#emily says some things

[emiemi345]

Food for thought: If we got Gen 5 remakes that might mean COMPETITIVE TRIPLE AND ROTATION BATTLES

#they might've stayed around for gen 6 but gen 5 introduced them #original post #emily says some things #pokemon #gen 5 #pokemon gen 5 #unova #unova remakes #competitive pokemon #pokemon competitive

[anna-scribbles]

h-how do you ever finish any of your work? genuine question because you seem to be productive despite your agreste syndrome and I need to learn your ways. but also how do you ever finish any of your work

unclear. last night i stayed up and finished a report worth 25% of my grade at about 5am, arrived on time for my 9am lecture, and spent about half of it zoned out while thinking about seventeen year old emilie agreste. and i was one of the most active participants in the class discussion

#in some ways it IS the move to go to grad school right out of undergrad #because your body can still sort of operate like a college kid #i’m on about 3ish hours of sleep rn and this morning it felt SO over but now i’ve eaten something and we’re so back #i also don’t really do caffeine. except sometimes i’ll go get one of those panera death lemonades #i might be able to snag a short nap before work #but anyway about seventeen year old emilie. i was thinking abt how she was in that movie solitude and adrien said she was seventeen #WAIT. NO. HE SAID SHE WAS SEVENTEEN IN THAT PHOTO ON HIS DESKTOP NOT IN THE MOVIE #well. okay whatever i’m gonna tell you what i was thinking about anyway #OKAY i’m back i just checked the wikipedia page and then i watched the end of gorizilla. to make sure i’m not lying. because i’m normal. #anyway i was thinking about the solitude film and how it’s super rare and old and obscure and whatever. and how apparently #emilie wrote it herself and andre produced it #and i’m thinking about how gabe was discovered by audrey and that’s how he got his start in the fashion industry #so now i’m like?? did gabe and emilie first meet on the set of solitude? because gabe was designing costumes or whatever? #and that’s how audrey found him? have people already thought about this?? #also i just checked and it doesn’t say emilie’s last name in the credits and also it’s ‘graham films’ with the twin rings logo m #so i’m assuming she’s still emilie graham de vanily at that point #anyway it comes back to seventeen year old emilie because i started imagining seventeen year old runaway emilie having her new life in pari #after escaping her british nobility life #and the first thing she does is write and star in an original movie. of course. #and she meets this repressed bisexual punk upstart costume designer who is so the opposite of everyone she’s ever known #and he’s immediately so unhealthily obsessed with her. which she appreciates. #and then they proceed to have the most toxic doomed evil relationship of all time #also she gets cheated because once gabe gets money he represses himself SO hard that he is now exactly like all the people emilie grew up w #but at least he’s still obsessed with her #this is what i was thinking about during class today. i don’t know how i get anything done either. #ml #anna rambles #asks

[presiding]

a doctor turned serial killer turned doctor again, an actor who paints, a gang leader, a mining baron, and a vice overseer walk into the room.

oh yeah and they lead karnaca now.

dishonored 2 is my fav game but i think it's mid, story-wise. here's why dh1 works and why dh2's overarching story sorta misses

tl;dr: story integration is critical for gameplay that offers audience payoff, but emily's personal arc from dishonor to honor is inconsistently demonstrated in the story, and is not an interactive part of the gameplay.

essay/long version under cut >

recap: what's dishonored's deal

[skip if you want] dh1 is an underdog story: corvo is an honorable man swept up in the machinations of a callous city, so his canonical ending being 'this child will rule over an empire' isn't about the child's rule but rather about corvo's reputation being restored in a more hopeful city, due to his & the player's rejection of the violent connotations of the tagline 'revenge solves everything.'

similarly, in dh1 DLCs, daud's story arc is that of an anti-hero: a dishonorable man who realises too late he has done irreparable harm. he sees the error of his ways after a single monumental death, and eventually a single life redeems him when he/the player stepped in to circumvent a terrible fate for a child, enabling her to rule unfettered.

daud & corvo come to a satisfying conclusion within the extent of their narrative arcs. it doesn't matter that a child on a throne isn't really a fix for a decaying empire - the player's actions throughout the city of dunwall was what mattered - and these stories could be framed as parables. in that sense, young emily as a ruler is a metaphor for a hopeful future for the city & empire.

dishonored 1 & its DLCs are also great examples of storytelling with perfectly integrated gameplay - you, the player, worked towards the outcome that redeemed the protagonists.

in your efforts to save young emily, you either achieved a good outcome (corvo) or prevented a worse outcome (daud).

bringing us to dh2 -

what's emily's arc

emily's arc is a coming of age: we're introduced to a reigning empress who questions her role & skillset ("am i the empress my mother wanted me to be?"), then her titular fall from grace occurs. from there, she learns to reject the violent, selfish connotations in 'take back whats yours' tagline (a la daud & corvo!) while rediscovering why her rule is critical to the empire.

emily's rule is no longer metaphorical, but:

a literal thing for audience assessment (is emily a good ruler?) AND

the crux of her storyline.

at the beginning of dh2, emily is introduced as a disengaged leader ("i wish i could just run away from all this;" "i dont know if whether i should sail to the opposite side of the world, or have everyone around me executed"). the antihero has a precedent for the dishonored series in daud, so it's not at first glance an issue*, however, the fact that emily has ruled poorly reframes corvo & daud's endings as being less than ideal (a moralistic retcon) *we could talk here about how ready an audience was in 2016 for a flawed women as a protagonist, hell, even in 2023,,,

throwback to the beginning of this essay when i said:

'this child will rule over an empire' isn't about the child's rule but rather about corvo's reputation

emily's story arc, unlike for daud & corvo, is literally about the quality of her rule. we're no longer in metaphor territory (ironic phrase): a parable-style ending doesn't work.

does emily become a good ruler

we know she becomes a good ruler because the game says so. it is narrated to the audience via a (literal) word of god in the space of 30 seconds, after the final boss. the outsider tells us that emily becomes known as Just & Clever.

drawing a distinction here - this narration is not the same as the player actively being involved.

the player does not throughout the game become aware that emily has made political allies. during the game, she doesn't talk to these characters about saving karnaca or being a better ruler to the empire (there's a few lines might imply it, but you need to be actively looking and being careful to wait for every voice line. it's a far cry from daud & corvo's fight to save emily being unmissable - even though daud doesn't know at the beginning that's the goal).

how does the game show it

you can coincidentally not kill most of your subjects and never be aware that emily is looking to restore karnaca by means of instating a council - it's never brought up. it *couldn't* be brought up, because that council serves under the fake duke (armando), who is the last person she speaks to before she leaves for dunwall. its her suggestion that he rules karnaca, but armando's condition is that he will rule as he sees fit.

to back up a bit, emily's canonical method of restoring karnaca is by banding together key allies - hypatia, stilton, [byrne &or paolo], pastor, under a council beneath the duke's body double. they are passionate people who would each individually make worthwhile advisors, but if you think about those characters sitting at a table trying to reach an agreement, it feels like an assortment of people that emily didn't kill along the way and doesn't feel organic (up to interpretation). it's not stated if emily herself banded this council together, but logically she must have (worth a mention these are mostly characters that you as the player had reasonable rationale to kill during a high chaos run, except pastor). the underlying concept may be that karnaca's power is returned to its people - which is interesting given that the monarchy remains and armando's decision is final.

this overarching solution could also be taken as a critique to dh1's 'put your kid on the throne,' which is another reason its worthwhile looking at how emily was shown to be a better leader. obviously my point isn't that her solution was bad given the circumstance, but i mean she has very little agency here in all. if emily was shown to be more controlling as a leader, this could be interpreted as character growth, but that's not the case.

coming of age

how do you learn & grow when you can't specify your failings? emily doesn't really touch on her shortcomings as an empress. she non-specifically worries delilah makes a better empress than her. it's hard to argue her worries are meaningful when someone good at their job will still worry when lives are in the balance.

emily's best 'aha' moments (eg. crack in the slab comment about gaining perspective) are consistently undercut by a conversation with sokolov or meagan afterwards in which she demonstrates she hasn't learned anything (before the grand palace, emily condemns 'toadies sucking up to me' and is reminded by meagan that she's part of the problem). the story is confused about what it's trying to say about emily's progress, and when she's meant to show progress, if she was meant to show any progress at all. it could be argued that emily was never even a bad ruler, she had just been fed misinformation about the problems in karnaca and been the victim of slander by her political enemies. the game doesn't make this clear - it's easier to argue that the opposite is true given that her allies only have criticism.

worth a mention here that the heart quotes about armando - a fake ruler - interestingly mirror emily's character concerns. "see how he sighs? his life is a gilded cage." but this essay is already long.

while corvo & daud spend their games (and through the gameplay) 'earning' their redemption, emily is being led by the NPCs around her to a conclusion and a fix for the political mess in karnaca: meagan & sokolov guide emily to her missions, and there's no recurring quest for emily to investigate possible allies. she is able to gather the people she hasn't killed to herself by manner of... post-game narration. during the game, she's primarily concerned with getting her throne back.

an easy fix: if there had been less dialogue & narrative focus on emily's failings perhaps the ending would have felt more satisfying. it has the feel of cut content, but i don't know what was cut to be able to comment on it.

so what went wrong?

i can't help but wonder if arkane were worried they would lose a certain demographic if corvo wasn't playable (may have been deemed too much of a risk - 2013 was a different time), and so they had to take out story elements that were unique to emily's growth as a character/empress, because the usual storyline/gameplay integration had to work for both characters - in other words, gameplay that made sense for both corvo & emily was prioritised before emily's story & character development. which is a silly problem to have in a game that added character voices for the sake of improving characterisation - maybe emily's tale would have felt more akin to a parable if she had less lines that betrayed her ignorance (to the disdain of those around her).

i wish more care had been taken with emily's story. most players will never really notice the large variety of different endings - they're not particularly satisfying in and of themselves.

it's ironic that one of Emily's complaints is about her father/protector being overbearing, when his (parallel universe) presence in the gameplay may be one of the reasons her own narrative arc falls flat.

what are the upsides here

changing tune from what didn't work - don't you think the concept is fantastic? it's a great idea overall - can you imagine if the coming of age storyline was better integrated into the game?

it's valuable to talk about the integration of story and gameplay and characterisation from a craft perspective. dh2 genuinely is my favourite game - it's beautiful, the imm-sim design philosophy makes the world a delight to explore, the combat gives endless creative options for tackling any fight, there is a far greater diversity of cast in an in-text canonical way. there's loads to love!

i love emily as a dodgy leader, to me it adds interesting dimensionality to the outsider's narrations - of course in dunwall there's never a neat happily ever after! emily, like the outsider, both work well as characters who hold ultimate power but aren't necessarily worthy of it - and this makes perfect sense for the dishonored universe's morality & critiques of power. however, within this grey area there's still plenty of room for a satisfying ending, which isn't what we ended up with, whatever the true reason for that was. and also, damn, emily's a marked assassin empress, if she can't lead well then who can?

while dh1 was criticised for its narrative simplicity, dh2 in contrast and in hindsight shows us that simplicity isn't so bad - there's satisfaction in gameplay achieves a clear, simple narrative goal.

#are you a dh1 enjoyer but less so a dh2 enjoyer? #have you ever wondered why you don't love dh2 as much? #here's 1.8k words that might articulate some of that. #light reading.i guess #this essay wasn't meant to cover everything - just the core of the plot and why its important to integrate story & gameplay #and to compare dh1 & 2 #dishonored #dishonored 2 #dishonored 2 spoilers #emily kaldwin #daud #corvo attano #this week i'm cracking things out of my drafts! #<333 don't get me started on doto. #some of this might be contentious. idk i try to live in a bubble #the meme version was easier to read i know i know #this essay would have been a lot longer had i integrated more references from the game #i know a few others have said this but imagine if they went a different way with emily #like she realises shes not fit for the job and maybe no one is and says fuck the system cause shes got a rebellious streak #and does a kickflip on the monarchy and institutes something else. i dont even care what. make it funny #and then for the sake of continuing the trend we spend dishonored 3 undoing the horrible leadership emily instates <3 #i think they really loved emily as a character. i FEEL the love i believe its there.but didn't think enough bout how she would be perceived #there's a good couple comments from baldur's gate 3 devs about how much work goes into writing women to account for sexism #there's more that i could have added to this essay but for brevity's (ha.ha) sake i'll leave it there #other textposts about this game that i see around tend to romanticise dishonoreds story a little more

[emily-mooon]

Jonathan in my Itakiss AU:

#this has sat in the drafts since august and now I think it’s time to share it with the world #keeping the tags from august cause the facts are still correct #one of the posters of Steve is supposed to be him surrounded by roses #sometimes there will be a panel in shouts where the love interest has some flowers around him #*shoujo (gotta love auto correct am I right?/sarcastic) #since this is a shitpost I tried to make it funny #that’s why you get some cursed looking Steve’s #god I love this au so much (says this while the other aus I have come up with figuratively stare at me #) #I finished drawing this with a horrible headache after a long two hour car ride to meet my younger cousins who live in a different province #it was after I got back home because we were there for the day only #you can tell that I got lazy at some point but it’s a shitpost so I do not care and also it was late at night and I was tired #stranger things #jonathan byers #stonathan #itakiss au #emily shitposts

[britneyshakespeare]

i think very often about that telegraph article from 2011 asking various writers if they prefer wuthering heights or jane eyre, and blake morrison said:

Asking which you prefer out of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre is similar to the questions, “Are you John Lennon or Paul McCartney?” and “Are you cat or dog?” The more exciting people are John Lennon, cat and Wuthering Heights. But I am Paul McCartney, dog and Jane Eyre.

#text post #charlotte bronte #emily bronte #wuthering heights #jane eyre #i think about it bc i am also mccartney dog and jane eyre #also sorry if you click on that article it is behind a paywall. it wasn't at least a few years ago when i read it #but everything gets worse #anyway lennon/cat/wuthering heights ppl have a way of scoffing at mocking us mccartney/dog/jane eyre ppl and we have had it. had it i say! #fwiw i love both lead beatles and all three bronte sisters and well... cats dont come close to being as precious as dogs to me #but i like them somewhat #jane eyre is just my favorite thing. god. i should reread it in 2024 #i almost said in 2023. bruh. i still think i'm in 2022 tbh #some days i think it's still the 2010s #anyway morrison was onto smth when it comes to matching vibes of this-or-that questions

[astralzeraphias]

guilty pleasures 2 - human poetry

#megatron #transformers #plus soundwave ! #this wouldve been a full thing. hypothetically. #anyways i think megs has SOME things he likes about humans #probably primarily human poetry but maybe some other art stuff. and weaponry. and #maybe fireworks for like five seconds before he realizes what rumble & frenzy would do with them #maccadam #do you guys like my soundwave. i worked soooo hard in him #the poem is from emily dickinson bc thats the poetry book that was closest to me at the moment #soundwave doesn’t give a shit that megatron is engaging in human culture he was just coming to say goodnight

[jackienautism]

“How did this all get so fucked up?”

#gifs #the quarry #kaitlyn ka #dylan lenivy #emma mountebank #supermassive games #some context to my previous posts. i’m just on a kaitlyn kick rn #like. ok. #it makes sooo much sense why kaitlyn said what she said. she’s a person who looks at things in a more realistic / pragmatic sense #for her. knowing that the death was quick definitely brings comfort. when on the other hand. that’s just not something emma wants or needs #HOWEVER. the fact we only see this sort of moment from the token asian girl. aka ppl who are typically stereotyped to be emotionless and- #-cold. which is like the basis of kaitlyns character. it’s a bit :/ to say the least #and i can say the same thing about emily too lol supermassive fuck you #i have more solidified thoughts on the matter but rn i’m just. rgrrr #anyway😊 #my kaitlyn tag #my TQ tag #my gifs #mine

[human-souls-buy-dopamine]

DESPERATELY need content with Henry adopting the afton kids PLEASEEE they need a good dad for ONCE 😭 particularly Micheal but we aren't picky please send fic recs. Begging........

#theo says some things #the voice of soul #fnaf #fnaf fics #henry emily #fnaf henry emily #michael afton #fnaf michael afton #PSPSPSPPPS SUMMINING EVERYONE WOTH THESE TAGS #PLEASEEE #they jus t... they need HAPPY #for ONCE #just. hust a sliver 😭

[wahoopli]

drop the sanderson thoughts lmao. did you read the wired article everyone’s talking about?

yes i did read the wired article. it was weird? fine? i agree with the take that the writer thought it would be more interesting, and then had to come up with a story on a deadline.

tbh i feel like the more interesting story is that mormonism is a settler colonialist monument to white cisheteropatriarchy, and that really shows in sanderson's writing. stormlight especially really demonstrates this. it's structured to be all about oppression (darkeyes, the singers) but sanderson's narrative continually prioritizes the oppressors. that's so mormon! the book of mormon is so racist and present-day mormonism is so invested in whiteness and imperialism, esp with sending missionaries to convert people of color in the global south.

and like... we talk all the time about how sanderson is great at writing queer characters when he's not trying to. how his romances really fall flat. to me it's all connected to mormonism. he's talked before about how he doesn't really have emotional ups and downs, and the article kind of touches on this too. mormonism is such a passion-less religion. if you've ever been in a mormon church building, they're the most boring buildings alive. there's a complete lack of culture, art, life. mormonism is designed to produce nuclear family clones who have the same opinions and have a very "nice" society.

i'm rambling, and i have lots more thoughts, but i just think the way sanderson writes romance really positions it as a Thing You Put In A Narrative and not, like, a messy human experience. and that's so mormon. you serve a mission for the church as a late teen and then come back and are expected to marry. marriage is one of the essential Steps toward exaltation.

obviously the other really interesting thing is that the magic of the cosmere tbh is extremely mormon in a way I find very interesting and sometimes like! one of the key doctrines of mormonism is that if you live your life perfectly, you'll become a god and create your own worlds the same way god did with us. it's a complicated and fascinating idea, and i don't think it's terribly difficult to make the connection to whiteness and the settler fantasy of it all. but in the cosmere, humans become gods. gods are bound by rules (also important in mormon theology). ruin and preservation created scadrial and built it and humans from scratch.

idk i just feel like if you've read sanderson's work (which the wired writer says he did) and have a solid understanding of mormonism, there's a much richer and more interesting story to tell than what that article gave. it barely scratched the surface imo.

disclaimer, i say all this as a white queer exmormon who has lived in utah her whole life. i love lots of things about mormonism, and i can't separate my personal and family history from the church. it's defined my life up until the last couple of years, and that's the place i'm speaking from.

#emily types #sanderson critical #you asked for it anon #here are some messy thoughts that probably make no sense #but tbh that article just really demonstrates to me a misunderstanding of mormonism sanderson and the cosmere fandom #which is too bad because there are very interesting things to say and lots of really valuable criticism if you know what you're talking #about #and tbh some of this is from my brain #but lots of it is stuff i've seen other people say on this app

[unecoccinellenoire]

It makes sense from a narrative perspective and it's totally in character for Gabriel but I cannot imagine buying an Alliance ring and having to pick between a 14 year old girl or a boy as an avatar.

#it's the perfume ad and who the hell that's marked to all over again #like I get why socqueline or any myriad of teeenagers would want Adrien #though saying that he still feels a little young for a teen hearthrob? #unless the video game is right and he's 15 #and I guess Lila has some fans? #but unless Gabey made his Emilie edition available to the masses #(his family as brand thing says yes his possessiveness says no) #who the hell is an adult meant to pick? #or is Gabriel aiming the rings squarely at the teenage demographic as they're his favourite akuma victims?

[twinstxrs]

i’m trying to catch up with as much dimension 20 as i can before fantasy high junior year, i’m currently on a starstruck odyssey, and can i just say: there is truly no greater example of ally beardsley’s dnd progress than the parallel of ally as kristen applebees willingly taking 36 points of damage, bringing kristen down to 3 hit points as kristen plummets multiple stories due to a failed attempt to use a ribbon dance as a way to fly down 10 stories, and ally as margaret encino willingly taking 11 points of damage, bringing margaret down to 3 hit points so margaret can fall 30 feet from a camera nest, walk up to a giant corn guy, and say “you suck” as all the intrepid heroes look on assuming this to be usual beardsley tomfoolery, only for margaret to walk away & trigger an attack of opportunity which gives murph as barry a chance to push this guy off a ledge & possibly win them the entire encounter & over 1 million credits. INSANE. ally beardsley i’m obsessed with your mind

#ally beardsley #fantasy high #kristen applebees #a starstruck odyssey #margaret encino #what is true joy if not ally beardsley saying ‘call to the guards’ & brennan shouting ‘NOOOOO’ #just so funny god #ESPECIALLY because literally one minute earlier brennan was for real trying to goad beardsley into falling from the nest like #‘so did you get some temp kublacaine hp’ thinking he was using beardsley’s insatiable chaos in his favor LITTLE DID HE KNOW #‘statistically you would stay up’ THEY PLAYED HIM LIKE A FUCKING FIDDLE #OH THE HUBRIS #admittedly i haven’t watched nvaf yet but kristen pete margaret the beardsley big 3 to me #also this is unimportant but: #for the sake of my pride i do wanna clarify i was catching up w/ d20 before the fhjy announcement but it has sped up the process a shit ton #i need to understand all the inevitable references #& yea could i watch just the ih campaigns & be fine? probably. but do i emotionally need to watch things chronologically? YES #just have *checks notes* 7 campaigns to watch beforehand not including my planned fh&fhsy rewatch :) #also i literally took a little break from the episode to type this but aso has been INSANE so far especially these past 2 eps! #i’d heard reference of operation slippery puppet but had no idea what it was so i was like ‘omg’ when siobhan mentioned it and THEN #just so insane emily axford my beloved the scheming goes crazy #also also final thing sorry for ranting in the tags but GOD murph has been rollinh so fucking well in this fight BIG BARRY SYX I LOVE YOU #intrepid heroes i love you forever thank you for introducing me to the wonderful world of dropout & of dnd actualplay #okay anyways back to the battle of the brands pt. 2 <3

[emiemi345]

"I want an episode with Chilli's mum!"

(A finger on the monkey's paw curls)

#those bits were touching but personally i can't stand the doodle episodes tbh #original post #cartoons #bluey #bluey season 3 #bluey dragon #chilli heeler #emily says some things #monkey's paw

[baalzebufo]

wow the new little mermaid remake looks great

anyway new fixation means new aus :) heres one weird fish and his new pal hanging out at the beach and scaring the tourists

#alloyart #beetlejuice #lydia deetz #mer au #hi tag. sorry ive been posting so much lately im having a lot of fun #also i shouldnt Have to say it but just in case. dont tag this as ship thanks. #anyway i dont have too many details but heres some! #beej is stuck between two worlds a bit because he's technically half human instead of being a full-blooded sea monster #charles moved him and his daughter to the seaside after emilys passing because he hoped the sun would help #but lyds is still adamant about being goth on the beach #thats basically all i have i didnt really think about if/where the others would fit in here #mostly i just wanted to draw beej as a funny eel thing and then i wanted to doodle him and lydia being pals #they torment local beachgoers together and think its very funny. it is

[emily-mooon]

Imagine if Stacey and Neil actually met in high school except they didn’t go to the same school: they met through Kid Chameleon.

One night, Scott brings Stacey to one of their shows and it just so happens that Stephanie (or Steph) brought Neil with her.

Since they were both the youngest people there (Neil’s 17, Stacey’s 16 till December), they decided to talk to each other and they hit it off.

Stacey also develops a bit of a crush on Neil and would always ask Scott if Steph was going to bring her brother with her again, as she wanted to see him and didn’t know if there was another way.

Then one morning, she discovers that they take the same TTC bus and from then on they talk before and after school and become sorta friends. At this point, Neil also starts developing a crush on her.

Things stayed like that for about two months until Neil and his mom moved places (as I agree with the headcanon that the Nordegraf siblings have divorced parents) so they would no longer take the same bus in the morning or after school. They still have Kid Chameleon shows to meet up and talk at right? Ha ha wrong cause at New Years, the famous break up between Scott and Envy happens which in turn, also breaks up the band.

That whole break up was the nail in the coffin that strained Neil and Stacey’s kinda friendship. They didn’t have the others phone number cause they were both too shy to ask and also cause they both kept forgetting.

There also wasn’t a whole ton of opportunities to ask either of their siblings for their phone numbers so they just gave up and went on with their lives.

But then why didn’t they recognize the other in the like three times there were in the same room together? Easy answer: Stacey was distracted by everything around her to even notice Neil, who in turn, was slowly disappearing into the crowd and fully did by the time it was Lisa’s going away dinner.

So when they see each other again properly at the Chaos Theater, something clicks and they fall back into where they once were two years ago. To them it felt like a decade, but no it was just two years. They catch up on what they missed in the others lives on the walk home.

After that these dorks start dating cause the feelings were still there, just buried deep, left dormant, and forgotten. They came back but slightly different as people change.

#and that’s it! #this idea has been cooking for a little bit btw #i am an au fiend and this gets added to my long list #I have another idea where neil lives on the east coast with his mom but spent Christmas with his dad and Stephanie #he also says he’ll come visit Stacey during March break but since kid chameleon broke up after Scott and envy broke up #he didn’t get to (also cause he went on a trip with his mom instead) #the drama is there but I think I’m the only person who headcanons that Neil has family on the east coast sooooo #or hey how about he moves there with his mom since she wanted to be closer to her family #that’s another alternative #anyways try to pry this au headcanon from my cold dead hands #i love it sm #apologies if some things sound cliche deep down I’m a romantic at heart and I’m such a sucker for ppl meeting again after not seeing the #other for awhile #also sorry for any spelling mistakes it’s late at night and I should go to bed now so gn! #scott pilgrim #scott pilgrim comic #young neil #neil nordegraf #stacey pilgrim #nordegrim #emilys headcanons #emilys long list of aus #i guess this counts as canon divergent too #long post #cause it is kinda long ngl

[randomchild20]

“I love your personality!”

Thanks man, I stole it from multiple fictional characters and one of my friends

#Finna put said fictional characters in the tags if I can even remember the characters that make up the mess that is my personality #tssm otto octavius #tssm electro #anger issues go BRRR #also both Otto and Electro are trans bc I’m trans and I said so #henry emily #for some fucking reason #we don’t even know that much about his personality #the only thing we know is that he can say a banger monologue #spooky month robert #hes so goofy /pos #Also the “anger issues go BRRR” thing was directed at Electro #if that was not clear #if I didn’t specify which one I was talking about I would be thinking about it all night/day #no I am not ok #also a character from a 90’s (I think) movie that… idk how to explain him #he’s so gender #that’s how I’m describing him #he’s played by Alfred Molina #what did I expect #I fr forgot to tell y’all his name #im stupid ngl #Stephen Arden #when the tags are 10x longer than the actual post

[dykefever]

when people are like emily was the hero of gilmore girls ! im silent . im not saying a thing. did we not watch her being the most narcissistic mother ever . did we not watch lorelai mirror that. i love this show. i would never hail any of them. anyway.

#obviously it is done up to be comedic but like. the parenting isn't actually good no matter #which way you swing it #i actually love emily as a character she is so funny the actress is phenomenal #but idk if i've made this post i've been meaning to but it's like. it's crazy how asp we #writes narcissim into her shows #idk she's like intentionally doing it either #but ya know . i' might make a cohesive post abt that at a later date #laura says some things #gilmore girls