#and NONE of it will be plot relevant!!!!!!!!

[listlessladylister]

List Of: Details I Loved in The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

The computer genius is the most emotional!! I feel like we don’t get that a lot, but maybe I’m wrong

Main character starts in China/East Asian inspired city

Prince Kaito has so much damsel energy

Long Lost Rightful Heir To The Throne claims throne and then DISSOLVES MONARCHY!! very fun

The pumpkin car!! </3 rip

The advisor (torin) isn’t evil!!

The doctors admittance that he would have gone on supporting everything on luna and being a devoted citizen, but because it was His Daughter, it should have been different for His Family, she should be The Exception, because That’s His Daughter. He knew his hypocrisy, and hey better late than never??

Acknowledging that seeing levanas true appearance as monstrous isn’t fair or right, and that her appearance doesn’t really have any bearing on her being horrible, because being a monstrous person isn’t about how you look.

Cinder is never not a cyborg

“ I don’t wanna hear anyone say anything about how delicious that is!” “It’s completely disgusting, you would hate it.”

“None of my friend’s bodies are replaceable, why should mine be?”

Just Iko. She’s the best.

Scarlet Growls At People Sometimes

Thorne canonically had a five year plan in high school

Mandarin suffixes for respect reasons in New Beijing (Linh-jie, Linh-mei, Linh-DaRen)

They ate the celebratory cake with a combat knife because they baked a cake and everyone forgot utensils

For most of the time, even when she is being terribly threatening and unspeakably evil, Levana is beautiful. And not beautiful in the untouchable and intimidating way, but in a way where you just admire her and adore her. Very specifically, when she is described, her voice is pleasant and melodic, her face is stunning and breathtaking. Yes she is awful, and eventually she starts declining in her emotional and mental control so that more of her irritation and cruelty and anger show, but initially the cognitive dissonance of this woman who looks so beautiful and charming and gracious act so callous and entitled is meant to be there

Some men can be useful when separated from their object of Eternal Loyalty and Devotion. Some cannot. I’m looking at you wolf -_-.

Revolutions are bloody— when your advantage over the oppressive regime is numbers, you are going to end up stepping over the bodies of fellow rebels just to take a shot at the palace gates. They can’t take all of you, but they sure can kill a lot of you.

I’m about to get my throat bitten out by my good friend wolf for the fifth time in three days :)

Everyone was thinking it, and no one voiced the thought— can cinder swim?

Snow White and her animals VS Winter in her animal sanctuary parallels

The Snow White character is black!

The emperors most plot relevant abilities are diplomacy and speechwriting

Cyborg character has an inbuilt lie detector, but has no other emotion sensors, just knows when someone is lying

The kiss counter

Cinder is at the ball and her remaining stepsister is more pissed that she stole her shoes that she didn’t even chose to wear, and not that cinder is wearing he Recently Deceased Sisters Dress

That one room in the lunar palace that was minimalisticly decorated because it was all made of glass so you could see the glittering city below and the stars above.

The glass that doesn’t reflect anything. How? Who knows but it must have cost a fortune.

Head trauma induced blindness

Temporary shoes made from hair

[riiviir]

I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR OC'S

OK so I mostly made that post in reference to Warden but I have now realized that saying too much about her would spoil that comic I'm trying to make so instead let me give details about one of the protagonists from that same comic. except I currently have no way of mentioning these details within the comic and even if I did they wouldn't really be a plot twist like Warden's backstory would be so. Okispe's whole entire backstory infodump time!!

tw for medical trauma and also people die

so basically. he's an anthropomorphic moth. and his home universe is full of anthropomorphic bugs and insects but most important details I can give rn are about moths bc that's what's relevant to him but anyways. the moths still get to be caterpillars when they're young, and instead of puberty they basically just go into a cocoon for a year and then come out with wings and an exoskeleton and such. and when Okispe was a caterpillar, he was, just like most caterpillars, very excited about getting wings, both bc he wanted to fly on his own without having to be carried around by his parents and bc he thought that wings were very pretty and he was looking forward to being just as beautiful as his mom and dad

the bad news is that there is a very rare disease called Post-Chrysalis Necrosis (PCN), in which the wings start rotting away a few days after emerging from the cocoon. so when Okispe was just barely starting to learn how to fly, before he could really do anything at all he started experiencing intense pain, went to the doctor, and found out that he will most likely never be able to fly, and also might die since PCN is deadly if it isn't eradicated before it can spread to the rest of the body.

So holes begin rotting into his wings. The treatment for PCN is to cauterize the infection, so the already-painful rotting cells are then made even more painful by being burned over and over until the infection is cured.

So he was in the hospital from age 13 all the way to when he was 20. To make matters worse, at some point while visiting Okispe, his parents caught a different deadly disease from another patient and both of them died.

Even after Okispe is eventually cured, he has a multitude of other issues to deal with. He's severely lacking in social skills, has an incredibly low self-esteem due to thinking that his hole-filled wings are ugly, has to deal with chronic pain from the burn scars, has to worry about the PCN potentially coming back, and cannot fly. And although stairs are an accessibility requirement in most of the city he lives in, the maintenance and everything is severely lacking, and some places aren't accessible at all. He also has to make up for all the school he missed and graduate late, and struggles to find a job that will actually hire him. He does manage to get a job lighting lanterns (this is a very important job with the worldbuilding I have for his home universe but that's an inforump for another time) but is paid less than those who can fly, and the job is pretty dangerous due to how close he has to get to enemy territory while put in the woods (there's a war going on).

So ableism and medical trauma and dead parents. Idk why I made his backstory so incredibly sad when it didn't need to be but uhhh. I am nothing if not sadistic towards my blorbos.

He does eventually leave his home universe to join Human and Sunrise in a life of multiversal crime but that part if his backstory actually IS spoilers. but anyways yeah that's my moth boi

[fictionadventurer]

Maybe the problem with Christian fiction is that it's non-denominational. People are just "Christian", with no effort put into showing what practicing that religion looks like for them specifically. No indication that there are other Christians who could have different beliefs. No wrestling with differing ideas and the struggle of how one should live out their Christian faith. And that makes it unrealistic and unrelatable.

[vigilskeep]

ok maybe im just not seeing it, but why is no one talking abt how zara calls illario "amatus"?? like they were def at least bumping bits for her to refer to him as that especially when she was caught off guard in the blood pool.. it's literally never even acknowledged in the game either

this was rlly funny because i had neve in the party and she said nothinggg. too much of a working class hero to know tevene ig 😭 where’s dorian the one time you need him... i assume shadow dragon rook has nothing to say either lmao

anyway yeah in the immortal words of taash they were doing it. this didn’t really surprise me that much because that’s just kind of how illario approaches problems. but zara’s specific emphasis on calling him “amatus”—“beloved”—even after death vaguely suggests she may have really had feelings for him, which is obviously wild for countless reasons

[randomnameless]

Why do the FEH devs insist on ignoring Nabatean lore so much?

I recently had a surprisingly cordial discussion on redshit with someone about the "nabateans = colonisers" take, and one of the main points raised was that the game was purposedly foggy around Nabateans/Sothis/their story because it would obviously favor a certain narrative (and thus make another narrative look, uh, not that marketable anymore).

To be honest, we still ended up with a product that had a lead go "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and yet that lead is still marketable enough to have raunchy cipher cards and 5 FEH alts, so I actually wonder if, while pissing on that lore had that purpose, it was ultimately pointless since Supreme Leader can still sell goodies despite her incarnation in FE16.

And not only Supreme Leader - but the entirety of WC where we basically have 70% of the cast crying/complaining about their "mixed blood" or lack of and basically adding their 10 cents to the "this race and its blood is the reason why the world sucks".

I mean, can you imagine Sylvain selling any goodies and alts if Flayn replied to his "wah wah people only are kind to me and want to fuck me because I have Nabatean blood :(" by some uncharacteristic "good for you, I have to hide my ears, had to dye my hair, have to lie about my family because if the truth is found out about my identity, I will be hunted and vivisected like an animal and harvested for parts by people who call my kin abominations - just like what happens in the game where the same people who call my kin "abominations" ally with a classmate who calls me a creature and pretends I am incapable of human feelings based on my race".

FE Fodlan's main selling point is its cast of students, for various reasons, but even if I tried to kid myself, Nopes and FEH made it clears : students are the main selling point.

If you spare more time and attention to the Nabatean plot/lore, the students either grow from "likeable" to "despicable" or worse, you won't gaf about them because yeah sure, Hilda might be upset because people expect things from her due to her crust, but it would feel like a "peanut" compared to Seteth's irrational (granted, it's not so irrational since GW exists) fear that Flayn's newest friends would dissect her if they learnt she was a Nabatean, and being conflicted by finally letting her have human friends and form bonds she crave, or protect her due to the trauma from the genocide of their species.

Don't get me wrong, I love peanuts, I mean, not everyone can have a tragik of loaded backstory!

And yet, given how this verse's DNA is "can you fight against the red emperor who uwus about you", they had to add copious amounts of Earl Grey to their games so there's no clear-cut factions :

The "Your alien blood and its influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command" vs "I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

is turned to :

"Your alien blood Crests and its your church's influence on the world corrupted it, so I want to reform it under my command"

"I don't want to die and you oppose me due to my race and side with the people who genocided my kin"

Sprinkle with the cast's hammering here and there that the "reforms" might be needed - but never develop on what they are - and add a few baseless and groundless takes as a toping (basically everything Claude says about tolerance and the general "isolationism/foreign policy" stuff) and you get FE Fodlan where the Red Emperor's war isn't seen as the catastrophe it is in the other entries from the series!

Now, for FEH...

FWIW, the F!F!Billy's trailer had them try to explain that Sothis was a bit pissed about her slaughtered/massacred children when Nopes never gave any reason about why she was pissed - maybe on Billy's behalf bcs Jerry's dead, but come on, she would indeed deserve the medal of the worst parent in the franchise if that was the case, since Billy can murder her daughter without Sothis taking over ! - but given that they cannot write/go against the source game those characters are from.

They tried a bit, with B!Supreme Leader and Hegemongard's FB, but then it stopped (because she had no "new unit" released since then lol) and I can understand why : Hegemongard came out before the Supreme Emblem, and Hegemongard hates dragons who are seen/perceived as gods by some of their human followers. Come FE17, and now Supreme Emblem accepts Alear because they are "one of the good ones". We can come up with HCs and details and talk about what are emblems or if Hegemongard's views were only hers at the end of AM all day long... But imo, Doylist wise, it still feels it's a retcon because the devs from the main games tried to scrap and remove the most "controversial" traits she had.

For the other characters... Well, you see what Marianne is in FEH (but even in her base games), she's one of the few characters who reacts - in a way - to the partial history about relics and demonic beasts and all... only to give sad uwus to Maurice.

FE16 (and Nopes) refused to have any "student" character react to the Nabatean lore/reveal, about what are relics and all. There are no lines, Claude shared some knowledge in the explore section of VW's last chapter, but we don't have anyone muse or think or even talk about what are relics, what are crests, and what kind of fuckery their ancestors or the ancient humans of Fodlan did.

With that in mind, FEH can't do much : either they write Marianne in a retcon-y way like what happened for Hegemongard (and they're not afraid to piss on characterisation, look at Lyon!), or they flanderise her "character" and develop her around 3 lines she had in the game in her paralogue, and continue to give sad uwus about Momo when he was at best a guy who slaughtered and murdered so much that he abused the Nabatean turned into a relic to the point where he turned in a demonic beast even if he had a matching crest, or at worst, had been part of Nemesis's piñata party in Zanado and was something of a genocider.

Tldr :

Why FE Fodlan never gaf about Nabateans : earl grey + the marketable cast has to stay marketable and you can't sell peanuts at the same price you'd sell swordfish

Why FEH dgaf about Nabatean lore : they can't afford to retcon characters + they have to sell peanut alts with the same seasoning they had in their base game.

For what it's worth though, I think FEH is more daring than the base game(s) given how they gave more lines and screentime to Rhea - through her different alts - than GW. And they even designed her Halloween!alt's lines to piss on some of Claude's assertions, while the various FB involving members of the church also - indirectly - reply to some accusations thrown their way in FE16 when, FE16, never gave them an opportunity or lines to explain that those takes were full of dung.

*"but random, maybe she doesn't know that the crests she often decries is "dragon blood"!"

It's highly debatable, especially given what she and Hubert throw to Billy in CF - but even if she doesn't, Doylist wise we still have a character who, knowingly or not, says "this race and its blood* is the reason why the world sucks" and who is never called out on her prejudice. That's more of an issue regarding the general writing though, she has to be a red emperor and took pages from Ashnard's book, and yet, the player must still feel bad and want to romance her, so her mindest/goal cannot be looked at too closely, because, I guess, even the devs thought it would be difficult to romance her (thus sell goodies!) if more light was shed on the "blood from this race corrupts our people" schtick -> which in turn would also make characters whose backstory and gimmick rely on "crying about crests" be way less likeable, thus marketable and able to sell goodies.

[wintershades]

Yes, I’m highly invested in learning how the Coast Kids are faring during the Scary Moon Times, but I'm also eager to know:

Did Fjord and Jester ever acquire sufficient pasturage to support a herd of domesticated unicorns?

What is the current proportion of "homicides solved" versus "homicides committed" by Veth and Jester's detective agency?

Has Fjord managed to sweet-talk his way into the Mother’s Lighthouse, thus enabling Jester to learn what’s kept in said lighthouse’s boob?

To what extent has Jester leveraged her studio’s success to foster a broader public arts initiative on the Menagerie Coast, encouraging artistic expression both phallic and non-phallic in nature?

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

This Gilded Abyss

fantasy/thriller/romance, start of a series

gilded-age fantasy world where a rare magical substance is mined deep undersea

a sergeant struggling with grief and trauma of her best friend dying in a mine collapse, is asked by a young royal (…her ex girlfriend) to help her investigate a strange murder - on the luxury submersible heading exactly where she never wants to return to

when there’s another massacre, confirming their suspicions that it’s caused by an illness inducing a violence craze, they have to find a way to survive, trapped on the ship until it arrives at the undersea city

[stardustdiiving]

Sometimes I think about we got the very first rumors that playable Scaramouche would be Anemo + get a design change around July 2022 (it was a month or two out from 3.0 release) and a sizable portion of people were melting down on my Twitter recommended over it bc they were absolutely certain this qualified as genshin “ruining his character”. Like they had a hashtag over it and everything it was so funny

[spotaus]

Late Night quick thing (New Age Sillies)

Bad news: That joke post about including Reset + Orchid is definitely not canon. (I legit got sad thinking about Reset being in a universe where Orchid isn't- because their stories are so so intertwined- but Nightmare 100% would NOT risk the whole twins exploding Error's soul thing.)

Good news: This means I COULD include Kane (Reset's older brother who usually dies in timelines where Reset is born) and use it to develope his character a bit more! Also! Perhaps a Blue × Dream kiddo is finally in the stars for me to design?

[sugaredparchment]

its lore rant time but it's late and I'm sleepy and also had two breakdowns so there's no brain function!!! but I have. so much about my religions teehee under the cut because I fear it will be long (it is. it's so long. I have so many thoughts and Feelings)

Gods

okay so the first thing to know is my world is broken up into. I think 6 major continents (the 7th is a country made entirely of floating islands)!! Erreliuma, the continent divided into the most countries (6; Rethan, which El, roh's mc is the third princess of; Regallia, where most of roh takes place; Auvovia, where Zircon is from, Cerrin, Koran, which Flare is from, and Tashen, which is Astraea's homeland once upon a time) is where the Actually existing gods are mostly associated with!!! all of my notes actually call them Erreliuma's Gods because originally that's what they were

As of now, there are 33 of them, divided into four categories:

Celestials, which are the sun, moon, darkness, and light

Heralds, which are nature, life, death, and time

Majors, which is a rather long list but includes war, wisdom, love, magic, alchemy, etc.

Minors, which is also a long list but includes mischief (Calixto moment!!), nightmares, dreams, both hunts, the arts, strategy, etc.

Astraea is technically counted as a minor god, as she is judgement, but she is kind of undefined by the gods themselves

But basically, these gods are the ones that are really Real!! If you mention a god in my world, these are the ones that Will Hear, even if they're not the ones you're explicitly mentioning! Multiple other countries follow these gods beyond Erreliuma, including 2 other continents (3 countries between them) and the nation of floating islands :)

Entities, Unfathomables, Chaos

There are also technically 2 other "real" things; the only beings everyone believes in, and the Unfathomables :> the Beings include The Cosmos, from which everything came, The Skies, which is sort of like the underling of the Cosmos and just watches this planet more closely, and The Guardian Star (who is technically the narrator of all the stories I write in this world!! teehee)

the unfathomables are. the horrors. The Infinity, The Eternity, and the Dream Eater! Infinity and Eternity are very similar, but basically Eternity is more rooted in reality, and Infinity is more weird and shifty! Dream Eater does very little other than Haunt People, so not exactly part of a religion, but...

Infinity is where an oc I mentioned kind of vaguely (I think), Knave, gets his ability to alter reality! The Infinity is also the being which created dragons in my world, so Pallas also technically gets her reality shifting from it, although hers is more diluted!

The Eternity has a cult that follows it. it's currently nameless but they send a member to go burn books in the woods every year cycle and it's kind of fucked, because typically the person is also sent as a sacrifice they expect the Eternity (or y'know. The fire they start) will claim the person. The Eternity doesn't really accept this but also has no way to stop it because it doesn't like to leave

And then there's Chaos! Chaos is. undefinable but weirder. technically it created all 3 unfathomables and has also existed since the dawn of time, but The Cosmos ignore it and no one else knows how to categorize it

The Musician

One country in my world, known as Citruine, has a. a thing. that j call The Musician. It is kind of like a worm in the sense that in myth, it was cut in half by chaos but not all the way??? So it split down the middle and one Not Quite Half is male (Aranos) while the other is female (Aranosia) it's. it's weird. I don't know why I came up with it but now I did and I'm keeping it (it was because I'd already named landmarks and didn't feel like fixing it)

Fae Worship Cult

my last religion is technically not even real. the fae in my world are Not Gods, and actually have their own set of Concepts they tend to call on (Fate, Fame, and Fortune) although they are more likely to reference the Skies than anything :]

Now, my fae are very very connected to The Weather. This is actually part of how most of their magic is set up and how my court division system works (weather events and types)!! now psople. People see that Fae can control the weather (not true) and go damn I need this rain to stop. what can I do? let me sacrifice a person!

And so at every Major Change Needed this cult known as Beacon Lighters throw someone off into Faerie, which is a feat in itself! Faerie is beneath a continent like. hell but physical. real. why not screw witg reality more? but yeah they sacrifice a person hoping to appease the fae even though the fae themselves are not gods and it's Strange

Anywyas yeah that's what I have going so far I have a lot of moving elements and it's weird and hard to follow cause I'm not naming very many countries but like!!!! these ideas do spread around as well I just have them mainly region focused for basics for now :D

if you read all that thank you I am just cheerfully yapping away lol!! none of this is completely finalized either I am just being Silly in my natural habitat

[mic-check-stims]

I love when my blorbos have game sprites with easily color-pickable palates.

Look at my obnoxious gender headcanons boy

[xmascritter]

Well that certainly was an ending. Those last 15 minutes of the episode certainly did feel like a conclusion that people could have come to.

They should have committed to the bit and also killed off agatha permanently while they were at it.

[foolishlyzephyrus]

chibnall is a teller not a shower which sucks

[damnedserenity]

can't belive I woke up and procceded to write 2.5k worth of smut for the first time for two hours straight

[pochapal]

revisiting the "bodies with no faces" argument to prop up a faked corpse theory is. hrm.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Principle of Moments

start of a scifi space opera series

a teen girl in the far future where humans are oppressed learns she has a destiny & a lost sister and escapes

and a young time traveler who’s given up trying to find his father through time, and is about to settle in 1812 with the prince he loves, but is unwillingly thrust into the future

they both learn their fates are entangled by a prophecy, and have to race across the galaxy, followed by a galactic emperor and the legacy of heroes from an ancient religion