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thebirdarts · 6 months
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The Death of Family
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blood stains, innocent blood stains harder. The blood of those you love stains forever. For prompt 6 of @owlcatober , family [click for better quality and notes are under the cut]
this did not happen but also this is what actually happened, the true version of events, not whatever cold and callous series of events actually took place in the mansion on that night.
this is the metaphorical representation of what happened.
her best friend dying in her arms, white dress getting stained by the blood. fingers intertwined the same way as when they practiced dancing. she dies with a smile on her lips and muras eyes are heavy with grief, taking in every detail as the blood pours out from the gash marring her friends beauty. something in her shatters at the same time as the woman in her arms heart stops beating. something shatters so badly that all is left is glass dust, impossible to put back together. in the warped light the blood looks pink and the shadows on her dress seem akin to the bloodstains on her friends. the only thing unstained, the last gift, a wreath of pure white flowers.
What is left after you kill the only person you let in your heart, other than to become a monster.
so this is entirely for the symbolism. mura wouldnt have her classic hairstyle yet [hell i didnt colour in hair or eyes because muras current ones are dyes/changed] and they both would be younger and given shes using gonna use the body to set up someone she would not have time for a melodramatic finger-entwined kinda embrace.
but the drama!!!!
the parallels to the pieta are intentional [but hey what dead body cradled in someones arms cant be related to it]
her friend is the sacrificial lamb for muras permanent decent into villainy. with her friend gone she has no reason to care for others beyond her own survival.
in many ways this moment is more important that mura overtaking her father, this moment seals her on her trajectory. in many ways this froze mura in time, and planted the largest crack in the wall of her image of her fathers excellence.
ive mentioned it before but the only way for mura to be happy and anywhere near normal, would be someone interfering before this point. as soon as her friends heart stopped beating shes locked in her path and beliefs.
it has a roundabout connection to the prompt, it damages her relationship with her father, and also regardless of the label, her kinship with her freind is a powerfull bond, and their extend lifetimes meaning that the growth they shared was not over years but decades, makes her so important to mura, and in some ways family.
an alternate title would be 'death of innocence' or rather the death of muras last shred of compassion and love.
the two fracture points are mura and her friends hearts. i will use the shattered glass motif till i overuse it.
also yes the braid around muras bun thing in the future is a replacement for the wreath of flowers her friend gave her. heartless my ass. for somone who wants nothing more than to forget what happened she sure doesnt let herself forget.
anyway! girlbesties!!! dont we all kill each other and parts of ourself just for the approval of greater forces!!! betray and scar each other in ways that will last forever!!! whats a friend but a sacrifice waiting to happen!!
notes on the piece over, this is now a personal update:
so this was delayed cause i overexerted myself, unfortunately this means my weekend to relax and do some more prompts is now spent testing the limits of how many painkillers i can take. im mostly annoyed, but hey! still have plenty of jojos to watch /read, and ds9 & the expanse are up next on my watch-list so its fine that i cant move any muscle connected to my shoulders without crying in pain! please ignore the pile of corsework i have to do!
this isnt at a level of quality that i would like it to be, but i am happy with it. no artist ever is fully satisfied with their work, its just this time there is a larger distance than normal.
these notes have been long! thank you for reading so far! i hope your weekend is going well!
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*THIS FOLLOWS GREYS ANATOMY STORYLINE, SO DONT COME FOR ME ACTING SHOCKED BY ANYTHING*
The shows been around damn near 20 yrs ppl 🤦♀️
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rhythmmortis · 4 months
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i am so curious. whos your favorite of organization 13 (the original but the "real" is fine too if u have any particular favorites) . i feel like roxas and xion are obvious answers because if you hate either of them you're just sucks. but other than them
xion is 100% my favourite org member hands down, both her role in the original and the 'real', but if not her then larxene literally showed up for one game, served cunt, was a bitch, and died. and then came back. and i love her so fucking much for it. when she dies in 3 she literally just admits that she didnt give a shit about xehanort shes just there for the drama and i love her so much for it, she also has cool ass knives which i gotta respect her for
she's also just like. an ACTUAL antagonistic original kh female character!! kairi, aqua, xion, namine, olette, and the other original kh girls are all protagonists or at least on the side of light which is cool but it leads to a lot of similarities in characterisation and not much variance. but larxene. she fucking kicked a child then threatened another with her knives. UNAPOLOGETICALLY. then comes back in kh3 in the frozen world and actually makes a good point about having to autonomy of choice. but in general she sucks and i love her for it!! i was recently thinking about either a com roleswap between her and marluxia/a personality swap with them (theyre already relatively similar being co-conspirators and all but slightly stoic and mysterious/ominous larxene and marluxia being more of a taunting bitch about someone sora forgot about and constantly withholding that information just out of reach (which would be a good parallel to his own experience with strelitzia and his whole past) is a dynamic i would love)
her voice acting is also very enjoyable AND my favourite spell is thunder so i gotta give her that. one thing i will say is that i was kinda sad that her remix of the 13th struggle in the kh3 data bosses is the most similar to the original and she doesnt get anything too unique. especially given the fact that saix has ELECTRIC guitars and not her, i really think it wouldve gone hard. my one wish for her in the future (since it looks like ux characters will be relevant) is that they dont just completely erase her personality and let her keep some of that edge, i dont want her to be washed down to another demure, generic supporting female character.
i can also say that my very very least favourite org member is xaldin because i have a strong personal grudge against david dayan fisher (xaldin's eng va) that i cannot say without revealing some very personal information. when i say personal grudge i dont mean theres like an obscure fact about him that i wont ever actually experience or be affected by that i dont like, i mean this is a very real/personal thing that i do not like him for. in person (its not that serious but i love being a hater. and i will never forgive him)
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demxnscous · 10 months
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what's funny about Miguel O'Hara lore in the comics is, if you know any of it, youll here Miguel in the movie say "the one universe where I was happy" and go yEAH, MAN, THAT TRACKS. bc he is truly fucked in terms of his love life and just... general life. his brother, Gabriel, is cool though, he's goofy (also?? Miguel cheated with Gabriel's girlfriend??? the fuck, man?), i kinda wish he'd gotten a shout-out. he kinda did, by proxy, bc Miguel in no canon has a daughter, but he does have a son he names after his brother who goes by Gabri usually. so his daughter in Spider-verse being nicknamed Gabi was really cute! also really brings to light that they REALLY wanted to parallel Miguel and Peter B's situations, jfc, daughters and daughters man. if they had made Kingpin's son a daughter in the first movie, i would have some red thread about this shit lmao (which it's a common theory that maybe the canon Miguel broke had been for his daughter to become Spider-woman (or Spider-man if it turns out Gabi is trans and becomes Gabri anyway lol), either by being the dead parent that then sends Gabi to her Uncle Gabriel for him to layer be Uncle Ben'ed OR that her dad dying would be her Uncle Ben event itself. either or. theres also a lot of skepticism over his story tho, bc it does sound sketchy, and im down for that drama lol tho i dont get why Peter B would back a lie, so maybe there's some shit Miguel is hiding that Peter B wasnt present for...? anyway, i digress)
(oh also Miguel's son does become Spider-man, i forgot if i mentioned that)
anyway, Miguel has been adapted outside of the comics before though and is much more likable outside of the comics. like Peter B being present when Gabi's universe collapsed, meaning he and Miguel had watches and whatnot, could be a subtle hint to an older game about Miguel and Peter regarding impacting canon events (you can see the scene where Miguel stops a canon event in saving Mary Jane from freefalling in an elevator here: tiktok dot com slash t/ZT81gDrA8/ (trigger warning: as the comments put it, "Mary Jane's voice actor's rent was DUE, jfc, that scream is crazy", bc yeah that was a LEGIT piercing scream there so be aware of that going into the video)). the game is called "Spider-man: Edge of Time" and was available on the PS3, xBox, Nintendo DS, and so on and so forth. but, yeah, Miguel is way more likable there as you can tell from even that tiny clip. some people say Peter B being in Gabi's universe means the video-game is canon, i personally say its up to headcanon and may just be a VERY subtle reference for those in-the-know bc, as the clip shows, uhhhhhh Miguel from the game doesnt quite match up with Miguel from Spider-verse
additionally, Miguel kind of, sort of got adapted into a TV show. they went "nobody is fonna watch a Spider-man show unless its got Peter Parker under the mask" so they basically just stole Miguel's whole schtick. (that hasn't really changed tho bc MCU Spider-man basically just stole Miles Morales' whole thing, theres a reason why the first Spider-man MCU movie came out after Spider-verse, like, c'mon, they stole Ganke to make Ned and where the fuck is Aunt May's health problems and her disdain for Spider-man (it's fine that she is young, but a huge reason why Peter doesn't tell her about him being Spidey is because he is GENUINELY frightened that her heart will go out from shock if he tells her bc her heart probelms are that bad and she hates Spider-man THAT much), there's other stuff too but those are the two biggest and easiest to catch right there. anyway tho, i digress x2) and i was OBSESSED with Spider-man as a wee kid bc it was only if the tv had on Spider-man, Gargoyles, or the Aladdin tv show that my big brother and my dad would watch tv with me. and only one of those had multiple series lol rip, so i watched everything from the 1994 Spider-man to 2012 Ultimate Spider-man (memory loss ate a lot of that shit for me, buT HEY! i still spent hours watching, gotta count that shit for something). and i can tell you with confidence that 1999 Spider-man: Unlimited was supposed to be Spider-man 2099 (aka Miguel). shit only lasted one season, but hey, Miguel Peter over there wasn't unlikable even tho he was def more morally gray and dark lol
so i think Spider-verse is pulling from multiple sources in how to depict Miguel, not just the comics
also, no, there was no wife featured in the movie. i think they nipped the idea of having Miguel be married (in part bc his love-life sucks and nobody is a die-hard fan of any of these girls the way people are for Mary Jane, Gwen, and Felicia for Peter) so that they could lower the potential creepiness. like, dont listen to the following podcast bc the people (well, really one guy who then imploded the whole thing for everyone else) behind it sucked but i did listen to it before shit was outted, but Kingfalls AM touched on the absolute HORROR that shit is. because Kingfalls AM is a late-night radio show where people call in, and its usually just locals, and all the locals have side-plots happening that we get updates on as they call and then there's plot between the two hosts and plot happening to the show itself. and one of these locals is a woman with children whose husband was abducted by aliens (nobody thinks it was aliens as in "real aliens", they think he just went missing and came back, but the audience is led to believe Yeah That Was Aliens) and he came back WRONG. and its this slow-burn horror as the relief he's okay goes away and he becomes uncanny and his wife asks questions and he gets dangerous, but the whole time she can't quite put her finger on what is up just that "he's different, he's not my husband, he came back wrong" and she tries to escape with the kids and stuff as he just gets angry that she isn't falling for his doppleganger scheme... and like. i really dont see how Spider-Verse could have included Gabi's assumed mother into the backstory without making what Miguel did CREEPY AS FUCK
of course, i say that while also plotting an outline for an OC to have been Gabi's mom/AU!Miguel's wife and have her deal with this uncanny horror while 2099!Miguel does try to have her fall in love with him and make this shit work (which also?? the fact that AU!Miguel died while carrying groceries??? in THAT big of a city? you cannot convince me his wife, when she goes to get groceries post-2099!Miguel's entrance, doesn't accidentally walk over the spot where her husband died every fucking time. i am convinced that angst is true in any realm where AU!Miguel had a partner lmao). because i think that kind of shit is fun. but Spider-Verse did not have the space or run-time to do that (Across The Spider-verse is actually the longest American animated movie ever, apparently, wowza, beat the last movie to hold that title by 4 minutes). so i think they just... didn't mention a wife so people could headcanon whatever bio-mom and also so to not make Miguel SUPER creepy. he's still creepy for that shit, but also ive flanced through his comics, i can see why he wanted to escape lmao rip
some people on tiktok say Miguel might actually be "what if Kingpin succeeded" in the sense that Miguel HAD a family and they died and "the one universe where he was happy" was his family having not been hurt. in that case, yeah, Miguel did exactly what Kingpin planned only he put himself in that universe instead of taking his family out. in that case, we see what wouldve happened if Kingpin succeeded and we have a better understanding of the stakes
but also im p sure Miguel would have mentioned it outright if his og family died and he was just replacing what he lost (which is still creepy, 100%, if true; it's just slightly less creepy), so im p sure this was just Miguel realizing it was his dream to have this kind of reality and being transfixed on "the one universe in the whole multi-verse where im happy". otherwise, why not mention it to Miles? idk
on a lighter note, i really like this thing called "Idiosyncratic Ship Naming" (according to tv tropes), so in my out-line i have the whole Love Mess of Two Miguels And A Wife (and also another universe where the wife is a Spider-person variant, bc of course) outlined. and i just wanna share the gems i came up with (well, theyre only gems if you like puns AND idiosyncratic ship names, but still lmao)
(@ all Miguel O'Hara × My OC Ships:) DOPPLE-SPIDER
(@ 2099!Miguel × Mom!My OC Ship:) PSEUDO-HARA
(@ Gabi's og parental unit Ship:) ORIGINAL TRUE PAIRING
(@ 2099!Miguel × Spider!My OC Ship:) SECOND CHANCE SPIDER-MANCE
idk if ill ever actually write my fic idea down (at least anytime soon; im busy for the next few years lmao rip), but im having fun plotting the uncomfortable creepiness that is Exploring The Ramifications Of What Miguel Implied. i love angst so theres no promise of a happy ending anywhere here lmao rip, esp not with my Spider!OC variant of the mom like wtf (Miguel has feelings but he doesn't want to just replace Mom!OC, its just also he has NOTHING from that universe except the reminder of what he lost in Spider!OC's face and there is grief and useless wishing and longing involved in such a reaction and survivor's guilt like that. anyway)
i just wanted to talk about how Miguel isnt going to be as bad as he is in the comics, p much. it looks like theyre relying on making their own inteepretarion of him, and they even asked for Oscar Isaac's input (he was very against Miguel being monosyllabic in his gruff grumpiness, but was Very For the idea of Miguel being so unfunny that it's funny how unfunny he is in his gruff grumpiness). theres some room for Miguel to change that in the third movie considering the flimsier parts of his backstory, but its more likely that he isnt going to get that much worse than he already is? theyve done villainous Spider-men before (Superior Spider-man fans, would you please stand up (that's a comic where Doc Oct body-switches with Peter and Peter's ghost dies in Doc Oct's terminally ill body while Doc Oct causes chaos now being Peter/Spider-man. in my opinion, shit was more fun until Peter Parker's ghost became a Jiminy Cricket, but still a cool time)), they dont need to villainize the first Hispanic Spider-man to uplift the newest one and i think the crew is aware of that and is going to keep trying to balance the delicate line of Miguel being an antagonist but not a villain (every villain is an antagonist; but not even antagonist is a villain). plus they changed Pavtir a SHIT TON from his comic, jfc, god bless.. Hobie is p close to the same for his runs, but to be fair, Hobie Brown doesn't have much canon to follow anyway and its clear the creators are doing their own thing with Hobie anyway considering his "What of it?" comment about him being close to a cop that died (in his canon, all cops are Venom Soldiers (also he has the Symbiote as a pet dog basically, it's great) and basically become shells of who they were. so. its possible someone unwillingly became a cop in his world and Hobie had to kill them, but the idea of Hobie being close to a cop feels weird considering how anti-cop he is in the comics. i could talk more about Hobie, easy, but ill stick to whats relevant to right here). so i dont think there's much to be concerned about regarding "are they going to make their own Miguel or stick to the comics?" like, i dont think theyve really stuck to ANYBODY'S comics lmao rip even in the first movie, you can look up Peni Parker (who is apparently In The MCU Adaptation World Of Evangelion) or Spider-ham or Spider-Noir and see they changed a LOT with EVERYONE. i think Miguel will not get as bad as his comics, dont worry lmao
there's also a theory therell actually be two Miguels since his body-type is so different between the first and second Spider-verse movies (Miguel is one of the only Spider-people who USUALLY cannot stick to things (it depends on what canon youre looking at, but USUALLY he cant) and so he depends on his talons and back muscles instead). its more likely just a side effect of animation, that they hadnt designed him properly yey and just likely re-skinned a Peter Parker cgi-model since he was goimg to have less than a minute or two of screen-time as the after-credits scene. so we could possible get Very Different Miguels. i have doubts but i cant debunk it, plus it is a fun theory, so thats there lmao
it is still fun to know Miguel's comic lore tho. if nothing else, to just imagine an OC looking at Miguel and going "...is fucking your brother's girlfriend one of your canon events?" lmao rip
but he does have likable moments in the comics. im always soft for this one panel where Miguel sees Gabriel is on the sidewalk and is fighting HARD not to be a concerned big brother about this yet still a "Hey, man, are you okay? Let's sit you up" comes out as he's chanting to himself to Be Cool about the fact that he just found his brother laid out cold on the sidewalk. like. he's still, in the whole, unlikable in any comic run starring him, but Miguel has kind moments and his non-comic/non-starring-role-in-comics stuff is good!
anyway. i was holding back info-dumping all this for a long time but i read interest in your latest Miguel ask so i thought id say the stuff my chronic memory loss DIDNT eat that i recall about Miguel
also, im so happy about his design in Spider-verse.. his comics appearance was Basically Peter Parker But Tan whenever Miguel was unmasked and i LOVE this shit Spider-verse is doing instead, A+
but yes, as an animation nerd (and also as an autistic), i know a shitton about Spider-verse and less-of-a-shitton-(bc-chronic-memory-loss)-but-still-a-lot about Spider-man in general so im down to info-dump new info anytime. not that i assume youll take me up on that. but just as a general "i can talk more about this than i already have" note lmao
(also thanks for the well wishes!! i am slowly coming back to life post-finals lmao rip)
-- 💗 anon
This was very enlightening and also very reassuring because I am really hoping that they do not make current Miguel like comic book Miguel, based on how they changed other characters
Also, it makes a lot of sense now as to why they probably didn't show his wife, or how that whole situation went down when Miguel took the place of his alternative self. Because holy fuck would that have been such a slap in the face but also........I am so very intrigued on the horror aspect of that, I can't even begin to imagine how Miguel's alternate wife would have felt after she started putting two and two together that this was not her husband (if she even realized what was going on in this retelling)
I also remember hearing about the whole 'Doc Oc taking over Peter's body' but I never had any context for it now, which makes a lot more sense. Specifically, I remember how someone said that Doc Oc was so surprised when he (she? I'm not sure which Doc Oc it was) hit something and realized how much power Peter truly had, and how much he was holding back the entire time. Very interesting stuff!
I digress, thank you for all of the information and theories, and for sharing your OC ideas too <3 There is so much to Miguel, if you ever get around to creating a fic with him, I'd love to hear about it!!
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dykelilypage · 8 months
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i kno u like cs but dont u think they are really toxic? emma should have ended with neal but cs was too popular so the writers killed him and kept hook. no hate im just saying cs ruined the show
no offence or hate taken, so don't worry <3. I can't say I agree with the stance that killian & emma had a toxic relationship, especially in comparison to the relationship between emma & neal, but frankly I'm really not one for shipping or fandom drama so I'm happy for people to ship whatever they want. that being said, you did ask my opinion so I will quickly try to gloss over why.
when we are first introduced to killian, emma is at a point in her life where everything is out of control. she's desperately clinging onto all of her defenses as a result, and she's doing her level best to concentrate on the one thing that hasn't changed; henry (especially considering he's in a potentially dangerous situation & doesn't know what's going on with him). she's concentrated, she's ambitious, and she frankly does not care what she has to do to get home, she will do it. killian, in turn, is equally as ambitious but for different reasons. we know from fairly early on that he wants to go to storybrooke for revenge, and like emma he will do anything in his power to do so. I think a lot of people will say that their discussion on the beanstalk with the conversation they have about being lost/orphans is the first moment of connection they have. arguably, I think it was that they both saw their ambition in the other. I imagine in that moment it grated at emma to see herself mirrored by a man like hook, & in turn I imagine it threw hook to see himself in someone like emma (he was so adamant he was bad as a person & was at a point of his life where all he needed was his revenge so he could die, but emma in turn was a character who had so much left to do and would do anything to keep the life she had. unlike hook, she hadn't given up).
I think ultimately, emma saw hook as a man who wouldn't stop to achieve what he wanted (see her complete conviction that hook would have betrayed her in s2; "you would've done the same"), and we can see her doubt whether his motivations align with hers. I think in that moment, emma also sees a very large part of neal in hook.
now regarding emma's relationship with neal, we know it resulted in a betrayal & one that meant emma found intimacy really difficult. we know neal set emma up for his crime, and we know emma went through the very traumatic experience of giving birth to henry whilst shackled to a bed. I really don't think emma is the type of person who can put that behind her in favour of a redo relationship with neal. moreover, we see emma draw comparisons between hook & neal through paralleling flashbacks, and in response she betrays hook first because she assumed he would be like neal & eventually betray her in turn. the difference between hook & neal is that hook then proves her wrong both verbally; "actually no. I wouldn't have" - and through action. neal in turn, never apologises for what his actions did to emma but instead believes that henry's presence means he's owed a part of emma's life. he never actively proves to emma that he wouldn't betray her again, or put her above his own wants & fears. hook in turn, doesn't believe that his actions to help save henry in s3a or even spending time with henry in 3b means he is owed a relationship with emma.
for what was meant to be a short overview, this is getting a little long, so I'll stop it there & say that ultimately no, I don't think hook & emma have a toxic relationship <3 I think neal is a very intriguing character for sure, but personally I don't think he'd be a good romantic pairing for emma.
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apostatehamster · 5 months
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Watched OFMD, I have thoughts and feelings, and here be my outlet, whoopee. Spoilers, livewatching ramblings and screenshots ahead
Oh yeah Izzy focus, because I am me :)
Ep 6:
The episode had a villain of the day and I thought that was funny. Just some random guy who got jealous because Ed broke a record jkfhjk. Chill out, man
I've wanted Ed and Izzy to talk again for episodes but -
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Bro, he confessed his love to you and you shot him down like a dog. Then knowing he loves you, you wanted him to end your life, which he refused. He tried to end his life instead, stripped of all meaning in life. You do not fucking get to be snappy with him, you were supposed to be the first one to talk,. Yes I am bitter, shut up- Kudos for Izzy being the bigger man (heh).
The drinking issues continue, i see :( "I thought you were Roach" hjkdfhkjl sur
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Well, he managed to say the word Sorry at least, that's more than the crew got. I know he is working on the apologizing but. Oof man, it still needs work.
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fucking love the crew but especially Archie, I think she's a great addition. Just good chaos. Also lmao Roach
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Fang is so precious to me, you do not understand-
Everybody: AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEE CALYPSO BIRTHDAAAY
Everybody is just adressing Stede as their captain. Frenchie's eyes nervously flick to Ed from time to time though. Ed just heaves in annoyance. This guy really just hates his life atm. He's the most disconnected from the crew, like they tolerate him but his only social contact is Stede basically. And somewhat Izzy. Speaking of, it feels like a role reversal to season 1 where Izzy was the one kind of isolated on board
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idk why but the way he said "that"Oh." absolutely made me lose it- What emotion was that. Nobody nose
Ed, seeing two kids: "Here's a lot of money. Also here's a knife. Stab anyone who gets close to the money" Me: he'd be a great dad-
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idk just LOOK at her, ugh. QUEEEEEEN
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Love Feeney for having that idea. Love Izzy listening to this and thinking "...you can just. do this?" and then picturing himself like that next to feeney. We love the self-discovery and self-expression
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I just love them, your honor <3
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He absolutely fucking killed it man and I need to look at ref pics to draw this because holy shit what a look
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my favorite guy and his two support pals <3
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Love the way Stede's face goes from "ehh...?????" to "awww..." within seconds. Love the way Fang starts clapping immediately after like one Note of singing (honestly same) Love Izzy just casually grabbing for Calypso/feeney's hand and turning the whole boat into his stage. You stole the thunder you little drama queen. But man he can SING T_T it's so soft..... and a love song....
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The throuple hugging..... and also wth Fang and Roach have going on. I love the crew....
And the wonderful singing gets interrupted by... Cannonball and torture!!
OK Ed stepping in front of stede to shield him is cute
Ed continues to look annoyed and pissed off at everything that is happening in his life. Fair enough, I mean he wants to leave the pirate life behind but his pirate life keeps catching up with him
"Struck a chord" haha music pun
Roach laughing "I dont think the torture has begun yet :D :D :D" are you okay, my guy hsdjkhsdjkl???
*they're about to be tortured* Izzy: "It's just gonna turn me on." Ffs Izzy you little freak lmao
Lucius and Pete celebrating their honeymoon for a whole day, that is. impressive and lowkey concerning hjkshdjk
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this was just. a nice frame. okay-
This season has a really mixed vibe inbetween funny and dark. Like, this ep is very artsy but they're also being tortured, i almost felt like I was watching a bit of Hannibal
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If you think I am going to make this about Izzy, you are absolutely right!!! (I guess Ned and Maggie are Captain and first mate too, so I am definitely drawing the parallels) Because I think most of the issues between Ed and Izzy stem from Ed seeing him only as his First Mate and not Izzy, to the point where Izzy wasn't a person anymore. And now that Ed doesn't want to be a pirate anymore, the First Mate following around is a thorn in his side, and he fails to see the loyal friend underneath the front of the First Mate
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Live Mutiny reaction
Ned not caring about whether Maggie dies, because she deserves death if she can't do her job (tie a proper tie). Yeah I am thinking about Ed shooting down Izzy and replacing him immediately. "You're mercenaries, you don't have feelings." Yeah, hm.
Stede is an absolute handsome charmer in this season, I gotta say.
Izzy absolutely flinching in panic as LuPete kick in the door. My man has PTSD (like the rest of the BB crew probably)
"We got engaged" Everyone: Awwwww :)
Ned: "You used to be a killer" Hm not so sure about that. Not the way everyone thinks at least. I am actually not sure if Edward ever killed anyone after his dad and the one person during the raid. His flashbacks were of these two murders at least (and the almost murder of izzy) so I am guessing there weren't anymore off screen murders?
Ed giving absolute zero shits about Ned's taunting, but Stede steps in, my man is manning up.
I find the difference between Ed and Stede so fascinating. Ed, who feels like his whole life went downhill after he killed and who wants to run from his life as a pirate, versus Stede who has been taunted for being weak, who wants to prove his strength and become a proper pirate. They are progressing in opposite ways.
"See, that's why he likes you. Because of your bumbling amateur status" I wonder if Ed feels like he corrupted Stede, sort of like Stede was afraid he ruined Edward at the end of season 1.
Izzy the killer being like "Give him a minute. First kill is always a mindfuck." and Edward going to check on Stede anyway, makes me wonder when Izzy first killed. If it was for Edward or if it was on his own. And if it was for Edward, if he checked on him, because I think probably not. And judging by the way Izzy stares into nothingness as Ed goes to check on Stede... yeah, no.
EMOTIONALLY LOADED KISS AGAINST THE WALL!!!!!!!!!! hell llloo
Can't help but feel sad tho with Izzy continuing his love serenade as Stede and Ed make out. Singing about how "It's only him for me, and me for him for life. He told me, he swore to me, for life." while the guy you're in love with is hooking up with another. I swear if the ring he wears around his tie was a promise form Ed I'm gonna be so devastated, I really really hope it isnt. :')
Fingie sand footsies gdfgjh LET'S FUCKING PARTAAAAAY
OK will continue in another post for episode 7 because I can't post so many pictures
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Hey-ya!
Just imagine what will happen...when Afo shows up on the battlefield in UA, taking All Might with him! Gotta wipe the old hero's feet, don't you think? And when it turns out that Afo is Hisashi in UA; (I think the moment he shows up, Aizawa’s erasing could stop Eri's quirk) What will happen to Izuku? What if it turns out that Yoichi and the other vestiges knew but kept quiet about it? What if Toshinori knew (guessed) that Izuku was Afo's son, but thought it didn't mean anything - they're different worldviews? In these cases, it turns out that the OFA and All Might lied to Izuku, kept him in the dark... so that he would kill his father 👀
Personally I dont think all might has any clue that izuku is afos son, because as much as I love all might, sometimes he isnt the brightest bulb out there 😂
And for me it would be way more interesting to see the reaction of EVERYONE finding out the truth at the same time. Just imagine all mights completly shocked face and him mumbling "it cant be" while he stares shell shocked at the computer monitore. Also the drama between all might and izukus relationship the reveal could bring.
The only people I think who know about the parentage are the vestiges, espicially yoichi and if izuku finds out that they keept this a secret from him, because they want him to kill his own father, he will feel terrible betrayed and may even lash out to them for using him as a weapon. Who knows maybe izuku will also shut ofa down for a while. Like the vestiges want to talk to him, but he completly shuts them out, because he is so angry with them, he refuses to listen to them. It would parallel obiwan and yoda not telling luke about his parentage, because they wanted him to kill vader and luke feeling betrayed and only later he searches for answers from them.
I dont think all might will be kidnapped (thats inkos destiny 😉), but I really want to know if nighteyes vision of the future about all mights death will become true. He said that an other villain then afo will kill all might and while Im 50:50 about the chances that all might will die, I think that person nighteye saw was eventually afomura. Not all for one, but also not shigaraki, an entire new being. Or maybe he saw dabi destroying all mights stature and simply misinterpretet what he saw.
I also thought about the possebility that eris quirk in afo will be stopped as soon as he shows up in ua, because monoma will most likely try to stop him using any quirks and that would include eris quirk. Thats how afo will survive. But while I think this is the most likely scenario, I hope for something else. We both believe in the theory that izuku has his own afo quirk, right? What if, after izuku realizes his father is about to die from eris quirk, he panics and searchs for a way to get that quirk out of him? And thats how his own afo quirk awakens? Because he wants to save his dad! And by that he puts himself in harms way, because eris quirk would kill HIM instead, so afo also panics and we get a dramatic "pulling fight" between father and son, with izuku telling him, that we wants him to come home or something like that 😢
I dont think that will happen, but I would love something like this. I even thought about writing a one shot about it, but Im so damn lazy right now 🤣
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Love Between Fairy and Devil Commentary Part 2
More highlights from my reactions to this drama, episodes 13-24.
Part 1 | Part 3
SPOILERS ahead!
oh no emo boy is staging a coup // also the actor for emo boy really has peak younger sibling face
his expression is EXTREMELYY badass rn // though you still need to redeem yourself after that unneeded kissing of girlie
omg i think batman actually cares about his friend, he just laid his head down ectremely gently
does batman love his bestie enough to transfer his cultivation? // omg he DOES
i LOVE me some depth to my villains
oh jin guangshan is the god of thunder and lightning! its always the king of the gods that has that power!! the parallels to greek and indian mythology!
oh dragon boy, you were so close yet so far // i love these loyal sweet slightly naive yet super powerful and badass right hand men of the male lead // dragon boy, welcome to the club that consists of wen ning, zhong li, chuanyu, and someone from eternal love i am most certainly forgetting (mdzs/cql, who rules the world, eternal love references)
OMG HE MADE THE FLOWER PETALS FALL
lol people wrote smut about them // i meannnn its basically celebrity real person fic
sauron: i wanted to see you // girlie: see ME?? // sauron: i wanted to see you FIX THE BOOK
boy the moment you feel ANYTHING sweet for her you double down on being a dick
lesbian shopkeeper is a hustler and has STREET SMARTS
okay i suppose i gotta cut dragon boy some slack, he is indeed a literal dragon and doesnt understand human customs
jieli is the human 'are we dating' buzzfeed quiz
sauron: its EMOTION time baby
this is the game of thrones lesbian 'teaching you how to make love to our chief' scene
girlie is actually twirling her hair ornaments around her fingers
tragic misunderstanding brothers, my jammm
sauron: i have no emotions. thus i dont love you // girlie: i am so happy that means you dont hate me // like GIRL
i love when this show does comedy man, its so funny
i mean she is literally TAKING EDIBLES
is her hair jewellery getting more and more elaborate??
honestly batman could be honest about his true plan and i think iceman would understand
batman is growing on me as well. his motivations are kinda dark lwj, actual dean winchester vibes // and he actually cares about iceman. fucking yu wuyuan WISHES he had this kinda dimensions (mdzs/cql, supernatural, who rules the world references)
jin guangshan is the true villain of this show, just like hes the only true villain in mdzs
the love triangle i do not love, but its funny that in any other show iceman and girlie would 100% be the main leads, i mean their backstory set that up PERFECTLY
god is speaking to ice god // oh its jin guangshan speaking from the sky
damn man must not even be able to jerk off without big brother watching
dragon boy: you're also an orphan? // sir there are a lot of orphans in this world
dragon boy you want to be trustworthy and honest and you're working for THE LITERAL DEVIL
catwoman has a WHIP!? of CHAINS? thats BADASS
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she fixed it??? since when did she magically gain THAT ability
its really interesting how physical objects enter illusions and dreams // by that i mean the fucking golden leaf
'how dare you come for my people' cue ROCK GUITAR SOLO
sir you already broke the couldron once, aint batman just gonna glue it back together again?
they sure sacrifice the plot effects of the one heart curse in favor of romance quite a bit
evil god??? there is a god named evil god??
i think girlie has grown proper fond of sauron // she is acting so 'oppaaaa' aegyo-y to him rn
who tf sleeps with their arms crossed, sauron, you can be such a pouty child sometimes
i am glad they showed the effect on all the soldiers and families that die in meaningless battles
soooo since she looks like an old woman, i guess in this universe immortals do age, just really really slowly
cue the 'why are you running meme' except its sauron being chased by an emotion
oh his emotions are growing! its cause she is the goddess of xiyun that can cure anything (oop)
i think daddy was losing the war and got desperate and traumatized his kids
she is wearing more jewellery! symbolism of her falling more in love and growing more comfortable by his side?
sauron: oh NO i am feeling an EMOTION
the founder of the moon tribe is lady yan, aka princess yue heheeh (atla reference)
jieli, honey, why did you have to make things so hard for yourself and try to steal
jieli stealing makes no sense, she is a smart woman, she wouldnt take that kinda risk
so sauron here is incredibly op and the big struggle he has to overcome is dealing with his own emotions
this is a very thinly veiled metaphor for men being fucked up and emotionally repressed and the women in their lives having the responsibility (even if taken willingly) to fix the emotions
langhua is THE 'i can fix him' girlie now that she cares about him
girlie always finds her backbone whenever it comes to a man smh
i think girlie and lesbian shopkeeper should date, dragon boy and sauron should date, girlie and sauron should date, and just be a fun polyamourous quartet
daddy is a qi deviated nie mingjue (mdzs/cql reference)
if the book is burnt to ashes, how are you gonna find a random pile of ashes? how do you know its the book? // someone very conveniently collected the ashes and put them back in the original box and put the box in the throne
if the final step to the ritual is patricide, how will he successfully complete the ritual this time?
bro just became ghost rider
also why was there a throne in the bedroom of daddy?
difference between daddy and sauron and the nie bros is that nhs always knew his brother loved him very much (mdzs/cql reference)
she is INSANE to willingly jump into a whirlpool to go to the afterlife to ask a very scary demon lord if he loved his son // girlie is one dedicated pr agent
she is just supermanning through this water // and he is ironmanning through it
if the guqin was repaired by magic, why can you see the cracks?
its a tragedy innit
oh why do i get the feeling he is gonna have to kill her to win some kinda battle and control hellfire again
this dad is the exact opposite of elio's dad in cmbyn
they are practically shoving the cinematic parallels in my face
also there was absolutely NO need to get shirtless lmao he just wanted to show off
give him a hug, girlie // YES // wow // that must be his first hug since his nanny // fuck the patriarchy for not letting men hug each other
sauron with his hair down is a LOOK
emo boy wanted to spend time with his gegeee
she has huge asian mom energy by bribing him with food
i'm not sure if he still wants to take over the fairy tribe or not, this could be a potential conflict in the future
is girlie STILL in denial about her liking him? boy you like the IDEA of ice man but the actual sauron. stop lying to yourself
LMAO he's like i will kill everyone for you so you can go back homee
ice god is suffering from a sad case of second lead syndrome
wow security at the tower is BAD if she was able to sneak him out so easily
dont you dare follow him danyin // NO // do NOT // oh fuck me // ofcourse she did
i wanted some fun mortal shenanigans, not this angst
girlie there are only a few people in shuiyuntian that are worth leaving a powerful man who you've got in the palm of your hands
i think its so funny the mortal realm is called yunmeng lake
dragon boy and lesbian shopkeeper are slick wit it
so the show is shipping my bisexual icons the shopkeeper and dragon boy?? i can fuck with that
oh wow the girlies are gaslighting and manipulating love that for them
you mean to tell me a mansion of this size was simply up for sale???
being a brothel entertainer is probably what being an idol was like
DID BISEXUAL SHOPKEEPER JUST EAT A RAW BHINDI (a bhindi is a ladysfinger vegetable)
the voice actor is giving the ice mans dad so much more oomph than the actor
oh god mortal ice man is gonna fall for fake mortal girlie
sauron: what is this strange illness that has befallen me // dragon boy: idk man but i have it too // me: WUV
daddy again? i thought we were done with this arc // but i guess you cant heal from trauma that easily
that moon is huge, at this size it would most definitely flood the earth
i wonder whether lady si ming will make an appearance in this story
motral jack frost was BORN with the jade??? did it also come out of his mortal moms fanny??
NAURRR I DONT WANT HER BELOVED TO BE SAURONNN
sauron: jealousy jealousyy
jack frost, being the true artist that he is, getting creative in the middle of the night
the way you can tell that girlie is well and truly over jack frost is that she seems excited about his match with lady war
and that kids, is what you call a self fulfilling prophecy
this is a whole grown ass man, and theyre making him go back to school??
JACK FROST CALLED SAURON HIS ZHIJI??? // proof that polyamory is always the answer
finally!! the batman and lady war backstory i have been waiting for
honestly i am all for destroying shuiyuntian, i have no reason to side with the so called heroes of this show
what is it with disciples that are unhealthily attached to their masters and are willing to go to literally any lengths to revive them after dying // the sam and dean style of unhealthy attachement (eternal love, supernatural references)
human jack frost is such a simp
how is it ep 23 and there still hasnt been a love confession
so sauron is a makeup artist too?? // the james charles of ugly makeup??
i love when incredibly powerful men are vain bitches
they are beneficial conqueror vs peace loving hippie couple
jack frost is a playboy but he will never steal another mans love. it doesnt matter if the woman says no, the only barrier in his road is another man laying claim
siblings or dating: cdrama edition
pissy and bitchy dongfang qingcang IS SO FUNNY I AM DYINGG
dont just tell me that catwoman killed everyone, SHOW ME // i wanna SEE her go on a murderous rampage
honestly the bisexual power couple's dynamic, jieli and shangque, is suited to my taste. her just bullying him and him liking it
girlie has incest on her mind
"asking for a friend"
omg DANYIN TRANS ICON CONFIRMED
not jieli actually saying 'i am not like other girls'
jieli is a BUSINESSWOMAN she has no time for ROMANCE
girlie is having deja vu
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This was it for episodes 13-24! There will definitely be a part 3 for the last 12 episodes.
PS: I alternate between calling changheng ice god and jack frost, and variations, but they are the same person!
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Hi!! I follow you for a while, your one of the few Kevin/Madison blogs that I enjoy reading! (there are not much sadly).
I was on reddit and I found out that on the paley fest (I think it was yesterday) they screened this week's episode and people who attended had the chance to watch it. No one is sharing anything but somebody said that after watching it looked as we could officially rule out Madison as Kevin's future wife... Now.. The person was clearly a Kevin/Sophie shipper because she mentioned how now The show just need to take Cassidy out of the picture too... So it was a obviously a biased opinion but still I'm let down and starting to really losing hope...
I was Wondering if maybe you know something more, if somebody at the panel shared spoiler with you I dont know if I want to watch next episode without knowing how bad is gonna be for us :(
Awwww, thanks anon I really appreciate what you said 🤧 I just do my best cause I love these two stupid babes very much. ♥️
And yessss, that's what we found out:
🚨🚨KEVISON SPOILER ALERT FOR 6X11🚨🚨
Kevin goes to Madison's house early to pick up the kids but she's about to leave to go to a music class with them. She leaves but tells Kevin that Elijah's in her room. He goes in there and Elijah is trying to get Madison's ring size because he's gonna propose. Kevin obviously freaks out and has to be talked down from doing something rash by Randall. Also, Kevin layers come to the realisation that Madison is still his emergency contact so he goes to talk to her to essentially "set her free". Madison mentions to him that she knows that Elijah's gonna propose and she asks him how he feels about it and he says he's happy for her and apparently she's excited about it.
So, that's basically why someone could think they're done for good but the writers are actually doing some kind of parallel with the last scene we had of Miguel and Rebecca (to notice that both scenes happen in the front yard at night) and this also confirms Cait's words about being a long journey with a couple of "surprises" before we can see Madison's happy ending.
So, don't worry anon, the writers will definitely make us suffer until the end with the drama lol but they're still gonna be endgame. ♥️ At this point I bet we will see them already married in ep 13 so they can "shock" the audience and then we will see how they got there backwards. I also think we will see Kevin "being alone without feeling lonely" and like "Jerry Maguire" he will focus on his career untill something big happens (maybe with "big three homes") and he will finally realises that he isn't complete without Madison. Hopefully she will have already break up with Elijah because she understood that she couldn't settle for a man she doesn't love even if it would be an easy choice considering that he does love her.
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Hey! 'Tis me. I'm here with some numbers for the fic ask; there were so many to pick from and they were all really interesting questions so I couldn't narrow it down to just one. Hope that's okay. Anyway, any of you can answer these, and you can answer as many or as little as you want.
13 (music)
34 (personal life…no pressure to answer this one by the way)
45 (genre/trope)
50 (writing style)
57 (foreshadowing) Good luck with all your writing! :D
helo charlie friend, tysm for the ask! you picked out some banger questions and jakob and i were happy to answer them! without further ado, all of our long winded answers will be below the cut. apologies in advance for the walls of text lol
13. Do you listen to music while you write?  If yes, what have you been listening to recently?
cas: i personally have a hard time writing if the music has words but writing in silence is hard too, so my go to writing music for YEARS has always been anything by Peter Gundry. i used to just listen to his dark magic music compilations on youtube, but now i'll go through his albums on spotify. i'll write to music with words on rare occasion but only if it's a character/fic playlist of songs that remind me of the character or story in some way. i generally don't make those playlists public, but i have found that i put Lord of the Lost in as many playlists as possible to the point that a lot of them are half LOTL songs lol. here's a casual link to my recs playlist for that band lmao.
34. How much of your personal life/experience do you include in your fics?
jakob: id say we tend to incorporate a lot, which is funny if i answer on a more personal level because i dont consider myself to have lived that much life at all to be incorporating anything valuable of it. i've only been around in this system a couple months. but regardless of which of us is doing the writing, we all will pull from everyone's experiences. some things just read more viscerally when you have a memory of experience to take notes from. always have to change up details of course. it's like that homework copying meme except the copied stuff looks better than the original thing.
45. What genre/trope do you tend to write the most?
jakob: it's either comedy or it's super angsty drama/romance. rarely inbetween. i think i stick more to the dramatic, angsty stuff though. i havent written anything very humorous. im way too conscious of how much of an endless barrage of sadness my current wip is. i almost feel bad and want to lighten it up a bit lol. meanwhile cas loves writing both emotional shit and extremely stupid cursed goofy shit. they're also that asexual person who has an unnecessary amount of never-to-be-published smutty wips because exploring that kind of stuff is fun to them, but i am the asexual who could not be less interested in being near that kind of thing, much respect to those who are. i dont know enough about tropes to know which ones we write the most.
50. How would you describe your writing style?
jakob: i think i have a fairly literal writing style. they go here. they do that. being "flowery" with descriptions is a conscious effort and unless i get a specific visceral concept or wording in my head, it will just be a pretty straightforward description of events. i imagine the jump from "x does y thing" to "eloquent description of an abstract emotion" might be fairly noticeable. and to be fair, i think it's this way with everyone in the system. i dont think there's any significant difference between our writing styles, including handwriting.
57. How conscious are you about including symbolism or foreshadowing in your fics?
cas: very conscious! it's one of my favorite things about writing fics and often is the basis for a fic concept. i love when writing has little motifs and is self referential AND THE PARALLELS! GOD THE PARALLELS MY BELOVEDS!!! if i cant include a billion parallels in my shit am i even writing? this is honestly a system wide preference too because jakob's writing is like that lol. this is one of the reasons we prefer to write fics completely before posting them so we can sufficiently make sure the parallels work out and things are tied up neatly. but its also the biggest reason we dont really have much posted either </3
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ultramanyaoi · 4 months
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when i complain about lack of fuma and titas im not asking them to be co-mains im more talking about how they should be more like isami to katsumi and actually have their influence as taiga's friends with different perspectives Be relevant in the story. there's clearly a framework for this given their intended parallels to homare and pirika respectively. their relationship to taiga SHOULD be important and not just a gimmick which as far as it goes, is all it is. tell me fuma's personality and what he believes in without watching the extra (UNSUBBED) voice dramas you cant. as a result id argue fuma and titas serve no more narrative role than like homare and pirika and if anything the "human" characters are MORE relevant because they actually interact regularly with hiroyuki and work together against the same threats. they actually get to have some level of input however small and contribute to the themes of the show.
like look taiga does the very brave leap to a more mature tone for a new gen show by having their antagonist to arguably be created BY the land of light and it's flaws / inability to accommodate him. each episode often ends a little unsettlingly and focuses more on emotional distress the antagonist inflicts rather than purely the literal damage and danger of his actions. it clearly wants to be nuanced and ambiguous and the thing is, letting titus and fuma's perspectives be more present in the story and eventually be synthesised with taiga n hiroyuki's as they mature ... would allow that to happen. it lets them have a final answer and thorough exploration without the burden being entirely on like having taiga being a super thorough character if it makes sense
lemme use real examples for a moment. like the beef tregear has doesnt have to extend to trisquad as a whole, he can still be mostly focused on taiga and hiroyuki. he can both desire to corrupt their ideals and tear it down and not really be as concerned with other "side characters" however on taiga and hiroyuki's ends they can have the differing perspectives of titas and fuma (as people who have themselves endured difficult backgrounds to find their way of life that differs a lot from taiga.) actually add on with their own input beyond quips and jokes in ways the inexperieced taiga and hiroyuki themselves dont have the means of doing. it can make the ideological conflict between tregear (who beliefs in an anarchy of sort and is entirely disillusioned by the concept of light and darkness and consequently finds no way for a mixture of them to exist because people cannot accept it) and taiga (who however inexperienced, still believes in light and ideals of heroism in spite of the frustration and his ongoing struggle to be himself) richer. consequently i think it also allows another contrast between them to be highlighted, namely that through perspectives beyond the land of light (his friends and egis) taiga can mature and reconcile who he is as both the son of taro AND his own person unlike tregear who never got to explore another perspective despite the years he spent travelling. he only pursued his beliefs after becoming determined of its certainty and as a result remained trapped. on the land of light both of them were unable to fully reconcile who they were but taiga emphasises the value of the bonds his father encouraged. in turn that could even reinforce the tragic element of tregear's character and his rejection of light as a result of losing bonds and never making any meaningful ones.
im just argh im just frustrated by the lost potential. titas and fuma ARE interesting just not in the show of which most of their appearances occur!!!! they are interesting, just in ways that do not impact the narrative of taiga and that sucks!!!
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semi-imaginary-place · 10 months
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ffxiv back to gyr abania
they're torturing krile?? That went dark.
oh so when i pointed out way back when that lyse had narrative potential (i personally doubt her actual potential) to lead, which would have been enhaced if they'd killed off conrad (which i would have been sad of) i was on to something.
ala mhigo is part of eorzea wonder why their aetherytes are different.
why is lakshimi so light colored. she better be hding like 8 snake tails under that skirt.
isn't it kind of dangerous to have the twins and lyse along, they dont have the echo. we never did come up with a good anti-tempering measure...
hmm i genuinely don't know if zenos is going to kill her or not. mmm wait on second thought her character arc and specifically her as a springboard for lyse's character arc isn't over.
interesting parallel set up between alisae and foldora who both seek power.
M tribe! ahhh i miss my red catboy...
i do not understand why the devs did not just open the door on velydona bridge and instead made 2 npcs to warp you from one side of the door to the other. there isn't even a loading zone i can fly right over
ah so this is where they kill off conrad. I'll miss the old man... yup conrad dies to further lyse's character growth as she is forced to step up as a leader where before she's been uncertain about her position in the ala mhigan resistance. she's felt overshadowed by her sister, her father, and those who lived through garlean occupation.
ugggg and they brought back estinien because he's a fan favorite. look he has a face model that they want to show off any everything. i hate it. the garleans took marksmanship classes from the starwars stormtroopers i see.
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i love pipin. I see the 3 grand companies here and there are ishgardian knights around, but is the ishgardian leadership not represented here as well?
baut side story: I liked the point on how the garlean propaganda machine worked so hard to demonize the Resistance that even after meeting them, the people of Ala Ghiri are still in the mindset that the Resistance will be just as brutal as the Empire. At one point I got pretty worried that the story was going to go down the "each person can only be judged by their own actions, the past doesn't matter" which, like that does have several points but writing that story would also fail to account for systemic oppression and how baut even if he was nicer about it still furthered the goals of the garlean empire and thus the invasion, subjugation, and rule of garleans over their occupied territories with all the human rights violations from the forced labor camps to the murders, kidnappings, rape, demotion to second class citizen, or just straight out slavery, human experimentation and torture. that... that ending really took a hard left turn at least everyone else is also reeling at the whiplash.
castrum abania. garleans are just wannabe allegans knockoff discount human experimentation.
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that you must run faster, fight harder, be better already proves how you are not equal and never will be in the garlean's eyes.
so illberd and raubahn are from the same tiny village (childhood friends?) oh they go back further than i thought. why else would illberd also be "sent home" to raubahn's village. interesting that its to the player character that lyse swears a death pact.
no fair lyse gets TWO new outfits. i do think her other outfits suit her better though. she got dancer gear as a monk. but its symbolic and in taking up a leadership postition lyse has in some ways become a symbol of ala mhigan independence.
gry abania seems a mix of middle east and indian with a dash of chinese and some scottish. I heard thavnair is also south asian/middle eastern inspired I wonder how the devs will differentiate the two areas.
aww it all happens offscreen. i would have been nice to be shown how the alliance took the loches. but maybe this is because i'm always hungering for military strategy and political drama.
lyse leading the resistance is great for her character arc and all but does she have any actual leadership skills and qualifications?? when has she demonstrated leadership, management, and organizational skills. she was hanging around the scions which are like free agents and then with the resistance but was mostly observing the Griffin
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when your soulmate starts shaking with rage
the untamed ep 25 // word of honor ep 15
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negromouthandafro · 3 years
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Hey so even if you love alya you cant deny she has physically pushed marinette, and forced her to do stuff out of her comfort zone. She has also gone back on her word in lots of previous episodes, and its all portrayed as okay, and like marinette is wrong for being uncomfortable. I dont particularly like salt at all its just because so many people have been noticing these actions I cant turn a blind eye to it anymore, I mean I can see why some people would at least be skeptical because of her no
w. I mean there are some things I dont agree with on @miraculouscontent videos. But she's been bringing up some very valid points. I just know form your vlog you tend to break things down in a logical way, so I just wondered what your takes on all these videos were and how you manage to explain those actions. I dont think alya is a bad person, just not a good friend, or just too much of a know it all, and not willing to take advice from others or be wrong at all.
First of all, I watched half of one miraculouscontent video (the New York special one) and dipped because the willful ignorance on how the show works and what it finds important got to me. So I can't respond to them as thoroughly as you may like.
On what I can speak on, Marinette's comfort zone is the circumference of a thimble. If the passion she's interacting with doesn't follow her script she tries to bail cause she mistakenly believes she isn't ready or worthy. The whole show's been about pushing her out of that zone whether it's through Tikki's gentle coaxing, Alya and the miraculous timer giving her no other option but to act or the world around her throwing up a distraction so she doesn't have to think about what she's doing.
So in a sense, yes, the show believes she's wrong to be uncomfortable. It doesn't think she needs to be and aims for her to confront what she's nervous about and think more highly of herself. With butt monkey hijinks, chalkboard alternative universes and well-animated motion for the "humor".
That's Marinette. That's the character the show has to work with.
So this criticizing Alya for a character trait that's overwhelmingly aimed at Marinette, for Marinette's progression to accomplish Marinette's goals is just profoundly lacking to me? Like how is it convincing that conversations and plans about Marinette, for Marinette is an example of Alya being a poor friend? That argument can only exist in a world where the viewer disagrees with the show on what a character needs.
Want to know why Alya acts inconsistently sometimes? It's for Marinette. Alya will go to a party of a girl who got her suspended and akumatized, cause the episode is about Marinette. Alya will go to New York, a city of superheroes and instead focus on romance drama, for Marinette. Alya will represent 3 different opinions in Gamer 2.0 to keep being a sounding board for Marinette (and keep narrative tension high). Alya will decline to call her BFF out on her more egregious lies because the show doesn't want Marinette to have to deal with that. Alya will take up the role as vice-class captain, one she originally declined, without so much as a conversation to convince her, for Marinette. Alya will learn about Ladybug's identity and not even fangirl over it or be seen coming to terms with Marinette lying over the course of their entire friendship because the point is "Alya's here to help Marinette" versus "Alya just found what's she's been looking for for a year". Alya will appear for 5 minutes to talk about the guardians only for that research interest to never be mentioned again cause the show was using her to frame the episode and give the heroes a heads-up (that was for Fu this time, yay). From Alya's perspective, Marinette almost died but upon seeing that she demanded Marinette be true to herself and chase after Adrien. Asshole move right? That demand that catalyzed an emotional scene where the heroes are at their lowest, least understand each other yet are perfectly paralleled in their misunderstandings? Who is that for? Who gets a more complex story out of that interaction?
The point of all these examples is to point out the greater pattern that these Alya "criticisms" exist in. Alya's never at the emotional center of these moments. The point is never her, so how the hell will the writers use moments not even about her to build a story about her learning boundaries? Who could possibly follow that except for the hyper critical?
The actual reason the show doesn't "call Alya out" is because she's performing her role perfectly. The show externalizes internal struggles, that's what akuma are and that's why Alya and Marinette are on two different sides of arguments when Marinette, our POV character, has to learn a lesson. This only doesn't happen when another character can oppose Marinette, like Tikki or Adrien/Chat Noir. Note. Adrien gets to be more emotionally consistent than Alya does cause he has a self-contained, greater narrative purpose than to expand on Marinette's perspective.
If Alya, "learns her lesson", the show would be hurt by it. It'll lose the nervousness so intense she can't move excuse cause now there'll be no one to pull her forward. It would have to use Backwarder style, the universe is against Marinette logic for every single episode to explain why Marinette doesn't just confess.
The creator's posed a question: "How can we have cute romantic moments with a character who is defined by her hesitancy without resolving her core flaw or moving past the status quo?" The answer is have Alya make the final push. (Or sometimes, have Adrien make the first move.) Alya's a sounding board. She's the straight man of their comedic duo. She's the unwavering compass that points to what Marinette actually wants even when she tries to convince herself she can't have it.
So that's why I find "Alya is pushy" or "Alya is a know-it-all" or "Alya doesn't listen to the advice of others" thing detached from reality. Alya's pushy for Marinette. Alya's a know-it-all for like, the most basic piece of advice in the show that's repeated by Tikki and the girl gang and Marinette herself when she's calm. I wish Alya was a know-it-all for superheroes or politics or school rules but no, it's for Marinette's damn story.
And so many people want her to stop fulfilling her role, not so this character can focus on herself but once again, for Marinette's damn story.
Also, she is wrong a bunch. The entire first half of her ladybug theories were balls to the wall wrong. Alya doesn't work off hope so she had no faith in Chloe, but the show does, so she was wrong. Alya believes Lila. Alya almost kept the miraculous but had to be reminded about other qualities she valued in herself, then she dropped it. In the mess of opinions in Gamer, Alya did warn Marinette that she'll lose her chance to bond with Adrien and seeing how that episode ended, she was wrong. Alya took the turtle miraculous to SentiNino, the show was very explicit she was wrong. So where else do they want her to be wrong?
And also, "Alya doesn't listen to the advice of others", lol when? Who is giving Alya advice? Alya doesn't get supported or counseled or taken care of by no one but Nino, so who's giving Alya advice? Are we calling Marinette panicking that her socks aren't lucky enough to confess to Adrien advice now? Or do we expect Alya to believe a lying Marinette when she gives up on the thing she wants without ever actually being upfront to the object of her desires? Are we expecting scenes that don't center Alya and her feelings to trigger a fundamental change in behavior that the show finds useful?
Anyway, if you want a character that's all of those things look at Chloe.
Alya isn't real. She's a cartoon character who was written with "How would our version Marinette react to this" as the most important question in the writer's minds. And then you turn around to fandom to see if they acknowledge how fucked up that position is for a black character only for them to ask that question again: "How would our version Marinette react to this."
And of course, the race aspect. You know the problem at this point so there's that. Salters won't mention that cause from their perspective Alya is privileged by the narrative.
Ultimately anon. What's a story? What makes you remember characters? What makes for a compelling character arc? What is emotional weight and who gets to carry it? What use are flaws in the narrative? Whose relationships get to serve the theme? How many episodes does each character get? At the bottom of every category is Alya. Cause Alya exists for Marinette. Rewatch the show while making dinner or something and see for yourself. Has Alya ever gained something that didn't also benefit Marinette in some way? Ever? How dare we watch what that show does to that black girl and ask if she's a good friend. She's the one that needs to be rescued from that "friendship".
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enderspawn · 3 years
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op I am pleading for you to talk about c!Schlatt I keep getting interrogated for saying c!Schlatt was the best president and he really didn't do anything super terribly wrong please talk about him
i mean... im sorry anon but idk abt best PRESIDENT. manburg under schlatt.... kind of sucked imo JFKDLSJFKL
1. manburg had massive food shortages, to the point the average citizen (including fundy) had to eat spider eyes to survive.
2. he imposed ludicrious tax of his civillians (namely niki. we dont know if he did that to Every Business like w fundy or if he targeted niki specifically bc of her closeness to the ex-president, but neither is good)
3. exiled those who he saw as political opponents to keep his power
4. straight up ignored his cabinet a lot of the time to make his own decisions (such as destroying the white house, which led to quackity leaving)
5. was widely hated by all the citizens. literally at one point all the ppl left in manburg was schlatt and jack manifold (who was MIA on the server and left to found Manifold Land when he came back)
6. held a public execution, AGAIN without the consent or knowledge of his cabinet (IF I REMEMBER RIGHT. i know big q opposed the execution at minimum, but idk for sure if he knew it was planned at all before the festival)
7. was basically at war his entire presidency thanks to pogtopia's existence
and thats just what i can think of rn! the reasons i like c!schlatt are fully based around him as a character and HIS personal development, not around his policies or actions. especially when compared to the other two presidents, who either won or prevented a war and kept the majority of its citizens happier and healthier than Manburg, he's.... probably the worst president they had tbh
BUT since you gave me an excuse to ramble abt him anyway, i wanna go on abt what i DO like abt him (under a cut bc this post is already kinda long oops) but
tldr; i like schlatt bc of his relationships with others, his flaws and pitiable moments, and how he is a fantastic parallel/foil to the characters around him
I like his complex (and yes, abusive) relationship with quackity, especially after his death and quackity's feelings flipping rapidly between hating him and missing him. but before that they did have a honeymoon-esque period-- at least from quackity's view.
watching their date you get the idea schlatt mightve never really been interested in him and mightve just been using quackity's interest in him for his own advancement! but we dont know.
maybe he did truly love quackity in his own fucked up way in the end, even if he wasnt a good person. maybe he regrets his actions and cruelty. or maybe he doesnt.
in the end they were (like the animatic i linked said) "built from the same dirt", they're both incredibly ambitious and prideful people and parallel each other a LOT (see: q's need for power, his want to execute ranboo paralleling tubbos execution, etc). they're not good for one another, but i love seeing just how they fall apart together (i hope you die, i hope we both die kind of beat)
and.... god his relationship and impact w fundy i could ramble abt all day dude. fundy kept schlatt's sword after his death and calls it an heirloom. we dont know 100% how old fundy was when wilbur was exiled (i mena... he ran for president but current fundy is like 20something and tommy ALSO ran as vp at 16) but we can assume he was a late teen. his own father was gone, but schlatt... seemed to CARE. he showed him affection.
fundy's never truly felt like hes BELONGED anywhere (even the country his father said was all for him, he felt ostracized and made different by his fathers doting babying) and because of that hes always looking for a group to be a part of. hes a people pleaser (its part of why hes so easy for big q to get for las nevadas).
and schlatt GIVES him that feeling of belonging he deserves. hes a spy the entire time, yes, but he becomes conflicted about it as time goes on.
could schlatt just be using fundy and filling his head with empty praise? sure, i couldnt fault you at all for that interpretation, its perfectly valid. BUT, i dont think so. he seemed genuinely shocked to see fundy oppose him on nov 16th. remember, he didnt know fundy was a spy.
in that moment he realizes just HOW alone he is and always has been. and its a tragic moment: the last person he had, the person he himself mightve truly CARED about left him just like everyone else. he was alone, truly and fully. even his allies were only there out of obligation and bc of him paying.
he knows his health has been failing him. he cant even swim due to muscular issues but he refuses see a doctor about it because he refuses to let himself be seen as weak.
hell, one could argue that issue leads to his abraisive and abusive behavoir in relationships: he refuses to let himself be true and genuine to anyone, there always has to be a wall and a proud perfect persona. its part of why hes a great villain both in narrative and to watch as a casual fan: just like c!wilbur, he's playing an act.
hes a foil and a parallel to wilbur. both are men who hide their true selves behind a certain role or persona they feel they have to play while they hide their crumbling health (schlatt's more physical and wilbur's more mental). both experience their rise and fall. but wilbur isnt despised, even if he thinks he is, while schlatt isnt truly loved by anyone, even if he thinks he is.
most of all, their deaths couldnt be more different. wilbur went out with a bang. a large dramatic scene fit for a storybook, with a long monologue and cinematic final blow ALL made to fit how he saw himself in a story and simply filling a required roll. but schlatts death is practically overlooked (especially in comparison to wilburs death and everything else that happened that day).
he built his entire persona about being this massive, larger than life powerful guy but he died small, weak, and frail to his own failing body. its... pitiful, honestly. it doesnt feel fitting, it feels wrong. his life up that point demanded drama, but his death was nothing more than... an accident, almost. unintentional. clumsy. its fucking brilliant.
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thosch3i · 3 years
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Hi hi! So the lost tombs and chronology all super confuse me. So tlt2 ended on a cliffhanger that was not resolved by tlt3 which is ultimate note, but now there is another tlt3 that I am guessing is made by the same studio as tlt2 (but not UN) that actually follows tlt2? And it has the same WPZ as tlt2 (but sadly different WX, ZQL though I’m sure these guys are great). You seem to know what you’re talking about so I’m hoping you can help!
UN also ended on a cliff hanger so I’m wondering if they’ll get a sequel from their studio that comes before tomb of the sea.
ahhh hello anon! yes ahaha the dmbj dramas are certainly very confusing--because they keep switching the screenwriters/entire production team between dramas. huanrui did tlt1 (2015), tlt2 (2019), and the sequel to tlt2 (2021). they're also technically the production company for un (2020), but linghe did like all the directing/casting/writing so its significantly different in tone and quality from the other dramas huanrui produced. npss (dmbj author) did sha hai (2018) and tltr (2020), with sha hai being in collab with linghe, so you can see lots of parallels with un and shared cast. (gonna add that i dont know much about the m9 because that’s not what im personally interested in, so i’m only going by stories with wu xie & the iron triangle.)
unfortunately, the dramas pretty have no continuity as a result of all the weird shit and multiple studios doing different dramas and messy stuff going on behind the scenes. the author's production company currently has all the rights back for filming future dramas, which is......imo, a good thing for book fans who love the author but a 😬 thing for book fans who like the original story more than what the author is now doing with it. I'll uh avoid saying too much opinion stuff though so no more on that 😅
that aside! yes 云顶天宫 “explore with the note” part 2......is the direct sequel to tlt2 and done by the same studio. unfortunately the writers are different and im not sure how much of the production team is the same either. idk how much you know about the novels so brief summary here--for the chinese version, the main story has 9 parts split among 8 books (though the official eng tls have each part being a different book) with some important content being as follows:
official eng title “cavern of blood zombies” (first time wx goes into a tomb, first t3j meeting)
official eng title “angry sea, hidden sands” (xisha seabed tomb, introduce a-ning)
official eng title “bronze tree of death” (bronze tree in qinling, wx & lao yang solo adventure)
official eng title “palace of doom” (heavenly palace on the clouds, introduce bronze gate)
official eng title “deadly desert winds” (golmud, introduce hei xiazi, desert, rainforest, tamutuo)
official eng title “graveyard of a queen” (the rest of that arc, wu sanxing & xie lianhuan reveal, jade meteorite, amnesiac xiaoge and escape, sanshu vanishes for good--also i think the official eng tl covers a couple chapters of the beginning of the next part too)
阴山古楼 (searching for xiaoge’s memories in banai, miluotuo cave, i think introduction of wu erbai)
邛笼石影 (auction/hotel iron triangle fight, introduce xiao hua & xiuxiu, wx & xh on the mountains alone while pz & xg go with granny huo)
finale (rescue from zhang family mansion, changbai mountain goodbye, 10 years promise)
after the main story are the main sequels:
zang hai hua (tibetan sea flower; unfinished & abandoned) covers wu xie a few years after xiaoge has entered the gate, searching to understand xiaoge’s past
sha hai (tomb of the sea; unfinished & abandoned) covers wu xie’s plan to wipe out the wang family, after zhh
chongqi (reunion: the sound of the providence) covers wu xie’s lung disease and how he recovers from that, set after they pick up xiaoge again from the bronze gate. thunder city and everything.
灯海寻尸&万山极夜 (still updating on wechat) don’t worry about this one since it’s still a WIP lol
btw between sha hai and chongqi there’s also ten years later (a short story) that covers how wu xie and pangzi pick up xiaoge from the bronze gate and take him home
the dramas Do Not Connect To Each Other At All, which the exception of tlt2 & tlt2 pt2 somewhat, but they go in this order:
盗墓笔记 / the lost tomb 1 (2015): covers part 1 but with major OCs and filler, and includes the auction scene from part 8 for some reason, so introduces xiao hua early.
怒海潜沙&秦岭神树 / the lost tomb 2 (2019) technically “explore with the note”: covers parts 2 & 3 but with major OCs and filler, introduces xiao hua & xiuxiu (and hei xiazi briefly) early. last couple episodes also cover the beginning of part 4. not a direct sequel to tlt1 despite being done by the same studio.
云顶天宫 / heavenly palace on the clouds (2021) technically also “explore with the note”: covers part 4 with major OCs and filler (and the same changes carrying over from tlt2). some episodes are identical to the last couple episodes of tlt2. works as a direct sequel only if you ignore the last couple episodes of tlt2 that take place in the snowy mountains. (those episodes of tlt2 were filmed after this drama was filmed, and im still not sure why they dragged the wu xie and xiaoge from tlt2 back to changbai mountain to film those episodes.)
终极笔记 / ultimate note (2020): covers parts 5-8 with minor OCs and minimal filler, also introduces xiao hua & xiuxiu early. the only adaptation that resembles its source material most of the time.
沙海 / tomb of the sea (2018): covers the second sequel with major OCs and filler. includes some bits from zhh and the short story “three days of silence”.
重启之极海听雷 / the lost tomb reboot (2020): covers third sequel with major OCs and filler.
in addition there is the prequel series mystic nine (2016) and side movies for the dramas that the author produced. there is also a single standalone movie--time raiders (2016) that is....well it’s. very strange. it’s fully subbed on youtube if you’re interested?
the best way to watch the dramas is to assume each one is its own self-contained AU set along different points of the dmbj timeline because even the dramas the author himself worked on don’t have continuity LOL (and with the exception of ultimate note & sha hai most of the time, also assume most characters are pretty OOC from the novels).
i uh regret to inform you though, that ultimate note will not be getting a sequel unless the author magically decides to not care about making money anymore and sells the rights to film the finale to linghe or something ^^;;;; it’s....unfortunate bc un is the most highly-rated dmbj adaptation on douban by A Lot, but it’s an adaptation that the author had literally nothing to do with whatsoever.
more information on some of the side movies/stage plays/manhua/donghua here.
summaries of the main novel stories (currently through zhh) here.
edited mtl (some of which has apparently been looked over by native cn speakers) of the novels following where official eng tls end here. (there are many scattered extras as well.)
you can get the official eng tl books/ebooks on amazon or elsewhere(?), but if you have problems purchasing them or like you just dont wanna support amazon or something, dm me off anon. (also i dont want to be mean but frankly the official tls are kinda bad too ^^;;;)
a rough timeline (spoilers galore) for the dmbj novels here. (fair warning im not 100% sure how accurate all of this is--they put three days of silence as 1991 but looking at the info in zhh, it seems like it should have been before the 1950s...but it’s more than fine as a general overview.)
anyway i hope that was helpful in some way? dmbj is a Very Confusing thing to get into ahahaha, one of my twitter mutuals has made a few carrds if you think they might be helpful: book, dramas (slightly out of date bc it says heavenly palace hasn’t aired yet), ultimate note (got its own carrd by virtue of being the only adaptation aside from sha hai sometimes that most og book fans acknowledge lol ^^;;;)
also anon if anything wasn’t clear or if you had more questions feel free to ask again sorry ahahaha im kinda tired rn @.@ 
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