#let's let sleeping dogs lie

[sluggoonthestreet]

Daisy's maxim: sleep through the showers, wake up to flowers.

#street art #sidewalk chalk #rock garden #april #spring #let sleeping dogs lie #patience

[megmoon1111]

puppy pillow

#me #mine #merlin #let a sleeping dog lie #Wednesday #selfie

[sankttealeaf]

"If I were a worm-"

"Rumour, please. Close your eyes and shut up."

stupid doodle from chapter 12 of let sleeping dogs lie that i never posted anywhere. little spoon gort nation rise up 🗣

#bg3 #enver gortash #the dark urge #durgetash #; let sleeping dogs lie #oc ; rue #sometimes i make nice art of them and sometimes i make stupid art #its mostly the latter tbf

[mechandra]

activation

#mechandra draws #actual factual me #buster the dog #let sleeping dogs lie they say #the hardwood floors do not agree

[lilflowerpot]

You probably already know about this, but i was reading an old post where you said how weird it is that Lotor and Keith are perfect narrative foils and I just wondered if you knew there was actually a reason for that? I think (as we can only speculate from what the people involved in the show said) that was by design. However as Shiro was a fan favourite and had unexpected popularity he was written back into the show earlier, despite the fact they had already storyboarded/written at least parts of s4 so they kind of replaced Keith with Shiro in s4 and sent Keith to the BOM. I feel like re-inserting keith back into the narrative though makes so much more sense in some scenes as it explains why some parts felt so *not* lead-up to and out of character and why a lot of loose ends weren’t tied off (Naxzela fallout, Keith being a hybrid never really developed, why the paladins never really mention Keith leaving to the BOM much, Shiro trusting Lotor after very little lead up and giving him the bayard which seems like a much more keith-ey instinctive thing to do, Keith & Lotor’s narrative foils and potential friendship as well as being a perfect way to get the audience to trust and like Lotor even more before his betrayal, Shiro being written suddenly as hot-headed and using Keith’s mannerisms, like his wall leaning thing etc)

There’s an interesting video that explains it a lot better here if you are interested: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iiFiVFxR_Q8

(Also to be clear absolutely no hate to anyone who made the show, it was still great.)

Also thanks so much for writing little blade! Your attention to detail in world building is amazing and really gives an extra depth to the story and makes it so engrossing.

As you say, we can only really speculate the ins and outs of why certain decisions were made and narrative directions taken, and honestly the fact that there's so much that we as fans simply don't know makes it really hard to comment, but ultimately, whatever the writer's reasoning for doing what they did,,, they messed up.

I'm not even saying this as someone who, obviously, loves Lotor blindly, but to use him as an example, his character arc didn't make sense; I can accept absolutely everything (alteans being used as batteries included) as a valid and narratively-supported exploration of his character up until his declaration that he wanted to commit genocide and wipe out the entire galra race,,, because that went against literally everything his character had been built upon. It wasn't a "twist" that served to prove he'd been pulling a long con, it was just... bad writing, plain and simple. Lotor, who'd been actively working to undermine everything his father had become, is ~revealed~ to want to commit the same atrocity that Zarkon did, just in reverse?? Lotor who begged on his knees for the lives of Ven'tar and her people- Lotor who was so gentle when talking to Allura about everything he'd lost in the past and everything he wished to build in the future- Lotor who was trying to create a second Voltron not as a weapon but rather as a means of supplying an endless source of clean energy for the Empire so that it would no longer have cause to devastate and destroy entire planets... that Lotor?

And look, here's the thing, so they'd planned to kill Shiro off only to be surprised that he was popular and so bring him back, fine, they had enough time to do that and do it well... but did they? Because frankly, Kuron got more dedicated screen time than "resurrected" Shiro, and all they really succeeded in doing was shove an obsolete character into a narrative that no longer had room for him, which was d e e p l y unsatisfying no matter how you slice it. I say this as someone who //adores// Shiro, and wanted nothing more than for him to be alive, but from an authorial perspective it felt deeply disingenuous and like an obvious after-thought. Not to mention, as that video says, "team voltron" didn't feel like a team at all, by the end—they barely knew each other let alone liked one another. Keith's ousting from the squad had so much potential from a "Kuron is a double-agent actively working to destabilise voltron" sort of way, but if they wanted that to work then there needed to be some recognition of what happened? Some apologies from the other paladins for never really fighting for Keith at all? Never understanding he was grieving not only Shiro but Regris too (sans, of everyone, Allura, who was the only person to actually recognise & acknowledge that Keith was in pain)?

Speaking of Allura, she's another character who suffered from what I can only assume was the writers repeatedly changing their minds on the direction of the story and simply shoving her into whatever box best fit. She & Keith at first seemed to be building something important, and while I'm not especially a kallura shipper, god, at least they had an actual foundation for a relationship (in whatever form) hard-won,,, having her throw herself at Lance, who she'd shown ZERO interest in before that point, immediately after her former lover (1) reveals he has a secret colony of her people that he's been using as living batteries, and (2) dIES RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER...? She should have been grieving, and //slowly// healing, but instead she jumps straight into a new relationship that the narrative treats as if it's some sort of epic yet tragically doomed romance rather than an ill-thought rebound?

It just.. it wasn't even a good plot, let alone a satisfying one.

Hunk was originally implied to be the beating heart of the group, except they gave him next to no screen-time only to realise in those last couple of seasons "shit, people are supposed to care about him, errr have a tragic family rescue mission". Lance was treated as a joke from day one, despite being set up to (I personally suspect) become Keith's right hand and emotional support in more than just battle. Keith himself was repeatedly given all the foundations for genuinely solid and satisfying plots only to never quite follow through in the end (learning to let down his walls, to trust, to love- until the entire team casts him out never to apologise for it and only takes him back when they lose their replacement once more / becoming a confident leader and Shiro's successor only for it to be undermined and then thrown back together again when convenient / finding and building a relationship with his mother, except they speed-ran it in one montage and had Krolia leave again soon after).

Truthfully, Pidge is probably the only core character who managed to come out at the end with what felt like a properly concluded arc.

#this is low-key a rant post but also a genuine critique #beyond this I don't want to dwell on canon's ultimate direction tbh let's just let sleeping dogs lie shall we? #sa screams back #the author speaks

[locustandwildhoney]

Let Jacob Rest 2023

the people have spoken, sleepy Jacob sketches for all your napping pleasure.

#remember sinners you must let sleeping dogs lie #Jacob Seed #far cry 5 #fc5 #my art #one wip for each sin #quick sketchies before bedtime

[otrtbs]

my philosophy is that things that are dead should just stay dead but that’s just me.

#like have we learned nothing from frankenstein #or the renaissance #or the phrase let sleeping dogs lie

[tactlesstuesdays]

😬

i personally wouldn't like to receive this paragraph from someone that's got the same username as my kid and for that person to be using my first name to address me. please don't do this, it's only going to make this situation worse

#danger force #please DONT do this #just let sleeping dogs lie #i didnt even know her mother's name until this whole situation #yall know too much about the people you know truly nothing about

[tawaifeddiediaz]

so you’re ok with that artist depicting Jee as white? regardless of who said what it’s quite clear in the art that she has been white-washed.

“regardless of who said what” things do not occur in a vaccum. regardless of you saying whatever you want on anon, i choose to use my own brain to make an assessment about this, and it’s not about what i think, anyway.

as i said last night, if you were truly concerned about this, you would approach me in DMs are off-anon. instead, i’m more inclined to think that you want to monopolise on drama that didn’t need to happen.

no one would look at jee-yun as the artist has depicted her and say “hey, that’s a white child”. depictions of POC - and i can’t speak on korean depictions specifically, but i’m south asian so hopefully this explanation gets through to you - are not limited to just skin color. there are many other factors involved, and depending on the art style, those things may or may not show.

the artist has clearly explained the choices behind their depictions of jee yun as a korean artist, including numerous color swatches from the source material which do have jee yun paler than buck and maddie - with different undertones - and every one of their explanations is more believable than this rhetoric you’re spreading.

#zee answers #this is the last ask that i’ll answer about this #if you want to have an actual adult discussion then you can DM me #or come off anon so i can reply privately #but i urge you to NOT follow fandom blindly #fandom discourse #i know i need to let sleeping dogs lie but i just can’t stand this

[sparrowsworkshop]

“Let Sleeping Dogs Lie” by OneWingedSparrow

Fic Summary: Post-The Last Wish. In a quiet moment on the ship, Puss in Boots ponders how nice it is to not be alone for once. Main Tags: Puss in Boots & Kitty Softpaws & Perrito, Found Family, Fluff Read on AO3 Reblogs are appreciated! ~

It was strange, not being alone.

Sure, sure, at Mama Luna’s home, Puss had never been left alone. There was always someone’s mittened paw thrust in his face, while he unsuccessfully attempted to sleep. Always someone’s bony shoulder bumping into his, while he suffered dunking his beard into the disgusting, rock-hard pellets claiming to be food. Always someone’s nosy gaze burning holes into his fur while he tried to take a dignified crap on the...well, the completely vulnerable and thoughtlessly out in the open and holy frijoles, couldn’t the woman have at least provided a cardboard box or something for privacy?—litterbox. No one had ever left him alone for a single moment, ever given him a crumb’s worth of privacy. That had been exhausting.

But this…? This was a different kind of not being alone.

One that felt...significantly better.

Puss glanced down at Perrito’s sleeping form. The little dog’s head was resting on Puss’s stomach like had happened that fateful day in the forest. All else of Perrito couldn’t be seen, concealed by Puss’s discarded cape. Perrito’s soft snores were a constant hum of white noise, almost in rhythm with the lackadaisical waves clapping against the ship.

They’d weighed anchor hours ago, and Puss had sat down for a breather, only to find that Perrito wanted attention. The little dog didn’t chatter as much as Puss mentally prepared himself for. Instead, Perrito quietly turned a circle, lay down, and sighed happily, eventually falling asleep.

Yes, one could perhaps say that such an innocent gesture had caught Puss in Boots off guard...but, he reasoned, a fearless hero must ever adapt to the unexpected.

He still had much to learn during this last life of his.

A great yawn stretched Puss’s mouth. He shifted slightly, rubbing his fur against the mast behind him. A functional backrest, but not the most comfortable.

“Are you going to stay up here all night?”

The mockery was, he noted with a grin, decidedly quieter than normal. Puss turned to see Kitty standing nearby. Her blue eyes gleamed in the dim, but her silhouette was slightly off. He raised an eyebrow. She’d swiped his hat again and was shamelessly flaunting it.

“You know,” Puss said lightly, “if you really fancy that style all that much, you could get one of your own.”

“Ugh, then I would match you.” Kitty shuddered dramatically, but he saw her smiling. “How disgusting.”

“Disgusting?” he scoffed. “Puss in Boots boasts only the most fashionable hat in all the land!" "We are not on land anymore," Kitty countered. "I do not think your argument stands." Ignoring her, Puss continued, with a wave of his paw, "It would be a bold statement to replicate such a distinguished style!”

“Like your beard?”

“The beard was fine,” he huffed. “Just itchy.”

“Mmmhmm,” Kitty mused. She tilted the hat mischievously, revealing more of her face. “And why should I get one of my own when I can just take yours whenever I please?” With a flourish, she swung his hat aside and plopped it right over his face.

“Exactly why you should,” Puss grumbled into the crown, though he wasn’t all that bothered. She always gave back what she stole from him.

Puss returned his hat to its rightful place, taking care to fluff the feather. Kitty raised her paw, as if testing the night air. “It’s cold up here,” she said. “You should come down where it is warm.”

He straightened the brim and nodded at Perrito. “I do not wish to move him.”

“Oh, you are a big softie,” Kitty said teasingly. “The fearsome hero, Puss in Boots, staying up all night above deck because he did not wish to wake a little dog.”

“You would have done the same, Kitty Softpaws.”

“Don’t be so grumpy.”

“I am not being grumpy—”

“But you are being loud! Shush!” Kitty knelt beside him. “Here, I’ll do you a favor. That way you owe me later.”

The true generosity of an outlaw, he thought. Always willing to lend a hand, so long as something was promised—or simply “provided”—in return.

Not that he minded paying her back.

True to her reputation, Kitty executed her plan with nary a sound. Carefully, she wrapped the cape around Perrito, snuggling him in a big fabric burrito, and scooped him up. Perrito burbled in his sleep, but otherwise didn’t stir.

Puss noted how Kitty’s expression shifted to something quite tender, but chose not to comment, lest she rob him of his hat again...or worse.

Now that the weight was off him, Puss felt free to stand. Having leaned against the mast for so long, his back was somewhat stiff, and made a loud crack when he stretched.

He caught Kitty’s eye again. She snorted. “And you would have kept in that position all night,” she tsked as she headed for the cabin. “Maybe even the next day too, if Perrito slept in.”

Puss followed her step for step, right by her side. “Are you not supposed to let sleeping dogs lie? Is that not a whole thing?”

“Not all the time, you shouldn’t.” Kitty bumped his shoulder with her own. “And...I am glad you did not with us, Puss in Boots.”

Despite the chill she claimed was in the air, Puss suddenly felt quite warm. He could not help but grin, as that warmth that radiated in his chest soon spread all the way down to the honored boots his mamá had given him so long ago.

Maybe, Puss thought, this different kind of Not Being Alone was not so strange after all.

~

#puss in boots #kitty softpaws #perrito #found family #puss in boots the last wish #the last wish #fluff #family fluff #fanfic #fanfiction #puss in boots fanfiction #puss in boots fanfic #team friendship #let sleeping dogs lie #sparrow fics #Thanks for reading! #first fic of 2023! hope you enjoyed!

[heronoegg]

roki

#art #shoto todoroki #bnha #i don't usually draw his hair like this but i did it already so i had to let sleeping dogs lie

[rosyjuly]

spoils of war

seb/mick | 11k, E | chapter 2

"One of my men will have you – as they want. I will not order them, I will not interfere. If I am satisfied – our agreement is fulfilled. If I am not, well…” Toto laughs. The blood in Sebastian’s veins freezes.

please heed the tags and the prompt!

#once again i would be nothing without gabby's betaing TBH thank you gabby!!! #if anyone thought i would ever be able to let a sleeping dog (a oneshot) lie #then i'm with you and we both are mistaken #sebmick #my fic #is it gauche to de-anon a KM fill? maybe but do i care? no #i am very proud of this so i'm forcing people to look at it :)

[shimmeringweeds]

One.... bothering detail. Like immediately pausing the episode to rewatch and make sure I saw that right bothering:

After CXS punches QJ's bare skin here.

CXS, for a brief second, he flinches and there's a static noise played.

What does that mean.

QJ then reaches his hand out to "grab?" CXS. That could mean lot of things so I wont read into it too far, but, you know..... with the static fresh in my mind....

Then XL finally shows up. XL who is somehow starting a special time unit (god save us all). Because how convenient it has been that XL has just believed all this from the start and has been talking to higher ups about it and somehow convincing them that superpowers exist.

Add in this scene during Liu Xiao's dissertation on time parallels.

Hey hey hey.....Is it too early to start thinking? Because I don't think this is the last we will see of Qian Jin.

#we should count our blessings and let sleeping dogs lie #I will NOT #maybe I'm overthinking at that was just a flinch because bullet wounds hurt #时光代理人 #link click #link click spoilers

[franklespine]

The funny thing about supernatural is that I don't think it would work if Sam and Dean weren't the nosey bitches that they are. Ik all of their digging in every episode can be justified by the fact that they are trying to crack a case but ultimately I just know that they have an insatiable need to find out people's juicy little secrets and family drama. This is one of the reasons why s10e06 Ask Jeeves has been one of my favourite episodes in the later seasons because not only do I enjoy it narratively, I think it really puts on full display Sam and Dean's sticky beak tendencies because they really did not need to go prying into this family's lives but they did it anyway because they can't just mind their own goddamn business. I honestly do not think half the things in the show would have happened if they just minded their own business.

And it makes sense, like Dean watches soap operas, clearly he enjoys people's family drama and juicy secrets as a guilty pleasure and it's shown in that one episode where Zachariah sends Sam and Dean so some alternate universe where they work some regular office jobs, Sam is just incapable of not picking at any loose thread in his life until the whole thing comes down.

At the end of the day, Sam and Dean are just nosey bitches and that is my truth.

#spn #supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #they're too silly #sometimes the narrative is so tragic I want to explode but other times I look at it from the silly perspective I have created in my head #at the end of the day theyre just silly little guys #the more I think about it the more true it is like Sam especially cannot just let sleeping dogs lie #like sure do they hunt because it is the only way they know how to get satisfaction in their lives - sure #but I also believe in a secret third motivation of being nosey bitches

[e-adlirez]

Okay so this is a part 2 to @echoflare841's question because I quickly realized that this is gonna be one helluva mega post if I slapped it all into one post. You might wanna sit down for this one, and uh, if you wish to maintain your innocence and not develop a whole new infuriation towards Scholastic for being so damn slow with translations, then uh, this is your chance to leave and keep Pandora's box unopened, I'll see you when my brainrot allows me to actually do something ^^. Here's a little guy to take with you on your travels.

Still here? Aight, cool. Buckle up.

Scholastic currently has five of the Thea Stilton series translated to English for us to consume, and that's 36 books in the main series, 19 books (on paper) in the Mouseford series, 9 special editions, the Treasure Seekers trilogy, and four Classic Tales. (The graphic novels were released by Papercutz, a company independent of Scholastic.) Now, if we're gonna tally up EdiPiemme's arsenal of Thea Stilton books (and I do mean arsenal), one thing you're gonna have to remember is that Thea Stilton itself is a franchise, not a series. Yes, the Thea Sisters are the spotlight in most of these, but there are some series that fall under the Thea Stilton franchise that are rather different and simply are an extension of the Geronimo Stilton Literary Universe.

Anyway so with that, this is what EdiPiemme has in Thea Stilton books, as of 2023:

59 books in the main series (Avventura)

61 books in the Mouseford series (Vita al College)

12 special edition books, plus the Treasure Seekers trilogy

12 Classic Tales or Libri del Cuore (they did Jane Eyre ya'll as a ninth grade Jane Eyre fan I am surprised)

11 Heart Detective books (Detective del Cuore, basically the girls open up a hobbyist detective agency dedicated to the romantic, the infatuated, and the people who are too shy to confess to their crushes. They play part-detective, part-matchmaker in helping two people who have crushes on each other get together. I think. The detective agency tho I'm very certain on, it's the cutest thing they've done so far)

5 Secret Diaries, just some extra content in the form of a diary all five girls share. Stuff about their lives you don't get to see in adventures that much, and it's cute :D

5 Secrets of the Thea Sisters -- i-it's just five kids' activity books but Thea Sister-themed and also some lore

3 books in Sirene, which is a fantasy thing where the Thea Sisters find a magic link in Whale Island that leads to a mermaid kingdom :D if you felt clickbaited by the special editions because they don't actually have the girls become fairies or something, then Sirene actually has them turn into mermaids for their time in the Cobalt Kingdom :D

23 books in Incanto-- it's a KoF spinoff that follows a group of KoF princesses and princes trying to save it from uh big baddies :D

3 books in Three Girls in the Court of King Arthur, once again another spinoff that circles around three lady knights in King Arthur's court hoping to save the world from Morgana and her mysterious Silent Knight

3 Adventures Through Time, yes the girls get to travel back in time, but it's more magic than science and there's an emphasis on some historical girlbosses

6 Stars Academy books

2 books in The Roses and the Spades, which is a sequel to TGitCoKA

1 SuperSisters book, which is basically a superhero book for the Thea Sisters so they can kick ass and stop having villains roll nat20s in intimidation--

2 Cases in Progress, an ongoing series where the girls are investigating some funky cases detected by an algorithm Paulina's invented that searches the internet space for funky anomalies and weird shnit to investigate

1 book in Spectralia, where three hooman girls get Jumanji-ed into a board game and they gotta Jumanji their way outa there, I only learned about this just now while doing research and it's an interesting premise :3c

And I think that's it? There's one choose-your-adventure type thing where you get to investigate with the girls on a case relating to a crown, but that's about it I think. I dunno, EdiPiemme and the Thea Sisters' blog's catalogues have been a mess since they updated the visuals on both, so I unfortunately can't say for sure if I got all of them or if I missed one because my original sources missed them, but eh. Anyway uh, hope you have fun with this new knowledge :'D

#geronimo stilton #thea stilton #thea sisters #questions with e #hey if all else fails now you are free to express your frustrations on it and grieve with us on the lack of content we English speakers hav #if you decided to let sleeping dogs lie #then I hope you enjoyed the bord #he's a familiar from a roleplay server I'm in #he's my son <:] #if you chose to read on then uh enjoy the information you now have? #the next maneuver can only be to #what the hell scholastic

[music-for-them-asses]

#personal #Like let's just assume that if you say nothing then nothing will change but if you said something #then that person might not want to talk to you anymore or be your friend #or it changes the dynamic so much it can't go back to what it was #Look I told one of my bffs in high school I wanted to date and he said he didn't and the aftermath was awful #is it worth it to just let sleeping dogs lie Ig