#Narrative logistics

[atthebell]

125 days since spiderbit 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 im doing great

[cluescorner]

They fucking did it again those bastards. Jason Todd fucking dies 2: Electric Boogaloo. Fuck it, let's go for a threepeat at this point. It'll be funny as hell.

[aperturals]

when i consider the stanley cup final there r two wolves inside of me etc one is the actual sports fan favoring my actual favorite team the other one is starving for mattdrai narratives. florida/edmonton in the final voices need to stay in the box where they belong but they’re getting louder…..

[ianthe-is-a-bitch-and-i-love-her]

Been thinking about how you can create solid tragedy by giving a character enough intelligence and genre awareness to recognize that someone or something is trying to draw them down a guilded path to hell, and they can be so cautious and take such safeguards against falling into the trap but they can't quite bring themself to find true safety by exiting the narrative entirely because they want too badly, and slowly and inexorably the pressure of the narrative convinces them to place one toe after another down the path, because they're observant and careful and they have safeguards and surely they've protected themself well enough and surely their reasons are good enough and they know that going just this tiny way won't hurt them and they stand to get everything they want so just this once it must be fine? and with each step further the road grows darker and they grow less certain and more anxious but they've come so far now and surely what they want is just around the corner and they want it so so much.

I've also been thinking about Heingyl Ri

[compacflt]

I just finished rereading Slider's oneshot and I loved it just as much as I always do. I was wondering if you had any thoughts on how the conversation between Ice and Cougar went at Ice's retirement ceremony. You gave us little snippets of it from Slider's point of view, but I'd love to hear more of it if you have thoughts on it you'd like to share.

this is such a kind ask. i have no idea

for the same reason there is no explicit reaction in ch 12 when ice first hears mav say i love you—i spent a good week low key trying to figure out whether a reaction was needed there—it’s such a potent powerful cocktail of so many wild & unfamiliar emotions that i don’t personally think i have the literary juice to even attempt to try to describe it

i also am allergic to writing ice or mav explicitly coming out to anyone because it gives me secondhand embarrassment for them. the idea of the commander of the pacific fleet having to psych himself up to awkwardly mumble “um i should’ve told you all this time … i think i…i think im gay” to his friend gives me the ick sorry he’s not fifteen years old. so he Could be doing the big lgbt rite of passage of emotionally apologizing and coming out to Cougar in that conversation. but he Could Also be doing the ‘im nearly sixty years old im not gonna bullshit you’ thing of simply saying: “you and I have been very shitty to each other in the past and i apologize for that in x,y,z way and you were right about me and maverick and we’re gonna make it official this summer and if you want to come we’d really love to have you & normalize diplomatic relations between us again, you’re a real great friend when you’re not being a massive fucking douche”

[nicosraf]

How long is a&m gonna be? There seems like so much to cover, what with the new cast being added in, and also keeping up with how the fallen angels are. Also, will it be divided into parts like abm?

oh it's a lot to cover - that's what's made it so hard to write! and why ive been trying not to pressure myself to rush it.

the current ABM is a little under 400 pages; a&m will likely be... 450~ pages? (hard to tell when it's not formatted yet). at most, itll be under 500 for sure. as for words, it's going to end up at around 135k words. If it helps conceptualize it, The Return of the King is 137k words and that paperback is usually between 430-500 pages (depending on the printer). also yes, 3 parts this time

but yeah it's a lot! it's pretty ambitious! but ABM was very ambitious too, and i was terrified the whole time that i was fucking it up. (im still terrified that i did, really) i've felt the same terror as im writing A&M. will i pull it off? i hope! if not, well, i tried my best :)

[fallenstarzz]

Funny Mandela Effect in the All For The Game fandom is that canonically Kevin runs to Wymack's hotel room and yet every other fic I've read has him sneaking onto the Foxes' bus instead

[urwendii]

Tolkien: sauron did so much evil for Melkor in the 1st Age

Also Tolkien: no i don't want to talk about it

[pochapal]

shannon also bringing up the "violent witch" narrative as well in much the same way that the other servants were doing so in the kitchen oh it's not looking good for her at all

[luci-z-wont-shut-up]

Here's some slightly spoilery concept doodles. As a treat

[prismatica-the-strange]

I think, if Hector and Adeline could have kids, they would have three daughters named Sophia, Rosalind, and Marnie.

[atthebell]

honestly like, if you asked me what two possible mcyt events could you ever come up with to put communities at each others throats severely, i would've said "election" and "giant pvp event that last multiple days" and it's honestly a little amazing the team didn't see the issues that would so very clearly arise from both of these (though i do think the elections were mostly handled better than other mcyt elections i've seen, most of my issues came down to the way the debates happened, the waaaay too big of a percentage the audience vote had, & the fact the ending date kept being extended). i keep trying to remind myself like things will get better once we move onto a new arc in the server to get over purgatory, and it's been two months...

yeahhh it's like. big moves that frankly from the start we all knew would cause issues. the elections to me was SUCH a red flag like. mcrp elections never go well and it's a miracle they turned out as okay as they did, but the whole process and the aftermath was a bummer and felt deeply unnecessary.

and yeah we've talked about purgatory in gc before but just. i can't even express how awful it was imo and how it continues to fuck the overall narrative as well as individual characters (and the ccs!!). and like you said a huge pvp event (that lasted TWO WEEKS!!!!) with lore stakes makes everyone lose their shit and accuse every other team of being toxic or not caring enough about the nebulous theorized end result-- it was a recipe for disaster, it felt like players were being used to playtest an event, and it was just not fun. like, i loved bolas, im glad they managed to push through it in spite of literally everything, but it sucked so bad several of them had to take long breaks. like, that's not fun.

in general though i am hoping desperately that shit improves, waiting with bated breath for the return of baghera and cellbit (and jaiden and charlie as well eventually!) and for the overall story to feel less railroaded, and i do genuinely want to have hope that it will get better soon. and that they don't pull huge crazy stuff like this again in the future, or at least make it more optional for players to engage with.

[3416]

I do think it would be incredibly romantic if they left and went to a different team together just like for the narrative

if the leafs end up hiring some of the awful names out there............ yeah this is what i want lol

[constantvariations]

V9C5

Got that post-workout bliss and a plate of pizza rolls, so I’m raring to go!

Post Ep: whoever decided the rusted knight “twist” should step on a lego every five minutes for the rest of their lives

Wait why is Ruby running? The last episode ended with the caterpillar being dropped through the floor by the cat, so are they running from the cat? Was the growth yogurt ready, and if so did they grab it ($50 on no)

“I’m so glad the four of you are still the four of you.” Is this excluding Little because they didn’t get hit with the Character Arc tm dust? (Now that I think about it, why didn’t Little have a vision? Did we just not see it or are they immune somehow?)

“You’re the one who ditched us in the first place” okay, Weiss, firstly Ruby stopped following the cat so that’s mostly on her. Secondly, why are you being antagonistic to the one creature you can’t afford to offend because it’s the one creature who can get you to the tree?

“...someone return to the Ever After.” How can you return to a place you’re already in? Is there a reprogramming center or something? If you veer too far off from your role you get reset? Reminds me of the re-educators of the Dragon Age Qun

They’re really laying on thick the whole “Everything is what it isn’t, and what it is, it wouldn’t be” (shout out to that one Shinedown song from the live action Alice in Wonderland)

All this talk of what happened to the caterpillar just sounds like a shitty mishmash of the Ship of Theseus, Schrodinger’s cat, and a reset button

So the Red King underwent the Ever Again program (I’m just gonna call it that, roll with it) and came out a kid? Was that by design or does everyone basically get reborn? Does that mean the racoon hasn’t been Agained since Alyx?

Oh they call it Ascension? How Devil May Cry of you. Also I ain’t calling it that. I like my Agained verbage

“Nose hair from a leprechaun.” I am half expecting a Rocket Racoon bit here

Straight up ditching someone you know is acting off because ~ew nose hair~ is... something else. And there goes Blake trailing after Yang’s coattails again because we! need! that! bee! bait!

This cat is far too lenient with these assholes. They just straight up jumped on his head without asking because who needs to respect people’s autonomy amiright fellas?

Goddammit bring the cat back right now I can’t stand Little’s voice and cOmEdY

Okay all the lights going out one by one is hella creepy gg

“I thought this was lost forEVER” why does Ruby sound like a highschool girl complaining about drama this deadass made me burst out laughing Also, is that the same sword from the Red Kingdom or a different one?

Okay the android is cool as shit I will admit that. The chain as hair is absolutely fantastic

Was that Summer in the axe blade? An axe is not what I would have expected of a Ruby clone. Those are hard-hitting and slow, usually used by the tanks, while Summer and Ruby’s figures suggest more agile approaches. If it were more of a hatchet size, I could see that, especially as a dual-wield

Pocket dimension blacksmith shop? Sign me the fuck up please

I think I’m going to strangle Weiss. You literally just saw her standing in the middle of the road, staring at and talking to nobody, and you fucking whine? I hope someone stabs her with her own tiara jfc

“It contains a mother’s promise” BITCH WHEN WAS THIS ESTABLISHED AND WHY WAS THAT THE FIRST THING YOU THOUGHT OF TO GIVE AWAY I’M GONNA BURN A FIRE HYDRANT

“We do not ascend” oh you mean die? That thing you said didn’t happen here? Dying? Was there even a second reading of the script or did yall just smoke with the originals?

Yes Ruby go right past the hostile creature instead of literally any other direction. Yall deserve whatever hell you make

Why is Ruby carrying everyone constantly? Their legs aint broke girl. Go be a distraction while they go for the yogurt goddamn

The giant jackrabbit’s cool ngl

Like how one scoop only grew them to doll sized but whatever was left after it was splattered grew them all to the right size

The jackrabbit’s name is Juniper. Both cute and cringe

GODDAMMIT IT HAD TO BE JAUNE

WHY

HE FELL LAST

THAT SHOULDVE BEEN YANG

FUCK YOU CRWBY

[questor-thews]

mr l nintendo high is so funny to me because like. in spm mr l was created under very specific circumstances for a specific purpose (him getting trapped in castle bleck and being the ideal host for the chaos heart etc) but in the nintendo high universe none of this applies nastasia just woke up one morning and chose clownery. which in itself is already funny but even putting that aside. teenage mr l is like the funniest concept ever

[pixelatedquarter]

okay time to make your predictions (only for Pete to lurk here and thwart them, hi mr. wentz, please log off tumblr):

What slots would become The [album] Rotating Slot Of Death, assuming they kept it mostly within album like we've seen with TTTYG, IOH and FÀD?