#given next to nothing to do

[grayintogreen]

Truly the discourse I want to set fire to is “this side character that I became inexplicably attached to isn’t important to the plot and has little depth and is just a plot device and now I’m going to disparage the author for not dropping everything and making that one random ass special little guy SO IMPORTANT.” Like my brother in Shakespeare, SOME CHARACTERS ARE JUST THERE TO FULFILL A SINGLE ROLE AND THEN EXIT STAGE LEFT.

Signed a person whose special little guys are almost always minor so I just fucking write fanfic instead of crying about it.

[leonardcohenofficial]

okay i'm gonna pause in a second but for the it's about old friends obsessed ass website how are we not understanding the depth of cobel and hampton's relationship as perhaps being more than a ship appearing out of nowhere like given the depth of their relationship (which i think was established effectively in the thirty seven minute run time of this episode) let's just think about why narratively speaking cobel might have chosen to kiss him like this isn't even a defending the straights moment this is a hmm might this kiss have meaning beyond a romantic bent or is that too advanced a concept moment

[heartorbit]

i just wanted to draw the ave mujica outfits .

[rhaenyras-alicent]

can't stop thinking abt the concept of arthur hearing about this 'emrys' throughout different occasions here and there in the beginning of s4, and at first not thinking much of it, then when the name keeps getting repeated from different villains/sorcerers he interacts with, it finally catches his attention and he becomes genuinely concerned. he makes it a bit of a personal mission to find out who he is, but it's all a very lowkey side plot that's not the main focus (think of the 'traitor' arc also in s4). of course he talks about it with merlin, but to avoid suspicion, merlin shuts him down every time and tries to make him think this mysterious sorcerer is nothing to worry about.

as more time goes on, and the more arthur learns about this powerful sorcerer always protecting him from harm, and as much as he hates to admit this to anyone, most of all himself, as he's only ever been taught to hate magic and anything to do with it- he starts realizing 'emrys' is less of this evil entity that he has to hunt down and kill, and more of a guardian angel that he has genuine interest now in getting to meet. which would also be interesting in terms of contradicting morgana's plot in the same season.

then, in the s4 finale, something that merlin does or says at the end makes him finally connect the dots. he says nothing. the season closes with him just.......... left with the unbearable conflict of it all. the feeling of absolute betrayal from his own friend- the closest person to him that he turned out to not really Know at all, the anger at being lied to and his own obliviousness, all with also the gratitude to this man who has been protecting him without asking for anything in return, the confusion of why he's doing any of it, and the question deep down whether he even deserves it. he is just. left with so many questions and contradicting feelings that he just... says nothing. and we are left with this as the cliffhanger for s4's ending.

[starflungwaddledee]

participated in a "species swap" challenge with starstruck a little while back where i took some prompts to see what she might look like as a few other familiar faces!

once again posting this one as @kirbyoctournament propaganda...! trying hard, it's the final push in the final round!! can she do it?? you can vote here to help! aaa!!

[sysig]

Reverberations, configurations (Patreon)

[blueskittlesart]

*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?

tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.

[hawkinasock]

Hi. One thing I've noticed is that Jing Yuan always answers rather vaguely when asked something about Yanqing. Didn't that seem strange? Like, you can answer a couple questions that aren't that personal, but even those he answers in a blurry way.

Jing Yuan is a lot more suspicious than people realize, I think. In some instances where he acts coy, it only seems to serve as a guise to avoid giving a real, honest answer. Seeing as he's a master strategist within the lore, I like to think he has a reason for doing this. Ask his npc any question about Yanqing specifically and he never, not once, gives a real answer, and even makes jokes at times. And it's not just that.

I mentioned in another theory post that when Huiyuan was speaking to Jing Yuan (during the 2.4 quest) about the latter's loyalty to the Xianzhou never wavering, Jing Yuan never actually gave a response. He just kept totally silent with a strange look on his face until someone else spoke again. It's not inherently odd, but given that this is a pattern of behavior, I want to think it means something. If it's related to Yanqing like I suspect, it might support the idea that Yanqing is a denizen, and Jing Yuan was knowingly going against the Alliance by adopting him.

[july-19th-club]

i have no mouth and i must scream speech but for about insomnia hate hate hate let me tell you how much i have come to hate being awake

[righteous-pines]

Moon 01, pt 2; Alpineknoll is scarred for life

Original written description of this event below:

(Alpineknoll’s eyes go wide, mouth agape with confused horror. Yewstars only seem to glaze over with a hollow, knowing contempt. 

He motions for her to stay back, but Alpineknoll ignores him, stepping through the bushes and into view of the thunderpath.

What she sees there continues to haunt her, each time she closes her eyes.

A twisted body, back twisted into a u shape and once folded over itself. Paws outstretched, mouth agape. Eyes wide, just glazing over, still full of longing pain. 

She’s only snapped from her horrified stupor when Yewstar carefully approaches, running his tail along her back and speaking her name.

He explains that this is something that happens often. That twolegs are cruel, mindless beasts, that hurt things for the sake of hurting them.)

As you can see some things changed, like the shape of the body, but. Idk I just felt like including the written alternative as well

[creating-by-starlight]

Older men just don't get it sometimes huh

[edge-oftheworld]

no I can’t get over it actually I’m so proud, even if I didn’t get to be in the room this time, after saying how intimate venues AND hometown shows are the most scary, he got up and played two back to back sets, super vulnerable and emotional songs with a little pendant on for his dog, stripped back so we can hear his regular voice that he says he doesn’t like, looking sooo good and well rested in a way that the logistics of a regular tour doesn’t allow. I think this is gonna be the show of my life I’m gonna always be kicking myself for being less than 20km away and still missing out on

[gomzdrawfr]

So many pets pictures in my ask :3

[headfullof-ideas]

Had an epiphany while designing Nereus about how ‘I cannot make this man six thousand years old and the brother of Queen Doreus’ because that’s…not a feasible thing in the httyd universe. I’ve already established magic isn’t one of the things I’m bringing over from The Deep, so whatever magic anti-aging cream Nereus has didn’t make it into his luggage when I scooped him up and placed him into my story. I’m also thinking of ideas for Queen Doreus, and it’s gonna be a bit easier than tweaking Nereus cause we know NOTHING about her other than the fact that she was Nereus’s older sister, the last Queen of Lemuria, and conked a bunch of sea monsters on the head before peacing out to who knows where and then promptly dying (she also presumably had a kid because the Nektons descended from someone and you cannot convince me it was Nereus)

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i fucking hate having memory loss. i've reconciled to missing large chunks of 2015 but i lost 5-10 minutes of today completely and it's fucking me up. it's gone. totally wiped. i remember the beginning of the conversation and the end of it but i couldn't tell you a single thing that was said in it, not even the general vibes, and it was a conversation i was pretty invested in having and i know WHY my brain yeeted it (it was processing a lot of info at that specific moment, i'm tired, it was between two different moments of stress/stimulation, pain) but. it feels bad. it's always really scary to reach for something you should know and find it's completely gone, leaving a void behind. like that was today. I was fucking there. where is it. why don't I know what happened

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

the amount of effort that goes into figuring out what to cook and eat every day is RIDICULOUS. i used to think people were so weird and boring for eating the same thing every single day but it truly does make life so much easier