#but yeah this is sort of we're i'm at

[gins-potter]

How do you feel about Sylvie and Brettsey now?

Will you continue writing for Brettsey and Sylvie?

I still really like Sylvie as a character, I like that she gets to be a strong female character that shows her vulnerability a lot, which I feel is something we don't always see a lot of. And I still ship Brettsey. I think if Jesse were still on the show I might feel more conflicted but given we're not going to be getting that much Brettsey content in the near future I'm still comfortable shipping them.

My initial feeling across today is that I will still write for Brettsey and Sylvie, perhaps I won't seek out prompts or whatever for them, but if someone requests something for them I don't think I'd say no. I actually think it will be a nice way to interact with the character without interacting with Kara so directly. So in that way I think I would be more comfortable writing/reading Kara/Brettsey fic than I would be say reblogging gifs of Kara.

#obviously this is just how i'm feeling less than 24 hours after everything sort of happened #so this is just how i'm feeling at the moment/subject to change etc. #but yeah this is sort of we're i'm at #answered #one chicago #chicago fire #sylvie brett #brettsey #anti kara killmer #kara killmer

[egophiliac]

I hear you on brave but I think Mr. CEO man could be woz

Which I’m all here for tbh

anon you sent this over 9 hours before the reveal, h...HOW DID YOU KNOW

(I am also all here for it honestly) (I kind of hope they lean really hard into the overworked-CEO bit...how is he supposed to fight evil when there's all this paperwork that he has to get in by Friday, ugh)

#art #ride kamens #i had convinced myself he was going to be necrom #so when i saw the color scheme i was like HELL YEAH I CALLED -- wait #but i am definitely not complaining! #100% true: i texted my sister to be like 'you'll never guess who the new riderboy is' #'he was the best part of his show' #immediate response: 'woz' #we are a woz household #(although his character is giving me huge zangetsu vibes) #(hold on...takato...takatora...WAIT A MINUTE --) #so probably his brother (i think his name is read uryuu?) will be the other tower emblem guy then #he has sort of distinctive hair so i THINK i know which silhouette he is but i'm not sure who he's based on #it would be kind of hilarious if he was ryuugen but we know we're getting a gaim so that's probably not happening #(sorry for being incredibly boring) (i'm having a lot of fun speculating though!) #anyway back to fruitlessly staring at these screencaps to try and figure out who anyone is

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

Ugh everyone dunking on Steven are soooo cringe 🙄

Shane and Ryan are grown men who stood by this decision, so please dunk on them too lmao.

#watcher #sorry i think it's funny to dunk on steven and his tesla and expensive lifestyle and finance bro ways #i just think it's unfair to forget that they let him do that!!! they looked at that and went 'yeah i'll stand behind that' #so #let's dole out the dunking accordingly #but i do get why ppl hone in on steven specifically because like #the optics of going 'we're strapped for cash!!! anyway here's our new show about me traveling all over the world and eating gold!' #are not great good buddy ol' pal #they are in fact EXTREMELY hilarious #to be clear i'm not saying go and harass them #and in fact most that i've seen are people making the same sorts of gold-flake tesla jokes which i think are understandable #considering the aforementioned optics #i just think people hand-wringing over all the 'hate' steven gets are forgetting that he's living a life 90% of his audience can't afford #*because* of his audience #ALREADY #ya dig??

[caluupin]

neuvi is meeting his peepaw rn

#genshin impact #caluutalks #4.6 spoilers #genshin spoilers #so...... arlecchino's story huh... #god she's so cool and complex and interesting and I LOVE HER STORY QUEST #def one of (if not) the best atm. her bossfight is so cool. I'll ramble more abt her later when i post art of her (i swear im finishing it) #back to scylla n neuvi #so. yeah. we got confirmation that scylla's the prev hydro dragon. ain't that cool. [refer to edit at the bottom] #also i read on the hoyo web prior to 4.6 that he's gonna function as our remurian taxi and i was vv excited for scylla every since #bc it tickles me SO MUCH that the previous hydro dragon that we're gonna meet soon IS GOING TO BE OUR PERSONAL TAXI #also like at the end of the quest we're buddy buddy with him and calling him big guy. I fucking love that. we besties fr #plus scylla did say that he plans to meet neuvillette sometime after the events of the quest so.. #so I might be drawing that too for funsies. #anw i'll be doing exploration and later finish the arlecchino art. cya my dear fellows! #edit: apparently I misread and it seems like scylla isn't the prev hydro dragon?? and that he's a powerful vishap (smth of the sort). #either way I'm still probs gonna draw the idea of neuvi and scylla meeting but ig somethings will change. #either way. sorry for the confusion folks.

[mad-hunts]

#OOP... sorry if i jumpscared y'all with this. i just wanted to show you how terrifying barton would probably look- #on a low quality camera with his mask on <33 / j JSJSJ nahhh please disregard the heart i just put there i'm just joking around- #with you guys a bit LOL but yeahhh uhhh. just imagine THIS popping up on your camera feed while you're alone and manning the arkham feed at #night or something ☠️ man's kind of looks like something out of an eldritch horror movie NGL JSJSJ so i think the only- #thing that could possibly make it worse for the poor unfortunate soul who has this image be the last thing they see before they die is if- #some sort of creepy music was playing in the background. like i'm thinking 'get happy' by barbra streisand perhaps ahahhh #BUT ANYWAY i hope y'all are having a great day and aren't too disturbed by this (': i was just in a bit of a ✨️ silly ✨️mood when i made it #y'know? sooo yeah i shall tag this accordingly BUT this is going to be my last post of the day ✌️ #tw: horror. #tw: slightly uncanny valley? yeah i'd say that. #tw: body horror (involving his mask). #WE DON'T TREAT HIM LIKE THE COMMON RUBBISH WE'RE USED TO: visage.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Live Fast & Prosper

#VERY funny that the imposter Janeway is sort of doing her accent - did Neelix mention that to her too~?? #'Also she talks like a thespian?? Which I guess is how everyone talks in Indiana.' #She also pulled the whole 'we're a workplace but I like to think of us...as a family :)' so you know she's not to be trusted #Also I fuckinglove how into it the guy playing fake Tuvok is...he's like INTO the role. Yet another criminal man obsessed with you #commander...what's your DEAL <3 #I'm such a soft touch dude I felt so bad for the aliens being tricked heheheh #SNRKEHAHAHA ok...Tom & Neelix being pals is actually so funny. They're like 'how could this have happened...we're the toughest most street #smart guys in the book' OK. SURE. HEHEHEH #WHEN DID Y'ALL HAVE EDGE~?? /ESPECIALLY/ YOU TOM #Neelix was doing some shady shit (even though we all know he's a sofite) what'd you do besides get thrown in the clink Tom? #People who say there's no like...uhh character-only moments on Voyager just havent watched the show straight up #Neelix & Tom trying to swindle the EMH with a cup game <3 yeah...that's what this is all about #Janeway: (doing a great job being intimidating) / Tuvok: v_v mhm. / Janeway: Tell her all about it Tuvok. #Tuvok: O_O.....um......it's uh...whew it's bad over there.... #Janeway: What about the prisons? / Tuvok: Oh yes the-the prisons....they don't give you lotion. You'll be deficient in at least THREE #vitamins before you're even brought to trial / Janeway: That's Enough of...that. <- trying not to laugh #Tuvok: (is an undercover agent) also Tuvok: I'm not good at small talk or improvisation. #Neelix how much did you talk about Tuvok bc this guy's really into it #Neelix: balablabla tuvok blablabla tuvok tuvok bla bla / Dala: ....(god this bitch is gay...good for me good for him)

[imaginaryanon]

"ah fuck i guess [thing] is over/has been cancelled so i gotta quickly post the rest of the art i've done about it then move on 😭😭😭" you guys live like this? genuinely?

#and yeah i AM paraphrasing a post i've seen with mine own two eyes recently #i know what it's like to post for a small/dead/irrelevant fandom but posting about it is. in fact. how you keep it not dead #what kind of influencer brain worms are people experiencing now that instead of creating for Fun and out of Love for the source material #they're doing it to. what. Stay Relevant? for some sort of fucking. Social Media Engagement? please say sike i'm fucking scared #i thought we were making fanworks bc we care about whatever we're creating them about #whether the source material is gonna get 5 more installments/seasons/what have you or not & whether it's Curently Running or not? #sometimes the Official & Canon part of the thing is over. sometimes that's even for the best tbh #but it doesn't mean we have to immediately forget about it?? i simply Do Not Get It is what i'm saying here i guess #personal blah #anyway unrelated but who wants to go get me groceries. it's cold. it's dark. it's RAINING. and i have to go outside. hell on earth etc etc

[bonefall]

Briarlights death makes sense to me. As much as I love her character, the movement technology you’ve come up with wouldn’t be enough to keep her alive in a society where her nether regions are constantly exposed to the outdoors. She would get UTIs and kidney infections very quickly, which would be fatal when you can’t feel pain. My partner has to use catheters to avoid them (he is paralyzed in the same spot Briarlight would be.)

I think it’s disingenuous to have a character that’s paralyzed but have no other health problems or concerns regarding it, even if it’s uncomfortable to think about for some readers. It’s just as ableist to minimize the additional struggles she’d face as it is to kill her off unnecessarily.

Not accusing you of ableism, but expressing my concern. They’d need to find a way for her to poop and pee in a way that’s sanitary and a way to combat infections long term - even if the thought is “gross” to some people it’s the reality she’d have to live with. She should, at the very least, remain immunocompromised.

That is a valid concern. I will keep this in mind-- I'll make sure to note her immediately being cleared out of camp at the first sign of sniffles to avoid it. My cats can do some very minor building and there are now several cats on Jayfeather's Garden Patrol, it wouldn't be too much of a problem to make that area into a comfortable "satellite camp".

I do want to add though that my most important guiding principle is a stronger narrative which includes better portrayals of disabled characters, not perfect rugged woodsman realism. The medicine I add and the guides I write are in the hopes of better representing the lives of the real-life people who see themselves in the fantasy battle cats.

Realism does factor into that of course! But it goes out the door the minute it would smash up against a disabled character's inclusion. This is a series for human beings like your partner; as close to it as I can get by bending the setting when needed.

For example, Epilepsy

Epilepsy was deadly before modern medicine. Full stop. The herbs I created for that guide would not save someone like Shadowsight, whose convulsions are at extreme risk of turning into Status Epilepticus. It would help manage, but Shadowsight's life would have been very brief.

All the chamomile in the world wouldn't replace phenobarbital... or even the older medications, barbituates. Barbituates have been replaced and good riddance, but it's important to understand that even this drug known for causing EXTREME lethargy and horrible side effects was revolutionary. It saved countless lives.

But I'm not here to write a story for the real-life horror that is epilepsy in a pre-modern society. I'm here for the parent who personally thanked me for making their daughter feel less alone.

Evil spirits attacking the living! God knocking over trees! Attacking a bulldozer! That all happens; there's no reason they can't help Briarlight too!!

But I'll make sure to include her being immunocompromised. And I'll include ways they handle that. Just like I included a cat engineer who made a blanket sled.

So... suggestion accepted! I will keep this in mind.

Briarlight's Canon Death

...I will maintain though that the canonical death of Briarlight was one of the worst, most short-sighted, cruelest decisions that has ever been made in this series.

Because ultimately Briarlight is not a real person. She is a writing choice. She is a character based on Vicky's paralyzed cousin, "Dan," and Briarlight was directly modeled on Dan's personality and recovery.

What did the new writing team do, the minute they were writing a series without Vicky? Killed Briarlight to fucking greencough. For shock points. Narrative moves right on back to the MAIN conflict-- Alderheart having feelings for Velvet and Jayfeather enforcing the vow of chastity. ShadowClan officially falls apart in the background lol

It was never about realism, or realistic portrayal of disability.

This series doesn't care about realism when cats have bloody Freddy Kruger deaths in their sleep, or when shadow goo starts eating cat hell, or when lightning strikes Shadowsight. But they suddenly care about how realistic it is that the only paralyzed character survives greencough?? No! Of course not!

In the middle of the CONSTANT "Ohh she's finally in heaven where she can run and jump and not have a disabled life"? And the infamous Squirrelflight's Hope line, "You don't want to be alive again, Squirrelflight! You might become disabled like BRIARLIGHT"

(WHICH BTW THEY STILL HAVE NOT REMOVED DESPITE PROMISING IT YEARS AGO)

I absolutely do not believe for a second that they had a realistic portrayal of an immunocompromised cat in mind when they did it! Hell, screw it. I'll just say it outright;

I firmly believe that the new writing team killed Briarlight because they did not want to deal with her.

I flatly refuse to give them charity towards this choice. At NO POINT did they earn a speck of good faith. They continued every negative trend that was set up by the previous writers (including Vicky herself tbf), and went a step further by killing her to "we need to get rid of some randos" disease.

Not only that; but the Clan dynamics were NEVER the same after her death, because there was no character who could replace her personality. In this cast of cardboard cats, they plucked out one of the few optimists with a clear, unique perspective, not shared by ANYONE else.

My ire wouldn't JUST be because they happened to kill a disabled character in the way they did (though that is frustrating on its own imo). It's because it was Briarlight.

I hope every writer involved with the decision to kill Briarlight in the "Nothing is Happening! Quick! Kill Someone!" book of AVoS chokes on it. I will DIE on this hill and my blood will never wash out of the grass.

#I've been getting a surprising amount of interest in the idea of portraying some of the 'grosser' aspects of disability #and illness in general while we're at it #I don't mind showing it but I do want to strike a balance for those who are more squeamish #Maybe I'll make follow-up guides when I tackle certain disabilities where it's relevant? #Maybe I can save the very sensitive things for the post-cut of a post? #My posts would get a lot longer though and I notice people are less likely to spread and share very long posts #Abelism #Disability #Briarlight #Bonefall Rewrite #Warrior Cats Analysis #I hope the part on realism makes sense #Realism to me is for fun and as a means to an end #Not THE point of what I do #I am an opponent of the sorts of people who say ''Oh there can't be [minority] in this because Realism'' #Yeah well there CAN be two of my fingers in ur eye NERD #Not that I'm accusing you of that either anon dsgffd #Just explaining my own feelings too you get me? #You clearly have a person in your life you care immensely about and want a good portrayal!! #I will try my hardest to give you that

[jakeperalta]

spent weeks psyching myself up to stand up to my mum and then immediately got shot down by her 😃👍

#vent incoming i apologise in advance for the long tags #we've lived together just the two of us since dec 2021 (although her boyfriend is here like 2/3 of the time as well) #and since i got my job in march 2022 i have been paying half of all the bills (literally down to like tv license when i barely watch the tv) #which is £300 a month #plus i buy all my own food + pay for the amazon prime she uses + contribute to various household things like toilet roll etc #and she doesn't have a mortgage so i am paying the same amount as her to live in her house #(and it is very much her house not our house) #and I've never been very happy with any of that but never complained either #but then recently it turned out she never set up the water bill when we moved in (it's one of the only bills i didn't sort for us) #so we have a huge backdated bill from dec 2021 and i knew she was going to tell me to pay half #so for the past month or so I've been preparing myself for this conversation and sure enough today she came and said 'we owe £700' #so i was like 'oh i thought maybe it would've been covered by my £300/month' which is the biggest stand I've been able to work myself up to #and she immediately started going on about how i live here too and use water too so it's just as much my responsibility to pay #and how when we're both earning i should be paying my share and i was like yeah i know that's why i never complained about paying before #but also i already pay more than most people would to live with their parents #and she went off about how actually most people charge their grown up kids rent on top of the bills so really i'm lucky i don't have to #(when she got the original £300 figure it was actually rounded up from like £240 to include 'rent' but i wasn't gonna bring that up now) #and in conclusion she doesn't see why she should be subsidising my bills #like i don't know maybe because you're my MOTHER and i am your CHILD who is just starting out in the adult world #and maybe that entitles me to being treated better than some lodger???!!!!! #anyway i paid the bill and now i'm trying and failing at not crying at my desk 😃 #talking

[someonesomewheredown]

This could be a stretch given how vague about it they're being but. did someone capture Midnight and Rock???? Did Animal Control snatch up the immortal beings with abilities beyond our comprehension????

[Image ID: A screenshot of a section of the blurb for the upcoming book Ivypool's Heart. The text is in italics. It reads "The cats set out on an arduous journey, facing everything from painful hunger to bloodthirsty dogs. But nothing can prepare them for what they find: a disgusting twoleg den that’s caging a series of strange animals, including two who may have surprising ties to the Clans." /End ID]

#i'm still trying to figure out what this is supposed to be about. like is this one person collecting animals or a zoo situation #i get that cats aren't going to know what human things are but it's not fun to read when you don't know what they're trying to describe #but anyway. assuming that the animals aren't new characters our choices are kind of limited #and i can't think of any possiblities other than them #which would be really cool if that was the case!!! we haven't really seen them in a long long while #although i have to wonder how they would have gotten rock out of the tunnels #especially since he's sort of in between life and death and doesn't get seen often #that would make the zoo possiblity more funny though. #yeah this is just a housecat but he's so fucked up and weird that we're making him an exhibit for shits and giggles #ramble aside i hope this is an actually interesting book and not just a nothing burger to get sales because people like ivypool #like i want ivypool's behavior to actually get addressed for once. i want her to actually change and become less of an asshole to her sister #ivypool's heart #warrior cats

[hxllblazer-a]

I don't live here anymore please leave a message after the beep.

#i'm still sorting shit over here but yeah #yeah #we're gonna vibe like this #i'll redoot this a few times when i'm done

[mariyekos]

Imagining a scenario where at some point Dante and Lady get married purely for practical purposes (like if she gets hospitalized so Dante can visit/make some decisions) but Lady ends up dating Trish so Dante's like

#dmc #this is crack but. i find it hilarious #if we're doing a timeline that sort of parallels our own i'm also imagining dante being like #'don't worry you're free to divorce me once you and trish are allowed to be married! no hard feelings' #'hell we can make it a double divorce-marriage! we can get divorced at the courthouse and then you and trish get married right after!' #i really like lady/trish as a ship #i generally think of dante/lady as something that they might have tried out when they were younger but eventually realized they weren't- #into. and there were no hard feelins there. just a 'yeah sorry but i don't think this is going to work' and the other going 'fine by me' #a very gentle friends to maybe lovers or just dating back to friends #and in this marriage scenario it would basically fit right into canon. they wouldn't live together or anything #it would purely be a paper thing just so dante gets some special privileges in case something happens to lady #also the extended version of this is dante visiting kyrie at some point and she asks him how his wife is doing which makes him go #'wait. who is this supposed wife of mine?' bc he's pretty sure nero doesn't know about the marriage so how would kyrie know that?? #and she reveals that she thought it was Trish which makes him laugh and say nah they're just friends. also Trish is dating Lady #which makes Kyrie go 'oh! i'm sorry. you two seemed close and nero mentioned seeing her at your place so i'd assumed...' #and dante's like 'eh no worries it's no big deal. i was wondering how you knew about lady and i but that makes more sense.' #then kyrie: 'wait. you and lady are married?' dante: 'yeah!' kyrie: 'but i thought you said she was dating Trish??' dante: 'she is!' #kyrie: '??? uh. well if you're happy i'm happy for you too.' dante: 'thanks! i'll let them know.' #erurandomness #erubabbles #eru hcs #hcs

[barnbridges]

not to delve into the father discourse in tsh, but while richard describes bunny as the son every father would have wanted (read as: richard's father would have wanted), he also underlines how much of a father he really might as well have been to them. and what is god but the father amirite.

#the secret history #bunny corcoran #from his descriptions as paternalistic to camilla and charles #to his age #to augustus and tiberius #also why he's the most like julian #to that he's the only character who expresses any sort of desire to have children #the way they battle to win his insane or difficult to understand standards of perfection and to fit the roles he he assigns to them #the way he intimately knows all of their fears #and all of their desires #yeah that's why i call him my autistic father as well FGJKL we're the same age and sure #from a doylean approach he wasnt that much older. i'm certainly not lifeboats ahead of people who are 20 #but bunny wasn't JUST 24. he might as well have been 27 to richard #ghj #i hate him hes my autistic father

[saintfaulkners]

genuinely though I think I cannot overstate how much this tv show means to me like I think it might have surpassed black sails and twin peaks in its importance at this point and that. says an awful lot

#it's finding that freedom in the dark it's having your violent heart be loved because of that violence and not in spite of it it's the #beauty in the horror it's the utter obliteration of societal boundaries it's #yeah it's everything to me #i think especially after these last few years I'm just not very susceptible to fluffy sort of happy endings anyway and this show... #it kind of gave me exactly what i needed exactly when i needed it #and it's all i want. unconditional love and devotion; teeth and blood and freedom and revenge #i feel like every day it somehow matters more to me #i know you're not like. supposed to look at it this way lmao #like i am aware we're supposed to still be able to say oh no murder is wrong obviously this is all just fun and creativity and a fantasy etc #but honestly. i do want to kill the people that have wronged me i do want revenge i do want to spill blood and i mean this so genuinely #and earnestly #i want to embrace my violence and i want to be adored for who i am in my entirety and i eant a fucking. pack of dogs to run through the #woods with and i want to rip someone's throat out with my teeth and i want irrevocable belonging #anyway please don't report me or something<3

[bumblingbabooshka]

The Doctor turning into women and having romantic dalliances with men is every kind of queer...to me.

#EMH (pretending to be B'Elanna after having just SPRINTED down the hall): You wouldn't shoot a pregnant woman would you ??;; #Tuvok: (in the most 'give it up' tone possible) ...Come with Me doctor =_= #Tuvok gets docked points for falling for the ol' 'cough cough im sick' excuse but gains them all back by getting suspicious and starting #an investigation all on his own in the background <3 #Also Janeway being held captive and being just kinda pissed about the whole situation...yeah #HEHEHE I like this episode it's funny but also the stakes are high #Janeway sort of smirking and doing the 'come here' motion when that alien man was like 'do you know how to fix this?' - her swag..... #Janeway (captive and stressed beyond belief about the warp core): Yeah I have time to serve dom vibes #Tuvok - Chakotay - Janeway: Each having uniquely bad days #(Worst Security disaster ever - Got put in a morgue for hours - Held captive and threatened with death: + Voyager stranded) #I know Chakotay was unconscious for the morgue thing but still #Chakotay: -opens his eyes to see Tuvok standing there- #(they share a look like 'yeah it's some LIFE THREATENING scooby doo bullshit again') #Hey Chakotay maybe next time don't tell the imposter that you know they're an imposter right to their face <3 #Just some tactical strategy for next time <3 <- I love him I'm just being a bitch HEHEHE it was funny to me #Doctor: Hey I know we're in the middle of a serious thing here but like. Why don't we. You know. Hang out??? #Janeway: -sharp intake of breathe- ......ohhhh I don't really...DO hanging out. #YAY NAR~!!!!! GET HIS ASS~!!! #Nar I hope you live a simple but fulfilling life as a junk dealer or whatever it is you were talking about god bless <3 #Doctor: Now that I might die I have some last requests v_v Captain...throw my diary away. DO NOT. READ IT. Tuvok...I told Neelix about that #rash you got on your ass. We laughed about it for weeks. Sorry. #and then I smile and giggle and ass 'ass rash' to the Tuvok lore #SNRKEHEHE DAMN. HE GOT HARRY TOO??? #'Sorry I said you sucked absolute shit at playing the saxophone. I should have phrased it more delicately...damn it. It all becomes so clea #when you face the end.' (Harry: You said w hat????) SEVEN-!! #Seven: Stay over there computer boy =_= #SNRKEHEHEHHEHHAHAHAH #Janeway:....Is he...? / B'Elanna: NO. I've got him =_= I just deleted all that spam. He's FINE. #livetweeting

[stabbyfoxandrew]

omg ur CRANKING out the wipwed posts today aerie thank you for the food

HELL YEAH I AM!!!! IT'S THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!!!!

@quiescentdestiny and @dayurno and the anon from earlier!!!! ty for holding my hands!!! <333

#also anon you're welcome!!! i'm so happy i was able to finish it tonight! i'll try to update the masters tomorrow? #also YIPPEE!!! we're getting close to arsonist neil and andrew getting together!?! :D HELL YEAH #also why do y'all think neil wanted andrew to go down stairs? and... do you think something is about to happen...? perhaps with aa- #AND mafia front will hopefully be sort of andreily again next week! but... i needed the kevjean. also neil is about to be a menace >:3 #also!! will vampire andrew be able to not eat neil... stay tuned... #hehe!!! ps: anon... thanks for letting me use your ask to update everyone!!! #anon #answered #also... #diaerie #also #love