#99.9% of the fandom

[crookedkingdomruinedme]

Hanseo: Pros and cons of dating me.

Hanseo: Pros. You'll be the cute one.

Hanseo: Cons. Holy shit, where do I begin-

[luthervonswag]

[utilitycaster]

Something that I find misses the point so completely it is breathtaking is when people are like "this player hates engaging with their backstory" about the CR cast. It's pretty much never true, and what's worst is that I've seen it the most about Travis and Taliesin, two of the players who I think have the strongest grasp on how to create and engage with a backstory.

The choice to have a character who avoids elements of their past can be a valid, informed, and deliberate character choice. People run from their pasts! People decide not to pursue things for a number of reasons - because it hurts too much, because they're scared to know the answer, because they think the people around them don't care, and because their interests change. Caduceus very much is an avoidant character. He has access to Sending by the time we first meet him, and he never uses it to try to contact his family. That's not Taliesin being stupid or avoiding. That's Caduceus making a conscious choice to not ask the question "is my family dead" because he is terrified the answer is yes. He waits for a concrete sign to go after his family to the point of deep loneliness and self-harm out of this fear. That's a crucial trait that you need to understand him as a character! Ashton is also on some level similar in that he engages in no shortage of harmful, wallowing, and self-indulgent behaviors - and that is a choice. They also have obviously messy feelings about the Hishari and it's pretty plain to see they feel extremely conflicted about their growing bonds with Bells Hells because now they'll feel bad if Bells Hells leaves them. So of course he's hesitant to bring this to Orym, because then he's entrusted Orym with this information, and he has to care, and again, this is a major part of who Ashton is.

The same goes with Fjord and Vandran (and Sabian). One of the core themes of Fjord's story is deciding whether to run from or embrace your past, and which parts of that past you want to bring forward as you change, which means that to explore that, he has to do some running! He makes efforts to learn more about where they are (going to search for Vandran during the Zadash downtime; hiring a bounty hunter for Sabian) but those get interrupted by Fjord's shifting feelings about Vandran, and fact that this is an ensemble and the story naturally shifts.

Which brings us to the practical element. Fjord doesn't want to release Uk'otoa at the time, so it makes sense to return to the mainland and process next steps, and the focus of the story then turns to rescuing Yeza, and then finding Yasha, and rescuing Caduceus's family, and changing Veth back, and brokering peace, and TravelerCon, and Eiselcross. Through this, he still in fact does quite a lot of backstory work (changing patrons and taking a paladin oath, asking Jester to contact Vandran), as well as an immense amount of character growth and engagement with the ongoing story, but Travis doesn't wrench everything off its natural course just to check off every box on Fjord's list, because that would be selfish, obnoxious, and not fun to watch. And Caduceus achieves exactly what he set out to do! He found and rescued his family and found a way to hold off the corruption! Despite his avoidance, he covers all the bases! And as for Ashton...we've had precious little time to cover anyone's backstory in depth other than Imogen's, and we've actually seen a decent amount of Ashton's backstory regardless with their contacts in Bassuras and their interactions with Jiana. There simply was not time in Bassuras to stray from the main objectives and search for the Nobodies, and I think if we had people would be annoyed since that arc already took a very long time (and, for what it's worth, rather like Fjord, Ashton has explicitly asked after The Nobodies. Do not mistake lack of payoff for character disinterest).

It is, to me, incredibly telling this criticism is most commonly seen about the two players who I think also get the most "well they had an central arc/more focus than my fave" criticism.There's no way to make everyone in the fandom happy, and I think Travis and Taliesin are the players at the table who most understand that and give the least fucks about what the fandom thinks, and who (possibly relatedly) have some of the strongest grasps of narrative and what it means to play in an ensemble. Which is in my opinion a major factor in why their characters are so good - even the ones I do not vibe with are fully realized and well-crafted, because the players are not trying to make likeable characters, but rather interesting ones, and they're not trying to take center stage, but rather be generous at the table.

[ranticore]

Are there any pern-related headcanons you made about the dragons/books/world that you were not able to put into writing?? Im curious and would love to hear anything you have to share about it in general

I'm not really a headcanon type of person tbh, everything that diverges from canon that I've written is just either an aesthetic choice (i like it when dragons have external ears lol and I like the varying flight types because i like flight) or something to facilitate a plot, so I did really just put it all into writing. I guess I did my best to expand upon the roles of green riders because I find them really interesting and they are pretty neglected in canon. I like the idea of a very particular green rider culture that might form among the lowest ranking dragons (which comprise 50% of the population mind you) where they build their own internal hierarchies and support systems, kind of an unseen 'underground' to the weyr while all the lofty political stuff happens to the bronze and gold riders. Green dragons are having in-group drama the likes of which u couldn't even imagine

[mailmiocuoredipietratremaancora]

FINALLY

Finally I open tumblr and our madness has a purpose

[alexthen3rd]

FNaF movie was awesome! There were some major unexpected things! I loved the adorable Abby! The animatronics looked fantastic and I love their personalities. I do wish their were more scenes with ♥︎Matthew Lillard♥︎ tho :3

[stick-by-me]

All the stickers I got as part of the @turtlestogetherzine!!!

(I will probably be posting them separately too but I just. Wanted to scream about them. I love them so much.)

+ the zine itself, for anyone curious

[ghostincorrectinternetedition]

Rain: Sorry, I can’t today; I need to sit alone in my room and feel weird.

[just-avocado]

I wanna draw A1 but my nail polish is drying so while I wait for that I saw someone propose we name the egg, allow me to suggest Allie (al-e) since it sounds cute and looks like A1 :]

[alchemiclee]

I hope someone writes a good fic about the high cloud quintet with all the messy pieces of lore we have because i'm very unsatisfied with what we got and I want MORE OF THEM. don't know why i'm so obsessed with this tragic group of friends but 😭 IM SO FEELINGS ABOUT THEM but also empty because they didn't satisfy me with what they gave us lmao I require more. but that was the end and i'll never get more....unless someone writes a great fic about them.....!

[brood-mother]

if you’re ever worried about your fic not being good enough, i beg you to scroll through literally any ao3 tag and you will see  - and i mean this in the nicest way possible - that your work doesn’t have to be great or even by many accounts ‘good’ for people to enjoy it and engage with it in a meaningful way. the two cake effect is so so real. if you write it, people will read it. 

[sxilor-1010]

I feel myself returning to my old roots of crushing...

AAAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE KIIBO SO MUCH 🩵🩵🩵

[fierykitten2]

I have the urge to play Scarlet/Violet while watching Hermitcraft, drawing F-Zero/Pokémon crossover fanart and listening to a playlist of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden all at the same time but given I can’t draw my own fanmade Megas/regional variants while watching Hermitcraft and actually knowing what’s going on, I don’t think that’s a good idea

[vanivanvanilla]

noticed i never posted these anywhere, here’s ship memes with some of my ocs

[starchaserdreams]

Lord have mercy someone showed up to my writers group in a Harry Potter sweatshirt and I had to physically restrain myself from bringing it up because while the marauders fandom is niche, HP is not, and it would be hella weird to react to like the most common fandom on earth

[corgifruity]

thinking on it, if it wasn't for BTS saving me during my 2 months hospital stay, i think it would had been hetalia instead. imagine a small loaf laying there in the hospital bed, kicking their feet as they scroll through the sweden and sufin tag. that would had brought me so much serotonin. just sad i didn't ask for the hetalia infodump earlier from my bestie </3