#but anyhoot

[altairsun]

i'm having a blast playing ffxvi it's such a great game but man do i have conflicting feelings about jill's treatment in the story

[doodlesdreaming]

“No more green lights, Johnny. We’re on our own.”

[quailclaws]

happy belated birthday to my husband <3

[grimowled]

𝖜𝖍𝖆𝖙'𝖘 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗, 𝖉𝖊𝖒𝖔𝖓 𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗? ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ sᴇᴇɴ ᴀ ʀᴇᴀʟ ᴅᴇᴍᴏɴ ʙᴇғᴏʀᴇ?

＊ ind. stolas, prince of the ars goetia of H E L L U V A B O S S summoned by troupe master grimm. ☽ 𝖌𝖗𝖎𝖒𝖔𝖎𝖗𝖊 | 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖈𝖆𝖓𝖔𝖓𝖘 ☾

[curioussubjects]

you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart

[symeraid-s]

Ignoring the entire shitshow around Eurovision this year, it was pretty solid for music.

Switzerland absolutely deserved to win. The Code is a bop and their performance was my favourite of the evening.

Croatia also was really good. Baby Lasagna has a really strong voice and I really liked the vibes of it overall. Also, he's apparently an Electric Callboy fan, so that's a plus in my book.

Ireland was solid. I don't think I like the song as much as other people, but their staging and the screamo parts of the song were perfection.

On the other hand, Israel got way too many points. I kind of expected it, but it still stings. Like, even if the votes were unpolitical (which is highly doubtful), the song wasn't that good. Lativa had a way better ballad.

A thing I definitely didn't expect though, was Germany being in 12th place. It feels wrong to see us on the left side of the scoreboard. Though it is also funny, because Isaak told a newspaper: "who would want to end up on place 12?" He really jinxed himself with that one.

[doodlesgaming]

If I'm asked if SMT V could potentially be an anime, I'd show them this scene.

(Also Young Man, OMG! 😳😖💦)

[ratottoman]

Gonna make a post that is so only my ocs that’s jus 4 me 😈

[turtlemurmurs]

had this vision randomly appear to me of the distortion being two faced, one being the dead and hollowed out Michael (just for funsies) and the other being Helen :D

lost my mind while I was doodling this concept because I was listening to MAG187 and I decided to take Jon's spiel as a way to concrete my decision to use this design ahahaa

[leedee013]

I just realized I forgot to tag myself so I could see that Baby Jean request. I think my brain is too smooth now and I don't know how to fix it. Perhaps you could show me 101 WAYS NOT TO SAY I DO

-@jtl-fics

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Neil raised an eyebrow at that. "Oh?" he said, his heart skipping a beat at the implications of what Andrew had just said, only for his heartbeat to get loud enough that he was sure Andrew could hear it as he saw a slight blush dust Andrew's cheeks. "How would you have done it differently, then?"

"You know how, Abram," Andrew said.

Neil hummed and cocked his head to the side. "Say it anyway."

Andrew didn't say anything for a while. His urge to pick up a cigarette was palpable, and Neil was almost tempted to offer him one. But he knew how seriously Andrew took his promises, especially when Betsy was involved.

"It never would have been documented," he finally said. "No one else would have ever known."

MASTERPOST

[doodlesdreaming]

Kings, Knights, and their pixie companions.

[thenearsightedmicroraptor]

AtLA's writing has many, many issues, a lot of them being way more serious offenses (sexism, racism, being painfully centrist, favoritism within the narrative, etc etc etc) that I think smarter people can and will and have put into words. Those are uhhh much more important pieces of critique. I'm gonna touch on something much more mundane, because I haven't seen anyone else talk about it.

I did enjoy certain aspects of AtLA, but the whole thing was still a weirdly frustrating experience.

Now, my wife has been giving me some running commentary on the production behind AtLA, and I've learned that many things were not set in stone while they were producing the show. They were keeping their options open. And I think that's one of the fundamental things that makes this story feel so clumsy to me. They don't know where the hell they're going with all this. They want to be a serialized epic, but they're tossing around ideas and concepts like 14-year-old me trying to write my first fantasy story. Each episode is floating around in its own slurry, sometimes connected to previous events by some kind of tether, but rarely by more than that. At the same time, each episode only very rarely displays the tight focus that a more episodic show requires, which means the whole thing is an inconsistent mess.

Character arcs start and stop and hesitate and stumble. Themes are picked up and dropped again. Character relationships don't get the time they need to feel realistic, because the writers don't know what they want to commit to. Plot points get invented and removed and forgotten, as needed. Character traits and roles are set in place without the viewer ever getting to see how we got here, and it happens with enough confidence that it really feels like the writers think they established it, but it's in some cut draft that they never actually put in the show.

A good story is consistent in its goals. If you have a story about certain themes, and about certain characters, and where life takes them, you need to have some sort of feeling of where you want them to go, and how they get there. They don't have to be set in stone, but whatever changes you decide to make will affect the story you want to tell. Changing things up, steering a story in a different direction, can definitely be done, and be done well, and be better than your original plans, but AtLA does not feel like it has a plan at all. The writers put down new elements like they're unaware that it will change the fabric of the whole. The result is that each episode does not feel like it is part of the same story. The result is when you try to mend a shirt using the wrong kind of patch; the seams will not hold. You're gonna ruin the fabric further. The result is a story that feels ruled by the whims of the authors, rather than any kind of internal logic. The result is a puppet show where you can very clearly see the hands moving the dolls around. A story where things do not feel significant, because you know that half of the threads they add will not being woven into the story proper, no matter how significant they seem in the moment.

And on TOP of all of that, they decide to tackle themes that they are wayyyyyy too dumb for.

In other, plainer words: Shit's badly written, man.

[every-dayiwakeup]

Steve: B...boobies.

Billy: Steve it's 4 am.

Steve: BOOBIES

Billy: God why me.

[wapwani]

I know T’Challa’s death was the big emotional upheaval, but I may never recover from Okoye begging the Queen Mother to not die, knowing she would never be forgiven for failing Ramonda’s family.

Gutted. Like a fishman.

[doodlesgaming]

I had to fuse my Queen Mab with Red Rider in order to have a demon with 25 strength stats, because APPARENTLY beefing up my team with mitimas does not count.

Buuuuuuut, I finally have THE best waifu.

[ratottoman]

Some oc doodles mainly posting bc I’m obsessed w the glitter stars like im so proud they came out the way I wanted