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transmasc-wizard · 2 years

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hello nickle i am going to scream into ur imbox abt SAM

so. SAM. I was going back through my notes and realized i said it was supposed to be in first person, but I hate writing in first person for WIPS. easy to change, right? except most of if not all the subplot depend on being able to explore the characters' feelings and thoughts in extreme detail and i'm not sure if i'd be able to do that the way I want with a third person pov so I am screaming and crying over this

then there's the rotation of the pov. it goes in this order: morowa, harper, jisung, ivy, vale, and kaya. this is driving me mad because by following that order, some scenes end up told by the wrong person. i reviewed the outline three time and wrote out shorter outlines trying out different orders, but nothing works as well as the one i have currently even with its issues. i cant just say fuck all and not have an order, because the same thing will happen but worse and also everything will be disorganized and thats terrible. can u tell ive never had a rotating pov with so many characters. can u.

in short, i am considering quitting writing and running away to be a sheep keeper in iceland. good day!

ok, so, i am someone who wants to Solve Problems so i'm gonna give this a go

Problem one: you hate first person, but you want to be able to do deep and intense emotional exploration.

This is the harder problem, I think, but I've had it before. My advice is, genuinely, to consider the story as if you were still writing it in first person but then write it out in third person. You will need a very, very close camera; when you're writing, imagine the story literally through the character's eyes.

Everything they're thinking, everything they're sensing, what they would notice, how they would specifically interpret this situation. If you get those details in, you'll still have a very, very close POV, which should work. I also advice to cut out as many words as you can like "felt" and "thought", instead just stating what they're thinking and feeling, to make it feel closer, like a less extreme version of Deep POV.

Problem two: the revolving cast.

guess what! i just had this problem with GFS. And..... uh.... i said "fuck it" and abandoned order. sort of.

I created a general order by dividing my estimated chapter count and listing how many chapters I want each character to have at least or at most. I expect about 43 chapters in GFW1 and have 6 narrators; Rowan has no more than 3, I want Hope and Bea to both have 6, and I want Corey, Oliver, and Angel to have 8. That's 38, and gives me about 4 more chapters of wiggle room. Then I just make sure I won't be putting, say, 5 Hope chapters in a row.

I suggest you figure out roughly how much time you want each character to have, then go through your outline chapter-by-chapter and figure out which 1-3 characters would be best for each (they're in the right spot, they know something the others don't, their mindset will make it interesting, their emotional investment is different, their arc aligns with what's happening, whatever). Then you can go through again and assign each chapter one of those 1-3 characters, keeping in mind that you're not straying too far from your original rough plan of how much time each will get. It's different from a revolving in order cast but still gives the feeling of structure to how the POV works out.

anyway whoops i went into like. writing advice voice there. but yeah i hope your Troubles and Sorrows are perhaps quelled a bit? if not, tell me what's Not Working and i'll try to look at it from a different angle

(i say this because i think i might have a better chance of figuring it out than you, since you're so close to it and i'm further. kinda like how beta readers find plotholes that the writer missed)

#asks #bat wherearetheplants

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auxiliarydetective · 2 years

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2, 11 & 12 for the fic writer asks? ✨

Thank you~

2. Talk about a favourite comment you've received

Can I give a top 3? I'm just gonna give a top 3 because I like these comments for different reasons.

See, I like this because it's giving honest feedback. I know I have a bit of a tendency to go a Mary Sue route. It was way worse in my early days of writing, but it can still shine through if I only write out the scenes where the OC would have a strong positive impact. Without weaknesses to balance it out, of course it'll look Mary-Sue-ish. What I also like is that they didn't insult me for it. They said they didn't like the stories but they also said it was alright. Then they told me what they liked better about Till Death Do Us part. Really great feedback, all in all.

This is one I like because they told me what they liked about the story, like the concept itself and Lani's relationship with Ahsoka, then they even told me they liked my OC which... I will always absolutely adore you if you comment that, I really want people to like them. Finally, without realizing it, they gave me the solution to a plot hole: Why was Ahsoka nowhere around? Why wouldn't she finish Lani's training? Why would she allow them to be separated like that? The answer: Malachor. You see, I don't know anything about Star Wars Rebels except that Ahsoka appears in it, kicks the inquisitors' asses and then fights Vader. How that happened? No clue. What happened before and after? Also no clue. Because, get this, I knew those things from AMVs and edits. But this dear AO3 user just fixed my plothole by mentioning the planet Malachor and thus sending me into the rabbit hole that is Wookiepedia to find out what the deal with Malachor was.

And finally, the best comment I've ever had is by @takealookintheback - I know I didn't reply to it but that's because I was too amazed to say anything

This has everything a good comment needs. Saying what you liked (with pinpointing the actual moments from the story which is just - chef's kiss), a good amount of chaotic energy, interest in what happens next - plus it's coming from the master who had the idea in the first place, so I couldn't be happier!

11. Who is your favorite character(s) to write about and why?

You're making me choose? How cruel! I don't really have a favourite. It depends on the hyperfixation I'm currently in. Mostly, it's my OCs and their significant others, if they have any. Or just generally the people they're really close with, if we're taking my aroace baby Lani, for example. Speaking of Lani: Sibling dynamics are also fun, maybe because I don't have siblings so I get to imagine having them through writing. But if I had to pic favourites, I'd have to say Jelena is somewhere up there, Gordon/Raevyn (chaotic sweethearts), Vicky/Newkirk (really interesting dynamic, even though I gotta say writing Newkirk's accent can drive me mad) and Lani with her siblings and/or Han.

12. What is your favorite theme/subject matter/trope/ship to write about? Why?

I kinda halfway just answered this, didn't I? I like sibling dynamics and couples that have some tension about them and I don't mean sexual tension, I mean tension like other people not approving of their relationship, differences in social standing, an interesting combination of personalities, maybe even physical difficulties... Also, people generally get hurt in my fics. The only time my characters are safe is in pure fluff stories, but even then the fluff might be someone caring for someone who got hurt beforehand. Generally, I really love symbolism and I've been known to throw Greek myth references here and there. I mean, my Data/Tasha story is called Pygmalion and Galatea, so... Other overarching themes would be trust, loyalty and expectations as well as what happens when the opposite is true, when trust gets hurt, betrayal and expectations that aren't met.

#ask game #ask #writing

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noritoshiikamo · 3 years

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worth my time

pairing: noritoshi kamo + fem!oc genre: porn (is fingering enough to call it porn??) without plot ish??? tags//warning: established relationship // slight smut???, fingering, emotional drained reader, reader dated character but then forced into arranged marriage and doubt the whole rs note: unedited, lowercase intended, just me and my nori brainrot dont mind the plotholes and everythingn, its not accurate according to the manga/anime like i just wanna feed myself and i haven't write in ages pls sent some ideas so i can get my lazy brain going, english isnt my first language im sorry if i murder it directory: read the first part | second part | third part | bonus

“how long have you known?”

noritoshi shrugged, bringing the cup of tea to his lips. the way he took time to answer her question drove her mad. “noritoshi, how long?” her voice strained. “would it make any difference if i’d known today or 10 years ago?”

her eyes shot wide opened, “10 fucking years?”

a small smile appeared on his lips as he lowered the cup, “hypothetically.” she grabbed one of the pillows from the pile on the bed and threw it to his face, embedded with what little left of her jujutsu power. they have been going on for hours and she was clearly too stubborn to let it go. it was clearly weak; he dodged it with a flick of his wrist switching the pillow’s trajectory. “you’re a fucking asshole,” she gritted through her teeth, falling on bed as wave of anger and sadness crashed through. “you think i wanted an arranged marriage? you think i like having every aspect of my life set since i was a child and scrutinized? i’m a bastard sitting on a throne. unlike you gojou clan, i had it much worst.”

she pulled her hair, fighting the tears that was already streaming down, “it’s not a competition. we are in the same school, i sat next to you for years and you’re telling me you have no idea that i’m your future wife, bullshit!” her eyes flickered as she threw the next close thing within her power’s vicinity; a vase. something hit the vase midway, breaking it into ashes and she watched as a drop of blood stained the floor. he broke it with his power. “you can throw every single thing in this room, y/n, but it doesn’t stop the fact that we are already married.” it was that one sentence that completely broke her. falling on her knees, she let a cry out, clutching on her chest as she cried to her heart’s content. this can’t be happening to me, no, no, no, her mind echoed as she forced herself to surrender to the fact that they are married. it’s not something easy to undo. it pained him to see her like this, but his wife needs to understand that he could do nothing about it. she cried for what seems to be like hours, the sleeves of her yukata wet from the tears and sweat. she fell on the floor to her knees, resting her body against the bed before finally looking up to meet her husband’s eyes. he could see defeat in her tired eyes. “we dated each other,” she sniffled, “was that real or was it just you scouting for your future wife?” her words sound like venom to him “i know you won’t believe me, but it was real. i would still marry you even if the marriage isn’t arranged.” noritoshi stood up, his barefoot echoed on the floor as he walked to his weakened wife. her body was hot, he suspected the skipping (refusing to eat) meals, raging and throwing tantrums after another had put her body in so much stress. he reached for the sash, trying to undo her yukata and she freaked out. grabbing his wrist, she shook her head, “what are you doing?” she asked shakily. “would you listen to me for once? you need a cold shower, you’re burning up, it would help.” she stopped fighting. his tone was a mixed of annoyance and tired. dating him made her realized that noritoshi has a high level of patience; but not right now. letting go of his wrist, she slipped the yukata off her shoulder herself, whined about how she disliked cold shower below her breath. he wore a small smile as he hoisted the naked girl up. it’s a small victory on noritoshi the husband, he’ll savor it for now.

the girl kneeled on the floor of the shower as noritoshi slowly ran the shower head slowly up her body. her arms wrapped tightly against her chest; she cursed every time the cold water reached new part of her body. ignoring the fact that his yukata was getting wetter, he kneeled behind her and let her rest her back against his chest. with the shower gel, his body froze every time she whined at his touch. something about the way she whined under his touches made him weak. he wants to kiss her stupid face so badly. “it’s cold,” she mumbled, her eyes closed as he ran his palm against her stomach. he pressed a kiss on the side of her face, “better?” he asked as his hand travelled lower. her eyes widened. he continued his kisses, down her jawline and her neck, bruising every spot as his fingers traced a lazy circle on her clit. she moaned out a throaty yes. he continued to whisper sweet nothings into her ears, promises of how he would take care of her, how he’s going to be a perfect husband, how she would be a perfect wife, how they’ll live happily together. she nodded her head in delirium, the pleasure of his fingers had her grinding her back on his crotch and emptying her thoughts. she could barely think straight. “tell me you’re mine,” he commanded, slipping a finger inside, “i can take care of you, baby,” her eyes rolled back, his words were not helping, it was just pure gasoline thrown into a burning fire. “nori, i want to cum,” she muttered, clutching desperate on the now two fingers. she felt his warm breath on the crook where her shoulder meet her neck, his fangs brushing threateningly against the sensitive skin. “open your mouth,” he urged, she whined at the lost feeling of his lips on her neck. she felt something dripping between her lips, his thumb brushing the lower lip. it painted her lips red. it tasted metallic, almost like a blood. it was his. he watched in satisfaction as his blood marking appeared on her right eye. he can control her blood, heightened her senses, throwing her body’s sensitivity off the wall, driving her off the edge with every spot of her body he touches; it sends pleasure twice as much. it wasn’t long until her velvety wall spasmed around his fingers. her body jolted forward; her shaky hands pressed against the wet tile preventing her from falling face first as orgasm washes out. she could barely make any noises, her throat was so dry, she felt like it might bleed. she won’t deny that the orgasm eased her pain, but she would deny if he dared brought it up; he would not get the pleasure of knowing she enjoyed that.

his palm brushed against her thigh, causing her to look up. he raised his eyebrows in question which she brushed it off with a nod. she grabbed his hand and steadied herself up.

“i’m okay,” she voiced out.

he undressed, continued their shower from square one. they’ve done this before; sharing shower after mission washing blood off each other but this time, it feels different. she sighed at the pleasure, letting her hands rest against his toned chest. we are married, the sentence echoed in her mind as he massaged the shampoo on her head. never ever she thought that this is how she’ll be married. it’s not like she dreamed of a huge wedding. he did throw a small gathering, respecting her boundaries and her anxiety but everything just moved so fast. her parents are dead, her only remaining family is satoru, a distant cousin who finds it a no issue for her to marry her boyfriend. it is not an issue for her to marry noritoshi kamo, she loves him so much, but not like this. she wished she had more choices in this. he hummed a song, a habit of his that he caught from his mother, a lullaby his mother always sings. she wanted to hate him so much, for befriending her, making her fall in love with him and then forced her into a marriage. but when she opened her eyes and stared up into his, to see such loving look in his eyes, it weakened her. her heart is a wreck. “why do you do this to me?” she whimpered, slamming her fist into his chest. he refused to answer.

she was tired of his silence.

he turned the shower off, opening the glass door letting waft of cold air out. he left to fetch her towel and she stalked toward the nearby mirror. “how long until the thing wears off?” she asked when she caught a glimpse of herself. she reached to touch the blood marking on her eyes. he wrapped the towel around her body, hugging her from behind and through the foggy mirror, he brushed his thumb on her cheek, whispered something she couldn’t catch as the mark subsided.

“this doesn’t change the fact that i’m mad at you.”

he laughed it off, “i didn’t say it does. you always feel better post orgasm, you know how i know it?” he kissed her temple, eyes burned into hers, “because i dated you.”

her teeth gritted in annoyance.

“you think if i dated you to scout my future wife, i wouldn’t waste my time learning how your body responds to me, the way you yearn for me,” a kiss fell on her neck, “learn how well you control your shikigami and goes through lengths to teach you how to use my bow,” another kiss went up her jaw, “teach you my own blood techniques because god, why jujutsu needs to be such an exclusive thing,” arms went around her waist, “worried sick every single time utahime send you off for a mission, taking care of your wounds, being there to catch your reckless ass,” his breath lingered on her ears, “completely falling in love with you wholeheartedly for 3 years. i’d abandoned my father’s choice. you are arranged to be my wife, on my own accord. i choose you. you weren’t my father’s choice, but even in million years, even if sukuna’s vessel reincarnated again and again, even if the world split open and sent you miles away, even if i’m not the head of kamo clan,” his hand grabbed her chin, hard and forced her to meet his eyes, his words send shivers down her spine, “i would still choose you.”

she’s completely putty in his hand. she let out a soft whine as his body abandoned her, his warmth gone and came the cold biting her bare skin. her eyes followed the back of the man as he stalked to the wardrobe leaving the girl alone to ponder on his words.

“now, wouldn’t it just be a waste of my time, my wife?”

#okay im done loool #noritoshi kamo #kamo noritoshi #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #noritoshi kamo x reader #jjk x reader #jujutsu kaisen x reader #idk what tag more lol #noritoshi smut #noritoshi x reader #jjk smut #writing: fics

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thecynicalcinephile · 2 years

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I find it so funny when people get mad at movies like Bird Box for not showing the monster. Like the whole point of such movies is that you absolutely cannot look at the monster (either because it would kill you as in the aforementioned Bird Box, the monster is unknowable, or the monster is literally impossible to portray)

First of all if these movies did cave and show the monsters it would immediately break your immersion and instead of complaining about how you want to see the monster, you'd be crying plothole about how this so-called unknowable entity driving everyone insane was somehow just a generic cg abomination.

Which brings me to my second point which is that I'm not sure these people understand that there isn't actually a monster. Like there's nothing off-camera except a guy holding a sign that says "Unknowable Monster". It's not like they could just pan over and show you what you want to see, even the director doesn't know what that thing would actually look like. They have never seen, known, or had access to an unknowable monster (or even something resembling an unknowable monster) so if you beg for them to show it the best you're gonna get is either bad cgi or something out of an 80s creature feature (nothing against those movies, I love a good creature feature but those creatures are all firmly knowable).

Like, just use your imagination. In cases like this the mystery will always be better than the answer.

#i swear every time a movie or tv show dares not to show a monster some idiot forgets how life works #there are legitimate problems with bird box but this aint one of them #horror #movie #horror movie #rant #in fact i think more horror movies should go the route of not showing the monster or at least showing very little of the monster #the ritual would've been so much scarier if they'd dialed the monster scenes back a little bit

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dat-carovieh · 3 years

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Got some interpretation on Hank’s character that got prompted by some discussion on Discord about the stickers on Hank’s work desk. They all seem to somehow send a message about some boomer guy who is racist about androids, hates his ex-wife, is in general a grumpy asshole who is a prick to everyone. But is he really and if not, how do you explain the stickers?

So, let’s first have a look at who Hank interacts with throughout the game to see if he really is a grumpy prick like the stickers suggest. We will get to the stickers later. I will not include Connor for now, because I think that has been talked about a lot also this post is already a novel. But let’s talk about side characters.

We have of course his co-workers. Most memorable is probably Gavin. He clearly doesn’t like Gavin and Gavin clearly doesn’t like him. Gavin is pretty shitty to Hank, despite Hank being his superior. So I think Hank calling Gavin an asshole and not being friendly with him makes sense. How about other co-workers, we don’t see a lot. I can only think of Ben and Chris. They seem to be respecting each other. In Partners Hank arrives, gets greeted by Ben, has a polite conversation about what happened, Ben teases him a little, Hank does not get rude about it, maybe a bit grumpy, but well he’s annoyed about his new partner. He than walks around the crime scene and asks questions. When he talks, he is polite to the person he talks to. He talks to Chris in public enemy (Please excuse if I forget instances, I have played the game a couple of times, but my brain isn’t perfect) He enters, he makes a joke, in my opinion it’s funny and in no way rude, he’s annoyed with the FBI, yeah but I think that’s normal. He asks Chris questions, listens to him, polite conversation, they seem to clearly respect each other and have a good and professional relationship. Later Hank is clearly really affected by what happened to Chris, no matter if he got killed or not.

Jeffrey is a little harder. They do yell at each other, it’s not really pretty, there are clearly issues between them. They go way back and I can imagine they butt heads a lot because Jeffrey is disappointed in Hank for letting himself go and giving in to his depression and alcoholism. I can imagine he had tried to help Hank and he resisted a lot, Hank seems like the type. So there is a lot of tension that comes out between them.

I mentioned the FBI earlier, so clearly, we have to talk about Perkins, THAT MOTHER FUCKER. Yeah, I hate him, he’s an asshole, Hank thinks the same. But honestly Perkins was super rude from the beginning. Chris introduced them and instead of a “Hello” or whatever his first words were “What is that” about Connor. Yeah, fuck off Perkins. Hank has actually been really polite with him there, if you take in the circumstances.

Let’s move to the Eden Club. Who does he interact here? Ben, briefly, polite professional, he calls Gavin an asshole, when he’s not there, he doesn’t really say anything to Gavin when they’re in the same room, despite Gavin being a little shit again. Eden Club owner? He’s polite as he questions him, he does mention that he likes his dog more and more the more he learns about humans, which honestly, if you look at why he says that, understandable. Then the Traci, this is easily missed, I only saw it on my fourth playthrough, he is trying to gently let her down and it’s incredibly adorable. The guy who supposedly absolutely hates Androids and thinks they’re just machines tries to not hurt this android sexworker’s feelings even though he believes she doesn’t even have feelings.

We see a little bit of his private life at Chicken Feed where he meets Pedro, a guy who apparently gives him questionable betting advice and last time Hank apparently lost quite a bit of money with Pedro’s advice. But he’s not mad. He mentions it but he is quickly convinced to bet again and he’s in general super friendly to Pedro. Gary, the guy who owns Chicken Feed, him and Hank also seem to have a good relationship. Someone who wouldn’t want to interact with humans and who is annoyed by them (like me sometimes) wouldn’t actually built a connection to the guy you buy your food from. I’m talking from personal experience here. Yes, I’m always friendly to service workers I interact with but I don’t really say more than greeting, thanking, wishing a good day and anything important for whatever I’m buying. Hank clearly knows him better and talks to him. Jimmy is less clear but the way he says to him “Wonders of technology, make it double” it seems like they know each other, they chat on occasion. And I think that extends to other Service workers. He would be friendly at the grocery store when something doesn’t work out r at the restaurant when getting the wrong dish. You know like millennials are, because he is a millennial.

That we go to Kamski. I’m not sure why he seems nervous while talking to Chloe because I’m pretty sure with all his experience he doesn’t get nervous in front of a pretty woman, that seems like it would be really bad for the job. I don’t know what’s with this, maybe cause she’s an android and he’s not sure how to interact with her? But he is very polite to her, greets her and asks for Kamski. Despite her being an android, he supposedly hates. He is less polite to Kamski, but he’s a little shit, who honestly is wilfully withholding information from the police, which is a crime, but he’s rich so I guess he gets away with it.

So, what about the Stickers than? Let’s have a look at the Stickers and see what we have.

I’m just gonna list what we see there, so you don’t have to get through my grainy screenshots and also, it’s accessible for screenreaders.

We have three categories, let’s start with anti Android: -“We don’t bleed the same color” -a blue triangle, crossed out, underneath it says: “No more androids”

That’s it, only two, we know he doesn’t like androids but like mentioned before he is still really polite to them, well his relationship with Connor is starting bumpy and based on player choices might get bumpier. But what is it, he hates? He doesn't like androids in their non-deviated state because of what humans want them to be, he hates that humans basically built human shaped slaves. And honestly, I kinda get it. Connor shoots the Tracis? Hank likes Connor less. Hank shoots Chloe, Hank is mad. Connor spares them? Hank tells him he did the right thing. Connor asked him why he didn’t want him to chase Kara across the highway and the first thing he says is “You could have died” before he remembers he’s supposed to hate androids. Yes, he gives positive feedback when Connor shoots the kitchen android but he was actively threatening all of their lifes.

Next, we have a sticker mentioning an ex-wife, only one. It says: “If I wanted to be ignored I’d talk to my ex-wife” There is something else there but it’s blocked by another sticker.

Seems like classical boomer humour “Haha I hate my ex-wife” or it’s ironic. There is no other instance of an ex-wife being mentioned. For all we know, he might have never been married. Hell he might be gay. Cole might have been adopted. The sticker might be ironic. Or he got it from somewhere and just sticked it on or he did it very shortly after the breakup when he was pretty mad.

Third are the grumpy ones. We have more from them. -“If you’re not a bartender, go away!” twice -“How is my driving? Call: 1-555-IDONTCARE” twice -I’m not grumpy. I just don’t like you.” -“Warning, to avoid injury, don’t tell me how to do my job” -“If you have a complaint, please do to hell.” -“Happy people make me sick”

This screams edgy millennial to me. Also the fact he has stickers twice seems like he just got them somewhere and slapped them on because he found them funny. He didn’t buy them specifically.

The bartender ones? Don’t we all like to make fun of our mental illnesses? He knows he’s an alcoholic, might as well make fun about it. The ones about driving? Wouldn’t you stick them on your car? Why is this in the office? Because they’re stupid but somehow funny, just slap them on there. I’m not grumpy? I would totally say that as well. And I believe people told them he’s grumpy so he probably saw this as fitting. I have to admit I don’t have a specific interpretation to telling him hoe to do his job and the complaint one. The one about happy people? This man is heavily depressed, that’s a coping mechanism, it’s again making fun of your own mental illness. But yes, all in all they boil down to edgy millennial.

I’m well aware that this is probably not what David Cage intended but to be honest I don’t care what David Cage intended. He tried to push boomer Hank on us with these stickers but the Hank we got was different. I don’t know if that’s Clancy’s doing or if this is just another plothole. But that is my interpretation of Hank, nobody asked for.

Anyway, I love Hank and I’m making it everyone’s problem.

#Detroit Become human #Hank Anderson #I love him your honor

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fma03envy · 3 years

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Thoughts on rewatching FMA CoS for the first time in around a year:

Love the beginning. Prime 03 comedy

The CoS artstyle is undoubtedly my favorite art style in any version of fma (I know it's really close to the regular 03 art style but They Are Not The Same. The reason all my art has those lines on characters' cheeks is from seeing CoS)

The gender envy I get from waistcoats in general combined with the gender envy I get from Ed... Yeah......

Like the continuity of Ed being absolute shit at driving a tractor in 03 and being no better at driving a car here <3

Why is Ed taller than Mustang when they stand next to each other in the opening???

"Just an old habit of mine" I hope Edward knows I care for him

The audio's timing is slightly off in the YouTube version of this and it's really starting to bug me. I really CoS was on Netflix

It makes absolutely no sense that Noah can see ppls pasts by touching them when no form of "magic" (alchemy, Envy's shapeshifting, etc) works here

I've talked before about how much I love quietly sad protags (Jon, David 7, etc) so CoS Ed is really getting to me

This movie has so many side characters who I want to punch in the face (Hughes especially)

I am once again Caring Too Much about/for Envy but this time I think I have more justification than other times

This movie has a lot of new plot stuff that simply can't bring myself to be interested in

Idk why the wiki theorizes that Eckhart is alternate universe Dante. Logically alternate universe Dante would've died like 400 years before this

Wrath!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Hm my feelings on Alfons are mixed. Like. I do know that the fact that he let Noah live with him and was kind to her indicates that he definitely doesn't hold nazi beliefs or anything. And I do realize that since his goal in life was so niche/expensive working with the Thule society was probably the only chance he would get to fufill his dream (especially given the economic recession, and his lung cancer). But still his choice to ignore Ed's warnings about them along w/his "showing them Germany isn't beaten yet" line is Not Great

I feel like Lang's "maybe I'm trying to avoid being forced out of my dream" line could have some sort of wider plot symbolism relating to either Ed feeling like this world is a dream or Alfons' dream of building rockets but if so I'm not good enough at analysis to understand it. Maybe I'm overthinking and it only means what it seems to tho

Wrath doesn't seem to use alchemy at all during his fight with Gluttony??? Did he lose that ability when he lost Ed's limbs or something???

Speaking of Wrath's fight with Gluttony. I'm so sad it's unreal.

On a different note though. I don't think it would make sense that Wrath would get to see Izumi again given the precedent for how the gate works it's not like she had just died a few minutes before like when Al brought Ed back or anything

Also. Did the ppl animating the bit in the gate just. Forget how CoS Wrath looks. Bc in the rest of CoS Wrath has automail and looks noticably older bc of the timeskip, but in the gate he looks 13 again and has his limbs back?????

Ok I'm going to stop trying to find things to nitpick about Wrath's death simply bc I'm upset that he died. Back to your regularly scheduled reactions

...So time to be upset about Envy's death instead! Literally wtf was CoS thinking by reducing him to a plot point and then killing him off like that?!?! I know Envy's a terrible person but like. He got treated like a lab rat and experimented on by literal nazis for an extended period of time. I think some sort of vengeance for him is called for

It's sort of like my thoughts on the Slicer brothers ig. Like yeah you suck but the punishment really doesn't fit the crime and they had no right to do that to you.

Wrath's death makes me so sad and Envy's makes me so mad I'm generally just suffering rn

I really wish Noah could've gotten through the portal. Obviously Amestris is no Shamballa like she thought but still

"Welcome home" The dramatic irony of this when I know full well how CoS ends 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

CoS really said, "Oh, so Al lost all his memories of the traumatic things that happened to him in armor? Guess we'll give him new traumatic experiences to make up for it!" (Seriously though Alphonse doesn't deserve this he's 13)

Why can the gate be opened from just one side but has to be closed from both

CoS's and TMA's endings reminds me of each other and theyre both bittersweet in a way that rips my heart out

The way CoS ends is so plothole-y but still makes me so emotional

#adrien says stuff #fma #fma cos #ask to tag

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kitsunabi · 4 years

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I have so many emotions to articulate about remarried empress and all the characters and character arcs and have no one to rant about it to and i’m just all laj;dljfka;ldjkf;lajkdflja

Okay FIRST OF ALL, I need to talk about Sovieshu since he is the very justifiable hate sink. I hate him, let’s start with that but he’s such a well developed (is that the word I’m looking for?) character like WOW. But in his defense he is not a bad guy, he just has very very terrible character flaws that drive him to the worst version of himself. More accurately I pity him because he’s so deep in the rabbit hole there’s no way out.

During the entire time that I read the remarried empress the only plot hole, to me, what the fact that Sovi could go behind Navier’s back with a mistress especially after multiple people recount that the former two were pretty much thick as thieves. From the moment they were kiddies, they were arranged to be future emperor and empress together so they grew up together, had the same teachers for a while, literally EVERYTHING was together to the point where everyone considered them adorable lovebirds. Hell, we even read actual flashbacks of when they were kids that verifies it all.

Fast forward past a marriage and coronation and we get the start of this story? What??? But but but, I had to suspend my belief for a decent while and i’m so so glad that the author addressed that glaring imo plothole. And to speak of as little spoilers as possible, I will just say the cookie incident that we learn about. That incident puts the whole story, the whole plot into perspective -- implying that Sovi has pretty much been scheming these events all the way back from before their marriage. He didn’t just 1 day see some chick and become so infatuated with her that all morals went out the window. He’s been waiting for an opportunity to help him kickstart his plans and Rashta happened to be the one to answer the call.

Also, ANOTHER thing. another one of Sovi’s worst traits is derived from him being an emperor and the fact that he and Navier grew up together. It’s pretty quick the reader should realize that he does not see Navier as a wife/companion/person but rather an owned object that is taken for granted. Whenever he gets mad at Navier for being with “foreigners” it’s not from the perspective of a jealous lover, its from the perspective of “that’s my toy that I’m not sharing with other kids on the block”. He also expects said “toy” to only view him as the owner. Which is why when he starts realizing that Navier won’t ever really want to go back to him is when it all clicks into place and that he’s going to lose the best thing in his life -- but by that point we’re all pretty much rooting for Navier and Heinley.

I need to stop myself here before I breakdown all the reasons why Heinley is an infinitely better candidate compared to Sovieshu and I’m not talking about his good looks -- loving her aside, he actually has a lot of good qualities that make him a good person like wOW.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

#remarried empress #jaehon hwanghu #i can go on for HOURS about each character their motives their personalities its just something i love to DO and its so hard when stories #present their characters with little complex motives and backstories #my thoughts are so scattered aaaaahhhhhh

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owlswing · 4 years

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ROTBTD TAG GAME

Okay, so I was tagged by

@ohlooksheswriting-wips

! Thanks for tagging me!

Answer these questions and tag your rotbtd friends! And please don’t reblog this, put your answer in a new post 😊✨

Name/nickname?

My blogging name is Owlswing, but I also go by Owl :)

How did you get into rotbtd?

Oh, gosh... I was about 15...? Anyways, I liked all of the movies individually, and I ended up stumbling across some fanart of all four of them together, and then I saw tags like “the big four”, and the rest is kinda history. I got in deep on a dying fandom and never left...

What made you stay/come back?

Hahaha! See, fandom was dying/dead when I came around, so I never left. I just started a really long Hogwarts AU that is still not finished... (also after checking the timeline for the last question, I realized that said Hogwarts AU is almost 5 YEARS OLD! Maybe I should do something special for the anniversary???)

Out of the four movies, which one is your favorite?

I mean, I absolutely love them all, probably wouldn’t be in the fandom if I didn’t, but... I have to go with Httyd. Hiccup is just a really relatable character for me, and I just love the exhilarating feeling I get every single time I watch Test Drive. It’s just so beautiful.

Dreamworks Dragons or Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure?

You know, I think I need to go with Tangled Adventure on this one. While I love the Dragons series, I feel like Tangled did a really good job of staying true to the original characters while also adding more at the same time for more dynamic plots and such. I think it was just really well done, and there are no plotholes/awkward overlaps like there are sometimes in httyd (that could be because there are less movies so not as many toes to step on) but still, I think Tangled Adventures was really, really well done and I must give credit where credit is due! :)

Which one do you prefer to be made a sequel of, Brave or Rise of the Guardians?

It’s hard because I really want BOTH... I think I would prefer a remake of Brave with the original director, Brenda Chapman, because I feel like it would’ve been so much better if she hadn’t been taken off a project that was inspired by her own relationship with her daughter. Yeah. I’m still mad about that Disney.

But for overall sequel I would probably go with Rise of the Guardians. Brave seems like more of a stand-alone plot to me, so trying to shoe-horn in something else has high chances of being not so great *coughfrozen2cough*. Where as rotg has many characters with different legends and stories to be told, a whole book series to draw from, it’s a whole world that we’ve only explored one small part of, and I would’ve liked to see well-adjusted team dynamics/family-team antics of the guardians! :)

OTP/BrOTP(s)?

Ah, see I’m really NOT against any of the ships, I’m just not big on shipping in general. There are very few ships that I’m actually, ya know, Into. So I’m definitely more of a Brotp kinda gal. I love me some good, healthy, and strong friendships! Found Family? That’s my ish! Love that!

Favorite character(s)?

Hiccup. But there’s a special place for each of them. I’ve seen myself in each of them and nothing can really replace that feeling.

Favorite AU(s)?

Okay, I gotta say Hogwarts AU cause I’m chin-deep in that right now. Soon to be drowning. Simultaneously the best and worst decision of my life. Haha! Just kidding! Anyways, I like this AU because I’m really big on fantasy, and it just makes sense; why four people from completely different walks of life ended up in the same place at the same time? I think it’s pretty cool and it’s such a big world to explore!

Besides that... I would say a War AU could be cool, like medieval fantasy or futuristic sci-fi. Pirate AUs and Circus AUs will also always catch my attention.

Pick one! favorite B4 house placement in Hogwarts AU? | favorite B4 nation/bending headcanons in ATLA AU?

Okay, so for Hogwarts Houses I definitely have preferred Houses, but the whole system is so generalizing to begin with I really believe that any of the four could be in pretty much any house if you really want, but here are my preferences:

Hiccup - Ravenclaw

Rapunzel - Hufflepuff

Merida - Gryffindor

Jack - Slytherin

As for bending headcannons, I really haven’t put a lot of thought into it, but that question is very intriguing... I’d probably do something like...

Hiccup - Air, because the peaceful Nomad lifestyle and the desire to fly and explore and be free is just very fitting. Also he could befriend Toothless instead of a Bison, confusing everyone because they thought Dragons were dangerous!

Rapunzel - Earth, because for one thing I love breaking norms in this way! I love the idea of Rapunzel being the dainty, pretty princess but then she busts out some of the most badass Earth Bending moves, invents metal bending to escape Gothel, is just very kind but if you piss her off she’ll totally wreck you. I think this would be A LOT of fun. Also, I think it would be fitting with the whole “flower” thing. I also think it could be an interesting character arc where she’s not very good because her personality doesn’t exactly fit the “traditional earth bender attitude” and being raised by Gothel (”You? A bender! Oh, honestly Rapunzel, don’t make me laugh!”) could leave a lot of insecurities that she would have to grow and work through. I think it could be really beautiful.

Merida - Fire, on the flip side this one is kinda typical I imagine, but I would say (also on the flip side) make her afraid of it. Make it the one thing that Merida isn’t, well, Brave about. She doesn’t like fire bending. It could potentially make her a disgrace to her royal/noble family. It also would explain why she’s so good with a bow and sword: she chooses weapons over bending. Unlike Rapunzel who wants to learn but is hindered and must overcome, Merida would be against learning and would eventually have to learn that it is a part of her and learn how to accept it (after possibly visiting the dragons with Hiccup or whoever the avatar would be cause who the heck knows? could be interesting if none of the Four are the Avatar. Make a fifth character the Avatar and the Four could just be the teachers...)

Jack - Water, obvious, I know, but giving Jack ice powers AND another element makes him WAY to OP. I would say Jack is actually not a natural at water bending. He’s always accidentally freezing everything! (not unlike Katara). He has to work hard and earn his title as a master, eventually becoming the best because he trained harder than any of the others and surpassed the other water benders that used to torment him back in his home village! I also think Blood Bending could be an interesting plot device here (maybe Jack is tempted to use the technique because he’s worked so hard and still isn’t good enough? Or just in general Jack’s inner battle between the darkness and his fun-loving personality...)

......Dang it. I think I just started plotting something. o_o

Pick one! since this is 2020, any hot takes you want to give us? | what old fanon tropes that you still enjoyed to this day?

I will always love brotp between Jack and Hiccup! Absolute favorite. I also love the idea of the four having sleepovers and telling each other everything and overall being supportive and loving towards each other. All the positivity and fluff!

Any fic recs? Or if you couldn’t think of any, what was the last rotbtd fanfiction that you read? (It could be an old work or a recent one, do share!)

Uh... I honestly haven’t been reading many as I barely have time to write, but I did hear of one that I think is pretty good! It’s a pokemon AU by Acecove! I’ll link it below...

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13320856/1/Pok%C3%A9mon-World-Evolving-Together

Whew! That was a lot! Anyways, I’ll tag @emixa26 and @adaminaart!

#The Big Four #rotbtd #fandom #ask #question game #Tag #Hiccup #Jack Frost #Merida #Rapunzel

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peachyydesires · 4 years

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the keiji fic you posted was amazing, may I request a part two maybe e e e? (ty!!)

The Party (Pt. 2; Keiji x Reader)

a/n: hi there anon! i definitely didn’t expect anybody actually wanting a part two to that fic, but tysm! luckily i got to cover up a lot of plotholes i missed in the first one, so i hope you enjoy this one too! also to the other request in my box (the bad girl x keiji), i’m really excited to write it and i already have an outline for it! i also forgot to mention this to everyone but all of my fics will have a female reader (unless requested otherwise). if this bothers anyone, please let me know and i’ll switch to gender neutral terms (unless requested otherwise).

summary: after walking out of the station, you come to the realization that you’re stranded in the middle of town until keiji finds you.

You didn’t exactly plan this out well.

As you walked out of the station with a large smirk still spread out on your face, you walked a few feet away from the building before you stopped dead in your tracks as you realized that you were stranded in the middle of town with no car. And even if you had one, it would’ve been illegal and dangerous, considering you were technically drunk.

Well, shit. You thought, your smirk slowly shrinking into a defeated frown as you patted your pockets. Somehow, while you were busy playing your act, you had forgotten completely about your phone on the way out. Luckily, you still had around $20 on you because of your wallet, but there was no way you could call a taxi at this hour.

You walked a few yards out into the city and found the local convenience store not too far from the police station. There was only one employee at the cashier, but he was half-asleep on a chair behind the counter. You carefully slipped in and grabbed a case of cheap beer; you were probably being irresponsible by focusing on alcohol rather than a ride home, but you didn’t really care. All you wanted to do was to drink your worries away and hope for the best.

Once you were at the counter, the mere slam of the beer case on the glass was enough to wake the cashier up. Without a word, he drowsily scanned the case of beers as you requested a pack of cigarettes from the shelf behind him. He stared at you blankly for a moment before sluggishly turning around, unlocking the case, and scanning the brand of cigarettes you requested. You impatiently tapped your foot against the tile, crossing your arms as you waited for him to finish.

As soon as he had given you your change, you immediately snatched the case and box of cigarettes and left without a word. You were definitely irritated, especially with how the night was turning out. You had almost forgotten about Keiji, especially as you popped open a bottle of beer and began to down it quickly.

The hour was filled with bad decisions as you finished beer after beer and lit cigarette after cigarette. You sat on the curb right outside of the convenience store, staring up at the night sky in blissful wonder. All you really wanted was to get high and have a good time, but cheap beer and cigarettes weren’t exactly the best way to go.

Meanwhile, back at the station, all Keiji could think about was you. Oh, how your act had made him swoon; he had never really encountered anyone like you, especially on duty. He was distracted as soon as you had left the station, and he debated in his head whether or not to text you straight away or wait.

Just as he was getting off of his shift and getting ready to go home for the night, he froze; how had you gotten home when you were intoxicated? Sure, you weren’t underage drinking, but driving under influence was just as bad. Then again, he had driven you to the station in the first place with no way back.

Damn it. I should’ve let her call bail. He thought, gritting his teeth as he seized his jacket from the coat rack and jumped into his car. Maybe she called a taxi? No, that’s impossible, and she left her phone on that couch.

He started up his car and began to drive toward the local convenience store; all he wanted was a coffee before he got home, considering he usually pulled an all-nighter on these types of late nights.

As he pulled up to the parking lot, he noticed a hunched over figure on the sidewalk. Looking curiously out the window, his jaw dropped as soon as he realized it was you. His car made a loud screeching noise as he quickly turned around and parked in the nearest parking spot.

You were too busy admiring the few blinking stars in the sky to notice him. It wasn’t until Keiji shouted your name that you snapped your head back to look over at him in shock. A goofy smile spread out on your face as soon as you recognized him, and you waved energetically, “Hi Mr. Policemaaaaan!”

“You can’t trick me again, silly. What are you doing out here all by yourself?” He mirrored your smile, his eyes focused on only your face as he shoved his hands into his pockets.

“Pffft, I’m nottt tricking youuu, scout’s honor!” You eagerly patted the space next to you on the curb as you took another swig of beer, which he definitely hadn’t noticed earlier. “I… I couldn’t find a way back home, soooo one thing led to another and heere I am!” You slurred, but this time you couldn’t control your words as the alcohol began to really kick in.

He looked at you with a concerned expression on his face as he went silent; he studied your uneven posture and the empty case of beer plus cigarette box at your feet, and it didn’t take him very long for him to put two and two together, especially with the convenience store being right behind you. There were cigarette butts stranded all over on the sidewalk, along with half-smoked ones that you had somehow put out in exchange for more beer.

“Do you… Need a ride home?” He slowly asked, motioning towards the parked car behind him as he continued, “You really shouldn’t be out here all night.” He didn’t want to hurt your feelings by telling you smoking and drinking was bad for your health, even though you were drunk and probably wouldn’t remember anything by morning.

However, you shook him off easily as you stammered, “O-Of course not! I’ll be fineee, it’s almost sunrise anywayss. I..I don’t see the point in sleeeping now.” You tried to take another large sip of beer, but you put down the bottle in distaste once you realized it was empty.

A chuckle escaped from him as he shook his head, a frown tugging at his lips but he just couldn’t stay mad at you. He reached down a hand and ruffled your hair, “Oh yeah? And how are you supposed to get home then afterward, huh cutie?”

You pouted, lightly smacking at his arm as you made a fuss about your now messed-up hair. “I… I don’t knowww! I’ll figure it out laterrr, I just wanna have fun now, partypooper!” You whined, crossing your arms as you looked up at him with your signature puppy-like expression.

Keiji rolled his eyes as he sat down next to you, looking up at the scattered stars lighting up the midnight sky as he tried to think of a way to convince you to get off the curb. An idea finally popped up in his head as he looked over at you, “I’ll order you a pizza as soon as we get back to your house if you go with me, okay?”

At the word ‘pizza’ your dreamy expression immediately turned into an excited one as you turned to look at him. “Really? W….Why didn’t you say that in the first place, dummy? Let’s gooo!” You stood up too quickly as you talked, but it was too much motion at once for your already woozy head and you stumbled immediately in your heels.

Before you could fall onto the road face-first, he stood up and caught you again. You tried to swat him off, insisting you could walk for yourself but he didn’t listen and instead scooped you up bridal-style into his arms. Your face flushed instantly, the moon reflecting down on your dark pink cheeks as you locked eyes with him.

He stared at you for a moment, his face soon mirroring yours as he quickly looked away and headed over to his car. He was glad you didn’t mention anything about the case nor pack of cigarettes he left back on the sidewalk, but all he could really think about was you.

You unconsciously pressed your side closer into his warm chest as the night breeze began to pick up. You were in the middle of studying his face when you noticed he still had his service cap on, and a mischievous idea crept into your head.

When he least expected it, you reached up and grabbed the hat in one swift move and put it on top of your own head. He looked down at you, first in confusion before it quickly morphed into affection as he rolled his eyes.

“Really?”

“Why noooot?” You giggled, pretending to salute to him as he opened the door to the backseat. He settled you into the seat, even as you protested, “Awww, no shotguuun?”

“Not this time.” He winked at you and took his cap back before shutting the door and getting into his seat. You strapped yourself in, bouncing your legs enthusiastically at the thought of finally getting something to eat and, admittedly, going home.

Because the GPS had saved your address, the ride home was rather quick especially with the lack of traffic at that hour. As soon as the car was parked, you unbuckled your seatbelt and practically jumped out of the car. You almost fell, but you managed to keep your balance at the last second even in heels.

Keiji got out of the car and watched you stumble, shaking his head as he let out a dragged-out sigh. As soon as the car was locked, he was at your side and helping you unlock the door.

You soon kicked it open with unnecessary force and looked up at him, a big grin on your face as you sang, “Loook’s like it’s your time to diaal!” You took a moment to take off your heels at the front door, and once they were off you were skipping around the house giddily.

“What kind?” He asked as he shut the door and took out his cell. He personally enjoyed several toppings on his pizza, even mushrooms, but he wanted to make sure he cared for your needs first.

“Hmmmm,” You hummed, stopping in your tracks for a moment as you took the time to think before you loudly exclaimed, “Plain!”

He accidentally let out an amused snort at your answer but didn’t comment on it as he began calling the delivery place. Meanwhile, you were in the process of wobbling up the stairs in order to get changed out of your party clothes. You clung to the banister for dear life and somehow managed to slip upstairs without him noticing.

However, karma wasn’t exactly on your side.

After changing into your usual pajamas, a sudden gut-wrenching feeling washed over you. Nausea hit you almost a second later, and your vision was a blur as you ran across the hall towards the bathroom. You barely managed to get the toilet seat up before you began wrenching your insides out. The combination of the party food and alcohol was too much, and the stinging pain of bile in your throat overwhelmed your senses as your stomach protested against you madly.

A few moments later, you felt a pair of strong hands gently pull back your hair in order to keep it out of your face. You were mostly done throwing up, and at this point, you were only hovering over the toilet in case anything decided to come back up last minute.

“S-Sorry.” You finally managed to stammer out; you were genuinely embarrassed, but somehow your mind felt a bit clearer.

“For what?” Keiji softly asked, tilting his head to the side as he kept your hair clasped in his hands lightly, “You did nothing wrong, we all get drunk every now and then.”

“I…I know, but it’s just so… so embarrassing.” You looked over your shoulder at him, your glossy eyes giving away immediately how you were on the verge of tears already. Alcohol made you rather emotional when you weren’t at your high, and it was easy for you to swing into several different moods in a matter of minutes while you were drunk.

He squatted down so he was at level with you, letting go of your hair in the process as he locked eyes with you. “Don’t be embarrassed. I’ve been in your position once or twice, and it’s not the end of the world.” He leaned in and planted a delicate kiss on your forehead, pushing back a stray strand of hair behind your ear before he pulled back with a lazy smile, “Come on. Pizza’s going to be here soon.”

He stood up and reached down a hand, his light pink cheeks reflecting yours. You quickly put down the cover and flushed the toilet before taking his hand, letting him pull you up. Your knees were a little wobbly from having to crouch on them for so long, and you still felt a bit lightheaded. Damn, how am I gonna get down the stairs like this?

Keiji seemed to have noticed your distant expression, and he could tell you were pondering something. He eventually figured out that you were most likely worrying about the stairs. Well, there’s an easy solution to that problem.

“Do you want a piggyback ride down?”

“E-Eh?!” You looked up at him in surprise; by now you knew that he could clearly read into other’s emotions quite well, but you weren’t expecting him to offer that. Yet you quickly regained your flirty attitude as you smirked, “Weeell, I’m not complaining.”

He snorted, rolling his eyes as he noticed your change in mood. He lowered himself down, allowing you to climb steadily onto his back. He gave you a moment to secure yourself as you clung onto his shoulders and hooked your legs around his midriff before he stood up.

“Oof. You sure are heavy,” He playfully joked, slipping his arms under your legs to give you more support. You elbowed him in the shoulder lightly as you whined, “I ammm nooot!”

He quickly carried you downstairs and let you slip off his shoulders and onto the couch. A second later, the doorbell echoed through the living room as the delivery man arrived. Grabbing his wallet from his pocket, he swiftly answered the door and secured the pizza.

As he set down the box on the table in front of you, you gave him a suspicious look. “Y-You’re not going to leave already, right?” You asked, attempting to hide the worry in your voice; you weren’t ready for him to leave just yet, and you secretly hoped that he would be staying the night.

A wide, laidback grin spread out on Keiji’s face as he ran a hand through his hair, “Oh? You really don’t want me to leave, huh?” He teased you lightheartedly, making your cheeks flush pink as you sputtered for any words to defend yourself with, but it wasn’t necessary anyway as he continued, “Wasn’t in my plans to anyways.”

He plopped down on the couch next to you, reaching over and grabbing the remote off the table before handing it to you, “Movie?”

The corners of your mouth tugged your lips into a large smile as you shook your head, “Never thought you...you’d ask.”

You soon found a cheesy romantic comedy to watch, and you traded the remote for a slice of pizza as the movie started. You were practically starving and almost went through the entire box.

Despite your seemingly endless hunger, you ended up falling asleep half on top of Keiji’s chest before the movie could even hit its climax. Your head was up against his heartbeat as you used him as both a body pillow and a teddy bear, hugging him closer to you as you quietly slept.

If it wasn’t for your long, deep inhales, he probably wouldn’t have noticed the fact that you had passed out. Once you stopped responding to his jokes, he looked down at you and a soft smile covered his face as he snaked an arm around your thin frame.

He didn’t want to reach over for the remote again, afraid that he would accidentally wake you up. He watched you carefully for a few moments, the dramatic dialogue of the movie soon fading into mere background noise for him as he began to get tired himself, a feeling he hadn’t felt in weeks.

But he let it come willingly, and eventually fell asleep peacefully cuddling you.

And for the first time in a long time, he didn’t experience a single hallucination or nightmare the entire night.

#keiji shinogi #keiji shinogi x reader #yttd keiji #yttd #your turn to die #kimi ga shine #yttd imagines #yttd imagine #ficlet #x reader #yttd x reader #yttd headcanons #a pizza place open at 2AM? never heard of her before #i feel like this is too rushed but thats ok #keiji is hot in his uniform pt. 2

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aizawa-yamada-shinsou · 4 years

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Throwing in impossible twists that destroy years of canon understanding of a character has never been a good move

Yeah yeah, I hear all of you with your cries of ‘But nothing really changed, cause they didn’t know!” and ‘Doctor Who never had a constant storyline, you can pick and chose what you want!” but come on!

Sure it doesn’t change anything previously expects removes the suspense and stakes that are given before. Had River never given her regenerations away the Doctor then the outcome would have been the same, Doctor survives.

11 sacrifice of spending the rest of his life, his final life to him, on Christmas means very little because he was going to regenerate no matter what, him dedicating his life to protecting them means a lot less when it wasn’t his only life left to give.

It creates plotholes in the story, like how the hell does River regenerate, did they splice one of the Ponds with the Doc’s DNA? Cause that’s making the River Doc ship a little too close to incest for my taste. If the DOctor is the single most important thing to ever happen to the Time Lords then why was the most current childhood of the Doctor spent orphaned in a shack in the middle of nowhere? What did Clara jump into to spread herself through his timestream? We were told that it was the Doc’s scar on history, his final death as he’s had lots of bodies, but if he keeps regenerating then there couldn't be a final death. Also, how did Clara not know the rest of the Regenerations if she was scattered through his time stream?

While canon has been shaky from all the info from old who, new who, the books, the comics, and the podcasts, new who has given us some fairly basic guidelines starting in 9′s run and just building. The Doctor is a Time Lord/Lady from Gallifrey, a race of humanoid creatures that possess two hearts and the ability to regenerate, they are trained to time travel. They threw all of that out the window, the Doctor is not from Gallifrey and is not a Time Lord/Lady and the Time Lord’s only gained the ability to regenerate due to genetic experiments. It just feels wrong that basic facts that everyone that watched the show could tell you for the last fifteen years were ripped away from us and discarded for little to no reason.

Not to mention the Master

Don’t get me wrong I love Dhawan as the master, he has all the insane charm I’ve come to expect from the character, the Moriarty to the Doctor’s Sherlock, but he wasn't supposed to be a sympathetic character. The whole point of the Doctor and Master is to see the parallels without knowing what drives them. Seeing that he wants to bring the Timelord’s down because they’ve tortured him, giving him a valid reason for his hatred just ruins his appeal. I don’t want him to have been a sympathetic character all along that was doing his best to keep his childhood friend safe from the people that wronged her, I want a mad man that is always been mad with very little reasoning behind his madness, someone that I can watch try and overcome their previous actions like Missy did. Finding out “He was right all along!” Seems like it’s undermining the character.

Honestly, the writing since Jodie has arrived has been really off the wall which sucks because Jodie is an amazing actress and I love her version of the Doctor, she really does the best she can with the writing but it’s just bad.

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #doctor who salt #13 doctor #The Master

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minaminokyoko · 4 years

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The Old Guard: A (Disappointed) Spoilertastic Review

I hate 2020.

For many reasons, of course, but there is this particular nastiness it seems to have, like it’s getting revenge on us for our past and current sins.

And the Old Guard feels like part of that revenge.

I haven’t read the graphic novel, so please understand the following review is based on the film alone. I was on board with getting to see my queen and girl crush Charlize Theron kick some ass and rock that bangin’ brunette pageboy haircut that only she can and yet what this movie gave me is a raging case of 2020. This concept isn’t anything new or original, but it should have been a walk in the park. It has solid actors and a simple premise.

So why was it total bullshit?

I’m so angry. I’ve said before how certain movies feel like someone had all the ingredients to make a hot, delicious pizza and yet when they combined them, they came up with Brussel sprouts somehow. This movie is a lazy mess. It has about a handful of decent moments, but overall, it’s negligent. It doesn’t care. It doesn’t care to show you its potential. It’s just a tired, by the numbers, dull action movie that’s wasting the talent that it managed to gather together. Maybe that’s why I’m so mad. It’s clear that this could have been fantastic, but the apathy in the writing turned into a grey, flavorless bore.

Sigh. Let’s swing the ax already and get this over with.

Overall Grade: C-/D+

Spoilers ahead.

Pros:

· I signed on for Charlize Theron and at least I got what I wanted, which was her kicking ass but still giving us a few soft moments of vulnerability. This is why I will follow this woman to the grave. Charlize Theron is one of my favorite actresses because she’s so good at showing what women are capable of as characters. She has such a wide range of acting skills, giving us a cold, bitter woman but at the same time showing hints of inner kindness and strength and love. This movie barely has many redeeming qualities, but she’s by far one of the best parts. The movie knows it, as she is the only one we really get to “know” over the course of the film.

· Joe and Nicky are the only other characters providing any warmth or emotion in the film. It’s badly needed. I was so let down that they didn’t show Nile’s introduction to the team because, to me, I got the sense that Joe and Nicky are the heart. They seem in touch with their emotions and not as cynical and hardened by their “immortality” as Andy. They seem to still care about helping people, even at the cost of themselves, and they could have been such a strong anchor if the movie invested more time in them. Both actors are solid and believable in the roles and it’s a pity they weren’t given more to do than to be the victims who needed rescuing.

· The action, for the most part, is solid. It’s pretty average, though. Nothing surprising. It’s the moves you’ve seen if you watched John Wick or Atomic Blonde, so keep that in mind.

· The effects are solid, particularly for their healing factor. It’s smooth and polished looking.

· What little bits and pieces we see between teammates is likable. They seem genuinely fond and protective of each other and it’s not in focus enough, but when it is, it’s nice.

· The soundtrack is pretty good.

Cons:

· Lack of explanation. Look, I get it. You don’t want to load your entire movie up with exposition, but it’s very simple and easy to pace it out. You don’t have to dump it all in one spot, or if you do, then you can simply be strategic about it. Most good movies also know how and where to integrate the exposition and story into sequences where the characters are performing an action so that you don’t notice the exposition as you have something visual to distract you and keep your attention while you’re watching the movie. The Old Guard doesn’t care about all your questions. It just thinks you should accept whatever it jams down your throat, no matter how goddamn unbelievable it is. They explain so little of what’s going on to Nile that after the halfway point, you might as well throw up your arms and forget everything you wanted to know about the group. They answer nothing at all, yet expect Nile to throw in her lot with them for however long she’ll be alive. What’s frustrating is that you have solid actors who could pull off the emotional angles of the hard decisions they chose to make as semi-immortal beings. It pisses me off that they don’t explain anything because the motivations are what make us all care about the characters. For instance, why become soldiers? No one said they had to fight for humanity, especially since they JUST heal wounds. They aren’t super fast or super strong. They could have very easily simply acquired wealth over the centuries and used that wealth to invest in things that help people. Why do they have to be fighters? Oh, right, because it’s cooler.

· Lazy writing. The number of plotholes in this thing, due in part to lack of explanation, is stunning. I mean, it’s just so goddamn fucking lazy. It doesn’t care about its own material. It just needs to get from Point A to Point B by taking the most shortcuts possible. I can’t handle how little the movie cares about its own content. I can go point by point for laziness. We can start with how no one wanted to ask Nile ANYTHING after she came back from the dead. They just got mad and scared, but they didn’t say anything when she was still on the military base. What the actual fuck is that? And they just left her alone afterward, expecting her to follow orders? Uh, that’s not how that works. Her friends would be asking her a billion questions and the medics would have asked her even more questions than that. She wouldn’t just be walking around of her own free will, especially not in this day and age where science is obsessed with figuring out the why of humanity. They’d have kept her locked up and started examining her the second she healed the neck wound. And that’s just right off the cuff. Don’t get me started on her five second “I don’t want to march in your parade” bullshit that is just so clearly the second act breakdown moment to have the hero come back and save them in the third act schtick. How is Nile somehow calling out Andy for killing those men in the church when she was LITERALLY a Marine, who is TRAINED TO KILL BAD PEOPLE???? That made NO sense. But again, this movie doesn’t care. It doesn’t care about fucking anything. Booker’s betrayal was painfully telegraphed and it was also another plothole, as Andy has been alive for thousands of years and would have felt that the weight of her gun would be off without its ammo. She also would’ve checked her rounds before going in hot. Then there’s even smaller details, like it being broad daylight when they’re brought into that lab and then they have a shootout but there’s NO ONE on the streets when they leave, but then they leave and THEN all the people magically reappear. Go fuck yourself. This movie is an insult to average intelligence. It just expects you to open up and swallow every bit of its bullshit over and over again, squandering its own potential. It’s so infuriating.

· Cliché placeholder dialogue. The dialogue is so unimaginative that I’m pretty sure a bot wrote it. You can tell beat for beat what’s going to happen fifteen minutes before it happens on-screen. The movie really does not think much of its audience. It doesn’t have a unique take on pretty much anything at all, which is a crying shame, really. There are plenty of juicy angles for character and action that they could have gone for and didn’t.

· Not enough time is spent getting to know anyone except for Andy, and even she is given drive-by characterization. Nile is a huge loss. As a black woman, I am always dying to see black women in science fiction/fantasy stories because there is a severe lack of representation. I was hoping Nile would get a bigger stake in everything, but she’s just a chess piece. The movie doesn’t delve into her life, her wants, her needs, basically anything at all. They mention her family repeatedly, but they don’t go into detail to make you care and understand what a loss it is to leave them behind. It’s especially shitty when her bonding with Booker could have been a great emotional moment. Their origins line up well. She could have had conversations with him, arguing that she should be allowed to tell her family or at least say goodbye, and Booker could share his own tragic backstory with her to explain why it’s better for them to remain solitary. Then his betrayal would have hit even harder. Then Nile would have felt personally betrayed. It’s so ridiculous that there is all this set up of pain and interesting backstories that the movie just flatout ignores. Especially Quynh. Quynh ’s story will haunt me for the rest of my days, personally, but even that was left as an untied thread. It’s clear from that pompous ending that there’s either already a sequel planned or in progress, but personally, this movie let me down so hard I hope it doesn’t happen. Not unless a much better filmmaker and writing team comes along. Quynh’s untied thread is a blatant show of how they still think they deserve your time after showing you how little they care about their own material. They introduced the idea and then abandoned it without fully exploring what it meant. It’s clear that her horrible fate is painful to them all, so not giving it the adequate time to be explored is just even more insulting to the audience.

· Lack of imagination. For instance, we have some Mark Zuckerberg-looking villain spouting the same tired dialogue from the idiot villain in the Venom movie. There also is no creativity in the action. We could have done some fun things utilizing their healing factors during fight sequences, but there’s not much to them. Just standard punches and kicks and headshots. Then there’s the boring dead wife betrayer guy who is inexplicably left alive after accusing said cartoony villain of murdering them. He has ALL the information to take to the CIA or FBI or just ANYONE IN GENERAL IN INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES and they just bop him on the head and leave him there??? This movie doesn’t have a single original thought. It’s just regurgitating other clichés from much better movies.

I wanted this to be good. I wanted a break from 2020, but it’s clear that this year is unprecedented in how terrible it can get and how it doesn’t want us to enjoy anything. I wish I didn’t have to say these things about this movie, but I do. I honestly don’t think it’s worth a watch and that people should avoid it. It’ll inevitably do well because people don’t have anything better to do, but that’s still a shame. I’m so disappointed in all its wasted potential and I always will be.

Kyo out.

#The Old Guard #movie review #film review #spoilers #spoiler alert #Charlize Theron #new movie #new release #Netflix

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wcsleyevans · 4 years

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a bit about wesley evans

LAYER ONE: THE OUTSIDE

Name: wesley roman evans

Eye Color: brown

Hair Style/Color: curly brown short hair

Height: 5′11

Clothing Style: usually something comfortable to wear in a lab - old trainers, jeans and a graphic tee with some sort of science joke on it

Best Physical Feature: smile

LAYER TWO: THE INSIDE

Fears: his lies about his research being found out

Bad Habits: obsessing over something for a long time and then forgetting about it, biting his nails

Ambition for the Future: to become a father and raise a future scientist

Biggest regret: how things ended with alexa

LAYER THREE: THOUGHTS

First Thoughts Waking Up: "coffee... must. drink. coffee.”

What They Think About the Most: either science fiction or actual science

What They Think About Before Bed: the show he just watched before bed

What They Think Their Best Quality Is: his positivity & ability to help others

LAYER FOUR: WHAT’S BETTER?

Single or Group Dates: single

To be Loved or Respected: loved

Beauty or Brains: brains

Dogs or Cats: cats

LAYER FIVE: DO THEY?

Lie: yes, a lot of the time. about research, about his feelings towards people, about what he actually wants the most in life

Have scars/birthmarks: a lot of scars from experiments gone wrong. a large burn mark on his arm from a heating block, a big scar from an exploding conical flask, and lots of cuts on his fingers from picking up glass

Believe in Themselves: not really - his research clearly isn’t good enough to get him anywhere so he lies about it

Believe in Love: absolutely. platonic, romantic, familial. all kinds of love

Want Someone: absolutely

LAYER SIX: EVER?

Been on Stage: nope

Done Drugs: no

Changed Who You Were to Fit In: he became a bit closed off and impatient when he decided to change his results in order for no one to suspect him of doing anything wrong. but didn’t change to fit in. if anything, when he met sofia he became more himself

LAYER SEVEN: FAVORITES

Favorite Color: emerald green – the colour of bis(N-sec-butylsalicylaldiminato)nickel(II) to be exact. it was the first crystal he every managed to correctly synthesise

Favorite Music: he doesn’t like to admit it, but wes is a big t swift fan

Favorite Animal: cats

Favorite Drink: freshly brewed coffee

Favorite Food: salted popcorn

Favorite Place: his lab

Favorite Sport: he hates sport but if he were to pick one, it would be lacrosse

Favorite Season: autumn

Favorite Holiday: thanksgiving

LAYER EIGHT: IN A BOY OR GIRL

Best Personality: outgoing and extroverted, someone he can talk to about anything even if they don’t understand it

Best Eye Color: doesn’t care

Best Hair Color: doesn’t care

Best thing to do With a Partner: watch sci fi movies and try to ruin the plot by explaining the science. or just sit and talk about nothing, and everything

LAYER NINE: FINISH THE SENTENCE

I love: my work. it’s so cool

I hate: the fact that i might get caught one day

I feel: so lucky to have a best friend like sofia

I hide: my real findings

I miss: how easy the first few years of the academy were

I wish: things had ended differently with alexa. she deserved so much more than she got with me, and i wish she knew just how much that relationship actually meant to me

QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE MUSE:

What do you look like? (Include body type, frame, hair, eyes, skin, age, and distinguishing features): i’m quite slim, but on the odd occasion i get time off work i go jogging so i guess there’s a bit of muscle definition. i have brown curly hair, brown eyes and tanned skin. my most distinguishing feature is probably my eyes, they’re quite big and expressive

How do you dress most of the time?: i usually wear a graphic tee of some superhero or science joke, jeans and some old shoes that are comfy. oh and also usually a lab coat and goggles, y’know, for science purposes

How do you “dress up”?: i have only ever dressed up once for prom and i wore one of my dad’s old suits that was too big for me. not a good look. but i would wear a nice, fitted suit if i ever had to go to an event that needed one

How do you “dress down”?: joggers and a baggy t-shirt. and fleeces. fleeces were the best thing in scotland as it is freezing up there

What do you wear when you go to sleep?: pyjama bottoms. usually flannel pattern, but i have some in evans tartan which are my favourite thing i own

Do you wear any jewelry?: can’t wear jewellery in the lab unfortunately. too many chemicals and lasers

In your opinion, what is your best feature?: i love how excited and passionate i get about things

How many siblings do you have?: just me bud

What is your father like?: such a supportive guy. he moved us all the way from scotland so that i could go to a better school and become a scientist and for that i’ll be forever grateful. he doesn’t necessarily understand all that i do, but he knows how much it means to me that he’s supportive anyway

What is your mother like?: mum is amazing. she was the head of a firm of accountants in edinburgh and she gave that up so we could move here. she’s so compassionate and kind, and her and dad were made for each other. most supportive parents you can get to be honest

Where do you live? Describe it: Is it messy, neat, avant-garde, sparse, etc.?: i live in a flat in grove harbour by myself. it’s quite spacious as it’s not in the nicest part of town, but i’ve installed cameras, extra security systems and made it really safe. it’s a nice apartment actually. spacious kitchen, cosy living room. it can get messy but mess stresses me out (when it’s not in my lab... that’s a whole different story) so it tends to stay tidy

Are you emotional, depressed, ect?: i’d say i’m an emotional person, sure. luckily i don’t have any mental illnesses.

Would you consider yourself straight, gay, bi, or something else? Why?: i’d say i’m straight, have never thought of guys in that way before but i wouldn’t completely take it off the table. i have been in love with sof since i was about thirteen though and haven’t really though about anyone else other than alexa, so i guess that answers that question

How ticklish are you? Where are you ticklish?: i’m ticklish everywhere. literally everywhere. mainly around my waist, but my feet are super ticklish too

What do you do when you are bored?: i watch old re-runs of sci fi shows, and browse the internet for plotholes. or go see sof. either’s good

What do you envy most?: i envy people advancing in their research. i’ve been at a standstill for months and i don’t know why, and it’s driving me mad

#musings

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whereismywizardhat · 4 years

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I know I’m not the first one to say it, but the thing that has really been driving me mad every time I devote brain space to The Rise of Skywalker is that it is a thematically dead movie, that not only cheapens its own trilogy, but the original trilogy too. Like, every negative stereotype of the sequel trilogy is represented in force.

I hated this movie. I truly loathed it. I put spoilers under the cut but the basics are that I’ve been ruminating on it since I saw it opening night and it’s made me more mad the more I turn my brain back on. Any good reviews of this movie you see are probably because this movie moves faster then the Millennium Falcon, shooting stupid, pointless sequence after stupid pointless sequence into your brain so quickly that it makes you forget that what it’s showing to you is utterly banal and gross.

I think that the Sequel Trilogy is, ultimately, a failure. A lot of people believe Return of the Jedi is the weakest of the original trilogy, that cast fatigue and the beginnings of Lucas’s drawbacks showing as a writer hurt that film overall. If that’s the case, then The Rise of Skywalker shatters it’s predecessors because the film’s contempt for the Last Jedi in turn tells you that none of it was worthwhile. The Last Jedi was a flawed film, but it was trying to drag Star Wars into a place that was healthy for the franchise. Rise of Skywalker says “No”, and tells you that the sequel trilogy was afterall nothing but digging up the corpse of the Original Trilogy and parading it in front of you one last time.

Rey being born of nobody was important both as a way of getting away from the weird eugenics thing that Star Wars courted as Anakin Skywalker went from “Powerful Jedi” to “Virgin Birth Chosen One”, and as a way of differentiating herself from her nemesis. Kylo Ren is the heir to some great dynasty, Rey comes from nothing, it’s part of their yin/yang thing. Making her a dynasty too destroys that, brings back the eugenics in full force, AND adds a bunch of plotholes to boot. “They sold you to save you” is probably the worst dialogue I’ve ever heard, including Anakin’s attempts at flirting under Lucas’s pen.

Palpatine being alive is... nonsensical. A desperate plea for forgiveness to twitter after not explaining Snoke. Going in, I assumed it was an evil force ghost, the sequel’s equivalent of that period from Legends where Palp’s rapidly decaying clones were being burnt through and he tried to possess Leia’s baby in the womb. Not so much. It seems Palp just... kind of appeared through a plot hole. Exxegol is fine as a base, I thought it was Korriban/Morriband and was disappointed that they didn’t go with the Sith planet (except they did, I guess Sith all use the same firm for designing their ).

Which goes into Kylo Ren. Adam Driver was really just... not given anything to do (a recurring problem). To his credit, the character is on the ball for the first half of the story. It’s just... all chemistry with Rey is gone, a problem Finn has too. The movie doesn’t have time to take a breath to allow the actors to emote at each other, and Kylo takes the worst of it because he’s already a terse character and the mask is back so you don’t even get his face. The film gives one moment that works with Kylo: his vision of Han. I’ve seen some comments on this that didn’t like it, but to me it’s quite obviously the light side equivalent of Rey’s evil Rey scene. Rey looks forward and sees evil, Kylo looks backwards and sees a version of the first films climax with what he was supposed to do. It’s... the one moment in the entire film where I felt like there was some actual craft in what was going on. That’s without getting into how robbed Kylo Ren was as a villain. The Last Jedi basically set up Kylo Ren as the ultimate big bad, having achieved everything Vader wanted. Here, he’s back to being a lackey of a weirdo in a bathrobe, who doesn’t even have the benefit of being a force ghost who he can’t stab.

I mentioned Finn before. Finn has... no presence in this film. He screams after Rey, he gets a one film love interest while the previous movie’s love interest kinda just sits there scowling in the background while a hobbit whose name I didn’t catch gets more lines, he has some force sensitivity but the kind from the original movie where you squint at the screen and learn what the audience just saw while Rey has taken levels in D&D paladin. He has about the same amount of significance in this film as Obi-wan did in Phantom Menace, that is to say none except we know he’s an important character in a movie that came out before this one and he gets one action sequence near the end.

Poe makes out slightly better, taking up a lot of screen time. Poe has never been a consistent character in this trilogy. One movie he’s a compassionate cool dude, the next he’s a fuckup cowboy who doesn’t play by the rules, this one is he’s a weird stand in for Han Solo, being handed Han’s smuggler backstory and acting like Han did in ESB’s first half (without the UST with Rey). He is just as unimportant as Finn, but ALSO has to be given a lot of screen time to actually establish some rapport with his castmates because he wasn’t previously given any time with Rey and only a small amount of time with Finn.

The supporting cast from previous movies... may as well not exist. Other then Leia, all the original trilogy characters are just around. Chewie gets a fake out death. Lando shows up, gives a speech, and disappears til the end. Wedge makes a cameo ten second after his stepson dies and has no reaction to that, and the only reason I know that is because I’m so invested in Wedge that I bought the tie-in novel because it had him in it. In fact, most of the supporting cast from Force Awakens dies. Snap, Hux... that’s about it. I’m sure they would have killed off Rose if JJ thought that letting her languish in the background with no lines wasn’t a worse fate for the character. As previously noted, one of the Hobbits from LoTR has a bigger role then she does. The movie also introduces an entire legion of runaway Stormtroopers... for no reason other then to introduce Finn’s third love interest in three movies, Tika. She’s fine. I’ve heard there’s a deleted scene that says she’s Lando’s daughter kidnapped by the FO. Glad we got the weird “Who’s Your Daddy?” thing out of the way with this side character before the fans bullied the director into retconning it to being Mace Windu’s secret love child.

Consistently, this movie feels like a fever dream fan fiction with a budget. I consider A New Hope’s original cut to be the platonic ideal for an adventure film in terms of pacing. Prologue, Three Acts on Three Planets, with the tension ratcheting up with each planet. It’s follow up is a slower, more cerebral film after a bombastic opening. Rise of Skywalker takes neither option, instead going for a hypnotic, Fincher-esque pacing with no brakes. It doesn’t want you to realize what you’re watching is shlock. What isn’t a calculated spit in the face of it’s predecessor, The Last Jedi, is a stab at the hypothetical second JJ Abrams Star Wars film which didn’t exist to reference back to. Rise of Skywalker exists, and it exists to appeal to the most toxic elements of the Star Wars fanbase. I don’t think it’s salvageable.

Somewhere, out there, there is a version of Rise of Skywalker that is thematically coherent. Maybe there’s one that actually follows up on it’s predecessor like... every other Star Wars saga film instead of an imagined film that didn’t happen. I dunno. Regardless, it really makes me question whether Disney actually understands what they’re doing, or if it’s all just luck and nonsense that let them become a monopoly.

I guess it wouldn’t seem so awful if the Mandalorian wasn’t just sitting there.pursuing a part of the Star Wars universe that feels fresh and original rather then ruining better films.

#star wars #ros #rise of skywalker #rant warning

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iron--spider · 5 years

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My Endgame writeup or whatever

Okay

I’m gonna try to go in order of what I can remember. I might not hit on everything. Up front I will say—it played better than actually reading the spoilers did. But is that even saying much? I don’t know. I have a very strange feeling about all of it and I absolutely have not processed it yet. I just keep coming back to this thought—I just don’t know. I genuinely don’t know

- I loved the Nebula and Tony bits on the Benatar. He was such a sweet, sweet calming dad. I wanted more of all this. They rushed through it.

- Uh. How did Carol know. Why did they skip her finding out where he was? I need more lol. I also wanted the scene where she originally arrived. Don’t assume shit about us, Marvel, just don’t skip important scenes.

- Side note: the pacing in the beginning is....bad. Really bad lol.

- I liked the Tony arriving back bit. I like everything about Robert’s performance here. How he said “I lost the kid” with such emotion (though does Steve know who he’s talking about?)

- Next scene was some of the BEST work I’ve ever seen out of Robert. Seeing him so skinny like that was horrifying. The look on his face when he saw Peter on the screen. Ripping out the IV, everything he said to Steve, pulling out the housing unit and dropping it in Steve’s hand and then collapsing. Oscar reel. That’s my baby and I’m proud. Damn.

- “up until a couple minutes ago I thought you were a build a Bear” lmfao

- uhhhhh the killing Thanos.....yeah whatever. It was weird. And annoying.

- If I could rewrite this movie, the five years later is exactly where I would start :) A misstep, in my opinion. I don’t believe Tony would trust himself to have a child after losing one.

- “your mom never wears stuff I get her” lol

- kid is super super cute but not a good actress. I had no idea what she was talking about most of the time because she spoke so low.

- Paul Rudd fucking nailed every single scene he was in. He was amazing and a star player to me. His face in the Cassie scene. So good.

- Nat was great in every moment she had.

- The scene with the photo. God. Tony was so absolute in his opinion—he was not going to do this time travel heist. It was risking too much. No way. Get out of my house if you’re gonna talk that way. But then that picture. He takes one look at it, this dead kid that still holds such a big piece of his heart. And the next scene he’s cracking time travel.

- Pepper probably always knew this was a possibility. Their conversation made me cry.

- I hate professor hulk. It’s so stupid. Hate it lol.

- Thor just...made me sad. He wasn’t a joke to me. He was so obviously devastated and sad and just....not himself. He couldn’t forgive himself. It hurt to see him like that.

- Love when Tony drives up so fast and gives Steve his shield back.

- Here comes my favorite parts of the movie honestly. I love the whole team figuring shit out stuff once they were all together again. Tony and Nat laying on the table together with pillows. Everyone eating snacks and talking. This is the kind of shit I wanted ALL. ALONG.

- I felt offended when they were trying to explain the time travel to the audience. It’s so obviously bullshit. It creates massive, massive plotholes and it’s bad. Bad.

- But I enjoyed it lmao. The 2012 stuff was so wonderful. The Hulk getting mad and wanting to smash the elevator and Tony being like “stop, stop” lmao. Tony checking out Steve’s ass. Steve checking out his own ass. 2012!Steve saying “I can do this all day” and our Steve being like “yeahIKNOW”. Scott giving 2012!Tony a mini heart attack and 2012!Thor being so concerned lol.

- Steve and Tony journeying to 1970 was great and I adore them being a team a lot. But I’m not here for the redeeming Howard. Don’t like that guy. Don’t. Like him. Only glad it gives Tony a bit of closure.

- Uh Nat and Clint killed me. I was a wreck. They were my original ship and that just....I really miss her and she didn’t deserve that. My beautiful girl.

- The scene when they’re back and discussing her death was so hard. Thor particularly hurt me with how he couldn’t accept it.

- I knew the whole last bit was coming and it just felt like this sense of impending doom. I hate that it happened, I hate that that dickhead came out of nowhere right when they were fixing shit.

- Okay. The last battle was really good. Steve with the hammer was great. But I wanted Tony to do more. They didn’t let him do enough there at all. I loved the shot of the big three looking at Thanos before they started to approach.

- Everyone cheered and freaked out when the dusted started coming back. Peter got the biggest cheer.

- That little sweet angel running over to Tony and picking him up. Starting rambling on about what happened because he’s got to fill his dad in. Tony looking at him LIKE THAT, just....struck by the fact that he’s back, unchanged, right here, in front of him. His kid. The kid that made him want to have kids. The hug was gorgeous. So sweet how Peter was like “this is nice”.

- Loved the ladies bit and Peter just like :o

- Pepper in her suit. So cool. I wanted more.

- Peter protecting the gauntlet. I love you angel baby. He was so good.

- The whole fight for the gauntlet right there in the end was so tense. I thought I would hate Tony’s last line because reading that felt contrived but it worked because of the way he said it. I didn’t like how long it took Thanos and his army to dust away. I thought it took away from Tony a little bit.

- The death was. Awful. It was better than I thought it would be, because he did get to whisper “hey babe” to Pepper, hold her hand, smile a little. Peter broke my fucking heart. But I hate the whole “you can rest now”. Pepper would fight for her man to the ends of the earth. It’s clear to me that they wanted to do this for shock and to subvert our expectations. It didn’t need to happen. It really didn’t. Like someone wrote on here, he could have lost his arm and it would have been shocking but we could have still.....saved him. It was so hard to see him like that. I was crying so hard I couldn’t really see much of it honestly lol. But I saw enough. It hurt like hell. It’s one of the worst if not THE worst death I’ve ever witnessed on screen.

- I went kinda catatonic after that. I don’t remember details. I was really mad that they put those words in Tony’s mouth about happy endings and not always getting that even if you want it. Fuck u russos and writers. Was Peter in the room for the message? Idk. He should have been.

- Annoyed they tried to make Thor be funny after that goddamn memorial.

- “proof tony stark has a heart” lord they really had to......hurt me in that way again.

- Uh the Steve ending is a huge, huge disservice to him. He’d never. He’d never lol. That means he ignores all these events he could stop. Yes, Russos, it fucking does mean that. That’s what u did to captain America.

- Like I read on @jess-b-thot’s blog, this movie should have fucking ended with Tony’s face, not Steve’s. It’s Tony’s story. Not Steve’s.

Ummmm when RDJ’s title card came up the whole theater stood and clapped. I was still crying. I cried so loud it was so embarrassing. I don’t really know how I’m feeling now. @whimsicalethnographies has said the word ‘adrift’ and that feels right. It definitely had some moments I enjoyed, but it was not a worthy ending. Tony was spectacular throughout and continually reminded me of why he’s my favorite and why I’ll just MISS him so desperately. Everything he says is memorable, everything he does is important. I want to etch every expression on his face into my heart. He also looked so beautiful and I just cried whenever I saw him because I can’t imagine that beautiful, precious man being gone. It’s a horrifying thought. He’s just so important, the beating heart of this universe, and they killed him for an emotional shock. That’s why I can’t accept it or accept this movie. They shouldn’t have done it. He deserves the ending Steve got. And since this was his last movie, he should have gotten WAY more to do in that last battle. That was a Steve fest. Moral of the story, Tony deserved better. But that was always the story. Tony deserved the world but the world didnt deserve him.

And yes, Iron Dad is canon. Tony would have stayed in that life he made, but he saw that picture and he couldn’t. If there was even a chance of bringing the kid back, he had to take it. Tony’s love for Peter saved the universe. I hope Peter knows that the whole world was saved because of him. Everyone is back because of him. And Tony is gone because he loved Peter enough to change the fabric of time and space to get him back.

They deserved more time.

#endgame spoilers #my thoughts #long post #aka i’m devastated #idk how to BE #and ffh can never address this well enough for me

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