#but according to the novel

[haunted-xander]

No swearing in front of the baby

#ven doesnt remember anything prior to getting the wooden keyblade (according to the novel) but this is still funny #i would play a kh game that is just mundane domestic shit with these guys set pre-bbs while ven is recovering/early training #i think about it too much #the bbs novel is a godsend it fuels me #terra #ventus #aqua #kingdom hearts #kingdom hearts birth by sleep #kh #kh bbs #art #my art #xanders art #digital art #fan art

[accord-vn]

[SABAOTH, the Serpent]

hi! the mechanical designer @himecommunism here! just wanted to show off our basically finalized design for Sabaoth, our eminently kissable heroine

#accord #mecha #visual novel #biomecha #biomechanical #art

[flowerytale]

Clarice Lispector, from The Passion According to G.H. (published in 1964)

#clarice lispector #the passion according to g.h. #novel #typo #typography #words #fragments #quote #quotes #*

[lastofthe20thcenturygirls]

maomao:

also maomao: don't worry and just marry consort lishu, jinshi-sama. i am even ignoring that basen and lishu were giving heart eyes to each other. just go ahead and marry her it's cool :)

#girl went from “don't touch me” to stroking his hair #my guy wasn't even wearing any deodrant and yet she could smell flowers #according to old tumblr that's the smell of your soulmate girl #stop fighting #this was the best part of vol 5 just them being so casual #also i don't think jinshi would have minded that it was foot water because it was maomao's foot water #kusuriya no hitorigoto #the apothecary diaries #knh text #light novel #jinshi x maomao

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts II Official Strategy Guide (Source) Sora's Forms

#kingdom hearts 2 #kh2 #scans #i'll provide my sources for these since i'm sure some of you would like to check out the full guide for yourselves #for anyone wondering where limit form is- that form is a final mix exclusive so it's not in this guide #drive forms? YAWN. card/dice form enjoyers make some noise!!! #somewhat unrelated but i think it's interesting that the novels have sora transform into anti form during the armored xemnas fight because #according to this guide the odds of you changing into anti form during the armored xemnas fight are significantly increased by x10 #they took the statistics into consideration lol

[warlordfelwinter]

just a quick sketch i decided to color

our wildsea character/ship creation session is next week, im so excited. i still haven't chosen a name for him 😭

#i think i'm caught between lyrid and namid #lyrid as in the meteor shower that originates from lyra #and namid is an ojibwe name that means 'star dancer' #at least according to various baby name websites so taken with a huge grain of salt lmao #the hips up framing and soft lighting almost makes it look like he's in a visual novel lmao #also man i love his mask. i hate that i resigned myself to drawing more hands than necessary #doodles #fel's ttrpgs #oc: lyrid #wildsea

[youngyoo-apologist]

I think my least favorite thing ever of all time is when I’m reading a fanfic and Basen and Lily are villains like NO my children would NEVER

It’s usually the case in OG Cale fanfic, now don’t get me wrong I love the guy but also his family was not all horrible, and Basen and Lily were NEVERRRR at fault. Lily is literally like, seven years old and Basen is fifteen neither of them hate their brother either. Any child wouldn’t know how to approach their older brother who doesn’t talk to them and is distant(+ is known for having a bad personality) like that isn’t their fault 😭😭

OG Cale distanced himself from his siblings to protect them, there’s no one to fault in this situation for things turning out this way because it happened due to so many combining circumstances. Like IDK! I just don’t like it when Lily and Basen are treated like bad people cause I just find it a bit ridiculous.

Basen and Lily could’ve tried talking to OG Cale, but the real question is if he would let them talk to him ykwim, his act was perfect with literally no flaws. The reason it worked so well was because no one KNEW him and he probably knew that part too. The sadness to their situation is that they all had their reasons and cared for eachother but there wasn’t really any communication

Tbh it should have been Deruth’s job to ask Cale what was wrong, he’s not like the worst father ever okay but he also has extreme communication issues! The Henituse’s middle name is practically ‘communication issues’ like none of them are very good at it I fear. Deruth clearly cares for his son a lot, but he doesn’t know how to approach Cale possibly out of guilt/fear he’ll hurt his son even more. Which is why he just let’s Cale do what he wants

I think it’s important to note that the family did have faith in Cale, they all knew he wasn’t a bad person but they were all just so distant from eachother. I don’t think Deruth would have offered KRS!Cale to go to the capital after like a weeks worth of changed behavior unless he knew that there was more to his son than what the public thought. Again I think the big issue with the Henituse family is their communication

The characters all have complicated dynamics and personalities and it’s just something I don’t like when everything is treated very one dimensional

#rambling #tcf #lcf #Violan could have asked Cale what was wrong too but like she has more reasons not to #like she could be distancing herself cause she thinks that’s what Cale wants #and she watches over him and makes sure he’s okay in other ways #I just think it should be Deruth to talk to OG Cale abt his mom’s death #Violan defender 4ever #I don’t hate Deruth btw he’s cool I guess but he needs to communicate better #actually I wonder abt Violan and Deruth’s marriage a lot #like why did they get married so fast (according to the wiki timeline) #I had this theory that it was an arranged marriage they set up for some buisness reason and fell in love later #cause I was thinking abt it and I thought it just didn’t match up w their personalities #Deruth was literally so devestated after Jour died I do not think he can fall in love that quickly again #maybe I’m wrong idk #it’s been awhile since I read the later half of the novel maybe the reason they got married is explained later

[starleska]

you know what makes the Toymaker's 'ge-sticking on dee hair meinself' scene extra horrifying? we've seen that he has the capability to transform people into toys with just a touch (e.g., turning those UNIT guards into balls)...which means he chooses to 'make' (i.e., hand-craft) his dolls piece by piece 👀 in The Giggle novelisation, he says of Donna: 'What lovely hair Donna Noble had. How I would enjoy stitching it into place on a doll's head and combing it nice and straight.' making living people into toys isn't just the unconscious act of a godlike entity with too much power: for the Toymaker it's a deliberate, sadistic act he takes pleasure in 😭 even scarier: although he wants to stitch Donna's hair to a doll's head, it's clear that he wants Donna's soul to be inside the body of that doll (as he mentioned putting her in a cabinet and inviting her out to play games). but in the episode, some poor woman's had her hair cut off and stitched onto Stooky Bill...so where's the rest of her? i think that the Toymaker doesn't just hand-craft his toys. i think he mixes and matches his toy parts from different people 😨

#frightening headcanon for you talented writers and artists to run away with...i'm internalising this one as true #i wonder what happened to the lady whose hair Stooky Bill now has. possibly the woman who became Stooky Sue #who - according to the novel - was once a mother and was taken in by the Toymaker at a funfair-type establishment #the toymaker #charles bannerjee #donna noble #the giggle novelisation #doctor who #dw #neil patrick harris #charlie de melo #starleskatalks

[sunshinechay]

Me reading the Pit Babe novel and realizing that Babe calls Charlie ‘Daddy’ during every sex scene:

#pit babe the series #pit babe #pit babe novel #at least according to the translation i’m reading #i can’t decide if i’m okay the show cut it #because on the one hand i feel like that would just one step too far since it’s already omegaverse #on the other hand i would pay actual money to watch pavel call pooh daddy with a completely straight face #so to speak #cap reads pit babe #cap speaks

[violetdisasterzone]

It's so funny to me when people call Shen Qingqiu mean for the way he acts towards Shang Qinghua, or act as though Shang Qinghua is genuinely hurt and crying himself to sleep over that treatment. Shang Qinghua is SUCH a goddamn weirdo. He's a twink. He's 70 years old. He has no guilty conscience. He doesn't view anyone or anything around him as real. In part 3 of the Airplane Extras, when Binghe has Shen Qingqiu imprisoned in his palace, Shang Qinghua quite literally says that if he were in charge of the situation ("could still control the current Bing-ge with his pen") that he would have made Binghe "defile Shen Qingqiu hundreds of times." He adds detail that I'll spare you in this post. He wrote a novel where like every character was supposed to be gay, including his literal dream man, and then he calls straight people "normal" people. His narration is like a fever dream, in the way he views the world and how he understands/processes it. He's a funny little guy who is busy with way more important things. I promise you he does not care - and if anything, finds it actively amusing - that his most loyal hater who is literally 50 years younger than him is snarky with him sometimes. It's what he deserves tbh

#he's pathetic (affectionate) #at the end of the novel he does express regret that he was forced to make writing choices based on financial need #aka writing really bad smut that had an audience rather than his actual plot #but he never expresses regret that the REAL PEOPLE around him are suffering according to his writing #the immortal alliance conference? binghe's abuse? shen jiu's backstory? #I know the system controlled a lot of his choices but he didn't even want to try to change anything #(he did try to warn shen jiu about liu qingge's qi deviation but that's about all I can think of) #and don't misconstrue this as me calling him a bad person or morally bad #he's fine #he's a funny little guy #I like him #but let's not pretend he's some pure misunderstood soul #shang qinghua #shen qingqiu #svsss #does this count as #svsss meta #ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong #mxtx #尚清华 #沈清秋 #人渣反派自救系统

[gummytea]

What kind of stories would you like to see in the Fence fandom this coming year? Any particular tropes or themes you’re fond of?

Fantasy? College au? Nicholas spending winter break with the Katayamas? Birthday fics? A different sport au? “Who hurt you?”

What are your deepest Fence desires? 👀✨

Oooohhhh i’ve always wanted to make a nichoji Young Royals au!! But i’m still wondering who’d be better as the prince lmao so any suggestions would help 😭

Another one you mentioned, “Nicholas spending winter break with the Katayamas” has been on my mind since I finished the novels! Seiji’s dad seems like a chill guy who’d enjoy Nicholas’ company and the shenanigans that’d happen during their visit aaaaaa

Let me share a few scribbles I made for this scenario!!!

Here’s a doodle of Seiji’s dad and his first time meeting Nicholas ✨

#ask #anon #fence comic #this ask is so fun to answer i want to babble more hgshfhsghs #my brain has a lot of ideas and draws like 0.0001% of it #pls indulge in my doodles and give me more ideas lol #i tried my best to draw him according to the novel idk if it fits orz

[firedragon1321]

Why do so many of my favorite characters have absent or downright abusive dads?

I should be their (female) dad.

#ash ketchum #pokemon #lan hikari #megaman battle network #gon freecss #hunter x hunter #tidus #final fantasy x #this is why i write so many shitty fathers this is the reason #i just realized that #jackie's dad is almost ash's dad beat for beat according to the novelizations #gladion #i know mohn forgot about his family #but gladion is my trauma buddy so i included him #mohn applies to lillie too naturally #same for megaman and mr. hikari #gladion pain tag

[accord-vn]

ARCHONS//

invincible god-warriors of flesh, blood and steel

#accord #biomecha #mech #mecha #art #visual novel

[redfurrycat]

🎹🛝🐓🤠Reversal Sloose - Hangster🤠🐓🛝🎹

Silly post about Slider/Hangman & Goose/Rooster being like father-like son.

(As much as I support the Hangman being mav-coded and Rooster being ice-coded AND Hangman being ice-coded and Rooster being mav-coded theories, I'm also team Slider being Hangman's dad. ❤️)

*

“Hangman! They let you into Top Gun? If you're the best in the Navy, I tremble for the security of this country.”

“Rooster! Whose butt did you kiss to get here?”

“The list is long, but distinguished.”

“So’s my Johnson.”

&

“Bradshaw, as I live and breathe.”

“Slider, you look...good.”

#hangster #sereshaw #hangaroo #bradley rooster bradshaw x jake hangman seresin #sloose #ron slider kerner x nick goose bradshaw #icemav seeing double and elbowing each other like the worst gossips! #Slider being described as a shaggy-headed young officer and Goose having an easy 'aw-shucks' country-boy smile! :P #According to the novelization AND I LOVE IT! XD #🐈red🐈furry🐈cat🐈tag🐈

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

deeply enjoy that the novel can also be read as a commentary on the fallacy of information. we have zzs as the main narrator who adds to this nuance by being a former spymaster and leader of a bunch of proficient investigators. hes very intimate with the process of verification of information, and even his vast databank of knowledge and his abilities of filtering and sorting the "true" from the "fake" is tested throughout the novel through many instances and events. its especially interesting because he makes a major mistake, almost from the very start, that he resolves only after a very long time, and only after overcoming personal weaknesses. his personal weakness at recognizing truth vs decept reveals itself in the inability to meet personal events with a human perspective; he is basically functioning like a person with two lives, and most of the time, he at least acts as if he is regarding wkx, suspected master of ghosts, from the professional business grounds of the retired leader of shadows rather than from the perspective of a person with an adventurous life and wishes of his own. in this lies the danger to misinterpret and to refuse to confront what is truly going on. if zzs cant 'find' the "true reason" for the ghost master following his humble retired self, he is going to do his utmost to make up one (on the basis of his personal and professional experience with such situations), instead of considering at least once the admittedly unlikely chance that wkx might like him and is even deeply sincere about him. this doesnt signal anything less but that we, as the reader, should not irrevocably trust even the one person who is in most stories the most trustworthy; the main narrator. instead, we are advised to reserve us the right to doubt and think for ourself, to look critically upon even zzs, which only circles back to the novel's theme of the fallacy of information. it even lends to the novel's dialogue with the human right to form your own opinion and your own thoughts and come to your own conclusions, no matter how much they might diverge from norm or mainstream or traditions, and no matter how tempting it might be not to.

#tian ya ke #just thoughts im having while im continuing my reread #zhou zishu from tyk #zhou zishu #this has me wondering if zzs's struggle with himself regarding trusting in wkx's display of sincerity #can also be read as his general struggle with being a person with a life of his own and private opinions in service of no other than himsel #one of the things he learns is that is okay to have desires and its okay to Be a person #oftentimes that reveals itself in the novel's question of morality as a concept and the conditions for receiving love and care #'are villains and ppl whove done bad stuff deserving of love and care? do they need to earn it?' #but i think it also comes true here where zzs essentially needs to find a way to be human again #going from having lived a life with a truly atrocious work/life balance to a life that is fully and entirely his own #(i always think that zzs taking the nails has a lot to do with reclaiming ownership) #(and also with 'detoolifying' himself; hes turning himself into a cripple he is 'useless'. this gives him the justification #he needs to live according to his own personal whims and desires.) #updating my tags to find my insane chat with geneticcatalyst again-> #bouncing thoughts back and forth #the mutual tag #geneticcatalyst

[chi-the-idiot]

Started reading Waverider.

Dropped it immediately because its bad.

My disappointment is unmeasurable and my day is ruined.

#amulet #amulet graphic novel #amulet book series #never expected to add amulet to my list of rewrites but OH WELL #TRELLIS SHOULD'VE BEEN KING #NAVIN DESERVES MORE DEVELOPMENT #KAREN DESERVES MORE DEVELOPMENT #SILAS' ROBOTS DESERVE MORE DEVELOPMENT #WHY IS TRELLIS' FATHER NOT THE FINAL ENEMY #THE STORY SHOULD'VE FOCUSED ON GRIEF AND FINDING COMFORT IN FOUND FAMILY #WHY ARE THERE SO MANY NEW CHARACTERS #WHEN WRITING A BOOK SERIES YOU STOP INTRODUCING RECURRING CHARACTERS IN THE CONFLICT PORTION #AND WHY IS EMILY SO OVERPOWERED??????????? #i cannot take away from the fact that Kazu Kibuishi wrote 9 entire novels and drew pages upon pages of panels for them for the last 20 year #he deserves a ton of praise for that #but I don't need to be happy about the end result #(also Trellis and Emily should have been endgame but that is just according to me you don't have to agree) #I COULD GO ON AND ON