#*latest adaption

[poirot]

some book recs: the haunting of hill house, dr jekyll and mr hyde, the phantom of the opera, the turn of the screw, the yellow wallpaper, sharp objects, the girl on the train

thank you so much for the recommendations, anon <3 it‘s funny because I put ‚the haunting of hill house‘ on my ebook just a few days ago ahsjs haven’t started it yet though because I wasn‘t sure if it‘s too scary for me lol but I think I might read it next!! the phantom of the opera, sharp objects and the girl on the train are on my tbr list since forever, so I definitely should get to them! the other ones I already read (actually just read the yellow wallpaper last week ahsje) but again THANK you sm for the recommendations 💗

[muninnhuginn]

Ngl definitely thinking back to the cartoon-making chapter now we know that Twilight doesn't realise studying/pursuit of knowledge can be fun. No wonder the cartoon he made sucked. He was approaching it purely from the educational angle with zero idea of the entertainment aspect that makes edutainment programming effective.

It's not that he was really bad at writing the fun parts. He plain didn't realise there were meant to be any in the first place for it to work.

Copying the aesthetics with no understanding of what was underneath.

[renaissanceousia]

percy jackson, the most emotionally intelligent 12-year-old i know

[ladyloveandjustice]

sometimes when I see the level of how people will get worked up about like, really tiny changes in adaptations that do not significantly change the characters at all and blowing them up as some kind of huge agenda of the writers, I have to wonder if they've ever actually had a character they love actually adapted badly and if perhaps this would lend some perspective.

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

I know in my heart Bruce Wayne never got over the blackberry phone going out of vogue. I know he misses that actual keyboard. I know the blackberry era he was thriving. He was emailing from everywhere.

[hope-ur-ok]

the best stage musical to movie adaptation ever done was Hairspray (2007) and every other movie musical adaptation is trying (and usually failing) to recreate it's quality and successes

[haniebnie]

And I can hear her sing And I know she's giving up And I don't know what to do, how to help her How to bring her home And I can hear him break And he doesn't understand And I wish that I could take his hand But where I'm going is for me and me alone [ inkpot gods by the amazing devil ]

i think a lot abt mythal and what is left of her. what we get in datv is NOT mythal, not actually her — merely her fragments, parts of her that were there but are NOT her. i think calling the 2 fragments we've got in datv the whole and completeness of mythal is too definitive and declaratory.

it's as if only your anger or passivity was remembered abt you after you. the tragedy of mythal — and the whole dragon age i'd even say — is of history. and what history remembers abt you cuz it's based in who writes abt you and who reads it. every codex is biased, not objective, but biased and political, made with agenda in mind. who mythal actually was is nowhere to be found as she is dead and nothing can be done abt it, nothing can fix it (but maybe time travel ig lol). we as the audience and players do make assumptions of her either that she was a heartless tyrant or a proactive player in the arlathan Game or that she was just passive and subjected to the command of elgar'nan. it shows our bias I'd say or more adequately our focus.

the fragment of mythal we got to know with knowing flemeth is not mythal as it's a fragment of her that flemeth found while angered, hurt, and vengeful after being betrayed. fragment of mythal is a spirit — a manifestation made out of the shattering of mythal's soul when the evanuris killed her (which accuracy should also be questioned cuz we're told she was killed and what if something else happened — we're told she was killed by people and spirits who were not there or who want it to be what is remembered) AND flemeth's anger and hurt. i think it was said in game that it was the hurt and anger that beaconed that fragment. and that's it — a fragment of what mythal was and felt ever. of course a part of her must've been angry and vengeful after being killed and/or dead, of course that part responded to feelings of anger and betrayal and all that might come from such a situation as being killed by assumed loved one. this fragment responded to the parallels of anger and betrayal. it is the most similar to what we have with anders and justice and that is so important to me as anders enjoyer and supporter. whatever you prefer to call it — the derogatory abomination or the neutral fusion of spirit and a mortal (or half-mortal cuz i don't remember if it was confirmed who made flemythal live that long, almost or fully immortal). so they fused and connected due to the shared values and of embracing them literally and more metaphorically as part of themselves. just that acceptance by Anders of his need for reaching justice and flemeth's acceptance of anger and hurt (or all the other possibilities that might've connected that spirit fragment of mythal and flemeth, there's so many things and i don't want to definitely say it was anger or vengeance or even empathy cuz it could've still be benevolence or something more trickstery or just that the point was that both flemeth and mythal were difficult to read as 100% one thing. i personally have not made my mind what feelings connected flemythal). i think what happens then with morrigan is the passing of the fragment that was with flemeth for all those years and flemeth's memories and feelings but not flemeth, i think flemeth died when solas took her powers.

recalling the all faded for her mission from dai — Solas says that spirit killed doesn't stop existing but basically returns, reseted, a blank, a tabula rasa of a spirit. i think it's not definitively said that they do have to return as the spirit of the same value as they died embodying. i'll return to this thought later on or in another post.

i personally believe that what is offered in the well of sorrows choice both is and is not a fragment of Mythal. similarly as we don't exactly know what is time exactly, we just created measures and ways to achieve a repeated motion that appears in that exact repeated measurement we've created for time, in the literal sense what we have in well of sorrows is not mythal nor a true fragment of her soul, her spirit. depending on how much of magical impact does faith have in the dragon age universe (is it like for instance of the jester & traveller situation from c2 of critical role or even the anime noragami — if the believers believe then you've gathered more power and if they stop believing in you, you loose power?) well of sorrows could be more metaphorical but made tangible or it could literally impact mythal and offer her power or even the faith of the followers had an actual impact on how she was and changed her with their power of communal manifestation. they literally made her be how they wanted and assumed her to be. i really loved the idea in the dimension20 fantasy high of the moon goddess who literally was altered due to the faith of the elven country that wished her to be ephemeral and soft, a perfect epitome of an elf, when she appeared first as chaos and wolflike and the two opposite sides of her fought inside her constantly. if they had such power over mythal with their faith and the shared manifestation they literally could've made her change herself as to reflect their strongest feelings, needs, and wants as the spirit she both was and wasn't at that point. and in dai it was said and i personally focus on this fragment that well of sorrows was the collective of mythal's most devoted priestesses and the power lies in that — in that they were so devoted and felt their emotions so strongly that it actually transcended and offered the power, not exactly the connection to mythal. maybe she felt responsible or devoted back to them to repay their credit of trust they gave her, that they believed, maybe she felt indebted to them as they offered her her power, maybe she literally cared for all of them or she wished to make them feel so strongly and to the extent of what a material being can and could ever possibly mean. maybe feeling every emotion to it's full extent and with layers and complications truly was what gave her magical power (cuz of the manifestation and nonexistence of veil back then tempering the power of magic and thus manifestation) or maybe it just motived her to act in their name, as their representative, just a political figure. or maybe she didn't know herself as she was both a spirit and material, maybe it was both, maybe it was all of it at the same time. all that to say, well of sorrows both was and wasn't mythal's fragment (imo).

The fragment we get in the crossroads also is not mythal. righteous and with short-temper, bitter and resentful, cold but slightly separated from the past. i have little to say here, i think we've got little of her in the game and i only played datv once so i might return to this fragment later on if i play through datv once more.

even if these 3 parts of mythal were to be connected into one like we've got in that one ending in datv with the 2 parts of her, we would've not gotten back mythal as she was. we'd get a spirit made of 3 other spirits, they could've created a fusion of the three of them (creating further questions of what is needed to create a fusion of spirits and what it'd offer etc) with some parts of mythal but the tragedy still stands — mythal is dead and nothing can be done about it. thus why i don't think the ending hits for me as solas would actually know that that isn't her. still he could've reacted very emotionally seeing her say that to him but at the end of the day he'd know mythal is dead and nothing can be done abt that.

this reminds me so much of the ending of c2 of critical role. spoilers ahead but when they defeated the threats of somnovem and the cougnoza and retrieved the body of lucien whom they knew as mollymauk tealeaf to return their friend to them — it all failed and they got another fragment of what once was the soul of the tiefling they knew who also just was a fragment of what was once a complete thing. unreturnable, irreversible, unable to make whole or get what they wanted. the tragedy of mollymauk was that they were never whole and nothing could be done abt it, i think even a wish could not return him but maybe it'd have made him whole but that'd be somebody they didn't know. who they got was kingsley. and i think this same thing happens to the fragments of mythal we've got. we should've been offered a new name for these fragments but maybe we already know it as morrigan — the 2 (or 3 if she was the well drinker) fragments and the soul of morrigan. just as we know anders as Anders which also isn't his actual name but it works for him and justice now.

[clonerightsagenda]

I am one chapter into Admiral Jole and the Red Queen and I'm reeling:

Diversity win! The militaristic space empire has a co-ed military now.

Aral Cordelia and Jole were in a throuple.

Posthumous gay IVF throuple babies....

Cordelia is going to let the posthumous gay IVF throuple babies be a surprise for her current children

"I'm ok with Aral cheating on me because I knew he was bisexual" is not as encouraging a line as perhaps Bujold thought it was but considering the text mentions they'd discussed it in theory I'm choosing to interpret this as 'Cordelia gave him her blessing but didn't think he had the guts to do anything about it and then got home and went eyyyy party'

[creatively-cosmic]

introducing an mn character based on pre-existing pokepastas or media that are widely known and blorbofied feels like those corny old movie trailers where its like "THEY'RE BACK... IN A WAY YOU'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE!" for how Far they get from the fandom version

[mustfindcreativeusername]

[lloydfrontera]

'live up to your name' au where og knight of blood and iron javier gets "killed" in the middle of the plot but instead of dying he's transported to modern south korea, waking up in a random alleyway with no injuries whatsoever. and because he's a protagonist no matter what universe he is in, despite being deeply disoriented and confused when he sees a group of thugs harassing a guy he steps in and chases them off with no problem and barely any mention of cutting off limbs. and then after making sure the guy is okay he very sheepishly asks him if he could please help him because he was lost and had no idea of where he was or how he got there

and kim suho who just saw a gorgeous but obviously foreign stranger in awesome cosplay chase off his would be muggers with what looked like a real ass sword and is currently high and smitten in "oh thank god i didn't get my week's work salary stolen" endorphins and is about to have the weirdest week of his life innocently says "yes of course"

[grelleswife]

There was some truth to the whispers on Twitter; we’ve received official confirmation that The Summer Hikaru Died is being made into an anime!

Source

[ssruis]

Going through a straight up comical amount of irritating situations to get the stupid 4* guaranteed ticket from the welcome to sekai campaign. It Will Be Mine.

[feliciadraws]

🐟 f i e s c h e 🐟

[fuckspn]

how the FUCK do i access my blog (both main and sideblogs) on desktop now btw

[age-of-moonknight]

“The Last Days of Moon Knight,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #28.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Federico Sabbatini; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit