#i miiiiiight make this a series

[incorrectpizza]

Hah. So. The one-shot I posted the first day of @sabezraweek? It's uh. Not a one-shot anymore. Behold, the sequel, in which Sabine discovers a record of Ezra's time on Peridea:

Story also down below for anyone who wants to read here.

Ezra’s pod is small, but as Sabine explores it, it almost feels cavernous. There’s things everywhere.

A stockpile of dried and cured foods that the Noti taught him to preserve. Weapons he made from whatever he could salvage: stormtrooper blasters and rifles, wood, a strange metal that the Noti used that never grew cold , even on the rare days when the weather grew sour. And there are books. Made from some sort of animal skin, if her hunch is correct. Stitched together with thin, sinewy thread, pages surprisingly sturdy. 

The first one she finds, sitting on a ledge next to the pod’s tiny, Noti-sized second bed, is  a book of Noti bedtime stories. 

���Youongling’s Fables, A Collection of Noti stories as transcribed by Ezra Bridger.”

There’s a total of three charming little tales, each one accompanied by a symbol - some small splash of color signaling the beginning of a new story. Sabine studies them carefully. One is a simple  green circle with uneven splotches throughout - a planet? Another, a silhouette of a Howler, deep navy blue, just a hint brighter and more saturated than Ezra’s hair. The third, though, catches her breath. It’s a Jedi symbol. She reads this story first. 

It’s about the first Jedi to meet the Noti - not Ezra, but some old man in the distant past. The man died protecting the Noti from The Great Mother, a corrupted Force being the Jedi sentenced to ten thousand years of captivity in the mountains. Did this have anything to do with Baylan’s search? His quest for power? Sabine wonders, setting aside the book. She’ll show it to Ahsoka when she gets back from the hunt.

On Ezra’s little workbench, she finds three more books: all blank, waiting for words to fill them. Near the hatch, alongside a few odd “pots” and “pans,” she finds a “cookbook.” It has a dozen recipes, from “Noti Stew DO NOT EAT” to “Peridean Loth-Pie” to “Actually Edible Noti Soup.” She chuckles a bit and makes a mental note to show Ahsoka this one, too. Maybe they can find something that they can stomach once their ration bars are finished. 

And then, as she’s straightening up the other side of the sleeping quarters, she finds two books sitting by Ezra’s bed. The first one she picks up is a “journal.” Each entry is printed in small Aurebesh - so small Sabine puts on her helmet to magnify the words. Ezra must’ve learned quickly that books are harder to make than they look, Sabine muses.

The first page proclaims the book “Jedi Padawan Ezra Bridger’s Journal of A Galaxy Far, Far Away, Volume Five. Noti Nomadic Village, Peridea. Approximately 10 years after the Liberation of Lothal.”

Each page has multiple entries, almost but not quite daily. Most are mundane, ordinary. Sabine reads every single word of every single entry.

“Day 3,547. Jynt and I came up with a new way to attach the ropes to the pods today. Moving them is going to be a lot easier now.” Always ingenious.

“Day 3,574. I discovered a new species today. A little purple and orange caterpillar. I hereby dub it Sabineus Wrennius .” Sabine laughs and flips the page. 

“Day 3,631. I got to scare two night troopers today.” Still a prankster.

“Day 3,650. I really want to go home.” Sabine closes her eyes and sighs. He’s home now, she knows. She should be happy. And yet-

She wishes he were with her. Here. Or home. She misses him deeply, and it’s only been seventeen cycles. She finishes the book, which breaks off mid-entry. 

“Day 3,674. Nothing excitin-”

Was that when he heard my Howler in the distance? Sensed me in the Force? Or was he interrupted on another day and just never bothered to finish?

She closes the book, vowing to ask him one day about that last entry.

Then she opens the second book, the one tucked underneath. It’s tied shut with a thick cord.

She unties it and flips it open. The first page declares in bold orange letters “PROPERTY OF EZRA BRIDGER.”

“Do not look unless you are Ezra.”

Then, underneath, in small scrawl she can hardly read: “Or Sabine.”

Or Sabine? She furrows her brow, wondering what could be so important that Ezra didn’t want anyone reading it, and why she was the exception. Gently, her fingers grasp the edge of the page. 

It’s full of… starbirds?

A dozen of her symbols lie in front of her. Some sketches, others paintings. Their colors vary brilliantly, from blue to purple to green to (yes, of course ) orange. She flips the page again. More starbirds. But not just starbirds. This page also has a Jedi symbol, more crude than the one Sabine had found earlier, and an Imperial crest - crossed out with red, of course. 

As the pages go on, there’s less and less starbirds and more other symbols. Kanan’s Jaig-eyed mask. The patterns from Hera’s lekku. Zeb’s Bo-Rifle. Her helmet.

His drawings grow more detailed, more artistic as the book goes on until, by the middle, he’s got a definite, recognizable style. In the second half, he grows brave enough to try sketching them, their little family, as he remembered them. Hera and Kanan holding hands. Zeb scowling. Sabine flying around Mandalore, broad smile as she shows off her jetpack. Chopper arguing with AP-5. There are a few details off here and there - in one group sketch, her hair is too long and Ezra himself is not wearing orange, an unforgivable creative liberty, especially considering just how shockingly accurate and real the painting looks. 

It’s the very last image of the book, though, that nearly takes Sabine’s breath away. It’s them, hugging, foreheads pressed together in a keldabe kiss. The background - he painted a background? - has some vague, abstract Noti pods. The Ghost hangs in the sky, and Sabine thinks she might even spot Ahsoka’s ship on the ground. In the distance, a white Loth-Wolf looks on. Her fingers hover, desperate to trace the lines, but not wanting to risk damaging the precious painting. Underneath, there’s a title.

Someday Soon .

The next page has no art. Just words. 

Sabine, I hope you never have to read this. I hope I’m here when you come. But just in case, I want to thank you. For always being there for me. For teaching me about life, and art, and how to be a good friend. I couldn’t have made it this long without you. Even more than I ever realized, I love you.

Sabine hurriedly shuts the book before her tears can mar the pages. 

[wild-at-mind]

Imagine if you could actually stop the world's conflicts by simply feeling compassion.

[lautakwah]

hey ling, hope ur doing well and was wondering if i could ask some advice - totally ok if no but. im currently trying to screen record a cdrama right now so i can rewatch it later w/o paying, but i only recorded one episode and it's taken up all my icould and google drive storage 😭 i was wondering if u knew anything i could do, since i feel like r educated in the ways of 🏴‍☠️ 😭

screenrecording is the least efficient way of doing it i think :( ive never tried to do it for more than maybe a few minutes-long clips (most are around 30-40 seconds!), and doing it bloats your memory while also being worse quality. now the last thing may not be a huge deal (i personally dont mind if sth is 4k or 480/720p, esp since older films and dramas simply are harder to find in full hd), but storage efficiency is what you're here for so!!

delete things (files, programs, games, etc) you don't use (anymore), as that probably already opens up a ton of space. there are programs that can help you with looking up which files and shit you use/open the least.

when pirating, ofc use a trusted site and client but also check which files are the smallest and just get that one (unless youre a gifmaker or a real stickler for hd, 720p will suffice imo). tv series in my experience run about 20-30gb if theyre 1080, so even smaller if it's not as hd! google drive only gives 15gb but i think if you compress it into a zip file it miiiiiight fit? if not you can just split it between gdrive and your icloud :)!

an alternatuve option would be to find a streaming wrbsite that had the series but not paywalled, it's less work but the downside is that you can't access this offline (the main reason i like owning (digital) copies)

last but not least, and unfortunately this is the best way to have enough storage: invest in an external hard disk. if you're planning on having more tv series (and perhaps movies) on ur pc/laptop, the best and easiest way to make sure you (almost) never run out of storage is to just... buy more! i splurged on a 5tb external hard disk with bday-christmas money but obviously even having a 256gb/512gb one will be enough if you're not obsessed with putting entire filmographies on there like me djfngmv even getting a bunch of 32/64/128gb usb sticks will prob help out, and while it absolutely is an investment, if you're already paying for a subscription this is a surefire way to make sure you get your money's worth in case they take it off the platform or whatever (looking at how guardian got the boot from literally every streaming platform including yt 😭😭😭)

anyway i hope this helps!! :3

[lggy]

it’s cool that Jason is like scouting this guy or whatever but I have a severe grudge against Write It Out… all his videos feel like base level recaps instead of actual analysis

i think so too.. a lot of times i watch his videos i feel like he doesnt research the topic thoroughly enough. ive watched hours of livestreams and scoured online and rewatched series so many times to collect full accuracy so i feel like i proably know way too much than the normal person so it feels more like an issue to me than others.

im not saying he doesnt put in the effort but god i want to jump in and correct so many things. because im insane about lore as stated above plus im the wiki guy. i agree i wish he would dive deeper into analysis because her stories do deserve deeper analysis. i think he gears more towards announcements and hype trains (nothing wrong w that cuz boy i do the same thing LOL)

i think he's pretty cool and funny! i collaborated w him on his last aphmau video which was fun. he's just a kid so i dont have any sorta grudges or anything and he's been having a lot of channel growth lately which is great.

i would go into making videos myself but i dont have the environment to do so and i dont know what to make the videos about, im notoriously bad at script writing and coming up w ideas... it miiiiiight be a successful niche to fill? idk if i should start a new channel or just blast my very dead 15k subscribers w aphmau after a several year long hiatus lolol

here's a few videos i've found from diff youtubers doing aphmau analysis :D

if someone was able to create videos analyzing the stories with a higher production and editing, then i think they could be very successful. i would but i unfortunately do not have that skillset nor patience. Anyone is free to come to me to review scripts and ask abt lore accuracy though! :D

[moderndaylestat]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thank you my darling @riley-beautrelle for the tag 🩷

1. How many works do you have on ao3? 25

2. What’s your total ao3 word count? 509,392 but some fics are co-written so they’re not ALL my words

3. What fandoms do you write for? currently only IWTV but i used to write for Hannibal

4. Top 5 fics by kudos: my top 5 are all Hannibal fics but for IWTV the ones with most kudos are Let the flesh instruct the mind, Against all odds, Sum of our worst moments, Works like love, and New horizons

5. Do you respond to comments? Yes, always. If someone’s taking the time out of their day to let me know that they enjoyed my work, then the least I can do is to take the time to respond and say thank you. Comments are SO important to me, perhaps the most important metric even. Reader feedback motivates me to keep writing (so if you’ve ever commented on anything of mine, thank you so much 🥺🩵)

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I pretty much only write happy endings so none of them are angsty. But if i had to pick the angstiest it would be Sum of our worst moments. It’s pretty hopeful but the circumstances Loustat are in are pretty grim sooooo

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? All of them, but Works like love is very fluffy and happy, Loustat’s honeymoon era

8. Do you get hate on fics? Nope, thankfully. Occasionally people express their disagreement with my choices about which character tops and which bottoms but it’s hardly hate

9. Do you write smut? Of course. All my fics are Explicit rated 😏

10. Craziest crossover: I haven’t written any tbh

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that i know of!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes, and it was the biggest honour 🥺

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes, and i love it! I co-wrote a Hannibal fic series with my love @memequeen1127 and miiiiiight write something for IWTV with my other love @sightetsound. Stay tuned!!

14. All time favourite ship? Loustat at the moment but I also love Hannigram

15. What’s a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? My most popular Hannigram fic. I love the AU setting and plot but i just can’t find the motivation to continue :(

16. What are your writing strengths? I think i can do a pretty good job at conveying deep emotions with my words. I like using clever figurative language and metaphors to add colour to my writing. And i’m good at foreshadowing 👀

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I think i sometimes over-explain things to readers in my writing because i want to make sure that things come across the desired way. Maybe that can be jarring and readers want to interpret things and arrive at conclusions on their own.

I don’t tend to describe the physical appearance of my characters (or things and places) unless it’s directly relevant to the story. A visually oriented reader may prefer more descriptions in order to be able to visualise things.

18. Thoughts on dialogue in another language? I always love seeing some French in IWTV fics. Im learning French currently so it’s a nice way to practice. But i think that sometimes too much foreign dialogue can distract from the story if the reader isn’t familiar with the language and has to go find translations.

19. First fandom you wrote in? First ever was Harry Potter but first on ao3 was Hannibal

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? This is a very hard question! Currently the college fic (Against all odds) is my baby, i think about it every day.

As for tags - all my fav authors have already been tagged so this is an open invitation for anyone and everyone who wants to answer these questions ☺️

[rustycottoncandy]

So I miiiiiight have spontaneously just created a pretty big project.

Okay, perhaps not so spontaneously, because I already had the idea in my head for a while, but I didn't think that I'd make it real.

There won't be much plot at all for this series as it'll just be Cocoa explaining stuff that's happened to him or that he finds curious, and since I won't be publishing Downfall (or at least not yet), then maybe I could post something related but much less dramatic and more of a goofy project to work on and avoid spending my afternoons sleeping.

That said, here ends this post!

[fountainpenguin]

Blog Stuff

^ Like, "FYI if you want to block tags" stuff

Little announcement here: Factor It In is on hiatus for now, probably for the rest of 2023. I know where the story is going overall and I know where the next chapter's going, but I struggled more than expected with the "Torus" voice (took like 6 weeks longer than the other chapters and all of it painful :'D)

I don't want to face a timecrunch struggle with TJ and Rose POVs (two characters who will be new to me), so I'm taking the bi-weekly update stress away and putting the 'fic on hiatus for now. But I wrote 77k before a hiatus was needed so I'm proud of that <3

We've got some 130 Prompts coming up as well as "Unicorn Years" for Origin in September (and hopefully a special Friday the 13th piece in October). In other words, FOP stuff is still bi-weekly as usual.

-> As a reminder, the 130 Prompts are posted in the order they are for a reason. You don't have to read them all if you don't want to, but extra context is always nice. If you've been dragging your feet on "Looking Back" by any chance... I might recommend that before the next update, which is "Sentry" ;)

On the "off" Friday I'm planning one-shots for various fandoms, especially shorter character studies. Really want to practice capturing a variety of voices, some quicker one-shots, and maybe I'll try some characters I don't use a lot. Or I'll be self-indulgent and focus on my faves... who knows.

Hoping to post more Come What May as well since you guys were excited to see it back <3... and it would be nice to actually finish a non-one-shot 'fic for the first time in. 7 years.

It's probably been obvious, but I also took a long hiatus from digital art. Traditional art is more comfy for me and I've been trying new digital programs, but haven't fallen in love with anything (i.e. I've been a vector artist for 10 years and moving from my safe space to different programs and styles is... painful).

I think I'm ready to start pushing my comfort zone, but be forgiving of my digital style because I'm playing around with new tools and this is a big jump for me, ha ha. I think I'm going to do some silly, low-stress fanfic doodles with very little attempt to make them look good, just testing stuff out.

I miiiiiight have a few PMV / animatic ideas, so we'll see

By nature of me posting art for my own 'fics, spoilers be upon ye if you're not up to date with my writing. Relatively recent stuff and/or stuff I consider "big" will get the #ridspoilers tag, but stuff I wrote 6+ months ago is less likely to get the tag, so that's how that goes.

-> #Dog's Life spoilers will get a unique tag because the weekly updates and drama make me say "Yeah, a special tag makes sense," so if that's a 'fic you think you want to read someday without spoilers, consider blocking that sooner rather than later :)

-> I'm also adding a #Pixels Imperfect tag to stuff from that universe (and I'll go back and add it to the chapters I already posted). "Pixels Imperfect" is the series name on AO3 for my digital gremlin Traffic SMP content (Everyone can freely wander around New Star Station outside the game and just puts on their roleplay hats when they go in, everything under this series fits under one umbrella of universe canon, etc.)

-> #Neighborhood Watch is the series name for "we take the roleplay lore seriously, this is their life, no digital world and no roleplay hat to take off" Traffic SMP content. I haven't posted anything for it yet, but I've got stuff in the works (I'm playing with a couple "making every season as canon as possible in one storyline" pieces and </3 it's big divorce speedrun hours for Clocker fam rn)

As for the other 'fics, I've been posting stuff like Origin, the 130, and Knots for 7 years and I feel okay about how that's going- I don't normally get spoiler Asks, but my general rule is to wait 1-2 weeks before I say anything spoilery on my blog. I think that's been working fine and we've got a good system, so I'm not changing anything there.

Lastly - and this is also part of the reason Factor is going on hiatus - it sounds like Traffic SMP Season 5 is just around the corner. For my followers who don't know much about this Minecraft deathmatch series, the creators only play for a few weeks - I think the shortest season was 6 weeks and the longest was 8 - and each creator puts out one episode a week (usually Friday).

So, it's a pretty short chunk of time and I don't want to be juggling too many things while it's coming out. I think this year I want to jump in and create some nice content while it's ongoing instead of just doodling off to the side and keeping it to myself... I need to dig up my old liveblog doodles I never shared, hm.

-> The traffic story canon gets reset every season (i.e. it's unscripted play, there's no continuous plot, and each season starts relationships from scratch), so if you've been enjoying any of my Traffic SMP reblogs, consider looking into it and riding that wave while episodes come out for a couple weeks and we can be hype together <3

-> Stuff for that season will be tagged #traffic spoilers, which is the tag I use across all the seasons, and I'll make a new post with my Season 5 spoiler tag once we get the name reveal.

-> As is traditional when I liveblog, I'll also use the tag #Riddle watches Traffic so you can block that too if you like. Just wanted to let people know in case I have any Traffic SMP followers who want to go in blind and don't want to risk seeing my posts before they have time to block my spoilers tag. #traffic spoilers still covers everything, including new season.

-> I also need to look into maybe switching from Traffic Life SMP as my blog tag to Traffic SMP because I think that's. the right name and it would probably be smart to tag properly... hm.

I think that covers everything I wanted to say. I'll add a list or link to my pinned post as well so people can figure out what to block for spoilers and stuff.

Thanks for enjoying my blog!

[buffporcupine]

Songs I associate with Death Note (Part 2 Electric Boogaloo)

MAJOR DEATH NOTE SPOILERS!

1. “Gilded Lily” by Cults.

This one, I associate with Death Note, because it reminds me of Misa and her feelings towards Light. The lyrics, “haven’t I given enough?” repeated remind me of the way she sacrificed so much to be with him. She loved who she believed him to be. She killed for him, and at the end of the series, she even committed suicide after she realized he had died. She really is a tragic character, if you think about it. (I gotta make a character analysis for this girl!)

2. “No Surprises” by Radiohead.

This song. It reminds me of Death Note in so many ways, I could make a whole post just about this one. There’s a certain edit of Misa somewhere that uses this song as the background music, and that’s part of the reason why I associate it with Death Note already, but there’s also more to it than that. The lyrics remind me of Misa already, maybe how she realized Kira didn’t love her, and thought “no alarms and no surprises here”. The lyrics “a heart that’s full up like a landfill,” remind me so much of characters like Misa or Mello who have just HAD IT. The lyrics, “a job that slowly kills you, bruises that won’t heal,” remind me of L, and how he gave so much. It gives off the same vibes of the line, “I was right… but I lost”, one of L’s final realizations before his death.

3. “Mama” by My Chemical Romance.

Other people may not see it for this song, but it’s just the hardest Death Note vibes from this song for me. Mainly Mello vibes, as I always headcanoned him to be someone who enjoyed MCR’s music, but I also associate this song with Death Note because of the content of the song. The lyrics, “mama, we all go to hell,” and “mama, we’re all gonna die,” remind me of the main theme of Death Note. All humans, without exception, will eventually die. The lyrics, “So when we go, don’t blame us-!” remind me of how either Ohba or Obata, I can’t recall which, once said that one of the themes of Death Note would be, “we’re all going to die, so why not give life your all while you can?”. The Death Note vibes in this song speak to me.

Anyway, that’s about it. MIIIIIIGHT make a part three.

[pepperf]

I am currently adding some things to the queue, including a couple of posts about Blake’s 7, and honestly it’s feeling like #unreality bc it’s this (relatively) obscure 1970s scifi cult TV series, with shaky sets and a bunch of actors that you miiiiiight recognise from other things they’ve been in, if you’re a fan of old British shows, but honestly none of them were exactly household names - and I’m here, talking about characters, tagging with their full names, Del Tarrant and Vila Restal and Kerr Avon and Jenna Stannis, and like...I could just be making this up. I could be lying. Probably 98% of my moots wouldn’t know whether or not I was just making most of it up out of whole cloth. Twenty-five years ago, I made a poster for an imaginary relaunch of B7, and got it printed up on glossy paper so it looked real (well, my art skills weren’t THAT good tbh), and just...

[tmwcs]

will there be SMAUS for the “se7en” series???

it would be cute to see helel getting jealous of the other members

i hadn't thought about making any, honestly.

I could draft something up after the series is finished. it'll be hard to do bc....well, you'll see by the time we get to heelel's chapter my love......i'm trying not to spoil....lets just say you'll see...uh...some things about him. it will be....ahem...kind of difficult to portray him much like heethan (where theres the fluff and comedy ) but heelel.....hits different. i promise, when you read his chapter.....you miiiiiight have a different perspective of heelel (youl'll still love him dont get me wrong lol) but.....you'll see what i mean when i say it will be hard to portray him getting jealous....l cant spoil but you'll see, and once you read his chapter, hmu again and tell me your thoughts. <3

[bipedalseal]

ok so i will be making some zines to sell at the bazaar in my school. ideas so far:

zine abt valentines

collection of my favorite poems from the Ladlad series

poetry anthology of hopepunk poems (???)

zine abt eczema

zine abt splitting

And ofc i'll be selling my zines (the one abt identity, love, and blue hour)

And i miiiiiight print business cards. But i'd rather finalize which zines to sell first

[park-chan-yall]

Kpop Moodboards- The Lost Boys AU

“Great! The Bloodsucking Brady Bunch! “

~REQUESTS OPEN~

[skyguyed]

chapter 13 spoiler thoughts

i wanted to love that episode i did but. sigh well anyway here are the things i liked

ahsoka’s stunt double’s fighting style

the cloak drop

the anakin reference

thrawn name drop (WHERE IS HE DAVE)

ahsoka calling mando a father figure, that was cute

tython drop hello?!??! so many connections

things i didn’t like

well ahsoka’s design overall just.... completely ignoring her rebels design?

ahsoka was honestly so cold and stiff like where’s our snips huh?!?!? i get it shes older and shes hardened but for fucks sake

ahsoka’s weird spouting of jedi dogma ... like bruh you’re not even a jedi anymore i get it she’s scarred from what happened to anakin/vader but like. idk. felt incongruent

idk how i feel about baby yoda grogu already coming from coruscant. on one hand i like the already jedi youngling background? on another it just doesn’t make sense that there was another convenient escape from coruscant during order 66 i dont know it just feels too ... plot armory

rosario dawson’s presence in general killing the mood for me.... of course..

other thoughts

probably most viewers don’t know who thrawn is so that thread is gonna go nowhere but it miiiiiight be a backdoor into that rebels sequel series??

[akumahoshojo]

castlevania for the ask game (inevitable, i know)

haha yeah there was never any doubt! apologies in advance 4 super long post!

❤ Favorite Male Character: Alucard, AKA the basic choice. I try to keep that pretty low-key so that my CV posts don’t come off like THE ALUCARD BLOG but yeah there it is. What is there to say? I think he’s just really one of the most developed and interesting characters, I like the inevitable super angst about his life, and overall he’s 100% the reason I first got into the series. Also he’s pretty.

❤ Favorite Female Character: MARIA! I miiiiiight just like her more than Alucard. She’s just super cool and fun, inexplicable magical girl who summons a bunch of animals and gets junk food from the walls. Her and Richter’s sibling relationship seems super underrated. I think what we see of her and Alucard’s dynamic in SOTN is also pretty fun because I get the vibe she’d tease him a lot. There’s also a lot of fan potential re: her backstory and powers that I’d like to touch on when I get around to writing more fanfic. I think I like Rondo Maria more than SOTN Maria though, mainly because I guess she does more?

❤ Favorite Pairing: I’m not much of a shipper but there’s something appealing about Trevor/Sypha. Falling in love while fighting your way through a demon castle, maybe Trevor somewhat helping her work through her implied insecurity and the two bonding through being outcasts in society.

❤ Least Favorite Character: I’ve been kinda dreading this one! I really dislike the Netflix interpretation of Lisa, and as far as I can tell I’m the only one in the fandom who does. Falling in love with a dude who’s staked hundreds of people? Knowing that your relationship is pretty much dancing on the razor’s edge because you’re completely aware he’ll go nuclear if you’re harmed? It just makes her end up feeling almost complicit, and I think it’s kind of a mismatch re: her being meant to be an innocent victim. Like, you really gave that little of a fuck about Dracula’s previous victims when you married him? Not a fan of the kinda sarcastic attitude they gave her either: it all ends up feeling like she’s kind of an unpleasant person who believes helping others cancels that out.

Why am I talking about Netflix when my responses up to now have been based on the games? Because, unfortunately, it has kinda impacted my view of Lisa in general since there’s not much there in the games, and I think also her general portrayal within the fandom, and so I end up just being like “ugh, not HER again” when I see her lately. There’s not much Lisa on my blog as a result, even though in the gameverse there’s not really the implication of Drac having done that much killing prior to meeting her.

Note that I’m not giving Dracula a pass here: it’s just that he’s meant to be the villain, and so I have more tolerance for his murder bullshit because that (+ kicking his ass) is the entire point of the series.

❤ who’s most like me: I related a lot to Alucard and his depression when I got into the series at a tough time in my life. I think Maria’s super fun, but I’m not totally sure if it’s more “I’m like her” or “I’d want to be like her.” I think Yoko’s kinda relatable too since I think something about her comes off as more jaded than most other female CV characters? Same with Sypha.

❤ most attractive: ALUCARD. Bonus female option: Elizabeth Bartley/Bathory.

❤ three more characters that I like: Richter (specifically the SOTN version over Rondo). Eric Lecarde. Mina.

[midasgutz]

elfen lied manga was such a fuckin trip. did i dream that shit up ? who allowed the dude who made that to just write all that shit??

i need to talk about elfen lied because this shit has been living rent free in my head for over an actual decade. significantly longer than a decade.

im glad that i can now accept that media i consume doesnt necessarily say anything about me, because. jesus, every inch of elfen lied is a war crime. every panel.

the coolest character who was generic tough military dude, who right when you meet him makes a point of punching a secretary just for standing behind him. and then goes out to find and kill a 17 year old with abandonment issues. and gets his shit kicked in and his arm ripped off and his eyes plucked out. and so, naturally, he trades his testicles for some dope robot eyes. for the sake of all humanity. oh and a really mediocre robot arm that he can actually break if he puts too much force into like anything. and so naturally he then finds a 14 year old homeless girl, who helped him while he was bleeding out on the beach. and of course he beats her up and, possibly kicks her dog. and then he gives her his number. uh, so he can come help her if anyone tries to... beat her up? because he cant owe her anything. and then she says something he doesnt like so he beats her up again and she shows him the paper he wrote his number on and says "someone scary is screwing with me". he storms off after that but doesnt take the paper, he still owes her. he makes good on it too, she gets in some bad trouble with a bad bad dude later. a bad bad dude with a trenchcoat whos basically just a vampire hunter, crossbow included but actually he's here to hunt teenage girls with horns, not fangs. the crossbow shoots hard metal balls with velcro spikes that have a toxin on them that causes excrutiating pain. this guys a bad bad dude, and he miiiiiight be suggesting he's gonna rape this 14 year old girl but it could be the unfairthful translation causing confusion. probably not tho the author of this series is majorly fucked in the head. anyway robocop shows up and he puts his boot right down this dudes throat so thats like whatever. that panel was my desktop wallpaper for like 6 years. we find out that 17 year old girl is evil because some kids killed her dog with a vase. so she blew them up, and after that she goes around blowing people up just to eat the food in their fridge and hang around the crib for a minute. so shes framed as the good guy and robocop is evil this time and they fight again and she does kill robocop this time which sucks because theres a good portion of manga left and no one else is as interesting as he is. he dies on the beach where he lost his eyes and his arm and lets be honest he basically lost his balls at the same time.

oh. and theres a girl who does peepee in her diaper a lot. and she can sing. i dont know why she was there but i mean every other fetish the author had already made a fucking appearance so why not lmao

theres also like. some main characters. theyre complete shit. these include a normal boy. his cousin who is the most annoying character in the fucking world. she is literally just "im only here to pad the amount of love interests our generic main character can have all at once" the character. yeah man, his cousin? cause shit why not. why not, its japan, do as the romans do. also theres the alternate personality of the 17 year old. shes only here so that evil 17 year old girl can be a love interest not once but twice, and i mean, conveniently shes often naked. makes sense, when the only word you can say is "milk".

and then there's Nana. Nana is a quad amputee after evil 17 year old girl ripped all her limbs off and almost finished her off. but dont worry! her dad, whos not her dad at all, finds her and he gives her some prosthetics that she can control with her super powers. what do you mean you werent aware of the super powers? of course they have super powers. its manga. after he does this he just lets her loose with a bunch of money and his tie because she asked very politely for the dangly thing he wears on his neck. she wears it like a headband, even though she established she knew it went around his neck. so yeah he gave her money but she was raised in a lab like a rat so she has no clue what its for. she meets the 14 year old homeless girl and they have a fun time being homeless together. Nana burns the money in a fire to keep warm but only some of it because the 14 year old girl tells her that you can trade money for food, which makes nana very happy because boy did she want some of the 99 cent street vendor food earlier. no one acknowledges that nana has enough money to buy her own house and be well off for easily 5 years. 14 year old girl takes her to the main character house that shes been staying at for a while and they have a bath. nana hated this idea until she realized that bath doesnt mean bucket of cold water at her new sort of house. but uh oh, nana senses evil 17 year old and shes kinda pissed about her arms and legs. they almost do a fight but wait whats this? 17 year old isnt fighting back, she just keeps saying "milk" and smiling. nana takes some issue with this and promptly leaves after pushing her through a rice paper door. shortly after everyone goes looking for nana.

um some stuff happens and then whaaaattt??? nanas not dads real daughter is introduced. shes locked in a circular room lined with lead and chloride of lime. with a diameter of 15 meters, the length of her invisible hands. shes only ever had the voice of a single woman to comfort her, shes permanently lockdd in bondage gear unable to move. she has to use a wheelchair to move because her legs have completely atrophied. she moves it with her invisible hands, her real ones are useless. she calls the only voice she knows her mother. her mothers job has been to talk to and comfort this dangerous girl for years. said mother mentions her excitement to finally see the girl in person, and also casually drops how theyve sewn bombs into several parts of her body. conveniently, if shes in intense pain her powers dont work. so she meets her mom, takes one look at her and says "youre not my mom >:(" and sends her entire upper torso flying. conveniently said torso lands near the bomb controls. she slams that shit like shes a rat with an orgasm button and babygirls arm go bye bye. they inform her while she writhes in pain that she has to comply with their demands or they can blow her whole deal up next time. shes pretty ok with being blown up, but then they tell her they want her to kill something so her ears perk up like a cat hearing a can opener. yep shes going to go kill evil 17 year old. nanas not dad is not taking any of this well but he essentially gets mindbroken after he has to blow up his daughter later after shit flies off the handle. he spends his time as a homeless man, denoted by the sudden appeaeance of a large beard, living in a shack on the beach where robocop died. he does note the beach is incredibly clean and that is because robocop picked up allllllll the trash so that evil 17 year old couldnt throw it at him. he did totally eat shit anyway though no worries. im not bitter about it why should you be? im not.

anyway shit happens and 17 year old melts into a really graphic puddle of fleshy goo, and in doing so totally does the jesus thing. because at some point she realized she really just wanted to be with main character, but all of the things shes done makes that impossible.

i was like maybe 12 when i read this shit. i didnt reread it for this. im pretty sure most of this is accurate but i CAN and WILL promise you one thing. diaper girl is real, and he REALLY really really really 100% did trade his balls for robot eyes, and a playdough robot arm.

[random-mha-thoughts]

Taglist Time~!

I’m kind of doing a thing right now that miiiiiight be uploaded to my personal blog (I’m mixing audio tracks like a dork and it kind of makes me feel professional I guess) so you guys are saved from Todo angst another day, but I feel like I should put this out there because it might be long overdue:

If you guys want to be tagged for certain things, send me an ask or a DM and I’ll make a note of it!  Some things you can be asked to be tagged for are:

-Everything lol

-Certain characters

-Certain genres/formats (angst, headcanons, drabbles, random thoughts)

-A combo of both (Ex: Tagged for Baku angst, Todo fluff, Shinsou comfort, etc)

-Any future series I might be planning

-Event posts

-Anything really, just ask~

So send me an ask or DM and I’ll compile them for future reference. I haven’t really done this just because I thought people would just ask when they wanted to be tagged for something?  But I should’ve put this out there earlier, so please let me know!  And that goes for anything even in the future, if I talk about something that sounds interesting or you go through my WIPs and you want to be tagged in it, PLEASE do!  I’ll be more than happy to add you to a taglist!