#I will not accept criticism over this

[morvith]

[Spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the kingdom. Also, Bad idea! Angst! Extreme angst! Tw: Death! Read at your own risk!]

I am really craving a fanfic where...

...Zelda remains a dragon forever.

Imagine Link visiting her, and growing old. (She recognized him by scent, sees him change - his hair turns grey, his face wrinkles, his hands are no longer as strong as they used to be - but she does not realise what it means.)

And then one day he does not come any more. (Does he climb a mountain for the last time, just so he can see her fly overhead? Is she the last thing he sees?)

And then the years pass, and he comes back. He always comes back. (He is different every time, even his scent is different, but it's always him.)

The one constant in an ever changing word.

[Yes, I am aware that Zelda remaining a dragon forever and ever would massively screw up the reincarnation cycle and Hyrule because hereditary powers and who the Hell is going to seal the Calamity now?!?!

Maybe that's why Link comes back so many times...]

[worstloki]

AU where Loki doesn’t interfere with Thor’s banishment at all and it takes Thor years to prove himself worthy and when he returns to Asgard everything is just. The same. Nothing seems to have changed at all and everyone greets him like his absence was a minor obstacle that didn’t fundamentally change Thor and the worst part is Loki stepped down from the place as regent without any delay and Thor can’t help but feel there’s something underlaying the way his brother looks at him now and won’t let him touch him and Thor doesn’t know what he could have missed because he doesn’t think he would have found anything wrong with the things around him and how everyone behaves if he hadn’t spent time on Earth reflecting.

[milquetoad]

of the many injustices put forth toward the show by fans i think the most overall damaging and telling of a complete lack of critical viewership is the idea that sam riegel builds his characters with nothing more than the bit in mind. like you are only telling on yourself if you think characters like scanlan shorthalt and veth brennato are one-dimensional and depthless

[longing-for-rain]

I think it’s funny how people point to the existence of female kataang stans as proof that kataang isn’t written for the male gaze when every female kataang stan I’ve interacted with has said something to the effect of “but he’s so nice, he wouldn’t have done something like that” to dismiss his blatant violation of Katara’s boundaries on screen. It is unfortunately not uncommon for women to flock to the defense of male interests.

[criticalbeauregard]

i've seen a lot of gif sets showing vex's "i don't accept this" with imogen's and while that is a very powerful image i think it is also Very important to me that it be known that imogen is not the vex of this situation and that she is the keyleth

[bandtrees]

one of the most infuriating things i’ve realized about fandom spaces lately to me has been some people’s inability to just trust a story and engage with its premise and what it’s trying to express. “canon sucks i can do it better lol!!!” is one of the most annoying attitudes to me and i do kinda hate how prevalent it’s gotten (in actually good polished media that isn’t to be engaged with like that)

like between people who read things in as bad a faith as possible and ceaselessly criticize things they supposedly like, and people who only care about media for the sake of making cookie cutter self-indulgent fandom content, it feels sometimes like the most controversial thing you can do in a fandom is “actually liking the source material for what it is”

[lemonhemlock]

not to be a hater on main but i just stumbled on a tik tok claiming that tsh both takes itself too seriously and could use more absurd comedy and it nearly made me punch a wall

[elemental-plane]

i love how we never got like confirmation on what elsie and raj were but everyone saw them and immediately deduced they were a divorced couple and i think that's the funniest thing ever

[lilyoffandoms]

Detective Lilah Rose for @storyofmychoices

For Day Two of the @choicesjanuary2024 challenge (Theme Prompt: Resolutions)

Lilah got me back into arting a few weeks ago when I was laid up and I got this idea in my head for her (kinda went for a detective noir + femme fatale combo). Then got to thinking that maybe I’d share my things again. Maybe I’ll post a few and run for the hills like I did last time. Who knows haha. But the fandom is quieter and I think I’ve blocked most everyone that likes to whine lol. Guess time will tell.

So here is me dipping my feet back into the Choices art pond. Wish me luck.

[four-cats-in-a-trenchcoat]

I present to you my beautiful children, who haven't done one single wrong thing ever (they can and will murder you)

[schumiatspa]

Lewis really tagged Seb on himself. Where their arms are touching, where they are losing themselves in the hug.

[dent-de-leon]

"It's never too late to leave, if you're uncomfortable--just putting that out there," makes me feel some kinda way cause. man. I do think you can always leave, even if you can't escape the consequences of everything that came before. But the fact Liliana thinks it's too late to turn back, that she can never leave or get out--that's the nature of a cult--

[demons-i-get]

WAIT BIG BRAINED THOUGHT:

Sam does smth stupid hoping Dean won't find out.

Someone rats Sam out to Dean.

Sam gets in trouble and a lecture from Dean (bc Dean is a parent and he is Sam's parent I will not accept criticism on this matter).

Later, Sam makes a group chat consisting of everyone who could have told on him to Dean and just sends this video:

[gailynovelry]

Conspiracy theorists stop following my Neocities challenge.

[starlooove]

It’s so funny when fics try to shit on Vicki vale by making her say completely valid things that are only intrusive in the context we in the real world have of celebrities. Like vicki asking if Batman is making excuses for red hood is not out of line, Vicki asking why Bruce Wayne talks about all this shit he does that apparently nobody ever sees is lowkey intrusive but also understandable and her job. They use Clark as like what a reporter should be and it’s the most biased easy questions ever.

[sparring-spirals]

So one of my favorite things to make characters ask themselves is "how much of me, is me?".

which means i am being absolutely spoiled by bell's hells, because, wow. wow. this party sure is collectively chewing over that question, huh. like:

how much of me is me-

-and not my service and use to others, not my coping mechanisms for things gone wrong.

not other peoples wishes tangled around me like strings on a puppet, not my frantic efforts to outrun flaws.

not the clawing monster inside of me and not the webs of lies that metamorphized me into something different.

not my trauma responses, or even, the trauma itself.

how much. how much?