#i'm calling that scripted

[skyberia]

on the agency of puppets

#persona 5 #persona 5 royal #akira kurusu #ren amamiya #akechi goro #goro akechi #shuake #akeshu #artists on tumblr #comic #drawings #alt text in image #p5r spoilers #alternatively ''on the agency of a protagonist'' but that doesn't flow as well #special thanks to: mads @twinkle-art for saying something that immediately gave me an enormous hell brainworm that inspired this #and also vada my friend vada who read over my script & then called me gay. and also told me it wasnt completely unintelligible #i cant look at this anymore. i hope it makes sense. i'm going to lie down. i'm passing away

[xulips]

honorifics

#read from left to right #toya calling kasa 'tsukasa-senpai' will never live in my head not rent free. make it better. 'tsukasa-nii' #my exact thoughts while writing the script for this #it's silly! unlike my other previous post LMFOALF #i did told myself that i'm not drawing tsukasa unless provoked...but...but.......i caved in #project sekai #tsukasa tenma #tenma tsukasa #toya aoyagi #aoyagi toya #tenma saki mentioned #if you squint theres like a tad bit of ryks but that is if you squint REAL hard

[bloodaria]

something i just realized -

hannibal stitching the muralist into his own mural was part of him being “the new will graham” and doing will’s job for him. firstly - the obvious one - the muralist was a murderer and will brings murderers to justice, and so hannibal kills him. but also, as we see with randall tier, will gives his victims what they want in death. randall tier wanted to be “seen”, so will turned him into a sabre tooth tiger exhibit, giving randall wanted he wanted all along - to become a beast. the muralist was “missing pieces of himself”, having an existential crisis and seeing no purpose in life, and was making his giant mural of human bodies in compensation. hannibal gave him a reason for his existence, showing him it’s not meaningless because god created him for a purpose, because god is with him and sees him. hannibal usually fashions his victims into whatever he deems beautiful or useful with no care for their needs or wants, but this time he took the muralist’s wishes in mind. we see how much will is changed because of hannibal, but hannibal becomes more empathetic due to will’s influence as well.

#hannibal #nbc hannibal #also like - the metaphor of seeing and being seen which carries over to will's relationship with hannibal yeah we seen it we know it #but it just struck me how poignant it is to be Seen by god #because god doesn't just see you - he sees all of you and loves you anyway #and that's the kind of love hannibal is offering to will #if i'm right i now get why they called hannibal stitching the muralist into the mural 'a valentine' for will in the script

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

so, just realized that since I'm getting fairly good at writing in (if not casually speaking) Old English, I can absolutely make, write and say aloud the type of spells used in that Merlin show

um yeah

idk what do w that information

besides. make some spells. for fun

I don't rly go here

...if anyone in the Merlin fandom writes fic/rps/etc and wants custom spells, hi, I'm here, I would do that.

hi

EDIT: apparently the BBC Merlin magic system also uses Ogham script? ok weird but sure I like the vibes... anyway, while I can't speak ANY form of Gaelic (or Latin btw. I speak OE and thats IT), I can write in Ogham script, like the writing system itself, in either modern or Old English. not sure what language is being used re: the Ogham in Merlin tho

...but if u want that. I can also do that.

#Merlin #bbc Merlin #does this fandom even exist anymore #Old English #*the sudden realization that I'm a wizard or something idk what they call using magic in the BBC Merlin Universe* #also if i DO make spells. for fun. is there like #a blog or place i should send them in the Merlin fandom #again i dont GO HERE im just MAGIC OR SOMETHING #I can write in a lot more scripts than I can speak languages

[clowndensation]

jesse.

#i used to fall in love with all those boys who call on young cuties #but now i find i'm all inclined to keep my mind on my duties #since i've begun to share in such a sweet love affair #hoo boy. boy oh boy oh boy. #succession scripts

[carlyraejepsans]

Just took a few hours to watch Kwite's video in response to the (now proven false) allegations against him and I feel sick to my stomach. I mean genuinely nauseous.

#the video has trigger warnings before all the heavier sections #the way he spent the entire first part level voiced reading from his script #then suddenly you could HEAR him struggling through the parts about his issues with intimacy #the fact that this is because he was assaulted HIMSELF????? jesus fucking christ #i hope i can help spread the message around like this ik it's unlikely people who follow me here even KNOW this stuff was going down at all #but fuck man. just. i'm glad i made the right call waiting to comment on this.

[cookinguptales]

Related to the meta I wrote last time...

So there was this abandoned plot line from the episode with all the wives where one of Nandor's guy wives kept asking Guillermo questions about himself and that made Nandor uncomfortable so he had the Djinn poof him and like -- god, there's a lot to unpack there. Like, when I tell you that I've thought about that for months.

Now... there are a lot of different things I could say about this. And frankly speaking, I still might. But for now, what I really want to get into is this odd tendency I've noticed in Nandor to view his wives almost as extensions of himself. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this might be how he conceptualizes the difference between husbands and wives -- it's not a gender thing; it's a situation of ownership.

I'm not saying that Nandor is fully awful about this. He doesn't seem to believe that his wives literally belong to him or that he can tell them all what to do, like marriages of that time often would have been. But he does seem to see them as extensions of himself. They may not physically belong to him, but they are still his.

Like, he still expects these wives to be fully loyal to him. He still expects them to dote on him and guess what he wants and be pretty much exactly what he needs them to be. Their actions (and what people think of them) seem to be things that he believes reflect on him. Their actions are his actions, their beliefs are his beliefs, their wants are his wants -- and vice-versa.

We see this very literally becoming an issue with Marwa. He so fully transformed her into an extension of himself and his desires that she fully lost herself as a human being -- and that's even before he straight-up turned her into someone else.

So one of his wives being very interested in Guillermo does seem like something that would be very disturbing to him on a number of levels. First and foremost, there's the obvious annoyance that one of his wives would be interested in anyone but him. (We see him get upset with his others wives for this.) But then, you know, there's the fact that it's Guillermo specifically.

There's this discomfort with someone treating Guillermo as desirable and important, obviously, as it makes Nandor face the fact that Guillermo is desirable and important -- and that he hasn't treated him that way. There's also the discomfort with the fact that anyone else would get to know more about Guillermo's personal life than he does. But more than that, I think Nandor feels discomfort even acknowledging that Guillermo has a personal life outside of Nandor for people to ask questions about.

Nandor is very weird and possessive about Guillermo's personal life.

On top of all that, though, we have the fact that it is an extension of Nandor who is asking these questions. There's the inherent betrayal of part of him going to someone else, but more importantly -- I mean, it's very similar to what happened with Marwa at the wedding. A piece of him is very interested in Guillermo, and maybe that's going to make him confront the fact that he is very interested in Guillermo if he doesn't put it down immediately.

Because the thing is -- he does this to Guillermo, too. He very explicitly says that someone insulting Guillermo's honor is insulting his honor. He very explicitly claims Guillermo as his own and very purposefully monopolizes all his time and effort. He claims Guillermo's abilities, too, and uses them as he sees fit. He even physically manhandles Guillermo's body for his own needs. (See: using Guillermo's wrist, not just his watch, as his own in 4.09.) He has clearly always seen Guillermo as an extension of himself the same way he does his wives, and some of the shock of s3-s4 for him is realizing that Guillermo is his own person.

I think that's why we see him prodding at Guillermo and asking questions and watching him and testing him in s3. I think that's why he sounds bitter about not knowing anything about Guillermo's family or any of the things that he does in s4. I think it's why, when he is confronted with this person that Guillermo loves, this last small part of Guillermo that Nandor has not managed to possess, it makes him want to claim it for his own.

Nandor is wildly possessive over Guillermo in the same way he is his wives, but Guillermo is no longer happy simply with being possessed. There are parts of Guillermo (like his family, like the vampire hunting, like Freddie) that Nandor is slowly realizing he does not have access to, and he doesn't like that. Guillermo is really coming into himself, is becoming strong and recalcitrant and independent and uncontrollable, and Nandor isn't really sure how he feels about that.

Because here's the kicker: Nandor is totally fucking horny for people he can't control.

When you look at his love interests we've seen that he's been most into, it's always people that he cannot control. Gail, who he can never manage to rein in, who he can never quite manage to claim. She uses him casually and then she leaves, and she always has control in the relationship. Meg is a lesbian, totally uninterested in him, and he has no control over her, either. Jan is a complete power reversal, and one that Nandor seemed particularly thrilled with. She owns him and he likes it.

The point I am coming to here is that Guillermo is really starting to resemble these women that Nandor has run after -- and I think Nandor is starting to come to the realization that Guillermo is not an extension of himself, like his wives were. Guillermo is his own person. And maybe what Nandor really wants is to be the subservient one in this situation. He doesn't want Guillermo to become one of his wives; he wants Guillermo to become his husband.

Nandor wants to be Guillermo's guy wife.

We see him start to lean into this role reversal in s3-s4. Submitting to Guillermo's physical strength and leadership when they go after the Sire. Caring for him after an injury in 4.01. Going full role reversal and literally serving Guillermo in 4.05. Having Guillermo try on his groom's clothing in 4.06. Like... the man's not being subtle here.

He's still struggling with these ideas, clearly, but they're for sure there. And I think it's part of why Freddie ended up becoming such a clusterfuck. Nandor was still sort of seeing Guillermo as an extension of himself and wanted to claim all parts of him, especially the parts that Guillermo had thus far kept hidden from him. I don't think it's a coincidence that Nandor mostly just wanted to eat Freddie until the moment he realized he was there for Guillermo. Then he followed them around like a weirdo until Guillermo admitted Freddie was his boyfriend -- and then Nandor wanted him.

But as much as he was seeing Guillermo as an extension of himself, he was also seeing Freddie as an extension of Guillermo. And like Nandor's guy wife and Marwa showing interest in Guillermo and that being a direct representation of Nandor showing interest in Guillermo, Nandor going sappy over Guillermo's extension is another way that Nandor is indirectly showing his true feelings for Guillermo.

And so much of 4.09 was Nandor realizing that Guillermo wasn't his. He is not an extension of Nandor. Nandor can't have access to every part of him. He has to let Guillermo have some things that are just his. He has to relinquish control over him.

Put bluntly, 4.09 was really about Nandor having to decide whether he cared more about Guillermo being 100% his or Guillermo being happy. And I guess we know which one he chose.

I think even Guillermo understood on some level that Nandor was mostly just upset that Guillermo had a single goddamn thing that Nandor didn't have access to. That's essentially what he accused Nandor of, wasn't it? Not letting him have this one fucking thing for himself. Even he seemed to understand that Nandor's new crush was more about Guillermo than it was about Freddie -- even if I'm not sure he quite made the jump to understanding why.

So... by the end of s4, Nandor has gotten rid of his wife. She had become so much of a very literal extension of him that he was sickened by it, so he destroyed her. (RIP Marwa, you were a real one.) He had also gotten rid of the extension of Guillermo that he had claimed. And, this might be the most important part, he'd gotten rid of some of that internal idea that Guillermo was an extension of him. In letting Freddie 2 go, he was in some ways letting Guillermo go as well.

Now if only Guillermo actually wanted to be let go... :')

Up until this point, I think Guillermo also thought of himself as an extension of Nandor -- and it wasn't until their planned trip went up in flames that he was able to start conceiving of himself as his own person. He started trying to create this life outside of Nandor. And while that life was short-lived (and I don't think could ever last forever), it did give him enough independence that by the end of s4, as Nandor has given up on Guillermo being his extension, so has Guillermo.

And he decides to take the life that he now owns himself into his own two hands.

Do I think the two of them are going to be less codependent going forward? I don't think so, and honestly I certainly hope not. But I do think the shape of their relationship is definitely going to change.

Hopefully for the better...

#that detail was... I want to say from the casting call? #so I'm not even sure if it made it to the final script #but when I say I Would Like To See It #anyway I do wish that all of this had been a little more coherently laid out in the show itself #I feel like we got hints at some big ideas especially near the beginning of the season #like Guillermo being honest with his loved ones #and nandor needing to stop trying to make his loved ones more like him #and how Guillermo and Nandor both had these romanticized ideas about their relationships that didn't pan out #and being careful what you wish for #and what found family means really #but I do think things fell apart a little near the end #wwdits #nandermo #wwdits meta #long post

[areseebee]

it has been a whole year and a half since derry girls series 3 aired and i have written so many thousands of words of fic, but it only now occurred to me that there’s a very deliberate mirroring of the first lines of 3x01 and the last lines of 3x07.

erin narrates to james’s camera in both:

3x01 - first lines of series 3: they told us we were young. yet, we understood the enormity of it. we understood what was at stake. our fear was replaced with something altogether more terrifying: hope. hope is so much worse. with hope you have something to lose -

versus

3x07 - closing lines of series 3: it's exciting. and maybe a wee bit scary, too, you know. there's a part of me that wishes that everyone could just stay the same; that we could all just stay like this forever. there's a part of me that doesn't really want to grow up. i'm not sure i'm ready for it. i'm not sure i'm ready for the world. but things can't stay the same. and they shouldn't. no matter how scary it is, we have to move on, and we have to grow up. because things, well, they might just change for the better. so we have to be brave. and if our dreams get broken along the way, we have to make new ones from the pieces.

the parallels! the tension between the two monologues! the certainty versus the uncertainty! "fearing" hope versus feeling hope! the desire to grow up versus the understanding of what that change really means! like duh. can’t believe it took me this long.

#derry girls #not to mention james's 'the script might need a bit of work' versus 'you should write that down' #that's what they call growth #i'm sure i'm not the first person to notice this but i will still yell about it on my blog

[ecle-c-tic]

Kinda crazy how quick people who don't even watch ofmd will jump on the bandwagon of get fucked you guys suck haha glad your show is done! Like??? I genuinely don't understand. Why go out of your way to rain on someone else's parade with clearly no knowledge of the show?

#ofmd #renew as a crew #omfg not people calling it a slaveowners rpf #like what in the fuck #maybe don't blindly regurgitate what you heard from eternally pissed of twitter user no. 19 #twitter is an echo chamber of hate most of the time fuelled by a lack of nuance & prejudice & misconception #ANYWAY #I'm living my best life enjoying my little shows with fun stories and ubers of representation written by a diverse writing room #:D #(p.s. just bc people don't devote their online presence to something big and real and serious doesn't mean they're ignoring the problem) #p.s.s. it's not really stede bonnet! it's an actor playing from a script! 😉 wowww

[ectonurites]

SUPER DARK TIMES (2017) DIR KEVIN PHILLIPS

#tragically had to skip the 'are you afraid of me' exchange i love at the start bc. this scene is Long #super dark times #josh templeton #zach taylor #sam edits #btw i'm firmly in the 'Josh didn't kill John' camp. bc to me THIS scene is the point that... makes the most sense as Josh's breaking point/ #'villain turn' if that's what you'd want to call it. because this is really when Josh... sort of 'officially' loses Zach. from early on in #the movie it becomes clear how much Zach is like... an anchor for him—the way Josh is just fucking *chanting* his name in distress during #the Daryl accident. The way Josh begs Zach to believe him that it was an accident. The way Josh turns to Zach for answers/clarity/direction #Like even if we want to take a cynical approach and think of it as Josh just latching onto Zach in the Daryl situation because he was There #rather than that being an established thing w/ them... in the aftermath of that same incident Josh is still looking to/depending on him! #Josh self isolates at first... but after they talk & Zach tells him they shouldn't act weird Josh goes back to school. (yes #he lashes out there because He's Dealing With The Crushing Guilt but *all* of 'em are acting off then—Charlie specifically calls attention #to the idea they all probably are) Josh goes to the party just like Zach said they should and is *visibly confused* when Zach seems mad to #see him there. He goes to Zach's house to talk and you can SEE how caught off guard he is by what Zach says. Even though the script version #of this scene is VERY different from the final version I do think this one bit of description from it is... insightful: 'Josh seems sincere #almost vulnerable. But Zach is too focused to see it.' LIKE in this scene Zach is already convinced Josh has lost it! He's trying to act #more neutral about it (claiming they could just 'draw a line') but we saw his phone call with Charlie. Because of his own guilt-fueled #paranoia—something shown pretty clearly through the assorted dream sequences and like tht scene of him walking in the hall hearing people #gossip about Daryl—it seems like everything lines up too well! that '*of course* it's Josh and what if it's *been* Josh all along and well #then the role *I* played in the situation really isn't *my* fault because it was all *Josh* and...' etc. even if that's more subconscious #But like... this scene is really when it hits Josh! from the moment he asks if Zach's afraid of him now like... there's a shift. although #Zach says he isn't... i mean he fucking stumbles on the word 'afraid' (like... he hangs on the 'f' sound a moment too long to sound natural #its very subtle but like Noticeable). But Josh sees right through him. Zach doesn't trust him anymore. Zach thinks he's the bad guy. the #monster. Josh feeling like he lost the last person he had in his corner feels like the most realistic thing to... push him over the #edge. like that's a compelling tragedy to me—the idea that these two poorly coping with the Daryl situation in these separated ways where #they *aren't* talking/communicating ends up CREATING the feedback loop that makes everything get worse and worse. #But for that to be the case... it wouldn't make sense for Josh to have just randomly killed John before this scene. I think it's a more #interesting story if certain things really ARE just coincidences but it's that Zach's paranoia won't let him see that 🤷

[ineffable-doll]

Remembering when I joined the fandom in 2020 and no one would explain where the whole South Downs thing came from

#i read so many fics with the bookshop opening scene before learning it was a deleted scene from the season 1 script book #and the way people call the kiss EVERY because of the leak but if you don't KNOW that we sound CRAZY #and so many details from the original book that will go right over show-only fans' heads #i wonder how many things show-only fans think are fanon but are actually from the OG #he could do interesting things with tongue indeed mister snakeskin boots #and that's not even bringing the radio drama into this and the references to crowley wearing a skirt and hastur being dead etc #anyway this is not making fun of new fans by any means #if you're in this as deep as I am then we're in the same boat of absurdity #I'm just writing a fic that includes a lot of non-show non-canon scenes that exist in fandom spaces and it amused me #good omens #good omens 2 #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley

[petite-neko]

Me: peeks my head into a fandom considering to interact Fandom: full of toxic people who gossip, talk shit about people on social media, jump to conclusions and assumptions, and hate mail Me: Yeaaaahhh nope. Back to lurking it is then

#rant #honestly the behaviour was sterotypical anti puriteen cancel culture to a fucking tee #wah i don't like this person so i'm going to call them a bunch of nasty names as an over reaction and reach and shame anybody who likes the #like seriously it's the same song and dance every fucking time #it's almost sad how scripted it is #but even sadder that people keep falling for that fucking shit

[jaedoesart]

somehow this line got even funnier with the music and voice blips added in asdfghjk

#unfortunately i think i've hit a point where the script that i've written so far is so horribly optimized #that it might be in my best interest to erase and redo everything after the intro sequence #BUT the actual game mechanics are all fully functional now so I'd have more of a foundation to build off of the second time around :D #which should theoretically make things go a lot smoother in the long run #i put off the evidence log mechanic for so long bc i was terrified of having to troubleshoot but it actually ended up being super easy lmao #it's basically a reskin of the character profiles mechanic i'd put together earlier on #just formatted slightly differently #there is ONE more thing I'd like to add #and that's just a more simplified method of calling the screens for the point n click segments #which i'm like 95% sure is doable but I'm too sleepy to figure it out rn

[grayisblogging]

i love how the batman script insinuates that bruce regarded selina as being “the catwoman” because he didn’t know her name, but he did know she had a lot of cats. prior to this, she was referred to as “the woman in the evening gown,” but when she puts on her suit and he sees all her cats he changes his little mental code name for her.

#it's probably just the script differentiating between her two personas at the end of the day but i will choose to believe this instead #it's also short-lived because he learns her name is selina shortly after but i mean i'm not complaining #the way he catches her off guard calling her by her name for the first time plays on a loop in my head. #batcat #the batman #the batman 2022 #bruce wayne #batman #selina kyle #catwoman #mine

[the-ace-with-spades]

Bradley and Jake giving each other their callsigns was my headcanon from the day I watched TGM and it's now confirmed about Jake's...

BUT I still think that callsign is too cool - it had to have some very uncool, lame meaning and people only started spinning into what it became after they broke up and Jake became the Hangman that he is today

#my bet is it was a combo of dyslexia and the hangman game #but I'm open to suggestions #the call signs are just too cool soundibg okay #also be ready for me going over the script soonish #i just need a minute #hangster #tgm

[ladyofvoss]

The hour of reckoning is upon us.

Bonus:

#wolhien #wol x hien #hien rijin #thalia voss #shamelessly using in game dialogue #when i saw this in the script I knew i was going to do a photoset on it #alisaie's expression was the most fun #went for a combo of 'bruh' and 'really? right in front of my salad?' #alphinaud calls an emergency scion meeting #alphinaud: thalia please stop making various heads of state fall in love with you #thalia: i'm not doing it on purpose! #alphinaud leveilleur #alisaie leveilleur #lyse hext #stormblood #stormblood spoilers