#define the great line

[fght-ff-yr-dmns]

The Underoath show was amazing!

It was the first time I'd seen the band since Give It A Name Festival in 2005.

The venue was heaving, I really didn't expect it to be that packed. The heat was beyond insane, with the band themselves commenting that it was the hottest gig they'd ever played...and they're from Florida!

I managed to catch up with some old friends, score a copy of the album They're Only Chasing Safety's vinyl for just £20, meet the guitarist Tim and get a used guitar pic!

It's been 20 years since they released this album and they still have so much passion and energy when performing live.

Such a fantastic show!

[silens-oro]

I’ve rediscovered Underoath’s Define the Great Line album and I

[posevr]

Current Car CD

[greatgoddyke]

all you ever need is to be nice and friendly

[hualianisms]

i love how fanghua are so danmei coded. fang duobing as the protective nianxia ml whose life was so monumentally changed and shaped by a shifu he met only once when he was younger but whose small act of kindness moved him so deeply that he spent most of his life trying to get stronger, working hard to finally be able to catch up to and be worthy of that glorious shifu that he so admired.

except he finally meets that shifu again years later as an adult and he's finally caught up to him but now their positions are reversed - li lianhua is now the sickly one, and fallen from grace; fdb is now the (physically) stronger one, the young hero, and he becomes friends with and falls for llh who he now no. longer wants to be the disciple of. instead, he now wants to protect and care for li lianhua like one protects and cares for a lover.

[autistme]

[vimbry]

oh hello shoe I've been waiting to see drop. sorta hoped you never would.

[switch]

>if the short is well received it will be made into an anime

quit yanking our fucking dicks toei. your stupid self-aggrandizing glorified toy commercial of an alleged doremi movie already performed well and won an award it super did not deserve. you’re moving goalposts at that point. you have been doing this shit for 15 years. either commit or quit dangling carrots over everyone’s heads again.

[snakeguy999]

i gotta tell you more abt my ocs sometime. smiles widely

Ooo la la...what did i do to deserve such an honour?

[kiss2012]

rewatched the first three episodes of s3 and im never going to recover

[cherrysnax]

when I was a kid I was rlly upset that art teachers didn’t like anime-inspired art, and then I realized it wasn’t the anime aspect. jumping into highly stylized art without knowing the fundamentals AND with a refusal to learn them is a bad combo

[leenesomewhatdraws]

Novembmas, Day 29: Home / Fears/Worries !

Reunion group hug :DD <3 ! I could have messed it up more, this'll do.

The best way not to come uncoupled is to hold each other's wrist

And yeah, the tunnels still need to be inspected, even if you watched your brother disappear/you got eeby-deebied in those very tunnels

[minarcana]

🌻+Lex!!!!!

LET ME GIVE U WORDS // accepting

If he but sigh since my loss befell him Straight to his side I go. Tell him a faithful one is doing All that love can do. -- The Haunter, Thomas Hardy

And in his eyes he took the nameless dead, he stored them, so that someday I might know and love them in his glance- so that I would not die in horror, as they all had done. He filled his eyes with them, and yet in vain: to all my wars, unwilling. I must go. -- yehuda amichai

Come with me, let’s spend a night in the country, my friend, you intimate of heaven’s stars, for winter’s finally over– you can hear the doves and swallows chattering. We’ll lounge beneath the pomegranate trees, plum trees, apple trees, everything lovely and leafy. -- Solomon ibn Gabirol

Imagine you’re drowning. Imagine for just a second that you’re able to lift your head above water, see the light, take a gulp of air, and feel your hands touch something, so you grab ahold and cling to it. So, you can imagine all your life you are drowning – and that’s certainly nothing but the truth – then love is what helps you keep your head above water. -- Hermit and Six-Toes, Victor Pelevin

[kaelor0409]

Part of this can be explained by the fact that the first book is an adaptation of a fairy tale (Beauty and the Beast) and a myth (Eros and Psyche, which itself was a prototype for Beauty and the Beast).

Amaranthe hoodwinking all the High Lords out of their power makes very little sense when you think of them as the characters we meet later, but in ACOTAR it's the standard "Evil Queen steals power from rightful rulers, covers the land in darkness" thing that's in every fairy tale. The Evil Queen can only be defeated if her curse is broken by True Love, etc. These tropes are so ubiquitous an audience will immediately accept them without question...in a fairy tale.

Parents don't have names in fairy tales. Sisters rarely do either. No one has a last name, because why would it matter? The calendar is "what season is it?", and the economics of the wondrous shining city don't need to be questioned.

This is a totally legitimate way to do a story. The first Star Wars movie used it extensively: very little is explained and the explanations are mostly nonsense. Later media fleshed it out considerably, but the movie by itself runs almost entirely on trope logic.

The problem is that the later books try to pivot from fairy tale to classic fantasy, and fantasy has lore. If you introduce the political intrigue of feuding lords (a fantasy staple) the idea of the Evil Queen tricking the High Lords comes into question, because why would these selfish schemers ever agree or be tricked so easily? Fae like the Illyrians with defined biology, culture, and history (standard for a fantasy race) makes classic fairy tale fae feel out of place because they clearly don't have any of that. Something like a flushing toilet existing is fine for a fairy tale because they are inherently timeless and are mostly about vibes, but in fantasy that has Implications.

It should be noted that fantasy doesn't need deep world-building. Everyone thinks it does, because Tolkien had it and a lot of other fantasy greats followed his lead, but there are plenty of other notable fantasy stories that don't bother. You don't need a calendar or lineage chart or map of trade routes to have a good fantasy story, and in a lot of cases those will get in the way more than they will help. This is why ACOTAR still works as a series despite the fact that it is very clearly making stuff up as it goes along: the core plot doesn't need the missing details to work. You can still enjoy a play even if the backdrop is a black canvas and the props are recycled from last year's production, because those aren't what matter.

It does make the series less enjoyable though, and may be a deal breaker for people who can't turn off their brain enough to ignore the inconsistencies. It's also a nightmare for fanfic writers, because we know very little about the setting and what we do know doesn't make sense.

feeling rlly annoyed at sjm right now for her shitty worldbuilding

im trying to work on stuff for my acotar fic but theres so many problems im running into when it comes to canon

1- WHY IS THERE NO DATING SYSTEM?? WHAT YEAR IS IT? WHAT MONTH IS IT? this is one of the most basic aspects of creating a story. For example one of the first things i did with my friends when we created out story was make a dating system and explained its origin and shit.

2- why do the majority of characters lack surnames?? i get side characters but major ones like RHYSAND, Tamlin, Cassian, Azriel, and many more lack simple things such as surnames.

3- many characters just arent named. The archeron sisters father is not named. All of rhysand and tamlins family (who are talked about a decent amount) are nameless. Cassians mother is also nameless. The king of hybern is a MAJOR villain who goes unnamed.

4- also missing ages for lots of characters. annoying as fuck.

5- a very non descriptive time period to reference. There’s electricity? theres baths? but its also strangely archaic. Characters dress a bit old fashion but also like its 2016? theres no reference for time period at all.

6- A lack of explanation for the economy. Specifically VELARIS. I have no idea how velaris as a city works. From what i can tell theres no way it can be as good as it is due to what we are told about the city. It was hidden for years but it was able to survive? what about trade? government? homelessness and poverty are said to be non existence but how?? Rhysand is said to be extremely wealthy but how?? Tamlin was villainized for having his people pay taxes (which werent even severe ones??) but rhysand somehow has a city running ‘perfectly’ while also building his like 3rd or 4th house.

these are just off the top of my head too. Sjm when i catch you