#inifinite possibilities

[meliake]

Am I the only that really is not a big fan of Cyclop's 90's uniform? Like I undertand it's a classic and everything, but just look at it-

What do those thigh belts do?? and don't get me started on the uneven belt thing across his chest. I can forgive the underpants, but even in the realm of superhero suits, this is a stretch.

And generally, I think Cyclop's suit is allowed to change style over the years, and there are so many good styles to take inspiration from.

And if they wanted to keep the hair out instead of the cowl like i prefer, at least make it look cool dude.

[frances-baby-houseman]

also fucking me up is that there are the same number of inifinite points on a line that's 12 inches long as there are in the universe.

I'm sorry maybe don't read The MANIAC it's possibly ruined my life.

sos i'm sending this from a sanitorium

[nitw]

why do some of my biggest hobbies have to be so notoriously frustrating to work with AJHVDFHJD like here are some projects i'm juggling between at the moment:

a horrible video i'm putting too much effort into that requires me to both draw and animate AND BTW vegas constantly freezes/crashes for me because i need a better graphics card

web design (2 different sites with pretty different layouts)

modding for a game in java, having to update that mod semi frequently

a visual novel in ren'py

like 6 unfinished vocaloid and synthv projects

developing a webcomic in every possible way OTHER THAN drawing it

also why do i keep starting new projects all the time anyway. couldnt i just be like really into photo collages or soemthing that would make my life inifinitely easier

[106alibi]

unspoken love ; MARK LEE

pairing: mark lee x reader

genre: fluff!!!

disclaimers: mark is a loser who does not know how to say anything other than dude

a/n: shit posting a little because my hands itched to write about (loser) mark with a one-sided crush 🤭 also really wanted to get something out first!! enjoy my tumblr debut!!

"markie, do I look good?"

good? you never looked just good. you were art. you were what artists wrote about, sang about, drew about. you didn't belong here in mark's bedroom, standing in front of the mirror scrutinising your outfit. you belonged in Louvre to be admired. with each and every of your curves so carefully and delicately sculpted by a potter, from the bridge of your nose to the arch of your back. the way the inifinite black holes of your little pupils sucked him in and chained him in its grasp and he thought he wouldn't mind being stuck there for hours. and your oh so dangerous, kryptonitic smile that turned his legs into jelly and took away the words in his throat. he thought he could write poems and songs and entries about you but a simple look is all it took for the nerves in his brain to short circuit and erase his ability to speak.

oh god, could someone be so beautiful? mark thought he must have saved a country in his previous life for aphrodite to have taken the form of his best friend, with somehow the powers of zeus because for some reason, the sky seemed gloomier when you cried, and sunnier when you laughed. and he deduced that he must be allergic to you because of how warm his face became when he thought about you, blooming rashes of shyness and anxiety creeping up from his neck, and the lingering tingle on the back of his hand when it brushes against your skin. he must be running a fever, he thought. he must be ill. or drunk. so drunk and intoxicated by your soft, marshmallow skin, adorned with sweet champagne perfume that made him dream of sinking his nose into your bare neck and drinking in your scent, like one too many shots of vodka with how dizzy you made him by just breathing. every possible adjective in the dictionary would not be precise enough for the beauty you exuded, and he knew that good was definitely too much of an understatement.

"dude, you look fine."

what a loser. maybe one day he'll muster up the courage to tell you how he really felt. one day.

[brownhairedbookworm]

“Absolute nerd~”

He laughed, kissing her head

“Oh! By the way, guess who met an actual Time Lord?”

"...I guess in the inifinite universes it was going to be possible. But also what?! That's super cool!"

[xxlunadeaxx]

More than one Monarch (DP AU)

(dp hyper fixation go)

So you know the ghost zone, the 'flip side' of the physical world, portals to different dimensions, time, and space. The Infinite Realms basically exist anywhere/anytime in creation. Who says there aren't various rulers in other 'corners' of the Ghost Zone/Infinite Realms. You have beings like Dora and Frostbite who rule 'areas/islands' in the Ghost Zone, why not beings who rule a 'realm' in the Inifinite 'Realms' Look I just want Danny (little baby man, eldritch being, the one everyone adopts) Phantom to meet other "Undead" Rulers. And possibly get adopted/learn from them. Currently, the main one I have is Giratina, another unwilling ruler of the Distortion Realm. Another Eldritch snake being that was banished to the Distortion Realm for being too violent. (Unfair obviously, why can Palkia be Dialga fight and destroy places but when Giratina does it they’re too violent and need to be banished?? this is a joke) So possibly mellowed out after being there for so long but still hates some beings, and is wary of humans.

They could meet before Danny’s coronation while he’s exploring the ghost zone, or after, but in my head they meet before. Danny would show up unintentionally as always (since the fruitloop sent him into a portal with a one-time spell to be “banished” into the Distortion for a 'time out'). And while this place is in the ghost zone, there aren’t any other ghosts around, and this place looks different from the normal ghost zone, until he runs into Giratina. Gira is totally a menace and would battle Danny for entering their domain, but they would be more testing the waters of this being, seeing for his intent. Since the “Distortion” is more closely linked to the “living side”, any damage to that place can affect the other side. So other beings are warned off (vibe checked) by Giratina most of the time. Giratina would be impressed by the sheer gall of the boy willing to fistfight a God and his ability to learn on the fly, which would allow him access to the Distortion Realm with good intentions. Teach him how to fight with more than just his fists, he has a tail, and why limit to just his hands? And how to weave his intangibility into his fighting. Also giving a safe space since all Danny has to do is speak “Giratina” into any reflective surface and a portal to the Distortion Realm will open for him. (Clockwork would definitely appreciate and respect Giratina and vice versa for being willing to mentor the goblin child)

(You tell me that Danny doesn’t have the attitude to realize he’s fighting some eldritch being and still try to punch it anyways.)

[pinkeoni]

Will is the Most Powerful Source of Energy

(aka me finding a way to tie Will into the Russia plot)

So the cover for the lab is the United States Department of Energy, who is basically in charge of nuclear energy and weapons. We see the lab try to breed kids into weapons with their psionic powers. Eleven demonstrates this ability pretty well.

But what if they were also breeding them as a source of energy? After all, we are shown in season 4 that they test their ability to control lights, not to mention that one of their other covers is Hawkins Power and Light.

Also in the puzzle game, which granted isn’t canon but may hold some potential easter eggs for the show, there’s a lab worker who explains they are trying to explore new forms of energy. The name of that chapter is “Strange Science: Let There Be Light”

Okay so here’s where I try to find a way to to connect Will Byers to all of this.

Will is responsible for giving power to the lights in the Upside Down, I’m pretty confident in this. Nancy’s dialogue in 4x07 points to this, when she says “Will found a way. Will. He found a way to speak to Joyce through the lights.” She uses Will’s name twice here for emphasis, and following this is when they discover the light particles that they can use to communicate, the one’s that “feel good.” (Also the music track they use here is the same as the one as when Will is talking to Joyce through the Christmas lights for the first time) Not to mention this is the same season where Will is constantly being bathed in light.

So Will can power the lights, but more than that whatever magic he used to power the lights stayed there in the UD for years, almost like an inifinite battery. Will’s energy could possibly be even more powerful than nuclear energy.

At the time the show takes place the still would’ve been in the Cold War with Russia, which was basically a nuclear arms race that the show incorporates through it’s supernatural themes.

I think Russia’s motivation is pretty simple, they want power.

At this point in time, post s4, I don’t think that Russia is after Will Byers specifically, but they are after powerful energy. I think this extends to El to, if they heard about a girl who could rip holes in space and time they would most definitely be after her too. If Russia had similar goals as the US in the real Cold War then it’s a safe venture that they have similar goals in the show as well— they want to be able to harness whatever supernatural and psionic energy they can that would give them more power.

Once there’s a power reveal in season 5, there’s a chance that Russia might go after Will. None of the characters would be expecting Will to have powers (unless Owens knows something) but especially Will, so there’s a chance that whatever power reveal we get could be messy and public, and could leak to Russia intel.

[thaylepo]

NOUSE I'M CRYING

Oh my god, I just had the Best Big Brain moment, 

Y’all know that Loony Toons cartoon with the big dog that makes friends with a kitten and winds up thinking the kitten’s been baked into a cookie (but kitty is fine, don’t panic) 

This scenario, but with OtterShore. Sparks decides to make otter shaped cookies, gives one to Shore who discovers that she has a little pouch for storing food so she tucks an extra one in there. Then forgets about it. 

Then BOOM, Gaster’s got the de-ottering machine ready to go, only it’s a tad more, explosive than expected because that’s just par for the course for him. And Shore poofs back to normal, only she kind of goes flying and Gaster doesn’t see that because of said explosion that makes a little dust cloud. 

What he does see is an otter cookie lying on the ground that fell out of the vanishing otter pouch

Gaster: OH GOD NO I TURNED HER INTO A COOKIE, I AM REVOLTING, I AM A SHAM I-

Grillby, poking his head in: Oh hey Shore you’re back

Shore saluting from a pile of knocked over boxes: Indeed and I was going to kick Gaster’s butt but now I just feel bad

This is so DUMB but I’m grinning like crazy

[chalabrun]

how i ship madasaku (woyy ver.)

Disclaimer: This is not an analysis of how the fandom ships Madasaku. This isn’t pertinent to any other version other than my own that exists in my WOYY AU. This is not the result of fanon influence, nor should it be taken as such, because this is not a fanon analysis. If any other Madasaku fans want to know how your favorite authors/fanartists portray Madasaku, I highly recommend you ask them. They’ll probably love the interest. This is a subjective take and it shouldn’t be blown out of proportion as anything but.

So, with The Maiden wrapping up (it’s finished, I’m just staggering the posting rate) and The Mother (its sequel) coming very soon, I thought I’d round out the year with my thoughts on this ship as it exists in my series. It doesn’t need saying that Madasaku is a controversial ship at best, and has extreme potential for dark fic at worst. At its absolute best, time travel AU’s that occur before Madara snaps highlight what can be fantastic about this pairing as much as more villainous, post-canon takes can showcase how toxic it can become. 

(And for the record, people who utilize more toxic dynamics shouldn’t be shamed for it. The potential is there, easily. Madara after he left Konoha spirals into depravity despite his endgame being anything but (”a world of peace, of winners, of love” is basically the tagline for the Inifinite Tsukiyomi) and there’s a lot to address for the harm Madara does, of how inhumane and merciless he can be. The toxicity is already there post-canon if an author decides he lives, but it only takes certain nudges to make it glaringly apparent.)

Which I think is what makes Madasaku such a fascinating character study. As I’ve come to find, healthy fic of this ship post-canon are rare. Very rare. Have I read them? Not greatly. Do I know they exist sparingly compared to time travel AU’s and modern mafia AU’s that draw so many people in? Certainly? Now, on to the discourse!

To begin, I think it merits saying that Sakura, as the main character, exists in a curious space of potential and underutilized latency despite being the main heroine. Now, in light of the well-established reincarnation cycle that Sasuke and Naruto share, it goes without saying that inserting Sakura as part of it as Naruto and Sasuke’s past lovers IS a popular trope, especially since Sakura married Sasuke (yes, they do love each other; Sasuke can’t be forced into a relationship, ya’ll!) and Naruto’s crush did flourish into true love. With the love triangle that flourished in canon well and true, it makes the potential of past love interests and finding ardor in those past incarnations who loved Sakura’s past incarnates a fun possibility to mess with in fandom.

That being said, what about a relationship with one of Sasuke’s past incarnations and Sakura?

I think what makes Sakura such an interesting choice (beyond what I’ve established here) is that she simultaneously inhabits two extremes. At once does Sakura embody the bull-headed, strong-armed approach of Tsunade with the strength to match. She has a temper, bonks offenders on the head as much as she smashes her way through the world, and responds to challenges with a tomboyish, undoubtedly masculine glee. Tsunade’s power was described as being like a “god of war”, while Sakura has undoubtedly surpassed her in every way, justifying Sakura’s own intense, warlike nature. To say that Sakura has an intense amount of masculine traits like Tsunade is valid. In Part II, she’s very battle-ready, warlike, refuses to give up, and someone who won’t back down from a challenge. And the same time...

Yet, Sakura embodies the feminine just as much. She was a victim of bullying that revealed itself in her demeanor, which in turn made her chronically insecure. From her introduction on, she’s established as someone who is a romantic, very centered on love (that doesn’t always have to revolve around Sasuke), has motifs that are strongly associated with Japanese femininity, and is established as being a kind and caring person who puts others before herself on many occasions; while Tsunade is definitely a caring person herself, she’s not as soft-hearted as Sakura, which is fine. But still, the crux of Sakura’s character is that she encapsulates both in equal spades.

Which is what makes contrasting her to Madara so extremely interesting. 

Now, Madara is a complex tangle himself. Madara before Izuna’s death is a kind man, as Hashirama said. As a child, he had the same boisterousness and inferiority complex as characters like Naruto, and was the underdog in his relationship with Hashirama. As an adult, he seemed to be shier and tended to avoid confrontation/directness, even after Izuna died. Despite his uneven morality, even when revived did he himself state the belief that he wouldn’t seriously fight a child due to how unequal it would’ve been. Even during the war, in his interactions with Sasuke he wasn’t proactive in fighting him, it took him a long time to fatally wound him after offering an alliance and it seemed to be as a last resort. Does this mean he’s entirely gentle? Not at all. Despite the fact that he saved Obito as a child, or that he wanted to save the world from despair, at the same time, he’s the reason Rin died and can kill thousands of people without second thought (bonus addition that his name itself can start wars, as a testament to his power in a negative light); he also stole Sharingan without remorse (threatening to take Obito’s), and did it to Kakashi during the war and threatened Sasuke with Sharingan theft, too. 

Outside of the extremes Madara embodies in canon, one thing that is a fulcrum of his character in The Maiden is the fact that he’s grieving. The reason for this was established early on, but Madara was never made aware of the fact that the Uchiha were massacred, or that he was halfway responsible for it. When he first met Sakura, he makes it plain that he believed the Uchiha were killed off like the Senju, mostly from the Shinobi World Wars that killed thousands over the decades. When he discovers the truth, it crushes him; he wanted nothing more than to protect the Uchiha, even when he couldn’t. Especially since Obito, the boy he mentally and spiritually destroyed to gain a pawn, was half-way responsible for the Uchiha massacre. Of which makes it Madara’s fault, not even considering how those still loyal to Madara’s ideals wanted to start a coup that implicated them by Danzo. 

In this happening, his grief is compounded by the fact that WOYY Madara saw himself as dead when Hashirama killed him them first time. Like a ghost returned to his own corpse, he shut down his humanity to enact the Tsuki no Me/Eye of the Moon Plan. When he meets Sakura, after learning the truth of the Uchiha, that grief is the start of his spiral back into humanity through his vulnerability. And Sakura plays a huge part in guiding it along, both intentionally and not, over the course of the year they work together to begin exposing the Uchiha Massacre and other dark crimes Danzo facilitated. 

A phrase I think suits their interactions the most is that Sakura very much puts her foot down, but keeps her fists up with Madara. Despite the fact that Madara is deeply depressed and in a state of mourning over the Uchiha, she’s not his doormat, nor is she there to perform emotional labor to help him cope even if it does play into their growing relationship. 

To put it simply, it’s Sakura’s presence at the start of Madara’s fall back into humanity that makes him fall for her (even if it takes a lot time); it’s her place throughout its reawakening that steadies and develops it. More than that, in sacrificing everything to clear the Uchiha’s name and their reviled status in the world (which is what Sakura continued for Sasuke when he had that hope snuffed out by the end of his final battle with Naruto at the start of The Maiden), he grew to know her as someone who didn’t blindly worship the Leaf and wanted to set things right (as blind love of Konoha earned Madara’s hatred, like with Hashirama). In this happening, he grew to trust Sakura. And in trusting her with both his humanity, his clan, and faith to make Konoha atone, it allowed his heart to open and for feelings to enter through their times together. 

I know it’s a popular Uchiha fanon that they tend to be powersexual and fall for people who can beat them up, but for WOYY Madara, this couldn’t be further from the truth. If anything, people more powerful than him earn Madara’s hatred because it taps into a feeling of insecurity in his own abilities he hates feeling. Even with Gai--the only other person besides Hashirama who has the power to kill him--and the enthusiasm Gai earned from Madara, he would likely hate him if they ever came to interact due to how much of a Leaf patriot Gai is. Hell, the reason Madara fell for Hashirama was because he trusted Hashirama with their dream and, more than that, he trusted Hashirama with his clan despite his faith not being ironclad. Before the cracks showed, that consideration for his clan is what made Madara fall for Hashirama, and it was the same with Sakura. 

Although Sakura does become much more powerful in The Maiden--and will continue to grow exponentially into The Mother--he doesn’t care about her power at all. It’s the trust she earned, the sanctity of the Uchiha to Madara she honored and fought to salvage, and his vulnerable humanity she was there throughout to foster and protect (even unknowingly) that earned Sakura his heart. 

As for Sakura, what made her fall for Madara was the fact that she was saving him when she couldn’t save Sasuke, as the want to save Sasuke made Sakura fall in love with him in the manga. It was the same case with Naruto, too. Even if it wasn’t her intention, nor does the plot revolve around Sakura saving Madara, it happened and she fell in love with him. She fell for his vulnerability, for his heart, for his humanity that showed him who he really was. She fell in love with who he really was as someone there for her throughout her trials and one of the hardest journeys she’d taken to date. 

In The Maiden, Sakura fell to her lowest point in doing what she did almost entirely solo with its success riding on her shoulders alone. But, like Hashirama, Madara was a light for her. Even though he was difficult at times, she stood up for herself and shut conflict down, especially when it was inappropriate (like Madara haranguing her for her dual feelings for Hashirama as much as him). 

With her foot down and fists up, it’s more or less the story of how Madasaku came to be in the WOYY.

[ghostesez]

The Timeline of this Show Makes No Sense - Let’s Talk About That

We need to start by establishing when Danny’s accident happens. The show’s pilot, ‘Mystery Meat’, is established to happen about a month after the accident. We don’t know when exactly ‘Mystery Meat’ takes place, but we do know that it’s prior to Halloween (since Halloween is featured promenantly in ‘Fright Knight’). For the sake of the timeline, let’s say that ‘Mystery Meat’ happens a week after the school year starts (I’ll explain why this is wrong soon).

In the US, school usually starts on the last week of August, usually a Tuesday. I’m pining August 24, 2004 as the start date of the trio’s freshman year. This would put the accident at circa July 24, which is a nice date considering it’s a Saturday. I’m putting ‘Mystery Meat’ so early in the school year for two reasons:

1. Despite the love in the Phandom of mentioning it in fics, it’s never said that Danny missed school because of the accident. We know it was likely significant since Danny’s family definitely knows that it happened (they talk about it during the episode). It’s reasonable to assume that the accident happened while Danny was on break from school.

2. The whole plot centers around Sam changing the lunch menu. While Sam is implied to have been discussing it with the school board for a while, Sam is the type of person to change the menu ASAP and not wait around to do it months later. For all we know, she could have been talking to the school board instead of the school because she didn’t yet attend Casper while on summer break from middle school. This also points to ‘Mystery Meat’ happening early in the school year

So, I’m setting ‘Mystery Meat’ as happening on August 30-31, 2004. Meaning that all of the follow episodes happen between September 1 to October 30, just under two months:

But! Prisoners of Love takes place during May, it is specifically on May 9th if I remember correctly, because Maddie makes reference to that day being the date of her wedding anniversary. So what the hell is going on here?

If we instead say that ‘Mystery Meat’ happens in January, this makes more sense with the timeline established in season one. The accident can then be set as having happened over winter break, and my two previous points above applying to a new semester rather than a new year (which makes Sam’s comment about talking to the school board make even more sense, even if she now took longer to complete her goal). The inclusion of Danny being shown at Casper in most of the season one episodes makes it difficult to establish when his summer break was. Since ‘Fright Knight’ comes after ‘Teacher of the Year’, this would mean that all of these episodes happen over the course of about ten months. An accident in January would mean that these episodes happen in his sophomore year.

There’s one particular screen shot from ‘Shades of Gray’ that complicates things.

So, ‘Shades of Gray’ happens between October 22, 2004 and October 31, 2004. Assuming it happens on October 23 and the days after, that leaves only a couple of days for ‘Teacher of the Year’ before moving onto ‘Fright Knight’. I guess it’s possible, but a very small window of time, especially if you buy into season one happening over a year instead of like two months (which you probably should).

Here’s the rest of season one:

And here’s the first part of season two:

The episodes ‘13’ to ‘The Fenton Menace’ take place between November 1, 2004 and December 24, 2004. Let’s talk specifically about ‘Memory Blank’ and ‘Reign Storm’ for a moment. In ‘Memory Blank’, Danny gets his logo from Sam. This makes sense with the date established in that photo from ‘Shades of Gray’, but there’s no way Valerie knew to title the photo as ‘Phantom’. Amity Park calls him Inviso-Bill and all manner of nicknames until ‘Reign Storm’, when Danny sets them straight. How does she know his name is Phantom? Does she know other secrets of the universe? Is Valerie secretly a member of the Illuminati? More at 11.

Okay now for the rest of season 2:

Let’s assume that ‘Micro Management’ takes place in January. ‘Reality Trip’ takes places at the end of the school year and the beginning of summer break. The rest of the season takes place between January and May. The season takes place in a spring semester of their freshman or sophomore year, depending on when the accident happened. Because of ‘Prisoners of Love’, I’m inclined to believe that it was their sophomore year.

Here’s the list of all of season three with the intentional exclusion of ‘Phantom Planet’ because we all hate it:

‘Reality Trip’ served as both the end of season two and the beginning of season three... kinda. Which is why ‘Inifinite Realms’ is listed as the second episode here. The 2000’s were a weird time for Nickelodeon scheduling, guys. Just go with it.

(‘Urban Jungle’ is bizarre okay, I have no idea what happened there. It’s a season three episode and definitely premiered after ‘Infinite Realms’, since that’s where we first meet Frostbite, who then shows out to train Danny in ‘Urban Jungle’.)

We know that ‘Claw of the Wild’ happens during the summer, it’s explicitly stated in-episode. This means that ‘Infinite Realms’ to ‘Frightmare’ happen over the course of a whole ass year. Nobody is shown to be at school during ‘D-Stabilized’, so it may or may not happen during summer as well.

They’re shown back at school by the time of ‘Phantom Planet’. If the accident happened in January 2004, this is the beginning of their senior year. If the accident was during July 2004, it is the beginning of their junior year.

It’s been a minute since I’ve seen the show, so I may have missed a couple canonical dates. Please let me know what you think.

TL;DR: The show runners didn’t plan out a timeline and I wasted an hour of my life typing this out on my phone. Huzzah 🙌

[hashirun]

Cuddle weather but I have no one to cuddle- I'll just hug myself til I fall asleep lol.

So my mind, in its current fuzzy state, keeps going back to the opening line in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being:

The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum!

Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that we indeed live in a loop, where we're destined (or doomed) to live the exact same life over and over and over again.

Then it makes me wonder - do loops have a beginning - and if they do - am I living this life for the first time, thus bearing the responsibility to live this life as fully as possible for the sake of my future infinite selves?

Or.. Am I merely one of the inifinite recurrences of my past and future selves, my whole life pre-determined from birth til death? And if so, then isn't it pointless to struggle since the outcome will be the same no matter what?

Another obvious thought: surely my past selves also posed this exact, same question at the exact, same moment in my life, which means this moment is very much part of my fate. Whatever I do, whatever I think, I've already done hundreds, thousands, millions of times in the past, and will do hundreds, thousands, millions of times in the future.

It makes my head spin just thinking about it, I guess I'll just go for that nap.

[asynca]

If a straight cisgender male writes about a bisexual/gay character as their main character, is that morally correct? Won't they end up fetishizing people of other sexual orientations?

Nah. It really depends on how they write the characters (for example, you can write characters in a grossly superficial and non-respectful way) whether or not they’re actually causing harm with it. Many cisgender men can write really great characters of any sexuality in a helpful and respectful way, even if there are sex scenes. 

I think what really matters when we’re talking about non-queer writers writing queer characters is whether or not they’re taking the place that should be rigthfully filled by a queer writer. 

For example, anyone can write fanfic, and one fanfic writer isn’t going to prevent another fanfic writer from writing. The space is inifinite. Everyone can write with no restrictions, so there’s little harm in a non-queer person writing queer characters in the fanfiction space. 

Outside it, though, it’s trickier. 

For example, if a cisgender dude accepts a job to write gay characters, he’s actually taking the place of a queer writer who’d been writing their own representation. In that case, I would strongly, strongly recommend non-queer folks don’t apply for jobs that should be filled by queer writers. “But they’re less famous/experienced than straight writers,” yeah and they’ll stay that way if straight writers continue to take their jobs! Many mainstream queer characters have been written by straight people, and while they might be respectfully written, just think of how much more meaningful those characters would be if given life by queer writers. Queer writers are often relegated to really niche places in the writing industry, and really need the opportunity to step up and shine. ANYWAY I’ll get off my soap box. 

Also, when a non-queer writer gets a traditional publishing contract and they’re writing queer books, they’re potentially preventing a queer person from getting published because the publishing houses don’t have unlimited money. However, it’s possible the publishing house may not have considered giving a contract to a queer writer and only wanted to contract that specific writer anyway, so again, it’s tricky. 

Really what non-queer folks should be asking themselves are: 

1. Am I writing these characters respectfully, and

2. Can I be fairly sure I’m not taking the place of a queer writer? 

And if the answer is yes to both, I see no problem with them writing all the gay sex they want. In almost every case I see the, “You’re fetishizing x community,” and then read the source content, it’s more a case of someone within the community being upset that someone not from the community is writing x character/sexuality. I don’t think that’s helpful. If we want more representation, we need to encourage people not from our communities to always put representation into their work with the support they need to write x characters well. 

[firemama]

theres an extremely specific part of writing or creating fan content over original content that i absolutely adore, and additionally suspect many of the best authors ive ever read share which explains why those amazing writers never venture far inti original content.

i dont have a recognized word to call this particular important part of good fics, but in my head ive always refered to it as "logic building."

in essence, its like as follows:

the original content presents you 8 Hard facts, canons, whatever you want to call it. these are obvious rules everyone knows. like in,,, Naruto, people who use chakra have nature types. or in,,, futurama, mutants are nit welcome on the surface of earth. in adventure time, there was a nuclear war. in undertale, humans have primary soul traits and colors. in rick and morty, there is a ln absolute inifinity of timelines, for every different variable. so on so fourth. Content Makers establish absolutes, rules, finite truths in their world building.

and then theres existing blank spaces, of course, because content creators cannot addres an absolute infinite number of questions, inifinite situations, in the limits of whatever their medium. limited by their air time, page count, or the constraints of entertainment or the medium itself. things will always be unexplored. in adventure time, we know that fins favorite color is blue, but we dont know jake's. in undertale, we know frisk was a red soul, and was Determination, and the souls of the other mentioned humans, but we dont know the absolute extent of possible souls, because the knowledge we see is only derived from the monsters direct experience with the humans they h a v e seen.

even more over, for the longer a story goes, theree will always be plausible inconsistencies. conflicting statments or hinted things that cant fit with the laws established. finn was colorblind, and this is pointed out by Jake, who is a dog; dogs are colorblind, jake would be unable to tell. in pokemon, pikachu learns moves that are not actually learnable for pikachus.

logic building is filling the gaps to explain where canon never could, or supporting the holes the story left by using the storie's own canons and logics. and its my favorite part of fic writing.

finn is red green colorblind, and his favorite color is blue, and that makes sense because blue is outside the red-green range, and it would stand out best in his vision. it makes sense he would never realize he is colorblind, because he was raised with dogs, and his dog family cannot see colors. adventuretime is set in a world that has large traces of the nuclear war, such as toxic radioactive rivers. jake has lived in the toxic land all his life. Jake, birthed from dogs, is already a mutant- capable of shapeshifting at will (due in part to what is a spoiler, so we'll call that "parentage"). i could write a story about adventure time- and one of my favorite things to write would probably be a conversation between the two of them talking about colors. Jake, as a mutant, seeing more colors than anyone in the family, including finn, his colorblind brother. Jake could talk about how hed always realized finn was colorblind in a /different/ way than the rest of the family, because jake could see than finn had always gravitated toward the dark and bright shades of blue, dressed in blue, and so on. Finn could talk about how Jake taught him about colors and their names well after they were babies, because his adopted parents didnt See or Name colors at all, and how jake helped him differentiate colors he couldnt truely see and name them. they could have a conversation about why jake never really t o l d finn that he was colorblind until the ruby/emerald incident- maybe it was because jake didnt want fin to feel like he was missing out, or maybe he didnt want to ostracize his brother any more than finn already had been as a kid- a human amound dogs and often teased by their dad for being a "baby" since he didnt grow as fast as his canine brothers. they could talk about things like how to finns eyes, princess bubblegum had always looked /blue/ and that flameprincess had been the sheer opposite of his limited color spectrum, that her coloring looked muted and not-blue. they could talk about how maybe jake could see even more than the normal visiual spectrum, and hiw truly amazing Lady looks to him even amoung other rainicorns, because she has more colors then they really do.

i could write on and on and on about the inbetween establishments of the shows rules, and logic, and how it could fill in a gap as simple as a favorite color of a character. it is infinitely interesting to me to build that logic and explore the whys and to look at a plot hole and explain it. and in people who write passionate, slow build pieces, i see SO much of that, too, of writing to fill in the gaps between walls that already exist. its a challange and an enjoyment to figure out the whys.

and maybe thats why original content isnt for every amazing fanfic writer. maybe you can write absolutely spectacular characters and plots and concepts and emotions. but maybe the interestingnpart isnt MAKING walls. maybe the interesting part isnt building the world, starting it all. maybe the interesting part is the hyper complexities and building the network, and thats so much easier to do when the walls are already built.

i call that kind of writing "logic building" in my head because i dont know what else to call it, but fuck do i love that freeform exploration of limits and explanations.

[arahabakix]

ursa major, cepheus, centaurus, aldebaran, reigel, deneb, antares, sirius a/b, star cluster, meteor c:

anjaliii!!! ily and thank you for sending me this!!! (*≧︶≦))(￣▽￣* )ゞ ( @svmeragi gonna tag you cause tumblr notifs are weird,,,)

ursa major: what are the character traits that define you the most?

people tell me i’m kind and empathetic? and also that i’m too caught up with 2D characters and get too excited for someone who’s practically a shut-in,,,

cepheus: do you vibe more with the term idiot, asshole or dumbass?

all threee,,, i’ve been called all these terms with varying degrees of affection (not an insult, don’t worry) so i vibe with them all,but if i had to pick i’d go with dumbass because as my prof. put it, “drake, for someone so academically gifted, you’re freakin dumb”

centaurus: if you could fist fight one historical figure, which one would it be and how hard would you punch them?

h*tler and i would get saitama to train me beforehand. there are other ppl too i had a list somewhere, but can’t recall anyone else,,,

aldebaran: what is your most obnoxious interest?

idk if i have any, but i did have a thing were i’d climb to the top of buildings and lean over the ledge, which my therapist told me would put me under s****** watch,,, and maybe the kinks i’m into, which once again, gave my therapist a hard time because she went, draco im concerned for your safety 

riegel: put your music on shuffle and give us the first five songs

p.s. red i by  TK from 凛として時雨

hurricane by panic! at the disco

hang ‘em high by my chemical romance

sorry haha i fell asleep by egg

jupiter by the marias

deneb: you can turn one book into a movie, tv show or video game. which one are you picking?

deathless, the night circus, or the raven cycle, these are three books which captivate me with their visuals so i’d like to see them done well, + i would like an oyasumi punpun or blue period anime adaptation and tokyo ghoul reboot plssss

antares: think of a movie which means a lot to you, now describe the first scene that comes into your mind!

the perks of being a wallflower;  the tunnel scene where charlie stands in the back of the pick up truck, arms outstretched, and there’s a song playing in the bg and he says, we are inifinite,,, seeing perks was a comfort ritual cause it reminds me that healing is possible and this particular scene always embodied that sentiment

sirius a/b: what’s your favourite sound and smell?

rain and coffee!!! i love the sound of rain and the smell of coffee,, i love those mornings when it’s raining and im sitting on my veranda, drinking a hot cup of coffee

star cluster: what is something you have gained, something you have lost and something you let go of during the past year?

i honestly can’t recall because i’ve been feeling horribly lost since this year began, but im trying to accept things as it happens and keep track of change

meteor: have you ever eaten dirt? if yes: on a scale from 0 to 10 would you do it again?

yes i have and i would do it again and hopefully pull a krishna and show my mum the cosmos,,,

🌌 space asks🌌

[th3okamid3mon]

Spies in disguise, weirdly wholesome (Spoilers)

This movie was so freaking weird. I thought Blue Sky Studios was so dead, the only movie I´ve seen from them was Ice Age and Robots, and Ice Age went downhill after the 3rd movie. But this??? This could be their revival.

Sinopsis: 

Lance Sterling is one of the best spies in the agency. He loves his job and does it really well but when a bad guy starts harming different people across the world using his face, Sterling has to clear up his name in any way possible with the help of a young scientist called Walter Beckett. Problem is, though, the same scientist tried a very complex experiment on him by accident which result on him turning into something everybody hates: a pigeon. 

Animation: 

I´m sure Blue Sky has made more animated movies than just Ice Age, but being completely honest I literally only knew that one. I loved that movie, I also like Robots, but the rest they´ve made aren´t as striking to me. 

As an animation studio they know what they are doing, it is really good. The details in the water and rocks, all the backgrounds? They all look awesome!

It´s no Klaus though. In comparison to other movies, this is pretty much blends with the rest of the CGI movies there exist. Ice Age and Robots had a very distinctive style, but this one? This looks like something Pixar would do (they kind of went a bit downhill, Toy Story 4 was not needed and The Incredibles 2 felt off and incomplete, animation was fine, writing meh. I hope Onward and Soul are better. Fingers crossed.) I also thought Dreamworks made it. It´s not very... original as in the style of the animation. 

The lighting was cool as hell!! The first scene in Japan WAS SO FREAKING AWESOME. It had amazing highlights and it was perfect blend in the atmosphere. The darks werent so obscure you couldnt see anything and when a certain light hit the character it was a great contrast. 

The design of the characters were really great, the background characters looked kind of the same though. It was like the main characters were anime protagonists in this case, not only because of the design but because they use more striking and hotter colors in them while the background characters had really opaque palettes. 

Story and Characters: 

So.. Disclaimer: Spy movies taken seriously is not my thing. I HATE Mission Imposible. I HATE JAMES BOND 1, 2, 3, INIFINITE WHATEVER. I hate them, they are boring and the main characters are worst than Superman (Who, by the way, I also HATE. not the animated one, just the live action one. LIKE BATMAN I HA-). That´s because they portray them as all mighty, powerful, type of card of all traits. Making them too useful and too able makes it boring and it makes you question Why do they even have a freaking team with them?

In this case you have the all mighty, hella cool and able Lance Sterling. He works alone, he is able to do everything and anything, right? Well, at least he is charismatic and such. Of course you have to add something to him so he isn´t just a cocky super human spy. What do you do? GIVE. HIM. AN. OBSTACLE. AND. MAKE. IT. HILARIOUS. Thank god this is comedy. 

It was a really weird premise for the super spy to become a pigeon. From all animals, a Pigeon? Uh... Yeah, sure? This director and writer do know how to make this shit work. And BOI was this really interesting. 

So it goes like this: Sterling goes against a bad guy who isn´t even the main bad guyTM. He does his cool fighting montage during which POOF, GLITTER! Glitter..? Da fuq? And he rolls with it because if he doesn´t he COULD DIE. (I know there´s the flashback montage for Walter at the beginning but bare with me). He gets the briefcase, which had a very dangerous and powerful machine which in spanish is called LITERALLY ASESINO (MURDERER) , LA-DI-DA-DI-DA he goes back to the agency and... The briefcase is empty and some agent comes all of the sudden and has some recording where it is shown HE stole it and killed some guys in Japan with it.

But he escaped, relax. 

Now, previously he had fired Walter because he got into Sterling´s things and put the glitter bomb, which actually did his purpose: distract and make everyone happy. 

Walter is actually a curious character to me. He has good intentions, he just wants to make a safer world and all his inventions in comparison to the rest are to minimize damage and to protect not only the spies but also the villains. Now days we have characters who are mostly all in favor to not kill, because killing is wrong. It´s not a new thing, its a pretty old concept, but it is mostly seen in TV shows (at least from the movies I´ve seen, even if the hero doesn´t want to kill, the villain still ends up dead somehow). From all the movies I´ve seen, there were several that didn´t killed the villain but... I didn´t like them at all because the villain didnt even made sense (IM LOOKING AT YOU FROZEN 1 AND THE INCREDIBLES 2, FUCKING WASTE OF MONEY AND VILLAINS, SO HELP ME GO-) 

I dont know why Walter stick to me so much more than any other characters in other movies. His motivations were always for the greater good even as a kid. The biggest inspiration in his life was and is his mother, and I think because of her dead that motivation became even stronger. His whole personality and genuine care into his work to help others leaks in everything he does. It´s in your face, ALL THE TIME, but in a good way? It isnt at the point of being annoying, it´s weird how they manage to make such a nice character with certain points that are quirky without making him annoying. 

Ok, back to the story without spoiling much and going to the point, they both start working out how Sterling as a pigeon can do his spy work and Walter works on an antidote while also helping Sterling with the spy work. Question: Is it original? I dont know. Does it matter? No. 

Look, the concept of a character turning into something is not really original and as spy movies we all KNOW in all 9 levels of Mictlan that Spy theme movies are not original at all. Spy Kids? That was slightly more original than any other spy movie I ever seen AND I LOVED IT. The important manner here is and will always be the characters which... Well... Will Smith acted as Will Smith, or well.. I watch in spanish... wait... 

Ok, I already knew Mario Filio was the official Will Smith voice Actor... 

HOLY SHIT, EMILIO TREVIÑO IS MILES MORALES TOO?!?!? 

Where was I...? Ah, yeah. 

As a plot, it had pretty much a lot of dark themes and several heavy spots. For example: The talk between Will- I MEAN Sterling and Walter in the boat, where they talk about how to fight the villain we saw a bit more of them. We already knew the motivation for Walter, but Sterling? The cocky cock has feelings? WHO WOULD´VE KNOWN! He really doesnt want people to get killed and it gets to him, because that form limits him a lot. Walter is so stress too, they both want the best for the people and they argue but in a manner that makes it a bit heavy. Walter is still young and too dreamy, Sterling has worked in the battle field, he tells Walter  you have to fight fire with fire and doing it Walter´s way is not gonna work because bad people doesnt care about the good people. Walter replies that there are no good or bad, only people. (UM... I HAVE A BIT OF A PROBLEM WITH THAT?? But I will discuss it later.) 

There some scenes i did not expect to get emotional and it quickly returns to comedy but not as awkwardly as I would thought. It´s a fun movie, if it wants too it gets a tad heavy and if it wants to it becomes extremely dumb. It´s a weird blend, the concept is super dumb but the plot and the characters teaches you certain things like: People still get hurt even if you acted with the best intentions. Sometimes to solve a problem you need to think in another way. Kindness is a powerful weapon. And most importantly: Weird is good. 

Conclusion: 

So... It was a really fun movie. Weirdly wholesome, weirdly good! Pretty good actually, it didn´t get me much as other movies but it did stick to me. It has good animation, the characters are enjoyable and charismatic, the super good boi is Walter MY GOD, HE DESERVES THAT JOB HE GOT. Sterling is a good pal once he sees the value in Walter. That part with the egg was strange but Walter made it have sense and they both rolled with it and it was pretty cool.

Now, the messages are good. I understand people are people and such. You shouldnt kill because its wrong. I mean, the villain DID kind of had second thoughts after Walter saved him from falling after turning the droid off, which was SO COOL TO HAVE KILLIAN LOOK LIKE THAT. He didn´t had to say shit, just that look of ¨Huh... That kid did save me even after I tried to kill him...¨ Yes, give me more shown not tell. THIS MOVIE HAD A LOT OF SHOW NO TELL, THANK YOU. 

Still, bad people not always want to change. Some bad people stay bad, and sometimes we will have to fight back. We had movies like The Incredibles 2 or Steven Universe: The Movie shown what should we do and what happens to the villains. They had a backstory, they had their motives, as heartbreaking their backstories were what they did was wrong and at least one of them in those examples were punished for their wrongdoing. Steven in the movie fought back instead of getting himself hurt. 

In this movie, the villain was kind of kept a mystery, his backstory wasn´t a flashback or anything, it was told by the character but I think that was a good thing because the pain in his eyes and the anger he felt leaked from his explanation to Sterling. Even when he was explicitly a bad guy from the beginning, before even the movie started, we can see that those bad guys, in fact, are people too, and as the good people they can get hurt too because they have families, friends, pets, interests, hobbies and more. Walter does have a point, they are just people so we shouldn´t kill them. I guess the problem I have with the saying ¨There´s no good or bad, just people¨ is that the people who do bad things, people like Killian, they hurt and murder so many people and I am not fine with those kind of people. I say Eye for an eye, but then again ¨Eye for an Eye and everyone gets blind¨. 

I dont know why or how they manage to get somehow complex in movie where a person LITERALLY TURNS INTO A FEMALE PIGEON. Oh, yeah, by the way. Sterling becomes a female pigeon because Walter uses a feather of his female pet pigeon. 

I had low expectations and came out impressed and howling with laughter even after getting home. I do recommend this movie for his whole ridiculousness and for his weird but wholesome character development, bonding, different characters and final message. 

Weird is good and we need weird to make the world a better, safer place. 

-Sincerely weird, T.O.D 

[random-xpressions]

I'm an adventurous person. Sorry but don't get the picture of someone with a backpack, traversing through tough terrains of some distant land day and night tarrying to the point of exhaustion. No, that's too gross for me. My idea of adventure is more abstract. Spare me an empty room and I'll be the happiest on earth. To spend even one hour with no external distraction, I could literally feel all my focus and energy slowly moving phase by phase inward - to the larger universes that are yet to be fathomed by humanity. If in a drop lies the essence of an entire ocean - then isn't our soul, the very drop of those inifinite universes? I traverse a path far more spine chilling than any of the most dangerous and life risking rock climbs. For if I'm to slip off even by an inch, then I'm certain that my consciousness will go to a state beyond any possible recovery but if i ever succeed to reach the pinnacle I'm marking - then trust me - the sight from that spot will simply be beyond words...

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