#lw-stories

[schemelin]

non-verbal "I Hate It In Here" Lone Wanderer just wants her dad back.

[amanitacurses]

First Meeting

[hadesisqueer]

I like how Violet is so used to having dramatic ass children that Francesca marrying with no drama was too odd to her lmao. And thinking about how her story will unfold is actually kinda hilarious because it's gonna be like:

Violet: Well, that's it. John is a very good man and Francesca is comfortable and happy with her choice and if this is what she truly wants, it's all that matters💜

Violet: Also, it's kinda refreshing to finally have a normal child that doesn't do any dramatic or scandalous shit.

Francesca a few seasons later after her husband passes: *fucks and falls in love with her husband's cousin -who is a woman-*

Violet:

Violet: Honestly, I should've seen this coming, none of my children will actually ever be normal.

[tossawary]

I saw a musical recently where the main character was a writer of these fairy-tale-esque gothic romance adventures, so there was a clear-cut Hero and a Villain and a Damsel in Distress and a Wicked Witch character and so on. Very recognizable archetypes. These imaginary characters would come onstage and act out these adventures when the main character was reading her writing aloud to others.

Unfortunately, this musical was ultimately not good for many reasons, one of which being that the stories that the main character wrote had essentially nothing to do with the rest of the story. These overdramatic and cliché adventures didn't really reflect her real life in a deep and meaningful and interesting way, not effectively, and mostly just came off as silly; they seemed to mostly represent the writer character's inexperience and immaturity more than anything else; and I personally thought that the aesthetic frankly gelled weirdly against the setting of the "real life" segments. It was like two completely separate musicals were trying to happen in alternating segments.

But one REALLY cute thing that this show did is make these imaginary fairy tale characters into the stagehands. The Hero and the Villain and the Damsel were the ones who hurried onstage to move furniture around to indicate a change of location. They would briefly test out the furniture or adjust the props to their liking or interact silently with each other in other ways, before scurrying away or shooing each other off the stage again as the "real" characters walked in. I think the Villain character even lingered once to wink at the main character's mean aunt, before getting dragged offstage by the other imaginary story characters.

It was so cute and fun and made scene changes a bright spot in between terrible music and badly paced "real life" plot. Theatre allows for thin lines between "realities", there are lots of great fourth wall interactions in theatre for example, so in-universe imaginary characters as the stagehands for some really fun meta stuff in a different play. I keep thinking of Roderick Townley's "The Great Good Thing" which was read to me back in elementary school, but anything that has in-universe stories being told like "The Princess Bride" film could work. I hope to see more creative scene changes like that in future stageplays that really work with them.

[winnie-the-monster]

Pen: “Watch me!”

[gorgxoxus]

I think the reason I LOVE part two so much, and have way way less complaints than others, is I’m a Penelope fan before a Polin fan. And part two was Penelope and Lady Whistledown’s moment. I think she was brave in part 1, but she was powerful in part 2 (as well as still being brave). Seeing her stand up to Colin was amazing, her speeches to him were top notch (especially after the wedding breakfast when she said he wouldn’t understand because he’s not a woman with little power in society).

Her with Portia and her family was amazing, and added such a nice depth to part two. Portia first wanted to support her daughter after Colin talking (yelling) to her and the stuff with Dungas, but it turned to real conversation and real respect. I believe Penelope publicly named herself as Whistledown to help her mother keep the estate first, because Cressida ended up leaving anyway. And she could’ve found a way forward with Colin without everyone knowing. Also her finding her sisters ball is beautiful, very selfless and kind. I think I’m much more happy to see her birth the Featherington heir after all the growth with her family. I didn’t really expect it to occur, and it was so beautiful.

I am so glad she got to show her absolute genius in sorting out the Queen/ Whistledown drama. When she tells Colin about Cressida knowing and he speaks over her and she’s trying to get a word in, I wanted her to own her name, power and do something for herself. I was so happy to see it happen.

[mot-hesbian]

The Mondrich storyline in season 3 is so unnecessary, personally I think they should have saved it for Benedict's season bc I find his relationship with them and his advice to be really interesting and would love for it to go both ways with him receiving advice regarding his relationship with Sophie.

[angeltannis]

@oktobearfest Last year for OW’s first Pride Month event they released a really clunky short story with an excuse plot to have Pharah and Baptiste come out to each other (Bap is bi). Basically Baptiste expresses interest in Cassidy but doesn’t want to interfere because he isn’t sure if Cass and Pharah are a couple. To which Pharah says she’s a lesbian and that Cole is like a brother to her. Then she starts bringing up Angela and being all like 😌💕 because the lead writer at the time (who’s since been laid off) was apparently a huge Ph@rm3rcy stan, lmao.

There’s also a line in the story that’s so unintentionally funny bc you can tell it was a mutated, “corporate won’t let us say this” joke - Pharah is clearly trying to say to Bap something like “What, do I look straight to you?!” but instead says “I’m not passing, am I?” (To which Bap replies like “No, of course not!!”) It caused me to nearly choke on my lunch while reading it because I thought she was Also coming out as trans in the same story jfkgkhk

[girllookingoutwindow]

This really was fun. And I really want to watch part 2.

But honestly I can't see myself watching the show after this season.

I don't care for the other plotlines and to me the show it was always about Polin and LW aka Pen.

[thefabulousfab-3]

Penelope should have been bridgerton’s Jane Austen and I stand by that.

[awakenedsylvari]

a warrior retires to a simpler life; the story passes on to another

(she's reading the latest Snargle Goldclaw novel)

[aaeds]

TW: (suicide, Suicidal Ideations) What made me stop wasn’t a change in mind, I tore my leg open on the rocks the minute I went down but when the shock of the water wore off I recognized something that I didn’t have a word for as a child.  So if you were like me when you were very small and had that urge to give up completely it’s not weird, or something to feel guilty about. It’s something I got treatment for as an adult and it’s weird not having it in my head all the time, I can remember it but I don’t feel like it anymore. It’s really nice. It just took a lot of patience. 

What really made me stop was David, he got down at the edge of the runnel and reached in with his frog catching net/rod. I also had a beaded necklace on that caught on a sharp rock going down and smashed me into the rockface. I got a bit banged up, and my necklace broke but it was enough for me to see someone making an attempt.  If you’ve never been in perpetual shaded still water, it’s colder than you’d think and not in a swimming pool sense. It’s like an ice bath. I couldn’t feel my limbs but I crawled up the wall and took the net. David pulled me the rest of the way and Hannah dragged me out (like she pulled me up out of the ditch near the river.) 

Oddly none of the nearby adults came near us, one asked where our parents were but I’d nearly drowned and wasn’t about to start telling her unlike some parents, mine work. David fished the pieces of my necklace out of the water which was kind of him. He was usually a very good brother, and from what I remember no matter how poorly he treated Hannah on a bad day he was always looking out for us. I don’t have contact with them now, but I saw Hannah a few years back and she’s doing well. We didn’t talk about me falling into a pond, but we did talk about our days in computer labs years later memeing at one another.  Obviously names changed for privacy/personal reasons.

[amanitacurses]

Names

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[edmunderson]

Anyone know what happens to the mordrem after mordremoth McFuckin Dies? Like, do they regain control of themselves? Are they welcomed back by the sylvari? Do they get wiped out?? Idk if i missed something or if i'm forgetting but they don't get mentioned again after heart of thorns

[rodeodeparis]

decolonizepalestine has a great article on pinkwashing (and other types of washing)

Pride month is in four days and heres a reminder not to fall for pinkwashing

QUEERS FOR PALESTINE

OUR SOLIDARITY IS STRONGER THAN THEIR BIGOTRY

[mzannthropy]

I remember the time someone here called me a female misogynist for hating that failed abortion Amy March, but surely, if that was true, I would not hate just one character from a book filled with women?