#at her treatment of the dead

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

hello good evening tonight i’m thinking about shoko and how desensitized she is :33 thinking about a naive reader who admires her and looks up to her and feels their world come crashing down when she has to put a scalpel to their best friend’s corpse after a mission gone wrong and doesn’t even bat an eye .

[lesbicosmos]

crystal palace surname-von hoverkraft appreciation post 🫶🫶

crystal i love you and your absurdly silly name <333

[telanadasvhenan]

Slaps my lavellan this bad boy can fit so many abandonment issues

edit: uploaded the right picture lol

[ironyscleverer]

Hm ok so I just finished episode 3 of dead boy detectives and like,,, I’m enjoying it but I wish Niko was less of a stereotype 🫤

[bonefall]

do you have any plans for snaptooth or flywhisker, ever since I saw that fake map I've fallen in love w flywhisker lmao

You know, for the longest time I've been planning to have Snaptooth and Flywhisker be adopted kits of Toadstep and Lionblaze, but I'm writing an SE rework for Nightcloud right now and I have a temptation.

I found a good moment to send off Snapstorm, the best friend of Brushblaze, as a complication of a boar hunt gone wrong. It's right around the time that Brushblaze's kits are being born, and something feels odd about the fact he didn't name any of his kits after someone who was by his side for his entire life. SO I'm thinking about shuffling Snaptooth over to HIS litter.

Which leaves Flywhisker over in ThunderClan.

Lionblaze is the adopted father of Dovewing and Ivypool... and his terrible parenting caused Dovewing to leave ThunderClan, and Ivypool to be permanently traumatized. He breaks up his false mateship with Cinderheart to go be with the cat he really loves, Toadstep, and Flywhisker is adopted after being found abandoned.

Lionblaze's destruction of the ThunderClan family tree has been undone; so now he would only have three children. Ivy, Dove, and Fly. I like it, because Fly is growing up with all the expectations of being Firekin, but also holding the knowledge that her loving father... wasn't always the best, to her older sisters.

It would be cool if Fly was always a little bit of a rebel, and found a really good friend in WindClan. I could work her into the conflict of TBC better too, being accused of being in a HalfClan relationship when the truth is that Snaptooth is more like a brother to her. Then, of course, have them leave the Clans together.

Brushblaze's litter would be Snaptooth, Smokehaze, and Galerunner... and so, Galerunner would be left alone after his brother leaves permanently with Flywhisker.

But I'm still unsure. It's a big change, because I'd been planning for Fly and Snap to remain siblings in BB. But it does seem to work better, thinking about it...

[felixcosm]

Let's not treat Emily like she is somehow a threat to David/Matt, please. She is a very well written, complicated and interesting character who deserves to be acknowledged more than just "threatening a yaoi ship".

She is going through a lot and she does not deserve to be hated on just because she's not playing the demure, meek girl who lets people step on her. She's been manipulated, betrayed and dragged through Hell, her flipping her shit is completely understandable.

And she does not deserve to be treated badly when fucking Matt Grotto betrayed, lied to, neglected and STABBED the guy he was in love with without much (if any) fandom backlash.

Emily deserves so much better treatment and I hope that people come to see her as the wonderfully intricate character she is, instead of just a side character to the "Matt and David Love Story"

[cryptvokeeper]

I dare not speak it in the tag because I value my energy but no one has the correct opinions about nosferatu 2024 except for me

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

I see some people saying kuina story would be so much cooler if mihawk was woman and idk there’s something about it… I have to agree but are you?

mm, i'm not a big fan of the idea, no.

we don't have a precise timeline for when mihawk became the world's best or who he replaced, and east blue doesn't have the best connections with the wider world, but shanks and mihawk were famous sword rivals prior to romance dawn, which is either around the same time or shortly before the zoro and kuina flashback. information on mihawk's existence would be out there, for anyone who cared to find it.

by which i mean, if mihawk was a woman i am certain kuina would have heard of her, even as an up-and-coming female swordsman. and imo having even one example of a strong female swordsman to point to would have been enough for kuina to pin her hopes on. "i know what everyone thinks, but… if miss mihawk can do it...!!"

kuina doesn't despair → she doesn't feel doomed to lose to zoro → she never has that moment of vulnerability → they never make that vow

and if she lives to adulthood, great! they're probably childhood rival-friends! not super close emotionally, but physically they know each other better than anyone. that's fun.

but. if kuina dies young… like, it's still sad for zoro, he's lost his rival without ever beating her, but he doesn't understand her. she's just that haughty, superior figure he struggled against for thousands of days.

[voltstone]

S4 WHY ARE YOU SO GOOD AND WEIRD

I love the fourth season. It does so many things right. But also. …it's kinda a mess.

Like a very pretty mess. But a mess. And I could write a wholeass essay on it. Don't feel like it right now.

I will say this one thing now though: it has always confused me how of all the seasons, S2 is the one that really explores being a kid in an apocalypse without really an adults to guide said kid, and not…S4?

Sure, there's adults in S2, but Clementine is stuck in this weird grey zone where she can't really rely on them, and has to be her own adult. And this does include Kenny, depending on what people choose to do, and what they interpret. Because he was easily just as bad given the specific scenes. Better, given other scenes, but the bad was…really bad.

But then there's S4. And like, yeah sure, the schoolkids are there to represent a healthy but struggling community—in that there's things to work through, but they genuinely care for each other, and they do whatever it takes to survive, regardless of what they think a "liability" is.

But like. The season never really explored the extent of what being abandoned by adults really would imply??

Like why is S2 the only one where exploring substances as a kid is a thing? Clementine can smoke and drink there, and that's with adult influence. Whereas with S4, nothing. Even though the fishing shack looks like it's a hotspot for booze.

I dunno if I'm making sense. This is why I generally write essays and not splurge on a post. Lol. But. I just. I just wish S4 really explored what the adults leaving did to those kids, man. Beyond what the season did.

S4 in this regard just felt like they knew what being a troubled kid implied, but they actually never wanted to depict kids doing more adult things, other than survival, even though Clementine 1) could've smoked and drank before because…the adults around her were…hmph, and 2) she is literally raising a child on her own. Like it beats around the bush but in a weird and obscure way that I don't have the energy to pick apart.

I just.

[humofbumblebees]

hey, you guys think about how agatha’s probably so mad at rio because she didn’t get to say goodbye to nicky

[asterdeer]

here’s my hot take of the night, i think they should have pulled a mary winchester with sasha and unfridged her specifically to fuck with the audience who so gleefully stuck her up on her “sole brain cell owner & true archivist who was only passed over because she would have been too good at it” pedestal. do i think it would have been done well? oh god no. but i think it would be funny.

[msommers]

every body the party takes care of is burned instead of interred. too scared to actually discuss or see if anybody has researched it but constantly worrying over if darkspawn ghouls lose their souls or if they enter the fade or if they're trapped inside the tainted body. fighting 4 broodmothers in a row with a persistent loop of "are we releasing these women from their pain or are we adding to it or have they already long since left this world" on the brain. dead boyfriend's parents refused to let watchers speak with his spirit to ask what happened to him. dead best friend joins his brother in the family crypt and the whole fucking thing disappears WITH a watcher apparently inside and nobody knows what's going on.

[puppiekit]

sorry sorry sorry sorry I cannot go a day without thinking about how frequently I see "I support womens wrongs! give us more female villians! give us more complex female characters!" in the fandom when these same people hate on Mapleshade for literally just existing . . . ARE YOU SURE you want more female characters who are genuinely bad people . . . "Mapleshade is so horrible! she was a liar!" yeah shes a villain. shes a villain. why are you dissing her for being a villain and having a villain backstory. I see soo many people like fr hate her just because she isnt a good person when she isnt supposed to be a good person because she is a VILLAIN like I am going to shed a full head of hair

[himboblaze]

curlfeather girl they will never make me hate you

(how did this turn into a berryheart post oops)

[cinemaocd]

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

thinking abt how much river and the doctor's hiding the damage also shapes thasmin