#the empty wind

[pistachio-pierrot]

First fic of 2025! And it's Heartstrikers-- major spoilers so if you haven't read the books please please check them out first

[off-mozzarella]

Just a small boy and his giant hammer <3

[tatakaeeren]

Goofy Umemiya | Wind Breaker Ep. 4 "Clash"

↳ Serious Umemiya

[mmelete]

Fanart for @imperialkatwala and @polynomialpandemic’s Fic! (Btw go read it on Ao3, it’s really good <3)

non-writing one beneath the cut:

[jackwhiteprophetic]

HE'S BREAKING OUT OF THE CLOSET GUYS

[mirensiart]

me: I’m so busy and so tired I will go to sleep early

also me: but what if I draw a meme comic instead

[gomzdrawfr]

content warning: major character death (MCD), angst

he loves me

he loves me not

also here in instagram :x

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

"And lastly, the wind bag / We went through so much to get this"

Now I just wanna see Hermes showing up at Aeolus's doorstep asking to temporarily adopt some winions to go on a wild goose chase for a random bag that's probably at the bottom of the sea please it would be so funny

PLEASE add it to the Hermes Saga I'm begging

[the-meme-monarch]

will you make dandy’s world as vines/tiktoks/etc like you did with deltarune? (you don’t have to, just a question :] )

i think that’d be fun and i saw one tiktok that i would have in mind but I’d have to find it again (guy picking up and running off with a traffic cone(it’s shrimpo)) but i need capcut back i think. it was the only video editing software for me……………………..

[captain-hawks]

how do you expect me to be normal over a shot like this. how!!!!!!!!!!!! WHEN THAT UNDERCUT IS STARING ME DIRECTLY IN THE FACE.

[noisesfrombeyondtheuniverse]

I'm gonna throw up no one look at me

[mayoiayasep]

theres no female characters who fight in windbreaker so my first order of business is to start putting sakura haruka on estrogen-*i am dragged forcibly from the stage*

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

I read GRRM’s interview regarding book vs show canon and I thought the way he was approaching an adaptation of his own story, and fiction as a whole, was very interesting. I do wonder though - does the concept of having a separate show canon kind of become like a cop-out? Because in that case, any TV/film adaptation can just decide to change the plot as they see fit and go “oh, well, that’s our canon, the book is a different canon.” Doesn’t it cease to be an adaptation after a point, or at least become a loose one? In the HotD context, a lot of the changes being made I actually quite like because I can see them fitting in the canon, because there’s nothing suggesting otherwise.

But say, Sansa marrying Ramsay (or, alternatively, the moment that show was dead to me) we can say with absolute certainty did not take place and will almost definitely never take place. D&D knew that too but they went ahead with it anyway; it’s not quite like the Scarlett example where it makes no difference to the story because this change does. I feel like the whole point of adapting written words into something visual loses some of its sanctity if we just accept TV changes a whole separate canon, as opposed to simply a change made by the writers (good change or bad change is up to personal opinion).

I have followed your blog for almost a decade so I’m really curious to hear your thoughts on the subject.

GRRM's "Scarlett example" -- his question of "how many children did Scarlett O'Hara have?", because in the book Gone With the Wind she had three, one with each of her three husbands, whereas in the movie she only had one -- has been his go-to when asked about the difference between book and show canon since at least 2012. Or to quote him from 2015,

How many children did Scarlett O’Hara have? Three, in the novel. One, in the movie. None, in real life: she was a fictional character, she never existed. The show is the show, the books are the books; two different tellings of the same story.

This is IMO one of the most sensible ways for an author to look at adaptations of their work (even if I have gotten rather tired of GRRM using the Scarlett example specifically, pick something different George, we've seen it before lol). There is book canon and there is show canon. They are different parallel universes. They're separate canons because they contain changes made by the writers, and also because the very process of moving from the written word to visual media must involve some kind of change.

And this applies to all adaptations. That's why I brought up X-Men comics vs the Fox X-Men movies vs the X-Men cartoon (original 90s and 2024's '97). For example, there's 4 different versions of the Dark Phoenix Saga between those canons, at the very least. Wait, sorry lol, I forgot the Ultimate canon version. And the various in-comics alternate universe versions. And god knows when they finally bring the X-Men into the MCU they'll probably do yet another DPS there too. And that's only one of many storylines that are radically different between the various canons.

Or look at the various Interviews with the Vampire. Is the new tv show "not an adaptation" because its Claudia is a teenager rather than 5 years old as in the book or portrayed by an 11 year old as in the movie, thus resulting in extremely different relationships and a reshaped plot? (Among many other changes?) No. IWTV has book canon, movie canon, and show canon.

And I can't speak that well about Transformers since it's not a major fandom of mine, but go take a look at their various continuities if you want some more perspective about just how very far the meaning of "adaptation" can stretch.

Or hell, look at Stephen King, where among his many many many adaptations, some of which just barely resemble the original text, the only one he sued to have his name removed from was The Lawnmower Man, because they literally used an entirely different story and just slapped his title on it.

And then there's the movie Adaptation, which is a wildly meta-adaptation of the non-fiction book The Orchard Thief (it's a story about the process of adapting that book and involves a fictional version of the writer, the screenplay writer, and an entirely invented screenplay writer's twin brother)... and it was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for multiple film awards (and won a few times), and the original writer even said it kept to the book's themes.

Suffice it to say, HOTD has a long, long, long way to go before it could ever "cease to be an adaptation after a point". Changing the timeline to make Alicent and Rhaenyra the same age, or doing Blood & Cheese differently, do not even compare to what some book-to-visual media "loose adaptations" have done. Even GOT, as wildly terrible as their non-book storylines could be, both their changes to the text and after they had no actual text to work with, never became a "loose adaptation". Certainly it became a less than faithful adaptation -- and let's be real, it always was unfaithful for both themes and the essential elements of so many characters -- but it also always was a remarkably accurate adaptation of the whole span of Westeros (in geography and breadth of characters) and the general (not specific) book plot. (Consider previous attempts at adaptation that GRRM rejected, such as a single 2 hour movie, or eliminating Jon and Dany for being "irrelevant", or only making a Jon movie with none of the other storylines, etc.) Which is why, when GOT was different (and awful) it was such a betrayal, like a zombie or evil alien wearing the skin of your best friend or beloved child, and worse, that this twisted lookalike was the only version millions and millions of viewers ever saw and believed to be true.

But again, this just underlines what GRRM has said. "The show is the show, the books are the books." There is book canon and there is show canon. They are separate things. Parallel universes -- very close parallels, often touching in many places, but sometimes they're quite different. Sometimes the differences in adaptation enhance the themes of the original canon; sometimes the author may even consider certain adapted characters (Shae, King Viserys, Helaena) to be better than his original canon; sometimes you know there's only those tricky NDAs (and payments of lots of money) that prevent him from expressing his disappointment in more ways than dropping the Sansa TWOW preview chapter only days before the release of GOT S5. But perhaps if we're lucky, maybe one day we'll have yet another parallel canon to compare to the others.

[linkerbell]

redraw of my first attempt at pixel art.😂 Wind Waker was my first hyper fixation that motivated me to start drawing.

my 2010 drawing:

[ssaraexposs]

Ume, what did they do to you

[isdalinarhot]

getting autistic about sadeas is so funny because like usually when i see hate of my favorite characters that isnt like constructive or whatever im like wow i hate this take. blocked. but this is not so for sadeas. someone talks about how bad sadeas sucks and im like lmao yeah. in fact i probably know ways sadeas sucks that you forgot about