ok i dont think this is for MFASR (i could be wrong obvi) but gillslounge has a lot of stuff related to like halloween in their menu, in their about me and “one of a kind live show” - so its making me think it has something to do with harryween...
“your neighbourhood haunt” - very spooky, halloween vibes...
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tear the pitch apart
not really please be nice-ish but i'm submitting a pitch to a literary festival pitch war and i need to be the most specialest goodest writer so the pitch war runners will say nice things about me in front of 50 people and maybe decide to agent me. haha what
A farm boy follows a thief on an interplanetary petty crime spree in search of a mythical deep-space monster. The Monster At the Bottom Of the Universe is a sweeping space opera about the myths we tell to keep ourselves alive — and what happens when those myths come true.
it has to be 280 characters or less (i'm presuming including spaces a la twitter) and this feels so shallow and uninteresting to me but i don't have ROOM for more and i'm trying to follow their pitch construction formula. would you read this book, is the second line too cheesy, is it too vague (I CAN'T HELP IT), should i temporarily change the 41-character book name so i have a little bit more room to pitch the damn book rather than its title, do i need to start from scratch
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ur post about queerbaiting and the dismissal of people in fandom to critical analysis is so incredibly true thank you. i feel like marcille's writing in the anime has been super misogynistic a lot of the time and every time i bring this up all anyone wants to say is "well maybe this isn't for you! and you shouldn't watch the show!" like. i don't think this is about taste lmao, i am analyzing the text in front of me and coming to conclusions about the craft of it.
[This is in reference to this post]
YES!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
It is so so frustrating!!!!
It's like being at a restaurant and being served a bunch of delicious appetizers, but then one of the bread appetizers is literally just a plate of crumbs; and then when you're like, "Hey, uhh, why are we being served literal crumbs?", a bunch of the other folks eating at the restaurant are like,
"WELL HOW ABOUT YOU JUST DON'T EAT HERE THEN??!? YOU MUST NOT BE THAT HUNGRY, SO JUST FIND ANOTHER RESTAURANT AND DON'T EAT WITH US!!"
And maybe they say it politely, but "Aw, sorry, maybe this restaurant just isn't for you 💖" is just trading out an aggressive dismissive tone for a patronizing dismissive tone. It's the same message.
And it's like! I was honestly happy to move on from the crumbs once my complaint was acknowledged because the meal overall is still delicious, but then all these folks got SUPER WEIRD AND DEFENSIVE ABOUT IT, so now I find myself double-checking all the other dishes -- and, actually, you know what those eggs DO look a Iittle misogynistic undercooked!!!!
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15 and 16 for my baby girl PK?
Full disclaimer, I pulled an allnigter so this might not be comprehensible
15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)
HMMM. Okay, so I really love PK x WL/WyrmRoot, I adore big height differences and guys just obsessed with their wives. And they're both morally grey, nuanced characters, doomed to fail from the start, so they're both already pretty high up on my character likability tier list and when you put them together it's even better. They support each other's wrongs. They haunt the narrative together. What's not to love?
I also like PK x Grimm/PaleNightmare and PK x TL for other reasons.
Visually, I like the aesthetic of Grimm and Pale King together, and the dynamic some people give them - of Grimm being one of the few people who can irritate and stand up to Pale King and get away with it - I adore a lot. This dance of power and how far one can push the other is something I enjoy in ships. Also, two old fucks finding comfort in each other's company.
Pale King x Traitor Lord is just very amusing to me. It would make the Traitor Lord a gigantic, stinking hypocrite and that's funny to me. Also, I enjoy mortals winning over gods and being the "dominant" one in the relationship, so to speak. That's it, that's the only two reasons. Mostly, it's funny. I love old man yaoi.
16. What's your least favorite ship for this character?
I'm gonna say Lurien x PK/PaleWatcher. I flip flop between disliking them and liking them, and I think it has to do a lot with how they're written. I KNOW it's played up for a joke so I don't really mind it as much, but boiling down Lurien's character to "the guy obsessed with the Pale King" rubs me the wrong way (I keep saying how I don't like characterisations that serve no other purpose than to prop up or demonise another character, and this falls under that category methinks). But it's 99% a joke so it's fine. I'm personally not a fan of how some people write either of them (most of the time Lurien) to be hopelessly pinning after the other, just not my cup of tea specifically for these two. I want them to be two weirdos who just Get each other, are one of the very few people who truly understand each other, but there's still this dance around the...let's say proper mannerisms, statuses and societal expectations. I feel like you get me like no other but you are my king/my subject and I cannot get closer to you than at arms reach, even if I crave it, I need it. I also want them to get completely weird about it in a worshipping your deity kind of way (yes I know it sounds kind of similar to Lurien being obsessed with PK I mentioned before. It is not, not in my soul or heart. Just trust me on this one okay, don't question it).
So overall I don't necessarily dislike it so to speak, it's just my least favourite ship because it can be very hit or miss (I guess they never miss) kind of relationship for me
(For the briefest of moments, when I realised that I'm talking about a ship that I don't even dislike, I thought about switching this answer to Radiance x PK because that's the worst ship I could think of without it being downright gross/triggering. And then I promptly realised it'd be fucking hilarious and now I want to see them make each other worse. I want to observe this toxic inevitable disaster like a fly on a wall)
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Eu chose the worst time to confess, haha but even early on Ody was like, I can't have you planting seeds of doubt.
https://www.tumblr.com/raointean/755046669275611136
Anyways, this post, heh.
Scylla was the only real monster to Ody eh, she's not in Monster. Try not to black out again reading that word Fluffy. Her and Ody are the same you say. “Keep your head down, he’s aiming for the torches!”
Yeah :) :) :)
TrY nOt tO bLAckOuT fLuFFY
bitch 🫠 you know what you’re doing (also that link was uncalled for ;-;)
Scylla was the only real monster to Ody because she is Ody. they are one in the same. both monster are here only to survive and get what they want. they care for one thing that is self-sufficient for them and them only (for Scylla, it’s sustenance. for Ody, it’s making it to Penelope and his son) they won’t let anything stop them from achieving it
if Ody were to try and fight Scylla, there’s a high likelihood that he would lose many men in the battle but he would still make it. the cost however would be far greater than he would want. however, by leaving 6 men for her to feast on, then Scylla leaves them alone satisfied and the likelihood of leaving with a greater benefit is higher. he will still have 36 men left and that seemed to be logical enough for Mr. Man-Made Monster Odysseus
“Eurylochus, light up six torches,” he orders
and Eurylochus obeys without question. then watches in horror as the six (or five of you include him in the six) men he gave the torches to are eaten by Scylla’s many heads. he stares at Odysseus for answers but sees only a blank expression, one of finality, and Eurylochus wonders if this is how it felt when Medusa was punished by the god she blindly devoted her life to. blindly trusted even when doubt bled through. even when he acted against his captain. even when he blindly loved his captain
but he is just a man. and so is Odysseus. but Odysseus, the man with all the answers and plans and cunning, could not find a better alternative here— or did he no longer want to? Eurylochus, who always found his doubts proven wrong now watches them play out in front of him and watches what the true cost of following his captain always meant
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