#//gotta get that plot development

[scribblingface]

I went into bg3 fully ready to have a good time and have done so despite many ways in which the game is not good and have not worried too much over various dramas about patch changes but my chill streak has finally ended and I am wailing gnashing my teeth etc. about patch 7 (the supposedly final one with story/content changes) not adding companion reactivity for any of the durge content in act 2

[bookshelf-in-progress]

A big part of author life is learning to make peace with the stories you'll never write.

[nervocat]

omg this day might turn out to be so good actually

[no1ryomafan]

Constantly think about the coolest cyborg society concept I ever seen was the idea of it being in a setting where robots with sentience had been pre-established for CENTURIES and had many wars against humanity but the two finally settled their differences by humanity deciding cybernetics needed to be a mandated law. Every single human needs to be one or else you’re deemed a criminal. Doomed to die if you are against the system. How you can’t oppose the inventible fate of humans and robots merging into one despite how it was forced. Despise how humanity is truly losing what made them humans and aren’t truly equal to the robots-

Then I remembered where this concept is from and starts sobbing how it’s not only not as fleshed out in the series itself it’s from but its “the nichest series within a already obscure franchise” because if Gods exist they really fucking hate what I choose to obsess over.

[icedteaandoldlace]

I walked into work yesterday while daydreaming/plotstorming for Into the Fire, and as I got to the back to put my juice in the fridge, one of the yard guys—who had apparently had a crazy morning—greeted me with, "Good morning, Allison. You're jumping into the fire." And it felt like a moment in the biopic about my life as ~an illustrious fanfiction author~.

[thekenikaridevblog]

i did it lads i have done yet another horror game cliche:

spooky dream sequence/flashback when the protag falls asleep/unconscious

[stabbyfoxandrew]

okay! all the wipw from this past week are scheduled for tomorrow morning :D set your clocks hehe

[wearethewitches]

hmm yep. got the lae'zel cut scene. finally.

[fightingdragonswithwho]

hate to be a hater on the main … but this season of ted lasso excels (once again) at team dynamic and the found family elements and i think the finale absolutely nailed that, i cried, i laughed, it was perfect on that. now as for the individual stories and relationships… yeah, let’s leave it at that

[tvrningout-a]

for the record, if i ever talk about a muse on here that i wanna bring back/start writing, you can absolutely message me about writing with them! i tend to hesitate a lot when it comes to adding muses bc i worry about making my roster too long or that maybe i won't use them very much. but if i'm thinking about them enough to post about them, then you have my permission to bug me about writing them after all <3

[tvrningout-archived]

btw here's your reminder that i'm always willing to explore a ship even if our muses haven't interacted yet! if you can see it working, then i wanna hear about it and discuss it! i'm never gonna judge anyone who enjoys shipping when i myself am a big ol' romantic. so long as nothing's forced and everyone's on board and happy, i don't see an issue with wanting to see if two muses end up smooching

[reading-writing-dying]

Probably will add more detail and such as i edit but next chapter of the fic is writen

Also thinking of cutting what I thought I might do for the next chapter but we'll see, I want it but I need to make sure it develops the relationships between these two more if im goinig to include it

Either way deffinite fic update im thinking Friday? That way I'm not dropping same day as wild life episode 2s

[oveliagirlhaditright]

So, I was tagged in a "Top 10 Favorite TV shows" post a little while back, and I've sadly lost it (even though I really wanted to do it!):( And thank you to who tagged me in the post. I think it was @i-love-books-because-reasons? If I ever find the post again, I'll reblog it properly. But for now, I'll just answer it this way. (For some reason, I've decided not to included animes or cartoons, because no one did in their lists. Maybe that will be its own list. Or "younger shows," like Disney channel ones. But if I did, Lizzie McGuire would have made it:))

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel the Series (though I'll be listing them separately) - have become my favorite shows of all-time (though they're also slightly tied with Dark Angel). They're just... so good and perfect, with such good writing and themes, and I could analyze and obsess over them for hours (and have), so of course they're here.

2. Angel the Series (mentioned above). - Though it and Buffy aren't exactly like. They're definitely their own shows and I love them both for different reasons.

3. Dark Angel season 1 - I just really latched onto Dark Angel, and have never been able to let it go... which is funny, because I didn't like it that much in the first few episodes: probably because they really went over my head as a kid. -shrugs- But I love my reluctant, badass heroine Max and how she grows. Speaking of Max? Love of my life. The love story between her and Logan is still one of the best written in all of TV to me. And the relationship between Max and her "siblings"--and just learning about this poor girl created in a lab, who had never even been in a house before when she was nine and things like that--has always spoken to me. The "fight the man" and "protect the downtrodden" plot is also great.

4. Tru Calling - It's thanks to my sister that I discovered this awesome show, and Eliza Dushku. The premise is just so wonderful: Tru having the ability to relive days and save people who died before their time. And whenever the show threw a wrench into the usual formula was fun. Particularly when Jack showed up, who was the opposite of Tru: trying to stop her actions, because he thought she was messing with the natural order of things and there would be disastrous consequences to it. The show was really finding its footing when it was canceled. And what the writers released of their plans for what they were going to do next? I cry that we didn't get to see that. But alas.

Smallville - Baby's first show for teens and up:) I have so many fond memories of discovering Smallville... and rewatching the episodes again and again with friends, and between new seasons. Also, watching new episodes when they aired. I feel like the idea of Smallville was great: tell the story of Superboy growing up on a TV show. It worked so well: and made so many people connect with Clark Kent/Superman, who otherwise might have trouble with it. It developed him and his relationships so well... and we won't talk about how well Lex Luthor was also developed (and played by Michael Rosenbaum): the best part of the show to many people. And how genius it was to have them start out the show as friends only to become the enemies they were fated to be. -sobs- Also, as it's been said, we wouldn't have the Arrowverse if Smallville hadn't come first. So credit where credit is due. And speaking of that, this was the time before the MCU and that sort of thing. So seeing hero cameos on this show was so shocking, new, and the best.

Alias - The first badass female heroine I ever saw on live-action TV--and fell in love with--was Sydney Bristow (aside from Xena: Warrior Princess, that I don't remember that well, because I was, like, five when I was watching Xena). Also my introduction to the wacky world of J.J. Abrams' writing. And as wacky as J.J. Abrams can get, and we all know it, I think he did a good job with Alias, and was pretty nuanced and tame here. There was just enough of his Mystery Box stuff to keep me intrigued, in this interesting spy story that I loved. And Sydney Bristow is seriously the greatest, and deserves the world. And Alias actually has one of the few TV endings that I actually like, for the most part.

Kyle XY - Another show similar to Dark Angel, in that it's about a human made in a lab (though that's a mystery for most of S1). And I really liked this show--and its main family the Tragers. Definitely one of the best things ABC Family ever did... and I'll forever be angry that it ended on a cliffhanger.

Roswell - A TV show about what if aliens did crash in Roswell, and lived among us as half-aliens, half-humans. This show is definitely largely a romance, but there's definitely more to it than just that: with some battles with other aliens, the aliens trying to get home, and stay alive from the government trying to kill them, etc. Maily it's the characters and their various relationships that make this show so great. It's certainly a product of its time, early 90's WB, but I'm nostalgic for it and love it too much. And we wouldn't have a number of shows we do today without it. Liz and Maria also have one of the best female friendships of all time. And this show is another one where I actually like the ending.

The Chosen - A TV show that tells what Jesus' ministry was like through the disciples' PoV. And I can't explain just how well made this show is. Seriously. People who aren't even religious watch it and love it. People have compared its quality to Game of Thrones... err, in a good way (I know that can be considered an insult now, after S8). This is what all Christian media should always attempt to be.

Bonus:

Dollhouse - The idea of this show is really neat (with people who have their memories and personalities wiped, and someone else's placed into them, when they're "bought" to live out someone's fantasy), but also hella problematic... though, granted, it's sort of problematic on purpose to draw attention to these problems in real life, but still. This show also becomes completely different by the end, than how it started out (I actually love this plot twist, and won't spoil it for those who don't know). But sadly, it didn't have too much to delve into this twist before it was canceled. But I do still love this show for what it did, and all the potential it had.

Game of Thrones - I loved this show so much, originally. As most people did. But then it really started going downhill when it ran out of books to adapt. Even before that, though, you could kind of see the cracks, with how they changed Daenerys so much... Or how they changed Robb Stark's marriage plot line from being about honor (like how Ned died) to love, etc. But even so, we still (mostly) have a few really good seasons, at least.

[shidoukanae]

I would like to make an addendum to this piece with the new chapter out and say that I was wrong about Phillip, he's great, 10/10 he went from being a giant red flag of a character to being genuinely relatable and man do i feel bad about side-eyeing him for that line he said last chapter

Also this chapter finally wrapped up another plot thread I was waiting for it to return to and waaaaaah seeing someone else's POV on Helene is so nice (and we finally got another flashback of OG Helene for like,, the first time in literally forever). Helene being called out as a lonely person who hides her kind feelings behind a cold expression...man suddenly my fondness for Helene is increasing thousandfold

Like literally how the fuck does this manga keep making Helene better and better there's literally nothing disappointing about her character and im STILL shook about it

[scare-ard--sleigh]

also saying this is so earnest that it makes me wanna vom but i like,,,, miss being in a fandom where people like my ocs as much as i do wwweehhh

[snapdragons-sunshine]

"Maybe we could use this as a brand new start."

@did-i-do-this-write

Elsie reached up and caught her staff from the air. The polished verdis wood caught the fading light of the sun as it fell and it glinted,a  flash in the dappled canopy of the forest. With it in her hand she looked more powerful than she ever had before, but this time Nikolaus wasn’t wary of her - not like he had been once. “I’d think I’d like that,” she said, and turned her face to him, the ragged tips of her haircut brushing her cheeks.

Nikolaus felt self-conscious - he couldn’t help it. “I’d like that, too,” he found himself replying. Not quite sure where to put his feet, he leaned back on the rotted log, the moss soft and squishy under his bare feet. “I’d like to do a lot of things with you.

“I’m sorry,” he added a second later, clapping a hand over his mouth. Sweet Serenis strike him down on the spot, he thought he was past these embarrassing blunders. Maybe Kay would do him a mercy as well and cast an ice spell on him. “I, I didn’t mean it like that -”

“Heh.”

Nikolaus froze. Slowly, he lifted his hand from his mouth, stunned as a tree nymph in a garden of wolf-flowers. “You -” he began, a hesitant whisper, and then stopped.

The reason for his bewilderment was right in front of him and she had light blonde hair and a green cape and she went by the name Elisabeth Klaus. Right there in front of him Elsie had smiled, and laughed - a real laugh too, showing her crooked teeth and all. In all the years he’d known her, from two apprentices to Dark Magic Masters to a solitary mage and the woman who’d bought her way in to be his mercenary guide, to a real mercenary who’d sold him and his friends out to the Dragon Empress Samandris under the mountain, he’d never once seen her laugh - her true laugh. It pulled on the scar on her cheek and it was warm and real and he felt as if he’d lain eyes on something he shouldn’t, something far too intimate.

And yet, all Nikolaus could think at that moment was that he wanted to see more of her laugh, her smile with crooked teeth again and again and again. 

‘You're always saying foolish things like that,” Elsie swatted his shoulder with a gloved hand. “Didn’t anyone even teach you that all words have meaning when you’re practicing magic? And you call yourself a mage?”

“You know very well what Master Hermann taught me. You were there with me. Slane made you his student for a reason.”

She was silent, then, tilting her head back to the canopy of leaves, cast in dark green shadow from the light above. “And yet Old Man Slane is gonna build up a whole magic school from the ground. A whole bunch of students to replace me, his star pupil, and he doesn’t even care enough to ask how I’m doing.” she laughed again, and her voice was light and airy as the sunlight or the soft gentle springtime in the woods. “And you know what, Nik?”

“What?” Nikolaus asked, hesitantly.

“I’m not even bitter,” Elsie still had her face to the sky, so he couldn’t see her face, but she stepped forward on the ground, one foot in front of the other, so that she was walking in a straight, smooth line forward on the troll-stones littering the forest floor. Her slippers made a soft shhh with each step she took. “I’m not even bitter, because I have everything I need. I’m not his apprentice anymore. I don’t owe Samandris anything anymore, not even my soul, and Kay and Gerda don’t expect me to be their dark mage anymore, because now they have you for that. I think I might be free, Nik. I think I might actually be free now.”

Sometimes he’d felt like the Elsie he’d known wasn’t the Elsie he wanted to know, and right now Nikolaus felt the opposite - like the Elsie Klaus he wanted to know wasn’t the one he’d gotten to know, or the Elsie Klaus that he was getting to know again, right now. Loss carved a hole in him like a canyon eroded by a river at the realization, and he accepted it, because he couldn’t dream of anything more painful, or less brilliant than this. “And does that mean you’d like to finally come with me to my grandmother’s house?”

“Perhaps.” Elsie gave him a predator’s smile over her shoulder, the kind that hunted children in narrow caves of mountains. That smile had promised jjim a lot in the past, but not anymore. This time, it was his smile that promised something to her, and it spread across his face like the rising sun. “And what if I change my mind, Nik? What if I want to go someplace else? Will you follow me then?”

Nikolaus covered his hands with his red sleeves and took his first step toward her. “Always,” he said. “I told you once, Elsie. You’ll always be the Piper to me, and I’ll always follow you to the ends of the Earth. And I always keep my promises.”

‘And you always keep your promises.” Elsie repeated. The space between their feet on the green and red ground grew smaller and disappeared, and he slipped his hand into hers. Her fingers were strong and warm - the hands of a musician, and the voice of a charmer. 

“I was thinking we could go to my grandmother’s house and celebrate Christmas with her, help her paint the gargoyles on her gateposts, prank the local mage Guild, all the stuff neither of us ever got to properly do.”

Elsie grinned. “I like the sound of that. I’d like to prank the Guild with you, Nik. I’d like to see them old folk squeal like piggies.”