#quite a lot of plots actually

[singsweetmelodies]

milestone time... 😳

this is my AO3 word count - from 2023 alone. this means that, when i publish my very next fic... i will officially have written over two hundred thousand words of piarles in this year. AND THE YEAR ISN'T EVEN OVER YET.

holy fucking shit guys x

#katie rambles #myfic #YEAH THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE TO ME #two hundred fucking thousand????? #i've officially lost the plot #or; well; rather... #i've WRITTEN the plot #quite a lot of plots actually #😆 #in all seriousness though... WOW #(practically) two hundred thousand... sheesh #needed to come scream about this a bit! #😳🤯😍😵‍💫

[shima-draws]

Watched the MLB movie and I just. I WANT to gush about it but the fact that Marinette’s regular voice actor and her singing voice actor sound SO different just took me out of it every time and left me feeling very disengaged;; At least Adrien’s singing voice kind of sounds like his speaking voice (and Gabriel’s is 👌 bc my king Keith Silverstein can actually sing and he can sing REALLY fucking well) but Marinette’s. The voices are COMPLETELY different and it threw me off every single time. Like obviously her singing voice is really good and I understand why they picked that person to do her songs but bro you could have at least TRIED to get someone that sounds similar to Cristina Vee. It drove me nuts every time she sang bc I was like “That is CLEARLY a different person entirely!!”

I’m realizing this might have been a dubbing issue but still 😭 I feel like I would have enjoyed the movie way more if it didn’t look like Marinette was lip syncing the entire time bc there was such a huge disconnect between her speaking and singing voice

#Also I can’t fucking believe they did that to my boy Plagg. They RUINED him #He did not deserve that #Miraculous Ladybug #MLB #MLB movie #ALSO. Also. Personally. I don’t think it needed to be a musical #Bc that was very jarring in itself I was not expecting it #Since Miraculous isn’t a musical normally anyway!! #They probably could have fit in a lot more plot and made the story flow better if they took out all the songs #And replaced them with actual character development and stuff. #Idk it just feels like they tried to make it like a Disney film. And it didn’t quite fit with the story #I WILL say tho the character models were top notch. Marinette with FRECKLES?? YES PLEASE #Anyway yeah lots of thoughts but I could not take it seriously bc of the awkward voice casting #It actually ruined a lot of the movie for me :’( Again it drove me nuts lmao #Shima speaks #Idk maybe I'll watch it in French next time. Maybe I'll like it better then lol

[a-total-and-complete-nerd]

Brandon Sanderson: Fantasy vs. Sci-Fi

Almost all of BrandoSando's books straddle the line between the two genres, and after seeing @approximateknowledge's post here, I wondered how they would lay out on that chart. I was also inspired by this fascinating WOB about Skyward's genre. These are just my opinions, so let me know if you agree or what you think you'd change!

#i'm aware they're not all on here these are only the books I've read #and fyi whole series are represented by their first book #i'm quite pleased with my font choices #brandon sanderson #cosmere #cfsbf #stormlight archive #the stormlight archive #mistborn #elantris #skyward #cytoverse #i'm not tagging them all lol #i think its actually a fascinating question: #what makes a story *narratively* sf/f vs *aesthetically* sf/f #personally I chose to base the aesthetic scale on characteristics of the world/story; or 'genre trappings' as brandon puts it #technology level prevalence of magic etc #but the narrative more on themes plot structures and tropes; 'plot archetypes' #my friend and I actually went back and forth on frugal wizard's placement a lot; its a very nice blend #i've read legion but i don't think it fits on this chart at all so i didn't include it lol #i originally had elantris much further left but put it where i had stormlight #i changed it bc i think it represents that quadrant well #but honestly I could swap them back

[askcometcare]

OOC: i am so sorry to everyone's toyhouse inboxes. i discovered subgalleries /lh

#ooc #anyways if you wanna go see cometcare legacy art go check out the pages. obviously not every character has them #because a lot of cometcare characters are totally new and only came into existence after i started this blog and actually gave it a Plot #but the main ones have quite a lot!

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Those Beyond The Wall

sequel/companion to The Space Between Worlds, set a decade later

character-focused sci-fi set in an area divided in two, the rich protected city on one side and everyone else in the post-apocalyptic desert

follows a woman who works under the Emperor in Ashtown, keeping the peace

when mangled bodies start showing up with seemingly no murderer, she’s tasked with finding the cause, and finds out that it’s the result of corruption spanning both cities and multiple worlds

explores oppression and messy revolution, police violence and apartheid

bi & polyamorous MC

#Those Beyond The Wall #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #space between worlds sequel!!! honestly I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it….. In general I enjoyed it and I think it had #a lot of important things to say but also maybe highlighted some weaknesses(?) in both books? #or - I guess just the fact that the sff stuff (which skews a little more magicy here) is kinda small scope relative to its potential #and more there to serve the plot and characters. Which actually maybe is the point. idk- there's def mixed reviews lol #it has a messy unlikable MC (like actually - when half the weak ass reviews are saying the MC is annoying you know they are Actually a #complex character) and some interesting relationship dynamics #it is pretty solidly a sequel - I wouldnt read this without reading TSBW #cara does show up in here& tbh her characterisation felt quite different to me? unsure how I feel about that? but maybe it's the biased POV #also to be clear: polyam MC; not a polyam romance or anything #(there's - kinda a romance? or various feelings floating around and she 'ends up' with someone. feel like i would have liked that to end #more subtley but that's probably my personal taste lol) #man some of the 1 star reviews of this are kinda.....just racist though. can we get some measured critique in here #as I said i am not entirely sure how I feel about it but not quite in a way I can articulate.... idk! i think it's worth the read tho #it's maybe one of those revolutions that feels solved a little too easily in the end - but then also is it solved or is it just that the #narrative has to end at a certain point

[hezuart]

If Seven have water bending powers, Six soul eating powers and Mono space-time powers what would Raincoat Girl powers would be

oOOOO see, I thought about this quite a bit for the past week. I don't think Raincoat girl's powers will come up in Channel Change, so I'll share my headcanon here.

Raincoat girl I've always called "Five" though I've considered calling her "Quinn" (or even "Cinc") sometimes to not be so obviously a number, kind of like Mono's naming scheme. But I don't think the name Quinn would stick with the fandom as well as "Five" would...

To me, Five would have the ability to change her size at will. (Typically shrink, but only when she gets more powerful later she will learn how to enlarge herself.) She may also have the ability the manipulate the sizes of objects, people, or animals around her.

My evidence: 1. "VERY LITTLE Nightmares" game title 2. The Nest is more like a giant doll house, and she's surrounded by children turned into dolls 3. Each collectible has something to do with the children's powers. She collects Jack-in-the-boxes; children's toys that had been made in France as little "Demon-in-the-boxes". A tiny puppet pops out to surprise/scare the person playing its music because typically, no one would expect a creature to be compressed in something so small.

Six is a soul eater. She can suck the souls out of adults for sustenance. She can suck the youth out of children, turning them into nomes so that she may remain immortal. She may have the ability to teleport through shadows. She may or may not also have the ability to create shadow proxy children?

Mono is a space-time manipulator. He can travel through time and teleport elsewhere through TVs. He can leave behind imprints of children and also reabsorb them? He has minor to major telekinesis and draws in the attention of those around him.

Seven has hydrokinesis. He can physically manipulate water. He can create air pockets to breathe underwater. If he concentrates, he can also control the water inside someone's body including his own. This proves difficult when trying to lift others, but his body is the easiest to control, giving the illusion that he's floating on air.

Five/Quinn is a size shifter. She can shrink at will to crawl through small spaces like a mouse; to get into hidden rooms or to avoid being caught. She can also enlarge herself at will and has the ability the manipulate thse sizes of objects, people, or animals around her. But this requires heavy concentration to do so.

#very little nightmares have some inconsistencies with its plot layout and canon #but u cant blame them because it was made by a different company #and Tarsier got too big for its britches when it started out #resulting in the cancelled tv show and comics quite early on #so theres a lot of confusion on the canon and what is actually going on in the series #especially with the intro of LN2 and the issue surrounding TVs #the inconsistency i noticed was that Five's nightmare is about locking out Six and Six is banging on the door to be let in #but Five doesn't fear Six #Six is not the one to cause Five's death its the pretender #I mean i guess you could look at it like Five locked herself in a room- aka a box? like the jack in the boxes? #thus???? a hint to her power? but its a stretch #thats why its not a fourth reason in my evidence list #anyway- I still think a size shifter is very fitting for Five- I really wish we knew more about her #Little nightmares #little nightmares 2 #very little nightmares #LN six #LN mono #LN seven #LN five #the runaway kid #the raincoat girl #text post

[zoe-oneesama]

So is Caline just…not worried about Marinette at all? She was the one that she was actively targeting, but instead of being worried that Mari isn’t hurt, she’s asking about Chloe instead.

Bustier doesn't remember targeting Marinette, at most she remembers being upset with Marinette's attitude and then waking up on top of the Eiffel Tower. She could probably conclude she might've hurt Marinette, but she can't be sure (and she definitely hurt more than JUST Marinette). And now that she's awake, she knows that whatever she did, Scarlet Lady at least reversed it. Also, the general rule is that people shouldn't be blamed too harshly for what they did while an akuma (Scarlet Lady blaming Lila for what she did as Volpina was just another highlight of why Chloe is terrible).

It's not really fair to attack people for what they did under the supernatural influence of the resident super terrorist in which the person in question is essentially in a total blackout, though it's appreciated if the person apologizes anyway.

#it's actually pretty rare in canon for someone to apologize for becoming an akuma #ivan did because he had no idea what was going on so he can't be sure it wasn't his fault #nino soooorta did in bubbler to adrien I think #and alix did in timebreaker #but in quite a lot the akuma doesn't effect the secondary plot enough to allow them to have another resolution/apology scene #like stormy weather or mr. pigeon where aurora and xavier's last scene in the episode IS them being deakumatized #sl ask #delete later

[1980ssunflower]

🏡💙So Good to See You!💛☔

#self shipping community #self ship #self ship art #poly self ship #oc x canon #self insert x canon #self insert art #f/o:💙hide in your shell🎹 #ot3: ❤rhyme💛easy💙 #s/i:💛spaceship superstar⭐ #my art #sorry i took so long to finish this! #that second screenshot made me quit for a while cause the perspective frustrated me #please reblog! i put a lot of time into every little detail! and im very proud of the backgrounds <33 #we never see mins house or anything so i didnt have anything to work w #im happy w what ive managed :-] #also sorry im posting the aftermath before the actual incident that caused the drift #at least for me and ryan which is what a lot of the plot revolves around #but this is when i finally return home to powell lake! my first thought is to see min #EDIT: BEFORE I POST I WANT TO MENTION THIS IS DRAFT NUMBER 202 #!!!💖💙 #im sure my babies are proud of me :"-]

[twilight-zoned-out]

No space monster will ever be as liminally terrifying as Fourteen crabwalking in anger

#doctor who #fourteenth doctor #dw #doctor who special #dw spoilers #doctor who spoilers #wild blue yonder #twilight-zoned-out #it's actually really surprising Davies has gone extreme 'normal doctor who episode' for these specials and I've liked that approach so far #I liked the main plot of this episode a lot #I'm disappointed with the Timeless Child being official though and also somehow the plot of both specials seeming slightly barebones #despite all the stuff that happens in them #maybe it's just that 14 talks much less than 10 #it feels as if the older episodes were stuffed a bit more #but these specials seem more focused on a 'welcome back' than an 'off we go' which again is kind of what they were meant to be #it's just bizarre in a way I can't quite articulate #wild blue yonder spoilers

[feathertail]

#images created episodes before a plot twist #<- i actually made this while watching the show through for the first time when i thought we were getting a soulmates!fabina arc #i was soooo heartbroken when it was eddie at first but after watching all the way through i enjoy it quite a lot #nina martin #eddie miller #fabian rutter #<- not really but he gets to be tagged #house of anubis #hoa

[pinkestlittlebutterfly]

Servamp hospital AU with no plot only vibes but I remembered there's more characters to experience the joys of working in healthcare.

Yumi – Part of the security team under Tsurugi. Once he was destined for a job with more prestige and better pay; and it's no secret that several members of his family are rather disappointed with where he ended up. He, however, seems to love being part of the security team, and takes great joy in playing mouthpiece for the nurses who – unlike him – can’t tell abusive patients to go fuck themselves. 

Jun – Part of the security team under Tsurugi. As its calmest member, he’s deployed whenever a situation could maybe be saved with diplomacy. Lately, however, he’s been trying to keep himself a little safer for the sake of his young son, which the other two use as an excuse to saddle him with all their paperwork. 

Iori – Part of the upper echelon of administration, like many of his family before him. His tasks used to be mostly about logistics, but he has also been handed responsibility over the hospital’s finances upon starting to work in his current position, which multiple people were vying for at the time. He’s well-connected and popular, so no one would accuse him of nepotism to his face. 

Tooru – Part of the upper echelon of administration, and known as an incorrigible workaholic. A lot of his tasks are about managing the staff, and though he’s far removed from the reality of working the wards, he still tries his best to be helpful. He’s not sure what to think of his nephew’s job in the hospital – he’s proud, but there’s been too many burnt-out nurses in his office to not make him worry. 

Touma – Part of the upper echelon of administration, concerned with questions of safety, and firmly in control of the security team. While not everyone is happy with the way he handles his responsibilities, there’s rarely ever any complaints about him. It’s unclear whether this is because of the results he produces or the fact that everyone seems scared of him. 

Mikado – CEO not only of this hospital, which was founded by his family, but also the hospital network it has spawned since. He’s not seen often, neither by the medical staff nor the administration team, and sometimes it seems like he actively avoids the hospital. His confidants among upper management are aware he’s quite unhappy with his younger son’s job there, but have not yet figured out why he’s not doing anything about it. 

Mikage – used to be CEO before his son Mikado. Unlike him, he was not only an administrator but a trained doctor, too. He established the hospital’s paediatric unit, and though he has passed since, a beautifully framed picture of him still smiles upon the patients treated there. The resident paediatrician can be seen tending to it sometimes.

#servamp #lots and lots of characters to tag later #if there's a character i've not done yet that you're dying to know about #just ask me #i'd like to write for this some day but i'm lacking plot ideas #also as you can see i don't quite know what administration actually does #no idea what they're here for #so i kept it a little vague #112 servamp

[anantaru]

hello sweets, 💕 next work of mine will be a p with plot one-shot with estimated 3.5k+ words and you guys will NEVER guess who it is about!!!!!!

#like genuinely you won't because it's quite ?? you don't see me write about this character a lot #but this idea came crushing down on me and I didn't expect the fic to actually get this long and it's still not done #might be done until tomorrow because p with plot one shots usually take me a lil longer #BUT ITS A FUN RIDE YK #SBAHAHAHAHAHA #I'm gonna watch buddy daddies now i think and head to bed !!!! goodnight everybody ily all dearly #💕💕💕💕 you‘re amazing and you‘re great #never forget this!!!!💝 #ଘ( ິ•ᆺ• )ິଓ announcements'

[maddy-ferguson]

when people who like seasons 1 and 2 better explain why it was better they always lose me when they say "the characters were what mattered the most the supernatural plot was basically not that important it was ALL about the characters" like...that's just what YOU were more interested in not what was happening in the show? like wdym the supernatural plotline wasn't that important in seasons 1 and 2. saying that it was more balanced or more subtle i get but saying that the supernatural plot wasn't THAT important and that it's not what made anyone love the show is a blatant lie

#and like i say: brf slt #and i've seen people say this many times on many occasions i'm not even exaggerating. or making anything up #and i've been saying this for. a year and a half. minus two months. when volume 1 came out someone tweeted 'what the duffers fail to #understand is that no one watches st because they care about the russians or whatever. people watch st to see a ragtag group of kids be #nice to each other! to see a lesbian and a man with nice hair be friends!' and i said i agree with this at like 60% the 60% being ofc that #i hate the russia stuff we know this. but like. as much as i like the relationships between the characters if there's no life-threatening #things going on for more than a few dozen minutes...then i don't really care like that would be another show. (this has been a constant #i was not as into the show or the characters as i am now when i said that like volume 1 was my first time watching the show #since 2019. and it's a constant because it's still true) like that's literally what fanfic is for. or other shows. #and plenty of people watch stranger things for the russians or whatever i was actually surprised when people were ranking the subplots i #saw quite a lot of people put russia in their top 2 i was stunned. it was mostly older people older people meaning anyone who was 22 in #the past. i'm kidding but like idk people who were like 40+ and also guys? idk. like there's actually an audience for that my bad you guys #(not my bad i will always be a russia in st anti. because i hate it.) #my point is. no that was actually it. i just don't get it wdym people don't like the STORY plenty of people do. in the fandom especially i #totally get focusing more on the characters and being more interested in that i literally never talk about the supernatural plot and i #really like the characters yk and i understand when people say that they enjoyed the distribution between character things and supernatural #plot things in s1-2 more but saying that the supernatural stuff was like an afterthought and that no one actually cares or cared ever and #that it was never important is? like i get where they're coming from but also...no #and i get doing the 'if you don't take it as literally the monsters and supernatural plot things mean this and that for real life and for #the characters' i think it's very fun but like. if you don't like the genre and ignored it for the characters...?that's not really on them #i worded this like my joyce and bob post from july i hope you like it. the first sentence only #wait i actually didn't. just realized. false advertising sorry #saying this as someone who likes seasons 1 and 2 better too that goes without saying

[obsidiannebula]

Husband apparently found some posts of people complaining about trying to play Divinity: Original Sin 2 after enjoying BG3. And to that I say, just be glad you weren't playing with my husband, whose favorite battle strategies were "Laser Ray everything and I mean EVERYTHING in his path" and "use Internal Combustion on allies to turn them into walking time bombs if that maximizes the number of enemies hit, and also out of combat just for fun"

#dos2 #no but im not surprised some people who loved bg3 are bouncing off of it cause thats just how it goes #when a franchise or developer gets mainstream acclaim after already making a lot of games #a lot of people wont even bother to look at previous games #some will #and some will come to love them just as much as old fans #and others will bounce off it because its less polished or just plays a little different #to me bg3 felt a TON like dos2 except with d&d rules with which i was already quite familiar #to people going backward to dos2 it may not feel as similar #dos2 is also much more linear #also playing a custom character is even less interesting than making a tav is #in both games the origin characters are just FAR more interesting ways to experience the plot than customs #but idk it is actually kinda fun to make a custom tav. in dos2 i do not recommend doing anything but an origin run #ugh i cant stop rambling dos2 is so good you should really try it #if nothing else you need to discover the far cooler version of elves #uh. cw for cannibalism with them though

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Lord of the Empty Isles

sci-fi/fantasy

set on a supposedly utopian planet recovering from a climate crisis, where bonds between people are able to be seen and manipulated (by some people)

follows a young man whose brother was cursed and killed by an infamous outlaw 5 years ago, and he’s finally able to curse him back - but it rebounds, as he’s somehow fatebound to the outlaw

to find a cure and save them both they have to team up, and he quickly finds out that the resources the outlaw is stealing go to the thousands of people neglected on prison planets, and he has to go against what he thought was right to help them

no romance, aroace MC, focus on platonic relationships

arc from netgalley, out june 6

#Lord of the Empty Isles #aroaessidhe 2024 reads #I enjoyed this quite a bit! But I think it could have gone a bit further in places. #It has some interesting concepts and a great cast of characters and yay no romance #I do have a lot of thoughts and little critiques... #it's p obvious where the plot is going and what's going to happen #There’s clearly a lot gone into developing this bond system but to be honest I still don’t entirely get it? #It seems to emphasise that the bonds just reflect connections between people rather than predetermine anything; but also the plot kind of #hinges on Remy and Idrian having a predetermined bond? There are a lot of explanations of intricacies but a lot of it didn’t sink in idk #It’s promoted as QP but to me it reads as a general platonic relationship. I generally expect a depiction of a QPR to have like.. #some form of acknowledgement/depiction of the form of their relationship being a particular (undefinable?) kind #with some specific level of commitment? I’m being picky maybe they mean queerplatonic themes/vibes rather than saying it’s a qpr #specifically. the centred platonic relationship is good! it doesn't seem like a qpr to me; at most what could one day be that #also things are solved quite quickly and easily in the end - both the curse and the downfall of the bad guy. #I feared it would go down the route of blaming things on the person in charge rather than emphasising systemic issues which it kinda does…. #It’s impossible to ignore right now just how deeply people are willing to believe dehumanising propaganda - and how 'telling the truth' #and exposing the person in power as bad doesn’t actually do anything so that happening here made me go…… oh okay. well. #there is room for a sequel that maybe will explore this tho. idk #complaints aside - I do recommend this! It was fun and pretty unique. #aroace books #no romance

[hypodermicfroggy]

I wished for a Bioshock movie for Y E A R S

but now that we're finally getting one I don't want it

I do not have faith this is going to be a good adaption, I'm sorry, maybe 10 years ago this could have been a great passion project (especially if Gore Verbinski had been involved like originally planned) but I just know it's going to be an over-actioned, improperly funded (since it's a Netflix production they're absolutely going to either dump too much or not enough money in it then write it off as a failure if it doesn't 'perform' well enough), CGI-laden slop fest that doesn't even acknowledge or properly handle half the themes present in the series.

#Bioshock #Bioshock Movie #bonus points if it only focuses on the first game and doesn't include ANYTHING from the tie-in novel or BS2 #they're going to cut Sophia Lamb's role from the plot I just fucking KNOW IT #like she was fucking important! she was the one who actually STARTED the class war! Fontaine literally just took advantage of it! #hell half the problems with BURIAL AT FUCKING SEA could have been fixed if Levine wasn't a shit and hadn't refused to use ANYTHING from BS2 #like is BS2 as good as the first? no but it's still fucking better than that shitshow you call Infinite! #and the tie-in novel actually quite skillfully blended both games together to help account for certain plot errors between the two #(a novel that Levine also REFUSED TO READ) #like you could tell it was written by someone who wanted to do the series justice which is more than I can say for most tie-ins #if this movie ends up actually being good I'll fucking eat my words but considering this director's body of work includes #the Will Smith I AM LEGEND and the last three* Hunger Games films #we are not batting 1000 for quality here #I say this as someone who likes the Hunger Games movies #but they are not really the best adaptions of the novels and really downplay a lot of the more horrifying aspects for action scenes #and I fear the same will be true for Bioshock's film as well. #like the Little Sisters alone should elicit nothing short of visceral disgust and pity but I just know they're going to be so boring #they're just going to be like pale girls with glowing eyes instead of proper blood-guzzling corpse-looting parasite hosts calling it now #croak.txt #reblog.wank