#exploring gone wrong

[vittoriamurphy]

shut up boy, you bananas!

[gods-perfect-idiots]

❤️💛

[panepecora]

RE fic writers - where do u get definitive sources of info on the lore to keep your stories consistent?? i dont completely trust the fan wikis ToT

[justaqueerlad]

Hey. gently holds you by the shoulders. What do you make of the start of Everyone Hates His Parents and the way that Jason specifies how he commutes from Trina's to Marvin's, but is driven back from Marvin's to Trina's by Trina. Have we thought about that.

TLDR: At first glance, it's the usual 'Marvin's the deadbeat dad and Trina is the single mother. But Trina's newfound control over her life and the way she's finally able to act independently of Marvin has a bit of an offensive edge (with its justifications of course) and the sudden change in Marvin's character into act 2 now makes Trina feel more overbearing in a way.

Like. Jason says specifically, "Travel, travel, travel, from her house to his house." Why doesn't Marvin pick Jason up himself like Trina does? Is it from his old habits of distancing himself from his kid and operating as separate entities? Or is he purposefully distancing himself from the household that reminds him of his toxic past? Has he never forgiven himself over what he's done to his family and is keeping space to prevent it from happening again?

Then, "Each Sunday night, Mother comes to get me." In this instance specifically, Trina and Mendel come to pick Jason up after the weekend. Of course, Jason's old and mature enough to commute himself, so why does Trina pick Jason up instead of letting him commute back? To show her care towards her child? The most probable reason, given how she's spent most of his parenting life basically as a solo mother.

But if she worried about Jason that much, surely she'd drop Jason off at Marvin's? Unless she's also trying to distance her responsibility over Jason from Marvin's responsibility? (So when Mendel tells her to "Drop it... give it up... what's the matter, Trina?" in 'A Day in Falsettoland', does this suggest that while Trina still struggles with letting go of things she cannot control, she's been too used to putting the blame of her family breaking down on the fact that "[her] life is shitty and [her] kid seems like an idiot to [her]" and that Marvin's queer to realise her own failings in not only looking down on her child but in neglecting him in her wanting to cut Marvin out of her life?)

In the argument in 'Everyone Hates Their Parents', Trina opens the discussion. "I want the Applebaums, they're lovely and they like me." She asserts that she wants to "have the Applebaums" two times, before Marvin counters after each. Perhaps something could be said in the way she appears to be 'starting' the fights? Jason also notes how each of Trina's and Mendel's visits to pick him up from Marvin's spark a fight between his divorced parents. The fact that Trina comes to pick Jason up alone feels almost as if she's making the decision to 'rescue' Jason from Marvin's custody; and the fact that her visit sparks fights only highlights further how Trina has begun to take the offensive side.

In 'A Day in Falsettoland', Marvin has to gently beg, "Please?" three times to ask Trina to consider Cordelia to cater for the bar mitzvah. Compared to Trina's initiative to pick Jason up every week, it seems as though Marvin has truly taken a more passive side to his role in the family. (As in, he's stopped expecting himself to be the omnipresent, omnipotent male head of the family, who has control over everything.)

However, in 'Falsettoland/About Time', Marvin emphasises how short his custody over Jason per week is: "But I still have my son on the weekends, just on the weekends."—in short, 'at least I still get to see my son, although just for two out of seven days'. While Trina has supposedly finally got her life together, Marvin is clawing on to whatever little he has remaining from the consequences of Act 1. The two years that have passed since 'Father To Son' has changed him drastically, and yet Trina is still hung over about Whizzer, about Marvin attempting to be a little more present in Jason's life.

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Obviously taken a very different approach in regards to how you analyse Trina and Marvin together as characters, but I find it incredibly fascinating how complex they are and how much they change throughout both acts of the musical, so much so that their flaws are never 100% fixed even after the fiasco that was March of the Falsettos (Act 1 I mean. Not the song lmao.) Especially with Trina, whose complexity I often overlook because it seems in Act 1 that all the men are downright ridiculous and Trina's the only one who can see it. Just refreshing to see how the perspectives of one character can drastically influence our own—whether for good or bad, that's up to interpretation.

[nenoname]

its a shame that people ended up focusing on "omg mabel flaked out on dipper for a day extra than she promised" instead of "wait dipper really was typing every 8 letter word in existence" even though dipper starts the ep out with "Okay, this cryptology book says there's seven point two million eight-letter words. I'll type, you read."

(also urgh at folks falling for bill's manipulations directed at a stressed and frustrated kid and getting mad at mabel for deep end and time traveler's pig, even tho the former is her helping someone even if it means she'd never see him again and the latter was dipper trying to manipulate his friend's love life and not even bothering to get an outcome where he and mabel both "win")

[maoutan]

My soul dies a little every time I see a normal person in a casual context bring up which characters have the same MBTI as them simply because 9 times out of ten that's not even the correct MBTI for the person OR the character

[yyyeowza]

The more blue beetle I read the more I wish Jaime being missing for a year right after he becomes blue beetle was explored more.

[guardianoftheotherside]

Azrael: The eagles won last night.

Usiel: You went to see the game?

Azrael:*face covered in scratches* What game?

[vittoriamurphy]

[psychoticwillgraham]

speaking of repo i need to rewatch the movie at some point and brush up on the lore before i start writing anything

[saturnniidae]

Thinking about early last year when I was deep in the trenches of pokeani hyperfixation and brainrotting over a whole post-canon au about Ash and Gary traveling together in their late teens because estranged childhood friends who simultaneously know each other incredibly well, but are also strangers in many regards make me SICK.

The idea was Gary and Ash had a promise to travel together as kids before their falling out and finally decide to make good on it (because after an incident on a Project Mew mission, Gary has holed himself up in his grandfather's lab and is making himself miserable, and Ash is realizing he initially didn't understand how much publicity would come with being World Champion so he goes back home for a bit)

But oh shit they get Hisui'd and have to deal with being centuries in the past but seeing the faces of people they've met and fought before (both of them have like a mini heart attack upon meeting Cyllene bc the famliy resemblance is STRONG and they're both like 'what the fuck how are you alive we saw you launch yourself into a space portal') basically digging up old trauma because I love love love thinking about how much the stuff with Team Galactic in Sinnoh must've messed Gary up for years afterwards.

Anyways, I just found the doc for it and damn I need whatever I was on last year because I dare say it goes kinda crazy

[mannequinentity]

He takes a lonesome lifestyle seriously, expecting to live comfortably if he cleans the mess behind him (Whether if he succeeds or fails miserably) Of course, sometimes he has to take loneliness by the throat and get used to its presence, without being affected by it too much.

Whenever he sees a public display of affection between a couple, he feels he's forgetting a recollection, that he was with somebody important in his life. And why does he feel gulity? He has no idea, but it's encouragement to quit drinking as it was the source of a long forgotten phase of his life that he ruined forever.

Valentines' day? Tries to avoid it as best as possible if public is cherishing it like an actual holiday. It's enough to stay in bed all day without eating or drinking anything. Better is avoiding a crowd of couple. A mental breakdown between claustrophobia and depression mixed in to retreat as if he's about to die a horrible death.

It's still difficult for him to open up about someone he loves. And he's kind of picky of who he wants to openly express affection with. There's a lot to unpack inside him. And if he opens it, he feels absolutely vulnerable in a locked cage. but with enough time and patience, he is lovable to make sure 'Hey, let's share the burdens together' If another unlocks his vulnerability that he's willing to show.

[dragonflyxparodies]

So I think BOTW is the better game, solely because it has more depth than TOTK. TOTK goes bigger than any Zelda game has ever gone before - and it works great! I cried, I love it, etc etc. But there was more love put into you as the player/link learning about the characters in the first game. Rauru and Sonia are cool but we only see small glimpses of them, Ganondorf's just evil to be evil, and the Ancient Sages are quite literally nobodies.

And I get why they all have the same cutscene, but I don't understand why they couldn't have had each of them tell a different bit of the story like they do with the tears. Especially the Gerudo Sage - have her talk about the Gerudo not liking the Zonai, fearing Rauru as some kind of conqueror, she going with Ganondorf's party to finally bend the knee and realizing this king and queen are exactly as advertised. Her becoming a Sage - you could have had Ganondorf get pissed at being passed over, and resolving to steal a stone for himself.

You could've had the Goron Sage talking about how his people had been so insular prior to Rauru and Sonia's rule, how they joined Hyrule proper and began to befriend their new neighbors. The Zora Sage could've feared for her people's independence - and Rauru and Sonia never tried to destroy the Zora monarchy or government. The Rito Sage could have been one to approach Rauru and Sonia on their own, to ask for help for his people - a cold snap reminiscent of what you face in TOTK, starvation and a dying people, something.

As it stands, they're flat, they're one-dimensional, and the game might not assume you've played BOTW but it definitely treats its characters as if you have - there's not as much background or attention put into developing them.

I had ASSUMED this would be rectified, to some extent, with some kind of DLC - especially with the Depths being so barren. The Champion's Ballad DLC did a great job giving us more content *and* deepening the story - TOTK is quite literally primed for the same treatment. I think it's a waste that we won't get that, especially given that TOTK goes to places that *should* be explored more fully.

[kinomiakai]

More smut for day 20 of snsmonth23! I used both prompts again today - hope you like it!

tied up and fallen loose: So. Huh. It looks like Sasuke's into that. Okay. Okay. Naruto can make that work. Written for snsmonth23 day 20 - prompts: adult sasunaru and bondage.

[mariverses]

also this is random but i've been playing games and oh my god you people. if a game has problematic content it does not make the creator and everything surrounding it terrible? as long as it's not portrayed in a good light and it's depicted for what it truly is. you can critique the way that it's portrayed but sending the fucking hounds after the creators is not the way to go???? it does not mean that they support it immediately jesus

[shimelyasmin]

im really sad about how wyll’s whole story is going in act 3 bc it feels like, compared to the other characters, he hasnt gotten any huge scenes where he’s actually making decisions for himself. like for the scene where mizora forces him to choose between breaking his contract or saving his father, you choose for him and he agrees to whatever you tell him to do instantly like. why. there also just hasnt really been any scenes outside of camp that wyll really gets to shine in even tho theres been plenty of opportunities for them