#YKNOW LIKE THE NURSERY RHYME

[puppyeared]

Gripped with ideas but….. the panelling………….

[chuckle-clips]

Schlatt: This kid didn’t know what six times five was, yknow?

Ted: Yeah. 

Schlatt: Like that kinda shit. 

Ted: God, yeah. Twenty five. 

Schlatt: No. No. 

Ted: What?

Schlatt: What? Ted. Ted. 

Ted: You know the old nursery rhyme. 

Schlatt: Huh?

Ted: [Singing] Six times five equals twenty five. 

Schlatt: We’re gonna go right on ahead—

Ted: [Singing] Watch out, or you won’t be alive. 

Schlatt: No! That would never… 

Ted: [Singing] Always make sure to drink and drive. 

Schlatt: That would never be in a nursery rhyme. Why would— why would any nursery rhyme be about not being alive? Then again—

Ted: [Singing] It’s only a crime if you’re caught. 

[Both laugh]

[externalacousticmeatus]

OK GUYS so yknow in urinetown how cop song is basically just rain rain go away?a little while ago i noticed this, the “julie cassidy” part is almost identical.

a few months before that, when i was some research into urinetown’s uses of the dies irae (i was head dramaturg), i noticed that one of the places where that motif was used is in cop song. the 4 notes used in “julie cassidy” follows the exact pattern of the dies irae. for context, the dies irae is an ancient chant, and the first four notes are used EVERYWHERE to foreshadow death. So i looked at the sheet music for cop song, rain rain go away, and the dies irae, and they all follow this pattern. they aren’t IDENTICAL, but they’re very similar.

this seems like a fun silly thing, and don’t worry, it is. BUT THINK ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS!! the dies irae is used to symbolize death. in urinetown, it shows that death is urinetown, and in cop song specifically it’s used to show that the cops are literally just killing people. so…why is it used in this nursery rhyme? honestly? i have no idea. it’s probably a coincidence. this lead me down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out if this was the same song as “it’s raining it’s pouring the old man is snoring”, and i couldn’t really get a clear answer. i know when i was younger i sang them together, and they are pretty similar musically, but when i asked a lot of my friends and peers they always thought of those two songs as separate. it turns out there aren’t really set lyrics for nursery rhymes online, so when i couldn’t really get anywhere with that. if for some reason they ARE actually the same song, does this imply that the story is somehow related to death??? that the old man who bumps his head dies??? i know when I was a kid I always sang “didn’t wake up in the morning” as in he died in his sleep, but i asked my friends what they thought happened to the old man when they were younger, and they either didn’t thinking about it that much or that they sang “didn’t get up till the morning”. so i’m not sure.

tldr: cop song=rain rain go away=the dies irae. the internet is very vague when it comes to nursery rhymes. i’m losing my mind.

[gin-juice-tonic]

Mabel: It’s raining

Dipper: It’s pouring

[ENTER SOOS] Soos: Dudes, wouldnt it be so funny if Mr Pines was snoring right now?

Dipper, Confused: Why would that be…? 

Soos, Smiling: Cause he’s an old man

Dipper, Smiling: Oh! Like the nursery rhyme 

Soos: Yeah, that’s what I was getting at

Mabel, Smiling: He probably IS snoring. Good one Soos.

Dipper: Yeah, that’s pretty funny. You have to think a little…

Soos: Yeah it’s like, a bit of a thinker…

ALL 3 SWITCH TO PERTURBED EXPRESSIONS

Dipper, tired: Everyone bored out of their minds, say “Aye”

Soos and Mabel, distraught: Aye. 

[PERSPECTIVE SWITCHES TO INSIDE THE SHACK, BEHIND THE 3 OF THEM. THEYRE STILL LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW]

Soos smiling: Yknow, I heard that ninjas used to train by running out into rainstorms and dodging all the drops of water! Maybe thats what we should do. 

Dipper laughing: I dont think that's possible man

Soos smugly grinning: You dont know ninjas dude. They dont know the meaning of impossible!  They actually had to have the part of their brain that knows the definition of impossible removed, just so they’d never again know!

Soos shakes his head solemnly: Such dedication to their craft… Ninja-ing is truly a lost art. 

Soos, smiling and thinking: For us though, we’d probably have to work our way up to raindrops.

Dipper: maybe with something that wouldnt take brain removal to dodge. 

Mabel, excited: Oh, I know!

[MABEL RUNS OFFSCREEN] 

[SOOS AND DIPPER LOOK AT EACH OTHER]

[SUDDENLY, A SMALL QUICK OBJECT HITS THE FLOOR, BOUNCES UP AND STRIKES THE WALL NEXT TO DIPPERS HEAD AND BOUNCES AWAY - [DIPPER LETS OUT A YELP AND FALLS TO THE SIDE] 

[CUT TO MABEL CATCHING THE OBJECT AND GRINNING TRIUMPHANTLY - THE OBJECT IS REVEALED TO BE A BOUNCY BALL (branded: bounce-eez)] 

[ZOOM OUT TO SHOW THE BACKS OF SOOS AND DIPPERS HEADS, WITH MABEL STILL AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE ROOM SMILING] - [DIPPER AND SOOS TURN TO EACH OTHER AND SMILE]

[NEW SCENE] 

[ONE OF THE HALLWAYS IN THE MYSTERY SHACK] 

[SHOT OF MABEL STANDING SOMEWHERE HIGH UP (maybe she climbed a shelf?)]

[MABEL IS HOLDING MANY BOUNCY BALLS USING HER SWEATER AS A BOWL. WADDLES IS NEXT TO HER CHEWING ON A BALL.]

Mabel: READY?

[SHOT OF DIPPER AND SOOS BELOW, DIPPER IS STANDING WITH HIS EYES CLOSED IN WHAT HE APPARENTLY BELIEVES TO BE SOME KIND OF COOL NINJA STANCE. PROBABLY NARUTO RELATED. SOOS IS LOOKING NORMAL] 

[DIPPER OPENS HIS EYES AND TRIES TO COOL-LY SAY]: Ready. 

Soos: Ninja-dom here I come! 

Mabel: FIRE AT WILL! I mean- FIRE AT DIPPER AND SOOS! [MABEL LAUNCHES A BARRAGE OF BOUNCY BALLS AT THE BOYS] 

[THEYRE DODGING THEM PRETTY WELL]

[CUTS OF RANDOM OBJECTS IN THE SHACK BEING HIT AND GETTING KNOCKED OVER, NO ONE SEEMS TO NOTICE OR CARE] 

[ENTER, GRUNKLE STAN, HOLDING A LARGE PILE OF THINGS]

Stan: Hey kids!  Look what I f- 

[STAN IS HIT BY A DELUGE OF BOUNCY BALLS]

Stan: AH! GAH!!!!

[STAN’S PILE FALLS ON HIM AND HE FALLS TO THE FLOOR, OFFSCREEN] 

[SOOS, MABEL, AND DIPPER GRIMACE] 

Soos: Mister Pines!!! Are you okay???

Stan, offscreen: Just… give me a couple of minutes to shift my ribs back into place. 

[HORRIBLE NOISES ARE HEARD]

[MABEL AND DIPPER LOOK IN CONFUSED HORROR, SOOS LOOKS ADMIRINGLY]

[COMMERCIAL BREAK] 

[NEW SCENE] 

[SITTING ROOM IN THE MYSTERY SHACK] 

[SHOT OF EVERYONE CURIOUSLY CROWDED AROUND STAN WHILE HE FIDDLES WITH SOME OFFSCREEN OBJECTS]

Stan: Here we go.

[STAN HOLDS UP A DUSTY AND COBWEBBED CONTAINER LABELED...

[lolotheparagon]

One of the dumbest things I think you've ever said was that cartoon fans hate children because they don't like how certain child characters are written or because they think a reboot of a kids show is badly written. Like, you do understand there's a difference, right? Yeah, I totally want children dead or something because I children's entertainment can be better than those soulless, ugly nursery rhyme compilation videos that children are addicted to. Logic.

Cartoon fans always have a warped idea how children actually are. Because they forget WE WERE kids. Whenever they see a little kid character who is slightly overbearing and overenergetic, yknow what a little kid IS, the fandom calls the character "annoying", "brat" etc. And god forbid if a teenage character was their point of contention

I remember watching Transformers Prime and I thought Miko was my fave out of the human teens the Autobots looked after. Yet Ive seen so many fans complaining she was a rude, impulsive, bratty bitch and found her excitable attitude around the Autobots "annoying" because how DARE a 14 year old acts stupid and is excited to hang out with giant robots.

And this stems to how cartoon fans view children who are fans as well. I was in the brony fandom and I noticed whenever the show introduced more characters or spin offs for the sake of toys, a lot of bronies groaned how its so "girly" and "not what the show is" aka anything remotely marketable and feminine whatsoever. And they got mad when kids loved it cos it reminded them they're watching a girl's show. They outright pilloried G3 fans for liking such a baby's show when Friendship is Magic is literally no different than g3 outside of more consistent characters and its funnier. Heck, even when G5 came along and there was a poll of who their fave main character was and Pipp, the most feminine of the group who was a social media savant, had the least votes. Whereas Izzy, the g5 Pinkie Pie, was at no. 1. (which goes to show how cartoon fanbases are extremely biased to wacky comic relief characters with quasi-neurodivergent traits) Also I was exposed to a lot of fucked up shit, the porn of this fandom was unfiltered and incredibly easy to access on youtube and google. (this was before youtube kids was a thing) This is the same fandom that brought us Cupcakes and Fallout Equestria and Rarity's New Designs. All from a show thats about horse puppies being friends. And as for the little kids who were surrounded by this content, no wonder they grew up traumatised. Cos bronies didnt give a single pissing shit about the children. Look up brony horror stories. You'll see why.

Cartoon fandoms have this preconceived notion to muscle children out of the picture as possible so they can feel more secure watching kids shows without their parents judging them. They hate being reminded that the stuff they watch IS FOR KIDS IN THE FIRST PLACE. But the problem is 75% of media out there is made for children in mind. Star Wars, Disney, Pixar movies, Dreamworks movies, Batman, Spiderman, Marvel, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Transformers etc.

As for the bad reboot angle, I always firmly believed the phrase "This X REBOOT RUINED MY CHILDHOOD" is always a defensive way of saying: "THIS CHILDRENS PROPERTY IS NOT IMMEDIATELY CATERING TO ME >:(" Like they treat a reboot like its an act of betrayal when its just a piece of media changing and evolving with the generations to appeal to the newer ones. If you want the same show you watched as a kid, just watch the original thing on youtube or collect dvds and merch of it. But if you want to watch this reboot, you've got to realise change is what reboots do and if you get mad at the small/big changes a reboot makes...

You're literally Patchy in this scene

As long as a show doesnt push racist/sexist/bigoted or any problematic themes in their faces, its fine. If the kids love it, the reboots done its job.

And as for the quality of children's entertainment, I dont really give a shit what soulless nursery rhyme collection or sanitised fluff kids watch. We all had our mindless fluff we watched as kids and we didnt get scarred for life because of it.

Just...leave the kids alone. Just act like adults and manage your shit carefully. Let the kids enjoy what they enjoy and for the love of god DONT GET SO FUCKING DEFENSIVE OVER LIKING A CARTOON AIMED AT BABIES. ITS ONLY WEIRD WHEN YOU MAKE IT WEIRD.

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

so this here is auggie: semi finalized!!! halliwell's... probably? not going to be his last name but i had no clue what surname to give him so its acting as a stand in aaa

so this is the blorbo. the new bsd oc i have been working on. from the fanfic i am Struggling with. same guy from the Art a while ago. august (i like the month okay) whatever last name i decide on at a later date.

notes!

his ability is called lucy locket! i actually came up with the ability's function first, and then i found that it fit pretty well. basically its a pocket dimension accessed via the users pockets. so far it has infinite storage, but whatever is added or removed at the present moment has to have been able to fit in the pocket originally. so you cant add/remove a large waterbottle from tiny jean pockets, for example. i like to think it only works when august himself pulls something out or puts something in. so. yknow. "not a penny was there in it, only ribbon round it". hehe

hes 25 because as much as a harp on bsd i also suck with ages so i rng-ed a number between 21 and 27 chcbdj

his birthday is june 21st! stole that from james orchard halliwell (see where that came from now) phillipps, bc he was the first to record the nursery rhyme. i also think him being born on the summer solstice in june but being named august is soo funny.

forgot to add it in correctly but his height is 5'8! that's about 173 cm? i think? i rounded it up technically its only like. 172.72?

168??? pounds??? which is apparently like 76kg? look i have no clue how weights work either i just took my own weight looked up the average for an adult and made something up. dont expect it to make sense.

bloodtype is a! i thought it was weird that the blood types were mentioned at all in the character bios but then i remembered the whole stereotype thing so i just picked whatever i thought fit.

he likes goldfish (hence the socks and earrings), rice (its rice), and hats (because they are so neat)! i was thinking about funny sock patterns and then i was looking at the wiki page for catherine maria fischer (the supposed kitty fisher in the nursery rhyme) and one of her paintings had a fishbowl in it. and then i thought about yoimiya because i had been drawing her before and. yknow. he definitely does has a small hat collection, but he'd rather them not be damaged at work. theyre saved for parties and formal gatherings!

dislikes are long explanations, pollen (allergy 😔), and unpleasant textures (like bedsheets that give you the Feeling when you scratch them). he likes it when people get to the point, and im projecting my own sensory issues onto him hxjsj

moving on we have design notes!

so here's our boy.

starting with the shirt, its actually based on one of the shirts i own. it's got the solid torso and the loose sheer sleeves, and i thought that was neat! though for him i think the sleeves would be a bit more opaque, and he's wearing a vest!

as for the tie you can see i noted that it's a bit of a cross between a criss cross tie and like... a sailor tie? i know it says bolo but thats because the word i was looking for was Tie Brooch for the pendant in the middle.

the cargo shorts!!! so obviously to best use his ability august needs something with rather large pockets, but i didn't know how to add those in. initially i wanted to go with some tights or normal slacks and have him wear a hoodie, but it was kind of... eh? so i tried cargo pants but those didn't work either. so then i tried on shorts and i Realized what needed to be done fhdjjws

knee high socks! i asked what how silly we should get with them and eni said knee highs and nobody said ankle with silly patterns so i combined the two! i think the combination is really funny.

the shoes! theyre just sneakers. comfy!

moving on

i dont actually like this doodle but we're gonna have to bear with it augu

the earrings! theyre little fishies! initially i had different earrings planned but i wanted the fish socks to match with something hdhdhdh

hair tie! august has got the rest of his hair tied up with a little bow. i think its cute bfbdbd

and so you can see what i meant, here's the page of concepts i did!

you can see the cargo pants, the hoodie, as well as the old earring design. i was playing around with the sleeves for a while xhdhhs

plus i got silly with one so maybe ill do smth with that at some point idk idk

[vacantgodling]

I'm sorry but did I miss something ?? Noble ?? Hello 👀👀

OOOO NOBLE MY BELOVED

so i've actually had noble as a story for a LONG time. a long long time. however i've been extremely intimidated to write it and plan it out because scifi isn't really my... forte? i feel like it should be easy to make a scifi or a space opera but my brain just gets caught up in all the details and i never end up moving forward with them HAHA. but i'm trying to get out of that because writing is supposed to be FUN.

anyway tho, onto noble. just gonna stick this under a cut bc its LONG to ramble and spoilers or whatever bc i never have an excuse to talk about this story and ahhhh i love my son

firstly its called noble because (1) its a story about fuck the government and doing whats right and (2) its a play on noh's name, which is literally pronounced 'noble' (for the most part) when you put it all together.

in this universe earth has kind of been fucked; no one is really born on earth anymore bc the planet has gone to shit and the radiation is so bad and people who still live on the planet are usually sent there as prisoners (so earth is space australia but literally) or they're unlucky enough to be born there. noh was born on earth (though he doesn't remember this) however, he was taken in by the overarching... uh idk space police state government thing. i haven't thought about what it is too much lmao. anyway, babies are usually taken from earth if they have a good aptitude (aka they survived lmao) and since they're abandoned anyway they're indited into our FAVORITE super soldier program.

this program is called JACK and JILL.

the jack and jill program is an elite super soldier police force program where jacks are the brains and jills are the brawn. they go around enforcing laws, doing drug busts, keeping the "peace" around the galaxy etc etc. however, they always go in pairs just like the nursery rhyme jack and jill, and most jacks and jills are trained together from infancy to make sure that they're 100% in sync.

again, this is all shit noh doesn't remember, but he used to be a JILL. his JACK was a woman named amelia rottney. however something happened and he, amelia and some of their other companions (two other jack & jill units comprised of ethan summers (the jack) and iodine mary evelyn (the jill) and neso/neon (so technically speaking and i have to do more research into this to make sure that i am portraying this correctly but neso/neon are a DID system, but bc both the alter (neon) and the host (neso) operate together p well for the most part, they're the only "solo bodied" jack/jill unit. also speaking of representation, noh is mute! he mainly communicates with sign language but he does have implants; which got fucked up when he was first initially found but he eventually gets new ones but this is off topic).

but they all discovered some fucked up shit about the government and wanted to bring it to light obvs (i mean the fact that none of them knew that they were all p much stolen orphans is Bad Probably) however the government got to them first and sought to eliminate them. they all scattered p much, but noh p much sacrificed himself to let the others escape so they tortured him and erased his memory and then left him adrift in space to die. however in like a weird ass ploy to keep power they basically painted noh & co as terrorists that were trying to disrupt the peace of the cosmos, so they offered a reward/bounty for noh & co dead or alive-even though they knew they set him adrift and for all intents and purposes the government isn't looking for him he's dead.

until he's yknow. not dead. since yknow. he was found by a cargo vessel adrift and was able to be saved. tm.

so the whole story is kind of noh being on the run/trying to stay on the DL while he tries to figure out what in the sam hell is going on and then eventually reuniting with his friends and fucking this government up the ass in a bad way.

he also ends up befriending and eventually getting into a relationship with a space pirate rouge thing (i have so much worldbuilding to do its not even funny lmaooooo) named emerion jackson and idk i love their relationship a lot i rotate them in my head LMAO.

but yeah so that's the Extended Cut of what noble is about, maybe i will make this into a coherent wip intro one day LMAOOOO

[the-technicolor-whiscash]

I have the only unique experience with learning about Lizzie Borden yeah my grandmother was from Fall River and my great grandparents are buried in the same cemetery as Borden and her parents lmao so when we went to visit once as a kid my dad was like “hey have you ever heard [the nursery rhyme]” and then yknow, scarred my brother and me for a little bit.

[skullkxd]

“Exactly. Family takes care of family, blood or not.”

and Ree’s family is … not.

they prefer it that way, really. It means their family chose them, and aren’t obligated to be there out of some twisted sense of duty.

The rice cooks. Ree hums some sort of nursery rhyme Renji used to sing.

“I already know that. You guys are like; way above my level,�� they point out. “An’ I know you can’t talk about some stuff. That’s fine with me. Boss is the same way. So is Silva. So am I. Yknow?”

Ree extends thanks to pikachu for the rice, scooping some out — they don’t bother to measure it — before they look back to red, watching him talk. They snort softly and look back to the oven, turning it on.

“Well, you’re family. Course I know how to take care of you. Besides, you’ve taken care of me like a hundred thousand times now.”

The rice is being cooked. They probably should have used the rice cooker, but this is how Renji did it. Ree turns back to Red and leans on the counter, mitigating the weight from their bad leg.

“… can I do anythin’ else?”

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

ive noticed arjuna is like one soft breeze away from being fully in bart's strike zone

[tracle0]

Last line :D

Tagged by the tremendously cool @thatfizzyyyy​ who hey man I said it already but I REALLY loved your bit and the way you repeated ‘that girl’? Super cool. Check it out if you haven’t already!

Surprisingly, the last thing I wrote as for DRSW cause... Nano, you know? 

Something Ant had found out back when they had been willing to experiment and work with their voice rather than against it, was that Silvertongue influence didn’t work in other languages, which was why, as they walked, feet sinking into the sand, they sang under their breath in Spanish.

 Tagging: @joyful-soul-collector @albatris @kaatiba @hyba @raevenlywrites

[klanceisviolet]

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vent in tags

[wtfgaylittlezooid]

Yknow what infodump time

Bete Noir

Yes that is their actual name. They are trans and picked it themself. What gender do they identify as? They don’t know, but they identify with scarecrows a lot so that’s it.

They are their town’s ghost type gym leader (what town? What region? Idk) and are the resident cryptid and even bogeyman. They don’t go out of their way to frighten children, but if they see a parent saying they’re going to send their ghosties or even worse- go for the kid themself, then it’s not their fault if they indulge!

Their main partner is a Cacturne, but since they can’t battle with it in their gym, they use it to help train their gym members due to its dark typing. They also LOVE to play a game called “statues” with the Cacturne, where they simply try to catch the other moving. Because of this, Bete is insanely good at not moving. Any position: standing, sitting, lying, hell- they can hold their breath for 10 minutes at a time in order to be truly still.

So what’s the living scarecrow’s actual gym like? A fake corn maze! Challengers must venture through the maze and shake the scarecrows to find notes detailing where through the corn they must walk to find the next area. Bete also has various wild ghost types hiding among the corn to steer them away from getting lost. Anyway after the third scarecrow, you get the last note and defeat the last challenger and are met with a final scarecrow. When going to shake it, it suddenly grabs you and shakes you back, declaring a battle! that’s what Bete does, and they LOVE the joy of making someone jump from surprise each time

Outside of battling and scares, Bete is a very energetic soul. They’re always talking, moving, or even humming. Unless it’s with people who aren’t challengers or those they know, then they’re dead silent. People are a struggle to talk to and sometimes they just don’t feel like a person. They pick the wrong options when for “people” they don’t have options! They do it naturally! Because of this they don’t like crowded spaces though, it gets stuffy, loud, and overlapping noise is too much for them, so they prefer later times of day or even just the night to go out.

They also have a habit of chewing on wheat and often taking it from their mask and pretending to drag on it like a cigarette. Also nobody has ever seen them out of costume. That along with the “mostly goes out at night” thing earned them their reputation of town bogeyman.

Foster

Named after the nursery rhyme, Doctor Foster, Foster is a retired electric gym leader who now runs a Pokémon rescue! Hurt wild Pokémon, dumped owned Pokémon, whichever the reason why, Foster is there to well… foster it!

He has numerous failed fosters, of course. His mains which stick by him and love to help out in battle and around the rescue are a very motherly and affectionate araquanid, a stray clingy Banette that never reunited with the owner who through it away as a doll, a dumped playful scolipede that got its venom points clipped off, and a deaf battle ready noivern!

Foster is a little bit blunt and honest, often complaining and being a little negative, but he believes you have to see and acknowledge the negative to get to the positive. Despite this he’s still very talkative. He comments on everything, either to compliment or critique. It’s a habit that carried on from his days as gym leader

His rescue has actually supplied numerous Pokémon for Bete’s gym, as the two are close friends and tend to visit and battle often.

I need to redesign my old Pokémon oc and do my new gym leader character… they are friends :)

[oflgtfol]

🔊 for mx hal 9000?

yknow i have spent all day wracking my brain for a song, only with dawning horror to realize that i don’t actually associate any music with him. the only thing i can think of is daisy bell, which feels kind of like cheating since that was literally His Song in the book itself. so it’s less My Own Association and more just, remembering the actual story. so i’ll get back to this if i ever come up with another song of my own but for now i’ll wax poetic about hal + daisy bell i guess

so the hal + daisy bell thing was inspired pretty much entirely by the real computer that sang this song only a few years before 2001 aso was published. this was a huge accomplishment at the time. it makes me want to cry it’s so sweet

and so in 2001 aso this is adapted into the idea that daisy bell was basically like, the computer version of a nursery rhyme, where hal was first “growing up”/building his AI through the use of things like this. and so in the story, while dave is dismantling his memory blocks/essentially lobotomizing hal bit by bit, hal slowly reverts backwards - from the articulate “adult” AI, to singing a nursery rhyme, to basic computer functions like math and numbers, to no longer even being able to do numbers, he’s slowly taken apart. and so by having hal sing daisy bell to dave as dave dismantles him is such a sad and eerie thing. anyway here it is in the movie

in a meta way i also really appreciate associating a robot/AI character with a really old song like this. like im guilty of this myself but when you think of robots its easy to think of all like modern edm probably but to take this song from the 19th century, this jaunty little piano tune, idk i just think its neat

( send me a 🔊 and a character and i'll say a song that reminds me of them )

[bodytoflame-ao3]

Pls ramble in a director’s cut for any of your favorite scenes in Sunnydale Anonymous

no screaming crying bc half of what i want to talk about is either not posted yet or spoilers for what is not posted yet. remind me later to talk about the livejournal entries and uh... way later... the scythe scene (you bet your ass im keepin that)

but ok chapter 7 dream sequence. ok #1... this was so fucking fun to write. like. no joke. ive never done anything this purposefully prose-y and full of hidden meaning. it was actually cool to go into depth describing things like i notice them in my dreams -- cause it's always like the weird specific little shit you remember, yknow?

number TWO i'm OBSESSED with this one analysis on a gifset of faith in that pink dress, and im so mad i cant find it bc its hidden in someones tags!!! but basically the reblogger talks about like faith and the idea of 'being pretty' -- like, she wants to be pretty, but it comes down to the whole idea of nature vs nurture -- does she feel like she can only be "hot" because that's what she's "meant" to be, what she *is*? and i think it mirrors the debate of being a slayer solely in power vs taking on that reponsibility that their arguments often take the form of in s3. but yeah just that idea of wanting to be desired, and how she expresses her femininity and sexuality in direct contrast to it...? yeah, i'm obsessed.

next obviously, we have the ants -- creepy-crawlies, check! gotta hit the nail on the head with the tiny weird/unsettling part of these dreams, but also, what buffy mentions about worker ants being female -- direct representation of the slayers; they start out as one or two, and then it's *all* of them. also thought it was cute and fitting to mirror a nursery rhyme with well,,,, ants marching,,, considering how the show's dream sequences often have a child-like nature and most specifically the mention of "little miss muffet" to represent dawn -- clearly premonitions of Very Important Things happen in the dreams of these two, and i didn't want to not follow through on that.

purple hyacinths are a symbol of forgiveness and i think a lot about their scene with the scythe in that sense a lot -- buffy coming to terms with sharing her power with faith as she realizes she'll be accepting the potentials as slayers too. so i knew i 100% had to mimic that conversation both in a prophetic sense and to really hammer home the metaphor -- i think the faith i'm writing, the one who is really still a work in progress in terms of how she expresses herself emotionally (very much inbetween her canon iterations of s3-s7). forgiveness is the one emotion she hasn't quite pinned down -- both giving and getting; most notably, forgiving herself. what she did to buffy looms over her in practically everything she does and it isn't something she's going to let herself forget -- and she can't forgive herself yet either. buffy offering her the scythe is i think as much a passing of the torch as it is extending an olive branch, so seeing the same thing in this representation of forgiveness in something as beautiful as a flower rather than a symbol of violence (again, it's about the duality...) felt like something that would be really cool to touch on in a prophetic dream.

[tartagliaxx]

okay off topic, but like,,, twisted wonderland have rlly pretty boys. it's a shame the game doesn't have an english version but ig that's what youtube is for

also, i've been watching a lot of tro, primink and j aubrey and now i've just sort of lost faith in humanity as a whole since apparently it's hard to be a decent human being

oh yeah, have you played any text based interactive fiction games lately? it's always amazing to see other authors come up with such unique ideas and get to expand on it. i've been playing so many demos and some of them are just,,, insanely good

and have you seen this video? imagine being able to edit this well lmao

— r. anon

i have no idea what you're talking about ajsdjaajkasdahj if you have time, can you elaborate? the title sounds great and interesting tho... is it a japanese game? it sounds like it.

again, i have no clue who the fuck those people are but they must be pretty shitty people to have you thinking like that. honestly it's just bewildering how hard it is for some people to be just... good? average? at the very least, not bad? idk like why do they even bother being shitty when they get zero benefits—

ummm like... otome games? the last i played was the arcana but i didn't finish it for some reason that i no longer remember. on another note, i've indulged more recently in some choose-your-own adventure stories and they're like,, so good bc that shit takes up so much effort and brain power seeing as you're not only writing one plot but many of them. that aside, i agree and in a way, all writers are amazing bc writing is just,, hard and even if some people don't 'like' their output, some would and that's just.. heartwarming? ig.

i know about all of these from the insane amounts of procrastinating i did + the combined efforts of my friends to see me bawling in pain. we all knew that the genshin characters are all pretty sad/dark but most don't quite know the extent of it.

abt lisa, my friend told me that THAT is why her constellation and trademark thing is an hourglass and that the reason she's 'lazy' is because she's trying to 'slow down' time. idk if that's canon or a headcanon but it's still highly plausible and it hasn't stopped making me sad ever since. idk but i saw lisa in a new light after that.

yknow,, i once had a phase (probs still on-going) where i just got invested in nursery rhymes and literally,, every single thing targeted for children bc there's so much hidden meaning and dark themes? personally, we have a nursery rhyme in our country that goes smth about cutting someone else's head off but like yknow buttered up nice and silky. i don't know the exact words bc i don't speak the dialect but i once read smth about it in a blog.

ah well, whatever. point is. mhy better give our boys and girls some happiness or at the very least, square the fuck up bc i'm about this close to losing it altogether.

ps. the reason i replied so late? was i late? i think so? was bc i was focused in not letting my underbuilt starter team die in dragonspine. tbh i would've procrastinated a lot longer if kazuha's not knocking by the door. ugh i really should've played w my alt regularly. anw,, sorry 😞 and i probs should go to sleep soon asdhjkafkja