#and people with questionable reading skills

[fireladyofink]

Oh God.. uuhhhh.. been a minute since I tried one of these..

Skipping 1, hate first person, just can't do it, not even read it.

2 is 100% Andlàtkyn. There's some issues here and there but it will always be my pride and joy.

Due to not posting on AO3 (even though I really should be), 3 is mostly ineffective. Except Wattpad has tags. I'd say UTAU, dragons and crossover.

4, lol. Literally. Lately I keep using that (only when texting others) and it's bothering me. I feel like a simpleton because of how much I'm saying that, eugh.

5 I've honestly learned a lot while researching fics. For one, I found out lantana berries are toxic to humans yet taste like blueberries, and I have them growing in my backyard. They're actually my favorite plant! I love their flowers; so pretty, and they have such a uniquely funky smell as well. Part of why I adore them, it stands out so much without being a bad smell. And the leaves have a sort of citrus smell? I love lantanas.

6 I don't know. I've thought about requests due to the money, but I feel like I'd either struggle to start writing it or get carried away with it- or straight up not finish in a reasonable timeframe. Commissions? Like art commissions? Maybe in a few years when I'm more confident in my skills and also somehow have a drawing tablet to properly draw digitally. Something like that.

7 Either or. I love making sickeningly sweet coffee or various different teas.

8 Is honestly hard to decide! Off the top of my head I can think of Dust initially meeting Killer with the hilariously absurd question of "What do you mean you don't have a mouth? How are you speaking right now? Your ass?"

9 Believe it or not it was basically when I first got a phone and commented a short story in the comments of a YouTube video. Someone replied with a suggestion of Wattpad. The rest is history, lol.

10 Off the top of my head I can't think of anything beyond something very specific for the fic I've been thinking about again lately, Ninjagaësia. Only time I've written outside of the UT fandom too, I specifically want to get around to writing that version of Zane more. What I had planned for him is fun as hell. An absolute badass.

11 Lots of comments, votes and people enjoying it. Which, continuing the above mention, Ninjagaësia doesn't qualify for. Pretty unsuccessful, but for once I don't really care.

12 Undertale AU's. I doubt I'll ever leave, either.

13 No. Hell, my ultimate fic of Andlàtkyn was written throughout the later half of highschool. I am technically working on an original story on the sidelines, I call it my worldbuilding project because I'm building up so much lore in this world before I actually touch on the story itself outside of a vague idea. About 60-ish different species of people, including the were-diseases. Last I counted, anyway. I'll be working on it for years, I know it, and I don't mind that either.

14 Comments talking about my fics on said fics. Actual interactions! It brings me joy. 🧡

15 My family is well aware. I don't bring up a lot of details but the last time I went into vague detail with my mother it was over a scene in Andlàtkyn (no direct spoilers) and she interpreted it weirdly and now she teases me by asking if I'm killing babies again! A bit awkward..

16 Actually finishing a damn story. I don't mind the periods of no writing until I get inspired again, but what annoys me is when I can't seem to finish anything. Only ever finished Andlàtkyn. I still have yet to write anything for the sequel to it, either! Zeradelsída is still just a bunch of loose plot points..

17 I am semi successfully writing benevolent eldritch horror. It doesn't intend harm, but it is truly.. horrifying nonetheless. The uncertainty of someone knowing he died, feeling his own heart stop beating, and feeling something OTHER seep inside and force it to start again, pulsing in his veins, fusing with his anatomy, permanently altering both him and itself into something completely unknowable.. I'm rambling. Anyone who hasn't seen my Wattpad, read Awakened. If you don't mind ridiculously long fics, read Andlàtkyn too!

18 I have at least 7 I mostly expect to finish, with at least 4 others just kind of.. there. I don't think I've posted any of those, either. I also have ideas inspired by dreams that I'd love to write down someday, though don't really expect to actually codify.

19 I kind of just don't. I work on different projects as the inspiration hits, take a backseat for a month or so, then come back to either the same project or a different one.

20 Hmmm.. Hard to think of something specific. I'm leaning towards stuff in Andlàtkyn. I don't really have a favorite kiss scene because I don't do romance. I write adventure! Andlàtkyn has some side romance though- not that any of it is my favorite. Platonic stuff, though.. I'd say my favorite is honestly Lust and Alter incidentally befriending each other and becoming venting buddies. It's the cutest thing, their friendship is adorable and wholesome despite the background angst. I didn't write nearly as much of them as deserved.

21 Honestly it's mostly lack of inspiration that I'm pretty sure stems from depression. If I could get an ADHD prescription or depression meds I'd probably be a lot better but like. I am completely broke. So much so that those issues aren't even in the top 10 of pressing problems solved with money.

22 Given I've literally only done it once.. not really. I guess I post it around everywhere I can think of in excitement?

23 That one continuous dream I had that went on over a month centered on a Nightmare that was freshly corrupted. He was honestly so nerdy and adorable despite putting on the brave and mildly "evil" front. The boy. Him. Goddamnit I want to write that at some point.

24 Honestly I can't think of anything for this one.

25 Oh yeah, I can't think of anything off the top of my head but there's a lot I'd like to fix in all of my stories, lol.

26 Kind of? It's a more recent development, did it for Zeradelsída which still has yet to be written, did it for that Ninjagaësia too. A little bit of a broad, even vaguer outline for things I want to happen in Awakened, too? More like events, no particular order or connection.

27 A few of those WIP's that haven't been posted... Okay technically just one. There's also the very first fic I wrote that is subsequently the only one I've ever deleted.

28 Angstiest often coincides with cursed for some reason, so I'll just go with the ending of Andlàtkyn for the Apple Twins.

29 I kind of just.. don't. If I do, I start hating everything, and because I'm not THAT bad at spelling and grammar I think it's mostly fine the way it is.

30 Oh absolutely. It's particularly obvious when one looks at Andlàtkyn, which I wrote over the course of 4 years. Really neat transition, if I ever manage to do it, I'd rewrite the beginning a little to match the rest when crossposting to AO3. If I ever get around to that.

31 Again, Andlàtkyn. That fic is my baby, man. It's so precious to me.

32 Honestly I don't know for this one, which is weird.

33 100% Ink of Awakened. My little boy. I have some friends that would rib the hell out of me if they ever found out, lol. Thankfully the main one doesn't even remember that he has a Tumblr.

34 I was not expecting how hard of a question this is! I thought it was Andlàtkyn, but thinking about it.. I don't think so? It might simply just change depending on which one I'm currently fixated on, but at the moment I think my favorites to get that on is Awakened and Ninjagaësia, second of which already has basically nothing to begin with.

35 I don't have anything, oof.

Fanfic/Author Ask Game

Write a scene from [insert fic] in another character’s POV

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A character you enjoy making suffer.

A character you want to protect.

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Wild Card: Ask me something else!

[homunculus-argument]

I feel like I have the same curse as you of whenever I make a tumblr post, someone immediately shows up to miss the point in the most random way (if it's a post just saying "this thing is like that") or answer a *completely* different question than what i asked (if i was asking a question, no matter how well i thought i explained the context and specified what particular thing i was asking about). And i'm not even half as tumblr famous as you are

Granted that I mostly post about fandom nonsense, and because 1) that's a silly little hobby so whatever the post was about usually doesn't matter, 2) i just don't have the time and energy for arguing with people, and 3) i'm not as good with words as you and can't come up with similarly good responses, I generally don't reply or reply only once because the argument doesn't seem worth my effort. But it's still like, okay wow, genuinely how do people manage to misinterpret it like *that*

I would almost wonder if it's something about how Finnish people are used to talking and explaining things, but i don't think two people is enough data to tell, and i guess more likely it's just the nature of tumblr in general

I think that's just tumblr tbh. For a platform that's very text-heavy, there's an astonishing amount of people who can't read. I never understood why "reading comprehension" was tested in school, because before Tumblr it had not occurred to me that there are people out there who are capable of reading the words, but not understand the text.

And to be fair I grew up in a family where the default assumption about anything I said was that I must be wrong somehow, to the point that even if I said something that I knew they agreed with, they'd go out of their way to find a way to interpret it as something disagreeable. I had this skill honed to the point where I could do the "so you think darkness is your ally" Bane Speech about it.

[elodieunderglass]

I can't resist bothering you with more questions. I'm sorry! I want to put Killie in a basket and carry him around with me like a purse dog. Did Charlie always know that he wasn't going to be a horse pilot forever and that he would find a way out of his family's net, or was he never going to escape if him being kicked out hadn't forced him into it? My heart breaks for him a bit, even though he seems the most well-adjusted person in that family. How old was he when he ended up on his own?

(In reference to Killie the jockey OC, crown prince of a horse-obsessed family, and his identical twin brother Charlie, who was disowned/ escaped the orbit of the Horse Planet)

You are never a bother. Nobody could be anything but grateful to have such insightful, brave, witty and inspiring people to talk about their OCs with! Are you kidding?

That’s such a good and deep question - I don’t think that Charlie knows the answer himself. He certainly was quite a talented apprentice jockey. In terms of his place in the family, his parents and siblings all adored him - he is warm and charming and funny - and thought they understood him. He has that special child-of-rotten-parents survival-mode sensitivity to reading a room, that in Charlie translates into useful skills, like “changing the mood of the room” and “sensing what people want him to say”.

But Charlie has a strong sense of identity, and with it, a hard internal limit on personal sacrifice; there are parts of Charlie you can’t have.

And despite being a fifth-generation jockey of impeccable pedigree, the whole “stoic, fearless, impervious to pain” thing appears to be a state of mind - not a physiology thing, but a mental one, engendered by passion for the sport. Charlie has had passages of his life where he’s carried off the Jockey Constitution (TM), but a problem with armouring yourself with a mental state is that if you are an especially clever little liar yourself, like Charlie, you catch on to the trick.

And the sport is inextricable from the horses in their family. So Charlie stormed out (was thrown out) of both family and sport… but I think he does like horses and he was good at it. And it would’ve been hard, in that family, in that immersive and passionate world, to break out naturally - especially when you are so beautifully built for it. It would again come down to Charlie’s strong sense of self.

I think a lot of his sense of identity and resistance came, early on, from connecting honestly with his bisexuality. He’s clever and sneaky, and likes mind games and code-switching and putting on characters, and when he realised the necessity of masking early on, it felt like a secret identity. He was simply Built Different, and couldn’t change it, so he made a game of tap-dancing on the tightrope.

Then he left to build that secret identity into his real self, on purpose, and he threw himself into The Opposite of Being a Jockey. He was not only the first in their family to go to university, he went into academia. He covered his bills by bartending and busking (take that, Dad). He eats cake. He is valued for his mind and brain. He is NOT COMPETITIVE AT ALL. HE’S COLLABORATIVE, EVEN.

…He was just about eighteen. And perhaps it affected him more deeply than he’d say. But what saved him - what always would save Charlie - was a sense of identity.

[poisonkkay]

J — HUMMINGBIRD [cyb77 OC]

Yk what: here's my cyberpunk OC lore cuz I love him lots, anxiety be damned. Most of the 2070 mess comes from my first CybRED campaign, the rest just fitted together like a puzzle the more I kept writing LMAO

— 2070

Netrunner part of a private task force against cyberpsychos (Mar-S), Jay comes from an old nomad clan that fell apart during his teen years. He ended up in NC shortly after that, and there he met his best friend (and doc) Harlow (@plasticsadstick's OC). Before joining the task force in 2070 (together with Harls), he worked for a few years for NCPD and C-SWAT, given his drive to be useful and help others — same drive that made him quit both jobs, given the insane corruption of that system. Already in Mar-S team during the Unification War, he didn't stay there long enough either, quitting after a last, almost-suicidal mission, that damaged him permanently: he ended up with a fucked-up shard in his head that haunts him with not-so-kind voices, almost killed him, and yet he managed to save his teammates and avoid the collapsing of one hell of a breach in the Blackwall of last years — NetWatch had to be involved to solve the shit as well. After that, he just wanted some peace of mind.

— 2071 / 2075

After meeting other runners (including Kiwi, who he has.. things going on) and various mercs, and having lost contact with the whole Mar-S, he starts to work alone and tries to make a name for himself in NC. He doesn't care about fame and glory tho, he is still moved by his strong need for justice: that's why he spends most of the time between 2071 and '74 hunting down many people involved in abuse and SA cases, moved mostly by the discovery of Kiwi's past. This leads to J getting along with the Mox and many dolls around NC. Beside his revenge hunting, he still takes different gigs around town, proving once again his incredible netrunning skills that grant him quite a reputation especially around the Afterlife circles — working also with Rogue.

— 2076 / 2085

After the death of many friends and especially of his beloved Kiwi, it's a fast downfall. He starts digging around the dirt of corporations, killing the wrong people and fucking around with the Blackwall as well, which only gets him the unwanted attentions of both corpos, pigs and NetWatch. He gets tracked down by them around 2080 after many failures, but instead of getting zero'ed, he gets recruited by them — if you can't beat someone, may as well drag 'em by your side. As if shit couldn't get worse, given the death of So Mi of some years prior (King of Cups + Don't Fear the Reaper endings) and the desperate research for a replacement by president Myers herself, in 2082 J ends up forced to work for the government, against his own morals, against all the promises of a new life of years prior — you can leave the corporation, but that life will never leave you, right? — all to protect someone, the only person he still cares about in the City.

That year Jay Welles disappeared without a trace from NC, believed dead. And that year the NUSA gained a new, deadly puppet to use.

// guess I'll meet him again in my next 2085 campaign, yikes? Also the cyberware placements do not follow the cyb77 rules and limits but the RED ones, which allowed more insanity LMAO — I doubt anyone will read this far but any question is welcome <3

[baede-6]

101 Questions

Feel free to use this as an ask game or just copy/paste/reblog/choose numbers and answer on your own!

I just decided to jot these down for fun. Have at it Guardians!

1.What is your Guardian's name?

2.Does your Guardian's Ghost have a name?

3.Where were they rezzed?

4.Do they remember their past life?

5.Your Guardian's class(es if you have more than one guardian you would like to talk about).

6.Your Guardian's favorite food.

7.Your Guardian's favorite drink.

8.A song that reminds YOU of your Guardian.

9.If your Guardian has a song they consider their theme song,what is it?

10.Your Guardian's favorite genre of music.

11.Your Guardian's favorite piece of gear.

12.Favorite (space) ship.

13.Favorite Ghost shell.

14.Favorite Skimmer/Sparrow

15.Favorite holiday/event.

16.Your Guardian's favorite memory.

17.A painful memory.

18.Your favorite Vanguard.

19.Your Guardian's favorite weapon they consider "theirs"/people associate it with your Guardian.

20.Something they love.

21.Something they dislike.

22.Do they work better in a Fireteam, or alone?

23.Favorite subclass.

24.Least favorite subclass. (This has to do with preference,not skill.)

25.If applicable,do they have a subclass they'll never touch?

26.Favorite (main bbeg) enemy they've ever fought.

27.Least favorite (main bbeg) enemy they've ever fought.

28. Does your Guardian prefer coffee,tea or something else?

29.Your favorite Destiny (specific) location.

30.Your Guardian's favorite (specific) location.

31.Does your Guardian have a more positive or negative outlook?

32.How does your Guardian feel about the more...shady characters in Destiny?

33.Did your Guardian have a mentor? Or did they learn as they went along?

34.Does your Guardian have a LI (Love interest)?

35.Does your Guardian have any pets?

36.Does your Guardian have any hobbies?

37.Are they good at those hobbies?

38.Would your Guardian make the sacrifice play?

39.Is your Guardian clumsy or quick on their feet?

40.Does your Guardian fit the stereotypes of their class?

41.Is your Guardian an Introvert or Extrovert?

42. Is your Guardian generally trusting or distrustful?

43.What drives them?

44:What is your Guardian's personality like? Or take this test and answer how they would:

45:If your Guardian could go back in time and change one thing (Destiny related) without repercussions,what would it be? (i.e Save someone,prevent themselves from making a mistake etc.)

46.If your Guardian could go back in time and change that one thing,but consequences of some kind were a guarantee,would they still do it?

47.Is your Guardian more of a sweet,savory,or salty kind of a person?

48.If applicable,is there anything your Guardian fears?

49.Your Guardian's favorite person.

50.Your Guardian's least favorite person/character.

51.Does your Guardian like to read?

52.If so,what is their favorite genre?

53.Does your Guardian have a side job or are they a full time Guardian?

54.If applicable,what was your/your Guardian's favorite location from Destiny(1)?

55.Favorite (mob) enemy to fight. (Vex,Dread,Fallen,Hive etc.)

56.Least favorite (mob) enemy to fight?

57.Where does your Guardian live?

58. Is your Guardian social or do they lean more towards being anti-social?

59.Does your Guardian have a family/found family?

60.Is your Guardian rich or constantly in need of glimmer?

61.Does your Guardian like heights or do they prefer to keep their feet firmly planted on the ground?

62.Favorite planet (or Moon)?

63.Least favorite planet (or Moon).

64.How does your Guardian feel about rules? Do they abide by them or bend/break them?

65.Is your Guardian a hoarder (be honest)?

66.Your Guardian's favorite activity. (Gambit, Crucible,Iron Banner,VanOps etc.)

67.Your favorite activity. (If it differs from your Guardian's.)

68.Does your Guardian wear accessories? (Bracelets,earrings,etc.)

69.Does your Guardian wear makeup/face paint?

70.Is your Guardian an Exo,Human or Awoken?

71.Other than necessities,what does your Guardian never leave home without?

72.What is your Guardian's favorite Cloak,Mark or Bond?

73.Do they keep mementos?

74.Is your Guardian organized or more chaotic?

75.If your Guardian had a favorite TV show,what would it be?

76.A character your Guardian would trust with their life.

77.A character your Guardian doesn't trust as far as they can throw them.

78.Do they seek out thrills/adventure or are they more of a stay at home unless they have to leave,kind of a person?

79.Is your Guardian more generous or greedy?

80.Is your Guardian more lazy or productive?

81. Does your Guardian talk about their feelings or bottle them up?

82.Does your Guardian use their Light for everyday tasks?

83.If applicable,is there a character your Guardian never got to meet,but wish they could? (Example:The Speaker,Shiro-4,Uldren Sov. This is mostly for the people who have never played D1/people who never got to meet characters no longer in D2).

84.Have they ever had any run-ins/met with characters specifically from the lore?

85.Are there any characters they would refuse to fight?

86.Are there any locations they refuse to go?

87.What are their opinions of the Traveler?

88.Is your Guardian forgiving or do they hold grudges?

89.What does your Guardian look like? (Feel free to describe them or share a picture of your Guardian if you're comfortable with that.❤️)

90.Does your Guardian pilot their own ship or do they let Ghost take control?

91.Is your Guardian smart?

92.Is your Guardian more driven by their head or their heart?

93.What are some of your Guardian's strengths?

94.What are some of your Guardian's weaknesses?

95.Does your Guardian have a major weakness? Their Kryptonite/Achilles heel?

96.Is your Guardian more talkative or stoic?

97.Is your Guardian more level headed or do they lose their cool (i.e hot headed/panic attacks)?

98.Does your Guardian pull pranks?

99.Does your Guardian consider themselves above the Vanguard or do they consider them their leaders or a bit of both,depending on the situation?

100.Is your Guardian humble or more of an attention seeker?

101. Does your Guardian like to try new things or do they tend to try to stick to the familiar?

[ahb-writes]

Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions (Learning, Training, and Education)

Learning, Training, and Education Worldbuilding Questions:

What are the primary methods and institutions of learning in this world?

What subjects are mandatory in each region (if these differ between regions or schools, why do they differ)?

Who has access to which kinds of education in this world and why?

Who are key innovators or reformers in the world of education, what was their contribution?

Where are the best educational facilities or institutions in this world?

Where do people train in specialized knowledge or skills, and where do they acquire basic/essential ones?

When do this world’s inhabitants typically begin and end formal education? Under what conditions might they depart from educational norms?

When educational events such as training completion occur, what ceremonies take place or benefits are conveyed?

Why might someone excel or struggle in their education in this world?

Why is education valued (or undervalued) in this world?

❯ ❯ ❯ Read other writing masterposts in this series: Worldbuilding Questions for Deeper Settings

[hulloitsdani]

Fighting for your life with heroes against brand new ones that sweep your team. Henrietta lore? That power she must keep in check? Summoner just won't die. Only in some timelines. and badly. Sharena. Ragnorok?!?! Loki's shenanigans.

Thank you stranger! In no particular order, let’s go through these

First off, OH I LOVEEEEEE BEING IMMEDIATELY PROVEN WRONG ABOUT LOKI. FINALLY. THANK FUCK. The validation I felt when the question of her motives was IMMEDIATELY brought up this book. I don’t care that my read was wrong— what I truly wanted more than anything was something of more substance to read into. As for actual predictions, my bets are that her aims are on bringing about Ragnorok and the end of the gods. For fun. As a treat. For the silly.

As for the actual state of the game, idk man, I play this game weird. I’m both free to play and entirely causal, so it’s entirely up to luck if I ever have any relevant units. In my many years of playing this game, I have never managed to +10 merge a unit that wasn’t a grail unit. So I don’t tend to play game modes where that matters much, with the exception of aether raids sometimes. I like clearing the challenge maps and making the story mode levels really difficult by using strictly Askr trio.

For events outside of that, I have a lot of fun using about one team per six months and trying to creatively use them and their base skills to solve whatever new bullshit is added. The game is clearly not built for you to do that, but I like the challenge it poses. I got really lucky on the CYL7 banner and got all four of the guys from that event. Brave Robin, Corrin, Soren and Gullvieg was my go to team for wayyyy longer than it should have, especially with zero changes to their kits and no merges. Hell I didn’t even have dragon flowers on half of them because Askr Trio building has long stolen most of flower supply. But god was it fun. I know how that group of units play off each other like the back of my hand. And considering how most people tend to just be frustrated with this game’s gameplay, it feels like I must be doing something right. I am constantly broke tho, so rip.

On the lore side, Henriette and Gustav are such a fascinating two for one package for me. Marketable plushies often bought together please don’t separate. The :) to his >:(. They’re both are great rulers and loving partners, but fumbled a bit in their parenting in ways that make total sense. For you see, I am a firm believer that everyone walks out of their childhood at least a little fucked up. Even the best parents are still human. And I adore Askr’s royal family unit, because it digs into that idea! Henriette and Gustav weren’t abusive or harboring malicious intent, but they were neglectful and lacking in ways that cannot be denied. Which is extremely cool! More of this please and thank you.

Looping back to the quote in question, to be perfectly honest, I would be pleasantly surprised if we ever got answers for her day of devotion alt voice lines. However, Gustav having a wife with the power to kill him easily would be so fucking funny. Like father, like son. If your romantically coded life partner can’t theoretically ensure your body is never found, what’s even the point. She doesn’t even need to be secretly divine or anything— I would be satisfied with her being something as simple as an abnormally strong mage. She can accidentally fold people like an omelet if she’s not being careful. Which, now that I’m putting that into writing, might contribute to her relationship with her kids.

Speaking of, Sharena!!! My best friend Sharena!!! I’ve got a multitude of thoughts cooking for her, but currently the one at the forefront is making home girl jacked as hell. Not joking. Dead ass. We all know the role she plays on a personality level— she’s the heart. The emotional glue that keeps these loner trickster types together and in check. But considering that this is the theater of war and everyone else has a role to play, I think it could be interesting if she was the beefiest fighter in the Askr trio. She’s able to dedicate the time fully to that craft, you know? She’s not balancing the responsibilities that arise from being the Order’s commander, tactician, or right hand man/history buff. Not to mention she was trained to fight by Bruno, who presumably played the role of group muscle before her. Therefore, when it comes to feats of physical strength, Sharena should be the Order’s go-to lady! I think it would be neat! She deserves the ability to easily carry her commanding officer and beat Alfonse’s nerdy ass in an arm wrestle.

Last but certainly not least, summoner bad ends! What could possibly go wrong? A lot, apparently. And it happens much more often than you’d expect.

See, I don’t think it’s that the summoner cannot die. Polar opposite, if anything. Each success is built upon the littered corpses of millions of failures. This idea loops back to the alternate version of Askr the group finds in book 3. In order to defeat Hel, they must loot the corpse of a dead world. By its very nature, not every summoner has an alternate corpse to loot. At least half of all realities where the summoner exists results in death and ruin by book 3 ALONE. This is saying nothing of all the dangerous odds they must beat from then to book 9. Just pulling one example off the dome, in order to defeat Gullveig, they had to die a truly eldritch and inconceivable amount of times. But we the audience don’t bear witness to that. We get to see the one world with the one summoner who is hitting those fraction of a fraction odds. The universe’s luckiest bastard. Others are not so lucky.

[madeofjules]

I've seen quite a few bad thg opinions the past couple days so here's a reminder that these things are canon:

Katniss is suicidal until Peeta comes home. He gives her the hope she needs to heal and move forward. They eventually enter a romantic relationship because she desires and loves him.

Katniss's only reason for not wanting kids was her deep-seated fear that they'd be reaped. Becoming a mother shows how much she's recovered from her trauma. Her children make her feel joy.

Katniss is happy in 12. She would've ended up there anyway. (“A few hundred others return because, whatever has happened, this is our home.”)

So anyone who thinks her ending isn't good or what she wanted probably doesn't actually like Katniss and definitely doesn't understand her character as she's written. Thankfully her creator does know her and gave her the peaceful ending she deserves.

[snekatieii]

Taco is so funny. Girl who is incapable of being normal at all when interacting with people. Girl who spent the first half of her existence acting like something she's not and the second half isolated from basically everybody. She's so mean. Nefarious plans is her default state. She introduced herself to mic by reading her diary pages and insulting her, and she met mepad by kidnapping him. Those are her only two friends. No wonder she doesn't know how to talk to people.

[yardsards]

i needed to express a sentiment in the creative stylings of @dunmeshiminimumwage

[bluebobatea]

if sasuke was the main character then he probably would've been a LOT more sympathised with than he is now (which is to say rarely). like the narrative wouldn't even need to change to show his pains or 'his side of the story', bc it does that plenty. it's just that he is not the main character. and idk what it is about our human minds but we tend to sympathise with main characters automatically (unless ofc you go off the rockers insane and do something like obliterate almost everyone from the planet *cough* eren yeager *cough*)

an instance that comes to my mind where this does happen is with lelouch from code geass. while i don't agree with his character motivations, people generally do sympathise with him as he is the mc and as viewers we know he isn't inherently evil. sasuke's goal towards the end is slightly similar but ofc people love to hate him so they don't even try to understand where he is coming from.

my point is, most people while engaging with the naruto story don't read between the lines and so don't see how traumatised and in pain sasuke is and hence don't understand his character motivations. heck, they don't understand a single bit about him and so they automatically hate him, as he is supposedly going against the main character's goals.

which is really sad given all that he has been through.

[daincrediblegg]

personally I think the best thing that the joker sequel did for me was expose the exact degree to which how much of internet/public criticism is not based on genuine analysis of the content using social and cultural resources to support an actual argument but is actually adult children whining because someone took their batman toys and put them up on a high shelf for once and they, as a consumer, feel like they're entitled to throw a tantrum about it

[avicecaro]

where’s the post that’s like “the ship of theseus question is a skill issue. we just don’t have words for the concept vs the physical reality. the squarks remain but the zingo of it has changed” or whatever the fuck it says

[gleppy]

i wish people misunderstanding and misinterpreting my words wasnt as bad of a stress trigger for me as it is but holy fuck there are few things that make me fly off the rails more lmao

[tackrusso]

show tempe gang crossover with the morris islanders would actually have been the best episode of bones ever. btw

[sirenofthetimes]

people on tumblr trying to explain "neurotypical behavior" is so funny to me because like...you're wrong