#open plot call

[crownspeaksblog]

People are so used to the idea that queer romantic relationships matter so little to the story til the point they will call romantic displays of affection and domesticity fan service in a character driven show, a show where the main queer relationship is THE plot.

Ed and stede having moments of affection and love is not fan service. You're making it sound like the show is pandering to the fans when this is literally just a continuation of the story, this is just the next level of their relationship, the next phase of the story.

To me calling it fan service is just diminishing the show and when you call it that, it just validates what people who completely missed the point of the show are saying.

#the relationship between ed and stede is the plot and it has been the plot since the moment we met ed! #please don't call it fan service. it's not! #as someone who's still taking back with how open the show is about ed and stedes romantic relationship. i still don't think it's fan servic #because it makes since because this is the FUCKING PLOT!!!! #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #blackbonnet #tv shows #queer media #👑

[lagosbratzdoll]

On Daenerys, Colonisation and Race Discourse within the ASOIAF Fandom

This has been on my mind for a good long while and honestly, as much as I would like to leave discourse in the pits, it has been bugging me intermittently over the past few weeks.

Far too many of you get on here and call people who like the fictional dragon-riding family, neo-Nazis and that sentiment is so prevalent, that white people feel comfortable telling me a black woman that I am a neo-Nazi for rooting for Daenerys Targaryen. I am upholding neo-Nazi power fantasies for wanting to see a little girl live at the end of a story. I am a neo-Nazi for wanting to see the rape survivor have the family she aches for and children with the man (or men) she loves.

Then, those same people go on spiels about how the systemic erasure of those who sing the song of the earth and other old races is not colonialism. That their removal from their home is not displacement but an agreement between two equal parties. The fact that the only place where those who sing the song of the earth exist in the present timeline is north of the wall, surrounded by the bones of their dead, is not a travesty. That the expulsion of the old races from their home isn't that bad and should not be condemned. 

Instead, people argue, completely seriously, that the harm that the First Men and Andals have caused is centuries in the past, so essentially the slate has been wiped clean. The logical leaps that are required to arrive at such a boneheaded conclusion are truly mind-boggling, and those who make such arguments are not good people. 

I am unsure how one could read those books and come away with the impression that the old races do not mourn the loss of their home. I am unsure how one could read The Last of the Giants[1] and Ygritte’s reaction to both the song and Jon’s dismissal of the ethnic cleansing of the giants then believe that the old races and the free folk have moved past their displacement. 

In Westeros, from the Wall to the broken arm of Dorne, they all speak one language despite the fact they are all different ethnicities and they all landed on the shores at different times. That is not the case in Essos, we have been introduced to at least six languages and in A Dance with Dragons, Tyrion notes that the Valyrian spoken in the Free Cities has evolved into nine distinct dialects, and they are well on their way to becoming different languages.

How would a continent as large and diverse as Westeros maintain its hegemony over the people if not for forced assimilation, discriminatory practices and violence? The brutal repression required to keep one house in power for thousands of years is nothing to sniff at. The suppression required to keep the vast majority of Westeros worshipping one (or seven) gods. The systems in place ensure that language does not grow or evolve amongst the highborns at least.

Centuries before Aegon's Landing the maesters were the definitive educational authority and even now centuries after, nothing has changed. The grey rats still decide who learns what and when they learn it. There's one in every highborn home, all correspondence passes through them, they are the healers and the councillors.

The circular logic gets even more blockheaded when you factor in the fact that Daenerys is far from the only white character in the books. She is not the only character who wishes for home. She is not the only character who draws strength from her ancestors, her bloodline and her magical creatures. 

Cersei draws strength from her family’s iconography, and the Stark children (Jon included) all draw strength from their direwolves, their home and their blood. Sansa, Arya and Bran wish to return home and their home was built on the indiscriminate murder and displacement of the indigenous peoples. Their home is built on centuries of rape, murder, exclusionary practices and sexual slavery. 

However, if we give the nonsensical argument that time erases crimes air; the Starks, Lannisters and Tullys are warring to settle personal grievances in the present timeline. As a consequence of that war, thousands (a modest guesstimate) of small folk, minor nobles and even some major ones have been raped, tortured, maimed and killed.

Despite all this, no one writes meta after meta about how Sansa and her siblings must surely die for justice to be had for those who sing the song of the earth, the free folk, the giants and all the old races that fled beyond the wall.  

People write meta about Cersei and how she must die, but those are typically more misogynistic nature. They typically argue that she must die not for the “crime” of being Lannister, but for the “crime” of being Cersei and “ruining” Jamie. 

I would not mind criticisms of Dany and her peace-focused approach to ending slavery because the approach is naïve and she gives the slavers far too much ground. However, she is learning, growing and self-critiquing. At the end of A Dance with Dragons, she has decided to embrace fire and blood, her knight is breaking the false peace which is a necessary step forward.

What I find offensive is people saying that she should have planned better before she abolished slavery. And that the death, violence, and sickness that arises from her quest to eradicate slavery is somehow worse than the death, violence, and sickness that already existed in Slaver’s Bay. 

This argument often downplays the horrific conditions and suffering that exist(ed) under the slave system in Slaver's Bay. Such arguments are often in poor taste and prioritise the lives and comforts of the slavers more than the people they have enslaved.

I would not mind criticisms of Dany if people applied that same critique even-handedly. The same people who believe that Jon and Bran have done much to rectify the evil that their ancestors perpetuated believe that Dany has not done anything to right the wrongs of her ethnic kin. They praise them for the non-existent steps that they have taken, but in the same breath, they condemn Dany for not being able to immediately end the plague that is slavery. 

It is perfectly alright to not like fictional characters, no law requires you to like certain fictional characters over others. However, what is not right is making broad accusations about those who do, it is beyond the pale. It is disgusting, and annoying, and trivialises real-world issues to score cheap points against fictional characters.

Equating the survival of a teenage survivor to the restoration of a fascist house or neo-Nazi power fantasy when such designations do not exist in the world of ice and fire is strange behaviour. Saying that the teenage survivor will eventually be manipulated and raped (again) before ending up dead on her manipulator's blade is also strange behaviour. 

Dismissing the horrors of colonialism, especially when the text shows you that the involved parties are still affected by it, is not normal and often veers into real-world imperialism apologia. While criticism and analysis of characters and their actions are valid and even encouraged, it is essential that we do not resort to sweeping generalisations about other people and that we keep criticisms of characters grounded in the text. 

[1]  

Ooooooh, I am the last of the giants, my people are gone from the earth.

The last of the great mountain giants, who ruled all the world at my birth

Oh, the smallfolk have stolen my forests, they’ve stolen my rivers and hills.

And they’ve built a great wall through my valleys, and fished all the fish from my rills

In stone halls they burn their great fires, in stone halls they forge their sharp spears.

Whilst I walk alone in the mountains, with no true companion but tears.

They hunt me with dogs in the daylight, they hunt me with torches by night.

For these men who are small can never stand tall, whilst giants still walk in the light.

Oooooooh, I am the LAST of the giants, so learn well the words of my song.

For when I am gone the singing will fade, and the silence shall last long and long.

#I do not like most of y’all. #Do not call people of colour you do not know neonazis to win points against a fictional character. #It is not my fault that most of your faves are boring and do nothing to drive the plot forward #take it up with george rr martin and stop villifying dany and her (mid) family. #The insistence that we must mind fandom etiqutte is tired as hell too especially because people use it as silencing tools. #“Yes I called you a neonazi but you are the real weirdo for finding my post so really it’s on you that you saw that.” #that’s how y’all sound. #If I see another post that equates enjoying dany to being a neonazi #i will make it everybodys problem. #Took a long break from this fandom because the rancid takes were overshadowing the good takes #and i’ve been back less than a year and the takes are even more rancid than before. #hotd opened an evil door that should’ve remained shut. #Cause why the fuck are there criston cole apologists? Why are there aemond and aegon ii apologists? It is a dark world we live in. #put the last giant at the bottom for my homies who have not read the books which if we're speaking real is more than half of y'all #now that i have gotten this out of my system #it is time to get back to demon slayer #daenerys targaryen #asoiaf #asoiaf thoughts #asoiaf nonsense #if you saw the typos in the first version #no you didn't #edited this to add some thoughts I originally put in the tags because I felt it worked better there.

[dcccivcr]

Closed

A night off only means the bodyguard is less guarding and more skulking. Keeping a close eye on the imperial family only as a perfect excuse to keep an eye, also, on everyone else in the ballroom. Or so he tries. Right now, he has been intercepted by an individual who may or may have not indulged in more drinks than they could tolerate. He tries to escape with a courteous and modest smile, keeping a prudent distance. "Regrettably, I am unfamiliar with this form of dancing," or most forms of dancing, for that matter. He was a decent singer, had a neat calligraphy and could fly a kite beautifully, but dancing was far from his preferred form of artistic expression. Nor his preferred form of mourning. "I am certain you will find a more suited companion—"

#open so you can be either his savior... or his tormentor ✨ #he would totally dance if you insist enough #im traveling back home but i'll get in touch with everyone who liked the plot call tomorrow <3 have a starter in the meantime #.starter #theopulent.start

[specialagentartemis]

Events in the Odyssey, ranked by how often they show up in retellings and adaptations

I have read, watched, and listened to many an Odyssey retelling in my day (my day = the last month or so) and I have noticed some Patterns.

Iconic Odyssey Momence™

These are the defining episodes of the Odyssey. Every adaptation of the Odyssey HAS to have:

The lotus-eaters

The Cyclops

Poseidon is Angery

The sirens

Scylla and Charybdis

Mix-n-Match

If there is a little bit more time, a little bit more dedication to faithfulness, or a little bit more mature target audience, these are the important events that fill out the narrative:

Circe

Calypso

the bag of winds

Penelope weaves the shroud

the journey to the underworld

Odysseus returns home and murders the suitors

the Trojan Horse, if the reteller remembers that that story was actually relayed in the Odyssey

Deep Cuts

Really only the completionists include these:

Athena hangs out with Telemachus

Nausicaä

the men eat the sacred cattle of Helios (this is such an important moment in the poem and comes up in adaptations weirdly rarely)

Telemachus dicks around in Sparta

Literally nobody ever includes these

I had no idea these were a thing until I started reading the Odyssey:

raiding the Ciconeans on Ismarus

the Laestrygonians

Telemachus dicks around in Pylos

#It’s actually super funny how Jay Rivera-Herrans WAS actually going to try to put the raid on the Ciconians in Epic: the Musical #Had a whole draft song called ‘Ismarus’ and everything #And then evidently realized that ‘Ismarus’ / ‘Let Me Be Your Light’ was both grinding the momentum of the plot to a halt #And crowding out space to include the lotus-eaters #And like. When you are retelling the Odyssey and your choices are between including the Ciconians and including the Lotus Eaters #You choose the Lotus Eaters #So ‘Ismarus’ / ‘Let Me Be Your Light’ became ‘Full Speed Ahead’ / ‘Open Arms’ #and once again no one cares about the poor Ciconians. lmao #The Odyssey #tagamemnon #Epic the Musical

[itwoodbeprefect]

many old westerns start with a custom title song with lyrics that very earnestly explain the entire plot of the movie that you haven't seen yet, and i think we should bring that back. no spoilers? no. all the spoilers. delivered right as you go into the movie through a pretty little country song with extremely on the nose lyrics that goes on for several minutes at least.

#a post brought to you by my delight at revisiting the opening credits of 3:10 to yuma 1957 #they didn't even so much as reference that song anywhere in the 2007 version iirc and it's such a waste. very sad #🎵 there is a looonely train / called the 3:10 to yu-maaah #the pounding of the wheels / is more like a mournful si-highhh #there's a legend and there's a rumor / when you take the 3:10 to yu-maaah #you can see the ghosts of outlaws go riding by (riding byyy!) / in the sky (in the skyyy!) 🎵 #which. honestly. i know what my post says but this frankie laine song doesn't even actually spoil the plot at all! it's just good! #it's just a banger that sets the mood and says the movie title a funny number of times. how could anyone not enjoy that #* #3:10 to yuma #3:10 to yuma 1957

[silcntsinners]

LIKE THIS FOR A RANDOM STARTER! I will check accounts with multi and throw one of my muses at one of yours 👀 see where it goes?!

#fullintenticns permanent starter call #open rp #fantasy rp #HDM rp #got rp #OC plot

[angelalpine]

plots based on the album ‘something to give each other’ by troye sivan. i will probably add more songs in the future but these three songs have been on my mind for days!

‘One of Your Girls’

muse a and muse b knew there was something between them from the moment they first met. muse a is openly straight— the intimate relationship he forms with muse b something he could never share with anyone. muse b falls for muse a quickly, however muse a is trapped in a cycle of meaningless hookups and loveless relationships to avoid confronting his true feelings for muse b. willing to sacrifice everything for muse a, muse b sits back and watches as muse a openly sees other people while keeping muse b as his little secret knowing he won’t leave. plenty of room for angst— daydreaming together of a universe where it’s them at the end of the day and everyone in their lives supports them, muse b wondering if he’s wasting his time or if muse a really will be with him one day, etc.

‘still got it’

muse a and muse b were in a serious relationship for (x) amount of years. for the entirety of their relationship they were fiercely loyal to each other, passionately in love, predicted to marry. something goes wrong; muse a changes everything muse b loved about them, moves into a new place that holds no memory of muse b, they do their best to leave behind every part of the person muse b loved. now they’re acting like two strangers in the same crowded room, two strangers who inevitably find themselves tipsy in the back of an uber together. hesitant touching and second guesses fill the silence between them for this never-ending ride, neither muse knowing where the night will end.

‘can’t go back’

muse a is a famous musician, muse b is their partner of (x) years who travels on and off the road with them. muse a is having the biggest performance of their career with muse b supporting them as always— however at some point during the weekend muse b cheats while they are supposed to be standing there in the audience (maybe getting too tipsy at the hotel bar pre-show, maybe he’s just a dick, tbd!) cheering their partner on. muse a finds out about the fair after a period of time and ends the relationship ignoring muse b’s pleading apologies, only to spend all of his time processing all of the hard feelings they hold on to. it doesn’t matter how hard they try, muse b is always back in their orbit at the end of the day as they find themselves tangled in a never-ending cycle of ‘this is the the last time’ and ‘i need you, i’m sorry.’

#discord rp #1x1 rp #oc rp #indie rp #independent rp #plot bunnies #wanted plots #open rp #discord 1x1 #angsty rp #plot call

[encrucijada]

and again! i wanted to do one for evergreen lung because it's my one wip with more than 3 chapter titles lmao. if i make more of these look away

[ transcripts below! ]

Show Summary: Ezra Borja returns home after waking up in the local forest to find a significant amount of time has passed and everyone believed her to be dead.

Episode One - Creation Act: Ezra Borja wakes up in the local forest with no recollection of why or how, and she returns home to find she's been gone... a while.

Episode Two - Pressed Flowers: Ezra visits her best friend Raquel Hernández as step one on getting things back in order... but things aren't so simple.

Episode Three - Dead Heading: A look into the past and what Ezra's life was like before disappearing in the forest.

Episode Four - Nothing Beautiful: Ezra spends the day with her parents, trying to get a routine back.

Episode Five - Blink Twice: An old classmate hosts a Halloween party Ezra decides to attend to reconnect.

Playing Episode: [BIRD SONG], [EZRA] I'm not dead!

#netflix coming of age story about an aroace girl WHEN #if netflix made this show we would never get confirmation xio kata and caleb are All ezra's parents #netflix only knows how to make ot3 for threesomes #i can see the opening scene so clearly in my head. the answering birdsong when ezra raises her voice #the vulture that hopped over to try and pick at her because it thought she was dead (she was) #also would ezra dying (or having died) be spoilers?? it's literally how i pitch the wip lmao #in my head the forest has always been the plot twist not the act of dying #idk i'm thinking with publishing brain (<- doesn't know how publishing works) #i have never watched call me by your name (only seen youtube reviews) but i feel this would be shot similarly. #to show imperfections and messiness #okay tags essay done! lmao #( wip ) evergreen lung #that netflix trend

[dizzybevvie]

Why was the Until Dawn fandub literally life changing

#LIKE? #The Mikeiplier bit. Mike and Josh becoming aware of reality. Chase's one liners absolute bangers as usual. Holly's dr hill bits #ALSO SOME LINES I RLLY ENJOYED: #“Just like when I called my wife a bitch and she left-” #“In part one I called it a raccoon. It was a wolverine.” #Also Chase + Ryan calling eachother Chase + Ryan instead of Mike/markiplier + Josh #THE WHOLE THROUGHLINE WITH THE XBOX KINECT?? #The plot was so good and As usual Chase and Ryan were the highlight for me #Theyre dynamic is soooo good #<33 #I might have to rewatch that soon #and the bit with Chris not being able yo open doors #and Doggy #AND RUDE MOUNTAIN HOW COULD I FORGET ABOUT RUDE MOUNTAIN #snapcube #snapcube fandub #snapcube real time fandub #until dawn #beverly says stuff

[futureforged]

𝐈𝐍𝐁𝐎𝐗 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 [ ; ] Hello! Please interact with this if you’d like 1-2 memes sent your way from Jayce! If there’s a particular theme ( romance / angst / hurt or comfort ) you’re leaning towards lemme know! I’ll send these out during my next few breaks! 💕

#➤ ꜰɪʟᴇᴅ ᴀꜱ . . . // inbox call. #Might not write until tomorrow but I can send things out and I’m open to plotting slowly between my current projects #Just keep in mind I will be slow today 💕

[tathrin]

Okay but who is going to write the Ultimate Mutual Hurt/Comfort LotR AU where it is Legolas and Gimli who get captured together and taken to Isengard? And no doubt spend the whole time doing the “no, torture me instead!” thing, poorly disguising their concern through “well my people are heartier than yours, I just didn’t want your frail elvish/dwarvish self to get hurt” banter that inevitably breaks-down into “I was afraid you were dead/dying” love confessions and...

#how do they eventually escape? idk #maybe the magical stones of orthanc get persuaded to help a dwarf out and offer an opening in their cell #maybe they trick the orcs and stage a prison break and go on a slapstick chase scene through the tower wrecking saruman's stuff #and they end up outside on that platform somehow which is a bad idea when you have both a wood-elf and angry trees #and legolas plays ent-whisperer and calls down a rescue siege that way #maybe they just dial-up the wordplay so much that they verbally frustrate saruman SO MUCH that he lets them go just so HE can escape THEM #idk that's not really the point no one's going to be judging this story on its logistics i bet #gimleaf #gigolas #legolas #gimli #lotr au #lotr drafts #plot for sale i offer it to you freely

[sonknuxadow]

they werent lying that knuckles series barely has knuckles in it

#i pirated that shit Btw just so we're clear. also gonna talk about it a little bit in the tags #nothing too spoilery but also might not wanna read if you want to go in knowing absolutely nothing? idk #anyway he WAS a main character still he was present for a decent amount of the first couple episodes #but the amount of screentime he gets just starts dropping after that . hes barely there at all in the second half ??? #and it feels like theres a lot of scenes mostly focusing on wade and his problems and not near as many for knuckles and his whole deal #overall it feels more like a wade show with knuckles in it than a knuckles show with wade in it. which sucks #and human characters having plot relevance isnt the problem here i dont mind human characters at all i think they can be really fun #its the fact that the human characters are taking over the story and spotlight when the show is called knuckles #and all the marketing makes it look like knuckles is the main focus #and i also would have preferred if they just went with a differnet character to be knuckles' human friend #because i dont particulraly care about wade. and the knuckles (and sonic and tails) i know would not be friends with cops </3 #well at least the story wasnt knuckles training wade to be a better cop like a lot of people were expecting but thats like.the bare minimum #also aside from the issues relating to knuckles' screentime (or lack of screentime) i thought the ending was unsatisfying #regardless of all that though there WERE some parts i enjoyed or found kind of funny or whatever. because knuckles so cutesy as always #knuckles being a cute little guy is the most important part of the show actually #and i liked the parts with sonic tails and maddie even if they were only there for like 5 minutes #(i really wish those three had gotten more screentime. i feel like they could have easily worked in at least one more scene with them) #and its a minor thing but the opening sequence is cute. was honestly expecting just a title card or something #overall the show is just . kind of okay i guess. not the worst thing ive ever seen but still disappointing ? idk how to explain.. #my expectations also werent very high in the first place #so maybe im being a bit more generous than i would have been otherwise. idk #and i definitely would not recommend this to anyone who already dislikes the sonic movies . youll probably hate this more #like people who thought the human characters got too much screentime in the second movie would lose their minds if they saw this

[silverwingborn]

Like for a Starter!

(If you’re a multimuse and/or sideblog, please specify in the comments ❤️)

#(my ask box and IM’s are open for plotting to!) #like for a starter #starter call

[strawberry-barista]

⚅— New Friends Interaction Call —⚅

{My drafts are building up but this is something I've been wanting to do for quite a while now. I'm still really slowly trying to work my way into interacting with people I haven't dome much with yet, but I am still struggling with it, so this might help.}

{If we're mutuals and haven't interacted with each other before now, please give this post a like ❤ and I'll come to you with some type of interaction. It might be a random ask, a meme, a random starter, or I might just jump into your DMs to talk about our kids.}

{Additionally, if you have something specific in mind that you would like for me, just go ahead and reply to this post to let me know what it is you want.}

{Aaaand lastly, feel free to respond to this post even if we do regularly interact (if you want to, that is!). I am making this so I can break the ice with some of my mutuals that I haven't gotten much of a chance to interact with yet, but I do really love interacting with everyone and I want to hear from all of you!}

#anonymity annoying me ⤙ooc⤚⚄ #made me a compromise ⤙starter call⤚⚄ #it's like a 2 channel ⤙inbox call⤚⚄ #tell me who you are ⤙plotting call⤚⚄ #//open to mutuals

[dupliciti]

plotting call ?

like this and i'll hit you up ! uh my first question is probably gonna be have you played any of 2.0 asjkdgh but what we discuss doesn't at all have to relate to penacony, i just think it's NEAT and allows for some more fun

#( plotting call; ) #i am on the clock rn; which for those that dont know- im in an intensive training rotation atm but evenings are more open for me #that and i dont work tomorrow :) #there's also a couple of people i need to circle back on. im super sorry! #( ◇ ᵐʸ ᵈᵉᵃʳ ᵃᵘᵈⁱᵉⁿᶜᵉ┊ ooc; )

[airbenderedacted]

IF I WERE WOY CREW I WOULD ALSO FIGHT FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING THE LESBIAN FLAG SOMEWHERE ON OR NEAR DOMINATOR IN JUST ONE WHOLE SCENE IN THE SHOW  SEND TWEET

#(maybe at the end of her character arc to avoid any unsavoriness / unfortunate implications about her feral ass idkidk hmhjujjnfgs) #Wander Over Yonder #Lord Dominator #granted that's in the scenario where say craig is fine with ascending her lesbianism to official canon status #(currenlty it's abt on the same level of canonicity as wander's logevity/immortality. as in they're written as being but it's not OFFICIAL) #but like i feel kinda strongly about um. it's great to leave characters fully open to interpretation so that all takes can be valid #BUT i think that if the crew sees a character as one thing and goes so far as to write them as being that #then it should 100% be made official official canon bc um HEY ahjaghjsdnmds. like atp the collaboration the silent agreement THE CODING #that's!!! a lot!!!! atp it's important to confirm the rep as being meaningful to the show canon and make it official ygm #and when it's like. when it's as tiny a thing irt the overall plot/character development. you don't have to go crazy with that confirm #SLAP A FLAG DOWN & CALL IT A DAY WHO'S WITH ME haha #TOH DID IT OK K.O. DID IT NIMONA DOES IT!!!!!!! DO YOU SEE THE VISIONN #oh but speaking of making canon rep explicit. if dom were to be confirmed i would also push for a super lesbian coded NON-villain #yk just to avoid. a certain disney trope #same with the aro coding like idk if she's meant to be literally aro or not but regardless #i think woy could really use an unequivocably do-gooding good guy character who is as romance repulsed as dominator is #bc i think the show does a fine job of separating her disinterest from her evil - doing evil is evil. not liking romance is neutral #THAT MESSAGE IS THERE IMHO!! #but it doesn't do a fine ENOUGH job #i think the character who is hella unparalleled in her evilness n all that shouldn't be the only character in the show who's No Romo #anyway im getting way too rambly about.. what is literally just the discussion of TINY THINGS YOU CAN DO TO DO GOOD BY LGBT REP BUT AAAA #as much as i have to say about them in practice these would all be very tiny things and i just love how much you can say with a little #if that all makes sense #❤️