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New fic (2 chapters up!): Hope is the thing with feathers x
Summary: The month before the invasion of Normandy (D-Day), Newt Scamander is spotted working suspicious magic near a meeting of Muggle and Wizarding political leaders in London. The problem, of course, is that Newt Scamander is nowhere near London but, instead, over 14,000 kilometers away in the middle of the Pacific. But "desperate times call for desperate measures" (and even Tina and Theseus aren't entirely above scrutiny this go round), so Newt finds himself rather unsurprisingly compromised. // As usual, everyone else is dismayed to find Dumbledore may or may not have a plan at all, while the clock on Newt's life—-and the joint Muggle-Wizard military action years in the making—-begins to quickly tick.
Chapter 1 opening scene:
Wednesday, May 3, 1944 / Seatown, Dorset, England, UK
Porpentina Goldstein Scamander prided herself on being somewhat unflappable, but her brother-in-law grabbing her by the arm as she emerged from St. Mungo’s with her daughter before spinning them off in a whirl of apparition was certainly not on the list of things she had been expecting to encounter on her day off... A vomiting child, a misbehaving diricawl—even an absent husband or Muggle airstrike—she’d prepared for, but this?
Well, suffice it to say, she definitely blamed nearly bursting into tears after smacking Theseus upside the head upon their rematerialization in Dorset on the exhaustion inherent to solo-parenting an ill toddler.
“What the hell, Theseus?!”
But Theseus only shushed her, dragged her and Leora—who was understandably wailing in displeasure at the surprise apparition—up the back-steps of the Scamander Goldstein farmhouse, before gingerly disentangling her arms from Leora while shouting for Queenie and Jacob. It was, however, a broadly grinning, 9-year-old Gideon who came pounding into the room, before he took one look at his uncle’s face and immediately ran out the front door to the beach, screaming for his parents.
“I swear to high heaven, Theseus Scamander—what is going on?!”
Theseus bounced Leora on his hip and wordlessly summoned a plush toy from her room to distract her (a niffler made by Queenie for her birthday) as he focused on Tina intently. “You remember how we made that little emergency plan last year? After Newt was bitten by that kelpie—”
“Moira,” Tina supplied absently.
“Yes, Moira — and then he was criminally charged with all sorts of made-up things by that rat in his own department, which put our entire task force’s security at risk?”
“Yes,” said Tina with a suspicious frown, and she reached out to take Leora back from her uncle, crossing to the kitchen for the small refrigerator, where she pulled out a pyrex container of fruit Newt had chopped and charmed for freshness before he’d left to travel.
Theseus stared at her as if waiting for the other shoe to drop and—after a moment—it abruptly did.
“Now, wait a second—”
She summoned the pair of child-sized earmuffs Lally had made to silence adult voices and shoved them onto Leora’s head before settling her in a high chair and dumping the fruit out on its tray. Leora began talking to herself as she played with the fruit, and when Tina looked back to him, Theseus was grimacing.
“Are you kidding me?”
“Unfortunately not, sister mine…” he answered grimly.
“Is this all because of the thing last year, then?”
“More like the thing next month, but seeing as that’s also related… Yes.”
Tina peered out the window to check if Queenie and Jacob were responding to their son’s summons yet, but the only thing in sight was one of Newt’s half-trained half-kneazles innocently gamboling through the grasses (though a mildly predatory look flitted across its face). X
#my stuff#fic: hope is the thing with feathers#later in storyline of…#fic: with its head under one wing#please do consider telling me if you like it — my brain is so nervous abt this verse bc I’m stuck on a chapter of Head Under One Wing 😅😅#newt scamander#tina goldstein#Theseus Scamander#autistic newt scamander#jewish tina goldstein#Queenie goldstein#Jacob Kowalski#albus Dumbledore#oc ch: leora evangeline goldstein scamander#Scamander brothers#newtina#dementors#magical creatures#fantastic beasts fanfic#fantastic beasts and where to find them
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Gobbled up the Dandadan anime and manga recently and absolutely adored it all. Not only does it feature the most likable and strongly written female characters I’ve ever seen in a shonen, it discusses extremely pertinent themes about consent and bodily autonomy from a lens of female solidarity while also elevating healthy relationships with kind communicative male characters who respect boundaries. It’s wacky, fun, gorgeous, and super refreshing.

#a lot of controversy swirling around but my personal opinion is that the story does a surprisingly fantastic job#with discussing the horrors of SA and violence against women without objectifying its characters#which is super new for a shonen the bar is definitely in hell but man is it refreshing to see abusers actually get punished#and to see powerful female characters who reclaim agency and uplift each other rather than rely on male saviorist storylines#written essays about it already per usual might blab more about it later but man what excellent character work#dandadan#dan da dan#okarun#momo ayase
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k corp. and u corp. kitty from the canto vi ending cgs :)
#shades art#limbus company#catherine lcb#catherine limbus#sprite edits#kcorp is based on the normal kcorp one that she has in the wh acquisition still (vest&tie) cuz i needed the turtleneck for the tcorp edit#will post those too later yayyy#for ucorp i wanted to edit her since forever but when i sat down to really write down their storyline i got even more attached#ohhh sea love stories my beautifuls... brandyyyy youre a fine girlllllll
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i know the real answer is that dean was never supposed to go to hell, so getting someone out of hell wasn't supposed to be possible beyond a demon deal. that was sort of the whole point
but since they abandoned the sam descending into using his powers to save dean storyline (cowards) that makes the whole john selling his soul for dean and the angst surrounding it significantly funnier
like dean is literally tearing himself apart with guilt over his father selling his soul for him, to the point that that he considers taking the crossroads deal to bring him back and sam is fucking pissed at just the mention of it
but they do not go to any effort to get him out lol
sam is absolutely tortured by dean being in hell, he spirals, doing anything and everything he possibly can to get him out no matter what it does to him
when sam's in the cage, dean just straight up becomes a depressed alcoholic playing the family man with lisa because that's what sam told him to do and even though he knows it's impossible - again, sort of the whole point of the cage - he still looks for a way to save sam and then rejects the hunting life as a whole when he can't because the reminders are just too painful
when john sells his soul and goes to hell though?
*crickets*
oh no don't burn in hell aha you're so sexy
#john slipping out hell's gate a year later#oh you never broke john? never got off the rack and started torturing?#THEN WHY WERE YOU ABLE TO ESCAPE HELL?? SHOULDN'T YOU HAVE BEEN STUCK ON THE RACK?#again the original intent here is not that because at this point they hadn't pivoted to that stupid storyline#but the optics in hindsight....#supernatural
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Trying to imagine, like, being the artist the us government commissions to make a statue in memorial of Superman's death, like. You're probably from Metropolis. A ton of your city was destroyed by Doomsday and you just watched Superman die live on TV. And now you have to sculpt Superman's six pack while crying out of grief and working as fast as you can because you have to get this thing done on short notice for his funeral because apparently they're going to put his literal actual body under your art. The government says you have to put an eagle on it. Superman is dead, so many other people are too ,and you have to sculpt his six pack and a bald eagle.
#and then even worse. two months later and he's back to life and he can SEE THE SCULPTURE YOU MADE OF HIM. HE CAN SEE HOW YOU MADE HIS 6 PACK#i think I'd have multiple breakdowns#do they cover this in the funeral for a friend storyline...... I'm just thinking as i draw the statue frame....#dc comics
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small drawing as im looking forward to watching tales of the empire tomorrow
#star wars#tales of the empire#the grand inquisitor#barriss offee#saw a quote by filoni or whoever#where he was like barriss may have inspired TGI to his turn towards the dark side#so im like hello.... @ them interacting in the trailer#hoping for a nice scene between them#her betrayal turns him inquisitor... he trains her as an inquisitor... its like poetry it rhymes.png#they gotta have a reason to explicitly retcon TGI into the clone wars storyline right#he also baits kanan with luminara... then later is so afraid of the consequences of failure...#idk if done right barriss could retroactively haunt the narrative of rebels s1#not to get my expectations up cause theres like a dozen other characters and its just 3(?) shorts#but it could be kino#2024#tote
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Call me homophobic, but I don't actually think it's great representation to stick a complex, dynamic, newly-realized bisexual character permanently with a flat, boring, underdeveloped love interest just because that was the first guy who showed interest.
#in my hater era#like what you like#but goddamn#the argument that this is somehow outstanding queer representation is baffling#they have had 13 episodes to DO something with this character and they have chosen not to#no development anywhere#even though they literally brought him back so there is built-in background ripe for the picking#and yet#anti bucktommy#anti tommy kinard#the saddest part is#i don't even hate him#he's not important enough to hate#there is just absolutely nothing to him#and that's sad because whether or not he was intended to be long-term or endgame#the writers are better than this and the character SHOULD have SOME development#like why are we all swooning over 911 shoehorning in a returning character to tell a bi buck story#but treating that character like the most expendable love interest in history#i don't like him but actually i think queer characters#and especially ones who are part of such a major later-in-life bisexual realization storyline for a beloved main#deserve a little more respect than what 911 has been giving him#anyway#might delete later i don't know#also i need to stop looking at the 911 subreddit#worst takes i've ever seen that place is a cesspool
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tbh my latest biggest theory for why HoO and onwards is such a dramatic drop in quality and consistency is just. Rick stopped making teaching guides.
Like, the Lightning Thief teacher's guide is SUPER in-depth with even stuff like sources about middle grade child psychology and exact specifications of where he's applying that, explaining what different character's goals/motivations are, their dynamics with each other and their environments, etc etc. Even specifying which specific myths certain plot elements are supposed to reference or be about.
That stuff just doesn't exist for later books. There's activity guides and smaller, significantly more simple teacher guides for later books but they don't go into anywhere NEAR the same level of depth. The TLT one is a full lesson plan that breaks down the book at every level and explains what's going on and more or less why Rick did that. The others are all basically just glossaries of terminology and some simple question guides.
And they didn't even use the TLT teacher's guide for the Disney+ show because they clearly aren't adhering to any of what's discussed in that breakdown of the book.
By creating a teaching guide alongside writing the actual book, that's forcing you to document what you're doing, why, your sources, and information about your characters and the story they're in. It's like an even more in-depth version of a series bible. But that's lacking for later books (and etc) and it shows because that level of thought and depth and attention just isn't there anymore.
#pjo#riordanverse#rick riordan#rr crit#< i suppose#imo one of the most damning parts of the drop of quality in the later books is you can tell exactly what parts of what books#Rick had planned in advance and which are just filler to get from point a to point b#because characters will jump in and out of consistent behaviors - particularly in HoO - and those lapses where they act weird#are almost always super disconnected from the rest of the plot or storyline or whatever arc that character is on#or are just so clearly sped through because they aren't important#Leo is a great character imo to look at to figure out if it's a filler scene or not lmao#if he's clearly masking being somber by putting on a silly act but dropping it quickly or otherwise largely acting serious/somber#then it's probably a more considered scene and actually paying attention to his overall character arc#or just remembering how the characters are supposed to act (in Leo's case - quiet/thoughtful/somber but masking it with humor/etc)#if he's 100% silly goofy depression arc nowhere in sight then its probably mostly a filler scene or at least his part in it is filler#anyways i highly recommend reading the tlt teaching guide its really interesting actually
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i already said it but it does really frustrate me how little agency Taash has and the more i think about it the more insidious it gets. again their entire story revolves around Rook making choices for them, and they're also consistently talked down to by other characters, even if those characters are depicted as being friendly or nice. Isabela treats them like a child despite Taash being a very accomplished dragon hunter with the lords (which we see, repeatedly, when fighting the blighted dragons! Taash is not a child), and of course there's their mother (at least this is intentional) and both her and Isabela go behind Taash's back to throw them in with Rook, without asking for their input. Isabela just assumes without even trying to discuss it with Taash separate from their mother, despite seemingly being aware of the two's strained relationship... and from there Isabela continues to make unnecessary comments to Taash whenever you visit the hall of valor with them.
even Flynn, the nonbinary grey warden you meet in the wetlands, condescends to them about the Qun when discussing their gender, and Taash isn't allowed to disagree with them (apparently they give Flynn a Look but ultimately don't press the issue) and Flynn is depicted as being helpful in this discussion. Rook lectures them about gender and their own culture; their entire narrative revolves around Other People telling them what to do and how to feel-- it's obviously meant to be Bad when Taash's mother does it, because she (the Qun) is oppressive, but otherwise the game seems to be fine when it's Rook or literally anyone else doing it, because we're the enlightened Good Guys, and Taash is just helpless and confused and so oppressed. of course, i don't think it's bad for Rook to discuss these things with Taash or give them gentle suggestions, and i don't even hate the potential gender discussion you can have with a trans Rook; and for the record, their mother does treat them poorly. but we can't ignore the way Taash's repeated infantilization culminates in the player being the one to choose their culture for them in the end, because..?
well, the game clearly doesn't think Taash is capable of doing it themselves. at one point Taash links the ropes they wear for the Qun to the ones the antaam used to tie down a dragon and "blight" them. even if i'm feeling gracious and say that Weekes really meant that womanhood & their mother's expectations are restricting, they actively chose to use the ropes of the Qun to make this comparison, and so are also implying here that their mother teaching them the Qun has tied them down and "blighted" them-- that the Qun has "infected" their thinking and is as bad as the blight (this is also implied in the previous discussion with Flynn). this is.... really racist. it takes Rook and their, again, "enlightened" (white) ideas about gender to get through to Taash, nevermind that the Qun has its own ideas around gender that just get shouted down or completely ignored. the racism here results in the narrative contradicting itself, considering one of the first things Taash says is "you don't get to tell me who i am" but... Rook does, in the end, because intentional or not the game is clearly convinced that a person like Taash needs someone from outside of their and their mother's culture (aka free of "blight") to come tell them what's best for them.... 🤔 hm! and while it's true you can choose for them to align with the qunari in the end, that doesn't mitigate all of the heinous and racist writing that leads up to that choice (and that the choice itself is racist. and you have to make it twice!)
of course we can say that Rook makes choices for all of the companions, this is true, but it's obvious that none of the other companions' choices are in the same ballpark, we aren't directly deciding something about their identity, and none of them lack agency to the same extent as Taash. we can even argue that they need Rook to explain gender to them, no one else ever has-- well, sure. the thing with Taash is that some parts of their story, when removed from context, are perfectly fine. i'm not criticizing the way Taash talks or acts or "does gender," all of which are things some people may connect to for various reasons (all of our experiences are different) but unfortunately we cannot discuss any of this without addressing the racism that is so thoroughly baked into every aspect of their character.
i criticized Taash for being "childlike" previously and that really wasn't the right phrasing-- i don't think that Taash themselves is childlike, it has nothing to do with them-- it's the way the narrative treats them, the way other characters talk down to them, how it takes away their autonomy & forces us to go along with it, and ultimately educate them and "save" them, and i think it's worth interrogating why Taash, of all the companions, is specifically depicted this way (it's racism).
#sorry. im going to try and finish taash's storyline today and hopefully never talk about them again lol#also i take back what i said earlier about the gender stuff being tacked on later i think this story was like this from the start#like they conceptualized them as qunari. these choices were made with them being qunari#no matter what the qun is always bad and this is just another way for them to show that... but Progressive because nonbinary!#oh and i havent played as a qunari but from what ive seen it doesnt seem to change much if anything when playing their questline#long post#datv critical#datv spoilers#da posting
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asking in a very neutral, gen way: what talia ever did in the comics to manage to gain fans/defenders? because everything i read just paints her as a villain and a bad mother, so...
#like she cloned her son#and she stole dna from bruce in a not very consensual way#she also told him her baby was dead and later had damian and waited a fucking lot to tell him#and she brainwashed and traumatized her very young kid#she is also an assassin#and her characterization as a mid-eastern woman is bad and stereotyped and misogynistic#but we don't have any redeeming qualities for her#from where did fandom pull any of her maternal qualities and that she's “like a mother” to jason#i'm not even going to touch on the jason storyline it makes me mad#where where did any of it come from who is this talia#anti talia al ghul#batman#bruce wayne#damian wayne#damian al ghul#ra's al ghul#dc#batfamily#jason todd
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society if the new medieval camp had pvp jousting where you actually have to defend your house as knight and a medieval-themed questline that’s expanded on

#sso#ssoblr#star stable#star stable tumblr#star stable online#I know event storylines in sso are not too big#but MAN at least there WAS a questline#the equestrian festival questline with Sabine was kinda meh but at least THERE WAS A QUESTLINE#(my favorite event questline are the ones with Linda were we uncover Galloper Thompson’s lore and memories)#i am begging on hands and knees that they at least do something with it#I’m kind of disappointed knowing that this camp is permanent and not just a unique event for the birthday#but if they make that camp permanent at least PLEASE offer it a questline#things to do#you know#not just a jousting race and clothes and then let the place rot for the next 10 years#I’m trying to stay positive and telling myself that it’s like that because it’s week 1 and they’ll add much more stuff later 🥲
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Just remembered this dumb comic I did like 3 years ago as part of the 'space road-trip' au art I did - ie. Hera, Sabine, Ahsoka, Enfys and Barriss are all on the Ghost together and Hera is already exhausted by everyone's nonsense
(bonus Ahsoka ending up bunking with Hera and not shutting up about Barriss)
#I did have a more cohesive storyline and other art for this idea but never got thru the sketch phase#might share them later if I can find them too#just thought this was funny lol#idk what to tag this as#mine#old art
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uvanä rel lehawng: srey pa'liyä asevin screenshot spam: pretty horse edition
#avatar#frontiers of pandora#afop#pa'li#lì'fya leNa'vi#i do not usually have face paint on my character but they gave me some for the great games and i never got around to taking it off lol#anyways finished the main storyline for skybreaker maybe i'll make a post about it later idk
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Oooo starstruck dee has little stars at the bottom of her feet! Are they just aesthetic or would they make imprints into the ground? (like pawprints)
exactly like that! though she's not the only one...



edit: might need to add some additional dialogue to this to make it more clear, but a clarification in the interim; he knows about his own footprints. he's just surprised to see something similar already there when he knows he's only just landed. he lifts his own shoe to confirm that they're not identical (and also to reveal this to the viewer). seems his stoicism beat off the clarity in this one, sorry 😭
#meta knight#starstruck dee#gravitational collapse#my comics#have had this one sitting around for *months* while i bit my nails on posting it#and then i thought maybe i *shouldn't* during the shipaganza bc it's not a direct prompt; though i do think you can read it that way#and for ~Reasons~ i needed to post this one sooner rather than later so i had to bite the bullet.#though meta knight has understandably been the second most prompted. they do indeed have the Funnest Possible Dynamic for it#stoic guy and the bug eyed little Creature he doesn't really trust as far as he could throw her (long long way)#so just to clarify this one is NOT for the shipaganza but you can read it that way if you want to#this is just a canon scene between them from her storyline. this is just something they canonically share. starry eyed idiots.#also fwiw i think i probably picked up the shoe-patterns for the knights from postitnotes7#been a headcanon in the back of my mind for a long while but i'm pretty sure i osmosis'd it from their work#especially after drawing post's designs so much for the hnkss. i temporarily forgot how i used to draw their armour ngl#and also btw starstruck deetectives psspsps#i'm planning a much better post about this later (probably in march) but i'm going to start using this tag for Important Posts for y'all#🎀🔍#<- for the starstruck deetectives when there's something significant in the post.#i worry about making it 'too easy' but also want stuff to be accessible. it's just for fun? the OC lore game! ARG but it's just my oc.#that would be fun right? maybe? is that too indulgent? i could probably pull it off if folks were actually interested enough to participate#anyway!! go to bed starflung#also if you read this far: anon is open again! still open for shipaganza prompts but i'm not gonna be finished them in february 😂
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character designs!!! for the past life au im working on :DD
#like ive mentioned this is my escape from thinking about the state of the bsd storyline rn.#meant to post this here on friday but good god im living life at 2x speed rn#i need sleep. so bad.#bsd fanart#bungou stray dogs#bsd chuuya#bungo stray dogs chuuya#bsd dazai#bungou stray dogs fanart#bsd#soukoku#skk#skk fanart#just realized i was planning on finishing the first comic in the past-life au today#sleep now. comic later. 😭😤👌#art i made#past life au
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eowyn should have been a lesbian. Eowyn/faramir is like, fine, but it misses the point of eowyn for all baby dyke eowyn stans which is not that she longs for glory in battle and doesn't realize war is ugly and brutal, but that she's caught between two awful options and she doesn't want to be given one based on her gender. She's not in love with aragorn, she envies him because she finds the tasks he has in life more preferable and she hero worships him. Is this the point Tolkien was trying to make? Well, no,
#look it is LESS objectionable than other similar fantasy storylines because tolkien is making a point about the brutality of war#but i do think he correctly observes a particular impulse in some women without fully understanding the underlying tensions#he's like. for reasons unknown some women would prefer to face horrible dangerous circumstances than stay at home & tend the family castle#don't you see the castle is the important thing!#the castle is more important yes that's not the POINT#anyway. it will not be until many years later that some of those baby dykes will be able to articulate the vague feeling of betrayal#guy jobs are horrible and exploitative too on this we agree. but you see some of us will die if we have to figure out how to be nurturing
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