#working on drafts later today :)

[meowrimo]

happy timezone my friendz 🌟 ⸜(ˆᗜˆ˵ )⸝ 🌟 !!! i’m here with my lil star shaped pom poms to cheer you on for the day ahead ! i hope you’ve all been keeping well !! please remember to hydrate + unclench your jaws mweheh :3 i missed you guys sm sniffle but i am now back in my active era and ready to annoy the masses >:3 !! LOVE YA ! ♥︎

[yourdailyjormy]

a couple more éowyns for my nerves

[thecrowfinder]

get a load of this doofus

[kalied0skull]

I miss the soda blog :(((

i do too :(

i really do feel so bad for kind of leaving it right now but there's just been no motivation for me these recent weeks, i promise i plan on working on it sometime soon though

we're kind of on a slight hiatus, and i will probably post about it here later today since i just ,,, gaaahhh idk man

i couldn't tell you why I've been in such a slump about trying to work on it, soda's unfortunately just not been my most recent priority since I've been every which way every time i do try to work on it

trust and believe I'll likely be getting back fully into it sometime in june, because may has been slow and tiring — i think it's mostly just because i just recently got out of school, and I'm just trying to pick up a bit of a schedule where I don't really have one anymore

I'm so sorry anon, i promise I'm not abandoning the blog !!! i just need to rework my brain and finally get back into my flow, bc so far I've just been kind of staring at the blog depressingly and sighing /silly+srs (literally frowned while seeing notifications come from people liking posts the other day bc i felt semi guilty 💀)

[battleshipgarcy]

I just wrote the last line in the final chapter of TRLT, and...

[youmakethelight]

Okay, but I'm casting my mind back to try to imagine how I would have felt about tboc daryl before season 10 got me so stupid about this show, when I used to be a casual viewer. And I still think I'd have just thought daryl lost his mind tbh.

This is just me going off on tangents about the show now, don't mind me.

He felt a bit off in season 1, I can't lie. The costume change would have thrown me even if I wasn't as attached, because I'm probs just the type of neurodivergent that struggles with too much change at once, and him being away from TF, in Europe, and looking so different, then calling Laurent useless, then the ways he looked at Isabelle at the end of 1x06 - that was all just too different to the Daryl I knew idk. But I stuck with it.

But having his first on-screen kiss be so entirely unpredictable for what I thought I knew of his character felt gratuitous*. And then it's like suddenly I'm being railroaded into following him on this rolleroaster that I don't understand. One minute he's longing for home, the next he's playing baseball and "just having fun". Then home has found him, but now he's invested in this kid I still haven't learnt to feel invested in yet. And he's never even talking about anything to do with home anymore, even after Carol is there? It's suddenly all just about Laurent, and part of the problem for me is there wasn't enough balance to convince me of the story.

And I think this was most of my difficulty with enjoying TOWL, too. (Don't come for me please for talking about my personal experience of watching TOWL.) I watched TOWL first out of all the spinoffs, and I remember this one part where I think Michonne and Rick were in a kitchen or something and Rick felt so different to me and it made me sad, and then she called it out. And he said something like that it's been so long, he's lost who he used to be or something like that. I can't remember exactly, but it made me sad. And I think, for me, I didn't get enough glimpses of the Rick I recognised within the short 6 episodes that I never felt satisfied or happy with it. And maybe I needed more TF references or something??? I didn't even feel enough concern for Judith or RJ from him - maybe I'm misremembering, but I think your memory of the feeling something gave you is important. I get that the leadership want these spinoffs to be accessible to people who didn't watch the flagship show, but I think that's a big part of where it's losing the magic for me.

The thing that was better for me about DD season 1 is that it was all about getting home, and his determination felt relentless throughout the first 5 and a half episodes before it suddenly got weird with Isabelle acting like they've been a family for 19 years. Like, before that, I felt connected to his mission.** But then in season 2, it's almost completely gone, and Carol feels like the only part I can still connect with. Like, I know Rick didn't mention Daryl either I think, but I wish both of them had talked about each other. Idk, it just would have felt more like it's giving me something I can connect with? Rather than just throwing the characters into entirely new situations and also deliberately making them feel a bit out of character?

That whole part in TOWL where Michonne feels surprised to find Rick a bit changed is so similar to what they seemed to want to do with Daryl and Carol, and I don't really get why they did it to either of them. It's more believable with Rick than Daryl bc 1. He isn't Daryl and definitely adapts more to new environments, and 2. It had been many, many, many years, not like a month. But idk, I still wasn't keen, but at least they gave it a redemption arc or whatever you'd call it. With daryl it's still just like - ???? And for what reason??? I don't know. I just don't find it compelling idk idk idk.

*Even in season 9, when we met Connie, I felt a bit like 'oh are they gonna force a ship here bc they have them spending time together 🤨 (rather than just letting connie want to help for her own character reasons rather than making it about daryl and shipping), but if it's gonna be someone who isn't carol, I think I'm okay with connie', like bc we actually had reasons to like her and there was chemistry with Daryl. So why neither Connie nor Carol, but Isabelle? The show just never got me invested in darabelle in any way.

I already liked connie before they had her going on missions with daryl, so I actually cared about her a lot. I loved seeing her on those missions bc I was excited for her to have more screen time and I found her character empowering. So, I didn't want to see her reduced to just being Daryl's love interest, and tbh, I don't think they handled it well, bc they still reduced her to being Daryl's accessory, rather than giving her her own character depth. But I *still* would have been more on board with pairing up Daryl with Connie than Isabelle. Tbh, by the time that Carol was broken up with zeke, and they had the conversation about running away together, I didn't think of Daryl and Connie as making sense to pair anymore... But I also didn't see much point in the Leah romance either, so whatever, I guess this show just has a pattern of pairing up Daryl with random women he doesn't have chemistry with, instead of the ones he does?

**I always remember that Zabel pitched the idea for the show as "what if, in trying to get home, you find something else?", and the thing is, in order to get me to be convinced that Daryl "found something else", I'd have needed A LOT stronger of a pull for the French story. There was nothing there that hooked me to becoming convinced of Daryl finding something while trying to get home. Just having him voice the words "I found something", having Laurent the prophet say "you miss her too, I can tell", putting his crossbow next to Isabelle's hospital bed, and having him look at her for an extended time after she recovers, doesn't suddenly convince me of that idea. Idk. I'm not in the TV industry, so I don't know how that magic gets done - like when season 10 slowly turned Lydia into one of my favourite characters after she was introduced as an antagonist. But I have enough brain cells to see (from the moment they nonsensically forced them to share a bed??) that they were trying to convince us Daryl found "something" in France, and tbh, if I can see the strain in their efforts to make it happen, it's probably not working. And even NR couldn't answer why Isabelle when asked at NYCC. He was literally like, "idk they have similar pasts?? Idk???". Like, girl, if you don't know, why should your audience?

[cxpperhead]

Overtime is hard but going well. In other news, I found a video featuring every clip of our boy and got so many new icons out of it so keep an eye out for more posts very soon!

[meowrimo]

goooood morning & happy tuesday friendz !! i hope you all have a wonderful day ! remember to drink lots of water, get yourself a lil treat & unclench your jaws ! ^_^

[jewishjanetandco]

brain is fried from work but i'm here

[direwombat]

been taking a bit of a writing break in order to work on crocheting a gift for someone but once that's done i should hopefully be back at it

[kitxkatrp]

Running into someone else with fibro is so validating tbh. A lady in the cafeteria downstairs heard me mention it and called me over and I discovered she had it too and we stood there and bitched for a few minutes about how pain killers don't work and the pain never stops. And apparently they were worried about me because I've been looking awful lately (as in it was obvious I was in terrible pain walking around) and commented that it was obvious I feeling a bit better.

I dunno I kind of thought everyone here hated me, it was a little nice to hear that's not true.

[kalied0skull]

amping myself up to get full speed back into soda's blog this weekend because i am finally FREE to do whatever i want now !!!

[handfulofmuses]

Today is "what do you mean I can’t work on all my drafts at once“ day

[whyeverr]

goals for the day: eat exclusively leftovers. D20 fantasy high rewatch. go nowhere. see no one. buy absolutely nothing. sink deep into the recesses of couch cushions.

breathe.

[itstimeforstarwars]

After writing the first scene in the next chapter, I wrote down three things that I needed to put in the scene. I now have four more pages of this scene but none of the three things have made it in.

[lightofunova]

smthsmth…sleepy but i wanna work on blog…Tunsday?? send in an ask about smth you wanna hear and ill answer between gaming! Can be for any blogs btw