#and yes i do read tvtropes

[a-cha0tic-intr0v3rt]

ngl i thought this was funny, probably isn’t now

apologies for the lack of posts, I was on vacation in BOTH las vegas and los angeles

but anyones have this shitty weezer blue album w/ the 4ggravate boys from genshin impact

i don’t really listen to weezer but hey look i wanted to do this its my blog stfu and leave me alone 🔥

i also dont play genshin but i just rlly like the charactet designs— and their voices (mostly their en and jp va’s)— then again its my blog let me be ‼️

[sillygoblinantics]

I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE

I’ve held my tongue for too long about my feelings on madhouse but fucking hell!

Unless by some fucking act of arceus or universe hands me the fucking concept art that went into this horrible webcomic- I got room to rip and tear!

This is:

Goblin’s Valid Autopsy of Lily Orchard’s PokéMadhouse

Before we go forward!

Hi. I’m Gobbo or Bri (pick ya poison), I’m a current student at Savannah College of Art and Design (as for campus I ain’t saying nothing) Im working on my bachelors in Animation and minoring in Creative Writing. My Concentration starting as 2d animation later switching it to Story and Concept in animation (back in 2021). I started in 2019 and it’s… 2024 now. Don’t judge me! I’ve been mentored by comic artist, storyboarders and many more in the industry! I’ve taken storyboarding and a plethora of writing classes to have enough qualifications under my belt to properly discuss the shit writing, lacking worldbuilding, disorganized plot hole ridden lore/arcs and horrible inconsistent art. So let’s not waste another moment and dive fucking in!

Story:

I’m not using Lily’s self review tvtropes to cover this. It’s disingenuous ego stroking at full blast.

We follow the highs and lows that are the “will they won’t they” relationship between the stated as sisters, Lily and her Gardevoir, G (yes that’s her fucking name). In a Sunday newspaper comic page esc structure. With bits and pieces of trivia and lore that rarely comes up if not to push and pull sympathy points for lilys self insert as she gets assaulted and violated in physical and mental ways. An arc being called “Violate” and later following the would be time span for gestation of a baby that would then become the labeled cryptid child.

I’m gonna be real there’s no point in reading it because the moment something big happens out of the blue there wasn’t a page missing to explain it which god fucking dammit Lily do I need to give you one of those brainframe sheets or outline templates if you decide to write a story? Because I’ll gladly provide them!

How do you consider yourself a fucking writer at all with your fundamental lack of care for lore and story like- for fucks sake woman it won’t kill you!

Characters

Lily

G

Mikayla

Marah

Bonnie

Mismagius

Other hardly seen or used Pokémon that get thrown away out of nowhere

Countless stolen ocs

And Dr Ponytail (yes that’s the fucking name of one of the “antagonists” and I’ve reread it so many times and found nothing!)

Lily has her “antagonists” being either ex friends or partners or someone who tries to call out bullshit! Fucking hell, the way Lily has g written it’s hard to not see HER AS ONE!

You have all these characters and you neglect so many of them to focus on making your favorite Dollies kiss and scissor or do nothing!

You don’t punish actual rapists either like legit what do you do when your Pokémon who’s been raised like a sister your whole life admits to mindfucking you in a weird soul bond type deal (that you wrote the explanation of yourself), then out of fear swaps dna of a Pokémon of her CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES can match with to save it with your own dna to baby lock you to staying together, what’s the thing you decide to write?

Case in point: stick an entire cactus up your urethra Lily.

I need a break from this… I’m moving on to the art misdirection.

Lily you are the one commissioning these panels from Mikayla. Meaning you are telling her how to draw these making you the literal art director of this shitty comic!

You want my advice?

USE MODEL SHEETS

Like holy shit. I need to copy paste my spiel about what it is one second:

Make a turnaround for your character(s)!

(Excluding front and back you need to make left and right versions of the rest!)

Front

Back

over-the-shoulder

3/4 view

profile

expression sheets

color pallet reference

(if it’s online/digital rgb if it’s for print it’s cmyk)

include the hexcodes for artists if it’s a small production!

lineup for height and scale for comparison to:

other characters

backgrounds

props

etc.

elements of the world + floor plan in small settings

action poses

hair guide (trust me it’s important)

these are the elements every artist who wants to tell a visual story be it animated or comic always needs:

✨A PITCH BIBLE✨

And Lily, if you’re making any story that is

A. Tied to an existing property

B. Has real world/geopolitical/historic relation

C. Needing a basic understanding to science

Do everyone and yourself a favor

AND DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH IN MLA FORMAT INSTEAD OF SOMEONE ELSES OPINIONS AND YOUR ASS OF HOLDING BULLSHIT!

Class

Dismissed

Your homework is to get these books:

[pro-sipper]

"Dead Dove: Do Not Eat"

About the tag, the origin, and why I think no one on either side of the fandom divide knows how to use it

First of all, I'm crosstagging because I think it's a general issue, not just something for pro or anti shippers. I see the tag get misused on both sides and I just wanted to throw my two cents in

So, where did the term originate? Like all culturally significant things online, it started as a meme. More specifically, a meme from the television show Arrested Development. Character A has put a dead dove into a brown paper bag to store in the family's fridge. On the bag, he has taped a sign that reads, in big bold letters, "DEAD DOVE. Do Not Eat!"

Character B comes across the bag, reads the warning, and opens it anyway. When he's met with, you guessed it, a dead dove, he proclaims "I don't know what I expected".

This is an example of (and has since basically become the spiritual successor to) the "Exactly What It Says On The Tin" trope.

If you want to check out the full history and countless examples of the trope, please check out the page on tvtropes. But for a slightly shorter history - it originated in a British commercial for Ronseal's Quick Drying Woodstain, which the tin claimed "dried quickly". And in the commercial they told you "It does exactly what it says on the tin!" So, the tin says what the product does, then the product does it. You get the idea.

In fandom spaces, the trope just means that the title of Thing (be it movie, show, fanfic, etc) tells you exactly what happens IN Thing. If a show is called "Buffy The Vampire Slayer", you already know it's about a girl named Buffy who slays vampires. If the movie is called "Cocaine Bear", you can bet a bear will get into some cocaine at some point. If there's a fanfic called "Fluttershy Has Tea With Jesus"... you get the idea.

While both tags started out with the same intentions and meaning, I don't think it's any wonder that "dead dove do not eat" has been so easy to misinterpret. For one, "exactly what it says on the tin" sounds more straightforward. You don't have to understand the specific reference to infer it means to check the label (in this case, tags) before purchasing (opening) the product (fanfic)

But dead dove is harder to understand if you don't know the reference. And at a glance, it sounds much darker. Doves have symbolism in multiple religions, and are seen as a symbol of peace. A dead dove evokes images of gore, violence, general unpleasantness. It must only apply to something sinister, right?

The thing about "exactly what it says on the tin" is that the tin needs to say something. You can't point at a blank label and say "here's what you can expect". People would be much less likely to engage with your product if that were the case

In the same vein, slapping "dead dove do not eat" on a fic with no other tags can lead to confusion. In this tag's case, it's a warning. But what are you warning about if you don't also put it in the tags? It leaves people's minds to conjure up only grim and upsetting images of what might be in your fic. Especially when, as it's also common to do, the tag gets shortened to simply "dead dove".

And while, yes, the tag is most likely to get slapped onto fics with dark or upsetting subject matter, that means something different for everyone who comes across it.

Most people seem to think it only applies to inappropriate relationships (age gap, incest, etc). But I've seen it applied to a variety of things, from potentially triggering material (like suicide) to things that simply may not be everyone's cup of tea (like excessive gross-out toilet humor).

In the end, "dead dove do not eat" is a tag that, in my opinion, should not be used as a descriptor as to what type of content your story contains. But rather, a gentle warning to say "hey, I'm specifically telling you what you're about to encounter, so whatever happens next is up to you".

After all, if you read the warning and still open the bag to find something you don't like...

I don't know what you were expecting.

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

You know that trope in fiction where the small town has weird things that happen and instead of being Sunnydale Blindness or whatever, the townspeople know and just don't care? I think TVTropes calls this Fantastically Indifferent.

Anyways what if everyone in Forks knew about wolves and vampires and the Cullens, but didn't really react to it ("It just seems kinda racist to bring it up, ya know?"), do you think the Cullens would ever notice? I mean Edward's gift seems to say yes, but then again I have faith in my boy not noticing them knowing. Also what happens when the Vulturi get there?

I mean, canonically they do.

This is the Quileutes.

They know about the Cullens, don't make a huge deal of it though besides avoiding them entirely, and the Cullens know that they know, though they aren't sure how much information has been passed down/how much they really believe and how wide-spread it is.

The not knowing is mostly because a) Alice doesn't see them as she really doesn't see much of anything that doesn't interact with her family or people important to her b) Edward's not close enough to read their minds and not familiar enough with them to do it at a large distance.

If it was Forks...

Well, on the one hand, Forks thinks the Cullens are weird incestuous rich freaks, so much so that this is the first thing Jessica says to Bella. The Cullens know this but, at least from what we see of Edward's point of view, he doesn't quite get it or understand what that means and that they're not blending in well.

So if someone thinks "Edward is a vampire/alien", Edward's actively scanning for that and would get spooked. More damning, if Alice saw someone rallying the pitchforks, then she notices.

But if it's people who don't intend to do or say anything, who don't even know quite what they're looking at just that it's weird, then I don't think the Cullens will notice.

As for the Volturi, again, that's kind of what happened with the Quileute and they begrudgingly wrote it off with "well, I guess they're all shapeshifters anyway" even though some of those who know are not in the bloodline.

They do know that the town gives them the side-eye, but since they're not thinking "vampire" it's not really good enough to do anything about.

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: With the loss of Team Rocket as an organization, Jessie, James, and Meowth set out to do something they never would have previously dreamed—backtracking across the regions, reuniting with old friend and foe alike, in an attempt to make up for their wrongs. Join the trio as they take off on a determined search to find their white tomorrow on the path of righteousness.

Author: @musashi

Note from submitter: This fic has a TVTropes page!

[snowwald]

I really love how like, fundamentally stupid Corrin is, don���t like quote me on this but I went to read tvtropes for corrin last night and they kept insisting oh! Corrin’s NOT stupid!! They READ and play PIANO and defeat MANY ENEMIES! Buddy please remember that Silas is the only reason Corrin didn’t get blown up on sight after waking up from almost dying in a blizzard in Nohr where they’ve gone out dressing how they do, when they’re familiar with cold weather, and almost told the chief of the village they came to suppress the rebellion of that they came to do this exact thing. Like Corrin yes is well read! They love Philosophy. They’re wretched at tactics as we learn from Leo’s supports and he is literal when he says corrin has the devil’s own luck. Corrin is depicted as fairly foolish in the 4koma too, not that the side comics are super canon, but like. Corrin IS smart when it comes to philosophy and morality and their emotional intelligence is off the shits but everything else in their brain is such hot garbage it’s a miracle they’re alive. Honestly? Corrin is not the reincarnation of Robin, this is like, chrom’s reincarnation if Chrom picked up a book because he wasn’t let outside. TVtropes saying Corrin is not stupid and then also explaining that they also need so many things explained TO them about their own country’s people is so funny to me. Like I’m putting stock in Garon purposefully not outright educating Corrin because he wanted to use them as a bomb later and this fucker just survived. I think the only reason corrin survived was because of the crumbs of education they got from their siblings & reading but mostly the tremendous amount of love and affection they were given, mikoto’s shielding from danger moment got them through round one but the ego death of dragon transformation could’ve just finished them off had their siblings Not done the work because you KNOW garon did fuck all about raising this child in the middle of nowhere.

anyway this is my corrin’s a thembo propaganda in 2024.

[beevean]

Honestly what annoys me more about the fandom's reaction to Chaomix is that the main talking points haven't changed. Only the context around them did. It's still "2010 sonic bad" and "sega bad" except now it comes with an addendum of "they bad because they tried to appeal to those reviewers and journos". Which sucks because it would be a legit point on it's own but it's being used as a smokescreen for some to still hate on the games while presenting it like they are defending them.

I will bet everything I have that in a decade the "Meta Era" will gain new appreciation exactly the same way as the "Dark Age".

The Dark Age used to be despised for multiple reasons. It had some objectively flawed games back to back, for sure, but part of the backlash was also due to the Classic fans being the majority of the fandom, being very unhappy with the direction of the franchise. A lot of nowadays beloved Sonic games used to be laughingstocks.

Sonic Heroes? A janky repetitive mess that did not follow up to the masterpiece that was SA2 because it was too kiddy, and we're so tired of Sonic's Shitty Friends.

Shadow the Hedgehog? Not only it was OW THE EDGE, but it was legitimately seen as an affront to everything Sonic stood for, shilling a creator's pet that had long overstayed its welcome.

Sonic '06? One of the worst games of all time. Nearly killed the franchise, and maybe it should have. Buggy and rushed in a way that was unacceptable for an anniversary game and the next gen game. A shitty ass story full of holes with damsels in distress that make out with animal corpses.

Sonic Unleashed? The Werehog was fucking stupid and once again spitting on everything Sonic stood for, and we're so tired of cinematic stories! (yes the complaint that the intro was too long was a real complaint)

Sonic and the Black Knight? Sonic with a sword was fucking stupid. No one cared about the story.

The beginning of the Meta Era was exactly what fans wanted back then. Colors was seen as Sonic's comeback for things like not having an intro cutscene, having a "saturday morning cartoon" story with only Sonic and Tails and none of the Shitty Friends, having Eggman as the final boss instead of yet another monster, and sticking only with the "good" parts of Unleashed. Read its Funny page on TvTropes, and you'll find many of the jokes that nowadays are used as proof that Pontaff were hacks and Flynn was so real for making fun of them both in IDW and in Frontiers. It was seen as Sonic's glorious return because finally, at long last, Sonic was going back to his Classic roots.

But now? Now those same Classic fans grew older and even more disillusioned with the franchise, so they left, and they were replaced by the Adventure fans, now old enough to be heard. Now Heroes is a cute game, with much better level design than shitty games like Forces. ShTH is secretly deeper than people gave it credit for, and Shadow is cool again, and at least characters do stuff, unlike in Forces. Sonic '06 was full of ambition, unlike Forces where they didn't even try. Sonic Unleashed can pretty much compete with SA2 as a masterpiece. SatBK has a wonderful story that truly gets Sonic, unlike Forces where everyone is stupid and lame.

See a pattern?

Hell, even things like Eggman as a final boss is getting backlash now. I've seen people praising Frontiers' The End because of this. Eggman as the final villain got stale again. These are the Adventure fans who grew up with Eggman getting swatted away or teaming up with Sonic, and liking it.

(I'm an Adventure fan too, but funnily enough, Colors was the first game where I ever liked Eggman precisely for keeping him as the main threat lol)

It's a cycle. The 2010s were the era of "the 2000s sucked, we want to go back to the '90s when Sonic used to be good". The 2020s will be, and already are, the era of "the 2010s sucked, we want to go back to the 2000s when Sonic used to be good". I am eagerly waiting for the videos named "Sonic Forces was not that bad, you guys were just mean". It will come. Just like '06 used to be reviled and mocked to death and now it has gained respect, the same will happen to Forces. Just like Forces is now seen as "unserious" and apologetic, the same will happen with Frontiers and its "I'm sorry we sucked, we'll do better next time" tone. Just like Pontaff were seen as a breath of fresh air and now they are seen as the people who ruined Sonic, the same will happen to Flynn. You'll see.

[anonzentimes]

I've kind of realized something after spending a while digging through various fic recommendations. If a fic is recommended by TVTropes, there's a high likelihood that the characterization of Nagito is gonna be pretty bad. The site's consensus on the character is pretty much a distillation of all the most shallow Reddit takes on the character. "Nagito's a static character", "He gets sexually aroused by Hope", "Hajime despises him (no we're not projecting and using him as our self-insert)", etc. etc. Oh, and can't forget to indulge the bullshit theory about him maybe having raped Monaca. Like it's almost comical just how much whoever wrote his Trope Pantheon entry clearly despised him. With Nagito being shat on to a much greater extent than other fictional characters who've done mountains worse than him (looking at you Harley Quinn).

Also that kind of goes for the various story blogs I've seen around this site. I'm struggling to think of a single one where the characterization of him didn't engage in some sort of petty bashing. Mudslinging that the people making them will defend by crying "We're just giving him REAL character development that the OVA didn't". The New Future and Survivor are some of the worst examples of this.

the moment I read reddit takes on the character in reference to Nagito you KNOW I was shaking in my boots at what horrendous things would be coming up and then you start listing the worst of the worst dirt that gets thrown on him from people who fundamentally hate or misunderstand him and it just got progressively worse like

It’s crazy how bad the mischaracterizations and arguments can be over Nagito it’s so ridiculous… I have a desire to understand most everything I love and fear mischaracterizing or misunderstanding the characters I love and seeing people be so relentlessly unforgiving mischaracterizing him is always so crazy to me Lol. I know the entire point is that there’s a misunderstanding so people usually don’t understand or aren’t self aware of it, which is the scariest part about it in my opinion, but my god it’s dreadful the things these people do and say. I’ve had people in my inbox scream that it’s not that big of a deal and it’s so annoying, like yes it matters because the character matters to people. Not to mention most of the mischaracterizations are usually rooted in some sort of ableism and homophobia it’s truly dreadful. The reason I’ve ever even gotten any traction I’m pretty sure is because apparently being decent and understanding Nagito without bashing him is something people applaud me for Lol. I don’t think I’m that special, but when there’s so many annoying people over this character and when people find someone who is not like that who can and attempts to articulate things about the complex character I think people enjoy it. Even if there’s a good amount of people who understand his character the amount that bash on him, are homophobic towards him, ableist towards him, and mischaracterize him, is just so extremely disgusting that it feels offensive. There is no reason that stupid “theory” about Monaca should ever exist other than disgusting filthy minds who should rethink about their place in this world. I hate them very much. I’m glad I can provide something good for him, at least hopefully, because he means so much to me. I wish everyone could understand him because the misunderstandings he has are so disgustingly extreme and horrible. I understand that he is a complex character but I will NEVER tolerate stupidly horrendous reddit takes throwing dirt on him ever.

[baenyth]

Bethany's Bizarre Miraculous Reviews Episode 5-22: The Pig Miraculous 2?: Mayor Bourgeois is Gone. Long Live Mayor Bourgeois.

Alright, reading through TvTropes and this is apparently the episode where Andre disowns the child he failed to raise and the source of this:

She still looks like toothpaste, though.

They're spending every second together, aren't they?

Oh right. That's why.

Dad's shitty ass pancakes

Looking at this relationship and I feel nothing. I don't need an Adrinette kiss.

Rose, I need you and Juleka to kiss.

Lila's subterranean lair. A 14-15-year-old wouldn't have that. More proof for my serial killer Lila theory.

Yeah, I'm feeling nothing for this. I'm going to work on puzzles.

So Lila's worsening Chloe? What was the 'i don't care' thing for, then? Just a flaunt of authority?

Yeah, Chloe's a ventriloquist dummy who's meant to be evil at this point. You can't sweep Maledictator under the rug, whoever made this. I've seen Chloe's depths. I've seen her self-loathing. Quit pretending this is about reaching out or whatever. This isn't just wasted redemption potential, this is a bad downfall arc.

He seems to hate the spiraling teenager more than the grown adult womanchild.

Eh. The real problem is replacing jobs with robots while not adding safety nets for those on the bottom.

So have you ever seen the Soviet film "Wow, a Talking Fish!"? It's very me-core and I love it.

Manipulative editing

People are going to believe that even with the blatant cuts, aren't they.

How does Gift turn people into balloons? Or are they just balloons hallucinating happy futures?

Is it just me or does Ms. Bustier's VA no longer care? Is she not paid enough for this?

Even Chloe knows this is cap!

Oh finally. A gay lip kiss. Now do one for the lesbeans that have been there from day 1. Yes, I am salty as hell about this.

Surprise Chloe!

Dangerous rectangles

Oh boy! A three-way war that'll last only one episode!

[teecupangel]

Hi, so I was rewatching Code Geass (I hope you know it? I assume you do, you seem to know everything) and it occured to me that Geass powers are very similar to PoE powers, so... what if instead of Apples there were Code Bearers (hopefully in some kind of stasis for a good portion of history)?

Because I would really like Eve to run around Renaissanse Italy (although she probably wouldn't mention just who she is before the Vault) and because Altair is absolutely the type to fully develop a Geass.

...yes, also because it would be funny if Desmond became immortal instead of dying.

I wanted to say that I don’t know everything, sometimes I check the wiki or tvtropes to help me get a grasp of the ask but, funnily enough, I do know Code Geass. Code Geass is one of the animes I watched when it first aired in Japan then rewatched the English dub to see how different it is (the English dub is so good, getting Johnny Yong Bosch as Lelouch was such a top-tier choice). I should note that I only watched the two seasons and I could sorta remember the dating sim game, I didn’t watch the movies or Akito the Exiled. Oh, and I can barely remember Nightmare of Nunnally manga even though I did read a few chapters of it XD

In other words, we’re focusing on what was revealed in R2 about Code Bearers for this one XD

Now, let’s change it a bit. The Code Bearers are the Isus’ greatest achievement. They were meant to be the shepherds of the Isus’ slaves.

But Minerva screwed that up, giving them a sense of ‘self’.

To be companions.

But it was because of their sense of self that they grew to like the company of humans more than their masters.

And they revolted, using the very power granted to them by the Isus to ‘bless’ specific humans that led the charge.

The Isu-human war was not even between the Isus and the humans but between the Isus and the Code Bearers, hiding in the shadows and using the humans as their puppets, granting power to those that would later be known as Geass users.

Minerva had been spared from a death sentence by the very Code Bearer she had given a sense of ‘self’ to.

Her daughter…

Eve.

The Isus were killed. Those who were left alive were exiled or imprisoned, left to die a slow death.

Then…

The humans revolted.

Against the Geass users and their Code Bearers.

Minerva does not know why.

Perhaps one of users or the bearers had used their power selfishly.

Perhaps it is simply the nature of being with enough intelligence such as Isus, humans, and Code Bearers to turn against what they believe to be controlling them.

Minerva had been too busy…

Creating the last Code Bearer.

Her son.

The one that shall gift the most powerful Geass of all.

The Geass to control the very fabric of time.

.

The Code Bearers have dwindled in sizes and they have grown to distrust one another, believing that one of them or one of the Geass users they have gifted with the power of the Geass had betrayed them which led to the ‘witch hunts’.

This is why the Code Bearers try their best to remain in seclusion and to not change the trajectory of humanity.

Until…

Eve found Minerva’s final resting place.

An underground laboratory, half-destroyed thanks to an earthquake.

And that’s when she learned of her ‘little brother’, Minerva’s final Code Bearer.

Desmond.

And Eve sets out to find him.

.

Unknown to him…

Desmond isn’t exactly the typical Code Bearer.

Because Minerva figured the best way to create a Code Bearer that will not fall victim to the corrupting influence of their immortality and power is to change a human into a Code Bearer.

A human that had willingly sacrificed his life to save the world before.

So Minerva tweaked the timeline and captured Desmond Miles’ consciousness a second before his death and transferred it to the Code Bearer body she had prepared.

Desmond has no idea what Code Bearers are. He does know what a Geass is, the Assassins and Templars have been searching for Geass users for centuries.

He also know…

That the man who gave Altaïr his Geass was a man that looked too similar to him to be a coincidence.

A man…

… who looked exactly like Desmond.

(That’s right, this is going to be a closed loop where the Code Bearer who gave Altaïr his Geass is actually Desmond himself, having been given a Code Bearer body. Considering it’s Altaïr, it’s highly possible that he would even upgrade from being a Geass user to being a Code Bearer but there has only been one human to have ever done that… Eve’s Geass user… Adam… who disappeared a few weeks before the witch hunts begins)

[horizontwinflames]

Hello! Welcome!

@mari-mary talking here, and this is my side blog dedicated to my newest AU from the Horizon series. It will have spoilers of the games and DLCs!

Long story short, let's say that the Zeniths could get to Earth sooner. Things did not go well, and yada yada... During the prologue of HZD, little Aloy finds little Beta in that bunker. Beta had lost her memory and only remembered her name... or at least what she thinks is her name.

So, they grew up together as outcasts in this AU, and then we proceed to the canon story but with that small change in it. With that said, their characters will be very different from canon and the way the story rolls as well.

Also, Elisabet is alive here too. She's been kept in a cryosleep state by the Zeniths.

Read about the main four here: [Aloy, Beta and Elisabet] [Isaac]

[Fanfic Masterlist]

[This AU on TvTropes] (missing info from chapter 7 in front) created by @sananaryon

For canon content or just artworks/fic posts of this AU, see: @marisartcorner

FAQ under the cut:

**QUICK FAQ:

-There will be any ships/canon romance (with Aloy or Beta) in this AU?

No, I don't want to sidetrack the focus from the sisterhood of Aloy and Beta. Plus many other reasons story/character development-wise.

-Can I do fanart/memes?

Of course! I would love to see it! Just not NSFW(like porn or gore, for example), please; of course, don’t forget to credit it.

-Can I do a video from your comics or use your art in my videos? (ex.: adding voice acting, panels “slide show”, AMVs, etc)

Yes, BUT notify me when you start to work on it. In this case, I ask you to give credit somewhere in the video and link(s) to the original art in the description.

-Can I translate your comics/fan fic?

Yes, but let’s talk first.

-Can I edit/trace over/repost your art/use for AI/NFT?

NOPE.

But if you’re unsure about something, ask me.

[bluedalahorse]

Slates of Standard Pairings

Does your fandom have a Slate of Standard Pairings?

Maybe there’s a better term for this that TVTropes came up with years ago. But this is what I call it in my head.

A Slate of Standard Pairings is a phenomenon where if you have a fic with multiple pairings and almost every character being paired off, it will most likely include the pairings on the slate. This doesn’t mean the fandom only ships those pairings. It just means that those pairings have gained enough momentum, and enough momentum in proximity to one another that they sort of… show up together quite frequently.

For instance, I would argue that the Slate of Standard Pairings for Young Royals fandom is as follows:

Simon/Wilhelm, Sara/Felice, Maddie/Rosh, Stella/Fredrika, Walter/Henry, Nils/Vincent

If you are a boy in Young Royals and your name starts with the letter A, you are SOL for romantic relationships according to the Slate of Standard Pairings.

(Back when I was more active in Les Mis fandom, there were I believe two competing slates of Les Amis pairings, both of them headlined by Enjolras/Grantaire. Is that still the case, or have things shifted?)

For the most part, Slates aren’t intentionally created, but they do sort of drift together by probability. The thing about the Slate of Standard Pairings is that it can sometimes feel like a fandom rule, in an unconscious way where its structure is sort of encoded into the background of a lot of fics and discussions. They can also influence the prevailing fanon at any given time, in terms of which configurations of an ensemble hang out the most, who tops versus who bottoms, etc. There are some folks who actively choose all the pairings in the slate. Others choose some of the pairings in the Slate when writing a fic, but they may not choose all of them. Other people’s reading of their work may be affected by the Slate.

There are always ships that get popular outside of the Slate. For instance, Young Royals fandom has a fondness for Madisander. At one point we were getting into Roshella. Are we still into that? We should still be into that, it coulda been fun.

The Slate is not an inherently bad or an inherently good thing, but I think it’s good for fandoms to be aware of them. It’s also good to recognize the influence they have on fanon and interpretations of canon. It might also make you aware of which characters do and don’t get shipped a lot, or patterns in who your fandom recognizes as more dominant/more repressed/more desireable/whatever else.

You can also go against the Slate to shake things up once in a while, because it’s not actually a rule. I say this because “chronic desire to shake things up” was on my paperwork when I got diagnosed with hyperactive-subtype ADHD. (Yes, that was a neurodivergent joke, sorry.) For instance, Sara/Felice means so much more to me as a platonic relationship than a romantic relationship, because it reminds me of some of the strong platonic friendships that make my life rich and livable, but I’m totally here to ship Felice romantically with Rosh or maybe even Ayub. Or like, as far as non-canon August pairings go, I think we’re really sleeping on August/Nils. It could be so good! And then sometimes you get ideas for a crack pairing, because we all love a good crack pairing.

Anyway, what do you think? Does the Slate of Standard Pairings theory hold water?

What does it look like in your fandom?

Are you someone who tends to like Slates of Standard Pairings, or are you someone who prefers to ignore them?

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

hey would it be ok to make a tvtropes page for otcoj? the degree to which it's standout and amazing COMPELS me to do it

(yes I'm still in the process of reading shhh)

Holy shit. I would be honoured if you do. Please send me a link. I'll be obsessed.

[thetruearchmagos]

👀 - Share a quote!

💛 - What is your favorite trope to write? Is it also your favorite to read?

(yes I removed the u from favorite)

Well then, looks like I'm getting a busy day today!

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Well, seeing as you've been fairly interested in that Star Wars fic so far, here's the beginning to a scene from it I've been looking forwards to writing!

Moonrise's favourite hole in the wall had neither a name nor a registration, a fact which made finding the damn place a tricky business. Of course, none of them ever did, and Redar got the sense that that was the point. “Getting antsy already, Gilly? Tsk, fleet work’s gone to your head, I think.” Colonel Ecken was still leaning back in his chair, a slender glass of something purplish red in one hand and taking in the view with a lazy gaze. The two senior security men had taken their places on a hotel balcony overlooking the dingy streets below, though Redar had no intention of partaking in his old friend's merriment. "And this dump has gone to yours. You seriously think your local yokels are up to the job? "Now, now," Ecken replied, drinking from and gesturing with his glass. "They aren't stormtroopers, but they know these streets as well as the streets know them. If we'd put your boys down here, it'd be a ghost town in ten minutes- hold it!" He shot straight up, and Redar whirled around. The road was still a packed mass of moving bodies in the half light, but through the gloom and distance Redar saw an unmistakable figure stepping into the throng. Face out of sight, but he felt a chill run through his spine, and that was enough "Well then, time to see it for real."

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💛 - What is your favorite trope to write? Is it also your favorite to read?

Ooo... tough question, if I'm honest? I'm not really all to familiar with most of the 'Tropes' that exist in the world, and the ones I do know fall solidly in either my 'original' techno-thriller camp, or fanfic.

Going with the former, I guess, the 'Macross Missile Massacre' as TVTropes calls it. Seeing it play out in the 'good stuff' like Dance of the Vampires in Red Storm Rising is personally just an absolute delight to read, and of course you can expect it to appear a lot in the 12 Worlds.

[opinated-user]

Wouldn't LO's fans also be considered stalkers, by lily's logic?

They follow her on her social media platforms (Yt, Tumblr, Patreon [granted you have to pay to see certain tiers on there but it still gives outside users an option to see more content], Twitter [before it got shut down] and I would also assume TVtropes as well) - most of the sm being openly public. They view her content, they read her words. Is the only difference that they praise her to high heaven?

yes. that's indeed the only difference. none of us is talking about some secret info that was hacked out of her devices... anything we say is from sources that were public and she made it public before any of us. her issue is that we actually criticized her about it rather than let her do whatever she wants, consequences free.

[katie-the-bug]

General Reflections After Having Subjected Myself to the Entire Left Behind Series

I figured I should probably close out my silly little series with thoughts more substantial than "what the fuck did I just read." So here they are.

First a couple of basic criticisms of the writing, to get those out of the way:

None of those books need to be 400-ish pages long. Cut out the plot threads that go nowhere, the characters that do nothing, and the dialogue that conveys no information, and you'll have something much more succinct and readable, at the low, low cost about having to think for a moment about what you're writing.

The series would have been much more interesting if the characters didn't know exactly what was going on at every turn. As it is, they talk about every major event chapters or even books before it happens, and then it happens, and then they characters gloat about how they were right. Hell, even the villains knew what was going on! Characters taken by surprise act in much more interesting ways than characters who know it all, and an information advantage, on one side or the other, can be used to create an interesting struggle.

Even in a situation where the characters know what's coming, they should be doing something with that information, be that stopping what's coming, facilitating it, or even just reacting to it in a believable way. The characters in Left Behind just watch dispassionately as horrible things they have predicted happen all around them, and it's boring as hell.

In the final book there was a visual that I thought was kind of cool, and I wondered why there hadn't been any such visuals previously. I have since realized that this series has almost no visuals period. The characters are sparsely described - I haven't the foggiest idea what Rayford Steele looks like, for example - and the settings tend to get vague descriptions, if any. It's impossible to feel that you're there with the characters when you don't know what they or their surroundings look like.

Now the thing I really want to say.

I will freely confess that the only reason I wanted to read Left Behind was because I knew it was stupid, I knew I would disagree with it, and I wanted to make fun of it. (Whether that fun will be a full-on parody or just an addition to my existing edgy Bible-fanfic-in-development has yet to be determined.) I figured that for this purpose, the Wikipedia summaries and the TVTropes pages wouldn't be enough - I'd actually have to familiarize myself with the nuances and details of the source material.

As I was breezing through these 400-page books at a rate of one every one or two days, fast even for me, I was frustrated. Yes, more things happened than were mentioned in the summaries, but they didn't add anything other than mild annoyance. There was interactions between the characters, but only rarely did I feel like I was actually learning things about the people in the story. I've read books where I have to reread passages to get the full meaning, where there are details that come back and are important, but that never happened while I was reading this series.

To cut to the chase: there's really nothing TO Left Behind. Things happen, we're told exactly what they mean and what we should do about it, and the story moves on. There's no deeper meaning, no details, no nuances, nothing to actually think about. The only thing you'll discover by reading the books themselves is how bad they are, qualitatively and morally. If you only read about the books, you'll never experience how terrible the writing quality really is, how little research was done to make the setting and characters realistic, and the degree to which the books are permeated with racism, sexism, homophobia, religious bigotry, and self-aggrandizing fantasy.

In other words, if you only read summaries, you'll have saved your time.

The depth of these books' lacking is simultaneously impressive and unsurprising. If you are looking for something enjoyable to read, look elsewhere. If you are looking for something that will make you hate the characters, the authors, and the God the authors worship, look no further. And if you're looking for something to make fun of on Tumblr...well.