#Guess we'll find out

[cappagedraws]

I have no explanation

[meadowsofmay]

i am sORRY but rajan and oscar's sexual tension first two hours of the episode is palpable to the point the knife won't be enough to cut it and i. respect. that. you don't trust a dude in shiny suit? call him a prince, call him your highness, abuse his pride by helping him up a wall don't worry i got you. it's so amusing to watch.

[silliest-basilisk]

(reblog for sample size!)

[fordtato]

I wrote this like a year ago, but I forgot it existed and recently reread it and, you know, I'm kinda funny, if cannibalism jokes are up your alley.

[transthatfag]

damnnn.. am I about to start watching the faggoty vampire show...

[kogetaikid]

Welp, just read the Undertale Yellow wiki. I guess my theory of Clover having a dysfunctional family wasn't too far off.

[pushing500]

Vanic has new pyjamas, and I think they suit him very nicely.

He was not impressed by Vlaakith (who is?) and decided to not do what she told him to just because she was boring.

After ignoring Vlaakith we went back to chilling with our dream guardian.

I sure hope she stays as this lovely gith lady and doesn't reveal that she's been lying to us this whole time because she thinks we won't trust her true nature despite the fact that we were extremely polite and cordial with Omeluum in the Underdark. That would suck.

Act 2 babeyyy

Gale has a magic hat to dissuade the shadow curse. It's very effective.

Gale also has very strong opinions about Vanic's post-battle appearance. Sometimes, I wonder if Vanic gets as flustered about his companion's comments as I do.

Immediately after this, Astarion asked if Vanic would come to his bedroll that night, so I guess my lil' barbarian is keeping his options open.

[ultfreakme]

come an interesting shipper in jujutsu toji and itadori's father It would be an interesting couple to see toji deserved to be happy.

Oh this is NEW. Toji and Jin Itadori??? Wait. Wait I'm kinda interested because I always thought Jin was very handsome, he seems like a sweet guy(in the two panels we got of him). You know what? I can see it. If Jin could fix Kenjaku, he could DEFINITELY be Toji's source of happiness. There was a recent interview thing with Toji and Yuuji's VA, and Toji's VA was like, Toji would've grown to love Yuuji because he's so naive and enthusiastic like he'd initially be annoyed but Yuuji would eventually worm his way into his heart. If Toji x Jin is a thing then Toji would be Yuuji's dad to and just- AHHHHH ADORABLE!!!! Megumi, Tsumiki and Yuuji siblings!!! Oh Yuuji would love an older sister ;_;.

This is adorable.

EDIT: I JUST realized why I am so easily into this. so this is Jin and Toji right?

They look almost exactly like

I started LAUGHING when I realized AKJSBDHRGH tell me there isn't a resemblence like COME ON AHAHAHAHA

[wicked-jade]

When you blink, and suddenly what was supposed to be a short chapter has somehow gained 2,000 more words than it had the last time you checked. And you're still not done yet.

[flowers-inverted]

If Link Click ends with Cheng Xiaoshi dying I want Lu Guang to go full Saint Olga of Kiev on the world tbh

Honestly there's a lot of characters I wanna see do that

[howdy-nyalll]

[imaginespazzi]

Ooooh I think Azzi has a lil FWB when she has nights away from Stephie

MWAHAHAHA

[doom-dreaming]

no i lied i am going to rant because it's only tangentially-related to the essay and i can't let myself go on tangents there. but i can link this post into it. win-win.

Last Light is not a murder mystery. It has the aesthetic of a murder mystery, but it is not a murder mystery. Why? Because there's no mystery. Not for the readers, which is really what matters. We know by the first few chapters who the killer is and what her motive is. The façade of a murder mystery is blown at that point, because there's nothing for the audience to figure out.

However, it gets weird because the main character...is still (technically) in a murder mystery. She's supposed to be, anyway. She doesn't know what we know. This format can work, dramatic irony is cool and the audience seeing behind the curtain before the sleuth does is a lot of fun...as long as the person crafting the story puts in the work to make sure all the internal logic is still functioning. Denning does not do this. The individual components of a murder mystery are still there, we still have the veneer of the genre, but the sleuth isn't actively solving anything or putting pieces together in a meaningful way.

The whole reason I'm so bothered by Mark being a suspect is that it's a classic red-herring...but for who? Not for the audience, we don't need a red herring, we already know who the killer is. So he's supposed to serve as a red herring for Veta...only there's no logical reason for her to cling to this so hard. He goes from being barely mentioned to being her top suspect at the drop of a hat. Well, the drop of a boulder, really. Because she only starts to suspect the Gammas could be capable of the kind of violence inflicted on the victims once she witnesses Olivia going Hulk Smash(tm).

...but then why Mark specifically? He wasn't the one who raged out. In fact, he never gets brutally violent at all during this novel, even when he's fully off his smoothers and fucking around on his own in the caves. All his kills are clean and precise and well-planned, absolutely nothing like the other murders.

Denning wants us to buy into this so desperately without having any actual, textual support for why Veta herself would believe this. The internal logic isn't there. We don't have anything to connect the final dot from "brutality" -> "enhanced strength" -> "spartans" -> "gamma company enhancements" -> ??? -> "Mark". Why not Ash? Why not Olivia, the one we (and Veta) actually witnessed beating a Sentinel into scrap metal with her bare hands?

All Mark does is make vaguely sinister remarks and remain standoffish. That's it. That's not evidence. That's the author wanting to reinforce a paper-thin plot complication because otherwise this book would be 200 pages shorter than it is.

There's not really any procedure involved for gathering evidence, either. Information drops conveniently into Veta's lap because every other character can't keep their fucking mouth shut. She doesn't have to work for any of it. Hey Denning, if you're gonna write a detective, for the love of god, she better do some fucking detecting. We see attempts at this. But in every conversation where she attempts to """trick""" someone into divulging something, they just talk in circles for a couple lines and then *poof* suddenly they're giving up classified secrets. There's not actually any clever dialogue or process of breaking them down, just the (very poor) illusion of it.

Anyway, now I'm losing the plot. Last Light is just sci-fi action with a whisper of intrigue (and I'm using that word so loosely), dressed up like a murder mystery. Denning can't write smart characters and I feel myself getting dumber the more I try to make sense of it.

[slimestormx]

Just started watching the latest TommyInnit video, why is Charlie in a lab coat?

[theidiotwhowritesthings]

hello, i did a thing

I realize my taglists are in a state of disrepair at baseline so i learned how to make a secondary blog (please hold your applause i know my talents are immense). so, i will no longer be adding taglists to individual stories BUT if you follow @theidiotupdates then whenever I post an update to something I will also post a notification there.

if this ends poorly and/or doesn't work i'll trash it and go back to attempting a taglist lol.

and on that same note, if you follow @theidiotrecommends then you can see me fangirl over my fav fics

[ivediedmorethan20times]

Reblog this post with one character you want to see snap so fucking bad