#but also the plot was. hm.

[youweremyversaillesatnight]

i have a lot of thoughts about s&b s2 and also i have absolutely no thoughts at all

#like. i’m very emotional about character relationships (not including mal nikolai or the darkling idc about that fuckery) #but also the plot was. hm. #once again i very much enjoyed the crows plots #and did not care about the rest of it #this is all gross oversimplification there are s&b plots im invested in and soc plots i don’t care about #but mostly this season was very. neutral. to me #like s1 i watched sooooo many times it was a good casual watch that was also entertaining and exciting for me #but i can’t see myself rewatching s2 #except maybe to skip through for the wesper scenes #it just. doesn’t have the same pull for me. #idk #once again this is a huge oversimplification i just don’t have the words to put my thoughts in order #i JUST finished it and also it is past my bedtime #shadow and bone #s&b #six of crows #soc

[sketching-shark]

Been a couple of years, but I still think fondly of Grace Monroe from Infinity Train for achieving that very rare redemption arc narrative of "the people you hurt are allowed to sever all ties, and you can still become a better, happier person."

#grace monroe #grace infinity train #infinity train #in a sea of demands that you must always forgive the people who hurt you no matter what #it was nice to see a plot that gave good weight to feelings and motivations on both side of the equation #hm. #come to think of it #it seems a lot of redemption arcs usually go the route #of redemption through death #or very quick if not immediate acceptance into team the people you traumatized #much more rare to see a redemption arc #where the one on the journey to redemption has to accept that at least some people they've hurt can't or won't forgive them #but that this doesn't automatically mean they can't become a kinder person #hell in grace's case it was pretty shocking/refreshing to see that it was precisely because someone set a hard no-contact boundary with her #that she lost someone she loved but still hurt #which really forced her to reconsider what she was doing #it was a true 'oh no not the quencies' kind of story #but also a 'you will accept the quencies and go forward with your life & hard gained knowledge' narrative #redemption arcs

[naturecalls111]

I think I love Sanji so extra much because he’d acknowledge my ‘girl-ness’ in a way that I feel like has not ever been acknowledged in a way I wanted it to be wails

The chivalry intended not with hopeful reciprocation but with admiration. WAILS.

#nc111 talks #like growing up the whole concept of ‘being one of the boys’ was so stupid to me #mostly because I had so many guy friends and I was not appreciative of their treatment of me at all #there were definitely times where I wanted to tell them like. hm. I wish you would respect my girlhood a bit more #I love being a woman. I really do #my girlhood is something I keep very close to me. I was very jealous of other girls in my school who exuded that type of femininity #speaking purely from personal experience - just to make that clear #but I like being and being associated with traits that are quite literally stereotypically aligned with Girl-ness #so hard to explain!! but at its core I just love chivalry though lol #one of my friends was like ugh no I’d never want a guy to hold a door open for me just because I’m a girl #‘I’d want them to hold it open because it’s just a kind thing to do’ #and like. yes. core sentiment I totally agree with #but also I Do want to be acknowledged as a girl I spent all of my childhood and teen years having my Girl-ness barely recognised and #it sucked seing the disparity in the treatment #but it also sucked seeing the intent with which these guys treated women chivalrously #which is why Sanji appeals to me. his chivalry is not ill intended or manipulative. ever. and it acknowledges womanhood all the same #OK RAMBLINGGGG #lost the plot. point is I love Sanji because I see him do his little dance while giving Robin a dessert she never had to ask for and I sigh #WISH THAT WERE ME. #edit: none of this matters mostly because I don’t care to date men #but I suppose it’s like. even in my friendships with other girls I feel like there was an inherent establishment that ok so I act as the Guy #And She acts as the girl #when we go out their arms would wrap around mine #and mine never wrapped around theirs. does that make sense #hold their hand as they walked down the stairs in heels. helped them out of cars. you get the image #SANJI WOULD HOLD MY HAND OUT OF A CAR EVERY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love him #I’d never have to ask! ah. love chivalry.

[squirreltastrophe]

some little lighting tests that are kinda messy but I liked them enough to post :] wanna really focus on getting better at colors n such!!!!!!

(more coming soon probably hehe)

#when I say I wanna focus on colors basically what i'm saying is that I want a smidgen of catmask's coloring abilities #also been playing with coloring in things all scribbly it's really fun!!!!! :33 #discovered kritas been free this ENTIRE TIME and I was just dumb and thought it cost money for some reason so rip ibis paint I guess #rest in piss #I'm joking it's a pretty good drawing program :3 just was getting to the point where it was almost too laggy for me to draw on sob #colors are SO FUN WAGHHHH I LOVE THEM #ocs #art #squirrel art #Ophelia #hm. was gonna tag this with tombmates but it has nothing pertaining to plot or character stuff besides having Ophelia in it so nvm

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

Here’s a sort of…. Prompt? Headcanon? Idea?? For Danny Phantom.

Let’s go with the,, semi-fanon idea of cores. We see the Far Frozen with ice powers, with their whole little civilization. They are ALSO the only ghosts we see that have any medical knowledge.

So what if ghosts with ice cores had healing powers? Danny is very durable, but he also (probably) has advanced healing.

Idk, it’d be a fun possibility to explore Danny ‘plays as a tank in irl superheroics 4 times out of 5’ Phantom finding out he can heal people while doing a school-mandated cpr class.

#danny phantom #dp #bonus points if it’s just shy of necromancy but that might be a different turn #did my school do mandated cpr training? no. but we did do mandated self defense training so. I imagine it’s possible #I have made a story or two where Danny had healing powers #but up to you how they work #and technically the way I made them in this one story was an indirect use of two different powers #I can explain if someone is SUPER curious but this particular. prompt? is like #him DIRECTLY having healing powers #he’s just hovering his hands and lil glowy snowflakes start drifting down and healing the person #Tucker is like Oh Hey This Means I’ll Just Go To Danny For Medical Stuff #the b plot is getting Tucker to get his damn shots… cartoon logic says somehow he gets them done at the vet #it just popped into my head you don’t gotta do that lol #Sam meanwhile is like. hm. homeopathy bc she’s not. AGAINST doctors and medical schools per se #but she’s protesting something or another about them #probably concerns about medical mistreatment #meanwhile Danny is like I Did Not Agree To Be The Medic! #he’s played video games okay HE KNOWS HOW THAT GOES DOWN. #…. I also really like battle and field medics in general in fiction so this is me and my blatant attempts for More Of That #feel free to crossover but just by itself it seems fun :3

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

#greenteacup asks #sidebar: I know Minister “of” Magic is an Americanism but mea culpa #Someday I might actually bite it and pay someone to britpick Lionheart but I can't do it now #because I have a ban on editing published fic unless it's finished. Otherwise I'll never get around to writing the actual ending #I have a Process #is it the best process? likely not! but it makes the words go. so here we are. #I also think the fact that JKR is Gen X makes a difference here. careers worked differently in the 80s and 90s than they do now #i.e. we have the gig economy and a lot more mobility and EXPECTATION of mobility in your early life #that means career changes & professional pivots through your 20s and 30s are increasingly normal #and in fact have always been normal — but the image of the 'true' or 'ideal' career has changed #so we look at those careers and go hm. really? none of them changed? #none of them even went to uni? do wizards... just not? #but again. I believe the epilogue was written almost completely without consideration as to what happened between the BOH and then #I really believe that JKR did not know what happened to Harry except a wedding and 3 kids. because that was the whole point #I don't think she even knew what his career was when she wrote that scene #It existed to marry everyone off and do a quick munchkin headcount #because of the understandable temptation as an author to keep your hand on the wheel. but it didn't even matter! #the epilogue changed NOTHING! it was the most useless chapter in the series! I just — GOD #you can absolutely accuse me of being sour grapes about my ships getting nixed. I AM sour grapes. I AM a hater. #AND I have plot/theme/craft reasons for disliking it. #I'm not objective. I just want credit for being a sophisticated hater. my grapes may be sour but they're still artisinal.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

So this has been bouncing around in my head for a WHILE (aka: a couple days) now but your lights out au kinda reminds me of a game that came out recently called "my friendly neighborhood" (really good game btw, highly recommend to either play or watch a playthrough) bc the plot is literally "puppets are just alive in this universe muppet-style & after their show got canceled they all got locked in their show's studio for a decade or so & went slightly mad bc of it". There's a whole bunch of differences, obviously, but mainly I just thought it'd be interesting if the player character, a grumpy-but-lovable handyman who's also a war vet that has Seen Some Shit, ended up at the playfellow studio in this au for one reason or another (maybe he was asked to go in & check that the electricity all still works correctly?). Idk how the puppets would react to his arrival, but at least he's got some practice handling aggressive (or overly enthusiastic) puppets who haven't seen a real, live human in years.

i've been meaning to watch a playthrough for a week now T¬T i remember watching the demo and being immediately So Fucking Hyped for the game's release

if i were interested in crossovers, i'd probably be all over that! unfortunately, they're not really my wheelhouse </3

#though you bring up a Point... #in contrast... none of the wh puppets have actually Seen a human right? except for wally? #and i know the friendly neighborhood puppets are Small - theyre meant to be like... hand puppets right? #im just assuming on that front since i havent watched the game yet (no spoilers please!!) #but wally is the shortest at 3ft and poppy/howdy/barns are all around 8ft at the tallest #which is making me really rethink how i'd make them react to a person #bc they are Aggressive at this point in the au. especially barnaby. #so... hm.... Thank You for making me Think! #i have new facets to consider!! #bc ive decided on the 'someone goes to check out the studio and finds the puppets' b-plot in act two #aaaaand she already has a name and a base personality / goal. i have no control when it comes to ocs they Take The Wheel #wh lights out au #rambles from the bog #also its... so Strange to me that other people think about this au?? #like its in Your head too?? its in there???? wild....

[soldier-poet-king]

So I'm doing my first full qt reread since rott, and also my first audiobook listen, and was listening to the thief on the way home today and had Some Thoughts.

In the conversation about Gen being named after Eugenides the god, and how Gen's mother was a thief but his father wanted him to be a soldier, Sophos is surprised, either that Gen's father was a soldier or that Gen knows his father. And Gen, replies, perhaps a bit acidly, that no he's not illegitimate, and yes he even has siblings from the same father, and yes his siblings are all in respectable professions.

Which of course, given the rumours and speculation about Gen's parentage in rott raises a few questions. If we take as fact the belief that Gen rarely lies outright (but rather gives partial truths and lets people fill in the blanks in a way that suits him), what does this say about how Gen views the MoW? And vice versa? That despite rumours, despite what must've been a complex and at times painful situation, that they viewed the other as their "real" father/son? We already knew Hektor cares for Gen deeply, he funds Gen's heist in The Thief to save Gen's life (though of course we only find out the truth of this in rott), and I've always thought part of the reason he pushed Gen towards being a soldier rather than The Thief of Eddis, was to protect Gen from the isolation of the thieves, their ultimate death in falling, and from the Eddisian court which already viewed Gen with suspicion that could be life threatening as it was after Lader's death. Idk. I was struck by that convo with Sophos in a way I wasn't before.

And then further, I've noticed that in the myths told by Gen and the Magus so far, Eugenides the god is always referred to as "Earth's son", and the "woodcutter's son", despite the fact that his origin tale focuses on the woodcutter's wife's desire for a child (and presumably Eugenides the god was raised by the woodcutter and his wife, we hear of Earth visiting only in disguise to see her son). So, in a way, the god Eugenides also has three parents, just as Gen the thief does. And each Eugenides is deeply loved and wanted by his non-biological (or suspected non-biological) parent. Another similarity between Gen and his god?

I really dk where I was going with this. Just. Thinking My Silly Little Thoughts.

#queen's thief #qt meta #eugenides #sorry if this is SOOO obvious maybe im just stupid #also like. rott left me with so much grief alongside all its hope #i loved it. pheris is the most dear to me #but smthn about the recontextualizing of gens past grieved me #his relationship with eddis the country. with helen. with his father. #with the events that led up to him going in the quest in the thief #idk why it wounded me. it complicated my emotions. its not a bad thing. it just is #and so rereading (or listening) now its just. hm. thinking #idk what my conclusions are im just thinking #idk if its deliberate even! #i mean mwt is a mastercraft in plotting obvs #but also like. the thief came out the year i was born. this series is as old as i am #and ive been following it since aged 11. #so maybe my heart is the one seeking certainty and allusion where there is none #either way. this is a hektor/mow appreciation blog always #im just. smthn smthn father figures and its complicated but its love

[reikunrei]

standing under a boiling hot shower last night talking to myself about how odd it is that people still think “the duffers wouldn’t do something that deep/complex/intricate and hide so much information because the general audience wouldn’t be able to pick up on it” is a valid argument as if the show wasn’t immediately massively popular to the point that they probably could’ve ignored the general audience this whole time and as long as they had a coherent story it would’ve continued to gain traction. it’s their show, they’re gonna do whatever they want with it and hide as many secrets as they can and they will get away with it. why should they "dumb down" their work when they want to live up to their own standards. i think i'd rather die than only do surface level shit to "appeal to the most people."

#and OBVIOUSLY there's certain things they should listen to their audience about ie. poor story beats. racism. complicit in sending bad msgs #but i'm talking about like their Overall Plot like The Story They Want To Tell and the World They Want To Showcase #at a certain point it stops being meaningful art if you start trying to cast the widest net and then it becomes hollow nothingness #and yes OBVIOUSLY they have to pay attention to the (arguably) largest demographic of their audience to a degree #but like. theyre also still gonna make it Their Show #and im not saying this as someone who catches all the secrets. im a fucking dumbass #im saying this as someone who just mindlessly watched it until s4 came out and i started thinking #'hm something is weird about this 001 guy' and then saw other people being way smarter than me picking out details #i say things #stranger things

[averlym]

"oh my soul, is it here? or is it rotting somewhere with my head?"

#rtc #rtc musical #ballad of jane doe #? i think those are the tags? got into rtc over the december break and like. headless blorbos ig #it's oddly similar to six in the sense that six dead people have a concert competition with varying contexts #considering my prev obsession with cats the musical maybe there is a common trend here #hm. anyways!! found the ballad of jane doe online and spooked myself watching it at 3am and in hope to combat the terror (i am not good with #the horror genre. i'm fantastically awful i Will Cry) i went to watch like. the chaos compilations and read ao3 fics to yknow. make it less #scary. so like! yes?? rtc is a good musical. the greatest of my brainrot for it is over but it is really quite fun nonetheless. i may have #added another slime tutorial to my collection. #in terms of current brainrot. i am. a bit (read: maybe a Lot) thinking too much about dovesso. ??why is lesso so attractive in the movie?? #truly it is a specific mood when it's like. this character is so?? so akshdhdjsj but also clearly they belong in otps with other characters. #idk how to describe it lmao! anyway the school of good and evil movie (i just watched it) came and called me a useless gay in multiple fonts #as one of my irl friends likes to say. women✨✨ #mkay this shall end the tag ramble. thank you for enjoying the last khoward post we're back to just doodles now #(but seriously thank you i look into the tags and just go 'hehehe' :>>>>> it's nice) #along with miscellaneous not six musicals i might be going back into a firebringer tangent?? idk the plot bunnies are varied and plenty

[babydarkstar]

actually insane to me that jayce x viktor wasnt an obvious canon pairing like caitvi……..idk theyre just such an intriguing duo equally as compelling as caitvi with their own super complex nuanced dynamic with very excellent chemistry also mel is way too good for jayce if im being honest

#arcane #caitvi #the minute i saw jayce fall for mel and then they SLEPT TOGETHER #i was like mel why the actual fuck are you genuinely into this man #i thought she was doing it for the bit #also ngl when everybody turned against the old fluffy guy on the council #i was like hm. dont like that #like i know everything that happened was necessary for the development of the plot but damn #been thinking abt this show way too much lately

[zinniapetals]

who is homura and who is madoka between dazai and chuuya

#skk #sokouku #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai #I Can see both sides #bc ya know beastzai but also that ending of beast with Chuuya being unhinged #but also like I’m thinking of the dead Apple skk scene which all depends on Chuuya #anyways I’m rewatching pmmm and I’m like hm interesting #liztalks #I mean…technically Dazai is homura with the beast plot already I suppose #but Dazai is also madoka vibes bc DA #huh

[n7punk]

candy store still slaps so fucking hard

#''researching'' #i've decided i need to have a content warning for everything in the musical at the start of the fic in case people go and listen to it #which they should because its a banger but also. only if prepared #and also because a lot of plot points will be referenced this is more for the stuff that WONT be referenced since they wouldn't know #olig #fic rambling #hm. i like freeze your brain a lot more in west end version for some reason?

[absurdumsid]

IM GOING INSANE I WAS SO DISTRACTED BY ROUND 6 I FORGOR ERRORS BIRTHDAY WAS A DAY AGO IM SO SORRY

#<- guy who doesnt rlly celebrate birthdays/anniversaries #BUT STILLLL #dang #hm. #no itll be ok i think i still have tomorrow :thumbsup: #<- plotting nefariously #sid rambles #also i think i should pass out ?? #and maybe i will idk lmao #i dont feel sleepy enough #eh

[thecrabbybarista]

Okay guys validate me. Is anyone else lowkey paranoid that Nmt3 is gonna be disappointing

#HM AND PERKYS BUDS GAVE ME TRUST ISSUUUUUES #also if paul gets involved in the bottle imps plot ill kill someone #like no one touch him. mine.

[july-19th-club]

love an ending that is 'happy' in that a desirable outcome is produced, but made complicated by the fact that the protagonist has given up something integral to themself in order to make it so. it's sort of uncool in some circles to admit you LIKE when characters give up something really cool for something pretty basic, but it's all about context and quality of storytelling, right? that sort of conviction - this is a part of my personality that i am permanently renouncing access to, and it's my choice, and i'm going to miss it, but i'm not going to regret it - that's compelling. ending in which a character who loves nothing more than the rush of finding the answer to a question is handed, one day, a puzzle they just don't want to solve. and that part of their life is over, but it's not a bad thing. maybe the answer doesn't need to be known. maybe not knowing it opens you up to a creative mindset you never had before. character who gains some kind of special power chooses to give it up not because they no longer love the ability, not because it hasn't improved their life, but because this thing they love comes with costs, is getting in the way of a life someone they love or loved and lost would want them to live. i'm glad it turned out this way. i miss the missing thing with all my heart. i would let go of it again if i was asked to choose.

#stories where people give up something beautiful to live ordinary lives because there's something in the ordinary life they want more #a very common variant of this is of course the 'immortal character renounces their lifespan for a mortal lover' plot #which is fine and all #but i like more nuanced versions . like my tobias animorphs epilogue idea where he and his mother reconnect more permanently #and one day when he's at her house they have a long. long talk. about what he is going to do now. it's been years but he's still #in this holding pattern of grief and solitude. but his mother is his one anchor to the world of humanity. and she's not getting any younger #and hawk lifespans aren't getting any longer. and they spent so much time away from each other #and he says. i miss her like an amputation mom. how do you keep going? #and she says. not missing your father because i didn't know that i loved him and he was gone was worse #and she asks hm if he's sure he could be human again. if he could give up his hard-earned flexibility of form #and he says we've been sitting here talking for three hours. little late to second-guess it now #this got away from me . but you see my vision #writing tag #animorphs i guess also lol #q