#no-onions-please

[vulpine-spectacle]

Hello, hello, hello, Royal_Lina over here! :D

Wanted to pop in, since I got caught up with your blog, even though Im still mid chapter on the new update

Your tags lured me in and your answer on that ask about the Bene Gesserit is making me CURIOUSSS. Imagining Althea seducing Rabban instead is both an incredibly hilarious mental image, while also an unexpectedly interesting thought for me. Let alone the relief that Feyd wont get surprise flirted with xD

And the other ask about the sing and your reaction is making me nervous about the coming reunion. I am SHAKING in my boots, lemme tell ya! I already am gonna be an emotional mess, so any extra drama is just gonna be the cherry on top.

Anyways, also wanted to just take the opportunity to heave another truck-full of hearts and good vibes onto your lap, since I cannot overstate how much I adore your writing and beautiful brain <3

Have a good day, dearest author!! Im off to finish chapter 32 :)

Oh, hello my dearest lovely!! Welcome to my blog, I am so happy to have you here!!

Honestly, if Althea was smart she would have gone to Rabban. But I also feel like it's the principle of where the DNA comes from. Rabban is beastly and uncontrollable and also more or less useless, whereas Feyd-Rautha has the desired genetics, powerful, and can be controlled. I do wonder what it would look like for Rabban to be chosen. I feel like that kid would be a MENACE. Althea is gonna have a very interesting series of interactions in the chapter that follows. >:3 She's thrown me for some curveballs.

Honestly, I have been such an emotional mess writing the interactions between Leto and Eurydice. ;^; In the last two chapters my soul has been leaving my body, and in the current chapter I am working on now and after, I am sobbing like a baby. I need them to hug and talk about their lives and everything!!

You are truly so divine!! Your comments always light up my day and make me kick my feet and I just!! Love it!! Love you!! You are incredible, thank you so much, my lovely!!! <3

[nouverx]

You gotta excuse his 1920's ass, he's still learning slangs

[skipppppy]

shoutout to gay detectives and their husbands across history

[daaudball]

Hmmmm

[amandamadeathing]

@theonion headline paired with Crosshair.

[quikyu]

Something tells me he did not remember to talk it out

[creacherkeeper]

is this old religion, are we calling it love?

{sweet movie, alisha dietzman / @gaphic / tiktok / @iamalivenow / on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong / @manywinged / these violent delights, micah nemerever / the reader, bernhard schlink (trans. carol brown janeway) / hestitations outside the door, margaret atwood / a self-portrait in letters, anne sexton}

[ID: ten images of text together in a litstack

1: Confession: I will think of you forever

2: a post by gaphic: It’s only tragedy if you convince yourself, for even just a moment, that everything could be ok, despite knowing it won’t be. Tragedy lies in ‘so close, yet so far.’ It’s avoidable because it would only take a tiny alteration to prevent disaster, but human nature is in the way- not maliciously, not knowingly, despite trying so hard.

3: a tiktok comment and answer: Are they lovers? / Worse

4: a post by iamalivenow: gay sex won't fix this. it'll probably make this worse. that being said don't you want to see how much worse it can get?

5: Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.

6: tags from manywinged: #technically they know and understand each other better than anyone else alive #but they communicate that in the most fucked up insane unnecessarily complicated way and think thats normal

7: I don't think you've ever felt anything that didn't hurt you. / We've found each other, out of everyone else in the world. Does that hurt, too?

8: "I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do."

9: Should we go into it together / If I go into it with you I will never come out

10: of course the love is there. / still, / still, / still.

end ID]

[benoits-neckerchieves]

Oh my god !!!!!

Well that explains this then

[kaiser1ns]

i think the whole budget went to hoshina's muscles and kafka's kaiju form💔

[twipsai]

this one panel in issue #50 and it's, like, not THAT bad alright

fuck it im tired and had a long day this is my treat to myself. im talking about that panel. yes, THAT panel. which one?

THIS ONE. alrighty this is off the cuff and terrible, lets go.

so this panel isnt like, that bad in context when it comes to Sonic. i think specifically "ive made peace with enough enemies to know there is a better way" is a really interesting line here, because it calls back to the amount of times that the "villain" hes fought has just been a person whos hurting, and how hes been able to help those people. it makes sense that eventually hes more keen on trying to figure out someones whole story before deciding if theyve gotta go (which is rare).

but i want to talk about the FRAMING of this panel, and specifically the larger context of this issue in particular. theres a lot of flip-flopping in perspectives. usually, IDW is told through Sonic's perspective (loosely, this kind of thing is up to interpretation a lot), but in issue 50, it switches rapidly between four different groups -- Sonic and Surge, Tails and Kit, Eggman and Starline, and Belle and Metal. within these groups, the perspective its being told from changes a few times, but never as much as Sonic and Surge's do

i actually love these two when they interact as a storyteller myself, and one that has handled scripts too often for my own liking. Sonic and Surge do this thing where they push and pull the pacing of the script to fit their motives -- Surge keeps trying to escalate things, whenever shes in a panel everything starts pushing rapidly and it feels like the panels are tumbling off the page. when Sonic does anything, though, its slow and deliberate. hes having fun fighting, sure, but he can very much tell that Surge is trying to kill him and hes not having any of that. Sonic keeps things slow and focused, Surge tries to push things faster and unfocused. i could get into how this reflects her motivations and stuff but thats not what this is about i already lost track of what i was talking about fuck hang on

ok so. Surge knows shes supposed to be Sonic, to be BETTER than Sonic. its all she knows, really, and thats the problem. shes traumatized and full of rage and Sonic has been put on this high pedestal, not just by her, but by everyone. she cannot stand this.

this panel is how SURGE sees Sonic, specifically the composition. hes shrouded in light and physically above her -- its not even that subtle of a metaphor, they use it all the time in idw.

the entire overpowered saga shows Surge clawing for control of herself, her life, her freedom... this issue sets all that up in the main story. the way Sonic is framed here isnt how he sees himself at all. weve seen him do this exact same thing from his own perspective before, where everyone is on even ground. he doesnt see himself as above anyone, this instance of him being depicted as such isnt alluding to how Sonic feels about himself, its how Surge feels about Sonic.

and, look, its not the most well-done in the world. this issue has a whole host of problems, evident by the constant switching of focus from one group to a next (a problem that i think they did better on in the Phantom Rider saga). i literally forgot about Belle and Metal in this issue bc theres just so much more going on, i wouldve loved for them to slow things down a bit, maybe splitting it into two issues, but hey, what can you do, yk?

as an aside, i think its really weird how people narrow in on this specific panel of Sonic as being "so out of character", which i sorta like, 30% agree with (i think some phrasing could be better), and then ignore the page right after it...

...in which he pretty much says "you dont get freedom if youre gonna be a problem". funnily enough, on twitter i have this flow chart saved whenever i need a quick guide on Sonics morality and stuff, its really not that complicated

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none of this is new imo, we see he has the same philosophy in sa1 and satbk. Chaos was blinded by rage and pain after being trapped for thousands of years RIGHT after they were attacked by the echidnas. Merlina was so scared of death (implied to be because she had lost family members and wasnt able to cope with it well) that she became a monster in an attempt to never let anything change ever again. these arent very different stories in my head i guess, just cases of Sonic seeing people who are hurting and doing his best to free them from that.

uhhhh anyways. all this is disorganized i forgot what i was talking about like 5 times while writing this but. people on twitter are ripping into this issue again. like its a b tier issue stop acting like its an f yk Q_Q i will defend anything if people are too mean tbh

thanks for making it this far if you read all this. i love idw a lot and i think that it does have some flaws, theyre all really blown out of proportion.

have a great day/afternoon/evening wherever you are yall :) bye bye

[blurglesmurfklaine]

Newsies Uno ReVerse. Davey and Les live in the lodge and sell newspapers to survive, Jack was raised by Medda and when the bank threatens to foreclose the theatre he shows up to sell papers to do his part.

[vulpine-spectacle]

Your potential future fic list is making me kick me feet and squeal in excitement, especially the star wars one! While Im a clone wars girlie through and through, legends has a special place in my heart as well and I cant wait to see what your magic brain has in store there! Honestly, whatever fandom you tread into, Im gonna follow along. Fandom hopping is something I enjoy doing with my fave authors, and youre definitely one of them now :)

But while Im here, lemme participate in the ask game! :D

Do you have any tags/themes you like to write about?

Legends is absolutely the BOMB!! I will always love Legends till the day I die. :') I actually got to meet Timothy Zahn a few years ago and he was so ridiculously kind and he got a picture of me in my Mara Jade costume and ahhh! I was dying! I cried and it was amazing. :') My SW fic is going to have so much Legends material in it, and Mara Jade will definitely be included...along with Talon, Thrawn, the works! :3 I will say, it's going to be a super cute fic I'm hyped about, with a whole lot of angst, revolving around a mechanic with a bounty on her head who links up with Mando. ;) The helmet stays on.

You are literally so ridiculously kind!! I know that every time I see you in my notifications, I get the biggest smile on my face and I start to prance around, crying excitedly, and all of the things!!! <3 I hope my Legends fic is able to serve your Legends loving self!! And all of my other future fics. ;))

I honestly really love writing about families - the more broken the better. Family dynamics and themes of broken homes or families, and how they repair themselves or finding a new chosen family, are things that I just really enjoy writing. I also really enjoy childhood friends to lovers. It's just so adorable and cute and I love it. I also love it because it can also apply to enemies, because let's be real, kids are terrors and they can absolutely be enemies too. Double whammy. I also really like friendship?? Like, I love shipping as much as the next person, but friendships of all types are just so good. I've got a list. :')

[imliterallysnakejaguar]

DRAGONS RISING S2 SPOILERS‼️‼️

okay but i actually really hope that zane is the first one to 'find' jay in dr. it actually makes perfect sense. zane is being hunted by the administration, and we now know that Jay is in that kind of field of work (retrieval of items and/or persons) as he was present during the mission at the other monastery.

and like, wouldn't it be so so sad. jay shows up to take him to his death, zane isn't able to fight him bc well, he's JAY, and thus gets taken into custody. he then realises that jay doesn't recognise him. he's lost his memories. the very worst thing to ever happen to zane is now happening to one of his friends and no matter how hard he tries, he can't stop it. he can't help him.

meanwhile jay is just trying to do his job (transporting this random robot to the incinerator), but the robot starts saying things that only jay should know. he talks about jay's lightning, and his food preferences, and his daily habits, and jay is frankly TERRIFIED. not of how much this stranger knows about him, but of the idea that he might have been wasting the past few years of his life working at a dull office job instead of being with a loving family.

thankq for listening to my ted talk (i DEFINITELY won't be writing a one-shot of this omg)

[sirlancenotalot]

[starrysharks]

reassassination swap AU... fuckin.... unassassination idfk

[shreksstepfather]

You should all check out the first draft of my uquiz to see what your magical animal companion would be if you were a wizard! There are 60 animal results so far, and I'd love to hear what everyone gets! :)