#oh and also it ends on a cliffhanger thats never resolved

[venom-ass-daily]

From Venom vol 1 issue #7

[thegeminisage]

U G H

sometimes i read a rly good fanfic thats like 45k and im like "damn that was totally worth it i should read more longfic" and then sometimes i read an ABSOLUTE IRREDEEMABLE PIECE OF GARBAGE fic thats 65k and i remember why i dont

[bladekindeyewear]

Boots Reads Homestuck Epilogue(s) Part 10 - Candy Part 1 again

I was told that finishing the epilogue MAY make me feel better by some with opinions, with some vague hints that the ridiculous start of Candy may have underlying reasons, so now that I’m awake again (though my stomach is roiling a bit again) I’m gonna take another crack at it.

Alright, so I was also hinted that this Candy part ends with a different cliffhanger, so maybe those two will cancel out?  That’s my hope anyway.

Reading page 1 again since I didn’t finish the very tail end of it... alright, so WHY IS ROXY CRYING again????  Was she just PRETENDING that she didn’t know it might turn out bad for John if he went at the end of the last one?  Was there some weird mind-rewriting going on?  Is the crying a symptom of this whole thing potentially being an our!Callie fanfic and she knows what’s being dodged??  Don’t know.

Alright, let’s have him save Gamzee and... is Vriska going to get saved in this version?  Or is that descent into the black hole without seeing what happens her well-deserved comeuppance while only the ghost version of Vriska truly figured out how to be happy?

==>

Dirk acknowledges him when he zaps back, but it’s YOUNG Dirk so hopefully there isn’t any stupid Meat stuff going on.

...Yeah, Gamzee immediately being repentant is weird as shit.  Maybe he Chucklevoodoo’d Callie into escaping him into this whole candied mess so he could start shit, I dunno.  That or this isn’t really Gamzee or someone’s manipulating him or etc etc etc.  The hint I got earlier was that if I thought Calliope wanting to bring Gamzee back and everyone just rolling with it was a little out of character, there are “reasons”, so I’m just going through all of this under the assumption that some emotion-manipulating weirdness is going on regardless.

Oh shit, Gamzee’s going to start recounting his character reasons for doing bad stuff in a surface-hope of justification and understanding.  All the characters immediately recognize how painfully groanworthy this is going to be.

GAMZEE: AnD sUcH iS wHy I’m GrAbBiNg HoLd Of My RePeNtAnCe As FiRm AnD sErIoUs As I wOuLd A wHoRe’S tItTy!

Yeah, that really encapsulates how “serious” all of this is.  And of course, John’s not having any of it.

Yeah, Terezi wouldn’t have any of it either, remotely.

Something feels different, but he can’t put his finger on it.

Hm.  The aforementioned manipulation-weirdness?

==>

Okay, so it’s kind of Dirk who notices something different and is cancelling his stupid villain plans, got it.

Volatility of causality, huh?

(I’m going to be going through these parts a little faster than the Meat section, unsurprisingly.)

==>

Okay, Rose and Kanaya, are we gonna cure her substance abuse or--

With all the distance between them lately,

God damnit, have Dirk’s manipulations extended that far OFFSCREEN or is this legitimate character distancing???? Because either is BAD.  >:(

Right, now that the plot and “relevance” has been sidelined over to a different timeline, Rose can now breathe easy free of her condition.  And whichever parts of her condition were, perhaps, IMPOSED on her.  Fuck.

I’m going to try my fucking best to cling to this, hope I can carry on a memory after this is over that DOESN’T imagine Rose trapped in a fucking existential dying villain coma with a hard fucking cutoff that promises nothing is ever coming to resolve it ever.  (Or Jade in a somewhat-similar sidelined situation, or Jane doomed to fuck herself over and everyone else too, or...)

What’s slipping away instead is the feeling that any of it mattered at all. Was she insane to be so consumed by such lofty concerns, and is she only beginning to experience clarity today, for the first time in ages?

Yeah, you’re no longer in a timeline of Light and relevance.  And that’s not so bad, which is something you never expected to be true given your derision of the concept.  Void is pretty goddamn alright.

--Oh right, the illness and substance abuse probably caused plenty of distance between them.

KANAYA: There Was A Feeling I Couldnt Shake That Something Terrible Was Going To Happen To Us KANAYA: Something That Neither Of Us Could Stop KANAYA: A Powerful Outside Force That Would Take You Away From Me KANAYA: And I Couldnt Stop Myself From Thinking That Maybe KANAYA: Maybe That It Would Be For The Best ROSE: Kanaya... KANAYA: I Can Now See That This Is Completely Ridiculous

For some reason, this doesn’t settle my stomach much?  It’s clear Andrew wove this in here so that if you read Meat first, you’d be able to acknowledge readily how this diverged in a way the characters kind of recognize, and... I’m not sure what I’m even saying.  It’s like there’s hope that this is TRYING to take the bad taste out of my mouth, but I don’t believe it overly much.

ROSE: What a relief, considering that we are both going to be young and magically fit literally forever.

Wait, so they DID find a way to extend their non-ascended friends’ lifespans to practical immortality?  Jane’s Life powers?  Something else?

==>

yay jade.  more extended dave metaphors.  calm down stomach.

JADE: i never thought id be thinking of you as my weird nerd friend by the time we were in our twenties

Heheheh.

DAVE: yeah well i never thought youd be like the premiere woo girl on the planet

Had to look up what a “woo girl” was.

Yes Jade go flirt them to death

What she’s planning isn’t a seduction. It’s a public service.

Pff

(And yeah, she’s being pushy but at least she doesn’t go DIRK FAR about it.)

DAVE: its incredible hes driven at least ten people off the site by creating thinly veiled parody accounts of their usernames

Oh my gosh, Karkat’s good enough to ANDREW HUSSIE them?!???  :D

That’s incredible.

Karkat knows damned well what a husband is. He’s been force-fed enough bad movies from Dave to pick up any human euphemism you could name. He still plays dumb sometimes, for comedic effect, to irritate his friends, or simply to avoid a topic of conversation altogether.

Yeah, it was always pretty clear that about HALF of the trolls pretended not to understand something human that they knew about just for comedic effect and they knew it.  :)

It would be pretty easy to mistake his reaction for arousal, so it’s understandable that Jade is extremely surprised when Karkat snaps his jaw shut and chomps down on her hand.

PFFFFHahahahah :D

And yep, Jane cancelled her run at Dirk’s direction.

DAVE: lets all just thank whichever christ was responsible for making whatever decision resulted in her deciding not to do that

*nod nod*

JADE: well i hope she gets a better hobby JADE: there are a lot of less ominous things she could do with her time KARKAT: WHAT, LIKE FUCKING HER WAY THROUGH HALF THE POPULATION OF EARTH C?

Jade pinches his ear and twists hard, smiling pleasantly.

JADE: get fucked karkat

Yeah, this is about the level of violence/threat I’d expect from Jade when anyone slut-shames her for perfectly acceptable behavior.

==>

There is almost no crime on Earth C, and so almost no one locks their door.

Huh.  I guess post-scarcity might do that.

Alright, we get to see Jane being less of a fuckass.

Dirk was the one person on Earth C who took the state of the locksmith industry with the seriousness it deserved.

Pffff

JAKE: Thats my theory at least. Maybe its tommyrot but i have faith that dirk will be back. After all where is he going to go?

Good question that wasn’t answered in Meat, so of course Jake says it here obliviously.

JAKE: I must admit i am rather half rats at the moment. JANE: You’re what? JAKE: Haha sorry that was a pretty obtuse way of putting it wasnt it. JAKE: What i mean to say is that ive been powdering my hair quite a bit today.

Andrew is SO good at making Jake sound completely incomprehensible.

...Ouch, Jane, don’t drink so hard! D:

The “morbs”??

JAKE: Dirk has that manner about him does he not? JAKE: A way about him that makes you feel like whatever you do as long as it does not involve him it doesnt count for dick.

Yeah, fuck Dirk.

Hm... is the absence of relevance affecting them, or some other manipulation? It’s not just the LACK of Dirk’s manipulation.

JAKE: Except of course for that time when you were under mind control and had me trussed up in your lair as you pontificated villainously about using me as a breeding stud to create a blood lineage for your incumbent corporate space empire.

A fate Dirk seems to agree with, judging by Meat.  Let’s sidestep that fucking entirely, thank you.

...yeah, I didn’t expect Jake’s response to be any less oblivious than exactly that.

==>

So why DID Callie bring Gamzee back, anyway?  Is there some secret use for him in mind?  Was she manipulated into it?  Maybe BY Gamzee?  Hm.

...alright, priestly with followings.  That ain’t good.  Is he aiming for Clown President MK2?

Everything Callie and Roxy have done and said in this Candy section so far seems creepily contrived, possibly by design.

...okay did they have some kind of weird agreement? Like, “okay John is gonna make his choice, and if he chooses to stay i try dating him instead of you, Callie”???  That’s... no that can’t be it.  Roxy’s NEVER acted THIS oblivious before.  What’s she playing at?

GAMZEE: mY fUcKiN *gUy*. :o) JOHN: ... GAMZEE: My DuDe AnD mY nInJa AlIkE. GAMZEE: mY *hOrN* dOoOoG. JOHN: ... GAMZEE: mY hOrN tO tHa MoThErFuCkIn DoG. ;o) JOHN: waiter! help!

I’m imagining Gamzee now as a sweaty and homeless, unkempt Guy Fieri.

Yeah, this doesn’t look like it’ll be fun.

==>

...Swifer Eggmop.  ¬_¬”

There’s a third member of their social group who definitely hasn’t arrived at the conclusion that his power and influence should be meted out responsibly either. Neither of them speak his name, however. For some reason, it feels like a shadow passing over the sun. A brief spike of pain flickers through Rose’s head, a bolt that strikes between her eyes and splinters out. There is color and light behind it. A vision that tears through the material reality in front of her and gives her a brief glimpse into a parallel reality where things are very different.

Yeah, fuck Dirk.

...Pff. Yeah, Rose WOULD mimic the record-scratch gesture.

Don’t invoke “never seeing Vriska again” like that, you’re really tempting fate.

Heh, Rose is finding some Light in the darkness, wanting to do something that’s meaningful on an expressive level with this Vriskgrub business.

Hm... why is my stomach a little less uneasy?

I sure hope it stays that way.

==>

KARKAT: OH MY GOD, ARE THE MECHANICAL GLUTES ON THAT BILLBOARD ACTUALLY PADDED WITH PLUSH TO MAKE THEM MORE LIFELIKE?

Heck Yes

...Yes, touch the butt, Karkat.

Jade, pouting a bit, glides in between them and uses her Space powers to teleport Dave’s phone out from the center of his traumatized palm and into the pocket of her sweater.

Hm!  So she still has teleportation abilities over a limited range even without her Green Sun boost, that’s nice.  :D

After all, where would these two pitiful beta boys be without her?

Oh my fucking god stop being Dirk, Jade.  And never use that narrative language again, even in your head.  Heck, even if Dirk’s the one WRITING this still, don’t even think CLOSE enough to think those words.

...yeah this sounds like an Active player class taking things slightly too far.

Thank you, Karkat, for drawing the consent-line in the sand.  Looks like Jade’s backing off a little.

--hold on, wait, Dave kissed him? He did, so why is-- let me read back up--

Dave doesn’t answer. She answers for him by leaning down and planting a dry, affectionate kiss on Karkat’s cheek.

Okay I misread this line earlier.  Jade kissed Karkat when neither of them were looking and is BLAMING Dave.  Hmm.

Alright, Dave ollies outie.  Karkat tumbles down some hillstairs.

Jade could probably catch him. Actually, she could easily do it, but it doesn’t seem like the kind of favor you should do in a fledgling kismesissitude.

Thaaaat’s a little presumptuous??

JADE: well i guess im eating grub spaghetti alone JADE: *again*!!!

:C

I’d be sadder if you didn’t bring it down hard upon yourself but

:C

==>

Yeah, John, better clear up this Callie business because it’s muddy as heck why Roxy would just drop everything to try things out with you.

Ah, we’re bringing up the gender identity thing on this side too, hm?

More serious talk, this is good, reading reading...

The glasses clink together clumsily, and water gets all over the complimentary breadsticks.

Oh no.  This had better not be Olive Garden.

ROXY: no one else has ever made me feel like this

--not Calliope???

What the heck is even going on.

Dave’s coming for some bro help it looks like.

==>

It’s hilarious how much Dave is freaking out about this, and how completely in-character it is.

JOHN: holy fucking shit. JOHN: there’s a gay snooze button? DAVE: yeah man theres a gay snooze button JOHN: wow.

I love these two’s conversations

......wait, Dave’s been holding off on kissing Karkat because of what he thinks JADE might think???? D:

JOHN: i almost managed to forget that she was trying to fuck you and karkat.

Pfffffffff  :D

Yep.  I love it being put so bluntly.

Reading on... yeah, for some reason I also always figured that the end result of a nice three-way relationship between those three people would be Jade and Dave essentially both just glomming onto Karkat more than each other?  Hm.

JOHN: i mean... it doesn’t sound... JOHN: *canon*?

...I hope you’re just talking about his coin flip explanation and not DaveKatJade.  >:(

John wonders when talking to Dirk has fixed anything for anyone.

Nod nod.

She grins up at John with shimmering, adoring eyes. They’re reflecting every star in the sky, all for him.

Seriously, what the hell.  Is Roxy hypnotized?  Putting on an act?  A voidy act??

I’m not doubting that Roxy COULD feel that way about John, I’m doubting the suddenness and the way Calliope is being deliberately ignored in the situation, which is so goddamn obvious that JOHN is uncomfortable about it.  There’s something seriously strange going on.

It itches at the back of his head, the idea that he might have just fucked up Dave’s entire life.

D:

Alright next post after a bit of breakfast.

[sometimesrosy]

Eliza and Bob have hyped up the finale to say it's going to be super emotional and heartbreaking, but if you could write it in your own ideas what would you have the episode look like? Not just in bellarke terms but in general?

It’s hard, because my style of writing is just not that heartbreaking. I WILL kill off characters because the story demands it, even if I love them and don’t want them to go. The novel I wrote before watching The 100 has at least two major deaths of important characters who I loved. And multiple deaths of more minor characters. And it also has transformations to the dark, and explorations of our own darker natures and flaws, and tragedy and trauma. But maybe because I write scifi and fantasy novels instead of episodic tv, I don’t feel the need to “top myself” in the trauma. And since watching The 100, and dealing with this new garbage fire of a world which has proven that all my fanciful paranoid conspiracy theories are not actually paranoid, but ACTUAL REAL CONSPIRACIES PERPETRATED BY ACTUAL REAL VILLAINS IN ACTUAL REAL LIFE, I’ve felt the need to pull back from the dark and morally gray, constant suffering fictional worldview and HAVE SOME FREAKING HAPPY ENDINGS AND VICTORIES. Unqualified. 

Okay. That said. I’m not predicting what I think will happen, but I am imagining what I would do, given what I’ve seen so far. I will probably skip the story lines that do not resonate with me, and also maybe some that I don’t understand where they’re going yet (like Abby, I’m just not sure because I think it’s been building. maybe after tonight it will make more sense.) I’m also not going to talk about what the episode will look like, because I am not sure what the action will be that takes us to the wrap up of the themes and storylines I see.

A storyline I do NOT see wrapping up is finding peace. I don’t think they’ll get it. I don’t think they’ll get the chance to start living, yet. To build a new society outside of war. Not yet. I think that is a season 6 or 7 storyline. Or longer. That might be the new main conflict. No longer war, or survival, but LIVING. It’s been important from the beginning, but more as a long term goal, not one they could actually work towards. Kane tried, but because of the multiple wars, all his efforts were dismantled. Without peace, there could be no building. So we see them trying now, with Kane and Monty and Eden itself…. but no. Everyone is sick, not just Eligius with their lung ailment. Wonkru is too, with their trauma. Both of them can’t stop fighting, can’t stop wanting to own everything they see. Even when they want to.

Okay. So.

Eden: I don’t know how it’s going to work out, but I don’t think Eden will be an option anymore for our heroes by the end of the season. Either it will be destroyed, or it will become a warzone. The worms are still out there, as is the weapon of mass destruction Eliglius brought back from space. 

Survival: In order to survive, our heroes will have to turn their back on the war, and also on trying to save Eden. It’s been stated as the ONLY living spot on earth, and since Eligius spent time in orbit LOOKING for living earth, I think that might be true. BUT while everyone is thinking THEY have to be in control of the only living valley, Monty has been like, hey, yo, we don’t need a valley. I kept everyone alive in a tin can in the airless void of space with squicky algae, and you managed with this hydro garden. I can fix the garden. I can make the land fertile again. We can live here. It ISN’T our only option. There’s ALSO the easter egg of Eligius 3, and the planet with 2 suns which is why they needed the nighblood in the first place.  And there’s Shannon Kook, coming during the finale, who I believe will offer our heroes an option out of the valley. Space? Another community of survivors on earth? IDK. haven’t seen any easter eggs about another community, so space looks more likely. 

Our heroes will lose the war for Eden and lose Eden, but find the new option behind door number three. 

Wonkru: They’re going to break. No longer wonkru, because they are no longer locked in a bunker. If they don’t want to follow Octavia, they don’t have to. Some were already trying to break free, and then she took away their options by burning the garden. Not cool octavia, not cool. Her people are not happy with her. And there’s a real Heda out there. They DO have options. And it’s NOT to follow her. This is going to cause more problems. More war. More death. 

Octavia/Blodreina: Okay. I think this is the main emotional story. Like what Bellarke would sacrifice in order to save their people in seasons past?  I still think she’s getting a redemption. That does NOT mean that whatever she did will be okay now. It was WRONG. And she is responsible for the monster she let out. She has never actually been held responsible for what she has done wrong. I believe this is part of her storyline and character arc. Bellamy always let her win. When a person never understands what it means to lose, they develop a sense of entitlement. Even though she was the girl under the floor, Bellamy gave her that sense of entitlement that made the world black and white. The Ark was evil. She was good. Jaha was wrong. She was right. Grounders were good. Skypeople were bad. When she switched over to Jaha’s reasoning and type of leadership, she accepted that she would be going to the dark side, I think. But she was also still stuck with the Good/Evil thinking. And now, with all her power, she maintained her righteous sense of entitlement. Only choice, right? Therefore righteous. She did it for her people, therefore she was good. Bellamy and Clarke made these choices, but they also recognized that it was not righteous, even when they did it for their people. But then, both of them have much more nuanced understanding of the world. 

Okay, so because of this, I do see her redemption, as when we have a reunion of not just Bellarke, but Clarke, Bellamy AND Octavia, we’ll have, for the first time, the active Heart, Head, AND the Soul. And part of the sacrifice this time, is not just going to be about what needs to be sacrificed to save their SOULS….

Wait. Wait.

Season 3. Clarke and Bellamy had to save everyone from where their MINDS were trapped in the COL. The head.

Season 4. Clarke and Bellamy (and Octavia)  had to save everyone from their BODIES (where their hearts are, and specifically heart because they separated all the families. We SAW them sacrificing parents for children, Clarke and Abby, Bellamy and Octavia. And they went to save their FRIEND Raven, and the romantic promise of Bellarke, AND recovering, we saw Clarke with her new family/heart, Madi.) The Heart.

Season 5. Clarke and Bellamy (and Octavia?) will save everyone from the damage to their SOULS. Clarke and Bellamy got to recover. Octavia just became more damaged and so did Abby, and the addiction story might be more about her damaged soul that a physical thing. She did reject Kane’s offers to help her through withdrawal. 

So. 3: victory of the head. 4: victory of the heart. 5: victory of the soul.

I do not feel that Octavia is likely to make it out alive. They have avoided talking about Lincoln, because I think his death was when she received the damage that broke her. She struggled with that all season 4, and the bunker was when she gave up the fight and just let her soul die in order to keep people alive. BUT I think she’s coming back to Lincoln (that apple blossom parallels the lily he left for her to follow to him,) and I think when we see what happened in the bunker, we’ll get Octavia facing herself, and her heart, and her soul again. We’ve seen her emotions leak out over Bellamy, although she hides it. I think in the end, in order to save her people, Octavia will have to sacrifice herself, and it will be done out of love, it will be done because she recognizes that she let the monster out and what she did is her responsibility to fix. Like Maya, or more importantly, LINCOLN. She has been AGAINST Lincoln’s teachings. And I think when she faces that, she’s going to face her responsibility, like Finn did. I see redemption, sacrifice, and death for Octavia. Could they save her? Yes. If it were a different story and not the 100 and we still didn’t have two major deaths coming. But because it’s this story, I also think we WILL see her redemption, not just death. Because THATS the story. And with the LACK of Lincoln mentions, it’s more likely we’ll see her have a “come to jesus” moment. Like the 2199 days not being mentioned, and the traitor who you love not being mentioned. The more they DON’T bring up Lincoln, the more important it will be. 

i think i got sidetracked. What do I have left? Oh. Bellarke.

Bellarke: They will reunite. They will figure out their shit. They will be canon by the end, because every season is ABOUT the head and the heart coming together, and both concepts have been reiterated. They are not gone, they are still in effect. And we’ll have to see a reveal of the 2199 calls that were the cliffhanger of last season, and we’ll have to see that resolved. HOW? I don’t know. Canon, though. 

What will the finale be? Bellarke together, perhaps brought together by Octavia’s tragic and heartrending sacrifice, with all those years, a life time really, of pain, and I feel she’s going to be reunited with Lincoln, in death. I HATE that kind of story, but I think JR has said that he loves the tragic Romeo and Juliet story and Linctavia IS the tragic Romeo and Juliet story. It just is. And their story ended with both of them dead. But Octavia had to carry on. SO, heartwarming in that they are together, tragic in that their lives have ended. ALSO, according to Romeo and Juliet, their deaths forged a new peace between the Capulets and Montagues, so if we see that parallel, then whoever is left of wonkru, eligius and our heroes, will get to forge a new life. The war over Eden is almost irrelevant at this point. It will be exciting and someone else besides Octavia will die. yikes. We also have Shannon Kook to show up, so let’s expect the unexpected. I expect he comes from space to offer them a new world, and a new way out. Perhaps his people need resources and that’s why he came back to earth from the planet with 2 suns, and there ARE no resources on Earth… but we have Monty and his magic algae. And so they leave the war for Eden behind and head off into the wastes of space to find a new home, a new hope, where they can finally start LIVING instead of just surviving.

That means, Octavia’s story, romantic tragedy, Eden, war tragedy. Bellarke together like Penelope and Odysseus, finally, so a “comedy.” The Dante’s Inferno cycle ended. Breaking the cycle of violence and abuse.

 I didn’t mean to do this. I went off for far too long. I don’t have specifics, just looking at a few themes i’ve noticed. Few details. 

[magic-marvel]

Hi, I don't wanna bother you but I need help and you write really well. Do you have any tips for actually finishing your stories. Like I'll start a story and maybe write half a chapter and never finish it. I wanna start posting stuff but I don't feel like I'll be good enough. Also I don't feel like my writing is engaging enough. If you have advice I would really appreciate it. 💕

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this is actually hard for me to answer bc i have the SAME problem???

i guess one way that i try and like go about this is had a word count goal? like a majority of my chapters have between 2.5k and 3k words (of course, there are exceptions) and that kind of helps me with limiting or even filling in information so that i can have a decent ending

As for like actual plot line and chapter conclusions, i guess i this is what i try and go for:

i know some people do the whole cliffhanger thing where they will end a chapter somewhere that makes the reader want to click next, and im all down for it like that always kills me i love it so much but i actually only did it for one fic, since im not really that great at it.

other writers (myself included) like to write chapters more as television episodes?? so there is an issue or problem introduced at the beginning of the chapter, and those chapters will end with the problem being resolved. the problem with this though, is that its hard to follow through with one giant major plot. television shows who usually do this are like sitcoms or comedy shows, who usually have no major plot line that needs a resolution but rather each episode has its own plot and story. this is why with shows like “Big Bang Theory” or “Friends”, you dont need to watch from the very beginning to understand completely. while shows that end on cliffhangers are things like crime shows or mystery shows that almost each season has one giant issue or problem to solve, that’s why for shows like “The Last Ship” or “Agents of SHIELD”, you do sorta need to start from episode one to really understand whats going on. so depending on what your story is, you can really determine how to end individual chapters.

(however, as you may notice there are sitcoms that last years and have tons of seasons, so what works for television seems to abide by different rules when it comes to written works, strangely)

my fic “Normal” usually ends by solving the initial problem addressed in the beginning of the chapter, while “I Love to Hate You” is more of a cliffhanger type of story, this is because “Normal” is a lot more lighthearted in nature especially since it follows pretty closely to the plot line of Spider-man: Homecoming, while ILTHY is more serious and is trying to solve a mystery, so most chapters will end in a cliff hanger to try and get readers to continue reading until the mystery is solved. (not all chapters, but as it picks up yes)

im gonna try and write out a really bad example im sorry im like garbage

you probably notice that a lot of fics that are more fluff and lighthearted tend to not be as long as fics that are angsty or have an underlining issue within the story, and thats kind of because its hard to really keep a fic going if there is no major plot to write for, thats why one shots usually tend to be fluff and series works tend to be angst.

so like lets say we got a fic written purely fluffly and written for warming hearts and making smiles, if the plot line is about a normal girl finding out who spiderman really is, then almost each chapter will be a sort of its own stand alone one-shot, like close calls with peters identity or maybe even a cute little realization that the girl actually likes spiderman. so each ending will resolve whatever was in the beginning. and when you put it all together, the climax is usually spiderman’s identity being revealed, feelings addressed earlier will sort of fly back into your chest and you kind of get this “aw” moment, because you already knew what was coming and you already knew that the girl and peter were going to end up together. and the chapters following are usually super fluffy little extras that are there to kind of smooth out the ending.

yet fics that are addressing a more serious issue, like lets say we got a fellow avenger being targeted by some other organization, and usually each chapter will end by revealing one tiny piece of information before finally ending. all these pieces will eventually link together, revealing the climax in a way that makes you think “oh snap this was addressed in like chapter 3 and that thing was mentioned in chapter 12 and oh man whats happening″ like all the chapters usually link together in one way or another to “reveal” something. and the ending reaction usually goes along with shock or relief, rather than an all knowing “aw”

SO to end each chapter, really all depends on the kind of story you want. if you want something fluffy, then you can do little stories that build upon each other to have a cute resolution.

or if you want something serious then each chapter usually should have a piece of the puzzle hidden within, it might not be obvious to the reader at first, but in order to understand the ending then each chapter must be read and give a little piece of the mystery away.

im sorry if this is just hella long and absolute garbage and doesnt make sense at all but like this is kind of how i see it??? i hope this helps and i know i rambled for the most part but please let me know if you need clarity???

Also, here are some fic recs that you can read to get what im trying to explain:

@bitsandbobsandstuff‘s “Safe With Me” fic is a perfect example of mystery and like chapter endings get you MESSED UP and this is such a good read like yall ill fling myself into the sun for this fic

@infamous-webhead GOT A WHOLE ASS MASTERLIST for works that will melt your heart and quite literally, Make You Feel Better

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Ok just... just... GIVE ME A SECOND to talk about the spoilery monster rancher stuffs, okay? Why THAT ENDING hurt so much but also fit so well with the rest of it, and why the third season kinda sucked so much despite being the continuation we all desperately craved. And why its still gonna have a place in everyone’s hearts, even the haters, JUST because it gave a conclusion to THAT FUCKING ENDING! I dont care if people say it would be more deep or whatever to leave on the downer cliffhanger, I still think it SHOULD have had a third season, just that it should have been better. Or I mean... maybe it would have worked better as a movie or a short ten episode season or something. Just there should have been SOME sequel to that ending, but a very very lighthearted season about a goofy tournement kinda wasnt what it should have been.

OKAY THE ENDING THE SEASON 2 ENDING the giant and damn awesome subversion of everything about the genre, which fit so well with everything else the show ever did, GAHHH Like.. there were SO MANY subversions and just interesting detailed twists on common ‘mon show’ tropes. One of the earliest episodes begins with an asshole trainer treating his Worm monster the same way a lot of people honestly might do while min-maxing in one of these videogames. He’s disgustingly abusive and feels like he’s justified because he’s making his monster stronger, and that’s all that it’s good for. And the show establishes its tearjerker tone early on by having this guy only repent after his horribly abused monster sacrifices itself to save him from the baddies, even after how badly he’d treated it. And he’s begging apologies to its dead disc stone, while it’s too late to do anything about it. But the show STILL gives him a chance at redemption, because our heroes trust him to raise a new newborn Worm, and to do it right. That’s just... what the show is. It went really REALLY dark, but it did this with this kind of determined optimism! And even the funnier episodes could have high stakes, and there was always the reminder that we were living in this dystopia and just trying to keep our smiles during it, because otherwise how can we change it?

And thats why season 3 fumbled by like.. not introducing its stakes early enough. Or.. at all. it was good that they finally introduced some good comic relief villains and generally villains with more motivations and backstory, but it combined badly with the no-intial-high-stakes thing to give a season that just felt way too happy. In a show that certainly had happiness in it before, but I mean it never felt hollow?? It kinda felt disrespectful to follow up a super depressing cliffhanger with such a badly explained and rushed flip back to the status quo, and then such a sparse plot with so few incentives to keep watching. Its only initial good point was that it resolved the cliffhanger AT ALL, but it could have done it WELL, and also established a new reason to wanna watch the show now the one big huge main plot has been resolved. Following up after the bad guy is defeated is always a hard thing, you cant just put no effort into it... Tho I feel bad even saying that, cos seriously season 3′s villains were the best part. They just might have fit better in season 1, or just if the plot kept up the slack surrounding them...

BUT YEAH JUST THE SUBVERSIONS!! I could fuckin ramble forever about how great they were! Seriously it was just THE BEST ‘ending’ to a ‘stuck in another world’ story, ever! Having the main kid finally get back home, but at the ABSOLUTE WORST MOMENT, after all his friends have sacrificed themself to save that world and he’s the only one left alive. And he doesnt even get enough time to process the shock, he barely even sees the rescued world before he just wakes up home as if nothing happened. And he’s stuck feeling like he can’t adjust to being part of this world anymore, and he’s mourning people he can’t even talk to anyone about. Imagine how worried his parents must have been when he became depressed seemingly overnight and refuses to tell them why! And then it just ends on him crying in the rain and the ghosts of his friends trying to motivate him to get back up and find a reason to live again. That was ONE HELL of a cliffhanger, yo! So yeah OF COURSE people were cheering for a new season, but also OF COURSE that new season would fail if it insufficiently followed up on the emotional impact of the cliffhanger and then had a bazillion episodes of barely anything emotional ever happening again, when the first series had you crying your eyes out as early as episode 4...

oh and like DEAR GOD all the OTHER really good subversiony episode plots aaaaa like even down to little stuff like how genki actually fights alongside his monster pals. And he’s a total badass who does succeed in doing more than most humans could do, but still he’s just a human going against monsters. he knows what he’s doing is rash, but he does it anyway because he cares about his monsters and couldnt just let them die without throwing himself in front of the bullet. And every battle in this show is life or death rebellion against an oppressive regime like that! Random low risk tournement episodes used to be.. like.. FILLER in this series. It was a terrible idea for the entire third season’s plot... And I also loved how the team actually did help people along the way as they journeyed to defeat the baddies, and it wasn’t JUST fighting. They had a whole tearful episode about everyone struggling to hold back a dam that the baddies had sabotaged to wipe a village off the map, and it was INFINATELY MORE INTENSE than half of the things Pokemon has ever done, lol! (not that I dislike pokemon, just the anime in particular is a bit naff) God, how they were all strangers to this village and how they actually had bickering between the team members on whether they should really do this, and all the different ways they tried to save the dam and how they made it way too clear that they were gonna die from friggin holding this thing back with their bare hands. And how they organized the whole town to work themselves to the bone trying to divert the dam, and how a bunch of their attempts failed and they came so close to not having enough time! You had me weeping for the potential deaths of a hundred nameless faceless npcs just from putting me in the shoes of our heroes reacting to it! You made a little kid understand the complexity of civilian casualties in war! And OH MAN, Golem’s backstory! How he was a former war soldier who just shattered mentally after being forced to kill so many other monsters. And he was so gentle at heart, and he sat there guarding this church full of disc stones for god knows how many decades, blaming himself for what happened. Like.. it showed that even when you’re fighting villains, killing still breaks you. Dear GOD, his face when he came back down from his friggin ptsd flashback anger episode saving the heroes from the baddies, and he saw all the dead baddies, and just... you could not talk to that man and tell him that killing was justified just because they were BADDIES. Even if its in self defense, he still has to look at his hands that just murdered people. I’m so damn glad the heroes managed to befriend him and take him away from that place, cos that moment came so close to sending him back to his guilt spiral! If anything, I think that the dub calling them ‘baddies’ actually made all these moments way more effective. The childish terminology makes you think this is gonna be a paint by numbers story, so it hurts more when its anything but! Even in a world with a concept like ‘the bad guy magically turns people into his bad minions’, they still managed to deal with complex grey morality, and that’s one hell of a crowning achievement!

...plus it allowed for a happy ending after all. God, i cried for all those poor minor mooks getting brought back to normal in the end. Honestly, even though it hurt, I would have accepted it ending on all of the hero monsters being dead forever for the sake of bringing back all the dead civilians and brainwashed baddies. Sacrificing yourselves to save so many others! God, this show’s characters are too goddamn pure. AND COMPLEX TOO! man I loved how grumpy and selfish half of the hero cast is, yet they’re still heroes despite it, and god just HOW THEY ALL DIED TOGETHER AND OUR PROTAGONIST IS THE ONLY ONE FORCED TO KEEP ON LIVING that was such a fucking cliffhanger thank you terrible season 3 for fixing it man i can forgive anything you do because you did that baby mocchi lived and ate some mochi cakes and tiger and hare lived to bicker with each other once more and golem could find some peace knowing all the people he saved, even if he might never be free of the guilt of those he failed to save and suezo and holly didnt have to be apart again, he didnt have to end his life finally proving his ‘usefulness’ at the cost of everything else (SERIOUSLY SUEZO LOW SELF CONFIDENCE EPISODES KILL MY HEART) and genki didnt have to have his childhood completely destroyed by his ‘magical adventure’ plot ending on so much of a trope subversion even if still it was good that it happened it was a really fuckin good plot all that suffering just made the happy ending that much happier! GOD I miss this show very much...

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Interlude Time!

Hey! I just got done with episode 99 and I know that wouldve usually posted this after watching 100 first but this episode ended on a cliffhanger which is very convinient because I have some ☆°Predictions°☆ But before that my general thoughts:

Yeah, once again theres not too much to say really. Im having a lot of fun with this so far and Im a lot more engaged than I was at the beginning of VRAINS. I still dont quite like the aestetic of this world, atleast not as much as Zexal. The worldbuilding itself is perfectly fine though. Like, theres not too much fleshing out done aside from Central Locations (as always) but Im immersed well enough and I like that we're finally in another dimension! When that arc in the Synchro Dimension first started I was under the impression that we would be spending like, an equal amount of time in the Synchro and Excise/Xyz Dimension before having a big showdown at Duel Academy but then the Synchro stuff started taking up so much time and yeah...

Initially I thought "Well, i guess theres not too much to do in a destroyed and presumably empty city, but it would still be pretty cool watching them navigate through those ruins. Guess thats not happening tho" but now it looks like it is happening so Im excited! I have some predictions (and some hopes) but that comes later. For now Id like to talk about that NDC arc in more detail:

Okay, I definitely prefer the way the classism was handled in this over 5ds. I really liked Riot Boi (Shinji was hiy name I think) and his role in all of this. As some of you mightve noticed, I follow quite a few RWDE/RWBY Critique blogs and a topic that pops up quite frequently is their botched discrimination subplot and a character named Adam, who seems to have used violent measures to gain equality as opposed to nicely asking their oppressors to stop and was demonized for it. I really expected them to do something similar with Shinji, like, some of the stuff he was saying really seemed like the writers were go "Ha! You thought he was fighting for actual equality? Fool! He was a always a bad guy and you can tell CuZ hE uSeD vIoLeNcE". But yeah they didnt do that, so thats nice.

The fact that all it took to resolve all that conflict was a duel is awfully convinient but not exactly unexpected from this kind of show so its fine. Them just leaving to another world immediatly, implying that everything will be fixed is leagues better than a time skip and everyone just continuing to be in a that same world if you catch my drift. But now onto some predictions!

Alright, first of all the tags and descriptions of some fanfics that Ive stumbled upon mention Zarc? Im assuming its meant to be like Z Augmented Reality Combatsystem but the name's also very reminiscent of Zorg back in DM. I wonder if this means we'll get another Big Final Force of Nature Villain like in DM or GX given that this is meant to be a love letter and all that. I still hope Yuri is going to be the final big bad tho.

Oh we are definitly getting some Traumatic Flashbacks ™ from Shay and Yuto. Both of them have been hanging around on the side lines lately, Yuto especially. Like Shays had some amazing moments (Id argue maybe even some of the best this arc) but the spotlight never really lingered on him, and well, Yuto's pretty dead so he cant do much besides... Idk be there in spirit ig

Given that there probably wont be a whole lot of people around to duel I think Yuri is going to appear more frequently now, which I am very excited for!

Id also like them to explore the shit thats going on with the girls bracelets. Yknow, how do they fit into all this? Speaking of the girls, Ive kinda lost track of them. Selena is in Xyz with the bois, Im pretty sure Rin was turned into a card or taken prisoner by Yuri or both, Lulu is still a prisoner of Fusion as well probably and I completely forgot where Selena is.

So yeah, thats that, thanks for reading and now enjoy my live blog!