#i cannot with these companions

[metanarrates]

an artist is a director of audience reaction, not its dictator. if you know your craft well, you can make most of your cues hit, but in the end, interpretation of art is up to the viewer. you cannot guarantee that everyone viewing your work will react as you are trying to make them react. a good artist knows that this is what allows works to breathe. by definition, you cannot have art where the viewer brings nothing to the table. you do have to respect both the generative and interpretive ends of the process if you want your art to mean anything.

this is why you have to let go of the urge to plainly state in-text exactly how you think the work should be interpreted. that desire for control conveys disrespect for audience. if you have developed your storytelling skills well enough, the audience will understand what you are trying to communicate without needing you to intercede as authorial voice. sure, some won't get it, but it's better to be misinterpreted sometimes than to talk down to your audience. you won't even gain any control that way; people will still develop their opinions no matter what you do. just find a way to communicate your ideas and hope that it comes across well to your audience at some point

[arcane-gold]

(crawls out of the cc 4 hours later, covered in blood) here’s my rook, Rel Aldwir, veiljumper extraordinaire <3

[vaguely-concerned]

fun detail I only put into context after seeing the post-fade jail romance scenes with all the companions: lucanis is the only one where rook is surprised when they realize he's there as he starts talking, because they didn't hear him come in haha. (Bellara and Neve knock before entering, like relatively normal people fhsda. Harding's scene starts in medias res but from the staging my vibe is that she and Rook entered the room together. Taash walks into the room ahead of Rook. Davrin comes in through a door left open for him -- Rook is standing with their back turned but they clearly expected him, they just smile a bit and don't seem surprised. Emmrich of course takes you to the Grand Necropolis for the top goth hookup since Mary Shelly fucked on her parents' graves, the man quite simply never misses.)

lucanis has also closed the door behind him without rook noticing. old assassin habits die hard I suppose lol. he totally still accidentally jumpscares the others without meaning to all the time because he moves around quietly when he doesn't think about it, I know this in my heart. I wonder if he was just... looking at them for a while before he spoke up.

[arachnestwilight]

Big day for autistic people everywhere (it's me, I'm autistic people everywhere).

[beetlethebug]

i am still thinking about rook choking emmrich and buying them jewelry for that purpose. but i am now ALSO thinking about an emmrich x rook x lucanis polycule. getting up to the same shenanigans.

lucanis has a line about spending four hours in the market because his cousin wanted to buy gloves to impress a woman. imagine these two spending hours wandering various markets looking for the perfect rings and bracelets to adorn rook's hands. the two of them bickering about style before realizing rook has two hands so they can each decorate one as they please. spite being very, very insistent that he gets to pick one. and since lucanis is annoyed about it, emmrich lets him pick a ring on his behalf for rook, too.

and while perhaps it started for rook, the two of them start buying jewelry for each other, too.

and while it starts with hands, i'm sure it evolves into necklaces and earrings and all sorts of accoutrement. lucanis buying emmrich an earring set stylized to like a wisp from the necropolis. rook buying the ugliest, chunkiest emerald ring because it reminded them of manfred's eyes. emmrich finds a piece that resembles all the bones in a person's hand and rook and lucanis get into a fight about who gets to wear it first. spite's picks in jewelry being surprisingly deep and meaningful. rook picking out jewelry with little pockets for poisons or stylized to look like wyvern's for lucanis. emmrich commissioning a skull pin similar to his but in the shape of a crow's for when lucanis has to do more formal work.

i am just. having many thoughts about jewelry as a love language.

emmrich has rook and lucanis' left hands, lucanis has the right for emmrich and rook, and rook gets one of each :)

[mohntilyet]

continued rook-lucanis sketches from the last week or so <3

[sp3akfromtheart]

doctor who writers have this horrible skill of being able to write the worst episodes of a show you've ever seen and simultaneously making you cry your eyes out x

[grandadtwelve]

ive always held the belief that the doctor, upon making ashildr immortal, somehow managed to find one of the few beings in existence who would not and will not ever get along with jack harkness.

the ashildr and jack in my brain fucking HATE each other and I find it so fucking funny. jack and clara? besties, lovers, soulmates, have exchanged wedding rings. ashildr and clara? besties, partners in crime, unrequited childhood crush to closest friend and confidant. jack and ashildr? literally what is wrong with you you’re so annoying I hate you why the fuck am I stuck here with you of all goddamn people I wish you would die and stay dead thank god my memory doesn’t last forever so I don’t have to be tortured by every irritating thing you’ve ever done oh my god you’re so boring what did you get clara for her birthday are you coming early to the party to help set up yes okay great fuck you bye

[solasfenheral]

vg is a game that should be saturated in religion and faith and politics and yet - (I am yanked off stage by a comically large cane)

[theviewer]

Hey, wouldn't it be super creepy if Arthur's eyes -under John's control- kept moving after he got his abdomen opened up and died? Like

Imagine a corpse who can move one of it's forearms and had it's eyes scanning the surroundings as if in a panic

[trappedinafantasy37]

POV: Your evil murder kitten's mask has slipped and you can see how deep she is drowning in fear and paranoia.

[ducks-love-peas]

Then you tell me that you want to do this. You look me in the eye and tell me.

[denebrye]

*confused in wild magic*

[vaguely-concerned]

lmao if you're a mourn watch (and possibly other urban-ish based backgrounds too I'm not sure?) mage, when you get the scene with strife coming to pick up emmrich for their date (bless) and he says that 'the thing about your friend is that for a city mage, he isn't afraid to play in the mud' thing, rook puts up the faux big wounded eyes and protests 'hey, I'm a city mage! 🥺'. (to which strife says 'well we can't all be perfect' and stone cold walks away. king. have fun out there with the lightning bugs and your lanky fancylad I've seen his fully unleashed rizz in action and you're a lucky guy <3<3<3)

[expectiations]

the Doctor: I do what I want! Nardole: I’m telling River. the Doctor: No, wait-

[marshymarge]

screaming crying puking shitting pissing why doesnt anybody love farkas why does everyone shit all over him why do they agree with his baseless self-deprecation why why why why why