#elysium series

[crickets-lovely-place]

Well, I got tagged in this WIP challenge (thanks @neutronstarchild and @vitya-z ) so here we go I guess!

WIP CHALLENGE

Rules: “post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have wips. (You can make your own post or reblog this one!) I have deemed that this isn’t just for writing either. Sketch titles? Comics? DND campaigns? If you have an unfinished project, it counts!!”

I'm actually sort of astounded by how many WIPs I have, like I knew it was bad, but also.... OOF. So here we go!

After the Hot Springs Tour

Antigone in the Spotlight (Again): Phantom Overcoats

The City of the Stupefied

The Eight Happy Ones

Exceptional

Find Me With A Word

Karurusu Claims His Throne

The Murder of Josiah Holloway

Olympics Meet-Cute

One Last Gold

tonight: BONUS SCENES

Untitled Big Bang Fic

Viktor Nikiforov, Compulsive Planner

Ahhhhh I have sorted these alphabetically but I'll tag all the fandoms. Good luck. Also I definitely will NOT be tagging this many people but I'll give @scorchrev specifically a hard time, I'll check in with @petrichorandpilots, and also see what @balladoftime is up to. Love y'all :D

[mocosa-media]

In The Flesh - Ally_Futuras - DmC: Devil May Cry [Archive of Our Own]

"Is this not what you expected to see?"

After years being apart, Dante stumbles upon the one person who he'd wanted to see for long. Though, things do not always go as planned

Thank you Pink Floyd for that push of inspiration that one time after lockdown ❤

[mydairpercabeth]

season 4 is gonna hurt me i fear

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's the 2 month anniversary of this blog! Here's all the main MTXT couples to celebrate.

[juliaaadoodles]

Let 'em dance!

[inquissien]

Very late to the party, but I've read my first discworld novel

[weepylucifer]

Disco Elysium if it was a Hollywood Blockbuster

(inspired by the trailer by @brainrotdotorg)

Harry has to have a glowup arc where he regains his faith in his job and ability to be a good cop. The police isn't criticized here apart from maybe some handwaves at "a few bad apples" rhetoric. In the climactic moment, the phasmid appears and tells him it is his duty and his destiny... to reform the RCM

Because we don't have time for a nuanced take on addiction in this 90-minute movie, the narrative just turns on a dime halfway through to portraying Harry's alcoholism as rugged and badass instead of pathetic, or he suddenly stops drinking when he gets his groove back, with no withdrawal effects shown. The whole thing about speed helping him be better at his job doesn't factor in; Harry drinks and does drugs because he's sad about Dora and there's nothing more to it. All he needed was to buck up and focus on being the best cop in all of Revachol

Klaasje is portrayed as a one-dimensional scheming femme fatale. Her backstory doesn't really come up. She's dumbed down so that Harry can triumph over her, and is also genuinely attracted to him for some reason, "I am Sherlocked" style

Ruby is either cut entirely, or she's genuinely a predatory lesbian and that's it. If the latter, she shoots herself in the head in front of Harry and Kim and they make a MCU-style "Well that happened" quip about it

No political quests! We don't have time for that. Actually, both communism and fascism are only mentioned once in a backstory dump as stuff that happened in a bygone era. If anything, the film ends up really riding for moralism by complete accident

The film makers don't really know what to do with Kim, so he gets reduced to a guy that stands around and delivers snarky one-liners

The Hardie Boys are in one short interrogation scene, not quite enough to make casual moviegoers care when half of them are gunned down

Fan-favorite characters such as Cindy, Cuno or the Speedfreaks can be seen once in the background of a group scene, but have no lines (you KNOW hollywood couldn't handle the Cuno). It's announced on the director's insta as "a little easter egg for eagle-eyed fans"

Joyce has a way more active role, but also her character turns into an utterly flat "milf girlboss" type who gives Harry and Kim direct instructions on what to do, Madame Director style. The movie writers pat themselves on the backs for being more progressive and feminist than the source material. Also she has nothing to do with the mercs, they just sort of... appeared. Don't think about it too hard! It's stressed repeatedly that they're "rogue agents" and it's really nobody's fault that they're there

Evrart is a corrupt mob boss and that's it. He will be played by a skinny actor in a fatsuit. He also doesn't help find Harry's gun, Joyce has someone retrieve it offscreen so she can gravely and meaningfully hand it to him just in time for the mercenary tribunal

The Deserter just kinda being a shitty sad old man would be too anticlimactic for our summer blockbuster, so he is rewritten to be some kind of evil mastermind. Maybe he even directly communicates with Klaasje and tells her what to do, again "I am Sherlocked" style

The tribunal absolutely does end with RCM backup triumphantly arriving to save the day, led by Jean who underwent a mini-arc offscreen about putting his differences with Harry aside because at the end of the day, they're both cops, and goddamn it, cops help each other. He dramatically takes the wig off and chucks it on the ground to signal his character growth, and everything

No homo-sexual underground thought. The Smoker on the Balcony is allowed to show up in one scene, where he flirtily waves at Kim and Harry. Kim nods at him. Disney's first gay character--

There's a moment where Kim talks to Jean, expressing doubt about Harry. Cut to Harry doing something goofy across the room from them. Jean briefly glances at it, shakes his head, turns back to Kim and says gruffly: "He's a loose cannon... but he gets the job done." This is supposed to be a good thing

[pocket-sized-gentleman]

practicing my turnarounds with @daftpatience 's Laytonesque Kim design!

[writer-room]

You ever just see people talk about the Percy Jackson books and know somewhere, deep in your heart, that none of these people have understood that this is a series made for middle schoolers. And that fandom will very frequently lie to them like, all the time. No, that character probably isn’t ooc, you’re just thinking of what the fandom turned them into. No, this book isn’t a horrible stain next to the others before it, literally all of them were like this. It’s Percy Jackson. It’s cheesy and occasionally makes a very questionable writing decision.

You gotta be in this for the long haul or jump ship my guys. Be cringe and free or be gone

[paarassha]

[bracketsoffear]

Eye Avatar Bracket Lineup Round 1

Cecil Palmer vs. Lemony Snicket

Apollo Justice vs. Mike Wazowski

GLaDOS vs. Janet

Harry duBois vs. Futaba Sakura

Rachel Elizabeth Dare vs. Santa Claus

Kyoko Kirigiri vs. Ivy Alexandria

Prof. Brian O'Blivion vs. Sunset Shimmer

L vs. Dipper Pines

Doc Scratch vs. Sauron

Columbo vs. Jadis

TBH Creature/Yippee vs. Big Brother

Barbara 'Oracle' Gordon vs. Dib Membrane

Sherlock Holmes vs. Matilda

Guinan vs. Arthur Lester

Spencer Reid vs. Donna Noble/The DoctorDonna

Uatu the Watcher vs. Nikignik 100 Eyes in the Dark

Round 1 will close in 24 hours.

[queerdraws]

Disco Elysium & Language

Okay okay so a bit ago I (foolishly) decided to (poorly) translate all 200-something pages of A Sacred and Terrible Air, despite having zero experience with Estonian whatsoever (so, you know, take what I’m saying here with a huge grain of salt).

There’s a small thing that gets lost in the translation from Estonian to English, the object of my obsession: The Pale

Its original Estonian counterpart is ”halli” (which essentially functions as “the gray” [a part of a whole], as opposed to “hall”, which is just “gray” [a color]).  Hall and Pale are both used to describe the color of skin due to No Blood.  They have similar connotations & uses.

Easy-peasy.  Let’s look at the Chapter 15 title “Hallitus”.  Hey, that looks kinda familiar, I see a “halli” in there.

First we gotta backtrack.  Hallitus is just a noun derived from the verb hallitama.

Hallitama is built from “hall” (”gray”) plus -tama (suffix for making a noun in to a verb, generally means “to make”).  So, hallitama would (should?) literally mean “to make gray” or “graying”. BUT!  It actually means “to mold”.  Like an apple being coated in a gray fuzz, hallitama is “to mold / to go moldy”.  Oooh!

So “hallitus” means “moldy”.  But it also, sorta, means “grayed thing”/”pale’d thing”.

So, we have this word that’s used to describe all sorts of manner of withering, decaying, frail, or dead things.

I don’t know, it tickles the brain.

[murasaki-cha]

When you can't stop thinking about it for hours so you go in the groupchat and ask your bff who's also a pjo fan "Who's the oldest Big Three kid?" so now you both lay awake at night thinking about it

It's probably me pulling crap like this why my bffs almost never read anything I recommend

[pterodach]

[aimfall]

drawing gay people before the family function

lines only version under the cut!