#of the fantasy variety

[the-matron-of-ravens]

Genuinely curious, what are your thoughts on Dancer and FCG cuz like, he Literally, not figuratively, tried to kill her and did kill all of her companions at the time. I can see being critical cuz she doesn't seem to treat them like sentient beings, but even in the canon... most of the automatons aren't. Just some of the really old ones from Aeor/other old cities, right? So? She got a whoops!sentient microwave, treated them like a microwave, they killed all her friends and almost her and she's supposed to....? Be good buds with them? Also I know it's said that she trauma dumped on FCG, but let's switch it from microwave to personal journal - how would YOU feel if your personal journal popped to life and attacked you for trauma dumping? IDK haha I guess Idk you opinions and I'm just responding to my projected assumptions of your opinion. REALLY I'd 100% sincerely would like to hear your thoughts. I was really bothered by FCG pushing to meet with Dancer. Like jeez just leave her alone, you're her literal sleep paralysis demon, read the room.

Hey! Thanks for the ask, I put this a little bit in the tags but I can elaborate more here. (Edit: elaborate A LOT MORE it seems)

So here goes, I don’t know if you meant it this way but the analogy of a journal or microwave is helpful here because that’s exactly how Dancer treated FCG - as a tool to be used. But they *aren’t*. FCG is a whole being with emotions and thoughts all of which are apparent and so clearly distinct from other automatons.

So tbh, I think the perspective of “whoops! Sentient bot” makes sense for like a month, max. Not years. After all, we have seen NPC after NPC recognize FCG is a sentient being almost immediately after meeting him. I find it VERY hard to believe that Dancer never realized it herself.

Additionally, we need to step out of the plot itself and look at FCG’s mechanics. We know that every time he heals, takes damage for someone else, etc. he takes stress points, and that once past a certain threshold his switch flips and he goes full Murderbot.

We also know that rest and recovery are what reduces FCG’s stress points. So that tells us that Dancer was using and using and using FCG and not letting him rest (enough? At all?) even though he needed it. Because again he’s a person not a tool.

Even when they met back up recently and FCG sobered her up she remarked how she missed him doing that for her. And while I don’t expect her to miss him, I do think it’s indicative of her interest in him never being about him as a person but only how he could serve her.

And if we want to criticize FCG for his lack of boundaries, inability to take no for an answer and pathological need to fix Dancer sure that’s fair. He needs to unlearn a lot of that and quick. But we then have to ask ourselves where did those traits come from? They didn’t come from nowhere.

FCG is mentally extremely YOUNG. Aside from the 6?-ish Months spent with Ashton all he remembers is his time with Dancer. So, if FCG has a pathological need to fix others, to help them, and feels worthless if he’s unable to do so - that comes from how Dancer treated and trained him.

That doesn’t just go away; ESPECIALLY not when FCG doesn’t even remember going postal and doesn’t see to have the (IMO) most clear and realistic view of his and Dancer’s relationship.

After all look how he interacts with the Changebringer. She’s his surrogate Mom/Dancer. He needs someone to tell him how to feel, think, and what’s Good and Bad because he doesn’t know how to do it for himself - because he wasn’t *taught* to.

But here’s my real question. What do we call one person keeping another person in service to them, with no compensation or personhood to be had, and with no intentions of releasing that person from that service? That’s slavery my dude. AT BEST indentured servitude.

(but that implies there’s a debt. What debt? Waking him up? He didn’t ask for that; that was her choice.

And again this sounds a lot like children being “indebted” to parents for giving them life, housing, feeding, etc. )

That’s the part I can’t get over. And that’s the part I can’t get behind where FCG is the abusive one. The power differential was NEVER in FCG’s court; he never once thought of himself as a person or as anything but in service of “Soul Touched”. That complete sacrifice of yourself and your needs (or an inability to even know you HAVE needs) comes from being in relationships where those things are expected/demanded.

So, yeah, he literally tried to kill her, and I gotta be real I’m not surprised. Even children of abusive parents who they love snap sometimes. Because again, that’s mentally what he was at the time. A child.

But even then, no I don’t think it’s unreasonable or unrealistic for Dancer to be traumatized or not want to see FCG again. I don’t even think she’s wrong to say “I can’t give you closure” because closure isn’t something other people give you.

But the way she’s been discussed to be largely clueless about his sentience, blameless in his blow up, and FCG’s victim? I just can’t get behind that. Like at all.

[benevolenterrancy]

~ Extremely Unwilling Magical Protagonists Attempt To Outrun The Plot And Not Fucking Die ~

(@takofukkatsumi this tag is from a while ago but it hasn't left my brain -- L-Space got very weird all of a sudden)

[hellafluff]

Body diversity in Dwarven Women,,,,, Ryoko Kui marry me

[moodyseal]

This might not make the final cut (not even a first cut exists yet LMAO) but. Possible scene for the Winter Soldier AU? A mysterious blonde man keeps appearing in Hyacinthus' dreams. Wonder who that is hmmm

[johnbly]

That's Turks teamwork. Pretty good, right?

[justplaggin]

WHO'S CHOPPING ONIONS

[hylialeia]

"i can't come up with a fantasy name for my world so i HAVE to use chatgpt to get the gears flowing" have you all forgotten what fantasynamegenerators.com has done for you

[wayward-banana]

babe wake up I remembered to do a new years Takumi after 4 years

[mostlyfate]

TEARS not my breaking point being when they showed even the little percentage dust demons helping 😭😭😭

[battleonthebigbridge]

“Only a few find the way, some don’t recognize it when they do – some… don’t ever want to.”

Glamtober Day 21- Another world (Wonderland)

Chimerical Felt Coat of Casting (Colibri Pink) / Werewolf Arms (Colibri Pink) / Fat Cat Halfslops (Colibri Pink) / Werewolf Feet (Colibri Pink)

[harrowscore]

one thing i don't understand about Problematic Guy/heroine pairings (which are famously my thing btw) is why would you ship this female character with a villain/antivillain only to fantasize about them getting a conventional heteronormative ending with 2.5 kids and maybe even a dog too? i mean, to each one their own - de gustibus etc., i'm not here to police anyone's personal headcanons and/or fantasies, but. for supposedly ~female-gazey pairings, the woman is often cast into the role of mother and wife, with the addition of a traditional family unit to take care of. why would you speak of women's empowerment only to trap the heroines in traditional gender roles and enforce the status quo...? villains are usually about defying the SQ. i'd understand if the female character explicitly stated she wanted kids etc. - but especially when it comes to fictional women who Go Over To The Dark Side... why would they nurse the same aspirations of a tradwife? shouldn't it be all about the power of women - or is it actually only about the power of women over men? (a power fantasy i 100% understand the roots of and actively explored in my own writing btw. but it's not enough imo)

tl;dr: why would you want X Strong Female Character to end up in Y Murder Man's arms only for them to get a conventional romcom happy ending? why wouldn't you want for them to go apeshit and get what you wouldn't get with Sane Normal Guy?

[angclnumber]

OPEN TO : f / nb PLOT : your every day enemies with benefits situation . possible additional connections could be coworkers , bandmates , childhood enemies , exes who can't leave each other alone , etc .

" OKAY , THIS WAS A MISTAKE and it is never, ever happening again ." dawn can't help but feel a bizarre sense of deju vu to the last time the two of them found themselves in this position . or the time before that . she ignores it ." and if it is not already abundantly clear you will tell no one ."

[thebirdqueen]

Oh my godddd I would be such a Chocobo girl if I was in the ff7 universe. Give me ALLLLL the big birds you can find to me. I'd race for fun mainly and I'd be on my top game making my birds the damn best.

[morverenmaybewrites]

I've hit a bit of a reading slump, on top of receiving my delayed-for-two-months salary, so I'm about to go book shopping in a few days.

Has anyone got any book recs for me? :D

[solradguy]

I love that the "Vincent is Sephiroth's father" headcanon hinges entirely on the fact that they've both got generic bishounen anime face syndrome under the spiky hair rofl

Vincent is Reno's father confirmed. Because they both have the same delicate facial features. Vincent is Cloud's father. Vincent owes $95,354 in child support for his 12+ children. Confirmed by lack of facial feature variety in the (modern) Final Fantasy universe

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing based on the film Girl Shy. It depicts Harold Lloyd's character Harold Meadows sat at his typewriter, paused in thought as his fingers hover above it. His eyes are looking up and his mouth is slightly open, like he's dreaming awake. A thought bubble floats around him like smoke, with the faces of two women in the middle of it. The two have annotations next to them that denote the twenties era stereotypes that they are styled as. The one noted as "the flapper" is smiling and has curly, slightly unkempt hair, with a headband around it. She has lighter makeup than the woman next to her, who has dark lips and eyeshadow and is labelled "the vamp". She has large circular statement earrings and an ornate headpiece atop her smooth updo. Her eyes are downturned, and her expression less approachable. Harold is coloured in greyscale, and so are the ladies, although they have a warmer brown tone, as does the smoke. There's a pinker line of light surrounding them and the writing. The background is a dark brown.]

Inktober - Day 15 (Guidebook)

Film - Girl Shy (Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, 1924)