#i can do suspension of disbelief

[thesunoficaruss]

I think that AMC interview with the vampire should last forever and ever

[glitter-stained]

"but batman cannot be copaganda! A major plot point is that so many cops are corrupt! It's actually really critical of bad cops" do you ever get tired of listening to yourself speak? You should

[ajastu]

i think more people should use this thing called 'suspension of disbelief' when it comes to video games especially.

[here-comes-the-moose]

When I’m writing my Modern AU but then try to figure out and calculate how the life I gave the Batch is financially possible:

[wellijustfinnihedoneofthebooks]

Everyday i wake up and think abouthow sad i am that lestat the musical is objectively a horrible musical because i really do think interview with the vampire would probably make the best musical ever

[compress1repress]

regarding ur last post about patrick exhibitionism... may i propose:

no simulation (it's gotta be true) by pzweig on ao3 plays w patrick having filmed and posted an amateur video once with a random hookup. art stumbles upon the video during an Artashi Failmarriage Depressive Episode and is immediately stunlocked by rage lust etc.

you could kiiinda achieve your goal by having artashi find the video randomly (or, patrick tells them/mentions it out of the blue bc he's an instigating little shit) POST-rochelle. they get mad and horny about it and feel a little cucked, even though this video was made like 10 years ago (and they were kinda the reason patrick was out there whoring it up in the first place 😖). and because they've already established the throuple, they now have the immediate means to uhhh do something about it. maybe do a little post-game evaluation. if you catch my drift

this was the closest my brain could get to introducing another party without causing too many media implications 💀 maybe in the video he's at an orgy or something?? he def had a freaky nasty time in amsterdam at some point. idk!!! i just work here!!!

first of all i have to say that fic is one of my favourites of all time it's soooooooo insane and so good, pzweig is genius!!! everybody should go read it immediately if they haven't already!!!!

and also YESSS!! ive always wanted to write something involving the very real possibility of a patrick zweig sex tape being out there in the world (i have some ideas for the series of events leading to the patrick zweig sex tape that are thematically similar to amsterdam orgy but i will not share those yet) :p and this would definitely be a way to have patrick in full exhibitionist form while artashi are not directly part of it so it can still feel realistic in terms of how famous they are 😭 and then we get the added bonus of them being insanely jealous about the whole thing... okay i have ideas swirling around.

feel like maybe they then create their own sex tape (which they will have to immediately delete or something to be safe but still!!) where they can fuck patrick in front of an imaginary audience. YAYYYY

also i think them all watching his original sex tape together would be so fun to write like oughh im already getting excited

so anyway, as always i love your mind so much!!!! thank you for brainstorming with me <3 :D i had to answer this immediately but i will definitely be coming back with a full fic at some point in the near future... this was very fruitful for me ❤️❤️❤️

[mokeonn]

I think that the 2010's media landscape of Buzzfeed articles about plotholes in disney movies, Cinemasins critiques, and Watchmojo Top Ten scenes in movies that make no sense has truely ruined a lot of media. People are afraid that their work will be torn down if they dare leave a single thing up in the air, if they dare ask their audience to suspend their disbelief.

All too often nowadays I see stories (especially fantasy), take the time to explain how every small aspect of the world works and how it all logically makes sense. The constant time stopped to explain why an event happened, how this object works, or why this is important to the characters. It's just really not needed and it honestly makes a lot of stories worse.

I am of the opinion that the best stories truly just drop you into their world and explain nothing. They just take you through the story of this world and you just have to accept it and continue on. "When he became king, the land became barren." I don't want the story to stop and explain why this is, or how it happened, I want us to move on so we can just assume that the king has such rancid vibes that everything died.

[kashilascorner]

Oh ok. I get now why a lot of people didn't vibe with the ending.

All and all: excellent manga, overall very good final act, too rushed final 2-3 chapters but weak and honestly mediocre epilogue, which makes the high of the ending kind of leave a bitter taste. I think Noda had a good steed and suddenly he had to finish and had to rush all. So the ending in the sense of the final arc was good but the ending proper (final couple chapters) + epilogue......... Not so much

[edgepunk]

"wahhh how does Peter afford making all those gadgets??? it's unrealistic"

he's a dumpster diver, he buys stuff from flea markets and he tends to steal tech from his villains to study/improve his gear, and be ffr you can't expect 100% realism from a superhero franchise

[bookwyrminspiration]

What are plot points in kotlc that you want answers too?

Well there's the obvious overarching things--who/what is Elysian, tf is stellarlune, who's Sophie's dad, etc.

There's also Caprise's connection to whatever happened with Cyrah, which we seem to be exploring. And how Prentice knew he was going to be arrested. And what Della reported on Alden about--basically everything redacted in the registry files. Including Brant's last name. I want to know if I'm right about it or not.

But I've also recently been wondering what project Dimitar wanted the gnomes for. And what became of Luzia more specifically. I also want Tarina back!! That's not a plot point, but it's connected to the whole troll conflict so I'm adding it.

Oh and whatever was up with Sophie while on the King's Path (the dwarven one). That hallucination/nightmare where she didn't want to acknowledge the last voice--I just know there's foreshadowing in there and I want to know what it's about.

This is less answers, but i'd like the relationship drama to be resolved please. I've had enough. We can stop now. I'll probably think of something else as soon as I post this, but generally I think I'm curious about the same things as most people :)

[salemontrial]

Firing rent lowering gunshots by admitting that i dont care what happens surrounding mks origin im dying on the spicynoodles ship.

[the-monkey-ruler]

I was reading The Monkey King's Daughter (you can read the whole book for an hour) and apparently the protagonist is also Guanyin's grandchild? Can Guanyin be shipped?

I mean I can’t say like what are like the moral implications of shipping GuanYin itself cause that is so not my place but I’m still going to answer this cause it kinda of interesting when it comes to modern media. First off saying that like I have never really seen romance done with GuanYin. At least in a serious way. But if I had to take a guess it can be seen as 'possible' as much as like shipping anyone in Chinese mythos, in that isn't really taken seriously at all. In a lot of modern fan spaces there are a variety of crack ships for more humorous or hypothetical situations like I have seen literally the Star of Venus shipped with Jade Emperor just cause. But I don't see much with buddhas or bodhisattvas in either post-modern media nor in fan spaces. At least that isn't Wukong or Sanzang since they are both Buddhas. And I have done a whole thing about how Wukong for decades wasn’t seen as a romantic figure until like there was a huge character reconstruction, but that isn’t usually the case for most characters.

I would say that the most mainstream instance I can think off the top of my head is The Lost Empire (2001) where it had the main character has a romantic plot with Gaunyin herself. Of course, that wasn't really a masterpiece within itself but this was considered like a 'bad choice' more so that it was just a very strange and awkward romance at that.

Funny enough I think I see more romantic for humor's sake on Guanyin in comic books or games as likes gags at most. Like in Westward comics (later a tv series) Guanyin has a celestial-turned-demon trying to pursue him that he always rejects. Another is more play for laughs but Guanyin in the Fei Ren Zai where people just don't know it's Guanyin and think she is so attractive.

I've seen some games that have Guanyin as like a pretty boy/girl but otherwise nothing even close to a romance plot. Those are more just for like aesthetics of making every character look overly attractive to sell it.

The best I can say is that is just kinda strange and a little strange personally but I can't say that it can be taken seriously. I mean Wukong is supposed to be a Buddha by the end of the novel, so if The Monkey King's Daughter has it that a buddha can have a daughter then there wouldn't be anything stopping the author from having a bodhisattva having kids.

[sskk-manifesto]

Atsushi's back in the game!!! ۶( ˆ o ˆ )

[phannibal]

second post for second part of second hand embarrassment episode that i have to hide behind my phone to watch

[violentlydefending]

finished emio: the smiling man!! pretty solid, really great presentation, iffy pacing, and a few underwhelming elements, but i was able to have a good enough time with it. the epilogue was a real highlight for me, but there were a few standout moments in the game proper as well. wouldn't say no to playing more if more entries get made and will definitely be checking out the remakes of the other two entries at some point :]

[butwhatifidothis]

It was funny realizing that Yuri's backstory is extremely convoluted, but had it made me wonder, if you were Yuri's writer. How would you rewrite Yuri's backstory?

There's actually one really simple way to fix his backstory that requires little straight up rewriting: double his age.

Some things that happen after his backstory will have to be reworked or discarded entirely - pretty much all of his support relationships would have to be changed in some way - but the fundamentals of his backstory work infinitely better on a much older character. I can far more readily believe that a 38-43 year old man is as experienced with such drastically different lifestyles than a damn 19 year old, especially with it being the case that so much is pre-baked into his character (aka an older man could more realistically have been all of a street rat, adopted noble, assassin, spy, and gang lord off rip than a teenager could ever be).

Plus it would've given the player an older male LGBT+ option to romance, bumping it up from the... none that we have available in reality lmao, so that'd be a nice bonus