#we did but only for seniors

[pan-de-nomena]

sometimes i think about how we dont really see older aged trolls in the franchise and how they probably kept sacrificing themselves to save the young ones from being eaten

#I probably remember it wrong #but King Peppy is the only old troll there (aside from JD ig). Peppy's generation probably did their best to keep Peppy alive bc they had c #unless i havent been paying attention and there really are old pop trolls in some bgs. mf seniors are probs traumatized to hell and back lo #Trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #Trolls band together to keep the children from getting eaten #I already used that joke before and im gonna use it bc im proud of it #actually what if trolls just age reaaaaally slowly #bc we already saw adult trolls during the beginning of the film #nah jd and bruce exists and they both look 40 somethings so #king peppy #grandma rosiepuff #branch trolls

[popponn]

why sae is kinda

#i know sae looks good #like who in bllk is ugly like yes there are some but u got the point it's like 90% cuties #but anyway i really forgot like he is t h a t good looking #brother we are not even in the same dimension i will cry what is this m4k0t0 sh1nk41 movie #you 🫵🫵 fictional man who plays soccer #and kind of emotionally constipated #what are you why are you like that this is so offending what is your number #sae pls pls appear again in the manga pls one panel is okay #rin what did they feed your brother (and you) #babblings #looking at him for inspo only to fall in love #sigh oh underlashes senior

[bonefall]

just saw a post by goobiestar where tigerclaw has been put on babysitting duty and they doodled him surrounded by tiny babies thinking "i cant believe bluestar is making me babysit a bunch of drooling pathetic whiny pieces of--" and with bonefall tigerstar being a genuinely good dad (at least when his babies were tiny) i have this image in my head of firepaw imagining this is what's happening and then it cuts to tigerclaw calmly playing teeterstrike with the babies

I'm telling a super different story from the other guys in my orbit LMAO, I've noticed that also. A lot of my.... fellow satellites? Companion Comets. Peripheral Planets. Lean into the comedy angle of Tigerclaw being a nasty little boy

I especially love that one comic (I think it's Blimbo?) Where he sees his younger sibs and just starts kitty-smacking them like a real cat lmao. Top tier. If the punchline is "KITTY SMACK" you'll kill me every time.

But yah BB!Tigerclaw is really important to understand as like... a guy. Just a shitty guy, has some good things about him, but ultimately the darkness within him is run-of-the-mill. He isn't special. Firestar comes to understand that any one of the dozens of assholes in his life could have become Tigerstar-- and that's TERRIFYING.

Evil is mundane and common. Goodness is complicated and unique.

So your image is spot on lmao. Young Fireheart watching him from across camp like, "ill PROVE his evil to bluestar. Look at him now. What is he doing with swiftkit. Something horrible im sure. He probably hates kittens"

And Tigerclaw is pressing his mouth to Swiftkit's baby belly and going PTHHHBBBBB.

#Though I do think it's important that Firepaw respected Tiger at first #And it's an easily forgotten detail #But like... we should remember it more imo #Firepaw realized that Tigerclaw was evil not because of immediate suspicion #But because the respected and beloved senior warrior was a XENOPHOBE #Of COURSE Firepaw realized it before the other members of the clan #They were blind to it because the entire Clan is BIGOTED #They did not see the warning signs as important because his first open targets where the powerless #Gray and Raven and Fire #People you're allowed to bully and threaten. #But Firepaw. Who is NEW to the Clan. With a FRESH perspective. Can see it immediately that Ravenpaw is being abused #And that Tiger often uses his status to bully those below him including himself #RE: The thesis of BB!TPB being ultimately that SCOURGE IS RIGHT #And that the Clans need to change. #Bone babble #Also I only hesitate to call anyone mutuals because I actually follow veeerrrry few ppl on tumblr #I read tmblr like a newspaper. When I wanna see what some guy is up to I check their blog lmao #And read back. Then close it out #Heavy dashboard scary. Elder Bones needs quiet time #I read other blogs like newspaper

[cosmicterrorthe8th]

Another Grant headcanon:

I think he wrote love notes when in relationships, and he went all out with like making the paper scented and stuff. But like he had no good perfume so he ended up using his horrible body spray. So like the lucky boyfriend would like find a paper reeking of the body spray like every once in a while.

Also I think he was someone who fell deep into romance because having a crush and feeling butterflies in his stomach was better than numbness. So he would pursue every crush even if he knew it would not end well because of the thrill of it. I think this sucked but I think he atleast felt like this is a normal way for life to suck.

#honestly I was thinking he continued the note thing with marco in college maybe? #and now marco likes the smell of the body spray even if grant found better perfumes cuz nostalgia #i think i am in my own la dee da world after this episode #where I think if willy takes a break from torturing the parents they should form a circle and become bffs #they should form a circle #toast to rebecca #and then just talk shit idk #i think they would be very funny as a group after they are done grieving #like cassandra would be like how could I have dated such a loser #he literally kidnapped like four of my exs ex friends and put collars on them when we were dating #and they would be like no its not your fault he is that manipulative #and then one of them would talk about their ex to comfort her #and then somwhow it would come out that willy is like the age of their grandparents #and cassandra would be like why did this senior citizen get me so bad #he told me to make him a sandwich and I #a multimillionaire made him a sndwich #this will probably never happen in canon #dndads #grant wilson #dungeons and daddies #the tags are their own seperate post at this point #dndads s2 #looking back on this(tags) #all the spouses knew willy as a nice guy who saved them #rebecca was the only one who suspected him so thats why he killed her #they must be feeling so duped getting tortured except for marco who saw him kill a man #cassandra has been feeling duped since heaven #this is killing me all of them are having conversations in my head now the comedy and the pain is killing me mostly the comedy #marco li wilson #grant li wilson

[otaku553]

On this day I have been dealt an unprecedented amount of psychic damage

#so for context #(this is going to be quite long) #I live in a house (college residence) and we do social events and stuff together to build unity through the trauma of academic pressure #one of these social events is darb talks/PowerPoint karaoke #where for darb talks you can give a presentation on literally anything you want #I’ve done a half hour long speedrun of Kirby lore #and I’ve also done a presentation on the undertake multiverse and sanses #expecting it to be haha funny for one night and then never brought up again #and so there’s another thing at this college called ditch day #and for ditch day seniors plan activities for underclassmen to skip class doing #it’s like an officially registered school event and teachers are obligated #to give us extensions for our problem sets and such #there is also fitch day #which is fake ditch day where you don’t actually get to skip classes and it only takes place in the morning #and these are usually just the seniors messing with us for their entertainment #so they did. a bunch of sans themed events. #not even undertake. themed #just sans themed #targeted specifically at causing psychic damage to me #there was also a fingers in his ass Sunday singalong at the end of it #truly a time

[seventh-fantasy]

xiao dingquan -> 阿宝 ah bao / fang duobing -> 小宝 xiao bao + treasures of the family

#posts made for only 1-3 people :) #hlht #lhl #my posts #that's an incredibly bad cap of mama fang and fdb but i really need it from that specific scene #also papa fang did call fdb xiaobao but he was offscreen so i didn't include the cap 😔 #in the same way it's very plausible gu siqing probably was the one who gave xdq his ah bao milk name #but we never saw her calling him that onscreen given her rare appearances. so. #to me milk names are very specifically smth a 长辈 senior refers to a 小辈 junior #it's a representation of the affection they have for the young one #nobody can take that away from me. it's very important >:( #the only way ah bao was used in hlht that doesn't fall under that is xdq calling lwx ah bao but as A REFLECTION OF HIMSELF. #otherwise xdq's milk name holds a very specific representation of seeing the person as a precious one of the family. #which is why xrj never called xdq by his milk name until the very last moment. #also i'm very emotional about fdb calling papa fang 'lao fang' and getting away with it ok. #do you get how loving and accommodating his family is that he gets to do that. 那不正是理想的家庭状态吗？ #(on top of how it's so normal in modern context lmao)

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 27

"Long Time Gone" by The Chicks

#song of the day #I'm still thinking about the Country Songs About Country Songs #this is actually a cover too though I never hear the original around anywhere #(it's by Darrell Scott who is also the originator for 'You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive' #turns out he's got a bunch of songs that got picked up and made somewhat more popular in the hands of other folks. an interesting legacy) #the best lines of this song to sing are also the bits About Country Music--well the whole song's about chasing the love of it #but this bit is bemoaning the kids these days you know. country music isn't what it used to be. why back in my day etc etc #it's so so so much fun to sing too because you get to exaggerate your 'I think's until they rhyme with 'Hank'. excellent work #'we listen to the radio to hear what's cookin / but the music ain't got no soul #now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard / they got money but they don't have Cash #they got Junior but they don't have Hank / I think I think I think / the rest is a long time gone' #it's fascinating to me to think about these songs in (saying 'historical' here is giving me psychic damage but) historical context #because the Darrell Scott original for Long Time Gone came out in 2000 and The Chicks released their version in 2002 #so they were talking about the trend towards American jingoism in country music of the time #versus like Waylon Jennings in 1975 'Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way' #(I typed that and /then/ went back and looked up the release date and I'm so proud I got it right) #already bemoaning the state of country music in the 70s versus good old classic country like Hank Williams Senior sang #(Hank Jr covered Waylon's song in 1981. like yes it's a tribute to his father but also Hank Jr was a big push towards outlaw country #and has a few pretty famous songs himself about not singing like his daddy did. it just seems a strange choice to me) #and then Eric Church put out 'Lotta Boot Left to Fill' in 2009 calling out the shallowness of the country music scene of the time #(talking some only-thinly-veiled shit about a few of his peers in the process) #and then he released 'Stick That In Your Country Song' in 2021 and that /definitely/ put some backs up #that one's a less directed but more direct call-out if that makes any sense #no lines that are direct references to other artists' songs but stronger sentiments overall #not just general 'y'all are getting shallow prioritizing good times and high sales over genuine heart and integrity of craft' #but some straight up 'you have forgotten the face of your father' shit towards country artists and fans alike. the whole industry #a very good righteous-anger song

[schoenht]

sorry if I wasn’t clear, but we did have stage directors and such, but we didn’t have that many people in crew as a whole because the new director is a bitch (literally the only word I could possible use to describe her.) Anyways, the guy Im talking about is basically just the opposite of what I read. His first reaction after the show was to run off the stage and up to the light booth just to hug me, pick me up and spin me around a bunch. LIKE????? I THINK ABOUT THAT DAILY Also he’s helping me a bunch because there’s this one creepy guy who keeps flirting with me and being all touchy, but school won’t do anything about him. But he agreed to walk me to all my classes, even though he doesn’t have most of his classes even near mine and he’s defending me from the creep. But also idk in general.

-🌺

wtf the duality of tech lives: yours vs mine GOOD FOR YOU IM VERY HAPPY FOR YOU

But technical directors that dont know what they're doing SUCKKKKK

#💜.answers #🌺.anon!!! #back when i was a senior i had a tech teacher and he fucking sucked #hang on let me get on my computer for this #i lied im gonna write here bc i took forever to answer #dude so for this carriage we had to make it was so unstable that he said only 120 pounds was allowed on the carriage #AND THE LEAD HAD TO RIDE IN IT ACROSS THE STAGE. IT WAS SCARY #he put a screw like. perpendicular to where it was actually supposed to go. so the screw was tightened literally nowhere. #the stairs were uneven as all hell and they were SCARY to walk on #for the trees we needed in the forest scene ??? they were supposed to fly out. guess what he did. yep. he drilled them to the floor #so during the ballroom scene THERE WERE TREES RIGHT THERE. JUST. THERE. #once my mentor bought gels for the lights. this guy cut up the gels to make 'stained glass' #THEY WERE FOR OUR LIGHTS.

[thedreadvampy]

me at the women in leadership conference: ah yes I will be so good at corporate leadership, I have many leadership insights

me at the pub an hour later: *actually uses leadership skills for labour organising like a boss*

#red said #my senior manager talked me into going. i did not hate it. #but i did extremely hate SOME elements #ie 'women are naturally better leaders because they're more Empathetic and Nurturing' #also 'nature is hierarchical there are leaders and followers' #once again only one person showed up to the union drinks #but we have a 3 point plan of action and hopefully that will give us some momentum #we've selected our national union we've identified the pathway to key leadership buyin to protect us if managers get shitty #and we have a plan for an initial open meeting

[marc--chilton]

oh my goddd of course chase let his dad in on the cut

#houseblogging #house md #the little kissass......... #i think the daughter thirteen thing is sweeter but there is no denying sonboy chase #daddy issues junior and senior #(thinking of the few times i saw chase this ep like at the crowd scene at the ep) #(remembers wilson) and wilson was there......... #he didnt have anything to do with daddy issues he was just also on screen #and in that houselike way i find myself gravitating to him #woah had to stop that train of thought right there. started thinking about what i could only describe as “daddy hierarchy” #which is sexist really. because “mommy-daddy” ranks under “daddy-daddy” doesn't make mommy daddy any less :( #wait. that was the joke. mommy daddy. md. house md. and house was actually mommy-daddy in the hierarchy omg #sorry i'm going on a journey in the tags here #i was talking about chase. how did we get here

[vermillioncrown]

eh, it doesn't really read as sanctimonious. makes sense. do you do anything in particular to develop the internal worldview of characters and how they "tick", besides writing interactions? do you keep character profiles or anything of the like? have a good day, and thanks for answering the first ask :)

okay good, it might have sounded a little "touch grass" for a minute there...

=

hmm...i don't do formal "character building exercises" or the like. even those character questions tire me out.

but yeah i keep notes. example of older notes that have little points of character development or relevant parts of them popping up per chapter, vs the overall notes above the timeline (tim and jason were harder to nail down so i needed notes vs dick):

or as @rozaceous has laughed at me... tallies and excel sheets, but those are so spoilery it's not even funny, but it'll be very funny to show when we get there bc. yeah.

not organized like a profile, but the main drive to write is something about this character sticks out at you (if fandom-related), thus let yourself imagine whatever scenario about that character with that salient point as a start.

example: dick grayson accidental child acquisition bc he's the one nice enough for a "child" to approach + looks old enough + plausible reason to be away from oversight -> build out connection to his job, history, where he is in canon, current connections. and i didn't figure out everything since ch 1; it's like peeling an onion lol. and as long as you don't overdo what you depict, you always have room to reveal and develop more

(example, i didn't think too hard on his relationship w bruce, tim, and jason until i had to. but the room i left in how it was only about his interactions with korvin + him being someone mission focused out of necessity and habit means you don't have to constantly sadboi introspect)

(another thing is...people usually don't introspect too deep if they're decisive and take action a lot. they can't afford to. and people don't completely know themselves, so it's okay to be wrong, as long as their wrong answer leads to a logical wrong conclusion)

(or you're writing someone completely bonkers and loose, then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but they still have their internal logic)

i balance between "lol wouldn't it be funny/sad/emotional if..." and vetting for the blorbo in question to connect it back to their canon. because the first part drives the desire to write, and the second makes the what-if have impact imo.

(you can kinda see that process happen simultaneously when i answer au what-ifs--unless something got posed where the central conceit was too far removed from the original point of the divergence)

when i don't need to iron out details i usually don't note it down, because i can always refer back to my previous bits or it's very obvious to me from the canon. if it's a difficult aspect to nail down, i take notes and keep them as an example to refer to.

i also walk a fine line between depicting idiosyncrasies vs flanderization. people are creatures of habit, right? but it's too easy to use that as a way to easily make characters distinguishable that it's like an overwrought performance rather than one of many traits in a complex individual. i keep habits in mind bc they're usually easy enough to remember by the time i'm writing out a whole thing vs note taking.

e.g. i wonder if you notice that in dick in my chapters doesn't swear much until he's under duress? he's very controlled, very practiced in keeping the mood light, such that it's just part of his internal narration.

Vs. babs, i have her more readily to be sharp and swear bc that's indicative of someone who's less outward facing on the daily compared to dick (she's only 2-3 years out from her injury and becoming oracle, and you need to imagine how someone who used to be so able as to be batgirl would feel to lose use of her legs. even if she does eventually accept her new state of being, it still sucks to say the least)

he's also an adult with a job (haha real life example), so his immediate concerns are very different from tim's as a comparison point.

=

there's not a hard formula. just take notes as you think (notepad, phone, computer), use the fun of blorbos and fandom to motivate you, and don't be afraid to revise and correct yourself. and don't let organization paralyze you (don't let perfect be the enemy of good).

uh...the easiest things for me to keep in mind are: vocab (internal and external voice), initiative (active/reactive or passive person), and mindset focus (do they introspect more or spend more time observing others)? -> and then i build out from there

and when you finally write something, read it out loud to yourself. make different voices. it's pretty easy to find when someone will say a thing vs if no one on their life would say that vs only an anime character would say that

#inquiry #Anonymous #writing #verm is helping #or whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #but this only works for the type of fic/narrative i do #if you're doing more artsy or thematic writing characters don't need to be that fleshed out bc that's not the point #i am sorry man...my entire life i've been used as the ''why tf did this person do that???'' vent board #so i'm a senior person knower. filth reader. #going back to establish a methodology for this when i'm not studied in lit or writing or psych is 🥴🥴🥴 #final piece of advice is examining what you consider as implicit ''default'' for a person #and this isn't in a woke way. we all have biases. #so knowing that means you can recognize if you're reskinning your defaults somewhere it wouldn't make sense

[barb-l]

Painful as it is, I love all the character explorations we get of each of the cast. They all really feel like their own people with real struggles that are just so relatable.

Yuzu misses her real friends so much 😭

#skip and loafer #i get it when i was like in ninth grade i was the only one of my friends who got separated in the class #youll pull thru girl its not the end of the world #plus theres still their senior year #and yes they could just meet up outside of classes no problem #thats how my friends and i did it til we graduated #even thru college we made ways

[monmouthcastle]

Watching the cast sing "For Good" put the nail in my coffin honestly

#hsmtmts #reminded me of my high school english class junior and senior year #it was a combination of theater and english and we did sing songs #only fond memories of lit and performance

[solomon-tozer]

I wonder if Stanley ever blames Goodsir for what happens.

I wonder if he ever blames himself.

He, the more experienced surgeon, wouldn't intervene to operate on Silna's father. He watched as Goodsir did his best. Maybe he watched in a detached, clinical way that saw the actions alone and tallied up all the things Goodsir was doing wrong, or that he, Stanley, could do better. When the man died, that was just a fact, really. Inevitable, perhaps, given the time since he was shot and Goodsir's skill.

I wonder if some part of him looked back at that incident in a different light later on. If he'd helped to save the man, how much of this could have been avoided?

And if Goodsir was a better surgeon and saved Silna's father, would things have been different?

#hindsight being a wonderful thing and all that #his flat-out refusal to touch silna's father... did it make any difference to the outcome in the end? #there's no way to really know so let's just think our little thoughts as we rotate characters beneath a microscope #obviously goodsir's skill level is neither here nor there but stanley does seem to look down on him #and stanley we KNOW is good at bullet stuff - he operated on jfj #he's more experienced in naval medicine and gunshot wounds #goodsir is freshly hatched after carefully studying some already dead people and maybe one or two other little things #ofc racism is rife in this show no excuses being made here for that shit #but on top of that stanley is traumatised as fuck - he probably wanted to go to the arctic to get AWAY from gunshot wounds and the like #and it's not like he's refusing to operate on one of the crew so no one bats an eye at it #but in hindsight does he regret that? does he see that it's one of the points at which things could have been changed? #i also think if he ever had these thoughts he only had them very very quietly #and in a very tiny part of his mind he carefully ignored by reading the next line of his book #or snipping off next toe from some poor sailor while a louder voice said goodsir should have done better #(but he's the senior surgeon #shouldn't he have...?) #this man is so fucked up and traumatised yooooo #stephen stanley #my stuff #terror meta #i'll try to stop having thoughts now

[stevethehairington]

just saw MULTIPLE reviews of hyperion that said it is the canterbury tales of space and GOOD GOD NO WONDER I HATED IT SO MUCH FUCK THE CANTERBURY TALES FUCK CHAUCER IM STILL TRAUMATIZED BY THAT SHIT

#and by traumatized i mean i had to read the canterbury tales for my hs senior ap lit class and do a WHOLE 20 min presentation on it #and MY GOD i hated it #it was SO AWFUL #sooooo hard to get through and just SO BAD #and it was even worse bc everyone in the class got a different book so i was the only one doing it!!! #and honestly in hindsight I TOTALLY SEE IT #THAT BOOK WAS THE CANTERBURY TALES OF SPACE #AND IT SUCKED EPICALLY #mack rambles #hyperion #so many people rave over how good it is and i just. did we read the same book????? #bc i do not DO NOT understand how anyone could read it and think it was GOOD

[yotd2009]

ok fr last one but there's actually a bootleg of my school's anastasia and i'm linking it bc you all NEED to understand that my infatuation with this one girl's voice which started when i was in the 6th grade and still hasn't really worn off isn't based on nothing

#brielle's the one in the n95 mask (the video is too grainy to actually make out any of the ensemble's faces but she stands out) #and i'm the in my 'teenage tboy's diy first short haircut' era in every scene she's in #apart from everything abt the girl who plays anya. the tea on everyone else is that our director liked the boy who played gleb's voice so #much that she actually lowered some if not all of his parts to be in his range. the guy who played vlad was a total diva and uhm. the phras #'peaked in high school' has been tossed around at him a lot. and the fact that he came back to sub the year after he graduated isn't helpin #his case. also he pressured the girl who played anya's grandmother into wearing old age makeup + spray her hair grey bc he decided he was #going to wear it and since she's supposed to be older than him she had to too and used to waltz into the girls' changing room whenever he #wanted. everyone was like super shocked during auditions though bc we all thought he was a shoe-in for dimitry esp since seniors get #priority casting bc it's their last chance. but at callbacks (we had singing auditions via video and dance auditions in person and callback #were tacked on to the dance auditions) he kinda flubbed his song and then this freshman. who was with us via google meet bc he literally ha #covid at the time absolutely blew him out of the water and i remember walking away w brielle like 'holy shit [first name] [last name] just #lost a part to a freshman' (he's the kind of person you just have to full name otherwise it sounds wrong). that said i do think he made a #much better vlad then he would've made a dimitry and while he is. a lot. he's always been nice to me and i did briefly idolize him and his #stage presence way i did anya's singing voice but that faded when i got into hs and started actually observing his prima donna ways #(the one production we were in together before in middle school we didn't have any scenes together). the girl who played the grandma #actually shouted me out in cast circle and that's the only time that's ever happened to me. also i'm p sure her dad is/was dating someone m #dad and by extension myself work with so that's. Oh My God. like she (the one who works for my dad) brought him w her to a comedy show as i #think her bf but i'm not 100% sure and when he found out what school i went to he mentioned his daughter went there and despite the fact #that i basically have a script for when people ask me that question bc i do NOT pay attention to most of my fellow students and don't know #anyone i was like 'holy shit' bc i actually did. hm what else. the guy who played the tsar and i used to shittalk bad period dramas #backstage during the first part of act 2. also during the press conference scene i need you to picture all the bolshevik soldiers and #romanov royals doing the macarena behind the curtain bc that was absolutely what we were doing back there. speaking of the press conference #the really high singing w/o a clear source was actually anya standing behind the curtain on the other side of the stage bc she's the only #one who physically could sing the part. also in regards to the bolshevik soldiers. we were originally supposed to have wooden rifles but fo #some reason our director took them out so we had to just walk menacingly towards the romanovs. you can't rlly see me that well in that scen #but that jacket would NOT stay closed and for 2/3 performances i had to awkwardly hold it closed the entire time. luckily the one that was #filmed was the one where i was smart enough to bring safety pins and also saved like all of the ballerinas bc their costumes all started #falling apart at once backstage. #romeo.txt #theatreposting