#True North: Deleted Scenes

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True North

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Deleted Scene I | Bucky's Letter To His Mother

As referenced in Chapter Twenty-One of True North

June 20th, 1943

Dear Mother, 

I hope you’re doing well and that things are mostly uneventful back home. I know the 29th is coming up and even though I’m not there, I’m thinking of you. Make sure you tell everyone hello for me, even Lowell. If he’s still in the picture... 

England is rainy. The weather is temperamental, and even though it’s one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen, you’d hate it. It’s a long walk just about everywhere, often in the rain and mud. I was able to acquire a pair of bicycles from one of the villagers for Buck and I. He’s not as excited about the bike as I am. Things are wonderful and terrible at the same time. Boys go up and they don’t come back, but we make the most of it. The pub down at the village is one of our favorite places, they let me sing from time to time and only boo occasionally. You’re probably wondering why I’m writing so late, since Dad’s anniversary will have passed by the time you get this. Better late than never, right? 

The truth is, I’ve been trying to write this letter for over a week now. I’ve started it dozens of times, I think, and canned each of the previous attempts. Each time I get to this part I either ramble or it just doesn’t make sense or I feel like a loon, so I’m going to keep it short: I met a girl. She occupies most of my thoughts now, and the boys give me a hard time. They think I don’t know about their on-going bets, but I do. I won’t spoil their fun. She’s a pilot for the Air Transport Auxiliary and she’s really something else, Mom. I’ve never met anyone like her. I don’t think there are enough words to describe her, so I won’t. But just know she’s it for me. I know we joked before I left about not falling in love with an English girl, but I can’t promise that I won’t come home with a wife from Texas. If she’ll have me, that is. 

Keep your chin up this week, I’m there with you in spirit. Pray we kick Hitler’s butt soon and we can come home. 

Love, your son, 

Johnnie

[nipuni]

Time for an old school blog post, Hello!

Just various updates about life and shows and clothes and some photos! Adding a read more cut because I talk too much 😊

Happy equinox everyone!! The mild weather has been wonderful for daily park walks. We have been taking our meals outside as often as we can to make the most of it before summer scorches the land and all life. The longer days allow for a lot more wandering too but the imminent return of the heat is also making the longing to move up north worse by the day. We miss the choppy ocean and seaside cliffs 😭 We love the silence and the rain and the nippy sea breeze!! it's like being suspended in early spring for half the year and a rainy autumn the other half, Ideal if you don't mind humidity, but that's what wellies and flat caps are for. We have been looking for properties to rent to show up everyday so for now we lie in wait.

Speaking of nature, a few months ago we discovered a free app called Plantnet that you use to take and upload photos of plants, trees, flowers and it will identify them for you. You keep a log with their locations and can share them too to help contribute to each local biodiversity database. It feels like a pokedex for plants. There are many apps like this one to choose from too. It's been so fun learning what all these plants are called and memorizing them! I recommend it, is like a little educational side quest to take on while stretching your legs and getting some fresh air. This is not an ad I promise lmao I just think it's neat! kind of sad feeling the need to clarify that.

This weather is also making me want to start making outfit posts again! It's been so long since I made any!! my winter wardrobe is mostly long wool coats or capes and boots so the inspiration wasn't there but now I'm ready to pull out all my stuff back from under my bed storage and experiment again 👏 I've also been meaning to share some of Nicolas outfits for ages too so there is more variety, could be fun!

Speaking of clothes, lately I've grown more and more frustrated with how poorly most clothes fit me to the point where I'm considering learning how to make them from scratch. I usually have to take in the tops and hem the bottoms but most things I try on are just built weird even if I fix the size, or maybe I'm built weird! I think it may be both. Nicolas also said he would love to learn along with me so we will probably embark on that adventure soon. OH and on a short tangent, I got myself a sort of binder-like top that flattens the chest a bit and I'm loving it! I'm very flat already but what little bust I do have has always bothered me when I dress and I've found I feel a lot more comfortable in this type of top. I'm glad I tried it out so if you feel similarly you may want to give it a go too, see how it feels!

On the media side of things we have also been watching more of David Tennant's work. We are still very much in love with him to an embarrassing degree, you can probably tell if you follow me anywhere, my likes on twitter alone give me away alksjdf and Nicolas isn't any better! if he used social media his would look the same lmao.

Since my last report we have watched and absolutely LOVED "There She Goes" we already want to watch it again honestly. The family dynamics for all his characters are always so real and refreshing!! Their relationship with their wives especially are always so believable in every series we've seen, the comfort and camaraderie, the banter and just friendship! You can tell they enjoy each other's company, it feels true. I love it so much!!

We also watched "Inside man" which was..a very stressful mess but David was incredible as always, also very hot and very pitiful which is always great, and Stanley Tucci was on it! so that's also fun.

Then we rewatched season one of Good Omens and the first 4 seasons of Doctor Who, with all the extra content like the Confidentials, deleted scenes, video diaries and more, they are just so good!! our list of favourite episodes keeps growing, season four is incredible, we are loving all these seasons even more the second time around!! Now we are probably going to start watching either Classic Who or Torchwood, along with more of David's work. We were trying to pick what to watch during dinner the other day and Nicolas was like 'damn, David is not in this though, I miss him' and lmao same so now we just watch one show without him and one with him right after to cope 😂

OH we have also been doing more historical reenactment! Since the last one in the 20's we jumped back to Regency times. We have been putting our outfits together for a ball soon and hopefully another one in autumn in the UK 😊 1800 is the farthest back in time we've been yet so it's been fun doing research, finding pieces and learning the dances in class but also very hectic. I'll share more about this soon!

Then we also have a couple of 1900 events coming soon, so I'll be sharing more Edwardian looks as well, our favourite era!!

Anyway I think that's all for now, thanks for reading to whoever is doing so!! I know this is long and not a popular blogging format anymore but I enjoy it a lot, maybe some of you do too 🥰 I will reply to some messages soon, I'm so sorry I'm so bad at keeping up with those!! I've read them all and cherish every word 🥺 Thank you for supporting my art and shenanigans as always!! I hope you have a great week!!

[sweetrululu]

Lost and without north (Helsa and Kristanna AU)

This story is based on the deleted scene from Frozen 2, where Nøkk, the water spirit, makes his appearance. Originally, this scene was meant to introduce the conflict in Kristoff’s relationship with Anna, but I’ve reimagined it to also explore a forbbiden romance between Elsa and Hans. I hope you enjoy it, and I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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The Enchanted Forest stood with an unsettling solemnity, its silence broken only by the crunch of dry leaves beneath his boots and the distant echo of the rumbling steps of the stone giants. With every step, the air seemed to thicken, as though the forest itself conspired to slow his progress. Hans’s cloak billowed behind him, but his upright posture and calm expression betrayed none of the storm of thoughts raging within. Finding Kristoff shouldn’t have been a particularly difficult task, but, true to form, the mountain-man had chosen the least opportune moment to separate from the group in a place as foreboding as this.

Time was pressing, but it wasn’t long before Hans found his target. By the edge of a silvery lake, where moonlight filtered softly through the trees, Kristoff stood with Sven, his loyal reindeer, and a young Northuldra, Ryder.

Kristoff, oblivious to the urgency of the moment, appeared engrossed in rehearsing a speech with clumsy determination, holding an unruly bouquet of wildflowers as if it were a treasure.

“Anna…” he murmured, his voice low but laden with effort. “I know I’m not… I’m not a prince, but… ugh, that sounds terrible. Let’s try, ‘Anna, you and I have shared so many adventures—’ No, no, that’s too cheesy.”

“No way! Girls love cheesy!” Ryder interjected enthusiastically, clapping lightly. “Keep going!”

Hans, who had been watching from the shadows with growing incredulity, finally stepped forward. Crossing his arms, he leaned against a nearby tree, raising an eyebrow with an expression that mingled skepticism and amusement.

“I didn’t realize romantic speeches were an essential part of mountain-man training,” he remarked, his tone dripping with sarcasm.

Kristoff spun around, startled, his face flushing red as he found himself under the prince’s scrutinizing gaze.

“Hans! What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be with the others?”

“Oh, trust me, I’d rather be anywhere else,” Hans replied, pushing off the tree and taking a few steps closer. “But fate seems to have decided my purpose in life is to save you from your own questionable decisions. The stone giants are too close to the village, and if we don’t leave now, this place will be nothing but a memory. The girls are waiting; we need to head north.”

At Hans’s words, Kristoff dropped the improvised bouquet, the petals fluttering to the mossy ground.

“Oh… right. I’m sorry. I was just…” he began, scratching the back of his neck, but Hans silenced him with an exasperated gesture.

“Please, spare me the details of your sentimental dramas. Just move.”

Kristoff frowned, ready to argue, when the lake behind them began to stir with an unsettling force. What had been a serene mirror of water started to whirl into a perfect circle, and from its depths emerged a peculiar figure of water.

It was a horse! Majestic and threatening. Before they could react, an invisible wave dragged both men into the lake. Chilled to the bone, they struggled to stay afloat, the entity watching them with an unmoving yet overwhelmingly powerful gaze.

“What the hell is that?” Kristoff shouted, flailing against the relentless current.

“It’s Nøkk, the water spirit!” Ryder exclaimed trembling.

“Water spirit?” Hans muttered, glaring at the terrifying creature. “Of course. Because a stone giant wouldn’t have been enough to ruin the night.”

From the shore, Ryder frantically started to wave his arms to get their attention.

“Tell the truth!” he shouted, his voice tinged with urgency. “It’s the only way it’ll let you live!”

Panicked, Kristoff was the first to comply.

“Fine! When I was a kid… I stole a carrot from Sven and never told him!”

The Nøkk stared at him, unyielding. The waters around him tightened further. Sven, on the other hand, let out an indignant snort.

Hans rolled his eyes, though the freezing water constricting him sparked a growing panic.

“Alright,” he said with biting sarcasm. “I… uh… when I was assigned to clean the library books, I never actually cleaned them. I just pretended to.”

Kristoff gaped at him.

“That’s the best you’ve got?”

“And you think your carrot was any better?” Hans shot back, raising his voice.

Ryder shook his head desperately from the shore.

“Not trivial truths! The truth about what’s in your hearts!”

“I… I don’t even know what that means!” Kristoff yelled, thrashing about in a way that only worsened his plight.

The Nøkk seemed to grow agitated, and the pressure of the water intensified. Ryder called out again, his voice sharp with urgency.

“It’s not about silly confessions! It’s about what you don’t want to say!”

Hans clenched his teeth, the cold biting into his skin, but more than that, he felt the weight of what he knew he had to confess. There was a cruel irony in his life hanging on honesty—a concept he had always treated with ambivalence.

Both men fell silent, grappling with the magnitude of the truth demanded of them. Finally, Kristoff exhaled shakily, his voice trembling as he began.

“Lately… I feel like I’m not enough for Anna,” he admitted. “She’s amazing, but I think she deserves someone better—someone who’s not so clumsy or who understands how to be part of a royal family.”

The waters around him seemed to relax slightly, as if acknowledging the sincerity of his words. But they didn’t release him. The Nøkk’s glowing eyes turned to Hans.

Hans clenched his jaw, resisting the urge to speak.

“Well?” Kristoff pressed.

“I’m not saying anything,” Hans replied coldly.

The Nøkk remained unmoved. Instead, the water around Hans began to glow, and he felt a strange, overwhelming warmth, as if something inside him was forcing its way out.

“You’re going to get us killed!” Kristoff shouted angrily and panicked.

“Fine!” Hans burst out at last. “I’m in love… with someone I shouldn’t be in love with. There. I said it, okay? I love her and….I’m a afraid….I don’t think that no one could ever accept it”

Kristoff stared at him, his expression shifting to a mix of confusion and fury.

“What? With who? Anna?”

Hans looked at him, incredulous.

“What? No!”

“Then admit it! You’re in love with her! Are you trying to steal my girl?”

Before the argument could escalate, the Nøkk intervened. The water around Kristoff began to shimmer, and a series of images appeared before him, like memories trapped in liquid bubbles. He saw Hans and Elsa together: a conversation in the castle gardens, a moment of shared laughter, a kiss behind closed doors—visions that spoke more than words ever could.

Kristoff gasped, his eyes widening in disbelief.

“You… you’re in love with Elsa.”

Hans closed his eyes, exhaling as though the weight of his secret had suffocated him for years.

“Yes,” he admitted finally defeated.

Satisfied, the Nøkk released them, letting them tumble onto the shore, soaked and exhausted. Ryder ran to their side. Kristoff struggled to get up, as the silence between the three men weighed as heavily as the waters that had trapped them moments before. Sven approached him, nudging him with his snout as if trying to offer comfort, but Kristoff didn’t take his eyes off Hans.

“So…,” Kristoff said, breaking the silence with a tone that mixed confusion and surprise, “is that why you came to the Enchanted Forest with us? I thought you wanted to get Anna back or something like that.”

Hans raised his gaze, his brow furrowing slightly at the assumption.

“Get Anna back?” he repeated, as if the idea seemed absurd to him. “No, of course not. I’m here because I wanted to show Anna I can be trusted. That… I’m not the man she met years ago. I don’t care about a crown, I just want to be with Elsa…Don’t tell Anna. Not a word. Please. We’re… not ready yet.” He asked him with a desperate pleading.

Kristoff stood frozen, watching him with a mixture of awe and understanding. Finally, he let out a long sigh and nodded, though he still seemed to be processing what he had just heard.

“Alright. I won’t say anything,” he murmured, running a hand through his soaked hair. “But you don’t say anything about the proposal.”

Hans let out a relieved sigh. “Deal…and Just for the record,” began, glancing at Kristoff, “Anna loves you. You don’t need to worry about fitting some royal standard… she’ll accept you just as you are.”

Kristoff smiled, his expression softening. “Thanks, man.”

Hans smirked, a playful glint in his eyes. “Not that it matters—she already said yes to me.”

Kristoff blinked, momentarily stunned, before narrowing his eyes. “Oh, really?”

Without warning, he shoved Hans back into the water with a mischievous grin. Hans resurfaced moments later, coughing and glaring at Kristoff.

“Seriously?” Hans spluttered, pushing his wet hair out of his face.

Kristoff chuckled, shaking his head. “You had it coming.”

When they returned to the camp, Anna and Elsa greeted them with surprise and concern. Elsa, in particular, fixed her gaze on Hans, as though she could read something in his expression. He looked away, and Kristoff, still reeling from what he had learned, said nothing—though the weight of the truth hung heavy in his every movement.

[aevyk-ing]

Watching the making of Wish

-Patting their backs for reusing animation as an homage. Like yeah, it’s nice, there’s work behind that, but it’s the way they say it, like: “We’ve worked hard! Trust us!” We know animation is hard and the problem with Wish was never the animation.

-I didn’t know Sabino was based on Roger from The Aristocats. I love Roger, he’s delightful. Poor Sabino just looks bland in comparison.

-They say Asha has her good and bad traits (which isn’t true) and is so brave to go against what she has believed her whole life. I've seen that done way better and with actually compelling characters.

-“She has to balance being a good friend and family member to speaking the truth and I think we can all relate to that” Well… nope. All those things can be different things. And both your friends and family should help you or at least listen to you.

-Saying that the “I want” song explains how the character is, like… duh.

-Well, yes, Ariana DeBose did great with what she was given.

-So Asha has freckles because some people of North Africa and Southern Spain have freckles… what? Any skin color can have freckles. And I can’t talk about North African people but Andalusian aren’t quite freckled (yes, that’s the name of Southern Spain). Also, I never saw her as mixed. She totally follows more of her mother’s culture. That’s why I don’t like her calling her father’s father saba. Her mother’s father would be her saba and her father’s father her abuelo.

-I love Bill Schwab’s designs, he’s a great artist. But he was only told Asha’s age, race and height. Which yeah, it’s important, but for designing a character you should think about their personality too, because that also translates into their features, hairstyle, clothes and mannerisms. We still don’t know anything about Asha. Is she shy? Likes comfy clothes? No, wait, she’s adorkable.

-They talk about Disney Princess gowns using elements from the current period where they were made (something quite interesting) but they just put the Modern twist in Asha’s hairstyle. Like, what were you afraid of?

-Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but Schwab’s just did his job with a model sheet and that was the ONLY reference they had for animating Asha for a while. Then one of them used his daughter as inspiration and then Ariana came with lots of ideas. They didn’t know how Asha moved for the longest time! Their lead character!

-They say Asha is pure energy, which is… somehow correct? Like she’s just awkward and making those weird moves and trying to be cute and funny. The movie is done and nobody knows yet who the heck is Asha as a character.

-Apparently, Asha has details of pumpkin seeds all over her clothes and she’s wearing periwinkle because of the idea of making her THE Fairy Godmother. I still think she looks better in orange.

-Seeing the voice acting outtakes was good. But now I wish the Bland Dwarfs looked more like the actors. All of them have interesting features that could have been implemented in the designs instead of making them clones of the Encanto family and the mother from Strange World.

-The first deleted scene is after Sabino retrieves his wish and he sings a song. I would have put it in the end as a farewell song with everyone joining it.

-"The Wish equation" is to have a true wish, be responsible of it and… finding support? Fight for it? Exclude fear? Accept change? What are we even talking about? A dream career?

-They say the FG gave Cinderella the dress but couldn’t make the Prince fall in love with her, so she was supporting her! Like… Cinderella just wanted to go to the ball. BAM, there you go, a new dress, WISH GRANTED. Cinderella’s wish wasn’t to make the Prince fall in love with her, she didn’t even know him yet!

-“Music happens when you’re too overwhelmed with emotion.” This clip plays AFTER a snippet of "Welcome to Rosas". I guess Asha was too overwhelmed with being late. That shouldn’t have been a song, she should have told us about Rosas in the book opening.

-They wanted it to be like a fairytale and then hired a pop composer. Like the director says she grew up with the Disney Renaissance Era. Which used Broadway music!

-They talked about this earlier but “This wish” was the song that helped them write the movie, just like "Let it go" made them rewrite Frozen. So you can tell they didn’t have much to work on, maybe an idea: “Hey, just do a fairytale about wishes for our anniversary.”

-The songwriter was so overwhelmed with the commission she had to reach a friend to help her.  Maybe because nobody actually knew what the movie was about? But hey, she’s the youngest to ever write a Disney OST.

-You know? The more I hear “This wish” the more I’m sure it’s the best song of the entire soundtrack.

-Hey, I know that guy in the archive! I’ve seen this clip before!

-I’m just hearing they didn’t know what the heck to do and dived into the archive for inspiration. I like the idea that they studied the greatest artists for some scenes, but sadly, all that is lost in the movie. They scenes are too short to appreciate the animation, but A+ for effort.

-They thought doing a fairytale illustration style was difficult to do… in 3D. Just don’t do it in 3D! Also, I don’t think it’s that difficult, Blue Eyed Samurai did something great.

-The composition is interesting and the backgrounds too, but the characters look quite bad.

-The illustration style led to the backgrounds (and everything) being in focus, which I think it also makes the movie look weird. Look at any old painting: the background is less detailed than the main focus (less brush strokes). They could have gone that direction. The backgrounds of Wish are too detailed a lot of the times and always in focus, so it’s distracting.

-BTW, most of this is: “We did this like in this movie, that like in that movie…” but, what’s original? What makes Wish its own movie?

-They talk about lines like lineart in animation, which we’ve seen it masterfully in Spiderman. But here is so subdued it doesn’t add anything.

-“Wouldn’t it be great to have a warmer climate than the one we’re used in fairytales?” Yeah, because there’s snow in Encanto and Hercules. Also, nothing tells us that’s a warmer climate. Google “Andalusia”, please. There’s flowers in bright colors everywhere, white houses, narrow streets and people, just a lot of loud and happy people. That’s Southern Spain for you all.

-At least with Frozen we CAN TELL it’s Norway. Here, there’s nothing that says SPAIN. Give us people eating serrano ham or tortillas, maybe put a bull around there, have them drink wine from botijos and play guitars!

-Again with the “this was based on this”. Rosas was inspired by The Sleeping Beauty: Germany and France. That’s a whole different architectural design! There’s no verticality as main focus in Mozarab architecture, is all about curves.

-“So it’s your fault.” Yeah, that doesn’t sound fun. I have the feeling you’re not telling a lot of things.

-You know, another Fantasia would have been great. Maybe one with all the Disney characters.

-This is now about the story of Disney, so yeah, padding. Also, way to use “At all costs” in the background. We don’t want to remember what you’ve done in the past, we just want you to tell a good story again.

-This should have been the beginning, the “wish upon a star” that put Wish in motion.

-It was going to be about the origin of the wishing star?

-“Return of Disney villain” Hahahahahahah…

-They didn’t know how bad Magnífico could be and made him do mean stuff like smashing Sabino’s guitar (they called it a guitar here).

-Also, apparently he was going to be shirtless in a scene. Like, you know, a Disney villain.

-We don’t watch him BECOME a villain, we watch a magic book CONTROL him!

-“With "This is the thanks I get" I was like, oh, yeah, we have a narcissist.”, so they didn’t know anything about Magnífico until the song was written! That’s why he doesn’t act like a narcissist much until that song and why the mirror ending felt rushed.

-“When Chris Pine came in I was like: that’s it, that’s the character.” Because they didn’t even had designed it? Like, that’s literally him!

-He did give it all to that song.

-Magnífico was an alchemist?

-“We didn’t want people to know he was evil right away.” Every poster and article: “Disney’s new villain, everybody!”.

-“Makes him more dangerous the quieter he is.” Magnífico in the end battle: eyes fully open, screaming, laughing.

-Oh, Star, here we go. He was going to be pure energy as well… just like Asha! Yeah, we were robbed. BTW, he’s not like Genie or Maui. Maui and Genie aren’t even the same!

-He could have been a fantastic creature as well. And all those designs look crazily fun. But also that’s the kind of exploration you do at the beginning of the production, not in the middle. Unless someone meddles…

-Someone went out to design different sparkles for Star but I could only see it being adorkable. Focused on the face so the sparkles weren’t even noticeable.

-“…they put their personality on it (Star)” Yeah, because none of these characters had any personality… nor have it now that the movie is done.

-People being made of stardust is one of the most beautiful scientific facts. “You are a star” is the worst song in the movie. No wonder it took so long to write.

-Nope, Doc was a leader. Dalia is just there… talking. Of course she’s a way to get the medal of  “we put a disabled character” but at least she has more personality than Asha.

-BTW, just saw the Story Artist wearing a pin with a Pride flag in the shape of a Mickey.

-“She’s just a young woman, going with her life.” “And succeeding.” Yeah, representation is good, but it’s better if you’re not talking about how good you are for doing it.

-Also, we have mixed-race representation, older people with dreams representation, etc. but hey, that girl has a crutch, we’re cool.

-“Animals in Disney have to be smarter than people.” Why? Just why? And also, Valentino is no way smarter than any of the other characters. So why say that?

-“(Alan Tudyk) He pretty much made the whole character.” Yeah, because it looks like nobody had any idea of how these characters were.

-“Inspiration can came from anywhere.” You just COPY-PASTED the ideas of others.

-“Everybody has seen me crying in the studio.” For a good or bad reason?

-Ending with a Walt quote proclaiming they always do their best job… huh…

-“It served the story better to have Amaya as a good person.” Yeah, nope. It made no sense for her to switch sides so easily.

-Sabino dying would have been such a strong way to start the story. Him stealing Asha’s diary… yep, not good.

-Reinforcing my theory that Disney wanted to move away from shapeshifters after the Nimona fiasco.

-Looks like they gave the chaotic energy Star was going to have to Valentino.

-Making any other animal talking surely was a mistake. What’s with the sassiness?

-Dalia wasn’t called like that?! BTW, the writers were so proud of her clutch not being mentioned but, in the deleted scene, it’s the first thing they do. Twice.

-“When you’re underestimated, they don’t see your power coming until it changes the world.” Whoa, just whoa. Disney writers, everybody.

-LOL, the deleted scene with the animals is so bad. But Magnífico was going to transform into a Beast, so… kinda interesting?

Here's the link, BTW.

And congratulations if you read this all. If you're interested, here are my own Wish rewrites: 1, 2.

[gacha-incels]

"Failed to Filter Out Hateful Webtoon"... Platform Accountability Under Fire Due to 'Pong Pong Man' Controversy

this article is originally in Korean and has been mtl and edited into English here. It’s not going to be 1:1 but the basic info should be there. If you notice any discrepancies please lmk and I’ll fix it asap. as always thanks for your help and understanding everyone. By Namyoung Kim published oct 6th 2024

Naver Webtoon is facing criticism for allowing a webtoon containing hate speech and content inciting gender conflict to pass the first round of its competition. Concerns are being raised about whether the platform, as a major content distribution channel, is taking proper responsibility for its influence.

What Happened

Naver Webtoon (referred to as "Naver Web") has been hosting the 2024 Naver Webtoon Greatest Contest on Earth since last month to discover new writers and works. The work causing controversy is a webtoon titled Pong Pong Man in Another World(‘이세계 퐁퐁남’/isekai pomgpongnam). The story is about a man who, after discovering his wife has been unfaithful, realizes that he has become what society calls a "Pong Pong Man" and then travels to another dimension (a different world).

The term "Pong Pong Man" is an online slang referring to a married man who is compared to dishwashing detergent (Pong Pong), used to "clean up" after a promiscuous woman he marries. The term ridicules an innocent man as the "final clean-up" for a "promiscuous woman," and is a typical example of misogynistic hate speech that fuels gender conflict. The published webtoon contains scenes such as a woman who, despite cheating, self-harms to be recognized as a victim of domestic violence while laughing behind the scenes, and characters stating, "The current law is overly favorable to women."

This work passed the first round of Naver Webtoon's editorial review and is awaiting the second round of evaluation. If it passes the second round, it will become eligible for the final prize. Over the weekend, however, the controversy intensified on social media and online communities, with many criticizing Naver for allowing a work that promotes gender conflict and hatred to pass through their filters. Numerous "proof posts" were shared, claiming that people had left protest messages on Naver Webtoon.

(screenshot of the webtoon that was in the article)

This Has Happened Before

In September of last year, a Naver Webtoon work titled True Education faced heavy criticism from English-speaking users for its use of racial slurs and derogatory expressions toward Black people. At the time, Naver Webtoon removed all episodes of True Education from its North American service and deleted the problematic 125th episode in Korea. In 2020, another work, Helper 2, was discontinued due to its misogynistic content and extreme violence.

Naver Webtoon's Response

A Naver Webtoon representative explained the reason why the work passed the first round, saying, "There was no disqualifying content in the first episode alone. We are aware of the various opinions surrounding this work, and we will conduct a comprehensive review for the next round of judgment." The representative added, "If there are reports of excessively sexual or violent content in Challenge Comics or Best Challenge works, we take measures such as blinding or deletion. However, since this is a work in progress for the contest, it is difficult to request modifications from the author at this stage."

Naver Webtoon is Hosting the 2024 Naver Webtoon Greatest Contest on Earth. Screenshot from Naver Webtoon.

Why This is Important

Currently, the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) defers complaints about webtoons to the Webtoon Self-Regulation Committee, following a "post-regulation" system that considers creative freedom. The committee reviews complaints and passes the results to its partner platforms (like Naver Webtoon), which then take necessary actions and report back to the committee.

Criticism has emerged, however, that platforms like Naver Webtoon, as distribution channels, are not fully living up to their responsibilities. According to analysis by Representative Hyung-doo Choi of the People Power Party, based on data from the KCSC, a total of 1,028 complaints were filed regarding webtoons between 2019 and August 2023, but only 495 cases resulted in self-regulation measures.

In the end, the challenge for platforms is how to strike a balance between creative freedom and regulating hate speech or explicit content. In June of this year, Naver Webtoon, under the name Webtoon Entertainment, was listed on NASDAQ, positioning itself as a global content platform. Manga critic Sang-min Sung commented, "A contest entry isn't going to be perfect from the start, and comics can’t always use polished language. However, looking at the problematic expressions, it seems clear that the author crossed a line." He added, "As a global platform, Naver Webtoon needs to establish clear guidelines for the content that is posted on its site."

[aloysiavirgata]

Let’s call it a deleted scene from Mount Abora, @inutilidadesbytamara

***

Scully’s hand on his boxers wakes him into the dark, her mouth at his throat.

“I can’t sleep,” she murmurs against his jaw. “Too quiet.”

“Scully…”

She squeezes him lightly in reply and he groans.

“Shh,” Scully says. She nuzzles her nose into his ear, kisses his temple.

He’s half-hard and the air of the room makes him gasp when she works him free of the fabric. She’s got her mouth at his collarbones, his pectorals, his navel.

“No complaints but I thought-“

“Let me,” she says, and he’s not sure if you can snap your own spine arcing off a mattress with extreme force but the only person he could ask is currently short-circuiting his parasympathetic nervous system with her lips.

“Oh my god,” he hisses, twisting the sheets in his fists so he doesn’t grab her hair and scalp her by accident.

Scully’s mouth is hot and slick and she’s doing something uncanny with the flat of her tongue while her nails dance over his scrotum and then she sucks at him, actually sucks, and her teeth graze the head of his cock, that ridge is her hard palate, there’s that tongue thing again and where in the world did she -

He nearly weeps when she pulls her mouth away.

“Scully,” he pants, the air now agonizing.

She takes him in her right hand, begins stroking, while he makes a desperate sort of trapped animal whimper.

“Shh,” she repeats, tongues his frenulum as she moves her hand around him.

His heels kick into the mattress.

Mulder’s eyes are adjusting to the room and he looks down to see Scully’s pale, precise hand around the darker skin of his cock; Scully’s breasts moving under the silk pajama top he can see down; Scully’s aristocratic cheekbones in sharp relief because Jesus Christ almighty, her cheeks are sucked in around him.

Scully.

It’s too much, visual overload even in the dark, and he grinds his hips up against her hand, her mouth, doesn’t care in that second if he chokes her and he cries out when she draws him halfway back down her throat.

“Scully,” he breathes again, because it’s otherworldly to say his partner’s name when they’re like this, while she’s, well, fucking him with her mouth because there is absolutely no other way to describe what her jaw is doing right now; he thinks of her in his lap with her skirt up and her ass in his hands as he thrust up into her sinuate body, how he’d buried his face in the fragrant wet heat of -

Scully’s found a steady rhythm now, her hand and her mouth and her tongue and her teeth, and his nails are cutting into his palms and he’s biting the insides of his cheeks because otherwise he’s going to make it maybe another thirty seconds and what is the etiquette here, hey Scully seems like you have a solid gag reflex but you should know I’m -

Her hair is brushing against him and it’s absolute torture, her tongue at his glans, Agent Scully’s serious little mouth with her ripe lips -

“Oh my god,” he groans, and now his fingers are lacing through her hair because he absolutely has to touch her somewhere while she does this if he can’t grasp at her hips like when -

“Scully,” he says, and “Oh my god,” again and both over and over until they might be the same thing because his sacral spine is pulsing like a supernova and when Scully said she wanted to make this work he didn’t know it would be like this with her, he didn’t know, didn’t understand that she is his touchstone and his true north and his recondite talisman and she is somehow also a woman like other women, that she aches like he does, that she desires -

There are stars and stars and stars in the dark and he’s gasping her name with his hands in the cool silk of her hair, riding out the crest against her hot tongue while his head presses back deep into the nest of pillows and his toes curl.

His heart crashes blood joyfully through his veins, like the big kettle drums in Peer Gynt. He twitches a few more times against her hand, spent but ambitious,

“Wow,” he says, breathless.

She laughs a little, tucks her hair behind her ear. “Wow yourself.”

He reaches down for her and she moves up next to him, on her belly this time. She props herself up on her elbows.

“What was that for?” he asks warmly. “I want to make sure I do it again and stay in your good graces.”

Scully strokes his nose with her forefinger, presses her thumb to his lips. “Hasn’t anyone ever done something for you without strings attached?”

He considers this. “I don’t think so, actually,” he confesses, lipping the pad of her thumb like a horse with a sugar cube.

When he kisses the inside of her wrist it feels like the petal of a magnolia.

Mulder gathers her to him and they drift back to sleep in the languid rhythm of his heartbeat.

[nelliebachesneg]

Hey, uh. 

We need to talk about Recovery One, and more specifically South (and Wash but that's a given for me). 

Here are the relevant facts:

1. The AI were all supposed to be pulled after the Epsilon incident and put into storage.

2. There is a deleted scene that shows North carrying South to safety after their battle on the MoI. 

3. Wash did not know that North still had Theta.

4. South and North were together when Wash showed up to recover Theta. 

5. South got North killed, even if it was Meta that struck the blow. 

6. Wash assumes South being left alive was bait to slow Wash down, because Wash had Delta, and the Meta wants the AI. 

7. Wash: “In the past month I’ve been ordered to the sites of five different dying Freelancers in an effort to recover their intelligence programs.” This might have been retconned; before seasons nine and ten it was implied if not outright stated that many agents had AI fragments, not just those on the leaderboard, but after seasons nine and ten it seems like there were only a few AI that were then given to only some of the top agents. Of them, only North and York had their equipment recovered by Wash.

8. South was in the recovery force before and during her time with Wash. Her mission was to draw the enemy out, without Wash catching on that she was working for the Recovery Force, so that a new strategy could be devised to take the Meta down. 

9. Command’s profile of Wash indicated that he would not kill South despite being ordered to. Wash says he kept South alive because he knows he can’t take down the Meta by himself. Delta confirms that Wash’s “battle rating” is too low, according to Freelancer’s records.

10. Taking Wash out was not in South's mission statement, nor was taking Delta and running. South chose to do those things on her own. 

Conclusions:

Both South and North stayed with the program even after the “attack on Command” (the crash). 

It would make sense for PFL to want to keep close tabs on North since he had an AI, and if he refused to give up Theta, they probably wouldn’t have tried to force him for fear of scaring him off. If anything, they would have used South against him to make him stay, because North obviously stayed for South. He saw the writing on the wall and loved his sister enough to first fight her instead of leaving her to Tex, then continued working at the organization he knew was off (even if he never figured out why) to keep an eye on her.   

South stayed because she wanted an AI. South wanted to be acknowledged as her own person, as good enough on her own. To her, an AI was a symbol of her independent success (ironically enough), and as short sighted as she was she really didn’t think much beyond that. PFL took advantage of that. Additionally, South likely resented North for having saved her from Tex. (Side note, South got North killed in an effort to save herself, but I believe that it was a heat of the moment decision. Still shows how her love for him had cooled.) South also resented the program for blue-balling her, not to mention still pairing her with North after everything. And she probably realized that they were lying again about giving her an AI. She had no evidence that she could trust Wash, either, and so shot him in the back and took Delta. 

It’s possible that North and South were both part of the Recovery Force, and Wash showed up to the aftermath of a mission gone wrong - the same mission of drawing out the Meta. If that’s true, Wash was kept completely in the dark not only about South and any other Recovery agents, but also about PFL’s knowledge of the Meta. He figured out on his own that something was hunting down Freelancers; no one told him that, even if they put him in a position to figure it out. This actually brings up some interesting implications for why Wash was chosen for the Recovery Force. Wash himself says that it’s because they knew he would never steal an AI for his own purposes, but you know who else would know that? Maine, because seemingly every Freelancer knew what happened to Wash:

South: “Epsilon went insane and killed itself inside his head! And from what I heard from the other recruits, he went nuts himself. Weren’t you certified Article 12 after that? Unfit for duty.”

Wash: “The people who certified me were the same people that uncertified me. Which, once they needed me, they did. Funny how the system works.”

Delta: “In either case, he is the logical choice. It is highly unlikely Wash would attempt to steal an AI for his own purposes.”

“Once they needed me”. Why would they need Wash for this job? I think it's because their agents, Recovery Force or not, were being killed for their AI.  Wash probably recovered some of them himself. They needed someone who not only wouldn’t steal an AI, but would never even consider implanting one under any circumstances. Ideally it would also be someone Maine would be hesitant to kill, someone he knew. Wash was the most likely person to survive in the Recovery Force. 

In conclusion, Agent South Dakota was an agent of chaos and had she succeeded in killing Wash or if she had lived the entire plot past season 5 would have turned out differently and we were kinda robbed of her and Felix interacting.

[mariacallous]

Nikki Haley spent the dying days of her presidential campaign reminding anyone who’d listen that Donald Trump is unhinged and unfit. But when she ended her candidacy last week after Super Tuesday, she suggested it was possible Trump could still win her endorsement.

“It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him,” she said. “And I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing.”

Of course, it’s impossible that Trump, who regularly called Haley “birdbrain,” will make anything resembling a positive moral choice. He does not build willing coalitions. He only attempts to dominate through violence and intimidation. We know this about him because our birth certificates are not dated “Yesterday.”

But if Haley is overly optimistic about Trump, perhaps it’s because she uncritically consumes mainstream media, which seemingly can’t help but default to covering Trump as if he’s a normal candidate — even after his attempted coup and multiple criminal indictments.

Yes, major news outlets, including the New York Times, are now more likely to acknowledge that Trump outright lies than simply makes “false” statements, but the press still resists definitively calling him out for the terrible and dangerous person he is. Because their baseline assumption is that Trump is erratic and malevolent, it’s not generally regarded as big news when Trump does awful things, such as mocking Biden’s speech impediment during a speech over the weekend. (Watch the footage below, though it should be mentioned that the NYT published an article noting that Trump mocked Biden’s stutter.)

Implicit in the media’s ongoing coverage of Trump is the idea that he might suddenly stop behaving like Donald Trump. Case in point was an absurd article Axios ran last week from national politics reporter Sophia Cai with the headline, “Top Trump advisers try to steer him off personal drama.” The top of the article is bad enough, as it presents Trump’s unhinged vendettas like a “Sex and the City” brunch scene, but the low point is Cai’s suggestion that Trump is “toning down” his rhetoric as he attempts to woo college-educated voters.

On what was once Twitter, the caption above Axios’s article read, “Looking to November, Trump tempers his claims about the 2020 election — a little.” (An earlier version of the tweet that didn’t hedge as much and was widely criticized was deleted — see it at top of the post.) Cai wrote, “In some recent speeches, Trump has used different terms in describing his typical complaint that the 2020 election he lost was ‘stolen’ — saying, ‘We were interrupted,’ or ‘something very bad happened.’”

These are obvious euphemisms for Trump’s ongoing election lies, but Cai’s assertion isn’t even true. He told supporters at a North Carolina rally just days before the Axios article that “what happened at that last election is a disgrace, and we’re not going to let it happen again. Did you ever notice they go after the people that want to find out where the cheating was — and, by the way, 82 percent of the country understands that it was a rigged election, OK? You can’t have a country with that.” (Surprise! Trump’s “82 percent” claim is a lie.)

In fact, the very day after Axios’s piece dropped, Trump went on Truth Social and proclaimed, “the Election was RIGGED.”

Trump’s remarks at a Rome, Georgia, rally on Saturday were just as disturbing. He insisted that he’d won Georgia in 2020 and that the election was “rigged.” Those same lies painted targets on the backs of Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who won a defamation suit against Trump ally Rudy Giuliani. It’s clear that Trump won’t accept an election loss, and we can expect that he’ll incite more violence and harassment. It’s the height of irresponsibility for a major media outlet to suggest otherwise.

And it’s not just Axios. After Trump won the South Carolina Republican primary, NBC News ran an article headlined, “Fewer grievances, more policy: Trump aides and allies push for a post-South Carolina ‘pivot’.” If you’ve paid any attention to the words that come out of Trump’s mouth, you’d understand that Trump’s policy is personal grievance. He’s openly vowed to spend his second term persecuting his political enemies and anyone who dared tried to hold him accountable for his crimes.

[onthearrow]

hello arrow~ just curious, were you ever into game of thrones, and if so, who was your favorite romantic pairing (canon or not)? and did you ever at some point in time considered writing fanfiction about them?

Oh anon THANK YOU for this question I will now be putting on my GOT hat.

I loved GOT (and was ultimately disappointed like the rest of us) but still return to fic browsing occasionally. I've got two fave ships, the first of which is Jaime/Brienne. Jaime has a very compelling redemption arc (we are NOT talking about the last episode THANK YOU) that is hugely influenced by Brienne. She subverts so many of his expectations of what it means to be a knight and a lady and through that he begins to find the essence of his true self. Jaime himself is a fascinating character (the dyslexia?? omg) and the slow burn he has with Brienne is just *chef's kiss*.

As for Brienne, I really sympathize with her character. I was bullied as a kid and spent years feeling misplaced amongst my peers. I ended up determining my own path and coming into myself much as she has---I even took up fencing! And I love how she WANTS Jaime to be an asshole and he ends up un-asshole-ifying. In a way, he subverts her expectations too, they become equals, and they become a team. That shit is ROMANTIC.

My second-favorite ship will offend people, I'm sure, but there's a caveat to it so stay with me before sending me anon hate (that will be deleted, sorry). I LOVE Sansa and The Hound*. ASTERISK, BIG ASTERISK, because the age gap in the books is enormous and Sansa is a literal child. I cannot ship that romantically in good conscience, but platonically I'm obsessed with the dynamics of this relationship. In book 1 Sansa heads to the capital with her head full of beautiful princes and fairytales and castles and happily ever after, only to find out that her prince is the most sadistic fuck in all of Westeros and that the capital is cruel and that the good guys don't always win (her own father's execution???).

And then there's The Hound, the most objectively terrifying person around with the most hideous face, a complete perversion of the knights she grew up reading stories about. And yet he ends up being the one who shows her kindness. He gives her his cloak when Joffrey tries to strip her in front of the court. When he flees King's Landing, he offers to take her with him. I think there's a scene where she gets beaten and he offers her a handkerchief, too?

So while I can't ship a thirty-something alcoholic knight with a fucked up psyche with a literal teenager, I think this relationship is key in the recurring theme GRRM has going of subverting expectations. In canon, I'd like to see Sansa reunite with Sandor and ask him to be her sworn shield as Queen of the North. I think that would be a fitting ending for them. In fic, I love AUs where she's aged up and he's aged down and the author leans into the potential romanticism that that creates. It's just a straight-up no for me in canon.

Would I write fic for either of these? I don't think I'd write SanSan, but I would absolutely love to write for Braime at some point. Like at least an AU one-shot, but if I was going to go hard, I'd probably continue off from where we left them with Lady Stoneheart and give them a proper ending. (Unfortunately, I don't think GRRM is ever going to finish the series.)

This was a lot of information--sorry if it was too much anon! But I am happy to discuss GOT with anyone 😅

[moodindigov]

lol lmao imagine giving unfinished snippets of a scene bcs u accidentally deleted the rest of it and you cant get it back bcs u write in ur notes app…haha…anyways here’s a small snippit of brendan and neksa scene that probably still has a note or two of mine there ill rewrite it when i have time

Brendan heard her yelp before he saw her again. He sat up straighter and stopped his mindless leg swinging. It was easy to spot the girl, her familiar figure sticking out like a sore thumb on the empty London street.

Her hair was tied into a messy ponytail held high on her head and her linen dress was filthy with grime and hard work.

It wasn’t uncommon to see young women and girls a mess of dirt and sweat, not anymore. It never was to Brendan in the first place.

In his family, no matter what you were—boy, girl, woman, man; everyone was given a job. And no matter the filth or shit you’d had to stick your hands into, the piss stained sewers and foul smelling slums, that job was to be completed without failure. Because failure meant death and an unimaginable sense of grief he couldn’t seem to escape.

Brendan shakily exhaled.

The financial crisis that Britain was going through, (The Devil’s Decade according to his father) was helping naught with business either. Hittin’ the North hard, his Da had told him and Jess once. They were lucky to live in the home they did with food on their plates and proper rooms to sleep in. A reminder of those words sat true outside their windows every night with eyes of defeat.

And foolishly he realized that with his reflecting came staring, and staring seemed to get the girl’s attention. <(better transition)

“Hey, you! What’re you starin’ at?“ she yelled over to him. He startled and looked around before stupidly realizing she was talking to him. She rolled her eyes and started walking closer to where he was sat.

Walk away, his mind whispered. It’s just another girl, walk away. You’ve got barely five minutes ‘til you’re expected back, sack it off. And yet, he couldn’t. For some reason, this girl, this completely average, filthy as dirt girl drew his attention. And maybe it was her dark shining eyes, or the pure spunk in her voice. Maybe it was the kindness and the small semblance of peace she gave him, something to settle to constant buzzing in his mind. He shouldn’t. He needs to walk away, never to see her again—

“You alright?” he asked her suddenly and she cocked her head.

“I’m perfectly content,” she started, “are you alright? You look properly down in the dumps. Don’t see a reason for it, either, you look lucked out.” Lucked out in the poor reality of failing families and lost homes he was, he grimly mused to himself.

“I’m fine.” The girl (he really had to learn her name) didn’t seem to be convinced.

“Oh, and I’m the Queen’s niece,” she scoffed. “You look constipated with all that thinking you’re doing.”

Brendan huffed with indignation. “I am fine. Leave me be, go back to milkin’ cows or whatever you do.” He walked away, once and for all he declared to himself.

“Do you talk to everyone you meet that way?” She stomped over to his moving figure and kept a steady pace with him.

He resolutely ignored her. She didn’t seem to like that.

“Hello? Anyone there?” Brendan huffed as she hesitantly poked his arm. “Oh, don’t be a big baby. What is it with men and getting sensitive when talking about feelings?” She mumbled the last part under her breath but Brendan heard her clear as day.

Maybe he’d run into Jess, or (gods forbid) his Da. They’d get him out of this situation. Well, he scowled, his idiot twin would run off without a second thought once he caught his eye. He clenched his jaw and the pretty girl seemed to notice.

“Is that it? You don’t want to talk about feelings?” She asked, not unkindly.

Brendan shouldn’t answer. He shouldn’t. He should keep walking away like he’d do to any other lady, any other lad, towards a house that wasn’t a home, could never be a home.

— end

[true--north]

Do you have any wishes for live-action Frozen? What could be done better than in the animated movie, what could be deeper? And what deleted plots could be incorporated? Some F2 hints maybe as well? And what wouldn't you like to see at all? Please don't hesitate to write a long reply, I really like reading your opinions ^^

Thanks, Anon ❄

I do have some wishes for the remake. I want to add a more serious atmosphere, which must be simple if deepen already existent themes of the movie. Elsa's self-isolating tendencies, Agduna's hard and impossibles choices, Kristoff's outcastness, Anna's loneliness and longing, Hans's "lack of love"(Lee). Everyone's lack of love and the suppressed and so much desired wish to melt their heart for someone(or something, in Hans' case.)

Would be interesting, in my opinion, to see a bit of the Southern Isles and Hans' father(maybe the king says a parting word before Hans gets on the ship). More developed and logic Hans is needed. I would appreciate Hans plotting with the Duke who is a sort of his mentor.

But my impossible dream for the remake is a "good" but still subtly antagonistic Hans: he is a prince and a hero in the world that needs no princes, in the world where the princess wants to save the witch, and the lover is the stolen-by-trolls-grumpy and rude commoner; so Hans' traditional princely exploits only get in the way and spoil everything: the key to this concept is the non-working kiss.

For the sisters' dynamic I generally want to see the earlier concepts from the "Prophecy" version: their quarrel in the dressing room, Life's too short and reprise; they are not isolated, but Elsa is hiding such a huge part of herself that just can't be free in this cage. I want Anna from "More than just the spare" and assertive Elsa from Life's too short.

Maybe I want the remake to be more Anna-focused, as it should have been. We need to see how everyone's life was revolving around Elsa and Anna was left to her own dreams of love. She must be more clearly shown as the only one who doesn't believe that Elsa is evil; but maybe after the struck some doubts would appear in her heart and it would start freeze. That doesn't stop her from sacrificing herself for Elsa and saving herself.

As for F2 hints, it must be a scene where Iduna tells the girls about "the secret white river"; maybe a scene where Iduna seeks for some folklore manuscript. Or some serving maids would gossip about the past war with "the evil magical tribe" and about "the brave and heroic King Runeard who wanted to save us from their treason." Arendelle must be shown as a kingdom that's is wounded and antagonistised by magic. (And as an imperialistic one too.)

I would like to see some signs that the Great Thaw was not the complete happy end and the acceptance was not so easy, and that Elsa struggled to put the crown on her head again. The final scenes must refer to F2, as a link and a hint. For example, Anna and Kristoff are chatting with Olaf and Sven, Elsa looks at them with a smile, and then a gust of wind, and an autumn leave is flying by, and Vuellie is playing in the background and Elsa stops listening and stares at the sky. Or Anna brings them two cups of hot chocolate to sit by the fireplace and chat like sisters do and finds Elsa dreamily absent as she looks to the North standing by the window.

Something like that.

I want an aesthetically pleasant winter Scandinavian movie.

I absolutely don't want to see a portraying of Anna where she's bashed for her wish of romantic love vs Elsa who is an "independent girl boss" or something like that. F1 Elsa narratively is a witch and a damsel in distress at the same time and Anna is a saviour, and her desire for romance is not bad in itself. Bad are the people who exploit her heart that is full of love and kindness. I don't want a blatant "sisters before misters" because the message of F1 is not simplistic like that, though it shows that sisterly love is true love. I don't want a lessened Kristanna, or Kristoff out of the picture. I don't want actresses who will play the sisters to look like average American German-Holland ancestry's type of girls. They must look accordingly to Anna and Elsa's Nordic and Finno-Ugric heritage.

[instructionsnotincluded]

True North

Lovely banner by @lady-cheeky

Deleted Scene II | Frances' Letter To Her Mother

As referenced in True North

July 7th, 1943

Dear Mom, 

Things are so different here in England! I know we spoke of how different we thought they might be, but it’s unlike anything we imagined. The people are wonderful, though. There’s a definite sense of unity and drive in the air. They’ve seen so much and been through so much, and because of that they will not stop until we are victorious and this war is over. 

I spent a week getting acquainted with everyone and going through some basic instruction after arriving, we even stopped off to see a play in London before we received our first assignments! We saw The Lisbon Story at the London Hippodrome, and it was spectacular. Who would’ve thought love and espionage went so well together! I’ve found myself spending my first rotation at RAF (Royal Air Force) Ratcliffe. It’s located in a village by the name of Ratcliffe on the Wreake (which I’ve come to learn is a river) and is a little over one-hundred miles north of London. It’s a beautiful area and there’s a gorgeous castle nearby. Yes, you read that right, a castle! I know Bucky moaned and whined about the weather in all of his letters, but so far it’s been lovely. A bit reminiscent of home, if I’m being honest, and that was certainly a welcomed feeling. I expected to be homesick, but I didn’t expect it to hit me so terribly so quickly. 

I hope everyone is well back in Wisconsin! Please keep me updated on Mrs. Walton’s saga with her tenants, I’m just on the edge of my chair waiting to hear what the latest is with them. I’ll be at Ratcliffe for a bit longer, probably until the end of August before I receive my next rotation, so you can write me here. I haven’t seen John yet—but I’ll do you one better. I’ve met his girl! She’s a pilot here at RAF Ratcliffe! Can you believe it? What are the odds? Grandfather would certainly tell us to go down to the track with that luck!

She’s beautiful, mom. You’ll die. She came into the infirmary with an injury and I helped treat her before we started talking and realized who we had in common. Her name’s Stella. Stella Frank. And she’s an ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) Pilot, and a captain at that! From what I’ve heard from her peers, she’s a rather talented pilot as well, which is how she and John met. I haven’t seen them together, and I haven’t spoken to John yet, but I will write to you the moment I do. From the little I’ve been around her, she’s quiet at first, but opens up pretty quickly. She’s not nearly as exuberant as John, which is good for us all, but I can see why she caught his eye. I’m very much looking forward to getting to know her more and from what her friend has told me, they are rather smitten with each other!  I think you may be able to hear wedding bells across the sea!

I hope you’re doing well and keeping your spirits up. Rest easy know that two of your children are not only in the same country, but only a few hundred miles from one another! Send Eileen my love and I’ll write to you soon. 

Love, 

Fran

[anotheruserwithnoname]

Why Jenna’s Lemon’s play will be remembered as a disappointment for many fans

Caveat: I know production companies keep things under their hats. If an announcement is made contradicting what I’m about to rant about, then I’ll delete this post and happily stand corrected.

So, Jenna Coleman’s play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is to be performed for the final time this weekend. By most accounts (except the views of a few critics) it’s being looked at as a success and one of Jenna’s crowning acting achievements.

Yay. Me, I’m left with quite a few negative feelings, mostly of frustration to the point where I seriously considered not reblogging the reviews of a production I likely will never get to see.

This is nothing against Jenna at all. But you know where this is going. The decision not to record the play for National Theatre Live (or anyone else but NTL has the market cornered) has made it one big piece of lost media. None of us who lacked the health, money or time to travel to the UK will ever be able to see the show, to see how Jenna did. Even as a one-off stream. Yeah, some people snuck in phones and posted a few blurry moments here and there on Youtube. But it’s not the same. (And if someone managed to record the whole thing and is circulating it via Reddit or something ... that’s still not the same, right?)

People are rightly complaining about this on the play’s Instagram but of course you have people responding with “well that’s the nature of theatre” and acting all high and mighty. True. Theatre has always been a momentary thing. But this is 2023. And they did a stream with All My Sons and that wasn’t even particularly a good play. Yet it’s been preserved. It was made available (albeit after a delay due to there being a competing production on Broadway) to fans in North America. It was also made available for home streaming during the pandemic. Right now I can view it through my university as it’s been archived via a service that libraries can access. And guess what - if I’d been physically able to get to London in the spring of 2019 I’d have bought tickets too. Same goes for Lemons. People would have still paid to see Jenna and Aidan in person. It wouldn’t have impacted that box office. 

There was an NTL stream of Prima Facae starring Jodie Comer. Of Emilia Clarke’s The Seagull. David Tennant’s play Good streams starting April 20. They streamed BOTH versions of Frankenstein in which Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternated the roles of Dr. Frankenstein and the Monster. So many great performances have been preserved. But not - so it appears - Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner in Lemons x 5.

But we have the technology to do it. Every play should be recorded for public release once its in-person run has ended. What I wouldn’t give to be able to see Julie Andrews’ original version of My Fair Lady. Thankfully Ed Sullivan had the cast perform an excerpt on TV; it’s the only known footage. They didn’t have the tech to film a full Broadway performance back then. Or Audrey Hepburn’s performance of Gigi in 1952. We can read about them in the biographies, but we’ll never see them. Why were people mad that Audrey made the movie of My Fair Lady instead of Julie?

Turner likely has many fans who are equally disappointed right now.

Now, it’s possible there was a behind the scenes reason; maybe the playwright wouldn’t allow it. Maybe they couldn’t come to terms with Jenna and/or Aidan or the director (I assume people were paid extra when All My Sons was streamed; the director has done NTL streams in the past which is why I assumed they’d do one for Lemonsx5). Maybe next week the Manchester production house Jenna was spotted leaving by paparazzi a couple weeks back will announce they’re doing a movie of it and people say this post was premature. I concede all of that.

But for now, all I can do is imagine what might have been. (And hope it’s not too long before Jenna appears in something all her fans can enjoy.)

[random-bi-writer]

Six Analysis, Part 5

Rewatching playthroughs, reading comics, looking through deleted concept and achievements to analyze Six, and maybe even figure out the things that’s been bugging me about her.

Part 1 = https://random-bi-writer.tumblr.com/post/706220575341821952/six-analysis-part-1

Part 2 = https://random-bi-writer.tumblr.com/post/706314444114886656/six-analysis-part-2

Part 3 = https://random-bi-writer.tumblr.com/post/706492122017267712/six-analysis-part-3

Part 4 = https://random-bi-writer.tumblr.com/post/706595192219762688/six-analysis-part-4

Fifth thing to check is the Achievements. I’m only checking the ones that look interesting.

Achievements from the first game.

The Prison =  Look how the canary has flown its cage!

- Canaries symbolizes happiness, joy, selflessness, and compassion.

The Lair =  Little lost things sometimes find their way home.

- This kind off implies that Six and the Janitor are connected to each other.

The Lady’s Quarters =  A storm is coming. That coat should come in useful.

- I’m not sure if the storm they’re refering to is the Lady or the North Wind, but this implies that the coat Six is wearing is literally protecting her from danger.

Light Up Your Life =  Not all lights can be trusted, but these should be quite safe!

- This reminds me of the hunger scenes for some reason.

Little Lost Things =  Kindness will be your undoing!

- This is the world telling Six to stop being kind.

Kitchen Hand =  The recipe is complete, the feast will be divine.

- This implies that either Six is interested in cooking and decided to ignore the risk of getting caught, she saw what the chefs are cooking and didn’t like it and wants to change it, or this was reference to her deleted backstory where she used to work for the Maw.

Six’s Song =  So many keys, yet none to unlock your cage!

- There is no way this isn’t a reference to Mono. I know that Little Nightmares was originally going to be called Hunger. I know for a fact that Mono was never going to exist in that until someone decided that they should give Six more trauma.

Hard to the Core =  What’s different about you? Why are you so brave?

- It’s the trauma.

Achievements in LN2 that involved Six. Again, I’ll be pointing out the really interesting ones.

True Colors =  You never know when you need protection from the elements.

- Again, this really implies that the raincoat Six is wearing is literally protecting her from harm.

Also,  Yellow is a color associated with sun. It symbolizes optimism, energy, joy, happiness and friendship. It might also stand for intellect. On the contrary, yellow can indicate jealousy, betrayal, illness and danger.

I hate it here.

X Best Friends =  I see through you...

- First glance this achievement is cute, just little babies holding hands, but then I really thought about it.

When you put an “X” in a relationship related word, that usually means that there is no relationship.

So turn “X Best Friends” into “Ex- Best Friends” and suddenly this brings the achievement and it’s description a whole new meaning.

[the-firebird69]

Watch "The Charge - All Quiet on the Western Front (2/10) Movie CLIP (1930) HD" on YouTube

And this is from world war I it's a remake some of the scenes are real and we're made to look like a movie because they're evil we got really mad instead of making real scenes and they get their asses handed to them. Also is going on is they're figuring out that they're wrong but a few things but they can't figure out why it said that they started riding and tried to include us and it's true. And they were her doing it by the Max and they're going to get beat up they say and they didn't have them do it and suddenly they realize what it is these pukes can't fight most others won't fight or don't have it in them so they called them again like in world war I and the max figured it out and they have been going after them and bombing their bases and in the eastern hemisphere they're down to about 10%. That's areas of operation that have bases below and anywhere outside the city usually does and that's what they're hitting including the small ones which are less than a mile by a mile there's millions and they are hitting them and they're going through them now. So our son put this out and said he heard you're going to try and attack them and this is what it's like because it is you're in the trenches Tommy f is too and you don't know it and your mouth is proving you don't know it is wicked but you're saying and it's not helping you they're a huge bunker complexes that remain and we attacked only a few that were partly built and several were abandoned in the North it's only about 15% of their total roughly about 14.5% and they're building more right now elsewhere so we have to stay on top of it but really nobody is addressing it at all and they'll make the switch and Tommy f will be out and have bunkers around his ships and he saw it and was amazed and there's a war on right now and the morlock are prepping for an offensive against the max and they want to go and grab key figures to try and delete bunkers and take them over on the east coast it's going to be kind of tough when they're trapped on the islands

Thor Freya

Olympus

Zues Hera

We have tons of stuff going on huge things to do and we have a massive number of people that are bothering us and now I know who and why it's the empire we have to calm down on our friend here it is completely wrong and he's right and he's mad at us and he should be it's not that mad but we should be really really mad that we did this to him and keep doing it she is very wrong they're down on the island and they're doing the same thing they have tons of stuff there the cavernous humongous it's almost full of Max it's terrible our judgment is completely wrong

Trump

You look really stupid Trump and I do too they're still yelling at our friend here because he is saying stuff but he wants us to wait for him because we're sitting on this and I guess we're not sitting on it anymore and it was abhorsnt for us to do so. Let's see what he's saying you want to take over his body because ours suck we have those plans but we don't really think we'll follow through on them but they're the only ones that make sense he says I got to tell you what it kind of just true no it's very true that it sounds that way and we're not really doing that

Dan

What's awful is they've been saying it the whole time and we've been praying to take over and these idiots look like they're trying to do it the whole time sometimes they are and Tommy f has been switching their bodies out and people are doing it so you don't want to you get trapped and you get caught and tons of stuff they did things to people who didn't and you don't have your own people as support and you don't have them and it would be apparent readily that's the part that really hung them up finally I said people find out in seconds you're moving different you sound different and he says they're going to threaten my brain and I just don't have the energy to make someone look like me and father doesn't either but they want to turn my brain remotely and she said they're doing that too and it does not work you're kind of helpless there it's just whatever is going on that day so it's happening that way and people say how do we know you have your brain and they start hitting you she says or someone else's and it doesn't work and tons of people are angry that you will just walking by it's a weird feeling you can feel them looking at you and they're saying we want you dead and Uncle Paul just said saw her and to set saw her and said you need to leave me to where you were from she said I don't know if I can do that and he said don't worry you will so he tried to figure it out and couldn't it was too fast and she got overloaded but with clothes so big sense. Now it's going to be on and they're all saying it and the sun will be safer but we're watching out for people who would take his body and a lot of people here are desperate and they're still saying it you still believe they might try it and we can stop them but we don't want him to go through it but the clones are different and do this thing to people a lot and these people don't do that anymore you used to they used to but not really themselves and yeah they're not really into it but the clones are

They're preparing an attack on the max and they want to take back their territory and I'm actually saying don't you have them to worry about and they say you're stronger than them with bunches you can beat them and it's true and so it's a crisis they have huge armies ready and they're going to go after them and it will probably get them down to 4%

Thor Freya

Olympus

Zues Hera

It says some of the max are sick and we do see that and they're helping to get rid of their own and the clones are out of control some say and it's going on like that too but really it's not much of that and his forces seem to be very powerful but we don't know anything about how it's working he could be manipulating them because they're smart but at least smart at least he is smart and he might be the only one and his wife possibly and seen her and she is sharp as attack it could be just that manipulating monstrous and I've seen it happen he's doing it with the crabs so I don't want to say why but I can say it later

Trump

We have a huge number of things to do is important so we're going to publish

Thor Freya

[mahoetei]

Mahoe’s Note: I’m back! Apparently. I’m slowly working on old stuff I just didn’t finish last time I was here, but for now, here’s something for anyone who might still be lurking here. 

I’ll probably do a fair few for this theme, a couple more One Piece are already in the works and I’ll do some for a few other fandoms too. So if anyone has any characters in mind they’d like to see do let me know and I’ll see what I settle on. I overwrote for this too, I’m sorry.

Notice! - this is a rework/repost of my writing from my old blogs, some of which have been deleted and some which are still around but inactive. I want to redo these so they’re following me over here and are better written than they used to be.

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Warnings: Swearing, spoilers for some TV shows? A few references to adult activities I guess? So maybe the tiniest bit of NSFW? 

Themes/Incudes: Modern AU, Domestic Life

Word Count: 1801

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Living with... Eustass Kid

Lives in a flat, not a house. Probably one of the flats above a corner shop or takeaway place that looks a bit ugly from the outside. It’s a cheap rental flat, probably with a boat load of problems the landlord just isn’t going to fix, but it’s home and it gets the job done.

The flat is in a rough city central location, but it’s still an area where everyone looks out for one another. It’s a weirdly tight knit community with the odd petty crime and those ‘unfavourable types’ hanging around. 

I genuinely see Kid living in Scotland or the North/North East of England. Maybe the Midlands or somewhere in Ireland too. Places with some rough little areas, but good people that’ll bend over backwards for you at the same time? It’s hard to explain.

You will forever have mixed feelings over your decision to move in with Kid. Sometimes living with him is the greatest, but, the rest of the time you want to just smother him in his sleep.

Arguments are bound to happen every single day and they’ll often be over the pettiest of reasons. You walked past the TV screen while he was gaming online? Instant argument. You didn’t put his beer in the fridge so he has to drink the room temperature stuff? Oh boy, he’s pissed. He’s left the toilet seat up and you’re giving him grief over it? Absolute screaming match.

“Y/N, where the hell is the bread?” “Oh, we ran out,” “Fucks sake! Why the fuck did you not go out and buy more then!?”

Don’t take these arguments to heart too much, they really don’t matter to him, the need to bitch is just in Kid’s nature.

Thankfully, very serious arguments are a rarity but they are the scariest.

Your neighbours genuinely really hate you both, I’m sorry, it’s true. They’re praying for the day you’ll move out and inconvenience someone else.

Probably have had the police called out to your home for being such disruptive neighbours. Don’t expect Kid to apologise in these situations, he really doesn’t care about your neighbours feelings. In fact, he’s likely to go out of his way to be an even worse neighbour the more he knows he’s getting under their skin.

The amount of apologies you have had to make to the community is absolutely sinful, but someone has to do it and you’re kidding yourself if you think Kid will. Sorry is a word that barely makes it into his vocabulary and is reserved for the worst of fuckups.  

Has been arrested for giving the coppers a hard time on these home visits and is on a first name basis with most of the police in your town.

Your neighbours will hear absolutely everything that you guys do, so try not to be too embarrassed. Kid doesn’t have an inside voice and borderline shouts every other word so no matter whether you’re in the middle of a heated argument or are getting down and dirty, they just know.

Nights at home consist of junk food, the occasional takeaway and raunchy TV series’. Game of Thrones, The Boys, basically anything with explicit sex scenes, nudity and bloody violence has Kid super game. He’ll indulge you with series like Bridgerton and True Blood if they’re your cup of tea. For the tits, he’ll absolutely power through.

However, Kid will complain if you want to watch something that’s not to his taste at all, namely cheesy chick flicks or long period dramas with no action whatsoever. He’d honestly rather die.

Despite that, he secretly really enjoyed Grey’s Anatomy. All the doctors just fuck each other and do surgery all day, so he thinks it’s a little cool.

He was absolutely not okay when McDreamy died, he had to excuse himself to hide in the bathroom for five minutes just so you wouldn’t see, and refused to watch past that point. Fuck Grey’s Anatomy and fuck TV script writers.  

Was exactly the same over Ned Stark death, but he did manage to power on and keep watching through to the end. 

Metal music is played almost constantly throughout the day. Rock too, especially glam and classic rock, but never anything else.

Date nights usually consist of going into town to get drunk at various pubs before partying the night away at all the nightclubs in the area, no matter how sleazy the places are. Going to gigs and festivals are also extremely common.

If you’re at a gig or a festival, Kid will let you sit on his shoulders so you have the absolute best view. He’ll also use his strength to push forward to the very front so you’re as close to the stage as possible. Praise him for this or he’ll get pouty.

If anyone tries to squeeze your bum or touch you inappropriately in any way while you’re sitting on his shoulders, Kid will beat the absolute shit out of them. No one’s cupping a feel without being punished severely afterwards. Same goes for if you’re crowd surfing, the minute he sees any hands creeping where they shouldn’t or trying to pull you down, he’s there with fists flying.

Kid will also accompany you to any gigs for musicians he’s not the biggest fan of, but expect him to stand there looking annoyed and miserable. It’s the handsome boy bands that he hates taking you to see the most, he gets far too jealous.  

As a couple you have the most basic weekly routine that you had to make up to keep the household functional. Yes, you had to make it, Kid certainly wouldn’t. All household chores are to be done by Sunday at the latest and grocery shopping has to be done the same day so you don’t starve for the rest of the week or spend all of your money on takeaway. Sunday’s are always primetime for the most arguments because of this.

Kid is in charge of taking all of the bins out and he hates it. You’re pretty much on your own for the rest of the cleaning.

Expect him to make a lot of mess because Kid is entirely incapable of tidying up after himself. He’ll leave his clothes all over the floor, bread crumbs all over the bench and if he misses when he does try to throw something into the bin it’ll sit on the floor until you tend to it.

Kid doesn’t know how to work a washing machine but he’ll hang the clean clothes on the washing line or put them on the radiators to dry for you.

Kid is the type of guy who leaves crumbs in the butter and puts plates with food still on them straight into the sink.

Killer is always over at the flat. Always. And Kid wouldn’t have it any other way. At this point, Killer may as well just move into your spare room because the two are always hanging out together.

Mornings are ridiculously hectic because both of you want to use the bathroom first. Don’t waste your time, Kid will often win because he’ll just wrestle you back down into bed and then sprint down the hallway to the bathroom before you’ve even had the chance to get back up.

If you’re not gaming or watching TV together, you’re listening to music and doing cute creative hobbies. Kid surprisingly likes to make jewellery, often pretty but Gothic in design. He’ll give you some of it and sell the rest on Etsy or eBay.

Kid can draw very very well. Mostly he focuses on mechanical looking designs, but sometimes he’ll just sit and draw detailed sketchings of you while you’re distracted doing something else. If you ask he’ll spend some time teaching you how to draw too, he’s not a patient or kind teacher though.

Kid is a fairly frequent Snapchat and Instagram user. He’ll post the standard stuff like photos from a recent gig he attended, pictures of his art and a snap of the coolest addition to his growing weapons collection. But of course there are the couple selfies too and photos of you bending over to pick something up from the floor with a caption like ‘my view when I’m fucking them tonight’. He may or may not delete those depending on how nicely you ask him. 

Kid often gets banned from social media and from online gaming for periods of time. During these periods Kid gets extra volatile because he’s so bored. He’ll also get extra horny because in his mind all he can do is watch porn and fuck. So, beware, he will hound you.

He either stays up stupidly late which makes him extra grumpy in the morning or he’ll go to bed at the same time as you so he can get away with cuddling without it being seen as him being cute or romantic.

Your home is usually messy and chaotic, I’m sorry, it’s just the truth. No matter what kind of cleaning you do, Kid does not care enough about it and really isn’t going to pull his weight. People best not come to his flat if they’re going to bitch at him about his mess; he’ll gladly tell anyone who does to fuck off.

Kid will get rid of any spiders for you if you’re frightened of them, he’s your reliable pest controlling man, so don’t worry. But he will definitely tease you during and after disposing of it. He also might pretend like he’s going to come over and throw the spider at you to scare you a bit, but honestly, he 100% wouldn’t follow through because he knows you might break up with him or at least put a sex ban on him for a while if he did. He’s really not going to risk that.

Honestly a sex ban is probably the easiest way to get him to comply, but you can’t use it too much or he’ll wise up and know you’re full of shit. 

Speaking of sex, the man has quite the libido and the stamina to match. You have to keep up with all of his wants and needs, but he’s not selfish enough to not tend to yours. 

Fucking is for every day/night of the week and he will be outraged if you try to to make any sort of schedule for it. When he’s got the urge, and that’s often, he’ll come to you. He’s not going to wait for Wednesday night after work and dinner. Fuck that.