#just some musing

[zeta-in-de-walls]

Intriguingly enough, this does indicate the memory plan was always the plan for DSMP 2. This lines up with Dream’s first message in around July of last year I think? Where he explained there would be a big sudden shift in the server. The amnesia plan had been planned for a while. I think it was inherently a terrible choice for the record and the fact that it was planned for so long and still executed so badly is disappointing. 

Not surprising though. The dsmp was good at improv bad at plans. I can’t think of many things that were planned in advance that seemed to work. Earlier plans were way more fluid and changed as the server changed. Sticking to a plan that doesn’t fit just leads to stupid plot beats forcing something that doesn’t work to work. 

[poore-choice-of-words]

An important mentality I've built when recovering from Evangelical nonsense is this:

It doesn't matter whether or not someone deserves whatever. What matters is what they should have, sometimes that's a need, sometimes it's a desire.

I've spent too much time being told everyone deserves to go to hell to believe anyone deserves anything good, but I can believe people should have good things.

[seekerwithsneakers]

i love 5pm when the sun sets after 7

5 pm is for the people resting

taking a tea break

or waking up from their naps

it is sunny, but not harsh just enough sun to warm u up on the walk from lab to the dining hall to get a beverage

the campus is mostly empty and so pretty

i love 5 pm

reminds me of the period before the start of the hustle and bustle , when you are holding your breath or having the last bite of food before the show begins

[hinamie]

恵 ; "blessing"

12/22: consider this piece my love letter to a character who has become so near and dear to me and who has inspired so much of my artistic growth this past year <3 happy birthday megumi, your name becomes you ⊹ ࣪ ˖

[emeryleewho]

There's a huge difference between redemption and humanization. I feel like a lot of "redemption arcs" aren't actually redemption at all, they're just attempts to humanize the villain so that they seem multi-faceted, but people read them as "redemption arcs" and think that that is meant to justify all the evil they've done before and negate whatever made them a villain in the first place. I think true "redemption arcs" are actually kind of rare because true redemption would take making the villain acknowledge their crimes, reevaluate their actions, actively choose to do better, and then proceed to make amends and become a better person, and that would this take more time than most stories are allowed to give their characters.

I've also seen people argue that a character has to be poised for redemption from the jump for it to work because once a character does something "too bad", they can't be redeemed. I completely disagree because redemption isn't justification or forgiveness, so no matter how horrible a character's actions, they could choose to become better, but because a lot of people (including writers) think redemption means "erasing the character's flaws and making it so they did nothing wrong ever", a lot of attempted "redemption arcs" just end up erasing a character's entire history or justifying every evil thing they've ever done. And yeah, in these cases, the only way to make a character go from a villain to a perfect cinnamon roll with no flaws *is* to have been planning it from the beginning and make sure they never do anything that can't be explained away later.

TLDR: real redemption arcs require a lot of self-awareness, patience, and growth, which are things that are rarely actually allocated to villains, and that's why real redemption arcs almost never get executed. The reason people think redemption arcs are overdone is because there are so many attempts to either humanize a villain that get misconstrued as redemption or attempts to blatantly erase who a character was in the name of "redemption", which is really just poor character development.

[madamemiz]

sad: falling out of a hyperfixation

tragic: watching your beloved friends and mutuals fall out of the hyperfixation while you're still in it

[timethehobo]

Help he’s just too cute I can’t stop drawing him. 😭💀

[lucabyte]

Different standards

[canisalbus]

Ok ok hear me out: it could end in tragedy,, AND have a happy ending. The attempt(s) on Machete’s life force him to flee, he doesn’t even have the chance to find Vasco. Cue gay longing for at least a few years while Machete despairs over the loss of his love, his life, his status. He and Vasco only reunite (again) in their later years. Their relationship is forever flavored with loss and loneliness, but that only means they savor every moment that much more

I also I would like to see them as old men. Vasco would be so droopy :)

You gave me such old dog brainworms.

[lemm-moxx]

Yes killer i believe you do.

[nothatsmi]

Lovely isn't he.

I finished the third book. It's been a few days already but with work and stuff... Anyway now I'm digging through the additional content Nora posted on Tumblr, took me a while to understand how it works but now I am pleased.

I cannot express the emotionnal damage these books have done to me, but I'm not finished drawing any of the foxes. Just saying.

[female-fogbank]

Excellent point.

I can only think that the technology didn't exist when it happened (Cause Pike is in his 50s in SNW) or maybe his folks were religious luddites. Then it explain Pike's dark bitterness towards his conflicted relationship with his Dad and religion.

Wait. One. Minute.

Why did Sir Neighs-a-Lot have to die? Broke his leg. Put to sleep.

In an era where they heal bones by waving magical lights over them??? And give you injections that reshape your whole head to match this week's weird alien society we have to infiltrate??

A pony with a broken leg is apparently beyond any kind of help??

[kayomin]

mohn jarston

[iffondrels-library]

More of the Chain in TotK! They just had their first encounter with a Gloom Spawn (it didn't go well).

[tossawary]

Looking in on fandoms from the outside is great, because you occasionally get to make casual observations to your friend like, "You guys apparently have a reverence for this man's pain and suffering that I usually associate with paintings of martyred saints. The artistry here is impressive and also more than a little bit horny."

[manic-sapphic]

absolutely shreds my heart to little bits of confetti that the last (and i think maybe only time?) in the show until the moment above in save the cat that adora ever punched catra so hard like that, as adora, was during the incident with corrupted catra in the portal. (i mean, they fight at princess prom, but neither of them seem to be trying very hard to actually injure the other at that point)

she looks so completely devastated after having to punch her like that again, and that first swing really seemed like it was pretty much just a reflex. and i have to wonder if maybe she had a bit of a flashback moment to knocking out corrupted catra. something she only did cause she felt forced to. she fought catra as she-ra all the time, but it seems like adora tended not to wanna hurt catra when she was being herself.

her moves get a lot more defensive for the next bit of blows catra throws at her, till once again, she's forced to hurt her. and you just know it's fucking destroying adora to have to do that when this time, catra did absolutely nothing wrong. in fact, she chose to do a very good thing. ahhhh

<3