#but yeah i don't really write kids

[spite-of-the-grifter]

Look.

Ace Attorney fandom.

I know why people don't like Turnabout Bigtop. I am among the people who dislike Turnabout Bigtop.

But I GET why people like the case. I'm not going to be one of those annoying people who just blindly dump on it because I hate those mfs too.

Thing about Bigtop isn't that it sucks. Thing isn't the weird grooming stuff (though that is a huge part of it). It's not that it could've been good.

It's that - in my personal OPINION - it could have been *great*.

I think it had the potential to be one of the best third cases in the trilogy. It had everything; a fun and goofy setting fit for a pretty dang goofy lawyer game - where the environment itself had jokes and quips and one-liners and mishaps and tomfoolery written all over it, it had the previous case introducing a very interesting and important plotline that gave background for one of the more well-loved characters while also introducing an equally fucked up and lovable new one who was a child forced into a shit childhood of naivete in a CIRCUS with another character who was very naive and childish - whose interactions could have been funny and cute and reflective of said shit from the previous case (seriously she becomes such an important character in the 4th case, WHY would they not include her in this one for some character development? How did they fuck up letting a CHILD explore a CIRCUS?? That would have made the interactions flow MUCH better).

They had a pretty good, sympathetic killer imo, a morally dubious victim, an asshole of a client (who was pretty flat admittedly in-game, but I like his weird, topsy-turvy reasoning for it in the anime. Also, I think Max being kinda a dick would have bode well for the themes of Farewell since most of his clients up to this point have been like...nice? Not nice, but sympathetic, but him having to defend someone who's innocent but a prick would have shown him that just because someone is an asshole, doesn't mean they deserve to suffer for it and that they have the potential to grow as people, which is almost a complete opposite of what Matt was. Ultimately, I would have loved the contrast of them as clients and I think it would have also served as character development for Phoenix, especially with his low-empathy tendencies).

They just didn't think that far ahead. They just didn't execute it well enough. They just decided to make three of the adult characters fight for the hand in marriage of a teenage girl. (Bat's part of the story was actually kinda good if he was just YOUNGER, I think him doing that for Regina would have been a stupid thing someone in the circus would do to impress their crush. Damn you Ace Attorney and your weird treatment of underage girls!!)

It just flopped and that's ok.

Even though it kinda sucked, it can still mean something to me.

Also I'm a Moe Curls apologist. I liked him, shut up.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

since more of like the class swap etc started going up every once in a while there will be a question in my inbox that would take me literally multiple comics' worth of art to answer adequately lol. and I don't wanna do that under an ask I want that to have its own space! so if I don't answer ur question know that it's probably that^ above there and not that I think ur question sucks

[nobodysdaydreams]

Giving a complicated tragic childhood backstory to your favorite character is all fun and games, until you realize you need to account for how old all the other adult characters would have been at the time and realize that scenes that would work perfectly if one character was twenty three and the other was fourteen stop working when you need other characters who are played by adult actors clearly younger than they are to be in college at the same time so your story beats line up thematically.

[hoperaypegasus]

I thought up random stuff for Beyblade... again

Bladers call their beys by nicknames or shortened names instead of their actually names outside of battles (like Storm Aquario might be called Storm or Hades Kerbecs might be called Kerbie).

Bladers who travel on their own a lot often train their beys so that the avatar can accompany them. This technique is also more common in performer spheres as it does drain energy and wouldn’t be smart for a battle blader to constantly be doing.

Beys tend to listen to people who are close with their blader as well (for example Toby and Zeo can command each others beys if they want) and generally all beys being willing to listen to a mechanic if they’ve been to them numerous times before and trust them.

Some beys can alter their avatar if what they are based on has multiple forms (like Horuseus can be a falcon as well, or Aquario can take on the form of a wave and a water spirit).

When bladers get to a really high level of strength and control, they can temporarily embody the power of their bey (as seen by Pluto at the battle of Nemesis and Ryuga’s teleportation). This power varies in form from bey to bey and can be built up over time (Kenta with teleportation and a bow, Gingka with wings, Kyoya with creating wind currents, nile with shields etc).

Even if they stop battling later in life, former bladers often still carry their beys with them, often hiding bey boxes in professional settings in increasingly creative ways.

Tag team partners who battle together a lot typically end up mimicking each other subconsciously and usually have some form of matching item in their appearances (tattoo, jewelry, etc).

DJs often got into fights about "blader custody" during the world championships, aka who got announce for them since they were DJing for them the longest. And it wasn't just National DJs with each other, regional ones jumped in too. It was chaos.

Different types of bladers value and aim for different things in their beys, so comparisons between different groups by each other tend to fall short as they hold them to their standards. Because of this, there are sheets on the WBBA websites of what is common goals of each groups for reporters who might not be fluent in these.

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

fire and the thud came on my spotify shuffle while me and my sister were listening to music this afternoon, and at the end of it she turns to me and goes “who was that? the lyrics sound like the kind of thing you’d write” and honestly i think it’s one of my favourite unintentional compliments i’ve ever received

[name-doggo]

One thing I really wish the FF Community would Stop doing is Removing All Nuance from the Parents in Those Stories in order to Make Them Abusive Supervillains who Never Loved their Kid.

Like... In the Four Years I've been here, and for how Small the Community really is, you'd be surprised how many Times I've seen it-

[bloomingbluebell]

man... rhoam's "redemption" in aoc really sucked, huh?

like botw SHOWED us, several times, how much pressure rhoam put on zelda to unlock her powers, despite her telling him, several times, that it wasn't working. he got angry and banned her from doing not only something she saw as useful, but something that she was clearly very interested in and passionate about because she "wasn't dedicating enough time to her prayers." yes, his diary expresses regret for it, but at the end of the day, if zelda saw that it wouldn't mean much to her. the actions rhoam took, and the way zelda grew up under so much pressure that she nearly died as a child in one of the springs (this is in urbosa's diary, iirc) mean so much more than his regrets and his intentions. it took him nearly 10 years to realize that he fucked up, and by that point it was too late. the calamity had returned, and rhoam had lost any chance he had at making things right with zelda.

meanwhile, in aoc, all that's there is some half-hearted scene in the temple of time that's supposed to make everything better? yes, aoc had a very different and arguably better outcome than the calamity that led to botw, but the damage was still done by rhoam. it's still the same hurts and abuse and trauma that he put his daughter through all because of the prophesized calamity.

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

In the best version of reality we would get a Flash storyline wherein the Justice League, the Titans, Young Justice and every other superhero is mind controlled except for the speedsters. With the entire might of DC greatest hunting them down the speedsters have a dumb idea. A very very dumb idea.

See, speedsters are able to control what age they are and, while only Bart and Jay have ever seriously messed around with that ability, they need a wildcard move that won't be predictable.

What would a bunch of mind controlled superheroes not expect? What would immediately mark them as not a threat and allow them to sneak around in plain sight?

They disguise themselves as middle schoolers.

Jay and Barry get lucky. No one knew them as children and they aren't really recognizable as children so they get away with being 12.

Wally, Bart and Ace not so much. Half of the superhero community knew these three as children so they are forced to go even younger to be unrecognizable. All three settle on 6 because they refuse to compromise their ability to run.

The plan is to sneak into a class trip touring the Hall of Justice and then sneak away from the group to 'go to the bathroom'. The bathrooms are right above the Halls boiler room so then all they would have to do is vibrate through the floor and bam! They're through security undetected and have access to Hall.

What they don't take into consideration is that A) while Wally, Bart and Ace are used to being on high stakes missions as a child, Jay and Barry are not, Barry's on the verge of an anxiety attack and Jay CAN'T LIE B) as children none of them had the same control over their speed or their focus, which becomes very apparent when all five of them get so wrapped up in a pokemon battle that they don't notice Wonder Woman taking over the tour and, most importantly, C) Wally couldn't vibrate through objects without blowing them up until he was an adult.

They relearn that last one the hard way when the bathroom floor explodes and the Hall immediately goes into lock down.

[fogsy-feel]

Baby Mine

The baby (because that’s what it is, he keeps reminding himself. A baby) Is this ugly wrinkly thing in his arms. This tiny, freak of nature that ripped it’s way out of his stomach and tore up the world. The doctors tell him he should hold it shirtless. That skin on skin is important. He tries not to look at where it lays on his chest and refuses to look in the mirror. It would probably be all too familiar. Deathly pale skin, black circles he knows will take weeks to sleep away. Weeks he doesn’t have. Not with the baby.

He let’s the dad name it. Him. It’s a boy, whatever it is. Derek say’s he’s probably a werewolf. Stiles doesn’t really now what that means. He knows it’s Derek’s though, however that happened. Those bright little eyes. Derek said he’d take it  look after him. For a little while. While Stiles sorts things out. 

He never quite recovered from the madness of the nogitsune, and the baby is nothing but a reminder of it. He can feel what they share with the fox. The link connecting them. Like if he looks down, that same madness will collapse between them both. A spill from him to the baby, and the baby to him. He tries to smile. Derek is just so happy. It’s everything he ever wanted. A family. A proper family. Stiles should feel proud that he gave him that. But all he wants to do is leave the thing on the side of the road, in a box and a blanket. With a little note and the words beware. It feels dangerous to hold. The weeks go by, and the idea becomes more and more tempting.

Dad says it’s just the stress getting to him. That when he goes to the shops and leaves Eli in the car it’s just and accident. He’s tired. That’s just it. Then he forgets to feed him, and Derek say’s maybe he should take a few days off/

He dreams of the baby. Of fire, and darkness. He dreams that it isn’t real. That it’s a changeling, tunnelling it’s way into their lives. It’s just dreams. But Stiles has thought that before, and he has to make sure. They tell him later that he’d lost touch with reality. Again. That he was hallucinating, and that’s why he did what he did. Eli was fine, thankfully. A real boy it turns out. They tell him it was because of the birth. Postpartum- blah blah blah. It doesn’t matter. He Isn't supposed to do this. He isn’t supposed to carry, or raise or anything. Derek doesn’t understand.

That’s okay. He’s good at this. He’ll be fine without him. Eli will definitely be fine without him. And they are. For fifteen years, they handle it.

-

Then Derek had to go up and die, and suddenly Stiles was supposed to be a parent again? “You don’t need me kid.” He reminds the boy.

“Yes I do!” Eli barged through the door with a scream. He’s in pain. His dad’s dead. Everything hurts, but this pain? This rejection from Stiles? It’s a pain he’s known since birth.  “I’ve always needed you! Especially now! Because Dad’s gone and-”

Please don’t say it.

“-you’re my Mom.” He says it with finality. Like the sad fact it is. “You.” He whispers. 

They both wish it wasn’t true, but it’s pointless. They’re connected. Through a bond they’ve tried to deny Eli’s entire life. But they are unquestionably linked. By the madness of the nogitsune. By the familial bonds of motherhood. By the grief that premeditates the air. Stiles remembers a five year old boy, telling him the exact same thing. He can no more deny Eli’s declaration now, than he could back then.

He has Derek’s eyes.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[blujayonthewing]

I've thought a lot about the several thousand year old gnome druid we met who was just bitter and jaded and had spent most of those millennia sitting in one place not doing anything in particular except mourning her tiefling wife who'd died millennia ago, and how disgusted and infuriated with her melliwyk is, personally but also as a gnome herself-- and I'm thinking about it again like. honestly I think it goes beyond general cultural values; that level of willful ongoing stagnation and joyless nihilism is probably completely seriously a gnomish sin

[llycaons]

I know the internet constricts my creativity because in my wifi-less and sleep-deprived haze this past vacation in the depths of the night in my mind I fully planned and outlined the abortion fic I've been looking for this entire time....like I'm not a writer but I was fully planning on writing that thing. I was willing to bring it into the world the way wwx was NOT willing to do for a child

[aeolianblues]

pop stars aren't born in the 70s anymore like they used to be. These days they're born in a year uncomfortably close to my own which makes me clutch my chest and cry out

[laststandx3]

*sobbing* daryl dixon is so bad. it feels like it was written by coping every other zombie story but without a drop of creativity. is so boring, so predictable, the characters are so boring. ep 1 dixon arrivies at the nun place, doesn't want to take the *mysteriously special* kid with him. why will he change his mind? but sure the nuns get all killed by a sort of militia that decided the nuns were responsible for the murder of one guy. of course it's the nuns! ep 2 the group has dinner with some kids. there's the most predictable oxigen tanks drop and explosion and then they keep on walking. there was a woman that hid a 7 months pregnancy to her sister, even tho they lived together, and you can't hide a 7th month belly. magical kid has the same origin story as the kid from the last of us. identical + the nuns. who are the people i would trust the most in case of a medical emergency. i mean we all know how nuns these days study anatomy and medicine.

now poor adnag that so far has been given the blandest generic douche boyfriend character!! he was really there trying to pull a face cupping that would make a marine sergeant blush and betray his country, all the while saying 'lets leave your sister on the road while we run'. what person in the world can think this line can work. lets abandon your pregnant sister on the road during a zombie apocalypse. this is just stupid. who would agree? who wrote this line and thought it was a plausible conversation? they just needed to make this scene believable, like pregnant sister is starting to have contractions in the car and then he panics and wants to leave her behind and non-preg sister leaves him. and it makes more human sense like uugh. who can ask a person to leave their sibling during the apocalypse? but this is the level of character depth we have in this show. this is the level of writing we have to witness.

and why everyone has to speak english even when they're between them? even when dixon isn't around. if you don't want them to speak french then don't set the story in france. if you want them to speak english all the time then never make them speak french from the begin and we can just pretend they're speaking the language of the audience. let them speak french!

[yzafre]

Purging another TMNT 12 thought from my head, but: the fact that Journey to the Center of Mikey's Mind was immediately preceded by Riddle of the Ancient Aeons was probably the peak.... the second-highest peak of my insanity over the fact that 2012 wasn't interested in being a heavily character-based narrative because oh my god. Oh my god.

If there weren't seeds there for that to be the most fascinating pair of Raph & Mikey episodes ever. Like some of the lines they dropped meant they could have set it up to be an intense meeting of two diametrically opposed methods of dealing with anger, with both having Very Valid Points, but ignoring how their perspectives are also being used to mask how some of their other flaws are actually motivating their implementation of those points in their lives.

And they could have learned things about themselves. And about each other. And it could have brought them closer or left lingering tension to be resolved later or. Or.

But that wasn't the type of story they were looking to tell here, and I know that, and that's fine, but now I just have all these Thoughts and Ideas on how it could have played out, or better yet been built up to over the season/series, and they're all trapped in my head, and I should be writing my fic for that other fandom but I'm stuck on that and these stupid turtles are taking over my brain.

[mylittleredgirl]

there are many good reasons not to see avatar but if you DO see avatar definitely see the 3D version. the entire movie is effects. same movie as the first one just underwater now. also if you are wearing 3D glasses it is less obvious that you will cry like seven times.