#maybe in a rewrite or reboot

[speaking-riddlish]

I think the dynamic in Briar and Faybelle's friendship could have been a great foil for Apple and Raven's dynamic. Both of their stories have a villain/victim dichotomy, with the villain poisoning/cursing the victim, resulting in an enchanted sleep that can only be awoken by true loves kiss. Both pairs also include one person who wants to follow that story, and one who doesn't.

With Raven and Apple, the one who wants to rebel is the destined villain, while the one who wants to follow the story is the destined victim. The worse this effects their friendship is lots of arguments, "why won't you listen", "you'll come around".

But with Faybelle and Briar, the destined villain is the one who wants to follow the story and the one who wants to rebel is the destined victim. This should change their dynamic.

Just as Apple can't follow her destiny unless Raven follows hers, Briar can't actually rebel against her destiny unless Faybelle also rebels against hers. If Faybelle curses Briar, there's not much Briar can do to stop it.

Apple wants her destiny, but can't have it unless Raven complies, a source of tension, yes. But Apple wanting her destiny isn't going to actively harm Raven, because Apple can't make her destiny happen. Briar doesn't want her destiny, but so long as Faybelle still plans on following hers, it'll happen anyway. This does actively harm Briar. The 100 year sleep might as well be death to her – she's afraid to die. And this person, who is supposedly her friend, is still intent on basically killing her.

I think it'd be great if, as we saw Briar realize how messed up her destiny is and decide she wants no part in it, we also saw her friendship with Faybelle deteriorate, as she realizes how messed up her friendship with Faybelle is, and becomes afraid of her. Maybe they also have frequent arguments about destiny the way Apple and Raven do, but where Apple and Raven's fights end with them frustrated with each other's stubbornness, but still friends, Briar and Faybelle's fights end with Briar being little bit by little bit instilled with terror, as she realizes that Faybelle is fully set on cursing her to that 100 year sleep, with no hesitation, no remorse, and there's nothing she can do about it. She stops feeling safe around Faybelle. When the destined villain wants to follow the story and the destined victim doesn't, they're no longer just destined villain and destined victim, they become actual villain and actual victim.

Faybelle probably doesn't see what's wrong with this dynamic. It's just destiny after all. Yeah she wants to be evil, that's her destiny. Briar was fine with it before, why can't she be now? She thinks Briar is making a bigger deal out of this than it really is, especially as Briar starts to become afraid of her and their friendship fizzles out. She's upset that Briar doesn't want to follow their stories, but she thinks Briar should just get over it. She doesn't see how their situation is different than that of Apple and Raven. If Apple and Raven are somehow still friends despite everything, why can't they be?

Of course, Grimm isn't any help to Briar in her distress. He's quite happy with Faybelle for wanting to follow her story, and quite disappointed in Briar for turning against her story, just like he is with Apple and Raven.

By highlighting the differences between the dynamic between Raven and Apple and the dynamic between Faybelle and Briar, and how these differences lead to the deterioration of Faybelle and Briar's friendship, it could help the audience better understand how Apple and Raven's friendship is still standing despite everything. Yes, they disagree about destiny and fight a lot, but neither is an actual danger to the other, and they both still care about each other.

This could also be used to further show how messed up the destiny system is, how it's encouraging this predatory relationship that Briar and Faybelle's friendship has become. It could highlight how damaging the "evil things you do because your destiny told you to don't count as bad" mindset is. In Raven's rejection of that mindset we see how evil should not be excused by simply being your destiny, and how if you have any moral compass or care for people at all you won't want to go through with it. And in Faybelle's embracing and being fully indoctrinated into that mindset we see the horrors of what someone can become when they're willing to do anything for the sake of destiny, what they're willing to do to people when "it doesn't count".

[sunnysunsins]

New episode, this time with 20% more sass and starting random beef with big rwby critics (depending on if this hurts their feefees lmao)

Also known as "Why fandom brainrot is a real thing and why it's awful", and "Clearing up misinformation for 20 minutes or so"

In this one i'm drawing Jaune and diving into his character and the reasons why people keep misinterpreting him so much. I didn't get to talk about some of the reasons yet, but i will bring them up eventually, maybe even in their own video, if need be.

Also have the finished thing, as a bribe to watch my series

[mightyart]

Bash

Very early stages of design

[twinchromatid]

lover, u shouldve come over

[br1ghtestlight]

💌

omg hiii <3 OKAY ACTUALLY I LOVE SEEING YOUR POSTS ON THE TIMELINE you're like the funniest person i follow and your frondposting is top tier Probably like my fave person that i've met on bobs burgers tumblr...... we should talk more actually i have you added on discord but we've never messaged FJDMDMDKSKSMSJ

[eldragon-x-moved]

debating wether I should watch the new black butler anime when it drops and if it becomes available to my Legal Website just to see if they treat grell any better but at the same time I hate black butler and at this point me having hope for grell becoming more compelling is a fucking sunk cost fallacy

[glitter-stained]

Ok sooo don’t know if you’ve ever already been asked this but-

I’m like a sucker for cute baby robin Jason interactions with the Teen titans. In my own wonderful world I like to imagine that Baby Jason had (has) a crush on his older brother’s cool older friends (cough cough Roy).

How do you think that would go? (I’ve thought of these scenarios soooo many times)

Especially when he meets them again when he’s older, and ripped, and ohmygodthosethighs

Just asking Fellow Jason Todd Stan to Fellow Jason Todd Stan :)

Tysm for the ask!

Hmmm

I think the more Titans Jaybin had a baby crush on the cuter it gets.

Dick: so hey Jay how was it what did you think of my team?

Jaybin, who spent way too many hours surrounded by the coolest and prettiest people he's ever seen smiling and talking to him: I think I have arrhythmia.

As for his comeback, I'm gonna be honest I'm very critical of villainous Jason, I think UTH an intelligent, enjoyable story but I personally can't get over its flaws so I'm gonna answer using some AUs of mine, please bear with me. Mostly it's just hard to analyse and make hypothesis about a characterization you disagree with.

Antigonish : that's my personal UTH rewrite where Jason is still a villain/antihero/rogue but the way I'd have written it. In this, Jason (17) looks around 17 years old at most in UTH so he's still not exactly a sexy adult but I don't think the Titans know he's back yet. At the end of Antigonish, Jason leaves Gotham and Dick only finds out from Bruce after he left that Jason's back. So I think the way Dick learns it and passes it on the Titans is "there is a very deeply traumatized highly skilled teenager wandering across the country who needs urgent psychiatric care if lost please return to Batman." I don't know when he first meets the og Titans afterwards (though he maybe meets Roy first since I kinda want him to wind up in Star City for a while, make friends with Mia), but I think there would be that "best friend's undead little brother, handle with care" vibe going on on the Titan's side. On Jason's side, I can see him annoying the fuck out of Mia lmao -"wow your older brother is so handsome I wanna use these biceps as pillows for the rest of my life", "have you seen him with Lian, I wanna bear his children" she would be SO DONE with him

Now in an AU similar to Antigonish, but also closer to canon (aka trying to mash my version of Jason into various dc canons held together with glue to have in character!Roy with an older version of Antigonish!Jason teaming up) which I will call the Jayroy AU as its sole purpose for existence is that I want these people to date, Jason and Roy meet as adults (Jason is 22 and Roy 29). Why did they never meet before? Eh, raising a kid who definitely doesn't get exploded is hard work. Anyway the point is Roy doesn't recognise Jason. Jason is using a pseudonym (probably something stupid like Harper Teal) because of legally dead reasons and just assumes Roy recognised him and followed along, but he looks nothing like the cute little guy who blushed like a tomato every time Roy talked to him. At some point Jason casually mentions the adventure he had with the Titans and Roy goes through several kinds of shock and has to reboot like a computer.

> + bonus lantern AU:

Red Lantern Dick: "hey guys remember my first little brother Jason? He asked if he could get some help on an intergalactic issue."

The titans: "that cute kid? Didn't he die? And why would the second Robin need help with intergalactic threats anyway?"

Jason, thighs and tits on display, in his Star Sapphire uniform, with a machine gun construct under the arm: "Hey guys who wants to help me take down a space wide trafficking ring?"

[bheska]

I never thought I'd say this but Rick being so involved in this tv show was the worst thing that could've happened to it.

First, it makes close to impossible to critique anything without The Cult of Riordan jumping you and shutting down each and every discussion with responses like this one.

Secondly, and other people have said this before (including Rick himself), he's using the show basically as a rewrite — and unfortunately, he's a much worse writer nowadays. Maybe pjotv would be better in the hands of someone willing to treat it purely as an adaptation, and not a chance of a soft reboot of the books and to spite the movies

[mickedy]

This is something I've thought about a lot and if I could have any IP to rewrite/reboot it would be the Fairly OddParents. I've seen every single episode and it makes me so unreasonably mad how such an endlessly creative show concept was only "alright" at it's best and Downright awful at it's worst. Top three ways I would fix it (besides obvious things like characterization and the like)

• Establish Da Rules in the series bible or whatever. Have them all carefully planned BEFOREHAND and then build your show AROUND that-- instead of making them up as the show goes along-- to create a stronger sense of the stakes

• Don't show Timmy's parents. Why did so many episodes focus on them and their sweet moments with Timmy or whatever?? The whole point of the show is that Timmy's parents are NEGLECTFUL which is why he gets Fairies in the first place. Then more time could be spent on the family relationship between him and his Fairies rather than his parents

• Have Timmy age consistently throughout the show. Maybe age him up a year for every season (or more often for a shorter runtime), provides lots of opportunities for plot ideas and keeps the show fresh-- and ALSO builds up to the inevitably of Timmy losing his fairies by the end of the show

Also the fairies being small and child-shaped was sort of a deliberate design choice in the show but idk i wish they were made of different shapes. this is something like how i would make them look

[hottubanchor]

DDBA

Ive been holding off making a judgement but gotta be honest, this is not a good show. Im not even comparing it to the original when I say that, on its own DDBA isnt a good show. Which when actually compared to the og show, its just disappointing. Its entertaining at times and tbh I could watch Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock in anything, hes phenomenal. But the writing for born again is bad.

I think theres one basic rule of writing that everyone knows: show dont tell. Yet, every episode we get scene after scene of characters telling us about stuff that happened instead of watching it.

Now im actually gonna compare BA and the OG. Take muse - all over the promos and dead in 2 eps.

We're told he does taikwondo, we never see him use it as far as I could tell. Unlike in DD where characters who are skilled fighters get to show off their skills in well choreographed fights (Nobu) or were shown their training (electra)

We are told he killed his instructor and he didnt like his family. Unlike in DD where we are shown Fisks childhood and the murder of his father by his own hand.

Muse tells us hes been to some therapy sessions with Heather, and this unlocked something in him. Unlike in DD where we are SHOWN Dex's therapy sessions and the impact it had on him (That sounds very hard). In between the overwhelmingly skippable marital drama therapy sessions they couldn't have squeezed in one session with Muse? They couldn't have shown him sketching her? Maybe after he kidnapped someone?

In one of my favourite scenes in the show (Karen come back the kids miss you) Karen tells us about Matt withdrawing for weeks leading to her running away to san fran. In DD after Electras death (2), we watch Matt do this for half a season, we see Karen debating leaving. If they didn't wanna rehash old plot points they shouldn't have rehashed old plots! (The death of an important figure in Matts life, foggy/electra) Because if thats what happened they needed to SHOW IT.

We are told cherry came to Matt for help. Unlike in DD where we WATCH Brett and Matts relationship develop. They couldn't have included a flashback or two???

Theres more examples but honestly if I think about it anymore Ill get annoyed. Ugh. I get that there were rewrites but honestly for a show with a fanbase this large and the kinda budget disney has theres just no excuse. They can afford good writers. What happened??? Where did the creative team for the original go? This particular gripe aside the story feels sp disconnected, even less that DD s2 which lets be real is the weakest of the og but blows the reboot out of the water.

And dont even talk to me about the colour grading.

Or the hand painting thing, as someone who has a degree in fine art I can confidently say: Not possible. Not even with magic fingers. Matt essentially 'see's' in 3D he wouldn't be able to recognise a flattened version of his gf's face, not even if the paint had a bit more texture to it. Plus he cant tell which paints are dark or light, even if he could tell how would he - omg no I need to stop.

TLDR: I wasnt a fan of this weeks episode bc I think it highlighted the issue BA has been having where the audience is told and not shown key info

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

Ok, barring from a reboot (hard or soft), is there anyway a future MLB season can be... Good?

Like, if someone else were to take over the reins and got told "here, fix this mess with no reboots and as little retcons as possible", do you think it's plausible?

The only way I can think of is to just move on from the past seasons and say "ok, we can't fix the past seasons. So let's make sure the present seasons are really good". As in just giving up on the past and focus on the present.

The other way is more fan service than substance: a Marinette villain & health recovery arc. Because I just want her to snap one day and say "fuck all y'all".

But what do you think?

I'm inclined to agree. I think the show was damaged but salvageable after season four, but after season five? It's pretty much dead in the water. However, if someone forced me to fix it with no major retcons AND let me go as dark as needed to make that happen, then here's my pitch:

Make the Kwamis evil.

Gabriel really was a loving father, but Nooroo corrupted him.

Marinette keeps secrets to an absurd degree because Tikki is messing with her brain.

Fu was a paranoid recluse because Wayzz made him that way.

Fluff's chosen always end up trapped in burrows, watching the world pass by, banned from being part of it.

This takes us down a psychological horror route where someone on the newly made team notices that the team is acting strangely as their newly assigned Kwamis start to warp their minds. My gut reaction was Marinette or Alya, but Felix and Kagami may be a better choice as this could be a way to give their sentistatus meaning. Perhaps it makes them immune since the only way to control them is via their amoks?

This would lead to a reveal that the guardian order was made to protect the world from the Kwamis and not to use the Kwamis to protect the world, but Su-Han doesn't know what to do with the butterfly missing or something like that.

Not my greatest idea ever, but I don't know what else you could do to make sense of the nonsense that canon has laid at our feet and this would do something to explain all the inconsistent characterization. It's not bad writing, it's foreshadowing that something is wrong with the characters' minds!

You could also do something about Gabriel's wish creating a reality that needs to be undone and that's why things feel so wrong, but it's hard to pull that one off since reality was literally rewritten from start to finish so why would the characters even notice something was off? Only way I see that one working is if the people who save the day are from another universe. Like maybe Shadybug and Claw Noir pop in for a visit, notice something is wrong, and help out? But I feel like they've got enough bs in their current universe already. Still, the option is there since they visited the canon universe before the rewrite, met the main cast, and Shadybug read Marinette's diary, so they have enough knowledge to notice that something is wrong.

[mistlovesxcas]

Disclaimer I am a finale denialist but imagine you are watching season 15 episode 19, and haven't watched 20 yet who do you think should be dying, if you know one of them dies?

Propoganda below :

Basically do you agree with Jensen saying that sam should have died, hear me out this one time dean doesn't bring sam back, he retires lives a long happy life, maybe even goes to the beach. It was the trashiest decision for the finale the way it did which I'm in denial of forever and I feel the reboot and rewrite of that trash finale is inevitable because jensen definitely was not satisfied how supernatural ended. He wasted no time making his production company, previously called "free will production" now chaos machine production, then the spn prequel "The Winchesters" bringing dean winchester back. He is still not happy he will bring back spn in a year or two even like a limited series he has hinted in many words.

HE WROTE "TO BE CONTINUED" SPN IS NOT OVER YET GUYS

[winxwannabe]

(I have been keeping up with the reboot news despite being semi-active. I'm nothing if not nosy.)

Anyway basing a transformation off of aerial acrobatics is objectively a good idea, but it's just...not executed well. Other people have made better posts about why it doesn't work, and I'm probably person #86 to tell you it's bad. And bad may not even be the right word, rather...uninspired? Uncanny? Unfinished?

Parts of this make sense; use vines because Flora's a nature fairy and you've used them in her transformations before (including her first 3D one!). Use aerial acrobatics because it invokes the idea of flying, and has a grace that really does remind me of Flora. There's plenty of flowers in her hair and on the dress and on her boots!

But it doesn't come together. The focus isn't the outfit, or even Flora, really. It's on these spin moves that are so fast you don't get much of an opportunity to see what's happening. Her dress and wings are on in a second. Instead the biggest focus is on her boots, which are basic and boring. It's a win for feet people and no one else.

It's also kind of jumbled? I hate that the background goes through 3 separate color changes in 30 seconds. No other transformation does that (Harmonix is the closest with its tie-dye, but its way more cohesive in its color pallete and pattern). It's jarring. It gives the impression that 3 separate teams made this without collaborating, and the main editor didn't feel like changing them.

(We're not touching the song. The lyrics and composition are fine, and I found out today it was performed by a child.)

I also wonder if any weird stuff is just from the jump to a new animation style or if it's more AI usage that Straffi swears he didn't do even though there's a shit ton of evidence saying otherwise. Maybe his "competitors" broke into Rainbow and swapped the footage, the same way they're "spreading rumors" about his AI usage! So that's a super fun worry in the back of my head every time something comes out.

Like I said before I don't hate this, but it gives rough draft vibes. It needs a good final rewrite and some polish to really shine. Only time will tell if this is an outlier of the new transformations, or the standard.

[g1rlr0b1n]

How would you rewrite/reboot supersons?

Honestly, my biggest change would be that I'd make them the exact same age so people could stop using that as an excuse for not wanting people to ship them.

The next thing I would want is to have them actually age and grow together. Maybe have them meet at 10 and form the Super Sons and go on lots of adventures just the two of them. Then, once they are thirteen, they could join the Teen Titans together and then eventually the Titans (there would probably have to be a plotline about them learning to be part of a team and not just a duo). I would also really like them to take time exploring Jon's sexuality. Not anything big at first, just like little hints every now and then that he will eventually come out as bi. Then I would like to see them do a proper self-discovery story arc for him.

Not really a plan, I guess but it's what I'd like to see.

[jpitha]

Computing Power

This is a rewrite of one of my very first popular sci-fi things here. I decided to flesh it out just a little bit and make it more of a short rather than just a script of two people talking.

Humans tolerate a much greater amount of… ambiguity in their technology than the other sapients. Take their computers, for example. They are a class above. They're smaller, faster, less expensive and can do more.

But, they crash.

A lot.

Leave it to the Humans to just accept a machine that will stop working "every once in a while."

Gwen is walking around the promenade on the Revelation, a starbase on the border between the Gren and the Humans. It was set up after the armistice as a kind of meeting point for the sapients of the galaxy to live, work and play together to try and build understanding, and prevent another devastating war from occurring. She's walking with her new friend, the Gren Mal'imar. They're an interesting looking team as they walk. She's about three quarters his height and has that stout thick build that high gravity beings all wind up with. Mal comes from a world that's a good deal lighter so he's taller, more spindly with reverse articulated legs and carciform features. As they're walking and chatting she stops, reaches into her pocket and picks up her phone. Looking down at it, she frowns. "Oh shoot."

Mal'imar noticing her friend stopped, turns and looks at her. "What?"

Gwen shrugs and shows Mal'imar the phone. The screen is blank and white. "My phone crashed. Gotta reboot it, one sec."

Mal's antennae flutter, indicating confusion "Your phone...crashed?"

"Yeah, the computer inside it stopped working. Something went wrong and it just doesn't work." Gwen shrugs. "Once I turn it off and turn it back on it'll be fine"

Mal'imar shuffles from one reverse articulated leg to the other. "But, the computers in your other things are more robust right? They don't...do that?"

Gwen looks up at Mal. "You're serious?" She laughs heartily. "Hell yes they do. Let me tell you about the time I had to reboot my coffee maker so it would work again!"

Mal turns his head slightly and clacks his mouthparts. He's worried.

Gwen isn't that familiar with Gren body language and doesn't notice the gesture. "Oh yeah, one time the computer in my car crashed. Wouldn't display anything at all. That was a hairy ride!"

Mal'imar unconsciously takes a step back and looks around. Maybe this human is having some kind of... episode? The things they're saying sure don't sound right.

Her phone successfully rebooted, Gwen continues walking and talking. Mal decides to see where this is going and stays with her. "Also! So when the first humans went to our moon, the onboard computer kept crashing. They had to land manually because the computer - when it worked - was trying to land them on jagged rocks! They all nearly died!"

This time Mal'imar stopped walking. He looks her in her eyes and clacks his mouthparts again. "You do realize the other races' computers don't do that, right?"

Gwen meets his gaze. "But ours are faster."

[the-gayngel]

i decided to do a tarot and pendulum reading about the potential spn reboot (with the supernatural tarot deck!) so if that's your kind of thing, check below the cut!

since i did the tarot reading first , i'll be discussing that first. i'll briefly explain how i drew my conclusions for each question, but if you have any other questions just let me know. also warning this will be a long post but please stick around especially for me adding the pendulum's results, exciting stuff came through with that!

tarot reading

question 1: side characters that may be on screen. because of the nature of this question i'm not really interpreting meanings of the cards (one exception), it's mostly just going with the characters on them

benny, adam/michael, meg, jess, and baby (this one made me giggle because of the car getting raptured jokes)

i asked for clarification on jess (it was kinda a curveball to me) and i got 7 of swords/blades in reverse which actually has ruby on it. the meaning of the card is basically stop lying to yourself. lowkey i think the show is gonna try to make sam and jess get back together in heaven, OR sam will have to face past relationships and make some sort of decision about who he's "meant" to be with. if they erase eileen (again) i will be upset LMAO

question 2: timeframe for an official announcement. using the actual card meanings for this (also the picture of these cards is with next question's)

the hermit in reverse and page of swords/blades. honestly i think it is in the veryyyy beginning stages of being planned so unfortunately there's not really an actual time estimate. but be on the lookout for little hints from actors, producers, etc

question 3: timeframe for it actually being on our screens. once again using actual card meaning

the wheel of fortune in reverse. momentum is stalled, stagnant; fearing change. so once again there is not really a current estimate of when this will happen but it will probably be longer than a lot of us want/expect it to be. for the fearing change part i think that's referring to the production process, possibly struggling to find the network and work out legal aspects, also maybe slightly scared to bring back the show because they're not sure how viewers will respond, but they will still go through with it

question 4: plot-wise, will it pick up where it left off and stay in heaven? will it rewrite pre established canon ending? using characters + card meanings

5 of cups/goblets (gadreel), 8 of pentacles/pentagrams (jo), 9 of swords/blades (alastair), 10 of wands/bones (cas), 8 of swords/blades (constance welch)

i think it will take place in heaven where we left off (sam and dean stay dead), but heaven/hell/earth will all end up being involved. what im leaning towards is some sort of infiltration of heaven; demon drama with all hands on deck (lots of fan favorites would likely come back for this). the 8 of swords meaning is feeling stuck/imprisoned so maybe the chuck won theory is actually true?? ultimately another Big Bad or cosmic event involving fixing/protecting the afterlife

question 5: will they make destiel fully canon with onscreen reciprocation? characters + card meanings

death (death, lol), page of pentacles/pentagrams (ghostfacers), the hierophant (billie), and queen of cups/goblets (ellen)

call me crazy but i think this is saying yes. ik this is silly but because ghostfacers came up it reminds me of the "gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day" quote especially with being between death and billie. also i think production sees destiel as a valuable business/economic opportunity now. despair/the deal will obviously be brought up. billie might be angry that cas killed her and some plot develops with that? ellen being here is a bit of a curveball but maybe she tells dean in heaven to get his shit together LMFAO but also the guidebook says "this tarot card is a reminder to be nurturing and compassionate with those you love" + cups being emotions and pentacles being stability, everything previously unsaid will finally be getting attention. think it'll definitely be A Journey to get to it; a lot of forces within context of the show and in real life still going against it though

look in reblogs for the pendulum results!