#we're just as weird as the book

[bonefall]

I just wanna say that I LOVE all the detail you’re giving side/background characters. My favorite part of wc is getting to read about generations passing by, watching the young scrappy main character turn into the next main character’s funny grandparent or something. Canon is really bad about acknowledging this but god, you’ve done such a good job with BB. Reading about Jaypaw and Owlpaw’s rivalry knowing the life Owlpaw is going to go on to live in the background later is so cool. Imagine an alternate universe where BB was the real warrior cats and 14 year old you reads a scene where some background character is casually mentioned and realizing it’s that guy Jaypaw beat the shit out of. Shit like that doesn’t happen in canon, they would forget who Owlpaw is and he would never do anything else in his life.

The one thing that WC has over any other xenofiction brand, and most other book series period, is the fact that you are able to watch several GENERATIONS of characters pass by in basically in real-time. So it's a shame that they kinda neglect it in the main series!

I LOVE when WC does do neat things with its cast, like how Harepaw gets trounced by Brambleclaw in Po3 and becomes Leader later. Or how Firestar's recurring background buddy, Onewhisker, became a major character in TNP and beyond. It's honestly a major reason I still follow the books, and why I've never found something that quite scratches the itch like WC does.

Unfortunately, it's ridiculously rare outside of WindClan LMAO. Owlpaw DID get forgotten. He was one of Jaypaw's bullies in his canon training, but then the writers lost track of his age and made him an apprentice on a patrol Tigerheart was giving a lesson to in a field guide; problem is, Tigerheart is younger than him!

Which is not too big a deal, dgmw, but my point is that they forgot. ShadowClan in particular is really lacking in-canon, especially considering they're the neighbor of ProtagonistClan. Ivytail and Owlclaw were part of the Po3 apprentice generation and should have been at least a little relevant going foward, y'know?

I desperately crave the Clans feeling like communities. With petty drama, watching characters gain skill and shuffle around the ranks, every family struggling with how they define their legacy under the emblem of the Clan, that sort of stuff. So that's how I approach it.

#It's actually something I really wish Ratha did #Because like... the structure is perfect for it. #And it's almost told that way with every book essentially introducing a new 'invention' or beast to tame #But unfortunately we're ''stuck'' with Ratha and her loser ass boyfriend. #(Ill die salty they didn't just let the nimravids be an aromantic species) #If i had a nickel for every time a xenofiction series about the stone age invented monogamy like a technological advancement... #id have 2 nickels. #which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice #also to be clear i love ratha still. Both the series and ratha herself this is not ratha hate tags #Bone babble #Anyway thank u

[monsieuroverlord]

Manifesting Akihiro having a nice cameo in next week's X-Force (where Beast leaves him tf alone)

#none of those weird ass bullets #no getting dragged into bullshit #nada nothing nope #just him having some quiet time with a good book #me ambitously trying to make a short comic of my vision #too sleepy right now #drawing fight sequences are a bit above my skill level right now #and more importantly i don't want to #so we're leaving the stick figures lmao #daken akihiro #fang

[st-louis]

really don't understand why everyone always has to be so fucking weird about hockey players and reading

#i go in the tags and it's like LMAOOOO HE CAN READ? LMAOOOOO HE'S READING A BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES??? #newsflash some of them are not very smart some of them are quite intelligent just like the real fucking world. newsflash people have a wide #range of abilities and experiences and interests. #idk why people just love to infantalize them. it's weird. it's weird #and i'm going to say it. #literally like listen to some of them talk? you can tell? johnathan kovacevic has a civil engineering degree he completed WHILE playing #'it's a joke' it's not a funny joke it's boring and tired and you suck if you make it #and we're not even going to get into different forms of intelligence and the amount of work and study that goes into playing at the top lev

[moregraceful]

i made what was a huge medical decision today that has been received very badly by my family and i feel absolutely nothing but pure freedom and joy about it. the thing i'm really fixated on rn is when should i post this fic i just finished

#i think october 1. for halloween #it was for skelly season but it took such a weird turn in the end that i feel weird about gifting it to someone lol #very short list of people i would subject this particular rarepair agenda to on purpose. maybe just beryl #the medical decision is legitimately life-altering and i should be stressed but i'm just like it's my body. my body horror. and i'm free :) #i'm stressin way more about the fic bro #and like if i don't gift the fic do i then go back and commit to making it even weirder and rarepaired.... #stars future leadership polycule (two guys who are dating and their captain who holds their hand in high stress situations) #what am i even talking about..................... #today my boss was like thank you for your (insane 11 paragraph long) email! i used it as a meeting agenda with my boss :) #i was like oh no now my grandboss knows i use my boss's inbox as my work livejournal #i got to remake my schedule tho now that i'm almost done with my training!! i gave myself a three day weekend... #...so i can go to the therapy i need to deal with this job. was anyone gonna tell me abt secondary trauma or was i #just supposed to find that out on my literal first day of work lol #my therapist was THRILLED she was like oh i have SO many books to recommend we're gonna have SO much fun!! i was like oh no #fridays off and life is good tbh!! except for the fic. i don't know what to do abt the fic #fresno oilers.txt

[aroaceleovaldez]

TSATS really does honestly feel like someone took all the solangelo/Will Solace from early post-HoO in the fandom, shoved it in a blender, cranked that shit on high, and then dumped it into a book without any care for consistency or anything. The book keeps stumbling into reading like somebody who just found out what being gay was, or exactly like a 2014/2015 pjo fanfic or forum rp with Ye Olde Fanon Will back when nobody knew what to do with him and half the fandom decided his major character trait was “Asshole.” Like, back then photokinesis!Will was at its peak. Saberghatz’s Solangelo quest AU, before the plot of was TOA announced, was absolutely booming (and between Saber’s au and Cherryandsisters’ Will askblog, they were probably the leading sources for Will fanon at the time). Nico was being UwU’d to hell and back. The fanon, being fanon, never was actually required to comply with canon, so headcanons about Will having known Nico since TTC were plentiful because nobody cared - it was headcanons - and nobody could remember anything about Will Solace anyways.

But TSATS seems to be taking all of that and going “No, it’s canon now.” Which doesn’t work. Fanon can exist as fanon because it’s all headcanons, and it’s just making stuff up in a little playground of picking and choosing what canon to stay and go. If you’re actually writing canon, then you’ve already decided what canon stays and goes because you put it in the book, and now that’s what’s established and you need to follow it. Or else you’re making a retcon or a continuity error. Fanon can have Will impossibly exist in The Titan’s Curse, but canon absolutely can’t (and it definitely can’t say Nico somehow spent more than one week at CHB when the entirety of TTC is contained within one week). And it feels incredibly bizarre to see all this in a canon book anyways, because again - basically all of it feels ripped from fanon with zero consideration whatsoever.

#pjo #riordanverse #solangelo #will solace #nico di angelo #tsats #the sun and the star #the sun and the star spoilers #tsats spoilers #AALV TSATS liveblogging #having been there for early solangelo makes reading this book feel SO weird #because its just. its all of it. its just all of old fanon in a big ol' messy bundle #but also like. there's a reason that fanon fell out of favor once people got a better grasp on their ideas of Will as a character #and people have always been agonizing over fanon uwuifying Nico #so much of that fanon got left behind because so much of it was sloppy and feeling stuff out and people decided they didnt like it anymore #so they took the stuff they did like - mostly Will's photokinesis - and moved on #but now we're rolling back around to it and staring it in the face feels like im witnessing some horrible creature in a scifi movie #like a terrifying blobby mass of fanon wiggling and lurching having been brought to life by a mad scientist #an entity that should never exist in that form #and theyre presenting it like a cat or dog presents a dead bird

[bookwyrminspiration]

it DOES matter and DON'T you DARE take the easy way out you MOTHERFU—

#kotlc #sokeefitz #obligatory disclaimer that i know sophie doesn't have to be poly and that it's okay to be singular in your attraction and commitment #and that for canon sophie that's how it works #however! this is fandom. canon is just a guide and here i say FUCK THE NORMS #yeah it CAN work like that but it doesn't always have to and I want some change! #she and fitz both still like each other to a degree. they can make something with that! they can be a triad! #PLEASE shannon #moments where it really hits you how allocishet middle grade series this series is #like of COURSE that's what shannon wrote. it's exactly what I would expect #<- that's not meant to be mean it's just like yeah. this the kind of author shannon is #we're an incredibly queer fandom but reality is the books are incredibly not regardless of that #you can just feel it in the bones of the series #having Thoughts #i haven't fully articulated myself so just. heads up if something sounds weird that's probably why

[kdelarenta]

right so i just started n's route and got to the first sex scene - go girl, give us nothing 😐

#what on earth is going on with n sewell #so we're basically ignoring the argument ignoring the second argument if you've snooped into their past and now you can be like ily #and they just... don't say it back and immediately want to go down on you??? UMMMM #and in public too like??? #i feel like everything we know about N contradicts what's been written #like tell me why my coochie is dry rn #this is just...weird #idk how else to describe it #still gonna play because i'm curious but so sorry to the n girlies!! #y'all don't deserve... whatever this is #WHY ARE WE NOT COMMUNICATING??? #WHY ARE WE BEING SO SHALLOW W EACH OTHER #where is the Shakespeare of it all???? #btw if you disagree w me that's totally valid #i'm not really an N mancer so 🤷 what do i know #but this still feels so weird #twc #the wayhaven chronicles #twc book 3 #twc book 3 spoilers #twc spoilers #n sewell #twc nate #twc nat #clown.txt

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread

The Sun and The Void

Venezuelan inspired high fantasy

follows a young outcast swordswoman taken in by her grandmother, the dark sorceress for a noble family, who relies on the magic to keep her alive after being attacked by monstrous creatures

and a young noblewoman who’s the shame of her family because of her mixed heritage and desire to use magic

both are manipulated by those with more power than them into a plot to free an ancient evil god

mineral based magic, politics, nonhuman MCs

#The Sun and The Void #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #hm. haha. surface level this is kinda interesting and cool but i am going to follow with so many complaints #though I feel like it didn’t go into the magic or worldbuilding as much as I wanted and it felt irrelevant to the characters #like how does the magic even work? idk man #though I feel like it didn’t go into it as much as I wanted and it felt irrelevant to the characters #very slow to start and the pacing is weird. it would also go ages without having the other POV. very disjointed? #it felt like the first 60% was just context for the group of characters getting together as a group and then it was a bit predisposed with #They’re A Group! even tho. they're barely a group for long #the authors note mentions that the story concept started with a line about the god and ritual and…..yeah I can kind of tell #I feel like everything was built up around it in a way that ultimately that part didn’t fit right #I never bought that any of them were actually like fully committed to the evil dark magic? and also there’s this plot twist #that they have to fully kill the sacrifices & I was like…did we not already know that? girl r you stupid what do you think sacrifice means #also #oh my god at like half way one of the MCs is like. oh finally this guy who I’ve been exchanging letters with for months turned up to get me #away from here! by the way I’ve been exchanging letters with this guy and we’re friends! and like. she’d been doing nothing much for the #last 10% of the book why was that not like….shown as something she was doing? and like build up the friendship for the reader instead of #just dropping it on us - and also that we know the character from the other POV. and hes a racist prick. and we're supposed to believe she' #charmed by him because of this letter writing WE DIDN’T SEE….. why. #and then also that is like. he’s a shitbag and it’s obviously not romantic at all. he’s manipulative and terrible to her #EXCEPT at the end it implies his bad behaviour is because demon and oh uwu he gets all beat up and maybe hes sowwy now #and starts to imply she likes and is attracted to him? and I get the impression the next book is gonna be like evil power couple dynamic? #which. feels like the first concept the author had; and then tried to build up to that but not effectively lmao #for the lesbians: #I DO APPRECIATE having an assumed love interest then realising that that was idealised and actually you have feelings #for this other person you’ve become friends with! nice slow switch up. though quite brief #I do however dislike that when she admitted her feelings to the first LI and she rejected her it was still framed as the other’s fault #for not reciprocating the feelings….worst trope….also like. it kind of conflated her not feeling that way to her having a bit of class disc #which. yikes? oh my god stop villainising people for not reciprocating romantic feelings (ALSO they turn out to be related anyway 🤪) #i just feel like the romance switchover could have been done with more nuance and complexity

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

author i'm beefing with: "i feel slight revulsion about the word 'spiritual', it's got negative overtones, aren't you deluding yourself and others with it, keep it to yourself"

same author, literally twelve (12) pages later: *spends a page describing spiritual experiences, sharing them with the world, but insists they don't count as "spiritual" because they're about the physical material world*

my dude it's not just believers who try to have it both ways, huh

#text #personal #i dont know how to tag this lmao #i know how id LIKE to tag it but I don't want the attention i just wanna holler #also maybe #char don't look #if thats still a tag u use 🫣 #daemon voices #philip pullman #fuck it we're doxxing it so i can find it later lmao #anyway. my guy. you just like. deeply misunderstand what spiritual means to a lot of people i think #and i get why. i do. but. #dude. come on. #(am i personally in a weird spot religiously??) #(very much yes) #(do i apparently have residual Very Strong Feelings about these topics???) #(also yes) #(i should revisit some of this shit probably. i have other related books to read.) #anyway. hnnnngh #why does it count if YOU connect with the universe like this but not the billions of people who call this religious and/or spiritual?? #what makes your way right and their way so wrong #(evangelical-adjacent protestant in recovery over here plz im trying)

[bookish-bi-mormon]

In case you're having a bad day * insert info that makes your life worse *

#jokes jokes #just say a post like 'we're about to get a graphic novel for this book series' #jokes on you i despise graphic novel adaptations #im just weird though #ray's ramblings

[comediakaidanovsky]

jesus christ these audiences for roh/aew what the fuck. like i get that it's hard to sort structural things out when the company is in a tailspin but man do they need to do something drastic. however many monitors tk was hit with it was not enough

#they literally have all the talent they need to put on fucking amazing shows here's a wild idea how about they take in some feedback #if the booking was better and they were less focused on being petty and competing with wwe on real weird shit this wouldn't be a thing #like legit imagine if their focus at wembley had been to put on a fantastic show #imagine if it hadn't been about beating wwe at attendance numbers #imagine if they'd set an actual solid card of dream matches and uk and european wrestler highlights #and if they'd focused on keeping talent safe ahead of the big show #fucking pac and bryan and nigel #plan something for hayter whether she's wrestling or not #skip the cheap saraya hometown pop or ACTUALLY BUILD TOWARDS IT SO IT FEELS EARNED HAVE YOU HEARD OF BUILDING STORYLINES YOU ASSHATS #sorry i'm still mad over what they did to shida #we were less than a month out and so many of their intended matches were just falling through due to injury and drama #apparently travel sucked for everyone and not just punk and hey speaking of punk has their backstage management ever not sucked ass?? #literally all they cared about was if they'd beat the wwe numbers #not if they'd put on a show good enough that talent would wanna work overseas again and the audience would wanna show up for them again #sorry for ranting but god #they had such a good thing going it AMAZES ME that this is where we're at #how do you have this much opportunity how do you sign this much talent how do you have two beloved companies #and like four-five wrestling shows running weekly #and blow it this hard

[anaalnathrakhs]

it's rlly fun how my parents just straight up. do not care. about the disordered eating. we had all this talk back when i went through a big suicidal crisis a couple months ago, i explained what was really difficult for me, eating socially, restaurants, not choosing my food, etc, and now it's like. okay it didn't exist actually.

mother i am not going to order you around, either you accept that i'm gonna have difficulty dealing with "normal people behavior" or whatnot and you stop looking at me like :/ anytime i am anything but ecstatic at the idea of eating anything anytime anyhow, or you adapt your behavior to avoid the results you don't like to see. i'm only doing my best to handle things from my side, and i am certainly not going to try measuring for you how important family social eating occurences are to you.

#''we should talk abt it uwu'' WE TALKED ABOUT IT. STOP COMPLAINING THAT DOING STUFF THAT I CAN'T EASILY HANDLE MAKES ME WEIRD. #EITHER YOU ASSUME IT'S GOING TO MAKE ME WEIRD BECAUSE YOU KNOW EXACTLY HOW AND WHY #OR YOU STOP DOING IT IF IT'S SO UWU HEARTBREAKING UWU FOR YOU TO WATCH #i'm not happy about how guilty i am too of that specific brand of ''oh this is so sad *continues doing nothing*'' form of ''compassion'' #they just want me to perform anorexia recovery for them #so they can feel okay we're doing a good job at raising a normal child #they don't give a shit as long as the compusive eating is my mom's meal at the dinner table #just like they didnt care when i had roughly the same problems but not as bad before i had a restrictive phase #i cannot compromise because then WHAT im just hurting my parents for a situation that doesnt make me any happier either? #i do not want to live with them. i do not want to go place or do activities with them. #i dont want to talk to them most of the time and im perfectly willing to handle the times it could be cool to. #but it's really hard to start developping a life of your own when you first of all need like two weeks of total life-reset #quiet at home #and ''at home'' there's your parents who will simply not stop trying to pull you into going random bullshit places #and i can't say no. because the places ARE interesting and time-limited. and it makes them happy. and what am i gonna do anyway? #keep doing nothing on the computer and wait for them to come back to keep doing only the shittiest parts of this unsatisfactory routine? #try to do some work in the house or go out. for them to see that something happened? #i dont know how to live like a normal person #literally not once in my life have i been able to think ''oh i need to do X'' and then just. do X. prepare what's necessary for doing X. #go out and do X. i have to keep stuck at this computer or in this room or with this book. #because there is a million different obstacles to every single thing i'm trying to achieve and half of them are parents-shaped. #everything hurts holy shit #broadcasting my misery #vent #ed tw

[moononastring]

Just because your personal headcanon doesn't line up with what happened in the actual book doesn't mean the book is bad/wrong. It just means the author wrote what they wanted and what is true to the character and not what you wanted.

You can make your guesses and yell all you want about what you think is right but canon is canon whether you like it or not. Your headcanon is not canon so rereading the actual books might be helpful to differentiate between what is true and what you made yourself believe is true. The author will always know their characters better than you think you do since those characters wouldn't exist without the author.

#gpost #fandom wank #just in general #people think criticizing the text is a whole ass personality trait. #it's why no one likes being part of anything anymore #but also this isn't for people who genuinely just have fun with things #because those people realize 'hey i'm going to crackship or make up things or fic or headcanon that I know would never happen' #'but I'm going to do it because it's fun without me bashing the author because they didn't do it in the book' #people these days always post with the 'I'm right and if you don't agree you're stupid' #and my gal pals #my hot mamas #we're on this website for no other reason than to be weird #also these books are never that deep and I'll keep shouting it from the rooftops #if y'all had fun just reading and enjoying the story for what it is the way the author writes the story FOR FUN #we'd enjoy this place so much more #this isn't some platform where we have cult leaders and 'influencers or some shit lmao #this is fucken fiction #biggest advice (and this is to myself first): except nothing so that way you won't be disappointed #I dont' even wanna think about what's next in terms of events/plots/ships because ya know what? #You never know. You really never know. #So I will take what I am given and either enjoy it or not. #sorry for this random rant on this fine Monday #but just been my thoughts lately.

[someonesomewheredown]

This could be a stretch given how vague about it they're being but. did someone capture Midnight and Rock???? Did Animal Control snatch up the immortal beings with abilities beyond our comprehension????

[Image ID: A screenshot of a section of the blurb for the upcoming book Ivypool's Heart. The text is in italics. It reads "The cats set out on an arduous journey, facing everything from painful hunger to bloodthirsty dogs. But nothing can prepare them for what they find: a disgusting twoleg den that’s caging a series of strange animals, including two who may have surprising ties to the Clans." /End ID]

#i'm still trying to figure out what this is supposed to be about. like is this one person collecting animals or a zoo situation #i get that cats aren't going to know what human things are but it's not fun to read when you don't know what they're trying to describe #but anyway. assuming that the animals aren't new characters our choices are kind of limited #and i can't think of any possiblities other than them #which would be really cool if that was the case!!! we haven't really seen them in a long long while #although i have to wonder how they would have gotten rock out of the tunnels #especially since he's sort of in between life and death and doesn't get seen often #that would make the zoo possiblity more funny though. #yeah this is just a housecat but he's so fucked up and weird that we're making him an exhibit for shits and giggles #ramble aside i hope this is an actually interesting book and not just a nothing burger to get sales because people like ivypool #like i want ivypool's behavior to actually get addressed for once. i want her to actually change and become less of an asshole to her sister #ivypool's heart #warrior cats

[bat-the-misfit]

"disappointment" is when you show a drawing of the main male character of the book you're writing to your mother and she says he's "kinda ugly" as if he had the responsability of being handsome for being the Main Male Character (tm)

#mom it's Tadeu we're talking about #after everything i told you about Tadeu do you really think he'd be Tipically Handsome (tm)? #also this is weird bc some people might actually think he's attractive bc beauty is relative #i personally don't imagine him as a dude i'd simp for #even then what if my book gets a series (lol) and the actor who plays him is handsome while still being perfect for he role??? what if??? #actually if you look at his board on my pinterest you will see the dudes i put there that remind me of him #are actually very cute in my view and they still look like Tadeu even if Tadeu's not “that cute” for me #so who knows dude??? what even is beauty??? why do people need to be “beautiful”???? #i think my mom forgot who's her child lmao #i LOVE taking everything that society made typical and popular and putting my own twist on it #and funnily she knows about this #like come on it's a book about time travel and no one time travels on it lol #the main character is a girl that has a boy best friend and they don't fall in love with each other #the old lady who serves as a mentor in a literary sense is actually an angry bitch and not your typical Wise Mentor (tm) like Gandalf #while other books' mentors are saying philosofical shit about life the mentor of my book is holding herself to punch the charas on the face #but really why do people need to be beautiful? can't we just BE people??? #also just bc i like men that doesn't mean all my male characters are supposed to be attractive to me #to me my characters are my children not my boyfriends #UUUUUGH MOM WHY MOM #I'M SO ANGRY LOL RESPECT MY SON TADEU HE DESERVES THE WORLD #LEAVE HIM AND HIS UGLY HAIRSTYLE IN PEACE #tio morcego tá pistola

[miabrown007]

job application: How much do you read?

me: a lot!

job application: List your favourite books! :)

me: *sweats bullets*

#I did end up saying I read 'a book's worth of literature text every week' so I'd say we're golden #but I do no know what am I going to say if they ask if it's fanfiction -.-? #miaing #it was a pretty weird job application tbh #like I'm not sure they need to know these things. 'how many kids do you have? :)' not your concern??? #and they'll also have a round with tests and such if I pass this? idk man just do an interview like everyone else?