#Essy Ramblings

[moremysteriesthantragedies]

I love bright villains, tbh I think they're underrated. I love villains who adore the attention and can't stand staying in the shadows, I love villains that are sun coded, I love villains who wear bright colors, I love villains who try and look sweet and friendly.

And I especially love villains associated with the light having rivalries or even friendships with villains associated with the dark, that's the shit.

[shiesie]

This is obviously gonna be divisive, so please, fight for the rights of pillow princesses

[bigtreefest]

essieeeeeeee ahem im doing research for the summer lovin' challenge, how do we feel about age gaps? like slight age gaps, or does that sort of stray out of equal partnership?

Oh brandy, you know how I love research. Happy to be your primary source!

We…like age gaps that are done tastefully. By this, I mean, like…ones where the two of them were in the same age category when they met? Like, they were both either kids or both either consenting adults when they met. At the time of first interaction, one like one wasn’t a minor and the other was an adult when they met. Does that make sense?

Slight age gaps are a-ok! (And if you ask my mom, allowable up to 10 years because ‘men are behind women maturity-wise and need those years to catch up’ which I actually agree to, but it doesn’t make up for the fact that society lets men be immature that much in comparison🙄) all this to say yes. 😂 equal partnerships can happen at any age, and imo, it makes the equal treatment so much sweeter when there’s a gap and the older one doesn’t use it as a chance for infantalizing the other😌

[ardentem-iustitia]

sooo for the ask game, how would venti feel about your oc?

venti!!

ummmmm in my genshin ocverse 6REEZE (friend group of venti + xiao + wanderer + heizou + kazuha + aether, the male traveler - characters who for the most part do not know each other canonically) is canon because i am cringe and i am free? anyways wanderer and yasmin are pretty close and she and venti have met each other fairly often because of that. he thinks she's fun and enjoys hanging out with her, partly because they match chaotic energy and partly because he likes keeping an eye on her when she's in mondstadt in case she ends up accidentally commiting a crime LOL

[kasey-writes-stuff]

Tummy kisses or tummy raspberries? 🤭

Hiii ty ty

I’ve never really had kisses and don’t properly remember how it felt the one time I had a raspberry tbh but I’ll go with raspberries

[essiestarr]

You know when you're so tired you're like shaking and freezing...

Anyway it's deadline day and I haven't slept in like? 16hrs wish me luck

[smallblueandloud]

if i had a nickel for every time you couldn't find me on google because my name closely resembles a trademark, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot but--

[11queensupreme11]

i can’t believe ppl actually get crazy over fictional stuff 😭 like honestly as someone who prefers reading yandere/dark content i don’t tell ANYONE cuz i already know they would try and start shit 😭 i’m wondering if anyone has attacked you for tsunami specifically?

not for tsunami (I don't wanna put "yet" but its bound to happen), but for my old harry potter/percy jackson series that I made before

Basically, the main couple's problematic as hell. The ML is essentially a yandere and the FL has rose-tinted glasses and is desperate for love and acceptance due to trauma so she let's his unhinged behavior go.

They finally got together in the end of Book 4 and I made a list of warnings about the dark content that's gonna happen in the future. At the start of book 5, I reminded them of the warnings again in the introductory, but once the dark stuff started to show up, I got some readers being shocked, pissed, and disturbed by it. Even all the way into book 6, they were still there whining about the same thing

It was absolutely annoying because when I called them out on it, some of them said they didn't "see" the warnings which is amazing because I literally put those warnings at the intro of every book and I talked about how toxic they were gonna be in the author notes?? the same a/n where I put my memes in and they COMMENT on them??

And then the other half, I knew were just idiots because I saw them comment on the list of warnings in wattpad every fucking time. Their comments didn't even seem bothered?? Some of them were like "oh wow" or "shit's gonna go down" and then fast-forward, they're suddenly acting aghast about the very things they knew were gonna happen 💀

If they chose to deliberately ignore my many warnings then that's not my fault, that's on them. But they kept bitching at me about it anyway even several books later.

That's akin to telling someone "hey don't drink this bottle, there's dangerous chemicals in it" and that person drinks it anyway and has the audacity to be mad at YOU for it???

Anyways, so far I got no complaints about Tsunami but... it's probably gonna happen eventually. My other fics aren't as dark as this one so I'm bound to get some haters on my ass despite me warning them in the introduction AND at the beginning of every chapter that features said dark content 😩

I'll be fine though 💖 Most of those haters came from wattpad and well... it's wattpad so yeah. I cross-post on quotev and ao3 too. I rarely get complaints in quotev, and while i'm still new-ish to ao3, people there seem very mature and ok with dark stuff

[essies-stuff]

ramble about coco

warnings: probably has errors, murder, death, greedy celebrities (/hj)

Ernesto didn’t have to kill hector to have his music. He literally could’ve put him on his payroll and credit him as his songwriter. Most artists have song writers so it wouldn’t be looked down apon. It would’ve been a win win for everyone. Ernesto would get to do his dream with amazing songs, and Hector could be with his family. Hector could write from anywhere and just mail the songs to him.

But nooo Ernesto had to greedy and selfish and kill him?? Did he just want the money for himself? Like that’s not so smart, now he’ll never have good *new* songs to play! and he has limited options because he decided to be an idiot.

Not only that, but he has the audacity to say he has no “resentment or hatred towards Hector” for wanting to go home. Um.. then why did you murder him?? And then kinda mock his death on a show? And what’s also a twist of the knife is that he stole the song Hector wrote for his daughter. Y’know after murdering him for wanting to go back to the person that the song is written for. What hurts more is that song became his most popular song.

Plus did he just not expect the truth to ever come out? If the afterlife is forever he would’ve had to expect it to come out *eventually*. Also, the whole manipulating Miguel thing was just.. not necessary. Don’t get the point of that besides wanting to show how evil he is. Don’t get me started on Miguel’s family after Hector’s generation, like I understand being heartbroken and feeling abandoned. But how can you expect to have a no-music family in Mexico?

[tardis--dreams]

My thoughts about this concerts are that it was beautiful but in all honesty it would have been more enjoyable if it had had a standing area and if people had sung along

[moremysteriesthantragedies]

I'm about to make a religion that is obsessed with angels. Wish me luck!

[shiesie]

Some of these ships are canon, while others are rumors, but all the characters (except Jessamyn and Alysanne) are in the LGBT+ section on the wiki

[cruelmisfortune]

i need a new tag for personal rambles .

[silverspeirs]

i finished masters of the air and i have many many thoughts.... and i will do my best to write them down.

disclaimer: i know the show is a fictional depiction of real life events and real life men who fought in wwii. i don't mean any disrespect to the real people who are being portrayed in the show. this is merely my impressions on the fictional show produced by apple tv+.

continues under the cut because this ended up being a long post.

let's start with the positives: i loved the show and was crying at the end of the last episode. the visuals are gorgeous, the actors are all amazing in their roles, and the first few episodes are perfect at setting up the story/setting. a sentimental plus was that i watched the show with my parents, who are also both history buffs, and finished it close to the 79th anniversary of VE day. additionally, my dad, who is a pilot, told me all the lingo and processes used when they were flying is accurate.

i also loved seeing the character development of rosie and croz. they seemed so unassuming to me when they were introduced, and ended up being two of the strongest characters in the show.

the issues i have with the show can be separated in 3 sections: script+editing, time/timing+budget, and the amount of moving parts.

script + editing: while the show is solid on average, the script has some issues, which were made worse by the editing. characters and plot points that were introduced on one episode were never referenced to again in later episodes. for example, what happened to colonel harding? he's gone to london on one episode and on the next, his replacement is replaced and we never see him again; quinn and bailey get some air time escaping from belgium and then a quick mention to never be heard from again... which brings me to my next issue:

too many moving parts: the show has so many characters to explore and show in only 9 episodes. it has too many storylines it is trying to follow, and it starts losing itself after a while. hey, let's start with setting up the show: here you have a bunch of pilots who are all super cool, but we won't give you too much information on them. you have to keep watching to find out more (fair). now, buckle up because we're going on a few missions. alright, now we're going to bring on more characters! and we need to take a break from all this flying, so we're going to the flak house and to cambridge (which i concede, this episode is important for developing rosie and croz). okay, we're back to flying, but we're also going to go to a POW camp to see how our first leads are doing. and HEY! we have another company of pilots we want to introduce to you!! (i know the tuskegee pilots were introduced later to fit in with the POW scenes but i really wish they had been brought on earlier). oh man, we're running out of episodes, we gotta do a big time jump! now we're on d-day. now buck and bucky are trying to escape. and now the war is over.

i know that the show encompasses a long time period - basically 2 years of the war - but i'd rather them show us less things, and show them well, than try to fit as much as possible in 9 episodes (which goes back to being a script+editing problem. they could have used one more episode).

finally, time/timing and budget: on this post , it is said that MOTA ran out of budget, which is why some choices were made. starting production in 2021 meant that COVID measures were in place, and it also meant that production had to be halted when crew/cast tested positive. there's also a 3 year gap from when production started and when the show was released, meaning that the show sat with the editors for a long time, which is not necessarily a good thing.

it also feels like the show ran out of steam after episode 5. that's a shame, because the first episodes show so much potential.

i have some other issues with the show, mainly how they didn't have the actors on the background like BoB had, but this post i referenced before encapsulates my thoughts pretty well, so i won't repeat it.

to end on a positive note, the directors and the actors did a wonderful job with what they had.

all this to say: i enjoyed watching mota. will i rewatch it? absolutely. did i like this more than i would have because im a big hbo war fan? for sure. i just wish they had worked better with the wonderful stories they had to tell.

[kasey-writes-stuff]

2,3, and 7 please my friend!

Hmm I can’t think of much tbh I mean I’ll gladly listen to friends ramble about their interests but I can’t think of anything new it’s gotten me into unfortunately

Aahhh this is so hard umm my willingness to listen to friends anytime they need, is liking to cook a good quality lmbo, umm idk I’ve been told I lkkr can bring people peace I think?

Video games and wrestling also cooking and baking