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The leaks abt the new Viktor VGU confirming they're replacing all of his old skins and designs with the Arcane version is.... So so disappointing. I want to cry in frustration. Old Lore Viktor is self made, he and Jayce clashed over a difference in morals that were still understandable and grounded in reality. Viktor left, created his new body HIMSELF and used his ingenuity to help the people of Zaun. To replace all that with a sleek iPad version where he just gets possessed by an infected magic orb and ascends to godhood or whatever is SUCH a let down.
#Arcane spoilers#Arcane#league of legends#Viktor#Imma be honest. It sours me a bit on the second season of arcane ngl#Like. I didn't enjoy it while watching the show but thought. Yknow. It makes sense since they needed a clear ending#Can't really have a machine herald whose methods may be questionable but who undoubtedly does good#And has a solid point in the piltover Zaun conflict#If you want your show to end in two seasons#But to have THIS? as CANON? INSTEAD OF WHAT WE HAD????#bro is as shallow as a street puddle#They stripped him of all nuance#All the emotions are a flaw stuff came WITHOUT SETUP OR ANYTHING he was just a completely different person after the hexcore#The only remaining trait being his wish to help people which. He and Jayce already shared#That's the whole point. They want the same thing but disagree on how to get there#To make him a cosmic threat unrelatable to humanity is.... Bad#ESPECIALLY since even in the SHOW they said it's bad#Ekko breaks him out of his herald mind break then Jayce tells him hey man I love u as a worm and viktor remembers#Oh shit humanity is necessary actually#And then they fuck off into nowhere#Arcane machine herald is literally and inarguably In The Wrong#So to take the nuance out of old lore viktor and replace it with this husk?#soso sso so upset
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"fishermen and pirates are nothing alike" is actually such a heartbreaking line because in his own silly way he's telling stede that he thinks they're incompatible now because they want entirely different things from life and he doesn't believe he's worth more to stede than piracy and glory so he'll just walk away first this time before stede has the chance to leave him again
#I'm not worried even a little bit this is just the necessary setup for the payoff we're getting next week when they reunite and talk to#each other#but it does hurt me so much that ed doesn't see how much he means to stede#ofmd spoilers#alex watches ofmd
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"Eiden and his companions accidentally run their carriage into two yokai wearing "maid costumes". To take responsibility and make amends, they set off to check out a maid café located in the forest—"
Girl that's just kuya and yakumo on their way back from the island
Wait ,no. Forest...
Girl that's just kuya and garu out for a walk
#these arw the best contrived circumstances for an event setup ever#im so happy#the ears and tails are gonna be posable movable and usable#uGh the yokai are creating maid cafe industries in the forest i AM liVING#the trio from mirage of scales got their outfits confiscated by the villagers and they had to go home naked#heuehhehehheheehheh#nah u know kuya wouldnt let the public see his nakie body#he'd illusionise some clothes onto himself if necessary#but for my own amusement#i will imagine them all having to wear the only thing eiden carries on him at all times#EMERGENCY MAID OUTFITS#so they all wear maid outfits on the boat ride back to land. staring contemplatively at the sea ahead#their frills ruffling in the wind.....#on another day#kuya and garu go out for a walk#and they're in maid outfits because i said so#and eiden runs them over in his gay little carriage#because this is all just a plot for kuya to embarrass rei#wait that doesnt make sense. NOTHING can embarrass rei#what was the point of me making this post??? my circumstances are not contriving very well#i just want to imagine everyone casually strolling in their maid outfits#before they suddenly get isekai-d by a carriage full of gays#what is the event called...#sweet heart attack#?#i gotta separate the sweet and heart right? do i gotta put the heart in there too? how do i type the heart...#♡#aha!#sweet♡heart attack
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wip wednesday
another preview of prey drive, which will be out sometime this month or maybe never!
Through the ringing in his ears, he hears the soldiers standing over him talking in Russian. Even if his head wasn’t spinning from the blow he took earlier, he still wouldn’t be able to make it out. Foreign languages were never easy for him to wrap his head around, let alone something like Russian. It was Owens that wanted him to learn. Not much, obviously. Just enough. Just in case he ever ended up in a situation exactly like this. Captured. Interrogated. Anything he could pick up could be useful if a rescue attempt was successful. Not that it matters now.
He tries to listen anyway, even as white spots drift through his vision like ashes, or the spores from the Upside Down that stuck to the back of his teeth and lined his throat and lungs with a thin, scummy film. Stomach churning, he squeezes his eyes shut and clenches his jaw against the nausea that tickles the back of his throat. The soldiers are still talking when it passes, but all he makes out is bitch.
You. They mean you.
Rage, white hot and violent rises up inside of him. He forces himself to his knees. The soldiers stop talking, eyeing him like he’s a stray dog. Barred teeth. Hackles raised.
The one that was questioning him grabs him by the hair and yanks his head back roughly, forcing him to squint as the bright lights overhead blind him. “How old are you, American?” the interrogator asks again. “Or should we ask your girlfriend instead?”
A lump forms in his throat, but he swallows it down and grits his teeth when his head is pulled back harder. “Twenty-four.”
“Good,” the soldier says, releasing his hair. “That’s very good.” Before his head can lull forward, the soldier grabs his face, patting him roughly on the cheek just once. “Means you should survive.”
tagging @arvandus @kweenkatsuki-fics @sattlersquarry and @thecreelhouse to share their own wips!
#steve harrington x reader#steve harrington x you#i think the reason I'm struggling with this fic so much is that the setup feels necessary#but I really just want to get to the 'monster!steve eats you out in front of a group of soldiers'
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andor's colors are red and white, in eotw the opposing factions in caemlyn are red (pro-morgase/white tower) and white (anti-morgase/tower), in tsr gawyn chooses red (elaida/tower) and galad chooses white (whitecloaks/anti-tower)..............gawyn and galad really are complementary characters who parallel and foil each other
#meanwhile elayne chooses a secret third side#you all probably made these connections 10 years ago but i'm feeling very 'i've connected the dots.jpg' atm djfkg#the trakand bros are rife with story potential and i felt the books underused them big time#(they each only have like 1-2 books of having a proper storyline and otherwise just crop up for occasional scenes)#the show needs to make them beefed-up secondary characters a la liandrin and alanna#(not that i WANT more galad time but i admit it's necessary)#speeding up the pacing of egwene's post-LOC storyline will help gawyn massively#and the show's already established a stronger whitecloak storyline setup than the books had this early which should help galad#when i picture galad arriving to interact with show!valda and dain i actually feel a spark of interest in the whitecloak storyline!#wot#wot book spoilers#gawyn trakand#galad damodred#the wheel of time
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Chapter 2 is out!
#battle for dream island#battle for bfdi#the power of two#tpot#bfdi#bfb#pie bfb#rocky bfdi#bfdi high fantasy au#i keeo forgetting what i named the tag for the au#aughhh#potatart#ao3#THIS TOOK ME SO LONG TO WRITE... I SWEAR 2 YOU I WAS WORKING ON IT EVERY DAY SINCE I POSTED THE LAST ONE#I DIDNT MEAN TO MAKE PIE SO MISERABLE IN THIS CHAPTER I PROMISE ILL BE SO SO NICE TO HER IN CHAPTER 3#i apologize if this is harder to get through than chapter one!!!! nonetheless i tried my best & thats all we can ever ask for#im excited for whats to come though aaahhehehehehe#i must reiterate i promise good things happen to her (pie) this was just necessary setup#i have a few funny doodles to share as well#also im a big fan of the bugs in bfdi i think theyre foul little creatures. /pos#i did something reallt self indulgent. and you will see what it is in the next chapter#(more self indulgent than this au usually is lol)#tptbu
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the fact that it's specifically stated that faulkner lied when he said no one else knew about the house is so funny to me because
a) im used to things specifically mentioned in writing coming back and the idea of carpenter being like "well i know a place we can crash at" and her and hayward walking into the cabin and seeing faulkner n rane just standing there is unquestionably hilarious but also
b) it means that faulkner had to have told her about his past at some point and that means that when he asked to be her brother she had fully acknowledged the fact that faulkner killed one of his brothers in a traumatic misunderstanding he's reconstructed in his mind as a good thing As Well As the fact that her last brother died in an act of religious self-sacrifice, and said yes. with her little caveat. just mentally grabbing him by the collar like "listen. i don't want you to kill yourself for your god. and i hope you don't want to kill me for your god. and if either happens i am going to kick your ass in hell when both of us get there"
#eternally fascinating to me how there was setup placed at the end of s2 for faulk's cycle to come to fruition in s3 - killing carp and#reconstructing it in his head as a good and necessary part of the prophet's legend#but now it's tipped more towards carpenter's cycle - watching another brother die for the same god#except there's a twist! because it's not religious self-sacrifice this time - just standard “not seeing a way out other than death”#and if he succeeds again... well... she did dream about a tree that one time. and a lot of dead people have been turning into trees lately.#wild if true. anyway#tsv#carp n faulk#brother faulkner#sister carpenter#eyeteeth speaks#metanalysis#siblings of all time i love them. mallory n richie 4ever.
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chat im really starting to fear that spiderman 4 wont have peter be nearly as sad as i need him to be. nothing at all has happened to indicate that but i just got a bad feeling. im almost completely expecting disappointment atp im just like mj fr
#sorry spideryapping again i cant help it. its in my brain again#saw on tiktok that black cat will be in it and my first reaction was NOOOOOOOOOOOOO bc i just love mj too much im not ready#but also black cat was at the top of my theories. bc it makes so much sense. so i SHOULD be optimistic if theyre thinking the way I think#like. it would cheapen the weight of the last movie if they completely undid the consequences. so they have to be apart for at least 1 movie#and mj and ned are supposed to be in boston at mit so idk how they could be in the plot anyways#and like. black cat makes so much sense bc the whole reason their relationship doesnt work is cuz she likes spiderman not peter#and thats so good for spiderman 4 bc now nobody remembers peter. and also black cat hasnt had any live action appearance yet#AND she comes on really strong so its literally the perfect setup for her#like. itd be weird if peter went looking for a love interest cuz he should be sad but it makes sense that black cat comes onto him#and he needs to meet a new cast beyond his high school friends it makes sense. but mj is endgame always im manifesting it she WILL be back#like black cat being there just suggests all the right directions. they arent immediately undoing the last movie#and theyre introducing more spiderman characters rather than spiderman villains and an obligatory mcu babysitter yk#SO ITS GOOD BUT. FEEL LIKE PURE SHIT JUST WANT MJ BACK#i wanna speed thru the necessary plot without mj to get back to her. mj my beloved#but slso besides all that even if black cat is a good sign. i still fear they wont make him sad enough. i fear the sadness will be offscreen#also i just think its rlly funny. that right when i got into spiderman again after YEARS#i was thinking abt more movies and was like. i think im happy if they stop. idek if i wanna see this peter without his buddies#his story moving forward has to be without them at least for a bit to do his character justice. but i dont need to see it#and then right after i settled on that opinion. BREAKING after 3 years new movie is coming. after i said i didnt want it#ironic (<- palpatine voice)#x
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Special Counseling (Patreon)
#Doodles#SCII#Damned#ZEX#DAX#These are especially funny to me because I remember when I first looked through the gallery and was Deeply Distressed at ZEX like this#I didn't know the context yet so the betrayal was uncomfortable! As intended but unexpected haha ♪#I love ZEX! Why would he do such a thing! Now I know <3 <3 And now I'm doing the same thing! Lol#The thought of ZEX never getting his own body again even for just a night even on the Institute's side ah it hurts#At least he'd finally have visual proof that it's Possible he never even saw Tanaka so for all he knows it was just another ''vision''#But of DAX <3 Of him getting his body back but turning on ZEX about it ough ♥ And the fallout!! Agh!!!#The setups the payoffs <3 <3 <3#I wrote a bit more for both scenarios actually - of DAX actually pointing a laser pistol at ZEX and threatening to kill him#Thus why ZEX is questioning him the next day - was that brainwashing or would you really do that??#ZEX of course wouldn't have flinched at the time - and DAX's motivation either way that this is a fate unbefitting of his Admiral#''He lowered his head feelers in a sympathetic way. 'I can hardly stand to watch you waste away in that form. If you would ask it of me...''#Weh ;;#Can you tell it's a bit inspired by We Do What is Necessary hehe <3#Which btw you've read right it's so good everyone needs to read it <3#Remind me to make a separate post about that one actually I had the oddest reread experience :3c Fascinating ✨#Anyhow lol#I actually like how I've written their next-day meetup after DAX returns to his senses more than I've drawn it hm :P#I think it's a specific line that sticks out to me - VUX communication through human bodies my beloved ;;♥#''He ran a hand down DAX's arm - a poor approximation of the gesture he was trying to emulate but he was sure DAX would understand.#They'd exchanged it enough times before.'' Hhhhhh ❤️💕💖💞💗 ;;/♥ I love them <3 <3#Also forehead touches and holding face and hands and jfdsalkfd the tenderness and loyalty aghhahgah <3#I really like the idea of VUX lacing fingers with each other as a kind of twining/head tendrils holding replacement ♥#The most intense one-eyed eye contact hehe <3
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Dragging myself kicking and screaming back to the two writing sessions a day routine.
#teruyo talk#had to swap projects because i figured out a major necessary fix for one but couldn't find the motivation to do it#this one's easier and when i'm actually working on it i'm doing fine#plus i'm mostly done with the setup scenes so i should have all the “cool” scenes to look forward to#idk if it's work that's killing my writing mojo so often or not but maaaan#like i still genuinely want to write and i know how great it can be#but i just feel lazy all the time atm#but hopefully i can post something next month
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been rewatching barry s1 and 2 and it is. Insane. How. The looney tunes of it all. Wiley coyote. It's all so stupid None of it means anything. and they dont know they dont realize. and then. And then
#HANK AND CRISTOBAL ARE LITERALLY STUPID NOTHINGS. THE MOST INSANE SETUP OF ALL TIME#they're literally paper dolls theyre so ros and guil theyre the roadrunner im in shambles. plot devices. joke machines. Until#s2 perhaps one of the greatest seasons of television ever made. in the world#i can see the farce i can see the mirage flickering like it's such a tonal tightrope. and s3 is the collapse!#it's like a finely tuned oiled up motorcycle. vs s3 which is a freight train#in the best way possible ofc#barry#like i forgot how much in s1 sally just like... is hardly a character... doesnt really even get b plots on her own#shes just there for barry! hanks not even necessary for THAT he LITERALLY was gonna get killed off ep1#which makes sense because s1 is About barry teaching himself how to be a person (badly)#literally when the characters become sentient and demand interiority in the show about acting and performance . man
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the urge to post shitty, ooc fanfic hyper-specific to my brainworms haunts me daily
#I love reading my own writing#wow it's almost like someone wrote it with my specific interests in mind#but I feel like I'm never doing enough prep/research to make it like ... actually good? and writing the in between parts just#breeds more in between parts that need to be written#how does everyone write linearly?? I'm literally just writing all the high emotional payoffs while trying to gaslight myself into thinking#setup is not real and not necessary actually#velvetrambles
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you ever want to write a specific idea so badly but you're like. incapable of doing it for one reason or another so you just feel like you're being stabbed. or is it a me thing. i need to crack my entire rib cage open about this particular thing or something idk
#there's just too much setup needed and the setup is spoken for in a fic i need to work on. it's The Fic. remember The Fic.#so i need to write the fic. but idk if what i want will also wind up existing in the fic. but the setup is necessary for my head to be in#the right spot. there's so many fucking thoughts here. i have much to say here. i do not know where to begin. there's just a lot.
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kinda anticlimactic ngl
#this whole comic series felt like just a setup for da:d and an introduction to the factions that will be involved in it#most of which we already knew so idk why it was necessary#but it was fun anyways!#we're still a year away so any new stuff is great lol#dragon age: the missing#dragon age: the missing spoilers
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doing some signoise shuffling. sam and jax are old friends ouuuuuuuugh ouggggghhhhh
#pers#just cut out a big plot conceit that was just a holdover from old versions and not actually necessary#and reshuffling to make things make more sense with the new setup. It’s fun things are clicking really nicely#jax’s backstory was the hardest to adapt (em and mel jusy had to move cities) but their new one…it’s good.#they traveled around with samira doing random dangerous bullshit when both of them were like. early 20s and in bad mental places.#so now it’s like. samira showing back up on their sldoorstep again after years and they’re still so devoted to her#which is also the SAME thing she does to emily later in the story#we’re a solid 75% more roadside picnic rn which is a great thing for me#s/n
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damn you think you are tough enough that you don't need to take the rest of your prescribed steroid pill packet for the pain bc you "barely even felt it anymore" and then you wake up at 3am the next morning in agony as if the relief were not the direct result of taking the meds
#one of the many ridiculous things that happened last week was that i experienced a relatively severe lower back spasm#which is also causing severe pain in my entire left leg. it's so annoying#i had to help prepare for our annual book sale at work and we just so happened to have more boxes of stuff than any past year by far#and they all consider me the hired laborer bc im young and apparently stronger muscle-wise than everyone else. so i carried a ton of boxes#but the only reason this happened was bc the week before i was mowing my dad's lawn and twisted weirdly which caused a much milder version#and i literally had set up a chiropractor appt for thursday morning bc that was the soonest time i wasnt scheduled to work.#then right at the end of the day wednesday after all the setup was done. THEN my back gave out#it's so dumb but also it has forced me to rest up a lot more than i probably would have without it. which was definitely necessary
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