#Gravitas world

[eorzean-capitalist]

Look, ma, I'm publishin'!

Book 2 is now up for pre-orders, scheduled to release on Feb 11th, 2025.

It isn't easy being the Summer Solstice in a city full of Awakened who wanted to use or abuse you.

As if Jimmy Erickson didn’t have enough going on in his life. Trapped between two worlds, and having to straddle both of them, he tried his best to concentrate on the music and his complicated relationship with Vinnie Santini. The Awakened world would have to wait.

But when the Chicago Ascendant asks a tiny favor of Jimmy, he suddenly finds himself thrust into the middle of a battle between her and her charismatic rival, DJ Dominick and his Electro Army. A host of electrokinetic Awakened at his beck and call.

When he and Vinnie discover their own guitarist, KC Driscoll, is a member of the Electro Army, all bets are off. They have to figure out a way to stop DJ, or risk losing KC and the city of Chicago to his madness forever.

[pilkypills]

Thinking about Frodo and Thorin. It is nuts how two characters who have never interacted can be so father and son coded.

[lizzybeeee]

Can't believe I waited ten years to learn that the Old Gods were elven horcruxes

[mikimeiko]

For All Mankind | Season 1 (2019), Ronald D. Moore

[ozmatippetarius]

like I think most players, I really wish that AWL had included the rival system and in particular have always been sad that Marlin Matthew and Celia never went anywhere, but I also really like considering exactly how cursed and dysfunctional a Rock/Lumina marriage would be.

Like, these are two people who latched onto each other from a complete dearth of other people in their age range to relate to.

Romana absolutely wouldn't approve and Rock would have absolutely no intention of committing, so it would have to be a shotgun wedding.

Lumina has totally romanticized the idea of a nuclear family that she never got to have, and she... would not get that.

Neither of them will ever work.

I'm of the opinion that marriage to the farmer makes Rock significantly better because he admires their work ethic and does his best to match their energy (as well as he can...) but marriage to Lumina would absolutely make him so much worse. Especially if she tries the whole "I'm going to be a perfect wife and mother" that she does with the farmer... he would become such a dick.

They'd fight once a week.

Their kid would be a complete nightmare.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

truly lmao 2024 lambda literary award finalist wynnstannery

[shallow-wordsalad]

something I appreciate on the rare occasions it happens (and is explored) is the idea that some villains are villainous because they're just simply bad people.

not everyone who goes about their lives abusing others, crushing dreams, swallowing power and money and lives like a glutton started their lives as an idealist or a good person. in fact, a great deal of people who live like that were always assholes, and once they obtained power, a platform, or money, simply used it to continue being assholes on a much larger scale - because they simply do not care about others. maybe they were spoiled children who never were told no, or people who always viewed the people around them by what they could gain from them, or people who convinced themselves to only think of themselves. there's depth to be written about a person who is evil all the way down, and it's not a failure of character design to make one who is simply unlikable (in fact, if that was the intent, it's a complete success.)

I love a good sympathetic villain. I love a good redemption arc. I love Steven Universe and My Little Pony. I love when the villain looks at their bloody hands and wonder just whose blood it is they spilled, because they genuinely can't remember, and asks themselves if what they're doing is what they wanted to do in the first place.

but I also want a villain to stare at a hero, dead in the eye. as the hero speaks of peace and understanding, asks about their dreams, and asks them to stop what they're doing, the villain without hesitation would say "and what would I get out of that?" and then pull a gun on them for the audacity.

it's a really, really important lesson people need to take in: that some people are just bad people. not good people who were whittled down or broken. not betrayed heroes. some people are just rotten to the core, and everyone should learn that as early as possible.

[identityquest]

Actually its silly of me to rb that poll and not share my favorite track. I listen to City Funk on repeat while I work

[floorman3]

All the World is Sleeping Review- A Raw and Gritty Performance From Berrera

Films about drug addiction or alcoholism aren’t anything new in Hollywood. What distinguishes them are the filmmakers who make them and the actors or actresses who play the characters featured in them. In the case of All the World is Sleeping it’s Melissa Berrera who is the draw for viewers to see or seek out this film and the style in which it’s written/filmed by the director Ryan Lacen. He…

[pasdetrois]

can i say something controversial... nina should have been the protagonist of monster

[arolesbianism]

So turns out that I wasn't being unreasonable for looking through the files because Holy Shit

[eorzean-capitalist]

I did it?

I think I actually did do the thing. The series page is set up. The books are live (1 live, 2 pre-order live). My author page is set up.

When I first began this journey as a 14 year old, I used to dream of this moment. And here it is. Hope I did 14 year old me proud.

[themaidenofwords]

Have I mentioned how gut wrenching the slow progression from "Jonathan Sims-- Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London" to "Jonathan Sims-- The Archivist" is?

These are Jon's introductions of himself. He had already had people simply calling him "The Archivist" way back in season one, but he never introduced himself that way. He declared his title of Archivist as what he saw it to be-- a job title and nothing more.

And then we reached season three and there was a gap where we had "Jonathan Sims, former Archivist" and the words were still spoken as one would a job title but with a certain sense of grief that was incongruous with the professional veneer.

And finally, the reveal of what the Archives were and what being The Archivist truly meant happened, and Jon stopped pretending-- even to himself-- that it was just a job. No, he was Jonathan Sims-- The Archivist-- and it was spoken with the gravitas and responsibility of a king's title. It was now part of who he was.

And then, season five, and it's no longer "Jonathan Sims--". It is merely "The Archivist". Because Jon believes his humanity to have died along with the world he was tricked into dooming. His person-hood is secondary-- and can perhaps be considered more of a job title now in a similar way to how Jon referred to being The Archivist in season one. In season five, Jon believes his entire being to have been consumed by the Watcher. The Archives and his job as the Archivist can no longer be seen as a job, or even as a part of who he is, because it is ALL he is. There is no part remaining of Jonathan Sims, because he is The Archivist first and foremost. He doesn't believe his own humanity great enough to be mentioned.

He is, of course, wrong. But it wouldn't be a tragedy if he didn't realize that until it was too late.

[chronomally]

I went to a local production of The Tempest the other night and they had memes in the bathroom stalls

[dykesynthezoid]

Something about seeing all the weird little gay movies I watched as a teenager on tubi now is so disorienting… not to go all “kids don’t know how good they have it” but yeah kids really don’t know how good they have it

[unproduciblesmackdown]

post pitching everyone lives au / coconana treated seriously already getting too long lol like hmm then. imagine the So Niche You're The Only Fic possibilities