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kirlicues · 3 days ago
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Ivy Brick Manor | Sims 2 Residential Lot Download
This charming 4 bedroom, 3.5 bath manor is a bold combination of textures and colors! It's built on a 4x3 lot, and costs §135,692.
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I'd never used the bright red bricks with the stone accents before because there are not enough pieces to really match. But I was challenged by some comments in a Sims 2 group to play with color a bit more. Well, here is the result !
There's so much to see on the outside, so here's a little tour.
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Conveniently enough there are quite a few tan wallpapers that harmonize with the lighter brick. Never a dull moment when playing a nearly cc-free game!
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Hopefully this has given you some ideas of what to do or not to do with this brick if you weren't sure. 🤣
Now, on to the floor plan! I did some light decorating, but as always, if it's not your style just delete the items and replace them with something else.
1st Floor: Clockwise from left: Garage, bathroom/laundry room, kitchen, living room, family room, entryway, and dining room.
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2nd Floor: Clockwise from left: small 1-bedroom apartment over the garage, master bathroom, kids bathroom, kids bedroom 1, kids bedroom 2, upstairs landing, and master bedroom.
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Ivy Brick Manor: MF | SFS
All EPs and SPs are required.
*I highly recommend that you have the PerfectPlants mod from TwoJeffs*
I’ve run this home through the Lot Compressor so any random references to sims that aren’t there should be removed. I have also run this lot through the Lot Cleaner to remove any bits of buggy code. This lot comes with a shiny custom thumbnail so it has even more curb appeal in your Lots and Houses bin! 😄
This home only has 2 pieces of CC, one of which is a Maxis pre-order bonus for Seasons which you may already have in your game. These can easily be replaced or omitted if you don’t want them though.
CC List (Included): -Functional Washer and Dryer by MustLuvCatz at ModtheSims -Seasons Pre-Order Bonus "Garden Swing of Bliss and Harmony"
I ALWAYS recommend using the Sims 2 Pack Clean installer to install lot files.
Want to improve the look of your game, or grab some “Lost & Found” Maxis objects? Check out this post.
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daynascullys · 18 hours ago
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Hi! I hope you're doing well :D
I'm the anon from the other day.
Soooo, I finally finished season 1 of the show and got started on season 2 and I think I'm about to start biting my laptop soon or something; I have so many feelings about Mulder and Scully and this is not even coming from a shipping standpoint (like do I ship them? of course? but this is something else entirely) I'm just--why are they like THAT??? Like, I think the only times a show has made me feel this level of going feral was Leverage and the later seasons of Person Of Interest.
Right now I'm on episode 4 of season 2 and it's like "separating Mulder and Scully was the first step" and the look on Scully's face when she's on the phone with Mulder and he's talking to his new "partner" and like, episode 1 when Mulder disappears and they're like "of course Scully will find him, we don't need to do anything else, just follow her" and the fact that they did SEPARATE them but nothing they can do can stop them from working together ahsjagaja
When I started to watch the show I was really trying to be casual about it, but I'm afraid that ship has already sailed because I'm going a little insane with every episode I watch.
Not only is Mulder and Scully's whole dynamic just EVERYTHING but also, the story of every episode is just so well balanced with that? I watched the Ghost in the Machine and Ice episodes and then I just had to sit and stare at the wall for a while. I think Ice might be my favorite episode of everything ever; the storyline just stands on its own and it's amazing because I can't think of a lot of shows capable of doing it like that.
On a side note, I also go a little feral with the way Scully acts whenever someone from Mulder's past is introduced, like in episodes 7 and 12 from season 1. Her face always goes something like "What do you mean he worked/knew other people before he met me?" 😂 and that scene on the episode where her father passes away where she just straight up threatens to kill that prisoner if Mulder dies???
I'm sorry for the length of this ask and that is probably barely coherent, I just have a lot of feelings about the show and I genuinely wanted to thank you for like, inadvertently convincing me to finally watch this show.
kfjad;fa; I'm sorry I'm only just seeing this but know I'm sitting here laughing because... yeah. Yeah, this is what happens. Welcome to the madness, we love having you here. 😂
Yes, why are they like THAT, indeed?! It's been studied for 30 years and the truth is still out there waiting to be found.
You might enjoy this old gifset I did when I first watched 2x04 because I couldn't get over that whole episode. And here's Scully meeting Mulder's former partner 😂 Most of the gifs I've done for 1x12 are under #subtlemsr and more will come soon enough <3
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glamorous-egoist · 3 days ago
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So I haven’t been this sad in an episode of a medical drama since a handful of ER episodes. (I won’t spoil for folks who are discovering the show for the first time.)
Literally the saddest hour I’ve experienced in a while. Spoilers under the cut for Ep. 8.
I’ll start with the drowning death because honestly what the hell man…
The little girl who drowned that was agonizing, whoever played the mom? Heartbreaking, like I felt that through the screen. Once again Mel, my girl Mel, watching her sit with the sister actually made me teary eyed, she’s excellent, I love her so much. Like the entire part of the episode with the drowning victim and the sisters, she was so good.
Mel also finally getting relief about Rita and her mother too, I’m glad she came back.
Shifting to Javadi, Santos and Garcia for the Crohn’s Disease patient, which was not GI related. Javadi realizing it was a spider bite and getting the patient the help she needed, while showing off to her mom? Yes! I’m so glad to see her gaining confidence. Javadi is quickly becoming a favorite.
Santos. Nope not going there. I get it, I do, but she’s really bothering me. Kudos to her actress. Also for the record I don’t actively hate her, the writing just makes me really dislike her, I recoil with her behavior. It reminds me a lot of Carter in Season 2 of ER, I would actively cringe when he was on screen with his nonsense.
I am actively rewatching ER as I watch The Pitt, I’d started before The Pitt premiered. This is my third or fourth rewatch of ER, after watching it air live in the 90s/00s. So my crush on Noah has been two decades long in case you’re wondering.
Though kudos to Garcia for standing up for Langdon, I’m glad to see that there is no bad blood just good natured ribbing.
McKay and the weird pair of women, that may or may not be trafficking. It sounds like trafficking though, but her with Dana keeping them apart to try and get to the bottom of it? Love it! But I love Dana, that is my GOAT. Just really curious as to where that’s going?
The pacemaker patient, great little tidbit of history it’s great when a show can do that, this show really has shown the POC struggle and I really have to commend it.
Both Langdon and Robby teaching in that scene, so good no notes. Mohan also, I mean she’s great same with Javadi, all four of them were just excellent. I really love Langdon, I think he’s a great doctor, and I’m excited to see how he develops. But also the fact the pacemaker patient spoke about Adamson, seeing Robby get choked up, I felt that, you can tell it meant a lot. Kudos to Noah and his acting.
Collins, McKay and Santos and the missing finger. Another scene I had to close my eyes for because it was a bit too much. Though the patient hitting on Collins and realizing something was wrong a scene later was quite interesting esp after mentioning he was studying psychology.
Which brings me to Collins, the choice to show her having to get back to work after the miscarriage is hard. It’s hard to know that this is a reality a lot of women face and one that people don’t want to discuss out loud, but we should. I didn’t think she’d finish the shift, but here she is. Also what level of torture is this making her work the damn drowning, you all are out of your damn minds.
I’m really curious on the background with that and Robby, just keep dangling it I guess. Whatever. Pfft. (I care so much, please tell us!)
On Robby the exchange at Central with Dana about Mohan, Carter my love is that you? (Again if the lawsuit comes for me so be it, I really don’t care!) also him sitting down and explaining things to grieving people with compassion? It reminds me of Dr. Mark Greene… I’ll do my time in jail I don’t care!
Finally we get to the organ donor and honor walk, what a heartbreaking scene, but just so real. Ever seen those videos on social media? Ugly crying over it here too, but glad to see that story wrapped.
Honorable mentions? Myra girl, do not scare me like that again! Mohan and the heavy metals patient, again Dana my GOAT with the patient scores dig at Robby, she’s right and we all know it. Dana and Whitaker another great exchange, she’s the best. Also my boy made it another hour!
See you next week?
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hanaybuns · 1 day ago
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Happy Karamatsu day 2/22
i honestly have nothing of substance for you guys today, i'm just gonna talk about karamatsu, as i always do
hmmm it's kind of hard to describe why i like karamatsu or the way i enjoy his character. sometimes, characters really just click for me and there's no other explanation. maybe it's because i can see myself in him? i'm not sure. but also i started watching osomatsu san in 2020 and my fave at the time was jyushi. kara was in second place. that being said, i never engaged in any fan content when i first watched the show and i only started liking kara more after i got into ososan fanart and fanfic.
i actually only got into ososan seriously when the season 4 announcement came out and i was like "huh, it's been a while since i've gotten news about osomatsu san". that was when i really started looking into the fandom and discovered the horrors. in the beginning though, i really liked karamatsu angst. i loved all the super angsty fics where kara went through something horrific, i still do honestly. it's funny because i like putting him through really horrible stuff in my brain, but the second i see him upset about something in canon i feel so sad for him.
something about me is that i really really enjoy drama and good character dynamics. i can put up with the worst pile of slop plot if i can latch onto the characters and analyze their relationships. so osomatsu san was really a treasure trove for me, because you can really tell that the writers give each of the characters subtle nuances and internal conflicts.
that being said, i always like to keep my analysis and head canons based in canon. it's actually more like i'm bound to it. i get weirdly embarrassed when i write something that i feel doesn't really line up with the show. but that's also the challenge when it comes to writing about karamatsu. the writers give us so much, but also so little when it comes to his character and his internal conflicts. so you have to go out on a limb if you want to talk about something that isn't fully discussed in canon. but when i read some of my analysis back, it lowkey feels like this
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but i get soooo happy whenever i see anyone write anything in response to my writing. even a simple "i agree" makes me so giddy! i want everyone to know that when you write a comment or reblog my work and write stuff in the tags, i read all of it. then i read it again and again. especially when people choose to write an essay in the tags, it makes my day, truly.
so yeah, i'm excited for s4 and i'm probably gonna get a lot more annoying when it comes out, so get ready for that.
happy karamatsu day!
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arcane-ish · 17 hours ago
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Yeah, I feel like I should clarify that to me "whumping" is very deeply not an act of aggression against the character.
Like, there can be cases where writers/creators are dunking on a character out of malice, like because they are angry at the actor and take that out on the character, or they created the character as a standin for something they hated in real life (like a high school bully, a mean critic, a politician they hate). Or even just because they want to portray some sort of karma system where the character violated the tenants and now has to get punished.
I think that is absolutely, 100% not the case with Vi. Amanda and friends clearly care for Vi, so why is Vi having such a hard time and has to few "wins"?
That's why whump came to my mind. Whump is a genre in fanfiction that fans do to characters they love, either because they strongly identify with a character or because they find them sexy. I'm not an expert on the psychological dynamics there, but it's definitely not an act of hate or veiled aggression.
To me whump has also often felt a little bit fetishistic and the downside of that is that if you aren't "in" with it, it might leave you puzzled.
There are some moments with Vi that just felt a bit gratuitous to me? Like the whole self destruction montage, Vi being tied up and blindfolded before being handed to Ambessa. Maybe combined with the idea that the show doesn't really take the concept of Vi's prison trauma all that seriously.
There's just ways you can read it as "yeah, look at that sexy, messy butch, it's gona be so hot when Caitlyn takes her into her arms and kisses it all better".
Again let me stress that that is NOT the dynamic of CaitVi the characters. Their love scene is very equal, very Cait letting Vi take the lead, very them smiling at each other and enjoying each other. It's not about Cait kissing Vi's physical wounds and making it better.
The idea of whump is that sometimes fans can like doing bad things and putting trauma to the characters they love. Not as build up to the eventually catharsis of them getting over it or getting the big win, or the because the "hurt" is a necessary evil to get to the comfort of hurt/comfort fic, but just because they think they suffer so angstily or so sexily.
Again ont saying that this is what the writers were thinking or acting on, it's just something that I got reminded of while thinking about Vi's story. That her almost feeling like she's stuck in this debilitating loop of trauma felt like when a fanfic writer gets a little bit too addicted to the whump in a whump fic.
Vi still gets traumatized a lot in season 1, but her actions/reactions are a lot more .... proactive? More aggression, lashing out at Powder attacking Sevika, imo she see the first signs of self aggression, too but of course the becomes bigger in season 2.
I think it's interesting that it feels like Vi's biggest "wins" in season 2 all seem to be about acts of surrender. Not fighting and trusting Jinx gets her a hug with Vander. Trusting Cait and letting herself be tied up and given to Ambessa gets her a little win against Ambessa. Maybe you can read the CaitVi sex scene in that vein too that this is tied to letting Jinx go (and Jinx does come back as a hero, so letting her go and trusting/hoping her to come back was the right choice?)).
Which still makes it sad that the last important scene where Jinx disables her gauntlets are Jinx forcing that surrender, the letting go from her.
That said, I see why the writers might have balked at the idea of "Well Vi learned all season that letting things go and trusting people to be fine is a good thing, so she should just let Jinx and Vander fall" and instead settled on "no, Vi would never let Jinx fall intentionally, not even after everything that has happened".
I dunno, I have to think about it some more.
@arcane-ish I want to say thanks for the response! I appreciate that you took the time to have a back and forth with me and you brought up a lot of interesting points.
I really don't buy into the idea that some season 2 haters have that everything they liked in season 1 was written by magical other writers and the big 3 (Amanda, Christian and Alex) had zero involvement in anything they liked.
This is one of the biggest things I want to talk about because I completely agree. I don't believe the idea that season 1 was good because of magical unseen writers.
I do think that having other writers inside the writers' room can bring other perspectives to a story that prevents you from being stuck in an echo chamber. It's easier to spot writing mistakes or notice when things aren't working when you have fresh eyes to look at work. That's the case with most scriptwriting from my experience, but that doesn't mean the writers that were present are bad.
I have spoken to Amanda and read her work. She is very talented. She's worked on incredible shows from Arcane to Severance to Monarch. And she's very willing to give advice on writing to upcoming writers. She's incredibly passionate. I may not completely agree that what she intended came through in the finished product or that it worked (as evidenced by my last response). Still, I have nothing but respect for her passion, knowledge, and willingness to be open to helping people who want to get into the industry.
I think a lot of people feel hurt that their favorite show or a show that they loved didn't pan out the way they liked or in a way that they found satisfying and in some cases are looking for someone to blame.
The truth is that there are a lot of factors that go into creating a show that all contribute to the finished product from corporate mandates to writers to editors to animators. There is no one place to point the finger, but it feels easier to point primarily to the writers because they have been so open about their decisions and the thought process behind them. They are the most direct source you can look to for why the story is told the way it was.
I kind of wanted to get those thoughts off my chest because I see the exact sentiment you talked about in your response all over the internet right now and I also don't agree with it at all. I also see Amanda getting a lot of that ire directed her way and she's also the only one I personally have spoken to and know so she's the only one I can really speak on.
The other aspect is that their focus might just not have been Vi. They would have looked at it not as "Vi is getting punished" but "Jinx needs this for her character development".
I think this is ultimately what it came down to. Vi just wasn't the priority and instead she was kind of a tool to complete other characters' arcs in the third act (because I do think they at least gave her her own motivations and drive in acts 1 and 2. You can debate how well they were handled though).
To explain what I mean by "Vi was kind of a tool to complete other characters' arcs" I want to look to another point you made--
This is the big contrast to season 1 where Jinx was freakishly obsessive and possessive about Vi and jealous of Caitlyn. Season 1, Jinx abducts Caitlyn and Vi and wants to kill Caitlyn. Season 2, tadaaaa, character growth, Jinx tells Vi to be happy with Caitlyn and hopes out to follow her own path
This is one of the biggest examples of Vi's ending being tied more to other characters' growth than her own. In the scene in the jail cell Jinx tells Vi that she doesn't need to feel guilty for being happy and that she deserves to be with Caitlyn but... Vi not being with Caitlyn in this moment has literally nothing to do with Vi's guilt or responsibility and it has to do with the fact that Caitlyn hit and abandoned her then became a dictator.
When you take Jinx's line in the context of the season it doesn’t make sense.
Vi wasn't the one who rejected being with Caitlyn in fact she tried to stick with her up until she was brutally pushed away by Caitlyn. And they have only just reunited and had zero chance to actually work through their issues. Vi hasn’t rejected Caitlyn since their reunion due to her guilt either. It just doesn’t really make sense no matter how you look at it based on what’s happened in this season.
Like you pointed out this moment is needed for Jinx's arc because she was the one who was obsessively possessive over Vi, so she needs to let go of that possessiveness, but it doesn't fit into Vi's.
And this is a recurring problem when it comes to all of Vi's moments in the 3rd act. They are almost all in service to completing the arcs of other characters rather than her own because many of them when taken in the context of the season follow the same spotty logic when it comes to Vi's end of things.
The moment with Vander in the finale when Vi falls to her knees and cries instead of jumping to safety is there so that Jinx can save her and complete her arc.
I don't even hate the idea of Vi breaking as she’s hit with the reality of losing Vander again on its own. I think it makes sense that the grief that Vi's been pushing down all series would come out at the worst time because she can't hold it in anymore. And that in this moment Jinx would see her sister for the person that she is, someone crushed under the same grief as her and trying so hard to push it down to help those around her. That idea is so tragic and fitting for Vi, but my issue arises with it because it comes at the very end of the series when the show can't explore it at all. So it goes from being a poignant beat for Vi to a plot device to get Vi into trouble to complete Jinx's arc.
What does this moment do for Vi? In what way does it complete her arc? I would argue that in some ways it shows that in the writers' minds, Vi stagnated long ago. She didn't get to grow past her grief like the other characters (Caitlyn and Jinx in particular). She didn't get her trauma explored in the same depth (I will go to bat for the montage, but I think it's telling that her spiral is simply a montage while Jinx's spiral is explored throughout the series and Caitlyn gets an entire act to show her spiral) and it's instead used as a plot device to complete the arcs of the other characters.
Why wasn't Vi's grief over the death of Vander explored in act 2? Why wasn't it debilitating when she woke up in episode 8 to discover that Isha and Vander were dead? Why did it manifest now when the writers literally have no time to explore that massive, crushing grief?
I don’t think there’s a satisfying answer to any of these from a character writing standpoint.
But I do want to express that I don’t think this is an issue the whole season. Vi does get vital development for her character in both the first and the second acts,especially in episode 5.
Episode 5 is easily where the writing is at its best for Vi this season and the episode where she's allowed to display growth that is in line with what we’ve seen from her character before.
The end of episode 5 is only possible because Vi trusts Jinx, sees her as an equal/adult rather than someone to protect, and embraces this changed version of Vander. She is no longer desperately clinging to the version of her family from her memories and doesn't act impulsively in the sense that she saw that violence wasn't working, listened to Jinx's advice, and adjusted her approach accordingly something season 1 Vi wouldn't have done due to her impulsiveness.
This is vital to her character arc and a moment of growth that is needed for her.
But this moment does bring about the issue that the writing sort of clashes with itself. They want to present Vi’s familial duty as self destructive and something she must let go of in the last act but in the first 2 acts it’s rewarded because it’s part of her arc of accepting change. (Which you also pointed out in your initial post. I think I’m discovering that the majority of my issues with Vi’s arc come down to the final act)
Vi never get a scene with her getting angry at being put in this position. Or a scene where Vander hugs her and tells her "hey kid, I didn't want you to tear your life apart over this, of course I wanted you to be happy".
Yeah... While I love act 2 I think there is so much missed potential in it as well and I found it so strange that we don't get to explore Vi's relationship with Vander. In fact, Vander gets more moments with Jinx, which again isn't a problem in and of itself. Vander should get development with Jinx and we should be able to see how much he cares for her. He was her father too after all.
But considering how much Vander and his ideology have shaped who Vi is and how formative he is to her entire character-- seriously their relationship in act 1 forms the basis of Vi's entire character and motivates the majority of her choices in the series-- it doesn't make sense that the primary focus of Vander coming back wouldn't be to give Vi closure/a different perspective on her role as a big sister and protector or a way to vent her frustrations and hurt over the weight that's been put on her.
I'm kind of baffled at how little screen time is dedicated to Vander and Vi in Act 2. He doesn't even speak to her at any point. They just get a few forehead bumps, which while sweet doesn't do anything for Vi's character or the core issues she has because of the weight he unintentionally put on her.
The things you said about Vander’s letter to Silco is another point I agree with you on. It should have been further explored.
I think the writers don't owe us a story. Like they didn't owe us to keep Vi as the main point of view character. They didn't owe us a Zaun becomes independent story. Basically, I believe in writers having a right to tell the stories they are interested in, even if I would have been interested more in a different story.
I actually really agree with this. It’s why I typically try to approach my criticisms from the angle of “did the story the writers create most effectively tell the story they wanted to tell and if not how could they have more effectively told that story”.
When I criticize how the story handled Vi I try to approach it this way as well. It helps that the writers have been very vocal about what they were trying to do with her character in interviews and even early press like the panel they did at Annecy where they showed the cocktail Molotov montage and told the audience what they intended Vi’s arc to be this season.
They’ve made it clear that Vi’s arc was meant to be about moving past her guilt and responsibility and learning who she is if she’s not a protector (and as an extension not a big sister) and that’s why I’m honing in on the lack of completion when it comes to these aspects.
I don’t have a problem with the fact that she’s not the main character— that was clearly not the direction the writers wanted to take— but I am critical of how unfinished her arc is.
I can acknowledge that I am not unbiased in this criticism. It’s fairly obvious that Vi is my favorite character it’s why I have more of an issue with how incomplete her arc is than any other aspect of the season. So I understand that colors my perspective on how she was handled and how vocal I am about it.
The core problem of Vi's arc is definitely lack of choice. My theory is that at the core of it Amanda's statement of what Vi would choose if she had nobody left to protect and that itself is a flaw like the writers and such as the show insist that Vi would never willingly give up her responsibility and duties, so the show operates on a logic that everything, every person, every responsibility, every choice has to be taken away from Vi.
You definitely put into words what the crux of my problem is with Vi’s arc better and much more succinctly than I would haha.
And I’ve made it clear I think the belief the writers have that she would never willingly give up her responsibility (or in essence change and grow in a way that would allow her to) is contradicted by the arc the writers themselves gave her, so writing another essay about it wouldn’t be useful.
I think a scene where Jinx and Vi speak after the battle would indeed have been a satisfying conclusion to Vi's arc, but I do think it wouldn't have gelled with the mood the writers were going for. Like as fans of course we crave a good arc and a satisfying conclusion, but I think Arcane specifically wanted to end on some sort of perfectly imperfect/not as straight forward mood. I don't think they wanted things to be neatly tied up, they wanted it to be a mix between good and bad.
This is another point where I actually agree with and I don’t inherently have an issue with the lack of closure on certain things, but I think there’s a difference between leaving something open for further exploration or implying more adventures and leaving something feeling incomplete.
This is very important for a series finale because it’s meant to be the end of a story. There are things a series finale should wrap up and character arcs are one of them.
For example, Mel’s ending doesn’t bother me because her arc for this series was wrapped up. There is still clearly more story that can be told with her character but I’m not left with the feeling that she didn’t reach the end of her growth that this story was meant to tell.
Mel’s story feels like it can continue, not that it was left incomplete if that makes sense, which is why I don’t take issue with it like I do with Vi’s story.
But I also acknowledge that what you said is probably true; that Vi and Jinx having a conversation would have tied it up more neatly than the writers intended.
On a personal level I have an issue with that because like I said above I think there are certain aspects of a story a series finale needs to wrap up and the sisters’ story is one of them. Arcane was positioned as the story of these two characters from the beginning and not wrapping up their story in the series that’s supposed to primarily be about them for the mood they wanted the ending to have just doesn’t work for me.
I felt like they needed to have a more conclusive ending but they didn’t because the writers wanted it to be more tragic which rubs me the wrong way.
And I think that the simple swap you proposed where it’s Vi instead of Caitlyn that discovers that Jinx is still alive could solve this specific issue. I
I’ll admit that I don’t fully understand why it was Caitlyn who discovered this instead of Vi. Caitlyn already let go of her vengeance and indirectly let Jinx go, so what does this scene tell us about Caitlyn that we don’t already know? What does this do for her arc that hasn’t already been shown? It would have been more impactful if it was Vi who had this moment and smiled, choosing to let Jinx go, but assured in the knowledge that her sister survived.
We can gleam meaning from Vi's place in the story, but a lot of it is fanwanking, writer interviews and "facts not in evidence".
I just wanted to put this here because yeah I agree with this and not just when it comes to Vi’s arc but when it comes to a lot of parts of season 2 like—
I was always fascinated with Amanda saying that she included Maddie also because it was Caitlyn trying to date somebody more appropriate from her mother's point of view (which I think doesn't make a lot of sense to people because it's never mentioned in the show and from a meta point of view Maddie is still underclass and she's an enforcer something we know Cassandra disapproved of).
Caitlyn’s arc also suffers from aspects of it clearly being on the cutting room floor. The base idea here is inherently interesting.
Caitlyn spent the entirety of season 1 chafing against her role in life. She didn't want to solely be the Kiramman heir and wanted to make a name for herself. It's part of what got her to fall for Vi. Vi treated her like any other person-- she didn't see her for her name-- and showed her a side of life everyone else protected her from. And Vi is the exact opposite type of person that Caitlyn would have likely been expected to date and eventually marry.
Now that her mother is gone she would embrace the Kiramman name and try to be the perfect heir she knows her mother wanted her to be, including dating someone closer to what her mother would have wanted.
I think this base idea could have been fascinating for act 2. Show Caitlyn trying to be a perfect leader, a perfect heir, a perfect daughter, while on the inside it's making her miserable. This isn't what she wants. It's not what makes her happy. That time with Vi did.
As an idea, this is incredibly interesting for Caitlyn's character and her relationship with Vi, but it absolutely does not come through in the finished product. Caitlyn's side of the story in Act 2 does not get across that this is what she's trying to do. It doesn't lead to a contrast between Maddie and Vi or some self-reflection on Caitlyn's part that would adequately convey this.
This idea is also muddled by the fact that she's a dictator, which is clearly not what her mother would have wanted if the "they deserve to breathe" line is anything to go by, and the fact that the relationship is (like you said) with someone Cassandra also wouldn’t approve of.
I think the season has a lot of interesting ideas. On their face a lot of what the show presents or the writers mentioned as their intent doesn’t bother me. I find a lot of it fascinating. I just find that the execution and limited time made it so many of their intentions didn’t come through in the finished product and the ideas that do weren’t explored as fully as I would have liked.
I do really enjoy gabbing with people who like to write long rambly metas just like I do. So never feel worried about meta-ing at me. I might not always respond, but if I don't it usually is always due to lack of time and not because I disapprove. In fact, I love it when people respond to my rambles with reverse rambles.
I really enjoy it too! I hope everything I’ve said has come across conversational. It’s always my intent to have a conversation rather than contradict and/or argue and I always have a good time hearing other people’s opinions on stories. It’s one of the few reasons I’m still trying to interact with fandom haha.
Genuinely, thank you for taking the time to respond! It was really fun reading your response and learning about your view on things.
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whamgram · 9 months ago
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The Alastor versus Vox fight from chapter 16 of my Charlastor fic, Under My Skin.
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burningfunobject · 4 months ago
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S2 arcane spoilers!!
Anyone else notice how dim viktors eyes look in the new season like
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And it's like this for nearly every other shot
Compared to his eyes in s1
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And he's rlly out of character too
And sure that could be the trauma of EVERYTHING that's happened
But I feel like it's more than that
The hexcore is controlling him obviously so maybe we'll see him try to fight against it??
I really hope he does bc I don't think the whole magic arcane Jesus thing is really working for me tbh
OR if he doesn't manage to get free of the hexcore maybe he decides to lean into it by baking himself even more robotic buy powered by hextech or whatever the new equivalent would be
I've also been thinking maybe he'll start upsetting the chem barrens?? But it seems kinda unlikely
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the-crooked-library · 7 months ago
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what I learned from season 2 of IWTV is that a distressingly large amount of people cannot tell the difference between a consensual BDSM dynamic and assault/abuse, nor do they know anything about how kink actually works
it’s not unhealthy for Armand to be submissive or delve into maître/slave kink dynamics. in fact it’s something people do to explore and get past their traumas all the time irl. additionally, he is like five times older and more powerful than Louis, he wasn’t being forced to do anything, nor could Louis ever actually force him. the kink was probably the healthiest aspect of their relationship, what fucked them over was a jumble of commitment issues, a lack of trust, and eventual murder - which is something that would cause problems in any relationship ever, no matter how vanilla.
the Point of the tragedy is that they were on the precipice of something happy, but Louis hesitated for too long and Armand couldn’t recognize when he was loved, and the kink had nothing to do with it, for fuck’s sake. Louis wasn’t abusive and it’s not bad or wrong for Armand to want to be a sub -
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lyxchen · 16 days ago
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Okay my hopes for Charley/Yuri are actually so fucking high because I just need them to be a thing!!! Something good, something sweet, something happy!! I feel like this could be a second chance for a willex type relationship and man (gn) for my own happiness I personally need them to be what Netflix took away from us with willex. I need them to kiss and I need them to be happy and I need them to have an unproblematic and beautiful relationship that's filled with so much love and care for each other <33
#sorry i'm still mourning willex#and charley and alex are veeeeeery similar#you know he's kinda awkward has some anxiety is gay and a ghost that died in the 90s also just in general a cutie pie <3#also technically they both have a nut allergy but for alex that's kinda just headcanon because his actor is allergic to nuts#also they both died from eating food that wasn't good for them#so obviously i was gonna be enamored by charley#but in season 1 there wasn't really anything i could hope for romance wise because charley was still hung up on emilio#but now as his storyline is kind of about moving on from emilio#and because yuri obviously has a soft spot for charley#i just#i need them to be like my willex!!!!#and school spirits is not a kids show and there have already been multiple f/m kisses and i think there's even gonna be a more intense scen#for maddie and wally if we go with what's in the trailer#so i really really don't see why we shouldn't get a charley/yuri kiss#because maddie and wally kissed in the first season already too#so this being a relationship that only started in season 2 shouldn't be a reason why they wouldn't kiss#anyways#my hopes are so damn high and i'm trying not to think like that because i really don't want to get disappointed#but man (gn) if they do make this relationship similar to willex and give them a kiss then i think that would heal something in me#lea's random thoughts#school spirits#charley x yuri#do they have a ship name???#churi?#yurley?#both of these sound bad but idk#charley school spirits#yuri school spirits#willex
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brionysea · 3 months ago
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for the record I'm keeping my #arcane and #arcane critical tags separate because 1) it's rude to go into a show's main tag to complain about it and 2) this way I can still go into the arcane tag on my own blog to enjoy season 1 stuff without being perpetually disappointed by season 2
#there were only two things that I actually got hyped for in season 2 (as opposed to The Entirety Of Season 1)#1. the vi and jinx fight scene with that awesome song#2. vander recognising powder#the whole family thing after that made me cry but the circumstances leading up to it were weird. wdym there's no jinx going back to sevika#and isha after losing track of vander. and isha just THROWS herself at her and sevika's like what happened to you and jinx is like I saw#vander. and sevika's like girl vander's dead are you on the crazy pills again but jinx is INSISTENT so sevika's like fine. maybe you should#call your sister. and jinx is like HA! and I'M the crazy one?! and it's a whole thing where you see her decide to reach out and that she's#been keeping tabs on vi because she 'likes keeping an eye on people who have betrayed her' but she just really needs to find vander and#make sure he was real. and despite it all vi is the one she trusts most with this. also sevika should branch off to continue the rebellion#storyline bc that's what she originally betrayed vander for and jinx is probably crazy anyway. *someone* needs#to keep their head on straight and let's face it that's been sevika since day one.#I guess this post is#arcane critical#now#oops#I could fix it though#I don't think a lot of the story works because past act 1 it isn't shaped by character choices#but at least make them TALK like themselves#and create the connective tissue required for it to be believable that they'd choose to fulfill these plot points#because let's be real jinx would try to find vander on her own and fuck something up before she ever admits that she needs vi#jinx doesn't like NEEDING anyone. she doesn't like being weak. that's her whole damage#powder was weak and jinx doesn't want to be weak#because weakness breeds suffering#not saying she'd NEVER reach out to vi if she really truly needed it. she kidnapped her that one time. it just wouldn't happen that fast
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spaciebabie · 8 days ago
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i am now 11 pages into this macaque x reader x wukong planning document
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icewindandboringhorror · 3 months ago
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#First one is THE LONG series of GEESE that fly by!!! my aforementioned friends... Or I think I referenced them in tags of some post#days ago. and how I love watching them. See how many there are? And multiple of these will go by. It's like hundreds of them.#Then just the sky because I love the sky. My hair looking ridiculous as it always does when I brush it out of the four big braids I always#keep it in to keep it out of the way lol. I just find it silly how small it can be all braided up and then as soon as it is Released and#combed then it poofs into some sort of swamp dwelling wizard style.#Then... a daily word count... have been so busy the past week that I sadly haven't written much but I'm WORKING on it. Still on the blasted#'odd jobs' tasks sections which were SUPPOSED to be very quick and short. but.. alas.. Though I am on basically the last one. You go work#for one of the enchanting specialists in the city (very important in society since a majority of people cannot do that type of magic) and#basically he just works so much he has no time for a social life so he hires random people to sit with him in the afternoons doing menial#tasks. You show up thinking you'll help with some Important Job or something but hes just like 'no... peel this apple for me.. :)' lol#Edit note: arrgh just had to fish a slippery avocado pit out of a narrow garbage disposal drain with a chopstick. felt like some#sort of taskmaster challenge or something.. gods... I know some people just reach into them. I guess maybe#my hand would fit?? but... erm... scary. what about Sharp Things in there or something.. also Sludge of some sort perhaps.#ANWYAY.. interruption... I got up to go to the kitchen in the middle of typing my tags... lol..#Next image is SLEEPING boye.. And then PIGEONS!!!!!!!!!! my beloveds...#Oh then the giant evil hole in my bathroom ceiling which is STILL not fixed and the repair people still have to come back again.. BUT they#did have this terrible industrial dehumidifier thing they put in the bathroom and just left here for like 5 days and it was like a noisy#hairdryer going at all times and raised the heat in the bathroom from 65F to 76F in like two hours so.. I'm glad at least at their#last arrival they've finally taken it away.... the Noise Beast... silence in my house at last...#though I am still plagued by Mysterious Hole.. the plastic wrap rustles sometimes when I'm in there.... go away...#Ah. Then a delightful little lemon poppyseed muffin someone didn't want and then gave to me. Which was interesting since I haven't#had one in soooo long even though its like a very Classic Flavor.. I do quite like them though now that I've had one again. :0c#Lastly.. mushrooms. I think it's the mushroom season here. Everywhere you go outside there's some new manner of fungus#having popped up from nowhere. I like the variety of all their little shapes. These in particular have an interesting wispy curled layers#sort of look to them. Almost like a shaggy hairstyle that's curled up at the ends or something. They seem neat to draw perhaps.#Okay.. that is all.. I still have literally like 2 costumes and 12 outfits and I think 1 sculpture? to post.. but I am so busy this is#what I can manage for now I suppose lol... quick pictures that don't really take any sorting or cropping or editing lol#photo diary
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dirt-str1der · 13 days ago
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That post is still pretty active so i have to scroll past that guys bloated festering corpse every time i want to see someones new reply
#Listen to my problems#so im always thinking about it .... they were literally just trying to match my energy they were the most enthusiastic person on the post#i would almost feel bad but their opinions were so trash that i didnt know how to respond in a nice way. i tried really hard but i think you#just hate women. and then i see their idea for a femslash ship and yepp you hate women#lowkey some characters should come with a do not separate label or at lesst with the understanding that they will continue being the most#important people in each others lives even if they choose to date elsewhere ... if there is no ship that can beat canon then you must#be doing something wrong ... provide some better rationale idk ... some pairings feel very cheap and soulless because youve fundamentally#misunderstood the character ... but also im in constant agony because theyre the only person who mentioned kohahyo and i fCKING LOVEkohahyo#but they called it hyohaku so its over and we cant be friends#WHY DID THEY HAVE TO BE THE ONLY ONE ITS SO OVER COME ONNNNN GUYS#the whole reason i signalled for hetships is because i was waiting for kohahyo ... but nobody came ... except that one guy#and i blocked them for being enthusiastic and friendly because i found their opinions so revolting#huh actually thats another thing ... nobody has listed any really problematic ships yet but then again a good portion of people consider#TKSN to be problematic as if youve never broken the neck of your crush before whatever man. wait sorry this is a s/g hate post now hehe ! i#just remembered that s/g shippers like saying 'senku would never fall for his killer!' as rationale for why they refuse to ship it even#after season 2 (thats when they lost so they all doubled down instead of switching) oh my god wait i just thought of that one dj series#okay no i have to finish this thought before its gone. they sound like they dont even believe it because there ARE s/g enemies to lovers aus#out there so the enemies part isnt a real problem you guys just dont want to admit when youre beat honestly this is why early game ships are#so hard becsuse you never know if this guy is gonna be his parallel forever or only sometimes. so im thankful to stanxe for being tksns#parallel to keep it relevant and alive forever and ever and ever male anglerfish style. but yeah s/g fans have no real reason to hate tksn#because tsukasa is fucking awesome so they cant say hes not good enough for senku and thats why they keep parroting that line. even if ...#like if you know senkus character you already KNOW it doesnt matter shit nor fuck to him so the fake reason you gave is ooc and wrong also#but then again thats why theyre so happy because they have enough people to just do whatever they want. much like something else#i need to finish that fic for valentines day
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dullahandyke · 10 months ago
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and like sidenote if i can make a post with a target audience of zero. i feel like fhsy was to d20 what aa3 was to ace attorney but aa3 pulled it off better for reasons i cannot explain
#it is. the amatonormativity#^ guy who was REALLY pissed about the sandra lynn stuff#like yknow that bit in the first ep where brennan is like 'oh this drama is going down' and so like the pcs investigate it#probs bcos they think itll like kick off their new quest#and then it turns out to be like. petty romantic drama.#thats kind of a microcosm of the entire season for me#not to say there werent parts i liked (looks at the picture of baron i printed out and hung on my wall)#(and most of the leviathan stuff was brilliant and ayda is a role model for me)#but its all so tied up in the rest of that shit that i dont rlly wanna rewatch it the way ive rewatched fy 6+ times#likening this to aa3 bcos of the rlly noticeable uptick in romantic content in it compared to the rest of the trilogy#like prior to that all that rlly comes to mind is like. 2-3 and pearl's shipping shenanigans and larry existing#but in aa3 both mia and phoenix have past lovers who play big parts#theres a married couple theres tigre and viola (who sidenote i ENTIRELY missed as romantic my first playthru. i am dense)#there's the business with fawles#like it felt like romance played a large part in every case in aa3#where even when it came up in 1 + 2 it was usually ancillary (2-3 excepted but like. ppl regard that case as a fluke in most regards)#you COULD argue that maggey and adrian also inject some romantic presence in the story#but idk it just doesnt feel as central or prevalent as in aa3#like i saw a post abt adrian and celeste being cousins in the aa anime being not just the sailor moon 'best cousins' thing#but like. reinforcing the themes of familiar devotion as aa2's core. and that was rlly foundational to my understanding of the game#even tho its a change that comes from an adaptation#whereas you Couldnt make that change in aa3 without it changing A Lot of shit#where was i going with this. shrug.#the zelda and tracker relationship drama was entirely manufactured as punishing the pcs for not centering npcs#whose relationship issues were ancillary to the overarching plot they were focused on and which hadnt rlly been brought up beforehand#'why didnt gorgug call zelda :/' do u want zac to pause the kalina mystery to roleplay good relationship communication with the dm??#like its one thing looking at sy as a narrative but looking at it as a ttrpg campaign with limited time and a need to split character focus#i dont see what it did for the story besides give gorgug something to angst abt. didnt rlly feel like there was character growth or an arc#sigh. MANDATORY DISCLAIMER its been at least a year since i watched sy and longer before that since ive played aa3#but at the time my feelings were strong and have only calcified. romance as a theme in something not generally abt romance
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bylertruther · 2 years ago
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i don't like season three when viewing it as a continuation of seasons one and two, but i do very much like season three when viewing it as the prequel to seasons four and five... hmmmmm.
#rewatching it bc i wanted to make another foreshadowing compilation post for myself regarding what will's actions will#likely be in season five re: vecna and lmao. so many things are just... it's like. it makes me laugh how In Your Face it is now#that we know all that we know. so many direct parallels both with dialogue and actions. mike/will/lucas/el foreshadowing their s4 roles.#the flaying of the holloways and the creels. the dormancy / activation shit. the building shit. the natural progression of their arcs.#the different ways that their characters approach problem solving and how we see tht reinforced by s4. it's so fascinating#genuinely i think idk it was just such a big culture shock i guess u could say from 1 and 2 that it was hard to digest on its own for me#but now that 4 is in the same vein it's like Oh. Okay. Yeah no. I get it now. That's cool. I'm forever bitter but I get it and respect it.#3 4 and 5 are a package deal considering they also said 4 was like part 1 of 5.#it also makes sense bc the point of 3 was that everyone was changing and building themselves in a new way and that#includes vecna so. just so fascinating how they link everything and how their vision is so consistent with certain plots and characters#like. the lucas max mike n will + el involvement is right there. the idea that they have to kill vecna and not just his puppets is right#there. that 2nd point starts in season two but three is where it really turns into an ''the end justifies the means'' situation#(especially for will which i think is something a lot of people overlook but—)#s3 is painful when considering their personal character arcs but fucking delicious when considering the overarching supernatural vecna plot#bc thts also when he starts his ''there is no stopping this'' shtick and actually enters the story#and he's fucking slimy lol. which i Love#anyway. omg first i defended mike in the rain fight and now i'm saying i kind of like season three who the FUCK am i!!!!!#crazy what feeling the need to defend a white boy's honor will do to you 😳
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genekies · 1 year ago
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time for another vent in tags
#so i was joking and i thought it came through but im also dumb and autistic and my jokes dont always cross. sO#i was joking about one of my roomates not seeing Nightmare Before Christmas before bc i was showing 2 of them my picture vinyl of it and whe#n one of them said they never saw it i said “but you were a loser on tumblr in the 2010s wdym” and their fiance was just rude to me and i th#ought it was clearly a joke but ig not and they lowley attacked me for it? im just?? i tried to clarify that i was joking and they know im a#utistic. hell the one i was joking to is also autistic but idk so now i feel like utter shit especially after all i did today thst juet drai#ned me. ive been trying to fix our 2nd shower. i had a meeting. i had an extremely hard therapy session. and i showered today. its been hell#like i am trying to get thru relapsing on SH and my ED and ofc they dont know but that shit made it worse and i dont want to say anything bc#then ill feel like im guilt tripping? idk but im also super nervous about a HRT appmt i have coming up and i cant afford it and we have no#food in the house i can eat rn and no one has gone shopping. i cant go shopping either bc i cant drive/dont have a car. and its making it#harder to help get back on track with eating when theres nothing for me to eat? so everything is fucking amazing right now.#the only meals i could POSSIBLY have and all claimed by the one roommate i was joking with. it all takes up half our freezer too so thats#fucking awesome. all this food for one person and none that i can eat or the other vegan in the house can eat. i have been hungry for DAYS.#all there has been for me to eat is cup ramen and grilled cheese. AND SOMEONE WHO WASNT FUCKING VEGAN ATE ALL THE VEGAN CHEESE IM GENUINELY#SO PISSED OFF? like dude yall have your own cheese wtf#the thing is its already really hard for me to tell when i am actually hungry bc of years of ignoring it so when i actually feel it and ther#es nothing it really gets to me. im so tired and idek where my EBT card is to get myself something. its all just so much.#i just want to lay in my bed and sleep for days. but i cant. i have too much shit to do. like even just tomorrow i have to clean the#bathroom. mop the kitchen. do dishes. shovel snow. and just generally take.care of shit because since we have 2 roomates MIA right now and#no one else wanted to do shit i had to step up and i am STRUGGLING. i have been for a while. the thing is everyone that didnt sign up for sh#it didnt have much going on besides probable seasonal depression#i relapsed. have debilitating mental health. i can barely get out of bed before 4 pm. and i have to take care of myself and my cat.#im so close to snapping on them at this point#i need the one roommate i actually like to come back or i swear i will lose my shit. hes only been gone for 6 days but HOLY SHIT#everything has gone to shit#vent over ig im going to sleep soon. still hungry if i cant find something.
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