#wavering hope

[waveringhope]

Madoka magica crossover art because kyoko and sayaka both heavily inspired the start of Enzo and angels characters!!! Yay!

[natigail]

PEDIA 2024 complete!!

I can hardly believe that another PEDIA (Posting Every Day In August) has come and gone! It's been a more chill time for me this year, with only posting fic every other day and filling the rest of the days with my little spilled thoughts post. Nonetheless, I'm so proud of the fics I've been posting this year.

Another longass chapter to my phan Stardew AU, four new chapters to my skz wolfpack AU, a new svt omegaverse AU introduced, completing my verkwan mafia AU two-shot, two new domestic phanfic one shots, dipping my toes into not one but two new fandoms with canon-aligned one shots. What a haul! Behold:

So many words, all in one little month! I know that fandomwise it's a bit all over the place, but thank you to anyone who's been reading any of these fics, I really appreciate it and it's been a delight to see the many comments that have been pouring in. Links to the fics below and a general link to the spilled thoughts posts:

Broke, Gay and New in Town

Rest in the Belly of the Wolf

I'm like a puzzle but all of my pieces are jagged

돈’t Resist (at least not me)

tumblr spilled thoughts posts

some of the most normal pictures

Nah, you wouldn't have spared me

Go out with a bang as it were

Wavering Hope

[pan-gya]

some fate arts from the past year that i never posted 👍

[imminent-danger-came]

“I felt the red-winged man gaze, I heard him speaking. I know who you are, he said, there are two ways this can go, no, three ways. I don’t want to count the ways, I said, I just want to finish it. I need to get to the end. His wings lifted and sanked. Oh my darling, he said, you’re a long way from the end.”

— Anne Carson, H of H Playbook

[soracities]

traveling to see a long distance lover in a few months and we're both about 5'4.. its symmetry of the heart! its completing a matching set after 20 years! its fitting over each other like milkcrates! its our shadows lining up! its picking same-sized clothes to exchange so we can still hold each other after i go! im in love and its my scariest secret! i am in love!!!!!

anon this is..........i am..............oh my godddd 😭

[beach-boyzz]

Does this make up for the fact that I haven't posted on tumbler in a year.n also it's not the regular 10 duel commandments wait till the first one

[cure-rosie]

Satoru in the latest episode explicitly being frustrated with his place on the sidelines and wishing he could do more... we LOVE to see it, if only from a character standpoint and not a bunny duo truther standpoint. On that note...

Why does it feel like they're still setting them up as Cures? Especially with the whole "all I can do is watch" line, and Daifuku inspiring him to not give up like- we got the freaking power ups this episode it's a wee bit late boys.

Is this gonna be another Cure Pekorin situation? Gosh I hope so. Eleventh Hour Cures are so underrated, given that there's so few of them. I wanted them to be solidly mid-season, but if we're going an eleventh hour/interesting arc direction I would not be mad.

[chronologiical]

waver at any moment of his lord's life: just end me

[nellasbookplanet]

Do I actually think Imogen is going to turn on the party? No. I don't think it’s any more likely to happen than I did Fjord releasing Uk’otoa, or Caleb returning to Trent and the Vollstruckers.

Given the nature of the game, any character turning fully dark is unlikely, seeing as it would take them away from the party for a time or potentially even turn them into an npc, replaced by a new pc. So far the only time we've gotten close to seeing something like it happen was Yasha siding with Obann, which could only happen specifically because Ashley was gone from the table for a long time (it was also the product of mind control, not an active choice to turn dark, and as such still doesn’t really count as a pc turning on the party in my eyes).

But the possibility is there. The seeds planted. Travis has talked about how, after he threw the falchion away, he briefly considered having Fjord leave the party and retun to the coast and Uk’otoa. Liam has mentioned that, early on, Caleb returning to work for Trent was a very real possibilty. It can happen, if the players and narrative are open to it.

And now, canonically, Imogen is desperately and understandably searching for a reason not to have to fight her own mother. She is, however briefly, questioning whether the Ruby Vanguard might have a just cause. Much as she hates it, she also feels the allure of the power Ruidus gives her. Her closest ally is someone who has repeatedly assured she will stand by her no matter what she chooses, even after she voiced the possibility of letting Predathos get out. None of these parts of Imogen are evil, and all of them are understandable and deeply rooted in pain and ostracization, but they could very easily be turned into justification, were she pushed enough.

The seeds are planted. Again, I don’t think it will happen (she seems firmly against the evil plan when reminded of how evil it is), but there’s certainly nothing strange or hateful about engaging with and being interested in the darker possibilities as presented in canon. It isn't character hate to acknowledge that Imogen has the potential to go dark, much as Fjord and Caleb and Yasha. To me, it’s what makes her character interesting. I want to see her clash with the party, whether because she’s desperate to save her own mother or because she’s high off the power of Ruidus and lured in. I want to see Laudna have to choose between the world and her promise to stand by Imogen no matter what. I want to see the fallout, the slow healing and redemption and coming to terms with bad choices. I eat that shit up, and if it doesn’t happen in canon I'll probably go read some fic about it to get my fix.

[blue-lollipops-and-ice-clouds]

The ✨️Fun Time✨️ of pre-ordering Teeth of God Graphic Novel!

No spoilers because that would require me to actually have the fucking book! ( ・－・) Just some fun times under the cut. For funsies! ✨️Funsies!✨️ (・－・ )

Oh hello, Sleep Token Fans, we have a ✨️graphic novel✨️ that we will definitely begin shipping November 20th!

Uh...wow, um actually we'd like to change that! Well, we're not going to tell you we changed it, because it's not like you can ask for a refund, because if you go to our ToS it literally just says ✨️Refund Policy: [LINK TO REFUND POLICY]✨️ with no actual link! See you November 29th!

So...about that, so, like, we're soooo sorry, but printing accidents and mishaps and, gosh golly gee, we're not the ones actually responsible for this at all! It's, well, them, over there! Oh, but we promise, promise, promise we'll get it to you before December 25th!

Okay, everyone, shut up, don't say anything—oh, hi, how's it going people who spent 70 to 200 USD on this book and upper tiers. Um, well, you see...December! December 17th!

Wait...it's already December 28th? Um, well, and we haven't updated anything? Well, ha, jokes on you, stupid person who trusted us with their moneys! We don't have to be upfront about shit!

[waveringhope]

Do you like Madoka Magica? Do you enjoy stories where groups of friends band together to overcome their struggles? Do you enjoy LGBTQ centered stories?

Wavering Hope might be the comic for you!

Inspired by the magical girl and wishes gone wrong aspect of shows like Madoka Magica, Wavering Hope creates a tragic, yet heartwarming tale of friendships and to continue powering through fights, and even dangerous beasts.

Read about it on Global Comix!

Ch.0 OR (tumblr version here)

Ch.1

[grapecaseschoices]

the way fenris wont even consider turning in mages in the team bc it would upset hawke.

the way sebastian DOES considerate but struggles because there is no middle ground.

[toastytrusty]

thinking endlessly about how romans main relationships outside of the family in later seasons are lukas and mencken, and how their dynamics with rome foil each other both narratively and in-universe. lukas represents them selling waystar, represents emotional vulnerability, represents freedom. mencken, on the other hand, represents them keeping the company, represents the toxic façade of who you Need to be, represents remaining trapped. the way romes emotions fuel the contrasting dynamics between them is endlessly fascinating

lukas, upon his second time meeting rome, immediately continuously attempts to talk abt deep kinda personal/emotional stuff, which rome shut down because he's afraid of self expression, even though deep down he craves connection. this probably scares him, so, especially after logan's death and lukas' reaction to it (on one hand being a dick and not pushing back the meeting, on the other hand trying in his own autistic way to connect and empathize with their loss, as well as being real about how awful logan was), roman distances himself. he feels pushed to the edge of his sanity and reverts to what comes most naturally to him, you guessed it, eeeemotion. he freaks out at lukas on the cliff, in his head burning any bridge built between them, which tbf he pretty much does. but to lukas, this is almost like a win for him. he's been trying to encourage roman to open up to him since they met, and he finally did! so the $5 price bump is almost like a congratualtions or a reward, as well as a spiteful fuck you. narratively it takes them one step closer to selling the company, roman's emotion being what puts him there, and in this case it's being appreciated. really, rome wants out of the company; he wants to sell and he wants to be free of it and all the pressure and expectation that comes with it.

whereas mencken was always very business-focused with roman; joking and laughing in a detached, not very real way. his focus was always succeeding and going far and not really caring how he got there, and i think that's part of why roman liked him. there was no expectation to be genuine or actually connect; he could just put on his brave face and do what they felt needed to be done. when he pushed lukas away because things got too real, he continued seeking out mencken because mencken was easy to appeal to in that way he so often does; changing himself to suit there needs. he puts mencken over everything else that mattered in his life (relationships with his family members mainly he doesn't gaf about The Economy) because he didn't have to be real with mencken. it was all just the blind pursuit for power he didn't really want and a security he felt more threatened by than anything, because he got too far in and set his sights on something (or more accurately kendall set his sights on something, and who was rome to protest?) and had to acheive it. so when the façade breaks, and mencken sees him for the first time not as the charming, witty, businessman, but as the damaged person who just wasn't built for the world, he walks away, no longer looking to protect waystar, or roman. love and sensitivity and emotion are all weaknesses to mencken, weakness he had previously not seen in roman, but now that he had it was too late. rome couldn't pretend forever and mencken bailed, handing waystar (and roman!! becase their ties to waystar are through roman!!) back to lukas and the gojo deal on a silver platter.

this inadvertantly pushes roman back towards freedom, and, in a way, back towards lukas. he told mr emotions to fuck off and ran away to be his self absorbed emotionless husk with someone who wanted nothing more from him, but that didn't work out too well. he can't stay in the cage that is waystar, he can't spend all of his time being someone he's not; it's exhausting. lukas represents his ability to acheive freedom from the toxic environment of waystar, as well as the fact that he will eventually have to confront reality, and mencken represents his unhealthy, and ultimately doomed to fail, coping mechanisms and avoidance behavior. when he tries to twist his perspective of the people around him to make them seem like good people (logan, MENCKEN), lukas shuts it down (at least with logan; i don't think the two of them ever talk abt mencken) and makes rome confront the fact that they aren't, and when rome is so deep into being someone he isn't, lukas encourages him to be himself, whereas mencken condemns him for it

[imaginarypasta]

sometimes you just have to write a 4,000 word essay in a day it's fine. good even

[girlivealwaysbean]

i just came out to a real life person and i think im having a heart attack

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

genuine question since you've spent so much time thinking about jujutsu kaisen – how do you think jujutsu kaisen should end? what would be your ideal ending to the series?

WAHHHHHH THIS IS THE TOUGHEST QUESTION EVER ANON :(((((((((((( i’ve thought abt it a bit but… it’s kind of hard to visualize……..

(jjk spoilers under the cut obviously)

OKAY SO FIRST OF ALL. if akutami doesn’t bring back gojo + nobara + kenny i will Genuinely be upset :)))) i feel like leaving nobara’s death undisclosed forever is like …. Unforgivable from a writing standpoint yk?? kenny and gojo aren’t as bad in that regard but with those two my issue is that their deaths feel SO unsatisfying. i don’t think gojo is Actually Dead at all but i think kenny might be and that pisses me off bc ???? he has SO much potential as a character that’s been hinted at but not explored ?????? so that would just suck. in general i really love akutami’s writing but!!! i need my girls back.

BUT YEAH SORRY TANGENT ASIDE …… when it comes to the Actual Ending i . honestly don’t have many thoughts??? i can’t tell where the story is going 😭 i definitely think yuji or megumi will die, and. honestly….. i think yuji dying would be a good ending. I LOVE HIM I PROMISE 😔😔 he’s my baby i just think it would objectively be kind of cool. considering his death was planned from the very start and him escaping death has led to misfortune for the people around him. so it feels fitting for yuji to chose death himself at the end ….. but at the same time it still doesn’t feel quite right? i really can’t picture all first years + gojo surviving, so maybe megumi will die after all���? he def has the biggest death flag in the cast rn </3

on the other hand, maybe both megumi and yuji will survive, and the series will end on a more hopeful note…? :’3 i think the ending will be hopeful either way and that’s what i’d prefer. jjk has always been a hopeful series even though it’s so dark and cynical at times….. the first volume literally ends with ”love” defeating ”justice”, i don’t think for a second that akutami would go against all that just to be contrarian or whatnot!! so i def have high hopes for the ending but i can’t really visualize it at all 😭😭

WAITT one more thing. my personal theory is that gojo will come back to life at the cost of his six eyes, and i think that could lead to the balance of the world being ”restored” (since it was his birth and power that led to curses growing so much stronger)… with that in mind one ending could be gojo surviving but losing considerable power, which would be the happiest ending for him too. he’d get the chance to exist as satoru gojo instead of the strongest, and he’d be able to lean on all his students and comrades!!! so that’s the kind of ending i’d prefer. :3 as long as gojo survives i’m happy!!!!