it just left a bad taste in my mouth that the school shooting aspect of it kind of felt not necessarily incidental because she's known as being a survivor of the shooting but it still kind of felt like background? I just found it oddly flippant. That in it of itself deserves an entire movie to explore and to parse not just for TifAni but for everyone involved and it kind of just works as a mystery to solve and a reveal and there were elements of Columbine that were used that felt out of place, that entire plot line felt out of place for this story, I didn't think it was necessary, particularly when the story is so focused on TifAni, I just .. I usually don't use the word distasteful but it felt extremely distasteful for me.

And then there was TifAni and her motivations, and the concept of feeling as if you have to curate this image that's bulletproof before proceeding to go after and take down one of your now-beloved, decorated rapists is something that I would find interesting to explore and delve into about the way SA survivors are victim-blamed, about the misogyny women have to endure during a trial both by the law and by public opinion, but that's not really what happened and the way they chose to explore this concept was bizarre to me because her solution is to marry rich and try to become a journalist that doesn't write puff pieces about sex and to me, that wasn't saying what I'm guessing Knoll wanted to say -- the serious journalist who wants to write hard news and not puff pieces sounds like something out of a romcom, in fact that's a plot line from How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, the marrying rich thing was supposed to harken back to the lessons her mother taught her and why she went to that school as a teenager in the first place but the connection was flimsy because I didn't see how that would make her bulletproof when people could easily call her a gold digger, was the point supposed to be that she felt like with him and his name behind her, no one would dare try to tear her down only to realize that this thinking was disempowering her and she gave herself her own agency by writing the article because if that's what they were trying to go for, it failed.

I just finished the movie like what was the message supposed to be here ?What was I supposed to get from this? Why were these choices made? It just really frustrated me.

[jackhues]

naqia reviews: the invisible life of addie larue (by v.e. schwab)

basically just my SPOILER FREE thoughts on this book! (a spoiler-filled one will be posted soon!)

summary (this is just my own summary): addie larue wanted to be free, but growing up in the eighteenth century as a woman didn't make it easy for her. she's gone as long as she could to stay on her own path, not following society's role for her. but when she's forced into the role, she runs away, praying to the old gods for some way to set her free. when the darkness answers her instead, she takes her chance to be free, not realizing the rules.

three hundred years later, addie lives as an immortal, but also as a shadow. with every gift, there's a downside. and the downside of addie's immortality is being forgotten. no one remembers her once she's out of range, she cannot speak her story, or even her real name. she is cursed to walk in the world without ever leaving a mark.

until one day, a boy from a bookshop remembers her.

genre: fantasy

okay so:

i've read vicious by v.e. schawb (i'll do a review on that later), and i absolutely loved it! so i decided to give this book a try. ngl, i've seen it on tiktok and many ppl said it was a sad ending so i was kinda scared to try it.

i'm really happy i started reading it tho. it starts off with a nice vibe. i wasn't hooked right in or anything, but it was more something that had a calm vibe. after a couple of chapters, it got more interesting.

it was never like completely hooking or something, it was more relaxed. like i could put the book down and take a break if i wanted to. but it was a nice vibe and i liked how i could read it kind of slowly and i wasn't always at the edge of my seat.

once we meet henry, i began to really enjoy it. (he's my fav character, so this might be biased, sorry). i liked the connection of addie and henry's stories, the way it was a mix between the past and the present.

the characters weren't like my favorite, but they're definitely good. i enjoyed reading about how their lives were before each other, it was something that got me really into it.

of course, the relationship between henry and addie was actually really cute in my opinion. like i loved the small actions and lines and just how everything was put together. it gave me a calm kind of vibe, and this is the first book i've read that's like that. it's really different, and i think i liked that part the best.

now, the ending was not as sad as everyone on tiktok made it out to be. tbh, it wasn't my fav ending, but it wasn't necessarily bad. like there's a lot of growth that's implied will happen after the ending, especially with addie, but it just didn't sit right with me. i expected a much sadder ending, with lots more death and stuff.

overall, the book was a really nice read. i enjoyed it until like near the ending where it wasn't sitting right with me.

characters: 4.1/5!! henry was my fav, but everyone was actually pretty good. luc was the only character that made me kinda annoyed. addie was quite good. and the side characters were okay too. none of the characters were SUPER memorable, but i really liked the vibe of them.

story: 4/5!! like i said, the story itself was nice, but the ending kinda threw me off.

would i recommend?? yes. even though the ending was slightly off, the rest of the story was actually really cute. i enjoyed this because it was like different than most of my other fantasy reads, and i liked the history aspect of it too. i'd suggest reading the ending at least once, and then if you re-read, skip the last few pages. i loved henry beyond everything, and addie didn't make me really mad unlike some fem mcs. so i'd say give it a go!

#the invisible life of addie larue #the invisible life of addie larue review #addie larue #adeline larue #henry strauss #luc #invisible life of addie larue #invisible life of addie larue review #v.e. schwab #spoiler free #spoiler free review #naqia reviews!

[michaelasworlds-blog]

My Box

I have a box that I bring with me everywhere, it’s not a real box but it’s a box that I guess is in my head. This box doesn’t necessarily help, but it makes things easier, at least for me. The box is so I can mentally feel comfortable, but like I said, it doesn’t help, if I’m in the box for too long people realize that I’ve been in the box sometimes the box is different things. The box is a room or a bathroom stall like you know literal places that seem like boxes kind of sometimes boxes can be people depending on the person, but my box is mostly for me too, be by myself and my thoughts, no matter how intrusive they may be sometimes I let things out of the box when I shouldn’t, but sometimes the box gets too full. I like the box, sometimes to be alone in a dark place and sometimes I like the box to be full of people one max, however I’m not able to be alone as often in this box, because people come into the box without knocking whether it be starting a conversation or too many people being let into the box sometimes I don’t like the box when I’m alone, you can be hard to be alone sometimes when there are too many intrusive thoughts in the box being alone can be scary or dangerous or sad and sometimes frustrating my box sometimes gets cluttered with things that I see in reality, which is not good because my reality is cluttered. My box is supposed to be empty at least like once every day, I don’t like one people just come into my box, it’s very weird I’ll say, and the people that come into my box don’t care that they’re in there. They don’t know that I want them to leave even though I’ll let my feelings out of the box and have certain luxe on my face sometimes people can be mad that I want to be in this box by myself. Some people get mad that I wanna be alone because I guess that’s rude, however in my opinion, if you’re never alone, at least sometimes I feel like someone could go crazy I don’t like being in loud places because it’s hard to stay in my box people try to talk to me they try to engage in a very annoying way with me or loud music is playing that isn’t my vibe like I said the box isn’t helpful at times so being in this box, at least trying to be in this box while in an uncomfortable environment can be very annoying because I am thinking about. When am I going to be able to get him back in this box like why aren’t they letting me be in my box, I don’t know if everyone has a box however, I know I do I like my box because when I’m in my box, it’s a great way to call myself and it’s a great way to think but too many stressful thoughts can clutter my box like sometimes the thought of being alone forever in this box, makes me very sad or sometimes I thought that people will never leave me alone in my box leaves me stressed I’m a stressful person and I almost never get a moment in my box. I feel like every stressful person should have a box and like I said it can be anywhere it doesn’t even have to be a box or like a room or a bathroom stall it could be anything they want. That’s just my opinion you don’t have to have one but it’s nice to have one. I had one in high school, it wasn’t really anywhere enclosed it was in a book and it was easy, because if I wasn’t part of the conversation, it was easier to be in this box books aren’t really my boxes anymore. I honestly don’t know why maybe my phones my box but a lot of the time my phone reminds me of things that I need to do that I don’t have money for when I don’t have money it’s hard to be in my box even though sometimes things I need money for aren’t worth needing them for. I have to prepare to step outside my box most times. If I'm unprepared, I will be very uncomfortable ,sometimes being in the box for a long time can be bad. It makes you seem like there’s something wrong with you or like you have an attitude no one really asks to come in my box probably because they don’t know it exist, so what would they be asking? I like my box, my box can be helpful, it could be unhelpful, but it’s my box and that’s where I live.

-♏️

#writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #creative writing #ao3 writer

[qballqueue]

Least Favourite Media

Opinions are fun, and one thing I enjoy reading are opinions on bad media. Listing my favourite things in my last post got me thinking about the worst of each I've experienced, so here they are.

Worst book -- A Deadly Education isn't necessarily the worst book I've read (I've read much worse), but it was definitely the most disappointing. I actually enjoyed the first book in Novik's Temeraire series, even if I never picked up the others, so I was looking forward to her newest book at the time which seemed to be a quick 300 page read with a good premise.

Of course, premise and execution are two different things. The only thing that resembles any kind of plot doesn't kick in until the last 100 or so pages (and it's admittedly the best part of the book), leaving nothing but pointless meandering and way, WAY too many exposition dumps about things that literally never come up again for the other two thirds. Well, that and watching a main character who's mean to literally everyone she meets wonder why she has no friends.

It's frustrating, and from an author who I know can write it's, again, disappointing.

Worst game -- I once asked for a bargain bin copy of Ninjabread Man instead of my allowance when I was a kid. If you've even heard the name then you don't need me to tell you that plopping the disc into my nintendo wii led to the worst 40 minutes of game I've ever experienced. 40 minutes of terrible controls, annoying music, and frustrating gameplay, and then the credits roll without even an ending.

It's my personal mission in life to see every copy of this game destroyed.

Worst Movie -- We have a family movie night more or less every Sunday at my place, and for her pick one night my mom chose to put on a film called Movie 43. It's a skit movie, featuring a lot of big names actors taking part in little disconnected sketches, each of which was apparently directed by someone different.

Unfortunately, each of those sketches either relies on gross-out or shock humour to a frankly uncomfortable degree. It's offensive to the senses, both bodily and moral, and after even the first sketch you'll be shrinking into the back of your seat wishing you were watching anything else.

Let me clarify -- this is not a so-bad-it's-good movie. This is a it's-just-bad-with-no-redeeming-qualities kind of movie. Don't even think about watching it.

#my posts

[posthumus]

literally the number one reason i want all prophecy to be bullshit is because of nissa nissa

#its sooooo gross and i dont get how theorists dont see that #its literally equally bad if jon kills dany bc shes a fascist now OR if he kills her to put her soul into some dumb sword #like yeah women's souls are only useful if theyre trapped in a weapon #a woman couldnt possibly WIELD her own soul #im incoherent #tbf its not like its happened in the books yet so im jumping the gun a but #the prophecy itself annoys me though. although im not necessarily annoyed at grrms writing #depending on how it plays out it could actually be a refutation of the misogyny inherent in the azor ahai prophecy #GOD i want aemon to be right so bad although i do think signs point to it being jon #my favourite is a theory i think i saw on reddit where #after the big battle pretty much everyone involved thinks THEY were azor ahai #like it ends up kind of applying to everybody #lmao can you tell im a leftist #this is way too many tags jfc #asoiaf #my posts