#a list and rambling basically

[ginsoakedgirl80]

dramas I watched in 2022

The Legendary Life of Queen Lau (2022, my first cdrama, damn the ppl who brought this one down, will probably rewatch because now I get more about the cdrama tropes they subvert, Li Jiaqi hopefully will get more main roles despite this debacle)

Love Between Fairy and Devil (2022, tumblr loves it for good reason, so good, well written and gorgeous costumes and scenery, I laughed, I cried, I shaked my fist at communication failures, learned to like Yu Shuxin's voice, who doesn't like a story about a demon lord who lost all his emotions and regains them with the help of a cute fairy, cultivation in several senses xD, some songs made it to my spotify 100 most played songs of 2022 list, will rewatch now that it is on Netflix)

Word of Honor (2021, the hype has a reason it is so goood, started out not liking WKX, how the tables turned, hahahaha, side characters who rock, morally grey main characters yay, "A'Shuuuu", you don't need on screen kisses to feel the love, character dump was confusing as hell, somehow missed that WKX is also boss of Ghost Valley in the beginning bc of that. 🤣🙈 Taught me to rewatch the first episode a little bit into the drama to actually get what's going on when there are a lot of characters.)

Old Fashion Cupcake (2022, my first jdrama, cute office romance about finding joy in life again, will make you hungry)

The Rational Life (2021, watch it if you want soft, caring, loyal WH but it is actually about Qin Lan's character overcoming bullying at work and being a model employee in a car company (and promoting e-cars 😄), could have been shorter)

The Blue Whisper (2022, wrecked me with all the suffering but so good and pretty, Ren Jialun going from cutiepie to badass, rocking his ear jewellery, red flags but you ship them anyway, Diliraba and Guo Xiao Ting, another talk it out already yelling at the screen drama, going from hating SML and his attendand to pitying them, LuoLuo 🫶, side characters you will root for, some songs made it to my spotify 100 most played songs of 2022 list, story is by the author who wrote LbFaD, not set in the same universe)

The Romance of Tiger and Rose (2020, Zhao Lusi the Queen, much needed comedy after TBW, loved it, nothing like a writer caught in her own badly written drama world trying to rewrite it while the rules of the world she wrote fight against the rewrites. Su Mu and First Lady just needed to talk to each other aaaargh)

Who rules the World (2022, find yourself a person who looks at you like Hei Fengxi looks at Bai Fengxi, geez Yang Yang, Zhao Lusi is a delight in this, they wrote the two lead characters too perfect??, draws you in with wuxia, gives you a lot of palace drama, including emo first prince who deserved more screen time but they ran out of ideas for him, Writing, editing and fight scenes got worse in the 2nd half of the drama, I guess because the director had to leave, needed to give more side characters a life, the sismance is perfect)

The Untamed (2019, watching to be finished in 2023, I was intimidated by the amount of characters and episodes so only started watching late in the year and am glad I waited because now I know wuxia storytelling better and can fully enjoy it, taught me that you don't need great cgi, sets or fight scenes to tell a compelling story, Wang Yibo 🥹, Xiao Zhan 😼, great side characters)

Semantic Error (2022, my first kdrama, watched it because of this and was not disappointed, enemies to lovers at university, cute quick watch)

The Blood of Youth (2022/2023, just started, the character dump is a lot but it is a romp so far, despite the kinda choppy writing/editing, also geez Youku those youtube subtitles are too fast for my tired eyes)

As someone who enjoys series/movies like the UK North and South, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, etc, where a small touch or little gestures can already be a big deal, slow burn romances in cdrama fit me perfectly. (The barbie kisses are something to get used to though. Props to Wang Hedi and Yu Shuxin who went for organic kisses once the feelings hit their characters.)

(and as someone who likes men with long hair 🤣)

Thanks to my friend B who got me into cdrama. 💕

[tyxaar]

A compiled list of various severe crimes committed by one Mr Scar of the Good Times, exact counts pending. Cannibalism (Multiple counts) War profiteering Trading of Souls Grave robbing Fraud of multiple varieties Racketeering Arson (Like a lot of it) Unethical experimentation Acts of Terror Spiritual possession Contract killing Sale of human remains Ritual sacrifice Oathbreaking Violation of the real life Geneva Convention Deceptive marketing Kidnapping Desecration of a sacred place Whatever tf Area 77 had going on Insider trading Extortion Patricide Matricide Unsafe building practices Holy war Desecration of corpses Market manipulation Treason Tax evasion Murder (Lots and lots) Large-scale extreme vandalism Mass enviromental destruction Political corruption Identity fraud

[windwenn]

People who write novellas must be absolutely going though it bc I've never read a novella that wasnt utterly devastating. These people really have Things to Say and whats more they do it in under 200 pages.

[bookish-bi-mormon]

You can take the bitch out of Provo but you can't take Provo out of the bitch 😞

[cannibalovers]

Hello:3

posted on my personal blog about hannibal so much that i decided to create a separate one just so i can rant about it cuz i think im gonna get very deep into this gay cannibal shit for a very long time <3

my primary blog is @aggressiveguitarnoises so if u get a notification from that url, then yeah, that's me :) (personal blog, music especially nin based and other interests)

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rumai/canni/any variation of my url lol ¦ ukrainian ¦ 17 ¦ she/her

ofc expect hannibal on here (nbc for now but who knows!!!)

probably mostly reblogs than original posts? although i do make art but anyway expect:

hannibal quotes out of context (although most of it is on my other blog but...)

hannibal song of the day, music overall (got like 4 playlists just for hannibal,,,, concerning ik but here)

art!!! mostly digital and will be hannibal related (gonna be under rumaiq art hashtag)

hannigram. a lot of it. like cmon that's what the show is about. but other characters too obv

memes

shit posts

prob giving my opinions and thoughts in the hashtags, theyre very elaborate,,

rants about specific scenes or moments cuz i had a mind blowing realisation

asks open for anything(tho preferably hannibal related), including doodles

dms always open too:)

also got myself into a lovely mess of a hannibal rp and I am somehow running jack crawford's blog, @jack-loves-bella !

(there's also a discord server in the post which i highly encourage to join, it is very fun and very active, very friendly I love yall already)

i think thats it for now

enjoy:3

[incorrectfatui]

Signora: One time I found a google doc on Scaramouche‘s computer with the title "list of parents that locked their newborn child in a domain“ Signora: out of curiousity, I opened the google doc.  Signora: it was completely blank except for the words "my mom".

[myster-tea]

I love you games where it seems cute but you go out of bounds by glitching through a wall or something and there is terrifying secrets. I love you games that use cute or childish imagery to show a dark story. I love you games that can give you great jumpscare a because it is all cutesy and pink then boom there is a mangled corpse in a toy box. I love you games with stupid monsters that look dumb and you can make fun of all you want but they will still scare you. I love you games where you do something wholesome like eat a cupcake but then it shows that you actually made your best friend into those cupcakes. I love you games with very hidden lore. I love you games that mentally ill gay people get obsessed with.

[ratwithhands]

I'm curious. I've seen your art and something that's come to my mind is what actually got you attached with the Subway brothers. Your narrative on their different AU forms is so unique which is what brought me to that question

Alright, rat history time.

So basically back in 2021-2022, I was working on an old OC storyline (about 3 years old by then) and I was in grade 9 so I was like “A new Pokémon game? Pfft, like I care” and just didn’t watch any of the stuff related to PLA when it dropped. I still got recommended Twitter posts about it on Instagram and I ended up seeing this one.

I tried looking up Ingo cause I was like "oh, funky design, looks like a captain or something" but I didn't end up finding anything so I didn't press further. Anyways in March break of 2022, I got bored and decided to put some game streams on in the background while I drew. I saw Alpharad's PLA video and decided to watch it for a bit when I saw Ingo.

I was like "Hey you're the guy from Twitter!" and since I knew his name now, I looked him up and found his Bulbapedia article. I found him much more interesting than the rest of the PLA cast since he had history outside PLA, and I ended up reading up whatever I could find on him. I also by extension discovered Emmet this way, which only served to suck me deeper down the rabbit hole. By the end of March break I had a fan OC and 2 AUs made with more on the way, as well as a YouTube recommended page with nothing but theory videos on Ingo and decade old Submas content.

Around May I decided to decommission my OC storyline for personal reasons, and by this point Submas was starting to occupy more of my creative work anyways. Since I didn't have my storyline to put my energy into, I started funnelling literally any story ideas into Submas. This led to nonstop content for a shockingly long time, and ofc I'm still coming up with stuff now.

Long story short, I got attached to them by accident! It was a "right place, right time" sort of thing since they came in as I was starting to get sluggish with my original content and I ended up being more interested in writing for them.

As for narratives, I am effectively playing dolls with these guys. Usually the kind of stuff that I write for them is meant for OCs, but I dumped the 60+ person cast so I put that energy into them instead.

Most AUs will either have a core theme, an out of pocket idea, or both to make things interesting. Usually I just come up with a dumbass idea like "what if we brought ReBURST back for a rerun" or "what if Emmet signed a contract with an eldritch space spider" or "what if Submas could see into the future" and stuff like that, then it picks up themes as I keep writing. For some silly examples:

Burst is based on Pokémon ReBURST and the idea of human-Pokémon fusion, but there's focus on skill, how characters misperceive it, and resentment as a result. There's also a spotlight on inferiority complexes, bottled up guilt, and blind confidence depending on which main character you look at

Journal is about a diary that helps Ingo to regain his memories, and it focuses on remembrance and regret as a result of him reading it. Spotlight on lacking awareness vs hyper awareness and the monotony of living as people around you leave

Oracle is exactly what it sounds like, with the twins being able to see into the future. It focuses on cooperation and the importance of working together, but also learning how to work alone. The spotlight's on jealousy and gratitude for this one, though the latter greatly outweighs the former in this case

I also just have AUs I made to try deranged shit for funsies, like Sapioflora, Cybernetic/Z-Λ, Team Supernova, and Idol. Those are mostly for exploring goofy ideas that may or may not go anywhere.

Right anyways basically I just saw Submas after watching PLA gameplay and found the twins more interesting to write about than the project I'd exhausted by then. The narratives are like that because the AU ideas I make are actually OC concepts that I modify to fit Pokémon specifically for these two or ideas about the two that I'd like to explore. Hope that answers the question ^^*

[wasabikitcat]

I had this realization a few days ago when reviewing what we know about Gaster while theorizing about the mysterious Valentine from the newsletter and idk if other people have pointed this out yet, but I haven't seen anyone else talk about it:

I don't think Gaster's disappearance has anything to do with Core.

The Core is only mentioned in relation to Gaster once, in this dialogue from one of the Gaster followers:

This dialogue is why most theories and fanon built around the idea that Gaster fell into the Core, which for reasons unknown to us erased him from existence. But I'm now pretty convinced that this is a red herring, because it doesn't actually say Gaster fell into the Core. It says he made the Core, and that he fell into his creation.

It does not say that this creation is the Core.

The dialogue is written in a way that leads you to assume the creation he fell into was the Core, but that doesn't really make much sense considering the rest of the dialogue.

The dialogue says "they say he created the Core," which implies this is second hand knowledge, but then says with certainty "One day, he fell into his creation." Why do they know for sure he fell into "his creation," but only knows he created the core from what others say?

If you talk to the follower again, they say "Will Alphys end up the same way?" Why would Alphys also fall into the Core? As far as we know, Alphys doesn't maintain the Core; if I remember correctly, a few monsters at Mettaton's hotel are stated to work in the Core, so wouldn't this follower be more concerned that those monsters will end up like Gaster and not Alphys?

And another question that I think fanon has just ignored due to the assumption it was something we don't yet know about, but I am now wondering about: Why would falling into the Core erase Gaster from time? When traveling through Hotland and viewing the Core in the distance, Alphys says this:

And while this dialogue may at first seem indicative that the Core is more mysterious than a normal geothermal power generator (and it is in some ways), remember: Alphys didn't build the Core. Alphys doesn't understand how the Core works, not because it has some unnatural property that could erase people from space time, but because she didn't build it. Not only does this mean that the Core is likely just a power generator that utilizes the lava in Hotland to produce geothermal energy and convert it to electricity, it also means that Alphys doesn't work on the Core, because she doesn't know how it works. So why would the Gaster follower worry about Alphys ending up like Gaster if she doesn't have any involvement with the Core?

Additionally, that Gaster follower is the only one to mention the Core in relation to Gaster. In fact, one of the other followers says something that could be interpreted as actively contradicting his erasure being caused by the Core:

This follower says "his experiments went wrong," and doesn't mention the Core. Why would Gaster be experimenting with the Core? And if he was, we don't know anything about it.

But you know what experiments we do know Gaster was working on, because it's literally one of the only pieces of dialogue we have from him?

And do you know what other creation was presumably made by Gaster, as Alphys is unfamiliar with it's operation? That is also a creation that was actively being used in experiments, which Alphys is continuing to perform herself? Experiments that are directly involved with something we already know can alter time and space? A creation that is located in one of the most mysterious areas in the game with several oddities in it that are straight up never explained, multiple fourth wall breaking moments, and a couple explicit references to things we believe are associated with Gaster? A creation that suspiciously resembles in appearance the form of a character who canonically can alter time and space, not to mention resembling the thing that's literally called a GASTER BLASTER???

[minecraftbookshelf]

Yeeting this spoiler-free first draft spoiler snippet out into the void so y’all can yell at me for being mean XD

I would also like to take this moment to remind everyone of the literary convention of “the unreliable narrator” that is all

From the AU in Which All the Marriages are Arranged

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“So?” Jimmy whisper-yelled (probably more yelled than whispered if he was honest at himself) at the emotionless brick wall that was his sibling-in-law. “You’re what? Just going to risk your life on a slim chance? You’re going to risk Scott’s life?” He can feel his facial fins flaring, brushing against the sides of the Codfather mask.

“It was Scott’s idea,” Xornoth says flatly, not even bothering to look up and answer Jimmy properly, even as their words stop his heart in his chest.

“His idea?” He says, so much softer. “His idea.” He can’t help but wonder if Scott’s willingness to risk almost certain death is in any way his fault. He knows he hasn’t necessarily been the best husband but he hadn’t thought-

“And you’re just going along with it?” He hisses through his teeth, angry clicks forming in the back of his throat and garbling the Dryland words just the slightest bit. “You’re just going to do it, even knowing it will probably kill him!”

The temperature in the room skyrockets and the edges of the table smoke as Xornoth slams their hands down on it and suddenly is on their feet and right up in Jimmy’s face. For a moment, he forgets that he is taller than Xornoth now, feeling small in the face of the ocean of rage bubbling in reddish-purple eyes like lava.

His own anger rises like the tide in response and he glares down at the King of Rivendell from behind his mask.

“If I had my way,” Xornoth growls past gritted teeth, the scents of sulfur and magma rising in their wake, their chin lowered and antlers forward in unspoken threat. “I would take Scott and leave the rest of you here to rot. But I swore to him. I swore an oath the night I killed our parents.”

Their fist is curled in the front of Jimmy’s tabard, their fist pressing so hard into his chest that his mail must be hurting their knuckles. “I cannot break it again.”

His arm-fins flare, the spines on the ends a threat and a warning in equal parts. Jimmy bares his teeth, even though he knows that Xornoth cannot see it. “Again? What can you have done that is so bad his own life isn’t enough to weight the balance?”

Xornoth pushes him away and Jimmy lets him, if only because it means he is out of immediate range of the sweltering heat and gold-tipped antlers. He is vaguely aware that he is hissing under his breath and doesn’t know how long it has been since he started. He doesn’t try to stop. Xornoth looks him in the eye, red meeting brown, and their lip curls in a bitter, sharp smile.

“Well he’s married to you, isn’t he?”

They turn and leave the tent, the clank of their armor the only sound in the sudden, gasping silence, and Jimmy is left to drown alone.

[egberts]

girls wake up there's a new worm bike playlist in progress

alana said the new one is way more funky, I've noticed a lot of punk bands are piggy dippin in a funk/punk sound more than a pop/punk sound and honestly? I'm so obsessed.

[just-slightly-chaotic]

still thinking about the man who asked me for "regular tea with milk" at work yesterday and when i asked what he meant by "regular tea" he just looked at me like i'm stupid and repeated "regular" and i said "black then?" and he said "i don't know. regular tea. rooibos."

[fandomsoda]

Reblog this if you’re fucking tired of Errorink being so popular.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun to play around with, but it is overdone, never explored right, results in mischaracterization, and fundamentally way less interesting than a lot of rarepairs.

Low key fuck Errorink for being simultaneously oversaturated and underwhelming.

[hexja]

my job is so kind to me ... 🥹

[lovecoredeity]

would y’all find it fun if I reblogged a couple of oc ask games here?

[coatl-cuddles]

Happy late belated ten years to Flight Rising and HAPPY ME for finally getting all of the Greenskeeper Gathering familiars after 6+ years of playing <3 !!!!! Sososo excited for next May when we get our greenskeeper snake familiar, but for now me and my little bundles of joy are gonna go lay down and WEEP.