#i have no idea of what i want to do for the storyline

[cepheusgalaxy]

OHOHOHOHO

Cws: abuse, manipulation, vioelence mention and transphobia, dubcon mentions

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OK, so the one who has Ex Baggage out of all of my WIPs is Kaiki. He was one of the earliest ones I did for Ein, and I was much more into exploring bad romantic relationships back then. I still kept it because it's fun (although i considered erasing that lore for a while)

I still have yet to settle for a good and consisten timespan and timeline, but he has had two partners in the past

He is greyaro, AND he was romance-favorable at the time, so he really wanted to date. (He started dating after he came out [as trans])

His first girlfriend was a bi girl called [lemme check her name in my old files real quick coz i haven't made an updated doc yet] Maliene

Ok, so, Mali was a pretty shitty person. She was like, violent and also treated him like a girl. He was very scared of breaking up with her so his family helped him.

After that, his new boyfriend was a gay guy named Lois.

Lois was way more subtly violent. He never beat Kaiki nor misgendered him often (when he did it was genuinely accidental) and he was so manipulative

He'd give out threats and ask Kaiki things like "come on, it's not like I am like your previous girlfriend. Do you want me to be like her or what?" And like the whole gaslight gatekeep mansplain pack

Extra notes:

In general the experiences were both so terrible he quit dating and is VERY romance repulsed.

And sex repulsed as well

He did not have very nice first times or like, any times with any of them

I actually have a whole doc of what Lois' and Kaiki's interactions would be like. Like, dialogue lines and everything

I was coming up with a proper backstory for Lois when I first quit the idea, but I know he A. Is white and B. His family is from the south of the country C. Hes a very good-looking, black hair + blue eyes boy

This came from the era were Kaiki was bi (i think i also called him Ravi back then)

One of my plans from back then (still being revamped) was that later Lois would become a magician and show up in the storyline. Didn't evolved this one much

I had a very clear scene of how the Mali x Kaiki breakup went

Originally this was gonna go to lead to a subplot where Kaiki and the character that'd become Lis would have a beautiful friendship and the story would say that you don't need romantic relationships to be happy, even if you are alloromantic

how many Exes/Ex-Situationships does your oc have? Do they still talk or interact with any of them?

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[watchyourbuck]

okay i feel like i have one more thing to say tonight and that is that the fact that im a buddie endgame shipper does not mean i am not saddened and upset about the way they went with the bucktommy breakup. ive been trying for months now to remain impartial in the whole fandom war bc i genuinely feel like they are useless. as a multishipper, i like to see my characters happy, no matter if it breaks one or even my main ship. but the way they did this, in my humble opinion, that could very easily not be yours, was bad writing, rushed, and to some extent distasteful. if the story gradually moved towards a breakup that made sense, i would've grieved the ship ive thoroughly enjoyed since april, but i would've understood (and i know some fellow bt shippers feel the same, even if they dont partake in buddie) ((also, yes, im aware we're just on ep6)), but to me, tonight's ep felt like a testament that they, in fact, have no idea where they're going with the storyline. i wish to believe we shouldnt take the interviews to heart, as we've been lied to and played with before, but i also can't help but feel disappointed. they (tim particularly) painted this couple as some sort of lighthouse for buck. yes, new and exciting, but also, beautiful and consensual and not in some weird gratitute exchange. do not get me wrong, i am in love with the way they're slowly but surely moving towards the queer eddie-possible buddie arc bc yes, that is what i wanted from the very beginning, but i also feel like we lost a very important, very pioneer ship that meant a lot for the community - viewed from a media representation pov, of course - in the most graceless way possible. if the plan was to break them up all along, for buck to end up with someone else, whoever that may be, they could've handled it with more delicacy. i hope im wrong and they give them a proper ending, should that be the case.

[vapolis]

So that rockstar thingy does sound interesting, but i hope that mc will not just become or try to become a rockstar as well, cause honestly there are already a few of them with mc becoming a rockstar. I myself would find it interesting if we maybe could instead decide that mc would want to become an actor or an journalist or novelist/author or maybe something else entirely yk.

Of course it is your story so please don't feel the need to do shit, but i wanted to give my pov for inspiration maybe idk, please don't feel attacked etc. by this here

I'm not sure yet what mc wants to become! I agree that there are some great IFs with a focus on musician mcs and that it would be repetitive to go the same way but I also kind of like the idea of mc not knowing what they want to be themself. that that's their storyline. they want to be more, but they don't know what.

I also kind of like the idea of mc trying music or there being different options (music, design, writing etc) but I'll have to see when I get to that part.

for now I kind of think it'll be more a story of finding oneself/becoming independent/outgrowing someone's shadow than a clear path to stardom like we've seen a couple times by now :)

[bezkinechnanudga]

It wasn't bad, I liked the vibes of the dinner party of Baron and Sire, Camarilla style to me. As for the main course, which is nandermo drama, I am so on Nandor's side in this it's ridiculous. The sole fact that Guillermo has betrayed Nandor in this manner but still has a nerve not only to basically still live in their residence but also to go on rants about his "loyalty" while it was really just a poorly concealed greed for vampiric power fantasy to cope with his real life, it makes me very angry. And the second he understands that he may not get it from Nandor at all, he steals money and offers some random neonate to turn him. So, his loyalty is that of a mercenary.

Also, in the episode where Guillermo fires Nandor, and familiar can not put himself to do so, while being immensely happy about destroying company with thousands of factory workers made me lose my shit completely. And the fact is, this guy has always been like that. He was luring victims, he was disposing of corpses, he has killed dozens of vampires without so much as a (at least, depicted) doubt that it may be too much for him until the moment he really became a vampire. He really is a definition of "goal justifies the means," and when he needs to kill for his own survival and not beautiful idea of flying in bat form or whatever he may have dreamed of, he gives up and doubts whether it was actually worth it. It is not a bad plot, and it's an interesting storyline, but the character of Guillermo, while being complex, has a plot armor so big that instead of flawed morally gray character, we have power fantasy vampire hunter that is always correct and right and good and when he isn't, he gets away with it anyway.

And Nandor was partially trying ti address it, but alas, the narrative is fully on the side of Guillermo de la fucking Cruz and we need to understand that he's just found a new purpose in life, being familiar assistant to the vampire warlord ceo of some scummy corporation who swears in try to be down to earth, but in result just looks like a rebellious teenager. Oh boy, what a brave new world for Guillermo.

P.S. By all means, I do not think that his decision to become human again was wrong or that he has no right to do so. It also applies to his job. He may do whatever he wants, I don't care. But the fact that he hasn't been held (and probably it will never happen) accountable for all bullshit that he did throughout the series makes me so mad that I don't even know if I want to watch it.

P.P.S. @baronafanas002 Do forgive me for this rant in your post, I was just pretty much disappointed to see that in the end, Nandor just forgives and forgets for hell knows what time now.

What we do in the shadows s6 e5: Nandors army

[eddiediazenjoyer]

can i speak. i think that eddie Catholic Guilt is hard to believe and dare i say. not real. for many reasons. one of them being Not All Latinos Have Catholic Guilt especially not in the way that white catholics conceptualize it. and TO ME it’s a bit of a cop out . and i don’t think we should believe eddie when he says that’s the reason for literally anything bc it’s a really convenient excuse for being insane and repressed but i just don’t think it’s true . and i think that something much more nuanced is afoot (aka a complex racial identity and relationship with expectation).

to me he was really like. barely raised catholic tbh. he was raised AROUND folk/cultural catholicism which ofc impacted how he was raised and his perspective. but this kind of catholicism is so different from institutionalized (and white) catholicism it's difficult to even compare the two. and i honestly don’t think that the catholicism is the main problem. like his parents just don’t strike me as being devout in the way that imparts guilt onto their children (they have fun OTHER ways to do this). i think they are traditional and crucially. catholic when it’s convenient and when it allows them an avenue for control (biggest example here is eddie getting pressured into getting married to the girl he impregnated as a teenager.) but to me. this stemmed from complex cultural traditions and beliefs. which catholicism is an easy simple explanation for . but isn’t really the root of the problem. it's a part of it ofc but honestly i think things are often ascribed solely to catholicism bc catholic guilt is a widely applicable perspective when it honestly doesn't make much sense. like i think that eddie being a mixed race mexican-american has more to do with anything than catholicism does. and again. these things are interwoven. but not in a way that it makes sense to blame capital c Catholicism for things where culture (and cultural catholicism) makes way more sense as an explanation

like ik that eddie talks about how he was raised going to mass every sunday etc etc. but even the way he says that he just... stopped... says so much. like the fact that he was even allowed to do that tells me that his parents honestly never really cared that much about that kind of devotion. and the way he talks about it really makes it sound to me like he was one of those kids that never really bought into it at all and so the institutionalized teachings of the church never really got to him. what did get to him however is the folk catholicism/mexican-american teachings of Right and Wrong (aka you get somebody pregnant you commit to them. you feel emotions you tamp them down in order to protect others etc.) and this is not necessarily Catholicism in it's classic conception.

i have no idea if this makes sense and it is really hard to explain how this interplay works if you haven't grown up in it but basically.... hegemonic constructions of catholicism are vastly different from the kind of "catholicism" that i think eddie was raised in. and bc of that i think that "catholic guilt" is a weak explanation for eddie's perspective and best and just. inaccurate at worst. and we should NEVERRRR listen to eddie when he gives too clean of an explanation for his repression. that man is a liar

[sonknuxadow]

remembering when the covers for the issue where amy and surge first interacted were coming out and people were saying they wanted surge to fall in love with amy at first sight and immediately decide to change so she can be with her . as in actually wanting that to happen in the comic not just as a fanfic thing . and sorry not to be a hater but i can't be the only one who thinks that surge suddenly becoming good because romance kind of would of sucked right .... like idk that just doesnt sound like a very good direction to take the story . sorry .

[amelikos]

The RVT and Explorers are similar in this arc in that both groups are currently split and their respective members are acting separately but while we know that the RVT will eventually come back together more united than ever and that they are all working towards a common goal, I wonder if the same thing will happen to the Explorers...

I feel like this current arc is starting to put cracks in their group and highlights that some of them have their own motivations which aren't necessarily compatible with the main goal of the organization (Spinel seemingly having his own separate agenda, Agate having her own thoughts, etc), so I wonder if they'll really stay together going forward..

[lunar-years]

The JackKeeley story would have been vastly improved imo if they had actually used it as a mechanism to explore Keeley's headspace with both her 3-season cycle of crumbling relationships and her struggles with her job. Like, yeah Jack was definitely...something... as a character. Incredibly unlikable, obviously. A conservative elitist bitch who saw Keeley as someone she needed to hid to protect her own image, absolutely. Lauding Keeley around the office and showering her with gifts in this weird peacocking of their power imbalance, yes. And then to top it off she went and decided to victim blame her girlfriend after Keeley refused to do what Jack wanted her to do/"risked" Jack's precious reputation. All of which was completely gross, and it was unpleasant to watch, and I totally get why people hate it on that alone. BUT Jack was a Plot Device character, which I personally could probably have gone along with so long as she like...actually serviced an arc worth telling with a satisfying conclusion, anddd that's where the show lost me.

I think the writers sort of tried to do something interesting with it, what with showing how depressed and spiraling Keeley got after that breakup and maybe making half a reference to her abandonment issues and having her panic over the loss of her funding. But, rather than the end result being Keeley grasping hold of her own life and taking space to reexamine what she actually wants out of both her relationships and career, she... immediately falls back into old patterns (by sleeping with Roy despite not wanting to get back together with him just to feel something or whatever, which is then never explicitly addressed as a bad move or ill advised behavior) and gets her business back by...virtue of having a rich friend who can swoop in with several thousand pounds and fix all her problems (i cannot begin to tell you how much I loathed Rebecca fixing everything for her instead of Keeley finding her own path back). At the VERY LEAST I wish she had gotten the opportunity to process the things that had happened to her in that relationship and how damaged she clearly felt by it, lean on her friends for emotional support and healing (rather than having them pull out their wallets and immediately problem solved), and have an honest and frank conversation with Roy about how he, too, hurt her and his apology wasn't good enough and wasn't going to fix everything immediately. That's what Keeley deserved.

Which is all to say, I definitely did not enjoy Jack or the JackKeeley relationship, but I would've been willing to forgive a lot if including her had felt like...purposeful? Instead (like Zava & Shandy and a lot of things in s3 tbh) it just felt like she was taking up a bunch of screen time while not furthering Keeley (the main character we are all very invested in and actually care about) at all in her journey. Instead the show just kept kicking Keeley while she was down and then at the end everything was magically grand again with Keeley having next to no real agency in any of it. That's why keeley's s3 storyline was so damn bad (Jack included).

[citrlet]

last night i actually got back into writing after probably a year? of not having any motivation to and it's so exciting but god i'm so rusty akfjdks

[stylezxsilvermoon]

! yall I been trying to get my feet on the ground and start posting actively but my anxiety has been terrible af and plus working on this colby fic (planning mostly) has been my main priority bc I have alot of ideas and I just needed to sort them out! Tbh I feel like everything is honestly going how it should I'm just gonna let nature take its course and not rush myself, but when I have something to post it'll be here for sure!

[sweetandglovelyart]

I didn’t have time to draw something for Halloween, so here’s this old drawing I did a while ago of Meta Knight as Captain Picard/Locutus of Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation that I feel somewhat fits the Halloween theme. I call him Locutus of Borb.

[violentdevotion]

wait do you have a fav boys character yet ?

i really like butcher but i feel like that's a basic answer and also the wrong answer. in another world id like frenchie but i can't get over how much i hate the actor. I love maeve theres never a moment she's on screen where im thinking get this woman outta here she's always entertaining to me. i like starlight but (and this is probably a bit nasty to say) there's smth a little uncanny valley about her sometimes where when she's talking im not listening but staring at her face trying to see what features throwing me off. I hate ashley but the actress played an insufferable character in jessica jones too and I really appreciate her ability to play The Most annoying woman you know.

centrist answer i like them all (except stormfront. hated her before i even knew she was a nazi. she was on insta live and i was waiting for her to explode and die) but my fave would have to be butcher bc i find im rooting for him the most and constantly justifying his actions. but sometimes karl urbans accent pisses me off. also black noir but he doesn't Do anything so it's hard to have him as a fave bc he's barely there.

[tommygettingwrittenoff]

i need 911 to make henren happy and then leave them the fuck alone

[roostertuftart]

Also, and in complete fairness I haven’t seen this said yet, but if anyone does think it’s OOC for Kyle and Tolkien in this episode (as I do see on a surface level an argument for it being so since both of them are not particularly known for indulging in kinda “silly” stuff) I think, idk. Consider reevaluating the characters a bit. Assume you’re wrong in your interpretation of them before assuming it’s the creator’s who don’t know what they’re doing! I’m not saying Matt and Trey are flawless about character consistency by any means, but I do think they’d be proven to put a lot of care and effort into characterization especially recently and especially with the kids. There’s a number of reasons this makes sense for both Kyle and Tolkien and may not seem obvious at first, not to mention they are still just cringey kids above being the serious “mature” ones in their groups and it makes sense they’d be silly sometimes or indulge in fun things like TikTok, cringey or not. It’s honestly really nice to see them do so, especially with their personalities not changing otherwise, because it creates so much more of a well grounded basis for them as characters. Real people are never the serious ones all of the time, and honestly that’s never even exactly what Tolkien and Kyle were written to be!

They’ve always had less serious sides, had moments where they placed the less elegant and mature part for fun, and we see that here in such a real way. We see them goofing off and making fun stupid videos and enjoying the attention and making of them, and taking it seriously and Whatnot- But we also still see them being themselves in the same vein outside of when they’re making their videos which is natural and really nice! Nothing has changed ultimately! It’s just a new side to them both and I love seeing them just be… Happy! Relaxed! Chill! And indulging in an interest they found they shared and loving each other’s company. It’s really sweet!

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Forget about gritting your teeth through someone's media analysis that is egregiously incorrect. Some character/story analyses I see on here are literally just verbatim re-tellings of what happened in the story - the literal things you are supposed to understand, and the connections you're supposed to make to get what is happening - and they're phrased as crazy theories or analyses. And I just want to scream, because no, you're not weird or 'reaching' for coming to that conclusion, that is quite literally the exact thing the story was trying to tell you. You are stating blatant fact as some incredible discovery. Like that person who thought Lucy Gray Baird saying she was 'going to find Katniss' was "an accident" or maybe they were crazy. But I guess everyone's gotta start somewhere, even if you think saying 'did anyone else ever realise that Darth Vader's theme plays when Anakin does something evil???' is some mind-blowing observation. Like, shit, in a world where media literacy is so sorely lacking, quite literally witnessing a story and noticing details of it is considered analysis. Whatever.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

as a follow up to the Kokiri Emerald conversation: I think I'm leaning on Link finding it back in his pocket after the jump back in time for Thralls in particular, that way I don't have to introduce the kokiris in the story and that simplifies the conflict (and even allows me to replace the McGuffin I needed for a specific moment in the story with the Emerald, which would make that moment so much more impactful). A fact that is always appreciated.