#Having different interpretations is fine

[blissfulrain12]

CURLY NEVER DEFENDS JIMMY! NOR DOES HE DISMISS OR DENY ANYA'S CLAIMS!

What Curly does do is not prioritize Anya's needs immediately. What Curly does is approach Jimmy in the mildest manner possible. What Curly does is have an abuse induced breakdown at the worst moment and not realize Jimmy is serious about his murder-suicide threat.

JIMMY IS NOT NEW TO THE CREW!!!! JIMMY DOES NOT HAVE A CONFIRMED CRIMINAL RECORD!!!

The only new person is Daisuke. Jimmy has been working on the Tulpar for a least two/three years by the time of the game. Please stop expecting Curly to see YEARS into the future. The only thing we know about Jimmy's past is that he struggled. What that struggle was we don't know for sure but context clues suggest POVERTY not crime. So no Curly didn't suddenly make a known sex offender his co-pilot. That said there's nothing wrong with an ex-con getting a chance at decent work.

SWANSEA DOESN'T PROTECT ANYA!!!

He just doesn't. I'm sorry but there's no direct indication that he acts on her behalf. In fact he's misogynistic towards her. He calls her their "so called nurse" and indicates he doesn't think she's very smart to JIMMY. The conversation Jimmy interupts where we assume Anya told Swansea ends with Anya in tears and saying basically "if that's how it has to be". That is not what support looks like. There's no indication that Swansea is keeping the ax away from Jimmy for Anya especially when it's ANYA who tells Jimny to take it from him. And finally Swansea says nothing about Anya's death not even when he walks into the medbay where her body is.

ANYA NEVER ASKED CURLY FOR THE GUN! AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT EXACTLY SHE TOLD CURLY ABOUT HER SA!!

Seriously he never denies giving her the gun in self defense. Anya just assumed, correctly or incorrectly, that he wouldn't and just took it instead. There is no scene where Anya tells Curly about her SA. All we know is that she told him something and he doesn't understand what she meant until after she tells him she's pregnant. And once he understands he believes her.

[rey-jake-therapist]

Sandman's Morpheus: your headcanon's not more canon than mine!

"I don't like AUs where Morpheus is soft, I prefer canon so I read only fics where he's absolutely awful"

I'm sorry but if you consider that Morpheus is evil, a totally horrible person, a coldhearted monster who likes to hurt people and has no empathy whatsoever, you don't 'prefer' canon, you just like your headcanon more.

Morpheus, in the show like in the comics, is not "soft", he's not "gentle", but he's also not the complete opposite. He's COMPLEX, which means that he can't be defined as being just "gentle", or "soft", or "horrible", or "monster" etc.

Please don't think that your opinion on the character is the only one that's right and that any other is only a "headcanon". Unless... you're Neil Gaiman and you wrote Morpheus, of course.

[rey-jake-therapist]

I'm sorryto say this is my experience most of the time, especially when shipping is concerned... That's why

1) I create my own content instead of relying on other people to give me content I want to see

2) I read only fics written by authors I know have the same vision of the character as mine. As far as Dream of the Endless is concerned for example, I can count them on one hand. Even more true regarding Jake of Sweetbitter but that's because we're like 6 fic writers in this fandom lmao.

3) if it's on Tumblr I just shrug it off and scroll down. I'm way past the age of arguing about fictional characters online...

y’all ever see a piece of fan content about your favorite character that is so horrifically different from what you personally believe and you just

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "breasts shouldn't be politicized because the primary purpose of breasts is to feed babies!" can be a fine jumping-off point, but I really wish people thought deeper than that when we talk about the ways in which bodies are politicized and restricted.

Like, why's it that when we talk about breasts, they must have some Higher Purpose? It's true that breasts aren't inherently sexual, but they aren't valuable solely because they can potentially feed a baby. A human body doesn't have to serve a Higher Purpose in order for it to not be legislated against or policed, and I just wish people would remember it isn't always about babies, about other people, about anything else other than the people who have that body.

[aeb-art]

somebody's probably done this before but,,, i made an edit

original below vvv

[thatswhatsushesaid]

psa that the day there are no jgy stans left on tumblr dot com is the day i am dead

but rest assured i'll go to my grave exactly as i lived: obnoxiously proclaiming to everyone within earshot how great lianfang-zun is. narratively, metaphorically, spiritually. sexually, too, like why limit myself. i like to keep my options open

[linddzz]

(regular disclaimer that I will exaggerate big feelings for effect but at the end of the day this is fandom and in the grand scheme of things Just Ain't That Serious good? good)

okok look while I am obviously SOOO into where Arcane went with the Machine/Arcane Herald, I can get why gamers who liked og LoL Viktor would be Big Annoyed at him being totally retconned and overhauled in game. That is undeniably a totally different guy there and yeah it would be shitty to have the guy you like completely swapped out. I can especially get it if they liked the mechanical cyborg engineering aspects of his character!

BU T I keep seeing iterations of "he didn't choose anything for himself he just had things happen to him" or "he just went mystic. he used to be someone who used his genius to remake himself and now he just meditated himself into a wizard" and I am so so down to meet in the pit on those takes!! I get people not liking the less mechanical aspects of him but hhhhhhohmygod do not be taking my guys agency and genius down like that

Yes the initial full fusing with the hexcore is something that happened to him, that someone who loved him maybe too much did to him (almost like Arcane has themes of people being launched down dark paths by things that happen to them beyond their control hMmMmmmmmm!!!) And btw I still hold that while his brain got changed by trauma (bc trauma DOES THAT) and the hexcore helped amplify and empower him leaning into his worst traits, after Jayce forced that initial fusion everything Viktor did was a choice.

But also!! Jayce used Viktor's notes. Viktor was the one who went down and got shimmer, who lied and experimented in secret. He stumbled into noticing the hexcore responding to biological material but then he pursued that avenue (because LIFE is a lot of stumbling into things and then deciding what to do from there), figured out what interdisciplinary collaborations he needed to make, figured out on his FIRST TRY what runes he would need to put where.

And while they don't lean into the mechanical engineering genius as much as the OG Viktor like...guys that's a software engineer with a big scoop of magic theorist on top of it (who then started a pivot into biomechanical arcane theory like THAT). He made a magic AI! Don't go telling me he didn't use his genius to become the Arcane Herald when he made a magic AI and then I got to watch the hexclaw grabbing and programming runes into spells like the coolest shit ever!!

That man figured out how to make Jayce's ideas into reality. He then used the scant knowledge of the arcane that still exists to figure out and recreate, using technology, what mages do by instinct. He made a MAGIC AI HOLY SHIT. Jayce is STILL referencing Viktor's rune theories to figure out the anomaly!!

He did not use the same type of genius to become the same type of Herald, but my guy invented being a technomancer so hard that he turned himself into a magical supercomputer and was so good at THAT that he made himself a robowizard god and I will not be hearing anything belittling how nuts that is!!

[windwenn]

Stuff i've been thinking about a lot recently (not unrelated to my feelings about star trek)

[finalgirlgretchen]

if one more person tries to claim that the oh hellos are no longer christian i am going to lose my shit

[angelsdean]

sometimes you just have to say: your interpretation is not my interpretation and move on with your day. even when it's people you like and respect like, sometimes people's headcanons just do not jive. it's fine. and being able to respectfully disagree and move on is so important. no one is ever going to see things exactly how you see them. even when you check a lot of boxes with other people, there will always be one headcanon or interpretation where you disagree, sometimes in really big ways, and it's fine

[bernardellinewsagency]

short neuvifuri angst idea

"Oh, did you enjoy the script that she wrote? Did you like the role that you were cast as? I hope you were happy in those five hundred years, Neuvillette, because I never was!"

Furina storms off after pushing him, leaving him drenched to the bone and sitting awkwardly in the waters of the Fountain of Lucine with naught to do but contemplate his long lasting memories. Remembering the way she would smile is an easy endeavor. Furina always looked sincere when smiling; perhaps he wasn't looking hard enough, but surely even fleeting moments between just the two of them had to have brought her some amount of happiness, as small as it may be.

He thinks of one long ago night, during the third century of her reign. Actually, right on the cusp of the new milestone, he recalls the Palais had been eerily silent after wrapping up a week of festivities held in Furina's honor. The people of Fontaine were still celebrating, and would be doing so until the early hours of the morning, but all was still within the Palais. Except for them, that is. She had supposedly retired to her bedchambers, and him to his office, yet the two had bumped into each other within the kitchen.

"Let's go to the Opera," she had told him, in lieu of answering when he asked what she was doing. He supposes that the flecks of pastry crumbs on her clothes answered that, and he didn't ask other questions such as why she wanted to go to the Opera. He followed her as willingly as if she had simply asked for the time.

(Their whole relationship had been like that, hadn't it? A duty that extended beyond just an Archon and her Iudex. He once heard the Traveler mention a sea of flowers at the end of the world, and should Furina declare that she would like to see such a sight, he would tear down Celestia just to make it happen.)

Furina had packed a basket of food to bring, and two bottles of wine to go with. Then they partook perhaps more than they should've, and perhaps he should've questioned if Archons can get drunk, or if a Sovereign should be getting drunk with one. He definitely should have stopped her from going into the storerooms of the Epiclese and procuring even more for them. The memories start to get a little hazy after that, but he can vaguely recall a remark she made about the location not being the best choice, and that she wanted to get away from something. He can't recall who made the decision to go up, and have him help carry her as they climb to the roof, but suspects it was still her doing.

As clear as day, though, he can remember her smile, bathed in the light of the slowly rising sun as it crested over the waters of her dominion. Out of every beautiful sight in Fontaine, she is the one he gets to appreciate most often, but never before in a light like this. He could gaze at that moment for another hundred years and never tire of it. "Dragon of the waters," she had called him, "might you allow an Archon to call you theirs?"

Should she have asked him that at the start of her reign, should they have been in a similar situation, the answer would be clear. He might have even wondered, with the walls of the Court to block them from their peoples' sights, if an Archon so in love with her people would fall like one if he shoved her. But they were not in the past, and he already knew by then that he had come to love her, and thus his answer was "I was under the belief that I already was yours, Lady Furina, both within my capacity as your Chief Justice and without. The people of Fontaine adore you, yet it is my love for you that truly knows no bounds. Nothing would make me happier than to be yours."

"They do, don't they," she had whispered, a note he almost lost to time with how he just barely could hear her. "Promise me this, Neuvillette, if you wish to be mine- promise you will never stray from your duties to Fontaine, and you will always, always, do what is best for her people."

"I will."

"And promise that you will stay by my side forever, then, for another three centuries and beyond that, even if you grow tired of me!"

"Of course, Furina, is... is something the matter?"

It was the first time he had seen her come close to crying, droplets of tears clumping her eyelashes together yet disappearing as she blinked, "Oh, you silly dragon, only the fact that you make me ever so happy."

Leaving the warmth of the memory behind, Neuvillette returns to the cold of an overcast sky dripping with sleet, as a blue silhouette leaves him behind and disappears into the cloudy distance.

[solavelyan]

i have no interest in holding mythal or solas "accountable" for anything because they're fake, not running for mayor. listen to yourselves

like what does that even mean

[annabelle--cane]

google show me fat coronabeth images

[evelynpr]

Bkdk and tgck truther but I don't take Izuocha slander at all. I'm blocking y'all, and go block what you don't like either and just think about their dynamic for longer than 5 seconds.

If I see another post saying they have no substance, meaning, purpose, or anything interesting, leave that opinion to yourself and read again. If that post is just meant to ruin someone's mood instead of have a thoughtful discussion of their dynamic, then just don't post it, please.

[poppyseedsphone]

No one take this personally but I hate how everyone is acting like MePhone is aware that he created these guys, or created them purposely. Didn’t Cobs say that MePhone 4 ALSO needed to hear that? Like he didn’t know it yet? I could be misremembering. But even if that’s not the case, it was NEVER my assumption that he knew he made these guys, or that he had much control over how they were as people. Like, say he WAS aware that he made them, why bother with auditions? Maybe he made a bunch of people with no idea what they were like, and just made them audition to see which ones would fit for his show.

MePhone just doesn’t have those mastermind vibes man. He HAATES the things some of these contestants do, there’s no WAY he made them with intent. Idk again don’t take this personally but I hate all the “why would MePhone give this character this flaw” posts unless they’re being silly. Cuz like. No I don’t think he purposely decided to give someone a disability or whatever I think these guys were just made and he either didn’t have any control over their traits or only subconsciously did.

But like we’ll find out the truth next time on inanimate insanity so idk maybe next episode will start and MePhone will start saying “yes suitcase I made you and I knew you would start to hallucinate” but I just don’t see that happening. But who knows!

[quicktimeeventfull]

also writing au version of characters is so fun but also so difficult because you are constantly balancing "he would not fucking say that" with "but he WOULD say that if he worked in a coffee shop and drank three free lattes per shift." u know. like if you write them in a way that exactly matches canon they quickly become nonsensical but if you go too far it becomes a different guy altogether. the good news is i have found most readers are way more flexible about interpretations than it often feels like as an author but it is still a nice & occasionally stressful project to try to get it right