#but don't make it toxic ok

[doukeshi-kun]

this is just not so unpopular opinion from me but i cant give a shit about bsd anymore tbh....... i'm getting bored at the current pace of the manga and the plot. i don't like the way the story is written right now. i do like their banters/yapping/messages/speeches about politics and war tho. i think it's an interesting read. but for a series that is full of fast-paced action, the manga is sure slow as hell. i feel like the monthly release schedule and pages for a chapter are dragging away the intensity and tension of the supposed action in the manga. one month is enough to forget the 'hype' yk?

as someone on reddit says: "my favourite thing about bsd are everything BUT the main manga" and i have never felt validated. while i don't follow the main manga on time or as hardcore, i still consider myself a fan. i think my favourite part of bsd is gaiden and nikolai. hell, i think i've been too fixated on nikolai that i am more interested in my fanon understanding of his character rather than what canon has shown us—not that they are ever enough

so yea, not really looking forward to further chapters that much. i don't even mind spoilers or anything. i see spoilers way before i read the chapter. i feel like the story goes downhill on recent chapters but i couldn't quite put a finger on it. but i can safely say, the next half of the DoA arc is really not doing it for me. there are good moments, yes, but they all passed by so quickly and somehow, i can see characters who have fallen (i.e. the 'dead') will return back alive and well and safe.

i still don't like how fyodor's ability is not actually having something to do with lethal touch. i genuinely think his 'actual' ability doesn't give Crime and Punishment its sense and grace in a way. i mean, nikolai's ability is The Overcoat and although i firmly believe his ability is not limited to clothes/coats, it's still shown that his cloak is a big part of his use of his ability.

and besides, lethal touch is threatening in its own way anyway... making fyodor to be an ageless immortal feels like taking away the humanization in him, if that makes sense? immortal who is pure evil? pfft haa classic villain in the marvel universe. an anemic human who has a deadly yet simple ability and managed to start wars around the world?

terrifying. intimidating. human.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm a doctor, not a miracle worker.

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[rotisseries]

who wants to hear my absolutely stunning ideas for atla soap opera aus

[fernlessbastard]

hot take moment cwilbur is literally just psychotic as all hell and i think people got way too comfortable villianizing the shit out of a man who was clearly portraying signs of severe mental illness. cwilbur was like im so fucking paranoid and scared and i think everyone is out to get me and hurt me and ive spiralled to the point i cant reach out to the people closest to me because im so afraid and lost in this spiral and im having constant panic attacks and hurting myself because i dong know what to do with myself and the only way out for me is to die. and everybody was like EVIL MAN WHO ENJOYS HURTING OTHERS AND IS ABUSIVE ON PURPOSE AND A VILLAIN AND SHOULD NEVER BE TRUSTED AGAIN. and then he came back and was like im still deeply troubled and afraid but im desperately trying to make up for the wrongs i did in the past and the people i hurt in my own way and communication is really hard for me but i hope people know that im truely sorry and i love them. im going to try my hardest to fix this in the only way i know how and then respectfully remove myself from the situation because i feel thats the kindest thing i can do to the people ive hurt. and people were like ABUSER ABUSER ABUSER EVIL MAN ABUSER. like girl

Yeah no based true real no questions asked

I'd hope I manage to portray Wilbur the way he deserves in my content, cause that man is heavily bpd coded and he just needs therapy and someone who genuinely loves him but also can handle his bullshit (which has exclusively and reliably been Quackity like, canonically)

But yeah no completely agreed. The man has issues and has definitely fucked up a lot but at the end of the day he really does need love and care and patience, but also boundaries (and therapy and meds, obviously)

[themintman]

My opinions on some ships and characters 😼😼😼

Ill explain some stuff in the tags if yall are curious hehe ALSO IN THE REBLOGS. TUMBLR SILENCED ME 😔💔

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[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

[itsza]

[doodlingwren]

Every now and then I always find myself wondering. What if I made a Saint Seiya fan character. And I always end up realizing I don't really want to bother. I'll keep drawing my usual bunch of idiots that already exist in the franchise and bye bye

[hermesmoly]

you aware of Agamemnon/Cassandra ship? not in the story but people who think it is consensual

yeah, I am aware. to me it's a ship that exists. out of people who either really hate Clytemnestra or. I don't know reimagining it like a dark romance?

I do recall years ago stumbling upon art of that ship from a mythology artist I really liked, and it drove me up a wall trying to find the source as to why they really enjoyed it, but all the material I've read just didn't have any romantic element, the opposite of it really. Their relationship is transactional at best and downright slavery to the bones at worst. Even if you do spin it in different ways, It's not like Cassandra can give consent as a concubine war prize (you know to the guy who sacked her city and took her away from her family)?

[tincansamurai]

bweird OCtober 2: new oc

it's a toss up between like all of kaz's exes. i guess the most recent one i fleshed out is jessie - she was his gf in college for a little less than a year. they were toxic as fuck together lol. she was studying communications which is funny in context (they were lying and cheating on each other like all the time and could not agree on anything). my brain defaults to sticking college mat and kaz in the same college era i was in, so even though i haven't drawn her you can imagine a kind of slightly more grown up 2012 scene girl, where the last vestiges are hanging on in, like, how she does her bangs and eyeliner, but she's not wearing neon checkerboard everything anymore. probably still has a backpack from high school with a happy bunny patch on it. she was not a cookie monster pajama pants in gym class girl, but she was surely best friends with those girls. flute player in high school marching band, nothing in college. these things tell you everything you need to know lol. they broke up when kaz called her a cunt and she slapped him - big escalations on both their parts that made it obviously clear it was fucked. she coulda slapped him way earlier tbh, he was a fucking asshole

[skrunksthatwunk]

being a diehard kuwameshi fan and a casual josuyasu enjoyer is so funny. kuwameshi if they were nice to each other 💀💀💀

[dreamyintersexouppy]

if it's only bad if it makes a baby or has a power imbalance it's morally ok to dombottom your mom if you let her pull out before she... before... hey are you gonna pull out....? ohh... uh oh.........

[tricoufamily]

they have amazing compatibility i had absolutely no idea why [unintelligible alien sounds] found hugo unattractive 😭

so i'm going in and out of cas trying to toggle different things bc absolutely not but nothing's working i'm literally at this point going through like 'ok foodie trait toggle on all the foodie/culinary stuff, loner trait toggle on all the-'

[unintelligible alien sounds] likes polished clothing so i was like ok. let me give hugo just a random outfit w the polished tag and

this was such a great idea ea clothing styles and clothing colors should definitely have been a part of turn ons and turn offs there is nothing else that could have taken its place

[asgardian--angels]

anyway seeing people on iwtvtwt being legitimately upset/put off by the previews for ep 7 baffle me, im looking around the room like i thought we were all here to revel in this fucked up vampire love story which is, and I cannot stress enough, fucked up

I mean I'm obviously not seeing this from book fans but, it just is wild to me that show-only fans are somehow having a moment of 'whoa this is so messed up are they really going to xyz? I don't know if I can handle this' or even that they aren't going to watch it

did you miss the part where lestat literally dragged louis by the jaw in a trail of blood down the alleyway, or when lestat stone cold threatened to grind claudia's bones into dust if she didn't get back in her cage for louis's so-called happiness, or any number of the other pretty fucked up stuff in s1? let alone the very bonkers messed up stuff in the books? I just. We literally already had a scene in s2 where Louis hallucinates Lestat telling Louis to kill him because that's the only way Louis knows how to love, followed by Louis actually smashing his skull over and over against a stone wall only to realize he killed a random innocent person instead. That kind of fucked up is the expectation for this season.

Look, eps 7-8 are going to be intense, but still well within the realm of what's established in the show and certainly within the wide wide realm of the anne rice books. The show goes some very dark places emotionally and physically, and that's critical to the point of the show itself. Will it be tragic, and unfair, and brutal? Absolutely, as it was in the book. We cannot stop that Titanic from hitting the iceberg - Claudia will die and we cannot prevent it, but Armand could have and did not. There will be senseless cruelty, and mind games, and dark acts of rage and revenge. This is gothic horror and gothic romance, and I just don't think anyone should be genuinely surprised by what that entails.

Most of all, I just absolutely do not want to see any negativity towards the show after this episode, any 'how could you's or 'this was sick and disgusting' or animosity towards writers, cast, crew, etc. Do Not. This is not the show to be asking for, or expecting, violence or tragedy to be toned down, or major plot points like Claudia's death to be somehow changed. You do not need to have read the books to love this show, but it is imperative to acknowledge the show echoes the books in both content and tone, and that it does not shy away from those dark venturings is a hallmark of an excellent adaptation of an iconic series.

Anyways I am kind of apprehensive of going on Twitter after this episode, because I just want to revel in my feelings and not have to deal with or even think about other people's myopic grievances. This episode is going to make me lose my mind in the best of ways, and the more fucked up it is, the better. I want to see everything unravel, I want to see things in the present day come to a head, I want to see Lestat being made to condemn his sister-daughter to death, I want to feel Louis's sorrow and helplessness and rage when he cannot save her. Let's just have a good time, alright? We're not here because we want a happy show where everyone turns out alright in the end, we want a story that is compelling and complex and tragic and reflective.

basically everytime i see these twitter opinions i just remember jacob anderson in full burnt prosthetics singing jones barbecue and foot massage

[cirilya]

Why do i always relate to anyhow repressed male characters. I'm just a teenage bisexual girl but clive durham i get you on a spiritual level pls never forget that.

[forthedancingandthethriving]

WOW, JUST REALIZED. IT HAS BEEN A LITERAL YEAR SINCE THE FACTORY RESET AU STARTED.

UH!! AND IT'S NINE DAYS PAST THE ONE YEAR MARK. UUUUUUH. SHIT!!!

Wow!! Ok!! Never thought I'd.. ever achieve this, really. I honestly thought that burnout would eventually happen, but it.. never did.

If you told me one year ago that I'd be creating several arcs for this AU, dozens of new original characters with their own individual arcs and all that.. I don't think I'd believe it. I thought back then it was gonna be a one and done thing, but.. it wasn't.

Gonna get just a teeny tiny bit sentimental,,,, don't mind me,,,,

@fandomandangstlover My man. Honestly, when I first started pitching those little ideas to you, I was nervous because it was my first time really giving out ideas like that. So, seeing you not only enjoy them but expand upon them made my day every single time. We may not interact as often anymore, but I still consider you one of my first friends on here, and you do mean a lot to me.

@duckapus AUGH,, WHERE DO I START.. okay, I think you're probably one of the best people out there. The way we bounce ideas off of each other and help the other come up with new ideas always makes me really happy. Your ideas are always so cool and fleshed out, and I love how you come up with interpretations of characters and all that. Always makes me smile.

To everyone else who has ever commented, sent in an ask, or even just reblogged or liked; thank you. It means so much that you've enjoyed the work I and others have put into this AU for a whole year. A whole year, the Factory Reset AU has been going strong, and.. that's absolutely insane to me. And yet, I'm really happy about it.

Soo, yeah! That's the end of me being sentimental, lol. Thanks to everyone for all the support!