#the writing isn't always the best

[azurecanary]

When How to Get Away WIth Murder is good, it's good.

[noxemma]

I'm sure this has already been done, but I was rewatching Two Towers and I could not unsee the parallels of Aragorn trying to return Arwen's necklace and the mix tape scene from 12x19 🫠

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The fans: Ugh Sonic was just so preachy. I mean obviously he's supposed to be the good guy, so any uncomfortableness I feel here and any way I feel like Sonic's choices are framed as being why some other people have shitty lives is just bad writing because he is obviously supposed to be right always, but this characterization makes no sense. Isn't he right for the things he did?

Ian Flynn, using Kitsunami to say the (barely even at this point) quiet part even louder: Hey it's almost like ever since the Mr. Tinker event we've been purposely running with the critique of Sonic as being more selfish than he appears. Sonic is upholding a system of Eggman v Sonic that currently benefits him and shuts down talk of how to improve the current system because he likes his own personal enjoyment and he's attached enough to Eggman that he'd rather Eggman pretend to be a good person than be stuck in prison for life. He doesn't even quite practice what he preaches. We are trying to show that the current hero v villain system and Sonic's recklessness currently affects some people poorly and that Sonic isn't a perfect hero.

[its-a-me-mango]

yknow the adult version of Telly reminds me- wonder what they'd be like when they're a teen? Going through any silly phases?

(rubs my evil devilish hands together) oh boy, I got that all planned out too, I can imagine anything.

I've mentioned before that Telly goes on to become a movie director as an adult, but I skipped over the whole shit storm they went through to get there. Telly's always been interested in film because of their dad and always wanted to grow up to be just like him, however Mr Puzzles SUCKS at accepting that people don't always want to work for him or that they need his help.

Because Telly is his kid, he basically thinks that Telly getting into film is just to help him with his projects, and he would likely employ Telly once they become an adult. The idea that Telly may want to go on and make their own films doesn't really occurred to him. It's not out of malicious intentions or anything, if anything its the opposite, he genuinely thinks he's helping them out and setting them up to work with him when they're older so that they never have to worry about their future.

Telly doesn't want that though, they want to be able to make their own movies by themselves, but because they can't communicate well, nor do they want to hurt their dads feelings (he's already overly emotional), they don't say anything about it and just let it build and build into resentment.

In short:

Don't worry it does get sorted and Telly gets to make their own stuff by themselves in the end (it actually ends up being better than Mr Puzzles stuff), it is basically just a phase they don't hate each other at all, just you know, growing up ain't easy for anyone involved lol.

As for actual phases? Uhhhh

Well no ponies perfect.

[arthursfuckinghat]

His back against the earth, cushioned by grass, oh how much Arthur longed for stars above to reach out and ask,

"What do you yearn for?"

He envisions their silent presence, with all burdens they store.

Perhaps they have a haven where his secrets sleep, only to be awoken when the yearning's deep.

But with no stars to ask, his heart remained back, tucked away in the confines of inked pages, bound by leather and secrecy.

𑁦𐂂𑁦

[good--merits-accumulated]

going through some old left-for-dead projects and just found this one where I was like. INTENT on dissecting jeff's brain on the operating table (i.e. google docs) but only from todd's weird skewed pov

[professor voice] it's about brothers as eternal combatants and it's about being so convinced of your own goodness you excuse your shitty actions. it's also about comparing yourself to a dog because you feel less fully formed than your brother. lol.

[rainintheevening]

Narnia, grief

Grief was a strange thing, Erah discovered.

For weeks after the Four vanished, carried as he was by the power and hope of his dream, he felt no pain, no sense of loss; indeed, he was the one to whom many turned for comfort—he, the unicorn who could not speak!

Yet the day the first snow fell, he found himself starting at every whisper and footfall, always listening, always searching his surroundings, but for what?

For the call of his name, of course, for the ring of familiar love and joy; for the flash of golden hair, and crimson cloak, and laughing bearded face; but more, for the brightness of spirit, the gentleness of hand, the warmth of the blue eyes that saw and the great heart that spoke like none other ever had, save Aslan himself.

He wanted Peter...

but the sun set into the quiet hills, and Peter did not come.

[gotstabbedbyapen]

but like Zeus raped Persephone and that’s how Melinoe is as born

Yes, the birth myth of Melinoe and Zagreus didn't paint a good picture. But they were mentioned in the Orphism religion, and the Orphic hymns can be quite different from the common mythology. That's not to say the Orphic version is wrong, but it is unfair to solely use it to determine the relationships between the gods.

Aside from the Orphic hymns (and Persephone's abduction myth to an extend), Zeus and Persephone's relationship isn't that bad. There was one account where Persephone, along with Athena and Artemis, had woven robes for their father, and Zeus even distributed portions of Sicily for each girl to rule over.

And both Athena and Artemis, the myth goes on to say, who had made the same choice of maidenhood as had Core [Persephone] and were reared together with her, joined with her in gathering the flowers, and all of them together wove the robe for their father Zeus. And because of the time they had spent together and their intimacy they all loved this island [Sicily] above any other, and each one of them received for her portion a territory [...] [...] Like the two goddesses whom we have mentioned Core, we are told, received as her portion the meadows round about Enna; but a great fountain was made sacred to her in the territory of Syracuse and given the name Cyane or "Azure Fount". - Diodorus Siculus, Library of History

It's easy to focus on the gods' "bad moments" and say they're toxic, but we have to remember that not all versions are fixed canons and their relationship can be complicated - but not without the positive.

[astralleywright]

thinking about "murder is okay" still. more than anything i think a lot of people just say shit in meta bc it sounds evocative and vaguely gestures at an actual point

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

[astralhope]

After a little more than a week, I finally finished writing my first fanfiction in English! This story is based on my post about Astral being able to touch the cards outside the duel, but it ended up to be longer than I expected, and it also has become more introspective than comic.

I really like writing Astral and Yuma, and even if writing this had really worn me out, I had fun. I will surely try to write other stories in the future!

I hope that you will like it!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55971724

"- I know the effects of my cards, Astral! You don't need to... -

His words stopped when his mind registered what had just happened, and then his eyes widened in surprise.

- Astral. -

- What? -

- You are holding the card. -

While building the deck, Yuma and Astral make an interesting discovery."

(English is not my first language, so I'm sorry for eventually mistakes).

[queenerdloser]

saw someone claim in a discord chat that classic books are usually "not about anything important" and while i'm practicing self-care by not responding to it in that chat, it actually steams me enough i have to put my thoughts somewhere.

i get the pushback against classic canon. i do. for many (MANY!) years, the only voices we were told that were worth hearing were rich, white, straight cis men. a very small portion of the population, usually from england if not europe. that sucks! it's a very small portion of the human experience! i get it so much from that viewpoint and i wholeheartedly agree that what is considered a "classic" needs to be expanded to include women, people of color, and marginalized viewpoints from every spectrum.

BUT. and there is a but! to then go on to say that what we consider to be a classic in this sense - books written by, say, dickens or shakespeare or hugo and so on - have nothing to say or are actually only hyped up or considered a classic because a white man wrote them... yikes! i'm sorry but that's simply just. not true. all of these men - yes, even the most rich, privileged, sheltered among them! - had things to say and their books are about something. and it's also frustrating to me to paint them all with the same brush when some of them were actively using their privilege to say something and to help those who didn't have their power. i'm sorry, you're going to stand around and tell me charles dickens wasn't writing about anything? that mark twain wasn't writing about anything? are you serious?

classic books aren't your enemy. the attitude about them can be infuriating when people push that great books can only come from white men - when they push that we should only care about books written by white men or that white men are uniquely capable of genius. but the answer to that is to expand what qualifies as "classic" to recognize that literary genius exists across all communities. the answer is not to say "well toni morrison was saying something and charles dickens wasn't." (also don't think these people realize that the canon DOES have a small - and it is very small! - inclusion of marginalized authors in it. i mean obvs it can be bigger, but a lot of these arguments seem to pretend that we only started including nonwhite people in the last ten years or s/t.) they were both saying things! they were both saying interesting things! they were both examining their society and critiquing it from their unique viewpoints! dickens' point of view is not simply gone because he's making his viewpoint from a privileged spot - it's important to recognize how it informs his viewpoint and how he writes his characters, but pretending that he simply just doesn't have anything interesting or worthwhile to say about the state of society... jesus christ. jesus christ!

i love sf/f. i think it can and does do a lot more work than people assume it does to "say something" about the world. but it bugs me so much when people pretend that the classics and literary fiction are on the lesser end of the spectrum (or that they're "only about divorce." shut the fuck up! you're using the same damn rhetoric of people who try to claim that sf/f is "only about aliens" or w/e! stop that shit!). you can recognize where the classics need to expand or that people writing them may be coming from privilege and still not wholesale dismiss the work they did, the experimentation they performed, the influence they had over the history of literature, or the very real, interesting, thought-provoking, beautiful, scathing, politically relevant stuff they had to say about the world they lived in.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

knight rider looks so cool... i wanna get into it so bad but im bad at finding time to watch shows lmao

felt that 😭 I'm the kind of person who needs to watch something when I eat so I've seen most of the series over lunch, with 45-ish minute episodes they're perfect for it. it's a great series, although the biggest challenge is probably going to be finding somewhere to watch it to begin with. hopefully it's something you can jump onto soon if you want to!

[thedevotionaltour]

even for period typical ableism it still drives me nuts for karen to go oh poor matt how can he deal and get around as if he hasn't been blind most of his life at this point and living on his own by himself as an adult for his entire adult life after college and has also lived in the city his whole life like girl use your damn brain he can get around by himself just fine. good god. like take five seconds to use your brain. literally adult man who lives by himself if nothing else that should tell you he is fine and when he needs assistance has the knowledge and ability to go get it you act as if he can't even walk on the sidewalk by himself. he literally shows up to work by himself. it drives me up the wall sometimes how she sees proof of him functioning fine independently literally witnesses it on the daily and still thinks these things. like again foggy isn't great either bc again the period typical ableism (and just general ableism in the world outside of this period as this is a common attitude of viewing disabled people as helpless and unable to function even if they are people who do live independently (and im not touching on people who do need extra support and caretaking in this context. as this post is about these characters in the context of a story. so im talking about what we see there instead of any truly meaningful nuanced way) but the writing here is like. Particularly this way due to the time) he has a modicum more of understanding that matt is literally a capable grown adult man. literally told karen matt is a big boy who can handle himself and then karen went b-b-but you forget he's blind as if foggy hasn't known him for years of his life and is his best friend like PLEASE SEE HIM AS AN ADULT. I AM GOING TO GO INSANE. PLEASE RESPECT HIM IF YOU LOVE HIM SO DEARLY. AND EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T. JUST RESPECT HIM AS A PERSON!!!!!!

[that-spider-fan-over-there]

I've been thinking about Ochako's role in the story, and thinking about how underdeveloped she was compared to Izuku, Shoto or Katsuki's, which got me thinking about it and since the manga's in its final arc and there's nothing to lose, why the heck not.

If Izuku is set up as someone born with "nothing", Shoto as born with "everything" and Katsuki as someone who was born loved, why not set Ochako as someone who wanted to give back love? It'd be a nice four-way connection/foil, considering she should've been set up as one of the main players of BNHA.

Ochako foiling Shoto alongside Izuku and Katsuki as born and raised in a loving environment, and how they've responded in comparison to his broken family unit - since she's the poorest classmates with humble beginnings and he's the son of a top 10 hero;

Ochako foiling Izuku alongside Shoto and Katsuki as born with something he "lacks" in comparison - which is both opportunity his Quirkless background wouldn't give and his shattered sense of self worth, compared to her who would be okay with being anything else but decided to be a hero for the money she could provide for her family;

Ochako foiling Katsuki alongside Izuku and Shoto as someone who started off as a hero who wants to help others in contrast to his motivation to be a hero who never loses a battle, with her sharing that same competitive streak and fighting edge while ultimately focusing on helping others before her. (Which is something Izuku does fill in the story but it could've worked imo)

This is partly because I want to imagine if she was part of the Endeavor Internship Arc, she'd benefit from forming a deep bond with the main deuteragonists on some level, if only to take her out of the preconceived notion she's there to be Izuku's love interest first and foremost- removing that aspect or using that expectation she's there to revolve around him to make her "one of the boys", give her the rotating spotlight a bit more.

But also it'd be a nice setup as as she could compare her background to Shoto and reflect on how she perceived the ideal hero vs. how flawed they can actually be, and her reason to be there could've been she's looking for a way to be strong in a way that can properly help others after Sir Nighteye's death. Imagine the bond they'd have if they were allowed to interact with each other the same way they do with Izuku and Tenya.

The less wealthy classmate with a loving and supportive family and the most wealthy and well-known classmate with a broken and dysfunctional family, two of Izuku's closer friends being inspired by him and trying to break away from the labels others pushed on them and be their own people? One with envy for a villain who reminds her of feelings she wanted to bottle up and the other whose villain's anger mirrored his former to his consumed his family for years? And yet both coming out of their experiences wanting to extend their hands to Himiko and Touya, to start anew and ease that pain?

And with the Paranormal Liberation Front Arc, you could still split her up but using that as a build up, with her and Shoto following Izuku and Katsuki, but she sees people in need of saving and decides to help others instead; make her confrontation with Himiko happen before Dabi's Dance; then let her join the battlefield shakened after spotting Gigantomachia from a distance. (Would it be cluttered? A little, but that arc was already somewhat cluttered, coming from someone who loves that arc A Lot.)

And to avoid her from being too OP, one could make her try to fight but still thinking of Himiko's tears while using her grappling hooks or Zero Gravity on debris to stop Gigantomachia- it could've foreshadow the conflicting emotions she feels are allowing her to surpass her own limits there and come back full force during her fight with Himiko later on, similar to Katsuki with his Cluster technique or Shoto developing Phosphor.

And imagine her worldview shattering even more from finding out a hero would fall so deep into obsession into being the greatest, he lost sight it what it means to be a hero and it created his own villain. Wouldn't that push her even further to try and be a hero the others can rely on, and later, the one Himiko needed? After all, if Ochako and Himiko already parallel, let's use the love thematics; they both love passionately, and unlike Himiko, Ochako didn't give up on a better world for everyone- she just realized what everyone entails.

Just thoughts from someone who'd love to see Ochako breaking out of that label of "love interest"- love and passion are a defining part of her, but her crush shouldn't be her defined role, the story itself has realized that. But it could've realized a lot sooner. It probably wouldn't have removed the fandom's perception of her, but it would've helped her in the long run, especially when the merch set her up as even more of an protagonist, and to an extent it feels like the fans want to believe she was planned to be like that when we know Horikoshi was playing around with her character until he finally settled on what to do with Himiko and wrote Ochako around it.

[mychemicalchiroptera]

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