#compared to their fantasy series

[ladyaster]

After Isa's redemption in KH3, I'll never find it not funny as a huge fan of FFVIII that the fanon consensus is that the new "nemesis" of the Seasalt Trio or at least Roxas and Xion is Seifer.

I dunno how much of the KH fandom has played FFVIII, and in-universe it makes sense given Seifer is the "neighborhood bully" of Twilight Town. However, given what VIII players know about him, it's hilarious and cathartic to see these two kids either bonk him with copied claymores in response to him trying to intimidate them into giving him their ice cream money, curbstomp him at Struggle right after calling them "lamers" or "chicken wusses", or accidentally drop half-eaten popsicles on his face when, in his universe of origin, Seifer was a major war criminal who, among other things, dropped all sorts of horrible endgame monsters including actual malboros onto a hugely populated city (which like any VIII fan can tell you, malboros are already nope on a stick in general, but in VIII in particular they're excessively brutal).

Roxas and Xion are just delivering Seifer some belated karma from 1999 is all and I'm loving every second of it.

[rollercoasterwords]

hiiiii i hope life is good! just wondering if you've read any good fics lately that you'd reccomend ? :~)

simply have not been reading v much fic the past year or two my peak fic-reading year was in 2022…however have enjoyed some r/s oneshots + a few drarry fics over the past few months!

crushed ice by sectoren @sectoren is a really fun r/s oneshot in which s keeps showing up 2 r’s part-time jobs…had me giggling & kicking my feet etc…

your hand in mine and other brief, annihilating intimacies by superloonyluna @superloonyluna is another r/s oneshot w absolutely beautiful writing in which s is a performer in a traveling theater troupe & r is their last minute stand-in for the leading man <3

revolvevlover by firethesound & zeitgeistic is a drarry fic that actually killed me…technically a oneshot as well but it’s 56k words so. harry is an assassin who gets assigned draco as a mark…ending made me wanna throw my phone at the wall 🤧

nor all that glisters by sweet_sorrow (sweet_s0rr0w? i can’t tell w the ao3 font…) @sweet-s0rr0w is another drarry fic in which draco starts taking felix felicis post-war during his house arrest 2 try and turn his life around 🤭

completely different fandom but read the end of the world by fernwithy a while back which was a fic abt haymitch’s hunger games & really liked it <3

have so many fics on my to-read list as well that i simply haven’t gotten around to yet…if anyone else has recs they’d like 2 share please feel free…

[liesmyth]

Prev post is why I can't fully embrace the "necromancers as a gender" "patriarchal order allegory" side of TLT analysis.

The patriarchy is bullshit based on bullshit. Necromancers have superpowers. Metaphor doesn't hold

[tearlessrain]

I mean years ago I really hoped that we might get some coherent dalish lore in this game that actually treated them with some measure of respect, and I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt that maybe people were right and the weird handling of their culture and beliefs thus far was a setup that would pay off when the veil crumbles and shit goes down and we see more of both the dalish and tevinter, and then we'd get some cool deconstruction of both the dalish gods AND the maker/andraste.

but that was years ago and by roughly the third time they re-announced the game I was starting to suspect that development had passed out of the hands of anyone who would give a shit about lore and setting and story payoff long ago.

and based on what people are saying so far it looks like that's true.

[glbettwrites]

An Asphalt Odyssey: A New Beginning

I've been reworking the world of An Asphalt Odyssey so the 'supernatural apocalypse' is less the world-stopping event that it was before and more something that just altered society enough to give it the aesthetic I want.

Inspiration (video games): As Dusk Falls, Road 96, Life is Strange, Far Cry 5, Firewatch, Gone Home, Oxenfree, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Dark Pictures Anthology, Detroit: Become Human, etc.

Lore: The Clash

The Clash, sometimes called The Exchange, was an event in which multiple alternate realities collided for just a moment, displacing different versions of people into alternate dimensions. Those who were displaced into this world are known as Crossers.

These other dimensions are very similar to ours with the same people and places, but with certain key differences. One of them being that a lot of stories and folklore from our world is actually real in other worlds. Vampires and werewolves might exist in one, ghosts and the paranormal might exist in the other, certain superhuman abilities in another, etc.

So in our world, which is where An Asphalt Odyssey is set, The Clash happened—which no one actually felt and only a few saw the immediate results of—and then suddenly some people woke up with loved ones who were alternate versions of themselves. For example:

Mr. Smith might wake up Mr. Smith and think all is fine and dandy. Everything looks the same, pretty much. His son's posters of the local superhero are no longer hung up on his wall...but not too suspicious, he supposes. So he goes downstairs to pour a coffee and uses his telepathic powers to communicate to his wife upstairs that she'll be late for work...and then suddenly his wife is screaming, and there's so much confusion and panic, and in some homes around the world the same thing is happening. Because certain things that don't exist in this world suddenly do. Mr. Smith's wife in his own dimension was aware of his abilities...so he must be somewhere else. With a different Mrs. Smith. Or maybe...he's the wrong Mr. Smith for this world.

Distrust spreads like wildfire. Anyone's loved one could have been replaced that day and they might not know it yet. Some Crossers may not even have supernatural abilities, making them even harder to weed out. And for the ones that do, it's not just stuff like telepathy—what about the vampires and werewolves who hide in plain sight? Who do you let into your bar? Who can you trust to watch your children?

Society breaks down even as the government scrambles for solutions. Human rights are flung into question when the very definition of 'human' changes. Are these Crossers—even the ones without any supernatural powers—human? Or are they aliens who merely wear the faces of humans? One side fights for inclusion, the other calls this an invasion—most just have to find a way to get on with it.

Every human has their own stance. Society isn't as strong as it once was. Lawlessness is rampant these days; entirely new supernatural 'genres' of crime become commonplace, overwhelming law enforcement. And while society is still clinging on to what it once was, many refer to The Clash as the apocalypse.

The vibe for An Asphalt Odyssey is '90s soft apocalypse supernatural road trip with darker themes. Different stories, maybe novels, maybe novellas, maybe anthologies of short stories, but that's at the core of all of them.

So the universe of AAO is back, but because I've reworked this lore it puts me back to square one with the stories.

BUT I can repurpose the characters. And now I have a clearer vision of the aesthetics and direction I want to take it I'm no longer panicking about making it work.

SO that's what I'm gonna be working on for now, and we'll see if it's something I want to commit to for 50k November or if something else pops up! :)

[gracie-rosee]

It’s crazy to me how so much of the fantasy genre fandoms here on tumblr are just.. SJM. And not even that, it’s just acotar.

I know for a fact there are other series yall read and I want to talk to people about them. I wonder if people outside of tumblr are just scared to come here because not many people talk about books and instead just fight over the same 4 fae.

There used to be so many blogs doing book reviews, where did y’all go?

Just thinking… but hey, what are you guys currently reading?

[fantasiavii]

I just think maybe once I finish the Wheel of Time I should get myself a great serpent ring

[writerkatprasad]

On showing up for yourself as a writer

I've learned, since starting my writing journey a month or so ago (or at least picking writing back up again) that if you want to truly be a writer, you gotta show up for yourself. For your story. For your characters. For your dreams/goals. For your future, published self. You gotta give your story and characters a chance to live.

And no magic spell or writing advice from your favorite author will write that draft for you. EVERY AUTHOR SAYS THE SAME THING.

READ

WRITE

RINSE AND REPEAT

Now.......................

Write. That. Damn. Book

😊

[creative-hanyou-girl]

I think being a fan of InuYasha has awakened in me a craving for mythology series where it's always an adventure focusing on a human befriending/falling in love with a mythical person from the mythology. Doesn't matter what kind of media it is, if it's like InuYasha, I'm like "sign me up".

Like seriously, my favorite series aside from InuYasha are literally Kamisama Kiss, The Red Winter Trilogy, the Guild Codex: Demonized (not exactly mythology per se, but it's still a human x mythical person adventure series) and now I'm about to watch the Kdrama Tale of the Nine-Tails on Netflix. Literally InuYasha as a series has awakened in me a craving for the mythology fiction genre and I can't even be mad about it.

[coockie8]

ngl truly drives me nuts in the DBH fandom when people will tear down HankCon for the truly dumbest reasons in existence (Hank sees Connor as his son because he, an older man, calls Connor "son", an extremely common term of endearment from older men to younger men, literally one time while he's dying, and, the infinitely dumber, Connor, an android designed as an adult, motion capture performed by then 31-year-old man Bryan Dechart, is a literal child!), but then put Reed900 up on some pedestal as the be-all-end-all of Android/Human relationships in that game, and it's like...

Yeah, obviously their relationship is "less toxic" or whatever bullshit you spew; it's entirely fanon! RK900 doesn't even have speaking lines; the personality you've invented for this character, and his relationship with Gavin, is 100% fanon; there is not a single lick of canon present in this ship.

So yes, of course it hits all the beats you like with no canon to make it messy; you invented the entire thing!!

[tally-ace]

We got modded ff7 lads, nothing can stop me now

[dawnstarranger]

Listen everyone has their own metric for what good writing is and isn’t but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t get me down a little to see one of my faves dragged through the mud by both haters and fans alike on a pretty much weekly basis

[pomea]

i cannot stress enough how good shield of stars was

[cabeswaterdrowned]

I do need the lunar chronicles animated series to come out soon not even as a fan (even though I did really enjoy back when I read them) but because it is a perfect series to be adapted as an animated media and I need it to be successful so other ya book adaptors realize how much potential animation has for their purposes….

[livvyofthelake]

crazy to me that this person called the mortal instruments published harry potter fanfic and then in replies to a comment clarifies that they know it’s not actually published harry potter fanfiction. taking inspiration and elements from a fanfiction you wrote and dropping them into an original work you created is not “published fanfiction” babe you sound fucking ridiculous. you cannot discount the care and thought and work cassandra clare has put into the shadowhunter universe for almost 20 years as “just harry potter fanfiction” because you heard some idiot that doesn’t know how genre works say it five years ago. “steles are just wands it’s hp fanfic!” what are you talking about… steles are actually not wands and they serve a whole other purpose than wands. also wands we’re not invented by jkr for harry potter. you know that right. it’s important to me that you know that. i’m not trying to defend everything cassandra has ever done and say she didn’t take a lot from her harry potter fanfic and put it in her books, i know she did that, i know all about her problematic harry potter fanfictions. i’m saying it’s so fucking rude and disrespectful to try to write off all of the original work she’s done and the expansive universe she created as fanfiction. no it’s not, you will just make up reasons to discredit her because you think she’s hashtag problematic and deserves it. and baby i stand with my problematic wife. she only did some of that!!! you can’t say she’s a freak with an incest fetish when that’s only a subplot in ONE book series she wrote and the only character she was actually an incestuous weirdo was the bad guy. yeah it was WEIRD that clary and jace thought they were siblings for two books. WE THE AUDIENCE knew they weren’t. ok it wasn’t explicit that we were supposed to know they weren’t but anyone with sense would read the end of city of bones and go “well that’s not true lol” and even if you didn’t she only wrote that “twist” because it was 2006 and she was trying to be edgy and challenge people’s perceptions. she would never do that now be serious. i know she wrote weird ass fanfiction, she’s a weirdo and it’s fanfiction and she (and society) was stupider back then and she would not do any of that now. and trying to use a couple semi-related things about her life before she was a famous published author to try to make her original work look lesser, is insane. also half the things people point at when trying to “prove” tmi is harry potter fanfic are just like. public domain concepts and character archetypes. because harry potter fans aren’t actually fans of the fantasy genre and don’t understand that 70% of the “world” jkr created is just. public domain fantasy concepts and character archetypes. remember the time my sister (harry potter fan. not a fantasy genre fan) found out about griffins (mythical creature that has existed in the genre for like. centuries) and she thought the concept of a griffin was taken from harry potter’s hippogriff. i’m never letting her live that down btw i lost like. 40% of my respect for her that day. and the context in which she found out about griffins makes her look even worse. we don’t have to get into it. anyway. i just can’t stand it when people say stupid stuff about cassandra clare because they’re purposefully looking at her and her body of work with the most bad faith perspective imaginable. also if you’re a harry potter fan i don’t think you can really justify hating cassandra clare because she’s “problematic”. like ok…. look inside.

[greencheekconure27]

Rant ahead:

Made the mistake of checking whether there's some news on Willow season 2 on YouTube.(I know I know)

First two video's titled "Willow season two release date& what to expect":

"this horrible knockoff of Willow was terribly written, a failure of the enterprise, and cheaply made...."

"just might be the worst fantasy show of all time..."

Seriously,what happened there bros, do your balls hurt because there's no nudity and nobody got raped on screen? Or is it because it has lesbians and non-white people in it (that aren't playing savages in need of a*cough* *Khaleesi* cough* I mean white saviour).?Are you so hurt by it you had to make like 20 videos about it? For fuck's sake just go rewatch GoT or whatever you consider to be a good fantasy show🙄😒.

It's not criticism it's just being an arse for reasons we all can guess and that have very little to do with the show's quality.

Anyway I reported them all as "spam or misleading" because this is just clickbait, and Rude click bait at that.