#bc the plot is so incomprehensible

[indigoipsum]

I wanted to try to start a rumor on here that there’s a s2 reboot but I did that w some friends and then felt bad. Here’s Alois in the Cloverworks style for shiggles (and maybe an animation I want to work on later)

[seithr]

scientists are calling the situation "like if cortana sucked and was a gay knight"

[no1ryomafan]

Another giant robo related meme because I have brain rot even though I’m not rushing back to watch the last ep-if only because I have to finish new with my irls tomorrow and don’t wanna be burnt out bc this happened before-but I really wonder and fear for how many more “wtf is even happening” mechas there are and if each gets progressively more confusing.

[skitskatdacat63]

I was gonna make a follow up to this, lamenting how I was almost a little bummed that they seemingly made it less terrifying in this sequel. Only to get instantly hit with what seems like is going to be a fucking terrifying section as soon as I started playing

Wish me luck 😭 getting war flashbacks rn

Oh boy can't wait to see if BTs still give me crippling anxiety !!!!!(genuinely scared right now)

[whoify]

sorry i looked in the notes of that post and people are saying wish world felt like a moffat episode so i have to speak. literally while watching i was thinking how differently rtd and moffat tend to approach season arcs, and like not to dichotomize them bc it’s not like they have completely opposing methods, but rtd’s through-lines tend to be content based while moffat’s tend to be context based. bad wolf in s1, torchwood in s2, saxon in s3, whatever that galaxy is called in s4. just words or names being repeated so you start to wonder what they mean. and it hasn’t been that different in rtd2: s14 with susan twist and s15 with mrs flood. the hints at the finale now just have a face to go with them as well. to be clear i’m not even saying this is a bad or worse way to establish suspense, just that it’s different. it’s become a hallmark of rtd who to me and i’ve genuinely always liked that his seasons center around teasing a specific mystery.

but now think about s5-7. yeah we have olivia colman give a rundown of the next three years in episode one, but aside from that, the overarching through-lines are much more connected to actual plot level events. s6 especially—the silence and river and madam korahdbshs what’s her face aren’t just there for us to wonder what they are, but are impacting the story from ep 1. clara in s7 isn’t just a name drop but a mystery we solve right along with the doctor. everything comes together in one big conclusion in the time of the doctor.

s8 is actually much more alike to rtd’s typical method—tease something/someone continuously throughout the season with no context with a big reveal in the finale. s9-10 don’t really have anything like this which is a breath of fresh air on its own.

all this to say that saying wish world felt like a moffat episode is just categorically incomprehensible to me. i don’t think it was bad, i just think it felt so very rtd—from the big reveal (technically last ep whatever) to bringing back classic characters to the heavy handed politics. unfortunately like 70% of dw fans think “moffat” is a synonym for “i didn’t like it”

[revolutionsingingintherainnn]

your desi reader fics make me feel so seen 🥹 can I request an oscar x desi reader fic? maybe of them like watching a bollywood movie together bc I just know he’d ask a gazillion questions bc it doesn’t make sense but they’re not meant to follow logic bro just enjoy 😭

Just Pure Feeling -`♡´-

☾ op x desi!reader ༊*·˚

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It was a cozy evening in your apartment. The low thrum of the ceiling fan and the smell of dinner you'd just had clung to the air. You sat cross-legged on the couch, surrounded by cushions in every colour imaginable, with the warm dimming of fairy lights softening the room.

Oscar was staring at the TV screen, seemingly befuddled; he had somehow found himself snuggled next to you. His usual biting wit and calm demeanor seem to have deserted him utterly.

The film? Ah, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham—one of your favorites, the great family epic of love, drama, and much else more.

You glanced over at him, trying not to laugh. He was taking this whole Bollywood thing very seriously.

"Okay, so… let me get this straight," Oscar said, pausing the movie just as a dramatic scene of Shah Rukh Khan running across the airport flashed on the screen. “Why does he look like he’s running through a storm of rose petals?”

You laughed, taking the remote control from his hand and played the movie. "It's a Bollywood film, Oscar. It's not about the logic. It's about the emotions".

He blinked twice, eyebrows furrowed in incomprehension. "He's just… running? Like, why is he running in slow motion? And what's with the over-the-top background music? No one does this shit in real life".

"Oh, trust me. It's all part of the charm," you said with a grin, squeezing his arm. "It's the drama, the flair, the passion. It's what makes it special."

Oscar shook his head, still processing what he'd just witnessed. "But why is everyone crying so much? Like, for a movie that literally means 'sometimes happiness, sometimes sadness', I've only seen sadness till now. And why is everyone wearing these elaborate outfits for literally every occasion?"

"Because they're expressing their feelings, Oscar! Emotions are bigger than life here. And don't even get me started on the fashion—it's a cultural thing. The more bling, the better." You laughed at his confused expression. "You'll get used to it. It's about the spectacle."

He furrowed his brow, not satisfied. "Spectacle? The movie's just one melodrama after another! A huge family reunion, and now everyone's hugging… Did he just turn away from his family for years over a misunderstanding?"

You bit your lip to hold in a chuckle. "Yep. That's what makes it Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham — sometimes you have happiness, sometimes sadness. It's all about the grand emotional journey."

Oscar gazed at the screen a few more seconds, his eyes wide. "Okay, but how do they have the energy to sing and dance in the middle of a serious conversation? Like, how does that happen?"

"Bollywood logic," you shrugged, as if that explained everything. "People break into song in the middle of a heartfelt discussion. They could be talking about how to solve world peace, and suddenly it's a dance number. It's magic, Oscar."

He rubbed his temples, clearly trying to keep up with the plot, but at least, he was trying. "But… they just lost their son in a family feud. Why is there a dance number in the middle of a tragedy? This makes no sense!"

You laughed so hard that you had to pause the movie for a moment, clutching your stomach. "Because, Oscar," you said, voice still bubbling with laughter, "it's a Bollywood film. It's a rollercoaster of emotions. You go from crying your eyes out to dancing in the rain in the blink of an eye."

Oscar blinked again, his eyes flicking between the screen and you, as if trying to make sense of it all. "So, what you're saying is… it's not supposed to make sense?"

"Exactly. You're supposed to feel it."

"Well, I'm definitely feeling something," Oscar muttered under his breath. "I just don't know what it is."

"Good!" You smirk at him, flicking him lightly on the shoulder. "Now stop overthinking it and enjoy the ride."

Oscar sank back into the couch with a heavy sigh, surrendering himself to not knowing anything. And yet, you could see the curiosity in his eyes amidst the confusion. "Fine, fine. No reasoning. Just.. pure feeling. Got it."

As the movie played, you snuggled closer to him, feeling his arm instinctively wrap around your shoulders. You felt him press a soft kiss on the top of your head.

"He's so pretty," You murmured at one point.

"Who? The actor?" Oscar asked immediately, sitting up a little straighter.

You hadn't realised that you had said it out loud, but you supposed that he was going to find out eventually.

"Shah Rukh Khan. He's so pretty," Your eyes were glued to the screen as you watched the actor go through his motions.

"You sound like you're in love with him," Oscar laughed, "Thank God, you're not, huh?"

You didn't respond, not wanting to lie to your boyfriend.

"You're not, right?" Oscar emphasised.

"Uh huh, sure. Of course I'm not, that'd be," you paused, sighing sadly, "stupid,"

Oscar shook his head. He didn't know what to say. His girlfriend had a crush on an actor that he was pretty sure had a wife and kids.

You had to admit, this was one of your favorite ways to share your world with him—watching him slowly come around to something so deeply ingrained in your culture, even if he couldn't fully grasp it yet.

A few moments later, when the screen changed to a song-and-dance number, Oscar let out a short laugh. "Alright, so, now they're all dancing on top of a moving car. Got it. Makes perfect sense."

You snorted. "Exactly! That's the spirit!"

You sat there side by side, watching the drama on the screen, but in the midst of it, something much more important was going on: the two of you were creating a beautiful little moment of your own. Not one that had to make sense, but one that simply existed, full of laughter, love, and the warmth of a shared experience.

And, hey, if Oscar cried at some point during the film, you were not supposed to know that. The usually emotionless man had lost the war with a simple Bollywood movie, and may have finally shed a tear or two.

And as the credits rolled, Oscar turned to you with a mock-serious expression. "Alright, I think I'm ready for the next one."

You grinned, already planning your next Bollywood movie marathon. It was clear that Oscar had a lot more questions to ask, but you had no doubt he'd be enjoying the journey every bit as much as you did.

"Get ready for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge next," you said with a mischievous glint in your eye. "It's even more dramatic."

Oscar sighed dramatically, sinking into the couch. "This is going to be a long night."

And you wouldn't have it any other way.

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okay, im ngl, i like this op x desi!reader way more than the previous one. i think i'm getting the hang of writing oscar a little bit. let me know if y'all like this one! this is my prompt list, so y'all can select a number, give me a driver and i will write it as soon as possible! i also have a google form for a taglist if anyone's interested! you can sent in your requests here :)

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[usertoxicyaoi]

mmm getting real sick of these censored purist minded sex repulsive ~fans~ watching asian bls commenting on how sex isn't necessary for a plot/show and that it takes away from the story. that showing feelings of lust and sexual desire and acting upon those feelings isn't right. is it really that incomprehensible that .. you know .. maybe, just maybe, we can also be sexual beings too that get horny and wanna fuck just because, i don't know, we want to? my god, why can't we asians just have nice things without all this nonsense and over the top critical analysis of our sexuality.

my thing with this all, as someone who doesn't watch thai bls as often, if at all, now, compared to jbls is that there are so many mature/high heat jbls out there (the novelist, the end of the world with you and my personal weatherman, just to name a few) that just tend to treat sex as something that's enjoyed. as something that 2 people do as an expression of lust and desire, just because they want to fuck each other, despite how shitty or bad or toxic (or not) one character may be. they allow room for that sexual desire to be explored, bc, you know, we as humans can be reckless like that!!! and recent thai bls are also going about this approach too! and it should be welcomed! and yet .... there are people out there shaming this notion. and if that's still the case, how is progress ever going to be made?

[piratebay]

ok wild robot was cute but also really bad. like boring and derivative and totally stupid if you are even remotely interested in actual real life animals and their behavior. i get it it's a kids movie but it shouldn't have to be sterile pandering and untrue too jfc do better

aw damn this movie is boring

[gnomebud]

season 2 of slow horses is i think my least favorite just bc the plot is fucking incomprehensibly meaningless but it has so many good moments either way. louisa putting on eyeliner to kill pashkin. shirley motorcycle chase. catherine chess game. every time i watch it though i'm really like wow. river lowkey ruined that family's whole life they're forever going to think of him as the most loser mi5 agent in the world. WHICH HE IS!!!!!!! and also the scientist needledrop at min's funeral gets me every time. louisa 😭😭😭😭

[zilodak]

sorry if this is kind of a dumb question, but what do you think is a good way to develop the actual plot of a story you have a loose idea of? i've basically had a bunch of characters, themes, concepts and pivotal moments held together with bubblegum and tape in my head for almost a year now, and i am really passionate about these characters and ideas, but have like a mental blockage when it comes to actually arranging them together and coming up with an actual narrative to put them in. it's weird bc i really wanna do something with them, but it's like my brain is scared of comitting to an idea that might not hold up to the maybe overly-grand expectations i've built up over this time for an actual story

I think that first of all, you need to come to terms that the finished product will most likely not be what you planned. And that's okay! You'll realize when you start to put pieces together that sometimes the themes you thought of and the scenes you're fond of, may not make it to the final story. Your readers will not know that unless you make your thought process public so don't beat yourself over the head. Your script and story changing is a natural part of the process, you just need to know when to stop picking on it and let it be.

I start by putting my ADHD daydreams onto paper. Everything I think of ends up in a folder, no matter how stupid or incomprehensible the idea might be. Put a pin in that, I'll come back to it later.

I'm sure you've seen this diagram or something similar before.

Almost all stories have a conflict and climax, yes even those you think are boring and slow. I'll start by mapping out the conflict of the entire story first. What are my protagonists struggles? Who are they struggling against? Once I have that figured out, I'll think of the resolution. What happens in the end? Is it happy? Sad? Bittersweet? Will they succeed in overcoming this conflict? Partially? Not at all? Talking about overcoming the conflict, what happend at the height of the story? Is it a big action scene? An epiphany? An argument between characters? Once we have that settled, what can lead up to that climax? Now this is the fun part. Remember that folder with all the possible daydreams? Let's lay them out there and put a question mark on them. You can narrow them down as you start thinking about what makes sense in context of your climax and what doesn't. Finally, the beginning of your story (and the inciting incident). How does it start? What makes sense in this context? In the middle of the story? At the very beginning? What triggers the conflict? What will you be exploring? What will keep the audience on their toes?

Once I have that figured out, I'll start to individually brainstorming possible chapter scenarios. I'll plan out a plot structure for the chapters, etc etc. Rinse and repeat.

Tadaaaa ~ before you know it you have the first draft of a book! Now you can narrow it down even more, and pick on what does or doesn't fit! Enjoy!

[mercymermaid]

rewatching rise and??????? donnie got done so dirty in the s1 finale

spoilers btw if you haven't seen it

"all of my tech is on standby, and i mean ALL of my tech" is such, such a cool moment, icon the man the myth the legend

we even have the DRILL

and it does buttfuck nothing?????

mikey throws an entire ship at shredder (which was actually the coolest scene ever like GO BBG GO), raph drags shredder so hard and sucker punches him, leo is busy with splinter kicking ass, and donnie's tech does nothing 💀 why give everyone such cool scenes, then give donnie an epic ass shot and have his attack do nothing

and ykw??? maybe it was so there could be a plot of "he's so sad because he didn't contribute to the fight ☹️☹️", which would've been fun to see, i am a slut for angst, but no..?

honestly that could've actually been a point in a later episode because not only did his tech fail, but he got his battle shell destroyed by shredder, AND he was literally bait in the end fight so he got beaten up while his brother did the beating but NOOO mr. self-proclaimed emotionless bad boy can be useless and just cope with it

sigh this is kinda incomprehensible but whatever

like.... i'd be absolutely devastated if i knew that while my brothers were being awesome, i, who was also known for not being very skilled in fighting (ie. basketball, sportsball, lair games, giving up when fighting the crabs bc his techbo was dead) was still known for not being very skilled in fighting after giving it my all

credit where credit is due, he did learn how to control his tech-bo rocket thing, which would've been COOLER if he DIDN’T get FOLDED LATER

maybe he just needed to have his awesomeness toned down because he was very prominent in the season.... but leo (also prominent, more prominent) had a whole sidequest where he was insanely badass

yeah okay this made sense tldr donnie could've been so much cooler in the shredder fight

[markantonys]

I was show only and now I’m starting book 4 and again I gotta say. Mat in the first two books is really just kind of there, like he gets cursed by dagger and he flirts with rand but he is just kind of along for the ride and THEN book 3 starts and I’m like yeah okay he’s cool and fun so I don’t understand the fandom getting mad! Recency bias indeed…

TRUTH!!! mat is basically an npc in the first couple books, and the fandom was in wide agreement that he needed an upgrade and stronger characterization early on in the show, but then got mad when it happened. (which feels like a common pattern. "the eye of the world sequence is incomprehensible in the book and the show needs to change it" but then got mad when it did. "TGH and TDR have basically the same plot structure, so the show should combine them into a single story" but then got mad when it did.)

i suspect that when a lot of these so-called mat fans say "mat sucks in the early books and the show should improve him" they actually mean "mat is whiny and useless in the early books and the show should make him a Dashing Rogue right off the bat", so then when the show improved mat in the sense of giving him added emotional complexity and angst and baggage, this subset of fans got mad because they wanted mat to be Cool, not vulnerable! but the TRUE mat girlies are delighted to see him be a sad wet kitten for a little while <3

but i feel like i saw more complaints about mat's characterization in s1 than in s2, bc i remember there were tons of "donal's mat feels way more like book mat than barney's mat" takes (which i don't agree with personally, i think they're both pretty equal in that regard, but this seemed to be the predominant take in reader spaces while s2 was airing, although, interestingly, i also saw some show-onlys complain that donal's mat felt like too much of a doofus and they preferred the edgier take with barney's mat. tho a lot of that's due to mat being edgier while dagger-cursed and doofier while normal, of course!)

[peachyfnaf]

The only people who showed concern for Sun were Solar and Earth, and that makes me sad :( How Moon, Monty and Lunar acted made me upset with them

I'm boutta blow up the whole site with this take- I have beef with Earth too. Not as much as the other three, I will fight the other three, but I think the ONLY ONE actually giving Sun what he needs rn (Basic fucking comfort and affection bc he WAS LITERALLY JUST FORCED TO MURDER HIS LITTLE BROTHER HELLO???) is SOLAR. Solar you're doing great sweetie pie pookie bear honey bun gumdrop tiddly winkle baby cakes, thank you for checking up on Sun so much even though I don't doubt that Nexus' death hurts you, too.

BUT back on my Earth thing- I think Dana said it really well.

Forgive me if this is entirely incomprehensible, not only do I get all my knowledge second-hand it's ALSO like midnight here so I'm writing this out of autistic fury alone bUt, the way Earth handled the "Telling Lunar the TRUTH" ep or whatever it was called did make me go >:/

While it's obvious to us all by now that Lunar did not particularly give af about Nexus, the fact that Earth basically told him that Nexus died, we got her going ":("/her two cents about it, and then she moved onto the topic of Rez/lying to Lunar so fast. It. I. That fr made me go "???"

Chat. Am I insane for have expected a whole ep dedicated to the fam talking about Nexus' death /genq. Because I KNOWWW that they disconnected from him a lot but HOLY SHIT HE WAS STILL NEW MOON ONCE??? IS IT SO MUCH TO ASK FOR FOR ONE EPISODE WHERE HIS LOSS IS THE SOUL FOCUS? HELLAUR???

U can tell I'm sleep deprived cause I've already lost the plot- bUT YES YES EARTH YES. She has 100% become more selfish in the past few months. Which isn't inherently bad bc before she was selfless to a fault, but now it's starting to feel like she went from one extreme to the other..? Everything she does, she does because she wants to get that sweet sweet crumb of Self Validation. Which like. Girl me too, but THAT'S NOT HEALTHY NOR GOOD AND ESPECIALLY NOT A GOOD TRAIT FOR SOMEONE WHO PART TIMES AS A "THERAPIST" TO HAVE???

Her behavior is slooowly becoming much more self-preservative, and while it's happening slowly the signs are definitely There- which FINALLY BRINGS ME BACK AROUND TO THE ORIGINAL TOPIC-

Earth highkey brushed off Sun's feelings too ngl. She 100% did BETTER than O.M, Monty, Lunar yuh, but her check up on Sun was still very brief before she moved onto Other Things and Other People. V.S. Solar who was practically hovering over Sun the entire time- and liyk for good reason!!! Bro was NOT there mentally and only Solar really noticed!!!

Rn this behavior of hers is not a huge problem, just something rather annoying that I've noticed a pattern of, but I'm keeping an Eye on it bc it very much has the potential to become something veeery bad if Earth gets too lost in the "Me, me, me!" Sauce yk?

Okay it's 12:30 here I'm going to bed chat don't crucify me for a Spicy opinion honk shoo honk shoo mimimimi

[wangxianficfinder]

hii i'm looking for a fic i don't think it's super long, probably not more than like five chapters. basically wangxian have sex and i think it was during the sunshot campaign bc they were in tents? and there's a misunderstanding and lwj thinks he raped wwx (idk if he was drunk and didn't remember or what), leaves wwx in shame and then jc finds out about it bc he comes into the tent i think and wwx is in tears and incomprehensible bc he thinks lwj abandoned him, so jc assumes the same, i think jyl finds out and maybe even the wens too? and then it just spirals. i think lxc and nmj also get involved and lxc has to punish lwj? but i don't think it ends up actually happening, i think they clear it up before hes actually punished. tysm for all your hard work!

I think you may be looking for this one?

FOUND? The Teapot Plot by ToxicAngel13 (M, 51k, Misunderstandings, protective Jiang siblings, Golden Core Reveal, Golden Core Transfer Fix-It, Idiots in Love, Post-Sunshot Campaign, Pre-Burial Mounds, Potential for M-Preg, Fix-It, Emotional Hurt/Comfort)

- Mod C

[izartn]

I think Martin worst sin as a writer (that as any sin seems from his best qualities) is the amount of details he deems necessary for his plots to work.

That's why he's all worried about how the characters travel, why in part he skipped the timeskip etc. Like he thought he would need too many flashbacks.

Dude no! You don't?! Just drop us in media res, explain as they become necessary only the most mainly important of what happened and let us cook the details based on characterization and what's happening now. Maybe throw one flashback or two if something would be very incomprehensible and it's important for foreshadowing and the future.

Otherwise kill your darling and don't write anything else.

I'm sure Arya many adventures in Bravos are very interesting and tell us a lot about Essosi and Westerosi politics and her own development but we don't need the novella, we can make do with mysterious references on her PoV and the results of her training via those. There. Done.

I think Martin commits the sin of the fic writer who is having so much fun with that over 200k words fic that they never end it bc they don't have enough of themselves to write everything they want to happen.

And it's telling that it's an issue I see a lot with fic writers, who also mostly don't plan their long fics and are restricted only to their own whims and wishes.

Kill your darlings!

[ninvic-rbs]

hmmm pathologic ask game 1, 2, and 24 🧐🧐

Favorite flaw of Pathologic?

Okay for patho classic I'm gonna say the graphics! probably a common answer but they work so well for the atmosphere even though they're a bit ugly i love them!! <3 close second is a bug where if you were infected, got attacked (and hurt) and reloaded a quicksave sometimes your infection would be magically cured. I actually didn't like it bc I wanted to prove I could beat the game even with the plague!! but whatever it was funny

And for patho 2 I'm gonna say, the fact that they were clearly counting on you having already played classic before starting it. Hear me out, not only is the entire beginning sequence entirely incomprehensible [if you haven't played classic], but a lot of dialogue, plot points, entire characters are just barely possible to follow. And yeah I know it's only one third of the whole story, but it's still a whole, real game. However I did love how intriguing it all was and I did find it very immersive that half the people I was taking care of I didn't even know who they were.

2. Wildest theory you’d defend?

Not sure if this counts as a theory or a headcanon, but I'm gonna go with daniil being trans! I know it's quite popular (at least here on tumblr) but I'd count it as wild still mostly because of the setting of the story, and the realistic access he would have had to things like hrt/surgery + how he would have actually gone about transitioning (voice of guy who has not bothered to google any of this☝️🤓) BUT and I'm hardly the first one to point this out it fits the themes of his character sooo well + I can totally see it adding to his ego post uni (he managed to get his degree + avoid being drafted WHILE hiding the fact he had a period)

24. What was your craziest misconception/funniest misunderstanding while figuring out the lore?

I did come into the game after watching hbomberguy's video like 4 times, so I didn't have to figure out everything from the ground up😔 so no real crazy misconceptions, the closest thing I can think of is how fucking terrified I was of the albino the first time I played classic (bachelor route) like I genuinely found it horrific. (poor guy) ALSO in patho 2 day 1 [SPOILERS] during that quest when you get introduced to the surgery? mechanics by having to remove a nail from some dude's stomach, I had no clue how anything worked and I ended up killing the dude and when the other guy attacked me I panicked and killed him as well. and then I didn't go back to grief's bc I thought he was gonna attack me too :(

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