#but keep to certain themes

[cozylittleartblog]

diversity win your spam emails are queer

[frodolover]

the theme throughout lotr of sam following frodo anywhere, until he can't

[natjennie]

i think mostly we as a culture need to stop pretending media is for us and instead recognize that it's for the people making it. "the show didn't do the thing I wanted it to" is so not the point. did it do what the people making it wanted it to do? did it tell the story they were trying to tell? than it was successful. if that doesn't align with what you wanted to happen, don't get up in arms about it. don't badmouth the creators and throw a tantrum. that's what fan works are for. the text is the text, and it told the story it was telling. you wouldn't be like "ugh shakespeare is insane for act v btw like there was no reason for juliet to kill herself she should've just waited and then her and romeo could have been together wtf this ruined the whole play" like no!!! the themes were there the set-up was there the foreshadowing was there shakespeare did what he intended to. just because it wasn't a happy ending and just because you thought it should've went differently doesn't mean it was bad. read a fic where juliet lives and move on.

[fyther]

Conmer

And some sketches

And knight connor, definitely gonna tweak the design abit more

[lloydfrontera]

sometimes i do feel for the adaptation team of tged when it comes to the relationship between alicia and lloyd because like. they were fighting a losing battle since the very beginning.

either they respected the source material and got crazy people (me) pointing out that the protagonist has more chemistry and relationship build up with his best friend than he does with his supposed romantic interest.

or they change it in the adaptation to make alloyd have more interactions and build up and get crazy people (me) upset and questioning why they're omitting or changing scenes that make lloyd and javier's relationship deeper in the novel to make them seem less close than they truly are.

there's just no winning for them because this is something that is inextricable from the source material

in the novel lloyd and javier's relationship is the core of the plot. whatever they have going on is the heart of the entire thing. and either you accept that and the fact that there's bound to be people who will see it as something romantic and be disgruntled when lloyd is unceremoniously married off to someone he barely knew and did not want to marry for 90% of the novel. or you change it and completely destroy the core of the plot, ruining what's probably the best part of the story.

it's an impossible choice,,,, if you're someone who can't stand the idea of having a protagonist who's a little fruity with his best friend that is lmao

[andromeddog]

I love all the little stars you have on your art they fit in so well no matter the vibe of the drawing and I love how it’s almost a little trademark of your work

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ajfjskfjd thank you so much!!!! it really feels like a piece isn’t complete without a star or two or five. idk how it really started but now i’m completely obsessed with them… if that’s a trademark of my work then i’ll take it

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

[writing a fic] [stops] [wait-a-minute.png] ....aw hell. i've made trent demi again

[skunkes]

i need to get a job at the Modding 3DS Factory bc its so funnnnnnn

[freyafrida]

carl subplot for how certain the journey that was cut for time: carl was planning to propose but the girl he's seeing admits that she never intended to marry him, as his partial blindness would make it hard for him to find work and support her. so he goes west and explores the canadian wilderness to get over her and find himself. publishes some travelogues and guides to the various flora and fauna of canada and becomes a respected nature writer. eventually receives a proposal from a woman who thinks she only has a year left to live and they fall in love for real all while she's unaware that he is secretly her favorite author, john fost-

[waffleweirdo]

I’m enamored by Akira and Maya’s existence as top stars. The moniker of ‘top star’ looms over the whole cast, but they are truly paragons of the ideal (and maybe Judy, but that should be saved for El Dorado).

For both of them their existence as top stars defines them, and serves as their greatest strength and weakness. It’s in that dissonance that I think revstar is just so incredible.

It is simultaneously rejecting the harmful ideas of the auditions and embracing the love for theatre a top star contains.

Maya and Akira have been through a lot. They are acutely aware of the demands being a top star brings, but they still choose to stand there and in doing so they draw strength from it.

While the two of them are *far* from being flawless characters (which revstar makes abundantly clear) they have a certain impact to them from being the representatives of such a system. Maya being the one to crush Karen in the Revue of Pride, or Maya being the first one to start performing Revue No Title is significant.

Standing at the top has cost her greatly, it’s meant losing friends, endless hard rehearsal, and isolation. Yet she continues to strive for it. It’s not just ego (though certainly that plays a role), but a deep pride and passion that Carrie’s her. The pride in contrast to Karen’s arrogance in the Revue of Pride.

But no moment demonstrates this quite as well as Edel Delight and Revue Edel. Akira’s whole mentality to the point that it is her revue introduction is to become a perfect, immortal gem through her performance. To become pure platinum and wholly embody royalty. She is scarred from Fumi’s absence, is selfish, a bit of a stage crazy dolt, and incredibly greedy. Throughout Edel Delight she spends the play shirking her duties, being arrogant and dismissive. But when the time comes she will still fight the rest of the cast if need be and emerge victorious.

She will prove herself to be a true Edel.

I just really love characters that represent and embody a certain ideology, and with how rich revue starlight is in its themes e it’s endlessly fascinating for me to think about.

I think it’s also really interesting to think about the ‘failed top stars’ like Koharu, Stella, or even Fumi. But oh goodness I could keep going for such a long time…

Regardless I really like Akira and Maya as characters, but don’t talk about them enough, so yeah here’s some scrambled thoughts

[anistarrose]

every time I see the first snow of the season, I pull up frozen pines by lord huron again and weep because. oh boy that's just the ultimate blorbo song for me. and every few years a new layer of blorbo relevance sets in, too. first fandom I hyperfixated on while on tumblr? yeah that's got exactly the right two characters, the missing and the searcher. current main hyperfixation? exactly the same. childhood hyperfixation that I've been going back to and making self-indulgent OCs for lately? oh, you know exactly what the theme song of two of those OCs is going to be.

[sainz100]

upcoming Carlos x chess content soon ❤️♟️✨

[themarginalthinker]

I want vampires who are a little spooky. They walk the line between Here and There, they know of the Veil, they know the magic of Names and the Threshold, and if they live for long enough, they may even learn what the stars speak of.

'oh, so you want Fae, not vampires-'

No, because I still want that Earthly need for life. They must feed from living beings, as we all feed from living beings. They want blood and flesh and heat and life. They are as much man and beast as we all are, almost TOO alive sometimes.

'oh, so then you just want werewolves-'

NO, because they are not the struggle between Man and Beast, vampires are the midpoint between our humanity and ALL our darkest desires. They are dancing to the song of the darkness, they are knowing the taste of your fellow man in many ways, they are looking into the void and finding it unassailably beautiful.

'oh, so you ACTUALLY want-'

NO. I KNOW WHAT I WANT. AND IT'S SPOOKY, OLD-MAGICY, NON-ROTTING CORPSE VAMPIRES.

[rontra]

CTDE!zee has an era where she abandons her entire life and moves to a new town and goes abysmally downhill for a few years until diana turns up and is like HIIII WE'RE ALL VERY WORRIED ABOUT YOU SWEETIE ... and zee gets to be like i left the force years ago diana......im retiredNJHBG

their reunion here is like 4-5 years or so before CTDE proper. if you ever see me draw a zee this crunchy you know that's her temporarily retired era 😭

it leads into the "ladies. what is going on here" wondermagic era but more importantly she IS doing better now

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the thing with doctor who i think is that it gets better the more you know. maybe this is true of all writing but i only know doctor who so we'll focus on that. but i think it gets better the more you know this is why my fic is not very good. i dont know many things. i think if you have a background in like, just any field you can use you can make your doctor who stories more interesting. like linguistics maths physics and music are things that come to mind for me that i would like to know to make my doctor who stories more interesting but i think it can work with, like, almost anything. biology stuff also works well adds a lot. sociology stuff history. if you know how to sew really well or youve worked in meat factories. just, if you have deep knowledge about something this will enrich your doctor who stories (again, might be true for literally every writing)

but also things you can know that are just lived and not books. like i said with that post about different countries' doctor whos, every country would bring its own history and values and perspective to the stories. but also like for example the class stuff or the queer stuff you see with rtds stories like anything a writer Knows will make their stories more interesting

and thats why doctor who could literally be so good If They Diversified Their Fucking Staff. in every sense of the word. you need disabled people, trans people, racialised people, people with different religions but you need people who know other things than writing too! which i get is difficult because theyre mostly working in their fields and not writing but like there are writers who are not or have not only ever just been writers. or just get writers with some weird fucking hobbies!

even in the most basic way even if you keep your entire show white christian able-bodied man, if you have more of those you will have better stories. it will still suck! but like, less than if you only have 1 guy writing right? thats not a novel concept artists know this writers know this thats why they work together. and i get that making tv is very complex and theres a lot of interests and a lot of choices being made that arent even to do with the stories but i find it so frustrating to think about how good doctor who could be if they let other people in to put their knowledge and their perspective in the stories

[scalpelsister]

Finally got around to organizing and sorting my Shadowheart playlist so it flows nicely <3