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I just realized I have created two very interesting side characters... And I can't talk about them yet because it's spoilers. Not only that but I now want to explore them more in the story, which is just me asking for trouble. I don't need any more chapters but the antagonistic relationship between these two is actually comparable to the problems between Griffin and Valtor on a certain level so now I do feel compelled to at least think more in-depth about them.
#fallen love#my wips#my writing#these ideas are popping#i just made an insane observation of the world but i have to think about it more before slapping it on the internet#anyway i may have just gained at least another chapter which i hope isn't the case#i like the structure i have so far#but i still have some gaps and i'll see where i can work in more about those two#oh btw they're technically both canonical characters but one of them barely appeared on screen and the other's only been mentioned#we don't have names for either one#not actual names#and i've covered the one that was just mentioned but the other one?#oh boy 😭😭😭😭
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Every time I see an author promoting their debut Greek mythology retelling on twitter I mourn the loss of like. To put in ineloquently. Just using these stories as inspiration for your own. Your story does not need to force itself to fit the shape of Orpheus and Eurydice it’s fine you can just allude to their story!! You can use their themes!! Nobody is going to arrest you for being allegorical instead of literal!! I might eat them alive at this point. It’s the only way.
#like I think you have lost the plot a bit if you follow up ‘retelling’ with a setting so far removed from the original story#that you actively struggle to fit your stolen characters into their original plot structure#also none of them know what feminism is but I digress
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DPXDC CFAU Headcanon: Ghostspeak Edition
Ghosts in the Infinite Realms who saw Jason and Danny together called them "luzdra", a term in ghost speak that directly translates into the words "shared soul". It's literal definition is; "two ghosts with a bond so deep that it was as if they had split their souls in half and given one to the other", but in general it just means two ghosts with a profound, indescribable bond.
Luzdrus is the singular form of the word, and refers to only one ghost in the bond. While "luzdra" is plural and either refers to both of them together, or the relationship as a whole. It depends on the context of the conversation and who they're saying it to.
There is no romantic, platonic, or familial connotation behind the word. It just means "someone who shares a deep bond with someone" and can be between anyone.
It also does not mean soulmate, and if you say that you'll be corrected. Soulmates implies that their bond was destined by the universe, luzdra are two people who developed and built that bond themselves. It's a relationship forged between two (or more) people.
Some of Danny's rogues -- like Kitty and Johnny, who might've seen the two together and are possibly luzdra themselves -- still call him 'luzdrus' even after Jason's disappearance from the Zone. Danny doesn't know how to feel about it.
#dpxdc#dpxdc crossover#dp x dc#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc headcanon#dp headcanon#ghostspeak#danny fenton is not the ghost king#childhood friends au#cfau#vehemently refuse to call cfau danny and jason soulmates because in my eyes it weakens the magnitude of their bond lsajfh.#they were forged in blood not stars#i dont have a written conlang yet for ghostspeak but this may just be the start of it. especially now that i've figured out HOW i wanna#set up the way the orthography and phonology is structured. 'luzdras' is the word 'shared soul' spelt backwards with the spelling changed#to look different while still keeping some of the original backwards sound. so i've got one part of the conlang structure set up so far#'lous derahs' -> 'lousderahs' -> 'lusdrahs' -> 'luzdrus'#then my friend Navistar helped me come up with the singular and plural form when i asked her for help#ghost speak is funky and imo doesn't always have a written way to describe a word. it's based on vibes and vibes alone. any word thats able#to be made out is accompanied with other sounds that drown it out. like static or ringing or beeping or glitching. lots of sound effect
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End of Empathy (time for violence)
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan jingyi#jin ling#lan sizhui#We are back to the present! Honestly I think I'm going to try and truncate the rest of this arc.#I LOVE yi-city and I really appreciate all of the support the yi-city lovers have given me. And the patience of those who aren't.#But it's been two months. And I need to move this along </3#Anyways; I love the start of ep 3 so much. The worried concern of the juniors is so cute#but the crown jewel by far is wwx responding like a parent that's very hungover but trying so hard to be nice about it#like 'shhh shhhh guys hi I'm up now. Can you keep the volume down. Can you get me some water and my sunglasses from the glovebox.'#and of course the incredible wham line of 'Xue Yang Must Die.'#'Is YX irredeemable? I'm pro 'everyone is capable of change and deserves a chance.' So Im of the camp of 'if he had the opportunity...maybe#The issue is that this setting has no structure to provide those opportunities. You are perceived as a threat therefor you must die#XY is a very interesting parallel to the YLLZ because they both meet the same fate: outsiders determining that they need to be killed#plus both did war crimes. I know it's easy to forget the YLLZ actually did do some of the things he was accused of (most wrong)#but wwx also has blood on his hands. He also sought revenge in pretty twisted ways. Both were given opportunities to step away and refused#The difference is that we empathize with and like XXC & SL and A-Qing. The Narrative says they were wronged and that is an injustice.'
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I don't think anything will ever be funnier than Banesaw's first of his only two sentences being, "Finally, I get to kill a Schnee," knocking Weiss unconscious in a single hit, then just chucking her into the next room so Blake can save her
#rwde#forever giggling and exasperated by this train sequence#this could have been avoided if it had been BLAKE fighting Banesaw and far more interesting too#they (presumably) had HISTORY. HE WANTED TO DRAG HER BACK INTO THE FOLD. THIS COULDVE BEEN PERSONAL#and literally NOTHING came out of a white fang member meeting a schnee so what was the FUCKING POINT SHAWLUNA#YOU DIDNT EVEN TRY#also im like 99% sure banesaw is just yatsuhashis model w a mask#anyway wtf was that train plot eh? was the purpose solely to cause chaos and destruction? wtf was the goal?#seriously early rwby schemes feel so random. reminds me of mcu thanos oddly enough#the way both cinder and thanos bip bopped between destruction for destructions sake and Big Smart Plan with Big Purpose is uh. Bad#and for the exact same reason: there was no structure or forethought in the writing process#also both were written by shitty men. i will fight the russos in a parking lot with nothing but my teeth#they absolutely shouldve been fired after civil war. absolute dogshit#do not ask me abt my mcu opinions i will never stop screaming#edit: forgot banesaw opened for roman at the white fang recruitment meeting so he has FIVE lines not two#two out of five lines are abt members of rwby yet neither amt to anything. yeehaw
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Furred Attempts at One's Self
#my art#my ocs#furry art#furry oc#AKA FURSONAS RAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH#I've been finally meaning to rip that bandage off and revist my hyena-sona and as you can see there's no time like the present!!#It's actually been a really refreshing and overall happy process so far and I'm happy to share these small bits of it hehe#This all came from the fact I'm getting into the habit of animal studies again and I felt like this would be a nice test of my knowledge#I'm still forever learning but I think I'm on the right path of capturing the face structure of a hyena and in turn other canviorous mammal#My furrysonas are also vessels to give myself bodymods I'm way to scare to get to I just keep winning hehe#Perhaps I'll look just as cool as this...so day#Also fun fact: The reason I choose a capybara as a sona is because I was a capybara in my friend's Cult of the Lamb playthrough hehe#Ever since I've been connected to the large wet rodents; and I wouldn't have it any other way#THAT AND THERE'S BARELY ANY REFERENCES FOR CAPYBARA PAWS HELP ME#I must make them accurate and yet the limits of search engines pain me#That and hyena noses are tricky to understand but I shall digress
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thinking about making a pack au where they actually stick closer to hyenas than whatever the fuck they did in that episode
bc uh he-LLO? hyenas are like... one of the BIG popular matriarchal animals and we just acted like xander was all scary now? pshh. I mean he was hyenas are scary but buffy is absolutely highest rank top dog here no wayyy he'd be all scary to her since they're already y'know a "pack" of sorts. like I'm pretty sure he'd still defer to her. plus willow! her making friends with buffy first and just generally being a girl he'd rank below her as well (though I do wonder where his stance with giles would be)
and I get that xander already sorta had a new clan with the other possessed kids but even then why was HE at the top of that hierarchy?? in fact it was so barely structured at all I'm only assuming xander was a high rank bc he's just one of our mains. and the shot of them all walking ofc where he was front and center I can read basic filmmaking choices lol
but also hyenas have FRIENDS! they have cliques and groups within their own clan. isn't that so cool? why did they just disregard xander's friendship with the scoobies? I think the fact xander had friends and quite loyal ones is like important? I mean okay I suppose it's all he's in this clan now he's cut ties with the scoobies, but to me at least I think that's kinda boring haha. though actually even if xander had the support of the scoobies, with how that clan were already a group before xander and not with xander at all, he'd actually probably be like real goddamn low anyways instead of more equal like it was shown
look I really have no idea about any of this I've just been looking up hyena facts for the past hour bc I thought it was neat. I simply think they should've done more with this instead of oo look xander's all feral and evil when they literally chose hyena to be their animal. like ooookay then whateverrrr lame
#they should've just done wolves or smth why the hell did they pick hyenas if they weren't even gonna play with their more unique structure#btw PACK? not CLAN? guys seriously re see above they just wanted to be different while still riding off of wolf girls#buffy IS the leader. highest of the high. top rank here. she's the alpha female since that is apparently what they're called lol#I just don't see why xander would Act like he did in that episode if we we're going off of hyenas and not some other predator#even if we go off the idea he broke ties with the scoobs as outsider females I think both wils and buff r still doing better than him#ANYWAYS. that's my two cents this episode was silly and I wish they'd had more fun playing with the animal they chose#someone with more spotted hyena knowledge should talk to me I'd LOVE to learn more I think these animals are so fucking cool#xander harris#btvs#buffy the vampire slayer#alright I did a little more googling and interesting! xander and wil might outdo buffy in the whole friendship department#so I THINK their clan WOULD have a far more level playing field simply because of how close everyone is. neat neat neat!#but buffy could still kick their asses be fr
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extremely questionable methodology but i compiled all the dialogue spoken between Shigaraki and Deku starting from when Shigaraki breaks out of AFO’s control in Chapter 379 up to Chapter 412.
(There are chapters where they appear but do not speak. Those are the chapter numbers.)
The takeaway is that Shigaraki is extremely chatty! A lot of it is taunts, but Shigaraki’s also revealing a lot of stuff about his plans and his opinions.
Deku does not seem as interested in returning the conversation, however. Whenever he does speak, it’s less in response to any of the content of Shigaraki’s chatter, and more heroic statements of intent. (The ‘you’re still human’ is the only direct refutation, I think.)
To be fair, his focus is all on surviving Shigaraki’s attacks. Nearly all his internal thoughts are strategy - combining a quirk with this quirk, how exactly he can physically stop Shigaraki. Additionally, before Chapter 410, he was probably too worried about All Might; while for most of Chapter 412, he was asphyxiating. Hard to chat when so much shit is happening.
And you can argue Shigaraki is just Villain monologuing. Deku doesn’t have to pay attention to anything he says - a lot which are, after all, taunts - he doesn’t have to engage with Shigaraki’s dumb rants.
His goal is to save Shigaraki/The Crying Child, and only that - not like talking or asking questions about anything or responding is required for that.
#nalslastworkingbraincell#not a real analysis#just shoddy observation#structure is another element#just because Deku doesn��t respond and just because his thoughts hold no reflection on Shigaraki’s word#doesn’t mean he’s not listening and saving it to memory for later#but it is disappointing to view on paper#the thing is i am not opposed to deku saving shigaraki#i am opposed to lackluster writing#’shredding the rug’ touched my shriveled heart#then it turned out to not be the actual meaning/translation#now team OFA is hoping to pry open a mental wound to strike directly at Shigaraki’s consciousness and presumably find Inner Tenko#because Deku isn’t getting through to Shigaraki#but ‘getting through’ so far is the dialogue we have up there#which i think was barely an attempt#so like#none of this is satisfactory#at this point why bother saving the guy#just knock him out and use Eri to revert him to the crying five year old#that’s essentially the same regard Deku has towards Shigaraki#not the actual person#but the inner child he saw inside
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wip wednesday
In the drifting silence of his empty apartment, Shen Wei presses the door shut, turns the lock. And then, like his body was waiting until he was alone, his legs give out. Shen Wei tips/topples against/into the wall, sinks down to sitting on the front mat/in the entryway. He sits there for a long time, curled into himself with his arms around his knees. The whole time, his body braced for the sound of Zhao Yunlan’s door opening, the sound of footsteps crossing the hall. Waiting, again, for Kunlun to return to him. But no sound comes from outside his door. At last, Shen Wei tips his head back against the wall, lets out a soft, streaming sigh. The sound trembles in the still air. It’s the closest he’s come to crying in years, that he can remember.
from the up draft of the answer fic. im cutting it veryyyyyy close to the deadline this time ahahaha (nervous!) but the writing is going relatively smoothly (knocks on wood) and i think it'll turn out pretty delicious!!
#weilan#shen wei#guardian#my fic#guardian bonus bingo 2024 prompt 5#wip wednesday#three days ................................. *cries a little bit*#its ok shockingly this feels ... doable. i also did structure this fic to be VERY striaghtforward for me:#sw pov / not much worldbuilding or plot / lots of flashback + canon constraints / no new characters / canon weilan#which IS a skill i wanted specifically to work on through guardian bingo this year so i'm quite happy with this!#i was thinking about this yesterday and in december 2023 it took me about a month to write 'the beginning of devotion' (roughly 3.8k)#and now it will be taking me about a week and a half to write this guy (roughly 3.2k)#without having to sacrifice process very much! i'm starting to learn where i can cut corners which is hehe. awesome#achieved at the expense of. much shrieking and interruption of various necessary rhythms of life haha. but. kind of cool to me#i might do a reflection post about how i think my process has changed this year bc it's definitely different (at least a little) than dec'2#it feels like. yknow. like i've figured out how to do the basic steps and now i'm adding flourishes and stuff#ok enough rambling lol if u've read this far i salute you
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In my Saltmarsh game with my brother,
his character has all but agreed to attend the grand end-of-the-year ball in the city.
DO YOU KNOW THE MATERIAL THIS GIVES ME TO WORK WITH?
#Allllll the dramatic possibilities! All the comedy! Allllll the social structures and relationships! My brother and I actually took ballroom#dancing lessons growing up though most of the dances we went to were in gyms. But we both have that point of reference to work with#and he also enjoys historical dramas sometimes so we've got that too.#You better believe I am curating the playlists for that scene song by song. Ordinarily I just spur of the moment find a random soundtracky#playlist on Spotify that sounds like it will suit the mood. But I am going to handcraft at least three playlists for this session so that n#matter what direction the story takes it will be the atmosphere I'm going for.#OOOOHH and my brother's character has an old sweetheart in his backstory who has not even been mentioned in this campaign so far#Could it be possible she's also going to this dance?#But more to the point I do not care what happens - Anders - my fav npc - absolutely needs to make it to this event because#I need all my favourite things in this scene.#ghosts of saltmarsh
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for me the "Miguel as a cult leader or the ruling class" readings start to fall apart the second you try and argue for there being actual material based relations between the characters, or being able to successfully segregate the spider society into a very basic upper class/under class (labour force) structure.
because like. you don't accidentally end up with these kinds of power structures. they're function as they do in order for power and material resources to flow a certain way and pool amongst certain groups of people. but trying to apply that to spider society honestly just falls apart for me the second you try interogate that reading.
the key point is miguel doesn't materially benefit at all from the labour of spider society - he IS part of their labour, and the only thing that labour contributes towards is limiting the danger of villians running around. He runs around on missions personally and does what looks like admin work monitoring the Spot, as well as reviewing missions and delegating additional workload to other people as a leader. this is not a guy utterly removed from anything we can try classify as "labour".
Even if you want to argue his "material benefit" (very much stretching the definition lmao) to operating the society is social legitimisation of his own spiderman identity (something he seems to be self conscious of, if exploding at Miles in the train chase seems to be any indication) by virtue of the good he's doing, that starts to fall apart the moment you consider miguel has functionally isolated himself from that structure. in what we're shown, he doesn't engage at all in a casual manner with the wider society. he's holed away in his lab feeling sad and guilty - both emotions atsv takes specific care to portray in a way that highlights their genuine nature, by virtue of him always grieving alone and away from the eyes of others.
The very fact that he doesn't engage in a system he built to help spideys, that he doesn't take advantage of something that can help share the emotional burden he's bearing, forms the basis for the suppressed resentment he offloads onto miles ("And all this time, I have been the only one holding it all together!"). This character feels functionally isolated in his emotional burden BECAUSE he's isolated himself, because he doesn't confide in others. he does not materially benefit from spider society (aka his position as leader is not bound or enforced by something like wages, nor do you get a sense anyone else in the society views him that way) nor does he socially benefit from them, because he's isolated himself from engaging with them.
#long post#also like. while i can see it as a valid reading i dont think miles and co having to walk all the way to the lab was miguel pulling a power#move. i think him not facing miles while hes lowering the platform IS because hes being an asshole. but the distance from his lab to the#rest of the society actually speaks far more to me about miguel's isolation. hes physically AND emotionally distanced from the rest of the#society. and the physical distance subtly reinforces the emotional distance#so while i can see where that reading comes from. i personally disagree w it and think of the distance being more indicative of how isolate#this character is from his own structure#tunes talks spiderverse
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I do think a lot of the exploration of "what it means to be a woman" in Barbie was very heteronormative focused. Which like...didn't bother me much but it did mean that America's big speech made me check out a bit because it didn't resonate. It mostly reminded me of all of the "being a woman is suffering" straight feminism I see that always makes me be like huh...can't relate so while she was going on I was just like...man in all honesty being a straight woman seems like it suuucckksss glad I don't have all That. Glad it resonated with other people.
#barbie#i guess being A Woman is so far down on the things i focus a lot of my self ID on that i have trouble relating to a LOT of -gestures- that#i have other criticisms mostly in that I THINK the main gender focus of the movie was on how like#any power structure based on gender and a society that dictates how genders relate is gonna hurt everyone#but tbh i think they tried grappling too much stuff so some of it got muddled#like uh#i took the barbies manipulation of the kens as a toxic femininity thing relating to women becoming manipulative and hurtful as 'empowerment'#but ngl i cant say for sure that the narrative actually condemns it?? it was rushed#i loved it but also i think its a movie where like...if youre into it youre into it#and that may depend on what flavor of Gender Shit you take away from it#and its hard to pick out what flavor the movie wants you to take
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i feel like this site leaning heavily into the "pedophilia and incest and rape kinks are good" angle lately can be attributed to the mass expulsion of sex workers and black ppl on here ngl
#like gonna be honest these r the two groups that have far more of an understanding of how these r linked to colonialism and exploitation -#to be able to wholeheartedly oppose them w/out hesitation#like if youre a sex worker you'll likely see farrrrr more clients who are total strangers specifically seeking out children#by virtue of trying to protect said children in whatever way that you can#its easy to form opinions in the abstract if you straight up do not witness these events time and time and time again#and thinking about my ancestry + history of black exploitation especially against black children ...#i dont fully buy into the idea of 'these are exclusively issues of the nuclear family structure'. FAR more nuanced than that#as of the current society we live in.. the very family dynamic is one of inescapable relationships#if you can imagine how hard it can be when two people in a relationship have a lot of overlaps in friends have an awful break up#a relationship within the family would be much harder to reckon with. you cant just pack it up and walk away so easy#most of the ppl on here defending this shit do not even buy into it for themselves. it is entirely for roleplay purposes#they can put it away when theyre done#no disgust isnt always a good moral informant. but i will say i felt appauled reading the words 'incest fans' said in a cutesy way#ppl seem to misunderstand when black bloggers say incest kinks are a white ppl thing#what they mean is white ppl never have to reckon with the TRUE magnitude of power imbalances. it's treated like a fucking game#you never had to stand and feel the weight of knowing your ancestors are lighter than before because of the countless times white slave -#- owners raped them
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This house doesn’t really talk a lot of game.. which to be fair last season was kind of insane in the first couple weeks. Cirie , Izzy Felicia would literally flip the votes every five seconds so I know that’s not how it normally goes but this cast is so…. Sometimes this cast gives me a little bit love Island vibes, but without the fun and drama lol .
#tbh I still like this season so far#There has been fun moments of course#competitions have been really good#However every time I turn on the feeds#People are talking about who has a crush on who? Love triangles blah blah blah.#like???#But I just feel like there’s not a lot of active players this season making structure in the house if that makes sense#it’s so early days but yeah these are just my random thoughts#Would love to know other peoples thoughts on the season so far#bb26#cbs big brother#big brother
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I struggled so much to plot out this book structure and after like five versions finally ended up breaking it into seven sections, and as I'm going into the final two, I've realized that in the end, it's broken down by accident (or instinct) into a perfect three act structure.
As it turns out you can take the writer out of the screenplay but you can't take the screenplay out of the writer.
#megs is writing#hilariously it is sorta seven act structure if you squint but not really. starts too in media res for that honestly.#but that's fine cuz fuck a seven act structure. all my homies hate the seven act structure#anyway ANOTHER SECTION DOWN LET'S GOOO#I have somehow maintained my ~1000 word daily goal so far this month!#I think I'm actually a little over but hard to say cuz I don't remember the exact word count to start#which like. I think that's healthy of me. considering my previous number counting habits.#and I really am like. so on track to finish this this month. thank FUCK
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john wick really does make me get the whole action movie thing. there's something very comforting about watching your favorite guy get in the equivalent of a car crash four times in a row and still get up afterward. especially when that special guy has sad eyes and wears a little suit
#turns out i'm a red blooded american male who likes action movies they just had to get me an action guy who loved his wife#anyway john wick 2 very enjoyable so far. fantastic visuals#do they have a fun little club scene in every john wick movie? cause if so i'm absolutely delighted by that#thinking very hard about narrative structure with these movies but i will come back to that later.#very fun to play around with a character who is already very well established in the world they operate in. very cool#valentine notes#john wick
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