#god i never tire of this scene

[claire-starsword]

Someone on Neocities told me yesterday he's playing Shining Force for the first time following my translations, and you can kinda imagine the impact this had on my ego, so i rushed to finish a few more scenes that I consider important:

The intro (prologue and meeting Simone)

Darksol's jerkass moment above from Chapter 8 (this one had mistranslations last time I posted it, do check it out again, I'm a stronger person now)

The epilogue with Simone

With this, I'm fairly sure I've done all the important story beats, we're just missing a lot of NPC dialogue of course, and a few less relevant battle moments. At the very least, I don't remember any emotional moments left out by now, so my main goal is done. Not sure I'd ever commit to a complete translation one day because it's daunting, so we'll see.

[hinamie]

I'm always pushing you away from me / but you come back with gravity / and when I call, you come home

[mobius-m-mobius]

#so unserious 😂💖

[silverskye13]

I need more time in the day man

[camellcat]

OH! IT WASN'T SLEEPING WITH BUFFY THAT MADE ANGEL LOSE HIS SOUL! IT WAS SIMPLY BEING WITH HER AFTER! OH! OH GOD HE WAS JUST SO PERFECTLY HAPPY TO QUIETLY LOVE HER THAT'S WHY HE NEVER— THE DISTANCE. THE DRAWER THING. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

[makeyoumine69]

American Psycho (2000) dir Mary Harron

[lovelaceisntdead]

OH MY GOD??????

[fear-no-mort]

this didn’t make us friends

[drolta]

I hope Claudia escapes the afterlife and eats some of you fr

[vroomian]

So I wanted to ask, since you mentioned you were going the epic route for the bitter water AU in your notes…. Is it gonna be more than 12 chapters and some 100k monstrosity? Either way I’m loving bitter water AU and I will take any version of it I can get because it’s so so good

it will not be 100k. I simply refuse :) do not put that evil on me ;-;

[magicalgirl6]

I'm sure it's been talked about to death, but I just finished yuki yuna season 1 and wanted to talk about it. To be clear, this is fully my own thoughts and opinions. I think it's fully valid if other people feel differently. Also, I don't have the same disabilities as any of the characters, so I can't speak on representation of anything specific.

There were things I liked about the ending for sure. Yuna and Tougou had some very sweet moments, and I liked the emphasis on Yuna recovering through her own willpower rather than the gods' influence

But man I cannot overlook their disabilities being cured…

I understand, from a narrative perspective, that if a major part of the conflict is the gods taking away functionality in parts of your body as offerings, than the solution is taking it back from the gods. I understand that, if they didn't, it might feel like they lost. But they could still fight to break out of / change the system without all their losses being undone in the end!

I don't like disabilities being cured at the end of a story because it sends the message that you can't be disabled and have a happy ending. Like, being cured is the only happy ending. And I know the show wasn't trying to send this message, or at least I don't think it was, because Tougou had plenty of happy moments throughout the series. She was well-written as a wheelchair user, at least as far as I can tell as someone who doesn't use one. I think they did really well with her. But the ending still leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it does still imply that this was the only solution for them.

And I don't think there's anything wrong with the characters being upset after becoming disabled, or it messing with their self worth. Disability can be scary, especially when it's new, and in cases like Itsuki's it can mess with people's aspirations and drastically change the trajectory of people's lives. I think that that's accurate and real. I think they're allowed to be angry and upset for having so much taken from them. But I don't think them getting it back sends the best message to the audience. (And I feel like some of the stuff the characters said about Sonoko seemed kind of offensive? But idk if that was just the translation in the version of the subtitles I had)

I don't think I'll ever recover from my disability. It drastically messes with my life, it makes many things way more difficult, but I know it's not going away. I'm not mad about it anymore. I'm okay. I can still be happy and have a good life. So a story where the characters fully recover doesn't feel inspirational or motivating to me, it feels uncomfortable. I know disabilities can sometimes be recovered from, and I'm not trying to dismiss anyone's experiences, but as someone who won't recover, I'd find it much better to see characters thrive AND stay disabled.

It would still be a victory for them if they didn't have to fight and sacrifice anymore. It would still be a victory for them to keep on living after everything. They don't need a full recovery to be heroes.

[marshjellyfish]

i think my favourite thing about Aziraphale this season is that his portrayal here shows so much of his stubbornness and refusal to stop BELIEVING. Like believing in the complete, irrefutable goodness of god and heaven and believing that being on the side of good will keep them safe, even though he CAN'T and he DOESN'T. Not only in the scenes with Job's children or his diary entry, its honestly best done in THE kiss scene. His running theme is that he's so desperately fighting to BELIEVE, even when everything is pointing to him not being able to. He wants to believe Job's trials are going to end up good, but at the mention of literally killing the children its so obvious he CAN'T. And like, he wants Crowley to be an angel, to not have to be on a side where they're lonely or god forbid be on opposite sides again, but he CAN'T. The running theme is that the only thing in the world Aziraphale wants is to BELIEVE in something again. Be it in good or in true safety for him, Crowley and, humanity. To believe in the goodness of heaven and to believe that if he and Crowley were on the side of Good, everything would work out.

[dunadaan]

sometimes i think abt how i would write out créa's story....a big long series from start to finish would be too difficult and not quite interesting, imo- lotr doesnt cover all the characters from birth to death, not counting the appendices lol.

i did end up writing a decent chunk of créa's origin story about 10 years ago (yikes.....how times passes) and got to around 30k words? 5 chapters I think, before i abandoned it. and revisting it, I think the best format would be doing it akin to the first two Witcher books- short stories stitched together that shows various adventures and aspects of her life.

Dúnedain live a long time, and it would get boring to hear "they walked here, they did a patrol there, it was cold, maybe killed a goblin or two" (okay i would read any crumb abt rangers and. i have. but. anyways), but i think short/medium stories not always tied together is a good initial way to do it, rather than being as thorough as possible.

granted, i'm someone who adores writing the inbetween scenes- the domestic, the detailed, the boring stuff- i like thinking about culture and language and stuff like someone washing their clothes, waterproofing their boots and cloaks, cooking food, having heart to heart conversations with others, etc. i enjoy action too, but downtime is my favorite over long, overarching plots- the scenes inbetween the plot where you can flesh out who a character is by the little things.

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

I’ve been meaning to do WIP Wednesday for aaaages and I always forget. It’s not actually Wednesday yet, but oh well! I have been working on this fic for over a year, and I think I am in the home stretch. Here is a snippet from early on. 

Draco had got barely halfway across the Entrance Hall when it happened. He felt the Trip Jinx round his ankles before he saw his assailants, and he went sprawling hard onto the stone floor, the wind knocked out of him, his wand spinning away to clatter out of sight and well out of reach. He lay on his front, coughing and gasping with ugly laughter ringing in his ears.

"Nasty tumble, there Malfoy," jeered someone behind him. "You want to mind where you're going, or you could hurt yourself."

Draco pushed up onto his hands and knees, still trying to get his breath. There was no way he could reach his wand before they jinxed him again; he hadn't even seen where it landed. He never was any good at muggle duelling. He got one leg under him, bracing himself to be knocked flat again, and heard a shout from above him.

"Protego!"

The jinx bounced off the Shield, and Draco got to his feet under its protection. Harry Potter was striding down the marble staircase toward them looking like a thunderstorm. Halfway along he stooped and picked up Draco's wand. He hardly glanced at Draco as he passed him and marched up to the little knot of seventh years picking themselves up from where they'd been hit by the rebounding jinx.

"Think it's funny to knock people down, do you, McClaggen?" snarled Potter, glaring up at the biggest of the lot.

"Oh don't get your wand in a knot, Potter. It's only Malfoy," said McClaggen in the sort of tone you might use to say 'It's only a slug.' "No love lost there, eh?"

"It doesn't matter who it is! We're not doing things like that anymore," Potter said furiously.  "We just got done with a fucking war, and you want to keep fighting? You lot want to keep it going just for fun? Well, I don't, and I better not see you do that again! Now clear off!"

"You can't tell m--"

"Too fucking right I can! Now get back to your common room!" And, perhaps because Potter was Head Boy, perhaps because he looked like he could spit nails,  or perhaps simply because he was Harry Potter, they did clear off. Potter watched them go, then turned to Draco. He still looked quite angry, but he was clearly trying to gather himself, "You okay?

[melotuzu]

woke up at unholy hours with 3hrs of sleep under my belt and now i’m at the airport trying not to cry at the new mafuyu event

[larrysblooming]

louis smiley and blue bandana for aotv <3333