#Just a few more words to add

[mjspenumbra]

I wholeheartedly agree with the analysis of Dickens' story, but have one observation to add: while Dickens makes it clear in his writing that the purpose of the ghosts are to aid Scrooge in the development of character and understanding that will lead him to change his life and his ways, I have seen performances in which Scrooge shows little or no change in his behavior or ways of thinking until he sees his name on that tombstone. Suddenly, the wrenching, grasping, scraping covetous old sinner is gone, and now he's weeping and wailing about how he will not be the man he was only because he wants to live and sponge away the writing on the stone. This is not a failure of the story Dickens wrote, but rather a failure on the part of the actor and/or the director of that particular production.

(Conversely, I have to admit I’ve also seen a few productions in which the cantankerous Scrooge was not played well, to the point that one really never believes he won't reform because the actor portraying him really doesn’t have a good handle on how to play that sort of nasty character.)

But yes, Scrooge's core tale is one of his redemption, and to make it meaningful to him and the reader/audience, we need to see the stages of it, the roots of his life that was, his life that is, and his life as it yet could be. One of Dickens' best, imho!

"Scrooge only changed because he saw how nobody mourned him after his death" NO NO NO NO. You don't get it! The last spirit only worked because of the spirits that came before softening him up! If the spirits had shown him dead and ungrieved only it would not work. As the night goes on amid the visits Scrooge is already visibly changing. He's different after the first spirit and even more so after the second. And it's because of how much he's already changed that the final spirit is able to succeed

[psink]

Whilst overall I prefer the manga to the anime, there's one aspect that I think the anime does better - the very ending.

Compared to the manga's very compactly shown thoughts of the cast, the anime gives each of them a short scene.

But although that change already is great, what matters to me the most, is this added scene of Saiko.

Despite it being so short, it feels so fitting and important to Saiko's character, making its absence in the original seem wrong. (They also added Rifuta, though comparatively, her scene isn't so significant.)

[dykedvonte]

Can you talk about trans!Curly a little bit more? I'm curios if you have any headcanons and the like

-💀

It's just such a thing in my mind because it adds a truthful sadness and differing aspect to mouthwashing.

If Curly was trans it adds the horror of the horribly selfish thought he could have easily been in Anya's situation. It could've been him but it wasn't and he so conflicted on the pit it put in his stomach that brings and the shameful relief it wasn't. In this scenario he is friends with Jimmy for a long time still. Jimmy likely knew him pretransition. Maybe he gave Curly weird looks then, maybe they never stopped after, maybe they seemed meaner. They are guys now, bros, both of them are. He doesn't really have to worry what those looks mean anymore, Jimmy just has that face with him sometimes. It's recontextualizing a lot of things for him that he was in denial about or too ashamed to admit. How naive he was being and how he let that get another person hurt.

Specifically with Anya, it's he knows the dread and fear she's feeling. He can understand it because he had to live with it for a good portion of his life, he knows it cause he still does, just in a slightly different way. It makes him think of all the times he's been alone with Jimmy, all the times he's been way more drunk off his ass and not remember the night, Jimmy was always with him the next day. Makes him think of the comments he would laugh off both because that's what guys do but because that part of being a girl says to laugh so Jimmy doesn't do something. It's the selfish realization that he was never safe and he's uncertain now too. Mad at himself for forgeting that feeling, espcially since for a long time he would've been considered the only woman on a crew (with all that implies) for a long time.

He should've taken those blinders off, step back into that position for just a moment and it's so much more painful that Anya likely came to him because he should've gotten it. Those thoughts don't leave his mind after the crash when he's in an even more vulnerable position than she was...

[slavhew]

fun fact the word "dirk" sounds exactly like the root of the croatian verb "drkati" which means to jack off

get the dirk brush here

[fisheito]

FISHIE'S NUCA RECS (ongoing!)

⚠ many are locked, so it's best to view while logged into your ao3! ⚠ ❗ yeah, this list is yakumo-centric. there are some exceptions, but... generally, beware of snakes. https://archiveofourown.org/users/fisheito/collections Fics divided into subcollections under that big collection ⬆ :

Polyclan Plot (porn optional) here's the plot-heavier stuff often involving more than 2 clan members. sometimes porn. sometimes crying. sometimes both?

pwp or p with a bit of p pornzone. anything from [quick n dirty] to [Grand Character Explorations Resulting in Boinkery]. i kept most yakuei porn out of this collection because otherwise, it would overwhelm it 🤣

*peers inside the box* no boinking?!? mishmash of fic that doesn't necesssarrrrillly have explicit sex "on-screen". range of moods included from fluff to hurt/comfort. Doesn't include yakuei-centric fic for the same reason as above. 😅

big ol sloshing bucket of yakuei it's yakuei. it's got the porn AND the Not. it must be contained within this bucket so as not to overpopulate the other collections.

bottom yakumo reading list pretty much the same as the list i have on tumblr. it's bottom OR not-explicitly-top subby yakumo. love to see that the number of fic in here has hit double digits. we're doing great out here

feesh purgatory fic i haven't finished reading, and fic that i found interesting, but not sure i would re-read as much as the others. that's purgatory, baybeee!!

[nonbinary-sticks-the-badger]

the official release of the NiGHTS into dreams ost is called the "perfect album" while the journey of dreams ost is simply called the "original soundtrack". this is in fact a reference to the fact that in comparison the journey of dreams soundtrack is shit

[quiet-admirer]

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[piningpercussionist]

I don't think I ever posted these, but a while ago I made some icons to use for discord rp stuff, and I figured I might as well post them.

Future Kim (with Lucifer) our beloved... and werewolf Kim!

I forget if I've mentioned it in tags somewhere, but there IS a werewolf Kim blog I made AGES ago that just hasn't formally opened yet. And I'm gonna be honest- that shifted Kim might be one of my favorite werewolves I've drawn recently.

Anyhow, enjoy!

[tj-crochets]

Hey! This might be a weird ask, but do you know anywhere that has Cambrian sewing patterns? I’ve been trying to track down a wiwaxia or anomalocaris, but no joy. Thanks in advance!

Hey! Not a weird ask at all, and I swear I've seen one for an anomalocaris before but I can't remember where?? I'll take a look and see what I can find, and hopefully someone will see this that has a link to a pattern Edit: So good news bad news, I did find the anomalocaris plush I was thinking of, but the designer has not shared the pattern. Good news is it looks really simple to design a pattern for a simplified version of it? I'd just need to handstitch on the curved front...not legs and use the same technique I use to make spider legs without having to sew each leg individually (topstitching, but maybe also pleating) Can you reblog this with some reference photos of anomalocaris? anomalocarises? I do not know enough about them to be able to distinguish which ones are good references

[coldercreation]

oh

i think i... finished it?

[icewindandboringhorror]

Apparently I can meet my goal of roughly 400,000 words in 6 months if I just somehow write at least 2,200 words a day ghbjh... Almost 2,500 today... huzzah...

[softlysilverfountainsfall]

Tolkien Names, Autocorrect Edition

A non-exhaustive list of people and places in several of Tolkien's languages (multiple names are fair game) and no particular order, presented precisely as autocorrect made them.

fpnarfin

rowing

maritime

Corinth

ear endil

Muriel

ole

else

ingle

elf thing (two names, often said together, for the same person)

median

ramrod

tour

arras

hour

ninnies

gondola

ambling

aerie

savor

florin

milker

mane

savanna

angered

marlin

and band

Guilin

glaring

eluded

reunion

hiring

dorthoiion

irma

siren

cordon

downy

earn

hard

annular

grinder

region (yes, this is autocorrect from another Tolkien word and not the part of Doriath's forest)

feathertop

Sienna

Zaire

name

sears

eon

room

rumble

Answers under the cut

Finarfin

elwing

maitimo

Doriath

earendil

Miriel

Olwe

Elwe

ingwe

elu thingol

melian

amrod

tuor

amras

huor

niniel

gondolin

mablung

aerin

sador

olorin

melkor

manwe

yavanna

angrod

maeglin

angband

duilin

glaurung

elured

ereinion

himring

dorthonion

irmo

sirion

cirdan

eowyn

earwen

harad

annatar

gwindor

eregion

weathertop

nienna

vaire

namo

saeros

eonwe

orome

rumil

[artsy-dreamer]

Some fun facts and tidbits from “Where Am I Meow?”

Snowball’s favorite goodies are warm and fluffy things to snuggle with

Smokey’s favorite goodies are moving toys and mouse toys

Ginger’s favorite goodies are boxes and tents to hide in

Mack’s favorite goodies are noisy moving toys

Pickles’ favorite goodie is the Head Space

Patches’ favorite goodie is the Cardboard House

Spots loves tunnels, but gets stuck in them sometimes

Callie, Tabitha, Misty and Pickles all spend lots of time napping

Fred is a friendly and good-looking kitty who’s popular with everyone

Callie likes to take a long, leisurely walk down the same path every day

Gabriel is a routine-oriented cat who always likes to visit the fish market at the same time every day for some fish scraps

Marshmallow enjoys jumping in your lap and stepping on your book when you’re trying to read

Bolt is a gluttonous little kitty who travels from house to house looking for some tasty morsels

Breezy is an observant kitty who often notices things that no one else does

Princess is a nature-loving cat who enjoys playing on the beach in summer, and goes up on a hill to catch some sun during other seasons

Willie is a very smart kitty who can sense how you’re feeling

Joe DiMeowgio is holding a megaphone, not a baseball bat

Bob the Cat comes from a family of mountaineers who climb peaks all over the world

The book is pro-Tubbs and reminds you that letting Tubbs finish sleeping will earn you a generous gift of fish

Mr. Meowgi’s owner runs a souvenir shop, and he earns his keep by carving wooden sculptures to sell in the shop and keeping his owner’s floor cushion warm

Lady Meow-Meow is a famous cat model

The pizza Guy Furry makes is topped with many different kinds of fish

Kathmandu loves to write poetry about all the beautiful and colorful things he sees

Xerxes IX looks like some king of… somewhere, but we may never know where, because apparently a chunk of text in his description somehow got deleted and the proofreader didn’t catch it XD

[waywardsalt]

loz in the court of the crimson king au bulletpoints or whatever because i never talk about this au but want to yap abt it now!!!!!

yeah the fact that its named after that album is important the song of (mostly) the same name i used as a framework for the plot, the other songs in the album are used for character/other plot stuff and relevant whatever, im going to use song lyrics for chapter titles, there are literally characters referred to as the crimson king, the black queen, the yellow jester, all that from the song it’s all relevant and also the album is good listen to it. once the lyrics in moonchild are over i wont blame you for dipping after that point its mostly Noise

primarily a ganonbeck au but its also the one with the homoerotic friendship(????) between bellum and linebeck that did the most in making me realize that yeah i do actually ship it

also the au where i have to pull off linebeck being 19-20 and the adoptive older brother of link and aryll. but he also has to pull it off in-universe because ofc he looks nothing like them and also looks older than he actually is and the cane really doesn’t help

also yeah cane user linebeck when he was a kid he fucked up his ankle really bad (ha) and it didn’t heal correctly so he needs a cane on occasion it’s a whole thing and i hope to actually do this justice when i get around to writing this au

general setup of linebeck being an adopted family member to link and aryll and their grandmother, and he spends half of his time living with them in their small apartment and being the one most capable of actually making money, and leaves every other week for a full week to do work out in the city

the city is a sort of industrial sort of city, split into some major districts, with hylians and zora and gorons and all of the major races living in this sorta industrial slightly fantasy city. there’s a train system. originally there was some kinda body of water between sections of the city primarily to allow for sea travel but it truly doesnt work for what the story needs so it’s just a sort of industrial type city, and the whole story takes place only in the city

general plot idea is that while linebeck spends half of his time at home with his adoptive family, the other half of his time he spends, yes, doing odd jobs around the city, but most of his income comes from working directly with bellum, who assigns him targets for murder and theft, which he carries out while in costume of the 'demon of the gray moon', an urban legend figure in the city that he came up with when he was like seven that he's mostly able to pull off because of bellum's support

bellum is one of the leaders of the city. there's five and they each anonymously hold control over one of the districts in the city and all try to get and edge over the others and all have assorted little lackies working for them. bellum does have a gaggle of lackies (tbh theyre likely going to be versions of the bosses) but he is the most close and open with linebeck, who is also the only one to know that he operates as one of the leaders

ganondorf is another leader. he's the crimson king (technically one of two) in question. the main thing that kicks of the story is bellum tasking linebeck with spying on and doing research into ganondorf to see if he's one of those leaders, as bellum has a strong hunch and is trying to identify the other leaders

linebeck and bellum met when they were kids, linebeck being an actual kid and bellum kinda just. pretending to be one and acting like hes aging at a human rate and w/e. link, aryll, and their grandmother have technically met bellum, but when he appears much more human and uses a false name. he very rarely actually uses his little real demon form in this au

yeah linebeck spends a lot of his time in his work weeks hanging out with bellum and taking advantage of the higher quality of life he gets when crashing at bellum's place and living in his part of the city. there's a whole. county mouse city mouse thing going on. he does not, in fact, save a lot of the money he earns at work for the sake of his adoptive family

linebeck does really care about his adoptive family but has more complicated feelings about them and his situation, but does genuinely try to make sure they're safe, having convinced bellum to help him in that, though his more dubious activities do also happen to

in general there's the split between linebeck's time with his adoptive family and his time with bellum and as the demon of the gray moon, and how they end up mixing even while he tries to keep them separate for reasons that are mostly selfish on his end. including him deciding that he should ask ganondorf out on a date while bellum desperately tries to keep him focused on the job at hand

[opaquewhitetights]

I’m going to transition at some point to deleting the tumblr app off my phone and only using it on my laptop for an hour or so everyday which is healthier in my mind. That’s part of my 5 year plan.

[spideyhexx]

just reflecting on the fact I wrote over 3k of bounty hunter reader and Billy when it wasn’t supposed to be that