#and lack of talent

[arazan-universe]

when you want to write fanfic but u lack the talent to string 2 sentences together :((((((((((((((

[the-mang0tree]

check out ilm's case study !!!!! check it out right now !!!!

[fieldofheathers-stuff]

I need someone to write a fic about Ekko properly learning about Silco and Vander's backstory in the Best Timeline™ (S2ep7).

Just... idk. Benzo going "how the hell do you know about what Vander did to Silco, I never told you this", and Ekko staring at him completely dumbfounded, like "what do you mean, what Vander did to Silco?!?"

And then... Ekko having to process the fact that this man he has (rightfully) hated his whole life was really just some guy, even a somewhat decent guy, who was turned into a monster at the hand of the man he has spent his whole life idealizing as this perfect paragon of virtue and goodness.

(And then having to look back at Vander and Silco giving each other heart eyes across the Last Drop, and thinking to himself "damn, these bitches crazy")

[ilminnestrone]

My spider sense tells me I lack the ability to render this one further BUT I actually don't hate it!

[fatedroses]

Lucius and Titus yae Galvus

aka the 8'2" standard bearer puppy of a man and the 6'0" stoic machinist younger brother, or the sons of emet who are his spitting images in two different ways.

[padmesbox]

— Antonio Gramsci [insp x & x]

[pianokantzart]

I still can't get used to mario sounding like mickey mouse. Superstar saga sounded better ngl

I mean... you're entitled to your opinion, but the new voice is kinda growing on me.

We can't walk into this expecting a Charles Martinet performance. This is a Kevin Afghani performance of a character whose voice was created and popularized by Charles Martinet, but it's still Kevin Afghani.

It's gonna be different in a lot of ways, and as much as I'll miss Charles I far prefer Nintendo hire someone new over them of reusing Martinet voice clips until the end of time. But!!! I also really unironically like squeaky stress toy Mario? Something about it is so extra silly I can't help but smile. Peak "just a little guy" energy.

[nenoname]

honestly??? i still dont know what to do with the idea that there might be a bunch of clone fords out there???? it honestly makes me so unhinged??????

[phlesbian]

Happy Birthday AmazingPhil! 🥳 💫

[rox-of-iu]

ayoo guess who finally sat down and caught up with cultivate B)

is me. so you know what that means.

spoiler warning for cultivate ch 30-37

there was actually.... more things i wanted to draw but I already did so many I had to physically restrain myself hfsjkkdh anyway yes can you tell i love this fic very much

yet once again. cultivate by the wonderful @neonghostcat

[a-couple-of-notes]

went back to see wicked again and i feel almost as insane about it as the first time.

so, the movie centers (as it should) on elphaba's arc--she's discovering her true power, shedding her need for validation, defying gravity. but this go-around, i kept thinking, what's glinda's arc? like, yes, obviously, her arc across the whole story is a fall and a redemption; she gets everything she wants, hates the fuck out of it, loses what's important, and finally finds the courage to rebuild something truly good. but i'm talking specifically this movie, this part. i mean hey, jon chu, you said you were making part one its own satisfying narrative! (he did, we'll get to it)

and yes, okay, you can say glinda starts part one as a selfish, privileged antagonist to elphaba and over the course of the movie becomes her friend. but i don't buy it. that friendship is solidified by the ozdust ballroom, so there has to be something else.

and i realized: glinda's arc in part one is about realizing she's not as powerful as she thinks she is.

glinda starts the movie thinking she can always get her way through making everybody like her. she thinks she can become a great sorceress if she studies under madam morrible. she thinks she can get the perfect boy if she just tosses her hair.

but then elphaba shows up. and over the course of part one, glinda gets humbled again and again. glinda can't do magic, while it comes naturally for elphaba (notice how glinda is always the one pointing out elphaba's magic/power in this tremendously sad combination of awe, adoration, and jealousy). elphaba earns madam morrible's faith, while madam morrible constantly makes digs toward glinda. elphaba proves herself the better person when she asks for glinda to join the sorcerer seminar, while glinda's offering was initially completely insincere. and elphaba turns fiyero's head (absolutely no one can convince me glinda doesn't clock what's going on, she's far too smart and obsessed with elphaba not to). and over the course of part one, we see glinda move from outrage and disdain at being outclassed to accepting and supporting and loving these things about her best friend, even as they make her jealous.

and like, yeah, glinda needs to be humbled a little. she's selfish! she's a bit of a brat! she says really insensitive things and no one has called her out on it until elphaba! but i think this arc for glinda adds an extra tragic layer on top of the tragedy cake. just as elphaba's mounting belief in herself was always leading to her leaving, glinda's growing humility was always leading to her staying. by the time defying gravity hits, glinda knows in her heart elphaba is more powerful than she is, in every meaning of the word. she knows the seriousness of the animals' plight (look how she shakes her head at elphaba when nikidik says the Lion cub is happy to be in the cage!) and she knows that, unlike elphaba the great sorcerer, she can't do anything. she can only survive.

i'm not saying that the glinda at the beginning of the movie would have gotten on elphaba's broom, but she would have certainly believed she could fly. this glinda doesn't. elphaba, quite fittingly, brought glinda down to earth, for better or for worse.

[shakingparadigm]

my ALNST oc/sona, solei!! they know both too much and too little at the same time.

is your senior year at highschool getting too boring? fear not! a game of whodunnit is now underway!

ok but seriously, they were really fun to make! my idea for them is pretty unpolished (fuck it we ball) but hey we're all here for fun so what's the harm in it

[rooks-archive]

if only I could bite good artists and take their talent like vampires take blood.

[goshikiology]

rin's ego as a striker is intrinsically tied to sae- both when his goal is to become number two with sae at his side and later, when he wants to become the best solely to spite his brother. sae's dissolution of their shared dream is both an attempt to free himself from the insurmountable expectation that he will become the world's greatest striker (something he realized was impossible while he was in spain), and also an attempt to free rin's ego from his own. from the beginning of blue lock, it's been established that genius goalies and defenders and midfielders (!) can be born, whereas strikers are created different from the beginning. observant, intelligent sae knows, even as a kid, that rin has something he simply doesn't- a natural sense of the field, the ability to smell a weak spot in the defense. rin's natural talent abounds, but it takes more than just talent to become a genius striker. sae knows that rin posesses talent in spades, but his underdeveloped ego (or even lack of ego entirely) is holding him back. while it might seem misguided and cruel, sae recognizes that rin's dependence on him is restrictive, and attempts to end it. it is not enough for rin to just latch on to sae's ambitions and goals. to develop the ego of a world-class striker, he needs to develop ambition and ego of his own.

[sideblogdotjpeg]

have been thinking about professor sol even. professor bufo with no clearly discernable lesson plan. sol bufo ostensibly martial arts professor who spent two weeks running a yoga and meditation program and shows up to the next class with crochet hooks for everyone. professor bufo who is technically supposed to be assigning grades to students but hasnt given anyone less than an A because "i think they worked really hard and they did a great job :)" (referring to the ugliest and most malformed pot holder anyone has laid eyes upon in their life). professor bufo who is on his way to cluelessly kickstart the sexual awakening of about half the cohort of the academys new students. sol bufo adjunct professor who is gone half the year and his first class back is so immediately and easily baited into going into a long tangent about how cool his friends are. sol who is pretty sure hes easily the most useless professor on campus and almost cries when he sees his little desk overflowing with thank you notes at the end of the year. professor bufo absolutely fucking gloriously hot in the tightest little sweater vest because there were faculty complaints when he wore a crop top to class.

[lessnearthesun]

People who complain about The Catcher in the Rye’s narrative voice (ie Holden’s) miss the point SO completely, it boggles my MIND. Like no shit Holden isn’t going to be using purple, poetic prose ala Nick Caraway in Gatsby. He’s a 17 year old boy, who isn’t a writer. It’s a testament to Salinger’s genius that he was able to create such a compelling, lasting story through the eyes of a narrator who isn’t literary. I understand finding the style grating because it can be hard to get used to, but acting like it makes no sense or is just Salinger being a bad writer is insane