#everyone else. yeah that checks out

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

FEBRUARY RECEIPITFY TIME BABES thanks for tagging me @raplinenthusiasts 🤍

i’ll tag @livelocks @cosmicdreamgrl @senor-hoberto @jkvjimin @rjshope @captainassmerica @hopeinthebox @jinstronaut @permanentreverie @summerwave @epiphanytear @hvseoks @kimtaegis

[brightwoods]

Does anyone else feel like almost all of the conflicts that had to do with the various character dynamics in Chain of Thorns didn’t actually get resolved, they just unexplainably ceased to exist after two books of building them up because CC didn’t feel like writing them anymore and she didn’t know how to resolve it naturally after how she’d built the issues up so much?

Like how none of the characters but Cordelia and Thomas had any clue about the Alastair and Charles situation and then suddenly in CoT it was like who doesn’t know? Of course Matthew knew and didn’t say anything before and then randomly brought it up to Cordelia in Paris while assuming she knew too

Or how Alastair and Thomas went from how things were at the end of CoI with Alastair thinking it could never work because Thomas’s friends hate him to oh look everyone suddenly is friends with Alastair with no grudge with no development of that in this book at all, just an abrupt shift

Especially the Alastair and Matthew dynamic where Matthew hated Alastair and wanted him to have nothing to do with any of their friends and he spent CoI ranting about him to Cordelia. And then suddenly in CoT it’s like of course Matthew is supportive of Thomas and Alastair and oh look Matthew and Alastair are suddenly not just tolerating each other for Thomas’s sake but friends despite barely interacting and no development actually showing and never getting any mention of the other in their own POVs, just having Cordelia be like Alastair stop being dumb, you’re literally friends with him now

Or like everyone other than Christopher and Grace where it was like oh we don’t like her for how she’s treated us and her friends straight to anyway she’s one of us. Like yes Grace was useful and yes Tatiana manipulated her whole life, but none of that was why anyone changed their minds or opinions? It was just suddenly the flip of a switch when it was convenient for CC

Or Anna and Ariadne where it didn’t so much develop as Anna just acted mean to Ariadne on and off throughout the series and at the end of CoI she wanted nothing to do with a relationship and then in CoT she was just suddenly like sure I guess I do. Also, slightly different note, but I did not like that Anna barely interacted with anyone else for the entire book and she was just off in the corner being an irrelevant romantic subplot for almost all of the book except when she showed up to barely even be shown in the background being sad about her brother being dead

(Although Anna still got more of a reaction than everyone else and his death was poorly executed all around in the sense of how did you write this so predictably and poorly that no one even knows when he died and it’s so background and 99% of the characters don’t care at all and we don’t see his parents finding out or much of Thomas’s reaction or anything and it’s just as if he wasn’t a character anymore 2 seconds later which is a different genre of issue with CoT but similar problem in the sense that both issues made the book feel a lot more emotionless to read)

And how the issues of Thomas and Alastair being together as two men and Anna and Ariadne being together as two women in this time and the issues of what would happen if the fact that Charles and Alastair were gay got out to the entire Clave just disappeared and never got addressed at all. We know how the ClVe reacted to Alec Lightwood YEARS later. We know society was homophobic at the time TLH is set and that it seems like shadowhunter society was a lot less open-minded than mundanes a century later

I understand that Charles being blackmailed and making shitty decisions was annoying but it was like suddenly everyone finding out wouldn’t have consequences and all the other queer men characters were like how could you possibly be worried about this :/ as if they haven’t spent the whole series knowing they have to be careful about who they tell. And then suddenly it was just of course it’s totally fine and safe to have everyone find out and why wouldn’t you be fine with that. And it was really written in a way that had other queer characters like oh Charles is such a coward for not being ready to publicly tell a bunch of homophobic people his sexuality and it just wasn’t it??? And super weird after Thomas was terrified of telling even Anna and Matthew for years. And also, I did not care for the fact that when Charles did go risk getting outed to finally do the right thing, we didn’t even get to see it through any character’s perspective or how that important meeting went, we just got one line of dialogue from somebody else saying that it happened with no details at all. And I can’t think of other examples right now but there were quite a few moments like that where we got one line saying that something had happened that was important to the plot and to characters’ development that seemed like it would have been more interesting than some of what we did get to see where it was just totally breezed over and way too easy and totally background to less important stuff

And then there was the whole no one reacting to Ariadne and Anna dancing together publicly thing was like yeah that’s nice I guess but not realistic and it doesn’t go with the way things have been presented up to that point, it also just feels like a situation where CC was like well this would be easier for me so there just won’t be consequences and then they can easily end up happily together

And then there was the whole Thomas and Alastair thinking they couldn’t realistically be together thing and knowing they couldn’t get married or be known to be together by anyone they’re not close to and then at the end it’s still not really addressed how they’re going to be together? Like there was the laziest write off of the family tree being wrong and then we still are just left to assume that eventually they move in together and suddenly it’s not a problem and everyone’s fine with it? And then I also feel like we don’t actually know if everyone found out about Alastair and Charles’ sexualities after the blackmail or if people are going to assume about Thomas and Alastair or if that’ll cause issues or if no one knows outside of who they’ve told and they have to be careful or what. Which like wouldn’t necessarily need to be addressed if it wasn’t for the logistics of being together as two men in that time being part of the obstacle that they were struggling with being in their way and then it felt like it was totally forgotten to even be one at the end by CC

Idk like I’d love to think they just lived in a world where homophobia didn’t exist but it felt like homophobia was a plot point when CC wanted it to be an inconvenience and then suddenly disappeared just to make her writing easier the moment she didn’t want it there anymore instead of actually addressing the plots she raised with it if that makes sense?

And sorry, I really did not mean to go on a rant this long. And maybe everyone else had a very different reading experience than I did and other people don’t agree with some or all of this. I personally am just very confused about how the book was almost 800 pages long and it felt like so much of the development in it was us abruptly being told that development had happened rather than actually getting to see it and how so many of the issues were abruptly solved in an I don’t want to write this issue anymore kind of way rather than anything actually needing to be worked at outside of the Belial situation

Edit: You know what, I mentioned it in my tags but I feel like it’s annoying enough to put in the body of the post and make it even longer. What the fuck was with everyone outing or potentially outing everyone else just so that characters could openly talk about the queer characters and tell them to do what they want them to? Why did Matthew out his brother multiple times? Like yes, the people he said it to coincidentally already knew, but he didn’t know that. And why was Thomas outing Alastair? The straights got to keep their secrets as long as they wanted and fix their problems more naturally. Why did I have to sit through queer characters constantly having their sexualities and romantic histories to everyone else when they clearly had not okayed it? Why were the queer characters doing so much of the outing? Why were people who cared about them and knew what it felt like to be afraid of the wrong person finding out just broadcasting their sexualities to make it easier for CC to breeze past development to have their things get resolved fast? Why did no character have an issue with it at all?

[nicky-jr]

shoutout gothcleats shippers o7

[skunkg1rll]

🦨

[baekuras]

In case anyone wanted to know what my current dialogue checks are looking like

[cuteiemonster]

My piece for the @hermithorrors zine!! I had the honor of drawing Jevin’s face melting into slime!! ^-^

[cinnabeat]

the idea that teachers would make new transfer students stand up and like introduce themselves or whatever is soo fake bc i had a friend who transfered mid semester into my school and specifically one of my classes and not only did the teacher not force her to introduce herself but i didnt even know she transferred at all for like a good couple months of our friendship

[aceredshirt13]

BAROK VAN ZINE: REAL

Pray Forgive The Discourtesy: A Barok van Zieks Zine is officially out for sale - and my writing's featured in it! For €15 (which looks to be about $16.16 in US dollars), you can get a great online zine full of amazing Barok-adjacent content from many talented fandom creators (art and writing alike), and support the Pennsylvania Bat Rescue, which is receiving all the proceeds, while doing it!

Here's a preview of my silly fic, which is about Barok having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day while visiting Germany. This is the first zine I've ever been published in, so I'm honored and very excited!

[caimitos]

thinking abt quitting my job 🤗

[mymarifae]

you were right about vsa-pieldepapel. they admitted on the kriselle discord to drawing porn of the deltarune kids for 4chan, a 15 year old in chat said they'd seen it, and vsa was only worried about making sure "tumblrinas" didn't find out. not that a minor had seen it.

ohbmy god WHAT i haven't heard that name in a hot second and didn't think i would ever again WHATTTTTTTT

context: vsa-pieldepapel is a user i namedropped in a post i made like... months ago idfk but i was talking about how fucking bullshit it is when people get asked "hey are you a proshipper?" and respond with like, "i don't want to answer this question because no matter what i say i'll get harassed. this doesn't affect how you should view me or my art" like ... yes it quite literally does. and the only people that would harass you for Not being proship are pedophiles do you really care what they think about you. at the end of the day it's just code for "yes and i actively make and/or consume disgusting content but don't want to get #cancelled so i'm going to be vague and hope no one catches onto this"

i namedropped vsa because i saw them saying exactly that ^

idr why i was on their blog long enough to catch that - i think i might have been trying to figure out the same thing abadbdbsjfjjfk because their art of the kids is... it has bad vibes. why are you as a 24 year old creating suggestive art of teenagers. what's going on here

among other things they have made some very strange insinuations about kris being nonbinary like, because they're autistic-coded they're not really nonbinary they're just nonconformative and when they grow up they'll no longer be nonbinary. (???????) also they talk a lot about kris's "agab" and it's like why are you thinking about this so much why why WHY does it matter SHUT UP. i could not be arsed to summarize it coherently atm but they had a lot of strange things to say about autism in general like ok we get it... your internalized ableism is insane. stop projecting it onto everyone who tries to ask you about your autism headcanons

idk. basically i had already determined they were a fuckin' weirdo who only cares about not being publicly "proship" or what the fuck ever to maintain their follower count not because they have morals SOOOOOOO not particularly surprised. figured they were drawing worse things in private. but still

[chappelroans]

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[boyfeminism]

theyre trying to get us out on the ice shelf of the penguin exhibit as like a morale booster at work and i am so excited

[lordsooga]

I had the absolute pleasure of drawing some Yiga for the @sheikahzine, and I'm finally posting the preview of my piece ❤️💜🍌

The full zine is REALLY something, and I'm so excited for yall to see! Preorders are still open but only until March 4th, 12:00AM PST

You can preorder here: https://theeyesofhyrule.bigcartel.com/

[zincbot]

i'm really enjoying disco elysium. way more than i thought i would it's just a really good game

[tchaikovskym]

Still thinking about the interaction I had on Friday.

I just went to take out my faculty hoodie from student council room and it just happened to be that there was that guy I almost had romantic relationship with, but like, I was there for a hoodie, so I just asked for it to him,

but there was also a girl laying down on the beanie bag because of a depressive episode (common occurrence in the student council room) and she later told the guy she got scared from mine and his interaction. Which he later told me.

And I'm still thinking about that. What the fuck. How can interactions scare people. What did it even mean.

[simplyghosting]

Who just leaves broken glass lying around!?!!!? I’m going to SCREAM