#gripping narrative

[prosegalaxy]

In a world where fate was but a whisper, a hero rose. Parallel realities shattered, as one life was given for the greater good. Through alternate timelines, their sacrifice echoed. A tale of selflessness and courage, etched in time's fabric.

[joncronshawauthor]

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[drdpharma]

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The Echo of Tears

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Once upon a time, in a quaint little town, there lived a young mother named Amelia and her precious toddler, Lily. They had a bond like no other, sharing a unique way of communicating that only they understood – the language of tears. Lily, being just a year old, was unable to speak yet, but her emotions were conveyed through the melody of her tears. Every day, as the sun painted the sky with…

[theellipelli]

planning for the future

[oh-wow-im-still-here]

Im so sorry but I just cannot understand people that read the entirety of scum villain and then say they don't like binghe. He's awful, toxic, overbearing, ect. Like?? Yes, but also no??? Did you not read the book? Or even looked past the unreliable narration?

Like, I get it, you're reading it in the moment and sqq is a super fun and imaginative narrator, he easily traps you in the same mindset that he has. Trapping you in the world of genres, tropes, character archetypes, what makes a story a story. So it's easy to get clouded like sqq and just scratch your head and try to figure out what type of character archtype luo binghe will turn out to be. If he's not the stallion protagonist harem master anymore, than what is he? So you read book 2 and the start of book 3 and you think, "oh! If he's not gonna be the toxic male power fantasy anymore, than he's gonna be the toxic male love interest fantasy you see in BL!"

You know the ones. They're incredibly sexy, incredibly tall, needs an incredibly in depth course on the meaning of consent and boundaries, and the narrative never punishes them for doing weird and out of line shit, but actively romanticize it. Which fits binghe in some respects, but not all of them, same as the stallion protag box. So I can understand you and sqq's apprehension throughout the story. Waiting for the hat to drop already. Is binghe a cute wholesome wife or a possessive bloodthirsty demon lord?

But then you and shen qingqiu are supposed to learn the lesson near the end that binghe is a person!! With thoughts and feelings and grievances he wants addressed!!! That ultimately he is in the exact middle of the harem master protag to toxic yaoi male lead scale, but also not on the scale at all!!!

Because, ultimately, he is just a guy that desperately wants to be loved! To be wanted! That's it! And shen qingqiu realizes this and takes this complicated emotional wreck of a man and promises him that love and companionship. Shedding the notions of following some sort of thought out narrative and live out their happy ending. Because scum villain's story does end up happy. Messy, but happy. Shen Qingqiu is not suffering. He does not regret choosing Luo Binghe. They are both happy and in love and they both deserve each other. So like, what more do you want?

[astravis]

Mannn Amon-post-Takatsuki-Sen-interview would have been a great time for him to run into Kaneki. What if he didn't take that information to his 'grave.' Hear me out: his faith in the CCG has been shaken to the core and he doesn't have anyone on the inside he can corroborate with let alone talk to. He doesn’t know how to move forward with it. and so it died with him But it wouldn't be so hard for him to believe the ghoul who’s been on a near parallel investigation has information he can corroborate with. If Kaneki can admit he was chasing down Kanou that is. Confiding in a ghoul on CCG matters may be a blow to his morals, but he’s been convinced talking to Eyepatch will help him understand the world his past ever since their first fight.

They're both in the throes of their world being upturned and are trying to pursue the truth. (Kaneki is already in the 20th ward at this point learning about V. That’s a whooole other can of worms.) Hearing the CCG side of things with Kanou / the Yasuhisas would be of interest to Kaneki.

Amon is also like. Less than a half step away from piecing together that Eyepatch was another one of Kanou’s experiments in the underground lab. He saw those bodies with identical kagunes. He saw Kurona’s kakugan. He knows what human experimentation took place. And it wouldn’t take long after to deduce he’s likely Kaneki Ken given the timeline of when & where Eyepatch first appeared. But, at this point, it’s information Amon Knows he can’t trust the CCG with.

Anyway, this is the last time in TG they'd be able to have that long-awaited conversation before everything goes to hell and they swap roles. And it would be So interesting with how much they've learned and changed as people.

[buboloboogie]

SILLY COLLAB WITH @/ LP0st on TWT !!! gay people redraw....

[birdricks]

i realllyyyy love the interpretation of prime as being not much more than a reflection of who c-137 COULD have been. like in the sense that his motivations and backstory are really not all that important because his sole purpose in the story is to mirror c-137 and ricks as a whole

[dragons-ire]

AU: Malachite

(Dawntrail late MSQ, Zone and NPC Spoilers below the cut)

Come ride with me through the veins of history

I'll show you a god who falls asleep on the job

And how can we win when fools can be kings?

Don't waste your time, or time will waste you

MUSE - Knights of Cydonia

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Malachite first made his career in Zoraal Ja's army - chosen to serve the King of Resolve based on his aptitude scores and personality analysis. He might have made a good Arcadion contender instead, if he had more talent for showmanship, and had he come of age only a little earlier.

Possessed of the feral soul of a fearsome scalekin and the skill of Turali-style twinblades, he saw the world outside the dome in the brief and ill-fated invasion of Tuliyollal.

He doesn't care much to talk about it.

After Zoraal Ja's defeat at the top of Everkeep and Queen Sphene's demise, he patiently filed for reassignment as a hunter. With war's end comes a disarmament, after all, and it seemed a good application of his aptitudes while Alexandria recovered from the upheaval.

And maybe: a remote assignment is the best place to be forgotten.

He's not sure how much time he has left. The Levindrake, the Turali biast soul he carries in his regulator, and the learning and wielding of its power has begun to take just enough of a toll, and he suspects that if his own soul hasn't already started to erode from the strain, that it's just a matter of time before it does.

He would like to spend that time being of use before he is forgotten forever.

[makotonaegiunderstander]

sorry my brain is still going a million miles an hour. the Future Arc series had SO many problems. BUT. GOD DAMN that opening and credits sequence. The credits for Future arc genuinely have made me cry multiple times. The imagery is insane. Makoto holds a flower that represents his friends. Slowly the flower dies, falls apart, and more and more flowers start falling and dying and just burying him. His figure starts to bend, weighted down physically and mentally, and he begins to collapse. He’s completely covered eventually. But the moment he’s not visible anymore, suddenly the piles of petals begin to fall away. And he rises back up. He won’t stay down for good. And the flower he holds isn’t completely gone. The petals remaining hold on tenaciously, alive and fighting and hopeful.

[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

if a random person on the internet saying they hc a fictional character as trans or enjoy a ship that you don’t personally like enrages you to the point that you feel the need to comment rude, unnecessary hate, completely unprovoked, multiple times, under multiple different posts, instead of just scrolling, blocking, and moving on, then you need to take some mood stabilizers, touch some grass, and get a grip on reality

and btw, if all you can think of to respond to a detailed character analysis with mountains of specific textual evidence is “not reading allat + you have ass takes” then maybe it’s time to put down the phone and pick up a book (perhaps a self-help book) you pathetic, ignorant, illiterate, fucking philistine.

and to anyone reading this, if you’re going to go out of your way to be a transphobic asshole (or even just an asshole period) in my comments, you can go fuck yourself. keep that shit off my page or you’re getting blocked immediately you weird fucking freaks. take your anti-depressants and get a life please. happy, well-adjusted people don’t do that shit

[scalematey]

look i know lots of people have said this but i think one thing that homestuck does well when it can be bothered to is allowing women to be fucked up and awful and complex and bizarre. like. even when they’re not the protagonists. even when they’re unsympathetic. even when they’re ambiguously the protagonists. even when they decide to make themselves the protagonists. yeah anyway this post is abt vris

[vilelittlecritter]

The device theory by Molly stars is my lord of the rings.

[no1ryomafan]

Not to talk about fucking mega man again but every time I remember star force and I am FOREVER sad that the two of the prominent antagonists from the game that’s considered the best in the series are NEVER talked about:

Not only cause “wow these designs are fucking fantastic” but even if I think Pat is the better written “villain”-in quotations cause he’s not really evil-especially in the sympathetic light, these two are still written well and have a nice dynamic. There is hardly ANY fan content of these two-i once saw someone complaining omega xis barley gets art when BUDDY hes more fucking known by people who never touched the games then these two-and I can’t begin to understand why when people love tragic siblings in this series given Pandora and Prometheus are so loved and these two are basically them just less tragic happy ending and everything but still go through angst and I can’t begin to understand why they are so IGNORED in the game that is again consider the best in its own sub series-

Until I remember the only fucking thing people talk about from this game universally is a character death that gets SPOILED BY EVERYONE cause the general mm fandom has to sleep on star force sighhhh.