#no idea havent read the novel

[paranoidplush]

yoojin's almost pinpoint focus on getting yoohyun's body back makes me indescribably depressed

[ferronickel]

In typical Ferronickel fashion, I am now plagued with thoughts about how the Brontë's juvenilia would be different in a world where the military had dragons, a subsection of interests that is so irrelevant to everyone else that it's barely every worth mentioning on this site, let alone creating any fanworks about.

I'm gonna do a little incomprehensible rant in the tags about it and the go on my merry way. Please ignore the following

[astranauticus]

the being he loves most

slightly spoilery version under cut:

[whoviandoodler]

I know I literally just woke up but the thing that hit me is like... Chuuya MUST know about what happened with Odasaku, right? He's an executive (or at least was made one after Dazai left), he must have been told at least a version of the story- now the question is, what exactly did Mori tell him?

Because we know that he wasn't really involved with the Mimic incident (or at least not with Dazai's aspect of it), and we know he previously expressed thinking that Dazai unforgivably fucks with friend and foe, aka that he doesn't really care about anything, so is it really out of the question that based on a probably manipulative account Mori gave him he thought that Dazai used Odasaku's death as merely an excuse to leave?

And then I'm like okay, but Chuuya knows Mori is a liar and a manipulator, so he would at least question it a bit- but them I'm like, would he??? Or would he be so hurt and angry that Dazai left that he would just go along with what Mori said and what fit best into his anger???

Because later, after he's forbidden from killing Dazai by Dazai's deus ex machina plan, and after the mafia and the ADA make a truce, Chuuya acts like Dazai is a part of his "herd" (people to be protected, even if hated) again, but we do see in several of their interactions that he's still struggling with balancing the mafia instinct of killing a traitor (especially a personal one) and the german shepherd instinct of protecting one of his own (because even though four years have passed, it's not like he could properly prepare himself for interacting with Dazai again).

And then I'm like, but he must know the truth on some level right??? One of Chuuya's most annoying (to him, I imagine) qualities is his temperament and his intellect not fitting with each other- that is, his intellect getting in the way of fully letting his temperament out (like we saw with the whole Ango thing in dead apple- his temperament had him destroying Ango's office and roughing Ango up a bit, but his intellect wouldn't let him kill Ango for something he knows Ango didn't do).

His temperament (and his experience with Dazai's destructive apathy) tell him that Dazai's nothing but a traitor and should be killed for it because that's what you do with traitors and he's an enemy now, but once that temperament has to be reined in because Dazai can't be killed, he has to deal with his intellect holding the reigns.

But then that's just another route of complex emotions, isn't it? Not just facing the possibility that Dazai is capable of placing human emotion and friendship above 'logical gain' (and what it means for all the times he wouldn't/couldn't do it before that), but that possibility being fact meaning that Dazai was right in leaving the mafia. That he was led by Chuuya's own morals ('herd' trumps all else/destroy anyone who hurts the herd), and that thus Chuuya killing him for it would be hypocritical.

I mean, I definitely don't think that it's on the conscious level yet (considering the many, many times that he's hurt Dazai so far, as understandable as it was (to a degree) under the circumstances); in fact, I'd say that it being subconscious is what irks his temperament even more. But then again, it could be that him being aware of it is what's making him angrier? Who knows...

[rattlingmycage]

I wish people wrote fanfic of Astarion like Neil acts him in D&D. Just let him be an over the top clown that every other character can look at and be like "really?" A total gremlin.

[13eyond13]

trying to start S2 Ep 6 of IWTV and I've already paused it like 10x in the first 10 minutes because it's just kinda getting hard to care what they're going on about and I keep getting distracted tbh

[nomaishuttle]

mad abt the taz graphic novels again. sighhhhhh

[alchemist-shizun]

I've come to the realization that I've known about mdzs for about 4 months and so far I've been juggling in my head 3 different songxuexiao fic ideas (ones actually not ship fic only about post canon song lan and inner turmoil which we love) and SOMEHOW all of them involve little kids to a certain degree, either raising them or having a group of little ducklings following u everywhere u go.

This is a first and a pattern I wasn't expecting but I guess I'm welcoming it!

[bmpmp3]

speaking of furries have u seen what they’ve been doing in the medium of visual novels recently? magnificent work

[firelise]

oh shit oh shit my new book has started getting goodreads reviews

[gin-juice-tonic]

So, for Starters: Book Of Bill Spoilers warning. Another opinion from me below. (Here's my first opinion I shared, if you havent seen it) This new one is about the lost journal pages again, of course.

Originally, I wanted to make a super big crazy essay about all the reasons I think the journal pages in BOB (The Book of Bill’s given name) are fake, and show off my super-cool totally completely sound deductive reasoning techniques in the process.  

Unfortunately, knowing myself I’m not sure I’m actually capable of accomplishing such a feat. You all know how I tend to post things in parts, sometimes out of order, often never finished. However I would like to share something in particular that’s been eating at me that I’ve seen… partially discussed, but only partially. And certainly not the part that I would like to discuss. 

It’s about the rats.

You know, the rats.

I saw these rats being talked about since before I was even able to have a look at the book myself. 

But before I get further into it all, I would like to start off with a joke: 

Why did dead rats, eggnog, a land orca, shrimp colors, It’s a Small World After All, and an Anti-Cipherite Suit cross the road? 

Well, that’s easy. To get to the other side. 

Of the book, that is. 

If you’re anything like me, you probably skipped right to the journal pages upon contact with the book. And if you’re even MORE like me, you were probably left a little confounded by them. Not only did they seem… wrong somehow. But they also felt random. Full of odd choices of subject that didn’t make a lot of sense. Could these pages really have come from journal 3? If so, why do parts of them feel so… completely out of context? 

And this is where the rats come in. As I mentioned before, I saw many people discussing them. In particular, they were noting their connection to this passage from earlier in the book:

Many of the related discussions also felt odd to me. Though I lacked the knowledge to be able to articulate why at the time. UNTIL, I read the book for myself from start to finish. That's when I realized something:  This is not the only time something from earlier in the book connects back to the journal pages. In fact, it happens many, many times throughout the earlier passages. (Here is a small collection of them for your perusal.)

And then it started clicking into place. The reasons the pages felt like they were so abnormally out of context… is because they WERE lacking context!

Now, before you can finish saying “Gin, you’re an idiot.” I would like you to ponder these three questions: 

1) Why, if these pages were taken from Journal 3, should they require context from outside of it to be able to be completely understood?

2) Why is it that this context can be found in what Bill Cipher has been writing in the preceding passages up till now? 

3) If you put food in a mogwai’s mouth at midnight EST but drive it over the CST time zone line back to 11PM before it can swallow, will it still transform into a gremlin? 

Okay, you caught me, that third one is unrelated. But the first two I believe require further thinking. So let’s delve a little further into the idea. Consider this the real third question: 

3) Are we to seriously believe that these, the only pages of J3 still lost to us, just so happen to tie into the new topics from the rest of the Book of Bill over and over like this?  

And since you’ve done so well thinking thus far, I’ll ask a fourth question: 

4) Are you aware of the concepts of Watsonian and Doyalist analysis? 

Assuming you don’t and you won’t google it, I’ll skip to the important part. Watsonian analysis is to analyze a story from within it, as if you yourself were Watson making deductions in a Sherlock Holmes novel.  

Now, from a Watsonian point of view, what happens when we try to answer our earlier questions? Why should it be that the Book of Bill provides so many of these points of reference to the journal pages? 

One possible line of thought could be that Bill wrote the earlier passages of his book *around* the idea of what was contained in the pages, but I think this doesn’t work for a few reasons. For one thing, the purpose of the book is to get the reader to make a deal, not to take a whole novel to set the stage for a 3 day mini Ford adventure. For another, not all of what I described prior is really fit to be called “context”, is it? The rats, the “Small World” cassette, and the Bill-Suit are one thing, but Eggnog? Shrimp colors? Land Orcas? I certainly wouldn’t define them that way. If anything, they’d be better suited to being called “references”. And unlike the more contextual ideas, there’d be no real need for Bill to sneak mere references to the pages into his grand story.  And lastly, there are a great deal of Bill pages that have nothing to do with the content in the journal pages at all.

So what exactly am I trying to say here? 

If we do intend to think of the callbacks outlined above as references, the only logical conclusion within the story is that the journal pages themselves are referencing back to the Book of Bill, not the other way around.

But… how? And why? Something Ford has written in the 80’s shouldn't be able to reference something Bill is writing post-weirdmageddon certainly. 

That’s because “Ford” isn’t referencing it at all!

And as for why… Well, have you ever noticed when you're writing a story on the fly, things you wrote earlier all come crashing back to you as you try to wrap things up? I believe personally that the journal pages are nothing more than a strange endcap on Bill’s crazy train of thought! And the "references" are just fuel that further the pages creation. Almost as if, to quote someone much more knowledgeable than me on this subject…

In the end, all I've described above (as well as other aspects of the pages I've not mentioned here) leave me with the impression the pages are not real.

As I stated only a bit earlier, the idea that these pages, the only pages of J3 purported to be lost, should be so connected to the rest of the book is beyond coincidence to me. Not to mention that in order to take these pages as total truth, you must give credence to several other passages of Bill's book as well. And I'm not too keen on having to trust him that much.

To all who have read this far, even to those who may have scoffed at the ideas in here or think I've only written up nonsense. Thank you for reading and considering my thoughts.

I am not saying anyone must agree with me on this. I know some people have found the pages to be important and meaningful to them, and I do not wish to give the impression that I think my view is the end all be all correct one, or that I think lesser of those who believe in them. I only want to share my own opinions. And to anyone else who found the pages to feel "off" somehow, possibly validate their feelings too.

[abblegum]

Hi I really love your creativity and ideas!!😭💕💕💕 Your style is amazing and very cute😍 I was wondering how you met ssmy! How long have you been a fan of them? And do you also love kghr? Please answer if you want!🥰

WHAAAA!!! 😭😭😭💕💕TYYY!!!🥺🥺🥺💕💕💕💕

I met them a couple years ago (i can’t remember if it was through the anime or manga;;;;;) but recently (by recently i mean december) got into it

like

a lot.

so i’ve been a fan for awhile but now its taken main stage…

also i do love kghr!! i’ve read the manga and i have the novel but i havent gotten around to reading it yet;;;;; I wanna draw them more but i haven’t fully adapted them to my style so its hardT_T

anyway here, you can have one of my few kagi sketches as a gift:

[astranauticus]

oh i absolutely gave myself way too much of a workload this semester but holy shit i finally have like... about 80% of that orv changgwi animatic down in concept and i am. cartoon villain cackling

[ms-wwe]

Let's talk about this new fic, shall we?

Hey guys!! First off, thank you all soooo much for all the support on my first fanfic story since 2019, Righteous Desires!! It means the world to me. Coming back into this world as an adult is insane, but I'm here for it entirely!

I just wanted to pop on here and chat about this story just a bit before I start posting the rest. I know, it's a slow burn story, and I know the first two chapters have been slow, but it's all for good reason! I have had this fanfic idea stored in my mind since 2012 and never could find the perfect love interest for Riot. When I started actually watching WWE again at the beginning of this year, I was instantly struck with the realization Damian was exactly the character Riot needed. And so the wheels began to turn!

As I said, this has been an idea for over a decade, so bringing it to life finally has meant not only taking extra time to write, but creating a hefty novel sized fanfic that'll definitely have a book 2 👀

To answer some of the questions about this story to help move through the slow burn, here are some things you should look forward to!

• Damian is cumming coming, I swear

• Smut, Smut, and more smut

• Seth tackles who?

• "I'm gonna give you a five second head start before I beat your ass"

• Jeff, you smell like weed

• There's how many kids here?

• oh so you're fucked up fucked up?

• "You dated that guy? He looks like he wants it up the ass"

• K I N K Y

• Are we shocked Punk is like this?

• Think manic episode, but sexy

• "She fucked half the locker room before you"

• Finn is deceased

• PUERTO RICOOOOOOOOOOO

I hope this helps build more anticipation as the chapters release!! Stay tuned for chapter 3 and in the mean time, if you havent read chapter 2, head over to wattpad 👀

[2d-dreams]

The Arts of Being, rewritten

The Depths of a Bidimensional Existence, Unravelled (because subtitles in books are fun!)

hey! Remember that novel I wrote? And that I said I'd maybe rewrite sometime?

Well it's gonna happen for real this time. I'll give more detail as I get the time (and I don't have much time to write currently with a job/community service, another job, and school, and therapy, and finally getting that autism diagnosis! Yay!)

I'm a bit inspired by VAS: An Opera in Flatland, which I admittedly havent finished reading because I once again was disillusioned with the humanized flatlanders, the women-not-being-lines and non-bidimensional perspective and stuff.. but I find the visual style interesting - I might make a special edition with similar additions, but as of now the rewrite is simply text, possibly with the addition of the encrypted texts/3d dialogue like the original.

My goal with this is more bidimensionality (dwelling more into the 2d life and perspective and the jarring transition to 3d) maybe i'll try to tackle some theme throughout, and change details like Bill and Liam because 1. i dont like flat dreams at all 2. i dont like possibly getting sued.

My goal is to make something I'm even more proud of and that I can publish - my dad told me I could self-publish through amazon, I think (I may give out free digital copies to the OG flatlandblr crew if anyone wants to be my beta-readers?)

However running it through my dad would mean removing (or making very implicit..) a lot of the queer things of the book. The disability commentary will remain (even more now that I'm making changes to "Bill", if you've seen my recent reblogs), the relationship between Pol and The-Now-Unnamed-Equilateral will continue to be very deep, plus A. Shape will retain its pronouns, but I'm unsure and scared of what would happen with the other details.

The novel will possibly be a bit lengthier, obviously written with more thought and detail I hope - I can't promise the perfect work as I'm just some 17 year old kid.. but I have a lot of love for this flat world, as I hope you guys know, so I will try to do it justice in all its flat glory.

If you have any comments or questions, (or ideas on what to call Bill.. honestly, I might change all the names to non-human-sounding ones.. but I'm not sure?) I'm always open! You guys are the biggest reason I want to do this.

Sorry by the way if I havent answered to anything on my inbox (especially requests for 2d-world info) - life has been a whole tumble lately.

[pendwelling]

Does TWSB in ORV mean Yeseo becomes a demon king?

HE DOES

There's more about my take on orv!TWSB AU lore in my fic and if you havent read it, essentially the idea is that—in line with original QPB canon—og!Jesse(Losna) decided to sacrifice himself for Ga-in Christelle and their companions, thus becoming the Demon King so that they could all advance in the scenarios.

So when Yeseo "transmigrates" (here his 4th wall censorship gives him Losna's appearance instead of just blurring his face haha), he will naturally also follow a similar storyline! "Demon King of Serenity" sounds really cool for a moniker too :')

((AND SOME SPOILERS for TWSB 301+))

Also imagine the aftermath of TWSB 301 but Demon King Selection...... Cédric going near berserk after Yeseo passes, Chris having to fight him back into clarity despite her own grief, Johann recovering his liege's corpse but there are only ashes, angst and angst and more angst..... IT HURRTTS

I still also firmly believe that KDJ and Eunseo are pivotal in shaping the atmosphere of their respective favourite novels (and by extension the type of main character that features it) so an orv!QPB universe shouldn't be this angsty in hindsight, but we all know TWSB wasn't all sunshine either WKFJDKKD so this amount of angst is still fitting.