#but idk how it'd work

[catsafari25]

It's been nice getting back into writing (it's been... too long since i had the headspace to write more than a lone oneshot for a fandom) but the downside of it is that the brain gets such a dopamine high from finishing something, it immediately wants to replicate that by starting a new fic, even if i don't have any plot bunnies available

[taeillustration]

The full ALNST set. Which one is your favourite? :>

[magician-under-the-m00nlight]

aptx!kaito au in which Shinichi doesn't know aptx exists and feels insane that his leading theory is "a six year old is the mastermind behind Kaitou Kid"

[cicadagaze]

heartbreaking! man wants to play clangen but he fucked it up trying to edit updates in so he wouldn't have to transfer all his mods over

[suenosdemafin]

Btw, I don't use twitter much, but I decided to format gifs to be posted there as well since it works a bit differently.

So follow suenosdemafin to get higher resolution :)

[ominousvibez]

i think it would've been really cool if in danny phantom the halfas all resembled different universal monsters

like. obviously vlad = dracula, i mean. c'mon.

dani/ellie would be a perfect fit for Frankenstein's monster. an experiment stitched together from DNA from another person. cast aside by their creator, left to fend for themselves.

idk what danny would be tho. i'm torn between wolfman and the invisible man.

the wolf man being a good metaphor for being unable to deny the monster you've become. a struggle between human and ghost, good and evil. the invisible man also fits a similar dichotomy, but falls more in line with the invisibility aspect of being a ghost-- unseen and forgotten.

[welcometogrouchland]

you guys don't need context for this. He's the boy of all time!

[malwarechips]

clay!!

[mechahero]

//Okay but what if (dollmaker link)

[ciboriaadastra]

Bruce went for "Khoa", Angelbreaker turned it into "Khoa Bear"

I think his lovers missed out on calling him Minnie

[caramelmochacrow]

inyuose siblings yay! (i only got a few things abt them done)

[muninnhuginn]

just generally musing to myself what makes thematic and plot sense for the link clink ending after reading some other people's takes the past few days. no real conclusions here, just some thoughts tied together with a string.

I've seen arguments that what needs to happen is that Lu Guang needs to accept Cheng Xiaoshi's fate and move on without regrets. This idea that the past has to remain as-is and you have to move on is a thread that the show has played with quite a few times. It's written into the very rules underlying the dives. The most obvious instance being the earthquake arc, where Cheng Xiaoshi was unable to save Chen Xiao's mum, but he *was* able to deliver the messages and thereby help CX gain closure. It's laid out by Lu Guang that it *was* worth it to deliver the words, and Cheng Xiaoshi takes this conclusion with him when he confronts Emma. (Of course, the fact this lesson was given by *Lu Guang* casts a different shade over the whole affair. I don't think it can be entirely discarded, given LG even admits he's going against his own rules, but it reads more like something he's trying and failing to convince himself of.)

So, the past has to stay as it is. We see a few different approaches to this idea in s2 - of people refusing to move on and trying to change the past. Qian Jin wants to force his wife "not to cheat"; he wants to alter her behaviour because she didn't act as he wanted. Li Tianchen wanted to change how *he* acted back then, even if indirectly, because he sees himself as his mother's killer, and thinks this is the point at which his tragedy was locked into place. They both thought their 'tragedies' were down to a single event. It's not that simple.

Lu Guang wants to personally protect Cheng Xiaoshi by controlling all scenarios. Not exactly taking his will, but limiting his choices. There's probably a whole post to be made on how QJ/LTC/LG each approach the agency of the ones they want to protect, but that's not for now.

Anyway, Li Tianchen as the foil to Lu Guang. At the end of s2, he has in theory let go of Li Tianxi but in practice he's just burying himself deeper by following Liu Xiao. Trying to entirely shun the past so he can believe that he still has some element of control. Both LTC and LG are at the extreme ends of clinging on vs letting go and that means the correct answer has to lie somewhere in the middle. Not shunning the past, but accepting it, and using that resolve to move forward.

So, Liu Xiao. We don't have much on him but what we do have is his belief that uncertainties should become certainties. He's deterministic and set explicitly as the counter to Lu Guang, whose own aim is to change events rather than lock them into place. They both want to *control* all aspects, but for differing reasons. In fate vs free will, it makes sense that our protagonist is on the side of free will, but it's interesting that he's presented himself so much as the opposite previously. He and CXS haven't exactly switched places, but to the audience, they've definitely taken on traits of the other.

Liu Xiao's whole spiel about how all options will eventually lead to the same outcomes, with him set *against* Lu Guang, very much seems like it's a setup for a "defeat fate" type plotline though. It's hammered in that there is no escape, no other option. Are we expected to accept this? It doesn't seem so. It's something I'm struggling to reconcile somewhat with the earlier messages about accepting the past, but maybe that's not quite it. Maybe it's about control vs freedom?

Trust fall. Every dive with LG and CXS is an act of mutual trust where they need to act in tandem. Dives go astray when one party acts without the other. For CXS, this is about him acting against LG's instructions (texting Emma's parents, staying in the earthquake dive). For LG, this is about him withholding info because he doesn't trust how CXS will react.

Lu Guang needs to put his trust in CXS before his withholding of information creates an unresolvable rift. He needs to stop trying to control CXS in order to keep him safe. We saw how that spun out for Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi. LG needs to put the choice into Cheng Xiaoshi's hands and let him decide his own fate. It reminds me of how Cheng Xiaoshi laid everything out for Emma and let her decide whether to live. It was only outside interference that prevented her, but she did make the choice to survive. And she did it by remembering those small moments. By accepting that tragedy happens but there are still people that make it worth it.

For LG and CXS, they need to mutually trust each other and that's how they'll find their way through.

[acerikus]

What if I. Started programming a fully functional deltarune battle engine in ren'py for use in utdr visual novels

[pu-butt]

The unbridled joy and love and support radiating from the Trojans exy team vs. The overwhelming feeling of imminent doom and anger and spite in Fleetwood Mac's 'Tusk' ft. the USC Trojan Marching Band

[pekoeboo]

man. I've been reworking a lot of content involving Act II of Home Is Where You Are and like. ugh. it'd work so freaking well in novel form but I just Do Not have the dedication or the drive to start from scratch and rewrite everything that happens.

idk how else to share the updated version of that part of the story with y'all tho, considering that Khalan's journal is insanely outdated now and isn't entirely canon anymore, so I'll probably just have to accept that I likely won't ever be able to update the story for y'all in the way I wish I could. >n<;;

[piease-iove-me]

so yk what i totally would watch? a whole ass spin off series about theo's 9 years spent with the doctors. THAT i would watch.