#filler fandom

[pomrania]

There's lots of good bits in The Amelia Project (podcast), but I want to tell y'all about one in specific, where I think I can manage it without any spoilers.

So X and Y have had a lot of adventures together, and at a certain point in the podcast, they're both sharing their stories, but each to a different audience. To make things convenient, the stories are being told in the same order by both parties. How it normally happens is that say X will start introducing the story to their audience, then it'll switch to the story itself, then it goes back to X and their audience to discuss that story; then for the epilogue, we go to Y and Y's audience, where Y has just finished talking about the same adventure, and get to hear what those ones all have to say about it afterwards.

It's a great framing device, one that I think should be used more often by more writers. Not just "this is a story being told by a character", but there being MULTIPLE different instances of that same story being told, by and to different people, so we get a greater variety of possible responses.

Anyways, this particular bit starts with Y telling the story; in it, there's some introductory stuff to set up their then-current situation, then X leaves to buy a waffle, then the story happens to Y. (This isn't unusual, there's been prior bits where what we hear in the "story" segment was mostly just with one character, and the other character presumably had heard about it afterwards and so was able to tell that same story.) We finish up the story, hear how Y's audience responds to it. And then, the epilogue: X's audience says "why did you just talk about a really good waffle you'd had once".

[pomrania]

Oh I never would have CONSIDERED pony!Stan repainting his cutie mark every few days to keep people guessing, but it makes so much SENSE; fantastic job with that.

look at my horses boy

[pomrania]

One of these days, if I'm sufficiently bored/procrastinating, and I feel like doing enough research to not make a fool out of myself, I'm going to write something up about whether a character could be trusted with the Death Note, or to take the Ring to Mt Doom, and the differences between the two.

Like, the Death Note is very limited in what it can do. It kills people. (And controls their actions to some degree, but still ending in their deaths.) It can only "make the world a better place" if you believe the same thing is possible of an assassin's bullet (but it's so much easier to do than trying to shoot somebody). It doesn't have any will of its own; any "corruption" it causes is solely due to the nature of having the power of life and death, without being accountable to anyone else.

The Ring is different. It has a goal, and it is actively trying to accomplish that goal however it can. It promises power, even if we don't know much of what it can do other than "let you be invisible", in the same manner that we don't know what will happen if [insert disaster that hasn't yet occurred]. Plus also there's essentially a fallen angel who can influence people to varying degrees when they're around it.

Then there's the "win condition" here. For the Note, it's continuous, "do not go mad with power for however long this thing is in your possession". For the Ring, there's a very definite end goal, "take the thing to where it can be destroyed, or at least pass it to someone who can, and be willing to give it up", but also "don't be killed, and don't let it be stolen", which requires more than "just" mental fortitude.

To be trusted with the Note, you either need a rock-solid conviction that it's wrong for you personally to kill, or you need both restraint and good judgement. (Or a particular type of anxiety, that'd work too to prevent you from ever using the thing.) To be trusted with the Ring, you need to be able to withstand or reject the temptations it offers, and also be the type of person who could be relied upon to transport an object that a lot of other people very much want to take for themselves. (If we're doing a "relay" type of thing to get to Mt Doom, then that second criterion gets relaxed a bit, since you only need to hide/defend/carry it for a shorter distance; but you still need to be able to give it up.)

[pomrania]

For today's Mermay I mermified the original box art for DOOM. I decided it didn't make sense for merms to use firearms -- "fire" is right there in the name, which... doesn't really play well with water, so that wouldn't have developed along familiar lines -- so I replaced one of Doomguy's guns with a spear, and the other with magic solely because that was simpler than figuring out a different system for projectile launchers plus what that would look like.

My progress thread for this piece can be found here.

[pomrania]

Today for Mermay I mermified the cover of Amazing Fantasy #15, aka the comic where Spider-Man first appears. It's a nice break, something where the shading in the original is so minimal.

My progress thread for this piece can be found here.

[pomrania]

[Image description: The Owl House fanart (for lack of a better term). It shows Stringbean the Palisman making each letter of the alphabet, with the exception of V, which is formed by Vee Noceda. End description.]

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

And a disaster for the discussion of non-anime TV shows in fandom.

"Cool-down episodes" aren't filler.

[pomrania]

Shark Souls: it's like Dark Souls, but everything humanoid is instead sharkoid.

[arcanefox207]

Sleepy Joel Miller - TLOU S1

I went B&W with this set because it was so damn dark and the colors I was just not feeling it. I like the moody vibe this gives anyways. You like this? Want more B&W or just normal? Maybe it can inspire for smut (and tag me if it does so I can read it!!)

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[pomrania]

I was scrolling through my dash not paying much attention (also sitting some distance from the screen), assumed it was some piece of classical artwork that I'd likely seen before, went past it; then I wanted to see something a few posts up again, and as I went by this, I noticed the title, took another look at the image, and oh it IS that.

Falin, Oil on paper and digital

[twirlymarimo]

zoro had every chance to move ONE PIECE EP. 131

[riahsringtone]

pulled this out of nowhere since the other artwork thing is taking forever. . .

anxiety has definetly broke her anxie-tea mug at least twice

and joy,,,,, idk what she has going on someone maybe help her??!

[pomrania]

I have never watched The Librarians. Up until today, my knowledge of it was limited to "there's a group who wrangles magical artifacts, the guy from Leverage is in it, and people say it's a good show".

A few weeks ago I acquired a, what do you call those books, "tie-in novel" doesn't feel right but I can't think of a better term. Today I read it, 'The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase'. It was good and I liked it.

My question is, how representative is that book of the show? If I were to watch the show, would I be disappointed that it wasn't like the book I'd read? I understand the intersection of "people who follow my blog", "people who've watched enough of a show to have an informed opinion on what's in it", and "people who've read one specific novel about that show" is likely to be small, but it's worth a shot.

[pomrania]

[Image description: Zelda Tears of the Kingdom fanart in the Hades Supergiant style. There's an image of Sidon, "Zora Prince"; his text box says "Poseidon, you say…? Seems like a good fella, I'd like to meet him! I'm always down to make new acquaintances!" End description.]

New friends

[gali-in-distress]

In a different timeline Dead Boy Detectives got a 22 episodes first season and they signed on for three more with the second one coming out in 2025

[cacaocheri]

some of y’all moon simps are really looking like this transcript under cut!!

Y/N: You’re the most repulsive person I have ever met Moon: I throw my used car batteries into the ocean [Wedding bells] Moon: Where the fuck am I