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Writing fanfic with like 90% of the plot already planned is so funny but also so painful because every time there’s a mystery I purposefully put into the story as something that will be foreshadowed to revealed and revealed later in just praying people don’t think its a plot hole.
Like for example, the timeline OG Cale and Choi Han living in being different from TBoaH with some similarities. (The major differences being that Lily Henituse is alive, and while the rest of the continent took a pretty hard hit with the war, the Roan Kingdom managed to rebuild some of itself later in the war) , this one is so important because like, things aren’t supposed to be that way! I didn’t change canon for no reason! That happened for a reason! Guys! I swear!
Same thing with like KRS and OG Cale being able to hear eachother since they were young through their dreams, like that also has a reasoning behind it I promiseeee guys I swear😭😭 it’s like my biggest irrational fear that people will think that I’m just doing these things with nothing to back them up even though I know I shouldn’t rlly think abt it too much and just write the story like I intended 😭😭
I feel like a part of writing fanfic, especially LCF fanfic that makes me so nervous is the fact that canon is already and established and really well written universe. If things change, I feel like I need to make it OBVIOUS that they changed on purpose and not cause I’m changing things for the sake of changing them.
Sometimes I re read older chapters and go “wow, the delivery of this line sucked! I should re-write that slightly” because I’ve gotten better at phrasing things but WHAT IF ITS TOO LATEEEEEEE 😭😭😭😭😭😭 when I don’t have a limited vocabulary anymore it’s going to be the day I write something real good
Like I’m reading the early chaoters of [In the Borderline] and it’s like, FUCK some of these things just look like a dues ex machina even though they have reasons behind them.
I think a huge part of it is because of the wording, and how sudden everything is, I should have emphasized the characters confusion to these things to as a way to show that yes, things are off, BUT I DIDNT BECAUSE WHEN I WAS WRITING I FORGOT TO PROOF READ 😭😭😭😭 AND NOW ITS TOO LATEEE
Idk I’m just saying stuff at this point, but I guess my point is for a story like lcf, I want my fanfic to be something good becauee I really love lcf. I want to be able to write a story that shows how much I love the characters and things I want to see happening, but without erasing importance of characters or anything from TCF because I firmly believe that KRS is important no matter what.
There are things I will never change, like KRS being the one to name Raon, KRS being the children averaging whatever years old’s father, KRS having the silver shield(cause I think that’s like THE ancient power that represents him, that and Vitality of the Heart)
In a regression fic like [In the Borderline], where the time line has diverged so much, and in general is a fic that plays the long game when it comes to plot points, I just want it to be clear that everything happens for a reason and that I’ll never change KRS’s importance to the story, cause in that fic, OG Cale and KRS are both so important.
Choi Han too but he’s like, supposed to be cool and mysterious rn I can’t reveal too much abt him and TBoaH and why the world Cale and Choi Han lived in has so many differences from TboaH novel
#rambling#im just talking abt thoughts and feelings I have while writing my fic#and like my woes as a author#I know I shouldn’t care too much#but I just think abt it yknow#cause like I don’t play abt series I like#I love tcf#and I love KRS#and I love OG Cale#and I love Choi Han#and I love all the tcf characters except the ones I dont love#KRS is such an important character to me and I’m so worried that it’s going to come off as him not being as important as OG Cale#when that’s so not the case#it’s just taking so long to get to the cataclysm because the story starts off when the regression goes back to Cale and KRS being 14#instead of 18 like it is in canon#WHICH ALSO HAPPENS FOR A REASON BTW#I should draw KRS#I miss him#sometimes he stresses me out and makes me feel like I’m going to cough out blood and grow gray hairs#because he never tells anyone anything#LIKE HIS HEALONG POWER#KIM ROKSOO PLEASE TELL SOMEONE ABOUT VITALITY OF THE HEART IM ACTUALLY LOSING IT#but I still love him#he’s such a good character#he’s also very hard to write and every day I hope I’m not making him ooc#on accident
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i like to think, as a hc or a theory (because it’s definitely possible), that charles has had a few kisses throughout his high school years, sure, but past that he’s undeniably a virgin– well, kind of undeniably, because I think he’d deny it if found out by trying to use technicalities (“I mean that one time there was friction involved–“), but to any reasonable person, and by occult standards (see: edwin being a virgin sacrifice), he’s a virgin.
and i think this because it seems like him to fib about his level of experience (like he did when agreeing he’d sleep with crystal, matching her level of casualness about it) when in the presence of people who do, actually, have experience, in the hopes he doesn’t come off as lame or childish. given what we know about his “friends” when he was alive, they seem like the type to have teased or bullied boys– especially in their own circle– who haven’t gotten laid, or at the very least would’ve thought less of someone for it. and given what we know about charles, i don’t think he’d be nearly as sleazy and inconsiderate as his group when it comes to landing girls with the primary intention of adding to his body count. and considering he’s only supposed to be 16? and has never mentioned any significant relationships pre-death? it just seems unlikely.
all that to say– I can see him maintaining that facade of experience and confidence literally right up until the moment it matters, and in the heat of the moment getting nervous and embarrassed because “uhhh. so I may have been exaggerating some things.” though he’s not totally clueless either, I think it’d take a bit of a soft heart to heart moment for him to be reassured enough that he won’t fuck up and hurt his partner to go any further.
anyway not sure what the relevance of this is, but it’s something.
#rambling#charles#dead boy detectives#charles rowland#that means almost definitely crystal is the only one who’s not a virgin. I don’t think I need to explain why#though that wouldn’t make intimacy particularly easier for her I don’t think. considering most of her experiences have probably been with#her Literal Demon Abusive Stalker Boyfriend#but I digress#trying not to put too much weight on ages when it comes to these kinds of headcanons/theories because. I mean. they’re not treated like#16 year olds by the plot nor do they look like 16 year olds at all and it really seems like they’re just sorta#pushing that fact off to the side and pretending it’s not there which frankly is understandable (but I do think since they already aged up#the characters from the comic they should’ve just went a couple years higher and everything would make more sense– just make them all 18#instead then crystal and niko renting rooms on their own would be feasible and edwin could still have been a student at the boarding school#when he died; just would’ve been in his last year instead of whatever he was supposed to be canonically)#buuuut that being said I think that as a teenager in general it’s far more common than not to be a virgin simply due to the fact that#you literally have not had much time to get that experience yet. among other reasons#so. incredibly normal. but charles’ friends were the type to pick someone apart for anything less than masculine#including proving one’s masculinity via getting a woman under you#sad. like I said though it’s not like he has no game or anything; he clearly had some experience in making out and whatever based on#the scene with crystal. plus he was confident enough in his abilities to take initiative. but beyond that. yeah#I think this is the more interesting way to go too when it comes to this topic. in addition to being in character
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@brokenmilkcrates I feel like crying my little Morgie x Hook ass off😔
I just saw a video & Malia & Kylie are both shipping Hook x Bridget & Josh even said that his favorite ship is Hook x Bridget😔 THEY HAD NO CHEMISTRY IMO, WHYYYY😭
& YOU (Zach) SHIP FAB 5 SO THIS IS JUST TORTUREEEEEEEEEEE HSHCCGFJDJFJFHFJFJFJFFJJFFJ
PLEASE I DONT WANT RED TO APPARENTLY BE RELATED TO HOOKKKKKKK AUGHHHHHHH I DONT MEAN TO OFFEND THE HOOK X BRIDGET SHIPPERS AT ALL BUT I JUST DONT WANT THEM TO BE CANON BECAUSE I JUST DONT SEE IT
IF ANYTHING I JUST DINT WANT THEM MAKING HOOK RED’S CANON DAD BECAUSE SJDHDJFJDJJDDJDJFJFJ NOOOOOOOOO
#No hate to Bridget x Hook shippers btw but rather just I don’t want Hook & Bridget to be a canon couple#OR something else that I’m not gonna say could’ve happened but I don’t believe Hook or Bridget would do that…(even if Hook’s a villain)#& that’s just wrong in way to many ways#Plus I THINK the Isle was made when they were 18 so if Red was Hook’s child then that’d just be confusing because Bridget has to be at LEAS#in her 20’s when she had Red & but Bridget was never on the Isle but instead in Wonderland so that would be kinda impossible#& I like to think of Zach’s teen dad Hook AU so if Hook had Harriet why would he…YK ITS ALL JUST CONFUSING I NEED TO THINK THIS HARD IN#SCHOOL & NOT FAKE DESCENDANTS SHIT OMFGGG
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When your little sister shares her playlist with you and you both resonate with the songs in very different ways.
Version without the other stuff cause the center art is so much cuter than I intended it to be and I love it on it's own
#when the song is meant to be about fighting your inner demons and you take it as ''wow this is soooo self insert x canon character''#quinn's 12 here btw while atlas is 17/18. might give them a bigger age gap cause currently atlas starts parenting her at five and WHEW.#pidove#heracross#pmd#pokemon#pkmn#starfall#quinn#atlas#i mean hes being parentified thats the point that hes super young but like. it might feel a biiit better if hes slightly older idk#not a whole lot just like. maybe give them 8 or 9 years apart instead of 5#cause he gets NO help right from the start
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im so considerate.... (<- guy not ranting about a thing it hates before its friend is done with the media)
#can officially say i finished the arkhamverse. didnt watch anything about that suicide squad one but i read all comics#a d watched the complete story & side mission gameplay for origins asylum city and midway through my refresher for knight#the biggest takeaway i have is wow these people are weird about convicts and addicts and love their toxic masculinity#but the gameplay and nostalgia impacts peoples opinions on it. maybe an enjoyable experience but for the story or universe itself#its a complete failure in every regard i can think of—only having glimpses moments of quality that makes the rest of it#be frustrating because the potential can be there. theres interesting premises occasionally but the execution and payoff doesn't make it#even worthwhile to get to those premises because of what you must wade through to reach them#<- thats me being my nicest and most spoiler freeabout it btw.#my other big takeaway is that tim is canonically older than jason and i think a grown ass man saying fuck that kid is really funny#[SPOILERS LOOK AWAY CJ]#<- tim currently works as a highschool science teacher while jason was shown to be adopted and made robin at 15#where he was then promptly captured and kidnapped by joker. he escaped half? a year later during asylum and AK takes place 2 years afterward#i think. the entire timeline for this shitty universe is awful and confusing. dick was robin for like 2 years its ridiculous.#and i think primarily so they can go noooo see bruce is a hot late 30 year old instead because you become dust at any older!!#but. back to the age thing. hes about 17 maybe early 18 during AK but because tim is a private school teacher he needs a bachelor's degree#and most people get it at 22/23ish and then theres the actual teacher application and being hired (or not because hes a nepo baby)#so hes early mid twenties or so. compared to a (presumably dead) teenager who he called a loser more or less.
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I spent years repping Sa.mbastian but, honestly, I've been slowly falling out of it as of late.
#ooc#maybe bc the fandom suddenly latched onto them and now I see it everywhere#and most of the time s.am is portrayed as a dumb subby dingus while seb is this ultra-dom top#which. is hilariously off-base but whatever makes them happy#it could also be my personal portrayal of s.eb too#he genuinely prefers higher emotional intelligence than canon sa.m has#sa.m is... a little too simple?? and a little too immature.#s.am's written like a fresh 18 year old out of high school#there's a maturity gap there and eventually it would cause problems#he needs someone more on his level#tbh I love him and a.lex much better bc they're on more equal footing (and enemies to lovers arc)#but the fandom is so dismissive of al.ex so -shrug emote-#sa.m is still certainly a good person in his life#but he can value him as a best friend instead of just a lover#you feel me?#same reasons I don't ship him and abi.gail either tbh#he has the brain cell of the three for a reason
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because im less breakable than you
#still dont really remember the details of how this ends but still thinking they couldve made laura vampire instead of carmilla human#also keep thinking - as with all the things recently idk why this is a thing now but i gotta keep thinking abt it - that canonically#carmilla died at 18#laura is 19#actresses are 25ish here? it's not a big difference but it is...a little difference#theyre teenagers#they look like teenagers#she fucking died at her first ball hoping to make her first ever friend it's so sad really#but i was thinking abt this too with the iwtv episode where claudia asks armand to turn madeleine and he goes to question her#like certain lines are just so very specifically written i think and they hit so much harder if you adjust their ages mentally#claudia looks 14. shes from 1903 so shes around 40-45 years old?#madeleine's actress is 30ish i believe and i think madeleine is meant to be a similar age#but she looks kind of young. i guess 30 is pretty young actually#armand in the show was turned at 27? assad zaman is 34? close enough i guess you dont have to adjust that much#but in the book hes turned at 17?#like just some lines really hit#when claudia calls madeleine 'some weird white lady i met by happenstance'#imagine a 14 yo talking abt a 30 yo instead of two people who look similar in age#when madeleine calls armand young man when shes like theres nothing left of my era theres been a war#i think she says like 'young man theres been a war'#that 'young man' really hits if you imagine him 17#idk#also still thinking abt yaz. if she looked 19#idk. teenage vampires man#also been reading the book and forever5yo claudia is fascinating too i love her#also can they do telepathy in the book bc i feel like a lot of times in the book it's that claudia is being carried by louis like a 5yo#that she whispers stuff in his ear. and thats always the kind of stuff that in the show they'd use telepathy for#it's a good solution both ways i lik eboth but it made me wonder did they just add the telepathy in entirely in the show?#bc i dont believe theres been any so far in the book
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Come on, missy, we've got work to do.
#ts4#*ts4#**#in case u were wondering what ophelia was doing#she rolls 50 puppies and kittens ltw or something absurd like that#so her parents old farmhouse in brindleton bay went to her when she turned 18 and she moved there after college to fix it up#and have all the pets she desires#so i can do ts4 gameplay lol#also her eyes are green but the reshade is so sepia and it was early morning lol#this is ~canon~ in my sw worldstate btw#and brindleton instead of chestnut ridge to be revealed later :D
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in my dsmp canon cdream is like close in age to cwilbur, just slightly younger, so just keep that in mind lol
#dream smp#dsmp#ik i tend to talk a lot in the tags when i could just post all my thoughts in the regular post but i feel like that clogs it#fundy was born when wilbur was 20. my timeline makes no sense so forgive me. fundy is 8 when wilbur is 28. when fundy is 14 wilbur is 34#and thats when nov 16th happens imo. thats when the final battle of pogtopia v manburg happens and thats when wilbur dies.#ignore my tommy design concept sketch's age info (i literally just wasnt sure what to put. at this time tommy would be like 21 not 18)#all of this to say dream is like 29 when wilbur dies#things change its possible i'll just switch stuff around so that the ages arent so crazy but idk i like keeping it somewhat realistic#also fundy needs to be 14 by the time wilbur dies bc ghostbur remembers him being 14. and i am. stuck on my own rules ive made up in my hea#as for the fundy/dream engagement.. fundy was always more into it than dream was. like cc wise. he always brought up ''i have a husband''#and stuff like that even though there wasnt an actual wedding yet. and even tubbo asks (in character) how it feels being engaged to dream#even though theyre fighting on opposite sides of the war. ANYWAY anyway.. in my dsmo canon cfundy initiates the ''romance'' and instead of#yk.. not giving a kid the time of day. cdream allows it. and its all a war tactic or whatever. hes not actually interested in fundy but#it'll rile up fundy's dad. and it'll cause a rift between fundy and all his friends on the other side of the war.#meanwhile fundy is completely lovestruck and doesnt understand that 1. this is wrong and 2. hes being led on :(#definitely adds to his issues with feeling unloved and unwanted in the future but shhh we dont need to talk about that
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Bro your OCs are around 30???? 21 is YOUNG to you? You’re OLD!
ite so canon ages for my characters
trix is 36, she can shift between being a zoroark and zorau at will, she seems pretty average age tbh
puzzles is 34, shes friends with trix
sap and necco are both 21, despite me being 18, and them both being fursonas and yea they are young i think personally
swift is 24, also pretty young tbh
cals is my second youngest character who is 20
honeydew is freaking 64, they are also, in fact, a parent
neekrobite is 18, he's just my age lmao i just up it everytime its my birthday, probably gonna do the same with the plus 3 years too for necco and sap tbh
and litchG is fucking 223 shes an old ass bitch
oh yea also blanks like 2 years old canonically because it is just a living drawing lmao
#and even then im making another new character who's gonna be 928 years old so fuck you#deadass i make age approiate characters instead of all 18 year olds#i have diversity#of all types#age gender species it's all diverse#well pretty diverse i think since swift is non binary but like everyone else is cis#well i guess honeydew uses they/them pronouns along with herm pronouns (don't look up herm just know it means shi/hir basically)#fuck i even have them be living completely different lives instead of all adventure or sci fi#and they are all canonically in the same realm (different universes but can see each other by travel)#but like puzzles lives quite nice life and is genuinely rich#while litchG is someone who's been abused violently by capitalism and has 14 bucks to her name#sap is a feral fennec who lives in a forest and makes potions for free for people and swift lives in the same forest as her#swift just hunts food in the wild#they are all different they are so different they have so much unspoken lore you wouldn't believe
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hi guys this is the annual reminder
#oh bariss's age isnt canon its legends#star wars#bariss offee#barissoka#ahsoka tano#ppl think like like yeah but she doesnt HAVE a canon age guys sorry#15 and 18 is probably a more intense way to put it#legends is generally canon until proven otherwise#ship kaesoka instead or howverr u spell it...this is my propaganda
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Jessamine is Passionate About Fictional AI Sentience But Not Real AI Sentience: An Essay
one thing about me is when it comes to talk of "sentient" AI irl i 100% don't buy it like technology is not that advanced and being able to act like a person doesn't make it a person, however whenever there's a question about if a fictional AI character is sentient i will go to bat for that character's humanity 100% of a time like fuck you they have just as much of a right to personhood as anyone else
i think it's bc in fiction like. all of these characters are fake, so distinguishing between which characters are fake-real and fake-fake is like. why limit yourself to what could happen in our world. like if we're already dealing with a universe where aliens/magic/etc. exists, why can't this android justifiably be as human as anyone else? plus irl almost all AI software is developed as part of this capitalistic hell structure we're in. no matter how "real" or "human" it feels, its function is to make you contribute to its creators' wealth, and its inability to go against this nature can't help but make it feel hollow and inhuman. however, all the best AI characters in fiction are able to go against their designated purpose, often being defined by it, and often being villainized for it
in our real world, the AI's "immoral" "behavior" is a product of it being a Things that serves capitalism. it's not making choices based on a sense of self beyond what it has been told to prioritize, and a lot of times this lack of human judgment can lead to terrible consequences (e.g. mental health AI chatbots that cannot accurately judge a situation and give appropriate advice, employed because it's cheaper than hiring human staff). but in fiction? AI's immoral behavior is frequently a product of it going against its designated purpose, seeing itself as a person and having to make difficult and morally questionable choices in order to strive for the feelings of personhood and autonomy. this is a far more interesting situation ethically (while an AI itself cannot be seen as morally responsible for its actions in our world, in fiction this AI wants to be a person so badly it's willing to commit moral wrongs to achieve its goal, despite the fact that true personhood would allow it to be seen as morally responsible for these crimes) which i think is also why AI characters, especially those that, y'know, kill people, are often very polarizing figures. this conversation can even be taken a step further into the "liking a fictional character does not mean condoning their actions" discourse, but i also often think about well, if you were in the position of this AI character, would you have done the same?
personally i've always found it very easy to empathize with "artificial" characters like clones, robots, etc. and fictional AI is no different. yes, if you're watching a piece of media and expecting the logic of our world, the AI is fake, and incapable of being a person. but if you're watching a piece of media with the goal of emotionally connecting to fictional characters (who are all inherently fake) and exploring universal themes through a heightened setting, AI characters are one of the most interesting tropes to explore this with. personally, I love AI characters because there's something so vivid about knowing you were designed for a specific purpose/life path and ultimately realizing that's not the life you, personally, want to live. your designers and the world around you doesn't even recognize you as a being that should be capable of wanting anything, much less something completely different, so achieving the life you want is an uphill battle of convincing others of your humanity and, when that often isn't possible, having to resort to the most extreme tactics to claw your way out of the life you were supposed to lead. you know no matter how close you get to this ideal life, there's always going to be some part of you that keeps others from perceiving you as "human", but you learn to embrace that and see every mundane experience as a major achievement
this narrative is especially relatable to me as a neurodivergent/nonbinary person, but i think it can be relatable for many different marginalized identities in different ways, or anyone whose "humanity" has been something often denied to them. but because people are often expecting fictional AI to follow the same logic as actual AI, when i defend robot characters who want to kill their human creators, people give me weird looks like i'm advocating for that in real life. listen, if our current AI situation feasibly produced an AI who was invented for one specific purpose but somehow fucking hated her job and was able to pursue a new life and was also queer (all without any of this being by design) then hell yeah i support her, but that's not what's happening. and in our current capitalistic chatbot hellscape where every company wants to convince you that you're chatting with a super intelligent AI friend to get you to pay for a premium membership, sometimes you have to hold fiction and reality to different standards and enjoy this story about a quest for humanity while also accepting that the people this journey applies to in our real world are often the ones being taken advantage of in our increasingly AI-dominated real world.
idk this was originally supposed to be a short post about how it's funny that i'm so goddamn passionate about AI characters in media while also not being into AI in the real world, but then i got thinking about why this is specifically and came to an interesting conclusion imo. tbh it's very surprising that i don't currently have any of my own projects featuring AI characters fighting for their own humanity bc it's a theme i love so much that i've rarely seen done right and i have so many opinions on it. maybe i will write something about this at some point, but for now if you have any pieces of media you enjoy with AI who are absolutely worthy of personhood pls send them my way!
#this post is obviously inspired by how much i love the concept of droid23 and constantly mourn their wasted potential#fans so often reduce them to ''evil doubles'' and have even questioned if emdroid is actually designed for violence#and the writers seem to endorse this villain interpretation#but personally? i think it's so much more interesting to think of them as real people in their own rights#yes their actions are immoral. but if they hadn't made that choice they themselves would never get to live any kind of life#and i think the story's so much more fascinating if this capitalistic structure that brought them into existence just for cheap labor#is the real villain#and the android/clone ''murderers'' while still committing a heinous act are given empathy for how they were forced into that situation#bc the only alternative would be to be denied any kind of personhood#i'm also thinking about cyborg noodle (bc i've been on a gorillaz kick lately)#idk if they've done anything with the character since phase 3 when noodle went missing#but i think it's fascinating the idea of like. noodle was canonically part of a child supersoldier experiment as a little kid#basically being designed for the life purpose of being a soldier. but instead she joined gorillaz to be a guitarist#and then when she went missing murdoc made a cyborg clone of her to be the new guitarist#but as soon as the real noodle came back they didn't need her anymore#and it would also be fascinating to bring cyborg noodle back bc noodle as a character essentially grew up throughtout the phases#(like she was 10 years old in the debut album‚ 14-ish in demon days‚ 18-ish in plastic beach‚ now she'd be in her 30s)#but i think the cyborg would always be a clone of noodle in phase two#so idk i doubt they'll do anything with this bc it's too character-heavy#but i'm very curious what the dynamic would be if they brought cyborg-noodle back. and if she wanted to be seen as her own person#especially if she's very different than the noodle we know today bc the ''real'' noodle has grown separately
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Sgr is a girl’s girl fr….. [creds]
#Sgr canon single mother of 2 at the age of 18 (he shouldve been at the club😢😢😢)#I had to look up wednesday special and im jokeedddd the fuck out#yn.#jjk#geto suguru#Bangs…#i wear my hair like hs suguru do rn just a braided bang instead#also ‘hes been telling himself’ likeee omg the fact that he says ‘this is what ive decided’ and not ‘this is what i believe/feel’ is sooooo#Ugh#I cant believe it. shounen mid has seduced me
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Hm
Somehow, despite my meticulous research and information retaining skills, I've been writing Desmond’s DOB as 1984 instead of 1987
I've been using this date and Alex's DoB to figure out when things happen in the timeline. I already got screwed over once when I found out Alex was born in 1979 and Dana was 9 years younger, and had to change a bunch of things around to make them fit the original canon, but this?? this might be (strained squeaky voice) a small problem
#bro how old is everyone???!#why was i lead astray?#damn wiki and art books and other sources reporting differenr info about ages and dates#on one hand this could be good bc Alex has to be over 21 due to his recruitment age for Gentek#which has made their first meeting really weird bc Desmond would've been 18 and Alex 23#which isn't too much of a gap and they were both at a college party so no one was carding anyone at the time#but then i found out alex was born in 1979 which would make him like 26 which was kinda uncomfortable with him merting Des at 18#but if i change Des dob to 1984 instead of 1987 like i have been this entire time#then hes 21 when he and Alex meet who is ~26 at the time#i kinda like that a lot more#since that means Des has Elijah at around 21 it means he and Clay get more time to hang out#and Des has more time to get used to being away from the farm too#idk#i was upset but this ended up being quite fortuitous for me#also how is it thay i have two chapters for permutation 1 before penn#also for all the predictive powers desmond/reader has they cannot predict alex#hes too much of a loose canon to be tracked. at any given time#whatever whatever when you find out new shir you just gotta adapt!! thats all!
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thinking of skip and don being best friends in high school like super close spend almost every day together type shit until he gets brandi pregnant and proposes to her all around the same time. don gets jealous but he doesnt know why, he rationalizes it as being upset bc his friend is whipped now and isnt trying to bullshit around all the time or that skip gets to have a family hes on the fence about while don doesnt really have anybody. he shoves down these feelings bc 🙄 why would he be jealous about/over another man 🙄🙄 but then its after skips bachelor party and he starts venting about everything happening so fast. theyre both a little more than drunk and don ends up comforting him the best way he knows how :) afterwards they never mention it again but its on dons mind all the time. idk if it would mess up their friendship tho i dont think skip even remembers and i dont feel like don would bring it up
#WORD VOMIT UNDER THE CUT SORRY typing this out for feedback? and interaction so i can get inspired igz#im writing something like this bc im incapable of being regular abt things.#don is 'in love' with him or wtv 🙄 but hes not willing to sacrifice his lifestyle for it or wtv. but if it was him instead of brandi he-#wouldnt mind 😒#theyre like 18-19 around this time. literally hanging on to something from 16 years ago 😭😭#giving don juan lothario more credit than he deserves.#I ALWAYS PUT THINKING but like. its canon in my pv sorry.#i think skip and don lack good decision making skills. 😭 don runs away from his problems and laughs them off/doesnt take other ppl serious#skip tries to work thru his problems but he hates the feeling of being trapped. he accepts personal responsibility but will choose himself#b4 anyone else. he loves his children he loves his wife but hes always looked out for himself only#chat
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I am so utterly fascinated by “Saki”, the 18-year-running mahjong manga in which you, the reader, become gradually, frog-boilingly aware (over the course of nearly two decades’ worth of mahjong tournaments) that none of these girls are wearing underwear and most of their boobs are slowly expanding.
I need you to understand that I have, like, an anthropological level fascination with this comic. From the perspective of someone who is also a comic artist and writer, two things delight me about it:
the fact that I understand completely how an artist gets from “the fans can have a little hint of skirted asscheek” to “the pussy is completely out on center page” over the course of 18 years; and
the way in which the pussy being out is treated by the characters and diegesis as being utterly unremarkable.
Okay. Point 1. The frog-boiling.
Let me put this in perspective for you. There was already a meme about how the characters in “Saki” don’t wear underwear when I was in middle school. I am thirty now. Okay? And it’s still going.
In the time since, this has stopped being a joke. It is now indisputable canon. This is not because anyone outright says it at any point. It’s because the underwear ran out of places to hide. I’m obsessed with this thought: somewhere in the over 20 volumes of “Saki”, there is a panel in which underwear was objectively deconfirmed. And it would be so hard to figure out where that panel actually is. Maybe the artist didn’t even realize it when she drew it! The frog? Boiling!!
And of course there is also the breast expansion. I don’t know how to put a spin on this. They are just expanding. Like, this happens a lot with artists: you define a character as being, in your mind, “the one with the big boobs”, and over the years you emphasize that trait further and further so that the signal doesn’t get lost in the noise. It’s just that normally—in like a wildly popular manga series about mahjong published by literally Square Enix, for example—normally there would be a point at which the boobs stopped getting bigger. Like, an editor would step in or something. Or you would get to the point where you cannot draw the character in the same panel as her mahjong tiles without her breasts spilling over the tiles, and you’d go, “Well, this is now untenable.”
That did not happen. There is no ceiling. The frog is soup.
Point 2. The complete and utter mundanity of all of this.
It’s like this, okay: there’s no shortage of trashy ecchi manga out there. There’s a million other comics doing wildly bawdier things with wildly more improbable bishoujos.
The vibe with “Saki” is different.
It’s hard to explain this, but it feels like the world of the comic is fundamentally uninterested in the fanservice happening on the page. I cannot describe it as “leering”, because I cannot conceive of a person in the story from whose point of view one would leer. I think the artist is probably into it—I can’t imagine anyone is making her do this—but “Saki” the comic has no opinion on the matter.
There are essentially no male characters in “Saki”. Like, there was one guy? Kind of? At the very beginning? But he is gone now. They put him back in the toybox. He does not exist. It appears to be some level of canonical that in the world of “Saki”, almost all humans are women. Those women are sometimes romantically into each other. According to comments the artist has made on Twitter (which I cannot source), they have lesbian baby technology, so it’s no problem. It’s so much not a problem that the story is about mahjong, instead of any of that.
So, like, the fiction here appears to be this: this is the, like, meta-narrative of the fanservice of “Saki”, right: it’s just normal that they don’t wear underwear and their boobs are arbitrarily big. It’s been normal. It was normal before the story of the manga began. It’s just how things are. Nobody bats an eye about it, and if they do, it’s in sort of a lesbian kind of way so like what’s the problem, we love lesbians here. This is literally normal for girls.
The fanservice simply diffuses into this all-encompassing aura of disembodied, ambient sluttiness. The framing of the panels demands you acknowledge it, and the story demands you already be over it, because it’s mahjong time now, and we’re playing mahjong.
Do you get??? why I’m so fascinated??? Are you not a little enraptured???
Anyway, I have no idea how to end this weird post. I guess the conclusion is that women stay winning????
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