#MEA SPOILERS

[jack-of-ash]

Alec Ryder's entire damn life was a series of fucked-up events

So... are we gonna talk about how fucked up it was for Alec to freeze his dying wife without telling her or their children?

[ind1c0lite]

Here's my second zine piece for mea culpa, a bad ending for the forgotten turnabout!

[local-diavolo-anon]

so help wanted 2 is out

and i would die for jack-o-moon

look at them

they look so cool

i love the colors, they feel like a reference to how the fandom drew eclipse before Ruin! (which makes sense since jack-o-moon kinda looks like the bb minigame eclipse)

Edit: thinking about it, why is this guy's name jack o Moon?

Like this is Sun's model repainted, it doesn't have a nightcap, why would this guy be named "Moon" then?

Edit 2: please not again, please stop liking this

[kamiraaah]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY HUSBAND, LOVE OF MY LIFE, IS GONNA BE SSR?!?!?!?!? HUH!??!?!??

Spoilers TWST JP

[caramellody]

There is. Something to say about. How the 6 lf them. Probably were amicable coworkers at best maybe friends to some degree, suddenly thrown into a confusing chaotic world almost losing each other either because they've been shot or because the character youre inhabiting is trying to take over YOU that drives up their bond to one where not only do they realize how much they care, but that its a care so grand they are willing to die for it. It's a love so big thar it doesn't matter how much is at stake. They're truly more than just friends. At this point, they ARE familia

[splendidemendax]

honestly, i think the most fucked thing about that episode to me was harriet not being real. imagine thinking you (at least sort of) know the score and then finding out that one of the people you worked with on a day-to-day basis was less of a person and more of a elaborate joke made at your expense by an immortal being to whom your continued existence is offensive.

[niinnyu]

Bearing stripes and claws and fury.

The Tiger of West High is back beybey! Drew this with my non dominant hand?!? Ngl it's p good lol

Some other versions I liked too heh

[sword-swordswordsknife]

fish heads are yummy and the textures are different and good!!!

yeah thats it ASFASD

[meaeris]

the way we were robbed of the best romantic angst

[blindmagdalena]

I love Homelander so damn much that I'm jealous of this new character that apparently may be a love interest - the sparkler lady 😭 I'm so dumb lol But I just want him to stay single so I can self ship damnit She is super pretty tho and has a cool outfit but I want her over THERE so I can have Homie

aww darling, don't you fret! totally valid to have mixed or negative feelings. i don't think you're dumb. you're attached, and we already know that our brains don't efficiently differentiate between fictional and real crushes. if it makes you feel any better, i sincerely doubt any canonical love interest is going to go well for Homelander lol i hope there can at least be some excitement for the inevitable inspiration all us writers are gonna get from HL having a love interest again. i can't stomach any of the scenes with SF, so i'm really excited about the prospect of getting some food i can actually enjoy between him and Firecracker, however fucked up and weird it might be (fingers crossed for fucked up and weird in ways i specifically enjoy)

i agree with you in that i really like her design, and her accent is super cute. i'm practically vibrating at the thought of getting to see Homelander being a giddy boyfriend. i just know the whole fandom is gonna pop off when season 4 drops, and there will still be lots and LOTS of fic for the self shippers and x reader enjoyers 🖤

[thyredwarden]

[tonydaddingham]

Crowley's flaws: I think Gaiman accidentally wrote himself into a hole that he either doesn't see or doesn't know how to escape, and he fell into the hole when he decided to turn what was a political allegory into a psychologized relationship issue. Pratchett's understanding of evil is rooted in post-WWII thinking about totalitarianism, in which unthinkable acts are perpetrated by bureaucracies staffed by "normal" people, and resistance comes from individuals who become aware of what this routinization really conceals. This is consistent across the Discworld novels, not just GO. What GO does is take this point and filter it through C. S. Lewis' THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (the hell-as-bureaucracy model, which NG and TP then extend to Heaven). In the novel, there's a direct line from Crowley's "hung out with the wrong people" to the moment at the airfield when he tries to reject Aziraphale's claim that they're both responsible for the mess the humans are in because they were "only doing our jobs." That's a textbook example of what we now call the Nuremberg defense ("just following orders/just doing my job"). The fandom loves romanticizing this aspect of Crowley's character--he has trauma! he's a proto-Marxist with demonic class consciousness!--but when Crowley busts out this kind of reasoning, he gives way to /evil/, just as Aziraphale does when he tries to justify the ways of Heaven to himself. Any fan who wants to be uncomfortable ought to read Hannah Arendt's EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM and then go back and look at Crowley's dialogue again, because boy howdy. But when it comes to their relationship, the transgression is not /personal/.

In the series, the political allegory has vanished, and the direct line runs from Crowley's "it's not my fault" to manipulating Aziraphale into killing the Antichrist. So far, so good, sort of? Gaiman had to remind the fandom that we aren't supposed to buy Crowley's excuses, all of which are bad. He's called out on the "why me" bit three times in the first episode alone. But by the end, there is no sign that Aziraphale understands that he has been manipulated, and no sign that Crowley understands that he did something wrong! The moral epiphany Crowley had in the novel vanishes, so we are left with a nasty /personal/ transgression that neither character understands as such. Aziraphale, by contrast, keeps owning up to his mistakes (at the bar, to Adam during the timestop, on the park bench). Part of this has to do with comedy and its lack of object permanence, so to speak. However, instead of facing up to the conflict it's created for itself, the series drops the whole thing like a Hellfire-hot potato, and so appears to conclude that there's nothing wrong when one character repeatedly takes advantage of another one's gullibility, sometimes in destructive ways. The question is to what extent the new writer has any opinions about this, or even notices.

i have no words........ 👀 a very interesting and thought-provoking take. i dig it. i never thought to look at the tonal comparison of the book vs. the show but this is... eye-opening. yes. YES. (and this doesn't mean that the characters nor the story are unlikeable. it means they have depth but that depth sinks into murky, terrifying, bottomless oceans just as much as clear, shiny, crystal-like reefs). YES.

also anon if you are comfortable pls message me direct i just wanna give u a lil virtual kiss a lil smooch✨

[blackerthings]

me listening to this private investigator repeat what Zyair's ex said he liked to do to her tryna find the problem...

[lesenbyan]

i think the reason Cahcuia's story upsets me so much is that like.

Viera are a long lived species. they can live for thousands of years. there is no way she's old enough to have died from age in the barrier and they give us no plausible way or reason

telling Erenville before he's forced to discover it somewhere else is the only way to give him enough time to come to terms with it to give her the send off she wants from him

telling him earlier doesn't even have to change how Living Memory with them goes if you're dead set on it going this way but it would make Cahcuia feel much more like she actually cares about how Erenville fairs in all this and isn't just saying shit bc she'll be dead and gone

yeah our stated purpose was to kill Zoraal Ja but she knew Sphene's objective for sustaining Living Memory. not telling us about the Endless bc "it just didn't seem important" rings incredibly hollow when we're in LM for .3s before she's asking us to turn it all off which we need to know about the Endless for and she knows we've found the Golden City by then

I really hate when a character is referenced repeatedly throughout a narrative only for them to have been dead for years so everything the narrative made you excited for for meeting them are impossible.

as much as I love Wuk Lamat, I've known Erenville longer, I really wanted to get to learn more about him and I wanted to see him and his mom in happy peaceful times as well as during The Plot and I feel a little bit cheated.

like. if we at least knew when/how she died I'd be a lot more okay with her being dead. but there are 4 or 5 whole instances that would be perfect for telling him and she just doesn't. and not only that but forbade the rest of oblivion from telling him which makes it feel gaslighty/manipulative, and not concerned and caring.

[thesillydoll]

God, I know I'm a pagan, and therefore I talk to everyone, so make me happy. I will sacrifice a pork/chicken/beef for my lunch (?

[yesterdarling]

Ratings and warnings: T for non-graphic descriptions of death, major character death, poisoning. Takes place during Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations and contains major spoilers. Words: 3007

It was a familiar feeling, though, that had brought her to where she was now, that had driven her to pull those strings. It pulled her back into reality, gave her rage a place to settle as her pacing slowed and her breaths softened. Her gaze fell back on the subpoena, and as she smoothed it out over the desk, she made a decision. Phoenix was a string that was out of her grasp. Handing him the scissors, trusting he would cause his own demise, would do nothing. It was time for Dahlia to start cutting.

Fic release for @aabadendingzine - The full zine is out for free; please go check out all the other wonderful pieces, including the art created by my spot artist, @maxconcannon!

Thanks to my beta reader, @nightfae13