#celie talks

[cheeseceli]

Content warning: discussion of infertility

Can someone please beta read this for me? I'd really appreciate any help I can get. I want to make sure this is alright before I post it.

[diana-prince-ww]

The Color Purple (2023)

celie and shug, you have my heart 💜

[archersgoon]

it's not even that they need to remove topher so much as they need more people in there actually advising. because he is one guy with his own angles that are (if i'm being honest) probably a reflection of his position as part of the most privileged group in lumatere (flatland nobility). please just diversify somewhat i prommy it will help

[yell0wsalt]

More canon black/brown queer relationships in media

It’s overdue.

[lasttoact]

writing my characters isn’t enough i need them to become human and leap off the page

[thehoneybus]

was anyone going to tell me reading The Color Purple would change my life or was I supposed to find that out by myself

[desperatepleasures]

love kkm flashbacks where julia talks about how much she loves adalbert and everyone around her is just like

[cheeseceli]

He is reminding me of why he's my bias fr

HAN / SKZ TALKER EP.61

[mamkatsuki]

am i having a crisis bc my head hurts or does my head hurt because im having a crisis

[cheeseceli]

Was on Pinterest, saw those and I remembered of you @astraysimp

[archersgoon]

the good ending to any hypothetical celie story would be her giving up on the idea of that one big love shes on the grind for

[cheeseceli]

Thank you for telling me!! This is actually so important

Writer moots in case you guys haven't seen it yet: @ronnierites @hyunjinvoid @maximumkillshot @kailee08

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[shaisuki]

THE CURSE THAT BINDS US (soon)

GOJO SATORU X CHUBBY! READER X GETO SUGURU

synopsis: a encounter with the strongest sorcerer of the modern day and he just can't let you go, not when you're his best friend's lover. no big deal right? it's not until he found out you were carrying his best friend's child and you're a curse user.

content warnings: heavy angst, flashbacks, brief hidden inventory arc, heavy spoilers, eventual smut, murder, gore, talks of genocide, massacre, violence, mental issues, threats, blackmails, major character death, pregnant reader, talks of pregnancy/childbirth, chapter titles are bound to change, more tags/chapters to be added.

CHAPTERS:

I. THE BLESSED AND THE CURSED

II. HIDING SINS FROM THE DAYLIGHT

III. A DEBT THAT CAN NEVER BE PAID

IV. GUILTY CREATURES

V. A DEAL

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[sigmaleph]

So the other day I finished When I Win the World Ends

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A couple months back, my wife recommended me a pokemon fanfic. It was not When I Win; it's called Ghost Town and it's about a young trans woman returning home and coming out to her family while simultaneously finding out her closest childhood friend has been murdered. It's beautiful, definitely the most moving piece of writing i've read this year, and also entirely unlike WIW except that both are, nominally, set in 'the pokemon universe'.

These two works are not remotely set in the same universe. Their settings are entirely different, the result of two different people taking the thing we are presented with in the pokemon video game series and asking 'OK, but what does this world actually look like?' and coming to very different answers, because it turns out that setting is not really pinned down much by the games.

Are there animals beyond human and pokemon in the world? In WIW, the answer is no, except perhaps in some parallel universe like where the Ultra Beasts come from. In GT, the answer is yes; when the pokedex calls wingull the seagull pokemon, this is because there are actual seagulls in the world for comparison.

What's the deal with all the game-like elements of pokemon battling, like taking turns and pokemon only being able to use four moves and so on? In WIW, this is a competitive ruleset; pokemon battling is a highly regulated sport, and pokemon act in turns because their trainers specifically train them to wait between moves. In GT, this is just not a thing; 'pokemon only know four moves' is an abstraction made for game design concerns, the same way the game present us with a location with three building and tells us this is a town. The 'real' Pallet Town has more people and buildings than that, and 'real' pokemon don't act like characters in a turn-based RPG.

I could go on further but I will not; you get the point. The games present us with broad strokes of a world, but it is not a world that really holds together very much; it is not a series interested in worldbuilding. Game Freak doesn't go into the question of what is the geopolitical relationship between Johto and Kanto, or what does a culture where ten-year-olds are allowed to go out on their own into the world accompanied by monsters look like, or what the hell is Cinnabar volcano burger made out of, and this leaves room for fanfic writers to step in with their own answers to these questions.

I spend a lot of time pondering these questions, perhaps more than I should, and while there are boring answers one could give sometimes writers come up with genuinely fascinating takes on it, trying to weave them together into a world that holds together while at the same time resembling a beloved video game series that cannot decide if America is real or not.

So when I finished Ghost Town and most of the other works by the same author I saw a number of people in my dash talking about this other pokemon fanfic, and it did not disappoint despite being so different and having a tragic lack of explicit trans lesbians.

I've never been much into competitive pokemon battling despite playing the actual games themselves on and off for most of my life, but the angle on that in WIW really does work as a central focus (even if it does, unforgivably, get Umbreon's ability wrong). The one thing in it that still sits oddly with me is that I cannot really get a handle on what Cely's deal is. She's not psychic, apparently (the public perception of psychics in the pokemon universe is yet another of those things WIW and GT have different opinions on). She's not some kind of fated RISE messiah, because RISE is just a cult and doesn't have any deeper insights into the nature of reality. Is she just lucky? Are we just happening to observe the one particular timeline where she got all her predictions right for no reason in particular, or was it perhaps necessary that Cely get all her calls right for us to see an outcome where the world doesn't end, anthropic-reasoning-style? If there is an answer I was supposed to get from the story, I didn't

But that's quibbles. It's an excellent work, I loved it, i'm very glad I was following people who'd talk about it often enough I gave it a shot. This is not really a review of it, though, or of Ghost Town. This is just my excuse to talk about pokemon worldbuilding and namedrop the cinnabar volcano burger.

[cheeseceli]

(content warning: mention of food and struggle to eat)

Hi guys so, would anyone be willing to beta read this to me? Anyone's help would be amazing for me. I want to make sure this is okay before I post it

[cheeseceli]

Fr tho, if you wanna make this exchange with me PLEASE tell me, the idea is so cool 😭

can we build a culture in this fandom of gifting other writers ideas ?? like i have so many bullet points in my ideas doc, and i know i won’t write hardly any of them, but there’s SO many other writers i think would do it even more justice ?? LIKE LET ME TELL YOU THINGS. AND IF YOU WANNA WRITE IT AND MAKE ME SCREAM. EVEN BETTER.

anyway