#Fran rambles

[redbatchedcumbermayned]

Waiting on final review and okay from Chris, then I'll be posting the interview, in which we talked Heinrix, Chris' acting career and future projects.

[thatonewiththeponytail]

I wanna stop being busy with stuff that drains me and get busy with stuff that pumps me up

[bflys]

I need to stop skin picking. Made myself bleed earlier biting skin off 😵‍💫

[kapfranos]

I posted this stuff on my bsky, but I figured it would also be good here. I just have a running commentary on my thoughts about Veilguard now I've finished it.

I finished Veilguard yesterday and goddamn what a game.

Is it missing some things? Do I wish things were better explained or more established lore critiqued in the world? Yes, BUT there were so many other things that worked so well

I do very much need the people who keep parroting the 'but they had 10 years' rhetoric to shut up and learn a little bit about Cursed Game Development and realise that after everything that we know about the journey this has been on, it's amazing that such an incredible game came out of it.

I am very Hungry for new books and comics

I want more stuff about the Crows and why Cantori and de Riva seem SO different from the Crow houses we'd been told about before

I NEED to know what's happening in Ferelden now, where is HoF, because mine would be PISSED at what happened.

I wish we had more social commentary on Tevinter and the caste and slavery issues - if Dock Town is Soperati-ville WHY am I not hearing about slaves outside of a couple of Magisterium codex entries with Dorian

I also just need everyone to know how much I love Antoine specifically. Beautiful sensitive loving man with a hot wife and a penchant for explosives

I would also like to kiss whichever combat designer came up with orb and dagger for mages on the mouth

The one thing I wanted back is the DA2 mage staff bonking, and they basically turned around and said yeah okay but what if you just had a knife and were also a Knight Enchanter for daggers

This is just rolling thoughts are this point BUT not being able to go and chat to my companions at any time was a bit of a loss for me.

I really enjoyed it in Inquisition, and it gives you that all important opportunity to smooch your LI whenever you want

I am slightly miffed at the over-hyping of the romances, especially when Lucanis only has like 3 specifically romantic scenes. I feel like he could have done with more to shape it out more, when the codex entries seem to show there's relationship development off-screen

I was also waiting for there to be a scene with him where the 'first kisses taste like lavender and cream' reference comes back, like COME ON

[franhelps]

i need to update my blog....

[anhonest-puck]

you know it’s a good day when your AP english teacher pulls you aside after class and says that you’re doing well like yes!!!! finally oh my god!! 🙏

[starlikeswomen]

I didn’t think id have to state this specifically but??? frans fans dni?????????? go the fuck away???????????

[steviewashere]

Okay, I'm going to ramble to you about a theory I have, please excuse me.

So, a couple years ago when Letterboxd was reaching peak interest among people, Netflix made an Instagram post about each of the Stranger Things's characters top four movies.

Steve's top movie, I believe, was Animal House. Eddie's was Spinal Tap. Dustin's was The Neverending Story. Just so you know what I'm talking about.

Right. Anyway, they said Robin's number one favorite movie would be The Apartment (1960). This makes sense for her, as she likes black and white film, she's obviously big into film. So, kudos to Netflix for being on the dot, I suppose. Now, I just watched this movie tonight, I totally see the appeal. It's my favorite now, too.

But...I noticed something.

This is the main love interest in The Apartment, her name is Fran Kubelik:

She falls in love with the wrong guys, she's unhappy in the relationship she's in (I won't spoil the relationship she's in, so go watch this or look up spark notes or something), she's in love with the guy, but the guy doesn't love her. She tells the main character, C.C. Braxter, that she wishes she could love somebody like him because he's so nice. He rambles a lot, knows a lot of (almost pointless) information, feels hopeless in his romantic endeavors, is on his own—no family, no spouse, not a lot of friends—ultimately very unhappy with how his life is going.

Anyway. I, for one, think C.C. fits Robin's description quite a bit. Not in a lot of ways, but some key components of the character's personality and life match Robin's outlook on her own life. And, I got to thinking, well, who does Fran remind me of...

May I present Vickie, Robin's crush in season 4:

Now, Vickie is stuck in an unhappy relationship. At least from what I remember. She loves her boyfriend, her boyfriend isn't very into her...that kind of thing. She gets caught out by Robin in the military surplus store, which semi-resembles a major plot point in The Apartment (seriously, go watch it or look up what happens; I'm not spoiling it for you). But then, at the end of the season, she talks to Robin about being happy because she broke up with her boyfriend, and that makes Robin even more interested in talking to Vickie (which resembles another big plot point in The Apartment).

Another thing I noticed, though, is that Vickie and Fran resemble each other physically. The makeup, the fucking hair, even the facial structures are very similar. I mean...if The Apartment is Robin's favorite movie of all time...then, Fran has to be her lesbian awakening—yeah? Or maybe even first celebrity crush? Or maybe she just likes Fran because Fran reminds her of Vickie? Or what if she likes Vickie because Fran is her type?

My theory is that Robin loves The Apartment, yes absolutely, but also she likes Vickie because she has a fangirl crush on Fran.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, apologies for the ramble. I will go now.

Also, again, go watch The Apartment, it's free on Tubi with ads. (Everything on Tubi is free with ads. All you need is an account with an email and password. Go watch the damn movie.)

Also, also, I will say trigger warning for The Apartment if you do decide to watch it, there is a suicide attempt (that isn't shown, but the aftermath of that is), and a discussed suicide attempt. That's the only plot I'm spoiling. Now go watch it.

[the-writing-mobster]

Because I constantly get hate for WDYW Chapter 49,

(I get it, it's polarizing) allow me to like,,, explain why I went with the plot point? I don't really owe anyone an explanation, and literally fuck any of my haters, they're ants, but I think my readers/people who actually like my writing would like to know the lore behind my choices.

So, context, in chapter 49, Frisk is drugged into obedience by Muffet and Muffet, being the money hungry cunt that she is, sells Frisk's body on the black market. It's a really uncomfortable concept, and when it happened it caused a lot of readers to drop the fic or rant at me in the comments, talk shit about my fic in private forums behind my back, or even imply a bunch of horrible things about me as a person lmao.

So why did I decide to go with this plot?

Well, for one, it all stems from two books: The Hunger Games, Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins and the Empress by S.J Kincaid.

In both of these books, there is a pivotal character who is drugged, manipulated and used for political gain by a dastardly authority figure. In The Empress, this plot point was ESPECIALLY devastating, because it completely changed and corrupted the character into a horrific shell of their old self to where they were actively antagonistic and irredeemable!

This plot device has intrigued and fascinated me ever since. Drugging a protagonist to make them wholly dependent on their abuser/villain, manipulating them, having them at rock bottom is, in my opinion, one of the worst things that can happen to a character... And seeing how the character can overcome it is the greatest triumph!

Ever since reading these books, this plot device has buzzed in the back of my mind and there is a part of me that always tries to recreate it, but I can never come close to perfecting it.

Either I always miss on the addiction part of the manipulation, or I can never commit truly to character corruption. Either way, the closest I've ever gotten to scratching this itch has been in WDYW part 3, but even then, I barely came close to getting it right.

My second reason for choosing the route; In WDYW, Frisk's whole arc is about having control over her own agency/autonomy/fate. What happens to her in Part 3 is the culmination of everything she's ran away from, fought against, and her greatest nightmare come to life. It was the lowest point I could bring her character, and make her face her past demons in a horrifically evil way. But my plan had obviously been that despite all of the torture she survives, that she not only survives but fucking WINS!

That was the whole point, but when I wrote it I was like,,, 17/18 😅, so there was definitely things I wasn't as graceful about.

With that said, would I change anything? Yes. If I could change anything I wrote about part 3, I would do a couple things:

1. Take out that obedience spell Muffet puts on Frisk. The reason I made that was because it was like a catch all spell to keep Frisk in Muffets clutches? But it was pretty OP and seemed like a hand wavey excuse to brush aside plot holes. I should've just simplified the spell to where she was simply tethered to Muffet's soul so Sans couldn't kill Muffet, or teleport Frisk away.

2. Frisk's "obedience" to Muffet should've been entirely addiction based, which would make the plot point of Frisk using determination to burn out her addiction in Part 4, and then eventually Determination becomes the addiction instead, (because overcoming addiction is really fucking hard actually and a constant struggle) a lot stronger.

3. I would probably be much more careful with my word choice in chapter 49. Some of it comes off as sexualization. Not my intention, but it was because I was writing in the creepy photographer's pov and he was objectifying her. In my head I was like, "surely people can read between the lines right???" (They can't. Only a select few fanfic readers have media literacy apparently)

So, TLDR, No chapter 49 was not some author's barely disguised fetish (that's honestly a really gross way to think about my writing and about me as a person) it was my genuine worst nightmare as a woman, and one of my favorite plot devices from two of my favorite books 😭 Please lay off me about chapter 49, and Part 3.

Last but not least... Some art is meant to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.

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[qin-qin16]

Since we all are friends and respect each other, I want to share one of my secrets with you guys: I did not care or find Gaster Sans hot.

[willmike-what]

Sorry to come back briefly from my long hiatus to talk about this. But this is just more evidence that antis care more about fictional characters and they treat them just as real as actual people, and yet they say that we have an issue with separating fiction from reality

[unma]

Top 3 favourite Frans au pairings in no specific order and a short (or so) explanation on why? (Frans doesn't have to be canon in the au, it can be aus you just like to make them canon in/ explore their dynamic)

Underfell I blame Vene for this, her Underfell Frans comics made me fall madly in love with the pairing in this AU. I find it wonderful, the amount of angst and fluff you can squeeze out of this situation. It's basically my default because you are rather flexible in what you can portray using this AU, and it's definitely an easy AU of choice for any oneshot ideas I have picking at my brain. What can I say? Underfell Sans lends himself rather well to fun and wacky romantic situations (as well as angsty ones)

Dusttale I'll admit, this was the first one that came to mind when I got the ask. I definitely write about it the least on this list, but it's the AU I spent the most time thinking about. It's just so juicy, seeing these two who are downright obsessed with each other further that obsession in many ways, including romantic. It also helps that I'm a yandere lover, so this kinda romance is right up my alley. I do also have an AU in the aftermath of a Dusttale AU where both are returned to normal, but that's a story meant to focus on the aftermath, picking up the pieces, and the importance of forgiveness. I do really like that AU too, but given how much is connected to it it would take a long time to actually put that into writing. I'm referring to the Fallen Angels AU here, and a few people might remember that I'd written to oneshots for this (one is part of my latest fransweek collection, the first chapter).

Swapfell I'm gonna be honest, I frankly never cared much about this AU until I started writing it for a Secret Santa present. It was because of that fic that I'd even first thought about Frans in Swapfell, and honestly I fell in love quickly after that. Whether in versions of the AU where Frisk is alive or a ghost, their interactions with Sans were always so fun, and whether you wrote Sans as tsundere or Frisk as tsundere, or perhaps just have them both be awkward, there really is something lovely about pairing up the vice leader of the Guard with the princess of the Kingdom. You can probably tell how much I love it by how I proceeded to write more and more for my own Swapfell AU afterwards. Don't even get me started on other SF!Frans pairings, such as those of Lord Yabadoo, or the royal Frans Swapfell AU, and so on that are all really beautiful (the two mentioned here are really inspirational for my own SF work, especially the former) . It's great, and I would probably wax poetic longer about it if my laptop wasn't almost dead, lol.

Much apologies for this wall of text, but I had so much to ramble about and not much idea of how to go about formatting it. When I get back on my phone (or when I get home so I can charge my laptop) I'll take a look at the post to see if I can make it more readable. No promises tho. Thank you for the ask!

[thatonewiththeponytail]

Dental related emergencies call for drastic measures but I haaaate it.

[bflys]

I want to cry I’m so fucking miserable at my job. I want to quit so bad but fucking can’t bc I fucked myself over

[rhiefiefie]

Itward as a character is so funny to me because you spend the first half of the game knowing that hes apparently supposed to be a mysterious, important figure that might actually be evil(?) but the game doesn't tell you until the final half of chapter 3 that, actually, hes that same strange suited skeleton that opened a vent + a window for you when you wouldve otherwise been stuck, and gave you crumbs of guidance a few times on your journey. which might make you think "huh. ok. maybe hes not that bad?"

*then* you get to chapter 4, and this character that initially might have seemed unknowable and scary actually turns out just to be a really kind & friendly guy who likes to build things and collect forks. Hes also apparently been our bff since we were an infant. And he helped us to get our cat back. He likes to make shoes. He has a funky flying machine. It has his own version of space invaders on it. Oh, and hes afraid of bunnies. Literally top tier writing

[xviruserrorx]

I hope that they don't kill John (I like him) and instead they work out some type of lavender marriage so Francesca and Michaela can be together