#Firebird Personal

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

do i really wanna read it tho? U beta'd it but whats so good about it? I wanna know

I have good taste in things. Ask any of my online comrades, i scarcely reccomend bad things.

Good characterization all around for both major and minor characters. I'm particularly fond of how Natsu is written in the fic.

Ever expanding lore. The world in the storys constantly bein built and expounded on.

Good pacing. Lives up to the slow burn tag (though im evil and think it could be slower, but alas, Rougie thinks thatd be too evil to do.)

Great action. Might be graphic to some but its an M rated fic for a reason.

Theres romance there but it isnt slapped on, its actually something that progresses and slowly grows instead of bein like, speedran.

I did another post here before on this a while back

You won't know if you'll like it if you don't give it a shot for yourself :]

[firebirdsdaughter]

Also…

… Just bc I feel bad saying I was lukewarm about him in my other tags… I do like Ichigo. He's one of the more well rounded shonen protags in that he's actually allowed to fail from time to time and while he's overly powerful, isn't treated as the super ultimate power, necessarily. He just happens to be a weird chimera of powers that allows him to to do things people of one aspect can't necessarily do.

And he doesn't insist he's the most powerful either. Him chronically trying to help everyone is his nature, not him looking down on them. He respects the powers of all the Captains and his friends, he just wants to help.

And everyone else is allowed to be strong, too. Kenpachi is an absolute wild card, and I think Byakuya's also up there (not favouritism, I swear—okay, maybe a little bit) if he's fighting without being conflicted (I've come to theorise that first big fight between them would have gone on longer/differently except Byakuya didn't really have his heart in it, he'd just convinced himself he did), Hitsugaya's got a massively powerful sword and he's probably just going to keep getting stronger. Renji and Rukia achieve their own bankais and defeat enemies on their own. Ikkaku and Yumichika are no slouches, either. Despite some questionable writing, Orihime is allowed to be strong as well, having powerful defence and healing abilities, and her kindness is often treated as a strength. Her having no killing intent isn't treated as a bad thing. You've got Shunsui, Ukitake, and bloody Yamato in the mix. Uryuu fights on even footing with plenty of super powered enemies, and though he does go out of focus, Chad is never made out to be the weakest or anything.

Like I liked that in the end, they defeated the overpowered invincible big bad through teamwork the Old Men Brigade set things up, and then even Ichigo couldn't get a hit in until Uryuu used what their fathers made to help (and I'm glad that it was Ichigo and Uryuu working together, bc that was super poetic).

I'm just rambling now, but the point is, Ichigo is a good example of making powerful protag who doesn't (always) come off as too overpowered.

It's often treated as more he happened to be the right combination of things or the right circumstances to prevail. Wasn't hypnotised, already had a little hollow in him, is just really bloody stubborn. He's also just a nice guy! He cares about people he befriends and will work his ass off to help them bc that's his belief.

Anyway, to complete in another direction (sort of), I was thinking about this bc of how when he reaches the Soul Society in the blood war arc, the first thing he does after getting Akon to help is go to see Byakuya. Probably bc he saw that Rukia and Renji were unconscious and Byakuya was fading, and probably knew he'd want to now they were alive, but like. While they're not personally very close, I do think Byakuya is one of the Captains Ichigo is closest to bc he's so close w/ Rukia and Renji. Just by virtue of that, he'll end up interacting w/ Byakuya more often. And he does respect him (I think he got over the 'I'll kill you' the moment Byakuya took Gin's sword for Rukia). He goes to check on him, and reassures him that Rukia and Renji are alive, even saying 'don't worry.' Like I said before, I totally think he would have lied there, if they hadn't been, bc he'd be well aware that information would completely break Byakuya. He thinks he's dying, he wouldn't leave him thinking he'd completely failed to protect them. But more to the point, he doesn't respond after Byakuya talks about how ashamed he is and begs him to help. He responds to the first question, but goes silent after that. And…

I love tranquil fury. I love it. I love this moment bc Ichigo's already fuming from sensing/hearing everyone being hurt. He's already super pissed. But to me there's some thing about the way he goes silent during that talk that feels like a switch is well and truly flipped at that moment. After that, he doesn't stop or pass go, just heads directly to Yhwach and is clearly completely enraged.

Bc until then, there's been a little bit of distance. He's angry bc he could hear it, he's even angrier when he gets in there and sees what's happening, but then he goes over to Byakuya and has one of the strongest, proudest, most level headed and noble people he knows break down in tears and beg him, while apparently dying, for help. The one who had previously told him that none of the Captains would ever need his help.

And that just hits the unstoppable rage button.

[dykeredhood]

weh

[moonilit]

having so much emotions over Jote and Joshua I can’t even articulate, like

[ubernaut]

So Epiphone out of nowhere just dropped a reissue of an instrument that I absolutely love, but couldn’t nab first time round due to money troubles - The Mandobird, a 4 string electric Mandolin - which I’ve immediately ordered 😁

Never expected these to come back around, so I definitely wasn’t going to miss it this time ☺️

[firebird963]

Got through the marble nest (all endings) and then the original Pathologic Bachelor route (including the two twists). Now I need to need to either actually play the Heruspex route or, again, watch it -.-

[subsequentibis]

kicking my feet giggling plotting out a transformers au for john specifically

[phoenix-before-the-flame]

more stuff I hope you like all of these you've enabled my brain now

another thing that I think about a lot too is the whole dragonification deal

supposedly the dragons enchanted themselves into the kids' bodies to prolonge their own lives and supress the dragonification that comes as a side effect of dragon slaying magic

so, in theory, after the dragons left their bodies, the dragonification should've started on them from that moment onwards

I hate that the solution to this in mashima's eyes was to simply say "no" and call it a day, BORING

a very interesting plot after alvarez could've been the dragons slowly coming to terms with this, maybe try to not reverse the effects but try to keep his conciousness while letting the dragon inside of them grow

to maybe accept that they are in fact dragons but they'll never let the dragon take over them and make them forget even their own name like acnologia did

maybe they also developed a plan to figure out how to be able to turn between dragon and human form like acnologia without losing their grasp on reality and their loves ones

(what a sequel we could've had)

Me sitting on the multiple chapters and storylines in the rewrite i have in the back that deals with the dragons and all that u mentioned above plus more regarding acnologia bcus the dragon plotline left me wholly unsatisfied but i cant fuckin say anything because to speak would be to basically let loose the most necessary building blocks of what i've created.

[tapedsleeves]

🌹🌹🌹

from the kole lind kisses people on the forehead to break curses au (three roses, so 3 sentences) :) “That’s not.” Kole says, and Dennis has genuinely no clue where this is going. “Everyone deserves kindness.” That makes something soft and tender ache in Dennis’s chest. All that time when Kole barely spoke to him and Dennis had a crush on him anyway.

send me a 🌹 and i'll give you a sentence from one of my WIPs.

[reivenesque]

Alina was much more interesting as a character in the first quarter of season one, back when she was a cartographer. She became such a boring, generic lead character by the end.

[firebirdsdaughter]

Yup…

… That’s why I don’t post asks for money from strangers.

[mauricemylittlemeowmeow]

watched clifford's choreography of the ma mere l'oye ballet suite. thoughts:

set design was digital aside from some props which is always a shame

they timed the first tableau (danse du rouet) to a badminton scene it was kinda insane

les entretiens de la belle et de la bete has visually always been my favourite part of ma mere. the music is so evocative and the beauty and the beast's musical colours are really distinct from one another so it's nice when they start to mix as they dance.

all that to say that it was nice to see actual people dancing a pas de deux to it.

petit poucet was so funny. literally just a bunch of people in tree costumes like???? barely any choreography there aside from their branches swaying lmao

laideronette was WILD. orientalism truly is a disease (not always done bad but when it's bad it's bad) but let me just say that as an asian person that shit was wow !!! i did not expect that costuming!!!

critique:

again digitalised set design boo

choreo kinda falls off sometimes (see petit poucet)

^ esp disappointing in the final tableau bc jardin feerique is like???? rlly good music so goddamn what a shame that there was no dancing involved

but this was a local performance i think so i dont want to be too harsh about it.

costuming is.... the design dept. is clearly a bit lacking considering the set design (never letting this go i hate digital screens in theatre)

i hate tutus in modern ballet. ill just put that out there. the sleeping beauty ensemble w the tutus was not nice to see

my fucking god the empress of pagodas...... jesus fucking christ idek how to start on that

the peasant outfits? ok idm. whatever. they look like they work in rice paddy??? (田?) fields.

but laideronette by god. l'imperatrice and she has such a skanky outfit that is definitely not what an empress looks like and that outfit was very much not anywhere near chinese lmao.

it's modern ballet for god's sake!!! it's about the dance and the choreography, ofc it's a major part of ballet costuming to try not to obscure the legs but by god you can work around long skirts and costumes to ENHANCE the choreo. seeing fabric move with the dancers as they twirl is fucking beautiful stop with this tutu/short dress nonsense!!!!

overall:

the storytelling was pretty nice and sweet actually but i wish the dance was given more importance. hope to see more choreos of ma mere l'oye in the future.

[dancingkirby]

TBH I find it mind-boggling that it’s 2024 and (to the best of my knowledge) no one’s ever written a Faithshipping or Firebirdshipping Titanic AU.

[ubernaut]

New avatar/pfp, ft. Epiphone “Mandobird” 🦅