#we so invested in this story

[skimmeh]

I was hoping more people would ask about specific details I included in the characters sheets for the space me and my friend (@kairamuwu ) are working on, so I could draw answers and elaborate on, revealing the universe more, like an ask series.

But I guess I just need to draw the characters more to get the interest in them more hah! The characters sheets took soo lonnngg man, it's a lil disheartening, but I will persevere with creating an interesting series.

Things never go as expected so you just gotta work around it you know? Even if it can be a bummer you just gotta pick yourself up and persevere , I'm not gonna let one mishap discourage me from still telling this story with my friend!! :D

But please if you have any specific questions about details I've included in the characters sheets or just for the story in general, please ask!!! I wanna draw art promoted by your questions :D!!!

#space death game au #mcyt #we so invested in this story #and have been brainrotting over it for weeks #but we also both the most indecisive beings on earth #so choosing where to start woth telling the story is hard #also its just funner when you engage with other people you know? #ive ran an ask series on here before..yeaarrrss ago and it was the most fun #anyway ... Minecraft block men in space ...ask away!!!

[fromtheseventhhell]

Another round of asoiaf "prettycourse", another round of people ignoring Arya's self-esteem issues and how it relates to her arc because their enjoyment of the series hinges on an 11-year-old being considered ugly.

#arya stark #asoiaf #fandom nonsense #/looks don't matter/ but they're the ones firing up this discourse every few weeks cause they can't handle what's written in the books #grown ass people logging on every day to talk about how Arya HAS to be ugly or her story is ruined/makes her less interesting #at what point do you get tired of being so invested in how a character (one you obviously don't like at that) is perceived? #we aren't the ones shipping her with every grown mad in the series and using a predator's words to fawn over her beauty #never any discourse around a 13 year old being the most shipped character in the series nope! the real issue is that we don't #consider Arya's bullies to be the ultimate authority on her looks! #where are the essays on how Arya shouldn't have been made to feel lesser based on her looks? how she should be able to have worth outside #of her misogynistic society's standards? why is it literally ALWAYS just /Arya is ugly...that's enough analysis for today/???? #if her looks don't matter then you can simply stop creating discourse around the subject and let people have whatever opinions they want

[echidnana]

who gave project sekai the right to be impact me so much. to get me so emotionally invested in these characters.

#this is abt dear me as i was back then + new akito event #literally WHAT. #im so invested in them #i guess the main stories should have been a hint at how... serious all the characters were? #but the story is so good. it really feels like ive been walking with them all this way #minoris solo show had ME tearing up #and finding out nagi had passed away? made my heart stop. #the emotional weight of prsk is wild bc it comes across as a light hearted game #but theres so much emtional depth i guess #like no seek no find!!! actually started crying during sakis monologue #confluence.txt #we play project sekai

[blinkpen]

"writing process memes of "mmm this is the REAL goiod part" but idk is this one too niche.

#doodles #rebus #the yonkoma universe will always exist to the side though u know it #it is fun to be your own goofy fandom for your own thing #also: ooogh i am so invested in fully fleshing out lamarr and demersa's prequel style backstory i uuuh oop #dropped it and smoothing things out made the story as a whole morph into a weird fantasy epic when i wasnt looking #so rather than plonking what would be a pacing breaking boulder of a Too Long flashback in the middle of the main story #we might uuuh be going in more or less chronological order starting with lam n dem's childhood then like a 10 year timeskip #and i actually revised my big ole story-map out found like the Perfect way #to parcel these things out with good pacing n still have wiggle room for the eldritch monster of the week format we can eat #-without- it fucking up the overarching narrative or bringing it to a frustrating fucking crawl for bs we have no reason to care about #...if i do everything right anyway like if i pull off what i am trying to pull off i will do my best to not fuck That aspect up #that's what the paid editors will be for i suppose!

[james-stark-the-writer]

started watching A Murder At The End of the World and i'm only like 4 minutes in rn but oh my fucking god, they already did the impossible, they made synthesizing a literal audience not only not annoying but actually intriguing and effective. holy shit.

#james talks #james watches stuff #a murder at the end of the world #if you're new here or have never consumed any media: synthesizing a literal audience is one of the most annoying things anything can do #it is at best distracting and at worst condescending and grating bc it assumes and assigns audience reactions and interpretations #and it also REEKS of a lack of faith in the material itself to be able to speak for itself #most of the time it's done for no real purpose and the few times it has a narrative purpose it's done awfully #even a movie i ADORE like SCREAM (1996) was not immune to this. #the one single flaw in that movie to me is Kenny repeating the 'behind you' joke. not only is it not funny the second time but it's— #synthesizing the audience by making the characters an audience to the same movie as us and telling us how we should be reacting. #another movie that tries to do this and fails miserably is like Halloween: Resurrection which tries to make some commentary— #on media as exploitative entertainment and the audience as willing participants and equally culpable in the continuation of trauma but the— #execution of it is absolutely horrible and that's even beyond how bad the rest of the movie is. #every time the characters are watching the same media or there's an actual audience in the media it's literally never gone well— #at least as far as i have experienced. but this is the first time a literal audience in anything has actually worked bc it's like— #right in the opening and it's the audience actually getting invested in the story so THAT audience responding the same way actually WORKS #actually borderline genius tbh

[isa-ah]

not to beat a dead horse bc I know I've said this a thousand times already but totk sucked. there was nothing to work with after it ended. by this time in botw content circles it was ramping UP. it went for YEARS with elaborate theories and videos and an entire secondary canon built by theorists and fans. when was the last time you saw someone talk about totk? how much positive discussion have you seen about the story, ever? theories, world building, etc? anything at all?

#i follow a ton of zeldatubers bc i was really into the botw content when it was happening #and after totk dropped it went from weekly if not daily uploads to. crickets. #and occasionally zeltik or monster maze put out a video but even then its with none of the passion or creativity they had before #and its bc totk was just. BAD. it was so literally botw 2. #bad dungeons a thousand shrines a story told theough small peeks #except unlike botw there was no emotional hook with the characters. nothing personal. we dont know ANYTHING abt the sages #their two biggest hooks were the zonai (who they entirely changed from what people found interesting in botw- #-then did nothing to elaborate on. at all. no history no world building no character arcs at all) #and the sky islands (which were rare. copy and pasted. scattered small identical puzzles) #like what did you even do? you took away all moral greyness all character development all personal investment #and you gave us all the same flaws and THEN some while saying you were listening to what the fans had to say #what was the point even. the only good part of totk was tulin.

[fandom-blackhole]

My friends, idk how, but im gonna figure out a way to share my final presentation with you guys for a class after I finish it. Because I'll be damned if I'm gonna be this passionate about this thing, do all the research, make a ppt AND cardboard tri-fold, and present this at a "Research Symposium" for 2 hours to whoever stops at my booth during finals week to not share with the people I like most 😤

Basically for the project we have to take a person or event and give background on them before analyzing them through a Social Psychology lense (bc the class is social psychology lol). AND GODS DO I LOVE SHIT LIKE THISSSSS. I will not be sharing what event I chose for two reason: 1) I want ya'll to read and learn about it through my post when I post it 😌 and 2) It's a REALLY obscure event from what I've gathered (like I barely have 5 sources for references and one's ONLY in german) and I doubt many would know what I was talking about.

#Ive literally been working on it all night basically (and have little to show but aesthetics) #BUT! I did get all my photos i currently have and their captions put in too!! #I just need to fill in the slides with their info #im literally chopping at the bit to show you guys bc im so fucking into this project #i love being a psych major 🥰🥰🥰 #I have been this excited about something in AWHILEEEEERE #I can wait to look through social psych theories and ideas and figure out which im gonna hold up for anlaysis #we are just at the stage of turning in the first part which is just the who. what. when. where. why. #the how (which will be the theories) will be next part to turn in #but god am i invested and ferally upset about this story #ok i need to go to bed now so that i can finish this project tomorrow so i can turn it in :) #ill rb this a few times to gauge interest but besties im 100% posting it no matter how the poll turns out #im just too pumped and i want to SHARE with people who know and like me (i mean i think yall like me lol) #social psychology #college final project

[inflammatoryfandomblog]

the fandom’s discourse around dark magic is pretty much just a manifestation of “people know what they’re upset with, but not the root cause/can’t verbalize a solution to what they’re upset about.”

people who are unhappy with how dark magic is treated generally understand how the narrative frames it. they are correct in saying that there is a problem, and that it somehow involves the setting and dark magic, and then say that maybe it could be fixed if the magic system were changed. but their prescribed solution doesn’t work. the deeper problem is how the narrative uses (or doesn’t use) dark magic.

(flashback reel effect here, basically entirely rewritten but the format still doesn’t work for a full-fleged post so i will keep this transition in.)

that’s what really kills dark magic in this series, right? the fantasy question, “was dark magic good to use and when should it be used, if ever?” should be a jumping off point to explore all the other ways in which people value and instrumentalize power (ie sol regem literally saying the humans are inferior because they are less powerful) instead of staying only at the shallow level of “dork magic is bad for you.” just because the elves don’t use dark magic doesn’t mean they are immune to this discussion. indeed, the very first episode of the show shows us the moon elves engaging in a ritual that can be described as blood magic--binding their limbs to the blood of their targets; is this supposed to be magic that is Pure and Good? is the base problem really just dark magic, or what it represents? and more importantly, is what it represents limited to its practioners? the early answer--especially that we see this stuff from the xadians and are informed of their implied failed genocide early on--would be “no.”

but the later answer is “yes.” this early promise of the show is undercut by the show’s babybrained morality re: xadia and the elves. it never really critiques power in general at all except if its dark magic. it’s all fine and dandy and fun and smart to dunk on the humans, but xadians? insensitive. soren is bad and stupid for making a bad tactical decision, but pyrrah is a Good Dragon Friend even when retaliating against a whole village. it’s not tragic when ezran (a dumb child king who just let this happen) napalms his own people, because they have already been de-personed by dark magic. how convenient! 

and the story that dark magic creates--even if it is inherently harmful--is a great tragic story! the xadians, obsessed with power and how power makes you who you are, are stabbed in the back when some of the dredges finally discover a way to speak their language--and this doesn’t cause basically any self-reflection on their part. instead they basically go all out genocidal and no matter how bad dark magic is, this is extremely disproportionate. but the series still goes “but they are no angels!!! but they are no angels!!!” to basically one side only. for the xadians, the show (and even the supplementary material!) basically does backflips and contortions to show how they are nuanced and how humans should respect them, but there’s basically nothing the other direction.

you can say “oh good inflammatoryfandomblog!!! you’re seeing the point!!!” except i don’t really believe that the show has any intentions of making good on this initial promise. it has given me no indication of doing so, and its asymmetric treatment of the conflict basically does the opposite of the above. this problem does not go away if you change the magic system. this problem does not go away by simply noting the thematic potential of the setup of dark magic. ideas are cheap, though this is one that perhaps costs a nickel instead of a penny. the real problem is the execution.

#oh we spent four seasons trying to bamboozle you #the REAL twist is coming!!! #and if it's like #then it's too late #extremely frustrating that people just. intentionally decide that the problem is that detractors just don't understand the show uwu #people don't invest so much time hating on something unless it has disappointed them in some way #(or for clicks lol. but let's be real. the dragon prince is not a popular show.) #the dragon prince fundementally fails in its themeing and applying it across all the story and the actors in it #no amount of scrubbing away plot inconsistencies (or fixing them) can fix this #and the show is deciding to focus on the eggplant elf #you thought you could get away from aaravos hating? #you can't. #tied with ezran for being the worst character in the show #tdp #tdp critical #me.txt #begone thought

[androids-insides]

GORETOBER 4.

MUTATION

This one has a story on it that I just made up!! I’m tempted to use it for something… We’ll see! Anyway, I’m going to sleep mode now, byyyeeeee!

(The papers 👍)

#goretober 2023 #goretober #goretober day 4 #endogeny #undertale #original story #original character #this one was honestly super difficult! #technically it’s not tomorrow until I sleep and wake up again so- #it’s really hard to punctuate these without using commas… #Should I post what the papers say? Are we invested in this at all? #android’s insides #androids-insides

[2129888]

higuchi sensei when it's time to cook up the guy that'll be falling in love with the main character in one of her little stories

#she has a formula. and she sticks to it. respect #would give up my kidney to read vol 2 of yasashii watashi. like im invested #so curious abt what other stories she couldve written if oofie hadnt become like her 20+ yr long magnum opus for realsies . #shes so epic at writing. human beings in love. like the mediocrity and magic of it #wahhh wabhhh well we get abemiha endgame in the end so its alright 🙂 #<- leave me be

[petriichvrs]

FOUR YEARS  OF  NOXTMS  /  six  characters  !

ft. @viiktorious ( my absolute favorite take on viktor, in the sense that no one else could ever really compare. i think you write him so well when it would be so easy for him to be very oversimplified, and one of the most pleasant surprises of this year - at least so far - has been you bringing him back to the dash ! ), @hoggleswart ( i don't know how well documented my 'sarah shahi deserves to be used more in the rpc' movement is here in nox, but i have been leading that charge for so many years and i was already so invested in roshana before you ticked all my favorite boxes in a character. i love ocs connected to existing canons in ways other than siblings or children, and i'm always a sucker for someone achingly sad ! ), @hcldmybroom ( not unlike the above, i have been wanting ambika to become the next big thing for so long that i, again, was always predisposed to loving a character using her ! there is so much - so far - untapped potential for drama with minette that makes me gleeful, and i really, really enjoy what i have seen of them so far ! ), @chacswins ( this guy is always gonna hurt my heart, and i'm always gonna be way more into that than i should be</3 you and sam are neck to neck in my personal 'most anticipated returns' list, and i'm so happy to be able to play around with you in all the angsty ways i've grown to love playing around with you in over the years of friendship and development we've had ! i'm so fond of damien in a way i think doesn't get expressed enough, and so grateful that his existence has provided me with 1. a whole character, in luca and 2. so many new layers for other characters ! ), @tosteelisms ( cara macdonald, my beloved, i am so glad that someone has finally given you a chance to thrive when you have so deserved it for so long ! she's one of my most adored creations, here, and i am so glad that i was able to entrust her into such capable hands ! you came into nox swinging, and i have loved seeing her form ! ), @acritudos ( last, but not at all least. theo nott was talked about at such length for so long that it would have been so easy for him to lose momentum but. of course. that was never going to happen in your hands. he is everything i've always dreamed of and more in terms of all the various dynamics i always wanted - with pansy, with the slytherin gang as a whole, with astoria, with ginny. with everyone, really ! - and of course it would be you that would give me those goods. how on earth could i expect any differently ! as always, i feel very lucky to write with you and develop such complex connections with you, and i hope that never changes<3 ) !

#nox.graphics #mine* #nox.task #i tried to do like. word i grabbed / associated from aesthetics and stuff you have posted + color #even if the color was a synonym to a color. for proper pantone vibes. #im not sure how i feel about it ! alas it's too late and now im done<3 #honorary mentions to : sarah's hermione who feels like an especially special character to have this month considering she was the 1st #we ever had ! #emily's dwaco who isn't here but always present in my heart same as them<3 #lex's grace moody because i can never go without mentioning JUST how much i adore that v sad girl #( but also ismene because .. yes she dead<3 ... but she formed such vital part of the xu's ) #( one of my favorite of all time families to be involved in ) #and vicky's tempest. who i constantly forget did not exist in canon. #they are SO well written and i am so crazily invested in their story

[seventh-district]

so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

#hsr #honkai star rail #hsr 2.2 #hsr spoilers #hsr leaks #the body of this post reads as far less enthusiastic than i really am #i just don’t know how to casually return from my latest 2 week hiatus only to gush abt a game i’ve hardly blogged abt before #but i’m not making a whole ass sideblog for it like i did for Genshin. nah y’all r gonna bear witness to my fixation with this one #so anyways don’t mind me. vibrating into another dimension with anticipation for the next 11 days #it’s insane man. a year ago i Never ever woulda thought i’d be so invested in this game. and it took Months for the game to really grab me #but i’m v glad i kept coming back even when i was struggling to really get into it. like i just had this feeling that if i stuck around and #gave the game a chance to really like. come into its stride. i just always felt like there was Something there and i just hadn’t found it #and holy shit i finally found it in Penacony. the devs really truly outdid themselves with this region and these characters and this story #not to discount everything that’s happened prior. like i was genuinely Liking it all before now but i wasn’t Loving it y’know #but that may be more a ‘me having to fight tooth n’ nail to force myself to consume new media’ thing than it is a matter of the actual game #anyways i came here to talk abt the program! bc since i’m not filming my HSR stuff i’m gonna be insufferable abt it on Tumblr instead ! :) #and i’m probably not filming any more Genshin stuff. or anything else at all for that matter but let’s not talk abt that dead dream #pun not intended lmao. Anyways let’s return to the subject at hand while there’s still room left in these tags shall we #i’m so fucking glad they had Aventurine on this program man. especially since he’s leaked to only have 18 lines in 2.2… it was nice to see- #-him here at least 🥹 i’ll take what i can get. his unenthusiastic little bird noises at the beginning.. him being reluctant to come out.. #the way one of the first things to come out of his mouth was ‘y’know DR RATIO once told me…’ like boy we get it ur in love with him 🙄 (/J!) #i love how they can’t go on these programs w/o talking abt each other it’s adorable. AND THE WAY HE WAS THE ONE TO EXPLAIN BOOTHILL’S KIT!? #they can’t just fuel my crackship like this… god and his whole ‘muddle-fudger.. son-of-a-nice-lady?’ thing had me wheezing #Aven mocking Boothill’s inability to curse was not on my special program bingo card but fuck i’m here for it #and Robin being all curious abt him was so cute.. ‘who /is/ he? … does he order milk at the bar?’ i’m crying she’s so sweet #also the trailer was fucking insane. which feels redundant as hell bc all of HoYo’s version trailers go hard but like. still. wow. #that millisecond long shot of Boothill surveying the skyline is so fucking good. also what the fuck is Jing Yuan doing here!! #not complaining at all tho. we’ve got JY & DH(IL?). Argenti(?). Boothill. Sunday. Aven. all my men r here and i am eating so fucking good #Seven.txt #viddy game stuff

[corvuscorona]

Favorite movie of the 80s?

holy shit you're a real tumblr-type individual and not some weird bot situation HI I hope people are telling you about some cool movies. unfortunately I'm a Movies Idiot. everything I know about movies I learned from my wife. to find out what movies from the 80s I have even seen I had to go enter Really Stupid Search Terms into the internet and then also ask her. I have returned with 2 facts:

robocop and the lost boys came out in the same year apparently? big win for 1987

makai tenshō 魔界転生 samurai reincarnation was 81. that's my pick. that movie rocks.

from wikipedia:

Following the Shimabara Rebellion, Christian rebellion leader Amakusa Shiro is resurrected, and renounces his God for abandoning him and thousands of Christians to be massacred by the Tokugawa regime, swearing vengeance.

Gaining the power to resurrect the dead, he tempts, resurrects and recruits the betrayed samurai wife Hosokawa Gracia, unfulfilled legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, and Buddhist monk Hozoin Inshun, who represses his sadistic desires, to join his cause as regret-filled demons.

And they wreck shop for like 2 entire hours and there's SO MUCH burning building at the end it OWNNNS SO HARD. MAKAI TENSHŌ.

#recently we found out my mom had not seen robocop so we made her watch robocop and that was also awesome #she's such a weirdo she has seen the same 15 oldass movies like a hundred times and told me a story about going to see #eraserhead with my dad's brother when it was in theaters her taste is so. something. anyway she got really emotionally invested #in robocop which was fantastic. halfway thru she was like 'if you're showing me a movie where the robocop dies I'm going to be so upset' #she said it like that. she said 'the robocop'. mom.... never change.

[showtoonzfan]

Me when The Walten Files:

#it’s so good I can’t stop gushing about this series #I’m always on the edge of my seat wondering what will happen next #I love how the creator clearly puts thought and care into each episode #the hype for episode 4 is REALL #I’ll make more posts about this series definitely soon #it made me appreciate analog horror because holy shit it REALLY can be scary #findjackwalten.com #Martin walls #I bet episode 4 will be a masterpiece since Martin is going a different direction for the show now #it’ll be more cinematic and have a slow burn #the characters are all so interesting and we barley know them at the same time #this is better than fnaf I’m saying it now #I’m so invested in the story #I love how it’s all a mystery and there are things to figure out and things yet to see #the Walten files #analog horror #unrelated

[impossible-rat-babies]

also setting aside 14 shafting so many female characters, papalymo is my roman empire of characters the game doesn't pay lip service to

#there's haurche and y'sayle but then pap just gets shafted and forgotten about #save for in relationship to lyse and even then it's not brought up #i think it's partially on continued unsatisfactory writing w lyse #i can see the threads there if you played 1.0 or are invested in the story and his role there #but for a lot of players it isn't like that + if you didn't start in gridania you are missing a lot of both pap and lyse #which feels like such a disservice to them both #i know lyse has stuff w pap but i wanted more out of it #i wanted him alive in stormblood bc their interactions would have been So Wonderful #the opportunities for friction and development of the both of them and their relationship changing #as lyse takes up this cause #me banging my fists we could have had it allllll #tbh stormblood as a whole is my roman empire #she's got so much potential #she could have been dark like shadowbringers! #there's little bites of what could have been with yotsuyu and the doman arc

[outeremissary]

I'm so lost in the sauce on my durge that I kinda forget there's supposed to be a video game attached sometimes tbh

#usually when the character completely takes over the game in my mind it's a moment of 'hm maybe I don't actually enjoy this game' #but I don't actually feel that's what's happening here I just think I'm That Excited. #I think a lot of it is having a character outside of an original story who doesn't exist in isolation #like. who has a web of relationships outside of just canon characters that I'm invested in and have been from so early #and we can keep building. by god we can keep building. #I also just haven't had so much fun on a totally new character in fucking forever and it's awesome #while there are definitely some novel aspects (paladin) I have also called them like. the Greatest Hits of everything I've ever done. #woag. fallen angel coded pure idealist imperfect victim Dex/Cha assassin knight with a unique personal relationship with the divine #and the most important backstory characters aren't trapped in the backstory #this rules. #rambling #balthazar is a self indulgent character as well but this is SO self indulgent. healing to the middle schooler in my heart. #and covered in blood!!!!!!!!!!!!!