#i can't imagine arcane will wrap up their entire story

[skepticalfrogcat]

PRAYING that this means jayvik-centered show in the future 🙏🙏🙏

[xeno828]

Trollhunters Ending FIXED!!!

So....I've recently binged this entire series, fell in love with it and promptly gotten heartbroken at the shitty ending the movie gave us. SO!!!! I have seen many people hating on the ending and pretending it and the movie didn't exist. I came up with an idea that I am permanently using as a replacement for the ending that I'm pretty happy with. I can't write dramatically for shit BUT I can scribble ideas! If anyone wants to flesh this out into a one shot fic PLZ TAG ME JUST SO I CAN READ IT!!!!!

(also this is gonna read more like a screen play for a movie cus I'm a vid editor and that's how I picture stuff, doesn't always translate well into a written story! 😅)

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- So everything stays the same up until Jim uses the kronosphere to go back in time

- Instead of going back to the beginning and changing everything, he travels back to when the Arcane order had finally gotten a hold of the real Nari

- Everything is still happening around him but is dead silent as if he were deaf and in slight slo mo as he gets his bearings (not actually deaf, just that kinda cinematic idea for drama!!)

- Looks around and sees everyone alive gathered around (maybe some sappy or quiet music plays on top of him seeing everyone alive, I dunno!!!)

- As this is the past they don't know Jim just came from the future and are instead focused on glaring at something

- IRL sound hits back in like a huge thud, LOUD AF!!!!

- Jarring Jim to turn around and see the Arcane order hovering in that same ball of magic that surrounded them the first time (that's what everyone is glaring at btw!)

- This is when realization for Jim sets in and he knows this is his second chance

- The music from the credits in the original film (or something like that) starts to build up (in my head it's like him and the music are going "not this fucking time!")

- He transforms into his new armour (either cus it came back in time with him or cus now he knows about the 9th configuration, your choice!)

- Camera and everything is focused on the transformation as the music is building but you can see everyone in the background looking either shocked or like "HELL YEAH!!" when they see Jim finally transforming again

- Quick dramatic shot focusing on the Arcane order still performing their spell, t

- Some sort of cheesy/bad ass hero shot showing off everyone gathered together as the "9th configuration" and ready to kick ass

- Close up on Belroc looking pissed as they realize Jim has transformed and everyone is gathered to fight

- Equally cheesy close up on Jim quietly but determinedly saying something like "not this time" or "my turn" (I can't do dialogue I'm sorry!!!;)

- Jim jumps into fight with everyone following behind

- Final shot of everyone running toward the camera (Arcane order) and cuts to black with Jim swinging Excalibur at the camera.

- As it cuts to black the outro music (roughly 20 secs into it) hits the beat drop at the same time as the credits start!

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Cliffhanger-ish ending, doesn't get rid of the whole story, leaves it up to imagination on who still lives and dies, doesn't undo character development, has more of a feel good "HELL YEAH!!" ending to it (at least for me!) Doesn't feel like a definite ending but has enough to still feel like Trollhunters isn't just over and wrapped up nice and nearly with a pretty bow! For me this works and I'm happy to pretend this is canon. Tbh 90% sure this looks cooler in my head than how it's written down, I might get round to making a vid edit for it on YouTube (cus that's my specialty) but dunno if anyone actually wants to see that!

As I said I'm not a writer so apologies for this chaos!! I don't usually post these things that I think about (cus I've also imaged a better ending for game of thrones!) But I just really wanted to share this in case someone else also enjoyed the concept or in case anyone wants to translate this mess into something coherent!

Anyway, rant done and idea written out, go have fun with it you want, just plz tag cuz I wanna read if you! 😭🙏

[sandypuggames]

Audio Guided Solo TTRPG Concept

Hello. You are listening to a guided roleplaying adventure. This audio will prompt you to build a character, then develop that character through a series of encounters, locations, relationships, and other interactions with a fantastical world.

Lets begin by making your character. In our setting, you play as a member of an outcast band of forest rangers, who patrol a land known as The Vast. This land is populated by enormous, skyscraper sized trees which house entire societies, who live in fear and ignorance of your forest home.

Your character has three skills - a Traversal skill, this is something that helps them move through the environment. They have a combat skill - again, an ability or an edge when conflicts escalate to blows. And finally they have a social skill. This is something that helps them navigate the often fraught interactions with the people around them. Think of a skill for each of these categories, and as you do, try to begin picturing the character you will embody for the next few hours in your mind. How do these skills reflect on them as a person? How are they changed by their mastery of these arts? Does their skillset ask them to wear particular clothes, or carry particular equipment? Perhaps these skills imply comrades, or perhaps they wrap your character in the arcane.

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Locations have several points of interest. As I describe them, imagine how your character moves through the area. Try to make note of NPCs that sound interesting, and what your character might have to say to them.

When we describe the NPCs in these areas, we will sometimes describe conditions that would prompt them to share additional information, or change their attitudes significantly. Consider if your character meets these conditions, or what they might do to force them. Remember the number of "actions" your character takes are limited.

When you hear the music change like this - that means your time in this area is coming to an end; an event is about to occur that will prevent you from spending any more time here, and we will move to another hub. You can always pause the audio, or rewind, for more time to think, but do try to limit your distinct actions to the number at the start of the audio.

As we can't know how exactly you reacted to the situations we present, try to carry over your choices between events - it can be helpful to enshrine interactions in physical objects - jewels or coins, magical tools, special food - that you can more easily "carry" in your mind. We will typically try to describe a series of broad strokes, pre-determined events as you move through these spaces, and leave the details of the story to you.

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In Combat, we will describe an ongoing melee, often several conflicts playing out at once; we will describe enemies opening salvos, their approaches, their goals, and their retreats. The assumption is always that your character ultimately succeeds at what they do, but as we describe the scene, you might find your character placed into critical situations, and be asked to give up valuable leverage, items, and positions in exchange for victory. When the music changes like this, that means its time to pay the cost for your victory. Think about what you give up, and what that says about your character, and the world around them.

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[friendlylifecherry]

I was thinking about something regarding your Edge of Man (that was the one with the Arcane cast being robots in a huge arena?) AU:

If Vi, Powder and Silco are all robots, then I guess it can be assumed that Vander, Mylo and Claggor were as well. Which made me wonder if technically they (at least Mylo and Claggor, as Vander might be Warwick now) could be repaired/rebuild?

Because if yes, imagine the angst Vi and Powder would feel if they ever realise that. Even more if it would raise the question for them if their brothers would even still be their brothers or entirely different people with their looks, if they remade them as if nothing has ever happened

Actually, the one with the robots is Westworld AU. The Edge of Men AU is Jayce as functional dictator of a dystopia Piltover who's gotten incredibly obsessed with and possessive of Viktor.

But yeah, that would definitely make at the very least Mylo and Claggor fellow robots. And given that it's been a few years since that plot element went down, they may have saved Mylo and Claggor's specs and memory data, but their bodies very likely have been repurposed for still active robots, so there wouldn't really be a way to rebuild them even if they get the memory data from the robot engineers. Which has to still fuck you up hard, knowing your dead family's memories are there but you can't get to them or bring them back in any meaningful way.

But also, I kinda got an idea for Vander. Since the robots and humans were working together until quite recently (where Jayce Giopara was a robot that got rescued from permanent decommission after wrapping their storyline by his lover/stage rival/engineer MH), maybe we should make Vander (at least the original) a human actor/handler for the robots back when they were in the really early stages that got incredibly attached and was just not ok at all when he had to be killed off for the story or when he had to try and drown Silco for that matter. Or we make Vander/Warwick in the middle of his restructuring that's been massively put on hold thanks to everything going on ((no need to add rampaging werewolf man to the mix) that someone could find in the robot build/repair bays. What do you think?

[Also, I had to edit this and for some reason it didn't let me edit the ask on mobile after putting it in the drafts, it forced me to post it and I had to get out my laptop]

[space-blue]

i don't know if it will be of any value to you but still: usually when i go fic hunting i only shoot for smut, because it interests me the most, for many reasons. since getting into arcane i've done that sort of fic hunting a lot, and read a few non-smuts in the process, but none had much of an effect on me, let alone enough to check out what other works the author has written. you though, are the first writer who doesn't write smut (apart from like, one or two mild vanco scenes?) but i straight up subscribed to on ao3 anyway (and i can count my subscribed authors on one hand). your writing is simply amazing. the pacing, the emotions, how you build on top of canon in a very specific way and get it to work in your favor. it pulled me in instantly and made me stay. and i regret nothing. i think i've read all of your arcane fics so far and am genuinely considering putting aside my prejudice against star wars and watching it just to read what you've done in the star wars fandom as well. just wanted you to know that. quite a few of your fics i think back to on a daily basis, and nothing feels quite as joyous as waking up from a nap to a notification about a new work of yours. just wanted to say it. i wish you all the best 💗

Hey Anon, sorry I took a couple days to reply. You think this sort of nuclear grade compliment can be of "no value" to me? Or any writer? Gosh, do I have a bridge to sell you. Seriously, I nearly swallowed my tongue reading this and then needed to sleep on it two nights in a row before the emotions subsided enough to tackle the answer.

Rare is the writer who doesn't thrive on compliments of their work, and rarer still are the compliments higher than "I'll get in a shitty fandom to follow you" or "I love all your work despite your suspicious levels of aroace flavoured genfics" or "you're like my 3rd sub"

You can't imagine me red enough in the face, right now, as I answer this ask. What am I supposed to say? Thank you? A Keysmawjenfkjwenfkfn? A GIF??

I'm deeply honoured and flattered both, and I'll strive extra hard to go on, and *at the very least* wrap up all my Arcane WIPs (SW fans who follow me and read this are invited to shut up and not comment on that, I'm not taking sass or feedback at the moment)

Alright, this being said... I'd encourage you to try out my Original short stories before you go down the route of Star Wars, even if some of those are really old. I add to the series slowly. The ones I'm most proud of are All Father (historical fantasy in ancient Gaul), The Teacher (introspective sci-fi with body horror elements), and Blink (Urban fantasy FBI case). Bear in mind all my works were hit by the fucking kudos bot fairy so they all have around 38 to 42 extra guest kudos that mean nothing.

Then I'd even recommend this Little Red Riding Hood one shot (mind the tags) over Star Wars.

Why, do you ask? Well, even if some of my best works are Star Wars, and some of the best fics I've read are also Star Wars... Well...

It's extremely dicey to recommend Star Wars as a fandom. I fell in the cauldron as a child, you see. Wore my French dubbed tapes down to nothing, rewatching the entire trilogy every day sometimes, in the summer holidays. I was *obsessed*. I had an articulated Jabba the Hutt toy ffs. Then I moved on, I suppose, even if I watched every film... I didn't read the comics, or the books. I played a couple prequels Play Station games but not the rest (games were forbidden on the side of the fam that raised me).

Then at the ripe age of like 29, I picked up the Thrawn novels out of curiosity, wanting more SW content that wasn't the hot trash sequels. It was like falling down a rabbit hole.

Now I've watched everything but rebels, played more games, read more comics, fell head first into the fanfic side of fandom, even picked up digital painting just to do fanart for it... But it's STILL A FUCKING CURSED FANDOM.

I can't, in good conscience, recommend it. I COULD give you exact pointers to watch stuff which I believe is super well done. I still feel like the Original Trilogy (OT) is an undying classic that you should watch because they're good and fun cinema. [Although I warmly recommend you pirate the original, non-CGI augmented version of the film, even if you have D*sney+. The CGI-redone version sucks ass]

But almost *everything else* that came out of SW is fucked one way or another. Shitty CGI or acting, childish dynamics, plot hole galore, problematic and insensitive attitudes on the creators' part, and most infuriatingly: derivative, cash grabbing, cameo ridden drivel packed in unoriginal storylines and foreeeverrrr more problematic shit. It's... Not *good* to be a SW fan. It's a fantastic universe, and the sand box offers so so soooo much.

But I don't write fics because the universe is so cool, like in Arcane. I write Star Wars fics because the canon, outside of the OT, has a tendency of being infuriating and broken. I write to fix. I read to fix. To expend on all the stuff they never bothered to cover.

We're always angry in the SW fandom, and D*sney is milking us in the most disrespectful way possible. I'm HATING the BoBF show, and I STILL have to watch it, and feel my fan soul crumple as they drag out my favourite characters in live action and make them look shit and do nonsense stuff. It's like a curse. Like I can't not watch, even though I wish I could.

*Sigh*

This being said... Some of my fics are easy to get into fandom blind... Watching the OT gives a good grasp of the universe. If you are the type who enjoys drinking while watching B movies, and/or have friends who are into SW... You could probably get yourself through the Prequel Trilogy. They're corny, look garbage (omg don't even try SW fans, I wear the shield of 60+ TCW era fics to my name) and the only two actors actually pulling their weight and having fun are Ian McDiarmid and Christopher Lee. BUT, the Story under the dumpster fire is excellent. The meme potential is very well known. My prequels meme folder is a place of endless tears of joy and I can always use it as a pick-me-up lol

There's potential. It's not a good trilogy, but it's a peak quality sandbox!

Next up, the Clone Wars TV series fills up so many blanks in that era and story... It entirely fixes the character of Anakin Skywalker, introduces undying loves like Ahsoka Tano and Cad Bane... But—again, always, forever with the BUT—the first 3 seasons are a slog, every episode featuring Padme or the droids is like sand paper to the brain. From season 4 onward it becomes a tolerable kid's show, and then all of a sudden you're hooked... And out of nowhere the final season is like "Hi, let me punch you in the fucking GUTS"

I have stoic guy friends who fucking cried in that finale. It also ends up looking gorgeous. So of course it lulls you in that false sense of security... Like you can finally enjoy some SW content without qualms... And then literally the next show you pick up slaps you in your damn fool face, and it feels sticky, so you rub your cheek and your fingers come off white and you go "Aaah yes, I was wearing my clown makeup"

So anyway... I'd LOVE to see you come fall down and suffer with us. There IS joy to be had in this fandom, and it's possible you'll find more for yourself than most, by virtue of not being one of the fans who were reared by a set of video tapes. Seeing Luke's character being put in a blender might not make you want to retch your soul out.

But I don't want to be the one who brings you down. I'd have less qualms luring you into the Hannibal fandom than SW. Or honestly I could point you towards single episodes, recaps, AMVs, or even just gif sets, that are all you really need to enjoy some of my works.

No matter what, I'm deeply, profoundly flattered by the emotion, anon, and I kiss you on the mouth and spin you around and show you all my blooming crops you've so thoroughly watered.