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atp i genuinely doooon’t care if the old guard two is the worst thing put to film i just want to see the best character of all time (andromache the scythian) and her loser henchmen and everyone’s favorite girl nile freeman again
#its not even funny anymore WHERE IS ANDY AND NORIKO!!!!!!!!!!! it was supposed to be the year of dyke drama 😞😞😞😞😞😞#like given the way they structured the first movie the second would have to be almost wholly original and differ a lot from the comic#like andy cant go thru the shit noriko puts her thru so im guessing the script would switch her out with nile getting tossed in the ocean#but that doesnt really work with norikos comic characterization (trying to get andy to see her point by making her go thru what noriko did#isnt something quynh will gaf about if andy isnt one of the immortals. andys become thr ‘vermin’ noriko hates!!!)#and given the end of the movie everyones chill with copley so joe and nickys whole subplot cant exist anymore…. idk maybe theyll switch out#copley with moose?? idc as long as we get their stupid car conversation tbh makes me laugh#honestly given the changes that would have to be made they probably just made a stupid movie and don’t want to release it. but I DONT CAREEE#its not exactly like the first one was that good i still mute it in preparation for every cringe needle drop like its a lame movie but its#genuineeeeee fun like i seriously do not care netflix give me my movie!!!#the old guard
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I’m in my feels about Leto rn.
She a mom!!!! You don’t understand she’s a MOM!!!! And she was left all alone after the titan war (most titans were banished to Tartarus) and then she fell in love with this guy with all these red flags but they were genuinely in love!!! They sang songs and talked about deep things and Leto and Zeus LOVED EACH OTHER!!!!! And then she was made to suffer so much for it but she never took any of it out on her kids, and then they were basically taken away from her by Olympus!!!! And she was alone again!!!! But she loves her kids so so much so she built a safe place for them on Delos to come home to!!!! And she knows she can’t protect her kids from the monster the man she loves has become but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t try!!!! Leto tries so hard!!!!! And both of her kids fucking love her with all they have!!!!!!! Family is so important to all of them despite the fact that one member has become a horrible dickwad!!!!! They love each other!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
#if you were ever wondering what I thought of Leto here you go#best woman in the world love her so much#fun fact one of the first things we know about Leto is that she convinced Zeus not to send her brother to Tartarus after the titan war#so 1. she has always protected her family like the QUEEN she is#and 2. there is a pattern of her having to persuade Zeus into not making horrible decisions#and in the beginning that worked#but as time has gone on and Zeus has become more paranoid and cruel#it works less and less because he’s not the man who would listen to her anymore#like … Zeus was probably the love of her life and he doesn’t even respect her as a person anymore#brb gonna go FUCKING CRY#Leto is not given much characterization in the books so I get to decide and I say she is Kind and always Trying and Incredible#trials of apollo#toa apollo#lester papadopoulos#pjo Leto#sunny speaks#long post
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wheel?
WHEEL!!
Carolina/Ohio! hmmm hang on let me go watch Ohio's episode... okay i'm back. i think their relationship could either end poorly or work out in a way.
poorly: Carolina gets too annoyed by Ohio's relative incompetence and over-eagerness to really click with her. Ohio gets bitter under the pressure to be good and always feeling less-than Carolina. a bit of a Tex-Carolina situation here. but that's not as fun as...
work out: unhinged4unhinged. gunfight with Sherry as flirting? yeah Ohio is on the same level Carolina. they look at each other across the field covered in someone else's blood and immediately start imagining making out. they respect each other's ambition/motivation/dedication. Ohio's excitement, like Wash's, keeps Carolina grounded. she reminds C to live a little now and again. Ohio and Wash team up to get C to have fun or they all spar together or something, without worrying about the leaderboard. enablers of dangerous mission improvisation. some people think they have a rivalry going on or don't expect them to be together and that makes for some fun drama.
#yayyy thank u for the wheel :))#this was a fun thought experiment because ive only seen the ohio episodes once other than rn so i had to *puts on glasses and takes notes*#and really try to distill her character in like five minutes#that being said i hope i got the characterization alright. anyone can add their thoughts!!#ask#theta thoughts#chromα#rvb rarepair week 2024#rvb rarepair week dos#rarepair week
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What do you not like about Zoya?
The way she is used by the author as a vessel to let out her own frustrations at the readers for (rightfully) criticizing Ruin & Rising.
She becomes this mouthpiece to scold the readers for not hating darkling enough, which is really just author's fault coz if you have to hate-right a whole duology & remind people of all the bad things the bad guy did ten years later bcz you're still pissed that he ended up being widely more liked than the heroes of the story then you just failed at your job idk.
Also, Zoya's whole arc just feels like an overcompensation for Alina's ending. It's like Leigh read all the criticisms pointing out how horribly misogynistic and regressive Alina's ending was and decided to directly address them by giving Zoya everything that Alina was denied but in doing so, she got a little too carried away and obliterated the entire magic system going against everything she established in the og trilogy. It just feels like a very dishonest way of storytelling like if you're gonna write something then stand by it instead of getting so influenced by what fandom is saying.
#there are individual moments that stand out in that book that make me want to stan her so bad but then#all the reasons i mentioned above just kill immersion in the story and it's just not fun anymore#i wish leigh had stayed consistent with her characterization in tgt#instead of making her alina-but-more-girlboss#her story felt repetitive and nonsensical even#the duology itself had an interesting enough premise; a country reeling from a civil war that left power vacuums#that Nikolai and the gang are trying to fill and keeping the country together#the duology could've been so good if it felt like a proper continuation of tgt instead of whatever that was#zoya nazyalensky#king of scars#the darkling#asks#answered#grishaverse asks
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What are you excited for when the new Welcome Home update drops?
oh. literally Everything and Anything. to see how the site changes, to see all the neighbors again, for all the new things whatever they may be! Story Progression! Images! Words!
#new insights into characterization!!!#agh! EVERYTHING!#literally the entire update could just be 'oh this is the new version of the site' and id be whooping and cheering and hollering#i dont really carry expectation#other than 'im gonna fuckin love this :]c'#actually no. i hope to feel Deep Dread as well!#i hope at least one thing genuinely scares or disturbs me. im ready to get fucked up with a capital F#HURT ME. IM READY TO FEEL EMOTIONAL AGONY.#< said while hiding behind the couch and wearing a colander on my head. im wielding... a worm on a string#none of this will protect me <3 yippee!#rambles from the bog#but also mainly FOR THE SITE TO BE BACK.#well. 'back.' back in the sense of resurrection. technically the same but altered forever <3#i miss her...#its been like. a day and im already in mourning. i look at the spot where it was once pinned to my shortcuts#i need a black lace veil for these trying times#jesting i hope she's having a fun time in maintenance!
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I've been watching the David Suchet Poirot again and it's occurred to me how funny some of the story settings are if you consider Poirot as a character. Poirot canonically does not enjoy nature. He canonically gets seasick. He exclusively wears patent leather shoes and three piece suits. He likes everything to be square and even and just so. By rights the last thing this man should be doing is traipsing through the Egyptian desert or taking long cruises on the Mediterranean. At most he should be crossing the European countryside by train, moving between the manicured estates of the various rich people whose murders he's solved and whose jewels he has recovered.
And yet. Here I am watching him mince across an archeological dig in Appointment with Death. It's been long enough since I read the actual books that I don't remember whether Agatha Christie ever bothered to justify him taking these trips and being in these places. I'm sure there's a Watsonian approach to it. But the Doylist explanation is so much funnier. Like it's the ultimate Putting the Guy in a Situation. Ms. Christie wanted to do a murder with archeology lightly flavored with orientalism, so off Poirot went to the desert. She wanted a murder on a boat, so off Poirot went on a cruise. Does he actually want to be in the desert, or on a boat? Doesn't matter, find yourself a linen suit and shine your spats, Hercule, you're going. Good luck, and don't forget to pack your mustache wax!
#poirot#agatha christie#need to reread the books to see how he's characterized there#but the Watsonian explanation is probably just that that was The Thing To Do for people of that social class and time#and also Poirot is intellectually curious enough to want to see the world despite the inconvenience of travel#but that's much less fun than imagining Christie just drag-and-dropping him wherever she wanted him on the map#trying to remember if miss marple got to take the same sorts of trips and I don't think she did?#even though I think that makes much more sense for her as a character#miss marple dgaf she'd nemesis she'll pack her knitting and tromp out into whatever desert (or catch a ride into the desert but you get it)#okay I'm done rambling
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The Blight family are so interesting IN THEORY. In execution they are....😬
#i dont mean that like. theyre flawed characters#i LOVE flawed characters. nothing i love more than seeing some messy toxic bitches do messy toxic bitch things#i love the exploration of unhealthy family dynamics#i love the trope of a rich shiny perfect family who are secretly fucked up and miserable#i love the kind of characters that environment creates#whether it be gaslighting gatekeeping girlbossing assholes#or people who are desperately trying to be good. or to break away from the role theyve been forced into#or people who are in a little more of a grey area. people who have a good side and a shitty side#its all fun and interesting#the problem with the blights is their characterization is just so....clunky. sloppy. not very good#alador amity and the twins all suffer from inconsistent writing#alador is a complex case to delve into. and you dont wanna listen to me dissecting him#so ill just say that he could have been handled better#ironically Odalia is the most consistently written character of them all#shes very surface level evil. shes not very interesting#I enjoy Odalia. I think she's funny in just how unapologetically shitty she is#and her VA gives such an entertaining performance#but she is like. Hollow. There is nothing going on with her other than abusive mom and capitalist#but by god at least she knows what shes about
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with Vernestra being in the new book and seeing some people comment on like 'waiting for the other shoe to drop with her arc' (sorry if you happen to be the person who wrote that on reddit and are reading this haha, I actually really agreed with your review, that line just popped out at me), and my own frustrations with wishing they'd just invented a new character to fill her role in The Acolyte, because speculation on how we make the (kinda big) leap from book characterization to show characterization is overshadowing her character in these last few books, I started wondering like why did they choose Vernestra to be the one book character to bring forward? They had to retcon the Mirialan lifespan for it, didn't they? I know they probably wanted at least one book character to get the book readers on board with the series, but there wasn't anything that jumped out at me to explain why that figure had to be Vernestra. Then I got it.
...I bet they just wanted to use the lightwhip.
I mean first of all it is a cool, unique weapon for the series, even though they only used it in that one shot, fair enough lol. But I bet they had the idea for that shot of Qimir's scar to connect to whatever turned him to the Sith and planned the arc from there, so they had the plot first (Qimir fights his former Jedi master, leaving him with the scar that can be strategically revealed when it is time for #traumatic backstory) and slotted Vernestra into it because the lightwhip makes for a unique enough scar pattern to serve as heavy foreshadowing when it's revealed in episode 6.
But damn, I wish they had just made it like Silandra's shield and had it passed down, I would have been chill with Vernestra being Qimir's master's master, that would have made sense to me. But that's definitely where the 'they needed a character from the books to get the book nerds to watch the show' lol and maybe they already have Burryaga's (the only other character I can think of with a sufficient lifespan) ending planned (#fear). But it still does kind of suck that the ending of the book series has to be viewed through this lens of 'ok well how does this explain what happened between book Vernestra and show Vernestra...'
#star wars#the high republic#tears of the nameless#the acolyte#vernestra rwoh#i always type out her full name because i got snobbishly pissed when people started being mean to her while calling her vern#she doesn't like to be called vern!!#also for the record given how much there is to wrap up and tv production vs drafting timelines...#i doubt there's going to be much in the remaining books to explain the characterization gap#probably in Justina Ireland's standalone novel but i doubt they'll get into it in the main series#so i'm trying to read without thinking of that. let 18 year old vernestra deal with the crisis at hand lol#like damn let the girl deal with her issues without projecting them a hundred years into the future XD#lol also yeah i'm aware i def made fun of the snobs for getting mad about lifespans and now i'm like 'hm but the lifespans'#i don't actually care they can change whatever lol it's just serving to highlight that#they really wanted it to be vernestra regardless of what the lifespans were originally
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I'm fully in Inklings Challenge idea-gathering mode and I'd forgotten how great it is. I just get to go through my day gathering potential story sparks. Anything could become a story. I don't need to stress over choosing one or committing to one because I don't know which genre I'm writing yet. I can build a basic concept, and then if it turns out it captures my attention come October, I've got a well of ideas I can draw from and add onto it. I'm just finding Legos to put in my toybox. It's so fun.
#adventures in writing#now that i've got a basic outline attached to the time travel concept#(just enough to give me a direction so i can discovery-write the rest)#it was time to turn my attention to other underfilled genre idea wells#intrusive fantasy's surprisingly tough to brainstorm ahead of time#because most of my ideas for that come from seeing things on tv or something#and going 'what if there was fantasy stuff?'#a constance sommers story would be an excellent angle on 'instruct the ignorant'#especially since i really want to write a religious scientist#and it would be fun to try to get her characterization closer to the initial idea post that sparked her#and have her dealing with people who think fairies are insects that people attach cutesy stories to instead of a unique type of animal#and the reason i made this post is because being in idea gathering mode#i saw a pbs documentary on in the background#saw a story about an astronaut married to a glass artist#and instantly thought 'aha! space travel rom com!'#it's just so fun
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wxs and arm wrestling part one: nene
tsukasa vs nene- hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby. tsukasa will express surprise at her strength while she struggles to get his arm to budge 💀 the worst part is that he's genuine, he didn't expect to put effort in LMAO. he boasts 'even with more training, ofc u cant beat me 😏', then proceeds to prolong the match by keeping his arm still. she gets so miffed and tries even harder LMAO. she doesn't win though bc tsukasa gets tired and ends it faster than she can process. he brags at the end despite doing nothing
emu vs nene - hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby part 2. emu cheerily confirms that nene did get stronger, and there's only a brief struggle before she pins nene's arm down. she's very encouraging that she hopes nene gets big and buff!!!
rui vs nene- hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby part 3. nene feels like she's pushing against steel. she gets to look as he leans his annoyingly smug face on his other hand, barely breaking out a sweat. he's a mix of emu's genuine encouraging words and tsukasa's irritating lack of response. he wins after she goes 'just end it 😒'
nene's like 'idk what you guys expected....' and sits off to the side. she finds that she enjoys watching the other three arm wrestle rather than doing it herself
#nene kusanagi#tsukasa tenma#emu otori#rui kamishiro#wonderlands x showtime#wxs#txt#if my nene characterization is wrong ill end it all#but to me. nene fondly watches her troupe mates nearly break each others arms LOL#also tsukasa/rui fucking with her is canon in my heart. theyre so mean to her </3#they don't even try to let her win LOL#also had the idea that tsukasa baited her into arm wrestling with him by saying ohhh so you know ill beat you then 😏#and nene was too stubborn to say 'obviously' bc of his stupid smug face (if this seems mean spirited dw. they both know its a bit)#also also. tsukasa gets all up in his feelings over nene actually getting stronger/not being as shy to try out new stuff. thank you.#like he doesnt tell her that but hes happy to have fun with her#long post#project sekai#forgot that tag oops
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i still cannot believe that people actually read my posts. case in point: i got this notification (from @tumblemumbler, thank you) and laughed until there were tears.
it's true: i want to take fox mulder to the zoo. i'm guilty as charged. i wanna point at some lions and be like "woah", and see if he thinks the lions are amazing, or if he tries to play it cool and deny that sense of wonder you get from seeing a magnificent beast. is it so wrong to want to take a full grown man out to see the Creatures, and then watch him enjoy the gift shop.......? to find a nice little novelty tie with the funniest animal from the day on it...? to say, hey fictional man, let's put aside that decades long quest for answers on the existence of aliens, and marvel at some otters splashing about... now wouldn't that be lovely?
#in my head this is just my little diary no one reads so going through tags and comments are sososo fun#because we are experiencing a Thing communally! which is the best!#and i have to say everyone has been SO kind and funny and helpful and great about how i'm trying to avoid spoilers#so thank you to everyone who comments or reblogs i have fun seeing your commentary on my commentary!!!#i also of course think scully should go to the zoo but it's just that mulder has that energy where i think he really needs it more#now scully on the other hand i think she needs to go to a museum. neeeeeed to hear her takes on modern art.#give her something to really think about and ponder the place of humanity now vs in the past. what it means to be alive. is it to create?#i know she would have a deep and profound reaction to seeing an everyday object from 3000 years ago and i want to share that with her#and with her litany of biology facts i think that there is no choice but to take her to the science museum to look at dinosaurs and dodos#you will not find all of these things in one museum which is why we need to go to a bunch of them#when i get further in y'all i WILL write a fic where our duo goes to a museum and also a zoo. i want to have a better characterization firs#like a beach episode level scenario. i'll look into real museums in the DC area in the 90's and everything.#we'll see. we'll get there <3
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funniest thing is people just unanimously deciding that characters are siblings and despite it not being canon like at all, if anyone ships them together it's literally incest and they're all disgusting freaks who should be burned at the stake. it's SO silly
i remember when i first looked into luz-hunter art i was super startled to see how insistent the siblings thing was in wider fandom, and even MORE startled to see that romantic shipping was often treated as incest. it wasn't until i remembered that most people ship things monogamously that i realized the ENTIRE "luz/hunter is incest" thing Literally Only Happened because of luz/amity shippers feeling threatened & needing to make luz/hunter Problematic. and that to make luz/hunter Problematic, they had to reach for incest because luz & hunter have in common literally all the same things that luz & amity do.
like i legit FORGOT that monogamy was a thing and was sitting here like "but..... but hunter/luz/amity just MAKES SENSE......???? WHY ARE PEOPLE SO ANGRY....."
bitch. it's the compulsory monogamous ship wars.
Duh.
#replies#toh#fun fact: if you ever see a fandom behavior that makes very little sense to you based on the source characterization/story#look at it thru shipping goggles. it's literally fucking always about shipping.#hopefully not using the common ship names will keep this from showing up in ship tags bc i try not to tag like. anything discourse-adjacent#luz/amity shippers: he tried to kill her... no god dammit we can't use that one uh#he's a cutthroat asshole and mean person. NO SHIT. uhm uhm uhm he'll never understand luz's love of books- FUCK ME#like guys it's fine. you can polyship and you can also leave people alone. relax.#the assumption that shipping something non-canon means that you hate the canon and want gay people to die has done like#so much damage. to wider fandom. relax. go do some real life activism. find local mutual aid networks. give a few bucks to someone in need
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still thinking about how in the gotham knights video game it's implied that tim ignores his friends heartfelt condolences after bruce's death and instead decides he's going to go look for moth man
(and conner's the only one who replies with "lmfao yeah dude lets fuckin do it")
#gotham knights#video games#tim drake#dcu#say what you will about that game#but not only was it FUN it also had WAY better characterization than half the current dc writers can manage#bruce was so willing to sacrifice himself to protect his kids didnt even think twice#dick was a kind-yet-tired older sibling trying to keep shit together#jason was a young man who struggled with his anger but working to do better for ppl he cared about and his city#babs wasn't relegated to a nerdy know-it-all (and they even showed her wearing her back brace and stuff!)#(even tho i wish it was like cass or steph but oh well i understand why they chose babs for batgirl)#tim's youth meant he struggled to process the loss yet his genius esp when it came to hardware was never downplayed
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Misty and Psyduck redesigns! wanted to make her a lil scrappier!
Ash & Pikachu here
Main Trio here
#pokemon#pokeani#redesign#misty#psyduck#my art#her shoes are cerulean gym branded + her hoodie would be as well but she cropped it herself#her characterization would be more trying to act more grown up than she is (she's 12 here lil older than 11-year old Ash)#so she tries to take charge of things more than she should and butts heads w Ash about it bc Of Course They Do#i think she'd also get squirtle in this universe w Ash getting charmander and brock bulbasaur - thinks that's a fun idea
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a tale of two pipers pisses me off so bad. that is not piper.
#they don't even do any fun bits with like both pipers making the same movement or gesture#or them both separately saying the same line or responding to something in the same way#like. they're not even TRYING to convince me it's her.#piper has the most straightforward characterization. she’s not hard to write. and normal piper is in character as usual. so. what's the deal#anyway let's see how much my car repairs cost. 😬
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Sorta PSA: I'm going to be in bitter denial over the Corlys having fathered Addam and Alyn thing in the coming days. Like, I OOC acknowledge that it's (show) canon, likely even CANON, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. And I'm probably going to avoid acknowledging it IC, at least for awhile. Like, Rhaenys has suffered enough, why throw this in her face right before she's going to die? Do not support.
#out of high tide ( ooc )#//i mean gin's corlys hasn't fathered any bastards so it's easy enough to ignore in that context#and i'm going to say that from previous experience in trying to write in the context of her finding out about them#rhaenys would be very bitchy to either marilda OR the boys and that's probably not going to be fun for the other muns#so best to just avoid#tomorrow we will get rhaenys reacting to it all on the show and it could be different from what i've always headcanoned#but it's not likely to have much of an effect on my characterization
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