#like it’s literally already half canon

[chirpsythismorning]

Not a redditor comparing the possibility of byler endgame to the likelihood of the earth being flat

#byler #these are fictional characters were talking about #in a fictional universe #you’re gonna compare two boys falling in love and ending up together in a fictional story #with flat earthers…. #this just proves they refuse to even look at evidence #they are terrified of it #they’re only solution is to deflect and be completely obtuse about it #and then explain in 10 different paragraphs why nothing is that deep… #like it’s literally already half canon #and there’s one more season left #just say you’re hoping with all your might it won’t happen and let’s call it a day #😐 #🤔 #🤣

[aroaceleovaldez]

It's honestly wild to me that ToA went through so much trouble to emphasize the fact that Will did not magically fix all of Nico's problems and was explicitly not Nico's only doctor.

Only for TSATS to have Will fix all of Nico's problems and have Nico be entirely reliant on him the entire book and literally helpless without him and LITERALLY have Nico's problems be magically removed.

#pjo #riordanverse #tsats crit #nico di angelo #solangelo #it doesnt make any sense too cause. in HoO we KNOW Nico was fully capable of handling himself in Tartarus #we already knew he was explicitly on his own. we know he had it worse than Percy and Annabeth did #because we are explicitly told that Nico saw Tartarus' true nature the ENTIRE TIME versus Percy only getting a tiny half-glimpse of it once #and Percy acknowledges that he would not be able to withstand actually seeing Tartarus more than he did without just dying on the spot #and Nico was down there for as long as Percy and Annabeth at least. on his own. flying blind and explicitly having it worse. #so it doesnt make sense to totally retcon Nico's ENTIRE experiences with Tartarus to make him sopping wet and pathetic about it #needing to be helped and only being down there for twenty minutes and crying the whole time #and then all of the book he's literally functionally helpless without Will for some reason. despite being in his element. #could not get more in his element than being in the Underworld. my guy literally lives there. that's his HOUSE. that's his YARD. #and he's still just totally sopping wet and pathetic in Tartarus the second time around #like im sorry. no. we literally have previously established canon indicating this is absolutely not the case #that is not something you can retcon. that is an entire major event. it was not glossed over. #unless you are doing time travel and it's a canonical retcon a la Homestuck im sorry the events of TSATS just could never occur #(not to mention Damasen is just never acknowledged in TSATS and him and Bob were absorbed by Tartarus the god and ergo dead in HoH) #(so Bob and Damasen are like. *Gone* gone. they didn't just die to be reformed later they got ERASED.) #(and Nyx sure as hell isnt gonna be the one to have Bob trapped for whatever reason. definitely not cause she hates light/change/whatever) #(nyx is literally the mother/sister [depends on version - sometimes a mitosis situation] of the personification of day? and sky?) #(and FRIENDSHIP? and the nymphs of sunset? sometimes also CHEERFULNESS? and THOUGHTFULNESS? and old age) #(ah yes the mother of concepts such as love/friendship and aging and. day. would HATE [checks notes] love/friendship changing and light) #(she INVENTED THOSE) < anyways thank u for coming to my aside rant in the tags #in parenthesis to indicate this is an aside/tangent rant. anyways i have so many problems with this plot. it just DOESNT WORK #on NO LEVEL DOES IT WORK AT ALL WITH ESTABLISHED CANON

[lloydfrontera]

tfw when you write an entire novel with two protagonists that spent the entire plot getting closer to each other, becoming best friends and eventually both of them deciding they would rather die than allow the other to not live a long, fulfilling life, their friendship carrying most of the emotional weight of the entire plot and the emotional climax being one of them sacrificing his life so the other can live and then the other crossing literal universes to find him, a tearful smile in his face as he confesses how much he missed him. which is the scene you wanted to write and show the most because, again, this is the pay off to the slowburn you've been writing in the entire novel and what everything has been building up to since the very first chapter. and then you end the novel by having them share a smile, finally confident they'll be able to have a happy future.

but you also just gotta have one of them marry offscreen because everyone knows you can't be happy if you're not in a het marriage with kids lmao it's whatever it's okay i'm fiNE-

#i talk a lot <3 #the greatest estate developer #lloyd frontera #this post was going to be so much more bitter this is me being nice akjshdkahdk #i just....... i'm sad alsjdsjkal #and i don't think i'm wrong to be. like i'm not disapointed bc i don't actually expected lloyd and javier to be together #i'm not that optimistic lmao #but i did have the hope tged would have no romance #because lloyd and javier were already doing so much in the emotional and relationship development front of the plot #that adding romance just feels. awkward. like an aside. an add-on that affects none of the plot and is just there to make sure #no one accidentally gets confused and think those two are in love #and guess what! most of the romance does happen in literal side stories! literally an add-on that does nothing for the plot! i hate it! #it's the heteronormativity and amatonormativity of it all :/ #do i think it would've been cool for llojavi to be canon? absolutely! do i think it was necessary for the plot? nope! #they were already perfect the way they are! their friendship is the core of the entire plot and their relationship to each other #is what ultimately moves much of the plot in the latter half! #which is the way relationships should work in fiction! not just have them for the sake of having them! #lloyd didn't need a romantic subplot because the plot was already working perfectly without it! #also what's the point of having a character constantly think about what their idea of 'happy life' is if you're not going to challenge it #it's about the hero's journey of it all!!! #i have things to say dang it! #javier asrahan #tged

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

anyway how do you think ryan graham yaz and dan got through the whole giggle situation

#i dont remember why companions were immune but i guess they were immune werent they? #interesting #i know we joke abt the whole like every christmas is an invasion and how do you not remember the 10 dalek invasions and donnas obliviousnes #like so much so that half of that has been made canon #which twists the walls between in and out of universe up like a möbius strip if you ask me #but like #if you make that a watsonian thing #then aliens dont really happen in your life until you travel with the doctor #like you get infected with tardis stuff #which also again is already a canon thing #void stuff. translation circuit. giggle immunity. etc #once you meet the doctor you enter their universe #oh nvm they just didnt explain why cmpanions were immune fgkhgjgh typical #'maybe longterm travel in the tardis puts you out of sync' #the doctor literally just making shit up bc who cares really

[daisywords]

Going insane over Fairest reread I love when beloved books from days of yore are as good as I remember

#gail carson levine #fairest #daisyreads #Ivi and Aza as parallels both driven by their insecurity!!! #the characters actually acting within their cultural/religious framework!!! #the little worldbuilding touches like the symmetrical names and words!!!! #I think this book was a big contributor to my love of political/palace-intrigue flavored fantasy come to think of it #also Ivi is SUCH a compelling character the way that she's so clearly vulnerable and incompetent yet has such a hold over people #the way that Aza's terrified of her but also half in love with her #but also! she's not even that smart! we see through her and yet can't outsmart her! #And also the way Aza/Ijori works pretty well as a pairing bc almost immediately they are cast as a team #first in the composing game as a kind of foreshadowing to their larger shared task of Managing Ivi #Literally the part I'm at now they barely know each other #but they're already working together to try to keep Ivi from upending the kingdom on day 1 of her being in charge lol #in a very practical and mutually respectful kind of way #but anyway bi Aza is canon to me #this book is so well crafted. read and respect it or die by my blade

[syrips]

'you wouldnt like villain blorbo if they were officially redeemed/romanced because the excitement is in the mystery and how canonically it wouldnt make sens-'

wrong.

ravenloft i10 (1e). DoD (2e). VRGtR (5e).

thank u

#curse of strahd spoilers #bg3 spoilers #i dont even understand what ppl mean by 'this char cant be redeemed' #like have you not listened to rudolph the red nosed reindeer #even all the other reindeer redeemed themselves and let him join in their reindeer games #ok that rudolph thing was a half meme but also like dont gatekeep and ignore chance of a positive shift for an evil character thats weird #esp cuz the inverted of negative things for a good character is somehow seen as valid/legit #if you have no idea what the context of these sourcebooks are dw about it #even if it 'didnt make sense' who cares tho. most companies literally TAKE popular fanons and PUBLISH them as canon in future editions anyw #u should be demanding unrealistic/not possible stuff from companies that are publishing out D&D content #cuz D&D content is made with YOU. dnd is a HOBBY. an ACTIVITY. not a PRODUCT that you need company validation from #literally fanon stuff esp in dnd is valid because of it. they just resell the ideas and traditions that dnd players did before it was canon #its the same reason why dnd 'home rules' slowly become 'official dnd published players handbook rules' #they didnt invent it. they just literally RECOGNIZE something that a majority has ALREADY been doing #anyways ramble done your campaigns/aus/npcs/redemption/corruption arcs are legit goodbye #random syrips theory

[waterdeepthroat]

i know i kinda have a reputation to uphold as an astarionposter but like. he's not even my fav character in bg3...

#my ranking of the companions would be: #1. shadowheart 2. jaheira 3. lae'zel 4. astarion 5. wyll 6. halsin 7. karlach 8. gale and then minsc/minthara bc i haven't recruited either #idk i just really love how jaheira was portrayed in bg3 and i feel like she doesn't get enough love #+ lae'zel's story arc may not be as compelling to me personally as astarion's but. gith lore is like my absolute fav thing and i love her s #and i've already talked loads about how shadowheart is my no. 1 #re: wyll i actually really like him and he would've been ranked higher if i hadn't played early access. i miss his more playful side tbh #halsin ranks higher than karlach or gale because of how much his being canon polyam means to me. also he's funny as hell #karlach and gale's stories just didn't resonate as hard with me ig?? i love them all they're just not my favs #there's literally no companion i actively dislike which is v strange bc in most games i usually HATE at least one. #in dao i HATED sten. in da2 it was seb. in dai it was cassandra. in poe2 it was pallegina. in nwn2 it was bishop. in wotr it was daeran #anyway i could go on and on about how larian made fundamentally flawed but still likable characters. i just love them sm. #edit: even though gameplay-wise wotr is one of my top games ever. i actively hated like half of the companions lmao #lmk if you want me to make a post about who i like and why in pfwotr bc i am Very Opinionated

[moe-broey]

I also want to say this main screen dialogue makes me so soft............. doing things to me. Emotionally.

#fire emblem #feh #like all of this is extremely half baked very first impression thoughts but i need someone to hear me LMFAOOO #and i'm putting this half baked thought in the tags bc idk if i'm gonna sound insane for it #but like. being loved... being cherished and valued as a friend.... even if you have a chronic condition and/or disability #and also recognizing yourself in the other and becoming a family about it. to me all of the fairies feel like one big family. #ESPPP in the recent TT event and ESPPPP in triandra's fbs w plumeria #and plumeria just. SO MUCH. feels like an older sister. who has a lot going on. but still loves and protects despite that. #and ofc triandra literally is an older sister to peony. but SO much plumeria and triandra feel like sisters to me too #AND LIKE........ tbh the fucking sweet dream/nightmare split. freyja and freyr aside. #literally actually peony and triandra almost feel like half sisters (despite canonically being full blood) #it's the circumstances i'm talking about though. like plumeria and triandra live in one household #and peony and mirabilis live in another. they might see each other on weekends. do you get me??? #also i am just still SO fascinated by where sharena's placement in it all could be. #like..... this may be a wildly different tangent already that could be its own post #but also don't get your hopes up for analysis again all of this is half-baked and purely headcanon. as well. #fe peony

[narratorstragedy]

the worst but also the best part about learning languages is when you reach the point where you are constantly aware that the people you talk to and the media you consume are all making cultural references that you simply do not get so all of a sudden you’re like goddamn it i need to read every piece of classic italian literature ever now

#one of the profs was telling me how her translation class decided that leopardi was 'emo' and i was like wow this would be so funny if i #knew literally anything about giacomo leopardi besides the fact that he supposedly ate a kilo and a half of confetti before dying #(thank you that one tumblr post) #but also the part of my brain that's like 'you need to consume those works In Italian' makes this difficult because i simply cannot do that #yet #arugujhakshjdhajahjfasjhfewkrjht #she speaks.l #this happened w spanish too but like. As i was taking a spanish literature class? so i already started to read stuff that's regularly #references & then just kind of continued to read stuff naturally #except sometimes i read literature from a specific country and i'm like sooooo i need to read all of your canonical writers now #reading mariana enriquez like oh so i need to read piglia reading piglia like oh so i need to read borges and arlt reading arlt like oh so #i need to read macedonio fernández #etc etc etc etc #well really reading borges --> fernández. whatever #aaaaaaaa. girls when the wealth of knowledge and literature within the world is overwhelming and wonderful but they will never get to know #it all :( #also this is like. the fact that there's so much just within spanish language literature. can u imagine the depth of also arabic literature #etc etc #i mean like i am sure you can. that was weird phrasing. #BECAUSE ALSO THEN IT'S LIKE. there is so much that is wonderful outside of the 'canon' of well known writers BUT I CAN'T READ IT ALL SO....

[pagesofkenna]

it makes me so sad when people refer to Vlaakith as a god lmao

she's a lich

like, an incredibly old lich with a lot of power, and I know from the outside it's easy to wonder what the difference is between that and a god, and that I'm being a bit pedantic about the mechanics of this setting

but gods (in Fearun) are not just 'really powerful magic users'. they're beings with a direct connection to and major control over a mortal 'portfolio'. their literal power is directly connected to the strength of their worship/veneration. gods can die but even in death they hold power over their portfolios (Mystra, for example, has 'died' multiple times at this point, but because her portfolio (magic) still exists she keeps coming back, in one form or another)

Vlaakith has no 'portfolio'. her power is her own and does not come from her follower's veneration, except in the way any political power is strengthened by its followers. she is, quite literally, just a 'really powerful magic user'. she wants you to think she's a god, but calling her one is ascribing her more power than she actually has. she can die, and once she's dead she's dead

#but also. this is an existing IP with hundreds of writers making up new lore every day #so like. maybe they'll canonize vlaakith's ascension to godhood and i'll be wrong #but i'll never read or run her as anything more than the lich queen she is #even in bg3 we can directly contrast her appearances to the appearances of the ACTUAL gods we meet in that game #shar and mystra both create demiplanes in which to communicate with the mortals they have influence over #vlaakith appears as a giant projection hologram wherever you already are. theres literally a spell for that #she makes herself big and scawwy but she cant even do HALF of what the literal goddesses do when they're just trying to talk

[zebruh]

will never understand people who say dirks bi when this is one of the first convos we see dirk have

#vwitty banter #hs revwiewv #literally half the cast is already canonically bi #let there be the one gay guy #and same goes for rose and kanaya being lesbians #ive read the pages that are supposed truth of johnrose being real #when. its literally just rose being grimdark not even speaking english and egbert is treating her like a dog #all 'whats that girl? you want to explore some more? sure! lets do it come on' #while shes speaking horrorterror and getting annoyed #its not there? #rose has never shown interest in egbert on screen #which is when junes still a teenage boy to everyone

[bylertruther]

just had a thought. the religious panic is ramping up going into season five and so is the gay shit which means that mike and will are inevitably going to enter their take me to church by hozier era:

knows everybody's disapproval i should've worshiped her sooner if the heavens ever did speak, she's the last true mouthpiece every sunday's getting more bleak, a fresh poison each week we were "born sick", you heard them say it my church offers no absolutes she tells me "worship in the bedroom" the only heaven i'll be sent to is when i'm alone with you i was born sick, but i love it [..] there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin in the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene only then i am human only then i am clean

#was in the middle of my sorry attempt to be a Human Being In The World when this song came on #and ofc my brain immediately went to my blorbitos </3 #that last part makes me especially insane btw . #they're already half-way there tbh. mike makes will feel better for being different and will's confession made mike feel like he's worthy #and that he IS loved for who he truly is. that he DOES matter. that he IS needed and important. that he's not worthless. #as soon as mike realizes it's will and it's always been will it's a WRAP! #the upside down/vecna feeds on shame and pain. their love for each other washes away the shame and pain that they feel. #what they feel for each other will literally make them invincible! it's their shield against the darkness! #asking will to be his friend was the best thing mike's ever done. mike's friendship and love makes will feel like he's not a mistake and #it gives him the strength to fight on. it's literally canon. #mike pulled will out of vecna's hold with just his voice and presence. mike's best memory is befriending will. #mike's home isn't a home without will. his life is weird without will. when he's gone or in trouble he goes to the ends of the world to #rescue him and stays by his side the entire time. when he's states away he calls him even if will never answers or calls back. #he NEVER gives up on will. he CAN live without him but he doesn't WANT to. because it's always been will for him. always. #like. they've been giving us the puzzle pieces this entire time. #'that's bullshit media propaganda' + eddie mentioning sodomy in his lunchroom rant #mike will literally not give a single fuck about any of these mouthbreathers calling him a satanist. once he finds out tht will loves him #back? it's ONNNNNNNNNNNNN LIKE ITS OVER HENRY GO HOME!!!!!!! #(i'm exaggerating a little bit bt. u know wht i mean.) #like i jsut . *explodes thinking abt how it's always been abt byler how it started with byler and will end with byler and how s5 #is will's coming of age story which means that he's done hiding from those that he loves he wants to come clean #he wants to tell his truth he destroyed castle byers and outgrew it it isn't enough to live in the world as a lie #he wants to be will byers and as scary as it is to accept that and live that it's . it's what he wants!!! #and he's working towards that he is because he's brave and now that he's going to be surrounded by people who have fought against #impossible odds to save his life time and time again it's liek . it's all going to come together. u kno? #literally how can i think abt all of that and NOT fucking explode . wht th efuck #mine #byler thoughts #writing a gat damn epic poem in this bitch jesus . ok back 2 my cave i go now

[vveakfish]

god damnit not again

#𓆟 #chvm bvcket #watching a show (it could he any show really. it happens with all of them) #but right now its stranger things — anyway #my brain immediately just goes: au time #and this time i literally sat down and was like ‘dont to do it!!! dont start building another au!!!!!’ #i have too many half baked au planning docs already #(but like… timkon fits SO WELL IN THIS CONTEXT) #this will not be anything other than thinking about ways to play with timkon introductions in canon adjacent contexts

[jennamacaroni]

🚨the user is actually writing fic🚨

#helps that its a half baked prompt from like a year ago thats already partially written #and is literally the most niche thing ever #but gdi will wrote my soft af deborah in her flannel as i see fit #canon? idk her #hacks

[tales-of-sweets]

Was no one gonna tell me writing smut could cure writers block?😲

I have barely been able to manage writing like 20 words a day but then yeaterday my friend was writing smut for a different fanfom so I thought "oh, that looks fun! I wanna try!" I sat down to write a few paragraphs on a whim and next thing I know I had almost 6k words of feelings, insecurities, internal conflicts and Zelos’s desperation to be loved (and the smut was there too but, comparatively, it wasn't that much lol)

Honestly at this rate I could have removed the smut from the story but hey, nothing wrong with that lol

Quality is iffy but I'm also gonna write a chapter two just for fun ^^

#nothing like some post canon 'ive traveled along with you for years but I still feel unworthy of you' type content #literally they have been on the road for like 3 years and already dating about half a year and this is still an issue #zelos go to therapy challenge #zelloyd

[winter-spark]

That moment when you're writing a theoretical one shot and have a vivid idea for a scene so you skip ahead to it and you get all the way past the cute part to where you sorta stopped writing in your head and you've figured some world/story detail stuff out and you know what needs to end up happening from here and then it turns into a fight that you were not expecting or planning but now the girlies are sorta fighting and you're lowkey struggling to fully flesh out this fight because you skipped writing some of the story to write this part so there are details you are still debating on whether they have happened or not, and a part of you feels like this fight is gonna leave with them separating temporarily but also you don't fully know how that's gonna happen with the way things are and you kinda just wanna get back to the cute bonding and getting along stuff but it's not like their fight and inability to see eye to eye this isn't compelling enough to want you to focus on it but you are sorta flailing here.

#writing #I thought of another scene so I'm probably gonna hop back and write it in #but like #they've fought/had tension in like three scenes in the story already and I've only written like six and a half scenes with them interacting #canonically they do not fight. why is this happening? #Is it because I just to do an hs au where the world's pretty different but their backstory stuff is pretty much the same so #one of the worst events in one of their lives literally like just happened? #or is it because they also get along extremely easily so the story wants them to fight because they haven't actually ran into the antagonis #is it that they're teens? #I guess I'll keep writing to find out but yeesh #fanfic stuff #not queued