#a disproportionate amount

[bookwyrminspiration]

It's fun to bemoan the odd lines and such, and I was gonna make a joke, but I do think it is genuinely sad how much of Unraveled's promo is leaning so heavily into shipping.

Not because I hate sokeefe or Keefe, but because this is such a massively popular story that has so much to offer outside of a single ship, and it's such a disservice to the years of work Shannon has put in to crafting these characters' stories and world. And to the countless fans who adore the story and characters outside of this single ship.

Both Sophie and Keefe are more than sokeefe, and the way this story about injustice, and rebellion, and loss of self, and grief is being overshadowed by a relationship? See the kiss scene! sokeefe art! foster-related quote! These things themselves aren't bad, but there's no balance; they should be part of more, not the whole thing. KOTLC deserves to retain its complexity in marketing! The readers, including young, deserve to have the story not watered down for them when it's being pushed!

There's also something about how publishers told Shannon KOTLC wouldn't sell because Sophie's a girl, and she pushed through that, only for Sophie to become almost an accessory to Keefe's story here? Making appearances that focus on what Keefe thinks of her instead of Sophie herself. I don't have this fully articulated, but hopefully you see what I'm getting at

Shannon's said for years she hates love triangles, didn't mean to write one, and tries to stay firmly Team Sophie. And I believe her, which makes it worse seeing how despite Shannon's efforts, her story about a brave, stubborn, reckless, passionate girl trying to find herself and do what she can to right the wrongs she sees in the world is getting pared down to a love story.

Now we do have six more weeks to go, so we could get some variety in the future. it's just frustrating so far, and as fun as it is to make silly little jokes about it, I do think there is a genuine critique here of publishing and marketing and treatment of female led stories (yes, unraveled is about keefe, but Keeper is about Sophie), and I wanted to say something

[screwpinecaprice]

Young man, you're divulging incriminating statement to a daughter of a police officer. You are going to jail.

[cyanide-rush]

Its really weird that on the internet Im treated less-than-trans where my trans man-ness allows me to not understand the struggles of women nor the struggles of trans people meanwhile irl I had to detransition for safety because I've been fired from two good jobs for being trans, which put me into financial debt, and experience society treating me like a Dyke (not new) with all the fun that comes with maga men seeing A Dyke in public

[ot3]

sometimes i feel compelled to type up a long post where I super autistically get into the particulars of edgeworth's dialogue in the trilogy vs the investigations duology and explain why i think yamazaki's moment-to-moment character writing is much weaker even if i think the arc he put together was very good. but i really just don't think anything i could manage to say would be as concise as just putting these two quotes from yamazaki and takumi respectively next to each other and letting the takes speak for themselves.

Q: I want to know how Mitsurugi spends his day off. The only thing I can think of is watching videos of Tonosaman (The Steel Samurai). (I Love Micchan) Yamazaki: Mitsurugi is always busy, so I don’t think he has much time to relax. But he’d probably listen to classical music while enjoying some black tea. Or he’d focus on the chessboard alone. Anyway, he seems the indoor type.

[x]

Interviewer: I did start to look at Mitsurugi as good guy from Episode 4 of the second game on. It made you acknowledge him as a close friend of Naruhodō. But let's go back to the character profile, what do you think about the "Music" column? Takumi: He might like ppongjjak (Trot), I think. Interviewer: Pp....Ppongjjak!? That comes out of nowhere... Takumi: Classic music would've been too easy and not fun (laugh). So yeah, standing upright listening to ppongjjak. With his personality, I think ppongjjak is possible.

[x]

[hiddenbarinapocketdimension]

[Reblogs are love!]

[library-whale]

It seriously feels like every time I check a gene flash sale it's usually some variant of Gecko...

[tfh-arts]

Happy Lunar New Year 2025!!! 🐍🧧🎆

A bit (more like quite) late celebration

[forecast0ctopus]

car speech be damned give him his motorcycle back!!!!!

[crystalpallette]

I wanted to draw maguro in a maid dress and then I drew ringo in a suit because she deserves one, and then I felt bad so I drew ris and ecolo in dresses too. this is about how it usually goes

[sadquickchristmassnowman]

every community fan has that one minor side character they’re inexplicably attached to

[pennaraptor]

voice cracks

[spacetimegoddess]

Just thought "life would be so much easier if i wasn't ridiculously attracted to myself" and then my brain immediately thought about isat. get OUT of my head this is NOT about you

[velvet-games]

@minimosquitogirl I love your mind pookie you're so correct

[seo-changbinnies]

gifs of my sunshine (144/∞)

[possessable]

and another rough character design ! it's my bedtime i'm so sleepy so i hope to refine this more in the morning but here's one of the other characters , she is an immortal with Alternate Universe Accessing Powers , older sister of our protagonist immortal guy with the Time Warping Powers . she's not present in the story that much because the whole point is that the siblings had a fight and she sealed herself away in a chrysalis (don't worry about it) and now the brother is trying to reunite with her etc. etc. i'll explain more later once i design all the characters

[gayestcowboy]

scrolled too far in the sinners tag and damn there’s a truly diabolical amount of remmick x reader fics