#and the plotline is incredible

[roccinan]

To commemorate volume 1 of @blorbosexterminator's epic story, The Swan's Symphony, I published a companion guide to the story so the rest of us can keep up with the impressive amount of characters factoring into the story!

Hope this does your story justice Nada, and I hope the guide is accurate. In the meantime, excited to see what you have in store for volume 2 ;)

#blorbosexterminator #the swan's symphony #the spirit of alex pina LIVES in this story and in you nada #the canon flavor is AMAZING in this #the canon flavor the character povs the mingling timelines #all the weaving of OCs and new plot points #it's a super ambitious project that's doing exactly what you planned and is just so satisfying and thrilling to read #which is why I personally needed the guide to keep up with everything haha! #hope this is helpful to you and other readers too! #and for those of you who haven't read swan's symphony yet- I can't rec it enough! #it's the season 6 we'll never have #and the plotline is incredible #you'll laugh you'll cry you'll gasp you'll spin!! #(as for my own stories- I have NOT abandoned any wips yet!! I promise to finish them all!)

[paracosmicessence]

bitches be making punnett squares to come up with ideas for more sonadow fankids

#sonadow #sonadow fankid #sketches #my art #took me way too long to come up with other S names that weren’t like Sarah or Sam or something #no i did not make more fankids so that i could come up with generic disney channel sitcom plotlines #(lying) #me omw to redraw the sonadow family as scenes from the incredibles 2 bc they’re goofy like that

[lord-squiggletits]

One of my favorite parts of phase 2 (and indeed one of the few moments I resonated with IDW Prowl) was when the neutrals were coming back to Cybertron and Prowl said that he refused to let Autobots be pushed aside and overruled after they were the ones who fought for freedom for 4 million years (the exact wording escapes me atm).

And I mean, that resentment still holds true even once the colonists come on bc like. As much as it's true that Cybertron's culture is fucked up, and as funny as it can be to paint Cybertronians as a bunch of weirdos who consider trying to kill someone as a common greeting not important enough to hold a grudge over.... The colonists POV kind of pissed me off a lot of times, as did the narrative tone/implications that Cybertronians are forever warlike and doomed to die by their own hands bc it just strikes me as an extremely judgemental and unsympathetic way to deal with a huge group of people with massive war PTSD and political/social tensions that were rampant even before the war?

Like, imagine living in a society rife with bigotry and discrimination where you get locked into certain occupations and social strata based on how you were born. The political tension is so bad there's a string of assassinations of politicians and leaders. The whole planet erupts into an outright war that leads (even unintentionally) to famine and chemical/biological warfare that destroys your planet. Both sides of the war are so entrenched in their pre-war sides and resentment for each other that this war lasts 4 million years and you don't even have a home planet any more. Then your home planet gets restored and a bunch of sheltered fucks come home and go "ewww why are you so violent?? You're a bunch of freaks just go live in the wilderness so that our home can belong to The Pure People Who Weren't Stupid And Evil Enough To Be Trapped In War" and then a bunch of colonists from places that know nothing about your history go "lol you people are so weird?? 🤣🤣 I don't get why y'all are fighting can't you just like, stop??? Oh okay you people are just fucked up and evil and stupid then" ((their planets are based on colonialism where their Primes wiped out the native populations btw whereas the Autobots and OP in particular fought to save organics. But that never gets brought up as a point in their favor)) as if the damage of a lifetime of war and a society that was broken even before the war can just magically go away now that the war is over.

Prowl fucking sucks but he was basically the only person that pointed out the injustice of that.

And then from then on out most of the characters from other colonies like Caminus and wherever else are going "i fucking hate you and your conflicts" w/ people like literal-nobody Slide and various Camiens getting to just sit there lecturing Optimus about how Cybertronians are too violent for their own good and how their conflicts are stupid, with only brief sympathetic moments where the Cybertronians get to be recognized as their own ppl who deserve sympathy before going right back to being lambasted.

Like I literally struggled to enjoy the story at multiple points because there was only so much I could take of the characters I knew and loved being raked over coals constantly while barely getting to defend themselves or be defended by the narrative so like. It was just fucking depressing and a little infuriating to read exRID/OP

#squiggposting #and like dont get me wrong barber wasnt trying to make cybertronians the bad guys or whatever #it's just a problem with his writing where like. he has A Message he wants to send #and so he uses the entire story literally just for The Message even if it involves bullshit plotlines #or familiar characters ppl were reading about for the past decade being shit on by OCs made up to fill a new roster #like barber's writing tends to lean way too much on a sort of lecturing tone #without giving proper care towards including moments where characters get to like. fucking express themselves and share their side #sort of like how barber couldnt be bothered to write pyra magna and optimus actually talking to each other during exrid #and instead during OP ongoing pyra is suddenly screaming about how OP is unteachable #even tho she never even tried to teach him bc she and OP never interacted bc i guess barber couldnt be bothered #he just needed someone to lecture OP so fuck making the story make sense or like letting OP get to say anything in defense #this is the infuriating part of barber's writing bc i think he has incredible IDEAS and was in charge of the lore i was most interested in #but most of the time his execution sucks and he's basically just mid with a few brilliant moments occasionally #or like he has a message about the cycle of violence he wants to convey #but his narrative choices trying to convey that theme made his story come off as super unsympathetic to the ppl who suffered #to the point where barber actively kneecapped some scenes that couldve been super fucking intense and emotional #in favor of the characters lecturing each other or some stupid plot to criticize OP #that time in unicron where windblade screamed about how this is their fault and then arcee replied that her planet is build on coloniation #shouldve happened more often than literally the last series of the ocntinuity. like goddamn stfu about your moral superiority #when your own sins are right fhere lol

[thousand-winters]

Fascinated by people just getting into WTNV and asking if there is a list of episodes to listen to, omitting the "unimportant" stuff I assume.

Chill, you all. Night Vale has been ongoing for around 11 years and it's yet to show any sign that it intends to end any time soon, so you can take your time. Even if it ended soon, there is time.

Enjoy the episodes as they are. Chew on them.

WTNV does this very special thing of making the town feel alive, not every citizen gets an arc or even a spotlight, but they're constant, they're there, living their lives. Those little details, little mentions of everyone growing and continuing living as time pass make it feel so nice.

And then, one day, Night Vale surprises you, and, oh, hey, remember that one intern whose death wasn't confirmed? Well, he has come back, and if you remember him and remember what happened to him at the time, you'll be able to connect the dots of the current arc faster.

The MOST unexpected things come back. The town is alive.

Just enjoy the ride! Enjoy Cecil's voice. Enjoy listening about this friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep.

#welcome to night vale #wtnv #i'm just sad people kinda feel like they need to consume this and do it fast or else... what? #like please. you don't need to do that!!! take your time to process and chew. some episodes hit hard and just leave you there thinking #besides. it's not like there's one main plotline exactly. there's a lot of arcs. usually like a big one each year but still #it's not that continues. it's been going for far too long for that. big part of what makes it enjoyable are the episodes that are- #technically unrelated to anything else going on with the main plot but still amazing and incredible #shout out to guidelines for disposal and ufo sightings and the vampire of lombardi street. they haunt me forever

[oneheadedcerberus]

Rung being kind of a loser old man is so much better in mtmte after finding out he's Literally Their God like what kind of god forgets he's a god? The kind that thinks finishing off a particularly riveting jigsaw puzzle is grounds for a sit down with a hot toddy

#maccadam #transformers #mtmte #rung #forever upset the rung = primus plotline will never be explored beyond the INCREDIBLY brief introduction we got #unless.......skybound. listen to me. hear my voice across the sea. you don't have to just do '84 characters. i promise.

[factorialsotherfandoms]

congrats to all the qtubbo and qbbh fans on their dead cubitos!

#genuinely i know how fun that can be #i can't deal with these plotlines rn for brain reasons so avoiding the server for a bit #but i know when you're in the mood for it how incredibly fun this is #and how long some have you have been waiting for it #qsmp tubbo #qsmp bbh

[grishaverse-chaos]

hmmm something about dominik haunting the narrative in king of scars. everything nikolai does is at least a little bit for him. he learns about the life of average ravkan people by meeting dominik's family. he starts gaining influence in politics just so he can improve dominik's life. and then he promises dominik that he won't let ravka break him.

that promise fucking haunts him. it follows him wherever he goes. it's the driving force behind everything he does, every step he takes to heal the centuries-old wounds in ravka. it's what drives him to do better, be better.

dominik is always there, in the back of his mind: this country gets you in the end. always pushing him to do more, because he couldn't save dominik and so he has to save ravka (for dominik) (because he promised) (because he loved him)

#my spicy hot take is that nikolai's relationship with dominik actually affects the narrative of the duology more than - #- his relationship with zoya does #you could argue that *none* of the events of the duology would have happened without dominik's influence #and honestly zoyalai as a relationship doesn't really affect the narrative/plotline all that much #which is One of the problems i have with it being endgame #anyway yes i am writing an angsty nikolai backstory fic why do you ask? #it's mostly about how he reinvents himself at every minor inconvenience (but also how incredibly fucked up his childhood was) #and if i have the energy it might turn into a rewrite of the ending of rule of wolves #bc him giving up the throne just plays into that pattern of running away #so honestly i think it's not a great ending in terms of his arc and character development #this may just be a me thing idk but i just feel like he doesn't actually get that much development in the duology #bc there's this idea of him as being Perfect and Invulnerable and Not Affected By His Trauma #which. is not the case. #it's all very dear reader (taylor swift) imo #ANYWAY #mayhem.txt #mayhem grishaverse originals #nikolai lantsov #shadow and bone #king of scars #grishaverse

[smokestarrules]

So knowing how vengeful ilia’s parent come across in “smile” doesn’t that make Blake telling ilia “is this what your parents would have wanted” feel kinda distasteful? Like, Blake never knew them, but ilia did. And either way based on smile it kinda seems like they wouldn’t want her to be as passive as ghira and Blake have been for all that we’ve seen of them.

Again it sometimes Blake in relation to ilia is a white savior type who shows the angry POC the “correct” way to fight for her rights. Admittedly Blake is also an in universe minority but it just doesn’t look good all around

Okay first of all Blake's not white, so jot that down lmao.

The faunus plotline has never been RWBY's best writing, I think anyone who's capable of critical thinking can admit that. But what I do think is incredibly important concerning it is how Blake is able to heal and allow herself to step out of that same mindset. She pulls herself out of Adam's version of the White Fang because she finally gains the courage to escape from his abuse.

And she's not perfect. Of course she's not. She might've known Ilia's parents a little and she might've not at all, but either way, she's trying to pull Ilia out of the deep end because she knows Ilia's not entirely gone.

#also why did you send me an ask instead of just? continuing our convo? assuming this is the same person ig #but no genuinely this is an interesting question bc again. the faunus plotline has many flaws to it #but!!! Blake's story is so incredibly powerful and important and is done insanely well #shes so not perfect but she Tries so hard #rwby #blake belladonna #ilia amitola #smokey answers #anonymous

[fencecollapsed]

the one reason I'd be hesitant to sacrifice the president plotline for a cleaner version of Black Friday is because the two doors not one scene when they realize they've started world war three is sooooo harrowing it's so GOOD

#that and the oval office bit are the best parts of the president plotline imo #its exactly what i mean when i say bf is a collection of incredibly strong individual scenes #they just all come together #clumsily #imo #cj says stuff #hatchetfield #starkid #black friday musical

[dylanconrique]

now i'm crying cause i'm thinking about how lucy threw herself at tim like "that was really scary" 🥺 after being shot at while she was undercover, and how scared she'll be and the emotions that will be running through her this second time around knowing she's not getting out of whatever predicament she's in unscathed —or possibly alive.

#*carly catalogs #THIS PLOTLINE YOU GUYS I'M NOT FUCKING KIDDING !!!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏 #her heart is gonna be rapidly beating tim's name over and over and over again #wishing he was able to help her even though for some reason he can't... (because of whatever obstacle) #i gotta get a grip girl oh man #the rookie #the rookie s6 #tim bradford #lucy chen #chenford #otp: you know me so well #i can't wait to be so incredibly wrong about every theory i have on this #no one hold me to anything i say about this #anyway my mutuals who aren't in the fandom or simply just don't give a fuck i will bless you by going to bed goodnight

[james-stark-the-writer]

feel like pure shit, just want her back

#james talks #riverdale #miss the whole crew really but Betty especially bc Lili was so magnificent #god as perfect as the finale was (and it really was one of the greatest finales ever) i wish we had gotten another season #they had as good a run as a show on that network could hope for but there are few shows on there that eclipsed the network like Riverdale #like the list includes like. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Gossip Girl. and ig The Vampire Diaries. and that's it. #(that list is for shows almost exclusively produced by the CW. CXG DID have other producing companies but it was largely the CW). #no show will ever quite be like Riverdale ever again and no show will ever reach the heights it did. #especially not on their shoestring CW budget. #like honestly i just need more Riverdale in my life. #like RAS and the writing team found such a great way to turn their weaknesses into strengths. #as an article on the show once said [paraphrased]: it was a great show that was really good at pretending to be bad. #even now nobody gets the show like i do. #everyone thinks it's some silly little show about crazy shit with crazy plotlines and pretty lighting and aesthetics but no substance— #when in reality it's an incredible pulpy anti-fascist text questioning the role of authority using those aesthetics for a larger purpose #but i'll save the real analysis for whenever i get around to actually making the Riverdale video essay i need in my life #unless Quinton Reviews or SuperEyepatchWolf beat me to it first. they're the only people who i think will actually understand the show. #like SuperEyepatchWolf's video on the show is already pretty fun even if it's a little dismissive of the substance of the show— #(tbf to him it only covered up until the S05 mid-season finale and S06 hadn't released yet) #but like he at least feels like he gets the spirit of the show. especially with the wrestling comparison. #and i hope i don't need to explain why Quinton would get it. #anyway. i need the Riverdale crew back.

[long-suffering-little-spoon]

Not sure how hot a take this is but Twelve had the best regeneration sequence (at least in NuWho) by a landslide like good fucking god

#just finished watching the doctor falls and twice upon a time #and they both go so fucking hard #like the fondness the sorrow the acceptance #the pear callback #THE EMOTIONS ARE OFF THE CHARTS #peter capaldi was absolutely fucking stellar omg he gave the performance of a lifetime #maybe i'm biased cos twelve and bill and missy are all my faves but the s10 finale and special are some of my favourite eps of dw ever #how steven moffatt wrote some of my least favourite plotlines but also s10 i will never know #the doctor falls monologue is objectively incredible but i also think his regen speech deserves credit too #i'm gonna miss him so baddddd 😭😭😭😭 #i don't think i can bear chibnall who again give me strength. at least in s5 and 6 i had river to get me through #i like jodie's doctor she's super cute and dhawan!master is brilliant but the rest of it... #also ugly tardis i said what i said #doctor who #dr who #12th doctor #twelfth doctor #peter capaldi #the doctor falls #twice upon a time #regeneration

[thebraxiatelcollection]

Is anybody else's relationship with Doctor Who currently all over the place like a rollercoaster at the moment, or is it just me?

I do love this show and what it has done to me and the friends and opportunities I've had through it and I will always be thankful for it making the person I am today, but I just feel like the last few years it has not been as it should be in terms of writing and quality control? I don't know how else to describe it.

I have been doing my best to completely ignore the bits of Doctor Who that I don't like and focus on the areas that I do like, and I really want to get back into the expanded universe / classic series again, I think.

I've taken a step back from the fandom recently and been trying to dive into other stuff, but maybe I should try and just pick up a random doctor who books or audios to get me into the spirit of things again.

#dw negativity #doctor who #my benny books specifically have been saying i need to pick up the rest of the series of vnas and continue reading them #and they are right! #i started reading the almost people in december and its now march and ive still not finished it #but i have been in such a slump with books and audios lately #like i want to be so excited for ncuiti gatwa i know hes going to be incredible #hes a fantastic actor and his passion for acting and the show is great #but ehhhh #with everything going on and it going with the timeless child plotline / streaming thing #not sure how i feel

[iirulancorrino]

Movies that attempt something different, that recognize that less can indeed be more, are thus easily taken to task. “It’s so subjective!” and “It omits a crucial P.O.V.!” are assumed to be substantive criticisms rather than essentially value-neutral statements. We are sometimes told, in matters of art and storytelling, that depiction is not endorsement; we are not reminded nearly as often that omission is not erasure. But because viewers of course cannot be trusted to know any history or muster any empathy on their own — and if anything unites those who criticize “Oppenheimer” on representational grounds, it’s their reflexive assumption of the audience’s stupidity — anything that isn’t explicitly shown onscreen is denigrated as a dodge or an oversight, rather than a carefully considered decision. A film like “Oppenheimer” offers a welcome challenge to these assumptions. Like nearly all Nolan’s movies, from “Memento” to “Dunkirk,” it’s a crafty exercise in radical subjectivity and narrative misdirection, in which the most significant subjects — lost memories, lost time, lost loves — often are invisible and all the more powerful for it. We can certainly imagine a version of “Oppenheimer” that tossed in a few startling but desultory minutes of Japanese destruction footage. Such a version might have flirted with kitsch, but it might well have satisfied the representational completists in the audience. It also would have reduced Hiroshima and Nagasaki to a piddling afterthought; Nolan treats them instead as a profound absence, an indictment by silence. That’s true even in one of the movie’s most powerful and contested sequences. Not long after news of Hiroshima’s destruction arrives, Oppenheimer gives a would-be-triumphant speech to a euphoric Los Alamos crowd, only for his words to turn to dust in his mouth. For a moment, Nolan abandons realism altogether — but not, crucially, Oppenheimer’s perspective — to embrace a hallucinatory horror-movie expressionism. A piercing scream erupts in the crowd; a woman’s face crumples and flutters, like a paper mask about to disintegrate. The crowd is there and then suddenly, with much sonic rumbling, image blurring and an obliterating flash of white light, it is not. For “Oppenheimer’s” detractors, this sequence constitutes its most grievous act of erasure: Even in the movie’s one evocation of nuclear disaster, the true victims have been obscured and whitewashed. The absence of Japanese faces and bodies in these visions is indeed striking. It’s also consistent with Nolan’s strict representational parameters, and it produces a tension, even a contradiction, that the movie wants us to recognize and wrestle with. Is Oppenheimer trying (and failing) to imagine the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians murdered by the weapon he devised? Or is he envisioning some hypothetical doomsday scenario still to come? I think the answer is a blur of both, and also something more: In this moment, one of the movie’s most abstract, Nolan advances a longer view of his protagonist’s history and his future. Oppenheimer’s blindness to Japanese victims and survivors foreshadows his own stubborn inability to confront the consequences of his actions in years to come. He will speak out against nuclear weaponry, but he will never apologize for the atomic bombings of Japan — not even when he visits Tokyo and Osaka in 1960 and is questioned by a reporter about his perspective now. “I do not think coming to Japan changed my sense of anguish about my part in this whole piece of history,” he will respond. “Nor has it fully made me regret my responsibility for the technical success of the enterprise.” Talk about compartmentalization. That episode, by the way, doesn’t find its way into “Oppenheimer,” which knows better than to offer itself up as the last word on anything. To the end, Nolan trusts us to seek out and think about history for ourselves. If we elect not to, that’s on us.

#what I'm reading #oppenheimer #nuclear power #inject this entire essay into my veins #part of what makes oppenheimer such a powerful movie is how closely it hews to its subject matter #except for the hearing plotline we see what he sees. we feel what he feels #the people who were building the bombs never saw its effects. they lived in a tiny town deliberately cut off from the rest of the world #and when their labors bore fruit they heard about it on the radio like everyone else in the country #oppenheimer included. inventing something doesn't give you special power into what it actually looks like when it's used. that's the danger #the idea that oppenheimer would have been better or more respectful if there had been some random cut to people in japan or the new mexico #desert being bombed frankly strikes me as incredibly gauche #and the idea that this movie needs to encompass every aspect of the bombings because it would be unrealistic or unfair to expect people #to seek out any additional knowledge that can't be found in a blockbuster movie is just so insulting to our collective intelligence

[emile-hides]

Everyone should go watch Densel’s Animal Crossing series on YouTube right now just for these moments alone

#Animal Crossing #Tom Nook #Isabelle #They're just so!!!!! You know????? #I would put them on the self ship blog but an Event is going on over there this month #So we get MAIN posting #The HUG I'm falling apart #The SASS #I love it so much #The entire series is incredibly funny and seriously really good #If you're okay with Video Game characters are real and have emotions in a Meta Way plotlines #Which I know is one of those things that bothers people #but I still reccomend it because the first like 5 are just funny one offs #And then you get to Town Meeting and things go crazy #In a really really good way #And again it's VERY funny #I love it a lot and this hug gif is going to be playing in my head forever

[saintjudasi]

hes still my favourite

#rivalz.png #bobby drake #iceman #x-men #i regret to inform you i love the time displaced iceman plotline its incredibly funny and good