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Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Elrond Peredhel & Maglor | Makalaurë, Maedhros | Maitimo & Maglor | Makalaurë, Maglor | Makalaurë & Lindir, Celebrían/Elrond Peredhel, Celebrimbor | Telperinquar & Erestor Characters: Maglor | Makalaurë, Elrond Peredhel, Celebrían (Tolkien), Lindir (Tolkien), Erestor (Tolkien), Glorfindel (Tolkien), Celebrimbor | Telperinquar, Fëanor | Curufinwë, Galadriel | Artanis, Sons of Fëanor, Maedhros | Maitimo Additional Tags: Maglor Is A Cryptid, eldritch horror, Found Family, Hurt/Comfort, Fourth Age, Reunions Series: Part 8 of Maglor is an Eldritch Horror Summary:
With the War of the Ring done and the time of the elves coming to an end, Elrond must leave for Middle Earth and journey West. But sailing to Valinor and adjusting to a new life there is not without its challenges, the largest being Elrond’s technically-illegal eldritch foster-father, who he has smuggled into the Blessed Lands under the Valar’s notice. No one, outside of Elrond’s closest friends and family, can know that Maglor has been brought back, or what he has become.
Easier said than done.
#VALINOR TIME#i have been so excited to get to this fic for the entire series#and now we are here#there is an eldritch being LOOSE in elf heaven#what will he do#hopefully not get arrested because his poor foster-son really just wants some peace#and yes you read those tags right#we have the return of some certain characters that are gonna make these reunions interesting#:) :) :)#maglor#elrond#celebrimbor#lindir#erestor#celebrian#silmarillion#my fic
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Thank you all for an incredible 500 days of love and support. I offer you: answers to questions that no one has asked.
(As always, more can be found in the tags <3)
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#a-qing#jin ling#wen ning#jiang cheng#“Hey wait this feels like there should have been way more content for questions” Yes. There was.#I was not strong enough to redraw *all* of what was lost. Rest in piece the original (lost to tea related accident)#But I'll tell you all the fun other things that would have been drawn out right here in the tags!#Did you know my longest posting streak was 61 days? And my longest hiatus was 6 days?#Did you know I missed posting on 92 days of those 500 days - meaning I posted 82% of the time on a daily basis?#I'm normal about collecting data. I have so much data on this blog for normal reasons. I'm also so normal about art. The normalest.#Honorable mention for the character rankings: Lan Wangji! for “Most improved in rank”.#Sorry Lan Wangji fans but until the audio drama I honestly was...pretty indifferent towards him.#I think a huge part of that was due to the fact he's constantly paired up with WWX; who has *so* much charisma and steals the scene#But I've really come to like him a lot more since starting this project. He rose from mid-tier to being in the top ten!#Dishonorable mention: Nie Huaisang. Who fell out of number 1 spot and out of the top 5.#He just hasn't shown up a lot! And my rankings are fickle! They will probably change once I finish the third season!#My favourite comics are: A lot of them! And the ones I have yet to make!#I'm very sleepy at the moment while writing this but I do want to give a huge shout out to YOU.#Yeah! you reading this! Thank you! If you've been here since the first week or just started reading: THANK YOU!#If you've only ever lurked and never even liked a single post but still read my comics: THANK YOU!!#In creating this blog - I have found 500 days of more happiness that I could have ever imagined.#Thank you for joining me on this journey. Thank you for giving me your time and your support.#It means more than any 'thank you' could say B'*)
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random omegaverse thought:
There must be people who experience specific instinct things with indifference or boredom.
Procreative cycle coming up? "Crap, I've got plans this weekend...stupid skip weeks."
Caught an intriguing scent while walking? "But I need to get to work! Shut up brain."
Had a snap response to a distressed sound? "Who was it?! ...right, it's my day off, I can go back to sleep."
Somebody growled at them? "Kid, I'm not a rival, that's my sibling."
Super cozy cuddle session happening nearby? "I'm gonna pass tonight guys, no social battery left, maybe next time."
Group of friends heading out to flirt and check out other singles? "I'm coming with you but only to make sure you all get home safe."
Setting where fated mates or soul bonds or permanent marks are a thing? "Meh. I don't really want one or care if I ever get one."
People in the actual omegaverse would get as bored of their stuff, as we do of ours, you know? It could be interesting to see that kind of vibe in fics. Biological demands faced with all the excitement of paying bills or doing laundry or tying your shoes.
Even if that kind of energy might not drive a plot, it could be interesting to have as a contrast to the people who do have big feelings about them - good or bad.
There's the friends who can't wait til they have a pack of their own, and the one friend who isn't against it but couldn't care less. There's the group in the office who are all about scent compatibility tests and figuring out one's best match and what sprays most highlight it, and the coworker who has no intentions on putting that much effort in. There are parents who hover and protect their offspring by scenting them multiple times a day, and others who don't see what the fuss is as long as it's done in the morning.
...also: packs with introverts who show care by giving each other space. So often, closeness is depicted through physical touch and tactile affection, but comfortable silence is meaningful too. Knowing people are near, but not having to interact until you're ready. Sitting in the same room doing different things, knowing that all it takes is a "hey, look at this" to share what you're up to. People understanding and accepting each other's differing or fluctuating needs for how and when to recharge. Seeing somebody reaching out or sharing space, beyond what's their norm, as a signal of the fact that they care.
#omegaverse worldbuilding#a/b/o worldbuilding#a/b/o dynamics#kinda#not gonna tag sfw though it mostly is#heat/rut mention#twovvie chatters#hi its me im introverts#a version of me in omegaverse would love to live in a pack house#as long as i could have a space to myself#people nearby? good! people around all the time? uhhhh#even my family knows that after so many hours of fun family party#i'm gonna disappear to whatever room has the fewest people in it#or find a random corner and start reading#“oh! i didnt know you were here” yes that was the plan#also i just find the idea of someone#who couldnt care less about pairing up#to be funniest in a setting where that's a big deal#“too bad you havent found a mate yet” “no i already know who it is”#“congrats! when do we meet them?” “oh i didnt mean that i'm going to date them. i just know who it is.”#“but i thought you were single?” “yup.” “don't you want a mate?” “nah too annoying.”#cycle day? nice i get a free day off work#cycle day? ugh not this again#the duality of man (a/b/o edition)#granted i hc heats/ruts as heightened libido and greater fertility#because i dislike elements of heats/ruts that (imo) mess with people's ability to freely consent#if the only non-sexual options are pain or solitude and the species needs compaionship as much or more as regular humans#then not being able to or being unwilling to is like a punishment for those people#sure stress or other needs can short circuit it (irl) but theres plenty of reasons to not be interested that arent “you have a problem”#surely i'm not the only person who reacts to various body requests with “later i'm busy” right?
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Its him!!
(outfit by @/se3s1de (this post))
#total drama#td alejandro#tdi art#a bit more time#abmt#yeep its art no.2 from this fic#and also yes i still have art block#but im also drawing my ocs more rn#thats right ocs!!#i have those#anyways thats totally irrelevant to this post#it only took like mayyybe an hour to draw#sorry for so much quick art y’all#but i got a funny side project i’ll post soon#so keep posted!2!1!#hello to everyone who read up to here 👋#send the word lychee in my ask box i wanna see how many of you read tags#ok bye y’all
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Happy Tears of the Kingdom day! As a special treat, here’s a drawing of Prince Sidon for all those that celebrate, or just want to enjoy some charismatic shark men
#legend of zelda#tears of the kingdom#loz tears of the kingdom#prince sidon#sidon#breath of the wild#also for those of you that read the tags#yes this will be a shirt! no print date yet but it has been approved for print#also I probably won’t play the game right away but I’ll be happy to pick it up soon
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If only the original Saint Seiya anime was a 2014-2018 anime series instead of being aired in the 80s-90s, I can only imagine the sheer amount of animation memes that could have been done. Some of the characters are just so perfect for those, like, if this was a more animation-oriented fandom this would totally be a thing.
#wren text tag#saint seiya#imagine all the character doing the infamous head bop#Saga would be the KING of the edgy memes. 100% the copycat meme or the trauma one idk#he has the right vibe to have a thousand of that kind#Deathmask can have the pork soda meme BUT! For HIM I clearly see the “he broke my heart” with Dite#oh and the entire Jack Stauber discography it’s abt ships. A good 60% at least#Shaka or Mu could be the bloom meme. Or anyone with really long hair that could be a pain in the ass to animate#bye lena problems uhm maybe Camus and Milo#the forget meme. ohMY. This was prob the animation meme that started all. The head bop origin. Aiolos goes here#like he’s dead but he still need to haunt the narrative (affectionate)#Ikki deserves the dream meme#the one where the character does a walk circle and it is interrupted every now and then by some edgy still frames#Shun uhm maybe those cute silly animated loops. Otter pop or marble soda meme idk#in short you get the idea#oh yes. For the people who read/watch LC. Good in me is so Alone core#btw I checked YT and there are a few StS animated memes. They exist. They are a thing.#there are also gacha life video??? Somehow??? Disappointed but not surprised#they should add a new internet rule that says. If it exist there’s a gacha life video of it.
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I often wonder about the quote-unquote logistics of Corvo the Black/Emily the Butcher endings. Emily makes more sense to me, in a way, carving her way through the empire only to come back with blood caked under her fingernails and realising that she did everything her father refused to do 15 years ago. but why did Corvo have a similar choice?
what happens to the statues later? does Emily keep her father trapped in stone? does Corvo look at his daughter, frozen in the moment and considers freeing her? is he at his deathbed when he finally reaches out and cups Emily's cheek, freeing her into a carcass of an empire that he gutted for her, in her name, in the name of her mother?
when I first heard of the endings I thought that if you reach very high chaos, you are locked into this choice - Corvo or Emily tries to free the other and the stone just doesn't budge. they are trapped. the quest is over but the world knows that the bloodshed was extreme and this is the punishment they have to face
#li.txt#dh#dishonored#kinda like the high chaos brigmore witches ending#there is no reason for corvo to kill daud if you finish BW in high chaos. but he still does. because the world Knows#but the very Active choice of the player and by extension the character to take the throne and keep their last family locked in stone....#its certainly a choice. and it makes me wonder about many a thing#i really wish we got more info#karnaisbear mentioned that itd be cool if we got comics expanding on alternate endings and like arkane. arkane can we please get those#I just really wanna know What It Was Like to live under the rule of Emily or Corvo in the very high chaos endings#and the fact that it seems like they can still free the other person? that adds so much more angst and tension to it#is there a time limit? do years pass and does corvo grow old and weary and thinks that yes#he has done his job and he has done it well. and the empire is righted and he can hand it back to emily now#and he cups her cheek and it remains cold marble#and all he did was for nothing#and he cries#(can u tell ive been reading thru the corvo the black tag)#not to mention something similar to that but with emily!!#imagine she grows old! older than corvo was when he was frozen!#the century is coming to a close when she finally frees him and she is older so much older and corvo will have to live with losing her#in every single impossible way he has lost her#and then he gets to bury his daughter#these tags got so dark wtf
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A small essay about Masato Arakawa/Ryo Aoki's name(s)
Saw someone in my notes mentions the question of "waka's real name" and I somewhat already talked about it in other long posts, but I really want everything I can say about it condensed in a single post.
Let's start with what everyone can agree on : "Ryo Aoki" is obviously a fake name. More precisely, some characters think it is a stolen name, that there initially WAS someone really named Ryo Aoki, before his identity was bought by the Arakawa family in order to give Masato a new life after his fake death.
So, "Ryo Aoki" is a stolen name. What about "Masato Arakawa"? I see a lot of people saying things along the lines of "Ichiban is able to see Masato Arakawa behind the Ryo Aoki mask", as if "Masato Arakawa" was Aoki's real self. On the surface level yeah that seems to be the logical train of thoughts to follow, but when you really think about it...
"Masato Arakawa" is the name of Masumi Arakawa's son. Not only does it contain his family name, but the first name is also made out of "Masumi" and "Toshio"'s (the name of Masumi's father) first kanjis. So "Masato Arakawa" as a name is INHERENTLY connected to his family, obviously being the name of his father's son.
But we know that Masato isn't Arakawa's biological son (won't get into the debate today on wether or not Masato was still Arakawa's son despite of that because that's a whole other discussion to have). Without the lockers incident, he wouldn't have been given the name of "Masato Arakawa". In a way, one could say he "stole" this name and life as Arakawa's son from Ichiban, who, as a result, was left with a name that is several times throughout the game said to be "sounding fake". Because, in a way, it isn't the one that was "supposed to" be his, just like "Masato Arakawa" wasn't "supposed to" be the name given to Sawashiro's son. Because the only thing this son was "supposed to" be was dead.
So which one is it then? Is "Masato Arakawa" really his real name if it is as much of a stolen name as "Ryo Aoki"? No wonder he has troubles determining where his true self ends and the performance as "Ryo Aoki" starts, if his conception of his true self is based on an identity that isn't really his to begin with. Even as Masato Arakawa, he is mostly seen putting on a show ; the difference between his behavior with Ichiban and his attitude in the Zephyr cabaret club can be seen as proof that he never ever truly lived as himself, and always pretended to be someone he isn't. Just like he never had a name for himself, and instead always used names belonging to other people.
And we can look at which names other characters use to refer to him to find even more informations about the meaning these different fake names hold :
Most obviously, Arakawa is the only character who ONLY uses the name "Masato". It makes sense, since he is the one who gave him this name and he is insistent and genuine in his attempts to build a father-son relationship with him. Even when it is "Aoki" who returns home after his surgery, Arakawa still sees him as his son, and thus calls him by the name he gave to his son, despite Aoki's best efforts (he explicitly states that he changed his name "because he was born the son of Masumi Arakawa" : his name change was partially motivated by his wish to cut all the ties with Arakawa, in order to erase any connections he had with the yakuza world, yes, but also probably because he simply wanted for Arakawa to literally no longer be his father. yes the layers of irony are so numberous i won't even try to list them all here). This persistence to always and only call him "Masato" could be interpreted as a logical evolution of the "flaws" as a father Masato used to perceive in him : he viewed him as overbearing and felt as if he was constantly infantilizing him (wether or not he truly was or if Masato was misjudging his actions or lying is a question for another day). By using the name he had when he was a child/a young adult in need of a caretaker (which obviously isn't the same as being a child but from Aoki's perspective entirely dictated by his internalized ableism, he was "dependent on someone else", which we know is something he thinks made him "weak"), Arakawa may have led Aoki to be even more convinced of his initial judgement about him : he keeps calling him by a name he associates with his "weak and ugly self", this means he wants him to keep being this "weak and ugly self. That's the double meaning of the name "Masato Arakawa", Arakawa chose it and uses it out of love, while Aoki views it as a representation of the limitations imposed to him that he believed he broke free of.
Interestingly enough, aside from Arakawa, all of the characters who used to know Masato and (may or may not have) recognized him as Aoki or the characters who know about his first identity don't call him "Masato" nor "Aoki". Depending on the character, it could be because they were somehow acknowledging the fact that "Masato" really was no longer here, while not giving him the satisfaction of calling him by his new fake name. Or it could be because they were aware both names were fake in their own way.
It is unclear wether or not Horinouchi recognized Aoki as being "that one yakuza-type guy who was scaring his wife more than a decade ago". Aoki believes he didn't recognized him, but Adachi and Saeko think that if Ichiban was able to recognize both Aoki and Horinouchi after having spent 18 years in prison, it was more than likely that Horinouchi also recognized Aoki when he met him around 2015. With this doubt in mind, I think it is quite interesting to point out how Horinouchi is never seen calling Ryo Aoki by this name. He instead uses "the governor" when referring to him. Maybe, given the importance of which names the characters use for this man in particular, it could be a very subtle hint that he indeed recognized him as someone he no longer is, and thus doesn't see him as this new perfect persona he built for himself.
Sawashiro and Ichiban are the two characters who consistently (although not always in Ichiban's case) use a whole new "name" for Masato/Aoki : they call him "young master" ("waka" in the japanese dub and I'm going to write "waka" instead of "young master" because that's how my brain likes it), and it is persistent throughout the entire game, from 2001 to 2019.
In Sawashiro's case, there isn't a single exception in his dialogues showing him calling him anything else. Never did he call him "Masato", nor "governor", nor "Aoki", not even once, not even when talking about him to someone else. And it makes a lot of sense for Sawashiro, the only character who knew from the start that the "Masato Arakawa" identity had been stolen, to never call him by a name he knows his son only got because he left him to freeze to death in a locker. He knows "Masato Arakawa" shouldn't have been his name if he had been more responsible at the time, the same way he knows "Ryo Aoki" is not his real name either. Maybe he thinks about it sometimes, about the name waka could have had if he had even bothered to give him one before trying to get rid of him. As his father, could he still give him a name? Now that he had another one, even though he isn't happy with it? Could he give him the name he should have given him so long ago? If he ever asked himself these questions, he probably prevented himself from even thinking about which name he could have given to his son, because he clearly didn't think of himself as worthy of being his parent. So he shouldn't even dream about "what ifs", because he didn't deserve it. His son died nameless, and Masato was Masumi Arakawa's son. That's what happened in everyone else's eyes, and that's the reality he will have to conform to as long as he is alive.
And as for Ichiban... this is a bit more complex than Sawashiro. He clearly calls his brother "waka" more often than any other variations. He does call him "Ryo Aoki" a pair of times, only in situation where he is talking to people who wouldn't know who he is talking about if he didn't call him by his current name. He does call him Masato a couple of times, some of them being :
Once when arriving at his apartement complex, asking "Has waka... I mean, has Masato Arakawa already left the building?"
Once when he sees him in a picture for the first time after 18 years, saying "This is not Ryo Aoki. This is waka. Masato Arakawa."
Once in Ch14, during his downward spiral into a murderous mindset, right after having learned about the locker incident, when he says "Me and waka... Masato Arakawa and I need to have some words!"
So clearly, even if sometimes he calls him by his initial birth name, his first instinct is to call him waka. In the last example, I would even argue that he purposefully chooses to call him "Masato Arakawa" because he has realized that this name "should have" been his and he is now in rage because of that. At some point, Ichiban even says, when asked how he knows the other name of Ryo Aoki, "A long time ago, I called him waka, and he called me Ichi." So the name we're probably supposed to remember Ichiban calling Aoki is "waka".
Which once again, makes sense, because of Ichiban's status as "the real" Masato Arakawa, even when he didn't know it yet, it is ironic for him to never use that name naturally for his brother. It also alligns with how the game portrays Ichiban as being the only one able to reach waka beyond the artificiality of his numberous fake selves, something neither Arakawa nor Sawashiro managed to do despite their best effort : if Ichiban is for some reason able to understand and reach his brother so efficiently, surely he is also able to sense that something was unexplicably wrong with the name "Masato Arakawa", as much as there is something terribly wrong with the name "Ryo Aoki".
"waka" isn't a name, but it is the closest thing Masato/Aoki has that functions like a name, and wasn't directly stolen from someone else. Sure this still might be a title he was able to have because he took Ichiban's place as the son of a patriarch, but I think it is fairly rational to think Ichiban, even as "Masato Arakawa", wouldn't have wanted people to call him "waka". This archaic, borderline medieval way to put on a pedestal someone just because of the powerful position his father holds? Clearly Ichiban isn't the kind of guy who needs his ego being flattered like this. This is something only his brother would take pleasure in, because of his low self-esteem, because of how obsessed he is about how others perceive him, because he likes to feel important.
Isn't it a bit sad that the closest thing he has to a name to call his own is something that is so linked to his struggles with mental health and to his familial situation he so desesperatly wants to get away from? The "name" waka itself deserves a lot of consideration put into it before really calling it "his true name". I think the implications of this interpretation are fascinating to explore, but I don't think I have seen the end of them yet, so I'll leave that last question opened.
#the coldest cup of coffee is currently sitting on my desk right in front of me#no proof read we die like my sleep schedule#ryo aoki#masato arakawa#spending 2k words talking about how none of those names are his. whatever let's tag them anyway#bonus round : i legit thought Ogasawara (yes. him.) only called Aoki “the governor”#turns out he calls him “the governor” most of the times but he also calls him Aoki three times.#i wanted to talk about how ogasawara is the only character who knew Aoki before learning about the existence of Masato#and how this particularity led him to not use either names for the guy who's supposed to be his friend#and instead call him “the governor” which sounds really weird#but my argument kinda falls apart because of the three times when he does call him by one of his name#still think it's very weird how he calls him “the governor” most of the time. like. this isn't how you refer to a friend.#anyway-#very interesting how Ichiban's name is given a bunch of variations that also have their own meanings and values!#might make a (smaller) post about them one day because there are things to say about those too#but for THIS post just “Ichi” is kinda interesting to know about#that's how people who knew Ichiban BEFORE the prison calls him.#Arakawa and Sawashiro always calls him like this. Aoki initially does in the Otohime Land scene but then switches back to Ichiban#probably because he was putting on some kind of friendly face when he still thought a deal with Ichiban was possible.#once he knows he is an enemy he doesn't have to pretend anymore#tried to keep this spoiler free (only for Ch14 onward) and you can REALLY FEEL some info missing in this because of that but heh
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I have a gift for y'all today !!! 😊 Ever wanted to find a line in Re:Kinder in a single place for the sake of reference?? How about multiple chunks of lines. how about all the little variations that arise in the text with it's many endings, item descriptions, text that comes from interacting with the enviroment, and character info from the menu without having to boot up the game and go through it at long minutes!!???
well i sure did😊 Since I do a lot of fanart and think up my own silly theories and thoughts that need me to reference the game lines a lot, i have made a transcript for it for convenience's sake. A weirdly thorough transcript handwritten and proofread by me including all character lines available in-game. And I'm sharing it with you all today for anyone that wants it !!! :3 To use as a reference for creative fanworks or a quick search for a line in-game, whatever you wish to use it for!!
It uses the english translation of the game by vgperson. So naturally all credit for the game lines available in here is to her and Parun who made the game.
I did my best to organize it in a way easy to digest. Do note that I'm still human, and there's still the chance for mistake in it no matter how much I've proofread it, since I'm not even an english native speaker ^^. But I hope it serves you well nonetheless if you wish to use it.
That's my gift for today!!! Not the usual art, but still a project I'm proud of. Enjoy!!! 😊
#re:kinder#rekinder#not art#now goofy commentary for those who read my tags#i may have spent at the very minimum around 35 hours on it 😁 because thats what my pomodoro timer got to count in sum#but then again i spent more time without timing it as well so. we'll never know how many hours in total I've put into this#no regrets it was fun because shocking fact of all i enjoy this game🫣 (/s)#you could say but michael there are long playthroughs available on YouTube#couldnt you reference that instead of making a transcript#to that i say... they don't play the game like i do im picky as hell they dont show me every nook and cranny possible#and also i dont like scrubbing through those i thought just pressing ctrlF on a script would be easier. AND IT IS JAJSJSJSJSJS#but thats personal preference all in all#and im used to using transcripts for fanworks coming from earthbound. like there's one for the main game dialogue online and i love it a lot#for this game to not have any felt like some sort of crime considering how cool the story and the lines it has are#its also plenty useful for a game you're writing the spanish wiki for#yes i am doing that apparently my hobby became community work since i got into this game#gotta put that free time before turning 18 and getting a job onto something why not make resources just because i can#anyway fun fact while proofreading i noticed that everytime yuuichi was on scene there was a typo because i got too excited or emotional#either i was laughing because of how evil he is or i was getting unreasonably angry at the treatment he recieved in the past#in section 9 which is true end confrontation i was doing mistakes left and right until the fabled princess line scene#there i was bawling like a baby but THE ERRORS STOPPED ABRUPTLY LIKE I WAS FIGHTING FOR MY LIFE ALL UNTIL THE SCENE ENDED#THEN THERE WERE A BUTLOAD OF MISTAKES ITS INCREDIBLY FUNNY😭 i was fighting for my life holding in all those typos because i couldnt see#so this transcript was made with a lot of emotion laugh and tears and now you know#now i can get bagk to drawing this is the thing i mentioned i was doing fot a while#content feeding schedule crazy rn
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2023 in review! I made an effort to try more things and it worked mostly (at least for TV and movies). New things, new-to-me things, and new installments of old things all had characters to love even if I didn't necessarily feel fannish about them, and I'm hoping 2024 does, too.
#but yeah no I had a lot of fun with some of these#mp100 is now fully going down as one of my favorite works of art ever. i mean it. i'd stick it on a shelf with discworld.#trying Nida Manzoor's work was SO GOOD like if edgar wright knew how to make girls lovable I meant to only try one episode of WALP#and then I marathonned it all in one night right into the sunrise and I do not regret it#(look I love edgar wright but)#i had my issues with GO2 and Fionna & Cake and HxH (which I finally tried yes I am late) but still they had babies in them#one piece and the last of us did like major progress for proving those mediums *could* be adapted and not suck so seriously kudos#I didn't go into Barbie expecting it to Solve Capitalism and The Patriarchy so I appreciate what it did do#Nimona was just gorgeous#Across the spider-verse is so good it's hard to say anything about it#Peacemaker is obnoxiously good and Chris's breakdown near the end really got me#Bottoms & Marry My Dead Body & Ying-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity are just fun okay don't think about it#the strange planet show was sweet and peaceful to watch#and even with a 40% budget cut OFMD has my heart and ed is The babygirl of all time for me#thanks for reading these tags if you did and I hope you have a good new year#art i'm proud of
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Apparently I can meet my goal of roughly 400,000 words in 6 months if I just somehow write at least 2,200 words a day ghbjh... Almost 2,500 today... huzzah...
#Definitely not going to be able to stick with it just due to like... being realistic about my energy levels and etc. ESPECIALLY as we#enter the Evil Summer and it becomes hot all the time. But... one can attempt.. at least...#I'm also a very slow writer since I tend to re-read and edit while I write. and only move onto the next section once what I'm writing#seems okay. Which is easy for visual novel type stuff. since ''sections'' of a conversation are more clearly marked (like if you#have a menu option with 5 different dialogue choices. finish the character's response for choice 1 before moving onto 2. etc.)#Especially since when I'm done with a whole quest I always follow it up by playing through it and picking every option and making sure it#actually all works okay and etc. So I am already going to see it all a second time. Then I can go back and reorder a few words or remove#certain sentences that don't sound natural when I read them out loud (I always read it all outloud to myself since it is... just peple#talking.. it should sound like natural dialogue in their voice. etc). But my ''first draft'' is kind of not as first drafty since I pause t#edit a lot as I go along. So it also takes longer probably than it would take other people who I think treat a first draft as more#of a loose guideline or something. AANYWAY...#80F in my bedroom right now again... huzzah... I did end up finishing and recording that sims build video before the heat wave (or is#it really a heat wave if it's just summer..?? lol) came in.. but now... augh.. the editing... plus the costume photos and all else... Much#to do as always.. Often such a long todo list.. a giant scroll hung upon the walls of the evil hermit wizard tower..#Anyhow.. I hope I can finish getting ready for bed early in time to reward myself with a game of tripeaks solitaire whilst I snack on#cheddar cheese and some of those preserved artichokes in a jar. hrgm... I actually have nasturtiums (ultimate best flower) on the#deck again this year but I had to move them all into a corner today because the leaves were getting burnt by the sun lol.. Also am now more#cautiously weaving through social media to ignore all dragon age news. NOT bc of spoilers (I actually love spoilers/literally never play#any game until there's full guides on it I can read to plan my entire playthrough based on knowing exactly what I want to happen lol + mods#and etc.) but just because I'm so busy with my ownprojects I simply do not have the brainspace to dedicate... Yes I love to think#about elves and fictional universe lore. but no.. I pretend I do not see it. Does not exist to me actually. ghgj.. OHH also took som#cool pictures of flowers in the garden section of a store and I wanted to do like.. character designs based on the colors of the flowers o#something. but that might just be another unnecessary project to add to the pile.. I want to commit to the daunting task of dyeing my#hair again some time.. hrm.. this is all of the updates I can think of. As if a bunch of random tags make up for never posting anything for#weeks on end lol.. alas.. too warm to think properly I suppose.. .. I neeeeeed a long lost relative to leave me some million dollar#estate in their will so I can have the resources to move to a colder climate or something ..augh#.. but for now.. I shall toil away in my little wizard tower trying to write 2000 something words a day whilst sweating and such ghbj
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#okay so i am going to say this once and we’re all going to be on the same page#i find tommy boring#okay? i find him uncompelling as a character outside of the fact he helped buck realise that he was bi#other people love him for some reason - this is fine and i cannot relate#whatever#BUT my problem is that there seems to be no way to express my -tommy is dull - beliefs around those who love him#without being labelled homophobic#(this does include not caring if he dies - because i dont care what he does truly he’s Such a nothing guy to me. whatever)#and I am not homophobic#and well see it just so happens that there’s a loophole through which tommy hate is. well. not ‘allowed’ but morally justified#This exists because tommy used to be racist#is he still racists now? idk. who cares.it’s a tv show.#but if im not allowed to dislike tommy for being boring - surely im allowed to hate him for being racist right?#Anyways literally i couldnt care less if he is or isnt racist still or about anything he does#I think there are wider implications involved with how this guy who is like if a cardboard brick couldnt act is suddenly compelling people#to go to war for him#I also think anyone who believes his actor’s twitter was hacked is actually stupid but that’s unrelated#U m yeah well i think everyone needs to calm down#yes everyone yes me yes you reading this#And yeah idk. it doesnt matter if tommy is or isnt racist#(well…)#rather it matters that the ‘first stone’ was -you’re homophobic if you dont like tommy’#so the retaliation became ‘actually you’re racist if you do’#and because everyone wants to ascribe a moral value to liking/not liking a stale weetabix of a man#now we’re here#do you understand? do you get what im saying#can anyone hear me?#oh wow#did you guys know there’s a tag limit?#it’s 30
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Medieval setting villain-in-hiding knight x vigilante undercover-heir to the throne? 👀👀
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NOT A PR0MPT
You speak my language, friend.
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"I know what you are doing."
Villain looked up. In turn, the orange light reflecting off his black hair and armor shifted in oblong and strange shapes. "Warming myself by the fire?" His eyes found the light again, not paying any additional mind to the blond in front of him.
“Beyond that." The first man rolled his eyes. He seemed upset at receiving such a casually disinterested answer. Truthfully, it should have been obvious. Such an attitude was fitting on these grounds, during times like these.
War.
Revolution.
Starving.
Death.
"Your camouflage is almost convincing, though not efficient enough. Tell me, what is your name, raven-head?" The blond was over-the-top, in his own refined sort of way. His voice carried out like a song, every word a beat too long- as if he were performing, though not very good at it.
Without shifting, or even raising his chin, Villain lifted his hooded eyes. He regarded the blond enough to say his attention was captured, but not enough that he particularly cared- nor did he find the joke funny. Raven-head. He scoffed. "Tell me yours first."
The blond chuckled, taking a seat on a rotting log across from Villain- or, Raven-Head. "See, that is where you go wrong. You act victimized, untrusting."
At this, Villain furrowed a brow, an action which said, 'Keep it down.'
"It might not be obvious to everyone, but I can see the veil you are trying to hide behind. You would have told me your name, otherwise. You would have tried to befriend me, and become a pair that defied death- conquered it."
"What makes you an expert at spotting bunnies in bushes?" As far as Villain was concerned, the blond had as much of a problem blending in as himself. The theatrics were too much, the speech too proper, and the curiosity much too unsettling.
"Are you admitting this"- he gestured at the Villain's attire- "is a bluff? You cannot possibly be a knight."
In response, Villain shrugged. "You tell me. Who am I if not who I say?"
The blond suggested, “A friend?”
The fire crackled between the two knights. They observed each other silently, one suspicious, and the other knowing.
“Most would call me the enemy.” Villain found the blond's gaze before shrugging. "You can decide for yourself."
"If I knew your intentions well enough, I would."
Villain chuckled lowly. "If you would honestly consider me as an enemy, should you be this close?"
"A fire separates us."
"A fire that could be extinguished- or walked around, lunged across, kicked in your direction-"
"I get it," the blond snapped.
It was now that both soldiers looked to the short flames. Villain thought about how else he could weaponize the fire- although it was gradually becoming more embers than spindles of heat.
Giving another shrug, Villain began to stand and walk away. It wasn't long before the blond expectingly stopped him.
"Wait, wait, wait."
Villain waited, neck craning over his shoulder in the blond's direction. He hummed, encouraging the man to speak.
"You are right- I have no idea who you are, but I have reason to suspect you are not who you say. That is enough for me."
"What do you want, then?" Villain faced him fully again, knowing this would be yet another conversation- one he couldn't just walk away from.
"A partner, someone to confide in- I am not sure."
"Give me something to work with, Blondie." Villain wasn't exactly prepared to be someone to confide in- he barely confided in himself. When he did, he found himself questioning the reality of his current blending in with the ranks. ‘What am I doing here, honestly?’ he would ask himself.
"I am the - son," the man blurted across the fire.
Luckily, the fire- if you could even call it such at that point- had popped, interrupting him. Still, Villain knew what he had meant. “You are Vigilante? The- the runaway! The king’s eldest son!” He kept his voice low, secretive.
He nodded, but then quickly corrected, "Second eldest."
Villain stiffened. He'd known the blond was someone, but he didn't think he was a royal. "You have no care for who I am at all," Villain noted. "Why are you here?"
"My father started a war," the prince said uneasily. He avoided Villain's gaze for the most part, opting to watch the fire instead. It was dying out without anyone to kindle the flames. "We need a better king."
"And you think your brother would make a better one."
The prince tossed his hands around awkwardly. "Not necessarily," he almost whined, "but anyone would be better. We are going to war over sticks, you know? Trees. Land. Like it will do us any better. We have no need for wood and we can barely take care of the people we have. I can never imagine having more until we know how to feed the ones who feed the palace."
It was easy to tell Vigilante had been talking to himself towards the end.
"Personally," Villain felt as though he was taking a risk by saying this, that maybe it was going too far. Of course, it was a last second plan, and there were so many aspects which could go wrong, but there were also so many that could go right. "I think you would make a better king than your father and any of your brothers."
Looking at the Prince, Villain could tell he’d said the right thing. The man was beaming from cheek to cheek, and even asked, “You really believe so?”
“I do.” Villain never intended on meeting the king or his sons. The job was supposed to be much simpler. Blend in with the ranks, learn their strategies, devise a plan against them, then do it again to the next battalion. Eventually, he would work his way up to killing the king- but boy was this even better. Not only would he take the king’s life, but he would take the princes out one after the next, all under the blond man’s guise. “In fact, I am even willing to help you become king.”
“You would do that? Truly?”
Villain smiled with a dagger’s edge. “Absolutely.”
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#not a pr0mpt#lol tumblr did that thing again where I had written a bunch but it didn't save hahaha haha ha ha ha. ha.#now i'm using the 'x' tags but i'm not necessarily saying these two are a couple. i'm also not saying they're not. you guys can decide-#villain x vigilante#vigilante x villain#heroes and villains#medieval hero x villain#medieval writing#medieval story#we're going to start using those tags.#*nodding your head*#yes amethyst. we will start using those tags.#you know why? because you people usually LOVE when i write medieval things but if i don't include the words 'hero' and 'villain'#in my tags then you don't see it. i'm sick of it!#I WANT TO READ MORE WRITING LIKE THIS BUT THERE'S NO TAGS FOR IT. WE'RE CHANGING THAT.#writeblrs- you stand with me right? we're in this together? please? 🥲#we're talking about the 'medieval' tags btw.#'royal' or 'royalty' variations are also perfectly acceptable- anyway moving on#hero x villain#villain x hero
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I wish all Precure seasons that attempt to force a reciprocated romance between young teen magical girls and animal-fairy mascots that turn into Ambiguously Adult Hot Guys™ a very Stop That Immediately Dear Gourd Why. 🫠
#this is about yes precure 5 because thats what i'm watching right now#but i'm aware of at least One other series that does the ikemen fairy thing (Hugtto) and I desperately hope they don't do that there#& I get that teen girls can & will develop crushes on an older teacher-figure. two in one season is a bit much (nozomi AND komachi) but FINE#← grudgingly#but to have both Coco and Natsu (i Refuse to call him Nuts it is Too Dumb) act like they reciprocate those feelings / play into them...#blegh. not a fan#Coco holds Nozomi to his chest a few times & this episode at the resort he refers to her as ''princess'' and i KNOW it's the writers#and the fact it's an older show too. but i'm SOOO tired of it#and Komachi... Komachi my sweet girl why do they do this to you. why do they make Natsu say ''i feel calm around you''#why why why why why. augh. so tired#i read the episode summaries for a few eps ahead of where i currently am (ep 26) and oughaohghh it's gonna keep happening :/#🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 blargh#anyway#yes precure 5#precure... salt? crit? neg? are there rant tags in this community idk i'm sorry#not that this is like. a particularly controversial opinion i think. i hope.#hard to catch up-recure (saa minna de)#eMerambles#eMerambles in the tags
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Okay OP nation I have some (maybe controversial) statements about the Straw Hats and I need y’all to listEN FIRST OKAY- HEAR ME OUT
Boyfriend: Zoro and Franky
Husband: Usopp and Sanji
Girlfriend: Nami
Wife: Robin
Luffy: Aroace king
#DO YOU SEE THE VISION ????#like I am a Certified Zoro Girlie but thats not a husband... he has Boyfriend written all over him#I cant call him husband in my head - ‘oh that’s my Husband Zoro’ - ew no - 'thats my BOYFRIEND Zoro' - yes !#Franky is just cool and sensitive like that -> the boyfren to defeat all boyfrends -> i'd fall hard and fast -> like embarrassingly so#SANJI OH MY GOD !!! THE FIRST MAN WHO DARED TO MALEWIFE#and of course anime he has a couple red flags but I always put those on ‘annoying anime trope’ rather than accepting thats a part of him (C#(OPLA IS HERE TO PROVE THAT) shit like in canon they kinda set him up as this totally uncool Wannabe Casanova (which he is !!)#but he’s also just effortlessly charming ???? me at 7 y/o watching his intro for the very first time ??? a goner !!! -> me at 20 yo watchin#GOD !! USOPP !! THE MAN ! THE KING ! THE LEGEND -> I have ALWAYS been an Usopp girlie -> cause im always right and i love to win#y’all gonna give a pathetic cowardly little man with huge dreams and an even bigger heart who ALWAYS stands up for whats right#DESPITE BEING SCARED ???? I’m in the chapel baby lets do this 👰🏻 -> also his tiddies are always out ??? DUNGAREES WITH NO SHIRT !! WHATS NO#risking his life fighting an incredibly powerful and scary pirate for an entire village who didn’t treat him fairly and DIDNT BELIEVE HIM#him going to a place he was Not Welcomed and constantly mistreated at only to tell a DYING girl incredibly fun stories and keep her company#cause he saw his mom go through the same thing as a kid ? -> i love him yall 🥺#NAMI !!! thats Girlfriend with a capital G -> shes pretty greedy and a little bit (very) mean -> i love her sm i want her to rule my life#RO !! BIN !! the crush I have on that woman is honestly embarrassing -> she is THE wife -> do not be mistaken#i dont really see Luffy wanting a romantic relationship but that’s not gonna stop me from reading fanfic about him ; p#i had to edit this and glue some tags together so they'd all fit -> thats why theres so many arrows -> I have Thoughts okay -> let me live#one piece#opla#one piece live action#straw hats
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Something just happen-
#Francis Whitlock#Funky Bear#kbyeart#art#doodles#and yes you read the tags right- this is funky for those who remember him
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