#it’s practically the endgame

[sopuu]

I am extremely excited to see more of your champion au! Especially since I remember you saying that both Jesse and Lukas would get a chance at the gauntlet 👀 I really do wonder how.

:D i’m excited to show more too! currently at the writing phase of the next part!

can i also borrow this ask to say thank you to everyone who’s been checking it out 🥺 i read every single reblog and comment and it really is a 1 comment = 100 comments moment with the amount of times i go back to look at them bfjdkn

as for the gauntlet, teehee <3

[theminecraftbee]

incidentally, for anyone wondering about the current state of me playing vault hunters: I’ve been playing on a server with some friends for a few months and am level 89, have several absurdly expensive endgame items unlocked, and am going “I mean I technically don’t NEED a fission reactor, but I feel like there’s a point in every bee’s life where really, why not harness the unlimited power of nuclear energy?”

[wallbeatjournal]

Are true riverdale fans of the opinion it is a very good and nearly flawless show or does being a true riverdale fan mean being able to mock writing choices

it's long-running serial television plotted a season/half at a time so definitely not even "nearly" flawless.

BUT. i'm not doing combat with the writing team. i'm not actively reading against the text the way i have to in order to enjoy something like supernatural or the 90s robin comics or the fucking sopranos, which are patriarchal christiancore copworld rapeworld white supremacist horrorshows that hate their minority audiences, with like 2 good creatives involved and martyring themselves to fight the good fight on sparse rare installments if you try to approach them sincerely.

riverdale writing staff are like a favorite smart problematic tumblr mutual to me. I don't always like what's on their blog or who they're referencing. but we're in the same community and i'm interested and inspired and i trust their agenda overall, even when i see shit i wouldn't have fucking posted. but bc i'm not being condescended to or actively spited i'm not gonna condescend to or spite them, you know?

i expect rvd to age like twin peaks (another very uneven, highly referential serial juggling a couple of intensely cool metanarratives on top of its core story). and twin peaks fandom mocks twin peaks all the time. twin peaks includes some CLUNKY shit. it's kitsch. it's camp. it has a second season that is largely ASS. james is there. and on top of that it also includes some genuinely offputting-to-me stuff that just bothers me to sit through, even though i feel like i understand and respect what they're going for with it. i just don't want to watch someone sweep the fucking bar for minutes and minutes as entertainment. OK!!?

...so yeah. mock riverdale but in the right spirit. is that an answer? do i sound like i'm chugging the flavoraid koolaid fresh-aid? probably.

[kopfkino-o]

SJM, in canon, wrote “sometimes mates aren’t right for one another” and “mating bonds can be rejected” and “what if the Cauldron is wrong” and that literally went over half the fandom’s heads.

[tondisus]

Aw man who put him in the microwave that's not very nice :/ @rorydrawsandwrites what's the verdict for the culprit (may or may not have been me cannot confirm nor deny)

I made the rough spinning animation in like. A day. Then gave up on the colors for a week and well now it's here as ready as it gets

I need to figure out how to frame by frame smoother gvdjdhjdjcb (it's probably just practice. that's usually the answer to everything.)

[jq37]

What is it that the Rat Grinders actually want exactly? Or at least, what does Kipperlilly want since she's the one we know the most about.

At the top of the season it seemed like she wanted to Be The Best at school and Be Recognized in a very Tracy Flick/Sara Berry kind of way and was just going to crazy lengths to get there because this is a world where you help a dragon kidnap girls so you can be Prom Queen and life goes on. But now we know that the Rat Grinders are a part of Porter's larger plan and one of the major steps of that plan is completely abolishing Aguefort as an institution.

It's clear what Porter gets out of this. He gets to be a god and he gets to continue his imperialistic family legacy. And I would maybe get what Kipperlilly would get out of this is she were the Cleric/Paladin of the plan. She'd get to be the new god's champion, like she was gushing to Lucy. That's maybe worth something to an achievement hunting, Type A individual.

But she's not gonna get to be the best student at Aguefort if Aguefort doesn't exist anymore. Hell, Elmville won't really exist anymore. Is Porter planning on opening a new Adventuring School in Rage Elmville and she gets to be the god Principal's pet? Does she think he's gonna make things "fair" for her somehow? How? Retroactively killing her parents? Does she want to use the powers she cheesed from the easy XP he drip fed her to be a renown adventurer? Kinda hard to pull that off when everyone knows you were part of the plan that doomed the town. Maybe she thought they were going to get away with it without being implicated? Does she literally not want anything other than a chance to kill the Bad Kids? Or even pettier, to just to be stronger than Riz? Is that worth it to her? To damn the whole town just so she can say that she beat Riz once? Did she want something concrete at one point but at this point she's just lost in the sauce and doing whatever the next task is without knowing what she'd even do with a victory if she got it? Did she already get what she wanted in the free XP and now she's just paying her end of the bargain?

I'm just very unsure about what her version of a happy ending is here.

[sapphorror]

Y'know... A lot of ZaDr fics have them either gradually drifting into a less contentious status quo or establishing a deeply bizarre multilayered dynamic that is nonetheless very consistent and beholden to its own rules—which works, to be clear, because slavish adherence to the rhythm of their endless 'game' is already their canon baseline.

WITH THAT BEING SAID. I think it would be very funny to depict a ZaDr dynamic in which they're like, on-again off-again nemeses. As they get older theyre gradually forced to acknowledge the true depth of their mutual attachment, but instead of actually improving themselves in any lasting way or compromising the conflicting elements into an ill-definable state of contentious codependence, they just start oscillating wildly between periods of obscenely clingy allyship and devotedly murderous enmity. There's never an in between. They'll dedicate all their energy to trying to horrifically torture each other to death, until one of them gets uncomfortably close to actually dying or an external crisis pushes them together or they just get bored—at which point, they become obnoxiously glued at the hip until one of them relapses into anxiety about their ambitions or an argument escalates past the the point of no return or they just get bored. And every time they both Really Mean It, They're Not Gonna Do This Anymore, before naturally going ahead and doing it again

[enjoyerofstories]

I've been thinking for some time what nick's zodiac sign might be and I'm really curious what others' guesses are.

(this post turned out longer than i expected)

There are two possibilities on how his birthday will be revealed: like sel's (he or another character will say what month he was born in) or like bree's (his birthday will take place during the canon events). Now, I have a feeling (which could be wrong) that his birthday will occur in oathbound. The timeline for the third book will most probably be November-February (maybe March as well but I think that's a bit far-fetched) so this results in the following options for his zodiac sign (i excluded scorpio because tracy wouldn't assign him the same zodiac sign as bree's):

sagittarius

capricorn

aquarius

pisces

I'm too busy and too lazy to actually search about these zodiac signs but i've eliminated the sagittarius and aquarius options from the list (sagittarius because my best friend who knows more about astrology and who is a sagittarius herself said that sagittarius men are fuckboys and aquarius because i know an aquarius guy and he is the most arrogant person i've ever met). This doesn't mean nick can't be one of these two. My knowledge in astrology is limited and I'm basing my assumptions on what I've heard others say and my own experience.

That leaves capricorn and pisces. Well, i know next to nothing about pisces (tho i know like three people who are pisces i just didn't interact with them enough to form an opinion or see similarities) but i've met quite a lot of capricorns. They're hardworking and they usually have this subject they're very passionate about (for example, my cousin can talk about computers for hours and my aunt has hundreds of books about the english language and literature). I'm saying this because we know nick has been searching for ways to bring his mother's memories back which means he has the ability to thoroughly research something and he is disciplined. They're also friendly (tho they leave me with the impression that they're actually judging you internally). I cannot tell if nick would fit in this zodiac sign or not but there was this guy in middle school who was a capricorn that shared some (a lot) of nick's characteristics/traits.

Anyway, sorry for rambling so much. My assumption that his birthday will happen in oathbound might be entirely wrong so that leaves other options as well. I'm really curious what y'all think.

[verfound]

FIC: "The Microwaved Mugs Incident" (MLB; Lukanette)

Rating: Teen and Up

Characters/Pairings: Dingo King (OC), Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng; Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Summary: When Luka ruins dinner for the third night that week, Dingo makes an observation that sets Luka on a path that will destroy every single mug in his (and by ‘his’ he means ‘Marinette’s’) kitchen: Tom…knows you can’t cook, right?

Author’s Notes/Warnings: I had a note here that said “Laurel knows what I she did.  😝”, except that was all the note said and neither Laurel nor I remember what we actually did.  😂  I think it was something my mum did with mug cakes, I told her the story, she made a comment, and the next thing I knew I was back on my “Luka Can’t Cook” bullshit.  I’m a sucker for that gag, y’all know that.  😂

“The Microwaved Mugs Incident”

It started…well.  Not innocently, not really.  Accidentally?

Yeah.

It definitely started accidentally.

Because Dingo had been over to work on the set list for their upcoming gig, and they had started jamming, and Luka had maybe forgotten about the casserole he had put in the oven.  Which…wasn’t really anything new?  It wasn’t the first time he’d gotten lost in his work and had missed the alarms (multiple, because it was always the oven timer, the little ladybug timer he had gotten Marinette as a joke when they’d first moved in together, and a few on his phone to boot) signaling it was time to remove something from the oven, all usually set when he still had a good five minutes before whatever he was heating up actually needed to be removed.  It was almost old hat by now, and it was why there was a spot in the top drawer for takeout menus right next to the utensils.

Because Marinette knew him and knew, even if all he had to do was throw the damn thing in the oven and make sure it didn’t burn…well.  It was still a fifty-fifty chance it was definitely gonna burn.

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday @TessaThompson_x #tessathompson #actress #valkyrie #thorragnarok #avengersendgame #thorloveandthunder #whatif #TheMarvels #creed #dearwhitepeople #meninblackinternational #annihilation #selma #westworld #heroes #privatepractice #veronicamars #Passing #bluebelle

[epiphainie]

LOL why do you wanna downplay the evan thing now

im not downplaying anything. my og post was about how i don't think this is a show factoring in every previous storyline, the consequences, the implications, the broader context as they write a new arc. my specific example was how buck "being spare parts" wasn't a thing considered when they wrote the sperm donor storyline. similarly i don't think they ever treated the buck being called evan thing with the sensibilities of a fan meta writer. when they want you to consider the implications/context of a previous storyline, they tell you anyway (like daniel being brought back up for buck's coma dream after not mentioning it in any way for 2 seasons)

[bongopteris]

drew this girlboy like half a year ago but the pose was so awkward i never posted it. the pose is still awkward i didnt change a thing but now its OUT HERE.. FUCKIFM SCARY...

[gayofthefae]

Okay, season 3 was Mike defending El and it came out wrong then being a usual nervous kid and season 4 Mike froze up in the moment and was able to say "I love you" as soon as El left, the letters were either a coincidence or based in anxiety/commitment issues, and him telling Will he didn't know why he couldn't say it was him berating himself not continuing to question his ability. Sure. Whatever. Fine...

What was the roller rink fight, then?

No, see, he's confirmed to have no knowledge of Will's feelings and even if he did, it would contribute nothing to his arc or character to have him be defensive about that when the rest of the season is unaffected by it and has him seeming totally comfortable, so why did he say that? I'm listening...Nope, I will not accept the argument "his actions are only for Will's arc and so they can be out of character and mean nothing". They are professional writers and this isn't a courtroom; you don't need to undermine my credibility. No, I didn't ask why he said he ignored him, I asked why did he clarify that he didn't call because calling would have been romantic - keeping in mind that it must be in character and relate to some arc of his.

You can explain everything. I disagree on certain details of phrasings and larger arcs, but you can *technically* explain everything...but

him

[waffliesinyoface]

ffxiv is a good game but it also runs into the problem that a lot of mmos have, which is that i have 20 people on my friends list, 2 of them are regularly online, and no one wants to fucking do anything together.

[mymitochondriaforpresident]

Me on March 18th like

(Featuring “my” pink sweater in honor of S3 Wille 🥹🎀)

[missazurerose]

FFXIV Write 2024 - Day 19

Taken

“Hmph. Do you doubt her? The strongest woman on this star? Probably the strongest in all the reflections? Do you think that little of Riona?” 

“Of course not.” Alisaie scowled at Estinein. “I know she can do anything. I just don’t understand why it always falls to her and her alone. How much more before she is taken from us? I could never look Aymeric in the eye again if one day she doesn’t come back. She’s saved us more than enough. She should get to live a happy, quiet life in Ishgard.” 

Y’shtola looked at her sympathetically. “It is not as though the rest of us haven’t thought about that. But even without Hydaelyn, Riona is still the protector of this star.”