#i just found out i have a week to finish

[liashinigami]

Was gonna gather my thoughts and write a post tmr on the general mood in the ofts space after the finale bc I feel like a whole bunch of people overthink the amount of editing that was supposedly the result of "promo couple fans complaining too much" but I literally cannot sleep before I get this off my chest so here goes nothing:

Do you guys not understand how tv show productions work....

The script was written, reworked, and then finalized before they even began filming. Yes they might have changed some stuff between the initial scrips draft they had before the mock trailer and the true beginning of production this year but considering that they booked two at the time new but well received promo couples (remember that this show was already in planning at a time when Enchené and The Eclipse were still very very fresh), TopMew and SandRay were always gonna be endgame. It's especially obvious now that the full series is out bc if you go back and watch the mock trailer, all the same storybeats are there. This is how the story was supposed to go from the beginning. They most likely cast two promo couples on purpose because of the added bonus of pre-established compatibility and chemistry needed for endgame couples in such a messy series.

Then they filmed stuff. They finished filming I believe the day that episode 3 aired, so they could not have changed any of the ending based on audience reactions (as I have seen multiple people suggest), since we were barely a few epiaodes into the story. The book based on the series was also already finished and in the last stages of preparing to be released. The only thing they actually did was edit out parts of scenes or full scenes that they found did not add anything at this point in the story (like the sandray garage scene) or would actively harm what we, the audience, are supposed to be understanding and feeling right now (like the Mew smashing shit scene and Top attempting to sleep with someone else, which both were explained to have been cut because audiences were reacting strongly negative to Top even a few episodes into his redemption arc, when we were clearly supposed to start being on his side). They might also have moved some scenes around to aid the story flow but I am unsure of that one (I suspect the scene where Ray and Mew finally solve their shit out was supposed to be directly before the SandRay donut scene bc of obvious clothing reasons, bc they either fucked up hardcore with clothing continuity or moved the first SandRay rehab discussion to after the RayMew talk because it made more sense that way when seeing it played out on screen. If that was the case I am glad for it bc it would have felt a bit weird the other way around idk...).

All of this is however not new. It happens all the time in film and broadcasting production (also in book publishing....this is why editors and alpha/beta readers exist. I mean Brandon Sanderson's books famously go through four (?) stages of feedback before they get published...). Some scenes just get dropped in editing because when you see it on screen it feels redundant or not quite right, so it gets taken out before it changes what they want the audience to take away from other scenes. Movies and tv shows that have months between filming and airing dates usually solve this issue with test screening audiences and several runs of editing. There have been instances of Movies having test screenings at cinemas and then having their release date scrapped because they have to be re-edited completely as a result of unexpected audience feedback. GmmTV series being on smaller budgets and timeframes results in this time window falling away and relying on observing audience reactions to already aired episodes closely and then editing the next episode close to its release is one strategy to still ensure that you bring across what you wanted to (Kdramas also do this very frequently). It might not be ideal but it's not unusual and it certainly does not mean that anything substantial from the story was changed. All the storybeats as well as the character and relationship development remained the same because they already had everything filmed. They did not do reshoots or we'd know it. The story was planned this way. It was in the script. If you did not like it, then you did not like it. But don't accuse the directors of "bending to the will of fans" bc that's just plain wrong.

I too have my issues with some of the writing and some of the characterizations. But let's keep the criticism where it is actually deserved ok?

Edit: I have also seen quite a few people over here and also on Twitter say how disappointed they are in the "editing based on audience reaction" and that they should release a "directors cut" with all the scenes but like....this IS the directors cut. THEY decided how to edit this because the original intent is not always what arrives in the brains of the audience. Storytelling is a two-way street and if a massive chunk of your audience interprets a part of your story so differently to how you intended it to be understood, edits are necessary. Because that means that your intent is not communicated well enough.

#only friends #ofts #only friends the series #I said pretty much the same things a few weeks back added onto someone else's post a few weeks back #back when that interview with jojo and ninew came out where they first said they look at audience reaction before they edit the next ep #I thought we got past that but apparently not #apparently people need to justify their own frustrations towards the writing and the storyline in weird ways #blame it on 'couple fans' #completely ignoring that realistically most people who got interested in this show found it through the mock trailer release #way back when the eclipse had barely finished airing and enchenté was also only a few months out #heck I hadn't even watched those two shows when the mock trailer came out and I went insane #haven't watched any other forcebook show to this day and while I liked the eclipse I certainly wouldn't have called myself a firstkhao stan #and still it was obvious to me from the mock trailer way back when and then the proper trailer a few months ago who would end up with who #I just feel like a lot of y'all were anticipating a different show than what it was advertising itself as...

[can-of-slorgs]

Finished the Seashells collection a couple of weeks ago, so I drew my girl who did it all possible.

#neopets #neotag #neoart #aisha #god i HATE RESTOCKING SDFG #I have fun memories now that weeks have passed and this drawing is kinda old and forgot to upload it #but my gods was it a nightmare on the last stretch HSHJS #i actually finished the shenkuu one too before i finished this drawing oOOPS; #anyways aishas are fun to draw just found out #unrelated how did the ogrin drawing got 250+ notes like what????? ?? ?? #I wasn't even that proud of it #but to everyone that commented nice things i've read you all and have made 100% of the motivation i've been having lately hahaha #I should draw my neo characters more ofter but;;; hmmm...... I'm still working them outttttt #and i don't want to present cringe on the neotag HASJKDAS #at least not for now LMFAO #vin doods #to whoever is reading my tags by this point i'd love receiving requests in my inbox #I'm always in look for ideas #art trades as well!! #although i know no one here i'm still open for them ahaha #ok too much rambling

[ta-bajna-cerna-okybaca]

Now that I finally got to play TWST diasomnia chapter 1 myself, I'm gonna need everyone who said Malleus was a baby throwing a tantrum for no reason to pay me 2000 dollars each

#twst #twisted wonderland #yes it did take me until the second to last day of the new chapter event to finish book 6 what of it #in my defense i had no good leona&jamil cards for chapters 66 and 67‚ i'm glad i managed to do it at all. robe malleus carried the team <3 #anyways! i haven't seen this take in a while but i remember it popping up a lot earlier this year when we got diasomnia on the jp server #as a member of the malleus defense squad i can't bear all this slander and now i have proof it's baseless #his overblot is one of the most justified ones??? what do you mean no reason #He's already established to be constantly left out and lonely because of it #And now he gets hit with the triple whammy of 1) realizing his fellow students' mortality after book 6 #2) learning that his father figure is dying and in one week fucking off to fantasy china to live out his retirement without him #3) his best friend the MC telling him they found a way to un-isekai themself #Maybe he could have weathered one of those‚ but all three at the same time? #Poor guy stood no chance‚ those are hits straight into the trauma #Of course he's gonna have a breakdown! It's not his fault breakdowns in twisted wonderland come with a side of destructive berserking #And to be fair from what i've heard in spoilers all he did was put the whole school to sleep he didn't even destroy all that much #like yes putting everyone to sleep so they can live forever and never leave him is not a healthy reaction #but this is Unhealthy Reactions The School it's not like he's such an outlier in that #leave my boy alone 😭 #excuse my ranting i'm just insane about twisted wonderland and malleus specifically

[copper-skulls]

continued adventures of Gave Him A Plushie

#exact size pending #rough #finish tagging later #TAKE THIS INSTEAD OF. ANY ACTIVITY THE NEXT WEEK I THINK #i just realized how many things I need to turn in and how much travel time I have to do in the next week and it made my head spin #.....and found out a whole assignment i thought i had more than a week to do has a deadline tomorrow. 😬 #i might write a little bit bcs I i can do that on the go and i'm currently in a good state for that to be manageable #but otherwise. NEXT WEEK IS NOT LOOKING GREAT

[moonshine-nightlight]

Hii

I read Nothings Wrong With Dale a bit ago and I loved it :) I had some down time right now and the part where Dale 'revealed himself' to Sana came into my mind and that whole part of the story where Dale just didn't know that Sana knew is so ridiculous and funny for me. I'm pretty sure I commented on ao3 but I thought you should know that your work is living rent free in my mind

hi!

i've been deep in my work sink hole, trying to make it through the Busy Times, but i'm getting some breathing room (hope that doesn't jinx it lol) and so i can finally thinking about answering some asks and comments i've been hoarding

the whole reveal scene was planned from the start (i hav the text message receipts to my friend to prove it lmao) and i was so excited and worried about how everyone would receive it so i'm always so so thrilled when people talk about how much they enjoyed it!

it 100% lived rent free in my head for years and continues to do so. one of the greatest things about being a writer is that i can inflict such things on everyone else :D

#asks #nothing's wrong with dale #writing #i was very anxious about walking the line with him not knowing the whole time #and if ppl would think it was believable o not #but i never considered not having it play out that way because i just knew that was the story i wanted to tell #if anything i would hav tried to go back and change other things if ppl said it made no sense #so so glad ppl found it funny and rolled with it #gotta dive back into editing and finishing that bonus scene #but work is still happening (i'm still working 6 days a week minimum #but its still a big step down and the end is very clearly in sight #thanks for the ask!

[running-in-the-dark]

kinda disappointed with how this weekend went. I mean, it wasn't bad! but it was our first weekend in the new apartment, and I/we wanted to get a lot done. I already did a lot during the week (a lot for me, not a lot for most people I guess), but there's lots of things that I can't do/can't do on my own, either because I'm too short or not strong enough or I need someone else to hold something or whatever. which realistically just won't get done during the week because my husband works full time, so. it sort of sucks that only one very small, unimportant thing got done. 😔

#like. there's no rush. not really. #I mean we do get our kitchen in two weeks so we'll have to have space to install it then lol #but other than that it's fine #except everyone constantly makes me feel like it isn't. #they're so judgmental and shitty about it #yeah it's chaotic and messy as hell. there's boxes everywhere. we've only found some of our kitchen stuff so we're mostly eating microwave #meals with plastic utensils. all of that stuff #so fucking what? it doesn't affect any of them! I wish they'd just stop commenting on it but they don't. #well. at least it's just over the phone now. I haven't seen my or my husband's family since we moved in and I'm not planning to anytime soon #precisely because they will not stop doing this no matter how I react to it #like in what world would that ever do anything good? it doesn't motivate me to get shit done any faster. because guess what? I'm already #going as fast as I can. #like. I've had (maybe still have) a middle ear infection and been on antibiotics all week and I still got so much done! that's good enough #and this part is fun to me! I like that nothing is finished and everything is possible and new and different #it does also stress me out but so far it mostly feels like an adventure #anyway. I'm just venting but seriously why is everyone I know irl so mean all the time?! #personal

[yearningheart]

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#going to get the ab*rtion done this weekend i think #it's been so strange and difficult like the first two days when i found out it was fine and i was doing fine but #the more i wait the worse it gets. i feel like im underwater and everything feels muddled and weird n depressing #what im scared of the most is the pain like just thinking abt the whole ordeal is making me shiver #i have to finish a whole assignment done by tomorrow and im also starting my remote internship today and i have exams in two weeks. lol. #it's all just too much #but we persist i guess

[raiiny-bay]

thinking about my fictional lil guys even though i really need to focus on my assignments

#i have 3 weeks left of this term #but mentally i am checked tf out #i found the most perfect song for arthur & harley & now they are all i can think about #i think i'm gonna have to finish making them as sims just so i can make an edit of them #they had the most messy ugly codependent friendship & it ended so badly. like the tension between them is palpable. #i haven't written anything for artie's story in months bc #i've decided i do actually need to kill him off regardless of how much it hurts my feelings #& so i've been procrastinating #BUT i have been thinking about them almost nonstop for weeks #decided i might try to write by hand rather than typing to see if i get more done #idk yet #n e way #rainyrambles #dl

[tunedtostatic]

[Additional Image Description: On a grey background, there are five small black line art illustrations lined up across the center. The first is a sword with a hooked blade pointing upwards, the second is a hand with magic curling up out of it, the center is a castle with wavy lines extending from it into a dark sky, the third is a beaker with steam curling up from it, and the last is a shortsword pointing downwards. The sword has a few dark red shading lines. In the lower right corner of the fanmix cover is the title, "heart of my own," in dark red medieval calligraphy font. End Additional Image Description.]

HEART OF MY OWN - A FANMIX FOR CASSANDRA DE ROLO IN THE TIME OF THE BRIARWOODS

Overgrown - machineheart // Edge of the World - Within Temptation // Ashes and Rust - Wynnie Stone // Take Me Home - The Paper Kites, Nadia Reid // Nobody (Live) - The Crane Wives // The Tangled Tree - Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker // Heart Of My Own - Basia Bulat // Don't She Run - I Draw Slow // Murder City - Abigail Lapell // Until the Fire - Ladytron // Control - Halsey // Lament - Mount Moriah // Catch the Light - Haroula Rose

Fanmix on YouTube

Fanmix on Spotify

#cassandra de rolo #cr1 #music #fanmix #id in alt text #described #remember how i was like i spent $8 or whatever it was on paint from cvs because i wanted to make the cass fanmix a painted cover? #l + ratio + i did not have time + my camera isn't working so i can't even do a minimalist painted version #so here's literal clipart (not actually clipart its free use images from pixabay but lets be real. stylistically. its clipart) #you can see what my Vision would have been (i wanted to paint the above in medieval manuscript illustration style on a black #background where instead of the (very nice) castle in the center it would have been the sun tree/tree from the de rolo crest #with curling branches and roots filling the whole paper above and below as well #honestly i think artistic vision clip art edition turned out good! captured the vibe. even found a sword that looks like craven edge. #this is another thing i never made a follow-up post about and i'm going to do that rn (pandemic talk incoming) #i'm stepping away from the fandom by the live show because i can't watch them do a live show in a pandemic #like friends are staying in the fandom and i don't judge/care!! i don't *want* to leave i just can't watch or do art and fic for a #work of fiction after it gets real life human beings killed #thats my uncrossable line #its an incredibly sad and fucked up situation #and this week i'm trying to finish up some fanworks (this and another mix and two fics) that i had done or over half done pre-announcement #so i can get that out of the way and focus on. i guess irl is not the word but keeping in touch with fandom bros and practical stuff for #what i think will be a shitty last couple of weeks before the live show itself

[thefirstknife]

Peeked at twitter again unfortunately, and apparently people are mad that this week's seasonal story update was shorter? Literally it's a season that launches with the expansion. Every single one of those was smaller and lighter on the content.

Personally, I am enjoying that this season's storyline isn't too demanding. Clearly I love when we get a lot of lore, and we still get the usual initial dialogues, a lot of new weekly mission dialogues, ending dialogues and radio message + 2 lore pages. I have so much shit to do with Lightfall AND the exotic mission launched today which added so much new stuff to do so I was super glad that I was done with the weekly story in like 20 minutes.

Obviously the story was shorter due to the exotic mission launching alongside it. This seasonal story is also shorter in general, with only 6 weeks (6 lore pages to earn) which I am honestly relieved about because there's so much Lightfall content that I'm barely catching up with and there's the pinnacle grind that's kicking my ass because I don't want to die in every activity because an enemy looked at me. I get so overwhelmed with content when an expansion launches and there's also seasonal content. Sometimes I wish we got no season with the expansion.

So many people want things to slow down a little because we simply do not have time to grind 24/7, but then there's strange people who want a weekly update to require 6 hours of investement I guess. And of course everything in those 6 hours has to be brand new content, never before seen. If I see a single blade of grass that has been used as texture before, then Bungie is lazy. Obviously. /s

The only legitimate problem with this setup is for people who didn't get the expansion and only have the season. Their season is then not the exact same quantity as others. But it's never those people that make these complaints.

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 spoilers #season of defiance #season of defiance spoilers #i'm just. there was an entire secret exotic mission??? that has multiple parts and extra bits to do?? #and it will continue for a few weeks as well?? #i got my weekly update done and was relieved i can go back to grinding stuff i still need to do #then the exotic mission was found. by the time i finished it already took several hours of my time #people are begging on their knees for less grind but then some players are just like. 'no. release more content every week.' #actually no. release less content. #and the best part is. they didn't even skip out on any lore. we still got everything we usually get in an update #and we're getting two lore books this season #i guess it wasn't anything groundbreaking so clearly it's bad #'we just got some conversations between characters!' yes. #i think a lot of people constantly complaining about this have never like. watched a tv show without binging it #GENUINELY feels that way #idk do people expect something bombastic must happen every week? when was that ever a thing? #'if the plot doesn't move forward spectacularly then it's a bad story.' it's time to calm down #it's just more FOMO. I'm glad this was short and easy on my brain #also it'll be less of a pain to replay it with other characters

[missbluesunflowersstuff]

Not my dumb ass writing down a fic where Damian Wayne fakes his own death + end up adopting one kid + get more kids + something somehow Batman Beyond + boy is back to the town + and somehow JonDami

#i will try go to finish this later #it's a silly little idea like 'hey i am actually not dead dead just tired of this shit life but i'm back now anyway here your grandchildren' #also yes damian has three children he adopted two and the third and younger is his blood son #the first one was a assassin who was sent to kill him but the boy failed and damian adopted him #the second is a girl he found while being a doctor in some war zone #idk who is the mother of the third no one knows actually this is between Damian and God #maybe self indulgence but i want this boy being happy and have a silly life while everyone is freaking out about the new shit of the week #and jon being like 'if you wanted a happy family in a farm you should told me i would go with you and rise your children' #this is NOT the point jon they don't want damian runway anymore and not you join him in this crazy adventure #too late because jon is ready to the trip #damian wayne #dc comics #batfamily

[deus-ex-mona]

it sure has been quite a week

#g o d this week was such a mess™️ #i kicked off the week wrong (as always) with ~3h of sleep bc i can never fall asleep on monday nights (sadge) #and ofc i had to do 2 workstations’ worth of work bc lack of manpower lmao #then on tuesday i had yet another family dinner to say goodbye to my bro (lol) #even though he’d already been treated to at least 3 other meals by that point (lmao) #i still think my dinner treat from a few weeks back was the best though~~~~~~ a 4 course sky dining meal def tops any restaurant right~~~~~? #and on suiyoubi (my dudes) we boated him off to military training island for his mandatory enlistment. that sure was. an experience. #i still kinda regret finishing my meal at the military cafeteria place thing though… i was the only one at the table who finished it :( #even my big eater of a bro couldn’t finish his :( #and my mother has been making fun of me for finishing the (allegedly) huge portioned meal ever since :( #she keeps joking about enlisting me bc army food ✨clearly✨ suits my tastes :( ​truly sadded. #anyways it was back to work on thursday. which sucked. ofc. also bc i’d overslept by half an hour and had to rush. lmao. #anddddd on friday. my boss told me that i’d missed out on submitting one worksheet thing of results #even though i c l e a r l y remember doing the test it was for (and organising all of the worksheet things for the matter) #so my coworker and i just watched her sift through the stack of worksheets… only for her to actually find the ‘missing’ piece of paper #she then said ‘ok found it sorry’ so my coworker and i just went ‘(ʘ‿ʘ) okayyyyyyyyyy’ p. sarcastically and left her office #and ofccccc there was work on saturday too. yay. went to the pkm centre after that thoughhhh #which was fun yes. but. they didn’t have ✨c h a i r d e o x y s✨ on sale :((((( #they stopped selling goomy earrings and that huge plush too :( and the smaller goomy plushies for the matter :(((( #i realllyyy should’ve bought the goomy earrings while they were still available… even though they were like 8 bucks per stud #my goomy plushie collection remains unexpanded :( my jigglypuff collection grew by 1 though~~~~ #so now i have 3 official jigglies of varying sizes and 1 bootleg jiggly that looks. pretty horrifying in bad lighting actually #p. sadded by how my family calls my taste in pkm boring though… ‘it’s either jigglypuff or that purple thing’ they say… :(((( #aaaaaa i wish i could’ve bought that super cute plush of goodra holding a happily smiling goomy i saw on my trip… #it’s too bad that the plushies (there were like 2-3 of them) were locked inside a display cabinet :(((( it was so cuteeeeeeeee #though my fam would’ve made me put it back if i’d even managed to get it out back then lol. ‘that purple thing again?!’ they’d prolly say… #anyways. this sure was a week. im so tired. help #no clue how i should spend the rest of my night tbh… maybe beach sisters time? hmmmmmm. oh wells. #‘dai’ly shitpost of the day

[good--merits-accumulated]

tentatively mapping out the the little white horse au

#atp i expect everything i write to go a little arthurian #so when i found myself naming the lakes tristan and iseult it was just like. sigh. ok. we're going here now #this is turning out to be a very strange project not least because it seems to be absolutely rooted in places and locations #like. to the point where i can't make myself work on the plot/events until i finish this rudimentary map #this has never happened before but i'm very excited to see where it takes me. thinking about studying tim robinson's maps #+ getting a little more conscientious with labels and their locations #also another note; most of the names are transmutable - i don't expect many of them to stay #anyway i'm having a ball and will probably be talking a lot about this in coming weeks so stay tuned! #tristan writes #ish #dead poets society fanfic #dead poets society

[gavindna]

I just finished artificial condition like two days ago and wanna read what if? 2 because I’m a nerd and don’t wanna get burned out on murder bot but there’s also so much good fanart on tumblr that I’m missing out on because I only just finished artificial condition what do I DO

#just found out there’s a murderbot fandom on tumblr in case you couldn’t tell #I love Randall Munroe so much and I just got what if? 2 but I also wanna binge read murderbot #but I also know I’m prone to getting burned out on books (looking at you Discworld) #I also lent all systems red to a cute boy in my lit class a week or two ago and lent him artificial condition today #like directly after he finished all systems red #like he handed me all systems red back and then I pulled artificial condition out of my bag and handed it to him #but the thing is I lent him what if? one like a month ago and he loved it #and I have a feeling he’ll wanna read what if? 2 after artificial condition #but what if he doesn’t??? and then I don’t get to read rogue protocol until after he’s done with it????? #the murderbot diaries #murderbot

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#theres a special kind of agony in tryinf to find an apartment in an college town with a housing shortage #everythings expensive as fuck and im sure its frustrating for everyone but i feel like its especially frustrating for me #bc it takes me so much fucking time to understand the information right in front of me and then i doubt myself so i have to check and check #and double check and triple check that im on the right website. that im inputting the right info #and its like. what if theres a better place i could b looking? like i found a management place to apply to thats expensive but less #expensive than another place but the building looks like its kinda on the edge of town like 15min drive from school #which i hate bc im an anxious freak and its gonna b worse than driving here bc itll get icey as fuck there #like proper inches of snow all winter. negative negative cold. so its like. do i take a nice apartment thats kinda far away #or a slightly more expensive apartment thats like 10min from school and more in town #and then theres the application stuff. and i cant fill anything out without having a full on like sobbing breakdown #but im that way abt everything. i do that all the time when i have to buy plane tickets #its exhausting. and i cant plan my exit until i know when i can move into a place. whatever. it doesnt help that my hormones r fucked rn #or i hope its the hormones. ive been so tired. so so tired. like sleeping 9hrs and still tired when usually im wired after only 7hrs sleep #i hate it. and super brain foggy. and this week i have to finish taking measurements for the last time #so i gotta decide if im gonna go in tomorrow or Monday to start it. its gonna suck so bad bc im gonna try to do it in 6 days. which will b #agony. but after that ill never have to do it ever again. ugh. im just so tired and i dont wanna limp my way into a new project feeling #like damaged goods. which is exactly what it feels like now. ive just done a very good job of making my job difficult #cant go into the lab without feeling physically ill. drained away all my joy. now theres only a sad distant recognition of how far ive #allowed myself to fall. i kno ill feel better once i have a place to stay and i can quit my job just getting there is taking an eternity #unrelated

[grimlock]

honestly tempted to just figure out how to get rss feeds connected for every single person i follow on every single social media so i dont have to worry about what sites explode

#postatoes #i don't think tumblr is going anywhere in the near future tbh (how many times has there been scares of it disappearing) #but. i am smoketopus everywhere #and i am STILL considering the option of just like. making an email newsletter #where i just put my art in there and send that out once a week #maybe share links to other people's stuff that i liked and found that week #idk #i also have my neocities of course! i have some big updates i wanna do there once i finish a few merch things for tfcon la