#but im just so baffled

[sealwithfeels]

honestly I don't know why so many fantasy readers get on Brandon Sanderson's case about shit like bland prose, flat characters and bad humour, and then turn around and praise Martha Wells, who is far worse at all of those things.

Sanderson at least admits to making his prose simple for a reason, while Wells' prose is painfully amateur and constantly repeats the exact same phrases in quick succession - I can only take 'I would rather be watching my downloaded human media' so many times. Sanderson can construct a compelling plot and the pacing makes sense, while I don't know what the hell is going on with Wells' inability to write an interesting climax without the protagonist getting knocked unconscious and why random pace-killing bullshit got tacked onto the end of The Serpent Sea.

Not all of Sanderson's characters work for everyone, and some of supporting cast are pretty flat but he tries to keep the main characters varied and attempts to give them some memorable personality trait and doesn't treat them as more important than they should be, unlike Wells who reuses the same stock archetypes for major characters and forgets to give anyone a personality outside the few mains and then for some reason expects you to give a shit about these personalityless nobodies and gives them critical roles in the plot (seriously what the fuck is Chime's personality and why is he treated as so important to Moon when Moon spends the whole time finding him annoying, and why the hell was the critical traitor plot given to Jade's nobody sister who has no presence before or after)

I at least get the impression that Sanderson is trying, and you can see improvement with his books over time, while with Wells it feels like she's lazy and coasting on having found a way to appeal to the 'it literally me, so relatable' crowd to her books' detriment. Sanderson at least in theory understands character arcs and tries to make his characters different, while Wells just uses the same 'awkward woobie who everyone bad is mean to and needs a bland worshipful found family to soothe away all their pain, while they're kind of entitled dicks about it' main character.

Please at least be consistent when criticising authors.

[slumbering-shadows]

Underrated bit in Psych is that sometimes for no discernable reason at all the weird old priest that gus is in love with shows up to rescue them from situations

[shwarmii]

i just heard one of my favorite youtubers say this meme out loud in a video and the pronounciation FLOORED ME so now i gotta know:

poll is just "which way do you say it"; tags is "which way is right", assuming your answer to "which way is right" is different to "which way do you say it". or i guess tags are also for uhhhhhh if your answer is complicated and if you wanna explain, if you have a diff way of pronouncing (pls tell meeeee), or whatever else you want, im not your parents, idk

[justaz]

merlin (immortal) giving arthur (pendragon) the only blade that could kill him

[chotachica]

Favorite part of The Dead Boy Detectives for sure is Edwin pulling literally every single age appropriate male character he interacted with. The absolute cunt ever

[grif-hawaiian-rolls]

I will forever and always mourn the fact that we never got to see the shenanigans of Wash and the Reds with the Feds especially these specific reds like my god

So to fill the gap in my heart, i’ve decided to do my own shenanigans with them! Because they deserve it!! I want them to cause problems! Ok and its an excuse to have them interact with my silly little fed ocs i can confess that much

[keri-mcberry]

Hello! ive always been a silent fan of your work (Lyla is just so LOVABLE! 💛 and your Seb is honestly a breath of fresh air - love soft!Seb) so ive decided to break my silence just to offer you these favorite facts i know of otters 💌🤭

Bawww thank you so much! It’s lovely to meet you 🥹💕

When I saw your ask, I IMMEDIATELY needed to draw out the second one! It’s so adorable 😭🦦

This is Lyla and Sebastian in their twenties! Lyla 100% holds Seb’s hand when she sleeps 💛💚

Also, imagining Lyla carrying around a “special rock” is so funny to me LMAO 💀 I will def be drawing that scenario too 😂

[shesmore-shoebill]

This is both deeply unhinged and yet. Makes perfect sense.

Love:

- The confirmation of my impression that Angela is booked and busy as HELL. Truly when does that woman SLEEP. I'm glad(?) that her friends/coworkers also don't seem to know.

- Angela choosing a single half lemon to represent herself

- Shayne CORRECTLY GUESSING based off just the half lemon???

- Callback to Angela ordering Doordash to herself to force herself to leave parties

[saintjudasi]

share with me cuz i need it right now (let me see your insides)

[pacing-er]

Finished reading People Love Dead Jews and I'm thinking of that propal who tried reading it and couldn't get past the part where she talks about "Birthright trips." And uh... She didn't even mention Birthright trips. Not once. I think they interpreted the part in the short introduction of the book where the author talks about her first trip to Israel as a Birthright trip?? Even though she did not refer to it that way??? Anyways that was literally in the first ten pages of the book lmao these bitches are so fucking lazy and intolerant. They really do just shit themselves over the first mention of Israel like I'm sorry but if you're gonna claim to be "not antisemitic" and "accepting of Jews" you need to come to terms with the fact that Israel is important to many Jews. It is going to be mentioned in Jewish literature, both in reference to the modern state of Israel and the symbolic "people of Israel" aka the Jewish people. If you cannot handle even hearing the word then you will never stand with us and your support is hollow and performative!

[haunted-xander]

Respectfully, anyone who believes that Roxas shouldn't have come back in kh3 is wrong and also doesn't know how to make a satisfying end to a characters narrative.

I could maybe forgive thinking Naminé or Xion shouldn't have returned, as they at least got to make the informed decision to return to their counterparts themselves. It would still be wrong but I can at least forgive it.

But Roxas? His entire story is about being allowed to be yourself regardless of what anyone else around you says you should be. It doesn't/shouldn't matter if he comes from Sora, because he is someone else entirely. It's his life, not Sora or anyone elses. Having a story like that end with him being violently forced to return to Sora when he doesn't even know anything about what's going on is flat out bad writing.

Did he accept that he had to die for Sora? Well, sure, but only after getting to beat him within an inch of his life. Only reason he accepts it is because he literally has no other choice but to. He can't keep clinging to the anger and misery at his circumstances forever.

And, you know, it probably helps that the person this was all for also fucking hates it. In no way is Sora happy about what happened to Roxas. Of course he'd bring him back, it's Sora. The situation is so unfair and tragic that having it end with him just staying in Sora forever would literally go against the essence of the entire series.

Kingdom Hearts is, at it's core, a series about bonds. Roxas was established basically immediately as having very important bonds! His best friend literally died for him! He has friends that don't even know it because it was another version of them, but they still feel that bond to him anyway! You really think they should've just thrown away a character whose bonds transcended the boundaries between data and reality just like that? Get real.

[guckies]

Someone said it’s Phil, Kristin and their emo son 😭😭 No my dude that’s his minecraft husband!!! If anything that’s their plus one!

[xxplastic-cubexx]

it doesnt need to be said but its genuinely so funny how at-the-hip charles and erik are in krakoa like they really had the green light- the OBLIGATION- to be as obnoxiously close to each other as possible and abused that right to the fullest extent

[bogkeep]

every time i read an autobiographical comic about a transfeminine person practicing putting on makeup as a visual metaphor for the difficulty of Performing Womanhood i can feel my whole heart vibrate with sympathy. like. one of the absolutely most common Girl Experiences is feeling like you're never girling right or enough. there's so many rules and expectations and there's fucking makeup. i could never wrap my head around makeup!! not even for gender reasons, it's just this whole culture i don't understand. trying to grasp makeup feels like being a street urchin at an extremely exclusive high end restaurant crying because i don't know what fork to use and they won't let me eat with my hands. my seventh grade classmates tried to help me be girl by taking me shopping for nice clothes and mascara and i couldn't even wear it for a week. not only do you have to go through the intricate rituals of application but you have to remove it at the end of the day??? and everyone acts as if this arcane knowledge is something inherent to girlhood that you're just born knowing and feel naturally inclined to do??? i don't understand!!! i don't understand!!!!! people treated me as if i was being rebellious and making a statement but i just do not understand all the powders and inks and pencils and gunks and creams and brushes!! they feel bad against my face and i'll flinch from anything getting too close to my eyes. it doesn't matter how many offers for help i get or how many tutorials there are, i never wanted this for myself! i shouldn't have to do this! i can be a person without it just fine if you let me!

watching anyone trying to learn how to do makeup from scratch is like watching someone learning a new language. if you think it's hard it's because it is hard and don't let them tell you it's not, just because they've been speaking it for a long time

[milkweedman]

Knitting a freehand bag and started wondering how often people even use patterns, anyway. So--how often do you use a pattern when you make things ? This include knitting/crochet/sewing/weaving/nalbinding/bobbin lace/tatting/etc but also things like woodworking, cooking, and baking. If you want to just pick the thing you do most often that's fine.

I personally do not use patterns as I find them far more confusing than just figuring out the construction of an item and simply making it. I do very occasionally browse ravelry for inspiration but have downloaded maybe 2. In the 5 or so years since I joined. And have followed exactly 1, which I modified every single aspect of. In my defense, dyslexia.

[anirritant]

umm i guess im treating this like an au now ahah

pmd2 darkrai hasn't had time to figure out wtf is going on (he's been here for like an hour tops). he's lost his composure immediately lol