#Like the story potential is actually great. But i just dont see that happening in the comics cuz of the sheer scale of it)

[krisseratops]

Why do they always do my boy dirty

HE'S BAAAAAAACK!!!!!!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

🤍🖤🤍

[nekropsii]

I'm sorry to bother with my ask, but you are the most trustworthy mituna/ alpha trolls writer and I need to hear your thoughts.

How do you think mituna Pre-game life has been based on his classpect? Heirs usually have a certain privilege over the aspect they inherit, they dont have to work hard like a page to get it, however they either dont know what to do with it or the aspect get to take control of the heir. Do you think Tuna got to live a more comfortable life for beforus standards? How would the doom manifest in him? John became wind, equius became irrelevant, pehaps mituna great act of heroism was doom taking control of him instead of him learning how to take control of doom.

We actually can infer quite a bit about this. He was Cassandra. The logical conclusion is to keep adapting the Cassandra myth, and to assume his Doom is being Cassandra.

Mituna was an incredibly powerful psionic and basically an oracle. In the game, he knew whenever something bad was going to happen, and tried desperately to tell people. They never listened. I wouldn’t say his story follows 1:1 with that of Cassandra’s, where his Doom Vision was granted to him by an Apollo figure… But it’s pretty damn close, and I’d have to assume part of why they never listened was because he still got Apollo’s subsequent curse - to see the future, but never be believed. Considering this is a destruction of others’s belief, and the curse came as a punishment for Cassandra telling Apollo she doesn’t want to date or have sex with him… We already know who the Alpha Trolls’s Apollo figure is. It’s Cronus, Bard of Hope. Destroyer of Beliefs, and Known Sex Criminal. Due to the severity of the abuse he inflicts upon Mituna on screen - the violent bigotry and insults, the blatant disregard for his clear, desperate, repeated exclamations of his lack of consent, the molestation - we must also assume he fulfills the role of Ajax the Lesser as well.

Following this train of thought is the idea that people would actually readily listen to Mituna’s advice on Beforus. If he told someone to cut shit out, they’d listen to him. He likely didn’t have all that much mysticism surrounding him, considering he entered his SGRUB session at 13 years of age - it likely would’ve manifested in the same way Jade’s friends listen to her because she tends to be right about everything, inexplicably. They think it’s weird he can do that, but just shrug their shoulders, puzzle about it, or think he’s cooler for it.

Although he was an able-bodied male and carries an extremely useful ability, he was still a Goldblood, so his life was not privileged. He was pretty high on the Culling block, with him actually likely being specifically sought after due to his unique ability. Perhaps he evaded this through means of reclusion.

Getting culled might, theoretically, adopt you into the potential for wealth of a Highblood, but your autonomy is still getting stripped away from you quite violently. You are a trophy. You show wealth and status. You’re a novelty toy. You’re shown off like a cool knickknack, as if you’re not a person with a life and feelings. Everything is decided for you - what you wear, where you can go, what symptoms you’re allowed to have and express, what you eat, etc. - your control of your own life harshly limited to the whims of the Highblood. You are a foster child in middle class white suburbia, and your life is hell.

So, his life before the game was theoretically not as bad as it was in and after the game. He had yet to meet his combination of Apollo and Ajax the Lesser. He had yet to sacrifice himself for people who he called friends, yet who discarded him the second he stopped being what they wanted. He had yet to get locked with these people for eternity, still never listened to. But it still sucked. He’s an Heir of Doom, and a Lowblood on Beforus. It all still sucked.

[mikeywaysbass]

i feel like as a fandom we pay too much attention to the death eaters because they are "tragic". in canon, they really arent.

regulus was a rich white boy who had blood purist views and became a death eater ON HIS OWN. his parents were not death eaters, nor did they force him. he realized voldemort wasnt as great as he thought when voldemort hurt kreacher (they have a really interesting dynamic that should be explored more) then he went to destroy the horcrux and died. thats it.

barty wasnt much different, he was a rich white boy with blood purist views, he joined the death eaters ON HIS OWN without force from his dad, WHO WAS VERY AGAINST DEATH EATERS! he supported voldemort, got put in jail, broke out, and kept supporting voldemort. thats it. the saddest part of his entire story is his relationship with his mom, WHICH ISINT EVEN EXPLORED MUCH BTW!

we dont know much about evan in canon so for all we know he could have a tragic backstory. he probably did not though.

give them the most tragic sad backstory you want in aus, thats totally fine and i eat it up everytime. in canon, they simply are just bad people.

WE SHOULD FOCUS ON CHARACTERS WHO ACTUALLY ARE TRAGIC AND SAD AND COOL!

like mary, SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE TO LIVE! thats so good and has so much potential other then her erasing her memory! why cant we see her living with possible survivors guilt in more fics? as a character mary is very underused.

theres also marlene, whos whole family was killed by death eaters. why dont we talk about this more often?

then theres dorcas who was so powerful VOLDEMORT HIMSELF had to kill her. shes a fucking badass and most of the time her character is tied to marlene leaving her AND marlene very underused.

then we have peter, something bad had to have happened to make him betray his friends. his BEST friends that hes known his entire life.

we also have pandora!!! she survived the entire war, losing her (possible) brother because of him not only becoming a death eater but also dying. she had a kid, then died right in front of that kid.

THIS IS NOT EVAN BARTY OR REGULUS HATE BTW

[desparatenyan]

OKAY SO. i have so many questions and you dont need to answer all of them dw. uh if there's anything that could be answered by watcher campaign,,,,, i havent. played it yet. i OWN it i just.. busy. anyways please keep that under a break if you do mention it with a warning. ty <3 some of these have an addition of a suggestion for what i think they COULD be -locus? felix? siris? they give purpose-built slugcats but i wonder WHAT they'd be built for... -for that matter what's up with chorus? WAIT i have a suggestion. maybe chorus is a scavenger colony that is messing something up with an iterator- like the one that artificer is asked to wipe out- and felix and locus are purpose built to eliminate them, but they've taken an odd route of making them fight eachother. also, this might suggest they aren't slugcats and instead scavengers but that's up to interpretation this also suggests that while travelling there siris had a whirlwind romance and suddenly dipped to have children. lmfao. -is lopez still a robot? did sarge put together a bunch of random pieces of tech and manage to put together an intelligent robot.. that ONLY speaks a regional slugcat language none of them can speak? -is grif still half simmons and simmons part metal -is sarge a hyper-intelligent slugcat- possibly trained?- that can repair and put together machinery?

First of all, - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS!! <:3 They made me reconsider a few ideas i've had before, and that's great

Second of all, about the Watcher

There are a few things from the Watcher dlc that i've considered for this au, HOWEVER!! I will not be including them here!! Plus, i still need to finish this dlc myself to see if those things actually fit as well as i hoped they would ":

Here all of the things are from the base game and Downpour! 

This is going to be a long one!! 

About Chours

YESSSSS! SCAVENGERS!! :D

 Characters from Chorus are indeed scavengers in this au, howewer instead of being an ancient city on top of an iterator, i was thinking about it being a territory similar to Outer Expanse - a land far enough from the iterators to not be affected by them, but with a large supply of potential resources that an iterator might need to prolong their existence (like water or something). The attempts to claim those resurses howewer might lead to the destruction of the region, which in turn will lead the creatures from it to intrude on the regions nearby, which might have negative consequences for the creatures there. Including iterators and their superstructures. But if there were no creatures and if they just kinda killed each other so no iterator would bat an eye that something weird is going on..) 

And thaaats where Felix and Locus come in! However, before your question i was thinking about making them other creatures. Locus in particular i wanted to make... A KING VULTURE >:D

(in season 15 he would have to carry Grif himself lol) 

But making them slugcats or scavs makes way more sense, at least for Felix, so i will try to work in this direction with them! Once again - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUGESTIONS ABOUT THEM!! They are awesome!! :D

And about Siris... IM SO SO SORRY BUT I DIDNT HAVE ANY IDEAS ABOUT HIM BEFORE THAT :") Your suggestion however is fun)

Going back to Chorus itself, i wanted to keep it a place that can and will exist without an iterator around and also to keep its story fairly close to how it is in the series, so i hope it makes sense ":) 

About Simmons and Grif

Yup, that still happens :>

Just for fun, here is an old unfinished thing that kinda showes off the designs i came up with for them initially (IM WORKING ON MAKING BETTER ONES I PROMISE) 

About Lopez. Yup, that pretty much the case :}

The parts used for him aren't exactly random; a lot of them are from destroyed overseers or even inspectors, so thats kinda where the intelligence comes from... For now this is the explanation im going with ":

I did consider him speaking the language of the Ancients, instead of the slugcat's, as an explanation, but im not sure. So im opened to suggestions! :D

About Sarge. Yes, EXACTLY >:)

How did he learn those skills howewer is suposed to remain a mistery, just like his name before "Sarge", because in my head its funnier that way :> The posibilaty of him being traind howewer is very well on the table!

Once again THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR QUESTIONS!! And sorry if my answears where disapointing ":

[lyss-sketchbox]

My thoughts on Inazuma vs Natlan so far. Is that Inazuma dropped the ball. There's no questioning that. It was rushed and the resolution lacked weight, and it almost definitely needed a lot more space to breathe and probably would've benefited from the 5 act structure instead of speedrunning with 3 acts (such as needing actual time spent with the Watatsumi Resistance rather than spending like 30 minutes tops).

HOWEVER. I feel like the initial Act I-II of Inazuma did a great job established the STAKES. It showed us the very real damage being caused by the various unjust decrees and why people are fighting. Natlan I kinda felt like did a lot of telling instead of showing, and any potential stakes feel kinda... Unserious? Because no one's really seriously hurt and even if they're saying Natlan will explode soon, I'm not really feeling like it's as dire as they're trying to sell it.

BUT IVE BEEN INFORMED YOU CAN DO NATLAN OUT OF ORDER??? Like you could in theory do Natlan BEFORE Inazuma thru Fontaine (with the quick-start function) which is why Natlan is more 'self-contained' which is absolutely insane to me?? Like HELLO???

Overall, I feel like the concepts and plot presented in Natlan is fine. But they didn't do a good enough job of selling to me these things. Like the whole child soldiers stuff kjadf like we actually dwelled on it for longer than a millisecond, we'd probably realize that's super fucked up!! But instead we gloss over it, making the whole quest seem fairly light-hearted despite everything.

Rubs my hands together ok anon lets talk cuz yeah i have thoughts

About inazuma

I definitely agree with you that Act 1-2 (especially 1) of inazuma did well setting up and showing how much negative impact the shogun's rule has impacted the people:

Vision holders literally losing a chunk of themselves (or worst, their lives) from their vision being confiscated.

Non-vision holders risking their lives for helping said vision holders (the resistance)

International traders being stuck in the nation, repressed by local government, and scammed by local traders just to keep business alive.

Local government bloating the price of everything!!! (And being able to get discounts only if you have connections)

Corruption even in the highest positions (gestures at the Kujou clan)

Fatui meddling that lead to the deaths of many for profit

The shogun literally programmed her robot to be that heartless because she herself dont give a shit about any of these issues. As long as her eternity stays.

Fr after venti and zhongli, getting an archon that acts as a proper ruler of a nation AND an antagonist sounds COOL AS FUCK. The booba sword scene while yeah, boobs wooo, also was a wonderful show of her authority over her nation.

After that they tripped and fell in Watatsumi. While i appreciate the environmental story telling of Watatsumi's and Shogunate's bases during the war, we barely get enough time to do... ANYTHING of substance. If i remember correctly, we became team captain, then do a bunch of training and defeating vagrants (on our own because friendly npc fighters didnt exist yet) and thats it. Where is the plotting? Wheres the planning? It was all just an anime training montage we barely get to see or feel. I genuinely feel like we couldve just replaced the entire Watatsumi arc with 'the fatui is selling delusions to people with confiscated visions to help them cope with the lost so traveller go to the delusion factory' and NOTHING wouldve changed. Hell it wouldve made ALOT more sense why yae came to save us at the end if the whole thing happened in Narukami.

Also after all that SHOWING they did alot more TELLING about wooo how smart kokomi is she is so smart and cool and the savior of the resistance. Like girl the fatui had their grip on your soldiers to the point they almost didnt want to surrender their delusions what are you on about. While you can argue she was only a priestess before the war and had no war intellegence skills, the people prop her up as such, kujou sara took her seriously. So she has to have some merit. Well im not seeing any (fight me on this i dont fully remember what happens in watatsumi)

Also at the end we fight the literal dictator of the nation with the power of friendship then everyone and i mean EVERYONE forgave said dictator...... cool. They would definitely benefit from an extra act so that watatsumi adds to the idea that this civil war and the shoguns current decree is causing damage.

About AR

The thing is that the requirements for you to start Natlan AQ is to be AR 28 and finish Liyue AQ (which requires AR 29 for the entire thing). While starting Inazuma requires AR 30, Sumeru needs AR 35, and Fontaine needs AR 40 (highest AR requirement by far).

Id argue that each nation is supposed to be a self-contained story. Even so, based on AR requirements theyve been chronologically in order because you NEED to complete the previous AQ to start the next. EXCEPT for Natlan.

While this is obviously to be more open to new and returning players, it really.... decreases the stakes, like you would assume the more we progress the tougher challenges we will have to face. But Natlan? Nawww you can go to Natlan without fighting the dictator 👍

About Natlan

I AM ADDRESSING THE CHILD SOLDIER THING FIRST BECAUSE YES. THEY DEFINITELY DID ALOT MORE TELLING THAN SHOWING HOW THIS CHILD APPARENTLY CAN BE SENT TO WAR WITH A REAL CHANCE OF DYING!!!!! I talked about this before because they ironically did alot more showing how child like Kachina is which adds more to the FUCKING CHILD SOLDIER THING.

HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE OKAY WITH THIS??? Oh its our nations culture, its just the culture shock, OKAY YEAH BUT THE TRAVELLER AND PAIMON ARENT NATLAN NATIVES AND THEY DONT FEEL ANYTHING ABOUT THIS????? Wow yey cheer for the child to go to war! BRO SHE DIED AND WE WENT JACOOZIING WHILE WE WAIT FOR HER TO RETURN FROM WAR...............

ITS VERY OBVIOUS INFANTILIZATION BECAUSE IANSAN DIDNT FUCKING GET THE SAME TREATMENT. You know, the other small girl character there, nah she went to war just like Kachina, lived, and stood by the Archon and WAS READY TO THROW HANDS WITH A HARBINGER IF THE ARCHON DIDNT FUCKING FIGHT HIM HERSELF.

Everything just feels so.... chill? So relaxed with no stakes at all. I mean yeah the Abyss is creeping into the nation's roots but instead of sending armies we make it a tournament. Yeah people die in these excursions but we can revive them so we can ignore the horrors of experiencing death. Yeah the flames are dying so the archon has to give up some of her power to keep it lit but its okay! The harbinger is a gentleman that wont take this opportunity to do some scheming. We need the power of the chosen one of each tribes to save natlan but hey cant rush it! We got a year after all teehee.

Man. Head in hands. What the fuck.

Not even gonna go into the whole the archon is human but mavuika is the one that got reincarnated to retake the role just in time to solve a national crisis thing. Because i dont even know if THAT is accurate.

If they somehow trip and fall worse than inazuma id actually be amazed because the bar is very very low.

[licoryce]

you got any black sapphire ships in mind?

was this ask inspired by my pfp?? ehehe :3

but yea i do actually!! ive seen some shadowsapphire posts (shadow milk x black sapphire) + i think they could be interesting. cant imagine any reciprocal romance for them pre BY ep8 ending, but after it i can see something happening there. nothing healthy, because... makes a biggg gesture to smilk and pv's break up seperation. i wont yap about that rn bc i just woke up and dont trust myself with words lol. anyway i am soo unashamed in saying im a sucker for master/servant dynamics + his kingdom interaction with smilk.. him being able to tell what smilk thinks/feels (if u ignore how smilk feels ab that bc of his whole belief that no one could ever understand him except pv while.. also pushing pv away.. hes a conflicted little thing, hm?) bc hes been in service to him for so long, is actually kinda sweet. and the performer duo potential with them is also great. (neeedddd to see a comic/fic where smilk performs and sapphire narrates in the most homoerotic way.. continuously pausing in narrating whatever story smilk is performing to mention how great smilk is/looks.. i need them to be as dramatic as they are in my head)

ive also seen people put him with affogato (which im assuming is because they are both purple + have staffs + lie and thus that means they should kiss lol) which im not as interested by because it seems like they would be too.. idk if conflicting is the right word but its the one im thinking of. affogato would want to be in control of sapphire, even if only in his fucked up little head, and sapphire is very much already in service to smilk. net zero power play exchange. they look amazing together aesthetically but idk.. maybe i need a little convincing on those two bc im not really seeing it

ok last one then im gonna go make breakfast.. imso hungry

i haven't seen anyone else shipping these two but pure vanilla x black sapphire (specifically truthless recluse, but other versions would be cool too) is one i actually like!! ik there was a few but i wish we got more interactions between them in ep8.. even if black sapphire was only being considerate with pv bc of some order smilk gave him, he DID warn him about candy apple when he didnt have to, and all his animosity towards pv only seemed to come from him breaking rules that he'd been taught to punish others for while serving smilk. it wasnt anything personal to pv (unlike golden cheese and nutmegs beef lol) like if anything he seemed curious about pv n that interests me. (and.. their staffs.. more staff x staff potential chat. i demand art of truthless recluse n black sapphires staffs making out nJOW)

i wouldnt say i rlly ship him with anyone rn, it actually takes me a while to rlly get 'into' a ship lmao, but yea these three at least sort of stir something around in my lil peabrain

[tenaciouschronicler]

May 6 and 11-14 2025 2010

Hello, I have returned from self imposed exile. Ive been feeling off the last week or so because of the whole losing a job thing. Only just now actually reading the updates again and its gonna take me a minute to get back in the rhythm so apologies if it doesnt flow well.

Updates

We return to the kids and find Rose getting her own chance to make a whole buncha cool stuff. Now that John has expanded the possibilities we get to see the other kids really let loose their creativity. I wanna deep dive this a little at the end.

Jade serves as a transition as she builds Daves apartment to the first gate. She works really well in this regard probably due to how prominent her connection to Earth and Skaia is. I dont know if its just me but I feel like Jade is a central waystation for the story with how much interconnectedness she has to the past, present, future, game, ect. For the panels themselves, I like that they arent a 1:1 parallel. There are similarities but the differences are what are interesting. The frog ruins to Johns tower. The frogs to the people of prospit. Just the overall prominence and importance placed on these illegal frogs.

Dave takes his own crack at alchemizing things, some pretty useful and others very questionable. We also get our first instances of zero and negative grist costs, unsurprisingly SBAHJ related because none of that looks in anyway helpful. Almost potentially having debuff properties. And those questionable things? So out there even the enemies are second guessing if they wanna mess with Dave.

But of course the most important bit has to Roses journals. The first, simply MEOW, contains pages of nothing but a string of code utilizing those four letters. The other a dense snippet of self made wizard fiction. In my understanding four wizards are investigating the scene of a massacre that has all the marks of being caused by their twelve disciples. A shocking as can be to wizend wizards betrayal that will lead to war. The only notable thing that jumps out is the continuation of four and twelve when it comes to character groups. Other than that, its a great exploration into more of Roses writing style in a prose piece. Lots of long sentences with very specific, almost pretentious, choices of words with small bits of sarcastic narration for humor. I will say, while a pain to read, I wont hate on Rose for picking the words she does for the story. I myself sometimes have to go look up synonyms for words because whatever Im trying to explain has a very specific feeling that wont make sense without that word. And I know the word, its just not common to say or else Id remember it faster.

Dave decides hes gonna analyze it later and sticks his Beta copies in as a bookmark.

Finally a use for that pointless juice stained beta that will never serve any purpose, past or future.

I dont know if Id tempt Apollo like that Dave, you do have a track record for dramatic irony. And now Im curious of this journals journey for only the Betas to be in the giant lily time capsule. Where does the wizard fiction end up? Dave checks in on Rose and finds her destroying the MEOW journal because Gods in the Furthest Ring told her to... yeah Im not touching that with a 10 foot pole because what? First WQ now mysterious Gods, Rose, sweetie, Im very concerned with how easily you just accept this information. Not only that Im very unsure about the whole burning the journal thing. While yes youve got a copy in the subconcious, why are these gods so interested in what happens to the journal? In any case, seriously uncool move of Dave to heap the whole blame of how he learned about the wizard fiction on John. Like I get that Rose doesnt buy it and doesnt really care, but theres better ways to lie about it. Does bro code mean nothing to you Dave?

Alchemizing

Back to Rose and Dave getting their creative on. Its interesting seeing how each kid goes about using the alchemizer. You can argue that John was only experimenting the way he did to show us how the machine works. Thats valid but honestly its an extension of how hes played this game so far. John is very much someone who doesnt really have his own goals. He does have some but aside from getting the game and finding Dad, hes not very self motivated. The way he alchemizes of the three seems to me to be the most random, trying something and only delving further if it piques his interest enough. John is very straight forward and most of his stuff is a very one and done this plus that formula.

Daves combos seem random but hes way more open to exploring different ones. Of the three kids hes created the most, by my count 19 items while John and Rose are 16 and 10 respectively, and a majority of the time hes using one item at least twice with something else. Dave wants to see the differences that come from a limited set of items. Many times hes using an item in different combos to see what the properites affect, like the Hella Jeff drawing. It doesnt lend to anything useful but he still uses it three different times instead of discounting it. He also builds upon the things he creates using new items much more than the other two.

Rose, like John, doesnt do much experimenting, using most items once. The difference between them is Rose seems to be more about efficiency. Theres not alot of creative pursuits. Rose seems to struggle the most creatively when it comes to new things. This is also shown when she was building Johns home up to the gate. Granted she was working with limited resources at the time, but its still a very bare bones path for John to get from A to B. Its only once she has time to fully look back at her work after John is through that she reworks it. Rose has goals and once she reaches them either thats the end and theres no more reason to continue or the goal post is moved and she needs better foundation for the new ones.

I feel like Jade will be the most creative in her combinations but might not dwell on experimentation. She seems like someone who already would have ideas on what two items would make and do so to prove them right. I can see her as not experimenting as much as Dave with different combos of a single item but more being someone who builds upon the new things she creates.

If there was a skill map of combos, I would see it like this. John has started the most and gone no further. Rose has started the least and seen no reason to go further. Dave has picked a few to explore entirely and connectes them to others. Jade would pick one and follow it as far she could before going back and starting another. For now Jades is speculation and Im excited to see what she makes.

[thepumpkincorsair]

So, I watched the first episode of “Those About To Die” on Peacock.

I enjoyed it, and Im willing to do write ups if folks would be interested…

Since I wana talk about details, and I dont wana spread spoilers, everything is below the readmore.

What I liked: 🔵 And what I disliked: 🟠

Total Ranking: 8/10 - very good, worth the watch 👍

🟠 It dove into the Intrigue right away, which made it hard to watch while doing other things, but I can appreciate a show that grabs you by the shoulders and shoves you down into the couch to pay attention.

🔵 It wasn’t boring, quite the contrary, I felt fully engaged throughout the episode. Theres a lot of small moving parts to the story, and it orchestrates together incredibly well so far, even for Episode One. The writing is very well done, which is a lynchpin for me on a show like this. You cant pretend to be an intrigue type series without a proper plot. And, in my opinion, they’ve set their plots well right away. Tenax getting those shares in Blue was a great con, which had clearly been going a while, but we only saw the tail end of it. I see this little setup as a great look at how the writers DO their work. Connections matter, money does more than talk, and if you play the game wrong, you die. Don’t trust anyone.

🔵 I REALLY enjoyed the historical aspects of the first episode. Like, yes, this plot happened, its a historical fiction and a number of these characters exist in history, but its not just that. Its the small details, the different knives in different cultures, the veterinary care of race horses, the deities from more than just the main roman pantheon, the drinkware, the VARIOUS clothes from various cultures and climates…. And yes, women often went topless when they were a sxwrkr. Gotta advert.

🔵 ON THAT SUBJECT: can we talk about “3 sesterce… and Im tighter than both of them.” MY BOY, YOU ARE RIZZIN TOO HARD AND I LOST IT. Please, please let him be in future episodes. Omfg….

🟠 I am forced to concede the accuracy isnt PERFECT, the horses wore modern driving bridles to go with their ancient styled chariots. However, Im realistic about how many horses are trained today to pull anything without blinders, and how much safer modern bridles are. I’ll also note: I absolutely saw the animal handler grab the horse differently (calmly) before the riot surrounded it, then direct the horse to dance in the crowd. Great training with the horse! Bad camera angle. Lol

🔵 I also really like this cast so far. Everyone fills their roles incredibly well.

Hopkins doesnt even need an introduction, the mans a legend and brings all his experience to the stage with him every time. -chefs kiss-

Rheon was great in GOT, he plays calculatingly unhinged exceptionally well. But I wont lie, seeing him in a more commanding, level headedly calculating person?

Hashim….. HASHIM!!! Im SO excited to see where his character goes. We haven’t seen much of him in Ep 1 just yet, but he’s clearly going to be one of the main players. Im not familiar with him as an actor, but I’ve enjoyed his performance so far, and I REALLY appreciate the story being told.

Martins is also incredible. She does a fantastic job of knowing the danger her characters children are facing, but also knowing she HAS to play her cards right to save them. She personifies the strength and determination of a mother perfectly.

🔵 Quite honestly, I have to give points to that whole plot-line in general. That point of view is something we’ve had hidden from us (in America) for so long, that I think a LOT of people have… become calloused. I hope seeing it will potentially help others come to an empathetic understanding. This isn’t glossing over what happened, or whats likely to happen to any of the three children.

🔵 I also want to gush over actually SHOWING the wider Roman Empire, we get to see the direct effect of their influence in both Africa and Spain so far. Egypt was their bread basket, and without that grain, youve got problems. The Berber Coast has animals, and people they want, and we see money exchanging hands for the purpose of those ends. We see how the locals were told they’d be treated fairly, paid properly, and even eventually become citizens, like the Spaniards, only to have those promises thrown aside as soon as the Romans have better money to make. These people gave the Empire everything it wanted, but the Empire is never satisfied.

We also get to appreciate how far west the empire went when the Spaniards are trying to sell their horses. (Plot-bunny: Andies are dancing horses, exceptionally athletic, and a prime choice for chariots, though, a standardbred is the usual choice for modern cart racers)

🟠 I will say the CGI isnt the best. You can tell exactly when they change from live action to CGI. But this is a minor issue for me tbh. Its passable CGI, and they use it to avoid putting animals or people in danger which, obviously, I appreciate. A chariot wreck was shown, annnnnd it was pretty darn accurate to how messy those would have been. Not good times y’all. Not good times. Also, the ramifications of a major concussion. Oof. At least the guy would have barely knew what was happening? Still.

🔵 The sound effects were enough without being over the top. Often times when theres gore to show, theres all these extra squelching noises and gratuitous blood… not this time. It’s actually… pretty durn accurate. Don’t ask how I know. I don’t wana tell you, and you dont wana know.

Overall, it was a really solid first episode, and I plan on watching the rest.

[a-girl-in-neverland]

Once again, im here to complain about the bridgerton subplots and changes

So spoiler for Season 3 ahead

I hated that they just cast Anthony and Kate aside. Do they really had to go RUNNING to India and couldnt wait for FRANCESCA'S WEDDING???? Hello??? Werent they the head of the family??

The intention with that is great and loving but is the showrunner allergic to having Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley in our screens for more than 3 minutes????

Like at that scene of the night before Polins wedding. Colin mentions that Kanthony has "come back"??? From where??? Did they run off again??

(Also i would really like to know who Edwina married and a bit of her love story)

The way in which the writers simply forgot about benedict's art/painting plot is atonishing. The build up of S1 to S2 was great, with the art school, but then in S3 is like that never happened?? Why didnt they explore more Benedict's lack of purpose or even his disappoinment with Anthony's actions?? Noooo, they just rather have him have sex with people all season long

(Before you come after me, im not critizing Benedicts sexuality, im just pissed that his character had barely nothing to do this season other than have sex, but i did enjoy a lot his scenes with eloise)

The Mondrichs plot was sooooo inconsequential and had nothing to do with any other one in the entire season. What was the point of keeping them?????

Somehow the writers in this show can make up irrelevant plots for lukewarm characters but cant come up with anything for the most beloved ones

And lastly about Michaela Stirling. So many people on twitter are fighting over this that is sickening. But lemme tell you this, all my life i had the pleasure (or better, the experience) to see many books i adore turn into movies/tv shows. Sometimes in adapting change is good, sometimes is necessary. But this change alters the whole story.

To be clear, i am NOT trying to be disrespectul, or homophobic or even mean about it. I dont mind the representation. In fact i think stories centered around LGBTQ+ leads, in this period of time, is a niche that could be much explored. Bridgerton could inspire people who belong in this community to write these stories, which is great.

However, the change of introducing Michaela completely transforms Francescas story. The second-love with the exploration of sexuality trope has great potential. But changing so greatly a story thats well known between the fans is risky to say at least.

Francescas book is not my favorite (by far actually) but it is for a lot of people, and a lot of readers have been enamoured with michael for the last 20 years, at least. So i understand if people get upset, because i would too if my favorite couple/story changed so much out of the blue

And honestly, i think this is one of the ways the show is trying to remain relevant. I AM NOT trying to say that TV should use LGBTQ+ love stories as clickbait. But be serious, the books were written as 8 straight love stories, in todays society people would be complaining if they followed if by the rule.

Anyway, Polin were wonderful. Nicola and Luke you are so so so loved, we couldnt have actors that loved their characters more

(And at this point i might be a Portia Featherington stan, she grew a lot on me)

If you read this far, i hope you have a great week and please dont come for my critics, they are not hate opinions, i just needed to rant <3

[its-no-biggie]

thinking about. yoohankim body swap......

mild novel spoilers ahead but no big story moments or anything just. brief mentions of skills they get later and such

okay so weve got 2 options here, right (well technically theres 6 ways to arrange 3 objects but. if we assume each of them swaps into someone else. theres 2). first one. kdj -> yjh, yjh -> hsy, hsy -> kdj. right off the bat - extremely funny. kdj in yjhs body having the time of his life (i am the protagonist!!), but also adjusts fairly quickly bc like. hes done this before. hsy in kdjs body is a menace. immediately rummaging through his pockets. everyone is unsettled by unreadable normalguy kdj making hsys evil little gremlin expressions. and yjh in hsys body is like. immediately getting bullied because his menacing aura does not work at all in hsys 5 foot frame. kdj-as-yjh is picking him up by the scruff of the neck and all he can do is glare murderously

second arrangement. kdj -> hsy, hsy -> yjh, yjh -> kdj. i think i like this one less but lets see. yjh as kdj is pretty good, i think yjh would be disgruntled no matter who he swaps bodies with but since the 2 of them are on such even footing in the narrative, i think actually spending time in kdjs weak pathetic body would make him lose some respect for him lmfao. like "what have you been doing all this time that your body is in such poor shape. pathetic." hsy as yjh is extremely salty about how op he is. muttering about cliches under her breath. definitely uses her new power to relentlessly bully kdj (omg wait that means hsys body is getting harassed by yjhs body in both scenarios..... what can i say. shes the perfect size to be bothered. the only reason she isnt bothered more in canon is because of her sharp teeth - i stand by this). kdj as hsy is. unremarkable i think. loudly complains about how much shorter he is now just to piss her off. finds an unholy amount of candy in her pockets and publicly shames her about it until she points yjhs sword at him and he shuts up real quick.

honestly i think both of these scenarios have great potential for physical comedy though. they all have such different mannerisms and such different appearances that reshuffling them is always gonna be striking. i need to draw it.....

okay lets talk logistics. do they keep all their skills or do the skills stay with the body? they probably keep them, although it might be more interesting to have like. physical skills like swordfighting and whatnot stay with the body. so if they get stuck like that for a while and end up fighting in each others bodies they kinda have to adapt to the bodies skills and fighting style. could be fun! hmmm that kinda leaves whoevers in kdjs body in the lurch though, since all his skills are mental..... and then kdj has a massive advantage, because surely the bookmark skill gets a boost if hes literally in the body of the person hes copying. so perhaps they keep all their skills - hsys avatar skill in yjhs protagonist body would be pretty op. and yjh has so many skills that he could make anything work - he might end up ripping kdjs body to shreds though lmfao. also im not sure if we get much of kdj using hsy as a bookmark in the novel? i actually dont remember an instance of it, although i can see him wanting to steal predictive plagiarism so it may have happened and i just forgot. but anyway kdj as hsy using bookmark + avatar, and then hsy as yjh also using avatar is an INSANE combo. two man army. and then theres kdjs body there like *struggling to hold up a sword* "i am yoo joonghyuk......" *passes out* LMAO sorry kdj i know youre not that pathetic its just so funny to imagine the protagonists sheer power literally destroying your fragile salaryman body from the inside out.

omg also. if the swap lasts more than a few minutes theyre DEFINITELY getting their weapons and coats back from their bodies. black coat hsy...... wait omg. okay i know kdjs coat is like a high grade magic item that changes size with him. not sure if yjhs is the same but allow me for a moment - yjh-as-hsy trying to look menacing (already failing) but his coat is way too big. its dragging on the floor. the sleeves cover his hands. 😭😭😭😭 its so ridiculous...... other notable combos - white coat hsy (head in hands). hsy-as-yjh gets yjhs coat stolen from her which means the protagonist physique is on full display - she makes a comment about how WoS should have made more use of this kind of fanservice and now she and kdj are arguing. black coat kdj..... i am yoo joonghyuk......

okay i think thats all i got for now. i hope its in character because i really havent read orv in a while..... anyway i think this has a lot of potential so i wanna try drawing it - maybe ill have more thoughts on specific character interactions once i can like,, put personalities to faces lmao

[thequietkid-moonie]

There for his friend, from start to end

[ ONE-SHOT ] [ Ozzy ]

[ Little goody two shoes ]

× Comissioned by an annon

Anon! I loved your idea so much that i ended up writing a reaaaally long story! I hope you dont mind because i ABSOLUTELY LOVED WRITING THIS!!! AAAAAAAHHH I LOVE WRITING ANGSTTTTTT

Thanks for requesting this anon!! i hope you enjoy it as much as i enjoyed writing it 🖤🖤

Normally people who go to the forest during witching hours are actual witches or those who are seaking to met the creatures that hide in the shadows, he never expected to met a human so small and young that smiled so excitedly and innocently to everything here. He knew from the start that you had a great potential, after all not only being able to see the creatures around here but also being able to be in the witching hours without actually being in danger it wasn't just nothing, he knew that if you wanted you would be able to be great at magic once you grew up, and thats why he decided to approach you

He started by casual approaches, quickly growing to be your friend just out of curiousity but you were so innocent and full of wonder for the magic that he couldn't help himself but indulge your young mind, sticking to your side whenever you entered the forest and spending the time you sneaked out of your house to see the spirits and magic creatures that come around during night with you

It didn't took much time before he took a liking to you, you were so cute and funny that he couldn't help himself but wait eagerly to spend more time with you, you were a really good friend for him!

One night Ozzy told you about what he does, about how he is someone who grant wishes for a price (keeping the grotesque details in the shadows for now) and he even joked that he could make you wish come true if you wanted, after all you two were friends. He already expected for you to accept, this is how humans are after all he repeated to himself, it isn't like he actually intended to make your wich come true after all, but when you said that your wish was to be friends with him forever Ozzy was left speechless, he didn't expect that you would wish something so innocent and yet any other wish would feel unlike you, after a moment of hesitation he accepted to make your wish come true, only asking in return that you never forget that you promised that you'll be his friend

As you grew up you two spend less and less time together, after all if you kept telling stories about "your friend in the forest" people will stop taking it as a child's fairytail and would just put you in the risk of being acused as some kind of witch, he understand and he accept it (still, that doesn't meant he didn't paid you visits from time to time), besides, he still had work to do

The moment he noticed you were lingering around the certain someone he was intending to offer a deal Ozzy couldn't help but feel useasy, he couldn't just not do his work but he didn't wanted to take the risk of something happening to you, at the end and still a bit hesitant he decided to pay you a visit right before leaving the invitation of the deal, talking about how things were with you like any other time before slowly bringing up the topic, saying that this friend of yours give him a bad feeling, he wouldn't tell you how to live your life but he didn't wanted anything bad happening to his dear friend

Of course you were happy that he was worried and you reasured him that nothing would happen! You would be careful, you even thanked him for the advice, so feeling just slighly more reasured Ozzy continued with his work and left the package with the red shining shoes for his next prey

After the gift was accepted Ozzy spend the rest of the time busy, keeping in track this human, following him in the shadows and making sure everything was going alright, spending time getting ready for their arrival while leaving the rest to Muriel and Aziel, he didn't have time to pay you a visit when he was so busy, he wasn't able to notice how despite his warning you couldn't help but get even closer to your friend when they told you about how he was offered to be granted a wish in exchange of a price, you couldn't help but feel somewhat excited and even support your friend, after all you were sure they have probably had met Ozzy

Ozzy was your dear friend, you have know him all your life, he told you about his role, about how he grant wishes, for you he was your dear childhood friend, you never got to knew what an actual deal with him implayed, what it had to be done nor what the real price for the wishes were, you lived in the blissful ignorance of what Ozzy really was

You didn't thought anything bad when your friend told you that they wanted to show you something, if something you were actually happy, in your eyes they have brought you to the most beautiful side of the forest you have always loved, you didn't saw their concern nor confusion when you talked about the beautiful flowers around, not until the beautiful ilusion was broken, after placing the offerings and finished the ritual, until you two were dragged away

The moment you were able to see anything again it was because you were dragged by Muriel and Aziel to the stage, first noticing the desperate expression on your friend before noticing Ozzy himself, and when he finally turned around and noticed who was the good company of this person it took all the willpower he could gather to don't react more than the initial shock, staring at you only until he was able to force himself to react, to look back at the idiot who dared to use you as their good company

It was tortuous to heard you ask for help, no matter if you were asking him or your friend it still hurt him more than anything have done before, but he used that same feelings to mock the person who brought you, ordering Muriel and Aziel to do the rest of the job, not being able to do it himself, not even being able to even look at you as it was happening; while you were suffering at the hands of his servants Ozzy stared at the person in front of him, laughing as a maniac as loud as he could and kept provoking them, waiting and desperately hoping that they will try to stop him just so he could kill them right here, right now

Ozzy was unable to look back at you until the ritual was finished, even when you stood on the floor that was now painted in your own blood, glowing bright as a beautiful Golden Maiden, even when he still could heard your crying he was unable to look back, he doesn't even know what to tell you, where to start to explain or even what to do to apologize

Maybe this is his own karma, his price to pay because the wish you asked so many years ago has become his own wish, he really wanted to be your friend forever and if you become a Golden Maiden then you two will be able to be together forever

[ereyies]

i love your of mice and men oc. let me tell you i was scrolling thru the omam tag after reading that book for class because GOSH that ending destroyed me. bronwyn is so cute!!! and i love the ideas you have for her character and how she’d add onto the book. is there any more of your character that u thought of?? i’d love it hear it! ur art is stunning btw!!!

artists and writers are the backbone of dead fandoms. but i dont know if you could even call this fandom dead cuz i dont think it even had a life 💀

THANK YOU SO INCREDIBLY MUCH!!

this means the entire world to me you have no idea just how touched i am that you love my oc 💖 💖!! be VERY careful going through the of mice and men tag because unfortunately there are a LOT of nsfw bots!!

as for anything else relating to Bronwyn and her character, I don't have much else written/in mind other than that I have already shared other than maybe two things (copied and pasted from a document i made just to keep track of her lore):

Candy and Bronwyn probably wouldn't be close despite Candy having worked at the ranch for years. Not because of anything bad that happened between them, however I imagine that Candy was initially the main contributor to all the gossip said about her on the ranch and later on he learned she wasn't a bad person at all and just a lonely ill child, but by that point he had both immortalised her as a legend but condemned her from ever making real connections with people again. Knowing what he started and how he unintentionally isolated her and prevented her from being easily able to make friends with people on the ranch, the guilt would probably prevent him from forming any close connections with her.

I feel like if she were actually a character within the novel, her presence within the story would be similar to Andrey Bolkonsky in the musical Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (brilliant but strange musical btw, if you're interested in musicals it's definitely worth a listen!!). She is this looming presence amongst all the characters, always being mentioned in passing during conversation, this figure that everyone is aware of yet never sees, never actually being present in person up until the very end.

Candy would probably be the reader's introduction to Bronwyn, since Candy is a known gossiper. She'd be this influence in the story but is never truly there. I'm not too sure how she'd be important if that were the case though? Perhaps she'd be a figure symbolic of a 'point of no return' for all the characters. They all have a dream that isn't totally impossible which they come very close to achieving, and could very well leave their situation, but Bronwyn never had a chance and can never truly escape, locked up just to be forgotten about. Maybe she'd be a warning of the terrible fate which Lennie would have faced if he had lived and been institutionalised.

ANYWAYS moving past all of that; i have only made very few drawings of Bronwyn since my last post talking about her (admittedly due to extreme art block). But I’ve mostly been brainstorming about Curley and Bronwyn, the similarities and differences between them, mostly differences. Here is some of my recent art:

I always love experimenting and playing around with my style, trying out new brushes, techniques and colours <33 The last isn’t exactly my favourite mostly because i was just getting a feel for how to draw Curley and had little to no references for the pose and so it looks a little stiff. But!! I made many notes for my ideas while I was doing the sketch:

Thank you once more for your ask!! It means the world to me <33 I was so embarrassed when I first made her and feared being called ‘cringe’ or that people wouldn’t like her or something else along those lines, but the reception so far has been nothing but positive and encouraging!! I definitely plan to make more art and potentially even write some short fanfics including her in the future!!

oh one final thing, i also made a spotify playlist for her!! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0qrBhwqopc6KrC7RouFxOZ?si=GPudTv12S92QwBBXqxw0Bg&pi=khdpmOzjTfeQP

Thank you once more for being so kind <33 I hope you have the most wonderful day/evening/night!!

[hockeyisforthegays]

gotta know how you felt after reading kugisakis epilogue :D

ooooh ok well. im pretty sure the things i have to say are overall more criticism than positivity just to warn you. let me start with some of the positive things which include: kugisaki is looking SOOOO cute. its a great outfit great hairstyle etc. i also like the idea behind her motivation for seeking out her mother, that she's doing it out of respect for gojo's last stated wishes to her, even though she has no personal interest in this herself? that has something intriguing within it. however. it also dovetails into my criticisms bc

one. i wish we learned anything at all about why that would possibly be gojo's last wishes for nobara. we don't get enough in the epilogue to see if there's anything particularly important she could derive from seeing her mom, unless it's the vengeful pleasure of siccing her grandma on her? in which case, i would love to know that. that could be an interesting move for gojo to make, and one that could potentially make sense given his own implied shitty family. however you notice how i have to reach a bit to get there? because we dont even get the text of gojo's letter or anything afaik. as it is, the way it's written leaves me wondering why the hell gojo, who has already experience with a child who Does Not Care Or Want To Know about their deadbeat parent, would decide to provide This for another child who [insert repeated phrase here]

two. kugisaki caring about gojo's last wishes to such a point seems like a really cool character/relationship decision until i think about it for two seconds and go. well. it would have been cooler, more emotionally resonant, if the gojo and kugisaki dynamic had any canonical depth at all. in fact i am trying to think about Any and Every interaction they have in the canonical story and im coming up with 1. when kugisaki is introduced and 2. when she gets eyeballed and he's one of the people she sees in her chair dream sequence and UHHH. I THINK THAT MIGHT BE ALL GANG. obviously you can say implicitly they spent a lot of time together its just not shown, they're relationship would have developed. but uh. that's an entirely different than the time and importance given to something by the narrative which is supposed to. you know. give depth to the things it wants us to care about, so that we actually can develop a genuine investment in them without having to rely on our imaginations/non canon material/etc.

connecting to the third and most obvious critique which is. like gege already set up? characters that kugisaki cared about? saori and fumi? who i hoped we'd see any sort of closure on? instead we introduce in THE LAST CHAPTER the idea of a new character never before mentioned and kugisaki literally goes Well I Don't Care About That. and then we follow her to find out about that character anyway. why? what is Anyone getting out of that narratively? kugisaki doesn't care, not even the audience is given room to develop investment in that storyline. it just happens at the expense of a storyline that was at least given some amount of set up for the audience to invest in.

and im not even touching on the Tropes used to establish the mom herself's character. in a vacuum potentially this archetype could be done in an interesting valid way (could even be taken as a gender inversion of the sleazy deadbeat dad tropes that are generally more common in this genre) but uhhh given gege's track record with female characters. well it twigs some alarm bells lets just say

[zishu-arts]

1. What's ur fav avm ep? Or generally ava ep

2. What's ur fav short?

3. And favorite character? Why is that your favorite character?

4. Do u kin anyone? Why?

5. What are your thoughts on King Orange? Personally, I do love the character but I wanna see some controversy. He was forgiven too easily. Do you think that he's affected by immense guilt of his actions? Pls go in detail as much as you wish

6. What are your favorite (hc or not) relationships? Doesn't need to be romantic. Do you have thoughts on relationships between characters that haven't interacted? Or some hc on characters that did (example: I love the hc on Purple and Red hanging out so often that Red goes to visit Purple for advice on PRANKS out of all things)

If I think of something more, I'll send it through!!

1). i dont think i can pick a favorite since there's so many but i love rewatching Lush Caves, Ultimate Minecart Race, The Chef, The Ultimate Weapon (and honestly just the entire KO arc lmfao). For AVA its gotta be The Showdown it's just SOOO GOOD the animation, the concepts, the plot, ahhhh

2). hard once again, but Music Lesson is so goddamn funny

3). THE DARK LORD THE DARK LORD THE DARK LORD (red is my second favorite tho). okay so, honestly it's just the amount of potential and trauma i could give him. i love his character and lore like, the idea of the Mission Code. what does it mean that you've been created for the sole purpose to destroy, and what does it mean that the person you're made to destory become your best friend? like, the existance of that code brings up so much potential and you could literally take it in so many ways. and like, just the story of cho and dark being two people who were coded for a purpose and run away. what...happens to that purpose? what are you supposed to do now? it's very "what am i if not a weapon?" "yourself. isn't that a wonderful person to be?" (i also dont remember where this quote is from). and also, i look at this little bastard and i think ah yes, he is a goddamn maniac. absolutely insane. i can make him as unhinged as possible and i think that's amazing.

i also think it's great that it's so easy for me to just do whatever i want with him like he's some dress up doll. i've got a genderbent version of him. i've got him with ADHD. i've got him with autism. i've got him trans. he's depressd. he has anxiety. he's in love. there's no saving him.

i also like that like. he's dead. he might not be dead. who fucking knows? and he's such an interesting character, is he evil, is he nice, does he care, what does he like? i want to know everything about him and i want to squish him like a little ball

(i alos like that he's very easy to self project into)

4). hmmmm honestly? i only ever kinned like one character (yuki from horimiya) so im not too familiar with actually kinning. if i had to pick, probably red, mostly cause i see him as a hyper possibly ADHD guy who's always running head first into situations without a thought and think damn he's jus tlike me fr

5). KO/MANGO TALK LETS GO !! you're def right, he was forigven too soon, but i like to think or hope that they at least had a bit of bonding. okay well first off i want to start off with: i see a lot of content where we view mango as like around 20 years old which i want to immedately have on the table: what do you mean 20 years old. he's got a goddamn kid that seems to be maybe 8-10, he's got to be at least reaching 40 by the time we actually see him in AVM. and no, 40 is not too old, they can still do backflips and fight ppl (as long as mango maintained a healthy lifestyle with daily exercise, healthy diet, and good sleep).

i love the fact that he went evil because he lost his son, and that he got lost in his anger and started hurting everyone around him. although i do think his and purple's relationship could do with A LOTT of work. their trust was broken over and over again (mostly on purple's end) and im not sure mango particularily remembers how to treat a child well. and did mango ever like,,,yk,,,properly grieve for his son? for all we know, he went home the same day he lost gold, punched his wall a lot, then went straight to working on the staff. now that he doesn't have that drive anymore, i think that's all going to catch up to him. he really needs to properly grieve and mourn and recover before he goes about doing anything else.

he can, in fact however, be a good person/father as long as he's got that under the belt. (which you could def see that he was pretty swag when he still had gold). i personally see him as a raspy and gruff guy so he's also a man of very few words. that also means he probably has a buttload of communcation issues that is gonna affect his relationship with other people. he has got A LOT to work on

i also want to mention how i don't particulary enjoy the "overprotective father that trails their child everywhere". i don't think a lot of people view mano this way either, but i just want it on the table that even though mango would definitely be protective of purple, he won't be weird about it

6). ohhhh okay okay if you've read my fics you know i am in love with the "siblings victim & dark" as well as "siblings chosen and second". i feel like vic and dark are both insane and enable the worst, unhinged parts of each other. and then chosen and second are pretty much polar opposites with "doesn't say a word + yapper"

i also love it when CC treat red as like the youngest hyper sibling bc he really does give off that energy. also I AGREE WITH YOU purple and red together were so cute it was so unexpected but i love that

i also really really really want to see dark and purple interact with each other. mostly because they're probably the two most least likely characters to ever see each other. but i like the idea of dark terrorizing purple and it works because purple the whole time is like 'holy fuck this is that terrorist holy fuck shit oml'

i also want to see purple and mango interact with alan. im not sure if they ever did? but id like to imagine one day alan logs onto his computer and sees these two random sticks on his screen and is like who the fuck are you guys

(my guy desperately needs a VPN)

i ADORE blue + yellow. both in a platonic and romantic sense. they're like skater girl + nerd girl to me. they're so goddamn adorable and i'm very obsessed with seeing them. they hold hands. they're polar opposites. they're always together. they're the duo that if you just see one of them it seems wrong. if one of them is missing, you automatically ask the other one where they are, because they no doubt would know. gods they're so entwined with each other

thanks for the ask !!

[norman-ratri-truther]

svtfoe finale was absolutely MESSY as hell but like. so much of the criticism i see just feels wrong..

putting it under a cut bcz this post ended up being longer than i expected, spoilers obv / svtfoe critical stuff still even if i am defending it

like "star merged two worlds causing total chaos just so she could see her boyfriend of like 3 hours" is something ive seen and that just isnt. really how it happened??

like, no.. star didnt know the two worlds would merge, like ive seen a lot of criticism of her and the finale being "star merged the worlds" but put it as if she Knowingly merged them. She didn't.

Also I've seen the "boyfriend for like one day" comment used to explain why her actions were so rash but it completely overlooks the previous relationship they had??? like they were best friends for 2 years, they spent every single day together for months at a time. They just started dating, yeah, but using that as a reason to why she shouldn't have tried to stay with him is stupid because it makes it sound like she just met him.

also, if anything them just dating could make it make More sense depending on how you interpret it. She's been crushing on this guy for 2 years and the second they get together she has to never see him again? she has to be stuck on a world she JUST wanted to get away from for a bit? a world she wanted to stop needing to hold together, a world that is going to be even more in shambles now? with a mother who just betrayed her???? ofc shes gonna wanna go to earth

like yeah, destroying the magic was an incredibly irrational decision but sometimes it feels overblown, like blaming her for things that just were not in her control. Like I dont get why people make Star sound worse than she is because like, she did some pretty shitty things already??? why do you have to make up stuff to be mad at the character for bro theres enough that actually happened..

i wish this finale was better written, i do genuinely think it had the potential to be a great and solid story. especially the destroying the magic stuff!! i think if the show built up to the concept of the multiverse being better without magic then that could have been great! instead they have the toffee storyline which was incredible for seasons 1-2-the beginning of s3 and it just ... gets dropped?? like they barely brought him up in season 4?

i want this show to get a reboot someday where the writers actually consider the overarching story better, i really think theres some great stuff that could be done with the destroying the magic plotline if it was built up and executed better.

[filledwithfullmetal]

ok opinion!! fma 03 ending was not that bad and even good actually..

it was a gigantic deviation from the manga, but the whole 03 anime was already more of its own thing. the ending completely fits the vibe, and while it was a bit exposition-y and a lil silly i think that it is a great ending for that show nonetheless. im sad not more ppl know it, bc the angst potential is just wow!! especially for fics!!

sorry adding one more opinion: fma03 carried ed's personality (esp the more tropey parts) (tho fmab did work more on him), ed in fma03 just felt like a kid and slowly became more harrowed by the stuff that happened,, u could feel the unresolved trauma seeping off him in the ending which i like.

sorry for the long ask! im just a sucker for angst and esp for fma 03 <3

YOURE SO BASED!!!!

i admit its been quite a few years since ive seen the end of 03 but i think people who try to compare it to the manga/brotherhood are making a mistake when they do that. 03 and brotherhood are both good stories in their own right, and i think 03 did fantastic creating a storyline of their own

also you're so right about the character progression in 03! like in brotherhood, they only really focus on the more heavier plotlines, so they ended up cutting out a lot of lighter plotlines and side characters. i get why they did that for the sake of getting to the content 03 didnt cover but at the same time the lack of light-hearted plotlines in brotherhood made it so we dont get to see ed's character growth to quite the same extent