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[princekirijo]

I just realized I haven't updated y'all on some changes I've made to Riku specifically Noble (his thief self)

[goldentigerfestival]

So. I love this. The way Yuri snickers at Flynn showing his real self. The way he, without hesitation, says "yeah" to the idea that he would die in Flynn's place.

But the most important part of this entire thing, which was changed in the dub, is how Yuri specifically jokes that Flynn is trying to abandon him, and Flynn returns and tells Don he had no intention of abandoning Yuri.

Yuri does not hear this. Flynn knows that. But Flynn uses the exact same term Yuri used earlier, as if it's his answer to Yuri and saying no, I would never abandon you.

For reference:

Personally I just... love the weight of it. How Flynn will say something about Yuri that Yuri won't hear, but he still speaks it out into existence because it's how he really feels.

Just because Yuri won't hear it doesn't mean he won't say it, and in a way that's even more powerful. He's not looking for the credit of saying it. He's not looking to be recognized for saying it. He's not only expressing how he feels about Yuri somewhere that Yuri himself will hear him.

They're just his real, honest feelings, and he'll admit them even if Yuri's not within earshot.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

frickin shite that was the worst small group I've ever been to in my life

[iholli]

did you know there's at least two Ao3 fics that're basically LM3 but if Boo took on a really hot human form specifically to seduce Luigi

[izzyspussy]

i think a lot of people have never been in a truly desperate situation but think they have, and this causes them to pass really harsh judgment on people who made bad choices when either irrational or having no good choices to pick instead, and i really wish people could get some fucking self-perception and work on their compassion skills and not fucking do that as much anymore

[frozenambiguity]

So, hum. I just found out about a highly important Kaeya fact. In case you didn't know, apparently Kaeya has slightly different voice lines during the Caribert quest in the archives, concerning Mondstadt and his father.

And why is it important? Because saying:

«Maybe my father left me in the peaceful land of Mondstadt for no other reason than simply to give me a happier life... A happy life sounds good to me, of course. Even if it means being cut off from... certain things».

Is vastly different from saying:

«Maybe my father left me in the peaceful land of Mondstadt for no other reason than simply to keep me alive... As well as ensuring I'd be safely cut off from... certain things. The thought that I might be able to actually live a happy life there must have been the icing on the cake».

In case you want to confirm it yourself but are too lazy to go to the archives, check this tiktok! I've confirmed it in the archives myself, so it's the real deal, guys.

[moonsluvr]

hello fellow tumblr.com users haha... i am Here to tell everyone i am leaving </3. i made a new blog if moots wanna reconnect I MISS YALL but apart from that this is me officially signing off. i'll keep the blog up for the ladies but i'll probably stop coming on here. luv you guys endlessly, miss u all tons. goodbye my loves

face reveal before i go cuase i'm hot 😍😍 \ ALSO I'M SO PROUD OF MY CARRD FOR THE #NEW BLOG DID IT MYSLF Y'ALL LOOK AT IT

[strongwomenarethebomb]

there is just something so gorgeous about the way that a non-religious person like ava looks at beatrice. the way that every time she looks at her, really looks at her, it's like she's seeing something divine. it's like she's never really been one to worship a deity that, to her is completely unknown, but beatrice is real and solid and she is everything. bea is beautiful, and she's the most holy thing that ava's ever seen, more so even than the halo, or reya, who she didn't look at with even a fraction of reverence as she does beatrice. how freeing that must be for beatrice, who's always thought of herself unworthy of this kind of unconditional love.

[mermaidsirennikita]

The dichotomy between what's popular according to booktok (from what I've see) from the most blandest books imaginable to the most taboo erotica you can think of is kinda wild.

I think that what gets me with taboo books recommended by BookTok is that they're usually very poorly written. And if the writing is poor, you're not really getting the full "shock" value.

Like, when you read Sierra Simone's Thornchapel series, the scenes read as really intense because Sierra is an excellent writer. In contrast, a book like Hooked (that one dark romance~ modern Captain Hook book, a concept I was very open to and wanted to like, for the record) is very badly written. There's taboo content and a horrible hero, but like... It just reads juvenile.

I'm about 65% through A Kiss at Midnight by Anne Stuart, a historical romance that is QUITE dark, but the writing is frankly fabulous. Because Stuart can write, the darkness (which is not like, the corny "oh he's so bad he's in a motorcycle gang" torture sequence stuff--it's TRULY intense and pretty accurate for the era) is balanced out by emotional progression and honestly? A very dry, at times dark humor. If a lesser writer handled this plotline, it would just seem like shock factor after shock factor layered on just to get people talking. Very 2edgy4me.

And I'm gonna be really real here. Some fanfic authors are made to transition to actual published books. I think Ali Hazelwood writes a really solid contemporary romance. I really enjoyed You, Again by Kate Goldbeck, and that's based on a fic I actually read. The Hurricane Wars works as a book. (And mind you, let's not take away from the work the editors and authors did to rework fics into actual books here.)

Some fic authors are meant to stay fic authors and to excel at that. I personally think that one of the reasons why we have so many blaaand romance novels right now is that a) some of them are written by less-equipped fic authors trying to write real books and b) some of the authors have read less actual books than they have fics.

There are some tensely plotted, exciting fics out there. But personally? I think the standout nature of those fics--fics like Manacled, which... I think.... is not.... for me. However, bland it is not lol--makes people think that is the NORM for fic, when it's not. The norm for fic, and what I think a lot of more casual fic consumers and people who read more fic than they do books (compared to a lot of romance readers who turn to fic to supplement their reading habits) is very plotless slice of life stuff.

And that's not meant to be derogatory. It works, especially when you're writing about characters a lot of people know and love and are PROGRAMMED to know and love. Even if it's AU and they're basically other people, if you're writing a modern, sedate romcom about Katniss and Peeta and she mentions going to archery classes and Peeta being a baker, people are like aawwwww and they enjoy the nicely written scenes that are just people being people.

That.... ultimately creates a bland story when you're writing a book about original characters nobody has a preexisting investment in.

[thegetdownrebooter]

i'm sorry but it actually kills me that people think kendall telling roman he fucked it (which he did) is the worst thing he did last episode like bffr.

[zo1nkss]

CJ literally called Ed a slur multiple times on-screen to his face, so if you're really going to get upset at BIPOC for feeling vindicated that the white man who's still alive is actually learning to treat Ed like a person, but you don't say shit to ppl who are casual CJ enjoyers about his racism and how he has not unlearned a single lick of it because he died instead, you can actually fuck all the way off.

[paint-stained-carpet]

some doodles from a little while ago :)

[amiscreations]

✨Happy Birthday to the one and only Joe Elliott!✨

thank you so much for fearlessly fronting my all time favourite band, for making me smile, making me laugh and inspiring me to create! 

sending you all the love, light and well wishes, you deserve every ounce of happiness today and forever!

Rock tf on!✨

[icemankazansky]

Things I see on tumblr:

Things that will happen between Ice and Maverick meeting at TOPGUN and the availability to consumers of the earliest cell phones capable of texting:

the end of the Cold War

the United States elects two Presidents

the Exxon Valdez oil spill

the so-called "War on Drugs" begins

the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany

the Gulf War

the collapse of the Soviet Union

Starbucks

Al-Qaeda

the Tiananmen Square protests and subsequent massacre

Nelson Mandela is freed

the Hubble Telescope is launched

the Americans with Disabilities Act becomes law

the World Wide Web is designed, created, launched, and made available to the public

[theinfinitedivides]

mom said it's my turn to find underrated indie artists and make a playlist that sucker punches me in the gut for the love of two gay man

[commaclear]

Breakup Algebra Hiatus

(so my experience from being a popular fic author in some extremely toxic fandoms is making me nervous abt this post, but here goes anyway)

I’ve talked abt this before, but I genuinely cannot write more than one thing at a time. Every time I try, I end up burning myself out, hating everything I write, and losing all motivation to write anything at all for a while.

I jokingly threaten stuff, but at the end of the day I really do want to make you guys happy bc you all bring me so much happiness. Your support means the world to me, and I don’t want to let anyone down or make them upset...

Which is why I’ve been going back and forth on this for hours. The thing is I can’t write unless my heart’s in it, and right now my heart is in a different au entirely. So I’m putting Breakup Algebra on hiatus for the time being, and I can’t make any promises on when it’ll come back atm.

Check out the new fic here!

please don’t send death threats