#Remote interpreter

[speakinginyourlanguage]

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[benevolenterrancy]

just started reading SVSSS and so far I'm very amused by what seems to be the dynamic...

Shen Qingqiu: aggressively overthinking everything in a desperate effort not to literally die Luo Binghe: thinking absolutely nothing except "😍" which is bouncing around like a little screensaver

[circusclowne]

bfdi if it was awesome

[starlight-eclipsed]

It never hurt to be careful. The last time Demise caught wind of Dark’s sharp tongue, he’d spent ten years in isolation sealed in a crystal at the bottom of the temple.

Hello everyone! This line (from chapter two of A Dark Among the Lights by @luckylectio over on AO3) has been on my mind for the last year, so I finally sat down and drew it :D

[ominouspuff]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like)

Tagged by @rooksunday

WIP Symbolic (ish?) Anakin/Padme

Technically my last line was on an emoji of Rex Blushing, but this was the last line for artworks so we’re going with that. Last line was a color-layer blend of red and orange for the background.

No-pressure tagging @gaeasun @alwayskote @frostbitebakery @razzbberry @chiliger @ddeck @denimscotch

[megsdoodletag]

Ummmmm Morty with... a mortal that Likes Him? 👀 No preference on mortal appearance (blank gray slate works), not necessarily sexual? Totally OK if not I just don't know where your boundaries lie

thanks for asking bout boundaries! For shippy stuff I have less issues with rating and more issues with content, largely because I'm. Weirdly Particular about characterization, esp when it's my version of the character, if that makes sense. So, if I get a request and I personally think 'he would not say that' I probably wouldn't go for that one. if that makes sense. Apologies in advance.

So, speaking of character. Mortarion is not one of the uh. Easier primarchs to hang around. He's Pressed in both the Re- and De- directions and also acts like this:

This man does not say 'lets take Ibuprofen together' because he is too busy flushing his mood stabilizers down the toilet. he thinks taking them would be 'cheating.'

HOWEVER.

All is not lost, we can work with this. He doesn't really hate baselines, and despite his habit of self-isolation, given the way his early days went I'd argue he's actually quite desperate to be social. He Likes People, that's why he became the Reaper. Man specifically likes to have His People, and His People are generally the hardy, direct, loyal type. You understand the legion values, pull off some consistent competency, show you can keep up with the gang, and he's got your back.

possibly related: I think about that excerpt where he rescues a marine by literally scruffing him out of a pile and like dusting him off before setting him down again like 'there u go. continue with your destruction my child.' like. not infrequently.

All this to say, I think with a little bit of ye old human persistence hunting stamina someone could get through to him. Even convince him to use a pillow every so often.

....it still might take him a bit to get a bedframe.

[enigmaticagentalice]

please Bioware just give me any indication in Veilguard that Varric and Cassandra are still friends and in regular contact, I am on my knees, one single crumb is all I need to sustain me

[smrtnik07]

[thedevotionaltour]

still pisses me off johns took away any meaning from the parallax arc. such an interesting decline and change to hal's character and i think really just a great way to explore grief through an extreme metaphor of sorts but it's like no. nooooo it's just this damn entity. noooooo it wasn't hal at all nooooooo IT WAS STILL HAL. IM SO MAAAADDDDDDDD IM SO MAD WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT. i guess i just particularly hate it bc with my relationship to the story as a reader it comes from my personal experience of i have done terrible things to others and myself because of grief that i let pile up too high and fester in my mind and a lot of my own grief is as angry as it is devastatingly depressing so it's like one of those things where when it just hal of his own volition and grief fueled thinking that lead him to becoming parallax it is a story i then very deeply understand and relate to and hold tight because it's like man. we are all one bad day away from trying to rebuild coast city and to erase the tragedy. and by then switching it to The Entity and Not Of Hal's Own Thinking, it's like. well with the way characters treat it in story (i.e. guy saying, "that was parallax, not jordan") it's like any action on hal's end feels like. entirely erased. which is what i think i hate most. that hal is no longer part of it. i mention it in the tags bc i put those down before writing out my post but i'll say it here too it's like the way you could easily recover this is like. treating the entity then as like. a mental illness metaphor of sorts. but when other characters and even hal himself go None Of That Is Me It Was All The Entity, Parallax, it then like. starts to fail itself if that's the angle we wanna try to go for. because yeah. your depression influences you. but you still have some agency under it. and to deny any part of it then takes away so much. it takes away so much of what hal was meant to learn once he sacrificed himself as parallax for the earth. again. i know i really cannot say much i dont have much of a right bc i have skipped through well 20 damn issues of gl2005 thus far bc im reading For Kyle as opposed to reading it bc it's the gl title. but it's just. god. such a ball dropped. suffers from wattpad writing feeling. if you have to go this route i do in fact think there's a lot to be explored but johns is too stupid to do it in a way i'll care about. i just so greatly dislike it. i hate how this story of grief was taken away from being Grief and while i think as an entity parallax the bug can still be Grief the way i am reading it thus far it really is not Grief. this bug is not the Grief Of Mental Illness it's going nooo noooooo don't worry our hal (who has just been kind of miserable as a character for a while at the point gl90 was happening) is all okay and fine and good again and none of that bad stuff was him, it was all something else :) as if none of that couldnt be hal. as if hal isnt allowed to have his own character and flaws. god forbid he have some layers. god forbid those sour and dark parts of his person be his person. because we cant have that. we have to have this. instead. i guess. i knowim being harsh i know i am and i care too much about this especially for someone who really doesnt have the room to talk but it's like. euuuggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! RAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cauldron-burn-and-fire-bubble]

fun game: guess which two drawings are of actual scenes from the isaac steele series

[stardoopy]

i need you guys to know that at some point i got very sick in the head about franken x and i don't know how

[evilkitten3]

i know it's been said before but it's still startling every time i get the reminder that apparently a lot of young people think "gay panic" is "getting flustered by having a gay crush on someone" instead of. y'know. a legal defense for a homophobic hate crime

[melonymint753]

"we want less sanitized representation of mental illness" you folks couldn't even handle Hades of Hades video game and think that Zagreus and Persephone not hating him forever is basically like unconditionally forgiving him

[cerealmonster15]

[twst book 7 cater dream spoilers]

I’m rewatching the scene at the very end where deuce is like 🥺 cater senpai is it true u are unhappy with the way things are in our dorm and also that you and Trey tried to stage a puppet government like Leona and Idia said 🥺 and cater like fuckin accosts Leona and Idia’s tablet about it bdbdncbfbfbgg and I just noticed Idia’s tablet also does like, a startled little shake when cater teleports behind them like that 😭 normie jumpscare real…. Not for Leona tho he didnt even blink lol

[relaxxattack]

i love reading the homestuck update and just genuinely having no fucking clue whats going on. thats so classic homestuck

[icyrambles]

i typically have two forms of analysis when i talk about certain characters. i call them meta analysis and canon analysis.

meta analysis is when i take into account author, fan, and personal interpretation and intention when writing a character. this can be things like biases on the author's part (intentional or not), fandom headcanons and general opinions that are widespread, and finally my own personal opinions and beliefs on the character or media

canon analysis is when i ignore everything above. it's when i take things that are said exclusively through the text and conveyed to me as a reader. these are analysis formed exclusively (or at least as much as i try) through what is told to me via the text

like take pharma as an example. i personally hate how his character is treated both in canon and in fandom. within canon he's reduced to the crazy doctor who harvested his patients organs and in fandom i've noticed he either gets babied to all hell (typically by shifting the blame of his actions onto tarn) or just demonising him. i dislike this from all angles because pharma for me is a multifaceted character who, while causing a lot of harm, was forced into a situation where he really did not have a choice if he wanted to keep his staff and himself alive.

like yeah, i think pharma should punished in some way for the deaths he caused, but i also think that he should be viewed through the lens of someone who was essentially being blackmailed into killing his patients less himself and his staff (one of whom was a defected decepticon) be serious harmed or just outright killed. and that these actions caused massive damage to his mental wellbeing which caused him to spiral into madness.

or like take ratchet. he's got this thing in fandom where he'll throw wrenches at people and he's a fucking rebel who hates the government. but he doesn't do either of those things ever, in any of the continuities i've read/watched. like he's not even remotely violent unless he's actively being threatened? and even then he's more liable to go for verbal assaults rather than physical ones. where are you people getting these interpretations from?

he's a snarky ass who enjoys arguing with people sure, but ratchet would not fucking destroy the government. he fucking threatens to dismantle megatron on several occasions throughout the comics. there was a tweet from alex milne a while back that basically called ratchet an abusive partner and like, listen, fandom interpretations are always going to be a little off, but i'm sorry mr. milne, but ratchet is not an abuser in any sense of the word. there is nowhere, and i mean nowhere in the comics that proves that he would do that.

idw starscream is also a character who i have complex feelings about when i try to write about him.

because on the one hand i despise the way that idw starscream is treated by the fanbase. he's not a good person, that is the whole point of him. he's a terrible person, who has done terrible things, and i think he should be treated as just as bad as megatron. and i think the fandom constantly babying him because of what megatron did to him is stupid.

he's a genuinely cunning, manipulative, and overall shitty asshole who is more than willing to doublecross and backstab to get what he wants.

but he's also a victim. megatron's treatment of him throughout the war is inexcusable. under no circumstances do i think that starscream deserved to be kept around as a punching bag to keep the other decepticons in line and i also am of the belief that megatron should've gotten more flack for what he did to starscream.

like pharma, starscream is a character who has a lot of different layers. he fucks up and relapses into more toxic behaviour because it's quite literally the only thing he can rely on. he's expected by the people around him to be a backstabber and a liar, so why on earth would he act any differently?

it's not until bumblebee appears that he actually starts to change. and i think it's very important when discussing bee and starscream's relationship that people remember that starscream does not think of bumblebee as a ghost. he views bee as a literal manifestation of his guilt and consciousness. he did genuinely seem to view bumblebee as a good leader and a good person before his death in dark cybertron, so when bee shows up as a ghost and starts encouraging starscream to do better for his people and his planet, starscream listens because he did trust bee.

the point of starscream's character, is that people can only change if they truly want to. bumblebee wants starscream to change for the better but starscream only starts to change when he actually believes he can. and even then he often relapses into more negative behaviours because he's not perfect. the fact that he does this honestly makes him even more believable to me.

if you were treated as nothing more than a liar, coward, and manipulative asshole for 4 million years you'd probably fuck up on the road to recovery too.

it's why megatron's redemption at least works for me within a canon lens. he only starts to change his behaviour when he actually begins to understand that his actions and ideology were wrong. that's why it works. the lost light as a ship is about new beginnings and fresh starts for everyone, so having megatron, literally the most hated guy every join the crew works to further that theme of rebirth.

out of canon analysis though, starscream and megatron in my opinion were done very poorly in terms of writing. they were very clearly meant to be cartoonishly evil characters with no redeemable qualities during phase 1 of the comics. so when phases 2 + 3 roll around and try to develop these characters as more than just evil assholes, it falls flat because you have to sweep all of the terrible shit they've done under the rug.

and it doesn't work well from a narrative perspective to have murder mcgee megatron and his former second in command be the leaders of not only the planet they fucking destroyed and the ship that legally doesn't belong to them. and this is coming from someone who loves idw's portrayals of megatron and starscream. i think they're some of the best versions out there beyond maybe the originals.

i also think that fandom falls into a weird zone when it comes to these characters. i call it fandom flanderization; where fandom will take a certain character trait (like starscream being a liar) and conflate that trait to be their whole character. like is starscream a liar? yeah he absolutely is. but he's also a genuinely caring individual when he actually trusts someone.

it's a shame because i think that idw, despite having relatively weak writing in terms of overall storytelling, actually has some really interesting interpretations of the characters.

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