#If this post flop I will remake it better

[duncanor]

Thinking about Silco saying

He had to kill his weaker self

after getting almost murdered by Vander

... so he could remake himself into something stronger.

[serv0z]

My mlp oc remake from !! like.. 8 years ago? Maybe even longer !! The original was done on.. phone I think? Back when I used Ibis, around the first time I started I think.

Congrats on your transition, king. I couldn't decide on which palette I liked more so I had friends make a vote and we settled on the darker palette!! He doesn't have a name yet so.. feel free to make suggestions?

He's a bat pony who was ORIGINALLY training to be a guard (as most were, apparently) but realized it wasn't for him. So he's got the training, but nothing beyond that !! His cutiemark is of a flower in the Everfree, that's where he spends most of his time at night !! He lives pretty close to it and he has a love and gift for gardening and researching those Everfree plants !! Specifically the ones that thrive at night.

I promise he's more silly and not super serious but I can only ever draw serious people/hj

The old version below !!!

yikes./lh

[ameliathornromance]

The Other Woman - Part 2

A/N: I'm blown away by the support you guys have given me with this part. I want to thank everyone who commented on the first post and gave me feedback! I'm always happy to recieve constructive critisim to make my work better for you all. This part 2 is a little different from how I usually handle part twos, so I hope you guys enjoy!

Link to PT 1

Your eyes itched as you dragged them open the next morning. The tears you shed last night had completely exhausted you by the time you got back to your room in the Palace, you had just flopped into bed without changing, skirts covered in melted icing.

A part of you was glad for it, as you had something to distract yourself from the soreness of heart break in your chest. You had no idea what you were going to do when you headed to court. The King’s personal guard would be there, and as far as you were aware, he hadn’t seen you the previous night.

Which means to him, nothing had gone wrong between the two of you.

You weren’t sure what to do knowing that. You could: A) Pretend nothing is wrong, carry on with this affair like you’d never seen what you had, or B) End things with the Orc and live with the guilt of what you did for the rest of your life.

Option A was just too difficult for you to do. You couldn’t bare the thought of doing something so heartless to that lovely Orc lady who worked in the kitchens. She was too kind to you, and always willing to lend a shoulder when you needed it… She would be a great mother.

So, it looks like option B is the only way to go.

As you finished remaking your bed, a shaky sigh escaped you as you leaned against your mattress, trying to steady yourself to face the day.

Leaving your quarters, you walked through the halls with your head in the clouds, thinking about how exactly you were supposed to end this affair. Would the King’s guard be angry? Upset?

After stewing on it, a wave of indignity washed over you. Really, none of this is your fault, it’s not like you were aware of his marriage. So, why should you be the one to break it off?

Of course, the last thing you wanted was to stay with the Orc, but if anything, he should be the one ending things with you! He was the one who chose to lie to you and hurt you in that way.

But how would you send that message to him? It’s not like you could just tell him what you saw. He might try to convince you to stay with him and you would not be persuaded into doing such a thing.

… Maybe, if you ignored him, he’d get the message and just leave you alone? Then that way, he’d know that you were angry with him and then, he would have no choice but to apologise to you. He’s not a stupid Orc, he should realise sooner or later what you were upset with him about.

But then, how do you regain your dignity as a Lady?

You chewed your lip as you greeted the Queen, apologised for your lateness and then followed her, alongside the other ladies in waiting to the throne room.

Thinking about this anymore would have to wait. You had a job to do as the Queens lady in waiting.

Their excited whispers brought you back down to Earth.

“Do you think that he’s handsome?”

“I don’t know, have you ever seen a forest dweller before?”

“Well no, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not good looking!”

“(Y/N) what do you think?”

“Hm?” You looked over your shoulder at the others. “What are you talking about?”

“You’ve really been all over the place this week haven’t you?” One of the ladies said, “you know we’ve been preparing for the Forest Fae? Well, the Lord of the Forest Fae, is apparently, devilishly handsome. And, he’s not married or in any other kind of commitment with a woman or man!”

Another one of the ladies giggled, “do you think he’s come here looking for someone to marry?”

“Unlikely.” The third lady said, dismissively. “Men of any species love to flounder, even when they’re married. Why make their promiscuity more complicated than it has to be? You agree with me, don’t you (Y/N)?”

You didn’t answer. Due to recent experience, you had no interest in trying to romance a Fae Lord, there was no point in trying to if he was so easily led astray. “All men seemed to be like that.” You said, callously. “Even if he is loyal to those he sleeps with, I’m not looking to marry a Fae Lord.”

“Oh come on (Y/N), don’t pretend you’re not even slightly interested!”

“Ladies,” The Queen shushed and all the other women fell silent. “Gossip is unbecoming of all of you. If any of you wish to become involved with the Lord, I’ve heard he’s not one for those who spread rumours.”

Upon reaching the throne room, all the chattering of the ladies had fallen silent.

The doors to the impressive room opened, the Queen, you and the other ladies in waiting taking their respective places next to their mistress as they waited for the Fae Lord to make his entrance.

Sunlight caught the Queen’s glittering necklace, making you look around in surprise. And infuriatingly, you caught the King’s Guard’s eye. He smiled at you, eyes kind and wide like he was expecting you to return it.

Instead, you whipped your head away from him and locked on the throne room door. Other courtiers bustled around the room, discussing whatever was on the nobles minds at that moment in time.

For now, you would just have to stick to your plan of ignoring him. What else could you do until you could think of something more suitable for vengeance?

Soon, the doors to the throne room opened and the whole room fell silent.

The first few Fae glided in like they were sliding on ice, their ethereal beauty suffocating and snuffing out any other attractive person in the room. There were eight of them, four entering from opposite sides of the doors, who twirled in what looked to be spider web like dresses, their skirts sparkling in the light as they came to a stop, their long blonde hair falling down their backs with an eery gracefulness.

One of the ladies next to you mumbled something about how the Fae were so lucky, but you were so focused on not looking around at the Orc standing beside the King, that you couldn’t hear what the rest of her sentence was about.

After the graceful – and attention stealing – dance, a Fae man, taller than the others you’d seen so far, graced the courts prescence.

His hair was so white you might have thought that he was an old man, if not for his smooth skin untouched by aging. His eyes were deep pools of black that threatened to suck you in and never let you go, while his smile was kind and serene.

The Fae Lord came to a stop a few feet away from the thrones, and bowed his head. “Your Majestys, it is so wonderful to see you all again. I’m so pleased that I could finally make this trip like my father before me.”

“And we are pleased to have you, my Lord.” The King returned. “As it’s your first time staying here at the Palace, we’ve prepared a little celebration in honour of your new position…”

As the King droned on about how he hopes that this will be the new beginning of a fruitful alliance between humans and Fae, yada-ya, a chill went down your spine.

While the King’s announcement had been going in one ear and out the other, you brought yourself back into the room and carefully searched for the source of your discomfort… only to find the Fae Lord, looking directly at you.

You stood a little taller, returning his gaze in an attempt to be polite. When you gave him a polite inclination of the head, his smile widened as the King finished his speech.

“And so, we will have this little ball to welcome you and hope that your stay will be as comfortable as possible.”

“Yes,” the Fae Lord said, airily. “I’m sure it will be.” He turned to look back at the King and inclined his head once again. “I appreciate that the ball isn’t until tonight, and since this is your court, I’d like to ask if I can be a little forward, your Majesty?”

The King frowned, but nodded his head.

“You see, I couldn’t help but notice that lovely lady standing over there,” the Fae Lord pointed at you, “and was wondering if it would be too much for me to ask her for her first dance tonight?”

Your eyes widened.

The other ladies beside you, nudged you in the ribs. “So it was you he was looking at! I was wondering why his eyes were wandering, I thought he was just bored!”

Face burning, your eyes darted to the Queen and in the process, caught sight of the Orcs face.

His nose was scrunched up as he snarled, “awfully cocky, aren’t you?”

The Fae Lord ignored the Orc as he looked at you once again, hands behind his back.

When you looked at the Queen, she smiled at you and jerked her head to the Fae. “Well? You don’t have to ask me for permission, Lady (Y/N).”

All eyes on you, you bit your lip and sucked in a deep breath. Most of all, you could feel the Orc’s eyes baring into the side of your skull, like he was trying to make you face him, daring you to accept the Lord’s offer.

But the image you saw the previous night, flashed through your mind.

Spite leading you, you answered the Fae Lord. “I’ll have my first dance with you, my Lord.” You said, firmly.

The Fae bowed his head to you, “I look forward to it, my Lady.” And with that, he said his goodbyes to the King and Queen before the entire court was dismissed.

The rest of the day went by with a bubbly air, all the ladies sneaking glances and smiles at you as you went about your day.

You, yourself, could hardly believe that you had accepted the dance. It was true, you weren’t interested in romancing this Fae Lord in the slightest… but if it meant that you could piss off the King’s Guard, then you would gladly accept anything else that the Fae Lord had to offer.

After all, it’s not like the Orc could jump in and say that you couldn’t do something, people would get suspicious then.

As soon as the Queen had sent the ladies in waiting to go and prepare for the ball later in the afternoon, they all pounced on you.

“I can’t believe it!” One of them said as they took you by the wrist. “He really asked you, in front of the whole court!”

“It’s just a dance,” you told them all as you made your way back to your apartments. And that was all it would probably be, you told yourself. “It was just formality that I accept him. It would have been an awful start to his stay if I had told him no.”

“But even so, to ask you in front of the entire court!” Another one of the ladies squawked. “He must really like you.”

“We haven’t even formally met.” You said.

“Oh can’t you just be romantic for one minute?!” The first Lady huffed. “I’m imagining a star-crossed lovers romance, where he dramatically proposes to you just before he’s about to leave, flying through the corridors, abandoning his carriage in search of you-”

“Alright.” You said, firmly. “I get it. Well you can have your fantasies all you like.” Once you reached your apartments, you yanked open the door and slammed it shut behind you, locking the other ladies outside.

Sliding to the floor, you pulled your knees to your chest and squeezed. When you’d first started seeing the Orc, all you did was fantasize like that. Dream of running away with him and sharing all sorts of romantic ventures together.

But any kind of desire for that experience had left the moment you saw his wife.

You didn’t want to colour all men with the same brush, but a betrayal like the Orcs, isn’t something that you can just shake off.

And although it gave you the slightest bit of pleasure to know that the Orc was angry with the Fae, you knew you couldn’t allow yourself to get caught up in the romance of it all. He may be the exact same as the King’s Guard for all you knew.

And… you didn’t want to end up hurt again.

Once evening finally did come around and you joined with the other ladies in waiting – who were all too eager to have you be the leader of the group – the ballroom was full of chatter, people drinking and watching couples dance in the centre of the room.

“Oh, he’s not here yet?” Frowned a lady beside you, “don’t worry, he’ll turn up soon I’m sure, most of the other Fae are here. You should sit by the entrance that way, he’ll see you as soon as he enters.”

The suggestion made you want to roll your eyes. While you were going to dance with this Fae, you didn’t want to be seen as desperate for company. Taking a glass of wine from a passing waiter, you decided to hover to the side of the room.

As you sipped on the delicate glass, your eyes scanned the room where you spied the Queen dancing with the King, the other ladies mingling and chatting animatedly with other guests.

You caught yourself glancing at the entrance to the doors a lot. Keeping an eye out for the Fae Lord. You had to keep internally slapping yourself. This was just a means of getting back at the King’s guard.

And perhaps it was because the King’s guard was standing opposite the room, within perfect line of sight of keeping an eye on you that you were eager for the Fae Lord to arrive.

The Orc’s eyes glazed over the room, mostly following the King, but occasionally, he found you.

Anger boiled in your veins as you kept your eyes firmly fixed on the doors to the ballroom.

Even now, the Orc was good at keeping his affection for you a secret.

A part of you wanted to throw the wine glass in your hand at him, just to keep him on edge.

But, before you could put your thoughts into practice, gasps echoed around the room, drawing your attention to the ballroom doors.

The crowd parted as the Fae Lord’s eyes searched the room and found you. His eyes lit up at the sight of you and he passed through the crowd of people, and held a hand out to you. “There you are,” he said, smiling. “What are you doing hiding in the shadows over here? A pretty thing like you shouldn’t be hidden away like this.”

You shook your head as he took a wine glass from a waiter and sipped from it, “do you mind if I have a drink before we dance?”

“No, not at all my Lord.” You replied.

Over his shoulder, you chanced a glance at the Orc, whose eyes were now locked onto you and the Lord.

The Fae spoke, “I’m sorry I didn’t ask for your name first before asking for your dance, my Lady…?”

“(Y/N).” You answered smiling. “Thank you, for asking me for this dance.” You held your hand out to him, which he took and pressed a kiss onto your knuckles. A pleasant chill ran up your arm.

The Fae Lord bowed his head as he took another sip from his glass. “It’s an honour that you accepted. I should be thanking you for not humiliating me in front of all those courtiers.”

You chuckled at that. “I wouldn’t have done that to you, that would’ve been cruel, even if you were being very forward.”

“I just don’t have a care for all of these silly procedures,” the Fae said, waving his free hand around the ballroom. “There’s no point in any of it, I’d have preferred that the King and I just talk about what I’m here for and then to just leave, you know. But, a simple ball isn’t so bad.”

“So, you’d say you’re a simple man?” You asked.

“Completely.” The Fae finished his drink and you rushed to do the same too.

“My Lady, please, don’t do that on my account, we have the whole evening to dance, you can take your time.” He pulled the glass by the stem away from your lips.

You frowned, holding your free hand up to cover your mouth. “But I don’t want to keep you waiting, it would be rude of me to do that.”

With a sly wink, the Fae Lord said in a low whisper, “if I didn’t want to be kept waiting by you, I wouldn’t have asked for your first dance.”

You gave him a suspicious look, to which the Lord replied, “I want to get to know you, (Y/N).”

“Why?” You asked, shortly. “We’ve never even met before.”

The Fae Lord didn’t flinch at your tone. Instead, he searched your eyes. “Because, it seemed as though you were in need of some cheering up.” He said, simply. “And I don’t like seeing people upset.”

With a gentle smile, he patted your shoulder. “Don’t feel like you have to tell me what’s going on right now, after all, we did just meet each other. But whenever you’re ready, I’m here if you want to talk.”

You stared at him. Was he being serious? As you looked into his eyes you could sense no malice, no playfulness or manipulation in his face… Maybe, it wouldn’t be so bad to give this Fae a chance?

Once you’d finished your drink the pair of you took to the dance floor.

And for the next few days, he always made a point of talking to you. At first, it was mundane things, how did you sleep? Did you eat breakfast yet? Before it became more involved questions, like what your family did for business, asked about your other ladies in waiting and if they were doing well.

And gradually, you started to look forward to your little chats and began to ask about him and his life. It turned out he was an only child and took the Lordship after his father had died of some kind of tree associated illness.

He was funny, had a quick wit and was fond of lymerics. He liked the smell of morning dew on grass and the way the forest smelt after a rain storm. Oh, and he enjoyed rum cake.

Your stomach bubbled with excitement every morning now at the prospect of seeing him around the Palace and speaking to him in the evening, the Orc barely even crossed your mind anymore.

Except for when you were on your way to your apartments one time, and the Orc ambushed you from a dark corner of the halls.

“What is with you?” He snarled at you. “You’re completely ignoring me in favour of that pretty Fae man.”

You didn’t spare the Orc a glance and kept walking. “He’s nice to me.” You shrugged, “I can’t talk to other men?”

“It’s not just talking to other men!” The Orc hissed. “You’ve been ignoring me and the gifts I leave you, along with letters as well! Whenever I enter your rooms to give you something else, the other gift is always left unopened!”

He grabbed you by the wrist, forcing you to stop in your tracks. He tightened his grip, “did I do something wrong?” He asked you. “Tell me if I have, I will do what I have to do make up for it.”

Anger flared like a fire stoked with gunpowder. You wanted to yell at him, to shout at him that he should go back to his wife, confess that he was an adulterer and that he should be begging for her forgiveness.

But for some reason, you couldn’t let that anger escape. It refused to climb up and out of your throat. You shook your hand free of his grip. “You really want to fix it?” you hissed. “You can leave me alone. Pretend that this never happened. Take your hush gifts and give them to the person who really deserves them!”

And with that, you stormed off to your apartments.

Once you were inside the drawing room, you let out a groan of frustration. Of course, going off with the Fae Lord was definitely one way of getting revenge… but it didn’t feel like it was enough.

You still felt awful for the Orc lady, who was pregnant with that adulterers baby. There had to be something else you could do… some other way of getting back at him and really sticking it to the King’s guard.

And then, an idea came to you. It was a risk to ask, sure… but, the Fae Lord really seemed genuinely interested in you. And he did say himself that he would be open to listening to you if you had any problems. Who knows? Maybe he would be up for your revenge too.

So, that night you arranged a private dinner for the two of you, away from court to tell him what was really going on.

He was perplexed by your request to meet him in a place away from the public eye, but never the less accepted and arrived to dinner with that same pleasant smile he always gave you.

“What’s all this about?” He had asked as you finished setting the table.

You intertwined your fingers together and clasped them in front of you, as if you were about to start praying.

“… Do you remember when you told me that you could sense a sadness within me?” You asked. And over dinner, you told him everything. The secretive meetings, the presents. As you told your sombre tale, you realised how badly it all truly sounded.

Of course, the affair was awful enough on it’s own… but the fact that the Fae Lord had been unwittingly helping you in your payback, would come across as you using him.

And as you finished with the climax of your story, the Fae Lord’s fists clenched tighter around his cutlery. His jaw tightened.

You bit your lip, wanting to explain yourself. “I have to say that your asking me to dance in front of the whole court was what inspired me to continue on with this plan of revenge. I have truly enjoyed spending time with you and didn’t mean to use you my Lord…”

“You have nothing to be sorry for.” The Fae spat. “It’s an awful thing for him to do to you, it’s no wonder he was so against us dancing and being seen together in the first place. I had half a mind to complain to the King about his behaviour.”

He knocked the butt of his fork on the table as the Lord looked around your drawing room, like there would be some kind of explanation somewhere. “How dare he use someone like that to get his own rocks off!” The Fae Lord hissed. “And especially you. You should have told me sooner, this isn’t something that you should have to deal with alone!

“No, do you know what?” The Fae pointed at you, “don’t do anything else until I say so, alright? We’re going to get this bastard man-whore… or should it be Orc-whore?” He gave you smug smile as you laughed. “For this plan to work,” he continued, “I’ll need to ask permission from someone before I go through with it.”

You frowned. “Ask permission for what?”

The Fae Lord gave another sly grin, “It’s a surprise.” His smile faded as he reached out across the table with a free hand and took yours in his, “I’ve grown very fond of you, (Y/N) and I hope that you have of me too, so with that in mind, please trust me, okay?”

He was right, you had grown fond of him and his presence. It would be strange for him to not be around in court any more. Your heart sunk in your chest at the realisation that he wouldn’t be around for much longer.

You nodded. Lowering your head, you stared at your empty plate and sighed. “… I feel really silly for thinking that he could have actually liked me.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” The Fae Lord asked, frowning. “I like you.”

You sighed. “I mean honestly liked me. Not just used me as a means to have an affair… I thought that we would get married one day and…” You gripped your skirts.

For a moment, the Fae stayed silent. “You don’t deserve to be loved by trash like him.” He said, firmly. He gave another squeeze of your hand. “And we’ll make sure he knows it. So don’t put yourself down, alright? It’s not you who’s in the wrong, it’s him.”

And once again, he was right. You sniffed. It made you feel a lot better to hear someone say it out loud, and to talk to someone about this affair. It was like a huge weight had been lifted off your chest.

Weeks went by and everything continued on as it had been before. The Fae Lord acted no differently than before your dinner together and the King’s guard grew more and more furious each time he saw you and the Fae together.

He had stopped bothering you since you’d told him to leave you alone… but there was still that foreboding feeling that the Orc was still looking for ways to win back your approval, proved by his scathing looks of the Fae Lord when you and he were together.

And with that feeling hovering in the air at court, you began to realise how stupid you must have been, to believe that you were only worthy of such a deceitful kind of love. You deserved so much more, wanted so much more.

The strangest part about knowing that, was that you felt it might come true very soon. You didn’t know how you could tell, you just knew it.

You began to worry as the final days of the Fae Lord’s stay drew near. There still had been no update on the Lord’s revenge plan and when you asked him about it, he’d always reassured you and given your hands a reassuring squeeze. “I’m just making the final preparations, alright? Don’t worry about a thing, I’ve got this.”

It was all too soon that the final week of his stay around. Everyone in the Palace was suddenly mournful that the Fae Lord and his company would be departing.

The Monday of the week the Lord was going to leave, you awoke to find a gift box. It was carved of wood, the bark of the tree still on it’s exterior and top, with a mossy bow tying it shut.

And as you opened it up, you couldn’t help but gasp at the sight you saw. In a bed of moss, was a necklace made of spider web, droplets of water beads strewn around it delicately. Underneath it, was a note:

I would like to give you a surprise gift every day leading up to the final day before I leave. I hope that if you appreciate this gift, you’ll wear it today and the others that are to come.

Others to come? Was this part of the revenge plan that the Lord had cooked up?

Without a second thought, you put on the gift and when you entered the Queen’s apartments that morning, all the of other ladies practically screamed with excitement for you.

Even the Queen – who never normally allowed herself to be emotional – got involved with her ladies delighted chattering.

The next morning, it was a bracelet made of hardened tree sap – the note detailed that if you licked it, it would make for a good snack – the morning after that, a broach made of butterfly wings.

And every day you wore them, eventually looking more and more like a forest Fae than a human noblewoman.

When the day finally came of the Fae Lord’s departure, you found that there was no gift that morning. Although strange, it didn’t surprise you.

He was leaving today after all, perhaps he just didn’t have time to leave one final gift.

With a heavy heart, you made your bed, adorned yourself with all the gifts you had received that week, and set off to go to court to wish the Fae Lord a good journey home.

Following the Queen to the throne room, the rest of the ladies in waiting seemed to be uncharacteristically quiet. When you gave them strange looks, they all pursed their lips or looked away from you, as if they were trying to hide something from you.

Even the Queen refused to look at you. Although you were sure that you caught a small smile on her lips whenever you all turned a corner.

When you entered the throne room, it was packed with courtiers, all chattering as usual. But there was something different in the air. You weren’t sure what it was, but there was certainly something going on without your knowing.

Once you had taken your place beside the Queen, the doors to the throne room opened and in stepped the Fae Lord with his company.

You had hoped that he would make time for a private goodbye, or at least tell you how his plans for revenge had been progressing.

The whole time you had seen him in court or in other places in the Palace, it seemed as though he was doing nothing to try and help you with your revenge plan.

A part of you wanted to be angry with him for being so slacked about it.

But you couldn’t bring yourself to be. At the end of the day, you’d been able to get back at the Orc in some way; throughout the whole week of you wearing the gifts that the Fae Lord had been giving you, the King’s guard said nothing to you, apart from giving you foul glares from across the room whenever he saw you.

“Your Majesty's, I must thank you for your hospitality these past weeks, it has been nothing but delightful.” The Fae Lord announced.

As soon as the sentence had left his lips, the whole court went silent, hanging onto his every word.

“But, if you do not mind, your Majesty,” he looked at the Queen, “I would like to steal one of your ladies in waiting.”

You furrowed your eyebrows at him as the Queen smiled at him. “But of course, it’s been difficult to ignore that you certainly have a favourite among my girls.” She looked at you and tilted her head. “Go on, (Y/N).”

Your head darted between the two. Again, you caught the Orcs eye, who gave you a warning look of carefully concealed fury.

At that, you straightened your back and headed over to the Fae Lord. Once you had come before him, he held his hand out to you.

You took it. Sandwiching your hand between his, he looked you in the eye. “I know we’ve only known each other for a few weeks,” he said, “but they’ve been some of the best weeks of my life. You’re funny and smart,” he lowered his voice. “Vengeful.”

Rolling your eyes with a smile, he continued, “but most of all, you make me happy. So, I ask that you come back to the forest with me and be my wife?”

Your jaw dropped and you clasped your hands to your mouth. “You… you can’t be serious…”

The Fae Lord let an abashed smile come over him. “I am… so, if you’ll have me as a husband…” He pulled a ring, made of wood from his pocket, a white, misted crystal adorned the top of the ring. “This is the final gift… I’m sorry that there wasn’t one for you to wake up to this morning, but I felt you may appreciate it more if I gave it to you in front of everyone.” He gave you a knowing look.

You allowed a devious grin to broaden your lips.

An aww escaped the crowd, followed by a few claps. But before you could give your reply, a shout rang out.

“No!” You and the Fae Lord whipped around to find the King’s guard, abandoning his post. “No, this is completely inappropriate!”

The Fae Lord pushed you behind him, as the Orc towered over the pair of you. He jabbed a thick green finger at the Fae, “what makes you think you can just wander in here and take one of the ladies in waiting?!”

“Actually,” the Fae returned, plainly. “Her father gave me permission. I asked him last night before coming here… Unlike some people here, I’m actually upfront with future family.”

Your eyes widened as the court gasped and muttering began to rise from the onlookers.

You gripped the Fae’s arm and squeezed it. “No, please don’t. You’ve done enough.”

He looked at you, then back at the Orc. “Well, it’s all down to (Y/N)s decision anyway.” The Fae Lord raised an eyebrow and smirked. “After all, it’s not like you have any interest in her, is it?”

The King’s guard scowled at the Fae. But he said nothing.

“Come back here, now!” The King snapped from his throne. “Don’t ruin this moment for the Lady (Y/N) any more than you have!”

“But you can’t possibly allow this!” The Orc turned to face the Monarchs.

“I just did.” The King glared at his guard. He looked at you with kind eyes as he went on, “well, what is your answer?”

Looking directly at the Orc, you took the ring from the Fae Lord and slid the ring on your finger as slowly as possible.

The Fae Lord grinned and pulled you into a tight hug as the court let out an applause.

Wishing the court goodbye, you and the Fae Lord turned and left, without even giving a second glance to the Orc, who was left in the centre of the room, stunned.

“Now this, was a great revenge plan.” You whispered as the pair of you walked down the corridors.

You bit your lip, “I… I was worried that this was just going to be some kind of holiday fling for you.”

The Fae Lord stopped in his tracks, taking your hand. “My darling, I could never, do that to you.”

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[generalluxun]

"To be clear, I really want Miraculous to be *better*, not to die. want it to address the abuse it's already displayed in a reasonable way. Once that's done, the hackles will go way back down."

I may or may not address a number of these aspects in your post. As I said, I do not think we will see eye to eye on a lot of these things due to our vastly different lived experiences (the true source of much fandom discourse).

But I feel the part I just quote is something I felt... off about. Because I've been down that road with Pokemon's Anime adaptation when it was during Generation 4 and... not doing it for me. And looking back at it, I find that it was for the best I got off it when I was mired in a mindset of "wanting it to get better and thinking a meager fan forum would be the avenue to do so."

When it was just me complaining.

As such, while I might come across stories that might fall short of what I expect, I try to practice not really engaging with them. Unless it's, say, a particular part of a particular franchise that had a (as the kiddies call it) flop era. That's only increased with how Social Media has engendered the promotion of negativity.

YouTube recommendations full of videos banging on about the latest live action Disney remake we can't not pay attention to, top Reddit posts ranging borderline tirades to meme-y potshots. It... wears me down. Especially when I get dragged into another endless back and forth where the other person doesn't even read my posts.

As to all else you wrote about, I have posts or raw thoughts from my own perspective rather than directly responding to your's.

By 'better' I mean I want the abuse apologia for bad dads and the erasure of the on screen abuse to go away. I feel like that is a low bar and one worth fighting for as it directly impacts the child audience.

They managed to make an entire movie without including these things. Different people worked on that movie, but it was still very much Miraculous. It can be done!

[puppyhigh]

OPENED POST BUTTON INSTINCTUALLY + REALIZED I CAN POST. WAR IS OVER 🔔

okay. anywayyyyyyyy! was going to say i think im going to cut down the . amount of sideblogs here to… 6 if i can help it. wait fuck nvm. 7? because counting our main it’d be 8 blogs (and when i have to count them all i just. Count the. entire amount of blogs Including main). okay that actually works better than intended okay hold on. counting em out (under the cut. this got long) HELP ME MAKE DECISIONS PLEASE 🎉💓

main blog

horny blog of debatable normalcy <= im undecided on it rn. Encouragement one way (relatively “soft kink” puppystuff) or the other (cnc goresex… puppy2) is appreciated. or i could just try to tag stuff really heavily But I Get Nervous . Goooooood having ocd + taboo kinks + knowing (some) ppl hate u for them is a nightmare. Also just tried to refute the ocd claims but then read the first parentheses of this post. okay.

*ALREADY EXISTS* save/reference/graphics/etc blog

one single condensed blog permitting any alter to post on it (+ on main) as desired . we try to run individual sideblogs a lot and they usually get abandoned + then my Neuroses make me delete it to keep things clean, but . I think especially if i structure it a tiny bit it’d be good and fun

vent blog. 👍 or general feelings i want to squirrel away from main sometimes ? yeah

*ALREADY EXISTS* my kinhelp blog i’ll revamp her someday i fucking promise she has a new theme rn i just. haven’t. remade my whitelist its so hard. to remake a whitelist. its So Hard when youre autistic and Incredibly Particular over characters . ITS SO HARD WHEN YOURE DISSOCIATIVE + FORGET UR INTERESTS

*ALREADY EXISTS* nostalgia/regression blog . just general baby play place times .

SHIT I FORGOT. UH. <= FORGOT IT AGAIN. jesus christ hold on OH YEAH THE RP/OC BLOG. ID PROBABLY COMBINE?THOSE? … like . stash all my lore/art the same place i stash my in-character stuff. Possibly the same with canon character analysis/rp. Who knows :3 (but id probably post analysis to main first + then reblog)

And thennnnnnnn this is one im rlly tentative about but definitely want to indulge more and it’s like. selfship + objectum + posic stuff. we especially want more mutuals who post stuff abt this :3 But its…. augh. We are bad at like.. making “content” for our ships.. how will anyone ship me and my 3 plushie wives if i dont everrr talk abt them . Flops sighs

^ THIS COUNT IS AN ISSUE. I THINK. maybe i just don’t make the last blog? But a heem heem. whimper.

okay. Actually i do think the number 9 is a good odd number. if not the best one because its easily counted in 3 sets of 3 And its the number of our favorite house in tlt (i am from there. very Much So)

alternatively the possibility of splitting horny blogs into two (making 10 total, another solid number) but i don’t think i want to do that. :p Maybe ill just nottttt bloodpost . Sad. 🩸 OR. Secret third thing: i just kind of. place everything that makes me feel a Particular Way onto one singular blog ;; maybe with a clear tagging system and maybe not. maybe just a collection of vague vibes that only i will know im jerking off to. sometimes i crave to be popular on horny tumblr but i think that might not be good for me . Might not.be.

also: i think i’ve accidentally been looping happy news for sadness for hours now . Rather than the entire csh discography . as intended

also alsoo: i think i got sunburnt at work. my face hurts

[therealvinelle]

Movie ask anon here with more specific asks! These might be too specific but I hope you've got some.

Old romances that seem like they're flaunting the Hayes code (thinking of Some Like It Hot's "Well, nobody's perfect", or the threesome vibes in Singing in the Rain, tho that last one might just be wishful thinking on my part)

Doomed romances where there's sizzling chemistry but the people are bad for each other or something tears them apart. Even better if they know they're bad for each other.

Mystery/detective films that do something unusual with the genre. Maybe they're masquerading as sci-fi or fantasy? Or they have a twist?

Horror/Monster movies with an ensemble cast rather than a "hero/final girl". Ideally one where the cast isn't narrowed down to just one survivor.

Movies where the guy wears a shirt less often than Jacob. I'm thinking Conan the Barbarian but there's gotta be others.

Spaceship / Alien Planet sci-fi that feels different from Star Wars / Star Trek, maybe that came before them or was a contemporary?

Comedies where the joke is the relationships and personalities of the characters? Very much NOT whatever monty python / spaceballs is.

Bonus sections:

"B-Movie / Cult" films, stuff that flopped when it came out but is good in hindsight.

"Not on netflix/hulu/hbo/disney/mainstream streaming" stuff. Films you're gonna have to dig for.

Good movies for being jumpscared into your date's arms.

(Anon is referring to this post.)

I will try, but there will be repeats.

Flouting the Hays code/threesome vibes

(Perhaps) A Little Night Music

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidd

Lawrence of Arabia

Paint My Wagon (delightfully horrible movie, and I think what you're looking for

Doomed romances

Dangerous Liaisons

Doctor Zhivago

Hiroshima mon amour

Mystery or crime with a twist

Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

The Usual Suspects

Anything by Alfred Hitchcock, though you can get started with Psycho, Vertigo, and Shadow of a Doubt

Horror or monster movies with ensemble cast

The Exorcist. Please just watch The Exorcist.

Shirtless or skimpily clad men movies

Die Hard

Predator

Terminator

Pre-Star Wars spaceship or alien planet sci-fi

Classic Doctor Who

Alien franchise

Frankly most of the genre is different from Star Wars and Star Trek, those just struck it big

Comedies

The Producers (both original and remake are great and both worth watching since they're different takes on the same story)

Movies that flopped

The Thing

Movies to dig for

Caveat: I don't know where in the world you live, but "difficult to find" for me in Norway could be "oh that's on Amazon" for you.

Veiviseren (Pathfinder)

Good movies for jumpscares

Alien

Really, having tried to compose this list I think you're looking for very specific things, and have taste that differs from mine. I suspect @hotvintagepoll will be a treasure trove for you, and a good starting point.

Best of luck!

[thenightling]

Goth CINEMA is not dead!

Whenever I posted about the revival of Goth culture in the mainstream I always get at least one reply telling me "Goth culture never died!" But it did fall out of the mainstream and now it seems to be back. (i.e. Target having a Goth section on their website, the new Wednesday series on Netflix, Neil Gaiman's The Sandman getting a TV series, the popularity of Monster High, etc...) Now that The Crow (2024) is failing and failing hard, I'm starting to see the easy blame of "People don't like Goth things anymore." It's like when Johnny Depp's horrible Lone Ranger movie came out and people shrugged it off with "No one likes Westerns anymore." No, no one likes crap anymore. I can argue that Westworld, and The Manderlorine (despite being scifi) bear resemblance to traditional Westerns. Universal Studios made (And somehow continues to make) the mistake of thinking the era Van Helsing (2004) is set in was the problem. This is not true, as proven by the failing of the 2017 The Mummy. Now it seems people are being quick to dismiss things that are Goth or Gothic because of The Crow 2024 being... just pretty damn terrible. Now to point out why Goth and Gothic is not the problem. We have had several successful Gothic films in the last few years. Some that technically were considered flops like The Invitation (2022) even though I loved that one. And some that are destined to linger in the cultural consciousness like Renfield. In the last two years we had The Invitation, Morbius, Dracula: The Original Living Vampire, Hotel Transylvania: Transformia (Hotel Transylvania 4), Renfield, The Invisible Man, Last Voyage of the Demeter, House of Darkness, Five Nights at Freddy's (which has a surprisingly Gothic ambiance), as did M3gan, Abigail, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Asylum's Monster Mash, Wednesday (TV series), The Sandman (TV series)... And next week, for better or worse, we get "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice." There's also another Dracula movie and another Wolfman remake in development right now. Out of all of these the most "Goth" and not merely Gothic would have to be Wednesday, The Sandman, and Beetlejuice. I think the fact that all of these things found an audience (and not merely around Halloween) proves that Goth IS alive and well in cinema. The Crow 2024 didn't fail because it was Goth. It failed because it was edgy, mean-spirited, un-romantic, cruel, cynical, crap. There's a romanticism to real Goth culture, not cynicism. Real Goths aren't twelve-year-old 90s Edgelords. And the people behind The Crow 2024 didn't realize this. So again, please don't blame Goth culture. We didn't make this dumpster fire. Nihilistic edgelords did.

[bellaaldamas]

(crawls out of my grave) Kratos month over, now it's Dad of Boy month now 🐻🐺💕 as usually, hope life is treating you well along with other media you're into now days. ^^ have this eepy cat instead: https://youtu.be/n34Xw0xsjsc?si=gK6mHLFjarm9wfh7

Hey there. I propose that instead of the Addams family-style crypts and coffins we use the lovely little sandbox that our section of the Gow fandom is to seclude ourselves from the toxicity of other fandoms and the general participants of the Gow fandom (be it dudebros or "progressives"). For my part, this is the sandbox I intend on staying in even if my emotional investment in the series has been snuffed out lately by the lack of any news. On the contrary, some other media managed to pleasantly surprise in ways I never expected and disappoint in ways I expected completely.

Still, fandom wise, I am doing my best to stay away from any and all situations that would confront me with the inevitable proof of my failures in every department of life, art and achievement of any kind. Having fun as much as I can but pulling out when/if need be because I know my limits and, sadly, my "best" is normal people's worst so it's better to stay in my lane.

(On a positive note though, the recent troll fest on my blog on one of my posts from an anti-Ariel Ursula apologist crowd member resulted in my Ariel/Eric gifsets and posts receiving more notes; trolls have exceptional promotional skills, if only they could put them to good use).

The media is going in the precise direction I predicted it would go, for better or worse.

The Snow White remake turned out to be the flop I said it would be and it is both a good and bad thing. It is good because the greedy, money grubbing, arrogant and creatively lazy Disney executives are faced with the - well deserved - consequences of their modern mainstream culture pandering. All while they play it safe and, contrary to their claims, present the opposite of "feminist" storytelling.

The remake in question barely passes the Bechdel test because Snow's entire "feminist" arc revolves not around utilizing her skills and gaining control of the household after escaping an abusive and oppressive situation like in the original. It revolves around her father and her aspiring to follow in his footsteps and be his extension. All of new Snow's interactions with other characters, be it with another woman, the Queen (the only one she has a strong relationship with - and it's a wholly antagonistic relationship), or her love interest Jonathan or the secondary characters revolve around her dead father and invariably mention him and Snow's unwavering determination to carry on his legacy (not to build up and leave behind her own).

On one hand, this male focused misrepresentation of the classic princesses returning disastrous box office results (markedly contrasting with the commercial and fandom success of the TLM Live Action that honored the essence of the original animated film's story, female lead's defiance of her father's patriarchal and bigoted antics and, no less important, the main romance) works in favor of smacking Disney with the proof that the audience is not buying into their "progressive misogyny" disguised as feminism. This, in theory, should mean that Disney will be forced to reconsider their approach and try harder. That they will have no way but to go back to presenting legitimately empowering storytelling, honoring women and girls' self expression and - wishful thinking - gracing the audience with characters like Freya, Angrboda or Sif. Who rise above the girlboss stereotype and are far more in line with the Classic and Renaissance Princess type than the modern day Disney heroines.

However, fact is that Disney is unlikely to learn and is more likely to double down - because they can financially afford it. They are a monopolist and they know it. Unless the audience doesn't merely vote with their wallet but actively switches to other content, starts helping and supporting less known female authors of romance and explores older animated and live action features from across the world which has always been superior to anything ever produced by Disney but never had it's power and PR opportunities - unless that happens it is unlikely any positive changes to modern media will be made. But that's still not an excuse to not do one's part; which is what I'm trying my best to do.

The downside of the Snow White LA flop is that the cowardly Disney executives, most of whom are men, deliberately set up Rachel, the title actress, to bear the burnt of the potential (and now obvious) failure. This is a microcosm of misogyny through and through. First, the powerful Disney execs had Rachel be the mouthpiece for their mischaracterization of the classic princesses and OG Snow in particular (one has to be naive to believe Rachel was expressing those views on her own initiative and not because every single interview of hers was scripted by the Disney promotional team).

And then Disney refused to own up to the fact that their new strategy of warping and twisting what the original movies and heroines were about is not working. They blamed Rachel for being "too noisy"/"talking too much" and making it "harder" for those powerful men to gain more money by disrespecting the audience's intelligence (read: women's intelligence) and telling "dumb teenage girls" what is good and "empowering" for them (daddy issues, suppression of their romantic agency, mansplaining Snowmen and criminal men who lecture them on "princess problems").

Not even delving into how heinously ableist the "new, progressive and improved" Disney is with it's promotion of the "overachiever woman who needs no help just like she needs no man" stereotype. And how the reason myself and other women with disabilities and neurodivergence still love the classic films because they didn't belittle its heroines for not doing all the labor themselves (but, see, men and patriarchy were not happy about that - they WANT women to do all the labor in all the areas of life so they could get away with showing us no respect and support; modern "feminist" Disney wholeheartedly agrees with them).

This issue is another glaring evidence of how progressives and dudebros are one and the same and bond over their hatred of women. With the remake's flop and Disney shielding the blame onto Rachel they laid a convenient groundwork for the far right conservatives to complain about diversity, DEI and "wokeness" while ignoring the Elephant in the room: that the Princess franchise went down the girlboss drain with Frozen. An all white movie that amounted to a two hours long shame fest telling its female protagonist she "didn't know what love is".

Then there was the official funeral of the franchise in the form of the Tangled Series. Where the main protagonists were still white even if Disney did add some cultural diversity for the secondary characters - who were then reduced to plot devices for the new!improved! "feminist" Rapunzel. As well as for the equally "improved and feminist" useless comedic relief that the show!Flynn was written to be (because, get this, men are just not made for doing any kind of emotional or physical work and therefore it should all be done by women; that's modern feminism for you!). This time around, Rapunzel had to accept that abusive women in her life - namely Cassandra - actually do "know best" compared to her sheltered, shallow self. Thus, Rapunzel herself had to prove her worth through girlbossiness by nullifying Flynn's sacrifice from the original film (and the positive equal partnership and mutual care for each other said sacrifice was based on), growing out her magic hair and cutting it on her own, just like the armchair "feminist critics" demanded.

That is how we got where we are today with media culture. To deny that is to push an agenda (whether far right or far left) rather than to use basic critical thinking skills. Neither Disney nor the fandom is willing to acknowledge any of that hence why we're stuck with the same anti-woke racist and misogynistic bigots on one side and pseudo-"feminists" on the other. But some people start coming around and fingers crossed it continues to be this way.

The video is the cutest <3

[sparkiekong]

Kong's 2024 Halloween-a-thon - 31 days of spooky movies

I didn't get a chance to post it before Halloween, but I did watch another 31 days of Halloween movies. Here's the list if you want it.

The ones that were really good...

Maxxine

Trap

Fantasy Island

Honorable Mention - Edge of Sleep - Cause it was episodic and I think it could have played better as a full fledged movie.

Honorable Mention - Freefall - For the possession take. Very creative ideas.

As always, if you have specific triggers check out doesthedogdie for a list of what maybe in the movie you choose to watch.

I Saw the TV Glow – 20 mins boring as shit - Max

Bodies Bodies Bodies - Not good, not bad… forgettable. - Max

They - 20 mins boring – Max

The First Omen – Hulu – Underwhelming

Fantasy Island – Hulu – Decently good unique take on an old tv show

Succubus – interesting wanted more but got less

X-Files – I want to Believe – SUCKED - VUDU - I'm disappointed in you X-Files. That movie is worse than spiderman 3 (the one who shall not be named.)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – not terrible, very 1980s vintage

Mr. Crocker -hulu – just bad and lame really, bad parents and bad children being haunted by a kid show host who was I think into some horrible pedo things.

Hold your Breath -hulu Forgettable

Slayers – Hulu – if slaying were dumb, this is the movie for it.

Gaia – Hulu – Boring survivalist / horror /suspense with none of what it said it was supposed to have.

Little Monsters – Hulu – Comedy Horror with not much comedy – Kids and teacher and lazy white guy survive zombies

2019 The Grudge – Hulu – Decent creep factor, kid death

Handling The Dead – Hulu – bored

The Accursed – Revisited this one from 2022 to see if anything had changed in my previous review. I felt like I missed a lot of the point because I wasn’t aware of the culture it was representing. Was better the second time I watched it after reading up about culture.

Amulet – Hulu – Boring

Agnes – Hulu – A promising flop

The Free Fall – Hulu – Fairly decent take on possession.

The Edge of Sleep (Prime) – Mini TV series – Markiplier plays Dave a guy who’s got parasomnia. Really fairly good. I was expecting something a bit different but was pleasantly surprised.

Salem’s Lot remake - max – so so, vamps looked pretty cool

Maxxxine – max - Really good addition to the franchise that is Maxine Minx

Trap – Max - Really good. I expected a flop... but Josh Harnett made this movie great.

Return to Salem’s Lot - Max – Sucked – 1980s.

Poltergeist – Max - the original one, eh… probably pretty scary for the time.

They Live – Vudu - 1988 Roddy Piper sees aliens with glasses that want us to obey. Maybe scary back then, but not so much now.

Pheonix Forgotten – Vudu – Found Footage Style- Not my fav type of spookie.

Dark Skies – Vudu – Decent Aliens

Mouse Trap – Peacock - cheesy as all fuck, but it was hilarious in how bad it was. Steamboat Mickey goes mental and teens win. It's so bad that it almost spun 360 to make it good again... almost.

Blood and Honey 2 - Peacock - The person who thought these up is brilliant at twisting the most beloved Pooh of the 100 Acre woods... but Jesus fucking Christ it's brutal. So brutal it'd make Jason blush. Don't watch it if you love Winnie the pooh. It's triggering and it will taint your vision of them. Bad movie, loved the brutality and the creativity that went into it and tied it to the first in a crazy good way that makes sense, but can't like the premise about children.

AVP universe - Vudu - starting with Predator (Arnold movie) all the way through Aliens in chronological order. It makes so much more sense to watch them in their (in movie historical order). Lots of interesting lore, lots of gore, lots of tiny clothing... So far I liked Predator, Alien and Prometheus. The rest were ok on their own, but made better because of how much they tried to tie them in. Still not finished with these, but finished enough to post.

[pamshindouu]

Taking a look at how all the Digimon stuff I've posted here so far is doing...

My Ghost Game art seems to be doing better than everything else for now, that's interesting! People really seem to like that first piece with the whole group, it's a little old at this point but I put a lot of effort into it so I'm glad it's appreciated :')

And that Tamers piece based on the 3 Primary Colors song seems to be the least popular, I suppose that one was just a flop overall. I worked pretty hard on it back then and put a lot of thought into every detail but I guess the final result just doesn't look very good? I think it might be the poses, they look a bit stiff. And I could have gotten a little more creative with the lighting too. I think I might try remaking that one someday, try to bring it closer to my original vision.

And speaking of things that don't match my original vision... there's one I'll be posting tomorrow that I'm curious to see how it will do 🤔

[confusedgoldenflower]

Can’t find my post about shows that deserve remakes, but I wanna add Korra to it. Insert the many video essays on how it flopped—and NO it’s NOT bc the avatar’s a girl, stfu. Or any queer rep.

But both Atla’s spiritual and actual sequels deserve better. Stop the LA “adaption” and put that money into fixing Korra, inaugurate another generation into this fantastical world🙂

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

The trades right now showing what utter bootlickers they can be, and I want to call it out.

Taking Bob Iger’s whole “less messaging, more entertainment” nonsense that he emphasized last year when evaluating the box office losses of WISH and THE MARVELS and other assorted Disney films, the writer of this trash is basically saying “Yeah, he’s right! Appease the angry people who call everything ‘woke’ and you’ll see great box office! Fuck marginalized groups!”

Yeah, never mind that INSIDE OUT 2, DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, and MOANA 2 are all sequels to big hit movies. Never mind that last year, “woke” movies like BARBIE and OPPENHEIMER made shit-tons of coin. Yeah, never mind all of that!

It was erasing “woke” from the movies that saved Disney’s collective rears this year, didn’t it?

It’s no surprise that Variety, one of the trades, would publish such a dunderheaded article like this. And one that seems to hand it to Ben Shapiro of all people… That whiny asshole… It only gets worse from there… No link, I'll save you the brain damage for the most part.

And then they center the seemingly-disastrous budget-ballooning SNOW WHITE - due out in three months - as the film that could stop this hit streak, mostly because star Rachel Zegler (already getting needless flack from hobby-less losers because she’s not a white woman portraying Snow White) said some mildly political things online in light of recent world happenings. Disney once again not having their stars’ backs, much like how they didn’t when most of the sequel trilogy actors - namely Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Kelly Marie Tran - all got harassed online…

If SNOW WHITE flops, it’s because it cost $240m (due to all the reshoots and mishaps, and all that CG all for a problem that could’ve been averted in many ways but Disney chose not to) and that audiences just weren’t down for a movie that just looks like hokey slop. Sorry if anyone here wants to see it, but to me it looks like the nadir of these live-action/CGI remakes that have long outstayed their welcome. A ghastly companion to the 1937 animated feature that is monumental for several reasons and is so much more than just some “outdated” “85-year-old cartoon” that this movie is apparently surpassing, I just- Ugh-

Anyways, yeah. I get it. Disney’s a big-ass corporation. Expecting them to tell the far right to fuck off and just go see another movie (like, say, a waste of time like AM I RACIST?) will likely never be in their agenda. They want to get those near-billion grosses for their movies, which is unsustainable to begin with. And that means they need everyone to go see their movies, even bigots from all around the world.

Ya know, Disney used to let the Bible Belt dictate what they could and couldn’t do in the 1970s, and yeah… How’d that work out for them? Eventually, it’ll catch up with them when they run out of films to sequelize. They’re not gonna launch franchises out of new originals if they keep pumping $150-200m into them and expecting them to be these gargantuan behemoths in a post-outbreak era. But no, if those movies (like ELIO, HOPPERS, and Untitled WDAS 2026 Original) bomb, they’ll just blame groups who could use more representation.

And the thing about appeasing that whole beast is, they’re gonna find new things to call “woke”. Soon, movies about merely being good to others or fighting evil will become “woke”. I’m surprised they didn’t attack INSIDE OUT 2 because it has a central female character and a lot of prominent female characters, I’m surprised they didn’t attack MOANA 2 because it’s about an adventurous girl who also isn't white. They will get mad about those kinds of aspects, eventually… They did back in the '90s, for sure. POCAHONTAS and MULAN and such were often called "politically correct". You know that dumb meme that goes around on twitter, saying "Disney was better at doing diversity when they didn't try"? Yeah, those movies were attacked back then, too. The language was different, that was all. Politically correct, woke, now it's "DEI" or some such shit. We all know what the words reeeeally mean...

Which is why Disney should spend less on their movies and stop letting these miserable people who hate art unless it caters to their limited worldview... tell them what to do. That all seems to be Bob Iger’s goal, having each and every movie go BIG or go home. As such, Disney experiences such high highs and really low lows…

After he departs, I can only hope the next CEO embraces something a lot more balanced in both the big budget films and smaller movies that aren’t 20th Century/Searchlight endeavors.

How come little ol’ me can figure this out and not- Ya know what, never mind.

Last decade, the STAR WARS sequel trilogy, several Marvel movies (such as BLACK PANTHER and CAPTAIN MARVEL), and stuff like ZOOTOPIA and COCO came out… Most of those films hit during the Trump era, or at least when he was running for President… They had “messaging”, they fit the right-wingers’ definition of “woke”, they lean lefter than righter… They came out before a pandemic hit and when most audiences could afford a family night out to the cinemas… They were ripped to shreds online by pathetic man babies, but they made beaucoup bucks at the box office. People wanted to see those movies, they liked them, and continued to see them. Most audiences just like something that’s well-made, and they see said things because of that AND in many cases when it’s sold properly to them.

Now, we have losers like Nelson Peltz and Ben Shapiro being heeded by these studio heads and the trades… In this day and age, the first ZOOTOPIA, the first MOANA, they probably would’ve never been made. Or if they were, they would’ve flopped. And Disney and right-wing bastards would’ve blamed it on them being “woke”.

A sorry state of affairs.

That’s why independent is sometimes better. Stories made by people, for the love of doing it, and because they can, no dictators in corporate or whiners outside influencing corporate telling them what to do… One of my recent favorites is a movie like HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS. FURIOSA might be my favorite movie of this calendar year. The movies I gravitate towards year after year don’t do this “please everybody” bullshit.

Disney got to where they got doing the same… Hell, even Jiminy Cricket said it…

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[mothmanatemysister]

Doing the whole '31 horror films in 31 days' for October. Figured I'd double some of my posts here for the void/later on instead of clogging up my Letterboxd (mostly so I can rant about Rec and the whole Tristana Medeiros thing because IT DRIVES ME CRAZY, but that is for later).

Day 1 I rewatched the first [REC] and man this movie must have been so much better before Covid. It's still one of the best found footage films (after you get past the slow burn of the first 45 minutes), but those characters come across as such whiny assholes now. You've been in quarantine for less than 5 minutes and nothing has happened yet, quit complaining. Angela keeps talking about "We need to show people what happened here" when one guy just got bit in the neck and they don't even know about the infection. That's it by that point. 2 hours in and they act like it's been 12 years. I've sat in Six Flags lines longer than that.

Pablo y Manu are top tier horror characters. I'm always flip-flopping on Angela; some scenes she's fine, in others she's basically a screaming dinner bell and doing crazy nonsense that makes no sense unless you knew it was a horror film. The final scene elevates the whole film to absolute perfection and it is 1000% more horrifying if you know Tristana's backstory. I don't think there are any scans of the REC comic floating around (I read a copy someone had at ComicCon way back when I was a kid), but if I can find any I'll link them because it's almost mandatory reading for the series. I don't think they ever go into what really happened to her in any of the films themselves (though synopses mention it)

Day 2 was In a Violent Nature and apart from one very silly scene, it's way better than people said. I really liked the whole slasher POV setup; that first scene was horrifying when you think of how many real-life serial killers have spoken about doing that exact thing.

The toy car scene was worth the watch alone. I get the sense that the movie was made by people who wanted films like Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw to be deeper than they were (since anything for Jason like that is always just barely implied). I liked the little moments we get with Johnny, everything from the toy car to him getting surprised made him feel more real as one of these archetypes.

That yoga scene though...it went from 'I like this concept, choosing between a horrific murder or jumping to a possible death/injury is a great setup' to 'well that's just silly' way too fast. The subtle kills were way better, like that lake one. Makes me wish they kept in the original lake kill for the F13 remake.

Using a randomizer on Letterboxd to pick which films I watch each day, so fingers crossed that I get something good tomorrow.

[chanstopher]

Every Month in 2023

I was tagged by @jinniebit and @lee-minhoe (thank you loves!) to link my favorite and most popular posts of each month.

I totally asume im so late to this as always but i'll tag ppl anyway lol @dowoonyoon @chanrizard @agibbangs @jjsungie @babycatlix @quokki @blueprintchan @yang-innie @shorelinnes @minchanz if anyone else awants to do it feel free to say i tagged you i love looking at stuff like this <3

January

Favorite: my top 5 skz songs. idk i just think its pretty

Most Popular: this one feels so obvious. the butt set.

February

Favorite: Bang Chan once said...

Most Popular: everyone remains predictable lmao

March

Favorite: first non Chris set, its Hyunjin!

Most Popular: a pattern is emerging guys

April

Favorite: Palette series 3. pretty proud of this one

Most Popular: 5 star trailer. at least hes dressed amirite lol

May

Favorite: 5 star painting

Most Popular: sleepy boy. the world is healing

June

Favorite: 5 Star Posters

Most Popular: Topline mv

July

Favorite: summer playlist. i really like making these types of sets even though they generally flop lol

Most Popular: pilot fanmeet smile set. one of my all time biggest posts actually

August

Favorite: gnabnahc gfx. i love this

Most Popular: remake set. sometimes posting old content works lol

September

Favorite: no one does it like chris

Most Popular: Fam set. i get it he looks so beautiful

October

Favorite: Pictures of you. ( I literally spent like 3 months making this just because the volume of stuff lol)

Most Popular: Rockstar GFX. First Chris not most popular set (and his bday month too damn)

November

Favorite: Rockstar mashup. i just love the colors tbh

Most Popular: Rockstar Jacket making ( best look i get it)

December

(weakest month with just a few posts rip)

Favorite: i posted this literally yesterday idc

Most Popular: Chris best back hugs ever

the lack of posts in the last few months is pretty sad, I just got too busy with real life. I'll do better next year! Here's my 2021 one if youre interested I’d why i didnt do it last year lol

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

It’s November, and that means it’s Thanksgiving season! What better way to celebrate than by reviewing some of the most infamous turkeys in cinematic history? Here are some of the biggest box office bombs around! Which one will I have to endure this weekend?

One of the single biggest animated flops ever, grossing under a million bucks on a budget forty times that. This science fantasy film just couldn’t catch a break.after it’s tumultuous production.

An infamous comedy that was once shorthand for “bad movie,” it features two white idiots going to the Middle East, something I’m sure had aged really gracefully.

Kevin Costner gets wet and wild in this post-apocalyptic flop. Is it as bad as its over-exaggerated bomb status would tell you?

Kevin Costner goes postal in his second shot at post-apocalyptic stardom. Not even making back one fourth of the eighty million dollar budget probably made him want to return to sender.

John Travolta really wanted this Scientologist clusterfuck to make it big and be the next Star Wars. To say he failed beyond his wildest dreams is an understatement.

“That's how big I am. I bomb over a hundred million." - Will Smith’s own words about this weird western, which features a legless Kenneth Branagh and a steampunk spider mecha.

People were really looking for a redo of one of the most famous X-Men stories after the last attempt at adaptation tarnished the series. Unfortunately, this movie ended Fox’s run with the characters on a wet fart.

Warren Beatty’s so vain, he probably thinks this bomb is about him… because it is. He’s the star of this rom-com which tanked his career for 15 years, something not even the aforementioned Ishtar managed.

It’s not very often a bomb blows up the whole studio with it, but this one tanked Image Movers and saved us from whatever the fuck they were gonna do to Yellow Submarine. But is it really app that bad?

In a shocking twist no one could have foreseen, up-and-coming director M. Night Shyamalan tarnished his career and turned himself into a punchline with this bizarre modern fairy tale.

Surely remaking South Korea’s greatest revenge thriller of all time with white people will lead to success, right? At any rate you get to see Elizabeth Olsen in a sex scene, surely that’s worth it…?

That motherfucker Johnny Depp is at it again, though at least he’s only in a supporting role… as a Native American. Surely the rest of the movie isn’t as bad as that, right?

[starsweepers]

small d.isney remake rant below cut because i've been on a frustration kick tbh so just wanna blow it off my chest.

as a small note. if you enjoy the remakes... that's fine. i really don't care, enjoy what you love. i personally have a lot of problems with them and am tired for a number of reasons. and i really hope they stop but like. if you loved them then i'm glad they had some value for someone. there are. a lot of issues with the remakes. them being soulless is a major one and i could go into tons more. but one thing that always really hits me is how badly the remake actors and creators just. interpret the originals in order to vouch as to how their remakes are better. they completely ignore so much about the originals just because "look, we modernized it, it's SO RELATABLE" and just. completely ignore the concepts that made the movies relatable in the time periods they existed. and they trash the moves ( cough rachel cough ) as outdated when most of those movies were, for their periods, quite modern. listen to interviews with original voice actresses and writers and creators. how much thought the writer for b.eauty and the b.east ( who was a woman, mind you ) put into making belle confident, have agency, take control... she was not a victim, she traded herself for her father and reversed the societal expectation roles. she was intelligent and saw through the appearance of others... the beast, gaston, etc.

ariel wanted to be human. jodi talks about it. cinderella just wanted to go out to the ball and be a part of life, her voice actress talks about it. the princes are not the main parts of their stories, they're just part of the journeys. florian and snow white while, yes, their moment of meeting each other was brief, but snow white accepted and even returned his affections, but she also did what she had to do to survive without the prince saving her. aurora is probably the princess with the least agency in her story but s.leeping b.eauty flopped in its time period. snow white changed the entire movie industry. it made d.isney. it was made during the great fucking depression when women and men and families were struggling and desperate and trying. here comes this movie about a girl just making it through the world by being good and having a simple life by doing what she knows best - caring for others. it was escapism. cinderella was post wwii. a time of glamor and dreams, people managing to rise above bad situations they were forced into. the d.isney classics are classics because even without these knowledges of the time period, they still hold morals and values that resonate with people. most of the princesses have some agency and determination in their movies. mulan, jasmine, belle... heck even up to as recently as rapunzel. and then movies like moana and brave do well at focusing on other types of love and balancing that with strong females. there is nothing wrong with adapting to your audience and honestly the remakes should do that to an extent. but they're doing it forcefully and horribly. they're trying to twist the original versions into stories they weren't in order to claim the remake had to fix these problems. there are aspects that needed better attention ( i have no problems with ariel and eric having more scenes to bond or belle teaching little girls to read ), but the complete changes that have happened to the overarching plot in some instances were just. unnecessary. you're taking beloved stories and telling people something they love is outdated and terrible and that your version is better........ like what. and then there's whatever the heckity heck l.ion king was... rEAliSm or some shit LMAO. i miss. the love and the passion of original d.isney movies. of building characters and relationships that are meant to be meaningful and not to just serve as "improvements" and "cash grabs for nostalgia." when something is remade, there will be changes. some will be for the better and for a modern audience. this is fine. but d.isney and the w.itcher have literally proven that shitting on the original versions and butchering them are just? not the way to do this? subtle changes, improvements, love... as writers with canon characters we know that minor changes to canon can do a lot. it's a thing, it's true. but butchering the heart, the core of these movies and series and whatnot... is not the way. fucking o.ne p.iece is the real proof of this lmao. i've heard great things about that. sorry, i'm being cursing and pissy right now. i miss enjoying movies i guess. where they had heart and love and respect. as a side note, if you have to ruin/weaken/ignore/put down the male character in order to make the female look better, your female character isn't actually that good. tiana proves her worth by being a hard worker and naveen is laughed at at times for being flimsy with money and whatnot but at the end of the day, he grows and learns and his troubles are still taken seriously and it doesn't detract from tiana in the slightest. that is balance, my dudes and dudettes.