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toast-connoisseur · 4 years

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all the colors!

Answered these earlier so I’ll repost☺️

zinc white; how are you really feeling today? no one-word answers please! -I’m exhausted. Working and home life are draining. The current state of the world also has so much going on and I so desperately wish I could instantly fix everything at the same time.

cadmium yellow; when you think of the word “happy” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? -Laughter

lemon; what’s your comfort food? -It depends on my mood tbh but usually something chocolatey

hansa yellow; what’s your guilty pleasure song? -I don’t consider any of my music worth being called a guilty pleasure but I do like the song titled Guilty Pleasure by Cobra Starship

yellow ochre; name an artist/band whom you just discovered & can’t get enough of! -Straight Line Stitch

naples yellow; where do you feel most at home? -Right now I can’t really say I have a place. Used to be Disneyland.

raw sienna; with whom do you feel most at home? -My best friends

golden ochre; describe the relationship you have with your closest friend. -I’m lucky to have several close friends and each relationship is very different but ultimately we can speak our minds with each other and laugh about random stupidities for hours.

golden deep; what’s your favorite season? -Fall

cadmium orange; what do you like to do on your days off? -See my friends usually, but now I mostly sleep.

orange lake; do you have anyone you can turn to when you’re sad? -Yes. I hate doing that though. I don’t want others to feel sad because I’m sad and I don’t like bothering people.

titans; do you prefer slow mornings or relaxing evenings? -Relaxing evenings. Mornings stress me out no matter what.

shakhnazaryan red; are you currently binge-watching anything? -No, I already finished the newest season of Queer Eye.

red ochre; are you more right-brained (creative) or left-brained (analytical)? -I am both for sure and I think anyone that knows me would agree.

burnt sienna; is there a painting that brings you peace when you look at it? -I’m not good with memorizing the names of paintings. While I have had this experience before, I don’t recall what they’re all named.

english red; what animal do you relate to most? -A puppy. Always learning new info and has too much energy at times.

vermilion; what’s your favorite accent? -It’s a tie between a Cuban accent (looove speaking Spanish with Cubans) and an Australian accent.

cadmium red; do you have a “type” when it comes to a significant other? -I think so? I guess my type is someone who can keep up with me and make me laugh so hard I cry.

scarlet; describe your current crush/es. -Nonexistent.

ruby; what does your ideal first date look like? -Honestly just sitting somewhere quiet, like the beach, and talking nonsense about anything and everything.

carmine; what does your ideal second date look like? -Maybe something fun like a bar/club or even going to the movies (I find that very fun)

madder lake red; would you ever kiss someone (or accept a kiss) on a first date? -Yes. As long as it feels right, I’ll always accept a kiss.

rose; what’s something really positive going on in your life right now? -I graduated college! But that’s dying down so I’ll have to find something new soon.

quinacridone rose; what’s something you’re really looking forward to? -The world being a safer place in every aspect of the word.

violet rose; what does your dream house look like? -I like open spaces and lots of rooms to decorate yet do nothing with.

violet; is there any place in particular you’d like to settle down? -I’d love to stay in the LA area but it’s a big bitch money-wise.

blue lake; what would you like to do/accomplish before you settle down? -I think I be done it already. I’d love to have my dream job but I wouldn’t mind settling down whilst looking for that too.

cobalt blue spectral; what is the most beautiful place you have ever been to? -Multnomah Falls

ultramarine; when was the last time you were in a good mood? do you know/remember what sparked it? -I was getting ready to see my friends.

blue; what’s the most recent dream you remember? -Last night I dreamt that I went back in time to meet myself as a child but I encountered everyone else but me.

bright blue; what does your dream family look like? any kids or pets? how many of each? -I’d love a big family. Wife and as many kids as we can comfortable afford, preferably 4 maybe? A dog, maybe an aquarium?

blue cobalt; do you like your name? would you give yourself a different name if you could? -I don’t really care for my name but I wouldn’t even know what to change it to tbh. I tried when I became a US citizen but it didn’t work out.

prussian azure; what’s your favorite scent? -Anything clean or the smell of fresh baked goods.

azure blue; what’s your favorite type of tea, if any? -I don’t like tea.

turquoise blue; if you could start a garden, what would you plant? -I actually had this thought the other day and I want a garden so bad I feel like I’d plant whatever I could get my hands on and easily manage.

cerulean blue; if you were guaranteed to have a viewership, would you start a youtube vlog? -Maybe. Sounds super fun to do without viewers but I wouldn’t want to deal with the mean people/comments. Ruins the fun.

glauconite; describe your body without using any negative adjectives. -Curvaceous.

yellow green; picture yourself walking in a field. what do you see & hear in this scenario? -Birds chirping, butterflies flying around, a slight breeze that’s not too chilly yet saves me from the heat of the sun on my face.

green light; are you in a comfortable place in life? if not, what do you think might make it better? -Not really. I require more stability than what is being offered to me at the moment but it’s really expensive to be out on my own here.

green; name three countries you want to visit; do you have any actual plans in place to visit any of them? -I could name them all and know I probably won’t get around to many. Life is messy and expensive. France and Greece sound nice though.

emerald green; do you speak any languages besides english? are there any additional languages you want to learn? -Spanish. Both English and Spanish are basically my native languages and I speak both fluently and most times people don’t know which is my primary language.

oxide of chromium; what’s your favorite book? -Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

olive green; are you currently reading anything? how do you like it so far? -Nothing at the moment.

mars brown; what’s a movie that always puts a smile on your face/makes you laugh? -Saved!

burnt umber; what’s something you plan to do before the day is over to take care of yourself? -Take a fat nap.

umber; have you drank enough water today? -It’s 6AM so, no.

voronezhskaya black; what or who is your go-to outlet for when you need to vent? -Selena

sepia; name five things that always make you happy. -My best friends, Disneyland, food, coloring, watching movies, and drinking

indigo; what’s the best/sweetest compliment you have ever received? -When people tell them I make them feel safe enough to tell me anything.

payne’s gray; describe your aesthetic? -I honestly think it varies on a day to day basis but mostly like retro I guess?

black; post a selfie because you are so beautiful!

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battlestar-royco · 5 years

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What’s your opinion on plot twists in fiction and what makes a good / bad plot twist? And what would you say are examples of the best / worst plot twists you’ve come across?

I LOVE PLOT TWISTS, OH MY GOD. A good plot twist immediately makes me love a book/show/movie like 50 times more than I already did. In fact, a good plot twist is one of my criteria for what makes a piece of media go down as at the very least memorable and at the most one of my favorites. You know that writing advice that an ending should be surprising but inevitable? That’s what a good plot twist is. When you look back on a story after all the secrets have been revealed and you are able to pick up extra meaning or even opposite meaning from all the little tidbits a writer hid within scenery, dialogue, character motivation, plot points, etc. A good plot twist should be able to do that, and a fantastic plot twist should be able to do all of that AND wrap up one or multiple character arcs/plot trajectories.

I think some of my favorite plot twists are **SPOILERS for Harry Potter, Westworld season 1, Blade Runner 2049, and The Walking Dead season 2**

Sirius Black was framed for the murder of Peter Pettigrew, and Peter has been alive as Ron’s rat for 12 years after betraying the Potters, faking his own death, and imprisoning his best friend. Also, Lupin being a werewolf. It’s mostly unpredictable and yet it makes perfect sense with Lupin and Sirius’s behavior and with Harry spotting Peter on the Marauder’s Map. It also flares a huge desire for justice within the reader, fleshing out all the Marauders and making them more interesting/likable. Honestly, any Harry Potter plot twist goes on my list, but the twist in Prisoner of Azkaban is so layered. I just. THE TEA.

Dolores actually met William 30 years ago and she’s been on a fruitless search for him all this time because her mind is incapable of distinguishing between current and past memories. This was perfect for Dolores’s arc and for the mystery of WW. It goes along with the host worldbuilding, allows Dolores to realize her consciousness, and it’s so unique to WW lore it’s kind of hard to predict.

The hybrid replicant/human child is K! Wait no, it doesn’t exist! Wait no, it’s the woman who makes replicant memories! The movie constantly keeps you (or maybe just me) guessing until the very end, and yet this twist still didn’t invalidate K’s journey because he and the replicants found their humanity as they defined it.

Sophia is a Walker in Hershel’s shed. The main tensions throughout the season are between Shane, Rick, and Hershel all trying to find this missing girl and coexist on Hershel’s farm (is she dead? is it worth risking lives to search for her? did she find somewhere safe?). They each have sympathetic motives for what they’re arguing, but they’re all polarly opposed. The climactic moment occurs when everyone hits their emotional boiling point and Shane blatantly defies Hershel’s wishes by freeing all the captive Walkers. Not only is this a great ending to the political tensions but also a great and completely sensible answer to the mystery that has been consuming everyone all season. END SPOILERS.

My current least favorite plot twists are **SPOILERS for Frozen, MILD/VAGUE SPOILERS for Game of Thrones, The Last Jedi, and Westworld again**

Hans randomly stabbing Anna in the third act of the film despite acting kind and caring toward Anna and the people of Arendelle for the first hour and showing no desire to harm Anna or be a social climber. It was more of a shock twist than a well-developed subversion of expectations.

If you’ve been part of society for the past few days, you probably have an idea of what I’m about to say, but honestly you could name any single “plot twist” (AKA shock death, violence, characterization 180, or overpowered moment of parkour/politics/fighting skills) on the show that occurs after the fourth season.

Rey’s parents. I guess that reveal was… fine? But it was boring as hell, threw away previous foreshadowing, and didn’t make sense for Rey’s arc. I’ve seen way cooler parent reveals, so I was just underwhelmed by this one especially because the rest of the movie didn’t really do anything special either.

Basically anything that happened in season 2. The character arcs were either nonsensical, incoherent, or nonexistent, and the new worldbuilding was either purposely vague or purposely unexplained. That’s not intelligent intrigue; that’s just confusing your audience for the sake of confusing them. END SPOILERS.

The difference between the first and the second list is that the first ones actually had foreshadowing and plot/character relevance. They were the culmination of character insecurities or mounting social tensions. They were unique, and not just IT’S SO SHOCKING THAT THIS CHARACTER RANDOMLY DIED/WENT THROUGH A VIOLENT ORDEAL/DID A COMPLETE PERSONALITY 180/YOUR EXPECTATIONS WERE SUBVERTED. Like yeah, obviously if you hit an audience with something completely unprecedented they’re going to be shocked, but that doesn’t mean it’s clever or interesting or wanted. It’s when the writers hit you with that good foreshadowing 👌👌👌 that you realize the brilliance of the plot or the height of the stakes or the satisfactory character growth. A writer who takes the time to seed their story and make it sensible and intriguing instead of worrying about being too predictable and wanting to ~shock~ the audience will always be remembered more than the ones who do don’t. It takes so much more skill and passion to do the former than it does to do the latter for the sake of catching the audience off guard.

#my writing #writing advice #anti got

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sol1056 · 6 years

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a bunch more asks waiting their turns so politely

These are all various asks about the likelihood of a remake, a rewritten season, or a spinoff.

1 could we get an alternate version 2 is a rewrite for S8 a viable option 3 would they change the ending for a spin-off 4 are single-episode edits possible for S8 5 will S7 reactions affect S8 6 how will DW get us to watch S8

Behind the cut.

With the shitstorm that vld became, would dreamworks ever take pity on us and remake some seasons of voltron that turned out like crap, or not even air, just release them as alternate versions on dvd? Im questioning the possibilities, not the probabilities, bc Im really not optimistic about that, I just wanna know if a show can do that and what would it take for the company to snap their fingers and be like "lets do it" (besides having money)

It’s not like frequent reboots don’t have precedent in other franchises; hell, comics do it on the regular. It’s also much cheaper to do a series of graphic novels or full novelizations geared towards an older audience. The problem there is that Dreamworks isn’t a comic book company or a publishing house; that part of the franchise would have to be farmed out to someone else.

My guess --- if another remake is ever a possible option --- it’d be several years down the road. The first version would be set aside as, say, the Y-7 version for kids and family, and then you’d find a new angle for the next version.

If DW got the impression there was a massive older crowd (say, 25-45) who would’ve eaten up a more mature, somewhat darker, version? Sure, why not try to grab that audience? I mean, look at the Castlevania series: it’s not pulling any punches on making clear it’s for adults. That would also require a different business model, since what adults like to buy for themselves is very different than what kids want. Skip the cake toppers, for starters.

do you think given the reaction to VLD S7, is a rewrite for S8 a viable option? I feel the fandom is divided about the general reaction to S7. If JDS and M can just [focus on the fanbase segment] that liked it, why [bother trying to fix it for those] that didn't?

Given what I’ve been seeing in terms of data from the season... I think they aimed to please everyone and ended up pleasing no one.

Pretty sure I’ve said something to this extent before: when you can’t please everyone, the answer isn’t to split the difference and piss everyone off. The answer is to pick your audience and give them the best damn story you can. The rest will sort itself out.

Let me put it this way: there are enough people who didn’t like S7 for the crummy animation, the OOC dialogue and actions, and the nonsensical storyline overloaded with a host of new characters that stole time from the actual protagonists. And there are also enough people who didn’t like S7 for queerbaiting the audience, killing off three out of four queer characters, and sidelining the one remaining queer character. There may be some overlap between those two sets, but taken together, those two sets are pretty much the dominant majority of the fan base.

I don’t know if that makes a rewrite a viable option, but it should be making a few execs think twice about letting the EPs/staff carry on in the same direction. I mean, you want a series to end on a high note, not an ‘omg that had such potential but boy did it self-destruct in the last two seasons’ note.

So if DW wants to do a Voltron spin-off, would they consider changing the ending to VLD to give Shiro the things he earned so this spin-off wouldn't be dead out of the water?

That would depend entirely on whether they’ve gotten the message that Shiro’s current status isn’t good enough for a significant part of the fanbase. If all they’re hearing (or all they choose to hear) is that it’s great to sideline one of their protagonists with no in-story explanation whatsoever, what’s to tell them there’s anything that needs addressing?

Additionally, if the entirety of the issue is Shiro --- and everyone else is just fine, thanks --- I’m not sure that’d rate as enough to warrant changing so much. More likely any spin-off would start some X length of time between, and we’d get an implied intermediary backstory (or even a mild retcon), and go from there.

Truth is, whomever gets the spin-off will (I really hope) be a better writer and not have to deal with intrusive newbie EPs. Even then, they’d be kinda limited on what they could do, given the spin-off does need to make sense placed against the first series. Then again, VLD hasn’t respected its own premise or continuity for the past few seasons, anyway.

So I guess there’s always the option to start with an episode that retells VLD’s ending... Kinda awkward, but not unheard of, to basically retcon a previous series out of existence.

I have no doubt DW is looking into what went wrong with this season. I know it might be a little to late to fix all of Season 8, but do you think they would have at least maybe the last few episodes changed to give a better ending to the show - or at least more respect to Shiro as a character?

Normally I’d say no. I mean, episode 1 should have characters making choices that in turn impact episode 2, and those choices prompt the events in episode 3... but that’s a logic VLD threw out the window somewhere between S3 and S4, and it’s only gotten worse since then.

In which case, oh sure, why not? It wouldn’t make any less sense than what they’ve already got planned, if S7 is any indication.

Could the reaction to season 7 cause any change the execs minds going into season 8?

One problem: this is a Dreamworks production, but it’s not a DW-owned story. It’s a franchise: there are other players involved. There are the two guys who first butchered GoLion into Voltron, Toei whose story got that embutcherment, Netflix as the distributor, along with Playmates and Lion Forge and other contracted partners. There’s a lot more people at the table than just DW.

It’s one thing for the EPs to say they messed up, and apologize. It’s quite another for Dreamworks to admit publicly their lousy (or nonexistent) oversight allowed the situation to happen.

Legal would have apoplexy, for starters. What wins you a franchise is often showing you have the confidence (if not sheer chutzpah) that you can do this job justice like no other. And then you hit S7 and must admit you hired people who made a complete hash of it?

If there’s anything that will cost the EPs any future roles of a similar position, it’s that they’ve put DW in a very uncomfortable position. Caught between a furious fanbase and overly-interested co-owners, someone --- or several someones --- are treading very lightly right now. They’re not going to forget the EPs are the ones who precipitated the whole mess.

I think we are in a unique situation where the fact that the EPs were vocal about [changing] VLD ... could be a blessing for us & DW. [But we know it] was changed, & DW's part seems to be more negligence than direct fault like the EPs. So DW can drop it or fix it, and a rewrite would be worth us sticking around, while restoring DW's name.

Again, that depends on whether DW is in a position that they can do so. I assure you they’d throw the EPs under the bus at the first opportunity, because that’s how the corporate world works. So their failure to do so is either because they don’t see the EPs’ actions as untenable (as far as we know), or because doing so would expose DW corporate to greater retaliation from elsewhere. (It could also be part of the agreement that these particular EPs are in place for the duration of the series’ production, too. Sometimes that happens.)

I still can’t get over the fact that the EPs were so blunt about having already had a script fully written when they asked to revise. From the Studio Mir leaks, we can guess at least some of the animation was already in production at least a year ago, or earlier. That’s a lot to redo.

Here’s something that only just occurred to me, when I listed the co-partners in this franchise: the Koplar brothers. These are the geniuses who figured they didn’t need to know Japanese to make GoLion into an american production; turns out they were geniuses on some level ‘cause it was a hit, anyway. They went on to produce Voltron: Fleet of Doom (1986), Voltron: the Third Dimension (1998), and Voltron Force (2011). If there is anyone at the table who’d be likely to have nostalgia goggles, it’d be the Koplars. This has been their ongoing story in one way or another for over 30 years.

Originally, the EPs said they weren’t tied to nostalgia; they weren’t going to redo the story as it was, but the story as they remembered. (I’d argue this actually indicates a stronger set of nostalgia goggles, but eh.) Their determination to get rid of Shiro has always felt like nostalgia goggles to me. Perhaps the Koplars were the greatest supporters of Keith as BP --- since that would respect the pattern they’ve followed, over and over, in all the iterations.

Considering the Koplar’s somewhat litigious background over Voltron ownership, they may’ve had the ability to overrule. So... if you want to bench Shiro, you pitch your work with the execs who are most likely to agree with you. And if you can do that in the window between the previous VP of TV retiring and a brand-new external hire coming on as VP... welp, you got permission, and the new VP may’ve signed off, not realizing the impact.

Which would put DW over a barrel, in some ways. If DW could’ve overruled their partners, the EPs never would’ve been able to make that end-run in the first place.

How do u think DW will try to get us to watch s8? They & the EPs have shattered our trust and the show is so messy its almost unsalvageable.

Stay to see X point's resolution? Yeah, we stayed many seasons for nothing, next.

We have more rep? Ex. blonde girl is autistic... So we should be scared for her too???

There's more queer rep? Yeah, we heard that one already.

Unless everyone responsible is fired and a new crew runs the next seasons?

I don’t know. I would hope the answer is ‘by giving us a story that makes sense, and creates closure for all the protagonists, and not just by making two of them emotional rewards for two other characters.’

At this point, there is only one thing that’s going to make Dreamworks change course: if the fallout from VLD impacts its other projects. If the majority of the VLD fanbase up and announced it would be boycotting She-Ra or Fast & Furious or Trollhunters on the grounds that DW screwed up so badly with VLD that it cannot be trusted... Then you’d see movement. If the PR got so bad from so many upset and angry VLD fans that major news outlets paid attention and started writing articles about the situation, that would also put a black mark beside Dreamworks’ name -- and then you’d see movement.

With the VLD toys a failure (for whatever mismanaged reasons) and a financial model set entirely on toys, fixing VLD now would be throwing good money after bad. Unless, of course, there’s an impact beyond just this single series.

Until Dreamworks can see the impact in some concrete sense, they have far more to lose from their partners than they have to gain from their fanbase. It’s just how it is, with corporations in late capitalism.

You want to make an impact? You tell Dreamworks ahead of time, and then you follow through: pick a week and go silent. Nothing about VLD, here or on twitter or anywhere else. No reblogs on She-Ra updates. Ignore the podcasts. Don’t click on the articles. That stuff’ll be there when the week is over, after all. Show DW what it’s like when a fanbase checks out, by doing it. It’s a short-term boycott, but the reason groups do boycotts is because they work.

#vld #voltron #sol thinks about stuff #random commentary

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toast-connoisseur · 4 years

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Hope I didn’t miss any! Thanks for the ask!❤️