#idiot narrator

[blackkatdraws2]

The narrator and the ugly ahh protagonist [Blank Scripts AU/non-canonical]

[mistawolfie]

LaiShuro escapin’ the heat

[martyryo]

Need to draw them being stupid at least once a month

[rustyparable]

Losers.

[medievalthymes]

one of my favourite underrated moments is when beloved tells fitz how bee is their love-child and fitz is trying to rack his brain for when he had sex with the fool. LIKE, rote is a romcom actually

[klikandtuna]

It’s even better once the streetlights turn on. He doesn’t take off the sunglasses, of course, but there’s not much nicer than slow jazz on a summer evening with a cute guy watching his every move with such bright interest.

Chapter 1: “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” (Roberta Flack / First Take / Track 6) is LIVE!! Hope you’re ready for a big new adventure! Come meet Ant and Azlan and fall in love all over again 💛

In His Hand a Burning Coal (rated E) will update every Tuesday! If you have a fear of WIPs, I totally understand, but please note that I a) am a fast and obsessive writer, b) have an excellent track record of maintaining a posting schedule ("Find the Light" and "Sky Clear Blue" together represent five solid months of faithful updates), and c) am currently ELEVEN CHAPTERS AHEAD with the writing, and with a once-a-week schedule we're on track to have a beautifully uninterrupted run.

[dr-skazka]

Gonna post some more polished art soon with my Christmas drawings- so in the meantime have my stupid idiots :]

I love doodling them,, tsp my beloved 🩵💛

[ultimatesoupdemon]

i 💛 stanarrator

need to make more content of them,,

[itsdefinitely]

oh dear

Lovebug AU by @things1do

[counting-stars-gayly]

hmmmmm the more i read htn, the more convinced i am that gideon’s narrating…

[hulloitsdani]

hi dani fire emblem :) do you happen to have any thoughts on book 6 "I'm going to kill you too" scene?

Please, Dani fire emblem was my father. Just call me HulloIts.

As for the scene in question, oh man. It’s the “I’m going to kill you too” scene, what more can I add! I got some tweaks and reads on Letizia, but I feel like that scene speaks for itself. You don’t need me to tell you why it’s good— It’s one of the moments where feh’s writing really works.

Instead, I think what I can offer to the conversation is an analysis on Alfonse’s three gambit scenes and how they relate to each other. Because taken as a package, I find it fascinating how these scenes are treated by the narrative over time. Alfonse’s ability to pull these off is such a massive boon, but it’s been steadily growing into a delightful character flaw over the years.

Now, let’s back up. What do I mean by Alfonse’s gambit scenes? This is in reference to three scenes that have occurred throughout heroes: Alfonse calling Hel’s bluff in book 3, threatening Letizia in book 6, and his plot to cover for Ratatoskr in book 8. Also known as “Because it means that it is your life that will end in nine days’ time,” “I’m going to kill you too,” and “My saviors have arrived.” These scenes are defined by Alfonse risking everything on a charisma roll. There might not actually be any dice rolling, but that is certainly what it feels like. If he’s wrong about Hel’s curse, he’s dead. If he can’t convince Letizia of his ruthlessness, then he’s super dead and everyone’s screwed. If he doesn’t perfectly sell Hraesvelgr’s assassination attempt, then him AND Ratatoskr are, you guessed it, dead.

These are gambits— major risks with massive rewards. And what’s unique about Alfonse’s brand of it is that they occur on a social level. He’s not, for example, tactically sacrificing a hero for the chance of inflicting enough damage/debuffs so another can to land the kill. He’s not a tactician at the end of the day and has not been shown to be able to crunch those numbers that fast. Instead, he’s weaponizing everything he has gleaned about his enemies as people and staking his life on it.

Now, he does not do that without motive. For all of these scenes, he’s attempting to protect people while backed up into a corner. Using his encounter with Letizia as an example, she’s rather successfully forcing the Order’s hand into surrendering by sending innocent people to the Shadow Realm— I mean Embla’s domain. She’s working under the assumption that the Order, you know, cares about that type of thing. If Alfonse can successfully menace her into believing the opposite, even if for just a short time, it can give them the wiggle room to better position themselves and lessen the use of human shields as it would not longer be a tactical option. He’s protecting his friends and his people in one swoop at the expense of himself. Pulling that stunt with the lady who specializes in weaponizing information is a recipe for his future disaster, but that’s a loss he’d take in a heartbeat in order to keep everyone safe.

The same can be said about his encounter with Hel. He openly invites her to curse him, because in that nine day timeframe, he can ensure he drags Hel down with him. This is an infinitely better option for him than Hel slowly picking everyone off with her curse. Now, out of the three scenes, this one is notedly the most heroically coded and the most corned our protagonists are. We just spent an entire opening act witnessing the lethality and unavoidability of this curse. Of death herself. Alfonse, having had to spend that time accepting his own mortality, successfully weaponizes that acceptance against a cruel and power hungry death. That’s signifying a growth and change of his character. The success of that gambit permanently puts his own life on the gambling table. Which, in accordance to book 3’s themes of death, is a positive thing. But, as time goes on, this idea gains more nuance.

Which brings us back to Letizia. We are not narratively in Alfonse’s head when he pulls off this gambit. We understand the boy smiling in the face of death, because we have seen everything leading up to that point. We, comparably, do not initially understand the boy smiling as he says “I’m going to kill you too.” He has to explain himself afterwards. It’s very jarring as a result. Against a cruel god blinded by hubris, this gambit feels like overcoming against all odds. Against a mortal woman who successfully outsmarted him? It’s concerning to see that he has the capacity for that malice, even if it was not real. We didn’t have the context of Líf when Alfonse initially had that confrontation with Hel, but we do now. It colors all these more morally complex actions whether we want it to or not.

This brings me to the scene in book 8, which is by far the most interesting in my opinion. For the entire first half of that book, we are seeing the social manipulation game Alfonse excels at. He’s not the most friendly or personable, but he’s smart and good at pattern recognition. He knows the information his enemies have and successfully predicts their actions based on that. And he, unfortunately, correctly recognizes that Ratatoskr is coming under greater risk of being found out and getting potentially murdered on their behalf. If there is a mole, it’s going to be her. So he comes up with a scheme to ensure her safety via the best tool in his arsenal. Ole reliable, gambling his own life.

But, interestingly, this time he’s not simply trying to convince his enemies of his deception. No, the charisma check he has to pass here is deceiving his own allies. Against Letizia, keeping his friends out of the loop made a bit more sense. The narrative he was selling was that HE was the farce within the Order. His sister looking surprised at his “true nature” helped. That is not the case here. He kept his friends out of the loop to partially help sell the illusion that this assassination attempt was not planned, but mostly because they would not have allowed him to do this. They would not have approved of this overly dangerous plan, if the serious convincing required for Anna to let him go meet Veronica by himself is anything to go by. But this was the only way to ensure Ratatoskr’s safety, so he did it anyway. That is a fascinating character choice and I wish it caused more character conflict, but I suppose that’s what fanfiction and fanart are for.

Nonetheless, it’s fascinating how this behavior went from inciting a downright celebratory feeling to a more “what the hell is wrong with you?” reaction over time. The acceptance of his mortality in book three has straddled and then passed the line of overfamiliarity in book eight. This then pairs itself with his innate desire to protect those he cares about in ways that feel inevitable. If he doesn’t make that choice to put his life on the line, then it’s characters like Kiran experiencing the fallout. Or at least, that is how he perceives it after the events of seasons like book 5 and book 7. If their enemies are constantly trying to separate them, then maybe if he manually triggers it and puts the enemy focus on him instead, things will be better. The people he cares about won’t get hurt. It’s totally fine, he swears. He can take a hit.

[garbagequeer]

season 5 of riverdale is great because it really puts you in a “there’s no way the town’s not winning this one they will never beat the town” mindset then when they start fighting percival in season 6 all together you go wait a second... town loss? and THEN they send them to the 50s in 7 and you’re like wow okay town win in a BIG way they’re never beating the town from the 50s BUT THEN they start acting gay and horny and fully integrated and there’s angel tabitha congratulating them on correcting the moral arc of the universe and narrator jughead has not been coming into work as much and you’re thinking oh yeah sure town loss they beat the fucking town it’s over for the town now (in 1955) right? WRONG. die and go to pop’s 

[gothic-mothic]

Ooough I forgot how much I wanna absolutely SMOOCH your Narrator.

Unfortunate for him he is EXTREMELY kissable. Look at him. So susceptible to smooch. Idiot.

[skyasimaru]

It's here! It's here!

The entire podfic of IneffableToreshi's lovely "A Touch of Heaven" is now out for your listening pleasure!

Or, if you would rather read the fic yourself (with your eyeballs), you can find the story here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/39922326 Either way, I hope you enjoy it!

Very Respectfully,

SkyAsimaru

[kirchefuchs]

I am not immune to propaganda.....

The lovebug au has grown on me, and to be honest it's incredibly fun to draw these idiots in pink. So yeah, ummm, I took all these outfits from pinteresnt ngl. I wanted to lean a little bit more towards the virus aspect of it, so Stanley is very sick (may he rest in pieces).

Maybe I'll make a post about my thoughts on the au or write a fic.... who knows to be honest, I can't predict what I'm gonna end up doing :/

[tubes-the-ann]

Assortment of doodles