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writingforatwistedworld · 2 years

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hi! I love your blog, you have great ideas for Au's and writing the characters.

Could I ask for Idia, Azul and Vil's reaction to which reader is getting married but chooses to leave their partner standing at the altar and run away with them? it was an arranged marriage or something

(yandere au, please excuse my english, I'm using a translator)

Yandere x reader

I do not take any responsibility for you reading this no matter which age group you are from!

WARNINGS: Yandere themes, marriage, unhealthy relationship, kidnapping, imprisonment, illegal substances, manipulation, obsession

Azul Ashengrotto, Vil Schoenheit, Idia Shroud-Running away from an arranged marriage with them

Ok, first of all, how was it even able to come this far?

I mean, this man takes everyone out who just looks at you in a funny way

No matter how suave he is with everybody elso he is a huge manipulative softy around you and… now you are getting married?

Mhm great ok but why isn’t he the one signing those papaers??!

Instead there is that random stranger who, oh goodness, looks just like a fool who would accept even a contract from the most obvious scammer in this world

And would you look at that? It’s a contract! With the fools signature!

Having no other choice but to hand you over your guests and whoever you were forced to marry can now only watch as you to vanish into the sea

“You are shaking dear. Were you so afraid of getting maried to them? Don’t you worry, I will take care of you.”

Well at least you now have the option to escape whilst you were chained to some stranger in the earlier scenario…

But how was our local octopus sushi roll capable of getting that signature?

Of course Azul wouldn’t just waltz into the room and take you with him

He might, and the keyword is might, have used… legal and less legal substances to make your now ex-fiance agree to hand you over in exchange for a stack of money

Never mind the two danger noodles who were standing behind Azul and hovered over them whilst signing the papers

But hey! You are now having a home here! Under water! With chances as good as none to anyone ever finding you! More time for the two of you... yay?

Ok, Vil is, in theory and sense, rich from being so famous

And somehow the person who set this marriage up was able to push through with the preparations without problems?

Uh... is this some weird parallel dimension?

Despite his harshness whenever beauty (and how dry your hands looked) was presented in the discussions you two shared until now he is... in truth very tender whenever he is thinking about you

Rook being a menace? Show him a photo of you and he is silent once more

Epel didn't do his skincare routine again? Tell him something about you he didn't know and he is doing it for the young man

An assistant during a modeling gig spilled coffee over his clothing? Mention you and he is calm

Tell him that you are getting forcfully married off? Well then... oh uh... I think there is nothing there to stop him from breaking down the door

Epel and Rook also there, the first ready to snatch the cake and the second there to protect Vils “beau visage” (I can already feel the French going for my throat)

Yeah, that refined, cool mask is off and he is ready to burn the building to the ground, public image be damned!

Vil, sweety, I think you are stealing a certain faes role... TAKE THOSE FLAMES AWAY FROM ME!!!

But *ahem* back to them burning down buildings

Before you know it Vil is carrying you bridal style whilst scowling that things got this far

Oh? Happiness? Yes. You will experience that for a while... until you realize that you are trapped in a golden cage filled with skin care products and luxury brands... and oh! Almost forgot! With Vil Schoenheit himself, the legend, taking care of you

But how was he able to make sure no one found out about the incident?

Well, now there is a new kind of beef. Vil posted that there was a certain individual who had been harassing him and who wants to end his career with lies. Whoops! He also leaked their account!

But my dear, don't you worry about that. All you need to do is to stay in your little golden cage, stand in still like Snow White did in her coffin and just enjoy the presence of your beloved. No need to think about someone who will be hunted down soon by an angry mob after all...

You would be pardoned to think “Idia is a shut-in. No way he will blow that marriage up!”

I said pardoned, not being correct

You see, he might not be able to so much in person but that doesn't mean he behind a screen can't

No, seriously, take that PC away before he ends them once and for all

Also, you can ruin someone without a huge following on social media

Just be someone who can hack and is able to manipulate someone's data in their files

Suddenly police is storming the room, screaming at your fiancee to raise their hands slowly

Mhm, that was Idia

So still standing there in shook you didn't even notice the younger Shroud brother guiding you to his sibling

And that was where the awkward silence began

I mean, you were his sun, Hades Olymp, so close and yet so far away...

So how could he ever bear seeing you with another person?

Probably the best one to end up with of these three. He will not force affection upon you (being too shy himself), give you too much direct attention (only looking at you when you are distracted) and will even create a simulation of the outside world just for you

But why does the air feel so tense? Why does it feel like you have entered into a place beyond return, as if you are trapped in the Underworld?

Wes it his staring whenever you slept, catching him whenever you woke up and barely opening your eyes? Or were it the little touches of fingertips whenever he gave you something, feeling as if you had been burned

But no need to worry! They are gone and you are free! In his own, small world...

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toph3r-marshmell00w · 11 months

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Hewo!! ☆

I'm topher! I also go by toph, tophie or marshmellow :33 I'm a British, scemo, furry artist! Also a self proclaimed, nerd and geek! I will post my art, reblog, moodboards, random opinions, maybe even use this blog as a little journal! Another thing, I am the biggest tophfucius shipper, I will defend them with my life 🙏

My pronouns are he/thon/they/ze/xe + any neos ^^ do NOT use she/her or it/it's on me. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable.

I am genderfluid + xenos! I am pansexual as well as aegosexual!! :3 I am ambiamorous ^w^

I am in many fandoms, for example we haveeee my fav rn, clone high!! Then we have others like fbacc, fnaf, yfm, eddsworld, sandersides, furry, vocaloid, total drama(minor), MLP, South Park, SML, Invader Zim, FRED figglehorn, welcome home(minor), super Mario, smiling friends, hunter x hunter, rick and Morty(minor), tally hall, horrible histories, football (+ 442oons, I'm also a Bayern Munich supporter!!:33), and probably more I can't remember!! XD But I'll mostly be posting about clone high!! ^^

If you'd like to play games with me, I'm up 4 it but i don't play roblox (srry roblox players) , I used to but I'm more interested in minecraft ^w^ I play both java and bedrock! :DD

My music taste mostly consists of scene music of course as well as emo! Sometimes I like to listen to hyperpop, rock, metal, fangame/fandom music, music boxes(mostly the fnaf music boxes), game soundtrack, vocaloid, music from the old internet and sometimes weird al!! :DD I also have a soft spot for shakira (aka my wife/hj <33)

WHOOP WHOOP!! I'm also a juggalo! :33 my fav song from ICP is confederate flag! ^_^

I have quite a few favorite youtubers! These include, FRED (ofc) , memeulous, Danny Gonzalez, drew gooden, Kurtis Conner, tomska, markiplier, jacksepticeye, saberspark, Flamingo, one topic, TUV, messyourself, imallexx, willNE, James marriott and MUCH more!

I am very very VERY interested in history, I love it so much! Everything from the stone age to the 2010s! I love it!! I do hours of research, make powerpoints, factfiles, read about it etc!

I am also quite interested in things like world cups (precisely the 2014 world Cup), Maned wolves and lop bunnies, graphic novels and space! I love doing research about them and picking up random facts + key info about them! If anyone would like to hear me ramble about em please dm I AM BEGGINGGGG <33 I'll also listen to you ramble aswell :33

In total, I have 6 collections: badges/pins, posters, plushies, figures, stickers and cans! ^^

Other random stuffffzz!!

I'm a multi shipper and I ship like anything except proships :3 Though for clone high, I don't really like joanabe, Joanfk, candidworth, jfgogh (I don't get this ship I'm sorry) and harrucius (I mean it's cute but it's just not 4 me ^_^) My fav ships are tophfucius, tophabe(pls don't bully me 😭), joanrriet, Vanceaser, jfabe, butlertron x scudworth (I dunno the ship name 😔), kahlopatra, tommatt, paultryck, poly Martians, scutters (Scott malkinson x butters, one of my fav rarepairs <33), tophdi, jfucius, harold x leshawna, harold x Ezekiel, Ezekiel x Justin, Noah x Cody and like so much more ships that I can't even remember TwT

I'm a copinglink! My copinglinks are topher bus(CH), benatar (YFM) and tom(EW)!! Copinglinks are a coping mechanism to deal with stress, trauma, or other issues by identifying as someone / something knowingly, willingly, and actively! :3

Kinlist!! :

Top kins: Topher bus, Gandhi(CLONEHIGH!!) , pip pirrup, benatar, puff puff, tom (EW), Confucius(CLONEHIGH!!), pinkie pie and Heidi Turner!!

kins: Matt, Rainbow Dash, Twilight, axel chains, joan of arc(CLONE HIGH SEASON 1), van Gogh(CLONEHIGH!!), JFK(again CLONE HIGH!!), stan marsh, Cody and harold(TD) and Kyle(fbacc)!!

Forgot to mention but Im a shifter :3 (current DR is clone high :D)

OHHH ANDDDDD my birthday is 27th Feb! ^^ so erm that's cool :DD

Here's some of my art!

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DNI LIST!

・basic DNI criteria (homophobes, transphobes racists, ped0s etc)

・PROSHIPPERS AND COMSHIPPERS.

・People who ship irl people.. That's just weird.

・people who bully/send death threats over ships..

・Anti-xenogenders.

・n@z1s

・ableists

・People I know irl.

・AI artists

・anti-furrys

BOUNDARIES!

・ Idm how old you are, you can interact but if you are above the age of 21 please don't dm me or become close. I have bad experience with people 20+ but idm if they interact or reblog or whatever just as long as they don't try to get close.

・I AM A MINOR‼️ please be aware of that when talking to me.

・If you need someone to talk to/vent to I'm here! ^^ but please ask before venting. Also remember that I am not a therapist and I won't be able to respond to all your vents. Another thing, don't just use me to vent. I'm not your own personal therapist that will help you with your problems :/ if venting is all you want to do with me then you are blocked.

・ do NOT use fem terms on me. Only masc or gender neutral :3

・I have a fear of ladybugs/ladybirds. Please do not bring them up or send photos of them or anything like that, it makes me incredibly uncomfortable, unsafe, anxious and very scared.

・As an artist, I do not like people reposting my art on other apps. I don't care if credit is given i am still incredibly uncomfortable. If you'd like to use my art for a profile picture or anything as such (like that'll ever happen) please ask :)

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Thank you so much 4 reading!! I hope i can make some friends or mutuals! :DD

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#intro post #tophfucius #clone high #scene #gay furry #furry anthro #scene kid #scene art #sillyposting #pleasebmf #Bmf #2000s scene #scene boy #geek #nerd

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jupitercl0uds · 1 year

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hi! i'm ash

they/them/xe/xem • panromantic • asexual • non binary • autistic (with suspicions of having adhd) • english • atheist quaker • a tad bit silly

been on the tumbler since 2021 so i know my way around here but i dont get every little reference (i get most and for the ones i dont i just nod and smile along). i am still a teenager so some Classic Posts are older than me and most are from when i was in primary school.

i dont really have a sophisticated tagging system, but if it helps, spouting to the void is my text post tag. i dont even strictly use it for text posts tbf

blogs i run:

this one (obviously)

@blues-amazing-blog - oc blog (currently on hiatus)

@wswe-autism-fic - fanfic blog (for waluigi says 'wa' everyday until dekuyama is popular). i also treat this as an alt account for fandom stuff sometimes

@knuckles-with-a-keyboard - silly little blog where i pretend to be boom!knuckles (i really really love this blog its so fun)

@jupitercl0uds-art - my art blog (shock horror)

@nonbinary-sticks-the-badger - my sonic blog

external links (whoops forgot to add this)

maybe one day ill set up a linktree idk

ao3

letterboxd

twitter (i only use this for posting from my switch now)

spotify profile

email me - [email protected]

dm me on discord: jupitercl0uds

i think thats it

click this link for more external links including some of the above ones but specifically how to contact me if i cant use tumblr

interests:

omg i love so many things its not even funny. a few important ones are waluigi (special interest), sonic the hedgehog (special interest AND hyperfixation (omg please kill me)), art (like, as a general thing, but particularly visual) and you WILL find me randomly posting oh-so-passionately about something ive never even mentioned before.

i do animation and illustration but that's over on my art blog. also all my animations are WIPs. you probably won't find anything other than a few weird lip syncs from when i was like 11 (i got into animation because of gacha life and animation memes). most of my art is sonic atm lol.

i also read and write fanfic! my wattpad and ao3 is jupitercl0uds :D

wattpad is mostly old stuff, crack and occasional reposts of my ao3 stuff. ao3 is mostly whatever is on my mind at the moment and WSWE.

misc

occasionally i get all heated up about actually important stuff. that's usually sandwiched inbetween my regular goofy goober behaviour. for the basic gist of it: very left wing, the tories are cunts, vote green, free palestine. you also need to understand the weight of that sentence because i hate swearing.

i have other socials too but i dont really use them that much. got bored of twitter and i forget about all my other accounts. only ones i use now are whatsapp (lmao), tumblr and i guess ao3 and wattpad. theres no real point in linking something i havent used in months

anyway, have a nice day and please go to bed on time!

faves (non-exhaustive)

AUTISM BOY!!!! ANXIETY GUY!!!! MILES 'TAILS' PROWER!!!! he's been my favourite sonic character since i was little!!!! except for that brief period where it was amy because i found out tails was a boy and i, as a 7-year-old girl who had just learned about misoginy, decided amy was better because she was a girl. and that briefer period where it was cream because she had confetti in sonic dash.

my favourite iterations of him are scu tails, classic tails and sonic boom tails!!! i h/c him as autistic, having anxiety, low self-esteem but also being really cheerful and nonchalant about a lot of stuff. i enjoy trans tails of all kinds, but i believe in cis gnc tails.

NON-BINARY ICON!!!! TOP SURGERY GUY!!!! WALUIGI!!!! call me thomas jefferson cause i have an entire binder on this guy. waluigi is THE blorbo from my spin-off-party-shows. i got into him because 'hahahaha! it is the funny garlic man's funny rose partner!' and that became 'they could marry me and i'd say yes on the basis that we'd get to see each other everyday, even if i only love him as a friend.

im very passionately hateful about 'hot' waluigi. shut up. waluigi is perfect. i hope he can be canon one day <3 i h/c him as autistic, transmasc non binary and really into gothic lolita. i interpret their relationship with wario as romantic partners and waluigi being super super poor. also, wlw mlm solidarity with rosalina!!!!!

anti-faves

dr starline i love a bisexual icon as much as the next person but starline is not it. i want him to Suffer. which is why i then go on to make loads of fanart of him where he's crying over something. in the one shown above, i have just kicked him in the balls (full image). i also would love to be a VA for him because that'd really piss him off. good style tho. you go girl.

manjimutt (sorry but i only have 1 image of him)

hello to the other living yokai watch fan out there. i hate manjimutt. when i was younger i felt sorry for him, cause i was like 'oh, poor guy, always going to jail!!!' no. die. i do not like him. i hate manjimutt. i do like saying his name tho. MAnji-mutt! i think i hate him more than starline, because at least starline has redeeming qualities. the only redeeming qualities manjimutt has is pity because hes not actually committing crimes. thats it. hes not a nice person. hes just a guy. hit him with a wooden plank (har har).

that poor poor poodle though

posts i like

idk posts on my own blog i like a lot. idk if thisll be A Thing because im literally only doing tthis because of the first post on the list

recognising a url and the chaos that followed

stuff about my lgbtq+ identity idk

THIS IS HOW MUCH I KNOW ABOUT SONIC OK!!!!!

can you call me that slur?

#pinned post

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ticklishshenanigansau · 2 years

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Eyyyyy, finally! After a YEAR LONG hiatus -- Chapter 45 was posted in November of 2021, whoops -- the story shall continue!

Starting this Saturday, January 7, at 10am EST, new chapters will be released biweekly. This should give us plenty of time between chapters to proofread and edit future chapters, and we shouldn't be struggling nearly as badly to pump out chapters to the point where we had to take that hiatus, lol.

We also have sooooo many other amazing things planned for the channel in our brand-new almighty 2023 as well, including a HUGE project that was supposed to have been released on New Year's Eve. But, y'know how life is. So instead, expect this new surprise within the next day or two (hopefully).

We're going to do our best to keep up with this blog regularly from here on out. We just hope it isn't too late to salvage everything that existed prior to the hiatus. We still have almost 500-- WAIT!! We have almost 500 FOLLOWERS?! That's CRAZY!! Thank you all SO much! ...Oh, right. Hopefully, we can remind those who forgot to unsub to us in 2022 that we still exist. XD

I ... think that's about it. Yeah, look out for more super awesome things to come, and from Sans, Papyrus, Frisk, and the rest -- as well as Mod Yosh and Mod Kitty (and our newest mod whom shall be revealed in time...) -- HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Let's all make this a damn good one!

#Ticklish Shenanigans #Mod Announcement

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marypsue · 2 years

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for the WIP ask meme, trust that i'm exercising great control in picking only three. i would be so honoured to hear about: 1) circus luna draft 2 2) groundhog day but it's halloween and every time bob newby dies it get faster 3) relativity falls but it’s stranger things. :-) <3

Hello friend! It took me entirely too long to answer this because in between you sending it and me answering it, holiday happened. Whoops.

1) circus luna draft 2

This is an original fiction project that’s near and dear to my heart, that’s been trapped in the writer equivalent of development hell for over a decade now. It’s almost entirely unrecognisable now from what it started out as, save for the very basics: it’s a Kids On Bikes story where the primary antagonist is an evil, supernatural circus.

The current elevator pitch for Circus Luna is ‘Stephen King’s IT meets Karyn Kusama and Diablo Cody’s Jennifer’s Body’. The main cast of characters, over the years, has morphed into a group of five friends, who face the circus once as teenagers and then have to face it again as adults, when they’ve all come to doubt what it was they experienced when they were young. I’ve talked a little more about the premise and the characters here and here. There’s also an inspiration tag on my blog, here.

I won’t share a sample, because I’m hoping to publish this professionally someday in the (far distant) future and apparently that can become a Problem if parts that end up in the final draft have already been posted somewhere. But I can promise that it includes:

growing up queer in a small rural town in the early aughts!

the seductive appeal and selective memory of nostalgia!

emo hair!

the power of cultural narratives to impact our personal lives!

star-crossed, tragic romance!

Halloween vibes!

the painful, difficult, but ultimately rewarding experience of growing up, and how to mourn the things that are naturally and inevitably lost along the way!

Goffs Vs. Prepz!

the corrosive nature of fear!

having crushes on all your friends!

trains!

BUGSSSSSSSSSS

and, perhaps most importantly:

the Power of Friendship (and My Chemical Romance)!

2) groundhog day but it's halloween and every time bob newby dies it get faster

This is Exactly What It Says On The Tin! It’s a oneshot in three chapters set during season 2 of Stranger Things, wherein Bob Newby gets trapped in a time loop and somehow has to solve the overarching mystery of s2 using only the information everybody has up to the point where he dies, if he wants to save the people he loves and also himself. And also, he and Joyce and Hopper are all going to get to kiss.

I don’t know how much of an audience there is out there for Bob Newby-POV adult-monster-hunting-trio fic out there, but hey, I’ve written weirder shit.

Because I can, here’s a sample:

...

Jim throws the breaker and then hovers while Bob taps through the series of commands and prompts to unlock each of the doors in turn, pacing and scanning the hulking shapes of the boiler and whatever other equipment is stored down here, with the machine gun held at the ready and a scowl on his face. Finally, Bob has to abandon his task to say something. “Would you please pick a spot and stand there? You’re making me nervous.”

“You’re not already nervous?” Jim cracks, with something Bob thinks is trying to become a smile. But he does stop pacing. “Jesus. Forgot. This must all be old hat for you by now.”

“Yeah. But you never really get used to it,” Bob says, turning back to the glowing black screen. Beside him, Jim gives a little huff that might almost be a laugh.

“Got that right.”

They’re both quiet, for a few minutes after that, the only sound in the room the rattle of Bob’s fingers over the keys.

“That’s the exit doors back online,” he says, coming to the end of the string of commands. “Joyce and the kids should start heading out.”

Jim nods. But he doesn’t immediately pass the information along. “You really don’t think we’re gonna get out of here alive. Do you.”

Bob looks at the computer screen to avoid having to look at Jim’s face. “Well, hope springs eternal.” He lets out a long breath, and decides he can afford to offer Jim a little of that hope. “I’ve never had you here with me before. And I’m sure you’re a much better shot than I am.”

Jim’s quiet, for a long moment. When he does speak, it’s into the walkie-talkie. “Newby says to start moving out. Exit doors are online.”

Bob takes that as his cue, and for a few minutes more, the only thing he thinks about is the screen and the keyboard in front of him, turning on sprinklers and setting off alarms to draw the monsters away from Joyce and the kids, based on the directions the doc relays via walkie-talkie. It’s like some kind of video game, trying to control the movement of a bunch of distant characters through a maze full of enemies without getting them killed. Just with impossibly real stakes.

Bob can’t keep the thought from forming in his head, though. “Why are you here? We both want to get Joyce and the kids out of here safe, I’m sure they could use your marksmanship more than I can.”

Jim shrugs, shoulders tight, the smallest possible gesture. “Told you. I know Nancy Wheeler can handle herself. And if you got eaten on the way down here, we’d all be fucked.”

They’re pretty well fucked anyway. And Bob doesn’t get much time alone with Jim like this, not late enough in a loop that he’s earned a little trust. Maybe it’s that. Maybe it’s knowing that, if and when they do loop, Jim won’t remember anything about this conversation. Or maybe it’s just a combination of masochism and morbid curiosity that makes Bob say it. “You’re in love with Joyce, aren’t you.”

Jim whirls to face him, wide-eyed, startled, like he’s just been goosed. He doesn’t say anything, at first, just stares.

When he finally does speak, it sounds strangled. “I’m not enough of a prick to let you get killed just so I’d have a shot at your girl, if that’s what you’re asking.”

“Obviously you’re not, or you wouldn’t be here,” Bob points out. “I’m just – trying to figure it out. What I got myself into. What’s going on between you two.”

Jim cracks a humourless grin, at that. “Some puzzles I guess even the Brain can’t solve.”

He turns his back to Bob again, watching the door. Bob thinks the conversation’s over until Jim says, quietly, “You’re good for her. She deserves something, somebody like you in her life. Stable. Sane. Normal.”

“Not so much of any of those anymore, apparently,” Bob half-jokes, half to himself.

Jim goes on like he hasn’t heard. Maybe he hasn’t. “Joyce hasn’t had a lot of good things come her way. I don’t wanna fuck this one up for her.”

“She might want you to,” Bob offers.

Jim looks a little stunned. He doesn’t say anything else.

He doesn’t have time to, either. The strange screeching, rattling cries of the monsters rise from the stairwell, echoing eerily through the metal of the vents and pipes overhead. It sounds like a lot of them. And they’re coming down fast.

Jim doesn’t take his eyes or the machine gun off of the open doorway to the little room they’re in as he barks, “Give me good news, Newby!”

“All the doors are open,” Bob says, turning to look in his direction. “Think you can buy me one more minute to open the front gate for them, too?”

Jim’s face isn’t visible, his back still turned to Bob, but his voice is grim. “I can try.”

3) relativity falls but it’s stranger things

Yet another WIP that’s near and dear to my heart and taking forever to finish! This seems to be a theme.

This one was inspired by (as you may be able to tell from the file name) the Gravity Falls Relativity Falls AU, where people swapped the ages of the Stan twins and the Mystery Twins, and also various side characters and antagonists. This fic is a Stranger Things season 1 AU where the teens are in the roles of the adults, the adults are in the roles of the kids, and the kids are in the roles of the teens. Nancy’s the Chief of Police with a broken family and a broken heart, Mike’s the loner who gets thrown together with a classmate by the disappearance of a kid, and Karen is the plucky twelve-year-old determined to find her missing friend.

I’m stuck in the Dreaded Middle at the moment, because shaking up the roles shook up the plot, and I didn’t plan ahead for how to resolve it quite enough. There’s a reason outlining has become my best friend.

There are a number of samples in my sample tag, but also, since you asked so nicely:

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The girl’s eyebrows crumple together and she makes a soft, wordless little noise as Mike and Will lower her carefully down, spread out along the length of the couch. Like it hurts. She’s already bled through the blue strips of bandage that used to be Mike’s t-shirt. Not for the first time, Mike wonders what the hell he thinks he’s doing.

“I’ll – I’ll check on the water,” he says, dropping the girl’s heavy black Doc Marten boots on the arm of the couch. He doesn’t wait for Will to answer, just makes his escape across the room to the kitchen sink. His ears are burning, and he has no idea why.

The taps at the sink refuse to turn, at first. When they finally do, it’s with an ominous creak, and then a slow and rising rumble that makes the faucet shake before it abruptly spits out a clot of slime and rust. The water that comes burbling out after it is brown and freezing cold.

“I forgot,” Mike says, as he rejoins Will by the couch. “This place is on a well. The tapwater might not be any better than the rainwater. Actually, it might be worse. But there were some clean dishtowels in the drawer,” he finishes, offering up the stack, along with the cereal bowl he’d filled with brownish water. “And I think there are still some towels in boxes in the bathroom, so we could dry her off -”

Will, Mike notices, has a smile like a sunbeam. Somehow it makes Mike even more embarrassed of his babbling. “That’s great. Do you think your mom or her uncle would’ve kept any antiseptic and bandages around?”

Mike spends the next – he doesn’t know how long, starting up the cabin’s generator to get the lights on, lighting the cast-iron stove in the corner, running and fetching and washing and applying pressure under Will’s quiet but certain direction. He’s a little amazed by this side of Will. Mike mostly only knows the Will Byers he sees at school or when he has to pick Karen up or drop her off at Joyce’s. The Will Byers with his nose always in a sketchbook or a novel, who lets the bullies push him around with an air of silent exasperation, who rarely if ever talks back or raises his hand in class. Seeing him this confident, this focused, is new. He really seems like he’s in his element.

Mike wonders briefly how Will learned so much about medicine and first aid, and then feels stupid. Of course. He knows Will works, has worked at just about every odd job around town since he was old enough to start. He knows Will was a lifeguard last summer. And – it’s just Will and his dad and his sister, and Will’s dad works odd hours, with the paper, and long ones, at the general store. Will probably cooks, too. And does laundry, and all the other stuff Mike’s dad has somebody come in to take care of.

That thought makes Mike feel incredibly – something. Maybe guilty, though he’s not sure why. He’s got bigger things to worry about right now, though, so he shoves it to the back of his mind.

The girl frowns, and whines, and at one point throws an arm out and smacks Mike hard across the chest, but she doesn’t wake up. Mike presses the inside of one wrist against her damp, pale forehead, under her close-shorn fringe of hair, and starts. “She’s burning up!”

Will glances up from the wound in her side. “Fever’s a bad sign. Can you get a couple of cloths and run them under cold water? One for her forehead, one for the back of her neck.”

Mike comes back with three cloths, and another cereal bowl full of icy wellwater. There’s just something fundamentally – grubby about the girl, now that he’s up close and personal, like she’s been camping for weeks without a proper bath. Mike tells himself it’s important to get her cleaned up to keep her wound from getting infected. But mostly, there’s just not a lot else he can do, other than putting his finger where Will tells him to to hold bandages in place while Will ties them off.

And Mike just thinks that, if it was him who was hurt and hiding out and unconscious at the mercy of a couple of strangers, he’d at least want somebody to clean the smudge of dirt off his chin. And the dried blood from the crevices around his nose. And maybe wipe off some of the black eyeshadow that the rain had melted down his cheeks.

The girl’s face is narrow and sharp, her cheekbones high, the bow of her lips sweet, her lashes dark against her cheeks. When her face screws up in pain, Mike gives one extra, unnecessary brush of the cloth over that cheek, as gently as he can. He doesn’t dare touch her with his bare hands, without the excuse and barrier of the cloth in between them. But he wants to do something to comfort her.

Without the makeup, without the scowl, she looks – so much younger. Almost delicate, despite the hair and the boots and the leather jacket and the tattoo. Almost vulnerable –

The girl’s eyes snap open, and fix on Mike’s.

Mike’s not sure what happens next. One second, he’s kneeling beside the girl, carefully washing grime off her face. The next, his back is smashing into the wall across the room. There’s an ominous rattle, and the mounted deer head high on the wall goes crashing to the floor between his feet. He raises a hand to his spinning, aching head, and tries to focus, to figure out what just happened.

The girl is wedged up against the far arm of the couch, knees tucked tight against her chest like she’s trying to make herself as small as possible. One arm’s flung out in front of her with the palm facing Will and her fingers all splayed, like she’s directing traffic. There’s a bead of blood inching down from her nose, but she doesn’t move to wipe it away. Her eyes are big and furious and scared and flicking back and forth between Mike and Will. If she was a cat, Mike thinks, her back would be up and her ears would be flat against her head.

Her voice is clear and sharp as she demands, “Where am I?”

Will’s got both hands in the air, like the girl had pulled a gun on him. The bowl of water Mike had brought him – which is a pinkish brown now, Mike notices, with a lurch in his stomach – is splashed all over the floor by Will’s knees, slowly soaking into his jeans, but he doesn’t so much as shift away from the slowly-spreading puddle.

“It’s okay,” Mike says, wincing as he starts to straighten up. He’s not sure why the look Will shoots him is so frightened, but then, he’s also not sure how he ended up on the other side of the room. Maybe the girl’s some kind of ninja assassin or something. She doesn’t look strong enough to throw Mike across the room, but – Mike knows maybe better than anybody how appearances can be deceiving.

The girl’s attention snaps to Mike as well, and she whips her arm around so that the palm is facing him instead of Will. Mike stops trying to get up, raising one hand instead in surrender. “It’s all right, okay? We’re not gonna hurt you. And we’re way out in the woods here, nobody’s gonna find you.” He glances down at the girl’s side, where fresh red is starting to seep through the bandages Will had so carefully wrapped. “You should probably lie back down, it looks like you’re opening that back up -”

“I’m leaving,” the girl says. Somehow, she makes it sound like a threat.

“Okay,” Mike says, as she unfolds herself from the couch and takes one uncertain step forward. “Nobody’s stopping you. You don’t have to, though. You’ve got a fever. And a bullet wound. You can stay here until you feel better, Will and I won’t tell -”

“I,” the girl repeats, wobbling and nearly crashing back down onto the couch, “am leaving.”

Will meets Mike’s eyes with a panicked look. Mike’s sure Will can see as clearly as he can that the girl isn’t going to make it more than two more steps before she falls over. But neither of them, Mike thinks, knows what to do about it.

“Who’s after you?” Mike asks. Maybe, if he can keep the girl talking –

She fixes him with a glare. And then flops back, heavily, onto the couch. She looks briefly surprised and indignant, like her own legs have betrayed her, and pushes herself back to her feet, even though she looks even wobblier than before.

“Mike,” Will says, low and urgent and frightened.

“What? You want to know too, right? If they’re the same people who took Joyce -”

“Mike,” Will repeats, with a warning flicker of his eyes in the girl’s direction.

Mike’s getting the feeling he’s missed something. “What?”

“It might be a bad idea to piss her off,” Will hisses at him, still with that pleading, scared look.

Mike pushes himself to his feet. “Yeah, well, murdering bank robber or not, I don’t think she’s in much shape to -”

He doesn’t get the rest of the sentence out. Because the girl glares, and waves a hand. And Mike’s back smashes into the wall again and stays there.

Mike kicks, and struggles, and gasps. But none of it does anything. It’s like there’s a gigantic, invisible hand pressed flat against his chest, squeezing the air out of him, pinning him in place. The girl’s glower turns to a slow, small smile, which is somehow just as ominous, her dark eyes never leaving his.

She lifts her hand a little higher. Mike can feel his windbreaker drag against the wall behind him as his feet leave the ground.

And then the girl’s eyes roll back and she collapses gracelessly backwards across the couch. The invisible hand holding Mike pinned abruptly vanishes, and he drops, hits his feet wrong, and winds up on the floor on his hands and knees, inches from putting an eye out on one of the deer head’s antlers.

For a frozen moment, nobody moves.

“Oh,” Mike says, finally, straightening up with care.

“Yeah,” Will agrees.

They both turn to look at the unconscious girl.

“Well,” Mike says, for lack of anything intelligent to say, “that might be why somebody’s after her.”

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[ask me about a WIP!]

#chatter #the theme song for circus luna is mcr's 'kill all your friends'#stranger things ageswap au tag #circus luna #this is mary's fic tag #i don't thiiiiink I've shared any of these yet

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shadowsong26x · 2 years

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A week or so ago, I posted a summary of a BSG fanmix I made a decade+ ago. I made two other mixes around the same time, and yeah let’s go ahead and give them the same treatment XD

This one is Heart of the Machine, and it is a (mostly) complete set of all canonical ships* involving at least one Cylon.

Full disclosure: this one, I’d found at least the tracklist awhile ago, so there weren’t any Surprises on here the way there were for Days Upon Our Knees. And...like...there are a few tracks on here that I could have done better, for various reasons, but there aren’t any that Confused me the way there were on the other mix? I more or less can figure out what I was thinking with each choice. And there are quite a few that are just. Perfect. (I particularly like tracks two, ten, twelve, and sixteen)

*So, I don’t have any of the notes involved in Constructing this mix--it was done for a fandom charity auction back in the day, i think help_japan after the earthquake?--but to the best of my recollection the rules were:

1. Canonical pairs only; meaning the couple had to have an Explicit romantic or sexual encounter On Screen. 1a. There is a pair that I apparently forgot--I haven’t gotten there in my rewatch, but I am told that this actually happened and wasn’t just made up for a TFLN blog so whoops. 1b. Presumably there was a Threshold for what counts as a ‘romantic or sexual encounter’; because there are a few I can think of that are borderline ‘was this just general flirting or could I have included it’ (and there’s another that...even if it met the threshold requirement (which I’m not sure it does) it’s. Like. I’ve built Corinne/Armistice Station Six up in my head recently but she’s not really. Uh. We don’t actually know anything about her so...yeah. but I like her and her name is Corinne in my head which is the main reason I brought it up lol) 1c. There are two others that technically count that I don’t remember being discussed; I’m not sure why Caprica/Head!Baltar was excluded (other than maybe redundancy?); the other is a Spoiler for late S4 and was doing something Very Cruel and Specific and I’m not sure I could have found a song for it anyway. 1d. There were three that were specifically excluded for squick reasons; namely Gina/Cain; Cavil/Boomer; and Cavil/Ellen.

2. The pair has to involve At Least One Cylon. 2a. Fairly self-explanatory, lol. 2b. Eleven of the twelve Cylon models are included here nobody loves Doral 2c. If we count by model, the Sixes (unsurprisingly) have the most tracks, with six (heh) total. 2d. If we count by individuals, the highest number (five tracks) is not actually a Cylon. Three guesses. The first two don’t count.

With those rules in mind, I ended up with the seventeen pairs listed below. The mix is structured in model order--the Significant Seven in number order, then the Final Five. I don’t 100% know why I ordered them the way I did, other than I think I started where I did for Alphabetical reasons but then didn’t stick with it for whatever reason. With one exception, for Cylon/Cylon pairings, I went with the lower model number. That exception made for an Excellent final track, though, so there it is. Within a model number, I went more or less chronologically in terms of when in canon the relationship starts.

...I think that covers it, lol. Lots of notes on this one XD Tracklist (complete with youtube links, as before) is behind the cut! (I should dig up the covers for these, I know I have them saved somewhere...)

1/one/tough!six - so immortal (international victim) so this is probably the weakest on the list, mostly because...they’re a hard pair to find a song for, lol. i do think it fits, and i don’t think i could do better, but it is what it is. (also i named her vera for serenissima and the name has stuck so whenever i see her i’m like “VERA! :D :D :D” anyway i love her)

2/leoben/kara - on the street where you live (my fair lady) tell me i’m wrong.

3/d’anna/baltar - dangerous game (jekyll and hyde) i go back and forth on whether this one works better when it’s gender-flipped or not, but the vibe works. i do think i could do better than this for these two, but i don’t have anything specific in mind, if that makes sense?

4/d’anna/caprica - strange and beautiful (drew sarich) yeaaaaah i cheated again on the ‘no repeating artists’ rule, like i did with the other mix. i think i did for all three mixes i made...anyway, that aside. this is another pair that’s hard to find something for, because we don’t get much that’s about them. it’s all about either the triad as a whole or the baltar/d’anna arm. that being said, i do like this song for d’anna/for what little we do get of them. (do i remember why i split the triad and picked two songs? nope! but i am glad i did; i might even--if i were doing this now--do three songs; one for each arm (other than the one accounted for Elsewhere) and then one for the triad as a whole)

5/simon/gianna - the next ten minutes (the last five years) i love this song, and i love the...simon knows what’s coming And Yet. that whole sense of ‘for as long as this lasts’ has a Whole Different Meaning in this context and i think it’s beautiful. basically, i love them, and i think this song really fits for them.

6/caprica/baltar - measure of a man (clay aiken) so i think this is actually one of the weaker examples on this mix. not because it doesn’t work--it does; it fits where they land at the end of the series--but because there are so many better songs for them. i don’t know why i settled on this one specifically, but i think i’d pick something else if i were doing this now.

7/gina/baltar - lithium (evanescence) it’s hard for me to listen to this song without thinking of these two and their Extremely Fucked Up This Could Never Be A Happy Or Healthy Relationship dynamic now. not because it’s a Perfect Match necessarily, but...just...the Vibe.

8/lida/baltar - crash and burn (savage garden) i don’t have much in the way of commentary on this one but i like it. it’s a pretty song, and it suits what’s going on in-story here.

9/boomer/chief - without you (rent) not much to say about this one, either. but it’s a good fit for how they are in the back half of season 1, after he breaks things off.

10/athena/helo - as long as you love me (backstreet boys) shut up it’s perfect okay

11/sweet!eight/gaeta - hallelujah (jeff buckley) i think this works really well for the two of them (and for my best beloved most ironically named man in the universe felix gaeta in general, i think). i don’t know that there’s anything better i could pick, but i almost wish i had found something different? this song is such a heavy hitter, and i wish i’d saved it for...idk, maybe the season 4 mix i never got around to making, or a gaeta mix? ah well.

12/anders/kara - smoothie king (bowling for soup) HOLY MOOD WHIPLASH BATMAN XD

13/anders/tory - when i’m down (chris cornell) this is another pair that’s hard to pin down. but they’re definitely sleeping together during crossroads when sam is at his lowest and they’re being pushed towards activation and...i don’t know, it felt right? still does.

14/tory/baltar - spy (carly simon) don’t really have all that much to say about this one either, lol. but it Works.

15/chief/cally - nothing without you (vienna teng) this song is less Frantic and Scared and Angry than the moment it lines up with in canon, it’s more...sad. such a hard bit to watch, though, and i can’t say it doesn’t fit. ...also i know enough of the behind-the-scenes about why cally left the show that. well.

16/saul/ellen - grace is gone (dave matthews band) SUFFER WITH ME. also, fun fact--the recording i have goes ‘take my heart/take my eyes’ (which. i’m pretty sure is taken Way more literally in this context than in the original lol). but EVERY SINGLE VERSION, whether lyrics or an actual recording, that i’ve been able to find online says ‘take my eyes/take my heart’??? and since i got my version on a burned cd and i forget who gave it to me i will Never Know the original source or why it’s different, lol. it’s definitely not because it’s a cover, i know that much for sure. his voice is Distinctive. (i do think heart-eyes flows better than eyes-heart but that’s a separate conversation)

17/saul/caprica - and so it goes (billy joel) look, we all know this is a find-and-replace relationship. explicitly so on his end, implicit on hers (as upset as she is with the corporeal version at this point in the timeline, head!baltar is still hanging around sooooo). also it’s...just a nice song to end the mix on, i think.

#bsg #battlestar galactica #fanmix

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seasoningcityespercollective · 2 years

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Welcome to the Seasoning City Esper Collective!

Recent data from the local hospital record has shown that phenomena known as “psychic powers” may be more common than we realize. Abilities such as spirit communication and telekinesis are no longer myths or legends, and are increasingly visible in the public eye. However, little is truly understood about psychic powers, and those possessing them are often viewed as either lying for attention or dangerous to society.

And yet espers are no child’s imaginary game, nor are we monsters that hide in the shadows. We are simply people, people who often feel isolated from our peers due to our unique lived experiences.

That’s why the Mitsuura Foundation has graciously granted the esper community of Seasoning City a place to connect with each other and find our equilibrium. At the first Seasoning City Esper Collective, espers of all shapes and sizes can come down to meet people just like themselves, and even new ones they may find kindred spirits in.

Spoonbenders and exorcists alike can enjoy our center’s diverse recreational offerings, such as the tennis court and yoga lessons. Grab a croissant to eat at the center’s state of the art cafeteria, or take it up to the cozy library with a nice cup of tea.

Young espers can make use of the Youth’s Club, while parents of those 10 and under are welcome to drop off their supernatural sweeties at our fully staffed Daycare. For adults and children alike with unique medical needs, our staff can connect you with trusted professionals across a wide range of disciplines, whether you’re dealing with extrasensory overload, spirit possession recovery, or accidentally superhealing your twisted ankle the wrong way.

Whether you’re looking to connect with those like you, seeking advice because your toddler keeps destroying the silverware, or needing a place to get away from the visions you’re plagued with, we welcome you with open arms. Just because you’re superhuman, doesn’t mean you’re not human.

Seasoning City Esper Collective

7-8, Furikake District

Seasoning City,

Saitama Prefecture 555-0175

Phone: (XXX)-XXX-XXXX

Operating Hours: 7:00 - 20:00 M-F, 7:00 - 22:00 weekends

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Hiya! I’m Bird and I made this blog to generate more interaction with OC artists in the Mob Psycho 100 tumblr fandom. When you submit your OCs to this blog, you can specify what types of interactions you’re comfortable with people drawing between your OCs and theirs, and see who in the community has posted their OCs for you to draw too! If you do draw OCs interacting, feel free to submit the art here or tag this blog in it so that I can put it here for everyone to see. You also don’t have to draw OCs interacting - submitting your own regular OC art is great too. Check out the FAQ for more info!

I meant to make this blog after I made a good example reference post for my own ocs...but forgot that I didn’t do that yet when I clicked “add new sideblog,” whoops. Oh well. This blog is still a work in progress, so the appearance might change in the coming...months (I am busy).

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #mp100 ocs #mob psycho 100 ocs #mp100 oc

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wwjfjdg-blog · 2 years

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starting fresh

Hello! This first blog post is hopefully going to cover my journey from my home in the UK to my new home in the south of Kumamoto prefecture, Japan. I'll try not to make it too long.

August 20th, 2022, Heathrow airport. The drive to the airport was oddly... normal. My parents, partner, and I chatted like we would have on any other day. I think that my parents and I purposely 'forgot' the fact that I was moving away until we got to the drop-off point outside the terminal, so once we arrived, there were a few moments in which we sat slightly apprehensively. Though we wouldn't see each other for some time, none of us really wanted an overly emotional goodbye, so I appreciated them for helping me to get on with it as though it were nothing more than a weekend trip. It was then into the airport to meet the other people from the UK heading out on the program. Even though there were around 100 of us, I actually ended up eating alone in the airport which was not a very me thing to do. Perhaps the gravity of what I was about to do was hitting a little bit, but I think that I just needed a little bit of space. I sat in an Italian restaurant and ate a pizza as I'd heard that pizza was expensive in Japan.

Cue 24 hours of airports and flights - ouch. We flew 11.5 hours to Doha, Qatar, and then, after a few hours layover, another 10 on to Tokyo. It was a lot of flying and I didn't sleep at all (my first day on my own and I was already making poor life decisions, whoops), but other than that, the flights were fairly easy and had very little turbulence.

August 21st, 2022, Tokyo. We landed in Tokyo on the evening of the 21st, and took an hour-and-a-half bus ride to the hotel in Shinjuku. Whilst the flights were tiring, and although I only had 2 days in Tokyo, I still did my best to make the most of the time there. The first full day there, after a full day of conferences and lectures, I fancied a run so I headed out to explore a little. I ran around 代々木公園 (Yoyogi park) and grabbed some breakfast for the next few days from a 7/11 before heading back. It was only about 7km, but in my defence, it was over 30°C and 100000% humidity. Feeling slightly like I wasn't taking enough advantage of being Tokyo, I decided to get up early the next morning in order to head to Shibuya. I walked through the park again and then had a coffee in the Starbucks that overlooks Shibuya crossing before doing a little bit of exploring in the surrounding area. After some more lectures, I went out and sang Karaoke with a few of the other people on the program and then headed back to the hotel to get some rest; we were leaving to fly out of Tokyo at just after 6 the next morning. These are the only pictures that I took in Tokyo but I thought I'd share them here (my inability to take photos is one of the things that I plan to work on in my time here).

August 24th , 2022, Kumamoto. I arrived at my new home around midday on a Wednesday after flying down from Tokyo and then driving for around an hour and a half into the countryside. I have to thank my coworkers for the lovely welcome and help that they provided when I arrived because without them, it would have been a tricky day. We went out and bought some furniture, food and other essentials before they dropped me back at my appartment. With that, my journey was complete, I had travelled 6000 miles from home and was now sat on a single sofa in an empty apartment. I might have been fairly overwhelmed if it hadn't been for the fact that I was absolutely shattered (Maybe not sleeping on those planes was a good thing after all???). I called my partner and my parents to let them know that I had arrived safely and then headed to bed. First step of my 'fresh start' complete.

It's now the middle of October, almost 2 months from when I arrived, but I thought that considering what this blog is going to be about, the journey to get here was a good first post. There are a few things that I plan to write about on this blog, goals, thoughts on different aspects of life here, plans, etc, though I have no idea when I'll get around to writing them. For the moment, here are some rather lovely photos of the area I now live in:

I think that's probably enough for now so thanks for reading; I'll hopefully see you soon with another blog post.

#Japan #JET #help

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tabsterfm · 2 days

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A day late over on the blog, but happy Transformers day! To celebrate, here is my current collection of 'bots I've been building up for the past 2 years.

Honestly, Im happy and disappointed in my current collection.

I'm happy because every figure you see pictured is a part of my own "shelf-verse" AU that I've been working on since I got my 3rd or so Shockwave, and I'm honestly super proud of it. Like, a lot of typical aspects of Transformers have been reworked or recontectualized with my lore, and theres even storylines and story arcs that affect the status-quo, some serious cool shit. I wanna use it as a basis for a stopmotion series if I ever live in a space that allows me to set that up. It's always been a dream of mine to make a stopmotion series- Ive been into stopmotion ever since I got my hands on a camera... or well, uh... since I got a 3DS and a stopmotion application on the E-Shop.

Im disappointed because these damn shelves get filled too quickly!!! I have other things i want to display on these shelves, like my V-Pets or my physical media. I can't do that if the Transformers are slowly taking over my shelves!!! Surely ill figure out how to deal with that, but I imagine the solution would just be more shelves lmao.

I forgot to even mention my desk 'bots in the initial post! These are not a part or my aforementioned "shelf-verse", nor do they really have *any* lore in general aside from the set-up being that they're on a space station or something like that, these are just fun-sized lil dudes that I have fun posing with when I want something to fidget with.

You can finally see the reason why I haven't been uploading any V-Pet logs for so long- it's because Shockwave has been doing all the raising around here! In all seriousness though, I do plan on writing about my experience with the Tamagotchi Connection rerelease sometime soon now that I accidentally ended a 7-generation-strong bloodline... whoops. Look forward to that, uh, whenever it happens!

#tabster says #transformers #transformers day

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theinvisibledoodlewizard · 1 year

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LAST THREE ART FIGHT OCS IN ONE BABYYYYY

Also I'm on team vampires as ScribbleSorcerer if anyone wants to check that out ;3

BekBerk Priscilla came to earth to learn about humans. She doesn't know a lot of the customs yet, and her favorite phrases come from the 70s and 90s. She's kind hearted and loves her gang members. Her hair turns from snake heads to snake rattles when she's startled, and she can become more Medusa or Cthlulu like if she is mad or in danger. She doesn't like doing that though.

Bullet was training to be a police dog, but he didn't make the cut because he was "too friendly". He guards all the gangs and makes sure they’re ok. But in very “nearly strategic” ways XD. And he might climb in the villain’s lap for belly scratches, to run away whining a second later. His owner is Jeb, and they’re very loyal to each other

Thornsbit is a robot who used to be a business tycoon/gang leader. He wanted to live forever so he got scientists to put his consciousness into a machine. (If you followed my Inscryption blog? Yes he looks like P03. That was an accident I ran with XD) He works with the gang as they’re brains and the most logic one. They don’t know he’s using them to take out his competitors yet. Even though he rubs his hands and laughs maniacally right in front of them. He’s lucky they aren’t the brightest, lol. He needs the roomba so he can float, if he doesn’t have it he falls to the ground. He’s connected to it with Bluetooth.

Forgot to post this for a while whoops.

Anyway. If y’all wanna draw any of my artfight characters and try to get me to revenge ya? Here’s my artfight! :D

#artfight #artfight 2023 #BekBerk Priscilla #bullet almost K.9.#thornsbit

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inexchangeforyoursoul · 1 year

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Whoops I forgot to post, save organize these, so the blogging will be a mess/// one volume at a time though, one at a time

SO ANYWAY, second one.

Bring tissues and something to lower blood pressure because some parts will have the goo in your vessels boiling and not everyone gets their just desserts - yet.

One thing to point out in general is that this volume is very flashback heavy and all of these are depressing, really. The order of things is basically as follows: crying, laughing, gay, mission impossible, intermission, well shit, angry, and crying. Has a snot framing, if you like.

I'd say it's a solid 8.0 as the three flashbacks come with a windfall of flavor text, though this is also the reason they are enjoyable short stories of their own. I wasn’t all that into the middle one, though. Maybe obecause of its fragmented structure. Oh, and gay rating is 5 bc there's like one kith but then not really. It's the only real breather in the whole shebang so savor it.

So, quick characters update. But mostly for the supporting cast because Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are doing their usual shenanigans and gay panic until the last chapter. All in all, Wei Wuxian is hella embarrassed about tween him and slowly he's beginning his own gay panic. It's funny. Also it turns out he semi-accidentally started a revolution. As he would… and as he should. He’s also a very good teacher, I really respect that.

The first person, or rather group I’d like to talk about is the Xiao gang,,, A-Qing is among the bravest people around and I hope her and Xiao will be okay, although I'm not worried because they are in good hands. Ohana means family, and family means no one gets left behind. That's all. (Fuck, I'm crying again,,,, moving swiftly along,)

(theirs is the best flashback imo)

Xue Yang gives me like,,, especially warped Toga Himiko vibes if you know what I mean. At one point, he has no way to get the “candy” he so desperately wants and the realization is where he really goes crazy, obsessed with that victim to the point of mimicking him as best as he can. Whether it's for revenge still, or a way to make the victim out to be something he wanted him to be, OR even vica versa, envying what the other had and wanting to become more like the other(s), is left hanging in the air. He’s probably doing his own weird roleplaying gig out here in his personal shrek swamp and has long lost contact with the outside world.

He definitely deserves what he has coming, but with the little additional things sprinkled in, it is still just… sad and regrettable. I think we'll hear from him in the future, one way or another(TM).

Jin Ling is even younger than I thought?? (Fifteen instead of seventeen, dude. Fifteen. You have no business running off alone, kiddo.) and has never ceased worrying me. He's confused and angry and I don't blame him for what's happened.

Speaking of Jin Ling, the thing I want to keep him away from the most is his uncle. The other one. As in, the other one who is officially his uncle. That guy is a deranged control freak and it's definitely in him to either kill the kid himself or have someone else do it for him. Or trick them into doing it. Someone else I'm not gonna name again had to learn the nuances of these things somewhere. I hope this mofo will be the first real victim to Jin Ling's new trick, hell, I want it to be the thing to tip the scales. After all, he isn't supposed to know that.

I'm glad the Lan boys are not around to see this shitstorm. They've had enough to deal with for the time being.

I really like Wen Ning, hope he becomes permanent comic relief. Mainly because as of right now, I desperately need either that or some soft bonding time. Him and Wei Wuxian seem like the best of friends and it warms my torn little heart. I'm also wondering how they met because the Wen name certainly does not scream friendly or nice, but he sure seems to be. I imagine him having, like, the softest voice for some reason...

Anyhow, later the Wen duches do pop out of the woodworks and yeah they definitely are no good news, hell, along with uncle, they are the most despicable kind of people up till now. The reason is as simple as posing as heroes when they are actually unabashed villains

I will also disclose my opinion that young Mo Xuanyu may have been a victim of something other than just getting outed and promptly ostracized. He either made a mistake to get mad or got the pointy end of something to “help” him there. Explains it more than anything else.

Anyway, cat's out of the bag and we are kinda on the run now.

#Kate reads

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barry-j-blupjeans · 2 years

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as promised (n bc im impatient about waiting any longer sldkf) the magnus talks to red robe barry au thingy will be posted later today!!! i just wanted to say thank you to all of u!!! bc that's a lot of ppl, holy shit sldfsd I super duper appreciate it and I hope ur at least semi-enjoying the wild amount of writing I'm doing sldfksd

a reminder for any new folks (or any old folks who forgot sldfkjds): I also post my ficlets on ao3 every Wednesday and Saturday! You can find those here. There's nearly 300 chapters (sometimes with two ficlets per chapter bc they're sorta short sldfkds) and we're still sorta early 2022 in my backlogs. if u wanna see old ficlets without having to go through my entire writing tag, feel free to go there!

also for new ppl: said writing tag is #ise cube writing. i also have a art tag under #ise cube art (if u just search this one on tumblr, it'll give u my art blog too, which is for art unrelated to taz or any other fandom blog I have. i don't post on it too often tho whoops sldfs)

again, thank you all so much!!! i super duper appreciate you all and I adore getting any comments/tags/feedback about my work, which I have been getting a Lot of lately!!! i rr can't express my gratitude enough so I'm just gonna start polishing up my fic one more time so I can post it sdkfsdf. thank u all !!!

#i am speaking #not taz #now i need a title for the fic. which is the worst part of writing anything slkdfsd #1000 #this is unreblogable bc i would feel weird about it being on someone else's blog sorry sldfksd

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APA’s Take on DA: ANE - A/B Edition

A few caveats and disclaimers before we begin:

This is me getting out my frustrations as a long time fan, not to convince you to feel a certain way about anything, nor to make you feel upset or uncomfortable. So if you got what you needed of Anna and Bates in the new movie, then please just this skip over this post. I don’t want to bring down anyone’s fun or enjoyment, nor incite arguments.

I don’t plan to extensively discuss the new movie here beyond this post. I’m having a whine and then moving on, lol. But I also don’t like censoring myself in my own blog, so I do feel like I have to address my issues with this film at least once at length.

Per usual, I want to stress that this is just my opinion, and that we all have different experiences with DA, how and when we watched it, who are faves are and why they are our faves, as well as our own personal experiences that factor in here. There are some things I like about ANE, namely Baxley, but other stuff I did not. See here for my other opinions; this post is about Anna and Bates.

I tried to streamline this, but it’s still super long, and I’m sure I repeat myself several times, whoops

SPOILERS | SPOILERS | SPOILERS

tl;dr: Anna was more in character than the first film, imo, but I do still think it's OOC for her and Bates to barely spend time with their child, and then in this film they barely have any scenes of substance, let alone plot. Thus, this film wasn't enjoyable for me from an A/B perspective. Also, Fellowes' refusal to give them the hotel might be stalling for a third movie, or he's forgotten why they wanted one in the first place.

My Background

I want to quickly say, for my new followers, that I got into DA the summer before S3 aired in the UK, and I’m coming up on my 10th anniversary of being a DA fan. Thus, I first watched S3-6 as they were first broadcast. My favorite characters are Anna and Bates, and they, of course, are my favorite pairing, not just of the show, but of all time. I do like most of the original characters to varying degrees, but A/B captured my heart and soul.

S4-5 (and the beginning of S6) was very painful for me, but I stuck through it, and was rewarded with the arrival of their baby in the TV show finale. I’ve always wanted them to get all their dreams fulfilled, especially after all they had been put through throughout the series.

So suffice it to say, I’m not a big fan of the movies where their dreams are non-existent, even if A/B are presented as happy. I need to see them as parents, and at least discussing the hotel.

I also was extremely not fond of the drugging and blackmailing Anna did in DA 2019, and I thought she was super out of character. How Anna stayed kind and strong regardless of all that happened to her is very important to me, but imho, the crimes that she was committing in the first film weren’t badass. The Anna from the TV show is the badass, coming through all the trauma.

You might ask, “why do you still bother with the films?” Well, I love A/B and the TV show too much, and maybe a third one will be the S6 to the film’s S4-5. Like I stuck with the show and got want I wanted, so if I stick it out again…

I have to be truthful, my knee-jerk reactions to the spoilers, and my initial reaction to watching the film weren’t exactly happy ones, whoops (well, outside of Baxley). I felt very unfulfilled.

The Lack of A/B in General in the Film

I feel like ANE just does not treat Anna and Bates as if they were the major characters they were in the TV show. I felt like the first film didn’t either, but this time it doesn’t even really treat them as if they are of any importance... at all. They are no longer main players in the ensemble, but rather third rate.

I'd say it’s classist that A/B were shafted, but even the other downstairs pairings got more than them, and it’s very strange to me that Fellowes sidelined an original and major couple like this. It’s like he forgot to write anything for them and just dropped them into a scene here and there.

I get that the social media is just doing promo cliches, but really, claiming “everything you adore about Downton is back” while they did nothing with a lead couple from the TV show really grinds my gears.

And I don’t feel like we are ”catching up” with the Bateses, even if we are getting to literally see them again. They didn’t do anything between the films. They are fictional characters beholden to what Fellowes writes, and he didn’t choose to forward their lives organically in the films.

Of course, it’s wonderful that the A/B we are presented here are “happy”. I am glad that there’s no more trauma. But “happily ever after” does not mean that they didn’t have lives after, like their lives don’t stop. This is a complaint I had with the first movie too. And a lack of bad things happening... really isn’t enough.

But literally, they barely have any scenes together, and most of their scenes, together or otherwise, are very fleetling. They often felt like five seconds long. And as I said in my other post, while the TV show does have short scenes, this was next level. It almost seemed like Anna had one line of dialogue per each scene she actually spoke in.

Plus, there’s no hints that they even live in the cottage, let alone us see them there.

It is very weird, and disheartening to me that these characters basically became a footnote :/

Splitting Up A/B Among the Two Main Plots

Separating A/B in this movie doesn't benefit the characters as individuals, because Bates didn't get a plot in France -- nor a plot at all in this film -- and Anna's is very much supporting, and not personal, dealing with film stars. It's not just my opinion as a shipper, but as a fan of each character themselves. Also, in the TV show, they don't like spending time apart as it is (”I miss you when you are out of sight”), after all the crap they went through when they were forced to. I guess Fellowes doesn’t remember it was panned when they were separated by prison (twice).

And why have the precious few scenes they do share be about how Anna could be disappointed by the actors, and then not have her and Bates have a follow up conversation when he gets back about how it went? That would have made sense narrative-wise, and give them more screen time. Why not have him comment on how lovely she looks dressed up for The Gambler? Deleted scenes, maybe?

(An aside, as this doesn’t deserve it’s own section: but the wig for the wig Anna is wearing in The Gambler is better than the wig that’s supposed to be her own hair. I still loathe the bob, and always will).

The scene where she sees him off leaves much to be desired, imho. It’s rushed, they barely say anything and don’t touch. It didn’t give me married couple vibes. :/ And the line about her watching Johnny is oof because... she doesn’t.

(I’ll get more into the lack of Johnny in a bit)

Anna as a Fangirl vs. a Mother

Anna thankfully wasn’t drugging people this time, but I feel like she’s never been that much into pop culture in the TV show. She likes to read, yes, and yeah, she’s had some magazines at the table too, but she never once chimed and showed interest in movie stars when they were discussed in the TV show by other characters. So thus, her interest with the actors is a bit forced and not very natural with what we already know about her, imo.

Anna’s lack of screen time also means only one real scene with Mary this go-around which is very odd, but tbh, I’m actually okay with that. The first movie had some hamfisted parts, like them finally using the word “friend” and it was about... moving chairs in the rain. There was a time actually call them friends, and that was S6.

But also there were some implications in DA 2019 I felt very uneasy about, which was that Anna was pledging to stay with Lady Mary 5eva and putting her before her own family. It just was kinda weird, classist, and not like where we left things with them in the TV show. This here also wasn’t like the TV show either, but maybe the idea was that Mary wasn’t going to feel comfortable talking to Anna about Henry’s absence when she knows how strong Anna’s own marriage is and has persevered, and thus Anna cannot relate to her.

I know that my view of Anna isn’t the only one out there, but I feel like Fellowes wasted Anna’s few scenes dealing with Myrna, versus showing her being a mother, her desire from the TV show. I get this was his way of working her into the plot, but Daisy was worked in, and also got her plots with Andy, Mr Mason, and Mrs Patmore.

Also Daisy really carried the Myrna plot more than Anna did - Anna could have been used elsewhere. But it’s an example of dropping the characters into the storylines versus giving them something organic. Daisy liking movie stars jives with the TV show, in the ways it doesn’t with Anna.

Of course, I’m glad that she’s not facing more trauma in these films, and at least it’s not as bad as a character assassination this time.

But while it’s not to the same extreme as DA 2019, I feel like there’s still a disconnect between the Anna of the films and the Anna from the TV show. She always had been very motherly in the show, and now that she has her own child... she’s not? I know some of this is my own expectations for Anna as a mother, but it just doesn’t jive for me, and disappoints me as a long time fan.

Apparently DA at “its best” is to have Bates do... Nothing...

I feel like Bates more just suffers from a(n even greater) lack of screen time vs. characterization, as at least he mentions Johnny, in that regard. While I liked the scene with him, Baxter, and Carson, I feel like this could have been a chance to have Bates give advice in a way that related back to his own life (like how Anna made sure they wed in S2E8). It could have been vague enough for the people who didn’t seen the show, but still enough for a nod to those who did.

Not to indulge in too much gossip, but I do think Fellowes harbors a grudge again Brendan, starting with Brendan not loving Bates being separated from the rest of the characters for most of S3. So it’s very possible that Fellowes is cutting his nose off to spite his face, because he's wasting Brendan and Joanne’s chemistry, and sacrificing good plotting and story because he's still being petty. With the first film, Brendan was also doing a play at the same time as filming, so there was that excuse, but this time it was Fellowes’ choice. There were ways around it (just like Robert’s trip to America); he didn’t have to have A/B apart.

Bates and Robert haven’t had a true valeting scene since S4E4, so what we did get of them was more or less what we were getting in the latter half of the show.

Baby, What Baby?

Besides the lack of screen time, there’s then what Fellowes chose to do with what little scenes Anna and Bates had, together and otherwise. Sure, it’s only a two hour movie. Had this been a 9 episode season, then these France and actress plots could have worked for A/B, but when it becomes their sole plots, and the more important plot not even there (which would have likely been their plot in an S7, i.e. the hotel)... yeah.

I could probably copy and paste sections of my rants about the first film, but I waited for years, through the multiple traumas, for Anna and Bates to have a child, and then Fellowes basically throws him away, and Anna basically acts childless the whole movie again (and also again, It’s Bates who mentions him outside of the one scene they share with him). At least this time she held him through most of a montage, but other than that and Bates’ throwaway lines... they don’t seem to be parents.

It’s just not what I expect from characters who longed for a child. Johnny’s definitely simply not in their lives. If you remove the one (1) scene where they hold him and the one (1) scene were they mention him from each film, it scares me that they could simply retcon his existence. He does appear in that one scene without them in DA 2019, but really. He has three scenes across two movies. I mean he’s probably not even beating the total screen time he had in the episode of the TV show where he was born.

At least this time he’s not treated like a spoiler; he’s in the trailer (even if it does in turn spoil his one scene, AND ONE PART WITH HIM WASN’T EVEN IN THE MOVIE), and gets a paragraph in a chapter that’s not about his parents in the companion book, plus is in a number of the wedding stills.

(and also, him wearing a sailor suit has been one of my wishes for a long time, so I did finally get that lol)

There’s only so much Joanne and Brendan can do in a script that has them doing nothing with the kiddo. It doesn’t even show them at home with him. And we know that they had fun interacting with him on set. So I cannot just pin the lack of nuance on them. Perhaps in different times, with a different director, they could have make it work better, but the issue is the script not lending itself that way.

Fellowes has even said: “The actors all know their characters better than I do, to be honest. I give them material, I hope, which fits their own feelings about them, but then they take it and run.” They can only run so far, Jules.

Sure, maybe the wedding reception montage is supposed to hint that they do actually spend some time with their child, and of course it was nice to see him there, but he could have been included in other scenes. A hint isn’t enough, and not when the last movie also only had a hint.

We need to see him with his parents elsewhere, or less it proves the nanny is the one really raising him. I’d say that I want to see how they balance caring for him and their jobs, but really... I think we are seeing it :S. It’s just really weird to rewatch that scene in S2E1, and then all of S5 and S6 and then Anna just... does not spend much time with nor look after the child she longed for.

Last time I blamed it on that Fellowes was writing them like he was the upstairs characters, but actually... they are spending less time with their kid than the Crawleys do theirs (barring Edith’s son Peter, but Marigold is there). There’s that “an hour every day” joke in the TV show, but honestly, I feel like it’s literally five minutes a day with A/B.

Of course, we could also blame COVID, but Caroline has a fleeting scene in the library and she’s under five too. Instead of a line, Johnny could have been there when Anna sees off Bates. And if there was no way to get the kiddo there, then a less clunky line would have been better (maybe he is a napping and they comment about how sweet he looks when he sleeps, and they didn’t want to wake him).

If we could have had him indoors, it would have great to have him in the scene with the rocking chairs. As nice as it was to have the callback of Anna working on something in the servants’ hall, that would have been even better!

I know that S6CS was the original ending, I know that Fellowes didn’t have this in mind at that point. But it does make me question if Anna’s “sort out the baby” line really just did mean... this... the whole time. But Bates doesn’t need an heir, so why even desire to have a child if you are just gonna ignore him? I mean, they would actually parent their child. I’ve ranted before many times about how this is out of character, so I won’t get into it now, but it does make me feel like Fellowes is writing AU versions of their characters. And ones who didn’t face all the strife of the TV show.

And this is (partly) why my rants get so long, is that it's like "it's this just Fellowes just being a shitty writer, and not expressing well what he wants for these characters, or that he thinks this is how the characters really are.” What is intentional here?

Because they are showing enough of A/B’s lives to show that their son doesn’t factor that much into them, he spends his time with nanny (although where is he when nanny is outdoors with the other children...? Is there a nursemaid when the other children are visiting?).

And it hurts because they worked in the older upstairs children well in this movie, so yeah.

I mean, maybe we are to take it that Anna's scenes were so fleeting because she was in fact running off to go watch Johnny? And that maybe any other planned scenes got deleted or they couldn’t film them because the kiddo got cranky? That did happen in S2CS with Ethel and Charlie, and that plot was moved to S3, and take place over more episodes in the end. But unless there is a Movie 3, then you can’t just move it over and save it for later.

What is an Ending?

If ANE was written as an actual ending (again, I am convinced now that it wasn’t, not for everyone anyway), then the problem I have is that it feel like maybe Fellowes thinks that he’s already given A/B an “ending”.

Because then he rendered it pointless when the franchise continued on, with them still supposedly part of the ensemble. You can't just give characters a baby then have them interact only with the baby once per movie. This isn’t a ‘90s sitcom. You can’t have them not act like parents after their dream of a child comes true.

Is it because they had their happy ending with the TV show, they are stuck in stasis where things can’t get happier? No real time actually spent with Johnny, no hotel, no inkling if they’d have more children (which I have to admit, i didn’t think was in the cards for the movies anyway, as much as I want it, and as much as I know that A/B in the TV show have wanted children in the plural). I mean, they don’t even spend half of this movie together anyway.

As it stands, to me these films feel like they are saying, “Anna and Bates are happy but we cannot tell you why, or why this is important". There is a difference between writing someone is who has become happy again after surviving trauma, and just... writing them as if they never faced it. There’s a nuance, and it was there in S6, and it is not present in either film, imo.

Really, in this one, all we get is a montage with their child, and literally only one scene where they actually talk about their own lives (which was weird, and about her watching their child... which she doesn’t seem to actually do because there’s a nanny…). Their other scenes are about the movie making. So are they actually happy in their own lives…? That’s literally not shown on screen. They are mostly just... existing.

This was an issue I had with the first film as well: creating plot lines first and then dropping the characters into it. In both cases, this ended up affecting Anna more than Bates, and I'd just rather have some personal scenes than dealing with revolutions or hanging with movie stars.

Ironically, the ANE companion book states that “Now that Mr Bates and Anna have finally taken charge of their lives it seems that, finally, they have a very happy future ahead of them.” I feel like this vibe is missing from the movie. How have they taken charge? They haven’t - bad things just stopped happening to them. And they seemed to have a happy future ahead of them at the end of the TV show... and yeah they just stay were they are, literally, and figuratively.

(in retrospect, this is paraphrasing something Joanne said in her interview in the first film’s book. It’s something I have other issues with, but that’s not what this post is about)

Because they aren’t facing trauma, so they get no plots; they are happy so now we get nothing anymore. I mean for me, I’m gonna need to see of the earned happiness, in ‘a look how far they have come’ mood, and I need as much screen time of it as I got them in pain in the TV show (I know that’s too much to ask, whoops).

Storylines need conflict. And you can have some conflict that's not traumatic... like getting the hotel can easily fit here.... I am just saying.

When you go back to S6 and look at A/B's lines about happiness... it's all about having a child. Anna even fears at after the earlier miscarriage that they won't be "as happy as [they] could be" if they never have a child, and of course her line when she tells Bates she's pregnant with their son is that "what [she's] been hiding is very, very happy." Bates also later says he's "happier than [he's] ever been" and that they are "within shouting distance of [their] greatest happiness". Hell, Anna's last line in the TV show is a "Happy New Year!" to their baby.

There is no denying why they are happy within the context of the TV show. The issue is that it's lacking the context in the films, when is their child so absent from them. All he did was change their mood and not their lives? It's all gearing up, and then no follow through.

The companion book has a still of the wedding captioned with "Mr Bates couldn’t be happier, with his wife, Anna, and son, Johnny.” I get there's a comma, but you know what I’m going for. You can’t just say over and over “they are happy with their son” when they only have one scene that even attempts to prove that each time.

Part of the issue is that they want to make the films so that you don’t have to see the TV show, so they don’t wanna have anything that would be confusing to a first time viewer. So when it comes to A/B, they are never going to overtly to refer back to the traumatic events that happened in TV show (again though, it’s that not that I want there to be a reason for them to be referenced, but the subtly is just not there).

(An example of the vibe I am talking about is like in S3CS with the Marvelous dancing. They don’t have to reference the trial, or prison, or Anna’s hard to work to free her man, but we get all that from the dialogue, acting, music, and directing.)

Thus, the films lack the basis as to why it's important they have a child, and in turn, why that is an important part of why they are happy now. There is simply no form of acknowledgment that they have been through a lot of crap which makes the happiness a bit hollow. Because there is no connection anymore.

I know some people will say my dislike of the movies is only because I didn’t get one specific thing. tbh, I would have been happy with a few specific things, but the overall thing being A/B actually have an organic plot about themselves.

But if they just attempted to give me that something related to those specific things I might be more lenient on the rest, lol. Really, they just had some more scenes of A/B with their child, and a scene discussing that they are still indeed looking to purchase a hotel, if they weren’t going to give them more of a story in this movie.

The Return of the Bateses... as Main Characters?

I talked about in my other post that maybe this is all stalling, and stalling on purpose, but it’s going to have to be for me to be “okay” with how this movie plays out for A/B. Otherwise, it feels like Fellowes is Done with writing A/B and that he refuses to write the next logical step.

I’m working on another post about how I’m pretty certain they are gonna try to make a third movie, where I’ll get into this more, but I think it’s possible that Fellowes indulged Gareth on these two plots (France/movie) and will write more of what he wants for an ending (assuming it is the proper end again), and perhaps might reward for us at the end of Movie 3 like he did S6CS...

His refusing to write them getting the hotel probably (hopefully?) means it’s because he can’t do it until it’s actually “the end”.

And what Fellowes says about Cobert in this interview shows that he does know that some characters didn't have much plot in at least one of the movies. And thus I hope he’s aware there’s more characters he has to rectify this with in Movie 3.

Because thus far, Fellowes has chosen not to further A/B’s lives on the big screen, and for some reason he cannot figure out that he can involved them and still have them at the hotel, like Molesley and the school.

And yes, I do think they’d leave and get the hotel, because it’s what’s best for their family. But instead, their beloved child is squirreled away with nanny and doesn’t even take part in the scenes with the other kiddos, let alone with his parents.

(btw I do think that the deleted scene from the first film, where the hotel was mentioned, is not considered canon. I’ll get more into that post about a potential Movie 3, I realize I didn’t mention that here, but given Joanne’s answer about a hotel when asked at the ANE premiere, we know it hasn’t happened yet).

For Anna and Bates, I feel like S6CS’s ending to me was their logical conclusion. I could easily imagine them saving up and purchasing their hotel of their dreams, leaving DA but being nearby, and hopefully having another child. We didn’t have to literally see in the end of the TV show, the promise was there and enough.

Even Joanne said back in 2015 that this is how saw them in ten years. Fellowes said one time an A/B hotel could be a spin-off. But I really get this icky feeling thanks to the movies that they are now stuck at DA forever, despite their job positions becoming obsolete as time marches on.

While Fellowes and the cast always say “never say never”, ANE might very well serve as the ending for good. But while it was better than the first film, it was the original ending’s montage that carried meaning for everyone and had finality that should have stayed final, imho.

And this Fellowes quote is... interesting. Like S6CS was written for the fans... but he’s acknowledging that the movies are... not so much. Also there’s no way that DA 2019′s ending really serves as an ending in the way S6CS’s does... with ANE is does for some characters but not all, not in the way that S6CS strove to.

Being that I am convinced of Movie 3 now, I really hoping that Joanne’s answer about the the hotel on the red carpet actually, you know, comes to fruition (and wasn’t just a joke). And it might, like considering how we got like zero Baxley in DA 2019 and then they get engaged in ANE.

There’s a reason she was asked about the hotel at the premiere, and it’s just like when she was asked about Baby Bates for years (I mean, that’s where we got the term from, before it ever came out of Bates’ mouth in S5E6). And she has known for years that it’s A/B’s endgame, as I said before.

I will admit, I stopped watching her interviews for ANE after I got spoilers and was disappointed that A/B were shafted in it. So it she said anything else, idk. She’s not the writer though, so in the end, it’s all down to Fellowes anyway. But the point is, the hotel needs to factor in, and people working on the franchise knows it.

In Conclusion

The TV show ended with A/B ringing in the New Year with a new chapter in their life as parents. The movies just interpreted that to mean they are “happy”. But, the reason for their happiness has been pushed up into a cupboard, and it’s just that nothing bad is happening to them for once, and apparently they never go further in life.

For me, the reason why the TV show grabbed me is because I got invested in the characters’ lives and romances. And it’s those characters and couples who I want to see the futures of.

At least Anna and Bates are still alive and still in love. Things could be worse! Normally, I do not want more DA out of fear of Fellowes screwing more things up, but if I made it through S4-5 to get to my S6, then maybe I can get through these first two films to get to a more satisfying, for me at least, third one.

So all I can do is hold onto the idea that if there is a third movie, that it’s the one where he actually moves characters like Anna and Bates forward again.

Otherwise, if this is the end, then I guess Fellowes was just done writing about Anna and Bates’ lives, and that they’re just stuck in stasis. But “open a small hotel and have the children with us” just wasn’t a throwaway line back in Series 2, and I can only hope that if Fellowes gets to end DA properly again, he gives us a reward-filled final act.

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