#and i then explained the entire plot to her

[xonavia]

can you do a Dan Heng x fem! reader?

to elaborate: fem! reader is a famous singer — an interastral one, to be precise. she lives in Penacony and once in a year, she hosts this enormous party where you are able to do how flashy the lights are from the Astral Express. on Dan Heng’s side, he was only able to experience it once and got interested as to what it was, doing research and the more he did the research, the more he fell in love with the idol. now, for this year, with the Trailblazer who had managed to become one of the fem! reader’s bodyguards due to what was happening in Penacony with the deaths that were so random and sudden. not only that, the Trailblazer managed to become a trusted friend and they knew how much of a fan Dan Heng was since they managed to accidentally access Dan Heng’s tabs on the databank so to make it fair for him, they managed to get a free ticket into the VIP — front row seats, too! and to be able to get an autograph after.

-> I’m not entirely sure if this is what you meant, but I did try my best so if it’s not quite what you wanted just lmk and I’ll try to rewrite it to the best of my abilities!!

It was only once every year this happened, an interastral idol, (Name), would perform in Penacony. That was all the news was talking about the moment the astral express stepped inside penacony, of course, March being hip and knowing all the famous idols was so excited that right as they arrived was time for the yearly party and begged for them to go, but with the whole issue happening in penacony it didn’t seem like now would be the best time. But Dan Heng, still on the express, was confused as hell. What was with all the lights and sounds, he thought penacony was going through a crisis, not a party? It wasn’t until a couple days later when everybody else came back that he had figured out that it was a annual party, he didn’t think much of it until he had March blab about how much cool merch and stuff she saw in the stores how she got to witness the set up of the whole party, but to her demise never actually got to see the host. March talked about them in a way that was almost magical. Nothing bad, and it seemed like this “host” was almost like the nicest person in the galaxy? That’s what first got Dan Heng into his records to see what he could find out about you. It wasn’t long before he found some really interesting details about you, a picture, when the party took place every year, where it was, and anything along the lines if you had a partner, ya know, just for future reference!

Another year later the Astral Express was back in penacony, with more deaths and more issues, and ironically enough around the exact same time they were here the year before. Though this time it was about the party. As it was an annual party most of the people who were in town at the time were there for said party and if the party was canceled due to the issues people would start getting scared and the family would have to explain what was happening, which is the worst case scenario. So instead they invited the astral express back over and had the trailblazer act as a bodyguard for (Name) as it seemed one of the other hosts wouldn’t be there and they thought it was a plot to take out the party all together. Better safe than sorry. March was so excited when she realized that the trailblazer was able to actually meet one of the best people in the galaxy. Dan Heng was excited as well, but not like you could ever tell. He’d been reading up on you anytime he had the chance, he knew a lot about you and was very happy when he realized that they were able to go back to Penacony, not so much about all the issues that were happening, or the potential plot on your life.

A couple days later, and about a day before the party the trailblazer came back to the astral express he saw both March and Dan Heng sat on one of the couches watching the party from the year they were here last. They chuckled a little as they walked over, asking about what they were watching which March happily responded with

“The party from last year! I just found out that Dan Heng is actually a pretty big fan of (name)!”

Of course the trailblazer already knew that, they had been up a couple times and accidentally stumbled on Dan Heng researching about the party, and more specifically about you.

Trailblazer sat down with the other two and talked about how since (Name) had a couple extra tickets for friends and stuff and how they were already so grateful for them watching over them and making sure to keep them safe that now the astral express had 3 VIP tickets for the Party for the next day. March already started squealing, and pretty sure that they saw Dan Heng smile at the sight of the tickets.

The next day was the day of the party, and as packed as it was there was a small section that (Name) had told the trailblazer about when they gave them the tickets that were for VIP only so they wouldn’t have to wait in that huge line! But when they got into that section it led them straight to the front row. How freaking cool!

A couple hours after, the hosts and main people in charge were all walking around when you ran over towards the trailblazer, noticing them in the crowd and coming to say Hi, and thanks, again. When you walked over, March was awestruck at the sight of you right in front of her, and quickly asked for a picture to which you happily accepted and posed with her before the trailblazer realized that no way in hell would Dan heng every actually ask for something from you, so they took charge in their own hands by asking an autograph from you, which you of course were pleased to do, handing it to them with a smile, before you were pulled away again by one of the security guards, waving bye, before turning your attention to some of the other guests.

When they got back on the astral express, they all seemed really excited, well besides Dan Heng, but it’s hard to see through his facial features, but the way he was ever so carefully holding the sighed piece of paper from you, said a lot differently.

He was just hoping next year the astral express would come back, and maybe he could talk to you himself this time

#honkai star rail x reader #hsr x reader #honkai star rail #hsr #dan heng x reader #dan heng #xonavia's writings!

[sparrowlucero]

Even if a creator is a bad person it's still okay to like their work. People need to mind their own business.

Honestly it's not really that sort of situation. I'll actively defend Steven Moffat here.

There was a huge hate movement for him back in the early 2010s - which, in retrospect, formed largely because he was running 2 of the superwholock shows at once, one of which went through extremely long hiatuses* and the other of which was functionally an adaptation of an already well regarded show**, making him subject to a sort of double ire in the eyes of a lot of fandom people. Notably, his co-showrunner, Mark Gatiss, is rarely mentioned and much of his work is still attributed to Moffat (and yes, this includes that Hbomberguy video. Several of "Steven Moffat's bad writing choices" were not actually written by him, they were Gatiss.)

People caricatured the dude into a sort of malicious, arrogant figure who hated women and was deliberately mismanaging these shows to spite fans, to the point where people who never watched them believe this via cultural osmosis. It became very common to take quotes from him out of context to make them look bad***, to cite him as an example of a showrunner who hated his fans, someone who sabotaged his own work just to get at said fans, someone who was too arrogant to take criticism, despite all of this being basically a collective "headcanon" formed on tumblr. Some if it got especially terrible, like lying about sexual assault (I don't mean people accused him of sexual assault and I think they're making it up, I mean people would say things like "many of his actresses have accused him of sexual assault on set" when no such accusations exist in the first place. This gets passed around en masse and is, in my opinion, absolutely rancid.)

On top of that a ton of the criticism directed at the shows themselves is, personally, just terrible media criticism. So much of it came from assuming a very hostile intent from the writer and just refusing to engage with the text at all past that.

Like some really common threads you see with critique of this writer's work, especially in regards to Doctor Who since that's the one I'm most familiar with:

A general belief that his lead characters were meant to be ever perfect self inserts, and so therefore when they act shitty or arrogant or flawed in any way, that's both reflective of the author and meant to be viewed as positive or aspirational.

An overarching thesis that his characters are "too important" in the narrative due to the writer's arrogance and self obsession

A lot of focus on the writer personally "attacking" the fans or making choices primarily out of spite.

A tendency to treat the show being different to what it's adapting as inherently bad and hostile towards the original

Just generally very little consideration of the themes, intent, etc.

This one's a little more nebulous and doesn't apply to all critique but a lot of it, especially recently, is clearly by people who haven't seen the show in like 10 years and their opinion is largely formed secondhand through like, "discourse nostalgia". Which. you know. bad.

I think these are just weird and nonsensical ways to engage with a work of fiction. I also think it's really sad to see the show boiled down to this because that era of who is, in my opinion, very thematically rich and unique among similar shows, and I hate that it's often dismissed in such a paltry way.

This isn't to say people aren't allowed to critique Steven Moffat or anything, but the context in which he basically became The Devil™ to a large portion of fandom and is still remembered in a poor light is very tied to this perfect storm of fan culture and I just don't agree with a ton of it.

* I'm sure most people have seen the way long running shows and hiatuses will cause people to fall out with a show, with some former fans turning around and joining a sort of "anti fandom" for it while it's still airing. That happened with both these shows. ** Doctor Who will change it's entire writing staff, crew, and cast every few years, and with that comes a change in style, tone, theme - the old show basically ends and is replaced by a new show under the same title. As Steven Moffat's era was the first of these handovers for the majority of audiences, you can imagine this wasn't a well loved move for many fans. *** I know for a fact most people have not sought out the sources for a lot of these quotes to check that they read the same in context because 1) most of them were deleted years ago and are very difficult to find now and 2) many of them do actually make sense in the context of their respective interviews

#and yeah i think the hbomberguy video is kind of bad #I can pull up examples but a lot of what he's saying is very rooted in this sort of critique #maybe most egregiously he sometimes just explains something very poorly or outright incorrectly to make it seem worse or more nonsensical #ex. saying a scene in doctor who 'steals a huge chunk of the plot' when it's less than 30 seconds long #saying two characters randomly start hanging out again while not mentioning the episode entirely dedicated to this #or the way her decision to keep hanging out with him is the emotional turning point of the entire season #etc etc etc.

[theriverbeyond]

i need these anime youtube essay boys to get into tlt fr fr

#i want a 1.5 hour essay dissecting the varied influences of tlt tied to muir's previous work such as TSG and her shorts #i want a 3 hour essay explaining the entire plot line by line #trb.txt #some of these essays are bangers also id trust them with tlt. these anime boys can get very philosophical #like those MANY essays abt chainsaw man that all kind of do the same thing of #describing funimoto's influences his prior work and how it all threads into chainsaw man. when will an anime boy do this for tlt #FUJIMOTO**

[clumsyartish]

Last night I couldn't sleep because I was explaining the entire plot of Carry on and the whole Simon snow universe (+Fangirl era) to myself for absolutely no reason. And I came to realize that DAMN this is really a complex universe. I can't even imagine trying to explain anything to my friends, because I don't even know where to start. Like how am I supposed to make them understand the true impact these characters and world have had on me without making them read the entire series? (Including fangirl) like???

#i was actually trying to explain who Agatha is because I made a song based on her quotes #yeah I wasn't explaining to anyone but myself #but I had to get it out... in my head #but then I had to go through the entire plot and the entire concept of who Simon snow is and where he comes from #and then I was stuck #in a forever whole of who they actually are and the fictional story of Simon in fangirl #and how it became an actual trilogy after the fangirl book #but it isn't like it is in the book and it isn't like the fanfics Cath wrote #simon snow #carry on trilogy #carry on #wayward son #any way the wind blows #snowbaz #baz #baz pitch #basilton grimm pitch #simon and baz #penny bunce #penelope bunce #agatha wellbelove

[feral-and-or-horny]

There are a handful of movies that I would make someone stop fucking me to watch, like Carrie (1976), The Prince of Egypt, and pretty much any half decent documentary on Pompeii

However, I've just now bought the 25th anniversary performance of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall, and if any girl tried to fuck me while this was on, I would make her go home

#poto was a formative experience and this was the production i saw #it was on netflix and i watched it once a day #i would've watched it more but my parents made me go to bed #i actually got into it because i loved Monster high (shocking i know) #and i really liked operetta and wanted to know more about her background #so my phantom obsession was born #ive seen it live 3 times #and the first time it was a Christmas present and i literally screamed whwn i got the tickets #before the show i explained the entire plot to my dad #i almost cried when i heard the overture #i mouthed along to the whole show #hell i *acted it out in its entirety* in my room on multiple occasions #but yeah i like phantom #my post #wlw nsft #queer nsft #lesbian nsft

[hella1975]

I'm watching the hunger games with people who's opinions I don't agree with HELP they literally don't get the implications of children murdering eachother like I do

(hella I've been reminded of you all day lol this is my 2nd ask about my day kfmsks)

that's genuinely so sweet i dont think you realise how much i appreciate things like this

oh bleugh i hate it when people just dont get a piece of media and ur just kinda sat there trying not to rant like 'you're all missing the fucking POINT'

#and the hunger games too? id be furious #something similar happened to me recently #okay so im very ashamed by this considering the fuss i kicked up about it but i CANNOT resist a show with dragons in it #so i eventually pirated all of house of the dragon and low and behold #youd have some of the most detailed worldbuilding ever and beautiful dragons and a ginormous budget for a fantasty world #and youd be enjoying it and then BOOM violence against women for literally no reason #it bugs the fuckkkk out of me but at least hotd has HUGE wlw undertones and the two main characters are actually women #and are COMPLEX? im not giving any compliments for this bc it's just not good enough but still it wasnt as awful as it has been #(*Looks at game of thrones*) #AND ANYWAY there's this woman in it called alicent hightower when i tell you i will defend her with my LIFE #and it's the typical 'female character made strong due to the trauma inflicted upon her by men' #and she is literally torn from her closest female friendship (love interest?) BECAUSE of men #and it becomes the ENTIRE FUCKING PLOT OF THE SHOW god it bugs me anyway #and it's made me superrrrrrrr protective of her bc not only do i adore her but she deserves so much better #like she's supposed to be the villain and the fandom are so thick that they treat her that way but im just like alicent get behind me #AND MY SISTER SAID SHE HATES HER #LIKE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SHOW AND MY SISTER JUST OUTRIGHT SAID SHE HATES ALICENT #I WAS LIKE NO YOU STUPID BITCH THIS IS WHAT THE MEN WANT ARE YOU JOKING YOU'RE FEEDING INTO IT #and i didnt know how to EXPLAIN to her why she was so wrong so im just there like why am i always right about everything #and everyone else is always so stupid why why why god im not you're strongest soldier #so yeah <3 #ask

[jup1tersparx]

may have just accidentally hit on someone whats upppp

#i am the Rizzler (i am not the rizzler) #and yet she still wont text me smh #swagever she’s the one missing out on getting the entire plot of camp here & there explained to her 🙄 #like im willing to do the work here but she needs to at least text me something for her number to get activated for me >:[ #jupiter talks

[spring-lxcked]

like half-asleep and abt to genuinely sleep and yet thinking abt giving in and giving william a movie verse even tho i know literally the only difference will be his kid(s) lmao

#—— ✧ ooc » #.tbd. #i've been against it mostly because i think by the time i adjust the verse to my liking it'll just. be game canon fkjdhfjas #like: i'm not a fan of him 'controlling the animatronics somehow' for example #but that singular change makes a large part of the movie entirely different #like the ending wouldn't have happened That Way because my william genuinely fears the haunted animatronics #claims otherwise obv but they both intrigue and terrify him #he won't face them during their active hours w/o thinking he's safe ( me when dumbass still gets springl.ocked ) #i'm thinking i'm thinking... but yeah if i make him a movie verse i'll come up with a Default AU for it #and then me and anybody else can plot stuff out as needed if they don't vibe with it #def a request-only verse tho #should note i'm a major fan of the whole 'mike's blacked out his real memories & actually is an af.ton' tho #both because he'll always be an af.ton in my heart AND because his memories were KDSHFSDFHDSJLA #sorry but i can't explain it. they screamed fake so hard i was shocked when there wasn't a Big Reveal. #like why were his memories like that. why is your family Generic Good Family Number 1. what is going on. #like to be clear if it was intentional it was really good lmao #ANYWAY 'would your william stab van.essa' if we're talking abt movie canon w/ her as his daughter? ehhhhhhhhhh #like in that exact scenario maybe but also he wouldn't be in that scenario if that makes sense #by and large i stand by my portrayal being unwilling to kill his kids pre-springlo.ck incident #like he's a real bastard but part of that is him believing he can always Pull Them Back To Him No Matter What #ANYWAY GOODNIGHT #will maybe rb this in the morning with more thoughts

[hearth-of-olympus]

i love my grandma so much she's always happy to let me infodump her its cute and im so grateful

#just today i explained to her in details dpr ian's universe the entire plot of dracula and the raven cycle #i was so close to start on the magnus archives bc of jon sims as dr seward but my dad called me so she's safe for now lol

[a-lonely-tatertot]

no one talk to me about helen of troy (<- hasn't read the illiad in years but has so many thoughts)

#tater rambles #I WAS WATCHING LEGENDS OF TMR WITH MY FRIEND CAUSE OF MY BROTHER #AND LIKE. SHE SAID SOMETHING THAT I WAS LIKE SHE #WOULD NOT FUCKING SAY THAT #and then explained to my mother her entire character and plot and went she deserved better #by the people who were trying to do better bc she is a selfish character and that isn't b a d #<- probably wrong wording but its fine

[erythristicbones]

unexpected side effect of deciding to redesign Nisha & Artemis & Apollo as an evil punk band bc its my story and i choose the self-indulgence......im actually getting really attached to Apollo now

#i made this decision bc i adore nisha/artie both as their own ppl and also as a deeply haunting romance that wont leave me alone!!!!! #and yea apollo is there too bc she has to be #i was not super invested in her ever #like half of my plot decisions for her have been solely based on me going 'hey u know what would be funny?' #she's like one of the only villains out of the main 7 that remains a villain the entire time!!!! #i was not supposed to give her a second thought!!!! #but yea Pol has been on my mind this entire morning as i redesign her n artie #i dont think i'll attempt to redeem her still. i think she deserves to always gaslight gatekeep girlboss forever. as a treat #but wow she might be one of my irredeemable villain OCs that im invested in #its hard to explain but like. part of me making the villains i do is that i personally Dont Need to get attached #not in the same way i do the other characters #i have a very weird relationship between my Compelling Villians and my Just Villains. if theyre meant to be complex #then i'll let myself get attached #otherwise my writing process hinges on me seeing them as an antagonistic force and not a nuanced being ya dig? #apollo was not intended to be a nuanced person. she was supposed to just be an antagonistic force #but one simple(not even finished yet) redesign is singlehandedly changing my entire view of apollo #i highly HIGHLY doubt she'll ever be as important to me as nisha/artie are.....but she's defs much higher on the list #than she was prior to this morning aldjdjaks

[arcaneyouth]

pocket mirror remastered release day is rapidly approaching i need to make 70 drawings of enjel before i explode

#i thought about enjel for like 2 seconds except now its been 2 hours im so fucking normal about her #i want to write sooo many essays but 1) i refuse to put that in the tags i dont wanna know what the fandoms doing IM having fun over here #2) i have no one to scream to because i want people to Play It and Experience The Vast Array Of Emotions Connected With Self Acceptance #and i cant spoil that i CANT #but what if i want to explain the entire plot and every tiny thing about enjel in excrutiating detail #what then huh. #anyways. play pocket mirror the original is free and the remaster comes out friday

[bmpmp3]

LAST NIGHT i had a dream about a MOUSEWOMAN

#dream journal #art #traditional art #pencil #might explain the plot later if i feel like it i dunno it was my usual weird dramatic plot dreams #i was just baffled by the mousegirl #mousewoman.....she was a distinguished lady and u will respect her #the thing is. i am CERTAIN the entire reason a mouse kemonomimi was in my dream was because of that mousegirl post #the one about the mousegirl (animal) who has a mousegirl (computer) gf #subliminally putting micegirls in my mind

[athicfmoving]

every time I think about what K.evin S.mith did with Felicia in TETMD and how he retconned her entire backstory I feel my blood boil

#s*xual assault tw #[ooc] #felicia was a character completely motivated by her own drive and goals #she wanted to be strong enough to bring her father home and after his death shifted her focus to living up to his legacy #but kevin smith completely erased that and made it to where she did everything because she got assaulted #he wrote it specifically from the perspective of she became the black cat out of anger and her inability to get past what happened to her #so he took this woman whose entire drive was based on her own agency and made it to where #everything she did was because of some horrible thing a man did to her years ago #where do I even begin to explain how fucked that was #especially the way they kept re-victimizing her in that comic???? #like she needed to be assaulted to have a reason to do what she does and be a strong character???? lol WHAT??? #like I feel nauseous just thinking about how much they kept lingering on that fucking plot point #a solid third of that comic was just them objectifying / s*xually victimizing felicia and it makes me fucking sick #no words can properly describe how much I hate it with every fiber of my being

[theriverdalereviewer]

idk if any of you are kdrama watchers but I got a problem with the pacing

#LET ME EXPLAIN! #like 50% of kdramas are those boring slice of life dramas where the plot is man with a job meets woman with a job and they find love #and 50% are thrillers where you would the plot is good but the pacing is TERRIBLE!!!! #like in almost all of these kdramas there are minutes (MINUTES!!!) taken up by just a lingering look or a shot that lasts way too long #and it drives me crazy cause it slows down the story SO MUCHHHH #like im watching eve and the plot is good but the pacing is so bad 😑 like minutes of silence cause the character is in emotional turmoil #and its just like we don’t need to waste time on this WE GET IT MOVE THE STORY ALONG NOW #like I hate it when a sequence takes too long and thats the problem with most of these dramas #same issue with the world of the married like it took that woman a whole episode to figure out her husband is cheating #which wouldn’t be a problem if ONE EPISODE WASN’T AN HOUR AND THIRTY MINUTES #and mind you there is one (1) plot in that entire show so you can imagine how excruciatingly slow that felt #which is another problem some of these shows need a B plot to fill up screen time cause so much of the A plot is filler #the only show where this wasn’t an issue was the penthouse I swear #and I link that back to why I can’t watch kdramas anymore #like the pacing on that show was sooo good #there were so many plots (that it almost became hard to keep track of) and a lot of advances to the story #that it never felt like it was moving slow #and thats my thing I need FAST #and I need action im realizing im one of those people I need action in my shows! #also im not sure but I didn’t really enjoy stranger things #I think its cause im not a sci-fi person like im just not that intrigued by fictional monsters idk yall #also stranger things didn’t have that much action in its first season #I feel like people watch the show for the coming of age story and not the sci-fi

[betawooper]

agh, i knew writing about rin's tragedy was gonna be depressing but its just so real even if shes being jokey about it

#kanao reacts to it like anyone else would but its just #but damn dude its not even just there to garner sympathy it actually has a purpose in explaining how #capitalism fucked her over and now shes trapped in the district forever bc she could never earn enough to leave #i should have kanao silently promise to pay off her entire debt i think that would be nice #kny plot rewrite