#we're a doomed fandom like our ship

[potpourri-of-ecclecticism]

Helaegon are probably one of THE ONLY ships in the history of entertainment media that, despite being canon in all realms, actually came alive only through actor interviews

[kaibacorpintern]

I sense an impending category 5 fandom event (Yugioh DM favorite ship poll), so to spare us all some pain and annoying discourse and bloodshed over several weeks, I've run a simulation of how it would go. let's assume it was seeded correctly and powerhouse ships get pitted against rarepairs in the first round, but this does not mean we're short on surprises.

discoursebait ships like scandal, toon, and tabloid get swept immediately. voters who are not bakurae get confused between gemship, angstship, thiefship, deathship, and citronship and vote for what they think is one ship, but is actually some other ship, bc the poll mod forgot to put the character names in the polls and they get lots of anons about it. dragon is taken out by wish. kiddyship and siblingship are matched up and you can choose whoever you want to win, bc it doesn't matter. gets obliterated by pride in the next round. There is brief but intense discourse around calling it "puppy" or "violet" or "joukai" or "kaijou." the poll mod gets annoyed and just calls it "kaiba/joey" in perpetuity. visionship makes a valiant effort before falling in the round of sixteen to whichever bakurae ship pulled out of the initial bloodbath, sweating and spitting blood.

Rivalship trots along at a strong and respectable pace, but ultimately falls to violetship because violet have had the ship propaganda game on lock for decades, and rival is a post-DSOD new wave resurgence ship. Ships that pair Kaiba with a woman (mizu, azure, blue, trust) have very few but very devoted fans who lovingly write heartfelt propaganda, but this is a shounen series for teenage boys, so we're fighting a doomed, sisyphean battle here. ergo, every kaiba/woman ship gets steamrolled. however, "crack" ship Kaiba/Kaiba (moneyshipping) gets the single best written propaganda - loving, insightful, and deeply profound (It's not crack. It's real to ME). sealshipping and kingshipping fight to the death. whoever wins loses to stubbornshipping, because i want stubbornshipping to win at least one round. we make passive aggressive vague posts. we rally the ship discord servers. we send DMs to our trusted mutuals and besties: HOWWW did this ship LOSE TO THAT ONE?!?!?!! WHERE IS THE JUSTICE?

regardless, the polls continue. Puzzle eats up literally everyone on its way to the final four. prideshipping reaches the round of eight, after defeating peach, due to posts escaping fandom containment, but falls to puzzle, in a crushing blow to me personally. This is an honorable death. In all honesty I completely forgot about heartship. if you ship this, you can pretend it did really well, but then it lost to a ship you also like, so you're pretty satisfied overall. If you don't ship this, you don't have to think about it.

In the final four violet loses to puzzle. The bakurae ship falls. this leaves puzzle, a worthy and beloved ship, facing off against the final contender: keg.

[citrinitxs]

KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER. REPOST, DO NOT REBLOG!

NAME: Navina! However, people call me by different nicknames and alias/es, such as Navi, Nav, menace (/aff), and even by my anon alias, ✨!

PRONOUNS: they/them!

PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION: tumblr asks & dms, but if we're friends/mutuals and we can vibe, then discord <3

NAME OF MUSE(s): main muses are albedo, kaedehara kazuha, alice! The rest that arent my mains are on my carrd, which you can check because Im too lazy to list them all out

BEST EXPERIENCE: personally, I think my best has been w/ meeting new people and discovering what they like from our muse dynamics. I absolutely love talking abt how they may act and how, in certain verse/s and plot points, their relationship develops. I have a particular fondness for those who are doomed by narratives to only say "fuck you" and REWRITE the damn thing themselves... or just be tragic for the sake of the majority <3

RP PET PEEVES / DEALBREAKERS:

- no communication. I refuse to tolerate people who can't communicate how they feel with me, especially if I did something they don't like. got an issue? talk to me! I promise you, I will be more supportive and willing than me finding out you talked shit about my style, muses, or me in general.

- acting/proclaiming we're exclusives WITHOUT my prior knowledge NOR consent. I personally am not interested in being exclusive with people unless we're genuinely close friends (and there's chemistry for our muses to the point I can see it), and even then, I would prefer if we talked about it and we're both FINE with the idea. However, if you say that I'm ONLY allowed to speak/interact with your muse and NO ONE ELSE'S? That's a hard block. This is an auto block if we are not mutuals and you proclaim I am exclusive with your muse.

- romanticizing dark themes and/or glorifying it. Enough said. I have some issues that I refuse to talk about and I am also sensitive with certain topics, and I refuse to glorify anything that can be considered dark. I may tackle on it sometimes (be it by muses, myself, etc.), but if you romanticize or glorify themes like sexual assault/harassment, incest, and the sort? Instant deal breaker. "Don't speak to me again" type of deal breaker. Don't test my patience. (bonus is if you try to defend it. You will be blocked the moment you try, so don't bother.)

MUSE PREFERENCES: characters that have genuine potential and dynamic where you can just see how fucked they can be, how you can make each other worse, how they can be each others' star-crossed lovers and forever in tragedy. They can literally be the most normal couple to exist or something, just so as long there's chemistry & where we can channel our inner conflict together for them to conquer! (Bonus points if they're ALSO a doomed by the narrative character. dw bestie, we'll redeem them ourselves...... after they go through hell and back ofc LMAO)

PLOTS OR MEMES:  BOTH AND I'LL DIE ON THIS HILL. Listen, plots fit a LOT for me because then, we can plan out how our characters may act + make it easier. It's also long-term for me, esp for ships and muses I'm interested depending on the fandom. Memes, however, are good pick me ups because I will send them en masse. Woe, meme be upon ye, y'know?

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES: Ok, both (for my rp partners), BUT not 1 sentence short. Please add depth. If you need the minimum, 3 to 5 sentences is good! Just go wild! I personally write a lot because ranting abt things have me hyped, so expect like. maybe? 3 paras? probably 4 or 5? Just medium length rlly, but if I am EXTREMELY hyperfixated on a verse/muse/plot/dynamic...... yeah gl LMAOOOOO

BEST TIME TO WRITE: goddamn, it's when my brain can focus. it can be late as fuck and I would be too into writing to sleep, and sometimes, its IN THE MORNING. LIKE. HELLO? so yeah what's time actually. (/silly)

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S): In my personal opinion? Not really (esp not Albedo lmao??) but. apparently my friends think. that I do?? honestly ask thea and a few of my mutuals, they'll answer this better than I can tbh

TAGGED BY STOLEN FROM: @glacialswordsman & @poswiecenia (lmao hi I live in ur notif walls <3) TAGGING: @vagrantshiraeth ; @amemoire ; @constarellations @lorendiel ; @livingakasha ; @bloodied-bets ; @ anyone else (hi I will live in ur walls soon, move over /j)

[incorrectringsofpower]

Season 2 First 3 episodes thoughts (spoilers below the cut, DO NOT click the cut if you do not want to be spoiled!)

Episode 1

The dimples are a bit disarming ngl.

The chorals Bear added are interesting. Someone translate them please and thank you.

Ewwwww bug!Sauron nope nope nope.

Why hallo there handsome asshole :D

What's in the pouuuuch? (I don't think we're ever gonna find out tbh)

O shit are these the raft redshirts? Oh nooo.

I support horse girl rights and wrongs.

Mooom, Galadriel is a lying liar who lies.

Gil-galad looks so done lmfao. "Great-auntie whyyyy."

Elrond about to pull an Elwing.

I want to see my little boy (Isildur). (Where is heeeee?)

Hello Glüg, you SDCC photo gem.

Ah Waldreg you fucker. Guess you figured out between seasons that he ain't Sauron.

Lmao not Sauron pulling a Moses on Adar. Wtf are you doing buddy?

Nori my beloved

Wow The Stranger has so much vocabulary now. I still think he swallowed a Harfoot dictionary.

Ok additional Harfoot food note: Beetles (scarab beetles?)

Oh yeah some fic writers are reaaaaally gonna enjoy the scenes of Halron chained and collared. Here comes another fic deluge!

Sauron, don't you remember what happened with Huan in the FA?

BEN DANIELS TIME LET'S GOOOOO.

RIP to this random elf messenger bc I don't think he's gonna make it.

Ben Daniels has the raaaaange.

Eärendil mentionnnn. And Beleriand mention! I wonder why the Mariana Trench option wasn't considered in the TA. Update: Ok nvm Círdan will answer that for us.

Poppy! Hopefully the others can still travel without the maps she took.

The music is so prettyyyy.

"Your people have been set free." #doubt (show me the proof! also why did Sauron want that? He needed slaves to work the fields in Mordor, right?)

Ah Waldreg did die in the exact episode we predicted.

More elf nuns!

Elf costumes! I need an analysis post!

Lmao Elrond's face. "Grunkle Círdan, you betrayed meeee!"

Galadriel: How 'bout I do anyway?

Elrond: Thanks I hate it.

Galadriel: Please don't jump off waterfalls again.

Mirdania! Aw shit Halron got there before the nameless doomed Lindon elf.

Ominous ending music, Bear.

Episode 2

DWARVES MY BELOVED

I love the terrace farming so much.

Dwarf food note: Mole-tail stew, Large mushroom (chanterelle-like) that is very valuable, smaller mushrooms, gourds!

ilu Disa

This scene was exactly what I needed for dwarves and dwarvish food reasons.

Oh shit not my dwarves :(((

Alfirin seeds!

Ooh creepy!

New elf characters! Do they have names? Please give them names!

"Crush two spiders with one boot." Ooh I hate the foreshadowing of that metaphor. Hates it, hates it.

More foreshadowiiiing.

Mirror of Galadriel foreshadowing specifically!

Eregion is so beautiful and majestic (thanks, Season 2 budget!). Sure do hope nothing bad happens to it! (sobbing)

Yup, RIP Lindon messenger elves.

I looove this music.

Skeletor! (By the power of Grayskull!)

Ooh cultists.

The Dweller is back!

"curse upon our flesh" wut

I have a bad feeling about this. (Wait, wrong fandom)

Where is Narviiii.

Do Disa's friends have naaames? Wait x-ray actually was helpful for once. Rachel Payne as Brenna and Laura Jane Matthewson as Revna! I'm so happy she has named friends who even gossip!

Hi Narvi!

King Durin: But do I still have grandparent's rights?

"Stubborn as a root-bound parsnip!" Hah.

Oh my god he's working on ships. I love that so much.

Ooh shit a flashback to the woods scene from Udûn.

Why are you shaving, sir? Sir.

Ahhhh poetry mentions from the FA! How nerdy.

The bell seems bad.

Eye of Sauron?

Uh-oh. Is this how he learns how squishy hobbits are on adventures?

Ooh he's developing door ideas. Fun!

I get the feeling Mirdania ain't gonna last the season, either.

Fuuuck tower foreshadowing.

Ooh elf umbrella!

Oh you little weasel!

"I'm going to open a First Age bottle." Love that detail.

"Are you my friend?" Hoo boi.

Ominous thunderclap. Ooooh.

Is he gonna larp as an Istar? Lmao.

"Soon every realm will fall." Because of you, asshole!

Title drop!

Wow. Okay. Playing on his insecurities and also calling him the "Lord of the Rings". Overdoing it a bit much there, Ronnie?

"I am your partner." screech

Pope-galad says you need babysitter, Gal. I'm sure this will go splendidly!

Episode 3

Bronwyn ;_;

Berek best boi my beloved

Sad Elendil and Valandil :(((

YESSS OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING. EVERYONE STAY CALM. IT'S HAPPENING!

ISILDUR SAVE YOUR HORSE FOR THE LOVE OF ERU.

Pls don't kill Berek. I couldn't stand it 😭

ISILDUR BEST HORSE GIRL

THEY'D BOTH BETTER LIVE OR SO HELP ME

FUCKING RUN ISILDUR FFS

(GOD I HATE LARGE FANTASY SPIDERS AND THIS IS WHY)

Ooh the shells funerary detail!

Eärien girrrrl your evil phase alarms me.

This ship is so saddd :(

More ominous tower shit.

Pharazôn, you weasel 2.0.

Fucking foreshadowiiiing.

Valandil my beloved! Oooh tension with Kemen.

A baby orc! Fascinating!

Damrod has arrived!

More title dropping!

"--a friend." The emphasis was so funny.

Durin is suspicious. Love it.

Celebrimbor: Well if I start a Catholic schism then so be it.

It is your moment, Holly-boy, but also your doom. You're being Anakined into Vader by Palpannatar.

Isildur has discovered the DnD means of equipment acquisition.

Noooo more dead horsies :(

Estrid :D (please don't be evil)

Lmao at least he knows proper wound procedures lol.

DO NOT HURT BEREK

Potato food spotted!

ARONDIR YASSS

THEY STOLE BEREK NOOOOO

Arondir sir you are low on arrows.

Arondir ;_;

Bronwyn :(((( fuck I'm so sad about this

I will never recover from the Aronwyn ship, I fear :(

Theo, buddy, need someone to talk to?

Sad version of Aronwyn theme nooooo :(

Really not liking how much King Durin's crown sorta resembles Sauron's this season.

Theo taking over his mother's skills :(

Yup, poisoned orc arrow theory confirmed.

Stepparenting with foreshadowing for Numenor, delightfulll.

Please don't be foreshadowing.

Who is his dad? Oh no hurtful, Theo. Buddy :(

My Garden Fam is broken and I'm deeply unwell about it.

Theo-Isildur friendship time?

BEREK HEIST BEREK HEIST

Isildur really is so relieved to be alive and not eaten by spiders that he's gone friend mode. How very like his Grunkle Elrond!

Oh no Isildur mom backstory :(

Don't cry Isildur and Theo bc then I'm gonna cry ;;_;;

Also now this is a narrative parallel!

Ah good gift discussion next to the word "precious" is throwing my brain. Oh lordy.

Please don't be evil, Estrid! I'm already suffering without Bronwyn and both Disa and Míriel are doomed af.

Theo wtf are you doing?

ENTS.

No don't lose the sword Galadriel gave you!

Míriel in white, Elendil in blue and gold, Pharazôn in red. Totally Kate Hawley doing some fascinating storytelling here.

Oh no my quote about Elendil and his daughter in a courtroom is suddenly very apt. Oh dear.

What did Elendil see?

Huh the unrest happened sooner than I thought.

EAGLE TIME LET'S GOOOO!

Eagle: Y'all are gonna die!

Elendil: Top 10 anime betrayals and by my own daughter. Wtf.

Annatar gets his own cute lil forging outfit :D

More symbolism!

Oh god what a way to end the first 3 episodes. Send help.

[firebugging]

MUTUAL APPRECIATION POST!!!!!

Hope everyone's year has been good so far, I've wanted to do this for a while, so here's my little ramble!!

I wanted to do as many people as possible but I am a COWARD and just went until I feel like I wrote too much, everything is utc :3

ALRIGHTTTTT, STARTING OFF WITH @eslover. I remember our first interaction the best tbh... (milgram tree, kotorb!!) you're the person that made really want to try and branch out to talk to other people within the milgramblr community (I still get a bit embarrassed though). You're super nice and I'm really grateful that we're mutuals! Truly the McMido acc ever !!

Next up, @tsuwmya! You were my first mutual here and I think you're super cool!! I really admire you, even if I don't interact with you a-lot, your ocgram is SOSO WELL DONE AND ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE SO CHEWYYY (it made me begin work on my own ocgram again actually). Your analysis posts are always such a pleasure to read and there is something about your art that makes me want to eat it like a sandwich /pos

@dearmahiru YOUUU. You're the person that made me like 0610 and MY GOD, DOOMED YURI!! They're one of my favourite ships now hehe. BUT ANYWAYS, ANOTHER PERSON WHO MAKES WONDERFULLY WRITTEN ANALYSIS POSTS, they're always such good reads and you can tell how well researched they are! In my head you're THE Mahiru mutual and I await the Kotoko final girl post!

LINA @linabirb. Uhmm... fun fact, when I initially got into Milgram, your edit blog was the first thing I really checked out in terms of fan work. I believe I was the anon that asked for heart shaped miko icons one time (I loved them btw. I ended up using them for one of my rentry pages WITH CREDIT OFC). You're really friendly and soso approachable 10/10 MUTUAL!!!

@narumimii YOU'RE LIKE A CELEBRITY 2 ME... so cool. I lovelove you edits and will probably spam like them later out of respect because photopea SUCKS and trying to understand it made me admire you for putting up with it's confusingness. Also... yurigram real I LOVE YOUR ART OK BYE

@rainbowghostcat @seariii @heynowisavedyouright and @roseofcards90 I WAS GONNA WRITE STUFF FOR YOU GUYS TOO BUT GOT EMBARRASSED AND DELETED IT I'M SO SORRY </3 BUTTT I THINK YOU'RE ALL SUPER COOL AND I AM SENDING YOU A MILGRAM CHIBI OF YOUR CHOICE...

@art-stuff-by-goose You're one of my irls and also not on milgramblr but you are my qp WIFE so I would like to thank your for putting up with me for all these years! I can be cringefail boyflop girlloser around you without worry and you also introduced SSOOSOOSO many cool games to me YOU WILL BE NUKED!! Overall you are very cool and I am gonna give you one of my silly dinosaurs :3

TO EVERYONE WHO ISN'T ON HERE!! Just know that even if we're not close, I really appreciate you! Everyone who I've interacted with here (no matter how much or how little) has really made my fandom experience so much more enjoyable, this is actually the first time I've really tried to interact with others in the community and it's been soso wonderful thus far. So thank you! I hope that you all have a wonderful 2024!! <3

Also uhmmm, I suck at interacting first so if you'd like to get closer, maybe send an ask? OK THAT'S ALL THIS WAS UHMMMMM VERY UHHHH THIS WAS A POST!!!!!!

[ravencromwell]

To all my mutuals who have no fucking idea what Shades of Magic by V. E. Schwab is, and are watching large chunks of their dash descend into Nick never shuts up about it: I'm so sorry ;) Now, I mean, if we're mutuals, I think this entire series would be your jam, for one reason or another. In no particular order:

--there is a genderfluid pirate who comes off the streets of 1819 London and bullies her way into a magic adventure and just! keeps! going out and kicking ass and taking names and winning everything and honestly, it's the best nonbinary/trans power fantasy swear to God even as I'm like: for the sake of being a fully rounded character, my beloved pirate thief really should have some! consequences.

--there's an insanely through-the-roof powerful magician who's been deeply broken by privation and torture and poverty but still wants desperately to save his world that is so! reminiscent of Thorin fucking Oakenshield it hurts in the best way!

--and speaking of Thorin Oakenshield and the first ship that sucked me viciously into fandom: Dworin people this same magician had this wonderful doomed attempt to rule beside a king and it has all the best Dworin vibes with this amazing personality inversion because there's all the loyalty and affection and the king/general/knight stuff but it's the king! who's outgoing and social and magnetic and our insanely broken magician who's quiet and reflective and it captures the very best of the dynamic without feeling like it's repeating the ship and I need all of y'all to ship Holland Vosijk/Ros Vortalis stat—dear God we don’t get these two until book 3, but oh! Oh it’s so worth it. (oh god sometimes I just sit and drool over the fic @bodysnatch3r and @mainecoon76 would write.

--and let me not forget, the Percival Graves vibes. @maggieandthedragon is another one I just make grabby hands thinking of contributions she’d make to this fandom. Holland is a man who tries desperately to respect life, made party to utterly inhuman actions via torture—the Percy and Gellert parallels, they are strong. And Holland/Vor has some Percy/Thes vibes dear God the golden youth Holland can never recapture.

--for all of you for whom we bonded over geopolitics, power is at the heart of this series. So much of why White London becomes! the way it is is because Red took it upon itself to trap them between demons and a lack of magic for fear of Red's own downfall and then weep endlessly because you all hate us/want revenge. No shit! they do. Schwab handles this well, greying the morality throughout the series, though she hasn't yet done what my socialist egalitarian heart craves and had someone smash open all the doors Red London slammed shut--but don't worry. the fic writers are there to handle that shit. Even if the source doesn't delve as much into colonialism/imperialism as I would like, oh! the themes are there.

--there is sibling affection powerful enough to drag people back from the brink of death. There is a gay pirate who is the homage to every spy novel ever. There’re swordfights and couples over forty and a million other things I love. It's not a perfect series, but I wouldn't love it this much without its flaws.

[chaos-and-recover]

#you guys don't know how software development works and it Pains Me

Could you expand on that?

I think the post sums it up well, that there are physical servers that need to host the platform and that costs money so there's truly no way to have a totally free website (that's why AO3 has fundraising drives, because the alternative is ads and nobody wants that on the Fandom Porn Site).

But also in the recent announcements about restructuring and large parts of the Tumblr team being reassigned to other teams within Automattic and Tumblr essentially being left with a skeleton crew is... not great? Like everyone is celebrating the fact that Tumblr Live is probably going to die soon and ignoring the part that they also won't be shipping many if any new features but instead focusing on the ones they have. And when that part is acknowledged the reaction seems to be that they're gonna fix a bunch of shit and like... they probably aren't.

Development is slow and it requires people and direction. I don't know the details of what staff currently looks like or who's going where but in my experience, "we're focusing on improving the features we have" means "whoever is left will be focused on keeping the lights on." Like, maintaining vital infrastructure and maybe fixing bugs here and there if they have the capacity for it.

Plus not having shiny new features as often if at all makes it really hard to drive new users to the platform, and that makes it less enticing for investors and/or advertisers.

I work for a SaaS company with a significantly smaller userbase than a typical social media site would have, even a relatively underused one like Tumblr (bc we're B2B so our customers are other businesses in a niche-ish field) and just one of our platforms has two distinct product teams, with each team consisting of a product manager, a designer, a handful of developers and a QA team, and that doesn't include the site reliability team who keep the whole thing running and solve database and server issues.

And it'll be hard to attract or retain top talent in any of these roles if your company just isn't putting the resources into the platform.

It takes a lot of people to keep a website functional, and I don't want to be doom and gloom because it might all be fine, at least for the foreseeable future, but it takes a lot of people to keep a software platform running.

I'm just glad it seems like no one at Tumblr is actually losing their jobs at this point.

And lbr I'm still gonna be here til the wheels fall off.

[lemotmo]

@manybumblebees

OMG!!! Twincy!!! OMG!!! VES!!! How are you guys!!! I could cry!!!

How long ago has it been since our wonderful Without a Trace trip to Rome? It was somewhere in the 2000's, but it's been such a long time. I still think about our early LJ fandom days so much. I miss LJ a lot, because it was such a great medium for fandoms. I remember the way we clung to each and every conversation and scene between Martin and Danny. The way we all watched the episodes together in that Rome hotelroom and went mental over our boys. That show and Danny/Martin still holds such a special place in my heart. It was, by far, the best and most involved fandom I've ever been in.

And I've been in many fandoms since those years. Forever a fangirl at heart! So when I found 911 and Buddie in early 2019 I fell in love instantly. It's so great to see some familiar faces in this fandom. I've seen some other fans around from my Stargate Atlantis days, but never from all the way back to WaT.

You know what I've been thinking lately? Buck/Tommy is Danny/Elena all over again. Both relationships that literally came out of nowhere, but became popular fast. Remember how we were so bummed when Danny/Elena became a thing?

The only difference today? I think that this time the ship we're shipping actually has a chance. Back then a ship between two men was doomed from the start. We didn't even expect canon. We just wanted scenes between them and we were happy.

It's so great to see you again. Feel free to talk to me through DM's. I'd love to catch up and maybe we can talk fandom things again, just like old times. :)

[ladymorghul]

not a green fandom trying to gatekeep helaena from helaemond like we're the main threat and all we do is use helaena in our dirty fantasies and project ourselves onto her.

no, I'm not surprised that there are, but still it's both strange and funny.

they can't gatekeep helaena from me because i am also part of the green fandom

i do not project on helaena because i can't think of a thing we have in common beyond, idk, both of us being women. maybe both sharing an incoming sense of doom in our everyday lives.

helaemond is a team green ship whether they like it or not. however, i don't like it when some fans/shippers act like helaena is middle ground. she absolutely isn't. they either accept her mother is alicent hightower and she loses her children for who her family is or they can miss me with their takes. this is mostly the "neutral" fans who want to claim helaena only for themselves or some shit.

she is a character so she belongs to no one and everyone but some takes irritate me.

and again, this is not a neutral blog. this is first and foremost an alicent centric blog and secondly i mostly only care about green characters.

[random-conspiracy]

In response to @ariaste. A conspiracy theorist I truly adore ashahsha. (I want to study your brain).

I want to put my head inside a microwave and press "popcorn" because I really, REALLY want to believe that there is something going on behind the curtains of the teather. That Neil himself, the writer, the magician! left clues for us to follow like breadcrumbs into the sweetness of the witch's house. I REALLY WANT TO BELIEVE and is painful how a lot of "clues" are so suspicious that they must be part of a bigger picture.

But...

I feel like we're doomed to repeat our history. Do you remember

THE JOHNLOCK CONSPIRACY?

"There must be something going on!", "The show can't be bad, the bad writting must be intentional", "It's a detective show for godsake, there must be a mystery!".

Yeah, do you remember that? All the theories, the paranoia, the disappointment. Time over and over and over again fans were obsessing about infinitesimal details, connecting dots, finding meaning in the chaotic mess of dead ends and plot-holes. "This cannot be the end" they swear, they cryed, they theorized. And then... nothing. Behind the curtains there was no magician, no trap door under the stage, no secret codes or clues. Just the simple and sad answer of the empty teather: There is nothing here.

And I'm seeing the same patter here. A loved and very closed series has a new season. The season is well received, a lot of fanfics a lot of love and the main focus in a specific ship. This couple goes and comes and goes and comes like a telenovela/fanfic leaving us with an "incredible" cliffhanger.

But some fans are more perceptive than others and soon they realize that 2+2 is not 5. Something fishy is going on under layer and layer of fanservice and good camera work. Things are not adding up.

("Moriarty died! What is he doing here?".)

You have spent nights and days dedicated to this series/books. You have created tons of fanarts and seen tons of fanfics. Your heart, your mind, your attention was placed in this story. Hours and hours and hours of non sleeping because you cannot stop thinking about these characters, their dynamics, the whole narrative! All of this must worth something, RIGHT??? All the dedication and the attention, all of that has to mean something

RIGHT???

<<It's perfectly clear!>> says the fandom. <<The writers know what they are doing. This series, this series cannot be bad! There must be something going on!>>. But because bad writting cannot be unwritten the answer is more and more "obvious". <<All of that must be intentional!>>

Call me crazy but I have the terrible feeling that we're following the same exact track of our ancestors right into the abism ashahsah.

I really want to beileve that there is a mystery under the mystery and that Neil Gaiman is in fact the magician in the stage, ready to reveal his magestic plot-twist from under the shadows. But we cannot be so blind to the ockham's razor: Sometimes, a bad show is just bad.

And it's hard to swallow because I'd love to free myself into the labyrinths of theory and possibilities but this is by no meanings a "never seen" outcome. Sequels are often bad to acceptable and the studios have no particular reason to make them a masterpice. The first season was well received, we can low our standars! :D :D :D. And nothing to say when we are in the 4° season, I'm still mad of how they butchered my beloved Doom Patrol ( :( ). And to be fair, the Good Omen's book was a masterpiece. It's difficult to make something as great when your co-autor is not here anymore and the original work was so complete.

The new season of Good Omens is full of things that lead nowhere and you perfectly resumed a lot of them in your essay:

1. "The zombies—where are they? 2. The whole long sequence of buying the bullet-catch trick and putting on the show—why did we need to see all that? 3. The statue of Gabriel—what’s going on with it? It keeps coming up as a Thing but why? 4. The Coffeeshop AU—we’re supposed to believe it is so important, one of the main plot arcs of the season, but it... comes to nothing? 4. The miracle that Gabriel did—we didn’t find out what that was, did we? 6. Aziraphale can draw, apparently, but why is it so important for us to know that? He could have taken a polaroid of Jim!Gabriel, no? Aziraphale knows how photographs work. 7. Why was Crowley wearing sunglasses in the Job scene (2500BC) when he wasn’t wearing them in the two scenes bracketing it in the S1E3 cold open (the Flood and the Crucifixion)? 8. Why is the carpet salesman holding a weird newspaper so we can so clearly see the headline? is that important or just a funny background thing? 9. Shax and Furfur establishing a little alliance—that seemed like a Thing, but the only small payoff we get from them is that little fistbump at the end? Did I miss something? 10. Apparently Aziraphale keeps a Derringer in a hollowed-out book in the shop—is this a literal Chekov’s gun??? Why do we need to know the gun is there unless he is going to fire it at some point? 11. The photograph Furfur took for evidence against Crowley, which Aziraphale stole from him—what happened to it? 12. Aziraphale not taking anything with him from the bookshop when he leaves, not even his journals—after all that discussion in S1 about The Things You Can’t Get In Heaven that he would miss so much he’s willing to sabotage the apocalypse? 13. Muriel reading the book and very obviously showing the title—was this important?"

I'd add more, like the constant focus in the BOX, the insistance of the SONG, etc. All of this questions can be part of a secret agenda planned by Neil but as fandom I think is important to remeber that bad shows exist and not always are part of a intrincate conspiracy. THis points can perfectly be explained by a pressur of the Study in order to keep the fandom giving them money.

Easy tricks like romantic sub-plots, an absurd amount of fanservice with 0 care of the rest of the story, promises that end nowhere. Along all season 1 we're haunted by the ominous knowledge of the End of the Days like a clockwork bomb. Here, we have glimpses of a terrible future with terrible consequences, a book with incredible power and a bloody war and then...

Nothing.

Nothing really matters or is addressed. The relationship of Belcebú and Michael? Skipped and resumed in 4 minutes flashbacks. The terrible consequences? Ignored. All easy to digest, to not think about it too much (absolute sin for a fucking series based in GOOD OMENS's book) and all the romance you can eat.

Keep your eyes open. There are probably more hands touching the story than we can see with way more different agendas than just "a good story".

Honestly, the ending to me is just a lazy tactic to keep the fandom watching. It's not based in the INCREDIBLE story that the book started or any mystery at all. Because let's be real for a second. Who, WHO actually cared this season about the damn story beyonf the Ineffable Husband?? Oh yeah! (sarcasm) I bet the "war" between Heaven and Hell was suuuuuuuuper complex and interesting. And how to forget about all the layers and "sub-plots" and deep comentaries on the table! Surely that's what people is thirsting about. Oh boy! I bet all of the fandom is dying of curiosity about the Second Coming!

No one cares about that stuff anymore. All what the fandom wanted was Ineffable Husbands, Ineffable Husbands, Ineffable Husbands and for gods sake that's what we received! And of course, that's the bait we're about to die for. The fisrt season was an interesting story with a romantic relationship impplied. Here, all we have is fanservice with some breacrumbs of story just to keep things "spicy". It's just Destiel 2!

BUT!

I think you're into something hashahsa. It's just so damn suspicious that FUCKING NEIL GAIMAN is into this bad writting specifically in THIS story that I can't stop thinking about it.

Erasing something of the Book of Life creates a new reality where that something never existed in the first place in a retroactive reaction So, if someone was deleted, we have no way to know it. Or we have?

A missing puzzle piece cannot can be known by the empy space that it leaves. I really believe that most of the loose ends are straight up bad writting but the emphasis in Chejov Guns is just to obvious that they are possibly the pieces arounf our missing "something".

Something is missing and we don't know what is but we can see the shape that was left behind based in all the stuff that is incomplete.

The meta aweraness of fanfic tropes and narrative mechanism is everywhere. As you say: Neil is a magician and we see multiple times magic tricks motifs in the season. Metatron as a story-teller is also coherent with this view. Come on! The Barista x Record seller ship is so cliché that is laughable.

Now, what is missing?

The first option could be "someone". Also, Metatron says that the Book of Life can only delete or it can rewritte? I don't remember and I think that's important. If someone is messing with the Book of Life, they has a bad fanfic understanding of how to write a story. So all the retroactive changes develope in cliché plots and bad writting. So I'm not particulary a believer of Metatron actually being the magician.

Who is benefited of such a bland story? Crowley? Aziraphale? God? (That's an interesting path right there too. God is known for being cryptic and chaotic and we have first hand demonstration of the dialogue with Job: A lot of nonsense that seems to mean nothing but there must be something behind. And whale. God loves their whales. If you want answers you must first ask questions.)

The Status Quo is another anchor here. Heaven and Hell are trying to be the winners of this war BUT at the same time, they don't really have any need to go on to this armaggedon chess of light and darkness. Angels and Demons are basically cops in charge of keeping the status quo of both sides. If nothing changes, there is no winner and no loser. And they can keep their local power for all eternity.

Aziraphale and Crowlet are the annomaly. They have the power to STOP the war or to START it. Someone pulling the strings from the start, manipulating them into treason and partnership would grant this mysterious writer a powerful ace under the sleeve. And they are a perfect mirror of Lucifer. The fallen angel that flyies to close to heaven and the pure angel corrupted by earthly delights.

I don't think the alcohol or the glasses are importat clues here. They are just to light to have a real weight (for me) and can be easely explained as contrasts of "past Aziraphale" and "modern Aziraphale" being more and more comfortable with human things (that is one of his character traits from the beggining).

Metatron seems just too informed of humanity to be so naive respecting historic details and narrative tropes. If someone is editing the book has a very superficial knowledge of both this things and they most be someone relatively close to Heaven (not really, we saw the elevators and the "stairs". Anyone can go UP).

I'm juggling this options:

Option A: Muriel!

✓ Superficial knowledge of how humanity works

✓ As an angel has direct interactions in Heaven

✓ Initial passion and curiosity for literature = Superficial understanding of tropes

✓ EASY TO MANIPULATE

Option B: Bastian Baltasar Bux form the Neverending Story.

I'm not talking about literally Bastian but we already saw a kid with the power to bend reality (Adam). Someone with a superficial and exaggerated knowledge of both historic details and tropes (with a particular interesting in romance settings) could be a teen in possesion of the Book of Life. Like a meta reference to the fandom itself inside the story.

And of course, we need to address the SECOND COMING

I'm not particulary expert in catholic shenanigans since I was 8 but I remember that there are the trumpets, some prophetic stuff going on, the rapture and the judgement raised by the second coming of Jesus Christ. We already saw this guy early but it was more of a casual mention than a mind-blowing scene.

Back to life... the second coming... the resurrectionists... zombies... Lazarus...

You're absolutely right. Something fishy is going on with this motif. Something is ABSOLUTELY about to come back to life.

And I agree with you in the analysis that Nina and Maggie act like souless characters and honestly I don't think that Neil himself will be ever so naive to write such a bland and irrelevant pair. This tastes suspicious too but that's in hopes of the "alternative" not being true.

I disagree about Metatron (or someone else) manipulating all Aziraphale and Crowley's actions (along everyone else) because that means we actually have no idea who are Ari and Crowley and all we saw was a lie. So, that's probably a veeeeeeeeeeery out of ligue possibility. However, the multiple COINCIDENCES, meetings and memories are more easy to track an make sense. They found each other suddendly in the moment they need to be and all memories work strangely great.

(OH GOD THE FUCKING HALO DEUS-EX-MACHINA. THERE MUST BE A DAMN SECRET STORY GOING ON OR I'LL GO APESHIT ABOUT THIS BULLSHIT)

And talking about deus-ex-machinas. Another point against Metatron being the one behind the retcons is the power behind the Book of Life. What would be the point of ALL THIS EFFORT when he could easy just make whatever he wanted with some words. For someone rational and effortless as we see these actions makes no sense. It would be more coherent if someone was editing the Book without knowing about its powers. Then the weird plots and complicate (not really) shenanigans are more obvious and along the characterization of a "naive writer".

And again: Job.

What if all of this is just a game or a bet started by God? Maybe this is a proxis war, where Hell and Heaven are not in combat with their armies and weapons but is played by just to pieces of chess representing both sides.

God (Neil) sent Job (the fandom) terrible disgraces and curses to test his faith. And Job had faith and everyting was right. God said chaotic nonsense to Job and Job was patient.

Maybe Aziraphale and Crowley are avatars of Heaven and Hell and their relationship is the ultimate test. If they finally decide to be together beyond every temptation and disgrace (like Metatron) or they decide to destroy each other. Same as Job test, keep having faith.

Another possibility: Someone made something so terrible, so horrible that its presence was erased from the book. What if this terrible action as MESSING with the book in the first place? Starting a paradox where they never changes the book > Never is erased > Messes with the book > Is erased > Ad infinitum.

 “Prentice becomes obsessed with papers his uncle left behind and sets out to solve the mystery. […] Prentice's efforts to make sense of Uncle Rory's fragmentary notes and the minimal clues surrounding his disappearance mirror his efforts to understand the world and his place in it. The narrative is nonlinear, leaping back and forth with little or no warning, requiring the reader to piece things together.”

Ok, that's straight up stupid hashshasa. There are clues, then hints and then THIS FUCKING KICK IN THE FACE OF OBVIOUSNESS.

Conclusion:

I think we need to be clear about all of this. The mystery is just so bubbling to ignore it but we cannot fall with the same rock the Sherlock fandom did. Be careful! Open your eyes! Don't descend into rabbit-holes without a way to get out. Beware of the random conspiracies and don't trust the Study.

The Magic Trick You Didn’t See: Being An Analysis of Good Omens Season 2

(or: Neil Gaiman, Your Brain is Gorgeous But I Have Cracked Your Sneaky Little Code And Have You Dead To Rights*) (*Maybe)

***

Soooooo I just spent the last 48 hours having a BREATHTAKING GALAXY BRAIN EPIPHANY about Good Omens Season 2 and feverishly writing a fuckin16,000 word essay about the incredible magic trick that @neil-gaiman pulled off. 

Yes, it’s long, but I PROMISE your brains will explode. Do you want to know how magic works? Do you want to know what Metatron’s deal is (I’m like 99% sure of this and it’s EXTREMELY FUCKING GOOD)? Do you want to know about the Mystery of the Vanishing Eccles Cakes and the big fat beautiful clue I found in the opening credits? Do you go through the whole inventory of Chekov’s Firearm & Heavy Artillery Discount Warehouse? 

Here is the essay, go read it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/193IXS11XN46lziHRb6eUpM17yK0BQkRqke1Wh64A_e0/ When ur done u can tell me I’m an insane crackpot, and u know what, i won’t even be offended

In case you don’t know whether you want to bother reading the whole enormous thing on google docs, I’ve put the first couple sections of it under the cut. JUST TRUST ME OKAY, HEAR ME OUT, THIS IS VERY EXTREMELY COOL, NEIL IS GOOD AT HIS JOB–

Keep reading

[thebemoon]

Antis really confuse me

Anti-shipping (loudly and aggressively objecting to a particular ship) is such a weird phenomenon. Dramione anti-shippers appear convinced that the harmless enjoyment of fictional characters, even when portrayed relatively benignly, encourages toxic, abusive real-life relationships. It would be weird enough if anti-shippers would just clutch their pearls (and hopefully choke themselves a bit) from the sidelines. But so many antis leap into the Dramione fandom and just FLIP OUT.

OK, I get it, we're a den of evil and we all prowl street corners in real life for evil, brooding bad boys in our spare time. (I only wish I had the time.) But think about it, dear antis, how many published books out there model perfect romantic and sexual behaviors? That's right, very few. (I'm convinced that many Regency Romances are more toxic than any dark chapter of "Manacled." Yum.)

So why can't fanfiction enjoy the same general tolerance? Is it because the fans create the content as well as consume it, making them all the more reprehensible? And now we Dramione shippers are doubly doomed to rubbish relationships in real life as we spread the word that dating horrid rich boys who once kept prisoners in their dungeons is OK behavior?

Honestly, if I were a darkly brooding bad boy, I'd avoid any Dramione fan like the PLAGUE. They'd be on to me in a hot minute. I'd try to manipulate and verbally abuse them and they'd say "Oooo you're behaving just like Draco in 'Isolation.' Do you listen to me while I shower? It's OK if you do!"

[nickjunesource]

thanks for your optimistic takes...the doom and gloom in this fandom is getting to be to much (I understand it's been tough) but at the end of the day this isn't a fan fiction it's a TV show that needs the angst.

Aww, thanks so much, we're glad that you appreciate it. We try really hard to be realistic and hopeful. This is a hard show to watch so we hope that our optimism helps others even just a little.

There is a lot of doom and gloom in this fandom for a lot of understandable reasons. This has been a really difficult season to get through and is the second season out of the most recent three to be that way. We've had to sit through a lot of things that we didn't want and that didn't make sense. It has definitely been tough on the Osblaine fandom. We also believe that for many, Osblaine is their first ship and so dealing with all the ups and downs is a new and challenging experience for some when it comes to entertainment. Osblaine is a difficult first ship to have! Breathtakingly beautiful, but also enough angst to fill all the oceans.

Yeah, as much as we'd love and enjoy watching a season that was like fanfic, that's sadly just not realistic. TV shows are designed to be as dramatic as possible so they can make as much money as possible. Hopefully next season will do a better job of balancing out the angst and happiness. That would still be good tv, but would be easier on the Osblaine fans and on Nick and June themselves.

[ichinoue]

My thing has always been why aren't IR fans mad at studio pierrot instead of Kubo? Kubo has always known Ichihime was going to be end game. He never led them on to believe otherwise. It's the studio that jumped the gun giving them filler IR scenes that never existed in the manga because they wrongly assumed IR would be endgame. They have all this anger towards kubo when they should've been pointing their pitch forks studio pierrot's way. Even then if they bothered to read the manga despite pierrot fucking up they still would've seen Ichihime coming a mile away and not been surprised they were endgame. I understand if they didn't like the fact that their ship wasn't endgame. For me sometimes I like canon ships and sometimes I like fanon ones. Depends on the dynamic and how well written the ships are. However in the case of Ichihime even if you didn't like the ship, how you can say it came out of nowhere is mind boggling. The signs were so blatant that even if you had shipping goggles on you still would've noticed it. To say otherwise is the living embodiment of delusional at it's finest.

The crazy thing is that before Bleach ended, IR shippers were like....weirdly affectionate with Kubo??? They would talk to/about him as if they were in on some ~open secret~ with him in regards to him shipping IR. Like if Kubo drew a colorspread featuring Ichigo and Rukia they would worship and praise the fuck out of him like "omg, sensei is SO good to us! We're so spoiled!!! :) He wants their love to be known!" or "oooooh sneaky sensei, look at him drawing all that IR eye-smex ;)" or they would be like "the number one ichiruki shipper is Kubo sensei!!!" and it was just like....??? Why? Because he drew a colorspread featuring his two main characters? Wow, *shocking* Maybe that would actually mean something if Bleach weren't a shounen...y'know...where platonic nakama bonds are featured on the colorspreads the most but okay, sure, w/e.

Like I get that all shipping fandoms do that, we thank the creator when they give us new content for our pairings and stuff but idk dude, some of it just seemed excessive at times I guess?

Some of them even believed some forum post from an IR fan who claimed to have made friends with Kubo at San Diego Comic Con (lmfao) and that he promised her he would "put a little love in for IR" which was just like ??? (here's a screenshot) So obviously, it wasn't that this random forum person was lying, it was that KuBO lied!!! he BETRAYed us!!! he promised us the ichiruki!!!!!

So that's what's so weird to me, it's not even just that the anime led them on, it's that they genuinely believed Kubo was a die-hard IR stan and that Bleach was clearly all about the """IR fated lovers, story of destiny!!!!""

...Even though he said a long time ago that he didn't want to focus on romance. And then in an interview he gave post-bleach he said: “Given that bleach is not a romance manga, the romance is drawn purely as a supplementary component.”

Bleach is not a romance manga....Romance is supplementary....But yeah, his intentions all along were to make bleach a love story between Ichigo and Rukia. Do you see how strange and hilarious this is?

They truly convinced themselves that this man "shipped" IR and wrote Ichigo and Rukia's characters to be ~~destined fated lovers~~ They would ignore the blatant shipteases and ramped up screentime and romantic hints he wrote for IH. They ignored how he starved IR of content for years, left their development stagnant after the arrancar arc, and greatly decreased their screentime together ever since. It was so clear that IR was doomed to remain platonic. Especially when you remember that Kubo literally shut ichiruki down in an official interview, wayyyy back in 2008, when he said, and I quote, "It’s not friendship but it’s not an amorous feeling either…Despite standing in a close position with each other, it is not romance." And there you have it. A flat-out denial. But they ignored him. They wouldn't listen to him. And then they had the audacity to claim he "betrayed" them.

But given the continuous smackdown he handed them in the final arc, I really don't think he gives a shit lmao.

[andorerso]

Hi, all of you guys assuming that we're only voting for Rogue One because of a ship, kindly fuck off <3 Or am I meant to understand that people voting for ESB are only doing so because Han and Leia kiss in it? Takes one to know one, right? Yet interestingly, no one from our fandom has said that, and it wasn't Rogue One fans acting like assholes in the tags.

So let's make this clear, we're voting for Rogue One because we like Rogue One. The movie, the characters, the message it sends, and yes, the ship too. But it's a lot bigger than just that. We like Rogue One for the inevitable tragedy, for the emotional catharsis, for how grounded it feels. I do really enjoy the OT too, don't get me wrong, but I personally much prefer seeing ordinary people band together to do the right thing and save the galaxy at the cost of their lives over the chosen one narrative. I find what they did inspiring and just as heroic. I also really enjoyed seeing the darker side of the rebellion, the moral greyness of Intelligence, and I'm very grateful to have a female protagonist who's allowed to be angry and jaded, who's allowed to show her rage, who still has hope and kindness in her despite all that, who isn't objectified or catered to the male gaze.

We like the movie. Rogue One has been my favorite in the franchise since I watched it, way before I joined the fandom and even before Rebelcaptain gradually became my OTP. I'm not going to deny that my favorite doomed romance isn't part of what I like about it, but it's very insulting to imply that we only care about the movie because of a ship. You couldn't be more wrong.

You can campaign for your movie without putting down Rogue One fans. Don't be a sore loser, it's embarrassing.

The Only Rule That Matters Now...

When there are only two films remaining, they will face off against one another in a week-long poll to determine the victor.

It's over, Revenge of the Sith! Rogue One and The Empire Strikes Back have the high ground!

...and now...

It's time to decide, once and for all, what the Best Star Wars Film is.

Is it Rogue One?

Or is it The Empire Strikes Back?

Cast your votes wisely, because this is it!

...and remember, this is all just for fun! Don't take it too seriously! As we all know, there is no topic that people take less seriously than debates on the best Star Wars film!

-Jesse xx

Did I choose those gifs because it looks like Director Krennic is checking ESB-era Luke out? Mayyybe? ;)

[aparticularbandit]

I shall give you a character, and that character will be...!

Jessica Rabbit. *wiggles eyebrows*

untitled? ask? meme?

it's because you knew i was writing jess stuff isn't it i'm taking a break from writing jess stuff to answering jess memes it's like 2014 up in here again wow

003 | Give me a character & I will tell you

How I feel about this character: You really. You really just going to ask me this one. You really just gonna ask me a question I can write a book on how I feel about Jessica Rabbit and how she deserved exactly nothing I put her through and really she is happy for me to not be writing her anymore because it means she's not in pain but she's still around do you know I have a character in a book named in homage to her do you know I named one of my kittens after said character do you know that I now have a pet literally named after her without being named after her that is the biggest deal that is the big cheese that is so important I don't even write her anymore and yet I'm sitting here answering this question taking a break from writing a fic to give a character a potentially happy ending because I actually can even though it has been YEARS since I wrote her Jessica Rabbit keeps finding her way into my fandoms even when I switch them do you know she was in one of the first fics I wrote for Roisa do you know that I had an entire arc based around her do you know that she just--

All the people I ship romantically with this character: YOU REALLY EXPECT ME TO ANSWER THIS ONE FRIENDO?! -SOBS- We're doing best hits because I'm not gonna go into all of the Jess ships. YOU ARE CRUEL. Roger, obviously. Like. Duh. The Jess/Scully ship wrecked me, and I miss it. So much. SO MUCH. (Also if we're throwing blame, I'm gonna blame @fictionpenned because I can.) And I will not elaborate because I honestly don't think I can. The Jess/Regina ship ALSO wrecked me, and I blame @notoriousjae for this entirely. I also will not elaborate here except to say that Claude didn't deserve half of what we put him through. I miss Ducky and our Jess/Annie and Jess/Evanora ships. The soulmate timer universe I keep going back to was created for Jess/Annie, and they were cute together. I miss the vulnerability of Evanora with Jess. (Alana shall not be mentioned because that is OC!Jess and her relationship with actual Jessica Rabbit was so fucking toxic that I can't actually ship it. Like we literally had to create another alternate universe to make up for the shit we did to those two.)

My non-romantic OTP for this character: Jess/Eddie. Give me more Jess and Eddie things. Always give me more Jess and Eddie things. (Also Shadow. OBVIOUSLY. I MISS THEIR BANTER. SO MUCH.)

My unpopular opinion about this character: I know that the Jess is Ace headcanon is really popular, and I love it, you know as an ace who writes Jessica Rabbit, I love this headcanon, and I hold it dearly to my heart...but also it is not my headcanon, Jess is pan, she was created with a very specific purpose and being pan fits with how she was designed. I love your headcanon very much please keep it I love Jess as an ace icon, mine just isn't. ><

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: ...in the movie? Honestly, I don't want changes to movie Jess. She's great. That was an excellent movie. I would not add anything to that. The book is its own special form of.... It's a weird fucking book, y'all. Not bad, just. Weird. Good? Subjectively? Disney kept...names, mostly, and the barest of bare concepts (Jess is still humanoid, Roger is still a rabbit, Herman is still a baby, and Eddie is still a detective) and that is about it the plot is entirely different the book is about finding out who killed Roger and there is no Judge Doom it is so wild but I don't...know if...I would change it...either? I'd have to reread the book to think of things to change. (JESS DESERVES BETTER IN THE BOOK, TOO, ACTUALLY.) And honestly...I don't really - like I'd love more WFRR stuff but I don't think...I don't think it would capture what the original did. So I actually...don't have an answer for this one. Whoops?

My OTP: Don't make me choose, I literally have one Jess funko pop between Scully and Roger and another (different) Jessica figurine between Scully and Regina (and yes I guess this means Scully gets both of them, don't judge me) like. Don't make me choose between them. (I love Jess/Roger, but it's Jess/Regina and Jess/Scully I have a hard time choosing between.)

My OT3: ...did I have an OT3 for Jess? ...I don't really think...the ships I mentioned above...have OT3 potential. Roger is way too jealous for that (Jess could share Roger; Roger couldn't share Jess). I mean. OT3 doesn't have to be sexual in nature, so then, like, Roger/Jess/Eddie would be...yeah? Kind of? (But also I'm feeling intrigued by the idea of a Jess/Alana/Scully thing because like. There's potential in that. Would have smoothed out some things. Remember how Jess actually went to therapy and it didn't fix anything and actually in fact made things worse because I DO. Reasons you don't have sex with your therapists, kids; it might just add to their trauma and end up with them turning into a cannibal.) Actually, I could conceivably Annie/Jess/Evanora because there are some interesting things that could be played around with in that, but then that gets weird because Annie and Evanora were twin sisters - or probably would have been if they were both involved (their verses were usually separate, so it wasn't an issue), so it would be more Jess being involved with both of them. I could bring Haruko back, but that's a bad plan. You know what, actually, Miyo and Jess could easily be open to a third person. Can I just say I don't know? Because I don't know.

[dreamland-arcade]

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We are DreamlandArcade on SimplyPlural if you want to know our system member list.

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Non-psychotic and singlet kinnies! Fucking NONE. We have bad experiences with them. And especially kinnies who use the term "doubles." Doubles is a delusional and system ONLY term. If you know you don't have a form of psychosis and are a system and use system and DA terms, FUCK OFF. And it goes double if you PRETEND to be your "highest kin".

Fictive and factive disrespecters

Dsmp/MYCT, Attack on Titan, Homestuck, Danganronpa, Mandela Catalogue and/or Walten Files fan Seriously! If you're a Homestuck fan you are on the thinnest of fucking ice. Doubly so for you guys who support shit like D/rk/J/ke, transmasc Roxy and June Egbert.

Proship/Anti-anti/MAPS

Fandom people in general/Engage in fandom stuff

Black Doom Slanderists. Good god shut the fuck up every one of you who talks shit about him.

Roleplay accounts of ANY kind. We are NOT roleplayers, we are a SYSTEM

Anyone 14 years old and younger.

NSFW accounts

Discourse accounts

Elio Strider (or anyone who's friends with him/support him)

Interests!!!!

Special Interests (We don't shut up about these)

- Drawfee (Drawtectives, Drawga)

- AUDT, our massive DuckTales 2017 AU! It has poisoned our brain

- Littlest Pet Shop (2012)

- Ace Attorney

- The Era of Shadow

- My Little Pony (every generation)

- Kirby

- Slime Rancher

- Teas! Like, the drink

- Five Night's at Freddy's and FNaF Highschool

- AJR

We're Normal About These

- Game Grumps

- Amphibia

- The Owl House

- Pokemon

- Neopets

- Psychonauts

- Undertale and Deltarune

- Legend of Zelda

- Steven Universe

- Adventure Time

- Doki Doki Literature Club

- Gravity Falls

- Mr. Osomatsu-san

- Misao

- Corpse Party

- Omori

- Ib

- Mad Father And etc (there's more, but we cannot remember)

Art account: @dreamscape-popstar

Oc only account: @dreamlandvalley

(Posted 05/01/22) (Edit 08/13/23)