#I mean I'm seriously not complaining

[flightfoot]

...Okay I'm loving the visuals and it's certainly a very entertaining method of exposition, but in-universe I've gotta wonder why Felix and Kagami seized on the idea of putting on a PLAY in order to explain all this backstory.

[tiredspacedragon]

Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places, but there are surprisingly few official images of any of the Turaga of Mata Nui accompanied by both their right and left-hand Matoran. These are the only ones I've been able to find so far:

All collected from MNOG, the Bohrok Animations, and MNOG II respectively.

And most of them bother me, because in 3 out of 5 cases, the Matoran are standing on the wrong sides.

[1242pm]

ayo can someone help me 😭

is my game really glitching on this screen (it's not letting me click anything) or is this part of a gimmick like that one return to choice screen where the screen shatters?

[noelledeltarune]

i know it's kind of an odd thing to ask but this is a question i've been genuinely curious about for awhile

and when i say "do you care" i mean like. do you refer to your sibling as your older/younger sibling or otherwise take birth order into account to any significant extent when you're interacting with them. i'm leaving what "significant extent" means up to you

[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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[seventh-district]

not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go

(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)

[hortaheart]

Realizing with the Lower Decks finale that Rutherford being a disabled character was actually something I projected onto him rather than intentional writing. Which is a really uncomfortable realization. It's the fact that in science fiction, a cybernetic replacement is usually something needed due to physical injury, limb or organ loss, and he did get it in the immediate aftermath of severe physical injury.

However even then it was implied that he could've been healed without it, given the "he'll think it was elective" line. Not to mention his problems always seemed very set in a particular hypothetical situation, rather than something that resonates through broader disabled experiences. (Although I bet people with experience using prosthetics have recognized some of his issues.) I had noticed that but somehow it still didn't really effect my impression. I suppose the "visual cyborg = physical disability" thing is just too strongly embedded in my consciousness from consistent cultural representation.

I recognize all that now, but it still hurt my feelings when he got it removed and was healthy and handsome and it was a happy ending. I'm not mad at the writers or anything but I am very troubled by it.

Especially considering the broader trends in new Star Trek, and TV and our culture in general. I don't know I don't really have anything more to say about it yet. I'm just very troubled.

[zemnarihah]

art students are suuuuch babies dude i actually can't believe all the profs are so nice i'd be grabbing people by the shoulders and shaking them and yelling "JUST REMIX THE FUCKING COLOR WHY HAVE YOU TAKEN 3 PAINTING CLASSES AND YOU STILL WONT EVEN ATTEMPT TO MATCH A COLOR THAT YOU MIXED BEFORE WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING THIS WHOLE TIME DO YOU HAVE LITERALLY NO DESIRE TO IMPROVE OR DO YOU HONESTLY THINK THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND THE PERSON WHO IS ALWAYS MAKING INCREIDBLE WORK IS ONLY OUTSIDE FACTORS YOU CLAIM TO HAVE NO CONTROL OVER RATHER THAN WORK AND A WILLINGNESS TO TRY CHALLENGING THINGS

[kumakuma-circus]

i love being a writer.

[baejax-the-great]

Another day, another thread on r/Ao3 about how since demanding updates and criticizing fic are off the table, commenting is impossible and these hundreds of people just won't bother because authors have ruined it.

[lesbiansanemi]

I'm so tired

[irbcallmefynn]

Wanted to draw the goobers all front facing also with open mouths (where applicable). I've drawn front facing Fynn many times before, nothing new there, still very round. Euphi I've drawn front facing once, but she was looking down and I screwed up some of the details. But Nauno I've actually never drawn front facing before! He looks pretty weird tbh I feel like I screwed something up but I could not tell you what.

Figured I'd also mention that the way I draw their eyes means that yes, the eyes technically slide from the side of their heads to the front. Oh well. You can explain it away with Euphi at least by just saying heart can move heart eyes like that. But for Fynn and Nauno that is purely a stylistic decision.

Also I decided to put their names on this pretty late on and it was kinda funny when I realized I'd have to make Euphi's name smaller cause heart ears are too big lol. I've never really thought about it but compared to the other two Euphi is fucking huge wow. Fynn is a Gray Wolf, which is meant to be the largest species of canine. So what IS Euphi? Either Fynn is really small for Gray Wolf standards or Euphi is some sort of Dire Wolf. But even then Dire Wolves were the same size as modern Gray Wolves so what? I've never considered what Euphi was before heart became a Protogen. But I sure am now!

[swan2swan]

Straight Men will be like "I can't STAND having this movie with three women leading!" when they could just sit down and gaze intermittently at Brie Larson's perfect midriff for at least fifteen (on and off) minutes.

[tenebrius-excellium]

Relieved that finances are safe for September

[marathedemonoverlord]

I feel like the game's trying to tell me something. I'm not even doing Nightmare often and suddenly I'm bombarded with special Diavolo cards.

Okay I get it the man's fine as hell and his little dance sprite shooting fire is lit af you don't gotta tell me that I can admit defeat and now it's nice to have him in the battle - It's like playing Smash and you got to beat the challenger to earn a chance to play em lol.

[daisywords]

using google docs as a writer: yay! free and very convenient!

using google docs as an editor: my wrath burns hotter than any earthly flame