#show points summary

[tanglewoodpetz]

Show Points Totals Sept 17-21

All the shows I've entered have now been closed and judged. How'd my petz do? Awful. lol.

I feel like posing standards have changed since I did this last. I've been reading guides and everything but I don't know if the information isn't sticking in my head or I just revert to my old way of what makes a good pose.

Totals:

Enavi raked in 2 no placements, 4 HMs, and a 2nd. = 7 points (now a Reserve Champion!)

Bishop placed in all of her shows! an HM, two 3rds, a 2nd, and a 1st. = 12 points (now a Champion!)

France was only entered in one show and won an HM (dead last, lol) = 1 point

Wicca was entered into 3 shows, didn't place in one. Got a HM and a 2nd. = 4 points. She had a previous 21 points from shows long ago. I still have her awards. So 25 points total. (Master Grand Champion!)

Mocha was entered into 2 shows, only placed in one and got a 2nd. = 3 points. She previously had earned 11, so now she's at 14 points. (Champion!)

Glimmery was entered into 2 shows. Placed 1st in one and HM in the other. = 5 points. (Reserve Champion!)

I have gone into Photoshop and tried to compare my pics to Filthy-Hippie's guides, and I can see where I need improvement. So maybe my next batch of show pics will be better? Here's hoping!

[incorrect-riordanverse]

me when im a literal pjo blog and my mother has watched the pjo show but i have not 🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️

[fisheito]

let him speak

[hella1975]

would you like to talk about how bad the mha ending was hella

as much as i would love to give like. a comprehensive response i genuinely dont think i can get my words together just yet without it being a constant unintelligble stream of 'AND ANOTHER THING-' and bc it's become quite torn in the fandom on if the chapter was good or bad i want like. an actual coherent response here. so i will reblog this if/when i can word it but know IM NOT FUCKING HAPPY

[coffeebanana]

istg half of the post-s5 finale fics i see have some sort of disclaimer in the tags or summary (or i even just saw one in the title!!) saying the fic was written because the show sucks or the finale sucked or they just hated everything about it

and it's frustrating because i probably would have enjoyed a lot of these fics! but now i'm not even going to touch them because i don't want to engage with people shitting on the show

[claudeleine]

i put all these thoughts into a ridiculous amount of tags of @prouvaireafterdark's post so kinda wanted to write it out too.

re: claudia needing to die... yeah. she had to die and she was always going to die. that's sadly her part in the story. it's a tragic one but it's an important one, for the characters but also for anne rice. for the show writers to have altered that would have made this a completely different story. as lynne mentioned in her post, claudia is based on anne rice's daughter michele, who died of cancer when she was only five (hence claudia in the book being turned at five and the girls sharing a birthday). louis was largely representative of herself, and lestat both her ideal self and her husband to an extent. though she would say that at the time of writing the book, she didn't intend on all the parallels, but she considered them to be an unintentional part of processing her grief. iwtv, at it's heart, is a story about grappling with loss, grief, guilt, faith, humanity, relationships, etc etc etc. and originally, claudia was younger and she did not kill her at the end of the story; she was giving michele immortality. but through rewriting and letting her die, taking louis through a journey of grief, it helped her to process michele's death. so in this sense, claudia was always going to have to die because she represents a real little girl who died. and it's tragic that there was never going to be any other path for her.

from another angle, though this overlaps a lot with the above, claudia is dead since the beginning/doomed by the narrative in a couple other ways. 1) as @xinakwans pointed out when we were discussing this week, claudia is literally dead from the moment she is introduced in the story - at the beginning of the interview. when the story is being shared with daniel, claudia has been dead, and the interview is largely louis doing what anne rice was doing by writing this book - expressing his grief and guilt, and his struggle with his existence after losing her, etc. but she's already gone at that point. she's dead from the start of the story. 2) when we meet claudia in the past, she's on the brink of death. in one version of the story, bc louis nearly drained her (but also plague) and in another, bc louis' actions helped kick off the riots that set claudia's home on fire - either way, he feels immense guilt for her being on death's doorstep. when lestat turns her (though i'm going to go ahead and assign the responsibility to them both bc depending on the version of the story, they both have varying levels of involvement), it's not about her and what's right or best for her. but they decide to "save" her - but ultimately all they're doing is postponing the inevitable and in a way, they're setting her up for a prolonged suffering both from being trapped in the body of a child (who is only treated like a child when it's convenient, in the case of the show's claudia) and the continued abuse at the hands of others. and again, with the same ending she would've had if they hadn't turned her. giving her immortality is more about them than her. they try to freeze her in time, the same way anne rice tried to freeze michele in time through claudia, but it doesn't fix anything really. and we watch claudia rage against her sitaution, similarly to how michele grew angry with her sickness and her parents (apologies, i know i read or heard this somewhere but for the life of me can't remember where) and ultimately she can't escape it, and her parents can't save her (they never did and they were never going to) and that's tragedy. especially as a reader/viewer, knowing where this is all going for her from the start, it's awful to watch a character try so hard to change things for herself and know it won't work. and the show making claudia black only adds to the trauma she endures and the difficulty she has when it comes to escaping.

the show really nails it in that claudia's story is coming full circle. birth by fire. death by fire. she enters the story the same way she leaves it, and that's the story that she was set up for. it's terrible and none of this should have happened her, but it did. there was no saving her bc she represents a child who died before she got to live and in every version of this story, she is already gone but the impact she had on everyone will haunt them forever.

[hollowwish]

I like live streams but I wish they were not the main form of mcyt content. Or at least not starting to become that. Like it....really is not a sustainable way to do every single smp you ever make. A lot of people don't have time to catch streams and barely have time to watch vods as well (and most people only watch 1-5 streamers. Imagine watching MORE.) LIFE SERIES is a challenge for me and lots of others to get through, let alone several 2-7 hour long livestreams.

Plus some people are gonna stop watching because they're only there for the lore and they'd rather save time than skim through several streams just to find it yk? After a certain point condensing them down into 15-30 (maybe 40) minute videos and making lore summaries is a necessity or your gonna lose viewers. (ESPECIALLY if you have a large cast meaning more characters to impact each other and the plot)

Idk I follow a lot of streamers and there's like...less than 10 who I have ever/would sit through a full stream from them, lore happening or not.

[crossbackpoke-check]

do you guys um. mods asleep anyone on the dash want to read 1.5k of roman history (tatd) fic i would be christening (haha) the tag for. and also help brainstorm with me to make it more than a scene but not an entire Plot 🙏

[a-vctlan]

im working on hojo's about in the meanwhile, and just. my man. your calendar. clear it. stop doing so much. calm down. stop being involved in EVERYTHING. how do you have the TIME

[insurged]

some important headcanons about HIGURUMA that's important to my portrayal ( under the cut for spoilers since we have yet to meet him in the anime but VERY SOON WE WILL )

the judge and prosecutor hiromi killed at the start of the culling game were guilty of bending the rules to their own benefit. they were the judge and prosecutor from hiromi's case with oe keita who was being suspected of murder & robbery. it wasn't about upholding the law. they were corrupted to the core and this was a key changing point for higuruma who passed judgement on them with his newly blooming power as a sorcerer but it brought him down to reality from the naive belief he held about people and the world and twisted his perspective really. it also made him quite depressed which puts him in the eeyore like state yuuji finds him in when they first meet.

he's tired of rules / laws having loopholes that make them unfair and quite powerless against those who know how to navigate around them ( aka tired of peoples' bullshit in general who get away with their crimes ). he views the law having abandoned him and in turn, he has abandoned the law that keeps his hands tied while the guilty run free. he's just sick of it all lmao.

judgeman is a shikigami but is a combination of a sting ray and lady justice because animal bias, ya know. he likes them. judgeman's eyes are sewn shut because hiromi views humans as beings wholeheartedly choosing to turn a blind eye and incapable of keeping their eyes open despite the truth.

hiromi is a genius sorcerer who was taught nothing about cursed techniques or how to use it. he figured it out himself and in 12 days, he's already what you would consider a rank 1 sorcerer (on the level of nanami, mei mei, kusakabe, yaga).

in his domain expansion, hiromi quite literally acts as the jury, judge, and executioner. he is always welcome to overrule any of judgeman's decisions.

[gh-0-stcup]

This is a nice speech from Sam, but it feels like it was written by somebody who didn't really watch the show.

It pretty clearly wasn't "just one more job" in season 1. Not after Jess died, at least. They were looking for their dad and Sam wanted to kill Azazel. He probably had hopes of returning to school, but he wasn't just going aimlessly from hunt to hunt. He had a specific mission that season.

[yantao-enthusiast]

at some point if you focus entirely on mlm ships and all your least favorite characters are women, i think maybe, just maybe, here’s a thought

[nightmareonpeachstreet]

I'm not joking when I say Corrin is SO Rapunzel from Tangled coded

[incorrectdeceptionquotes]

holy sh¡t a Deception fan in the year of our lord 2023?? how does it feel being in a fandom with 4 people in it bestie

Do not cite the deep magic to me, child... I was there when it was written!

[khathastrophe]

Midnight Museum should have been a cdrama cause this thing clearly needs like 50 episodes at least

[lee-hakhyun]

hello, wanted to ask if you know anywhere with summaries of the side story pre 565?

for 553-555, red-gtech has summaries

i'll write a (somewhat) condensed summary of 556-564 for you ^^

episode 2. rewrite (556-653)

lee hakhyun wakes up and looking at the screen door, he notices that his face isn't his. there was a cardboard cutout of the character with that face in front of the theater where the event was held, but he can't recall what character it is. he realizes he's transmigrated into orv, and that he's transmigrated into an extra character. scanning his surroundings, he figures out he's in geumho, and bihyung appears! the main scenario arrives, and proof of value begins. lhh tries to open his attribute window, but there's an error and it can't be activated. he then tries to call the fourth wall, but there's no response. he then tries to activate any of the author-specific skills like [avatar], but that also doesn't work.

there are two main groups in the station, a group of people that are part of a church lead by a deacon and the other being people gathered together by a big man with a tattoo on his forearm. they try to push at the barrier, while lhh makes a plan to meet up with kdj and goes to a vending machine to collect a bug to clear the scenario. he gets a bug and pockets it without killing it.

while he was catching bugs, he gets a message on his phone, from rep kdj. he congratulates him and says he'll send him a gift. he realizes it's a message sent through a web novel platform, and orv is there along with all 551 chapters. he tries reading a chapter, but only the comments left by readers show up. he can't actually read what's in the chapters, just the comments.

he meets another reader, and lets him get his own bug. the ahjussi kills the bug, and clears the scenario. he then asks lhh if he's going to let the rest of the people die, and lhh says kdj wouldn't have saved them either.

the big guy who had leading the group pushing the barrier, and confronts lhh and the ahjussi for not helping them out. it quickly escalates to violence, and lhh is able to use the exclusive skill of the character he transmigrated into, which calms his head and he hits the vending machine until a bug comes out. he takes the bug, and thinks of the readers in the theater and of ji eunyu. his skill activates,

and he says he'll save everyone if they follow him.

the big man challenges his words, and he emulates kim dokja's way of speaking to convince everyone, and tells the people that the scenarios are real and that he knows something about this situation, comparing it to a test from god due to human sins. this gets the attention of the deacon, who starts muttering about crimes and trials.

he then brings up that the scenario can be cleared by killing any creature and gets everyone to work together to gather bugs. he organizes the collection of bugs and talks with the deacon, and finds out he has [character list] and uses it on the deacon the deacon is named kim chulyang, which is a name that he can remember writing about in a discarded setting for orv, but he couldn't recall what it was. he has the crouching figure attribute like jung heewon, which means he has the potential to be very powerful if he awakens under the right conditions.

bihyung appears and warns that the constellations don't like it when the incarnations are too smart, and as everyone manages to get a bug, they all crush them at the same time. but the scenario clear message doesn't appear.

bihyung appears again, and mentions that people were playing tricks here too. lhh belatedly realizes that the other readers must have been doing the same thing, and the bureau has interfered with the scenario.

with this, he realizes something. kim dokja used bugs to clear the scenario. with this change, kim dokja may die. the people turn on lhh, and the big man tells him to take responsibility, but he starts talking about future events, reciting the prime minister's speech moments before the news is broadcasted. due to the bureau's interference, the scenario can't be changed anymore, and the time limit can't be reduced by 10 minutes like it was in orv.

the prime minister's death causes a lot of panic, and the people rush back to the barrier to try to break it down. lhh calls out to them again, and uses the fear to take the lead. he looks at the comments, and sees a story he didn't write.

there's also a comment from 'rlaehrwk37'.

the people have done what lhh told them and there's a pile of old clothes. his idea is to kill germs instead. kim chulyang questions whether this will work, and he says that 'germs' are still living things. lhh also wonders if it would work, and he's also not sure if it would work. he says it might be the intention to kill that counts.

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a bonfire is started with the pile, and people start throwing in bug carcasses and old junk to burn germs, including the big guy who had been protesting lee hakhyun wonders what will happen to his readers, while they wait for the scenario clear message.

there's an error in the system messages, and the results won't be clear until the end of the scenario. bihyung appears and from his reactions, the bureau had not planned for this to happen. when people asked bihyung whether germs were living things, all the constellations stopped bihyung from speaking. the timer hit 10 minutes, and lhh says that it's time for 'that' to appear.

a hologram screen appears in the station, and lee jihye is shown on the screen along with the aftermath of the scenario in daepong girls' high school. it's exactly the same as in orv, and causes a panic in the station. the reader ahjussi tries to calm people, but the group turns on them.

he starts to think that maybe's it's better to stop trying to save these people, but his exclusive skill activates.

lee hakhyun's skill, ☐☐, allows him to write the next actions of a character. he starts to write a sentence, and,

there's probability constraints, so he can't just write anything and have it come true. there's also 'reader feedback' from rlaehrwrk37. lhh tries a few different sentences, getting lackluster success rates and an increasingly annoyed rlaehrwk37.

with 30 seconds left, he can't seem to figure out what to write, but he remembers ji eunyu's advice, and thought about the character's desires. he writes sentences for kim chulyang, and gets an interested reaction from rlaehrwk37.

exiting the snow garden, the colour returns to the world and time returns to normal as the sentences lhh wrote become reality.

kim chulyang says that this is a test of faith, and that the gods above are watching our choices. he calls lhh a 'lion of god' and that they have already passed the ordeals with his guidance. the people are brought together by the shared hope, and lhh gets a messages that kim chulyang has awakened with the attribute 'the one leader', and has started the religion of the church of life.

not only has he aided in the start of a cult, he personally awakened of the 10 evils. as he despairs over this, the cultists are chanting about the great sacrifice of germs. he briefly considers sticking with the cult, but discards the idea once he realizes yoo joonghyuk would very quickly dispose of him.

the atmosphere of the station is cheerful, and people talk about their lives while waiting for the scenario to end. almost everyone is calm, but the big man calls everyone crazy and says that the only sure way to survive is to kill someone. lhh uses [character list] on the man, and gets his name, lee cheoldoo. he's the cheoldoo group's boss, who never showed up in orv.

he has a weapon, but he can't fight the rest of the 21 people in the station alone, and proposes that 10 people join him to kill the other half. kim chulyang challenges him, and with the cultists' solidarity nobody joins him. lee cheoldoo instead goes for an older man who was close to him, and the old man calls for help, though the crowd moves back and nobody steps up to help him. a character panics and joins lee cheoldoo, and he's instructed to point out someone to kill. with this, people start to panic and eventually everything is blamed on lhh, and lee cheoldoo decides to kill lhh instead. kim chulyang stops anyone from interfering, saying that this is god's messenger protecting them all, and as lee cheoldoo approaches, only one person stands with lhh.

the reader stays with lhh, but they both seem to have low stats and lee cheoldoo's physical stats average 7 by lhh's guess. with 2 minutes left, he tries to stall for time by talking, but lee cheoldoo starts to choke lhh.

as he's losing his strength, he sees someone behind lee cheoldoo holding a pipe.

he thinks he sees kim dokja, but it's the reader who helps him out. with the time limit counting down, they struggle against lee cheoldoo and finally hit the time limit.

paid settlement begins, and everything was normal. the reader asks if he succeeded, and as he nods he hears something fall. lee cheoldoo's headless body hits the ground, and lee hakhyun watches as the characters' heads explode one by one.

the reader asks if he really was trying to save them, and lhh hesitates before saying yes. he had a hunch that this plan would fail, but due to him not mentioning that these characters will no longer appear in the story.

lee hakhyun accepts and waits for his death.

but he doesn't die. the scenario clear message appears, and his kill history appears: 19 humans.

lee hakhyun realizes who he's possesing. the previous leader of geumho station, cheon inho.

episode 3. protagonist(?) (1) (564)

lhh thinks about cheon inho. he was the only survivor of geumho station originally, so these characters would have died even if he didn't transmigrate. so, was it lee hakhyun or cheon inho who killed these character? is he a murderer or a writer who describes the death of characters?

he calms down, and the constellations begin to show their interest. he gains the interest of the 'absolute evil' system who interpreted his incitement killing as deliberate, which he takes as a bad sign since it will be harder to get sponsored from the 'absolute good' system.

he then gets sponsored by the absolute good system. the good constellations interpreted his actions as heroic for trying to save the other characters.

he talks with and comforts the reader ahjussi, and when trying to use [character list] on him it fails because his 'soul' isn't a character. he learns he has another skill now, [reader's comments list]. it works on readers, showing a reader profile and allowing him to pay coins to read comments they left on orv, with 3 comments being free.

checking the reader's comments, it seems he started reading because of his daughter, jiyoon, and then decided to read the rest of the story.

they exchange names, with the reader getting flustered when he says he's cheon inho. the name of the character the reader possessed is 'lee dansu', and it seems that other readers can see their attribute window. they agree to call each other by the names of the characters, and the bihyung appears, complaining about how weird the scenarios have been before congratulating them and bringing up the sponsor selection. lee hakhyun doesn't expect to get as many sponors as kim dokja, but he hopes that he'll at least get 1 narrative grade constellation for his troubles.

and when sponsor selection arrives, he gets 10 constellations offering to sponsor him.