#there are so many characters! so many universes! so much you can do!

[sloanout]

It's interesting to see the occasional post where someone lays out all of Solas' crimes as if people are unaware of them or have forgotten. The condescending tone in a lot of them is what gets me, like it's not enough to loudly profess how much you hate the character, but it's also necessary to treat people that do enjoy them like children who can hardly read.

Like baby... Yeah, he did those things. We know. Your honor, he absolutely did that shit - but that's not the interesting part of the character. It's the circumstances and the ethical dilemmas therein that many find so compelling. War makes monsters of everyone, and no, that doesn't excuse every action taken, but it does lend it color and consideration. Solas is beloved in part because he's a fascinating study on the objective nature of good. It's wild to me that the most comparable character that comes to mind, Emet-Selch from FFXIV, is almost universally loved in stark contrast to the controversy around Solas (And sometimes there's good controversy. I enjoy having a nourishing discussion when everyone is respectful to each other and the source material).

I think so much of it has to do with how they carry themselves - Emet is absolutely steadfast and confident. He doesn't slip for a moment, the only soft center we see to him is legitimate love and longing for the past, not doubt or hesitation. Solas, on the other hand, is straight up repentant. He's not going to stop, but he's also absolute shit at hiding his pain and torment. Unlike Emet, he agrees that what he's doing is harmful. He acknowledges it over and over, but he's still a slave to the "greater good", as he sees it. There's a real vulnerability there, and I think it has this fracturing effect where it makes those who love him care for him more, and those who hate him go for the throat. For as much as he tries to be, he's not a perfectly cool and composed villain. The writers and devs make damn sure to break that facade of his, and I imagine that makes him hard to latch on to and rally for if you're a person that likes an absolute bastard.

Weakness is baked into him, and a lot of people find that utterly incongruous and revolting in a big bad with such a devastating history. But those that give him the time of day and try to understand get a lot of depth and intrigue to pour over. It's a double edged sword. His failings are his greatest appeal.

[monstersholygrail]

Can you make more free use city fics…. They get me so wet and horny that I desperately need more

Oooh, don’t you worry, baby cakes. There will be so many more free use city fics to help you get your rocks off. I have so many more things planned for this universe.

I have a handful of free use city fics in my drafts just waiting to be published, I have even more fics waiting to be written, I have multiple new series for characters in the free use city universe, and I have more lore on the city for you all as well!!

But most of all, if you’ve been missing New City, New Life as much as I have then you’re gonna be psyched to find out that I plan to expand on the original six part series!!! If there was a path you had voted for or one you were curious and wished you could’ve seen play out, then it’ll be your lucky day.

I’m planning to write out all the other choices that were given in the initial polls of the fics. So if you had wanted to fuck Demon Guard or IT Robot instead, you’ll finally get to see those scenes play out! Eventually they’ll all be posted to My Patreon and I plan to post early access stuff for other little series I’m planning to do as well! It’s all very very excitingggg.

[siggiedraws]

Hello! In one of your recent posts, you've mentioned that

There are little hints here and there that point towards the symbolism of his origins, like his folded boots being inspired by Santa Claus, which is why they're red and white with a buckle! I find that such a cool detail.

and it stood out to me because "the symbolism of his origins" is very fascinating. Could you elaborate? What other hints like this are there? Thank you in advance! ^^

Of course!

What I meant by what I said is that, despite us not knowing of Sonic's past, what very little we do know about it also happens to tie into the concept of Christmas/Santa Claus, that being his red and white boots that he's been wearing since the beginning and his birthplace literally being Christmas Island.

To understand where I want to go with this, I need to get into the important context behind the presence of Christmas in the Sonic series, which is that Naoto Ohshima loves the holiday. To the extent that he would dress up as Santa Claus in public and give gifts to people.

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The reason behind Ohshima's passion for the character of Santa is that he was inspired by Santa and wanted to be like him. He's always wanted to create things for children to enjoy, or things that would delight people, much like how Santa spreads joy around the world by delivering gifts.

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What I meant by the "symbolism of [Sonic's] origins" is that they are literally symbolic. Sonic was the gift Ohshima created for children all over the world.

I will say that this can come off as an especially Doylist perspective on the matter, because surely Sonic's past must exist within the fictional context of the Sonic universe, and we just don't know about it. I agree with this! Looking at it within the fictional universe, it's fun to speculate on what his birthplace could be like based on what limited information we have. If he got his boots from there, it might be a Christmas-themed island where it snows a lot. Alternatively, it might bear a striking resemblance to the real Christmas Island, since the Sonic universe already has many places that are analogous to real life, like Dragon Road being inspired by the Great Wall of China.

Sonic as he was originally conceived plays with the concept of blurring the lines between fiction and reality, so I would argue a more Doylist perspective is valid when we're discussing the symbolism behind Sonic's origins. If you're aware of the Marie Granette stories, that's a great example. There's a metafictional story about how Sonic, the fictional character from a fairytale, comes to life within reality (another fictional universe in our reality, but is meant to represent reality all the same), and saves a woman from a fire. Then, he's gone again, like he was never there.

This story depicts Sonic as a character who brings joy to people, as Meg (the woman who Sonic saves) recognizes him on a flight jacket as the character from her childhood that brought her so much joy over the years. When she wears the jacket, it makes her feel safe and comforted. No one would believe her if she said she saw him. Similar to a certain jolly fellow, donned in red and white.

Perhaps Sonic was never born; not through conventional means, that is. Maybe someone needed him, and he appeared. Maybe the rest was history.

Thanks for your ask!

[ilikekidsshows]

This whole Marinette breaking Adrien's amok thing also brought upon another wave of people just saying "that doesn't really count cuz *insert arbitrary reason*" or "it was just baldy handled or poorly explained" because "Marinette wouldn't DO that" and I'm like...... I get that you wanna hold onto the Marinette you loved for years, but how many seasons are you gonna pull that excuse? Not everything you disagree with that canon Marinette does is an ooc mistake of the writers that doesn't count "for the real Marinette". What do you mean "she wouldn't do that"?? She fucking DID IT on screen! And a lot people weren't too surprised by it beyond how quickly it happened in s6 and that she didn't even try anything else. But I wouldn't call that out of character. Not at all the sides of Marinette I would ever focus on like this, but no, it's not ooc.

I'm really starting to get annoyed by people saying that. Though I know I'm not the first to complain About it.

I just wanna look them in the eyes and ask directly "what do you MEAN she wouldn't do it or she's now just always written as her worst self?" Pretty much all she does has been consistent all the time! Nothing new here just new lows, but that's nothing new either.

If you think Marinette is constantly ooc or at her worst to an "unusual" or "unnatural" degree for her, can you then even still say that you LIKE Marinette? Cause it sounds like these people clearly wouldn't like her if they stopped disregarding canon for the Marinette they thought she'd be by now years ago.

Anonymous asked: "marinette wouldn't have been willing to kill adrien! she wouldn't do anything like that! they wrote her so out of character!" *thinks about all times she left chat noir to fight against akumas by himself, thinks about when she has plans that destroy public property that may or may not have people in/around them, thinks about when she was ok with letting lila as an oyster be cracked open, thinks about all the previous sentis she was ok with killing even after sentibug, thinks about-

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People who are better at specifying what they mean have said that ‘Werepapas’ Marinette being willing to kill Adrien with her own hands is a huge change from ‘Volpina’ Marinette being ready to give up when she thought Adrien was in danger of falling. Which, yeah, sure, but we gotta remember, Marinette has always been less squamish about damage she caused or planned to happen.

I mean, she's literally pushed Cat Noir onto an Akuma’s sword for a plan (Backwarder). She's broken the Eiffel Tower and caused a bunch of other collateral damage. She G-rated killed Lila on screen with a smile in ‘Chameleon’. There is a reason Marinette stans have started saying that, when Ladybug shows up, that place is a battlefield and everything goes. Marinette causes collateral damage on purpose willy-nilly. If Miraculous was a better show and I thought it was building up to something, I'd think having the power to reset the universe has made her feel like she's beyond limitations like death.

Instead I think the writers just actually, unironically think it's okay for Marinette to destroy and kill whatever and whoever she wants to because she can fix it afterwards.

[call-sign-shark]

GoT AU full masterlist

Summary: Beware the kind of love that flays to the core, a love like Lord Amos Bolton and Queen Heavenerys Targaryen's : raw, relentless, damaged. An obsession that neither time nor force could break. Together, they were unstoppable. Apart, they were nothing. And as in many tragedies, it all started with a wedding and ended in carnage.

TW: Toxic relationship, emotional manipulation, codependency, obsessive love, extreme violence, graphic depiction of torture, emotional manipulation, masochism, smut, sexual assault, pet play, angst, complacency in an unhealthy marriage, they love each other so much that it becomes a disaster, both characters are psychologically unstable and happy with their situation.

Notes: This mini-series is the product of a Game of Thrones, Shadow and Bones, and Peaky Blinders crossover with a small bunch of mutuals. Universe co-created with @mischievouslittlecreature.

Prologue.Feral Love, a Cautionary Tale

The GoT Team: @darklydeliciousdesires @justrainandcoffee @peakyswritings @cillmequick @evita-shelby @lunarubra @shelbydelrey

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also I can include your GoT OCs and will do it gladly, just ask.

[please-read-the-manga]

One thing I'll always find funny is Tobirama trying to make this random plea for the democratic process to keep Madara (and the Uchiha) out of power due to his own prejudiced fears.

And then doing an absolute 180 on all that when he's in power so he can self-select and field promote his own student (but of course not Kagami 'one of the good ones' Uchiha lol).

Where did all that talk about public discourse and democracy go, king? Think of the social contract, Tobirama! The separation of powers!

[puppppppppy]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[domokunrainbowkinz]

shipping yhk not in a romantic or platonic way but a secret third way (⬛️⬛️)

[ablog]

Girl help I wish to travel to different dimensions just to watch a movie/show I really like a little to the left

[evilherehotel]

guys. guys the similarities. guys listen to me

[shannonsketches]

He said "Fuck this shit, I'm out" I'm crying. Toriyama's Vegeta was so top shelf 🤌

(From Neko Majin Z Chapter 5!)

[kittykatninja321]

I can’t get into 90% of “Dark (Character X)” fics because I find that it usually means that the character in question is behaving less like themselves and more like a stereotypical evil seme/mustache twirling villain and often just being used as a prop to whump on Character Y. But every once in I do come across that 10% that feels real and beautiful and true and makes me go “while I don’t think that they would do something that fucked up if they did that’s exactly how they would do it”

[fragmentedblade]

The "Dan Heng is Dan Feng" dogmatics annoy me a lot. It entirely brushes off one of the most interesting and prevalent questions posed by the game, incarnated by several characters and stories that give the question different hues with different potential answers, and a constant also in HI3, like a thread waving the two games together

[thegreatyin]

to put a long story short: at the end of ffxiv's base game, literally Directly before the beginning of its first expansion (heavensward), there is a series of quests and story arcs that eventually snowball into an hour-long cutscene in which the entire thing comes to a head in the literal worst way possible. like, "the hero's plans all go horribly wrong and several major characters die onscreen, with others going missing (presumed dead), eventually culminating in the player character being framed for the murder of the leader of a nation-state and being Literally Forced To Flee The Country" wrong.

heavensward leads directly on from this plotline. you arrive at the major location of the expansion in the midst of seeking asylum whilst being a wanted criminal everywhere else in the world right now. it's like. A Whole Thing. the game makes such a big deal out of it all. the fandom does as well. and for good reason!! it's a really good moment!!!!!!

and then roughly 1/3rds of the way into heavensward you find out that literally none of it mattered. nobody important actually died, no changes were actually made to the status quo, and nothing comes of being literally kicked out of the country for (what is implied to be) several in-universe weeks, if not months. None Of It Mattered. None.

TLDR; the bloody banquet is a major, exciting, and very infamous twist that seems like it's going to segway into a MAJOR upheaval of the status quo and some really intriguing ramifications for the story as a whole... and then heavensward does away with literally all of that and practically writes the entire thing off as a waste of time.

you may be able to see why i'm so salty about it.

[scattered-winter]

every day i kick a rock and bash my head into the wall because i'll never get to go on a big space adventure and become tightly close-knit with my new found family up there <//3

[bookshelf-in-progress]

Maybe the truth at the heart of Shadowstruck is the importance of family. Because the most compelling stories in this universe are about what happens when you tell parents that some of their children have no right to their love, care, and protection. It destroys what should be the strongest and most natural bonds of love, and that simple horrible thing leads to all the complicated problems in their oppressive society.