#just epilogue left

[saturdaysky]

we'll be alright, love. we'll make it through, you'll see.

just a doodle of my gnome tav, mayhew, and gale sometime in the long, dark night of the soul that is act 2

line version:

used a photo ref for the general pose. refs are amazing ✌

[lifeof-pink]

i think the way the book became 3rd person pov when kim dokja got off the train is one of the most fucking genius literary moves ive seen in years

[madbalalaika]

[marimeeko]

One fear: the BkDk hospital scene is all we get for postwar bkdk content(where it's focused on them)

[llumimoon]

Introducing the Erased AU!!! or as I like to call it: The Mysterious Disappearance of Normally Oak

Hehehehe I actually came up w/ this back in May (with the help of @kaseyskat <3) but it's been modified to be more canon compliant since some recent things got the brain gears turning :]c

The premise is essentially Norm and Dood do some. very silly goofs. aka w/out telling anyone Normal decides to go back to the Doodler's home dimension w/ Dood to keep them company and through some magic shenanigans everyone now has no recollection of Normal or the Doodler apocalypse- everything is a picturesque happy ending... or is it?

Sparrow is the first to realize something's up due to her new art studio being where Normal's bedroom used to be, but the others aren't very far behind. They all have to put the clues they discover together in order to figure out what happened and bring Normal back. Speaking of, I dunno how long a human can last in an eldritch dimension after all...

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[aaronwarner]

SEOHYUN & LEE JUN-YOUNG AS JUNG JI-WOO & JUNG JI-HOO in LOVE AND LEASHES 모럴센스 (2022) dir. Hyeon-jin Park

[andydona-chan]

About MHA 430.

The ending chapter...

You know how there's all these people who are upset about it and are bringing up how Monoma got a statue and he was left alone and unrecognized?

The story has several narrators throughout all it's arcs, but it's mostly Izuku telling the story.

I think what happened was a misinterpretation from the readers who suddenly decided that poor Izuku had been left alone and unrecognized.

Everyone takes it for granted, due to lack of evidence, but our narrator is Izuku, who does not give himself enough credit so his own recognition ceremonies, to his humility, made him think that they were not just for him but his whole class and whoever battled alongside him.

Who had to radically change his career when he thought his free trial was over and didn't realize how hard his friends worked to help his best friend rival, who couldn't be No.1 without him.

He thought that his contribution had been temporary and that everyone had moved forward without him when they were making a fa-quin-type effort to push him back to everyone's level.

Someone who thinks that calling their friends after their turn as heroes is bothering them and prefers not to do so unless they talk to them and is content with text messages or chance encounters.

Izuku just made a mental switch to his quirkless self, which is unimportant and left his hero self, which is important and has friends aside. That's what happened, that's why it seems like a bad ending, that's why the scene where they give him back his place and remind him that he earned it was necessary, because it's not important to him, but it is important to everyone else.

Here's where the point of view has to be considered cause, take for a moment Katsuki's point of view, he knows Izuku is like this, and he would expect him leaving all of the highlights of his life out of an autobiography, only to ask for the honor to do an epilogue that includes all of that in a way that Izuku would never be able to avoid and gives us a glimpse of how big the ceremony was, how much snot he had to wipe from this crybaby hero and all the additional ways that Hero Deku impacted the country further than the one statue he also had, including the promotion of the documentary where they had added commentaries of what had happened during the war where he and all the alumni of class A, including Eraserhead and All Might about his performance and handling of more than one quirk during that batte, that led to the design of the just presented support armor he was wearing nowadays since he was reinstated as a Pro-Hero.

Oh God, how I hope that's what we'll read tomorrow!

[bookinit02]

in case anyone is mourning my beloved s5 script finale. i have OFFICIALLY REACHED THE HALFWAY POINT🥳🥳🥳

[greyias]

Okay, so I'm just now being able to boot into BG3 since the latest patch (long reasons, another post entirely), and decide everyone needs to wash the blood off before we go puzzle diving and talking to small children.

But the patch apparently changed some things...

Behold! The entire party, each with a bar of soap:

It is the exact same bar of soap via the inspect menu for each party member.

So then why, I ask you dear readers...

...are three of my idiots shoving this bar of soap in their mouth and gnawing on it like a starving animal?

Meanwhile, Shadowheart:

is using her bar of soap like a normal person.

[regicidal-defenestration]

Could polyamory have saved them: Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

[captainkirkk]

I'm finally caught up to the ORV web comic and checked out the light novels, and it finally clicked that the comic has only covered the first 29 chapters. There's over 550 chapters of the novel. Which means I've only read 5% of the novel.

I...I can't do this. I'm not strong enough.

[blamemma]

every piece of you - max/daniel (15,841 words)

Daniel is so vibrant and loud and joyful, his tail only adds to that, it fits him perfectly. Max has imagined so many iterations of it, but he never thought it could be like this. He thinks that Daniel should get to be like this all the time if he wanted to be.

graphics by @yesloulou x

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

Ketheric was going to be recruitable???

Yep. He was intended to be a companion, here's the article: https://www.ign.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-director-reveals-one-surprising-villain-that-used-to-be-playable

Ngl I'm just beyond disappointed that anyone in that dev team thought cutting this was a good idea. Especially when we know they went out of their way to add in a someone who wasn't put in this game as a companion and wasn't intended to be one initially, while Ketheric was, even more so because of how half baked it was. I'm baffled and gutted that this was worth keeping to them, while Ketheric, who is far more plot significant, was not.

You can still play up to getting to persuade him which was where he was meant to join you and idk why the fuck they left that in then.

I honestly wish they would stop fucking talking about what they cut now that they've abandoned the game.

[r0semultiverse]

The implication that Terezi is stronger/immune/indifferent to Dirk's narrative writing/reality-warping powers is interesting. 👀

I am so excited for the new writers to explore her character more.

Hopefully this also means we'll be seeing more classpect & god tier power exploration as well!

[strawbubbysugar]

Ik I’m posting a lot more chapters than normal and it’s bc I’m writing so much more than normal bc I’m very excited abt this fic apologies if you wanted it to be kept to one a night I trust y’all can limit yourselves if you really wanna only read one a night

[bonebabbles]

re: the tags on the post you just reblogged; would genuinely Love to hear your take on the themes of homestuck. because so many of its themes are at odds with each other and the reader that it truly does become an ouroboros by the end. and that’s fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time

I really can't phrase it better than "eats itself alive by the end," honestly. Once the Beta Kids scratch their session, you can feel how tired and frustrated the author is. It's like he starts hating his own work and how massively it blew up, when he never planned for it to be a project that lasted so long.

And thus it feels like he starts turning on his work's own themes.

Sburb (the game) was abusive and traumatic, but seemed to be trying to make the kids ""grow"" by some unknown philosophy. Figuring out what Sburb (or its creators) were trying to accomplish was a theme.

Only for the author to get frustrated at the idea of there BEING such a motive, seeming to suddenly pivot to Sburb just being a universe-generating mechanism

The theme about motives, being "pawns" in a greater game and uncovering the mystery, thinking critically about authority figures including the GAME ITSELF is unceremoniously discarded for a "Nothing matters actually" conclusion

Another theme was change and growing up, dealing with your mistakes as you make them. How even in a world with time travel, trying to use metaphysical shennanigans to avoid your fuckups just backfires. Eventually you have to face the music, and you'll be better off for it.

But then the author becomes brutishly cynical. The main casts' worst traits eat them alive on the trip to the new session, we learn the Beta trolls ruined their own playthrough and now painfully slog through their afterlives, the Alpha kids are aimless and trapped in a doomed session.

The theme about growth and facing your own mistakes becomes about stagnation and inevitability.

But honestly I think the most telling change in the author's mindset comes from looking at the Alpha Trolls vs the Beta Trolls.

Like, the way that the Alpha Trolls ALL got a full personality, several interactions with the main cast, and through fan input started evolving into characters that had little traits of the fandom at the time

Homestuck was always a story with a crass tone (and it's kind of incredible how quickly the lingo changed, making early HS look a lot edgier in hindsight than it was at the time) but it felt like there was a lot of love for how these characters had kinda been forged together.

Then you get to the Beta Trolls in a dream bubble, basically all tossed into a high-production walkaround minigame. Several of them just direct, joyless jabs at the audience, less of them relevant.

For me it's really the turning point on the themes, the later acts have always felt super dissonant from the early acts because of that

So in my mind I see it as two big "parts" and examine them together as what I feel was a weak synthesis.