#which is not true! i love my boy!

[haematoclan]

What’s your opinion on rise Raph? It took some getting used for me since I am used to Raphs being the oldest and anxious. He’s fine I guess I like his voice XD

oh i love rise Raph! personally, i didn't have much problem with getting used to Raph being the way he is because i saw just a couple of episodes of 2012 and 2003 so this change was easy for me to accept it :p

he's my second favorite rise character actually! he's sweet, protective, sensitive, a chaotic adrenaline junkie with anger issues he tries to control, he's tying his self-worth directly to how well he can protect the ones he loves and how much he feels like he's needed- i mean, what's not to like?? and yes he has a lovely voice! his va did a great job with his portrayal of Raph! he also has many, many great line deliveries :D

[twstjam]

Fuck the timeline, everyone please consider an au where the Knight of Dawn narrowly escapes from a fight that almost kills him and as he's limping through a forest to find somewhere to hide and recover, the woodland creatures find him and lead him somewhere. He follows, assuming they're leading him somewhere safe, but before he can reach it he collapses from his injuries. As his consciousness begins to fade, he sees Princess Meleanor looking down at him and he isn't surprised that she'd been waiting for his end, waiting for him to join her in the Underworld where he'd sent her.

Later in the evening, Lilia Vanrouge is startled by the door to his quiet little cottage bursting open. His prince and pupils have returned... and they have dragged the injured Knight of Dawn back with them. Silver runs up to Lilia and begs "Papa" to help the poor injured man they'd found in the woods, completely oblivious to how Lilia's blood chills and his mouth goes dry because his son this human child had so cluelessly brought an old enemy into their home who also happens to be his father.

[kitthew]

i think the reason that kaos is such a successful adaptation, despite being so inaccurate to the myths, it’s that it’s so new, fresh, and entertaining

like, there isn’t one canonical Greek Myth. there are, of course, surviving texts from the era—homer, euripides, aeschlyus, etc. — but those are only what have *survived,* there are countless other myths and ancient retellings that have been lost to time. besides, even between the original myths, there are discrepancies and different interpretations. the myths originated in an oral storytelling tradition, and with each teller, the stories were different. sure, there were some things that stayed consistent throughout the retellings, but almost every myth has elements that varied across sources.

you could always argue that even though that might be true, they could have based the show more on less common myth alternatives that still have sources from the time period, but i personally think the fact that they’re kind of doing their own thing is literally just what the ancient greeks were doing with their myths as well lol

plus, the reason successful greek plays *were* successful was that they told existing stories in a new and interesting light. sure, it was more of a “no one goes to the theatre to find out what happens next, they go to hear how the writer is telling the myth in a new and interesting way” sort of vibe, and kaos *does* have an element of watching bc you don’t know what happens next bc so much has been changed from the original myths, but again, i think this is basically just what the greeks were doing. when something originated in an oral storytelling tradition, there isn’t One Definitive Way to retell it. kaos takes a lot of creative liberties with the source material, but there’s always room for new interpretations and ways of telling these stories

BUT the show is imo so engaging and successful despite all that bc it really gets at the heart of the myths, even though, again, it isn’t at all accurate. zeus is cruel, power-crazed, and incestuous. dionysus is literally just a boy. hera is trying so so hard to be a GirlBoss. hades and persephone are the only ones who seem to have their shit together. poseidon is a douche on a yacht. there’s some incredibly interesting and compelling world building. and at its core, the show is about two things: 1) the gods are human and fallible and 2) you cannot outrun your fate, no matter how hard you try.

and what’s more greek than that?

[ducklooney]

I haven't commented in a long time, but I have to say this. I was recently on the Disney Wiki and next to the article about Max Goof I found this Trivia where it says this:

Huey, Dewey and Louie in House of Mouse are young adults?!

If so, then they should be a bit taller and be the same age as Max Goof, not still look the same height and sound the same as Donald (I know Tony Anselmo did their voices after Clarence Nash, but again no changes). I mean look at this:

Mickey is taller than them by a few inches. So how can Huey, Dewey and Louie be young adults when they haven't visited Mickey or their Uncle Donald? Max Goof is known to be tall and most likely 18 at the time (something between A Goofy Movie and An Extreme Goofy Movie). I mean look at this picture:

Max is known to be taller than Minnie and the rest of the Sensational Six characters except his father Goofy.

Let's face it, I love House of Mouse and enjoyed it a few years ago and I still think it was definitely a great Disney series with good crossovers from Disney movies but my gripe with that series is that almost everyone acts like assholes except for a few characters like are Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Pluto, Goofy, Max, Ludwig and other characters from Disney movies that turned out great. Unfortunately this is especially true for my favorite characters like Donald and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie who turned out to be bad in that series. But I will dedicate this critique post to Donald's nephews. Still Donald had his good moments, but I can't say the same for Donald's nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie who turned out to be desperate.

Yes, I'm aware that they took the models for them from the Quack Pack, but whatever the Quack Pack was, they still did a thorough and better job of distinguishing Donald's nephews and they sounded like boys their own age thanks to the voice actresses who played them . The House of Mouse totally mixed them up so Louie became Huey, Dewey became Louie, and Huey became Dewey. And yes, they had their own band, the Quackstreet Band, which is fine, modeled after the 1990s Backstreet Boys, but the problem is that they had nothing to do but play. I also don't like how they sounded. I wonder why Russi Taylor didn't play them? I have nothing against Tony Anselmo, he remains a great actor, but I prefer him playing Donald and someone like him, rather than playing boys. Everyone says how badly Quack Pack did the triplets which I don't agree at all, House of Mouse did more. Of course too many characters so they can't all focus on each one individually, but certainly my point is that Huey, Dewey and Louie are not young adults as allegedly claimed in House of Mouse, and they are not teenagers either but as pre-teens as they were in Mickey Mouse Works. Certainly, in my opinion, one of the worst versions of Donald's nephews and I don't want them to sound like Donald at all, because even though they look like their uncle, they still have their own selves and their own specific speech. As much as I have complaints against Ducktales 2017 triplets, they still turned out better there than in House of Mouse and certainly remained in the memory of many, the version of triplets from House of Mouse not so much.

Certainly in my opinion the Quack Pack did a much better job with Donald's nephews and giving their personalities as well as their relationships with their uncle Donald which were on a high level, but it should have left Huey being Huey, Dewey being Dewey and Louie being Louie. If House of Mouse had taken them the right way with their different teenage voices it would have been much better, and there would certainly have been a focus on the relationships between Max Goof and Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, who certainly have some common personalities. That's my opinion, so I'm asking whoever works at Disney Wiki to change that Donald's nephews in House of Mouse are not young adults, but still boys entering the teenage period. Apologies to the others, but that's my opinion. I like House of Mouse, but I like Quack Pack Huey, Dewey and Louie much better than the rip-off House of Mouse version.

P.S. Maybe one day I'll make my own version of House of Mouse where the Quack Pack version of Donald's nephews along with Max, P.J. and Bobby formed a music band and they would be peers and they would get along great. At least in my headcanon.

[orangeshipper]

Only O’LiamRoe remained by Margaret Lennox’s side as the doors reopened and in the shadows a man came to stand, fair, lightly made and dimly sparkling, like crystal half-seen in the dark, a young page carrying a baton at his back. Then he moved out into the fine room and the monkey, shrilling, dropped on to the cloth of gold tabard, thick and dazzling as the sun on the sea. ... O'LiamRoe looked at the Countess. Her unusually bleached good looks which he had been admiring a moment before had given way to a sudden queer heightening of her splendour. She drew a long, unsteady breath. The air, which had been alive as an eel bath with brilliant unchosen words, became abruptly quite dead. ... Turning, he looked at Vervassal again. The shrillness of temperament you might have suspected from that opening sentence was not in fact there; rather there was, nearly concealed, a sort of residual power, clear as blown glass, piercing and concentrated as a needle of ice. O’LiamRoe became conscious that the man was looking at him, and turned away. The herald’s gaze turned to Lady Lennox, who, O’LiamRoe could not know, saw none of these things: saw an untouched boy’s face of eight years before and another, more recent, with the new hammer-shapes of leadership plainly on it. And now here was a face she had never quite seen, circumstances she did not know, an intellect she recognized, an illness he could not easily hide, pressed and frozen together into a detachment as dark and icy as O’LiamRoe’s, for example, was shallow and warm. For all these reasons, for the surge of a blind force within her that she had throttled all these years before and abandoned for dead, Margaret Lennox looked back at Lymond and was silent.

- Queens Play, Part 3 VI London: The Nettle and the Venom

[feyd-meowtha]

I didn't bring my lost boys jumper to Japan cus it was too bulky 😞

The tragic consequence of this is that I can no longer perform the hilarious feat of having someone compliment me on my lost boys jumper only to lift it up and display my lost boys t-shirt followed by lifting up my trouser leg and showing them my lost boys tattoo. At which point they realise that I have a bleach blonde mullet.

Sad.

[hinamie]

did some digging back in an old discord server i had with the friend who got me in2 jjk bc i was curious abt how it all started and let me tell u . i am so ashamed of some of the things i said i could have turned out SO differently i was on a dangerous path . alternate timeline tumblr user hinamie neutral on megumi + gojofucker + sukugo main,,,,,,,,

[astrobei]

oh boy do i have some news for you

[urdreamgirls-dreamgirl]

no offense but steve and nancy’s talk in the woods in season 4 was hands down the worst thing stranger things has ever done

[pochapal]

rounding up all princes on white horses and leading them straight to the glue factory

[idolsummons]

okay legit tho..... the Female Muse fear is real

i'm scared that if i write something shippy ppl will be like "ugh u are only writing a female character to ship her" but if ppl do the same amount of content with a male character it'll be fine u know????

[skitskatdacat63]

Boy King Seb :D

[spinninglightning]

whenever i read fics i always end up thinkin of a song for the fic or like, th chapter and then i canr stop associating the fic w/ those songs

[castelled-away]

So now that we know the marriage market/schemes of the ton are not Benedict‘s cup of tea & he spends the better part of s3 running away from debutantes who want to marry him… I need Sophie (or whoever is going to be his love interest in his season) to be the incarnation of the word no. I need this lovely lady to be absolutely uninterested in this jokester puppy of a Bridgerton so that he HE has to run after HER. And she’s just like no thanks & completely uninterested & pragmatic/down-to-earth all the time until he like…cries & begs her to marry her I guess?

[candycryptids]

Hiya! I hope you're doing well today! I love your characters and how you've structered their bios! Since Chuusday is listed first, is she technically your official WOL or is it someone else? Do you canonically have a WOL in the first place?

Also, I find it SO sweet that you and one of your partners both play FFXIV and have characters paired together ;w; Did you meet ingame or long before either of you started playing? Either way I wish you both the best!!! <3 - gardenofballads 🌻

Awaaaah! Im doing pretty ok!!! Taking time to answer this as a wind down from Emerald Weapon Ex Brain Soupage. And I’m so glad! ;W; I think I butchered one of those “Get To Know An OC” thingies- uhh… oh [this one] actually! I chopped a lot out and I think added a couple different thingums instead because there was so much to that that it felt overwhelming to try to look at let alone fill out LOL but it was a really good jumping off point uvu;

And!!! Hilariously Chuu was my First XIV Character, so she’s dear to my heart for being the first one- but she very quickly made it known being the WOL even as an AU was something of a Joke (Her character showed great reluctance and even frustration at having to do So Much World Saving, maybe a side-effect of me rushing through MSQ to catch up with my other spouse [Who plays Talia, though they’ve got less time for XIV these days ;0;] and the rest of my friends who were all EndGame already at the time in Shadowbringers fhdjfjsjfs.) So I made…… many alts. Throwing spaghetti at the wall but I have SEVERE side-character/NPC brain and kept making “supporting cast” types =w=; it actually took me like. 3? Alts before making an ACTUAL WoL with my husband (Ishi’li and Kizuna) (as of Right Meow, they’re in post ARR, but we’ve been working on Keathan and Tuesday together because Keathan was… Keathan’s first character in xiv XD so we’ve been jaunting through the story together and experiencing every inch of it so we can pick and choose what The Boys™ get up to when we wanna focus on them x3)

🥰 I knew both speece during at least high school- but I actually knew Keathan as early as Elementary school hehe 😌 tho the speece didn’t proper marry until… i’unno, 2017? (For frustrating legal reasons, I’m not legally married, but. As it goes. Someday we’ll have money to visit the one state that has legal poly marriages. Also I struggle to remember our wedding year 🫢)

Since managing to make a Co-WoL with my husband I’ve managed to make one other Alt meant to be a Solo-WoL (Mochiie) but I have to really wrinkle my brain to sink time into playing him, since I’m trying to take screenshots throughout the story at what I find to be inspiring beats xD And even still he has an alt-universe where he’s just a side-character for the ‘Main Timeline’ (where there’s a bunch of spaghetti and like 8+ confirmed WoL’s and the Msq entourage looks HILARIOUS in canon, someday I’ll get all the data together and take pictures, but I think it’ll cook what’s left of my brain x’3) [it’s less concrete than anything I’ve posted about before or I’d try to explain it ;v;’ it’s just interesting mostly to see how the story gets stretched to fit around a larger community of heroes than a solo guy shouldering the whole burden lmfao.]

🌸🌸🌸…. I also hope you’re having a lovely week @gardenofballads !!!! I am tossing flower petals into the air around you !!! Thank you for the ask and well wishes n kind words 🥺💖 🌸🌸🌸

[mqfx]

sidenote: I think it's funny when ppl are like "but back in the day" etc etc when the story is Fantasy. there is no "back in the day" we are making it up. not a comment about the ask I got btw I am talking about g/o/t fans who justify the age gap marriages with "BUT BACK IN THE MEDIEVAL TIMES" like bro? 1st of all even they didn't and second of all how does that matter this is a novel some guy wrote not a historical treatise and 3 GRRM did that to make a point not bc he wants you to ship it??? anyway