#zera is an amazing writer

[applestruda]

Impulse and the book

(based on chapter 1 of zera's bkau fic)

[hopepetal]

Reminding everyone that reblogs are better than likes

Especially on tumblr

[periwinklemoonlight]

I'm looking DIRECTLY at your attributes au...

if you ever need a fic writer to write smth for it.... all I'm saying-

thank you! i really appreciate the offer, but zera @hopepetal is the official fic writer and co-creator of our au! he's super amazing, you may know him as the fic writer for the boatem knights au by our friend bee applestruda :D

so far, the plan is for the attributes au to be a multi-chaptered fic with more designs and tidbits coming out in between parts. we've got a big story planned!

however, please don't let this stop you from writing your own fics in the universe - we'd really love to see it!! if you do end up writing something, please ping us :DD

[kingdoms-and-empires]

Hello to the best writer in the whole world !!

I read the demo at least 6 times and never get bored with it , the details and the plot is amazing and I can tell your efforts are really paying off thank you for delivering an amazing content for us readers 😊 Juliana is my favorite character so far I really hope you would consider writing scenes of our MC bonding with his siblings especially the twins !!

Sorry for the long ass paragraph lol but I have some questions and I hope you would answer no pressure tho 😅

1: can you tell us what are the LI hogwarts houses ? Lmao since I am a huge Harry Potter fan I feel like nysthe would be a slytherin since I saw the description of her characte is somewhat evil r she is giving me yandree vibes 🤭and I love it 😀

2: can you tell us about our LIs heights I feel like nysthe and mary are smol beans while astrid is on the tall side

3: pls pls give us an example of how our LIs would react if someone flirts with MC

I love you flames !! I hope you have a good day/night and ❤️💙💜💖💛💚💘

Im so thankful to you! Im also so sorry for making you read walls of text! Ive gone back and added more page breaks and broken up the walls of text to make it much more easier for mobile readers to read!

As for scenes bonding with the siblings, im happy to say that the side story idea i had for different POVs and stuff allow me to add those tidbits without impacting the flow of the story! So yes, many more scenes than i originally planned for will have you bonding with siblings in the side story part of the codex!

Gryffindor

Lucina

Veriel

Maximillian

Zera

Hufflepuff

Edward

Mary

Astrid

Ravenclaw

Amina

Cheris

Slytherin

Nysthe

Voryn

Ill end it with that cause i like playing hard to get (information out of)

[cornercritter]

I am Zera's nonny! (that's my name now ig) and OH MY GOD YOU'RE THE ASKER HOW DID I NOT REALIZE!!

Literally all I did was combine your two ideas-

You're brilliant, you're amazing, you're a phenomenal writer, you deserve the Nobel Prize in Literature, I hope your crops are watered and healthy, I hope your sleep is restful, and may you never have ARTBLOCK!!!

-Nonny :D

*blushes and giggles like an absolute idiot* HAIII THANK YOUUUU :D<3 hehehehehe i love falsesymmetry so much and i love the way you combined my ideas for her that was very cool and i would have never come up with it myself so good good job you are so cool (thank you also for the nobel prize i have posted exactly one(1) piece of writing on this blog)

also @hopepetal ZERA LOOK I CAUGHT YOUR GUY-

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[kayawolfhorse]

ask game! 🥤🔪🪲

🥤 Recommend an author or fanfic you love.

Instructions For Stealing Stars is a fantastic caper fic featuring the GGGs! Super fun world, I love everyone’s roles within the story, and truly I’m a sucker for a good heist.

Dramaturgy is unbelievably great, with an amazing plot and some of my favorite characterization ever.

Boatem Knights AU the AU of all time <3 All of Zera’s work is wonderful, and Boatem Knights is forever spinning in my mind.

🔪 What’s the weirdest topic you’ve researched for a writing project?

I don’t often research blatantly weird topics I’d say, moreso just oddly specific ones, like electromagnetic fields and its effects on certain things, and what writer hasn’t looked up every detail about an injury they’re planning on bestowing their character with next?

🪲 Add 50 words to your current WIP and share that paragraph here.

This one is redacted as a zine piece, but rest assured words were added!

(Ask game)

[quixotic-quetzalcoatl]

Stick-to-itiveness is an inelegant word I heard a few years ago in relation to building perseverance in kids. The most successful adults were children who learned early on how not to give up even if their tasks were boring and frustrating. And the best part is, it is definitely something parents can teach their kids. 

It’s kind of amazing to me that the vld writers, despite all of our criticism of them, were able to make such consistent characters (for some, not all.) When I saw that little tiny excerpt of Coran talking about Allura trying to draw a Flan-bil-diplor as a kid, getting it wrong, and basically never trying again, I was like man,  y’all don’t know about good parenting, do ya?

She gets mad when things don’t go her way. Like, Coran said it took the original paladins years to learn how to pilot their lions, but on the first day, Allura yells at Blue, “what’s wrong with you, do as I say!” On the other hand, she generously dishes out the insults when the paladins weren’t getting it right away. When Lotor talks about the importance of the Kral Zera, shes all like, nope, too hard, I give up. But she eagerly criticizes the BoM for their caution and blames the ten millennia year old war on them. And after one unsubstantiated accusation, she gives up on her new relationship with Lotor. Too galra, too much like his dad, see ya later boi. And if it wasn’t for Lance and Lotor, every time she says, “I wasn’t trained,” then she never would have unlocked her potential. “I shouldn’t be here” in honerva’s lair. ie. I give up and I haven’t even started yet. “I’ll never be the alchemist my father was.” Ie. too hard, I give up. 

Like come on, why u guys have to write her like this?

[bicinno]

Thank you for your patience! We are happy to announce the contributors for the @monsterpromzine and we encourage everyone to check out all of the talented people on the zine, you’ll be amazed by their works!

Reblog to spread the word!

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[puppetmaster55]

Thoughts on the s3-s6 Storyline

So.

Yeah.

I’ve already spoken about my thoughts on the clone storyline (back when it was a theory) and on how s3 and s4 connect as a singular storyline (they do not), and on how I feel about s6, what I believe Lotor’s true endgame was, how Naxzela was absolutely a trap Haggar wanted Kuron to lead everyone into, how Acxa knew about Sam Holt, and so now comes my thoughts on all of it. All twenty-six episodes that make up s3-s6.

These twenty-six episodes were more geared toward being Lotor’s storyline while Voltron took a backseat to his arc. The war was ended, I guess, when Lotor took the throne bc we don’t see any rebel force fighting the empire after that. Heck, during the Kral Zera both Haggar and Sendak proclaim the empire is no more.

I dunno. I think the writers wanted to have the war die with Zarkon, or something. It’s very unclear, until we see the aftereffects of all of this in the next season.

I don’t think I can divide this post from how I feel about clone theory, now clone storyline. Because that whole thing was just… one clusterfuck of a mess, and one that we will never see explained. Everyone’s come forward to say that the clone storyline is done, and even watching the show I could tell that we are never going to get an explanation. Nothing about Operation Kuron is ever going to be explained.

We saw the clone reveal, and with it came… zero explanation. Every single clone is now dead. The whole operation was destroyed. OG Shiro is back and with presumably more holes in his memory than he had before, depending on how you view it. The clone served his narrative purpose and now we’ll never know or understand the in-universe reasons for there even being clones outside of speculation and fanon.

And there’s no build-up to the clone thing. All we have ever had to go on has been the vague flashes seen when he appears and as someone who doesn’t recognize clone tropes when they’re being used, I didn’t catch that they were a buncha hints that he was a clone.

Honestly, there was just… so much build-up to it being mind control (which it kinda was) than to there being clones. From Narti to the Hoktril to Haggar using the mind control to look into Zarkon’s mind (and see through Narti’s eyes), it all felt like a whole lotta build-up to the reveal that “clone” was a red herring and it was real shiro all along, just mind controlled there at the end.

But instead it was a clone, whose reveal as a clone was purely for shock value and given zero explanation for why Haggar would clone Shiro.

I still don’t like Keith as the leader, because I’ve barely seen him make tactically sound decisions that weren’t in the heat of the moment and weren’t explained to the team. Even worse, that he left the team, stopped being a paladin, for almost three years on his timeline, and he comes back and fits right in like he never left. Nobody is the same person they were after spending two years without social interaction outside of your family and a dog you raised (even if you get flashes of your whole life story in those two years).

Over the course of these four seasons I grew less and less interested in Keith, to the point where I was zoning out for entire scenes he was centered around (I… honestly will have to watch The Black Paladins several times before I can even get drawn into it and remember what happened there). Do I have anything against Keith? No. I just have nothing toward Keith either. I feel nothing for him, because there’s nothing about him that I can really relate to.

Keith has never wanted to be the Black Paladin and frankly neither do I. He’s not someone who inspires others, or can stand as a beacon of hope, or any number of things that makes him anywhere qualified to be the guy calling the shots.

To say little of the fact that Keith, just like when he was first introduced, swooped in to save Shiro when Lance had all that build-up. I do not think, at this point in the story, that that is ever going to change.

I love Krolia to bits, though. She’s amazing and I desperately hope she isn’t killed off.

These 26 episodes have felt more like they were devoted to telling Lotor’s story than to telling the continuation of Voltron’s story, or the war of the Coalition against the galra empire. The last we see of the Coalition is the opening of s5, where they’ve regained a whole third of the empire and it seems like that’s it.

There’s so much story that happens off-screen too, like when s5 opens with the minor timejump all for the audience surprise of “the generals have Sam Holt”. Or… whatever that past Lotor has with Acxa.

Really, I could stand to have an episode of Acxa’s backstory so we can understand just what in the hell the point of the s4 finale betrayal was if she was always on his side all along, as we learn in the s6 finale. Because nothing about her turning against Haggar for Lotor makes any sort of sense otherwise.  

Thata’s the crux of it, ultimately. The s3-s6 storyline was like an iceberg: we were, at any given point in time, only given ten percent of the story. Even now that it’s done a lot of us, I think, are still scrabbling to uncover just what that other 90 percent of the story we weren’t shown or explicitly told was.

Compare this to s1-s2 storyline, where by the end of s2 we understood everything that happened and everything that was going on, because it was all clearly told to us.

Ultimately, I feel like Lotor made more strides in his arc than anyone else. Allura now knows how to use the powers she discovered at the end of s2, and Lance now has a sword and a more long-range weapon, and yeah Pidge now has found her entire family but… it doesn’t feel like anyone else is at a different place than they were when they began. Unless we count the continued groundwork of the future “Lance quitting the team” arc.

I’m still not sure if I should count Lance as having an arc, considering that he went from having a lion he was super bonded to (Blue) to having a lion that he just… flew and completely failed to stop Lotor or realize the full extent of what was wrong with Shiro.

This set wasn’t great for a number of reasons, least of all the muddled storyline. Lotor’s storyline was enough for 26 episodes, while the war was enough for 26 episodes, and… we had two separate storylines that were enough for 52 episodes condensed into half that amount. Lotor had no bearing upon the war whatsoever, that when we jumped back into it in s4 it felt jarring. Almost entirely because it was a sudden timeskip.

I siad it before and I’ll say it again here: the decision to split the 13-episode seasons into smaller seasons was a major saving grace, with how little s4 follows the events of s3… for the Voltron side of things.

Because, again, Lotor had a much clearer storyline for these 26 episodes than anyone or anything else.

There were things I loved about this season set (Sven, Lance getting a sword and sniper feature, the worldbuilding among the Galra, all the new characters, THE OG PALADINS THEY HAVE FOUND THEIR WAY INTO MY HEART BLAYTZ ESPECIALLY) and some things I didn’t (clone storyline, oh my god I was so against it the moment I heard it as a theory bc I knew the show couldn’t pull it off and by god did they not pull it off).

And oh my god, Lotor. I love Lotor, so incredibly much. He was so genuine but his pragmatism and the way he bent morals to do what needed to be done made him a fantastic villain. It makes me almost wish he had been someone genuinely good who kept getting pushed into looking like the villain because of his parents. Almost.

God but I dearly hope we’re not done with Lotor, because he went full Azula and to see him undergo a redemption arc at that point would be so stunning.

Everything in these past 26 episodes went from being clear-cut to being a mess. We have the Coalition, Rebels, and Blade working to destroy the empire, the empire falling apart into a civil war, and Voltron jumping sides as they find new people to ally themselves with. Everything is going in so many different directions now, that I feel like I need a flowchart to understand it all. I can only hope that, moving forward, the dust can begin to settle so we can see where everyone stands. I can only hope that the plot finally slows down enough for both audience and characters to get their bearings.

...also I am unashamedly stating that s5 sits as one of my top three favorite seasons of the show so far, purely because of how much it focused on the interaction and relationship with Shiro and Lance. Also, Monsters and Mana is the filler episode we’ve been begging for all along. Please let us get more like it.

[thisamyisbulletproof]

Voltron Season 5

Okay so I just want to put my opinion on the new season out there as well. Obviously there were things I liked and disliked, but I also want to say that all in all it's an amazing season and I really love it.

Non goodies this season:

The season was so short again and I want to cry because I'm the idiot who binge watched it. But hey, season 6 will be coming relatively soon.

I also really hated that there was so little of Keith in this season, I hope they'll be focusing more on him in season 6 now that there's been this major reveal about his mum. I'd hate if he slipped in the background even further, my son needs more screen time.

What I also found irritating was that Sendak suddenly appeared again? And then disappeared? Unless he'll return again in a later season with a plot-affecting role, I have no idea why they dug him up again.

Goodies this season:

I... Lotor... I really like Lotor. A lot. And I kind of trust him. I think his intentions are actually genuine and judging by the way he acted towards Allura when they went to Oriande he cares about them, her especially. I think he feels kind of connected with her not only because of his Altean heritage, but also because he honestly wants to learn more about it without any ulterior motives. I'm really excited for what's in store for him. What I also loved was that he had the "marks of the chosen". He was deemed worthy to enter the birthplace of Altean alchemy, even though he entered the series as a villain. Despite his wrongdoings he was still deemed worthy. The only reason Oriande didn't work out for him entirely was because of his upbringing. He wants to do better and he wants to bring peace to the universe despite how he was raised. That boy is too pure and needs to be protected at all costs

"I left you once. I'll never leave you again."

No, seriously. Krolia is amazing. She seems really smart and contrary to her son very calm. She knows exactly what she is doing and we need more of her in season 6. We need some mother/son bonding time and a lot more Keith as well.

The subtle hints that something isn't right with Shiro in the beginning were so great and I liked how they finished up his arc of the season. It was kind of bold, but yet nicely done as it had been building up the whole season. And I also have this feeling kinda that Shiro is actually Shiro and that would be, at least in my opinion, much scarier than him being a clone. I think his small changes come from Haggar's influence on him, similar to the virus on Olkarion, but slower. I'm assuming she's doing the same mind thing she did to the lizard-y dude with the cat, whose name I can't remember right now. This is a really good set-up for an amazing, tension-filled arc and I hope they keep doing something great with it.

Kral Zera. I loved it. The way the writers slowly introduce us to the Galra as an actual civilization with traditions, culture and history is astounding. I mean, come on. As much as I love Star Wars, I have no idea how the Empire or the First Order actually work. Is it just an army controlling some galaxies? With the Galra we get glimpses of their actual society every now and then. It's not just soldiers and ranks. It's a people. This is some good ass world building people. Chapeau to the writers.

I could honestly go on and on about what I liked this season, because aside from the few complaints I have up there ⬆, I was really excited about the whole season. This was writing at its best and the visual design was absolutely stunning again. Character development was on point and all in all I really couldn't be happier with the season.

[sapphic-apple-juice]

I’m getting pretty sick of hearing only negative stuff going on in Fairy Tail, so let’s talk about positive stuff for a little bit, yeah?

We get to see more of the people in other guilds during this arc helping out Fairy Tail instead of being their enemy.

Gajeel and Levy are canon!

Dragon Cry is coming out soon and it looks amazing!

The anime is confirmed coming back this year and it’s going to be great!

We know Erza’s full backstory.

Plenty of ship moments for everyone.

Gildarts and Cana have a great father/daughter bond and it’s beautiful.

Mirajane is still alive!

Wendy and Chelia totally kicked butt this arc and it’s nice seeing my children grow up.

Mavis came back to life!

Erza is technically still the guild master of Fairy Tail and she’s doing a hecking good job. Just look at how she stopped Gray and Natsu from killing each other. I’m pretty glad they’re not dead.

Anna is back and kicking butt!

Freed is still alive!

Sting has come a long way from how he was in the Grand Magic Games. Just look at him taking down a Spriggan I’m so proud :’)

The artists of the fandom are all doing a hecking good job and I’m proud of them!

The writers of the fandom are all doing a hecking good job and I’m proud of them!

We got to see some of Lyon!

The Fairy Tail memories at the start of each chapter are amazing!

Zeref is fulfilling his role as the bad guy and it’s cool!

Using one spell Makarov defeated a country’s entire army!

Acnologia is chasing after a ship instead of getting some of the not moving dragon slayers on the ground and that’s kinda funny to picture.

Ichiya is saving the day and that’s kinda funny to picture!

Ultear came back for one last hero moment and she was beautiful!

Gray and Juvia are both still alive!

Brandish isn’t a friend or foe! She’s just awesome! And Alive!

Did you see where Minerva apologized to Lucy and didn’t expect forgiveness but received it anyway? I did and that was pure!

Aquarius isn’t lost forever!

Lucy has those cool star dress things and they’re totally pretty!

That Yukino and Angel sister moment was pure

Kagura is still kicking butt!

Acnologia is the dragon who can eat magic and that is just awesome!

Zera returned for a little bit and her reunion with Mavis was pretty hecking touching!

Natsu is holding his own in a fight against Zeref and it’s awesome!

Juvia’s hair.

MAVIS’S HAIR.

The arc isn’t over yet, but it’s getting there. In this final arc try to remember the good stuff with the bad stuff, know that it doesn’t all suck, even if it’s things as simple as your favorite character still being alive.

There’s still plenty more positive stuff for other people to add! 

[hopepetal]

Hello dear Zera,

As the sun is drying all the wet land on this fine Thursday, I just wanted to gush about your writing and how amazing you are. The power in your words, the strength to talk for us, fic writers, and how you shine in ways I couldn't even describe. The passion you have for your projects (yes I'm talking about 5llsmp and Boatem Knights AU) is so inspiring and I think genuinely, if I haven't witness your perseverance, I wouldn't be writing so many fics ideas as I currently am.

It's just a friendly reminder that you are appreciated and that I love your writing and your joy you bring on my dash, whether it's the moots shenanigans, another writing piece or just reblogging 60 times the same post.

Sending you all the good vibes for the rest of your lovely day!

SCREAMING OMG,,,

thank you so much oh my goodness, you're so sweet what the heck ;~; I've been having a bad couple of days but everyone's been so nice to me and it's just

WAUGH

thank you so so so much, i hope you have such a wonderful day

[multi-fandomtrashtm]

We Made It. Fairy Tail Finale: Chapter 545

We made it, guys. Through the high blood pressure, grins and tears, we made it. To celebrate, I’ll go back to my old style of reviewing; page by page.

Finale or not, prepare for salt. I’ll try to be as calm as possible.

This is a nice cover, but Levy looks very out of place. She’s not really that important of a character. 

Oh cool, Lucy won an award. That’s nice. I honestly kind of forgot that she’s a writer since it’s barely mentioned. 

Look at the upper left hand corner of that group shot. Those are all of the characters that despite them frequently appearing, we know almost nothing about. And Lisanna is a catgirl for some reason. 

Not much to say here. 

If that cup is not made of iron,is Gajeel eating glass?

I’m so confused by drunk Juvia. Why do you feel the need to strip as well?

Lucy looks good with a ponytail.

Ugh. Anna...can you just...die? There’s literally no reason for you to still be here. Natsu, you remember her? Bruh, why did you never say anything??

Cue Gajevy ship tease. That’s about the twins from the spinoff I bet. 

Wendy being an idol is...the only change from the timeskip that stuck except for power levels. Also, good for Chelia, now we can say that there were no consequences for the war whatsoever. Great.

With how they’d been mostly ignored during the war, I was not expecting to get news about them. And of course Kagura fanservice because reasons.

Juvia, you are the only girl in this series that I’ve seen wear a bra consistently and appropriately. Just wanted to point it out. 

 And here we go with the gruvia. I stand corrected. Gray and Juvia have scars. Amazing. And yes Juvia, your body. I’m not sure why you’re questioning that statement? 

I’m absolutely confused. What was that moment? What are you trying to say with “maybe it should be mine”? Why are you getting all stuttery and embarrassed NOW? You guys lived together for 6 months. What happened to that “answer” you promised? Apparently it wasn’t much because only you have changed your behavior, Gray. And quite abruptly, I might add. Do you guys see what I mean about gruvia now? This behavior makes no sense because up until this point, Gray and Juvia have had the exact same dynamics no matter what happens. This change should’ve happened sooner and over time. 

Obligatory Elfgreen. Haha, all of the main (straight) Laxus crack ships were acknowledged. All of those shippers must be laughing. 

Oh look, Erza’s boobs.

I don’t mind Hisui being queen and I think it’s great that she made the effort to establish a diplomatic relationship with another nation. However, the abrupt politics is very odd and has me thinking about the magic council again. What happened to them after Tartaros, anyway? Where have they even been during the war?

Hisui: I also know about your sins. But I’m more concerned about the future than the past.

Translation: Look, compared to Acnologia and Alverez, y’all ain’t done shit so let’s just move on. 

Never expected Erza of all people to have trouble reading. But then again, Lucy had a way more privileged upbringing with proper education so...yeah. I can see her being more booksmart. 

So she started brushing her hair as a sign that she’s actively waiting for Jellal. Okay, but just...Erza, you’ve waited years for this man at this point. Just go after him yourself. 

Why his legs of all things? That’s so random. Genuinely surprised to see Porlyusica at a party. Didn’t think she was the social type. 

Yeah, no. This moment is meaningless. That is not Mavis or Zeref and those are not their reincarnations with their souls. Somehow, those two had doppelgangers running around for more than a decade and we’re just now seeing them. 

“It’s really hot this August.” Stop. I’m getting flashbacks. He was screwed over beyond belief. 

Okay, but why is everyone smiling like this is a perfectly normal and happy thing? I would be flipping out if I saw clones of my guild’s “tactician” and greatest enemy. 

Good for you, Romeo. Those old guys are kinda cringe, tbh. No. No no no no. Kinana, no. Stop. You and Erik? No. That ship is the most unnecessary and out of nowhere thing ever. It is built off of anime only filler. If you’ve only read the manga, it makes no sense. 

Required reference to the early days of Happy screwing Lucy over in a comedic fashion. 

Drunk Lucy=Cringe.

Pages 31-32 Why are you suddenly getting emotional, though? He’s told you that you’ve got a job to go on a billion times at this point. These are some seriously random and out of place flashbacks. 

Pages 33-35 Nalu fuel because this is the closest that they’ll ever get to canon. 

...The ambigiousness of that “we’ll be together forever” infuriates me with unsatisfaction. I don’t ship nalu, but the lack of any cementing evidence here is killing me. 

Oh look, everyone looks the same as the early days. It would bring nostalgia if they’d changed in appearance at all since that point.

A 100 year quest? Cool, but what is it, though?

Really wishing that that question had been answered at some point. Frankly, that question has been completely irrelevant throughout this entire series. We didn’t really need it at all.

HOLY SHIT, IS JUVIA INTERACTING WITH FREED?? SOMEONE WHO’S NOT GRAY?!

The funny thing is that if anyone hadn’t read FT Zero, they’d have no idea how important Zera actually is.

Aaaand, that’s it. We made it. Fairy Tail has come to an end. Well, the first thing that I can tell you is that this finale was not very good. Despite constantly teasing ships to the point of ignoring actual friendships in favor of ship moments, only 2 major ships have been confirmed as together. I think. Unsure if Elfgreen counts as canon, but for now, I’ll just count it as that. 

Despite all of my salt and rage and frustration, I will miss this series. I spent a lot of my time and energy into rants about this series and it’ll be strange to not rage at or look up spoilers for a new chapter every week. I really did love this series in the beginning. I think I started watching in 2013. I binge watched the anime then started reading the manga. It was happy reading until I find ForneverWorld’s Youtube. He discussed each chapter and pointed out flaws that I’d never quite realized before. Even so, I got excited over the 2014 adaption then disliked the animation despite all of the hype. I liked the music, though.

 Fast forward a bit and one day, I run into @ac-fairytail ‘s blog. Their posts about Juvia stung a little, but it was their other posts about Gruvia that were a slap in the face. THOSE hurt, but it did make me realize the faults in my OTP and at that point I started criticizing FT more as I read it. From there, I found @fairytail-whathesays whose posts turned me into the bitter old lady I am now. I found myself agreeing with a majority of their criticisms and had to acknowledge that Fairy Tail was turning to shit. I refused to stop liking Gray, though. I think I found @the-archangel-of-zeref in between finding those two? Not sure. But I agreed with some of their opinions too. 

Right around the time FT started getting edgy, I started looking for fanfics. I found some good ones, mostly Gratsu at first. It was only last year that I realized that almost all of the fanfics I’d read were probably better than FT 2016-2017. 

I guess I just wanted to reflect on things. Overall, I regret that this series ended on such a terrible note. I really do wish that it had lived up to its full potential. I think a big part of it is that Mashima didn’t have competition for the most part. Therefore, nothing pushed him to improve/change his storytelling methods and the quality of his work. I also think that if FT hadn’t been ecchi, we could’ve avoided a lot of terrible/unnecessary moments. I do wish Mashima good luck on his next project, however, I hope that he does it right this time. I will read his future work that he was oh-so-excited about. I have a feeling that excitement made him start rushing to end FT so that he could move on already.

Now then, I’m going to start reviewing the following series: 

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations

Boku No Hero Academia 

I’ve caught up to both anime adaptions. If you have any other ongoing shounen to recommend, pls send an ask or reblog this post with the title & if it’s good or not. 

Don’t worry, I’m not going to rip these two apart as well. They’re actually pretty good. 

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Voltron was a great show

I’ve been a fan of the series since it’s first season and I can’t begin to describe my love and attachment to the show.

I always loved the art style, even believing the low frame rate kinda made it work and added to the charm. The colors and backgrounds were by far the most stunning aspect of the series. I would often pause to look at the colors and lights of the scenery.

The story was amazing. And while I admit I felt the story got shaky as it was streached thin near the end, I still belive it was an incredible narrative.

My favorite plot point so far was the galra royal family. And overal the galra empires culture I found beyond interesting and the highlight of the show, for me at least.

I loved the characters. They are all so rounded and consistent. No one character is always serious or always funny. They did an amazing job balancing all 7 main characters and then some, which is a feat in itself. I was disappointed when great characters were introduced later in the game because I wanted to see them develop and interact.

My favorite character had changed often throughout the series. At first it was lance, he reminded me of sokka from ATLA and I was fresh out of the emo phase and I wanted to enjoy a character with a more humorous presentation. Then I really enjoyed Keith,this was more rooted in his galra plot point but I also enjoyed his comedic moments the best. Then lotor was introduced. He wasn’t my favorite at first. Lance was my favorite again until season 4, where I then realized that lotor was an amazingly complicated and intricate character. He is still my favorite to this day, though I have to say I wasn’t very satisfied with his ending. But lotor is an incredibly put together character, one that I’ve never seen anything like it in any other show.

The music was really nice but I wouldn’t say it blew my socks off, though at many points the music was perfect, moving and gut wrenching. Scenes like Alfors AI death from crystal venom, lotors rise up the steps from Kral Zera and the end of Keith’s fight w/shiro at the end of The Black Paladins come to mind. But overal the soundtrack was mostly electronic synths, which are a great way to get the 80’s vibe but the instrument dosnt make emotional music very easily.

And lastly I loved how engaging the crew was. Really I’ve never seen a crew do interactive with fans and have so much fun with what they are involved with. And I’m not just talking about the voice actors. The writers and animators were also very active on social media, interviews and cons.

And so I’ll miss voltron a lot. I will probably rewatch the show from years to come and I’m so glad I got to be a fan from beginning to end.