#and who got the most plot stuff

[untouchedsoap]

there is something sooo fucking good about early seasons ian and mickey, about watching this summer fling turn into something more, the fear that elicited from mickey but him being unable to stop, finding those little moments hidden away and taking all this meaning from small gestures and persevering in dugouts and under bleachers and barely pressed confessions in the back of a church that is soo good for my brain

like i am very glad mickey gets to shout his love for ian from the mountain tops and also beat his love for ian into his dad's face but when he was clenching his teeth shut and his love for ian was coming out regardless ohhhhh baby i was eating

#shameless us #gallavich #and also they actually gave noel something interesting to work with instead of 5 mins of nonsense in the later seasons but. what can you do #like i watch later season stuff with like equal parts 'good for them i'm happy they are happy' and 'thats not my boy' #yes my man deserves to be out and happy and a bridezilla but also he would not act like that <3 hope this helps #yes he deserves to be a diva menace no he wouldn't do it like that though <3 #yes he should get to heal from his familial trauma no he should not be forced to care for and interact with that man who should be dead #gallavich truly double edged sword of biggest win for fans and also biggest fumble #like ian's supposed to be one time hook up in s1 became his HUSBAND after years of bringing him back and sending him away rinse and repeat #because the writers hated mickey but audiences loved him #so yay they're married! time to have the most uninteresting plots for them imaginable & retcon some dumb ass traits on them for plot purpos #the last 2 seasons should have centered around ian and mickey becoming the centralizing force of the house that fiona was at the start #god there are so many tags here sorry. got more passionate about this than i thought i would #mickey milkovich

[teecupangel]

I feel like one of the best parts of the vamp lover au would be the genetic lip scar

because the obvious reaction to the classic "this person looks exactly like this old painting" things is like, okay we're having fun but obviously it's a coincidence that these people look similar

But not only do the sketches look like the wanted poster

*they all have the same scar*

and it's not photoshopped! it's super prominent! scars are one of the main facts listed in an apb! and Leonardo *definitely* did some uh, "studies" of the the vampire lover's lips. so????? what's less ridiculous? That this guy has been alive for a thousand years? or that there's some kind of secret society that ritually scars their lips as part of membership, and three guys centuries apart just *happen* to look very similar?

@fanworldbuildingfun asashjksdhfakjhfdjskahdfjk THE GENETIC SCAR!!!

You know there will be conspiracy theorists pointing at all of Leonardo's sketches focusing so much on it (maybe even one sketch where the focus is on Ezio's face and it's so clear that he's expecting a kiss, "HOW CAN YOU SAY THEY'RE NOT AT LEAST FUCKING??? HAVE ANY MODELS EVER LOOK AT AN ARTIST LIKE THIS AND NOT WANT TO FUCK THEM???")

Anyway... it's a very common evidence used by videos and posts trying to explain why The Wanted Poster Boy (also known as Da Vinci Wanted Boy and Abstergo's Most Wanted) and Leonardo's Secret Vampire Lover are the same person.

And now, this sketch from Syria has the same scar and face and asjdhjkasdhfjhsadjkhjksadjkfhsajkdhf EVERYONE IS UPDATING THEIR POSTS, VIDEOS ARE GETTING UPLOADED WITH MORE MINUTES

It's glorious chaos.

Someone is suggesting Reincarnation AND NOW THE TOP THREE HIGHEST TAGS IN AO3's Leonardo Da Vinci/Secret Vampire Lover pairing tags are:

Vampire AU

Reincarnation AU

im not naming vampie altair

#i feel the need to tag this properly now #what's our tag? #leovamp??? #da vinci's secret lover not-salai??? #this au is like that cute kid next door who likes saying hi to you while their parents are double-checking that they got everything #and you are obligated to make small talks with the kid #and you get engrossed by the most creative story the kid keeps telling you #so you start adding stuff to their story because you got carried away #assassin's creed #desmond miles #ezio auditore #leonardo da vinci #ezileo #teecup writes/has a plot #Da Vinci's secret lover Not-Salai

[9hikers]

spent the last few weeks trying to figure out why the episodes after 12's run don't hit as hard and i cannot make a coherent argument for the life of me

#9 speaks #just finished the giggle and it feels like they're trying to set up a Sarah Jane Adventures kinda thing #which i hope to god doesn't happen #if they marvel-ify doctor who (more than it already has been) i will bite someone #but yeah no the most coherent argument i can make is that i think the series works best #when it's like 40-minute individual adventures with an overarching season plot #the episodes have an alien that's an allegory for whatever the fuck the writer wants to do commentary on #and you sprinkle in stuff about the doctor's life or reputation but you don't make it the WHOLE PLOT #i love the timelord victorious shit as much as the next guy but i think a lot of people forget that those episodes had like. a villain #like the doctor only got to have his little 'the laws of time are mine' moment because the mars colony was getting fucked by the water dude #it feels like as the series has progressed the 'doctor deals with issues' series-long b-plot has overtaken like. the actual aliens? #much as the toymaker was fun and camp and i love seeing him back #the connective tissue between bigeneration + toymaker + 'the doctor is wearing himself down and never stops' #was not strong in the slightest #it feels like someone took a bunch of disconnected scripts and jammed them together #anyway 9 is going to go read more 13th doctor fanfics bc she deserved better

[waywardsalt]

mmmgh

#salty talks #this one is personal but not in a scary just in a i need to say this shit somewhere way #botw/totk… i do not fucking like th. like gameplay is fun puzzles are cool world is cool but like. #the lackluster story and characters honest to god drag it the fuck down for me #none of the characters are actuslly interesting and ganondorf is the only one i want to see in totk #like i got the master sword. i got it and its like whatever. i know whats up with the light dragon and i dont care #totk is making me start to dislike this version of zelda and idk how to feel abt that #no one feels like. interesting. everyone is either good or evil or a fucking side character with a paper thin life #and totk with its fucking no-nuance go kill ganondorf plot is just. stop making half of the plot take place in the fucking past #i havent really done much story stuff but like. GOD. no one in totk is meant to be morally gray its all so fucking black and white #what happened to having major characters who were morally dubious and were actually fascinating to watch #i dont like that most of the major characters in totk/botw are Good Guys and Nice To Link nobody actually interests me #i was SO excited that the lurelin pirates would be a new group of characters to contend with but no. monsters. fuck #they had a chance to maybe get into the kingdoms more dubious past concerning the sheikah and then made the sheikah barely important #and then made the yiga more of a joke instead of like. doing anything with their interesting past #no fuck you heres some all new shit that has nothing to do with what came before and the same shallow conflict and characters #theyve dipped their toes into morally dubious characters and genuinely fascinating characters and the idea that the kingdom of hyrule isnt #all that and gave more room for drawing your own conclusions and totk just hands over the most black and white experience #im playing to finish the story and finish the game i actively do not care or expect much from these characters #and it just seems like the narrative is going to bend over backwards to put hyrule as the ultimate moral good and any opposition as bad #and all but force you to accept that because it just proves that sentiment correct over and over again and its fucking bland #idk. aomething about the writing of this game fucking frustrates me esp when i think abt how past games were written #imperialist shit aside this game’s story and characters are so fucking. par for the course bland. i dont care beyond ‘oh thata charming’ #i dont think about this game’s story. it doesnt make me think it just shoves events and character actions at me and moves on #fuck. #it feels like its just. telling me shit. not giving me much room to really decide for myself. zelda is good ganondorf is bad fuck nuance ig #it seems so fucking scared of being a little bit complex. this is why i say 'i miss linebeck' i miss complicated ideas and characters #just. totk seems like it REALLY wants you to have specific thoughts about these events and characters. doing everything it can to prove #the good guys right and the bad guys wrong and having pretty much no one be in between or like. anything. its all standard

[exopelagic]

cue screaming abt legends Z-A

#I’m so happy they went for kalos instead of unova #like I love unova. I love unova. but I wasn’t sure what they’d do with it that would feel right #also I was 100% expecting johto either let’s go johto or legends celebi bc SO MUCH johto in that presents. THE UNOWN. and raikou and silver #but man kalos!!!! I rlly love the gen vi pokemon and it’ll be so cool to see what they do with a different version of the region #I’m expecting a kinda time travel element honestly? it seemed to go between futuristic + past stuff a BUNCH #with the redevelopment plan and the shiny light city #+ the two versions of the map it shows. those are Definitely 2 versions and one of them is past + more similar to the one we know #and one is updated but that could just be updating for switch #but ALSO Z-A. like okay AZ for a start is coming back but that’s very much a going backwards indication right #man my friend got to watch in real time as I went through the plot of the kalos games and remembered AZ and have everything click into place #it took me way too long to click that it was kalos in the trailer like it took me until talonflame to be like wait. and then PRISM TOWER #but god yeah I’m just like. I wanna know where they’re going with this bc I DOUBT it’s war era #it definitely COULD be but it would feel like a lot yknow for lumiose to be so similar that long ago #it’s not like 3000 years is a reasonable number in the first place anyway pokemon is weird #rlly rlly hoping there is the full region and that it’s made to feel less empty than paldea and hisui #if they’re going for an open world again which I feel like they will #I saw someone say they’re setting the whole thing in lumiose which would be a CHOICE. it’d be very different for sure #I don’t wanna say I wouldn’t like that but it would be a completely new kinda pokemon game. which would fit the legends idea. who knows #also wanna know what’s up with that logo bc I don’t recognise it. most similar is the aether foundation but that’s not close #even if it would make sense for aether to be around here (and I rlly hope they are) #okay wait so prism tower existing means it HAS to be future right bc clement designed it right? unless he redesigned it or smth #also I am excited abt megas coming back. I do like them they’re easily my favourite of the gimmicks #and I hope this means they’ll be sticking around again near future even though it’d be easy for them to drop them after this legends game #I can see them using lumiose or an otherwise limited setting as a way to stop it being a traditional game bc it’s proooobably not gonna be #like. go get gym badges yknow #yeah I’m rlly excited I can’t wait to see what they do with zygarde and where they’re going with this #pokemon #my money is still on time travel going backwards #luke.txt #plza

[alchemistdetective]

((I think I finally found the words of why I didn't like the second story that much for Star Rail

It has the same, exact problems as Honkai 3rd's ending

Spoilers in the tags))

#OOC #They just #feed you all the lore and all the worldbuilding stuff #While forgetting that lots of lore is not equal to good storytelling #And what results is that you get walls and walls of text about the Xianzhou #But you do not get much things to do with the present-day characters #while getting to know the current characters like there's so many characters who barely got to do anything #It's quite similar to how you can write walls and walls of text about your world and the lore behind it #But in reality most people just wants to know about their role in the story and how they can help #You can have all the lore in the world but it doesn't matter if people aren't invested in it #Especially dan shu #they did Dan Shu so dirty #and then in Honkai 3rd it has a similar problem of #The final ending is really good but the stuff before that is just walls and walls of text #So much worldbuilding and background lore ideas in their head but the way they presented it is absolutely terrible #In contrast to Belabog which is a super basic plot but have extremely great characters #I do not doubt that there's really good stuff in the character stories #But why can't those moments be integrated in the main story too you know? #Everyone else in the Express crew sat at the back and barely got the time to do anything especially Welt #Still enjoyed it though my favourite part is the puzzles #Anyways I'm going to bed night night jlaSHJLASd

[lexalovesbooks]

My cousins decided the best way to spend Christmas weekend was to rewatch every single Harry Potter movie which would have been bad and irritating except since then my brain has been on fire about my own magic school chosen one story (not created with any intention to be a ripoff but ever since i decided to set it in a magic school type place for the first couple books and realized exactly how Big of a project it’s going to be I’ve been leaning into the spirit of it and calling it Harry Potter But Better)

#watching the movies also resulted in So Many conversations about jk rowling and her racism and transphobia #luckily this is the side of my family that’s chill about all that stuff i dread to think what would happen if we’d been at my mom’s parents #house for this. my dad’s the one who has the most trouble with it he was like ‘well i can’t blame her for thinking it’s hard to understand’- #and my grandma IMMEDIATELY shut him down she was just like ‘i don’t think it’s hard to understand at all’ i love her #anyways this series. i really need to figure out a lot more about the setting that’s my next big goal. right now it has a kind of steampunk #vibe to it and i really need to figure out more about that technology and a lot of other culture things #i’ve got all the big plot points worked out now i think.

[noxtivagus]

I LOVE LITERATURE SO MUCH. MY FAV COURSE FR

#🌙.rambles #ARGHHH TODAY WAS SO GOOD #w biology w the. oh my god i missed lab so much 🥺 #i was just so curious n interested the whole time n it made me so so happy looking n managing stuff yk n #i'm rlly a fast learner 😭 i ended up helping some classmates w their own yk #literature tho i was so happy oh my god i was the only one who liked the 3rd short story the most #MARK ON THE WALL BY VIRGINIA WOOLF !!!! 🤍 #ms. was talking abt how out of the three it's the most. complex? idk but a lot of ppl didn't understand it as well i think #MY CLASSMATES CLAPPED WHEN I STOOD UP BCS #for each story ms asked us all to stand up for which is your fav n so with mark on the wall i was uh. the only one #hflsfksjfs n then the last question before ending class.. smth w element of plot n what does it mean to be human #i was fucking restless in my seat but i'm so shy so my hand was shaking but #at the end i finally got the courage to recite 🥺 IM SO HAPPY IM SO PROUD OF MYSELF #n then today i think i actually felt for once that i'm part of my class bcs i'm usually so shy #back to that question tho. this is my fucking expertise #made me rlly realize i am such an empath :^) i won't deny my intelligence i love it actually #i think. a Lot. i do consider myself to be decently self-aware. i know myself well #i can. understand others more personally too yk? oh my god i'm rlly glad w what i recited in class hehe #i cld've said sm more but hflsjgksjfs >< i'm happy w how i presented myself #honestly when i'm not nervous or anxious i really thrive. i'd be a really good friend n lover maybe n. speaking comes naturally #when i'm not nervous 💀 n when i'm passionate abt smth bcs i cld speak on the spot n have a coherent yk lil impromptu recitation or speech #n do well <3 i rlly mean it when anxiety just fucks me up bcs i'm confident in my own self #in the car rn n earlier dad brought up the concert n said he was actually rather interested in going #yh he knows their genre n all 🥺 n uhm. of how lyrics aren't very 'wholesome' as he said T_T #OFC.... MY DAD LOVES MUSIC YK HFLSKFJS #he's interested in accompanying us bcs we need an adult but he. has work so :c #we'll buy the tix later i think but mom said like condition no tailor for our prom dress this year #YEAH NP FUCK LOOKING PRETTY. MUSIC IS BETTER. #maybe tailor w grad ball or wtvr next year >.> honestly i'm just all in for the experience. #i don't care much for looking pretty or having a date for just shows n looks n confidence. i care more for the experience as a whole

[liloinkoink]

so the bush thing is from the s6 prank war, after it escalated. grian and tango go a heist and steal things in the vault, but also add grian heads to docm's bush in the office, which he was really mad about (which is why the first hermit gang verse is "listen grian nobody touches my bush") - doc discovers it in HC VI ep 61 (9min for the bush), and retaliates in ep 62. the final teams are finalized from the allies/enemies list from docm's retaliation if i recall correctly

ill be honest with you anon, my friend, i think some base assumptions about my knowledge of season six are being made here that i do not measure up to. i am so sorry to say this but i dont know if ive ever actually watched an episode of season six. i think ive watched a few random bits of maybe? three episodes? but i dont think ive ever watched an entire episode of season six start to finish

which is to say. what vault? why was there a heist? i know vaguely that there was a prank war and then nothing about it at all (is this when grian was? stealing doors? i think i heard something about dressing up like a chicken and stealing doors??) what is significant about this bush? is this a bad time to admit ive listened to hermitgang once ever and it was on a clip of an inthelittlewood stream and i didnt even get through the whole song

#i am so sorry anon the further away we get from s8 the less i know about hermitcraft #i know some things abt s8 (ive watched most of ren's and popped in every once in a while when it was running to check on the moon big plot) #ive watched a Small handful of s7 (my roommate's watched etho's s7 and shown me pieces) #i know some of the ppl who were in s6 (???) and i think grian's base was a ship in a bottle? #and i think ive heard very very minor whispers about s5 #if you asked me one single thing that happens in hc seasons 1-4 i could tell you nothing at all #ive picked up like. more details than these. but a lot of its ive picked up from fic so im like. is this real or have you made this up? #ive also got a bunch of facts i dont know where they came from #like scar and sub were posessed for a bit? #ive watched decked out stuff #i know about the mycelium resistence ive watched stuff about that #i know very little but i do know some stuff about a bunch of very random things #ANYWAY. if my tone sounds cold sorry its not supposed to but im aware some of this will read that way #i just have no idea what like anyone was doing in s6 at all. esp doc. this is greek to me unfortunately #anonymous #oink asks

[faerociousbeast]

and glasses defends white hair more than once apparently.. interesting....

#fae plays stuff #the other main plot is blonde gets drunk #accidentally takes a usb that was the target of blue team #and since he interfered w a different teams mission his team got penalized #but yeah glasses is basicallygoing like. white haireds right for this #other thing is the rest of the plot so far anyway has been #after this incident of blonde accidentally taking blue teams target #they get into a. War? fight? idk what to call it #where whichever team completes the most high ranked missions by the deadline. wins #and blue haired who was avoiding joining a team #temporarily is joining blue team since red team got penalized #however on blue route #white haired is trying to get blue haired to stay on the team permanently #i got no clue wtf red route is about i havent done it yet

[pamesjatterson]

not me changing the entire original basis of the time trippers story but shhh it's okay.

#otto isn't a time traveler anymore just percy and his best friend kathleen are #otto is just a multi dimensional being like his mom and all his siblings #Percy's time traveling starts messing up the universe and starts glitchinf around #without meaning to. and messing stuff up #otto lives in the middle zone (which he made to get away from his mom and brothers) #with Janus (who instead of having found her WITH percy. after their fateful meeting #which happened after percy accidentally went to the end of his universe and ended up in the middle zone #she was made and percy vanished back to his time) #percy dedicates himself to not only his time travel work but trying to find otto again #in the meantime Mr universe is sent by Ms universe to ask otto to fix the broken timestream #since it's in the universe he's supposed to watch over.. and he sets off trying to find percy by also travelling #AND AT THE SAME TIME. 0tto was attempting to settle down with perci! but the timeline messing up on Percy prime #sends him into the void (separate from the middle zone) #which sends 0tto SPIRALING #and he blames otto #0tto is joined by Atto who actually got kicked out by ms universe for being so mentally messed up #and together they're trying to hunt down otto #all of this culminating in a genuine race against time before the multi universe itself implodes. taking out the whole #universe family. percy is unaware of this for most of the plot #ough. will be writing when I finish my homework #vinyl gabs #time trippers

[arolesbianism]

Thinking abt how much I love oni's writing again... In particular, "a seed is planted" continues to be one of if not my favorite logs because despite the troubling details and implications that come with it, it's the one thing in the entirety of the decaying corpse of gravitas that genuinely leaves us with a grain of hope (a seed if you will) and makes oni as a whole a lot more bitter sweet as while earth may not have survived, the dupes did, and after their horrible origins and the shit that many of them went through, in due time they'll finally get to just live, they're free now, and even if Olivia's sleep is end of a tragedy, the world will keep moving forward with or without those who've been lost

#rat rambles #oni posting #like I guess I just rly love that oni both manages to commit to being a tragedy while also leaving a world still in motion #like Im glad that olivia didnt get a bittersweet ending and instead got a fucking miserable one #while at the same time the dupes are still left there to keep moving forward #well ok more so I like how the narrative shifts into smth quite beautiful when seen from the dupes perspectives #which is also why I like that the dupes are rarely talked abt directly in the lore logs #idk I just feel like a seed is planted wouldnt hit as hard to me if the dupes were talked abt more #its the same sort of incedental storytelling that I like abt the rest of oni's writing ig #also I just think them being a major part of the lore logs would rly take away from the greater horrors and tragedies of gravitas #like idk I think it would have been a lot more boring if a third of the logs were just jackie going so yeah I tortured dupes some more #it makes the pre end of the world world feel so much bigger while still mostly remaining within gravitas itself #enhances the feeling of glimpsing into a past world #like every now and then I think abt what oni story could have looked like and am filled with joy at what it is now #I fucking love being into fiction thats good god it feels so good to like shit thats just like actually good #it honestly makes me almost wish there wouldnt be new lore but I do think theres room for more #as in theres plenty of room to make shit up and also we need to see more of the scientists pls #as for actual quote unquote plot stuff idk just give me like one jackie and olivia college year video transcript or smth and we're good #theres other stuff that make me lose my mind but for narrative consistency I think itd be best to not touch those two too much #especially olivia I rly think she doesnt need almost any new content the only stuff Id want with her is if it expanded upon jackie #because rly jackie is the only character I think would super heavily benefit from elaboration even if I stand by her not needing much #as Ive said a billion times just smth small to show us her in a more casual setting and we're golden I think #show me that woman being genuinely happy so I can fill in the blanks as she slowly gets crushed by the consequences of her actions #shes a part of this tragedy too and god damnit I want to see the life she ruined along the way of ruining many others #I want to see a woman whos eyes once shined and then when the lights have dulled I want her to say it was worth it with no conviction #metaphorically ofc I dont actually want to see most of it because thatd go against the narrative philosophy already established #rly all this means is I wanna see jackie and olivia doing laundry together or smth #oh also I hope they specifically give otto a whole other log just to clear up my pronoun woes #idc what its abt just have them talk abt their gender offhand or smth #just mi-ma being like how do you do young man and otto is like they and mi-ma is like ah yes young they

[waywardsalt]

damien and linebeck have the minor dynamic of damien being a guy who’s pretty well built and has a healthy bit of fat on him and linebeck having the prestigious title of ‘boniest man on the great sea’

#salty talks #damibeck #damien fletcher #linebeck #sure! i need to stop worrying abt putting my oc x canon and other post ph atuff in main tags #anyways. its a fun dynamic in the sense that linebeck generally isnt tooooo interested in sex and doesnt typically get a lot out of it #at least not really touchy feely ‘normal’ sex while damien has more of a sex drive and gets more enjoyment out of it. he likes the bones #but he also has the occasional thought of man it feels like im fucking a redead. anyways. this is important for post ph #cuz like. hes bony partically bc hes iust like thst but primarily bc hes underweight n has food problems. so thats smth they work on w him #so damien’s perspective as smth who enjoys being physical abt linebeck and pays attention to the shape and feeling of his body #is an intimate metric of. through damien holding him by the end of post ph its known that hes at a little bit of a healthier weight #linebeck likes being skinny and generally will stay in that area through how he lives and his preferences genetics and stuff #its just like. hey man. you are skin and bones rn. goal is. healthy weight. and damien holding him is the periodic measurement. yeah? #this is partially why i typically hc him as bein gaunt to the point of emaciated i can have this development n its tied to my hc backstory #the other reason is bc bony guys make me feel like a rabid dog #when my mom and i rewatched arcane a few months back she asked why viktor is my favorite character #and i had to take a minute and come up with an answer that wasnt i feel feral when i can see a man’s ribcage #but anyways under the overarching plot and minor arcs post ph is very much recovery as its personal plot #its a bit inspired by berserk in that way (not explaining itd take a whole but iykyk) so its. linebecks condition is important #his is the most important bc he needs the most work done and hes the most in need of the support group the crew makes up #yeah. anyways linebeck is bony as fuck and damien kinda has a thing for it tho linebecks tailbone is a fucking DAGGER so thats smth for him #slightly similar is body hair comparison- damien doesnt have much the T let him down hes got a lil but not much in post ph #while linebeck is generally pretty hairy and damien also likes that. he sleeps with him like mmmm chest hair and then Bones. im losing it

[exopelagic]

dr who is a strange show

#so I finished 13’s run like two weeks ago? and I’m about to finish 9 #and it’s just kinda interesting how like simultaneously continuous and disjointed it is #10 was the doctor I’d seen most of before I started watching it myself so that was who I knew the doctor to Be #but now I’ve watched 13 and. she’s kinda It #and having watched 9 he definitely feels like an early incarnation which is interesting I think bc 13 is just so tired of everything. 9 isnt #like he isn’t NOT tired but he’s not hit 13 breaking point #also like. watching 9 has been fun bc it’s constantly like ohhhh so THATS where they were getting that from #stuff that like I’d seen in 13 that I didn’t remember from 10 but no she didn’t make it up that’s a callback #I don’t have particularly coherent thoughts if you were wondering just this like. swirling mess of how these people are the same person #it’s also just rlly strange to me that we’re not gonna get more 13 now like that’s It her run ended #and it might be because 9 is so clearly Done and he’s got one season that I didn’t have a chance to get as attached #and I didn’t ever sit down myself and watch 10 I just saw chunks so it doesn’t feel like he’s done yet #(but also I mean he did just come back. there is that. strange show) #yeah idk. I’m sure if I ever watch classic who it’ll be a similar case of seeing the echoes like. retroactively I guess #very appropriate to watch the time travel show incredibly out of order. debating whether to watch 10 or 12 next #unrelated but I wanna see the lupari again I can’t believe they gave us dog people and then took them away so quickly #karvanista my beloved I’m so sorry for what they did to you it was too big a thing to just leave hanging there in the narrative #but hey. time travel show. #I also rlly like what 9’s season has done with all the recurring plot threads like it Felt like it was building to something all the way #god yeah I just miss 13. it felt like they’d only just started getting into the stuff they could do with her and then it’s just Over #I feel like that might be the point of the doctor. unclear. will report back #luke.txt #doctor who #OH HEY THIS POST DELETED BUT ITS BACK NOW #just finished 9’s last episode and yeah it fucked

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Terry Pratchett about fantasy ❤

Terry Pratchett interview in The Onion, 1995 (x)

O: You’re quite a writer. You’ve a gift for language, you’re a deft hand at plotting, and your books seem to have an enormous amount of attention to detail put into them. You’re so good you could write anything. Why write fantasy?

Terry: I had a decent lunch, and I’m feeling quite amiable. That’s why you’re still alive. I think you’d have to explain to me why you’ve asked that question.

O: It’s a rather ghettoized genre.

Terry: This is true. I cannot speak for the US, where I merely sort of sell okay. But in the UK I think every book— I think I’ve done twenty in the series— since the fourth book, every one has been one the top ten national bestsellers, either as hardcover or paperback, and quite often as both. Twelve or thirteen have been number one. I’ve done six juveniles, all of those have nevertheless crossed over to the adult bestseller list. On one occasion I had the adult best seller, the paperback best-seller in a different title, and a third book on the juvenile bestseller list. Now tell me again that this is a ghettoized genre.

O: It’s certainly regarded as less than serious fiction.

Terry: (Sighs) Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire— Was it you who wrote the review? I thought I recognized it— Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus.

Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown. Up to a few hundred years ago no one would have disagreed with this, because most stories were, in some sense, fantasy. Back in the middle ages, people wouldn’t have thought twice about bringing in Death as a character who would have a role to play in the story. Echoes of this can be seen in Pilgrim’s Progress, for example, which hark back to a much earlier type of storytelling. The epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest works of literature, and by the standard we would apply now— a big muscular guys with swords and certain godlike connections— That’s fantasy. The national literature of Finland, the Kalevala. Beowulf in England. I cannot pronounce Bahaghvad-Gita but the Indian one, you know what I mean. The national literature, the one that underpins everything else, is by the standards that we apply now, a work of fantasy.

Now I don’t know what you’d consider the national literature of America, but if the words Moby Dick are inching their way towards this conversation, whatever else it was, it was also a work of fantasy. Fantasy is kind of a plasma in which other things can be carried. I don’t think this is a ghetto. This is, fantasy is, almost a sea in which other genres swim. Now it may be that there has developed in the last couple of hundred years a subset of fantasy which merely uses a different icongraphy, and that is, if you like, the serious literature, the Booker Prize contender. Fantasy can be serious literature. Fantasy has often been serious literature. You have to fairly dense to think that Gulliver’s Travels is only a story about a guy having a real fun time among big people and little people and horses and stuff like that. What the book was about was something else. Fantasy can carry quite a serious burden, and so can humor. So what you’re saying is, strip away the trolls and the dwarves and things and put everyone into modern dress, get them to agonize a bit, mention Virginia Woolf a few times, and there! Hey! I’ve got a serious novel. But you don’t actually have to do that.

(Pauses) That was a bloody good answer, though I say it myself.

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